#<- stop hitting yourself

[skate-the-onion]

Made a few more 100% factual fact sheets to occupy myself while waiting for Worlds (past outdated offerings vol. I and vol. II)

[lovesickgoose]

Encountered some very silly soldiers the other day

[triple-ennui]

No what do you mean there's a movie that uses 90s television nostalgia as a metaphor for gender dysphoria/social ostracism 🥲 🙃

[aroacenezhaanddainsleif]

hear me out:

boothill would be to the stellaron hunters what argenti is to the astral express crew (aka "weird honorary member that shows up every so often to help them fight a thing/complete a mission before fucking off into space again")

[omgpoindexter]

i’m spiralling

[sistersofsilver]

hello fellow shades. hades 2 nation. free icarus reminder for the night: not only did he burn, he drowned after. maybe it's just my experience with dying via drowning¹ but i think we should play in that particular space more.

melis not the sun, and she's never going to be. she's not the moon beat for beat either. shes the beautiful distorted reflection of the moon on churning powerful waves, shifting, a bright spot in an almost perfect void. and when you fall (and you will fall) its going to hurt, that impact, the water filling your lungs, the weightlessness disorienting, but you look for it, that reflection, that fixed point...

cough. anyway, how we feelin' tonight. we good?

[annaofaza]

I love her so much 😂

[doodlesketchgirl]

my beloved evevr evr evr EVER

[suketchi-s]

he gained nose privileges

[hellogoodbyeitsme]

Damian, still fresh to the family, but actually starting to warm up to the idea of them actually being his family, looks up online 'how to be a good little brother.'

He finds all sorts of things like, "using cuteness to get what you want from your elder siblings" (lame, no way that works) "fake extra tears when they punch you so your parents buy you icecream and whatever else you want" (why on EARTH would he want anyone think he could be so weak?) etc, but he also sees stuff about Pranks, sibling fights (in the sense of "you know they're real siblings because they'll throw hands one minute, then 5 minutes later be laughing watching tv together like nothing happened"), and concepts like Sibling Code (like, absolute secrecy between siblings toward their parents, threatening potential heartbreakers, etc).

Cue him pulling pranks, like leaving lego everywhere and waiting for his shoeless family to step on them, hiding things that the others need (like, right now), sneaking things into the batcave that shouldn't be in the batcave, throwing himself at his siblings to brawl without any reason and then promptly stopping also with no reason (and wondering why they won't spend time with him to bond afterward), planning out how to threaten a literal magic space princess (Kori, who would probably find it very cute if he actually made it that far), hiding Literally Very Important information about his siblings from Bruce and Alfred because he's not a snitch, and he is a great little brother. (he's going to get an A in Little Brother which is something totally normal to want and achieve)

He eventually gets BIG scolded for his constant misbehaviour, though. Bruce and Dick are asking why he's going off the rails so much when he doesn't even seem particularly angry anymore - in fact, sometimes he even seems fairly content! Is there an issue they're unaware of? Something he's not expressing to the family? They're not mad if there's a problem, they just want to help!

So, of course, he then has to embarrassingly explain that he was just following little brother protocol, according to.. the internet. He gets bullied about it for weeks by his elders (to different degrees), since the internet is not going to help anyone be a better sibling, but they also each try to explain (in their own ways) (their own waynes) why he was so, so very wrong about the way he approached being a good sibling, so he can hopefully improve at it (and stop terrorising the household).

(I saw a meme post about Damian putting legos all over the floor + hiding Tim's shoes to harm him and it made me think of the concept)

(Also once he learns that acting extra cute really can get him what he wants, he tries to use it now and then to his advantage, but is hilariously bad at doing it, since he doesn't really have a grasp on what makes a younger sibling cute (which is.... literally just existing,, according to me, a middle child). Lucky for him the others eat up every attempt because it's so obvious what he's doing that it becomes cute to them, so he doesn't need to get real practice with it until he tries to use it on a non-bat who laughs at him for far too long about it and thusly brews fire in him to go back to the pranks he tried at the start of the little brother training montage and show them real sibling pain for making a fool of him.)

[cheekblush]

took myself on a little shopping trip yesterday in the city where i used to study in hopes of lifting my spirits but by the end of the day i felt so disheartened. wandering the same streets 10 years later and not much has changed. i’m still the same lonely unlovable girl.

[tikattu]

someone had the nerve to dm me the following on twitter when i started sharing news about gaza: "stick to art this makes me uncomfortable".

as it should. it's a genocide. it is far more important to spread awareness of what's happening in palestine than to be mindful of your feelings and "stick to art". i refuse to turn a blind eye to the massacre and do nothing because god forbid the news of it ruin someone's day. you and i are incredibly lucky to be in this position. these people are going through hell every single day. this is the least i can do to help. ( actually here's a list of actions you the reader can take. mostly for people in the US, includes a list of protests around the world )

don't come crying to me about how i participate in this, fuck off and block me. maybe do some self-reflection while you're at it.

[qqueenofhades]

So apparently, the Georgia trial is currently set for this October because one of the defendants requested a speedy trial. What are the chances the trial actually happens and Trump is convicted?

You see, the really funny thing about this is that Fani Willis originally proposed a trial date of March 2024, which would be between Trump's J6 trial (January) and his Mar-a-Lago case (May, assuming we can't get Judge Cannon out of there). Then one of the co-defendants filed a demand for a speedy trial because he thought it would throw her off balance, not give her enough time to respond, prove she wasn't really ready to go to trial, etc....

So Fani Willis and Co. immediately, like IMMEDIATELY fired back like "okay, how does October sound? BY THE WAY, THAT IS THIS OCTOBER, AS IN 2 MONTHS FROM NOW, NOT NEXT YEAR. AND WE ARE FINE WITH TRYING ALL 19 OF YOU FELONS, INCLUDING TRUMP, AT THAT TIME."

(The judge also apparently agreed and was like "sure, this dude can have a November trial if he wants." Currently as yet, that doesn't apply to the other 18 defendants, but this is going to cue a flurry of panicked filings to get their cases considered separately and also ups the odds that one of these obviously totally trustworthy and not at all self interested people will turn on the rest of them and cut a deal. To which I say, HAHAAHHA, EAT EACH OTHER ALIVE, FUCKERS.)

[mrbluesummers]

Any time I post content relating to baby Knives and his corruption, there's inevitably people who make a comment about how the difference between Vash and Knives is that Knives didn't get a moment with Rem like Vash did, but Knives didn't need one. He knew she loved them already. That's why he never lashed out at her.

Knives is open and honest with Rem until the end. He doesn't pretend like he isn't hurt. When she addresses how he's "forcing [himself] to carry it all alone" he's completely honest with her:

Rem: Are… you… trying to bear this all by yourself? Tesla's story must have been a shock to you. I'm sorry, but I just feel like… you're forcing yourself to carry this alone, shutting everything away inside. Knives: Yeah. I am. It was a shock. It really was, but… we have to go on. That's what you said, right? There's so much we have to do… to make sure it never happens again.

While he doesn't straight up just say "hey I'm going to kill all humans", he is otherwise open with her that he's decided to carry the weight of protecting them from humans. Maybe if Rem was better equipped to handle a traumatized child, she would have been able to better address Knives' trauma, but the issue was never her or her love.

You can see it in the way he still cries and finds comfort in her embrace, and thanks her, and the montage of them living happily together. Knives never withdrew from Rem like Vash initially did. He was purely afraid of other humans and what they might do to his family, Rem included. All of his hate for her came after the Fall.

[siffrins-therapist]

x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x

Summary:

When the world was broken, failing, rotting, Loop saw what was happening to Stardust and jumped in front of his party. Once all their Wish's energy was spent, two Siffrins remained, but Loop can't help but feel like they shouldn't be here. They can't help but feel like they should have disappeared, died. They can't help but lash out, hating how the other Siffrin got his perfect ending all the while still hoping, pleading, wishing that they can share this ending with them.

Another fic that was supposed to be a oneshot :')

... read the tags.

Also you can probably tell by the summary but this fic contains Act 5 and Act 6 (+2 Hats) spoilers.

[ahalliance]

every new day i understand why people take up smoking