#( i will elaborate even if not asked )

[mediumgayitalian]

hot take: nico is the most normal character in the series. close seconds are percy and luke

[arthur-lesters-left-arm]

i wake up in a cold sweat. it is three am. i frantically check spotify, tears streaming down my face. my hands are shaking as i type the words: “malevolent musical lin manuel miranda.” there are no results. i sigh with relief. it was all just a bad dream.

[roseadleyn]

i can't stop thinking about how in the end of the queen of nothing, jude says that neither her nor cardan know how to be happy. they don't know how to live without lying and scheming and fighting and plotting: with each other and with other people

so now imagine jude and cardan after the dust has settled. they wouldn't know what 2 do with each other. like just imagine them now getting to know each other. it's like they've never met because ofc they still bicker and everything, but they are married and they just fought and almost died for each other. and yet jude can't say what's cardan's favorite color and cardan doesn't know her favorite snacks

with the court of shadows as matchmakers it starts turning into a whole ass romcom. one night jude wakes up and cardan is just pacing the room nervously and she immediately panics and thinks something is wrong but no. cardan is taking her to one of the places he used to hide in as a little kid and he's. stressed, to say the least

it's one of the rare times jude gets to see elfhame without some pressing responsibility on her mind. she worries about the state of the palace in the hours they're gone and cardan tries ( as well as he can ) to reassure her that the court of shadows is there and she can let the court go for like,, 2 hours. and then jude is a little quiet and she's just staring around her like yeah this land that she has given her life and body for is so beautiful. she knows about cardan's mother, so she tells him about her own.

anyway i'll go more into depth later but like. it's a very rocky journey. jude sleeps fitfully and has nightmares; cardan tries to avoid sleep by getting drunk. jude's from the human lands and tells cardan to sober up. they both kinda just hold each other during a really bad night. cardan finds out balekin made jude kiss him and is so ashamed and shocked and horrified he can barely look her in the eyes except mutter apologies

cardan also persuades jude to drink btw. she's a very clingy drunk ( not weepy, she's not emotional or anything but she refuses to let go of him )

[deerspherestudios]

Ooh, now I have a new question!

And what hypothetically Michael, who would read minds, could see in the head of, say, a severely ill schizophrenic, or with dementia? Or is there no difference in mind-reading between healthy people and sick people? Probably a stupid question, but now I'm curious heh.

For context! I hesitate to answer this, since I have no experience with either of those and it's not to be taken lightly. Plus, this is in discussion to a fictional ability in regards to a condition that is very much real in our world.

I'd say there is a difference, but MR!Mychael would still react the same. His aversion is due to how humans treated him in all his years of living, not because of any one individual.

[technofinch]

ok new oc ask game

Send me 📻 + an oc and I'll give you a random song off their playlist + an explanation of why it's there

[wackywatchdotcom]

before i go do smth else like smth i think abt often but was thinking abt a few hrs ago in particular is how the circus easily tricks the audience into thinking the circus would be Better Than Real Life. when i think from literally almost any angle you examine it its just as bad (if not worse, depending on your own problems)

i think theres like so many problems its hard to even list them all. some of it is personal taste things. cus i think a lot of people think itd be fun because they enjoy specific aesthetic choices in the circus, or bc of other interest related things. but like. what about people who HATE bright colors. what about people who dont like the idea of not being human. what about people who dont enjoy things like roleplaying. some aspects of the circus are only even appealing to specific tastes in things, making one of the few 'draws' of it not really even being a universal thing

and thats the superficial stuff. because more importantly, if you dont like the real world (for whatever reason), the circus may provide a temporary solution to that, because its so far removed from reality. but i think the circus is way smaller than people realize. theres definitely always going to be things to see since caine can always make things, but its just as limited if not more than the real world, because while the world grows and changes, genuinely new things are created and discovered and stuff. caine will never really get to see that, let alone recreate it for the players- and even then, it still isnt actually that thing. that doesnt even factor in that caine is already operating on limited knowledge of the real world. its not clear how detailed he can get on things, since the accuracy can vary (spudsys being so accurate to the real world, vs the dinner in ep 1 being so flat and lacking almost any detail), but theres a good chance that anything he makes is going to be limited to, at the most, a CONCEPT from the real world, if theres nothing in the real world you like, thats still all youll get, just in a different way.and if you DO like things from the real world, youll never get to truly reexperience it (even if caine remakes it, youll know its not the real thing, and it wont be 100% how you remember it, either)

then theres the safety/pain/horror aspect to what caine makes. i think because there hasnt been gore or anything its easy to assume the circus is still tame, and that anything bad that happens cant be TOO bad. but this is NOT true at all. the teaser of the show establishes that even when caine is not going for horror, he still hurts the players. theres things thatd be physically horrifying to a person like getting possessed, theres physical pain (i see it debated but i think its clear that even if they were to experience less pain, they still DO experience pain, but thats a different topic) or extreme discomfort, theres psychological torment (the exit doors are genuinely very cruel even if that wasnt caines goal, what ep 4 did to jax and gangle. kinger getting taunted in ep 3, etc). its all survivable but even if you like them caine isnt trustworthy enough in this way to never do smth horrific to a person, or cause it through his actions

then theres the complete lack of autonomy, which imo is one of the most frightening things about the circus. bc unless your tastes are always aligning with the exciting, completely family friendly existence of the circus, and you never deviate even a little, you are going to be barred from any semblance of it. its best illustrated in how pomni HATES being touched but caines always prodding her and moving her places and stuff, and in how zooble is denied the option to opt out of adventures even when they state they want to directly by episode 4 implying the choice to even have time to yourself is deeply conditional (plus, the whole lack of an exit entirely meaning that even if you liked the circus, the lack of option to leave would still affect a person. youre getting locked in a big room for the rest of time and youll never get to leave). and also this post

and THEN you factor in the social aspect. because regardless of how you prefer socializing if at all, the circus is a nightmare. if you dont like people, thats great! you dont NEED to be anyones friend! except that you are going to be forced to interact with them eventually, and when you do its going to be repeated. its not gonna be once. and once caine notices hes going to bother you about it. forever

alternatively, if you DO like social interactions in any way, no matter what, if its not you, youre going to see others abstract. you are going to inevitably watch those you care abt struggle and eventually get stuck in a state that Seems Extremely Horrifying To Experience forever. its long and drawn out and itd suck and it wouldnt happen once

then is the easy to forget fact that if you have psychological problems they can and WILL follow you to the circus. gangle and zooble are the biggest examples of this. the circus didnt get rid of their problems, they just gave it a new, horrifying inevitable consequence. i sometimes fall victim to looking at the circus and assuming that ohhh i wouldnt have this problem! because i wont have to deal w it getting set off! but like... yeah i would. i wouldnt stop having this or that in the circus id just have to deal w it while ALSO going on adventures

theres many things. you cant truly eat you cant die you dont get to decide anything when you do die it seems terrifying to experience and youll be stuck in some level of that forever and anything you enjoy is not with you and anything you dont enjoy will follow you too to some degree and the list goes on and on

all this said i dont think any of this is an indicator that the characters lives are meaningless or smth just because it sucks. theres a reason gooseworx has said that the takeaway from the show should be that theres meaning to be found in a stagnant life. theres still meaning in their existence and i dont think its as hopeless as it may seem- but i think its still BAD. and tbh the idea that its worse only HELPS that theme of the show!!! i dont think itd hit as hard as a theme if the circus DIDNT suck

[sillylittlecharacters]

I have several (and I mean several) concepts that I'm very excited to play around with when I eventually write a fic focused on Comic!Siffrin, but my favorite one - and the one that I'm willing to share rn - is that the party doesn't exist.

Like, the alternate versions of Mirabelle, Isabeau, Odile and Bonnie are all alive, well and unfrozen somewhere Dormont for various plot related reasons, but they never joined a quest to save the Country. In their universe, Mirabelle was never given a blessing, and somehow Siffrin is the lone saviour of Vauguarde.

[hinamie]

Boob window aside, having an avatar who fucking sucked is such a cool idea???????? The possibilities and the worldbuilding consequences???????? Your minds??????????

(also im not sure how i'll cope with waterbending megumi, the concept is making me go 😭💙😭💙😭💙😭)

HFJJGF YA sukuna....a symbol of peace...in charge of maintaining the spiritual balance of the world............truly What cld go wrong (lots) . Fire nation absolutely reeling they want to reroll so bad he did them so dirty

also re: waterbender megu ,,, heeeeheeeehhehhehehe ok listen. ik this means nothing coming from me bc im chronically obsessed with megumi no matter the context but . let me just say tht out of everything we have planned, the stuff with megumi is BY FAR my favourite :)

naturally it will still hurt tho :3

[shalom-iamcominghome]

I've seen the last '"g-d made you perfect" that I can handle, and it's led me to a realization about how I think of g-d.

I don't think we were made perfect. We were made human. And, if I'm honest, the only perfection in my mind is g-d, and that sense of perfection is what differentiates humans from g-d. If humans were as perfectly-made as g-d, I for one wouldn't see the point in following, believing, trusting, caring for, or loving g-d.

I guess for me, I see the ways in which humans alter the Way We Were Created that I really don't think it's right to speculate as to if there's a limit to altering our abilities or bodies. For instance, as a trans person, I've definitely been inundated with this idea that because g-d made my body "perfect" that I shouldn't alter it ever, but isn't that a dangerous precedent? Is it really so, that our bodies are magically made perfect, as g-d that to even tamper with the idea of change would be the same as cursing g-d? I really don't think that's compelling.

I love thinking about just how much g-d is placed into people, but I don't think it warrants restricting the ability to learn, create, grow, or change. Thank g-d that He created the ability to change!

[ncfan-1]

I feel like my sheer ambivalence towards Indara makes more sense to you if you know that I consider her a complete moral coward.

[vaguely-concerned]

the only thing that brings me more joy than emmrich being SO endearingly peevishly unimpressed with ingellvar pulling watcher 101 platitudes on him as a 'get out of emotional vulnerability free' card is rook's utter cheerful lack of repentance or pretence about doing it

[jennicatzies]

op will we ever see more of your old au or the new one?? I’m salivating to see a drop of content please theories are waiting to be made🙏 also trick or treat (slight malicious intent/j)

I was gonna delete all anon trick or treats bc I said to be off anon when trick or treating but. Hey. I love my messed up little au. Anon consider yourself lucky 🤲

YES YOU WILL BE SEEING MORE UTL I'm just,,,, head empty at the moment

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Personally I wouldn’t say that Lu Guang’s flaws are that he’s selfish and hypocritical. His flaws are his immediate instinct to lie in the name of protection, the double edged sword of trust and guilt that is his sense of personal responsibility towards Cheng Xiaoshi, and his tunnel vision resulting from increased detachment that limits his perspective and prevents him from having hope.

[randomalistic]

hi i dont follow you i just stumbled upon your blog but i saw in your intro post that one of the characters that resonate with you is the quick brown fox? i just wanted to know if that was a character from a show or something because the only quick brown fox i know is the. one that jumps over the lazy dog

/gen i mean no offence :-)

ohh... it's like a little furry musical artist mascot :)c

HALLEY LABS has multiple different musical aliases / characters and TQBF is one of them🦊

Click here if you want music examples!! TW // LOUD & light suggestive material

also general disclaimer: some of the earlier songs featured are from 2009-ish and hence Quite Edgy but somewhere around the 2nd half of his discography i actually start to ascend to a higher plane of dimension <3 you understand

now go forth with your new degree in TQBFology 🪅🦊

bonus: paulie pretztail from viva pinata. you can see his soulful eyes

[ask2ps]

I love 2p japan

CHINA: 日本さえ恋がしたいということ、考えられないことではないねぇ。(It’s not unthinkable that even Japan would want love, right?)

JAPAN: 闭嘴。(Shut up.)

[kenneduck]

~Fishy Comic Update~

I’ve learned that my characters, lore, and world building are going to continue being used for a collaboration that I am no longer apart of, even though these things are extremely personal to me, and are well known and have been stated to be very personal to me many times.

Over the last month, I was removed from the project without the ability to communicate or improve on any of the reasons as to why. It deeply hurt me, and though I wished things could be different, I understand it won’t be, but I also thought that with my removal from the collaboration, that my characters, world, and lore around it would be as well. Out of the respect and knowledge that my connection to these characters are very deep, I thought my inability to provide input on their inclusion would result in it’s inclusion being removed as well, or at least wrapped up immediately.

I am hurt and uninterested in continuing this story. It’s been tainted by the talks happening behind the scenes both to me and not with me in the discussion. Now that these characters, settings, and lore, all things explicitly said to be based around my life many times, are still being used, I feel the need to state I am not comfortable seeing this happen. I don’t feel comfortable maintaining silence as if I am comfortable with this continued usage, so I want to be clear that this is not my writing, and this is NOT my choice. I did not get one in the matter.