#(please love me anyway)

[biiigtime]

─── there were plenty of other options, and i didn't listen.

there's  an  obvious  roll  of  her  eyes  as  they  walk  through  the  door  of  his  house.   the  fact  that  he'd  been  flirted  with,  over  and  over  and  over,  on  a  rare  night  where  she  didn't  just  want  him  all  to  herself,  was  not  lost  on  her.    she'd  tried  to  not  make  it  obvious,  tried  to  be  the  bigger  person   ...   but  then,  roman  goes  and  makes  a  comment  like  that.    there's  an  obvious  roll  of  her  eyes  as  they  walk  through  the  door  of  his  house,  something  that's  become  so  routine.    “ 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭,  𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫  𝐩𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫,  ”  shoes  kicked  off  more  carelessly  than  she normally  would,  half  out  of  lingering  feelings  of  jealousy  and  half  out  of  sleepiness  that  settles  into  her  bones  from  a  night  out.    “  𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝  𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭  𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡  𝐚𝐧  ‘  𝒊  𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚  𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕  𝒚𝒐𝒖  ’  𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞  𝐲𝐨𝐮  𝐠𝐞𝐭  𝐚𝐥𝐥  𝐜𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐲  𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭  𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐞  𝐚  𝐝𝐨𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬  ”    mumbled  under  her  breath, can’t help the but sneak in the sly little comment. she tried, he  can't  say  she  didn't  try. / @godflcw

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

Yeah, I don't know about you, Fidds, but I'd fold at this 🙏

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[egophiliac]

still ruminating over Lost In the Book With Spooky Skeletons Part 1, so here's a selection of some of my favorite little bits! (...some more loosely paraphrased than others) (I just feel like Idia has no room to criticize in general, okay)

anyway, I'm sure we're just going to have a fun time celebrating Halloween and nothing bad is going to happen whatsoever! :)

[hinamie]

spiraling

[theoldkyokodied]

The Allegiance of the Ascended Vampire and the New God of Magic

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

You keep telling yourself that Namari.

[musubiki]

balor 🥰

[artist-rat]

some epilogue vibes (an excuse to draw some hugs. and my durge so many times)

[bixels]

Scary Sunset.

I'm concepting things way outta order in this story, but I'm sure you can piece things together. Context is for a storybeat where, after defeating and capturing Adagio (thus having all three sirens in her possession), Sunset enacts her revenge plot to release the sirens on Canterlot as Thea discovers she's been manipulated. In a confrontation, the two scuffle and fight over the siren orbs while Sunset struggles with her conflicting wants and emotions.

[stevenrogered]

It was really nice to have Maddie this season where she felt safe and good in her life.

[kensatou]

you think YOU had a bad day at work?

bonus: sid shrieking "no!!!! NO!!!!!" loud enough to be heard in the stands and on camera

[egophiliac]

we were fucking ROBBED

[xxplastic-cubexx]

[right to left]

finally finished This Wip from Ever ago and so now i ask you ever look into another dudes eyes and suddenly want to do whatever he wants

[hinamie]

wanted to practice some more intense angry expressions and what better excuse to further my agenda of giving megumi the emotional catharsis he deserves

[unspecifiedfigure]

watching the sunset together alive and well after early retirement <3