#(whatever they wanna do with them i approve btw)

[cakebatteronabrickwall]

river got so cocky about louisa misreading his intentions that he totally missed the part where she was gonna politely decline

[vessel-token]

— sugar, i’ve got a taste for you now. (pt. 2)

Sleep Token Vessel x F!Reader x III.

Tags ; Explicit Sexual Content. Dom/Sub Undertones. Implied Polyamorous Relationship. Double Penetration. Handjob. Fingering. Threesome (you’re all lowkey switches btw). Multiple Orgasms. Creampie. Praise Kink. Implied Aftercare. Fluff (at the end).

AN ; first of all, i am so, SO sorry for how long this sequel took me!! i got a job back at the end of august and finally achieved a romantic relationship (shocking, i know), so things have been moving rather fast for me. this fic is gonna end up being a birthday gift for me, too!! but, life aside, i am finally here to supply what i’ve been promising. i tried to add a bit more of sleep lore, too! i wanna delve into that more later… i hope you all enjoy, and thank you so much for your support and patience! as before, this is NSFW, so MDNI! love you all. <33

Their kiss is indication enough that whatever flame has sparked between you is nowhere near ready to burn out.

Vessel acts as the instigator as always, but he certainly doesn’t have to do much this time around. III’s erection still strains eagerly against the zipper of his jeans and while you may be just now coming down from your previous high, you’re more than ready to go again. You can’t explain it, but these two have a way of making you dreadfully insatiable, like they’re your own twin sins of greed.

You’re not much better, though.

Like a moth can’t resist approaching the flame, so too are you unable to resist indulging in their antics. The second that III and Vessel break apart, both equally breathless, you wrap your arms around III’s shoulders and usher him upward. His legs bracket yours and Vessel’s, his knees planted on either side as he hovers over you. The position practically begs you to touch him, and who are you to deny him when he’s been so very good?

Your fingers tremble as you begin to deftly undo the buttons on III’s pants. Vessel steps in to help you by tugging them and III’s boxers down, pulling the offending fabric past his slim hips until your prize is revealed. Whereas III is smaller than Vessel in length, he’s thicker, and still every bit as well endowed as the first. You’re excited to get your hands on him, you can’t lie. His cock is flushed and angry from the neglect, with precum already gathering at its tip.

Like the resourceful woman you are, you reach between your legs and use your own slick to coat your hand, making the glide far more comfortable for III as you wordlessly invite him to fuck your fist. You don’t even have to instruct him on what to do or present it as an offer, the man is far too desperate to care for manners as his hips begin to buck almost frantically into your grasp.

Behind you, Vessel hums his approval. His eyes are obscured by his mask—that damned mask—but you can feel them darting between III and you, as though he’s indecisive as to which part of the show he wants to pay more attention to. You don’t mind in the slightest, and you know III is too fucked out to truly care in the moment.

“It’s not enough,” comes the third’s rasp, his hands clutching at your shoulders. “I need more.”

Before you can answer, Vessel speaks up instead, “What are you asking for?”

The faux innocence woven into his voice tells you he really means; say it aloud, beg for it. You can’t help but snort at his teasing, but you share no sympathy for III. He let Vessel torture you earlier, he deserves it in return. It’s only fair.

You peer up at III while you await his answer, unable to disguise the satisfied upturn of your lips as he clearly struggles with voicing his desires out loud. Though he’s pulled his balaclava mask back down to conceal his face, you can tell he’s frowning (read: pouting) in mild frustration. His eyes meet yours and you can sense his mental cursing of you as he holds your gaze steady. It’s all in good fun, you know that, but the imagined threat sends a thrill down your spine. You know he’ll get you back for this. You and Vessel both.

III’s palm glides over the sweat-slicked skin of your torso, over your stomach and the valley of your breasts. It takes Vessel’s previous spot on your neck, his fingers curling lightly around your throat. He leans over you, close enough to kiss if his mask wasn’t in the way, and you can feel his sigh through the fabric. Your own hand stills on his cock, but you can still clearly feel it twitch against you.

“I need to take you,” III murmurs. He tilts his head in a way eerily similar to a predator sizing up its prey. “Is that good enough? Or would you rather me say I need to fuck you? To ruin you, to dissemble you bit by bit and place myself within the cracks, until no one knows where one of us begins and the other ends.”

To become one.

That’s what he’s implying, and it leaves you a little breathless.

Under Sleep’s influence, you have all already been united. You are all meant to contain Him, and maybe that’s what’s drawn you together to begin with. You’d spoken with the others about it before, how they all felt compelled to accompany Vessel upon meeting him, like he was a magnetic force guiding them in. Upon accepting Sleep, you were now all connected on a level deeper than anything fathomable. In a way, you are all one entity as much as you are unique individuals, but there has always been that ache to merge.

It’s a want that extends so much farther than bodily desires or lust. Unfortunately—or fortunately, depending on how you look at it—flesh has its limits. The closest you can come to reuniting with Vessel and III is by having them like this.

“How romantic,” you muse, having located your voice again. If your words come out a little more strained or breathy than usual, you can only hope the other two don’t notice it.

They will and they always do, but you can pretend, if only to save your dignity.

“We require a proper answer, my love,” Vessel reminds you, his mouth against your ear. “I don’t think any of us would like to wait much longer.”

You suppose that’s a fair point. You can still feel Vessel’s own arousal pressed against your ass, and III’s is still throbbing in your grasp. You aren’t unaffected, either. With the high of your first orgasm having finally subsided, your cunt continues to clench around nothing, more slick gathering where III had previously licked clean.

“I want both of you,” you reply, “together.”

All at once, the room seems to get a few degrees hotter, as though the simultaneous sharp inhales from the two men have absorbed any lingering chill. They say nothing, but you can hear their hums of mutual agreement as they begin to shift around you. You’ve always found it interesting how despite their blatant excitement, they abstain from handling you roughly. They’d do so if you asked of course, but they’re otherwise gentle. Reverent.

Vessel lays back and they position you so that you’re straddling him, hovering tantalizingly over his stiff cock. III is the one behind you now, one hand on your waist while the other lines up his dick with your dripping cunt. He presses lightly on the small of your back, urging you to bend over so that he has easier access. You do so without hesitation, bracing yourself on your palms placed on either side of Vessel’s head.

Seeing as neither man is particularly small, their fingers work their way into you before anything else. They do so without warning, undoubtedly delighting in the gasp and startled moan you let out when four digits slide into your tight heat. You hear them both chuckle as you wiggle your hips, unsure whether to grind forward or backward. It’s overwhelming, having both Vessel and III buried to the knuckle inside of you, rubbing and scissoring against your spongy walls.

Though it’s certainly not the first time, it always takes your breath away as if it is. The pleasure is intoxicating, but nowhere as intense as it is when they both have their cocks in you. That is a heaven no religion could ever even hope to promise or encapsulate.

“Fuck,” you whine, feeling Vessel crook his fingers at the same time that III thrusts his back inside.

You don’t even know how long they stretch you for, but you do know that you’ve cum twice already, gushing over both of their hands. Your thighs are already beginning to tremble with the effort it takes to support yourself. You’re white-knuckling the cushions beneath you, eyes half-lidded, and they haven’t even fucked you yet. It’s maddening, but you can barely form the words to demand they hurry up.

Vessel and III always try to make an effort to prioritize your pleasure and comfort over their own, meaning they likely would’ve stretched you for hours if you truly needed it, even if they were both aroused to the point of pain. If the discomfort still proved to be too much, then they wouldn’t dare to take you like that. They’d just find an alternative method, like they’d done when you had first tried this. Thankfully though, after weeks of your own insistence and reassurance (and practice with toys in secret), they had been willing to attempt it again. The discomfort was always there considering the unnatural stretch, but the experience was wholly worth it.

Thankfully though, they get the message themselves that you’re more than ready.

With those two orgasms to loosen you up and daze you, Vessel is able to slip into you with relative ease. You make a sound caught somewhere between a whimper and a moan as he bottoms out inside you, your body greedily taking him. III is quick to follow suit, the thick head of his cock nudging at your entrance before slowly beginning to press inside as well. His girth stretches you the most, the familiar stinging pain alerting your senses to the intrusion. You breathe deeply and remind yourself to relax your muscles as much as possible, feeling III pause after each shallow thrust so as not to hurt you anymore than absolutely necessary.

Vessel reaches up from beneath you, his hand cupping and stroking your cheek. III mirrors the comforting display, peppering kisses over your back and shoulders. He must’ve pulled his mask up when positioning you, you belatedly realize. Both men do their best to soothe you, calloused palms running over your body to rub and squeeze.

“You’re doing so well for us, darling,” III assures you, now embracing you from behind. “Your body welcomes us so beautifully. Made for us, made for this.”

“You are so deserving,” Vessel adds, his voice like warm honey as it pours into your mind and melts it blissfully. “Deserving of pleasure greater than either of us could offer you, of everything good and all that’s beyond that. You embody perfection.”

If you had been focused more on their words and not the glorious sensation of III finally sliding home inside you, their words would have been enough to have tears stinging your eyes. You’ve never quite been able to view yourself the way that you know they view you; like a sacred treasure with a history of ignorant misuse and lack of adequate appreciation. Now that you’ve fallen into their hands, they’ll do everything in their power to ensure you’re valued the way you should have been from the start, regardless of whether you believe yourself undeserving or not.

Your forehead thuds against Vessel’s chest as your own heaves with each gasp. Everything feels heightened, like you’re teetering on the precipice of oblivion. You feel unbelievably full, unbelievably whole. This is what it means to be one, to belong and be belonged to.

Around you, you hear the shared groans of III and Vessel, both fighting against the desperate need to move. They want to make sure you’re adjusted and alright first, but between the friction of their own dicks brushing together and the way your cunt keeps clenching around them, you’re positive they’re at the brink of madness.

“Please,” you manage to babble out. “Need you to fuck me, I need it. Wanna feel good.”

You’re sure you’re slurring your words a bit there at the end, but the pair get your point loud and clear. Two sets of hands settle on your waist, holding—no, bracing—you as they take you. They can’t go very fast or rough like this, but it doesn’t matter in the slightest. The sensation is more than enough to get you off, ripping a cry out of your throat as your entire body shakes. Every rock of their hips has you swaying, their cocks spearing you open with even the tiniest of movements.

Somewhere over your shoulder, you hear III swear and moan out, his face buried in the crook of your neck as he begins to slow to a grind while Vessel continues to thrust. You can only imagine how overwhelming the friction must be for them, especially judging by the way that neither of them can keep their voices down. Neither man is usually that vocal in bed, Vessel is generally louder than III, but both are releasing all sorts of sounds you’d never had the joy of hearing before.

“So goddamn tight,” III curses, his fingertips pressing what will likely become small bruises into your hips. Vessel groans his agreement below you, his own head thrown back and his lips parted as he pants.

God, that was a sight.

They’re both close, you can tell. They’re just rutting into you at this point, treating your cunt like a glorified fleshlight with the sole purpose of getting them off. They keep adjusting their grip on you, trying to pull you closer and squeeze tighter. Your mind is virtually gone by this point, so you have little qualms with getting treated like a rope toy by two competitive dogs. As long as it feels good, you couldn’t care less.

“Doing perfect for us, love,” Vessel praises, his hips stuttering beneath you.

“Gonna make us cum,” III husks.

You’re given no warning as Vessel reaches between your quivering thighs, rubbing frantic figure-eights on your swollen clit. You can’t even tell them you’re close before your body is jerking and tensing up on its own accord, unable to choose whether to buck forward against Vessel or back against III. Your orgasm hits you with the force of a thousand waves, crashing over you mercilessly as you scream in delight. It’s about the only thing you can do, your walls spasm deliciously around Vessel and III as if trying to urge them to finish, too.

It doesn’t take much persuasion for them to be cumming as well, spilling deep inside you and filling you past your limit. You can feel their spend drip out of you, leaking down the insides of your thighs along with your own fluids. It’s too much, yet it’s perfect. You can’t describe it, you can’t even think. Your head is a blank canvas and the pleasure is a splatter of colorful paint all over it.

You’re not certain how long you remain there, slumped over Vessel’s chest with III bent over your back. You’re all thoroughly satisfied and spent, boneless in each other’s embrace. Despite the ache that’s beginning to creep into your legs and the stickiness that’s drying between them, you feel wonderful.

As Vessel’s fingers card through your damp hair and III’s lips press absentminded kisses along your shoulder blades, you know that you are whole, you are safe, you are loved.

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[what-is-it-to-be-pk-esque]

Oh! Btw if anyone has any requests for a specific line of dialogue or a scene you wanna see using the freecam in baldur's gate, just let me know & I can post it!

I have a million saves on PC I can use between a few Tav & Durge campaigns with various approval ratings, and I plan to eventually do several of the origins, so I can easily just go find & post a video of whatever isn't already on Tumblr or YouTube for references

If you're looking for any of the BG3 videos I've taken, you can find them all here under #freecam vids

Thoughts & reactions I've had while playing baldur's gate 3 are #pk plays bg3

[tennco]

im speaking from the context of art and media here btw but anyways i think, with some exceptions (i.e. something you know nothing about), if you have to wait for someone to give you the ok on an opinion or thought piece you really gotta consider thinking for yourself a little harder. and i don't mean when you ask "hey what do you make of this" looking to receive something that can complement your own ideas or a different point of view, or maybe you're just interested in what they have to say that's fine whatever it's all enrichment, i mean actively seeking the approval of some guy and letting them make the decision for you on whether or not you integrate it into your own beliefs. are you an infant.

you can definitely hold someone in high regard or have a great deal of respect for them, there's a lot of people i view like that, but again the moment you have to filter everything through that person it's like w,what are you even doing. at best you're adding nothing to the conversation because you don't have your own thoughts, and at worst you're not only bringing yourself down for no reason but you're also erasing what other people might have to say on the matter.

speaking of i forgot what im trying to say. uhh, sometimes you do wanna shut your brain off and just listen and not really stop to think about things but take a moment to not do that and specially don't put one guy on a pedestal. critical thinking that's the bitch.

[cookiedough77]

PLEASEEEEEE IM DYING TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR OCSSSSS 🛐🛐🛐🛐🛐🛐

oh my gah

well heres some... refrences i made a while back GAH I NEED TO DRAW MORE OF THEM UH UH UH

man ok so i put alot of their lore into a google doc ill just like copy and paste alot of it here:

Okok more of a deep dive on these guys because i wanna do more with them

OK JAY BACKSTORY

So initially, jays mom like wiped out a bunch of superheroes, like when jay was really young (he cant remember it) and shortly after, what very little heroes were left or heroes who were only “super” because of the gear they had, an order was created, to try and take her down

His entire life he was raised by his evil ass mom, mainly manipulating him inot thinking humans were bad (they are generally human but with so much magic into their system that they really arent anymore i guess, similar to like a vampire or a werewolf or something). Its not that jay didnt believe his mother but more of he knew something was wrong with what she was doing, how she was going about things

His mother was a wanted criminal for years, and she was mainly destructive or whatever because her husband died idk-

Im making this up as i go, her husband died from too much magic intake? Like he couldnt handle it, but jays mother blamed humanity because “they were the ones holding him back from his potential” 

Jay barely knew his father, so its not like he had a super connection to him

Now while he was growing up, he didnt actually see his mother attack superheros, mainly took her anger out on civilian, even then she didnt like kill them or anything. So he didnt see his mother as a bad person….. UNTIL 

A new superhero actually DID show up, or merely, one that was “taken down” and came back, and maybe or maybe not jays mother wanted him to kill whoever it was and hes like “uh NO????” she does it herself and jay immediately wants out of this, but he doesnt exactly have a choice, so he starts disobeying her for like a year, and then…

Another superhero shows up, a young one, a new one, a vulnerable one. Im not exactly sure how kylo and jay interact and stuff at first because i guess its the “beginning” not the backstory idk sooooooo save that for later!!!

Anyway well i guess kylos next which is complicated man

Gah you’ve heard about this, one of a bunch of orphans actually survived some mutation and that was kylo, who initially wasnt even given a name, kylos name shows up later

So because theres a “superhero shortage” the order decided instead of waiting, to just make more, no matter how, they just needed strong enough heroes to take down any threats, including jays mom, and yes i know i need a name for her

Now remember when i talked about kylo having “siblings” yeah so there are others, just none of the orphans, “failed attempts” before kylo, too much of the mutation so they're not really “usable” and they science people are trying their hardest to make them “work” they also dont see them as real people!!! Hahahaha

Anyway kylo was kinda like raised like this, usually isolated from the other attempts because she was “perfect” and it was mainly two scientists taking care of kylo, they were new, and didn’t have much experience in the field, kylo was their first “assignment” and btw idk they’re a couple, and when kylo turned 10 they both suggested before kylo going out and “being a superhero” that she should like interact with real people, she looked human enough, and she could blend in, and learn like basic empathy from other people/kids

The order approved this and those are basically kylos adoptive parents.

BUT not before wiping all of kylos memory!!! Hahah they’ve tested it out before, and decide to use it on kylo, to not mess with anything, and the memory just doesnt “go away” its like a polaroid camera and rolls of memories spills out, and they keep it safe, locked away

So kylo spends like 3 years homeschooled, and realizes that shes “different” than others (kylos parents didnt really explain anything to them (they werent allowed)). So she comes up with a dumb constume like all heros and decides to make good use out of it

This all leads up to the actual beginning of the story which is like i dont even know where to start but like i can tell you that kylo and jay team up, obviously jay has more experience with his abilities and is like the main person to take down his mother, but kylo definitely helps

The order “meets” kylo and lets her stay obviously, and jay… well they’re wary of him, and make him stay in the building (where the order resides) to keep an eye on him, and this is basically where jay stays until like hes 18

Jays “indenity” is quickly released to the public, an requirement from the order, and jay tries to do whatever they say to make him seem trustworthy (because he is, my poor boy), all while, kylo is instructed to not tell ANYONE who they are, and kylo follows the rules at first, but over the years she likes to challenge them alot.

Jay and kylo quickly become friends and trust eachother obviously uh uh, yeah, theirs other villains of course, and kylo and jay become friends even while civilians but kylo is told to “not get so close” but they try anyway bruh idk

A lot of things happen and ill probably draw some stuff out or talk about it because man theres so much up in this noggin and it yearns to be free

[messrsrobyn]

i left this on your tellonym as well but why do you think we've babygirled barty and evan but not bellatrix for example i try hard not to use words like misogyny but i cant think of anything else and need your thoughts

p.s congrats on 11k!

okay so i'll give my thoughts BUT i wanna preface by saying that i don't think i've ever read a bella fic so i have no idea how she's portrayed in centric fics

i think the first thing is just,,, she killed sirius 🤷‍♂️

and like yeah, barty attacked the longbottoms but sirius is a BIG part of the fandom, obviously. i think it puts a lot of us off of engaging with her because we'd have to try and emphasise? sympathise? justify? whichever term you prefer! i just think it would be harder if she killed one of our faves.

which also! we know i like pete and i can see the potential double standards there BUT we have evidence that pete was their friend. we know he was a good person at first, we have no idea about bella. we have no idea what she was like pre-DE, we do however know she was a DE and she killed sirius, and that makes it harder to (insert preferred term x)

building upon thattt, @courfee made this next point in a comment of my tt today (sorry, i'm stealing it 😖😖)

we have more canon info about bella than barty and evan !! so we have that grey space to look into motivations or reasons, or even to just explore their characters more. there's more space to play with them but we have a lottt of lore about bella and that restricts us a lot more (esp if we're talking about "babygirling" which btw, i dislike that term but i get it so yeah, if we're talking about "babygirling" it'd be harder with a character we know so much about but don't approve of any of it)

my finalllll point is just,,, sometimes we dislike characters 🤷‍♂️ like i know i do all my yaps and they seem very put together but a lot of the time my opinions are just like "yeah it could be this but also MEHHHH i just like it/dislike it" and i sit and think about it before filming. generally i'm just floating around clueless and engaging with whatever i like with an empty head 😭

no thoughts, head empty, just vibes

bella as a character is just one that i don't like. so i don't engage. head empty. not because she's a woman, i just don't like her character.

i never know how to end yaps on here 😭 yolo. okert. slay.

[burnt-scone]

My Opinion on Raceswapping

(I'm not against it btw

Honestly, I'm chill with characters from comics having their race changed as long as this guideline is followed.

1. They weren't already a person of color. So if a character is Black, don't make them Latin, etc...

2. An exception to 1., It's chill if they character isn't a heavily built upon character, to add an ethnicity, using the last example, say a character is black and usually a background character. They have no story. They only support the story so far. Now, a writer wants to make them a side character or even give them their own story. Now they need a background and say the writer wants them to be Latin? Boom, Afro-Latin. It doesn't take away representation. it actually adds more.

3. If the character is white and the character does NOT have a specific ethnicity, that's important to the character. Ex: Irish Catholic. There are characters who, being Irish Catholic, are important to who they are and their background. (Ex Matt Murdock aka Daredevil) then it's fine. You're not taking away representation

4. There are also ethnicities that don't really have a specific race. And that can be a bumpy road, for example, a Jewish character. You could change their race and keep them Jewish, and that could be okay. Honestly, that still can depend on the background of the character.

5. AND THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ONE. If you have to completely rewrite a characters personality, then you shouldn't do it??? If you think making a stoner coded character, Black might be racist. Don't rewrite him into a walking D.A.R.E ad.

Basically, if you take away representation, you failed. If you have to completely rewrite character, then you have failed.

characters, I think, were done well

Jimmy Olson in, My Adventures with Superman is done well. They didn't completely rewrite the character. He's still a little nerdy, dude, who is besties with Superman. And in the ways they've rewritten him, they also rewrote the others. It's a unique story compared to other Superman stories.

Bow from She-Ra and The Princesses of Power. Bro was from Alien Planet, him being Black, which literally changed nothing with his character. Him being a teen stole his fantastic mustache. I'm sad we didn't see Future Bow with it in the ending.

Lois, almo m.a.w.Superman, her being Korean, also does not impact her character. This isn't actually the first time she's been Korean. Usually, she's Wasian in that circumstance. It's just the first time she's has a darker skin tone and a pixie-cut.

Ariel (2023), she's still a ginger fish lady with really good vocals. And she's OG Ariel approved so stay mad.

DCEU Aquaman, him being Polynesian, adds to the character and doesn't take away, so it's also chill.

Nick Fury in the MCU, it didn't really change anything with his character and honeslt Samuel L. Jackson just made him more Iconic. Let's be real.

Characters done wrong

Why:

Sunspot in the comics is one of the first Afro-Latino characters ever. This is the second or third time they've erased the afro from the equation.

They completely rewrote Jimmy Olson for the Supergirl series. As I said with My Adventures with Superman's Jimmy, if they kept him in character and a little nerd, he would've been cool.

Norville(Shaggy) in Velma, as I said before in 5., he is completely rewritten to not be Racist, which at the end of the day is still Racist? Honestly, that whole show is a shitshow feeding Alt-right men want they wanna see. From what I've seen in clips. Which is Mindys wholse thing so whatever I guess. I'll keep waiting for it to be canceled, so good shows stop being canceled.

(More in reblog. )

[katnissdoesnotfollowback]

In your opinion, please rate thg movie series with 1-5 scale.

(1 = I hate it, 3=neutral, 5 = I love it.)

1.The Hunger Games :

Things that you like :

Things that you don't like :

2.Cathing Fire :

Things that you like :

Things that you don't like :

3.Mockingjay

Movie 1 :

Movie 2 :

Things that you like :

Things that you don't like :

Thank you 😊

@curiousnonny

So let me preface my ratings here by saying that I really think these books are already so well edited in terms of necessary content that making a movie version of any of them is a mistake. Maybe I'm biased and greedy, but I honestly feel like 99% of the scenes in the books play a crucial role in either plot, character, or theme development and removing them waters down the story too much, in my opinion. I would much rather have seen a series version on screen than a movie. Not to mention, Collins made her name as a writer in television, and you can SEE IT in how she writes her novels. It's structured like a TV series so it should've been shot like a TV series. Anyways. So my rankings are gonna be... kinda low for the movies. Sorry not sorry.

But also... my thoughts on this are fresh. My youngest was supposed to read The Hunger Games with his 6th grade class. The teacher sent home a form requesting parents' permission to do so. I signed it gladly and sent it back, but apparently there were a lot of parents who sent it back with complaints instead of approval. Enough that the class read the first Percy Jackson book instead. I'm fine with that too, lol, especially since my kiddo really liked it and is now on book five of that series. I've been trying to reread along with him and will hopefully be catching up to him this week, lol.

After his teacher switched books for the class reading, he and I decided we'd read THG books together once he's done with PJO, but then, my oldest skipped a field trip he really didn't wanna go on and wound up staying at school and watching... The Hunger Games and part of Catching Fire. He came home with QUESTIONS, which immediately sparked a "Hey, not fair!" from the youngest and prompted a movie marathon. We made it through all four movies back in March, and I'm still not forgiven for not warning him about Finnick btw...

Okay enough story time. *cracks knuckles*

The Hunger Games

Ranking: 2/5

Things I don't like: Ugh where to start? The removal of Madge and therefore the significance of Katniss's mockingjay pin as a symbol of wealth and power bestowed by the Capitol only to be flipped on its head and turned into a symbol of rebellion. Also, the implications of removing Madge in terms of how they tried to make Katniss into STRONG BADASS WO-MAN while dulling some of her softer edges and dependencies on other people. See also: leaving out the gift of bread from D11 to Katniss.

The dialogue is shit. Sorry, those are my thoughts. You already had really good dialogue in the book why change that? Also, the gutting of the dialogue results in the gutting of both Katniss and Peeta as characters. The first movie turns them into The Watson character, i.e. the character whose purpose it is to ask questions so that the audience can learn about the setting/plot/other characters/whatever. The first movie made Katniss and Peeta look naive and dumb about the Games and the very world they inhabit, which makes no sense for their characters. I get it. It's a storytelling technique to quicken up the process of world building and make up for the fact that we don't get to be in Katniss's head where she tells us what we need to know about her world. BUT their characters suffer for it. Katniss and Peeta are sixteen. Anyone who has interacted with a teenager knows that at that age, we usually have #OPINIONS on things, so in the books, both already have developing opinions about the Games because they are by necessity and by exposure aware of how the Games and the government essentially work. They've lived in this world long enough. They've started to develop opinions and world views, and they act accordingly. The first movie loses this completely from the books.

Do not get me started on the dialogue in the cave scenes we will be here until the next century if we go there.

Buttercup. Christ how hard is it to cast a yellow/orange cat?!?!?! Not that difficult. And granted, this is a minor detail in terms of symbols but at the same time... it's a minor detail. The fact that they didn't even bother showed a lack of caring about the details. Also see: Rock Peeta.

The stakes of almost everything are lowered, from the bread scene (we don't realize until MJ2 that she's literally starving and knocking on death's door in that scene) to the berry scene (and here it's Peeta knocking on death's door and Katniss is desperate to save him, enough to put POISON BERRIES IN HER MOUTH and risk her own life too)... the movie lacks the desperation for both of those crucial parts.

Peeta's leg Peeta's leg Peeta's motherfreaking amputated leg!!!!!!

Things I liked: The sound and sound editing. It's such a small thing, and I have a story to go with this okay? When I saw it in theaters, I disliked a lot of things, but one of them was something I could not put my fingers on. It bugged me for weeks until the movie came out on DVD (yes, I'm old and also saw it at the veeeeeeery end of its theater run where I live... like it was a $5 special...). Anyways. Mr. Kdnfb is an electrical engineer by education and is suuuuuper picky about our sound system in our house. So when I watched it at home, the Thing clicked in my brain. The SOUND. It had been Waaaaaay Off in a way that was awful in that theater for some reason. And once I watched it at home, there was just something about the way they did the sound that made a lot of what I had hated become less of A Thing to me. The more I've watched it, the more I've realized the sound and sound editing was excellent, and I put this as things I liked because my story goes to show how such a tiny thing can really screw up a movie.

Catching Fire

Ranking: 3.5/5 (Omg I'm gonna get barbecued for this one.)

Things I didn't like: See my caveat at the top. Okay, so. One of my biggest problems is just how much got cut to adapt this one to screen. Sooooo many scenes. Finnick "hanging" himself in training, "someone else can get the stupid goat knocked up," all the hullabaloo about the wedding is talked about but that doesn't happen in the movies, the setup for the existence of D13, the plant book and Peeta caring for an injured Katniss, training like Careers, scaring Peeta with the medicine, Katniss really starting to come around to the idea of a rebellion even before the Quell announcement, "Poor Finnick. Is this the first time you haven't been pretty?" Just so much cut for the sake of time and results in the story feeling rushed and sloppy ugh.

While the cast and crew for this one did a much better job adapting the dialogue to the screen, there are still a few crucial bits of dialogue that make me itch with hives. The post jabberjay scene and the death of the morphling mainly. Good lord. You finally let movie!Peeta be as eloquent and convincing as book!Peeta in D11, why not give him the space to do it in the arena, too?

Things I do like: The casting. Hear me out. After the first movie, I was still not entirely sold on Jennifer, Josh, and Liam for the roles they were playing. Really, the only main characters who live through the first movie that I was happy and 100% on board with with were Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, and Stanley Tucci. Catching Fire is where I accepted Josh's portrayal of Peeta a little bit more, mainly because of the process of film making and what they put forth with CF showed me that he could nail the part if only they'd give him the dialogue and choose the cuts that best showed what he could do. I have no idea what sort of dialogue they were given or how much free reign they were allowed to improvise, but I do know that they will shoot a scene multiple times with multiple different delivery styles and slightly different dialogue. Which means that the actors really don't get a say on which version of their performance makes the final cut. But when the dialogue was spot on in the final version, I felt like Josh pulled off Peeta very well. I also think the way they shot CF allowed Jennifer Lawrence to put forth a better overall performance as well, although I'm still not in love with her as Katniss.

But really it's the Quell Victors/Tributes that I loved about CF. I went in unsure and came out convinced. My caveat here is that I tend to think of the movies as their own thing. The movie versions of the characters are their own iteration and I try really hard not to let them bleed into how I see or think of the characters in the books. That doesn't always happen, but I do try.

Okay this one is kinda not the fault of the first movie, but the increased budget for CF is apparent in several of the things that I liked, namely the costumes, the staging, the special effects. Much better all around.

Mockingjay Part 1

Ranking: 3/5

Things I did not like: Gale. MJ1 finishes off the complete removal of any depth Gale had as a character, a process that started with him rage rushing Head Peacekeeper Thread in CF and culminates here with him condemning Peete's words as a TORTURED PRISONER OF WAR rather than him not only intuiting what's probably happening, but explaining it to Katniss, then trying to protect Katniss from it, like he does in the books. The reason why book!Gale is so much more compelling to me than movie!Gale is because Gale's anger and fire and indignation has REASONING behind it in the book. It is chillingly easy to see the lines his reasoning could possibly take. As in... I've worked in weapons development and I have worked with real people who think like book!Gale or Beetee. Whereas movie!Gale is basically just RAWR!!! fury.

The rescue scene. I could write an entire essay on what's wrong with this, but it all boils down to they tried to shorten it by overlapping the video of the rescue with Finnick talking. Which makes zero military sense btw why the freak would you broadcast helmet video of your team going in on a stealth mission and risk someone intercepting it or noting the presence of an encrypted signal and figuring out what was going on holy hell you would NOT. You'd be freaking SILENT and just waiting to find out!!!!!!! And yes yes, but we need to see it. Okay, but you've already shown scenes with Snow and Seneca talking, Seneca and Haymitch talking, Snow and Plutarch talking, Snow and his granddaughter!!!! cuts from D11 and so much more that Katniss would not have seen, so play this like that. You can still show the audience but clearly keep Katniss and everyone back in D13 in the dark. The way it's shot is nonsensical and also pretty much waters down the horror of what Finnick went through and the impact of his words.

And while we're on this topic, they somehow used that overlapping and ridiculous video feed to try and shorten the scene, but wound up making it interminably and unbelievably long with the layers upon layers upon LAYERS of rooms the rescue squad has to go through and also the Skype Call of Inanity. The whole debacle is so freaking long that I no longer feel tense by the time it's finally over. It's so obvious that the Capitol is letting them take back Peeta, Annie, and Johanna because of how long a stealth mission (which should be almost too fast to process) takes that it becomes stupid for D13 to not suspect something. There's no desperation or high stakes for me with this scene because it's too long and too messy, makes no sense tactically and basically just erases all the emotional depth and pacing of what's in the books ugh. Seriously. You could've spent that time on the torture of the prep team or some of the Boggs and Katniss or Katniss and Finnick content we miss out on. Delly. Gale's siblings. Literally anything that you cut out. Rant over.

"He's gonna kill Peeta".... um no actually it's that Snow won't kill Peeta but keep dangling him in front of you, Katniss...

Things I did like: The sets. District 13 is... perfect. Sterile and drab and utilitarian. Zero luxury or any real sense that humans live there. There are zero personal touches in any of the spaces. No connections to art or joy or life.

Effie. I really wish we'd still gotten the prep team in D13, because it's an avenue through which we see how brutal and lacking in compassion D13 really is, but if it's Effie there with her for the movies, then Elizabeth Banks did a stellar job with what she was given to do. I do wish they'd allowed Finnick to keep his line: "They'll either want to kiss you, kill you, or be you." And if not that, then don't freaking cut the "Why, do you find this distracting?" scene. But overall, Effie in D13 works for me in terms of the movie universe.

Mockingjay Part 2

Ranking: 2.5/5

Things I didn't like: Facepalm worthy wigs and dye jobs. Dude. You are the final chapter of a big budget blockbuster franchise. I understand that the dye jobs have taken their toll and wigs may be just more practical for the actors at this stage, but DO BETTER with the money you have.

Just how much of Johanna they cut out of this part and what that does to Katniss's development.

The ending. It's so lackluster in so many ways. One of the things that I loved about the theme of the ending is how it shows that with the right kind of care, a life can be lived and be worthwhile even after the worst kinds of trauma. We get this through the sheer beauty of Katniss's final words in both the final chapter and the epilogue. To me, the movie ending felt just... blah. And I get that maybe they were aiming for a sense of calm and peace, but instead it came off as blah, we're broken and just going through the motions. Which makes sense right after the war ends, but not as the ending continues into the "Real" scene or the epilogue.

Mahershala Ali is highly underutilized in this movie. Let the man play the freaking part. He's already good with what you let him do. Let him unleash the acting chops and make Boggs sing as a character. And part of this has to do with what they cut from the film, like him carrying Katniss to the hovercraft in D8 and her vomiting on him. Same with Julianne Moore. Coin was not nearly cold or controlling enough nor did she convincingly clash with Katniss enough leading up to Peeta showing up in the Capitol.

The omission of the heartbreaking silence Katniss puts herself into and how they turned the sadness of the final breaking of her friendship with Gale into "Goodbye Gale." Ugh. I laugh at it, but it's not a good change. Like we can't allow a Strong Wo-Man Character to be sad or hurt about this, why not????

Burn. Scars. Burn. Scars. Burn. Scars. BURN! SCAAAAARRRRRRRSSSSSS!!!!!

Things I did like: The music. Odd pick I know, but even though the ending is not well done for me, I almost always start bawling the second Katniss starts singing the meadow lullaby as the credits roll. And that's just one weird instance of me liking the music for this film.

How they brought the hijacking to life. I can't even explain why this works so well, but it does. My only wish is that they'd given more time for the Real/Not Real game to develop on film and included more of Peeta's dialogue that shows both the struggle and him regaining parts of himself -- the cafeteria scene, his words to Pollux and Tigris for example.

And there you have it, @curiousnonny. My super long answer to your question. ;)

[strawberryamanita]

People will advocate for you being unpalatable until you're unpalatable for them.

And y'know what? That's okay.

(Ranty rant rant below)

No, believe it or not, this is not a post about "euhhhh nobody can handle anything everyone's tolerance for actual flaws is so low because nobody socializes irl" blah blah blah whatever enough.

Enough.

I'm not here to tell you you should be more tolerant while simultaneously discouraging you from wanting to interact with anyone. Everyone here is so damn prickly, and then they wonder why people are prickly with them.

Anyway, let's start over at point 1. Hi, how are ya? I'm Codi. Nice to meet you.

You may be excited about the idea that people will be more "authentic" versions of themselves in theory, but there will inevitably be parts about their uncensored identities that will rub you the wrong way. And that is okay!

But you have to accept that that is the way things are going to be with people from now on. If someone is gonna be louder, or more emotional, or make more room for themself, or express their identity in a different way than you were prepared for, that is okay. In fact, it's more objective than "okay" -- it's a neutral fact, and that fact is what you have to be okay with.

NO, THIS DOES NOT MEAN I APPROVE OF CASUAL PUBLIC BIGOTRY. I KNOW someone is going to try and "take that" me about this, and I have to keep all my bases covered all the time so I don't slip up and give someone the easy-in to call me an apologist or whatever. Please refer to the [Paradox of Tolerance] for my thoughts on exclusionists and the like, and have a nice day.

God, you lot make me paranoid... Anyway.

I know that from afar/in theory, people actively becoming less palatable sounds like an ideal future. People expressing themselves outside the ridiculously rigid and narrow confines of conformity sounds like a dream come true! And it will be for the individual themself to live freely and on their own terms... but the cost is that sometimes you just won't vibe with what they wanna do with themself. You might have a disgust reaction to it -- you might even be triggered by it -- but that is okay, and that has to be something you have to accept. Nobody wears their true identity on the outside to spite other people; they do it so they feel like they have a tiny bit more control over their own life, in a world where the higher-ups don't want us to have control over a single thing. Wanting control over one's own narrative is okay, and it's a completely rational thing to want.

The same applies to you yourself, btw -- you'll want to do/say/be things that some people will be icked by, and that is also okay. There is room for you, there is room for me, there is room for every person.

The longer you can face things you're uncomfortable with neutrally, the easier it becomes to tolerate them in the long run. Exposure therapy is difficult, but it's worth the time you put in. And if you just can't handle being around a certain trait -- y'know what, that's okay too, but you can't tell the person who possesses it to go back in the closet. Not when they've come so far, not when they've born so much of their soul to the world. You don't tell a Sunset "no, go away, I'm not ready for you yet", it happens regardless and you go on with your day.

I don't even know if this post is completely coherent, honestly. I just woke up, I'm having some sensory issues, I'm sweating and the birds won't shut up. If I get through this webinar without having an episode, I'll consider it a victory.

Just... be nice to eachother, okay? Don't fucking shame eachother for not having built up enough tolerance for certain personalities or lifestyles or cultures or anything like that. We've been trapped in our rooms since March 2020, some of us during our formative years, and it's difficult to have regular, natural relationships when even our closest neighbors feel more comfortable talking through a screen. And while we're looking at these screens, these desperate attempts at maintaining relationships are interspersed between all sorts of horrifically triggering news from the rest of the world. I swear to God, it feels like things get worse every single day, and my jaw is on the floor that we still haven't hit bedrock, haven't hit a nadir for this endless, boundless cruelty that only humans are capable of. It genuinely feels like we're never gonna bounce back up.

Have some fucking patience with eachother.

[weirdo09]

ok so i just got back from seeing atsv and just oh my fucking god.

like first of all THE ENDING?! LIKE HOW OUT OF ALL THE (honestly small amount of stuff) SPOILED FOR ME HOW DID NO ONE TELL ME THERE WAS GONNA BE A TBC AT THE END?! I CANT WAIT HOWEVER MANY YEARS ITLL BE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT LIKE-

and like half the stuff in this film felt like a maaaaassssssiiivvveeeee metaphor for coming out like the “promise u won’t love me any less” (or whatever see said i’m bad at remembering exact quotes) and the fact that during Gwen’s speech to her dad EVERYTHING TURNED FUCKING PINK BLUE AND WHITE like cmon they aren’t even being subtle abt it u guys (@ the ppl who r denying it not u) just don’t wanna see queer ppl in media they literally could not make it more on the nose w/o making it an actual queer coming out story and not a metaphor (also when Miles and Rio were talking and he was trying to tell her “a secret” aka that he was spider-man and he was going all “i- i’m- i’m-” before bailing she 1000% thought he was trying to come out to her like as queer idk what other way she couldve interpreter that like srsly)

also not to be horny in asks but i need Miguel to fucking rail me for fuck’s sake hes hot and usually it’d be more likely i’d be into a mosquito than a muscular guy (it’s normally too generic yk)

and yeah that’s all my thoughts on the movie that’s i can turn into words (final random ones that idk how to format: Gwen and Miles were like extra baby in this one esp Miles + ik he has a wife and all but Peter and Miguel r definitely doing smthn like the vibes r there u cant deny it + Gwen x Miles is one of those ships that i don’t rlly care whether they’re romantic or platonic but i prefer them platonic and unfortunately the writers don’t seem to agree with me (kinda like Jopper except Jopper kinda grew on my entirely because of Willel being siblings bring extra extra canon) + not related to the contents of the film but there were these group of rlly annoying Neds sitting behind me and my friend who wouldn’t stop talking and going on their phones and i only heard one but according to my friend 2 ppl yelled at them to shut up and i heard them stop for like 2 seconds then start being bitches again it was so fucking annoying) and yeah damn that was a kinds long final thoughts thingy but yeah will this become my entire personality? idk we’ll have to see now if u’ll excuse me i gotta remember how to be a normal human again (hope this wasn’t too long lmao) :p

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH(sorry had to let that out) (it’s happy btw)

yes yes the metaphors, made me cry n everythin,, miles n rio were just !!!!!!! i loved it mostly bcuz i wish that was how my mom would’ve reacted if i ever came out to her (spoiler alert, she didn’t and she found out on her own. she was not at all accepting which is typical)

i mean at first, i thought miguel was comical very comical for having beef with miles, who is half his age!!!! yeah after i got out the theater, i wanted to beat his ass 😡😡😡 but then i could kinda see his attractive still not an excuse, i’d still fight him on sight

peter + miguel, i mean mj would obviously approve,,, they’re my poly couple ok??? miguel n mayday get me in my feels,,, 😭😭😭 like i’ve posted before PETER B PARKER AND MIGUEL O’HARA ATE EACH OTHERS ASSES!!!!! yeah great times

miles + gwen, i don’t really see or care for them romantically.. idk i just can’t see their romantic coding… them platonically just seem so much better to me

sorry abt those Neds,,, they seem like total bitches and you make this movie your whole personality bcuz it will be worth it (secretly goin to make the movie my personality again)

[papirouge]

Honestly people’s hatred need to be directed to the rich “muslims” sitting in their mansions in western countries or in places like Saudi and Qatar and Iran that FUND Hamas. Muslims like them couldn’t care any less for the lives in palestine. They don’t care for it and couldn’t care if everyone in palestine is wiped out. I bet you anything that they’re laughing at the videos and celebrating. This is a false religion that promises reward for raping, enslaving and murdering. It directly goes against God’d word.

I refuse the have any "hate" for anyone because as a Christian, satan is the actual Enemy, but tbh, any single person calling for an escalation of this conflict (either defending the Hamas or "IsrAel hAs tHe rIghT tO dEfEnd tHemsElveD 🤪" folks) are as much reckless and ultimately damage the safety of Palestinians. At least rich Muslims stay quiet and aren't calling for the murder of anyone.

Westerners warmongering from their cozy homes that's not under the threat of being nuked overnight are despicable.

It's pretty obvious the Hamas expected a disproportionate response of Israel to amplify the martyrdom (human sacrifice) of Palestinians and leverage a support from the Muslim world.

Another thing that's despicable is how people are somehow trying to "rank" war crimes to act like either side was better/less worse.

Pro Palestine/hamas acting like because Palestianians suffering made acceptable to kill & abduct israelis

and

Pro israel acting like they had a moral ground because they didn't "decapitated babies" (this sensational rumor has yet to be proven true btw)

exhibit :

People will literally say :"I don't see a problem [cutting water & food supply to CIVILIANS]"...and still think they have moral superiority.... That's how dehumanization works : you find "good reasons" to strip people from their basic human rights. Also I always wanna to ask those people where they even draw the line to start dehumanizing people : when babies are killed? women raped? do they realize those are inherent to wars, and therefore them supporting a war makes them accomplice to those crimes??

But the thing is : there's no good answer. Killing or brutalizing ANYONE of ANY AGE/RACE/GENDER is already a moral failure.

Everytime I see people being like "oh look the Hamas raped and dragged a naked woman behind a car" I'm like: "would it be better if it was man? or if she wasn't naked?" Again : WHERE do they draw the line to start clutching their pearls at a specific murder? do these people think war is just a vibe? that because this stuff isn't shown on a camera, it doesn't happen? (yeah bc like in the screenshot, ppl genuinely think that Tsahal didn't do the same thing/war crimes somehow because it wasn't caught on tape...). Maybe they should think about it because supporting war and murder. There's no justified murder for God - a lot of so called "Christians" should understand that.

That's why I'm so SICK of radfem inserting themselves in the discourse to make it about themselves (again). There's a post floating around with a whitefem stating that Palestinians or Isralis women talking about their struggle is not White feminism, and while I totally agree with her statement, I couldn't help but roll my eyes at the usual gaslighting lf "it's WHITE MEN who accuse white women of white feminism!!!" when they don't lol. Many WOC addressed white women gaslighting and aggression and tried to explain that it wasn't misogyny but out of a legit frustration against White women racism, but White women NEVER took them into account and kept focusing on whatever crap WHITE MEN did (look how MAD White women were at the Karen meme, and how they obsessively tried to paint it as a (white) male psy-op when MANY woc entertained this meme). Which is very interesting considering how divested radfem pretend belng from male approval... It's extremely telling how White women will ultimately value White men opinions/perspective more than those WOC. I like how they really be telling on themselves while thinking they're sooo much smarter than anyone else lol

I'll NEVER forget when whitefem call Middle eastern/Arabs radfem calling out the mistreatment of Palestianians women at the border "salafists". It got so bad that one of them slid into my DM-me, a Christian lol- to thank me for defending them because those White women couldn't help but belittle them for being Muslims... But yeah, according to that whitefem it's the fault lf white men WOC have a distrust for their activism 🙃

[bbarican]

july 30, 2023; 7:21 pm - life updates

hi, tumblr! its been a minute ~ how are you guys? isnt it so weird that july just decided to be a blip and is now over like it never actually happened even though it was a super busy month? either way, im here to update ya'll on how ive been and other things and if youre interested, just keep reading along; either way, i love you!

family:

bittersweetly, wala na kaming bisita sa bahay; ang weird kasi my mom pointed out na we had visitors nga pala ever since may, thats a lot of time to have people over at your house and to not have privacy; it is sad though to have the house this quiet again but i, glad for the memories we all made over the course of everyone's stay

i treated my mom to a mani pedi session yesterday and it was really nice and relaxing; i finally got my nails done again and im so happy!

other than the aforementioned, we dont have a lot going on except the fact that we're going to a lunch buffet on saturday so atleast we have something to look forward to

im just really excited for the rest of the year and what that holds for me and my family

personal life:

im in a much better headspace and i am truly grateful for whatever or whoever helped me along the way

july was tough kasi i kept pushing myself to my limit without really noticing and again its very bittersweet kasi a part of me is super proud na i can actually juggle so much but at the same time my mind was not doing okay

but im glad im better now; maybe it was just a bad and busy week but i know for a fact na hindi lang yun yung week na ganun sa buong buhay ko so atleast now i know i can actually handle it

i finished reading happy place by emily henry already and i love that book so much; it being about people around my age made it all the more relatable + its super funny + it hits a little too close to home knowing that im the same as the protagonist; overall, its such a great book and i wish i could read it for the first time ulit

been trying to download bumble again pero literally my phone wont let me kasi it always prompts me to fix my payment method sa apple id which is totally fine btw but it always ends up being in error so i just take that as a sign na downloading bumble is just gonna be a waste of time anyway

i need to buy clothes kasi 1.) i wanna invest in them (again, my mom has a point na i need to stop repeating my outfits as much as i do) and 2.) i have an event to go to on the 11th ata so i need to dress up for that

i also want to sell some of my stuff kasi day by day i just keep realizing na i have so much stuff and instead of throwing them away, might as well make some money out of them

work:

im relieved that work is better now; not as busy, but busy enough to keep me on my feet without actually killing me mentally

i love my officemates; i love how the board takers are back and that the noise is back too

na approve na din kaagad yung revisions namin for our community library project which means we get to go to ikea already and purchase the stuff we wanted to for the project

feels kinda weird din talaga to not have been able to go to the office for a week cause of the weather kaya tomorrow im really gonna push myself to go kahit na alam kong uulan parin kasi i just know im gonna be lazy as fuck if i dont go to the office nanaman

regarding our team building, again, im not so keen on pushing through with it this august kasi 1.) its raining, 2.) mahal na since we're booking for the same dates, and 3.) again, i have no idea what our budget is to begin with so its really hard to plan anything anyway

and yeah, thats it for my life updates ~ im beyond excited for august, so here's to making the last day of july super fun and productive and memorable in whatever way it could be

ingat kayong lahat especially since for sure uulan parin this week!

[8-evil-annoying-catboys]

a lot of the time when people tell kids “it gets worse” they mean something along the lines of “i’m drowning under the weight of finances, and self-care isn’t a reflex for me, and i want to have those things taken care of by someone else again, i’m burnt out” but a) that’s no excuse to lash out at a kid and damage their hope for the future, and b) depending on the kid’s situation, they may well just trade anything to only have to deal with taking care of themselves and their finances instead of what they’re dealing with now. kids have no real autonomy. EVERYTHING they do is subject to their parents’ approval or disapproval. they are legally completely at their parents’ mercy, and running away is a crime, and getting emancipated is incredibly complicated without your parents’ permission—and you have to have a job, iirc, which is another thing you can’t do until you’re a certain age and even then you STILL need parental permission.

every day i’m thankful that i’m not in high school anymore. that i got lucky and was able to move out of my parents’ house, that i can drive and have a job, which are both frustrating at times but definitely better than the complete lack of autonomy i was afforded as a kid. i can buy my own clothes and cut my hair however the fuck i want to and eat whatever i wanna eat. i can move if i want to, wherever i want—it’s a complicated process, for sure, and i don’t have COMPLETE control since some of it is up to circumstance, but i can choose it for myself. i can vote, or whatever! so much autonomy opened up when i turned 18.

a lot of protection also eroded, and will continue to erode up til im 26 and kicked off my parents’ health insurance, and it’s fair to want some of it back—but it’s really not a trade i would make, my autonomy that only adults get, for the protection kids get. maybe some people would make that trade, but you can’t, anyway. doesn’t matter how many times you tell a kid “it gets worse.” and, btw, you’re lying to them—everyone’s life is different, and you have no proof theirs will get worse. so you’re lying to a kid and making them depressed about the future and it’s not even gonna do you any good, much less help them. it’s just lashing out at some kid who didn’t do anything to you.

anyways, if any 12-15 year old kid is reading this—it does not get worse. not really, anyway. some things get harder, but you learn skills and you eventually can deal with them. and the world opens up to you so much more. don’t let people scare you out of growing up, you’ll be surprised how much good stuff waits for you in the future! and even more surprised at how resilient you turn out to be when things aren’t great, tbh. while there’s a lot of unique struggles of adulthood, the feeling of getting through an adult problem that you wouldn’t have been able to navigate as a kid is unparalleled. so is the feeling of never having to go to school again unless you choose to.

I fucking despise when a middle schooler is like “I hate being 13.” and everyone is like “Oh honey, it only gets worse. You don’t know the meaning of struggle.” like no. Let’s be honest. 12-15 is a really difficult age to be. It’s usually when you start waking up to how fucked up the world around you is but you’re still so young and immature that you can’t begin to fix it. It’s a time of horrible change, mentally, physically, prospective-wise.

Personally, it was when the onset of my mental illness developed. My parents’ marriage dissolved in a series of drunk sometimes violent arguments, I was stuck in the house with them, helpless to leave. I would rather kill myself than be 13 again in all honesty. The best part of being 13/14 is that you’ll never be 13/14 again.

[janewaykove]

Hey! Please look into how AI datasets are formed. These programs are only able to function due to large scale intellectual property theft that would be illegal for any other purpose. AI is an amazing concept and we can do lots of great things with it, even (theoretically) with generative AI if someone were to build a dataset ethically with knowledge, consent and compensation of the authors whose works are being used (there aren't any currently, thus theoretically. the reason there aren't any is if you did it, it would no longer be profitable) but please be aware that the currently available generative AIs (not just text btw, visual ones too) exploit writers/artists, especially smaller ones who don't have the means to fight back. The only way we can disincentivize this theft is by ending demand for the product

If you see parts of anything in the AI stories I post(ed) that you think are from someone's story, please do let me know. But as far as I can see, it's just common phrases and generalized things. Aside from the names I put in and the dozen specific prompts (which often included dialogue), basically all that's left is to put it into place and fill in stuff like everyday phrases (ie "she walked down the hallway and turned the corner"). And of course the sex bits that I prompt. If there's suddenly a paragraph in there from Moby Dick, that'd be a bit questionable!

Now if I posted something from some original story/character/world, I could totally see the issue with it being ripped off. But I wouldn't post that. As it is, I have to be specific about a lot of it. I mean, it will know Captain Janeway should be on Voyager. But if I make the character be Kove, it tends not to know who the hell she is and makes her a tall, skinny blonde who works as a waitress. There's only so many ways to write a sex scene so unless someone owns "she reached between her legs and touched herself," or whatever, it's probably not stealing that from anyone, lol!

As for photos, I've seen how those work and don't care for them. I see a lot of images that look just like original images so I know the generator is just taking original images and basing "art" off those. And not even well, I might add (oh those extra fingers it likes to add).

Hope I'm not sounding like an ignorant jerk here. I know a lot of people don't like AI, so I note when I've used a generator. But, as I've said a while back, my brain isn't what it was 25 years ago and some times I just wanna read a weird story with a weird ship. When they come out kinda good (even though they still need tweaking), I share them. What I've seen is general/common stuff in between my specific prompts, otherwise I wouldn't mess with it.

Also, if fanfiction is technically illegal anyway, the only people to be compensated for AI programs using their work would have to be people who write original stories. Those would be easiest to find in AI generators so that'd be a plus, at least. If AI generates stuff based on fandoms, it's harder to figure which is stolen. But if you've got AI talking about Zippooloo Square on the planet Deengu with its 3 purple-pink moons, that'd be an obvious steal. If it's talking about Voyager being in space, that's more general and common knowledge (unless it mentions a quirky addition we know someone else made up just for their own version) that most of the fandom has wrote somewhere or other.

Edit: I'm not saying AI doesn't steal, just to be clear. I read about it stealing works, or people using it to continue an original story. I certainly don't approve of that! But the little stories I do are just AI filler stuff in the specific prompts I give it. So just "he said/she said" and "walked down the street and went into the cafe" stuff. Not chunks of storyline from already written stories.

[aguineapigcouldntdothis]

seeing that they deeply misunderstood the mikvah to the point they said a teacup mikvah is ok, spelled hebrew words backwards, called ladino "dino", encourage their goyische members to say they're jewish, encourage fake conversions, etc. id say they very much aren't jewish. I dont care if you feel happy at their shabbat dinners or whatever. Im glad the people around you are nice but that is not representative of their leadership or the vast majority of their members. I have sources on all of these things in PDF format which I am not sure how to add on tumblr bc I am not the most techy person. If anyone knows how to do that please let me know :).

also I have talked to JVP members and they're assholes usually. they are rude to jews who care about israel, which is 80% of us at the lowest estimate possible, they are rude to religious jews who deeply care about the practices they twist and mock.

btw they also openly support some of the most sketchy congregations that prey upon mostly leftists. such as Interfaith Families Project of Greater in Washington, DC or Hinenu: The Baltimore Justice Shtiebl in Baltimore, MD. These are ones im familiar with bc they're from the DMV, and trust me most observant jews in that area know they're so shady and wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole. Oh and the first one is an interfaith community, which usually wouldn't be an issue, but seeing that their list of approved congregations is so small they have to start bringing Christians into it? yeah, not very cool.

So, is this the hill you want to die on? do you want to support this org just because the people near you are nice? or do you wanna get off your high horse and realize that they hurt jews and especially prospective converts?

I wish Jewish Voice for Peace a very stop pretending to be Jewish or for Peace

[tired-teacher-blog]

How do you think bnha’s boys (whatever character you want to write bout) would react if their girlfriend wanted to put make up on them?Like “””men makeup””” as eyeliner and dark eyeshadow. Would they let her do it or just brush it off?

Happy birthday btw! Love

Thank you so much for the birthday wish sweetie.

This is such a cute idea so let's do it!

Title : Something new

Characters : Bakugo/ Kirishima/ Shouto/ Dabi/ Amajiki/ fem reader

Genre : Tooth-rotting fluff

Masterlist

Shouto :

He blinked a few times and waited for you to explain yourself as you held an eyeliner pencil in one hand and a dark grey eyeshadow in the other, dangling them in front of his face.

_ "Can I apply these on you? Please." You begged him half expecting him to refuse.

_ "Alright I don't mind." He responded immediately in his usual monotone voice as if it was nothing, and you eagerly hugged him jumping up and down in excitement.

He sat there like a good boy, not moving or saying anything, eyes closed and waiting for you to apply your makeup on him. And it took all your might not to kiss his closed eyelids.

You started with the eyeshadow, dabbing it gently with your fingers and checking to see if both eyes matched. It looked so good on him, probably even better than it does on you, and you giggled at the idea.

_ "What? Does it look bad?" He asked, eyes still closed.

_ "No no sweetie it looks perfect. Now don't move, this part is tricky."

You carefully applied the eyeliner next, and moved back to admire your handiwork. He looked adorable and kind of a badass too.

_ "Alright, now open your eyes." You requested handing him the mirror. "So, what do you think?"

_ "This looks nice. Makes me look more intimidating, maybe I should start doing this during missions."

And you couldn't help the smile creeping up your face.

Amajiki :

_ "Wh.. what? No, I mean.. this is embarrassing, why would you want to do this t.. to me?" He was mortified, covering his face as he spoke.

_ "Please, it's fine trust me everyone's doing it. Can't you just let me try it this once?" You knew convincing him wasn't going to be easy, but you're a stubborn little minx.

_ "No I can't, how c.. can I go out with makeup on my face?"

_ "Oh don't worry sweetheart no one is gonna see you but me! You don't have to wear it outside." You cooed, gently bringing his hands down and kissing his flushed nose.

_ "Okay fine, b.. but only this once."

You were ecstatic to finally get his approval and immediately went for it applying the dark eyeshadow on him. He looked adorable, even more than he usually does. But just as you picked up your eyeliner pencil, he moved back panicking:

_ "Let's st.. stop here.. I think this is good enough."

You were a little disappointed that you couldn't finish, but like he said "this is good enough".

_ "You look so cute! Here you wanna see?" You beamed and handed him the mirror, but he just covered his face again and shook his head.

_ "N.. no no it's fine I believe you.. can I take it off now?"

You melted watching your sweetheart being shy and awkward, so you stood up and hugged him tightly, kissing the top of his head, and you smiled as you felt his arms wrapping around your waist.

Bakugo :

_ "Get away from me! No way am I letting you do this to me are you out of your mind?!" Your boyfriend yelled crossing his arms as you pleaded repeatedly:

_ "Please Katsuki it's just a dark eyeshadow and an eyeliner! They will look cool trust me!"

_ "I said no forget it!"

_ "Alright how about just the eyeliner then? It's more discreet than the eyeshadow, I'll apply it softly so it's not too obvious, please."

_ "Did I stutter? Forget it I said!"

This was a bad idea, did you really think you would be able to convince him? Just forget about it like he said.

_ "Okay, I'm sorry." You pouted, clearly disappointed, and prepared to leave the room when he suddenly grabbed your arm and stopped you in your tracks.

_ "Fine but just this once so stop pouting already." He mumbled, still annoyed, but it was so endearing watching him worried about upsetting you.

He sat on the couch hunched over resting his arms on his knees, while you kneeled between his legs, eyeliner pencil in hand.

_ "Okay sweetie, close your eyes please." He huffed and did as asked, and you smiled at how obedient he was.

You carefully moved closer and drew two thin lines one on each eyelid. They looked perfect and you wished you could do more but you didn't want to tempt your fate so you leaned back and tapped his knee, silently asking him to open his eyes.

_ "Is it done?"

_ "Yes! You wanna see? You look so good by the way." You beamed cupping his cheeks.

_ "I'll pass. I only did this so you wouldn't get upset, I don't need to see how it looks. Now come on wipe it off." He closed his eyes again and leaned in. But instead of doing what he asked you to, you kissed his forehead and then both his cheeks, and just when he was about to speak, you shut him up with your lips on his.

You felt him smirking against you before pulling you into his lap.

Dabi :

_ "I'm not in the mood for your jokes." He didn't bother sitting up or even opening his eyes when you came running towards him, makeup kit in hand.

_ "Come on Touya please! It's just an eyeliner, it's no big deal."

He didn't answer, and turned around to the other side. He had no energy to deal with you and just wanted to take a nap.

But you're persistent and know exactly how to deal with him. So you climbed up the bed and yanked him around to face you, and before he could even protest, you straddled and pinned him down: "Come on darling, just this once." You whispered pecking his pouty lips.

He couldn't resist you, he was never able to, so he just sighed and closed his eyes again before responding: "Fine, just hurry up and get it done so I can get some sleep."

And that was your cue, you took out your eyeliner pencil and carefully drew two symmetrical lines on each of his eyelids.

_ "There! Done!" You chanted excitedly and handed him a mirror to see for himself. You were both impressed, it was a statement after all.

_ "Not bad love." He smirked placing the mirror to his side and bringing you down for a heated kiss.

Kirishima :

Never in his life did he refuse s request of yours, but this one concerned him a little. You said you wanted to apply makeup on him, and that's not something he can see himself doing.

_ "Oh! But isn't that a little feminine for me?" He said nervously scratching the back of his head.

_ "No don't worry, it's not like I'm gonna put lipstick on you or something like that, I just meant an eyeliner and a dark eyeshadow that's all, besides it's only you and me here so it's fine right?" You pleaded stroking his chest and nuzzling his neck, so how could he possibly refuse you?

_ "Alright beautiful." He sighed in defeat resting his chin on top of your head.

You straddled him -he insisted- and asked him to close his eyes. And as soon as he did, you whipped out the darkest eyeshadow palette you owned and carefully dabbed the product on his eyelids, stopping for a moment at his scar and kissing the spot tenderly before continuing the application.

He looked cool, even more so than he already does. But your work wasn't done yet! You then picked up your eyeliner pencil and leaned in impossibly close to him attempting to draw two similar lines on each eyelid. Perfect!

_ "Eijiro sweetie you can open your eyes now, I'm done." You giggled turning the mirror for him to see the result.

_ "Oh! This is surprising. I'm wearing makeup but I look really manly and intimidating don't I?" He beamed gazing up at you expectantly.

He's precious, your adorable manly man.

_ "Yes honey, you look amazing. I love you." You whispered against his lips as he pulled you closer by the waist.