#31/12-22

[sandyships99]

My favourite k-dramas of this year 2022:

Through the Darkness

Extraordinary Attorney Woo

All of Us Are Dead

My Liberation Notes

Weak Hero Class 1

[jtl-fics]

The people kindly request more smalls in this trying time

WIP Wednesday - 12/20/23 (Closed) | Smalls AU

"Well we don't want your business anyways!" The clerk says defensive.

"Great, you're not getting it." Janie says with a shrug as she heads back outside to the clerk's sputtering.

Fuck it's hot out. Fuck she misses the A/C. Fuuuuuck she's gonna have to find another bookstore.

Still, Janie's pride has taken a lot of beatings recently. She has no desire to take anymore.

"Maybe any shopkeeper will just drop story lore on me if I walk in. Like if I walk into that Laundromat the guy collecting quarters might tell me who the fuck the Captain is." she muses.

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[kyouka-supremacy]

2024 reading list but instead it's just a list of the Tumblr analysis posts in my drafts I have put there “to be read later”

[midcinmancave]

“Try, Try Again"

A visual novel, part 2 of 4

How far would you go for love? Tonight, we'll find out.

Story Prompts: "I know you better" "It's a new day, let's go" "Follow me if you want to live" "Are we happy?" "Did you hear that?" "Did you stick to the plan?" "You always have a plan" "This is getting ridiculous" "We've done worse" "Why are we doing this again?" "We can fix this, I know we can" "You didn't do anything wrong" "How did this happen?" "It's always been you"

Fictober24 Submission #02 Fandom:  Midnight Cinderella Featuring:  Leo Crawford, Louis Howard, Michelangelo Christophe, Sid Arnault, Giles Christophe, The Princess Warnings:  Grief, Death Rating/Genre:  General Audience, Drama, Mystery, Horror Writer/Illustrator:  Princess Destiny (@destinyumechan) in collaboration with the KoW Writer Project

[aressida]

Feminists, I want to express how I feel when I see all of you (as someone who once held feminist views and disliked men a decade ago, but now that I have gained understanding): Enough with the sabotage!

Be the duty of a woman. -> Genesis 2:18

-> Galatians 3:28 -> 1 Timothy 2:9-15 -> 1 Corinthians 11:3 -> Titus 2:3-5 -> 1 Timothy 2:11-12 -> Ephesians 5:22-24 -> Proverbs 31:11–12 -> Genesis 3:16

[bebebisous33]

Jinx: To Give🎁 or To Take? The Subtle Battle of Love ❤️ and Power 🥊 in Jinx

Finally the essay "To Give🎁 or To Take? The Subtle Battle of Love ❤️ and Power 🥊 in Jinx is finished. Feel free to comment. Retweet/like it as support. 🙏@_MinGwa #징크스 #Jinx #Jinxmanhwa #kimDan #Jaekyung #joojaekyung #mingwa #jinxanalysis

Please support the authors by reading the Manhwas on the official websites. This is where you can read the manhwa: Jinx But be aware that the Manhwa is a mature Yaoi, which means, it is about homosexuality with explicit scenes. Here is the link of the table of contents about Jinx. Here is the link where you can find the table of contents of analyzed Manhwas. Here are the links, if you are…

[blogger360ncislarules]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: NCIS: Los Angeles Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Harris Keane & Hetty Lange Characters: Hetty Lange, Harris Keane Additional Tags: Whumptober 2024, 9x23, 9x24, 10x01, Team as Family, Angst, Emotional Hurt, Set Up For Failure, Partner Betrayal, holding back tears, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Season/Series 10 Speculation, Yeah this is a lot of whump Summary:

A very deep and whumpy look into what the Season 9 finale and Season 10 premiere must have been like for Hetty.

[peribot]

happy new years, y'all! party in the spirit of pinkie for me tonite🎈🎉

[is-hinata-good-today]

december 31st, 2022

that’s a wrap on 2022 - hinata was perfect for every day, every minute, every second of it!!! happy new year!! 🎉🎉

[making-sense-of-oversomnia]

Theory: Characters who are directly representative of Irving and what they mean

LAYER 1: SAFE BETS

Box Guy in the Basement World

REASONING: He literally turns into Irving when you use the angler effect. I don't know if it gets any more clear-cut than that. There's also a bunch of dust bunnies around, and bunnies in general tend to be one of Irving's symbols.

MEANING INTERPRETATION: This is an area pretty tucked-away from everything else (you have to solve a moving box puzzle to get here). Could be representative of how Irving sees himself -- he's hidden himself away in some dusty corner with a bed and a desk and doesn't want to be found.

Pan Flute Player in Boiling Water World (Bestiary Entry #12)

REASONING: In the Curtain Den, if you interact with the racoon dog when you have the wendigo effect equipped, the racoon dog will rapidly switch between forms, switching to the monster at Junction Space and the Pan Flute Player before stopping alltogether. If we follow the logic that the racoon dog is trying to copy Irving, then any forms it switches to are extensions of Irving himself.

There's also the fact that when you go to Lucky's stand with the deer effect equipped, she remarks "A deer, of course..." Her unsurprised response would imply Irving has some sort of history with deer, though what exactly that isn't really the focus of this post (and is also very confusing).

MEANING INTERPRETATION: ???????????????? As previously stated, Irving's relationship with deer is very confusing!! I'll probably tackle it in its own post eventually. Maybe this means that Irving played the pan flute at some point though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Pan Flute Player has an interesting reaction to the wendigo effect though. They stop playing music and have a shadow cast over their face.

The Monster at Junction Space (Bestiary Entry #3)

REASONING: Same as the Pan Flute Player -- the racoon dog in the Curtain Den transforms into the monster when copying Irving.

MEANING INTERPRETATION: The monster is one of the only chasers in the game, and the only one who chases you unprovoked, but the bestiary makes note of the fact that it's protecting something rather than lashing out in rage. This means that between the chaser and the skeleton key lock, Irving is subconsciously REALLY trying to keep himself away from Junction Space and whatever it represents (which, again, is extremely confusing and not really the focus of this post, though I do have a theory post about that half-drafted). The whole "Am I even in my own dream?" comment from the Bestiary might have something to do with it...

LAYER 2: PROBABLY, BUT COULD BE SOMEONE ELSE TOO

The Shadow from the Incomprehensible Event (Bestiary Entry #22)

REASONING: The incomprehensible event shows a looming figure saying some "incomprehensible words" (though most of them are either symbols of sleep or nothingness, so it's not all that incomprehensible). The person on the left dissolves when the speaking figure utters the character "无" meaning "nothing" or "negative." This resembles ending #1 of Oversomnia in a LOT of ways. The looming figure on the right bears a striking resemblance to the pillars in the Dreaming Serpents World (a resemblance that's somehow even more visually obvious in older versions of the game, as seen in the image on the far right) and the sleep-related symbols also align with the idea of a DREAMING serpent. Ending #1 also shows Irving drowning/dissolving in a green river at the very end before vanishing from reality, which would also align with the event here where the figure on the left dissolves.

MEANING INTERPRETATION: The serpents are a Lot to handle. What they want, where they came from, how real they are and their influence on reality are all questions at the core of Oversomnia's mysteries. To quote the bestiary though, whatever they want, it's probably not good. Either way -- how I see the event is that either the monster approached Irving, or Irving approached it, and the monster ended up meddling in Irving's affairs with the end result of him possibly vanishing. How real this vanishing is and how "real" ending #1 is are up for debate -- the fact you "wake up" after ending #1, get a menu theme, and can then go chat with Lucky about Irving's worries are suggests that ending #1 might just be another dream. Alternatively, maybe Irving DID vanish from reality and the rest of the game is a dream in the afterlife. Or maybe he's been dreaming this whole time and nothing was real, etc etc. Ending #1 and the serpents have a dedicated post coming later too. Anyways, the only reason I hesitate to say with 100% certainty that the dissolving figure IS Irving is because we know for a fact some of his friends are also caught up in this whole serpent business. Lucky's the obvious one given her presence beyond the gate at the very north of the Dreaming Serpents World, but the figure depicted here doesn't resemble her too much (no skirt, no coat, no clover). There's also Irving's friend in Junction Space (bestiary entry #4) who goes through a door adorned with distinctly serpentine iconography. So the dissolving figure could be Irving as seen in ending #1, or it could be one of his friends.

LAYER 3: EHH YOU COULD ARGUE THIS ONE EITHER WAY

Pallid Beings in the Emergency Room (Bestiary Entry #31)

REASONING: A lot of my logic in this is based on two assumptions. Firstly, that the monster protecting Junction Space IS in fact Irving, as I argued earlier in this post. Secondly, that the pallid creatures are sick versions of the monsters from junction space. My reasoning behind that second point is based on an earlier post I made noting that the monster and the pallid creatures have a lot of visual similarities -- primarily white in color, big heads and bodies but small legs and arms, melty, have horns (only present in some pallid creatures), and have black circles around their eyes with black rings around their necks (only present in the pallid creatures still capable of walking). Additionally, the monster at Junction Space will send you to the Emergency Room if you get caught by it.

MEANING INTERPRETATION: Irving might be sick in some way, or had some sort of serious illness before. Could also be a dream-sickness? The monsters are melty, and Irving does dissolve in ending #1. Could be representative of that. There's also this sprite in the left of Irving's bathroom that could be a pill bottle, but it could also just be his laundry detergent -- it's too small to say definitively either way.

Oversomnia does, in general though, have a decent number of "sickly"/"guarding someone" type events. There's obviously the emergency room and the nurse here, but there's also the bat creature protecting the sickly person who you get vampirism from (bestiary entry #6) as well as the monster guarding the wilting flower in the garden center basement (bestiary entry #37) so even if you don't buy this exact comparison, there is some other possible evidence for the broader Irving Illness Theory.

LAYER 4: OK NOW YOU'RE STRETCHING IT

Person on the Pink Beach (Bestiary Entry #9)

REASONING: This theory requires you to believe all the other comparisons I've made up until this point. The only way you get to the Pink Beach is through meeting the ghost in the emergency room by using the tuning fork. If the emergency room and the pallid creatures are already representative of Irving, then anything connecting to them probably is too. Additionally, the figure on the beach is wearing a bone mask, like the Pan Flute Player is, except the Pink Beach figure is covering their whole face. Additionally, both the Pink Beach and Boiling Water World are EXTREMELY pink areas with a focus on water. ALSO the Pink Beach's music is the same as the Title Screen of Oversomnia, which could indicate that the Pink Beach is more important and more broadly emblematic of Irving and his dreams than it initially lets on.

MEANING INTERPRETATION: The bestiary entry for this area reads "Hidden away in a place where it had been forgotten was a beach made of pink sand. The only person on the beach had also been forgotten…" You COULD possibly interpret "the only person on the beach" to mean Irving in this context which could indicate that his friends have forgotten about him, OR he's worried about being forgotten. 50/50 shot on that one, if you believe it at all. Alternatively, it could be representative of something Irving's forgotten about himself. This IS where you get the skeleton key effect after all, and the skeleton key is all about unlocking hidden dreams and hidden memories!!

This post ended up being way longer than I expected. Thanks for reading this far.

[f1nns1deblog]

a selection from this excellent post by u/send-me-a-puffalope, comparing F1nn's looks over time

the most recent photos in this set are the black and tan color block top and cat ears+choker+strappy black dress (far right pic in the first set), which are both from the 12/21/22 stream, and the oldest is the far left pic from the first set, which I think was taken in front of another streamer's setup; for other carbon dating purposes, F1nn started streaming in his own first house 7/31/20 (afaik), which is the one with the blue wall panels and no bed in the background

[moron-hassaikai-and-more]

Chrono: Men should be possessive over me actually because red flags are hot and alright if that’s your favourite colour. It’s not mine but…it’s someone’s.

Mimic: what did he do this time?

Chrono: he fucking grabbed my face, said ‘you’re mine’ and kissed me, I can’t fucking do this mimic, he’s going to actually cause my heart to stop one of these days-

Disclaimer: Do not take dating advice from Chrono. Red flags are not hot. Even if it is your favourite colour.

[pavelzacha]

:)

[mikeywayarchive]

deana.mp3 on IG // posted Dec 31st 2022

[mx24]

[theswandragon]

//first of these posted here, so check the tags for more context and notes

Daily Poem 12/31/22 (with audio!)

Though the light behind grows dim And what little remains illuminates the losses, We stand here now as a reminder Of the light that shone to get us here.

Though the past is fraught with missed chances And every opportunity by the wayside only hurts, We stand here now as a reminder Of the chances we took to get us here.

The light ahead still shines bright And illuminates the gains As we step forward And make new memories.

The future is filled with possibility And opportunities to catch before they fall As we step forward And take new chances.

Each step may hurt Each breath may sting Our dams might burst Our ears might ring

But we will step But we will breathe And we will rebuild And we will sing

Because our past is not lost Because our future is grand Our past was not lived as a cost Our future will be what we demand

There are many things we wanted To do when we were young. Many places to go and Songs left unsung.

So let them be gifts for the future To do as we grow old. Many places to go and Songs sung out bold.

Step forward, when you feel ready, There is no need to rush. The world can wait until you're steady, Until then, let it hush.

~Swan