#And I'm sure there's more examples of this

[haru-kuneko]

This post reminded me of myself. As someone who grew up in a strict household and only had unsupervised Internet access in their 20's, I am aware that I'm no longer a teenager but still feel like I'm stuck in the body of a teenager. I feel totally far left behind socially and mentally.

When I say "Hey just so you know, I'm still young and learning," in my head it's not trying to avoid responsibility and act like a kid but rather I need more time to know how to properly interact and would appreciate being kindly told what I did wrong instead of "HEY! YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER AND SET A PERFECT EXAMPLE TO LITTLE TIMMY WHO'S ONLY 18!".

I am not always gonna have it all figured out. Just because I'm old enough to drive and drink, it doesn't mean it's my job to parent someone's kid and sugar-coat myself, especially on the Internet.

I know I'm still gonna be cringe and awkward, that I can be impulsive at times. The difference is now that I'm older, I am able to find the opportunity to reflect and learn from my own mistakes.

In case I happen to interact with younger kids, I'd make sure our conversation remains wholesome and tell them, "Hey! That was nasty, don't do that!" whenever they're behaving inappropriately. We can be like buddies and all who gets to sing around the campfire and talk about typical kids' stuff.

I think mostly what young fandom types (and I guess younger people in general) who are very very invested in the idea that “20 is still basically a minor” need to understand is that the feeling of “I’m just a child pretending to be an adult, and everyone else around me is a REAL adult” is DEEPLY universal (and won’t stop, ever, by the way, sorry!) and also is not, like, praxis.

Believe me, I get it, but the self-infantilization needs to stop, especially when you’re trying to engage in conversations about actual children and the harms they can face. Yes, it is scary to wake up and realize you’re 22 and you still feel like you’re 15, but it happens to all of us. You’re an adult. You have to deal with it.

[capellla]

Your dynamic with your future spouse | PAC

In this reading, we will look at what kind of dynamic you have with your future partner and what role you will both play in the relationship. Focus, clear your mind and choose the image you are drawn to.

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Pile 1

I don't think I could have gotten a more chaotic card to read into a couple dynamic. You are both crazy and hard to control people, that's for sure. I haven't figured out how this relationship is going to work yet, but I'll look into it and hopefully I will understand. First of all, this relationship won't be easy, past betrayals, old wounds, and unexpected pain will come to the surface in this relationship. But will that make you give up? No! You're probably rolling your eyes or sighing at this part, and rightly so, let's get to the fun part.

I get a vibe from this relationship like this; the party girl gets ready to go out in her sexy dress and her partner has to roll his eyes when he sees her, but deep down he's proud because she belongs to him, or let me give you an another example; the guy picks up the girl in his car one day with no plans and no necessary stuff and they go on a long trip. But the next day they don't hesitate to fight because they are completely incompatible. Yes, I'm saying you're both incompatible, but don't let that scare you. In this relationship, both parties may avoid emotionality and vulnerability because both parties want to appear strong and independent. But they still show each other sides that they don't show to anyone else because they become completely different people around each other.

You've read this far and you're saying this doesn't suit me at all; then I suggest you make another choice because this may not suit everyone. You'll be each other's first love, you'll be each other's enemy, you'll be each other's troublemaker and many more.. you'll adore each other. But then you'll question why you're in this relationship. This relationship will settle down over time and of course, as you grow and develop, you'll become simpler as you understand each other better. And the relationship will become peaceful but it will never lose its fun side. Think of couples who are old and don't hesitate to roast each other despite their gray hair on their sore spots. It's very possible that this will be your future. But all these special memories, warm memories and adventures will leave you with very beautiful memories in the future, that's for sure, and you won't have any regrets.

You're both independent and free-spirited people and this can sometimes cause power struggles and you both can avoid giving up your power and finding a common path. This is honestly a very modern vibe of two people. You will practically add so much to each other. Like Acotar Rhysand and Fayre. You will teach each other so much without restricting each other and show each other new sights. You will have the weirdest wedding and then give your child the wildest name. But before having a child, you will travel the world for the first time. Of course, these plans may vary for everyone, but what I mean is that you will be far from the ordinary and everything that will restrict you.

Pile 2

We start with a big mystery, I can say that this relationship will be very transformative and developing with the eighth house and twelfth house. I see intense emotions and passionate moments in this relationship. This relationship will be a mystery not only for others but also for you. I don't know why but it gives me twin flame soulmate energy. You will get to know and learn yourself better in this relationship. Its giving a vibe of a couple leaning on each other's shoulders on a seashore feeling peace and love. It is not quiet, not noisy but transformative.

In this relationship, sometimes both parties may feel weak and helpless. The reason for this situation may be the difficulties of life and the obstacles experienced. I don't think this is due to you two, it is related to these conditions. Maybe financial problems, maybe distance and maybe families. Or maybe your compliance with the relationship patterns and gender patterns imposed by the social environment may be a source of problems. And this situation can sometimes cause tension and emotional moments between you. But no matter what, you will not let go of each other's hand. This relationship gives me the kind of relationship vibe written in old books and poems. Sincere and full of inspiration.

In this relationship where you illuminate each other's darkness with each other's light, the world will feel a little brighter and safer for you. You will offer your love to each other with all the means you can. I don't know why this example comes to mind, but it's like a mother who can't afford to buy new clothes for her child, knitting a dress for her child by hand. You will help each other through difficult times as much as you can and be strong. It's quite touching and impressive.

There will be many dreams in this relationship. A new house, blue curtains, plants on the edge of the house, a big bookcase, running children, a warm home and more. You will both have the chance to escape from the weight of life and what is imposed on you, and you will find peace in each other. Of course, there will be difficult moments, moments that make you feel shaky, but since you will grow with each other, these moments will stop scaring you after a while.

You will be most sensitive and emotional towards each other at all times. Little things and small moments will nourish your relationship. And I think this is wonderful.

Pile 3

Your relationship dynamic with your future spouse will be simple, stable, (and traditional maybe) and strong. You are in harmony with each other and you complete each other. Even your subconscious is in harmony and you will feel each other deeply. This relationship may be long distance or there may be some obstacles in between but these will not be major problems. I sense that this relationship is not challenging but a relationship that will completely give your heart peace

The universe will be behind you. Your existing shortcomings will be covered when this relationship starts and the abundance will be yours. You will be sure from the moment you meet this person or start a serious relationship. I see a strong trust in both of you. I think many people will choose this option the most so I do not get a clear vibe but I can say that I get a fresh vibe. You will experience freedom, peace, stability, power and many more feelings with this relationship. It will be very different from your previous relationships. You will want to live and grow old with this person.

Everything will fall into place as if the universe is directing it. Both of you will have a luck. Even if there are difficulties, I think the purpose of these difficulties will be to guide you to the right path. The aesthetics that come to my mind are; a couple playing board games with each other and their friends in a warm environment, a couple giving each other the sweetest nicknames, a couple who are into freedom and have the same beliefs, a couple who passionately defend the same thing, a couple who approach each other with compassion and love and teach each other.

Your sex life will definitely be passionate and maybe some of you will wait until after marriage. Your minds will match and you will respect each other's perspectives. And your hearts will beat as one.

[nobylerdoubt]

Wouldnt the duffers try to do the thing where will gets over mike finally letting go of his childhood/coming to age type thing? Like I see a lot of ppl saying that byler has to happen or the narrative of stranger things wont work but im kinda leaning on the whole its gonna be a coming of age type thing where will grows out of his childhood hes been clinging too while still remaining friends with the party if that makes sense (Like not abandoning everyone just evolving & staying friends with the party. Im sorry if this dosent make sense I am not a native english speaker.)

Hard, hard no.

I'm not sure where this idea that growing up means you have to give up on things you love comes from, but it's such bullshit. Yes, when you grow up things change but it's less than you might think.

A coming of age story is more about coming into your own - it's about accepting yourself and the power that comes inherently from being you. It's not about changing the parts of you that are somehow inherently wrong or childish or immature.

The message of Stranger Things has never ever been about letting go of your childhood.

There's a clip from Beyond Stranger Things that I think about not just in context to the show, but also how it applies to my own life.

It's not a huge moment in this mini-series but I just think about it a lot, especially since I watched it when I was still very young and learning about what it means to grow up.

Growing up, in this specific example, doesn't mean you can't play D&D (read: do things you love, even if it's considered childish).

Throughout the series we see that giving up things from your childhood is a bad thing.

In Season 2, when Mike's forced to pack up two boxes of his toys for a yard sale. His parents see his toys as hunks of plastic but Mike sees them as memories.

In Season 3, during the rain fight, (and I've seen this scene misinterpreted so many times) it's clearly shown that Mike is the one in the wrong for essentially telling Will to grow up, stop playing D&D, and get a girlfriend. We know this because Mike immediately apologizes to Will (running after him) and we see in the next season that Mike goes back to playing D&D.

^A lot of people see this scene as a sign Will needs to grow up??? That's not what's going on here???

Also in Season 3 we get to know Erica - who is a little girl desperately trying to act older and cooler than she is - trying to deny being a nerd, even though she likes My little Pony and is REALLY good at Math. And a lot of that is just who Erica is, but when we see Lucas and Dustin give Erica Will's old D&D kit/box it's this reminder to her that it's okay to be young, to be a nerd, it's okay to not be cool - and we see her go on to embrace this more in Season 4.

And you know what else? This whole idea of leaving your childhood behind to fit this pre-conceived notion of what it means to be an adult?

It's forced conformity.

And that's the real monster.

But aside from that - Will is one of the two characters who demonstrates the tragedy of losing your childhood. After the Upside Down, he couldn't just be a kid anymore, and when he finally found his footing and just wanted to play some D&D - he'd been left in the dust. His friends "grew up" around him, leaving Will behind.

Why, then, is it an acceptable outcome for his story to say to this boy, who lost a huge chunk of his life to trauma, to "suck it up, buttercup! leave your childhood behind!"???

But finally - Mike isn't just a remnant of Will's Childhood that he's clinging to - Mike makes Will feel safe. Mike makes Will feel normal, and wanted, and special. Mike isn't just some childish first crush that Will needs to give up on and move on. But his own admission, in the Van scene, when he's swapping out El's name for his own, Will confesses he needs Mike, and he always will.

Sure, in real life it's sound advice to say, "look kid, I know this hurts now, but there's plenty of fish in the sea and someday someone is gonna love you for who you are, wholly and completely, no strings attached."

But Will is a character in a story, and in the context of the story Mike is so much more than a childhood crush. (If you wanna see an example of an in-show childhood crush, look at Dustin in season 2, and how Nancy was the one to pick him up and tell him that someday there's gonna be someone who loves him.)

And Mike does want Will - he wants that fantasy of staying in Mike's basement and playing D&D and Nintendo for the rest of their lives.

He wants it. He just needs to realize that he can have it, and it's sitting right in front of him.

And to your point - Will has already given up. He's already decided that he needs to move on from Mike, that there's no hope there. That's not the lesson Will needs to learn. The lesson he needs to learn is that he can be happy. He can have things for himself. He can put himself first.

And that lesson isn't conducive to "pack up your childhood and leave it behind"

[certifiedsexed]

Does aftercare have to be emotionally intimate?

I'm interested in partaking in kink some time in the future and probably domming and I know that aftercare is important but I'm aromantic (and aplatonic) which doesn't really matter since many aspecs can like emotional intimacy but I really don't. I've seen a lot of people say that aftercare includes cuddling or spending time together and whatever (after making sure parties involved are alright of course) I just really don't want that for a few reasons. Examples being I don't want to have sex with a non-sexually intimate partner or friend because I don't want to be non-sexually intimate, I would find it a bit awkward honestly, you get the picture.... Is it fine to just make sure the other person(s) involved is fine, get them water or food or something, and leave or whatever??? Thanks.

It depends on the type of kink you do and who you play with!

Aftercare really differs depending on what you're doing and who's involved.

For example, cuddling might be good aftercare for some people after having some types of sex/doing certain types of kink scenes but for others, it might be triggering or just completely useless. Its not an automatic requirement for aftercare to be something physical and/or emotionally intimate.

Sometimes aftercare is just tending to any wounds, making sure y'all are both fine, maybe getting something to drink but it depends on what type of play you're doing and who you're doing it with.

You have to talk with your partner(s) about what aftercare they might need, as well as what aftercare you might need. Especially if you have specific types of aftercare you can't do and/or feel very uncomfortable doing, you should talk to your partner(s) about it beforehand.

And you will have to be prepared for the possibility that you'll do a scene and your partner might need more aftercare than you/they anticipated. You might too!

And in those situations, you can't just drop out. If you want to do kink scenes with people, you have to stay responsible for you and your partner(s) health. You might need to call someone, you might need to stay with them until whichever of you needs it feels better.

I'm not saying you have to do emotionally intimate aftercare whenever you do kink scenes, that's not true. It's perfectly fair if you're uncomfortable with that.

But you do need to make sure your partner(s) are aware that's not something you do and try to play with people who don't need emotionally intimate aftercare. And stay aware, sometimes shit hits the fan and you might have to do something more than you planned for.

[seimsisk]

#me whose first programming language was Rust: huh I wonder what they're talking about my computer just tells me calmly to correct it#remembers I've been told Rust's compiler is exceptionally intuitive and clever and not the norm at all oh right yeah. f.#programming#coding

prev. lemme tell you a story.

my university made everyone start learning to code with C, right. which is an interesting choice because C will punish the smallest slip ups and make you get into the nitty gritty of memory allocation and stuff like that, but the flip side is it often fails in mysterious ways. I've seen professors give a passing grade to programs that failed catastrophically to pass any tests, as long as it compiled correctly and the code was neat and seemed to be more or less correct. This is because often the professors and TAs can't figure out what's wrong with the code, because debugging in C is always an adventure.

for example, one classic one classic debugging technique is adding a line of code with a printf instruction which makes the program print out some message like "I just got to line 35" or something like that. basically, the idea is, if the error is before that line, you get the error with no other message. If the error is after that line, you get the message, and then the error. You do this a few times and you should be able to pinpoint which line is causing the error right. Except if you are really unlucky, as I was a couple of times, you add this line, and then you get the message, and no error. The program just finishes running smoothly. You stand there with a dumb look on your face. You run the program again, just to be sure. Maybe a few more times. For a moment you let yourself hope you don't have to worry about this bug anymore.

But of course, you can't turn in a program that prints out a bunch of random messages. You have to remove those printf instructions. And when you do, the error reappears. You check your code again, you make sure you didn't add any lines that actually change anything in the code. Nada. You literally just wrote some dumb message in the console. Maybe you wrote "Hi" or "LOL" or "I'm so tired of this shit". And it somehow prevents the program from failing.

Years later, you will learn to use a debugger to inspect the contents of all your variables and make sure everything is as it should be. Maybe you will even use lint. Most likely, you will stop using C altogether in favor of less finicky languages. But right now, you gotta lock in and find this fucking bug that fucking disappears whenever you look at it like some quantum state bullshit. You basically rewrite your code line by line until you find out you forgot to set one of your variables or something like that, and that caused your program to try and access some random piece of memory that it should not have access to. except, somehow, if you added an extra instruction to the code, it changed the state of the memory heap just enough that the code got to a piece of memory it did have access to (because it turns out that the memory that stores the code itself is the same as the memory that stores variables). it was still reading garbage, but not explosive garbage.

now, this is probably the most infuriating memory I have of my C coding classes, but not the most ridiculous. No, that honor goes to the story of how my friend got the nickname Jesus. Basically he was trying to help a friend with their code, and nothing they did helped in the least. So Jesus has this bright idea: let's copy and paste the code piece by piece into a new document to figure out when the error appears. So they start doing that, right, copy, paste, save, compile, run, repeat, piece by peace, until they get to the end... and the error never appears. They check and the two documents are now exactly identical. But one causes an error and the other doesn't. My friend get's a nickname as a miracle worker, and the rest of us adds to a repertoire this surprisingly useful new technique: copying and pasting your entire code into a new document. I can attest this technique saved me a couple of times. I'm still not 100% sure why though.

i think everyone should program at least once just so you realise just how fucking stupid computers are. because theyre so fucking stupid. a computer wants to be told what to do and exactly that and if you make one typo or forget one detail it starts crying uncontrollably

[cleolinda]

Weekend links, July 6, 2025

My posts

Guess what? I'm going to be having a chat with my spinal clinic about some side effects from that epidural pain block a couple weeks ago. Thus, we didn't have a linkspam last Sunday, and I'm working from a larger pool of posts this week. Also, I am behind on everything. Enjoy. 

Side note, Ian's Silent Hill 2 stream of Toluca Prison (and an hour's discussion of storytelling with Vic Frederick) went up two Wednesdays ago. (He's now taking a month off while I pick up the [my] slack.) I made it to chat, despite shaking off anesthesia. And I'm glad I did because the first major fight was... something I've never seen before, I'll put it that way. I now have a new goal for when my videos get there. 

Meanwhile, remember how I posted about horror as comfort media? These people get it.

Reblogs of interest

Pride parade, Budapest, 100k+ people marching: "the perfect example of 'they can’t arrest all of us'" 

Niagara Falls lit up in rainbow; a lovely bisexual moon.

Important food recalls and news sources for the United States

How to Disable and Remove All AI Features in Mozilla Firefox. Et tu, Mozilla?

After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad. No, I actually expected that from y'all. With links/recs for Libre Office. 

By the way, Shel Silverstein foresaw gen AI

"i think all quiet on the western front and the lord of the rings are in direct conversation with each other," with bonus Narnia shell craters. That sounds flippant, but I really think everybody here is onto something. 

Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the Indiana Jones Franchise, and Bluesky has some ideas

"To be TRULY fluent in English you must know your SHITS"

"i am not immune to the bit. i’m gonna have to go full mingo aren’t i."

I remember these MTV Video Music Awards Posters from 1999. Yes, the late '90s were exactly Like That.

Putting the CERN back in "concerned," Molly Bair wearing Iris van Herpen inside the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Listen, you know shit ain't been the same since that weasel. You get out of there right now.

"a redditor has mushrooms growing out of his home's electrical sockets" and it's not good. It's Not Good!

"True Gym Bros while flexing their jaws: Come Bro, join us in the Gainshalla"

Prosper, feather beast

"Call me Cismale"

Go in the wet. The wet will love you. The wet doesn't have capitalism. Just go in the wet.

"IT WAS NOT THE FUCKING COLONIALISM THAT INVENTED THE FUCKING POTATO."

"Dude’s out here trying to solve House of Leaves. I give it to page 120 before the actual minotaur gets him." No one has read this book so purely in its own spirit as this one beleaguered guy reading it in French with graph paper and a middle finger.

I am pretty sure I will grab Date Everything if there's a good discount on Steam

"spn Fandom perfec t fun for put new fan in to e\njoy show! inside very Nice and Comfort new fan enjoy fun put new fan in Spn Fandom." (I never get my "mouth perfect size for meme" tag right on the first try)

Tag yourself, I'm the Taylor Swift lyric "some guy said my aura's moonstone, just 'cause he was high"

Art: "The important questions of what if bird were fruit"

"Girl help the pessimists are mistaking an inherently meaningless universe for an inhumane and joyless one rather than recognizing the opportunity to make one’s own meaning and joy and to spread those things to others"

"girl help they’re decoding my cat"

He's all in

A brooch of a fabulous creature

HONSE

Video

"Someday Amaury Guichon is going to release a video where creates a life sized statue of a human being, but as he adds detail, it becomes increasingly clear that the chocolate model is becoming more and more akin to a perfect replica of the viewer"

The painstaking restoration of a wedding dress from 1950

This is not how I expected you'd make magnolia blossom ice cream

"they removed capybara walking (1887) from letterboxd so i’m letting it live on my blog forever"

Knitted sheep, animated

One of the deans at Beijing Dance Academy shows you how it's done

Pre-Colonial Filipino clothing revivalists out on the town

The sacred texts

Children’s Hospital Colour Theory

Dogs in Elk

Personal tags of the week

I'm going to say food, but it was actually a good bit of #chocolate. Also, Pride Month, since it wrapped up while I was still recovering. 

[antianakin]

I'm not sure I know quite how to word this yet, but I feel like part of the issue with people's perceptions of the Jedi and the Order is that there are some aspects of it that are intended to be applicable to real life because they're part of the overall themes and messages of the story, and there are other parts that are straight up fantasy tropes that are just there to give it a fantastical feel, and not everyone's sure which is which, so you get certain things being criticized that are just basic fantasy trope and other things being tossed aside as just fantasy bullshit that is meant to be viewed as part of the running theme of the entire story.

For example, the Jedi taking in children very young is often something that gets criticized and while there have been people trying to explain this in-universe as a necessary thing to help these kids grow up with certain values and make their lives as Jedi easier in the long run, it's going to be something that's far easier to swallow if you just realize it's a straight up fantasy trope. The kids are magical, there's a force in the universe calling them to take up a specific path so they can fulfill a destiny. That's it. These kids know, at extremely young ages, that they're destined for something greater and can follow that path and call older magical beings to help guide them down that path. It's just fantasy, y'all, it's not meant to be any deeper than that.

Whereas on the other hand, the attachment rule sometimes gets explained away as something that's necessary for the Jedi because they're space wizards with special powers that are connected to their emotions and so the Jedi NEED to manage attachments in a way no one else does specifically due to their abilities. But in reality, attachments and their consequences are part of the overall theme of the entire franchise, specifically of Anakin's storyline. You as the audience are meant to look at Anakin's story and realize that attachments are in fact actually bad and while you may not end up murdering a bunch of children as a result of your own attachments, it's probably still worth figuring out how to control your fear and let some shit go and accept that sometimes people die and it's sad but it's just how life goes sometimes. The attachment rule isn't important to the Jedi because they have space wizard powers, it's important to them because it's just genuinely important for EVERYONE. This isn't a fantasy trope, this is a storytelling trope that is often at the core of a LOT of different stories you know because it's a really really basic message to send about how to live your life in a healthy way.

But, yeah, I think it would help some people to have a better understanding of where in Star Wars, especially with regards to the Jedi, it is helpful to apply rules of the fantasy genre and where to apply more realistic analysis because it's something that's meant to be applicable to the audience as the lesson they take away from the story.

[multicolour-ink]

When Link does the "I'm going to tear you apart" face

[nohhhdrr]

I love this so much more then the other thread to be honest. I mean i did cry but Tim never knew Danny was his soulmate. I'm not sure he ever knew he even had one. Tim was young at the time. No one explained anything to him. Maybe after finding some case of rejected soulmate going crazy and doing "if i can't have you no one can" he finds out bout the whole soulmate writing on your skin. Danny truly did fuck up. He was very affected emotionally and was hurting. So he lashed out. And considering he was 16 in this thread? (I'm not sure for how long he stayed antagonizing tim in the other one) Yep. I can see that. So both of them now grown up. Both supposedly having moved on from each other, right? But now adult tim (which i'm pretty sure means 21-25. Danny was affected by Tim's rejection for a very long time but these types of things can make you burn out. And after a second rejection? Yeah. Danny VERY hurt but ultimately he burned out. His brain just decided he can't spare any more energy on this emotional wreck of a ride) has to feel the rejection Danny felt all time when they were teens. I wanna see if it would drive him up the wall like it did to Danny back in the day or would Tim keep himself in his tight grip of self-control. Considering how unhinged (usually in a good way) Tim is on a normal day? Yeahhh... I think he would not handle it well. Especially if we remember how obsessive he was in his cloning days. (Actually, now that I think about it, what if because of the Tim's cloning thing the whole batfam (and probably Tim's team minus Tim and maybe Kon) think Kon was Tim's soulmate and that's why they never thought the possibility of this being why Danny was so obsessed with Tim in his teens?) I want the whole batfam clicking the pieces together while Tim is bluescreen-ing and obsessing in the back ground. Just Danny being "yeah my bad. yeah... sorry... yeah." and scratching the back of his head. Like HE moved on and for him it's just awkward and embarrassing now. Like how some boys had experience of being in the mind set of "nice guy" while having a crush a selebrity (and probably sending dm-s to that selebrity). THAT would be the level of embarrassment, awkward-ness and guilt he would feel. For danny? It's low stakes now. He got through it and now can finally look at the situation objectively, without the overwhelming amount of emotions clouding his judgement. Yeah it was his bad for lashing out and not communicating at all. There are a few hiccups and some pretty rash actions on batfam's side of things but overall? Yeah.. Sorry I was such a mess back then. It's okay if you don't forgive me. I did cause a lot of greif for all of you. I can give you all a few favors as compensation.

He doesn't even look at Tim anymore. He saw that he wasn't listening and decided to not waste time, just explain everything to his ex-soulmate's family and then go back to his lair.

He has his duties to fulfill (And if we want to hurt timmy more, we can have him taking care of his children (which magic community would supposedly know about. They didn't know HE was the king but they DID know about the new king and his children, for example) that just were cores of all the dead, terminated and or still cryo-sleeping clones that Vlad made back in the day. We can have him save each clone with the help of clockwork or only save those that were in cryo-pods to minimise the sheer amount of children he has to raise.)

Just Danny felling awkward and a bit guilty on his end while Tim is having to grapple with the overwhelming feelings of quiet rejection on his end. Danny did make Tim feel something while he was antagonizing him back then. But Tim? he would have no chance of doing the same now. Danny seen everything. Danny moved on

@gilbirda Ok, so you made a snippet of on of your AUs a while back (braindead rejected! soulmate i think) and I haven't been able to think of much else since. So my brain made a little thingy for you!

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1. Tim takes a risk one day by writing back to whoever was doodling on his body, with a glittery purple gel pen, asking them to stop trying to contacting him.

All the person asked was, "Why?"

Tim never answers.

2. Danny faces constant rejection from his peers, authority figures, his parents and sister neglect him and now his own soulmate doesn't want him. They hadn't even met before he was rejected. Jazz finds out about Dannys powers and tries to reach out but Danny rejects her pretty violently due to his own pain. Then the episode where Sam and Tucker ditch him for Gregor happens and he gives up.

The two people in his life that has had pretty much complete control over his life and trajectory just abandoned him and he does not take it well. He ripped the symbol off his chest, disappeared and never came back.

3. Danny zooms into a new dimension/universe/whatever to avoid his former friends and family from being able to track him only to land in a place called Central City and immediately getting roped into helping Captain Cold who gives him a normal domino mask and they end up working together for a while.

4. Danny somehow overhears one of the speedster talking on the phone about his friends brothers soulmate issue at some point and they perfectly describe the interaction that happened between Danny and his soulmate all those years ago, down to the glittery purple gel pen and the types of doodles Danny had made as a kid and the things he said.

Danny learned one of his soulmates belonged to a group of detective vigilantes in a place called Gotham. Unfortunately he was spotted by the speedster and Danny had to bounce.

5. The Flash made reports to the Justice League about a meta teen who hes been having trouble with for a while and can't seem to pin down. He only asked for tips though as he "could handle it himself."

6. Danny leaves for Gotham and learned about Catwoman and Batmans weird Master Thief and Greatest Detective dynamic and decided that's what he wants to do. He was going to make his soulmate chase after him one way or another. Someone was going to want him even if they were wanting him behind bars.

He begins robbing bank vaults and museums, leaving no trace or clue as to what happened until he starts leaving a calling card of sorts.

7. Jason, who's been on the outs with his family lately meets this spunky white haired meta kid running around with a sci-fi mask/visor thing and giving supplies to homeless encampments and keeping the less fortunate alive and befriends him. He learns that this is the guy everyone has been searching for and just...tells no one. Jason is all for a Robin Hood vigilante, and really, its kinda funny to see his family squirm.

8. Phantom and Catwoman rob the same museum at the same time but for different things. They stare at eachother from where they're both still crouched from thier respective landings until Danny breaks the tension with "I didn't see you if you didn't see me?"

Catwoman laughs, amused. "Sure."

9. Danny finally narrowed down which of the batfam is his soulmate and introduced himself to them as Phantom.

The first thing Danny did was hit on Tim. Tim is flustered but otherwise doesn't really respond to it and tries to fight Phantom into submission, so of course Danny ghosts him by disappearing through a roof mid fight. Danny made a big show of his intangibility in that fight and made it seem like it was the only power he had but he was very skilled with it and he wanted to impress him.

10. Phantom becomes well known to the underbelly of Gotham. Mostly the homeless and nightworkers. But Danny was open and friendly. Never judging and always ready to lend a helping hand. Even better. He never came to collect on favors.

Over time, they became loyal to him.

11. Danny gets framed for a series of murders and the whole gang (minus Hood) are trying to capture him, thus, motorcycle chase scene. They use the white of his tires to tell when he's gone intangible due to all the dirt falling off the wheels. Nightwing jumps onto the bike and shocks Danny with his encrizma sticks right before Danny grits out "bye bye birdy~" and makes a big show of taking in a deep breath and holding it.

Nightwing is forced to jump off the bike as Danny runs through the concrete abutment of the overpass and coming out the other side

12. Danny meets Tim and Duke in his civilian form while he was at a Wayne tech conference. Danny had been asked about one of his inventions and was trying to show off the blueprints and explain things and thats why he was there in the first place. Duke of course, was internally screaming because that's the guy thats the guy they've been hunting for nearly a year but can find nothing on.

Red Robin confronts Phantom that night on a rooftop and Phantom laughs at him, "Thats why I was avoiding Signal for so long. He'd see my magical girl form and know instantly."

RR holds out a pair of handcuffs and says "Its over Danny." Phantom smirks and says, "I don't think it is, Tim" before jumping off onto a different roof and disappearing into the night. Tim is shook.

13. Danny over hears Robin berating RR at an old clocktower and intervenes, "Little Wayne, you do realize you were the first person I figured out, right?"

Damian proceeds to lose his mind.

14. Tim accidentally finds a material that Phantom can't phase through and quickly gets to work making things he can use against Danny. What he doesn't know is that Danny can phase through it he just pretended he couldn't because he wanted to see what would happen/what Tim would do.

Danny can sense the material and it feels really wierd to him, but doesn't harm him at all.

15. RR manages to knock Phantoms visor off his face and realizing it was made of tech he swipes it and brings it back to the cave for study.

He wasn't ready for all the information on the computer. Not only was his nemesis(?) from another plain of reality (he thinks Danny is from the ghost zone) but he was once a superhero with his own Rogues Gallery and human city to protect. Which begs the question, why did he become a Phantom thief?

16. The Joker hears about Phantom giving the bats the run around and comes to a misunderstanding about which bat he's been messing with which ultimately ends with Joker saying that he is Batmans ultimate nemesis and Phantom asking what that had to do with him? The misunderstanding is cleared up when Phantom complained about Joker even thinking that he was flirting with Batman because "Ew! He's an old man!"

Joker still got a few shots in for the heck of it but so did our ghost boy but they were no longer enemies.

17. The whole batfam had been freaking out about finally capturing Phantom and celebrating and plotting on how they were gonna get him to keep his mouth shut about thier identities until Jason came in,

Jason: Need help?

Phantom: Please?

Jason: *escapes with Danny*

Batfam: What?! No!!! Why?!

18. The batfam have only a vague idea of the Robin Hood thing going on. They know he's doing it just not to the extent its gone to. They find out later on that Phantom had been working with RH and his gang to sell off the items and most of the profits go to helping people. Other times he strait up gives jewelry and whatnot to children and working girls because "Everyone deserves something pretty, and even if its not your style you can keep it for a rainy day"

Phantom quickly gains a following and Danny doesn't even know about it. Clueless indeed.

19. Dannys main motivation in this is essentially just playing Cops and Robbers with Red Robin. Nothing else really matters to him. Not the robberies, not the fact he's working with a crime lord, not even his own safety matters much to him anymore. Hes readily zooming down the path of self destruction and Hood starts telling his family stuff, but only because he was genuinely worried about "Casper" crashing and burning.

20. No one knows why Phantom is fixated on Red Robin. He refuses to tell them. Red thinks its just because he's the smartest of the bats and he's not entirely wrong.

21. Danny legit started scheduling his heists with Tim to ensure they're both free after one couldn't make it too many times which blew the birds mind. Phantom must have been just that confident that he would always win. The bats eventually think Danny will stop stealing if RR isn't in the city for a long period of time. Danny more or less followed him and stole stuff from whatever city Tim was in. If there wasn't any museums or banks then Danny would steal a local landmark. Tim still wasn't sure how Phantom stole an entire building that one time but it had never been seen since.

22. Hood grows to be very protective of our favorite ghost boy. They bond and are actually really close. Danny admits he always wanted an older brother.

23. Tim goes off world for a while to see how Danny would react and Danny just...drops off the radar. No one knows where he is and after a week or two they start getting worried.

Tim returns after three months and Danny reappears two weeks after him with a tan and keepsakes from the places he visited on his vacation. Tim later screams into his pillow.

24. Tim has made it his personal mission to figure out who Danny really is, why he's fixated on him, where he came from, ect. Hes trying so hard but can't find anything. Its almost like he didn't exist before. Tim suddenly got an idea after Phantom accidentally got hit in the face and got a nosebleed. Tim saw green blood and immediately realized Danny might not even be human. Fortunately for our little ghost, he thinks he's an alien. A Martian specifically. Tim manages to snag a good sample from treating Phantoms wounds. Ghostboy was so focus on his core thrumming and mentally comparing it to his heart racing that he didn't even notice.

25. Tim later freaks out because the meta is freaking made out of Lazarus water.

The entire batfam was not happy to discover this and decided to work together to pressure Phantom into telling them what he was and what exactly he wanted.

[redcheekdays]

BLAZING SADDLES (February, 1974) M*A*S*H 3x01 "The General Flipped at Dawn" (September, 1974) SINNERS (2025)

[katebeckets]

I know some people find it ridiculous that gifmakers would like credit for their gifs since "it's not like it's their show" or "it's not that hard" or whatever, and maybe there are some gifmakers who truly don't care. But it's really about respecting the time, effort, and love that goes into making gifsets. And I think tumblr should understand what a long process it is so that they understand why it matters that, when you use someone else's gif, it's easy to direct them to the original post.

Here are the things I personally do for every basic gifset I make:

1. I find the material I want to gif. Sometimes that means taking time to figure out where the moment came from (like if you remember the scene but not the episode) or downloading the video. 2. I screen record the part of the video that I want to gif because the format is not always compatible with what I use to gif (Photoshop). I make sure that the screen recording has no skipping or lagging, which usually means recording multiple times. I would say on average, when I'm recording scenes to make gifs, it takes me about 2 hours (if not more) to record 10 scenes. 3. I watch and rewatch the scene to transcribe the caption, often looking ridiculous (I turn the volume up and put my ear to the computer). I often compare the captions to the subtitles and to transcripts I find online if I'm not entirely sure I got something right, and even then, I have made mistakes before. 4. I figure out how to break up the gifs. This includes figuring out how much dialogue to include, how many facial expressions or cuts to include, and what clips I add the dialogue to. For example, sometimes I end up with long gifsets because the actors gaze at each other for eight million years and I don't want to cut any of the minute facial expressions out. Other times I choose to leave some of it out (and usually agonize over this, but I'm a very indecisive person lol). 5. I open Photoshop (can take anywhere from one minute to five million years) and make the gif. At minimum this includes deleting excess frames, cropping, resizing, sharpening, and coloring. There are often more steps as well, depending on the complexity of the gif. I also will sometimes redo all of these steps if I finish it and decide I don't like how it turned out. 6. I make sure each gif is under 10 MB. If it isn't, I have to go back to step 4. Save and upload to tumblr.

And here are some before and after comparisons:

If, after reading this, providing sources for gifs that you save feels like too big an ask or an unreasonable expectation, then I encourage you to try making your own gifs and using those instead.

If you're not sure, just ask! And if you like a gifset, please reblog it! Write in the tags, leave a comment, send an ask, interact with the creator. Gifsets are created for the love of something and finding others who also love it through the creation of those gifsets is beautiful ♥️

[lenaboskow]

lord okay i wasn't in the mood to debate today but here goes:

first you've only been on tumblr for *checks notes* two hours and in that time you've been answering anons that all sound like they've been written by the same person so i'm not entirely convinced you've watched the entire show start to finish so--

required reading before we start (this wasn't updated for s8 because i've been busy, but the point stands because nothing changed)

more required reading

and even more required reading

starting from the top, most of the "complexities and nuances" of his character you talk about are deliberatly shown to compare to eddie. whenever they did manage to give tommy a sprinkling of personality, it was so that they could say how much he and eddie had in common. muay thai, basketball, classic cars, army vet, etc.

everything else?

him being a terrible human being (please see first required reading, as well as remember he broke up with buck because he was scared of getting his feelings hurt by a grown man and only went back to him because he thought his "competition" was out of the way, knowing that buck probably only slept with him because he was upset about said competition leaving. he also got buck lakers tickets for their six month anniversary despite buck canonically hating basketball and made sexist comments about abby hooking up with a "himbo half her age" despite him doing the exact same thing (with the same person!! see required reading three for math on tommy's age))

onto the next point, "internalized homophobia" isn't actually all that insane despite eddie telling a priest he's straight when you consider that they would not have had eddie call himself straight without doing a hard shutdown in multiple interviews (instead of vague responses about how "if it goes there it goes there", even the existence of one of those interviews proves it's a possibility) if they weren't going to circle back to it.

you say there's been no mention of him lying about his sexuality, but there is in fact interviews where ryan talks about how eddie doesn't know who he is (when talking about confessions!!). see the below quote for reference

"[ryan guzman] said that his character has never quite known who he is without the labels he's attached to himself. He talked about the beginning of Eddie's journey into self-determination and awareness--" (x)

keeping that in mind, i suggest you listen to the song good luck, babe! and do some research on comphet. it's also worth noting that TOMMY doesn't think eddie's straight (his reaction to buck calling eddie straight during the post hookup scene, i would get the timestamps but honestly i couldn't be bothered)-- you know, the same person you said supposedly had the same ptsd and internalized homophobia i was talking about?

that brings me to my next point, tommy has never been stated to have ptsd. not saying he doesn't, but if you're going to use it as an example at least make sure it has basis.

for my final point, i figured i would give you a bullet point list of (almost) all the times eddie diaz has been hinted at to be gay, so buckle up:

only married shannon because she got pregnant, and saying he loved being married to her but not saying he loved her (7x05)

saying he "thinks" shannon is the love of his life (7x09)

when having an emotional affair with the doppleganger of his dead ex-wife, not once did he initiate any sexual contact, even going as far as saying he didn't want that (also 7x09, deleted stills don't count because they're not canon)

was perfectly fine not dating again and playing house with buck (santa visits, building a special skateboard, going to buck with his problems with christopher and writing him into his will, while seeing flashbacks of him with chris when almost dying)

only started dating again in season 4 because he was talked into it by bobby (4x06)

got shot by a sniper but instead of his girlfriend taking care of his son, his boy best friend did it instead, and then called said boy best friend the second he woke up and kicked said girlfriend out of the room, and THEN revealed he left his son to boy best friend in his will in the most love confession coded scene on earth (4x14)

had panic attacks at the thought of ana being his wife (5x01)

was content not dating again until forced to, calling dating a "performance" (6x14)

only called marisol at the insistence of his son (6x18)

i'll leave it at that, because while i could go on all day, i really don't feel like it. i suggest you rewatch the show from the beginning before you start talking about how eddie diaz isn't queer coded again.

i’m just saying if you could choose between the first queer interracial slow burn best friends to lovers storyline on network television that deals with religious guilt, ptsd, internalized homophobia, and coming out later in life while working a stereotypical macho man job or two white men kissing for the millionth time why would you not choose the first one

[yuikomorii]

I have a question regarding the vampires, we know that the Mukamis are Romanian bcs they were humans before being turned into vampires and there are references abt Romania in their flashbacks, but where are the Sakamakis supposed to be from? If I'm not mistaken they were born in the demon world right? But for example the flashbacks of Shu and Reiji's childhood take place in the human world so that means they lived there when they were children right? And are the Sakamakis supposed to be/look asian or white bcs we know Ayato was made based on the Japanese beauty standard so do you think his brothers look asian too? What do you think? Do you know if they say or imply smth abt this in any route, cd, fanbook or somewhere?

I'm sorry that I made a lot of questions that may not even have an answer lol it's just that i'm really curious, I hope that you can answer them and thank you, have a good day 😌

// As far as I recall, the Sakamakis used to reside in Transylvania too, since Karlheinz sent them there, although I’m not sure all of them knew they were in the Human World, given that most of them didn’t even leave the mansion. They also have an underground passage that serves as a portal to the Demon World.

Based on what I’ve seen, Japanese fans generally don’t care much about the race of anime-style characters, since most of them aren’t drawn with explicitly “Japanese” features and tend to have highly stylized designs. Of course, they do pay attention to a character’s race or ethnicity when it’s clearly tied to a specific cultural context, like if the character is made after a certain country’s beauty standards (as with Ayato), or if the story is rooted in a particular culture, but other than that, it’s not something they dwell on. If a character has design elements that evoke a Western aesthetic, viewers/players tend to interpret that character as Western. If a character’s features give off a more Asian vibe, then it’s assumed that the character appears Asian. Besides, some of them don’t even think about race at all because they just see them as fictional characters, whose designs are supposed to be eye-catching.

[bewitched-hours]

UNIVERSITY AU

Can't leave such a peak au like this

So how would Elliot react to Us ( and maybe with the rest of the cast ) somehow manage to set the kitchen on fire

For example it's Early in the morning and by some physic bending stuff. Y/N and maybe some of the rest of the cast fumble cooking so bad they end up burning water. Elliot is probably questioning he's entire existence as we try to explain that they burned water.

Oh thank goodness- I honestly had no ideas for a part 2- Thank you kind anon-

Forsaken University AU | Part 2

"HOW DO YOU BURN WATER?!"

Synopsis: [Reader] and Brighteyes fail at cooking so Elliot has to come and help...

In retrospect... You could've never expected things to turn out this way...

Brighteyes and you wanted to cook together for a change and thought some simple pasta would be enough for an evening.

You had prepared everything perfectly! Fill the pot with water and some salt, let the salt dissolve as the water heats u- and it was on fire...

The panic wasn't immediate but the fire alarm sure was!

Pizza_Man: WHO SET OFF THE FIRE ALARM??? Cat_Dealer: OUR BAD, WE'RE TRYING TO COOK- Dynamite_Angel: HAH IT'S NOT MY FAULT THIS TIME!!! Glowstick: That doesn't make it any fucking better! I'm coming over with a fire extinguisher, you guys are impossible... The_Chicken_Man: I'm already on the way to record it- Glowstick: How were you even allowed to adopt me... The_Chicken_Man: You just happen to be a little younger when I became legal and now you're stuck >:D Glowstick: I'll beat you up for that later- Pizza_Man: I already got the extinguisher, don't worry! Glowstick: Good, I'll be there in five.

Shedletsky was surprisingly the one to arrive first, followed by Elliot to put out the flames.

The overgrown chicken just kept recording even as 1x1x1x1 arrived to tell him off for being so irresponsible despite being the older of the two. All while Brighteyes and you tried to keep the flames from spreading... What chaos...

But afterwards, you both sat on the floor with small burn traces on your fur and tails tucked at your sides with shame. Elliot looked more like a dad while scolding you both, considering he was also a cat-cryptid.

"HOW DO YOU EVEN BURN WATER OF ALL THINGS????" He hissed in frustration, failing to notice Shedletsky still recording despite his Axolotl child scolding him actively at the same time... Man, what a day...

"We don't know either..." Brighteyes meekly spoke, though you tried stifling your laughs over the thought of Elliot acting like a dad towards you both. He's only a year older but it was pretty funny.

Your ears twitched lightly. "M-maybe you can help us make something then...?" You suggested, hoping to calm the storm brought on by you and your roommate somehow defying all logic.

And surprisingly, Elliot actually seemed to relax and sighed, nodding in agreement before his tail flicked in irritation and you both watched him disappear towards the kitchen.

"Good save..." Brighteyes whispered, snickering as you both glanced over at Shedletsky making slight chicken noises in response to 1x lightly hitting him for his irresponsibility. 1x's tail was swaying from side to side which didn't help you or your roommate fight the urge to pounce on it like it was a toy.

But you two knew that you'd be in a harsher situation than Shedletsky in such a case. 1x was already grumpy enough but a slap of that tail was enough to make oneself look sunburnt.

Oh well, you had other matters to attend to as you pulled yourself up to your feet and helped Brighteyes up as well before joining Elliot in the kitchen. He was pretty baffled still at the state you left the kitchen in but he began telling you both what to do as he began sending off Shedletsky and 1x to get some pizaa dough and ingredients.

That evening was spent with laughter, fresh pizza and a shared movie night where you all promised to never let you cook again...

Masterpost

My Usual Rules

Introduction

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

Idk if this is weird to say and I don't mean to sound like a hater or anything, but is it just me or does it feel like the creator/s of twst don't care anymore??? Like, I can't exactly pinpoint when I started feeling this way but I really feel it nowadays... It just feels like everything's for cash and not love for the characters or story if that makes sense? Or maybe I'm just crazy??

I don't think this is "hating" on Twst at all to express your dissatisfaction with it; it's important to be able to critique what you love--it shows that you care about your interests and want Twst to be better. It only becomes "hate" when you cause harm and/or refuse to hear other opinions on the topic.

Twst definitely feels different than it was at launch, but I don't necessarily think it's because the devs "don't care anymore" and that everything they do is "for cash and not love for the characters or story". What is posed in the ask is based on the assumption that the devs love the characters and story to begin with which... may not be true. (Yana may like Disney and be excited to work on Twst, but we can't assume the same of everyone.) We have to remember that, to the Twst devs, this is work and they are under constant pressure to put out new content (which is the nature of live service games). 5+ years of working on the same project under that kind of environment could also cause feelings to shift. Sure, maybe individual devs are still very attached to their work or passionate about what they do, but the goal or their product (like other gacha games) has always been profit first and foremost, not to share a love for the characters or story.

I feel I must remind everyone: the devs/creatives do NOT get final say in what happens with Twst. The devs just make art and write for the game. It's the higher ups in corporate giving approval on what content gets put out, what collabs Twst gets into, the direction of the project, etc. Let's not blame the devs for "losing love" for what they do when it is most likely NOT them making the decisions. If Twst feels like it's more focused on making money than expanding on the story or characters, then that's NOT a fault of the devs.

Now, what do I mean when I say that Twst "feels different" than it was at launch?? Simple: Twst is no longer JUST a game, it now feels like a full-on franchise, something a company actively promotes to get more eyes on their product (and therefore more money in their wallets). Think about it. We have so many more merch releases and irl events (pop-up shops, collab cafes, livestreams, exhibitions, con panels, even the 3D live concert in fall 2025). There's the manga, light novel, and, very soon, the anime adaptations. The EN server now exists in North America, Singapore, and Australia.

Along with that, there's been a shift in in-game content. We're getting staff cards and even overblot cards, which have long since been desired since Twst's early days (meaning a lot of players would happily spend or save to get them). We're getting Halloween characters and birthday cards (ie more things to roll for). New banners consistently come out (usually with groovies locked or timegated), which induces FOMO and encourages people to roll now rather than later. However, despite getting new cards more frequently than we did before, we are getting fewer vignettes and instead get furniture, which many (myself included) believe is not a suitable replacement. Voice lines by themselves are also not adequate, as they hardly tell a story even when stitched altogether. We are, quite literally, getting LESS story and NO gems (each vignette you read, you get 5 gems back) for rolling some of the shiny new SSRs. For example, the Clubwears, hometown rerun SSRs, AND book 7 SSRs have no vignettes. In some cases, event Rs like GloMasq Riddle and Ruggie, have no vignettes either.

Another thing that may contribute to Twst feeling different is how... daring they've gotten with flaunting the "Disney"-ness of it all. Disney characters only used to be vaguely alluded to in stories or as figures in a time long since passed. They felt almost mythical, even Mickey (who was the only Disney character we could actually "meet"). But now there are so many overt references to it and cross-promotional campaigns. For example, we had not one, not two, but THREE Tsumsted Wonderland events, each with multiple SSRs you could roll for. Then there's the Lost in the Book events where we literally meet multiple Disney characters straight from the films. And how about the entire Platinum Jacket line, which exists as a part of Disney's centennial? The in-game promotional campaigns and relevant event reruns to promote live-action remake releases? It gives the sense of Disney corporate using nostalgia to promote sales and emotional attachment.

So long story short: yes, Twst has changed, but I'd argue that's natural and to be expected of a game that's been running for years. (The quality of writing also naturally fluctuates with a live service game, so I'm not going to count that as a point for Twst "changing" or now feeling different.) With the success it has achieved, it must be giving the higher-ups more money and confidence to "branch out" and increase the revenue via other streams. This means more merch, more events, more adaptations, more banners--but it also unfortunately means fewer vignettes, more peddling of other Disney IPs, and seemingly never getting a break from Twst. It's very much a double-edged sword, and everyone's going to feel a little differently about it.

[greenfiend]

A subtle yet reoccurring theme.

Chrissy dies -> Hawkins comes "to a halt"

MF kills -> The Ferris wheel stops suddenly

Patrick dies -> Eddie's watch stops working

Dead body -> time comes to a halt (+ a burst of energy = gate opening)

I'm sure there are even more examples of this...

But here's the most important one:

Time freezing completely in the UD due to Will going "missing"...