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[goaliekisses]

he’s got those megan knees…

[satyrradio]

ik I've said this b4 but one of my biggest online pet peeves is when someone's bio is just "white ▪︎ allistic ▪︎ ablebodied ▪︎ perisex ▪︎ tme ▪︎ not a minority ▪︎ not oppressed ▪︎ GUYS LOOK I'M HIGHLIGHTING MY PRIVILEGE ▪︎ I'M ONE OF THE GOOD ONES GUYS ▪︎ PLS DON'T CRITICIZE ME EVER I'M A GREAT ALLY"

[seethals]

Someone canceled their Nicole Wallace gif pack because of you. I think it’s really messed to post a gif pack of a face claim someone was actively working on

multiple gif packs of the same project are not new in the community and it happening shouldn’t be a bad thing. its a project both parties were actively working on and shouldn’t be taken that way?? it means more gifs for everyone to appreciate??

[astrxlfinale]

PLEASE. WILL I GET MORE THAN JUST YANQINGS IN MY LIFE? I HAVE HIM E4 WHAT DO I DO?

Offer more sacrifices. Time, patience, the card, to the great being who has triumphed over multiple star systems.

P O M - P O M

For they are always watching, to ensure the great barrier between the worthy and those that go 'Nah, I'd win.'

[probablygayattorneys]

Hey, guys, remember how I've been promoting @aabadendingzine because I was a contributor?

Well, since the piece is available for public consumption now, even if you didn't preorder it, you can find me on pages 61-66 or on my ao3 page. It's called Castles Crumbling and explores what happens if you get the bad ending in Turnabout Succession. Gonna warn you up front, it deals with a lot of heavy topics, including an overdose that could be read as a suicide. If you're not in a place where you can handle all of that, that's perfectly fine and you can wait until you are. It's not going anywhere.

Thank you again to everyone at Mea Culpa for taking a chance on me even without any previous zine experience and for making me feel like a valued member of the collaborative team. I had the time of my life being killed by dragons with you.

[coldercreation]

Hi, I'm new here and I really love your Let Me Try series. Can I ask who did you created first? And what made you create them thanks! If you don't mind me asking :) sorry if you answered this already!

Hello and welcome!!<3

Ohh I actually really had to think about this?? Either my memory is really bad or I genuinely just wasn't paying that much attention back when I started writing the first bits of LMT... Because I can't really remember where these specific lads came from? Obviously I didn't foresee how much time I'd be spending with this series in the future and how important these characters would become to me :')

It was supposed to be a quick thing to get me writing again, so everything kind of developed from there with time. I did do some character / background planning etc before I wrote anything, as that's just how I've always rolled with writing and creating characters.

I don't remember too much, mostly that I hadn't been writing in forever, like in years and years, and I really just wanted to get back to it. I do remember being super nervous about posting the first part!🙈 I genuinely thought no one would ever find it, considering it's original work and not a part of some big popular fandom that'd automatically have an audience. I remember thinking; okkk so I just wanna write something and maybe get some feedback on it, and although I'm not really a No-Plot filth/smut writer, filth is universal, so even if it's original work someone might come across it if I make it spicy... big brain moves loll

And then I lured a bunch of yous in with the filth just to punch you in the feels with the later parts of the series >:)

The first one to be created was Nathan though, that's for sure! But I don't remember why how where what etc. He just came to be, and then he was vibin' for a bit, and then I made him suffer a lil because... I dunno, I just felt cute like that 😭 xx

[starr-hub-hq]

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Ah there we go!

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Hello! I’m R-T, the security bot here at Starr Park! I’ve noticed that a few brawlers have made accounts here, so I’d thought it would be best to make one as well.

With that being said, please feel free to ask me anything about the park or about myself!

Speaking of those brawlers…

Hello @snowtel-owner-mr-p, @goldarm-queen, @colette-chromatic, @ceo-of-brawlstars, @the-pirate-gang, and @townsfolk-triad!

It’s nice to see some familiar faces here!

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Remember…

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[heybobbygirl]

”Don’t argue with that, it just is, so don’t bother.”

I am literally going to kill you in your fucking sleep not everyone enjoys having someone stare into their eyes while they’re trying to talk shut your fucking mouth STOP ACTING LIKE YOUR OPINION IS OBJECTIVE FACT 💥💥💥

[ikemenomegas]

lee and sasuke wasn't something i'd considered before but you described a truly great seed if i ever felt up to exploring that!!! thanks!!! personally i'm Big Fan of sai and shino but setting aside our favourite kikaichu-boy sai though......??? sai and lee just seems like a very very interesting combination based on a tenet of honesty, and because they could also bond over bodies like lee could with sasuke and lee's innate ability to connect to a certain outsider archetype- just look at gaara lol but also-- ...yeah i go hard with sai and lee being good friends and also more lmao

It's so funny that you mention Gaara, because I was so so tempted to add him to the list, but I really like Lee and Gaara as lifelong friends/allies who have this deep respect they don't share with anyone else, and I find it unlikely that Konoha would let it's new 8-gates master leave the village to mate someone else... Of the main group, I think Gaara and Lee are only ones to have had a spar (I'm not counting the shukaku vs kyuubi because that was a different thing) that ended in a particularly bad sort of way - with Lee almost permanently injured and in the hospital - only to fight beside each other a few months later. (Can you all tell sasuke retrieval arc was probably my favorite thing, the way each individual fight was crafted as a way for the boys to work out some major personal issues was so good, I miss the pacing of the og series)

But anon, anon, you have me absolutely vibrating. Shino is not on my list at the moment because I feel he would be difficult for me to write, but I can see it! Shino and Sai have that very quiet introvert + quiet extrovert thing going on. I'm not certain if they or Lee and Sai even speak in the show, so it didn't occur to me, but I agree these are some excellent pairings.

You're very right about Lee's ability to connect with those who are a little "outside" of the usual.

Lee and Sai have different approaches to honesty and different perspectives on honor but I absolutely pick up what you're putting down where they oddly seem to come to complementary conclusions about the way they want to interact with the people around them. Lee and Sai would also likely do without the sniping that Sasuke is known for. Sai imitates Sasuke's on occasion, but it's an act and Sai is not really that confrontational with the people around him, he's more likely to say something uncomfortable and true and let the chips fall. Alpha is going to be doing a lot of... not quite damage control but something between these two lol.

The only thing I would say is that yes, Sai's difficulties regarding connection with his "self" are similar to Sasuke's disconnect with his physical body, but Sasuke is deeply in touch with his emotions, while Sai as an artist is very aware of his physical self.

Sasuke's primary drive is the emotional connections he has with his immediate family, his friends, and his clan, his people. That might be part of the separation between his body and his desires - they have not always moved him towards the same goal, and his body has "failed" him more than once. Omegaverse Sasuke particularly feels this way because heats feel like a regularly scheduled reminder of weakness and until he experiences the emotional tether of a mate, he finds them deeply frustrating and gets rid of them with some grade-a genuine article Orochimaru drugs.

Sai is an artist, but he is specifically a painter. In more than one drama, painting is directly compared to a warrior's fighting style, which makes it very interesting that for Sai they are not only a comparison, but one and the same. For Sai, his paintings are one of the only ways he's able to connect his physical self to what he's feeling. I would even say that he's the most aware of his physical self when he is painting. At all other times though, I do think that you are right, that while Sai does sort of instinctually inhabit his physicality the way any very skilled physical performer does, that he doesn't connect his emotions to his body. Maybe a bit of inverse to the way Sasuke doesn't feel he can always connect his body to his emotions...

Since we're saying things today, the idea of Sasuke/Lee came to me because of the parallels between their respective mentors. Kakashi/Guy works very well as a ship, both logically and emotionally, but I like them as friends, simply because their bond is so particular. Kakashi has so few true friends though that in my writing, I preferentially preserve that profoundly cultivated relationship between them as an unshakeable friendship rather than a romantic entanglement. Thought it would be fun to play that out in their students instead ;)

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[miriagreyhaven]

I haven’t watched new tv shows for a while, do they still do that thing sometimes where the season finale opens with a music video for no reason?

[hazel2468]

"It's not really about my politics. It's about the fact that we're Jewish."

And that sums up the entire so-called "anti-Zionist" movement. It's not about politics. It is not about what any individual Jew believes, it doesn't believe. It is not about Israel.

It is about racist, bigoted, awful people who saw the chance to attack Jews, yet again, and leaped at it. It is about people who are so eager for blood, and specifically Jewish blood, that they cheer on extremist terrorist groups who go against everything that, a year and a half ago, these people said they stood for. It is about a movement of people who, at least in some part, likely feel immense guilt for the sins of their own ancestors and their own inaction, and so instead of analyzing that and going good, they fall back on what their ancestors always did. They found someone else to blame.

And as usual. They have chosen the Jews.

a beautiful response to a horrific comment.

[nezhanetwork]

distant memory

[savagegood]

"No matter what we do, we can't change the way people see us." "You changed the way you see me... didn't you?"

found family and some of the allegory in NIMONA (2023)

[doodlboy]

I haven't like.. actually drawn specs in 2 years holy shit man

[inkskinned]

the problem is that being single is seen as the consolidation prize, and not the natural neutral state of being-a-person. at the end of the movie or the book or the poetry, there is a person waiting for you at the altar, and they love you. if the play is a comedy, everyone gets married. the metaphor is about how you are not-whole. the metaphor is about how everyone is going to be happily-ever-after. the metaphor is that romantic love is the most important resource on the planet, not just all-love. all-love is not a thing, that is a disappointment. the treasure is not the friends we made along the way. the treasure is the girl you landed.

the metaphor is that you cannot be alone, that means you are broken. are you getting over someone? that is acceptable, you can be getting over someone, but not for long. you must be single because you would rather not be single. you must be single and looking to not-be-single. you must want to date, eventually.

friendship and community are never seen as being equal-to or even-better than romantic connection. that person is your one! you need to find them. you need to hunt through the sand particles until you can shift out some kind of gem. this is regardless to your own experience of the beach and the sun. you need to be somewhere with someone.

if you are taking this time alone to heal, that is so sad. everyone gives you this little pitying look. the understanding is that you are not actually happier than you were before you were single. it is seen as a sort of pity - oh, you are choosing yourself, making yourself the priority? - that isn't quite right. you must mean that you are making yourself ready for the right person. you are just laying the bed better this time. open up your heart. you'll find them, we promise!

what do you mean you're really-truly genuinely-very happy? you are probably misremembering what it was like to be in a relationship. and besides, once you meet your person, that time will look grey and bland and wasted. your person is the only way for you to see in color. so what if you have taken this time - for the first time in your entire life - to actually-for-real do the fucking work. you can be proud of yourself, sure. but the way we need to know that you got better is that you get a partner. you're healed enough for the next bad part!

people don't choose to be single, they just say they're choosing to be single - they actually mean "nobody wants to date me." it doesn't matter how many people you have gently rejected or how many times you've talked it over carefully in therapy. what matters is that you are single, and by all accounts - that means you are something worth our pity. your successes and life all seem pale in the sunlight. sure, you have done amazing things and finally found your way in life. what matters is that there wasn't a person in the room with you while you did it.

you want to tell them - that's the whole thing. i didn't know how to be alone in the room. i didn't know how to handle the silence. every moment was so sharp, and i kept choosing the wrong way to close the door. i have spent my entire life in the empty well, living in the ricochet of someone else's cruelty. for once i have built myself a ladder. for once everything i taste is all mine, every bite of sunshine and laughter. i have learned how to sleep out in the open with my memories. recently, they have started to purr.

your father rolls his eyes. listen. this isn't about you. i just want a grandchild in my future.