#I AM SO SORRY FOR MAKING THIS

[just-a-toast]

I wanted to think of mephone4 holiday headcanons and I came up with eggnog

But the problem with that…. Is in the name….

mephone4 Commits cannibalism

[bluesnailsstuff]

someone throw her back into space

[horsegamesins-old]

Oh no guys look what they did to Hollow Woods 😭😭😭

[ghost-rainn]

Why can't I quit yew?

[gavindna]

OHHHHH MYYYY GAAWWWWWDDD I TRIED TO MAKE SOMETHING AND I ACCIDENTALLY MADE UMA EAT BUT CUNTY 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[notsocheezy]

Today, I woke up with an absolutely insane concept in my head and just *had* to write it. Thirty-four hundred words later and the first draft - as if written by the spirit of creation through my own humble fingers - is complete. I have no idea how I did this, but I broke my daily word count record by at least a thousand.

Anyway, if tomorrow I don't think it's the worst thing I've ever seen, expect to see "It Goes Up" posted to my website in the coming week. But don't say I didn't warn you.

[twinliches]

cannot stop thinking about the french man who during dinner responded to a person asking "should we be naughty and get desert" by pulling a face and going "naughty? it is chocolate, it is not an, uh, threesome"

[spidertroupeart]

the jokes write themselves

[inkskinned]

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

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

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

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

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

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

I am incredibly serious right now when I beg you all, please, and if you have Twitter or Tiktok or whatever to please spread the word: click on an author's profile on Ao3.

You want to know if an author has written more? Want to know if they're still writing? Want to see more from them? Want to know if they've written a trope or kink or sex scenario you enjoy?

Click on their name. And look at their profile.

I cannot tell you how many times in the last six months someone has read a new or newer fic of mine and said they (a new reader who has read nothing else I've done) "can't wait to see what you do next!" I've written 50+ fics and over a million words already.

"I don't know if you're still writing..." click on my profile. I am. I literally wrote a 128k+ fic for that ship last month.

"Would you ever do X?" "Please do Y!" I already did. Click on my name and look at my works.

Archive of our Own is a library. It's an archive. Not social media. It is your responsibility to fight back against the laziness that corporate algorithms have trained into you.

Click my author name. Just click it. Just click it.

Before you demand more, or ask if a writer will do XYZ, or wonder if the author still writing, or anything - click on their profile. Click on the author's profile.

I'm not trying to be mean or condescending or anything like that. I'm just exhausted. It's disheartening and frustrating to repeat myself ad nauseam, because someone couldn't take thirty seconds to do the tiniest bit of work to see if I've written lately, if I've written more for their ship, or scan my works to see if I've written what they're asking for. Please. Please. I'm begging.

Click the author's name, and explore before you ask.

[hinamie]

inflict

[arcanegifs]

Arcanegifs' Arcane Season 2 (2024) Character Poll Winner: Vi ↳ "Vi was strong because she was afraid. Her fear of losing us what made her fight so hard."

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

I am such a big Werewolf Stan advocate I had to jump on this particular train 🙏 (but I didn't really wanna commit to full line art, you guys understand)

Oh, and you guys aren't gonna believe this, but here's part two 🙌

[cozylittleartblog]

@staff if you [change] the [design] of the fucking [dashboard] i will kill you

edit. i want it on the actual post that i am not actually making a de-th threat against the staff. that's shitty. the caption quotes the fucking costco hot dog meme, which i originally said in the tags. if any staff member sees this please do Not take it personally

[fictionalred]

ooh

I'm gonna join *silly hat time²*

literally no one wants this

Okay, my faves, like ordered, because I wanna spout opinions

The "Dubbeldekker"

as also pictured above and below, as the dubble decks do

Pros:

you can sit on top :))

even when full there's usually free seats at the bottom or even at the end where no one likes to sit because of the cold and noise

Room at the door space for when everything else is full too

Flappy tables!!

automatic doors (well you do have to push them to open but they close automatically which is bliss)

Smoll bins per seats

Bike wagons

blinders exist!

basic screens with the stops

often has a former "first class" compartment that got downgraded, aka comfy seating

can heat or cool on a basic level

Cons:

smoll toilets and very few of them

only 4 power plugs per wagon

in no fucking way accessible for anyone who cannot climb stairs

No space for luggage

The "tramtrein"

Pros:

most recent of trains, very neat

with screens that show times and stops, very fancy indeed

Proper big toilets, fit for wheelchair users

no indoor doors whatsoever, been replaced by decent heating/cooling

Built-in cupboards for wheelchair ramps per door

smoll first class compartments that aren't even separated from the plebs (HA!!!)

There are some power plugs to be found at each end of the wagon

has ominous automatic stop announcements (tram behaviour)

Cons:

doors that close at random and make you think you missed your train (you have to push the little green ring to open them again: tram behaviour)

not anywhere near enough bin space

little bitch ass "tables" that can't even hold a book

The "botstrein"

Pros:

Has a cute rubber band for when it collides :)))

Comfy seats, tables somewhat exist in the 4-seats areas (good enough for an impromptu 2-person LAN-game)(yes we did that. several times.)

door area spaces available for when overcrowded

has them little foot supports

cons:

too many 4-seats that usually get occupied by the (1) person traveller

No tables in the 2-seats

tiny toilets (again) (this is gonna be a recurring thing) with the loud af speakers right in your ear when you're peeing. It's a riding jump scare!!

only one power plug per wagon (oh yeah good luck finding it if you don't already know)(hint: it's in the ceiling)

The refurbished "boemel"

Pros:

the "classic" I grew up with that got a makeover so <3

Spacious

Brand new seat lining! it went from brown to blue!

Proper bins per seats

Good space between the seating areas for when it's too crowded to sit

can open them windows up real nice! can even stick your arm out in a tunnel if you'd like losing it :))

Cons:

like no designated number of people per seat marker kinda problem? It's just a line of sofa that can fit two to six people depending on how busy it is (not sure if this is pro or con tbh)

no automatic doors so people will just enter your wagon and leave the door open and you will have to get up and close it yourself if you wanna save the heat and/or shut out the noise

yeah not much heating and no cooling (a killing machine in global warming summers)

No power plugs, none

giving me flashbacks to engine problems they used to have a lot and leaving me stranded in fucking schellebelle

not a 2-seats in the entire train, you're gonna share with 6 people or sit on the floor (as I did a lot)

oh yeah, small ass toilet :)

The "diesel" aka "schudder"

Pros:

cute AF seating!!! little smiles all over!!! :)!!

basic info screen (on the outside front too. good info for when you're on the tracks)

Cons:

it's a train run on petrol instead of electricity :/

goes to the "no-good areas" (no electricity yeah)

shaky till you quaky

like, very small doors for some reason? Ex-squeeze me

The "duikboot"

Pros:

cute AF

Cons:

I have never actually been on one because these are "Brussels area" only and that is discriminating against me

[kathaynesart]

REPLICA PLAYLIST

MUSIC UNDER CUT

I have been receiving requests for any songs that inspired Replica, so here, have my personal playlist. Sorry it’s not Spotify/Soundcloud but they don’t have some of these songs available so uh… guess you’re stuck with YouTube vids. For fun I'll include my personal titles for them (which might give a few hints of what to expect in the future/end).

Replica Main Theme - “Die for You” by Grabbitz Like Father Like Son Like Brother (Omega and Shelldon) - "As Above So Below" by Alistair Lindsay Mikey's Theme / The 1st Vision - "Suzume no Tojimari" by Nanoka Hara Military (Mad) Dogs / Central Park Colony - "Imperium" by Madeon Shanghai - "Icarus" by Madeon Boom Goes the Donnie-mite (Mikey/Donnie vs the Sweeper) - "The Red Zone" by Mitsuoto Suzuki The Day the Sky Bled Red - "7 Seconds Till the End" by Nobuo Uematsu Going Out Like a Boss (Raph and Leo) - "Agape" by Nicholas Britell Remembering the Right Way (Mikey and Leo) - "The Souls of Many" - by Alistair Lindsay Mystic Hands / The 2nd Vision - "Am I Dreaming" by Metro Boomin x A$AP Book 2 Trailer - "Sea Dragon" by Covet 7 Years Later - "Iron" by Woodkid Leo's Theme / Attack on the Labor Camp - "Ego Death" by Polyphia Omega's Theme - "Touch" by Daft Punk Flat Lines (Omega Alone) - "Die Toteninsel Emptiness" by 1000 Eyes Spear - "Monsters" by Tommee Profitt Final Protocol - "The Kraken" by Katie Dey Rise / Epilogue - "Close in the Distance" by Masayoshi Soken & Tom Mills

I will admit, it's a little embarrassing since you can easily see the patterns of what I've been listening to for the past year or two. I swear I listen to more than just videogame OSTs, these songs just jive well with the story and I often find lyrics distracting when brainstorming scenes. Regardless, the music I listen to is such an important part of my creative process and some of these songs really defined the scenes I now have locked in my head. So I figured it was only fair to give them the credit they're due.

I will continue to add to this playlist, and will note in comic updates when one of these songs is applicable!