#I am so hinged

[sleepanonymous]

ehem...

https://www.tumblr.com/sleepanonymous/766160142038401024/not-to-sound-unhinged-on-main-but-i-need-vessels

sugar back on the setlist... for no reason...

like definitely not so vessel can grind on him and pull on his hai- {GUNSHOT}

I cannot handle this, I am definitely not making it out of November at this point 😩 how did this happen?

[commander-chaoss]

Anyone else get really mad when they can't just charge on through a videogame because they're pretty sure this game can FIX THEM and is extremely relevant to what they're going through and can maybe offer closure or at least progress on this awfully long and frequently stagnant journey but you're A) not that good at the game and B) still have responsibilities that prevent you from just pouring your time into the game and C) some part of you understands that there's no shortcuts. If you cut to the end the game won't have any of the effects you're craving because you won't have worked at it. (Which feels like an insultingly pointed comment on your current mental state, btw) so you just keep chipping away at it, dutifully walking forward in this journey and still praying this game is being used by God to help you heal.

[britany1997]

A secret to my funny tags are: that's just me✨ my little weirdo self✨ being weird and silly babbyy!!!

But really if you wanna be I guess "Funny" in the tags just don't think, just say the wild shit! Would a normal person confess to wanting to suck Marko off through his jeans hole in his chaps?? NO!! but I'm not normal!

And also it's a joke of that meme of, "Your mom sucks me good through my jorts" meme I saw a lot and it stuck with me!

Just silly things, random unfilted thoughts a lot, wildness, me being me!!! It's good! Hell make slightly fixed references!!

Let the tags be an extension of you!! Let them be apart of you!!

You’re so sweet for this🥹 I adore you

Unfortunately bestie, I am a chronic overthinker, but imma try!!!!

[theminecraftbee]

help. iskall had to get mumbo to explain what "unhinged" means to him. because he didn't know that english word. and people keep calling him that this season,

[ghost-of-chicken-kiev]

[theunholyvirginemilyprentiss]

ME: What? I am not delusional.

ALSO ME:

[cthulhudonuts]

So umm… I got the gale cutscene last night and haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. I love him so much I want to put him in a cardboard box and shake it around. He looks at my character like they hung the stars. AUGH.

No Text Vers \/

[cosmic-light-fics]

Before and after watching The Bear Season 3

[silver-horse]

unfortunately I have opinions about the ascendant astarion ending and I have been holding back from saying it. but it's a problem that applies to the whole game and it's been annoying me

what's actually weird about the ascendant "romance" scene is that the writer considers it a tempting option for the player. They wrote it to be bad, but they also think it's a fun and sexy option. Same goes for the haarlep scene which they also wrote that way because they find it sexy. Except finding this sexually appealing entirely hinges on the idea that the player is a submissive. So RIP to a scene that the rest of us could have found sexy because the lead narrative designer was a submissive. lmao

In this game you can have a scene where you have to kneel for a male character. But you can never have a male character do the same for you. (Halsin doesn't count. It's a vanilla scene, he is not submissive there and we are not even asking/telling him to kneel down) You don't get such options, not even if you play a drow female! RIP the number one reason for playing drow female to be honest. lol You can kneel and fully submit to ascendant astarion or fully submit to mizora or fully submit to haarlep or submit to lae'zel or submit to minthara. you can get whipped by abdirak or you can tell him "touch me and lose a hand" he even responds positively to this remark and yet the possibility to flip the dynamic doesn't exist. There is never an option where a male character truly submits to the player. RIP to a scene that would have been the opposite of the traditional dynamic. the potential that existed but they never used the opportunity

By the way, how interesting that Lae'zel is dominant but she is a woman so ofc you get the option to tell her “no you will submit to me”. You never get such switch options with any of the male characters... Obviously it's not ascendant where they could have made that an option. My point is that it's NEVER an option among so many male characters.

It's a cool idea that the bad ending in a romance means "I saw this character as a sex object" except it falls apart when the scene is very sexually unappealing to anyone who is more dominant leaning. If I see a character as a sex object then I would place them in sexual situations which are appealing to me. so the message doesn't quite work. because there isn't anything that I can selfishly choose for myself just because I like it and I find it sexy.

[dangerous-disposition]

@xenon-demon don't talk to me or my 5 billion WIPs (which is a completely Normal and perfectly Hinged number of WIPs to have) ever again (i'm joking)

@spicysix these tags have me actively laughing myself to tears

bestie the brainrot is terminal and ur asking me if i'm okay???

[miriamforster]

There’s something about Halsin and Zevlor, the failed Paladin and the failed Archdruid.

Something about the one who lost his life’s calling and the one who’s been stuck in a job he never wanted. Something about how how they are both haunted by mistakes, by the dead they should have saved. Something about age and weariness and despair and finding hope and purpose at the end of it all.

Something about Tav and the tadfools being the only ones who didn’t fail them and the only ones they haven’t failed.

I don’t know if I ship it exactly, but there’s something there for sure.

[laundrybiscuits]

Note: this is not a Stancy story.

“Say it,” he bites out. He’s pushing too hard, being too mean, and he doesn’t fucking care. “Say you love me.”

Nancy’s eyes slide off to the side and she—she laughs, like he’s making a joke, but he can see in the way she’s got her arms wrapped around herself that they both know it’s not a joke.

“Steve, come on,” she says.

There’s a hot, buzzing feeling in him like a hurricane.

The words peel out of him: “But…we’re soulmates.”

He’s gripping his forearm, holding it out in front of him even though he’s wearing long sleeves. It doesn’t matter. They both know whose name is written there in careful, neat cursive, like a puzzle piece slotting next to the blockier name scrawled on Nancy’s wrist. 

Nancy reaches out to push his arm down and out of the way, out of her eyeline, but she laces her fingers with his like she’s trying to calm him down. Like an apology.

“Steve,” she says. “Let’s just—can we focus on the important stuff, here?”

This is important, why don’t you think that nothing could be more important than this. Steve doesn’t say it because he’s trying to be better. He can be better for her, for Nancy, his soulmate. So he swallows it down and nods, gripping her slender fingers tight in his. 

———

It takes him a while, but he figures it out. It’s fate. It’s gotta be. It’s all a big part of their story, the one they’re gonna tell at their wedding, about the time they broke up and made bad decisions and were really unhappy. When you find your soulmate early, sometimes you have some growing up to do, he’ll say. Or maybe Robin will say it. He can’t imagine a wedding where Robin’s not his best man. Best lady?

It’s so stupid, but there was a moment, back in ‘85, when he thought maybe Robin could be his true soulmate. Like maybe there was some giant cosmic error, and the smart, funny, beautiful girl he’d been overlooking all summer was really the one he was meant to end up with after all. 

When she tells him about Tammy Thompson, it’s almost a relief. The universe isn’t wrong after all. He actually feels really sorry for Robin, because without a name on her arm, how’s she supposed to know who to pick? And with the gay thing—it’s gotta be tough even just knowing who’s an option. He doesn’t think he could handle that kind of uncertainty. 

It’s a good thing he doesn’t have to. All he’s got to do is hang on until his story and Nancy’s story bend together again, and become their story. He thinks it’s kind of romantic, even: like he’s been given this time to learn to be a better boyfriend. 

So he’s in good spirits, especially when Eddie Munson gives him a heavy look that shoots through his veins like lightning and says as unambiguous a sign of true love as these cynical eyes have ever seen. If even Eddie can see it after spending about five minutes around them, probably not even knowing about the soulmate thing, it must be true. 

———

Afterwards, he finds himself unexpectedly alone with Nancy in the hospital, waiting their turn to see Max and Eddie. It’s not exactly the stuff of fairytales; even though they’ve had a chance to go home and shower and get some sleep, they both have Upside Down gunk caked into their fingernails and purpling shadows under their eyes. The fluorescent lights overhead are way too bright. The flimsy plastic chairs are digging uncomfortably into his thighs. 

But he’s not gonna get a better opening than this quiet moment, with Nancy slumped against his arm, tired and lovely.

“Hey, are you—” He clears his throat and tries again. “Hey, Nancy. Did you…think about, uh, what I said? About…you know. The future?”

She goes tense.

“Yes, Steve. I did.”

Maybe something in her tone should be warning him off, but he’s on this road now, careening down the fast lane with no exits in sight. 

“And? What did you think?”

Nancy takes a deep breath, then lets it out after a second in a heavy sigh. “Steve, I…I’m with Jonathan now. You know that.”

“Yeah, but that’s—I mean, you know it’s not the same.”

“No.” She slips a thumb under the cuff of her sweatshirt and rubs it over her wrist. It looks like something she doesn’t even know she’s doing. “It’s not the same, no. It’s…Steve, it’s better. This way is better.”

He ducks down, tries to meet her eye. “Nance, I know I was kind of a shitty boyfriend, but—things are different now, right?”

Finally, she turns to him. Her back straightens, shoulders square, like she’s bracing herself. 

“Yes, things are different,” she says slowly. She reaches out to take his hand in both of hers, soothing. “This hasn’t changed for me, though. It’s not about—I just can’t be with you, Steve. Not like that. I’m sorry.”

He doesn’t say but we’re soulmates again like a child, but it lives in his throat, in the thump of his heart. Maybe she just needs more time.

Maybe not, though.

(ETA: continuation here!)

[julesnichols]

So now that I can say it since a lot of (most?) people have seen 4.07:

What was the

✨ point ✨

of Zarah and Ben dying for Layton's plot this season when all he had to do was ask nicely and Headwood just handed her back 😐

[bucketofbugz]

getting bowtiebulb ideas now that I'm rewatching season 2 again

Lightbulb just straight up disappearing in episode 12. Taco being slightly anxious about the fact that her friend the person she was using to get half of the prize money is just GONE. She walks around Test Tube's lab a bit trying to find her but when that doesn't work she takes the invisibows and leaves. She ends up getting so anxious about it she sneaks towards the challenge grounds to pull Fan aside (because she finds out about them after the bucket challenge rather than the painting challenge like Knife did) and talk to her about it. Fan's like it might have something to do with the fact that Test Tube's also missing. and Taco's like well duh but she goes back to the lab anyway just in time for Lightbulb and Test Tube to come back from the whole alternate universe situation. After the challenge Taco talks to Lightbulb and is like hey!!! wtf was that!!!! and Lightbulb's just like oh yeah we went back in time and ended up in a universe where salt and pepper become the season 1 team captains and take over the world. and taco just goes What.

[padfootastic]

please say more about jilypad + diverging parenting styles... perhaps even a possible scenario >:) i imagine harry has very cunning tactics for using this to his advantage

helloooooo <3 thank u for this ask bc i love talking about these three and harry. i went looking thru the archives to find this post; my first foray into this side, and really, i’ve never looked back after that.

so i’ve talked ab this a bit before but i fully think that james was a very overprotective ‘mother hen’ type parent. i tend to read his behaviour in lily’s bday letter to sirius as being scared of his child on a broomstick and i fully, fully think he’ll never be able to let go of that as harry grows up. he’ll be anxious and suspicious and paranoid, and his first instant will always be to wrap harry up in cotton wool and hide him away. (i low-key connect this to his childhood as well; going from being spoiled and sheltered to dropped in the middle of a war, black & white thinking, living in extremes etc etc makes it v hard for him to be Normal about his child. as he shouldn’t be, really, but yeah) that’s why he thrives during the initial years; he never minds the hard parts of being a new parent, loves it in fact, and it makes it better that he can keep harry close to him at all times w/o coming off as a helicopter parent (not that the notion bothers him ofc).

it’s good, then, that he has two partners to even the scales, no? i think lily was the most…balanced out of the three. she had a relatively normal childhood, grew up in a working class family/neighbourhood and had to deal w adversity from a young age so she’s developed a nice, thick skin. she also has a sibling with whom she has a v rocky relationship so she knows that kids are, ykno, a bit unhinged. and a little bit of hardship is not a problem. i hc her as needing time to get used to parenthood, unlike james who stepped into it natural as breathing, or even sirius who loved harry on much on first sight that it made up for everything else. ofc lily loved her son, but it didn’t come w the same blinding intensity of her partners and made her feel really shitty in the beginning. but, i think she’d shine during his teen years actually, because she’s not overbearing or intense and becomes the quiet, calm strength that a hormonal, spotty teen boy would probably need.

and sirius <3 our poor baby falls in love with harry, perhaps even more quickly than james, with such startling speed that it shakes his entire foundation. he doesn’t regret it but he’s constantly discombobulated. i also imagine that��it takes him longer to settle into the role of parent, esp bc he’s not biologically one ykno? not like it matters to anyone, ofc, but it takes him a long time to truly accept his authority and place, to believe that he has just as much right as j&l to be there, to parent harry. this has the consequence of him always being more indulgent than the other two; after all, he considered himself a godfather before a parent and a lot of that thinking stayed. he lets harry get away with stuff the others might not (and the little mf figures this out later); some of it also comes from sirius seeing so much shit, and facing so much shit himself, that he rationalises a lot of stuff as ‘well, this isn’t the worst it can be, so what’s the harm’ (because his life has been such a roller coaster that he’s forgotten that not everyone’s like that, if that makes sense?)

its obviously not this clear cut but i imagine harry looks at it like this: if he needs unconditional love, he goes to james; rationality and logic, lily; acceptance and calm, sirius. when someone has to be beat up for hurting harry, james steps in. if he needs help burying a body, it’s sirius. dealing with some asshole boss/teacher/classmate’s mother who’s making harry’s life hell? lily. i can keep going but,,,u get the idea, right? this makes sense, i hope lol

i actually think harry’s first birthday is a great example. sirius pushes the boundaries by gifting lil harry a broom; james loses his mind running after him; lily places an industrial sticking charm on harry’s butt, leans back with a glass of wine, and enjoys the show. even as he grows up, lily and james act as the disciplinarian, and sirius is the emotional outlet. all of them fill in each other’s cracks so well, and it’s only when harry grows up that he realises how effortlessly they worked off each other to parent him.

also oh man o man. harry being cunning is,,,,,see, i’ve not considered it this far but it makes perfect sense. i think canon harry actually had so much manipulative energy and it’s often overlooked for his goofier traits but! this is the same dude who used his dead parents to trick slughorn into revealing sensitive info! imagine if that could be channelled into his jilypad interactions 😈

it’s like, it takes him a bit, because his three parents r so smooth, but once he realises that all of them have certain weak spots, he does NOT hesitate to exploit them. (it has the unintended consequence of truly strengthening the jilypad relationship into an unbreakable one bc one thing their kid taught them is to have ironclad communication going at all times so nothing they’ve said, or not said, is used against them). so like, he knows if he wants to sneak out to a party, it has to be sirius and in a specific way—‘i’ll be totally safe, papa, plus i really wanna see what it’s like and idk when it’ll get a chance to again’. if he widens his eyes to pitiful levels, pouts a little, and blinks faster than usual, then james is putty in his arms as long as he’s separated from the other two. divide and conquer becomes the main tool in harry’s arsenal, actually. lily’s the toughest nut to crack, purely bc she doesn’t run on emotions or irreverence, but harry soon learns that if he comes up with a solid, logical case that proves his argument has unbiased merit then he has a good chance of getting her to say yes. (this is good, bc u can arrange words in the correct order, but u can’t always control emotions)

so overall yeah, you’d think one kid + 3 parents would be an easy bet, but harry keeps them on their toes all the fkn time.

[strangestcase]

I have noticed the pattern that a lot of adaptations -mostly more "modern" ones, older ones don't as much- choose to depict Jekyll's descent into madness as hallucinations, usually visual (the ubiquitous mirror imagery, among others- albeit I've also seen the mirror thing depicted not as a hallucination but as background foreshadowing in a kids' cartoon) or auditory (a little rarer in movie format, more common in text and comic format... though Confrontation is an entire song of just this).

Nothing against it, I just find it funny that the most beaten path in terms of making the audience partake of Jekyll's mental decline is to pull them into his distorted perception of the world in which Hyde (or rather, Hyde's presence/his perception of him) taunts and torments him even when he's relatively lucid. Though, the farther back you go, the more they read like they're side effects of the potion itself rather than Hyde directly effecting his senses.

On that note, I find it interesting that this is more common from the 60s onward (it was definitely a trend started by a specific handful of movies and it caught on); older movies just show Jekyll suffering, with hallucination imagery restricted to dream sequences, while more direct adaptations typically avoid it. It appears as if, the further back you go, the more the adapted text is left up to interpretation, and the less literally it is taken.

It's as if, with the years, adaptations have slowly shifted to favor Jekyll and his point of view more and more, and sometimes this comes at the price of having to believe him. I get it if stuff for kids does it, because otherwise they won't understand, but it's a little odd to see more "adult" takes on the text favor Jekyll to the point his assesments on Hyde are taken at face value when -at least to me- it's obvious that his perspective on the experiment is only a bit more objective than any other.

Dunno what I was getting about. Shifts in character perception mirroring the character's broken self perception? The doctor's madness becoming increasingly more diegetic to the story he lives in? I probably should look more into this.