#I am treating it like a podcast

[cuepickle]

This guy bans you for life wyd?

[koszmarnybudyn]

He's smoking (hot)

[distorted-prince]

Arthur & Horig

[dawnlotus1]

So. I was filling in Dakota’s wiki for the Jrwiki mirahaze, writing his backstory etc etc. and while trying to sum up the fist accident with Katori on the rooftop I think I summed up Dakota’s entire mentality. (IMHO)

Above is an excerpt saying : “… not have enough strength to pull her up, instead opting to fall with her rather than let her go.”

What I’m saying is. Dakota values his strength so much because that’s the tool he uses to save things. Protect things, preserve what he cares about. For him this strength is usually physical but sometimes mental, as he lends his enthusiasm to others. For him, he never wants some undesirable result to be outside of his control so he has to train so he can exert enough control over a situation to be able to change it.

However when this exertion is still not enough, or is often times the case that the situation lies in someone else’s hand usually because of mental reasons (like the “it” being a choice belonging to another), then Dakota cannot have control.

For most people this is a loss. You lose, the person in front of you makes a choice you didn’t want them too.

But for Dakota letting go isn’t something he can do. And when you don’t let go, then the only result is that the choice being made by the other is also made for you.

Aka, if she falls, you fall. And if someone makes a choice that changes things, and you can’t let go of that person, then you have opted to change as well.

This of course has had its varying effects positive and negative on Dakota. But he doesn’t care as long as his hand never leaves that of what he cares about.

Additionally this means that if William chooses to go “evil”, I don’t think Dakota will let go. Because he didn’t have the strength to “pull William up” - for him the only result left is to “fall with him”. I think if William goes to some morally grey place that puts him on the “dark side” I think Dakota will too. In his own way.

He’s tied a rope around himself like a climber in a group expedition. This rope is there so that when a teammate falls, his strength to hold on steadies the both of them. But if his strength fails, then both of them, or all of them, everything he has connected himself too, falls as well. Unless of course those connected to his rope cuts it before that happens. This is what he fears the most.

[storybook-souls]

*thru clenched teeth* i am allowed to do the thing that is kinder to myself even if i don't "deserve" it i am allowed to--

[essektheylyss]

I am obsessed with how narratively convenient Lark's divinatory abilities are. She's the only one of the protagonists who is both pragmatic and has a working sense of self-preservation, so having some internal impulse that is actually the guiding hand of the cosmos pushing her into doing the REALLY stupid shit is both necessary and really useful.

Like, I am the type of writer who kind of scoffs at the idea that characters are beyond the writer's control and will completely screw over your outline, because on one hand, a sensible outline will follow the characters' personalities and tendencies anyway. Obviously in an ensemble cast you will need to do some wrangling, but in theory your characters are responding to varying degrees of stimuli in order to maneuver them into the places you need them to be for things to all come together in the end.

But more importantly, "curse from god" is the funniest and easiest way to push any character to do things beyond the realm of reason when necessary, and frankly, what the fuck is the point of playing god if you don't embrace that?

[b-rainlet]

The way women experience horror is so much more interesting than men

[gaybearwedding]

i’m curious: do other off book/pibe fans imagine what the characters would look like as real people? bc i have some pretty extensively thought out designs that do not look like zach and jess at all 😭

[always-andromeda]

Hey gang, here’s the moodboard for this morning! 😀👍🏻

[korrolrezni]

Me, after not listening to Malevolent for three days:

[oglegoggle]

Fuckin…. I honestly don’t get the sorts of people who seem to think that the point of doing activities with friends is exclusively for the activity. Like no? The point of activities with friends is the time with friends? I dunno maybe I’m an odd man out but I really don’t give a fuck what we’re doing I’m just glad to be with those I care about.

[sikuyacole]

Quick describe your favorite oc(s) in ten words

ru, my genderbending oc:

blue

dual

confused (about a lot of stuff)

(formerly) gifted

burnout

gender

boygirlfailure

gaymer

friend

(a living) oxymoron

[quicktimeeventfull]

ok so this is possibly the best breakdown i’ve head about the actual factual elements regarding the ‘debate’ around whether or not children are being forced into transitioning too early.

this is going to sound a little weird but i think this episode actually benefits in certain ways from being hosted exclusively by two cis men. as they explain, this is not a complicated or nuanced issue. factually, trans kids are not accessing medical care too quickly. cis people can & should talk about this with confidence because there aren’t actually any components of this particular issue which require lived trans experience to understand. it’s an issue of medical fact, plain and simple. also, to be totally straightforward, having two cis men as the hosts makes this episode easier to send to people who are resistent to hearing this argument from trans people.

anyway! this is a teaser rather than a full episode and does end on a cliffhangery note, but it’s quite polished and contains basically all the important parts of the expanded version. i have also listened to the full episode & it’s fantastic if you’ve got $4CAD to toss into patreon, but you aren’t missing anything vital by listening to the teaser instead.

[damnfine-dalecooper]

latest unhinged lyric interpretation is that "you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me" is about joe not only not being able to cope with her level of fame but also not even really being able to comprehend how it's affected her to live with that level of fame since she was basically a child

[leafatlaw]

Bitb really is the epitome of “the love was there, and it changed everything”

[dandyshucks]

every now and then i think about hera from w.olf 359 and ... my wife .....