#I miss this level of toxicity

[lotus-pear]

charm stat at debonair ‼️‼️

[dykedvonte]

I keep seeing fanarts of ppl's OC's being on the ship, so do you think that if there was 6st crewmember (specifically, another woman) Anya would've been more safe? Like, someone to actually call Jimmy's begaviour out, someone Anya might wanna trust? Is there a possibility something might have changed (even if a little) or it would not have mattered at all?

-💀

I feel like the game would make it part of the commentary on where she would believe and help Anya but still be sort of dismissive? Like the whole “don’t waste time crying and being scared keep going and move on, don’t let him win”. It’s supposed to be positive and reinforcing but sometimes it does more damage in those times of mourning and grief, it feels patronizing, like you don’t understand what you’re going through but they do. Even if they did call out his behavior it’s still on Curly to act and while another voice would help, it’s still 4 against 2 on guys that don’t get it until they have to vs women who always have to.

I don’t mind mouthwashing OCs but I do get a bit bored as they tend to be borderline saviors or like Jimmy aligned. They are either more complicit than Curly or just Jimmy haters for no reason, outside of what the creators know about what he did to Anya. I am never irked by OCs but in a story like mouthwashing you really need to think about what your character adds to the commentary, especially if they are there during the crash. It’s nice to have like characters on Anya’s side more whole heartedly and interesting to see characters who placate Jimmy but sometimes it’s one note.

I can’t and don’t want to police peoples OCs it’s never my intention when I comment on trends I notice, but I do feel like the way people make their OCs interact with these two characters and especially Curly, really show a grave misunderstanding of the narrative and these characters as people vs roles in the story. Still, I know people just make up characters for fun and that’s fine. Great even, but I guys I’m focusing more on OCs that are supposed to have those serious dynamics. My favs tend to be pretty-Tulpar or post-Tulpar au OCs.

The inevitably of the crash is on Jimmy. He did that not because he wasn’t stopped but because all his means to kill Anya were taken. The gun, the axe. Even if Curly did strip him of his co-pilot privileges and try to keep him contained there’s only so many people. An extra body helps but they have jobs they have to do, he’s the only one steering the whole ship and Jimmy would likely have an out: food, bathroom, etc. He’s not new and if he couldn’t crash the ship directly, who’s to say he wouldn’t sabotage something else? A clunker like the Tulpar wouldn’t take much. An extra person helps but it’s just another thing that prolongs what a person like Jimmy is willing to do to shirk responsibility.

It’s more than just needing someone to stand up to him and think that’s what is missing when it comes to inserting a character into the mouthwashing setting.

[gen4grl]

you would think after all the yapping i do about these losers i would have a plethora of art uploaded … no… so here is my first kantrio post lol

i did these over the last month while watching the olympic weightlifting and jamming to kpop (stan red velvet and kiss of life BTW!!!)

[sunflowerdigs]

Loki is in love with someone he can never be with and y'all are still asking why he's wearing depression loafers with his jammies for all eternity. He may be a full god and a hero now, but he's still Loki.

[luck-lasts]

finally started High School Frenemy, why did no one tell me about all the toxic yaoi

this is literally just a bunch of AO3 tags in a bromance trenchoat

[practical-hearthcraft]

Feeling oddly nostalgic for the old 2013/14 Tumblr days. Back then I had a dedicated fandom blog with a fairly sized following (1.5k) and had a regular TMI Tuesday anon ask box each week. Thing is, because I was even then, slightly older than the majority of others in the fandom, it was a mixture of just I-need-to-get-this-off-my-chest tmi shit, mixed with agony aunt style Q&A's with a lot of baby queers who had just entered puberty. As an older LGBT+ person, I ended up acting as a surrogate older sister to a lot of regular anons. Looking back at this, I can't say whether it was appropriate, or if in most cases I even helped, but I remember almost every individual who reached out and I really hope things got better for those kids. I say kids, I think most of them are closer to 30 than 20 now.

[shalom-iamcominghome]

So, I've been a bit open about my mental health on here since it affects how I experience and interact with judaism, but I'm wondering how you all balance it? I've found that antisemitism does not specifically cause the recent episode/s I have been having, but it makes them worse, and I find that it makes it even harder to engage with judaism, so I'm currently in a Sisyphean spiral. I guess for me, my brain has been so high-alert about this stuff that it completely shuts down, but not engaging with my jewish community is just as detrimental to my health as antisemitism is. Plus, I'm just angry at the thought that something like antisemitism would prevent me from being with my community.

[6mayhem]

anyway i need to hang out with my brother again he is the one person who i am pretty sure knows literally everything about me so he's the only person i trust that i can absolutely not disappoint. nothing i can do could be worse than the sum of everything i've been doing to that poor man (and him to me) the past 19 years

[sunkillerlovechild]

im dying laughing rn

i binge watched 911 like two weeks ago and yk now im just watching some edits whatever and theres a clip from the episode where buck is unconscious after being struck by lightning and i dont remember the number of the episode so i look in the comments and some is like s6 e10 and e11, i think nothing and go look up the name so i can find fics about it and tell me why

i looked up s6e10 read the description to make sure its the right episode, stopped and went "huh, i dont remember ever watching that"

I NEVER FUCKING SAW THE ACTUAL EPISODE WHERE BUCK GETS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

i always just thought it happened off screen, im dying rn, that feels like such an important episode, like bro literally dies and they have to bring him back and i just never saw it

[13eyond13]

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[touchlikethesun]

”why do you want to still be friends with that guy aren’t you constantly complaining about them?” yes i am bc they’re a pretentious dick, but who else am i going to be a pretentious dick with if not them???

[lunatriense]

Salty that Ironwood was the narcissistic authoritarian he always dreamed to be? Get a fucking life. You RWDE folks are hilarious in how fucking angry you are when one cartoon doesn't make men the real heroes of the story.

[majicmarker]

so i wrote this li’l bit into my book, right—

(The last time he heard [“Crimson and Clover”], it was beneath the harsh fluorescents smack in the middle of the frozen pizza aisle, eleven-ish P.M., and all he was trying to do, for the love of God, was weigh the merits of spending $7.99 on brand name versus $2.99 on the budget stuff, not have an impromptu existential crisis about falling in love. He’s still not sure what he could have possibly done to Tommy James & the Shondells to have been so personally attacked, but clearly it was something.)

—and one of my friends suggested i nix it because she didn’t understand “how it moves the plot forward.”

which, first of all, your lack of sudden personal crises during late-might grocery shopping just goes to show that the emotional beats of this book are gonna go over your head, maybe? not everything is relatable to everyone, but that doesn’t mean those things are without merit.

to each their own!!! i’m just not going to delete it, because—

first of all (part deux), this is my beef with plot-driven stories, is that ppl think every. single, sentence. has to serve some greater purpose. IT DOESN’T. sometimes you’re establishing emotional significance or character development or getting from point a to point b, sometimes you’re just saying things, and that is a perfectly okay thing to do. one paragraph here and there doesn’t drag your story, it enhances your story. when you’re not writing fanfic, you need to Establish Things; the occasional foray into further explanation helps you to do that.

second of all, on a purely personal level, i just gotta say… this story? not plot-driven. not in the least. this is character-driven romcom all the way, i can bounce back and forth between the internal monologue and the action as much as i see fit, bc that’s the mood.

and, funnily enough!!! this snippet actually does serve as character development, as well as a prelude to the romance, in multiple ways. multiple!!!! ways!!!!

and, sure, that’s not going to land with every reader, i guess? but it does bug @ me when ppl miss the point, especially when you just have to exercise some patience to get to the payoff.

[goingtobed]

It's been 2 years since The Breakup™ and since he reached back out after the hurricane to see if I'm okay, Ive really been thinking about all the good times.

I'm so glad I kept our text messages though because whenever I think about going back, I just look at them and realize how fucking horrible we were for each other omg

[dirkpressed]

when I was 16 my first girlfriend broke up with me for the second time after an entire summer of her on and off not replying to my messages and then berating me because I was being suffocating then came back after like a month to give me this dramatic letter telling me that she wanted me back and it pissed me off so much that I cried and I feel like that must be the reason why I need to see dirk and jake chasing after each other with weapons.