#I should hate to be predictable

[dogzcats]

[ninkaku]

“they had something” and it’s gihun and frontman ?? im sick

[knockknockitsnickels]

Get away from me

[writeshite]

"Well, well, look at you," you laughed, "I can't say I've had the pleasure of being caught before, charmed Batman. I'm a bit disappointed to see you're not a demon; I thought we might hit it off."

The Batman doesn't speak at first, then holds you up against the wall, “The Upper East End. Tuesday night.”

“Hmm, doesn’t ring a bell,” you shrug and he presses his arm harder against your throat, “Now, now, batboy, I need my vocal cords for later, I’ve got a couple men’s names to scream in the bedroom.” He throws you to the ground, you roll a few meters and laugh, “Oh, I love a man who plays rough.”

You prop yourself up on your elbow, grabbing his leg before he can press it on your chest, twisting your body just enough to unbalance him. The Batman stumbles, almost tripping over you as you pull him over yourself. As he’s busy trying to stabilize himself, you get up, shaking your shoulders, “Dimittis,” you mutter and the cuffs fall to the ground, and you blow him a kiss before running off. Batman squints his eyes and pursues, much to your delight.

[sunshineandlyrics]

*Original story is with The Sun, 11 May 2024. That's all the info so far so you don't have to give them clicks.

🙄 Let's use Louis' name and life for clicks. I don't see Louis willingly participate and hopes he stays well away from this reality nonsense.

[alacants]

this is my last post on this subject. probably. maybe. but look. as far as whether the ceremony was ""appropriate."" the brutal truth is that this is a risk you are taking if you choose to retire at an event like the davis cup. from an events-planning perspective, it is not anywhere close to the same league as roland garros or the atp finals or a big-money exho. i'm sure itf is doing their best lmao but it's just. not. and if you choose to retire at a competitive event, well. upsets are also a risk you take. a slicker outfit would have a more robust plan in place for that.

i'm using the second person but to be clear i'm not saying that i think rafa wanted a perfect movie moment. i think he wanted to retire in a meaningful competitive event on home soil and that was the most important consideration of all. (although i also would not be surprised to find out that there was some magical thinking at work. lmao.) i also don't believe for a second that he would have made himself available for a singles match if he didn't believe in his heart he could win. even when no one else did. (no one else except...) that's what makes competitors competitors.

rafa chose to play this event. ferru chose to put him in singles. the tournament organizers (feli) chose to put their logistical efforts in one basket. this was a group effort, guys.

sorry i did just listen to 30 minutes of the cope hosts reading all the sports tabloid criticism to david ferrer's face and i do feel a kind of way. it wasn't a winning lineup. yeah. no shit. (and again, the only thing i don't get is how anyone didn't see this coming a mile away but apparently they didn't.) but it's also not like ferru personally made rafa retire at this event and then disinvited the rest of the big 4 with his own two hands so maybe. maybe. we could chill.

[longlivetv]

As we all enjoy our clownery on this fine evening, a reminder that it is all fun and games to try to guess what she might do unless it becomes demanding and people get upset when the thing they thought/hoped/wished would happen doesn’t. Expect nothing, and be pleasantly surprised if something happens.

[tummy-bump-king]

What's the pregnant lord carrying? 👀

just a normal baby! this is what I have for him so far:

He is trans and stealth; nobody except his (now deceased) parents and his wife know. currently toying with the idea of him having taken the place of a brother who died when they were children

he cares for his wife, but their marriage was a political one, an effort to unify their families, as a power struggle had begun to ramp up in their parents' generation, and there was increasing risk of coup/assassination/etc. he is banking on both his lady's affection for him and the fallout her reputation would suffer if she told anyone, to keep his secret

he has a relationship with his head guardsman- that's who the other father is. the lady knows and consents, and the baby was accidental. the relationship was meant to be casual because they both know they can never commit to each other fully, but they fell much harder than they expected

they had just discovered the pregnancy, and he and the lady were making plans to keep it and spin the optics as her being the pregnant one when the story begins. they are dragged out of bed by strange soldiers in the middle of the night. the last thing our lord sees before being pulled away is the bloody body of his guardsman in their antechamber

they spend a long night in terror and uncertainty before it is revealed that the perpetrator is the lady's family who is responsible when her father comes to gloat. they had been dissatisfied with the minor power granted to them with only a daughter in the ladyship, and with the long (a few years) wait for offspring, so they finally decided to seize power for themselves

the lady's family know there would be much more political risk, like backlash from other members of the peerage or even the crown, if they were to commit an all out hostile takeover. so instead, they are going to keep the lord and lady alive, to parade around as the nominal rulers, while they make the real decisions.

most especially, they want the lord and lady to seem lazy and incompetent, so that they can justifiably install themselves as regents when their lands begin to fail, and the lord and lady have every appearance of abdicating in all but name. when the lord's belly begins to swell visibly, this only adds to their narrative that he is fat and complacent

the lord and lady are kept in separate rooms, only permitted to see each other extremely sparingly. while it is not a dungeon, their cells are normal stone rooms in the castle, but with almost all the furnishings removed and restraints added, so it might as well be. this also means that no outsider would think their residence odd unless they were to physically enter the rooms, which they cannot do

obviously the pregnancy is revealed eventually, I would say around the 6 month mark, when it becomes clear that it is not possible for the lord to continue growing in this way with the food he's given and the conditions he's kept in. once the lady's family discover the truth, they adopt a similar plan to the lord and lady's original one, to present the child as of the lady, and then to rule through the child as a puppet heir.

I don't have an ending put together yet, but basically heavy on the angst and whump. I'm contemplating a miscarriage or stillbirth, because theres only so much hunger, cold, and physical injury a fetus can take, and only so much the parent can take before it rejects the extra strain. I do plan on an ultimately not tragic ending, so our poor lord isnt going to die in pain and ignominy, he is at least going to escape with his life. I will have to think on it more

[cultivating-wildflowers]

cracking open “Are Women Human?” as a palate cleanser after reading Robert A. Heinlein

[food-for-daisies]

Until the United States can, on a cultural scale, reframe climate change as a failing of not only the government, but of class, compassion, and common sense, the country will always be vulnerable to disaster.

The Los Angeles wildfires didn’t have to happen. It’s not an accident that they’ve escalated so dramatically. Government action, informed forestry, and increased mitigation planning could have prevented this historic loss of life and property, and the same goes for every other disaster we’ve witnessed/experienced this year. Why are our aid organizations underfunded? Why are our cities so vulnerable? Why is our infrastructure so weak? Why, in the midst of disaster, are our politicians attacking our most essential resources instead of working with their fellows to ways to improve the response system? To help? Isn’t that supposed their job?? What are we (the taxpayers) paying them for???

There are a thousand actions and a thousand questions that could have prevented this. You should be angry if your representatives didn’t ask, didn’t act. The planet’s a team sport, and they’re not playing.

[weaselweaselweasel]

I hate dnd I’m killing myself

[greenwood-archer]

Here’s a link to a recent interview Alice did about his music, career, and bunch of other things for people who are interested. Yes, it’s the one where he comments on trans issues.

https://www.stereogum.com/2233806/alice-cooper-new-album-keanu-reeves-trans-issues/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/?fbclid=IwAR0uFKH-Tg1VIaWXqC-Qyv_jaV0eSv8WRllwRfjuE_YmsUA_On--OR1gwvo

[my-past-disgusts-me]

Stayed up way too late drawing a followup comic for what I posted on my art account. I looove these fucking idiots

[ceramicbeetle]

the thing about the “love letter” core of these characters is that it is turning out to be a very fascinating coping mechanism. of like, when i have that moment of “oh no my autism is making me so fucking annoying/embarrassing/whatever right now” self-awareness, instead of getting shuttled into the semi-usual downward self-cringing spiral, i find myself breaking off into “actually, i think one of these characters does the exact same thing and the other one Loves them for it”, which i find i like a lot more

[bamgeut]

i believe one of the craziest yet somehow predictable things that have happened to me in the past 3 years is me becoming such a big soobin stan

[simptasia]

my mum has stage four cancer