#I wouldnt have survived the ramble

[iwouldnthavesurvivedthestillness]

If you could relive any memory of your past, what would it be?

Probably cliche, but reading the Black Winter series for the first time again. Corny as hell since this is my Black Winter sideblog, but something about the experience of stumbling on the first book, falling in love with it, and waiting a solid month until the person who had the second one checked out at the school library returned it while making a bunch of theories of what'd happen next, and falling in love with the series all over again when I finally got my hands on the next one is something I wish I could experience again.

[holland-vosijk-antari]

I've been thinking about how white london probably has different kinds of physical affection to red and grey, I can't imagine hugging being common among people who are casual friends like it is in a lot of places here (I'm talking from the pov of someone from an area not too far away from real london so i get that this isnt the case everywhere lol) hugging requires a certain trust that the person you are hugging is doing anything nefarious with their hands - like stabbing you in the back for instance... so i like to think that in white london where trust is about as thin on the ground as magic, hugging is a massive declaration of trust in which you may as well tell the other you love them.

on an additional note it makes me wonder about what affections would be commonplace, would a kiss on the cheek be a more common greeting to someone you care for? would people give a short bow as a greeting towards an acquaintance? (both things very common in many places in this world too so not exactly strange?) or are people simply all-or-nothing with their affections, giving all their affection to one or two people who have their absolute trust and not showing any at all otherwise?

when it comes to greeting a stranger i was taught in my martial arts classes to introduce myself with both hands visible and to shake hands with both of my hands as a sign of respect within the culture so i wonder if that kind of action would be common in makt - dont hide your hands when trying to gain someones trust or they will think you are hiding something...

[aroacettorney]

ludger regretted not becoming a shaman as his mother said, but lbr he would have not made it halfway in aupverse if he was not a well-learnt STEM bro in his first life either lmfao

how many times has the source code saved him from various situations?

how many times has he used his technical knowledge to inspire the people around him?

how would he become a great mage if not for all the nerdy knowledge that he utilized to minimize the disadvantages of his unique constitution?

how would he fight salesin if the only thing he could rely on was the power of gods, which would have been sealed anyway?

how would he fare with only ever relying on the power of gods when he was repeatedly warned that using it would risk lumensis' return and cause the end of the aupverse?

how would he even return to his original world if he had not been the nerdiest topologist in the world?

[newvegascowboy]

I feel like the ideal dynamic between Doomguy & Humanity vs Doomguy & VEGA is that humanity et al watches him rip demons apart with his bare hands and splash around in their blood and is a little bit like "gross" and VEGA watches the same thing and is like GO WHITEBOY, GO!!!

[idamante]

I can tell who's new to studying Greek mythology if they only care about 'shipping siblings'

[isoddtosay]

the ark machinimas make me so happy because i havent seen a fanmade project like that for ages... makes me feel like a kid again. HOWEVER with ark:tas coming up i can see a very funny conflict popping up there: im 67% sure that the ark series will diverge from the ingame lore (helena's tek rifle for one thing) and if it werent for the machinima series i dont think anybody wouldve noticed.&thats very funny to me.

theres something so community-building about fanmade projects for games/books/shows/etc, and in this particular case i think theres a chance that the community is going to prefer the fanmade machinima over the series, even if the series is good.

im honestly surprised that ark hasnt done something similar already -- or at least, hired people to narrate all of the notes. i could see that being expensive, ESPECIALLY when multiple languages are involved, but i think it would pay off. nobody reads the notes as is (unfortunately most people arent going to take the time to read 2 paragraphs of text when theyre surrounded by raptors and carnos...) but if they did, it would make the game a lot more immersive. i know leaving the machinima audio on as background noise made me wayyy more fixated on ark

[helpmyinterestsareverywhere]

Ya girl is gonna be busy this week 💪💪

(+ the IKEA shelves I have to build to display this LEGO </3 😔👊)

[arolesbianism]

You see Jackie is great because she has a similar appeal to me as Maxwell but she's a lesbian and also not british so she's automatically a billion times better and more interesting

[kikirambles]

i fully have the nomad lifestyle this year im moving around like every 2-3 weeks

[arachnaesghost]

Luffy likely wouldn't have survived the paramount war had Cora lived instead of Doffy.

[iwouldnthavesurvivedthestillness]

I Wouldn't have survived the stillness (feel free to call me Bean)

I haven't seen much Black Winter or Darcy Coates content other than book reviews, but from how my friends and I are about these books I'm genuinely surprised. This account is here to remedy that!

if you want to send in asks, both to ask questions and just to chat about these books (mainly BW, I've read a fair amount of Darcy Coates books but not all.) feel free! just try to keep it roughly the rating of the books themselves (about PG-13)

I'll post my fanart here, reblog Darcy Coates content that i think will fit nicely, and post things like headcanons or general ideas based around the characters.

[swag-system]

Insane how awful being on my period is. They should pay me money to do this shit

[autisticlee]

it's hilarious that the conservatives always complain about and accuse poor/disabled/unprivileged/etc people who just want to survive of being lazy and say we just wanting free handouts and money and stuff given to us so we don't have to work. for some reason, they think being able to start on a more even field as them means we will become lazy and stop working.

sounds like projection and admitting to something to me.

because 100% of conservatives i've known and talked to all regularly talk about wanting to win the lottery so they don't have to work anymore or become a CEO/business owner to force other people to do all their work and make them money while they sit back and watch. they take most of the money, go on vacations, buy fancy vacation homes, buy luxury things, and do whatever they want while barely paying the workers and doing minimal or none of the work themselves.

so, who's the actual lazy ones?!

honestly, the fact that many of them STILL have to work despite being privileged should clue them in on the fact that us getting help to start on more equal footing, or to prevent us from literally dying, means we also will still have to work. we aren't going to magically become rich from a little bit of disability money while doing minimum wage part-time jobs. if we are lucky, we will just be able to afford food that doesn't make us sick, doctor bills, medications, and other necessary things no one should be struggling to get. maybe a small apartment on our own if we are extra lucky, but that's very unlikely. if we want more than the necessities, we would still have to work more! maybe even still more and harder than the privileged conservatives! but many of us still would never be able to get more than what's needed, even if working and getting some "free handouts" so I genuinely don't understand conservatives complaints and false assumptions.

[shoplifting]

one piece kaiju au save me

[lazaruspiss]

modern comics industry maybe be struggling but honestly i think ur average local comic store is gonna be fine in comparison, like plenty of them have a huge focus on resells of older stuff and like. maybe one shelf to the side w new releases lol

[duskythesomething]

blagh a bunch of stuff broke at work and it wasn't my fault but I was alone taking orders/making drinks and I got so overwhelmed when they finally sent me on break I just started crying I hate fast food