#I'd almost feel sad for them.

[stromuprisahat]

“the show ruined the darkling the show ruined darklina” oh you mean the show considered the nuance of without overly romanticizing a centuries-old power-hungry ABUSER who has committed genocide and taken advantage of countless women and it explored the ways in which “darklina” as a ship dynamic is really about him manipulating a lonely vulnerable girl and using his trauma to victimize himself as an excuse to lash out and fulfill his blatant power grabs and excessive violence against innocent people, and it emphasized how being lonely and having complexity doesn’t justify war crimes and instead focused on empowering the victims of kirigan’s abuse and didn’t pretend like darklina was for a moment a healthy valid romantic choice for alina because it wasn’t it was a relationship predicated on gaslighting manipulation and literal enslavement based on the traumatic experiences of the author herself and it should not be romanticized in any way shape or form? HAHA WELL GO CRY ABOUT IT IM HAVING A BLAST

I intended to seriously reply, but please, do come back once you learn to use capitals and diacritics. Your "opinion" is unreadable.

It's enough that I'd waste time on a person parroting show creators without the ability to apply an ounce of own thinking or politely participate in debate of constructive criticism, ANON.

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Why I Am Not Coming In To Work Today [abridged], Jess Zimmerman

part one | part two

[ayara-resara]

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[theirloveisgross]

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[theheadlessgroom]

@beatingheart-bride

"Pa and I used to go to the park on our days off," Susannah recalled with a soft, fond smile, her arm wrapped around Philippe's waist as well as they walked. With a full belly and the dreamy darkness of the park around them, she was in good spirits, able to live in the moment, as well as look back on her past with an easier heart.

"We'd either go very early or very late-when there'd be fewer people around," she remembered, kicking a stray pebble off the path: Nothing quite spoiled an outing like the snide looks or annoyed grumbles, so it was better to go when it could just be the two of them. "Sometimes, we'd pack a sort of picnic breakfast or dinner with us, and find a nice place on the grass to eat and talk. Sometimes Pa would bring a book and read aloud from it, and...sometimes we'd watch the sun rise or set.

I...I haven't done it in forever," she confessed, rubbing the back of her neck as she admitted to this. She stopped going to the park so often after her father died, oftentimes opting to instead coop herself up in the house. It just didn't feel the same without him, but maybe now, with Philippe in her life, maybe it was time to start anew. To start going again, and watching the sun the way she used to. To look at it as something beautiful, a grand part of nature, and not the frustrating herald of another long day...

[warrior-of-sunlight]

It's already been a year since my dad passed away and it really doesn't feel like it has been that long. I've not been doing well at all this last year to be honest, both mentally and physically, I'm not sure how to fix it. But I'm trying to enjoy things when I can.

One of those things I'm trying to enjoy is me finally moving out tomorrow. Social housing is a disaster here and even though I've been on a waiting list since I was 19 I'd still have to wait a few years before I'd be able to rent a place that way. But because of my dad that is now irrelevant since I was able to buy my own place with my share of the inheritance. Which feels insane, I never thought that was possible for me. But I now own a house, it's actually mine. It's one of the cheapest possible houses on the market that is not in need of a total makeover and on the other side of the country. But family members from both my dads and my moms side live close to there so that's good. It still needs some work though and I might open up commissions in a few weeks to help with that. But I got really lucky with this particular house I think. My dads last gift to me.

But for tonight I'm allowing myself a nice glass of wine and a good cry in my dads memory.

[grandmaestershibe]

family picture

[luvsavos]

random vent(?) in the tags, feel free to ignore i just have a lot of pent up emotions to get out today apparently

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Rank Lover tracklist on Lover's anniversary? if you have the time

oh my goodness, how can I rank my children?!

I'm not promising this list is correct, it's just a snap judgment in the moment and regardless I love all of Lover so much:

Paper Rings (I love fun I'm sorry)

Death by a Thousand Cuts

Cornelia Street

Lover

The Archer

Cruel Summer

It's Nice To Have A Friend (she's number one in my heart but I sometimes need times of quiet to listen to her but don't let the number 7 fool you into thinking I don't love her body and soul. The top 6 are just the ones I will belt out at will in the car.)

Soon You'll Get Better (sound-wise it's actually like, top-tier to me-- the harmonies with The Chicks are sublime-- it's just so sad I can't always listen to it. So again, don't let the ranking fool you into anything, I love it, I just can't listen to it all the time because it breaks my soul lol.)

London Boy

I Think He Knows

I Forgot That You Existed

Afterglow

False God

Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince

Daylight

The Man

You Need To Calm Down

Me!

[syn0vial]

yesterday, i learned that one of my acquaintances from church is like, gleefully and unreservedly supportive of the gazan genocide despite going to a church where every sermon for the past few weeks has been about the horrors and tragedy of said genocide. like, i could not fucking believe how hilarious he seemed to think it is that innocent palestinians are dying, just grinning and laughing and shaking his head and rolling his eyes when my pastor and i expressed horror at the innocent people being killed. just remembering it makes me choke up with anger.

anyway, i'm going to be very stupid and try to talk to him about it this coming sunday. i'll use all my teacherly tricks to try and gently lead him to feel one single scrap of empathy for the victims of israel's civilian massacre, but lbr: he'll probably respond with the same amount of glee and condescension as last night and it's going to end with me making me a scene at church.

but i know i shouldn't. so here are some things i should NOT say, no matter how angry he makes me:

i've always hated the sound of your voice, even before you said such horrible things. you say everything with such condescension. when you read the gospels in church, i have to hide my face behind my program to hide my grimacing. you make the words of christ himself sound like a grift of some oily used car dealer who thinks he's smarter than he actually is. i pity you for going through life with such a voice, and pity you even more for thinking it charming.

it baffles me that you'd allow something as basically human as compassion for the suffering of others to be so utterly sanded away by propaganda. it's pathetic that you could laugh at innocents dying. you've let yourself be lobotomized by a clumsy surgeon and style yourself wise with the icepick still sticking from your skull.

i've always thought your face looks like an easter island head sculpted from a raw chicken breast.

see? none of those would be productive, no matter how truly they express my feelings about this person.

thus: people of faith, pray that god grants me the wisdom and restraint to not light this motherfucker up in the middle of coffee hour. amen.

[balconyswirls]

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[lovelettered]

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[tkbrokkoli]

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[frankensteinposm0]

i have to think about this starting from the fact that my favorites are Stan and Craig, this is going to be hard so wish me luck guys

(I'm not really done with Stan but I can't add any more tags 😭)

Edit: I forgot obvious things on Craig like the fucked up teeth but whatever i kin both of them

South Park fans! How many things do you have in common with your favorite character(s)? I’m curious!!

[sharkylass]

ALRIGHT, I ASKED FOREVER AGO, BUT WHO WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT MY ISA LOOPS AU??

Heads up this contains a lot, and I mean A LOT of spoilers for In Stars And Time. Including: = Act 6 spoilers, including main mystery and secret encounter = Minimal Act 5 stuff = And a bunch of extra stuff that happens through Act 3 and 4. SO BASICALLY ALMOST EVERYTHING, FINISH THIS GAME COMPLETELY BEFORE READING (ESPECIALLY THAT ACT 6 ENCOUNTER, IT WILL LITERALLY BE THE FIRST THING I MENTION UNDER THE CUT)

With all those warnings out of the way-

IN REPETITION AND CHANGE

Initial Concepts:

I feel it's important to show these sketches because they were the first ideas I ever had. I wasn't even entirely sure I wanted to make an AU at this point, I didn't even know how I'd approach it. But I started sketching and it's been on my mind since- SO! Isa is stuck in the timeloop. I know what his wish is and he DOES have a Loop equivalent! The grumpy dandelion guy is Roboro (it/they/he). Their name is a very small play on Ouroboros and they call Isa "Seedling". However, this post is not about them, as I'm gonna talk about it and Isa's dynamic in a separate post. In short, Isa is his normal loud self up until Act 3, right? They beat the King, they reach the end, and whoops, the loop isn't broken. So now, what happens is that Isa starts getting his brains out. He starts thinking more analytically and tries to problem solve.

The more stuck he gets in his head, the less he's able to perceive his friends as real people, and more like them holding him back. Because even if Isa explains that he's smart, that they shouldn't be surprised if he says something, shock of all shocks, reasonable- They'll forget it the next loop.

So Isa is stuck with trying to portray his confident, loud, supportive facade- Which is fine! It wouldn't be the first time! But it progressively gets more and more frustrating, as he tries to find answers and simply looses the energy to pretend to be stupid.

TL;DR: Isa in the timeloop, unlike Siffrin, becomes more distant and cold rather then something more akin to Sif's mania.

NOW, MORE ART!!!

KILL KILL KILL:

I imagine Isa didn't have this encounter the same way that Sif did. Yeah, frankly, Isa is pissed with the sadness- But that's not why he goes through with this.

In this moment, Isa is trying to kill two birds with one stone. He's trying to get through this quickly, as well as reassure Mira that they can do this! If he shows how strong he is, then she'll feel safe right???

Poor Isabeau forgot that whenever he shows that he thinks ahead, he scares people. How could he forget that? How could he forget that he's inherently---

Family Quest:

I still think Odile is the one to call out to him (same with sus quest).

The hangouts I'm still figuring out, cause I don't think they'd too similar to base game- But, fun fact, at the end of this run, everyone agrees to keep travel together!

Isabeau brings it up, can't hurt if you can fix your mistakes right? And everyone agrees. The relief on Siffrin is the most palpable thing Isabeau has ever seen.

In this moment they love you. In this moment they all love you. In this moment---

Death Screen:

He loops back anyways. (This is one of the initial concepts that I ended up animating. This line in particular is when he reaches the end)

Act 5 Tarot Card:

NOW TO SEE MORE OF HIS PASSIVE AGRESSIVE SIDE

Thanks to @the-bitter-ocean for prescribing tarot cards to Isa (THEY ALL FUCK SO HARD) and for the RAW ASS LINE

If interacted with in act 5, predictably, Isa tears it apart. He doesn't need the divine judgement upon him, he's faced everyone's perception his entire life.

However, he tears it methodically. Tears it once in even pieces, twice, three times, and one of the pieces once more. In a way he isn't even getting his emotions out, it's like he's actively trying to tear it apart so it stops nagging him, like he wants to shut it up. Though, the Judgement card symbolizes rebirth, absolution and inner calling. In Act 6 he'd be able to look at it and find comfort and confidence in the card.

Act 5 Mirror:

And lastly, I have the Act 5 mirror picture. I haven't quite figured out how to make the normal ones work yet, however, I couldn't let go of the idea that Isa would not want to be in the picture.

The idea of seeing himself at all makes his head hurt and his stomach squeeze. The memory haunts him as he stands to the side and says the word. He didn't think the mirror would catch him.

AAAAND THAT'S ALL THE ART STUFF FOR NOW!!

I still have quite a bit of it to post, especially about Roboro, but I'm gonna leave it here for now.

I still gotta figure out the hangouts and potentially the dagger equivalent- but I have ideas for Bad Touch, the glass equivalent, and some extra little things that didn't happen in Siffrin's loops.

I needed to yap about this, because I've been slowly stacking up ideas and writing and I needed to share it at some point- If anyone read all this and has questions and stuff I fully welcome 'em!!