#I'm not going to do it for a number of reasons

[ao3commentoftheday]

Not really an ao3 question, more like a fandom one. So I post on my fandom blog pretty regularly, and I notice that some people reblog my posts often but they don't follow me, and (this part is really stupid) I'm a little hurt about that? Following them first seems like attention seeking (and also they might not follow back which already happened a couple of times and it's the most confusing feeling). Am I stupid and paying too much attention to things that don't matter?

*hugs* Anon, you're not stupid. But you are paying too much attention.

It's normal to look for meaning in actions when we don't have a reason why something is or isn't happening. You don't know why people aren't following your blog, so you're currently grasping at straws to figure out why that could possibly be.

If you want a reason why folks reblog you without following you, I'm going to point you to the For You tab. Someone in your fandom can easily see your fandom posts there because the content of your For You tab is floated to you based on your likes and reblogs. If you're using tags or writing about content that they otherwise like, they'll see you there.

Following someone's tumblr account is not a cry for attention. It is normal behaviour on a website where people post and share content. Likewise, not following back is not a rejection of you, the person. Some folks only follow people they know from other places. Some people have notifications filtered or reduced and won't know when someone follows them. Some people just scroll on past the notif and continue on their way.

I don't think your problem is about reblogging and following, though, anon. I think you're lonely and wishing that you had more fandom friends here on tumblr. That's a pretty common feeling, judging by my inbox (and the history of this blog since I started it years ago).

My advice is scary, but keep in mind that your tumblr url is not connected to your offline identity. Even if someone does reject you outright, they only ever know your screenname. They don't know you.

Follow first. Reblog with chatty tags. Send asks. Reblog prompt memes and asks memes. Send prompts and asks when other people post them.

And above all, do not keep track of who is following you and how many followers you have. Numbers and stats will drive you crazy if you pay attention to them. Instead, focus in on making one or two acquaintances that you can grow into friends and expand out from there.

*hugs* I hope you find your people, anon. I really do 💗

[queersyourgender]

Congrats on the milestone! 💜 I’m not sure if you are okay with writing for Abbot from the Pitt…if you are, could you write something about a nurse reader who gets hurt by a patient or something but tries to hide? It’s okay if you don’t want to 💕 congratulations again!!

Hiding Your Pain — Jack Abbot x GN!Reader

Notes: Eee thank you!! Ofc I'm okay writing for Jack, he's high on my list of favorites! I hope this is to your liking, and thank you so much again <3

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It happens all the time, you remind yourself. Don't make a big deal out of it. That's your motto for whenever you get assaulted on the job. It definitely doesn't apply to your colleagues, you remember raising hell and high water when Mateo's tooth got knocked out right in front of you, but that's how you roll for yourself.

That's why when you get a knee from a patient directly into your ribs, so violently it knocks you on your ass, you already know this is an incident you won't tell anyone about. All you do is quickly get to your feet and shout for security to catch the man before he escapes, hunched over and clutching your side in pain.

Dr. Abbot's the first to run over to you rather than the runner, his eyes critical and serious. “Shit, what happened in there? You hurt?” He asks you curtly, his tone short and no-nonsense and his hands hovering over you but not quite touching as he looks you up and down, trying to assess for any injuries.

Quickly, you straighten up and wave a dismissive hand in the air, silencing your pained whines and shallow pants as you try to play it off. “No, no, it's okay, he just scared me,” you lie to your attending, giving him a strained smile and shaking your head. “I'm fine, Dr. Abbot, thank you for asking.”

Your boss narrows his eyes at you, clearly unconvinced but unable to ask any further questions without reason. Which is great, because you're already embarrassed enough as it is that you wasted his time and made him worry over you like that.

Security tackles the dude and takes him away, and the shift carries on as normal. Night shift was always hectic, but after playing both sides, you found that you preferred it over the morning. The team just felt closer, more like family. It had nothing to do with your hot boss, by the way.

With a sigh, you wrap up another patient, much less rowdy patient and head back to the nurse's station, dropping down into one of the chairs and wincing at the pressure that mere action puts on your no doubt bruised by now ribs. Charge nurse Birdget must hear some kind of noise from you, because she immediately drops everything she's doing and whips around to look at you.

“You okay?” She asks, and there's a warning around her question, like she's saying you better not have pulled that stupid shit again without actually saying it, and you try to give her a thumbs up only to move too fast and pull your hurting side. Bridget's eyes widen, and she turns around and calls: “Jack!”

You look up at her in betrayal and alarm, because she could've called literally anybody else, could've even checked you up herself, but no, she has to call the man you're secretly gone on. Dr. Abbot must hear the urgency in Bridget's voice because he springs out of a trauma room, looking directly at her with sharp eyes.

When he notices you beside her, his eyes immediately narrow as he connects the dots before Bridget even says anything. She still snitches on you anyway, and you have no choice but to get up and follow after your unhappy attending as he motions for you to get behind the empty curtain number three.

“It's really not that bad,” you still try to say, blushing something fierce as you look everywhere but at him while lifting your scrubs and undershirt up and above your ribs where you got kneed. At Jack's sharp intake of breath, you look down at yourself, and your eyes go wide at the violent discoloration. “Okay, maybe it is that bad. Damn.”

“Goddamnit, I fucking asked you,” Jack hisses, shaking his head angrily, and your eyes immediately look to the floor in shame. You hadn't wanted to bother him, but even worse than that is to disappoint him.

Suddenly, though, a hand settles underneath your chin, thumb gripping it gently and lifting your head up so that your gazes can meet. “Sorry,” the older man murmurs, his cheeks glowing a faint pink-ish shade as he deeply looks back into your eyes. “I'm not mad. Just worried.”

Your eyes widen despite yourself. “Worried?” You ask, and Jack gives you a strange look, something along the lines of exasperated and knowing at the same time.

“Yeah, worried,” he repeats, reaffirming the idea with an almost playful lilt to his voice. “You know, a state of concern? It happens sometimes, when something bad happens to someone you care about.”

“You care about me?” You stammer, your voice high-pitched and disbelieving, and Jack clearly can't help the way he chuckles at that. “And people said I was the clueless one,” he murmurs, shaking his head fondly as he examines you, content on letting you flounder for answers as a punishment for trying to hide your pain from him.

[peascrabbles]

Evermore Vows: Call Transcripts

Here are the transcripts for all the LI's phone calls for Evermore Vows. I love listening to their voices as much as the next person, this is more to serve as a quick reference for any art/fic/whatever purposes!

Spoilers for the calls beneath the cut.

Zayne

Hello. I'm at the restaurant where we saw each other again.

Today is an important day. I'm happy even as I wait for your answer.

Sitting in this familiar seat, I can sense familiar midsummer sunlight and the scent of plants, and I'll think of you.

After I started med school, I constantly moved between laboratories and operating rooms. And through every methodically planned day, whenever I confronted a problem, I would make a little snowman. It'd keep me company.

It also served as a reminder: if I just kept going, a chance for us to meet again would present itself.

What about you?

Did you also look forward to our reunion? (A little huff-laugh.)

You don't need to immediately answer that question. Take your time.

I'll see you in Linkon City later. I want to ask you an important question in person today.

I gave it a lot of thought. I can't wait to hear your answer.

I hope it'll be, "yes, I will."

Rafayel

(BG SFX: Ocean waves.) Do you hear that? It's the ocean, cutie. It's whispering its longing. Its fate.

Today will be a very important day. A joyous day, in fact.

I've been wondering if your answer will be the one I'm hoping for. I'm not even sure when it started.

Going to exhibits alone. Walking along the beach by myself. I'm not used to it for some reason.

Whenever I visit a new city, I find myself searching for interesting things to share with you.

Take this pretty trochus, for example. It must've floated across the ocean before it washed ashore. It glistened under the sun. I placed the sound of the tide and my longing for you inside this seashell.

When you travel to a faraway place, you can take it with you. It'll be like I'm right there with you. It doesn't matter where you go.

You're returning to Linkon City today, right?

I have an important question I want to ask, in person. But I'll keep it a secret for now.

I'm hoping you'll say: I do.

Xavier

(A soft chuckle.) Today is the most important, happiest day of my life. I visited the place where we first met while waiting for your answer.

At the time, I had just defeated a Wanderer and wanted to rest. I didn't think a kind-hearted Hunter would try to wake me up. Especially since she was passing by.

I wonder what would've happened if you didn't find me that day. Maybe we would've bumped into each other when I left the warehouse. Or while I was tracking down other Wanderers.

We wouldn't just be passing by. We would've found a way to connect.

It's possible I could never be content with being a passerby in your life. I would've been instinctively drawn to you.

Fate guided our timelines, and they converged. They'll never part again.

And right now, I miss you. Terribly so.

What about you?

You... always stood by my side.

Let's meet up in Linkon City today. I have a very important question, and I hope your answer is yes.

Caleb

Today is an important day for me, and... I haven't stopped thinking about you.

I was wondering if you've been eating properly. If you got hurt during your missions. But there's still so much more that I wanna learn about you.

People get greedier over time. They never know when enough is enough. When we're apart, I realise that being together is enough for me. Once the distance between us shrinks, I hope the chasm between our hearts will disappear as well.

It's like a drop of rain landing on the parched earth. The closer I am to you, the more I yearn for you.

I'm heading back now. (BG SFX: Clicking, tapping noises.) The red dot marking my destination is glowing on the dashboard, and the number on the distance counter is decreasing. The hyperspace jump will be completed in ten seconds. (BG SFX: Electronic beeping.) The signal's gonna be disconnected temporarily.

I don't have a lot of time to tell you how much I miss you, but that's okay. There's something more important I wanna ask you about in person.

I've been preparing for this for a long time. You can tell me then if you want it or not.

Let's meet up in Linkon, okay?

Sylus

I don't often assign a special meaning to a particular day, but today's an exception.

Its importance far exceeds any deal or negotiation I've done.

Mephisto has been unusually excited since this morning. He pecked several of my guns and now they're nothing more than scrap metal. (Mephisto: Caw! Caw!) It's because of you, so I'm holding you responsible. Of course.

Mephisto isn't the only one who misses you.

In this world, only one person knows the passcode to my armory. Visited each and every one of my safe houses. Can freely enter the N109 Zone. Loves to argue with Mephisto. Dares to go toe to toe with me. And even loses her temper with me.

Do I really need to spell out who this unique individual is?

Yes. I miss you.

I miss you... very much.

Is there a problem?

After we met, every separation has tested my patience. But because it's you and only you, I'm willing to wait.

I'll see you in Linkon tonight. I have... something very important to tell you in person.

I believe you'll like what I have to say. And I'm certain your answer will be, "of course."

[nuttysaladtree]

(tangent incoming) "whoever made this" is possibly Paladin Posting [@DevotionOath on Twitter] in a textless 5 September 2024 Tweet.

@twotwofroote (23 April 2025):

Does anyone know where to find the shirt/the original artist? My friend would love this! Looked online but just looks like a bunch of copycats

Still a valid question even a month later. Even if the original artist's name is lost to time, it is rarely a waste of time—especially in the age of undeclared AI slop—to trace provenance.

This is a knight from the Westminster Psalter. The amount of effort I expended to find this makes me want buttloads of bucks, so I can pay for an on-call medievalist.

HOWEVER. The Psalter's knight is in a bronze-coloured armour with a green-ish scabbard (and tunic?). Our recolor is also missing the real servant, who's holding the helmet.

So far, all I've found are stock images...whose attribution is severely wanting! You know why it took me so long to find only one of the most famous psalters? Because these stock image sites kept saying, "late 13th century"—ok??? and howwwwwww do you knoww that????? and not be mistakennnnnn?????

I am willing to give Posterazzi.com some credit. A bit. Item VARDPI1877, an uncolored version, at least gives "Short History Of The English People By J.R. Green, Published London 1893" as a source. I did find it in the 1903 reprint of Vol. 1, p. 303 (via Archive.org), which simply titles it "Knight in Armour". (Take note, stock image sites! None of this "kneeling to his lord", "praying before battle"—another reason getting the sources right is important! The historians at the British Library do not know what the knight doing, and if you're going to guess, at least tell me it's your guess, please!)

More importantly, he cites Ms 2 A xxii — the British Library manuscript number for the Westminster Psalter. All this was also made easier by whoever worked on the Wikipedia articles on the Psalter and Green's Short History, as well as the DuckDuckGo knowledge sidebar making that work easier to find. (And the digitization team at the British Library. And the crossposters to Wikimedia Commons. And...you get the idea.)

Now what remains is: who recolored the knight? Bridgeman Images (number NWI4892416) says "Middle Ages: Knight in armor pays homage to his lord, late 13th century. Colour engraving of the 19th century." Same problem: does this mean an edition of Green's Short History volumes has color illustrations? When in the 19th century and by whom? This isn't exactly reconstructing papyrus fragments to find the source here. And I'm not asking for perfect MLA citations! Just enough information so a librarian at a national library can help me find it.

Anyway, I'm still working on it. I plan to update in a reblog, then [see if I can] turn off reblogs on the outdated post.

[sad-girl-hours23]

Invisible string but Buck and Tommy spend 15-20 years constantly missing each other.

Tommy takes a leave of absence for a month when his aunt passes and stays with his cousin in Flagstaff, AZ - helping on the ranch while they find a ranch hand to hire. He's gone the morning on the day Buck arrives.

Tommy ends up in Peru for a wedding of an old Army buddy of his. He vaguely remembers a nice smile on a pretty face and...puka shells? But then there must be a shift change and he's still drinking, but now he's talking to a pretty blonde named Chelsea who cuts him off when he can longer string together proper sentences.

Sometimes he dreams of blue eyes that he can't place.

Buck still replaces Tommy at the 118.

Their stations respond to the same major emergencies, but they've never seen each other. They may have caught the glimpse of the back of each other's turnouts but nothing more.

It's Lucy who flies the helicopter to rescue Bobby and Athena.

Chimney reaches out to Tommy anyway and they stay in touch now, even playing pickup basketball. (Buck of course doesn't go).

Eddie and Tommy still meet and become friends. Their interests don't really intersect with Buck's and they just never end up all together. Buck does get invited to trivia a few times, but it's always to fill in Tommy's spot when he can't be there.

Buck inadvertently collects information about Tommy over the years: he was in the army (like Eddie), he flies helicopters (he sometimes thinks about reaching out through Chim and asking for a tour of Harbor but the impulse passes as quick as it comes), he knows Muay Thai, he can fix cars, he has a sweet tooth, the list goes on.

And sometimes he'll see something that'll make him think of Tommy (an article, a substack, a meme) and he'll send it to Eddie to pass along and Eddie's - like hey, Tommy says thanks or he thought that was funny...do you want me to give him your number? but then the bells go off before Buck can answer. Something always gets in the way.

Buck hears Tommy's voice one time - he's leaving out the back door of Maddie & Chim's house, so he can say goodbye to everyone mingling in the backyard - when he hears Chim greeting Tommy at the front door. And the answering voice...stops him in his tracks for some reason. It wouldn't be weird to backtrack, to have Chim introduce them - it seems like everyone but Buck knows Tommy. But he's meeting somebody for drinks soon, so another time, he thinks.

It takes Buck months to stop hearing the sound of Tommy's voice.

Then one day, they're at the same coffee shop.

They both usually order to go but for some reason this is the day they decide to stay - even as crowded as it is.

They both head for the one unoccupied table for two outside, reaching for a chair at the same time.

Buck blushes and says, "Is it okay if we share?"

Tommy smiles and says, "Of course."

And Buck knows that voice. "Tommy?"

Tommy's brow furrows. "Do we know each other?"

"Uh, no. But I would like to. I'm Evan - Evan Buckley."

Tommy smiles - cheeks dimpling and eyes crinkling - and Buck thinks, oh, it's you. "It's nice to finally meet you, Evan."

Buck's name has never sounded sweeter.

They're the last ones to leave the cafe.

[quinngefail]

Okay so I'm thinking these will be the designs I go with for Saw Sticker Wave 2 :) Gonna do clean lineart + color the ones that are just sketches, too!

In this process I've learned that I definitely want to scale back the number of designs for each wave, just for cost reasons lmao... But I think I got some good picks here :) Aiming to have the listing up within the next week or two!

[somestorythoughts]

ANOTHER MURDER BALLAD LOVER!!! I love a good murder ballad. Ballads in general are great, some of them are both murderous and romantic (The Highwayman is a good example, I like Loreena Mickennet's version).

I do get the complaint a bit, because sometimes it is hard finding something on the radio that isn't modern pop and while that probably isn't all about dating/sex, a lot of it can be.

I'm gonna have to listen to some of the above suggestions but I want to add to the list cause I love music:

Nina Simone. Great singer, lot of civil rights songs, some intense mourning songs. You want a beautiful song that makes your heart hurt? The ballad of Hollis Brown just for starters.

I second @aetherograph 's statement about jazz.

I don't know a ton about reagae so I can't tell you what the genre topics are, but Bob Marley is fantastic.

Ghost Riders In the Sky and The Devil went Down to Georgia. Iconic. Fantastic. Zero romance, sex, or venting about my ex. Country's got a lot of range, Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash are fun.

As they've already said, folk music is fantastic. So is instrumental music though it can take some looking around to find what you like. Are there any movies with a soundtrack you particularly like? You can probably find that to listen to. (I swear, almost every time I go looking through used CDs for sale I find a copy of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon's soundtrack. It's a great album but why so many?)

I really like Aviators and Miracle of Sound, they've got a ton of video game inspired songs as well as other things which are great even if you play zero games like me. Hell, Number Nine is that recent Puss in Boots movie and it rocks.

Recently learned about Naomi Westwater who is phenomenal and does country/folk, Bulbs is about hope and persistence in a way that frankly, I needed when I first heard her.

Want a song about two ravens eating a guy? Twa Corbies.

Musicals have RANGE. I have never seen the Jekyll and Hyde musical but I know about it cause I seen animations of Confrontation and for some reason the only description I can think of is that it fucking slaps.

Not a fan of gospel but it is very good music and not romantic. It can also be pretty uplifting.

[forsaken-headcanons]

*appears like a pest through the window*

ITS ME AGAIN, EHHEHEHEH SRY FOR BEING SUCH A BUG

anyways! MORE CAEKIDD HEADCANNONS!!! WHY HAVENT I SEEN ANYONE ELSE MENTION HIM YET??? I’m the biggest cae Kidd fan tbh, he’s my pfp, he’s my blogs title, whenever I rarely become killer I’m cae Kidd. CAE KIDD IS LIFE!!!! RAAAAHHHHHHHH GRGRGRGRGGR

🌈⚡️🌈⚡️🌈⚡️🌈⚡️

The creature post forsaken was taken in by 007n7, because EVERYTIME it was in a match . -And as I said b4 in my previous caekidd headcanons it doesn’t do anything to the non yellow survivors. - it would always be interested in this one guy . Stalking him and following him around for no reason. It was still technically pure electricity, since it HADNT EATEN ANYONE YET COUGH COUGH. So in my interpretation it means it still has a childlike view. 007n7 was weirded out by this weird thing just following him around for no reason , and just …gave up and just let it happen. It was actually really friendly to the survivors … EXCWPT THE YELLOW ONES

it needs the yellow IT MUST BECOME YELLOW IT HAS TO BE YELLOW, THAT SWEET GENTLE YELLOW HUE GRGRG

it doesn’t have to eat anything, but it desperately wants the yellow color, AND THERES NO FOOD THATS YELLOW IN THAT PLACE!!! my voice claim for cAekidd is puppycat from bee and puppycat because yes! It can speak Japanese since the song it came from is yk color and electricity by mushi-p.

I just realized every post of mine is a yap fest chat. Anyways bye bye! Have a great day! Yk I haven’t seen any cAekidd ask blogs OR EVEN THAT MANY MENTIONS OF HIM ON MY FEED. GRGRGRG

Where my color and electricity cOOlkidd fans at? I NEED YALL TO MAKE URSELFS KNOWN !!!

also sry for appearing so many times 😔😔… also have a drawing of my child because 🌈CAEKIDD⚡️

-🎂(pest) anon(color and electricity coolkidds number 1 fan ofc. MY SHAYLA)

I LOVE CAEKIDD TOO I LOVE LOVE COLOR AND ELECTRICITY WAVES AT YOU. I'm gonna feed him a lemon and pat him pls don't go eat the yellow survivors kiddo

ALSO THE ART GDSHJK I LOVE THE COLOURS!! It looks so crunchy 10/10 would eat the colors if I was caekidd

[sototallynormaliswear]

The Magnus Archives has irreparably altered the way I interact with media so here's Teen Wolf Fear Alignments:

(minor spoilers for TMA and Teen Wolf)

Derek: do I really even need to say The Hunt? let's be so real right now, if you think its something else I'd love to have an indepth discussion about your reasonings and also why you are wrong (/hj).

Scott: The Slaughter is all about fear of senseless violence, which uh. Is kinda Scott's deal. A lot of the episodes of TMA that are about the Slaughter are very animal focused, slaughter houses, random pits of meat, a pig that eats people alive. Fitting for a vet in training

Stiles: that's the Spiral, babey look at him. he's that guy that walked out of the fear dimension completely fine because he got distracted thinking about walking his dog. but the spiral is about losing your sense of reality, your sense of self, literally just. being lost. seems like his deal

Allison: see I want to say The Hunt again but like. that doesn't feel accurate to me?? that scene in season 3 where her mother is screaming at her for being unable to thread a needle while Scott bleeds out on the floor is like a cornerstone of how I see her. she hates feeling out of control, out of the loop, unable to help. she specifically hates how she runs to others when dealing with monsters so I'm going with The Dark, which she would also hate because it sounds so childish

Lydia: Lydia needs to have so very much control over how people see her. I'm saying The Eye, but the spiral would still work. The Eye is about being watched, being known, even and especially without permission. a lot of Lydia's story is about people knowing things about her that she doesn't and keeping it from her, as well as her knowing things that she couldnt possibly know. Number one candidate for accidently becoming The Archivist right here

Jackson: The Stranger fr fr. the whole reason he's a lizard is that he's been having an identity crisis for YEARS. he covers it up by being a dick but he basically defines himself by his lacrosse skills and popular kid status, which is why he hates Scott so much. That scene where he's hallucinating his birth parents and they turn around and they have no face? Veryyyy Stranger

Erica: The Flesh. like man Im sorry if you think it's something else but girl literally chose to have a screw be driven through her skull and be hunted for the rest of her life just to get away from her seizures. and she was right to do it.

Isaac: Canonically struggles with claustrophobia. The Buried. In a more metaphorical sense, The Buried is feeling trapped in a state of being, and the other name that it gets in the series, the Too-Close-I-Cannot-Breathe, reminds me of him. also one of the avatars we see in TMA

Boyd: The Lonely. man would have DIED for friends (he did die for friends ha ha who said that). We dont know anything about his family besides the fact that he blames himself for his sister being missing and presumed dead.

Peter: The Desolation. YEAHHHHHH, not really a surprise there, the man that was trapped in a burning building that killed almost all his family was afraid of fire. give me a prize. but as a step back, the Desolation is about losing everything you love and never recovering and uh. :)))) that's Peter :')))))

tell me who I should pick next!

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

I have had an unfortunately large volume of arguments with people who have tried to present to me the idea that trans is a very complicated topic and there are like a hundred things that technically fall under it.

And one of the things that they told me is that you can be half trans or a third trans or two-thirds trans and that's what it means to be non-binary......... I'm to the point where I'm fed up with this entire movement. The same way I'm sick and tired of communists lying about what words like Nazi and fascism means. Is the same amount that I am sick and tired of gender activists trying to say that words in the language of gender and sex have no meaning.

Asexual, means that you have zero sexual attraction to other people. This doesn't mean that you can't find pleasure in things. It just means you don't have sexual attraction. I forget the word off the top of my head but there is a sexual attraction to a romantic partner. And then there's sexual attraction to intelligence. And frankly speaking, I absolutely loathe the fact that we are so far along with this entire ideology, that we are destroying the lives of young people. Young here, is also to include young adults.

But what's even more frustrating is the fact that people want to get half transitions, or 1/3 transitions, and they want to do it without any amount of therapy. I talked to a person who said that they were 4'10 with DDD's and they wanted to get bottom surgery in order to have a penis. And that the only reason they have not done it is because they would have to change their entire wardrobe. But otherwise they identify as male. But it sounds like they would only be adding a penis. And to my understanding not removing their breasts.

And at this point I'm just sick of all of this. I'm sick of this twisted ideology that tells people that they can expand the definition of words to a degree that they mean absolutely nothing. Which fun fact about that, gets to the point where it eventually invalidates consent. And, it's significantly more dangerous than even that. Because it puts people into tiny little boxes where they're consistently creating new and smaller boxes. And then they're trying to make everyone outside of those boxes seem bigoted and that they are morally good for being that thing.

In other words they're pulling a pansexual. Which is to say a bunch of lunatics and morons who wanted to feel special who had same-sex and opposite sex attraction, but wanted to feel a bit more morally superior to everyone else around them. And so rather than call themselves bisexual they called themselves pansexual. As if no bisexual people would ever be willing to date a trans person. Which is just fundamentally not true.

And then they tried to call bisexuals bigots because they only date one or the other and not people who identify as both? And that's my entire issue with the majority of the movement. It doesn't stop. Pansexual literally was created so that they can treat a different part of the LGBT community, who already has dealt with vast quantities of bigotry, like they were awful people. Because The number of gay men and lesbian women who generally don't like bisexuals is too damn high. I really just can't with all of this. And it's not because I'm a bigot. It's not because I'm afraid. It's not because I'm a phobic of some kind. It's because words should have meanings. If non-binary means you exist outside of the male female binary that does not mean you land somewhere on the spectrum of that binary and therefore are one third trans. If you want to be an IRL futanari be an IRL futanari and call yourself one I don't care. But my all-time favorite dynamic of all time is a supposed non-binary female and a male to female trans-woman that never gets surgery. Who date one another and are in a heterosexual relationship where hormones and surgeries never enter into the mix.

And even more hilarious than that is they act stereotypical to their sex. I know people are going to be angry at me for saying this, and I honestly don't give a shit....... But people are literally just doing this to feel special. Not all. But unfortunately a lot of people are doing this as a fad. Or they are doing this because of trauma that they've never sought out help for. Or they just want to feel special and are taking the new trends of social changes and adopting them for literally no good reason.

And it gets further than that too, because it invalidates men and women generally speaking. And I'm using men and women here and their traditional definitions of adult human male and adult human female. If you want to fall outside of the gendered social norms, be gender non-conforming and just be done with it. But what makes me lose my shit over all of this, is the fact that the gender ideology community are the ones who have the strictest standards for what is supposedly male and what is supposedly female. And hyperstylize those ideals. Do you think all women feel feminine and pretty and soft all the time? No they probably don't. Does that invalidate them as women? No. Do you think all men feel hard and brooding and masculine all the time? Absolutely not. They're not robots. Does that make them less of men? No it doesn't.

Let me make one thing abundantly clear with this post. This is not pointing any hate towards male to female trans people or female to male trans people. If you want to identify as non-binary I personally don't care. Do I think that non-binary is literally just gender non-conforming with more steps? Yes. So this has nothing to do with most of all of you.

My ire is pointed directly at the activist types who have sought to desecrate and destroy language. The people who have sought to put everyone inside of a hyperstylized, special box. Boxes that get increasingly smaller every passing day with more supposed strict standards, and a finger pointed outward in every direction at how everyone else is significantly less good. And that you're less bigoted for being X y and z new thing.

Because as I alluded to above, when you invalidate language you invalidate consent. And while I am very aware that the entire movement aren't a bunch of self-aggrandizing groomers, there are too many who are. And they are unfortunately being allowed to shift the entirety of the conversation. I feel like the term, "less is more", is something we need to get back. If you want to be a female in a relationship with a male and neither of you want to technically fall under gender norms be non-conforming together. But when I see a hardcore fangirl that likes yaoi, who's horny for men all the time, and has very common kinks to the majority of those types of women, but you prefer to call yourself a Man for whatever reason.......... You're allowed to do whatever. But that doesn't mean the entire world has to adopt your ideals (It's also because who cares what people call you. Be you.) . Because all you're trying to do is make language mean nothing. You might not think that's what you're trying to do, but you are.

Imma just leave this here.

[one-beer-is-not-enough]

I posted my oc Dani and i would LOVE to know how you believe him and Marcel would interact!! It’s my first time posting a Bully oc so im sorta nervous. He doesn’t rlly have a last name and i haven’t made a lot of info pages about him yet but i tried to give as much context as possible :,)

!!! Daniiiii Dani boooyy hahaha!

Sorry abt the shit drawing, traditional art shoved its boot so far up my ass I'm picking shoelaces from my teeth. I swear on my life I'll redraw this digitally when I get back 🙏

These two trying to play it cool with a prefect after quite literally breaking through a dorm door while fighting 💀

Interactions:

Oh boy. Their dynamic is like Dumb and Dumber if they were both escaped asylum patients. Fighting over the crown prize of being public enemy nr 1... by duking it out in public spaces, getting arrested... And then continuing to bicker in their shared jail cell.

Both of them being the preps' errand boys is the way they meet for the first time. That's also when their beef starts and gets progressively worse... And funnier. Expect pettiness of the highest order

Marcel almost surely finds out about Dani's thing with Bif, and uses it as ammo constantly. It's only fair to attack each other over their boyfriends (who watch them in disappointment from a distance)

Marcel would deadass leave hate-mail and break-up letters in Dani's locker for weeks, signing all of them as 'Bif'. He'll even go through the trouble of trying to replicate Bif's handwriting to make it more convincing 💀 Professional hater

Like you said yourself, I think in some weird way they enjoy this rivalry. When you hate someone for surface-level reasons, at some point it just becomes entertaining more than anything

Number one trigger to get Marcel into a fight: insulting Derby. Works like a charm. So he returns the favor by shit-talking Bif to Dani's face (not that he needs the incentive, he hates Bif as it is)

Marcel passing by Dani declaring the most random shit: "Every night before I close my eyes, I pray for your downfall" <- Which Dani follows up with "Why don't you pray for some bitches instead?"

Marcel: If you have a million haters, I'm ALL of them

Dani: 🫵 Unemployed behavior

I feel like either one of them could be having a bad day, but it becomes a little better by just thinking: "Well at least I'm not [Marcel/Dani]."

If Bully had social media, you can bet your ass they'd be sending each other the most aggressive posts. Marcel sees a video of someone being cringy and tags Dani in the comment section with "This is you 👆"

Honestly they're doing Bullworth a favor by messing with each other, instead of using that time to piss off the others around them lmao

Bonus:

Marcel writing hate-letters to Dani like:

[the-s1lly-corner]

Fucking bitch you blocked me on your freak blog fucking idiot

Considering the fact that you went ahead and read my nsfw posts I'd assume you know how to read, because you already know why you're blocked. I'm a little worried that you seem incapable of reading big massive highlighter yellow words that very boldy say VERBAIM:

"NSFW +18 MINORS/AGELESS DNI"

There are several warnings and repeats on the NSFW blog- fuck i swear i say it more than i actually post hcs there- saying clearly that you will be blocked on sight if there is not an age indicator somewhere on your blog- whether it be in your pinned or bio. It is a two digit number ranging from 18 to 99. If you cannot read or refuse to comply by my rules that I put in place for MY comfort and MY boundaries, as well as the COMFORT of others who do not want to be in the same space as someone with a dubious age, then that is on YOU. I am not your parent and I'm not going to hold your hand and tell you its alright that you made an oopsie. Because it wasn't a fucking mistake.

Grow the fuck up and sit with your consequences. If you're throwing this much of a fit over being denied a few smut posts then you have a problem.

I have been repeating the same thing for almost a year regarding that blog. I'm not going to repeat myself again nor am I going to defend my decision over a reasonable boundary and theres nothing you can do to make me change my stance on this.

[murfpersonalblog]

My 2 Cents on The Old Guard 2: 7/10 (Spoilers!)

I'm furious. We waited thru FIVE YEARS of production hell while Netflix sat on their arses to release this movie. For TRILOGY BAIT?! Will we have to wait ANOTHER half decade to get The Old Guard 3?!

I'm so piping mad & emotional right now; I deducted 3 points:

Trilogy bait

Lore inconsistencies

No Andromaquynh/Andynh kisses

Trilogy Bait

I was increasingly nervous watching the clock, like ok, Andy & Discord are wasting an awful lotta time getting on & off these stupid helicopters, there's only 15 minutes left to this film, get a move on!

Only for Discord--who's been mortal this WHOLE time btw--to kick the absolute dogsnot out of Andy--who's NOT mortal (thank god)--and get BACK on the helicopter, and say the playing field will be level the next time they fight--but HOW?! If Discord's ALREADY older & stronger & better than Andy as a MORTAL, if Dis becomes immortal again, she's gonna be obnoxiously strong! 😩

The New Lore

I don't mind them doing the whole Nile is A Destroyer Who Can Remove Immortality; it's really cool.

What irritates me is that TOG2 didn't stick to the lore about immortals dreaming about immortals they haven't met. In TOG1 it was very clear that the 3 immortals who were still strangers were Quynh, Booker, and Nile. So they all dreamed about each other--and that's how they could confirm that Quynh was still alive in the ocean.

But for some reason, Quynh didn't recognize Nile when they finally met--but Quynh & Booker knew each other on sight?

Nile conveniently has ONE random exposition-dump dream about Discord stealing Tuah's records, but she's not dreaming about either one of them before or after that--it's always been about Nile & Booker dreaming about Quynh.

It makes sense that Nile never dreamed about Discord, if Dis went mortal over 6 months ago, cuz Nile can only dream about immortals. But exactly how long has Discord been mortal? 🤨 Cuz Booker's been immortal for 200+ years, and he only dreamed about Quynh & Nile.

Also how the heck did NO ONE in this group know about Tuah?! Not even Kaysanova knew about him, and they're 1000+; and they NEVER dreamed about him?! Even though Tuah knows EVERYTHING about all of them?!

This is where the lore break really made me mad, and it became obvious that the writers forgot all about the Dreams rule from TOG1. And I certainly didn't appreciate the whole Lies by Omission angle bleeding into Kaysanova's drama about Booker's exile.

Thank god Kaysanova made up before they were turned into cyrogenic popsicles--only 1.15hrs into the movie and my husbands got kidnapped together AGAIN!? 🤦

But if my spidey senses are right, I'm not worried--I think Tuah's days are numbered, esp. since Quynh's mortal now, too. Unless TOG3 pulls ANOTHER brand new immortal out its arse, Discord has to kill someone to get her immortality back, and when Discord dies I bet Quynh will get hers back. Ain't no way they're touching Kaysanova, or istg Imma sue Netflix for Pain & Suffering.

Andromaquynh, Kaysanova, Booker, oh my~!

While I'm glad that Andromaquynh reconciled and are back together (their little I go first! banter at the end was freaking adorable), what I wanted most was a canon sapphic established lesbian relationship. They played it way too safe, and I'm really bummed.

Even the Kaysanova was frighteningly minimalistic--we got a "caro" out of Yusuf, but compared to his grand iconic monologue in TOG1 we barely got even half that this time.

And I was ticked off, cuz A LOT of time was spent on BOOKER--a character I never liked in TOG1--and who got a suspiciously large portion of screentime in TOG2 for someone who was supposed to be making himself scarce in exile.

But as soon as Tuah explained the new lore about swapping immortality I was like Ohhhhhhh, THAT'S why they're focusing on giving Booker all this screentime. 😒

Welp. C'est la vie! 😅

TL;DR: It's a good movie! 👍

But it could've been GREAT. And I feel like for a 1.5hr-long film, way too much time was spent on really cool but really long action sequences that should've been much shorter, to give us more time with the crew (esp. the new character Tuah); and more careful/consistent development of the lore; and Discord's machinations with Quynh. This movie felt like it took its time but was also rushed, if that makes sense.

5 whole years is a helluva long time for the imagination to build up the Andy/Quynh reunion again, and the fallout of Booker's exile, and I feel kinda underwhelmed on both fronts.

Definitely give the fighting choreographer and special effects teams an award though.

[evilrosamundpike]

I once tried to reason about this with men on Reddit, under a question about the abuse of prostitutes and why don't more women prostitute themselves when it's such easy money.

I asked them if, for $50, I could give them a punch in the nose. They'd have no way of knowing I'm telling the truth, or that I wouldn't snatch the money and run away, or that I wouldn't keep punching and kicking them, or that I wouldn't injure them so badly they'd need to go to the ER. I asked them if the punch would hurt them any less because they earned 50 bucks for it, if it wouldn't cause them to flinch or bleed.

Their response was to argue that sex buyers are actually very honest folks, so they would never hurt the person they're purchasing sex from, no matter the circumstances. Besides, a punch can only hurt while sex can also feel good.

When I replied that, in the US alone, hundreds of thousands of prostituted women are hospitalized every year because of what their "clients" do to them, I was told I was being hysterical and posting numbers from sources that were clearly biased.

If they consent, they cannot complain, and if they are hurt so badly they need to be hospitalized, then it's a blip, a one-time mistake that shouldn't be considered as being part of a more extended trend of abuse perpetuated against women.

The new TikTok viral video features a white, very skinny woman hunched into her shoulders explaining that, when she's out and about with her husband, she lets him speak for her, order food for her, make all the choices for her. This is because it helps her "get in touch with her femininity" and "is quiet luxury." She calls it Princess Treatment.

A bunch of people saw the video and started commenting that this just sounds like an abusive relationship and that she looks like she might be having an eating disorder (encouraged by her hubby, considering how he is the one who decides what she eats). And then it took about three days before people started joyfully commenting that it's just kink, this is very clearly kink, the woman is a sub and the hubby is a dom. This is fine, people! The woman just has a kink!

It's heartbreaking to see how many young women (and sometimes teen girls) are groomed into excusing blatant spousal abuse because they were taught by porn that everything is acceptable, that everything is kink and they're not allowed to critique it because otherwise they're pearl-clutching prudes no man will ever want.

No one seems to be willing to consider that, if something sounds like abuse and looks like abuse and at first sight gives the impression of being abuse, then it's probably just going to be abuse, and that the "kink" label is nothing but a veneer to allow even more abuse to happen.

[themoviemoth]

🎥 National Treasure (2004)

🍿 4.5/5 Popcorn Buckets | 🗺️ History Buff Chaos | 🧭 Founding Father Fanfiction> Half a bucket off because now I can’t go to a museum without wondering if there’s a secret staircase to buried treasure.

“I’m going to steal the Declaration of Independence.”Sir, what?

⚠️ Spoilers Ahead! But this one lives rent-free in our brains anyway. And I'm sure you've seen it at least twice on TNT.

National Treasure is what happens when you give a hyper-intelligent, morally flexible history nerd unlimited coffee, access to the National Archives, and Nicolas Cage’s entire range of intense eyebrow acting. It’s over-the-top, historically unhinged, and weirdly inspiring.

🧨 The Plot: Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) is a man on a mission—because apparently, every bedtime story your grandpa told you about the Founding Fathers hiding secret treasure under America is completely factual. When the feds, the museums, and everyone with common sense says “don’t,” Ben says “I’m stealing it anyway.” And so begins the greatest history-themed crime caper of all time.

Cue heists, hidden codes, secret Freemason tunnels, and a lot of people dramatically reading parchment.

🔍 Notes From My Unhinged Brain:

Was the frozen corpse on the frozen ship necessary? Probably. But also… jump scare.

Ben cuts his hand for invisible ink and doesn’t flinch. Sir, when I get a paper cut, I cry and need Neosporin and three days off. What is your pain tolerance?!

Riley is logical. I like Riley. He’s a sarcastic tech nerd and says what we’re all thinking. Underappreciated king.

Ben is hella smart though. I may roast, but credit where it’s due—his brain is like a walking AP U.S. History textbook.

According to the Declaration, we can overthrow the government if needed. So who’s bringing snacks and who's driving? I call aux.

They’re underground in a dusty, ancient tunnel and somehow only Ben gets dirty. Movie logic, baby.

The guy at the end when Ben pops out of the tunnel is all “AHH!”, but with facial expressions. And same, my dude. Same. I too would scream if Nic Cage emerged from the wall like a sweaty colonial ghost.

Riley driving across Ben’s pristine lawn? Rude. But also, somehow… on brand.

SEAN BEAN LIVES. For once. He’s still the villain, sure, but a living villain. And unfairly attractive. Do with that what you will.

🧭 Cast of Unhinged History Enthusiasts:

Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage): National artifact thief with a heart of gold and vibes of an intense trivia team captain.

Riley Poole (Justin Bartha): Comic relief and voice of reason. Deserved more credit and way more chill.

Abigail Chase (Deane Kruger): Museum director turned ride-or-die co-conspirator. We love a girl who can flirt and forge a declaration theft.

Ian Howe (Sean Bean): Charmingly evil. Hot and wrong. A villain we low-key want to know our number.

💎 Best Scenes to Etch in History:

“I’m going to steal the Declaration of Independence.”—Cage delivers it with Shakespearean seriousness.

The gala heist where everyone is panicking in tuxedos.

Abigail casually handing over the Declaration like it’s a 20% return at Target.

That underground treasure room reveal that screams “this will collapse in 5 seconds” and “worth it.”

😤 Minor Gripes:

Abigail’s assistant? Gone. Vanished. Hope she’s doing okay.

The romance subplot? Exists. That’s all.

The FBI arrives just in time to miss everything, per usual. But we’re not here for logic—we’re here for Nic Cage running through history and looking determined.

🎯 Final Thoughts:

National Treasure is a patriotic fever dream, where every conspiracy theory your uncle ranted about at Thanksgiving turns out to be real. It’s bold, it’s ridiculous, and it’s FUN. Nicolas Cage is perfectly unhinged, Riley is our collective inner monologue, and yes, we all Googled whether there’s actually a map on the back of the Declaration.

[lynxgriffin]

i Don't think the knight is feral at all actually, it knights kris, and holds back on them, it also... And i hate using this word, but it's accurate, it aura farms for literally no reason, susie taunts the knight and tells it that it can't defeat them in the light world, then laughs in her face, just to make a titan to flex, it didn't ANY of that mind you, they made a titan for literally no reason, it didn't do anything, it was just to flex, as if to say: "Hey, maybe i can't defeat you outside of a dark world, but you know what? I CAN JUST MAKE ANOTHER ONE" I think the knight is very aware of what they are doing, i think the reason they aura farm is literally just... Well, if you knew that your actions were predetermined, if you were following some kind of fate, wouldn't you atleast... Want to have some fun with it, if everythings gonna go a certain way anyway, might aswell dick around, pretend to want to kidnap toriel (Despite having no reason to do so), just to piss this lizard girl off, pretend to fight the party for real, despite being able to effortlessly one shot them in an instant, and dodge all of their attacks (they dodged all of susies rude busters in chapter 4, even though they had their back turned to the party and couldn't see them, meaning they could have dodged all of our attacks if they really wanted to) scream and literally put the "roaring" in the "roaring knight", for again, no reason, they don't do it again, it was just to look cool that one time. We also know that the knight holds back on kris, though i don't think them doing damage to kris at all is that weird, considering that dess canonically beat kris over the head so hard with a wiffle bat, that its FUCKING BENT IN HALF in her room in chapter 4, like do you realize how hard she was hitting kris for that bat to be like that? And the dialouge specifically states that "These things make your head hurt", MEANING it wasn't JUST the wiffle bat, she was beating kris over the head with ICE SKATES, and nobody points that out lol, like she's DEFINITLY willing to hurt kris pretty badly. And even then, despite susie being at -999 hp, she was still able to move and grab onto the knights leg, so i don't think dark world damage numbers really mean much in terms of actual damage. Another idea might be that the knight is acting like a traditional cartoon villain, so that the heroes don't question who they are, or what their motivations are, sort of a kayfabe thing going on.

While I don't know if the Knight made the neo fountain and summoned a titan JUST as a flex, (they could have legitimately needed something that was a guaranteed distraction in order to avoid another confrontation with the Fun Gang), I'll still take these points as yes, the Knight is more aware of what they're doing than first thought.

Also, I'm gonna argue against Dess literally beating Kris senseless with a bat and ice skates; I see no reason why Kris would then look up to Dess as much as they did if she was being physically abusive to them! (Also, the bat that's dented can't be a wiffle bat, wiffle bats are hollow and have holes in them precisely to make them safer.) I think the dented-up things in her room are just her being rough when using her things because that's how she was, not because she was attacking Kris with them. Kris getting a headache looking at them mirrors the "you feel a migraine coming on" message from the Knight fight...basically just further connecting the Knight with Dess.

I think the most reasonable explanation could be the "we already know how this is supposed to play out" aspect of the prophecy basically giving the Knight a degree of confidence in what they're doing. It raises questions as to how much she would know about her place in the prophecy and why she's sticking so much to that role, but it's a useful explanation.