#I'm probably just exhausted

[smoolio]

I don't mean to step on anybody's toes and it's late and I'm tired but has anyone else noticed the Epic fandom is getting like. REALLY annoying? Or am I just tripping

[strikingamatch]

today wasn't a good day

but it wasn't necessarily

a bad one either

my arms and thighs hurt

but that's normal

i just feel utterly numb

all emotions gone

all thoughts quelled

i'm a marble statue in a corner

[sunnymainecoonx]

And errr whatever this guy is

[merlins-strawberriesandroses]

The thing no one ever considers while writing up character analyses about Merlin is that. he must have been sooooooo sleepy.

[sysig]

Blood sugar levels (Patreon)

[the-words-we-sung]

Simon and Wilhelm 🤎🧡💛

[cementcornfield]

Did you see the clip of Joe yesterday?

Is it a clip now? Oh lord....was it funny at least?

It was the first time he ever used the F word in a conference.

He cursed? Y'all lying...I be trying to get him to curse, he don't curse when I'm talking to him...

[moeblob]

Honestly? Good anime imo! I really enjoyed Aileen. I enjoyed Claude. I enjoyed Isaac and Keith and Rachel and Almond and Ribbon. I enjoyed Belzebuth and the flock of ducks (Walt/Kyle/Auguste) and Jasper.

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

Not to be a total asshole here but if I get one more "I need more! give me more!" comment on my Platonic Sugar Baby Buddie AU, it's going away. It has literally been two weeks since my last update, during which time I've been working on another fanfic, finishing up my second part-time job, working a full-time job, and being an adult with a full life.

I have never experienced this amount of whining in my entire time in this fandom and I can only presume that it's new people to the fandom who have an appalling lack of etiquette.

It's literally people just saying "give me more! I want more! hurry up!" And while none of you are at all entitled to my personal business, it sure doesn't help the depressive episode I'm in that y'all are doing this.

I love sharing my fics with you guys, and I love the enthusiasm and joy that you have for my writing. But the sudden influx of demands for sequels, for specific scenes in fics, unprompted fic, smut, and chapter suggestions, and now just outright demanding like a toddler for an update is disheartening, annoying, and the opposite of encouraging.

Please stop. Please. Please stop.

[airenyah]

wait ok so @titkos--sideblog @lavenderrlilac both of you mentioned that the murder husband pic could be from the paint ball scenes, but the suits they are wearing in the paint ball scenes that we got in the music videos are way too dark to match the ones from the murder husband photos (and the sleeves don't match either):

so are we thinking there are TWO different suits for the paint ball?? or maybe they go play paint ball two separate times with different outfits?? or is the murder husband pic something else entirely??

someone else mentioned that they thought it was a bts from JD's halloween shortfilm, but dunk wore a black pair of pants and a white shirt for that and joong wore black and both are in short sleeves (and dunk's shoes don't match):

[vimbry-moved]

top tmbg songs involving someone basically going "they'll see... they'll ALL see!!!"

"destination moon"

"no one knows my plan"

"can't keep johnny down"

"cloisonné"

"dirt bike"

"I'll sink manhattan"

[vhalesa]

It’s snom venture time!

[amethystina]

So things are kind of shit right now...

And I haven't been able to write and draw as much as I had planned because of it. Or even answer comments. I feel like I just disappeared off the face of the earth or something.

And I just wanted to say that it wasn't intentional and I'm still here but I'm also really stressed and basically on the verge of a breakdown (due to various things happening in my life right now) so we'll see when I'll get everything sorted. I'm trying my best but I admit it's hard. I had so many hopeful plans and it sucks that I have been forced to postpone pretty much all of them :C

I hope you're all doing well, though. I'm very much out of the loop right now but I'll try to get back on track, slowly but surely. Please take care 💜

[palmtreepalmtree]

I keep having the same conversation with different people, which is some version of 'if only the democrats had done XYZ that appeals to my specific demographic echo-chamber.' I'm sure there are valid points to be made, but as one of those generation straddling xennials or whatever, I think there's a lot to be said for the fact that we don't always hear what other people in other groups are saying. Maybe it's a thing that you think would dramatically motivate your cohort, but it is also deeply alienating to a different part of the voter base. And if your cohort is not of a demographic that usually turns out in large numbers to vote, it's hard to expect any campaign to prioritize your priorities. It's a bit of a catch-22.

I mean *deep, soul-wearying sigh* a lot of this is just a two-party problem, isn't it? I'm fucking tired.

[campbenji]

really wishing it was 2021 right now. not because it was a good time or anything, but i miss not having to speedrun 3 weeks of homework before i can watch a new season of my favorite show

[pynkhues]

I’m confused by what you mean when you say that Lestat was “cast out of the house” after the drop in 1.05, as this is not what the show tells us. Lestat left of his own will — he wasn’t thrown out. He beat Louis half to death and then ran away, as evidenced here — “Lestat had disappeared after that awful night. Vanished out of a profound sense of shame he would later confess to” (Louis, 1.06). Louis was in no fit state to throw anyone out of anywhere: as mentioned previously, Lestat had just beaten him half to death.

Apologies if I’m misinterpreting, but in instances like this you seem to paint Lestat as a somewhat of a victim — poor Lestat, banished from his house by his uncaring, domineering husband — when in actuality he was anything but a victim. He was the aggressor, the perpetrator of horrific intimate partner violence, and so to twist the narrative to imply that he was hard done to leaves a very sour taste in my mouth. 

Another instance of this is in your Byronic Hero post, where you suggest that Louis “decides when Lestat gets to live at Rue Royale”, in reference to him being “one of the monsters who’s controlling the household”. We’re talking about someone that has just spent months recovering from a brutal attack by their partner; Lestat chooses to not return because he is ashamed and he knows that Louis has not forgiven him. Louis is not forcing anything on him — and he certainly doesn’t have the power to keep Lestat from RR.

Can you understand why assertions like these are problematic? I understand you wanting to explore the push-pull power dynamic between L&L, but in doing so you seem to be missing the essential through-line in 1.06, which is that Louis and Claudia cannot leave while Lestat lives. Any power they may have once held is overshadowed by Lestat’s absolute control of the household, so to place Louis on level with Lestat as “one of the monsters controlling the household” is at best misguided, and at worst displays an unsettling disregard for victims of IPV. 

(x)

I mean, with all due respect, anon, you're responding to a series of tags I wrote last night that I specifically said I would later clarify and better articulate, so I'm not surprised you're confused and yes, you are misinterpreting me (again, I suspect, as I think you may have sent me asks like this before). I've been clear for months now that the drop is a singular act of violence on this show, and it's not one that I'd ever diminish or underwrite, and as a result, this feels like a pretty bad faith read of something I've both spoken about already and explicitly said I would be talking about again soon. Instead of paying me the respect I extend to all of you by giving me the time to reply in the way I've signalled I would, you've used my tags to make assumptions about what I will say and frankly made some pretty unkind accusations as to my character.

It takes me time and energy to write up replies, particularly replies on this sort of topic that require greater attunement, sensitivity and nuance than others. It's something I do for free, and at the sacrifice of other things in my life, and it's something I do with my name attached, unlike anons. And look, I enjoy doing it - I do - but if you follow me, you should know that my sister - a survivor of recent IPV and her two small children are currently staying with me, after I was a witness in her courtcase against her ex-husband in October - real people, not fictional characters - something I've also been open about, and so you telling me that I have an 'unsettling disregard for victims of IPV' feels like a particularly cruel thing to say to me right now.

I will answer the other anon's ask, as I said that I would, but I'll do it in my own time, and in the meantime, I'd ask that you perhaps don't put words in my mouth or mount arguments to things you yourself say you are confused about or feel you could be misinterpreting. I'll clarify, again, as I said that I would.