#NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE

[made-my-peace-with-all-the-bad]

Sodapop Curtis has a childhood stuffed animal that he got as a baby that he still sleeps with. I’ve decided this is canon.

[drpoisonoaky]

it’s kinda funny when people comment on relative old fics cuz i barely remember anything about them so if that person says it’s a nice fic it’s now a nice fic to me

[sweetvillainjude]

The way Jurdan single handedly made enemies to lovers my favourite romance trope…I didn’t get it before but now I do. NOW I DO.

[cissa-calls]

Countdown to Coven of Chaos: Day 490

Wanda: “Has anyone seen my ID? I swear it’s always clipped to my bag…but it wasn’t here this morning?”

Natasha: “No, sorry, did you leave it at home maybe?”

Steve, over the intercom: “Would the scarlet witch please come to the front of the compound. I repeat, would Wanda Maximoff please come to the front of the compound, over”

Wanda, face paling: “No. They wouldn’t. No.”

Natasha: “Oh…but they would”

*meanwhile*

Agatha: *holding Wanda’s badge* “I AM THE SCARLET WITCH - LOOK I HAVE ID”

Y/N: *trying to climb over the metal barrier*

Steve: “Wanda please come collect your chaos gremlins faster please”

[m-kuprum]

the unthinkable happened... (I found my own art on pinterest)

[sukimas]

the problem with an 8-hour work day is chores, meals, etc. in practice you end up doing a lot more than 8 hours- especially in workplaces which don’t have paid lunch breaks incorporated into the work day.

[httpiastri]

https://www.tumblr.com/httpiastri/768496362917593088/httpswwwtumblrcomhttpiastri76838872401702092

OMG VINCE DUNN- Ykw I get it. I get it. I’ve heard mixed things abt him tbh. BUT- he does have a twitch channel if you’re into live streaming and stuff, tho tbh idk how much he does and what he does on there 💀

For me I’ve honestly been surrounded by hockey for my whole life bc of the leafs being my home team, and the whole ‘it’s been 57 years since they won the Stanley cup’ so that’s been fun to see online 🥹. But I barely understand the rules, and only rlly have a basic understanding of what’s going on.

I just didn’t get into it until i started seeing a lot of the Hughes brothers on my timeline on tumblr and got curious and basically nose dived into that. And despite the hockey hall of fame being in Toronto I never really got into hockey cause borderline scary with the amount of physical contact. But seeing the leafs get into round 2 of playoffs two seasons ago was a big thing like all of Toronto was celebrating.

Fav teams… I don’t really have any? I just try to keep up with the Devs, Canucks, and Leafs right now. From the Devs I love Nico Hischier, no.13, the Captain of the Devs 🫶. For Canucks it’s Quinn Hughes and Artur Sǐlov atm, Quinn basically keeping the team together rn 💀 and lastly on the leafs as much as they frustrate me on a daily basis I have a soft spot for them and main favs would be Joseph Woll (goalie), Matthew Knies (L wing I think-?), Anthony Stolarz and then a soft spot for home boy Mitch Marner. I’ve heard pretty good things of the nylander brothers and love their dedication to wanting the leafs to win so I’ll have to look into them a lot more.

The whole thing with John Tavares and his mf special anti-wifi amulet thing is sending me tho bc the leafs aren’t doing half bad and knock on wood I believe top of the Atlantic division rn somehow. I just pray for the love of god we get past the first round of playoffs AND NOT GO AGAINST BOSTON.

Holy shit round 1 of last seasons playoffs for the leafs was painful. It was physically painful.

Sorry this was so long 🥹

shssjdhsj dont apologize for it being long! i loved reading it!!!!

omg youve heard mixed things abt vince? im so so curious???!! you need to tell me aaaaa i know like nothing about him so 😭 but yeah i saw like two clips of him streaming?….

awww growing up with hockey must be such a cozy thing? i mean i too grew up with my sport and yes it's a winter sport too, but nothing about it really says winter if you get what i mean? but hockey to me is so winter-y and i love winter so 🥰

i feel so lost but i loved hearing abt your faves and i cant wait to see them all on the ice hehe!! watched my first game yesterday (if two quarters counts as a game) and it was a lot of fun so im excited to see more!!! 🤭

[portraitsofguilt]

i rly need to apologize for the no content or any kind of writing, i’m in love and the thought of even writing about someone else repulses me and i get physically ill

[vanmarkus]

bought a spicy bean wrap at the airport and it's actually spicy wtf

[liatorii]

When there’s a piece of music so good the scenarios in your head literally feel like your in a season finale of a show that’s been running for 5+ years…

[monostardust]

Y'all shits so bad that my first cohesive thought is about the fanfic I've been making in my head and it's been a week of fixation it's thursday it's almost hitting 2 weeks. This shit needs to get out and as soon as I finish my prelims I'm writing this shit down fr.

[stormbreaker-290]

*family guy death pose*

[elyfar]

got jury duty summons :0

[srrrokka]

I'm working on an off on three different DH fics.

I participated/am participating in a DH and Mlvlnt art-y events.

Out of nowhere:

[skayafair]

Episode 44

In short, I am unwell 🥴 spoilers below.

First thought while listening: Omfg is this Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles all over again with "the price" of granting a wish resulting into "the wisher has to never stay in the same place and always continue the journey across the worlds"? WHO on the team is a CLAMP fan? I don't want Silas and Cass to be doomed by the narrative :')

But THEN congratulations, TSP team, you made a BIG fan of specifically clones, doubles and shapeshifters reeeeeally uncomfortable with them for the first time ever :D even DW's Flesh episodes failed to freak me out this much - I mean yeah the long neck Japanese horror inspired Jennifer was terrifying but part of me was still very sad for her.

These guys though... my mind is rooting for them because they are trying to do a good thing (by their words, anyway), but I can't trust them? It's just another group of people who are convinced the aim justifies any means, which I believe has already lead them into a bit of a wrong direction at the very least. And I didn't feel much for them before because we don't know enough to compile an image? Ok Finley is extra charming, but that's beside the point. But now I'm terrified of them and the idea of "oh gods, you can't trust anyone now".

This is a very interesting effect. It's not like I've never seen this trope playing out. It still didn't affect me - at most it made me more intrigued, never so unsettled. I was really rooting for the doppelgangers in The Flesh, clones were one of my favourite characters in Tsubasa and Tales of Abyss (and I like the question their nature raised there), I support the Echo's rights but more importantly the Echo's wrongs (despite her/them? being an antagonist) in The Sheridan Tapes, same as Ned's from the same podcast, and a shifter is basically what I'd like to be if I could be anything but a human. Oh, and I LOVE the Stranger in TMA.

But here? Ohhh boy. They are very likable characters on their own, but this demonstration of power was INTENSE. Podcasts have an interesting effect with horror on me: I'm not scared at all or at least not as much as I would of any movie because there are no visuals. But having only an audio as a source also amplifies the emotional effect if the acting is right, I suppose. I think Silas is just a very good choice for a viewpoint character. Any listener who's got to this point has to sympathize with him by now, so the listener feels the impact from his emotions. But there has to be another component, too.

Because the uneasiness is not about WHAT they are or their abilities, but the way they choose to use those. Say, in The Flesh the characters have just found out they are/have doppelgangers, so for one team the drastic measures were a matter of survival while for another it was fear of the unknown, and both teams acted on emotions because they didn't have much time to calm down and process everything properly. Extreme situations make people do things they wouldn't do in their sane mind, so there's no evil there. In ToA the clones were treated basically as expendable slaves or objects and suffered a lot, so while they participated in organized violent action, it was still easy enough to understand and sympathize with them. For Echo from TST it was a question of survival, too, and while I was uneasy at times about what she could do, most of her "crimes" stayed off the screen and we the listeners don't even know much about them. Were there any?.. Anyway, I couldn't bring myself not to have sympathy for her and was VERY pleased with her ending. And so on.

But Nico and the others had a looot of time to prepare for whatever. They don't tell what the danger is, exactly, which doesn't help trusting them at all. They act in cold blood. They attacked the base while getting the info about Alpha - could they just talk to Silas and co?The team could very well listen. Instead a lot of lives were lost, and they went specifically after Silas who wasn't even THAT thrilled with going down the Breaches in the first place and was already having second thoughts about this whole thing. So they seem very "rational" and bold but this, again, doesn't help their case.

So they hurt people who don't actually have to be hurt despite the fact that they have all the time to prepare. They don't care - or it seems so. And, again, they don't tell what exactly the danger of the final world is, so it's hard to judge if their actions are justified.

And the way they lead the demonstration. There wasn't even mocking, I think? Some sarcasm, sure, but it didn't feel like mocking. No one was supposed to laugh. It was a very casual and that's why all the more horrifying show of what they are not only capable of but actually do and will do. J was a low blow, but impersonating Silas to the point of "I become Silas Caldwell"? And Cass as the final and the most painful nail in the coffin? This isn't driving the point home, it's intentionally hurting another person for nothing. And part of why I felt so unsettled is because of how good they are at this. And how they just mercilessly shoved that into Silas' face. Like... The Echo in TST did that too, and it did feel a bit unsettling, but it was very different in every regard.

So doppelgangers/shifters? Great! Merciless other species who plan ahead and really just don't care who they hurt and use their abilities to a full potential? Honestly terrifying.

The remaining team Alpha seems to be in a very unfavorable position between three forces which don't see them as people, only the pawns.

I mean. Maybe Nico and co are going to be not only reluctant allies but actually value the team's lives and sanity. They seem to get along in present timeline, after all. I just don't see the point of psychologically torturing a person who has been complying with every word so far and showed to be nothing but willing to help, not faltering even when being held at the gunpoint. It seems to go overboard for just Nico freaking out because Cass made another deal.

All this is not a critique, by the way. I'm very impressed! It's so interesting!

[temporalbystander]

Okay. So something amazing (read: positively insane and I hate it) is happening with my post season 5 fic that has never happened with my writing before. Normally I'm of one of two minds when it comes to writing. I have a basic scenario and I just really want to throw a bunch of different events in regardless of how they'd fit together or how much sense they'd make (which is why I quickly pick up a time loop idea, spin it around a few times and then chuck it away because I know I'll never want to put it all down. Yes I have a plot bunny where Faybon gets groundhog day'd *coughs* month *cough* but you'll never see it.)

The second is generally what my longer running stories operate on. I have a start in mind, I have an end in mind and I take forever trying to meet all the tourist destinations along the way. Now a while ago I joked about how I needed to move the entire route because of a stray thought I had. It happens, that's normal, I'm a slave to my creative urges no biggie.

No, the problem is what JUST happened. Where my brain just went "hey you know that big twist ending you had that I already made twistier? How it basically goes like this?" *Brain proceeds to list our all the story beats that lead to the big twist.*

Me: "yeah, I admit it's a neater twist. What about it?"

Brain: "and you know how you're about to write another story beat of that right this moment?"

Me, suddenly a little worried: "Yeah?"

Brain: "well what if the story beat DIDN'T go like that and instead THIS *presents new idea* was the big ending twist."

Me, extremely thankful that I haven't written anything that would contradict this yet: "oh this is going to screw so many things up..." *Starts writing with that new ending in mind.*