#THANK YOUUUU this is so fun

[dandyshucks]

re : one of ur latest posts: i think guzma would greatly enjoy making u mocktails 🫶 i can see him getting into it sometime and imagine him during parties making fun nonalcoholic drinks for u and some of the other members of team skull who are there too (@dmclr)

I ALWAYS FORGET ABOUT MOCKTAILS OMG... UR SO RIGHT !!! Guz absolutely enjoys cooking (or at least in my mind he does FJFKDL), so he'd probably love making mocktails and coming up with new ones himself once he figures out how all the flavours and colours and whatnot work together.

this is such a cute idea clara WAUHHH i love this sm 😭💗 i love thinking about parties with the squad, the team would be so rowdy and goofy ,,, i can totally see Guz setting up a fake bar counter and everything dbdkdl it'd be so fun :3

[schmendrickmagician]

17! 19! 25!

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

wow i love this question. i'm going to answer The Dybbuk, by S. Ansky, which i just finished!!

this is a play translated from yiddish that was originally published in 1914. because i dont usually read plays and i have weird internalized antisemitism about yiddish literature, i wasn't sure how it would hit for me, but i LOVE IT. truly an incandescent piece of art. brain-rewiring stuff.

19. Did you use your library?

Sure did! of my 47 books this year, 22 were from my beloved library 💕

25. What reading goals do you have for next year?

I'd like to hit 50 and i'd also like to be a little more aggressive about DNFing things that arent hitting

[iwantmochisoup]

uhh if doodle requests are open then maybe bram and/or aya?? (if they're closed just ignore this)

hii, thank you for your request :3c i always wanted to draw them both like this, hehe hope you like it~

[rancidsugar]

Commission for @timetodiverge keisjwdj ily ❤️❤️

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

what's your dissertation about? you mentioned it in the siltcord and i'm really interested

oh my god hey I'm so happy you're interested! broad strokes because I've only been working on it for a few weeks but: the current theme is 'resistant landscapes' (both man-made and natural) in the later writing of Shirley Jackson!

Essentially, my main thread is that Jackson had two parallel strands to her work, which as far as I can tell began kind of interrelated but then diverged quite significantly? She's probably best known now for The Haunting of Hill House and to a lesser extent We Have Always Lived In The Castle, which are these. weird surreal psychological horror novels, engaging explicitly or implicitly with the supernatural, and centred around introspective, strange and sometimes deeply misanthropic female characters from isolated social units with dysfunctional, possessive relationships to each other.

Aaaaand then on the other hand she was known for being a 'happy housewife' who wrote these whimsical, quasi-autobiographical stories about all her children and how hopeless her husband was. These were popular too. Betty Friedan called her out in landmark 1963 feminist manifesto The Feminine Mystique for essentially spreading patriarchal propaganda.

The interrelation between the two is really jarring, because in one family is a source of horror and tragedy and in the other it's a source of, like... laundry. And Jackson's home life wasn't everything those stories made it out to be-- her marriage was unfaithful, her mother could probably be fairly called emotionally abusive, and as I talked about on the siltcord, she developed severe agoraphobia which often left her housebound.

So, yeah. My plan is to explore the depiction of families as constructed social units in dialogue with the environments they are constructed in in that work. Obviously a lot of that is relation of house to family, in the context of which Hill House is especially rewarding to consider, but I also want to look at relationships with nature and urban environments (especially in the context of settler colonialism and how that has had an enduring legacy in Jackson's particular part of New England), xenophobia (largely in regard to class, though racism and anti-Semitism are presences in her writing), domesticity and the idea of the housewife, and how horror relates to All Of This. The ideal of making a home within a hostile environment and of that environment turning on you, essentially.

I don't yet have particular areas of focus within that broad umbrella, but I might update with bits and pieces about it as I work? I don't really talk about academic stuff on here but I am very much Critical Literary Analysis Guy and I do also post relentlessly about haunted houses as a concept so if people would be interested in it maybe I will

anyway if you've read this far I recommend Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition (2024) by Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing which is a book about how horror movie tropes can be mirrored in built environments! I'm reading it right now and it's conceptually fascinating plus fairlyyy comprehensible by academic standards (if a little dense) if you, like me, are a Fool who knows nothing of architecture. very good also for getting to look at pictures of some of the most Fucked Up Buildings (affectionate) you've ever seen.

[sarohy]

More pairings? More dynamics? What about Alph/Louie or Alph/Charlie?

Both. Both is fun. I don’t know both of these ship names but they’re pretty interesting…

Alph is like, die hard fan of Charlie to the point of twisting everything he heard from the captain is just so silly to me like ok you cannot tell me this guy is straight. 😭 Charlie just so used to it he just, agrees or never explain again.

Wait I do know LouiAlph ship name I yhink…computer bug?? It’s such a good name… This two have chemistry that’s kinda alike Louimar (??sorry if it’s wrong lol) but Alph is some what at Louie age group (?I think) so they might get along easier. Alph is concerned about Louie behavior and and his tendency to eat random critters, but also a littlleee amused, only a little hehe…

[neathyingenue]

🎲 forrrrrr,,,twitch and silvia?? (sorry silvia)

I rolled 32--a kiss while someone is watching. (with apologies to @zeebreezin)

[tonycries]

that panty stealer gojo was so hot wtafff

[bookinit02]

spotify wrapped thing: 37 and buddie!

oooh tysm!! 37 is asc. scorpio by the oracle sisters (a banger). my first thought was that “an elephant in hunger, a power grid and thunder / a child in a crib, in a rocking chair, sister says ‘nightmares are gone’” are THEEEEEEE most buck coded lines i have ever heard. my second thought, looking at: “i’ll look you up when i pass through / man, it’s been so goddamn long” is very much. angst post eddie moving to texas. stay with me okayyyyy so this is in a world where the move Does happen and they are estranged for a significant length of time (which, knowing buddie, could literally just be like six months).

so, given that, i’m thinking buck pov reflecting on abandonment issues/wanting to start a family after eddie leaves LA, but he’s striking out everywhere he turns and overall just feeling pretty hollow/passionless/going through the motions. BUT! eddie is coming back to town! just to visit, of course, for some reason or other that i cannot think of at the moment. maybe a wedding/vow renewal/new baby? if i was REALLY cruel, maybe even buck getting married. but we know they are freaks and that would never work. in any case, eddie’s coming back and there is a… Reconnection. fic ensues.

[fauvester]

how do garak and bashir feel about being grandparents?, also since theres a third elim (3lim) ((if i read tht right,,,,)

garak and bashirs parenting styles are reversed for grandparenting. julian's a total sap for his grandkids, taking them on trips and buying them elaborate educational toys. garak is the reserved victorian grandfather smoking a pipe in the study talking about The Old Days and ordering them around (especially in the garden, his knees aren't what they used to be.)

Bashir is still annoyed at the passage of time seeing fit to give his children (who, in his mind, are still kids) children of their own. Rude!

[chefbuck]

ANOTHER ONE 👻 w madney :)

👻 - ghost stories / haunted house

this is so so silly bc at first i was like i have no ideas for this prompt head empty. and then i wrote 2.3k words in one day LOLLL

send a halloween prompt!

“It’s fine.” 

It is. Maddie’s fine with it. She’s great! She’s chill. Maddie’s cool. 

“Is it, though?” Buck asks. 

Yeah. “Yeah!” Maddie’s voice pitches up in a way that might suggest that she’s totally not fine. Which would be a problem, if she wasn’t fine. But she’s fine. “I’m cool.” 

“Maddie.”

“What? Do you not think I’m cool?” The needle in her hand wriggles free from her grasp, as if afraid of what she’ll do if he says no. 

“Hey. Look.” 

So she does. Maddie looks up from her sewing to look at her brother. His hands are in the air, in surrender. 

“You know I’m on your side right? Always. United front, remember?”

Maddie narrows her eyes. “Hmm. Continue.” 

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[hellishgayliath]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HELLI!!!!! YOURE AMAZING!!! :D <33333333

Pico's giving you cake from me uvu <3 Hope you had a wonderful birthday and it was super fun and chill :') AHHHHH STAY AWESOME!!! x

I DONT LIKE CAKE BUT I'LL MAKE AN EXCEPTION FOR YOU TRI CUZ YOU DREW MY SON SO ADORABLY WELL AHHH!! YOU'RE AMAZING >:000

[inkblackorchid]

Hit me with your favorite 5Ds headcanons 👀

Okay so I’ve used/alluded to some of these in my fics already, but that’s just because I love them that much (also it was really hard deciding which are my favourite headcanons):

Crow swears the most out of the boys, but has an almost supernatural ability to completely shut his swearing off the second children are around (unless he’s really flustered)

Though I’ve kinda hinted at something like it before, Jack isn’t actually the worst cook at the Poppo Time. Bruno is. Because Jack knows what good food is supposed to taste like (having been a star duellist for a while and all) and can reasonably guess how to approximate those flavours—he just doesn’t cook because he doesn’t have the patience to learn any technique whatsoever (or clean up after himself when he’s done). Meanwhile, Bruno just can’t cook. Straight up. It’s not a matter of wanting or not wanting to, if you try tasking this man with anything more difficult than preparing cup ramen he will burn something. Guaranteed.

Bruno and Yusei don’t have the same mechanical skillset. Bruno is almost 100% specialised only to runners, and at that, he’s slightly better than Yusei. But Yusei’s advantage is that he knows how to fix almost everything else (provided it’s mechanical and/or electronic), too.

All three of the Satellite boys actually know how to sew a bit. Martha taught them how to mend their own clothes. The quality of their seams varies (Crow’s are the neatest because he got a lot of practice from mending his kids’ stuff, too), but they all know how to sew tears shut and mend holes.

Aki isn’t as good a gardener as one would believe with her plant theme. She likes gardening a great deal, but doesn’t have a lot of experience outside of house plants. So she could decently keep a garden alive, but would never be able to maintain something like, say, a bonsai collection or a bed of prize roses, despite her love for the activity.

I’ve written a whole post about this already, but I still adore it, so: Satellite natives, post reunion with the city, are the bane of brand phone store workers’ existence. They want everything fixed, not replaced, and trying to explain to them why that would be too complicated (whether contrived or not) usually results in them not paying a single cent and going something like “oh, forget it, I’ll just give it to the neighbour’s boy, he’ll take care of this”. This includes Yusei, who usually just ends up fixing his own stuff, and especially Crow, who has already nearly gotten in a fistfight with some tech company’s store manager upon hearing the supposed price of a repair/replacement on more than one occasion before. (He obviously just ends up handing his stuff over to Yusei, too, in the end.)

Maybe my favourite headcanon: As TCG fans know, the manga versions of the signer dragons were printed as the duel dragons. In-universe, I imagine the duel dragons were also printed—as commercial, publicly available retrains of the signer dragons, who are supposed to be one of a kind in canon. (I also use this headcanon to justify why the signers have support cards tailored specifically to their dragons—they were printed to go with the duel dragons in-universe, but allow usage with the original signer dragons as well.)

Rua/Leo isn’t actually that bad at school. He’s just not very disciplined when it comes to studying because he’d rather keep polishing up his deck.

Ruka/Luna owns several duel monsters plushies. Her favourite is, of course, her Kuribon plushie.

Carly is really good at clocking people’s vibes and figuring out their character quickly. The caveat is that this only works when she meets them face to face.

[kyouka-supremacy]

hii a few days ago (i think) you mentioned in the tags of one of the asks that you have some thoughts regarding the themes of bsd characters being pretty 👀👀 could you elaborate on that?

OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ASKING. I have very strong opinions on where skk and sskk place on the thematical prettiness scale so here you go. The fun part is that I am a radical beauty relativist which makes any judgement on appearance ultimately meaningless– because there's not such thing as universal beauty to me, only time and space susceptible beauty standards. Additionally, I don't think there's any significant distinction in their depictions, because Harukawa's art style is very beautiful and elegant and such applies to virtually every character with no notable difference. But like that's the whole point isn't it!! Because it's not about Chuuya being handsome or Dazai being prettier than Akutagawa per sé, as much as what those things represent in terms of symbolism in a story. Here's my personal headcanons (with the very much needed disclaimer that I feel attracted to men once every three months at best, so it really is all about the narrative and plot value their physical appearances hold more than like. actual valuations of their beauty):

Dazai is distinctively, remarkably beautiful. I mean, that part is pretty much canon, isn't it? He really is that kind of charming, charismatic presence that would make people turn back to look at him when crossing the street. But his beauty has some sort of distance and elusiveness to it– his features are classical and very conventionally beautiful in a way that makes him vaguely impersonal. Most importantly, his beauty is vastly intimidating. He is beautiful in a way that feels distant, out of reach, that makes people subconsciously uncomfortable. That only adds to his charisma (and having an easy game to manipulate people), as people will be immediately bewitched when someone as ethereal looking as Dazai shows the slightest sign of interest in them. He definitely looks older than he is.

Chuuya is a completely different deal! He's just as beautiful as Dazai, yet in a substantially different way. He's handsome due to a certain feeling of naturalness and unconstraint he has to him. He has that real and specific beauty of someone who's comfortable in their own skin, which is something genuinely pleasant to witness. His appearance is handsome and cool, but in such an effortless way that vastly adds to his appeal; he exudes confidence and freshness, he's passionate and lively and just someone to bask in the presence of. He can come off as intimidating, too, but to a slightly lesser extent than Dazai and in a way he's way more in control of, able to make people feel at ease if he wants to. Ultimately, to make a silly example, I fear Chuuya would have quite a bit of suitors (that he's only half aware of), while Dazai regretfully comes off too scary for most people.

(And I feel like someone's going to think “it shows that Op hasn't read Stormbringer 🙄🙄” and like. That much is true and irrefutable ahah. But I also like to think Chuuya's story was a gradual journey into accepting himself and feel comfortable in his body. I am a strong happy ending Chuuya supporter ///// )

Atsushi is beautiful in a very peculiar and unique way. He's the kind who, at first sight, one wouldn't find remarkably attractive at all, all his beauty being covered up by raggedness and a neglected appearance, and he wouldn't be spared a second look. And yet when that second look is spared, one would suddenly realize he's got bewitching, glistening eyes, a certain masculine pronunciation to his face that results very attractive, a toned figure, a stunning smile. And his beauty is the furthest that can be from Dazai's classical lineaments: it's unusual, and wild, but still strikingly gorgeus. The truest diamond in the rough. Atsushi's completely oblivious to it, btw– how could it be any differently with him! Moreover, it would be quite fitting if Atsushi's beauty was, too, one of the many contributing factors that trigger Akutagawa's feeling of minority.

Akutagawa isn't beautiful. This is the only take actively sustained by canon elements (besides from maybe Dazai being beautiful, but to a way lesser extent), and the canon judgement of his apparence is definitely not a flattering one: “a faint smile curled Akutagawa’s lips, slightly exposing the inside of his mouth, which was as red as blood” “Akutagawa’s smirk was colder than a snake’s, his breath more repulsive than a demon’s”. His skin is grey, and his eyes are bloodshot, and he coughs blood, and he definitely stinks– he's messy and rabid and unkept. Before everything else stands the fact that he has this sickly impression to him which makes him vaguely repulsive to whoever stumbles across him. But that's exactly everything Akutagawa is, isn't it!! His whole thing is being fundamentally unable to be loved– both because of things he controls and things he can't control, his unpleasant physical appearance falling in the second category. That's what I mean when I say characters' physical appearance is a fun tool to convey their core themes! The tragedy of Akutagawa's character being someone who constantly strives for being loved and yet is doomed by destiny to result repulsive to everyone nicely translates in him having unpleasant looks that make him ugly and unlovable.

And as little extra, pretending for a moment that I don't have Beast bias:

Beast Akutagawa being quite handsome. Not at Dazai or Chuuya's level, but people would casually consider him a beautiful man. Compared to his canon counterpart, he's got the same fire in his eyes, yet it's paired with a slightly healthier, less repulsive built, greater confidence in his stance, and a more - although far from being tidy - clean appearance, all contributing to make him fairly attractive. Besides, bonus prettiness points for the coolest outfit in the entirety of bsd only second to the Dark Era Dazai one in my very humble opinion...

Beast Atsushi is gorgeus in a way that makes him look almost noble, yet feels unsettlingly plastic-like: artificial, stiff, imposed. I've talked before about how his being kept and tidy is actually just another expression of the grip that Dazai has on his persona and psyche, who wraps, controls and manipulates every aspect of his being including his very appearance. He's got the same stunning strong lineaments, yet they're schooled to look far more distant and intimidating. I wonder if the kind eyes would stay the same... They probably don't shine as brightly as the canon Atsushi's ones.

[rikupid]

a little late but happy new year!!

i’ve been suuuper slow with content n posting the last couple of months of 2024 but for my first year on this account, i’m somewhat proud of where i’m at 🙂‍↕️

for 2025, i’m planning on shifting my focus a little and working on posting full/longer fics since it’s always been a long term goal to put out a full fic of my own 😞❤️‍🩹 hoping to achieve that soon! i’ll still be posting my silly drabbles in the meantime though

thank you guys for all the support and here’s to another fun year of writing!! 🥰

[iwantmochisoup]

THANK YOU FOR ALL THE DOODLE REQUESTS!! ♡ (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶) It was so much fun and i'll be sure to do it again sometime soon :3c

i'm sorry my original request post was kinda confusing after the edit, i deleted the post but to those who requested something please look forward to the next time i'll do it and i'm sorry qwq