#This is what shushing gets you

[allycat75]

Hey Boston Dumb Fuck, your life must suck right now!

Once, about 6 or 7 years ago, RDJ paid you a compliment, saying you were "shrewed". But that was while you were protected under Disney's skirts and it turns out you were skating by using only your charm and privlege most of the time, whether you knew it or not. And when push came to shove, you didn't have the mettle to hustle like most of your peers had to do to become successful.

No, you took your hands off the wheel and eyes off the road and gave your career, no, your whole life, over to your incompetent team, who are probably driving around LA in brand new G- Wagons and Bentleys paid for by your carelessness. Once you did open your eyes, it has been one bad decision after the next to fix the problems caused from playing these junior high manipulation games. Too bad that money and time couldn't have gone to acting lessons and therapy to get you unblocked to determine why you hate yourself and want to dissociate from your life.

You have very few options left, BDF. "The Gray Man" and "Lightyear" were disappointments, followed by the abject failures of the Tell-Not-Show trilogy-"Ghosted", "Pain Hustlers" and the most likely DOA "Red One". You need a win. Not just a "he did ok", but an actual win and that could only come from "Honey Don't" (I don't give much hope for the "Materialists" since you and Dakota Johnson are just "in talks" and would have absolutely no chemistry. Besides, she is not a strong enough actress to play against- coming to the project with her own list of failures. Rom-Coms are also not your strong suit- not that you have any right now, and I am not convinced you would take direction well from a woman, given your performative feminism the way you treat your fake wife, even if she is awful).

But with the reception of "Drive Away Dolls" with critics, at the box office and particularly with audiences, considering "Honey Don't"s ties to it does not bode well. This needs to count, but how can it if the script may follow a story that at best was "forgetable" and at worst was a "waste of time and money". And how can you give an authentic performance when everything in your life in completely inauthentic- your wifey, your houses, your sightings and trips, your insipid political website, your woke views, your charity videos... it is all artifice and we see it. Are you a good enough actor to overcome your empty soul and move beyond this lazy, too-cool-for-school performance style?

Some can, but I almost hope you can't because you shouldn't be rewarded for this behavior. You will never even have the chance to learn if you find even an ounce of success being this shady and dishonest.

You are an almost 43 years old with little to show for it at the bottom of a super deep hole and I have to ask, do you think you have the skills and stamina to get out of it? We are just talking about the bare minimum of getting you back to sea level, not even talking about having you climb and grow to be a decent human being.

I keep asking to prove me wrong, but everytime I turn around you do something else that makes me lose more respect for you, but I am still gullible enough to have faith one day you will surprise me.

[xthe-moonletx]

“You mean, like a sudden rainstorm forces them together beneath a canopy

they look into each other’s eyes

and realize they were made for each other.”

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Here’s a revamp of a piece I drew about a year ago, now fully rendered and refreshed! It’s a spin-off of Pierre Aguste Cott’s The Storm that I thought fit the ineffables perfectly :)

[bamsara]

If you're stressing out about a part of the writing process for fanfic to the point where it's not fun anymore, just don't do that part

Post that fanfic with 1000 grammar and spelling errors. Make your characters OOC and give it a Mary Sue. It is a hobby you're sharing not a literature assignment you have to turn in by midnight

[mllenugget]

I felt like making up "angwy uwu" designs for Phil and Bad cuz yknow the whole angel demon thing, with no real intent to create context for them, but by the time I finished them we had the Election Diner code incident and the kidnapping of Dapper which made me go [blinking white guy meme]

I gotta give huge props to OngakuK for giving me inspo on some aspects 'Cause designing godlike figures with tons of ornements and symbolism is her shit, so I sent her my first drafts and asked for feedback and she gave me really cool ideas

And here's some bonus mid-shapeshifting doodles

My og designs for them are much tamer : Phil has got far less pairs of wings and 20 eyes less & Bad has got far less teeth and one single lower jaw

[fandomregression]

Possible New AO3 Tags!!

So, I think we all know that the ao3 tag situation is...not ideal. You have basically two choices for tags: Age Regression/De-aging (which is technically meant for physically regressed/de-aged characters, not agere) or Non-sexual Age Play (which is...the wrong thing). Both of these tags are inaccurate for our community, but we have used them because its as close as we can get. It's even gotten to the point where Age Regression/De-aging has wrangled everything under the sun for agere (agere, age regression, regression, and every tag we make complaining about our tag situation). So! I have two possibilities for new tags we can use!

🧸Inner Child Therapy🧸

this one is probably the most obvious choice? at least it is to me lol inner child therapy is another, more clinical name for agere, so it would be a good choice. it's also not currently used for anything on ao3 (Healing the Inner Child is a tag, but not currently one with more than i think 3 fics, and it's not a common tag, so it would more than likely get wrangled, but I think it'd be okay)

with this one, we would also have the option to use secondary tags like we use with Age Regression/De-aging currently (think how a lot of fics use "Age Regression Little [Character]" tags, we could use something like "Inner Child Little [Character]" instead)

i think inner child therapy as a term would also help with the stigma around agere because it really...can't be confused with anything else? not as far as i can make out anyway lol

a con toward this would be that not many ppl currently know this as a term, and therefore it would be hard to implement

🖍Crayonfic🖍

i just think this one is cute. like we're all just out here writing our fics in crayon to share with each other hehe

in my head, this would even be able to include a whole tagging system using diff crayon colors to mean different things (when i was thinking of this concept, i was thinking along the lines of pink crayon = fluff, blue = angst, green = whump, purple = romantic, orange = platonic, white = diapers, etc etc etc etc)

it just so cute in my head lol, and it would definitely be easy to separate from the current tags

a con toward this one is just that it could be confusing to try to implement and i could see it getting wildly out of hand and complicated if we aren't careful with it

No matter what, it will absolutely be a struggle to change tags to get away from what we have right now. In order for any sort of new tag, one of these or something else, to work we would all have to agree not to crosstag. When tagging fics, you would *not* be able to tag it with the old tags and one of the new ones because it would more than likely result in the new tag getting wrangled and then we're back to square one. It would have to be a community effort to get it explained *why* things are different, now, and how to find fics. It would also be a struggle to get authors of older works to maybe switch their tags out so that new readers can find them more easily under a new tag.

These are just my ideas, and I'd love to open the discussion up to you guys!! If there's any other ideas for tags, I'd love to hear them!!!

[notsohehehahanow]

I may or may not be dabbling with older Byler (college to grown ass men in their late 20s-early 30s) and now y'all get a fic for it 🫶

[shushmal]

I’m a deeply jealous person and when a bunch of steddie writers I adore moved over the emergency first responder show I SEETHED silently about it. Of course, now, I’ve been slapped in the face with a BEE-NADO—

[suusoh]

johan trying to calm darling down, but darling starts crying for her mom in panic and anguish and johan just.... riding along with that lol.

[crayonturtle]

baby carter from 176/177?

big mop of hair, tiny everything else

[krshush]

I'm sure this post will be funny as I finally maybe learn the whole story of whatever's going on, since I'm still quite early into Metaphor, but. Just.

I cannot stop thinking about how Metaphor's protagonist+party place their hopes and dreams onto the Prince, the way he's sat so high on a pedestal. Just,,,

You're the Prince. You're young, but you're also your father's son, so he's passed on his ideals for the world to you, so hopefully the world will be better under your rule one day. But you're the only prince, and so an attempt on your life is made. It fails in the short term, but now you're cursed, and it'll kill you slowly. You're cursed, and it's impossible to break, and nowhere in the Capital is safe anymore, so a few people your father trusts whisk you away from the Palace.

You make perhaps the first friend around your age, a boy on the lowest rungs of society, survivor of his village burned by your people. He still listens to you, talks with you on equal ground. You share your favorite book, one that ponders utopia so unlike your world, and you and he share the same starry vision for a world that's equal for all. He's the last person you speak to before the curse spirals you into sleep.

And sleep and sleep and sleep. For years, the curse grows stronger and you and your body fight, but start standing weak against it. You're proclaimed dead by your kingdom, and your curse-caster kills your father, The King. Your first friend grew up into a young man, and is sent away from you(r body) to help the last resort of saving you: killing the man responsible.

Because you have to become King, after all. It was what you were born for, if the tradition of the Kingdom has one thing right. You're the Prince, and you're kind, and clever, and good at magic, and actually alive. Along his way your friend makes friends, comrades who hang their hopes all on you (the ones they don't already hang on your friend)

Because, of course, you'll make it out of this alive and fine. You will. You're your father's son, and rightful heir to the throne, and actually alive. Right?

Do any of these people say your name when they speak of you? How do they know you'll be just right as rain for Kinghood after nearly a decade comatose? Your father wanted a world free of strife, of equality for all under its banner, does this not include you for the burden of upholding his ideals?

You were just a little boy who got cursed. No matter how well-spoken, how talented, how befitting the title you were molded for. How inspiring and horrific then, to be the holder of such high hopes.

Time marches on, and the age of a new king draws nearer, is spoken by a storyteller over your sleeping body.

[antisocialgaycat]

!!!!! he stopped pressing buttons

[bamsara]

Still think it's funny that in 2020 the doctors went "there is something so incredibly wrong with this bitch. Don't do a trial period put them on the highest dose of Adderall legally possible" and then I died

[introspectivememories]

file him under: characters who have suffered more than jesus

[ask-the-totally-real-peppino]

That cute bunny girl is called Noisette.Can you please tell me what you cooked besides pizza?

Pep: "...!"

Pep: "Si! Noisette was her name! Grazie friends! And grazie for Poco Noisette!"

Pep: "…Reh ot yrros yas ot deen I... Niaga reh ees nac I epoh I…"

Pep: "Bocnroc etalocohc ekil! Wonk I sepicer rehto eht fo emos em thguat ehs! Ssendnik reh rof reh knaht ot deen osla I tub."

Pep: "Enoyreve deef ot dah I tahw htiw dluoc I revetahw gnikam yltsom saw ti. Oot gnikab fo stol dna atsap fo stol saw ereht, azzip sediseb dekooc I tahw rof sa."

Pep: "Niaga yrt ot ecin eb dluow ti os, elihw a ni nevo gnikrow a dah t'nevah I. Noos gnikooc emos uoy wohs nac I ebyam!"

Pep: "Yrros... Naem uoy ohw wonk I kniht t'nod I... 'Sessob niam'...? Noitseuq rehto eht dna..."

[angelsdean]

people who are like. there's can't be an spn w/o sam....um. i think we just saw that there actually can be an spn without sam. and in fact, canonically, now there very much is a part of spn without sam, and a part of dean's story without sam. like whether you watched it or not, it's there now. it's part of dean's canon. dean, canonically, was not driving aimlessly for 40 yrs waiting for sam, he was doing his own thing and finding his own purpose and processing his own grief and trauma, and figuring out what he wants for *himself*. like whether you like it or not, whether you watch the prequel or not, the dean parts of this story are canon now and any future spn continuation / spinoff / mini series reboot (with or without sam) is going to acknowledge those new parts of canon