#WHERE ARE ALL THE NORMAL MEN????

[kit-screams-into-the-future]

oh, how you drive me crazy!!

[foreverppl]

Orla’s liberation comes at the price of the merc’s. The further they entrench themself into being used as an implement for her to use to her ends, the more divorced they become to themself (though, even that’s a bit complicated. Who is the merc without Orla? Her guiding hand. Her crook shepherding. Her word governing.) She’s building her empire; the merc’s shoveling their grave. But at the same time, her empire doesn’t necessarily guarantee her own (true) freedom and is, in fact, a kind of gilded cage in its own right. You painstakingly build yourself a palace behind enemy lines, with all the luxuries you can scrounge together. Give yourself every comfort, loud music to drown out whatever ghosts you’re still trying to outrun, good sex, good food, people who will jump to murder for you without blinking an eye… yet it’s difficult to truly allow yourself to relish in any of it for more than a couple fleeting moments when you know there are serpents slithering just right outside the gates. Doesn’t matter how much you fortify your house of cards, it can still all come crumbling down with a gust of wind. And what then? One king (queen) deposes another, Vapolis continues on. No one will mourn. Orla knows this. Orla is terrified by this.

Anyway.. @vapolis sending you my therapy bill as I type this.

[welcometogrouchland]

I'm going to be so real I do not understand tim & steph shippers who feel that Steph dating Tim again would save her character. You can make an argument that giving Tim a more compelling love interest would be beneficial for him! And you can at least make an argument that the fujo mischaracterization of Steph would stop. However she'd still, inevitably, be treated as a prop character/extension for someone more popular 😭 it also wouldn't make her appear in more books! Tim doesn't have many frequent appearances at the moment either! You can just say you like the couple and want them back together without acting like you have some kind of moral stance

[doesnotloveyou]

the way other fanfic writers write boys and men tells me a lot of you have never observed men interacting in the wild much less had male friends of your own. he literally wouldn't do that

[my-pjo-stuff]

Percy is giving "Storm of Steel" while Luke is more "All Quiet on the Western Front" in terms of experience with the gods ngl.

[joseigamer]

Patalliro! is fascinating to me because of stuff like this. It's unapologetically gay - even within its anime which aired during primetime hours in 1982 - in a way that many later BL manga would never be, like the ones from the early 2000s which would never dare to call their characters actual homosexuals. Patalliro has actually aged quite well in this regard, there's something comforting about how campy it is.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

winston my quant of billions

[bmpmp3]

i understand the truth now. you need to put that forty something year old man in cat ears

[arthur-lesters-spinal-cord]

Rip Noel you were just too pretty and Kayne couldn’t deal with the competition

[talkorsomething]

Actually i feel like my voice goals are not that unreasonable since the people i get jealous of the most really are my age or older

......

Well, reasonable though they may be, realistic is another matter

[telephonicsonnyboy]

Cringe is dead, All The President’s Men self insert sona.

[crossbackpoke-check]

Substance, Shadow, and Spirit [remixed, abridged] by Tao Yuanming

[paradoxicalpaldeann]

i wanna write a somewhat angsty sr zombie apocalypse fic where all of the sr members in the fic were essentially left behind when the zombie apocalypse started (the outbreak began in another city and they got ditched during evacuation) for various reasons. could honestly be described as a godawful blend of katawa shoujo and 28 days later. after the initial angst it becomes slice of life fluff i swear

ebbz is the main character and she's an amnesiac who was in a coma when it all started and woke up decided "yeah ebbz is a name. and mine." after looking at her smudged hospital bracelet. due to head trauma she has lost almost all of her previous memories, has difficulty remembering things in general (but can remember she's forgotten things and it terrifies her), light sensitivity and a bit of difficulty recognising faces (she's not completely face blind, it's more of like. a brain lag. it takes her anywhere from up to a few seconds to a minute or so for her to actually be able to recognise peoples faces, this is specifically why the boys start wearing colour coded beanies as it helps her recognise them quicker in an emergency). she never regains her old memories but she does end up doing a lot of scrapbooking to help her make new memories, lots of soft moments around that like kaif scavenging lots of stationary, stan stealing a polaroid camera from a shop, all of them together figuring out how to recycle paper to make more books for her to use, etc. she's immune to the zombie virus flat out, but thats also why she was left behind in the evacuation- as she had a bite mark and the hospital staff could not get any form of confirmation from her that it was not a zombie bite (sometimes the disease takes a while to incubate so they have to check) they legally weren't allowed to bring her to evacuation sites.

kaif is basically half blind. an eye condition has meant he's lost all of his sight in his left eye and his sight in his right eye is dogwater. glasses do help but only so much and considering its a condition that will only get worse as he gets older he's going to be fully blind in the future which terrifies him. he's already learnt how to read braille and started making a lot of preparations as he's honestly kind of paranoid about it, as he went from 20/20 eyesight to rapid loss of sight pretty quick and he's still shaken up about it. ebbz and the gang steal a braille labeller for him and then abuse the fact that they're in a big city with a fancy library to get access to a big, professional braille printer and reprint all his favourite books and cookbooks for him and he ugly cries a bit after seeing how far they've gone for him. he's like the mother hen of the group. he loves cooking, and a lot of the labels hes made have been for containers so he can store ingredients safely and also he got a measuring scale that yells at him but its more annoying than anything else lol. he got left behind during the evacuation as someone bumped him and broke his glasses and he is basically blind without them as he's already blind in one eye and then he got extremely lost and due to the general panic nobody helped him and he stumbled back to his apartment after a few hours to get one of his spare sets of glasses (the evacuation order started whilst he was out shopping so he didnt have a spare set on him) and by then he can't make it to the evacuation sites in time and he knows its too risky to try.

sam's missing both his legs from the knee joint downwards after a car crash. it's been a while and he's pretty used to his prosthetic legs, and they're absolutely covered in stickers. he does get a lot of phantom pain in his legs and has the worst nightmares out of anyone in the group because the incident in which he lost his legs was geniunely pretty traumatic and it has taken him a while and a lot of physical therapy to get to where he is today. he's a bit of a menace, and he's often the one who organises a lot of the surprises and accommodations for the others, so when they respond by collecting as many unique stickers as they can for his birthday to add to his legs he tries very hard not to cry into his cake and fails miserably. definitely the biggest risk taker out of all of them but thats because he's got a whole Thing about not wanting to be useless even though they've all got their own issues, he's got a bit of a "everyone is valid except for me" mentality and pushes himself a bit too much to try and help the others. he got left behind during the evacuation as he couldn't get his prosthetic legs on quick enough and when he realised "this probably isnt happening" he instead helped a very lost kaif back to his apartment as they live in the same building. he gives the best hugs (bear hugs!!!!) and is generally the best for mental health support in their group of survivors even if he doesn't realise it.

stan is deaf after a uh,,, childhood mishap with fireworks in which the neighbour kids thought they hadn't been followed when they snuck off to light fireworks, so when a little 6 year old stan walked up to the lit fireworks because of the pretty lights they panicked. they were able to alert stan enough that he turned around and walked a bit away, but not enough that he didnt get injured, his hearing being severely damaged and his back becoming badly burned. he's still got a bit of chronic pain due to the severe scarring all over his back which is where the catboy joke started because backrubs actually do sort of help relieve the tension and pain but he didnt tell the others at first why he liked it so they all just went "okay silly catboy needs to be pet" and when he finally admitted it was actually helpinf with his pain they were like "stAN OH MY GOD" cause if they'd known they would have done it a lot more. he's got hearing aids and they help to a degree, and the reason he met the others was because he had to go out and scavenge for batteries for them as he didn't have a stockpile because he was like 2 weeks away from getting cochlear implant surgery and the ones he was getting have rechargeable batteries and he was like "finally no more battery pile" WRONG! zombie apocalypse and he's sooo pissed off because he FINALLY fucking got a surgery date and then some asshole broke quarantine and got zombies into cardiff like are you for fucking real. right in front of my goddamn salad. i've been waiting half my life for this you diseased prick. godDAMNIT. anyway the others (kaif + sam, ebbz isnt awake yet) run into him whilst he's trying to scavenge batteries and they help him out with it and he ends up moving all his stuff over to their apartment complex as it's easier to defend and has a lot more room. he got left behind during the evacuation because he flat out didnt hear the alarms. he's been using his hearing aids a lot more since the quarantine started so he can hear alarms if it happens which means the batteries in it were running out quicker and even though it's risky to sleep with hearing aids in as they can get damaged he was taking the risk to make sure he could stay safe and then his batteries fucking ran out whilst he was asleep because stan is the unluckiest man ever so he woke up looked out his window and went "wh. why is cardiff empty. hello. excuse me." and realised that he was unfortunately, comedically fucking unlucky. he's the one person in the group you THINK is normal but he's actually the most aggressive fighter and the best at making traps/questionable diy electronics ("jesus christ, stop putting the fucking wires in your mouth, stan!" "you're not my dad, sam-" "i will kick you, i swear to god." "what, from halfway across the room?" sounds of a prosthetic leg being taken off "wait wait WAIT OKAY OKAY I'M SORRY-") and other related stuff. he's surprisingly good at scuffed diy survival tools, and he's a little gremlin when it comes to hoarding supplies and reusing seemingly broken things. he is also the quickest to cry and start putting himself down whenever he messes up. he sees himself as the most 'pathetic' out of the group because the others actually tried to escape or had physical reasons why they couldn't, he was just asleep and he beats himself up about it a lot and is afraid he's a burden.

god i really wanna write this. i think its the "everyone here is fucked up and not perfectly ablebodied but we're still very capable and resilient people and we accept and care for eachother whilst also making accomodations for one another" that gets me. and the found family (or polyamoury. you never know) too thats always fun.