#altho i can work and eat at the same time

[mishkakagehishka]

Tjhis is a hate anon GraaaaH do your wordk

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[phagodyke]

still have some brain fog but nowhere near as bad as the last couple days 👍

[howlsofbloodhounds]

hey senpai what do u think abt ccino x killer

i think they could work like they both love cats and stuff and idk if this is an original idea or not but like after nm beats up killers cats maybe he leaves them at ccinos cafe and visits them when hes on missions

and it would be like a slowburn thing i think idk

plus they both were abused by nm altho in different ways i think idk much abt ccinos lore tbh

i think they could be super wholesome but im probably mischaracterizing them so i wanna hear ur thoughtsss

I think it’s cute, although I don’t really see them romantic. Although tbf I don’t see most ships in a romantic light.

I can see them relying on eachother in a sort of “in the same shit basket, you understand” way. The Bad Sanses are not canon, besides maybe Cross and XChara who left eventually anyway—so Killer is all alone with Nightmare canonically.

Besides Ccino, who at least used to be canonically in an abusive toxic relationship with Nightmare. Plus potentially any benefits Nightmare may or may not have by any deals with Ccino or whatever.

I doubt there’d be anything romantic or overly close between the two while Killer is under Nightmare—besides maybe a few brief glimpses of and short interactions with Stage 1, I can’t see Stage 2 being able to connect with Ccino or attach to him nearly at all.

Possibly just recognizes Ccino as Nightmare’s and that he mostly doesn’t bother him too much and isn’t a threat to him, lets him have coffee and cats and doesn’t intrude on his space and force him to interact with him. and is probably too scared of him to get too close or insist that he “eat something” or ask if he can help with any wounds or anything.

And of course Nightmare could’ve possibly ordered Killer to guard and protect Ccino before. Potentially bodyguard x boss’ lover trope 👀 (with the caveat that your bodyguard is basically a killer on a leash and would kill you on command if your boyfriend/lover ever got sick of you.)

honestly maybe Ccino would find Killer creepy and unsettling most of the time, keeping a distrustful distance for his own safety whenever he’s in Stage 2–as Killer would’ve likely warned him to do.

Once Killer is out and away from Nightmare though, safe with Color and healing, and maybe possibly even gets a job with Ccino at his café—perhaps potential for something deeper in an environment where Killer is now mostly safe to be in Stage 1.

[apollos-olives]

If I may ask - and this is a question that is genuine and by no means trying to dehumanize of offend you - but what is it like to be queer and Palestinian? Palestine is a majority muslim country, altho I am aware that that does not mean that you are Muslim or belong to any other religion that Palestinians follow but if you do follow a religion, then what is it like to be queer because again, to my knowledge being queer or rather engaging in non-hetero relationships (i apologize for my wording) is forbidden. So how does it work, if you follow a religion. I'm truly sorry if this is in any way rude but my question comes from wanting to know more and not from a place of malice

i've actually talked about queerness in palestine before and honestly it isn't more or less special than any other country. almost every country in the world is homophobic as well. palestine isn't special with it's homophobia just because it's a majority muslim country. i'd get hatecrimed in the america more than i'd get hatecrimed in palestine, i can tell you that.

i am muslim, and i follow what i think is best for myself. i've studied the qur'an and have looked into queerness in relation to islam from the qur'an directly and yk what i found? nothing. the qur'an never mentions homosexuality. the story of prophet lut 3alayhisalam is the only thing the qur'an even gets close to mentioning about queerness. i'm not going to go into the full story but basically god destroyed an entire village for committing "indecent" acts, which were rape, pedophilia, premarital sex, infidelity, and along with that, the people of the village also were having same sex relationships. it's very explicitly clear that rape, pedophilia, infidelity, and premarital sex is not allowed, since those rules are mentioned in the qur'an more than once, but homosexuality was never even mentioned in the qur'an at all. it's only implied outside of the qur'an through passed down stories that the people of the village were homosexuals, and the islamic community decided to basically discard the rest of the story and focus on homosexuality only, so they translated the story into "god crushed a village of homos bc they were bad ppl so being homo is bad" even though the context and the direct translation of the qur'an never even brings up that the act of homosexuality itself is a sin. god didn't punish those people because they were gay, he punished them because they were commiting horrible sins like rape and pedophilia. they were just having same sex relationships on top of that, which god never directly condemned or even mentioned in the qur'an.

god always has rules for a reason. premarital sex is a sin because you may become diseased, and god wants the best for you so he forbids it. eating pig is a sin because pigs carry diseases and are generally unclean, and god wants you to be clean and to be well so he forbids it. etc. etc. etc. god has rules and reasons for everything because he is fair and just. there is simply no rule about homosexuality being wrong, and also no reasons as to why it would be wrong.

and even with all of that, so what if being gay is wrong? why would god create me this way if he didn't love me and accept me for how HE created me? doesn't god love all his creations? doesn't god love me for being true to myself and loving others as well? i don't think it's wrong, in any sense of the way, to love people. because if there is no harm in it, what's wrong with love?

and one thing i love about islam is that doing one sin only counts as one sin. we believe that certain actions and good deeds can count for many times it's weight. praying 5 times a day counts as many good deeds as praying 50 times a day. reading surah al-ikhlas even once counts as reading 1/3rd of the whole qur'an. our good deeds are magnified, while our bad deeds are only singular. while one good deed may count for 50 of them, one sin will only ever count as one sin. a muslim eating pork one time will only be counted as a single sin. a muslim having premarital sex one time will only be counted as a single sin. and IF homosexuality is a sin?? well. that only counts for one single sin. it's so easy to go to heaven. if you're a good person, you'll make it, even if you're gay or trans or whatever else. it doesn't matter. one sin compared to a mountain of good deeds is not going to affect you. that's why i love islam. god is kind to us like that.

and being trans comes into the equation as well. many muslims are against trans people because they believe it's a sin for a "man" to be effeminate and that it's wrong to change your body bc god created you perfectly. but like... there is literal science proving trans people exist. and the topic of dysphoria proves it even. if trans people are so dysphoric and so mentally harmed by not being able to transition or pass that it affects their mental or physical health, isn't it wrong to forbid them to receive treatment?? and what if the only treatment that works is for them to directly transition? god allows any permanent altercation to the body as long as it's for health reasons, and being trans is most definitely a health reason. god wants us to love ourselves, not harm ourselves. and the people who complain that it's "changing how god created us" make no sense because what if someone was born deformed and wouldn't survive without a surgery that changed their appearance? are you going to just let them die because you don't want them to change their appearance because that's disrespectful to gods creation? no, of course not. being trans is a health related thing and god always wants the best for us, especially when it comes to health and wellbeing.

as for me, i have an uncomfortable relationship with my own queerness. i don't like or use labels, and i don't consider myself part of the lgbtq+ community, because i don't feel welcome there. but i'm still queer. i've had queer relationships before and i'm open to having them again, but i'm just very skeptical of actually being in one. i've kind of resigned myself to a point of "semi-celibacy" where i don't actively seek out relationships nor do i imply that i want one, but IF one day, something happens... well 🤷‍♂️ something happens. i don't think i'll ever get married though, because that'd be a whole other religious story, but as much as i'd like to go out and have relationships, i think my safest option is to be celibate until i've decided for myself later what i want to do. not to punish myself but just so i don't get distracted and stray away from god accidentally.

in the end, being queer as a muslim depends on the specific muslim and how they view their relationship with their queerness and their relationship with god. it's different for everyone and it's only up to a persons own self to decide what is best for them and their religion. i've done research about queerness in islam for myself because i simply could not live with myself if i actually knew that being queer was wrong, and it isn't, so i'm alright now.

muslims aren't horrific with their homophobia, just misguided and misinformed. that doesn't mean i hate them or try to convince every muslim i meet to agree with my views abour queerness, no, because it's only up to the person themselves to decide not to be a bigot. the reality is that most muslims are homophobic and that's it 🤷‍♂️ they may be wrong, but it doesn't mean anything in the end.

we as palestinian muslims need to be given our basic human rights to EXIST before we move onto queer liberation. we must be liberated on a humanitarian level before we are liberated on a queer level. palestine simply hasn't had time for queer liberation because we're too busy fighting to survive. and even then, i do believe it's absolutely justified for palestinians to be anti lgbtq when many lgbtq people are actively calling for our genocide. doesn't mean it's right to be a bigot, but you must understand that if my entire family got massacred in front of my eyes and my entire house got bombed with me inside it, and the people who did it were raising a rainbow flag... well. i would hate whoever stands behind that flag as well. bigoted hatred comes from a place of fear and hurt and misinformation. if palestinians haven't had time to unlearn homophobia, of course they will be misinformed about the queer community and fear it. it's only fair.

this was a wonderful question and i'm glad you were curious to learn more :)

[wolvebonez]

please do dump about your watcher au as much as you want!! I'd love to hear about it!!

YAYYYY THANKS FOR ASKING its autism time Basically um. You know how most the watcher!grian hcs/interpretations have him as an unwilling participant in all this ? Uh, yeah ! Not this grian:3 Well. Kinda. But. Im a TMA Fan and I love FUCKED UP guys so !!!! Watchers feed off emotions. All emotions, but they're especially known for finding fear or grief or other negative emotions the most nutritionally filling/benefital to their health. However: They can't just sit there around someone whos very happy, sad, angry, ect, and then get fed from that. They have to- uh, for lack of better word- latch onto a players "soul," and tear chunks of that from them, dig into their mind and bite into whatever makes them feel and then tear that away. Sometimes, a feeding will cause the victim to be unable to feel anything at all after the feeding, if a Watcher gorges themself solely on them. Most often, when they use restraint while feeding, the victim will loose all feelings they'd had about the previous days, weeks, or even months, and might feel like everythings "dulled down" for some time while they recover. (Younger Watchers usually have to have physical contact with the victim to feed, older or more powerful Watchers can feed without even being on the same plane of existence as their victim, only needing to be able to See them.) Now, that's all kind of similar to a lot of headcanons about Watchers already, and I pulled the "eating emotions" thing from Martyns Eyes & Ears AU (altho in that its JUST fear), but uh... Heres where it differs: The Watchers aren't sentient. Not really, anyway. They're...predators, beings that know they need to feed and will go to great lengths to do so, survival their greatest worry above all else. Think of them like... Smart animals. Corvids, for example, crows especially- they will investigate their own dead to figure out what killed the other bird so they can avoid it, and are extremely good puzzle solvers. Prairie dogs have an incredibly advanced verbal communication system- able to even denote the speed of which a predator is approaching their den (probably the closest we could get to an ""language"" in the animal kingdom). But neither of those animals, as smart as they may be, are considered sentient. Its the same with Watchers. Watchers CAN communicate, they can understand eachother, they can achieve a certain amount of planning, like how squirrels can count what nuts they have & deduce how many they need, or how whales and other marine life are especially prone to being able to plan & use logical reasoning... They can understand the concept of death and... the concept of keeping their food alive for delayed gratification and a continued food source, instead of just going out and feeding on someone until theyre a husk of themselves, unable to provide more food. How, exactly, they got all the players into the life series/how they made the games IS something im working on, but the point im getting at here is that theyre basically like ants farming aphids, except the aphids are sentient people..? yay..? Ah, and Watcher cant reproduce normally. They have incredibly long lifespans, but when a Watcher does come to its end, they... Well, theyll find an player to bite into the soul of, and instead of feeding, they basically do the reverse- shoving all their energy into that being and becoming a parasite that will eventually take over the host and make them a Watcher, similarly without much sentience. Thats what happens to Grian. :3 The exact process of turning is also in the works but basically it starts by becoming unable to eat regular food, slowly focusing all the players willpower into wanting to eat, before they develop the ability to feed from other players. At this stage they might still be able to feel themself, however after feeding from another you tend to loose your own emotions amongst the ones youre feeding off of, and at some point, any remaining emotions the "player" has, is consumed by them for extra nutrition, and in turn they officially become a Watcher.

UMMMM YEAH!!!! Thats all the worldbuilding I have :3333 Theres uh- a story in my mind, but its not as fleshed out? I also MIGHT make it a fic (heavy on the might) so idk how much i'd wanna spoil. But uh, yeah, Grian'll be a bit of a special case in that his turning takes... a lot longer than normal. ^_^ I put him in the torture world sorry

[swiftfootedachilles]

*vibrating intensely* hi please tell me your autistic Mickey headcanons I'm collecting them

ohhhh i have so many thoughts

ive already talked about this ad nauseum previously but i always have time to discuss my favorites autist

his hatred of sleeves is totally an autistic thing. he just hates sleeves, specifically anything thats not long sleeved or sleeveless

he seems to prefer warm weather. he bundles up sooo much in the winter and he talks about moving back to mexico in s11. he would rather go back to prison than move any more north than chicago

i am once again mentioning that compulsory heterosexuality is absolutely part of mickeys masking. he seems to not gaf about masking about a lot of "typical" autistic things like not understanding social cues/rules or lacking conversation skills. a lot of his masking is more survival based like seeming straight and masculine and tough

^ which makes sense that when he starts unmasking, he likes patterned/hawaiian shirts :') he loves how visually simulating they are and he can tolerate the sleeves bc the fabric is very breathable and light

he really likes loud sounds specifically loud music and ambient/outside sounds like the ones he looks up in s11 to help him fall asleep :) he seems like the kinda person who can only do one thing as once, ie cant listen to music and play video games at the same time. when he does something he has to Devote Himself To It. if hes listen to music thats what hes doing. hes gonna sit there with his giant ass headphones on and stim or just cover his eyes and focus on the lyrics. hes s natural loud talker. he could yell over a jet engine if he wanted to. altho he doesnt like people raising his voice at him for obvious reasons. he cant stand pure silence it makes his skin crawl. ian loves his peace and quiet so mickey often throws on his headphones for parallel play. ian cooks or reads his book in quiet and mickey listens to deftones or doomscrolls on tiktok. parallel play becomes a huuuuge part of their bonding as a married couple :)

when he gets overwhelmed he completely shuts everything out. he acts like a cornered animal and lashes out at anything even if someone is trying to help. he needs space until he calms down or he'll have a meltdown and start throwing/breaking things or causing physical harm. sometimes he becomes too overwhelmed too quickly and completely skips the "shutting everyone out" stage and go straight to getting physical

he stims a lot by hitting or throwing stuff so ian trains him to use soft things like pillows and plushies (he absolutely has a plushie collection) when stimming. i think he also hits himself on the head sometimes. :( (totally not projecting) but be mainly sticks to his regular stims like messing with his eyebrows, chewing his nails, and biting his lip. he has an oral fixation! ian gets him a chew necklace. he likes singing and dancing with ian tho hed never admit it. he likes flapping his hands and jumping but hes still too embarrassed to ever do them. he unconsciously sways and rocks, especially if hes in the same spot for a long time

ian absolutely buys mickeys most of his sensory/stimming shit. lights, weighted blanket, spinner ring, chew jewelry, peelable clear nail polish, bike chain (which we see mickey has on his bedside table in s5 so i 1000% believe this was his first stim toy!!!) toy, tangles, different types of plushies (squishmallow, squishables, jellycat, reversible octopus (mickeys fav they both have at least one for every possible emotion), plushie dreadfuls, palm pals, different shapes and textured fabrics.) ian often steals a lot of these plushies; they are their first children. after they move back to the southside and are doing some work on their house, ian notices mickey still needs the catharsis of breaking shit, so sometimes they go on dates to the junkyard with baseball bats and destroy shit together

mickey literally cant be in the same room with ian when he eats his eggs with ketchup. the concept itself is so gross he cant tolerate it

hes very sensory seeking, again partly because of his oral fixation. he likes spicy food and LOVES sour food. obviously he loves candy and junk food. they have lamps, other small lights, and color changing led lights all over their home. eventually they both fall into a routine of communicating nonverbally using different colors of lights

mickey isnt great at communicating verbally tho he tries. sometimes he just cant, its too overwhelming and he cant think of the words to properly express himself. hes much better at conveying his thoughts thru physical means. this is part autism, part learned during childhood

he learned literally everything he knows about society thru movies. he uses a lot of old slang and makes niche references. he refuses to explain any of them to ian

sometimes he goes nonverbal and he texts only using (sometimes too many) emojis and reaction images that nobody gets except him

most people think hes weird and dont get his sense of humor but ian thinks hes the funniest person on the planet! they often make references to inside jokes in front of other people and it annoys the shit out of everyone

ok i have to stop now or im gonna go on forever thank you for the ask

[sirensea14]

Oooooh Bendy's love triangle in the story between Alice and Siren sure is gonna be an interesting one 👀👀

Now, how her interaction with questers will go?? (Like cuphead, Holly, Mugman ect ect..) Will she even meet them?? Tell me!!

Yeps, she does meet them!

Holly bombarded her with so many questions like: How did you get those feet? Do you have powers? What powers do you have? Why does your eyes glow like cuphead's and bendy's? Can you dance and sing? Whats your Talent? Do you eat seafood? So you like soups or not? Girl tried to chill while being interrogated by the bookworm XD

Cuphead would flirt with her at first but eventually stopped because of her stone cold reactions (she likes bendy's puns better)

Mugman was sweet to her and was kind enough to introduce the other people in the house and calm her down because of Cuphead, Holly and the warners (but she's already calm tho lol)

Cala was kinda terrified of her at first but eventually they become good friends (Siren already knew she was a mermaid from first look)

Boris would call her "Ren" and sis cuz she acts like a chill big sister to him. He secretly cringes at bendy whenever he flirts with siren but he's also happy that he's just him.

Alice would be delighted to meet her, altho siren had a little precautions on her because she's an angel, and Alice knew that. Alice trying to sense her cloudy emotions made her first interactions with alice awkward. But eventually she accepted it, she can sometimes grasp her emotions but most of the times, its blocked by something

(edit: I FORGOT FELIX WHAHHAHA😭 thank u for noticing it @melody-starlight 🥰)

Felix would simply be chill about her. Tho she'd be curious how his magic bag works so he kinda shows it to her but not much. Felix likes the way she is quite chill with different situations, tho he does calm her down whenever she has a panic attack (mostly this happened during books 9-11) She sometimes reads his stories of adventure after meetinv the cat, she gained interest in his books lol (bendy would talk to her fanboying how much he loves felix's adventures)

She has a good relationship with all of them as the 9th quester of the group, just the most nonchalant and overreacting at the same time, no in between XD But she's also one of the most mysterious quester since she's secretive, that is before they went to the labyrinth...

I have a drafted answer ready to use if u ever ask what would she be in the story itself... 👀

Also if ur interested in knowing what her interactions will be with the other characters; villains, angels, demons, other toons, the house—just ask (⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)

Ooooohhhh, theres also so many things i wanna tell ya like her powers and stuff but I'll save that for asks

[tothepointofinsanity]

Hiii

I don't mean to like give unsolicited advice, but if you're having frequent nightmares I actually have experience with that. I tend to have nightmares in clumps- either I don't have dreams at all or I have nightmares daily, which can be really frustrating sometimes but you learn how to deal with it.

Heres what I found works for avoiding the big scare:

-Avoiding Spicy Food. Idk why but eating spicy food seems to make your brain more active at night whiiiich just leads to sum scary shenanigans

-Hot Milk. If your lactose intolerant or just don't like milk, tea works fine too, but something about Milk itself is very soothing especially mixed with honey. Knocks me right out.

-Meditation. Ik everyone says this one but lowkey i think it really does help. A troubled mind does lead to troubled dreams, and often times u get end to end nightmares if your dealing w stress or anxiety yk. Meditation rlly grounds a person and gets their brain used to being still again, altho there are lots of ways to achieve this even if u don't like meditating ygm

With all that said, I really really hope that ur nightmares come to an end soon ik it rlly sucks :/ WISHING U WELLLLL

Oh, hello sailor. ^_^ I’m flabbergasted that no one told me that the cultural diet and way of life that I’ve been living for the past…..entire life has apparently been contributing to the burden of my nightmares. Unfortunately I cannot part with spice as it would spiritually destroy me. I love being able to flex my spice tolerance and here I am paying the price of my hubris./lh

I actually do like drinking milk at night but I realised I only drink the refrigerated ones. Warm milk tastes strange. It seems like I’m doing everything within my power to do the opposite of what you recommended unintentionally. I do like to drink tea…as for meditation, I do believe it has its merits and I’m not so quick as to dismiss it considering a lot of my previous teachers have actually advised the same of me. Some even recommending yoga. Which only goes to show I may have Problems if the advice I keep getting is more or less the same. Meeting up with people actually effectively lessens my nightmares for whatever reason, which is why you’ll catch me mumbling about gallery dates any other alternate day. Anyways. I’ve observed my nightmares are only whenever I’m at home and never occur when I’m sleeping at the dormitory. Wonder if there’s anything up with that.

Nevertheless, I truly appreciate your concern and support. I think the truth is that I am actually just a troubled person with a troubled past and future and predisposed to having an ape brain that runs simulations on the most repulsive possibilities. Very common vein of possibilities in on itself. Person experiences bad things, their brain makes them remember it in different monstrous forms. Maybe I should really look into being medicated to calm my brain. Please take care as well…^^

[fadeintoyou1993]

💕Positivity prime time! Share five things you love about yourself, four things you're excited about, OR three people you care deeply about and why. Pass this along to someone whose posts make you smile💕

this is so cute i'll do all of them bc i'm in a good mood today :)

5 things i love about myself

i love how resilient i am :) i used to think i wasn't and i just was weak as hell and everything was too hard but by learning my limitations & understanding how the things i've been through over the years (especially growing up In My Context undiagnosed w several mental disorders) have affected me & made me into who i am today and i love that even if things get pretty bad now, i know i'll get through it somehow

i love my sense of humor. i really think i'm so funny and i'm not sorry everytime i make someone laugh i feel like i've won a million dollars

i love how passionate i am about things because whenever it gets too hard to keep going or even seeing a reason to, things i love and care about can take me out of that mindspace pretty quickly

i love my tattoos! even the smallest ones have special meanings to me and i grew up obsessed w them and wanting to have them for so long and i think it's so awesome that I just. Get to have them now. awesome

i think i'm a pretty patient/understanding/forgiving person? not w myself (altho i'm working on it so hard and it kinda shows by the first item) but i think that i'm a good friend/person that people can count to and feel comfortable to be themselves around me. sometimes it's to my own detriment (i'm also working on it but codependency is so hard) but idk i like that like, i'm not good at socialization offline due to autism, but within this little community i have built for myself over the years i have known and kept up friendships with people from different places/contexts/lives and i just. really love having friends lmao i guess that's two things? but well here u go

4 things i'm excited about

i'll have a yellowjackets watchparty sleepover w my friends on saturday!!! i'm excited abt that :)

i get the stitches off my mouth on friday HOPEFULLY so i'm also excited to be able to like. Open my mouth without feeling like i'm going to die

i'm excited to get my tracy chapman vinyl! my cousin went on a trip to são paulo w her bf last week and she said she found an awesome used record store that she wants to take me too sometime and she remembered i mentioned i was looking for this one when we were talking about the records i want ♡ i should get it sometime next week I think!!!

i'm excited to get my updated assessment results this month 😭 i miss being medicated so fucking bad my god... BUT SOON!!!!!

3 people i care about & why

@scre6m -> well dee is my bestest friend in the whole world like i dont know how we have spent most of our lives not knowing each other & icb we only know each other for lile 4 years. they r literally like a brother / sister / soulmate i've never had anyone in my life i can be so vulnerable with & know that they feel the same way like genuinely i've learned a lot abt myself / friendship / love / life in general by having a friend like him & i literally cannot imagine not having them in my life i'd probably die fr fr. dee has helped me understand i'm allowed to be myself unapologetically & i literally cannot even explain how much he means to me. whenever we have lil misunderstandings & spend like 3 hours without talking bc we r both stubborn n dumb (affectionate) its literally like in bottoms 2023 when josie and pj fight and complicated by avril lavigne is on and josie is kicking cans (dee) and pj is being a stupid bitch eating canned food on the stairs (me) literally just like that. i cannot imagine life not being tweedle bru to their tweedle dee frfr. anyways yea dee is my person 🫂 i hope in like 30 years we live in a big weed farm like in popstar: never stop never stopping

@blackfairyemoji -> tami is literally like a little sister to me like i love showing her things & love learning abt the things she cares about & i'm always like rooting so much for her. she is so incredibly talented and smart and one of the funniest people on EARTH like i'll remember some shit she said while i'm doing something and i'll just start laughingjdkdkdk she is so creative & kind & such a beautiful person inside and out and i cannot wait to see her do big things bc i know she will!! trust n believe!! thats my lil sister genuinely. and the fact she is literally the exact same age as my brother makes it all so much real frfr. my dream is to be present for the first time she gets high and listens to music

@nightmarebees -> MY WHITE DAD JACKIE BEAR.... literally love jackie so much like from the moment i saw her blog back in like 2018? or 2019? im bad w numbers but i rmr reading her description and she literally had all of my very specific niche interests listed and i was like. Dude what. we have got to become friends. and we DID!! jackie is such a kind, understanding, funny, loving person and quite literally the smartest person i know. like she knows so much whenever i have a question about something i'm like hey dad what the fuck is____ and she's like thank you for asking, and it's incredible. i love talking to her about media & literature and getting really fucking meta about things bc jackie understands and helps me organize my thoughts w her big historian brain. she's truly one of the best people i know! and i cannot wait to try her baking 🥺

[icoulduseastory]

Assignment: A Day In The Life 002

Week: 01

Feel free to give me critiques

Seven Am, I wake up and roll out of bed. I make my way to the bathroom, grouchie. I take my toothbrush from my side of the mirror and begin my hygiene routine. Brush my teeth for two minutes, wash my face, put on deodorant, and lastly change out of my pajamas and into my clothes.

Making my way down the stairs, I start to ponder about what I'm going to eat for breakfast, but it’s always the same thing, toast with jelly. I put my bread in the toaster and prepare myself for the odyssey ahead of me, school.

I put my boots on, take my water out the freezer, choose what jacket or cardigan I want to wear, then I get my fresh toast out the toaster.

Sitting in my grandmother's work chair, I spread the cold jelly against the warm bread. It is now 7:45 Am, and my sister enters the kitchen, ready for her long day at school.

By this time, I'm finished with my breakfast, I stand and distribute the right amount of videmons between me and my sister, then take my medication.

Walking to the car, I wave goodbye to my little sister as she walks out the door and to her bus stop.

My grandmother drives me to the highschool and we say our goodbyes. I journey inside ready to start my daily learning voyage.

First period, Pre-Algebra, I hike to the third floor down the hall and enter room 321. Sitting in the desk closest to the door, I free my pencil from its backpack prison and start on my bellwork.

Second period, Study Hall, I journey down the stairs and to the library. I wait for my teacher to point me to my new assigned seat, we get a new one almost everyday. I check to see if I have anywork, none. So I start to read, I turn around to my bag, open the last pocket and pull out my current read, Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.

Third period, Spanish, walking up the stairs to the second floor, I check my schedule to triple check the room number. I always seem to forget. I greet Miss Rodrigeuz at the door and get ready to learn.

Lunch, I walk back down the stairs and find my friend so I can sit with her and her friends. I usually don’t eat lunch, but sometimes I might go through the line for a few snacks. While sitting at the table, I listen to my friend’s friends chat and gossip as I work on one of my stories on my phone.

Fourth Period, English, I go to the wrong class then navigate my way to the correct class. I listen to what my teacher says and prepare myself for the long games my teacher plans to play. We usually play three games to fill the whole class time.

Fifth period, Health, I, again, get confused on where I’m going but I always get there on time. I search for my assigned table and begin to answer the question on the board for my bellwork. For the rest of the period I listen to the other students complain about the class, altho I don't really mind it.

Sixth period, Creative Writing, my last period. I walk into the class free my chromebook and begin the daily assignment.

Release, I walk home and spend the rest of my day in my room until night comes around and I start my bedtime routine.

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[kalpasio]

if i wasnt in public reading the last part of the mafia au i wouldve been aggressively punching either the air or one of my poor (and regularly beaten up) pillows, I MELT EVERY TIME THERES DOMESTIC KALPAS AND READER I JUST DIE ON THE SPOT AND FALL TO THE FLOOR SOBBING 😭😭😭😭💥💥💥💥

domestic kalpas and reader moments 🔛🔝 we love how most of the fics here at one point has reader and kalpas living together,, we love the domesticity, idk bout yall but the end made me so happy for no reason,, just the thought of kalpas and reader living somewhere taking care of a bunch of old people warms my heart LIKE 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 i love domestic content of these two but a part of me loves seeing them both suffer (mostly kalpas *COUGH COUGH*) you can have both fluffy domestic moments and wall clawing angst in the same fic WINK WINK

- herrscher anon altho i think ive mentioned how much i like domestic stuff too much in this ask alone LMAO 💖💖💖

domestic kalpas is my biggest weakness 😭 sitting there writing while kicking my legs and giggling lol I just want to make cookies and watch some silly show with the murder man is that so wrong?

I don't know why but my brain is convinced kalpas would end up like working in an old folks home like EXTREMELY fed up with some old lady but she's just like oh yes dear that's fine :) and he's like I'm going to murder you if you don't eat the fucking pudding and they get along great. like how hes so excited to break aponias fingers but she's his best friend???? yes this makes sense. I'm running away now

spoilers maybe?? I'm working on an ending for like the mafia part (as opposed to the fluff part that lasted all of 5 sentences) and it's probably gonna be angsty because that's all I do. so. y'know. 👀👀 eventually

[popcornforone]

The Innocent Boyfriends Fics:- How To Micromanage A Micromanager

Another new innocent boyfriend for you all today to make you all go a little bit crazy on this cold & rainy day.

Mostly fluff & pining & most of it being your head. Again we stop before things really get going. Some angst but not at him. Alcohol & swearing included. & reader is having a really bad time in life. Once again the story is based on the picture, it can be any man you like.

Let me know if I’ve missed anything out peoples.

It’s been a very long week. The meeting haven’t stopped & your just so out of it. You genuinely just want to go home, do a work out, have a shower & put on some catch up tv as you eat your noodles & then fall asleep. That would be ideal. But no.As you go to leave your boss screams at, you don’t forget our network mixer tonight. As the lift goes down you silently let the tears fall down your face. Your weekend start is now being ruined too.

When you get home you do very quickly have a shower & throw on a better dress (but not too much better a dress) than what you wear to work. You straighten your hair & actually do your make up for once, properly. You then send your boyfriend who’s away until Tuesday a msg *babes this weeks been hell, what I’d love is a face time but I’ve got to go to a mixer event, can we do that tomorrow xx* & you send it. You know it will just say delivered & just stay like that but you can’t complain, the man’s got a busy life.

You walk around the networking mixer at a saunter. Your feet just about clinging into the sexy heels you’ve put on, & you have been sipping the same glass all night of fizz, as the canapés are all fish or avocado based, food your can’t stand, so you don’t want to get drunk. Your boss comes up to you & asks what you’ve secured for the company so far & you round off some random numbers to make it sound half decent. he pats your hair patronising & says “well you had best be in tomorrow to put them on the system, to act on them on Monday.” His micromanagement really does your head in, but you love your independence & career & the actual owner of the company appreciates you more so you don’t say a thing & just move on. It’s just one more hoop to jump through, but right now your really wishing you were eating those noodles.

It’s gets to the part of the night when your boss is up on stage, talking about how all these different groups aspire to be more & are a better family… blah blah blah, you hear this every Monday morning from him as a rally cry to the office. You’ve completely tuned out when suddenly your ears pick up the words “good evening ladies & gentlemen”. You look up frozen to the spot dropping your glass to the floor making it shatter & various eyes turn to look at you as you stand there motionless, like a debugged sim. He’s here. Your Boyfriend is here.

He’s obviously used to the noise of the smash & the few tuts, as he continues his preplanned press endorsement of this mixer. It’s only when he goes to point at someone by the back wall that he realises you are here. He stumbles on his next 4 lines. Usually the consummate professional at everything, you in that dress having put in some effort, makes him feel certain things. You can see him really being effect by you & that makes you realise that he needs to see you as much as you need to see him. He glances at you bashfully when you both realise he’s mucked up. You your do a breath gesture at him. “I’m sorry” he states to the room “at least you now all know, us actors can’t just get it right on the first take” a stutter of uperty laughs fill the room, before he adjusts his tie & continues to the end. Altho he is now feeling more than just flustered.

The room fills with polite applause when he’s done & various people go up to him for a selfie & for 5 mins of his time. So many girls putting their hands on what rightfully yours. You head to the ladies to sort yourself out & thats when you check your phone. 4 missed calls from him & a few msgs, the last one consisting of *your boss is a wanker I can punch him if you like* he’s been watching you all night. His other msgs were he was back early but was at a boring press thing to & then others about omg your here, turn around. He’s finding this corporate event as pissy as you are but at least he’s getting paid to be here, you aren’t. But now at least knowing he’s here it’s bearable .

When you come out the ladies, your boss is almost lurking for you & says he needs you to network with someone every important, before walking you into a private part of the party. There he’s stood looking suave in that blue suit & the whitest shirt you think you’ve ever seen. Eyes that light up as he glances across which your pretty sure yours are mirroring. Your boss then introduces you to him & you both shake hands & then he starts talking about the company. He’s completely unaware that you know each other at all let alone that you’ve been dating for the last 18months. You both then drift off looking at each other, & ignore him talking, but it’s only when your eyes roll that he stops. “I’m sorry what was that?do your want to work Sunday as well & put in everyone’s contacts?” He bluntly asks. “Sir can’t you see that your brilliant member of staff is tired & would like nothing more than to go back to her flat & have a foot massage while she falls asleep” he states. It’s suddenly got very warm in the room for you. The idea of his hands starting at your feet & moving there way up your body gives you tingles that are hard to control. “Well shed best be in the office tomorrow “ “tell me miss…” & he pauses questioningly waiting you to respond with your full name, & like the pro that you are you do so. “does your contract say you work weekends?” “No it’s a 9to5 Monday to Friday” you respond. “But she…” “ahhh ah I’m not done yet speaking to her” he hushes your boss his celebrity status his slowly giving you a bit more power & confidence without asking for it.

“& does your contract, mean you have to attend networking mixers without being paid, or be on your laptop at 3am when he calls you, or telling you annual leave has to be taken on certain days” your proud of him for standing up to him but your boss just looks confused, he’s still not worked it out yet. “no it doesn’t” “& is this man,other than being a micromanager, actually pay your wages?” “No” “so in that case you need to go home & have that foot massage miss” he smiles at you & touches your shoulder, which sends shivers down your spine. ““I’m sure you’ve got a handsome other half to go home to who can look after you like a queen” his eyes dilate with lust & he nods at the door “she doesn’t have time for a boyfriend & how dare you chastise me in from of one” he put a finger to his lips shhhhhing him & his calm eyes turn dark with anger “your lucky to have her work for you, you should appreciate every thing she does to make you look good, because all I’ve seen from you tonight sir is poor management & I will actually be informing the company’s owner as to what’s happening in their business” he’s fucked him off now. For a man 5mins ago who was busy introducing your to your lover,as some kinda power trip was ,now he’s left standing there having small dick syndrome. You said to your boss good night & that you’d see him on Monday. You did stop before you left & turned around & said”oh & it was a pleasure to meet you.” He smirks at that as he heads toward the door to “I’m a fan of all your work & I think your skills are unmatched” his eyes, not seen by your boss, roll in his head in lust, biting his bottom lip. He can’t wait to get in to treat you like an angle, but he knows he can’t be seen leaving with you, especially after what just gone down.

You get a taxi but ask them to wait as you pop in a shop on your way home, which for once they do. & you but a new bottle of Chilean red & a bunch of tulips. If he’s coming back to yours, you want your place to look good. You get to your flat & see the light is on. You are sure you turned in off as you left earlier, although it was in a rush. You walk in & hear music playing from the bedroom. “Don’t worry I’m not a burglar but I know who’s stolen your spirit” is said out loud. You throw the flowers in the sink, they can wait & lock the door, stumbling to the bedroom.

There he’s sat, on your spare chair. The tie,shoes & socks are gone & he’s just admiring your dress. He gestures to the edge of the bed & you sit down & finally breath. “Was it you that wanted a foot massage then?” As you point at his large feet. “ oooh my needs can wait my love” & he bends down & slips you feet out of those sexy black heels & your silky tights. His hands work on the balls of your feet almost pushing you over the edge at nothing but his touch. Something that you’ve missed so much.

“So why are you back now & not Tuesday” you ask somehow, you’ve lost track of your senses. “I’m not complaining, & I also didn’t get your txts till after I saw you” he moves on the next foot & moves his chair closer to you. “I finished my filming, yesterday & then someone else couldn’t make the speech tonight, so my agent asked me if I could” his hands are so large & soothing making you coo. “Please tell me you got paid to deal with the majority of those wankers” your eyes are now shut just enjoying the attention. He was so right you needed this massage. “Yes I did, probably more than what your take home is a month” “is that’s pop at me?” You ask & you learn your head forward “no but you don’t need to work for that guy, he’s very manipulative & I will be calling the owner to say he doesn’t treat his staff properly” both your feet are now in his lap. & he’s worked his way to your ankles & he puts a kiss on both of them.

“& yes you did need a massage babes, but so did your ego & confidence” you can sense that the next few words your other half is going to say may tip you over the edge. “& I will give that to you whenever I’m here, day or night, because your deserve the world & im just lucky to be apart of your world” you slide off the bed & straight onto his lap, putting your feet behind the chair. It’s jolts him a little at the swiftness of your move, but he’s been very good not to go too far already. You put your hands on his cheeks & pull him in for a slow deep kiss. Something you’ve not had from him in 5 weeks. Something that as his tongue brushes across your teeth you let him in to engulf the two of you. You slide his jacket down while you’re embracing & rediscovering each other.

His hand is at the small of his back as he try’s to find your zip, & as he does & he moans into your mouth, you hear the snap. The chair breaks & crumples into a million pieces beneath the two of you. You let out a a small scream & you fall on top of him, your heart pounding for lots of reason. When you look at him he’s laughing “I’m guessing you’re okay baby?” You ask, his laugh is very infectious so you start to giggle too. “ oh darling, I’ve never felt so good in such a long time” he shifts his weight to his elbows & pulls himself up before taking your with him & depositing you on the bed. “I say that but we haven’t started the main activity for the weekend yet” he is now above you & is taking your lips once again to paradise. “& you are not going to work tomorrow, your boyfriend & your speech maker demands that.” “I wasn’t going to babes, the only thing I want to be working on this weekend is you.” You whisper back at him one hand in his hair the other reaching for his buttons.”I didn’t even have to micromanage you to get you to come for me” You close your eyes & sigh. It maybe late on Friday but you now never want this night to end.

[humanoidtyphoons]

trimax vol 2!

-the way vash and wolfwood circle around each other... even before their fallout with wolfwood killing raidei here... vash will ask why wolfwood knows knives, wolfwood will try and hedge out an answer at vash really not being human... it's so compelling, bc they can't properly trust each other, and yet... there is something marrow deep already there with them.

-i do find it so interesting that 98 makes it really feel like it's an ot4, or well, ot3 mostly, bc meryl/milly/vash constantly stick together, with wolfwood occasionally dropping in and out, but it's still enough to be a solid group dynamic. but trimax makes it pretty clearly, the adventures of v/w, and separately, the adventures of m/m, and the insurance girls are much more minimal in the story (at least 2 vols in!)! like tristamp does this like 98, it feels more of a group activity, with roberto in the mix instead of milly, and i really do find all the combos fascinating.

-wolfwood dreaming of the orphanage... feeling like his hands are stained, that he cannot hold his kids anymore. fucks me up every time. he loves these kids SO much... they call him nico-nii...

-ohhhh ngl, i love the reversal of "your smile is you pretending that everything is okay bc you'd break otherwise" with "you're making yourself the devil bc you cannot believe yourself to be a good man", vash intentionally referencing their first meeting, and wolfwood grabbing vash's gun and asking him to shoot him. jfc. i forgot how great the panel was. jfc. jfc.

-something integral to v/w really is the fallout. that they clash and fight about the difference in their beliefs. 98 chose to make that the endpoint of their relationship, trimax chooses to do so pretty early on, bc both vash and wolfwood are more combustible tbh, tristamp chose rollo as the pressure point, pretty early in, and it doesn't matter how the story changes but some variables remain the same, i eat it up every time.

-and despite that, they're STILL so silly and dumb with each other, that i grin at their interactions. when it hurts, it hurts, but when it's funny, they're so funny. they drive each other up the wall, but it's so charming to watch!

-vash in the sidecar is so so cute!!!! i'm so glad angelina ii exists!!!! they'll squabble about who drives, and why it can only be wolfwood bc vash can't drive, but it's just!!! adorable!!!!

-sorry, yeah, legato/vash still fascinates me. like legato is a nasty piece of work, but this hatecrush is uhhhh. so riveting. like i love legato/knives in slavish devotion too dgmw, but the pedestal legato will put knives and then throw vash into the ground is just a cool contrast.

-tbh, i can't really ship manga!legato/midvalley bc they don't have to cool chilling together vibes of the anime, but that's fine! i still adore you midvalley!!

-the seed ship is just... leonof is just. cruel. to vash. altho it does make me laugh that the anime complicates the process, whereas vash and wolfwood can get there fairly easily in the manga.

[antigonewinchester]

S13 Jack rewatch thoughts under the cut.

how did I not type this dude as a Enneagram 9; so much of Jack's personality clicks when you see it. think I've said before, but I read Sam as a 1, Dean as a 2, and Cas a 3.

in retrospect, Jack's becoming God ending seems obviously foreshadowed, although idk exactly when the writers decided on it. say: 13x01 establishes a God Who Doesn't Care in Chuck, which ultimate leads to the God Who Does Care in Jack in 15x19. in 13x02, Donatello literally mistakes Jack's power for God's. there's a Simba comparison! it's really right there.

I do still love the last scene in 13x02 -- it's unsettling in a way that really works. there's Jack's guilt and fear about his powers / who he is, if he's going to hurt someone w/ them, those feelings coming out in self-harm, how Jack stabbing himself directly mirrors Miriam attacking him in 13x01, and also Jack exploring the limits of his body and healing powers. in a very messed up way.

there's also this previous exchange from the ep (DEAN: Okay, see, sometimes, things hurt, so you just man up and deal with it. / JACK: Yes. I understand. Pain is a part of the complete human experience. Accepting it is a sign of maturity.) which is Dean having some not great ideas about pain/masculinity (altho tbh he's not entirely wrong either) but also Jack going way far with it too. I read Jack as not only responding to Dean but very much influenced by Kelly / her sacrifice / her knowledge passing down to him, and Kelly's explicit decision to endure something really painful and die to allow Jack to live. [yes, I am still fascinated w/ the implications of Jack in 13x01 saying he "was" Kelly and that's how he got his knowledge of the world.]

Dean telling Jack he'll kill him if it comes to it is obvs very messed up and understandable as to why Dean would say / think this and I like how Jackles plays Dean calmly, pragmatically in this scene; it's more interesting (and frankly more disturbing) than Dean's more simplified anger in the next ep. it's a heightened, horrible situation for both of them that's darkly compelling. I just love characters having a terrible time! what can I say!

kind of related: Jack's mirroring of Sam as the family black sheep / scapegoat was less frustrating the 2nd time around. or while I do still have issues w/ the framing, I can at least see what the story is doing with it. however, I do think the writing runs into the "super-powered character" problem where the story frames Jack as a good dude who's unfairly judged for his powers... but Jack can actually hurt or kill people with his powers, so isn't some caution & skepticism warranted? but metaphorically Jack's powers are connected to his self, so push-back against his powers becomes push-back against Jack as a person, even if those 2 things aren't technically the same thing. it's in the same vein as supernatural power as metaphor for difference (queerness, neurodivergence, etc.) which is a trope that can be problematic, or has limits, in its metaphorical usage.

where is the sicko version of the Lucifer - Sam - Jack scene in 13x23. the whole ep stands out to me as very indicative of Dabb's style and narrative interests -- dysfunction and violence within the family, the disturbing choice of "kill one of you or I'll kill you both," cycles of violence, hunters and monsters not being so different -- but without much... sexualized or eroticized subtext. (besides the one line of Lucifer to Sam, which contrasts to Lucifer being violent towards Jack but he's not creeping on him in that way.)

there's also a meta about S13 (and possibly later seasons / Jack's story overall) being modeled on the Hero's Journey, at least somewhat:

#1 = Ordinary World > Jack's birth and meeting Clark and his mom, doing normal things (eating candy!) #2 = Call to Adventure > Jack meeting and then hunting / learning how to use his powers w/ Sam, Dean, Cas #3 = Refusal of the Call > Jack running away from Sam, Dean, Cas / hunting #4 & #5 = Meeting w/ the Mentor & Crossing the First Threshold > Jack ending up in the Apocalypse World and finding Mary #6 = Tests, allies and enemies > Jack fighting in AW w/ the humans against the angels #7 = Approach to the innermost cave > Jack meeting Lucifer & engaging w/ him (and almost being swayed by Lucifer into leaving w/ him) #8 = The ordeal > Jack deciding to go back to save Sam, Dean, Cas, and Lucifer stealing his power / attacking him in the church #9 = The reward > Jack being saved by Dean (because Jack ‘chose’ right in picking family over power), Jack being accepted by both Dean & Sam as a part of the family

tbh I don't like the Hero's Journey as a narrative framework but it's obviously influential w/in contemporary screenwriting and explicitly w/in SPN, too.

[t4tmetalsonic]

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Forgot to bring my favourite snack to work and immediately started crying when I went to eat it hskgjjdhfhd I'm not having a good time lmao!! Like sorry for not doing any damn work I simply have a breakdown if I don't eat the same food every day. Normal behaviour

Also the aircon is cold and on me and I want to die HELL ON EARTH LOL!!!!

At least I can work from home tomorrow, altho I never get anything done when I'm at home and I feel bad but it's better than this tbh

[broodpeas]

random thoughts Ugly Betty, tv adaptations and colombian tv

Early on the year I saw Betty la Fea. I had never seen it, so I thought that what better way to feed my depression than watching a novela and eating a big bag of candies my husband got me? And so I watched it....well tried. I watched all something hundred episodes but I had to speed up a lot. I was amazed by how terrible it was, and surprised that they let this novela turn into a current pop culture moment. Sure, it has some funny moments (Freddy dancing and singing are the only funny moments) but overall, who needs GOT when you have rape, thief, aesthetic, physical and verbal abuse and assault all wrapped up in 30 minutes episode?

To be fair with myself, I kinda suspected this ever since Betty came into the colombian zeitgeist, between 2001 and 2002. It became a powerful bullying tool (still used today in workplaces to justify work assault and abuse, how nice!) but also an influential tv show where even the president had a cameo (a president that needed that because he was going through some political bullshit when you find out you gonna understand nothing because this country is a circus!). My husband told me Betty really broke the mold of colombian television, the same way narcovelas did some decades later. But anyway, the point here is: every adaptation of Betty I heard off, I decided it was terrible and not worth watching, so when Ugly Betty came out, I was like 16 years old and I said hell no. I skipped it, preferring other tv shows like Grey's Anatomy.

When I finished watching betty la fea, I decided that there was no way in hell I'd watch another colombian novela. That was enough and then I moved onto other tv shows. There's a lot to say on the relationship between good taste and television, and the fact that people consider novelas to be bad tv because only low class people watch it is still a valid argument- altho it's also true some people don't watch it because they follow a heteronormative and white portrayal of people. Novelas are believed to be ways to indoctrinate people and this is right (they do) but then again, they also portray society in a way no other tv show could do. It's like a snake biting its own tail, so the argument of taste has to be thought with care and attention because it will bite you in the damn ass. And because I'm catching up with a lot of tv, I decided that I had enough with all of this and put a stop and watch something light, something for a waiting room, or for falling asleep and because Disney+ only has cartoons and Ugly Betty you can see why I chose the second and not the first (I love toys but cartoons no longer make sense to me).

So far, I'm like 6 episodes in and I liked it. It's really good and extremely different from the original version, the only thing similarity is that the main character is called Betty and she has brackets. Everything else is different and yes it has its own flaws (there was no need for Salma Hayek to take her shirt off an elevator, and also Daniel needs therapy and to apologize to Amanda), but overall....it's great television. All characters are human and the mockery of fashion is hilarious (the joke of latex dress worn by kate moss that a baby could wear....mean spirited but so on point, my feminism left my body and I don't think it's coming back any time soon). Betty is a good person, but she's also selfish and she gives people a hard time and she is sassy. Her nephew Justin is a queer icon, as is Marc -played by Michael Urie, who's now in Shrinking, an apple tv sitcom that should get emmy noms- and the freedom they have to be themselves is just so good. I just like it and I hope it stays within these lines.

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This very long babbling of words also works for me to think a bit about adaptions. TV is very good in adapting books and movies into long format series (like Fargo). Last year when it was announced sex and the city would had a reboot, I was amazed because it was different from an adaption, but it felt more like this than a reboot. the turn and the absences, the overall feel of the show, felt nothing like the original version and I don't know if this was intentional but proves my point adaption is a murky land, that can be very productive or can fuck something up. With the HP announcenment, apart form the obvious question of why giving a terf more money, the question of why making more adaptions about something that doesn't need any more content because it has nowhere to go kinda sprung on me. Let me put it like this: who needs to know more about that school and the peoples and whatever? Who asked for this? Who will be watching this? and well, I'm at it, so let me throw Tolkien in the fray, because I still think Rings of Power was fantastic but do we really needed a tv show about a mashup of short stories and the silmarillion (I'm not sure if they actually used this and I'm too lazy to look for it but if you know, let me know lol)? If you look closely, almost all tv show lately has been adaptations: from wednesday (which was, in my modest opinion, perfect and I'm excited for season 2) to house of dragons (of the dragon? sorry?)? Perhaps only sitcoms are the only tv area where creativity is happening, even when following a formula (abbot elementary, what we do in the shadows, it's always sunny in philadelphia, shrinking and for some reason, people think succession it's comedy, listen here this is later but huh?!) . Do we need all these adaptations, some presented as reboots and some that want to be a breaking point from the original concept? Is this it for us? Did we peak on creativity and ideas for the best way to entertain people?.

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I love television. I have never believed we're in a golden age of television, but I do love the tv we have now, because it has freed itself from the kantian perception of "good aesthetic" and it's just a really nice way to distract yourself, to soothe in and to just be. TV actors are really the shit and the US writing striking currently happening now is only gonna help to make US television better. I wish colombian television would also go on a strike to strive for a variety of content, to break the monopoly they have on what kind of content is made and who gets to make it and why. The stories colombian pop culture has...they deserve to be told in a different format, with a better formula. They deserve to be adapted and rebooted. They deserve something more than the formula betty la fea and cafe and gaviota and pedro el escamoso has left us with.