#and I'm allowed favorites

[im-tempted]

CHURCH BELLS RINGING, MUTED SINGING

I will drag quackitys past relationships into a conversation about TNT duo

CARRIES OUR EXUBERENCE AWAY

They're just older than they ever thought they'd be and tired leave them alone

OUR FRIENDS HAVE ALL BUT LEFT US/THEY DEPARTED MANY YEARS AGO/And They Won't COME BACK/THEY WON'T COME BACK NO MORE

This ties into the whole fact they believe everyone will leave them because EVERYONE HAS LEFT THEM it's not a fear of they're right

WE'RE HUNGOVER IN THE CITY OF DUST

Remember how las navades isn't a real desert it's in a snow biome the whole city is literally built on fake foundations the whole base of his country is a farce dust→sand

LET OUR HEARTS RUN 'ROUND IN CIRCLES/WHILE WE FALL APART

Them having their separate breakdowns during this whole arc but coping with that by falling into the cyclical nature of their relationship

WE'RE HUNGOVER IN THE CITY OF DUST

Just see above for this line it's the same every time

LET OUR MINDS RUN 'ROUND IN CIRCLES/WHILE WE FIGURE IT ALL OUT

See above

INSOLENT AND OUT OF CHARACTER

They've become more jaded a twisted version of the people they used to be more full of life able to actually love before but they're both broken in a way now that they can kind of still work if they squint

WE'VE CHANGED SO MUCH/I BARELY RECOGNISE OUR FORMATIVE LIVES

Like the line above started they're both no longer the people they used to be after all the death (they're own or others) and betrayal and all the other shit they're no longer the people they started the relationship as and that's its own brand of frightening

HIDDEN DEEP, DEEP, DEEP UNDERGROUND

Pogtopia we don't need to talk about this you get it

AND THEY WON'T COME BACK/THEY WON'T COME BACK NO MORE

This is both about how the people who have left them won't come back BUT ALSO they won't come back they'll never again be the people they where when they first entered the smp and that's ok but it also means their relationship will shift for better or worse

WE'RE HUNGOVER IN THE CITY OF DUST

↑↑↑↑

LET OUR HEARTS RUN 'ROUND IN CIRCLES/WHILE WE FALL APART/WE'RE HUNGOVER IN THE CITY OF DUST/LET OUR MINDS RUN 'ROUND IN CIRCLES/WHILE WE FIGURE IT ALL OUT

This is gonna repeat forever you get it moving on they're obsessed and need each other to get up in the morning

FEELING MOODY, DARK AND HEAVY

They're so sad

THERE'S NO FEELING IN MY LEFT ARM

Insert picture of Wilburs skin

RESONANCE IS FAR AWAY

They don't match perfectly but they try *sons*

TRY TO COMPLICATE MY THINKING

Wilbur has an issue of hiding his feelings behind speeches and overcomplicating his speech and he's super overthinking his relationship with quackity

AM I FALLING, AM I SINKING?

Oooooo mans spent 13 years without a body what's going on (also has no idea where his relationship with quackity is let alone where it's going)

POWDER IN MY FINGERNAILS

"I've forgotten everything I know about TNT" ← I say like a liar

AND THE BELT WRAPPED AROUND/MY SHRINKING WAIST IS HAVING TOUBLE/TRYIN' TO KEEP THE DAMN THINGS UP

He just came back from the dead give him a break he feels out of place in his body he didn't have one for over a decade

WANT TO WRITE A SINGLE LETTER/MAYBE THEN I'LL FEEL MUCH BETTER

Remember his apology arc? THAT

UNTIL THEN WE'LL FLOAT/WE'RE HUNGOVER, OH YEAH WE ARE/WE'RE HUNGOVER IN THE CITY OF DUST/WE'RE HUNGOVER IN THE CITY OF DUST/SO LET OUR MINDS RUN 'ROUND IN CIRCLES/WHILE WE FIGURE IT ALL OUT/ALL OUT, MHMM

We've talked about this

[front-facing-pokemon]

[silverwhittlingknife]

The Bats Are Fighting (Distaff Edition)

some conflicts I enjoy:

Babs is pretty hostile/judgy toward Helena at first & is bitterly upset and hurt when Helena starts wearing a Bat costume - apparently a Batgirl costume - without asking her. Later on, Bruce chases Helena out of the costume, and Babs gives Cass the Batgirl costume with her explicit blessing. Helena and Cass never have a rivalry over this exactly, but I don't think they ever really get along, either

Babs and Helena eventually make up when Babs lets Helena join the Birds of Prey but it's rocky in the beginning - Babs dislikes Helena's methods and doesn't entirely trust her; Helena resents being kept on the outside

Steph is super-impressed by Cass and tries to get her to like her and they eventually get close, but Cass has a pretty low opinion of Steph-as-a-vigilante and doesn't hesitate to boss her around or knock her out, and she's super-hurt by Steph lying to her about what's going on during War Games (probably not unrelated: Cass is the only Bat to blame Steph instead of Bruce after Steph dies)

Babs and Cass get very close but also have tensions because Babs wants Cass to have the 'normal' life that Babs thinks she should've tried harder to have when she was younger, and Cass isn't entirely comfortable with this pressure, plus - this one I think is a bit more well-known - Babs spends a lot of time tutoring Cass and looking after her (awww), BUT ALSO in a tense moment she gets really nasty and harsh about Cass's reluctance to learn to read and calls her "stupid"

Dinah finds Steph REALLY annoying and wants her to stop tagging around after her... until she finds out about Steph's miserable home life, and then she appears like an avenging angel and kicks Steph's dad and his cronies out of the house

Babs decides to work with a guy who tortured Dinah because she thinks he's capable of redemption and Dinah is NOT HAPPY about it

Just generally, Steph and Helena are very much outsiders who don't get brought into the "core" Batfam and who aren't trusted with info like Bruce's secret identity. By contrast, Babs is an insider almost from Day 1 - she may have conflicts with Bruce, but she's also got his absolute trust - and Dinah is as insider as it gets, with a mom who was also Black Canary and a stint on the JLA

other general characterization notes that cause Conflict (TM):

Babs is pretty much a classic Bat - she's got a ton of control issues and she's an instinctively secretive workaholic

Helena is an adult who will kill people if she damn well feels it's necessary and she doesn't appreciate being lectured about it

Steph is a defensive teenage outsider with a bucketload of family problems - deadbeat evil dad! addict mom! - and when she's upset she's got a reckless self-destructive streak

Cass is very much like Bruce in that 1) she is wildly super mega good at fighting, 2) she's an instinctive loner who's comically bad at people AND YET she can nevertheless effortlessly manage to head off to a foreign country for a weekend and have a passionately-felt mutual love affair with some random criminal or something, and then that person dies & she goes home like nothing happened, 3) she cares about other people but completely sucks at communication & when in doubt will just go silent & take off or refuse to have conversations, 4) because she hates talking sometimes she'll just knock you out or hit you so that she won't have to do it, 5) she will spend an entire year planning to have a fight to the death with someone for Reasons and tell no one about it because why would she tell someone

anyway they're all terrible <3

[genericpuff]

vent post

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

You're allowed to call it "grief."

If I can get personal on y'all for a second... A therapist once told me that you're allowed to grieve for a place. (We moved a lot when I was a kid. It wasn't great.)

Tumblr is a place, and place is important. It's friends. It's shelter. It's comfort and routine, continuity between who you were and will be. And to leave a place is to suffer a loss, not like losing a person but still painful. Not the end of the world, but the end of a world that helped shape who you are.

You'll make new friends. Your new room will be better. That can be true, while not changing that you will lose touch with many of the people you love right now, you will lose the shelter you spent so long crafting.

Tumblr's terminal diagnosis has been a long time coming. And I give it solidly 50-50 odds on still being around a year from now. The Five Stages model may not replicate, but here's something that does: anticipatory grief. The grief of knowing that a loss is coming, a sad and strange gift that gives you time to get things in order and say all that you want to say with your goodbye.

So: thank you, everyone, for the last decade of silliness and righteousness, wisdom and stupidity. I'm hoping for another 10 years on this hellsite, but I'm also letting myself grieve.

[myimaginationplain]

I've come to the conclusion that being assigned the fandom-mandated "sunshine character" is the worst possible fate a character could face

[meyerlansky]

first time you watch the terror: who are all these sad white men in the exact same clothes with the exact same hats

fifth time you watch the terror, pointing at a three-pixel smudge on the edge of a wide shot: aw hey it's pilks! love that kid

[manderleyfire]

– What's keeping us apart ain't even real, your daddy, his religion, it's got nothing to do with us. – It's not just his, it's mine too. I've got the same spirit in me, why don't you see that?

Alice Englert and Walton Goggins in Them That Follow (2019), dir. Dan Madison Savage & Brittany Poulton

[rynli]

me: I should write the one-shot that lives in my head about Harry applying for a job

brain: you will write a whole casefic about Harry realizing being a cop already killed him once, acab applies even to Kim, and he needs to quit if he wants to get better

[rosieaurora]

i luv u fish man

[psymachine]

Your art is sooo good. 😵‍💫

To be contrarian, TOP fat Mac, maybe feeding Dennis and massaging him?

sorry to make this a little bit dumb but it was too good

uncensored version

[chameleocoonj]

dinosaurs based on various funky birds I saw at the state fair 🐔

[ruvviks]

Vitali kept cutting and cutting and cutting, tears dripping down onto his tank top and into the sink. He accidentally scraped one of the scissor blades past his finger- and his tears rapidly mixed with a few drops of deep red blood. He loved his hair. He had always done so- but his mother too. She had been obsessed with it, and when he had decided to bleach it she had been livid. But for some reason she had still allowed him to do it as many times as he wanted, as if she believed it would at least stop him from cutting it short, even after he had come out as transgender. And it had worked, somehow. He had never even dared to think about picking up a pair of scissors. Vitali let a single scream leave his lips as he threw the scissors down into the sink, gripping the edge tightly again as he nearly lost his balance. He was out of breath; shaky, shallow inhales providing him with just enough oxygen to not pass out, and he slowly looked back up at his reflection. And in that split second of realization, he regretted it. All of it. A sudden clarity washed over him and his sobs faltered, deafening silence washing over the bathroom as he carefully brushed his now neck-length hair out of his face. It was uneven; some strands barely even reached his chin. He looked different, now. Could barely recognize himself. — From Chapter 12: The Mother; read the full fic here

taglist (opt in/out)

@shellibisshe, @florbelles, @ncytiri, @hibernationsuit, @stars-of-the-heart;

@lestatlioncunt, @katsigian, @radioactiveshitstorm, @estevnys, @adelaidedrubman;

@celticwoman, @rindemption, @carlosoliveiraa, @noirapocalypto, @dickytwister;

@killerspinal, @euryalex, @ri-a-rose, @velocitic, @thedeadthree;

@jacobseed

[kiirous]

I just now figured out why I prefer not to read from the viewpoint of my favorite character, but rather from the viewpoint of the ship partner I read about. It's simple, really. I just want my favorite characters to be worshiped the way they deserve, and the best way to do that is by reading the viewpoint of their shipping partner. I do prefer to read my favorite character's viewpoint, though, when I'm in the mood to read about them suffering. Or it's none shippy.

[yombur]

hava's memories of bellamew will haunt me all my days.

[martyreasemymind]

for those of you who were disappointed in the last round of ppel0n screenshots for being "milquetoast", fear not as other people in the billy fandom who are also tired of this nonsense have been so kind as to round up and share with me more evidence of her shitty behavior.

not gonna give any commentary because i'm sick of spending my time on this festering piece of human pond scum and quite frankly she speaks for herself.

TW for under the cut: ableism, homophobia (the f slur)(among other things)