#and other connective tissues

[noxious-fennec]

C!Q + vylette's fit from Jawbreaker

(aka an idea I've had for every conceivable holiday for months and decidedly couldn't put out on an appropriate date)

[cchocolatekat]

[evocatiio]

if chibnall was the one writing this season you lot would be talking VERY differently

[primrosebitch]

honestly i've spent so long being chronically ill that it's become a large part of my identity and i don't know what i'd do if i got better, i don't enjoy it but i almost don't want to get better because of how ingrained it is in my life, like get better as in be cured not as in reducing symptoms, which i do want, being able to do more stuff would be great.

[short666bread]

Their fridge

[definitelynotshouting]

20 and/or 29, for the AO3 ask game?

ao3 wrapped game

20.) Which work of yours have you reread the most?

oh, definitely lost in the dark (he's got a heavy heart) 😭😭😭💀💀💀💀 purely because if i DONT reread it, i will inevitably forget details SIDHDJJDJSS. Honestly tho, i dont often reread my works?? Like i do on occasion, but the bulk of my time is usually spent writing new things rather than rereading old :]

29.) Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

Honestly?? My opener from Through the Looking Glass, Darkly:

Years ago, when the sculk festering in this rotten cathedral finally dragged its roots down to water and poisoned the well, Gem had wondered, idly, if the city of Hermitopia was akin to an egg.

Peering at it sideways, there was a certain beatific logic to it; the ley lines running underneath these streets had always reeked of sulfur, for those actually brave enough to skirt close and smell it. She’d made her living in the hairline fractures of its putrefying shell, one empty bullet casing at a time—and when the first mutations began to catalyze, the imagery had stuck with her: a great, big, putrid egg, oozing lifeblood in the form of fetid yolk.

Mutated crime had only been the first crack in a society collapsing underneath the weight of its own decaying underbelly, but she hadn’t spared it much thought beyond that. Sometimes, cities sink; Hermitopia sat on a wall. Hermitopia had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men—

Well.

You know what they say about omelettes.

“... Alright!” Impulse’s voice echoes over itself in a multi-layered choir, bouncing off half-ragged walls and burrowing in amongst the sculk. “Well, she could definitely use a bit of an updo, but… yeah! Here it is!”

An understatement; Forgery’s former lair is a cyan-speckled, moldering infestation, three-quarters sculk and still growing. Here at its center, ravenous fingers have already punched their way into stone, scrawling up the vaulted walls in strange, fungal swoops—letters without language, glyphs without meaning. Spokes reaching out from a glistening pool. The pale glint of sculk in liquid culture is… mesmerizing, a tapestry of night stretched taut and encrusted with stars. Hemmed in by something akin to thick, yellow limestone, the malignant mixture in the cistern below them undulates in time with every echo—and when Gem peers into it, locks her gaze with that yearning abyss, her skin begins to crawl.

Impulse had called it the Catalyst. Gem calls it for what it really is:

Hungry.

Im particularly proud of the different metaphors i was able to meld together and carry all within these nine paragraphs-- i think my favorite is the Humpty Dumpty line referring to Hermitopia as a broken, rotting egg, but a very close second is the comparison of sculk on the walls to glyphs in a language without meaning. My goal with that one was to retroactively build on a thread from @/alicenotalice 's piece The Wardens of Tomorrow-- there's a section where Impulse, in the process of being consumed by sculk, mentions that it sings to him, and i wanted to help set up and boost that absolutely beautiful imagery in advance for her :] i like to think i succeeded, and either way these paragraphs came out very strong, so im very, very fond of them

[crippy-tangerine]

Pros of dissociating so much you cannot tell what’s going on: it is easier to ignore bodily disability symptoms! Yay! Get to pretend you are healed and abled!! Able-bodied and healthy!! Yay!!!! We are the epitome of health 🎉.

Cons of dissociating so much you cannot tell what’s going on: it is easier to ignore bodily disability symptoms…. (You are NOT healed, you are getting worse!) (your body is deteriorating and all you do is pretend it isn’t happening) (uh oh!!).

-> Our body is low-key falling apart and we are simply ignoring it. This is so healthy and good. We are so able bodied.!! (/most sarcastic tone ever… This whole post is in a sarcastic and frustrated tone! Cannot recommend ignoring your symptoms at all!!! We just… Cannot get the level of care we need right now, and it is taking its toll…).

[catboy-jupiter]

i'll be like "i'm a god of writing" and then an hour passes after i post or submit something and i'll be like "i'm so dumb there's so much i could've done better if only i'd waited a bit and looked at it with fresh eyes i would've noticed how much it sucks & what i could've improved that looks so much like first draft material there's so many revisions i could make why i am i so impulsive and overconfident" and then i'll start writing something else and be like "i'm a god of writing" again

[camilla-obscura]

the solicule structure is so funny like dramatic conspiracy board where all the red string leads to one person ass polycule shape

the current state of the solicule as of november 2024

[skrunksthatwunk]

ohhhh this essay was like. definitely plagiarized at least a little bit (<- peer reviewing in the club tonite)

[jackals-ships]

i can't be too surprised tho bc my skin Does turn pink/red very easily which is hilarious when im Lightly Itching and it instead looks like i mauled myself

my sibling has the same thing and I mostly use that power to Draw Dicks On Them 😌

[variousqueerthings]

You like Doctor Who AND Black Sails???? Absolutely chef kiss, cannot believe we share a brain

yeah, I did for a hot second have a separate blog for Black Sails because I actually made this one to be specifically not fandom-related (3 years on and... well.....) so I'm slowly bringing my black sails posting over here instead, fuckit!

thing about Black Sails for me is that on the whole I find it such a perfectly constructed bit of storytelling, with critique that has already been formulated better by other people, that I never know quite what to say about it that hasn't been said, youknow?

it's the show that I've watched that has felt the most like reading a book, with every season leading into one another and the themes introduced in s1 wrapping up in s4, and every piece interacting with one another, and you have to trust that the questions and thematic concepts raised at the beginning have real weight and will go places, which in this day and age of TV is a big ask, because most of the time a TV show has to work one season at a time/doesn't plan that far ahead, lest it get cancelled and/or stretches into depressing perpetuity

(or it's Doctor Who of course, which is just its own monster/mythology at this point, moreso than perhaps any other show, I'd say including Star Trek perhaps...)

but yeah, Black Sails. that's a journey that really matters, you get to the end and you've been holding your breath since probably s2, and you're realising that this is something that TV can do -- I think other shows that have manage the closest (for me) have been miniseries like Chernobyl or Pride & Prejudice and the like, because they've had that clear knowledge that this is the episodes they have, this is where it starts and ends, these are the ways everything talks with one another (Chernobyl and Black Sails especially have in common that the ending makes one want to go back to the beginning, because it's a realisation of OH THIS IS WHAT YOU'VE BEEN SAYING FROM DAY ONE!), but I've not seen it as strongly or as well-constructed (or... finished for that matter) in anything that had multiple seasons like this

+ youknow. multiple polyamorous relationships in different structures, multiple ways of discussing connection and love none of which are more important than the other for being a specific kind, multiple deconstructions of masculinity in popular mythology (pirates), banging sea battles and sword fights, plot moments that take your breath away, political commentary that makes you punch the air, and bits that have you going "OH I READ THIS BIT IN TREASURE ISLAND!!!" (but also you don't need to have read treasure island to watch it... potentially OH YEAH THIS GUY WAS A CYBORG IN TREASURE PLANET 😂)

Black Sails is kind of special. Truly one of a kind

EDIT: ALSO WANTED TO SAY HELL YEAH HIGH FIVE FOR BLACK SAILS AND DOCTOR WHO!

[theboyofalltime]

Got my first mobility aids today, but also am scared to use them when I need them incase anyone bullies me for “Faking it.” Perhaps I should just go for it.

[akkivee]

Hi, Vee! Did you see the trailer for the Shadow The Hedgehog Dark Beginnings 3 episode animation? 👀

I DID LOL i was just about to make a post about it actually like the poster alone had me shocked when it was revealed like

EMERL???????? IN THE YEAR 2024???????

LOOK ITS TEAM DARK!!!!!!!!!

THE ROCKET FROM SA2????? THATS GERALD POSED AS HE WAS IN HIS FINAL MESSAGE DAMNING HUMANITY??????????

MARIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

and then the trailer itself lmao i was in shambles in the middle of the king records panel pls watch some peak y’all lmao

besides the heart wrenching moment with maria, something i particularly liked about the trailer was the way shadow and emerl were being framed as enemies of a similar ilk like

shadow with his red energy??? kinda unnatural glowing quills???? emerl with a very familiar rich blue glow to his robotic eyes???? emerl’s way of fighting mirroring shadow’s in those last few frames????

like it’s riffing a bit off of shadow and sonic’s rivalry while highlighting their manufactured origins, the lab with all the energy (chaos energy maybe??), AND I LOVE TO SEE IT LOL

[madsciencestudent]

Writing and messing with early scenes for Idyia and Rubra-Harenas after having SO MUCH fermenting in my head for like two months now is hard. Because most of me is re-reading what I spewed on the document is going 'Hmmmm.... Are they being too open and friendly with each other WAY too soon?'

And then there's the rest of me going 'YOU TWO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE BEST FRIENDS!! HURRY UP AND BE FRIENDS ALREADY!!!'

[shirogane-oushirou]

very funny that i found toren right after i came back here, so i didn't have the time to ramble post about digi!ren. but please understand he's still in one corner of the microwave. bc i adore him... and also simply bc i want to microwave him <3