#and that fictional band is my life

[miesozernacma]

twins on da bass

(only one knows how to play and its the short haired girl)

[cassiebones]

i apparently don't know spanish that well bc I'm trying to find a cute love song in spanish for agathario to have played for them by a mariachi (preferably one by selena quintanilla) and I'm learning that all the songs I thought were love songs in my childhood were, in fact, breakup songs and songs about domestic abuse

my childhood is a lie

[hofftrans]

very real very canon information about Peter strahm that was revealed to me through psychic visions->

Peter loves collecting vinyl, especially divorced dad rock bands and is an absolute asshole about people's music tastes. Like the kind of guy who only asks you who you listen to so he can immediately insult the band. Unironally asks the "name five of their albums" question to fans. Gets extremely snarky about the digital v vinyl debate.

Mark creates a new hobby where he'll wait for a lull in conversation before saying he thinks one direction has had a bigger cultural impact than pink Floyd so he can watch Peter try and drive the car directly into a tree

[kal-thas]

friend sent me this.

which honestly i think is fucking hilarious. "creepy" bitch its queer people existing. this is tame. disrespectfully, you couldnt handle my creepy shit.

this is now a challenge. my art will now be queerer and more 'creepy' .

[unfamiliaris]

ghost fixation came in at exactly the right time ... I'm in rome and will be going thru italy proper very soon .... need to take notes on everything I see so I can write good fics about this

[yeats-infection]

this happened today

[andreaheartscats]

I'M WORKING ON TOM KAULITZ ONE SHOT SO BEAR WITH ME PLS. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING BUT I'M JUST DOING IT.

[immortalsins]

i am so serious i need to find some tips for autistic people to get stuff done when all passion has gone out the window. past exam seasons i haven't had much of a focus for my energy, so whilst it's hard to study like that, i can kind of concentrate everything on work. this time all i can think of is something unrelated (my silly bands) and logically i know that this is my whole degree at stake but autistically i can't get myself to do it. this is so stupid to type out but i'm realising that discipline means nothing to autistic obsession

[allylikethecat]

new ducklings!

i can't believe you have made me sympathize with jamie oborne!!!! the first thing i learned when joining this fandom is we don't like jamie oborne

im glad fictional!matty has some kind of a support system tho!

i looooled at him thinking about whether george noticed his ass

(george pov next ch? george pov next queen?)

very excited for whats coming up next

Yay!! Thank you so much for reading and also taking the time to send me this ask. Like seriously, thank you so much!! I have completely given myself a complex that I have gone in the absolute wrong direction with the new chapter / the fic and I am so completely grateful to hear that you have enjoyed it! Since I don't have a beta reader anymore, I get myself completely freaked out when no one comments / sends any asks - I worry people have hated the update and are just too kind and polite to say so (even though I am open to constructive and KIND not bashing or hateful criticism!) So thank you again for just... letting me know that maybe what I wrote wasn't the worst!

LOL I know IRL Jamie Oborne isn't the greatest BUT wow does his Fictional counterpart have potential lol I love my fictionalized long suffering version of him- it's my way of being like "ta-da I fixed it!" Fictional!Jamie was just trying to make some money and somehow ended up with the train wreck that is fictional!Matty as his bonus son lol

Fictional!Matty has gotten to the point where he is pretty sure he just wants HIS Fictional!George back (even though he's not sure if he deserves it) and if he's gotta shake his now existent ass to get it, he is going to! (Fictional!Matty has never had an ass before okay, he's excited about this development and he really is hoping that Fictional!George notices and is also excited about it)

I am so excited about the next chapter you don't even know!! 😈 I kind of went off outline for a while there and lost direction but there is a bit of direction coming up and I am very excited about the next few updates - I hope you guys enjoy them as much as I have been enjoying outlining and working on them!!

Thank you SO MUCH for reading and SO SO SO MUCH for sending in this ask!! You have literally, metaphorically, talked me off a cliff by sending this ask and I am forever grateful for that!! I hope you continue to enjoy Ducklings and that you not only had THE BEST Tuesday, but that you ALSO have the very best week! Thank you again!

❤️Ally

[fuck-kirk]

Sometimes I feel like I’m such a BTS dark horse…I stream the hell out of their music, I buy all their albums and a lot of official merch and watch all official content. They’ve been my top artist on Spotify wrapped for 6 years straight. Yet I hardly ever talk about or post about them anywhere, and I don’t really keep up with them or their lives.

Like I’ve just never been apart of the “fandom” but I just really love BTS so much. They mean so much to me but honestly I think most people don’t even know how into them I am. I talk about them more irl than I do online lol

[jonny-b-meowborn]

gays will have silly little dreams where they meet the mechanisms (the actual immortal pirates from space) and get a lil flirty with at least one of them

[permanentreverie]

omg I just realized Tumblr cut off my tags on my reading log because I had to do it on desktop since it's impossible to access my original post on mobile because of that dumbass update and desktop doesn't tell you you've hit your tag limit so my tag review of beyond the story is gone I'm going to commit mass murder in the Tumblr headquarters

[truckfreaks]

all the boys i have ever loved have been digital

i've been a guest

on a screen or in a book

you may have been made for love

but i'm just made

[boredymcbored]

I was perfectly fine not going back to read the prequel just cause it's been 10 years since I've read the books and I'm okay with leaving the story as is, but THIS... this post might have changed my mind.

Suzanne collins wrote a trilogy where a main media propaganda strategy was to market a horrific act of violence as a love story to distract ppl and then it got adapted into a box office breaking movie and ppl made it all about the love triangle. so then since they didn’t get the point the first time Suzanne collins wrote a prequel story about the main dictator and she makes it so that you as a reader want it to be a genuine love story so badly even tho it’s so very clearly not and instead feels extremely unsettling to make her point even more meta which then gets adapted into another box office breaking film and now ppl are making romantic snowbaird tik toks. do u think she’s gonna write another book that’s somehow even more blatant or just give up and start executing ppl? hard to say but I wouldn’t blame her for the second one

[dork-master]

shit dawg, my loneliness has gotten back to the point of "i see other fans enjoying the thing i enjoy, which "hurts" me cause I'm the (content)creators bestie, only me"

i need to see my therapist again, and fucking soon, ohmygod

[tearlessrain]

please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!

gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.

SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:

diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.

non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.

the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.

now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.

if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.

it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.

but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.