#are FASCINATING to me

[scionshtola]

at some point if you are a female sun seeker and no one ever beats your dad nunh do you just have to like. leave?? or does this not happen.

[kingofnootmare2]

I just gotta say this, I’m reading The Echo Garden by AltraViolet for the first time ever (since I saw fanart of it) and as someone who’s never read the MTMTE or LostLight comics…

I’ve learned SO MUCH information about how the Lost Light works purely from this one fanfic. It’s like I’m learning along with Soundwave. This is awesome. I’ve never understood something so much. It’s like I’m learning the Lost Light for the first time

[irkendogma]

sighing in resignation and admitting to myself i want to write a fic from the perspective of the deelishus weenie president guy exploring how tak appears through his severely limited perspective and the struggle through iz-human-standard kneecapped cognitive function to recognize something deeper than the surface level cover story of what's going on out of a misguided wholly human attempt to bond with the individual he's been made to recognize as his daughter, who gradually, disconcertingly seems less and less childlike at the same time as his "declining health" means he's conscious for shorter and shorter periods the longer he lets her "take care" of things in his stead

like i'm aware of how thoroughly outlandish and narratively deranged the premise is but i just can't help being compelled by the potential horror of having no choice in being the "dumb one" who by nature doesn't matter and doesn't realize the difference between themselves and the people who do

[odetokeons]

♱ Nosferatu (2024) dir. Robert Eggers ♱

+ bonus

[goldensunset]

did you know? if you do your laundry you can get your clothes back

[jackietaylorsghost]

YELLOWJACKETS 202. Edible Complex ➙ 309. How The Story Ends

[xpurplepiex]

look at these losers dawg they arent even co-workers anymore😭

[cronchy-baguette]

finished severance in one night yesterday and i'm obsessed

[nenoname]

the idea of mabel helping ford regain his love for puppets...

[eydilily]

would you bite the hand that feeds you?

[bookshelfpassageway]

yknow i dont go here but sometimes i gotta go: seriously respect clowns. they have the worst pop culture representation in the world and also the best most thorough honor code. they're just here to be silly little guys who bring joy and are very conscientious about doing so responsibly. let them to their merriment in peace you dont hafta take potshots. i dont go here but like maybe i should, you all seem super chill

[novelconcepts]

Also please let’s discuss the Other Tai of it all, because this is important to me. She isn’t evil. It’s incredibly important to understand she isn’t evil. She’s hungry. She’s hungry for all the things that kept Taissa alive in the woods. She IS the thing that kept Taissa alive in the woods, in her own way. She was the very essence of nature. She was dirt and trees and need. What kept Tai alive out there? Food. Meat. Van. What does Other Tai naturally gravitate toward, trying to steer Taissa toward the things she needs? Food. Meat. Van. That political career? Theater. That family polished to a shine? Facade. What really matters, when everything else is shorn away? Food. Meat. Van. Base impulse. First loves and full bellies. She isn’t evil. She’s trying to keep Tai fed and alive, as she always has. It just comes at such a terrible cost.

[otaku553]

Cooking up something reaaaalllyyy silly right now

Uhhhh cookie run kingdom tgcf au with pure vanilla as xie lian and shadow milk as jun wu. Do you see the vision

[aroaceleovaldez]

i have suddenly become obsessed with a theme that HoO established but never proceeded to extrapolate on, which is:

You are Percy Jackson, and you have been swapped with a boy who was allegedly everyone's favorite person, but they have decided to replace him with you. They just met you. You stand next to his best friend and the people he's known his entire life. In his home. In his cloak. In his place. They stopped looking for him.

You are Jason Grace, and you have just found out you have a long lost sister who completely replaced you in her life with this girl you just met. Your lives and personalities are mirrors. She is you, living the life you were robbed of.

You are Annabeth Chase, and you have just become starkly aware that you have been inhabiting the void left behind by your best friend's long lost brother. You and Luke were just replacements for him. Now you have to look him in the eyes when he has nothing and know you took that life from him.

You are Piper McLean, and you have just found out your relationship is fake and built entirely on the memories of Annabeth Chase. You have been given a boyfriend when hers has been taken away. You have no idea how much of it is real or not but regardless you feel like if your relationship isn't exactly in their image that you have failed.

You are Leo Valdez, and you have just learned that you are the echo of your great-grandfather. You are not your own person. You just exist to be a mirror of him. A doppelganger. An actor and stunt double facing all the danger he never had to but wearing his face. To be there for his best friend decades later simply because he couldn't. You are playing a role. A seventh wheel and a pawn for a goddess who carefully sculpted your entire life for her own purposes.

You are Hazel Levesque, and the only reason you are alive is because your brother couldn't save your his sister. You are a consolation prize. An apology. Your existence here is misplaced in every way but you inhabit it anyways.

You are Frank Zhang, and you are a shapeshifter. Inhabiting your own body feels strange and clumsy when you could be literally anything at any time. You are anything and everything and live your life with the simple certainty of knowing exactly how you will die.

[valtsv]

obsessed with the idea of time as a physical location. the way you can use "back then" and "back there" interchangeably. time "travel". old memories being described as "distant", as if where they took place corresponds with when. the way that being unable to let go of the past is referred to as an inability to "move on". death, the cessation of motion of both body and time for the affected individual, being a point of "rest". the past is another country; they do things differently there.

[platoapproved]

armand + laws, customs, & rituals