#because that's what I do

[fallen6253]

Little extra ORV thingy (bc I can't shut up apparently)

Just coming to the realization that Han Sooyoung’s Avatar skill (as it stems from her author title) comes from the tendency of a writer to place themselves in someone else’s shoes in like the most ORV way.  They pretend to be someone else for a moment and gauge their emotions, actions, what they experience.  And that sort of copies into the real world as a clone skill.  They create this whole other person that may resemble someone else but has not existed that way until now.  So each time I see the Avatar skill in effect I think about the sort of characters Han Sooyoung thinks about.  The people she sees in the world and takes inspiration from for whatever character she needs in a moment.  And I think about how she uses this same sort of inspiration when she wrote both novels, but they were in a more direct way.  When writing TWSA she brought together whatever she could remember about the original, whatever Kim Dokja told her, what Yoo Joonghyuk said or showed, and any of her own experiences.  Then the same thing happened when she wrote ORV, it was just on a larger, more personal scale.  Every piece from the company and herself, she carefully translated and placed into the novel so it would be comprehensible.  

Love the looping theme too where she becomes an author with the Avatar, and also develops a weird form of DID because of it too.

I know this was likely explained long ago by the novel or someone else, but I wanted to say it myself anyway. And it's like really hitting me now.

[henryyarden]

This anonymous spam asks are not even funny anymore. I'm tired of waking up to a bunch of nonsense in my notifications, so I'm just gonna pretend these are real asks I could potentially answer to.

Are you still working on the Iorveth cosplay?

Wow! Thanks for this ask! I'm in fact still working on it, and can't wait for more #rorveth photoshoots!

I had a little break because my other favourite game Kingdom Come: Deliverance is getting a sequel and I kinda did a speedrun of Hans Capon's cosplay.

But Iorveth is still in the game! During the summer I'll really try to do my best and move with the progress a bit.

[illiana-mystery]

I got a bad case of Gobby fever. 🤒

[disappearinginq]

🌹🌹🌹

From Tracker “A malpractice suit?” Colter suggested, refusing to stand. The straight jacket made it difficult to maneuver, but even if he was standing in a padded room, he had no interest in falling flat on his face in front of the man, or his orderlies.

[dreamswillbeyourwintermeat]

Took three weeks off from sailing because I sprained my damn elbow like an idiot, and no one even noticed I wasn't there.

[kaarijas]

we are domi — paradise

is this what home feels like when it's built right feels like i'm paralyzed when you're by my side close your eyes and let the moment rewind until you realise this must be paradise

[lgbtlunaverse]

The world exists in such a baffling state of simultaneous sex-aversion and sex-hegemony. Every social platform on the internet is trying to banish sex workers to the shadow realm but I can't post a tweet without at least two bots replying P U S S Y I N B I O. People are self-censoring sex to seggs and $3× but every other ad you see is still filled with half-naked women. Rightwingers want queer people arrested for so much as existing in the same postal code as a child and are also drumming up a moral panic about how teenage boys aren't getting laid enough. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

[demaparbat-hp]

That infamous prison escape.

[eurekq]

Love and light to marcille but she has the worst fucking opinions on God's good earth

[tanjir0se]

Disclaimer these are just a small sampling of some possible writer traits I’ve noticed either in myself or in fics I read. Also consider a rb for sample size !

[krysmcscience]

Did somebody say Bill shouldn't be allowed to swear? I think somebody said Bill shouldn't be allowed to swear. Thanks to that, have these retooled The Good Place jokes:

The "powers that be" can refer to either the Theraprism staff, the Axolotl, or just. Ya know. Disney in general. Or all three! Whichever you think is funniest. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The "party" Bill's referring to is Weirdmageddon, of course. He was quite the ashhole to everyone back then.

Ford has probably gotten pretty good at the 'tune out your psychopathic ex with dank memes' challenge.

It must be very cathartic to be able to make Bill shut up whenever you want with just the press of a button. I'm sure Ford doesn't abuse this ability at all.

Oh, sure, 'Not now,' he says, before he immediately backs out of the newly-made hole in the Theraprism wall. 🙄

Don't worry, Bill doesn't get far.

also yeah i know this one doesn't have an attempted swear - i just wanted to use the joke because of the massive stink-eye involved in it because it makes me laugh

⬇️ More goofs beneath the brief ramble if you wanna skip it lmao⬇️

Why is Ford even there, you might ask? Well, he either decided he preferred to watch Bill suffer in person over being distantly and repeatedly harassed with the same evil desperation book for the rest of his life, or he got roped into some kind of contrived community service for 1.) all his many counts of interdimensional thievery, and 2.) his ignoring all the very clear warnings to NOT summon Bill in the first place (which I like to imagine is also illegal). Theraprism staff were just like, 'Wait, this guy matters to Bill? Ooh, we can USE that! It might be the only thing that can help him want to get better!' It is not considered that throwing Ford at Bill so soon after Weirdmageddon could instead make them both WORSE - in new and altogether special ways! :D

Anyway, I'm calling it the Community Service AU, and I am most likely not going to do anything else with it beyond appropriating these silly Good Place jokes. So, feel free to adopt the concept if y'all wanna??? Just make sure that Bill is still not allowed to swear, no matter what, full stop. It's gotta be a real linguistic corkblork of a situation for him, is all I'm sayin'.

Finally, have these bonus Good Place jokes, but with Handyman!Bill this time:

'Opposite tortures' doesn't sound so bad...at least until it's an all-powerful chaos entity known for torture saying it.

you may think i forgot mabel's cute pink cheeks but the truth is that i did in fact forget but then immediately stopped caring which makes it okay, SHHHHHHH

And, finally:

lmao this is shit

True facts, if you cram Season 1 Eleanor Shellstrop and Michael into a singular triangle shape, they turn into Bill Cipher. This is science, look it up. Or don't, and just trust the source that is me, bro.

Anyway, I should be in bed, y'all have fun with these, I guess. Tune in after like a week or so and maybe I'll have an addendum to my comic about how Bill was drawn naked for karaoke night. Because him actually being naked was not the only thing I considered as a plausible explanation. XD

Also if you see any inconsistencies or errors in any of these comics, No You Do Not :D

Also also, reblogs are rad as hell and I appreciate every single one, just don't repost, please and thanks. Every time a repost is made, an artist somewhere cries. :,)

[dr11ft]

chicana miku 🤎

[normal-thoughts-official]

donated 50 reais to a palestinian GFM today

it amounted to 8 dollars

several days' worth of expenses for me became a single digit donation for them. barely enough for a blanket. just like that

it really sucks to know that my money is inherently less helpful no matter how much it'd pay for me, and there's nothing i can do

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

Also increasingly aware that a LOT of people "manage" getting through the 40+ hour work week by sleeping less than is healthy and relying on stimulants like coffee and energy drinks to keep them going.

For people who are unwilling or unable to do this...work really does just dominate your life. Like we really should not have to rely on unhealthy practices just to have a social life or keep on top of housework or whatever.

I know I post about this a lot but I'm so TIRED all the time and it's just so depressing that this is how we're expected to spend the one life we have.

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[artkaninchenbau]

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus