#before i can even make the joke

[scribespirare]

sous chef called me 'bubbly' the other day and my entire body recoiled in disgust still thinking about it tbch

[choccy-milky]

herbology class 🌹🌿 (from chap 2 of my fic!)

[puppppppppy]

act 4 :(

@chipper-smol and i came to a realization

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

As per usual, it’s DP crossover with (probably) DC, although you could probably adjust it for other fandoms

ANYWAYS

A little kid and his mother are trick or treating in another city, perhaps at some kind of event rather than knocking on doors, and the kid is dressed as Phantom. It’s very adorable, with his little ghost-shaped bucket and clearly homemade and already stained costume—listen, white only works if you can just fly over street grime or phase it out of your clothes—and his slightly I’ll fitting wig. The kid is SO happy to be out and about dressed as his favorite, and maybe even showed it off to Phantom back in Amity Park before his family left.

The hero, insert whoever you wish here, is probably in civvies and just enjoying the event. The kid, meanwhile, is so glad when people ask who he is so he can explain, and so- the hero gets to hear ALL ABOUT the local town hero who is probably pretty small time despite the kid’s clearly exaggerated stories. The hero certainly never heard of him, but the kid’s mom confirms that Phantom really was the town hero, despite some mixed reviews of the poor guy.

“Did you manage to show him your costume?” the hero asks.

“Yeah! We went down to the cemetery to leave flowers and I got to show him my costume.”

Wait. Cemetery? Maybe it was part of theme, because Phantom had to be named that for a reason, but… it sounded like…

The kid ignores the suddenly VERY still hero and instead turns to his mom. “Momma, do you think we should bring him candy? He doesn’t get to trick or treat like we do, and I can work super hard to get him a bunch!”

The kid’s mom just smiles. “We could, but maybe we should bring him something homemade. I bet he’d like something more filling, teen boys like him have a hollow leg.”

The kid wrinkles his nose. “Like Vernie with the pizza bagels?”

“Like your cousin, yes. We can make some cinnamon rolls and take them to his memorial, maybe bring some of the apples from your grandpa’s garden…”

The hero is pretty much forgotten as the two-part family wanders off, not quite intentionally forgetting the hero is there so much as the hero somewhat accidentally ended the conversation when they just froze and didn’t ask anything further.

Not that the hero didn’t want to. But they’d learn something very serious.

One—there was a small town hero they’d never heard of. Two—that hero was apparently a teen. Third—most pressingly, the teen hero was both beloved enough to have kids dressing up as him and dead enough to have a grave.

This… might require some phone calls.

[bumblingbabooshka]

Thinking about marriage/women's rights on Vulcan Some may think that T'Pring not being allowed to divorce Spock was because he was going through the pon farr but if she were allowed to divorce him at all she probably would have done that a long time ago, confirmed by T'Pol when she's speaking with Koss, who isn't suffering from the pon farr. She says that he can choose another mate (without invoking a fight it seems: note the difference between a 'mate' and a 'challenger') and after he makes it clear that nothing she says will change his mind about marrying her, she finally threatens to declare a kal-if-fee. It's clear that Vulcan women cannot divorce/refuse to marry a man they've been betrothed to under any circumstances if A) He himself doesn't consent to ending their marriage or B) She doesn't have someone else waiting in the wings to be given to in his stead. Though, if the challenger she selects fails to win the fight, she'll have to marry her betrothed anyway unless (again) he decides he doesn't want her after the challenge. That seems like an incredibly unfair system, heavily biased towards men. SNW is an alternate universe in many obvious respects but most egregiously in that T'Pring has a lot of non-canonical agency over her relationship with Spock. It's interesting to me that Vulcan society has women in many positions of power and treats women as equal to men from what I've seen despite these laws. We don't really see Vulcans exhibiting a misogynistic attitude towards women in general but in TOS (perhaps because of its general writing style but it's still interesting to note) both Sarek and Spock take on patriarchal attitudes specifically regarding wives. Amanda says that 'of course' Sarek commands her because "he is a Vulcan and I am his wife." It's worthwhile in my eyes to note that she specifies 'wife' instead of attributing this attitude to women as a whole. Again, with TOS' writing style it wouldn't be out of place for her to say "he is a man and I am a woman." Spock, while in a pon farr induced irritation, states that it's "undignified for a woman to play servant to a man that isn't hers" - again implying that there's something specific about being a Wife in Vulcan society which is different from being a woman in general and demands subservience to a husband. This could perhaps stem from the extreme sense of ownership that Vulcan law has permitted men to have over women. A woman legally cannot point blank refuse marriage. There is no option which guarantees she won't have to marry her betrothed other than death. When T'Pau speaks of T'Pring she refers to her as being 'property' and Stonn, before being interrupted, states he's made 'the ancient claim' - we don't know what this is because he gets cut off but it's obvious they're both using the language of Vulcan law. Men are permitted true freedom to choose. If a woman wants to choose someone else to be with there is no option available to her other than the kal-if-fee which might result in the death of the one she wants to be with. And, if her lover fails, her husband can still just decide he wants to marry her and she'll be forced to. T'Pring gives two scenarios: One where Spock 'frees' her and one where he doesn't - it's still ultimately his decision which is clear when he ends the conversation with "Stonn, she is yours." This again isn't just because of the pon farr as T'Pol also goes through this. Koss can choose another mate and when the option is talked about there's no implication that this would result in any sort of fight (both by the casualness of its mention and by the fact that there's no formal word for it unlike the kal-if-fee.) Also, the fact that Koss does eventually grant T'Pol a divorce and it's all fine means that T'Pol isn't lawfully required to have another man waiting if her HUSBAND doesn't want her. It's ONLY required if SHE doesn't want her husband. Tradition must take precedence over individual desire UNLESS!!! You're a man. Then it's fine. Like, your parents might not be happy but legally you're golden.

[twisting-in-wonderland]

Tsum boss battle-

bonus(?) and wip stuff under readmore (lol)

I would play a twst rpg - Deuce would be a good heavy physical defense and physical attacker methinks

wips - 'lineart' and the original deuce and tsum sketch that i deemed too boring, so the boss battle was drawn instead lol

[umblrspectrum]

updated some ref sheets and also actually made jcj one

[quartergremlin]

I love your post about balding Casey. There’s something beautiful about growing older. It warms my little LGBTQ+ heart to see LGBTQ+ characters grow older 💜

Thank you! I know "haha 👉 bald" is a tried and true facet of comedy, but I wanted to take this seriously. Balding and aging aren't a terrible misfortune that happens to people when all their youth is shriveled up. It's just a part of life.

"Look at you, finally joining the bald beauties!"

[sergle]

people being dramatic about "american cheese" (in quotes bc americans didn't make it) is one of my favorite topics because it's funny to see people talk about it like it's a biohazardous waste when it's literally just Cheddar That Has Been Watered Down With Milk, And Then Emulsified

[thetimelordbatgirl]

The fact that Labour actually seems to be acting like disability doesn't hit you until after you turn twenty two with their idea of not allowing anyone under twenty two to get health benefits on top of the normal universial credit payments, like... Do they fucking think people under twenty two with disabilities in need of support money wise dont fucking exist??? Or do they fucking think if they do exist, that they can somehow work these disabilities off even when they cannot at all??? Let alone that employers actually exist out there for all these young disabled workers??? Because that's something THAT LABOUR STILL HAS YET TO ACKNOWLEDGE!

[smokszyvverstar]

My brother showed me a song and I had to do this. It took me like four days or so

Celebi inviting Dusknoir into the polycule

[another-faceless-girl]

okay okay ive had time to process and i just need to express how utterly tragic Louella and Lou Lou are to me yknow!??!

imagine your 12 years old and you practically get sentenced to death but look! heres your big brother hell protect you! maybe you even entertain this idea that you could win! your 12 after all and everything seems possible!

then you die and are lain at the dictators feet as a threat a spark of rebellion even and maybe this could be your legacy! the one thing to make people remember you maybe your death could spark the rebellion or even just warm the flames! this could be what your remembered for!? oh but then they manage to cut the footage and your last piece of memory of maybe helping to start something is cut.

but oh no! people will remember that you were drawn in the reaping! there are always people who like to bet on underdogs so theres bound to be someone who remembers there was a little girl as tribute right? wrong.

theyve replaced you with someone who looks exactly like you but is crazy. that is how you are portrayed to the public all they see is a nuts little girl who cant possibly win the game thats all you are an imposter and a bad bet. no one will remember you and you will leave no legacy behind. your forever forgotten as just one weird tribute in the Quarter Quell.

now imagine being Lou Lou

taken away from everything youve ever known and loved. do you know why? no. you probably had nothing to do with it. maybe someone in your family rebelled a little too hard and now your facing the consequences. not like you can do anything about it.

youve been taken to The Capitol and your mind has been hacked what do you remember? what do you know? thats theres nothing but the drugs pumping through your veins and your "usefulness" keeping you alive thats for sure. your minds been shattered youve been shattered. who even were you? no one? nothing? no one worth fighting for definitely. no one worth remembering.

theres someone always whispering in your ear now telling you what to do listening to what someones saying you don't know what their saying you dont know anything! but thats what got you in this whole mess in the first place right? not knowing anything.

your reshaped now. you cant even remember what you looked like before but you know it wasnt this. you feel different. so different.

new people now. you cant even understand half the words that come out their mouth but its clear they dont like you and they dont want you there. where? here? what is here?

then your thrown somewhere. its pretty and colourful and you want to eat everything you possibly can it all smells so good but these people have gotten a handle on you and tell you not to eat anything. it kind of slides through your brain but you try to remember it.

then a boy gets in the way of something. he tells you to find Haymitch so you do! Hes hiding in a bush the silly guy! youll bring him back and you could all hug like you did before this weird pretty place.

he takes you with him and you feel like you almost belong somewhere. he reminds you of someone but it hurts to try and remember who. he musses your hair and keeps an eye out.

then you see something that you remember! it's lovely and warm and smells so good but oh no now it hurts it hurts so bad and why is this happening you barely got anytime to live as yourself and then you had to live as another girl and now your being smothered and theres Haymitch and everything hurts and maybe hes crying but it hurts and now your gone.

forever forgotten. what even happened to your family? did they watch the hunger games and recognise you? maybe. youll never know. you didnt even know yourself by the end of it forced to be some pretender of a girl you didnt even know. maybe you two would have been friends if you got the chance. oh well not like youll ever find out.

oh Louella if only youd had a chance to live.

oh Lou Lou if only youd had a chance to love.

[tuupii]

too catholic to reblog memes about the pope's death but not catholic enough to not read gay priest fanfictions

[busiest-bee]

I drew him being miserable (bcuz he’s a wet cat of a man) but felt bad. Gave him lollipop.

[stupidlittlespirit]

Okay so! I'll put this under a cut but this is where I write Reader from.

MtB!Reader is in Gravity Falls by choice. It was an active decision to move away from their home city (I don't have a specific one in mind bc I'm in the UK, so this means literally any city lol) because of ongoing stress. Both with work and with family.

They sold all the shit that they owned, put the few things they couldn't bear to leave behind in their van, and just started driving. No plan, no intention, just head empty and escape.

For a while, they slept in the back of their van. When it became clear that it was unsafe to do so (and bad for their poor back), they realised they'd need to find somewhere to live for a little while. The idea had been just for them to stop over somewhere for a bit, just a short stay to work and save up cash. So, they woke up one morning and swore that the next town they drove into would be the one they stayed in to make that happen.

That town happened to be Gravity Falls.

With the last bit of cash they had, they bought the local paper and that's where they saw the ad for the diner. They took it. To begin with, they'd planned to live out of their van and work until they could rent somewhere, but Susan had refused and told them she knew a guy with a spare cabin he never used (his name is Ron; nice fella!). They managed to bag it, even without a down payment, and they moved in.

Reader was fairly (horribly) depressed at the time they took the waitstaff position and they didn't want to work in that line, but they knew they had no choice. So, they started but they quickly got bored. Susan is lovely but the service industry sucks and it got old fast. They were thinking of moving on again, even though it had only been a few weeks. They didn't have much going for them and they'd no intention of sticking around for long. No friends, no family, no real reason to put down roots.

However, as we know in Spores, they ran into Dipper and Mabel and the rest is history!

The job gave them purpose and helped them develop bonds/come out of their shell. Reader became friendly with the kids, of course, and fell in love with them, however they also found a bit of a kindred spirit in Stan. Not in so much of a parental way, but just in the form of another adult who actually saw them as a person. They became buddies.

Reader didn't actually meet Ford properly until the Crossbow Incident occurred about 2 weeks into their employment. They were struck by him (in more than one way) right from the moment they met him. As it's written in Spores, it took a long time for them to get to know him but they thought he was cute and more importantly, they thought he was interesting. They saw him interact with the kids or work on his own stuff, and they liked it. They learned more about him from Stan and it piqued their interest further. They thought he seemed sweet. ALSO, before they really made friends with Ford, they made a science joke in his presence and he laughed (even though he pretended it was just a sneeze). Reader still considers that to be their top achievement since starting to work for the family.

When Reader slowly started seeing more of Ford, they made a concerted effort to accommodate him. I write Ford as being autistic/BPD, so Reader made a special effort to give him allowances in conversation or in interactions. They didn't push him if he seemed in a bad head space, they didn't make him feel bad or out of place if he couldn't function on a particular day. They were just very thoughtful about things he might need. They still are.

So yeah. They do have a backstory in this very loose sense. I plan on writing it in more detail as we go on so you'll see more of it over time :)

[nutoka]

The fact that Rimmer had willing bought Lister a birthday present is absolutely adorable to me. In Marooned, it was mentioned that Rimmer borrowed $£15 from Lister to buy him a $£5 book token. I know the main joke is Rimmer being stingy but still. The thing that he went out of his way to buy a present AND A CARD for Lister is cute. (Even if it was Lister’s own money). The present was a nice gesture and the card was extra thoughtfulness in my opinion anyway.

He probably bought the book token just to spite Lister cus he probably admitted to before Future Echoes that he has never read a book before. Or Rimmer got him the book token so Lister has the opportunity to read a book. But anyone can take it either way in their headcannon.

Even though the gift was from Lister’s own money, he probably repaid Rimmer in Thanks for the Memory by throwing him a Death Day celebration. Also MAKING HIM A CAKE. Why go through all that effort of making a spanner shaped cake for someone you don’t like? Hmm mutual liking for one another but too stubborn to admit it probably.