#belle babbles

[bazzybelle]

As the Easter Season comes up, I have a small reminder to give everyone.

Please, for the love of God, do EXTENSIVE research before going to get a bunny. A bunny is NOT an appropriate pet for a child. They are a massive commitment and require freedom, expensive care, and a lot of patience.

If you are one of those people who will go buy a bunny for Easter because it's cute (without doing proper research), you can go fuck yourselves. You are part of the problem of hundreds of bunnies being abandoned year after year.

I say this as someone who has a bunny and loves bunnies more than people at times.

Some things to consider:

- Bunnies can live up to 12-13 years. With bunnies becoming more popular and people learning how to properly care for them, the age keeps going up. When we first got our bunny, the minimum age was 6 years.

- They are animals who like to run and explore. They require SIGNIFICANT room to be comfy. Do not keep them in a cage!

- They require SPECIFIC veterinary care from a doctor who specializes in exotics. And even at that, you need to advocate for your bunnies. It is also important to get them fixed ASAP as it will prevent health problems in the future.

- THEY ARE PREY ANIMALS!!! They are hardwired to think everything wants to eat them. They will not be comfortable with you picking them up and snuggling them! I have had my bunny for almost 10 years. He has only JUST started snuggling up to me and only in SPECIFIC circumstances. It is EXTREMELY rare for a bunny to come up to you right away. It takes weeks of bribing them with treats and toys, getting down on the floor with them, and just giving them space and patience to explore and grow to trust you.

- They require A LOT of care and maintenance. This means brushing, clipping nails, bunny proofing everything (because they are masters of chaos and will chew everything).

There's a lot more I can say about bunnies. If you've read all this and are still considering adopting one, do your due diligence. There are PLENTY of resources available online. They are A LOT, but they can also bring so much love and joy into your life.

Bunnies are forever, NOT just for Easter.

[bellesque]

*taps microphone* is this thing on

so uh. hi—again! tumblr looks different from when i was last on here. i’m also reacquainting myself with my blog again, after my year-long hiatus of sorts. am i about to be back consistently? i wish that’s the case, but i’m just simply hoping for the best, whatever that looks like. is this my recovery from burnout? stay tuned i guess, because i’ve not the slightest idea either

i just came on here to say that if anyone’s still interested in midnight’s mischief, there may or may not be a chapter coming in the next few days. maybe on saturday. maybe sooner

(i am fully aware that my last update was also in january of last year and i am going to make it a point not to wait til next january to get chapter 4 up)

i have a lot of prefaces to make but i’ll save those for when i actually post the chapter. i hope you guys have a wonderful week!

[seu1g1]

i kinda want to try being a bit active on here again… but mostly just to reblog cute things 👉👈

[cosmicisopod]

i'm back y'all

[myceliumbutch]

"We need to highlight the role women play in perpetrating and sustaining patriarchal culture so that we will recognize patriarchy as a system women and men support equally, even if men receive more rewards from that system. Dismantling and changing patriarchal culture is work men and women must do together. "

- bell hooks, "The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love"

[lizziesribbons]

This genre of lizzie pics makes me go into a spiral and then bang my head against the wall and scream and die and just cry cry like a little baby knowing I can never ever have her or touch her. She's the most gorgeous beautiful prettiest hottest sexiest yummiest mommiest person alive I need her I need her so so so bad omg

[enden-k]

I DONT KNOW WHATS HAPPENING, i rlly need to progress once i finished drawing work BUT LYCAON PROTECTING THE PROXY RAAAA LYCAWISE LYCAWISE LYCAWISE LYCAW

[bazzybelle]

Good Omens 2 and Wayward Son - A Fan's Commentary on Fandom Reactions

I’m going to start off by saying apologies for any obvious grammatical errors. I am writing purely from the heart here. 

Also, apologies to my Sandman friends. If you haven’t read The Simon Snow Trilogy, this will go over your heads. However, I have been going back and forth on writing this meta since the release of Good Omens 2, and I just finished reading a spectacular meta on queer ships becoming canon by @avelera, which you can find here (read it, it’s brilliant). Anyway, I feel now’s a good time to let out all of my feelings when it comes to Good Omens 2 and how similar it was to reading Wayward Son. 

Simon Snow friends, you all know that Wayward Son is my favourite book out of the trilogy. You also know that this can be considered a controversial take within the fandom. And I don’t mean that in a toxic way, this fandom is one of the more wholesome fandoms I’ve seen; But in the way of like… Wayward Son is itself a polarizing book. 

I say this, knowing full well what went down when Wayward Son was released. Perhaps I had the advantage of not being completely embroiled within the Simon Snow  fandom until after I’d finished reading the book, but I lived on the periphery. I followed Rainbow on Twitter (fuck you, I am not calling it X), I had saved some artwork on Pinterest (before I found out those were stolen, wherein I immediately unpinned them and deleted my fandom folders), and I was excited to get Wayward Son as soon as it came out. So much so that I asked my husband to go to the Indigo near his office and buy it because I wanted to read it right away. 

Friends, I demolished that book within a DAY. 

Then I read it again. And again. And again. 

Then I wrote my first fanfiction in eight years. 

This book changed me. But you all know that. I’ve talked about it often, and that’s not what this meta (Editorial? Opinion piece? Shouting into the void?) is about. 

What I am going to talk about is the amount of pure vitriol this book got once it was released. There was SO MUCH complaining about the book. It was too short! There was no point to it! Why aren’t Simon and Baz having sexy vampire sex? Why aren’t they living together (never mind that this was briefly discussed at the end of Carry On, but go off I guess)? 

And you know what’s even funnier? Within a couple of weeks (it might have even been days, I’m a little fuzzy on timelines) Rainbow announced the third book. We knew, right away, that Wayward Son was meant to be an in-between book! Rainbow, being a fandom person herself, has said time and time again that she had always considered Wayward Son as an in-between book, structured like The Empire Strikes Back within the Star Wars original trilogy. Like think of the in-between books of any series, they are ALWAYS the darkest ones. In order to fully appreciate the win in the end, you need to go through the tough shit. 

What I loved about Wayward Son was it took that idea and spun it. It went all “ok, yeah we dealt with the win, now let’s deal with the aftermath. Only then can we have the makeouts and sexy times these guys deserved.”  (and damn, did Any Way The Wind Blows deliver on that promise).

But I am getting away from myself again. Point is, it was always meant to be an in-between book. There was always meant to be a resolution at the end of the trilogy. But that sure as hell didn’t stop people from outright demanding Rainbow give them the happy ending NOW. Pestering her on Twitter, (not so much on Tumblr) demanding she do this, or do that, or “you better not kill Baz” (even though she has ALWAYS SAID SHE NEVER WOULD) or “they better not break up” (even though, narratively, it was heading in that direction). The closer the book got to release date, the more people complained about how awful Wayward Son was. 

It was really disheartening to see. 

Which is why I got really upset when the SAME THING happened after the release of Good Omens 2. 

(For clarification purposes, because several of my friends have spoken to me about their own personal issues with Good Omens 2. And you are all super fucking valid. I am strictly referring to the amount of anger I saw online because although Aziraphale and Crowley kissed, they didn’t have an immediate happily ever after. I am also speaking of the anger expressed because the season wasn’t wrapped up in a neat little bow.)

Like with the release of Wayward Son, people seemed to have forgotten that season 2 of Good Omens was meant to be an inbetween season. Neil Gaiman has not been shy to talk about that. He has said over and over again that Season 2 was always meant to be a bridge between the Good Omens he and Terry Pratchett wrote together, and the sequel they had been planning. 

What… did you all just forget about that? Do you not know how narrative writing works? 

It’s like people refused to take a step back and breathe for a second and appreciate the season for what it was. A beautiful romantic story (because, IT WAS! Just like Neil said it would be), as well as a lead up into what will be the epic, dramatic conclusion. No, instead people started demanding the happy ending NOW, and getting angry when Neil wouldn’t budge and offer more information (even though he never has before) (funny how people just… forgot that).

It was Wayward Son all over again.

Yeah, I’m not going to lie, I was crushed with the way Good Omens 2 left off. Just like I was so confused when Wayward Son ended out of the blue. You know what I did about that? I wrote fic, I read the book again, and I happily anticipated the upcoming final part that would tie up all the loose ends.

Know what I’m doing to heal after Good Omens 2? I’m looking at gifs, rewatching episodes, laughing at memes and crack, and hoping to all the gods of story writing that Amazon approves of a third season, so that Neil Gaiman can be allowed to finish the story he and Terry Pratchett built together.

It’s become sad to watch this feral hunger from fans demanding immediate gratification, and getting upset when it isn’t the ending or gratification they were expecting. Wayward Son came out after years of Carry On fans having nothing else but the one book. Like I said, I wasn’t part of the fandom then, so I don’t know how fans from 2015 felt upon learning they’d get more Simon and Baz. Same with Good Omens. I only really got into the fandom a few months before season 2 came out. So I don’t know how OG fans felt waiting and waiting and waiting. So maybe I have that going for me as an advantage, that my hunger wasn’t growing more and more feral. 

Then again, I’m now a part of The Sandman fandom, and we’re essentially waiting on Season 2 to start development. And while I’m hoping a few things are tweaked (like Dream and Hob’s relationship), I’d be more than fine if it stays the same as in the comics. And if they decide to go about that in an entirely different way, I’d be fine with that too. You know why? Because I’ve learned to trust the writers of the stories I love not to lead me astray. 

And if I’m unhappy with something –because nothing is ever 100% perfect, and even my favourite stories end up coming short– there are always fanfictions to write, gifs to laugh at, and fandom friends to discuss plots and meta with. 

I may have lost the point of this meta. I tend to do that, following a train of thought that doesn’t always make sense in the end. 

Fandom friends, can we all just agree to take a breath and be thankful of the stories given to us? Can we learn to appreciate the entire picture, and not just a tiny section of it? And for the love of all that is holy, can we learn to be patient and to listen when our story tellers remind us to wait and see? To trust them when they assure us that our characters will have a happy ending, even if they need to traverse a little in the dark to get there?

I sure as hell am, and I hope you will too. 

Gonna tag @carryonsimoncarryonbaz because she was instrumental in encouraging me to write this.

[bazzybelle]

Adding onto this... say what you will about her, but you cannot deny that she is a GENIUS when it comes to marketing and promoting herself.

I also enjoy her music. She has some fun catchy songs and also some profound poetic ballads. All that, though, doesn't mean shit if she can't promote herself. She used whatever hype or controversy surrounding her in order to market her brand. And it fucking worked. She is the top selling artist of her generation, and it does not look like she's close to slowing down.

And the girl can fucking PERFORM. She's there, giving 1000% to every show.

So yeah, that's the hype behind her. She's a master at cultivating the parasocial relationship between her and her fans. She uses any and all news about her to promote herself, and she has LEGIT catchy music.

I get that she isn't everyone cup of tea and that she's a problematic person. I really do. I'm not saying that Taylor doesn't deserve to be criticized because she ABSOLUTELY does. But, I look at all the problematic artists from the 80s and 90s and have to narrow my eyes.

Innyway, that's my two cents. As someone who is a fan, but not to the degree of spending $1000 to see her in concert.

it's so weird to me that taylor swift is like. That Big A Deal. I don't even think her music is entirely without merit it's just so resoundingly mid that I'm mystified by her enduring popularity

[worldlydesiretemple]

this is what boss fights are like right

[miguel-owhora]

"micah is literally a villain, he's supposed to be hated-" bro i literally want to fuck him

[immawritethat]

Me after the disaster last week, through tears: Here's how we can get Dorian Storm back to fix things.

Me, when Dorian Storm is back and still a fumbling little fool:

[bazzybelle]

Thank you @that-disabled-princess for tagging me...

I feel SUPER called out right now. XD

Tagging: @seiya-starsniper @carryonsimoncarryonbaz @yellobb @janimoon @windsweptinred @im-not-corrupted @ileadacharmedlife

Find your cosmo persona!

Got tagged by the lovely @tamburins

It's 99% accurate 🤣 only two things it got wrong: I respond immediately the second I see the message (otherwise I'll forget it)

And I'd never say "I might be wrong tho" 🤣 my deadly sin is Pride... that's not a sentence I'd say ���

ANYWAY!!! Let me tag @sanjoongie @moccahobi @limjaeseven @potatomountain @arafilez

[idiotspacecowboy]

so i have a little joke with my friends (who know nothing about muse) where we just whisper “hes everywhere” to any photo of dom howard. it started after i edited a specific photo of dom to look like analog horror and then pasted it multiple times on a slideshow, captioning it “hes everywhere.” and he is literally everywhere now, i set the pic as my wallpaper. idk man it gets me cackling and kicking my feet.

[sankyeom]

this one’s for everyone who (like me) believes that sunghoon is so lana del rey coded 😌

best friends to lovers sunghoon coming very soon!!

[lizziesribbons]

imagine mommy wanda fingering you during her zoom meeting and you try your best to be quiet but can’t help it when her thumb pushes against your clit making you whimper

“shhh princess don’t want mommy’s boss hearing how much of a slut you are?”

“mommy’s gonna make this pretty pussy soak my lap. yeah? you like that idea bunny?”

😵‍💫

She will intentionally tug at your sensitive nipples to get a reaction out of you so she can punish you later oh and how she will whisper dirty things in your ear like omg "be quiet mommy will fuck you after this call" "why are you such a desperate slut huh? Can't even stay quiet for mommy"

Anon I love you so much for this I'm writing a one shot on this right after THANKYOU