#brainrot. as you know. is terminal.

[wraithsoutlaws]

"Horror punk quartet, RATTUS RATTUS made waves in the underground music scene with the recent self-release of their new LP, "King of the Rat King," a twenty-seven minute train wreck of drug-laced ultra noise served up with the subtly of a rusty chainsaw. The band's become synonymous with pure chaos in the local NC music scene, often setting fire to the stage, fist fighting their own fans, and welcoming "blood sacrifices" mid-show. On one occasion, charismatic frontman "Dagger" finished a set with fresh wounds after stabbing himself several times and encouraging the crowd to follow his example. You won't find the album in record stores, but copies can be purchased from your local XBD vendor."

[chellodello]

Take me like a wave, pull me back and forth Crash into my arms, tell me I am yours.

[bibyvariable]

my finessemaxxed tall girl from CTOS!! finally got around to drawing her, go read @collegetennisoriginstory it's incredible

[adahlenan]

🗡

Lordmaker

[oneshotgremlin]

It's them!

[supervisormeero]

Man, sometimes it’s a bummer writing for a small fandom where stuff doesn’t really get engagement, you know? I want to be very clear that this isn’t commentary about the Keero fandom at all; I adore everyone I’ve talked to, and everyone has been so supportive, kind, and encouraging. I’ve never felt so welcomed and appreciated in a fandom space, and that genuinely makes me emotional. I am grateful to all who choose to read, reblog, like, or comment on my writing.

But it’s like… the AO3 tag… is so quiet, in general… for everyone, not just me… and sometimes that’s disheartening. But I also do know that’s what I signed up for in shipping the fascist torturer and the Empire’s #1 Fan in the Star Wars show with infamously low viewership, so.

TL:DR hiatus is hell, Season 2 when

[strawberry-jan]

got carried away with a warm-up doodle because I was thinking too hard about minekata, as one does

[trybard]

ive finally finished my volo pokemon playlist if anybody wants to be cringe and free with me

[b33tlejules]

last night I had a dream of a painting I don't think I can make yet. Featuring a line from Ethel Cain's Bleached Flies "God loves you, but not enough to save you."

and it's sidestep. back in the Farm again after heartbreak on the cold operation table. Tubes shoved down their throat. more wires surrounding them. their insides out. looking up bleary eyed at the silhouette of Ortega, who is looking away with her hand softly touching sidestep's shaved head. blurry silhouettes of surgeons in the background and foreground give it a surreal feeling.

the color palette uses a lot of clinical greens (like the color of medical scrubs) and deep desaturated blues.

[22degreehalo]

I'll say it as many times as it needs to be said. There is absolutely miniscule actual harm that comes from engaging with Harry Potter in 2024. JK Rowling does not need money. Anything sent her way is less than a rounding error. And the book series was literally EVERYWHERE in the 90s and 2000s. Like it or not, it DID impact a whole generation of people - pretending that never happened is completely absurd, if not outright irresponsible. It happened. It's just a fact. Harry Potter is mainstream. There is nothing that can be done to 'promote' it. It's already there.

What all this obsession with HP on tumblr is about? An easy way to smugly define Good People from Bad People. Because if you *really* cared about trans people enough, you'd hate everything associated with Harry Potter. Regardless of how much you adored it when you were 8 and went to Harry Potter parties with your family all dressed up quoting book lines at one another in your most precious childhood memories because for once your special interest actually aligned with the people closest to you. No, all those positive associations should have been deleted instantly. If you *cared enough*, it would just *happen*.

Which is why a whole slew of people who previously had earnestly reblogged posts about Moral OCD and how bad tumblr can be about it were suddenly cackling about how buying Hogwarts Legacy was comparable to *refusing to throw The One Ring into Mordor, starting a war that would kill millions.* And how donating to a pro-trans charity (an act that would have VASTLY more impact than aforementioned rounding error) is comparable to 'donating to a pro-elf charity' in the wake of that.

Because tumblr doesn't actually give a shit about autistics or OCD sufferers. When we complain about stuff that they also dislike, they proudly reblog that and rage in the notes about how selfish and cruel and Individualist those other people on tumblr are!!! But the *second* they get to paint themselves as the ones with '''''good thoughts and feelings'''''' they take it, and make up posts about how HP likers 'believe they're the main character and everything should revolve around them.'

Is it actually about whether something causes harm? Or is it about dividing the world into Inherently Good People and Inherently Bad People? Is it actually about doing real good for the community and making the world a better place? Or is it about shaming people with the Wrong Emotions until they fucking hate themselves and spend hours upon hours ruminating on end trying to change themselves because their inability to let go of positive Harry Potter feelings is OBVIOUSLY evidence of a truly inescapably evil and cruel and wretched identity that the world would be better off without?

Which is it, actually? When it actually feels a little bit good to feel like you're on the Right Side of all of this, for once?

[humanveil]

love having dumbass hcs for side characters with two lines that i will fight to the death for

[chellodello]

I tried to make a comic about how even after getting together Zim will sometimes get so overwhelmed with paranoia that he’ll be betrayed that he destroys as much evidence of his existence in Dib’s life as possible. He doesn’t want to do this, but he can’t help it, it’s how he’s encoded. Irken’s aren’t designed for love, aren’t programed to accept peace. Sharks have to keep moving, to keep consuming, or they’ll die. Zim’s sort of like that.

Anyway here’s the only panels from that that I liked before I scrapped it.

[carmendeiact2whenplz]

Kinich 😔

[elitehoe]

Ok, hear me out. Obviously, I'm excited about Hangman reuniting with the Elite, but that doesn't deter me from my original agenda, and that's Kota Ibushi in aew.

So what if Kota Ibushi comes in and Don's whole recruitment of Konosuke Takeshita was just his way of replacing the Bucks with versions of people he deems deserving of Kenny? It is very obvious that the story going forward is going to be the core four Elite vs Blackpool Combat Club. Will there be blood and guts or anarchy in the arena? Either way, they're going to need about 5 guys each, BCC has Mox, Claudio, Yuta, and Bryan, as of right now, the Elite is Matt, Nick, Kenny, and Hangman.

However, if they need a fifth guy, Ibushi is a free agent, and it is a very high possibility that he will go to aew before he goes anywhere else. He has confirmed that Kenny is already actively trying to get him into the company. So if he does come, that gives them their fifth guy, but what about the Blackpool Combat Club? Mox could call in Shota Umino to be their fifth guy, or they could recruit a new member. The Elite feud with BCC, they're all getting along together, a perfect little family, the Golden Elite, and that should be enough for Kenny, right?

Wrong, he still has Don in his ear, who is also now in Takeshita's ear, but we'll touch on that later. Let's say they win the BCC feud and proceed together as a faction. Lets say at Forbidden Door, Kenny and Ospreay have a rematch, with Ospreay finally coming out victorious. Kenny starts spiraling, is he still the best in the world? Is he even the best in this company? No, the best is the world champion, and with Don in his ear, he goes for the world title. At the same time, Adam Cole is also going for the world title.

Adam is furious because this is his time, he earned this moment, and he brings up the fact that Hangman earned his moment because of the Bucks. Kenny has no idea what he's talking about, so Don takes it upon himself to show him video footage. Full Gear 2021 the night the Bucks gave Hangman the okay to win the belt. For the first time since that night, Kenny sees things from a different perspective, a perspective he never thought he would see. The Bucks have always been in his corner, so why now would they choose against him?

Kenny has his match, he takes the pin again, a champion stands tall, and it once again is not him. So he goes back to the only person he can trust, Kota Ibushi. Ibushi is there for him he's the only reason he is in aew, he chose to be with him, and he'll continue to choose him. Don seizes his moment and takes advantage of the opportunity, the opportunity being for Kenny to finally abandon the Bucks and Hangman, his dead weight.

Entering Takeshita, Don has worked months to recruit him, this was always the plan he pulled every last string to get to this moment. He's been pulling strings like a puppet master to get Kenny with a faction deserving of him in Don's eyes. Don's never seen the worth of the Bucks to Kenny because, to him, they're nowhere on his level. He views Kenny as a god. Kota Ibushi and Konosuke Takeshita with Kenny Omega would be gods among men. That's exactly what Don wants Kenny to be, no matter what he's doing. He'll push the Bucks away just to achieve this goal, not caring about the damage.

Where would this leave the Bucks? Well, they've never been without Kenny, at least not in aew. There is someone they can be with, someone to protect them from Kenny, someone they chose over Kenny before. Someone like them who has been victim to Kenny's ambition and greed. Hangman is all they have, and they won't let him go, not with Kenny and Don being unstable and longing for some form of revenge.

Now you may be thinking Ibushi wouldn't allow this, right? If Kenny is too blinded by betrayal and hurt from the Bucks, who's to say he'll listen to Ibushi at all? With Don feeding Kenny the dramatics of everything that happened while he was injured, he'll have fallen right into Don's web. Forcing himself to do what he and Don view is right, and Ibushi has to go along reluctantly so. Entering the final story of the downfall and restoration of the Elite. Golden Lovers + Konosuke Takeshita vs Hungbucks.

[krshush]

Now that I'm home, mom said it's my turn to make the overcomplicated manga color edit,

[wispurring-moss]

grabbed a bowl from the cabinet for my dinner, realized there was a small spider of a species that i didn't immediately recognize inside, spent the next couple of minutes on google images studiously perusing through several different similar-but-not-quite-correct brown spiders with black spots until i finally locate the Spitting Spider, and because i have terminal brainrot i have spent the last five minutes wracking my brain to make some kind of Spitting-vs.-Swallowing Spider joke bc Of Course I Would but ended up not really getting anywhere with it, so anyways how's y'all's absolutely thrilling monday nights going? 😆