#but at the same time i should post more about them LOL

[mashtatosworld]

hiii can you do a top x jiyong sis fic?? where top lowkey (but highkey) admires her from a far but scared on how jiyong will act! bonus on jiyong being a possessive bro to his hyung bandmate lol! i think it would be fun and cute to read ! 🫶

make you mine

summary: in which he's your brothers best friend

warnings: alcohol

Jiyong’s birthday had started like every other YG celebration - loud music, endless drinks, and a VIP section packed with industry faces. The air was thick with cigarette smoke and laughter, Seunghyun sat comfortably nursing his wine while the younger members got progressively more reckless.

Then you arrived.

G-Dragon’s younger sister.

You breezed past the velvet ropes, already in conversation with a stylist, looking so at ease in their world despite technically not being part of it. You had that same effortless presence as your brother - that same magnetism.

Seunghyun had spent years admiring it from a distance.

So when you approached your brother's table, cocking a brow at the cigarette in his hand, he found himself watching closer than he should have.

“Give me one, Ji,” you said, holding out your hand.

Jiyong scoffed loudly. “Not a chance.”

You rolled your eyes. “God, you’re such a hypocrite.”

Jiyong just took a slow drag, exhaling in amusement. “Go get a drink or something.”

You huffed, muttering something under your breath before disappearing back into the club.

And Seunghyun?

He should have let it go.

But later that night, after another round of drinks and laughter, he found himself outside, cigarette in hand, leaning against the cool brick wall.

And then you appeared.

Your heels clicked against the pavement as you exhaled, rubbing your arms from the chilly night air.

He glanced at you. “Cold?”

You shrugged. “A little.”

Seunghyun hesitated for only a second before holding out his pack of cigarettes. "Helps to warm you up."

You raised a brow, smirking. “Oh? And here I thought you were a rule follower, Choi Seunghyun.”

He huffed a soft laugh. “Just don't tell Jiyong.”

You stepped closer, plucking a cigarette from the pack. "There's many things he doesn't have to know."

He swallowed and flicked open his lighter, watching as the warm glow illuminated your face.

You inhaled, exhaling a slow ribbon of smoke before looking up at him through your lashes- something playful, teasing.

“So what do you actually do?” he asked, eyes flickering toward you. “Besides hide things from your brother.”

You grinned. “I study art.”

His brows lifted slightly. “Art?”

“Mm.” You leaned back against the wall, tapping your cigarette. “Fine art, mainly. Sometimes sculptures. A little photography.”

Seunghyun took a slow drag, exhaling as he tilted his head. “That’s... unexpected.”

You smirked. “Why? You think all I do is crash industry parties and ask my brother for cigarettes?”

He chuckled. “Well, you certainly know how to make an entrance.”

You shrugged, gaze flicking up toward the night sky. “I like making things. Always have. Jiyong’s talent was always music. Mine was art.”

For some reason, Seunghyun found himself intrigued.

You weren’t just Jiyong’s little sister. You had your own world, your own talent, your own mind.

You took another slow drag. “You like art too, don’t you?”

He blinked. “What?”

You smirked. “The museums? The galleries? You’re always posting about them.”

He chuckled, shaking his head. “It’s peaceful. A time for myself.”

You hummed in amusement. “So you wouldn't want any company then?”

Seunghyun stilled.

For a moment, all he could focus on was the way the smoke curled around your lips, the way your voice was effortlessly confident - so sure of yourself.

“I- ” He cleared his throat. “I mean, yeah, if you’re interested.”

You smirked, dropping your half-burnt cigarette to the floor, stepping on it with a stretch of your exposed leg. The movement captured his attention. “If you bring me flowers, I'll consider it a date.”

And fuck.

Seunghyun’s grip tightened around his cigarette.

If your aim was to stay in his head all night, you definitely knew what you were doing.

𓆩♡𓆪 𓆩♡𓆪 𓆩♡𓆪

Weeks passed before his phone lit up one evening.

y/n: if you were serious about the exhibition thing, i have one coming up

He didn’t hesitate before replying.

Seunghyun: Where?

When you sent the details, he assumed you meant an art gallery.

So he bought flowers.

But when he arrived, he quickly realised - this wasn’t some fancy exhibit in a museum.

This was a student showcase.

And it wasn’t just any exhibition - it was yours.

Your paintings, bold and expressive, lined the walls alongside the works of other students. He stood frozen, taking it all in.

And then he saw you - laughing, radiating energy under the dim gallery lights, so utterly in your element.

For a man who spent his life surrounded by talent, he had never been this impressed.

You turned, spotting him through the crowd.

A slow smirk spread across your lips as you eyed the bouquet in his hands.

“So…” You stepped closer, voice teasing. “It’s a date, huh?”

He swallowed hard, his grip tightening around the stems.

Before he could answer, a voice cut through the air.

“Hyung?”

His stomach dropped.

Jiyong stood a few feet away, frowning, eyes flicking from him to you to the flowers.

“What the hell are you doing here?”

Seunghyun had never been so aware of the weight of a bouquet before.

Your response was easy. “Calm down, Ji, you're not security. I invited him.”

Jiyong’s expression darkened.

And Seunghyun? He was already planning his escape route.

𓆩♡𓆪 𓆩♡𓆪 𓆩♡𓆪

Later that night, after your university friends had whisked you away for celebratory drinks, the boys gathered at their usual bar.

Seunghyun was drinking like he was trying to drown a secret.

Every time Jiyong’s suspicious gaze flicked toward him, he took another shot.

By the time you texted that you were on your way, he was completely wasted.

So when Jiyong finally brought up the flowers, Seunghyun made his fatal mistake.

“I just don’t get it,” Jiyong muttered, swirling his drink. “What were you doing there?”

Seunghyun, too drunk to filter his thoughts, exhaled and mumbled,

“She’s just… really pretty, you know?”

Silence.

Jiyong’s gaze snapped to him.

“…Who?”

Seunghyun blinked.

Then, horrifyingly, he realised he had said that out loud.

He swallowed hard.

“…Your sister.”

The table went dead silent.

Jiyong set his drink down way too carefully. “I’m sorry, my what?”

Daesung nearly choked on his ice and Taeyang looked like he was about to start praying.

"Hey, Seunghyun!" Your voice suddenly called out from the bar, where you had immediately headed after arriving moments ago, bouquet in hand. "Want to do some shots with me?"

Seunghyun - trapped, cornered, doomed - looked to his startled bandmates for help.

Taeyang just sighed, avoiding eye contact. “I’m not saving you, bro.”

Jiyong’s chair scraped back, his glare lethal.

And Seunghyun felt his soul leave his body.

Because this was it.

He was going to die.

And the worst part?

You were so close yet so far.

𓆩♡𓆪 𓆩♡𓆪 𓆩♡𓆪

awweeee i loved this request!

taglist: @petersasteria , @mirahyun , @allthoughtsmindfull

[unknown-cold]

It's funny and weird at the same time how some people call Caitlyn's Evil Cop, or Bad Character, or whatever. SHE IS NOT!!

Like let's be serious guys, we never saw her kill an innocent person, even when my friend saw the show he is not a fan of Arcane but he saw a lot of comments about it and I also urged him to watch it after all the excitement around it when I asked him about his opinion on the show and especially the character of Caitlyn he told me, he expected after all the posts and comments about her that she would go to Zaun and kill people with her gun he didn't expect that she just wears a costume that looks like a vampire and looks tough and mean, she would get this much hate. He even asked me why people don't talk or blame Ambessa isn't she the main reason behind most of the problems in this season and also Singed or even Silco and his allies?

I couldn't answer him except that people have double standards and are hypocrites because their criticism of Caitlyn's character is not because she did one bad thing but because she is from Piltover and an enforcer. I'm sure if Caitlyn was from Zaun and did worse things they would sympathize with her and love her, so their criticism is so hypocritical and has double standards. In short, their criticism of a character is not because she did bad things, but because of who she is and where she is from.

They forget that silco and his allies kills a lot of people and children, mainly people from the undercity, even kids and he was pay enforcers to kill anyone who opposed him. And in LOL have put a mini game on the clien and there you could find out that Silco use kids as lab rat to test the chem tanks.

If you're really mad at Caitlyn for her bad actions, so why do you sympathize with these criminals??

Btw, I'm glad Caitlyn took them down. They deserved it, for what they did to the Zaun people during Silco's 7 years of rule. He kills an entire family just to control Zaun and flooding an entire city with shimmer.

And I'm sure now someone will come and tell me that Caitlyn used the gas on all of Zaun and killed people with it. Seriously idiot where did you get this? Can you show me a picture from the show that people died because of grey, and if it's true then the characters must are talking about it, that Caitlyn uses grey to kill innocent people. So this claim is not true, we saw at the beginning of episode 3 how Caitlyn used the gas strategically and not randomly and Amanda confirmed that. So she used it to catch gangs there. Bc seriously, 5 people wouldn't go to catch hundreds of gang members that easily, and also if one of the people got hurt Ekko would have talked about it and we know that Ekko is the most loyal person to his people, so even Ekko himself didn't complain about using grey, he and Scar were talking about the gangs that were working with Silco, and they didn't care about gas, why? Because this gas didn't hurt them.

This is clear evidence. What more do you want? The writers confirmed and even in the art book, it is written that Caitlyn used it to take down the Chem-Barons goons and not to eliminate the Zaun people as some stupid claim.

Even if it hurt them and that using it was an evil act, why didn't you say this when Jinx used it on Piltover and injured innocent people, women and children, she didn't target enforcers for example, Jinx use the Grey randomly unlike Caitlyn, but is anyone talking about this? Of course not. And worse when I saw comments saying that Jinx should blow up Piltover again and eliminate the people of Piltover. Like some people have shown their true colors, that they don't care if a character did something bad or good, all they care about is who this character is.

And because Jinx is from Zaun and they have every right to do bad things, but Piltover doesn't even if they do good things they are still bad, what a shallow and ridiculous thinking. some Arcane fandom are probably the most stupid fandom nowadays, to them everyone from Zaun is a perfect angel who never do nothing wrong, everyone from Piltover is a monster with no feelings

The show is not black and white there is not one side is good and another side is bad, that only exists in Disney movies, go and watch it if you are this kind of boring and traditional storytelling.

Arcane proves every day that this show is not for everyone and if you want to enjoy it you have to open your mind well and be open-minded, and most importantly put politics and real life issues aside, and enjoy this fantasy world with flawed characters and good writing. (This show is not designed to solve political issues at the end of the day. It is a show based on a video game)

So there is no need to take this show seriously and insult people and spread false allegations about people who love a fictional character just to feel that you are morally superior, do not see that you look like asshole 🙂

[drdemonprince]

Ok sanctimonious covid anon. I guess "sanctimonious" isn't great and yes shame is only one tactic that is not uniformly effective (but also not uniformly ineffective). When does this become a respectability politics issue with disabled people though? Idk, when the public health response is transparently eugenicist and many supposed fellow radicals don't care to mask (some cannot due to access but i promise plenty just dont Wanna) to stop chains of transmission for a still relatively novel airborne virus, is it the responsibility of disabled anticovid organizers to be super nice all the time during covid education, when even when we are, plenty of our supposed comrades don't mask with us and leave the onus of organizing accessible events all on us? Obviously not all your responsibility to shoulder lol, you just have an open askbox + what feels like disappointing covid minimization/denialism next to the rest of your politics or other elucidated points of view.

No, like the burden of public health messaging and advocacy should have never been placed on the shoulders of disabled and high risk immunocompromised people, that's the whole issue and that's the whole point. because of the context collapse of the internet there are a lot of different types of conversations all happening in the same place at once. disabled people have the right to grouse about being left behind by others and to be enraged, and to not have to tone police themselves, but what someone is emotionally or morally entitled to is not the same thing as what's rhetorically effective. it's just not. it's not fair and it's not right and none of what's happening here is. and I don't think that even the most judicious careful motivatingly worded advocacy on the part of disabled people on the internet would be enough to change the tide at this point. there's simply not enough people doing that work and none of them have any power. what we need is some kind of organized public health apparatus that actually empowers people to make the correct decisions by doing things like paying people to stay home, requiring buildings to update their ventilation, handing out free masks, requiring masks in public spaces, and continuing to make vaccines free. we don't have any of that. we can exert some soft social pressure on our closest associates some of the time, and organize events that reflect our principles and understanding of risk mitigation, but we don't have the systemic force necessary to get done what needs to get done, and in the absence of that, people tend to revert to shame fueled rhetoric that is not super helpful and in fact, fairly or not, puts a lot of people off. but like, I get the despair at this point. I really do. i feel it about almost every large scale change that id like so see in the world. so like, say what you want. I think as long as people are clear with themselves with why they are doing the messaging they're doing and are okay with impact it might have, however minimal, like go off. because I don't think the cheery infographics that are more patiently telling people to wear masks are doing a whole hell of a lot at this point either. Don't think we're going to post our way out of this one one way or the other. It sucks but that's how I'm feeling right about now.

[shanblackrx]

I have just witnessed firsthand someone saying that Jack & Joker is bad, complaining there weren't any kisses up until episode 6 that is when they dropped it.

I know I'm a J&J yapper first and foremost, but this kind of complaint involves way more than just the series. So I'm going to talk about these issues, using J&J as an example.

"There weren't any kisses up until episode 6"

Jack & Joker laid out what it came for within the first seconds of the first episode. It's a heist/action romance drama. You don't start a series that is supposed to focus only on the romance with someone running away from security. This is a classic kind of opening scene for action genre.

Once you understand that, you also understand, or at least should understand, that the romance might not be the only focus, or even the priority in the storytelling.

But Jack & Joker does also focus on romance - at the end of the opening scene, you see the two protagonists clashing. It shows the main conflict is between them, and that they have a past that apparently is not that good. It instigates you to want to know what the hell is that all about.

Another thing that the first 6 episodes absolutely make it very clear: it's a slow burn (or as we like to say, in their case, a very long dynamite fuse). As much as Joke wants to make up for all the shit he did, to help Jack and all, they are still consistently at odds with each other, there's a lot of misunderstandings and skeletons in the closet for them that they've yet to address.

Making the romance happen before all that is settled would be bad and forced. Speeding up the process to reach the romance quicker would be bad and forced. They had to gradually get closer, naturally opening up to each other before anything happening between them.

The end of episode 5 is when all that happens, and it's when they're finally on good terms. It's the final, biggest switch that needed to be flipped so they could move on to deepen their relationship.

So ep 6 specifically is literally the first episode after that. They didn't have time to actually be close, to feel at ease with one another, to let the good feeling finally surpass and suppress the bad ones. Episode 6 is all about that. It has a major homely vibe, intimate, close. Almost all scenes are inside the house, or with a friend group. The two of them are always together in this episode. It's definitely deliberate; it's to show their relationship changed.

And the flipped switch was so needed we have this in the very same episode. Just one episode after they make up for good. They've already made each other irreplaceable in their lives.

If we kept jumping through hoops to reach this point faster than ep 6, this kind of interaction wouldn't feel the same. This charged proximity, this romantic tension, wouldn't have the same impact if it had happened in, say, ep 3.

"But there still aren't any kiss scenes until episode 9"

Once again, it is a slow burn. Also, external problems start to happen to get in their way (after all, there's 12 episodes and conflicts need to happen lol). Like I said in this post, the feelings were already there, already known, but it still needed some time to solidify, and this process was abruptly interrupted; yet, it still inadvertently and inevitably grew and grew and grew until it just broke out of its cage for being too big and too wild to contain anymore.

So the process of the romance was:

end of ep 5: the forgiveness

episode 6: getting comfortable around each other, and probably coming to terms with their own feelings

episode 7: external factors and start of divorce mini arc

episode 8: end of divorce mini arc and making up

episode 9: the concretization of the feelings

In my honest opinion, the combo of eps 6 to 9 is by far the best arc of J&J, with the best scenes, but then I'd be going on a tangent here if I start talking about it, maybe in another yapping post.

Why did it have to be the span of 4 episodes? Because it is a slow burn. But it doesn't mean that they haven't shown any sort of intimacy or feelings towards one another throughout these 4 episodes - on the very contrary. These eps are literally focused on them and how their relationship is quickly shifting while they still need to deal with external factors.

Now, if you think only a kiss is the 'real' way to show what they feel for each other... well, then you're not interested in the story of the couple itself, you just want to watch the physical act. And it's totally fine! Honest! I do watch some things just for the visuals and hot-boys-kissing-makes-brain-go-brrrr.

But then we enter the other problem: saying it's bad because of it.

Listen, the slow burn in Jack & Joker might absolutely not be your cup of tea and that's fine. But just because you don't like it doesn't make it bad (and this is for literally anything).

I'm in the BL world for 25 years now. I can safely say I have seen a shitton of different slow burn stories. And in my 25 years of consistently reading and watching all sorts of BL, it's easy for me to say Jack & Joker has one of the most natural, most delicious and most rewarding slow burns I've ever seen, especially in thai BL.

It is excruciatingly slow. And that's precisely why when it breaks like that, so explosive, so intense, is why it's so rewarding. Making us wait is part of the thrill of the romance.

I have watched the We Still React videos and while discussing one of the episodes of J&J, Pharaoh says something that I agree wholeheartedly:

Of course there's nothing wrong with overtly romantic dramas that is romance for the sake of the romance, if that's what you like, it's fine. But diversity within the genre is important, just like in any other genre.

One very important thing to point here: despite saying at the beginning that establishing early on that the romance might not be priority, it doesn't make it irrelevant to the plot.

The pining and yearning is *literally* what moves the whole plot of J&J. If not for Jack and Joke meeting and being drawn and driven by each other, and after the time skip, if not for Joke basically pursuing Jack the whole first part, and then Jack eventually giving in to a feeling he had long buried within himself and letting him, literally nothing in the plot would happen.

The wedding ring, the necklace, Jack's freedom, the hangman game, everything happens because they're in love with each other.

Being able to see nuance is a key aspect of consuming any form of media. And the build up of the romance in J&J is precisely the small, subtle things that aren't black and white or expositive. And it's not that people are seeing things that aren't there; it's just that nuance blindness makes people skip them completely.

I think the biggest problem of people that say this kind of thing about J&J is that the good ole putting a certain expectation in the work, and when the work doesn't deliver exactly what you expect, it's suddenly bad.

Oh it didn't deliver a kiss within the first 3 episodes? Bad.

It doesn't work that way. You can absolutely hate the work, say it's the worst thing you've ever seen, but make it clear that it's your opinion. You're entitled to it. But your opinion is irrelevant to the quality of the work. Objectively speaking, a BL drama that doesn't deliver kisses within the first episodes isn't automatically bad. What might make it bad is precisely how everything before the kiss is done, and that is something that J&J does perfectly.

Does J&J have flaws? Absolutely. Some even I cannot pretend don't exist (and in actuality I am usually harsher on my criticism when it's about media I like). But it's not half the things people who don't like it make it seem to be, because most of it are personal opinions that don't actually reflect the work.

If you want works that have kisses within the first episodes, there is a ton of it waiting for you to appreciate them. Go on and look up for what you want instead of putting expectations in a work that never promised what you wanted from it.

[noturlondonboy]

you request someone asks you about cg!bishova? well, i'm here to ask about it.

would autistic!yelena be an age regressor? how would that work in their dynamic? would it correlate to her red room trauma and how (eg. odd routines from the age she regresses to)? what about kate as a caregiver? how would she react to first finding out about it in the first place? how would yelena drop to a little headspace? how often does it happen and who does she feel comfortable doing it around?

(feel free not to reply to the questions btw! i just like to put them there as kind of a 'structure' for easier / more specific answers. i personally really dislike when i'm given a very vague ask with no details lol.)

- the one and only, 💜. i should start paying rent for living in your ask box...

I absolutely love that you gave me so many options in way of questions and topics to answer, it’s always harder to answer an ask when it’s too vague so I totally get you on that part!

I do want to preface this but reiterating that I’m very new to the agere and petre community. I’m still learning as I go about myself and how I fit into this new personal aspect I’ve discovered. I would absolutely love to hear anyone’s thoughts on agere!bishova and cg!Bishova in my inbox or in the comments and reblogs :)

To any littles reading, this is my big blog and I do post/reblog nsfw content, so please be mindful when navigating through it.

-yes, autistic!Yelena is an age regressor. (I have thoughts about petre!kate too, but that’s a different story. Someone feel free to bomb my inbox.)

-Yelena’s little age is 3-6, correlating to her time in Ohio before the Red Room

-age regression is not something Yelena is familiar with in any way. She has dropped into Little Space several times once free from the Red Room, but has never understood what it is or what’s happening and has frankly been a little freaked out by it.

-the first time she slips into Little Space while she and Kate are dating, she stays far away from her girlfriend out of panic and fear of Kate’s reaction. She still doesn’t understand what’s happening to her and has no idea how to express to Kate what she wants and needs and how she’s feeling.

-it takes a little bit for Kate to catch on that something is up, but once she realizes, she watches carefully to try to figure out what’s going on. They’re babysitting Wanda’s twins one night when Yelena slips without really realizing, the comforting weight of Kate’s arms around her shoulder, a toddler in her lap, and a Bluey episode on the screen all mixing together with the strain of the day to pull her under.

-Billy tries talking to her about the brightly colored characters on the screen, which is when Yelena realizes she’s slipped. Her initial response is the same panic, but Kate sees what’s happening and holds her close, rubbing her arm and whispering soothingly to her to help her calm down, and Yelena melts into her, cuddling Billy close like she might a stuffie (he’s all for it, he loves to snuggle. Auntie Lena is warm and comforting)

-she stays in little space the entire evening, and is still deep when Wanda and Natasha pick the boys up. Kate knows a little more about age regression and sort of puts two and two together, but decides to talk to Yelena about it later, and just takes care of her the rest of the night. Yelena doesn’t talk very much, she’s shy and embarrassed, but Kate is perceptive and they take a quiet bath before changing into soft, matching pjs and cuddling in bed with the dogs.

-it takes a couple conversations for Kate to land on age regression, and she helps Yelena do some research online, looking through posts and essays and researches done and made by others. It takes her a while to come around to the idea, and during that transition period, she tries not to feel little at all, but the stress just builds and builds until she gives in when Kate suggests helping her regress to feel better and have a safe space.

-Kate does a ton of her own research on how to be a caregiver, and connects with people in the community online to talk with others and learn more.

-it’s a slow progression, but eventually Yelena is almost 100% comfortable with her regression, and Kate is her safe place. She texts her the moment she feels herself slipping at any time.

-they got home one day from picking out little gear for Yelena at the store when Natasha comes to visit, and her initial reaction to it is to think that they’ve decided to have a baby or adopt

-it’s a bit of an awkward conversation, but one that Yelena does want to have. Kate gets everything put away while they talk, but once Yelena has explained and Natasha asks a few questions, all she does is tell Yelena that she always here for her. (She also re-threatens Kate and makes sure she’s taking care of her sister)

-I haven’t decided if Yelena calls Kate mama or papa while she’s regressed. Thoughts?

-Yelena age regressing does not negatively impact her relationship with Kate in any way. It takes Kate some time to learn how to be the caregiver that Yelena needs, but they learn together.

[mixelation]

I made this post immediately after seeing a post about colossal biosciences, a biotech company whose "thing" is using genetic engineering to resurrect extinct animals, with their flagship project being bringing back wooly mammoths. most of the commentary about the post what that this is a deeply stupid idea, as introducing new megafauna to the wild would either end with the hubris mammoths immediately going extinct again OR ecological devastation as the mammoth's ecological niche is likely long gone. a lot of people in the notes were very smugly making fun of the idea of resurrecting extinct species as "playing god" or "a waste of time/effort/money" or "just because it would be cool doesn't mean you should do it"

THE THING IS. it would be so cool and scientifically enlightening to set up Jurassic Park style closed ecosystems to study ancient species!!! there's so much we don't know and will NEVER know about extinct species because we cannot observe them directly. i would be pro a mammoth research facility with public engagement to fund less charismatic studies, the way well-run zoos enrich our understanding of animals & increase public education and interest in the natural world. PLUS the same technology could easily be used to enrich extant populations of endangered species with more genetic diversity

obviously such an imaginary park would have scientific drawbacks, because no study system is perfect. we'd just be making guesses about things like climate and ecological composition, for example, but having a real life organism to interact with would help make our inferences better!! i'd also have a long list of ethical concerns that would have to be addressed. for example, i think the current mammoth resurrection project intends to use elephants as the birth mothers, and i'd have concerns about if this is dangerous/cruel to the elephant mamas or not (but i also don't know enough about elephant husbandry to comment further lol). i'm not arguing my fantasy jurassic park style endeavor would be perfect, but i think as long as the right experts & creative minds were involved, a LOT could be learned about ancient ecosystems.

so i do think an IRL Jurassic Park would be very cool and a good idea if managed responsibly with science- and data- backed decision making & care for the resurrected organisms. yes i DO know there's six movies about the park being a horrible idea, but that's because they let profit-driven capitalist be in charge instead of a bunch of dinosaur nerd scientists--

you should know that at all times I’m 2 seconds away from explaining how Jurassic Park was a good idea actually

[anonymocha]

Lamont design explorations with @archiixx where we basically just try to infuse some medpoc energy to her design (im failing but my partner does a GREAT job at potraying Lamont unhinged which i may post later)

Did I mention that they're both a Reverse 1999 OC and Sucker for Love OC simultaneously? I already made a r99 doc for Lamont with everything but their lore covered 😭 But for the Sucker for Love aspect of Lamont is still in the works because I still need Azathoth lore...

also... self portrait

sometimes medpoc looks asianer than i intended and yes thats because i am, in fact, projecting

[inkskinned]

the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.

sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.

you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.

it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.

but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.

they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.

they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.

barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.

and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.

but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.

they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!

this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.

[puppppppppy]

updated Sleight ref!!

[vaguely-concerned]

Origins is of course the DA game most closely in conversation with and playing around with Tolkien (right down to the walking talking poetree haha) -- and even more so than most works in the larger western fantasy tradition derived from Tolkien's work that DA:O also hails from and owes a lot of its Stuff to, what makes the game so great to me is that it's doing so very deliberately, and is subverting and deconstructing those tropes and entrenched ideas in some very interesting ways without at all denigrating what it's commenting on. (it doesn't have the almost disdainful undertones of the vein of fantasy that seeks to make the world more 'realistic' ala the more tedious reactions to G.R.R.Martin's work, for example, despite having the darker fantasy bent to it.) among other elements it adopts, what I find the most fascinating is the choice to use the same literary device/conceit Tolkien did in ostensibly only having in-universe biased sources and works to deliver the world through (which I feel is an underappreciated thing about his approach but is part of what makes his world so enduringly compelling and real-feeling -- the feeling of real scholarship devoted/applied to a made-up world. the grounding effect of a good diegetic footnote about source criticism, truly).

many things to be said there, and I'm glad each following game has taken on different perspectives and lenses and traditions to view the world of Thedas through because if you stick with that one too closely for too long I fear we could teeter precariously close to Pratchett's famous and bitingly accurate accusation of most modern fantasy of that era just being about rearranging the furniture in Tolkien's attic lol. and while you could accuse DA2 (my perfect wife who has never done anything wrong in her life to be clear) of many things, that's not one of them, they are pulling on some completely different strings for that one and both the game and DA overall is better for it, to my mind. as so many things in this series: worth staying with and exploring for an installment even if it might get stale if all of it was like this! people are understandably sad about the elements from previous games that they liked which were lost along the way, but that capacity for reinvention is to my mind a huge strength of dragon age as a whole.

(I think Veilguard is coming in as a close second in Tolkien conversation-ness if only in outlining/revealing the worldbuilding that indeed may have been planned since DA:O around the animosity that SHOULD by all rights exist between dwarves and elves in this universe (as per Tolkienesque tradition standards). but doesn't really because you see: politics and the many pitfalls of conservation of knowledge over the ages. our ancestral enmity got semi-intentionally lost between the floorboards of history and you know what. maybe for the best. the humans are already up to so much shit you gotta keep your eyes on them at all times you can't be brawling with each other in the deep roads while they're still around getting up to their nonsense or they'll just pile up even more of it)

[bandhyukoh]

Congratulations Oh Hyuk and Hwang Ji Min!

[torchickentacos]

The pokemon anime subreddit fascinates and frustrates me on equally deep levels

[perilegs]

i'm in part charge of recruiting people for my department at work, and for our hiring offer we were about to write "minimum of [x years] of experience required," but i remembered how people with audacity will apply regardless of what it says, but that wording will push away potential employees, especially women, who are considerate and value the time of both others and themselves, and think they can't apply if they have, let's say a few months less experience than what we required, so i asked it to be switched to "around [x years] of experience required." and it's such a small change but it makes a big difference. and man idk what my point is but often it's good when you listen to people and their problems, so you might come up with low/no effort ways of helping even if it's just a little bit, instead of going "well that shouldnt be a problem, you should just act/do/etc. different"

[icewindandboringhorror]

I occasionally wish to reach out to old friends/acquaintances I haven't spoken to since high school/some other even earlier time in my life, but I have SOOO little social energy even for required tasks (like making dr phone calls or etc), I never have any leftover for extra ones, and it would be very odd to message someone I haven't spoken to in like 5 years out of the blue but then take 4 entire months to respond back lol.. My natural curiosity with nostalgia/collecting details of the past/etc. (literally if I were born a little earlier I would definitely do scrapbooking or something lol) is very strong, but, alas, not strong enough to beat out the Social Issues Demons apparently

[jichanxo]

sooooo... *twirls her hair* how many asks should i send until kuwagami art. jk as well. the real question will be: does it happen often that someone else’s art inspires you? in fandom spaces specifically

well you see it’s like a loyalty card program, every 10 asks or so you get a complimentary kuwagami

just kidding you can just breathe in my direction and I’ll be tempted to draw them. kuwagami blast! (you've caught me on a... just okay art day lol)

(people still like kabedons, right?)

anyway for my actual answer: in terms of direct inspiration, it doesn't really happen much? the last two times i did art directly based on someone else's work is probably this one from this fic, and also that time i drew art of someone else's judgment au. oh! and there's that moriohpsycho art based on this comic! (filthyguts' work is so very. hgngngghh. very good.) nothing else really comes to mind, and when i think of the other things i've been into recently there hasn't been as much opportunity for that to happen...

flex and herds = strong fixation but lmao. almost nobody else made stuff about them. nobody is surprised umineko = surprisingly i don't read much umineko fanfiction? and in terms of illustration, i certainly picked up imagery and indirect inspiration but nothing concrete enough for me to give an example... now that i think about it, i did once draw andromalius from redaction/sunny, but that was years ago, and also mostly because i was acquainted with the writer. ...i don't have that artwork on hand right now death note = didn't really get involved with the fandom + i enjoyed my own ideas well enough! ...i can't recall if i drew long-hair-L art before or after seeing other artists do it. and as for everything else the same kind of reasoning applies. didn't really get involved with the fandom or wasn't really compelled to make art in response to stuff i saw, or i just don't remember anymore.

buuuuuuut if we're opening this up to just... pulling ideas from other people? then yeah, all the time, though that kind of goes without saying when you have a creative hobby. ...it's probably going to be hard to come up with examples of this since it's more ambiguous.

there's uhhhhhh... kuwana listens to nickelback which was a @/four-white-trees invention, wasn't it? (EDIT: and @/overdevelopedglasses!) (not tagging in this post so he doesn't feel obligated to read my big ass ask responses 💀) as of writing this, it's not posted but i did end up making kuwagami art based on a nickelback song so. yknow. there's that LMAO

for sawashiro and arakawa, i do sometimes go reference @/todayisafridaynight 's art to help me with my own. ("how did he draw this part of the suit? oh, like that huh? hmm" <- this kind of thing)

and um. i'm not trying to pander to you (at least not this time), but genuinely it's one of the few examples that come to mind at this moment. but when i was writing my first kuwagami fic, i could feel the influence of the ever-changing on my brain... was turning over some of your ideas there...

you remember this? (you even pointed it out in your comment on my fic, and i should've said something then, but whatever i'm saying it now)

that was absolutely because of this

(obligatory poke at anybody else reading this post that you can read passthroughtime's fic here.)

so, um. yeah. not really sure what else to add to that. pretty self evident i think. (i'm always talking about the ever-changing but i don't think i can overstate the impression it left on me at the time)

anyhow there aren't really any other examples off the top of my head! these are all recent examples so they're not so difficult to recall, but there are probably others i've forgotten...

[fluffle-writes]

I wanna. Pick them up in my mouth and shake 'em around like a dog obliterating a squeaky toy