#but shit has just gotten very real :)

[circusk]

i care him so much guys . guys. hes blorbo bingus

[tswwwit]

do bill and dipper ever talk about their problems or have serious conversations? We don’t see much of them in the fics— talking about the past, trauma, or insecurities, etc

Getting to that point took them quite a while, but yeah!

Dipper will occasionally talk over or bitch about his life with Bill. Opening up about his feelings. His thoughts. Get a little vulnerable, even, around his husband. It takes a bit before he can do it and get Bill to take it seriously, but that's not a fuckup Bill makes twice.

Mind you, he's still Bill about the listening. Which means about 80% of his 'advice' to Dipper is 'you should totally kill that guy', and 15% is basic commiseration couched in teasing terms. The last 5% is such shockingly insightful advice that Dipper has to do a doubletake to make sure he's still talking to the same guy. One of the perks of knowing the human mind as well as Bil does.

Bill sharing his problems, though? Whoof.

There's a guy who could spend all day whining because the last party wasn't fun enough. Bitch about other people! His day! But getting Bill to admit he has deeper feelings is a billion times worse than pulling teeth. With a crowbar.

If Dipper wants insight into Bill's deeper psyche, he's got to augur the subtle signs of it. Puzzle it out, in fact. He's gotten pretty good at guessing what's going on behind that front - but holy hell does his husband not make it easy.

[pepperpixel]

I haven’t posted art in forever, (I am currently working on art tho!! It’s just taking me a bit cuz.. job..) but! But… what about if instead of the art u guys came here for. I instead posted pictures of the cool lil outfits I’ve been wearing recently that im rlly proud of… what about that???

[hermitcraftx]

just got a dm abt one of my posts and y'all please don't try and show the hermits (or any minecraft youtuber or content creator for that matter) my posts, i'm uncomfortable with it and don't want any of my posts shown to a cc. if they stumble upon it naturally that's unfortunate but i can live with it since i do maintag a lot (something i REALLY need to stop doing tbh i already know i need to make a tagging system just for my blog that wont clog results) but going out of ur way to show a cc is entirely different and something i am not comfortable with.

no hate to the person at all but even if i wasn't a little silly and weird with it sometimes i wouldn't be comfortable with it, i want my blog to be a purely fandom only space with none of the creators involved <3 please respect this

[whatwillyousing]

vsynth has long since been trending towards the uncanny valley of singing but i feel like its been especially pronounced the past few years now that a higher proportion of banks sound nigh indistinguishable from human people. you can only really tell if youre already deeply familiar with each bank's respective engine

[arolesbianism]

Take some Fydd's I just realized I never posted

[themyscirah]

This is technically a Diana's age poll but I framed it partially around Julia's rescue because that's the event I need to contextualize and whether or not Diana is a thing yet is p important for my purposes. I would keep the Pérez run and postcrisis continuity in mind when answering this bc that's when this is relevant but I'd keep in mind that even though Diana is very young there (like early 20s) we don't know I don't think if she ages differently as a child (esp as a themysciran AND being made from clay) and in some versions she is older than she looks and was made earlier

Edit: I accidentally logic-ed this out in the tags lol 🤦‍♀️but feel free to still vote however you want. Going to publish this anyway bc I think I made some good points later in my tags

[exopelagic]

i said i wouldn’t do it this time but it’s 3am and mods asleep. boy

[g8d]

i tried so hard to be kind and sweet and all of these things that are supposed to be good? and valued? but im alone again and i dont think ill ever not be

[livvyofthelake]

oh they should’ve given my man the oscar who the hell did he lose to and can we kill that guy jesus christ

[hatchetation]

i find it so interesting when i see posts about how coming out stories, especially those set in high school or college, are overdone/boring/outmoded/etc. i get it on an intellectual level in that the coming out storyline a) is not always super realistic b) does not capture the fact that queer people have to “come out” many times in lowkey ways, including for quotidian reasons c) is a very Western-centric model of living a queer life d) may not feel relevant to adults who are at a different stage of queer exploration e) sometimes centers straight people and f) has historically been more common than storylines that include queer people in a way that doesn’t feel tokenizing or tragic.

despite understanding this, and even agreeing with some of it, my little gay heart loves every single coming out storyline that has ever existed. i love the acknowledgement and validation that queer people are not fully accepted in this heteronormative society. i love seeing characters stand up for who they are. i love seeing them embrace their authentic selves. i love their courage in the face of uncertainty. i love seeing their family members and friends react. i especially love when the nuances are recognized and a parent goes on a fucking journey of acceptance. and i truly believe that coming out storylines are incredibly important and that regardless of how far we as a society have come, we still need them.

[louderfade]

exene talking about the state of the world. the good stuff starts at eight minutes. or you can just read the transcript complete with the usual errors that accompany robot transcribed speech (the irony of which is not lost on me). maybe it's not about transhumanism and living forever (or maybe it is who knows), but there's definitely an agenda of surveillance and control at work which is designed to keep the powerful in power. cash rules everything around me and you will own nothing etc. the future is worse.

[scattered-winter]

crazy how I literally have no energy to do anything ever like isn't that totally wild (my life is literally in shambles)

[beelsjuicytitties]

im making a homestuck obey me au thing. i am totally normal about both medias

[meadowmines]

OC-Tober Day 17: Lie

[In which Aoyagi's cover is blown]

"Hey, Master. Can I get another one of those bacon things?" The guy chuckles. "And another cup of kitty treats. Miyuki-chan's no cheap date, is she?"

"Comin' right up." Aoyagi warms up a bacon cheddar scone and scoops a cup of treats and sets them on a tray. "How ya doin' on coffee?"

"Ehh... it could stand warmin' up."

"You got it." Aoyagi picks up the tray in one hand and the coffee pot in the other and makes his way through the main room, deftly weaving around furniture and cats. He sets the tray down and unloads the scone and treats onto the guy's table. He reaches over to refill the coffee and--

Nothing happens. Of course nothing happens. He just tops up the guy's cup like he'd do anyone's and nothing else happens. But he thinks, just for a split second, he feels something in the air sort of turn and just for that split second he is certain the guy is going to grab him.

Got some shady characters in town lately, Chiba had said the other night, watching what Aoyagi guessed was a couple of said shady characters from across the Grand. They're not stirrin' up trouble. Probably nothin', but... Chiba didn't have to finish that sentence. Aoyagi heard about the ten bil missing from the Tojo vault. About the Third Chairman turning up dead. Is news like that the sort of thing that makes an ex-Tojo man in hiding a little nervous? You bet your ass it is.

Still, Aoyagi shakes that out of his head, collects the empty tray, and heads back to the other side of the counter. This is just one guy and he's behaving and being nice to the cats and ordering food and generally being a perfectly decent customer. It's fine.

"What'd you say your name was, Master?"

"Amano," Aoyagi says. It's automatic now. He had a few close calls early on. But it's not like this is the first time he's had to get used to a new name, right? Sojiro Amano is just the latest in the string. "And you?"

The guy doesn't answer, like he just didn't hear. Aoyagi doesn't press the issue. To be fair, Ringo (so named because he was one of an orphaned litter found in a fruit crate; his siblings Momo, Yuzu, and Ichigo have already been adopted) is currently trying to sneak into the dude's lap and that's enough to distract anyone.

"How's a guy get into the cat cafe business, Amano-san?" the guy asks while Aoyagi washes some of the dishes.

"Some guy with more money than sense bought the place," Aoyagi replies, with a little smirk he can't quite help. It's not entirely untrue, is it? "And he threw me at it to see if I'd stick."

"Looks like ya stuck."

"Looks like."

The guy munches on his scone and feeds treats to the cats in silence for a while. "You originally from around here? Ya sound like it."

"Osaka born n' bred," Aoyagi replies. There's a grain of truth in the bred part, he thinks--his bachan was from somewhere out Kansai way after all and all the Japanese he heard growing up was hers and his dad's. "You here on business?"

"Something like that."

The tone is pleasant enough but that's the kind of answer that both warns you not to press for details and dares you to do it at the same time. Aoyagi frowns as he scrubs a plate. The guy isn't wearing a pin. He looks like he could be a "family man" but could also just be some random dude speaking regular old tough-guy Japanese. He sure doesn't feel like a Majima man. He's being paranoid. Shit's poised to hit the fan in Tokyo. His boss (in Tokyo) tried to kill him. Of course he's nervous about some rando talking like a Tokyo tough guy sitting in his cafe, but it's not worth shitting bricks over in the middle of a shift.

"Sotenbori's a hell of a town, huh?" the guy asks him out of nowhere. "You never know what you're gonna see here."

Despite his nerves, Aoyagi can't help but grin. "Ya got that right. Just when ya think you've seen everything, this place throws ya a whole new curveball."

"Heh. No kidding. Always some wild shit goin' on." The guy laughs, a nice normal easy laugh, and Aoyagi starts to think he's being really, really stupid about this. "Ya ask me... I think this place is haunted."

"Haunted?" Aoyagi sputters out a laugh. "Dunno if I'd go that far, but..."

It hits him, then. What the guy means. What that nasty smile on his face means.

"Y'know," the guy says, and it's all Aoyagi can do to not leap over the counter and snatch Ringo away from the dude, "if I had a yen for every yakuza that disappeared in Kamurocho and turned up here a couple years later..." He laughs again. It's not the easy laugh. It's a sharper one. Uglier. "Well. I'd have two yen. Which ain't much... but it sure is weird that it happened twice." He goes on petting Ringo like none of this is happening and Aoyagi does his damndest to keep his poker face on but he can feel the blood draining out of his head. "Ain't that weird... Aoyagi-chan?"

[regallibellbright]

God, I hope I manage to get people reading this fic even a HUNDREDTH as invested in this character and the family I completely invented out of whole cloth for him who have been living rent-free in my head for like two years now and steadfastly refused to make a story work until now, because I needed to get a good bit out of my head before I went to sleep, made myself cry because I cry ABSURDLY easily, and now it’s like four hours later and I need to actually get to FUCKING BED ALREADY but words keep coming, my fic is too sad, and I use a CPAP that already finds my face shape tricky and don’t want to combine that with my messy crying.

I’m just saying, it’s not fair I inflict this on myself while WRITING it. Rereading it later, sure, I’m fine with that, but writing it? What am I doing, using these characters as an outlet for emotional catharsis? Gross. Inefficient. I can’t keep writing when I need to routinely stop and wipe my eyes.