#cmon people we're better than that

[schroedingerscryptid]

okay honestly...let me be real here for a quick second

i see a lot of people hating on capvers shippers and like...okay, i see where you're coming from, but at the same time...they do have a right to ship it imo. sure, it was a glimpse of his backstory, and honestly there's not much you really can be doing with it, but why the fuck should that make you tell people that they're dumb for wanting to write or make art about it?

ultimately, the dynamics between havers and the captain aren't discovered all that much, while pat and caps have much more grounding and depth. but at the same time, by saying that people shouldn't be at the VERY least writing or making art about it to express their thoughts is a pretty shitty move.

fandom is about letting people have fun, and saying shit like this just because "you're correct" is inherently what has and will continue to affect the experience in the long run. and personally, even though i myself am not someone who ships it or really knows where to go with their relationship (to put it simple), i'm not going to shame people or make them feel bad for finding this largely underdeveloped relationship interesting or having fun with it.

[lxverrings]

Would you guys be interested in a quick guide to checking things in Spanish when Google Translate fucks up?

*for the record word reference is more reliable than Google Translate

[sasookei]

why is my most popular post that stupid house like carpet post. it doesn't mean anything you daft cunts stop giving it likes 😭

[knifeslidez]

when did cookie cutter pseudo-dreampop become gay music? where are the strange bisexuals who write angry music about being in 3 charged fwb situations?!??

[twipsai]

btw if you think that agent 3/captain has a gender and people using different pronouns for them is "erasing canon nonbinary people" im stealing something from your house

[wileys-russo]

Blurb idea for mearps

Getting used to Aussie time zones and just spending time with her walking along the beach, watching sunrises ect

jetlag joy II m.earps

"oh nah you've not put me with her have you!" your girlfriend groaned loudly with annoyance as she read over the room assignments, the team would all have individual rooms once in their base camp later on in the tournament but for now when in pre-camp you'd be bunking in pairs.

"who?" you frowned glancing over her shoulder and seeing your name next to hers, the older girl looking to you with a cheeky grin. "you know it gets harder by the day to tell people we're seeing one another." you sighed, smacking her on the shoulder and grabbing your luggage, exhausted from the long haul flight to Australia.

you'd played three seasons now with united and hardly seen the pitch the first one, but only using that as motivation to push harder and move faster, and of course spurred on by your girlfriend, you were now a regular starter each and every match.

fast forward a few months and here you were stood on australian soil for your first world cup debut, both you and mary over the moon to be selected side by side.

you'd been absolutely bouncing on the bus ride to the airport much to the displeasure of your friends and team mates who had no problems with placing a hand over your mouth and begging for you to shut up.

it was how you'd wound up sitting next to your united captain as you talked one anothers ears off almost the whole flight. both you and katie known to be the chatterboxes of the england national team everyone had made it a point they didn't want to be sat with you, even going as far as to vote you both mutually the worst people to sit with.

it didn't bother either of you though and you were already often bus buddies on the way to away games for club football, katie having taught you an array of different card games and ways to cheat in your many trips together, and you looked to the girl as somewhat a sister of sorts.

mary however had made sure it was crystal clear from the moment of your mutual selection that she loved you oh so dearly but would rather be kicked from the squad than have to sit by you for such a long journey. 

though she had sent that same message to over half the team so you hardly took it personally, plus you'd much rather have someone to talk to for so long rather than someone who would just sleep the entire time like your girlfriend intended to.

"now now is someone grumpy because she hardly slept the whole flight?" mary cooed sarcastically, pinching at your cheeks as you stepped in the elevator with jordan and lucy who would be rooming beside you who both chuckled at your expense. 

"if you'd like to keep those golden hands for the tournament i suggest you keep them away from me." you grumbled in annoyance, crossing your arms over your chest and glaring at the wall. 

"bet that's not what she normally says eh maz?" lucy winked, elbowing jordan who rolled her eyes at the comment whilst Mary burst out into her usual rambunctious laughter, the loud noise normally one of your favorite sounds but today it was only worsening your rapidly deteriorating mood.

"you're so loud man." you complained, covering your ears and wincing at the sheer volume of the taller girl, sighing in relief as you reached your floor and the elevator doors opened. "hey get some sleep, you'll feel better." jordan nudged you gently with a caring smile which you returned, both pairs parting ways into their own rooms.

you merely kicked your suitcase out of the way and belly flopped face first into the nearest bed, exhaling deeply as your body relaxed into the soft mattress. but that peace didn't last long as you felt someone grab at your ankles, attempting to drag you away. 

this was then followed by a sharp slap to your bum. "mary that hurt!" you moaned tiredly, trying to kick at her but too tired to give it any real effort. "everyone's going for a walk, cmon now! up and at em baby." your girlfriend flipped you over onto your back as you let out a long and tired groan. "have fun then." you quipped, covering your face with your arms and refusing to move.

"if you sleep now you won't sleep all the way through tonight, you remember the jetlag seminar don't you?" your girlfriend sighed, raising an eyebrow in your direction as you peeked out from behind your arms. "no! because you and rach wouldn't stop kicking the back of millie and I's chairs and got us in trouble." you glared toward the older girl who smiled sheepishly.

"in my defense its normally you who is being distracting in meetings, there's a reason you're not allowed to sit next to certain people at united you know." mary sat down on the edge of the bed as you sighed again. "its not my fault i talk a lot, you've met my family!" you defended as your girlfriend could only hum in agreement, anyone having to put in a shift to get a word in among your siblings and parents.

"well if you want to sleep that's your choice, but i'm just warning you it won't help love." mary smiled somewhat sympathetically, running a hand through your hair as you nodded and closed your eyes again. "i'll come get you for dinner." the blonde mumbled into your skin as she pressed a tender kiss to your forehead, tucking a hand under your neck and lifting your head to slide a pillow under it.

"love you." you mumbled tiredly, making a heart with your fingers as the keeper rolled her eyes, repeating the words back before slipping out of the room.

~

it turns out, your girlfriend was absolutely correct.

you tossed and turned for what felt like the hundredth time, tapping at your phone on the bedside table to see that it was now quarter past four in the morning, and you'd been awake and restless since about two. 

you glanced over your shoulder to see your girlfriend tucked up and sleeping peacefully in the other bed beside yours, having kicked you out about an hour ago when you wouldn't keep still.

you flipped onto your back and fiddled with your fingers, trying to count sheep and humming softly to a tune which you'd been unable to get out of your head. "shut up! please for the love of god." you felt a pillow smack you in the face which your girlfriend launched in your direction from her own bed, rolling onto her side with an annoyed huff.

checking your phone again you noted it was now just before half past five, and a google confirmed it was almost time for sunrise on the sunshine coast of australia. you sat up properly and swung out of bed, sending a text to the group chat asking if anyone was up for a sunrise walk.

you dissapeared into the bathroom, washing your hands afterwards and pulling on a tracksuit. "mary." you called out quietly, returning to the room and inching your way toward her bed. "baby?" you tried again, poking gently at her sleeping form which didn't budge.

"love?" you laid down on top of her, feeling her body which was buried under the duvet heave a deep sigh. "what?" she mumbled into her pillow as you pressed a few kisses to the back of her neck. "can we please go for a walk on the beach? it's almost sunrise." you asked hopefully, moving your lips to kiss at her cheek as she turned her head to the side.

"why!" your girlfriend groaned tiredly, eyes fluttering open as you gave her a charming smile. "i love you?" you tried, sliding off of her and laying down so you were looking at her properly. "you better." she grumbled and you frowned shoving her gently, those not the words you wanted to hear back.

"get my clothes for me then." she sighed in defeat, stretching out as you grinned happily, wasting no time doing as she asked and within a few minutes the both of you were closing the hotel room door after you.

you smiled at jordan who slipped out of the room beside you, a few of the girls who were also awake had all agreed to meet down at reception, and turned out there was more of you than you'd thought who were struggling with the difference in timezone.

your girlfriends arms wrapped around you as you stood just outside the hotel, her chin resting on your shoulder and eyes closed as your hand slipped up the sleeves of her jumper, nails softly scratching at the tanned skin.

the rest of the girls arriving all of you exchanged a few words but mostly wandered down to the beach in silence, ellie, chloe and alex walked beside you as mary trailed behind with niamh, georgia and jordan.

the group of you sat together on the sand and watched the sunrise, your girlfriend laid down in between your legs as your arms draped over her shoulders. you sighed gratefully as ellie handed you both a coffee, herself and chloe offering to do a run for everyone once they'd woken up a little more.

"walk?" you leant forward and quietly asked the taller girl, placing a lazy kiss to her lips and ignoring the teasing from your team mates as the keeper nodded. the two of you stood and you were quick to grab her hand, breaking away from the group and wandering down by the waters edge.

the longer you were both up and outside the more energized you both felt, your conversations increasing as you playfully splashed water at one another. you threatened to dump the last mouthful of your coffee down her back as she picked you up and jokingly dropped you, instead placing you back on dry land and pulling you into a tight hug.

your head rested on her shoulder as her chin tucked itself into your neck, soft i love you's exchanged between gentle kisses and murmurs of how excited you were to enter into the tournament by one anothers side.

[thesfromhms]

Fitz Vacker is overhated

I'm new on tumblr, but I can smell the possible haters a mile away. But uhhhh, other than that, I shall voice mt opinions! GET READY HATERS. HAHAHHAHAHA

No stellarlune spoilers. I haven't read that book yet. But spoilers for the other books I guess?

First point: Exile.

I wanted to tackle one of the earliest point people had. What happened in book 2. Watch everyone say "He had no right to be mad at Sophie!" While yes, Sophie ended up being the saving grace in the end, they still went through huge amounts of grief. Everyone handles grief differently. Fitz handled it with anger directed to the person his dad was with while he was in Exile. He thought she was to blame. Mind you, the Vackers held a PLANTING for Alden. They thought he would die. Imagine how devastating that would be for anyone? Needing to hold a funeral for YOUR OWN FATHER because he's in such a state where they don't think he'll survive. Fitz was experiencing the first stage of grief. He was grieving.

Point 2: The Anger Issues

While yes, Fitz may have a short temper, it isn't a good reason to hate on him. While yes, he handled some situations poorly, he's still 1) A child and 2) An elf. And lets be honest, he's only gotten mad a few times throughout the entire series.

Point 3: Sokeefe

Some of you people just hate on him for the sake of Keephie ☹️ DAWG IT'S A SHIP. AND IT'S ALREADY CANON APPARENTLY. GO AND REJOICE. LEAVE THE FITZ LOVERS TO CONSOLE FITZ ☹️😭

Point 4: The matchmaking thing

honestly? I do not know what to say here. I guess I just think the matchmaking in general is not for me. I guess people are mad at Fitz for wanting Sophie to reveal her bio mom so they can match? Idk bro. Why do yall hate him for this. I'm going out on a limb here, this is the result of Shannon wanting us to root for Keefe (FITZ DEFENDER 4 LIFE. YOU CAN NEVER CONVERT ME). I MEAN CMON. HE WAS OK WITH RUNNING AWAY AND JOINING EXILLUM AND ALMOST DYING TO PROTECT HIS FRIENDS. IN ONE BOOK. AND NOW HE'S SUDDENLY CHANGED?? (i saw this reason on Tumblr. Thank you to whoever made it. You made my post better)

Point 5: I honestly dk

Why do yall hate Fitz

Of course, in the end, these are just my opinions as someone who's been supporting Fitz this entire time. We're all entitled to what we want to believe, this is just mine :3

Any way. Rant over

[aimlesspixel]

Part 2 of my in stars and time continuation fic

Read part one here if you're interested.

You're floating, in a sea of lightless space, stars of pure darkless dotting your surroundings. You're not alone here you can feel it you're not sure where but you know it's not harmful, maybe it'll show itself if you wait. It's quite peaceful here amid the sky, ripples begin to flutter across the lightless sea around you making the stars shift and constellations dance it all seems so close here yet so far. The stars darken as you hear something call out to you and…

"Hey… Hey. HEY, cmon stupid frin! Breakfast's ready we're gonna finish it all without you if you don't get the crab up." "Now now Bonbon you've made plenty for everyone and I'm sure Sif will be up in a moment." "Fine! I'll put peppers in it instead hehehe." "Now that's a credible threat, you better get up soon Siffrin."

You open your eyes to see Bonnie peering down at you��� that's weird you could've sworn you were sleeping in your tent but the area above you distinctly lacks such an implement. Oh well you will yourself up and move to grab a plate. Just as Odile said there is a enough food for everyone. A good start to another day of travel if you do say so yourself I mean you're up before the sun finished rising! You'll get plenty of time to travel like this.

Odile seing you've finished your slightly spicy breakfast calls you over "Siffrin a moment please I would like to get this over with before we're done cleaning up."

You nod at her in acknowledgement and walk over. She and Mirabelle are in charge of making sure you're not overexerting yourself after the whole almost ending the world buisness. It's a bit embaressing but you don't want to worry them or get worse so you let them give you a check up.

Mirabelle looks you over while Odile takes your tempature and consults a transcription of a medical book she's gotten from the house's infrimary. Isabeau and Bonnie look at the process with slightly worried expressions.

Odile - "Well as far as I can tell you're not any worse for wear so I think the pace we've been keeping will be fine for now. Any objections Mirabelle?" Mirabelle - "I can't see anythng wrong but just to make sure you're feeling up to it right Siffrin?"

You feel alright even despite the weird sleeping spot maybe a little sleepy still but nothing serious. "Yesterdays pace is fine." Isa and Bonnies faces ease up and they get back to making sure you haven't forgotten anything.

Odile - "Alright just remember keep the crafts to a minimum whenever possible you don't want to overextend and knock yourself out or something."

She doesn't have to remind you. You still feel drained in a more intangible way than usual and can tell you probably couldn't manage too many crafts without a break, best to avoid any wildlife then. The path is well walked making it easy to follow the darkless leaking through the trees as you walk along the path your family alongside you it's nice, It'll probably become routine again soon enough but while it's nostalgic again you relish in it. Mirabelle and Odile are discussing books of some kind maybe it's part of their book club they mentioned… oh wait have they mentioned that this time? You're not sure. Does it matter? You're glad they can discuss it regardless. Isa and Bonnie walk alongside you chatting with you as you travel. It's nice.

It only takes a few days to reach your first stop. You could tell you were getting close when the path changed to a stone road. You'll just be staying here a day but it's nice to see time flowing here again. The Defenders at the edge of town greet you all as you enter and you see some kids running around the town.

Isabeau - "We really did it huh? It's still a little hard to believe but…" Yeah. The atmosphere is so much better now that people who fled are returning and the ones who were frozen have begun to move once more. You recognize some of them from Dormont most of the refugees who fled there left ahead of you all to reunite with their loved ones and homes.

Some of the kids from Dormont and some you don't recognize run up to you all.

"Look! Look! It's Mirabelle! She's the one who kicked the king's crabbing butt!" "Yea It's thanks to them that everyone's moving again!"

One of the kids in particular gets starry eyed at this and runs up to Mira.

"Oh! You're the reason mom and dad are moving again! Thank you thank you thank you!!!"

They jump up and down a bit before Bonnie calls out "Hey it wasn't just Mira we all went into the house and kicked that Kings crabbing butt!" The kids gasp and look at everyone beside Mira including you.

"Whoaaaaa. So you went in to kick his butt too?" The kid asks expectantly at Bonnie. "Of course." They say standing proudly.

Mirabelle - "It's true we all worked together to save Vaugaurd." She looks at you "Maybe a little too hard for some of us." You look away.

The kids chatter around you for a bit before Odile intervines "We know you're all excited to see us but we need to find that Inn so we can rent a room for the night."

"Oh sorry." The kids turn and run off, the starry eyed one looks back one last time before going "Thank you again!" and they run off.

[dragongirlsnout]

sorry to be That person but. just because the rich zionist ghoul that owns this website posted a sob story about how it isn't making enough money doesn't mean we're going to start financially supporting tumblr's bad behavior...right?

as always whenever something like this happens there's always the inevitable wave of "cmon guys you have to give tumblr money to support it if you want it to get better!" posts. but it just. doesn't work like that. they rolled out post+, and it still got worse. they started selling badges and it still got worse. they added livestream donations and it still got worse. and now they're begging people to buy monthly subscriptions and the site is functionally no better than it was 2 years ago, and arguably worse in some aspects.

and with how seemingly concerned site management is with attracting new users they STILL keep jumping back into the bucket and refusing to unban porn. twitter users undoubtedly don't want a site that just looks like a worse version of twitter with no porn. I've followed more than a handful of artists who migrated from twitter, assumed the existence of a literal "mature content" label meant you could post porn, subsequently got flagged, and just left for a different site.

[melanthiosthescreamer]

watching the fall of fandom etiquette on tiktok in real time is actually hurting me smh

guys cmon we're better than this, sending people death threats because of what they ship, harassment over the types of media we enjoy, etc. even ao3 is seeing a huge rise in people trolling and generally causing trouble

[chronotsr]

No. 7.5 - 1978 Reflections, and the Halls of Mystery

Welcome back to the end-of-the-year recaps! This is technically the first TSR iteration of it!

1. Coolest ideas

It's a lot of stuff from D2. The big ticket item is "neutral-ground hostile shrine" -- any time you can muck about with otherwise hostile people without drawing swords immediately is a big win. I know that the reaction table is supposed to mitigate that some but, cmon. Sometimes you just can't think of a good reason that the 9th goblin pack tonight is not immediately hostile. This is a way more natural way to handle it. And it lets you talk and such and experience their culture from their perspective!

2. Coolest Module You Haven't Heard Of

This is honestly a hard one because all of these modules are intensely well known. Gun to my head, I would probably vote for G1. The D-series is cool but frankly there have been more better and more interesting iterations of subterranean hexcrawls -- Veins of the Earth being the currently famous one. But the thing about G1 is, G1 is a surprisingly natural and fun location. Unlike the others in the GDQ series, G1 is genuinely an adventure you could slot anywhere with no context. It is simply a fun raid on a fortress, which I never get tired of. The twists of "they're piss drunk" and "there's a slave revolt in the basement" are really good (albeit in 2024 a little stale) twists on the classic raid-on-fortress formula.

3. The Growth of Module Design

Honestly 1978 represents a rather stagnant year for module design. The most innovative design feature I see is how D1-D3 feeds into one another in a much more naturalistic way than its predecessors, and all through that deeply useful combination of hexmap and random tables with a handful of pre-programmed setpieces. I am eager to see hexmap technology get much better going forward.

…

Surprisingly, 1978 wasn't too much to talk about? I don't generally think of Gary as an "innovator" in module design space. His main contribution is taking things that already exist and making them feel more natural. Which is not to say that I now buy into Gygaxian Naturalism as this great feat, more than a lot of his competition at the time was seemingly intentionally anti-Naturalism. Their work feels like the reaction to me, Gary is just staying the course of "this should make an amount of sense". Although, his random dungeon monsters mishmash still feels as nonsensical as all hell.

The Halls of Mystery (From Dragon 21, December 1978)

And as threatened, we're going to have a very brief section on The Halls of Mystery, which holds the dubious honor of 1st Dragon Magazine dungeon. I would throw the full header at you, but everything is by Don Turnbull. You may recognize his name, at publication time he works for Games Workshop and he will be heading up TSR, Inc.'s UK branch starting in 1980, leading to the much-beloved Fiend Folio.

So. Not much to say about this, actually, It's a very large room with some branches. The main schtick of the Halls is that the main chamber contains several mirrors, some of which are magical. There's a big riddle on the desk on the south side, the riddle solution is actually quite obvious (say Excalibur three times -- and hey, Don told us the answer and rationale of the puzzle! Thanks Don!). When you move the central cylinder, it teleports you to the corresponding position in the dungeon. The rest is a lightweight stocking of the dungeon with monsters, treasure, et c. If you're keeping score, this is a Zelda puzzle. It's very cute and lightweight and honestly it's so neutrally written (no statistics are given and it would be trivially easy to restock it at any level) that you could genuinely use it in 2024 with very little effort. It's adorable! It is also wonderfully lean, clocking in at two total pages and frankly it's super refreshing to have such a light read of a module here.

Happily, next time we will be covering B1 - In Search of the Unknown, which is the second Basic D&D adventure we will be reviewing in this series (The adventure printed in the Basic rulebook, Tower of Zenopus, was first. This is our first lettered Basic adventure.) And, funnily, the first TSR module in this lineup I've never read before. See you then!

[quietbluejay]

False Gods 2

"since the debacle with the interex, the Warmaster had withdrawn into a sullen melancholy"

Horus has only been talking with Erebus rather than the Mournival Horus is also still bedeviled by the administrators

again there isn't even a scene break here as we switch POVs back to Karkasy cmon man really "Karkasy was overcome by the magisterial beauty of the Warmaster" you know what when people talk to me thinking 40k novels are all top gun esque again i'm gonna pull out quotes from this one

karkasy is also super jealous of everyone Horus talks with why couldn't it be meeee so he starts pushing his way through the crowd so Erebus says hi to the Mournival, Karkasy spots Erebus passing Abaddon something something silver Horus starts his speech and then Erebus interrupts him to say Davin isn't compliant uh given this was Erebus' request why is he only explaining it now Erebus is tight with Horus but not so much so that he can just get the Warmaster to go detour to a planet which takes you know a good few weeks at least with zero explanation

did they all get replaced by Emperor's Children

so both Loken and Maloghurst are suspicious of Erebus yeah so Horus is big angy about Erebus saying it's not compliant and Erebus wanting to explain somewhere private and this is stupid

erebus: the tribes on the moon used mind control magic on him

pour one out for Horus he got et by the same warp predator that did Lion only it left us a worse version instead of a better one so of course Horus is going to rush off immediately afterwards, Karkasy and Loken talk Karkasy: yeah that whole thing by Erebus was a performance Karkasy: cmon man no one talks like that

Karkasy explains the whole thing to Loken because unfortunately Loken got bit by the same stupid angy bug as Horus despite being, you know a decently canny fellow and good at picking up on these things in Horus Rising Karkasy: anyways Erebus got Horus angry so he'd go to Davin oh it's time for Abaddon to sneak up on both of them and snap at Karkasy who starts apologizing and saying he was just telling Loken his impressions

karkasy: can i ask you a question? abaddon: no karkasy: what was that silver coin you gave erebus Abaddon freezes and Loken tells Karkasy to run and then holds Abaddon back as he roars and starts to charge at Karkasy okay we have a figleaf apparently abaddon's temper has been getting worse since the interex but cmon man i suspect i'll be saying that phrase a lot in this book [1:20 PM] loken explains to abaddon in small words that killing a remembrancer would be bad actually, hilariously, loken uses the phrase "in cold blood" buddy, i don't think that's the phrase you want… loken tries to get abaddon to explain what's going on but he's super cagey the daaaark secret is that they didn't bring erebus into the lodge he brought them into the lodge loken goes back to his squad and snaps at them but they put up with it er er???

THEY WEAR FATIGUES UNDER THE BODYGLOVE???? UNDER THE BODYGLOVE??? what this is way more cursed than whatever Fulgrim's Toga Troubles were time to do some sparring with combat servitors to cool down let's have a flashback about Erebus and Loken talking he wanted Erebus' scholarly knowledge

Erebus: lol its nothing it's all just stories Loken does not bring up Jubal

loken notes that the interex never actually said what kind of weapon was stolen anyways somehow for some reason the plot he believes the guy who became his enemy over Erebus I mean he's right to, but l m a o ugh we're back to Karkasy being gross about women

(gun emoji)

he and another remembrancer talk about connections lol then euphrati shows up and he whines that even though she's now dressed more feminine he doesn't like it probably because he can't see down her shirt in the modest robe she's wearing well tbh it's probably more that he can't actually see her figure since it describes it as a "strange sexless quality" eurgh you know what i know people say bad representation is worse than no representation but i would rather have erasure than have to read more of mcneill writing men interacting with women why did i choose to reread this i have no one to blame but myself the context being the female remembrancer he's talking to straight up asks him if he wants to sleep with her in exchange for putting a word in for her and he's like "lol i'm a man of course i want to sleep with you" then he finds a bunch of lectitio divinitatus papers around and snarls at her to piss off yeah, bro, i can tell from how this is written that we're meant to think badly of Wenduin in this scene but uhhh she's not the one who comes off the worst here Karkasy runs after Keeler and the scene ends there we're back to Petronella i'd almost prefer hearing about Abaddon's muscles to this Petronella figures the bed is an affectation and that primarchs don't actually sleep …is that where it comes from in the fandom because I do not recall anywhere else in the books saying anything on the topic oh yeah Petronella is wearing a sexy low cut dress and ONCE AGAIN I don't think McNeill knows a thing about fashion or colour matching i mean come on man i'd say it's deliberate and she's meant to be an idiot except that he did this in Fulgrim too green dress with a bright red bodice and silver net overskirt with topazes

we get another description of the dress she wore to meet horus and of course it pushed her boobs up i don't actually think mcneill knows what colour words mean "a cream dress with an ivory panelled bodice" actually that one actually makes sense, lol

words mean things (re that necklace description)

if i have to read this so do you all also HE HAS HAIR???? HE ISNT BALD RIGHT NOW???? i think i've figured out the real reason he got killed on davin reverse samson Horus: so why should i let you be my remembrancer Petronella: gasp anyways apparently he's winding her up also he calls her "lass"???? flashback over, she's looking through Horus' books and sees a saggitarius picture and Horus manages to sneak up on her lol oh this paragraph i remember this i started wondering if we'd walked into a harlequin romance instead

anyways she's coming along to Davin! you know what things going into the silly zone made this book a bit more bearable

i'm going to give McNeill kudos for this

notice anything about the wording? about the choices of words for description? yeah they're all illness related there was a bit further up about the precision of a surgeon wielding a scalpel this is relevant because we're going to Nurgle-land~

so while they're waiting/prepping the mournival talk weapons Loken is still struggling with the idea of rebels abaddon bellows at him about it

aximand: that could be treason lol aximand: nah i'm just winding you up

also, lol, lmao, first ever time in 200 years a compliant world has rebelled, pull the other one

also you know what, I used to think Abaddon from Talon of Horus was ooc but after reading Horus Rising I think it does work as an evolution of his character

wait what Guilliman was at Ullanor? context: Horus and Petronella are talking

or at least he was part of the fighting so was this a mixup or did someone later retcon it out anyways they're talking about Horus leading from the front

Horus: anyways wanna meet the Mournival?

apparently this was published less than a full year after Horus Rising which is an insane rate and explains some things iirc NO IT WAS PUBLISHED TWO MONTHS AFTER HORUS RISING

well that explains SO MUCH I can't believe I'm saying this but I feel bad for McNeill like that's mangaka level insane scheduling he had to have started on it well before Horus Rising was finished

I feel a bit like I'm punching down now

I'm still gonna continue complaining though but I'll keep in mind that a lot of it won't be McNeill's fault being weird about women absolutely is though that's not something caused by rushing honestly i think this explains some of the wording choices or scenes not splitting properly or POV shifts within scenes there was literally no time to catch it and I'm guessing they just had a temp or something skim through it for typos and misspellings and didn't even catch all of them

things due to it: - continuity errors - discrepancies between the books - formatting stuff, POV shifts, technical errors things not due to it: - horny on main - weird about women in a way related to but separate from horny on main ambiguous: - characters acting like idiot children okay! the Mournival spot Horus and Petronella heading towards them and Abaddon grumbles about remembrancers and not seeing the point Loken lectures him obnoxiously about how they're doing it for the generations that come after them etc etc anyways Torgaddon starts in on his bear joke ("Not again" says Aximand) and they're all cool again which is when Horus gets there Petronella recognizes Abaddon's name and he "beams"

okay the mournival does Horus' oath of moment and it's a good bit! some genuine emotion here okay like 3 pages of description of the many crafts going in this is what we should probably call bolter porn adjacent uh oh not again there's an ominous voice on the vox

hi grandpa it's an actual ship vox this time though Loken goes to talk to the Warmaster and the rest of the gang Horus: lol it's nothing, just propaganda Loken: this is exactly like at the whisperheads. we should be careful Abaddon: lol. lmao. we're astartes. others should be careful around us ok they finally land and everything is foggy

pleasant and lovely smelling place END PART 1

maybe it's the black mold emanating from this ebook but i'm wheezing Horus is not wearing a helmet

they're marching through this swamp as a phalanx the titans are errr

bruh why are you simping for giant machine legs making squelching noises loken shills for them a bit but thinks it's worrying they were deployed

oh wait i forgot that like Transformers comics, 40k books are sold to sell toys were they coming out with titan stuff when this came out?

(me: my hot take is that i don't actually think mechas are cool friend: you're a Transformers fan, bluejay)

anyways everything is gross and rotting or filled with maggots etc etc etc Loken (touches ground): something terrible happened here

Horus Rising Abaddon was choleric, yeah but not… like this I hate to attribute anything intentional to this but is he meant to sound like he's getting corrupted supernaturally?

Loken has everyone stop, as he found dead and decaying bodies and yep it's Temba's dudes OOP WE GOT ZOMBIES

yeah honestly this bit isn't bad oh we're over to Petronella POV I'm sure this will go well she's sneaking onto the surface RIP the Dies Irae just shot her craft out of the sky yeah I'm guessing this counts as the bolter porn section as usual for McNeill it is pretty decent, he's good at battle scenes in general over to Petronella, she and her bodyguard survived but the rest of the crew didn't Maggard (bodyguard) fights vs the zombies and Petronella is super impressed but there's still too many except then in the nick of time the astartes get there yay Horus tells Maggard "good job" and he collapses crying to the ground okay yay they found Temba's flagship they're going to go charging in Loken speaks to Horus privately and is like "hey this is a bad idea, we should soften it up with the Titans first, we have no clue what's in there and we already dealt with ZOMBIES"

my eye is twitching are we sure erebus hasn't been dosing his food

Torgaddon and Loken talk quietly about it after and Torgaddon thinks it's a trap Torgaddon and Loken get left to secure the rear and Loken feels like it's a punishment for speaking out lol Torgaddon is ???? McNeill can in fact do creditable descriptions and has been doing pretty well throughout Davin i hate to say it but some of his writing is actually better when it's rushed because it means he didn't have time to consult his thesaurus

like i'm not going to call this the best thing ever, but it's a step above a lot of his other novels I've read of course since we're in a horror movie and they split the party, naturally there's vox interference and they can't hear each other (erebus making crackly noises into their walkie talkies)

this is not my beautiful horus Horus: every since I became warmaster people keep telling me what to do and I'm sick and tired of it!!!! Horus: if people don't like my opinions that's their problem but I'm in charge so nyah! meanwhile outside with Loken a huge chunk of the ship just freaking fell off and the zombies are marching towards them oh of course horus got separated from everyone else and probably is going to get super tetanus in addition to spicy knife'd

be strong, bluejay Horus gets grabbed by a very creepy zombie and he starts to think maybe everyone was right after all and he shouldn't have done this it's basically infinite zombie waves

Horus finally made it to the bridge and he finds… a bridge we are for once not simping for!

but no what he actually sees:

come on man whither competency?

[princesseusminki]

Homeless | Park Seonghwa

Chapter 2.

Disclaimer ! Sexual harassment and disturbing scene! Reader discretion's are advised

He was hanging the clothes outside the house while I was sitting on the table figuring out his issues. He looks happy somehow this morning, I can see the smile on his face. Far from last night pleading expression. What was I thinking right of the bat? Accepting him to stay here, well the pitiful looks definitely works.

"Do you need anything to sort out more?" Huh. I didn't realise he was done with the chores until he caught me off guard. " Ah not yet...Seonghwa let's eat and...talk" Suddenly I can see the sadness washed over his face again. I didn't have anything except ramen, forgot to restock my groceries. "Sorry, ramen is the only foods I have right now". Looking sheepishly. "Don't worry...it's better than nothing". Right. He slurped the ramen so was I. " What actually happened?".

"Fucking twat look ahead would you" he looks like he about to throw punch at me, I put my arms front, defending myself before it's getting worse. "Dude cmon leave him alone". A spit spewed right onto my head. I didn't meant to hit him. My vision was blurry right after I went out from the room. Cold water hitting my face, as I looking myself onto the mirror, a tear of cries sliding my face. "I was looking for you, you know, cmon along now, entertain me". "Apology, madam I'm preoccupied now". I just want to run away and end everything now. "What is that mean?, I fucking paid you". "Go find another whore for you to pay around". I walked away from the bathroom before I felt sting behind my back and my visions turning void.

I woke up surrounded by a white senile wallpaper with a hint disgusting drought medicine smell. "You're lucky we found you". So I did faint. " We're just gonna keep it simple, nothing happened and you're gonna come back, all compensated through the medical bills". I preferably look distant. " hey, did you get it". "Im quitting" . I can feel the palpitations session inside my heartbeat as I spewing it.

A smudge reaction thrown, " Is it a fucking joke? Didn't know you can make one, always looks serious". " You're not quitting, you know why?". As he gripping harshly on my ward coat. "You're fucking pathetic, whilst no one helps you except us, taking you on the street looking rugs". " I still see that 9 years old scared child staring at me".

They said life always has options regardless, but I wish i did back when i was a child. Mom and dad died when i was 9, sending into orphanage care centre was the last choices since no ones want me. So I ran away. Tried to make the end-meets each everyday from scrap, either ways it didn't work out well until I met Kim Myeong-Gil. He was everything to me, my saviour, my guardians angel; who helped me while no one else did. That's until my chastity was imposed.

He said the job is basically to assist people. It was handful work at first that's until, I got forced and raped. Sometimes it was men and women. I didn't know what it was at first. All I know I want to die; it was such dark and trapped, I had nowhere to go. That until i managed to run away from the torture endangerment of the place and met the most profound souls girl.

Kim Iseul.

[edge-oftheworld]

i'm usually the last person to police communication bc i know how easy it is to come across as rude or break social rules without meaning to. but fans commenting on instagram (i know most of them aren't on tumblr but) you do know if you can't figure out how to say smth nice interacting with each other there's people who can help you figure out what you need to say and a healthy, productive outlet to get it out? there are so many subtle digs it's as if we forgot the guys are posting this and seeing it all? like cmon. ashton isn't bald, and there's nothing wrong with his cat being bald if you don't like it it's not your cat!! we know how to talk about mental health things in a non patronising way do we not? to not make assumptions about the health of someone's relationship in their instagram comments that leave no room to believe or even listen to anything they might say?? to not ask invasive questions about things like gender expression?

the fandom rn looks like a bunch of lost sheep with the insults of a cockatoo. and i know we're better than that. a lot of us do look up to them for some sort of leadership but then also insult them when they don't live up to whatever current idealised standard of looks or morality like. we can't have both. we're just all people in the end, we're all struggling and it's hard to communicate in comments that often don't get replied to (or if they do then people get even worse), but when you think of the power of 10ish million of us all together, if hostility and invalidation is our main message, to be 4 guys perceiving that it's actually terrifying. even if they're famous. they gotta be human to us and we'll be human to them. we know we are. but you can't blame them for not interacting if we look like an angry mob and be honest: are we making an effort not to be that?

and the thing is. i honestly believe we've just got all this love and all this protectiveness and we've been lied to about new music and we're all just people over on there like all of us are on here. with the ability to connect who just want to be seen and who relate to some music and go a little bit crazy over some guys. and it builds up into this angst and comes out the wrong way sometimes. but the thing about a fandom relationship is that hundreds of comments do add up. if they're derogatory it is gonna hurt, hundreds of times. which might require some space to process. thus, less fan interaction for self care reasons. it's better than celebs fighting fans in the comments. but also, this is a space we have the power to inject some positivity into for each other and for them!!!

[waterparksdrama]

ok track by track review of Intellectual Property. GO!

as you wish anon. be warned this is literally like one of maybe 4 times i've listened to this album in full again

st*rfucker - a bit too saccharine on first listen but it has better replay value as time goes on. the beginning of the shoehorned jesus lyrics and the continuation of limo imagery to represent fame which is actually fitting admittedly bc just like a limo that is supposed to represent glamour and celebrity living, they are just as widespread and accessible as him and aren't really that glamorous at all. also this is me saying again wow he complains a lot about fame for someone who isn't really that famous. i still hate the cutoff at the end bc. cmon man. 7/10

real super dark - ok i did like the gilbert gottfried inspired melody i think that's fun actually. the song lyrics? uhhhhhh. just more complaining. if you have listened to any of the albums since fandom you are not missing much there other than the otto serial killer jokes he has inserted here? which is a choice i guess. instrumental is great tho. i feel incredibly stupid listening to a lot of the other parts of the song tho. 7/10

funeral grey - god i can't bear listening to this one on my own i'm sorry. live it's fine, but the studio recording i would rather kill myself than listen to again. IT'S SO ANNOYING. the terrible overenunciated vocals. awsten's attempt at humor by writing these wattpad fic lyrics that make me cringe to my core because i know there's a part of him being genuine. the one direction ripoff hook because he managed to get one of 1d's actual songwriters to help write the track. the only saving grace is the ending but at that point it's too late for any redemption. 2/10

brainwashed - ironically this was written with the 1d guy again and. i'm actually fine with this one LOL. it's simple and lowkey so it's considerably less annoying than funeral grey. considering awsten said the lyrics on this album were hypersexual, but it's 2023 so this is fairly tame, it just makes me wonder how much he has repressed in his psyche. 6/10

2 best friends - ok now we're back to simple annoying. if you tune out the lyrics enough, it sounds like disney channel filler music. but it's actually about ~~sExxxx~~ hahahahaha everything about this album so far is like reading fanfics clearly written by middle schoolers. awsten's sad about his situationship so he goes out with his 2 best friends to forget but it doesn't work :( but he could just fuck his friends bc it wouldn't hurt to try at this point. hey what if this was what the song was actually about that because in travis' insane songfic he made jawn and awsten hook up during this chapter #neverforget #riptravisficeventhoughmebitchingontumblrmadehimkillit 4/10

end of the water (feel) - hearing awsten try to hit those high notes reminded me of people saying brendon straining on his high notes on the last panic tour was like hearing a dog that needed to be shot out back for its own good. this is very obviously a charlie puth ripoff to the t because not only does he hit high notes that no man should ever reach, but i'm pretty sure the verse instrumentals rip off "light switch" by charlie. anyways more of "ughhhhh i'm not getting a text backkkkkk" that makes me want to throw awsten's phone into the pacific. i still don't know why kurtis conner is here and how this is supposed to relate to any of this at all. also actually now that i'm crossing checking the genius pages for these, the descriptions for these songs make them sound much better than they actually are lol. 3/10

self-sabotage - this one is mid on it's own but funny because i remember the amount of twitter discourse this song has spawned. "awsten's being toxic and misogynistic" did we not listen to some of the songs off fandom "awsten has bpd" what if he just sucks sometimes. the memories of this are more memorable than the song itself. 5/10

ritual - remember when i found out the soundbyte at the beginning was from an aids psa. good times. fine song other than the shoehorned soundbyte. the entire song is just a repetition of the verses and chorus like a ~~ritual~~ spooky! i like the flair vincente void adds with his screams i feel like this feature makes more sense because it's a song about protecting yourself from the doctrines of religion that harmed you when you were growing up and apparently vincente has known awsten since he was 13???? only thing i hate is the corpse ripoff ending so much so that i have a personal version where i edited that out. 8/10

fuck about it - BORINGGGGGG OH MY GODD. if you've heard one blackbear feature, congrats you've heard them all because they all sound the same and blackbear adds no energy whatsoever. he made a bayside instrumental sound boring you really can't underestimate him. anyways back to the song itself; the situationship has dissolved into pure sex and disinterest and annoyance outside of that and with the way awsten sounds like he plans having hate sex, i don't think he's ever had hate sex before. there's the ending synth i think is fun and that's the only reason this gets a point at all. 1/10

closer - it's a sweet song but um. haven't we heard this in a way before? *cough cough 21 questions* i think this is the closest (lol) parx comes to at a return to pre-fandom form, but when i listen to the chords too much i'm just like "did he lowkey rip off that one smashing pumpkins song". anyways it's just about needing to be closer to someone or ending the relationship completely. simple but effective but not nearly as effective as 21 questions for me sorry. 7/10

a night out on earth - ok i had physical tickets to the last tour bc i won them on idobi so i was like "THIS SONG BETTER BE AT LEAST DECENT BC I STILL HANG UP THE TICKET WITH THIS NAME" and it was at the least. it's like. a good waterparks song, but i feel like i've heard it already? my mind goes back to see you in the future but for these i can't tell who's ripping off who more lol. yeah i feel like other than some interesting production here and there it's a rehash of shit we already heard before. shoehorned religious lyric. fake ass band guys. "i turn my agony into songs and people only like when i'm hurt". "i've been dead since 2016" (part two). "i'm evil now. idgaf. wat ever."

and then i think the part that makes me go awwww but also confuses me is the im a natural blue radio interview snippet? like why does this all tie in together now. geoff's not even here bro how is this the only release where otto's the only one namedropped when awsten hasn't even named dropped him until last album. 80% the album is about some random relationship how is this supposed to tie into all of these.

idk i feel like i've just had this on my mind when when of my mutuals made their own analysis on awsten's mindsets towards life and said how he uses fear as motivation but his perfectionism keeps him from using failure as an editor and how this song was the peak example of this; the rehash of the same ideas over and over because despite his stubbornness, despite "ultimately -not- giving in to the perception that you’re worth ‘Demonizing'", he never confronts the problem for real, just compartmentalizes the problem away and doesn't truly overcome the root of his problems. that's what i feel like manifests in this album for me to be put off by it at its core. nothing ever changes, he just finds a new situation to complain at. maybe that's also why his fans never change even as new ones come though. maybe that's why we also stay stagnant in this with him.

again i get it, he's a public figure; if he did dive too deep into this and didn't choose to generalize the lyrics for his own sake, he would probably end up incriminating himself way too much and have a hard time performing some of these songs. but i can't help but wonder. if he's truly getting over a mental obstacle like that, or keeps himself so set on the future that he ignores the problems he never solved. like he always does. like he always seems to be doomed to. anyways, 7/10 song.

all in all, it's an album that tries to reach a concept of coming to terms with your sexuality and religious trauma all entwined in fame but in reality it's mostly just about a sucky situationship and awsten complaining again while putting in random religious references sometimes and the beginning and ending are about fame. my hot takes are: tennis imagery = gay sex, there's not enough of a distinction between "soulsucker" and awsten to make "album lore" when the overarching concept of parx's discography is "awsten's life sucks", and darth vader is luke's father. - iz

[rosewoodconch]

RWCH Readathon 2024: Day 2

Undercover Princess - Chapter 5

So I really don't like this chapter. Like it might be my least favourite in all the books.

But we're going to try to be positive!

"Chaos and anarchy in human form" is a fun descriptor

80's teen heart throb made me blush at 14, I think its a really good descriptor of her aesthetic

I really like Ellie's attitude for most of the chapter, even if she does take it too far. I think it shows that reputation we heard about, her sneaking out to concerts and having arguments

The bi panic is so relatable and i love lottie for that.

Now, the argument

its stupid

its so stupid

ellie is so genuinely impressed with lotties side of the room

and lottie is just... horrible

I get that ellie isnt her perfect dream roommate, but cmon Lottie youre not that stupid to expect everyone to revolve around you

maybe she would benefit from a touch more anxiety in this scene (/lh)

Also it's meant to be like what mid 2010s? CDs are cool at that point. they still are cool. god just because someone hasnt unpacked immedaitely doesnt mean theyre lazy

alternatively, I dont mind Lottie getting angry and upset about mr truffles. that is so incredibly valid and Ellie had taken it to far so yeah i completely get being really upset and having her whole "I'm not a rich kid so i cant just magically fix everything" moment

However, I always see people only critisicing Ellie. so im here to change that too.

Lottie was being so rude and harsh and I genuinely get really angry every time i read it.

Like this girl has been there maybe 30 minutes, she was tired and passed out napping

gets woken up rudely by her roommate who seems to think the world must fit her perfect expectations, while Ellie is sleep deprived and grumpy

she tries to be so polite by introducing herself, if with a little sarcasm, but is genuinely impressed and compliments Lottie.

THEN Lottie starts being all rude and condescening and Its not like tha fairies are going to do it

I think if my roommate or anyone really said that to me I would react so much worse than Ellie did. so yes. shes wrong for what she did to mr truffles. completely.

But oh my god Lottie get a tiny grip please im begging

then they magically make up

im tired

the book so far is amazing and i dont know if its just my own experiences making me absolutely hate this scene but their first meeting couldve been written so so so much better imo

I'm gonna stop now or I'll rant for forever.