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[demaparbat-hp]

On your most recent From the Couch post... is that a dragon tattoo I see poking out of Zuko's collar? ...................may we see more of it?

You may see all of it.

[wildstar25]

To this day, Arsay still holds the record for "fastest climb up a palm tree" in the South Seas (though there's no real competition for it).

Cultural context:

edit: if you see the version with a word missing no you don't

[kiwis-kiwis]

One of my headcanons for The Unknown from DBD is that its tentacles can come out of any of its holes! I feel like it just comes out of the back more often than not because its easier for it.

[certified-muppet-posts]

certified muppets post

[silverjirachi]

So many adaptations of things like the backrooms and the poolrooms get it wrong. it’s not that there’s a monster in there. it’s that the monster is the rooms themselves.

To me the horror of things like the poolrooms is because something should be there, and isn’t. This is actually what liminality is at its core. From a theoretical perspective, it is a space between two places. It is not a place where people go and remain. Motels. Train stations. Rest stops. Stairwells. Office buildings. Community pools. All places people are, but don’t stay.

Putting a monster in the poolrooms always feels so cheap because there are a million other horror experiences where a thing is chasing you or lurking somewhere. Avoiding a monster in the poolrooms is the same as avoiding a monster in a forest or a pizza restaurant or a house or a hospital or or or or etc. it’s a coat of paint at that point. It undermines the very unique liminal aspects of these locations by not engaging with its core components of time, space, solitude, and even identity that do not exist elsewhere. It just makes it Avoid The Monster Game number fourteen thousand and three.

When really, there is a horror of a place that is ever-expansive. A horror of a beast that is a location, a place that you cannot escape from, where you cannot die, and the only living thing is you.

[tensionpoints]

Looking at r/Deltarune to see what theories ppl have come up with based on That One Valentine and it’s soooooooo funny to me that every single post about it is the same. Actual quotes from the subreddit:

“How do we know this is gaster”

“Why else would it mention the letter being impossible to understand at the start”

“It doesn’t have the signature stilted tone gaster’s always had”

“It doesn’t read like gaster in English at all”

“I feel like the beginning narration, the all caps, and the style of writing clearly point to gaster”

“We have no real reason to think he’d talk this way… ever”

It’s back and forth with these general opinions, especially of ‘oh that’s not how he talks’ and I’m just sitting here like

1. When you are a scientist, you do not necessarily talk the same in academic contexts as you do in casual contexts. For the most part, I speak COMPLETELY differently from my papers I’ve written for school compared to when I’m flirting with my partner.

2.

[skyscratch-wcdesigns]

Owl Song - WindClan Queen

“Owl Song needed me. She’s… a bit anxious about her kitting.” - Moth Flight about Owl Song, Moth Flight’s Vision

[todays-just-a-daydream]

in absence of a reunion noel interview i'm going back to revisit the great gallagher thaw of late 2014/early 2015 to try to make some sense outta these strange reunion times we are in now.

i've been really curious about this time period for awhile and stockpiling posts with the intention of assembling them in some kind of chronological order. still not quite sure what i'm looking at but it's a bit like find the edge pieces of a puzzle and snapping them together for a frame. you can get a vague idea while understanding much of the pieces are missing to complete the picture. most notably noel is giving interviews at this time while liam is mostly out of the public eye entirely.

assembled them in the queue and looking at them in order now and getting a bit choked up by what we have. even factoring in the normal album press cycle, noel's interviews have noticeable outlier moments during this time. charting his uncharacteristically relaxed calm fondness to emotionally raw moments when mentioning liam, it does look like any attempt at a truce all goes south within a months time (mid february to mid march 2015). coincidence it’s when dead in the water is written and the chasing yesterday is released? of course it’s not lost on me it also is at a period of nostalgia with the 20th anniversaries of their first two albums and part of the buzz about a reunion driven by stone roses reunion. but in the course of the entire feud it sticks out as different. and suggests noel was more invested in a reconciliation than he’d ever be willing to admit.

queuing them up now. when they're done posting i'll link them to the chronological list below to access them easily.

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2014/2015 gallagher timeline

2014 28 february: beady eye cancels coachella gig, manager splits

11 may: liam runs into noel (man city wins the league) 21 october: "we're on good terms." (video) 25 october: "beady eye are no longer." ?? october: "don't give up"

17 november: in the heat of the moment released (do the damage bside) 31 december: "i think liam should make a solo record"

2015 12 january: ballad of the mighty i released (revolution song bside) 4 february: "i’d write him a few songs. i've got a few songs lying around that he'd be good at singing." (also takes a dig at beady eye) 20 february: "[liam] sends me cheeky texts from time to time." (interview) 25 february: "we're alright. i'm a bit concerned that he's starting to grow facial hair....family is family, you don't have to patch it up do you?…blood is thicker than mud." (interview) 26 february: dead in the water writing 28 february: recording dead in the water live at RTÉ 2FM radio studios in dublin (after dying of the light [video] which airs 2 march with a live interview)

2 march: chasing yesterday released 14 march: "keeping it in the family" lg tweet with nghfb pass 21 march: "you're already ruining my day talking about him" 24 march: "liam is a very angry man still and as long as he's angry we won't be friends i'm afraid" 2(?) may: "can't be arsed" + lg tweet goad

5 may: ng interview with rolling stone released, probably from mid-march (“it was my other brother’s pass…there was a rumor last week that we’ve had a gentleman’s agreement [to reform the band], but that rumor’s come from his people.”) 7-11 may: “noel katie hopkins gallagher” lg tweet responding to the rolling stone interview + "busted" lg tweet (in response to AA interview)

11 may: riverman released (leave my guitar alone bside)

29 may: “only reason i would ever do [oasis reunion] is if i was broke or maybe if liam was broke”

26 july: liam playing bold in a pub (video)

28 august: lock all the doors single (here’s a candle for your birthday cake bside)

21 september: noel wishing liam a happy birthday 5(?) december: "and maybe one day you know we will get back together" (video)

[sandeewithtwoe]

The unknown

Inktobertale Day 21! Ink is cosplaying as Wirt from Over the Garden Wall. It was either that or Elsa from Frozen

Ink belongs to comyet/myebi

[wortaives]

oc test no. uhhhhhhhh idk: tried attempting a king arthur variation for an oc world that i haven't even thought yet

[dead-inside-demiboy]

....So apparently you can have an "oh shit I love this person" moment without it being a dating/attraction thing.

[shizunitis]

there are two wolves

[password-door-lock]

It goes without saying that Unknown takes your phone away from you before he even gets you out of the apartment. It also goes without saying that he doesn't get a chance to look through it until he's brought you back to Magenta— after all, removing you without triggering the special security system or tipping that redhead off is a very delicate task, and Unknown must therefore carry it out in a delicate manner. As soon as he's in the intelligence room, with you on the floor beside him, he takes out your phone and begins scrolling through the contacts. He needs to know who has your number, who might reach out to you— deleting the RFA app, of course, is easy, but now he has to delete the contact information for the members in your phone.

Most of them, he finds, are listed simply by their real names. The actor is listed by his stage name, and that redhead is listed simply as the number 7, which Unknown finds laughable. It's a good sign, he thinks, that you put such little effort into recording that liar's name. Most of the other contact names in your phone are people he recognizes from his study of you, people you've called before or who have called you during the time that Unknown has been watching you. He's much less intimidated by these people than by the RFA, because he probably wouldn't have selected you in the first place if he thought that any of your friends or relations would pose a serious threat.

However, there is one name in your phone that really stands out to him. “Hey,” he says, immediately getting your attention. You look up at him with wide, trusting eyes, and Unknown can't help but feel endeared to you. It doesn't mean he respects you— in fact, it's hard to respect somebody who's making googly eyes at their captor without a care in the world— but at least he finds the behavior cute. “What's 'evil chocolatier who lives in the walls?'”

You snort. “Oh.” You're clearly trying to restrain your laughter, and Unknown is unsure how to feel. Are you laughing at him, or are you laughing at yourself? “That's you.”

Unknown doesn't know how to take this information. He's not angry. He has no idea what’s going on. “What?” He asks, trying not to stutter or stammer.

“Okay, so basically,” you start in on what he can already tell is going to be a painfully long story, “What happened was, a few months ago, there was, like, this Willy Wonka event that went viral online— ”

“Who?” Unknown narrows his eyes. He's understanding very little of what you're saying, and that’s starting to piss him off. It’s hard to maintain control of the situation when he doesn’t know whether his new assistant is trying to mock him or not, and it’s hard to stay calm when he’s not in control. 

“Hm,” you consider it, “Basically, he’s this book and movie character who owns, like, a weird fucked up chocolate factory where they break a bunch of labor laws? And child endangerment laws. And to be honest, I cannot imagine any kind of regulatory agency giving the green light to a single one of the products that he sells. Like, gum that turns you into a blueberry, stuff that makes you float around, et cetera, et cetera. You get it.”

Unknown nods. That follows. What you’re saying is weird and makes very little sense to him, but that much is true of most mass media produced outside of Magenta. “Okay,” he says, waving his hand for you to continue.

“Anyway, like I was saying, they had this event, right? They advertised the whole thing with fake AI pictures, and so it was really, really shitty when the parents actually got there after they had paid for tickets,” you prattle on, and Unknown tries his hardest not to be endeared— then he remembers that you belong to him, so he can feel however he wants about you. “Like, it was just some warehouse or something with a few cheap decorations? And basically, they had AI spit out the script for the actors to read, too, and the AI hallucinated a character that's not even in the original story, an evil chocolate maker named The Unknown who lives in the walls. That was around the time that you started texting me. And so—”

Unknown sighs heavily, cutting you off as soon as he gets the picture. It’s probably a good thing that you’re no longer serving as his informant within the RFA. It’s going to take ages to get any actual information out of you. “I've been using this name for longer than a few months.”

“I know, and it suits you way better than it suits that scary character with the Halloween mask,” you try to comfort him, reaching up to pat his hand. Unknown allows you to continue, only because he likes the feeling of your touch. “Anyway, I just thought it was funny, so I saved you like that in my phone. And then, you know, I just never changed it, since I was busy with the party and the bomb and all that drama with Jumin’s dad.” 

Unknown considers ordering you to change his contact name, but he finds that for some reason, he kind of likes that he's the only person left in your phone with a silly nickname. Granted, he's also the only person left in your phone, but he finds it cute that you gave a nickname to him and not to 707. “You can keep it.”

“You mean you're giving me back my phone?” You ask, incredulous. 

“Mhm,” Unknown says, “But these are the only two apps you can use, and every number but mine is blocked.” He shows you how he's restricted your use of the device to the phone app and the texting app exclusively.

“Well, wait a second,” you knit your eyebrows all cutesy, and you're lucky that the display is effective in encouraging Unknown to hear you out. “Can we video chat, too? I’m gonna tell you right now, there’s a very good chance that I’m gonna get lost in one of these hallways, and you might need to see my location behind me and stuff.”

Unknown curses under his breath, but he sees your point. It'll be better if he can see where you are when he calls you— maybe that'll stop you from doing something wrong. “Hm,” he says, snatching your phone out of your hand and changing the settings so that you can access the video call app as well. “There.” Now he hands it back to you.

“Thanks,” you tell him with what appears to be a genuine smile. Unknown isn't fooled, of course. You can't manipulate him into caring about you. But.... he gets the feeling you'll fit in better than he expected at Magenta.

[doodlejoltik]

my favourite writing device is having an un-Rei-liable narrator

[hexheathen]

[yuki-ume]

Aishiteruze Baby (I Love You, Baby)

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