#discovered a whole new world

[lunee-bat]

I'm crying at the image of the radioapple baby just sprawling on the floor while learning to wall can I please gave more of that au

AND YOUR WISH IS GRANTED bc it’s mine too lmaooo

Also I gave her a name UwU

She looks scary and is a dangerous chaotic neutral but she loves snakes and watches Snake Discovery

So,,,,this weird lil creature has some lore behind her now too bc my adhd finally let me type it out (still working out some kinks tho so it’s pretty rough),,

CREDIT GOES TO A DEAR FRIEND OF MINE who runs a lovely blog called @mpreg-nouveau (BLOG IS 18+!!) where you can find a mix of sfw and nsfw Mpreg art! Incredibly creative ideas behind the art as well, so know she’s truly a fountain of ideas when it comes to writing Mpreg lore (which is why I’m grateful for their creativity when I came to her and said HELP I MADE AN OC BUT IDK THE BACKSTORY YET).

Basically—out of gratitude/apology for How Things Went when Charlie and Vaggie visited Heaven, Emily sends them a lovely little miracle that’ll let sinners have a child (logic being that Vaggie’s a sinner so she and Charlie can’t have kids). Lucifer and Alastor, being Lucifer and Alastor, find a box marked “for CHARLIE and Vaggie” and get in a petty spat over delivering Charlie her mail. In accordance with Murphy’s Law, they bust open the box and detonate the miracle. They’re too busy arguing about the ordeal they don’t even really know *what they did* at first until Charlie finds the note from Emily explaining the contents of the box followed by “p.s. don’t tell Sera” and “p.p.s. Sir Pentious says hi” and, well, Alastor and Lucifer DO NOT take the news well.

They’re VERY not interested in each other in this au (Alastor’s not interested in ANYBODY and Lucifer’s interested in ANYBODY BUT ALASTOR), but they agree to coparent the kid together—Lucifer wants a second chance after Charlie, and Alastor wants his own Prince or Princess of Hell he can mold to be the exact breed of evil he wants. Enemies to coparents not enemies to lovers, y’know?

[tommyforyourbuck]

The night before Buck invited himself to the basketball game, he was frantically googling, “How to dribble and play basketball.”

And just about a week or days later, Buck found himself frantically googling, “How to make love to another man.”

[buddiedaydreamer911]

i’ve recently gotten myself hooked on age difference buddie AU fics and i’m obsessed.

here’s how they look in my mind depending on the story lol

[ahalliance]

rotating the UHCs + serveur du lundi qetoiles precanon potentiality in my mind

[coriander-candlesticks]

I'm sick so I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense, but I've been thinking about the nature of myths recently as I've been exploring hellenic polytheism.

For context: I'm ex-Mormon. I was raised in the church and, because of that, was taught biblical literalism but in, like, a more subtle way than most? I was raised believing that Adam & Eve and Noah's Ark, etc., were literally true, but that the story of Job specifically was not; I also always knew evolution and the Big Bang to be correct, despite there being a verse in the Doctrine & Covenants (a Mormon-specific religious book) where God apparently told Joseph Smith that the world is 6,000 years old- a passage I didn't know existed until my senior year of high school. I didn't realize I had believed in biblical literalism until I'd left the church, actually.

Now that I'm aware of it, it's a mindset I'm actively trying to combat while I explore Hellenic polytheism. It's definitely been a task to separate the nature of the Gods from their myths, as brutal as they often are. And it's something I've noticed within the community, too, which I think is interesting. It makes sense: Christianity, at least, has had a chokehold on much of the world for a long time, and so many of us have experienced literalism as our first interaction with any sort of holy text (though, of course, Greek myths as a whole aren't that) alongside our first experience with divinity as a wrathful God whose flaws are waved away, or ignored, or twisted into positive attributes. This also means that I'm trying to re-approach several deities with an open mind (Zeus, Hera, and Ares in particular, but many of them to some extent) while also trying to un-condition myself. I was already in the process of doing this, of course, but trying to figure out how to interact with a completely different pantheon has made that especially clear.

It extends to things like prayer and offerings, too. Prayers were very formulaic growing up, even though most of the time there wasn't a strict script to follow. There was always something you ask as part of the prayer, even if it's just 'please help me do better tomorrow' (alongside giving thanks, of course), so trying to craft a prayer without adding *everything* I'm used to including in makes it feel incomplete and, therefore, disrespectful. And daily prayer is something I'm resistant to because of prior experiences with it. I don't want to offend any of the gods by asking for something or asking for too much, especially so early on, and there's always a promised offering the few times I *have* asked. Add worries about exact obedience on top of that and it's proving to be a difficult thing to untangle. And I know that the gods are difficult to offend, figuring out how to do this takes trial & error and that's okay, it'll get better the more I do it, etc., etc.; this is more an issue with my own overthinking than anything else (hooray for ✨ mental health issues ✨). I'm not really asking for advice here, necessarily, just thinking out loud because I'm not comfortable talking to people in meat space about it yet.

[sojutrait]

uni student finally gets reprieve from school, plays uni simulator for six hours 

im not joking ive really been playing for six hours 

[warmcoals]

fake Suffering fans when a real stone-hearted wretch of hate and grief joins the chat

[murmurmurl]

a modern human au where nothing bad ever happenned to them and they got to grow up together. I am making myself cry with this chat

[tejoxys]

I think my confusion at everyone in the walrus/fairy poll notes going, "ARE YOU ALL NUTS?? IF I SAW A *FAIRY* IT WOULD *UPEND MY LIFE* I WOULD NEED TO RETHINK EVERYTHING" can be boiled down to, like, why though? how often is your daily life actually affected by the existence or nonexistence of fairies? or by pretty much anything outside your sphere, honestly? "it would change everything!" why? if they'd always been there, that would mean you've been living in a world with fairies in it this whole time, and it has affected you zilch. this is your life in a world with fairies. what do you think you're going to do differently now that you know they're real?

[lem-argentum]

playing ff.xiv blind as a th.ancred fan from the beginning is so funny. “hmm i wonder where than is- WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE WAS POSSESSED BY ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL BEINGS IN THE UNIVERSE….....” “hmm i wonder what happened to than after he was teleported from the- HIS ABILITY TO INTERACT WITH THE NATURAL ENERGY OF THE WORLD WAS SEVERED AND HE HAD TO FEND FOR HIMSELF FOR MONTHS IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE????” “yaay than gets to help us with planning our defenses :D- DID HE JUST DIEoh he’s not dead his soul was just RIPPED AWAY TO ANOTJEJR WORLD????!?!?” “ohh he gets to fight r.yne’s awful guardian figure i wonder what he’s gonna- DID HE JUST DIEoh he’s fine nevermind he gets to have resolved character development now :)” “aww okay we get to go to the end of the universe together, and he’s already gone through so much so clearly nothing bad will happen to hDID HE J

[netherzon]

I really like giving the nations weird quirks/reactions/powers/physical traits, like how Finland’s back gets itchy when Estonia talks about him in canon. I think its a fun idea, so I wrote this out for a fic awhile ago:

“Anytime a new type of dinosaur was discovered in America his brother’s hair would get so frizzy he looked like a dandelion. Canada was lucky enough to witness the discovery of the T. rex in person, not from the actual site, but from a meeting room in Washington D.C.. The static electricity was strong enough that every the diplomat in the room felt the effects themselves. They looked like a whole field of dandelions at all stages of life. They had agreed to postpone that meeting until a time when America was not a walking, talking tesla coil”

[metanarrates]

Sorry if this feels really sudden but was there any specific catalyst that got you interested in media analysis as a hobby? Or did it happen organically? Intensive dissection of art and information wasn't really a habit of mine up until I watched/read Hunter x Hunter for the first time, so I can firmly say "yeah this series is what got me to work on my critical thinking skills" but this of course means fandom was pretty crucial to my development as an individual... was wondering how common/unusual that is for those of us who participate in these spaces 🤔

I've always been something of an analyst! my grandmother was a preschool teacher who switched to being a high school english teacher, so she was a huge influence on me as a kid. she taught me how to read when I was 3, and she lived in my family's house on several occasions during my childhood. i LOVED to read and my grandmother was a very capable teacher, so she was teaching me about literary devices and such when I was literally around 9. my parents are very highly educated people who also like book and film criticism, and my siblings also loved reading, so I just sort of grew up viewing literary analysis as a tool to help me enjoy reading and writing more than I already did. character analysis was and is a common form of discussion around my family dinner table.

however, most of my childhood and teenage education was about literary analysis as a tool to emphasize what an author did well. I didn't get into media CRITIQUE until I was around 15 years old and discovered twilight criticism on livejournal.

to give you some background, I didn't have unfettered internet access as a kid. my parents believed it wouldn't be healthy for my development and heavily monitored my internet usage. my smartphone, when I got one, had its internet browser locked down UNLESS my parents disabled the parental locks on it. but when I was around 15, I became friends with a trans dude at my school who Loved tearing apart bad media. we would hang out and read horrible smut fanfiction while trying not to laugh as a regular activity. around this time, I figured out how to jailbreak my phone to allow me to browse the internet more freely, and in doing so discovered livejournal communities that were dedicated to in-depth critiques of certain media.

i was OBSESSED with those critiques. i had never seen comprehensive literary analysis used to explain why something sucked, and it was very exciting to my teenage brain. i reread certain critiques over and over again, just because the type of analysis going on was something I had never seen before. some of these authors were very educated and talked a lot about feminist lenses of analysis, racial lenses of analysis, etc. and i just wanted to learn more. I started reading critical essays on other works as a major hobby, and my friend and I would regularly discuss media critique. since then media analysis has just been a Huge interest of mine.

so as far as your question goes, i suspect my background is pretty unusual. most people I know who got into fandom did so as a kid or teenager. and I definitely did get into fandom in my late teens, don't get me wrong, but I had an ENTIRE background of literary education under my belt already by the time I became a regular denizen of the internet. fandom ended up not being very influential to my critical thinking skills at all lmao

[bison-appreciation-club]

help i didn't realise how controversial columbus was until today??

but also now i need to find out what the general consensus on columbus is because wikipedia is... conflicted. apparently he was really influential and shaped the modern world but he was also really violent and brutal to the people he met on his journeys??

[sadlazzle]

i gotta say im enjoying elden ring so much. like im jst rlly having fun. im probably missing quite a few things n i need to explore more n get some cooler armour n spells but honestly im jst havin a rlly good time

[luvsailor]

i had a friend who was lesbian that made me realize that my love and obsession for a fictional man didn’t make me broken and we both felt just about the same exact way about the same fictional guy

but we vibed over literally nothing else it made me immensely upset

but maybe certain people are meant to enter your life to fulfill one thing in yours and the time wasn’t wasted after all

[polaris-australis]

need to go get my ass in the shower so that i can write before midnight, but obsessed with the image of a halloween party (yes i know halloween just passed fuck off) where my main character is dressed like a final girl