#feeling normal and well adjusted

[canonkiller]

which ways to escape have you already tried?

[nyxi-pixie]

microdosing on battling my social ineptitude by sending asks🙏🙏🙏

[cubbihue]

What does Timmy think of his little brother Peri growing up to have a neurotic personality?

Peri's always had severe anxiety. It sorta comes with being the first baby born in a 1000 years and constantly being kidnapped by everyone around you.

Timmy's just glad Peri grew up to be more confident in himself, and more assertive.

Bitties Series: [Start] > [Previous] > [Next]

[canisalbus]

I really appriciate how often Machete is depicted struggling and feeling like a burden, while still being loved and supported by Vasco. It gives the top tier angst of "i'm not good enough, I'm not worth it" but you frame it in such a way where it's clear that's just how he *feels* and is not how things really are, but also it's so nice to see someone who struggles quite often in a loving and unique relationship that suits them. The narrative of not being able to love or be loved unless you're consistently healthy is really tiring lol.

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[dolls-self-ships]

me: yeah im cool with sharing fos im super chill!!

also me when someone prettier/with a better body ships with my f/o:

[dracanboys-m]

hi welcome back to my monster hunter mind palace everyone

[chanrizard]

[slavhew]

*looking at a guy who is as mentally ill as i am* phew thank god im normal

[sacrosacred]

I had First Time lead into Anything But on my shuffle just now and realized that the last verse of the former ties itself to the latter in a way I think is [through extremely gritted teeth] interesting

Like, here you've got the singer saying "c'mere to me" to his lost lover, someone who he's argued with, someone who's called him 'baby' for the last time because they've broken up. It's a bittersweet line, intimately pulling this person close to ask about something so heartbreaking.

AND THEN!

I've seen other people talk about the duality of Anything But - it's the Fraudulent circle of Hell; it seems at a surface level to be the singer pledging all his effort to his lover, when upon reflection it belies a coldness or indifference towards them. It's a similar tone to that last verse of First Time!! It feels like Anything But is a conversation these two are having as they part ways for that final time. There's an initial sweetness to the words that fades into a wish for distance and a subtle cruelty. Huge divorce energy.

I also think the fact that there's mention of the Liffey in both songs (and that the latter comes so close to the opening line in Anything But) serves to underscore this connection.

The river Liffey is notably kind of gross. At this point he would rather be trash in a polluted river, or drink it all down, than think of the time they spent together, which is a hell of a burn now that I think about it. It'd be a beautiful image if you didn't know anything about what it's actually like, which sums up the story of their relationship.

In conclusion:

[dayurno]

thinking about pre canon andrew meeting kevin who has just lost everything he’s ever had over his abuser who asks please don’t let him take me away who says stop you’re hurting me who still believes if he asks riko will stop andrew will stop anyone will stop and i’m thinking about andrew who wants to crush him who wants to protect him who can’t believe kevin is this fragile who can’t believe he is this naive who can’t go to sleep without checking in on kevin every night but can’t keep from wanting to wring that innocence out of him like water from cloth. anyway

[vonehrenfest]

Together Forever

So it turns out that Danny is functionally immortal, his living and ghostly forms stabilizing each other every time he transforms. What this means for his human body is that he keeps reverting back to the age of his death- if he wants to grow up, to grow old, he will have to give up the other half of himself.

Danny could also stay a ghost instead, but it doesn’t feel right. It would be too much somehow in a way he can’t explain. (To be a ghost is to be tethered to your pain. He doesn’t notice it while he’s dead but the relief is real each time he comes back to life.)

Tucker reincarnates, like he has been for the past millennia. Each time he forgets his friends, and each time he’ll look into an ancient mirror and slowly start to remember.

It’s not just Tucker who comes back. His parents also return, again and again to each other. They never remember but it’s comforting nonetheless. On his third life after being Tucker Foley, it occurs to him that they might be soulmates; his continued existence not an unnatural blackmailing of the universe (like magic so often is) but just… skitching a ride.

Sam lives. She’s idealistic, a fighter, and ambitious. She dabbles in the dark arts just enough to help further her bright-eyed goals. Then, for a while she disappears. When her friends finally find her again, she has demons- both literal and metaphorical. She stops dabbling, and lets herself age. (She won’t stop fighting though, she never will.)

Sam dies. Danny protects her soul, and Tucker helps preserve her heart and mind. Her ghost is a fearsome and terrible thing, nearly a goddess in her own right. Death frees her from her living burdens, and for the first time in centuries she feels as light as she was in her youth.

Dani and Vlad are similar to Danny, but they are not perfect. They have to eat.

Vlad’s death was gradual. There is no single moment his biology returns to when he transforms, so he ages. He sustains his living body with his ghostly form, so like Spectra and Desiree he learns to draw energy from human emotions.

Dani was born half-dead. The condition Vlad discovered in himself as he begun to live longer and longer than any human has natural access to, she had from the very beginning. Dani doesn’t bother with vampirism though. She’s a Frankenstein and she’s ok with it; she gets her ecto-vitamins in the form an injection by Danny.

One day Dani will find out why she wanders, and why she traces the same paths over and over again. (Sam will tell her about ley lines, liminal spaces, and tears in the veil between worlds.) She’ll find places and events where the air itself sustains and strengthens her. Sun on a flower.

[soupbtch]

had a meeting with my boss this morning where he surprised me with a raise and I was so shocked that I told him to shut up and then I almost cried in his office

[iraprince]

also re my last answer: whenever i say "nobody actually cares if there are mistakes, nobody's going through your work with a fine tooth comb," stuff like that -- i knowwwwww that's not 100% accurate 100% of the time. i KNOW there are joyless weirdos out there who get off on like, picking ppl's stuff apart unprovoked, esp if they've already decided they don't like you or whatever, and people who nitpick anatomy and canon accuracy and shit like that 24/7 blah blah blah. i get anxious about it too, if i let myself think about it too hard.

but the point is that when i say "nobody actually cares" or "nobody is being as critical of your stuff as you are," what i mean is like.... "nobody pleasant to be around," lmao. "nobody cool." "nobody coming to your art and engaging with it in good faith."

taking a little private sip of haterade in your group chat once in a while or whatever is so normal (and nobody can do anything abt that, and nobody should spend a lot of time worrying abt it), but in terms of the person you're fearing will like, pull their pants down and take a big unsolicited shit on your art in public bc you drew a wonky arm or something? do u actually want to impress that person? is that who ur actually trying to reach w ur stuff? bc i'm not personally interested in that guy, lmao

[blueskittlesart]

Op your comics drive me Absolutely Insane thank your for your work

thank you! they drive me insane also. if i did not write them this shit would just be bouncing around in my head forever and i think it would kill me. glad yall like them

[onemilliondraculas]

Boss makes a dollar I make a dime I study the arcane truths on company time?

[slythereen]

no red quali pants third weekend in a row… you say he forgot them at home. i say he’s making a deliberate statement.

what do we associate the quali pants tradition with?

charles being a quali god (which is contrary to his new interviewer line: “i don’t care about pole, i want WINS”)

red quali pants for his red team (…)

that is all