#fml hi internet

[ke1p0y]

It’s been *checks watch* a good few years since I’ve drawn something somewhat polished

Anyways got into danganronpa recently lolll hi

[1llusionmachine]

Can't get over how accurately River has been cast, this book was written in 2010 but this is him to a T??

[ninakoll]

HEY !!! DO YOU LISTEN TO CAR SEAT HEADREST ???? IF YOU DONT IT DOESNT MATTER I THINK YOU WOULD REALLY LIKE THE NEW ALBUM " THE SCHOLARS " BY THEM !!!! (this is an opinion i have formed based on the fact you lisgen to bcnr and the mountain goats)

HI i just listened thru the album and YOU WERE SO RIGHT it's RIDICULOUSLY GOOD??????? i havent listened to CSH much before, i just knew them as the band with the hugging cute creatures (maybe i wasnt in the right mindset before? how could i miss something like this??) but i have to check out their earlier stuff now too; scholars was really fantastic. i love when albums work as a whole and follow a concept! THANK YOU for this rec 😭😭, you hit the nail on the head!!!!!! it reminds me of if somebody put styx and the beach boys in a blender and made a hearty soup out of them but its also completely new... listening AGAIN RN !!!!

since we're on the topic of music!

i got a vinyl player from leore as a bday present last year so here is our shared humble vinyl collection so far (tmg, peter gabriel, groove of essr, abba, la femme, bcnr, django django, dwarf fortress ost, dolly+linda+emmylou trio, orville peck), getting them on the basis of "if the internet died what would i want to keep forever and be buried with". so stoked about the bcnr indie store exclusive variant that i found in a record store on my way home from work! (and peter gabriel album was a gift from friends :DD dont bury me with him.) orville peck album has been chewed by the gremlin who is obsessed with his vinyl for some reason

not pictured but some of my other favorites are screaming females (NEED their vinyl next bc they disbanded fml), of montreal, vulfpeck, janelle monae, andrew bird... please drop more music recs in the replies if youd like!!! 👇👇👇🧡⭐

[house-of-hamartia]

Hi there, everyone <3

once again, sorry about the absence, lately I have kinda been with my head up in the clouds, and spent more time away from the internet because I was working on a personal creative project that took the majority of my creative energies so to speak, and I feel immensely guilty because fml.

BUT.

BUT.

The brain is lingering on Shay and Dora (as it always does, when I need some rest - I mean, they are my comfort otp for one reason fml), so I have been doodling some doodles whenever I had some spare energies from all the brainstorming.

Theu are still too sketch-like for me to share, but I am working on and off on their artworks and cannot wait to share more.

Also, I wanted to say that I received the asks you sent, and am preparing a little something to answer them.

So fear not, as soon as I have something decent to present, I will share it here <3

For now, thank you for sticking around, it means a great deal to me me <3

--Nemo

[kellysue]

On Interviews and Getting All Up In My Head

If you haven’t yet listened to Sam Fragoso’s interview with Annie Baker, please do. Baker is startlingly honest, and I mean that literally. I was folding clothes, hadn't even chosen the episode—it was just the next thing in my queue after whatever grisly murder podcast I had purposely selected. I was startled enough to stop folding, rewind, and listen again. I don’t want to say too much about it for fear of spoiling the experience for you, but there’s an authenticity there that’s rare. If anyone within the reach of this email knows Fragoso or Baker, please pass along my compliments. It was a hell of a thing.

Interviews are on my mind as I gear up to do press for the new comic. I’m not a shy person, not an introvert in the least (as anyone who’s met me will attest) but I do get up in my head about this stuff. It’s a part of the job that elicits a stew of feelings. The sort of vulnerability required to write, to create anything really, is different from the vulnerability required to talk about the work, about the process, or about yourself in that mix. (My heart is beating a little bit faster all of a sudden—my body reacting to even the thought of it. No kidding: I just got a notification from the Apple Health app.) There’s a certain defensiveness in the experience, no matter how friendly the interlocutor, one I suspect is fueled by the spirit of this internet age. As a part of your brain is searching for an honest answer, another is running through all the ways your response could be deliberately misconstrued, and a third is asking, ‘Will this really help the sales of the book/film/show/etc.?’ Is this worth it?

Baker lays all that bare; she risks being considered “difficult” or annoying Fragoso. (To his great credit, he doesn’t just allow for it; he answers her vulnerability with his own.) She appreciates the thoroughness of his preparation but at the same time wonders aloud at the peculiarity of having something she once said parroted back to her as Truth. She doesn’t deny having said it, and likely it was true once, but memory and identity are fickle things, and the perspective of age alters how the light hits both. Of course, for the purpose of an interview, for the purpose of any conversation, there have to be some things we take as given, but her willingness to highlight the absurdity of the exercise, to own her discomfort, and then to light up when Fragoso is willing to ride along is refreshing, a buoy to me just now.

I love her willingness to push back, too. If you know me, you know I can be a lot, and I don’t exactly have a reputation for conflict-avoidance, but there have been moments/remarks in interviews past that I let slide unchallenged and they gnaw at me still. My hesitancy to hit the press circuit probably has something to do with that as well. Fear of signing up to either answer the well-meaning stranger back or grit my teeth and learn to live with another Lego in my shoe. And for what? In comics, anyway, no one seems to know what press, if any, will move the needle.

Oh goodness. Reading back, I’ve descended into something that looks rather unflatteringly like privileged moping. I am fortunate to make my living in the arts, I know. My challenges are hardly those of a coal miner or a policy-maker, I know, but here we are. Bucking up now, I promise.

I’ll say in closing this bit out, though, that I probably ought to own that my efforts to find new ways to market FML (starting with the acrostic in the last email) are not entirely about the current media landscape. They’re at least in part a reaction to the current me landscape. And I think it’s probably okay to acknowledge the absurdity of being so tired you can’t bring yourself to do things the usual way and then making up new approaches that require three times the work. Nothing if not on brand.

xo

Kelly Sue

[symphony-tv]

You know id never thought about lanares but now im interested, can you give your thoughts on them? Headcanons maybe?

i’m glad you asked! i’m in rarepair hell i searched the entire internet and found a single fic where they were a background pairing :,) anyways. this originally started when i was planning a second playthrough of fe4 with different pairings, and i was trying to think of who i should pair ares with since he was left a bachelor in my previous run, and i was going “okay i don’t really ship him with lene so who would be nice with him…” and then i was thinking “he could be cute with lana actually”. and then i got the brainworms.

initially what really got me into this ship was the fact it hit all of my favourite ship tropes at once. sweet x edgy, healer x fighter, etc. so then as they’re rotating in my brain i’m going “oh my god this is so underrated there’s so much that could happen”. like lana in-game is an awesome unit so imagine her promoting and kicking ass and ares is just going “omg. i think i’m in love”, or pre-promotion you could have the classic scenario of “fml i left my cleric in full range of the enemy. time for a yolo maneuver” and have ares get in there and also kick ass >:3 or you could have a slight canon divergence where they meet before ares switches sides, and then you’ve got the whole “romance but we’re supposed to be enemies” thing going on, or if you’re like me and ship jamke/edain you could have a no-belhalla AU where their kingdoms are neighbours and so then you’ve got a potential childhood friends to lovers scenario

also can’t forget that their social circle adds some fun potential as well, like you’ve got seliph going “my bestie is dating the guy who tried to kill me???”, lester being overprotective, lene trying to give dating advice, diarmuid being a wingman for both his cousin and his childhood friend, and so on :P

i do have some headcanons as well! as i think i mentioned in one of the ask games from a few days ago, i hc lana as a bit of a bookworm, and while i’m not sure if ares would be much of a reader himself i think it’d be sweet if after the war he got a big library made for her! another one that i’ve got comes from when i first played fe4, and i was thinking that lana’s hair reminded me of cinnamon rolls in a weird way, and because of that i say that she’s good at baking; so ofc ares gets the best cakes and pastries around 😌 this makes the rest of the tirnanog squad very envious btw because she never made THEM birthday cakes, what kind of world is this??

anyways. thank you very much for your time. they have invaded my brain

[crguang]

violinist au kafka hit the second tower. but actually she's so annoying😭 she needs to shut up atp. but this actually driving me crazy. like the monday after the friday bus ride...her driving by that store a couple times a week just to see r in the window, she's awful. love serval just lying to r so they'd see each other again, loved that, but she didn't know how much kafka sucks. also blade driving, is he actively suicidal in this au still? honestly i feel like blade would be a bad driver, but on purpose, and kafka doesn't seem like the type to drive if there's someone else to do it. her annoying r on purpose and comparing them to when they were both teenagers was great, esp with the contrast after she makes her cry. also her smiling perpetually as part of her mask is also very interesting to me, but i did love this part bc kafka would def come off as a rich asshole if she wasn't a criminal already. and her just like staring in disbelief when she made r cry like it's literally not her fault. she's so good at hiding her emotions too, ugh. and her giving her card too, is she even real. (she is unfortunately not.) the angst is killing me, but in the good way, (how many rereads is between me and my history). this au is amazing.

btw forgot to mention ur so right, folklore is the album for this au. personally seven was never one of my faves, but it fits so well with this au, yea. would have more thoughts but I'm about to fall asleep.

very glad I have this week off uni tho, (thanksgiving) very not looking forward to seeing my relatives and I'm applying to a writing program, but instead I'm yapping about kafka, so really great productivity coming from me. I also got an arcane s2 spoiler abt one of the favs as soon as I opened tumblr, I literally blocked all the arcane tags, fml hate being on the internet sometimes. I have to wait to watch it bc my friend is driving 3 hours for a visit and we're watching it together.

-🌠

HEHEHEHEHEHE I LOVE UR COMMENTSSS kafka’s so obvious but especially to blade since hes the one driving her around lmfao. hes still suicidal otherwise a big part of his character would be missing i feel like, kafka’s just the bravest😭😭😭 he’d never crash the car with her in it… maybe. i think hes a good driver he just has to fight demons every day. k def can come off as a snob sometimes but thats because of the way she dresses and her confidence + her picky tastes 😭 if i saw her in the streets i personally would just think thats a sexy rich lady but maybe im biased. i’d say she looks nice tho bc of her constant smile. she came in that store with a mission and got bamboozled by the consequences of her actions like shes too funny fr. making r cry then giving them her business card shes actually crazy hdhfnfmf there is so much lore to this au im only writing the parts that make me go insane but like the whole thing is just so great, i havent had a story obsess me like this in a while and the best part is that im making it up so i can add whatever i want 😋 even started a pinterest board first them… like we’re really deep in this

hope thanksgiving isnt too tedious but at least youre free of uni for a week and u can sleep as much as u like !! i havent watched arcane yet either, i might do it when i get home but im also pretty tired so we’ll see. hope u and ur friend have fun tho

[69junipiss69]

I'm failingat everything I literally dont ssee a fucking reason to keep trying everyone around me hates me I confide in the internet my only friends talk behind my fucking baxk. Ijust wanna be seen. I want to be my own person but I cant. At the end of the day I am his kid and there's no escape to it unless I kill myseld. Each time I stare in the mirror I see the same man who hurt me looking back. I am stuck with a piece of him no matter whay. I have to kill.myself there's literally no toher way there's nothing else I can do I fuckingbhate him I hate myself I hate that I am him I can't keep doing this. I cannot keep living. I am a fuckinf parasite. There is nothing salvageable in this disgraceful husk of a freak they call me. There is nothing worth fighting for, there is nothing worth trying to save. I've tried. I've been trying for years. I am a failure, I always have been and I always will be. Honestly I fuckingbhate myself. Either way if I live I think they're gonna try and hospitalize me so im probably gonna go on a hiatus anyways. I fucking told the school everything. Fml bro

[scaredy-katts]

it's me,,, im here,,,,,

8, 18, and 28 :)))))

asks !

(you sent the ones that would utterly break me....didn't you??)

Any favourite places (ex. bedroom, kitchen, on a desk, against the wall etc)?

I will deadass fuck this man anywhere LMAO IDC!! he chooses the most inconvenient places to be horny and I feel like that's canon. god forbid I'm cooking bc now I'm being bent over the counter oopsie!! mine is probably the bedroom despite my love for spontaneity though. the counter hurts, being bent over on a hard surface HURTS AND IM A FRAGILE PILLOW PRINCESS! comfy bed will always come out on top hmmm bonus if we have mirrors on the ceiling above the bed

What’s the foreplay like? How quick is it to get both of your clothes off?

THIS ONE IS FOUL NO ONE LOOK AT ME he likes to take his time unfortunately bc I am stubborn and need instant gratification right then and there and he KNOWS THAT so he drags it out even more he will be fully dressed while I am....not he will stay like that until HE wants to do more I have to cross this out I might throw up with putting this on the internet but he'd make me beg...he'd make me beg honee and I'd do it too like the court jester I am

How wrecked/spent does your f/o look by the time the two of you are done? Do they have a dazed look on their face? Completely disheveled hair? Chest heaving for breath?

THIS ONE BROKE ME. IM BROKEN IN SHAMBLES- I.... BRO god- god he's so fine..... he's all sweaty, messy hair because I like to pull it rahhhhh, and dazed and FML ID WANT TO FUCK HIM AGAIN EVEN THOUGH HE JUST LAID ME OUT the shame is gone. nonexistent now. THIS healed me. I'm healed. fucked out suga save me I need him carnally

[flamingpen18]

FML!!!

So Dave forced us to move to the room next door cus he wanted hot water and water pressure. He inconvenienced us all for nothing. Instead of admitting he was wrong, he's bitching about everything else now.

To top that crap off he came back sick as a dog yesterday. The last time he was sick, I ended up in the e.r. He never washes his hands. He never covers his mouth. We are all going to get sick. With my poor health and asthma, I am royally screwed.

The really annoying thing is that he refuses to go to the walk-in clinic or the e.r. He will down an entire bottle of Robitussin and think that will cure him. Meanwhile, he's spreading his germs, and I cannot afford to get sick again. It took me nearly a month to recover last time.

Have you ever been sick while homeless and broke? It's not pleasant.

The internet in this room is bad. @helly-watermelonsmellinfellon is having trouble writing her fics and doing her thing. I am having issues with doing what I need to do. We need the internet and we are now screwed.

Did I fail to mention that a guy Dave works with was just diagnosed with COVID? He had all his shots and still got it and is sick as a dog. Dave only had 2 shots, so we'll see. All of us have had COVID. It's not pleasant

[parcoeurs]

hehe 💌

i love that u r kiki's owner goodnight.

jk jk first and foremost i love that you are a genius nba expert. not everyone gets the nuance and beauty of absolutely obscure bench warmer/star pairings but u do!!! i genuinely think you're one of the funniest people on the internet not everyone has the privilege to follow your twitter but it truly cracks me up whenever i go on that hell app. i LOVE how much you also love cats why am i getting emotional nat in another universe we are two cats that are sitting together in a sunny spot watching cat basketball! i love that you are probably one of three people who understand my deep cut nba twit memes when i reference them.

will always associate cats with you... not everyone understands them like us i fear. jakob/pascal r.i.p FOR THE SECOND TIME FML. also a certain formula 1 driver who i do not care for but i know and trust you understand him better than anyone.

mutuals send me a 💌 and i'll tell u one thing i love about u and one thing i associate with u!

AND BEFORE U SAY ANYTHING, CAT TAX INCLUDED BELOW

hi

[mr-palindrome]

Hi srry for not existing heres a lil update on how fucked my brain is lol

1. Think i might legit have bpd. Nobody irl gives a shit abt my problems tho so gonna have to get a diagnosis by myself when i turn 18 or sumthin idk and then nhs waiting shit is awful so it could take over a year after that

2. Hypersexuality has been awful. Disgusted with myself. Fml, doxx ur groomers, dont let ur lil 8 year old kids have unlimited internet access

3. So fuckin lonely. I wanna be around ppl so bad but then wanna dieeee bcs im desperate for attention and actual human ppl cant give me what i unrealistically need in order to be happy. I jus dont talk to ppl by choice anymore.

4. Also i just refused to go to school for 2 weeks. Uh. Cuz bullying and misgendering and im depressed as shit and dont wanna get up and do anything especially at 6am and i started going back a week ago and i hate it

5. I levelled up i had a birthday!!! Forced to go out with my dad the transphobic piece of shit also not telling u my age but im still a minor

6. I've been writing bsd fics so if you see Kunizai Valentine series on ao3.... das me... writers block killed me tbh...

[kaoarika]

I feel like I have too much to talk about yesterday at my relatives' new year's day party. So much because I wasn't too much in the mood to be there.

Dunno if the right word I will use is "dissociating", but I practically was there just hearing all type of conversations as if gossip they were, since I was not just not in the mood to talk, but also pretty tired (well, "tired", because I didn't sleep well and I slept on over details that I don't seem to understand - regarding my laptop and firefox)... besides, I feel like my poor life is so boring compared to my cousins', lmao. What kind of comment I would have made before sounding too... bitter?

I know I don't talk too much with them, and these past few years it's becoming harder and harder to because the family reunions are more far in between. I haven't properly seen them since... February 2024, when one of them was doing their farewell party since they were moving out from this country (they and their spouse didn't come since, obviously, they are in another country). I feel the distance grew even more, and they are all on their own stuff, too. The youngest cousin I have is almost ending high school and I still have this mental image of the last Christmas reunion we had with my grandmother, pre-COVID, when she brought her Switch... heck, I still remember one specific recent reunion before that were we would visit each other while playing local on ACNL with our 3DS...es? and that was probably between 2017-2018, take it or leave it. This was 6 or 7 years ago, fml.

So, pretty much the talking was about jobs and university career choices and my cousins and I are all in so different frequencies. I would come a little bitter and boring if I said "well, I am not doing anything related to my major since... a long while" when they were discussing about masters or practices' payments or jobs... you know? This same cousin is going to study the same artistic major as my brother and I know how bitter he is about the way he and many others (of his friends, and I bet some acquaintances are in the same position as he is) aren't doing stuff they were promised back in the day and they are either trying hard to get a graphic de*sign job, or aren't getting paid well (because the degree and related visual careers are PRETTY devaluated here...!... that and all that sh*t with AI getting implemented and basically being all a downer about that).

The hit in the nail is my slightly more successful married cousin saying "oh, then one day I would hire any of you to help me out with a graphci design something thing one day" to the youngest and, understandbly it bothered me a bit, because I felt there was a sign over me saying "former graphic designer that graduated from that 10 years ago" and remembering their family had a small business back in the day where they ended up asking my brother to "refine their logo" when, well, I was just studying that thing... and understandably, again, I don't talk too much about me and all that, specifically because I graduated a decade before this specific cousin of mine.

...also, I was bothered with stuff about sudden talking about chat gp*t with ANOTHER of my relatives attempting to convince my dad (who also writes and we have tried so hard to tell him not to do that -specifically because, imagine feeding your work to the machine to "train" with it) and... MAN... disappointing and kind depressing to say the least :/c AND HECK, many of the points my relative had I could easy counterpoint with "it's easy to make and OC for a fandom or series you like? the fun part is developing them on your own..." but I feel they would have respond me "but you are younger and this is a tool" and I would have responded, "well, I have been too many years on the internet as well as you, it's HARD as hell, but I have known plenty of people doing this, too".

Also, dunno why, but I was tearing up at some moment around midnight. Dunno why was that, to be honest, lmao. I was already all teared up because during the day I finished Chrono Crusade (with its tearjerker of an ending) and was reading Sweetness and Lightning vol 6 (which is itself full of tearjerking moments, at least for me)...

[weaversoffate]

oi, gente! tudo bem?

nesse post eu tô botando o link para um formulário, feito por mim, baseado em outros formulários que eu vi circulando pela internet que me lembraram sobre uma conversa que eu deveria ter tido com vocês logo no início da campanha. é, essencialmente, uma lista de consentimento pra gente negociar quais temas são legais de retratar na campanha e o que não é tão maneiro assim. uma explicação melhor e mais extensa tá escrita no próprio texto introdutório do formulário! gostaria muito que preenchessem antes da sessão no domingo, mas tudo bem se não rolar porque ele é relativamente extenso e acho importante preencherem com cuidado e atenção! :D

no mais, é isso! até domingo fml!!

[hammy-27]

the internet has ruined me

every time I look at the number 3 my mind has to do a double take and make sure it’s not a :3

also i can’t fall asleep without calling someone now man

my best friend isn’t allowed to call me anymore

his mom changed his number

My bf lives in the opposite time zone

Man fml bro 😭😭

[soufre-de-paris]

arquitect came yesterday, and the visit was fine. she is capable in person in a way she is not at all over zap/zoom. she straight up said that this took so long/everything went wrong bc she couldn't manage all the moving pieces. i couldn't think of a nice way to say "then why the fuck did you say you could when we hired you" so i didn't say anything.

there are so many little things wrong, but 90% of them she's aware of and we are already scheduled to have people come to fix. yay

the window in the bathroom has a 3cm gap between the top of the window and the wall. there is zero chance the installers did not see this when installing; the top of the window is in a niche so there's no way to see it but it's just loose??? i only know it's there because i followed the window with my fingers. i am going to murder someone(s)

tela guy is coming today and in theory we will be able to leave the windows all open without fear of the tiny brained cat leaping to his tiny death. i miss the wind

i am out of internet and have 13 days left until it renews fml