#for a decade and some at this point

[creekfiend]

something that drives me insane on a relatively regular basis as a body jewelry understander is talking to people who have sensitive skin who are like "oh well I just can't wear any earrings without my ears getting inflamed" and I say "well what have you tried" and they say "well I've tried sterling silver and I've tried gold..." and it's like. ok. I don't know how gold and sterling somehow got spun by the jewelry industry as being especially good for sensitive skin but whenever I'm like "well have you tried implant grade titanium" they're always like "no....... but I've tried sterling silver... and it didn't work ..." like. I don't know how this narrative about sterling silver somehow got so strong but when they put pins in your fucking legs when you snap your leg in half are those pins made of sterling silver or are they made of implant grade titanium or surgical steel????????? HELLO. HI. YOU MIGHT BENEFIT FROM TRYING IMPLANT GRADE TITANIUM I AM JUST SAYING

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[sunderwight]

Bingyuan modern ABO AU where Shen Yuan tutors sweet white lotus Luo Binghe and dutifully sends him off to university all prepped and ready to take the world by storm, and then three years later Omega Binghe shows up on his doorstep with a baby, all washed out with his prospects ruined and the father in the wind.

Beta Shen Yuan, furious, is determined to look after Luo Binghe and his adorable baby whilst tracking down the feckless Alpha involved and then... castrating him? Forcing him to step up? One of the two at least!

Only it turns out:

-Baby isn't actually Luo Binghe's

-Luo Binghe isn't an Omega

-Binghe also didn't wash out and in fact just came into a massive inheritance

He didn't even know Shen Yuan was living at the apartment he went to, he was bringing the baby to Shen Jiu in order to blackmail him. The baby is SJ's and Omega Yue Qingyuan's, and had been quietly sent away to avoid scandal. As the next phase of Luo Binghe's hundred-step plan to marrying Shen Laoshi, cuddling the baby in a vaguely sinister fashion while making thinly-veiled threats was vital to blocking Shen Jiu's inevitable attempts to interfere with Binghe's pursuit of his younger brother.

But then Shen Yuan opened the door and promptly drew all the wrong conclusions, and now Binghe is rethinking his entire strategy, furiously googling Alpha-to-Omega transition options and making Mobei Jun make Shang Qinghua find out how to fake a birth certificate for a stolen baby.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Lackadaisy Enrichment

[exoexid]

just finished the terror and i'm sorry but even tho (almost) every single death in the show is tragic the most fucked up one is jopson's. like how can you make his captain, a person he takes care of daily and who took care of him too while he was ill and who appreciates him so much, say multiple times that he's not leaving anyone behind and then make his favorite dude die thinking he was in fact being left behind in the end. not even kidding my heart is broken beyond repair

[applesaucesims]

Niall McGregor Lookbook

Partially ending my hiatus with some more lookbooks, starting with Niall! Niall usually dresses in cool tones, matching his eyes, with reddish browns as a secondary colour, matching his hair. Other than the fact that those colours suit him, they also reflect his personality. If you compare it to his younger self, he started dressing in cooler tones as he grew older and became even more closed off than he already was, resulting in him getting a bit colder personality-wise as well. The warm tones come back in during scenes that have him act "warmer" as well, which is his sleep and summer wear. I'm not going to change the outfits anymore, but it was during summer that he and Emma got together. As a side note, I know the first party outfit is definitely the least historically accurate here, but it was an old outfit I made for him, and I sort of got attached. I like to think of it as a special designer tuxedo jacket.

CC links + example posts under the cut.

Everything not linked is base game.

Used in all: defaults / styled hair (felix) / messy hair / lashes / body blush / eyebrows (elle) / teeth (#6 or #7) / body hair / ring

Everyman: top / bottom / shoes

Daily Struggle: top / bottom / shoes (get together)

Supportive Husband: top / bottom / shoes (get together)

No More Secrets: top / bottom / shoes (get famous)

Date Night: suit / hat

Happy Groom: suit / hat / flower (mws) / shoes (vintage glamour)

Host with the Most: top / bottom / hat / shoes (get together)

Party Pains: suit / hat / shoes (get together)

Wedding Night: shirt [link gone - reupload] / undershirt [deleted - reupload] / bottom / shoes (vintage glamour)

Bed Time: pyjamas / slippers

Sweet Mornings: robe / slippers

Underwear: top [deleted - reupload] / bottom

Swimming in Joy: bottom

On a Run: top / bottom / shoes (get together)

Shopping Trip: top / bottom / hat / shoes

Working Actor: top / bottom / shoes

Drunk in Love: outfit / hat [deleted - reupload] / shoes

Winter Days: outfit / hat / shoes

Frosty Nights: outfit / hat / shoes

Cold Gentleman: top / bottom / hat / shoes

Winterfest Preparations: top / bottom

Family Flowerfest: robe / hat / shoes (get together)

Room Renovations: top / bottom / shoes (get together) / dirt overlay

Disney Prince: top / bottom / shoes (spooky stuff) / cape*

Dreamy Soldier: costume

Hopeless Roman: costume (spooky stuff) / eyeliner / lipstick / blush [deleted - reupload]

*tsr warning

[raziiyah]

me thinking randall despised johnny for manipulating him and kicking out of ror; in which he harbored his hate for years like he did with sulley and wanted to vengefully show everyone including johnny how wrong they were for underestimating him in college

what randall and johnny's relationship ended up being:

[theprophetsaid]

Someone: Did you know that Freddie wrote Love of My Life for Mary—

Me: False. Also, did you know that Freddie and Brian arranged the song for live performances so they'd be alone on stage? Did you know that they performed it together for a decade? Did you know that, when Freddie died, Brian went on his solo tour trying to flee from Queen as a whole? And despite this, he still performed this song alone on stage each night, even though he had tears in his eyes; even though he could barely sing? For Freddie? Did you know he turned this song into a tribute all by himself? For Freddie. Did you know that sometimes, while performing the song, Brian gets furious with grief? "I'm looking at my friend, someone I shared so much of my life with, and in a sense he's here because I'm performing with him. And in a sense, he's not. And that still makes me angry. That still makes me sad."

[necrotic-nephilim]

this is not a ship post, but something that frustrates me a lot in fanon concerning Jason Todd that attempts to soften Jason's return to Gotham for the sake of found family domesticity or easy hurt/comfort or just sliding him into the Batfam sooner, is they all seem to fundamentally misunderstand Jason.

because there seem to be a lot of fandom popular concepts of Jason coming home much sooner and just not having his whole Under The Red Hood arc. which in theory is fine and i can see the want to simplify canon to make room for your lighthearted more fluff-leaning concepts. but in everyone without fail, the way they address the clown-shaped elephant in the room is by having some throwaway line that "oh Jason quietly kills the Joker and moves on".

when the Joker being dead or alive is not the *point*. if by some chance accident, the Joker had died prior to Jason's return, whether by ridiculous freak accident, getting whacked by a fellow villain, hell even someone actually doing so to avenge Jason, it *would not* satiate Jason's anger. because Jason's end goal in UtRH is not to simply kill the Joker: it is to make *Bruce* kill the Joker. Jason's anger is directed to the idea that to Jason, if Bruce truly loved Jason, he would've killed the Joker. that is love, for Jason. compromising your personal values for love and not letting someone go unavenged. when Jason was Robin, almost every angry or misguided thing he did was born of love. he wanted to kill/hurt Two-Face because he believed Dent killed his father. he was so angry at Felipe because an innocent woman was dead due to that man's actions. he wanted to save his mother in a situation he knew he shouldn't be in because he loved her. his anger, his violence, it is driven by love and feelings of righting wrongs. that is how he thinks wrongs *should* be righted. that is how you avenge and *love* someone.

because so long as Jason's return to Gotham doesn't end in Bruce killing the Joker (which, it never will bc Bruce is Bruce), Jason will never forgive Bruce. you cannot wave away the layers of hurt and complicated trauma by killing Joker offscreen. because Jason will still be angry that Bruce didn't avenge him. in his eyes, that means Bruce did not love him enough. he was not truly loved by Bruce the way he loved Bruce. bc Bruce was Jason's whole *world*. prior to being taken in, Dick and Tim, they had support systems. they had loved ones. they knew what stability and healthy family love looked like. Jason *didn't*. and that's not to say that Catherine Todd did not love him with her whole heart and thus he loved her, but it certainly wasn't a stable and safe support system for Jason to grow up in. Bruce was Jason's first real sense of a stable, healthy life. and so of course Jason poured everything into Bruce and loved Bruce so devoutly. Bruce was his world. like he says, if it had been Bruce, Jason would've stopped at nothing.

so his betrayal is rooted in that he was not avenged, not that Joker is alive. so long as the Joker does not die by Bruce's hands, it will never be enough for Jason. (in this era, at least.) notably, this is also why i don't think it would change a thing if Jason knew the whole "oh Bruce wanted to kill the Joker but Superman stopped him" tidbit that fanon has really latched onto as a way to pacify Jason's anger toward Bruce. Jason knowing that wouldn't change a thing, in my opinion. because Jason knows Bruce. and a tenant of Bruce's character is that he grapples with murder *every day*. the whole point is how *easy* it would be for him. he is a human weapon, trained by killers, trained to be deadly. he is the greatest strategist to exist. he knows he could kill someone and get away with it. *no* trace, no proof, nothing. and he knows he *wants* to. wants to kill the Joker, Joe Chill, anyone who's hurt him that viscerally.

but he *doesn't*. that's the point. Bruce wakes up every day with that question on his mind, and every day the answer is the same. Bruce's morality is not a decision he made in an alleyway when his parents died, it's a decision he continues to make every day and he *must* continue to make in order to remain who he is. Jason is quite familiar with the fact that Bruce grapples with this daily. i do not think it surprised nor fazed Jason to know that Bruce did *consider* killing the Joker. that he wanted to. maybe even planned to. but a consideration, a want, a plan, is just a thought. it's nothing substantial, and substance is everything to Jason. at the end of the day, Bruce didn't. he was talked down by *Clark* of all people with an excuse of diplomatic immunity, as if Jason and Bruce don't both know that Bruce could've *easily* found a way to make it look like an accident or some other loophole. because he's Batman. there's always a loophole. he always finds a way when he actually intends to. but he never actually intended to kill the Joker. so he didn't. and Jason would know that there was never an intent. it's an interesting piece of fodder to add to the nuance of Jason and Bruce, but honestly, i think it'd make Jason angrier to have that excuse thrown in his face. as if Bruce hasn't beaten Clark half a dozen times by now. it's a flimsy nonsense excuse that Jason would rip to shreds.

so while yes, i understand the wish for easy lighthearted fanfic that doesn't have to deal with the nuances of canon, i think that Jason's character will always be so deeply robbed and altered if you try to fix his thirst for vengeance with an off-page killing of Joker at Jason's hands. it was never the point. the point was that -in his own eyes- he wasn't loved enough for Bruce to make an acception. he realized that not even his *death* would come before Bruce's Mission. Jason truly believed that Bruce loved him and held him as the most important thing in the world, and now he has proof that Bruce didn't. because the Mission mattered more.

i'm not saying i have a solution to this conundrum if you're attempting to solve it for fanfic/fanon, nor am i even saying it's a bad thing it exists. i just think it becoming overwhelmingly common has led to misunderstandings surrounding Jason's motivations and feelings about this arc and it's an unsatisfying solution that only seeks to pacify Jason's rage and his trauma responses for the sake of found family-ification.

[thevioletcaptain]

next person who perpetuates the completely fabricated anti-adjacent fandom myth that "the writers" shot down queer dean and deancas interpretations of the text and "told us we were delusional" for seeing any of it is getting blasted directly into the boötes void

[driedlillies]

I think it would be really nice if ressurection echniques disabled access to memories from the real pure lands and made so you can just watch the limbo, like kakashi with his dad and obito with rin, so like the mystery of how afterlife works remains, and that in actuality dead ppl were allowed to watch the living world.

I also think it would be really funny to have a fanfic that’s just hashirama doing commentary on obito pretending to be madara (when madara died they actually made up. They just both forgot when they got edo tensei’ed. They’ll both think it hilarious when they die again. “rn we can drink as war buddies” bestie you’ve been doing that for like 1,5 decades atp. Tobiizu are not impressed). Like imagine obito declaring war on the five great nations during the summit and hashirama going “that is NOT accurate if that was madara he would just kill them all right there and then”. Obito fights anyone ever and hashirama’s right there yelling that he’s not even trying where’s the gunbai the overwhelming katon jutsus the energy the flair the drama the screaming at his opponents from the other side of the battlefield for no reason. How can these guys be so uninformed

[whoweepsforthesemarios]

How it started: Alison Bechdel is a TERF because she attended michfest and collaborated with Adrienne Rice How it's going: I am forced to cede the point that under these criteria, nearly every prominent feminist active during the 70s and 80s must also be a TERF, but it's either that or admit that maybe this isn't exactly a rock solid rubric so fuck it, Tracy Chapman, Angela Davis and Audre Lorde are all TERFs now too.

[holy-reference-in-a-username]

I am so scared for if you ever lose interest in Eddsworld 😨😨👀

I check this account almost everyday to see if you’ve uploaded and I get really excited when you do!!!

That’s all, love your art and keep up the good work!! 😁😁

thank you!!!! its so cool knowing that other people enjoy my art as much as i do :3 if you want to assist me in staying absolutely entrenched in this hyperfixation, i have one simple task for you:

TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!!

things you like, things you want more of, speculations on intention, random observations, a string of emojis, keysmashes, etc.

in the reblogs, in the tags, in the comments, hell you can DM me if you want.

i will see it and i will appreciate the hell out of it.

[snowysaur]

2024 year in review/art summary. i realized i never made these for 2021-23 either so here's all of them. i think i haven't been drawing as much these past few years, oh well support me on: patreon | kofi | redbubble

[lord-squiggletits]

One of my favorite parts of phase 2 (and indeed one of the few moments I resonated with IDW Prowl) was when the neutrals were coming back to Cybertron and Prowl said that he refused to let Autobots be pushed aside and overruled after they were the ones who fought for freedom for 4 million years (the exact wording escapes me atm).

And I mean, that resentment still holds true even once the colonists come on bc like. As much as it's true that Cybertron's culture is fucked up, and as funny as it can be to paint Cybertronians as a bunch of weirdos who consider trying to kill someone as a common greeting not important enough to hold a grudge over.... The colonists POV kind of pissed me off a lot of times, as did the narrative tone/implications that Cybertronians are forever warlike and doomed to die by their own hands bc it just strikes me as an extremely judgemental and unsympathetic way to deal with a huge group of people with massive war PTSD and political/social tensions that were rampant even before the war?

Like, imagine living in a society rife with bigotry and discrimination where you get locked into certain occupations and social strata based on how you were born. The political tension is so bad there's a string of assassinations of politicians and leaders. The whole planet erupts into an outright war that leads (even unintentionally) to famine and chemical/biological warfare that destroys your planet. Both sides of the war are so entrenched in their pre-war sides and resentment for each other that this war lasts 4 million years and you don't even have a home planet any more. Then your home planet gets restored and a bunch of sheltered fucks come home and go "ewww why are you so violent?? You're a bunch of freaks just go live in the wilderness so that our home can belong to The Pure People Who Weren't Stupid And Evil Enough To Be Trapped In War" and then a bunch of colonists from places that know nothing about your history go "lol you people are so weird?? 🤣🤣 I don't get why y'all are fighting can't you just like, stop??? Oh okay you people are just fucked up and evil and stupid then" ((their planets are based on colonialism where their Primes wiped out the native populations btw whereas the Autobots and OP in particular fought to save organics. But that never gets brought up as a point in their favor)) as if the damage of a lifetime of war and a society that was broken even before the war can just magically go away now that the war is over.

Prowl fucking sucks but he was basically the only person that pointed out the injustice of that.

And then from then on out most of the characters from other colonies like Caminus and wherever else are going "i fucking hate you and your conflicts" w/ people like literal-nobody Slide and various Camiens getting to just sit there lecturing Optimus about how Cybertronians are too violent for their own good and how their conflicts are stupid, with only brief sympathetic moments where the Cybertronians get to be recognized as their own ppl who deserve sympathy before going right back to being lambasted.

Like I literally struggled to enjoy the story at multiple points because there was only so much I could take of the characters I knew and loved being raked over coals constantly while barely getting to defend themselves or be defended by the narrative so like. It was just fucking depressing and a little infuriating to read exRID/OP

[shinelikethunder]

you ever stare into the middle distance and just. think. about how Doctor Who series one episode eight "Father's Day" first signaled that time itself had gone screwy by having the radio start playing a song that didn't exist yet in 1987....... and then lapse right back into Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up." in an episode that aired on 14 May 2005. two full years before the invention of the rickroll.