#for the longrun!!

[redstonedust]

"this happened in homestuck" is like tumblrs version of "the simpsons did it"

[spooksier]

THE MAGNUS INSTITUTE DID Y2K

[meadowlarkx]

we are lady parts fans are you out there.... i'm sailing a tiny momtaz/saira ship

[momentomori24]

I can't get over how Jimmy is such mundane, natural destruction. In order to preserve Curly's reputation and escape the consequences of his actions, he purposefully crashes the ship to kill them all and they all survive the aftermath. When taking over the role of Captain and genuinely trying to keep them all alive he both intentionally and unintentionally ends up getting his crew killed, one by one. He tries to keep Anya out of his guilty conscious entirely, absolutely unable to face what he'd done to her unlike with everyone else, yet his subconscious still manages to drag his repressed feelings and the recognition of his own delusions and what he owes her to the surface despite that. His act of forcing them all into a murder-suicide with the crash was partially committed to keep Curly's name unstained by the blame of his own crimes, but when they survived he pinned the blame on Curly to preserve himself regardless. He puts Curly in the pod so that he can survive, as a final act of friendship and atonement, but there is no guarantee that Curly will make it due to Pony Express being dead and generally apathetic to the wellbeing of their workforce, potentially leaving Curly in hellish pain he'll have to endure for 20 years until he can finally die instead.

He literally just can't get anything right, no matter how hard he tries. And I think that's so brilliant.

[diamondnokouzai]

we talk a lot about shen qingqiu and liu qingge being autistic but its important to me that also shen jiu was autistic. but because he was 1. poor 2. a slave and 3. the villain it isnt used to excuse his behavior/personality the way it is for shen qingqiu and liu qingge

[thatveganfitblr]

My 15th half marathon! My goal was 3:30 so I’m really proud I finished in under 3 hours!

[primsycoldbottles]

feels correct that porter "paladin of his (raging, conquesting, pillaging) ancestors" cliffbreaker is a white aussie . mhm yeah

[mashamorevvna]

i wish they would stop trying to make the secret ending less stupid & incoherent with the mood of the franchise. hey guys it fine. you fucked up with the avengers thanos reveal plot twist. you can do the thing you have always done and ignore inconvenient set-ups for the next game. its not as if the mage-templar conflict happened on screen. or as if solas' agents and army didnt take an extended sabbatical in rivain with coconut drinks and margaritas.

[tearwolfe]

Why is the starshine au not in the master document for your aus? Are you still thinking about what the story could be about in a long way??

i just haven't updated the document in a while!! i made it before i decided to make starshine an actual AU instead of a one-off thing. monster detective among a few others aren't in it either because they're newer.

[decepti-thots]

Is it bad I found it very hard to get invested in idw2 (while it was active) because my favorite character got killed off on page 3 of issue 1

I mean, it's not bad, anon- you are reading comics for personal entertainment and it's not homework. If you wanna read for your fave and the first issue goes 'welp, your fave is our sacrificial lamb this time, rip' there's nothing wrong with being like 'not for me then'! There's no need to justify yourself further there; you were attached to a prior version of the character, it played out in IDW2 that said character couldn't ever play a role beyond 'hey we found a dead guy', you don't owe it to anyone to give a shit if that's personally a dealbreaker in terms of interest for you.

I will say though that it's always kind of a risk in a franchise like TF. Every character is someone's favourite and with the way the franchise works, there's always gonna be reboots where someone's lesser-known fave gets picked to be the one that dies this time, or gets a weird new personality for Plot Facilitation Reasons, or whatever. Them's the breaks in this sort of franchise, where it starts fresh (usually) every 3-4 years and assumes/courts a new audience above all else, with a cast that is less 'recurring characters' and more 'recurring archetypes to make new characters out of'. (This was as much true for IDW1 as it was IDW2! IDW1 just ran for such an unprecedentedly long time compared to basically all other TF fiction that a whole segment of fans think of it as the norm rather than the exception, I feel; and it gives you such a wealth of material to play with compared to almost every other single continuity in the franchise.)

But as I say, you read comics about robots for enjoyment, not to Do Your Homework. If it doesn't spark joy, drop it and go enjoy something that does. No need to push yourself through it if it doesn't appeal.

[tamaharu]

dan and phil are real people who share a real mortgage and while i was in line for their real utah show they posted a real photo of phils reflection in dans real ass in his real bdsm gear outfit he was wearing to the meet and greet. this isnt about the ethics or reality of rpf in general this is about the fact that they had sex in front of me and thousands of other people at this point. and for what. for jesus to win?

[mynintendoscreenshots]

I had gotten another PB late last night!

It's not a huge increase in points, but improvement is improvement.

[clonerightsagenda]

#recently read 12/23

What You Are Looking For Is In the Library by Michiko Aoyama. A series of vignettes following different people unsatisfied with their lives who find new direction thanks to book recommendations.

A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. Terrible Space Facts: The Book. A great read unless you really want to believe in space settlements in your lifetime. (They are not happening.)

He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan. Zhu, Ouyang, Madam Zhang, and Baoxiang's ambitions all lead them further on bloody paths to the throne.

Starter Villain by John Scalzi. Struggling teacher Charlie inherits his uncle's estate and learns he was a supervillain, complete with volcano lair - but he's also inherited his enemies.

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. The unexpectedly connected stories of a lonely old man, a novelist (or is he?), and the girl named after a character in that novel.

The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu. Hamlet retelling where the family was working on cutting edge biomedical research and Horatio is a sentient AI.

The September House by Carissa Orlando. Margaret has endured her house's violent haunting, but when her husband goes missing and her adult daughter insists on visiting, she can't keep all her secrets.

[laugtherhyena]

I think one of the most painful aspects of writing a long as fic is that sometimes you just REALLY wanna write something that happes way later down the line and it makes writing the current segments harder, not necessarily because you're not enjoying what you're writing now, just that your brain jumping to some crazy thing way ahead of time.

[lesbianfreyja]

hate hearing about ariana grande and her new scissor sister / twinner of the homewrecking self-obsessed overly vain not-eating awards. but also kristin chenoweth and idina menzel are very much alive so why did we do all this anyway 😭

[shippofuri]

I am unfortunately a huge stick in the mud about canon compliance in everything i enjoy but i suffer in silence so as not to make people feel bad about not playing by the rules. mentally censoring and disregarding anything i deem incorrect when reading others works the same way they do looking at canon so i don't go insane