#gives me

[stuffielovinhours]

I wish Polly Puppy from Bluey was a real toy, I'd buy it so fast!

It's soooo adorable! 🥰

[wiirocku]

Philippians 4:13 (NLT) - For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.

[randomimagesofspongebobgames]

Nighty Nightmare 2006 pc

[real-reulbbr-band]

For the character and pairing ask:

Tantomile 😙

OFC OFC

this took long cause I don't usually ship Tantomile with anyone so I had to work my brain to come up with things.

My NOTP for them 

Her with Coricopat or Cassandra, because I see them all as related.

My BROTP for them

Coricopat!!! but also I've been thinking about Tantomima and Tantomile being friends with Jemima since I've heard some headcanons floating around about Jemima potentially having some sort of powers, and like just imagine her trying to keep it a secret. she's scared, ashamed even, her having powers just makes her more similar to her dad and that's the last person she wants to be similar to. but cori and tanto know she has them cause well their psychics and guiding her through it. imagine Tantomile being a sort of mentor for Jemima. them bounding cause they're both out of the ordinary and Jemima is worried about making her friends afraid of her and tantomile knows the feeling of being feared or looked at with caution all too well. There's alot of potential there is what i'm trying to say.

My OTP for them 

I'm slowly getting brainwashed into the tantoteazer agenda and quite frankly no objections they're cute.

My second choice pairing for them 

mmmmmmm I'm not sure if I have a definitive one but I've seen some Tantometer on my dashboard and I'm intrigued.

the meditation be going hard I’m telling you. Like Tantomile cupping Demeter’s face when she’s nervous, taking her to secret quiet places in the junkyard, walks together in the night just enjoying each other's peace just love love.

My fluffy pairing for them

Platonic Tantomima or Electramile

romantic 2019 Tantomile x Mungojerrie If I remember correctly they dance together and then I got the idea of Mungo having a big soft spot for her.

My angsty pairing for them 

Hmm...perhaps also 2019 Mungomile? Tantojerrie ? Idk the name but like imagine the drama after the whole Jellicle ball. Does Tantomile question her loyalty to him and whether she wants to continue their relationship or does she have to consider how his involvement with Macavity and actively working with him (during Macavity's number) impacts the other cats she cares about??? Does Mungojerrie feel overly remorseful?

yeah this is a crack ship based on a couple of secounds but like let them being silly angsty

My favorite poly ship for them 

Don’t think I have one? Sorry

My weirdest pairing for them

2019 Tantotoria are cuties !!!!

ok you suggesting Tantomile got me into a lot of tantomile content and I like her a lot more then I used to so thank you so much !!!!!!

[ravenkings]

[zarohk]

Also, something interesting albeit probably unintentional; the way Taylor described is honestly unattractive yet gave me (what at the time I didn’t recognize as) gender envy, and does on every reread. She’s not pretty, or exceptionally beautiful, or perfect, just very real.

On Worm and YAs

At the beginning of Worm I dismissed Taylor a little bit because she had a few traits that all 15-year-old female YA protagonists have - dark hair, awkward speech, dead parent, “I let out the breath I didn’t realize I was holding”, social exile, not especially good in school. All of these tropes usually seem to fall flat in practice. When Taylor described herself as ugly early in the story, my eyes basically skimmed directly over the sentence. I knew later on she would probably have boys falling over each other to get to her, insisting that of course she’s beautiful, because she’s the 15-year-old protagonist of a YA story, and that’s how these things go. At this point, I still thought of Worm as YA. 

I didn’t expect that Wildbow would actually take these tropes and play them straight, 100%. Most YA protagonists have dead parents so that you don’t have to question why adults aren’t more involved in the story. Annette’s death shatters Danny and directly causes the neglect that leads to Taylor’s actions in the early part of the story. It’s a deconstruction of the effects that these kinds of events can have on a family, especially one where such an imbalance of power exists between the remaining family members. I cared more about this dead mother than any other - because her relationship with Taylor mattered. 

In a lesser story, Taylor’s poor performance in school would have been a result of a writer’s desire to add flaws to their character, make the character relatable to the average teenage reader. See, she isn’t a Mary Sue, she struggles in school! Worm takes this to its logical extreme. Taylor isn’t just “not great in school,” she’s a high school dropout. She stops going and as far as I know she never goes back. Most of the people reading can’t relate to this at all. And you know what? The story is infinitely better for it. 

In every single story with a female protagonist I’ve ever read, the girl describes herself as ugly, and fifteen pages later, her love interest rocks her very core by telling her she’s wrong, she’s actually beautiful. I respect the hell out of Wildbow’s massive cojones for writing Brian actually describe Taylor as “incapable of ever being attractive” in his interlude, as looking and behaving reminiscent to her damn cockroaches, and then go on to describe how he loves her in spite and because of her strange appearance and behavior. It lent a legitimacy to the central relationship of the story to know that the love interest is fully aware of the protagonist’s flaws and has accepted them. Also, when Greg later tries to get with Taylor, it’s largely because he thought he only had a chance with an unattractive social outcast like her. So, in the end, Taylor did have multiple boys chasing after her, and I fucking believed it. Ugly girls represent.

In every other YA story, the protagonist will describe themselves as socially awkward and then go on to be the leader of some giant revolution or social movement. Their captivating presence will enrapture millions. Taylor tells us from the getgo that she’s socially awkward, and she fucking stays that way. She embarrasses the hell out of herself on national television. She communicates through bugs buzzing and doesn’t make facial expressions. She isn’t the leader of the Undersiders because of some nebulous “protagonist factor” - she’s the leader of the Undersiders because she can analyze the fuck out of any situation and take decisive action. It lends a legitimacy to the decision to make her the team leader - we know she’s the best choice far before the decision is made. The biggest social impacts Taylor makes are when she’s trying to be intimidating - something she practices every single arc until she’s very, very good at it. She doesn’t practice talking on TV, so the result is predictable.

Anyway. YA tropes aren’t bad. You just have to use them correctly. 

[thotsandpreyers]

“HOPE” spotted in Washington D.C.

[cronchy-baguette]

I promise

[wishfulsketching]

I bet Silco could reach Vander inside Warwick. I bet Silco would trust to remember him ad not fight back.

In my restless dreams, Silco and Vander!Warwick got to meet

In this scenario Silco would have to survive being shot and would go into hiding aka go back to their little hideout. He did not see this one coming, though

[artemisdesari-blog]

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

[sailermoon]

i stay up late to be happy for a few more hours

[technovillain]

i come from the universe where everything is the same except disney heroines get like an ounce of their fathers' obviously dominant genes and their clothes are like 80% more historically accurate. it's beautiful here.

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[eydilily]

(look at what i have to offer) — this is the spider's nest.

[sopuu]

animation of jimmy getting owned in real life

bonus gif of him celebrating i made for funsies :] oh the oblivious bliss...

[cardo-de-comer]

Sun is always the calm one. While the Moon has more fps, always moves and wants to gnaw on walls, pace around and destroy timelines, the Sun is the one who prevents the chaos, usually by doing nothing. Or at least that's how I see them.