#honestly the list could go on

[billycorn]

Imagining the PMD Partners as frustrated pet-owners trying so hard to care for their humans is hilarious to me.

Like, Hero is great and all, but they're so dumb. Partner is at their wits end and doesn't know what to do. Turns out, they're not the first person to feel that way!

The various partners throughout the years have written journals and compared notes, resulting in: How to care for your human - The struggle of Partners everywhere.

And it's just filled with nonsense like -

Humans don't have survival instincts. You are their impulse control.

Don't let your human pat every stranger they come across!

How to trick your human into going to the vet!

Teaching humans about hygiene.

How to keep your human happy (results may differ depending on the human)

Teaching your human how to control their fire/electricity/etc.

What to do if your human won't eat.

Teaching your human about their species behaviour (e.g. sunbathing, moulting, etc.)

Make sure your human gets regular exercise.

How to create an enriching environment for your human.

So, you're human is an eldritch horror?

What to do if your human is Gen Z

[theropodtheroblogs]

I just watched a near 2 hour fanmade movie animation follow up for Transformers Prime and I'm filled with all kinda of delight. Seriously. An hour and forty odd minutes. It had Bruticus. It had Galvatron. It had team ups. It had autobot Knock Out. It was just fun as hell. It's entirely fan made, and in some ways you can really tell, some aspects of it did have me a giggling and some of it had me rolling my eyes, but at the same time I could tell it was a project made with love for the show and the fandom itself. I really do recommend giving it a watch, it literally only came out about a day ago and it's already nearly at 60k views which is wild.

Here's the youtube link, it's called Transformers Prime: Galvatron's Revenge.

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edit: apparently the optimus VA is literal dogshit so that's always nice to find out. leaving this up cause people already reblogged it so like its stuck on tumblr till the site dies anyway but uuuuuuuurgh can we please just - cAN YOU NOT BE JACKASSES, CAN YOU NOT, LIKE ITS NOT THAT HARD whatever man, I'm so tired of these people coming out the woodwork to be cruel to people who just wanna live their life, like fuck you man, urgh.

[tortureandtickles]

things that fluster the god damn fuck out of me 🫠

having to hear all the reasons about why someone wants to tickle you, and cute you are while being tickled

BEING!!! TICKLED!!! IN!!! PUBLIC!!!

“behave”

being tied around the ler for a session (CANNOT GET OVER THIS ONE)

gang tickling while one ler is being soft and sweet, and the other is being a complete SADIST

BEING CALLED BABYGIRL

swearing during a session!!!!

being chased around before eventually being caught and tickled

the ler pinning you down but you’re too weak to get out of it 😭😭

blindfolds, gags, noise cancelling headphones, bicep restraints

when someone reminds me how much i love the hairbrush even though i can’t handle it 😭😭

“you’re in so much fucking trouble”

being so mean to me that i have no choice but to do whatever the fuck you say 🥰🥰🥰

[sixteenthchapel]

just a little thought about what sort of names these guys use to refer to this poor priest. well at least one of them is respectful.

[waspgrave]

Solas and Mythal’s relationship is that perfect blend of fucked up and tragic I have been wanting from them for a decade. The mother and her child, the two lovers, a queen and a general, the dog and its master, the servant and the lord. Love it. I knew I sensed fuckery with the way solas talked about her despite ‘burning her off his face’. Then to see him shrinking up in front of her, how he groaned ‘mythal’ in dread and even began to hold the dagger out towards her to take bc he knows he’ll do anything for her if she asks. man needs therapy for his absolutely disastrous and problematic situationship thank you for letting me watch your traumas unfold like that king

[torrtimandi]

Selected Justice pictures from Hyperdrama era as phone wallpapers.

[novelconcepts]

Another year, another absurd amount of books read (296, because if I wasn't reading or writing this year, my brain was on fire). I was asked again for my top books of the year, so here we go: 2023's top 10, in no particular order.

This was the first book I read of the year--literally, vacated the hangout with my wife and sibling-in-laws to sit on their couch upstairs and eat through it. Do you love The Fall of the House of Usher, but wish for a nonbinary protagonist and a lot more mushrooms? This is the book for you! (T. Kingfisher is fucking rad, I made a concerted effort to only list ONE of her books on here, but honorable mention goes to The Twisted Ones for fucking me upppp.)

A gay, post-apocolyptic Pinocchio retelling involving copious robots, found family elements, and a cool-ass treehouse. Klune always hits for me with his unrepentant queer family dynamics and sense of humor. Honorable mention to the first two in the Green Creek series (although that's got a lot more...adult elements in among the werewolves, you've been warned).

I thiiiink I found this through The Homo Schedule podcast (PSA: if you missed out on Jasmin Savoy Brown and Liv Hewson doing a podcast together, now you know better), and it wrecked my shit. Tons of trigger warnings, as this is a memoir about abuse within a queer relationship, but it's so beautifully written. I personally suggest listening to the audiobook first, then standing anxiously behind someone at a book warehouse sale, hoping they'll set down the only paperback copy so you can swipe it.

A fantastical-historical reimagining in which the KKK is filled with literal monsters, and Black women are resistance fighters armed to take them out. Visceral and intense, and truly an excellent horror story.

Just. Such a soft time travel story about a daughter and her father and cherishing the time you get with loved ones. I was thoroughly unprepared for how lovely I found this one. It's very kind.

Spooky house, take-no-shit redhead, protective sibling elements, bisexual recluse with a sword who really just needs a nap. I haven't found a Harrow book yet I haven't slapped five stars on. She's so good at character and atmosphere, and I'm always surprised at how fast her stories race by.

The whole Daevabad trilogy (of which this is the first book) is just magical. A girl from the mortal world finds herself embroiled with the centuries-long prejudices and wars of djinn in a fantastical city. It's one of the rare stories of its kind that does have a love triangle, but doesn't feel like a love triangle; it's far less interested in the insufferable "who gets picked" than it is in the actual horrors these people are both perpetrating and coping with. It's an intoxicating ride.

Fuck You, TERFS: the book. Given that fact, there's obviously quite a lot of transphobia to deal with, but it's very clear that those people are wrong, and it's a super-engaging (and super-oh-god-what-comes-next) witchy time populated with queer, protective, interesting characters I'm excited to see again in the follow-up.

Have you ever wanted a haunted house story with visceral imagery and a rather lovely twist? Gailey has you covered. As much as I enjoyed The Echo Wife, I think I actually loved this one more, and it makes me so excited to see what else they've got up their sleeve.

One of my final reads for the year, when I was just churning through hardcovers at the speed of sound. I love this book. I recognize it won't be for everyone, but it takes so much of what I love about IT (one of my all-time favorite books, despite its flaws) and twists it through the lens of an author who escaped the Mormon church. It's horrific, it's fantastically abstract in places, it explores childhood and memory, imagination and abuse, and almost every character is queer. It's a great "I simply cannot sleep until I've finished" read.

[lauronk]

feliz navidad y'all, here's some fics!

hi and merry christmas! or, if you celebrate something else, happy first night of hanukkah, i hope you had a blessed yule, and i hope tomorrow you have a joyous kwanzaa! personally i celebrate a secular christmas, no religious stuff with it, just sparkly lights and quality time with friends and family.

but that's not why we're here! i know that people have time off right now and what better to do with some time off than read some wonderful fics? wait, i gotta get a little sappy under the cut first, feel free to skip straight to the recs if you want though

for nearly two years now i have been so lucky to be part of the tlou fandom, to be surrounded by people who are so unbelievably talented and supportive and uplifting. i have made so many friends, i have had so many wonderful people reading and commenting and kudosing my stories and it's really been life-changing in so many ways. i appreciate all of you who have ever interacted with me or my fics more than i can say and i love you all SO MUCH you don't even KNOW

skip to here for the fics!

in no particular order, some wonderful stories i have been enjoying lately:

💜 - one-shot / 🤍 - in progress multi-chap / 💙 - complete multi-chap

💙- i know you by heart by @sixhours

🤍- all over again by @chronicallyonlinewriter

💙- alabaster in the evening by @boopernatural

🤍- bleed to love her by @chronicallyonlinewriter

💜- folding stars and unfolding hearts by @mote-of-star-dust

💜- stared down by the enemy by @two-birds-alone-together

💜- the road to nowhere by @captainredspade

💙 - a heart, a hand to hold onto by @becomethesun

🤍- migrating monarchs by @ciaconnaa

💙- no returns for broken or damaged items by @renegadeknight

🤍- everywhere by @chronicallyonlinewriter

honestly i could just go on forever and ever, list like 30 more fics at a minimum, but this is more than enough to keep you occupied this holiday season! i hope you all have a wonderful christmas/hanukkah/kwanzaa/boxing day!

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Feel like making people miserable today. Anyways, here's Gon experiencing like. Textbook symptoms of trauma in the CAA, in case there was any lingering doubt about this or anything:

Initial denial that the experience happened or was traumatic

[ID: A screenshot from episode 85 of HxH 2011. Gon, eyes bright and with a smile, says "Kite is alive!" End ID.]

Flashbacks

[ID: Two screenshots from episode 95, and a third from episode 110. In the first, Kite's arm is shown in the foreground, bleeding and blurred. In the second, a close of Pitou's wide eyes, looking animalistic. In the last, puppet Kite's mangled and scarred face stares emptily ahead - the scene is greyed out. End ID.]

Intense distress at real or symbolic reminders of the trauma

[ID: Two screenshots from episode 116. In the first, Gon's fist can be seen in the foreground, with Pitou shielding an unconscious Komugi just barely seen. The narrator says "The girl lying before them brought back". In the second, Komugi has a medical respirator on. The narrator continues "images of a broken Kite to Gon's mind". End ID.]

Physical sensations such as pain, sweating, nausea or trembling

[ID: A screenshot from episode 116. Gon's fists slam into the ground as he says "That isn't fair...". Sweat drips down his arms. End ID.]

Extreme alertness/hypervigilance

[ID: A screenshot from episode 116. Part of Pitou can be seen in the foreground as Gon stares at them intensely, crouched on the ground with his arm resting on his knee, obscuring his lower face. End ID.]

Angry outbursts or other extreme behaviour

[ID: Two screenshots, one from episode 116, and the other from episode 127. In the first, Gon shouts "Is something wrong with you?!" as his face contorts with rage. His aura floats black around him. In the second, Gon, his face shadowed eerily with thin lines, says "The next time you try to delay me, I'll kill her." End ID.]

Feeling like you have to keep busy

[ID: A screenshot from episode 94. A close up of Gon's face from the side as he says "I want to focus on my training." End ID.]

Doing things that are reckless and self-destructive

[ID: Three screenshots, one from episode 95 and the other two from episode 131. The first is stylized as a black outline of Gon's figure over a background like parchment or a projector - he's been hit in the face and sent to the right from the force of the blow. The second is a close up of Gon's face, almost completely shadowed, with intense and vacant eyes - he says "I don't care". The third continues with a close up of his eye filling with darkness - "if this is the end..." End ID.]

Feeling like nobody understands ("since it means nothing to you")

[ID: A screenshot from episode 116. In a whitish-room with a crack on the wall between them, Gon stands ahead of Killua, facing away from him. They are both in shadow. End ID.]

Ignoring offers of help and shutting out loved ones... poor Killua :(

[ID: A screenshot from episode 136. A spotlight on both Killua, in the foreground, and Gon, walking away from him in the background. Killua thinks "I wanted you to ask for my help in defeating Pitou!" End ID.]

Self-loathing, self-punishment, and lack of self regard

[ID: Three screenshots, two from episode 110 and the third from episode 131. The first is a close up of Gon's face over Morel asking "When would you try to hurt yourself?" The second is a continuation. Morel looks down at Gon who is facing away from the camera as Gon replies "When I couldn't forgive myself." In the last, adult Gon, staring ahead, is animated in black and white with the only colour being the blood from the stump of his right arm. His left hand grips his shoulder. End ID.]

Blaming yourself for what happened

[ID: Two screenshots, one from episode 95 and the other from episode 130. In the first, Gon hugs puppet Kite around his waist. In the second, Gon stares blankly ahead with tears streaming down his face as he thinks "I killed Kite." End ID.]

Overwhelming feelings of anger, sadness, guilt, and shame

[midnightorchids]

every fictional man I’ve ever liked has always had a borderline yaoi relationship with his best friend/enemy and honestly, I love that for him

[mechanismslorearchive]

to the person who just sent the ask calling me a strange esoteric god of knowledge (i am keeping the ask as a pet): thanks its my uber autism powers

[cobra-creampuff]

okay so for the other thing i said in the tags hwqoghks. the way mickey punches that guy so hard he flips over. absolutely unnecessary btw.

but just as importantly. the way ian laughs at that. and the way he grins to himself when the guy insults him because he knows mickey's gonna be his black knight about it lmao.

[qprstobin]

Tommy Hagan I love youuuuuuu people who call you ugly just jealous that you got to press Steve against a car and be horny about it and they didn't

[gayvampyr]

forgot for a second that oscillopsia is in my brain and not external and i almost tried to record what it looks like to me to show people what i mean

[bonkalore]

Look. I just want that good big brother Jayce content so I can cry over it.

[ohmydais]

Reasons why you 🫵 should watch Rag Dolly

Number 1 -