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tysm for the tag @wiltedrosier !! these are so much funn, i love getting tagged in games sm.
hardcover or paperback? bookstore or library? bookmark or receipt? stand alone or series? nonfiction or fiction? thriller or fantasy? under 300 pages or over 300 pages? children’s or ya? friends to lovers or enemies to lovers? read in bed or read on the couch? read at night or read in the morning? keep pristine or markup? cracked spine or dog ear?
tags under the cut (it's a lot)
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pretty sure there are like, almost all of my mutuals. if any of you would rather i don't tag you in games PLEASE let me know!! (*^▽^)/★*☆♪
@livi-erudite , @alma-torran , @dikotur , @kaaeyah , @tachiehara , @ranpoestan @ranpoestan , @fortunatelycolorfulgay , @sukinovaa , @jasminewhiteflower , @pandadabrek , @bunnyramen , @starstuc , @mallgoth-hamlet , @nemui-mochi , @breadsoup00 , @dazais-crab-addiction , @saltiestcat , @terunoshita , @philzokman , @frizzymmm , @mikopikopon , @nuo2x2 , @doyouhavefood , @bubblyseal , @nolongeravalidhuman , @pink-doc-martains , @kloudien , @mimihamburger , @liizardlegs , @washaa-t-beatz-me , @myspaghttisauce , @pixsin , @lyloneliness , @inkyphobia , @burned-out-match , @defunctpopstar , @maxe-mini , @actuallivingsoup , @thatqueerchoirkid , @dazaiscrab , @cherrylimon
#litterally so against dog earring pages#mot even like personal preference but every single librarian i've ever met has STRESSED not to do that and now i just cannot bring myself t#it feels like a crime#also the crease is just so ugly to me#as for the 'keep pristine or markup' it depends but i almost always(9.9/10) would keep it pristine#i only ever mark it up if i don't give i shit about the book and have to find a way to keep myself interested#or if it's for school and i have/want to annotate#tbh i love friends to lovers but you can never go wrong with enemies to lovers#it's a top tier trope#paperback is great but hardcover is just so nice for me#don't get me wrong#i ADORE paperback books#but hardcover feels so nice to hold and you don't have to worry about the front curling and it just looks nice#but paperback is so nice as well#they both have their pros and cons#i love stand alones#so much#forever and always#series are good too but they will never be as good as stand alones#books#reading#literature#can this fall into the fanfiction tag?#fanfiction#mutuals 🤍
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edit (10/23/2024) now that the poll is over: Original version, with 10 questions, from April 2023 here
And, given that the original is from April 2023, that means I can very easily say:
No, this was not an ISAT reference!
Just because I use parentheses and 2nd person pov and love the same concepts of what a time loop can do to a person doesn't mean it's ISAT
(Yes, I like ISAT, the original poll is why I was recommended the game! But if you look at the original, you can see all the origins of the options to choose from, including what spurred me on with the moss option from the replies)
If I were going to make something for ISAT, I would never be so vague, you can simply look at my ao3 for proof of that
#egg speaks#writing#polls#my writing#egg writes#my polls#poetry#time loops#listen I want to run this again#time loop poll#<- check that tag on my blog for the original 10 option version lmao#unreality#you know I didn't think I'd get fed up with people making isat jokes about this#I thought it'd be like oh hey neat same hat#we both like the same game#but people keep going “oh this is JUST an ISAT reference”#as if it's not a genuine work of creativity I did myself. it feels a bit devaluing#“op you played isat” yes but that came after the original!!!!!#I KNOW it's not meant like that but I want people to engage in my work as its own thing. you can make jokes about similar media!!!#but this is it's own thing!!!!#I want people to like it for what it is. I want people to enjoy it outside of other media. I want it to stand on its own#I'm flattered someone said it was good enough that they think it could be narration from the game and read just as well!!!!#but like. idk. all the other medias popping up (pmmm. orv. higurashi. etc) aren't people calling it a /reference/#if I wanted it to be an ISAT reference I would have tagged it originally. I would have targeted it toward ISAT fans more intentionally.#I love fanworks but this was an ode to time loops alone. I wanted people to think. to have to CHOOSE. I wanted PARTICIPATION#time loops as a narrative and as horror and as a group activity via polls on tumblr. also s/o to the person who said 40 hr work week so tru
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One wedding and three funerals
Background paintings under the cut
#tomgreg#succession#tom wambsgans#greg hirsch#shiv roy#roman roy#kendall roy#yeah no im not tagging everyone thats too much#this is me going 'how much implications themes and symbolism can i fit in one painting'#yes i gave rose shivs haircolor. if we ever find out how she looks like and its not like this im just gonna pass away i guess#but yeah i hope yall connect the dots#i put waaay too much thought and work into this. i was googling pictures of all the actors as kids just for reference (sigh)#honestly kinda wanted to make tom and greg link pinkies as like. a pinkie promise. but that was too hard to draw in this angle#at least not without obstructing the view of the ring which is important to see so ya#my fave is actually the tomshiv wedding pic i went off with that. i love them... they should have run away to become sheep farmers fr fr#anyway im so glad im done with this UGH!! finally i can draw smth else without being like oh noooo i need to finish this#i see a lot of you wondering why there is no portrait of logan but one of ewan#it's bc the placement of the painting represent their standing. logans portray would not hang next to the stairs#his present portrait hangs at the end of it. all the way up at the top. alone and withering away#basically the picture you see underneath ewan to the right? its where toms parents would be. the right side of the wall is tom and gregs#and the left one is the roy siblings theirs. since they grew up rich rich. and tom and greg didn't#but ya thats why ewan hangs here and logan does not :)
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I was thinking about how Crowley's idea of people falling in love is them standing together in the rain and I just kept thinking about these
But also I remembered the first gos2 poster we got was
THIS
Just a couple standing in the rain looking up at the stars- which they witnessed the birth of together
I hate it here
#good omens season 2#good omens#gos2 spoilers#gos2#good omens season 2 spoilers#aziraphale#crowley#i just want them to kiss in the rain#this show is ripping me to shreds#im looking at you episode 6#they were supposed to fall in love and kiss under the rain and instead crowley is left standing alone
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The thing that gets me giddy is the fact that Logan goes from "Do I know you, bub?" to "WADE! You don't have to do this!"
#i love me a grumpy old man that chose his favorite disaster boy and stands with him#mr rock bottom mcwhiskey dick of the claws imprinted on an equally disastrous boyfailure#YEAH LOGAN YOU DO KNOW HIM#YOU WOULD RECOGNIZE HIM BY TOUCH ALONE#BY SMELL#YOU WOULD KNOW HIM BLIND#BY THE WAY HIS BREATHS CAME AND HIS FEET STRUCK THE EART#YOU WOULD KNOW HIM IN DEATH#AT THE END OF THE WORLD#did i really just. quote#madeline miller#patrochilles#patroclus and achilles#deadpool and wolverine#deadpool#wade wilson#poolverine#wolverine#logan howlett#deadpool 3#deadclaws#deadpool 2024
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do you ever get reminded of a ship, remember a piece of fanart of it that you loved, then after a day long search realize that you just imagined it? and then try to draw it yourself?
prllb btbtt ALT VERISONS
#since im submitting this to radar: hi! my main blog is stupidusernamepolicy. this is my art sideblog#rick and morty#rick & morty#gravity falls#stan pines#stanley pines#rick sanchez#stanchez#rickstan#stanrick#admin draws#fanart#inspired by spinetrick slightly in the color palette because i didnt wanna do a style copy. but i first imagined it as it being THEIR art#dont. dont ask. i have a weird brain. ive done this shit before.#if im not alone PLEASE sound off. its funny but im also like. please dont let me be the only one.#anyeays. i always loved this ship#i know rick ford was the big thing but i personally think its much funnier if theyre rivals and cant stand each other#bc of science ego and personality differences#all the while rick is canoodling with his brother#i feel like theyre a great match in that theyre kind of immature old conmen who are both game for pretty much anything#RIGHT before i posted i caught a shading issue and also that i forgot stan's five o clock shadow. HA#imagine i posted this yesterday before those fixes. god what a nightmare
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"he was never unfaithful to robert, was he?" - jaime, acok
ha. ha ha ha. the irony of this line is incredible. what's so striking to me is how one dimensional the realm's understanding of eddard stark as an honourable man is - honour itself is an incredibly complicated and unattainable ideal in asoiaf and i think ned as the stereotypical emblem of it encompasses many of the reasons why. because whilst he absolutely does consider acting in a conventionally honourable way important, he always prioritises those he loves. he defended cat's actions as his own without a second thought when she arrested tyrion. his main priority in king's landing is to see his daughters safe, not to secure the succession. lyanna is the prime example: jon's existence is not the result of the lapse of honourable ned stark, it was honourable ned stark choosing his love for his sister over his duty to his king. that and his personal ethical belief that the political murder of a child is never morally acceptable.
no one in the realm has the insight into his personality we get in the first book. none of his children, vitally, understand that he would always prioritise their safety over any honourable scruples. all of the starklings question what their honourable father would think of their actions - killing in self-defence, marrying jeyne westerling, sleeping with ygritte to name a few examples - without recognising that ned's true first priority was always his family's safety.
in fact, he betrayed robert far more than he ever betrayed cat and he would have betrayed honour for his family's safety every time.
#eddard stark#ned stark#i count dany and ned's resistance to her assassination as a betrayal as well btw#because not only was this a moment in which her killing could be contrived as honourable and ned said no thanks acc#but he was absolutely projecting his love for jon onto her#he could not stand by if it was his innocent son/nephew#asoiaf#a song of ice and feels#jon snow#arya stark#house stark#asoiaf meta#catelyn stark#robb stark#catelyn tully#jaime lannister#acok#robert baratheon#i could write a whole post on honour in got alone#and one day i probably will#jon is particularly afflicted with oh god what would my dad say#bestie if you have to sleep with ygritte and play turncloak to survive HE WOULD WANT YOU TO SURVIVE#he didn't make that promise to fold over some thousand year old irrelevant vow
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thinking about crowyuan saving liu qingge from his qi deviation and disappearing before he can fully wake up so he won't be recognized (him being a demon and all), but it causes liu qingge to accidentally mistake him for shen qingqiu.
there is a massive fight during the next peak lord meeting, with liu qingge accusing shen qingqiu of saving his life and not taking responsibility for it as if it's a war crime, while shen qingqiu keeps denying he had anything to do with it and if he had saved liu qingge, he'd be rubbing it in his face every chance he got.
it escalates and escalates until liu qingge, red with embarrassment and anger, points at shen qingqiu and says "you were cradling me in your arms!" and shen qingqiu explodes.
mu qingfang tries to calm them down by saying that perhaps liu qingge hallucinated, which is not uncommon for a qi deviation, but that sets off some of the other peak lords who now start teasing him for "dreaming of shen qingqiu coming to rescue him", and of course that only makes it worse.
liu qingge refuses to let it go and starts bringing shen qingqiu his victories to try and pay off his debt, because he is an honorable man and he will not let shen qingqiu get away with this!!
meanwhile shen yuan is watching it from a distance wondering whether he made it better or worse by stepping in.
#sorry the image of liu qingge standing and shouting at shen qingqiu because he saved his life is just so funny to me#theyre arguing like ''you saved my life i am indebted to you!!!'' ''no ew wtf leave me alone??''#shen qingqiu was NOT amused#yes shen yuan DID cradle liu qingge in his arms. just picture it like ariel<3#liu qingge cant stop thinking about the feeling of gentle arms around him and a soft hand brushing the hair from his face#im telling you hes considering getting injured again just for that#part of why shen qingqiu keeps denying it also is because he knows someone else did this but doesnt want to be seen#which is incredibly suspicious#and hes trying to tell everyone like hey listen some rando saved liu qingge with an intense amount of spiritual energy and then disappeared#yall dont think that's weird???#but everyone else has an iq of 40 so theyre like ''its okay shixiong its nothing to be ashamed about''#weirdos#i love them<3#crowyuan#crowyuan au#shen qingqiu#shen yuan#liu qingge#liushen#both of em honestly#svsss au
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I think i just need to express that the culture surrounding QPRs right now made me think that i couldn't have strong bonds with my friends. Society told me i cant have strong bonds with friends because that was only for romantic relationships. Then i went into aro spaces and this idea was reinforced using QPRs instead of romantic relationships. it was "You can still have strong bonds with people without romance! It can just be a QPR instead!" "QPRs are MORE than friendship so you can have STRONGER BONDS than you would with friends."
it made me think that the relationships i wanted with my friends HAD to be something other than friendship for it to be as strong as i wanted. If i wanted to be the first person in someones life i had to enter some sort of committed relationship. if I wanted someone to care about me as strongly as i did them then it would have to be a relationship that was "more" than friendship.
I thought I wanted a QPR because i was told the only way to get that care and security that I wanted was to enter into a relationship that was "more" than friendship. because friends didn't care that much. because friends didn't live together their entire lives. because friends were never the priority relationship wise. and it took me years to realize that i didn't want any partnership and i shouldn't have to be in one to want these things from a friend. these things CAN be something friends can do. but i found that out on my own. because the aro community kept saying "you want a QPR" when i just wanted a friend who finally saw me as a priority in their life.
#text#personal#aro#aromantic#aroace#aspec#qpr#queerplatonic relationships#queer platonic relationships#tbh i was around when qprs were still getting footing. ppl werent sure how to properly label them#so to avoid allos saying it's just friends the common response was 'its more than friends but less than romance'#as if they were trying to justify it's existence as if we had to have a equivalent to romance to be justified in our identities and as ppl#because being aro made you not be a person. because how can you be a person if you dont love or have a partner#because being aro was sad because being aro meant ou were alone and you shouldn't want to be alone!!#and these ideas made it so that amatonormativity was just reinforced in aro spaces#and it isn't until recent years when amatonormativity started getting used top put a name to the problem#that i really saw ppl start standing up for aros who didnt partner because why are we expected to partner anyways?#shouldnt ppl be whole as they are?#and this is only my experience im not saying this happens everywhere#but this is why i think we need to have a conversation about QPRs and how they are used in aro spaces#because im not the only one who struggled through this#my experience may not be universal but my experience has happened to others#and thats worth talking about#srry im having a lot of thoughts recently
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Do you think Batman ever just casually drops the most insane lore to people at random like it's nothing? Cause I do.
#hes got a crazy life and just never talks about it?#“oh yeah when i was 14 i ran away to learn how to fight and be a detective and was pretty much alone for like 12 years before i came back🙃”#dick just trying to eat breakfast: 😕#“during college i dated harvey and we were so in love we probably would have gotten married if it werent for Maroni 😔”#jason after fighting two face: 😟#“i was technically trained to be an assassin”#hal looking up from his phone just now nothing batman standing in front of him:😧#bruce wayne#batman#its my post and if i want bruharvey then im writing motherfucking bruharvey#bruharvey#two face#dick grayson#jason todd#hal jordan#dc#dc comics#dc characters#dad lore#goes crazyyyyyy
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“When my skin feels like a barrier between /Everything else in this universe and me / Then I try to remember / That there may very well be a link between us / That I can't see / Something underneath the surface / Buried / In among the weeds.”
ID: A watercolor painting outlined with ballpoint pen of a human heart. The heart has been colored brown, and the arteries have been drawn as the caps of Armillaria Ostoyae, a brown mushroom with speckled caps. the veins running over the chambers of the heart are dark brown. The painting has been titled, “Armillaria Ostoyae”.
Art that I made for @narcissistcookbook , who I saw in the flesh tonight :) they and their audience were very cool, soaring over the (low) bar set by the only other concert I have ever been to.
#the narcissist cookbook#I genuinely loved the crowd tonight so much#someone gave me a bracelet and someone else gave me a keychain that they both made themselves#I mentioned to someone that I had surgery recently and they saved me a seat by the bar (because it was standing room only for the most part#) for the rest of the night#I know I joked about it in That One Post#but tnc has such a kind creative fanbase and it was incredible to see#this was also my first time going to a concert semi-alone (as in#my brother had a different ticket so I was alone in the venue for an hour or so#and I was nervous but I felt really good#AND they played all of my favorite songs#so that was nice#I also haven’t painted in a hot minute so this was fun as hell#traditional art#art#painting
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I love how over time kid xelqua has become less just baby grian and more grian's kid who he found in the woods/somehow created and now the kid represents all of grian's childhood trauma and Catholic guilt and grian is just trying to break the cycle bc there's this magic fucking baby who is the best thing in the world
JKAGJKD yes Exactly, see evo Grian has a lot of family issues, from being an orphan, to the Watchers, he has ISSUES, so raising a version of himself is..... definitely odd, but weirdly healing.. He sees how he was as a kid, he wasn't that bad, he was just a kid ! He didn't deserve to be abandoned or anything. He sees all of his ache in Xelqua, he's very much breaking the cycle.
[mumbo: You alright mate, you have that look in your eyes. grian: no yeah--i'm good, i just.... its easy to raise him, y'know ? i mean, i know he's literally me, but.. it makes me wonder about my own parents--before the watchers, if i was anything like him, i don't know why they left] (-me)
#i was gonna go to bed but then i doodled this real quick ajgadjk#grian and family issues makes me go crazy#my art#ask#sketching#kidxelqua#grians already a big brother. pearls his younger sister ! he had to raise her since they're close in age.-#-and even tho you love someone. you can still ache for the loss of childhood. its not a kids responsibility to take care of another alone#pearl and grian were close in age so they were just kids together. they had a Us against Them dynamic#grian and xelqua have a struggle and adjustments to figure out#figure xelqua out. hes a kid. but not human(hermit-)#i like to imagine at first. grian would just stand to talk to xelqua. but later he starts crouching down to his height#<- IMPORTANT !! i did this a lot when working with kids and ur their best friend immediately WAHHH#i always draw aether crouching down to talk to xelqua#grian catching watcher baby fever hahahahaaha
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Hey @stealingyourbones I have an idea
What if Jason wasn't normally resurrected, revived, a revenant, a ghost etc and instead-
Jason Todd becomes a Tulpa of Robin based on the curses in Gotham and also the belief of the citizens. He comes back to life because of the magic of Robin but because there was already a Robin, it fucks up a little
So he's alive! But like, only by technicality.
#dcxdp#i dunno i had the idea that he wasnt a revenant. wasnt a ghost. he was a tulpa created by belief and fueled by curses#does this mean his grave still has his body? great question!#originally this was a dcxdp idea but it really is stand alone DC too#prompt#open to good homes i love reading about fucked up implications
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oh boy if the first day of early voting here is any indication, the turnout this year is going to be huge
#i have never in my life had to stand in line to vote before#let alone a long line#they had like thirty or something booths set up and there was still a long and growing line#and there are *many* places to vote in this county#the pollworker was like ''this is amazing i have never seen this before'' and i'm like ''i love to see it''#let's fucking go y'all#i mean massive early voting turnout has already been seen elsewhere so it's not the first sign but holy shit guys#it appears that texas is turning the fuck out to vote and while idk how that will end up translating#high voter turnout usually means blue wave and i am like... dare i hope? dare i dream?#politics for ts#us politics for ts
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I love Sudden Shower as much as the next person but let’s not act that OG Sunjae didn’t have one single interaction with Sol and then his delulu ass proceeded to write this song😭
I wouldn’t be surprised if he was writing fanfics about the two of them, meanwhile he couldn’t bring himself to say hi to her 😭
#‘In a world where I stand alone I will protect you’#meanwhile Sol in the hospital 😭😭#it’s ok tho it was a banger#it went platinum in my car and in my room#ryu sun jae#im sol#lovely runner#byeon woo seok
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no i am not over how one of the first things kris does of their own accord without our input is to lay down their life for this weird ipad kid they met five hours ago no i am not over "hell yeah i am here to humiliate you fucker" no i am not over "did you miss me? because i missed you!" no i am not over how much not only susie but also kris (and ralsei) genuinely care about their new adopted little cousin guy and the fact that he went from having no friends at all to 3 ride or die bffs who were willing to do what every adult in his life failed to do which is stand up for him i-
#im gonna fucking throw up lancer's relationship with all of the fun gang is literally so important to me#hes gone his whole life surrounded by people but so incredibly alone for a multitude of reasons NONE of which are his fault#every grown ass adult in that castle knew he was suffering but did NOTHING about it#so to see these teenagers (OTHER KIDS) not only take him under their wing and include him whenever possible#but also stand up and say 'NO. no you will NOT get away with that' when his shithead dad abuses him#going so far as to put their own asses on the line for him because they fucking care#and lancer loves them back!!! hes saved the fun gang's asses twice in as many chapters#the first instance being when he did something he's NEVER done before and took up hands against his dad#the affection in his dialogue when he talks about kris and susie and ralsei#calls them all funny nicknames and says that he misses them...#shaking and crying and throwing up and falling down thr stairs and astral projecting#im so so os so so normal about these characters i promise#deltarune
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