#i am curious to hear others' thoughts

[sparklingdemon]

thinking about hacker cody (they stinky)

[hallowsden]

Seeing the child staring at Nora, Victor sighed, massaging his brows, once he noticed the familiar features. Picking her up by the hood, he started walking outside his base, ignoring the pouting look the young girl had.

Victor wonders how excited Nora would be having 2 children under their care, a 3rd if you ignore the fact they're in university. She would've teased him, after all, he always did have a habit of picking up strays in his younger years. (Grew fond of them quickly too, and it seems this transferred over to his new situation... Not that he'll complain, of course. It's nice to have company again that wasn't just Nora.)

[emrowene]

question for you all:

[edwardsdeathcabcd]

hey gang if I were to do a little project for school about why it's interesting & special that twilight's queer online fandom finds queer themes & narratives within a story that's so overtly pushing a mormon heteronormative agenda.. would anyone be like interested in sharing their thoughts on that with me or

[ghosts-and-blue-sweaters]

Completely unrelated to the last post (lie) but I truly do not see Ghostbur and Wilbur as the same person. Ghostbur is a part of Wilbur, yes, and he wouldn’t exist without him! But I just think that there’s a whole lotta Ghostbur that’s just… Ghostbur. You can’t take a blade of grass and call it a meadow, even though meadows are made up of blades of grass; just a blade of grass on its own doesn’t mean it’s a meadow. It’s kinda like that for Ghostbur and Wilbur, in my eyes. Ghostbur is a piece of Wilbur, but he’s more than just that. And Wilbur is so much more than Ghostbur. Wilbur was the meadow and Ghostbur is a single blade of grass picked from the meadow. I’m not sure if any of this makes sense, it Is midnight.

I could go on and on about this some other time and I’d love to talk more in-depth about this some other time, but yeah. I really honestly do not believe that they’re the same person.

[papercranium]

THE BEAR CHARACTERS’ ZODIAC SIGNS🐻

steaming hot takes with my (limited) knowledge of astrology. but this has been simmering in my brain for many days and i simply must speak my truth...(part 1/?) idk lmk if you want more bc i have a few thoughts!

carmy is an aquarius!!!! i know this to be true deep in my heart!! the passion, the drive, the focus, the intellect, it's all there. he's driven by his desire to be good, and to keep getting better. carmy knows what he wants and although he sometimes struggles with emotional intimacy, he's actually a really good communicator. he doesn't do small talk, but as we've seen, he's open and willing to discuss difficult topics and be vulnerable with the people he's close to. he is a stubborn believer in the people he cares about, and strongly values teamwork and his desire to make the world around him better.

i think sydney is a gemini she is such a summer girl to meeee!! i loved s2e03 bc we really got to glimpse into her creative thought process. it's fast-paced and fluid and innovative and strongly influenced by her surroundings. she has really vivid goals and dives fully into them, as we see her do in building the beef, but underneath it all i think she definitely gets flustered and struggles with self-doubt--what if her passion isn't enough to make things work? sydney's a little impulsive/impatient at times, but recovers quickly because, like carmy, she's a really strong communicator (i could go ON about sydcarmy &their signs' compatibility....but that's maybe for another time lol).

richie is a sagittarius. he just is. he's brash and extroverted and really driven by a desire to find his purpose, whether it be in his relationships or in his work (s2e07 my beloved)!!! richie's an entertainer and a people person and he's not afraid to take up a lot of space. part of this comes from his closeness to mikey, but he's a great storyteller and wants for people to hear him. but when he's upset, esp when arguing with carmy, he's very blunt and isn't afraid to hit him where it hurts. i think some of the other characters find him a bit unpredictable, and likely it's bc he's trying to unpack a lot of difficult emotions while battling against his own pride.

natalie is a libra and i love her for it. i think one of the most prominent things about nat is that she's always seeking for balance, for security, for things to be stable and good and okay (with the bear, with carmy, with her mother) she is a people pleaser!!!!!! which is probably her greatest strength as well as her greatest weakness--she really wants carmy to be okay, but the work she puts in clearly takes a toll on her. natalie can turn up the charm if it helps her get the job done, as we see her do with cicero. she's critical and focused and has a good eye, which makes her a great project manager (where would carmy and syd be without her)

[birdieisnotwriting]

okay so basically. part of my job rn is to write and edit alt text and a big part of that is making sure the alt text is as concise and efficient as possible. BUT all of the alt text i see on here is, like, super long which makes me wonder what’s actually helpful to disabled people. so i’m hoping that somebody who uses a screen reader or who knows somebody who uses a screen reader can see this and help me out:

[musical-chick-13]

Can somebody please explain to me what the appeal of vampires is.

[flickeringflame216]

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[butchshepherd]

saw this as it was happening and assumed there had been some level of communication but what im getting from this is that there wasn't, and im like, yikes.

shortly put this breeder has been planning this litter for years and had two separate, and unfortunately unsuccessful trips to mate the dogs because of limited schedules and bad timing, and then that happened.

if it had been communicated i imagine it'd be fine but the fact that it wasn't... really isn't a good look considering they had agreed to not do exactly this !! gotta agree with what they finished off this update with.

[crabsdaily]

friend asked me if i could only listen to 10 albums for the rest of my life which ones i would choose and my IMMEDIATE first thought was “fuck fall out boy has 9 albums i only have space for 1 more”

which might be the wrong answer

[officialjimmybuffett]

i'm enjoying fellow travelers but i understand your criticisms. i've read the book, which is much more focused on the political climate of the times than the show, and i don't think they've found quite the right balance between the seriousness of the times and the relationship/sexual elements, at least not yet. i do think marcus and frankie's relationship is progressing nicely in the show, especially in the most recent episode, and fits with the narrative much more smoothly than hawk and tim, for example. i don't think the time jumps are helping hawk and tim's storyline, tbh. for what it's worth, book-hawkins is absolutely insufferable, imo, and i give kudos to all the actors for their performances so far.

without being too spoilery for the book, there are some //major// differences between the book and the show in terms of structure as well as plot points. and of course they've spiced up the sex scenes for television, which i guess some people are ecstatic about and others find super cringe. i'm going to try to withhold judgement until the full series airs.

very glad to hear about the book leaning way more into the politics of it all bc its disappointing to see the show treat the political aspects of its plot like a chore. to me it feels very much like they view the development of the lavender scare as plot beats that they have to hit in order to make it to the next look we have boys kissing scene rather than a story that they're passionate about telling.

n yeah marcus and frankie are the best part of the show to me LOL which is ALSO frustrating bc they have everything they need to have an engaging discussion about the intersection of race, sexuality, and visible queerness, but they keep backing out and instead opt for agonizingly surface level takes

[jacketrepresents]

you are at the store. you have set the limit of 2 dvds for yourself. in your hand you hold casino, napoleon dynamite, the social network, & some like it hot. what are you getting?

[babygirlgiles]

who are your favorite/least favorite btvs ships?

omg hello first of all, I'm gonna preface by saying I'm generally terrible at picking favorites of literally anything lmao. The short answer, though, is the more I thought about it, the more I realized I don't really have a favorite btvs ship? Tbh I'm very invested in the family/found family dynamics and in the friendships between the characters-- for me, that's what drives the series emotionally.

That said (and this is where we get into me being terrible at picking favorites) there are lots of pairings that are a) fun, b) interesting/compelling, c) serve a narrative purpose well/a narrative purpose I find interesting, or d) some combination of these.

Not to be too on brand, but I really love Giles/Ethan. If I had to pick a fave that would be it. But that’s not even a ship to me, that's just canon, those crazy old men explored each other's bodies (and have been exploring them for decades now <3). I love to think about how that relationship must have driven him back to the Council ultimately and how it shaped him into the babygirl we meet, slamming that massive Vampyr book on the table. And on the Giles train of thought, I love Giles/Jenny too (I won't tag them so they don't have to see this if they don't want to but there's literally nothing I could say on the subject of Giles/Jenny that dreadfulcalendarwoman hasn't already said, and said better. They are really out here doing all the work).

Tara/Willow and I have a. Complicated relationship. I love it. It means the world to me. It's so sweet. All of s4 melts my heart. s5 Family consistently makes me cry. The "I was so lost" "I'll always find you" makes me want to scream into a pillow. The stargazing scene is so sweet and tender??? I love thinking about them co-parenting Dawn that summer Buffy is dead because it would have been a strain and I don't think it would have gone particularly well but I think it brings out fascinating aspects of their dynamic. But also Tara is my actual literal best friend and seeing anyone hurt Tara, my best friend Tara?? Especially because the way Willow hurt her is so deeply upsetting to me personally??? Some crimes cannot be forgiven dot jpg. But I do love them and I do love their dynamic and I love how they both grow through the relationship (I will also say that part of why it's so interesting to me is that it's because Tara dated Willow in the first place, and grew from that and learned to value herself from that, that she has the confidence and the self worth to protect herself by leaving Willow and that dynamic-- of only being able to leave someone because they changed you-- it always so fascinating to me).

I will also say that, out of all of Buffy's canon relationships, I will admit that I do find spuffy the most compelling. I think the relationship suffered unfortunately (and rather needlessly) at the hands of the writer's room (or uhhhhh a couple specific writers who I need not name lmao). Tbh, I think it's compelling at least in part because of it's fucked-up-ed-ness, but also my icon is literally Will Graham so that probably is not a surprise to anyone lmao-- like, it just does a really good job of revealing/illustrating Buffy's headspace in s6 and there is something so, so like fascinating and touching to me about the idea of falling in love with your shadow (like seeing the parts of yourself you hate the most and saying "this too is worthy of love, this too is worthy of gentleness" and holding those parts of yourself tenderly, it just. gets me every time, man). And I think it's so compelling that Buffy feels so locked into being capital G Good and here is this space where she can give into her darker compulsions (or at least what she sees as her darker compulsions but are actually. pretty normal for a deeply traumatized 20-something). The ship also does a good job in s6 of showing the split in Buffy's life-- with the Scoobies there's a place where she is the Hero and loved for that, but that isn't a space that can accept or hold her darker aspects, and with Spike here is this space that doesn't only hold the darker sides of her, but loves her for them and revels in them, but he struggles to accept that she has parts of her that are Light/Good too. And a lot of s6 to me is her fighting to keep that split, to keep those two spaces separate, bc if they come together then she has to accept that the parts of herself that she finds Dark are a part of her too and that she's one whole person. The untapped potential of the relationship in canon, and the potential it had to grow into something less fucked up is something that a lot of really talented fic writers have touched on, so I'm a bit biased just bc of some of the incredible writing ppl are doing lmao. That said, s7 makes me want to pull my teeth out, it has me so conflicted because on the one hand I am a Sucker for a pathetic man (and there is nothing lamer than when she feeds him blood out of a bag like he's a wounded baby bird) and yet it's like the metatext of the whole thing that turns my stomach? I won't get into it here but. Yeah.

As for Buffy's other canon relationships, this is a Proud Riley Hate Blog, and like. you know what I'm not even gonna really get into my thoughts besides on bangel besides to say smg was Giving. Her. All!! and (in s1 especially) they might as well have given her a cardboard cutout of a conventionally attractive man to act across from. Idk maybe it's there, maybe there's insane chemistry and I'm just too gay to see it. (But in all seriousness, I do think it serves its narrative purpose very well of being this fairy tale whirlwind romance, that's so First Love When You're Sixteen, so Tragically Doomed-- and also the purpose of uhhhhh fucking up Buffy's ideas of romance and intimacy for years to come? Which tracks for a first relationship for a bi teenager so. I guess I can't complain too much?) (I'm joking) (mostly)

For Buffy's other ships, big shoutouts to Coffy/Fuffy. You are canon. To me. <3

And also you know what??? It's my little crack rarepair but like??? I'll say it!! I think in an AU, the concept of Buffy/Tara is cute, which I know isn't entirely in character and also probably wouldn't work as a relationship but you know what?? I mostly bc I want Buffy to know some goddamn gentleness for once in her life!!! Let her have a sweet, gentle girlfriend!!! Tara would achieve my ultimate goal: making Buffy Summers soup <3

Oh wait I was gonna be done but I will also say I love Oz/Willow mostly bc I love Oz (my short king <3) and the show lost soooo much essential weird little guy energy when he left. Heartbreaking. Also he is bisexual and I love that for him. I've never read any fic or anything for it, I know it's out there I just haven't sought it out, but I think the concept of Oz/Xander is fun, mostly bc I think Xander would've smoked weed with Oz once and it would've Fixed Him, and I will stand by that. Plus the awkward hookup potential is sky high, or like really awkward and panicky on Xander's end but like very Normal about it on Oz's end-- comedy gold.

[youssefguedira]

idk i love breath of the wild w my whole heart and i am excited for tears of the kingdom but if its not The End of zelda (which i don't think it will be for the simple reason that zelda's a big money maker) i dont know how i feel about the idea that they want to move away from the formula entirely because i personally love the typical Zelda Formula™ and id be kinda disappointed if they just. decided to stop you know

[jessamine-rose]

*gasp* It's me ( ˶°ㅁ°) !!

🍵 𝒲𝐻𝒪𝒟ℛ𝒜𝒩𝒦𝐼𝒯? ‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚: A Yandere!H:SR x Reader Otome Game

✧ romanceable characters (© hoyoverse): Professor Veritas Ratio, "Your friend" Kakavasha, and "Gallagher" [for now]

✧ content warning: yandere themes, mentions of racial/species discrimination (your character is SEA/Filipino-coded), (y/n) uses they/them, the story takes place in a modern hybrid alternate universe where each planet (Belobog, Penacony, etc) is considered a country.

PLAY THE DEMO HERE (available for download on PC & Mac AND online play for any devices, though download is preferable to avoid pixellated graphics & misaligned textboxes)

You (name changeable) are a hardworking and full-pledged human cafe owner in Penacony City. Your Dreamjolt Cafe has been a go-to for residents and tourists alike. But your loved ones' lives took a sharp turn for the worst when you decided to take a much-needed vacation back to your homeland, Perlas. While your family eagerly awaited your arrival, you disappeared en route. Where did you go? How did this happen? Who did this? Was it...

☕ the prickly yet fascinating Prof. Veritas Ratio, your self-proclaimed avian-hybrid regular,

☕Kakavasha, your longest fellow human friend who always seems to have a secret or two;

☕ or Gallagher, your hound-hybrid roommate whose past is as peculiar as his loyalty?

☕ or are there two more you're forgetting?

... so...

𝒲𝐻𝒪 𝒹𝓇𝒶𝓃𝓀 𝒾𝓉?

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✧ Characters, Background Art and UI Credits

Hoyoverse assets sourced from the-astral-express-archive. I just tweaked em a bit!

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✧ Intro video, sprites & CG art Credits

Me!!! Hi <3 I hope you enjoyed them! I can't believe yall made me learn adobe after effects a bit for this-

✧ Music Credits

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✧ (Fan)Story

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