#i do have thoughts

[leadandblood]

I was cooking with the Long Walk Terror crossover damn... I need to draw something but my weekend will be really busy, so here are some thoughts on the first 3 dead at least.

(The Long Walk is abt 100 teenage boys volunteering in a walking competition. They walk without stopping and when they stop or walk too slowly they get warnings. After the 3rd warning they get shot dead. The 1 boy left alive wins the "Prize")

Thoughts below.

Torrington gets his ticket first ofc. He has No idea how he passed the entry exams in the first place and why they chose him, but by the time he realises what it really means, it's too late to back out. Gets shot just a few miles from the start, walking up a hill.

Jartnell gets his ticket soon after, begging Tom to continue - to win the prize and care for their family. Tom nearly gets shot too and has to be dragged away by Magnus and Strong after his 3rd warning is announced.

Everyone thinks Braine will last long, but then he gets a charley horse and can't keep up the pace. This is only a few hours after they walk out.

[radioroxx]

relistening to taz w a friend who is listening for the first time iiiisss making me think of isat au again. i could make this work if only i had the, motivation to take it anywhere

[bandedbulbussnarfblat]

y'all iwtv fareed is gonna invent mpreg

[i-will-physically-fight-you]

So. On AO3 you have a fic called Wonderland. I am curious if you have thoughts to share on that?

For example, I'm curious if it's canon verse or not, if Virgil has been missing for a long time, how he knows Roman (if not canon verse) and what powers Virgil might potentially have :)

And any other thoughts you might potentially have that I am not smart enough to think to ask :)

Oooho! This was not a fic I was expecting but sure! It started off as a tumblr prompt fic (see here) and it was mainly "Let's just keep writing and see where we land up" type of vibes.

This was written in 2018 where I was in my "I'll write Janus as a villain but keep in mind, he's not like other fanon villain interpretations, he's complex and multi-faceted except I fail to elaborate on these thoughts so he comes off " era, not that this fic really touched on Janus outside of Roman's description of him. Given it was a 2018 fic, if I wrote it nowadays I would've included a lot more set-up to the fic to avoid a clumsy exposition dump but I still like the core concept behind it.

My favorite line from this fic is: When in a crisis, memes are always the answer.

In terms of its validity as being a canon-verse fic or not, I actually intended it as an AU, but I really like that interpretation of it being a canon-verse fic that involves fun mindscape hijinks.

In terms of how long Virgil has been missing, Roman hasn't seen him in three years, so that's roughly the length of time he's been missing.

As to how Roman knows Virgil and his potential powers, well. Fun fact, The Chasm of the Night started as a prequel fic to this. The idea I had in mind was Virgil interacting with each of the "Light Sides" and helping them escape their own Twilight Zone predicaments before ending up stuck himself and then getting reintroduced and--yeah, it's a whole mess. As it stands, the two fics don't really connect well, and in fact I've toyed with rewriting Wonderland, but ah. Who knows if I'll be able to get to that :')

Director's Cut! Distract me by asking me any questions you may have on a fic of mine!

[yeepof]

I understand that tall men are our POV characters, but surely being like a foot taller than everyone around them would have some occasional consequences

[valtsv]

stuck between "psychological horror statement" and "objectively the funniest thing you could say to your real flesh and blood dad" in the father's day card aisle

[bumblingbabooshka]

Vulcan teen on Vulcan [tiktok] saying "I have just lost track of my father in the grocery store." The camera turns to show the viewers the grocery store in which almost every single older middle-aged man has a bowlcut and long robes. Camera turns back to show the teen's face which is expressionless and yet communicates all it needs to.

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

I'm as grateful for cellphones as the next person, but sometimes I think about how everyone having a phone on them at all times really did cause us to loose some things as a society. I mean - for example, kids these days will never experience their car breaking down and needing to find the nearest place with a phone they can use. They're never going to have the opportunity to tentatively approach a house only to discover that it's full of queer people having a party hosted by a transvestite to celebrate his creation of a sex homunculus, stay the night, and loose their virginity while unintentionally partaking in cannibalism. It's tragic, that kind of gay sexual awakening just doesn't happen these days because of cellphones.

[ameba-from-space]

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

girl why the hell WEREN'T you at the devil's sacrament 👀 that's three sacraments in a row you've missed 👀 👀 👀

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[just-spacetrash]

the 'what if you played it a little risky' post literally Changed my life but i cant fujkign find it in my blog because its. a tiktok screenshot

[aroacedavestrider]

people will hear you talk about struggling with mental illness and say “you can do anything if you just put your mind to it”. brother what part of the body does the mental illness happen in. what do you think is the problem

[stil-lindigo]

lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)

if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.

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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.

I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.

I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.

If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.

[yeepof]

Local PHD student at wizard school HARRASSED!! FOR SHAME!!

[hinamie]

to moving forward