#i have terminal brainworms

[captainqster]

The rattlesnake is shaking and the gun is on the floor

[antirepurp]

the way jolyne breaks so much convention as a jojo protagonist from not being introduced as an inherent badass and having to earn the right to be called that over the course of the story to her life being over from the moment that story begins while still not painting the events of it as a soul-crushing tragedy but rather a journey through which she reconciles and finds new meaning and purpose to herself as a person. i love jojo stone ocean i wish women were real

[chicago-geniza]

Genuinely shook me to my core to learn that some people cannot hear meter when every minute of my thrice-damned life is exactly like this

[ryuki-draws]

Local trains au? Local trains au please?

The next part is in progress, chief 🫡

[zanukavat]

If anyone ever asks me why I ship freemind and benrey, I’ll just show them this image

[the-kipsabian]

hi have a lil collection of zack/chris fics i finally got around uploading yayy all rated mature but its the all-smoke-but-no-fire type of stuff. theres implications but no actual act. read the tags that are probably lacking but i cant brain at 4am anymore ough

handle me so right

i can become anything under your touch

i want to show you

how i look at you is something i cant explain

[blueblurseptember]

suddenly feeling very ill after interpreting tianlang-jun and su xiyan's relationship and qijiu's as foils to bingqiu's. all three relationships suffered greatly because of a horrific big misunderstanding, aggravated further by a lack of communication thereafter.

su xiyan, yue qingyuan, and shen yuan are all similar in their decision not to communicate the truth out of guilt, believing that they have failed and have (though unwillingly) abandoned their loved one thus deserve no forgiveness, just suffering.

meanwhile, the common denominator between tianlang-jun, shen jiu, and binghe is the self-loathing born out of the fact that despite the perceived betrayal of their loved one, forgiveness still won out (even before they knew of the truth and received the apology they were due) and the love they feel have persevered.

unfortunately for tianlang-jun and su xiyan, tianlang-jun didn't even get to find out the truth in the original plot, and it had simply been too late in the svsss universe.

same goes for qijiu, shen jiu doesn't get to find out the truth in pidw. meanwhile, yue qingyuan musters the courage to confess his truth too late in svsss; the shen qingqiu that awoken from that one qi deviation all those years ago is no longer the same one he'd loved—which interestingly can be, in some way, paralleled with how shen yuan initially believed that the luo binghe who emerged from the abyss is no longer his beloved white lotus binghe and thus his own lack of attempt to ask forgiveness and explain his actions to binghe upon his return.

[akirakirxaa]

She could still just go back to bed and keep her secrets to herself. But he didn't want her to. Maybe she didn't want to, either. 

— Prompt 26: Last

[blasphemousclaw]

Maybe 6 for Varré? Love seeing how people perceive this guy.

6) Psychological headcanons: I think part of the reason why Varré become such a fervent devotee to Mohg, though he was kidnapped and brought into service forcibly, was the promise of “love…” every time he talks about the Mohgwyn dynasty to the player, he mentions love — it’s definitely something Mohg himself has made central to his dynasty, since he grew up unloved and unwanted. Perhaps Varré, as a war surgeon turned mercy-killer, grew so alone and detached in his work that he craved love and recognition and purpose from anyone — even the blood cultist who kidnapped him?

[quietwingsinthesky]

⛑️and/or 🛏️ for any terrible blonde boy in the roster rn <3

you know me. i can’t resist a little (probably inaccurate) first aid.

The only thing that saved him, the Doctor is painfully aware, was that Lucy Saxton had never held a gun in her life. If not for that, there would have been nothing for the Doctor to do, but beg the Master to regenerate. There’s another life skimming along the one he’s living, so close he can almost taste the helpless grief, but it was already unreachable by the time the bullet lodged itself in the Master’s shoulder instead and when the Doctor finally dragged him (unwilling but injured to the point where his resistance didn’t mean much) into the TARDIS to take care of it, that other possibility was fading away like morning mist and his borrowed loss with it.

Here, the Master is alive, and breathing, and bleeding. He’s snapping at the Doctor like a wounded animal, teeth and all, until the Doctor makes him sit and bow over a table. The Master’s knuckles are white as bone as he grips his hands together. The Doctor touches his bare shoulder, feeling the heat of his life through the latex gloves he’d hastily put on, the slickness of blood coating his fingers. The Master flinches, once from his touch and a second time when the movement jars the bullet trapped between muscle and bone.

“If you’re going to torture me, hurry up and get started,” he says, though the Doctor can hear his gritted teeth.

He hovers his hand over the wound for a moment. Pressing down would mean agony. If the bullet had splintered after impact, it would drive each shard of it deeper.

No one would deserve it more after the last year.

The Master makes another noise, a sharp breath sucked in through his teeth. It rattles through his body. He’s sweating, a sheen across the back of his neck and soaking his hair.

The Doctor holds him steady.

“I’m going to take it out,” he tells the Master. It’s practically instinct at this point to reach out telepathically to calm him down. Even species who don’t have a lick of telepathic ability can still receive a signal or two, even unaware. The Master, by contrast, is very aware of what the Doctor’s doing, and he’s the first one to fight being reassured. “I’m going to help you,” the Doctor persists, just as stubbornly.

He places a hand on the back of the Master’s neck. It slips until he tightens his grip.

“Stay,” the Doctor orders.

For once, the Master listens. He does it with teeth bared and every muscle in his body tensed, but he listens.

The Doctor examines the torn hole in his shoulder. Until he regenerates, if he regenerates, it will scar and ache. Gingerly, the Doctor picks up a sterile pair of tweezers and sets to work removing caved-in flesh and shards of the bullet. The Master twitches under him each time he feels something get dragged out of him, and the Doctor suppresses the urge to tell him that he’s safe now.

[19thcenturyfuck]

well. i've now written over 150 pages worth of script for a spider-man 2099 series that will never exist

[v-isca]

currently waiting for art footage i recorded to load into my editing program so i can make a new speedpaint

no guarantees etc etc but ive got wips related to some of the above options so votes could help in deciding what i try working on next

[chicago-geniza]

Friend described my type as "hot gilf humanities professor with egregious politics" aksjdbbfjfg

[4giorno]

🎵 youd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling 🎵

[merge-conflict]

my friend asking me if I ever got back into cyberpunk and if he should give it a try again and i had to pretend to be soooo normal about it lmao

[its-no-biggie]

OH. i get the ending of tristamp now. i thought that final scene was introducing a new character, which is why i complained about it being sequel bait, but this time the name "eriks" tipped me off. (it is still sequel bait btw but it's less egregious than introducing an entire new character lmao) honestly the fact that i didn't catch it the first time means that the scene still doesn't really work on its own merits - it should be a little clearer for people who don't get the reference imo. get his hair out of his face a LITTLE. draw literally any attention to the missing left arm. honestly i get that you wanna be subtle but there's such thing as too much subtlety

and you know what, this isn't the only time i've had this issue with the show either. the first time i watched it i had a real hard time with the timeline and the past/present versions of characters - partially because the ages of the twins aren't really clearly communicated for a while (which is fine - it creates intrigue), but also because of stuff like. when present-brad shows up, he doesn't even get a closeup to be like "hey! this is that guy from vash's past! remember him? he's old now!" which is especially frustrating because like 30 seconds later, the lady DOES get a closeup. which i guess makes sense bc she was the more important character, but as a result i didn't even recognize brad. and i had the same issue with the doctor guy who's with knives - we meet him in the present first, but when he's introduced in the past they don't call any attention to him and he's not even the focus of the scene. idk maybe i'm just bad with names, but i feel like this shouldn't be this much of an issue? especially since the characters in question all look distinct and play fairly major roles.

and like, i'm not saying you have to be all heavy-handed with it, like "why hello [character] i haven't seen you since [event]! wow, you've changed so much!". you don't have to do all that - you CAN rely mostly on character design to convey who someone is, especially when your characters look so distinct. a closeup shot of brad when vash sees him for the first time. someone addressing that doctor guy by name when we first see the younger version of him. a closer shot to show eriks' missing arm, or enough of a part in his hair for the closeup that we can see maybe his eye and the mole on his cheek. i'm not asking for a lot here, just a little bit more clarity when you're trying to communicate who someone is without outright saying it! like i get that the show is really short and this probably wouldn't be a problem if these characters had a bit more screentime. but as it is, it just doesn't work