#i must come here lmao

[miscmangos-wonderland]

time to tma post on main even tho im still in the 140s of episodes and not even past the 3/4 point of the podcast but i had some Thoughts i think youd all like, copypasted directly from my dms with my buddy @/sbpstudios (hi neil if you see me)

"theres a key difference between hunt, slaughter, and flesh. to me anyways.

and thats like. the end result/purpose of the deaths.

for hunt, its in the chase and pursuit, of prey and predation.

for flesh, its the blending of meat and bone, of being only the sum of your parts and being valued insomuch as you can provide. flesh is about what you leave behind when you are killed.

slaughter is about death. death and killing, indiscriminate and uncaring so long as the pied piper gets his dues"

[ririsasy]

Everyone was scared at Deva's outburst during the ride because he just murdered bunch of people and still covered in blood so they were afraid that they would too get the end of his wrath but not Varadha he was just horny 😭✋

[dontletmewaittoolong]

me when george harrison uses sun/cloud/weather-related metaphors in his lyrics

[vaguely-concerned]

I feel that during the first coffee date walk through the market, rye has a fraction of a millisecond's kneejerk trauma freakout of '...wait. wait. am I really catching feelings for a rich boy again. with how that went down last time. am I truly that stupid' (once derogatorily referred to quite openly at a party as 'young master anaxas' pet mortalitasi' to which the young master anaxas only grinned and shrugged and STILL you don't break up with his smug controlling ass for good for six more months because you have a desperate bottomless yearning pit where your self respect should go, twice shy lol). and then he actually looks at lucanis standing next to him getting harding spearmint to help with bad dreams and generally being so quietly thoughtful and sweet through the prosaic yet necessary medium of grocery shopping it makes me feel a little unwell to truly contemplate. and rye is like '*the softest fondest eyes anyone has ever turned on anything* ...you know what. I suspect we don't have to worry about that repeating, I think we're probably safe. I am comfortable being this level of stupid. (slowly dawning marital intent even at this stage)'.

(part of the reason rye buys NONE of illario's bullshit at all right from the beginning is that he's basically vaccinated against this exact type of dude after that relationship lol. charming suave guy who in the beginning pays you a lot of lavish attention and takes pains to make you feel special every time you're in a room with him -- but shallowly and mostly, it slowly dawns on you, when there's something he wants from you (and he's often doing it at the expense of someone else, raising you up to put someone else down and you won't believe this... it can turn into a seesaw at a whim. yay). and beneath that there's just a seething pit of resentment and inferiority complexes and bitterness left to fester until he can make it everyone else's problem and that IS going to start to bubble up between the cracks with you too if you stick around for long enough. no thank you been there done that wasted my youth and potential on it and all I got was this lousy shiny set of new emotional intimacy issues haunting me for life! trust me illario I HAVE, as it were, chosen the wrong dellamorte before, which is exactly how I know I didn't this time. go get him lucanis I've got your coffee

hilarious mental image: rye and illario sitting quietly together while everyone else is busy milling about during a cursed dellamorte family dinner (the vibes are so bad. you know the vibes are bad. sitting as still as you can and hoping for calm skies is your best bet without lucanis or teia favourite child privileges to work with) and rye out of the blue gazing thoughtfully into nothing over the edge of his glass with half-lidded eyes to go 'you know. you remind me a lot of my ex. not in a good way' and illario with absolutely no shame and hilariously also something that's the closest he ever gets to real sympathy going 'yeah, I get that a lot'. best talk those two ever had, unironically. their bond leveled up to its final form that day. *soulsborne boss defeated text* MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING REACHED)

[weirdbabs]

do you think serge has any idea the extent of power davey wields? like. obviously there's the joke of how worked up he's getting, just for the reveal that davey's a local business owner, and that stands on its own bc mayview is supposed to be this peaceful little town where nothing ever happens. of course davey being a local business owner rich enough to buy up an entire hill is going to be a big deal, what possible reason does he have to come to the school? but given how many different factions there are, and just how many people are in the witch/death cult/vampire alliance, there's a non zero chance that he has a family member in there and knows that davey is planning on bringing about change. and soon.

[lctibule]

the problem i keep stumbling across while writing byan and my two boys (bc believe it or not, byan came after both of them) is that... byan is inherently wild and chaotic and fun and interesting, whereas minjoon and si-u are much more... subdued. they're quieter, more pleasant, more agreeable (less fleshed out) and so i always end up feeling/worrying that they're... not that interesting? i just... idk it's frustrating aksjsdsf

[b4kuch1n]

I'm not gonna screenshot it bc 1/it really doesn't matter that much and 2/the person who made the comment is a kid but: a while ago I made a comic that's supposed to be a genuine study and reinterpretation of someone else's sprite comic (made in the spirit of authenticity too - to recreate the vibes of the sprite comics from that era, iirc very specifically because it's funny) and I got a comment on that comic's post that's like "glow up"

which is a compliment obvs. and the commenter probably didn't mean anything by it, it's a common expression. but I've been trying to find a way to gracefully put that comment away ever since it appeared lol

I just very much don't want my art to be taken as trying to one-up someone else's art when that's not the piece's intention. especially when the piece that inspired my art is perceived as "low effort" or "shitpost" or stuff like that. I did mention in the tags of that post that my considering it a study is entirely genuine, and I can legitimately write pages about the cool stuff I find in it other than and inherent in the haha funneys, but that's not for you guys that's for me. I just think that approaching art competition-first like that is a miserable way to do it, and (tipping into overthinking here if the whole tiny-comment-got-stuck-in-my-brain-for-almost-a-month part hasn't given that away yet lol) I really don't want that to be the takeaway from my own art. at least generally. if I actually think the source material is trash and what I'm doing is genuinely categorically better I'd just come out and say it lmao

[alchemiclee]

you've heard of cat in the hat, now get ready for

[knifearo]

I've been enjoying all your posts lately, especially all the community engagement. It makes me think about posting more personal aroace content instead of just reblogging.

I'm full of feelings but not sure what I really have to contribute to the conversation. Aro-identified people skew young and I feel like nobody's going to care what a middle aged aroace has to say but now I'm like hang on, maybe all aro content is good content, I don't know, I'm thinking about it.

i am absolutely of the opinion that all aro content is good content! especially because a lot of us skew young, i think it's so important to have (first of all just aro content in General. there's always a lack of that. but especially) aro content from people who don't usually have their perspectives talked about. if you've got nothing to contribute to the conversation that's fine :) more than half the time i do not either, i just make a silly happy little lah di dah i love aromanticism post and chit chat with all the little aromantic people who live on my laptop. if you're aromantic and you're engaging with the community then everybody should be more than happy to have you there :) just like you said. all aro content is good content. your opinion is valuable and your presence is treasured <2

[r0semultiverse]

It strikes me as very unhealthy that some people make their entire personalities hating marginalized people. Imagine making your entire basis of being just being a hater. That sounds fucking exhausting.

[hauntingblue]

I

<3

In between arc (kinda) episodes

Pt. 3

[waltzofphoenix]

SEXUALITY + GENDER

primary muses // secondary muses

◇°˖ — ZHONGLI is asexual and demi-panromantic, which is to say: he's not repulsed by sex, but feels no desire to engage in it of his own volition. If he had a partner that did desire such things, he wouldn't be opposed! However, romance is also not a high priority for him at this point in time, so he's not seeking a partner.

Gender is a slightly more complex subject for him, since archons can take on any form they desire... but Zhongli currently considers himself 'male' and constructed this human form to match.

✤˖° — ALBEDO is demi in every way, as he feels pretty detached from physicality and romance. He enjoys the idea of it all and would not mind experimenting a bit if an opportunity presented itself, but... it's not something he's actively seeking out.

Also, while I do say 'experimenting' here don't be fooled: Albedo is an artist, and has very romantic ideals regarding this topic!

𓂁𓂄 — CYNO is bisexual. He doesn't really draw attention to the fact aside from the occasional terrible pun. And while he's not on the ace spectrum... he's devoted to his work right now, which has not left him with much time to pursue other things even if he'd like to.

❍°˖ — AYATO is predominantly homosexual. He doesn't have the time to pursue an idle 'romance' even though he would like to, and the only reason he's not married yet is because there were NO viable candidates for him to seek an engagement with in Inazuma.

(Perhaps this is one of many reasons he's become so interested in improving foreign relations...?)

○࿐ — VENTI is asexual and demi-panromantic, like Zhongli (and for similar reasons!) He is also not actively seeking a romantic partner, and prefers to play match-maker for others.

He uses male pronouns to honor the Nameless Bard his current form imitates, but is actually agender himself and doesn't really care what people see him as.

[melk-maid]

Sorry for never responding to messages or responding so inconsistently, im sorry for hardly being around, im sorry for being fucking weird and sporadic and unsure in everything I do lmao im not sure what specifically my problem is besides fear and paranoia but im trying to work through it because I haven’t felt like a normal person for months

[redflannelsheets]

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