#i truly am predictable

[euphietea]

let's play a game. put three of your first fictional loves and three of your current and see if you have a type

bonus oldies:

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Trapped in a vicious cycle of pining? Try gay sex! (More things to learn over at Tiger Tiger!)

[skulandcrossbones]

HWANG DONG-HYUN as KUMA in A SHOP FOR KILLERS (2024)

[problemcore]

aventurine and lio fotia outfit swap. as a treat. for me.

[wikitpowers]

headcanon that when kit and ty kiss for the first time, kit doesn't want to make ty uncomfortable with all the new sensations so he just stands there and lets ty kiss him (inside he's freaking tf out) but then ty whispers something like "kiss me back, kit" AND MY BOY FUCKING LOSES IT

[arom-antix]

So.

That new Gearous Yuuri birthday art, huh?

[lockley-spktr]

Am I thinking about Jake Lockley softly singing in Spanish as he drives his car around? Yes. Yes, I am.

[skitskatdacat63]

Mark promoting the Sebmarkson agenda 😏

[effervescible]

The other day a friend on plurk posted a meme asking what fandom ship changed your brain chemistry and how, and of course I was like "Mulder/Scully" because obviously, and then it was like my third eye opened because I realized the trope of "two very competent people who are also very different must partner up and come to respect the hell out of each other and get shit done" applies to like Every God Damn Fandom I've been in since, and is often WHY I lean toward one particular pairing over others.

Trigun. The Buffyverse at large. Numerous comic book lines. Bleach. Assassin's Creed. Kingdom Hearts. Uncharted. Shadowhunters. Overwatch a little bit. Dresden Files. ATLA. Graceling. It's there, it's always fucking there, and it shouldn't be surprising but I am still kind of laughing at myself because wow I just imprinted on that dynamic like a helpless baby bunny didn't I.

[itsslivernotsilver]

hi guys does anyone wanna hear about the dichotomy that mist and maddie form in reference to that god damn tomato from the og short stories. ok great here i go

pantheon definitely expands a LOT on the differences between the two sisters but ken liu’s bit about the tomato has always stood out to me and i’m kinda sad they didn’t keep it in the show but whatEVER!!!!!! anyways it’s such a perfect symbol for the glaring differences between mist and maddie and i’ve been thinking about this for almost a year now so i gotta get it out there

like. it’s so simple. it’s just a tomato.

🍅<—tomato. round and red 👍 (also i love that little interaction so much holy shit)

anyways it’s so simple in it’s design but the connections that each sister has with such basic object like this are so drastically different it’s crazy

maddie approaches it from a deeply emotional and human perspective. to her, a tomato means the taste of one, her grandma, her family’s garden, her family’s dog, and just like. general childhood memories. in the show, she represents the side of humanity that wants to stay physically in the real world. she’s obviously friendly with UIs and CIs given that like. yk. and she expresses curiosity in mist and her whole deal!!!!!

but she clearly has her biases and those are shown through her wants for her son and how upset she gets when he advocates for uploading (even though mist practically raised him too but whatever i’m not gonna get into that rn). anyways my point is that she’s approaching this tomato conversation with her experiences regarding physicality, nostalgia, and other “human” feelings

but mist doesn’t have any of those!!!!!! she doesn’t have any human experience at all. she approaches a tomato from an extremely technical and factual perspective. she brings up the species categorization, court cases, genome info, etc. she even decides to mention that, logically speaking, she knows more about tomatoes than maddie does (which is like??? girl????? a little unnecessary but true)

in the show there’s the conversation about nostalgia and her line about having the code for nostalgia but not being able to execute it because of a lack of memories fucks me up sooo bad

she loves maddie and everyone around her because she’s kinda just an actual embodiment of love but she can’t help but feel alone in a world where everyone moves so slow and nobody really gets that she can’t understand a lot of “human” emotions. it’s why she’s so ecstatic to introduce caspian to the cloud and why she’s so passionate about the drive with all the CIs who are just like her. but in this moment she tries her best to connect with maddie but ultimately can’t because of the sheer lack of similar experiences

they just can’t understand each other fully and they never will. they’re forced to agree to disagree over something as simple as a tomato and god that tension keeps me up at night

another thing that i thought was super interesting was how the maddie’s interest in mist was flipped in the show if that makes sense???? like in the stories, it’s clearly maddie who wants to learn more about mist. she tries her best to bridge the gap and it’s her idea to give mist a body. but in the show, it’s mist that seems “more obsessed” (heavy on the quotes) with maddie. she’s reaching out more and she asked for a body herself and maddie lashes out when mist does something while trying to help (don’t even get me started on caspian and his whole deal this season i’ll fucking kill someone)

ALSO i feel like this post is getting too long now but i wanna at least mention the quote at the beginning of the chapter cause holy shit man

anyways that’s it for now i think. i might make another post about the quote and the other stories and some other details i really liked for the nonexistent people who’ve seen this show 👍

[ohporcupine]

live reaction to the phineas and jonas scene in Trustfall

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

If Jin Ling is bald because WWX cursed Jin Zixuan then why are Jin Guangshan and Jin Guangyao bald🤔🤔

Jin Ling was always going to be bald, Wei Wuxian's curse was just an accidental prophecy that will haunt Jin Zixuan for exactly one month.

[mono-blogs-art]

Mono reads The Locked Tomb reactions: Gideon the Ninth version (spoilers of course)

[remyfire]

writing patterns (tag game)

rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!

I was tagged by @msculper!! Ty friend!!

Gonna go from most recent to last recent:

On a rare quiet evening when the golden-orange rays of sunset streak across the Korean soil, a doctor's legs hang over the edge of his cot in a filthy tent. (Notes of an Old Mistake)

It's a warm, beautiful, sunny Tuesday when Hawkeye is whistling while on his way to check on Corporal Gilbert in post-op and instead gets abducted into the supply tent. (Midnight Trepidations)

"Hunnicutt, I need to have a word with you." (Snits and Pearls)

Admittedly, the day that Rosie installed the glory hole was one of the funniest moments of Hawkeye's life. (Just A Drink Away From Honesty)

They are 36 hours into Hawkeye's 72 hours of R&R when BJ decides to replace Charles's small packet of the finest sugar with nothing but salt. (Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures)

"Okay, so here's what I think," Hawkeye drawls as he leans across the sticky bar counter. (To Be Kissed Upon the Eyes)

Though BJ would never admit it, the sight of Colonel Potter sauntering toward the Swamp is unexpectedly welcome. (I'd Give Up Forever to Touch You)

"Y'know, I really don't believe this is that device's intended purpose." (She's Giving Me Excitations)

The moment Hawkeye has Mulcahy backed up against the wall inside the chaplain's tent, he can feel how fast the man's breathing against him. (Inch By Inch)

It's both shocking and utterly unsurprising, Margie thinks, that something like this has come together at all. ("By Any Other Name," my assigned chapter of The Famous 4077 Dog Tag Party)

I love chucking in readers like a football with either a line of dialogue or extremely brief scene setting before we get into the main event. A lot of these are or were intended to be shorter fics, so it felt necessary at the time of writing them to just dive right the heck in so we didn't use up words describing a whole setting that we would not even be occupying for very long haha.

I enjoyed this!! ty so much for the tag!

Tagging: @cuddleswinchester @serpercival @bbjkrss-blog @machihunnicutt @trappper-johnathan and anyone else who would like to participate!!

[warlordfelwinter]

the literal ONLY problem with celeste's campaign coming off hiatus is that now my brain is gnawing on him again at all times

we finish a session and for the next week 80% of my brain is just

[sea-buns]

One of the people on chilled's team is one of the top mc event players (places an average of 1st in a very similar event) and a lot of people are ranking the team higher bc of him (he is also new to this event though so people are not placing the team as high as they would otherwise)

Right and I get that. And granted idk how good Oli and Kara typically do, or how much one players point count can affect the entire team's placement.

But I mean. This is Chilledchaos we're talking about. Team TIES consists of people who play minecraft for a living.

I don't know if you've heard, but Chilled said yes to participating in this event despite not even knowing what type of competition it is. He has absolutely no clue what happens in MCC. I watched this man ask chat what the second C stood for. I watched him look at his calendar live on stream and put his hands on his head in distress as he goes "It's in eight days?!"

So yeah y'know I wonder if it can really make enough of a difference that they breach last place. Red can do okay point wise but it means nothing if the other teams do even slightly better cuz all 4 of them know how to play the game.

Like I said, we are in for a fun time not a winning time lmao