#idk what to tag this lol i dont write posts

[flwrblue-bella]

the funny thing about my relationship with my boyfriend is that, outwardly, people would never think he's a freak. they look at us and see the most regular, unassuming, jock-looking, handsome guy in the world dating this dyed-black-hair, beetlejuice-ass-character bitch that i present myself as and logically think "ah yes, she is clearly the domesticated gremlin of that particular situation"

they would, of course, be painfully wrong, because that man is as much of a weirdo as i am. his mind palace is much more strange and disarming than anything i could come up with, and i'm half convinced he just put on an extra 60 pounds of muscles to throw people off his freak-scent

last night for example, he calmly relayed to me that sometimes when we're making out a bit more intensely, he likes to think of how we're actually just one big digestive system, connected through our mouths, which he thought was a very romantic thought.

understandably, i had to prod his brain a little, so i asked "honey. honey. why are you regularly daydreaming about us being human-centipeded together" and he asked me what the plot of the human centipede was, because, again, he likes to pretend he is a regular person and doesn't watch a lot of horror movies. i tried to explain to him what the story of the movies was about, while largely trying to emphasize how it was a little unusual that our most passionate moments of intimacy would unpromptedly conjure in his mind the same thought process as that of a psychotic german doctor who wanted to kidnap people and sew their mouths to each other assholes

and then he, with the biggest, shiniest, bluest eyes in the world, frowned at me and said "well, but they weren't in love", firmly establishing that he thinks that the main problem of the acts committed throughout the human centipede trilogy were upsetting solely due to the lack of true love between the humans who were centipeded

so yeah i'm planning to father his children

[nabaath-areng]

I have way too many alts that I keep to myself (which is why I generally refrain from posting them), but I'm going to ignore that habit for a moment just because I'm feeling particularly insane about this guy.

[soupmanspeaks]

the topic of Helpy makes me go insane /pos like I have this headcanon that William/Springtrap just, DESPISED Helpy because William took heaps of pride from the Funtime line of Animatronics, he saw it as his son's crude mocking of HIS creations, when in reality its just Michaelangelo S Afton trying to use humor to once again cope with the horrors™️ Like I've probably said this here before but I headcanon that Helpy found his way into the PizzaPlex's marketing is because after the FNAF6 fire he just was under the rubble remarkably preserved or something and instead of going into the RockStarRow Museum, the FazExecs had dollar signs in their eyes and were like "yeah, that one will make us bank, ong" Ive also probably said this (bad memory sozzz) but a headcanon to go in tandem with that headcanon, is that Glamfreddy sighs in resignation whenever he passes by one of those Helpy monitors (he wasn't paid royaltys <//3 ) AND LIKE I GOTTA KNOW WHAT (glam)MIKE WOULD THINK OF THE ENTITY THAT IS SATAN DISGUISING HIMSELF AS AN AGENT OF LIGHT (Helpi) WOULD HE FEEL SAD? ANGRY? AT THE MIMIC? THE COMPANY?! please the topic of helpy is so interesting PLEAs-

[whiskey-tango-matcha]

not to brag, but my therapist told me today that i did incredible during our emdr session, which means i get an A for the day in therapy, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve 🙂‍↕️😌

[liquidstar]

april fools is over so now im going to be slash srs instead of slash j. im going to post a little excerpt from one of the oc writing practices ive been doing :) again im not super experienced for a variety of reasons but im doing my best here.

but im going to try and put my self conciousness to the side (thats probably an important part of the practice too, right?) since this isnt final version either way, i can just say im sharing a WIP! so for now it will go the way of most of my other oc stuff..... under the cut

the only context you need is that this would be the opening scene for the story. if i post others i'll have to give more context bc most of them are taken from the middle of something. anyway here goes:

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“I love you

I've loved you since the beginning

From when you were only stardust

To when you will rejoin the stars

When everyone will be together again

Understand, you don’t simply live in the universe

You are part of it, taking on a form uniquely alive

You are the universe giving love back to itself

I love you so much”

“Wait!!!”

A lone girl jolts awake, crying a plea into the empty air. Tears stream down her cheeks, as she calls for someone she doesn't know. Her heart aches with a nameless yearning that fades with the memory of her dream. Still, against her will, the emotions linger. A profound sense of love consumes her, an agonizing, grieving love, meant for her. She sighs and wipes away her tears. It was an absurd dream, a ridiculous notion.

As her conscious mind clears, she takes in her surroundings; a forest drowned in the pale blue light of dawn. Her sleeping bag, now encased in dew, was laid on the cold grass. She sits for a while, gazing at the faint sliver of the rising sun’s glow with an indistinct expression, and eventually stands up.

The lone girl begins her daily routine by braiding her hair. With a wave of her hand, she freezes dew on a rock, creating herself a mirror. Her fingers carefully weave her brown locks into a braid, now adorned with a snowflake clip and a scarlet ribbon. She throws on a long blue half-skirt over her shorts, matching her shirt. She forces on a pair of black boots and cuffs on her arm. Lastly, she grabs a moon-themed spear, and she's ready for the day.

Before setting off, she made sure to pack all her belongings, including her numerous hand-drawn maps and a compass. However, she also stops to look into the bag deeper, foolishly expecting to find something new. Instead, she only sighs, "Still no food."

She puts on the backpack and trudges forward anyway, ignoring the hunger pains as best she can. She hums to keep herself distracted.

As she walks, the trees tower above her, shrouding the horizon and taunting her. Birds occasionally fly into view, but seem to disappear in an instant. She wonders if her eyes are playing tricks on her.

The lone girl scribbles on her maps, trying to record a labyrinth of identical tree trunks and twisted paths. This proves useless, as this elliptical forest has her going in circles. Exasperated, she fidgets with her compass, only to see the needle is frantically twitching around. She presses it gently to her forehead and quietly complains, “Don't tell me you're broken…”

Her train of thought was cut short by the sudden sound of running water, so loud she can’t fathom how she’s only now begun to hear it. She decided to put off one problem for another. Following the sound through some shrubs, she quickly finds the source.

Her spear at the ready, she approaches the stream. Scanning its depths for signs of fish, she walks cautiously. Her posture was awkward, her expression was uncertain, betraying her lack of experience. She held her spear to her chest with both arms as she encroached the water’s edge.

She inhales in preparation, removes her skirt and boots, and enters the water with slow, careful steps. The very surface of the stream begins to freeze as it makes contact with her skin. Tiny, thin crystals of ice form as she steps further in. Breathing deeper, as she tries to control the frost, she makes her way to the center of the stream. She stands waiting for fish.

Rather than throwing her spear to hunt, like the intended purpose, she stabs at the water. She’s not good at this, however, and only ends up scaring other potential prey away. She makes several attempts at this but is unsuccessful each time. Refusing to quit, her repeated strikes become more desperate and uncoordinated with each failure. Her growing frustration only makes the water freeze deeper, eventually solidifying around her legs. She yelps, now in a panic, and begins to frantically stab at the ice to free herself.

A mess.

Escaping this ordeal, the lone girl abandons any further attempt at fishing. It probably isn't her calling anyway. She trudges on, lost, wet, cold, and hungry.

She looks at her compass again, her face reflecting in its glass. “You're broken,” she tiredly states, as she feels her eyes begin to well with tears.

“No! No no no! Don't cry! Don't cry Polaris,” The lone girl, Polaris, reassures herself, “Last time you cried you froze your eyelids shut, and that really hurt,” She whines aloud.

Polaris takes a deep breath, slaps her cheeks, and swallows her tears. She elects to follow the river, her only hope of escape, pursuing the promise of a village just beyond this enigmatic forest. She daydreams of a warm meal in a cozy restaurant, and maybe a cold desert too. A glimmer of determination returns to her stride, as she continues her hum from before.

[likablemuffin]

I'm the bad guy aren't I?

(From: The Last One (A sequel to One left)

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It was finally time.

Reni had no idea what day it even was, so it was a pretty big surprise to her when mother came into her room and told her that she was going to fight in the Battle Nexus this day. 

It's not that Reni isn't ready; it's that she wasn't expecting it today.

As Reni steps off of the metal plate that raised her up into the arena, everyone seems kind of confused about who she is since she's never fought in the Battle Nexus before. But they're interested none the less.

"Today we have a new person entering our wonderful Battle Nexus!" The announcer says. "Reni is her name! She is our amazing leader's daughter!" Reni nods slightly to that. Wow, they actually got something right. From what she's heard about the Battle Nexus, they tend to not get facts about people quite right. Impressive.

"She will be going up against four people!" Wait. Hold on. Four?

Reni freezes and looks up at the glass window where Mother is watching. She notices Reni looking at her and nods. 

Four people?

Jeez. Reni knows she's powerful, but not that much...especially because this is her first fight in the Battle Nexus. 

The platform across from her opens up to reveal four yokai. A praying mantis, a fly, a spider, and a moth. Alright. Guess its a group of bug yokai. The audience cheers as the announcer starts counting down. 

"Three!" Reni gets into an attacking position. "Two!" The bugs across from her do the same. "One!" This is it. "GO!!!"

The fly and moth instantly fly up, and the praying mantis and spider stay on the ground. Reni takes one of her axes and throws it at one of the spider's legs. It hits its mark, and the spider screeches as one of its legs gets cut off. The people in the crowd scream as Reni runs up and slips right in between the praying mantis and spider to grab her axe. The praying mantis nicks her cheek slightly, but Reni quickly uses its arm out as an opportunity to grab its arm and throw it across the floor. 

The spider tries to swipe at her with one of its remaining arms, but Reni ducks and slices off that arm too. Gosh. Talk about big and stupid. The spider backs away and holds its second cut-off arm.

The moth swoops down and picks Reni up while the fly takes her axes from her. "Wha!-" Reni manages to say before she gets carried into the air. She tries to struggle out of the moth's grasp, but all of a sudden the moth drops her.

Alright, well, she's quite high above the ground, and there's a very large chance she will break one of her bones if she continues to just fall. 

Guess she's going to have a few broken bones then because there's nothing she can really do except brace herself for the impact. 

As she lands, she can both hear and feel one of her arms break. She restrains herself from screaming out and instead gasps in pain. "Shit-" And just to add insult to injury, the fly yokai flies right above her and drops her two axes. Reni just barely rolls out of the way before the axes can fall on her. She picks one up and lets her broken arm fall to her side as she stands. The moth and fly yokai continue to circle above her in the air while the praying mantis and spider surround her.

Why does this not feel fair?

Reni's breaths come out short and heavy, and she tries her best to not pay attention to the extreme amount of pain that's coming from her arm. She watches the yokai surrounding her, clearly waiting for the perfect time to attack. Suddenly, the praying mantis rushes at Reni from behind her. She was expecting this, though. 

She easily does a backflip over it and lands on its back. It flails around, and Reni struggles to hold on while one of her arms is currently immobile. The moth tries to pick her up again but fails. Once the praying mantis starts to get a bit tired and stops flailing around as hard, Reni chops its head off from behind. Its body falls to the ground limp. Reni tries not to grimace as she watches blood squirt out of the place where its head used to be. If she's going to do any more fights in the Battle Nexus, she's going to have to get used to this.

The spider yokai screeches, and Reni has to quickly jump off of the praying mantis to avoid getting hit. The spider's claws get stuck in the praying mantis's dead body, and the spider freaks out as it tries to get its claws out of its dead friend. Reni takes this opportunity to focus on the flying insects. It gonna be pretty hard to reach them, especially with her broken arm...

Reni decides on trying to throw her axe up at them. What's the worst that could happen? 

Reni throws her axe up as high as she can. It jostles her broken arm, and she winces. The axe hits one of the moth's wings and cuts it off, and it almost instantly falls to the ground. The fly yokai tries to grab Reni's axe before it falls to the ground, but once it sees that Reni is coming up to grab the axe, it quickly flies back up again. Reni picks up the axe from its spot on the ground and approaches the moth yokai. Once it sees her coming, it scurries on its legs to try and escape her as best it can. When Reni keeps following it, it stops and puts its other not-cut-off wing to try and protect itself. Reni chops that one off too.

Then slices its body in half down the middle.

Reni hears the spider yokai finally getting its claws unstuck and turns around to face it. It looks scared as it stares at its other now-dead friend. Reni takes its moment of shock to close the gap between them and cuts off another of its arms. The spider manages to grab one of Reni's arms, though.

The broken one.

Reni can't prevent her scream this time.

Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit

Reni cuts off the spider's arm that's holding hers and stumbles back. The spider's arm is still attached to hers, and she can see that the spider dug its claws into her arm. She rips the arm off of her and throws it at the spider's face. The spider stumbles back. The fly yokai flies down and tries to pick Reni up, but before it can, Reni manages to chop off one of its giant eyes. Its hand instantly comes up to feel where its eye used to be, and it just barely flies out of the way as Reni tries to slice it.

At this point, Reni's arm feels like it's literally on fire; she has a cut on her cheek, and she's quite exhausted. Oh, and also add covered in other people's blood to the list.

Okayyyy, she should probably finish this up...

Reni doesn't care about the pain in her arm as she rushes up and chops off the fly's legs as it's distracted by the fact it's missing an eye. It falls to the ground and tries to get up a few times before Reni chops its head off in one clean swipe. She cringes as warm blood splatters her face. She then turns to the spider (whos missing several arms at this point), and watches as it starts to back away. 

Apparently, the spider decides that the best idea is to try and crawl out of the colosseum.

Obviously, it didn't get too far before Reni started dragging it back down by its hind legs. Reni's pretty sure the spider hissed at her, but with how fucking loud everyone was being, she couldn't be too sure. 

She successfully pulls the spider back into the area and throws it to the ground. Reni suspects that at this point, combined with the loss of several of its limbs and friends, the spider has kind of given up. Maybe it thought that even if it could beat Reni, it would be much harder to live with the few limbs it still has left, and its best friends were all brutally slaughtered so they wouldn't all be able to share the victory with each other. 

Quite pitiful if you ask her.

Reni watches as the spider yokai attempts to back away only a bit before finally just laying down. Reni feels almost....bad? About killing it. 

But she shouldn't think that way because she's not supposed to feel guilty. It will be fine. Just stop being a cry baby and kill it already-

Reni drops to the ground, still holding her axe. Which is imbedded in the spider's throat.

Holy shit.

She just realized what she did.

The crowd goes wild once the spider goes limp, but Reni can barely hear them over the ringing in her ears.

She just killed four people.

Two guards come out from doorways in the arena walls and gently lift Reni to her feet. Reni doesn't even notice when one of them lifts her broken arm. He quickly put it down again once he realized that it was in fact broken. Reni can't stop staring at the dead body in front of her until the guards start to practically drag her out of the arena.

Then she can see the other dead bodies.

The praying mantis's blood is still coming out of its neck, although now more of a trickle, with its head lying close to its limp body. The fly with his head laying almost attached to his body but with a little gap between the head and neck. The head that only has one eye. The moth with its arms held up as if it was begging for mercy. Reni tries not to stare at the organs she can clearly see from where it was chopped right in half. By her-

And finally, the spider. The longest lasting. It almost looked....happy? Maybe it was happy to be able to hang out with its friends again...

Reni stumbles into the medbay and barely notices her arm being set back in place and wrapped. 

She barely notices when she's brought back into her room.

Her knees buckle under her, and she falls to the ground. She starts crying but is still showing no emotion except for horror on her face.

She just killed someone. She killed four someone's.

Someone's who had families. What if they didn't want to be put in the Battle Nexus? What if they were kidnapped and forced to fight? What if they had families who were hoping that they would come home? What if their families watched as the Battle Nexus workers carried their dead bodies out of the arena-

She's such a fucking failure. She...why....

Her shoulders shake with sobs. 

Don't cry, you idiot! Imagine what would happen if mother saw you! You went into the Battle Nexus willingly! No, she didn't; Big Mama forced her to.

Reni needs to stop crying. 

Because she's going to be doing this a lot more.

Yes, she will get used to it.

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[kachimera]

Hugghsigsjfkw why do i rb stuff that upsets me even when its rlly stupid witowgkwotkwk *dissolves into a puddle*

[butchvamp]

this is a long video but it popped up on my feed and i thought it was quite interesting, (she shares some videos in the description too i want to link directly: a shorter video/tiktok summarizing the topic, and another tiktok stitched in response that digs in a little deeper) and is kinda relevant with some of the things i've been talking about with DA, though this discussion is specific to monster romance + "cozy" fantasy and how a lot of these stories use d&d or tolkien as the foundation of their worldbuilding with little thought and without understanding the harmful, racist stereotypes it perpetuates..... and of course these are just prevalent tropes across the fantasy genre as a whole, whether inspired by d&d and tolkien or otherwise (as we've seen in DA). i really like the quote from the substack article she links by Michael LaBron, i feel like it makes it very obvious how these depictions are directly connected: "In the same way that Orcs create a boogy man that justify the hero's violence, sexy Orcs create a monster that the damsel in distress doesn’t actually have to be afraid of."

the other article i shared previously really expanded the first half of that quote with the "civilization versus savages" binary that we see with a lot of fantasy races (orcs, goblins, drow, and qunari in dragon age) but i think this half of the discussion is important to have as well so i just wanted to share. here is the article by Michael LaBron:

and here is this article again too that i shared when talking about dragon age earlier, by Daniel Heath Justice:

i love fantasy, it's my favorite genre, it's what i personally write for myself, and i think learning about and discussing the flaws within the genre are an important and integral part of enjoying it, too, which is why i've been discussing it so much with veilguard, and i wanted to share more examples as this discussion has become relevant in a lot of spaces right now outside of just gaming/RPGs/TTRPGs.

[scionshtola]

not as much as i wanted but still. prog.

[thepandalion]

I'm like. The equivalent of clawing at the walls of my enclosure. Specifically because I have an au idea and I don't want to write it into a fic. Help.

[robitherat]

Genuinely think it's so funny how everyone latched onto "Jay is canonically a gay man" when it was "confirmed" thru an ask to JACKIE who didn't write for the original series and also considering it held literally less than no relevance to the series itself. Like fuck man if I wanna say Jay is a she/they faggot I'm going to it literally doesn't matter. It has no plot relevance and the series came out in 2009. I will make up as many genders for these fuckers as I want to. They're all transfemme now.

[ragnars-tooth]

Medieval/fantasy au be upon ye: the gang reconvenes and discusses their next steps

Oh god, so this one requires me to get into what the hell this au is about and uhhhh I don’t… know?? Yet???

I’ve got some broad sweeps down but the details are for the most part hazy rn

(That got long fast whoopsie!!)

SO:

- The Pennykettles are the royal family, Lucy is the heir. David is not strictly related to Liz or Lucy, but he was raised in proximity to the crown and later made the equivalent to a prince in title (basically, he’s not really royalty, he can’t take the crown, and he doesn’t do anything important, but he is the court’s funny little guy and you will apologise to him rn for hurting his feelings!! He acts as a figurehead in the Pennykettles’ place for some festivals, and is generally well liked by the public despite being dumb as rocks.)

- More on David: he was raised by the monks of Avalon (pushing my Arthur & Bernard agenda on this fine evening), one of which Liz eventually married (take a wild guess).

- The royal line carries down the women, Arthur is basically arm candy. He and Liz are very queer-platonic to me. Their role is to act as ‘ambassadors’ between dragons and humankind. It’s mostly symbolic at this point, as dragons are very respected and mostly left to their own devices. Their perches are treated as holy places where offerings are left, and they don’t bother themselves with humans as long as things continue to roll smoothly.

- (To be clear, Arthur is not Lucy’s father. I may well go with canon’s egg shit because it works maddeningly well here. It is also important to me that you know Arthur is still blind. I will hold this man in my disabled arms mwah you are safe here)

- THE PENNYKETTLE DRAGONS? They’re still here baybey, but REAL ALL OF THE TIME. They’re a small species of living dragons – I haven’t worked out the exact origin story here yet, whether Liz still breathed life into them from something non-living, or if they’re just juveniles that will eventually become as big as Gawaine. We shall see, I suppose. I imagine that they act like very needy cats that attach themselves to their human and follow them about. God I wish I had a little dragon guy.

- The royal library is run by Henry Bacon (HE LIVES. FUCK YOU.) and his apprentice, Zanna Martindale. David also used to apprentice here before being adopted by the crown. It took Zanna a while to get over the boy she used to throw books at and make daisy chains for becoming effectively a prince. They are in love <3 (no Alexa yet, sorry (unless…. Hm, I will get back to you on this…) bc I see David and Zanna being Firestar ages, and Lucy being older than usual at around 16/17)

- Zanna has a vaguely middle-class upbringing (as far as the concept exists), with a doctor/dentist father and an older sister.  (Ngl. Forgot zanna had a real dentist dad and just made henry her father originally. And now to fix it I’m considering marrying them. It would be funny literally only to me. But it Would be funny. Local doctor and librarian have a weird unacknowledged little gay thing going on. Good for them <3)

- I don’t know how but Melanie Cartwright is in there somewhere and she and Lucy are dating. I am right. You will understand the kettlewright agenda by the time im through with you.  

- Lucy is in her teenage angst era but at least this time it’s just sort of silly instead of a result of horrific trauma. She’s just smothered by loving parents and thinks she could totally make it as an independent adult with no survival skills. She is wrong!

- (Lucy voice: God I hate my parents, they keep saying they love me every twelve seconds 🙄 I just want to do normal things like commit property damage and travel cross-country with nothing but a bag of cheese and scare old man Bacon. Instead all I can do is count my stacks of money and play fetch with my fire-breathing cat. This fucking blows!! They never let me do anything fun :/)

- Tam is a wannabe poet who becomes a knight. On his first day after a big promotion he promptly loses the crown’s only princess and decides that the best course of action is to fake his death and live in the forest. I can’t say I blame him.

- During Tam’s self-imposed exile he comes across is stalked by Bella (the catgirl). He finds her very annoying and is not at all her father now. He also hates cats and would never ever pet one and let it fall asleep in his lap. He is a man of principles and sticks to his finely tuned moral compass. By lying. And running away.

- Regarding Lucy’s disappearance – it was her way of getting away for a bit for fun only child shenanigans, but ultimately ends in her (crown princess, very recognisable, her face is on like. Everything.) getting kidnapped for real.

- Unbeknownst to Tam, David had also disappeared during official business, and Zanna is nowhere to be found. The crown is left in a precarious place, and it soon appears to be under real threat.

- Spoilers: Voss is about, and there is a lot he’s willing to take.

- On lighter notes: Gwilanna and the Chamberlain boys are absolutely still in this because I am so fucking predictable. Tootega come here I can treat you so much better mwah mwah. Well… maybe Gwilanna isn’t a lighter note. But she is there! This will have no consequences on anyone or anything, I’m sure! :3

PLEASE DEAR GOD ASK ME QUESTIONS IF YOU HAVE THEM. I swing violently between wanting to give every single plot detail rn and wanting to go write the actual fic so things can be revealed ✨mysteriously✨

[cubedmango]

love how i could tell a waikorn moment happened in the ep before i even watched it bc that one meme i drew started getting notes again

[meejijis]

If I had a nickle for every time I got into a severely niche canon ships that has the trope gentle girl x brooding boys with spiky hair all while being the most lonely diehard shipper ever for both of these ships, I'd have two nickels

Which isn't alot but it's weird that it happened twice

[viscerasmoothie]

its that anon- sorry for the confusion 😭 i also have audhd so i get it. its fine its not really private. my user is/was FazbearFright_Lover if that makes any difference? but yeah i hope you’re doing good

WAIT HUH

I don't even know what to say LMAO my brain is exploding

I expected someone whos username I never heard of but no it's you but in a good way wHAT

/lh for literally everything above this cus I'm insecure and irrationally afraid of upsetting people

[cherrylight]

le sighs and screams loudly into my hands