#if that wasn’t made clear

[curbhitter]

Me? Taking a bath? And drinking sparkling water out of a wine glass that has a lip gloss mark on it because I wanted to achieve the epitome of fancy and leave a lip gloss mark on my wine glass that has sparking water in it?

Significantly more likely than you think.

[shes-got-the-best-stories]

some of y’all took abbot’s line of “that being a little too risky to do myself” too seriously. this man has been telling jokes with a straight face and no emotion the last three-ish hours

[dreamings-free]

I’m new and I gather most of Louis’ fans loathe Chris Frewin - can you bring me up to speed on what he’s done please!? Many thanks

oh dear.. well yeah Chris’ big terrible "crime" is - and you’ll think I’m joking.. - being one of Louis’ managers. apparently an alarmingly large part of this fandom live in some kinda fantasy land (/2015) where all management is "bad" and where it’s not weird ass behaviour to be hating on everyone louis chooses to work with… 🙃

anyway Chris is employed by Seven 7 and part of Louis’ management team. he has previously worked as a marketing talent manager at Syco (he left when louis left in 2020) and then briefly as talent manager at an agency called 84 World before joining Seven 7 and Louis’ team in mid-2021.

other than that we really know very little about him. he’s around a lot when Louis is working, be it promo, tour or in the studio. but Louis also seems to enjoy his company even when he isn’t working so.. make your own conclusions. in my opinion people who "loathe" him are ridiculous. but hey if anyone can give me an actual legitimate reason to dislike him.. my inbox is open.

[skywalkr-nberrie]

Trying to undermine why Anakin’s last trigger into going full Vader was the possibility of Padmé dying isn’t going to help your reading comprehension.

[one-hit-boy-wonder]

I THOUGHT that it was my stupid southern accent fucking up my pronouceation again and that normal people prounced it Bat-son like some Southern Californian generic fucks BUT NO Batsin is the correct pronunciation. So instead of joking about him being Batman’s son instead people should be joking about a guy named sin protecting the seven deadly sins!!

[lycandrophile]

I bet the transfem tag doesn’t have half as much transmasc porn deliberately tagged wrong as the transmasc tag has transfem porn

For every transmasc post I see there’s two porn accounts to block

Just pisses me off. I want to see posts about transmascs!!!

while i think you are probably right about the fact that there isn’t going to be as much transmasc porn in the transfem tag (though i can’t say i’m 100% certain, it’s not like i’ve ever scrolled through both tags and actually counted) and i do find the amount of porn in our tags frustrating, i want to talk a bit about the way this issue is being framed.

the thing you have to remember about porn bots is that you can’t think of them as real people. the whole point of them is to make money by pushing those links into popular tags so as many people see them as possible. they want people to click the link, so they show it to as many people as they can. so when you see these posts, you have to keep in mind that there’s not an individual person sitting behind a screen making specific decisions about whose tags to fuck over or what kind of porn to advertise, those decisions are most likely made based on some sort of algorithm designed to make as much money as possible.

so let’s think about it critically — why might we be seeing so much transfem porn in transmasc tags?

well, a lot of these bots are probably using our tag because tumblr has a lot of transmascs who use those tags. the trans communities on different sites are going to have different demographics, and if you’ve ever seen a poll going around with different choices for transmascs and transfems, you’ve seen just how dramatic the difference in numbers on here can be. these bots are targeting our tags because there are a lot of us here and we tend to be very active which means the bots have a better chance of getting clicks, not because an actual person decided they wanted to fuck over our tags specifically.

and why does the porn tend to be transfem porn? i can’t say for sure, but i’ll tell you my theories. first of all, i’m guessing these bots are using trans porn because tumblr has a lot of very active trans tags, and they probably take that into account — they assume that people in trans tags are more likely to want trans porn. the tag matches the link’s key words in that way, so that’s what their formula for getting clicks thinks we want to see. and i’m guessing it’s transfem porn specifically because there’s just more of that — transfem porn is much easier to find than transmasc porn, and it’s also probably seen as a better bet for these bots because being more popular means more people will want to click it. and that doesn’t stem from people preferring transfems over transmascs or anything like that, it stems from the rampant fetishization of transfems. these accounts aren’t actual transfem sex workers choosing to put their content in the transmasc tags, they’re bots doing what they think is going to make money. they don’t care how transfems feel about it being used and they don’t care how transmascs feel about seeing it instead of what we were actually looking for.

so while i absolutely share your frustration with our tags being overrun with porn, i don’t like how the issue has been framed by a lot of people as a transmasc vs transfem issue. i get how on the surface, it seems like our tags are having more of a problem with it and that must be for a reason, but the reason doesn’t actually have anything to do with our identities — it has everything to do with what bots think is the best way to get us to click their links.

this problem has nothing to do with transmasc vs transfem, and everything to do with the fact that tumblr won’t take care of its bot problem. if you want to get mad at someone for the fact that you can’t see the content you’re looking for without wading through countless porn bots, that’s where your anger should be going: toward the site that hasn’t done anything about it.

i wanted to lay this all out because while you didn’t explicitly blame transfems for this issue in your ask (you more so just said they don’t have to deal with it to the degree we do), i’ve seen posts with a similar tone that do imply that transfems are somehow behind this issue, and that honestly frustrates me more than the issue itself. blaming transfems for this isn’t fair to them — this is a bot issue, not an issue with real people on the site — and it also doesn’t do us any favors because it makes people less likely to take us seriously when we talk about things that are actually specifically targeting our community spaces.

and even though you didn’t take that explicit blaming stance in your ask, i think this issue being brought up as a “transmasc issue” at all reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of exactly why it happens the way it does. so i want this to serve as a reminder that when we have a conversation about something in our community, we have to think critically about the way we’re framing that conversation and make sure we have a good understanding of the root of the problem at hand.

because this really isn’t an issue that should be framed as transmasc vs transfem. i’m sure it’s not any less frustrating for transfems to see porn that fetishizes their bodies plastered all over the site than it is for us to have to dig through that porn to find the content we’re looking for. and it’s not really an issue that has anything to do with the fact that the tags are for transmascs at all. you say someone is deliberately mistagging into our tags, but it’s deliberate on a level that has nothing to do with the individual tags being used.

if we want to have conversations about the ways transmascs are uniquely mistreated, that comes with a responsibility to make sure the things we talk about are actually examples of a unique form of mistreatment and not symptoms of a totally different issue. we have to be careful not to pick the wrong battles, especially if doing so could artificially pit us against transfems who haven’t actually done anything wrong.

i worry that the struggles we’ve had in making our voices heard within our community have made some of us start to see our transfem sisters and siblings as the enemy by default, so i want to strongly caution everyone contributing to these conversations to think deeply about how you’re framing what you’re saying and if it’s actually appropriate before suggesting that any particular issue is a matter of transmascs vs transfems. there are definitely situations where the root of the issue is lateral aggression or intracommunity conflict, but this isn’t one of them and the fact that so many people have interpreted it that way really doesn’t reflect well on us.

i’m just as annoyed by the porn bots in our tags as the next guy, but this isn’t the way to go about having that conversation.

[5rozebub5]

Am I the only one that has serious trouble finding good Batfamily fics that include Steph and Duke but don’t include them getting/already being randomly adopted by Bruce for no reason?

Like I have no problem with that headcanon, it’s literally what fanfic is for, this isn’t meant to be criticism. I just don’t personally agree with it and it is very often not tagged whatsoever

[sommerregenjuniluft]

jirgin chronicles and i just think james' fat heavy cock shld be gripped and shaken gently while reg asks him what this stupidly big cock can do. he's always gently slapping it against his tongue, grinding down against it, teasing the tip by almost letting it breach him but never quite so. rest in fucking pieces to james whose orgasms are mainly bc of teasing

OH THE WAY MY JAW JUST *DROPPED* ino wtf JKFSKKFKSLLFLD

“so big it’s almost ridiculous, huh? and never even used it for anything good,” regulus tuts, eyes crossing as he focuses back on the tip. james cant help the embarrassing noise crawling up the length of his throat, cock twitching in regulus’ palm. “oh?” regulus makes, his mouth ticking up at the corner and james whimpers. he’s having way too much fun making a fool of james. and james is liking it a tremendous amount. “yknow jamie,” regulus purrs, letting his bottom lip slide along his frenulum, “a weapon is only useful when you know how to handle it.” “reg, please,” james groans. he’s achingly hard and while regulus is touching him it doesnt do anything to help the throbbing thats currently pumping all the blood out of james’ brain and into his cock where he’s so, so close to regulus. it’s like regulus’ tongue is a magnet and it’s attracting all the little iron molecules in james’ body. but regulus doesn’t seem to be listening, leaning in to gather the copious amount of precum from james’ cockhead with the tip of his tongue. he hums when it’s back in his mouth. then he looks right at james and lets it dribble all over his cock again, spitting it back out, along his own saliva. the warm slick slides down james’ head and over and between regulus slim fingers. just barely, probably on accident, it makes regulus tug on james. just the slightest upwards motion. james thighs shake in an instant, throaty moan tumbling out of him and regulus watches big eyed as james loses control over his body. he’s twitching and breathing frantically, lower lip wobbling and his head is so fucking dizzy. without breaking eye contact regulus sticks out his tongue flat and slaps james’ cockhead against it. james keens, white knuckling the sheets at his sides and shuddering every time his head hits the spongy wet warm of regulus’ tongue. james wants to curse but regulus’ lips are straining around a grin. he looks so happy and satisfied, and james wants to be good, so all he can do is let himself be used to whatever degree regulus sees fit. even if that means losing his fucking mind. half an hour later james’ brain feels like it’s actively leaking out if his ears when regulus is sitting in his lap completely bare, kissing him breathless and grinding his slick core down over james hardness from time to time. it’s coarse hair and so much fucking wetness and james cant even concentrate because regulus’ tongue is demanding his attention. at some point regulus tucks james’ head down against his neck and tells him to suck and then he’s really frotting against james. sighing happily as james bites and sucks marks into his neck and grinding down on his erection like it’s his personal toy. he’s letting james catch on the entrance every so often, making james’ hips buck and search for more, for regulus’ tight heat but every damn time regulus lets him slip back out with a giggle and a low moan when he drags his small cock along james’ length again instead. it only takes a handful of minutes until james is grunting and stuttering through a groan as he ejaculates between the two of them. as soon as regulus clocks that he lifts up on his knees and simply watches as james’ cock kicks in feeble spurts, cum dribbling all over himself.

[torchlitinthedesert]

It’s weird how narratives stick around, even after they’ve been debunked. Philip Norman’s Shout!, hugely influential as the first “serious” Beatles bio, is now seen as biased. Norman himself has climbed down, admitting that as a John stan he was unfair to both Paul and George. (I don’t think he’s apologised to Ringo yet, but no doubt that will come when he needs the money and decides to do a Ringo biography.)

So when Norman writes Paul joining the Quarrymen, he’s bitchy about it: carefully deploying quotes to say that Paul was big-headed, he was catty, he bitched about how the others played, he was a Machiavellian plotter. When you compare it to interviews or memoirs from the surviving Quarrymen, it becomes clear that Norman was cherrypicking; they’ve got good and bad things to say about John, Paul, George, and each other, including plenty of positive memories of Paul. I’ve certainly seen posts debunking Norman by comparing sources (or just by giggling over his image of Paul as bossy baby diva.)

But that still frames the early days in Norman’s terms: it’s still asking Precisely How Annoying Was Teenaged Paul McCartney? The story you don’t get, and which is surprisingly rare in Beatle narratives, is this one: Paul joined the Quarrymen, and transformed its musical standards (not least by bringing in George). He joined a ramshackle skiffle group whose lead singer couldn’t tune his guitar and whose two guitarists could only play in banjo chords. Next thing you know, they’re the kind of band whose members will go on multi-bus odysseys across Liverpool in search of a new chord.

Acknowledging that isn’t belittling John. Just the opposite: it shows just how exciting and inspiring he must have been. Paul and George were music nerds, and Liverpool was full of baby skiffle and rock’n’roll groups. They had plenty of other options. But no, John’s was the band they wanted to join. John’s charisma was enough to make Paul rebel against family expectations, and George accept a leader who was quick and slapdash about things that George would devote long, hard hours to getting exactly right. Paul and George’s talent and dedication were enough to make John buckle down and rehearse. And they all thought it was worth it.

It also set up a pattern for how they would work together. Just as they’d sought out that B7 chord, George and Paul went right on exploring new sounds - Indian music for George, electronic music for Paul. And having found them, they offered them to John. So George’s sitar first appears in Norwegian Wood, Paul’s tape loops in Tomorrow Never Knows.

Later still, when John’s insecurities kicked in, he was uncomfortable with that. He insisted to interviewers that he’d written the Norwegian Wood riff, or complained that he should have stuck with his original idea of chanting monks for Tomorrow Never Knows. But again, it doesn’t devalue John to recognise the others’ contributions. It shows how he inspired them, how the Beatles worked as a unit, how they made each other better. (Can you imagine George offering the sitar to Paul first, or Paul suggesting the tape loops made their first appearance on a George song? I can’t.) Ignoring what Paul and George gave John is to ignore a big chunk of what made John special.

Anyway, I’m almost tempted to read Shout!, just to see how often Norman’s spite is a distraction tactic to stop you noticing Paul, George, or Ringo doing something important.

[wishchip106]

“What? He didn’t tell you?”

future Erik is really not helping change Charles’s opinion on him of being a monster and a liar 😔

“It’s always the same with you, Erik. You never change.”

damn 🙁

[rippeanuts1950-2000]

so i was looking at henry danger stuff for nostalgia on YouTube. and uh, look at this

tf you mean they added charlotte to Henry’s relationship timeline

Nickelodeon just loves messing with people don’t they

[thebaldursmouthgazette]

All of you making complaints about “bad writing” in the game that is actually an unreliable narrator/set up for a plot twist/a natural progression over the decades we’ve been in this world/a plot point being explored/something you literally just missed sound exactly like my dad whenever I try to watch anything with him and he complains about plot holes that dont exist and are just him not paying attention or not letting the story play out to the point where it’s explained btw

[nionom-art]

Hey there! First off, I'm gonna say that I love your AU and some of your designs (Peacock! Marinette for example, it's so original after seeing the same "Elegant party clothes with blue skin" a lot of times), and secondly, it's gonna give me some inspiration to my MLB AU!

Now with the quesitons:

1) Lila it's going to have a redemption arc? Just wanna be prepared if we have another "Scarlet Lady Case" (a lot of fans triggering beacuse Chloe it's not redeem).

2) How are the sentimonsters gonna work? Like canon or with some changes?

And 3) Have you gonna have a favorite chapter to adapt to your au? And if it's the case, you will have a hated chapter that you are gonna rewritte at some point?

Sorry for this amount of text, but then again, thanks!

Thank you so much!!! Peacock!Marinette has to be one of my favorite designs I’ve done too- I’m glad so many of you guys seem to like it too!

1. Just getting it out of the way now- I am not planning on redeeming Lila (she will have a character arc, just not a redemption arc). That’s saved for a different character. Lila will be her regular delightful self for the duration of the comic, lol

2. As for how sentimonsters work in my au- It’s a surprise :) I have some expansions on cannon I want to explore (I’m excited!)

3. I’m really excited for Kagami- I love her character so much!! I don’t have a hated character necessarily, but I will say that a few of them are being difficult to write (Zoe, Luka, and Gabriel particularly)

[hulloitsdani]

What do u think Kiran is

How do u think the order sees kiran

*slowly sits up in my chair*

I think Kiran is a very normal person. This is someone you and I have met before. Be that from the other side of grocery store cashier, waiting in the same elevator, or walking by on a crosswalk. Kiran is a civilian from our world trying to roll with the punches of being warped somewhere completely alien. And you can see it in how they conduct themselves.

I always have a lot of fun writing Kiran’s dialogue because their casual modern speech almost feels like a dialect in comparison to the more formal fantasy tone everyone else speaks with. An “ain’t” will never exit Alfonse’s mouth, you know? And there’s a difference in “Do you have gold?” vs “You got gold?” To me, this gives Kiran an air of unfamiliarity to anyone they interact with. Let’s use Grima as an example, because it doesn’t sound like this grammatical change would make much of difference until Kiran has the audacity to hit Grima with a bro mid sentence. But that’s just how they talk. And as sweet and friendly as they are, there’s always moments like that to remind that no one has the cultural context to fully understand Kiran. Except for the audience, who can realize that Kiran let the customer service voice drop to talk to Grima like he’s an actual person.

And that’s just about how they talk! This view is only emphasized by every other thing about them! They’re a lovable goof, which is normal chill person behavior in the audience’s eyes but feels REALLY ODD to the characters of FE’s medieval fantasy war setting. There is this air of unknown about them that the more socially perceptive will pick up on and will try to come to a conclusion about. Example, I imagine Soren would interpret a lot of this as a dangerous and deeply annoying lack of intelligence from someone he has the displeasure of sharing a tactics table with. Or looping back to the Grima example, he would totally think Kiran has greedy ulterior motives behind that pleasant facade. It takes a lot of work for those types to realize that the discrepancy present isn’t really any of those things. But I also wouldn’t be too surprised if Kiran doesn’t try to directly prove any of those assumptions wrong unless they have to.

Why? Well now it’s time for the implications! Oh how we love the implications.

Because the Summoner is a different story. No one has any fucking clue what that is.

I can tell you what Kiran has pieced together so far. Summoning people from across time and space is apparently not easy. It’s not some school of magical study that some mage could pull off with enough time and research. Trust, Eitri tried. It’s a lot of complex moving parts. For example, the contracts. The contracts Kiran automatically binds their summoned to don’t even compare to the ones Veronica used in book 1. They are far more intense and infinitely harder to break. The only way out of them is if Kiran wills it so. Not even death is an option, because Kiran can come in for the revive. If they had to guess, it’s an older, more completed version of the art. Something lost to time. But no matter the case, Kiran has the ability to take full control of whoever they manage to summon. From a lowly farmer to the divine. And their power only grows.

In a similar vein, if there was any character to canonically see the hud, I think it would be Kiran. It’s genuinely part of their power set. I have previously described Kiran as the party mage until Veronica shows up to be the actual mage, but it would be way more accurate to call them a mystic/seer. They see the map, everyone’s stats, and is doing a fast amount of math to give the combat forecast. Then, upon processing all this information their enemies couldn’t dream of having at their disposal, Kiran can telepathically communicate any change in plans to anyone under contract. Kiran is not inherently some great tactician the moment they touch ground in Askr; they simply can do things no one else can. They’re learning the actual tactics part on the fly. This makes them simultaneously the largest ace up the Order’s sleeve and potentially its biggest liability. If they fall, it could cause a whole system cascade. By that same token, some of the biggest threats the Order has faced are the ones who do their research and rightfully target Kiran.

Now. Thinking critically about all that. That’s downright terrifying. A ridiculous amount of power has been dropped callously into Kiran’s lap and they have to work extremely hard to be moral with it. It’s terrifyingly easy not to be. It would actively take less effort to ‘take the reins’ as it were. But in order to be able to sleep at night ever again, they go the extra mile to not invalidate the will of their summoned. To take over like that. To make a colony of worker bees out of people. Because oh dear god they just summoned a child and the fact that they could easily force them to fight and die for them, only to be revived and do it all over again, is HAUNTING. No. No the Order has an in house orphanage now. This kid is getting adopted and cared for god damnit or Kiran might just pop a blood vessel. And sure that child is going to be a child and there will never be a world where they get along with everyone else, but that’s just going to need be a problem they address when they get there and not an excuse to use Hubris; the power set. Now replace the word child with everyone they ever summoned and you have the wider philosophy they apply to the entire Order.

They’re hyper aware of the power imbalance. They hate it with every bone in their body. They work really hard to correct it in whatever way they can.

So Kiran might not jump on the opportunity to correct those who think lesser of them. It’s… oddly comforting to know someone is keeping a critical eye on them. Holding them accountable. Especially since so much of the order just thinks of them as this quirky yet well meaning host. And, really, what can they even do about that? They have gone over the contract with every hero they summon and despite that they still choose to stay. So, what, do they try to inspire more mistrust? The problem with that they would have to actually do acts that intentionally inspire mistrust. And even if that was successful they can’t just waste the extra man power because every other month there’s some new divine asshole who wants them all dead. And if they fail that means they have to start their life from square one and god they can’t do that again so—

Just breathe Kiran.

It’s fine. You’re fine. Just breathe.

You have work to do.

[sylver-drawer]

So many Novel Athy lovers complain about how people hate on Novel Athy because she’s selfish, meanwhile I hate Lee Jihye because she dehumanizes people around her and that skews her perception of others and the situations she’s in, all while inheriting Claude’s tendency of preferring her image of [other people] rather than trying to acknowledge the real [them].

It took her eighteen years to realize she generalizes the people around her as one-dimensional characters instead of human beings (seen passively through how she treats the original cast of LP, and people she sees as mob characters like nameless and faceless nobles and girls she invites to her OWN parties), but she doesn’t dwell on or try to change that part of her, or how she treats them.

[hawkeshep]

kinda sucks that I couldn’t play datv long enough to see the solavellan reunion but oh well