#ik this is not especially interesting

[halfdeadwallfly]

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heyy!!!!!!! Ok so I promised acappella (did i? .... eh) so! I'm basically gonna take this as my chance to rant about my group and my friends <3333 (if this does end up being too annoying, genuinely i'm sorry, i just get excited abt it too much and i like talking abt it l o l )

ok so BASICALLY i am in this acappella group at my school, and we have 13 different ones so some of them have different themes so my group does music from movies, tv series, video games, and musicals [AND!!!!!!! something i recently proposed----- podcasts hehehehehhee bc i have sooooooooo many podcast song suggestions for our rep] anyway there's like 18 of us and it's really fun and everyone is just so lovely and kind. (i promise i'm not gonna talk abt everybody, just the ppl i'm like closest with)

the person who's probably the closest friend i've made so far in college is also an alto, and i love her so much, she's so wonderful. she's sort of boisterous and really caring and a very good actor. she's super nice just to chill with, and at the same time it's always so much fun talking to her. once at rehearsal during an audition i was having a tic attack and she noticed what was going on and said that she could help me out if i needed it, which was so weird but nice bc most of the time when i'm having tics, ppl aren't mean exactly but they definitely don't really know what's going on. she also has an AMAZING singing voice, and she did a killer solo on I'm Still Standing our first semester there. she's just so beautiful and the kind of person that you feel comfortable around just by the way she is

when i was running for music director, there was another freshman that was running for the job as well, which was stressful but also-- really so cool, bc she's so smart and talented and experienced, and so vibrant like just as a person too. she also has a killer singing voice (ofccccc) and the most expressive, commanding performance energy. when the rest of the group was discussing who they wanted to vote for (our group in particular amongst the thirteen is infamous for discussions) we were both super nervous!! and hanging out in the hallway talking about our goals for the group, and we both have so many of the same ideas about stuff like vowels and dynamics and like general technique, it's just been so exhilerating to get to talk to her and know her! i really hope that in the next election she runs again so we can work together officially!!! she's also an artist and her art is so good :DDD

ok last person i'm gonna go in detail abt---- my co-md, who i actually did not really like when i joined the group. just sort of like did not vibe with him initially, but getting to spend more time with him i actually really do enjoy talking to him and hanging around, esp now that we're working together! it's been a stressful semester acappella-wise due to a sudden and weird resignation from our former long term md, but me and him preparing to take over now that our remaining md graduated, it's honestly just been so fun. he's so smart at music theory, and i feel like our different strengths just work really well together when we're leading. one of the things i was most stressed abt in becoming md was having to take charge, esp as an underclassman leading upperclassmen, but he's been so open to all my thoughts and suggestions, and whenever i'm feeling anxious abt getting people's attention or being too pushy, he makes sure everyone is on the same page, which i think is really nice. we had group karaoke once and we sang teenagers by mcr together lol

anyway so now i'm going into my first official semester as co-md with a killer new rep selection, with one song that i'm co arranging which is so exciting!!!!! i just really love everyone i've met in acappella and every bit of music we've put together.

[erinwantstowrite]

why did tim dismiss his suspicions on dr connor like that in chapter 12 ?

this is a REALLY good question so I started yapping!! spoilers for Red Robin and for LoF under the cut :3

for those not familiar with Batfam Lore (which is perfectly alright!!), Bruce went missing in "the timestream" last year (in LoF). He was believed to be dead and during that time, Tim was the only Bat that believed he was alive. (this is a very nuanced subject because everyone's perspective during that time isn't inherently wrong.) Tim was not believed and it caused a huge fight between Tim and Dick, mostly because Dick gave the mantle of Robin to Damian and told Tim that he wanted to "be his equal"

in my opinion, Dick had a good sentiment but with the wrong timing and handling of it. Tim doesn't do "equals" very well, and he was mourning the man he considers his father, at the time. he thought that Dick and he were going to be Batman and Robin together, and the expectation was thrown away. Then, when Tim suggested that Bruce was still alive, Dick became very worried that Tim was going off the deep end. Which is also a valid concern because Tim was isolating himself from everyone at that time. Steph had faked her death and not told Tim, Kon and Bart had both died. He was NOT doing so well.

That's why he had the fight with Dick and he left Gotham. He went across the world, searching for evidence that Bruce was alive in the timestream. Tim has a tendency to keep things close to his chest (tendency is a loose term, because at his core, this is what Tim is) and from what I can tell, this incident did not fix things.

In LoF (because here, we care about character development), when Bruce came back, the dynamic shifted in the family. Everything was different, Tim wasn't his Robin anymore, he didn't get to see Damian grow into a great Robin, Dick had to be Batman, etc. They have actually talked things out and the family is doing better than before, and have been in a long time. But Tim still keeps things to his chest.

Like how he discovered that Peter was from an alternate dimension. Tim admits in (chapter 9? I think? maybe chapter 10) that it wasn't because of Damian's smug attitude about figuring out he's Spider-Man, but mostly because he wanted to collect evidence and get his theory laid perfectly out. That way the others would believe him. Tim struggles with this even though he knows that his family is trying.

So when Peter says something that appears very contradictory (they have no reason to believe that Dr. Connors isn't Mysterio), Tim says that he believes him. Even if Tim is doubtful and will be creating contingency plans and theories about Dr. Connors anyway, he chooses to believe Peter. He saw that it was distressing Peter and wanted him to know they were on his side. So even if Peter turns out to be wrong about Dr. Connors, he had someone in his corner

[jaggedpeak]

anyone else think about these two and get really really really sad

[qprpbj]

cw about ponyboy and his suicidal thoughts/ideation under the cut re: deaths at my door/throwing in the towel staging and my lil opinions!!!!

tonight i am thinking about how the staging & connotations of deaths at my door vaguely implies pony contemplating suicide/having suicidal thoughts (or. idk that’s how i read it anyway) particularly provoked by the lines like “i swear that [death] it’s following me / death’s shadow is long and it grows all around me ” “you should move on / you’d be better off without me” etc and how he fiddles and stares down with his open switchblade the entire song, held tight in his hand till the end when johnny convinces him to close the blade and finally hand it over, finalized by johnny holding pony’s hand/shoulder and grounding him

this is Particularly insane to me because not five minutes later, the next time we see pony, it’s him still upstage singing the final verse to throwing in the towel with darry and soda, the highest harmony, which reads like “this is the darkest hour of the darkest night / looking overhead, you don’t see no light / […] there ain’t no letting go” and “that’s what love is all about […] / there ain’t no throwing in the towel”.

pony’s night of contemplating suicide in deaths at my door is his literal self-proclaimed “darkest hour of the darkest night” but it’s his brothers and family — johnny who talks him down, and soda & darry’s spirit he can still feel within him — that save him and convince him not to “throw in the towel”. which, of course, is directly paralleling soda talking darry down from doing the same damn thing (i could talk for Ages about how parallel of characters pony and darry are, but that’s. an entirely different Thing).

idk i just think it’s SO interesting that they have pony sing this verse with both of them right after DAMD bc that literally quite WAS his “darkest hour of the darkest night”, in fact it very well could’ve been his final hour of his final night, but he was talked down and convinced by family and love and brotherhood that he fuckin needs to be here still. that he’s got people who love him, people who need him, and he can’t give up on them and leave them alone because they never gave up on him, not even when things got unimaginably hard or when they felt like “giving out” with their “heads full of doubt” etc. yk. idk sorry this is probably sooo incoherent but. idk i just have so many thoughts about ponyboy ughhh

[fizzlewizard404]

I genuinely cannot wait to see these two respectively have horrible mental/emotional meltdowns somehow

[playgroundeyes]

nothing hits as hard as watching an unhinged 1 hour 20 min video essay / powerpoint presentation on petekey lore at nearly midnight

[frogsare-friends]

shoutout to all my aros and arospecs not celebrating valentine's day!! and shoutout to all my aros and arospecs celebrating valentine's day!! and shoutout to all the aspecs that aren't celebrating valentine's day!! and all the aspecs that are!!

[dollfishu]

How Demons Sleep ~ 

Right to Left: 

Oni Eiko - Murmur Tsumuru - Garp Goemon - Agares Picero - Furfur - Crocell Kerori - Leviathan Leiji - Balam Shichiro - Balse Robin - Ifrit Djinn Eito - Vine Garson

My Rough Translation:

- STANDARD:

Caps to protect horns. 

There are some devils who use earmuffs and covers to protect parts of their face. The bed and pillows are generally large, as the wings, tail, and body may get deformed due to different sleeping positions.

- HAMMOCK:

Popular because of its floating feeling. Recommended for uninhibited demons. Many demons lay out their favorite things in it. There are holes through which feathers and tails can pass. 

- Garp's Face Cover:

Handmade face cover used so as not to accidentally flip the face hair.

- Agares's Shisho Bed:

A blissful fluffy bed that only the Agares family is allowed to have.

- Tail-wrapping Type:

Wraps his/her tail around the whole body. Excellent sense of security.

(This is Sergeant Furfur)

- Water Tank (Reiji):

For demons that live in the water. High-end products.

Commonly used for sleeping in oceans and rivers, but often used for sleeping on land. Reiji's is a fully-equipped, ultra-luxury water tank.

- Ice Beds:

(Kerori and Chima)

A cool bed in the Crocell family. Handmade by the mother. Made of ice that never melts.

- Burning Cradle (Ifrit):

Sleeps in a fire that burns all night long.

An excellent product that can be used many times by simply re-lighting it.

- Nest Faction (Balam):

Made of tree branches and dead grass. Sleeps by wrapping himself with his own feathers. Basic cross-legged posture.

- Robin:

Sleeps on flowers and grass.

Sleeps in trees.

- Crucible Faction (Vine):

Poison jar. No.1 in attack resistance (meaning it is difficult for anyone to attack Vine when he is in the jar.) Favored by demon clans that are resistant to poisons. Some clans sleep in poison swamps.

[iicaru2]

it’s very likely that atsushi’s parents didn’t even name him. he was abandoned at the orphanage as a baby, supposedly in awful condition, (according to the headmaster, “this hardly counts as abuse compared to what your parents did to you in your infancy”) and during his years in the orphanage he was referred to as “number 78” because no one knew what his name was, or if he even had one. they didn’t bother to name him or anything, he was just a number, and a child that was locked in a cage so he couldn’t kill the livestock kept in the orphanage, and bullied by all the other kids. the orphanage did everything possible to dehumanize atsushi up until they threw him out at 18.

we can’t even be sure his name is atsushi. it’s highly unlikely anyone from the orphanage named him, so did he pick it himself? if so, when, and how? i know the meta reason is he’s named after the author of the same name, but i can’t stop thinking about him. like what the hell.

[raining-its-pouring]

Rereading Moon’s pearl dialogue and it’s all so good. I genuinely don’t get how people think she’s boring she’s so expressive in them.

[new-austin]

I really enjoyed a lot about Taash's personal quest, it was one of the quests that made me cry. But I wish there was a way to have Taash embrace being multicultural like you can at the beginning of their quest. Being from multiple cultures shouldn't mean you have to choose either or. I wish you weren't forced to have them choose like that.

[foreverxdaydreaming]

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[babacontainsmultitudes]

beloved besties, please rb and tell me in the tags which dndads character from each generation you relate to the most (that is, which of the S1 dads, which of the kiddads, and which of the teens) 💜

[aeolianblues]

it is literally not about legality, if you’re in your late 30s literally what are you hitting up 21 y/os for. Don’t you have investments to make.

[struck-by-the-rain]

annoyed that I'm missing out on such a big chunk of incredible beautifully made impactful media because I'm such a weak goo goo ga ga baby around horror