#im gonna read it and do it justice

[moonys-chocolate28]

I decided to go on a journey and start reading crimson rivers. Was this a sane choice? Maybe. Or maybe I just don't have anything to do and am looking for some angst. No matter, we'll see how it goes. I'll be back with updates. Trust.

[nonbinoclard]

a conversation on the coast (original fanfic + inspiration)

[choccy-milky]

eloise for my fellow gremlin girlie @myokk!! so happy to have your beautiful traditional art in this fandom and that i got to see clora in it as well 💖😭😭and since it was your art of clora that inspired me to do the HL charas in ghibli style, ofc i had to give eloise the same treatment 🥰 (and ive discovered that drawing fat puffy braids in ghibli style is SOOO satisfying, highly recommend😋👌👌)

[crimeronan]

my most irritating severance theory is that "gemma" was never real and that she's a carbon copy of dichen lachman's character in dollhouse, who was a tabula rasa woman living in a hole that could be programmed with different personalities to fuck rich clients. i'm like 99% sure this is what "exports" are -- it's lumen shipping pre-downloaded sexbots with custom human personalities out to people. and/or using those sexbots for the company's own manipulative agenda.

in keeping with this, the entire relationship and """death""" and subsequent soulshattering grief were all painstakingly manufactured by lumen to get mark scout to sever himself, because for some fucking reason, he's the only one who can complete project cold harbor, whatever the Fuck that is. (i have not been in any theory tags and do not have any ideas about what it is or why mark s is special. or even IF he's special.)

then once mark finds out that gemma isn't real, his feelings for and about her will vanish in an uncomplicated puff of smoke. he will become miraculously free to continue his deeply fucked-up """love triangle""" with the helltwins without needing to answer any complicated questions about, like, the self, and his emotions, and his commitments, and polyamory.

(the helltwins don't count as complicated relationship dynamics because they are the same person, aside from not being the same person, and they hate each other, and also most importantly, mark absolutely Does Not Want to fuck one of them. hurrah!)

this theory irritates the fuck out of me bc i really do think i'm right about gemma. and this "twist," as a way to avoid any interesting themes, would be the laziest, most boring thing they could Possibly do.

i am on my fucking Knees praying to god that they KNOW this is the laziest, most boring thing they could possibly do. Please, God, If You Love Me. Please. Please Don't .

...

HOWEVER.

i WILL accept the lumon-engineered-a-sexbot-relationship-to-coerce-mark-into-severance plot, IF and ONLY if:

gemma is a person.

not like, gemma is a human being whose outie parents aren't actors. i mean, gemma is an artificial sexbot with a nonconsensually programmed personality, AND gemma is a fully sentient living breathing person. who wants her life back. who wants her AUTONOMY back. who is just now learning that she Literally Never Had Autonomy In The First Place.

we, as the audience, get to see her reckon with her identity. we're used to innies being the most oppressed class in the show, but gemma is something else entirely. even less than an innie. she is, legally and corporately, Nothing. she is an object built to serve lumon (and, upsettingly, mark!) without any sense of interiority or free will.

but here she is. having interiority and free will.

if the writers take the themes of personhood and "what is identity?" and "how do we define each other?" to their logical conclusion, by making gemma a non-person who Absolutely Fucking Is A Person....

and so we get to See Her be absolutely fucking MESSY and WRECKED and COMPLICATED, instead of always being the laughing dead wife or the gentle vapid servant....

if gemma Gets An Arc. if gemma makes Choices. if gemma has Motivations and Desires and Fuckups. if gemma gets to be centered in the narrative thematically, the same way the other innies are, if gemma gets to drive the story Herself instead of being the carrot on a stick for mark...

well. then the writers will have my heart. 5eva.

🙏🙏🙏

[br1ghtestlight]

the ii neg tumblr blog is like my actual personal #1 enemy i cant BELIEVE they followed me over a joke ask i responded to over a year ago (i blocked them and have blocked every account they've remade lmao) just such hateful bullshit looking for ANY excuse to attack this random youtube webseries and the ppl who work on it including MANY STATEMENTS that are just straight up not true. someone could send them an ask like "hey justin is actually homophobic and called me slurs irl i hope they all die in a car crash <3" and they will post it without any questions. no further research cuz it isnt about what's true or actually offering constructive criticism on the writing of the show it's about being hateful and cruel and spreading lies & death threats. some actual famous people dont have accounts as dedicated to attacking them and every aspect of their identity and career as these random ass guys who make a YOUTUBE WEBSERIES do like why are you actively wishing death upon them?? are you insane?

IF YOU DONT LIKE THE SHOW THEN STOP WATCHING IT. DONT ENGAGE? like do you seriously have fucking nothing better to do than spread lies online about literal nobodies with the smallest amount of online influence. for reasons i cannot even fathom. be so fucking serious

[sholmeser]

i dont usually post my fics but im pretty happy with this one :-) brief ments of sex and blood but thats it

[snowychicken]

I completely forgot I'm enrolled in a literature course this semester, my resolution to read 6 books this year just got a lot easier

[honestmouse20]

Soooo idk if anyone who follows me now remembers the Danger Days fic I was posting a couple years ago. Buttt what would you say if i maybe, kinda, sorta felt like finally finishing it? it'd be two or more years late and on my own rather than with an editor. but uh- i sorta fell face first into the fandom again? and i have the urge to finish the Sing it series.

[arsenicflame]

i think. fuck. im gonna try and make the ed/izzy getting back together au actual fic. who the fuck am i

[friarvelune]

Moments that will be living rent-free in my head forever and ever.

Hey. Listen to Inn Between. It's good and also this happens and it's dramatic and cool and devastating (and just a little bit ridiculous. Acid flavored...).

(Image description: Three pictures of the same drawing in various stages of progress. The first image is the finished and colored drawing in black ink and colored pencil, and it pictures Meltyre, a young man with pale skin, dark brown hair, and currently green eyes. He is wearing dark grey robes with greenish-blue flames patterned around the wrists and hems, and a wizard hat with purple trim and the same greenish fire hanging as a pendant from the tip. His expression is angry and determined. In between his hands, he holds a ball of bright green liquid. Typed text around the drawing says in one font, "Stop calling me a coward." In a second font, it says, "...Meltyre, what is that?" In the first font again, it says, "Chromatic orb. Acid flavored. Are you listening to me now?" The word "now" is larger and spaced out for emphasis. The second and third images are the pencil sketch and the uncolored ink drawing with the words handwritten. End of image description.)

[yourbleedingh3art]

Read at open mic night tonight

[yj-98]

everyone who likes yja look away for a second okay

this person doesnt follow me and like. im not making fun of them at all. but ......... please read the 1998 comic. please read the 1998 comic. the show means nothing to me. that is not young justice. i should have clarified. i am not standing in solidarity with you

[caramelmochacrow]

dont post aa here much but i suddenly remember this beloved "oc" of mine so. here. look at them.

(also bonus comic involving them under the cut!)

apollo. apollo im sorry but the unwilling client trend w u shall continue!

[nulltune]

suuper late but i'm just here reading the tags from shi aka @ardenssolis 's post and i-

[doomdoomofdoom]

The guy and therefore his official motive remain at large, but considering the state of health care/everything in the US, I can't find it in me to blame him whatsoever.

Like if I had to guess, he likely lost a loved one to entirely treatable causes, because UnitedHealthcare denied coverage. If I lost a friend or family member because the entity that's supposed to take care of them valued their own greed over human life. If I had to watch someone die and bury them just so some guy can buy another super yacht. And then that guy happened to be in my city. I can't say I wouldn't feel compelled to violence.

my honest to god reaction to hearing about the UnitedHealthcare CEO being murdered was to bust out laughing so hard I almost puked

[wolfboywillgraham]

what if instead of monsters souls having different colours based on their traits(as in the human soul traits we see in the 6 souls) their magic colour is based on their trait? all monster souls are white but we do see some differences in coloured attacks, idk just food for thought