#interesting insight!

[chloesimaginationthings]

The FNAF Mikes talk about their extended family..

[hellsitegenetics]

Hi i classified all your insects for you :)

Lepidoptera: 56

Hymenoptera: 8

Coleoptera: 25

Megaloptera: 6

Ephemeroptera: 2

Diptera: 20

Trichoptera: 2

Dermaptera: 1

Hemiptera: 4

Neuroptera: 1

Mecoptera: 2

Arachnids: 2

I find this interesting because the amount of species, despite being ‘random’, is still biased towards butterflies and moths, despite beetles having about twice as many species. Do people speak too much like moths? Who knows.

Can I get a mantis someday I love mantids

i was going to say thank you for the headache but with enough neurodivergency in your head and enough love in your heart anything can be a joyous whimsical endeavor. godspeed soldier

[aerisleis-fics]

I posted 278 times in 2022

That's 248 more posts than 2021!

84 posts created (30%)

194 posts reblogged (70%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@aerislei

@akseedragon713

@lacependragon

@ryvian

@aerisleis-fics

I tagged 172 of my posts in 2022

Only 38% of my posts had no tags

#ffvii - 61 posts

#my writing - 48 posts

#zack fair - 44 posts

#ff7 - 33 posts

#cloud strife - 31 posts

#zakkura - 29 posts

#sephiroth - 23 posts

#clack - 23 posts

#rwby - 10 posts

#writing stuff - 9 posts

Longest Tag: 107 characters

#also honorable mention to the fact that i apparently read a fic longer than moby dick in less than two days

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Zakkura Week Day 6 is here! I'm absolutely still working on day 5 because it's On Brand for me to be late. Starry Night | SOLDIER!Cloud | “Well, you need a hand with him?” Former SOLDIER Third Class, Cloud Strife knew that dealing with the remnants of the Deepground labs would uncover some ghosts and stir up a few nightmares. He’d been prepared for that. But, as fate would have it, some of those ghosts are more physical than memory, and Cloud will face that, too.

“Cloud speaking.” “Strife, I know it’s a good few hours before you’re supposed to come back, but something came up. It would be appreciated if you could return to the site.” “What’s going on?”

13 notes - Posted September 9, 2022

#4

[the only context I'm willing to offer is that Cloud woke up First and Zack is snuggled up against his back and hugging him.]

Cloud realized he would give the world for a million mornings just like this one and though he didn’t know what the future held, Cloud thought for the first time in a long time that he could face that future and whatever it had left to throw at him, if he could have mornings just like this one.

26 notes - Posted August 13, 2022

#3

Yeah I had to infect tumblr with this one too. I typed out those three tweet, sent them and then sat here like not only am I out for myself today but I kiiiinda want to write it. At least in brief.

[Image ID:

Screenhot of three Tweets by user AerisLei (@ leiaeris) reading Don't think about Zack meeting up with The Team after the end scenes of the Remake. And coming face to face with a cloud that doesn't remember who he is.

Don't think about Zack, being so glad to see that his friend is alive and whole, rushing towards him, and Cloud staring at him, after yet another flash of pain and a flicker of a hallucination, asking him who he is.

Don't think about the fact that cloud has, at least once, hallucinated someone with Sephiroth cells as Sephiroth, and the way that he always reacts violently to Sephiroth's presence.

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40 notes - Posted June 11, 2022

#2

Thoughts from my Twitter

Zack lives, but he mourns that the shy spitfire of a cadet he became friends with didn't survive nibelheim.

Zack lives, but he and Cloud must learn how their new scars and broken edges fit together so they don't cut one another

Zack lives, but he has to come to terms with the fact that Cloud is not a fragile kid who needs to BE protected, as much as he WANTS to protect him.

Zack lives and now they can live and grow together and learn to heal some of their broken edges. And come to terms with the people that they are now instead of who they could have been.

Just. Zack lives and the world is healing, but where does that leave ex-soldiers with more scars than anyone their age should carry.

Where does that leave the kid who would have given everything to save the world, and the guy who everyone thought DID give everything to save one cadet.

Where does that leave them, two kids who grew into adults that don't believe in heroes anymore but WERE heroes all the same.

Where does that leave them and the scars they bear and the anger they carry and the grief that will never go away?

But yeah just. Zack Fair lives, and Cloud lives, but so much of them didn't. And THAT is the mood of the night.

81 notes - Posted July 31, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Things I do when I'm Stuck

This is definitely not an end-all-be-all list of things, and if they don't work for you, I definitely encourage you to explore options that DO work for you.

But! When I'm stuck on a scene, or just struggling to write in general this is the list I run through in (almost) no particular order - The first and last ones listed are always in that order.

Make sure I'm not hungry, thirsty, over tired, etc. Taking care of the body is important to actually getting anything done. And refusal to focus on a task can be one of my first signs that I'm neglecting myself.

Take a 10-15 minute (or longer) break away from my computer. This can be to talk with a roommate or partner, to go get food, to sit with my dog, take a shower... just. Time away from the screen, Not Thinking about what I'm trying to write.

Try to write on something else. Literally anything else. 5 minutes on another project. A warm up. A journal. Get the words flowing. Then try to come back to what I need to be working on.

Try to write via a different program or media. For example - moving from dabble (my writing program) into a private discord server, or 4thewords. Or writing by hand in my notebook for a while. The change of pace can make the words flow better. I especially recommend trying to write by hand here and there - getting away from the distraction of the Internet + you can doodle in the margins.

Talk through the scene. Sometimes this is with a friend/writing group/etc and sometimes this is just me pacing around my room talking to myself while I envision the scene. The goal here is to banter out ideas and figure out where i'm getting stuck and what path I want to take with the story. Don't be afraid to look above where you are actually stuck - the problem may be earlier in the chapter, or even in a previous one.

Do some editing. Whether in the same project, an earlier chapter, or a different project entirely. This runs pretty heavily counter to the standard tip of not editing while you're meant to be writing. But sometimes just... rereading can get me back into the mood of a story, and if I'm going to be rereading, I'm often going to be touching it up, either adding or fixing, or even removing if it feels wrong.

Go do something else. Similar to the 10-15 minute break, but in this case it's more like giving myself permission to not be writing. Not, I'll get back to it in just a few minutes but more like - okay, I'm going to take a break for today, and play a video game or watch a movie. Maybe read a book. This tends to be more in line with "consuming media" even if it's media I'm well familiar with, because without input, there's no output.

I find it's really, really important to give yourself permission to not be creating. Sometimes you need to unwind and take the down time. Listen to yourself. Grinding yourself down to nothing does not help you.

827 notes - Posted April 14, 2022

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[grahamcore]

i genuinely would like to see a study on how the fuck the hannibal nbc fandom has remained not just active but thriving online when the show ended in 2015. other more recent shows have come and gone in the years since then but we’ve still got new fics and art and posts happening daily?? how does that happen

[jtt-033-1613]

"I heard a phrase once, somebody was talking about their wife. This was a person who was very inept socially - not the wife, but the man. There were many things said about him that weren't kind, and he said,

‘My wife - who is lovely and social and everything like that - is my human credential.’

It, like, makes him a human being, because people think, ‘If, well, if she can stand him, he must have some humanity within him.’ And sometimes I think about Scully as Mulder's human credential."

- David Duchovny, Inside The X-Files

[lgbtlunaverse]

Most annoying NMJ or JC take is when someone that dislikes them is like "oh you're a fan of him? *scoff* Well obviously you've only seen cql, where he was super watered down. In the novel he's a dislikable asshole and that's the objectively superior canon I'm working from instead of your woobified fanfic." Meanwhile your main canon is novel canon and you genuinely find novel Jiang Cheng and Nie Mingjue complex sympathetic characters.

[wyllaztopia]

thank you guys for the explanations i still don't ship it LOL

[spacephrasing]

my older sisters are twins, and they’re not identical + they’re only a year older than me so I think they’d have a harder time pulling this off, but I keep wondering how weird it is to be in shermie’s position?? like you have two brothers, one estranged who don’t remember meeting at all, the other one immediately goes off to college then fucks off to oregon and barely ever visits, and then you find out one of them bites it, ONLY to fucking find out he faked his own death and took over the other’s identity????? THEN find out your own grandkids like them BETTER than you???????

[casscainmainly]

you’re soooooo right for the cass and jason stuff. i am obsessed with how their views make them behave in their own separate selfish ways. cass needing to believe people can change and be redeemed because she herself needs to believe she can be redeemed…… im thinking specifically in batgirl where she tries to save a murderer from death row. saying “maybe he changed” to the victims mother….. and then everything with jason really, the way he can’t see beyond how he was a victim to see how he has hurt and victimized others. how he has made himself into someone who really can’t see beyond his own tragedy in many ways… how he sees bludhaven literally blow up but refuses to let bruce leave to find Dick

YOU'RE so right because it's easy for people to side with Cass or Jason only, but it's more interesting to see it as neither being 100% in the right. That issue in Batgirl is literally so good - as this post points out, the crime the guy was in prison for was most likely a hate crime. The motive doesn't matter to Cass, since her belief is that no one should die, but it's deliberately disquieting that she doesn't stop to consider the victim until the victim is actually in front of her. Her point of view is focused around redemption and absolutes, to the detriment of justice and specific circumstances.

Jason, on the other hand, is so focused on justice that he has trouble making room for redemption. His is a situational ethics (in contrast to Cass' moral absolutism), which can be good in certain instances (like, debatably, killing the Joker), but can lead to really muddied actions and reasoning. Jason, like Cass, is fundamentally compassionate, but his actions are calculated in a way Cass' is not, leading him to sometimes lose sight of saving lives as the original goal.

Bruce, Jason, and Cass form a really interesting triangle of people whose views on murder are irrevocably tied to the perspective they witnessed the defining murder of their lives in. It's why none of them (yes, even Cass and Bruce) can ever truly understand each other, but also why they have a lot in common. Idk it's just very interesting to think about!

[affectionatecorpse]

I'm once again getting overly philosophical over horror movies, so here's a study of the death angels from A Quiet Place as observed by a very enthusiastic animal loving veterinarian.

Every time people talk about death angels, it is, understandably, about how violent they are. These creatures are brutal and merciless, and will tear apart anything that makes too much noise. Hence the title of the movie.

Death angels are frankly terrifying, and show no empathy towards the creatures of the planet they invaded. No living thing is safe from them.

... so here's why they COULD be--

Look. Death angels are simply not suited for our planet. It's a noisy, chaotic place full of noisy, chaotic animals. From humans, to raccoons, to birds, to cats, nearly everything in our world is a potential trigger for a noise sensitive animal such as these.

But that's exactly what they are. Animals. And no one seems to remember that fact. People talk about them as though they themselves are sentient, anthropomorphic monsters, but the way these creatures act mimic many real life animals. Animals that don't belong here, but are trying to survive here. On a noisy planet covered in water, which they despise and cannot swim in.

Death angels are completely blind by nature, as seen in many other creatures such as cavefish, moles, and my personal favourite, the olm. Due to a lack of sight, they very clearly use echolocation in the film, to scan their surroundings and... well, not get dead. But echolocation is far from their only tool, as their ears are the strongest asset they have.

Their ears are INCREDIBLY sensitive. Just the slight ticking of an egg timer when heard from their perspective in the first film, is like a pounding drum in their ear. This is fine in a naturally quiet planet, but if a very subtle tick is that loud, then imagine the rest of the noise. Screaming. Explosions. Crashing. Little toy planes. Holy CRAP, that's gotta hurt.

Sounds that loud would definitely cause extreme hearing problems from pressure over time, and easily result in lifelong illnesses and disabilities such as deafness, infection, and so forth, if not stopped. It's going to be painful. It's literally bursting their ear drums inside their heads, and you can't explain to an animal why it hurts. You cannot rationalise with wildlife about treatment and self care. An injured and scared animal is always going to turn hostile, no matter how docile they may be normally. You can't explain to a lion with a knife in it's belly that you can stop the pain if it just doesn't attack you. You can't explain to a death angel that it needs to go somewhere more isolated instead of just destroying the source of the noise to shut it up.

Going to backtrack here a sec. Remember how I mentioned echolocation being another asset this creature has? Which means the slightest movement, the tiniest breath, can immediately allow you to be seen by it. With ears that good, too? It can see you from ages away. It knows you're there. Which means they DON'T attack for sport.

'Evil' is a concept rarely seen in nature. Yes, a lot of humans can be evil. And yes, many creatures can be too. Animals hunt for sport as well. Cats, for example! Although even then, I wouldn't describe it as evil. Calling the death angels evil implies they're attacking out of malicious intent, which just isn't true. In moments of panic, they'll destroy. But they are fully aware of humans around them.

Humans need to breathe, and can't stay perfectly still very easily. The death angels would be able to see our main cast at several points, even when they're being quiet. They don't attack whenever they locate a sign of life. For example, the scene in the basement. Being that close, whether the water was running or not, that alien absolutely would've heard Evelyn and the baby's sharp breaths. It didn't care. It was clicking at them almost curiously before it heard the bang of the silo, to which it ditched them to stop the sound.

This scene is a great example of why they don't kill for sport. Injured and young animals are especially easy prey for a creature built so strong and nimble. Evelyn is shown to be terrified of the mere presence of this thing, but it never actually does anything in the scene. It moves about. Ignores her movements in the flooding water. Investigates the baby. Clicks curiously at her while she backs away. It moves slowly and on all fours, when we know while aggressive, they will stand up on their hind legs (unless sprinting) and move very fast.

This implies it was in... well, not a submissive position, but a nonthreatening one. It wasn't baring it's teeth (as best it could), it had it's claws tucked up and unused, and was in no way in a primed-to-attack mentality. Until the silo made a loud bang. And even then, it could've quickly sliced up the two in the basement before running off, but it DIDN'T. It just left, without a moment of hesitation.

Let's also acknowledge the anatomy.

This is a carnivore. With sharp teeth for ripping apart prey, sharp claws for defence, and thick armour for protection from it's natural climate, as well as strong, long legs for running, this is absolutely a meat eater. The fact it's so well equipped makes me wonder if their natural prey is just as dangerous as them, which is why they have such tough skin. Or if they themselves have something above them in the food chain.

They seem to be pack animals, as usually others aren't far behind when one is about. Such as the trio by the Abbott house, the few at the docks, the ones by Emet's hideout, and even that group sliding down the building in the Day One clip I keep seeing as a gif. With their knack for running included, I wonder if they function like lions? Blending into their environment back home, clicking to hear prey, then the whole pack going on the chase when their target is vulnerable, in a way.

I got distracted. My point was, in a year, all the bodies from past victims vanished. All those people in the town who were swiped left and right just vanished from the town. They couldn't have decomposed in such short time, which means something moved them when it was safe. Something like a carnivore needing food after it felt comfortable in the silent aftermath. The argument that they do it for sport is one I see all the time, and it's just not true.

Everything needs to eat. Carnivores need to eat. Animals need to protect themselves from suspected danger. They never eat on screen because whenever they're on screen, they're surrounded by noise and are DISTRESSED. Have you ever had a sick pet? Most of the time, it won't eat when it's ill because it's too stressed, uncomfortable or in too much pain. When having their ear drums assaulted, a death angel isn't going to sit down with a cup of tea and a grilled cheese. Also, I won't add it because there's blood, but in the scene with the old man screaming in the woods, after it attacks, you can actually see it go back on all fours and sniff about the aftermath, like a hungry predator catching prey to eat. This was probably the first and currently only on screen proof of my claim.

By all means, not all animals are meant to be tamed. Jordan Peele's Nope said that best. Yet I can't help but wonder about the individual. Every animal is completely unique. Some will tolerate more than others. Due to their realistic nature and the similarities to actual animals, in specific circumstances, could they be befriended?

Anyway keep an eye out for A Quiet Place 4 where someone has a pet one that wears doggy ear protectors and accepts meat in exchange for pets-- /j

[chloesimaginationthings]

Do you plan on having movie Vanessa meet all the Glamrock? (Sorry if it’s a dumb question)

I definitely do! Roxy and Monty I have to do, I also want to draw Abby, Mike and Michael meeting them as well

If you guys have any other animatronics the peeps should meet, from the pizzaplex or other games, let me know!

[radioactive-earthshine]

NGL I have STRONG opinions about digital releases omitting the letters to the editor section of older comics. I feel like the letters are a part of comic history and should be aggressively preserved.

[admiral-bennetts-aide-de-camp]

a lot of people talk about abed comparing troy to comfort TV, but not enough people talk about the implication of how, by saying that, abed positions himself as a parasocial fan

[fishofthewoods]

Oh my god I woke up this morning and my Stardew Valley meta post had almost 150 notes????? Hello?????????? Anyways I started writing this last night because @moon-is-pretty-tonight left nice tags on the original so thank you so much!!

We know from the starting scenes of the game that the farmer's grandfather loved Stardew Valley. So why did he leave? Pelican Town is a good place to grow old; George and Evelyn are just fine. It's a fine place to raise a kid, but maybe he just wanted to raise his child closer to real schools and other children.

Or maybe, just maybe, he understood.

Was there a day when he was in his thirties where he looked at his friends and realized they weren't like him? That he could run faster than them, work longer, explore deeper into the hidden places of the valley?

Was there a day when he went to the wizard to ask him for help, for knowledge if nothing else? Did he learn then that his family was different? Special? Chosen? And how did he react? He couldn't possibly raise a child in the valley if they would be as strange and fey as him. He had to leave. There was no other way.

But years later, on his deathbed, did he regret that choice?

Is that why he gave the farmer the letter?

Is that why they went back home?

When the farmer steps off the bus that first day, the valley is still on the cusp of winter, just barely tipping over into spring. The flowers are starting to bloom, but a chill still hangs in the air. As soon as the farmer's boots touch the soil there's a change. The air gets warmer. The trees get greener. Not by too much, not all at once, but it changes.

The junimos watch the farmer as they do their work. They're new to farming, but take to it with frightening speed; their first batch of crops is perfect. None of the townsfolk tell them that parsnips don't normally grow in less than a week, that cauliflowers don't grow to be ten feet tall, that fairies don't visit when the sun goes down and grow potatoes and beans and tulips overnight. The junimos talk amongst themselves in their strange, wild language, and agree: this is the one. They're back. The valley recognizes its own, even when they've left for a generation. The farmers have come home.

Things change fast in the valley. The community center, empty and decrepit for so many years, is rejuvenated. (Lewis says it was abandoned only a few weeks after the farmer's grandfather left. Strange coincidence, he says, that it both came and went with the farmer's family.) The mines and the quarry, similarly abandoned, are explored for the first time in ages. The town becomes cleaner, brighter, more vibrant, happier.

And it is happier. Not just the environment, but the people. It's the talk of the town for weeks when Haley does her first closet purge. Leah's art show in the town square is a huge success. Shane's smiling for the first time since he moved to the valley. All of them, when asked, say it's all thanks to the farmer.

People love to ask why Lewis didn't fix the community center on his own. Why Willy never repaired the boat to ginger island. Why Abigail or Marlon never went down to fix the elevator in the mines, or why Clint didn't fix the minecarts.

But isn't it so much more interesting to ask how those things were there in the first place? How they got so broken down? If the stories the townspeople tell are true, the valley was once a beautiful place, flourishing and full of life; why did that change? When did it change?

Was it when the farmer's grandfather, the locus of the valley, its chosen representative, left town?

And if so, what happens when the farmer comes back?

[cheese-rat29]

hannibal: “he can assume my point of view.”

bedelia: “by profiling the criminally insane.”

get his ass.

[hedgehog-moss]

My top 10 nonfiction reads of 2023 (the asterisked ones are in French with no translation as of yet) :

Belle Greene, Alexandra Lapierre

The Indomitable Marie-Antoinette, Simone Bertière

Reporter: A Memoir, Seymour Hersh

Red Carpet: Hollywood, China and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, Erich Schwartzel

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Keefe

Servir les riches, Alizée Delpierre*

La Comtesse Greffulhe : L’ombre des Guermantes, Laure Hillerin*

Le Courage de la nuance, Jean Birnbaum*

The Book Collectors of Daraya, Delphine Minoui

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement, Hawon Jung