#it is kinda time consuming too...

[bumfuzzled-bee]

Pat pat.

[v1ct0r1an]

Marble Hornets Tma au where all the horrors are real and there are still no happy endings. YAY.

Jay becomes an eye avatar, always watching, always recording. He dies not fully understanding any of the things he observes. He starts off normal enough, until he gets the tapes from Alex and starts going through them. Exposure to the Operator is what spreads its influence and it's eyeless stare never leaves after. His constant drive to discover more, to poke his nose in places it doesn't belong, is what inevitably turns him into an avatar.

Tim's the one that brings the Operator to the group. He's tormented by both the spiral and the eye, the Operator lies between the two entities. He has a brief stint with the Stranger when he's working with Brian to try and kill Alex but he's able to reject it the same way Daisy tries to reject the hunt in the podcast. He's deeply marked by several of the fears but he's especially marked by the Eye.

Brian succumbs to the Lonely. He's no longer the man he used to be after joining Alex's student film production with Tim. His main goal is still to kill Alex, who's going around and killing all his friends. He still cares for them, even if the feeling is dull. The main thing that drives him is his anger towards Alex.

Alex becomes something of the Hunt. He believes wholeheartedly that he's doing good when he hunts down and kills his friends. He fully believes he's helping stop the spread of the knowledge of these monsters. He fully believes that everything will be better for everyone if all of the people becoming avatars die, including himself. He especially wants to kill Tim, knowing he was the one that brought this world of fears to them.

[artharakka]

⚔ Dragonslayer 🐉

[thousand-winters]

Fascinated by people just getting into WTNV and asking if there is a list of episodes to listen to, omitting the "unimportant" stuff I assume.

Chill, you all. Night Vale has been ongoing for around 11 years and it's yet to show any sign that it intends to end any time soon, so you can take your time. Even if it ended soon, there is time.

Enjoy the episodes as they are. Chew on them.

WTNV does this very special thing of making the town feel alive, not every citizen gets an arc or even a spotlight, but they're constant, they're there, living their lives. Those little details, little mentions of everyone growing and continuing living as time pass make it feel so nice.

And then, one day, Night Vale surprises you, and, oh, hey, remember that one intern whose death wasn't confirmed? Well, he has come back, and if you remember him and remember what happened to him at the time, you'll be able to connect the dots of the current arc faster.

The MOST unexpected things come back. The town is alive.

Just enjoy the ride! Enjoy Cecil's voice. Enjoy listening about this friendly desert community where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead while we all pretend to sleep.

[tricitymonsters]

Hey this has nothing to do with TCM I'm afraid but I thought you might be interested to know there's an app called no thanks that lets you scan barcodes/look up brand names to see if they're supportive of Israel. Maybe you already know about it, or is not available in your country but I thought I should let you know anyway just in case

Thanks! I've seen a couple helpful apps like that making the rounds but haven't personally used it yet. I've got a copy of the BDS target campaigns on my fridge and on my white board in my office to help keep me in line + have been keeping track of the action calls. If I get time over the holiday, I'll look into some of the apps and post which ones I think are reputable.

[blue-mood-blue]

What if Hua Cheng had memorialized the temple?

I don’t think he did, canonically. I imagine that was a memory he wasn’t keen to linger on, especially not to such an extent as to record it, to hover over the details in his mind and commit it to physical imagery. But I could see where he might - maybe catharsis, so that night can exist somewhere outside of his head. Maybe twisting, spiteful justice, so the world won’t be allowed to forget what it did to his god. Maybe just desperation, to record every shard of Xie Lian that he has in an effort not to lose a single piece while he searches.

It wouldn’t be graphic; I think it would be something more stylized, more symbolic. Xie Lian is tied to his own altar. He has replaced the divine statue that should be there instead, the god made present the way he was for Hua Cheng once, the way he was for all of his people once. He is surrounded by blades, but they aren’t piercing him yet. Hua Cheng can’t do that to him even in paint. Bai Wuxiang is not featured, because Hua Cheng would not force any version of Xie Lian into that monster’s presence, but there is a ghost fire hovering near. There is a small, crushed flower on the ground at the foot of the altar, like it was dropped from the Flower Crowned Prince’s hand moments before. The entire tableau holds its breath in the anticipation of something horrific.

It’s painted in a shadowed corner, with a cloth hung in front of it. Not out of shame, or even because of Hua Cheng’s own trauma - out of respect for the prince’s privacy, unwillingness to make a moment of such incredible, painful vulnerability a spectacle to anyone else without the prince’s say-so.

That doesn’t stop Mu Qing from finding it.

Mu Qing, who was already horrified, Mu Qing, who was looking for Xie Lian to drag him out of the caves immediately because he’d seen a statue that suggested things he would rather not think about in regards to his former prince… Mu Qing brushes the curtain aside in that tucked-away corner and stops.

A hundred blades are pointed at His Highness. A hundred faces leer and sob and stare. And Xie Lian sits at the center of it all, head lowered, waiting for the slaughter.

Is it so unreasonable that Mu Qing takes it for a threat? Is it so unreasonable of Mu Qing to drag Feng Xin to what he’s found, for the both of them to slip an arm around each of the prince’s own and pull him away from wherever that altar is somewhere in the complicated network of twisted, obscene worship? That thing painted on the wall - it can’t have ever happened. They would know. Mu Qing and Feng Xin, who spent every day of their early lives with the prince, beside the prince, trailing along behind the prince… they would know. They would have been there; they would have prevented it. This is the fantasy of a ghost king who laid ruin to thirty-three heavenly officials and found his thirst still unslaked.

(Mu Qing does not consider the eight hundred years of Xie Lian’s life he knows nothing about. Feng Xin does not consider the eight hundred years of Xie Lian’s life he knows nothing about. It’s a habit they’ve grown skilled at, over eight hundred years.)

They don’t explain to Xie Lian, so Xie Lian has no opportunity to explain to them what they saw. And Mu Qing isn’t wrong, when he concludes that Xie Lian has been stalked and watched and hunted since he was seventeen. He isn’t wrong. He just doesn’t know, yet, what direction the threat is coming from. There’s no time for anyone to tell him, or Feng Xin, who tied the restraints and provided the sword.

They’ll find out. Masks are made to be removed.

[deus-ex-mona]

being a hiyoshipper is great bc even if you don’t like nghy,

you still have options, like~~~

[springbeans-art]

Rewatching Gurren Lagann with some friends and one thing lead to another and I somehow ended up tracing this bit of animation from ep6 Kamina as Sanji. Really gave me early 2000s deviantart gif parody nostalgia. Enjoy, Sanji nation

[britneyshakespeare]

you: nicholas alexander chavez, the actor from ryan murphy's recent work

me, a mama's girl and daytime tv viewer:

[johnslittlespoon]

okay a bit (a lot, tldr in tags) of rambling to gather my thoughts, but for the dog coded bucky fic <3 enjoyers i have tentatively decided:

i will finish chapter two so ik it's # serious lol, plan out the rest of the chapters so i make sure i don't need to change anything in the first two (bc i'm still not even sure how many chapters it'll be), and then, i think i will force myself to stop being a Coward and post ch1 🫠

but i DO want to warn you that i am a slow writer, i've said this before ik, but i haven't written a chaptered fic in about five years so i'm really not sure how my pacing will be, so i feel like it's fair to lyk in advance!

my ideal aim would be to get a chapter out once a week, but i'm gonna be so real, a more realistic goal is once every two–ish weeks because me + freshly–medicated adhd + writing is not conducive to productivity lmaoo :')) tbh i'd be happy if i even got one done a month but i'm hoping to be faster than that, i just also don't want to rush bc this fic is so close to my heart already, i don't want to put smth out where i feel like i let myself/readers down. <3

anyway. that's my yapping for the afternoon, very excited bc i made a lovely fellow fruit loop friend recently while in queue for a concert and we both accidentally found out the other wrote fanfic LOL u get close real quick when ur holding out for barricade all day 😭

but we have a writing day planned tmrw!! bc body doubling is a lifesaver. so i'm rly hopeful i'll get ch2/all my plotting done tmrw and if all goes well, ch1 can be posted this week <33 half of the reason for posting this is to hold myself accountable too bc i'll feel more pressure to work away at it so i don't have to eat my words lmfaoo

to the angels who have been following the (very slow) formation of this fic, genuinely thank u sm for being so patient with me and also for always keeping my spirits and motivation up chatting to me ab it, i don't think i would've ever actually ended up writing it otherwise so!! i am v thankful <33 it's 'just fic' but it's also a return to something i adore but haven't had the inspo or energy for in years so i'm very :'))

[ashipiko]

IVE BEEN SO DEAD IM SLOWLY TRYING TO COME BACK GANGSIE 😭😭😭 slowly

[the-gene-mile]

rewatched the premier definitely super legally and just look at them

[zaethiopica]

Going through it as per usual

[sparkrolf]

Is it just me, or does it feel like a number of Hermits are particularly drawn to bodies of water this season (not that it's a bad thing ofc!)? Tbh kinda just obsessing over the thought a bit

[xheksprostate]

getting sloppy drunk for the first time on accident: woo! i am going to luxuriate in the todays decadent win of the montreal canadiens, mes habs, over the florida panthers and the fact that our baby rookie baby goalie shut out said defending stanley cup champs! and also think salacious things about sam monty montembeault. olé