#it sucks though

[imekitty]

Today I worked on:

Disillusioned: 236 words

Last sentence written:

But the knot in his gut remained tight.

[confusedhomicidalrage]

Ah yes, Halloween...The time where people dress up, and run around town, going trick or treating. Or simply staying at home in costumes.

As one would expect, it was Eli's favorite holiday. He loved dressing up and scaring the townsfolk. He and Joshua often just dressed up as ghosts, as they didn't have anything else, considering they were Amish.

However, this year, Eli wanted to not only spend Halloween with Joshua, he also wanted to spend it with his Father, Robert.

But, Robert wasn't a big fan of Halloween himself. He thought it was stupid and childish, he would much rather stay at home and drink beer or something, not waste his time in a costume and go trick or treating for candy. Eli, Being Eli, was very determined to get his Father to go trick or treating with him and Joshua though.

And so, he and Joshua started begging. Even before Halloween! And after Lots of pleading, Robert finally gave in. Although he was still very annoyed, he didn't want to hear his two sons begging to no end, it wouldn't do either of them any good.

"you two brats.…" Robert grumbled. They had eventually agreed that he would be a scarecrow, while Joshua and Eli dressed up as ghosts like every year. "Oh come on, Papa! It isn't that bad! Halloween is fun!" Eli insisted cheerfully as he did the makeup, even though it was messy, it was good. Robert wasn't a very big fan of having to keep his mouth and eyes shut, but, Joshua and Eli didn't mind...

Joshua chuckled as he saw Robert grumble silently, while Eli giggled. But, after going trick or treating and scaring a few people, Robert found he actually...had some fun, not that he would ever admit it though..

"...we can do this again next year" Robert sighed as they arrived back home, with him immediately ripping the stitches off.

"oh, you liked it?" Joshua teased, smiling. He was glad his dad found some joy in the activity...

"shut up..." Robert just scoffed, and went to wash his face in the bathroom. Eli and Joshua exchanged looks, and smiled, giggling and chuckling at their Father's annoyance

[ifithinkoflove]

I have a new job brooo I’m gonna be so rich at the end of this month

IM MINTED

[yourlocalmissingtexture]

Perhaps I should talk to my shrink (well, psychiatrist) about this whole thing after all lol

Going from bliss to hopeless in like 30 minutes isn’t normal I don’t think

[dearweirdme]

Anon,

Aside from loving Tae and Jk, I’m also a Larrie. I just lived through Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde fake dating very obviously for (coincidentally) almost exactly two years. I’ve seen stuff 😂. I can absolutely handle two idols holding hands for a minute.

[whoopsimadeamess]

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[eosofspades]

i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues

[maxknightley]

it's so funny to me that marcille's worst nightmare was an intricately-visualized allegory for her fear of death, not as something that will come for her but as something that will take all her loved ones away and leave her all by herself in an uncaring world, despite her best efforts

and laios's worst nightmare was just "what if everyone who's ever been mean to me was in the same room and they were all mean to me at the same time"

[baejax-the-great]

[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

[catholicguiltmusicedition]

To much pressure I crack and shatter

Now I bleed a fountain of pretty red

To live or die I'd rather have the latter.

I'm ruined how much was a lie?

Is my replacement better?

I'll coat my life in red

Drape you all in it

Maybe I'll find the truth as I breathe my last.

[auriidae]

Ethubs Adventure

[kimetsu-chan]

Doing this bc I’m scared to and won’t on my own

if this gets 5k notes by October 20th, I will tell my dad about my eating disorder and get help to recover + therapist

Rules:

No spamming

5 notes per person including likes

if either one of those is broken, I’m reducing the time limit, basically making it less likely to hit the goal on time

FOR CRYING OUT LOUD PLEASE STOP SPAMMING

tagging is okay

Might delete later(sorry!) because I’m scarrredddd, I don’t wanna tell my dad >:l

[puppyeared]

basement guys

[dailyjadenep]

Troll jade and human nepeta perhaps?

[adaume]

👔 Suit picking!