#it wasnt even a competition

[faery-berry-blast]

I had a dream i was telling my middle school/high school crush about the difference between maggots and grubs

at one point I got a fact wrong, i said maggots are beetle larva, then i realized i was wrong, i was like “ugh im sorry im so stupid—maggots are fly larva, and grubs are beetle larva”

and then i kept on going, telling him maggot & grub facts until i woke up

[lexosaurus]

I think, genuinely, the coolest part about being in this phandom for so long and semi-consistently putting creative projects out there is that I can look back over the years and see how much growth I've made in all areas of my creativity.

Like, I'm writing things now I wouldn't have even dreamed of years ago, and I'm composing music that past me would have been shell-shocked to hear. And I can see with each new fic I put out, each new song I make, how much better I'm getting. And it's not to say that I've mastered the art of writing and composition, but I've certainly improved a fuckton since like 2017 or whenever the hell I made this account.

Damn, y'all. It turns out that all the experts were right and skill is just a LOT of practice over a long period of time.

[tommygotwrittenoff]

listen, buck doesn't actually miss t. like yeah maybe he misses dates and kissing someone and sex, but that's him missing the relationship, not t. i think what is driving buck insane is the fact that t was able to see he wasn't buck's last. he saw something in buck that made him not even want to try. and that's what keeps driving buck to call him, he wants to know because he's been trying for years to figure out why all his relationships fail and t knows but didn't explain.

[mugentakeda]

iroh azula antagonism is sooo important to me guys i cant ever read azula redemption fics cus none of them include their insane beef. its such a lonely world out here. can u even imagine how nuts it wouldve been if she found out abt the white lotus. i need to talk ab them dude

i like to imagine the trip back to the fn after ba sing se zuko didnt talk to iroh at all while he was in the brig because he was so in shock and still reeling that iroh outright betrayed him and his family and nation for the avatar. those three years iroh spent with zuko on the ship encouraging him meant what now? "why would he banish you if he didnt care" meant what now that you helped what would undo the banishment evade me?

and azula has never been above gloating, even over the most pathetic scum. so she makes sure to head to the brig the night they depart, her exhausted brother conked out in his quarters none the wiser, mai and ty lee flanking her. and even though the mission had been to capture the avatar dead or alive, theres something about looking down at her restrained uncle whod been working the whole time to get zuko (who has an unending list of faults but is loyal above all else and had been trying his hardest to fulfill the terms of his banishment even while being a wanted criminal to their nation- something she will not overlook) to betray their nation is somehow more satisfying by tenfold than looking down at a restrained avatar.

she knows just how hard iroh takes losing. he lost ba sing se and a son years ago, and here he has lost ba sing se and a son once more. or a boy his senile, trauma-riddled mind has convinced him is his son. her uncle bet against her father by trying to turn his son against him for whatever traitorous and foolish reasons he has and frankly shes just overjoyed to have him out of the way once and for all, because azula is a dragon just as much as iroh and she will always strive to protect her blood, because irohs the one who let zuko into that war room in the first place, because what right does he have to allow her foolish brother that couldnt keep his trap shut to save his life in a situation like that and then have the audacity to try and turn him against them when zuko even being in ba sing se (instead of working under azula along with mai and ty lee like he shouldve been) was all his fault in the first place? she hopes freeing zuko of him stings unlike anything else. she hopes if that sting manifested in reality it would take the shape of an ugly stamp right across his face and haunt him for the rest of his days in his self made prison.

and then iroh can say that zuko had no choice BUT to be loyal above all else because if he wasnt thats a death sentence from ozai. and then azula can say that thats wise of her father then because if that wasnt how it was then their whole family would be an infested nest of lying cowards like iroh. mustve been something her dad learned from his dear old brother. and what can iroh even say to that

[isa-ah]

met a really cool queer stranger today that i thought was just so fucking neat i wanted to talk but if we were playing tennis they were, with the most gentle and earnest voice ive ever heard, shoving the tennis racket down my throat. every compliment or joke i made was turned away but in the sweetest way possible that made me sound like an absolute asshole lunatic. it was so scary.

[nerves-nebula]

hey i just wanna clarify i hold absolutely no ill will towards the @tmntbestsibscompetiton, honestly they seemed like a real sweetheart when they reached out to me and i don't feel particularly snubbed or anything. it's genuinely all fine with me, certainly don't contact them, harass them, or anything like that on my behalf.

[3-aem]

thinking about my exit interview that was super informal but at one point i was like okay i will say something positive about the team and my ex manager was like okay

and then we both sat there in silence for a solid minute

[dishesoap]

does anyone have recommendations for fictional media that has like. actual lesbians in it. not like supergirl Two White Skinny Girls, One Blonde and One Brunette Kiss media, or "its implied lesbianism!!!" but just regular fucking lesbians

[phoenixdeleted]

@tmntaucompetition YOU FEELING UNSAFE? HIT NEON UP HE BARROWED A BUNCH OF TITANIUM BATS AND THOSE LIKE POLICE SHIELDS COMPLETELY LEGALLY!

[skitskatdacat63]

Please save me, I'm reading a reddit thread about Seb vs Max(bcs Tost said he thought Seb would win out), and none of these people know how good Seb was in his prime

[funky-sea-cryptid]

lilliane vaude is a boy mom and thats why she's like that

[baileycatarina]

Remembered that I got Super into IV breeding in Pokemon xy in like, 2013-2014 so I could do online competitive battles (a thing I never did despite going through the hassle of fully training up a team) and one of those Pokemon I was gonna use was a Dusknoir.

I planned out its nature and moveset and got to breeding. The thing is, I planned this moveset around the move Curse, a unique move that either a) cuts the user's HP my half an inflicts curse status if you're a ghost type, or b) raises your attack and defense but lowers your speed if you're any other type.

I based this moveset on scenario b. On a Dusknoir. A ghost type. Where Curse will always be scenario a.

I did not realize my mistake until I had fully IV bred, nature shuffled, EV trained, and evolved it. This is a process that took literal days. I don't know how I made that mistake and I don't know how I didn't notice it sooner.

I cannot express to you how genuinely mad I was.

[saudebazi]

pms is crazy but i started crying while i was giving a thankyou note

[clockworkcheetah]

kinda realised that suzie/the mages convo in 2x06 is similar to the brotzly on in 2x07

[chasingfictions]

when i think abt how hard it is to watch figure skating ....