#it's not as intricate as I feared

[sadisopodhours]

Whenever I finish any show, book, or piece of media I’m always like “yeah that was good but it wasn’t as good as German science-fiction time travel thriller Dark (2017)”

[crueliste]

bro greatest tragedy in my life is being autism stim level excited over something only to sense that the other person isn't as excited an instantly pulling back like a turtle inside a shell like haha yeah i wasn't that into it either

[uncanny-tranny]

What I think is so important to learning how to truly appreciate life is learning how to appreciate the creatures and things we've categorized as "disgusting" or "gross."

When I learned to appreciate wasps, I realized how much they just... don't really care about anything, and they're not trying to be an asshole because they're uniquely cruel. If they have any wants, it is to live. Why would I punish that when I also want to live?

This isn't to say you need to fall in love with the creepy crawlies that stalk this world or to love what you cannot, but to recognize that in their arrangement of atoms, they are trying to persevere, and in the end... aren't we all?

[girlfriendline]

oh guys we're really in the trenches now

[puhpandas]

the thing is that I literally love the idea of 3 star fam never wanting to go back to the pizzaplex and not feeling any sense of duty for what goes on there once they're free and just. only doing the mimic trapping and that's it and letting Cassies dad (if they even knew about him) do all the dirty work mimic duty of setting up mxes and they just finished it once he died but like. are they going to TREAT it like that.

would they treat it like 3 star being desperate to live normally and wanting nothing to get away from everything freddys but until they end things for good, as the only people left who can, and a reason that they HAVE to go back with cassie being manipulated by mimic, theyll never be truly free and they have to face their fears/abuser to achieve that, but their absence was purposeful this whole time because of them wanting nothing more than to be involved, or are they just not going to touch on it and their absence will feel random and meaningless and Cassies dad important for no reason without that 3 star characterization and itll be mid

[fix-me-sixteen]

i see you’ve mentioned having ocs. can you tell me all about them. please.

okay so i have four different “worlds” of ocs . . . they are all fantasy lmfao. i write ("write") how i read

the first world is super personal and it's kind of been keeping my mental health afloat since my freshman year of high school. it has sixteen main characters yes i know how that sounds and my irl friends make fun of me for it all the time here are some screenshots

so the reason for this is it used to be several different worlds and i mashed them all into each other to create one mega world like i said in that last message . . . probably will not talk about this at length but i'm super proud of the worldbuilding and going into sixteen ocs would take too much time so we're moving on

so the second world is based entirely in my frustration with a certain middle grade elf series. it's about a woman who wakes up from being brought back to life by her fiance after dying and has amnesia about her entire life as a result. she is two hundred and thirty eight years old (about two hundred and nine years if you convert it to earth years) and occupies the most influential position in her entire society and comes from the most legendary family in her civilization (wow i wonder what that could be inspired by . . . ) and so she has to navigate the fact that. she doesn't know anything about this world or the way it works anymore so she has a fresh perspective on everything (wow i wonder where that idea could have possibly come from . . . ). she slowly learns that her pre-amnesia self was kind of a bitch because she was born into the most prestigious family and never learned to check her biases and now she's one of the most influential people ever (except she doesn't remember anything, including how to do her job) and basically treated like an unofficial queen but also has a tremendous amount of pressure put on her to be perfect all the time (wow . . . there's no way . . . it's almost like . . . i've heard this concept somewhere before . . . ). the society she lives in supposedly perfect ( . . . crazy i know) but as she navigates it she's like wait hey you kind of treat people super shitty (where could i have possibly gotten this utterly original idea from . . . ) but like nobody pays attention to it. every time she brings it up the people around her are like "girl this is how you used to be just chill you used to be so cool with this chill out" and since she's also struggling to trying to force herself to be who she used to be pre-amnesia because she wants a semblance of normal she's kind of caught between trying to force herself to go back to her bigoted pre-amnesia self and being a better person. basically it's a rip-off cawtulk and i hyperfixate on it a lot lmfao. like a lot. the magic system is completely different from cawtulk's though. everyone is born with a base set of powers, but the government can also allow you to purchase something called a ritual which is basically a new power that allows you to do one specific thing. for example, the fiance's father has a ritual that allows him to change someone's appearance and voice. it doesn't really do anything else though . . . anyway since the government controls who gets to have rituals, often people that are higher up in the hierarchy have more rituals than people at the bottom, which is super unfair but it's under the guise of "they get to have rituals to help with their line of work". this further deepens the power divide and so on. there is also a black market for rituals so there are occasionally people on the bottom that have a bunch but it is not common at all

the third world is silly (supposedly) it has pirates because i love pirates. one of them is a duke. he threw his fiancee out a window (accidentally) and killed her so now he's on the run with this random pirate captain he used to know from when he was a teenager. also he has an adopted kid!!!! the kid likes daggers. the worldbuilding for this one is based on the four humors but i've been trying to nail down the specifics of that for like a year now i think and i haven't. will get back to you on that if i ever do. anyway it's deeper than pirates sailing around the world and is more character-focused than my worlds tend to be but the themes are about guilt and how to learn to come to terms with stuff you've done in the past

the fourth world is super edgy for no reason at all. it takes place in this world that is overrun by mob rule and these super rich old money families that back this or that mob so they can get favors if their mob is in charge and stuff. the narrator is killed in the first chapter and the story is about his sister and this guy he has a super embarrassing work crush on trying to solve his murder. so he's dead and narrating the case to find out who killed him. his sister is on house arrest because she's suspect number one and the guy he has a super embarrassing work crush on is the leader of the mob currently in charge and he wants to make sure this isn't the work of another mob trying to overthrow his mob to be in charge . . . the dynamic between the sister and the guy he has a super embarrassing work crush on is supposed to be hilarious but i'm bad at writing so it's probably not in actuality lmfao. also he's super unreliable as a narrator. especially about his super embarrassing work crush that he totally doesn't have that his sister was always making fun of him for when he was still alive. the magic system in this one is based on blood and there are two types of blood magic wielders, afferents and efferents, which determines what you can do if you have a bit of someone's blood. also there are coming-of-age neon red tattoos that people get but idk how they fit into the big picture yet so feel free to ignore that

i also have cawtulk ocs . . . maybe i will talk about them on the actual cawtulk blog but yeah. they exist as well

[pandoraskinnersbox]

Happy new year I’ve been off drawing other Edward Norton characters

+ full color Conrad under the cut

[future-crab]

Yeah no I’m not that touchstarved I’m fine

*watches gifs of the prorev fight*

I need someone to beat me up. I have a sudden desperate urge to get tossed around while Ray Toro plays Sharpest Lives nearby

[angelswim64]

irreplaceable

[starmocha]

the fated enemies thing!!! it actually reminds me a lot of calebmc too! how they can't help but pull towards one another but every time that happens, there's chaos.

another silver lining, I guess, is that sylus knows and he's prepared to fight against it this time. mc even asks him in a text message what would he do if they were to be real enemies and he reassured her he'd always choose her side, always choose to fight by her side, enemies or not.

i know a lot of people think she cursed him out of love and spite, even sylus believes in that a little since it's more than implied he considers forcing her to kill him an unforgiveable sin, but to me that curse was to protect him, to ensure they'd have enough time to meet again. I guess she didn't count on how long that would take and how much he'd suffer in the meantime.

i can't talk about raf's got myth and the fact he falls into a deep slumber at the bottom of the ocean when she dies and wakes up again when she's reborn. I know he's dramatic as fuck but his fear of losing her again is so so so so powerful and it gets worse because young raf said so himself how much he hates the bottom of the ocean cause it's so cold and dark.

i also can't talk about zayne otherwise i'll cry so i won't lmao I gotta admit every now and then i read the first chapters of his master of fate myth cause it's cute and i love how naturally carefree he is at first (before realizing how in love he actually is) and i love his long hair and the teacher/student trope and the fact he's buying dresses for mc even then just because he thought they'd look good on her but I always ignore the ending 🫠

lol I love xavier's beef with himself 😂😂 I know it goes way deeper than that but I really adore how cute he is just...pouting with those sad puppy eyes. I also love all the lumiere merch VS xavier fanworks the myth brought us ♥️♥️

I was typing out the fated enemies part and started thinking "Wait a goddamn minute..." Lowkey makes me wonder if the same writers who worked on Sylus' myth also did Caleb's myth, too.

Now see with the "curse," I don't think sorceress!MC was even aware it was going to take effect. In her grief, she remembered important moments with him and just happened to remember something he had said. I feel like she said it out of a deep yearning to have him back for her sake, not to curse or punish him.

I love the stories of all of the myth counterparts falling in love with her, but man the endings of them all are just so cruel. Strangely enough, I found her ending in Caleb's myth to be the most comforting, because in a twisted sort of way, she's still with him. They both recognized each other's feelings and chose to stay together even if it meant a tragic end for them both.

[therapy-requiring-crow]

Neil: *breathing*

Kevin:

[galaxy-fleur]

My love for Leon S. Kennedy VS his fuckass hair that is a pure nightmare to draw

[luminique]

sorry yall but the robot/cyborg liker in me is having thoughts. i think this was after playing pgr and some constructs have a layer of artificial skin on top of their robot parts and i just…

i need to remove it so badly, need to just take care of them. feel the cold metal on my skin, hold their hand and feel its weight on top of mine ARHDFSKSHSJ watanabe epitaph save me…. please let november come sooner….

[widowshill]

*slams my fist on a desk* #31 (flowers) for R&V i beg

5 SENTENCE DRABBLES!

Victoria had long since given up on the appearance of propriety –– weddings, she had come to find out, were so much planning and paperwork –– and lay stretched out now across his lap with legs dangling and memo pad to the sky.

"Oh, lilacs I think ... white lilies, perhaps."

"Those are funeral flowers, Roger."

His little fiancée shot him a disapproving glance, and he returned a fond, if amused smile. "So much the better to take you across the threshold of the family tomb."

[the-casbah-way]

literally my biggest weakness as a writer is that i’m fucking terrible at conveying any kind of meaningful plot or character development without racking up a huge word count. i have no idea how people are able to pull off 15k long fics that somehow still have satisfying character arcs and plot threads. i always feel like i need SO much space to make everything flow naturally otherwise it just reads as really rushed and shallow

[oldbutchdanielcraig]

It’s a whole four-ish sentences, alongside some forwarded paperwork, and it reads: Congratulations, Roman. This is a great opportunity for you. Looking forward to seeing what you make of it. Good luck. Fuck. Shit fuck. What? It’s so fucking sick that he almost turns to the also-now-defunct sibs group chat to ask Hey, did Gerri ever send you guys professional well wishes or do you think she actually used to sort of believe in me?