#jury is still out on that one

[canisalbus]

*carefully picks you up and peeks into your conch snail shell*

Ehm... Sorry to bother, but... Could we, maybe, possibly... see Vasco's wife and her lover pictured by your hand? Sorry again, thank you for listening. Take care.

*delicately lays you back into the water to prevent any stress or dehydration*

Unfortunately I don't have her lover figured out yet, but I think Ludovica looks something like this:

[delicourse]

i miss them a little if im gonna be honest

[dorkicon]

well. i dont have much. but i do have a quintesson team up au that lives in my head. that has to count for something right.

[leisi-lilacdreams]

some dpxdc content as a treat

original ref under cut

[lyoneve]

Buttons looking through telescope: No angst in sight! Only fluff ahead!

[thelolarahaii]

BRIDGERTON 3.01 | "Out of the Shadows"

[arielluva]

screenshot redraw! though i took creative liberty in making it rain here even though it isnt (yet) in the screenshot bc i thought it'd be cool (i also enjoy drawing water droplets)

there are two versions of the drawing here, the first one is edited for mobile to get it to look closer to my intended colors, while the second one is the original from my computer. the third image here being the original screenshot, lol

[illgiveyoumygavichal]

Okay, I originally wrote a really kind and polite reply, saved it to my drafts to give myself time to think and then realized you didn't give me the same level of respect. So, fuck it. You're an ageless blog, but I'm going to attempt to not presume your age in this reply.

One: I never once said I was horny for the character, you simply presumed that I was because I was in defense of the fandom instead of you. In most cases, presuming someone's sexuality is seen as extremely rude and I've decided to take it personally. I'm offended, and I normally stay out of fandom discourse to the best of my abilities---which I admit are flawed.

But that brings us to two: your entire text is littered with aggression, which I don't think I justly earned. I wasn't attacking you. I wasn't even aggressive in my original reply. I was just stating facts: You can't police a fandom; You don't get to tell people how to enjoy entertainment.

Which leads to point number three: The mere fact that you intentionally tagged your original post to include the whole fandom and led with, which I am quoting verbatim, this: "I feel like swinging a bat at a hornets nest..." (First line in the original post.) This means that you chose to receive comments regarding the topic, which means you don't get to individually tag and attack me for sharing my opinion on your tagged post. We can discuss it, yes, but that doesn't give you grounds to call me an asshole or a horndog just because I said something you didn't agree with.

Now, on to the subject of the ace-spectrum part of all this.

First, you're infantilizing your 'own people' by, and I quote again, "...say[ing] the quiet part out loud." (First line in the original post.) You're implying that sex-repulsed aces are incapable of blacklisting keywords like 'smut' and so the whole fandom must conform to your ideology.

Secondly, they aren't your 'own people.' They are on the ace-spectrum, WE are on the same ace-spectrum. Dividing us and our identify is a radical ideation meant to dismantle the legitimacy of the Ace identity that a lot of aphobes use to keep us separate and in disarray, so that we're too busy fighting amongst ourselves instead of uniting and being allies to each other.

As for the character in question: I'm sorry you think Alastor is your only sex-repulsed rep, but if I remember correctly I do not believe he is the only one. Just the most recent and popular one, because he is a tumblr sexyman. He has been since the pilot. And personally, I think he's a shit representation of the ace-spectrum because of his stereotypical approach to things such as the implication that he doesn't understand what Rosie meant by an 'ace-in-the-hole' and that he simply avoids the subject of sex in any way possible. Additionally, I don't think it's respectful to imply all ace-identifying folk are psychotic serial killers especially when we're so often told that our asexuality is 'all in our heads' and 'we just haven't found the right person yet.' Not saying him being stereotypically ace is a bad thing entirely, I'm just not going to go and use him as a reference for good ace-spec rep whenever I'm discussing the subject to anyone outside of our community.

So, to sum all of this up in the fair and classic words of tumblr and ao3: don't like, don't read. And maybe go outside and take a break from the internet for a bit, it'll help. Then go and update your blacklist settings, you disrespectful and selfish fuck :)

I feel like swinging a bat at a hornets nest so I'll say the quiet part out loud. A lot of y'all are bein aphobic as hell when it comes to Alastor. Alastor is seen to act repulsed multiple times in the show when other characters have suggested sexual acts with him and between that and his being confirmed ace, the fact that Alastors tag is still full of smutty fics just shows that you don't respect the character or folks on the ace spectrum at all. Yes, some ace folks aren't sex repulsed but Alastor clearly isn't one of those folks and y'all doing gymnastics to try to justify your constant objectification of our only confirmed ace character says a lot about y'all and how little y'all respect us.

Y'all are doing the exact thing to Alastor that so many of us on the ace spectrum fear from those around us every single day. You don't care about the character at all, you only care about how you wish he would fuck you and there's literally a whole show of other characters you can do that with that isn't the only confirmed ace character.

[ladyloveandjustice]

This came up on youtube so I was able to relisten and confirm without having to replay the game- Nanami, who famously did not know the english word cow and so did not know that a cowbell is a bell for cows, knows the English word "lesbian". This implies so much.

[vampkomori]

ip3 text posts but 80% of it is ratio

[kacievvbbbb]

I don't know there's a lot of alcoholics in One Piece as to be expected pirates and all.

But something about Shanks and Rayleigh's drinking feels a little more like drinking to forget than your more run of the mill pirate alcoholism. It just feels like Something that the people that love them maybe worry about a little too much for it to be fun.

[gatoraid]

She Who Became the Sun illustrations by Przemysław "Trust" Truściński

Okay I did some digging around and managed to find an ebook version of the illustrated Polish edition (Ta, która stała się słońcem) of She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan!! I got my copy from swiatksiazki.pl with the help of automatic translation.

Here are the illustrations I thought would be the most interesting to show here.

Chapters 1–4, Zhu at the monastery

Chapter 7, Ouyang

Chapter 10 - Ouyang and Esen

Chapter  16 - Zhu and Ma’s wedding

Chapter 19 - Zhu and Ma figuring out the business of rain and clouds

Had to censor this one OTL

Chapter 22 - Esen and Ouyang

Chapter 23, Zhu at the end of the book

[hiding-under-the-willow]

Oli with Cowboy?

COWBOY COWBOY COWBOY

[kanalaure]

(*i dont know what kind of dog huan is, but he sheds. a lot. caranthir just wants to have ONE (1) space thats not covered in shed fur)

assume this is in the context of a modern au, or else that everyone is miraculously back from the dead and generally getting along fine and in the interim aman has had its industrial revolution and produced a more eco-friendly equivalent to our technologies

dont take this too seriously or get upset if your blorbo isn't represented, i filled out the ballot on a whim lmao. if you have someone you are Convinced would have one that isn't on this ballot, please do mention it in the tags

[good-beanswrites]

My thoughts on how the Milgram mv machine works based on the evidence we have:

(I know there’s been discussion about where exactly the interrogations take place, but wherever they are,) the prisoners are made to sit in a specific chair near the wall that houses the machine.

It’s ordinarily hidden, but the wall panels shift aside to reveal it when the mechanical sounds play in the dramas. As well as the walls moving, the chair transforms to restrain the prisoner and attach whatever it takes to access their brain. The fact that none of the more frightened prisoners try to run or break it makes it seem like they physically cannot. This is why Fuuta sounds so panicked, and why Amane is suddenly helpless in front of Es in their T1 vds.

(My mind conjures very classic sci-fi mad scientist machines with wires, pipes, lights, nodes, needles, etc, but I’d love to hear how other people visualize it.)

In some vds (maybe all? I’d need to check,) you can hear Es take some steps right before their iconic line -- it would make sense that for safety reasons, the power mechanism is placed across the room. Once again it could be anything, but the sound effect makes me think of one of those giant wall-mounted levers you have to pull down.

The voice dramas don’t really provide the type of crime details that an actual interrogation would reveal, and it’s odd that they’re placed before the extraction rather than after Es gets to see the new details. This leads me to believe the machine functions with priming. All Es needs to do is get them talking about their murder, so it’s on their mind.

The video produced is much like a (non-lucid) dream. Even if the prisoners figure out that this is how it works, they can’t control it just by thinking really hard about something else. The murders produce the strongest emotional affect, and that’s what it picks up on. If someone else used the machine, it would default to whatever gave them the strongest emotional reaction in the ~15 minutes beforehand, hence why Es’ video focuses on their daunting task ahead. (The Undercover theory is still a bit loose, though, given the private shots that Es wouldn't have known about). It’s why the videos are usually closely linked to the vd topics/beats. I also like to think that the reason their prisoner colors appear so much is because they’re looking at those colors on their uniform 24/7.

The bell rings to inform Es that it’s the optimal time to use the machine -- the prisoner has been thinking about things for long enough that the video will be about their crime, and if the conversation lasts much longer they’ll start thinking of other things. It’s at a different time for each prisoner because it’s based on the specific conversation. I guess Jackalope is listening in to the interrogation, timing it perfectly. (The only one that kind of messes with this theory is Yonah, because they just keep talking afterwards lol, but it could just show that the interrogation is still in Es’ control.)

Their “Sing your sins” is the final priming nudge to get them to think of their actions as a sin, revealing their guilt.

Once activated, the prisoner enters a sort of trance/sleeping state. It’s very much like REM sleep, with the machine forcibly activating neurons and recording the output. The prisoners have asked Es what they saw, meaning they don’t remember the mvs. I like to think the prisoners do experience the mv in real time, acting as the major version of themself that appears, but can’t remember it afterwards. It’s when you experience a dream, but as soon as you wake up you’re just left with fleeting emotions and memories right on the tip of your tongue.

The video plays immediately upon extraction -- whether on a huge projection or little screen depends on which room it’s in. It simultaneously saves the memory so that Es can rewatch it later (on those old TVs in the jailbreak mix). The machine downloads the song and video together, but requires special parts to retrieve them. The technology is pretty new and fragile, so if one is broken, there might be a delay between when Es can hear the extracted song and see it with the video. (That’s my justification for Kotoko’s delays -- after 9 prisoners the parts wear out, or maybe Mikoto himself overheats it with his complex situation.)

Based on the lack of conversation we get afterwards, I picture Es leaving before the prisoner wakes from the trance. The machine adjusts their brain back to normal before they awaken, restraints freed and able to return to the rest of the prison.

It’s very much like a dream, so it’s not harmful despite the amnesia/head injuries the prisoners have. It does, however, exhaust them. Brain activity alone takes a lot of energy, so forced brain activity with added emotional strain would cause them to feel pretty drained the rest of the day.

[wes-laye]

(GIF alert)

Are y'all ready for angst babes (i'm not)