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[ehresh]

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[hard-times-paramore]

I watched The Devil Judge. I'm feeling very normal.

[Template]

Edit: they didn't directly state their ages in the show, that's why I just looked up the actors' ages. If I'm wrong it's legit cause I didn't know.

[gl1tchr]

You’re in a room surrounded by all the riddlers. What do you do

I'm shoving everyone aside until I find Telltale Riddler and then I'm doing this

[unopenablebox]

im making a wedding guest list in order to. uh. destress. from work anxiety. (we are not officially engaged yet in that we are waiting for our rings to arrive sometime this month and also do not even a little have a wedding date and have not figured out a budget yet. so it's a very stupid exercise. but. i can do whatever i want)

anyway im beginning to worry that i only have two friends? i suppose it's actually good because that will cost less but possibly i have some kind of disease or condition

[ilovedthestars]

So i was bitten by the zine bug this semester and i keep thinking that a collaborative zine would be really fun to organize, especially one i could open up to my little corner of the internet. Not the shiny polished fandom zines that are really cool but also more of an anthology than a zine. I'm talking DIY photocopier and scissors zines--or as close as you can get over the internet, as the case may be.

The most fun and low stakes idea i have at the moment is a doodle zine. Like, what kinds of scribbles or shapes or little creatures do you draw in the margins of your notebooks? Fill a zine-sized page with them and send me a photo! Zero expectation of artistic skill or effort, just fill a page with marks and have fun.

And then i could stitch them together into both a digital zine file and a printable version you could use to make a paper copy. I think that would be a cool way to get as close to the physical collage vibes of a traditional zine as you can in a project that would obviously have to be conducted over the internet, where we can't just hand each other pieces of paper.

Anyway, i finally have both the motivation and the energy to potentially dive in to making this happen, but only if other people are actually interested. And this would look very different if 8 people want to participate vs. if 40 do. So:

Please feel free to reblog/spread this if you know others who might be interested! Right now this is just an idea i'm playing around with, but it might become a Real Thing very quickly if other people are also excited about it.

[scorpiusmalfoylovesoscarwilde]

headcanon that scorpius was a sick child and was in and out of hospital constantly, perhaps related to astoria's blood curse but not directly. his immune system isnt very strong, and everytime he gets sick they're terrified that it's the blood curse but also whatever else it could be, because it's always so sudden and so intense and they call healers over to the house who recommend this delirious feverish 4 year old is hospitalised immediately, and you'd think it'd get easier to some extent because they'd be used to it, but everytime they feel like this is it, this is the time he'll walk in to the hospital and not walk out again

[kindaorangey]

do yall even know about the loumand piano motif. maybe you do maybe you don't i mean the soundtrack team are a fucking geniuses either way but there's this specific motif that plays at key points throughout the unravelling of armand's lies, a few times in 2×05 and one time in 2×08. frustratingly i don't think it was released as part of the soundtrack so i can't put it here, but it's the track playing in the background when louis walks into the sun:

this is one of two times the track plays to completion. the other times, it's just a single note on a piano, repeated a few times. this is when it plays in 2×05:

when daniel asks louis why armand spared his life, and louis gives his "armand could see i was partial to you" spiel

when daniel stops dancing around what he's trying to do and says he wants "one hour, for me" to figure out what happened in san francisco

at the end of the 1973 interview, when louis is recounting his suicidal ideation after claudia left and daniel flippantly says "and then what?" after which point the interview derails completely

after the loumand argument, when armand says "but she [claudia] didn't love you" and louis says "i know". this is where the track plays to completion, leading into louis running out the room and walking into the sun

at the end of the episode, when armand returns, and he gives word-for-word the same spiel as louis did about why he saved daniel's life

i think what we see here is the key moments in what armand is hiding. point 1 and 5 are tied together, obviously, representing the tangible evidence of armand messing with louis' memory. point 2 is daniel being the wrench in the works that he is, derailing the dubai interview so he can get closure*

and so we delve into the past, despite armand's meddling (point 1), and we see how the 1973 interview went down. but we keep cutting to the present, and daniel keeps noting how unstable louis was in this interview, because he knows how it ends for louis, though louis does not. and so when we get to point 3, louis' remaining tether to sanity (re: he's using daniel as a lifebuoy) is tangibly cut. he loses it at daniel, drains him, armand shows up and puts a stop to it.

the loumand argument ensues, appearing at first as though armand will be able to manage louis' coked-up spiral (the flippancy with which he says "and here come the drugs"), but their hostility to each other eventually leads them to point 4. they're equally matched in the argument, until they aren't, and louis is sent over the edge and attempts suicide

point 4 being one of the only two moments where the track plays to completion is very significant. louis' suicide attempt, along with what armand said to him that triggered it, is the key point of this string of moments.** there are a lot of things that happen in san francisco that louis doesn't remember, and the removal of all of them is in itself an abusive act on armand's part, but the high point is the suicide attempt (and, tbh, if louis hadn't attempted suicide, i doubt armand would have felt the need to remove the memories like he did)

and so point 5 is the chilling end of the episode, confirming that yes, it was armand who removed these memories, and furthermore that he would reinforce that mind-manipulation in a heartbeat***, but i also think it represents armand maintaining the upper hand. because we get to 2×06, and though there's tension in the air, the dubai interview continues as normal, and armand convinces louis that he asked for his memories of the suicide attempt to be removed. even with all that comes out in 2×05, it's ultimately not enough on its own to topple the house of cards armand has built.

but there's one last moment where the piano motif plays, and that's in 2×08. this is the only other time it plays to completion.

it begins when daniel points out that lestat also had the power to save louis at the trial. and armand tries again to smooth it over, to rush things along to dinner, and louis gets up to do just that, until, until daniel presents him with the script from the show trial. and as louis flicks through it, the track builds and builds in the background, harkening back to everything in 2×05 that armand barely managed to smooth over and adding it to the pile of everything we just witnessed with the trial. it creates a very necessary garland of armand's manipulation without calling back to san francisco explicitly. and it's yet another in a long line of subtle and intricate storytelling that this show is so good at<3

*side note, i think daniel isn't just looking for closure here, he also suspects louis remembers his suicide attempt in 1973 full well and wants to needle louis about his true intentions with doing the dubai interview

**this isn't to say i think armand is responsible for louis' suicide attempt. i think the episode makes a great effort to show that louis is spiralling before armand shows up, before he meets daniel, even. armand saying what he said was just the final nail in the proverbial coffin

***it sort of reads as foolish for armand to repeat verbatim what he put in louis' head about saving daniel's life. but i have to assume that repeating it would reinforce the false memories, had it not been for louis and daniel's recovery of the real memories of what happened

[fymeetrasurik]

The idea that Barriss, who made Anakin Skywalker work for the win, would struggle against the grand inquisitor is deeply funny

(Was pointed out in comments that she was holding back at the start and that's very true. I mostly just wanted to meme on the inquisitors)

[the-real-neil-josten]

Who is the best athlete in your opinion? Doesn't have to be Exy.

I don’t give a fuck about other sports.

But it really depends on where we are talking about technical skill or natural talent.

If it’s overall technical skill I’d have to say Kevin obviously. Nobody knows their way around the skill of the game like Kevin. BUT if we are talking about just plain raw talent then I’d say Andrew. He’s basically been a professional level player since he picked up the sport and that in of itself is valid reasoning as to why he’s the best.

[robinsnest2111]

looking back on old posts i made like... 10 or so years ago, I cringe at my writing... at the time I thought I was so very good at forming English sentences and getting my thoughts and feelings across just like a native speaker would

but nope, all of it looks so obviously written by someone who's first language isn't English and feels so stilted and honestly primary school level to me at this current point in time

anyway.

in 2034 I'll probably look back at what I'm posting right now and feel the same way about it as I do about my posts from 2014 lmao, given tumblr still exists by then lol

[rayar32]

today is a very small "I'm not dead guys" post with FIS!Hibiki at the start of G and FIS!Hibiki by XV's finale

[mars-ipan]

just remembered a friend describing my anxiety as “severe” the other day n i still don’t know how to feel abt it

[death-rebirth-senshi]

The problem with kh3's weapon changing thing is that there's no weapon that's cooler than a keyblade.

[griseldabanks]

I've been seriously considering participating in SlowMoWriNo, a variation on NaNoWriMo where, instead of writing 50k of a story in a single month, the goal is to write for approximately 15 minutes a day for a year, starting this November, and hopefully have a novel done in a year's time. It's a challenge for those who are busy and/or burnt out, which perfectly describes me right now. I'm getting pretty close to finishing the first draft of my current WIP, and while I should probably just take a break from any sort of organized writing for the rest of the year to avoid a complete burnout, I also really like the idea of SlowMoWriNo.

So I think I'm going to do it. I can push myself for fifteen minutes a day, right? In order to still be giving myself a break from the hefty fanfic project I've been focusing on for the past four years or so, I'd like to use SlowMoWriNo to work on one of my woefully neglected original stories. Even if all I have to show for my work after a year is an outline or notes rather than 50k of readable story, it will be more than I've got right now!

I've got quite a few story ideas that have been gathering dust in my mind for years now, so which one should I dust off and take a poke at? I'll describe each one below the poll. Basically, you're voting for which story you'd like to hear updates on and potentially get excerpts from, because I'll be doing that for accountability purposes in the year ahead.

The Ambassadors - Sean is scrubbing the floor of his village's chapel when the village is attacked by a rampaging dragon. Before he knows what's happening, the dragon smashes through the chapel and dies. With her last breath, she places a dragon egg at his feet. The egg hatches in his hands, revealing a baby dragon with black scales. Though he has heard all his life about how evil and dangerous dragons are, Sean just can't bring himself to let any harm come to the baby dragon. So, changing his name to Shard, he runs away to find a place where he and his new dragon friend can live in peace. Medieval fantasy, dragon rider story, lots of angst and lots of fluff, no romance but lots of friendship with an emphasis on brotherly love between the main character and his dragon, strong Christian themes (complete with my own barely-disguised fantasy Christian religion :P). The first draft is written, but I need to completely rewrite it because I've reworked and refined a lot of the plot and worldbuilding.

The Arcblade - Aiden Averrod, captain of the airship Robin, is just about broke and looking for work for his crew when a mysterious noblewoman hires him to give her transport on her quest for the fabled Arcblade, a mystical weapon said to bring peace to their war-torn land when it is unsheathed. Reluctantly, because he has no other choice and because the young lady has a fat purse with promise of another one forthcoming when the quest is achieved, Aiden agrees and sets off on a quest that will completely upend his life. Eighteenth century-ish fantasy, steampunk (crystalpunk? is that a thing?), serious laced with humor, swashbuckling, includes a romance between major characters. So far, I've written a grand total of two scenes and then realized I needed to revisit the worldbuilding -_-

bartender story (unnamed) - Bob is the friendly, rotund third-generation owner of the town's tavern. All is going well in his life until a band of heroes comes through and...well, one thing leads to another, and in the end, Bob's tavern is just a pile of ashes. Demanding repayment for damages, Bob tags along with the band of misfits as they continue their quest to save the world from the Dark Lord. Medieval fantasy, satire with a heart, tongue-in-cheek poking fun at fantasy cliches, probably no romance but we'll see. Nothing written for this so far.

broken heart story (unnamed) - Annie has had a crush on [unnamed heartthrob] for years, but would never dare tell him. After all, she's ugly. She's fat. She has terrible acne. She's cripplingly shy, and she's been picked on and bullied her whole life. There's nothing he would ever find attractive about her. But one day she happens to witness [unnamed girl] cast a spell on him that turns his heart into an origami heart made of many separate pieces of paper folded in on each other, which she pulls apart and scatters to the winds. Without his heart, [unnamed heartthrob] has no emotions, no personality, and his so-called friends start avoiding him because he's acting so weird. Taking pity on him, Annie decides to get his heart back. Even if it might break her own heart in the process. Modern-day urban fantasy, probably some kind of magical school setting (maybe university-level?), angsty drama, romance, basically a reverse Beauty and the Beast about true love looking past the surface. Nothing written for this so far.

clone sister story (unnamed) - [Older sister] is struggling to accept the clone of her deceased younger sister, who has just been completed and come home from the lab. The decision to clone [younger sister] was a snap decision her mother made in the throes of her grief after the accident, but since then the whole family has come to grips with the knowledge that [younger sister] is gone forever. But the cloning process was already started, and her mother was unwilling to pull the plug, because she believed that clone was a real person, a real little girl who needed a mommy. Now that little girl is coming home, and they all have to remember that, just because she looks exactly like [younger sister], she is a different person. [Older sister] isn't sure what to think. Near-future sci-fi, family drama, angst and grief, family relationships with a focus on the sisters, strong Christian and pro-life themes. Nothing written for this so far.

The Family - The Shiwaga family is a wealthy, well-respected clan that has been a pillar of the town of Avalanche for generations. What no one realizes is that they're also secretly a mafia-like organization working to sabotage the government, believing it was usurped from the rightful ruler - someone Shiwaga hopes to be able to influence once they have been returned to power. (This story is actually kind of hard to summarize, both because it's currently a mess and because there's at least a dozen main characters who are all supposed to be equally important.) Meiji Japan-inspired epic fantasy, huge cast of characters with opposing motivations, family drama as well as world-threatening crises, romances as well as friendship/familial relationships are front-and-center, currently the ending is more bitter than sweet but I want to reevaluate that. This was the story I worked on the two times I've done NaNoWriMo before, so two of three parts are written, but in a very slapdash fashion that's basically just a fleshed-out outline that will probably have to be completely rewritten anyway. The original thought was to make this a trilogy.

The Four - Timor was found as a small child, abandoned in the forest and somehow managing to eke out an animal-like survival. Since then, he has been raised in the home of Avadris, a one-time counselor to the High King, who has been dead for years. As Timor grows older, Avadris slowly puts two and two together and begins to suspect Timor is actually the High King's son that everyone thought was killed the same night the king and queen were. In the hopes of restoring the order and prosperity they enjoyed under the High King's reign, Avadris announces Timor as the heir to the throne when he turns twelve. Though he asked for none of this, Timor suddenly finds himself running for his life from those who want nothing to do with a new High King, accompanied by strangers who may become friends - or may end up killing him. Medieval epic fantasy, adventure/quest, non-traditional fantasy races/peoples, no romance but various platonic relationships among the impromptu band of companions. This is what I consider to be my first "real" story idea, but even though I came up with it when I was twelve and still believe in its potential, I've never finished a draft and don't really know how it ends anymore ^^' Probably needs to be started over from scratch for the...fourth or fifth time.

four siblings story (unnamed) - Jack, Sophie, Rebecca, and Grace are recently orphaned siblings who know they have to stick together to survive. The good news is, they all have superpowers that have manifested as they struggle with their grief over their parents. As they try to gain control over their powers and figure out how to balance them with the serious side effects those powers bring, they are taken in by the wealthy Dr. Clementine, a jovial old philanthropist who promises to be like a grandfather to them while also giving them opportunities and resources to hone their supernatural skills to the fullest. But it's not long before the four siblings begin to suspect his motives are more sinister than they seemed at first. Modern-day urban fantasy, children's/YA fiction, adventure, no romance but a heck-ton of positive sibling relationships and eventually found family, standalone with possible sequel potential. Meant to evoke some combination of Escape to Witch Mountain, The Girl Who Could Fly, and E. Nesbit (Five Children and It)/Edward Eager (Half Magic) books.

[nat-without-a-g]

Don’t mind me just making a character sheet for the D.A.D.D.I.E.S Paeden AU… as someone who thinks a lot about DND but doesn’t play a lot, I’d love feedback for what a reasonable level for a 33 year old training since they were 8 would be ^^’