#life updates;

[reliablejoukido]

a little update...

Hi everyone, I hope you are all doing well!

I just need to let you all know I’m really sorry, but I don’t think I can make that Daisuke text chain fanfic happen in time for Daisuke Week. The construction at my house, exhaustion from the convention, and other mental health issues are giving me a severe writing block right now, making fanfic writing not very fun at the moment. I will still make some sort of graphic edit for Daisuke Week, because I love him and I love making edits. But the fanfic that I made the poll for is going to have to wait until I feel better.

Thanks for understanding, friends. This fandom means a lot to me.

[etherealspacejelly]

i think we should all start using arabic words and phrases more often because its a beautiful language and also theres not really. english equivalents that have the same vibes

theres also the comedy potential of it. you guys dont know the joy of having your muslim friend text you "hopefully the racists in our city will all get sick and cant go to the protest" and you, as a pasty white guy, responding with "inshallah they get covid"

its a one hit KO every time. its fucking hilarious. theres no english word that has the same effect.

he also once texted me that he got over a mysterious illness he came down with (i think? i cant remember the exact context) and i responded with "subhanallah he is cured"

again, one hit KO. he lost his shit.

what im saying is we gotta normalise arabic. its just a language like any other, and it has some great words. its just like saying "thank god" or whatever, but theres so much variety and nuance. its beautiful

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[shepscapades]

Creaking Bigb!! I did these a couple of nights ago after watching bigb’s first wildlife ep >:]

[eyeonpalestine]

BREAKING: Israel is currently bombing Syria’s capital city of Damascus, targeting residential areas.

Within a single day alone, Israel has dropped bombs Gaza, South Lebanon and Syria.

This is not victim behavior.

This is terrorism.

[angstflavoured]

redraw of a panel from @void-dude's theraprism comic bc i can feel it changing my neurons as we speak

[ribbittrobbit]

these kids are incredibly stressed out

[sqwigeon]

(taps mic) is this thing on?

[epicfranb]

grian gets died

[galaghiel]

Both Jack and Maddie stared at him, speechless. Silence blanketed the lab, everything but Danny’s strangled crying, his hand pressed over the muzzle as if to hide it. No- to hold it still, to still the dozen wicked barbs that were digging into his tongue, probably ripping it with each sob.

a little sketch of @liketolaugh-writes amazing one-shot fanfic that you can read here

[favoure]

"do the opposite of what people tell you to do"

[reliablejoukido]

Life and Project Updates March 2023

Hello friends! Now that Daikeru Day is over, I just wanted to give everyone some updates on what’s going on. I’m pretty burnt out as far as writing Digimon stories goes, so I’m going to be taking a well-needed writing break/hiatus from now until May. I’m still going to be checking out all the lovely stories that everyone has been updating the past few weeks, which I’m really excited about. Anyway, the rest of this update is under the cut.

Fanfic projects: Once my hiatus is over, I’m going to work on the latter half of “Flying Hope”, then chapter 3 of “So Come and Dance with Me”. Updating “Somewhere Only We Know” may not happen until August 1st rolls around.

Fanart/other projects: I’m going to either make a fanart or gifset for Daisuke Week in April. Also I’m 10 (non-bot) followers away from reaching a fun milestone, so I wanted to do something for that, whenever that occurs. But other than those things, I probably won’t be active making content until late spring.

Fun life updates: I have 2 anime conventions coming up in the next 30 days, so I’m working hard prepping cosplay. If anyone is going to Zenkaikon, I’m going as Ken Ichijouji. And if anyone is at Anime Boston this year, I’ll be (hopefully) debuting my Daisuke Motomiya cosplay (as well as cosplaying Ken on Sunday probably). Please come say hi if you see me!

Stressful life updates: And of course, as I previously stated, there are renovations going on in my house through the rest of March and probably into April. The carpet on my main level is being replaced with flooring, and I’m getting my basement finished. I don’t have the ability to work from home very much, so I’m expecting to be really anxious while I leave my cat alone locked in a bedroom while people are working in my house without me there. I know it’s common for workers to be in houses without the owner there, but this is my first time experiencing that, so it’s going to be challenging.

Anyway, I just wanted to give a big THANK YOU to everyone who supports me in the Digimon fandom. I love having friends here and talking to people on tumblr and discord. Even though I’m going on hiatus, I will still be active on both platforms.

I hope everyone has an amazing next couple of months!

[etherealspacejelly]

i wish the star trek medical instruments were real i would love to sit on a bed that shows my doctor how much pain im in and then they scan me with a little blinky device that makes a funny noise and know exactly whats wrong with me and then give me a pill that makes me regrow a kidney or whatever the fuck

[starcurtain]

Teyvat's "Most Down Bad" Award Goes to Alhaitham for a Second Year Running

Seeing everyone making fun of Alhaitham for his "stalkerish" tendencies in this event is funny, because I feel like a lot of people missed that "Be literally everywhere Kaveh is" has been Alhaitham's MO from the day Kaveh appeared in the game.

From only grabbing his house keys after Kaveh returned from the desert (he couldn't have had both sets of keys at the end of the Archon Quest unless he went home and got Kaveh's copy) to ditching conversations to get back to his house only after Kaveh came home, to showing up without any warning or explanation in Kaveh's hangout with some ridiculous excuse about hearing his voice through noise-cancelling headphones... Refusing to offer any help in the Temple of Silence story quest other than staying in the library with Kaveh...

Since when does Alhaitham willingly cover anyone else's duties?

But this trend of "Be everywhere Kaveh is" didn't start when they were adults. It was already in place when they were still Akademiya students--and it's a trend that didn't end even when they had their fight.

Even when they weren't speaking, Alhaitham dogged Kaveh's every step through published responses to Kaveh's research articles in academic journals. He insisted on keeping a line of communication between himself and Kaveh open, even if the only way to do that was through very public ideological clashes. Pulling Kaveh's pigtails to get his attention lolol. It's implied that, for at least the few years between their fight and Kaveh moving in, this was the only communication between them--Alhaitham's refusal to allow their connection to entirely fade away. (And the fact that this is revealed in Kaveh's character stories--through his precious journal that records the moments of his life that had the most impact on him--shows just how deeply he values the fact that Alhaitham didn't give up.)

Another relevant side note: Alhaitham never asked Kaveh to give up his half of their house. Knowing half of it belonged to Kaveh, knowing that Kaveh may one day want to reclaim his part of it, knowing that it was listed as theirs, Alhaitham moved into the house and made zero effort to change its ownership. He was completely fine with living in "his and Kaveh's house." The stories suggest it was only months later (or even longer) that Kaveh even noticed he had the house, and he transferred away ownership of his portion without Alhaitham ever asking him (or even seemingly wanting him) to do so.

Please, let that sink in. Alhaitham actively left his grandmother's (presumably comfortable) house to move into "his and Kaveh's house," with no apparent explanation for why, and after doing so, he made no attempt to change that "his and Kaveh's" label. He moved into the house with no promise that Kaveh wouldn't show up on the doorstep the very next day and move in too. It almost feels like another deliberate provocation--I've moved into our house, are you going to come stop me? LBR, if Alhaitham had had his way, Kaveh would have been living there with him from Day 1...

There's also the fact that Kaveh literally can't write on a single message board anywhere in the entire nation of Sumeru without Alhaitham hunting his messages down and responding to them (which absolutely no one else does, by the way).

"NUH-UH!" "UH-HUH." "NUH-UH!"

Alhaitham's own character stories tell us explicitly that one of Alhaitham's defining character traits is "He is never where you need him to be," yet somehow...

Shot, and chaser:

Any time Kaveh is in the slightest bit of need or danger or just wants Alhaitham near, Alhaitham is "coincidentally" exactly where Kaveh needs him to be, whenever Kaveh needs him to be there.

Alhaitham didn't just "happen" to run into Kaveh in Port Ormos, an entirely different city from where he was supposed to be working. He didn't just "happen" to read the same terrible book as Kaveh when we know he otherwise would not waste a moment of his time on poorly-written literature...

He didn't just "happen" to appear when Kaveh was upset and needed a distraction in the House of Daena during Kaveh's hangout. He didn't just "happen" to be sitting around waiting when Kaveh needed answers after the Archon Quest. He didn't just "happen" to find Kaveh's academic publications and every single message board posting and respond to them at length and in public.

The only person for whom Alhaitham just "happens" to be available is Kaveh, over and over and over again--because he is very deliberately making himself a constant presence in Kaveh's life.

Which is exactly what Kaveh's mother told Kaveh he needed.

(Like, out of all things, I think people really underestimate the devs deliberately paralleling the romantic relationship between Kaveh's mother and father with Kaveh and Alhaitham's relationship. If you want to point to one thing that says "These two characters are intentionally queer-coded," it doesn't get any more obvious than this.)

Alhaitham, are you not embarrassed to be this transparent??? 🫣

[shepscapades]

@zhukzucraft YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING INDESCRIBABLE TO ME!!!

[eyeonpalestine]

A doctor from Gaza loses his son during an operation without anesthesia.