#like he has a lot superficial stuff he is concerned about

[hcnnibal]

and what qualities does a1 fear having assigned to him?

a1 thinks about what people are thinking about him all the time so the list is quite long:

-uneducated and/or dumb

-poor

-unattractive/undesirable/unpopular

-behind on trends

-weird/unpleasant/out of place

-his authority not being recognized

-incompetent/inexperienced

[loopimay]

Why I Ship ReflectiveDetective (and why you should too!)

DISCLAIMER: 

This post does NOT insist that ReflectiveDetective is canon, nor does it insist you have to ship it. It exists solely as an appreciation and explanation post. Also, Glisten and Rodger are both canonically NON-RELATED ADULTS as confirmed by Qwel. Thank you.

PART 1: Interactions

Glisten and Rodger currently have two elevator interactions. In the first one, Glisten comments on Rodger's smudged glass.

In the second one, Rodger checks in on Glisten to make sure he's doing okay.

Though seemingly incidental, there's lots here to discuss:

Starting with the first, we're told Glisten cares enough about Rodger to notice something as small as the smudges on his face. This may come across as trivial, especially for someone obsessed with appearance, but it's pretty out of character for him to notice something so small! From his interactions with Cosmo, Shelly, and Yatta, we can infer that Glisten is actually really *bad* at noticing things about others. He forgets Cosmo's stars are a part of his appearance, writes Yatta's circus troupe off as "clown stuff," and even mispronounces Shelly's name. These aren't little details he just missed, they're basic facts about toons he lives with. He should've picked up on these things ages ago, yet they seem to slip his mind.

But Rodger's smudges? He comments on them immediately (and often enough for Rodger to know it's coming.)

"But maybe the smudges are really obvious!"

Maybe, but if so, wouldn't Tisha have said something about them? In the singular interaction she has with Rodger, she makes no note of his glass, and from what we know about Tisha, she *would* point something like that out. She's very adamant when it comes to cleanliness, sometimes to the dismay of others. It's practically her job to be.

This is what makes Glisten's comment so interesting. If he's noticing details that Tisha is missing, that means he's been paying *very* close attention to Rodger's face. Hmm... suspcious.

Interaction two gives us more insight into Rodger's feelings towards Glisten. He's one of the only toons he checks up on, and of them, he's the one that Rodger is the most worried about. The other two, Boxten and Brightney, get far less personal questions about their well-being.

It says a lot that Rodger will tell Boxten to count if he's feeling nervous, but he'll tell Glisten not to forget his "keen eye," implying that he's keeping watch over him specifically.

The obvious conclusion being: the two both give each other attention that they don't give to other toons.

But it doesn't stop there! Glisten's interactions with Toodles also give us some extra layers to his and Rodger's relationship.

The first one isn't much, but it is noteworthy that Glisten gets along so well with Rodger's daughter.

The second one, however…

What Toodles says here is extremely significant. Though easy to brush off Glisten "crying and complaining to Rodger" as a funny comment, it holds a LOT of weight! Glisten NEVER tells toons about his problems or insecurities. The mere implication of imperfect makes him deflect.

He won't let Astro discuss his concerning dreams in public. He panics when Sprout suggests his mirror is cracked. He won't even tell Tisha his morning routine.

But according to Toodles, Glisten has a habit of going to Rodger (and only Rodger) with his problems. Sure, these could be very superficial issues he's getting off his chest, but even the most shallow of problems are ones Glisten does not want others to know about. He has an image to maintain, after all! Yet Rodger is the exception...

...This goes both ways, which brings me to:

PART 2: Implications

Returning to Rodger and Tisha's interaction, there is definite proof that Glisten is one of the "trusted friends" Rodger is referring to. For starters, I've already covered the close bond the two share. But is Glisten also disorganized? YES!

Compare Glisten's room to Goob and Scraps', one canonically considered dirty. They're a very similar amount of messy. Crumpled-up papers, mismatched carpets, food lying around the place... none of that reads "organized."

Speaking of Glisten's room, there exists a particular note in which Glisten details an encounter he had with Rodger where he helped him carry files into the elevator.

Not only does this prove that Glisten is willing to help him, but also that Rodger would otherwise trust him to. This note also tells us Rodger gives Glisten the validation he craves from the other toons. Why else would he end it off with "I should spend time with [Rodger] more" if he wasn't flattered by his compliment? 

So we have the dynamic, but what can be done with it? Let us discuss:

PART THREE: Potential

This part will mainly consist of how I interpret Glisten and Rodger's relationship. It will focus less on canon itself and more on the fun ways you can build off of it.

Glisten yearns for attention; it says so on his title card:

And Rodger is someone who can give him not just the attention he wants, but also the attention he needs. In multiple ways, whether it be through compliments or concerns, Rodger makes Glisten feel seen. His praise means enough to Glisten for him to journal about it, and though he brushes off Rodger's regards for his safety in their elevator interaction, he'll still go to him to "cry and complain." Besides, Rodger is a detective. It's his job to see through facades. He'd know when Glisten is putting up a front of perfection and be able to look past it to see the real him. What else is that keen eye for, right?

And what of Glisten's part in their relationship? Considering how unpopular Rodger is with the other toons, particularly the mains, having someone like Glisten to help with carrying files and bantering about smudged glass is a lot. Even if it is "part of the job" as a detective, nobody enjoys being disliked or dismissed by others, especially former friends. Yet despite Rodger's reputation, Glisten is in his corner.

There is more I could discuss, but that will have to be saved for a continuation. This post is already long enough! But I hope this shines some light on ReflectiveDetective's charm. It's one of my favorite pairings and I hope to share it with more people. Thank you for reading!

[caramelcleopatraa]

ALL UP IN YOU MIND

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x: ..... hey y'all (,,>﹏<,,) i'm back with sum short and sweet while I'm writing some other stuff. I hope you enjoy :) excuse any errors I didn't catch ~ Cleo

You tried to act like it doesn’t bother you, but every time you see him, your sexual frustration rises. You were bound to explode at some point.

Your body was damn near vibrating. Restraint was your closest acquaintance recently. You sat there and watched him as he accepted business call after strenuous business call. You knew yourself. It was impossible to be in the same space as your husband and not be magnetized to him from the jump. It’s not like it was the only thing you noticed about him. The countless days of work that he’s put in, the stress that comes with maintaining good at his job, especially one that was so demanding like wrestling, and the physical work that has taken a toll on him is something that a lot of people can't handle. You understood what he had to do to even have these moments so that he can come home and relax… well, semi-relax, because those business calls just seemed to keep coming. You never wanted to seem superficial and at the very least, only concerned with sex. But… fuck, sometimes when you saw him relaxing and lounging around the house, taking a shower, or taking care of business. The simplest things were your biggest triggers. You couldn’t count on less than two hands how many times you had gotten hot and bothered over him being stern over the phone, when negotiations were rocky. Seeing him in such concentration just sent you into an enticing spiral that was fun at times, but excruciating in many other situations. Those times when he came home and he wanted nothing more than sleep, or the quiet days of solitude after energy draining events. You found yourself dealing with a puddle between your legs, leading to those suspicious long showers. 

Roman was the best package deal you could’ve ever wished for. A mature man that preferred communication over assumption, paired with the face and body of a god, spoiled the ever living hell out of you, always made sure you were taken care of. Mentally, physically, and sexually. It’s like second nature for him, and he already does so much for you. So you figured you could just deal with yourself when you got too excited. But it started happening so often, you had to tell him. You needed him. Bad. As much as you tried not to burden him with your newly discovered and frankly annoying sex drive, you knew what he could do, how he could make that provocative ache subside. You daydreamed for hours about how euphoric it would feel once he finally put his hands on you. It pays to be selfless, but you wanted him to yourself just for the weekend. All yours, with no distractions. Just you and him.

That’s the position you just put yourself in. Such a conflict of interest. You had wished sometimes when he had heard your moans from inside the bathroom, due to you stopping trying to be quiet, that he would strip down to nothing and join you. But you knew when duty called, it was hard for him to get distracted when he had his mind concentrated on what he was doing.

You had daydreamed what it would be like if you teased him while he was working until he reached his breaking point. How he would never rush you, but be so impatient to take of your silk robe and sit you in his chair while he kneeled before you and ate you out like it was his first time tasting you, hands roaming your legs and up your torso and eventually grabbing your throat with both hands, still eating your pussy until you experience dizzying bliss. And after that, how easy it is for his dick to slip inside of you with his hands still around your neck while telling you how needy you are, and how he can’t wait to fuck your needy pussy. He’d damn near forget that he’s on a business call, unmuting himself to make some lackadaisical excuse as to why he couldn’t stay on, still snatching your soul with his strokes and eye contact that served as a nonverbal command to not make a fucking sound until they hung up. Your eyes would roll as you felt yourself closer to cumming as you worked circles on your clit, listening to his words that made you moan just on their own. 

“Lemme see that beautiful face while you cum all over this dick.”

“You can take that dick baby, don’t tell me what you can’t take.”

“That pussy too damn good baby, got me addicted to you.”

You had blinked your eyes numerous times to bring you out of your daydream, rubbing your temple and letting out a heavy sigh. ”You okay over there baby?”

“How long until you're finished with your phone call?” He points to his phone, laying face down on the desk next to him. “Just got off.”

Your body moved on its own, walking over to him and sitting on top of him with no hesitation, massaging his shoulders softly. “Good, because I really want you daddy. I can’t wait any longer.”

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[deafeninggalaxycandy]

✨️CLYDE DONOVAN HEADCANONS✨️

trigger warning: mentions of a dead parent, slight mention of drugs, general fuckboy activities

• Clyde Sterling Donovan

• He/Him

• Born on April 10th 2003

• 5'11"

• "Straight" (Closeted bisexual)

• Unironically says brainrot terms like "rizz" and "what the sigma"

• Clyde became a lot closer to Tolkien since he was the main one to show genuine empathy- and concern over his mother dying. He was also one of the first kids to say that it wasn't Clyde's fault (even though it sort of was but letting a child believe that he killed his mom is pretty fucked up).

• After his mom died, Clyde became very uncomfortable around toilets and bathrooms in general. The emerge of skibidi toilet made him break down in tears and the trauma came flooding back. He genuinely does blame himself for her death and was sent to counseling by his dad for it. He's slowly getting better but he never stops thinking that it was his fault. He's always like insanely careful about putting down the toilet seat now and starts freaking out if he sees it up in anyone's house.

• Clyde isn't really a crybaby but he doesn't like talking about his feelings and the compressed emotion just comes out randomly in tears. Even when he's not sad. He genuinely cries over things that are important to him, like his relationship to Bebe, or his mom dying. Other times, it's other small stuff that just tips him over the edge after these things are already on his mind. The entire month of May makes him sob and he refuses to leave his bed (it’s the month of Mother's Day and the month of his mom's birthday)

• Swears up and down he's 6 feet tall, he'll fight anybody who says he's 5'11"

• Genuinely in love with Tolkien but absolutely will not admit it. He doesn't even think he's bisexual.

• He did like Bebe at first because she was a pretty girl showing interest in him but eventually realized they didn't have much in common and were only together for superficial reasons. Bebe just liked having someone who'd give her anything she wanted and Clyde liked having a popular blonde girl on his arm. Neither of them had any real love or respect for each other.

• Once they got to the age where they could have sex, Clyde began cheating on her with some other girls in class. He genuinely saw nothing wrong with it since the relationship wasn't real in the first place. He was actually surprised when Bebe was mad about it. After she left though, he sank into a depression. He didn’t like her per se but he did miss her presence. And just being able to say he has a girlfriend. He felt like a failure for losing someone as popular and pretty as Bebe. Also she was the only one willing to actually date him, not just sleep around.

• Ever since the breakup, he's been trying to get her back by giving her free shoes. Like not even a discount anymore, just giving her any shoes she wants from his dad's store. He also briefly had issues with Kyle and even tried to fight him for supposedly "stealing his girl".

• Anyways back to Tolkien. He actually wants him, because Tolkien really cares about Clyde's issues and interests instead of just mocking him. He actually has a level of respect for Clyde and Clyde has not only respect for, but admiration for him. He's genuinely in awe of how collected and well-balanced Tolkien is in compared to literally everyone else he knows.

• Listens to Joey Valence and Brae, Beastie Boys, Eminem but specifically early 2000s Eminem (He screams along to "Kim" when he's alone).

• After being called fat for so long by his classmates (and them especially doubling down when Cartman was in the psych ward), Clyde took this pain and turned into a gym bro. He's actually in really good shape and has pretty good muscle definition. He slumped back into comfort eating in junior to senior year of high-school and some of his weight was gained back but he's not "fat" just a little bit chubby.

• Has a lot of energy and enthusiasm for most things. He's always excited to be doing something, especially with his friends. He's the main one who's always trying to get the others to get outside and do something fun.

• Got really into football as per his dad's advice so he could get more exercise and wasn't "bouncing off the walls" at home. He pours most if not all of his feelings into the game. It's like therapy to him and also why he didn't care for counseling. He already feels like he has it on the field.

• Drinks a LOT of energy drinks and 5-Hour Energy. He hates feeling slow, depressed or tired, he needs to be at 100% at all times. Once he's done crying over something, he'll literally force himself to drink a Redbull and play Usher to get over it.

• Says "no homo" any time he says or does anything remotely affectionate to another guy.

• Best friends with Tolkien, Cartman and Craig.

• Sleeps during class and drools on the desk.

• Ultimate third wheel to Tweek and Craig. He crashes almost all their dates until Craig shoves him away. He giggles like a schoolgirl when the two kiss and has a big ass yaoi poster of them. Tweek got really pissed at this and made him take it off his wall but he just keeps it in his drawer.

• Really, really, stubborn. When he has his mind set on something, he'll never fucking get over it and he will argue until he passes out. Then he wakes up, he'll start all over again.

• Clyde's dad had to work a lot more since his mom died, so he was alone at home mostly. He got through this because his older sister decided to start visiting home more. She moved out of South Park but she comes back every 2-3 weeks so Clyde won't be lonely. He really fucking misses his sister and gets incredibly excited when she comes back home. They became pretty close and she sort of filled that empty mom role for him.

• Sees Craig like a brother. He was his first friend and the first person to defend him in a fight. They bully each other a lot, and Craig is usually trying to keep him from doing something stupid. Or Clyde is playing dumbass pranks on him. (he filled his shoes with spray cheese once and received a black eye) Plus, they used to watch Red Racer together.

• Plays video games all the time. Mostly GTA and Call of Duty.

• Genuinely doesn't take Cartman seriously and thinks he's fucking hilarious. In his mind, nobody can unironically be that terrible, so he assumes everything Cartman says is just dark satire. Even when he's being racist, homophobic, antisemitic, etc.

• King of parties. Kenny started supplying him with alcohol and drugs and he had Tolkien let him use his house for throwing parties. He always gets super drunk and starts breakdancing and then falling on his face. He also suggested doing body shots and introduced that into the school, now everyone does it.

Ngl, I'm lowkey falling off with my hcs. Clyde has a lot of character that I need to unpack. When I'm finally free from work, I swear I'm doing a psychological analysis on all these guys.

If ur one of those guys who doesn't like my very popular portrayal of Clyde as a hyper emotional bisexual dudebro fuckboy im gonna tell u rn that I don't care :)

this is what came into my brain. deal with it. (and it definitely has nothing to do with the fact I was watching euphoria while thinking about clyde)

My perfect man Tolkien is up next 💜

Drink water and stay safe it's cold as hell <3

[prince-liest]

velvette marketing spells and potions as part of her brand actually makes me wonder if THAT would end up being a bone alastor has to pick with her- we haven't seen a whole lot of her magic, mainly advertisements, but it all seems to be very much Pop Culture Witchcraft stuff, which she then sells to the masses.

alastor might take offense to her in the same way he takes offense to vox: she's entirely superficial, taking something that SHOULD be an art and deeply personal and being a total sellout by attempting to profit off of it. there's also the inherent dichotomy of Pop Culture Witchcraft being largely rooted in cultural appropriation versus Alastor's vodou magic being derived from, you know, his cultural heritage and a religion he actively practiced while alive.

My understanding is that as far as actual theorizing about canon is concerned, Alastor is no longer supposed to be an actual practitioner of vodou and more rather just...vaguely and nonspecifically "occult," a decision that Vivziepop made due to it being pointed out to her that vodou is a closed religion that she probably shouldn't be fucking around with.

THAT SAID, the original inspiration for him is still very obvious and the changes made are superficial at best (though the associations are also superficial, pff). I doubt this is what's going to be canon in this specific way, but it would absolutely make sense in fanon. I suspect he would still be easier on withholding judgment of her to a certain extent, but the combination of just, like, totally throwing appropriate treatment of magic out the window and also her association with Vox and following in his footsteps probably really does it for him.

His perspective of Velvette in general is something I'm looking forward to learning more about because it's seemed like much of his animosity towards Vox is for being a sellout, but Velvette's particular choice of art (fashion) is pretty culturally linked to public trends. Plus, where Vox is an opportunistic trend-follower... she's more of a trend-setter, which I think Alastor would respect.

If she didn't have shit taste in partners.

[lime-bloods]

i would LOVE a post on that. i have been thinking extensively about pitch romance and how deeply, cruelly toxic it is and how quadrants are in general. a lot of stuff is based in karkat's pov on it (and karkat is like. sooo biased love the guy to death but he is SO BIASED!!!) but sometimes it's in the narration and the existence of auspisticism & the fact that quadrants potentially existed on beforus trips me up as well...

this is a great question! and I suppose "the beginning" is probably the best place to start for a post about this, after all.

it's important to be aware that when we think of Beforus as a planet that is "good", this is not necessarily because it is wholly good by our own standards or even by the author's standards, but because it is good within Homestuck's philosophy, that the "good" is that which is "true" or "real", rather than what is "true" necessarily being good. to put this in another way - which I've only just recently begun to fully understand myself - Beforus being free of Lord English's corruption doesn't mean it's free of problems, just that it's problems are "real" problems, as opposed to fictional problems; they're reflective of problems we have on Earth.

pivotally, Beforus still has systems of gendered oppression, and in that sense it's clear how the intrinsically gendered violence of Alternia's quadrants would find their own place in Beforan society. it's just that in this context, these dynamics arise as part of complex sociological phenomena over thousands of years and aren't put in place solely for a specific purpose by an omnipotent time god, and as such won't necessarily manifest themselves in the exact same ways, or necessarily be "as bad". as with so many things in Homestuck, it's the idea at the core of the concept that's most important; kismesissitude and matespritship on Beforus should be recognisably the same idea as the quadrants on Alternia, just as they are recognisably the same "quadrants" practised by cherubs and humans, despite all of these arising from vastly different and largely disconnected cultural contexts.

the tendency for the same ideas to reliably bubble up to the surface again and again in different contexts is a central law of Homestuck's metaphysics: in the words of the reliable Doc Scratch, "there is essentially nothing new in paradox space." and it's relevant that Scratch is the one to relate this truism, because therein lies a crucial different in connotation between "storyteller" and "narrator"; it is not a narrator's job to invent new ideas, but rather to spin their own interpretation of what has already happened. this is why Scratch's ancestor stories are "troll fanfction"; he's writing an AU of characters who already lived on Beforus. we can only assume that, in the same vein, in "creating" Alternia's quadrants Scratch merely took those parts of Beforus that were convenient to his vision and amplified them to be all-important. (alchemy, as described by 9th century author Jabir ibn Hayyan, was the transmutation of one material into another by manipulating qualities that already existed within all matter, pushing some into the background and pulling others into the fore.)

it's easy to think of auspisticism, meanwhile, as unique among the quadrants in that it superficially seems to provide a service that is beneficial to all involved, and certainly towards Act 6 a lot of the children seem very interested in interpreting it this way. but in the narrative context in which it's introduced to us, I think it's clearly much more about control. as far as the ashen quadrant is concerned, what happens to the participants themselves is inconsequential; a successful ashen quadrant merely upholds the social idea of monogamy by stemming "widespread black infidelity." which is on its own a patently absurd idea: fidelity enforced by the race who practice punishable-by-death polygamy in order to mix all of their genes together in a single pool?! yes, it makes sense within the context of a nonsensically complicated alien reproductive process, but the nonsensical complicatedness of it all is entirely the point; the quadrants are designed to intersect in ways that not even the trolls themselves could ever fully understand. just as it's often impossible for a troll to distinguish between feelings that are platonic, pale or red, when Eridan attempts to "spark a rivalry wit)( [Sollux] to get [Feferi] to auspisticize [...] and pull us out of our quadrant" it's "t)(e oldest and lamest trick in t)(e book" precisely because it's the quadrant working exactly as intended! all of the quadrants serve to make relationships messier under the guise of making them more structured because messy relationships make for a great story, which is Alternia's fundamental purpose.

I think the Karkat point is worthy of another post deconstructing all the quadrants more broadly, because a lot of different things have been said about it already and it's worth getting into, but straightforwardly I think it must be understood that Karkat and "the narration" have fundamentally the same bias; the narrative wants us to take Alternia seriously because Alternia as a machine is a construction of the narrative for the purposes of the narrative, and Karkat wants us to take Alternia seriously because he's a massive stooge who has made his whole life's purpose out of buying into that narrative.

[cal-daisies-and-briars]

Hi!! Can’t believe ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️ is almost over, what a giant masterpiece it is.

At least we still have more long fics like 🔼🔼🔼🔼🔼 ⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️ and 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲 to look forward to.

Some extra motivation for whichever chapter you’re prioritizing most now 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁

And since you mentioned a secret fic, here’s some ❓❓❓❓❓ emojis to motivate you on that as well.

OH YAY FUN! Thank you!

Thank you for saying that about TWATYTK! It's been a journey with that one for sure.

15 for ⚡️:

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He pulls out of his own phone, snapping far too many photos of Brooke mushing her tiny portion into her face. Lots of it misses her mouth. Red and black icing smears over her cheeks and nose.

Buck pouts. “That’s the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.”

“Yay!” She cheers again. 

Chim returns to the room and pulls Maddie aside. His face looks serious. Buck notices Hen watching them. 

“What’s that about?” He asks her. 

“Uh… I’m not a hundred percent sure,” Hen admits. But Buck can tell there’s more to the story. 

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HELL YES for the long fics! These three and many more to come after them.

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Eddie drops his stuff in various places and flops down on the bed. The moment his head hits his pillow, his phone starts to buzz. It’s the vibration pattern he has specifically set for Shannon or Chris. One that says definitely pick up this call. Eddie sighs, sits back up, and reaches for his phone on the nightstand. Christopher’s name flashes across the screen. He’s Facetiming him from his computer. Eddie pulls himself together and answers the call.

“Hey, kiddo,” he says when he picks up. “How was your day?”

But he immediately sees that Christopher’s expression is not a happy one. Not at all.

“Whoa, hey,” Eddie frowns. “Chris, are you okay?”

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Point is, he’s sort of hesitant about this call. Though, somewhat relieved, regardless. A strange combination of feelings bouncing around his tired body.

When they arrive there, it’s clear whatever happened was a bit more complicated than they’d been expecting. It’s Hollywood Boulevard proper. Like, Walk of Fame. There seem to be three main women involved. The police have one in handcuffs, holding as she shrieks, trying to guide her towards the back of a cruiser. It looks like she’s been scratched with long nails, and had her hair pulled out. Another is screaming at her, being held back by an officer, who is trying to help her where she’s bleeding from several superficial looking puncture wounds. Like there was a very halfhearted attempt at stabbing. She’s also got some scratch marks. The third woman is on her hands and knees, puking. Puking directly on Arnold Schwarznegger’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star. Great. 

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“I don’t understand,” Eddie says, poking at the spot.

“Uh, neither do I,” Buck says, walking over to join him. “It was there earlier.”

“I saw,” Eddie confirms. “I… What changed in the past few hours?”

“I-I don’t know,” Buck says. “Adriana thought you expended too much energy to come back from Sweden. M-maybe you… Rested?”

“Maybe,” Eddie agrees. “I don’t feel rested.”

“So much for putting you in a pot and bringing you around,” Buck mumbles. Nervous mumbling.

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Ohhh for 🎁 I am prioritizing ⚖️ most, because I think I'm close to be able to start posting it.

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It’s worth nothing, as bad as the scene looks, Buck’s ability to see everyone’s auras is giving him some different information. For example, the most concerning aura belongs to the woman who has been hurt the most. The one with superficial stab wounds. She seems to have done the least injuring today, but perhaps not in the past. The woman puking isn’t far behind her. And the woman being pulled into the cop car, seems sort of neutral. Like she could go either way. Good or bad, depending on the day. Well, he dated a lovely reporter like that. Now that’s an aura he’s curious to see…

Buck and Eddie handle the woman with the stab wounds while Hen and Chim take the puking woman, checking for signs of a head wound or something else.

“THAT BITCH!” The woman is screaming in the police car’s direction. “THAT TOTAL FUCKING BITCH!”

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and for ❓ - I shall write 15 sentences! While I cannot share the whole thing, I will share the last sentence :)

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All for the good of the lie.

[cazort]

My wife has noticed this increasing trend of getting recommended Instagrams that purport to be about "women empowering women" and "promoting healthy relationships" and "improving mental health" and "feminism" and things like that, and then when you watch their videos, 100% of the videos are some woman filming her husband and then the woman who runs the channel is analyzing and blaming and shaming the man's behavior.

The first thing that jumps out at me is that these channels are based on filming your spouse and then publicly shaming them, as if that behavior right there weren't toxic in and of itself. There is always an assumption of bad faith in the analysis of the husband's words and actions, and a black-and-white analysis in which the woman is right and the man is wrong.

And they always make it about gender. They're like "this is a thing men do to women". And the frustrating thing is, a lot of the things being highlighted aren't even about gender.

Like last night I watched this one and the guy was being super passive-aggressive. It was very disrespectful, I and my wife agreed. But I've seen just as many women do the exact same thing; I've had it done to me even, and I've seen some of my friends' moms do it to their dads. In that video, it was a behavior that had nothing to do with gender socialization, but they were analyzing it as if it did. As someone who actually has delved deep into feminist theory and sociology, this stuff drives me batty. It gives feminism a bad name!

In some cases, the man is bringing up valid concerns and the video spins it around as a negative thing. For example this one guy was complaining about the wife signing up for an expensive activity, when the husband suggested he could create a similar experience for their kid for much cheaper. The woman running the channel then lambasted him for "spreading negativity". There was no dialogue, no attempt to listen to the husband or understand his perspective, compromise, or even acknowledge that he could perhaps have a valid concern. The whole video was made with the assumption that the husband was bad and wrong for merely voicing a concern. And from my perspective, it seemed that the husband was trying to encourage healthy financial management, whereas the wife was spending wastefully in ways that could create financial strain for the family.

Sometimes these videos combine valid concerns with invalid ones. For example, a man might communicate something in a less-than-fully-respectful way, but still raise valid concerns. In relationship conflict, most tense situations are like this. There are valid concerns, but strong emotions lead people to say or do some disrespectful things. But the woman running the channel fixates only on the negative or disrespect aspects of the man's behavior, and ignores the possibility that he might actually have valid concerns. This is such a harmful and dangerous example to set, because it tends to lead to conflict that escalates and issues that never get resolved. It often leads to emotional abuse, and often ends in divorce, sometimes after costly court battles and extensive trauma to children through the process. Everyone comes out traumatized.

These channels are very obviously anti-men. They masquerade as "feminist" or "women supporting women" but the women aren't supporting the women, they're just demonizing and attacking the men. They give women a superficial sense of solidarity but it's shallow because it is not based on actually lifting each other up, only around beating others (men) down. It honestly reminds me of the same way the Trump movement bonds around hating immigrants and how extremist movements in general bond around a shared "enemy" that gets demonized.

Some of these channels are a pipeline to other hate ideologies, which is unsurprising. They feed right into TERF (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism) but they can also feed into other far-right ideologies as they tend to embrace a lot of negative social beliefs, like sex negativity (male desire is inherently bad and predatory), and right-wing social beliefs (men need to be the "provider" and their main value is an income earners, and are inherently bad at childcare) and hyper-consumerism (it's bad and wrong to express concern about how much something costs, just shut up and earn the money.) So although they masquerade as "progressive" they have a strong regressive effect.

The most frustrating and sad thing about these channels is that a lot of them have so many subscribers and so much attention and engagement on their videos. There is no debate. The only comments posted on the videos are fully in agreement, and there are tons and tons of them. I strongly suspect the channel creators censor the comments and block users who question the narrative.

I don't know what can be done about these channels other than to talk about them. It's creepy to me that, although my wife doesn't subscribe to any of them, she keeps getting recommendations for them. I sometimes would too. It is one of many factors that drove me off Instagram.

I want us to talk about these things though. If you have friends who subscribe to these channels or watch their videos, talk about it with them. Tell them some of the things I've told you. Share with them healthier ways of conflict resolution. Point out ways you disagree. Point out how it's incredibly suspicious that these channels don't have any disagreeing comments, that they must obviously be censored.

I refuse to let these ideas take hold in the people around me.

[thesquishypenguin]

For general stuff, 6 9 and 12! >:))

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KiloHertz (OC) x Maxime Le Mal (Cannon)

General - 6 - How do their personalities complement each other? How do they clash?

ooooo I'm finding this one a little tricky to think about!! Particularly because so much of kHz attitude is altered by her own choice! I think initially she she comes across as distant, disinterested, cold and judge-y. She's not at all interested in people generally speaking. KiloHertz is very..'strictly business' and doesn't tend to get close to people unless she takes a particular special interest in them, which is hard to achieve with her. But a lot of this is a learned or put-in-place façade that she's just settled into. She's very good at being persuasive, demanding and downright scary - She commands respect through power I think. I don't think Maxime would have that kind of sway on people or not in the same vein, I think he'd be 'nicer' about it. He's more of a charmer. Maxime is VERY much a people person, he's extremely outgoing and charismatic and I think he could wrap most people around his finger - at least superficially and in the moment. People seem to love him and gravitate towards him...(or..he simply inserts himself into their spaces!) These bitches do both be giving off the 'I'm better than You' vibe tho. kHz has a complex about being better than others and Maxime earned it through being 'everybody's favourite' So really they've got GREAT power couple vibes!

BOTH of these idiots are MASSIVE hot heads though. Which means they're also likely to be super fiery and stubborn towards each other when one of them starts getting mad about something-or-other. I think one of them also being in an irritable mood tends to make the other irritable. I can see them having a lot of bickering and spats over miscellaneous shit or when one of them says or does something that manages to tick the other off - but I like to think they both know they don't really mean it, and there's a lot of making up (and making out) afterwards when they've cooled off. Although it doesn't happen often, they know they've struck a nerve or gone too far when the other goes silent about it and starts avoiding them to avoid more conflict. That being said I think a lot of it isn't too serious and probably only happens on occasion - likely stemming from someone's bad day.

General - 9 - Who gets jealous easier?

This has GOT to be Maxime! I feel like kHz has the potential to be..but I also feel like she's dealt with and gotten over her crush on him once, and knowing how popular he is/was it's not really a concern of hers, she expects it. If he was the kind to obnoxiously flirt with other women or something perhaps, but if Maxime's in a social setting he spends half his time bragging about her. So she feel pretty secure with him to be honest, even if he is a socialite!

KiloHertz however is a little underhanded and will employ a little flirting if it gets her what she wants. not that it comes up really all that often. I think it's more that her work has the potential to take her away from him for hours. He'll get jealous that she's spending more time with her equipment and machinery than she is him. He'll get jealous if she's interacting with the roaches more than him ('Cute little bug?' No, No! That's him! He's the cutest bug here! Say sweet things to him!!) She often has to go visit clients which can take a long time to get things sorted out before she can come back to...then spend all her time doing work for said client. Maxime gets very pouty about not being doted on constantly. Why busy her hands with machinery when she can busy her hands with him!

It's not really a jealousy out of insecurity of their relationship, more just ..he wants all her attention for himself!! But I think Maxime*is* the more likely of the two to have insecurity issues based on my HCs, I think he worries about the relationship stagnating into nothing (again) - and he sorely hopes another villain wont catch her eye more than he currently does....

KiloHertz is only really likely to be jealous or worried if something actually happens, which isn't likely. If someone else starts flirting with Maxime however? You bet your ass she's pushing them aside ASAP.

General - 12 - Do they hide anything from each other, big or small?

I feel like kHz is the biggest culprit of this one. I don't really think Maxime hides much, if anything from her. I wanna say he's pretty open about what he's feeling or what's going on because he knows she'll soothe him and make it all better. Early/Pre-relationship maybe in the sense that he's hiding his body and reluctant to show it off, but not/nothing during the relationship. I don't think either of them hide anything in the malicious sense! There's no like 'bad secrets' or unmentionable things or anything. I think if Maxime is going to hide anything from her its probably things like gifts and little pleasant surprises he has in store for her :) kHz whole thing however is masking to be the 'best' version of herself possible, whether that's with her implant or without. She doesn't like appearing weak or stupid at all, so she's the one most likely to hide if she's having problems of any kind. Which she does and is, because her implant is a fickle thing. A lot of what she WOULD hide is relating to herself and her feelings and her health, because she's extremely stubborn about all of it; even if she knows Maxime worries or would be upset that she won't share her problems with him. (For references sake, I think she's rather fooled herself with the implant. Having it off or on doesn't really change who she is, but she seems pretty convinced she's inferior in all regards without it. And I think Maxime thinks she's absolutely crazy for having such thoughts and burdens she refuses to share with him...particularly when he's bared his own to her and she's made better for him..why would she not think he could or would do the same for her???)

[pochapal]

I've been following your Umineko readthrough and been interested in a lot of the ways of reading you're employing - I think you've had a lot of insight relatively early into the story. I'm also very drawn to the fannish taxonomic Mode Of Engagement that is classpecting, and wanted to question a little of your classpecting of George - one of the things about him that jumped out from very early on was the ways in which his superficial presentation as a Nice Guy belies the strongest inheritance of Ushiromiya Family Values among the cousins - he looks up to Hideyoshi and Kinzo as businessmen, he defends Rosa's parental rights over Maria, he has dynastic aspirations of his own through homemaking and going out to make his fortune. Given the western fascistic overtones of Kinzo's occult fascination, obsession with the image of western beauty in Beatrice, and the prioritisation of a regimented, patriarchal power structure maintained through violence and fear, this has implications for George's character - and the aspect most closely associated with the charismatic cult of personality in business and empire through homestuck strikes me as Life, not Space - see the condesce, see Jane-as-white-suburbanite in homestuck and of course see anything to do with Jane in postcanon.

that's interesting! i do think there are a lot of george/jane overlaps and i did entertain life!george for a while since a lot of his character shtick is Emulation Of Kinzo's Ideals (kinzo himself is definitely Life by every measurable metric) but the thing that gave me pause is that this version of george clearly isn't real and is a version of himself he struggles to maintain convincingly enough to give himself any real benefits. George The Adult, to use the frameworks from my writeups, is almost certainly a Life player but George The Adult is a paper-thin mask that has no connection to his inner self.

behind the mask we have George The Kid who is much more concerned with establishing his own selfhood/"empire" rather than merely inheriting the ushiromiya system. his primary interest when not playing the cringe heir part is in wooing shannon and a strange jealousy towards the idea that battler is more successful at establishing and forming relationships with he is. i think this bitterness and loneliness extends beyond the Life framework and has more in common with jade harley's Space-esque desperate isolation. in homestuck postcanon we see jade throw herself into forming unhealthy doomed relationships and families with both the davekat and yiffy situations. both george and jade want something that is truly and unconditionally their own more than anything else, even if this desire is expressed in radically different ways. that said, i can very easily see george ending up with a yiffy of his own if shannon had survived lol (failchild with a poor imitation of the ushiromiya ideal supplanted on them abandoned by george when it becomes apparent a lot of his relationship with shannon is an illusory farce).

so much of homestuck's classpect stuff is rooted in the conflict of people emulating the aspects of those they look up to even when they shouldn't (rose's void-esque affinity motivated in part by her relationship with roxy, dirk acting knight-like to emulate his bro, the Rage influence over all the trolls and their aspirations) and i think you can apply that framework to george. the Life stuff is there and is shaping him but less in the sense that this is speaking to Who He Is than it actually is speaking to Who He Thinks He Should Be. my current reading of george is Space (also works as a fun contrast to my read of battler as a Time player) but even if that's not true i do think he's something else wrapped up in a Life player's clothing.

[wetcatspellcaster]

for the dvd meme, chapter 7 of pieces still stuck in your teeth, from where astarion says "i knew it" to "you returned to me. i knew you would." i've read that chapter like five times it's SO delightful, SUCH a fun narrative payoff too HAHA

Thank you for the ask, anon! I will copy and paste the text you're referring to under the keep reading tab, just so this doesn't end up being too long/I don't expose my IRL mutuals to the horniest part of my fic lol :')

So, here we are, at the horniest part of my fic :-)

In more serious commentary, this was one of the scenes I had from the very inception of this story - I knew that Astarion was going to have killed people to get Tav back to the Gate, and I knew he was going to reveal it at literally The Worst Possible moment. I really wanted to write a chapter that turned from horny to horror without warning, and this is the speech that I envisaged doing that work for me. As such, it went through many, many drafts!

I know I said this in comments at the time, but... when examining this chapter from Astarion's perspective? Why *wouldn't* he be this fucking cocky? He has no idea what's going on in Rose's mind or why she's agreed to go to his house so easily, and why she's gotten so close to him with complete disregard of the wider situation. So as far as he's concerned, he murdered a bunch of people (which was the only risk in his plan, he thinks) and she's still down to fuck only days later. Honestly, he doesn't even *need* the ego he has, to think this is a done deal.

I also said this a lot in comments, but as such, any respect he held out for her is just gone in this moment, and that's why he immediately plays his whole hand, because he doesn't see her as a worthy opponent in the slightest. I was leaning on what developers/writers said about how he loses respect for people who fall for the superficial sex appeal and endanger themselves because of it- if this is the means by which he can do them harm, then he feels they've sealed their own fate. In his eyes, this is exactly what Rose looks like in this moment (not knowing anything about her own hidden agenda).

I also think that, if you've romanticised the one thing you've lost and can never get back, and then suddenly it's there, and it's almost... too easy, then that also makes you disappointed and angry. Maybe part of the reason he says all this heinous stuff here to try and test the waters further, maybe even anger her so there's some spark of a challenge or a fight. Maybe he wanted to make everything a little more difficult for the both of them, just so it stays fun and interesting.

As I said in previous asks, I am not really a Dead Dove writer - I appreciate the girlies who are, but it's just not something I can do (I mean, I can't even write smut lmfao). So I wanted the violation and emotional impact of non-con without any of the graphic depictions of it... lots of people have said in comments that the moment he refuses to let her go is the moment he proves he's evil, and I certainly approve of this interpretation. But here, I was mostly just in thrall to the Yandere tag lmao. He can't imagine her protests being true bc he can't imagine a world where they aren't destined for each other. And also, in this case, a world where his seduction techniques (now so well honed, now nearly unstoppable, now the only thing people seem to want from him) do not work - especially on her.

As to some specifics about the section itself:

the phrase 'little love' is, I feel, single handedly responsible for any and all Ascended ending brainrot I have. Like COME ON. What a term of endearment! What a term of endearment to MAKE EVIL!!!!

'I was bored' got workshopped a lot as the 'foreshadowing' phrase, bc I really struggled to find something that was both vague but also had ambiguous meaning from the beginning. If the delivery is a little clunky here, that's why... I agonised over this for weeks lmao

'Every meal without savour' - cue Chapter Ten, when he gets really excited that Rosalie wants to drink hot chocolate with him, and briefly loses any composure bc the future he envisages is finally getting tested out.

"how you much used to hate slavers.” This is me still making digs at Grymforge, 4 months later. Fucking Grymforge.

"You yourself would've carved through that room like a righteous blade, my love." Look. I wrote this line. And I decided. It would work on me.

DVD commentary ask

"I knew it,” he repeated.

“I knew it was only a matter of distance," he muttered into her shoulder, almost to himself. He kissed the spot: she jumped at the touch, and he hummed approvingly. "I knew that the moment I got you here, darling heart, that this would be inevitable. A matter of days, Rosalie. That is all the time you could hold out on me, the longest you could bear to resist. You don’t want me to charm you? Fine. I don’t need glamour, to make you like this. Let us both know that this was all you, and only ever for me.”

She tensed up, and he soothed again, making a chiding sound. “Hush, now, don’t be prideful. Why fight this, little love? Why deny yourself? You're not very good at it. Isn’t it so much better, this way? Doesn’t it feel good?"

"I - what?" Rosalie said, fighting to clear her head as fear and desire warred within her thoughts.

Had he not caught her? Because if so, she had done what was needed. But now she was trapped - and each word that came out of Astarion's mouth was more sinuous and sinister than the last, coiling decadently around her.

"So bored,” Astarion murmured in a low voice, nosing along her collarbone, breathing her in. “Every day the same, every day interminable. Every meal without savour, every conversation dull, and I knew you were what's missing. I knew it. I knew all I had to do was lure you back to me. And you do so love to play hard to get, but it wasn’t exactly difficult, was it, my love-?”

Rosalie struggled to make sense of what he was saying. It wasn’t precisely a threat, but it wasn’t bedroom talk either. What did he mean by ‘bored’?

No, actually, Shadowheart had said, when Rosalie had asked how the Vampire Ascendent had responded to the murders. He gave a three word reply: ‘I was bored.’

“No, in fact, it was easy,” Astarion smirked into her skin. “You put up a good front, my darling. But here you are: with me. Where you’re supposed to be. Where you will stay. You will make everything better. All I needed to do was to make you come back to me, and finally, here you are.”

Rosalie froze up. Her mind began to whir, almost as if she couldn’t dare let herself think, to follow the logic too far to its horrible, inevitable conclusion…

"The party," she said, heart pounding. “Those people who died-”

She tried to pull against his hold on her hands, moving her body back as far back from his as it would go. But it was like pulling on iron shackles, and Astarion didn't budge, simply leaning in further into her space, her legs trapped on either side of his body, and the evidence of his reaction to her utterly impossible to avoid.

"All terrible, heinous people, I assure you," Astarion told her conversationally, kissing his way along her shoulder without any concern for her sudden resistance. "No one who deserves to be mourned: all wretches and ingrates, murderers and thieves and flesh peddlers and slavers - I remember, pet, how you much used to hate slavers.”

Rose tugged at her hands, again - he ran his thumbs over her knuckles, and pinned them down harder.

“You yourself would've carved through that room like a righteous blade, my love. But I did it, all for you. I invited them all there, and they all came, like the cattle they are. And then I slaughtered them for their crimes, and now they’ve served their purpose, for here you are again, with me, once more."

Astarion's mouth was still moving all over her skin, which had begun to crawl. He reached behind her back and undid the clasp of her bra as he narrated. He whispered the words against her, like her body was made for his secrets, and then kissed the flesh, open mouthed.

"Astarion," Rose said, "you need to stop - I need to think - you said you didn't do it for any reason-"

His hands came up to her arms, and tightened to bruising, holding her in place even as his thumbs stroked circles designed to soothe.

"Of course there was a reason. You said that if I killed people, you'd come back and stop me," he said, moving back and pressing his forehead against hers, silvery lashes blurring with the closeness of her vision. His breath ghosted across her still-damp mouth as he smiled with utter tranquillity. “But you didn't try to stop me, did you? Cornered in Ramazith, and you simply let me walk away. And now, here you are. You just… came back. You returned to me. I knew you would."

[duckprintspress]

“Aim For The Heart” Creator Spotlight: Sage Mooreland

Happy Monday, everyone! We at Duck Prints Press (the fan-writer run indie Press that publishes the original work of fan creators!) celebrating coming off the first weekend of our stellar Kickstarter launch for Aim For The Heart: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Alexandre Dumas’s “The Three Musketeers” – 68% funded in four days! There’s a lot of campaign to go, though – we’re running through July 15th, 2023, and not only are we expecting to hit our initial goal of $8,000, we’re optimistic that, with your help (by backing, by signal boosting, by telling your friends about the campaign, etc.), we might even reach our first stretch goal of $12,000!

Every day between now and the end of the campaign, we’ll be focusing on another contributor. Today, let’s met author Sage Mooreland!

Glass Hearts by Sage Mooreland

About the Author: Sage Mooreland (they/them) is a city-dwelling gremlin from Chicago. They are embarking on the adventure that is their 40s equipped with three amazing partners, one very ridiculous eighteen-year-old biological offspring, and a fleet of teenagers and twentysomethings that adopted them through work over the last several years. Sage put themselves through the torture of grad school, and now holds a Bachelor’s in English and a Master’s in English and Creative Writing – Fiction, to which they say, “Now I have expensive pieces of paper that make it seem like I know what I’m talking about.”

Sage has been writing since they were wee small, entering their first writing contest in fifth grade/at ten years old. In high school and college, they made small offerings to school literary magazines, and have done eighteen years of National Novel Writing Month. As their writing career grows, they hope to provide stories that are entertaining, caring, inclusive of all, and full of the stuff of which dreams are made.

Story Teasers:

Athos leaned against the wall of the high rise across the street from his destination, trying to catch his breath. He was bleeding from too many places to count—many of the wounds were superficial, but a few were deep and concerning. He had to get them bandaged or he was going to be in serious trouble. Standing across the street from help would be a stupid place to bleed out, even if it would be vaguely satisfying to get blood all over the pavement of one of Chicago’s wealthiest neighborhoods.

He watched a while longer; the lights inside the house created a faint glow he could see even through closed blinds. The occasional shadow told him that someonewas home. He refused to consider that he was looking at a second ambush. They had to be there, safe and sound, or all of this had been for absolutely nothing. Athos took a deep breath. Standing here—well, leaning here—wasn’t getting him anywhere, and he’d watched long enough to be sure he hadn’t been followed. He forced himself upright and carefully crossed the street, climbed the stairs, and rang the bell.

Tags: alcohol use (casual), alternate universe, be gay do crimes, blackmail, car chase, character injury (graphic descriptions), Chicago, established relationship, guns, hacker, m/m, m/m/m (past), modern, past tense, pov third person limited, reunion, teasing, undercover, united states of america, violence (non-graphic descriptions)

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[alarrytale]

Louis does more interviews than the other three guys combined but he never really says anything of substance.

Harry is closeted too but in his (rare) interviews he goes into depth, talks about learning Italian, the places he's been, the books he's read, cold water swims, a lot about the recording process of his albums. Zayn offers some interesting anecdotes of life on the farm with Khai.

Louis? Just the same tired stuff about weed, 'getting leathered', just half assed responses just like his stage performance is half assed. He seems to think us fans will accept anything from him because we're so besotted.

Personally, after what happened with Liam, I don't want to hear any of them extolling the virtues of any drug ... not even weed ... especially as he admits it affects his ability to do his job. He didn't need lyrics taped to the floor when he was in 1d did he?

Hi, anon!

Louis situation is very different to the others, so i don't think it's fair to compare them. Louis has a much tighter closet and a unfavourable image. It's not like he can talk about learning italian and reading psychological thrillers without revealing he's with H in Italy and is a nerd, now can he...

They all have a persona to enforce, a narrative to push and an agenda. I think they all touch on very superficial topics or narrative confirming stuff, but that's also to do with the line of questioning. They rarely get asked good questions by someone who knows their stuff well. Who goes a bit beyond surface level and manage to avoid topics that they contractually can't talk about.

With Louis it's just getting to be a bit too much. The gaslighting, lies and the brodude persona is a bit too transparent, and it's so far from his old self. He's better than this. And people are tired.

I do agree with you that the glorification and promotion of drugs and alcohol by a influential celebrity with an impressionable fanbase has got to stop. He didn’t learn shit after Fizzy and it doesn’t seem like he has after Liam either. It isn't cool, it's concerning. Fandom is concerned about him, because he's showing some concerning behaviour and attitude.

[automatismoateo]

I am SO sick of people who know Im an atheist telling me they are going to pray for me. via /r/atheism

I am SO sick of people who know I’m an atheist telling me they are going to pray for me. Most of the time, I pretty much ignore all the godbless, jesusthisandthat, lord’swill, and all the rest of the religious jibberjabber that saturates the culture here in small-town Ohio. I know they’re going to continue it no matter what I say or do. I get very tired of it, but I mostly just avoid people who are especially likely to go on and on about it. But just yesterday, yet again, an acquaintance who knows I’m an atheist first asked intrusive questions about what I’m going through (a lot of medical stuff, which I don’t talk to her about very much because it feels like a set-up when she asks, not genuine concern). I just kept it superficial, didn’t tell her much. Tried to change the subject. Then she says, “Well, I’ll pray for you!” 🙄 I have really tried to be tolerant, but srsly, WTF? If they want to believe in talking to their imaginary friend, and begging this all-powerful being to change its mind about what it’s doing to someone, I guess that’s their right. But what, exactly, do they get from telling me about it, when they KNOW I don’t believe in that stuff? Do they expect me to be impressed? Flattered? Comforted? If they really believe they might convince god to change what they believe is his plan for me, why do they need to tell me about it? A cousin used to do this, and while it’s far from the only reason I ended my relationship with him, it didn’t help when he added to the statement that he was going to pray for me that “I know you don’t believe in it, but I’m going to do it anyway! as if he was so proud of himself. Did he think I would be especially impressed by that? Or that god would? Do they not understand that it is offensive to say something like that? If this god is so all-knowing and all-powerful, why do they need to tell anyone they’re going to pray, much less what about? Does the subject of the prayer need to receive notice of it for it to “work?” It’s so silly. And they wonder why we don’t “respect their beliefs.” I respect their right to have those beliefs, but no, I don’t respect such silliness. In fact, if god has the power to make things better for someone, and is all-knowing, why do they think they need to pray in the first place? Wouldn’t god already know that they desire a certain outcome for the prayed-upon person? sigh I know it’s useless to ask these things, or to rant about it all. But I’m just SO TIRED of how it NEVER occurs to them that you just aren’t interested in hearing about it. Thanks for listening. If you did. 🤣❤️ Submitted February 27, 2025 at 09:00PM by laughingkittycats (From Reddit https://ift.tt/vS4UImf)

[whoreforharlow]

We're "Roasting" him … Let's goooooooooooo!!! Fuck it, imma just say it, the man in insecure as hell. His whole alpha male "Personality" is so cringy and a turn off. It makes him look stupid and anything but confident. The lack of promo on his end for anything, screams 15 minutes of fame. Sometimes I wonder if he has anything else to give and it's sad, because I like his stuff, but he is concerned about superficial bullshit like what his friends think and "Optics". I don't know if anything he has done has truly been his own doing, it seems like he is always wanting validation from someone. Him having "The greats" on his last album was a huge mistake, because they made his head big, yet the peppa pig album scored higher than chtkmy. The no promo on this album was a huge mistake, never mind dropping it so randomly and out of nowhere. It seems like he has given up. As the other anon said, he only interacts with us when he wants something and even then it's a select few - time we discussed the favoritism in the fandom, and if anyone is gonna deny it, respectfully go and fuck yourself. It's time for him to figure it out and let go of his ego. He is not the hot shit he thinks he is, I am not saying he's bad, but he says one thing and his actions say another.

I miss the old jack, where he was known for his personality and he would engage with us and we felt connected. Now I don't even believe a word this man says, because he's pretentious as hell. He's playing some mind game, but I don't know with who. He's so easy to see through, yet in his interviews he tries to be mysterious and all this crap.

Ngl, the "we're roasting him? Let's gooooo" had me ctfu 🤣

I do miss the older goofy Jack. I am kinda confused by who he's presenting himself to be now, like what opinion does he want us to have of him, ya know? Like back when he was the internets boyfriend or the white boy of the month, we knew who he what his image was supposed to be. Now because he kinda drops off and pops back up every now and again, it's kinda know who he is.

Like I said, I'm kinda just into the Jack in my head more so than him as an artist. I did like WMCJ, but his promo interviews kinda left a lot to be desired as far as his personality. Like TWTAS Jack was honestly chefs kiss, and even leading up to CHTKMY he was interactive and giving the girlies what we wanted. He was charismatic and we got to see his personality. A year later and it's like we don't even know who he is anymore.

I'm still a fan of his because I do like his music, I listen to him probably everyday, but his older stuff mostly. I think because I can picture him in each album. But then I listen to Jackman and I just don't connect to it. Like to release something so "raw", I want to be able to connect the music to the artist, but I can't because this man gives us nothing to go off of.

Most of what he gives us is to troll us, nothing seems real with him. Like you said, he's playing mind games but with who exactly???? Like even with the alpha thing, I feel like it was to get a rise out people. Like I feel like everything he says is kinda to lead us astray from who he is. Like wanting to be mysterious and keep his privacy, but like we're not asking for his home address, we're asking for a selfie or something lol

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FOR THREE. LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO

SHADOW AND ROUGE ARENT BESTIES ARE U FUCKIN KIDDIN ME (like he looked at her when she was frozen in time and he had like barely a reaction and my heart hurt UNGH)

that being said i do live rouge's voice and seeing her get to play in the space with all the characters and act like a pal that still does crime obvs but isnt always this sexy kitten but is still flirty and hyper femme! <333

and i love rusty rose and thorn so much ;-; i think black rose has yet to super interest me but that would make sense that it's hard to keep up the anty for every iteration of the main group.

That being said, I wish we had an evil/deeply gray Rouge or Big iteration like with Nine, Rusty and Dread (tho Dread is kind of wasted potential /:). I liked that Prim was more about her survival at first and turned her back on Thorn and Sonic, but obvs time constraints.

Again I'm mainly cranky that a lot of the screen time this season was a bombardment of the Eggman family like I'm sorry...those are characters that work in short burts pls let the furries get more time I'm begging.

The stuff happening between Sonic vs. the alternates of everyone, Sonic vs. Shadow and Sonic vs. Nine specifically is so interesting and messy and I don't know why that took a backseat, ESPECIALLY SHADOW ALMOST ENTIRELY, for most of the season.

Like like like is this eggman prime or...? also as funny as that giant eggman at the end was, it was still like, in the moment for me, so irrevelant to the drama happening with Sonic and Nine that i was like laughing nervously?

like i wasn't super hyped or invested in that moment until sonic went into prime!sonic or whatever his new super form is with the purple eyes. like i was like oh there's really a big eggman right there huh?

hm.

like ik marketing will never leave eggman out but god damn it should sometimes. and I love eggman but im realizing how much he takes away when there's promising seeds and ideas happening that get shortened, cut or strangled by having to insert him in all the time.

Like the season ending so well is the build up to Sonic and Nine's relationship going up in flames and much more dramatic than Sonic fighting more Eggman robots. Like I'm sorry, he functions best as secondary to the mobians and his screen time really should reflect that.

Like, are u really throwing visual stimuli on screen for the old sonic folks and the baby ones and some quick cheap jokes about boomers and white liberal millenials? cuz why else is that fam eating up so much time??

also when sonic did this so quick and ran i nearly pissed and shitted myself laughing that cut was righteous.

like grr!! there were good jokes and moments this season- if they focus on the stronger parts of season 2 for season 3 (and take as long as u want if it means it'll be good pls god fucking pay writers and artists well or i will literally wolf out and eat u alive) it'll be a kick ass season!

and ik it's probs treats for the sonadow fans and not a promise of a follow through on it but wow they were so fruity with each other this season i got embarrassed for them like ????? u guys are really acting like this and not thinking anyone knows what u are??? GAH

it almost tricked me for a second that something more could happen. but if shadow continues the amount of screen time he's had the last two seasons in the next season(s) then sonadow is the least of my concerns. probs wont be much of shadow at all, and that fucking sux cuz he's so cool in this show.

for the popularity of shadow in the fandom u would never know given the superficiality of his involvement in projects since his game flopped.

like prime and the sonic 3 movie gave me hope that would turn around but I'm like uh oh are they wiggling shadow at the doorway to get us in and shafting us once they got our cash? ugh.

being cynical sux but never again. voltron was my 9/11 fjxjjxxjdhdhhdhsj

my thoughts (screenshotted from my tags on other posts djdndj) on season 2 of sonic prime bc i didn't realize how many thoughts i was having until i saw posts and im losing it

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