#maybe send help i guess??

[ken-dom]

I think I’m gonna watch The Nice Guys tonight, on a scale of 1-10 how screwed will I be?

[inkly-heart]

please don’t be sad little sprout, you are loved 🌱 🖤

🌱

[total-drama-brainrot]

uhaam. like a dog by ferry. rk noah. Am i insane

I saw this ask, blacked out, and woke up to this on my screen.

So I think we're both a little insane. (The song, for context.)

[queerofthedagger]

“quick rec list of my faves so far” from the silm smut exchange is a little rude to me? you can have your faves but such a small exchange is all about spreading the love and community… cherrypicking fics from an already-small exchange mere days after fics are deanoned feels unnecessarily exclusive.

In the politest way possible, I have to disagree anon, and I think it comes down to how one sees both the act of reccing, and the meaning/conception of community. I'm not going to go on a long tangent here, but

Reccing is not about "cherrypicking." I'm not saying, "these are objectively The Best Fics in this collection and/or the only ones worth reading." I'm saying, "I started on the collection which has been great, and these are ones I personally enjoyed a lot. Let's share them!" This does nowhere automatically imply anything about the fics I haven't recced yet/read yet. People being lifted up isn't inherently and automatically putting others down, and frankly it's a bit sad to view it that way, and to then go out of your way to try and make someone feel shitty about... lifting people up.

Reccing is a vital part of fandom communities in itself. Of course, I rec the entire collection, it's an absolute feast! Sharing fics of that -- even if it's not all of them in a single rec list, or each fic as a single rec -- is in fact about spreading the love and community with it. Or at least I personally think it is, and it is how I view recs in general. If it was a popularity contest and recs are currency/prices/an exclusivity club, then I do assume it would not be so, but then, well -- then it is not a community, is it. This may sound harsh, but I mean this genuinely in the kindest way possible. Reccers are not out to put things on a pedestal, and I think in a fandom as small as the Silmarillion fandom (or in fact an exchange as supposedly "small" as this one was, although I'd dare say 26 fics is a solid turnout! <3) it's also a little bit of a pointless worry to have.

One last "rec" - no one's stopping you from doing your own recs the way you like them to! This too I mean genuinely. People's tastes differ vastly, so yk. join in the fun of it and all that.

And also yes; everyone go check out the entire collection. Obviously <3

[barnesdeservesbetter]

Guess what my stupid brain read first?

Annatar instead of Annotator🫠

[adylote]

Free fics I guess?

I want to write more Ordis/Ordan fics but I'm out of ideas and time :( I mean, right now I can barely update my Jade/Stalker's fic and even the Umbra's fic got to an involuntary pause haha.

Soooo.. any ideas? Just featuring Ordis/Ordan, please! (I still don't know how start my longfic inspired in my own Perfect Machine Songfic so that idea is out of reach for now in case anyone is interested in it (?)

Being a freelancer writer is nice until the commissions give me a creative block xd aaaaaaah.

[numberoneanika]

Honestly the roleplay blogs are stronger than I am because if I saw a post where people were saying my blog was annoying and calling me corny I would jump in a large pit and rot away

[fleur-a-whump]

listening to a Siri-esque voice read pretty hardcore whump with a feigned, not quite there, robotic attempt at human inflection is honestly chilling

part of me is genuinely horrified. like the inherent dehumanization of a macabre facsimile of a human voice reading deeply human thoughts and emotions born of pure terror and severe pain is so wrong. like oh. oh no. this is Wrong.

.....the other part of me though.

the other part is running absolutely rabid with ideas. could this be an inhuman whumper with the ability to read minds voicing the thoughts of their whumpee with a cold detachedness? are they simply pondering whumpee's humanity which they cannot experience themselves? are they voicing these thoughts to torment caretaker in a ransom video? or even after whumpee's death? are they voicing them to whumpee themselves, like a bedtime story after a torture session, forcing them to relive the traumatic memories though whumper's fucked up, delighted lense of whumpee's own thoughts?

Jesus Christ I am having Thoughts

[raspberryzingaaa]

In between book series frantically combing goodreads, hoopla, decent narrators, publishers, anything. Full of frantic, antsy energy because I am Storyless and- wait. Is this... an. Addiction?

[monsamborabutterfly]

I honestly don't know if I should be happy or not about the fact that Neo and Mark together scratch my brain in all the right ways.

Cause like good for me I guess. It's always fun and exciting when something like that happens - kinda feels a little bit like falling in love lol

But also no pairing hits the right way right now which makes it hard to get into new shows and also I don't know if they will ever make another show together. (🥲🥹😭)

Credit for gif 2: klausbens here on Tumblr

[al-n-cartoons]

Hi, I'm on a spree.

I was thinking about that one episode where the show writers decide to use all of their most blatantly monster themed aliens for a lesson in racism, which…

[Deep inhale,]

Was certainly a decision. That they made.

Anyhow, I was thinking about how Ben from the Story Told au would act in that episode (and arc) and realized that he'd probably take advantage of the fact that the planet is perpetually dim so as to use his Omnitrix's Starlight feature. Basically, the Omnitrix took a form that Ben had taken the sample of directly, that it had downloaded onto its hardware (rather than through a connection to Galvan Prime), or from a form the Omnitrix had copied the data from and then customized such that the final form is an equivalent to Ben's human one.

This Loboan form is that lattermost option; it is a Loboan with a few slight modifications— such as the extra digits on the claws and the thinner fur in some places. It is a juvenile, just as Ben is, which actually inspires some interesting storylines.

We refer to our adolescents as “teens”, but that has its meaning from the fact that a stretch of years end with that. If you walked up to someone who had never before seen a human, who came from an entirely different species and with wholly different biology, and you referred to yourself as a “teen”— that alien would have no frame of reference. What that alien might do is try and make an inference based on how that person acts and where they are.

In this instance, Ben is on a work trip thousands of miles away from home with seemingly no caretaker, so…. This human is an adult?

And then the human shapeshifts into a version of that alien's species and is a child.

I mean…

There's story potential there…

……

Someone slap my hands away from the screen now-

[insanechayne]

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[jo-the-cosmic-being]

Pride tried attacking me today.

[breezypunk]

what's a good gaming computer, preferably desktop, not laptop... that's $1000 or less? honest answers only lmao. (I'm trying to move away from laptops, but I mean I guess it doesn't matter).. I need something that wont lag, has decent/good graphics. the laptop I apparently ordered last week canceled on me, so we're back to square one.

[ayakashibackstreet]

My favourite moment when writing the article was desperately trying to get the Loveletter worm to work in the VM I made specifically for it. Also getting Loveletter into the VM in the first place as Windows Defender continuously tries to thwart my attempts

[cubot]

I get alone with my thoughts for one second and then my brain goes to the VN love interest route I beat yesterday and I go, "jesus fucking christ what the fuck."