#mic fucking drop

[appleofmyeye93]

so my turn to rant...

If the whole entirety of the Star Wars community can hear the words "Somehow Palpatine returned" and just roll with it...

I don't see how Tech disappearing into the mist and being never seen again couldn't possibly end with "Tech, you're alive!!"

AND ANOTHER THING!!

If Hunter stans really want to push the narrative here that 'Tech has to be dead because it's plot convenient or for the sake of shock"

Then please explain why Hunter survived falling off the cliff and slamming multiple times onto sharp rocks and hard ground, only to be somewhat battered and shaken, no broken bones? No passing out? No long-lasting or episodic injuries? He's just...fine. for Plot right?

Oh and for that matter, Tech fought multiple stormtroopers WITH A BROKEN FEMUR! AND HALFWAY PASSED OUT! and then he did fucking pass out and still survived!

Listen, I'm not making the point that Hunter should have died, but I am making the point of how contrived this narrative of "Oh Tech was meant to die because he's too good, or Tech is dead, you all need to accept it" In the frame of Star Wars and how death can be cheated in so many different ways.

Because if Somehow fucking Palpatine returned and we write an entirely new set of rules and storyline to fit that! Then how can we say for certain that Tech is dead.

Somehow Tech returned, and I am leaving it at that. Be it in fanfiction or a future SW series. I will die on this hill and you can kiss the darkest part of my white nerdy ass!

<3

[bosstoaster]

You know what? I'll do it. I'll write the silly essay.

We the voters have had the responsibility and the honor of choosing the framework for each of these rounds, and I have greatly enjoyed seeing that framework change each round. But let's go through a few options, shall we?

Wizard Hubris Essek certainly has hubris. We know this and love him for it. He believed he could manipulate Trent Ikythong and his Charlies Angles wannabes, and he believed he knew better than The Bright Queen and the Monster Mash Brigade. All wonderful. But Essek is young, still. His scope is limited. It is... terrestrial. The Architect Arcane Laerryn Coramar-Seelie has had much more time to develop much more hubris. She hails from the Age of Aracanum, a time of unchecked arrogance among all arcane users. And yet. AND YET. Laerryn's hubris stands among them all. She saw herself as more intelligent, more powerful, more insightful than the entire Ring of Gold. Than the Ring of Brass, her own friends. Than every mortal that walked the lands of Exandria. Than the gods themselves. "[...]you're really going to blame me for not caring about the dumb things we do to appease the idiots that walk across the city that can't think about what could be. Just what is." Laerryn's goal was to travel the planes, to the lands of the divine, because her belief wasn't just that it would make them equal to those beings. It was that they were already better, that she was already better. They just needed the resources to prove it. Laerryn's hubris is what invited the Calamity. Her refusal to give up on her plan to rewrite the magical tides of Exandria is what eventually lead to the destruction of the Tree of Names, and therefore left the world up to destruction. Essek serves The Bright Queen. Laerryn IS the Blight Queen. Step UP.

Wizard Audacity Now, I already mentioned Laerryn's plan, but not the AUDACITY of it. That she, in secret, chose to completely alter the internal mechanisms of Avalir, that she conducted experiments on full object plane travel, that she discovered how to rewrite entire lay lines. AND IT WORKED. IT WORKED PERFECTLY. The only issue was one she couldn't predict - that a secret mechanism within the city was accidentally interfering with her plans. Then, the manipulations come forward. The trap snaps into place. The Father of Lies is back in the world. The city is about to unleash a magical burst that will free two titans and kill every mortal on Exandria. Who steps up? Who says she can, in mere minutes, totally undo that plan to kill those titans once and for all - something the GODS could not do? Who says she, and she alone, can give this world a fighting chance? Who SUCCEEDS? Architect Arcane Hierophant Abjura LAERRYN CORAMAR-SEELIE, that's who!

Wizard Fireball power Maybe that's not doing it for you. Maybe you don't feel like the pizzazz, the sheer GALL, are the way to determine a winner. Maybe you believe it should be based on pure wizard power. Well, baby, I gotta tell you. If these two throws down? It's not Essek who is getting back up. Laerryn is a TANK of a wizard. She would BODY him. She would crack his spine like a glow stick, shake him up, and hand deliver him back to his semi-boyfriend. Laerryn isn't just more powerful. She doesn't just come from a simply more magical time, with more magical resources. She doesn't just outclass him in sheer technical knowledge. Laerryn is also a BRAT. She WANTS it more. She wants to WIN and she will turn Essek into purple glitter dust while he's still trying to raise up his noodle arms in defense. Easy money.

Wizard Big Naturals As we learned recently, and as we know from our time on Tumblr, there's one final criteria that is essential to a good wizard. Essek is a washboard. Essek is made of cardboard. Essek can be used as a plank in times of great need. Laerryn enchanted and kept the eyes of Loquatius FUCKING Seelie, a man of discerning taste of aesthetic if there ever was one. The power of her sheer draw was enough to pull him from the Courts and keep him there to DIE with her. She is the most beautiful woman this man, who can become ANYONE, has ever known. Laerryn Coromar-Seelie has great fucking tits, and don't you dare say otherwise.

Essek may be part of the Mighty Nine, but Laerryn is a straight goddamn 10.

(In my own wizard hubris and audacity: @quiddie)

Unstoppable force meets... Immovable Object?

You know, like the... like the dunamancy spell—you get it. Moving on.

[relaxxattack]

"kismesis always murder each other in the end because that's what slick and snowman do" this is actually not the case. this could not be more explicitly not the case

[itscherryterry-again]

yea

[sophsun1]

So this is how you're going to play my boy? Uh, I don't even know what you're talking about.

Psych – 7.02: Juliet Takes A Luvvah

[stardust-moth]

In order to fully understand why it was so hard for Mike to express how deeply he loves El, and why his speech at the end of season 4 was one of the biggest, most important moments for his entire character, we need to look at not just who Mike is as a person, but also everything that has happened since he met her.

Every single time he opens up his heart to her, something horrible happens to her or she's taken away from him almost immediately afterwards.

1x08; he's an awkward little ball of feelings that are way too big for a boy so young. He makes a nervous attempt at confessing and asking her out on a date; when he can't find words that she'll understand, swoops in for a kiss instead. She lights up immediately and smiles. It's a brief moment of hope and pure happiness. Maybe they can have some semblance of a normal life and be normal kids after this is all over.

Minutes later, all hell breaks loose-- they're almost shot, El pushes herself too far until she can barely move, she's almost taken away by the Bad Men, the Demogorgon appears, and she uses the very last of her strength to sacrifice herself to save him and their friends.

He has to watch helplessly as she disappears.

He spends a year caught between believing she's dead and hoping she's still out there somewhere (but if she is alive then why won't she talk to him anymore...?). Kept silent under threat by the lab, he can't confide in anyone or even acknowledge her existence, not with anyone except those involved... but everyone else is keen on moving on and pretending it never happened. He can find some solidarity in Will, at least, who is in a similar kind of emotional turmoil... but it's not the same and it's not enough.

2x9; he is finally reunited with El, and she runs into his arms like she missed him too. She tells him that all those nights he called out to her, she heard him; she was there reciprocating his feelings the whole time.

In a burst of emotions that he's been forced to suppress for an entire year, he lashes out at the reason they've been kept apart (Hopper), screaming and sobbing. It's a massive catharsis for him, and for once an adult is understanding enough to hold him and not punish him for it.

Minutes later, she is going to go headfirst into a pit of monsters, the place where Mike had just firsthand witnessed dozens of people (if not more) get ripped to shreds only hours earlier, and she is going to attempt to close the Gate-- a feat that he knows may take every ounce of her power, just like last time. He cries. He can't lose her again. She promises he won't, and before she can seal that promise with a kiss, they're pulled apart again.

He has to watch helplessly as she drives away.

3x1; all seems to be okay now. He and El are happily together, and he feels comfortable enough to be playful, romantic, and intimate with her. It's the most emotionally open we've ever seen Mike thus far.

For reasons he can't understand (bc there's no way Hopper explained himself beyond "I'm in charge so do as I say or else"), Hopper is angry about it and threatens to never allow him to see her again: the one thing he fears most.

He panics big time and fucks it up in the process by lying to her. During a frantic attempt to apologize while also abiding by Hopper's rules, he runs into her at the mall. He panics again-- if anyone finds her here, and knows that he was here too, it's all over, and Hopper surely won't hear reason. El dumps him cold on the spot, spurred on by Max and her rebellious attitude (and without any context of course). He isn't given much opportunity to respond. He knows he's in the wrong for lying to her, so what could he even say...?

He has to watch helplessly as she drives away.

It's a hard blow, and he retreats back into himself, unable to get any joy out of playing D&D (which he clearly hasn't lost interest in), back to the deadpan sarcasm and accidentally snapping a little too harshly at anyone whom he feels would take El's place.

3x6; no one seems to understand the danger El is putting herself in. Everyone is berating him for worrying about her safety. He's seen firsthand what these monsters do to people, he's seen firsthand how El pushes her abilities too far. No one is listening.

The words "I love her and I can't lose her again" burst out in his desperation, perhaps before he's even had a chance to realize how deep those feelings run, despite whatever protective walls he's tried to build around his heart to keep it from getting broken again.

Soon after, all hell breaks loose. El is nearly killed several times over, her leg is ripped open, she pushes herself so hard that she breaks herself and loses her powers completely. Her father is taken from her. She's shattered by all of this, and there's absolutely nothing he could do or say to make it better.

She tells him that when he admitted he loves her, she heard him, and indeed she loves him, too... But now she's leaving.

He has to watch helplessly as she drives away.

4x1; they've been apart for a few months, and write letters back and forth to each other. El's letters paint a picture of an ideal new life: she and the Byers family are doing well; she's starting school and it's going well; she's made new friends, she likes her new home, everything is going well. She seems to be thriving. She sounds happy, maybe even happier than she had been living in Hawkins. Maybe Max was right, maybe she's better off being her own person without him, and maybe the respectful thing to do is step back... It's a small insecurity that creeps up subconsciously. In his replies he holds back, afraid of clinging too hard.

Though there's little logic in it, he's afraid that if he tells her he loves her again, another disaster might strike and this lovely happy life she's finally found might get taken from her. After all, that's what always seems to happen when he does.

4x2; after months of waiting, they can finally see each other again. He wears her favorite colors, picks a handful of flowers for her, and falls happily back into step with how they used to be. Soon that same day, however, reality becomes clear and the facade crumbles. People he was told were her friends show up to torment and publicly humiliate her. She had been lying. She isn't happy here, she hasn't healed, she is right at the edge of a breaking point that he doesn't see coming at all. He can't believe she would lie to him, she's not the kind of person to lie... especially not about something like bullying, something that she was always so understanding about with him.

On that logicless subconscious level, he wonders if it's all his fault-- he should have known somehow, he should have been there for her. She protected him from his bullies, he should have protected her from hers. He tries to come to her rescue. She runs away from him.

He's helpless to save her, again.

4x3; after a night to process everything that happened-- and deciding that the betrayal he feels from her lying to him is nothing compared to the turmoil she must be going through right now-- Mike approaches her in the gentlest way possible, wanting to listen and trying to understand. El, however, isn't receptive at all to his attempts at reassurance. She is at an all-time low, she's given up. She believes she is unlovable, irredeemable, a monster, just a thing that doesn't even have those superhuman abilities to compensate anymore. Mike can't believe what he's hearing-- doesn't she know that she's always been so much more than her powers? She's always been so much more than what she lacks in quote-unquote "normalcy"... None of those things matter, they have absolutely no bearing on whether she's worthy of being loved, because he loves her, completely regardless of any of these things. He always has...

El starts flinging his restrained words back at him, the products of his insecurity and trauma-induced fear. That fear takes hold yet again, and he stumbles, afraid of saying too much or not enough, because surely both could result in pushing her away-- she's retreating, hearing none of it; nothing he tries to say consoles her.

Moments later, local police come knocking. She's taken away in cuffs, and she's so broken inside that she won't even look at him when he chases the police car down the street and promises he'll get her out somehow...

Once again, he has to watch helplessly as she drives away.

4x8/4x9; after days of driving through the heat and dryness of southwest desert, having narrowly escaped being shot at with military-grade assault rifles, witnessing the death of and burying a man whose last words were that El is in danger... After watching dozens of people get mowed down by a sniper in a helicopter, and watching that same helicopter be smashed into the ground in a ball of flames...

There she is. Just as powerful and beautiful and alive as she's ever been. When he runs to her and embraces her, she looks at him like she can't believe he's real. She's beaming a smile right from her soul and it's like all the insecurity and self-doubt that have plagued them both just vanish from existence now that they're in each other's arms again.

Like always, however, the universe comes crashing down soon after. Max is marked for a gruesome death and all of Hawkins is in danger. They're miles away and helpless, and the only possible way for El to save everyone is if she goes in alone. She's stronger than ever, but so is her foe. Once again, she descends to face all the demons of hell on her own, and Mike can't do anything.

She's losing. She's choking. She's dying. He's helpless.

He must be cursed. He must be. Being with her, loving her, allowing himself to admit he loves her, it always brings only pain and suffering and loss. His heart is so full that it's aching, it's bursting out of his chest, and he can't contain it any longer.

She's going to die and it's going to be all his fault, because he fell in love, and it's cursed her.

Just before it all crumbles into utter despair, the earnest support from his oldest and dearest friend-- one who's always shared and understood his feelings of helplessness-- sparks a light of hope in him: "You're the Heart." You're not helpless. You can save her.

The words that come spilling out of Mike's mouth are truer than any he's ever dared to speak before, and it's the most terrified he's ever been, but he has enough courage for this moment. Despite all of the fears that have been building, stifling, choking him to death for years-- fears that the light of his life will inevitably disappear again, and there's nothing he can do to stop it-- despite it all, he pours out his heart to her.

He loves her. He's always loved her. He loves everything she ever was, is, and could be. He can't imagine a world without her in it. She saved him, in every way a person can be saved. And he needs her to live. He believes in her.

And it works. It's music to her ears.

[themoonunderstoodmydadjokes]

✨ I did my first poetry reading tonight !!!! 🥹🥹 ✨

[copias-juicebox]

[socialbutterfly19]

I woke up in a sassy ass mood. Today will not be the day to piss me off

[atthebell]

watching cellbit blowing himself up after the final debate giggling and kicking my feet it's so fucking funny and also his dumb little kanye moment at the end he's sooooo

[quiznack]

dandadan voltron au where keith is an alien conspiracy theorist who gets in an argument with fervent ghost believer lance that leads to them exploring a tunnel said to be haunted by the spirit of a red lion and an abandoned building where there have been sightings of an alien-looking mechanical blue lion respectively. extremely long story short they both end up linked to their lions, gaining powers. they end up going on adventures to keep earth safe from both ghostly and alien threats while slowly collecting the rest of the gang and maybe even.........falling in love........

[watobu]

TW/CW: RELIGIOUS THEMES, DRUGGING, MATURE THEMES IN GENERAL!

Woah my AU I love so much and treat like a baby! ( It's full of death and suffering! )

This took forever to write pleaaaase have a looksy!!

ESSEMP.

A WANDERING NIGHTMARE.

"The worst verse to find."

Somehow it's deemed one of the worst places to be out of the multiverse, according to the Rovers.

What are the Rovers? In short, multiverse travelers. In long, that's for another post.

What is Wandering? Why a Wandering nightmare? That's also for another post!

It started off a normal smp, it was normal for years. People lived their lives, growing up, getting out of their houses, finding people to live with. We mostly see the world from Wemmbu's perspective.

Wemmbu meets someone named PrinceZam, the two team up! They end up teamed for a few years, going through their teen years together into adulthood. By ages 19 and 20, they seem stable enough. At least in Wemmbu's eyes.

The two seemed okay, Wemmbu was pleased with the life he was living. The two were left alone enough to live, but not enough to avoid the occasional fight with another group, which wasn't horrid. Nobody at their level wanted to fight to the death. It was all fun and games! Like how all worlds should be.

Wemmbu begins to develop some form of crush on Zam! ( Zammbu crumbs anyone? ) Zam doesn't reciprocate, not yet, seemingly. Despite this, the two remained teamed! They're so close nobody could break their bond. Totally.

Not to Zam, he isn't as pleased as Wemmbu seems. Infact, he complains to Wemmbu about power, about how drained of it he feels. Others like ClownPierce are at the top, why aren't he and Wemmbu at the top? The two don't have the greatest fighting skills, unlike those "at the top" to be fair. Wemmbu didn't see issue with it. Then again, his urge to "become the strongest" was short-lived when he realized how high he had to climb and the lengths it took. It'd be fun to try one day, but for now? Nah.

Zam eventually and abruptly stops complaining. He begins to go missing for days at a time, even. It concerns Wemmbu, why is he disappearing?

Come to find out, Zam has been meeting someone. Someone feeding him ideas, ideas that Zam took into account. How did Wemmbu find this out? Following Zam using an invisibility potion.

Zam fully disappears one day, abandoning Wemmbu. Of course he didn't stay, why would he stay? Zam wants power, power that Wemmbu doesn't want yet. Soon, that yet will turn into never.

He finds someone named Eggchan, someone Wemmbu once knew as a "childhood friend." He doesn't remember much of it, but Egg does. The two team up, ending up closer than Wemmbu feels he was to Zam.

Fastfowards months later, and a church is built at spawn, a sign at the entrance saying "THE ECLIPSE."

The motherfucker had moved onto other people, primarily people known as ItzSubz and Vitalasy. Others involved, of course. Power in numbers or something. Those involved would be named Mapicc, Roshambo, Jepexx, ChiefXD, Reddoons, and HannahxxRose. Associates would soon be named ClownPierce, BranzyCraft, Kaboodle, Squiddo, IvoryCello, and -A.

PrinceZam is renamed PriestZam, and Wemmbu quickly realizes what's happening.

There were two people that Wemmbu saw everywhere. Two people named Spokeishere and Ashswag. They joked about being gods together, very obviously joking. Wemmbu always caught their odd laughter near spawn or in caves nearby whilst the guy was doing whatever.

Seems like someone took the bit too far. The two went missing one day. People wondered where the two had gone, especially someone known as MinuteTech. Someone deemed Spoke's brother.

First sermon, a message is sent in chat inviting everyone in the server.

Curious, quite a few people show up! Including Wemmbu — and there he sees Spoke and Ash both hung up on display, unable to get out of their restraints or move. The two looked dazed, as if they both weren't all the way there. Not a pleasant sight, to be quite honest.

Spoke's rainbow accessories were now replaced with one solid color: Gold. Wemmbu fully realizes what his former teammate is doing, and turns to leave the sermon before it can even begin.

Days later, he's about a good million blocks out, having built an orbital strike cannon from complete scratch. Juuuust as he was loading it, getting it ready, purely to fire at Zam's church, Subz finds him.

He's caught right there, right before he can do anything, while his PvP kit is in a shulker in his e-chest. This doesn't end well for Wemmbu! He's taken by Subz into the church, claiming divine intervention had just saved the church from a sinner trying to kill the only holy thing on the server.

Wemmbu ends up imprisoned, tortured, and trapped unable to leave with zero items but gold accessories he is unable to take off and a bowl of rabbit stew that tastes all too strange.

It's that church that Wemmbu will rot in for the rest of the server's existence. He has no way to escape! Why? Because this place is rigged, the villains always win. Every last escape attempt is met with failure.

In order to avoid further escape attempts, Wemmbu is routinely drugged, just like Ash and Spoke. They can't refuse food, they'll die, and come to find out — they respawn. There is zero point to refuse.

Wemmbu ends up sharing a cell with Ash and Spoke eventually, due to overcrowding, as others are caught and used as hostages.

Wemmbu and Ash kick it off! Traumabonded romantic relationship, they're both highly delusional and definitely healthy. They don't fight over Ash's delusional trips about being a genuine avatar of a god. Definitely. Wemmbu doesn't spiral into a psychotic break about not being human over the treatment recieved from this and Zam. Not at all. They're healthy and happy with their situation.

They are happy being used as sacrifices in this church. They do not want to leave. This is entirely true and not a lie!

While Ash and Spoke are given questionably decent treatment, Wemmbu is given absolutely nothing. He isn't valuable enough, he's a sinner, sinners deserve punishment do they not?

PLEASE NOTE.

Pretty much this AU is death and suffering. Villains win. There is fluff, it's just rare.

This AU has a lot of ships built into it. ( Eggbu, Kenifies, Wemmswag / Ashbu, Parfies ( /toxic, Wifies is a rebound. ), spokepicc ( /toxic, devious is DEAD. ) and more

Yes, characters in this au are older, this takes place multiple years into the future. No, none of the characters are minors they are all physically incapable of being minors as this is like 6 years into the future. Wemmbu & Zam are both about 26 - 27 going forwards off of the church stuff.

MY INBOX IS OPEN!

Q&A about this AU is open in my inbox

There's a lot of smaller points missing in here that I forget.

Please ask me about this AU and offer ideas for it. I'm happy to talk about anything about this AU. It's my baby. :3

Questions are entirely free reign, ask whatever you want. Bring up possible ships and characters you ponder abt existing in this au!! I'll happily talk abt them :3 even if pre-existing ships exist. I love making shit up

[lonelyzarquon]

three notes on today's episode:

1. sutekh clowning turned out to be real hurrayyy

2. MRS FLOOD??? BABES????? YOU'RE SCARING ME MORE THAN THAT CHTHONIC DOGGO

3. why is everyone so HOT

[mallgothchloe97]

Tired of seeing "goths" who think shopping at

SHEIN, DollsK *Il, Jeff Str, Hobby L®bby, St*rbucks, and other shitty places are "cute" btw don't say you're saving money with SHEIN when you're buying LITERAL CLOTHES MADE BY CHILDREN.

It's ALWAYS the same ones who just hopped on the bandwagon and know NOTHING about politics, history, values, morals, ethics, music. It's the hype beasts and the people that think you're COPYING them...

Yall are literal posers!

Y’all are not real goths.

[paint-music-with-me]

WAIT DID MEW PUT THE AUDIO ON THE SPEAKERS!?!?!

WHEN HE WAS ON THE PHONE IN THE BEDROOM, HE LOOKED DOWN AT THE SPEAKERS. AND THEN WHEN TOP TURNS HIS HEAD TO THE DOOR, IT WAS CUZ THE MUSIC WAS PLAYING-

MEW FUCKING DROPPED THE AUDIO AS LOUDLY AS POSSIBLE ON THE FUCKING SPEAKERS

HE BLANKETED THE FUCKING BEDROOM WITH THAT AUDIO

[ratttoro]

hey guys, in case anyone was curious, the cost for fresh produce is so high that low income Canadians are starting to get fucKING SCURVY