#my answers are so obvious lmao

[franeridart]

going back and rereading from episode 0, so many little hints of just Ross staring at Dave when he asks him his name, a little hint if you’re rereading the Ross is like “dude, really?” And Ross saying he dyed his hair to impress someone he had a crush on 🤭 wonder who it could be all things considered

Ah! I'm so glad you can actually see it rereading! I did my best to make ross's words and reactions as consistent with his different awareness of the situation as I could without making it too obviously weird, it's so cool that people seem to be able to pick it up haha

[crazy-fangirl2524]

Seeing people reacting to tsc and them getting shock over things I thought was obvious and I was getting annoyed until I realised maybe not everyone reread aftg like a million times and have read most of the analytical posts and yeah maybe I am the problem instead

[exactlyspookykxala]

dare I say this patch is better than the entire penacony arc, for me at least. idk, it feels less dialogue-heavy than penacony. the characters are still using more words than they need to, but not to the point where i question if their throat is getting dry. except aglaea, I think 😭 but i think that part was intentional lmao. all in all, definitely left an impression, but a foreboding one.

[gomzdrawfr]

do you answer every ask?

No

[puppydoggraham]

Being autistic is so silly like hmmmm how can I cross over reality show big brother with NBC’s hit show Hannibal?

[yenpondering]

Entitled customers are funny, imagine kicking up such a fuss with our managers that 2 mall security guards had to be called to come mediate all because you and your wife not only can't read but also can't see that our menu literally serves soft poached egg, not a boiled egg, in our Japanese rice bowls

Anyway read the menu properly y'all and ask questions if you're unsure, don't be a dick to hospitality workers especially over dumb shit

[chill-vibes-but-rainbow-panic]

I'm like a whole week late but I had a vision. Breaking my 2am art-rule for this we ball

[calyptramoths]

having a lot of thoughts about aromanticism and how that interacts with my idea of friendship vs romance

[ringaroundtheroses]

my friend sent this in my server and i decided to just draw the lowest quality doodles w no references ull ever see lmao

[forest-hashira]

i'm staring at so many of you so hard waiting for you to like that reverse ask game post

[blujayonthewing]

17, 28, 31 and 32, for Melliywk!

17. how did they spend their summers/free time as a child?

In general, gnomish childhood is for exploration and trying new things, so a little bit of all kinds of things! But, in particular, she got into tinkering really young-- one time as a little little kid she woke up early and borrowed her dad's alarm clock to take apart; it made him late for work, but it also resulted in Mel getting her very own alarm clock, as well as her own beginner toolset and strict instructions to please ask for her own things to muck about with, lol. Her mom's the handyman of the house, so she learned a lot about various hand tools and basic repair tasks from her, and she was definitely doing rube goldberg setups and Sid Toystory type shit in her room all the time. She also has a lot of really fond memories of going out on bug collecting daytrips with her dad!

28. how do they show that they care about someone? how do they express that they don't like someone?

Melliwyk does a lot of teasing and playful banter; she's a little bit just like that in conversation in general, but for example she (lovingly) picks on Zhartook a lot, lol. She tends to be kind of self-absorbed-- not in an egoistic way but just, you know, wrapped up in her work and not really thinking about other people, so she's not always proactively caring towards others, but if she can get outside her own bubble at all once in awhile she can be surprisingly thoughtful. One of her main love languages is acts of service-- she's always delighted to put down whatever she's doing to help others when asked, and does a fair number of projects just on the basis of 'might be nice/ useful for [friend]'.

On the other hand, she's not subtle about disliking others, or even being temporarily mad at them, lol. She can be kind of a petty little shit, frankly-- biting sarcasm and cold shoulders. At the very least, she's not as warm and friendly as usual, and certainly not playful. She's had sort of a... precarious falling out with our bard that I frankly don't wanna get into but the point is it kind of doesn't feel safe for her to be obvious about her dislike for him :') But she's just sort of withdrawn from interacting with him more than she needs to, and maintains a baseline politeness at most, neither of which is too hard to manage when she can tend to be kind of a recluse anyway.

31. do they like receiving gifts? giving gifts? what is their ideal gift?

Gift giving is her other biggest love language! She loves making things, much more than she cares about having things, so she really likes making stuff for her friends, whether it's something she thinks would be useful for them or just something she thinks they might like or appreciate. She's also (usually) happy, if not excited, to get magic items into the hands of whomever in the party would make the best use of them, or to loan out hers if she's not willing to give them up permanently (like the cloak of elvenkind, which was a gift, or the ring of the depths, which has shockingly powerful magic in it for a novelty item [at-will shapechange, but only into very low level sea animals] and is an artifact of an ancient artificer she admires; she's even offered to let our fighter borrow the enchanted nightcap she literally never takes off because of chronic nightmares, if she thought it might prevent nasty people casting Dream on her to fuck with her).

She also does absolutely like receiving gifts! On the receiving end she's very much an 'it's the thought that counts' person-- any gift that the person clearly meant sincerely is going to make her happy and be greatly valued, whether it's something really thoughtful and personal or just a gag gift they thought she'd think was funny. It'd be hard to nail down a specific 'ideal gift' for her, but obviously any magic item would be top tier.

32. do they have any habits that aren't particularly self-destructive, just maybe odd?

I don't roleplay this as much as I'd like because it'd be kind of disruptive over video calls as opposed to in person, but she talks to herself a lot, in the form of thinking out loud. She was a hermit for a really long time, and kind of a loner even among others for awhile before that, so she's quite strongly in the habit of rubber-ducking to Baxter, even when he's not actually around. When they first started traveling together I imagine there was a significant adjustment period where she'd start talking conversationally through some problem, Zhartook would answer (likely in confusion), and she'd be startled and maybe a little annoyed because she's not talking to him and also not expecting any kind of response at all aside from maybe encouraging 'hmm's now and then, lol. She also talked to her house's ghost a lot, despite not believing he actually existed; 'Now cut that out' when the wind was noisy in the chimney or 'I'll be back soon, don't get into too much trouble while I'm gone' when she had to go into town, etc.

ask about my OCs :3

[saturdaynightghostclub]

in the vein of suggestions for content that is similar to leander: donnie is to most ferris bueller-coded man ever to me <3 (also if you don’t mind do you have any donnie recs🫣)

Bestie you read my mind, I was just thinking about this while having a John Hughes marathon with my mom haha! Of course I do!

Movies:

Better Off Dead - Surreal visuals, goofy romance, gallows humor (TW: Discussion of suicide)

Say Anything - unlikely duo, John Cusack being a shameless simp, That boombox scene

Sleeping With Other People - friends to lovers, silly dialogue, made me think Jason Sudeikis was hot for half a second

The Holiday - cute boys, stressed girls, something for everyone!

Pretty in Pink - I know I rec’d this for Leander (because Blane) but I’m also recommending it for Donnie (he’s Duckie, deep in his soul)

Singles - My Seattle grunge soul is biased, but one of the storylines contains the line “If I could have a personal conversation with God, I’d ask him to create this girl,” so I think you’ll enjoy it :)

Shows:

Pushing Daisies - Thing 1 and Thing 2, quippy dialogue, a genuinely kind man (what a concept)

The Bear - everyone’s caught onto this by now, but everyone’s right! It’s as good as they say!

Sex and the City - not a favorite of mine but Steve is the king of my heart

New Girl - Nick Miller Nick Miller from the streets of Chicago where players play like they do like they did

Gilmore Girls - I’ve never seen it, but people keep telling me my writing reminds them of it so maybe it belongs on this list!

Once again, I have no book recommendations as the last 20something books I’ve read have been somewhere in the horror-thriller-weirdo early American lit genre so any and all suggestions are welcome!

[unofficialadamtaurus]

I feel like they unnecessarily involved jaune once again while Ruby was breaking down. This felt like such an important part for her character since so far she has only been bubbly and all that and idk, I didn’t like how they had jaune interrupt her and start screeching about being aLoNe fOr sO LoNg. Idk.

What's frustrating to me is that, in the moment, Jaune lashing out makes sense. The whole scene is written so that Ruby takes that potshot at Jaune, allowing him a completely justified retaliation. The dude's traumatized, mentally unwell, and doing his best. Hell, I like the delivery and I even like his lines (even if you can go back into V8 and see that the plan was also his idea, so he's a raging hypocrite like everyone else). Jaune's speech making sense in the moment is not the problem.

I've seen takes like, "I don't get why everyone's upset at Jaune responding, it made complete sense!" and that's missing the point of most critiques. Put simply, the writers could've written the scene in a way that didn't require Jaune's rant (fuck, I did that). Yes, you miss out on Jaune's little breakdown, but you can shove that into some scene later - perhaps even a Penny's-fate-confession scene. Write Ruby's breakdown scene differently and let the spotlight go to and stay on Ruby. Don't split the focus and make it a suffering olympics showdown between her and the guy that should've just made it to Vacuo.

[taegularities]

i'm hurt 🥲

[evanescentdawn]

Fr seriously obsessed with this wip of mine… ueueue I wish that I actually some plot for this so I could fcking write the rest and READ it

Once again, numerous times, without fail, he would appear in her mind.

Yoo Joonghyuk.

She would wonder why him. Why —

But that answer is blatantly oblivious, she spares herself some personal grief to not think about that.

[izzy-b-hands]

Reminder that if the first thing I see on a blog new to following me are even vaguely positive posts abt h*rry p*tter, I'm gonna assume ur a t/erf/transphobic and immediately block u

Shout-out to the person this morning who liked one of my fics on here, followed me, then when i went to their blog literally the only post was something abt h p. Had me really excited (new person reading!) then really sad (they're most likely a transphobe) in the space of less than a minute before I blocked them. Hence this reminder that tbh I really didn't think I'd ever need to make but. Here we are.

(said as someone who read the books as a kid and at the time did v much have them as a big part of my life so like. I see the angle of nostalgia/rose tinted lenses that many claim, but the thing is that joanne is a piece of shit who wants ppl like me dead so fuck nostalgia, fuck her, fuck her books, there are far better authors and books out there to read/support/make a major part of ur life if ur so inclined.)