#n e ways i'm rambling

[vinyls-and-valentines]

This is something of a continuation to this post, but Cherri's "bravey test" isn't necessarily all that voluntary nor involuntary. I mean, it's true that most people end up participating in it because Cherri made a show of boasting how "[it] is a fool-proof way to weed out liars" after framing some poor sod for stealing something they hadn't, but he also just lies to people that it's for the sake of impressing someone or other they got a crush on, which is objectively a bigger lie than the stealing

[francy-sketches]

Hiiiii guess who finished her pmv. finally. um enjoy :3

[once-in-a-blood-moon]

Something about the way people talk about Solomon's dismissal of his vulnerability rubs me the wrong way. (I don't have any specific examples, I'm just gonna hope you know what I'm talking about lol.)

I've never seen anything inherently mean, but I have seen comments that seemingly take offense to his "just kiddings" when he expresses his feelings, whether it's romantically or talking about past hardships... And I couldn't pinpoint what it was that confused me about the fandom's responses to that until now.

What Solomon is going through in moments like those is a trauma response. And yes, while trauma responses aren't always beneficial and can sometimes be hurtful to others or the person responding that way themselves, reacting with "negativity" to said responses just makes it worse.

Solomon has an avoidant attachment style, which means he struggles with opening up and being genuine in his feelings even if he wants to. I, myself, am the same way. More often than not, I also follow up a heavier topic with "I'm sorries" or "just kiddings." The thing about this, is it's not meant to be malicious. So, when I see people taking Solomon's comments as if it's a slight to them, I just...??

I can almost guarantee that if those comments where said to him right after he'd attempted to open up, even if it had good intentions, it'd probably make him want to close back up completely. Because there's no patience to his avoidance, no acceptance to why he behaves that way. There's just this perception of not being understood or that his feelings/thoughts aren't safe. It just feels like he's not allowed any grace.

[pastelaspirations]

So, u h.

H O W. HOW, I ASK. ALL I DO IS POST ART ONCE IN A BLUE MOON AND MAKE REALLY CURSED REBLOGS. LIKE, I'M SO VERY GLAD YOU'RE HERE, BUT I CAN'T UNDERSTAND HOW OR WHY YOU'RE HERE-

I also like. Make really angsty, ungodly long fanfics that I do absolutely nothing to promote on this dumpster fire of a blog, but that's besides the point- ANYWAY. HAVE SOME REALLY SKETCHY DOODLES THAT I DID TO THANK YA MAD LADS ;_;

Thank ya, thank ya, you absolute mad lads. I will uh... continue to do what I do. Thank you for joining the ride, even though it's less of a ride and more that I found an abandoned theme park ride and decided to ride it as a prolonged death wish and you inexplicably strapped yourself in next to me with the moldy seatbelt-

[doodlboy]

Weird discrepancy I just noticed, nightbringer changed Lucifer's dominant hand fsr

In the original game [top 2], he's writing with his left hand, but in this card from nightbringer, he's using his right. Either he's ambidextrous or the devs just forgot that detail

[zishuge]

I finally started watching My Journey To You and I'm completely enamored with these character introductions. Our introduction to the female lead is her flying in through a window and immediately knocking a roomful of people unconscious. She doesn't care who sees her naked. Her body doesn't belong to her anyway. She's cold, hard, and efficient. It's her last mission and she's not going to let anything stand in her way.

Our introduction to our male lead is... the complete opposite? He’s soft and curled up napping on a chaise in front of a fire like a housecat???? He's a beautiful delicate flower who's afraid of the cold??? He goes to the brothel when he's sad just so the courtesan will play him music so he can take a nap and de-stress after his father yells at him???

I can't believe this story is "ruthless assassin and her pitiful little meow meow". I love it so much.

[that-was-anticlimactic]

i feel like you’ve told me about most of these uhmmm let’s go with to the sky i'd throw it (ily <3333)

yEAH bc unlike you i am. bad at keeping fics a secret iuhgyftgyhu

anyways this is the depressed kunikida fic where he dies a lot and is like "well. life sucks man" ijuhygtftgyuio idk there isn't too much to say about it except this was originally supposed to be the kunikida writing a time for the kunidazai first kiss and havibg Shceudles like we talked about in the car on our way to cfa oiuygfgyuioiuygf the title also comes from the best song from shrek the musical, "who i'd be" which ruined my life and also i ate the song

here's a lil snippet with a chuuya mention Just for you <333

Kunikida is twenty-two when he dies again.

Perhaps it isn’t fair to call the aftermath of his personal explosion death since the butterflies didn’t have to save him.

the butterflies were too familiar now, they left a sickening sting on his tongue

she had to bring Kenji back three times in the past couple hours

he’s just a kid.

But before the boom temporarily deafens him, he hears Jun’ichiro scream his name, so loudly and full of pain and fear that Kunikida wants to remind him to drink some water when he gets home.

if he gets home

he’s just a kid.

He remembers seeing Chuuya’s face as he jumped from the plane. There was something akin to terror gleaming in their wide eyes, and suddenly they looked older than twenty-two.

Kunikida wonders if he looks older than twenty-two as he falls.

It’s practically death when he loses his hands, isn’t it? What is life without his ideals, without a means to write them? What is life without the Armed Detective Agency, and what right does Kunikida have to be there without his ability?

He’s not smart like Ranpo, he’s not cunning like Naomi, he’s…

He’s dead.

…

And then he’s not.

It feels trivial at this point, and as Yosano heals his hands, Kunikida thinks he may have been better off dead.

oops that is a. long snippet iuyftcgyhuij it felt wrong to break any of that up lol anyways ily kunikidaaaaa

[gxlden-angels]

Christians: Nothing should be over the Lord! You should give your money to the church because it belongs to Him!

Me, deciding I love my cat more than Jesus:

[galaxietm]

every now and then i consider writing fir.e emblem aw.akening muses, but the anxiety kicks in and i chicken out lmao

[oloreandil]

the L change the world movie is just someones fanfiction about L being the coolest and most awesome big brother in the world

anon you have activated my infodump trap card XD

i am currently reading the novelisation and let me tell you. i cannot wait to pick it back up because it's INSANE how much fun the author is having with their L characterisation ??? + the batshit Mello Narration™ straight from nisioisin's novel. genius storytelling, this crêpe cart is going 5000 km an hour and there are no brakes. the french translation includes such gems as:

— Bonjour, jeune homme, que diriez-vous d'une petite crêpe ? fit l'ours d'un ton aussi léger qu'à contretemps. ("Hello, young man, would you like to enjoy a little crêpe ?" said the bear in a tone as light as it was against tempo.) "La petite promenade occasionnée par cette translation de document s'annonçait silencieuse" (The short stroll brought about by this transposition of document promised to be a quiet one.) "L coinça un macaron entre chaque doigt, soit quatre en tout, et se mit à attaquer le premier avec une telle fougue qu'il faillit se manger les doigts." (L stuck a macaron between each finger, so four all in all, and started to dig into the first one with such fervour that he almost ate his own fingers.) (once again a mention of the third world war that L stopped when he was 8 by solving the "mad bomber of Winchester" case before he even met Watari. if you want context i hope you're ready to wait lmao) — Il va falloir revoir l'organigramme de la Wammy's... (We'll need to restructure the Wammy's organisation chart...)

i'm crying real tears of joy every time i open this book. impeccable translation work by Patrick Honoré and Machida Momomi, i send them my utmost affection. i had to stop 26 pages in but i'm IN LOVE already

also. have a meme. maybe i'll make more who knows c;

thank you for giving me the opportunity to be publicly unhinged about LCTW haha, i hope you have a good day !!!

[aeide-thea]

so i was like 'i could swear i didn't feel this hideously dysphoric last summer, wtf is my dealio lately!!' and finally it occurred to me, 'okay, fine, let's maybe try putting on one of the ribbed men's tanks i wore religiously all last summer instead of the women's technical tops i've been wearing lately, and see what effect that has,' and. yeah. fuck. 🤦

it really is like. every! damn! season! i get seduced into thinking maybe i can wear just a little bit of reasonably-unfeminine women's clothing, and the idea is appealing because i'm actually comfortably encompassed by that size range, whereas with men's shirts i often ideally would wear an XS but can't get one—and yes, boys' stuff exists and i do ever wear it, but sometimes you're in the market for stuff that's slightly higher spec than anyone bothers to make for kids, you know? but anyway it's just so reliably the case that like. every fucking time i'm like, okay, sure, let's try a little womenswear, it turns out that i can bear it for a little while and then i realize something about it is making me fucking crazyyyyyy. >:|

sux bc the problematic batch of tanktops is like. such a good light comfortable wicking all-natural fabric! that's why i wanted them and they're everything i hoped they would be! and they're genuinely not even overtly feminine! but the straps are just a little too narrow and the cut is just a little too )ᓑ( and it's like. in some contexts those things are bearable, but in others they're really just. Bad, it turns out. :(

anyway they are sufficiently slouchy that in theory i could probably just, like, do some aftermarket alterations to improve the shape??? like i think i really just need them to be, you know, simple tubes straight up and down and not the vaguely /ᓑ\ shape they currently are, which in theory ought to be simple enough to achieve (especially since they're also a little long, so i could just hem them straight and stop worrying about how to factor in the vaguely high-low thing that's also happening). however. probably NOT realistic to do by hand (like. if nothing else i just don't have the patience) and while there is a sewing machine kicking around here somewhere i absolutely don't remember how to use it and do live in fear of it (i just have like. vague recollections of various Mysterious Snarls back in the day). so. idk. blergh, argh, etc.

(i assume 4p would just be like 'try it! learn as you go!' and like. honestly that's fair and maybe i even will, i think the manual is also kicking around actually, but. would prefer to have it magically sorted. :/ like, sometimes you just want a wardrobe and not a project, you know??)

[raiiny-bay]

slowly building the monster boys' cabin in blender :-)

[thatoneluckybee]

I HAVE TEN MINUTES UNTIL I GOTTA GO BUT H O W AM I MEANT TO FOCUS ON SCHOOL WHEN YTTD NEWS DROPPED

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

spot the difference

[jensonsbuttons]

me: you can do multiple edits for multiple eras

also me: why did you do honda jenson so early

[vinyls-and-valentines]

...I should go to the craft store some time