#not an exhaustive list as always!!!!!!!

[d-esmond]

⋆｡ ﾟ☁︎｡ ⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡ ⋆⋆｡ ﾟ☁︎｡ holiday requests! ⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡ ⋆⋆｡ ﾟ☁︎｡ ⋆｡ ﾟ☾

HI FRIENDS! for the third year in a row i wanna give back and spoil u all with some love for the holidays. '24 was a year for sure, but i met more cool people and made friends and had fun on here as always. even when shit happens, this hellsite is always a cozy little safe space and i love sharing that with u. so! anyway! the requests!

— i'll make a collage edit of ur favorite character / oc / ship / etc

— just send me a message on here or on discord so we can discuss any specifics.

— all my edits are here

ur all angels and i'm thankful for u everyday. much love and light and hugs and chocolate for the season and beyond!!! xxxxxxx

tagging beloved friends and mutuals below the cut <3

@adelaidedrubman @auricfog @belgianfry @caernua @carlosoliveiraa

@cetra @confidentandgood @cptcassian @delicateweapon @elvves

@euryalex @eziosofia @faerune @famewolf @florbelles

@full---ofstarlight @gabbrietteleighbechtel @halliserres @imogenkol @jackiesarch

@jessicatredes @johnnystorm @lavampira @leviiackrman @loriane-elmuerto

@pricemarshfield @raresvtm @risingsh0t @roberthouse69 @shellibisshe

@socially-awkward-skeleton @statichvm @thedeadthree @tommyarashikage @travellingseal

@tuseranita @unholymilf @viktorgf @vindicia @visenyatargaryen @youre-drinking-embalming-fluid

[undergoing-mitosis]

can we talk about the fact that the icons, the memes, the tumblr sexymen who broke history, reigen arataka and sans undertale, are both some of the most exceptionally written and executed characters i have ever had the pleasure of stumbling across? please can we talk about that?

[asterdeer]

sam winchester and jon sims. smth about being a groomed+prepared vessel for evil beings since childhood/infancy. smth about growing up with no agency except what you can scrape together with nothing but your own smarts and instincts. smth about that agency never really mattering anyway because the forces that want to use you are too strong to fight against, not when they've had you for so long. smth about never having a choice about the monstrousness that has been forced on you but everyone hates you for it anyway, wants to hurt or kill you for it, even the people who are supposed to be on your side, the ones who would rather you die in human agony than live in a way they can't or won't understand. smth about grasping at your own monstrousness as the only source of power in an incomprehensible world that has literally been rigged against you from the start. smth about doing everything you can to use that monstrousness, all the pain and helplessness you've suffered, to help other people, and it's never enough. it has to be enough but it is never enough. smth about how no one you love will ever look at you with complete trust and faith ever again because you've been tainted for good, and finally you end up agreeing with them, that the best and only right outcome is your death.

[human-blob-nessie]

How to download and play music for free on all your devices

Some folks don't know how to do this yet, but it's very easy to download files on your own devices to be able to access it whenever you want forever, without paying for it, without ads and without a need for internet connection.

(Since it's long, color code. Green for big themes, Blue(?) for notable topic changes, Red for direct links. I have put image descriptions where relevant)

//For downloads. There isn't a single place i can point to where you can download everything that exists ever for free. BUT. There are lots of ways all over the place.

For this post, i'll assume you use all the download sites from a computer, and move files to other devices using a USB to relevant-port cable, but i think most work from mobile ? I haven't checked that. If you want to sort your files neatly i highly advise doing it from a PC anyway.

-> For Spotify specifically, i very recently found spotdownloader, you can put in a spotify link for a song, album or playlist and generate a download link. It gives high quality mp3s, with full metadata. Just know that the site seems to not do much when you click download, just let it sit for a bit and it will do its thing, slowly yes but eventually the files will appear in your download folder. There are instructions on the site (including for how to use a script to directly add a download button to spotify) so no need for me to explain much more.

(as a test for this post, i downloaded all of the Arcane S2 songs. It's not exactly perfect, I think the audio doesn't always directly come from spotify, so sometimes you might get some minor differences, like a few seconds more in the beginning or the end (for examples, i have one song with the netflix logo sound at the end, and another one with sound from a clip from arcane at the beginning), but nothing major)

-> A good place to start for other sources is cobalt.tools. You can paste links to youtube or even audio files that are directly on tumblr. The defaults setting are a bit weird, i personally go and set it to have a good automatic title and (this is important !!!) get the audio quality up to at least 256kb/s, otherwise sound quality is kinda bad (by defaults it sits at 128kb/s and it's a bit crunchy)

Since you can find most music on youtube, this is great for downloading individual tracks. It can also save video and audio files from other sources, including tiktok or soundcloud, but not spotify

It struggles with very long videos though, even when downloading just the audio (you just select "audio" on the main menu for that), i've tried with a 45 minutes video just to see, i got 9 minutes of video and 33 minutes of audio, not the entire video (not sure what's up with that, it's perfect with shorter stuff though)

Since you can find most music on youtube or soundcloud, with a bit of patience you can easily get almost whatever you want using this.

Up until very recently i had a working addon to download from youtube, but right now it doesn't work and I haven't found a working replacement yet.

-> Websites like Video Game Music Downloads are very good - and despite the name, not exclusively for video games(there is an anime section), but mostly - it's free to download tracks individually, they have full metadata. (You can access the one click album downloads by either donating - whichever amount and you're good to go for a set time -, uploading something yourself, or giving a referral link to someone else)

-> Some artists on bandcamp have stuff that you can directly download for free, but that's rare so you can check whether that's the case or not but don't count on it

//Now for reading them, just in case. Most computers have an included audio file reader, but i always recommend getting VLC, which is lightweight and can do everything you need with sometimes easier access to different options, and is compatible with every OS out there as well as most audio file formats. An important one, especially if you want to get your music on your phone, is metadata.

You access this screen by opening a file with VLC, accessing the track list screen (on the bottom or the left, it might not open by default), then right-clicking on the track and selecting Informations (or something similar i couldn't access VLC in english right now).

The most important stuff you might want to edit are the Title, Artist and Album fields, as those are the ones music readers are most likely to look at. I sadly did not find a way to mass edit these. On windows (up to win 10 at least, I did not test the later ones) you can also change these by right-clicking on files and accessing their properties, there is a metadata screen that you can edit, and if memory serves you can do that with several files selected at once.

VLC has a library section too, in which you can organise your songs, albums and everything if you want to. Personally I never used it, i prefer to rely on good old-fashioned folders to sort everything, but that's me and my habit of listening to albums rather than playlists so it can be useful, just not my thing personally.

//Now to read audio files on your phone !!

First, check your integrated music app as it normally should have fatures to read local music files, but it is important to note that you might not natively have an app that can easily read music locally. Which is terrible, i know, but I know that from first-hand experience (my current phone came with Google Play Music installed, which could read local files but was deprecated in favour of Youtube Music which cannot do that, so I had to get another app).

So just in case, here's a link to this app, which can read local files and sort them by artist, albums or even custom playlists. Comes with varying widgets you can put on your main menu for quick use, etc. It has ads, but not all the time and only in the UI, it never interrupts your music to play an ad. Might not be the best one, there are several others out there, and I don't have another example for Apple phones, sorry for that.

A thing to note : it will sort music based on metadata, which is why I deemed it important to edit downloaded music using VLC before putting said files on your phone. If you did not do it, there is a UI to edit metadata in the app, i personally find it a bit less practical but that might be a personal bias, technically it's fine. Also you can change album covers using said app, but you need to store the images on your phone too (there is a button to help find relevant album covers using the song titles and artist names, it just links to google images but it works)

@dog-with-anxiety here you go. I wanted to be extra precise just in case, and feel free to share the info.

[found--family]

they couldn't let cesar and jesse return bc they would've taken one look at dean and cas interacting and known they had it bad for each other

[dawnstarranger]

Challenge: make a poll with five of your all time favorite characters, and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favorite.

I was tagged by @darkseldarine !

I’ll tag @cthulhu-cat @villainslut @juneiper-art @rukafais @nabanna @immortallaughter and also anyone and everyone else who would like to do this!

[trans-axolotl]

where can i learn more about antipsychiatry?

Here's a post with some mad studies/antipsych reading lists!

Would also recommend checking out Project Lets, the Wildflower Alliance, and the Inner Compass Initiative for some orgs that are doing some awesome on the ground work.

[kellystar321]

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[rlvaille]

every day i come here after work and other people than me have giffed hwa and i feel stupid and useless :((

[guinevereslancelot]

not "i can do better" or even "i deserve better" per se, because i can't really believe that, but an inexplicable third reason i won't settle for a relationship where my level of care, effort, and sacrifice isn't reciprocated <3

[incomingalbatross]

WIP Game

rules: In a new post, post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it

Tagged by @readalong, thank you!

I... am just gonna list whatever docs I've worked on in the last three-ish months. Ask about any of these if you wanna!

Dipper & Creativity

Slaybel and Slipper

Assorted Stan and Ford Feels

Portal Soos

"Love You Too" Amphibia fic

The Motherhood of Sarah Jane (technically complete but unpublished; could use an epilogue, though)

Amphibia: mind-controlled Sasha fun

DW/SH: Closed Books and Open Ones (mostly this is published, I've just been trying to edit + add a scene)

Amphibia Soulmate AU

(Gravity Falls) Fighting the Future: Apocalypse Not Included

OTGW/GF/Labyrinth/Amphibia timeline thoughts

notebook archive + card game nonsense

Yozakura

Tagging... @why-bless-your-heart, @long-live-the-gobop, @scarvenartist, @lurking-latinist, and @animate-mush (only if you all feel like playing, of course). And if anyone else wants to jump in, please consider yourselves tagged!

[johaerys-writes]

Have you ever read a fic/headcanon post you liked so much that it influenced your characterization of Patrochilles?

Aah this is such a tough question!! Especially since I've been writing them for so long, and I'm constantly either thinking about them, reading about them, talking about them, looking at art/fic/meta, and like generally being inundated by Patrochilles LOL so it's really hard to know what specific things have influenced me and how much of those characterisations/headcanons are my own.

Even though I love reading fic and I enjoy the occasional meta/headcanon post I see, I can say with a degree of certainty that a lot of how I understand Patrochilles has come either from analysing canon or sort of reading analyses on the Iliad, as well as other ancient works he appears in. Like this is where I draw my inspiration from, mostly. There's a wealth of resources and there are many different works where Achilles appears in and it's fun to sort of pick and choose different elements. The fragments of ancient greek tragedies or the entire tragedies we have where he appears are sometimes brief but they are very interesting distillations of his character and offer unique insights into how he was perceived at the time, and that has really influenced the way I write him.

I am also really inspired by all the gorgeous art I see, this one for example lives rent free in my brain and I feel like it has played a role in how I write young Achilles in general (he's such a silly menace!!) Another one I really love is this one, I think it really cemented the tall and gangly teenage Pat look in my head 🥹

These are only a couple of examples I could think of, but there are many many more that might lurk in the recesses of my brain but I just can't remember them now 😅

[egipci]

@familyhell replied to your post “Will my undying hard-on for Rachel Weisz overcome...”:

this is so interesting to me and that's why i want to ask, what about sibling incest do you think repels you that like, makes it different from dad/son and other types of incestuous vibes? i think i've mostly seen people who are okay with siblings (samdean usually) but not parent/child (johndean) because the latter grosses them out, because of the perceived unhealthier power dynamic

​Well, I think I misrepresented myself there – sister/sister (and to a lesser degree brother/sister) is particularly intolerable to me (maybe b/c I’m an older sister to a sister). But in general I do find most sibling stuff falls b/w actively repulsive to funny-gross to sorta meh. I guess the things that attract people to sibling incest (e.g. s/d) are just not ideas I’m interested in (I’m not into incest per se, and things like soulmates or excessive obsession are things I find icky even in non-incest contexts) – so that's that.

The other thing is, and I know I’m super weird on this, I don’t think dad/son is necessarily more unhealthy or “worse.” I find dad/son more compelling bc the (fantastical and imo boring) illusion of equality that makes sibling ships more palatable just doesn’t exist. And the inequality in a dad/son ship, in addition to what we think of as "power imbalance," entails asymmetry insofar that the parent and the child approach each other from radically different positions. E.g. thinking about John/Dean -- the metaphor we always use for Dean is that he loves John as his god, almost --- but for John, how does he love Dean? as a version of his younger self*? as an extension of himself? a person whose entire existence depends on him? a person he literally made and raised and knew for his whole life? I'm not a parent myself, but I have parents (lol), and we've all heard parents speak very movingly about how it feels to have brought a child into the world, etc --- and that fundamental difference makes their relationship fascinating, because, in a romantic/sexual context, how do you articulate what these feelings are, to yourself or to the other? And how do you even track the transformation of this reciprocal but qualitatively different devotion from what's normal and natural to what's unethical?

Relatedly, one of the things that I think about often is how parental relationships inherently necessitate physical interaction in ways that are more unusual in sibling relationships (i.e. the transition over time from a parent literally having to interact w/their children's bodies in extremely invasive ways to keep them alive to older children having to do the very same thing to their ailing parents) --- and how this weird relationship to time and the asymmetry arising from it allows room for vulnerability and safety and trust that’s very rare in a sibling relationship.

[dontmindme2600]

I really hope manga artists and ppl who work on anime start protesting because the conditions they’re forced to work under are terrifying, especially considering the MASSIVE amount of anime content that’s been being shit out these past few years. the stories of huge companies with high budgets having to hire amateur animators from twitter, the mass production of samey, bland stories and merch that everyone will forget exists two years later. Terrifying shit like stories of people just collapsing and dying at their desks, the stories of mangaka having no free time and not being able even meet with their own children, no breaks to eat or sleep, no living, having your dreams turned into a nightmare. The sad thing is that I know if these protests happens people are gonna be bitching about it, like we haven’t been absolutely spoiled enough already. Like dude just go back and watch the 5 anime that came out last season that were genuinely good, but you missed, because you were watching 3 other new ones at the same time. I would love for protests to break out, I’m actively hoping for them. I would gladly watch no new anime or manga come out for as long as it takes for these people to get good working conditions that don’t require them throwing away their lives.

[melto]

something just like snapped in the back of my head like i Need to go like curl up in my room for like 5 days and play video games and not speak to like anyone