#not open up discussions for shipping

[joyfuladorable]

Kinda wish I could mute posts on here, lol

Edit: okay, I actually can mute thank the GODSSSS

[sporesgalaxy]

fuck everything else ive ever said about making a video essay. Ive just had a divine epiphany. My first youtube video essay NEEDS to be "Why Is Roronoa Zoro Gay?"

[messrsrarchives]

if you are one of the people who goes to comment sections on jegulus or snape posts, who talks about the DE characters having a place etc etc, i hope this is a wake-up call. i really do.

if you are one of the people that throws around the word nazi when you see this content and the term nazi sympathiser to the people engaging in it? in the nicest way possible, wake the fuck up.

it's important to discuss politics in literature, absolutely. but this is a fandom space and the things people ship have absolutely no repercussions on the real world, nor does it reflect their personal views.

this does.

the richest man in the world doing two back to back nazi salutes at a presidential rally for the most powerful country on the world stage? that has repercussions worldwide.

that has the EU looking at X. that has the EU worrying about X because europe took a massive shift to the right after trump's last presidency and the german government has collapsed. that has the EU worried about the influence of a nazi salute on germany's upcoming elections next month. when the us "government" is run by someone who likes AfD (an extremist far-right german political party), and the richest man in the world stands and does a nazi salute. two, mind you. two nazi salutes back to back?

THAT has repercussions worldwide. not fictional character james potter fictionally kissing fictional character regulus black.

i am normally a lot nicer when i address these things but point blank: you are a vile fucking person if you care more about the fictional politics in a fandom space than the real politics that is playing out right now.

these words in fandom have made so many people so uncomfortable for so long. they have tried to explain how uncomfortable it is to come to their SAFE SPACE and see these words thrown around, to have them themselves be called one when they and their families have been affected.

yall ran to tiktok and cried over americans using the word sweater instead of jumper. yall ran to tiktok and said that words. have. meaning?

apply that here. words have meaning. stop throwing them around and put this energy into real world politics if you're so passionate about stamping out nazi ideology.

[quatregats]

I'm rereading Master and Commander and I'm deeply in danger of just posting every single passage from it ever but I did love the way that the capture of the prize in Chapter 6 was framed on either side by the logbook's entry, and also the way he transitions out of it to set the scene and tone:

Sunday, July 1 … Mustered the ship’s company by divisions read the Articles of War performed Divine Service and committed the body of Henry Gouges to the deep. At noon dº weather. Ditto weather: but the sun sank towards a livid, purple, tumescent cloud-bank piled deep on the western horizon, and it was clear to every seaman aboard that it was not going to remain ditto much longer. The seamen, sprawling abroad on the fo’c’sle and combing out their long hair or plaiting it up again for one another, kindly explained to the landmen that this long swell from the south and east, this strange sticky heat that came both from the sky and the glassy surface of the heaving sea, and this horribly threatening appearance of the sun, meant that there was to be a coming dissolution of all natural bonds, an apocalyptic upheaval, a right dirty night ahead. The sailormen had plenty of time to depress their hearers, already low in their spirits because of the unnatural death of Henry Gouges (had said, ‘Ha, ha, mates, I am fifty years old this day. Oh dear,’ and had died sitting there, still holding his untasted grog) – they had plenty of time, for this was Sunday afternoon, when in the course of nature the fo’c’sle was covered with sailors at their ease, their pigtails undone. Some of the more gifted had queues they could tuck into their belts; and now that these ornaments were loosened and combed out, lank when still wet, or bushy when dry and as yet ungreased, they gave their owners a strangely awful and foreboding look, like oracles; which added to the landmen’s uneasiness.

[...]

Jack leant back against the curved run of the stern-window and let Killick’s version of coffee down by gulps into his grateful stomach; and at the same time that its warmth spread through him, so there ran a lively tide of settled, pure, unfevered happiness – a happiness that another commander (remembering his own first prize) might have discerned from the log-entry, although it was not specifically mentioned there: 1/2 past 10 tacked, 11 in courses, reefed topsail. AM cloudy and rain. 1/2 past 4 chase observed E by S, distance 1/2 mile. Bore up and took possession of dº, which proved to be L’Aimable Louise, French polacre laden with corn and general merchandise for Cette, of about 200 tons, 6 guns and 19 men. Sent her with an officer and eight men to Mahon.

[neil-neil-orange-peel]

I was thinking to myself recently how wild it would be if this fandom was big enough to do a kinktober. Alas...

[somanypetals]

Class of ‘07 1.01 vs. 1.06

I just really love these shots

[fungi-maestro]

Tumblr CEOs when their actual transphobia or racism is pointed out: erm. You don't get it. 1st of all they were, like, government propaganda people or something (don't ask about the specifics). 2nd of all they said they hope I get a splinter. So in retaliation I destroyed their social media presence and initiated a smear campaign against them and others like them, which as lord of this land, I deem both appropriate and not at all a confirmation of your suspicions.

[schreibvibe]

Sorry for bothering you once again but i found 2 songs for 2 of Liev's roles.

1. Dream on for Raymond Shaw in Manchurian Candidate

"The past is gone

It went by like dusk to dawn

Isn't that the way

Everybody got their dues in life to pay

Yeah, I know nobody knows

Where it comes and where it goes

I know it′s everybody's sin

You got to lose to know how to win

Half my life's in books, written pages

Live and learn, from fools and from sages

You know it′s true

All of the things you do

Come back to you"

I mean...shit this is fitting for someone who is being mind controlled and vaguely knows he doesn't wanna be that person but he can't stop it!

2. Painted smile by Madame Macabre for Victor Creed

"I can't even remember how we started

A nagging voice, my normal then departed from me

Primal urges spiriting my senses away

Foggy glimpses of the boy I used to be"

"...Climbing through your window pane

I'm creeping closer, can you hear me?

Go on, mock me, say I'm insane

But it's you who's caught in my game

Cat and mouse, a lovely circle

Watch your tongue, those words are hurtful"

Originally meant a song for a creepy pasta but it beautifully captures Victor's descent into madness as he relishes the killing and loses himself in his violent actions, unable to cope with the trauma of his past. Cat and mouse game, very fitting for a guy with a cat mutation who likes to play with his victims!

Relax, any dose of Liev is always welcome. I'm constantly making playlists for his characters in my mind (yeah, peak brainrot) and these songs fit those characters so well. Thank you so much for the recs!

While we're on this topic, I do have an entire playlist's worth of songs that fit Raymond, Ben, and their relationship in general (wow, shocker). Some of my absolute faves are listed under the cut:

"Dead Finks Don't Talk" by Brian Eno ("And these finks don't dress too well. No discrimination. To be a zombie all the time requires such dedication...")

"Save Me, I'm Yours" by Gene ("In the arms of love, all fail. Won't you please stay here? I'm scared. I need you to save me. I'm scared.")

"Two Ragged Soldiers" by Scott Walker ("One would speak of a lake where he used to go swimming. The other had no memories left for his mind. With their arms round each other, the two ragged soldiers laughed through a war that they couldn't see... laughed for a world filled with fantasy.")

"Crumb by Crumb" by Rufus Wainwright ("Suddenly I'm not myself. Behind the façade is a lonely fountain here. Suddenly you are the one who opens the gates to this unruly garden.")

"Last Night at the Jetty" by Panda Bear ("You have your ways. I have my ways. We have our ways... and I'll call you my friend...")

"Strangers" by The Kinks ("So I will follow you wherever you go, if your offered hand is still open to me...")

"Francesca" by Hozier ("You think I'd give up, that this might've shook the love from me? Or that I was on the brink? How could you think, darling, I'd scare so easily?"

"Heaven on Their Minds" from the Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack ("Listen, Jesus, to the warning I give! Please remember that I want us to live... but it's sad to see our chances weakening with every hour...")

[good-beans]

Hi! "ML Up until now it's been like a dream" sounds interesting!

Aw thanks! I'm impressed you could scope out my one Mikoto wip...

It's a little normal au 0309 thing from Fuuta's pov. The general premise is that Mikoto crashes his bike on his way to work, gets a concussion, has (non-John-related) memory issues, and Fuuta is compelled to look after him. I wanted a fun comparison of videogame restarts/second chances -- Fuuta says something rash and the conversation gets weird, until a few minutes later when Mikoto has a lapse in short term memory, and Fuuta gets to try the exact same situation again. By the end of the day, Fuuta is using the situation to very carefully test out compliments/confessions since there's no pressure it'll be remembered and he'll have to deal with the consequences. It's basically my timeloop fic without a timeloop 😂

The title was the first thing that popped into my head (as all my first working titles are) and comes from a story from my dad's childhood when he got a concussion and his short term memory kept resetting. He kept telling his family "You know, up until now it's been like a dream!" until his brother quoted it back to him and he went "how did you know I was gonna say that??" It started as a silly joke title, but Mikoto has the whole line about dreaming, so I'm keeping an eye out if there's a way I can actually work it into the fic !!

[sinful-karateka]

finished Chapter 12 of Flight and i'm Plagued with what i know and have written so far. i'm off to write Chapter 13, and then after that, 14. and then 15-16-17, and for serious, i want to SCREAM.

anyway—leaving you all with this i guess:

[email-me-more]

ff7 temeraire au fic idea? your honour, i might be cooking

I already have ideas for another fic to get started after “Be Sweet” (or maybe concurrently, once I have the time to write enough to get ahead of my posting schedule lol) Might be a agszc fic, haven't quite decided on that yet, but we'll see where the drafting leads me I guess. its leaning agszc simply because i have some fun little moments i'd like to include, and what can i say, it's a good time.

Thoughts on a temeraire inspired au? I think the concept of a SHINRA aerial corps is very fun, might get into writing dragonbased warfare for the hell of it. The idea of maybe Cloud becoming a cadet, and becoming part of Zack’s crew or something? I can see Cloud slowly but surely working his way up to like a topman and eventually lieutenant on Zack’s crew? Maybe he is loaned out to another crew after a crippling and devastating attack, and Cloud is put to the test in the heat of battle with a crew he isn't used to fighting with? Lowkey kinda love the idea of Genesis having a regal copper, just a massive beast of a dragon, and being justifiably proud. Maybe Sephiroth, the esteemed general, possesses a celestial? Maybe an acid spitter? Or even a fire breather? It needs to possess some fearsome quality, to sort of fit the whole moniker of "the demon of Wutai". Zack would have a middleweight, mayhaps a breed with great manoeuvrability, to be able to quickly offer support and backup for the larger beasts. A lightweight breed could also work, but I do not think Zack is best utilized as a scout, and middleweights fare better in battle. Speed and support can be just as intimidating and fearsome, if not more, as one of the larger breeds if done correctly.

Zack would be very good in an aerial formation with any of the firsts, due to his ability to support. I believe he would've been Angeal’s lieutenant atop his massive heavyweight dragon before being strongly recommended for the upcoming hatching of an egg, and this becomes nothing short of a benefit once Zack’s dragon is grown enough for battle. His time as a lieutenant would mean that Zack has become able to make split second decisions to defend the first’s weak spots, knowing them like the back of his own hand after years as Angeal’s right hand man, because you can never be taught anything quite as well as experience does. Maybe someone has one of those tiny, tiny but oh-so-intelligent dragonbreeds from China, like a jade dragon? (described as being smaller or similar in size to a horse. Naturally this would probably be updated to being a Wutaian breed, and I’d have to do some actual work designating FF7 native locations for the dragon breeds, but whatever, it’ll be worth the hassle in the end.) I sort of like the idea that some of the biggest dragons (i.e Genesis’ regal copper, Zack's middleweight and maybe even Angeal’s heavyweight) would be all hissy and pissy that they can't also go inside buildings the same way the jade dragon can, endlessly jealous. (Maybe Sephiroth’s dragon would be jealous too, but let’s be honest, it would rather pull out teeth than admit it, as I think both dragon and general alike would be two sides of the same coin.) might be some avalanche stuff aswell, cant leave my sweet girlies out if this (this includes all of them, do not fight me on this). it could be set during the war with wutai, could be me fucking around with some timelines, who knows? endless potential! I think the idea is fun, and I might look into beginning the drafting process of this in the near future as soon as I’ve caught up with my Be Sweet schedule, but nevertheless, much to think about when trying to fall asleep.

[scarletbellatrix]

@quiiscnt sent: meta: relationships

RELATIONSHIPS

Erza never had a girlfriend or boyfriend since birth. The only person she ever held any romantic feelings for was her childhood friend, Jellal. The flames between them never died out. They had this 'will they or won't they' situationship that only they could understand.

Pre-Tower of Heaven, she dipped her toes into dating and tried getting to know other people (she doesn't call it dating but it kind of is). But every time she went on not-dates, it was always a failure. Being one of the most powerful mages in Fairy Tail, she was a big shot, and any man who knew what she was capable of got intimidated. She went through a phase trying to dumb herself down to make it work, like purposely losing a game whenever the dates involved sports. It never got far because there really wasn't any connection with her pretending to be someone she was not. Bisca and Mira knocked some sense into her and reminded her of her self-worth.

After moving on from that period, she stopped going on those blind dates, and focused her attention elsewhere. She realized that she wasn't desperate for companionship. However, there were days when she got sensitive over her lack of romantic life. She may be a strong, independent woman, but she also wanted love. She still dreamed of getting married and having kids one day.

Post-Tower of Heaven, she renewed her ties with Jellal. That incident stirred old feelings. She is in-love with him, but it's complicated between them. The lingering feelings of yearning and love will always be there, but it's not what she's focusing on at the moment. It's something that she represses. She's contented with her friendships she had built in the guild. A part of her is waiting on Jellal, but there's another part that is willing to move on and accept that they're just meant to pass by each other's lives.

[gunsatthaphan]

unpopular opinion but i don't like when "bffs" get paired in bl especially not if they've been friends for a long time. while it does help A LOT with the chemistry and skinship, if they happen to blow up as a pairing, it puts a lot of pressure on their friendship with every of their friendly interactions getting scrutinized and i feel that not every friendship makes it out unscathed. like actors already have to give up their personal life when they act in bl so it's sad if they have to lose a best friend too. and you can say if they are really best friends, their friendship won't get affected but bl fans are so ruthless that sometimes the friendships don't last after a few years. for actors that are strangers/acquaintances and get paired, if they become friends along the way or later decide to part ways, I wouldn't care but to see long-time friendships crumble is heartbreaking, especially if i witnessed the friendships before they became pairings. i may not necessarily care about the actors but i do care about their friendships because i personally think that it's rare to be able to have someone you can call a best friend in such a competitive industry.

I can see where you're coming from anon.

We don't know what's going on behind the scenes and how much pressure the industry actually puts on them and their friendships but if I look at most of the bff-pairs like ForceBook, FirstKhao or now PerthChimon... it seems to be working out well for them. Especially FB I'm fascinated by lol. idk if it's true that they're childhood friends but if so then,,, wow lmao. they have all my respect bc like,,, how. If I were to put myself in their shoes and play a couple with someone I've been friends with for a long time (even just someone I knew beforehand) I would d-word of embarrassment lmao so hats off to them for pulling it off.

but anyway again, I can only tell by what they choose to show us but for these 3 pairs in particular, I'm not sensing anything toxic between them. they seem very chill about it. First loses his cool from time to time lmao and I think he feels pressured sometimes, but other than that I think they're doing fine. Also like you said it's undeniable that their on-screen chemistry benefits from their natural chemistry so if it all works out and they're not bothered by anything then I don't see a problem. I'm only speaking for the gmmtv pairs though because they're the ones I'm the most familiar with. I have no idea about other pairs where it might be different.

I also wanna mention ohmnanon for a second because with them it's a bit different imo. I don't know what's going on with them at the moment and if their falling out has something to do with what you mentioned or with ohm's scandals or whatever but for me, they're not working as well as the others mentioned. they're individually skilled actors but playing a couple didn't have the same effect. for me they were unable to transform their friendship into an on-screen romance and idk how else to put it but you could feel the bro vibes coming through lmao. which might also be the script's fault. but this is just my impression.

It's always sad to see a pair disband, no matter if long-time friends or not and we've seen it happen countless times. the saddest part for me is that there's no disclosure whatsoever. they just stop talking one day and we never get an explanation. but alright.

despite all I do like seeing irl friends act together, no matter if in a romantic way or not and I hope they continue to do so as long as it doesn't have a negative effect on their personal lives.

here's to lasting friendships ✌🏻

xxx

[blackvahana]

Before we go any further, I take some time to reflect on the role of fear-giving in my life. I keep tempering what I give out, but I always return to... well, the only likenesses I've seen, the only things I've really seen I relate to strongly, tend to go back to horror. I mean, let's ignore Howl for a minute, but the part of me that relates to that is always a few minutes at most away from the call to teeth-baring, face-melting, body-horror uh. horror.

I think about the fact that... eating fear is a thing for my biology, we "farm" it I guess. We eat emotions and expressions in general, but... something about fear, in that I think fear is a reaction to what Shadow People are, ultimately: Dissolution, death, the impossibility, those who persist outside your understanding of what reality can be, those who come before and can use your own body as a navigable place given we exist beyond spacetime, you're just another 3D place... death, dissolution, undoing, and the impossible existence beyond laws of death, as well as inescapable and transcendental, if we're looking from the exo-Void perspective. What do exo-Void people fear? They fear death and decay and the world feeding off them and the non-existence, the standstill of their body when they can move it no more and it no longer exists in relation to them.

God, Black is tired af right now and. so am I. but anyway

I return to horror again and again because I feel the most normal among it, that's... My spaces are just going to be tinged with mad-mouthed grins and Abyssal blackness and gnawing laughter and spider-esque creatures and. I am always going to be a damn Brood Mother with a horde (hoard...) of terrifying little critters that I will chirp and sing Abyssal melodies to...

I keep pulling myself back so I don't scare people, constantly, but like. the call to terrifying is beyond in my blood and is in my flesh, and instincts, and so on. I can choose to be a little more ethical with it than the twins were, but at the end of the day....

[isaacathom]

genuinely so hype about the dnd campaign bc all the potential with naielle and euphemia makes me feral. and part of that is that naielle has barely interacted with any other (still living) character, except marius? and their interaction was brief that besides some questions about why hes old naielle has nothing to like. hash out with him. when we get back to the normal timeline theres gonna be something a lot more pressing on naielles part that requires his attention, yknow.

but euphemia! in the prime timeline naielle and euphemia are friends! theyre part of the diplomacy/support squad alongside marius! of the two, theyre the big nerds, and also both involved in navigation - the former the navigator, the latter the cartographer, who is herself married to another navigator aboard. they enjoy knowledge and history. naielle trusts her a lot.

but! in the alt timeline euphemia is fucking scary. she forces naielle into the consultancy, reads her mind constantly (always Asking, but to naielle it never feels like she can actually say no). she lied to naielles face! naielle said 'please dont tell Qinan [about the vision where i murder him]' and euphemia looks her dead in the eye and goes 'i wont!' before handing Qinan a scroll of Detect Thoughts and showing it to him instead. maybe not a lie on technicality, but a lie in every way that matters.

naielle is terrified, categorically afraid for her safety, woefully intimidated by the undersecretary saying she 'killed 2 people' for the knowledge she conscripted naielle for.

and so when they get back to the prime reality, presumably remembering some of this, naielle is gonna be FUMING. naielle did not actually know abouy Euphemia's Channel Divinity: Read Thoughts, because it isn't a detectable spell. no part of that process is discernable by the target. its not detect thoughts, where you know theyre doing it if they push deeper. it just happens. you still make a save (and can choose to fail, as naielle consistently does in this timeline), but you dont know its happening. right. naielle DIDNT KNOW SHE HAD THAT.

so its like, point 1 - you can fucking read minds? how long have you been able to do that? have you been doing that to members of the crew? can i trust you to be honest with me about when and on who it was used? can i fucking trust you?

which feeds naturally into point 2 - i cant fucking trust you. i know its perhaps Unfair to hold you to the conduct of a version of yourself in a very different time and place, but as the war we are currently fighting continues, and is likely to get worse before it gets any fucking better, i cannot in good fucking conscience trust that you, right in front of me, will not make the same decisions that this alternate form of you did. and i dont know that i can fucking trust you if you are capable of that.

naielle doesnt have a way out of this. she doesnt have an olive branch to offer. she doesnt know what shed want euphemia to do to prove any sincerity. euphemia could offer her every excuse under the sky and i dont know that naielle will care, vis a vis the vision specifically. because while naielle isnt the Most self aware person, i think she can look at how she was personally acting in this alternate timeline and go 'you didnt have to lie to me to get the result you wanted. you could have told me no to my request. instead you looked at an elf who is on the verge of a breakdown and has just witnessed some pretty distressing things and decided to be a pedantic fuckstick. "i didnt tell him" fucking tripe. you could have said "i cant promise that, it might be important for him to know" and i wouldve gone "oh :(" but i wasnt gonna fucking stop you! are you insane????'

euphemia could offer whatever justification she likes, but naielle feels fundamentally betrayed by Euphemia's action there, and a little violated by the mind reading shit. naielle only came back to the royal quarter because there was nowhere else she could possibly go when she realised there was trouble, and the group had agreed to work together to try and fix the realities. shes going back because she saw marius and went 'well. he was nice to me earlier, i think. and the strange man seems friendly. ill trust them if i have to, to fix this'. shes not coming back because shes loyal to euphemia. shes back because shes scared, and the group had an answer, and she thinks some of them might at least listen to her. shes terrified.

so prime timeline naielle, a woman in possession of a Fucking Backbone, is going to remember this, in whole or in part, and turn to euphemia like 'we are going to discuss that later. and if i have to pull rank to do so i will, comprenez-vous?' and not wait for an answer. shes gonna be so mad.

[vanweezer]

"i see them as friends!" "platonic besties!" until its an m/m pairing. friendship hcs surface level explorations of the guy character because you dont actually like the girl character or working her into your "secretly good version" the media because she ruins your yaoi vibe you have going. "see this is actually comphet" only from the pov of a man in a relationship with a woman hes known and loved and trusted for years because the 3 minutes of screen time he got with one man is actually "the first time he allowed himself to love". dont piss me off