#not putting pressure on them ofc but yknow

[butchdykecxck]

get you a girl who constantly reminds you that the world is good and life is good and enjoying things is good

[airborneice]

can we talk about how @the-hilda-librarians-wife is just out here writing poetry in the tags like it’s no big deal

@sketchbookweek Day 3 - Sun & Moon / Family

you know I had to bring up my sketchbook kid Mattie for this one. in my mind this is like…impromptu midnight storytime bc someone woke up the entire household and now she’s almost settled no one wants to get up or go back to bed

(Kaisa has become a little more comfortable with openly doing magic by this point, partly because of reconnecting with Tildy in season 2 and partly because no matter how shoddy her spells come out, they never fail to entertain her kids, especially her youngest. Kaisa does the best stories in this house. no child can resist magic floating pictures)

[obsidianstrawberrymilk]

Yknow I’m really disappointed we didn’t get more on Perry Porter because from what we do see of him, he seems like such a cool character and I’m really disappointed we didn’t get even a single proper scene with him.

Like!! Just the facts we have about him are seemingly so random - he’s in the Oracle Coven, he used to be friends with Eda and her gang but was, interestingly, shown to be pulling away about the same time Darius and Alador - both implied to have chosen status or power of their friends - did. He seems to be Gus’s only parent given his mom is literally never mentioned, yet he’s also a high profile (given he was the only shown person reporting on Eda’s Petrification) reporter. He’s clearly willing to turn his morals and feelings off when needed given how little emotion he shows while one of his old friends - however old he must have some feelings about it - is basically about to be executed, yet he raised an incredibly kind kid who sticks to his morals no matter what.

Like how did he feel when on the Day of Unity, his twelve year old son was unable to be found - hell, we know he reports on high profile events like this, could he have been so busy he didn’t even realize Gus had snuck out until after the Collector stopped the Day of Unity and he had to realize no one knew where he was? How come we never see him interact with any of his old friends, even when Alador and Darius are eventually pulled back with them? I can understand why Odalia wasn’t reconnected with them but it does seem like if nothing else Perry was a decent parent, so why is he never shown interacting with the others?

It also seems like he puts quite a bit of pressure on Gus at least - I don’t think he’s like Odalia ofc, but Gus does say that his dad wants him to be a Master Illusionist (though that’s not what Gus wants), so it’s clear he does expect a lot from him. Did Gus being a prodigy from a young age impact this? Did he encourage Gus to move up two grades or was he against it? Given what we know of him - high profile Coven job, seems to have drifted away from his friends for status like Darius and Alador, wants his kid to be a Master Illusionist - I’m inclined to think he encouraged it and at least didn’t think much about the social implications. What did he think about Gus’s loneliness and lack of friends - did he even notice? I’m saying this as a former gifted kid who’s parents are, still to this day, surprised when I mention how bad my peers and teachers treated me in elementary/middle school - even caring parents can be unaware of just how bad things are in school. Was Perry like that? Or did he notice but feel helpless to do anything?

What about Gus’s illusion maze thing? How long has he been able to do that - since he was a kid? What was it like to raise a kid who could do something like that? Did Perry try and each Gus some tricks to get rid of it - given Willow was the one to teach him the breathing technique and that’s what he uses, it doesn’t seem like he did. Why? Did he just not know what to do? Did the Emperor’s Coven ever seem interested in Gus, who was clearly a whole lot more than just a gifted kid (this kid took down the Illusion Coven Head and a whole bunch of scouts at age 12 and he wasn’t even trying)? How did he respond to that?

Idk, I really want to see more about who Perry Porter is and Gus’s childhood. It’s so interesting to think about.

I have my own image of him as a somewhat neglectful parent who, while he does care about his son a lot, treats him as a lot older than he is sometimes. Like Gus is a very mature kid but he’s still a kid and I think Perry could follow the rest of the world in forgetting that a lot. Maybe talk to him about things he’s not old enough to understand, put responsibilities and pressure on him he might find hard even being a prodigy and get angry when he can’t do it, etc. I don’t think he’s abusive or anything but I definitely want to see how he is because as a former gifted kid absolutely all of these have happened to me and I’m betting you Perry also does this to Gus. And that’s not even getting into Perry’s morality and character, how that impacts Gus, and Perry’s backstory.

[isa-ghost]

Isa my darling! Happy Birthday, albeit a couple of days early.

Seeing you screech in Philza's streams because Apollo hit you with that dodgeball yet again makes me giggle a lot.

How about since headcanon's for qPhilza's past/pre island relationship with qFit. How they got to know each other, and how quickly they became friends?

Idr if I said this on Tumblr yet but deadass I asked Apollo on my pendulum if qPhil is his blorbo and he said yes. He's been as invested in shit as me and it's been hilarious. I literally have crows yelling at me irl to keep writing rn but I'm answering headcanons first.

The entire time I've been distracted between writing these, crows have been yelling at me about it. Which. Is how Apollo communicates with me when I'm not actively talking to him through readings LMFAO.

Also thank you for the birthday wish :D [desperately hoping nothing else horrible happens this weekend please god]

Anyway qPhil headcanons masterlist let's go

Disclaimer that I didn't know of Fit before QSMP (I've only been in mcyt for 4 years monkaS) so these are gonna be largely pulled out of my ass and a lil repetitive.

These two both have experiences in anarchy and war, they've definitely brushed shoulders a couple times bc of it

They admired each other's work ofc. Phil is a macro scale kinda guy, total annihilation and victory that makes a statement. Fit's more of a micro scale kinda guy, zeroing in on one person or group individually and making their lives hell until the end in the name of surviving a little longer

On that note, I think we all sleep a little bit on the fact that Fit is Also a survivalist like Phil, just in a very different set of high stakes conditions. These two are equally skilled in it and equally sharp strategists

On that note, anyone who knew them from the past would fear the idea of them coming together to create a plan of any kind, especially of the anarchist-fueled variety. If the Federation has done their research right, they should know full well how terrifying this duo could be in an effort to dismantle their authority

Btw by brushing shoulders I don't just mean brief passings by, I mean they've like. Camped out for a night together, temporarily truced for the sake of safety in numbers, etc. More than a few conversations have been had even if the time they've spent together totals to less than a week.

However, even when they weren't actively paired together, they'd still occasionally trade or gift each other surplus resources. It was a genuine kind act, even if it simultaneously served as a reason for each of them to not come after the other. I scratch your back, you scratch mine.

Like why do you think Fit was one of the first threats on Phil's mind in Purgatory. He Knew(tm). And he knew Fit has an affinity for picking off the weak first, like a lion after a herd of antelope. To him, Purgatory was the awakening of a monster who'd been dormant for a long time.

See, present day they're QPR as fuck, they'd never do this now without 10x the pressure Purgatory put on them, but back in the day they took close notes on each other's strengths and weaknesses. Just In Case, yknow? They could very much kill each other. Back in the day they would've if it came to it, no matter how good an ally they were.

Something about how these two used to be so cold and hard to the world. Be it to self-preserve or some other reason. Something about how now they've both softened and warmed after becoming parents. They never could've imagined the other would "weaken" like this, especially back then.

Phil 🤝🏻 Fit - Phil being a historian of the deities/builds of his Hardcore World, Fit being a historian of 2B2T

A lot of this boils down to mutual respect, common interests, and secret admiration tbh. And what's more homoerotic than that?

They're both crisis preppers. Not doomsday type shit, just. Being ready for shit to hit the fan. They both come from places where life is significantly more dangerous than it is in other realms.

The crazy thing is though? Despite the above, they can't imagine being from each other's realms. Phil would LOATHE 2B2T and Fit would hate the absoluteness of Hardcore. Isolation is absolute, death is absolute. There's no wiggle room or margin for error.

With how adaptive the two of them are due to their origins, they could probably acclimate to any conditions. They'd complain about having to, especially if it was inconvenient, but they could. They used to swap tips & tricks with each other on how to improve their adaptability too.

Fit would've 100% been down to join Phil on Doomsday in DSMP. He was thoroughly impressed when Phil told him the story.

[adelrambles]

YESSSS EXACTLY (also help the way you phrased that is beautiful. 'damn that was real awkward' makes me crack up.) 10000% correct he does not see any problem with his previous actions, aside from that they were less efficient than his current strategy. I think, if he were to try understand what exactly was wrong about EPF's methodology, he would then have to process the parallels between himself and his own torturers, and I don't think he's capable of confronting that tbh. And his insistence that there are "dozens" of enemies vaguely out in space gunning for eaeth, and that he's the only thing keeping them at bay. His suggestion that if he goes down, all of PGA goes down. I do think that he just doesn't regret any of the immense harm he's caused. He absolutely refuses to acknowledge it, consciously and subconsciously like you said.

ALSO YEAH there must have been some CRAZY coverup surrounding Stockman's reintegration into society, too. Everything about the truth is a major minefield that could specifically blow up Bishop's good reputation, so there has to be a lot of story-spinning going on there. I do wonder if part of why Bishop was so forthcoming giving him everything he could've wanted was in an effort to ensure he'd keep his mouth shut and go along with it. It is, after all, the same methodology behind PGA: make the other party like you, and they'll be more willing to do what you ask of them. It is definitely wild that two of the nastiest dudes from The Present get to just. Walk off into their happy endings scott-free lmaO. Granted I think there's a case for it being warranted with Stockman. He's a bastard, of course, but the abuse he suffered throughout the show was way overblown for the crimes he committed, and a lot of what he did after the first few episodes was under duress from one of two war criminal bosses. It is kinda cathartic that he'll finally get a body back, even if he earned it by trying to assassinate the president of space?? But like more power to him ig (and even then there are insidious tones to Bishop's motivation in indirectly employing him again, if indeed one wants to read into it that way. Which I totally do 👍)

Also, it is just really funny that comparitively Stockman is not remorseful for his role EPF at all lmaO.

ALSO. I NEVER NOTICED THE PARALLEL BETWEEN BISHOP AND THE ALIEN THAT RESCUED HIM OMG. That's actually SO cool, cuz I guess that does reinforce the idea that Stockman will be reformed in a similar way to Bishop? That's a really cool note that he had some sort of emotional reaction to Stockman's story of being abandoned, too. There is another parallel there I've noticed, in that a lot of the visual elements of Stockman's, uh, Brain Remover™️(?) mirrors visuals of Bishop's initial abduction. Now, I could just be reading to far into a designer's work, but for one that machine (big sphere with electric tools attached to it) shows up a lot. It's what we're shown the Greys to have used to cut Bishop open, and it hangs about the table Stockman puts him on (it's also one of the tools Bishop has on hand in his first encounter with the turtles.) Another is the operating table-- again, kinda vague so I may be making it all up, but in both scenarios he's clamped to a flat surface with his wrists and ankles trapped, and red laser tools going traight for his face. I just think it's interesting to read into it that he may have been drawing those parallels in his own mind. We see him starting to panic before he gets rescued, which like, totally understandable, but also on the rarer side in terms of usual reactions for him. This also touches on another concept of Bishop paralleling both sides of the conflicts he gets himself into. For example, he parallels both his own torturers and his own victims by virtue of inflicting the exact same torture on others. Then, here, he parallels both Stockman and the alien that rescued him. I never noticed that before, but that's super neat!!

AND YESSS HAHAHA absolutely LOVE that entire arc. When Bishop cringefails he cringefails worse than anyone's seen it done before. Absolutely correct that he dances around admitting any hand in the outbreak to the turtles, and even when we see him first get the news, he still deflects! At first, of course, he's angry that his life's work could have directly led to a planet-destroying apocalypse. But then immediately after he pivots to blaming it on Stockman, and insisting that Stockman needs to be held responsible and made to fix his mistakes.

Anyway what's wrong with him. Pushing him down some stairs.

xenophobic fucker my beloved. who else would take a reasonable and even noble 'we must prepare to face any alien threat and prevent whatever happened to me from happening to others' takeaway from his traumatic life events and somewhere along the way straight up make it into 'I HAVE TO MAKE A SUPERIOR HUMAN RACE BASED ON MUTATED RAT GENES AND MY APPEARANCE, INFILTRATE THEM INTO THE HUMANKIND AND IF THEY KILL 57% OF IT WHILE SEARCHING FOR MUTANTS/ALIENS IN HIDE THEN SO BE IT, THAT WOULD ACTUALLY BE A HEALTHY OUTCOME FOR EARTH.'

[randomwriteronline]

Hello! This is my main blog! (I'm legend-as-old-as-time.)

So, I've got a favorite. But the other two AUs also fascinate me. I'd love to know what the story is for your G3 of Bionicle? What's the atmosphere like?

BLASTS MY THOUGHTS DIRECTLY INTO YOUR BRAIN TO EXPLAIN THEM FASTER AND POSSIBLY BETTER THAN THROUGH WORDS

as mentioned i have a post in drafts thats meant to be like. a vague skeleton of thoughts and ideas and shit that ive talked about to and with @cantankerouscanuck, mainly introducing the various character groups n the environment slightly, but it does NOT touch on the story much (more the backstory and again only vaguely) so GREAT QUESTION LET ME TELL YOU

thinking of like uhhhh diving this in like. cartoon seasons but old school ones yknow, so LONG ones bc oh boy ADVENTURES

Season 1 starts with that Classic Bionicle Beginning of the toa mata crashlanding on the archipelago of Okoto each on a different island not knowing what the Fuck to do and being welcomed in the villages. like in g2 theyre first tasked with finding some golden relics but instead of being accompanied by the protectors/village elders they go with the local Weird Kids (the chronicler's company) who were the first people they actually met; getting the things lets them reach the island of the mask makers and meet Ekimu (and takua!!!! his apprentice!!!!!!!) and theyre like "so what do we do with these btw" and ekimu looks at the pieces and goes. FUCK

TURNS OUT THOSE RELICS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE GOLDEN MASKS BUT SOME MF JUST BROKE THEM INTO PIECES and wouldnt you fucking believe it it was the Children Of Makuta, the spirit of death and animals and darkness, who live each on one of the islands except spiriah the baby of the family who roams around bothering literally everybody and ofc dont want the toa to reawaken the Great Spirit whom their parent put to sleep, AND SO BEGINS THE FETCH QUEST OF THE OTHER FIVE PIECES OF EACH MASK WHILE FIGHTING OFF THESE FREAKS OF NATURE WHO ARE TRYING TO EAT THEM AND BUILDING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THEMSELVES & EKIMU & TAKUA N HIS POSSE & THE VILLAGERS AND SLOWLY BECOMING A PROPER TEAM N FAMILY which is why they need to be many episodes. i will fucking recreate almost verbatim the tale of the mask kopaka-pohatu story because its already perfect and you will Fucking See It if i have to Kill For It

closes off with a cliffhanger after getting all the masks: during an ambush by Mutran Gali gets dragged off into the sea between the islands to get crushed by the water pressure but whats this??, the pressure suddenly lifts enough to let her breathe as she loses consciousness while strange silhouettes drive off the child of Makuta and catch her in his stead, sinking deeper...

S2 starts off by quickly catching up to the rest of the toa who are SHITTING THEIR FUCKING SELVES ABOUT THEIR WATER-BREATHING SISTER APPARENTLY DROWNING BEFORE THEM

tahu and pohatu decide to look for her in a ball of tempered glass while kopaka, onua and lewa hurry back to ekimu to tell him what happened. back to gali, she awakens to a bunch of... toa???? who know her and her brothers???? personally, apparently????? three of them are like super mad at them for leaving them during their time of need??????? what the FUCK are you people talking about. who are u. how are you breathing under water. why is tHERE A WHOLE FUCKING CITY UNDER THE WATER-

ENTER: THE TOA MAHRI. as it slowly turns out inbetween rounds of beating the shit out of sapient polyamorous seafood that keeps trying to nibble the villagers and the air bubble domes for their crops, they were TRAINED by the mata a few hundreds years ago and were fighting off the cataclysm that broke the continent of okoto into islands and sunk the city of Iniri into the sea together with them before they just Fucking Left, Apparently - which ofc they didnt do for no reason but they essentially got shoved back into the stars against their will. this rightfully rattles the shit out of the mata because What Do You Mean We Have Been Here Before. What Do You Mean You Had Records Of Us Being Here Even Earlier Than That. How Many Times Have We Done This. How Many Times Have We Discovered Kinship And Affection And Had That Stripped Away From Us. I Think I'm Going To Throw Up

while theyre handling THAT they also fill in the mahri on whats been going on and the mahri go oh shit, the great spirit is in a coma and the children of makuta are against you??? bro those guys are super powerful theyve got Crabs, you cant fight em alone. but also if we try to leave the sea the water pressure Will Fucking Destroy Us, so they figure out a way to get out of there and back up and jaller is super anxious bc his mom might be there but like... based on what they said... she might be evil... he doesnt wanna fight her... shes the only family he still has...

S3 AND WE GO BACK TO SEE WHAT KOPAKA ONUA AND LEWA ARE DOING, and theyre off searching the more ruined parts of the city of the mask makers on takua's suggestion - these are the parts of the city that werent very lucky during the cataclysm and are now sacred ground prowled by Krika, daughter of Makuta

at last they find a strange underground chamber with six breathing statues, which, of course, freaky; they manage to thaw one and out tumbles a toa (?) who immediately recognizes onua and starts talking to him excitedly (??) saying that its so good to see him in person for the first time (???) and asking him about the continent (????) and being genuinely distraught that they dont know who he is. same reactions from the other five toa that also get thawed out. ok something is Clearly Amiss pls explain

its time for LOMN...... 2!!!!!! where we learn from vakama abt how Lhikan, who previously filled in ekimu's position, finds out theres Some Shit going down with the great spirit and makuta and tries to call the mata, who however get stuck due to the aformentioned Some Shit. as such she picks out six lads in the city of the mask makers and bestows masks upon them to make them become toa, but on their way to handle the current problem they get werebeast'd and Krika goes oh? free kids? free kids for me? and Lhikan goes NO but its too late. they already have joint custody of the metru. and might be blossoming a lesbian romance but unfortunately due to lhikan being lhikan i have to kill her to protect vakama, leaving krika with him AND his little brother jaller who will inherit lhikan's mask. the metru figure out the way to get the mata in this case is to attempt to contact them themselves, which they manage to do by entering a trance that however slowly turns them into statues: in this trance they are able to speak and train the mata, who also promise to free them once the whole situation is handled

CONSIDERING THE CATACLYSM HAPPENED AND THEY GOT SHOT BACK IN THE SKY AND GOT AMNESIA YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THAT PROMISE KIND OF WENT TO SHIT

anyways thats A Lot as you can imagine and the time to process it is Not Much bc the other three mata and the mahri are here and (after a round of MASSIVE HUGS for the metru and mahri reuniting and also the metru and Krika) theyve got a plan to beat the shit out of makuta

problem: the children of makuta have realized this is happening and decided to break out The Crabs to beat the shit out of THEM

mahri, metru and krika (and the chronicler's company much to everybody else's heart attacks) hold them off while the mata manage to fight against makuta after being briefly overwhelmed, uniting their powers to uh. Kill Him. which! IS NOT ACTUALLY GOOD. YOU KNOW. BALANCE AND ALL THAT. makuta is saved in the end by The Great Fucking Spirit who wakes up just in time to stop the mata before they murder his brother

the mata awaken before the Great Spirit and after a moment of "where are we? who are you? why didn't you let us kill makuta?" and getting their answers, they realize OH FUCK ARE YOU GOING TO PUT US IN THE STARS AGAIN? AND GIVE US AMNESIA? FUCK YOU YOURE NOT TAKING OUR FRIENDS AND SIBLINGS FROM US

Great Spirit, lovingly: ok :)

and tahu wakes up to ekimu working at the forge and none of his siblings around and he Shits His Pants, but ekimu quickly reassures him that everythings good and its been like, maybe a day or two since they managed to reawaken the Great Spirit. his siblings woke up before him and are probably down at the beach, and Makuta got driven off, all of his children following suit to take care of him, krika included. the mahri and the metru are catching up on the mata's tales from the chronicler's company. things are fine. they wont be like this forever, ekimu tells tahu, but they dont have to live in fear every second of their lives. rest a while. go see your siblings.

and it ends with the mata having a very sweet nap pile on the beach because they FUCKING deserve it after TWO whole generations ending with them not getting to just fucking sleep after EVERYTHING THEY GO THROUGH EVERY TIME

as you can see i have. Enormous Holes in this and theres things i havent explained and stuff (like how i unfortunately had to sacrifice hewkii x macku due to a Very Big age difference but they are still a power pair, just in this case its like older cousin acting as a mentor to the worlds most bloodthirsty weird little girl) but yes. have this. for now. please keep asking questions i love you

[nowandthane]

🎶 9 Ship Songs 🎶

Thank you @my-dumb-obsessions for tagging me ❤️ I saw this and wanted to do it too so I’m very grateful xD

Rules: List 9 songs for one (or more) of your ships. Optionally, tag 9 people.

Tagging @azurechicken @sillyliterature @ace-trash-boi @elvhencore @daedrabait @queentheirins @yurissweettooth @malabadspice @corgiofdeath only if you wanna do it! No pressure ❤️ and sorry if you’ve already been tagged 😅 Also anyone else who wants to do this ofc!

This got long so I’m putting it under the cut 😅

I can’t choose one ship lmao so, starting off with Dragon Age~

Riyaad x Fenris (for when Fenris leaves yknow. I promise they’re not this angsty all the time)

Shadow Preachers by Zella Day

I close my eyes, just close the door You want a minute, I'll give you more Maybe I don't want you either We're both unsettled, nighttime creatures Shadow preachers, nighttime creatures

Veara x Solas (though tbh this is just peak Solavellan song to me, it’s not really specific to Veara idk)

Murder Song (5, 4, 3, 2, 1) - Acoustic by AURORA

He holds the gun against my head I close my eyes and bang, I am dead I know he knows that he's killing me for mercy

Garrett x Anders (two apostates against the world + religious trauma who doesn’t love it!)

Sinners by Lauren Aquilina

So lets be sinners to be saints And lets be winners by mistake The world may disapprove But my world is only you And if we're sinners then it feels like heaven to me Our hearts are too ruthless to break Lets start fires for heaven's sake

Arianwen x Cullen (this was always their song for me, I listened to it all the time when I was writing Command Me to Love)

Gold by Echos

Nobody knows who I am I've got intentions of gold with my plans Nobody knows who I am I've got intentions of gold with my plans

Some polyships—

Heroes of Ferelden (Nayima x Leliana x Alistair)

Nayima x Leliana (they have issues post blight/honeymoon phase but they’ll work things out eventually. I see this as Leliana singing the song about Naya)

October Passed Me By by Girl in Red

Yeah, I got bitter when you got cold Could you really blame me though? 'Cause I'm still tied up when you go You know this song is about you, who else could it be? You were the first to make me feel like I was me

Nayima x Alistair (sometimes I think I choose this song for them/aliwarden just because it has the word ‘tainted’ in it)

Battlefield by SVRCINA

Meet me on the battlefield Even on the darkest night I will be your sword and shield, your camouflage And you will be mine

i havent made a leliana x alistair playlist yet

3 Snipers + Tali (the name started as a joke but it stuck lmao. So this is Sarani’s polycule with Tali, Thane and Garrus. Garrus is also romantically involved with the other two, Tali and Thane are queerplatonic. It’s a whole thing, I’m writing their story rn and it’s pretty complicated ngl but I’m having fun)

Sarani x Tali (yeah ok the music video I edited for them is to a different song but… *shrugs*)

Love from NGC 7318 by Tanerélle, Barnes Blvd.

I wanna tell you how I feel tonight I keep trying, but the words ain't right Nothing's fitting for a kind like you I'm never speechless when the earth's my view Killing the time Building a fort Wrapped in each other as we fall in love I've never met a girl like you, never met a girl like you

Sarani x Thane (but they WILL last, they WILL, I will MAKE IT SO)

Won’t by Tanerélle

I tell him 'Go fast' I've gotta thing for speed He tells me 'Lean back' I let him take the lead I know it won't last But he is all I need I write my name over his tongue So it is all he speaks I got a million fucking reasons I should leave him But I don't I got a million fucking reasons to stop dreaming But I won't

Sarani x Garrus (hmm, that’s a lot of Tanerélle, you might think. idk I was listening to a lot of her when this polycule was cooking in my head)

Ripe by Tanerélle

I know you been thinking that you can't But I think that you should If I can make your whole body ache I can make you feel good I'm what you need, I'm what you know Hooked on your axis You make my world go I'll keep you wild I'll keep you free Say you'll be mine I'll show you what that means

I have songs for the entire polycule too but I’m already at 9 so I’ll stop lmao

[vixx-ari]

Christmas Headcannons🎄(Sing 2016/2022)

Rosita is the main cook when making and baking everything

One time the whole group decided to do the making and baking themselves to surprise her. The outcome was not the best. Rosita, ofcourse, appreciated the effort.

Meena's the only one allowed to cook without suppervision though.

Mike's playlist is the only Christmas playlist that is the only playlist that doesn't have one song that's impossibly out of place.

Gunters Christmas playlist is the best though, bc ofcourse it is

Nooshy put 'Never Gonna give you upon her Christmas playlist and is way too proud when she rickrolls everyone at the Christmas Party.

Speaking of Christmas Party, I feel like they'd reserve a restaurant for everyone, or all just take over someone's house everytime.

Once they had to celebrate Christmas on a plane to perform "out of this world" overseas. All I'll say is a flight had never been jollier.

Everytime they meet up for Christmas they have a group sing along to whatever Christmas song they can find.

They definitely tried to mistletoe Meena and Alfonso many times. They only succeed once and Meena will never live it down.

Eddie used to have dinners and Nana with his parents at Christmas but always ran away to have fun with the rest of the group. Nana always covers up for him bc she's the best.

Johnny is the main target for Ms. Crawly's christmas sweaters, since he's the only one who 1) can fit them and 2) doesn't have the heart to refuse her. But the sweaters are fashionable though so it's worth it

Assuming Clay first meets the piglets at Christmas time, they all think that Clay is Santa's in disguise. Clay hasn't been the most Christmasy for a while bc, yknow, a decade and a half in complete isolation from the outside world and all. But he just rolls with it bc why not and the only person who have resistance to the piglets cute little faces is Rosita.

(They eventually figure out that Clay is infact not Santa's but its fun believing it)

Porsha is surprisingly one of the best at giving gifts. No one knows how but she just is somehow.

Shes the one who gets Buster his nice red Christmas suit bc she said, and I quote "I love you with all i have but you desperately need other clothes"

They all go caroling together

Mike used to carol at christmas time for extra cash but stopped cause it really didn't do much for his bank account. He made the mistake of telling everyone and they all dragged him out to o it just for fun, much to his dismay. They ended up attracting a whole crowd in the first 30 mintes.

Every pair has ended up under the mistle toe once which mostly just ends with sweet kisses on the cheek and hugs

When the actual romantic pairs end up under, you just know it is gonna end in catastrophe

Ash and Buster do that thing where she sings and he plays the piano with everyone relaxing around them. Sometimes with enough (affectionate) peer pressure they'll do a duet.

Ms Crawly is infact the person who would give socks and scented candles as a chritmas present and it's great.

Tying back to my last comic; Buster never got that many presents as a kid, mostly bc they just didn't really ever have the money for more than one present and an outing to a resterant. He never complained ofc, tho it was a bit sad when other children whould talk about the great presents they would get and he's be like "uh, I got a pokemon shirt?". Then after his father died he's get presents from mainly Ms. Crawly, occasionally Eddie and he'd give hmself a gift that wold mostly be like a book or smth. Ofcourse with his new theater family he has like 7 presents which he is so surprised and grateful for. The theatre family when they find out all he's been getting for Christmas for years is books, coffee cups and the one watch eddie got him,they all went on a legal heist to get him everything he has ever wanted. Ofcourse he keeps the list very short so they don't work themselves out but he's so impossibly happy.

Anyways, that's all i've got. Happy 25th of december you lot :D

Now get outta here ya filthy animals (lovingly)

[084392]

I would LOVE to hear more about your Hilda hcs (or just the BW protag gang in general)

thank you! ok heres a few random ones:

while cheren and bianca were jealous of her battling skills during their journey....hil envies them for being able to grow and change freely without any serious interference from team plasma. yknow?

hilda enjoys pokemon battling, team plasma doesnt change that at all, and she is very good at it! but. i kind of like the idea of her going into a non battling related field in the future tho? like trying a bunch of different things out...?

she felt a little pressure before going on her journey to be a skilled trainer yknow...bc both her parents were and she wanted to make them proud!...also i think for a while she feels like its. the only thing shes really good for....am i making any sense here....

her petty ass was almost tempted to send zekrom/reshiram straight to the pc boxes like, this mfing dragon really made me wait this fucking long.....😒 ofc she does end up putting them in her party to battle n but like,

[cesium-sheep]

I will say, there is nothing else in the hlvrai tag on wayne's blog other than actual hlvrai stuff or unambiguously transparently gnome stuff, although he may have gone through post switch to remove tags on others and I wouldn't know. and while they love bits and shenanigans, I don't think I've seen them pull an outright bait and switch in the years I've been watching even on april fools. like I actually recall him being fairly explicit that the gnome was not the sequel from the beginning? and either way, I love dumb gmod shit and I generally trust their improv to not turn out hateful.

on the other hand, while I can understand why one might want to from like a creative perspective or whatever since I'm sure they all get pressured about it all the time and it may seem like a way out of that pressure, it is still mean-spirited to hype everyone up on something you know they want just to go "haha I can't believe you losers believed me when I explicitly said I'd give you the thing you want" yknow? like a complete bait and switch is very different than the chuck e cheese ending to me, since the chuck e cheese ending only seemed to deflate completely unfounded expectations of it being tonally serious right through the end but a bait and switch is deliberately setting up expectations to disappoint. which is why I fucking hate april fools from head to toe. so if this really is a complete bait and switch I am still gonna feel disappointed by it and that is not unreasonable, although ofc it would be unreasonable to take it out on the creators even if it was genuine mean-spiritedness vs maybe not quite thinking it through.

ideally I'd like to be able to trust the creators I watch to not, yknow, mock me. and as a queer cripple there's kinda not a ton of those available to start with.

edit: I thought of a good way to put it. by still giving us a bit of what we were promised, our trust was rewarded, instead of punished. april fools style bait and switches just punish trust and that sucks. (my trust has already been punished way more than enough thanks.)

[yarrayora]

To add onto your post about misogyny (everything you said is incredibly true, btw), writing female characters as one dimensional people who can do no wrong and make no mistakes feels really misogynist to begin with. This is a ""strong female character"" caricature instead of, yknow, an actual person with depth and complexity. Which by definition HAS to include some faults and weaknesses, she can't just be Better Than Everyone all the time. There are exceptions of course, but in most cases I find it to just be lazy writing, it allows the writer to avoid putting any actual effort into writing a female character. The end result, imo, is almost as flat as if you just wrote some weak damsel in distress instead

in reference to this post

everyone always want their problematic women but can't actually handle them when they have more dimension than, say, "righteous"

like people DO still do this with male characters too, but it's more balanced with the existence of people who genuinely enjoy them being fucked up, and of course the lack of societal baggage of hating them because theyre fucked up (when it's a non-white male character it's an entirely different story ofc)

i made that post originally because i saw someone saying it's unfair that people like zuko but hate azula when theyre both raised in the same abusive behavior and my first thought was that uh im sure some people's hatred for her is based on misogyny, but there's also this very glaring, obvious reason, in which she enjoys being a colonizer and part of the ruling class, while her brother has always been described as "too soft" (too moral)

just fyi i enjoy azula's character. she's a VERY fun villain.

as a kid i wasn't interested in female characters much, the male characters were almost always written better (oh and turns out im fucking gay so that contributes to the disinterest LMAO) but but but after i stepped back from fandom for a bit and enjoy things at my own pace? it becomes so much easier to find things i love in various female characters with no pressure to like them to prove that im not a misogynist and also because i allow myself to dislike several female characters because i found them annoying

[lan-barbie]

hey <3 can we know if you’re continuing clickbait? that fic is so so good and I would love to read more of it. no pressure ofc <33

the answer ultimately-- at this moment in time --is no.

i don't think Clickbait will be updated. it's discontinued this isn't something easy to say. i have a mentality that no story will ever be discontinued, because in a perfect world most of my unfinished stories have half written docs behind them that i update when i find inspiration. as a writer i am rather sporadic with what stories interest me, my adhd is behind 99% of these uploading issues, but clickbait is different. most of the story is technically finished, i just don't wish to release it without my co-author, Seza, who has slowly drifted away from writing and our friendship, it's hard for me to get in contact with her, and with her decline in activity on social media as well as our very different time zones.

i don't feel comfortable posting our fic, because it was our shared project, yknow. life is strange everyone and things come up, Seza and I are not the closest friends as of today, but clickbait is both near and dear to our hearts and posting the final chapter that consists of only my writing would be completely discrediting how much time and effort Seza put into making the story a possiblity.

i ask everyone who is fans of clickbait to please consider this and not hold anyone accountable. at the end of the day we are people who have jobs outside of writing and things are bound to come up that are beyond are perception of the future.

i plan on closing comments for clickbait soon, the story will still be viewable you just won't be able to comment as of 1/21/23. i will try my best to get in communication with Seza and see what i can do about the last chapter, i just ask everyone to please be patient ~♡

-TP

[skrunksthatwunk]

i wonder what terfs would think of people like me. like I've mostly heard them talk about transmascs exclusively as "lost lesbians" or girls trying to escape the pressures of womanhood or whatever but like. im a lesbian. and a man. and a woman. i present very femme despite being transmasc. it's all quite strange and complicated, as queer identities have often proven themselves to be. this diversity of relationship to gender (and thus gender identities) is part of the lesbian experience, and has been part of sapphic communities for a long ass time. gender nonconformity and genderqueerness go hand in hand. why do they only accept such a limited view of lesbianism?

for terf lesbians, I'd guess it's the same as that gold star shit. it's a purity contest. they have to define and affirm their identity through excluding certain things (men, sex with men, identifying as men, community with men, etc) instead of what they actually like or want. it becomes about who doesn't count. it's about keeping men out. it's part of why many lesbians who think this way hate bi/pan/etc sapphics as well.

but of course a lot of this is spread by heterosexual ppl, often women. first of all, don't speak on behalf of the lesbian community if you're trans exclusionary, especially if you aren't a lesbian. you are not protecting lesbians by selling a big chunk of us out to transphobia, transmascs and transfemmes alike. secondly, just because you're afraid of men and find them gross doesn't mean i have to. my womanhood is not defined by my suffering, nor is my lesbianism defined by rejection of men (or my dislike of dick, as some so eloquently put it). men have their appeal, im just not into them. it's not a political stance or some stab at the patriarchy. it's just how i am. (and ofc politics and patriarchy affect me and are part of how i experience/present gender, but they don't make it what it is so much as bend it a bit).

so, by both their definitions and my own, i am a woman, and i certainly am a lesbian. yet by theirs i would also be a lost lesbian. do i count? how have i been lost if I'm still here? what do you really think of me, now that you can't hide behind that particular fantasy?

what new box will you invent for me?

and yknow it's not even about the box. it's about my choice. whatever i choose, it'd be wrong, because the choice is what they dislike. you are born male and cruel and brainwashed or you are born female and divine and wronged. to choose either way would be a betrayal of that dynamic, of their patriarchy. they find community in lying on the ground, defeated, rather than in the climb.

anyway fuck terfs I'm gay lol

[the-technorats]

3, 5, and 7 for the writing asks :)

!! thanks for the question!! :D

What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?

man, i feel like i don't have a good answer for these first two but i'll yap about it anyway. i think maybe because i'm still learning and figuring myself out as a artist/writer in general, i don't have too many specific behaviors engrained? i'm pretty bad at getting started at writing things so clearly i haven't found the ritual that just gets me in the zone. also, with my depression, it gets hard to self-motivate to do things - often times i need external pressure/reinforcement (ideally positive, but, yknow. negative also works lol) to really get moving since it's easier to do things for others (or the idea of a general audience/'s enjoyment/validation) than find reason to do things for myself.

some preferences i do have include: having tea (jasmine and earl grey are some favorites), having a candle lit, writing at dusk/night. and then often times i reread old stuff i've written/posted to remind myself that i'm capable lol. after that, i just have to bully myself to get the ball rolling. the blank page really fucks with my head, enough so that i can't even make a new document to write my notes, i have to put them in my notes app or in the discord server i have with myself because it tricks me into thinking the stakes are way lower than i've convinced myself they are. (this is, ofc, on the occasion that i even have notes at all, which i often don't.)

something else i've found that unfortunately works for me is making writing the lesser of two evils; writing is one of those things that i love doing but never opt to do even though i want to? i wish i did? i hate it i dont know. even now, i'm writing this because i don't want to be writing an academic paper. i find it a lot easier to write fic/tion or other leisure types of writing when my alternative is doing something way more dreadful.

Do you have any writing superstitions? What are they and why are they 100% true?

honestly, i don't have a good answer for this one either. i wish i had a more glamorous writer lifestyle than my run-of-the-mill "start two days before it's due" or "hammer out two pages and then abandon the idea for two years" process. i feel like all of my writing habits are purely logistical and not spiritual. (maybe i should try and be more spiritual about it? i'd try anything to make writing an easier process but i also think i have a sort of house m.d. mentality about suffering and artistic process and whatnot.)

the only thing i can think of is that i can only look back and edit a few paragraphs behind my current progress. i can't go all the way back to the beginning and reread until the first draft is finished. if i realize a continuity error at the current point that would warrant needing to go way back, i still can't edit it, i have to leave myself a comment. only once i officially proofread/do a second draft can i touch any of the earlier stuff. again, though, this seems almost entirely logistical; i just know if i go back to reread, the rest will never get written. (tangent note: i have a friend who makes a new document for every draft. i don't know if that's normal? maybe like using layers for digital art? but i definitely don't do that. the doc i start in is the doc i paste my notes in is the doc my final draft is in)

also, once i post something/deem it finished, i will never edit the google doc again. i just believe in like, the sanctity of the way i chose to write something as the me i was at that point in time, including the font, grammar, cringiness, etc. (and i also like how google puts the timestamp of "last edited on [x]." if i edit it again, that timestamp won't be true to when the writing was finished.) this one's still not exactly superstitious, it's just like. you wouldn't go back to your childhood drawings and make edits.

What is your deepest joy about writing?

all of the typical artist shit rings true, of course - materializing something that didn't exist before; being able to create something that others can connect with; of course being a part of communities that share my interests and obsessions and nerdiness and insanity. the most indulgent part of it is the part where i get to play god in my own little head, projecting all of my emotional inner workings onto a character and getting to therapize them via their environment. allowing the things that depress or upset me to receive comfort and gentleness and understanding and all of the things i don't think i deserve when they're in my head.

and of course, writing is one of those things, like art, like any form of just - physically making marks - that is so innate. like how beautiful is that, that since the beginning of time one of the things we've always done is depict. illustrate. we just want to understand things. weather and outer space and the elements and animals and human nature. we sang songs to remember epics before we ever wrote them down. and god, damn, fuck its just one of those things that fucking gets me, deep down, that i'm just human and part of humankind and no different than anyone else has ever been, in a good way. that someone will sing the epic to me and i will sing it to someone else and i don't have to do some monumental thing to have a purpose; i can just pass on one more story.

[frogs-in3-hills]

i’m so like.. continually impressed by the writing of kaguya-sama love is war (the anime) bc it’s such a heartfelt and honest teenage romance which.. i mean most anime i’ve seen does Not feature “accurate portrayals of children” as a selling point, to put it bluntly. idk it just…… really feels like you’re watching these kids sort out their weird complicated feelings abt eachother and themselves rather than being self gratuitous or wish-fulfillment like some (read: most) romance anime

like.. both kaguya and shirogane deal with unique but equally intense brands of anxiety that speak a lot not just to their very well-written characters, but the whole experience of being a teenager as a whole. ofc the draw of the show is the crazy cat and mouse game they play to “get the other one to confess first” but that’s not the POINT. kaguya doesn’t just like shirogane because he’s the only one she can play this game with (though that’s part of it), she likes him because he’s kind, thoughtful, and hardworking, and the show takes care to convey that. and idk it just feels terribly human how truly pathetic kaguya and shirogane are for being so attached to their pride, but we sympathize with them so much because they are so clearly Just Kids. wildly intelligent children.

they’re growing up and desperately trying to figure themselves out and they’re scared they don’t have much time left to do that because they’re both experiencing narratively parallel pressures from their families to figure their shit out. and the show is clear that the cat and mouse is an immature diversion from their true feelings so that they can put off having to actually communicate with each other, yknow, like adults. but they’re kids and they shortcircuit at the sight of their crush wearing cat ears, they can barely have a normal conversation, they get flustered talking about kissing. shirogane infodumps about astrology and kaguya believes in fairy tales.

plus the attention the show gives to other relationships, particularly chika and shirogane’s weird ass friendship/mentorship, and kaguya and ishigami’s kind of awesome little partnership which mostly consists of kaguya projecting onto him like her life depends on it. it makes them feel a lot more human to see them having whole segments totally unrelated to their romance and that’s something i think a lot of romance media could take note of

i don’t have a conclusion to this argument so. despite its flaws. kaguya-sama good. hope y’all enjoyed this installment of ‘sully rambles about whatever media he’s thinking about atm’

[donnyclaws]

Long post about my main story project! (Short story is I'm resetting it and renaming it ❤)

I've been writing demonic indifference since I was really young, initially cause I used these characters to feel my emotions through cause I couldn't process them myself. Yknow and publicly. I feel like it's got a lot of very specific baggage and pressure to it that no other story of mine does, I can't always approach it with the same clearness and skill I can with fresh stories. And I want to be able to do that cause this story means a lot to me, and even when I don't need it to process my emotions directly anymore, it's still very personal and relevant to me and I want to do it justice by writing it like I can write hatchfiend or fall Warmed or my other projects.

So I think I want to do a kinda mid soft hard reset on its story. World building and themes are the same, same characters, largely the same dynamics. I want to be less open about it narratively so I can have the freedom to change anything I need, and cause I've put a weird pressure on myself to make this story accessible and understandable, trying to compile asks and notes ect ect and it's like. This project isn't through asks, it's going to be a comic, I don't want to be making such solid versions of it like this just cause I've been so open with it yknow. I love the interest, I'm sure I'll still be too excited to not talk about character dynamics, I'll always talk about worlbuilding (please feel free to keep asking about these things ofc!!!). Stuff I've done in the last year around characters like Tobias, Roswell, Connie and Aran are some of my fav things I've written full stop. That's the level I'd like everything to be at!! Resetting to separate it from the baggage and admittedly bad weird version history will be a huge relief I think.

I'm just trying to get myself in a better position with better boundaries to write this how it deserves to be written. Obviously no ones said anything to make me feel this way, I'm just older now. I really struggled as a kid from 14-18 to discern things that harmed me big or small but now I can and more importantly I know I can change things and set boundaries about anything I feel the need to haha.

All that being said the new story name's going to be Tiger crawl home ❤