#not tagging anyone

[kindly-whisper-norbury]

I wasn't tagged, but I wanna do it! Also, I'm adding a twist by posting pictures of the items!

[illyasfeel]

Sword Art Online

[babygirlwolverine]

dean doesn’t realize he’s doing it, at least, not initially. the way he reaches out to comfort cas, whether it’s good or bad news, with a hand settling on his arm, sometimes slipping down to brush against his wrist and sometimes rising up to squeeze cas’ shoulder. he does it on instinct. impulse. a primal urge to reach out and touch the angel; to ground him, to reassure him. at first, dean doesn’t think cas realizes or registers the touch. but then, as it happens more and more frequently, cas turns his head and their eyes lock as dean’s hand lingers against cas’ elbow. caught out, dean pulls his hand away. the next time it happens, when dean’s hand squeeze cas’ bicep and slides down his forearm, cas snags his hand, palm against palm, and squeezes softly. when their fingers intertwine the next time it happens, dean can’t fight the warm glow he feels when they both share a secretive smile.

[the-letterbox-archives]

hello, all! for everyone who has tagged me in any kind of tag game that involves sharing writing snippets (except for the kiss tags - hopefully i'll have more content for those soon), i wanna saw sorry for not getting to them, i have seen them all! the reason i'm not answering those is because i am preparing volume 3's release!!! get excited!! do you remember volume 3? don't care! get excited anyway!! but yes, when i've passed those out to beta readers, i may show some lil snippets of them for those tags... if i'm feeling generous.

it's gotten weird for me to answer those kinda tags, just due to my release schedule and that kind of thing, so while i still love being in the loop of them, they are harder for me to answer. i will interact with as many as i can (mental state and business considered) because all your guys' writing is amazing!!

thanks for listening and understanding! can't wait to show you more of volume 2, keep the wheels running of volume 1, and prepare for future volumes to be released!!

(⚓, 🕷️, ⚔️, 🚱, 👁️)

[vnknowcrow]

I only have like 3 mutuals who see my posts, it's embarrassing

[bederu]

Was tagged by @jawshuahtree to drop a selfie.

Work sucks and I feel like being a tease.

[good7luck]

My quick personal thought on Noe in VNC manga latest chapter 61.5

(more under the cut)

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I do NOT think Noe "pretended" to not notice the racism towards Dham in the office because he didn't "want" to accept the harsh reality that his "good" fellows are being bad / racists. It didn't happen...yet, at least.

I'm rather sure Noe simply, sincerely had NO "concept" of the racism ITSELF towards Dham AT ALL. "They probably still don't know their individual name each" was the ONLY and "best" guess Noe could ever make ON HIS OWN, within HIS (extremely limited) "common sense".

Noe does NOT realize the word Dham was being used like a slur purposefully in THEIR context, because Noe believes it's "by definition" not inherently an offensive term. They're Dhams, it's who they are, what's the problem? Vani is a human, so there's nothing wrong to call him human, cuz it's what he is, isn't it? But yeah, it's weird to keep calling all of them as just Dham when they all have their own name, let's fix it now!

Well, Noe does not have the same view / experience as other characters, much less we audience. He tends to listen well, but he's not always good at catching the hints / full context quickly. Of course, Noe hated to be called only "vampire" on and on by Vani in the previous arc, but Vani was clearly super hostile and seriously fighting Noe to death at that time, while this is happening "in peace", so Noe couldn't possibly imagine the people were hostile, "too", just in a different or "softer" form, perhaps? Or Noe failed to notice it because it's not directly about Vani lol

I get that it's very tempting to call Noe "stupid / annoying" etc for not noticing the "obvious" malice. But it's NOT obvious to him, unfortunately; he's plain ignorant and oblivious for real, because he literally has had NO chance to learn until now. He can't magically know what he doesn't know. He isn't even a genius character. This is the first time Noe witnessed the subtle and explicit racism, and honestly...I highly doubt if even now he truly understands that he watched people being openly bigoted and that it's never from their "innocent ignorance" as he first believed. Sadly, it indeed doesn't help that those people are the ones who Noe does NOT see as an enemy.

Noe never heard of Ruthven, who "can't" be unknown to anyone. Noe genuinely believed everyone else (Vani & Domi) was lost, when it's actually him alone who was lost. This is the Noe we're talking about!

Shapeless One didn't teach Noe anything about Dham and the prevailing racism (which is surely suspicious and irresponsible). It seems he at least didn't tell Noe that Dham should be oppressed / hated, and thankfully Noe has grown up not to discriminate people merely for race. Since he arrived in Paris, Vani has never bothered Dante and others for being Dham in front of Noe, either. But yeah, now Noe should get to know more and face the unjust reality that the Dham has to deal with.

"Noe should've known better because, Archiviste!!" I feel he believes that it's NOT the same and mostly the matter of the "rightfully creepy" (he thinks) "ability" of the memory-reading (for now, at least). When you think about it...no VNC character has negatively reacted to Noe for being Archiviste so far (and like, most of them barely know in detail or get interested a little) - except Vani XD and we all know Vani currently doesn't care, as long as Noe doesn't try to drink his blood. Astolfo hated Noe, but it's because he equally hates any "vampire".

However, in regards to Dham, people are loudly making "the existence ITSELF" a huge problem, including their mere "appearance" difference. People "discuss" their "right to exist", which is similar to Jeanne, Bourreau, the slaves. Yeah, I suppose Noe has been kinda "lucky" not to be the target of discrimination...until now. I won't be surprised if Noe still doesn't understand what makes Dham "deserve" all the disgust when they don't even have any "disgusting" ability "like his". I'd like to also add that...Noe might've been safe solely thanks to his (problematic) "guardian" Shapeless One, the (in)famous & powerful vampire that no one can casually ignore, similar to Ruthven ^^;;

In short, I think Noe did NOT "forcedly" "choose" to "ignore" the racism and try to make an "excuse" for his "cannot-be-racist" fellows "instead"; how can he "choose" to believe "otherwise", when he doesn't even notice the deep racism "specifically" towards Dham in the first place? Though I can agree that it'd be hard for Noe to properly process what's going on in the office because he unconsciously believes the fellows he trusts wouldn't be "weird" or "malicious" to other fellows "for an unreasonable reason".

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This was written quite quickly, and I might regret it and remake a similar post later...or not XD

Thank for you reading my current personal opinion!!

[medtech-mara]

Share the last six lines of any of your WIPs.

I was tagged by @kdval forever ago. I'm just horrible at seeing these.. for some reason. Half the time I don't even think I get notified.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INCLUDING ME~ It means the world to me.

Sometimes, on rare occasions, she’d caught Jack looking at her, in such a way, that would ignite passion for him, her heart fluttering every time she’d replay the recording.  “You have reached your daily limit, please consider subscribing to–” The automated message began to play as the water cut off, snapping Mara out of her train of thought, passively glancing at the time displayed on her wrist by a halo-projector. 6:01.  Gotta Run. 

This is from my novel TARGETED AD I'm slowly working on. I finally settled on how to start it, and this is what I had last wrote. I was really having a hard time trying to explain how Jack and Mara feel about each other, without over complicating it, because as complicated as their situation was/is (timeline depending), How do you cram so much history without saying too much about it? I figured that might be a short and sweet way to introduce how each other feel without going on.

The transition to the next scene, honestly, I love using ad's to interrupt moments, I just love using ads. I feel like all my best work has been done using ads. It really sells the world for me, when I read details like that; I love establishing her routine right from the start too, I feel like it tells a lot about who Mara is deep down, well... Before things got complicated with Merc life.

While the projector displaying the time onto Mara's wrist might be a bit of artifact of times long passed, I think she was influenced by all those dusty movies she'd ripped from some shards passed around over the years.

I am still not sold on how that projector works, I am trying to leave that a little less ambiguous til later, when it has its time to be discussed more in-depth through literature.

[swingset-au]

[reestallized]

Doodles

[schrl]

TAG GAME— List 10 of your favorite characters from different fandoms

Tagged by @roaldseth! Thanks!

Tyrael (Diablo)

Morgott the Omen King (Elden Ring)

Seteth (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

Padparadscha (Land of the Lustrous)

Clavell (Pokémon Scarlet and Violet)

Lae'zel (Baldur's Gate 3)

Elliott (Stardew Valley)

Shiver Hohojiro (Splatoon 3)

Sheik (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)

Leshy (Inscryption)

[matthewliberatore]

[illyasfeel]

Mahoyome S2 5th trailer

[alynnl]

Pick your favorite!

Tagged by @ultraviolet-ink

Create your own post with five of your favorite characters, and see who votes for them!

[kari-go]

Any other ML characters aside from Adrien and Rose that you don't care about?

Ivan, Mylene, Alix, Nathaniel, Sabrina, Max,, Nathalie, Gabriel, Tomoe oh, and Mireille I guess, forgot about her lol mayyybe Lila and Kim too

this was kinda difficult? because like, what do i count as 'don't care' y'know. because sometimes I just forget and I do think there could be something interesting done with them. I like the different personalities and there's potential with them. They just. didn't make that much of an impact on me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(there's also just too many people, we've got three main people, who all have at least one kwami with them so that's another three, there's also just Alya, Chloe, Kagami, the other kwamis, there's like 7 of them.. also just people like Lila, Blanche, Arthur, Luka, Juleka, Aurore, Nino, Marc,,,, there's just a lot)

it is truly 'I don't care' with Adrien though. The concept is very interesting, just executed very poorly

!!This doesn't mean that they're being removed from the story!!

I'm probably just not gonna focus on them that much when there are many other characters that are more important to me and the story

[anditendshowyoudexpect]

stole this one from @ladydisdainblog

Rules: without naming them, post 10 gifs of your favorite TV shows

so, in the order of "oh yeah there's also this one", at the risk of offending a good dozen of other favorites

no surprises or particular obscurities here