#now for something completely unrelated to anything I’ve ever posted

[hauntedparkinglot]

Fnaf movie. But everyone except William is a muppet

(Inspired by that one saw post I would take them but I can’t find it 😭😭)

[grims-local-pkmn-irl-hub]

How to Write Engaging Anons

I’ve spoken to a lot of people behind close doors and we have all come to a realization: PKMN IRL as a community isn’t the greatest at sending engaging anons,,,

A lot of anons tend to get off track from what the blog runner is trying to do or will send completely unrelated anons during a plot moment on someones blog which can be incredibly frustrating for the blog runner.

So, I’ve decided to compile a little “guide” to help.

Look over the recent posts of a blog to see if they’re doing anything that could be considered plot relevant before sending an anon. Are they vague posting about something? Did they cut off a tangent too short? Did they mention they have stories to share if anyone wants them? Did they say something off or slightly concerning? ASK ABOUT IT! Ask them to elaborate! Ask for more detail!

Try and keep asks on task if a plot hook/point is currently happening. It is incredibly discouraging for a blog runner to see the notif for an anon only to open it and it have nothing to do with what they are currently trying to reveal/be engaged with. Do not latch onto a bit like your life depends on it because you are most likely just tiring out the blog runner who just wants to share interesting character/story info. Bits have a time and a place.

Don’t have a character that would realistically send that anon? Then don’t send it as that character, send it as yourself. The blog runner and character will not know the difference. This also has an added benefit of baiting a character into talking about something you know your character can then interact with. Anons are great for interaction in more ways than just asks.

Worried someone already sent the ask you’re about to send? SEND IT ANYWAYS! A blog runner would much prefer two of asks of generally the same question than zero asks! And it shows that people care enough to ask that question twice! It gives the blog runner something to think about when writing!

Don’t have any idea of what anon to send without an ask game? SEND THE SUPER “BASIC” ONES! I promise you that very basic questions like “how do feel about this”, “why do you say that”, “you mentioned [this], can you elaborate more” ARE LOVED BY BLOG RUNNERS!!! So much can be understood about a character’s mental state or attitude depending on how they choose to answer these questions. They’re “basic” and “overused” because they are really good questions to ask!

Try and engage critically with a character! Remember! This is an RP community! We are playing these characters as if they are real so you need to treat them like people! For example: Telling a very clearly mentally ill character that their thought process isn’t healthy and that they should just go to therapy isn’t the most helpful anon and it especially isn’t when that seems to be all the blog runner gets when they’re character gets like that. A good way to try and engage critically is to ask similar questions as above such as “why do you think that” along with some others like “can you walk me through your thought process”, “do you know when you started acting/thinking like this”, etc.

IC Hate Anons. These anons are fun and good! They can be very useful for story telling and showing off certain aspects of a character! They can also be super draining especially when that seems to be all that a character gets when trying to do plot hooks/points. It can make a blog runner’s motivation wane and deplete when all it ever seems like is that anons want to use their character as a punching bag. A good way to negate this is if you send an IC hate anon is to quickly follow it up with an anon that’s trying to engage critically and is asking questions and treating the character as a person. This allows for a blog runner to have choices on whether they want their character to be a punching bag right now and get beat down or would rather follow the anons line of questioning.

Ask games. I know I’m beating a dead horse here but SEND AN ASK TO THE PERSON YOU ARE REBLOGGING FROM. The blog runner will see you reblogging it from them and be waiting for an ask to come in and then it never does. Send an ask. They are literally pre-written most of the time. Okay that’s all I have to say here. 👍

Make sure the anon has some sort of substance. Even when sending anons outside of plot periods make sure the anon has something the character and blog runner can actually feasibly answer. One word anons that are just “yeah” or “okay” are incredibly difficult to respond to. So is randomly being sent quotes or things that just generally have nothing to do with the blog or pokemon in general. People have an easier time when being sent asks about their character’s pokemon, family, friends, most recent stupid post, etc. I have about 40 anons rotting in my inbox for @/espers-n-espurrs because they have nothing to respond to. And this isn’t to say silly/dumb anons shouldn’t be a thing. They should be but they should also be something someone could reasonably reply with besides just replying with “why the fuck did you send me this”.

In all, remember you are not only engaging with a character and their story but you are also engaging with a blog runner. You may never know their name or have a one on one conversation with them but the asks you send their characters do have an effect on the blog runner.

Show that you are engaging with their character, show that you care about the story they are trying to tell.

Reblogs are important for interaction but in my mind asks are the backbone of this community. A good ask and a good response allows for a good chance for others to be able to interact with the response IC.

But yeah, remember, the blog runner is still there behind that screen, you are still interacting with them when you interact with their character. Give them something to work with when you send an ask.

[pinkhairswagtourney]

please consider helping me with replacing + protecting my insulin !!!

i’ve made a few posts in the last couple of days about my current situation , but i thought i would consolidate it all into one post ;;

hi there ! my name is shroom and i have type two diabetes . i have to take insulin every day to survive – i take my levemir when i wake up and before i go to sleep , and i take my humalog before every meal . 

my younger brother is a nightmare to live with . he abuses me mentally and physically , and nothing is ever done about it . he shoved me down the stairs just a few months ago , leaving me with a permanent knee injury . the other day , he was upset about something completely unrelated to me , and decided to take the rest of my insulin pens out of the fridge and smash them with a hammer .

when i told my father about what happened , he told me that i shouldn’t have kept them in the fridge . for those of you who don’t know , you have to keep your unopened insulin pens refrigerated . once you start using the pen , you can keep it at room temperature . my fathers knows this – i’ve told him several times and his father also had diabetes , it’s just an excuse for him to not have to do anything about my brother’s behavior .

i’m now left with only my two current pens , and my supply is rapidly dropping . at this rate , i have less than a week’s worth , so i’m going to have to start cutting meals and stretching my insulin . to prevent anything like this from ever happening again , i’ve decided to invest in a mini fridge and a new doorknob with a lock for my bedroom .

for a month’s supply of insulin , i have to pay $70 – $35 for three pens of both humalog and levemir . the mini fridge is $28 with $9 in taxes and shipping fees . the cheapest doorknob i could find online that’ll work with my door is $13 . all together , that’s about ~$120 . 

i’ve already had a few very charitable people help me out and i've reopened commissions to help fund this !! if anyone could spare a few dollars , it would mean the world to me !! even reblogging this and spreading the word is highly appreciated

p-pal - ovmasai c-sh-app - $soppdronning commission's page

thank you so much for reading !!!

[theveganearper]

I feel like people gradually underestimate the different ways that Waverly can be written in fan fiction because of how feminine she’s written in the actual show. In a way, I feel like that steers people away from writing Waverly as anything besides a feminine cisgender woman.

There’s a few fics out there now that have written Waverly completely unrelated to canon which I’ve thoroughly enjoyed. I feel like it’s special to read a character that I already love and see her written in ways that I wouldn’t have ever expected.

What I love most about people choosing to write Waverly different is that there’s a piece of the pie for everyone. We’ve now had non-binary Waverly, transgender (woman) Waverly, even a transgender (man) Waverly. And I know that these all aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s nice to know that fans all over the rainbow have something out there that they can hopefully relate to.

In fic it seems far more common to put Nicole in the vast majority of the queer roles. Non-binary Nicole, transgender Nicole, Intersex Nicole, etc. it’s always Nicole. It’s nice to see fic writers switching it up and also putting Waverly in these roles too.

I’m writing something right now that I’m really enjoying because Waverly is written with a personality that pretty much stays home to canon but with an identity that does not. I feel like when writing characters with different gender identities than we see them in canon, that people suddenly feel like they can’t give them the same personality we see in canon and I’m hoping to change that.

Anyway, if you’ve read this entire post, wow. I know it’s shorter than a fic but it’s hard to keep peoples attention these days, alright? Sound off if you feel called to do so. I love chatting about fic.

[namor-shuri]

Did you see that recent post about your page? Antis are so funny 😭

I’m crying because after I posted that meme post yesterday, I was scrolling through the Nashuri tag and then saw it 🥴 I literally made a dumb meme joking about Antis saying we need to be locked up, and didn’t realize someone literally said that hours prior. It doesn’t get better than that rofl. What’s sending me was their initial outrage of Nashuri [which babe, have you been living under a rock?], then the assumption that I romantically ship Tenoch & Tish from a quick bio glance, THEN after all of the “horror” and “shock”, they proceed to not block me. You’re telling me you posted screenshots of you blocking my page to ultimately not…..block……me? Righhhhhhhttttttt *rubs temples*

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I literally don’t owe anyone this BUT this is for the folks that are new to my blog/Nashuri fandom/etc:

#1. Hey 💜 This is BOTH a Nashuri [Namor x Shuri] blog AND Tenoch Huerta + Letitia Wright appreciation blog. What does that mean? It means my blog is about anything related to A. Tenoch Huerta + his life/roles etc B. Letitia Wright + her life/roles etc and C. Their adorable dynamic together. It’s a hodgepodge of random stuff. One big ice cream shop where you can pick your flavor of choice. So Nashuri shippers interact with me, Namor fans, Shuri fans , Letitia, Tenoch and so on. You get the idea. I love how open-ended my page is and that’s why I made it that way in the first place. Everyone is welcome here and can walk away with a little bit of something. For being such a miscellaneous page, I would say the only “agenda” I push is Nashuri [it’s in my name]. The rest of my content is up to your own personal interpretation/assumptions. What you think I’m pushing or trying to say is all your take and your take alone, beloved. It has nothing to do with me.

#2. I admit that my mouth has gotten me in a little bit of trouble over the years lol. I was literally that little kid that came back with a report card with straight A’s that had a teacher’s note on the side saying “Talks too much in class”. I think and say shit ALL. THE. TIME rofl Yes, I sprinkle in deep rants and knowledgeable takes on my blog but I made this page to be a menace. I’m only here to be entertained. A majority of my page are jokes and tomfoolery. The complete opposite of “be for real”. How can I be when I’m literally shipping a fictional fish stick and a fictional woman in a cat suit?? 🤣 I’ve spoken about it before but I’m also an artist [my professional work is 1000% unrelated to this page/content lol] so alot of my page is also random graphics and stuff like that too. I love making y’all and myself laugh and it’s been enjoyable af interacting with you, especially the Nashuri fandom. Y’all are straight up comedians and say the funniest shit, which then makes me want to say even more wild shit and then it becomes a snowball effect lol. Thankfully I can tell a majority of you who do follow/interact with me are grown so you’ve picked up by now that most of my blog is A BIT. But unfortunately there’s always going to be a sprinkle of people who are clearly young, new here or just folks that don’t get my sense of humor whatsoever. And whichever category you fall under it’s okay, but babes there are a lot of 18+ jokes/comments on my page so if you are someone that is underage and or gets easily offended, please do yourself a favor and stay clear. I mean that in the nicest way possible.

#3. I wrote this on a reblog to someone’s post recently but I have a large portion of blogs blocked on the tags that I follow on here. Life has been ✨𝒷𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓈𝒻𝓊𝓁✨ ever since and it only takes .2 seconds out of your day to do it. So when I don’t see people utilize the block button, I just know their not being fr and are clearly bored. If you don’t like my content, block/mute me. Simple as that. Because chances are, I’ve probably already blocked you by now. And to the people I haven’t, I either A. enjoy/interact with the content you make or B. don’t care for it but you usually stay out of my lane and I stay out of yours so we just coexist. It’s that black and white. You don’t have to like what someone posts but what isn’t cool is bothering/targeting someone on an app strictly because of that. What are you five? This feels like a lesson we learned in elementary school. It’s not rocket science and it’s never that serious. The world does not revolve around you nor adhere to things only you deem okay. It’s much bigger than that. Get a grip, go drink some water, eat something and make sure to touch some grass today while you’re at it.

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Shout out to that page tho! I literally gained new followers after that, so…..thank you? 😅 What a time to be alive. But for real, ya’ll have been coming out of nowhere to support and it’s been super dope. I really appreciate all the love, especially for being such a new page. I’m looking forward to future shenanigans, continuing the fun and not taking shit too seriously per usual. Live your best life, folks. Don’t let anyone rain on your parade. Life is WAY too short for that.

Ps: To my new followers, check out the post pinned to my page here. It’s a great “intro” into the Nashuri fandom and or actors Tenoch Huerta / Letitia Wright. Some things might be a little old but it’s pretty useful for the most part. My old poll results post gives you a slight idea of me as well. See y’all around ✌🏾💗

[simcardiac-arrested]

can i ask some stuff aboutyour ocs you mightve already said/shown at some point on the askblog . thank you in advance either wayyy

how does NS even "know" to blame NWB for his suffering? how well does he remember the conflux fuckening?

it seems like FTA has seen NS at their happiest post-trauma, which is. sad. why does he hate them?

does Wayback intentionally self-isolate from the rest of his group, cuz it seems like at very least WT would try and humor him, and CD wouldn't care about his productivity.

WAIT IS CD IN THAT ONE ARTIST COMIC WITH NS PRE-VIRUS CD? REAL? actually do their groupmates feel like.. upset about the change in *her*? ok sorry i know this is so many asks are not the best way to do this but i am runnin g away

hi ! totally fine. probably have revealed some of this stuff already but i have the memory of a dust particle so idgaf we Will talk about this once more

1. i think sep remembers that it was wayback’s ‘fault’ because well, that’s Licherally how it all started. like the reason they went through all of this at all was cuz they had to take wayback’s workload as well. i think waves would often talk about how sep needs to be Better than that useless green bitch. but mainly i think that everytime sep would be forced to overwork themself they would also see wayback just doing nothing and having fun and whatever and they’d be Reminded. re: how well does sep remember the conflux fuckening … i will be honest it’s tricky to explain and i feel like anytime i do it 1. completely changes 2. doesn’t make 100% total sense. but also i think that’s ok ^_^ i don’t need it to make total sense i just need u guys to get the gist of it. because like … well memory problems and/or loss in Human brains already kind of works weirdly. and with sep he is both biological and mechanical and literally One Big Superbrain; so basically i’ve always imagined that while his memories and files can just be erased with no consequences like how it would usually happen to a normal computer, i think the biological part of him would always Know to some degree and be aware. i think the best way i’ve ever explained it is that it’s like walking into a mall in the middle of a weekend and seeing it empty. it just feels off, like something is missing, like there should be People there, because it’s 2pm on sunday and everyone fucking loves malls. but there’s no one. you can Tell something is wrong and something is missing but you can never fully Understand, just follow your deja vu and gut feelings. i hope that mostly makes sense!!

2. first of all, fates is just a really reserved and negative person and a Professional Hater, so she can find reasons to hate almost anyone for almost anything. it comes naturally to her. the surface reasons for hating sep would be that he is generally annoying and can be condescending even while helping fates. she just doesn’t really like him as a person, she thinks he Sucks. but the deeper reasons … well. let’s just say maybe fates and wayback have more parallels than u might think (said by a guy who barely draws attention to these parallels (I’M SORRY WE JUST HAVENT GOTTEN TO THAT PART YET !!! UEAHGHH) (completely unrelated. Hi skiddles hi steven)))

3. nope, wayback only self-isolates when he’s Going Thru Shit, which i understand is like 100% of the time but you know what i mean — the thing with his local group is that he’s an Enigma to them. they do not understand him and like a good half of them think he’s just annoying (ris, fta, sep(???)). also to be fair wayback is just not super interested in all the iterator business so he barely checks the local group (even if he dislikes being lonely). and while wt does try to humor him most of the time they are also Quite Old and do not really get what the fuck he is on about 80% of the time. also they honestly just have bigger things to worry about. now with cd it’s a different deal because she and wayback would make amazing buddies, it’s just that she’s actually a really big fan of his weirdass music and therefore is way too shy to ever actually talk to him. also she thinks if she does become friends with him then the whole group will hate her because they all seem to dislike wayback to some degree. she whines to weaving about this often and they just go No one would dislike u man … but she doesn’t believe them. she’s quite peculiar if i do say so

4. yesss cd used to be sep’s artist buddy! and uhmm. to be honest i don’t think most of the group knew cd that well before (ris and soar are not huge fans of interacting and son isn’t either) and/or just don’t really gaf about what happened (fta and ris once more). so yeah don’t even worry about it. i mean i’m sure Someone is upset about it . don’t know really. Who said that. must’ve been the wind

[a-earthssprout]

🥀🍯 QUALITY OF … EXPERIENCE? UPDATES. hello, my dear friends ! 🌼 I hope everyone has had a pleasant start to their week 😊 I know it has been a minute since I’ve responded to anything on here, & the short explanation as to why is … my mother was home for two weeks & it severely threw off my rhythm 😭 I had no peaceful mornings to enjoy in solitude, which are the hours that tend to be my best time to write. acknowledging that it would only be frustrating to keep trying to push through & get things down on the paper, I decided to do what I could, since there was much outside of writing that needed to be done on Ari’s blog 🌷 now, I unfortunately did not get everything done that I had hoped to by this time, & some of these goals are still in progress—but the blog is in a much cleaner & organized state than it was before this winter break ! 😊

to not fill the dash with useless information ( as I often tend to do incessant rambling 😅 ), I shall place the updates that may be most important to others first. you will find all things ‘ trivial ’ beneath the cut 🌿

MY RULES HAVE BEEN UPDATED. old information has been updated & new information has been added to align best with the way I currently run my blog 📚 I’ve adjusted some areas that had poor flow, removed anything that sounded redundant or repetitive, & corrected the many errors that I found within the page. the only new section added to my rules is the ‘ accessibility & accommodations ’ section. while it is not required that my rules are looked over by any who are already mutuals with me, you are free to take a look if this section—or anything else previously mentioned—is of interest to you ! 🌼

ARI’S ICON STYLE. she’s got a new one, & how lovely are they ? 😊 I am not done with them all just yet—I’ve had to edit them by hand, & I’m very close to finishing all folders 👀—but I think they look absolutely precious … I’m very excited to use them ! ( I’ve also found this process to be most inspiring for muse, oddly enough ? 🤔 )

ASK & ABOUT HEADERS. precious Stella / @theircurse back at it with her remarkable talent once more ! 🌼 Ari now has adorable headers & matching dividers for her ask & about posts. as to not make this post exceptionally long above the cut, you shall see them the next time I post a little something about Ari or answer a fun ask ! 🌷

AN UPDATE TO THE WAY I RUN THE ASK BOX. the ask box will no longer be closed, & I will rarely ever close it again in the future. I have decided to handle the ask box differently from the way I had been doing so before. as you all very well know, I am not fast 😅 I tend to take many moons to answer things, & though I have never received a complaint from any mutual about my reply speed, it is never not a worry in my mind 😔 I do think that ask memes serve as wonderful icebreakers for new interactions, & I now feel that closing my ask box limits the opportunity that newer mutuals have to start something with me. I intend to go through my asks at my own pace, however, but I feel like this decision will help new things get started ! 🍃additionally, my meme tag has now been linked to Ari’s pinned post ! 😊

I AM SLOWLY GOING THROUGH & RESPONDING TO DM’S. to those who have been patient with me & my slowness, thank you so very much ! 🌻 I am trying to answer everything that has been waiting for a response. I have made more progress than ever with this, but there are still many people that I need to reach out to—so if you haven’t heard from me yet, trust that you will soon ! 😊

OTHER UPDATES: 

added a picture of Ari to the top of her about section on her carrd. 🍃

updated my about at the bottom of the rules. 🍯

organized dm’s 

did that follower sweep / went through & unfollowed inactive / archived blogs 

learned how to crochet a bookmark … completely unrelated to the blog, but still a personal triumph 👵

[msbarrows]

Reading Recap 2022

Saw someone else do this and liked the idea enough to also do it.

To make things easier on myself, I limited myself to a) books I read for the first time this year, that b) I added to my library in 2022. Which means there’s a handful of books I added in prior years and only got around to reading this year that are not included. Also a lot of books that I added this year but had previously read (see: slowly replacing all my favourite paperbacks with ebooks), or even just re-read this year (which would make an image with many, many more covers than this one).

Anyway - some of these I got free from Tor giveaways, some I picked up in sales, some I bought after seeing them in a Tumblr post and thinking they sounded interesting, or were written by people whose fanfiction I liked, so might as well try some of their published (or self-published) stuff too.

So, books I’ve read this year that meet the above criteria, in no particular order:

The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison - first saw a mention of her on a Tumblr post about good fantasy authors, where her book The Goblin Emperor was mentioned. Read it, loved it, have been reading her ever since.

The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novak - started reading her as astolat, moved on to Naomi Novak things, of course I was going to read her published Scholomance series after enjoying her earlier fanfic Scolomance series (pretty much completely unrelated other than it being based around a dangerous magic school).

Nona The Ninth, Tamsyn Muir - Added Gideon The Ninth (from a Tor giveaway) and Harrow The Ninth (on a good sale) in previous years, only finally got around to reading them just before this one was due out. Enjoyed it muchly, looking forward to the next in the series.

All The Horses Of Ireland, Sarah Tolmie - saw a gushing review of it somwehere, decided to give it a try. Liked it.

Nettle & Bone and Illuminations, T. Kingfisher - started reading her after seeing a post on Tumblr about the release of A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking, have been reading her ever since. Both of these were excellent.

Into The Broken Lands, Tanya Huff - I’ve been reading her since picking up a copy of Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light at the end of the 80s, and was delighted a year or two later to learn one of my fave Canadian authors worked at my all-time-favourite book store in Toronto, Bakka (oh hi person I’ve bought my weekly stacks of books from for ages, now sitting behind a table doing a signing). I highly recommend her to anyone interested in good fantasy or some light SF, particularly if they’re interested in books that include queer characters written by a queer author.

Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree - kept hearing good things about this book, decided to make it one of my Christmas presents to myself for reading over the holidays. It was great.

The God Engines, John Scalzi - I keep hearing good things about his writing but hadn’t read anything by him yet. Saw this on sale and tried it. I think I need to try something else by him before I can decide if I like him enough to start working my way through his bibliography.

Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor, Xiran Jay Zhao - sounded interesting, another Christmas present to myself, something to enjoy while impatiently waiting for the next book in the Iron Widow series. It was pretty good.

Pegasus, Robin McKinley - Been wanting to read this for years (since back when she was writing about her writing progress on it on her blog well over a decade ago), and it finally dropped a few dollars in price, from “painfully expensive” to merely “new book expensive”, so I finally bought a copy. It was good, but considering how many years it’s already been out (12!) I was disappointed to hit the end and realize it’s meant to be the first in a series... which has clearly failed to materialize in the years since.

Strange And Stubborn Endurance, Foz Meadows - I don’t recall what brought this book to my attention, but I enjoyed it muchly, and am looking forward to additional books in the series (which apparently won’t be until next December). Should probably try some of their other books.

A Taste Of Iron And Gold, Some By Virtue Fall, and The Lights of Ystrac Wood, by Alexandra Rowland - that first is another where I don’t recall why it went on my wishlist, but I enjoyed it enough after getting around to buying it that I went and bought (and read) a couple more by the same author. All excellent.

Taji From Beyond The Rings, T. Cooper - I think I may have seen it mentioned on a list of queer romances? I forget. It ended up on my wishlist somehow, and when I was picking out things to read over the holidays it’s blurb sounded interesting enough to give it a shot. Liked it, and have since also picked up (but not yet read) the four books in their Familiar Spirits series.

Fete For A King, Infinite Jes, and The Lady And The Tiger, by Sam Starbuck - started reading his stuff as copperbadge, have picked up some of his self-published things this year, really enjoying the Shivadh romances (I’ve already re-read them all twice and will probably re-read them a third time when he posts the next in the series next year). Need to get around to reading the non-Shivadh ebooks I also purchased.

A Swift Kick To The Thorax, by Mara Lynn Johnstone - saw the cover, read the blurb about it being a human veterinarian dealing with aliens with an earth animal problem - thought that the sound of it put me in mind of the Piers Anthony’s Prostho Plus collection of short stories, about a human dentist dealing with alien tooth problems. It was exactly that silly. Very space opera. And also very good. Good enough that I’ve bought (but not yet read) another book by her.

[kuntniss]

hello sierra i am having stranger things thoughts after losing my st hyperfixation like 4 months ago so feel free to ignore this but i want to say words

ok first of all i have been thinking about the party’s relationship w running specifically the original party but also everyone else because i feel like there’s 2 possible reactions that they have post-encountering the upside down. i think some of them can’t run anywhere without having essentially flashbacks to running from the monsters (will. to me.) but others of them run all the time because they feel like they have to be faster they can’t risk being too slow it’s a way of trying to take back control (mike. to me.)

anyways second thought completely unrelated but ive also been thinking about el’s relationship w gender through the lens of her relationship w her name because like obviously “eleven” is. not Her. eleven is someone with no control, someone who’s barely even anyone, someone she doesn’t ever want to be again. but i especially think that post-lenora her relationship with “jane” is also kind of negative, because not only is jane the girl who was taken, but now jane is also the girl who was ostracized and hiding and who felt broken. and i think that if she explores those feelings she would not only be like wow i’m not jane or eleven, i’m just el, but i think she also might be like wow i’m not that girl OR that other girl, in part because i’m not really a girl.

anyways thank u for coming to my tedtalk i’d be interested in hearing your thoughts but again feel free to ignore me :)

omg hi!!! hi hi hi

i absolutely LOVE that. you are so fucking right with both of them. will getting caught up with his own ptsd and flashbacks… yeah. especially because he’s literally in the place that we have no idea what he went through there and the only people who do are him & vecna. so he’s been handling this shit for awhile. or if he didn’t remember anything, i love the thought that he only starts remembering there so it’s like an extra thing no one was expecting. mike being slower in canon and usually like #no Sports no sprinting just No. but trying to run like hell because he won’t be the one to hold things back and he will not let vecna win. him trying to take back control since he hasn’t felt that since probably el “died” in season one and then again when bob did… <3 yeah. and i feel like lucas would sprint like hell too and yeah because he’s athletic but also because he’s ready to do whatever he needs to do to not lose anymore people and to get max back. and to not let vecna win. i feel like he’d be more controlled with the situation than other characters who might lose their grip on things too you know. it just makes sense that he wouldn’t be the one to slow things down. i don’t really know about dustin yet? i mean, we know he’s pretty fast and doesn’t mind running so. plus i do think eddie dying would allow him to explore more of that aspect of his character and be a motivator more than anything.

i think about the el thing all the time!! you literally said exactly what i’ve thought for months. and yeah, she might like more Feminine™️ shit but that’s also her way of trying to feel human again. like she belongs to herself. it’s not always honest (how she puts on makeup only when mike comes lol she’s trying to be as teenage girl as possible) but it’s okay either way yk, she’ll find her place in the middle, i think she’ll probably not really have a defined gender because she doesn’t wanna put herself in a box or category like she was for years. she’s just el. and also a lesbian which yes mayhe goes against my no label thing for her but it’s also a way of coming to something on her own and that feels right and her rather than a societal expectation so it’s okay 👍 you’re very right about all of that

[existentialcrisis-24-7]

Oc posting time

Ramblings ahead!

This is Mac in a formal outfit I’ve been throwing around for a silly Cinderella themed episode that is like, the B-plot of several episodes (shoe’s not magical or anything so the Prince/Important Person remembers his face and starts a manhunt). I was also exploring some cultural world building with witches bc it was kind of a thing that cropped up any time I drew a witch (bar one character who has an excuse) that they’d always wear some kind of witchy coat with a simple dress/gown underneath and that became such a regular consistent choice that I unconsciously went “yeah Mac would wear that but fancy” the moment the question of formal wear came up. Like he’s not a witch anymore but you don’t really just forget the culture and the norms you were raised with even if he doesn’t have the opportunity to wear a witchy coat and a dress/gown in his daily life. Anyway take this man in a dress.

These are all the same guy. He’s a Prince from a long time ago who got cursed and who’s soul and body is now directly tied to his sword (not pictured bc I can’t draw swords). I want him to look like the stereotypical rich vampire. He’s not I just think it’s funny (especially given there is a vampire in the group but he got turned like a month ago and is still coping with the trauma). He first gets introduced with short hair but as the story goes on he grows it out. Also he doesn’t know what modern fashion is, be nice. I was also toying around with a formal outfit for him, but it’s much harder bc all the inspo I have for him is patterned and I’m not drawing all that in a sketch.

This is Rosemary idk her gender, she doesn’t either. Shes fuckinf going thru it rn trying to figure out herself while surviving on her own. Her story is completely unrelated to the other two dudes’ one. I don’t think they’ll ever actually meet in canon. I just drew her and wanted to share. Shes half human, half this world’s equivalent of dwarf, which is a kind of elf (called Umbram in-universe). She was also turned into a vampire a while back. I’ll go into Umbrams some other time, but vampires can access some blood magic that allows them to change form, usually into something more appealing to others, and she lives in an area with a high human and (tree) elf population (tree elves look different and they don’t Have a name yet).

[vonkarma2]

⚠️ for rocio and gloria, ❗angel, and📓with whoever you feel you have a really good one for? (also 👖made me think of a high school au rocio. student whos super smart and whos world revolves around college acceptance and also doesn't talk to literally anyone else at school ever)

⚠️ - If this oc came with a warning sign, what would it be?

For Rocio, it’d probably be like !do not approach! or something like that, since they get recognized very frequently and hate when random people start talking to them for whatever reason. Though since they are a wizard, a message like that may come across as unnecessarily threatening.

Asking this question for Gloria reminds me of like those memes where its like someone smoking in front of a sign that says no smoking or whatever. Warning label saying do not trust this person while she is looking at you with eyes like this >🥺 and saying don’t you trust me..

❗- What are the highest priorities to this oc (at a point in their life of your choosing)?

It’s kind of funny how Angel’s priorities went from largely selfish and interpersonal (I hope I can get taken seriously and also have a good time on my first trip out to see the world <3) to like. Survive. He’s being hunted by 2 factions, 1) various demons who don’t want the portal to be opened 2) the people who are trying to completely extinguish the entire royal line. It sucks because after the portal gets opened, the humans who are trying to kill him still need him to die, only now he doesn’t have Rocio to defend him and Gloria is probably not going to risk her life for someone she barely knows. 

Actually this kind of reminded me to complain about something completely unrelated. Version 2.0 of these OCs had a very simple, straightforward plot that I probably could have written out completely in about 30k words. Like, it was genuinely doable. But I didn’t really like that version of the story because I thought it made the characters and world seem pretty flat, so I decided to focus more on fantasy politics/other world building elements + make several of the characters arcs more complicated. Unfortunately, I only had/have ideas for how to rewrite some of the characters and beats, so a lot of them remain just as straightforward as before. And it makes me think I was way too ambitious and now any shot I have of finishing this story and moving on is so over T_T hopefully I can come up with something thats still relatively simple bc I really do want to finish the story one day :)

📓 - Do you associate any quotes or lyrics with this oc?

Since I’ve posted about song lyrics before, I wanted to look for movie or book quotes for these people. I’m doing my ocs, not werewolf story. But I wanted to say this line reminds me of Kaleela and Baize’s relationship sorry everyone

When I got this question, I was excited because I thought I would have a lot of good answers considering how OCs brained I was looking at other media for a really long time. But in the end, I couldn't think of anything. Best I can do is 2 panels from saiki k that remind me a lot of rocio

[less-becomes-more]

It’s the last day of July 2023 and it’s almost one week before my birthday (which falls on the 8th of August, same day as Bachira, my favourite Blue Lock character!!!❤️🐝❤️🐝❤️🐝❤️🐝❤️🐝).

(I’m a big otaku, so there will be anime & manga ramblings on this blog, for sure!!!)

That being said, I’m also close to a milestone, if not in my life, at least in my age and as someone who’s struggled with my weight my whole life (and plenty of other stuff I’m not ready to get into), I’ve decided that I at least want to accomplish one goal before I hit the above mentioned milestone, which would be the goal of reaching a healthy, if not a beautiful, weight (cuz, let’s face it, they are not one & the same).

So, I’ll try to keep track of my weight and myself here, of what I eat, how much (cuz it really needs to be much more) I exercise and stuff like that. I’ll ramble and I’ll sigh, I’ll cry and I’ll laugh and even though I suck at keeping a diary (I’ve tried like, maybe 2 or 3 times before, didn’t pan out), I’ll try to write something here everyday, even if it’s just something small and stupid and silly and random and completely unrelated to anything.

There will be no pictures of me posted here, ever. No pictures of my meals either or of the numbers on my scale, no matter which direction they’re heading into.

I don’t expect anyone to (want to) follow this and I don’t think I’ll have much, if any, interaction with anyone. I’m a shy bug like that.

I’m doing this for myself, cuz I’m selfish like that. I’m that kind of a bug.

And no tags.

This is done, for now.

[widevibratobitch]

if you get upset about other people 'vagueing' you then perhaps try not doing it yourselves. use those spines of yours - not to point fingers (<- is boutta start pointing fingers) but lol&lmao bold words coming from someone who literally started this whole vagueing avalanche and is now the one crying about it. action - reaction, sweetheart. but i digress.

Let's just start by saying this was never about Verdi, Mozart or even Rossini. I feel no need to converse with you or try to convince you of anything, because I simply do not care. You’re entitled to your own opinion and I’m entitled to mocking it in the privacy of my own blog (which, again, I did not do until you started the vague-party).

Now. This entire ridiculous callout post could have been a single click on the block button on your part. You are aware you can use it too, right? Everything you’re asking from me and my friends - you yourself can actually do first! Set an example, why don’t you.

Aren’t you tired? Like genuinely asking. Aren’t you? As entertaining as this catfighting has been, I sure am. 

I've said this before and I'll say it again - none of this would ever have happened if you, or any other person vagueing us and clutching their pearls at our (or mine? since you seem to have some ridiculous personal vendetta against me in particular, judging by this post especially - and while i’d normally be flattered, at this point it’s just plain annoying) violent evil ways, would have messaged us about it privately sooner. If that was a legitimate issue, if it was something genuinely upsetting to you or your friends and either of you would have let me know about it - I would have stopped immediately. But you clearly enjoyed making patronising posts, villainizing me and my friends for clowning in the tags in what is THE most common and signature form of tumblr humour.

Self-aggrandising? Sure lol. Again. We’re on tumblr aka the site where every single person in any given fandom is the self-proclaimed Only One Who Gets It And Is Right About It. Cliquey? I’m sorry, is having friends amongst your mutuals a crime now? Lmfao please.

As for the “isolated occurrence” - be fuckin fr right now. An unrelated post from almost a year ago that we have discussed and (apparently not) resolved in private when you messaged me about it, if you recall. So sorry but I won’t waste my time by talking about it now.

And since Sofia @verdiesque was nice and civil in her response, which you basically completely ignored, I’ll be the one doing the biting now. Say dumb shit - get mocked for it. (‘dumb shit’ is, of course, a subjective matter, so if you find my shit dumb you are more than welcome to mock me in turn - which you have, in fact, done; but i guess your mocking is fine and just, but ours is evil and immoral…???).

As for your words being ‘thrown back at you’ - i think if you threaten to kill yourself or another living creature, even jokingly, over something as inconsequential as a fucking tumblr poll, there is something genuinely wrong with you - HOW am i supposed to not mock you when you assume this patronising, holier-than-thou stance and write this exact combination of words as a response to me saying, and i quote, I WILL KICK A PUPPY INTO THE SUN. Like sorry not sorry but it’s impossible to take you seriously in such a situation, no matter how heartfelt or sincere a thought that was.

Not even gonna comment on the pirate poll argument because it’s just absurd to me, next.

(also, minor detail, but please do show me a single tag of mine under those polls where i would “threaten” any actual harm, such as pushing someone into traffic (lol&lmao), onto another person (not counting, of course, the sun-kicked puppies) - i’ve made sure to direct such jokes only at myself, just in case, for damage control, and yet. as i see that was still not enough and some delicate sensibilities were hurt anyway... Tragic really but i did all i could, oh well)

“i write them because i have thoughts and opinions and emotions and posting them is what a blog is for” GOD BLESS so do I. So maybe let’s keep it that way without absurd attempts at policing other people’s shit. Neither me nor my friends have ever tagged you or said your name publicly in any of our dark and sinister mocking posts and memes. Those who knew - knew. Those who didn’t - didn’t, end of story. 

Also the fact that THAT was the post that set you off on this crusade is beyond fucking stupid. As Sofia said, that was a joke relating to our personal history, that is known to our friends and mutuals, but does not necessarily need to be known by YOURS. Hence the turned off reblog option. Not everything is about you, girl. 

Having said all that… You are simply taking this way too seriously i think <3

@widevibratobitch @verdiesque

can y'all either @ me or block me already this is getting exhausting

[gonzo-rella]

I Will | Frenchie (ft. Jim Jimenez)

MASTERLIST | AO3 | KO-FI

Relationship(s): Frenchie x gn!reader (romantic), Jim Jimenez x Frenchie (platonic), Jim Jimenez x gn!reader (platonic)

Summary: A series of mostly unrelated vignettes loosely based on a face-value reading of I Will by Mitski; when you’re trapped aboard Blackbeard’s Revenge as part of his new crew, your relationship with Frenchie develops.

Warnings: Typical pirate things, non-sexual nudity. (Let me know if I need to add any)

Word count: 1.2k

(A/N: There’s not enough fics for Frenchie on here so I’m going to try to change that. I wouldn’t say I’m a hero but... well, what other word could you possibly use? I threw in some platonic!Jim because I can’t help but wedge platonic things into my romantic fics. I’m guessing my interpretation of what is currently known as post-canon will one day be completely disproven when season 2 comes out, but let’s forget about that because I loved writing this. I’ve been listening to the same three Mitski songs over and over (Washing Machine Heart, Nobody and, of course, I Will), despite wanting to actually explore her discography more, and I’ve even started writing an Izzy x OC fic where their dynamic is going to be kind of like those songs (though I might also write some reader-insert fics based on those bops too, since my OC fic’s going to borrow from some of the stuff I’ve written for this blog anyway). [Insert obligatory begging for OFMD requests here])

It took you a while before you fully adjusted to sleeping in a bed (specifically Oluwande’s old bed), which was partially because you shared it with Frenchie. It was made for one person, but neither of you had wanted the other to sleep on the floor (despite the fact you both were more than used to it). Though, the two of you soon realised that you quite enjoyed sharing a bed, or the sentiment of closeness that came with it.

The physical reality of sharing such a small bed was a self-conscious nightmare, at least to start with. The idea of waking the other up with one wrong toss or turn was mortifying. Somehow, though, neither of you minded when you’d wake up with the other’s arms secured around your waist, or the other’s head resting on your shoulder. It was actually quite nice. Thanks to the relatively close friendship you’d developed while aboard the Revenge, neither you nor Frenchie thought it really meant anything, until it actually started to…

That bed was where the terror of being aboard Blackbeard’s ship could melt away beneath the moonlight until the sun came up and Izzy came banging on the door. And, soon enough, it became the only certain place that you and Frenchie could explore and express these strange, new feelings that had been awakened.

━━━━━━━━━

Frenchie’s knee bounced up and down as he sat on the edge of your shared cot, which his hands were gripping tightly. He turned around to look at you once again. You were still unconscious, even hours after the raid.

He’d done everything he could: tended to the wound, wiped the grime off your face, brushed away your stray hairs. Now, you just had to wake up.

He grabbed your limp hand and stroked your knuckles with his thumb.

Jim glanced up, still sharpening their knife.

“They’re gonna be okay. Captain Bonnet survived worse, even when he wasn’t exactly built for it...”

“It’s not just that.” he sighed

Jim watched as Frenchie gazed at you worriedly.

“The Captain’s not gonna throw them overboard ‘cause of this. He won’t let Izzy do it either.” Jim insisted. “They both seem to think they’re a shit pirate, sure, but they know they’re the most efficient worker on this ship. Without Y/N, odds are this ship’d be a total shithole. That counts for something.”

Frenchie’s uncertain eyes met Jim’s.

“If they were planning on killing them, the Captain wouldn’t have bothered telling us to patch ‘em up or gave them time to recover. And, if either of them ever do plan on killing Y/N-” They twirled their knife in their hand. “I’ll sure as hell have something to say about it.”

As if on cue, you stirred, groaning as your eyes slowly opened. A sigh of relief escaped Frenchie’s nostrils, while Jim couldn’t help the small smirk that tugged at their lips.

“Frenchie?” you mumbled hoarsely. “How long was I out?”

“Most of the day.” he shakily replied. “It’s night now, so…”

You shifted in an attempt to sit up. Finally letting go of your hand, he gripped your upper arms to help you.

“I’ll go get you a drink, yeah?”

Before you could agree, he had already pecked you on the forehead and left the room.

Jim chuckled.

“Oh, hey, Jim.” you greeted weakly.

“Hey. How’re you feeling?”

“Pretty good, considering I got stabbed a few hours ago.”

They snickered.

“Eh, well, at least you get a couple days off.”

“I do? That’s suspiciously merciful.”

“Nothing to do with mercy.” Jim shrugged. “Frenchie told the Captain he’d cover for you for a few days, and the Captain decided he’d rather you get better than worse.”

You smiled to yourself.

━━━━━━━━━

“You really don’t have to do this.” you muttered as Frenchie rolled up his sleeves again.

“I know.”

His fingers gently combed through your damp hair as he knelt behind the bathtub that neither of you had ever really been able to fit into in all your time aboard the Revenge.

You rolled your head back slightly beneath Frenchie’s soothing touch, a quiet sigh escaping your lips. You couldn’t help but shudder when your exposed, water-soaked skin brushed against the cool night air that had seeped below deck into the room Stede once generously referred to as the ‘state of the art ensuite’. It didn’t help that the bathwater was already lukewarm, having already been used by Jim (who had long since retired to bed) and Frenchie; Captain Blackbeard had decided that if the three of you could share a cabin, then you could also share bathwater.

“You alright?” he asked softly.

“Yeah. Just a bit cold is all. I’ll live.” you answered lightly.

He chuckled weakly. The comfortable silence that followed wrapped around you like a blanket.

After five or so minutes, he reached for the (also shared) towel that had been discarded on the floor not long ago and gently ran it over and through your hair, but he soon paused.

“Not being too rough, am I, dear?”

You grinned and suppressed a giggle at his endearing sincerity. It felt as though you were being tickled by a swarm of cliche butterflies in your stomach.

“No, love.” you assured him. “Feels quite nice, actually.”

You turned your head to face him (a manoeuvre that proved difficult and painful in your narrow, metallic container).

“Thank you.”

After a moment of hesitation, you placed a hand on his cheek and stroked it with your thumb, then leaned backwards to press a quick kiss to his forehead. You turned back around before you could see his smile. 

He continued to wipe away the moisture from your hair until it was dry enough.

“There.” he declared as he finished.

He rose to his feet, draped the towel over his arm and, having made his way around to the front of the tub, extended his hand to help you out of the tub. As you stood up, he averted his gaze and handed you the towel.

You scrubbed your wet skin with the towel.

“You don’t have to look away, you know.” you stated. “I mean, you can, if you want. Just don’t feel like you have to for my sake, is all I’m saying.”

He glanced over at you, keeping his eyes on your face. You smiled at him, and he shyly returned it.

“Could you pass me my clothes, love?”

“Yeah, sure.” he nodded. 

He crouched down, gathered the pile of your clothes on the floor and held them out to you. The towel fell to the floor and you grabbed them from him.

“Cheers.”

After you had tugged on your clothes, Frenchie held the door open for you. You bowed at him jokingly and he chuckled. Making sure no one was around, you pressed a quick kiss to Frenchie’s cheek, grabbed his hand and led him back to your shared quarters. It took a moment for his awestruck expression to be replaced with a grin.

━━━━━━━━━

Frenchie wrapped his arms around your waist as he pulled you closer to him.

“Night, darling.” he whispered.

Carefully, you rolled over in his arms and looked at him with a smile.

“Night, love.”

You reached up and cupped his cheeks, pressing a quick kiss to his lips. He grinned. You then lowered your hands, slid your arms around his torso and burrowed your face into his chest. Absently, he stroked your hair and kissed the top of your head.

Both of you drifted off to sleep with the same small hope: one day, you’d be able to share your love, without worry, outside of this bed.

[not-alien-girl-v]

Evans Height HCs

ok so i usually don’t do this but i’ve seen posts about this before and they only really rank the evans in height from tallest to shortest so today i’m giving actual heights that i headcanon let’s get started

Tate: ok he is cocky but not like an over 6 foot type cocky, but also not like a 5’5 kind of cocky, so i’m giving him a fair 5’10, only an inch shorter than evan actually is so it seems alright, because like he’s confident, but not in a super tall guy kind of way

Kit: i’m feeling like a solid 6’0 maybe even 6’1 if i’m being generous and i think he somewhat enjoys his height like he doesn’t try to make it his whole personality or anything but he’s comfortable in the fact that in some cases he can tower over people and in some cases he’s only just a little bit taller than others, but in general he’s a really confident guy so i feel like it’s just not something he’s ever concerned himself too much with

Frat Kyle: something about being a frat boy just screams 5’9 to me but in a negative way. like i mean this as an insult to frat boys, even though i love kyle with my whole heart, he is definitely not over 6’0 and i think he’d lie about his height just a little bit like he’d say 5’10 maybe 5’11 just to impress people a little bit. just don’t break out the tape measurer or else words will be had

Franken Kyle: now hear me out on this. he was given a new body. like completely new shit. madison and zoe did not know who the fuck they were putting together, they just saw a handsome face and ran with it. 6’1. i think something in the reconstruction gave him a few extra inches and it would really help sell the whole murderous monster thing to be taller than 5’9. i don’t know i just think it could happen

Jimmy: i think he’s 5’11. because i feel like we were sold the whole ‘other than his hands he is the most attractive man’ and i think that includes him not being super short or super tall. he’s a little on the taller side but just like. not all the way up there with it

James: bless his soul but this man is just a little guy. not like SUPER small. but he is probably 5’8 or 5’7. and let’s be real does it even matter id still smash no questions asked. but he just isn’t very large. hope you all feel these vibes. once again he has that confidence and he puts together his look very nicely and that’s what pulls all his bitches so it does not matter what his height is but let’s be real. 5’8 at the most

Rory: never seen this season. someone on tiktok assigned this season to my zodiac sign (aries) and that pissed me off so i’m giving him 5’6. deal with it. fuck gingers

Kai: i know a lot of people say this and that’s because it’s correct but kai is the tallest. like he is giving TALL energy. like 6’4 at least maybe even 6’5. and hear me out on this so precult he was just this weird nerd incel thing and he had the potential to be hot he just wasn’t doing that yet. have you guys met nerds in real life. some of them get pretty big i can speak from personal experience also it totally works out with his intimidation tough guy thing, just being an absolute mountain of a man, i’d be scared but id still smash

Mr. Gallant: twink. 5’7. let’s move on

Jeff: 5’6. shortest evan and it’s so obvious. he gives off little man vibes. i know i said some nerds can get kinda huge but he is not one of them. little man. let’s move on

*moment of silence for the lack of evan peters in 1984*

Austin: 5’8. he’s comfy with it. he’s cool. it’s no big deal and it’s just not his biggest concern in any way. unrelated but does anyone remember when he said ‘i’m hungies 🥺’ that ruined me. i can never forgive austin for that.

[esther-dot]

"Foreshadowings are hardly ever direct in ASOIAF". Agree and disagree with OP. I like that ASoIaF is a meditation on the exercise of power, but Martin truly spells out what will be written, it's not all symbolism. I think OP discards that Jon sacrifices since chapter 1 and until his last ADWD chapter. He must have a real reward for what he's done so far, not just "exile". Otherwise it feels hollow and one more sacrifice will not make it feel better or less bitter.

(about this reblog)

There’s a quote from Martin’s editor who says he foreshadows things three times, each more directly than the previous one. I can’t find the original source rn, but here’s a thread on Reddit about it and the person who posted is arguing a certain interpretation of their selected foreshadowing and others disagree (link) which just goes to show that what people perceive as foreshadowing is different and even if we agree it’s foreshadowing we may interpret it differently.

This disagreement about what certain lines mean isn’t a phenomenon strictly in other parts of the fandom. I’ve been active enough here, in our own corner, to observe bloggers completely reverse themselves and change their minds about things. It simply isn’t the case that we actually know, with certainty, how things will happen. Our thoughts and spec evolve as they should. Now that King Bran is confirmed as a Martin thing, it’s pointless to continue to speculate about endings that don’t include that. I am glad our fandom embraced that revelation and tried to find the foreshadowing for that and has tried to understand what it means about Martin’s themes and what he’s trying to say. What a waste to do otherwise! But, only a handful of people, and none of them the popular bloggers in our circle, predicted King Bran. SO, I think it’s beneficial to always remember: we didn’t know.

I read countless meta with foreshadowing for X to end up on the throne, and it was all wrong. That doesn’t matter, it doesn’t mean anything bad about the blogger, even Martin doesn’t know exactly how he will get to certain plot points, so I can’t expect fans to predict it completely accurately. After a thing has happened in the books we can look back and say “this was foreshadowing for X” but since we’re still waiting on that ending, what we have are interpretations, some better/more compelling than others, but all working theories. I have looked at things and known that I could make an argument about how to interpret it as foreshadowing for contradictory things. I have actually done that, in one post said, “well, here’s one reading of that” and later, “here’s a different reading.” That’s just the nature of literary criticism. So, I try to be open-minded when presented with an argument for something that’s within reason.

That all may seem so general it feels unrelated to your message, but that’s the context in which I engage with other Sansa fans/Jonsas. I don’t reblog because I am totally convinced or want it to go that way, I reblog because I want to support people with similar-ish views of the series/characters to create. We give ourselves the space to allow our perception and theories to evolve, we should offer that same space to the next person.

All that being said, I agree with you that I would not find Jon sacrificing yet again without a reward to be a satisfying ending. I certainly wouldn’t write that, but OP wasn’t ignoring that Jon does sacrifice, they noticed that Martin had written that into the story and thought, well, if he does it with the direwolves, it makes sense that that’s foreshadowing for Jon to discount himself as a Stark to protect their birthrights and lo and behold, he rejects Winterfell for Sansa. The fact that he gave up his trout for Bran then looks like very clear foreshadowing for him to deny his claim for the Targ throne in favor of placing Bran on the throne.

Obviously, we want all of this to culminate in a reward for Jon. He gets a direwolf, after all! But it isn’t the fault of the theorist if their honest conclusion is that Martin isn’t foreshadowing that Jon will ultimately be rewarded. Because, Jon rejects Winterfell when Stannis offers it, and his reward may be his siblings supporting his claim via Robb’s Will and the Northern Lords embracing him as KitN. That could be the direwolf, but we know the story doesn’t end there. We have the whole parentage reveal/love v duty thing/bending the knee/Dany issue that will potentially follow, and I’ve mentioned before, that I don’t see how Jon/the North accepts his legitimization as a Stark and then turn around and accepts he’s a Targ allowing for a Jonsa marriage. So, is the reward Jon being KitN for a brief spell, or will he refuse again, not become KitN which allows for a happy ending? I really don’t know how that shakes out because there is a lot of king stuff around Jon, but those kind of considerations are why we might look at some foreshadowing, agree it is foreshadowing, but then come to different conclusions. There is a A LOT of story left, so it’s hard to say.

I haven’t reread to create my own trail of foreshadowing to argue a specific ending, I feel like Martin will not give Jon a HEA, but I still engage with bloggers who argue that he will and reblog their meta because it’s quite possible they, you, are right. I would be very happy if it were true! However, something to remember is that Martin isn’t writing this story to give certain characters nice or bad endings. He’s talking about certain ideas and as part of that, horrible things happen to characters we love and some of them may not have a good ending. The OP wrote a followup post with additional elements to the ending that would tie it to things in AGOT, and they’ve reblogged the more popular HEA spec for Jon, so maybe they (and I) will evolve our thinking in time, but I think in that discussion of power that Martin is having with us, it’s very possible he thinks there is a time for war/violence because certain people in power can’t remain in power, but that those who engage in certain acts will not be rewarded with the world those acts made possible. That’s the Arya Frodo-ing ending that again, few of us saw coming, but now we accept.

Basically, I can look at the same words and argue two different meanings, so I can certainly understand why a whole other person comes to a different conclusion than me. It doesn’t mean they’re discarding something. And, even if we don’t agree, as long as it’s a reasonable thought, similar-ish to my own sensibilities, I only benefit from engaging with it. It contributes to my own thinking, it encourages people to engage with our fandom who might not otherwise, it allows our little group of like-minded fans to expand.

Now, what I really want is an example of the foreshadowing you describe, anon! You mentioned that it isn’t all symbolism, that “Martin truly spells out what will be written” and I’d love to hear how you connect a few passages of foreshadowing with the event itself.