#of which I apparently fail at

[rabbitdarling]

Can you call my smut fic a smut fic if by 8k there is still no actual smut to be had? Sure there's some groping and some kissing but smut smut? Nahhh, homeboy is too busy staring in awe at his lady love to get down an dirty with her.

Also, this was supposed to be a sex-pollen fic, and all that did was just bring down inhibition, just a tad for homeboy to be more forwards. So yeah, I somehow managed to fail at writing Sex-pollen smut.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[thegreatyin]

sometimes i almost wish i was interested in more mainstream things so i could spectate insane fandom discourse like a gossipy neighbor watching a couple fight with little binoculars by her windowsill. like i hate participating in the thing myself but i love reading about the drama of it all, y'know

[moeblob]

[i-make-fun-of-spn-characters]

Take my "How much of an eeeevil hardcore stan are you" uquiz

According to MEEEEEEEEE

[layalu]

you've never seen a less impressed wilder...............

[redbootsindoriath]

Apparently in my absence this post had its 1000-notes-iversary.

This time we get to see the culprit responsible for ruining our heroes' lives as well.

I've really missed you guys, by the way. I know I've said that already, but I'm serious. Once or twice this year I've been right on the brink of coming back but schedule stuff always keeps me from letting myself commit to that again, and that in turn has kept me from posting anything at all. But I've been in an unexpected drawing mood lately and so if I can get enough stuff to set up a queue we might pretend I'm back for a month or so sometime this year. Maybe. Hopefully. We'll see. No promises though. That's why I'm hiding this paragraph under the cut.

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[Beren:] "Uhhh...barkeep...I think he's had enough now..." [Tolkien:] "No, I don't think he has...!"

[worstloki]

something very horrifying about the concept of Thor but not Loki being told that Loki is Jotun when the brothers are old enough to understand the importance of the secret

[fearandhatred]

aziraphale: i bought a bookshop

crowley: that's so bookshop buying core

[rederiswrites]

Slavic Anderfels inspiration.

Sources linked in images where I have them.

[keeps-ache]

there is nothing that will grow your ego faster than a little dog following you around instead listening of anyone else. my puppy now

[the-hilda-librarians-wife]

Going buckwild at the way Hilda The Series portrays adulthood and loneliness. Kaisa has no one to go to to ask for help getting the due book back, even though all it would take was someone she could minimally ask to knock on an elderly lady’s door and ask for a favour; she’s in the library after hours, is shown to have no allies aside from the woman who raised her and who she lost contact with. Johanna is only ever seen working or caring for Hilda, and her lack of a life aside from those two activities is pointed out by her own daughter when she thinks that this is going so far as to affect their relationship. The bell keeper lives alone in a small cabin on the edge of town, barely within city limits and away from everyone, a house barely even inhabitable and clearly only a place to sleep and eat. He works a solitary job and he’s the only one in the town still working it, meaning he’s probably overworked and forced to pull inhumanly long shifts. Victoria hyperfocused so hard on her projects that whatever friends she had before - and she must have had some from college time at least - lost contact with her, and she never made any other connections in Trolberg, anything that would tie her to the city and it’s inhabitants and make it so it wasn’t worth it to live by herself at the top of a hill. Even when that was over, she still chose to isolate herself somewhere abandoned and keep what was essentially another machine she’d built as her source of company, something she could understand and control instead of an unpredictable human being. Gerda works a job she likes but is shown to be disregarded by the person she works the most around, her abilities and intellect thrown aside for the good of someone she has to bear because of a hierarchy she was forced to accept in order to keep working. She’s appreciated by the town, but other than the main characters, we don’t see anyone paying her any mind when they don’t need something from her.

Meanwhile no kid has ever been alone in Trolberg. The mean kids are a group, the good kids are a group, even the gloomy teenage girls are a group. One of nightmare inducing entities, but a group nonetheless. All children in that world seem to operate on a ‘no man left behind’ code, looking out for each other even if they aren’t exactly fans of one another, helping even grown ups without asking why and working together. And this logic seems to extend to the adults who work around children too; especially the Raven Leader, who we see that through the children works as a vital part of the community and a way through which it comes together.

This isn’t very articulate but do you see the point? Do you see how clever that is? That a show about growing up has these themes? You can be magical, kind, strong, intelligent, competent, but none of that will make you truly happy if you don’t keep the most important thing from childhood? If you don’t keep your friendships, your bonds, something to tie you down to your reality and your community? The adults in the show all made their choices, and it’s okay to want to be alone, we all need it and some more than others (this is coming from someone who needs it a lot), but isolating yourself completely is the one thing that will make growing pains truly painful. I’m just so emotional over it. It’s so subtle and so clever considering the whole Mountain King plot that Hilda is willing to change species because she feels detached from her main relationships and surroundings. I love this show so much.

[littlehollyleaf]

OK I have questions...

1. It used to be canon that not all Gallifrians regenerate. Only those who graduated from the Academy were granted the ability and they limited it to 12 because of Reasons. That was A Thing, right? I'm not making that up? So I always assumed Susan didn't have the ability... are we just retconing that whole canon now? Did the Timeless Child plot change it? Or is the Doctor just assuming Susan specifically will have inherited his Timeless Child endless regenerating ability?

2. Sutekh was not an Actual God in Classic Who. I just rewatched Pyramids of Mars and everything - there's all that talk about the alien race of Osirans, who were powerful yes and had strong psychic ability, but they were ultimately 'just' aliens. Like... they weren't Toymaker and/or Guardian level beings I thought. They couldn't reshape reality. But... has Sutekh BECOME supernatural now, due to whatever the casting salt nonsense was? Is that the implication? Or are they still just super psychic and have been manipulating people/events that way?

3. Sutekh gives a whole crazy List of All The Gods. This is what the Doctor casually referred to as the Pantheon a few eps back I assume. But, again, this was never A Thing before, right? The beings referenced, or the ones known in DW mythology, were entirely UNCONNECTED aliens/entities up until now, right? Just wanting to check there's not canon (or EU canon?) I'm missing here... because if there are existing stories out there combining Sutekh, the Toymaker and THE MARA, then frankly I.Want.Them. So spill for me fandom if I'm missing out pls!

(4. I'm fucking lazy - who has a full written list of this Pantheon pls? How many more of the names have been tracked back to Classic villains already? Can one of them be Ragnarok? (is that why Fifteen name checked them specifically in The Giggle?!) Fenric? The Daemons? The Time Monster? I mean... if the Mara is in there, there's scope for just slapping ANY Classic monster that is vaguely religious/mythological/philosophical/godlike under this umbrella surely? What about Omega even? WERE ANY OF THEM APPLICABLE TO THE BLACK AND WHITE GUARDIANS PLSPLSPLS I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE TOYMAKER KILLED THEM RTD I REFUSE!)

[glorious-blackout]

Spotted in Kippford, Scotland 🇵🇸

[multishipperbish]

i'm not dead, just overwhelmed by school work

[metamatar]

i dont know if i'm actually feeling it or it is just a refracted experience thru a hall of american hegemonic cultural mirrors but i have speed run spend holidays with conservative family in suburbia in 3 months and i want out