#one on top of so many that they share

[simplydnp]

The Dan in the Shrek shirt and hat is giving “we were being silly and soft still in our pjs in the hotel room” vibes like he looks like he just woke up 😭🥺

lightly tousled for sure. a lil squinty a little flirty a little ruffled. definitely part of how they recovered from jet lag

[mercurymacaroons]

arrives 15 min late with a latte

......sup

[foolsocracy]

I love your Garth drawings so much!!! I hope you never lose joy in art!

:,,,,,,,] you’re too kind im glad u like them!! I too hope I never lose joy in art!

[mark-the-snark]

Behold:

Harry du Bois if he was in ace attorney! Maybe I'll make Kim sometime.

[littlehatmouse]

lots of doodles because i forget to post art here most of the time

[unknownarmageddon]

share ur playlists boy i’d like to analyze the lyrics

YESSIR 🫡 here’s the apocalypse au one first. i’ve like analyzed all these songs so much so im super happy to share them with you

[ilovedthestars]

accidentally clicked "unfollow" when I meant to click "ask" oops. However: Follow up fic! Follow up to what? Intriguing. Mysterious

(Writer Ask Game)

Ha, I almost added the title of the larger folder this one was in to make it more clear, then decided the mystery was more fun. It's the Yuma and Crowbar follow up!

Picks up pretty much immediately after the end of Salvage or Repair, and follows their journey back to Preservation. It started out mostly as an excuse to stick Yuma and Crowbar and Niri in a spaceship together and have them talk about stuff—to give space to all those follow up questions that Yuma has that would have distracted from the emotional reunion in the first fic.

But then at some point I had the idea to mash it up with one of the (many, many) random snippets of Yuma fixing up other traumatized rogue SecUnits that I'd been writing. So now there's more drama and another very recently rogue SecUnit in the mix, plus another human, and they have a lot more Talking About Stuff as a result.

Honestly the thread running through the fic is Yuma beginning to understand what being a SecUnit really means. What Crowbar and Niri and this other new SecUnit (and, in the current and most angsty version, the other unit it escaped with, who didn't make it far enough to be rescued) have had to go through, in their lives and their escape. And the process of her committing herself to a) a real ongoing friendship with Crowbar, and b) doing something to help all of these people who she can now truly understand are suffering.

It's a fun fic! I like it! It's the kind of wip that's got like a million different alternate version of certain scenes and will be hard to clean up to a final version, but a solid chunk of it is written and I do like the Emotions.

Under the cut, have a snip of (very unedited) dialogue between Yuma and Crowbar!

[I tend to write a lot of talking head dialogue and fill in actions/details later, which is what most of the brackets are for. Consider them placeholders for pauses/dialogue tags]

“Crowbar,” she says softly. “Yes?” “Would you have tried to run? If you could?” It looks back over at the other SecUnit, and sighs. “If I’d figured out how to hack my governor module myself? If I had a way out of the mining belt? If I found the perfect opening? That’s a lot of ifs.” [] “I don’t know. It takes a lot of courage to do something like that. And it takes…believing that there’s even something better out there.” [...] “I’m lucky that I got in the way of a [mining equipment]. I’m lucky that they sold me off for salvage. Otherwise I never would have met you.” [] “I don’t think I would have ever had the chance to run. I would have died in that mine, sooner or later.” “Is it like that for all of you?” “We get sent on different kinds of contracts. I’ve met units who were rented out with planetary exploration equipment, or bought as personal security, or used for [corporate subterfuge]. And there are ComfortUnits and CombatUnits, with their own kinds of contracts. But, yeah. There’s not really a good way to be equipment. It’s all terrible, one way or another.” “And if you try to run—” “Then we’re dangerous, unsecured weapons.” “That’s not right.” [] “Not that you need me to tell you that.” “It took me a long time to realize it. That was all I ever knew. I’m still getting used to the idea that I can have something else.”

[twilight-deviant]

"Let's Not Pretend (To Be New Men)" is such a FiskMatt Born Again song to me.

You can change your shirt Scrape off the grime and the dirt Walk by the mirrors, don't look at yourself And pull all your sinister ways from the shelf 'Cause you did what you did And you did it so well Say that you won't, but you'll do it again If they could not trust you before Then they won't trust you now So don't repent Don't be sorry now for your sins And let's not pretend to be new men

I weep over the raw and unrealized potential of Fisk and Matt trying to be the "better version" of themselves and inevitably failing. BA didn't go hard enough with pushing how desperate they were to not revert. There were a few scenes of frustration and surrender, but I'm saying we needed deep, aching themes of earnest resistance and melancholic regret. We needed longer, lingering scenes of them deliberating over these choices, and then bargaining with themselves that it was a "one time thing" when they failed. We needed compounding consequences every time they stumbled, until they felt trapped in a corner by their own actions, no way out but through. Coming back into their own should have felt less like a writing conclusion (A to B) and more like an unavoidable prophecy, a quicksand trap they were always going to fall into, despite fighting every descent. Again, I know they wrote some moments for this, but it was all about the factual "this action is happening," not the emotional fallout. The human agony of losing (to themselves) is so glossed over, if it's brought up at all. (Especially for Fisk.)

Fisk and Matt are weak men who couldn't keep a promise to themselves, let alone loved ones. But their becomings are portrayed as a position of strength at the end. No, it's utter failure.

They failed.

I do also think another good/dark direction would have been if the audience were made aware of other options they had at every turn, but Fisk and Matt lie to themselves because they don't want to see those. They want to be their true selves again and therefore develop tunnel vision against every better choice.

[neonacidtrip]

“ And it hurts so much! Life is suffering. It is hard! The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep on living." ... "I don't regret a thing, you know. I don't regret the struggles. I don't regret the hardships. The pain. The sorrow. And I've seen so much of it! But still. I don't regret what I've done or how I've lived my life. I just wish the world had been a better place. A better place for them, for us... But surely, a better place for you, my dear." ... "I feel like a vast vessel, with so many dusty rooms and cabins... I have so many of them... So many memories... Some of them are gone, but some of them... Some of them will live on forever. In you, in others. ”

- Astrid, Spiritfarer Farewell Edition

[impossible-rat-babies]

obssessed with the suite eyrie has in radz-at/han that I’m building in my mind

[lizbethborden]

I think the whole Dutch Boat Guy thing in Ted Lasso was maybe supposed to be about Rebecca opening herself up to spontaneous experiences, and being more comfortable letting someone be affectionate and take care of her, but it came off sooooooooooooo creepy. She's literally stuck in this man's living space without any of her own clothes and he's trying to give her alcohol and touch her. He literally puts a band-aid on a scratch for her and kisses it, then is like "oh it's just instinct because I have a young daughter." He literally gives her his ex-wife's clothes to wear. He's like a whole 50-year-old man and he has a complete stranger trapped in his home with him. It's just another example of the way TL is incredibly condescending toward Rebecca in her character journey. She has to be talked down to and taught a lesson and humbled, under the pretense of showing her kindness and affection.

[theradicalace]

i hate going through art slumps so much. like wdym i barely want to draw and i don't like anything i make and i get radio silence from half the places i share my art to these days and and and

[ghost-proofbaby]

"you tell me you love me like it'll be the last time, like you're playing out the end of a storyline."

[eiko-chatter]

🍓?

The ways you approach life (with kindness and thoughtfulness and curiosity) have always been inspiring to me - a lot of the growth I am proudest of is the ways in which I have intentionally become more like you. You're a wonderful person, and I'm so glad I get to know you.

[pumpking64]

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[kingofdorkville]

i refuse to believe that you aren't meant to be ogling dean a little in a good chunk of his movies