#only skimmed a little

[andyling]

that moment when you accidentally read a 177,384 word fic in like 3 hours because you started reading it and got too invested and didn't look at the word count until you finished the entire fic crazy how that can happen lmao

[shantechni]

A short compilation I made of Mikey successfully (and unsuccessfully) ending arguments between Leo and Raph.

[twisting-in-wonderland]

let! him! have! his! octopus! plush! >:[

(messy extra stuff----)

meanwhile,back at NRC:

(+ here’s a WIP >:] )

[bumblingbabooshka]

The worst trope in the universe is when someone accuses character A, who is part of a real or fantasy or coded minority, of doing something bad and everyone's like "That's just your prejudice against [real or fantasy minority]!" and it turns out character A actually did do that bad thing and everyone else was stupid for not believing they did that bad thing.

[skrunksthatwunk]

kinda thinking about how the women who serve as maternal figures/raise kids in yyh are never quite ready for it. genkai's an arguable exception, but like.. atsuko had yusuke at 15, shizuru's basically in charge of kazuma full time in her early 20s/late teens (depending on version) with very very absent parents, and even shiori is given a kid she wasn't expecting, in the form of an old, old demon rather than like. a regular, blank slate ass human baby. and although shiori seems to do quite well with kurama, kurama can never be honest with shiori about who he is, or much of what he's seen. if he was, it'd probably make things far more complicated and overwhelming. atsuko, no matter how much she cares for yusuke, Could Not Have Been and thus wasn't ready to have him at 15. her attempts to make the most of that situation have had middling success at best. shizuru has also been placed into a parental role. we don't really know how long she's been raising kuwabara, but that's.. probably still parentification anyway. she shouldn't have to do that, and she shouldn't have to do that so young. and i think some of her coarseness with kuwa is out of frustration with her own inexperience + inadequacy + uncertainty, his not cooperating, and their parents for putting this on her in the first place. the ones who know the full extent of their situation grow desperate and it squeaks out in unpleasant ways, and the one who seems unbothered by it is the only one who has no idea that she's in way over her head. and i mean. ok. gonna preface this by saying keiko is NOT yusuke's mom in any sense of the word. but she does take care of him in a way atsuko couldn't manage to. she's often looking after him and cleaning up after his messes and stuff. she takes him on as a responsibility, and that is, in a way, a caretaker role. not to say that it SHOULD be her responsibility, but it's how she ends up being.

and when the stress of trying to make someone take care of themselves or be kind or good or Whatever goes awry, again, the violence and arguing and distance and ugliness of caring for someone reveals itself.

and i wonder about that. for a series dedicated to physical fighting as a form of communication, what does it say that this extends to the complicated, quietly desperate situations of so many of the women/girls it depicts, whom our more central characters were shaped and raised by?

hell, even hiei touches on this, because hina loved hiei, but there was no way she was prepared for him, obviously, nor for the pain of losing him. rui (whom i also see as a sort of caretaker figure to hiei, inasmuch as either of them were caretakers) literally throws him off a cliff because she couldn't face down the village elders, and out of some mixture of care for hina and, likely, fear for her own survival. and the guilt and pain of that killed hina and deeply wounded rui.

it's like motherhood, this thing that's so often treated as sacred and beautiful, is a kind of stitched up, painful, eggshell-walking thing that hurts parent and child and it's just. oughh

[hajihiko]

for commissions, do you accept a written description as reference when doing oc art?

Ummmmmm i guess yeah, but it'll make the progress take a bit longer and I might need to ask a Lot of questions

[mrschwartz]

Seth Meyers and The Lonely Island talking about when Arctic Monkeys were the musical guest at SNL in 2006

(bonus)

[3gremlins]

glad to hear that dwarf rooks won't be mike wazowski'd out of every cutscene by the camera in DA:TV like they were in inquisition XD

(likewise qunaris won't be beheaded by the camera in the other direction)

[y-rhywbeth2]

'From region to region of the Realms Common may have different accents and slightly different vocabularies, influenced by other local human and nonhuman tongues. While a native of Thay will be able to communicate with a denizen of Baldur's Gate, each will be aware of the others' ridiculous accent.' - Cyclopaedia of the Realms

I find myself wondering what a Baldurian vs Thayan accent sounds like. I know it's not supposed to sound one-for-one like a real world accent, so that makes it rather hard to imagine.

Also there are other pidgin trade-tongues. 'Elvish,' 'dwarvish' and other non-human languages may technically just be their variations of common, as the various demihuman cultures all have different accents and linguistic drifts.

[serpercival]

Honestly I think my problem with this back half of Mating Habits (everything after the flashback sequence) has been that it's just. samey? Like yes there's character development and whatnot but thanks to the way it's structured as a 5+1 where necessarily all the same shit is happening in every section it has started to lose its luster. Glad y'all are liking it and she is still my passion project and my baby but good god I'm both scared to be done with her and will be glad about it when I am

[kindheartedgummybears]

"I wanna know more about the hoa vampires" "I wanna know more about hector" "I wanna know more about *smgs mystery*"

BITCH I WANNA KNOW MORE ABOUT HER

[the-acid-pear]

THIS IS SO DAVETRAP.

[heartvisor]

[skimmingmilk]

Sometimes I think about the fact that when tails was certain he's going to die in ' no cracks in a closed loop ' the thing he wanted to tell his brother the most was I'm sorry instead of what anyone would normally say like I love you or something,

Sometimes I think about that and I want to cry, poor guy has so much guilt in him.

Nonetheless, it's a detail I absolutely love in that fic cuz it feels so natural, it feels like him in the most painful fitting way

Amazing works, hope the moving thing works out for you <3

Oh, Tails wanted to say "I love you" so much. He wanted to say "thank you for everything," but it wouldn't come close to encompassing the depth of his gratitude, no matter how true it was, even if it all lead to this.

He wanted to tell him to keep running, to not look back, and let his memories of him be good ones. If Tails couldn't be there for Sonic in person anymore, then at least in memory he could be a comfort to him and still brighten his life.

He wanted to tell him that this wasn't his fault. That Tails was eleven now, too old and too capable to be Sonic's responsibility anymore.

He wanted to tell him he was scared. He wanted Sonic's voice telling him not to worry to be the last thing he heard.

He wanted to tell him everything would be okay, so Sonic wouldn't be scared either.

But he didn't have time for all that. And he was so sorry that he couldn't tell Sonic everything he deserved to hear. That he couldn't be as fast as him. That he couldn't defy the odds on his own. That it was over.

That in the end he was leaving him, when he'd promised all he wanted was to stay.

So "I'm sorry," slipped out first, because he was. "I love you" would've been next, but it was over before he could tell him.

[unluckyxse7en]

I keep having dreams about finding toys and the like that I really want these last couple nights... It makes me want to set up a visual library of a wishlist once I have regular internet again. I'm sure it's a waste of time and also computer space, but then that way when I want to look at my wishlist, look up a toy name bc I forgot etc without being directly tempted to spend money, I can just Do So (as opposed to shopping site wishlists).

Plus if I'm honest... I'm kind of a jpeg collector type of guy, so it just makes sense to do. < grew up on collecting pokemon cards

[snailfen]

id say "you poor oblivious child" but the words "rot!moon au" are in the post itself, so