#paging Bliss

[chargetheintruder]

A pointless gift, and no one will see it.

Fair warning: cringe and/or wrassle gibberish incoming (it is all very oblique and such, though).

Meditate for a few minutes on these words. Why yes, I DO know who needs to see this, but she most likely won't. Because first impressions are a thing and I'm bad at them lately, thanks to my bad health. But take some time and imagine what I'm saying below.

Broken things. Broken promises. Abandoned places. Remembered places.

These are the wages of the times we live in. This is the 21st century for you--this is the literal future we once dreamed of. Well sure, but nobody said this would be the century where it all ends, right.

Malls, stores, libraries, playgrounds, neighborhoods, post offices, diners, movie theaters, swimming pools and ice cream places only open for the summer. Everything ends.

But it doesn't just end. It all gets taken away. And the world becomes less, thanks to those who show up and do the least.

This isn't about them though. Too much is about them as it is.

This is about the memory, the memory of the Earth. How lost places become familiar and liminal. How any abandoned place becomes EVERY remembered place.

This is what Lore is made of. This is where you go to find your own lore. Some are rich in it but everyone who makes it to the stage, who is in the arena of life, everyone has something that can be lore.

The ancients once said, in a fit of sarcasm, "Sure, the vertex is the vortex, I guess." Meaning the highest peak is the lowest of the void. But, here is what the ancients of Rome couldn't have guessed: The highest mountains literally DO grow from the bottom of the ocean, to form islands.

What I am saying is? You have your own Great Mountain within you. It is simply harder to see because you aren't in the lowest point where it grows from yet. You've been there without understanding it. You've been in the Uncanny Valley without understanding it as a place, not just a description.

Find your understudy, and then find your liminal, remembered place. Find the place that stands for the abandoned heart of you, that signifies it. I could point you at some things, but they would be MY ideas, not yours.

*lol* =)) Okay, that was geeky and oblique. Maybe a bit condescending too, my apologies. Here's the short version: If you made a stable tomorrow and called it "the Uncanny Valley" and had regular glittery tea parties in a creepy but well-lit abandoned mall somewhere nearby in Florida? I wouldn't be mad. :) I'd get what you were doing--making some damned lore, even if it looks superficially like you're rehashing The Judgement Day Backwards and Upside Down. I covered the upside down part, but the backwards bit? You start with 1 or 2 others--Gigi Dolin and Valentina Feroz, for example--and at first it's just Twisted Bliss and Friends, versus Auntie Angry and Her Nexus Nieces. It starts casual and only gets spooky once you realize Uncle Howdy is a Short Bitch, and that you and yours can kick his ass directly, with or without the spooky shit. =))

[isthemedia]

Mini idea I may draw or write sometime.

Wade has his “days” where he just sorta is hunkered under the blankets. Doesn’t come out or anything. It’s a combination of his cancer, that his brain won’t shut-up, and just everything feels like static.

Vanessa explains to Logan that he’s not necessarily irritable like this, just he doesn’t really want do much. She also shows that there’s the “yoink area”-demonstrating it by setting some snacks in said area for Wade to just snatch and bring under the blankets.

Logan gets use to this and feels like it’s the least he can do since Wade is always ready to help when he has to deal with his nightmares.

Insert one time, Logan sitting on said bed during one of those moods. Vanessa and Laura over talking and to check on Wade. Only for Logan to lean back juuuust enough into yoinking range-

And with no hesitation Wade tries to drag him under.

Laura and Vanessa cracking up at it cause it happened so fast and a quick “I forgot!” from Logan as he pulled under.

[dailyplanetmedia]

Repost/thealexabase IG

[blissful-thinker]

Now what could be so interesting that’s keeping Karen distracted from work?

My illustration of Karen Page for “The Cards Without Fear”, a collaborative fan project organized by @amazing-spiderling!

The project consists of over 30 cards that feature fan-favorite Daredevil characters, heroes and villains alike! It comes as a regular set or if you’re feeling a bit fancy, a holographic set too. All proceeds will be going to the ACLU!

Pre-orders close on January 2nd and you can get a set right here!

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[earthmoonz]

🌍BLISS | slice of life gp 💖

follow grade school teacher bliss as she navigates the highs and lows of being an all around lover girl!

[recent / start]

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

Alright, that’s the last of my Halloween themed posts. Happy Halloween everyone!

[ryllen]

Sobbing, instead of studying I translated more of doujin page from the same artist, linking 2 more, with (shorter) summary,

this one is about trey who actually acts normal not because he wants normality, but because he feels like he has to be normal (like trauma after getting riddle into trouble), but then jade sense that side of him, and somewhat be like, it's okay not to be normal and it release tensions from trey's shoulders fhsdh when they started dating, trey kept finding himself in trouble that jade brought upon them (schoolmates suddenly wants to get into battle because they have some kind of beef on jade) when cater said, u like normal right? why are u going out with him? trey said, i don't actually dislike it (the trouble) (yea because he is actually not normal)

when azul said, jade why are u going out with trey, he seems too normal? jade be like, no he is not normal at all, trey knows there's someone behind the bench (i hope someone saved them after fshd but then there were ants, ants go for dead bodies, is he ded for real? fshdh BUT WAIT, it was raining, ANTS WON'T COME OUT WHEN IT RAINS, hey! hey!!! AUTHOR!!) but he still gave jade the umbrella calmly in conclusion, TOTES NOT NORMAL! Jade said.

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this one is about riddle becoming best friend with jade, and their unique relationship also bits of riddle realizing jade has feeling for trey and bits of floyd just started to think he likes riddle, and they all help each other (yippie!)

the writing is also in depth & brilliant, but i especially love page 61-64 where jade gave reasoning to trey not to tied himself forever on the trauma of putting riddle into trouble back then that he deserves to be happy himself when trey said "i wish i can do something for riddle" jade replied "riddle wasn't someone that only you could save." "of course it doesn't have to be me." "riddle is a strong person who can find happiness on his own if given the chance." "please be happy too"

RIGHT AT MY KOKORO.

[lyhil]

Nightmares and Dreams that Haunt the Night Commander Harukehn - @harukehn

[carbonbeef]

Six Fun Fact

Because I'm obsessed with spreadsheets, I've been slowly adding more and more data to my little (ok it's big and slows my computer down hardcore) spreadsheet of Six information. After adding initial debut dates for every role each performer had, I came across a little fun fact: of the 73 unique debut orders performers in Six who performed 2 to 6 roles have had, there have, to this date, been 3 groups of people who debuted all the roles they have performed (again, to this date) in the exact same order; 2 groups of 3 who debuted 3 roles, and 1 group of 2 who debuted 2 roles:

Seymour/Howard/Parr

Elizabeth Walker (Breakaway 1.0)

Seymour Debut: 16 January 2020

Howard Debut: 18 February 2020

Parr Debut: 26 February 2020

Ellie Sharpe (Breakaway 2.0)

Seymour Debut: 11 October 2021

Howard Debut: 10 November 2021

Parr Debut: 14 February 2022

Jessie Davidson (Broadway 3.0)

Seymour Debut: 23 March 2024

Howard Debut: 7 April 2024

Parr Debut: 6 May 2024

Boleyn/Howard/Seymour

Bryony Duncan (Bliss 1.0)

Boleyn Debut: 8 September 2019

Howard Debut: 23 September 2019

Seymour Debut: 18 December 2019

Ashlee Waldbauer (Bliss 3.0)

Boleyn Debut: 22 November 2021 (First Show)

Howard Debut: 22 November 2021 (Second Show)

Seymour Debut: 3 January 2022

Izzy Formby-Jackson (Bliss 7.0)

Boleyn Debut: 30 November 2023

Howard Debut: 2 February 2023

Seymour Debut: 13 January 2024

Aragon/Cleves:

Shekinah McFarlane (West End 1.0)

Aragon Debut: 4 September 2019

Cleves Debut: 5 September 2019

Ella Burns (Australia 1.0)

Aragon Debut: 25 January 2020

Cleves Debut: 28 February 2020

*All photos taken from performers' and/or production members' social medias except the following:

Bryony Seymour (@tudorvonsnaps on Instagram)

Shekinah Aragon (@shonalosuise_photography on Instagram)

**Bryony's photo as Seymour was from her as a Swing in the West End 2.0 production and Shekinah's Cleves photo as Cleves was from her as Principal in the UK Tour 2.0 production, despite them debuting these roles in the Bliss 1.0 and West End 1.0 productions, respectively.

***Images were cropped so each one was cropped to equally fill a 10x5.63 inch full photo.

[iniziare]

I'm stealing this from Min before I tackle a thread (cause I don't do enough silly little things [update: it wasn't... really short]), but here's random sleep thoughts for the ladies that come to mind with something to say about it:

— Yelan: Sleeps naked, because it's healthy, come on, and there's two phases in terms of positions that she sleeps in. Phase one is where she sleeps incredibly relaxed on her side, and the covers usually end up predominantly wrapped around her (like this, or the idea of this) so perfectly, it's as if it was intentional, but it's not, she just... ends up this way. Feet and legs are rarely covered as she gets warm as she sleeps, and she often stretches like a cat during moments of waking. It doesn't matter if someone's in the bed with her, this is just how it goes— the only way to stop it is if you lay on said covers. She's also a quiet sleeper physically, despite the covers thing. She doesn't move much, which is why her hair usually still looks 'peachy keen, jelly bean', in the morning. Phase two only happens when she can catch up on sleep and she lazes in bed in a half-slumber state until, as she states, well into and past noon. At this point, it's evident that she's been warm, and so she rolls onto her stomach, and pulls the covers down a bit, exposing a fair bit of her back. Ideally her pillow is still there, but if not, no issue, the mattress works just fine.

— Kafka: No, she's not about the 'luxury' for the sake of it, please get fanon out of here, there are no silk pillows or sheets needed whatsoever. But she appreciates comfort in the sense of good quality pillows (though not too thick as she regularly sleeps on her stomach, or in some magical 'in-between' position of stomach/side), but she'd like two of them. And then the duvet usually... serves as an extra pillow mid-slumber for her body. She likes to lay on something that has a shape to it, I don't like the word 'snuggle' nor does she do it out of 'security', but it's about something that is molded against and into the shape of her. See it as... the duvet almost works like a body pillow to a certain extent, except she'll remain covered, she's a woman of modesty, of course. And in shipping scenarios, the partner would likely come to replace the 'body pillow' concept— imagine her to cozy up at your side, head on your shoulder, leg over yours, or snaked through yours. But she'd not a 'facing each other' kind of cuddler in sleep. Man's gotta be on his back. She's difficult, I know. Oh and please don't think that Kafka wakes up looking flawless, she does not. Trust me when I say that her hair is disheveled, have you seen the length of it? But she's endearing, she's drowsy, has a bit of a drawl to her voice— almost kind of cute (but a mess).

Honorable mentions:

— Guizhong: A bed, you say? Hardly, you'll rarely find her in one due to, well, the fact she's not human (there's a higher chance in modern). She'll be passed out at a table, or desk in her workshop, usually with parchment stuck to her cheek, covered by her own sleeves. Of course, this has her slightly grumpy in the morning. Morax sure chose a nice one. Oh, on the note of him— if he's around in the same bed, there's a chance she's asleep atop him. — Seele: Absolute mess. Don't even go into that bedroom, you'll wonder where the sheets or pillows are, there may even be one on the other side of the room, because it wasn't comfortable and so she argued with it physically, throwing it across the room in her sleep. She's likely still mostly dressed because she was too lazy or exhausted to get changed. Seele is the kind who, like her mun, will say 'I'm just laying down for 5 mins' and wakes up 5 hours later. Horrendous.

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

you ever click on an article quoted in a tumblr post because you wanna verify that it says what it purports to say, and while reading the article, youre like okay, its odd for an article published in 2023 to be relying on a 2016 stat that is surveyed by a government body annually so you click on the link to that and instead of taking you to the 2016 survey, it links to a dissertation written in 2022, but okay whatever its probably quoted in this dissertation, so you ctrl F and type in the stat to make sure and okay it does so you scroll down to the references so you can just copy and paste the survey reference into google scholar, but the survey isnt in the references, so you scroll back up and read the paragraph the stat was quoted in to see that this dissertation is quoting the stat from a different paper that quotes it, so you take note of that paper and scroll back down and okay theres two references that match this, so back up you scroll and its not made clear in the paragraph which of the two theyre quoting, and oh my god do i have to read 15 pages of this dissertation to be able to figure out which quotes the stat from the survey, 15 pages, mind you, of the dissertation that an article - that i was originally reading to verify a tumblr post - sources for a stat taken from a government survey rather than the survey itself.

[fucktheroyals]

Ok I went diving into the Kidlawlu fanfic on ao3 and I kid you not, when I searched by kudos the FIRST TWO are rated T and the top one is 24K of modern au ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIP bliss. UGH I HAVE UNEXPECTEDLY ASCENDED.

[amethyst-halo]

So you haven't posted anything about this in a while so I don't know if you are still doing this AU but in the B&B AU do either Branch or Bruce get sucked into the disaster that was Barb's World Tour? (I rewatched world tour yesterday and your B&B AU came to mind)

ya im always doin b&b akjshh it just hasn't hit me in a while <:] twt is the part giving me the most trouble actually bc i can't figure out how to drag them into it yet! i have a concept of bliss running to vaycay after escaping barb and telling them what happened and maybe trying to get them to help her get the techno trolls back, but im not suuper sure yet! akjshdkjh

[blissful-thinker]

Trio I miss dearly every day

[a-chaotic-dumbass]

finally start reading asos again after a reading slump:

the very next chapter is dany's: