#pretty misc things

[musubiki]

daily musings of officer goldwood

[ottosbigtop]

Showing off my beautiful collection. Are u rockin with the pin hats

[spread-the-influence]

So... As far as I got, ragatha is being mostly brainwashed right? So that kinda means that she's not responsible for her actions... BUT! Nobody knows that she's being controlled, although she is acting out of character, so it's hard for them to just... look past all of that ( not that it wouldn't be even if they knew ), right?

What a doozy woozy my friends!

yeah everything's going to be such a doozy

that's something to really note here — you guys know that she's infected but they don't . they only see ragatha who's being positive . as usual . and trying to be helpful . as usual . really , the only thing that's off here is that her happiness seems more genuine than usual , but that's not a bad thing , right ?

[animalcrossingshowdown]

or if you've never played, just pick the one that seems the coolest

[misc-obeyme]

You best believe that as soon as this event starts I will be working my ass off to get this card. My reasonings;

1. I love this artist

2. Barbatos

3. He's playing either a guitar or bass #instrumentBarbatoslove

4. Barbatos

5. Barbatos is so pretty

6. Epic trio

7. Barbatos is in that trio

8. Barbatos

That is all.

YES. ME TOO.

I haven't read the story yet, but I've unlocked stuff just so I can be sure to grind away lol.

Because yeah Barb is looking really good in this card~

[solei-eclipse]

okay. hello guys. my bad for not responding to stuff or being as active recently, had a lot of work to be done and other stuff to focus on that took a lot of my time. I wanted to make more art, but I unfortunately had to put that energy into other things (which got to the point where I could not put them off any longer and had to stay working on it). I know I missed a lot of stuff and I'm sorry for it

[icewindandboringhorror]

finally finished all of one character's entire quests/optional dialogue/questions/etc.... 100,000 words... .... aughhh

[sordid-dog]

ok i finally decided my favorite word is pretty

[koheletgirl]

[id: clips of rebecca bunch from “crazy ex girlfriend”, set to "anti hero" by taylor swift /end id]

it's me! hi

[withthewindinherfootsteps]

MDZS Kayou cards I got!

(Close-ups of the three landscape ones:)

Bonus: LWJ looking really pretty in lighting:

[musubiki]

some brainstorming ideas ive had for a while on what cocos power can actually do

[yuri-is-online]

I'm so bone dead tired it's insane... I just want to write bur I can't fucking move

[tenrose]

I don't like to follow bookstagram trends but I find one super interesting (it's definitely NOT reading a popular bookstagram book).

I'm currently working on creating a box to randomly pick the next book I read. I have hopes to lower my tbr, well with my erratic reading sessions and me ordering second hand books cause I can buy more, it's gonna be a harsh task. Also it's gonna helping me read the books I bought to step out my comfort zone and then I ignored them. But also books that are in my comfort zone but have been here for year. And since my apartment is very small, yet 1/3 books if I avoid the same book lot of time, I will get rid of it.

BUT

While crafting this at past 10pm in the middle of the working week cause I needed to do it now (didn't finish considering the numbers of unread books I read), I have been struck by a sudden illumination.

Maybe, and really maybe, it's a hypothesis, I could apply the jar stuff for the daily stuff I have to do, chores, administrative paperwork, everything a normal human adult has to do. Maybe I could pick a task to do every day and it feels less overwhelming. I definitely need to try it.

[thstarsofsilver]

"i hate love triangles" is such a common thing to hear, but we never really think about why.

sure, some people are just extremely decisive and hate watching the slow, painful indecision of love triangles. and the idea of stringing two people along when (generally) you can only have one is silly and a little unkind a lot of the time. plus it can be really frustrating to watch 1 single character wreck relationships (i'm looking at you, love triangles that pit siblings/best friends against each other), and mess things up around them through their own indecisiveness

another very frustrating thing about love triangles is that they're actually not as common as they feel. the media pushes love triangles all the time because they're marketable and a surefire way to get engagement by pitting fans against one another and putting them on a "team" and making it personal.

a storied example is the hunger games. suzanne collins made the point in the story about how katniss's romance with peeta was pushed to distract from the horrors of the games, and in the real world, lionsgate/the marketing team pushed the "love triangle" to distract from the heavy themes and political messaging of the story. but there was never really a love triangle. yes, katniss kissed 2 boys. yes, there was a point where she saw them both as viable options. but the narrative tells us she was never going to be able to pick anyone but peeta - gale is simply not ideologically right for her, and that is made relatively clear relatively early on. and yet the "love triangle" was pushed, when (unlike other stories like the summer i turned pretty or the vampire diaries) it never really existed.

but love triangles don't have to be bad if they service all the characters. in 'never have i ever', devi gets something completely different from each of her 2 main love interests (sorry des and ethan, i'm not counting you. neither of you lasted more than like 4 eps lol), and more importantly, even when broken up with her they get something from their relationships with her. she ends up pushing both ben and paxton to achieve their academic potential, as just one example.

doing love triangles correctly is hard. there probably isn't necessarily a "right" way. but if you can present an equally strong case for both characters, resolve the triangle without assassinating or throwing away the development of one of the characters, and keep the integrity and likeability of person in the middle, you might just be on the right path.

now reblog with examples of good/bad love triangles because my mind's gone blank and i can't just keep using nhie/tsitp/tvd

[misc-obeyme]

so far I saw three people saying om fandom is dead and I'm like??? no?? I mean RIGHT we're in a harassment era and that dropped the updates drastically but it's not dead?

what's these people's main social media/platflrm I wonder, as far as I see tumblr n twitter are thriving and ao3 gets updates 😭

I honestly didn't even realize people had this concern until that anon asked me about it. But I'm also not exactly super current on fandom doings? I don't know, I seem to miss a lot lol.

Anyway, I'm of the opinion that a dead fandom also has no harassment going on because there's nobody to harass to begin with. Dead fandoms have a handful of people in them and all of those people are thrilled that they aren't the only one in the fandom, so they're usually super nice to each other. I may be unaware of all such instances happening here on Tumblr, but I do see a lot of active and really nice people in the fandom. I've been here for a while now and people have always been really kind to me.

I can't speak for other social medias... I'm not on them enough to have an opinion. When I do get on other platforms, though, I see plenty of OM content? So I'm not sure why anyone would think it's a dead fandom.

[windsfavored]

MODERN  AU:  A  SUMMARY.  ... otherwise  known  as  the  verse  currently  taking  up  massive  amounts  of  my  brain  real  estate.

i've  always  liked  to  use  the  metaphor  that  irminsul  is  a  computer  —  or  really,  an  equivalent  of  wikipedia  where  the  information  currently  recorded  on  it  is  pages  is  reflected  in  the  memories  of  the  people  of  teyvat.  that  by  erasing  himself,  scaramouche  effectively  hacked  into  irminsul  and  deleted  his  page.  my  favorite  thing  about  coming  up  with  alternate  universes  for  muses  is  taking  what  foundation  canon  provides  us  and  seeing  how  i  can  translate  it  into  a  different  setting  —  so  for  the  purposes  of  modernverse,  ren  is  a  hacker.  specifically,  the  criminal  sort  (  black  hat,  no  pun  intended  )  specializing  in  identity  theft,  blackmail  and  so  on.  stealing  your  personal  information  and  selling  it  to  the  highest  bidder  —  and  that's  assuming  he  doesn't  have  an  ulterior  motive  to  extort  you  himself.  in  his  spare  time,  he  likes  to  code  ransomware,  make  programs  to  automate  sending  and  responding  to  spam  emails, etc etc.  (  passive  income.  )

his  upbringing  was  generally  quite  lonely.  his  mother  and  aunt  were  close  —  and  he  grew  up  close  with  his  cousin  in  turn,  but  the  majority  of  his  time  was  spent  being  left  largely  to  his  own  devices.  i  think  he  was  one  of  those  kids  who  were  raised  by  the  internet,  and  that's  generally  where  his  fascination  with  technology  first  began  to  take  root.  he  was  probably  the  sort  of  brat  who  would  hack  into  your  neopets  account  to  steal  all  of  your  neopoints  and  valuable  items.  relatively  innocent  crimes  in  the  grand  scheme  of  things,  but  it  certainly  compelled  him  to  begin  thinking  of  cybersecurity  in  a  very  particular  way  —  like  a  puzzle  he  could  solve  if  he  was  up  to  the  CHALLENGE.

around  the  same  time,  he  was  still  preoccupied  with  chasing  his  mother's  approval.  he  would  try  his  best  to  mold  himself  after  makoto  (  consciously  and  subconsciously  )  in  the  hopes  that  resembling  someone  he  knew  she  loved  would  compel  his  mother  to  love  him  as  a  result.  diligently  studying  dance,  growing  out  his  hair.  anything,  anything  to  win  her  validation.  it  didn't  work  —  ei  remained  as  distant  as  ever.  he never  understood  why  his  mother  always  kept  him  at  arm's  length,  but  the  older  he  grew,  the  less  he  could  stomach  it.

and  eventually,  he  reached  his  breaking  point.  dropping  dance,  cutting  his  hair  —  oh,  and  did  he  mention  he's  a  boy?  (  his  name  is  kunikuzushi.  )  shedding  the  proverbial  shackles  keeping  him  tethered  to  his  desperate  pursuit  of  ei's  approval,  kuni  delved  wholeheartedly  into  his  own  interests.  as  it  turned  out,  he  was  something  of  a  prodigy.  a  natural.  a  threat.  he  clung  to  his  talents  for  the  validation  he  wasn't  getting  at  home  —  they  made  him  feel  powerful,  important,  worth  something.  even  if  it  came  at  the  cost  of  taking  advantage  of  other  people.  that  was  just  the  way  this  world  worked,  wasn't  it?

he's  in  his  late  teens  when  aunt  makoto  dies  under  MYSTERIOUS  CIRCUMSTANCES.  his  entire  family  falls  apart,  unraveling  like  a  poorly  knit  sweater.  it's  not  too  long  after  that  kunikuzushi  receives  a  very  peculiar ...  job  offer,  so  to  speak.

the  fatui  are  a  dangerous  bunch.  though  they  maintain  a  relatively  cordial  public  image,  behind  the  scenes  they  are  downright  vicious  in  their  bids  for  power.  it's  a  very  poorly  kept  secret;  everyone  knows  they  have  ill  intentions  —  yet  no  one  can  seem  to  pin  their  criminal  activities  on  them  in  such  a  way  that  they  might  be  held  accountable.  kunikuzushi  quicky  becomes  an  invaluable  asset.  his  particular  skillset  allows  them  to  point  him  in  the  direction  of  any  prospective  threats  and  dig  up  any  information  that  could  potentially  be  used  as  blackmail.  sometimes  it's  simple;  evidence  of  infidelity,  skeletons  in  the  closet.  however,  not  everyone  kuni  targets  dabbles  in  sordid  affairs  behind  closed  doors  —  and  for  those  unfortunate  souls,  he  needs  to  get  a  little  more  creative.  cracking  into  bank  accounts,  collecting  social  security  numbers  and  other  pieces  of  personal  information.  if  all  else  fails,  he  isn't  opposed  to  deliberately  planting  evidence  the  fatui  can  threaten  to  leak.  he  viciously  ruins  countless  lives  over  the  next  few  years  —  but  he  doesn't  care,  because  he  feels  useful  and  powerful.  more  than  he  ever  has  before.

it  all  comes  crumbling  down  when  an  anonymous  message  nudges  him  to  look  into  his  employers.  that  they  aren't  being  entirely  HONEST  with  him.  kuni  regards  it  with  skepticism  at  first,  but  eventually  decides  to  humor  it  —  and  what  he  does  discover  changes  everything.

the  fatui  are  responsible  for  makoto's  death.

the  fatui  are  responsible  for  makoto's  death ...  and  they've  been  playing  him  for  a  FOOL  this  entire  time.

considering  the  hole  he's  dug  himself  into,  kunikuzushi  knows  he  can't  simply  quit.  even  if  he  were  to  run  away,  the  fatui  could  simply  target  his  family  members  out  of  spite  —  and  though  his  relationship  with  his  mother  is  rocky,  kaminari  is  someone  he  genuinely  cares  about  who  doesn't  deserve  to  be  dragged  down  by  his  stupid  mistakes.

so  kuni  decides  to  erase  himself.  he  fakes  his  own  death  —  an  electrical  fire  in  his  wire-filled  apartment.  a  corpse  too  burnt  to  retain  any  recognizable  details.  fortunately,  an  anonymous  tip  stops  the  flame  from  spreading  before  any  other  lives  are  claimed  by  the  blaze  —  but  kunikuzushi  is  declared  dead,  and  life  goes  on.

until  six  months  later,  when  a  familiar  face  shows  up  on  kaminari's  doorstep ...  calling  himself  ren.