#searched tags b/c

[theroguequeenaniki]

You R My Shy Shy Shy Boy (Shy Shy Shy Boy) Oh Oh Oh My Boy (My My My Boy) 잘생기지 않아도 마음이 따뜻한 그런 남자 Oh Bye Bye Bye Boy (Bye Bye Bye Boy) Oh Oh Oh Bad Boy (Bad Bad Bad Boy) 완벽하지 않아도 나만을 아껴줄 그런 남자 Shy Boy

- Shy Boy, Secret, 2011.01.06

[the-final-sif]

SECONDARY REMINDER FOR PEOPLE IN DTEAMBLR: IF MAKING JOKES ABOUT "KILLING MYSELF/OURSELF" FUCKING TAG IT. PARTICULARLY IF POSTING IMAGES WITHOUT TEXT THAT CANNOT BE FILTERED OR IF YOU'RE MISSPELLING THINGS.

I understand we're all hyped about Dream's music but also please remember there are members of our community that have struggled with suicide/depression that would really really like to be able to enjoy the hype, but there is a massive issue with people in dteamblr making these jokes untagged in ways that are really hard to filter (spelling things incorrectly, using images with no image description, using variations, etc). I'm not shaming anyone who wants to use these sorts of jokes, literally just tag "suicide mention" or "suicide joke" so people who are effected can safely filter their dashes. That's all you gotta do.

[bunnyboy-juice]

my best friend just told me she's gonna show me her regular ass grocery order when she gets home and i seriously cheered as if she said she was coming over Right Now

[good-omens-heritage-posts]

Heritage implies age, these aren’t heritage posts they’re just posts you like

you aren't wrong, i've just decided that maybe that's okay tbh

[stranger-rants]

…saw these tags on a post and my eyes went to hell:

You can’t just say ‘you lack media literacy’ and then drop legitimately harmful dogshit takes 😬

[trash-bin-ary]

Boop :3

:3 boop

Oh also \|_o, epic mutual (in both the compliment and fandom way) when do you think that livestream will get to the vengeance arc might jump in right at the end if I have time

[fountainpenguin]

Hc: tootie’s actual name is trootie, but she couldn’t pronounce it years ago and it stuck with her

That's similar to my headcanon. I gave her the spelling Trudy, although "Tootie" was used as a nickname (like Tootsie Roll).

I did a search to see if it comes up in my files, and here's a scene I wrote in 2020 that makes me laugh (ft. aged-up Tootie now using her birth name):

Molly looked curiously at Trudy, tapping a finger against her lip. “Didn’t she move to some small country in Europe with her boyfriend or something?” “Husband, actually. She’s really the queen of this micronation they rule together.” Trudy’s eyes turned misty behind her glasses. “I wonder how she’s doing right now.” Since Tootie asked a valid question, we may as well pause our brunch date for a moment and take a brief trip one million million miles away from planet Earth. At that precise moment, Queen Victoria could be found sprawled across her royal mattress (which was, of course, stuffed with wads of cash for extra padding) in her second-favorite set of skull and crossbone pajamas, snoring half-contently. Each of her arms hugged a fat sack of coins with a ridiculously elaborate Yugopotamian money symbol printed on its front in blue. The covers tangled around her legs in a cyclone, which was the only reason she hadn’t completely rolled off the bed to the floor. Rolled off the side, it’s possibly worth mentioning, that her husband normally tried to claim for himself whenever he spied enough room to place a tentacle. As for her husband? King Marqavalier had just made the mistake of attempting to hold his wife’s pale human hand in her sleep. The death-defying trial proved successful on occasion, but that night turned out not to be tonight. He was now rinsing himself down furiously in the royal bedroom’s private muckpool wing, mumbling a variety of incoherent curses he’d picked up during his time on Earth, even though he wasn’t certain what they meant and happened to be using every single one in all the wrong ways. Back in their bedroom, Vicky murmured in her dreams and rolled over to cuddle with a third bag of taxes she had personally collected from the royal manure connoisseur earlier that day.

Along the Cherry Lane

Tootie growing up to live a relaxed life because her sister is in a loving relationship with an alien who adores her and she gets to rule over a bunch of people who are super into her way of threatening them with axes, my beloved...

Actually, do you think Mark gets huffy when Vicky threatens their subjects with weapons? We know driving a spear into the tentacle is a courtship signal for Yugopotamians and I feel like he probably had to have some talks with her about why she can't just attack people.

Vicky at a royal banquet: /throws an axe at the butler Mark: I'm being cheated on

Of course, the beauty of their relationship being that Mark spent 50+ years on Earth learning human culture, and would probably NOT interpret this as cheating and would instead interpret it as super hot the way he did when his ex almost sliced him to bits and threw him in the dungeon, but-

[disquiet-dream]

catching up on Claw and y'know, this is genuinely very good

it's like... it feels like a compressed version of the most tense parts of Worm

which i'm not surprised by! when it was first announced I remembered some people saying, like, "who would even want to read a crime thriller by Wildbow" but like

i mean, some of the best parts of Worm - and arguably Pact, and kind of even some parts of Twig but less so - where basically themselves crime thrillers, just with genre fiction stuff layered on top

but anyway, the real reason it feels good is like... look, i've been saying since Pale ended Wildbow should just sit back, ignore the internet, and write a regular ass novel on his own

and while this isn't that, it feels a lot closer to that than his other works. mostly because of the pacing - no time to draw things out when you're doing something shorter! (but like for real this time not like Pale was supposed to be shorter) - and also the fact that like. you do get the sense that there was an above-average amount of planning that went into this

even just from the arc structure like, we're switching PoVs every arc, which means i can actually believe the part where he said Claw should run for about 6 arcs, because i'm almost certain that was because he already knew who the 6 PoVs were going to be lol. means there's an actual restriction he (sorta) has to adhere to there.

anyway! it's good. tense, fun, and if the first arc felt like being with Taylor again the current one feels like the interludes that showed Taylor being really fucking scary once you're not in her head seeing how stressed she is, so that's cool!

also like. look i've been saying since mid-Ward that Wildbow really needs to go back to somewhat grey protagonists, otherwise he ends up doing what he did there and in Pale, which is to say having them do the same kinds of fucked up things as his other protagonists and then going "but it's good and fine actually".

and Claw very much isn't that. the first two arcs were about some pretty fucked up people, the third was about someone who. is a teenager. but certainly has some fucked up parts. and the fourth is so far about the least bad person, but he's also the most periphery to the whole situation, so i doubt he'll have time to do some sort of atrocity and have it justified by the narrative.

(that may be funny by the end of this arc, we'll see)

also, speaking of interludes earlier: i also saw some people say Claw feels like an extended Wildbow interlude and... yeah, pretty much! and like, the interludes tend to be some of the best individual pieces of writing he puts out, so that's very much a good thing!

so yeah Claw good so far. kind of hate Ward and liked Pale for maybe longer than it deserved but fell off hard by the end, so i'm glad that at least right now his current work is something where i'm just like. yeah, i like this. no caveats, really.

[wordwizards]

[yours-truly-henry-jekyll]

COINCIDENCEPOSTING or If I had a nickel Part 4. The Terror edition

If I had a nickel for every 19th century British expedition completely stuck at the very edge of the world, which has gone absolutely of the clusterfucking rails due to one little non-english freak who definitely shouldn't be there and got his place on the ship in the weirdest most random way, then I'd have two nickels. And now he is sowing utter chaos from the day 0, because that's simply the way he is and that's the only way it could have played out. Also the ship was almost hijacked and the only one not bothered is the old gaelic officer who is 100% done with british and the little freak. But honestly he's just so done with everyone. Plus this little skrunkly-shaped chaos generator is now the star of shit ton of slash fanfiction and one of the most memorable people on this entire ship

And now is this little chaoslord freak a French geographer (aka Jacques Paganel from "Les Enfants du Captaine Grant", very much recommend it for everyone who'd love a more lighthearted boat show/book) or an Irish caulker's mate? And is the ship stuck in Australia or in Arctic?

[koushirouizumi]

"God told me that if I had any wishes, that they would grant just one." - Kobato {Kobato}

"...I... I still... haven't granted it. ... Your wish... I promised... ...that I'd grant it... ...I promised..." - Kimihiro to Yuuko {Holic}

"I answered that I wanted to live." - Kobato {Kobato}

"I'll do whatever I can because I want to be here." - Kimihiro {Holic}

"What is happiness {/to you}?" - {Chobits}; Dark Chii {as Red 'Atashi'} to Chii {Pink 'Atashi'} {Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card Arc}; Lilie Shinomoto to Sakura {Sakura relating this to a canon Non-human Character}

"My wish is for you to go on existing. That's ALL I want." - Yuuko to Kimihiro {Holic}

"But the one Tsuyuri {Kohane} cares about most is YOU." - Doumeki to Kimihiro {Holic}

"{Doumeki} didn't want {YOU} to vanish forever." - Yuuko to Kimihiro; on Doumeki {Holic}

"To be happy... that's a rather vague goal, don't you think?" "{YES}, but that's what makes it {interesting}. All the more interesting... in that most people would consider it {IMPOSSIBLE}." "{Impossible}. How so?" "Well, you need a {life}... a {soul}. And if you're not alive... If you don't have a {soul}... what then? Then happiness is just a story... in a fairy tale book." - Zima to Dita; {Chobits}

"Even if a {combination}/{of two [or more] people} Looks a bit 'odd' on the outside... They can still be happy on the inside." - Ichiro Mihara {Angelic Layer} x {Chobits}, to Chitose Hibiya (later Chitose Mihara {Kobato})

"The greatest happiness for me is to let the person I most like have the most happiness." - Tomoyo; {about Sakura} {Card Captor Sakura}

"One day a man had a dream. He dreamed that he was a butterfly. He fluttered and fluttered, flew and flew. He so loved the feeling of freedom… That he decided that he was a butterfly. But when he woke up, he wasn’t a butterfly. He was a human after all. Then the man thought… “I wonder if I, The Man, dreamed that I was a butterfly… Or if this moment is truly the dream. Maybe the man I am now is a dream that a butterfly is having"" - Haruka Doumeki, who primarily communicates to Watanuki through dreams; relating a story, about dreams {Holic}

"Some things are worth caring about." - Doumeki to Kimihiro {Holic} {Heavily implied to be about Watanuki}

"{Yuuko said} 'at this rate', {Watanuki would} 'disappear'" - Implied by Doumeki {Holic}

"I don't love Chii because 'I wanted' to 'make love' to {Chii}.

'I wanted' to 'make love' to {have sex with} Chii because I LOVE {CHII}." - Hideki Motosuwa, on Chii {Chobits}

"Chii Persocom." "Yeah" "Chii is not human." "Yeah"

"Can't do SOME things. ..." {Implied as: 'Have sex with'}

"YEAH." - Hideki; - Chii to Hideki {Chobits}

"Happiness... That is..." - Someone Just For Me {Chobits} (Storybook)

"Maybe the man I am now is a dream that a BUTTERFLY is having"

"Because if we can all find that special person{/people}, then the world would be a happy place. The love that we all feel may not be the SAME, but it won’t matter if it’s the ‘someone just for you’." - C.L.A.M.P {Chobits}

"Happiness doesn't just come in one shape." - Ichiro Mihara {Angelic Layer} x {Chobits}, implied relevant to Ichiro and Chitose Hibiya (later Chitose Mihara {Kobato})

"I wanted to create, with {C.C.S}, a series with a girl who saw {MINORITIES} as normal. For example, Syaoran and Eriol are foreign exchange students, but to Sakura they’re the same as {people} who transferred in from a local school. Similarly, Sakura believes in all the forms of love {Sakura} sees. Towards the end {of C.C.S's 1st series} I had several characters give advice to a worried Sakura, showing that there are many kinds and forms of love. I wondered how the series would be received, since it ran in Nakayoshi, but it was received better than I expected. - Nanase Ohkawa (C.L.A.M.P) {x}

"Ohkawa: (…) I am glad that the readers are happy that Sakura and Syaoran got together, but that anyone would think it’s {just} because they make a normal {combination}/couple… it’s a little disconcerting. Sakura didn’t chose Syaoran because {Syaoran}'s a boy close to {Sakura} in age. If Syaoran had been a girl, if they had been far apart in age, as long as {Syaoran} was still Syaoran, I think Sakura would have fallen in love with {Syaoran}. It’d sadden me if you thought they’re a good {combination} because they’re 'normal'." - Nanase Ohkawa (C.L.A.M.P) {x}

"Normal? What’s normal? To only do what the masses do? And what is the benefit of that? Where is the problem in adopting a custom that is ‘abnormal’ if it has no negative affect on the world at large?" - Yuuko {Holic}

"I don't see anything wrong with being what everyone calls 'not normal'." - Yuuko to Watanuki {Holic}

-Observations made when rereading many C.LA.M.P Lores (To Be Re-Compiled, Someday)

Doumeki, probably:

"I don't love Watanuki because I wanted to 'have sex with' Watanuki."

"I wanted to 'make love' to Watanuki because I love Watanuki"

{AND IF WATANUKI EVER ISN'T FULLY 'HUMAN' ANYMORE?}

{Holic x Drug & Drop Cross-over} (Read panels right-to-left)

[mutalune]

really wish there was a tag that separated “I’m having Big Angry and/or Angsty Opinions about Star Wars” from “I’m goofing off with Star Wars I’m playing in the sandbox none of this is real so yes I will make my blorbo and this random glub shitto go on an adventure that makes no logical sense” posts because there’s too much of the former and not enough of the latter for my current mental state

[thesweetnessofspring]

Pinterest tag game

Tagged by @dr-lizortecho 💜

first character, real person, quote, & outfit when you open Pinterest is your vibe

Tagging! @palindrome310 @distractionsfromthefood @rainymyx @transcendragon @pookieh

[engagekiss]

Can I request titles themed around being a vampire doll?

-🌧

🦇♡ titles : the undead doll , the doll that seeks blood , they who are cold , they who are immortal , the one made of porcelain , their vampiric dolliness …

[businesstiramisu]

#this is why it's useful to distinguish between systems of cladistics and taxonomy#because they are categorizing the same things using different criteria which makes them useful different fields of research!!!#CLADISTICS sorts based on shared ancestry TAXONOMY sorts based on shared characteristics. so the definition of WHAT IS A FISH#changes based on WHAT SORTING SYSTEM YOU USE (via pillars-of-salt)

....oh should I not be tagging all of these #taxonomy?

*checks wikipedia for a 10 minutes* nah I think i'll stick with that tag

Thanks for pointing out the difference though @pillars-of-salt! Also you got Viva la vida by Coldplay stuck in my head again, lol

as funny as it is to say, "theres's no such thing as a fish" is not actually true

"science doesn't know what a fish is" is really not true

"fish" is not a monophyletic category. there is no common ancestor of everything that we call a "fish," and none of the things that we don't

"fish" is a paraphyletic category -- and a useful one! marine biologists use it! "fish" describes a general body plan and lifestyle. it is useful to be able to talk about coelacanths and tuna in a shared category, though coelacanths are more closely related to us than to tuna.

where this bugs me is the repetition of the idea that "scientists" are hidebound and uncreative, unable to comprehend anything that doesn't conform to a specific idea of categorization -- when this is fundamentally untrue! we know perfectly well what a "fish" is. the fact that it's a paraphyletic group is only confounding to pop science, as a funny factoid, not to anyone who actually understands what a paraphyletic group is.

[lovedlovingly]

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