#so glad my brainworms are interacting with others

[rayshippouuchiha]

So I have had this bnha brainworm a while now, so sharing this in hope that it will stop taking over my every waking moment.

Someone seeing Izuku interacting with the vestiges, and first they think he's just talking to air, but the vestiges are able to do small things, like move things, affect the temperature, which ends up making them convinced that Izuku is a medium, no matter how much he protests. Words spread around and other students come asking for him to contact this and that person for them, expect him to have and use a ouija board, have ghostly powers etc.

Shouta is the biggest shit-stirrer about the situation, as long as he doesn't have to be the one to deal with it. Terrorizing people is a fun friday night for him, but he won't actually touch the situation with a ten-foot pole.

Izuku: P-Please, I only have very specific ghosts

Everyone Else: Tell us your occult secrets broccoli boi

Aizawa: *clapping Izuku on the back* Wow kid your entire situation is so fucked up

Aizawa: Glad you're not my responsiblity

[rodlaveraryna]

graf cup brainworms

we! deserve! a wta! laver! cup!

i mean, just look at the wta rankings. a wta laver cup would be a lot more competitive and balanced and fun than the atp version and it would also be grounds for a bunch of great player interactions that we deserve, so i'll be going over teams :)

graf cup is named after legend steffi graf, one of three singles players in the open era to win a calendar year grand slam. the other two are rod laver, who the laver cup is named for, and margaret court, a bigot. it will be held in berlin at uber arena, same location as the atp version. yk, if this was real.

also, i have no clue how teams are made for the actual laver cup. i just made these teams because i can. i'm the tournament director of this nonexistent tournament. what are you gonna do?

team europe

edit 4/23: i had no idea navratilova was such a piece of shit lord… alternative captain suggestions are much appreciated

team roster: ― iga swiatek ― aryna sabalenka ― daria kasatkina ― jasmine paolini ― mirra andreeva ― paula badosa

notes team europe:

― i NEED daria and natalia to give us some bomb ass graf cup vlogs. i just know they would give us the best interviews and behind the scenes look at how it all goes.

― aryna and jasmine are both great in singles and doubles so that's def something they can use to their advantage

― honestly seeing players i like interact with each other was like. a major part in selecting these teams. idk i just feel like everyone here is so lovely and amazing and that's only going to be heightened because of the not super competitive atmosphere

― i have a massive soft spot for mirra. i think everyone who knows her does. i would love to see the whole team just absolutely adoring her

― iga and aryna becoming friends??? maybe??? i like my rivalries sweet off court and fiery on court so it'll be nice seeing them interact

― can't forget the best friendship in tennis aka sabadosa!!! lowkey i don't ship them because they just remind me of me with my best friends but i think a really close platonic relationship like that is SO important and valuable and i'm really glad they have each other like that.

team world

team roster: ― coco gauff ― elena rybakina ― ons jabeur ― zheng qinwen ― emma navarro ― leylah fernandez

team world notes:

― emma and coco feel like they would be a great pair. they're both close with ben it seems so i feel like they would be friends. also they're professional american tennis players. to use some terminology from @fritzes, american idiot solidarity

― the difference in vibe between coco and elena will be absolutely hilarious. i think they'd get along don't get me wrong it's just funny they seem so opposite to me. would love to see them play some doubles together that would be so fun...

― honestly i feel like all doubles permutations in this team would be so funny. if any of these people actually played doubles together (besides coco/emma/leylah with each other) i would be like "what the fuck is she playing doubles with her????" and i think that's beautiful.

― not to make too many comparisons with the laver cup but team world here isn't just america ft. canada. that shouldn't be a super tall order because this is team WORLD but we've all seen the trends for teams in the mens version.

― everyone loves ons yall. including team europe. we all just love ons so much.

― i'm ngl i don't have too many ultra specific notes for this team i just think it'll be good vibes and good tennis. it'll also be very appealing for me personally because i love all of these players and i know most of tennisblr loves them too :)

[lustrous-dawn]

Some Positivity

I'm absolutely surprised I do not have an image of my sona with a heart so Zhen will have to do it. Especially given his ‘job’

The start of the year for me has been rough. The folks who know my situation know my words are a severe understatement but I can’t let that hold me down. But it has made it abundantly clear that I am loved. 

Loved.

I genuinely have folks who love me for who am I. 

I couldn't ask for any more words than that today.

I am loved for what I am and what I do and that's all I could ever ask for. And I love myself for it.

So today, lets give out a little bit of love to some folk today. 

Edge; @casteliacityramen

I love how you are incredibly indecisive about reblogging some things on your side account. Something that means a lot to a character that someone may get a free hint on. I mean hell I used to do that all the time in my younger days to keep them on my brain to stay a little consistent on it. But man, I'm sure you've been hearing a lot from other people and honestly I'll be one of them hollering in the back about how we love Rio. 

MepersonallyIwanttoseeRaybutwe’llgetthere. 

The point is your story and characters have managed to grab people by the throat. You have an eloquent way of making them pretty relatable and gripping their attention. 

Hope you're enjoying the day with your significant other :0

Owli; @askvekpa

I always wonder if you be like “THERE GOES THIS GIRL AGAIN ASKING FOR HER DANG LUGIAS TO BE DRAWN AGAIN.” I can't help myself. You're too damn good at your craft and your attention to detail on beasties, dragons and animals alike. It's praiseworthy so I hope you always treat yourself kindly when it comes to what you do. Also, you seem to be doing better in the anxiety department, or I hope so. It's been a pleasure to see you be more interactive as of late with others so I hope you have been able to adequately spread your wings in that environment and get better.

Vega; @pokitsune

MAN I SURELY DO MISS YOU RIGHT. I HAVE SO MANY BRAINWORMS ABOUT YAKO AND ROSHI FIGHTING AND TEA TIME WITH ROSHI. Then I remember you're literally a DM away and my ass is just straight-up forgetful. I remember you chatted away about your Ninetales lore and goddamn I was eating it up. It FUELED ME to be so motivated with my characters, you have no idea. And coupled with your old ask blogs, I am so glad we started to chat last year and I am always grateful you send me images of stuff I can relate with on my characters. 

I hope you're having fun with FFXIV and I hope you and gf are doing something good today or both of you are taking some good ass time to relax.

Skins; @asksavel

I mean there are a lot of words I want to say. Overall it is always overwhelmingly positive. We were both there for each other in a horrible mental down. While mines is a bit still ongoing, you still have been sending me kind words and images to make the day all the more bearable. You noticed I have been withdrawn lately and you consider that when talking with me. 

Communication. It's something I always prized and I really appreciate it when we have chatting. Thank you so much for being the person you are and helping me. It has meant a lot to me.

Kai; @bunnkick

I'm pretty sure you weren't expecting me to do this! But HA I GOT YOU NOW TODAY. 

EVER SINCE YOU TOLD ME YOU CONSIDERED ME A FRIEND I HAVE BEEN LIKE A NERVOUS LITTLE PERSON TO CHAT MORE WITH YOU. I have been doing good to shoot messages your way to check in on you though and I'm proud of that much. Ah, I love your work man. I have been saying this for years as I have been working with you and imma saying it again, your style rocks man. And the chats we have, I love staying up for 3 hours to chat with ya. It's always a great time. 

Now I gotta hit you up for shows. I have been watching some and I always loved your insight ~

[qqueenofhades]

I'm glad I found this blog because it has became increasingly impossible to find a progressive-leaning Westerner who doesn't condone a literal GENOCIDE that is happening as we speak.

I used to follow so many American leftists on TikTok, learned a lot from them about the Western imperialism and American White Supremacy, but almost ALL of those people suddenly somehow forgot their own principles and convictions when the war broke out in Ukraine. There is this one creator I used to respect a lot who one day decided to say it is a drama when a Ukrainian woman speaks out against other creator perpetuating Russian propaganda. Said Ukrainian woman got hurt and respectfully expressed this hurt but was met with hostility and vile accusations. Then there was some dude on Twitter who compared the war crimes in Ukraine to gentrification in the US and that tweet got many likes.

For the sake of my mental health and sanity, I decided to forever stay away from American discourse and interact with as few Americans as possible because it is insane how these people can be such cold-hearted, entitled hypocrites.

Thanks, I appreciate that. I will say, however, that I'm not the only one -- all the sensible, left-leaning, Democratic-voting, Cringe Normie Liberals (TM) that I know, both online and in real life, support Ukraine too. I strongly suspect that this is because their brains aren't poisoned with Online Leftism, they are able to look at and assess the situation rationally, and don't feel the need/constant peer pressure to perform Anti-American-Imperialism (and Pro-All-Other-Kinds-of-Imperialism) brainworms like the rest of the Terminally Online. So yeah, plenty of us do exist, but you're probably not going to find them in so-called leftist online space, for many reasons previously discussed. Which is disappointing on all kinds of levels.

Basically, the Online Left was on very thin ice with me anyway prior to all this, but they've really exposed the abject failure of their meme ideology with their whole response to the war in Ukraine, and how it's entirely focused on feeling morally superior to the American establishment/Democratic party, regardless of which atrocities they are required to defend as a result. Shit like this is why I don't call myself a leftist, even though my views/policies would definitely fall on that spectrum, because just like "socialist," I feel like it's become an essentially meaningless term that doesn't convey what I want to mean by it, and is mostly poisoned by a vocal and aggressive minority whose rhetoric is nonetheless increasingly adopted by young progressive-identified people, and that worries me a lot.

[truly-quirkless]

@guidemetothedark asked:

Words of Affirmation!

I LOVE what you have going for your 2 muses, your narration style is on point! I have to read it multiple times because of how amazing it is. You put a lot of LOVE into your blog and I can see it. You're always so fun to talk to, and I am so happy to have our muses interacting. :)

[Unprompted! || Accepting!]

Who fucking said you could do me like this, Liz?

But in all seriousness---- thank you so much. You don't wanna know just how much I worry about if the relationship between Yagi and Fin makes sense, if it grates on others, so on and so forth...so it means the world. I'm glad you enjoy the way I write, as well- I love writing up pretty much everything that crosses my mind, and I have a tendency to wander- so thank you for enjoying my ramblings. And you're pretty fun, yourself! I look forward to what chaos we cook up~- and rest assured, I enjoy our muses interacting as well. Yagi aboutta freak---

And don't think I haven't noticed you sending out words of affirmation all night across the RPC! So lemme give you some in return- no. No, you cannot escape, get the fuck back here- there we go. I love both Rima and Izzy, as well as their various crack shenanigans across the dash. The writing you do almost feels like it just seeps with your characters and their thoughts, their intentions- and I enjoy every moment of it. I also just enjoy the hyper insanity you've been bringing around the RPC in general. You're like a fresh ray of sunshine in the MHA RPC- and I'm more than happy to watch, let alone interact. Thank you for being you, mate. It's obvious you've got the brainworms for those two OCs, may you continue to enjoy the madness they inflict!

[ayyy-imma-ninja]

HI MEG Im back again and screaming into your askbox about your silly AU's dont mind me

ANYWAYS I had brainworms about SK AU that I needed to dump out right away and i've declared your askbox as my little meg-related thought dump <3 /hj

i LOVE the growing friendship between us and the bros!!! the way we all interact with each other and the nice light-hearted banter that always seems to happen between the three of us is so ticklishly contagious in the best way possible (reminds me of me and my two friends!!)

honestly sun and moon kinda remind me of edric and emira from toh in the best way possible, ESPECIALLY with how they tease us

love how you write the whole dynamic!!

and to make sure this ask isn't a complete waste, question for the SK AU!! Do we have any good memories from before we left Pinewood, or do we always think somewhat negatively of it? Either because of our hospital trauma or for some other lore-important reason?

hello! Always happy to see you here Sunny! ^w^

pleeease feel free to dump ur thoughts here! /gen

eee I'm glad! It's so fun to write the three of them interacting. The hard part really is trying to not reveal too much too soon, since you are meant to learn more along with the Detective >w<

As for good memories, you may have some? But you can't entirely remember. It's all fuzzy :3c

[celestiamail]

you've got mail . . . !

✧ recipient/to: @realkavehgf, @heiayen, @ask-court-genshin, @intothegenshinworld, @so2xi, @vennnnn-diagram

✧ sender/from: @mhiieee / mhie >:D

hey hey to the aforementioned people <3 just wanted to tell you all that I'm so glad I met such kind, such amazing individuals such as you all. I haven't known you all for very long, but you all lighten and warm my heart whenever I talk to you. for shin, who's humor is so out of pocket, but is a delight to be with all the same. i love the way you're unabashedly yourself, and how you always manage to make me smile whenever you listen to my ramblings, and how considerate you are to those you consider your friends. you send weird but oddly endearing stuff from time to time, which never fails to make me laugh and cry (depending on how cursed it is) and how kind you are in general 😭 RAAGHHH shinners ftw [happy] for heia, my fellow oc enthusiast and sprinkler of angst in oc backstories, i adore how much your presence calms me, how the ideas you have in your head fascinate me and i love listening to the ideas you're passionate about. to me, you're like a whirlwind of ideas that i can't help but admire. i just wish we could talk more sometimes waughh KOPI KOPIII my fellow filo comrade, I feel this sort of kinship with you even if we don't know each other irl, and like most people here, I absolutely love and appreciate you very much. ur works are amazing (though they may be strange to many) and I love how creative they are !! your stories make me undergo the five stages of grief, make me go 'oh my God' and then think about it all day. the things you do to my brainworms /lh thank you for listening to my rambles again hehe Shiro wjakdnejfjf *bangs head on the table* you're so sweet!! i love the way you're always so warm to others, and how whenever we interact you can always give off this very calming aura (like heia) and I LOVE LOVE your work!!! Hope I get more chances to talk to you though hehe Sol. *scratches head* me thinks wriothesley can't even begin to find words for such a cool person like you who loves him because you're so very you and your brainworms are so very scrumptious and i eat it up everytime. keep serving and goodluck on all your irl stuff and pop off !! also love the way you address me as black cat owner in ur asks there's something so cute abt it HAHAHA finallyyy, the least but certainly not the last, Ven! Oh my god you. You're like one of the first people on genshinblr I've properly interacted with and one of.the first in the astronetwrk who I've conversed with. thank you for listening to my endless rambles, the fics i send on dms about my severe affliction for the indigo haired menace we affectionately chew on named scara teehee AND AND I love how bubbly (?) friendly (?) Can't choose a word to describe the way I see you because you're so unique, and your personality definitely leaves a deep impression on me. you're like the fizziness of a fresh soda, very refreshing and spunky...? In a way. I'm horrible with words but just know that I deeply cherish the friendship we have right now, every little interaction we have and hope to make more memories w u in the future, Ven !! sorry for the long, LONG message but you all have very special places in my heart. thank you so much for meeting me, for letting me feel safe and for meeting such shining gems of good people you all are. this sounds so sentimental and perhaps it's strange since I'm not quite close with any of you all on a deeper level, but still. love u all and keep marching forward and being yourselves!! (this took me so long to put out and even think of all the words I want to say T_T) (p.s burger king worker scara domination 😈🫱🍔👌)

♡, celestiamail

[providing-leverage]

Fic in Review 2023

This looks fun, thanks to @writer-and-thrasher for the tag

Total Number of Completed Stories: 16, which is great because my goal was 12 (one a month, which didn't happen, but oh well)

Total Word Count: 77,440! Again, I had a goal and surpassed it (getting to 300k on my account) and it feels really good.

Fandoms Written In: So much Ted Lasso, which I discovered after Sunflowers came out and was trending. I saw canon gay characters and went sign me up even if I don't normally like comedy stuff. I'm super glad I did because I've not written so much for a fandom so fast since my Shadowhunters hyperfixation years ago. Other than those 12, I did some PJO, Supernatural, and Batman, and Teen Wolf.

Looking back did you expect to write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d expect: so much less! Ted Lasso brainworms truly won this year

What’s your own favorite story of the year, personally?: I'm super proud of myself for finishing Past and Present Now Embrace, one of my few non Ted Lasso fics. Bianca was a very interesting character and the Percy Jackson universe it a great sandbox to play in.

Did you take any writing risks this year?: I think my trend towards gen stuff, because obviously romantic stuff gets more hits a lot of the time so I've trained myself to sprinkle it in even when it doesn't really need to be there. But with Ted Lasso I really felt like I could embrace the platonic stuff and when I did write romance it was because I wanted to.

Do you have any fanfic goals for the New Year?: I want to write a multichapter, and I'm hoping that multichapter will be either Stranger Ranger or Guard Your Heart. I've also been watching to rework the second and third parts of SSA Sam Singer.

Best story of the year: personally I'm really proud of the Fundamentals of Love and Lying, which is so self indulgent

Most popular story of the year: Get It Off Your Chest for sure, and I think that's all to do with the blurb I used in the summary

Most personal story of the year: Oh for sure it's a rather touching notion which is also probably the one I wrote the quickest. An aroace character figuring out who they are, feeling outside of so many social interactions because they lack romantic and sexual attraction? Pure projection. Also The A Team because yay autism.

Funniest story of the year: While the summary for Get it Off Your Chest is funny, Colin's reasons for picking up lesbians is deeply sad so I can't really say that. Eliza's exasperation with Jamie in Flowers for Dani is pretty funny though.

Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Fundamentals took a lot of work but it's also a rarepair I invented the tag for and narrated by a character that is basically an OC, so I understand why it's not everyone's cup of tea.

Most fun story to write: Holy Novelty Socks Batman is pure fluffy crack and made me smile a lot

Story with the sexiest moment: none of them really. Fundamentals and some of the other TL fics have some sex allusion though.

Sweetest story of the year: I'll say Shake It Out, a teen wolf fic from early this year that I'd completely forgotten about. What's sweeter than breaking into your school at night for a date?

“Holy crap that’s wrong even for you!” story: dito on not doing scandalous, but for angst then maybe this fic where I give Dani my caffeine sickness

Hardest story to write: Past and Present Now Embrace, for sure took the longest, with me working on it for over a year. I wanted to get it up before the Sun and the Star came out but that didn't happen.

Biggest disappointment: Not any published fic in particular but I have a lot of drafts I wish had been able to see the light of day this year

Biggest surprise: the community I feel like I've found this year, especially within Ted Lasso. Doing these tag games, trading asks and ideas with other writers, is something I've never gotten to do before and I feel so lucky and grateful for my mutuals.

Speaking of... @orbitalpirate @mearpsdyke @manwholovescabins sorry if any of you have already been tagged

[trainerbede]

HOPE PLEASE TALK ABOUT P5R I need to know how you feel about akechi at the end yudkdkfk and I'd also just love to hear your thoughts about the game and the characters in general! also, just to make sure, do you know what you need to do to unlock the extra content at the end of the game? otherwise you might miss it.

WAIT WAIT I was answering your other ask and I never saw this one. what. tumblr straight up did not send me an ask notification 😭

CELE AND I DID ACTUALLY FINISH P5R A FEW WEEKS AGO AND I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS, we unlocked all the extra content too, so no worries. somehow on a first try we managed to do most things: every Mementos request, all of the confidants with some free time to spare, and about 80% of the compendium. it'll be hard to put all my thoughts in one post but I'll try and just touch on the main parts!

first of all. Akechi. lmao. I definitely went in expecting to like him, since I've had a lot of mutuals who were very big into shuake from the time I've been into saiou and v3 (I guess they're ship-in-laws of a sort). I wasn't disappointed, because I did like Akechi quite a lot by the end, but I was a bit surprised that he didn't quite give me brainworms the way I expected him to.

if I had to give a character ranking, I think Sumire would be my top fave, followed by Maruki, and then Yusuke. Akechi probably comes right after him, and then I have a harder time ranking the rest (it's probably either Ann or Haru though).

I'm really, really glad we played Royal bc I cannot imagine only playing the original and being satisfied with that. especially when the Shido parts were so frustrating and had some of the weaker writing compared to the rest of the game. the 3rd semester was just such a better way to wrap things up and did a world of good for Akechi's character and fleshing him out a bit.

I really do find the relationship between Akechi and the MC so interesting. like, while I don't think Akechi will ever be quite as high up on my list of characters the way someone like Ouma is, I do think he shines best when it's as a foil for the protagonist. all of that resentment and feeling like things could have been so different if only he'd had the same opportunities or friendships, the whole "two sides of the same coin" thing, I LOVE that sort of thing in my ships. I also really wound up attached to the idea of the royal trio as an ot3 where Sumire and Akechi both just share the MC most of the time, lmao.

everything with the 3rd semester bad ending... I love it so much, those kind of "ideal worlds where something is actually very off and unsatisfying" is right up my alley. I kind of wish the game had gone even further with making the rest of the phantom thieves resist leaving Maruki's world and even getting mad at being told to doubt their own happiness, which was something they apparently touched on in some of the discarded voice files, but then they sadly cut them out and everyone came around pretty easily :(

the main reason I put Yusuke in my top 3 earlier I think is bc he actually gave me more of what I was initially looking for in Akechi's relationship with Shido, but with Madarame instead. I really was expecting the game to touch a lot more on Shido manipulating Akechi or essentially forcing him to become an assassin, you know, really focusing on the whole "kids trapped in their role in society by rotten adults" theme that is so crucial in the game, but there really wasn't... much of that? Shido didn't even know Akechi was his son (other than maybe some suspicions according to his cognitive self, but those didn't ever amount to anything so it's kind of the same) so he barely ever interacted with him outside of an employer-employee context. and Akechi was the one to actually approach him with the idea of murdering people in the Metaverse, so it's like... fkskjdjs agh, everything with Shido just really does frustrate me, I feel like he's got such weak writing but he's also impossible to ignore bc he's such an important part of the game.

meanwhile Yusuke and Madarame's relationship was such a more believably complex picture of abuse and manipulation (it reminded me a lot of Bede and Rose from swsh, lmao). I was actually really shocked at how well everything about the Madarame arc aged; usually Persona games have a few parts of them that don't age well at all, but it was totally the opposite here.

I had kind of gone through the early parts of the game back when it first came out without finishing the whole thing, but I remember thinking at the time that the whole Madarame plagiarism thing felt heavy-handed and too on-the-nose. now, living in an era where topics like art theft and plagiarism and art as nothing more than a soulless means of spitting out money is more relevant than it was 7 years ago... yeah, the Madarame arc just felt surprisingly relevant overall, and Yusuke's conflicting feelings of love and obligation vs. his growing awareness that he's being taken advantage of and seen as a tool was just the icing on top. also his autistic swag. I love him.

as for Sumire and Maruki—the game is so much better for them being in it. Sumire has one of the strongest arcs in any of the 3 "modern" Persona games, not just in 5. I'm usually a firm advocate for "girl they added in the remake game" supremacy (Marie p4g got done so dirty by the fandom and I'll never forgive people, she's a good character), so I was so, so happy that Sumire had such an interesting backstory and complicated relationship with her sister. her identity issues, her struggle with self-confidence, the way she can empathize the best with Maruki's view of the world bc she has also wished to just bury her head in the sand and run away. I love her.

meanwhile Maruki truly is the game's saving grace as an antagonist. Shido was god-awful and Yaldabaoth was, hmm... fine but not quite as interesting or compelling as either Nyx Avatar or (redacted p4 antagonist names bc I don't know if you've played p4 yet), but Maruki wipes the floor with all the other p5 antagonists. his tragic motivations, his fucked-up "I know best" attitude that dismisses human free will and autonomy, I love it. I think something about Maruki altered me and Cele's brains forever, lmao. also the choice to have him as yet another foil to the MC, from their designs (glasses, messy hair, sort of slouched/nondescript posture) to their inability to leave someone in trouble alone without helping them... it's just so interesting. I love you Takuto Maruki you messed-up man with a savior complex.

ANYWAY these were most of my thoughts 😭 I could go on and on even more but I've already rambled a lot! I'm still so mad Tumblr never sent me the message notif for this, I just looked back at my inbox after answering the other one and I was like. WHAT. at some point I really should talk about all my thoughts on the other main phantom thieves too but there are so many of them and I've already written so much fksjsksjsj

[haejjoon]

HELLO YES IM BACK strap in folks i hope u dont mind the spam cuz i love vomitting out brainworms online. Im glad my ask put u in a good mood! Because ur reply put me in one!! Anyways once again i love checking this blog like the daily newspaper to see everyone discussing things so fun

First of all i did see ur art of that rank 1! Powerful homoeroticism. I really enjoyed it. The "go all out? That sounds like fun" HEBDIWBZUWBIZN???????? Has the same vibe as goro's "ill need all the practice i can get to take you out" just the phrasing and the double meaning behind every one of these losers interaction constantly makes me go Oh? Oh! Oh... Oh! Ohhhhhhhhh ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Secondly, do not even get me started on the fucking romance options in the game. Im aroace and i haaate when every single confidant story with a girlie just has to go "wow u have helped me so much and ur so kind.....it must be because u have a crush on me!" Or "we've come to the obligatory rank where i somehow from somewhere at some point in time developed feelings for u and i have to ask u out!" Fuck no! Stop treating romantice relationships as the destined "upgrade" to your already existing friendship for fucks sake. Like i get that its a game mechanic for the players to have their fun and what not but it just pops out of nowhere sometimes and comeon even kawakami?????

On that note, idk how this fits but i love self projecting and hcing akiren and goro being on the aroace spectrum too but they haven't figured it out yet so it just makes the whole mess of complicated feelings between them even funnier

Goro to ann: "i hate this guy so fucking much" "are you sure you don't just have a crush on him" "what's a crush"

Goro: i hate how pretty that man is. i have to tackle him. i have to pin him down to the ground. no ann i do not want to hug him i want to Violently Crash My Body Into Him

It just adds more spice yaknow?

(Anyways thank you again for the food and happy lunar new year if u celebrate! 🍊🧧🍊🐇)

ehe the go all out line was probably my favorite, next to holmes/watson. thinking about the fact that akira can't do all-out attacks on his own in swap bc he doesnt have teammates... so of course going "all out" would be fun

yeah :( honestly i do feel sorry for turning the girls down but it'd just make me worse to accept their feelings. it really does say a lot about how theyve been treated by the men thus far, to start romantically liking the first guy who's half decent to them. ugh ladies this is why you gotta look at each other (looking at you, makoharu)

my goro has probably never had a romantic attraction to anyone in his life! ive always headcanoned him as sexually attracted to men, but demiromantic if that makes sense? hes got SO much going on with him, romance just isn't wven a possibility in his mind until akiren comes along

(happy late lunar new year to you too! im so sorry it took this long to respond aiooaaoaaooaoa i hope you're doing well <3)

[bogkeep]

maybe it's a little bit early but i'm ready to do the Review and Reflection of my 2022!!

where the past two years were very static years for me with only subtle changes (yes there's a pandemic but i still had to go to work and it all blended together into a soup), THIS year set off the rube goldberg machine of Theo Quit His Job To Move To Sweden And Started Watchmaker School. SO YEAH i think i can make a list again >:)

- I QUIT MY HOTEL RECEPTIONIST JOB THANK FUCKING GOD!! on one hand, i've been incredibly glad to have had the income and stability, especially during a pandemic even though holy fuck i sure had to go to a public facing job during a pandemic, and there were many aspects of my job that i genuinely enjoyed, and i felt quite good at it. that said, thinking about my job now triggers a spike of anxiety through my brain, and i was planning to quit sometime already last year. all of my good and cool coworkers quit shortly before me and i had to train all the new ones (including the new manager!) and i hope i never have to work at a hotel ever again or interact with cops that much. i gave myself so many headaches trying to accomodate all the guests to the best of my very limited abilities - there's only so much i can do with old building inaccessibilities (the elevator didn't even go to the top floor) (most of the bathroom doors were not wide enough for wheelchairs) (COULDN'T WE AT LEAST BUY SOME SHOWER STOOLS?) and the lack of AC. and while my wages were livable enough, i don't think i got paid nearly enough to compromise my personal morals and ethics on a regular basis. that's capitalism for you i guess. ANYWAY GLAD TO BE OUT OF THERE

- i got into watchmaker school!!!!!! i was looking into this and preparing for it already last year, trying to figure out what to DO and where to GO, and it's a huge relief to me that i actually got in!!! a new and exciting step for whatever my future will turn out to be!! :D

- as a result i didn't only move out of my town but out of my country. for now. but now i get to live in an itty bitty garage-turned-house by myself and it's WONDERFUL. this is my first time living entirely by myself!!! i love it!!!!!! yes i will have to temporarily move out in the summers when the houseowner wants to use the space as a tourist season airbnb, but getting to be in control of my own environment is very healing and affirming to me. i spent so much of my teenage/early adult years thinking i'll never be able to handle adult life, but here i am!! thriving!!!!! i am more self sufficient and capable than i ever thought i'd be!!!

- my summer was incredibly chaotic due to all of the moving out and moving in and uncertainty of whether i'd get into school or not et cetera, BUT i did get to visit the czech republic again for the first time since december 2019. it was good to see my family and my childhood best friend again.

- i got to meet several close friends i haven't gotten to see in person for a long time. i got to spend some good quality time with friends i lived close to, as well (that i now miss so so much). i made some new friends that are very dear and important to me.

- i got really super into S & D tier this year, and my brainworms have calmed their wrigging since i've been busy with school and all these other life things, but it's such a wonderful series that i'm absolutely thrilled to have discovered. it even got me making fanfic, and it felt really good to get back into writing again!!

- i think i got a new tattoo earlier this year? so much has happened since march that it feels like a completely different year! it's also very small compared to all the tattoos i got during 2020 and 2021, but i didn't have much else going for me then. so.

- i wish i had like, anything to report regarding my gender transition, but all i've done has been like... 2? video consultations with the trans clinic? and zero progress? i don't want to think about it too hard because it makes me want to tear my hair out. I'M HANGING IN THERE

TO CONCLUDE. this year has been one of huge changes in my life!! i am thoroughly overwhelmed by it but doing my best to ride the waves!! i am being so so brave and pursuing the things i want to do!!!! every now and then things turn out Good and i have to confront the reality of Sometimes Things Are Very Good and it's a little bit like a blinding light too bright to look at directly, because i'm a little burnt out, i'm lightly toasted, and i'm taking on these big things and trying to change along with them, and it's a lot but ultimately worth it, yes? yes.

[crimsonsnippet]

oh my god hi, i will devour everything about the swap AU as soon as i can and leave more yelling in the tags but. THEY ARE SO COOL I LOVE THEM

i saw you mention vocaloids and immediately thought of Lost One's Weeping and basically Neru's entire discography lol, it works so so much !!! Light who can't handle the pressure of the Japanese school system because it doesn't fit his brain pattern and he just has to express his bubbling anxiety somehow... and since he is dramatic and super verbal, "sing when you can no longer speak" and all. aaaa

will Naomi feature in this AU ? what would be her relationship with Misa ? of she still dies, would L be the one killing her, or would it remain Light ? and how would Misa handle Beyond Birthday, if you include LABB ? i nyoomed on Naomi when i saw your drawing and then V's birthdaymassacre drawing next to each other because Detective!Misa and Naomi... brain go brrrrr

thank you for sharing your wonderful art, it's so beautiful and dynamic and made me think of AUs i hadn't touched in a long while. vibrating with excitement. have an excellent rest of your day 🌟💙

YEAH I HAVE THOUGHT OF NERU A LOT IN REGARDS TO SWAP LIGHT…. As well as hiiragikirai tbh (among many others)

I imagine naomi would at some point! Though I don’t know what role she would play in the story. Many characters have similar roles in a totally different capacity. As for who would kill her and when I’m not sure! I think it depends on how everything plays out given there’s a different kira entirely and a whole new strategy going on. As for beyond I don’t know where he’d fit in either but i think he’s hilarious so he may? V IS ONE OF MY BESTIE MOOTS 💪 he actually kept talking to me about the swap au when I jokingly did a doodle of it as a silly concept to send to him lmfao so I probably wouldn’t have even posted the doodle if he didn’t give me brainworms for my own AU. if he wants to talk to me abt b in the swap au he knows where to find me lmaooooo

AND TYSM!!! IM SO GLAD IM HONESTLY REALLY PUMPED SO MANY PEOPLE ARE INTERACTING W THE AU….. makes me wanna keep making stuff for it!

[gunkreads]

I think I was interacting with you for a good long while without following you, through general WoT posts, the Tuon post, and the girlboss armclasp post. Then my mental health got way worse in the pandemic and I ended up muting you (and some other blogs) because the way I was engaging with y’all made me feel worse. Then I got healthier, started interacting with you specifically again because I really respected your thoughtful analysis/sense of humor, and finally was like ‘why am I depriving myself of the joy of regular wheelofgunk content?’ and followed you. It’s a whole narrative arc!

Man I'm glad to know 1: I'm not the only person who did the whole "depression-mute people who post negativity" to "oh shit you're cool" pipeline. If it makes you feel any better, I was also having a very rough time early in the life of this blog, so I absolutely respect anyone who set that boundary.

I was gonna send you one saying that the first time I really remember interacting with you was when you fuckin LURNT me about Tuon's arc. It was kind of enlightening to see you take my overt dislike of something you loved, turn it over in your hands for a minute, and come back with an impassioned and well-meaning response that respected my thoughts without compromising your own.

I genuinely have to thank you personally, which I've always forgotten to do, for setting that example of friendly, well-meaning internet discourse. It's helped me immensely in managing my writing voice and knee-jerk reactions in online conversation. You and several other people in this fandom here are great examples to anyone immersed in internet fandoms of a fun, metered, critical, sober, and friendly way to approach the kind of brainworm-obsession that so many of us experience with stories. When you say I had thoughtful analysis, I want you to know that you had a pretty important part in shaping that.

And, most importantly, people who have fucked-up-fictional-woman brainworms are funny as fuck

[bardicbeetle]

unedited bsi - from the sequel that will never return -

Many many many many years ago, there was a sequel to safe in the dark (then just "Safe?") titled "Free". It followed a still very half-vampire Alex, who had run with Isaac, married him, had a child with him (who, inexplicably has Daniel's eyes. Blood. Genetics. Don't ask me questions about what 14 y/o me was doing.) Kayla. Kayla ends up falling through the same shit Alex did, only going all the way with way fewer reservations about murder, she then Kills Daniel, Eric kidnaps her friend and nearly kills Isaac (to the point both Alex and Kayla do think he's dead) but ANYWAYS I wrote a tiny little thing, fast and unedited and messy because the brainworm bit me and I like Isaac and Jesse interacting. I'm not tagging anyone for this because it shouldn't exist.

Isaac Raes wakes up with blood in his mouth.

Distinctly, he wakes up with vampire blood in his mouth. He recognizes the fog it’s got over his eyes and the fire in the pit of his stomach. He jerks half upright and is caught by someone, who slowly swims into view above him.

“You?”

“Me,” replies an uncharacteristically harrowed looking Jesse Addison, “don’t sound so goddamn surprised. Welcome back to the land of the living, Raes.”

There is a pause.

An expression on Jesse’s face that Isaac can’t read, and then.

“Sorry. Isaac.”

What…the fuck is going on?

“I—” Isaac stops before he even really starts, “I was—”

“—Not quite. Very nearly. I got here just in time, seems like.”

Isaac sits all the way up, fingers at his throat where it had been slit. “Alex—?”

“Sleeping.”

He lets out a relieved sigh. “Thank you.”

Jesse laughs. “Not sure what you’re thanking me for, but you’re welcome.”

“Saving my life.”

“Glad you see it that way.”

“It’s been a very, very long time since I’ve seen it any other way.”

“Really?”

“When Alex killed their parents—not—not the original plan, mind you—we had been talking for months, years, about what could happen on seeing them again. On what to do if things went…poorly.” Isaac replies, “I’ve made my peace with it since then.”

“Sounds like you knew this was coming.”

“I knew they could never have killed any of you, that it was just a matter of time before it came back to bite us—so to speak.” Isaac pauses, “—Kayla—?”

“Went after Aly and Eric.”

“Daniel?”

He doesn’t miss the way Jesse stiffens a little, the way his eyes go flat and empty. “Dead. Kayla killed him.”

“Wait—but that means Alex—”

“—I don’t think they’ve noticed yet.” Jesse says, “Actually I’m sure they haven’t noticed yet because I watched them empty one of those fucking blood bags you had in the fridge.”

“Shit.”

“Feel like retracting your thanks yet?”

[mountainashfae]

I’m in a DnD brainworms mood (misdirected as I try to prep a session) and honestly I’m kinda mad that some really fun character concepts I’ve had were squandered on a group where one game just halted itself into hiatus and the other game is the one where I got unceremoniously blocked for reasons that I still don’t entirely know.

They were both so COOL to play around with even with the characters not having a ton of motives on their own. Sometimes it’s fine to have a character go with the flow of the party until they have a big moment and know what they want for themselves. Putting this under a cut because it got a lil long and ranty

Victor was a really fun concept for me of a dullahan with amnesia, dropped into an unfamiliar landscape and time and having to slowly relearn things about himself. He was a Neutral Evil Oath of Treachery Paladin. His top priority at all times was his own self-preservation at the expense of others if need be, but not actively malevolent. He technically had broken the paladin oath from his life that he doesn’t remember, by betraying his comrades with the intent of saving himself. He was in the middle of Barovia tossed in with the party and nobody trusted him because he was SO accidentally shady. There was another dullahan who was missing his head and CONVINCED that Victor’s was his own. Victor didn’t even know if his head belonged to him or not. We never got past the village of Barovia because the progress was at a crawl for some reason despite playing for months and by the time we got to Ireena and Ismark we learned that nobody trusted the non-human and magic using PCs so it was like the narrative was punishing us. Victor could’ve been so cool to explore. He could’ve had a cool arc about realizing the things he did in the past and seeing if the interactions he had with the party up to that point would make him regret the past or not.

Lucio was a backstory NPC turned into a PC just for fun. The entire idea was that the True Neutral Draconic Heritage Sorcerer (who tHAT DM messed up the original concept of by making him half-dragon and then teased me for not making him a dragonborn. Like come on. You did this. I’m keeping him an elf) was only in the city because of a bet he made with his brother. He didn’t CARE about everything else going on. He just wanted to keep his young son safe and make progress on that bet and the party was a means to an end. They knew from the beginning that he was not interested in anything else, that he was not good at socializing, that his father murdered a large group of paladins that one of the other party members belonged to. And yet? It was my fault for seeming disinterested in the group antics in a campaign that I was told was supposed to be more dungeon delving? For involving my son in a lot of interactions because otherwise Lucio would not participate? For showing interest in fighting the antagonist group (even if we knew they would kick our ass) because they badly injured my brother? He was true neutral raised by lawful evil, I’m always fascinated by how a character of that alignment could have their actions influenced by those around them.

well that turned into a rant and I’m so glad I’m not in that group anymore because I really did stop having fun. I want so badly to find a way to repurpose Victor and Lucio without being reminded of that group.

[cupcakestreets]

Hot Take: Gateau doesn't cut his hair so all of his simps (me included) can have a strand to kiss.

I'm glad Yoko was pleased with my silly little compliments. I immediately wanted to give her flowers and make her smile. (If I had a penny for everytime you made me, who tends to be more attracted to butch/masc girls, simp for a femme, I'd have 3 pennies. Not a lot, but it's odd it's happened thrice in under 6 months). The other two were the girlmas twins.

I'm laughing because I came here because of cute warden Ingo content, stayed for dessertcartshipping, absolutely melted for Spirit and like Kyle. Then I found your spicy twitter. Girlmas happened. I started interacting as a random anon until I had the angsty brainworms about being Ingo's ex-wife in Unova, and now I am here to stay as Spice.

I can't remember, was Gateau originally designed as a warden, or just a clan member? Because I thought the wardens had to wear the tunics? If so, maybe you could just add a haori to his original design, which would feel more traditional without removing the tunic. If he wasn't, then the new design would be just fine. Though I think adding the crest over the left breast would be a neat touch. And more practical than it being on his back because we don't see him from the back often.

Spice Anon

I completely forgot about this wonderful letter in my inbox 💕 Thank you so much for actually paying attention to all my content! I really Appreciate it Spice Anon! He was originally designed to be a clan member! I am revamping him at the moment and I am happy y’all like his big hair, I think about cutting it every time. I am adjusting his background a bit with the help of friends. I’ve been having fun putting him through different timelines with friends but I’ve been wanting to just draw Gateau prime a bit. I even gave him a nephew with the help of my bestie. All will come later.