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[marmuruah]

My favorite danganronpa art pieces made by me.

[claypigeonpottery]

well my geese ended up on tumblr radar. holy shit lol, didn’t expect them to blow up the way they did

so have some chickens!

[kannonxe]

WHERE IS BARNEY CALHOUN??!?

[catwings-writes-things]

An incomplete list of things that happen in the Jailbreak verse

1. A living repository of paranormal trauma and a carnivorous sentient corridor system destined to be natural enemies accidentally save the world by deciding to be nice to each other

2. A pair of traumatized weirdos express their love by murdering each other’s shitty ex-bosses

3. An ex-doctor gets dragged out of an existential crisis at 3am by a woman with a bear trap stuck on her leg

4. A man who died and came back to life in the middle of the ocean eventually befriends the fear vampire of vast distances who showed up to feed on his terror

5. An old lady meets her future grandson when he puts a cursed book on her coffee table and asks her to explain how she dismembered someone

6. A woman’s sort-of-grandpa sort-of-tricks her into sort-of-eating her sort-of-boyfriend

7. Two avatars of opposing fears team up to accelerate their mutual friend’s visa application by traumatizing various government workers

8. A semi-corporeal embodiment of uncertainty sends a medic to check on her friend with truth serum powers after she slightly stabs him in the neck to make him stop talking

9. A claustrophobia vampire distracts her friend from his broken heart by teaching him how to build a blanket fort; this actually works pretty well

10. The best diplomat in a formalized found family who all belong to the same eldritch horror recruits a new member by having the sense to follow his script and accept the damn tea

11. A marine biologist requests a magical object to block unintentional telepathy after an orca tries to give her romantic advice

12. A collections librarian dies a horrible death in an abandoned gold mine and still shows up for work the next day; her colleagues respond by making every effort to become a vampire-friendly workplace

[100percent-unimpressed]

Tag Game: Find the Word

I was tagged by @telegraphavekiss to find these words in my works: touch, tempt, thrill, and tender.

I don't really have any shareable WIPs tbh, so I checked my most recent fics. And it turns out I use 'tender' a lot less often than I thought and nothing I write is ever thrilling😂 Also I cheated a bit.

Touch

(Marked)

“Holy shit.” Mikey’s entire back is covered in scratch marks. They run from the back of his neck down across his shoulder blades and from his spine to his flanks. On one side, four parallel lines disappear under his waistband, like Gerard clawed at his hip. Frank’s heartbeat speeds up just looking at it. Some of the scratches are simple red lines on Mikey’s back, others have the dark, little spots of tiny, broken blood vessels. There’s one that runs down the entire length of his spine, just to the left of it, where Gerard’s nail even broke the skin in a few places. The area around it is reddened. Frank can’t keep himself from reaching out to gently touch it.

Tempt

(Know when)

There’s a trickle of blood running down the side of Frank’s neck. It’s a rich, dark red, the smell hitting Tucker unexpectedly. It’s such a temptation he almost licks it off. The only reason he’s able to hold himself back is that he doesn’t want to make it even harder for Anthony. He didn’t close the wound properly when he let go of Frank so it’s still bleeding a bit, but Frank will be fine. The bite is deep but not too big. It’ll be easier for him to heal it than for Anthony to watch Tucker take what he can’t have. Frank for his part is pretty much out of it. He barely opened his eyes when Tucker took him into his arms and he’s still just leaning heavily against his chest. He doesn’t even try to take his own weight. Tucker soothingly strokes his hair and Frank curls into him like an affectionate puppy. Tucker looks up to find Anthony’s piercing blue stare directed at him. As soon as their eyes meet, Anthony bares his teeth and shows his fangs.

Thrill

(Time and Attention)

Mikey gasps when Gerard sucks on his neck. They can’t leave bruises, at least not when there’s a chance it’ll lead to getting caught, but Gerard’s thigh between Mikey’s legs tells him he’s hard anyway. Mikey never needs much. “You know that big, comfy couch that Ray claimed for himself as soon as we got here?” Gerard waits until Mikey meets his eye. “It’s right on the other side of this wall. I checked.” He’s rewarded with Mikey biting his lip to hold back a moan. It’s almost a shame they’ve gotta be quiet, but the thrill of doing this in public makes up for it.

Tender

(Good Boots Take You Good Places)

Sometimes Mikey wishes they could have more tender moments, not just the passionate flings they keep stumbling into, but Frank can be flighty and Mikey never found out how to go for that kind of thing. He returns the kiss and puts his hands on Frank’s waist. “Are you standing on your tippytoes?” he murmurs against his lips after a second. “No, I got taller when you weren’t looking. Stop talking.” Frank licks into Mikey’s mouth to shut him up. He’s rubbing up against him, getting closer and closer until Mikey has to spread his legs a little so that Frank can put his foot between Mikey’s. His thigh is pressing against Mikey in a pretty nice way. Even Frank needs to take a break at some point. He pulls off and the only reason Mikey isn’t as out of breath as him is that he let Frank do all the work. He looks at Frank’s kiss-red lips. “So umm. Where’s all this coming from?” Frank’s eyes are burning, his breath is wet and warm on Mikey’s face. “You’re so fucking hot in these boots,” he pants. He glances down to look at them. “Fuck, they’re so hot, I wanna kneel for you.”

[artvann]

100 days of doodles are done! I started this to pass the time till I got to see Voltaire, and that will be tomorrow!!

[tenderwatches]

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

[semperintrepida]

This is the worst timeline. (x)

[beaft]

googling shit like "why do i feel bad after hanging out with my friends" and all of the answers are either "you need better friends" (i don't; my friends are wonderful) or "your social battery is drained, you need to rest and regain your energy levels" (i don't; i've got tons of energy, it's just manifesting as over-the-top neurotic mania). why is this even happening. it's like some stupid toll i have to pay as a punishment for enjoying myself too much

[corrodedparadox]

My train was late. AGAIN.

[scottsumrners]

[marvelsmostwanted]

There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most — public praise on the Sunday news shows — in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work – just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I won’t be fooled twice.

I’ve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times I’ve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.

As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.

The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population – so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.

The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.

As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case – but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 – a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.

I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.

I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.

All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 – just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most.

Sources:

• NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text

• Betches News on Instagram (screencaps)

[astriiformes]

I know that realistically you can only fit so many movies into a list of approximately 100, but I cannot take that "How many of tumblr's favorite movies have you seen?" list that's been going around seriously because there are some truly egregious omissions.

Some of it is very clearly recency bias, which makes me wonder if the op truly wasn't on here in 2013 or so, but you're telling me you made a list of "tumblr's favorite movies" that doesn't include Pacific Rim or Mad Max: Fury Road? Because, like, I was there, Gandalf.

[teaboot]

Yeah Mr. Darcy’s proposal was a complete turd and a half but you gotta understand. You got your life together. A good career, stable income, retirement plan, all that shit together. And you meet this girl. And she’s everything. Clever, outspoken, funny, calls you on your bullshit. Grade A cutie, right? And she doesn’t go out of her way to spend time with you but she’s nice, and sometimes you catch her looking your way in a way that makes you think you might have a shot.

But her family. Holy shit.

First off, it’s p much ALL women, and mostly UNMARRIED women, which at this time means of something happens to her dad then you’re financially responsible for like. Four grown ass adults, potentially forever

Because mom in law is DEFINITELY gonna need someone to take care of her when dad in law kicks it, and they have like. NO money. So already you’re accepting that if all goes well, you’re gonna be one random old bag’s retirement home. That’s expensive and exhausting, yeah? Imagine asking someone on a first date knowing that if they say yes and things go good her high-strung chihuahua mother is gonna move in with you. IMAGINE.

And girly’s other sisters. Well, one is a sweetheart, yeah, so she probably won’t be an issue, but that still leaves three more, and two of those ones are INSUFFERABLE. Never went to school, dumb as rocks, spend cash like it’s toilet paper

And while one of the two is young still and might grow out of it the OTHER one is actively torpedo’ing her entire family’s reputation by wandering off with random dudes and chasing ass. She’s never gonna work, she can’t build connections, she’s a fucking sinkhole, and she’s being led on by the same goddamn con man ass leeching tit who’s been bleeding you dry while telling anyone who’ll listen that your family is full of ratty thieving bastards.

And if he dumps her after a week- WHICH YOU KNOW HIS BITCH ASS IS GONNA- you’ve got a SECOND UNMARRIABLE GROWN ASS ADULT TO PROVIDE FOR. And you KNOW she’s gonna be a tantrum-throwing little shit about it, and it’s not like you can lock her in the basement or something, you’re gonna have to bring her fucking. Everywhere. And give her an allowance and shit while she contributes zero, because again, she NEVER GOT EDUCATED AND HAS NO MARKETABLE SKILLS. She’s not even good to TALK to. FUCK

And you’re looking at this girl’s father like “please for the love of fuck get your spawn under control, marry them off, get them working on their résumé, learning to sew or be nursemaids or manage staff or SOMETHING, yall got no money and one foot in the grave” and that old man just laughs like “haha yeah, what can you do. lol”

So you’re looking to the mom and finally it’s making sense how she got that twitch in her eye and as MUCH as she is you’re starting to realize she’s the SMART one, desperately throwing her armloads of girls at random men like they’re a bunch of fucking lifeboats bobbing around a sinking ship, like yes Jesus Christ sweetly that life boat IS old and ugly and kind of boring but for FUCKS SAKE PICK ONE

And you look back at this girl who is ALSO REFUSING THE LIFE BOATS BY THE WAY and god damn it she’s still the most radiant thing you’ve ever seen so fine, fuck it, Christ alive, you’ll do it. You’ll shoot your shot. She’s everything you’ve ever wanted in anybody abut it’s not even just about that anymore, it’s about being her best fucking shot at a future, and even if she doesn’t like you all that much she’s still gonna say yes and that might break your heart a bit knowing it’s about the money but who knows, maybe it will at least be civil, or companionable, and even if she doesn’t LOVE you at least you’ll know she’s well and cared for

And so you’ll do it. You’ll take on the neurotic stress mess mother in law, the absent father, the broke ass wingnut no brain no money no future airhead sisters, the bad mannered relatives and the embarrassing behaviour and the impending future of sharing your entire shit with a clown parade of freeloaders, you’ll risk it all and accept the absolute certainty of financial ruin and emotional exhaustion for the rest of your whole ass life and you’ll make your own family deal with it too, you’ll do it, you’ll fucking DO IT, you stupid lovesick motherfucker

And so you go to this chick like “look. Your whole family’s a shitshow. You’ve got fucking nothing and you’re gonna die on the street. But for some reason- and I don’t get it either- I’ve fallen in love with you, and I wish I didn’t, but I did, so I’m telling you that whether you like me or not, I’ll give you everything. I’ll give you everything even if it’s the dumbest shit I ever done. Fuck my stupid Baka ass, I’ll marry you.”

And she looks at you- having heard or considered absolutely none of your months-long internal debate and monologue- and goes “The fuck did you just say about my family, you son of a bitch?”

And the shock of that is enough to jolt you back into a reality where you are able to actually hear and process what just came out of your damn mouth And yeah

Yeah, I think I kinda get it