#sorry this isn't my best work

[my-rose-tinted-glasses]

THE NIPPLE TALK Kaiser Chuang as MAMA

Dedicated to @thisonelikesaliens. Thank you for the translation notes. 🩷

[maideninorange]

For the draw thing, Reisen Udongein Inaba drinking from a little bamboo flask!

She isn't entirely too sure about this special medicine Eirin made, but if she and Princess Kaguya say it will help her on her quest to stop the Lunar Capital...

[hvneymelons]

Dilara laughed out loud, angling her face away from Cal’s teasing words, “You know what I mean. The, like, spice they put in with the pumpkin. I don’t know!” She didn’t have a clue what about the actual coffee made it spicy, or if that was even the word to properly describe the taste but it sounded right. “My mother really likes making pumpkin pie. It’s always been a favorite of mine during this time.” Dee remembered her mother adding die to all of the items in their fridge right before the holiday and laughed. “Did you ever get the green milk? I think for a good while I actually thought it came from a leprechaun.”  Her eyes traveled behind him just as he did, but all she could do was raise a brow in question. Dee could have asked straight away, but got distracted with Cal’s comment and she chuckled. “Is that a good thing? How do you like the croissant?” she asked, taking another bite of the deliciously rich and sweet treats. She would have to add an extra fifteen minutes to her runs each day just to burn the calories she planned to inhale that morning. “Stop!” Dee exclaimed, swatting at his hand. “You know what I meant, don’t be mean. I kind of want a hot chocolate today. Even better if it’s salted caramel.” she replied, glancing back to the register where he kept stealing glances too. “What about you? I can go grab them for us.” Since he seemed like he wanted to hide from someone there.

“coffee is spicy?” calahan chuckled and shook his head, awaiting dilara’s surgical splitting of the pastries before them. it was best if she took control. his frayed nerves would cause carnage on the delicate things, and a hit of sugar would do him good. “i don’t think i’ve ever heard anybody say that before. i don’t know how i feel about the pumpkin craze, but i guess it’s like how everything turns green for st. paddy’s day where i’m from. green milkshakes, green beer . . . ” calahan made a face and moved to relax against his chair, or at least pretend to relax. he wasn’t sure whether he had ever relaxed a day in his life.   he reached to take a bite of one of the croissants, strawberry and nutella, still with an almost instinctive urge to glance over his shoulder, to catch a glimpse of the woman behind the register. just as they had before, the flavors exploded in his mouth like fireworks. it was almost too much for taste buds used to bread, potatoes, and vegetable off-cuts boiled down and shoved into a stew. “you’re right. i’ve never tasted anything like these,” he mused, wiping at the corner of his mouth, “what are you going to order? the spiciest coffee they’ve got?” 

[sultanaswardrobe]

Safiye Sultan’s outfits in Magnificent Century: Kösem -requested by anon

[inkly-heart]

Do you have a group discord server? If others want to chill and interact with you. Just wondering

That aside just hoping you’re doing okay Blastic. Still, if you’re not your gotta a lot people care about you.

I look forward to seeing how the rest of the game goofs.

—goofball anon

I don't and sadly I don't think I will make one. It would be fun to interact with people who enjoys my work and wants to chat with me but I just feel it would be too much work for me to handle a discord server. So at least for now I'm not planning to make one.

[narcissusneverknewme]

they wouldn't let me write the live action Disney adaptions because I would have had the best Ping you have ever seen. He and Shang would have had chemistry that took your breath away. They would be Yearning. the audience would be Yearning. it would be electric and terrifying and by marika would Mulan/Ping be hot. Shang is obsessed, the audience is obsessed. there would be hardly be a person in the attendance that doesn't Get where Shang is coming from. who wouldn't rend their clothes and scream to the heavens over Mulan/Ping. she takes no prisoners.

and yes, Shang kisses him in the snow as he cradles Ping's injured, dying body.

and yes, from the opening scene to the rolling credits he's going slowly mad.

and the first time you see Mulan she's dressed in the most feminine, floaty, light-colored dressy robes, with bone white makeup and painted lips and you fall in love with her. and there's something underneath, too. and it's so intriguing.

and then she shows up as Ping, and it takes a while to get used to, and it's kind of funny and awkward. but then it looks better and better to you. and soon you find you can hardly bear it when the camera turns away from him for even a second. and Ping isn't awkward to be around at all, he's stunning and brave and resilient and determined to be kind and you're desperately in love with him and you decide he looks incredible in the warriors' robes, actually. and his smile makes you want to kiss him. it makes Shang want to scream. and to kiss him.

and then comes the last leg. and she's got the gender-neutral robes, the "neutral" stage makeup. the loose updo. and you've never been as attracted to anyone in your life as Shang is to her. and you get it. you really, really get it. and wow the way the cuff of her sleeves and the silhouette of her robes make your heart clench. and the way her posture, her gait, make a new kind of sense. you can feel this is It. this is The Costume. you're obsessed and Shang is obsessed.

And then in the end, she's wearing pretty soft-colored robes and it makes you think for a moment that she looks like she did at the beginning. but then actually something makes her strength visible too. is it the cut of the costume? her posture? the framing of the shots? Yes it is. and you know, when Shang shows up, You know he can see it too. and he doesn't want to stop looking any more than you do. and he isn't going to even when you do.

every kid that ever watched my Mulan would recall it as Formative, like y'alls Danny Phantom but on the sickest steroids ever invented. She'd be irresistible. and so very gender.

[tinartss]

on moving out

[a-snake-makes-moodboards]

Georgina Orwell x Count Olaf from A Series Of Unfortunate Events moodboard with related inspo

requested by: @free-my-boy-grumbot!! ty for the rq, hope you like it :)

[divider creds: @animatedglittergraphics-n-more]

(all images were found on Google images)

song to go with it: 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World' by Lorde

Reblogs are appreciated, requests are open!!

[give-soup-please]

The narrator gets stuck on Babysitting duty for a non-verbal, but very mischievous toddler. (Please, and thank you.)

The narrator is quite surprised when his protagonist, Stanley, is suddenly replaced with someone who very much is not Stanley.

The child can't be more than two to three years old. It sits dressed in a little suit and tie, and spins the office chair in circles.

"Oh, oh dear. What's this now?" The narrator says, clearly worried. "Who are you? Where's Stanley?"

The toddler pays him no mind. It lets out a contented noise as it gains momentum, continuing to spin.

"Young human, I expect you to pay attention." Nar scolds sternly. "Where is Stanley?"

The toddler blinks up at where the narrator's voice is coming from, scrunches its nose, tries to get out of the chair, falls on its face, and emits a loud wail.

The narrator groans. He can't believe he's stuck babysitting this... thing. (He's not very good with children who aren't old enough to sit and listen.)

"Well, you'll have to do for a protagonist, I suppose." He complains.

The child is still crying. "There, there..." The narrator says, attempting to comfort the toddler. "You get used to it."

The toddler eventually picks itself up off the ground, and toddles out of the office.

"Finally. When... er- when-" He hesitates, not sure if the toddler has a name.

"-When the baby walked... out of the office..." He gives up. He can't take himself seriously.

This tyke ends up being quite mischievous. It giggles as it turns over trash cans and dumps out cups filled with pencils.

"My office!" The narrator says with a groan. "It will take a reset to clean all of that up. Explain yourself, why do you insist on tormenting me?" There's no heat in his tone, though. No sense getting mad at someone with zero impulse control.

The toddler only laughs at poor Nar's misfortune.

"Can you- can you talk?" the narrator ventures. But once more, the small child has wandered off, possibly in search of more trouble to cause.

Eventually, the narrator realizes he can bribe the child with small toys and apple juice.

What he doesn't predict is the naturally resulting sugar high and overstimulation.

The child runs around in circles, tossing papers into the air.

It's not very long before the narrator is at his wits end. In an act of desperation he teleports the toddler to the zen room (with the door to the staircase missing, of course. He's grumpy, not a monster.)

The toddler is immediately entranced by the lights, and begins to settle down.

"This is my favorite room." The narrator says, not expecting an answer. "It makes me happy." His usual syntax and verbal patterns are replaced with something simpler, that a child would be able to understand.

The toddler relaxes for a time. And eventually falls asleep.

Nar lets out a quiet sigh of relief. "What's with this sassy lost child?" He muses to himself.

[t-errifier]

today is my last day of work before four days off !! but i just need to say, i have the MOST positive reviews right now out of all the pharma techs & i'm so ... proud of myself for this accomplishment. i always try to put my best foot forward at work & it really touches me that people actually felt the need to write nice reviews about me on our company website ;;

[sleepy-crypt1d]

One of my favorite parts of COF that I find is commonly overlooked is the fact that it doesn't sanitized itself for a broader audience, it comes in with a message, with a story to tell that's hard to swallow with characters that are realistic and heartbreaking, and it doesn't apologize for this once.

Something interesting that occurred to me was how people who have never experienced severe mental health struggles view COF- the specific instance I'm thinking of is when I was explaining the plot to my mom, and had explained the different endings to her and how to get those endings, and what each one seemed to imply both for Simon and his relationship with those in his life, and her takeaway from the conversation was- "I don't like that the mentally ill main character becomes a killer. I don't like that he's the bad guy"

And this was interesting to me because, that's kind of the whole reason why I started to love Simon in the first place.

So infrequently are we shown mentally ill characters who do bad things yet still deserve redemption. Who still deserve to be treated as a person, because they are one. In a world that is becoming largely comfortable with the idea "bad person = deserves to die" it was insanely refreshing to see a character like Simon, who we see hurt people, who we see become obsessed and stalkerish and violent, gain redemption through healing. Through therapy and community and the belief from others that he will get better. That he isn't a lost cause.

In ending 2, one of the darker endings of the experience, we learn that Simon is alone. That his friends and family have all left him. That he's been abandoned due to his disability and general mental health struggles, and this was devastating to me. Upsetting to a degree that had me thinking about it for days afterward. Not helped by Simon's plea to Dr. Purnell to not feel bad because "not everyone can be saved". The way Simon views himself is much too similar to my own view of myself as someone who has struggled with similar issues.

As someone who was led down a path of harm due to untreated issues and still struggles with believing I "deserve" redemption.

Because I do, and so does he.

And it's always so upsetting seeing so many people who view victims as one note stories. As people who just cry sometimes and have trouble talking to people or get sad every once in awhile. Mental health is messy and hard to live with and life ruining at times, and this stripping of it's nuance is so frustrating to see happen over and over and over again.

Victims are not your savior story. They are not cookie cutter helpless children that need to be protected. Abuse and severe struggles do not make you stronger, they do not make you better, they do not magically make you more empathetic or loving and I'm fucking tired of that narrative. I'm tired of being talked over by people who've never experienced it or other victims who think they're the "good" ones because, well, they never did that which means anyone who did is horrible. I'm tired of stories of illness being sanitized for other people's comfort.

Victims can become perpetrators, that does not take away from their victim status. That does not change the fact that they still deserve help. That does not take away from their personhood. They are a human being that needs help, not a death sentence. Should they take accountability? Of fucking course. Does their trauma absolve them of wrongdoing? No. But I'm tired of people acting like cycles don't exist, like the second you act out on your trauma you're past saving.

Simon's story is perfect the way it is. A story of redemption and acceptance, of learning to live and grow and learn from past mistakes and find a way to live peacefully. To take responsibility and attempt to rekindle the relationships you lost, the ones you hurt.

Ending 4 and his admittance to the hospital, as well as his continued friendship with Sophie but acceptance of his loss of a romantic one, is heart breakingly bittersweet in a way that is hard for me to describe. Him getting better but living with what he's done, growing from it and learning to live anyways.

Another part of this is that, in his happy ending, in the ending where he does get better; he doesn't do it alone. Largely, the narrative of community is lost in these stories, how helpful a support system can be. Simon gets better because he has people there for him, because he has Purnell and Sophie and his mom looking out for him. He has his doctors and the staff at the hospital and people who know he can get better, that he's still a person deserving and capable of good.

People need people, and this seems an obvious note to me in the story of COF. Simon needs people. He needed people the entire time. Someone, anyone, to listen to him and give him the hand he needed.

And it's so refreshing to see a character like Simon still be loved and cared about and helped even when he was "the bad guy". Let mental ill characters be realistic. I'm begging you.

[quaranmine]

On Wednesday before I gave my presentation I confessed to a new employee that I was worried it would be too long and she brightly told me her life hack was to just let AI rewrite things for her. She said I should put in all my talking points and ask ChatGPT to give me a five minute exactly presentation. I was like....how is the most polite possible way (since this is a new colleague I shouldn't get off on the wrong foot with) that I can express that I will Not be taking this advice. Ever. I told her that I didn't think we were allowed to use ChatGPT at this job (we most certainly are not, it is a nightmare for any type of protected information) and also that I prefer to write all of my own work. Despite my best efforts the last part of that was still passive aggressive, lol.

Something about being a writer makes it so that it's almost offensive to me for someone to suggest I use AI to do my work instead? Like, the day I reach the point where I let AI write something for me is the day y'all need to be checking me for brain damage because clearly I'm losing it

[paimonial-rage]

what are they like in a relationship? For diluc

do you have headcanons about them? for xiao

[Character Analysis Ask Meme]

What is Diluc like in a relationship?

The day you found out his feelings, he didn’t approach the matter like most men in Mondstadt. He didn’t smile, nor did he meet your gaze. If you had to be honest with yourself, it seemed as if he wanted to be anywhere but here with you. Yet even with his stiff expression, he asked if you would meet him on the veranda privately. There, with the sun setting from behind and a slight dusting of red upon his cheeks, he then requested permission to court you. 

It doesn’t take you very long to notice how awkward he is in his courtship of you. Whenever you walk side by side, he always keeps a respectable distance. He does not reach for your hand, nor does he hold you close. Still, you can’t deny he’s earnest. Every meeting greets you with a bouquet of flowers. Every parting leaves you with a kiss upon your hand. 

It takes you a bit longer to see through his cold exterior. How his frowns when you speak are only in frustration due to not knowing how to respond in a way that’ll make you smile. How his eyes tend to follow you when he thinks you are not looking. How he turns away to hide his smiles when you do something that warms his heart. 

You come to the conclusion that even though he left his past behind him, he is a knight through and through. Never having been in a relationship before, he lets propriety dictate the way he acts toward you. It’s so incredibly stiff and awkward, you can’t deny that. And yet, when you look in his eyes, all you can feel is warmth. 

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Xiao Headcanons

Self-focused

Though many of the workers at the Wangshu Inn attempt to create a calming atmosphere for Xiao, there’s nothing he hates more than silence. Many people would not expect it with the young adeptus, introverted as he is. How would they know that the worst times of his life were spent struggling to survive on his own? And the best? When he closes his eyes, he can still hear them—the melodious voice of Sister Bonanus, the loud and rambunctious teasing of Brother Bosacius—his family. Sometimes, on the worst nights, he finds himself drawn to the edges of Liyue Harbor to let the sounds of life and living draw him to sleep.

Relationship-focused

Though you may have realized it before entering into a relationship with him, it only becomes even more noticeable after that Xiao isn’t one to express his needs. Oftentimes, it’s only until after he’s fully withdrawn himself that you realize something may have happened that caused him undue stress. It takes you time to realize that it’s not because he’s upset with you or that he doesn’t trust you; it’s simply that he does not wish to inconvenience you with his problems. It’ll take time and patience before he feels truly comfortable relying on you during his weakest moments.

[pixelatedraindrops]

Yuma Month: Day 23: Hand Holding

“The more I held hands with Halara…the more tired I became…”

Prompt based on yet another fic of mine.

[valleydean]

unfortunately, i don't have a new destiel halloween horror fic this year, but reminder that i have an entire anthology horror fic series for you to read and get spooked by.

[sherlock-is-ace]

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