#sorta supportive

[specialagentartemis]

Genuinely: For people who are angry and frustrated at the limited number of movies and shows available for streaming, at the way streaming services pull or cancel movies and shows at will, at the way every media corporation under the sun is pulling their stuff onto their own streaming service and balkanizing access to things behind a dozen different monthly subscriptions? For people who miss Blockbuster and want to be able to just rent a DVD again?

See if your local library has a DVD collection.

If I want to watch The Mummy (1999) with Brendan Fraser? I can't stream it on Netflix, but I can borrow it from my local library.

If I want to watch The Mummy (1932) with Boris Karloff? I can't stream that pretty much anywhere, but I can borrow it from my local library.

I want to watch Star Wars or Iron Man or my favorite Disney movie but I refuse to sell my soul to pay for Disney+? I can borrow these from my local library.

Do I want to finish watching Star Trek: Deep Space 9 or check out Star Trek: Picard but resent that it's all on yet another streaming service I don't want? I can borrow season box sets of DVDs from my local library!

Obviously, available circulating collections vary a lot between library systems. (My hometown's library has all of Star Trek DS9 on DVD, for example, but my college town's library only has TOS, Picard, and Discovery.) And of course it depends on whether things are released in physical media form at all, and you won't be able to keep up with new episodes of new series - it takes a while for many things to come out on DVD.

But there can be a lot of good stuff there too. For example, I missed Nope in theaters, but I still really want to see it. So I have it on hold from my local library. I'm 73rd in line on 50 copies, so it'll be a while.

So check to see what DVD collections your library does have - it might surprise you what you can get access to, for free, in a manner that no greedy corporation can yank away.

And by checking out DVDs, you are telling the library that you use and want them to maintain and grow their AV media collection. Which is an encouragement we could really use these days.

[luck-of-the-drawings]

so REVENGE, HUH? or justice, if that makes you feel better. it tastes the same when cooked just right. 'I REALLY WANTED A BROTHER.' such a shame to burn a bridge you so desperately wanted to keep, especially when it wasnt even you who started the fire. especially when you hope that not a single fragment of that bridge ever washes ashore.[MAY IT ROT FAR FROM MY SIGHTS] an unfortunate loss! atleast he has his friends.

[tonguetyd]

The night belongs to you…but this jacket belongs to me

I saw iv’s jacket from the Wembley ritual in December and immediately was obsessed, so right after the New Year I started working on decorating my own old jacket that had been sitting in my closet gathering dust.

Two months later I’ve got one that’s a replica of his while also being wholly my own. And I am so very proud of it ❤️

[deoidesign]

Wait wait wait, I saw in your tags that's Time and Time Again is ending soon? But I've only just found it! (through the animation you did, it and your comic are so well done)

Ah, yeah.

So by "soon" I really mean "sooner than I think I would like" and it feels much sooner to me as the writer than I think it will to you all as the readers.

But, Time and Time Again is pretty much exactly 2/3 of the way through right now. Webtoon gave me the end date before I even finished my first season, and I've been trying to fit in all the things I wanted to get into the story before it ends...

It's why my hiatus has been taking so long, I'm trying to write to get as many moments and as much development as I possibly can, with really limited time! And... also admittedly to prolong how much longer it's sort of "around" in my life.

Because I know once it is over, I'll move on to the next comic! and 3 years just doesn't feel long enough to have Adam and Steve in my life haha

But, yeah. it's getting "close" in a way that it's starting to make me sad. like this time next year it'll probably be over.

It's okay of course, it's the nature of stories that they will end. I'm working really hard to make it satisfying despite Everything, and I'm really proud of everything I've done so far.

And my next comic will be even better for what I've learned here!

So, sorry to everyone, but I promise I'm gonna make it worth it.

[fisheito]

i told myself that yakuei only had one position then i proved myself (sorta) wrong

my fave face here:

[tulchip]

Homura crocs hours

[dirtytransmasc]

Idk why but i have this hc that when Spider was younger, he disappeared for a couple days to see if anyone noticed, and nobody did. Like, the scientists assumed he was with the Sullies and the Sullies thought he was with the scientists. So after that he tried it a couple more times, and still nobody really noticed. he got into the habit of disappearing into the forest for days. With that being said, he tries it with whoever adopted him and they flip out. Sorry this is long lol.

gods he would.

he would wait, wait for someoone to be worried, each time he would disappear he would stay out in the woods longer, praying to Eywa, his Mother, that someone would notice, someone would come looking.

everytime he would go back starving, dirty, and dehydrated; he'd chug water till he felt sick and then sleep for hours, and still no one worried.

eventually he pushed himself to far, and it took hours to find the kid, passed out in a shivering ball, no one had seen him in days, and by the time he did he was on his last of his spare battery. instead of being doted on, he was scoffed at and lectured on running away and being safe in the woods. he never told anyone why he did it, never told them he just wanted to see if anyone cared.

after that he only stays out there for a day at a time, normally sneaking to either one of his 'homes' in the cover of night. no one asks questions, no one even notices, or if they do, no one says anything.

so when he starts doing it around Quaritch, never being able to wander far, but avoiding him on the ship to see if he would notice, sending the man into a panic each and every time. Quaritch will pretend not to care, but after the boy dodges him for hours, letting the man believe he was lost, he can't help but let it show a little. it's worse when spider does it in the field, cause again, he can't wander far, but he's good at hiding, and he'll put Quaritch and the team on their heads, making them nervous as all hell that something bad happened to him.

when he does it to ronal and tonowari, he gets to very aggressive love and affection and a shit ton of worry. they both go out searching for him, his siblings too, searching day and night till they find him (it doesn't take long, but it feels like an eternity to them). when they find him, it feels like they've always got a hand on him, he can't break away from any alone time, and he can't pretend like they don't care. they hold him like he's going to vanish, they beg him not to run off like that again, they shower him with love and affection.

when ronal asks him why he doesn't really have an answer. he knows why he used to do it, but is that still why he does it? he can barely mutter his answer when he finally gives into his prodding.

"used to run off... see if people... if they would notice"

"notice?"

"notice if I ran off... if I disappeared"

"oh my child"

she would hold him for hours if she could, she would never put him down for the rest of her life if it meant her son would never have to run away just to know people cared.

[snowshinobi]

hear me out: divorce ceremonies. divorce cake and divorce outfits. toasts to the uncouple spoken by the Worst Man and Maid of Dishonor (gender neutral). separate piles of gifts for the freshly parted, stuff like nice sheets and Target giftcards and cookbooks. marriage gets to have all this ritual attached to it and by god divorce deserves some of that action

[definitelynotshouting]

You know what's insane about the Hunger AU. the fact that Grian is trying to die because he does not want to inflict pain upon his friends, but that's exactly the thing that's tormenting them. he's become so determined to stop himself that he's hurting them anyway, and it only gets worse the harder he tries. he doesn't want to be cruel but leading the Hermits on like this about the potions is cruel. he doesn't want to hurt them but seeing him half dead is hurting them. i am shaking like a dog

hunger au really is all about how suicidal ideation and mental illness can just twist your entire perspective into a knot.... like the objective reality is that he IS hurting his friends with this and he IS going to hurt them 10x more when it comes to the potions!!! but grian is so caught up in his own head and his hurt and his guilt that he cant see that or accept the cognitive dissonance that comes with acknowledging it. Its a genuinely tragic set of circumstances and being able to showcase the rapid spiral down followed by the slow crawl back up through recovery is so so so rewarding for me as a writer-- not least bc of reactions like these >:]

[6lood6ourne]

Lol my OM! world building but it's no bueno

you've been in a long term relationship with a demon. they're together, happy, mc has fully integrated into devildom life. maybe even you want to start extending the family. you talk to him, he's ecstatic—always wanted kids but didn't know how you would feel having a cambion—he's so so happy. he walks you through what the pregnancy might be like for you, you tell the other brothers, they're overjoyed!

but there's something eerie about them. they all have some pained expression. like they're not telling you something. you feel like you know all you possibly can know about demon-human relations at this point. but you don't let it bother you!

after weeks and months of trying, you start feeling a bit hungrier. a bit sick even. after taking a pregnancy test, you finally took. congratulations, you're 5 weeks pregnant! everyone is so happy for you! diavolo even throws a small party to celebrate, despite your protest. you feel...weird when you look at solomon though. probably nothing to worry about! hormones hitting early?

you're around 8 weeks now, not far along, but you fall gravely ill. pale, sweating nonstop, irritable beyond belief, can't hold down any food, but starving. hunger like you've never experienced. ravenous hunger that rips through you to the point it scares beelzebub. you're scared too. everyone keeps giving you those looks though. like they're hiding something.

asmodeus brings you a plate of delicious food, tells you it's a devildom delicacy you've never tried! you're shocked, swearing you've tried about everything you possibly could have by now. but you take it, it's delicious. it's similar to flank steaks, cooked exactly how you like. you actually can hold it down as well! you're back on your feet a day later, better than ever!

before long, a week or so, you start feeling ill again. it's worse this time. even the smell of food makes you want to blow chunks, but you're ravenous. needing something that hits the same spot that asmo's delicious steaks had. you're bedridden again before long.

the cycle repeats, a demon brings you a food you've never tried, helping you eat, making sure you eat all the meat on your plate at the very least.

as you get further into your pregnancy, the time between illness is shorter and shorter. you've never heard of this before. maybe your mother was like this with you? just need the correct meal!

you hit your third trimester. it's hard to handle, the boys are coming home late to bring you new ingredients for your special meals. how kind of them, they'll all be amazing uncles!

you have your baby shower at 28 weeks, it's amazing and grand. you got such amazing gifts for the baby, and your entire family unit now. gosh, you're a family of three now! how wonderful is that! it goes amazingly. everyone is there, even some other nobles that you had met overtime that diavolo has invited. you just wish solomon could have been there. he must be on some official sorcerer business.

it's a week away from when you're due now, your bags are all packed, everyone is on high alert at all times, and your demon won't leave your side. the meals are near constant, hunger consuming you faster than ever. but everyone dotes on you so kindly that you are always fed, there's always someone fetching an ingredient for you.

two days til you're due, your demon partner sits you down. he is sweating, looking dreadful, frightened. either by thought of your current state, impending due dates, or what he was sitting you down for, you had no clue.

he starts to tell you. he breaks down crying, wishing he had told you sooner. before you got so sick. before it got this late into the pregnancy.

your baby will be born "normal." as normal as a cambion can be, but more human than demon. you were never worried about that you tell him! what's he going on about?

he straightens his back, sniffles a little, and looks you dead in the eyes.

"you have been eating...human." he says, as flat as he can manage. what? is this some prank? really funny guys! you laugh at him, praying this is some sick joke. his eyebrows furrow in pure distress.

"if you didn't, our little one would have been born, for lack of a better word, a monster. the birth would have killed you. i...i couldn't do that. i can't lose you."

you felt your pact mark with him burn. burn like you've never felt anything. as if you were on the sun itself just in the one spot. guilt hit you. his guilt hit you. you felt so disgusting and horrible. you've ruined people's lives. you've eaten so much meat over the course of the pregnancy. you immediately ran to the bathroom to throw up.

you welcome a beautiful, healthy baby into the devildom two days after your due date. after eating a few more delicious meals of course. all for the baby you keep telling yourself.

after baby comes home, all of your symptoms have subsided. you feel better than you thought postpartum should feel. after a month, you finally let everyone come visit baby. so sad solomon couldn't come to visit today.

i have literally hardly posted but i just thought of actually dark world building for om! and need it out of my brain NEOW. i am by NO means a writer, i've done HCs in the past on twt but that's kinda it. if ppl see this, constructing criticism is welcome for if i start to write more :3

also idk if you can tell but i read a lot of DM stuff so this is slightly barely inspired by some pieces i've seen from that fandom!

[leowopard]

The Frog Prince and her Bride (inspiration: x)

[squidkid15]

I feel like most of the hate for the movie boils down to one of two things (and sometimes both!)

1. They wanted SA2 the movie instead of sonic movie 3

2. For some reason thinking the trailer was going to or has spoiled the entire movie??? And there will be absolutely no twists or surprises??

Like if you're in camp 1 that's fair and valid to be disappointed. I'm sorry the movie wasn't what you wanted it to be. But...did you really EXPECT it to be? The first 2 movies didn't follow the games and established a completely different world and timeline. Why would the 3rd movie be any different? Fundamental parts of SA2 rest on things that could never happen in the movie based on the canon established. The master Emerald would have a tough time being stolen and then broken. The eclipse canon can't run on chaos emeralds, they've been inside the Master Emerald and hidden for certainly longer than 50+ years when the ark would have been built. The movie was going to be an adaptation of SA2 (and apparently morphed with parts of Shadow's game too) not a recreation. And that's always what it was going to be.

I'm sorry you wanted an orange and got an apple. I really am. But why are you mad at the apple for not tasting like an orange. Like it was always gonna taste like an apple. It's an apple.

And camp 2 is like...either a fundamental or maliciously intentional misunderstanding of how trailers work. It's a TRAILER. It's 3 minutes out of a 90-ish minute movie, stitched together to make you intrigued without spoiling the plot.

There's gonna be surprises in the movie! Sonic is working for GUN in the trailer, bummer, but we have 87 other minutes for him to go "Hey wait that's bad" and stop working with them. Amy and Rouge aren't in the trailer, that sucks. But there's 87 other minutes for them to show up! To be a surprise! Super Sonic wasn't in the trailer for movie 2! Gerald's alive? No the horror! Or is he? We don't know! Could be a trick or a twist!

Cuz that's what movies HAVE.

Twists! Surprises! Cool shit to make people go "YOOOOO!"

Trailers? Good ones DON'T spoil the entire plot of the movie. And assuming you know the entire movie based off 3 minutes is - again - either a fundamental or malicious misunderstanding.

Anyways just let people be excited. If you're not, that's fair and fine. You have every right not to be. But like. Idk. Don't shit on people for it??? Maybe??? Is that too much to ask???

[fayethefae]

im going to throw myself into the sun i went to a psychologist today and she started asking me if ive ever wanted to be in a relationship and me being aroace was like lol no and she immediately was like HMM DOES IT BRING YOU ANXIETY HAVE YOU EVEN TRIED TO LOOK FOR LOVE i just am so tired im here to talk about how im so tired why are we talking about relationships i didnt book this appointment for this

[yuridovewing]

the alder/spark sibling dynamic to me is like if you took dove/ivy and made it more similar to 2012 fanon where ivypool was dovewing’s victim (we swear) and dovewing is this annoying bitch you just have to hate, and then made a ton of tweaks, like all of dovewing’s characterization and inner thoughts are yanked from her in favor of only humanizing her sister, and ivypool’s own negative development is erased to make her read as morally superior, and rather than seeing both sides of the conflict we only care about ivypool’s and we take piss shots at dovewing and villainize her for every little thing she says and does. am i saying anything

[mostmagical]

100 word drabble exercise.

Prompt: taken

He was giggling again. Quietly, under his breath. Marinette pretended not to notice, but she couldn’t stop her own smile.

Across the table, Nino sighed, a pointed look over his glasses. “Adrien, what,” he said flatly, already knowing the answer.

Alya simply rolled her eyes.

Adrien beamed, raising his and Marinette’s already joined hands over the table. The smile made his words lilt at the ends. “She said yes,” he replied, emphasizing their matching charm bracelets with a shake and a lovelorn sigh. “We’re dating.”

Nino’s face held all the exhaustion of an older brother. “So you said. Thirty times.”

Send me one word, I'll write you 100

[dustykneed]

who’s your most favorite non Star Trek blorbo? :)

hilariously non-fandom (ish) but... mr john keating (dead poets society)! keating/mcallister is one of my favorite ships actually hahah. i know most people ship the boys but i guess i just made a beeline for the old married couple (as always xDD). i have this whole fix-it au for dps... 6k words of complete self indulgence and counting <333