#step up old man

[frogisol]

treat the boy to some ramen (and perhaps ask why he lives in a one bedroom apartment)

[radpool]

so brown eyes, I'll hold you near, 'cause you're the only song I want to hear...

- death cab for cutie, where soul meets body (inspired by @edgebug fic of the same name ❤️)

wip detail inspired by @edgebug's fic series where soul meets body. part 3 is currently being updated so go forth and read‼️

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58664485/chapters/149477867

[marciaillust]

the patrician is just a guy to me

[stiltonbasket]

sue me but I think Shen Yuan as an old man with crow's feet, laugh lines, and gray streaks in his hair could cure Bingge completely. It would just fix All of his problems.

[mcrlboro]

mark is old as fuck damn (typing this with one hand)

[invinciblerodent]

wild that it takes starting to watch Stargate, a show almost as old as I am, to drag my sorry carcass back to social media after a month of a Desperate Digital Detox and a self-imposed gag order

...... anyway hi, hello, how are you all doing, do we all think it's kind of weird that in the beginning, they just automatically landed on assuming he/him pronouns and a masculine identity for Teal'c? like yeah, it was the late 90's so it's understandable, and I may only be 4-ish episodes in so anything and more could still happen, but the Jaffa are not only actual, literal aliens (Teal'c just kind of happens to have a frame that we humans view as being conventionally masculine), but they also act as "incubators", almost surrogate mothers to the infant Goa'ulds they live in symbiosis with, so....????

I hope we'll have a fascinating discussion about their apparent gender, because at this point, if we're talking about which pronouns we should default to when talking about them, I could make a case for quite literally any of them

is that hole in their stomach considered a pouch, like they're some sort of a marsupial? is it more analogous to a womb that just happens to be able to open from the outside? how do Jaffa themselves view it and their role with regards to their gender and gender expression? did the showrunners consciously have Teal'c wear a conventionally feminine style of makeup as commentary on that? how many absolutely nasty, filthy fics have been written about fucking the pouch? so many questions

[mrfandomwars]

Epic Au - Fake Ody

Okay, I have an idea for an Epic Au that is based off of my theory of what Actually happened if the Odyssey is based off actual events

Which is basically: Odysseus Died either during the war of Troy or on the ride back to Ithaca along with the rest of the six-hundred men he took, and the "Odysseus" that appeared years later is actually a homeless man that Penelope and Telemachus convinced to fake being Odysseus until Telemachus could be crowned King so that none of the Suitors could take over.

Maybe even the skill of stringing 'Odysseus old bow' and shooting through the axes was something Penelope was the one capable of doing (and the bow was actually her old bow that she stopped using ages ago for a reason or another) but because people (or at least the suitors) underestimated her, they thought it was Odysseus the one able to do such a feat; so all Penelope had to do was manage to switch places during the challange with the old homeless man that Telemachus and her recruited before quickly switching back the second the challenge was over before anyone was any wiser, hence passing off the idea that "Odysseus" was actually back (and the suitors were either killed by Penelope and guards or ran away in the middle of the night because They Knew that now this was over they were going to be killed for all the laws and hospitality rules they broke)

ANYWAYS, to the au:

Penelope decides to do that - i.e. recruit an old homeless man to get the suitors out of her palace and Kingdom - to fake being her most-likely dead husband when Telemachus is fifteen ish or so, and this is something that lays HEAVY on her

...especially when the actual Odysseus pops up five years or so later to find a man claiming to be him, to be his wife's husband, his son's father and the king of his people.

[flagellant]

The more I think about Wildmender the more I grow invested in it. It's a fascinating interpretation of terra nil and solarpunk since so often the genre is fundamentally rooted in settler-colonialist philosophy, and even games which are intended to be the opposite of that--terra nil comes to mind as the obvious one--just end up actually revealing a different side of the factorio problem, because terra nil is an incredible impersonal restoration of ecological systems. Terra Nil acknowledges climate destruction on a global catastrophic scale and it accepts the responsibility to fix that, but it isn't shown as a human act, nor does it really allow itself the realism of just how terrifyingly impossible the task is to try and literally fix the entire world. Its game structure is supposed to be the anti-factorio but its puzzle structures focusing on efficiency and robotic engineering patterns of rewilding end up feeling more like a dialogue than an inversion. It's trying to say that the idea of humanity as fundamentally destructive is wrong while it doesn't actually ever address the human element.

And then there's fucking Wildmender. A game where you are a single human child in a world of endless wasteland and death, where the only other things are ghosts who remember a halcyon era and the hubris that ended it, wraiths which are consumed by their own greed and destruction of the land for their cursed immortality, and a couple god statues. The entire map is just ceaseless grief, filled with the literal dessicated remains of all the biodiversity that came before the countless disasters. And it's a big fucking map.

And then...the game gives you a shovel and a sickle and a mirror that shows the wraiths what twisted reflections they've become.

And the game says, "The entire world is waiting to be better, and the only way to do that is by doing it yourself, long and hard and hopeless as it seems."

I cannot emphasize enough how overwhelming the task you're handed. There is not a single speck of life left in the world. You are given a shovel and a water bottle and just...expected to do something about it. To look at the literal endless wastes and think you can heal it.

This is what Wildmender cherishes that Terra Nil denies: This is an impossible task for you alone. But it has to be done...and you can actually do it. The way you can turn sand into soil and dig irrigation channels is beautiful. Every single scrap of land that you reclaim is something you had to do on purpose. You had to do it yourself. You had to actively choose how to do it.

And the game makes the reward of even just getting a bit more water into the sand feel like victory. Your starting oasis turns from soil into lush and beautiful meadows--sure, technically instantaneously by doing magic on a specific type of plant. But it took me 4-5 hours before I got there. You have to travel so far into the desert to learn how to grow grass again, and then you realize that this endless hostile wasteland is a fraction of the map you're given. And you look at this sudden profusion of meadowy grassland surrounding your spring and despite how sudden it feels you remember how big the world is. You made more progress in a minute than you did in 5 hours and it's not even a speck on the map. How the fuck is this gonna happen?

And the answer is by accepting that it's going to take a long fucking time and a lot of hard work.

That's how it's gonna happen. Get to work.

[dwreader]

The absolute gall of Armand to be like “you can’t be mad at me cause you asked me to erase your memory” when he also erased the part where Louis asked him this like???? How was she suppose to know this if it was erased like what is going on here??? the gaslighting is beyond comprehension. Daniel do your fucking job and interject here!!!!

[thefatisland]

Okay so I tried looking back at "Sexercise" and by all the things in heaven I had forgotten how porny it was... I mean what else am expecting with porn content but... Ah, the thing is I'm getting old. I'm not actually old but I am not the teenager I used to be when starting Tumblr. And I am asexual, you see. Not as in "repulsed by sex" (though I used to for a while), just... it leaves me indifferent. This allowed me to go through porn works back in the days to look for all the things that were around the actual sexual things happening. But as time flies by and I grow older I just... you know it kind of tires me.

Take Sexercise. I LOVE the way the main character's body is drawn, I love that we have a full weight gain then weight loss allowing us to see his body evolved from muscular-fit to handsome-thickness. But... while before I could go through the whole thing while just scrolling mindlessly the porn sections, now I just get tired of them. Tired of how over-the-top and ridiculous some of it is, and tired of how just plain cringe sometimes it is. It is part of why I kind of slowed down overall in posting - especially with animes as while when you're a youthful teen you can pass off all the sexual and perverts elements in anime as just another joke or just the weird Japanese tradition, after a while you get to spot it everytime and realized how weighing and heavy it is (no pun intended) and it kind of wears me out. Especially when you realize how gross and wrong a lot of this is (because when you look for things touching the fetish in the scenes of mangas and manhwa, BY GOSH you fall on some disturbing stuff).

Anyway... If anyone wants to relay me or take over the look for good Sexercise picks to appreciate the weight gain of our chubby boy, don't hesitate. It seems I was the ONLY one to talk about this because of how only my pictures come out on Google Image when searching for this...

Meanwhile I found out the existence of a new, softer BL manga called "I'm kinda chubby but I'm your hero". I heard it is nice, so in case you want something a bit sweeter

[fatedroses]

When you're the emperor of an entire nation and undoubtably have countless very important things to do...

...but you instead drive over to your friend's estate deep in the mountains to surprise him, just to be a normal person for a little while.

(Aka he's hiding out so he can nap in the arboretum for a couple days.)

[moeblob]

The adopted son and his adopter. With a bonus gremlin.

[team-118]

I can't think about young eddie too hard I start gnashing my teeth together

[tianhai03]

to the people who have been going through my dmc tag (and the few who went through my danteleon tag i see you guys 🫵) after the netflix anime dropped, i would like to let you know that 1. i dont want to have anything to do with the netflix anime and 2. i dont post dmc anymore lol sorry about that

[teacolouredink]

I've been a good artist and actually been doing random pages of art studies like style stuff and poses/anatomy of some sorts and right when I was about to start looking for references I remembered I have free will so I chose the iconic sonic pose ehehe ft. my main oc since I've also been wanting to draw her more in general 👉👉✨🩵 same for this pose tbh I've seen peoples art of their ocs/personas doing it for months and I wanted innnn

[megpricephotography]

A frosty start to December! Flynn's really been enjoying wearing his little coat these past couple of days. He's a happy old man... much more enthusiastic about being outside now he's warm!

Yummy frost!!

You got enough leaves there, Flynn?