#still think it's an overdone meme though

[fooligandan]

there's reasons for why that joke gets repeated so much but it's just so funny to me to see how long it's persisted while also being "ok we get it can we get a new joke in here"

kind of hard for me to exactly judge this though as someone who's played these games a lot so i sometimes feel/worry that like debunking the joke is like a slightly longer winded "get good" which. i don't like that attitude much i think it's kind of rude a lot of the time (it IS separate from genuinely well intended advice/game tips but being me i also worry that that itself is also a "get good" call)

dunno my point here but the duck is really only a notable issue in CoM where he's dominated by RNG exclusively so he'll heal bosses on accident sometimes . anywhere else he's fine if not great

"donald doesn't heal" memers/repeaters when donald triple casts cure in a row

[strawberryraviegutz]

Oh and another thing, forgive me if this rant is too long, but I’m sick and tired of those stupid ass memes of Steven Universe and Jack Horner about Steven screaming and Crying for Jack Horner to change into a good person, mischaracterizing the hell out of Steven. It’s so damn annoying. Most of these people most likely have not seen or watched the damn Steven Universe movie and or show.

Steven was less of a pushover when he grew into a teenager in Steven Universe Future. Heck I don’t even think he was much of a pushover to begin with. Steven just likes being nice to people which eventually caused him so much stress due to his constant need of wanting to fix things and not wanting to end up alone.

HE WAS A CHILD. AND EVEN THEN HES STILL A CHILD IN FUTURE! AROUND 16-17 YEARS OLD. YALL ACT LIKE THERES SOMETHING INHERENTLY WRONG IN TRYING TO SEE THE BEST IN PEOPLE. THE REASON WHY STEVEN SAW GOOD IN SPINEL IS BECAUSE HE SAW THAT SHE WAS HURTING THANKS TO HIS MOM ABANDONING HER FOR 6,000 YEARS!

And no Steven didn’t forgive the “space Nazis.”(kinda find it funny when people call the diamonds that and claim that Rebecca’s telling is to forgive our bigoted oppressors/Nazis when Rebecca themself IS JEWISH). He never completely forgave the diamonds. When they wanted him to come live in the palace with them, it made him extremely uncomfortable and he also felt a bit on edge around them when he went to go see them a second time.

Not to mention he almost shattered white diamond by smashing her head into a pillar when he was controlling her because of the fact that he wanted revenge for White diamond pulling Steven’s Gem out. And no a hug didn’t “fix everything” either at the end of Steven Universe future. When Steven went back to normal after being corrupted her didn’t “get better” he was a bit emotional even though he calmed down a bit. Like literally we get it you hate Steven and or the show Steven Universe in general. You want a cookie or something?

I’m tired of people using Jack to put down other types of villains especially sympathetic ones like lmao these are the same people who said that the whole “evil just because they love being evil” (especially Disney) trope was overdone and wanted something else. And when people were finally given something new like tragic villains or generational trauma(WHICH IS AN ISSUE THAT PEOPLE SHOULD TALK ABOUT) now it’s all like”What ew we don’t want this.” “The twagic villain twope is overdone.!!!11!!1 it’s been awhile since we’ve seen an actuwal evil viwain.” DUDE the evil just because they love it is a trope that has also been ran into the ground. And this is coming from someone who likes both villain archetypes. AND FOR GOODNESS SAKE STOP SHITTING ON TRAGIC VILLAINS OR GENERATIONAL TRAUMA LIKE IM SO TIRED. DISNEY ONLY MADE TWO MOVIES ABOUT GENERATIONAL TRAUMA AND YALL LOST YOUR DAMN MINDS. YOU ACT LIKE TRAUMA DOESNT CAUSE SOME PEOPLE TO HATE THE WORLD AND OR PEOPLE AROUND THEM CAUSING THEM TO WANNA GET REVENGE OR DESTROY THE WORLD OR SOMETHING. LIKE YOU CAN LITERALLY CRY ABOUT IT. Just gives people like me more comfort characters to relate to, to help us deal with our own issues along shitty people like you.🙃(not saying Disney doesn’t have their own flaws as a company though.)

LIKE IM DONE, IM FUCKING DONE

Im tired of people mischaracterizing other characters for the sake of a stupid meme

Im tired of others using Jack to put down other villains archetypes

I’m tired of people using Puss in boots to put down Turning Red

AND MOST OF ALL IM TIRED PEOPLE MAKING THOSE DUMB EDITS OF JACK SAYING THE N WORD

YOU ALL MAKE ME GAG LIKE BE QUIET! SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH!

[wouldntyou-liketoknow]

RE8 AU Incorrect Quotes [Part 2]

I’m currently busy with other writing projects at the moment (mainly this year’s Goretober, because I’ll have to stick to an actual posting schedule if I want to go for thirteen days).

I’m still not sure when I’ll be able to write another fic for this AU, but I definitely haven’t forgotten about it! Until then, here’s more memes. (Thank you for all your patience and understanding, @that-bat )

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Nate/Lord Ophio: The real secret to immortality? Not dying. You want to be immortal? Okay, that’s easy. Just don’t die. That’s it. Refuse to die. There you go. Ethan Nestor-Winters: But how—? Nate/Lord Ophio: “But how”, you may ask. Well, easy. Just don’t do it. Refuse to. Say “no thanks”.

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Ethan Nestor-Winters: Shouldn’t you have something inspiring yet infuriating to say? Hunter/The Baron: Yes, actually. . . Hunter/The Baron: *stands up, clears his throat, straightens his tie* Hunter/The Baron: . . .Smash Mouth was right all along! “The years start coming, and they  d o n ’ t  s t o p  c o m i n g . ”

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Nate/Lord Ophio: Life is just a hallucination caused by oxygen. Once you stop breathing, it all goes away.

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Matt/Lord Loxosceles: I'm not creepy. Matt/Lord Loxosceles: I'm petty. Matt/Lord Loxosceles: There's a difference, y’know.

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Mark/Lord Isurus: I’m a multitasker! Mark/Lord Isurus: I can torture fifteen people at once.

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Nate/Lord Ophio: Though I admit I don’t know much about you, I am feeling pretty confident in my assessment that you are probably some sort of sick deadly fuck. Hunter/The Baron: Who told you my secret?

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Ethan Nestor-Winters: The “how the fucks” and “why are you so dumbs” don’t matter. All that matters is that I have a new gun.

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Hunter/The Baron: So, you three are brothers? Mark/Lord Isurus: Only in spirit Matt/Lord Loxosceles: Technically speaking, yes. Nate/Lord Ophio: No.

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Ethan Nestor-Winters: Those darn tall people. Nate/Lord Ophio: Darn em’ indeed. Matt/Lord Loxosceles: Don’t worry, they'll be gone soon enough. Mark/Lord Isurus: Hahaha. . .

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Nate/Lord Ophio: *sitting on the roof of The Baron’s Market, quietly talking to an undead raven* Hunter/The Baron: . . .Lord Ophio, what’re you doing? Nate/Lord Ophio: Apparently finding out that Ethan guy is pretty weird. Hunter/The Baron: Ah, so you’re stalking him? Nate/Lord Ophio: No, my pets are just helping me observe from a distance. Hunter/The Baron: Look, it’s none of my business what you decide to do with Mr. Nestor-Winters, but I’m pretty sure that still counts as stalking Nate/Lord Ophio: *pauses, then sends the raven off* Baron, do you know what the difference between people-watching and stalking is? Hunter/The Baron: I might. . . Nate/Lord Ophio: *nods* A restraining order.

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Hunter/The Baron: Why do you and the other Lords want to kill Mr. Nestor-Winters? Matt/Lord Loxosceles: Have you seen him?! His neck looks so snappable!

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Ethan Nestor-Winters: So, what do you do for a living? Nate/Lord Ophio: I exist against my will

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Ethan Nestor-Winters: I can’t fucking handle this right now! Mark/Lord Isurus: Just remember, if you can’t handle me at my worst. . .I CAN HANDLE ME AT MY WORST, WHICH MAKES ME STRONGER THAN YOU!

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Hunter/The Baron: Lord Ophio, when’s your birthday? Nate/Lord Ophio: Why? So you can look up my natal chart? So you can figure out my weaknesses? So you can destroy me? Hunter/The Baron: . . .So I know when to wish you a happy birthday.

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[The Lords are getting ready for a standard ritual event]

Nate/Lord Ophio: Mark is late again. Matt/Lord Loxosceles: How did this happen? I called him at eight o’clock this morning and pretended it was eleven! I even printed up a fake schedule for him saying we were starting at nine instead of noon! Nate/Lord Ophio: I set his clock to say PM when it’s really AM. Hunter/The Baron: *not involved with the upcoming ritual, but is still within earshot of all this* . . .I think you might’ve overdone it, my lords. Mark/Lord Isurus: *bursts through one of the temple’s windows* Mark/Lord Isurus: WHAT FUCKING TIME IS IT?!

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Nate/Lord Ophio: You don't know anything about me! Hunter/The Baron: I know EVERYTHING about you! You’re an open book written for very disturbed children!

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[During the Boss Fight between Ethan and Matt]

Ethan Nestor-Winters: Why did you let Miranda turn you into this?! There’s so many better things in the world that you could’ve seen! Matt/Lord Loxosceles: I don’t know, Earwig. Why do you keep letting your hands get ruined?! THERE’S SO MANY WEAPONS IN THE WORLD THAT YOU COULD’VE USED COMPETENTLY!

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Ethan Nestor-Winters: You’re terrible at interacting with people. When you meet someone, what’s your opening line? Nate/Lord Ophio: “Hi, did you have a happy childhood, or are you funny? It can only be one!”

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Ethan Nestor-Winters: It’s strange how well you and that zombie get along. Didn’t he hate you at first? Hunter/The Baron: Lord Ophio hates everybody at first. It’s his way of reaching out to people.

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Matt/Lord Loxosceles: What’s the plan? Nate/Lord Ophio: I don’t know! You’re smart, *points at Mark* and he’s mean, so come up with something!

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“Adulting is hard. How do I quit?” Hunter/The Baron: Time travel. Nate/Lord Ophio: Die.

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Ethan Nestor-Winters: Were you guys born AMAB or AFAB? Mark/Lord Isurus: You’re gonna need to be more specific. Are you talking about original birth or rebirth? Nate/Lord Ophio: Bold of you to assume I was born at all. Matt/Lord Loxosceles: I personally metamorphosed in a lab. Hunter/The Baron: I just straight up spawned lol.

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Mark/Lord Isurus: I technically don’t have anything against you, but I can still make up lots of reasons to attack you!!

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Nate/Lord Ophio: I’m gonna go check on my scouts. Try not to kill each other while I’m gone. Matt/Lord Loxosceles: Oh, please. We’re not children. Nate/Lord Ophio: *leaves* Mark/Lord Isurus: *casually* . . .Eat shit and die. Matt/Lord Loxosceles: Yeah, fuck you, too.

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Ethan Nestor-Winters: *writing in his diary with a glitter gel pen* I'm losing my sense of humanity. Nothing matters. God is dead. There’s blood on my hands.

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Hunter/The Baron: Why can’t we all just get along? Nate/Lord Ophio: Because most of us are assholes, Baron. I thought that was obvious

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Mark/Lord Isurus: You know what I’ve realized? Ethan Nestor-Winters: Some thoughts are better left unsaid? Mark/Lord Isurus: Nice try, anyway—

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Ethan Nestor-Winters: Are you trying to give me a fucking aneurysm?! Nate/Lord Ophio: Pretty sure we all are. Matt/Lord Loxosceles: Maybe you should’ve thought about that before you came here. Mark/Lord Isurus: To be perfectly fair, you almost gave me one first Hunter/The Baron: I just cause aneurysms naturally.

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Hunter/The Baron: If you took a shot for every time you made a bad decision, how drunk would you be? 


Matt/Loxosceles: Maybe a bit tipsy? 


Mark/Lord Isurus: Drunk. 


Nate/Lord Ophio: Wasted. 


Ethan Nestor-Winters: Dead.

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Ethan Nestor-Winters: *trying to hide his gun behind his back* If the conspiracies about life being a simulation are true, then WHOEVER’S CONTROLLING MY SIM NEEDS TO COME SEE ME BECAUSE I JUST WANNA TALK—

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Hunter/The Baron: It’s not like I try to blow things up, exactly. It just sort of happens. You’ve got to admit though, fire is fascinating.

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Nate/Lord Ophio: Could you maybe just like. . .stab me. . .right in the gut. Just REALLY twist it in there. ‘Cause that honestly seems less painful than this conversation.

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Mark/Lord Isurus: Look, try not to roll your eyes at me, alright? I’m not in the fucking mood for that. Matt/Lord Loxosceles: . . .I don’t even have pupils anymore??

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Ethan Nestor-Winters: Why do people worry when their life feels incomplete? If it was complete, they would be dead. Hunter/The Baron: . . .Do you have, like, a spirit animal to look up to? Ethan Nestor-Winters: Yeah—roosters! Because they also start every day screaming!

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Nate/Lord Ophio: Yesterday, I overheard Matt saying “Are you sure this’ll actually work?” and Mark replying “Trust me,” and I have never moved from one room to another so quickly in my life.

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Hunter/The Baron: I think I mostly want to see what happens when this whole place breaks apart.

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Mark/Lord Isurus: Matt, I’m so ready for the Twitch stream with Lady Dimestrescu! It’s gonna be so great! I bought the best laptop your money could buy! Matt/Lord Loxosceles: . . .Did you say MY MONEY? Mark/Lord Isurus: Yeah! It’s even one of those two-for-one foldable ones! Mark/Lord Isurus: *forcibly snaps the laptop’s screen back, breaking it pretty much beyond repair* Matt/Lord Loxosceles: Mark, that was nOT A FOLDABLE LAPTOP. Mark/Lord Isurus: *freezes in place, eyes welling up with tears* ...EuH. Matt/Lord Loxosceles: . . . Mark/Lord Isurus: EuH—!!! Matt/Lord Loxosceles: . . . Mark/Lord Isurus: *gingerly pulls the laptop’s screen back up, letting out a raspy sob* I tHiNk YoU bRoKe It. . !

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Ethan Nestor-Winters: *unconscious on the ground* Hunter/The Baron: Do you think he’s okay? Nate/Lord Ophio: *holding a bucket of ice water* Who cares? *dumps all of the water on Ethan’s face*

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Nate/Lord Ophio: Mark has no survival skills. His need to win has replaced them. Hunter/The Baron: Prove it. Nate/Lord Ophio: Hey, Mark! Matt said you couldn’t get to the bottom of those stairs faster than him! Mark/Lord Isurus: *Throws himself out a window at the top of the staircase*

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Ethan Nestor-Winters: This is a safety pin. Ethan Nestor-Winters: *cuts off the end of the pin* Ethan Nestor-Winters: It is now a danger pin.

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Nate/Lord Ophio: I just realized that every person is living a life as vivid and complex as my own. Nate/Lord Ophio: . . . Nate/Lord Ophio: I feel so bad for them.

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Nate/Lord Ophio: It’s called the Circle of Life because it’s POINTLESS Hunter/The Baron: Haters got you down? Nate/Lord Ophio: I show the haters how it’s DONE! By hating myself more than they ever could! Hunter/The Baron: The point of this was to tell people what the longest part of your morning routine is. Nate/Lord Ophio: FINDING THE WILL TO LIVE

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Nate/Lord Ophio: Welcome to Fucking Applebees, do you want apples or bees?

Ethan Nestor-Winters: “Bees?”

Mark/Lord Isurus: HE HAS SELECTED THE BEES!

Ethan Nestor-Winters: Wait—

[Matt/Lord Loxosceles approaches, shaking a jar of bumblebees menacingly]

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Ethan Nestor-Winters: I think it’s time I get my life in order. Hunter/The Baron: *narrating* But he did not get his life in order. In fact, he got drunk last night and fought a raccoon.

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Nate/Lord Ophio: When I admitted that I didn’t know what family I actually came from, Mark told me Mother Miranda must’ve found me in a KFC bucket next to a dumpster. Matt/Lord Loxosceles: . . .I mean, that probably is what happened. Nate/Lord Ophio: Oh crap, maybe that’s the reason why. Maybe my lackluster feelings towards their fried chicken is because subconsciously I'm reliving the trauma whenever I see their trademark bucket. My brain and cognitive dissonance won't let me completely lie to myself and say I hate their food, because fried chicken is great and I want some now, instead it just steers me away. Thank you for helping to guide me towards this epiphany, perhaps now the healing can begin.

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Ethan Nestor-Winters: I’m learning what PEMDAS stands for! Ethan Nestor-Winters: Please-End-My-Depression-And-Suffering!

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Mark/Lord Isurus: Y'know, I once knew a man who said to me, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” He also had a pair of sideburns that would cause even Jude Law’s face to weep in forfeit. You put those lemons in a sack and beat your enemies with ‘em! And maybe if you beat ‘em hard enough the bag will split open and lemon juice will spray into their eyes, causing intense burning pains as you crush them into a citrus-y pulp! Hunter/The Baron: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Their heads or the lemons? Mark/Lord Isurus: Whatever caves first!

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Ethan Nestor-Winters: Did you win? Or just not die? Ethan Nestor-Winters: Either way, hooray. Nate/Lord Ophio: . . .Is “no” a valid answer? Ethan Nestor-Winters: The hooray is redacted.

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[goodshipskypirate]

So I've been slowly trying to read The Locked Tomb series, but having just finished the second book after putting it off for months, I think I've come to the conclusion that I'm better off reading summaries to know what has (which I did with Nona the Ninth just now) and will happen (with the upcoming Alecto the Ninth.)

Because while I liked Gideon the Ninth, the more experimental Harrow the Ninth was a bit more off-putting to me. I don't think there's anything wrong with what the book did (though I feel like overall, there's a lot of vagueness about their world and structure that naturally, the main characters would accept casually as a part of their world, but I struggled to try and make sense of sometimes) - the mystery delivered by unreliable framing and narration was obviously an intentional and quite brilliant choice.

But I think it made me realize with books, being a form of media that requires you, the reader, to visualize everything on your own, versus, well, an actual visual piece of media, meant I had a bit of trouble keeping pace with the (deliberately) obtuse, hidden pacing and foreshadowing. Like, I can read books that aren't a straight run from Plot A to Plot B, but combined with the weird vagueness of its worldbuilding (I don't know how to explain it, it's like they do establish its surroundings that I understand enough, but also not enough?), the first 200+ pages were a bit of a struggle.

To Harrow's credit, it still kept me intrigued to keep going. By the second half, I was WAY more hooked. I wanted the zillion questions I - and Harrow - had answered by the end, so I marched forward and was rewarded for my efforts. It genuinely is a good book, I do think the world of the Nine Houses is fascinating in its Gothic morbidness and how it all centers on necromancy, and I get why the series is beloved (The Locked Tomb also gets points for referencing funny dialogues and/or memes that would be obnoxious if the author had overdone them; she keeps it just right.)

I definitely want to see what happens next, but I simultaneously conclude the series as a whole is Not For Me. *shrugs* C'est La Vie. Until Alecto and than I've off to read the wiki summary.

[infinitemelancholie]

I've noticed he's been pulling away. I gave him about a week and he hasn't said anything to me. I did leave him a little supporting message and while he hasn't said anything in response to it, I did send it with no strings attached. I meant it as a like note for him to know I'm thinking about him and that I want success for him. I am getting anxious and upset he's not saying anything to me, but sometimes my friends do that too when I send them a barrage of memes, and I wasn't trying to fish for attention with that. Hopefully I can find a notes app so the we can leave notes like that for each other without it becoming a conversation. Just a way for us to know we're not expecting a response or anything but just a wishing you the best kinda thing.

I think he might be wanting some more space so I'm willing to give that to him, though I do worry about how much is too much and if I'm going to be stuck waiting on him indefinitely. I don't want to have to wait too long to hear from him because that's not fair to me. I'm not asking for everyday communication even though I was enjoying that rhythm while it was lasting, but I would like at least some reassurance that everything's ok and that he's not running around with someone else. I know we're not official and I know that's partially on me for not initiating that or speaking to that, but yeah I still should be treated as I want to be and I still do want to be official with him.

I think my strategy for now should be to try to get ahold of him and tell him all of this. I know he's busy but I do want to communicate this to him. Also I'm willing to be patient with a response to these things because I know it's not easy to think about and it can be stressful.

I'm also trying to be better about schedules being conflicting because I know he's probably working a different schedule than I am just because of our different professions. He probably does have a different start and end time, and things probably sometimes do just run longer than they need to for him so I'm trying to be respectful of that. I'm also trying to be mindful of the possibility that he's shutting down because of something major that's happened to him and it's just causing him distress.

I think I'll wait until about Sunday or so to reach out to him to check in that everything is going ok or if there's some issue happening. I'll try to prioritize him during that time so that he feels like I'm listening to him and that I care about him and his feelings. Then afterwards I'll bring up me and my feelings and we can take it from there. This is the kind of relationship I want.

I think I'll open with "hey hope you're doing ok. Hadn't heard from you in a while and just wanted to check in that everything has been ok with you, and if there's anything you want or need to talk about you can talk to me about it." and we'll just leave it be as that and wait for him to say something.

Ok rereading past messages is making me cringe I'm so embarrassing. I couldn't just let the conversation die and just start anew I HAD to keep going. Ugh I'm not surprised he's been pulling away I've definitely 100% overdid it. Alright I think the first step is that I need to address that and be honest that I've overdone it with the texting. Ugh I'm so embarrassed that I was like that like that's not how I usually am but yeah I guess I got really caught up in my feelings for him.

Alright yeah I think I'll text him again today and just own up to being that embarrassing or something because ugh that's just cringe.

[mxnxdrama]

Carnage.

That's the only word to describe how Caelus savagely laid waste to the Memory Zone Memes as well as the Dreamjolt Troupe automatons that used to surround them. What was once a hall filled with enemies that aimed to maim and brutalize them was now a hall filled with nothing but mechanical corpses, and dissipating memes.

But of course it would be both their peril if either of them would think that the party would end then and there.

"My, I'm off limits, hm~? You truly seem to be saving me for yourself, you greedy garbage guzzler, you~." She teased as she followed along with her masked puppets, her giggling that followed suit might as well be laced with venom with how much it outright sounded like mockery.

Indeed, something new was coming. A brisk pace, yet also careful one. Almost as if it was gauging them. Of course the Masked Fool already knew what it was.

Something wicked this way comes.

Truly, Sparkle could pull a fast one on him now, pull a switcheroo by having one of her masked minions assume her form while she would slink away by forcing herself awake by means of self-'liberating' from this Dream... Which would have worked if they were at the surface Dreamscape. Being this deep meant that the only way for them to wake up proper is to return to surface. In other words, the two of them have already dove deep enough in this ocean of fantasy, that the only way to escape is the way they came.

"You already know the answer to that. After all, we wouldn't be this deep if it weren't for you being so sure about it, right~?" She spoke in turn. "Still is baffling, you see, that it took you this long to actually take action, seeing that you watched like a passive waste while your precious firebug got dispatched with haste~." She even got the ingenuity to add rhyming to her vicious mockery, even with the looming threat of the Deep Dreamscape's resident reaper drawing closer to them.

Though of course, she wouldn't admit it, but she definitely overdone it, herself. Whoever hired her to be in Penacony wouldn't take too kindly with her pushing the envelope this far. Hell, they might even prefer it if the herald of death in dreams would be able to go about just fine.

But alas, Sparkle would deal with the eventual fallout from this breach of contract. She has her ways, and the words to be able to mend it.

And besides, it would take so much more than just battering and vicious clubbing to permanently get rid of it. That she knows. Should Caelus succeed in triumphing over it, it will still be able to keep persisting regardless.

"Surely this time, you won't fuck it up, hmm~?"

Within their waged war with the twisted abominations of the Great Dream, for an instant what looks like a goldfish flickers across his sight, that proud declaration serving as both a welcomed reprieve and a mild disturbed all the same. For this side of Caelus that thrives within circumstances that promise many forms of destruction, it's like breathing all too naturally, similar to the violent uptick of explosive power that found itself charging through the soul.

'Her power.. Hah, what the hell.' Try as he might to discern it, the once swift views of his enemies began to seem slow in comparison, all as their forms underneath the blessing of kitsune masks began to heighten the thresholds of potential.

Once that kaledoscopic frenzy performed a pirouetting dance of chilling beauty across his vision, a scarlet aura would outline his body, causing his silver hair to bristle as a revitalized glow of gold is channeled within his gaze.

That sight of the lance of Amber would alter in shape, dissolving away as within it's place would be the sight of a simplistic dark bat. Momentarily casting the methodology of Preservation to the backburner, it was back to the basics for Caelus, a familiar stir of that golden strength boiling beyond a mere simmer in the depth of his being. It couldn't be more perfect as with their respective armies drawn, the sight of charging Dreamjolts to the ones possessed with Sparkle's damnable voice, that vocally stuttering tyrannosaur prepared for one more charge.

Slow. All too slow.

Destruction.

"Screw these damn rules." A carefully controlled voice intones, the obsidian casing of the curio bat undergones metamorphosis in lieu of his newest charge. As cerulean streaks began to blend with a haunting case of golden aura, Caelus's form shot off in an explosive burst of speed. A howling current of wind following his very pace, leading to the epicenter of their battleground to be a true party in every sense of the word! In short? It was carnage manifest.

That automaton dinosaur would find itself entirely beheaded with a masterful stroke. An abrupt blur of primal force concaves it's skull, tearing it from that circuitry and viscera from the neck, leading that hefty sum of metallic weight to bowl over more of those card slinging troupe members to the wayside. Multiple craters would liter the walls, the Trailblazer's form pressed up a wall, immediately lurching like a bouncing ball as he slings himself towards Sparkle's location, drop kicking the remnant of that Soulglad ape to the point it's entire torso had split apart, freezing it's stumbling advance as it crumbled over.

Flipping off of the carcass and settling back to back with the Masked Fool, fresh steam spilled from the delinquent's lips as gives a none too pleased glance towards the sight ahead. The once blue aura hiding behind the double doors ahead had altered, seething with a malicious form of crimson as unnatural shadows swam about.

...Again, Caelus couldn't help but ponder if this move was intentional by her, to violently aggregate the surroundings in order to draw hints of that unconscious side to the great dream.

It sounds much more feasible if she was merely getting off to it in his mind.

"Somethin' new is coming. Hah! How about we go n' roll out the red carpet in that case? Cause this.. I believe some of lurking bastards be aching for a taste of us."

"Too bad that you're off limits, that goes double for me." He confirms as he makes a motion for Sparkle to follow, the TV soldiers had provided enough of an opening to reach that targeted area.

Rather than a classy opening, the Trailblazer's brutish approach was to simply tear through, a decisive strike of concentrated emotion and plenty of bat distorting the marble walls and double doors, causing them to collapse without issue as a gaping chasm in the wall provided the two of them and her stringed puppets to advance through. What awaits them ahead is nothing promising in the least.

Once more did a chorus of haunting cries find themselves filling the halls. Pleas of stay away, curses of vengeance, a wide swath of malevolently tinted emotion trailing through the grounds as a checkered floor of marble extends before them. The very air was enriched with tension, an aspect that this side of Sparkle's tin can knight happens to take in stride. As massive shadows swam across the infrastructure that held no set direction, what blooms from the pitch of violet shadow would be the abominations of a more crystallized variety, stretching their limbs and coughing up viscous pools of shadow as they stretched into awakening.

One of the foes found themselves taking an abrupt lash of a kick to the torso, jolting it directly through the ceiling as the spillage of memoria patters to the ground.

"..When you said death, isn't that the thing you're talkin' about? What I was lookin' to crush with my own damn hands?"

Despite the heavy string of emotions that felt so unstable within, he'd hone onto that destructive focus as an anchor, teeth clenching in preparation as the halls within this area began to elongate in an entirely unnatural fashion.

It was now fully clear, a method in attracting the worst of these apparitions, and the ways they fashion their domain in preparation for the newest prey.

Something Unto Death looms close.

[gaypleasantview]

dirk (and dustin if u want) for the ask meme? :3

hell yeah!!

Dirk:

Sexuality Headcanon: gay, i enjoy other headcanons for him too but the version of Dirk that lives in my head is definitely homosexual/homoromantic, just feels so right to me. im thinking of putting him on the asexual spectrum somewhere (where is my drink) probably demisexual. his type is probably straight up someone like Dustin if we're being honest here

Gender Headcanon: trans guy! came out as a kid long before Darleen passed away and got lots of support from his parents about both his sexuality and gender <3 i don't know if he realized both around the same time but he knew himself pretty well pretty early on, good for him

A ship I have with said character: ever since i realized the possibility of Dustin/Dirk it has changed my life lol. like it was really always there and it's such an obvious set up but it went completely over my head like it did for most of us i guess, the way maxis seemingly intended is good too because Lilith/Dirk feels like a very exciting couple to play with if you see Dirk being attracted to girls/whatever gender you hc Lilith as. D&D live in my mind rent free tho. it's an easy enemies to lovers for me and some would argue that trope is overdone but there is not nearly enough content about these two that fit the trope perfectly sooo i wanna make that content. speaking of Dirk in this relationship, at first he admits Dustin is cute but hates the dude's attitude so he's gonna be in denial about his Dustin situation for the longest time. he's probably gonna be the one to make this actual relationship happen even though he's gonna be scared. but when Dustin opens up Dirk starts feeling really comfortable with him and falls in love deeply

A BROTP I have with said character: easily him and Lilith, in my hc she's a lesbian and they are fake dating while actually being besties so they don't even have to pretend much. these two are an opposites attract situation too but their energies match so well?? i should probably make them other friends though because no one has more than 2 friends in my stories 😭 i mean Dirk's also good friends with his dad but. yeah

A NOTP I have with said character: this must be about romance but i don't have much to say so i'll talk about enemies instead in this question. well i dont believe he has enemies aside from Dustin and that one's not exactly fitting for this question as we already know so probably no one lol. Dirk doesn't like Angela too and i never realized until just now btw that his relationship with her after he gets with Dustin is gonna be REALLY AWKWARD

A random headcanon: he's a giant bookworm, tries to be the best at everything and is quite grumpy, i feel like he would be very successful in college because he's just a shining star however you look at him. absolute delight (but can be a bitch). he loves cats and the color purple (i actually thought of making it his signature color but he's already assigned blue by maxis so im confused). also a big taylor swift fan

General Opinion over said character: gives off rainy vibes but is actually such a sunshine. i love him so much and im so glad i discovered how great of a character he is a few years ago, he's a certified son of mine (it's actually crazy to think that if he's a teen he's younger than me... like that is a noticeable age gap. huh)

Dustin:

Sexuality Headcanon: i would say the definition that feels right to me is homosexual/biromantic, sometimes i think it could be one or the other but i always remember that it doesn't have to because sexuality is a wide spectrum and im very happy to represent someone who has different romantic and sexual attraction! his gayness is powerful and i also cherish the girl-liking side of him and i think it's beautiful. i don't know if he's allosexual yet but i feel like he's probably demiromantic i hadn't even realized that until just now! im excited

Gender Headcanon: im still wondering about this, i see him as a guy and currently as cis, i really like the idea of him being trans but given how i hc him and his family i feel like by the age of 16 he would be unlikely to freely express himself or maybe even discover himself at all? he's quite emotionally repressed and doesn't give himself time to process his feelings so he probably wouldn't even know what the feeling means if he had it. hmmm

A ship I have with said character: Dirk ofc. Dustin didn't know he was gay and likely had inner homophobia but after meeting Dirk he knew what was up and he embraced it (after they stopped hating each other first heh). he had a pretty wonderful relationship with Angela so i like these two a lot together but with Dirk it's just a whole another story. Angela is like a comfort place and with Dirk it's like a rollercoaster and Dustin is just addicted to the feeling. he will be the first one to make a move but it's gonna be in a bit of a stupid way of course because he's secretly really awkward so it'll take time for them to actually see what's up

A BROTP I have with said character: Angela. she helps him with the kids and just generally spends so much time with him and they genuinely love each other so much as bf and gf but then as friends too, the breakup is hard for Angela but after some time it definitely gets better and they are just a great couple of peeps who care for each other :) i would say i need to get Dusty other friends too but i'll be honest with you i don't even think he has any. poor boy i gave him like 2 or 3 nice points

A NOTP I have with said character: Lilith hates Dustin and wouldn't engage 😭 she learns to tolerate him but imagine these two put in a room they would fight to death

A random headcanon: Dustin is a huge family boy and the only times he is genuinely expressing his feelings is when he is with his little siblings. Brandi and him have a weird relationship that is full of fights but in its core their relationship is not the worst, she's a loving mom just not very good at it. he probably has some obscure hobbies but i don't remember which rn. he likes sports (sadly). he's a very angsty teen and 100% listens to angsty teenage music in his room. he's gonna be such a great man in college when he matures and starts being honest with himself about things and this is the best glow up ever

General Opinion over said character: i love Dustin. i am so proud of his growth and bravery <3 he is kind of a menace in the beginning of my story, super mean but i don't want to throw him under the bus because his soul is so beautiful. wait is that bus thing even a saying or did i make that up. anyways boy needs therapy and hugs

thank you so much for the ask!!! this is really long but i love talking about them <3

[chemicaljacketslut]

i’m bored and stalling writing a boring scene so let me rate reddie (and general) fanfic phrases/tropes

richie sneaking into eddie’s bedroom: 8/10 listen i know it’s overdone but it’s just so GOOD

miscommunication trope: -1000000/10 stop it you’re not shakespeare literally just have them TALK TO EACH OTHER

descriptors in place of names like “the younger male” “the ravenette”: 1/10 listen i know it’s hard to distribute names and pronouns without being repetitive but please i have a personal vendetta against this shit

richie being So Angsty: 6/10 i love projecting onto richie tozier as much as the next guy but at a certain point it’s like. listen. this man has one single braincell and it’s dedicated to loving eddie. he is a standup comedian. he is just not that angsty

using literally any other terms besides Synonym For Rooster/Synonym For Cat: 0/10 (Nickname For Richard is okay IF USED SPARINGLY)

“Oh… oh”: 1000000/10 one italicized word is something that can actually be so personal

college reddie: 10/10 delicious

emo/grunge/whatever richie & pastel eddie: 6/10 i see the appeal i guess and i definitely fell for this when i was younger but it’s just so out of character. bright patterns and zero fashion sense richie & smart sensible fashion eddie ftw. bring back book eddie’s canon gucci loafers

eddie just Showing Up to live with richie post-adult It battle: 9/10 in character and also parallels the richie sneaking into eddie’s bedroom trope

maturin bringing stan/eddie back from the dead: 7/10 listen it’s kind of a write off but like what tf else are you gonna use if you want to abide by the rules of canon

manwhore richie/soft eddie: 5/10 idk bout this one but i do appreciate me a good manwhore

“letting go of a breath they didn’t know they were holding”: 8/10 overused but still such a good way to describe that shit

“pregnant pause”: 7/10 hot take but my favorite part of writing is word choice/sentence structure and the idea of a pause being pregnant bc it’s heavy and there’s something in it not being said, it just works for me

richie & beverly being best friends: 10/10 personally i prefer sticking to the book choice of stan & richie being best friends but thanks to sophia lillis being braver than any us marine and giving beverly a personality in the movies, the richie/beverly best-friendship works so well

crossover fics: 6/10 just not for me personally, i tend to want my characters to stay in their separate universes and not interact with other universes’ characters. fics inspired by other media can be good though

barry-inspired fics: 9/10 this gets its own category because heeheehoohoo i love them so much and i have like 3 unfinished ones in my drafts everyone please write more of these

incorporating current memes: 4/10 it can be funny if you manage to not make it seem to tryhard, but memes age so quickly that this is a risky risky move

chatfics: 2/10 look i’ve come across like one decent chatfic ever, and it was in like 2018, and looking back on it now, all the humor is so stale. they’re just so hard to make believable and they don’t stay good for long because the way people talk to each other on the internet is constantly evolving

using iconic It quotes like “don’t call me Eds,” “you’re braver than you think,” “apple-solutely,” etc: 8/10 as long as you don’t overdo it or make it like PAINFULLY obvious like “hey guys it’s a reference!!! haha they said the thing!! guys did you see that they said the thing they said in the book/movie!!!!!” it’s a nice touch & i personally love doing this lol

songfics: 6/10 another hot take i think but if it’s the kind of songfic that’s either inspired by a song or it’s like bits of fic with the song lyrics dispersed throughout, it can be good

stan being the only sane one in the group: 5/10 i see where people get this from bc stan tries to come off as more serious and he’s very fastidious, but like he was still a kid, too. he has an equal amount of brain cells to the rest of the losers which is one. i prefer writing stan as trying to be the responsible one (or at least trying to come off as the responsible one) but getting into loser shenanigans anyway

that’s all i have off the top of my head suggest more for me to rate if u want

[strawberryraviegutz]

@starfishes-and-watercolors

I know right! I still enjoyed Ruby Gillman though. Don’t even get me started on Puss In Boots The Last Wish..I honestly loved that movie and used to Simp for Jack Horner( however if you’re one of those people who makes fun of others for simping for characters that aren’t attractive to your standards or use the term tumblr sexyman as an insult then you can leave) and wanted to make a whole thing with him and my oc who was supposed to based off of swan lake. She was also supposed to be a magical being that Jack captured for his collection because, well, it’s Jack Horner. And we know that he captures and or collects things that are alive such as the Phoenix and jimeny(ethical bug). So what’s stopping him from kidnapping a woman that has wings, right? That’s sorta the idea I wanted to go with. She would’ve also been both the white swan and the black swan, with the black swan being her darker half/self.

But of course nothing is sacred..

I hated these fucking DreamWorks pick me’s saying shit like “It’s gwood and refweshing to finawy get a viwain like Jack Horner. The twagic villain twope is so overdone..” or “haha Jack solos other villains and generational trauma”. These bastards also used the movie to put down Turning Red, a really good movie movie that already had a lot of hate before it even came out because of cringe culture, sexism, and racism. Disney only made 2-3 movies about generational trauma and these dickheads lost their damn minds.

Not to say Disney is perfect they’re an extremely flawed company but my point still stands. What these dummies don’t realize that literally EVERY TROPE IN EXISTENCE HAS BEN OVERUSED INCLUDING VILLAINS LIKE JACK. There was probably a lot of asinine takes that I saw but I can’t remember them all rn. But what I will never forget..the shit I always hated..people using Jack as a Trojan horse to do and say bigoted shit..all these memes and people saying like “lmao he’d say this slur” “or Jack would *insert something bigoted here*” drawing Jack with the r word pass and the n word pass out of his big bag thingy..THIS ONE DISGUSTING INDIVIDUAL LITERALLY MADE ACCOUNTS FOR IT. THERE WAS A TRANSPHOBIC JACK HORNER ACCOUNT WHICH WAS THANKFULLY SUSPENDED BUT THEN ANOTHER ONE POPPED UP CALLED,

RACIST JACK HORNER WHICH MADE ME WANNA FUCKING THROW UP. I THINK ITS STILL UP BUT I AM NOT GOING BACK TO CHECK… and the cherry on top..those DAMN MEMES. YOU KNOW THE ONES. THE ONES THAT INVOLVE STEVEN FROM STEVEN UNIVERSE.

Listen Steven Universe is not a perfect show, but so many people REFUSE TO HAVE MEDIA LITERACY FOR IT AND MISCHARACTERIZES STEVEN TO ALL HELL WITH OTHER MEMES INVOLVING OTHER CHARACTERS AND THE ONES INVOLVING HIM AND JACK HORNER ARE JUST ABSOLUTE GARBAGE!

LIKE NO STEVEN WOULDNT BE CRYING FOR JACK HORNER TO CHANGE HED LITERALLY STILL TRY TO FIGHT AND BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF HIM CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT IN SU FUTURE, STEVEN LITERALLY SHATTERED JASPER AND ALMOST SHATTERED WHITE DIAMOND OUT OF REVENGE. NO STEVEN ISNT AND HAS NEVER BEEN A PUSHOVER CRYBABY, HE CAN TAKE CARE OF HIMSELF. EVEN THEN HES A FUCKING TRAUMATIZED CHILD WHAT DO YOU EXPECT HIM TO DO?? These stupid memes are also the reason why the “you can make a change” song has

just been completely ruined for me because of memes like this, and I’m not only talking about the ones involving Jack. And these bitches even had the nerve to make edits of Jack SAYING THE FUCKING N WORD…like..WHAT?? WHAT?? THERE WAS LITERALLY NO NEED FOR THAT, NO ONE ASKED FOR THAT! LIKE YES JACK HORNER IS AN ASSHOLE WITH NO TRAGIC REASON AS TO WHY HES LIKE THIS BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN I WANNA THINK ABOUT HIM SAYING SLURS AND SHIT. ACTUALLY ID EVEN ARGUE AGAINST ONE THING BECAUSE ACCORDING TO THE

OFFICIAL BOOK ON PUSS IN BOOTS THE LAST WISH THAT WAS RELEASED, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY IN JACK’S SECTION IT SAYS THE REASON WHY HE IS THE WAY HE IS NOW IS BECAUSE OF SOMETHING ALONG THE LINE OF HE HATED THE FACT THAT HIM, A NURSERY RYME WAS OVERLOOKED BY FAIRYTALES. SO THESE DUMB BITCHES ARE LITERALLY WRONG ABOUT HIM LMAO(could be wrong about that too but whatever). So yeah it’s because of all of these things that I now fucking hate Jack Horner with a passion and he’s lost his appeal on me either way..that and some other stuff about his personality that now looking back on I just couldn’t vibe with in the way like I do with other villains. Sorry if I got a bit heated there. I’m just so damn angry.

These are most likely the same assholes used Chelsea to be racist towards Halle like I said..They cry and whine about “Disney boot lickers” when they’re literally doing the same thing with DreamWorks, like hellooo?? It’s like..DreamWork ain’t gonna notice ya hun..DreamWorks ain’t gonna pick you 😂. Anyways I wish I could’ve avoided that side of the DreamWorks fandom that I bore witness to..

Heck I’m pretty sure the Puss in Boots the last wish movie as a whole has been ruined for me now..such a shame too..and those tweets from those same pick me dudebros making fun of the panic attack scene and or someone talking about how good the panic attack in that scene was depicted in the movie too. Along with them making fun of media touching upon panic attacks as a whole because of that scene int Puss in Boots..disgusting fuckers..

This fucking tweet has some how cause a storm of hate for  Ruby Gillman WTF happened? The replies are like “That’s what you get for dunking on the real mermaid”. God forbid an original IP becomes successful. I know also this movie didn’t have much marketing months in advanced but looking at the replies of that tweet I’ve seen some real distain towards Ruby Gillman, Like even some of the Mermaid fans think this film doing badly is payback for racism  Halle Bailey received, even though the Arial their parodying is the original. Anyways I hope this does well enough.

[spookykestrel]

34, 50 and 51 :D

34 (favorite place to go on a date?). Ok i've always been single and have no plans to change that but lemme tell you about my bread date idea I've had since I was like...13, inspired both by that one episode of friends where ross gets stood up but gets free lobster cakes or something and by the breadsticks meme. So basically you go to a restaurant, maybe texas road house, olive garden, outback, anywhere with really good bread. Go in alone and act like you're waiting for your date. Over the course of like 20 minutes, stuff your bag full of bread. When your date doesn't show up, act very distraught and pretend you've been stood up and leave without ordering. You and your date do this at varying restaurants around town until you've amassed enough free bead for a lifetime and then meet up at a planned location and feast on the banquet built on lies. I'm sure I'll never do this but I've stuck with this idea for years. Wow I really want some bread now.

50 (any arospec headcanons?) oh gee I KNOW I have at least one but I can't think...the one I joked about with friends yesterday was Ravenpaw from warriors (It's been 10 years since I read those books and I'm still in love with them).

51 (How do you feel about romance in media?) I could talk about this for HOURs. I'm sure partially because I grew up surrounded by romance stories and ideas, but I'm such a hopeless romantic. I love romance novels (unless they're insanely cheesy), I love fanfic, I love headcanons, I love romance. What I've found interesting is that once that characters get together, I'm often bored of it and don't find the plot interesting anymore. I love the process of characters falling in love but once any drama is over, it's boring (Im sorry loll). I love most cliches though, enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, "forbidden" romance, etc, but I have to be in the right mood for it. There's some plotlines like love triangles that are just too overdone and I'm bored of.

[chronotopes]

7+8, 16, 40 for the end of year meme 💕

Thank you joanna <333

Which fashion trends did you love?

Ooogh, i'm always so bad at this question! I guess "loose-fitting jeans" are trendy now, right? So that for sure. I don't know if overdone blush is still in but i'm sticking by that one forever. In perfume trends (because those i do know) i had a diptyque moment in england and found out that it was hyped up exactly the right amount (my beloved scent from there is tam dao, but phylosokos is also exactly as good as the tiktok girlies say it is)

Which fashion trends did you hate?

Uhhhh i don't know if it's in right now to do a really full face of makeup or to do a twelve-step skin routine and moralize about that but i hate both of those things. And in fragrance (because again that's what i actually am aware of) i feel nothing for br540 (even though dunking on that is basically a trend in and of itself at this point) and all other really heavy sugar-sweet fragrances, as well as for most feminine florals. Umm also the use of "gender neutral" as a marketing term for both fragrance and clothing was silly

What food did you try for the first time?

i had pho at a restaurant in london with a bunch of my friends and it was SO fucking good. lifechanging even. so good that i went back to the same chain in a different city and had it again, this time with mushrooms, and that slapped even harder. (that was also my first time having enoki mushrooms and i'm obsessed, texturally they are just SO fun to eat)

Did anything happen that you were sure would change you as a person but it really didn’t?

Hmmmm, another good one! Honestly i don't think study abroad did NOTHING to change me as a perosn, but i don't think it changed me nearly as much as other stuff that happened this year, those things being personal loss, working two jobs concurrently, and collaborative writing

[cup0fcocoa]

Oh sorry my bad I didn't mean to imply Fang and Buster were one dimensional in general, but rather a lot of the community seemed to view them as such. When Maisie got released people were mad that Fang (and Buster) was "no longer a badass" as if that was all he was before, and all he's meant to be. It seems like this community can't handle more than one personality trait per brawler, because they can never compromise on how Fang is supposed to act like.

I know I'm biased too though, I've loved Maisie since she was first revealed and after spending six months defending her I'm quick to jump, apologies. Do I believe the boys should've been memed on as hard as they were? No, but I also don't believe showing this side of them was 100% a bad thing. It was just quickly overdone. Even still, at least they got something going for them- Maisie only ever has hints to a character and it's saddening to never see it expanded upon.

Finally, as much as I'd love to trust the process with the unfinished trios, I don't think I can do so. If they're capable of ruining perfect dynamics, one that has loose ends will most likely get the short(er) end of the stick too

seeing "trio assassination" starting to become an actual term in brawl community is so funny to me. first cinema trio now brawlywood trio. We need that gay ass knight and his boywife to shelter somewhere. AND WE NEED THE we need shithead and shrimp to fucking RUN. QUICKLY.

[transmasc-wizard]

When does a trope become a cliche in your opinion?

Thanks for the ask!

So, first, it's important to note that this isn't some easy sliding scale--the entire point of a cliche is that it's an overdone trope, and whether something is overdone varies from person to person.

[Some things that are pretty universally considered cliche, though, are the "damsel in distress" (weak feminine girl is put in danger in some way, must be saved by the strong male protagonist) and the "evil mcbad guy dark lord" (as i like to call it. super evil guy takes over everything, knows how evil he is, completely 1-dimensional).]

I think a trope becomes cliche when there's nothing new the interpretation is offering. People like tropes because they give a general structure of one element--e.g found family--while still retaining unique elements. They're familiar, but not boring. A cliche is familiar to the point of boredom.

That's why I don't understand the whole "I hate cliches *cut to a trope the person likes* oh my god, Trope I Like" meme. A cliche is a term that inherently means you think the thing is not only used a lot, but overused.

And like... yes, a cliche is still a trope! An overused, boring, and badly done one. That's why trope is a neutral word, instead of an exclusively positive one; tropes do contain cliches.

But tropes can be very good, as well. There are tropes in almost everything, especially SFF. Even if they've been twisted and changed, they still are tropes! See: the Chosen One is a trope, but is done in many different ways.

Tropes are a tool. Cliches are a problem.

Anyway! That became a bit of a tangent! To go back to my rather roundabout point, I think a trope becomes cliche when and only when it's overused and unoriginal. There's a difference between tropes you just don't like (e.g. soulmates, enemies-to-lovers, Chosen One, whatever) and cliches (damsel in distress, evil mcbadguy).

(They can cross over, of course, but as a rule: tropes are neutral, cliches are bad.)

[hexyourheartablaze]

How about… 16 and 25? (If it’s okay to ask two questions) Also, thank you, I put lil Sa-nya-mi for protection into my pockets. ❄️

Yeah ask as many as you want! Maybe keep it under four idk hdjskdjsl

Salty Ask Meme

16. If you could change anything in the show, what would you change?

If I could change anything I would put in more strong female characters. I think we deserved to have a few female characters that are similar in personality to maybe Sanemi or Inosuke. I’ve always loved aggressive, off the hinge female characters that are actual threats to the enemy. I'm really sick of the female medic cliché as well, we got that with Shinobu and I feel like we see it too much in anime for women. As for physically strong females... We got Kanroji, but she’s still the cliché feminine character. It's not bad, I love her, but she was a missed opportunity. Make her buff!!

I would have changed a lot in the show (and I mean a LOT) but this one thing... I need it. I think that's why I love Susamaru so much, she's strong and goes a tad bit feral UGH I love her. We needed that for the good team.

25 How would you end KNY/Would you change the ending of KNY?

I wouldn’t have so many people die? After Genya and Muichiro died I became numb to the deaths so it lost value to me. I wouldn’t have Genya and Mui die, but I would have Sanemi die to protect Genya and have a final confession. I’d also have Mitsuri and Obanai live, Obanai should overcome his negative perspective of himself instead of considering death a cleansing thing.

I know that the enemy was strong and that's the whole point of the final battle but when the character deaths loose value... it's unnecessary and overdone. I just wanted Muichiro and Genya to have a happy ending with the rest of the squad, Genya should have lived with the others in Tanjiro's house. I love the found family trope ending though. I really appreciate that the squad stayed together as a family for the rest of their lives. Muichiro would have lived on his own, but Genya deserves to have a family and experience that joy again.

...Also I would have scrapped the whole reincarnation thing. It felt like it was put in a bit last minute for the series.

Sorry this was long.

[anarmorofwords]

Hot take: CC wants to get to TWP and be done with TLH because she finally realized writing in a less modern, less trendy English is too hard for her and takes too much effort. She can't reference tv shows and characters and memes etc. like she does in her modern series, and can't plagiarize classics because everyone would notice. But she HAD to milk TDA's characters for money and popularity. IMO she doesn't have one original bone in her body and is not a good writer.

i agree about twp

(though I cannot for the life of me fathom how modern times are more alluring to readers than period setting, but oh well :') )

here's a thought tho:

has she been planning it for years and TLH and TDA were both "means to an end" (which maybe would explain why QoAAD was such a dumpster fire and why TLH is so all over the place), because she wanted to get to TWP, or was she truly into TDA but only got an idea for TWP while writing it(TDA)? huh? and then was so into that that she stopped caring about TLH? (and maybe even changed it last minute? part of me still wonders if she didn't majorly change her own plans between ChoG and ChoI)

i personally won't fully agree, as I think that skill-wise, CC has some really solid arsenal, you know? (whether TLH will prove that further or make me question her is a whole other thing)

she usually does a great job at descriptions (even though the ones regarding romance scenes and appearances tend to be overdone and lenghty, because, in classic YA fashion, we need lots of swooning), and I'll insist she's actually great at creating characters. whether she always handles their arcs well, and whether or not some of them are good rep, they certainly are very alive.

think about it for a sec - we as a fandom were able to create pretty consistent images of side characters based on crumbs. also, I genuinely think her characterization of many side or minor characters is better and more full-dimensional than plenty of protagonists I've read about, especially in YA. so, there's that

however, one thing that TDA showed, at least in my opinion, is that she can't necessarily handle very complex multi-storyline plots

(although I personally loved the latter part of TMI, so?! I don't know anymore (maybe I shouldn't trust an opinion of 14 year old me for starters lol))

she's good at connecting the dots and foreshadowing, and putting together a plot, but the epic!! two worlds!! shit she tried to pull in TDA... to me it seemed like biting off more than you can chew

i agree she's milking it tho

and she has/d issues with plagiarism

[theaceofskulls]

I constantly see people on twitter crying about Game Journalists talking about niche games and how garbage their opinions are and so on, but honestly that just shows me that people don’t actually find reviewers that they like. 

Because trust me, if there’s one thing worse than seeing bad hot takes on niche games, it’s the absolutely unfiltered dogshit opinions you see in Steam reviews. 

Also I’m still struggling to comprehend someone who put together a meme about how games journalist struggle to write about a game without comparing it to another game because like... yes using Dark Souls as a cheap way to say “punishing” is overdone. However, the best reviews I ever hear of games do so in a holistic way where it’s not trying to distill something down into a math formula to spit out but rather try to pull from a lot of other media someone has likely consumed to help inform someone if it’s for them or if the game does something better or worse than other forms of media.

Honestly though, I think I can go point to the way reviews for media have been pushed into this grading scale where the goal is to go for this mythical “perfect game/movie/whatever for everyone” sort of thing. It stifles midrange media, makes reviewers less receptive to niche media as most reviewers need to now be writing for the general tastes of everyone, which in turn means that larger media has to be as safe as possible.