#ten thread

[nat-20s]

I know it's because they both have Issues TM but in retrospect it's a little bit funny that Donna is insecure about her place with The Doctor and wonders whether she deserves to travel the stars or is worthwhile as a friend while Ten is just sitting in the corner like "if I get separated from Donna I'm gonna explode the universe and then myself" and then he does.

[tiktaalic]

Girls will be like yeah so basically Taylor swift has eradicated all attempts at creativity in favor of seamlessly merging her IDENTITY to PRODUCT and I will give accolades where accolades are due. She has been very successful at this probably the most successful person on earth at this and all it cost her is her soul. And it DID cost a soul. You could make a graph between amount of streams and quality of work and see so clearly the inverse relationship materialize before your eyes. She was not born a hack but embraced the life of a hack when she realized she would be more popular with platitudes and dialing back on oversharing and being less messy. If you replace personhood with producthood you lose your humanity but your album sales go fuuuucking crazy. I can make overtures at understanding this by reminding myself she was crucified for being a person for years and years and she has been very vocal about it doing a heavy number on her psyche. Maybe when that happens to you as a teenager the trade off seems less revolting. Getting rid of something you’re mocked for having anyway and in return you are richer and more famous than anyone has any right to be. But then I scratch my head. And go but surely you see that this is a deal with the devil. Surely with the contract laid out in front of you. You gnaw your lip. You hesitate. You follow the letter of the law but skirt the spirit of it for brief shining moments. And when she’s so publicly had misogynistic vitriol levied at her. So often for so long. IS it misogynistic for your criticisms to boil down to “she’s not likable enough for me”? At what dollar amount does a millionaire going on billionaire become a public object rather than a person? Does the fact that she’s slowly revoked access to herself change this? Is it more or less human to orchestrate your life so that paparazzi only sees you on planned outings where you look impeccable and have a message to send and you are Taylor Swift The Brand after you’ve been scarred by years of being Taylor swift the young woman in the tail end of the aughts and the 2010s ripped to shreds scrutinized for every choice and smile and dress and man? Is there a passable essay in the title Taylor Swift Doesn’t Owe You Authenticity. Maybe! but doesn’t she as an artist work at a job where she’s supposed to produce. Art? It sounds like I’m asking for ballads but I’m really not I’m asking for a song that is good. Im asking for a cruel summer which is irreplicable but surely the minds behind it can produce something more than snow on the fucking beach? Or am I overestimating the continued talent of a woman who is the platonic ideal of a target shopper? Is it misogynistic to believe the platonic ideal of a target shopper can’t create with a soul? How to talk about the fall off of Taylor swift in a woman honoring way?

five minutes later. You can’t spell awesome without ME!

[you-makestedehappy]

Line deliveries that play on repeat in my brain.

Season 1, episode 1 - Pilot

🐈‍⬛❤️‍🩹🍆💦🏴‍☠️ [ep 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]

[raytm]

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

i guess it’s less that they Completely Understood each other and more that . just. they met each other at the perfect time . they had a bond that could never be replaced . they could be their true selves around each other, even if it only lasted for a year or two . but it still meant so much to the both of them !!! those two years alone meant so much more than the ten years they spent apart and that completely fucking Destroys me . they had something that neither one of them would ever find again and if it’s not Total Understanding then i truly believe it was unconditional love . soulmatism. the feeling of finding your other half . they had each other for two little years and it was the single most vibrant blue spring of their lives

[bucky-boychik-barnes]

so the cataloguing of my aunt's thread is taking longer than expected for what should be obvious reasons

[unopenablebox]

still! sick! i keep having to take breaks from sleying the reed which is irritating. and i can't go to lunch with 🌸's sister. and i am COUGHING all the time

[electric-plants]

slight hsr spoilers but—

they might as well have just impaled me on a stake

[heckblade]

by request of @professorfcknmoriarty, I present to you a venn diagram: blorbo edition

[draconicfool]

Oh, the grin that spread across his features at that. Eros setting a pad a pencil onto the coffee table before he leaned across the couch. Already rubbing at one of the other's thighs. Teasing to a fault as he kissed the other's cheek before sitting up straight. As if he were the very picture of innocence.

"Ehe, y'think so~? Then y' c'n go first, sugar~."

@praeteritus-memories || c.

[bleaksqueak]

Ultra cursed: twins Audric and twins Elias in the same universe.

Wait wait wait Do you mean twins as in two sets of Audric and two sets of Elias or Audric and Elias as twins? I don't know if you've ever read The Violinist of Hameln, but I'm picturing a situation ala Hamel and Sizer as babies with Pandora

But, you know, luckily for Lyra and Audun, these two would actually not be airborn at any time. (... Hopefully?) The other scenario though... see, two Audrics would balance two Eliases (Eliasi? Is the plural of Elias Eli?) out. The true curse would be "One Audric, Two Eli"

[gullable-fool]

There is so much happening in Batman comics right now I’m gonna have an aneurism

[bentothuglife]

The culture clash between the rural can-crusher and the urban can-returner

[youllalwaysbemyporcelain]

@coreofgold

Jae Yoo needed a place to sit for a moment. They looked over at the man on the bench, going to sit beside him. "I'm sorry if I'm disturbing you, I just need a place to sit for a moment?"

[warrior-of-storms]

wow, would you look at that, I'm not dead!!

Anyway, I've been working on some expression charts/mini references for the tangled threads universe (aka the threadverse) and I'm finally done!! I have 105 characters here. enjoy!

(please note that I didn't pick expressions, I spun a wheel with all the names and just drew the next expression)

This is every single character that is currently canon in the threadverse. I would yap about art commentary but like. no thanks <3

[crassussativum]

@turianspeedjunkie

The engineer, Treyus, flicked his mandibles and looked once down the corridor. “We could... y’know...?”

“Do I now?” Mav drawled, leaning next to him on the wall, a hand on his hip and his mandibles slanted just so. He’d been flirting with the engineer for the past... Spirits, he wasn’t really sure how long. Maybe the whole day? Since he’d gone down below decks early this morning to chat with the Chief about his hopes to shadow? That sounded right. Yeah, that sounded right. They’d bumped into each other, done that silly little dance trying to get out of each other’s way and now...

Now here they were on on the officer’s deck, trading subtle little phrases and looks back and forth. A less than casual touch here and there.

“You’re not that aloof,” Treyus chuckled warmly, grinning. “You know what I’m suggesting.”

“Oh, I do.” He flicked a mandible, his attention briefly caught but the sound a door opening down the hall. A specific door. The whole reason for him coming up on this deck at this time of day. He hadn’t been going to his own room after all. “Maybe I just like it a lil’ more boldly stated.”