#the kicks are fire though

[callmeethaniguess]

I can’t stop looking at this little shit he looks like a poorly decorated cookie

[artifeast]

HUGS!!!!!

[mymainwastoocluttered]

If some other magicless person got stuck in Twisted Wonderland and tried to take my place, I'd simply let them. Yeah, bitch, now you take care of these motherfuckers and deal with Crowley's bullshit, see if I fuckin care. Have fun babysitting a bunch of sunovabitches who barely even remember you exist half the time.

I love the angst of "they pushed the Prefect away and replaced them only to miss them when they finally leave", but, also, if I were Yuu, I'd absolutely just let it happen. Call me a pushover, but I ain't shedding a tear for friends who left for the newest shiny thing. And it would relieve me from all the trouble. Guess who's not fighting Overblots anymore? This bastard, that's who.

[frogaroundandfindout]

Bruce you make me so ill (Batman #416)

[limonjarritos]

no im still so unwell over this??? vince scribbled out the criticism of rody in the review of the bistro. help

Nooooo but literally. How he immediately discredits any bad word against Rody! It defo made me more convinced that the reason the party ended was because Rody's ex classmate made fun of Rody (and it is mentioned by one of the guests that Vincent can hear Rody very clearly from over there, there's no way he didn't notice that whole scene). I do wonder exactly what was said, since he's not afraid to be brutal to anyone that's not Rody.

If a customer ever treated Rody like shit in the typical way customers act towards service workers I don't think Vince would be too happy lmao. POV: you treated your waiter like shit and now some white french man who smells like an ash tray starts glaring daggers at you.

Come look at my smiling deranged blorbo!

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

At The Feet Of The Sun

book 2 in a slow paced high fantasy duology*

the right hand of the emperor (who is off searching for an heir) struggles with what to do after passing on his responsibilities and also discovering various pieces of information that are mindblowing to him, personally,

after adventure is thrust upon him, he travels to find His Radiancy and they go on some otherworldly adventures while growing closer and figuring out the nature of their friendship

(*there’s extra novellas & i think another book coming? duology adjacent, currently,)

[merioux]

doing a fifth round of "is this actually gonna get posted anywhere or is it gonna rot in my trinket folder after working my ass for a flipaclip video". this is the thang of the day, cropped close up bcuz i think this part is cute n i dont wanna show too much at the same time

[papermint-airplane]

I have adulted harder today than I have ever adulted before. I have so many adult decisions to think about and my brain is at the point of super saturation.

I am planning on taking the weekend off from adulting. Like, it's not my weekend to work and I still have a job for 2-3 months at least, so taking two days off to recover from all the drama is ok, right?

Someone please tell me it's ok. 😢

[discordiansamba]

also thinking about Keith's relationship with Heath's crew at the firehouse in the runaway paladin AU, because they have to know him. They're all fond of Heath's weird delinquent son.

He doesn't trust babysitters, so he'd often bring Keith with him when he had to stay over on shift at the firehouse... at least, when they'd gotten to the point where Keith could control his shapeshifting. Keith as a toddler just running around the firehouse, because this kid went from crawling to running with no stops in between for walking. Everyone had to pitch in to keep an eye on him, because he seemed to have a talent for getting himself into trouble.

(they would laugh and say he still has one to this day.)

They kind of miss him when he gets older, and can stay home by himself. They'll still see Keith from time to time though, when he's out and about. They offer up one of the walls of the fire station for Keith to do whatever he wants with. He spraypaints a mural of a blue lion curled protectively around the Earth that no one really gets, but everyone agrees looks really cool.

They all know the kid is a little weird. They've seen him lift shit he absolutely should not be able to. They know nothing about his mother. But he's a good kid (despite his multiple arrests).

The half-alien thing throws them all for a loop though. And to think, they could have been poking fun at his dad for being an alienfucker this whole time.

[sesamenom]

apologies for the lack of art lately, i just got new glasses and am still adjusting :(

in the meantime, anyone have thoughts about lomion and tyelpe's relationship in the reverse gondolin au?

[clownsnake]

okay nonbinary character in Orv alert. slay

[incorrectquotesideas-deactivated]

Person A: Do you want a beer? I’m paying.

Person B, going through the restaurant’s menu: No. Ugh, where’s the good stuff?

Person A, half jokingly: I thought you were an alcoholic.

Person B: Exactly. I’d need at least, like, four beers — without food — to get slightly buzzed, and my stomach can’t fit over 2 beers in it. I’m small. I’ll have a rum, neat.

[compacflt]

do you have any book recs in general? i love your writing style and would love to know what inspires you! <3

four books that i can say really genuinely inspired me and my writing in terms of most to least favorite (of course these are all favorites but they can still be ranked)

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer — for masterful use of symbolism, epistles, the fact that every time i read it (over a dozen times at this point) i discover something new, and the fact that JSF was twenty when he wrote it—lends some belief that i might be able to do the same or similar. read this book when i was 15 and it is no joke the reason i am at the school I am at right now. long story but… this book makes up a sizable share of my soul

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque — for plot, character, and power of emotion. If you get a good translation, this book feels like a modern piece of war fiction akin to Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds or the first half of Full Metal Jacket. There’s a reason this book was one of the first to be burned by the NDSAP in the early 1930s. Absolutely superb & reading this book at 14 right after i had experienced my own sense of unparalleled loss and tragedy genuinely changed my life. A solid part of why i am interested in milhistory

American Pastoral by Philip Roth — for character, specificity of detail, and engagement with politics. I love every Roth piece I get my hands on. He’s gritty and gross and ahead of his time. This book was genuinely devastating to read. It’s so specific it HURTS. Proved to me that details are how you sell a story. There’s like a three-page monologue about how to make women’s gloves, and because of the context every word is more gripping than the last. One of the best ever American authors at the peak of his game imo. Which is not an unpopular opinion, this book is heavily lauded for a reason

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov — for plot, inventiveness of language, and character most especially. Lolita actually isn’t an all time fav for me because I didn’t particularly like the ending (i didn’t understand the role of quilty in the story) but I can definitely say it’s had a clear impact on the way i write and especially the way i narrate. Humbert humbert squeezes out the truth and is so ashamed of the truth that his shame and all his little lies bleed out through every word. He’s utterly absurd but he’s entirely believable. He’s just… I don’t know. He’s just human. In a way that all fictional characters have an imperative to be human, because fiction is a reflection of our own sick and shameful real lives… and that comes out in Nabokov’s diction and syntax. It’s less specificity of detail, like Roth—actually it’s barely specific with details at all because the details are so explicit and shameful—it’s more specificity of LANGUAGE. Beautiful writing for writing’s sake.

But pretty obviously what has affected my writing most is that i moooostly read only straight white men writing about straight white men problems. See above. So my reading list might not be applicable/enjoyable for everyone. i would like to think i write like a straight white man. that’s my goal. my strategy is not to follow in their footsteps or to break glass ceilings but to eventually beat them at their own game. we’ll see how that goes.

[creativesplat]

ok but the monarchs of fe engage are awesome and they needed to be done in this format.

[molinaskies]

Watching Sonic and Knuckles interact in Frontiers was so fascinating because I genuinely think this is the most time we see them spend together in mainline canon, and what I found most interesting was how, despite keeping his sassy edge, Sonic—the younger of the two—frequently defers to Knuckles.

I know ages don’t exist anymore but like come on let’s be real here just go with me

When it comes to solving a conflict, Sonic’s the leader because he always is, but in a casual setting, it seems that Sonic and Knuckles are not only equals, but also that Knuckles has a level of kinship authority over Sonic. I wouldn’t go so far as to suggest that Sonic seeks Knuckles’ approval, but Sonic clearly wants to do right by Knuckles and seems conscious of when he’s doing a good and bad job at that.

Mostly through his body language, we see how Sonic’s a little intimidated by Knuckles. A couple times throughout the arc, Knuckles will take a jab at Sonic, who erects his ears in surprise, unsure for a moment whether Knuckles is actually upset. The fact that Sonic even takes such notice with Knuckles, here, shows how much he doesn’t want to upset him, to let him down. We see very often in this game how Sonic looks when he’s being sly, and so the contrast we see between sly and stunned really fleshes out Sonic’s perspective.

It’s also incredibly sweet and telling that Sonic defers to Knuckles to start the conversation. His instinct is to cheer him up with a gag of some sort—to keep up the bit they’ve had going this whole time—but he realizes quickly that Knuckles needs something else right now, so he waits. I think this additionally adds to Sonic’s surprise when Knuckles jokes that Sonic needs to hurry the fuck up (hehe). Sonic wasn’t expecting the joke, and so his mind jumps to the worst part it can for just a second.

They have fun together and poke jabs at each other, but the respect Sonic holds for Knuckles as a peer he can rely on and look up to is palpable.

[lanternlightss]

having loop and nameless bard interacting thoughts again. the rot