#the perils of getting old

[austerulous]

I basically never participate in munday, but my daughter has taken to carrying around an old, dog-eared photograph of me and my husband. So here you go, Puffin c. 2007:

[raiiny-bay]

the urge to make a comic vs the inability to draw consistently

[slymanner]

hurt my heart why dontcha.

[underwaterbanshee]

So there's this burden of perspective that the Bad Kids struggle with and it's definitely because they live in a genre where nearly all the adults in their lives -- especially at their special school -- are failing them. They have to or there is no plot but the farther I get from high school and college, the more I want to shake teenage and younger protagonists and just go:

None of this shit fucking matters. It is not your job to save the world all the fucking time. Please just phone a fucking adult who loves you.

But again, not the point of the story.

However, the Bad Kids are stuck. They've been stuck saving large groups of people since their freshman year of high school. Fighting Kalvaxisis should not have been their responsibility and yet...

Retrieving the crown of the Nightmare King should not have been their responsibility and yet...

Now they are doing what teenagers are supposed to do -- throwing a stupid, dangerous party -- and then something weird starts going on with a goddess and because they know that adults are unreliable, looking at you, Arthur, large amounts of people are in danger, if they don't act, probably no one will.

And it just isn't fucking fair.

And yet this group of mushroom stompers practically have the same skills and abilities as they do, but they gained them safely, under adult supervision, without incurring near the amount of trauma, and their Completed Rogue Junior Year On A Technicality teammate has the audacity to say groups like the Bad Kids (and probably the Seven if we're being honest) get special treatment?

My head would explode, too.

But I'm glad Sandra Lynn pointed out that high school doesn't really matter. Because it doesn't.

[aldoodles]

SUDDEN GRANDPA HUG!

[doomed-era]

very dumb of me to think about writing a full explanation of gboh link's pre-calamity backstory. with some illustrations. because that's fun. very stupid. but i'm thinking about it nonetheless

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

what if we don't see our eggs come back but in a day the new players get a message- you're being assigned a partner. go to the adoption centre. and they go and there are eggs but none of them are oeufs we know- pomme, dapper, richas, leo- they're gone. there are new players, now. and so there must be new eggs.

[assassinregrets]

big shoutout to headphones for hiding how many times i listen to the same song in a row and making me seem a lot more sane

[greatloss]

eldest brother five got me gnashing my teeth like a dog

[gayabeilles]

me, a former homestuck cosplayer, seeing all the other alastor cosplayers at the con wearing gray facepaint:

[imogenkol]

nothing makes me feel like more of a stalker than scrounging the internet for new Laura Berlin pics for Imogen refs….

[stryfeposting]

Why is there no Cable tentacle fic in this world?

enamoured by the way this is phrased, as if you're messaging from a world where cable getting his holes plugged with tentacles is a common story plot.

[pissfizz]

I need old ex mutuals to stop overlapping into my new mutual circles

[strawberryvanillablast]

I am so sorry, but I have to rant a little bit.

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To put in a bold disclaimer, this isn't going after those who have a certain way of viewing Giorno whether he be Jonathan 2.0 or Dio 2.0. People are going to have different viewpoints and that is perfectly okay by me.

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I've seen more posts complain about Giorno getting turned into Jonathan 2.0, which is a somewhat justified take to have. But I don't think I've seen as many people complain of Giorno being turned into Dio 2.0.

But doesn't Giorno getting turned into Dio 2.0 also a disservice? I don't see as many posts complain about Giorno getting turned into a carbon, younger copy of Dio 2.0.

Giorno is supposed to be an anti-hero, the traits that come from Dio, yes. But he also has his good, heroic side from Jonathan as well.

And to see posts lambast just one aspect of flanderization concerning the good side of Giorno while seemingly ignoring the other aspect of flanderizing the bad side of Giorno is baffling to say the least.

[nomaishuttle]

aughhhhh i wish i had books 2 read i wanna read books so bad rn 🤓 <- i look like this. 2 pictures of me 👇

[nexus-nebulae]

Ok so a long while back I had a story with a trio of main characters who each represented a core aspect of the world they were trying to protect: the natural, the technological, and the magical (a human, a sentient AI, and a shapeshifter witch)

and then a few years later I made a sequel to it with a new trio and somehow by complete accident made them represent the same things as the first trio except this time combined with elements of another aspect (a human who finds out he's more magical than he expected (he's a demigod), a shapeshifter being who relies on tech for communication and accessibility (he can only turn into a few things and none of them are very expressive or mobile), and a sentient android that looks so human almost nobody can tell he's not (even his best friends))

and the whole point of the first story was those initial three protecting their world from people who wanted to separate or eliminate one of the three elements (trying to get rid of magic and technology altogether), and the reason why i wrote the second story was to write something a few decades into the future showing the impact those first characters had in bringing those elements together. and i accidentally put the perfect themes into the new main trio