#the readmore debacle

[cesium-sheep]

they came home in a good mood and we opened presents, obligate documentation under the cut

in my stocking I got another hair band and more candies

from my friends I got:

the kirby paper box kit I've wanted for years from rou

a very cute sheep yarn bowl from diane

an adorable robin ornament and a very nice kirby drawing from mana

a "chocolate passport" sampler from amy (to share)

from my mom I got a pen and clear file from the kirby 30th anniversary set, a kirby hat for the cats, and $150 in gift cards

from my brother I got kirby's dream buffet

from my dad I got:

a frank lloyd wright night light

a new robe

a buddha board

new compression gloves

a new pair of my favorite pajama pants

a nice new bag

from matt's dad I got $100

from matt's brother we got a box of pastries to share

from matt's mom I got:

a hannukah card game?

some chocolate snowmen

a box of russel stover assorted

a couple scratchers

a toothbrush

a light up christmas tree ornament

a yarn bag

a pair of fluffy socks

a skein of yarn

from arin's parents we got fancy spreads and a little pancake set

from arin's sibling we got fancy curry pastes and such

from matt and arin I got:

an automated blood pressure cuff

a hand-friendly stick lighter for clearing resin bubbles

spring loaded scissors

a set of canvases

two pairs of long fluffy socks

a pocket mirror

a fancy analogue metronome

the bra I needed

more instax film

a cute kirby blind box plush

the calico critters pony I wanted

a felt food sewing kit

a cute fleece jacket with teddy bears on it

enough of my favorite yarn to make a new sweater (he made sure to pay attention to how much I need for certain projects since I keep complaining about people giving me 1 or 2 skeins like "that's enough for a project right? :)")

a nice wheelchair cushion

a glass slug figure

a new bear water bottle

a stuffed animal hammock (matt had been trying to convince me for months but arin picked it up independently on a whim)

[mageknife]

tagged by @commanderofthegrey!! took me a couple days but i'm finally getting to it

share your favorite moments for each of your canon romances in all the dragon age games. alrightttt let me think

laevis tabris/zevran arainai

i've talked about the earring debacle a few times for sure but it really is beautiful to me. zevran gives laevis the earring. laevis asks if it means anything. zevran says no. laevis says okay yay <3 and asks zevran to pierce his ear for him to wear it which he does. net zero feelings discussed, they have sex that night like normal and then every night for like a week and a half until zevran finally cracks.

so they get their shit together, they finally dtr, they kill the archdemon, yada yada yada, and after the end of the game laevis leaves the alienage in shianni's hands and fucks off to antiva with zevran. zevran still feels a little bad about how much they both fumbled his first "proposal," so while they're in antiva city he steals a second gold earring for laevis. he could easily buy it, but they've made a Thing of giving each other stolen things as gifts, so he sticks to their tradition. he tries to give it to laevis at a nice cafe but a couple of crows start shooting at them halfway through his attempt at a speech so they have to dip. they end up getting cornered in an alley and taking the crows out there.

so when zevran finally Does give laevis the earring, it's in front of two freshly dead bodies in an alley and the earring is a little covered in other people's blood and they're both out of breath and sweaty and they wouldn't have it any other way. laevis thinks it's the most romantic thing imaginable

(cont'd under the readmore)

arum hawke/anders(/compassion/justice)

okay this might not technically be completely arum/anders considering the spirits that are also there but stay with me. it's when anders realizes he's in love with compassion. arum allowed compassion to possess him while he was traveling to skyhold, and he returns home from weisshaupt with a whole spirit in his body. anders has a Lot of feelings about it—fear that arum could get hurt or warped into something he can't reason with, fear that their relationship would never be the same again and he might fall out of love if arum is changed too much. he's very hesitant around compassion at first, easing up a bit over time as he realizes that arum and compassion really are extremely compatible and have a bafflingly harmonious bond, and that compassion is a large part of the internal healing and growth arum has had over the last ten years. but he still doesn't know compassion personally very well, and he doesn't want to be too physically intimate until he's sure—if he ever is.

it comes to a head when mullein writes to them and details the cure for tranquility. compassion is beyond enthusiastic, determined to use this knowledge to help as many people as they can—and this is what happened with karl, isn't it? he briefly reconnected to the fade with justice's influence. with justice and compassion both working at it, there would be no limit, would there? two of thedas's most adept healers, each with a spirit within them. they could get started right now. where should they go? is there a chantry nearby, a former circle? they must begin right away—

and this resonates with justice, of course, but justice fell in love with compassion quickly and easily, and they'd known each other to some degree in the fade. but it really strikes a chord with anders. the dedication to helping others, the passion for one's cause—the same things that first had him falling for arum, he recognized in compassion. the whimsy, the hopefulness, the heart. and of course, they're two different people, spirit and human, with far different experiences, so they're obviously not exactly the same. but he realizes that he's been falling for those parts of compassion, too, and how much he adores so many of compassion's other quirks just slots into place.

and then they go around curing tranquil willy-nilly and making cassandra mad but first all of them have some insane spirit sex i haven't figured out the logistics yet but just go with it

mullein lavellan/dorian pavus

i've put them through a ridiculous number of aus at this point (mostly with edwin cadash of thorin tytoalbatross's oc fame. hi edwin) and the actual canon of dragon age inquisition is one of the scant few in which they're not friends with benefits before getting together. so their first time is actually meaningful. Not that neither of them Wanted to fuck beforehand, they started flirting like 10 seconds after meeting and that dial went up to 100 and still has yet to go down at all. it's only gone farther. the dial is broken. they're the worst. anyway they didn't fuck because mullein is borderline incapable of making the first move and dorian was dealing with alexius and his father and denying himself the idea of loving and being loved and also there was a war going on and there's not much time to suck and fuck when there are druffalo to herd in the hinterlands.

Anyway. after the whole amulet situation when mullein goes out of his way to care for dorian on purpose by force dorian finally propositions mullein. he tells mullein he'll come by that night. mullein says "why wait" and sucks his dick right there in the library but that's not the point. the important part is that they do finally have sex that night. for like most of it. a lot of times. dorian has his whole self-flagellation moment in the middle of it but mullein tells him that he's already in too deep himself and there's no going back and dorian says "oh i'll be in something deep" and then they have sex again. I don't really know where i was going with this. OH YEAH dorian drops the "amatus" bomb during round like 4 and mullein says "i love you too" and then dorian cums. and then never says it back for like another year and a half which he does by accident and honestly that's another really good moment but i'll get back to that some other time. enough of these freaks i have more freaks to talk about

vervain mercar/emmrich volkarin

Would it be bad if i said the broken hand incident. no i'm not going to do that. i've talked it to death. but it might be my favorite. also up there though is vervain's crashout moment when emmrich watches him murder his ex-boyfriend in broad daylight and then still insists that he's a good person. it's important to acknowledge that they are NOT together at this point, and also that the ex-boyfriend attacked vervain first, so it technically wasn't murder, vervain just likes to make himself look worse than he actually is because there's something deeply wrong with him.

the gist of the situation is that the ex is working with the venatori, who have tracked a number of shadows including vervain. he was instructed to take vervain in alive. tries to use an ice spell, gets stabbed in the chest before he can cast it. L+ratio+mageknife. vervain takes his boots, his gold, and his written orders to the shop and immediately goes back to the lighthouse to smash some shit. he is not expecting emmrich to follow him. he point blank asks emmrich why he even bothers spending time around him and emmrich is like "well you're passionate and dedicated to your work, so committed to caring for others even at the cost of your own health, and you neglect yourself. i want to take care of you."

and vervain thinks emmrich is insane. "i'm not worth taking care of, use your energy somewhere else" "oh, dear, who made you think that?" "me? i'm a bad person" "you're really not. look at all the good you do." straight up lists things that vervain has done in the past like two weeks and none of it can be denied. and instead of saying "yknow maybe you're right" vervain absolutely refuses to accept the idea that he's anything other than worthless dirt so he just halfheartedly tells emmrich to shut up and disappears for three days getting up to inadvisable activities. he's like mostly normal when he comes back though but it's vervain normal which isn't a high bar. the conversation when he returns is a whole other thing but i'm not getting into that now either. posts to make later though

tagging uhhhh. idk who's done this yet. @kathaliabloodyrose @mournmage @cacturne @sha-brytols @thedragonagelesbian @vigilskept @treatsformeeko anyone else who wants to consider yourself tagged by me yay. also sorry if you did this already it's 4am i can't be fucked to check but i'm actually tagging people for once mom areyou proud of me .

[return-of-the-vegetable]

subpar bubbleafy art again so whoops sorry but this time i have a lot to talk about with them so id like to think it makes up for that . click readmore if you want to see my insanity fueled yappings

bubble and leafy's constant dynamic is fueled to me by a constant , dreadful [though typically completely ignored for the sake of peacekeeping] undercurrent of hatred between them but also an indescribable understanding that's only really fulfilled on bubble's end, if that makes sense. bubble doesn't only dislike leafy for stealing the island, she was fucking dead by the time that whole debacle blew up in everybody's faces, she instead hates her for how she acted in season one BFDI before anyone had won it; she appreciated it but was simultaneously sick and tired of her niceness, both because it was a competition and it was boring to her knowing that with how leafy acted and worked she'd win no matter how she did in a challenge thanks to the other's help, and also because she felt obligated to be leafy's friend due to the aformentioned help she so constantly gave her [something something, leafy does nice things in hopes that other people will do nice things for her in return, which to her is basically just liking her and being her friend; this is definitely a flawed worldview, one that could be annoying and/or cause friction with certain other people, but otherwise it's harmless to be nice to people hoping that they'll be nice to you in return]. bubble just doesn't have the words to describe either, or any, of these things. but she understands and comprehends them anyway, i think, and arguably way better than any of the other contestants ever will

[unbeleveable]

After careful consideration and viewing arguments from all sides, I have made the decision to block EVERYONE involved in the current ASOIAF/HOTD fandom debacle. This is because while I believe tagging sensitive content is important and personally tag anything that I think could trigger someone, I only condone callout culture when someone is an active threat to the community at large. Personal gripes should remain just that: personal. Yes, this includes when someone is writing content that triggers you. Being triggered is a personal experience, and while I understand many people may have been triggered by this particular content, that doesn't mean you need to blast someone on the dash. Also, vaguing on the dash, while most of us have been guilty of it at one point or another (me included), is not necessary either. Vent to friends in private all you want, but you don't have to make it public. And if you've been blocked, again, vent in private if you need to, but let it go and move on. All that said, I do also completely agree that the Dae.myra relationship is an example of grooming, both in book and show. Most people seem to think the same. For that reason, even if you disagree on the matter, I go back to saying tagging is important. Even if you're just MENTIONING the subject in an OOC post saying you don't agree with that interpretation, tag it. That's basic consideration. Readmores are also a great way of hiding content that others may have issue with, even if you don't and therefore don't think you have to tag it. That said, while it is not a trigger for me personally, the relationship does make me uncomfortable, and, therefore, I generally don't read content that I can tell at a glance involves it. That is regardless of which FC is being used for Rhae.nyra. I just scroll past it and move on. I don't take the time to read enough of the thread to determine whether it's triggering or not if I know there is even the possibility of it being so.

And, finally, for the love of god, don't go around watching people's accounts to see if they by chance post something incriminating that you can go back and report to your friends. I've had that done to me and it is extremely childish.

Basically, be considerate of others and act like adults; this applies to ALL sides. That's all I have to say.

[snowgrave]

oh im so mad i have a cavity in my tooth and like what the fuck i brush my teeth twice or sometimes three times a day i literally Have to or i cant relax enough to sleep i floss after eating like anything and before i brush i have special mouthwash i use in the middle of the day too i am Obsessive about my teeth. and i get a fucking cavity. WHAT IS THE POINT GRRR IM SO SICK OF DENTAL WORK two abcesses a wisdom tooth and that whole debacle with my stupid fuck of a dentist shoving a broken piece of my tooth INTO MY SINUS CAVITY and now i have to get a FILLING maybe multiple bc who knows there could be others LIKE wtf. just take them all out at this point whatever omfg.

AND MY DENTAL INSURANCE DOESNT COVER SHIT so this will be probably like a thousand dollars again hopefully not more and what else? yeah i cant stop thinking of that fucking episode of CatDog where they went to the dentist because when i first saw that episode like 10 years ago i got so fucking mad i still have a screenshot of me bitching about it. heres an excerpt from the episode sypnosis

“When the dentist opens Dog's mouth and examines it, he finds his mouth perfect, which surprises Cat. Then, he checks Cat's mouth and notices that his mouth is unclean and loaded with all sorts of decay. The dentist scans CatDog through an X-ray and discovers that whatever damage Dog does to his teeth will affect Cat's teeth and vice versa.”

so thats fucked right now let me go transcribe the screenshot i have from 10 years ago. ok heres my thoughts from 2014

“before i send this i would just like to say that ive been watching a lot of CatDog recently and it's on now and im SOrry. but it needs to be said. have you ever seen catdog? it was on TV about ten years ago and it's about this cat and this dog that were attached to each other. ive got some concerns about it. the show isn't ever fair to Cat. especially in this one episode, where CatDog goes to the dentist. Cat eats very good food and Dog eats literally shit. Cat brushes and flosses after each meal and Dog is still eating shit. but because of some logic that has no scientific backing at all, whatever one does to his teeth affects the other. so Dog just gets to be a shit-eater and be rewarded while Cat is punished no matter how hard he tries. its just... so unfair. you get where im going with this?”

LIKE DO YOU GET IT IM LITERALLY CAT RN AND IDK WHO DOG IS BUT WHEN I FUCKING GET THEM IM KILLING THEM sorry this is long but im not putting it under a readmore you followed me so you agree to see me complain on the dash. you love it. I HATE TEETH

[rensrendition]

I'd love to hear about Lighthouse Keeper!Shen Wei fic and GYADL Threesome fix it AU (I'm still working on the art (*cough* bribe))

:D Thank you @buriedbybooks! (And I am STILL excited about the potential for that bribe art, btw! ;D)

[In reference to this post.]

Lighthouse keeper!Shen Wei

So, the lighthouse keeper!Shen Wei fic is going to be a little difficult to go into detail on without giving too much away, but it started out back at the end of July when @fan-man-huaisang and I discovered a picture from The Rebel (posted by the always appreciated @zhu-yilong-laying-on-things ^_^) of Z1L in this AMAZINGLY SOFT-LOOKING blue cardigan. And f-m-h tagged it something to the effect of 'now i want to see him playing a lonely lighthouse keeper!' And we started talking about it. And then I started talking with @elenothar about it, and we got equally excited about the entire aesthetic of Z1L in a lighthouse on a lonely spit of land that looks a lot like New England, and somewhere along the way I started calling this character 'Shen Wei' and she said, "Oh, is this going to be a Guardian AU?" and I said, "...YES. YES, IT IS." And I'm not sure how much else I can say without giving too much away, but I can mention that Zhao Yunlan does show up, and this IS, believe it or not, a canon ending fix-it for the drama, because we've both always wanted to write one and never really full-on indulged that beyond hand-wavey post-canon AUs.

And I have been given permission to post a snippet, so... enjoy? ^_^

Just as he felt his strength beginning to return, just as his gasps after air finally started bringing in more oxygen and less sea spray… the ocean changed. He hung there, suspended, as it stilled, the waves growing gentler and moving him about less and less and less… drawing back as a maelstrom gathered beneath him.

One moment the sea was still, was calm, cradling him like a babe in its mother's arms, and the next… the ocean was nothing but froth and darkness, and he was lost in its thrall, barely able to catch a breath before the next wave slammed down and carried him ever further from where he’d started. He fought the waves, fought the current, fought the dragging undertow, alternately swimming for all he was worth and curling in tightly to protect his head as unseen things in the water slammed past him and into him, until he felt the water draw back once more, this time pulling him with it… higher… and higher… and higher… so high that if he fell from this height it would surely be the end of him… and then he saw it.

Bright.

Shining.

Golden.

And so soft and warm, he could practically *feel* its heat on his face.

A lantern.

…a lighthouse.

Land.

As the wave crested beneath him, threatening to topple at any moment, he desperately turned his body in the direction of that shining beacon, all but willing the vast frenzy of energy below him to take him where he wanted to go. And as the wave trembled beneath him, finally crashing back down and taking him with it, he took in as deep a breath as he could and swam for all he was worth.

[thesummerfox]

On “Creators Supporting Creators”, and why this can go straight to hell

Another daily dose of guilt trip made its way onto my dash as I’m once again forcibly reminded that “creators need to support each other!” and “fandom creators need to stick together!” in posts that outline rather strictly what exactly constitutes as support. I cannot count the amount of posts I have seen that worry about fandom engagement being down, the likes/reblogs-ratio being utterly skewed in favor of the former instead of the latter, and what exactly constitutes as the care for and validation of your friendly neighborhood creator.

And, let me tell you, I’ve had it up to here with all of it.

The tag “creators supporting creators” is a security blanket. It’s a band-aid for the fortunate and less fortunate alike. It’s a measuring tool through which creators can engage in an interaction that is more of a “scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours”-debacle than anything else. It’s a way of amassing clout the way most social media functions these days, of gaining followers/subscribers, of feeling like somehow you’ve ‘arrived’ and will one day be a Big Name in fandom.

My friends, the tag “creators supporting creators” is one hell of drug that’ll lie to you and muddle the waters until you drown in them.

Supporting a creator does not mean spreading everything they put out there. Supporting a creator does not mean you need to be visibly positive about everything they put out there. Supporting a creator does not mean you need to reblog ten of their creations in order for your work to receive any attention from them in turn.

Truth is this: blanket support hollows the praise. How can a creator trust you actually love their creation when you next throw that exact same love at a creation that suffers from a number of visible issues, such as bad story formatting or a very pixelated quality? How can a creator believe that you like the way they portray a character when you next turn around and heap praise on a creation that portrays the same character in a way that is diametrically opposite to the first? How can a creator feel good about the praise you heap upon them when that praise is interchangeable with the praise you heap upon everyone else? How can a creator feel like their own work has inspired you when you next request the exact same work from five other creators?

It’s empty. It’s just noise. It does not sustain or nourish creativity, nor does it inspire or push a creator to try new things. It’s a void that grows with every interaction. It smothers growth on the creator’s part, but also limits your own growth as a reader/viewer. It does not invite in-depth looks at the media you both enjoy, nor does it provide any real sustenance that challenges you or makes you perceive things differently than before.

Our creations matter to us. We put a lot of work into them. We want to keep creating, but a huge part of creative flow is born of actual meaningful interactions with the rest of fandom. Supporting a creator can be as simple as offering feedback (“I really like this idea and love what you’re doing with xyz, but could you please add a readmore or adjust the paragraphs for easier reading?”), offering a sounding board (“I’m vibing with xyz idea so if you wanna talk about it please feel free…”), and offering a get-out-of-jail-free card (“please don’t feel obligated to update this week or fill this request/prompt if you don’t feel like it”). It can mean seeing a creator ask for a beta, a sensitivity reader, or someone they can bounce an idea with, and dropping into their private messages to talk about that sort of thing. It can mean sitting with them as they scream about not getting a scene right, or sharing a cool tutorial or resource with them that you know they can make great use of, and so on...

Support of a creator’s content cannot always be quantified under things such as a like/reblog-ratio or other forms of measurable fandom engagement. A creator is more than the sum of their content and does not always need to put out new material to have a place in their fandom. A creator’s relevance does not hinge on how much they produce, nor does it center around the popularity of their work.

If you really want to show creators your support, stop acting like a consumer. Support them as a human being who’s doing the best they can and would often like to learn how to do even more. You’d be surprised about what shakes loose if you do!

[fiblertsos]

About IZ’s fandom policies, and why they are like this

Ok, since I’ve seen people taking screenshots of my tweets on this subject, I thought it’d be better for me to just make a Tumblr post.

I’m sorry for not putting this under a readmore, but I want people who visit the tag to read it all.

tl;dr: No, IZ isn’t LGBTQIA+phobic, nor do they hate your hcs and AUs. It’s just literally how JP fandom works.

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JP fandom etiquette functions as thus: the main tag is ONLY for content that complies with canon. This is done so anyone who searches for it has accurate information and the right “image” of the fandom they’re looking at.

“Image”, in this context, is not “oh I want new people to think this series is good and not icky like the icky fanart those fans make”. The “image” is, quite literally, a reflection what you see in official media. JP authors, while ok with headcanons, want people who get into the main tag to get what their series is about from the getgo, without confusion.

This is why shipping, “hard” headcanon content and AUs go into separate tags on Twitter: # whnoc (WH non-official content) and # whnos (WH non-official shipping)

What got IZ splitting hairs was not the headcanons themselves, but people using official art and the main tag to claim characters have canon sexualities when they do not. 

In JP fandom, the notion of “fantasy” is prevalent: fill in the gaps left by canon, and project anything you want in there. Characters having ambiguous sexualities and identities is something authors do on purpose, in order for a fan’s “fantasy” to take control in fandom.

What we see when someone edits official art to include a sexuality/identity flag and going “X is gay now! It’s canon!” is a fan acting on “fantasy”; semi-ironically declaring a character’s sexuality to express their love for the idea.

What a person engaged in JP fandom sees when someone does that is someone willingly breaking the ambiguity the creator put there on purpose just to selfishly declare their headcanon as truth, denying everything else. The main tags are for canon information, so if something like this is there, it’s seen as a declaration of canon truth.

Same with AUs! What a JP person thinks when they see an unspecified AU in the main tag, they go “oh that must happen in canon at some point”. It causes confusion due to the different views on tag etiquette, and that’s something IZ wants to avoid. 

(JP fandom has certain keywords to help them identify AUs, but we don’t have that system.)

About art edits, well. As an artist myself, not editing someone’s art should be pretty damn obvious. Not only do edits in the canon tag cause confusion, but it’s also the defacing of someone else’s art! 

About that, IZ has said cropping and resizing their art for video thumbnails, headers and such is ok, along with very light edits (like brightness or saturation, nothing that distorts the characters at all) that are positive towards the characters.

(Also, I know they don’t hate AUs and hcs because they’ve liked a bunch of them on Twitter, including when I made Wilardo and Ashe in FFXIV. If they’re fine with my ugly ass FFXIV models they’re fine with anything.)

The rumors of IZ hating LGBT fancontent were born from an earlier declaration of theirs, where they said “any LGBT content is not official nor intentional”. People took that as meaning IZ was denouncing shipping and sexuality headcanons as bad, but it was just them trying to reiterate the point about authors leaving sexualities vague. If I recall correctly, this was shortly after the whole siri/claire debacle, so people already wanted to pick a fight with them. A lot of the people who spread this rumor had blocked both Aster and myself, the two people who translate IZ’s tweets into English: so they had no source of translation except machine translators, which predictably enough did not do their job very well.

In summation: This is all a misunderstanding, JP fandom etiquette is literally just like that, and IZ just wants canon compliance in the main Twitter tag. You’re free to post hcs and AUs in another tag, and IZ even encourages it.

Edits are banned though.

[therealvinelle]

Meta masterpost

Last updated: 24th of December

This is now a masterpost of masterposts, explanation under the readmore. Thank you for your patience.

I was having issues today (15th of May) with tumblr, as my meta masterposts did not display any links when I viewed it from my blog. They all died. After some thinking and testing, I discovered that this is because a tumblr post can only have so many links before it says “Nope, not doing this”.

As a result, we’ll now sigh be doing nested masterposts.

The original masterpost (this post) will now be the masterpost of masterposts, linking to the sub-masterposts and giving general information. Also, all masterposts will be tagged masterpost.

Twilight:

Characters

Ships

Covens

Volturi

Vampires

The Pack

Worldbuilding and Lore

Mocking the Movies

AUs and Other Inspired Asks

Debacles

Miscellaneous

Star Wars masterpost

Harry Potter masterpost

Other fandoms masterpost

Isekai

Fanfiction

Writing

Miscellaneous

Other:

How the blog works, and why it may take a while before you ask gets answered.

Art is tagged under Twilight fanart (Though you won’t find all of universallypanned there. See below), fic-related things under Twilight fic. Apart from that I try to keep this blog serious, so shitposts can be found on main (@belovedordos). (Edit: I realized this makes it sound like I am a shitposter. Sadly I lack that particular brand of genius, what I meant is that I reblog other people’s shitposts on main.)

And if anyone is interested in my fanfiction, it can be found here (Ao3) and there (ffnet). Please stay away from the numerous deer fics, though, because they’re terrible. Hilarious, but terrible.

PSA: The very talented @universallypanned deactivated their Twilight fanart account, a sad day for all of us in this fandom. I’ve taken it upon myself to archive all their stuff as I felt somebody had to. All their art that I was able to find can be found on my blog here. Feel free to DM me anything that I missed.

[goldentemplariumcrow]

So, after much thought and mulling over, I decided I'll open Felipe to some ships without lemon/smut with female muses as an experiment.

Why an experiment you may ask. Well, let me explain the whole story on broad strokes.

-> Warning: there's a lot of rambling under the readmore.

Many years ago, when there were way more people in the RP side of the Assassin's Creed fandom and original characters were more well accepted among the whole RP community in a general way (a.k.a.: the wild times), there were many, many, many, MANY lovely female canon and oc muses going around. They came in all shapes, sizes, colors, personalities and overall were quite pleasant to RP with.

In my case, the rule was simple, I was open to ships with all genders, because Dio was, is and always will be pansexual (more precisely sapiosexual, a.k.a.: attracted to intellect), but I never felt really comfortable writing sex scenes for m/f ships. Romance was perfectly fine. Lemon? I did write it, but it wasn't right up my alley. I took it as a challenge to myself, as a way to improve my writing in whatever way I could, and I only did it with people I felt I was close enough to.

However, as many of us have experienced in the past (and many will in the future), some nasty bunch had to come around to spoil the fun of others. And in my case it was a bunch of muns from female muses, many of which were confirmed self-inserts, who started to complaint that even though there was some sort of relationship between Dionisus and their muses, there was no sexy times going on, that I always skipped or faded to black, while with another two muns I wrote it.

The problem arose when these muns started to mix everything, they confused their muses with themselves and myself with Dionisus, and with the storm that happened from this, soon I had to decide whether it was worth to continue allowing any kinds of ships or not, which wasn't easy and the situation only grew worse when I announced that I wouldn't be accepting new romantic ships of any kind for a while — meaning I would still write lemon, but my muse wouldn't be romantically invested in any way, shape or form with his partners, — and a good number of "partners" left, thus, indicating to me that they were only after Dio's dick.

This was a behavior of Dio's from the very beginning, he'll be the friend-with-some-benefits, but he won't be in love with a female muse, he doesn't have any romantic inclination towards them, just fucks and moves on, no romantic emotional attachment to female muses at all; and it became a behavior I enforced more and more until more issues came from other muns not understanding this and pressuring me to force the relationship.

So, by the end of almost a whole year of this bs and many other situations I'd rather not talk about, I ended up deciding that enough was enough and I wouldn't allow for f/m ships with Dio anymore.

Now, how does this whole debacle affect Felipe?

Let me start by saying that Felipe is fifty-two years old, but his body is that of a twenty-something young man, and bisexual. He's a closeted bisexual who repressed all of his attraction for males for most of his life, safe maybe a couple of years when he was an young adult, and had a pretty heteronormative life for all of his years after his experiences. Most of his experiences are heterosexual, it's what he knows and so it's his comfort zone, thus, it's normal that he fluctuates towards such relationships romantically and sexually, because it's what he's used to.

In my honest point of view, it is unfair to take this away from him, because this is an important part of Felipe. I'll not be open to write lemon/smut of f/m ships with him, but I think that taking the romance away from him is cruel and damaging to his possible developments, and to my writing.

So, for a while, I'll open up and try the waters to see if it works with him. There'll be rules though, which will need to be respected as I brave this wilderness one more time.

[drops-of-moonlights]

Okay I did my duty as an artist and drew the girls in what I’ll be calling Neo Charmix until they come up with a better name. Now for Actual TalkTM about the leaks:

Honestly I’m not hating it! I’m one of the few bitches on Earth that didn’t mind the S5-S6-MOTA CGI look (the og movies were very very pretty but they could NOT emote in the fucking slightlest and the looser kinda shittier models of S5 onwards let them do very expressive faces) so that influences does seem nice, and by GOD FLORA AND AISHA GOT THEIR MELANIN BACK AND EVEN STELLA DOESN’T LOOK LIKE SHE HAD NEVER SEEN THE SUN IN HER LIFE. AISHA EVEN HAS ACTUAL CURLY HAIR!!!! LIKE ACTUAL CURLY HAIR HOLY FUCK

Neo Charmix is nice... but I’m very dissapointed in the wings rip. Like they’re pretty but in a post-Enchantix world if the wings don’t go balls to the wall it’s bound to be dissapointing. But also after the 900 variations on the Cosmix wings pre-release maybe they’ll look better when it airs? who knows. I like how they feel more uniform than OG Charmix but still look individualistic, and honestly? loving the tiaras. They pretty. Though I do have to say the ratio of how much each girl has is kinda off lmao, Bloom and Stella look fairly simplistic compared to Flora who has more layers going on with the dress and stuff. I know people are sad about the loss of Stella’s pigtails but I’m not mindind the hair down, plus FLORA HAS BEEN FREED FROM THE HAIR BLADES AT LEAST WHEN TRANSFORMED THAT HASN’T HAPPENED SINCE B L O O M I X

Tecna’s braids are of course a disgrace unless they do something actually cool with them and I’m not expecting them to do that (like, when transformed they’re covered in tubes that look like wires and so they can soft-mimic long hair. That would be cool but I’m not expecting it in the slightlest), but other than that their casuals are very very nice (MUSA YOU LOOK LIKE YOU FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A DECADE).

WE’RE STILL MISSING THE DUDES THO AND I REMEMBER THE S8 DEBACLE. I DON’T FORGET THE TWINX. So we’ll have to see on that front.

I know we’re all expecting this to be a full reboot but surprisingly enough we still don’t have conclusive evidence? Like yes it all points to a reboot but the fact they insist on calling it Winx Club 9 is what throws me off. And if it is a reboot, what will it cover? We got 52 episodes so I could see like a S1-S3 speedrun and we get Enchantix halfway through. That would be interesting but I also can’t see it happening fully.

Yeah those are my thoughts they’re not like super well-together but also we’re just going by screenshots for the most part so. Be glad I at least put it under a readmore so you don’t have to scroll through the entire thing lol

[hopevalley]

Season End “Podcast” Episode

Hey guys. We (Sara/@trash-god​ and I/Manna) recorded the audio post last night. The very basic rundown is that we answered some questions and discussed some things. See the end of this post if you want an approximate list of topics. I don’t think we talked about anything too surprising (and frankly I feel like we didn’t even really dig into the meat of some topics at all, for whatever that’s worth).

I’ve uploaded the file to dropbox since it can handle a file this large without any real issue.

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE FILE HERE.

You have to download the file or add it to your own Dropbox account to listen to the entire thing (it’s 5.75 hours long lol) so be sure to do that if you actually want to hear it all.

Unfortunately our connection was pretty poor so I (Manna) ended up doing most of the talking and there are some awkward silences when we couldn’t tell if one or the other was about to speak (haha) but I think overall it turned out okay. It should at least be listenable, but I do apologize for not taking the time to edit it. I just don’t have the energy.

You should see the button here on the top right, at least if you’re using Chrome:

If you have any problems downloading the file, let me know, but my only other option is to upload it to YouTube and I’d rather not do that since it’s unpolished and unedited. ;)

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Topics discussed (under the ReadMore):

Allie’s Father (Dylan)

Allie’s Adoption

Nathan’s Inquiry

Helen Bouchard/The Manuscript

Barbershop + Fiona + Mike

Molly’s Pursuit of Bill

School Concerns

Dress Shop

Bill’s Uniform

The Triangle

Jesse and Clara

Faith and Carson

The Canfields

Henry’s Son + Christopher & Rachel

Lee and Rosemary

Ned and Florence

Other questions (in order):

1. What is your opinion on the show “remembering” and “including” all kinds of old things this season? For example, remembering Carson was a surgeon, mentions of Dottie and Abigail, adding Paul Jr as a character.

2. How do you think the historical accuracy side of things is holding up this season?

3. I miss the characters going without makeup and wearing clothes that suited their roles and positions in life better. :( What do you think about the show going back to that?

4. Come up with a fun plotline for S9 H-E-R style!

5. Who should Nathan end up with? If someone new, what type of personality would you choose for him?

6. How many seasons do you think WCtH will get in total? Will they make it past S10?

7. What character do you think was done the dirtiest by the series? How could it be fixed—if it can be?

8. Do you hope they bring back Christopher and Rachel?

9. What are your thoughts on the ‘faith’ aspect of the show (the religious one, not the character!) and do you think they’ll do more of that moving forward?

10. What do you think you’d do if you had to write a movie script for the next holiday movie for this series?

11. What do you think is ‘missing’ from the show? (Manna’s note: food & animals/pets like in Road to Avonlea, community feel outside of dire straits like the town meetings in Gilmore Girls, etc.)

12. How do you feel about adding more characters to the cast?

13. Which character do you think suffered the MOST in terms of writing quality this season, and which character got the best writing in comparison to the last few seasons?

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Questions I asked Sara:

1. Do you feel that certain aspects of the season (Faith wearing pants, Freedom-Alls on Rachel, Fiona helping out with the fire and saying “Does it have to be a man?”—among others) are genuine but…perhaps misguided attempts by Hallmark to look progressively feminist? How do you feel about it? Would you like more attempts at this? Fewer? Better-written attempts? Any examples of how they could do it better?

2. How do you feel overall about the character writing this season? Who came out with the best writing and who was taken out behind the nearest Hardee’s and beaten to death?

3. If you could erase one plotline in S8 to make more room for another plotline of S8, what would you choose to erase and what would get more screentime?

4. Talk about one improvement you saw in S8 over the previous season(s).

5. What’s one thing you miss from previous seasons that you wish would make it back onto the show in some way?

6. Do you think Elizabeth is the new Lorigail?

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Questions Sara asked me:

1. Why do you think they didn’t resolve the triangle with Elizabeth choosing herself instead of A Man? I almost believed they’d take that route when her gaze lingered on the title of her book.

2. What two actors currently on the show have the best chemistry?

3. Carson’s will-he-won’t-he-leave plotline consumed so much screentime and fostered nothing but a sense of annoyance. Do you think he’ll stay gone? How would you have written him off the show?

4. What do you think causes so many of the “heartfelt” scenes to come off cringey?

5. Do you think they’ll let Elizabeth stick with Lucas next season after all the vocal backlash?

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Broader (?) Topics (that we honestly didn’t have time to discuss in more detail sorry sorry):

1. What kinds of storylines would you like to see for the existing characters moving forward?

2. Opinions on Abigail coming back (played either by Lori or by someone else)?

3. The biggest complaint about the ending was actually the “resolution” to the triangle debacle (regarding the path to getting there being sloppily done/poorly received by fans). Is that a fair criticism? Is it just now that the show has failed the audience with its poor writing?

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I am not personally going to crosspost this to Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, or any other platform, but I don’t mind if others do so, so feel free to pass the link around if you want.

And as always, let me know your thoughts/feel free to send follow-up questions. :)

Thanks for sticking around this season!

[podcastlimbo]

A snippet of a story I’m reworking! This is from my ‘second citadel characters as string musicians’ modern au except I’ve de-aged all the characters so they’re stressed college students now.

(Sorry people on mobile I’m wrote this all on my phone and I have no idea how to insert a readmore on the tungle app)

Today was turning out to be a five-cup-of-coffee type of day, at least by Mira’s reckoning.

It had started completely normally. She had woken up at 11am like any self respecting college student. She had studiously checked the ensemble’s Instagram page (still stuck at 7 followers, as it had been since last year), replied to an email her performance professor sent her way at 3 in the morning (3 in the morning? Really?), industriously ‘lol’ed at whatever meme of the day amused Angelo enough to share in the group chat. And all that was done within 5 minutes. Efficiency was her middle name, let it not be forgotten.

And then she had to check her DMs. Like an idiot.

‘Hi Mira, really sorry about the short notice, but I’ll have to pull out of the concert. Family and school stuff. All the best for it though.’

She had received nearly matching texts from Absolom and Freddie around the same time a few hours ago, and any sympathy she may have had for the two students, both music majors who had joined the Citadel String Ensemble as an easy way to earn their required student life points, absolutely flew out of the window when Absolom added a timer on his latest Instagram story, counting down until ‘Absolom and Freddie Go East!’

The most insulting part of this debacle wasn’t even that her only violist and contrabassist had decided to take a vacation at the start of the semester, just a month before their Saintsrise concert. It wasn’t the flimsy excuses they made via text, or the even flimsier well-wishes they had sent to the rest of the ensemble, before unceremoniously removing themselves from the group chat.

No. What most insulted Mira, final year student at the Citadel National University (and harried music major), was that the two ex-players didn’t even have the decency to remove her from their list of instagram followers, allowing her to behold the offending timer in its full, terrible glory.

She was in half a mind to leave some sort of scathing comment, but her better instincts won out, and she found herself calmly closing the application, opening Spotify, putting on some soothing MCR and screaming into her pillow for a long, long time.

Yes, a five-cup-of-coffee day it would be.

[rebelmeg]

TONY STARK BINGO MASTERPOST

I am PSYCHED because I managed a blackout again!  And a Dum-E badge as well, with my adopted squares!  HOLLA!  Fills and info below the readmore.

S1 - Save Another Life (It Will Be Worth It) - Chapter 2: Helpless

Teen

Bucky & Tony & Bruce

James and his (somewhat stolen) son Tony have been living happy lives under the radar for the past five years. They move a lot, and leave a lot of friends behind, but then Tony meets a little boy named Bruce. In another world, James and Tony might move on, though it breaks their hearts to have to say goodbye to the scared, hurting little boy that is Tony's best friend.  In this world, however... they don't say goodbye.  AKA, Kid Bruce remix fic with Dad Bucky and Kid Tony

S2 - Iron OTP Cuties 

Gen

Pepperony

Cross stitch Cuties Tony and Pepper wearing their suits

S3 - And Shawarma After  

Gen

MIT Bros, referenced Brooklyn Brothers

The shawarma party is over, the Avengers are going their own separate ways, and Steve sticks around long enough to learn a little bit more about one of his teammates.

S4 - Science Field Trip

Gen

Tony & the Science Sons, T’Challa & Shuri

Tony takes the Science Sons on a field trip. And where else would he take them but the most awesome and scientifically advanced city ever?

S5 - I’m Sorry

Gen

Pepperony

Tony finds Pepper in an unexpected situation. Apologies are exchanged, tears are shed, and it happens with their arms around each other.

T1 - Got Your Nose! 

Gen

Dum-E & Tony

Dum-E is intrigued by the game Ton-E is playing with the miscellaneous smol child that is hanging out with him in the workshop.

T2 - Ghost and the Machine - Angst with a Happy/Hopeful Ending 

Teen

Bucky & Tony

The angst ending to The Ghost and The Machine! 

T3 - Parent, Teacher, Cupid

Gen

Rhodey/May, May & Peter

Peter's third grade teacher, Mr. Rhodes, is awesome. And Aunt May is awesome too. Maybe, since Peter knows they like each other, he could help them...

T4 - Hot Mess Racecar Tony Cross Stitch Cutie

Gen

No pairing

Cross Stitch Cutie Tony

T5 - Every Surface in the House, AKA: Permanently Damaged Platypus

Teen

Pepperony, MIT Bros

Rhodey is scandalized, Tony is only slightly ashamed, Pepper isn't done with Tony, JARVIS is fond, FRIDAY is amused, and Natasha enjoyed the retelling.

A1 - Save Another Life (It Will Be Worth It) - Chapter 4: Turning Point  

Teen

Bucky & Tony & Bruce

James and his (somewhat stolen) son Tony have been living happy lives under the radar for the past five years. They move a lot, and leave a lot of friends behind, but then Tony meets a little boy named Bruce. In another world, James and Tony might move on, though it breaks their hearts to have to say goodbye to the scared, hurting little boy that is Tony's best friend.  In this world, however... they don't say goodbye.  AKA, Kid Bruce remix fic with Dad Bucky and Kid Tony

A2 -  The Name You Gave Me - Chapter 16: A Secret Revealed  

Mature

Bucky & Natasha & Tony, Howard Stark/Maria Stark

If you asked the Asset, he'd say it started with being given a name, something of his own. For the first time he had something for himself, and he became greedy. So she became his as well. If you asked the little Widow, she'd say, “It started with a brother. He was my brother and I wanted another.” If you asked Howard Stark, he'd say, “It started with the Serum, and it ended with a Serum.” But if you asked the youngest of them all, he'd answer, “It started like everything, an action was the catalyst for a chain reaction. I was just lucky to have a brother and a sister, a real father and another mother, through it all.” The moral of the story is that a true family always finds each other.

A3 - Tiny Tony Cross Stitch Cutie

Gen

No pairing

Itty bitty Cross Stitch Cutie Tony magnet

A4 - Tony & Morgan Plaid Cross Stitch Cuties

Gen

Tony & Morgan

Cross Stitch Cuties

A5 - The Ghost and The Machine - Chapter 17: I Can Live With This 

Teen

Tony & Bucky

A slight problem on an op leaves CIA agent Bucky Barnes with something of a dilemma... a dilemma that never stops talking, floats in midair, and seems bound and determined to drive Bucky absolutely out of his mind with an endless barrage of questions.  Tony really just thinks Bucky is being a drama queen, and honestly, he's a writer. Who could blame him for trying to conduct proper research, no matter if he's dead (is he?) or not?

R1 - POSTING SOON: The Name You Gave Me - Chapter 22

Mature

Bucky & Natasha & Tony

If you asked the Asset, he'd say it started with being given a name, something of his own. For the first time he had something for himself, and he became greedy. So she became his as well. If you asked the little Widow, she'd say, “It started with a brother. He was my brother and I wanted another.” If you asked Howard Stark, he'd say, “It started with the Serum, and it ended with a Serum.” But if you asked the youngest of them all, he'd answer, “It started like everything, an action was the catalyst for a chain reaction. I was just lucky to have a brother and a sister, a real father and another mother, through it all.” The moral of the story is that a true family always finds each other.

R2 - Poker Night at the Casino

Gen

Tony & Bucky

Poker moodboard

R3 - Ghost and the Machine - Ouch Ending

Teen

Bucky & Tony

The ouch ending to The Ghost and The Machine!

R4 - Rhodey Booty and College Anecdotes

Gen

MIT Bros, Tony & Avengers

A sleep deprived Rhodey is all kinds of fun, and Tony celebrates a birthday with his family.

R5 -  Through A Child's Eyes, It's Different - Chapter 20: A Breakthrough

Teen

Pepperony, MIT Bros, Tony & Happy

The Accords debacle is long over, and the ex-Avengers have come home. Things are not going well, particularly when Tony gets kidnapped by the villain-of-the-week and ends up in the middle of a freak lab accident.  Seeing things through the eyes of a child sounds kind of poetic, and in some cases, it is. But for the rogue Avengers, it's a shocking and harsh look at their past deeds, as well as a closer look at who Tony Stark really is when he doesn't have all his self-made masks up to protect him.  With Pepper, Rhodey, and Happy there to keep him safe and love him, Tony navigates the weirdness his life has become, while Dr. Strange, Thor, and Dr. Foster work to figure out what happened to Tony and if the deaging can be reversed.

K1 - A Little Motherly Push

Gen

Rhodey & Mama Rhodes & the Stark Family

Mama Rhodes is not above a little bit of nagging and above-board manipulation to get what she wants.

K2 - Through A Child's Eyes, It's Different - Chapter 6: Very Familiar Eyes

Teen

Pepperony, MIT Bros

The Accords debacle is long over, and the ex-Avengers have come home. Things are not going well, particularly when Tony gets kidnapped by the villain-of-the-week and ends up in the middle of a freak lab accident.  Seeing things through the eyes of a child sounds kind of poetic, and in some cases, it is. But for the rogue Avengers, it's a shocking and harsh look at their past deeds, as well as a closer look at who Tony Stark really is when he doesn't have all his self-made masks up to protect him.  With Pepper, Rhodey, and Happy there to keep him safe and love him, Tony navigates the weirdness his life has become, while Dr. Strange, Thor, and Dr. Foster work to figure out what happened to Tony and if the deaging can be reversed.

K3 - Bot Shaming - Part 1

Gen

Tony & Dum-E

Dum-E broke the fourth wall, and Dad is shaming him on social media. (Moodboard)

K4 - Pepperony Soulmates Moodboard

Gen

Pepperony

Tony has been interviewing for a PA all day, and he expects that he’ll be wasting the rest of his day the same way. Until Pepper Potts walks into his office, and words flower under their skin.

K5 - Morgan’s Valentines  (Valentine’s Day fluff fic with Morgan making valentines)

Gen

Morgan & her family, Pepperony

Morgan makes a valentine for all the people, creatures, bots, and AI's in her life.

Adopted Squares

Sharon Carter: Rebelmeg Drabbles - Chapter 10: Stark Cousins Summer Camp

Gen

Tony & Sharon

Sharon blackmailed Tony into coming to summer camp with her as a counselor. She is beginning to regret it…

Iron Dad: Tony Stark, Doo Doo Doo-Doo Doo

Gen

Tony & Morgan, Pepperony, Tony & the MCU teens, MIT Bros

Tony has Dad Brain, Morgan is disinterested in her nap, FRIDAY is amused, and a whole pack of teenagers are watching it unfold from behind the couch.

Tony Stank: Stank Industries moodboard

Gen

MIT Bros

Rhodey has been wearing Stank Industries shirts for months. Tony finally notices.

[doom-dreaming]

Chat Shenanigans

SO THIS IS SILLY AND IT WAS BORN FROM A SKYPE CHAT ENJOY IT also I'm sorry i can't put in a readmore because tumblr is a Good Website™ and the color formatting disappears if i try to edit on desktop :) :) technically co-written with kat, the lines about troy eating a car, 'he's not the hot one' and the whole greg debacle are theirs!

******

[TwinGods4Evah has entered the game]

meatbike420: oh shit level 60 whats up dude wanna join our squad?

TwinGods4Evah: sure

strippptheflesh: welcome to the team

r3dtatt00s: come thirst about troy with us

strippptheflesh: speak for yourself bro

TwinGods4Evah: troy calypso?

r3dtatt00s: you know anyone else named troy?

r3dtatt00s: he’s a s*x god

r3dtatt00s: wait why the f*ck is my profanity filter on gimme a sec

TwinGods4Evah: lmao you wanna fuck him?

r3dtatt00s: listen man he could rip my arms off and i’d thank him. i’d let him do NAYTHING to me

r3dtatt00s: *anything

strippptheflesh: and the horny on main award goes to...

r3dtatt00s: i ahve no shame

r3dtatt00s: *have

r3dtatt00s: fuck this keyboard

meatbike420: nah your fingers are just shakin cause you’re thinkin about gettin fucked up by troy

meatbike420: what do you think that mouth do?

r3dtatt00s: somethin nasty i hope

TwinGods4Evah: how nasty we talking?

strippptheflesh: lol i hear he eats cars

TwinGods4Evah: nobody ever proved that

GLORYTOTHESIRENGODS: BLASPHEMY

TwinGods4Evah: oh shit looks like we got a fanatic here. we’re just havin fun bro cool it

GLORYTOTHESIRENGODS: THE TWIN GODS ARE UNATTAINABLE

meatbike420: okay who lets a psycho play a video game. wait do they know how to type? wtf

GLORYTOTHESIRENGODS: [*muffled mic noises*]

[GLORYTOTHESIRENGODS has left the game]

r3dtatt00s: A N Y WA Y

strippptheflesh: you want troy to rip your throat out, we know

r3dtatt00s: he’s so hot

r3dtatt00s: it’s visceral man

meatbike420: i bet you wouldn’t be this shameless if he could see you saying all this

TwinGods4Evah: maybe he can

r3dtatt00s: don’t care

r3dtatt00s: shameless

TwinGods4Evah: i’m sure he’d be flattered

TwinGods4Evah: i hear they’re pretty chill

meatbike420: oh shit you got insider knowledge bro? spill it

strippptheflesh: what if they’re actually troy tho

r3dtatt00s: ...

TwinGods4Evah: wait now hold on i thought you said no shame lmao

r3dtatt00s: you’d tell us if you were really troy right

TwinGods4Evah: ;)

r3dtatt00s: BRO DON’T EVEN PLAY AROUND

r3dtatt00s: im gona fuckign piss myself

TwinGods4Evah: hot

strippptheflesh: haaaaaa

[HonorTheGodQueen has joined the game]

HonorTheGodQueen: he’s not even the hot one

TwinGods4Evah: HEY LIL BIG SIS

r3dtatt00s: fuckfuckfukcfuckfuckfuc

r3dtatt00s: PLELASE TELL ME YOUR’E NOT ACTUALYL THEM

strippptheflesh: LOL YOU’RE DEAD BRO I KNEW IT

meatbike420: holy shit

r3dtatt00s: fuck im so sorry i hope i didnt

r3dtatt00s: fuck

TwinGods4Evah: didn’t what?

HonorTheGodQueen: yeah c’mon let’s hear it

r3dtatt00s: oh god oh fuck

TwinGods4Evah: say that again~ ;P

strippptheflesh: SCREAMING

meatbike420: rip

TwinGods4Evah: you know @r3dtatt00s if you ever wanna see ‘what this mouth do’ just come find me

[r3dtatt00s has left the game]

HonorTheGodQueen: shame

TwinGods4Evah: did anyone manage to add them?

TwinGods4Evah: what if i randomly DM’d them i think they’d die

strippptheflesh: so wait are you guys the real calypsos??

TwinGods4Evah: ;) ;) ;)

HonorTheGodQueen: troy i think they know

TwinGods4Evah: shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhH

strippptheflesh: holy fuck

HonorTheGodQueen: shut up greg

strippptheflesh: my name’s not even greg

HonorTheGodQueen: it is now

strippptheflesh: yes maam

TwinGods4Evah: careful she likes that

[strippptheflesh has changed their name to stripppthegreg]

TwinGods4Evah: nooooooo don’t enable her

HonorTheGodQueen: oh so you’re the only one who can have fun around here?

meatbike420: oooohh sibling fight

meatbike420: no offense

meatbike420: don’t kill me

HonorTheGodQueen: just because yours left

[r3dtatt00s has entered the game]

stripppthegreg: @r3dtatt00s IT’S ACTUALLY THEM

r3dtatt00s: WE DIE LIKE MEN

r3dtatt00s: wait why are you greg

[dreamweavers]

i have no clue where to post this since like all my blogs run on queues so in an effort of not annoying the followers on there i’ll just post it here since idk how long this debacle will be. under readmore bc it’s kinda long.

when i tried posting smth from the queue on dailyjosukecaps on mobile, it SAID it posted but then it didn’t appear on my blog or in the queue. on desktop it looks like it posted, but when i visit my actual blog’s page it’s not there. i reuploaded the posts that should’ve posted on my jojo blogs today in entirely new posts which are showing up on my blogs itself. 

to try to figure a way around this i took a random post from catbatquartet’s queue and moved it to my drafts, then posted it from there. it does appear on my actual blog page and even has a note which indicates it’s been seen. so ig if this continues tomorrow hopefully i can just move my queue stuff to my drafts and post them from there? i hope that works on mobile. too bad it won’t work w my queue on here which i designed specifically for when i’m sleeping and doing other crap. 

it looks like i’m getting too invested in this, which i am, but i’ve invested too much time in this hellsite to let my blogs die from their queues not functioning AND i just spent a while last night (this morning, technically) queueing posts for them and don’t want that to go to waste.