#the way I lost it

[mytdpblog]

Me:

[whirlybirbs]

ah yes the symbol of peace tripping absolute balls during survival training

[hakusins]

was looking for a case and accidentally typed x instead of v and one of the recommended searches showed ao3 😭😭

[bananasofthorns]

how it started (first time listening to so much (for) stardust) vs how it's going (fall out boy concert July 16)

[thelostmoongazer]

i was gonna do more with this but i think this is about as far as ill go. maybe. who knows. happy late valentines <3

[46hasu]

Nintendo: the play style will be different than swinging your sword like Link does because Zelda uses her wisdom to overcome challenges!

Zelda’s wisdom:

[chialattea]

POV: it’s 4AM. You’re the crew’s chef and you hear noise in the kitchen

[hinamie]

surprise it's yuri!!!in 2024

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[toromancer]

gonna take off all my skin

[tempo-takoyaki]

"It would be my pleasure to give you a proper tour and introduce you to everyone."

Here is my full illustration for @svsssbigbang for the fanfiction Night at Cang Qiong Museum by @adventure-waffles! An incredible Night at the Museum x Scum Villain AU! Don't hesitate to also check out the other two artists incredible pieces for this fanfiction: dustmeadowx and qiye!

And since I know that tumblr tends to destroy the quality of my illustrations, here are some close-ups under the cut:

[kedreeva]

as a reminder to literally anyone and everyone who even so much as considers this: AO3 has NO autosave ability when you're making drafts, so PLEASE do not use it instead of a writing program.

If their server goes down, if you hit a wrong button and refresh the page or go back to the previous page, if you accidentally close the browser, if your browser or device crashes, etc etc etc you are shit out of luck. Your work is gone forever, it didn't backup to anywhere and there is NO recovery option. Even TUMBLR's drafting ability is supposed to autosave and often does.

If you want to avoid gdocs that's fine- there's other text editors with simple autosave options, like Online Notepad or Digital Scholar's notepad, or there's still local-drive writing programs that are free and open source, like LibreOffice. PLEASE do not use AO3 to write your stories into directly. It has NOTHING.

[syoddeye]

you lose a bet. that's the only reason you're here, standing stiffly inside the train station, clutching a FREE HUGS sign instead of your last shreds of dignity.

you don't like talking to strangers. you certainly don't like touching strangers. and you make sure your face says exactly that. flat, unwelcoming, radiating pure do not perceive me energy.

for the most part, it works. only a handful of bewildered elders have taken you up on the offer, their hugs short and polite. a wayward toddler briefly latched onto your leg like a barnacle, but that was more an ambush than a hug. with less than an hour left in your sentence, you're starting to believe you'll make it through unscathed. your friends are in for an earful when you meet up later.

until you see them.

a group of men disembark from a train. big men, broad-shouldered, all muscle, and oozing confidence. they haul heavy bags like they weigh nothing, laughing and talking amongst themselves. you barely spare them a thought beyond what the fuck are they feeding them?

then one of them—in a cap pulled low—catches your eye.

he nudges the man beside him, smirking. and that man, whose hair is shaved into a godforsaken mohawk, turns to follow his friend's gaze. even across the station, you see how wide his eyes go. how sharp his smile turns.

oh no.

the group stops. he drops his bag. and then—

he starts toward you.

you should move. you should absolutely move.

his pace picks up. he weaves around people.

is he—oh my god, is he running?

your sign slips from your hands, forgotten. you throw up your arms in defense before he's on you. but instead of barreling into you like the juggernaut, two thick arms wrap around you, lifting you clean off the ground a few inches.

then stubble scrapes your neck. a kiss is pressed to it. warm, wet, and shameless.

and right in your ear, loud and wistful, "oh, bonnie, s'good to see you."

in shock, you squirm in his arms and hear a deeper, rumbling voice wave off some concerned bystander.

"nothin' to see here, folks. just a sweetheart welcomin' her man home."

[mobius-m-mobius]

#the Nowhere Man who waits and the God of Stories who watches

[bixels]

Learning that fans hated Applejack and called her "boring" is crazyyy to me because I genuinely, unironically believe AJ's the most complex character in the main six.

Backstory-wise, she was born into a family of famers/blue collar workers who helped found the town she lives in. She grew up a habitual liar until she had the bad habit traumatized outta her. She lost both her parents and was orphaned at a young age, having to step up as her baby sister's mother figure. She's the only person in the main gang who's experienced this level of loss and grief (A Royal Problem reveals that AJ dreams about memories of being held by her parents as a baby). She moved to Manhattan to live with her wealthy family members, only to realize she'll never fit in or be accepted, even amongst her own family. The earlier seasons imply she and her family had money problems too (In The Ticket Master, AJ wants to go to the gala to earn money to buy new farm equipment and afford hip surgery for her grandma).

Personality-wise, she's a total people-pleaser/steamroller (with an occasional savior complex) who places her self worth on her independence and usefulness for other people, causing her to become a complete workaholic. In Applebuck Season, AJ stops taking care of herself because of her obsessive responsibilities for others and becomes completely dysfunctional. In Apple Family Reunion, AJ has a tearful breakdown because in she thinks she dishonored her family and tarnished her reputation as a potential leader –– an expectation and anxiety that's directly tied to her deceased parents, as shown in the episode's ending scene. In The Last Roundup, AJ abandons her family and friends out of shame because believes she failed them by not earning 1st place in a rodeo competition. She completely spirals emotionally when she isn't able to fulfill her duties toward others. Her need to be the best manifests in intense pride and competitiveness when others challenge her. And when her pride's broken, she cowers and physically hides herself.

Moreover, it's strongly implied that AJ has a deep-seated anger. The comics explore her ranting outbursts more. EQG also obviously has AJ yelling at and insulting Rarity in a jealous fit just to hurt her feelings (with a line that I could write a whole dissection on). And I'm certain I read in a post somewhere that in a Gameloft event, AJ's negative traits are listed as anger.

Subtextually, a lot of these flaws and anxieties can be (retroactively) linked to her parents' death, forcing her to grow up too quickly to become the adult/caregiver of the family (especially after her big brother becomes semiverbal). Notice how throughout the series, she's constantly acting as the "mom friend" of the group (despite everything, she manages to be the most emotionally mature of the bunch). Notice how AJ'll switch to a quieter, calmer tone when her friends are panicking and use soothing prompts and questions to talk them through their emotions/problems; something she'd definitely pick up while raising a child. Same with her stoicism and reluctance at crying or releasing emotions (something Pinkie explicitly points out). She also had a childhood relationship with Rara (which, if you were to give a queer reading, could easy be interpreted as her first 'aha' crush), who eventually left her life. (Interestingly enough, AJ also has an angry outburst with Rara for the same exact reasons as with EQG Rarity; jealous, upset that someone else is using and changing her). It's not hard to imagine an AJ with separation anxiety stemming from her mother and childhood friend/crush leaving. I'm also not above reading into AJ's relationship with her little sister (Y'all ever think about how AB never got to know her parents, even though she shares her father's colors and her mother's curly hair?).

AJ's stubbornness is a symptom of growing up too quickly as well. Who else to play with your baby sister when your brother goes nonverbal (not to discount Big Mac's role in raising AB)? Who else to wake up in the middle of the night to care for your crying baby sister when your grandma needs her rest? When you need to be 100% all the time for your family, you tend to become hard-stuck with a sense of moral superiority. You know what's best because you have to be your best because if you're aren't your best, then everything'll inevitably fall apart and it'll be your fault. And if you don't know what's best –– if you've been wrong the whole time –– that means you haven't been your best, which means you've failed the people who rely on you, which means you can't fulfill your role in the family/society, which makes you worthless . We've seen time and time again how this compulsive need to be right for the sake of others becomes self-destructive (Apple Family Reunion, Sound of Silence, all competitions against RD). We've seen in The Last Roundup how, when no longer at her best, AJ would rather remove herself from her community than confront them because she no longer feels of use to them.

But I guess it is kinda weird that AJ has "masculine" traits and isn't interested in men at all. It's totally justified that an aggressively straight, misogynistic male fandom would characterize her as a "boring background character." /s

At the time of writing this, it's 4:46AM.

[vvanillavveins]

Is she Lucy Westenra, or is she just a vessel for the writer's barely disguised fantasy of a women being punished for her promiscuity? Is she really"Bram Stoker's" Lucy Westenra: a naive, innocent 19 year old, with a cheery personality and a bright future ahead of her? Or has the writer instead just slapped her name on an OC that behaves nothing like her, and- with none of the grace or decorum that Lucy's tragically short story deserves- sexualized her slow and agonising death as much as possible, whilst very unsubtly doing their best to blame her for being murdered, so that we won't object to her being killed again later in an even more gruesome and sexual manner?