#these have sat in my drafts for months

[infraredsouls]

The 1975 - Frail State of Mind

[amaliatheartist]

YOU DROVE THAT TRAIN

RIGHT THROUGH MY HEART

[prouvairesverse]

there is only ever one thing in grantaire’s mind

clip from a boot where grantaire kisses enj during one day more

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some other versions, also with higher quality because the gif is so low for some reason 😭😭

enjolras ver

[applysome]

Alex Turner on his knees: a collection. Part two

Credit: Pinterest except 3

[aurenflare]

saw someone else do this but oh. look at this. i did this first one 4 years ago. my drawings of her have grown up and so have i

[angelmichelangelo]

i love all variations of b-team but this specific b-team just hits different yknow

[levbolton]

didn't see any meme worthy posts lately so only 3 this time

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 7.5 / Part 8

[ovenproofowl]

Bottom of the Food Chain

The appetite goes first.

No one ever gets that part right. Easy to write off as a million other things. Sickness, stress, change in the wind. Doesn't matter. Point is, food no longer means anything to you.

Probably for the best. Means you can spend more time doing stuff, right? Skip breakfast every day, no need to sit down for lunch. The evening just flies by.

And then you're back.

No need for water, either. Y'know, that basic human right that everyone squabbles over? Not you. Not anymore. Now there's no need for bathroom breaks. You count that as a win, you can never find anywhere private here, anyway. There's always a cubicle closed for one reason or another.

Sometimes you hear whimpering through the cracks.

You don't sleep anymore. Maybe it's the stress.

Nights are wide open now, so they call you in. Extra dosh, shifts wide open that no one else has the right mind to take. But your mind is just right. Ever since you stopped eating.

There's others like you, that's the thing. No one talks about them, those crazy zombie idiots who take 18 hour shifts just to feel alive. Must be snorting a line on the side to power them through, but it's a big company and if the CEOs can do it, who's stopping the little guy?

You sometimes check the mirror just to make sure your face is still there. Been a while since you've felt it. All the muscles have gone numb. You prod and poke at your sagging skin, practically sloughing off bone.

Someone's crying in the cubicle behind you.

Well, the toilet still needs to be used for something, you suppose.

Time's gone all weird. All craggy around the edges. How long have you been here, really? What decades have slipped by past your notice? You're still the same. Can’t eat, can't sleep, but hey, you look good. Bones so prominent it could be Botox, but you don't have the cash to burn on that, no matter how many hours you work.

You work every hour. Home's a distant memory. Friends and family are long gone, left behind or aged out of their skin. Sounds like a personal problem. You don't discuss those anymore, not since the crying moved behind the walls.

Time's no longer kind to you. It happens to us all, eventually. But you were meant to be different. The perfect machine.

You're malfunctioning. We all do. Don't be so hard on yourself.

They don't want you near the execs. Soon, the smell is too much for even their expensive cologne to disguise. They put you on the phoneline for a while, conveniently out of sight, right until your jawbone snaps off and your tongue lolls out and sputters.

No voice, no worries, they can still make use of you yet. You'll clean the floors till your arms waste away and even then, pieces of you can always be repurposed.

We're all about sustainability, here.

The rich always want to live forever, but that gift isn't for them. They don't put their whole body into the company like you, they don't make the same sacrifices. They're envious of you, you know? They'd kill to be as skinny as you are now.

Maybe their names will be immortal, but you, my friend, you are.

Your blood is in this company. You'll never die.

Hey... why are you crying?

[tmae3114]

So I originally wrote this back in August when this release was fresh and then!!! APPARENTLY!!! just COMPLETELY forgot to post it!! so you get it now, three months late.

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Some of the dialogue from the Guardian Tower has been living rent free in my head and now I want to yell about it because it’s SO GOOD for background lore

Okay, so, on the first floor, Mindi tells us this:

I really like this because it helps illustrate one of the logistical problems of the Rose. Like, even if you took away everything else that makes them bad (which, admittedly, is most of the organisation and its purpose), the fact that they tend to, by default, present themselves as the only option and drive out competition is bad. On paper, a force of people trained in combat against magical threats, with reasonably easy access to that training, which has garrisons stationed across the land, is actually a pretty good solution to the whole Recurring Evil Magical Threats thing. We know this because the guardians and the paladins and the dragonslayers exist! They do this! The Rose seems to make membership easier to access but, frankly, I suspect that is in part because their training is less thorough.

And when the Rose show up and drive those other groups out (like they’ve done with the Guardians), they don’t actually improve anything. Best case scenario, everything is exactly the way it was before. More likely, things would get worse, because the people with active experience defending a particular area have been driven away and now the Rose members have to play catch-up

(A good example of how on paper a group like the Rose could help an area is Book 3 Amityvale. The local Guardians were long gone, so the Rose were able to help without doing that extra damage and made Amityvale a safer place to live....... but that’s specifically for the human inhabitants. Plus, we know they’re affecting the magic of the area - Amaris’s moon has started having phases - and that’s! probably not good! Also see: Raven having to flee for her own safety after getting bitten by a werewolf. Even where they are ostensibly doing the most good, the Rose are still an active danger to many, even their own in the wrong circumstances)

And, meanwhile, on the ground floor...

......further proof that the Rose actively try to drive competition out of the area. Falconreach has repeatedly made it clear that they want nothing to do with the Rose and they keep picking fights with the patrols.

[blurrypxls]

Recreated Leigh, one of my long lost legacy sims from 2015, and she’s got a new lease of life going for her in the Griffinverse! 

[macadam]

I mean no fanbase is perfect but from my experience the TF fandom is pretty nice overall are there bad people in it oh yeah I’m sure but that applies to just about every fandom.

However that’s not to say I’m excusing bad things within it like misogyny and it’s good when it’s called out which thankfully does seem to be called out in this fandom.

Anyways yeah you’re right it’s not your responsibility to constantly bring up anything negative about something you enjoy.

It's not even about responsibility. It's just not necessary for me to do it all the time. Not every post needs a little disclaimer at the bottom abt how my post doesn't apply to x or y or z. I don't know why I've fallen into this need to do it--actually I do know why. It's because since I've started the habit the anon hate has gone down. It's like I'm shielding my back from every possible bad faith interpretation that could be made, and while effective it has made me just not want to post anything.

There are obviously many times when this effort and extra step need to be done but the amount of which I am doing it is exhausting and needless tbh

[bambiraptorx]

The third and final part of my series on yokai medicine. Parts one and two covered standard chemical medications and mystic medicine, leaving one final option: spells cast directly on a person.

Since there is no chemical component interacting with the body when a spell is used, there is much less risk of dependence or addiction. However, they are also extremely complex and usually have to be tailored to the individual for full effectiveness, so they are only used in cases where medication is needed long-term, like in cases of chronic pain/illness. Casting this kind of spell is also usually outside the range of expertise of the average yokai, so they have to go to a trained healer in order to get this kind of spell cast for them. Spells are something of a last resort because of this.

There is one major issue with spells: the complexity needed to effectively tailor treatment to an individual so that the spell does what they need it to do can make it difficult to predict how long a spell will actually last. Sure, you could cast a spell on a patient to reduce their chronic back pain for a month, but you have no idea if the spell will actually last that whole month or not, and when spells stop working, they stop working fast. Many people don't want to go through the process of living relatively pain-free for three or four weeks, then getting hit with the full force of their pain with no warning. Yes, spells can be tweaked to avoid this, but it's a time-consuming process of troubleshooting that can take months or years to get right.

There's also the issue that, if a person does decide to cast the spell themselves, it usually drains their mystic energy reserves substantially. And if they don't know what they're doing, they might not notice until their energy levels become dangerously low. Yes, spells can be cast in a way to shut themselves off before they take too much energy, but increasing the complexity like that means that the spell will need even more energy to maintain itself. The average yokai simply isn't capable of casting a spell that powerful and having it last more than a few days, and for many people that just isn't worth it, especially if they already have chronic health issues.

[foxmulderautism]

wrote out a whole thing about imagining as part of my writing process and how much of my first drafting is actually done internally but it sounded kind of obnoxious accidentally like “ummm guys well everything in my head is so vivid 👍” which i don’t think me experiencing writing in my head vividly is special it’s just what my brain does 👍 but anyway how much of a first draft is a first draft when i will write a passage in word but that passage has lived in my head for weeks sometimes months mostly written out because i will write out scenes in my head and just let them marinate up there and somehow I don’t forget it

[thstarsofsilver]

I wanna write something for Val / ej but don’t know what , help me out with a prompt 🥺🥺

not sure if you want something romantic or platonic, so here's a mix of ideas you could spin:

revisiting shows they were in together (they could do that in any number of ways)

ej moves to california (or wherever val is at college) and she becomes a big part of his life again

getting each other through hard times

new city, old friend

one of them is getting married to someone else (angst central)

bonding over crappy parents

slowburn friends to lovers (maybe spanning the time they've known each other)

au where they meet as co-workers somewhere, maybe café/bookshop/etc

dress by taylor swift "i don't want you like a best friend" (maybe a bit raunchy if that's what you're after)

jealousy/pining (dating someone else)

academic rivals to best friends au

wing(wo)man

[muppet-hell]

Me? Posting another Encore edit? Insane but yeah

[alittleemo]

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