#they don't drive me up a wall

[ihatebrainstorm]

A whole new universe for us to explore together!

[ouella]

I'm really mad these are my most popular pieces on twitter lmao

[daydreamingmiller]

#if smoking bad why sexy

[the-sage-libriomancer]

Shigure's relationship with Kyo drives me crazy. he doesn't hate Kyo in the slightest - in fact, he pities Kyo, and not in the condescending "oh you poor little boy, cursed to be a horrible, disgusting monster" sort of way that everyone else does. Shigure pities Kyo for the reason he should be pitied: he's just a kid caught up in a system so inhumane it can't possibly be survived without some seriously unhealthy coping mechanisms.

and it drives me crazy because - listen, Shigure is the only zodiac member who's emotionally aware enough to see the other zodiac members as exactly what they are. he knows Yuki is a severely traumatized kid who projects all of his self-hatred on a single convenient target. he knows Akito is really a scared little girl with a raging god complex (literally) and no concept of a healthy relationship. and he knows Kyo is a regular-ass human being who doesn't deserve to be locked up for the rest of his life just because some arbitrary system says so. he KNOWS it's stupid. he KNOWS it's ridiculous and unfair. and he has to share a house with Kyo knowing that Kyo is living with a sword over his head, hating himself and hating others in perfect tandem because he has no other way of coping with the insane amounts of negativity he's had to deal with his entire life.

but the thing about Shigure is that he KNOWS all of this, and the same time he doesn't really CARE. he feels sorry for Kyo, but an apathetic sort of pity, a disinterested "this is how it is. such a shame." sort of pity. in some ways he's worse than the other zodiacs because he DOES see Kyo as a person, someone he likes being around even, but he still considers Kyo below his attention because all his focus is on Akito and breaking the curse. and sure, once the curse is broken Kyo will theoretically be set free with the rest of them, but that's more of a coincidental side effect than anything. despite being in a much more dangerous and precarious mental space AND comfortably in Shigure's reach, Kyo is about as much a priority for Shigure as Ritsu or Momiji.

and it drives me CRAZY because i think Shigure does start actively caring about Kyo as the series goes on, but it's hard to tell when that happens and to what extent. when Kazuma told Shigure he planned to reveal Kyo's true form and Shigure said he was going too far - whose sake was it for? was Shigure trying to protect Kyo, who would be hideously traumatized/emotionally scarred by such a cruel betrayal? was he trying to protect Kyo and Tohru's relationship, which was still formulating and might, under such severe testing, ultimately end up damaged beyond repair? was he only trying to protect Tohru, who wasn't ready to be burdened by such a horrible aspect of the curse so soon, or perhaps simply didn't deserve it? or was it all for the sake of himself, trying to protect his still-forming plans of using Tohru's positive effect on the Sohmas to break the curse?

Shigure cares about Kyo, but they're not close and Kyo clearly isn't a priority. he treats Kyo like a person - offering him genuine advice, teasing him like he teases anyone else, even speaking up on his behalf once or twice - and yet he's too entrenched in the long game to spare much active interest in Kyo. for a very long time, he doesn't care about Kyo the way he cares about Yuki or Tohru, and it's never made clear when exactly that changed. and the thing that gets me about this whole situation is that right from the start, Shigure is in a position where he can meet Kyo at his level - as equals, just one human being to another - but he doesn't, because Shigure is a chessmaster, Shigure is someone who observes and calculates, Shigure never steps in unless one of his chess pieces makes a wrong move and he absolutely has to.

it drives me crazy. Shigure drives me crazy. this series drives me so so crazy.

[l1li4n]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY TALKED TO EACHOTHER IN A POOL IN SINGAPORE WHEN THEY WERE GONNA BECOME TEAMMATES. WHAT DO YOU MEAN CARLOS SAID CHARLES IS ONE OF HIS FAVOURITE TEAMMATES HE'S EVER HAD. WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHEN ASKED WHAT WILL CHARLES MISS THE MOST ABOUT CARLOS, HE SAID JUST CARLOS THE PERSON. WHAT DO YOU MEAN???????????????????

[sweetnnaivete]

“have some whimsy” your version of whimsy is bullying people and tiktok humor, so no!

[ps-cactus]

Shades of Silver Lining - Ch.2 - posted ✅

the first post aka story teaser <- Ch. 1 | Ch.3 ->

word count: 3326 ✨ [ AO3 ] ✨ [ Wattpad ]

🫳🏻 c'mere, let's go spend some time with Ominis ✨ fluff plus angst, hurt/comfort are served today 🥣

thank you @asallowgrave for beta reading! Go check out his works!!

a/n: ER - first days dating. Also, I'd call this chapter a last breath you take before chapter 3 takes it away. So, hope you'll enjoy 🥰 lil excerpts under the cut:

・・・ “Can you try, if I’ve got this one right, please?” Ominis handed her a piece of parchment. She placed the fingertip onto the rune that had been encircled multiple times and shut her eyes, concentrating on the feelings beneath her touch.

With enough focus and while directing all her attention to the rune under her finger, she could first feel a feather's soft, smooth parts, which, after a gentle pulse, morphed into the sensation of a thin, metal needle. She could even gently slide her finger over it and feel the needle's point, sensing just how sharp it might be.

“Feels really accurate,” Alyn said as she opened her eyes, nearly losing the sensation from the rune as her focus drifted. “That’s amazing.”

It was just that moment when Alyn noticed the marks on his hand, and her gaze shifted briefly to the tiny dark spots on the parchment that she hadn't paid attention to earlier. “Your hands…” she said softly. ・・・

・・・ Ominis didn’t speak for quite a while. Alyn kept a close eye on his frowning face and the way his hands clenched around the wand. The silence allowed her to hear how he let out a slow sigh after a few short breaths when he chose not to speak.

“Fuck,” he said tiredly at last, making Alyn blink in surprise. ・・・

[claudiadpdl]

sydcarmy doesn't have to be endgame nor will it not being endgame ruin the bear (should we get another season), but im not kidding when i say people arguing vehemently against it and swearing up and down that sydney and carmy have zero chemistry is rooted in antiblackness.

if syd and claire were to swap places in the show, i know i wouldn't see as much pushback and discourse surrounding her (claire's) potential relationship with carmy. people have shipped other non-confirmed couples for far less.

[sylhorn]

I’m kind of baffled about the state of dawntrail discussions having two parties in regards to Living Memory, one being “shutting it down is amoral” and the other being “it’s moral and not at all like what Emet-Selch wanted to do with us”. It’s like a lot of people refuse to engage with the narrative from any other perspective other than their own when the game essentially hits you over the head with the message.

Yes, the existence of Living Memory is unsutainable and amoral and, frankly, pointless – you can make the very valid argument that the people there were just AI chatbots trained on the memories of a given individual, leeching off of the souls of others, their existence demanding the genocide of the entire universe in the end. I agree, in our eyes, Living Memory is an affront to life, sure!

Nobody seems to talk about that this is the exact same perspective Emet-Selch had about us, or when mentioned, people say that it isn’t the same. It is? He very explicitly tells us that the people living on the shards today are pale imitations to what he considered to be life, and thus shutting it down and trying to undo his mistake IS the solution (he is very much like Solas from DA in this regard), because in his eyes there’s nothing to lose but everything to gain. Emet-Selch saw us in the same light we see the people of Living Memory, and the game is painfully unsubtle in drawing this parallel. Even with the differences (we are not recreated memories but actual souls being reborn from the aetherial sea, etc-etc), the game WANTS you to make this connection between Emet and what we do. It is quite literally the point!

Yes, Living Memory has to be shut down because its biggest drawback is that it’s unsustainable and would continue to destroy what we deem to be lives. It is also arguably an affront to what we consider life and its natural end (directly opposing the message of Endwalker). The Endless aren’t even too hung up about this shutdown, bar Sphene. Shutting down Living Memory is necessary.

But you can’t say it was morally good and unquestionable if you can’t give Emet’s views the same grace. In the end, both his plans (and the Ascians at large, frankly) and Living Memory had to be stopped because that means survival for us, but to divorce the two narratives to maintain the WoL and co.’s moral superiority is disingenuous and does the story a disservice.

[shortkingrodserling]

this shit drives me NUTS what do you MEAN you're telling noel you have a voice in your head to make john feel more INCLUDED i'm gonna LOSE IT

[bumblebee-bookshelf]

So finally listening to malevolent (yayyyyy) and I just finished part 5 - is there any canon fandom design for this Adam Fry guy?? Or the weird creature guy with the long pointy hands or is that also Adam Fry??? Just curious cause I thought he was fun and wanted to doodle

ALSO ‼️

really really really liked part 4, here's a Kellin doodle :))

[momhowell]

call me deranged but I've now watched that video six (6) times

[tinysobek]

been thinking, lately, about Hua Cheng and Yin Yu's first encounter. like, did Hua Cheng chance upon a miserable, lonely figure lying in some desolate place one night with a ghost fire hovering nearby and for a desperate instant he thinks, 'Could this be him?'

he's reminded so suddenly of that sad night in the graveyard and he rushes over, only to find it's some stranger, some nobody. does he feel cheated, does he blame this banished god for getting his hopes up like that, does he resent the coincidence of his cursed shackle?

does he decide to leave him to whatever fate the resentful spirit has in mind for him? maybe he turns away, but he hears Jian Yu's ghost say something that catches his attention, something about a little brat from the streets or something mockingly tender that puts him in mind of White No Face. maybe he finds himself asking what His Highness would do.

whatever the case, he turns back and helps this stranger who could have been, *should* have been, the god he was looking for. how long does he hold that against Yin Yu? *does* he hold it against him, once he learns his history?

[solradguy]

This is probably a shot in the dark, but does anyone know of a book club/reading-sharing Discord server that meets once a week to talk on voice chat about books they've read recently, but that isn't mostly young people? (young = <30)

My mom never leaves the house and she reads a shit ton so I'm trying to find something to get her to socialize that doesn't cost a bunch of money. She's not against hanging out with younger people, but she really wants friends around her age (~50)

[nitw]

serizawa being all like "i have little experience in relationships of any kind due to my sheltered past but being in love sure sounds nice :) anyway do you wanna hear about my boss? he's so cool~" and reigen being canonically bitchless always + showing no interest in the female clients he's popular with + questioning the importance of sexual attraction and marriage + actually feeling insecure about his struggle with emotional vulnerability deep down and thinking no one could possibly like him back for who he is..............

so anyway yea they're both somewhere on the aroace spectrum and gay for each other

[abyssalzones]

I just don't get what the point is of reblogging art that says "please don't tag as this ship it makes me uncomfortable" and then tagging it with some variation of "I won't tag it that way to respect the artist's wishes Buuuut-" like why would you even say that? I don't want to dwell on this but it's happened multiple times now and I don't know how to stress like. I Don't want you reblogging my art if you're going to act like this about it. I don't like the idea of turning reblogs off on an art post of mine because the whole point is that I want people to see it obviously, I enjoy getting to express and share parts of myself artistically that otherwise I don't have an avenue to communicate, but like. come on.