#this is only mildly related

[starstruckodysseys]

sometimes a family is a child who keeps pieces of every shameful memory in order to keep himself from feeling happy, the aforementioned child’s best friend who is also a dog, and the very large man with a bunch of mildly uncomfortable fun facts ordered to murder the aforementioned child

(and also a detective who’s bad at his job and is trying to keep this child alive, a semi-kleptomaniac not-so-fatal femme fatale, the local bartender who fucking hates this child, and a reporter trying to find the biggest scoop she can even though she keeps getting overshadowed by unimportant stories. but i’m not so sure they’ve reached familial status yet.)

[itsclydebitches]

"[Fitzjames'] public demeanor, which was always an easy mix of self-effacing humor and firm command, remained the same, but in private with only Crozier in attendance, Fitzjames spoke less, smiled less frequently, and too often looked distracted and miserable. For a melancholy man like Crozier, the signs were obvious. At times it was like staring into a looking glass, except for the fact that the melancholy countenance staring back was a proper lisping English gentleman rather than an Irish nobody."

The Terror, Dan Simmons

[sp00ky-scary]

I hate talking to guys about music why are you impressed that I said Jigsaw Falling Into Place is my favourite Radiohead song and that I didn't just say Creep or No Surprises, and why am I a tiny bit happy that you're impressed, that song isn't even niche it's still one of their more popular songs, that being my favourite isn't notable in anyway

[tragicallycrispygirl]

I think it's fine to dislike Strive for being a high damage, high offence gorilla game with easier combos, that's certainly not for everyone, but I'm actually going to explode if I see another person say "the power level is too high." are you for fucking real. if you're comparing it to, like, street fighter, fine, but if you compare it to XRD and say that I need you to please think critically for one single second

like, okay, fine, XRD doesn't let every character two touch you (except when it does, but it's pretty character and RISC specific) but holy fuck have you ever actually looked at that game and all the bullshit it lets you get up to

every single character in the game gets to enforce some fucked up looping okizeme except for, like... zato when he runs out of eddie gauge? sure, some of them are better than others, like Slayer's 4-way mix off of certain knockdowns, all of which lead into another 4-way mixup. you also have whatever the fuck haehyun has going on (genuinely i still can't block that shit it's fucking insane im glad she isn't very popular because of her difficulty and slowness) or johnny yrc zweihander

like. please. strive has two-touchy kaboom you explode gameplay. XRD has five-touchy you want to uninstall gameplay. stop saying the power level is too high i beg you XRD is not any less fucked up it's not a holy grail of fighting game fundamentals it's "we gave everyone insane bullshit so it balances itself out in the end" have you ever been in a venom 50 meter red glowy ball vortex or a johnny Bacchus sigh setup or gotten knocked down once vs jacko stop it stop it stop IT STOP IT

go play some XRD though. if you can get past YRC... existing, it's pretty fun and I want more people online to play with

[jewishdainix]

The jokes comparing hamilton and epic drive me crazy cause it shows such lack of understanding of what happens in the circe saga. Circe wasn't offering Odysseus to sleep with her, she wasn't even making him have sex with her in exchange for his me, like her version in the source material did. She was TESTING HIM

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

messily divorced (platonic) has got to be my favorite dynamic of all time

[saym0-0]

transmasc jonny is a very common hc in this fandom and it baffles my brain slightly every time bc she is so transfem to me,,

[shoechoe]

this image is from the ren and stimpy adult party cartoon by the way if you're curious

[weekly-whitewing]

What do you think of Whitewing x Hawkfrost? I don't remember if they ever interacted in the books so I'm personally not sure what to think of it myself.

I don't think they interact, I assumed it was either people shipping HawkAsh and WhiteAsh and wanting to do both or smt and then it grew out of Ashfur or people wanting Hawkfrost to be Ivypool's stepdad/dad? It's not really my thing, I don't think Whitewing is into bad boys lmao It also makes me a bit uncomfortable I don't really know why? I don't mind people shipping them but it's not for me. (just in case you're wondering, there's barely any age gap it's totally fine age wise)

[kakyogay]

I may have been writing evil things but it's okay because I have a pebbles top scars concept with a spinkle of sunstone and another sunstone one where pebbles gets caught lovingly gazing at suns with a spinkle of gjinka bs

[goldenpinof]

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[fairymint]

Probably eats plastic and random shit like that for fun, but is too smart to actually swallow it or compromise his health. It still gives people a mini heart attack.

[velociheroviridi]

man do I ever get tired of those comments that are like:

this person is being so energetic? They must be on cocaine

Or this person was so creative, they must've been high!

Like why do so many people think that you have to be on something just to express emotions or have interesting thoughts??

It feels like some people can't think very far outside of their own narrow perspective - which is true for a lot of contexts I suppose

[starlit-mansion]

lmao that reminded me of my headcanon of trucy third wheeling every date apollo and klavier go on so aggressively that they a) give up on the idea that she won't and b) don't bother to schedule dates when she's busy with something because she'll start scheming and they don't want to mess up her career/school/social life

[zukosdualdao]

something else (only mildly related yet very interconnected in my head to my most recent post about fandom and canonicity) interesting and, for me, relieving, is how your relationship with fandom can change over time. because, while i never would have called myself an anti (and never would have and never did harass anyone over it, to be clear, that’s always been the line-in-the-sand ,“why do people care that much?” breaking point for me), i certainly did used to subscribe to the idea that there were Bad Ships that people were Problematic (TM) for enjoying. as i said, i never harassed anyone, but i certainly nodded along (and probably reblogged some pretty self-righteous posts) to a lot of moral purity in shipping and fandom talking points. (i was, by the way, a total hypocrite, as people are wont to be. i was nodding along because i wanted to have friends in fandom and was incredibly susceptible to that kind of peer pressure at the time (which i think a lot of people are, and is normal, to a degree—it’s what happens when you’re very involved in fandom in high school of all times), but i also read and then felt guilty about reading a lot of the ‘problematic’ things i was publicly against LMAO. in my head, it was fine to privately enjoy those things, but you shouldn’t go around PROMOTING it, nevermind that people had to write those stories for me to read them in the first place. the cognitive dissonance was very real.)

anyway! needless to say, i think, based on the contents of my blog, my position on *gestures vaguely* all that has changed a lot. ironically enough, there was probably a time a few years ago where i was going “sure, makes sense” (in my own head—i was not involved enough in the atla fandom or surrounding discourse to be vocal about it) when people derided zutara as a problematic ship, and i obviously don’t feel that way anymore. interesting, too, is that i don’t… really feel like there was a specific moment or, like, a flip switched and suddenly i was on ‘the other side’ or anything lol. i just feel like i grew up and realized that the kind of nuance and compassion i have always advocated for irl is just as applicable in online fandom spaces, and that there is no inherent moral value to shipping or not shipping something, or liking or not liking a character. once i realized that, i think fandom honestly got a lot more fun for me, because what i was describing before? not fun. deeply stressful. made me feel guilty for liking things, and it was my own fault! that’s not what fandom should be about.

[agendratum]

love horror games about being a security guard working a night shift in the facility tm, love it as much as the next guy, but what about horror games about working a night shift in the facility tm, and there being a security guard, and the security guard being the reason you feel unsafe?

and yet you have to continue doing your job