#this is what we used to call a meme

[deelaundry]

ao3 stats game

Rules: Give us the links to your wonderful words with the most hits, most kudos, most comments, most bookmarks, most words, and least words. (I added Smallest Fandom)

Most Hits and Bookmarks - This Is an Essay, Harry Potter, gen. An autistic 11-year-old girl named Margaret has her first year at Hogwarts. [Margaret agrees with me that JKR sucks.]

Most Kudos - This was This Is an Essay for years, but has been passed recently by Goes the Neighborhood, House MD, Teen, House/Wilson, set after episode 4-9. One month into their permanent positions, the new fellows catch a case on the weekend and have to track House down.

Most Comments - The Private Personal Blog of Dr. John H. Watson, Sherlock (TV), Teen, Johnlock QPR. WIP in blog-post format, currently 21 chapters, 9,757 words. I need to get back to this, as we have so much more story to cover. :)

Fourth Most Kudos - My Fathers' Son, House MD, General Audiences, House/Wilson, Major Character Death. House and Wilson, as seen through the eyes of their son Jack as he grows up. Written in the summer after S2, this was both my first angst fic and by far my best received fic on LiveJournal in both count and depth of comments (probably the most recced too).

Most Words - My Fathers' Son has the second most words at 25,850; the fic with the most is its sequel Keeper (Agnates in Elysium) at 29,621 words (House MD, Teen, multiple relationships, Major Character Death but not as angsty as My Fathers' Son). House and Wilson’s son Jack passes one of life’s crossroads and makes an unexpected connection. In Keeper, my "MFS" fanfic universe crosses over with another writer's House MD fanfic universe (the "Churchverse" in which House and Wilson's kid, Christian House, goes by Church).

Fewest Words - Exact drabbles of 100 words each:

Two Kinds, House MD, Teen, Chase/Foreman.

Any Afternoon, Stargate Atlantis, G, McKay/Sheppard.

Served Cold, House MD, Teen. AO3 says it's 101 words, but my count is 100.

I'm adding a category: Smallest Fandom - The Awful Daring, Teen, references to a romantic/sexual relationship between a teacher and his high school student, and a priest and a member of his congregation. This fic is for the play Prodigal Son by John Patrick Shanley. In the world premiere of the play Robert Sean Leonard played the teacher (Alan) and Timothée Chalamet played the student (James). (The priest is an OC.) The Awful Daring is the only fanwork on AO3 for the play. Let me know if you know of any others elsewhere!

[muzsmocsing]

old man jenkins escaped the geriatric ward again

[tired-demonspawn]

[bacchuschucklefuck]

official finish-this-sketch-how-you-want post idk what to call thisSAMPLE TEXT

hi! I miss drawing with people in a café and some folks mentioned they'd like to mess with my sketches themselves and that sounds cool so this is now a thing. if u play gartic phone this is basically the complement mode! but without the fucking ring noise that freaks you out right when you're getting into the flow of it

few things are 1/there's no hard deadline! take this at ur own pace if u do, but 2/I'll also be finishing this sketch and I estimate it to take around uhh 3 to 4 days? from the time this is posted. so if that's a structure u like then let's aim for something done in that timespan as well! and 3/if u finish ur piece and post it and want me to see it the best way to do that is to @ this blog! above all we go into this one determined to have fun and enjoy. I already bought u a matcha latte with oat milk sorry if u don't want that

here I got u today a sketch that's supposed to be Riz Gukgak (SY) (grey bg version and transparent version for ur ease of peruse)

remember to have fun & be urself & finish ur drink & see u in 4 or 5

[trappedinafantasy37]

All forms of media (video games, TV shows, art, movies, books, etc) are all meant to be social and/or political commentaries. In fact, I can't think of an example of a recent creation that isn't political in some way. And Baldur's Gate 3 is not an exception. It is political. And if you think it is not, it is because you are not paying attention, or you are failing to extrapolate the lessons of the game into real life. One of the points of fiction and entertainment is to provide us with a safe way to view and interact with the evils of the world. To show us how evil happens to begin with, and how it is allowed at all. If we can see what evil looks like, and how it comes to pass, then we will be able to recognize it in real life and potentially stop it.

No, I'm not saying that Larian made this game to be a commentary of the US specifically. The things that happen in the game are happening somewhere in the world. Right. Now. It is fantasy for some, but reality to many others.

There is a reason why so many people, most especially women, flock to a character like Astarion. And no, it's not just because he's a pretty bad boy vampire. But because millions of women (and men) in the world understand what it's like to be sexually assaulted. To be enslaved. To be someone's property and a toy. To be used and abused and denied your autonomy. To scream and cry and yell and shout and beg for mercy from the gods. But no one is listening. No one cares. And they say that it is all your fault. Women cling to him because they find comfort in his story and they see a reflection of themselves in him. And they have extrapolated his character into their personal lives to help them heal from their traumas. Astarion is not real. But he represents the millions of people in the world who have been raped.

There are many different ways you can interpret Shadowheart's story, but I always found it to be an allegory for queerness / transness. She knows who she is deep down, but she has been beaten and indoctrinated over and over to believe that who she is wrong. Everytime she exerted a will of her own, she was forced into conversion therapy and had her mind wiped so she can be reprogrammed. And when that began to fail, her god inserted a permanent tether into her soul. To remind her that god is always watching, and will punish her for her sins. Shadowheart rejects Shar because she feels that she is in a safe environment to do so. That those who are around her will not judge her, ridicule her, or treat her like she ha a moral failure for just being who she is. But that rejection comes at a price where she has to choose her parents or chronic pain for the rest of her life. But if Shadowheart does not feel safe to live as herself, she goes into the closet forever and denies herself and has to put up an act for as long as she may live. She forces herself to subscribe to this dogma because she feels she has no other choice, and to be a blind follower means to be without pain. Shadowheart is not real. But she represents the millions of gay and trans people in the world who have been outcasted and abused by religion and the law. Where they feel it safer to deny who they are, then run the risk of the wrong person finding out who they love.

The grove conflict, is a very real reality right now. Innocent people are experiencing a genocide. And the people conducting such genocide have framed these innocent people as evil monsters. These actual literal genocidal lunatics truly to their core believe that they have the god given right to kill these innocent people because they are an affront to their god and that the land they occupy does not belong to them. There are children in the world right now who are burning alive in a genocide because the people who are burning them believe these children to have been born evil. Of course they claim that these refugees are hiding weapons of mass destruction, how else are they going to justify destroying safe places like schools, hospitals, and actual refugee camps? And the people who have the power to do something to protect these innocent refugees, would rather they be tossed out and left vulnerable to their murderers, because that is more convenient than helping them. That the people who can help are purposefully closing their borders, because they too see these refugees as lures for danger. The tieflings are not real. But they represent the millions of Palestinians and many others who are dying in a genocide right now.

And this man is not real, but he is the president elect of the United States. Gortash won. The Absolute won.

And I wish we had a simple and easy explanation of 72 million Americans have tadpoles in their brains and were forced to vote for Gortash. But in reality, not everyone in the Absolute had a tadpole. Not everyone was a True Soul. A mass majority were willing participants of the Absolute. They never once communed with the elder brain and have never received direct orders from it. They saw what the Absolute is, they saw what it can do, and it was not a deal breaker for them. They chose to follow along with it willingly, thinking that the Absolute was here for them. They were not mind controlled, but they were brainwashed in their own way. And for those who are not brainwashed, they simply do not care. They want to revel in the Absolute's cruelty and how it is going to hurt the people of the world because they themselves want to deal the cruelty.

Gortash is a slaver and a tyrant and he is very up front and in your face about it. He feels no guilt, he feels no shame, and he is well aware of how he induces suffering on those around him. And the moment he became Archduke, he slaughtered everyone who got him into power because he didn't want to share it nor run the risk of them turning against him. You may be able to make a deal with Gortash but he was never going to keep up his end of the bargain. Just like an embraced Durge betrays their romance partner, Gortash would have betrayed you (and even Durge). Because tyrants do not share, and they do not step down. Tyrants are not just tyrants only on day one or for just one term. They are tyrannical always and will do everything they can to stay in power permanently. Tyrants do not play fair. They get into power through perceivingly legitimate means. But when you find out it wasn't legitimate, it's too late. They've removed your ability to not only remove them from power, but prevent you from getting anyone else to replace them.

Gortash didn't just come from nowhere. He has been a duke in the city for a very long time. People know who he is and what he is about. The people at his coronation were there out of genuine support for him, knowing exactly who he is and saw no issue with what he was doing because they all benefited from it. The only one at that coronation who was not a willing participate, was Ulder Ravengard (A BLACK MAN). Gortash used a literal puppet government to get himself into power and silenced all dissent.

I do not know about you, but who Gortash represents was pretty damn obvious to me. The game demonstrated how people like Gortash can get into power at all and remain in power. Gortash manipulated people's fear of the world, and he used religion to do it. He implemented the Steel Watch and militarized the police, and to have constant surveillance on the people. Where any slight transgression will be met with hostility, and the people will cheer because they see violence as a necessary means of keeping the peace. Where if you just didn't step out of line, then maybe the Steel Watcher wouldn't need to pulverize you in the street. He uses the media and is constantly pumping out propaganda to love him. He created a problem, news of the problem spread, and then he sold a solution. He promised to keep everyone safe, protected, and made promises of law and order against this unruly chaos (a chaos he created). Where any opposing opinion is othered and regarded as being too radical to be a sane or legitimate opinion. He enslaved a group of racial minorities and used the livelihoods of their children as collateral. And instead of putting the blame on the slaver, radicals like Wulbren put the blame on the slaves.

The events surrounding Gortash and the Absolute have been unfolding here in the States for a very long time and all of this did not just come out of nowhere. This didn't just start happening 8 years ago in 2016, this was decades in the making and there is still plans for more to come. This wasn't an accident, everything is working by design.

Gortash is not real. But Donald Trump is. That should scare you.

[shinmiyovvi]

The agenda for today is Hair down Ji Eun

Reference is from mellon_soup from Tiktok and Patreon

Bonus art of Arthur and other versions of the fanart are under the cut

He's asking for her hand in marriage (sadly, she rejected him but our boi's not giving up)

[aeolianblues]

pop stars aren't born in the 70s anymore like they used to be. These days they're born in a year uncomfortably close to my own which makes me clutch my chest and cry out

[polyamorouspunk]

When I was in Kindergarten this girl kissed me and told me it was okay to kiss your friends and I was like no it’s not it’s weird and

1. She was right and I was wrong

2. There is NO way she is straight

3. Do ya’ll think she’s single???

[cherrystonefemme]

My favorite moments from my lesbian™️ professional life:

1- That time I got to tell a nun that until she was ready to behave more maturely we would not be having a conversation

2- The terrified look on my well-meaning boss's face when I said "Are you aware that one of the signs in the front hall has the word faggot?"

[gender-euphowrya]

the thing about the michael bay skibidi movie is it's gonna be such a huge fucking flop gkfjfkd

[twilight-skies]

I by no means have any clue whats going on in the qsmp but I think it’s wonderful that the antagonist faction is unironically referred to as “the feds”

[problemcore]

hiiii halfway? thru the story. hard as hell to avoid spoilers online i need to stay away 😭 rant in tags, spoilers for 2.2 . i already reached 30 tags wow 💀

[shitpost-it-tristan]

Every time I remember that Ralph Breaks The Internet is an actual movie and not...a fucking fever dream or some shit–

It makes me think of the Wreck-It Ralph Wii game and how it went from crisp to fucking crispy and deep-fried.

^ The first movie; gold. Beautiful.

THE FUCKING SECOND MOVIE? JUST—

[daz4i]

fav thing in the bsd fandom (on tumblr at least) is everyone going ham with sigma's pronouns and no one's correcting anyone. like it's collectively agreed that sigma's gender is too fucked up to argue

[jenelain]

also just another friendly reminder, but i don't do starter calls anymore. i find them hard to do myself unless we have at least a little something plotted, but i don't do random ones. if you want to interact, your best bet is to continue answered memes into threads (as a heads up, i don't post them to new text posts because you can cut asks anyway but if you would prefer that, i can always paste it to a new post), replying to open threads, sending memes or plotting. it's literally that easy. interaction goes both ways and all the ways to initiate them (if i haven't already reached out) are laid out here 💞

[crossbackpoke-check]

re your notes on the mack post: oh. my. gosh and also 100% AGREED 😵‍💫

(he and will are both ******* those old men lbr)

- @bondedpairs

sometimes i have brief moments of introspection in which i wonder whether or not there are things better left in my drafts and usually i say fuck it we ball and then we DO ball and i love y’all for that. would you still love me if i whip out my footnotes and references

FOOTNOTES:

*somewhere in there is an aside about mack having to think about joe stroking somebody ELSE’s dick on the bench and having a panic about it.

**i DO see the will smith mackelini celebrini ?!;&/‘os everyone has been posting. that is the devil talking as in i cannot become invested or else it will ruin me. f1vegas you are NOT forgiven for putting ‘the tk/pat parking garage vibes of it’ in front of my eyes like my! god! i do NOT WANT TO KNOW THE NARRATIVE (too compelling i think. too much to get into with the bc(?)/bu rivalry and zeev buium was there and there’s another shark too somewhere??. i can’t care about a fish a MACKEREL you guys and will smith is not allowed to be my sharks bicycle because the team whoré borde already exists!!) where i was trying to go is sometimes you both fuck the same old man and he’s like. losers. get a polycule. and they end up together (obviously to me jumbo is in an ???? with patty and burnsie)

ABBV. REFERENCES:

ro’s other post where mack says to “ask smitty about [hunting cougars]” (src: holyjost)

ko’s transcript of fun facts from the interview that made me too endeared. girl nobody made you take advertising courses?? change your major

aforementioned f1vegas post. this is by tags alone because after reading that i was not capable of watching the video