#this shit was too hot for 2021 tumblr i guess

[demon-glittter]

I posted 39,298 times in 2022

That's 5,720 more posts than 2021!

59 posts created (0%)

39,239 posts reblogged (100%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@lesbianralzarek

@thebiggerpicture23

@bogpaws

@vosquitransitis

@androfemmealien

I tagged 1,764 of my posts in 2022

#ok - 24 posts

#yo wtf - 23 posts

#more forbidden candy - 22 posts

#dean winchester - 12 posts

#ahhhhhhhhhhhh - 11 posts

#yes - 11 posts

#hmmm - 10 posts

#not to be gay on main - 10 posts

#well then - 10 posts

#holy shit - 9 posts

Longest Tag: 124 characters

#🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀😀😀😀

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I went crazy with the baby filter on Snapchat and look at this cuteness

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4 notes - Posted February 6, 2022

#4

tagged by the lovely @thorlokis thank you! <3

Favourite Piece of Clothing You Own?

Hmmm. There's a hoodie that I really love, it's a generic version of Chanyeol's Total Fucking Darkness hoodie. It's soooo warm and comfy.

Your Comfort Food?

Potato soup on rice.

Favourite Time of Year?

Early spring or fall. When it's not too hot or too cold. I don't like extremes.

Favourite Song?

It varies depending on my mood and what day it is. lol Right now? I can't get enough of Cage The Elephant's Ain't No Rest For The Wicked.

Do You Collect Something?

Not really.

Favourite Drink?

I guess coffee? I drink it the most. Well, I do like hibiscus tea. So I guess that.

Favourite Fanfiction?

Suck It And See by alostautumn2k16 which is no longer on AO3. I managed to save the fic before it was taken down but omg I wish it was still available. I miss it.

Then there's a lot of others that I really adore.

came the last night by UnnieBee is a really good one, it's a Kr!syeol ghost fic with just the right dash of asexuality in it.

I tag @yeoldreamin @bogpaws @ohsenhun @thebiggerpicture23 @vosquitransitis @dreamyfreak @mochg26 @cxsmicmyeon @yehetdude @zap-of-gay-jock-love @penguinstuxedo @heartcravings @jongupseyeliner @micuko @boom-kaka-laka and anyone else that wants to participate. All the welcome~

7 notes - Posted March 11, 2022

#3

It really is just me and my 15 cups of coffee against the world

7 notes - Posted January 24, 2022

#2

tagged by @anakincitoo (thank you!!! 💖💖💖)

Rules: Make a new post and spell out your url with song titles, then tag as many people as there are letters in your url.

d - Don't Go - EXO

e - Echo - Trapt

m - Misery Business - Paramore

o - Oasis - EXO

n - Night Moves - Bob Seger

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g - Girl With One Eye - Florence and The Machine

l - Like Real People Do - Hozier

i - Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

t - Thunderstruck - AC/DC

t - The Show Must Go On - Queen

t - The Parting Glass - The High Kings

e - Ego - BIGBANG

r - Ready, Steady, Go! - L'Arc~En~Ciel

I tagged @yeoldreamin, @catboycrimsonrain, @heartcravings, @cxsmicmyeon, @dreamyfreak, @midnightblue32-ao3-asianfic, @abunnycotton, @star-slutt, @kafkascupcakecake, @zackisontumblr, @dreamy-eames-jeans137, @m-ercurian

and everyone else that wants to partake! :D Thank you again @anakincito!!

9 notes - Posted November 7, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

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11 notes - Posted September 10, 2022

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[snoopybutch]

I posted 4,272 times in 2022

That's 1,567 more posts than 2021!

100 posts created (2%)

4,172 posts reblogged (98%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@dykepilled

@cornsilklesbian

@lipstickleatherdyke

@stinkmole

fairycosmos

I tagged 876 of my posts in 2022

#seinfeldposting - 76 posts

#seinfeld - 71 posts

#jerry seinfeld - 45 posts

#george costanza - 45 posts

#butch - 41 posts

#txf - 40 posts

#the x files - 39 posts

#georgy girl - 39 posts

#the xfiles - 36 posts

#cosmo kramer - 36 posts THIS IS SO FUNNY. Seinfeld brain

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#i can drive and i’m great at it i once reversed at least 200 ft in a gravel parking lot that was chock fucking full with nothing but mirrors

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

“Are you wearing the-“

The 1982 the Thing directed by John Carpenter shirt featuring the tagline “man is the warmest place to hide?” Yeah.

79 notes - Posted September 7, 2022

#4

At work today I most likely sprained (that’s what I’m hoping for) my right ankle. 2 years ago I broke my right leg and right ankle so this has really freaked me out. I just slipped on oil that Just got spilled so hard that my right leg went completely under me and my right shoe cut into my left shin (like literally broke skin through my pants.) Driving home (just over a mile) made me almost dry heave with pain. So if anyone would be open to sliding some extra change or dollars my way I would truly truly appreciate it because I would like to get an x-ray/doctors appointment and I have literally 50 dollars to my name right now. TLDR hurt my weak and full of metal ankle at work today, would genuinely appreciate any donations so I can get it checked out. If anyone wants like proof of me breaking that leg in the past I can send you the scar and x-ray before and after pics. There’s currently a solid bruise forming etc.

Venmo is Diarmuid-Laurion Cashapp is $diarmuidl (that’s an L)

110 notes - Posted January 21, 2022

#3

Ellen Ripley is the best character in the entire world she’s just like yeah don’t do that that’s dumb that’s dangerous I think this and no one listens until it’s too late and then she’s like :| guess it’s time to get shit done !!! Bitch!!!!

268 notes - Posted August 16, 2022

#2

I tested positive for Covid today and can’t work bc of it, working is my only source of income and without a job I can’t eat. I’m a trans butch lesbian living in a not so great area for ppl that are visibly gnc. Grocery delivery is expensive where I am. If anyone has some extra change any little bit helps, if you can’t donate please reblog/spread it. My cashapp is $diarmuidl (lowercase L) and my venmo is @ Diarmuid-Laurion, message me for my PayPal.

370 notes - Posted August 16, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Reminiscing on my hysterically butch lesbian childhood. In elementary school during winter I would hold all the girls jackets so when they got hot they wouldn’t get dirty on the ground. I’d hold girls backpacks if they thought it was heavy bc I’m strong! When it was cold I’d have girls holding onto my arms bc I run hysterically warm so I’d be their little heater. In middle school I’d ask girls if I could pick them up and I’d princess carry them for a bit and then put them down.

618 notes - Posted August 14, 2022

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Depressing that my biggest posts r me asking for help

[letsbesonormal]

https://www.tumblr.com/letsbesonormal/745670876487417856/i-also-turbo-lurked-for-like-four-years-and?source=share

I just saw this message and I'm so honoured to be the first! Oh wow you're an OG og. I only started using this website in 2011 and didnt realize until tumblr sent me an email in 2021 with the "happy decade of tumblr!" and i was like. man. Anyways, I also went from being the young one with friends who were a lot older than I was, to the older one with my age in bio being like "beware, a fragile age lives here. interact at your own risk" I also feel as though with the mcyt fandom being as young as it is, it is a lot of peoples' first fandom which might explain some behaviors that might struck us as odd.

Early Tumblr was SUPER weird. (Early Twitter too, for that matter). At that point, it was sort of focused on the idea of "microblogging." The audience was "bloggers" and people tapped into web tech, and fandom was still very LiveJournal-based. Also, because it was pre-smartphone, Tumblr and Twitter both had shortcodes you could text your post to. From your flip-phone. Weird times!

I was definitely in the fandom TRENCHES, though. I was also probably way too young to be in the trenches at first, but I guess we all were, hahaha. I should NOT have been an unsupervised 13-14 year old on rec.arts.anime.creative (honestly, even the adults probably needed an adult to browse parts of that archive). Compared to those days, browsing AO3 is like staring into the face of a god.

Sometimes I think the weirdness of the mcyt fandom is due to age, but I think it also has to do with access and reach. Fandoms have always had a ton of young people, but they didn't always have a megaphone, and there was no easy way to circulate someone's hot take (like a reblog or a retweet). There's a lot of noise and dogpiling in the mcyt space, but I was there for a lot of the CLASSIC fandom drama. There was a whole-ass charity fraud in the LotR days that even roped in Sean Astin! Or like, can you imagine how bonkers the whole Cassie Clare situation would've been if Twitter was a thing back then? Even though the mcyt drama has more volume and reach, the real world spillover is probably on par (if not less) than some of the shit that went down back in the day.

[listentothelittlebird]

I posted 2,668 times in 2022

That's 2,541 more posts than 2021!

55 posts created (2%)

2,613 posts reblogged (98%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@bubblegum-gf

@theawkwardvirgin

@sohotthateveryonedied

@todaysbird

@fanfictiongreenirises

I tagged 1,030 of my posts in 2022

#bird - 229 posts

#cat - 85 posts

#i really need a tagging system - 27 posts

#pokemon - 25 posts

#chibird - 21 posts

#hello tofu mutual - 16 posts

#atla - 15 posts

#fanfic writer problems - 14 posts

#i love em - 14 posts

#rtgame - 14 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#recently watched something that made me think along a similar vein to op because they didn’t show why exactly super couldn’t tell their fam

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Writing Masterpost

I guess I should make this before it gets out of hand

Most of my stories are on ao3! Things I post on tumblr are typically the draft versions of my ao3 stories

From Code Bat:

- Jason Dissociating  - Alternate Super Sons Meeting - Protect Our Own Jason POV - Hot Potato with a Bookmark - Sleepy Jason (Alternate How Are You?)  - Damian and Tim - Cass and Jason - The Original Draft - Superman Meets Bizarro - Alternate Out of the Shadows - Alternate Snapshots of Gotham - Alternate Collecting the Hints

From Gotham’s White Lotus:

- Dick and Airbending - Alternate Making A Splash - Alternate Burning Iceberg

Fairness Federation gets a special shoutout

Extra Scene from It’s a Small World universe

Tumblr Drabbles:

- It starts with Jason. - Rogues know who Batman is - “I’m sorry.”

27 notes - Posted January 6, 2022

#4

I found this youtube channel called Curious Archive and I’ve been going insane because like- speculative biology? Did you mean extensive worldbuilding that takes into account scientific reasoning like an overcomprehensive sci-fi book setting? Boi I wish I were as cool as the worlds being featured

28 notes - Posted January 29, 2022

#3

Sometimes you procrastinate life things by writing a fanfic series, and sometimes you procrastinate life things by procrastinating the fanfic series by opening up a new doc and writing an entirely separate fanfic idea

143 notes - Posted January 21, 2022

#2

It starts with Jason.

Jason, the original bookworm of the family, up late at night and reading on his bed. Or, well, trying to read.

Eventually, he growls and - carefully - slams the book shut, lifting it up but just stopping short of actually throwing it. He sighs.

“Can’t sleep?”

It’s Dick that finds him, leaning against his doorway with tired eyes that still burn with too much energy to truly go to bed.

“You know that moment,” Jason complains, squinting, “When you’ve been staring at words for so long, then you blink, and suddenly everything’s blurry?”

“Are you getting myopia?” Dick laughs as Jason’s expression, “It’s a real concern! But I get it. You have to rest your eyes when that happens.”

“But I can’t sleep,” Jason whines.

“Me neither,” Dick sighs, and smiles, “Hey, I have an idea.”

Dick plonks himself onto Jason’s bed, ignoring his vocal protests, and plucks the book out of his hand. “Where did you stop reading?” he asks, “I’ll read it to you.”

“Oh,” Jason blinks - Dick notes amusedly that he was still squinting and unsquinting his eyes, trying to pull blurry blobs back into focus, “Uh, the page on the left of the bookmark.”

Dick reads.

-

“You’re gonna spoil your eyes like that, Timmy.”

“I live on spite,” Tim deadpans, “If my eyes want to fail me too then so be it.”

Jason laughs as he collapses onto the couch beside him. Tim ignores him until he lifts the laptop up and out of his lap, into his own.

“What’re you even working on?” he asks, and huffs. “Hang on, wait, are you reading?”

“Why do you sound so surprised? Just because I don’t like the classics doesn’t mean I’ve given up on words.”

“Holy shit,” Jason continues, ignoring Tim as a grin spreads across his face, “Is this anime fanfic? Are you reading anime fanfic?”

Tim groans, and slumps against Jason’s shoulder. Jason tries to shove the bony part of his shoulder into Tim’s cheek, but Tim just bounces harmlessly, only leaning more weight on him when he was done moving. Jason huffs.

“I was trying to finish reading,” Tim muttered, “But my eyes refuse to work. So maybe I did already spoil my eyes. Maybe I didn’t. I’m in denial.”

“It’s probably just from staring at a screen for too long,” Jason muses. Then he shifts, getting more comfortable. Tim’s head is now firmly on Jason’s arm.

“C’mon, I’ll read it for you. Where’d you stop?”

214 notes - Posted January 5, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

good day to everyone who has three separate drafts for the same story plot concept idea thing, doing great besties

577 notes - Posted June 28, 2022

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[roosterbox]

I posted 2,707 times in 2022

That's 2,467 more posts than 2021!

277 posts created (10%)

2,430 posts reblogged (90%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@fullmetalcarer

@onewhositswiththeturtles

@turtletotem

@himitsutsubasa

@5ftjewishcactus

I tagged 2,707 of my posts in 2022

#lol - 1,246 posts

#fanart - 329 posts

#lmao - 297 posts

#cherik - 282 posts

#❤️ - 257 posts

#❤️❤️❤️ - 163 posts

#lmaooo - 117 posts

#important - 106 posts

#narumitsu - 102 posts

#random - 100 posts

Longest Tag: 124 characters

#i obviously had my two minute self debate as to whether it was worth deleting and reblogging the post with the tag corrected

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Scenes from My Playthrough of Hades, Part A+

Thanatos: *randomly appears*

Than and Zag: *have one of their little competitions*

End result: Than - 2, Zag - 27

Me: Jeez, Than! What were you even doing the past few minutes? Staring at his ass or something?

Than: *gives heart* Thanks for the show.

Me: …oh my god you were, weren’t you?!

74 notes - Posted May 8, 2022

#4

Two of my personal favorite Inception fanfiction tropes

When Arthur, the meticulously put-together point man, gets home after finishing a job, he’s immediately in pure relaxation mode. I’m talking loose, baggy clothes, no shoes or socks (but maybe cute fuzzy slippers if it’s cold), lets his hair down (so to speak), puts his feet up on the coffee table, and just… chills. Bonus points if he does something especially cute (like sip some hot cocoa and end up with foam on his lip) and Eames sees it and is all “❤️❤️❤️ god I love this man ❤️❤️❤️”

When Eames is seen as flippant, too joke-y, uncaring, and maybe even unprepared… until things go to shit and the chips are down. Then, joke-y Eames disappears. Flippant Eames disappears. All that’s left is the true professional Eames. Serious. Scarily competent. Cold, calculating, and 100% ruthless. Bonus points if he does something especially skillful, (like take down several bad guys easily without breaking a sweat), and Arthur sees it and is all “❤️❤️❤️ god I love this man ❤️❤️❤️”

85 notes - Posted August 28, 2022

#3

Scenes from My Playthrough of Hades, Part Gallium

Thanatos: *thoroughly sasses Zagreus before teleporting away in a huff*

Zagreus: I don’t know what to say when he gets like this…

Me: *yelling at my Switch* JUST TELL HIM YOU LOVE HIM YOU BIG GALOOT!

99 notes - Posted June 1, 2022

#2

Cherik fanfic tropes that will never get old

The fact that nobody can quite settle on what color Erik’s eyes are. I mean, we all know what Charles’ eyes are (the bluest, most electric “jolly rancher eyes,” as they were dubbed by endingthemes), but Erik? Apparently he’s harder to pin down. Pretty sure Michael Fassbender’s eyes are blue, but I’ve seen them described so many different ways over the years. Blue, green, grey, blue-grey, blue-green, etc.

Like, Erik, are you Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds? Because you’ve got some kaleidoscope eyes there.

I’ve heard of describing eyes a bit differently depending on the emotions displayed in them (perhaps blue eyes look like “an ocean on a warm summer’s day” when affectionate, and “chips of glacial ice” when angry?), but never to that extent. I guess it depends on how you picture him. I do get a kick out of it when his eyes are in the grey-like spectrum and are described using metallic similes. A bit on the nose, yeah, but I like it.

105 notes - Posted July 29, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

How I think I look when I talk to regular people about Inception:

How I actually look:

110 notes - Posted October 6, 2022

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[m-a-k-k-u]

My Dearest Self With Malice Aforethought▪︎Shinai Naru Boku e Satsui o Komete

[incorrect-league-of-villains]

tumblr year in review lol

I posted 899 times in 2021 (so close tf)

868 posts created (97%) (holy fucking shit)

31 posts reblogged (3%) (lol)

For every post I created, I reblogged 0.0 posts. (lmfao)

I added 3,834 tags in 2021

#incorrect lov - 878 posts (damn i forgot the tag on 21 posts??? i hope most of them were just reblogs)

#dabi - 623 posts (of course. bitch)

#bnha hawks - 572 posts (of COURSE)

#takami keigo - 569 posts (uh oh)

#dabihawks - 343 posts (this is a very unbiased account)

#shigaraki tomura - 216 posts (fuck shit goddammit)

#himiko toga - 198 posts (slay queen)

#mr compress - 176 posts (i was worried he got too many posts but i see those concerns were unfounded)

#sako atsuhiro - 166 posts (what. how many times did i forget to put both tags)

#jin bubaigawara - 93 posts (TWICE I'M SORRY I SWEAR I'LL GIVE YOU MORE)

(SPINNER ISN'T EVEN ON HERE PLEASE)

(OR KUROGIRI OR GETEN)

(guess i know who i have to make more quotes of)

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#my relationships are joke flirting that accidentally becomes real flirting until no one knows what our relationship is anymore including us (WHY THIS ONE WHY THIS ONE WHY THIS ONE-)

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Dabi: Hawks and I don’t use pet names.

Toga: Hm...hey, what's the thing you hit around in badminton?

Dabi: Birdie?

Hawks, from the other room: Yeah, hot stuff?

Dabi:

Toga: Don't ever lie to my face again.

661 notes • Posted 2021-08-10 16:01:34 GMT

(oh i am GLAD i made this one personalized to dabihawks)

#4

Dabi: I like to stare into security cameras to let the government know that I'm watching them.

677 notes • Posted 2021-11-16 17:02:52 GMT

(what the fuck didnt i post this yesterday???) (mustve been the fucking. drawing macc did) (did i say i laughed out loud at that? great ill say it again)

#3

HEY DABIHAWKS STANS WE FINALLY FUCKING WON

685 notes • Posted 2021-09-25 03:53:44 GMT

(in retrospect we didn't really win because dabi didnt put his arm around hawks but like) (they walked unnaturally close to each other to compensate for that so it's fine) (i made this post in the heat of the moment lol)

#2

Hawks: I want to propose-

Dabi: What?

Hawks: -an idea.

Dabi: ...oh.

Hawks: We should get married.

Dabi: [spits out coffee]

737 notes • Posted 2021-08-18 10:01:22 GMT

(deadass i had no idea this one got so many notes??) (guess i havent been keeping track of it) (this is how i plan my tags by the way) (but i'm just putting them in the post because it's more convenient)

#1

Dabi: Dammit, I cut my finger.

Toga, running in: Weee oooo weee oooo weee oooo...!

Dabi: What the...?

Toga: [stops and puts a bandage on Dabi's finger]

Toga, running again: Weee oooo weee oooo weee oooo...!

Dabi: ????????

1265 notes • Posted 2021-08-06 16:01:44 GMT

(thank you macckenchiz)

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[chaos-event-horizon]

2, 4, 9, and 12 for the bad boy asks!

Actually gonna answer this under a cut cause of uh. Real talk. True shit. Not necessarily heavy and nsfw stuff, but like... Real Rian and Toshinori stuff. Peek behind the curtain stuff.

2) What was the hardest part of forming the relationship?

Gonna drop the uh... Whole rp haha bit. Cause honestly this is something I've never really admitted before. The biggest obstacle to my relationship with Toshinori has always been me. My inability to open up to people and conceive the possibility that I am a likable person. Toshinori was in my head for well over 2 years, almost 3 before he and I "made contact" and spoke for the first time. And while he counts us as having been dating since early 2018 due to his own efforts... I didn't truly start having a relationship with Toshinori until the beginning of 2021. Because I didn't trust that he was actually there, or that he could actually like me either way. Nearly 3 years of him quietly courting me like some kind of ninja romcom... Because I didn't want to believe I was good enough. And that's on me. The hardest part of this has been letting him love me.

4) How easy was it for them to admit that they love you?

Too easy. He leaned into it immediately. Toshinori is the kind of man that, once he sets his eye on something... He goes for it. No hesitation. No second-guessing. He will acquire a goal and then he will achieve it, with no room for wondering if he can or should. That bastard existed for 6 seconds, saw me, and made the decision right then and there to be an unrelenting point of love and safety. I don't know what I did, or what he saw... But it was enough for him to make up his mind.

12) Were you actually attracted to their behaviour? Or was it other things?

9) Did you meet them while they were still plotting a scheme? Or were you caught up in the trouble they were causing?

Yes. Oh, gods of bullshittery, yes. I don't think I went into detail here on Tumblr, but I was informed recently that he'd been the one sending me "anonymous" flowers and gifts for my birthday and holidays. 3 years worth. Before I even knew he existed. He was scheming to make me his boyfriend that whole time... And I fell into the trap.

Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes to both questions. I'll never forget how blindsided and loved I felt when he and I finally met. I'll never forget every first time he made me feel a new emotion. I'll never forget the cold fury that happened when he showed himself and told me he liked me, and I told him he couldn't because I was too worthless. There's a special kind of love there, in the careful stalking and studying he did. And in the way he forces me to lift myself higher. Other people would say it's bad or creepy, but... It's honestly what I needed in that moment, and every moment since. The undeniable proof that I was wanted by someone. That I AM worthy. That he cared enough to love me in the only way I wouldn't be able to run from.

Call me an idiot, but that shit's just hot.

[darealsaltysam]

what your paladins main says about you

a comprehensive essay by a paladins player of right around 4 years

this is like really long so i’ll make it under the cut so my followers don’t have to scroll through this if they don’t wanna

(for context i’m a current maeve main, i used to main skye and sha lin and played tyra a long while ago)

.

Androxus

it’s not a phase, mum

“i don’t care we don’t have healer, i’m really good at him i swear”

you ult every time it loads in and you die before the final shot

your favorite mode is siege because you can fly up and shoot the whole point on ult

you’re usually really stand-offish and don’t communicate much and/or a 13 year old boy with anger issues

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Ash

you are level-headed but in a scary way

you will hold the point solo even if it costs you your streak

“get on the point” “guys get on the point” “attack the objective”

you’ll ult to save yourself 99% of the time

good leader

.

Atlas

you probably used to main lex or androxus before he came out

“he’s like a flank, but a tank, he’s great!”

you chase after solo kills instead of sticking to the point

healers hate you, flanks and damages fear you

your favorite mode is death match

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Barik

you’re a former/current tf2 player looking for something fresh

you don’t like working too hard so you spam turrets on the point and hope for the best

“healer stick to me i’m boutta ult”

actually really nice between rounds

but you don’t communicate much mid-game and kind of do your thing

.

Bomb King

you’re a really old player. you have the beta makoa skin and you were there when lex was first released. veteran’s discount.

your favorite maps are the old ones and they barely show up any more

the team always underestimates you

“who plays bomb king in 2021 lol?”

you need a hug

.

Buck

“wait, he’s a flank? i thought he was a tank??”

you’re also a veteran in the game

you’re a dying breed. i like never see you. do you even exist?

you’ve been here since like the first day of the game

buck gets so many skins and you want all of them but the best you have is a random recolor

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Cassie

sweetest person alive

“we can do it guys! let’s try to all rush the point this time!”

you are the bane of every flank

the opposing team hates you, your own team kind of doesn’t notice you’re there

*casually gets a pentakill*

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Corvus

you know those weirdly political kids who like ww2 and know the details of every tank to ever exist? yeah that’s you

but like that’s corvus. as a character.

but no one ever plays him.

like i never even see him do you exist???

you are a cryptid.

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Dredge

yo ho you’re a hoe

no seriously the other team views you and they FEAR you

“yeah i just got a penta kill” “YOU WHAT?” “eyes on the point mate don’t get distracted”

hella good at the game and hella casual about it

you like onslaught on the one sea map the most

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Drogoz

another veteran, are we?

you’re either useless or can wipe out a whole team in seconds. there is no in-between.

you always have a really cool skin.

dovahkiin, dovahkiin...

“i don’t care about the point i gotta get them trips”

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Evie

you bought her because you thought she was cute, admit it

*turns into ice right before dying* *turns into ice right before dying* *turns into ice right be

your personality type is identical to her. no question about that.

always buys faster reload and better speed

strangely good communication with the team

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Fernando

gay gay homosexual gay

“he’s kinda hot if you look at him the right way”

fernando is the tank for gay people

you are gay people

i don’t have much more to say

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Furia

mum energy. not as much as inara mains, but still, mum energy.

will protect every member of the team with your life, even the flanks

you’ve been maining her since she was first added

i bet you didn’t even know she’s canonically seris’ sister

“we’ve literally failed to capture the point the last 3 times we might as well give up and go to another game”

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Grohk

“yeah i have a gremlincore tumblr blog, how could you tell?”

i honestly have no words

you’re kind of like a catboy but a racoon

do you even heal the team or do you just pretend

you were there when lex got announced and thought he was cringe, now everyone finally agrees with you

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Grover

he was your first purchased character and he’s stuck around ever since

he’s the only healer you can play well

“i am groot lmao”

you would never say a word to your team

would give your life for the tank but that’s about it

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Imani

daenerys targaryen on drugs

your favorite anime is my hero academia

your husbando is todoroki

you see where i am going with this

“team protect me i’m gonna ult” *dies 5 seconds into ult*

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Inara

BIG MUM ENERGY

your team is your family. you will protect them with your life.

can only hold your own with a good healer so you have good teamwork going for you

*cutely places wall in front of your ult*

useless in tdm so you stick to onslaught, siege and koth

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Io

are you a furry, furry, or a furry?

“victow! dont ult on my tweam pwease! uwu!”

you 100% find her attractive in some way shape or form

you are either a 30 year old redditor who enjoys loli content or a 16 year old teen who is playing a shooter for the first time

she’s kind of cute, i guess

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Jenos

i can never tell if i’m going to absolutely destroy you or if you’re gonna kick my ass

*cutely holds you up so the whole team can shoot you to death*

kamehameha

you’re a healer??? i guess???

your character has such deep lore and i bet you don’t even know half of it

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Khan

one day you were playing and your team desperately needed a tank. you picked the first one you saw. suddenly, you’re lian’s foot stool

despite 2 layers of heavy armor, you’d still let this man walk all over you

“this skin is really cool, wish it wasn’t behind a pay wall...”

YEET

you actually know the game’s lore, for some reason

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Kinessa

i never trust people who are good at a sniper. if you’re bad that’s natural and you’re 99% of the population. if you’re good you are definitely up to something

you’d sell your sister for 5 pennies if you could

you���re missing from the team all game and somehow have the most kills

“we have a kinessa???”

you are an urban legend to your team

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Koga

someone’s been watching naruto

you are so shit at the game. like i’m sorry. no one’s good at koga i’m so sorry

how do you have so many skins for one character???

you’re always missing from the point

healers hate you. so does the enemy kinessa.

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Lex

quit the game /nm

“who mains lex in 2021??? lmao???”

wall hacks, aimbot, and it’s all legal for you as an ability. you are a hacker in a world of puny vanillas. you like it easy so you go for the easy min max character. have fun getting hated

you think he’s hot and press on his loading abilities just so he can scold you and you can hear him being mad at you

*bonk* go to horny jail

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Lian

"she could step on me”

you used to main some sort of healer but switched over when you got sick of everyone being needy

you can hold a point all on your own for a really really long time but the moment your team gets there you start flunking

you wish you had more skins for her

you don’t

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Maeve

so imagine this. it was like 2018 and you were just chilling playing the game. you kept getting killed by maeve. in every game. she was in every game you went to and she kept killing you over and over and over again. you got frustrated, snapped, and bought her to see if you could do the same to others. you are now the maeve in every game. the cycle repeats.

your whole team doubts you but then you casually get a quad kill and they just sort of look away

you die a total of two times each round and 99% of the time it’s because you go too fast and fall off the map

you repeat everything she says in her accent because you think it’s cute

“welcome to ze meant streets, kitten!” “can you shut the fuck up” “i hate to cut and run, he-he!”

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Makoa

you have the plushie skin or the beta skin, otherwise you don’t main and only play casually stop lying to yourself

“attack turtle go brrr”

you’re really good if you get paired with a good healer

otherwise you’re useless

you wish you could get better teammates because you could really thrive with an organized group. but on paladins you won’t get that, i’m sorry-

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Mal’Damba

i always forget this guy is even in the game

you’re definitely under 6 foot IRL

you have an older sibling you always fight with

you’d love to have a snake irl

you’re really chill outside of the game, but when playing you hella rage

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Moji

you are so precious

but also such a little shit

you annoy me but i also want to give you a hug

“let’s go guys!! to the point!! wheee!!”

please never change but also get out of my sight

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Octavia

you always main the new character until the new person drops

somehow always have enough credits to buy the new champion whenever they come out

you don’t like having a stable main cuz you get bored

you like hanging out at the training rage

hate siege and love team death match, you like your games quick

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Pip

you are the worst and best thing to ever happen to this game

you only pick him to heal yourself and hardly ever heal your team

no one notices you there until you ult

then you get focused

honestly you just seem like you wanna do your thing and i can respect that

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Raum

you probably go to therapy or desperately need it

“BIG MAN BIG. HE IS BIG. BRRRR”

you always love the demons in media

you like being in charge of the team and wreck the point any time you are there, you like fighting on your own but having a healer nearby is nice too

you probably have daddy issues

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Ruckus

you think ruckus’ and bolt’s dynamic is cool and that’s one of the main reasons you started playing him

he’s the only tank you can play

you used to main either inara or ying at some point but chose violence instead

really short irl. you physically relate to ruckus and spiritually to bolt.

“funny goblin man :)”

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Seris

certified girlboss

you can hold an objective all on your own or heal your whole team no problem. either way you are SLAYING

“alright. who’s ass am i kicking today?”

mum energy is inferior to inara but still kind of there

i’m like 50% sure you have a foot fetish

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Sha Lin

*pointing and chanting* incel, incel, ince-

whether that’s about you or the character you can decide

you like minecraft bedwars on the side

“if i don’t get this headshot i am literally going to spontaneously combust”

really useful when there’s no other long distance people - otherwise a nuisance

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Skye

AWOOGA *jaw drops to ground, eyes roll out of head* BOOBA BOOBA BOOBA

you bought her for the tiddies, didn’t you?

she’s actually really satisfying to play once you get the hang of her, but can be real tough on rough days

you need a break i think - maybe play some other game for a bit?

*casually gets team kill with ult*

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Strix

you own at least one pretty knife

you played him when he was unlocked on rotation, fell in love, and spent a whole evening collecting credits to buy him fully

“haha bird man”

i’ve said what i said about snipers. if you’re actually good at him you are hiding a body somewhere. i fear you.

why does everyone ship him with viktor????

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Talus

little furry child

he reminds me of tommyinnit because he is small and annoying

if you play him you are tall and intimidating 

i’m friends with a tall scary talus main

i can’t say bad things please spare me

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Terminus

you always ult at the worst time and just get killed again 5 seconds after

“hey losers watch this” *goes on the point, dies, revives, kills one person and dies again*

you’re only a good tank if you cooperate

you don’t

on your own you’re a pretty good player

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Tiberius

*sigh*

you think the cat is hot, don’t you?

“his accent is kinda cute tho hehe”

you saw that one ending scene in zootopia with the dancing tigers and it CHANGED you

you are probably a furry. if not your awakening is coming. be ready.

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Torvald

you’ve been playing this game for too long

you’ve seen skins rise and fall. you’ve seen nerfs and buffs. you’ve seen reworks and remakes. you are ancient. older than the dragons and wiser than makoa. respect.

people see you on the opposing team and get really annoyed

“the point is really crowded, we can’t move in” “don’t worry guys, my ult is charged up”

you’re really good at all the characters but you like this guy a lot because you think he’s funky fresh

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Tyra

you’re either new to the game or have been playing for too long

either way you can KICK ASS but you need to keep behind your team to do the most damage

flanks are the bane of you, especially the fast jumpy ones

you really want one of the cooler skins but you can only ever get the basic ones. such is the curse of maining one of the OG characters.

“bite me”

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Viktor

you are level 100+ guaranteed, and everyone fears you

“oh shit they got a victor. flank focus him”

you probably play COD and CS:GO normally and wanted to go with something familiar and easy. your skill from the other more advanced games DWARFS everyone else

but why are you playing “guy with gun 132″ in a game with magical elves and fairies. like come on bro.

you don’t have any in-game friends because paladins is your guilty pleasure game you would never admit to

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Vivian

“step on me” syndrome cranked up to 100%

this woman could spit on you and you’d still respect her more than your own mother. good for you

“i’m not a simp. i’m just tier 3 subbed to pokimane ironically”

you sweat the game hardcore. former victor main or he’s your secondary.

you’ve got her on level 50+ at least

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Vora

like the maeve mains but somehow worse

bought her out of spite or played her while she was on rotation, now here you are grinding credits for her a day after she became unavailable

honestly you’re really good at the game i have nothing else to say

you enjoy the newer characters more than the OGs - you’re either a former vivian or lian main

you miss the play of the game feature in the game because you’d get all of them with this girl

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Willo

you seem like the moji mains at first but show your true colors soon after

“fuck you” x50

you are a trash talker on max overdrive. you need to sit down, do some breathing exercises and have a drink.

you hate your own team more than the opposing guys

when you see a willow on the opposing team you make it your sole goal to eliminate her as many times as humanely possible

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Yagorath

i bet you didn’t know she was canonically female until you read this

you don’t like sweating too much so you pick the tank that leaves you heavily relying on your healers and damages

you can hold a point really well so you like siege and onslaught

“are vora and yagorath connected in the lore somehow and do i really care?”

you have a friend who you always party up with to be your healer, otherwise you might switch to another character

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Ying

“tanks love me, flanks hate me”

you are too powerful. literally. how are you so strong

you’ve mastered the most difficult healer in the game. the others are really easy for you to play but you have trouble with seris

motivate your team a lot but start shading and trash talking if they don’t cooperate

you’ll gladly play someone else for a long while and like taking breaks from her

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Zhin

this is your first main after switching over from overwatch. we can smell it on you.

you’re really annoyed with his personality and voice lines but the character is too good to play for you to pass him up for that. you respond to his voice lines aloud very aggressively to let him know he’s an ass

“YES ZHIN HEALERS AREN’T USELESS YOU SELFISH PRICK”

you try your best but you’re not a great team player

infinite trips on a good day, die repeatedly without kills on a bad one and you switch over to vora or skye for a bit.

.

this took me hours to write out pls leave reblog and note thanks uwu

[alittlesimp]

'so, what the fuck is the circus au?' - a summary of last night's events

"Half of them are clowns anyway" -tumblr user alittlesimp, 2021

so it all started here. i joked about the circus au being tomorrow's brainrot au and people RAN with it.

this is a collab i guess? between quite a few blogs, i'll tag everyone i can find at the end of this post :) to be fair, most of the ideas came from jade so she's responsible for this hell too.

if you want to see the posts in the flesh, check the hashtag 'bsd circus au' and the additions in the notes of those posts!

want to add something? why. but yeah, you can. leave a comment or send me an ask and ill add it to this post and tag you in it :) but feel free to play around with this au yourself!

ill sort the ideas per character for clarity :) it's mostly copy-pasted because holy shit we went far with this 😭 but i also added some extra stuff :)

The Akutagawas

· Trapeze anon, thank you for your service

· This is a wholesome au where instead of joining a violent organization, they join the circus.

· They are trapeze artists!

· When they were in training, Rashoumon helped them keep safe when they fell

· Maybe Aku first discovered his ability when he or Gin almost made a life-threatening fall

· Rashoumon could also help with trapeze tricks!

Atsushi

· They bought him as a tiger but quickly discovered he was a person instead

· He jumps through flaming hoops in his tiger form and although he was super scared at first, he quickly got used to it

· Because he's friendly and, you know, actually a person, children are allowed to pet him during the break and after the show!

Chuuya

· We were divided on his actual job

· Options include:

· Aerialist because of his ability

· Contortionist because he is flexible

· Motorbike rider in globe of death because... motorbikes

· But you know what? Fuck it. He does everything.

· He's probably one of the most popular members of the circus!

Dazai

· Animal tamer!

· Shrimp remarked he would look really good in the outfit and you know what? Circus Dazai could get it.

· Constantly jokes about being eaten during training (which kind of offends Atsushi) / being fed to the animals if the circus doesn't make enough money

· His job interview went like this:

· "You do realize this is dangerous? You could die."

· "I COULD DIE?? 🥰"

· Has multiple scars, he says they're from training animals, but he is suspiciously quiet about his past...

· Anyway he is hot. That is the post.

Fukuzawa and Mori

· They have a whole fake rivalry going on

· Every show they have an epic swordfight which is one of the most exciting parts of the evening!

· They were probably circus veterans who decided to start their own show

· There are rumors they hate each other for real

· But they're actually best friends and go out for drinks together (sometimes with the other artists too) after a successful show!

Kajii

· Circus announcy ma- I mean ringleader.

· He has the personality for it!

· Dramatically blows himself up in the middle of the show, only to reappear in one piece at the end of it

· Traumatizing children in the process

· He hands out little lemon-shaped candies to kids at the end of the show

Kenji

· He is the dude who lifts a bench with 30 people on it

· But he is secretly obsessed with the animals

· Spends most of his time where they are kept

· I'm sure Dazai loves teaching him about them :)

Kunikida

· Sells balloons and tells kids stories

· I think he'd be in charge of the financial stuff too

· Sells tickets at the door and makes sure the circus is advertised well

· Most likely also their spokesperson!

Kyouka (and a bit of Kouyou)

· I don't think we had anything for her, but I imagine she'd be a knife thrower

· Or maybe like tricks?

· Demon Snow could help her with this!

· Maybe Kouyou was her mentor before retiring

· Kouyou is now more on the business side of things but sometimes still helps with making new routines for Kyouka

Mark

· Clown? No. Gun tricks.

· Would probably start his act by shooting a target on the stage from a hidden spot, scaring the shit out of everyone

Ranpo

· Fortune teller!

· But he's kind of mean about it 😭

The Tanizakis

· Tanizaki is an illusionist and Naomi is his assistant

· They have seemingly impossible tricks but it's actually just his ability!

Yosano

· Cuts people in half

· But like, for real.

· She heals them right after though 😭

*manga spoilers from here*

Nikolai

· Despite being dressed like a ringleader, he'd 100% be a clown

· But like the type that imitates the magicians lmfaoo

· Instead of releasing white doves or rabbits he picks up random pigeons from the street with his ability and releases them in the arena 😭

· Has gotten bitten by birds more times than he'd like to admit

Sigma

· Manager of the circus

· He's in charge of making sure every customer is enjoying the show

· Known for being one of the kindest people in the circus

Tachihara

· Also a knife thrower because of his ability

· But more badass-themed than Kyouka, who has a more cute-but-deadly theme

again, most of this was by jade so all the credit to her for this mess!

tagging everyone involved in this (including those who encouraged this mess): @jadegreenimmortality @requiem626k @bsdparadise @sugurus-princess @nameless-shrimp @bakugousbreathmint @cottonwoolwounds + trapeze anon (if i forgot anyone let me know!)

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HD-Remix 2021 Weekly Roundup #4

With these final three fics, it's a wrap for the 2021 HD-Remix fest!

Total fest word count: 259,939!

We will be posting a full participant list later today (in case you're interested in guessing who wrote what) and then on Monday we will post the complete anonymous masterlist, as well as some additional stats and thank yous :)

We want to reblog any recs that are posted to tumblr for fics and art from the fest, so if you know of any we haven't reblogged, please @ us (or DM us) and let us know!

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can’t put this feeling into words (M | 2K)

remix of Feels how it feels to feel by @fw00shy (T | 593)

Harry visits Malfoy in Azkaban. “The fuck are you here for, Potter?” “Wanted to see if you still had your soul and all,” Harry mutters. “I thought one of the Dementors here might try and kiss you.” Malfoy huffs out a laugh and starts coughing and hacking up shit, sounding real awful. Awful in that way that makes you want to laugh, too. Then you feel guilty about laughing later.

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Can’t Hide From The Sun (E | 1K)

remix of Wolves by @hogwartsfirebolt (M | 1K)

Malfoy was gorgeous, he was mate, and Harry was tired of telling himself that he didn’t want. He craved.

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what if, but if, we could kiss (and just cut the rubbish) (E | 10K)

remix of Into the Potter-Verse by @veelawings (E | 5K)

“Christ, Draco, get your mouth back on me, I need you, oh God, Jesus fucking Christ,” and Draco can’t help how he shivers, the words dripping down his spine like molasses, sticky sweet blasphemous prayers in the heat of the moment. It’s enough to bring him closer to the edge, and when Harry spills down his throat, hot and bitter and musky, Draco comes with a muffled cry, his cock spurting weakly as he spills all over the floor. (Later, Harry will tease him, will whisper Christ, Malfoy, look at you, so hot for me, Jesus and Draco will come undone a second time, shaking in the safe bracket of Harry’s arms around him.) OR: Draco and Harry are not-quite-friends, but then they are. it is A Time. Ron just wishes he had bleach.

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As always, you don’t have to read the originals first - you can just dive straight into the remixes. But the originals are great, so if you have time, we recommend them!

(you can find all the weekly roundup posts here) .

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My Top Posts in 2021

Y/n: Look I understand that she's evil, I really do but ...

Natasha: But nothing

Wanda: No wait, I want to hear what she's going to say

Y/n: But don't you think Agnes, Agatha, or whatever you like to call her is kind of hot?

Natasha: Y/N! SHE LITERALLY ALMOST KILLED WANDA

Wanda: Well hold on now Nat she's not necessarily wrong

Natasha: SHE LITERALLY TRIED TO STEAL YOUR POWERS

814 notes • Posted 2021-05-07 01:08:59 GMT

#4

Y/n forgets a very important detail about Natasha but luckily Yelena has no problem reminding her

Y/n: So I was personally thinking that it would be great if you carried the baby because then you'd have to be home instead of on dangerous missions and I could be at work

Nat: Mhmmm

Y/n: And then there's the added bonus of our little cutie looking just like you

Yelena: Does she not know?

Nat: She might've forgotten

Y/n looking concerned: What did I forget?

Nat: Sweetheart I would love to carry our baby but-

Yelena: She has no reproductive organs

Nat: YELENA

Yelena: What? You were taking too long. You need to rip it off like band-aid, not peel off like rotting banana

Nat: I was getting there

Yelena: Too slow

Y/n feeling like an idiot: I'm so sorry I forgot. How could I even forget something like that? You literally don't have ovaries, I'm such an asshole

Nat: Hey no it's fine you. I mean you're down there all the time and when you're in it, it's easy to forget.

Yelena: That is disgusting. I did not need to hear that.

Y/n: I mean I could always carry the baby

Nat: Or we could get a surrogate

Yelena: I'll do it, I will carry your guys baby

Nat and Y/n: Absolutely not

Yelena: Why not?

Y/n: Mostly because you don't have reproductive organs either

Yelena: Oh right, it is totally easy to forget

834 notes • Posted 2021-07-16 08:27:32 GMT

#3

Y/n: Natasha is your sister perhaps limped wristed?

Natasha: No I'd say her wrists are pretty strong. I mean a punch from her would break your jaw before it broke her wrist

Y/n: No... I mean does she cuff her jeans perhaps?

Natasha: Yelena doesn't like jeans. She doesn't think they're practical for fighting

Y/n: No Natasha... I mean is she fruity

Natasha: What does that even mean? Why would she be fruity?

Y/n: GAY NATASHA! IS SHE GAY?! DOES SHE LIKE WOMEN!?!?!?!

Yelena: Yes, I do very much like women. Do you know of any that like me?

Y/n: You know what nevermind. I'll try again tomorrow

905 notes • Posted 2021-08-20 05:49:21 GMT

#2

Natasha: Do you have any kinks?

Y/n: No

Wanda: Really?

Y/n: Not one

Natasha: You're such a good girl aren't you

Y/n: * blushes* I mean sometimes

Wanda: No you're always our good girl. Helping us whenever we need it

Y/n: * scratches the back of her neck turning even more red* Well I-I try

Natasha: And that my dear is called a praising kink

1025 notes • Posted 2021-06-26 04:45:55 GMT

#1

Y/n: My taste? I guess its women who are smart, take no shit, undeniably attractive, could possibly kick my ass, and a little bit of instability never hurt anybody...

Wanda: Interesting...

Natasha: Ya that seems kind of specific

Agatha: I have to agree with them hon how many people fit that description?

Harley: Exactly my thought sweet cheeks. Your datin pool is going to be so small

Ivy: Come on you guys I bet there's a good enough amount

Selena (catwoman): Ivy did you even believe yourself when you said that?

Monica: Knock it off guys, I'm sure Y/n will find someone of her ever so particular tastes

Diana (Wonder Woman): Of course she will! There is someone out there for everyone

Lena: Especially someone as attractive as you are

Y/n: * incoherent noises*

Valkyrie: Good going you broke her

Hela: I could break something else of hers if she saw it fit

Y/n: Too.... many.... women *faints*

Kara: * enters the room* I left the room for 5 minutes and this happens

1197 notes • Posted 2021-05-12 20:28:15 GMT

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[loftec]

Heyyyyy girl! We haven't talked in a hot minute, but I just finished reading I Will Follow Him earlier and hadn't had a chance to comment when a friend brought the nonsense anon tumblr drama to my attention. Anyway, I'll just say you handled it much more gracefully than I ever would (and probably have in the past, lmao). And I know you have a thick skin and this isn't something that would make you stop writing, but I still just wanted to let you know that I've missed your writing. I don't know if it's just in my head, but having been around the fandom for roughly the same amount of time as you have, I've discerned patterns in terms of the way people write and even what they respond to as readers, and the cliques that get formed around those things, so that to me it feels like even the fic itself generally has eras of writing styles? Like in my head I kind of cluster people together who seem simpatico in regards to the way they write IxM, but also how they express themselves and the way stories flow, whether there's depth of emotion or not, etc, etc. Anyway, for whatever reason, true or psychological, I find myself missing an era of fic that feels gone now. Not to say that there isn't any good writing anymore, just that it's simply a different vibe. So your new fic really brought me back to that old feeling. You always defy expectations when you adapt something into your own thing, so right off the bat I was pleasantly surprised that you, knowing Johnny Castle was not a completely accurate fit for Mickey because dancing/performing and also being a big man whore with the ladies (lmao), decided to subvert that and make him someone else. And Ian was Baby, but also not. My favorite thing though is the unspoken way you really showed Ian not feeling like he belongs anywhere. He has two families and none of them feel like home. I've felt that way my whole life and it's an emotional theme that's always been highly relevant. Makes you feel like there's nowhere you actually belong or anyone you really belong with. So I loved that aspect and look forward to it being explored more in the sequel(s). I thought your ending to this part of the story was realistic, even if I teared up and felt the loss. I could imagine a bit of a time jump and them meeting in completely different circumstances down the line. Again, totally unexpected that you wouldn't even include the big dance at the end, but fucking bravo honestly, because I couldn't picture some cheesy shit where Mickey dances with Ian in front of everyone for shock value and do the lift. Lolololllll... but yeah... do people honestly think Baby & Johnny lived happy ever after once the credits rolled on the actual movie anyway??? No way in hell. Lol. They were too different in ways that couldn't be overcome back then, sorry. He was meant to be her sexual/romantic awakening, and she went on to have a freer life. That's what I think. Ian & Mickey have a lot more in common, and although they have obstacles to overcome, they ultimately will be able to understand each other, and I think, get on the same page eventually. So please, think no more of any hate-adjacent crap you got or will get for this, because you'll always have a willing audience here, and we enjoy your voice so much. 💜

Hey my friend! It sure has been a hot minute, and this is so interesting! I hadn't even really thought about it, but I think you're on to something here. I haven't really read IxM fic in a good while and I kind of just figured that it was all on me because I have changed over the years, but it makes so much sense that the fic culture would change too. The characters are different, the tone is different, the fandom is different... it stands to reason that the fic is different too. I remember how fascinated I used to be with finding demarcations of time in fic, going back chronologically through the tag on AO3. Season 1 fic felt one way, season 2 a whole other way, etc. I suppose we're yet another ring in the ever growing oak tree of this fandom, lol. We're vintage, baby! You want some of those season 5 vibes? You know where to go, these angsty oldies over here writing increasingly absurd AU in 2021, they got what you need.

All of this means so much to me, you have no idea, especially knowing some of these ideas resonated with you personally like that. I've been thinking about this dang AU for several years at this point and I'm a little bit frustrated that I didn't find a way to give the actual writing of it the time it deserved, but I guess I gave it all the time I had, in the end. So that's something. I hope to muster some enthusiasm to go back and perhaps edit it a bit more soon, or at least start working on the sequels. I was traveling with my dad last weekend and I played some of my playlists for him, telling him about all my silly research and plans, and I now have three books about Soul in the late 60s to read. So you know the next part is gonna be real approachable! 😆

I think I somehow imagined that everybody knows and loves Dirty Dancing, too? I never talked to anyone about it when I was a kid, and it's only really the last four years or so that I have started meeting people who love it, like me. And turns out it's all my friends from primary school! It's all of my coworkers (at least the women), and it's so many of my tumblr mutuals... I was halfway convinced that every single person around me was just waiting to reveal themselves as another fan. Not so much, turns out! Writing a 60s dirty dancing AU is really weird, honestly! I expected two people to read my MiB AU, and I should have had the same expectations for this one. Because that's fine! I will write what I want to write and people will read what they want to read, as it should be.

Most importantly, though. I couldn't agree more with your Dirty Dancing analysis! To me, the dancing isn't the actual ending. To me, the ending is "guess we surprised everybody" and "I'll never be sorry" and "neither will I". The dance number is just a good note Johnny comes back to end it all on, but really, the honest final note is that "I'll see ya" *saxophone solo intensifies*. I just think it's so very bittersweet and good, and I only loved the movie more when I realised this. With Ian, everything became more complicated. Clayton is no Dr Houseman, and there can be no cheesy onstage dancing, and Ian has barely had time to wrap his head around the idea of having a future at all, being himself, let alone spending it with someone he just met. The Dirty Dancing AU needed to end this way for it to truly be a Dirty Dancing AU, in my mind. The next part will be something entirely different, and operate under a different set of narrative rules... Oooh well, look at me. I'm all excited about it. I can't wait to write it!

Thank you 💜💜

[lamortexiii]

Cryptic Mystic: What’s Your Sign?

Many of us are fascinated by astrology and all things outer space related. The great unknown that is beyond the stars has been a hot topic for centuries. But, how did the zodiac begin? What makes astrological signs and the alignment of planets and stars so magical? Is it truly prophetic? Does your sign define your personality, past, present, and future? Or is this simply another product of the Barnum Effect?

So I’ll start by asking the obvious: “what’s your sign?” I’m a Leo through and through. While I’m skeptical about the claims of some astrological signs and their relation to my life on a daily basis, I do believe there is some truth here - as is with most things. This topic is one that I have been wanting to write about for some time now. I have always found outer space, stars, planets, etc. to be fascinating. As a child, I remember laying in the grass and watching the stars above me. In my little valley in the forest, I could see so many stars that wouldn’t be visible if I were in the city. I am so thankful I had that childhood experience of growing up somewhere where I could truly connect with nature and the simple things around me that most take for granted on a day-to-day basis. I still stargaze to this day, but I can’t see near as many as I once did in my childhood forest valley home. I’ve seen a plethora of shooting stars throughout my lifetime, two meteor showers, two solar eclipses, and plenty of unidentified objects that were likely satellites… or were they…?

One time when I was driving home from work late one night I saw something that befuddled me. As I drove down the winding 2 lane highway in the darkness of the night I saw what appeared to be a helicopter hovering right above the trees. Now, this area I was driving through was rural. There are few houses in those woods, but there are some. The backroads leading to the site where the “helicopter” was hovering are seldom traveled, especially this late at night. I began processing the event in my mind and questioning if it was a helicopter, why would it be hovering so low and what exactly would it be doing in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. It just didn’t make sense. I thought about logical explanations and could only come up with one. There is the slim possibility that someone driving on one of the many backroads in that area may have got into an accident and was getting airlifted to a hospital. I’ve seen it happen before on backroads near there. Aside from this idea, I had nothing. By this point, I had obviously slowed down so I could get a better look. Hell, there wasn’t any traffic so it’s not like I was worried about causing an accident or anything. As I looked closer I noticed it wasn’t a helicopter at all. There were about 4-6 large bright lights shining down below the area that the craft was hovering over. The circumference of this craft was much wider than a helicopter - more circular. The lights were far too big and far too bright. Whether it was fear, shock, tiredness, or my stomach growling, I continued to drive on and leave the peculiar scene behind. Now, I know this has nothing to do with astrology or zodiac signs, but it is an interesting story nonetheless. 

In reference to zodiac signs, I find that descriptions of a Leo with my particular birthdate are genuinely pretty accurate when describing my personality and conflicts. However, the daily horoscopes are definitely not accurate in my experience. I will say that when I read/listen to them I try to apply something positive from the reading to my daily life. I engage in a deeper thought process and practice mindfulness throughout the day, keeping that positive focus within my mind on the positive message I am supposed to be implementing into my day. I have also found that compatibility readings have been somewhat inaccurate as far as certain zodiac signs getting along or not getting along with other zodiac signs. The biggest obvious red flag for me is how many different sources there are. And guess what? They all say something different on the daily. If zodiac signs and horoscopes are supposed to be accurate, then why don’t all individuals who report them online all say the same thing - or at least something similar?? To play devil's advocate here, I did say earlier that I believe there is some truth to all of this, which is why it interests me so much and also why I believe in this stuff to a degree. There is a lot of magical and wondrous history to unpack in regards to the zodiac and horoscopes. So, let’s jump right in, shall we?

Interesting fact: the word zodiac is derived from Greek terminology meaning “circle of little animals.” We’re a circle of little animals - cute visuals there, eh? Hieroglyphs in Egypt dating as early as the 14th century BC were found to contain a circle of decans (constellations) depicting something that looks a lot like the constellations and zodiac symbols that we know today. In total there were 36 decans found within the temple.

During the first half of the first millennium, Babylonian astronomers created our modern zodiac. They also mapped the previous constellations that were seen in the Egyptian hieroglyphs but continued to add more as they were discovered. In the last half of the 5th century, the Babylonian astronomers divided the many constellations into 12 equal "signs” to represent the 12 months of the year at 30 days per month. Each sign contained 30° of celestial longitude, thus creating the first known celestial coordinate system. According to calculations by modern astrophysics, the zodiac was introduced between 409 and 398 BC and probably within a very few years of 401 BC. Unlike modern astrologers, who place the beginning of the sign of Aries at the place of the Sun at the vernal equinox, Babylonian astronomers fixed the zodiac in relation to stars, placing the beginning of Cancer at the "Rear Twin Star" (β Geminorum) and the beginning of Aquarius at the "Rear Star of the Goat-Fish" (δ Capricorni). Due to the precession of the equinoxes, the time of year the Sun is in a given constellation has changed since Babylonian times, the point of vernal equinox has moved from Aries into Pisces. 

You’ll be pleasantly surprised, intrigued, or disgusted to know that all of this does have some roots within religion. The Hebrew Bible shows knowledge of the Babylonian zodiac. E. W. Bullinger noted that the drawings found in the book of Ezekiel were quite similar to the middle four quarters of the zodiac (Lion/Leo, Bull/Taurus, Man/Aquarius, Eagle/Scorpio). You read that right, Scorpio is noted as being an eagle - not a scorpion. Some say that the twelve tribes of Israel are correlated with the zodiac signs found within the Hebrew 12 month calendar. There is an argument that the position of the Israelic tribes around the Tabernacle from the book of Numbers correlates with the exact order of the zodiac, with Judah, Reuben, Ephraim, and Dan representing the middle signs of Leo, Aquarius, Taurus, and Scorpio, respectively. It is shocking how I have heard religious people in modern times talk about how this is all a bunch of garbage, even though some of this is literally correlated with items from the Bible.

To explain daily horoscopes and the connection between the stars, planets, and our zodiac signs, you must engage in a bit of math (yuck). When planets and constellations of the zodiac would align, the Babylonian astronomers of that time would note the experiences that people had and found similarities. These experiences, along with the position of the Earth, Sun, Moon, and constellations and the positions relative to the zodiac signs were stored within a catalogue. This went on for several years and is essentially what began our modern-day daily horoscope. However, it is my personal opinion that a lot of these “professionals” who have their own magical websites where you can get a free daily horoscope, just make shit up to sound interesting. That is obvious by the previously mentioned differentials found within each page. I encourage you to do a quick Google search and you’ll see what I’m talking about. This ties into the belief that the Barnum Effect is in play here. You’ll remember the Barnum Effect from last month's blog. If you haven’t read the June 2021 blog The Imaginarium of Barnum, I suggest you head there next to get a deeper understanding of what I’m talking about before you continue reading. Much of what is broadcasted in daily horoscopes, zodiac sign descriptions, and even within mediumship and tarot readings is full of extremely vague generalities. Because the information is presented in such a vague and generalized way, it then becomes an instance where anyone could apply any of the information to their life in some way. So as you can see, there is some psychological manipulation at play here. Now, I am not saying this is true for all who present the information. I will say that there are A LOT of shams out there. I have seen far more fake sites/readings/etc. than I have seen legit ones. If I had to give a percentage from my personal experience, I’d say about 85% of what I’ve seen is bullshit. But you choose what you believe at the end of the day. I just ask you to keep an open mind and a wise eye about you when scanning the web for horoscopes, zodiac information, tarot, and mediumship. 

All of this information is interesting to stew on within your mind. I hope that you learned something new. I know I did when I was researching this topic for the blog. The religious ties were the most surprising thing to me. What did you find most interesting? Drop a comment under the blog on Tumblr or under the Instagram post for this month’s blog and let me know. Tonight if you are able, take a look at the stars and see if you can find the constellations. The plethora of shapes within the brightest stars are brilliant to gaze upon. Who knows, maybe you will find your zodiac constellation. Maybe you will depict a new constellation on your own by combining different combinations of stars. Or maybe you’ll see something that you can’t explain…

Cryptic Mystic Blog by PsychVVitch @psychvvitch

www.LaMorteXiii.com

[diligentgoose]

My D&D parties characters! I drew this when we were intending to make a Spotify podcast, but it was already pretty late in the campaign so we decided not to. 

Left to right: My Shifter Druid, Ilseyon (Ilsey) Rylet. He led tens-of-thousands of citizens to safety as a Giant Hawk one time when our Bloodhunter accidentally summoned a god that destroyed the city. He also helped find trapped people and corpses. He’s the symbol of Rescue Organisations now and has a giant statue in the centre of the (re-made) city dedicated to the anonymous Druid. He also married his childhood sweetheart, Matyuldi (AKA Matty), a Tiefling musician, not long ago and has been going Agate hunting to awaken a bunch of animals and together they run a non-profit conservation effort for the city. He’s one of two characters who *gasp* have an ACTUAL good, supportive and loving family.  Inflarema Silberstern, our Half-Elf Bloodhunter. She introduced the rest of our party to the concept of found family (via her gay adoptive fathers), and has been so so so integral to character growth and party dynamics. She’s a flaming lesbian and we all love her and her sassy Aarakocra Arcane Ranger GF to the Sun and back. Our Wizard knocked out her asshole blood-brother in a bathroom one time and stole his phone for our Cleric who’d lost hers in the BBEG fight. It was great. We would die for her. Delphine Vontaine, our Wood Elf Monk. We couldn’t beat anything without her tbh. She’s grown up so much from our first session, and I absolutely have to praise her player, who portrays her SO DAMN WELL. She’s easily the best of the players at the table when it comes to RP. She’s our token Mean Girl Rich Kid Barbie, and it’s been a real journey to get her to question Daddy Dearest, but we’re so proud of her for starting to think for herself and defy the bastard. She also has a literal video game GF now (after breaking up with the Wizard, far right), after the party got sucked into a video game demi-plane to rescue Ilsey’s little brother. Sammi is SOOOOO badass. A mechanically Goliath Sniper. Wonderful GM @puwumats went along with this absolute mischief and invented a way for it to be possible in-world for Sammi to live on the Material Plane. Also GM got me into Tumblr and I blame her for me being up until 5am last night building my blog/s.  Liliana Leijon. Aboslute cinnamon role. Too good for this world. Too pure.  She’s our Cleric, guess which domain? LMAO. She’s a lynchpin for the party, and is the other party member who *gasp* has a nice family. Our GM got so creative with her backstory and it was amazing. Too much to explain, but HOT DAMN was that a fun arc. So much has happened since our accidentally summoned BBEG God of Destruction. Long story short, she was an Aasimar. Our Blood Hunter died. Three of us gave up all our GM Inspirations to help try plead with the Raven Queen to bring her back (Divine Intervention). We got it on the last time, and Lil’s had to make a deal to give up her divine ancestry link to Her. She’s now mechanically a half-elf and has blonde hair and a healthy pallor. She was dying slowly from a necrotic curse/disease at the time though, so it effectively removed it from her because it was related to her Aasimar-ness. That’s a plus. Previously J’son Dane (yes, it is the reference you’re thinking of), a Warlock of the God of Destruction, now our SmortBoi Wizard (almost Paladin tbh) to Ioun. A lot happened thanks to epic backstory thought up by our GM, and his name is now Elias Wildvale. He was THE EDGIEST LITTLE SHIT. Passed around from foster home to foster home, emancipated at 14 (literally always carried around his Legal Adult certificate), joined the Mob...Once left a small shoe-store Clerk in the staff room of his store with broken knee caps and pants filled with shit (literally intimidated him into shitting himself with a Nat 20 +, like, 8 at level 2) after he failed for the last time to repay a loan from the Boss. He cried in the shower afterwards and was physically sick. He hated working for the Mob. After Ioun spoke to him, seeing his potential for good, to save him from losing his soul to the BBEG, a huge weight has been taken off his shoulders and he’s been doing so much community work to help disadvantaged kids with his reward for saving the city. Which he did btw. The BBEG dropped a Wish pearl, which he used to undo the destruction of his now former deity. I also wrote this quote down from him because it was a fucking great line: “I’ve committed as many felonies as I have pubes.”

Btw the mob boss was a Halfling named Big Tony who had a Goliath wife. ICONIC.  Not in the picture because he’s been added to the party since, our red skinned emo Tiefling Fighter (samurai aesthetically), Nikolae Adreni, but we all refer to him as Pollux. He was originally an NPC that was a long-time friend of Liliana (whom he calls Castor) and briefly, her BF. We got a new player who’d never played D&D before and was happy to bring Pollux to life while they learned the game. They’re a natural with RP. We still have backstory to explore with Pollux, which I look forward to our characters and us discovering, sometime. Did I mention Pollux is absolute bae and fashion icon? ‘Cause he is.  But yeah, I love my Party and I’m gonna miss this campaign when it ends by early 2021. We’ve been playing since January this year, at least twice a month. Our sessions go for between 8-15 hours. We hardcore love the world and our characters.

[cromulentbookreview]

I See What You Did There

What’s two plus two?

Huh? What? What’s happening?

What’s two plus two?

Oh, shit, right, I have a book review blog, don’t I? I mean, things have been a bit hectic these past few months and I’m also trying to be a real writer...

What’s two plus two?

Yeah, you’re right, I shouldn’t neglect my tumblr, even if nobody reads it. And come on, computer, it’s not like I’ve been in a coma for four years, two plus two is clearly five and we all love Big Brother, OK? Gah.

Uhhh...And by that, I mean: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir!

Dr. Ryland Grace wakes up in a spaceship with no memory of how or why he’s there. He’s a junior high school science teacher, what the hell is he doing on a spaceship? Also, the other two astronauts are dead. Like, really dead. So far as how things are going for Dr. Grace right now, I’ll let Pete Campbell give you a hint:

Slowly, veeeery slowly, Grace’s memory starts to come back to him: he’s on a mission to save the Earth. There’s this nasty space bacteria-thingy called Astrophage that’s dimming the light of Mr. Burns’s archnemesis: the Sun.

There’s a lot of science involved, but Weir explains, in great detail, just how Astrophage dims the Sun and why that’s really, really, really, really bad for the Earth. Like, apocalyptic-bad. Billions will die bad. Famine, disease, war, rocks fall, everyone dies and freezes to death bad. Only not right away. Over the course of several years. So everyone will die, but they’ll get to do it real slowly. 

Yay?

Like so, but it ends with everybody dead and the Earth being rendered uninhabitable. All of Grace’s wee little students will grow up watching their Earth slowly die. Unless Project Hail Mary finds a solution. And there seems to be a solution out there - Tau Ceti seems to be the only star not infected with Astrophage. Why? How? What? So this all powerful woman called Stratt, who has been given authority by just about everyone (how? Reasons. Don’t ask questions) yanks Grace out of his classroom - first to study Astrophage, and then, somehow, he can’t remember exactly, roped him into going on a dozen-light-year journey to Tau Ceti with the crew of the Hail Mary.

Only the rest of the crew is dead. Something went wrong while they were in a coma during their four-year space voyage. Grace is alone.

Inside the Hail Mary.

Full of a dude called Grace.

I see what you did there, Weir. Don’t think I didn’t see what you did there. I mean, you don’t even have to be Catholic to see what you did there.

Anyway, long-winded flashbacks and lots of science ensues. I struggled with the first quarter of the book - not for any particular reason other than I started reading this book in the latter half of 2020 and I was having a hell of a time concentrating on...well, everything. Remember 2020? Yeah, it wasn’t great. I mean, I’d need a lot of “not great, Bob!” gifs to describe just how bad those last few months of 2020 were.

And then I thought 2021 would be better. Ahahaha we barely made it six days. Seriously, everything is terrible and how do I even concentrate on a dumb book blog let alone a book all about science and the Earth slowly dying because the sun is dimming and -

Soon enough, however, Grace spots something on the Hail Mary’s radar. It’s...another spaceship? All the way out by Tau Ceti? At first, Grace thinks maybe its another ship from Earth, like a backup plan, that’d make sense, right? Only it’s not.

Who could it be?

Aliens?

Yeah, it’s aliens.

Our friend Grace gets to be the dude to make first contact with the sentient, spider-like creatures of the first planet in the system 40 Eridani. Turns out 40 Eridani is also infected with Astrophage, which is causing all sorts of problems for the Eridians, and their ship just happened to be around Tau Ceti at the exact same time as the Hail Mary. Crazy, right? Anyway, after the initial first contact and the long, drawn-out process of learning to communicate with one another (with no help from Amy Adams or Jeremy Renner), Grace and the lone Eridian, whom Grace christens Rocky, team up to save their respective worlds.

Science and plenty of flashbacks ensue.

I’m not a scientist - well, I have a master’s degree in library and information science, which, I guess, is a science? I mean, uh...I could tell you where all the sciency books are in the library. 500s if you’re using Dewey, and if you’re using Library of Congress, it will depend on what you’re looking for - you’ll want to start with Q for general sciences, QA for math books, QB and QC for astronomy and physics, QE, GC, GB, QC, TN for earth sciences, QD, TN, TP, and TR for chemical sciences, GE and bits of GF, QE, QH, QC, and TD for environmental sciences, QH, QK, QL, QM, QP, and QR for life sciences, QA75-76.9, TK5101-TK6720, TK7800-TK7895, and Q334-Q390 for computer sciences, telecommunication and artificial intelligence, Q, R, S, and T for the history of sciences and if you’re looking for bibliographies and finding aids for topics in the sciences, look under Z.

You know. Science.

OK, so I may not be a scientist. I may be bad at math because numbers somehow magically switch themselves around on paper whenever I look at them. Why? Because my brain sucks, that’s why. I may have spent most of my chemistry classes reading YA books under my desk (worth it!). I may have only passed high school physics by cheating off a girl younger than I was, but hey, the joke was on me: my high school physics teacher wasn’t even qualified to teach physics.

Gotta love rural public schools.

My point is, while the science may be lost on me and my brain which is full mostly of Simpsons quotes rather than actual knowledge, I do loves me a fun story where Science (with a capital S) saves the day. And, make no mistake, this book is fun. You might get a bit bogged down by the science, but once you get past it, this is a highly enjoyable story of one dangerously unqualified guy desperately trying to save the world with his new BFF, alien spider guy who speaks in musical notes. It’s up to them and them alone. Good luck, guys! Don’t forget that billions upon billions of lives depend on you. No pressure.

Seriously, if you loved The Martian, you’ll love Project Hail Mary. They’re similar, but Hail Mary is on a much larger scale than The Martian - there’s a lot more at stake in the hands of one guy. Plus: aliens!

Without spoiling anything, I’ll just say I would have loved more from the ending. I would’ve loved an epilogue from some of the other character’s perspectives or something. I mean, I could even go with a sequel! Maybe something where Erid and Earth are finally able to communicate? There’s a lot of potential for short stories or novellas set in the same world as Project Hail Mary - there’s got to be bonus material there and I want it. More, please? That’d be nice. I’d definitely read it. So... Hop to it, Weir!

One last complaint: Grace doesn’t swear. Like, at all. Meanwhile, Mark Watney is over here like

Come on, Grace, would it kill you to say “fuck” or “shit” every now and again? I mean, I sipped coffee that was too hot and let out a bunch of words that’d make a 19th century whaler blush. Geez.

RECOMMENDED FOR: Fans of The Martian, science-y people, people who enjoy a heavy dose of science in their sci-fi, people who just want a fun story

NOT RECOMMENDED FOR: People with no mind for science, people who are against fun, anyone who doesn’t like sci-fi, aliens, fun, etc.

RATING: 4/5

ALIEN RATING:

RELEASE DATE: May 4, 2021 (HEY! Don’t think I didn’t see what you did there, too, Ballantine Books!)

ANTICIPATION LEVEL FOR SPINOFFS / SEQUELS / BONUS MATERIAL OF ANY KIND: Olympus Mons.

DID I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE?