#thought many thoughts

[static-radio-ao3]

sunday snippet !

waited so long that i am back on track hehe thank you @messymoony and @itsjaywalkers for the tags <33 i absolutely devoured your snippets <33

“Okay, well, just because I wear glasses doesn’t mean I can’t take care of myself!” “The glasses have nothing to do with this. Sybill wears glasses and none of us think she’s incompetent,” Barty says. “Incompetent? What do you— You guys think I’m incompetent?” “It’s just—” “You freeze, James,” Frank cuts in before Barty says something he shouldn’t. He tries to keep his voice kind but it does nothing to soften the blow of his words. “Don’t you guys ever get a little scared?” James counters, defensive. He moves to cross his arms in front of his chest, but the crossbow he’s holding gets in the way so he ends up awkwardly putting one hand on his hip in a poor approximation of a power pose. Evan quirks an eyebrow at him as if to say, see? “Sure we do,” Dorcas says easily. “We’d all be dead if we didn’t get a little scared now and then. But you get really scared, James.” “And that’s okay! We all have our strengths and weaknesses,” Alice continues. Marlene nods, picking up right where Alice left off. “Your weaknesses just happen to put all of us in danger, too. So we think it’s best if you just play to your strengths.” “Which include, but are not limited to, making dinner and manning the radio,” Lily adds. “We love you, James,” Peter says, clapping a hand on James’ shoulder. “We really do!” Pandora confirms. “But you’re a bit of a liability,” Frank says with a nod and a mildly self-satisfied smile. James eyes all of them warily. “Why did that speech feel so rehearsed?”

no pressure tags: @carniferous @residentrookie @poetskings @lifeisabitch-butimcute @chericheribaby

[twelvemonkeyswere]

not even JRR Tolkien, who famously developed the concept of the Secondary World and firmly believed that no trace of the Real World should be evoked in the fictional world, was able to remove potatoes from his literature. this is a man who developed whole languages and mythologies for his literary world, who justified its existence in English as a translation* simply because he was so miffed he couldn't get away with making the story fully alien to the real world. and not even he, in extremis, was so cruel as to deny his characters the heavenly potato. could not even conceive a universe devoid of the potato. such is its impact. everyone please take a moment to say thank you to South Americans for developing and cultivating one of earth's finest vegetables. the potato IS all that. literally world-changing food. bless.

[machine-saint]

look at this wacky thing the google AI results just showed me!

[mimimar]

(open pages for better image quality)

the moment I heard elphaba's delivery of "there's a girl i know..." in i'm not that girl i knew i had to draw this comic, i strongly recommend listening to it while you read for the full experience!

this comic is a companion to this piece (which was inspired by glinda's delivery of the same line in the i'm not that girl reprise).

pages 1-4 are from elphie's pov, pages 5-8 are from glinda's.

prints of individual pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

flower meanings in order of appearance:

[cherryysocks]

can't stop thinking about this movie tbh..

[mintaii]

death of the magician

[mumbito]

me clicking on a video from the silliest man in the world: teehee what wacky hijinks await me

world renown block clown mumbo Fucking jumbo: you ever think about how old technology seems to live forever in the suspended state of whatever the newest advancements were at the time. how most technology immediately and fundamentally tells you when it was important and when it was left in the dust. it’s suspended in its era forever, and in that it is perfect.

stagnation is a form of death but nostalgia is cruel immortality. still i find myself locked in pursuit of it until i finally stumble across the undeath of the mechanical. as my hard earned improvement truly begins to pay dividends, surrounded by my opus of change, i will freeze myself in eternal utopia. the only way to never die is to preemptively kill whoever you might become. i will not have a grave, i will not be ashes and dust. i will be a perfect, extant machine.

me: Ok. i dont think this will plague me at all actually. like video.

[attleboy]

TADC SPOILERS AHEAD!! //

don't forget

[mlm-blues]

“lmao imagine liking men” OK!!! ON IT BOSS 🫡🫡🫡 it’s beautiful here

[dragonroilz]

[elucubrare]

there's this horrible school of attempted literary criticism on here that holds that 1. everything in any given author's work is autobiographical, especially if it seems "real" and 2. those themes seeped into the work subconsciously, revealing something about the author that they're either trying to hide or unaware of themself. it drives me up a wall, since it seems to deny the fundamental skills that make people good writers: the empathy to imagine and portray experiences that one hasn't had oneself and the ability to take one's personal emotional experiences or worldview and fold them, consciously, into the unworked clay of a narrative.

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

you mean nothing to me

[hamsterdads]

become yourself NOW!

[itz-pandora]

I may be partial to old man sonadow yaoi

[mintaii]

a little post act 1 drawing...

[hinamie]

subject, specimen, spectacle;

should i say that you're dead?