#truly the best blog here

[protecticarus]

the visceral incredible warmth this just made me experience. father dghda himself approves of my silly little virtual shrine. what a sweet moment.

[huellitaa]

i giggle so hard whenever i see one of my posts on someone else's blog like omg..... i'm actually liked by people..... blushing rn

[stuckinapril]

i think i officially set my sights on a therapist and i'll be contacting her very soon?? therapy was legitimately not on my 2024 bingo card (or in the cards for me at all) but here we are????

[littlemoriflower]

I went out with my friend yesterday 🩷✨

[tetzoro]

i don’t think i’ve talked about it much on this blog because tbh it’s a really difficult thing for me to talk about in general but a year ago today, i lost my baby kitty zelda and i miss her so very much ᰔ

[vfdinthewild]

A Vigorous, Forthright Declaration

A few weeks ago, this blog turned ten (10!) years old. If you have submitted, liked, reblogged, or just plain enjoyed seeing these VFDs over the past decade, thank you for your attention and contributions to this weird little chronicle I've kept.

Your very fervent devotee,

VFDinthewild

[ask-richard-jackdaw]

Richard,

I hope you don't mind, but I happened upon you deep in thought in the castle courtyard and...well, the sight took my breath away.

I used a Muggle contraption (I believe they call it a camera) to capture these still images. You look almost corporeal...

E 🖤

E, my dear,

I am most intrigued by this Muggle contraption, and even more so — by how well you were able to capture me and my heart with it. And what a coincidence! I must admit, I had no idea that anybody was there at the time as I was most likely preoccupied with matters regarding me... Well, you said it yourself, looking corporal. If you have the time, allow me to explain.

You see, for the past two weeks I have been experimenting with something known as ancient magic. I cannot really see it but I can feel it when I am somewhere near the source, and I can really feel it if I touch it. If I spend plenty of time doing just that and focusing on being corporal — I seem to become so! Well, whatever part of me is surrounded by magic anyway.

That photo you took — I believe it was the first time that I have attempted to fully step into the stream of magic a day or two ago. The reason I needed to conduct some experiments first is rather serious as well: when the magic starts sipping away (and it never holds for longer than one day) I... Well, I am yet to find a way to make the transition back to my ghostly form less painful. As much as I was craving to feel, I forgot that pain is an integral part of life as well.

Needless to say that as fun as being able to be me again was, by the time I walked all the way back to the castle in my human form (and I got lost so many times since I could not just fly above the land toward the castle, oops) I was so tired that I just fell asleep on a bench somewhere near that area your camera captured me. When I woke up — I was a ghost again. At the very least, whatever pain I might have gone through that night, I slept through it.

I do hope that you are doing well, my darling. The sight of me should not be taking your breath away but instead making your heart beat and your soul soar. I hope you continue working on those still images because I did not get a chance to look at myself in the mirror that night. You are my only witness and I am honoured to have you share that special moment with me.

Thinking of you, always,

Richard Jackdaw

P. S. May I hope that someday I would be granted permission to call you by your proper name, my lady E?

[vriska]

everyone in the togachako tags you are all feeding me and I am nodding my head along because oh my god these two are rotating in my head nonstop, there is just something so visceral, so heartwrenchingly familiar in the way Ochako is desperately reaching out to Toga who thought she had to turn her back on the rest of the world because they rejected her first

AND YET!! and yet the one girl who Toga both idolized and envied is finally reaching back out to her, she is going to bridge that gap and make that connection that Toga has wanted for so, so long and I know its fuckin wishful thinking but the way the entire thing is framed, its about feelings and love/romance, Ochako wants to embrace and understand Toga's 'love', the same way that young women who don't know they're gay yet but can't put a name to the way they're feeling might react when confronted by another girl who *is* more openly gay.

The initial confusion that Toga incited in Ochako, followed by the fact that despite the confusion and fear and maybe even mild disgust, is replaced by fascination. "I can't get you out of my head/I haven't been able to stop thinking about you since we met"

All of it leading up to the fact that Ochako realized during their last confrontation, when she saw Toga's tears, her pain, she realized this was not just another villain... Toga is just another girl, like her, and Ochako not once tried to understand her before this, she was confronted by something she didn't understand and she fled from it, and now she is ready to face it, ready to open herself up to Toga and the love Toga has

She is beaten to hell, stabbed and bleeding, and she is never going to let Toga go again, she will not run from Toga OR her feelings, she will face Toga not as a hero, but as HERSELF, just another girl, she will be selfish in this moment if it means she can right the wrong she did and she is willing to devote the rest of her LIFE!!! TO TOGA!! if the whole world will be against her, Ochako will be right there with her, telling her that her smile is still beautiful even without knowing just how deeply those words must hit Himiko

I can keep rambling forever and ever, especially about just the INCREDIBLE fucking expressions Hori draws and how much you can just FEEL looking at them, saying even more than just their words but this post has already gotten away from me and basically fellow togachako's i see u, im one of u, come say hi the brainrot is unending and I'm glad we're all waking up to this fucking feast of content to fuel us

[hwanghyunjinenthusiast]

I think one of the best pieces of advice I'd give to people who want to write fanfic is to befriend other writers within their communities.

[ofgentleresolve]

the nice thing about this blog is that bc most of my muses are not cis-men with traditionally masculine traits/personalities ( and the ones who are aren't east asian / are requested muses / have unpopular fcs ), the k*rp blogs tend to ignore me :)

[tripleaxeldiaz]

hello!!!! hi!! i am wine drunk and i love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[swayinginphosphorescence]

Whenever I see the never-ending discourse on moralizing about communication styles, all I can think is that I wish there was simply more mutual understanding there and recognition that nobody who is hurt or buoyed by communication styles is morally superior or inferior to anyone else, and that the most important thing is for your feelings to be appropriately conveyed. There's this mad rush to feel as though you're hard done by one way or another instead of just acknowledging that everyone is from different backgrounds, cultures, families, languages, and mental health.

If someone is trying to relate to you with a story, that does not necessarily mean that they're trying to take the spotlight from you and are being horrible and selfish about it. On the other hand, if that's a communication style that doesn't mesh with you after your own experiences with being spoken over and your feelings going unacknowledged, that communication style not working for you doesn't make you a bad person. Both methodologies just make you a person. It's important to just discuss these things frankly so you can come to an understanding and meet halfway -- it's better to hear "oh no, I was trying to relate so you would feel better and we could connect" and have that understanding, just as it's better to hear "yeah, growing up, people doing that always meant they weren't listening to me" so the other person can have that understanding. Even when it comes to neurodivergence, no two brains work the same: someone can be neurodivergent and still be hurt by that method of communication, just as someone can be neurodivergent and thrive on it. It's an important understanding of disability: the same bright lights that can help some people see may trigger migraines in someone else. It doesn't make either of them bad. It just makes their needs different.

At the end of the day, we're all just trying to hear others and to be heard ourselves. And it's better to, instead of focusing on the us vs them of it all, to simply speak frankly about our feelings and learn how to best take care of each other. To belittle or dismiss feelings on either side is to simply widen that gulf instead of trying to build a bridge between us.

[prettypangolins]

Is there anyone following me who would benefit from image IDs being added to things I reblog?

I reblog way too many things and I'm too inconsistent to really do this for much of the stuff, but if it would help someone then I can give it a go. Like, I personally find reading white text on a black background painful and nauseating, so if there's a specific kind of image anyone would like me to focus on I can try starting there. (I'm on mobile a lot, adding IDs would be easier on desktop so it might be a case of me tagging things to go back to.)

I'm also trying to get into the habit of tagging things like:

video captioned (captions/subtitles in the video itself

video transcribed (somewhere below the video the dialogue is typed out)

video described (somewhere below the video the video is described)

audio in tags (in my tags i've copied the previous user's tags which surmise the audio of the video) (this is a new tag - i need to switch to this from my current one which is 'ty ->')

image described (somewhere below the video there is an image ID)

video not described (no helpful information attached, the video will have been reblogged for visuals alone)

If a video isn't described but I've reblogged it, that means I've found that it's okay to watch without sound/it can still be enjoyable.

The only the time I reblog videos that need sound/described to understand/enjoy them is when I'm hacked off (sometimes those 'sound on!'/'unmute!' things, but usually when reblogs are talking about the video/how much of a good point it makes, and I want to know what it is).

Finally, gifmakers I love you, thank you.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

the sense of having any lore about the ancient [ten to thirteen years ago] of marble hornets times like granpa granpa tell us a greentext story....the only hitch is not having stories and instead having "i guess you had to be there" tales from the fringes, unless instead of a hitch you frame this as a bit

[izzy-b-hands]

the big Vent post abt my family today and that post i saw went to my fandom vent blog instead, ur welcome lmao

[lavenoon]

Hello :)

I just wanted to stop by and tell you that you are an amazing and wonderful Person <3

You and Zelda (and everyone else in the server) have created so much lovely art, writing and the like, it's incredible.

I am so glad I joined. Being in the server is so much fun, and I am grateful that you created such a lovely space.

You make me want to keep creating, even when I don't have the energy for other things, I still want to draw.

These blorbos be living in my head rent free hbdhfhdhzhs

Anyways, thank you for existing, I'm so glad I met you <3

TREE I DIDN'T FORGET YOU I'M SORRY IT TOOK ME SO LONG

Here we go here we go I can now melt all over again ough ough ough /pos

I'm so so happy that you're having fun - both in server and with the blorbos hehe! Fun is really the end goal, the most important aspect of all of this - I wanted to share that!! I'll probably never stop being excited over how much fun people are having, how much engagement there is, and that I got to collect that wonderful little group on discord too <3

Doing my best not to puddle (too much) but also, I'm simply responding to the energy/ attitude I'm being greeted with! It's a feedback loop, and I'm very glad there are so many nice and kind people here!! <3

Glad to have you with us in the server, glad we get to talk <3 (even when I cry at your sleeping habits fhdjsk)