#walk down the memory lane

[creatingnikki]

So remember when our biggest worries would be studying for that chemistry exam and attending double math lectures on a Monday and facing our crush after having said something embarrassing and not having enough money to go to comic con and knowing we couldn't even bring it up with our parents and not being able to hang with the cool kids because forget a curfew the concept of even stepping out to chill didn't exist in our households and feeling sleepy during tuitions and wanting to bunk PT periods so we could sit in class and talk and beg the librarian if she could let is borrow more books than allowed and who should we invite to our birthday party and if our teacher will penalize us for wearing kajal and if we will score enough in boards to get into the stream we want and if we look old enough with all this make up to pass for an 18 year old so they don't stop us at the entrance of that A rated movie and if he was going to call back and if dad was going to yell and if our siblings were going to tell on us and if teachers knew what the book Fifty Shades of Grey was about and if we would ever make something of ourselves and if we would get pregnant simply by kissing and if our physics teacher would give us those 2 grace marks so we could pass the final and if it would rain heavy enough so that school would remain closed that day and if mom and dad would allow us to go on that school trip and if we would get to be on the same bus as our crush and if we would make in time to the canteen before all the samosas got over and if our art teacher would be okay with us deviating from the theme and if we would get enough friendship day rings and if we had enough bands for everyone and if we would defeat blue house on sports day and if our school was haunted and if we would be in the same division next year despite the shuffling and if we would remain friends and if and if and if. Trust me I would go back in a heart beat. Despite the bullying and despite the embarrassment and despite the lack of control and money and despite the borderline depression. I'd go back because whatever the fuck this is, this adulting, it's unbearable.

[kippipies]

What are your favorite tomarry fics?

hahaha oh boy, what a question. i feel like there's so much talent in this fandom that i could just sit here and list fics for hours and I wouldn't even be scratching the surface of everything amazing out there. But I'll just try and list some of my faves off the top of my head....

What He Grows to Be and And the Living Will Envy the Dead by Severus_Divides_into_H

Of Your Making and When the Phoenix Cries by Purplewitch156

Mind Magic and Blood Magic by Snickerdoodlepop

Dead Leaves on a Wet October Day by trello

Hauntingly and No Glory by ObsidianPen

draw me after you (let us run) and love is touching souls (surely you touched mine) by ToAStranger

Of Kings, of Pawns, and of Men by Mads999

Too old to be this young by Nadia_castillo

Lover's Spit by Amelinda, k3u

Tender Reigns Our Night by noumena

Eat Your Heart Out by evaleon70

My Name is Tom by VanillaGhost

Literally everything by Mosiva lol, but my personal favorite is The Way to a Man's Heart

Also everything by Ailora hahaha, but my personal favorite is Inventing Paradoxes

[kidovna]

I’m so tired of AI, and I’ve been yelling to the void about why people should be commissioning artists. In the spirit of anti AI/pro comms, what are your favourite commissions that you have worked on in the past and what was it that made them special or fun (commercial/non commercial) I’m absolutely obsessed with your stuff btw!

Oh thank you! And fun question! My top three will probably be the book covers I illustrated:

I’m working on two more right now and I’m pretty sure they’ll be up there as well!

These are some of my other favourites:

In order: Bharatanatyam dancer inspired spider-woman India, Alex and Henry for @orchidscript, Luke and Duncan for Isabella Renee’s book I Vote You Mr. Mayor, nanirimo’s OCs Niya and Marin, and heaventide_’s OCs Jonathan and Seph!

Also I’ve never posted any of these, but I think I have to give special mention to how many finn wolfhard cinematic universe commissions I’ve done 😂

Left to right: Richie and Eddie from IT, Boris and Theo from The Goldfinch, and Chris and Shannon from Finn’s directorial debut Hell Of A Summer!

I feel like this is the perfect time for me to plug that my commissions are now open again! 👀

[barzyhughes]

happy marchy 1k day and tyler seguin returns to boston day to all who celebrate

[twinliches]

I wanna hear your top 5 bullshit philosophers! (Dropped out of my german philosophy graduate degree a few years back myself. Minima Moralia even was in the toilet book pile in my previous flat)

oh, with certain pleasure. please keep in mind that i don't think that these philosophers are bullshitting, neither am i making any judgement on their merit as philosophers - these are simply my most quoted philosophers, and when i invoke their name in casual conversation to deal psychic damage to my friends, i certainly am bullshitting. now you can also do the same to your friends and hit them with austrian philosopher ludwig wittgenstein because they burned the pizza! so here are, in no particular order:

5 quotable philoposphy texts to invoke in casual conversation

On Certainty, by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984) - link to text

to be able to say "my god, Wittgenstein was right. there are no certainties" every time something new and excitingly terrifying happens on the news or when the bus doesn't come

Theodicy by Freiherr von Gottfried Leibniz (1710) - link to pdf

to be able to say "no Leibniz was right, this is the best of all possible worlds" to absolutely derail any conversation about god being real or when you are eating a really good cookie

Economy and Society, by Max Weber (1921) - link to pdf

to be able to say "weber was right, bureaucracy only serves itself" as a poignant critique about how institutions can prevent progress and also when complaining about the long line at the DMV

Technology of the Self, by Michel Foucault (1982) - link to text

to be able to say "fuck, focault was right, self-optimization is a disease" to discuss the ruse of modern "self-care" in the oppressive context of capitalism and to throw at that one friend who is a bit too much on that grind

The Logic of Scientific Discovery, by Karl Popper (1959), link to pdf

to be able to say "karl popper was right, proven wrong once again!" whenever new exiting science gets published, you admit defeat in a stupid argument that went on too long, or when you see a black swan (let me know!).

and last but not least, honourable mention:

On Jazz, by Theodor W Adorno (1980) - link to pdf

to be able to say "adorno was so wrong, this music goes hard" whenever jazz comes on to remind all your friends that adorno had some truly unhinged takes about jazz of all things. seriously why did he say all that

that's all. don't forget to have fun and be yourself and cite your sources!

[loganslowdown4]

*in an alternate April 13th, 2019*

All Sides: *burst into Janus’ room* SURPRISE!

Janus: AAAAHHHHH WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?? Go away! Leave me alone!

Patton: No Jan, listen, after much deliberation, we decided to take Thomas to the callback today after all!

Patton: *whispers to Logan* Was that the right word?

Logan: *nods*

Janus: What? Really? Are you all serious??

Patton: Yep! Let’s just get in the car and go!

*they all pile in and drive to Burger King*

All: SURPRISE!

Janus: Ok, what the hell is this?

Logan: *ahem* Patton wanted to have a little dinner for you here as a surprise. In appreciation for you trying to protect Thomas as we all do. He also thought you’d appreciate the deception, as that’s your, um, ‘thing’—

Janus: I see. *to Patton* Thank you. You lying successfully is actually a huge gift to me. *grins* It must have been very hard for you to say all that—

Patton: It was! But it’s no lie that we love and appreciate you!

Janus: And to you that meant treating me to… Burger King?

Patton: Only the best for our pal!

Janus: Uh huh. Well, not that I don’t appreciate this but… weren’t we supposed to go to the wedding this evening?

Logan:

Roman:

Virgil:

Remus:

Patton: Oh… shit.

Janus: *grins* Even better gift than surprise burgers. Profanity from Patton.

[princesslizzyfnafton]

Hey shorty.

- @calico-sam

Who- *static* -you? *static* Help- *static* - get Gwen- *static*

[birb-tangleblog]

I'm seeing the 'happy anniversary' posts roll in, and fans lamenting the show's writing shortfalls in retrospect-

And if you weren't in the fandom when the show was airing and only watched it after it ended, I really can't understate how optimistic the fandom was at the time?

If you go back and look through the old bingo sheets, you can see a snapshot of what the prevailing theories/predictions were and what fans expected. (I have tags on both this blog and my art blog, #tts bingo, but I wasn't able to RB all of them- digging through '#tangled the series bingo' in the search will pull up more.)

People were eagerly looking forward to returning characters (the Brotherhood, ZT's disciples) in nearly every tentpole episode, rematches and fights, flashbacks, cameos, for Cass to redeem herself by the midpoint of season 3 so ZT could step up as the big bad- so many interactions and plot threads that never resolved to anything.

I think a lot of this is the product of a normal airing schedule with (mostly) weekly episodes and long hiatuses, but it also speaks to the show's potential and how frustrating the lack of follow through on the setup of seasons 1 and 2 was.

Special shoutouts to:

Fierce debate on if Cass or Adira would be the traitor in 'Destinies Collide'.

Adira and Hector working together to get the moonstone back after dedicating their lives to protecting the world from it. (nope)

Fans thinking that Quirin would appear and have a role in the episode where Varian gets kidnapped. (no)

Surely Cap will show up after 'Islands Apart', or share a heart to heart with Cass in the finale. (F)

Cass rejoining the main group and redeeming herself any episode now... annnyyyy episode now.....

[red-rabbit-nick]

Hey kiddo I brought some snacks do you want some?

Oh sure! Do you have any butterfingers?

[metamorphesque]

Why is Bruce Lee a questionable crush?…

questionable was my devotion which led an eleven-year-old girl to abandon her years of dance practice and take up martial arts.

[yardsards]

writers who are like "we have to subvert all expectations or else the story is too predictable and not marketable or whatever" are extra silly to me because like. have you SEEN how excited fandoms get when a popular fan theory is confirmed canon?

i'm currently thinking about the adventure zone fandom with the "taako has a twin" theory. i wasn't super active in the fandom at the time (iirc i started listening around suffering game or maybe 11th hour and had just recently caught up) but i remember when it was just a popular fan theory alongside "angus is a dragon" type theories. and just how excited everyone got when not only was the theory confirmed, but she got officially introduced and was an amazing character from the get-go

this has happened with other fandoms i've been in, too. like steven universe with the "garnet is a fusion" and "rose quartz is pink diamond" theories, or the owl house with the "emperor belos is phillip wittebane" and "hunter is a grimwalker" theories

fans love when their hard work analyzing stuff pays off

[nsewell]

actually yeah i'll put this here hello kotor 2 community. you know what this is about

Sensations seep sluggishly in and out of Atton’s awareness, like waking up to the cold sting of a duracrete floor pressed against his cheek after coming off a bender. The metallic taste of blood in his mouth. The blistering rake of Sion’s saber across his skin. Skull cracked against a stone pillar with his guts spilling out into his hands, and the only thought on his mind was that if the sith was here wailing on him, at least that meant he was far enough away from her. The agony has subsided now and all he’s left with is a numb, sunken state. Probably because he’s crossed the threshold of his tolerance for pain and is beginning to slip consciousness. It’s dark here, suspending.  Must be dying, he thinks, and it’s a resigned sort of observation, too foggy and lethargic to do anything about it, so all that’s left to do is give in. The part of him that riots against death, the part that gnashes teeth and claws his way back whenever he drops in battle has him mustering for a second wind. Get back up, Jaq. She still needs you, get back up. But the severity of his wounds wills out. And death has hounded him for so long he thinks it’s time he let it claim him . living had gotten stale and he was tired. Tired of all the war, all the killing, all the running. Now he’s weightless and none of that matters. Now he’s inconsequential. He can’t move or see. Can’t feel much of anything at all save for the heartbeat drumming against his chest, losing its rhythm, stuttering, faltering. He counts it like he counts the ticks in the power coils, to distract his mind from the inevitable.  And then, the sound of her voice.  The panic in her inflection calling for a stem to the bleeding, the shape of her words cutting through near oblivion. There’s the familiar oscillation of her energy, distant, at the edge of his perception like a long forgotten memory. She pulls him back from the edge and he thinks his body is being leveraged by someone, pressure at his chest, then his head. He tries to muster her name, a sound, verbalize anything. But his mouth chokes uselessly around a mouthful of blood and his thoughts are too muddled to project through the force. Instead , he uses his last vestige of energy to bat at empty air until his hand finds her arm. Fingers slip against her skin, wet and raw and red, and he gains purchase enough to circle her wrist. Holds tight with a white knuckle grip unassuming for a dying man, but he needs the assurance that she’s here. Solidly, tangibly here and alive. He grips until the siren call of his heavy lids is too strong to resist and then sinks away without much care if he wakes up again or not. So long as she survives, it doesn’t matter if he does.

[spunkyspy]

Sue you will never be her

[organchordsandlightning]

Blorbo Wrapped 2024

Tagged by the illustrious @dathen! This was a fun trip down memory lane: scrolled through my Tumblr and my AO3 to remind myself what characters took ahold of my brain throughout the year 😂 Some repeats, some brand new!

Father Mulcahy (MASH)

Hawkeye (MASH)

James Wilson (House, MD)

Gregory House (House, MD)

Brother Mathieu (Pentiment)

Brother Rudeger (Pentiment)

Artemy Burakh (Pathologic)

Daniil Dankovsky (Pathologic)

Zolf Smith (RQG)

Oscar Wilde (RQG)

Chilchuck (Dungeon Meshi)

Stan + Ford Pines (Gravity Falls)

Anya (Mouthwashing)

Curly (Mouthwashing)

Jeremy Knox (All for the Game)

Jean Moreau (All for the Game)

Simon Nealy (The Paleontologist)

Blorbos-in-law: Probably those Arcane dudes I've seen so much of. They don't seem like they're having a very good time. It's quieted down now, but I was also seeing SO much of those nice Baldur's Gate boys.

[plusultraetc]

What’s the old WIP you found?? If you feel like sharing, of course 😊

omg I do feel like sharing :D

The fic was called 'follow your dreams down,' and yes that's a Springsteen lyric, and yes it's "No Surrender," which means that erasermic was somehow involved 😭 It was kind of intended to be an exploration of how Aizawa, Mic, and even Midnight processed Shirakumo's death while they were at UA (which is to say: Very Differently), but oh my gosh what little I wrote is just. Really Sad. Like, here's a snippet but it's a bummer, and even though the fic had a happy-ish ending, obv there's no real 'happy ending' for a story like that.

(I have a habit of accidentally abandoning wips that get too heavy just because I always end up choosing to work on more lighthearted stories instead (for example, the semi-anonymous Star Wars au has a sequel, but it's unfinished because it was Sad. For some reason Present Mic can never have a good time in my sci fi aus??) In this case, I think another UA-era fic took over for 'follow your dreams down' because it's way happier and therefore less emotionally taxing to work on lol. Shirakumo gets me every single time. I cried about him like two days ago because I was flipping through Vigilantes to check a tiny detail. EVERY TIME.)