#watch out cause theyre like evil and stuff

[wowzersreal]

One Jamlar... Two Jamlar... uh oh.. 😕 Jamlar! Lost All The Jamlars. Jam..LAr! 😬😪

[xxplastic-cubexx]

something about first impressions idk

bonus:

[uhhlifeig]

Snow - Dec. 15th - word count: 472 - @wolfstarmicrofic

Five little bundled-up figures were playing in the snow-covered backyard as their parents looked on in amusement.

“Catch this, Pete!” five-year-old James Potter yelled as loud as his little lungs would let him. He scooped up a handful of snow and hurled it at Peter.

Peter ducked. “Hey!” he pouted. “I wasn’t ready! That’s not fair!”

James stuck out his tongue. “I don’t care.”

“Readiness is for losers,” Sirius yelled from where he was laying in the snow while attempting to teach Remus how to make snow angels. “Join Remus and me here, it’s fun.”

“Oh! Siri, Remmy, Jame,” Peter said. “We should all get married!”

“Why?” Sirius asked, sitting up and tilting his head like a dog. 

“Because it’s already all white and pretty outside, dummy!” Peter exclaimed as if it were obvious. “And because we’re never gonna leave each other. Right?”

“Right!” James agreed, nodding eagerly. “Let’s get married! No kissing, though. That’s yucky.”

“Remmy, we should get married first!” Sirius shrieked, getting up and tackling Remus. “‘Cause that way we’ll be together forever and no one else can have you b’cause I’ve already dibsed you!”

“Mhmm, okay,” Remus nodded mock-gravely, shrugging Sirius off. “How d’ we get married?”

“Well, Maman says that her and Papa said some lovey stuff and kissed but we’re not kissing ‘cause that’s disgusting,” Sirius said, getting up and dusting himself off. “So uh, we can just say lovey stuff then?”

“Sure,” Remus shrugged. “Siri, you’re the greatest friend I could ever ask for-” 

“WAIT!” James yelled. “What about me and Pete? Remmy, you’re- you’re- evil!”

“Shhhh, Remmy is trying to talk here James,” Sirius said, turning around to glare at him. “Be quiet for a sec, okay?”

“Fine,” James harrumphed, crossing his arms and plopping down on the ground, pouting.

“Well, you’re the greatest friend ever, and you’re very smart and cool,” Remus finished. “It’s your turn now, Siri.”

“Remmy, you’re funny and you’re pretty and you smell nice, and you are my bestest friend no matter what,” Sirius grinned. “We’re married now, right?” 

James pouted even harder from where he was sitting, scooping up some snow and packing it into a ball before throwing it at Sirius’s back. 

It landed, and Sirius turned around, hollering, “Snowball fight!” 

“Aren’t they so precious?” Euphemia Potter cooed, watching the exchange from inside the house.

“Yeah, they are. You were right, Effie, leaving the Blacks was probably the best thing I could’ve done for my children,” Walburga admitted, sipping her tea as she watched a four-year-old Regulus run around. “Thank you for knocking some sense into me.”

“No need to thank me. Also, I’m never wrong. On that topic, I think that in fifteen years, give or take a few, Sirius and Remus will get officially married.”

“Oh, definitely. Twenty Galleons says they’ll be engaged at nineteen.”

“Deal."

(does this REALLY count as a wolfstar microfic? theyre literally teeny tots lmao)

[creteevidence]

watched wish a few days ago and was underwhelmed with the execution of the cool ideas they went with so i took it into my own hands

first of all i took the star boy concept and made it real

more under the cutttt

(his pronouns are he/they/star/any btw (self-indulgence))

- they are a shapeshifter, being able to change their form at will. at first, theyre a ball of light/star shape but when they see asha they’re like omgg cool form and use that new humanoid form more often

- the amount of light they give off changes with their emotions/health

- they are mute, communicating through sign language, magic, shapeshifting, or acting things out

in my story asha is a princess like she should’ve been and is the adopted daughter of magnifico and amaya (who are both evil like in the concepts)

the two have somehow connected rosas and the star kingdom and use the star peoples’ magic/life force to power their own magic. asha, being adopted, struggles to use this magic well but feels immense pressure to make her parents proud. the use of this magic by the king and queen (and asha) is slowly killing the star boys kingdom. it killed his parents, causing star to run away (they have a problem with running away from their problems)

he and asha meet at this time after she wishes. her wish was something along the lines of being good at magic finally or being able to help people/fulfill expectations. he IMMIDIATELY falls in love with her lmao. it takes her much longer. either way they start to help her learn magic, both of them unaware that it’s killing him and his kingdom.

they grow very close and in loooveeee hee heeee

at some point asha and him fight, maybe they both find out what ashas magic truly is and star feels betrayed. they run away from her and go to her parents in the castle to try and win them over and be dimplomatic, still not really knowing her parents are the real problem. (it’s at this point he changes his outfit to the one on the far right of the top image as it’s more traditionally accepted in a kingdom like ashas and he wants to make a good impression on her strict parents.)

unfortunately, it doenst matter and he is immediately captured lmao and the king and queen start to drain them of their life force/magic for similar greed reasons to the original movie.

something something asha has to learn the truth of her kingdom, face her parents, and save him idk i’m bad at writing stuff like this on the spot

ALSO the “This is the Thanks I Get” song is no longer magnifico singing to his subjects but both parents to asha basically guilt tripping her into being better and being on their side. aaanddd “At All Costs” is no longer a weird duet with asha and mag but is with asha to star teehee

this isn’t completely thought out or anything but i thought i might as well share it real quick while the iron is hot or something

[insufferableprotagonistpoll]

Round 1

Propaganda why Navier is insufferable:

"Endorses slavery"

"Being cheated on sucks. Yeah. But her anger at Rashta feels so tasteless. Your husband is taking advantage of the desperation of a SLAVE because slavery is legal in your empire, where you do most of the work ruling and making decisions because said husband is useless. You can't allow slavery to be legal and be a good person at the same time, even if you don't degrade said slaves for being enslaved under your rule, which of course Navier does. She treats Rashta's circumstances like theyre a moral failing on her part, and not y'know, horrific. Furthermore she befriends one of Rashta's former abusive masters, and allows her to talk shit about her all the time. Aside from that, she has little personality outside of being "better than Rashta". She's just so good and pure and never ruffled by silly schemes and she gives to charity! (Ignore the legal slavery) And is kind to animals! (Ignore the slavery) And doesn't want bad things to happen to her Empire! (IGNORE)

She's so bland. I can't think of any standout personality traits aside from the obvious classism. She's the human embodiment of the :| emoji."

"Classism. Empress of a place with slavery"

Propaganda why Clary Frey/Fairchild is insufferable:

"Here we go again: She found out she was part of a race that opresses pretty much every magical being ever and immediately jumped onto being as racist as people that were raised in that cultist lifestyle. She calls a man "Warlock" the way people say slurs.

Terrible friend. Poor Simon never gets a break. And she's an even worse girlfriend to him. He is understandably upset when he finds out the person she most wants to kiss isn't him and asks for some space, but no, not on her fucking watch. She won't stay away from his place all of a sudden. Despite never really having time for him prior.

Goes up to a closeted gay man and tells him all smugly she knows about his sexuality and acts like he's the problem for not owning it. He lives in a homophobic society where violent punishment and exile is normal.

Speaking of exile, almost gets a woman that was nice to her exiled so she can break the law.

Demands aforementioned warlock do necromancy and when he tells her about his trauma, she throws a tantrum. She never apologises. That and, she and her friend always go to him for their problems, and are never grateful when he helps.

Has the ability to wish for one thing only once ever, wishes for a shitty man to come back to life.

The incest thing. She wanted to fuck a man while thinking they were fully biologically related. Yeah. And technically they're still adoptive siblings. True love.

Her cringe evil arc.

Apparently she's worse in the books. Great to hear."

"I don’t remember much from the books but she was kind of annoying"

"She finds out about a magical world she's been unaware of her whole life and it takes her five seconds to jump onto the fantasy racism train. Constantly demands people do dangerous stuff for her. Causes so many problems and when someone points out that she's going to hurt someone they're treated like they're an asshole. Walks up to a closeted man like "I know what you are". Is a terrible friend to her childhood 'bestie'. Falls in love with her brother, one the worst men alive."

"Worst case of Main Character Syndrome you'll ever see."

[bunnygirl678]

I must know your silver and gold head cannons!! Spe and game verse 👀

Oh man you’ve just activated my trap card, I’ll try not to type your ear off (see what I did there) I have a ton so this is just a sampling

Let’s organize a bit (also I know you put gold/silver but I’m adding Gio cause I love him and I love to explore their relationships)

Games:

-gold is the sweetest and most naive little cutie, silver is a spoiled brat who pretends to hate his daddy but really misses him,

-Gio had to leave silver because gio’s enemies were going after him and he’d rather have silver hate him and be alive than have had him come along only to not make it out alive

-gold is a history nerd who loves dragging silver to every museum where he has to read every placard, when they explore a new region together gold takes multiple history lessons and reads a ton of books before, silver puts up with it because he loves him but he hates school type stuff, even as an adult

-Gio is also a history nerd (think your uncle who always has a historical documentary going in the background), once silver forgives him, he often pawns gold off to his dad so they can watch whatever boring historical education show they find

-gold eventually gives up his title for silver, he knows silver wants to be reunited with his father, and he really isn’t too worried about good versus evil, his focus is silver

-gold runs every morning, silver has gone once and never went again (although he does like looking at gold’s ass in those cute running shorts)

-gold comes from an impoverished or lower middle class background, silver is used to having maids, even after roughing it for those years, silver easily falls back into his old lifestyle, gold is always a bit more uncomfortable, he’s always extra polite to the staff (it makes up for silver who is just always an ass)

-gold confesses first (obviously this depends on the au) but after that silver takes the lead in the relationship

-silver has a tendency to be overprotective of gold, gets jealous easily, has gotten into plenty of fights cause some guy was walking too close to gold, gold is super naive and can’t tell when someone is flirting and he’s so friendly they read it as flirting

-gold is… extremely kinky, he is a natural sub, definitely pushes silver to try/do things he’s not super comfortable with, but silver can’t help but indulge him

-gold stops battling shortly after they get married (or even before) not just his title, but he’s not really interested in training, he keeps his team of course but they’re more like pampered pets than elite fighters

-silver didn’t really want kids but gold (and Gio) talked him into having an heir, silver is wrapped around the little finger the first moment he holds the baby, he is much softer with the kids/gold than he is anyone else, they only have 1 maybe 2 kids, he stays a dick his whole life lol

Manga:

-ufhhh they’re such sun and moon characters, hot and cold, but really it’s opposite what they look like on the outside

-silver is the only person gold feels comfortable enough to relax around and not have to put on a fake machismo act (it takes a bit but he gets there), he’s actually rather maternal (come on he’s the hatcher!!), enjoys tending to the home, wants to raise kids, loves cooking/baking

-which brings me to one of my favorite and I need to write this more into my fics but gold is the reason silver gets healthy. Gold saw his too skinny bff and knew he needed to learn how to cook to help him beef up (especially after learning who silvers father is, Gio is a man’s man)

-Gio feels incredibly grateful to gold (and his mom depending on the au) for taking care of silver, he also finds that gold somewhat resembles a younger version of himself (headstrong, passionate, loves silver)

-Gio uses gold to get in silvers good graces

-silver has a lot of scaring all over his body (hence the gloves/jacket/pants, even in the summer) he hates them and thinks theyre ugly, gold kisses them daily, puts special lotion on them, tells silver how handsome he is, how they’re a reminder that he’s strong and can survive

-gold has problems with his self esteem, he throws himself headfirst into danger, willing to die for other enough that it seems he has a death wish, and silvers the first person to ever pick up on it and actively work on helping gold overcome it (I have a fic where golds gonna get punished but instead of spankings it’s writing a list of all the things he likes about himself)

-silver wants a huge family, gold does too, tons of pets, lots of kids, they don’t care if it’s in a shack or a mansion as long as they’re together, they end up having at least 4 kids, gold is a fertility king so their surrogate does great (or him if it’s omega)

-gold grew up well off, not as rich as Gio but very wealthy, one of the richest families in the small town

-silver is very soft, doesn’t like to hurt anyone, golds morals are a lot more loose. It would be fun to have gold an executive for TR and silver is the prince in name only lol

-they get married ridiculously young (honestly same for both games/manga) even if gay marriage isn’t legal they have a ceremony and to them it’s a full wedding (also sexy if Gio bribes some officials to allow them to get married ridiculously young like too young, idk I love them being freaks)

-they are ostracized by the town for being gay, they become menaces

-gold teaches silver how to relax and have fun, he also works really hard to give silver all of the experiences he missed out on

-the reason gold had such a hard time learning the move from ultima is that he wasn’t sleeping or eating (neither was exbo) because silver was not around (and for exbo, gatr)

-their teams pair off in relationships, they borrow blue’s ditto a few times because certain team members (exbo) get depressed over not having eggs with their chosen mate

-they die moments apart

-gold is bottom boy (manga and games, although I still read top gold, I just only write top silver lol)

-I have some darker hc that I can tell ya in a dm but they’re pretty dark

-gold hides his accent, it comes out when he’s drunk/tired/around other hicks, silver loves his accent and melts when he gets called darlin’

-silver has night terrors due to his childhood abuse (for the record pryce was wayyyy worse to him physically than he was blue), he’s scared about attacking gold on accident when they first sleep together, but to his surprise, he doesn’t have a single nightmare, and when he occasionally does, they fade quickly and gold is always there to hold him and reassure him

-silver is a dork, gold is not, it’s pretty much the honor student and the delinquent jock, if silver had never been kidnapped his only friend would have been his daddy till he met gold, and gold would have never been able to be himself until silver (gold gets into fights a lot too)

-gold is super athletic (not an hc, canon) he has lithe muscles, silver enjoys watching him train for his pokathalons,

-idk i have a ton more but i am sleepy haha

Sorry if these aren’t what you’re looking for!

Happy new year!

[darishima]

puppy your game collection is beautiful i dont know what most of those are except like the disgaeas (because youve explained them before), disco elysium (the occasional meme crosses my dash), roblox, and undertale maybeeeeee you could give me a tour of the others you like and what theyre about and stuff! whats muse dash ouppy that sounds like a rhythm game ^w^

thank you i know its incredible :3c soo here it is again i will go game by game and yap my ouppy little head off im sorry

starting from the left! desmume is a DS emulator that i got to play puyo puyo fever, a fullmetal alchemist ROM and a lucky star ROM and PPSSPP is a PSP emulator i got for uhh. i cant remember which game i specifically installed it for. i think it was puyo puyo fever 2?

roblox is. you know. roblox

my hero one's justice is a demo i downloaded from steam which i have not actually played LMAO i got the demo to see if i wanted to buy the full game but i guess its pointless because i havent bothered to check out the demo

class of 09 and class of 09 re-up (the sequel) are visual novels, hard to explain what theyre about.. basically its all about toxic evil yuri and drug abuse and self harm. its like if needy streamer overload was about coked up high school lesbians

disgaea pc is the second best game ever made

disgaea 2 pc is the number 1 best game ever made. no further explanation necessary

i have not actually played dont starve yet, it was recommended by a friend so i bought it during the steam summer sale for like 2 bucks. from what ive heard, its a survival game, kinda like minecraft if minecraft was way harder and the game hated you

disco elysium is the same, recommended by a friend, i bought it for super cheap during the summer sale, and have not touched it yet LMAO

muse dash is a rhythm game yes and its FUCKIGN INCREDIBLE. AND IM AMAIZNG AT IT. LOOK AT THESE SCORES BONESY ARENT YOU PROUD OF ME

full combo means i hit every note and didnt miss a single one >:3 im genuinely really good at the game not 2 brag,,, and YES you saw that right, hatsune miku and kagamine rin and len are playable characters!! they come with two respective DLCs which also come with a bunch of vocaloid songs and i bought them both <3 these are their sprites in game!

and if you buy it it gives you a bunch of adorable art on the loading screens :3 this isnt even all of them just a few i screenshotted. if i screenrecorded myself killing it in muse dash would you watch the video teehee...

ok back to game yapping. leaf blower revolution is an idle clicker game i got for free on steam, which i got insanely hyperfixated on for three days and played for like 14 hours straight once and then gave up and never touched it again

yume nikki is a little pixelated adventure game where you explore around a girl's weird dreams. the soundtrack is INCREDIBLE especially this song. its transcendental. listen to it while youre high trust me you have to

DDLC requires no explanation i think. its ddlc. you know what it is theres no way you dont

the song of saya (saya no uta) i will be yapping extra about because i LOVE IT. its a horror eroge visual novel about a guy named fuminori who, after a brain surgery, sees the entire world and other people as a disgusting fleshy abomination, whereas everything looks normal to other people. for example this:

is a completely normal hallway. but it looks like that to him. then he meets a girl name saya, who is the only thing in the world that looks normal to him, and he falls in love with her

and i reeeally really dont wanna spoil it cause its really good and i highly recommend you go watch it (theres a full playthrough on youtube) but lets just say saya is Not as normal as she looks.

celeste is a game ive only played a little of, but i love it so far. its a platformer about a trans woman named madeline climbing celeste mountain, and encountering a personification of her self doubt that she has to overcome to get to the top. i lovee the style of the game its so pretty and way easier than i expected it to be, which is great for me because im garbage at every game in the world that isnt muse dash or disgaea

disgaea 4 and disgaea 5 are self explanatory. i ADORE d4, though im not super far into it, but i havent started d5 yet im waiting until i finish d1 and 4

phantom brave is a game set in the same universe as disgaea which crosses over with it, i havent played more than a few minutes of the game but obviously i love it so far cause its similar to disgaea. im waiting to jump fully into it until i finish d1 and d4 though

OFF is an rpg also recommended to me by a friend, i downloaded it online but havent touched it yet 😭 pro at owning games i dont play

omori is also very self explanatory. i downloaded it off my friends steam account and he and i have been playing it together, im not far in but obviously i like it, i knew i would. aubrey is sooo mecore <3 i really need to keep playing it... i should have gotten into omori sooner. actually no i take that back because i think 14 year old me getting into omori would have been so world-ending that it would have shattered my psyche

spore is spore. idk how to describe it. you make a fucked up little creature and you make the fucked up little creature do shit thats the whole game

undertale is also very self explanatory. and boom thats all my games :3 well i also have animal jam classic which didnt fit in the screenshot but theres not much to say about that. other than the fact that i own a super rare nonmember mantis pet and im proud of it. and my den fucks

okay thats more than enough yapping im sorry .. stop asking me questions because i do not know how to shut up. ily though thank you for asking :3c

[mbat]

i really wanted to try and write like, a thing explaining how i think steven universe future is one of the best portrayals (and my personal favorite) of mental illness in media, and how i think people misinterpreted it (me included at first, cause my experience over time has given me new perspectives) but i. AAA i literally dont even know if its necessary cause i dont know if people still think it was bad or a bad way to write steven (it wasnt!!) or like any of that, mostly cause. holy shit its just so obvious to me?

like i watch that show and i relate to him so much that i just understand it all and its so obvious to me and i dont know if other people find it. not obvious. like everything is right there in the text laid out i think

the main thing that i saw get misinterpreted when it aired was the second to last episode where steven turns into a fucking kaiju and everyone, again me included, thought that it felt rushed, but everytime i rewatch it i think... no it wasnt, actually. because we see it expecting a big fight or thinking it needs a whole lot to fix, but it doesnt. its not a fight, its someone having a mental breakdown and thinking theyre purely unlovable and evil, but being made to see that they are still lovable and arent evil even after all the bad theyve done, theyre loved unconditionally, and that other stuff mostly really doesnt matter (and hey, it can be fixed/dealt with later, its fine!)

its just my favorite show ever, specifically future! and i really wish other people would see what i see, but do i even need to try..? i didnt really write it very well anyway, but drafts exist for a reason. idk ive just been thinking about it a lot

TL;DR: i adore steven universe future and im wondering if anyone thinks its even necessary for it to be analyzed for people to maybe better understand it/do you think that there are enough people misunderstanding it that it needs a perspective to maybe help be more understood

[cara-carabowditbowdit]

please tell me more about crowley and aziraphale im Very interested /srs

ok so. this is gonna be a looong post sorry

BASICALLY. aziraphale is an angel, crowley is a demon. theyve known each other for 6,000 years, at the creation of the universe (when crowley was still an angel. he created stars and everything. very nice job) and theyve become great... friends (wink) even though theyre not supposed to be! so theyre not friends! theyre eeeevil enemies. and then they go out for dinner

anyways. idk how to explain it well but theyre just SOOOOO!!

ok so now im going to try and do like. a whole thing explaining everything below so SPOILERS!!!!

okay so. in the beginning aziraphale and crowley were both angels. they met when crowley was making stars and galaxies and all that pretty stuff, and aziraphale came to say that they were going to shut it down after a bit. crowley gets upset and goes whaaaa this is so cool why would they do that (lil thing to note. aziraphale is like. interested in crowley but he doesnt really care) and then they have some really nice scene

d'aww. ok and so THEN! some big war happens i think? i dont know they dont show that part and crowley falls. demon moment!!! and then they go through all these different decades being friends, getting to know each other, and its great. aziraphale sins a little bit (gluttony), crowley saves aziraphales books, and they all have fun. oh btw. crowley can transform into a snake, and apparently hes the one that caused adam and eve to eat the apple? BUT! theres this other great scene where theyre talking, and its revealed that aziraphale gave his flaming sword to adam and eve, showing that he loves humans and has a soft spot for them, and theres this other great shot

THE PARALLELS!!!!!!!!! AUUUGh (^ this one came before. btw) and so this is sort of them showing how ohh, theyre not supposed to hang out because angel good demon evil waaah but they just KEEP ON FINDING EACH OTHER. oh and. speaking of like. showing off different softer sides of them. in season 2, theres a lot of bits where they show that crowley is pretty much putting up this show of being so meaaan and eeevil but hes actually nice and cares about humans (bringing jobs kids back, keeping that girl from dying, etc). ok now onto talking about season one. warning i havent watched this season in a bit so this is just me going off memory.

ok so! the big issue this season is "oh noooo we lost the antichrist!! big bad things gonna happen" and its awesome. OK SO. it starts off with crowley delivering the antichrist to this satanist church? and theres two women having babies that night. ONE is a normal family, who are supposed to have a normal baby. THE OTHER ONE is a rich family who is supposed to have the EEEVIL baby. can u guess what happens. BABY SWITCH!!! they didnt realize it tho so crowley and aziraphale are sent after the wrong baby. (to make him sin/be good) and then they realize on his 11th? birthday "aw crud! wrong baby." and go on some search to find the right antichrist. and that brings us to ADAM!!! hes the antichrist, and one coooooool kid. hes pretty normal tho and just hangs out with his friends. and then one day on his 11th birthday this dog shows up! (hellhound) and then off on the side theres this witch lady named anathema device who has a book that knows the future. crazy stuff. oh and this guy names newt whos kinda a dork and talks to this weird witch hunter guy shadwell and his neighbor madame tracy. oh and the four horseman of the apocalypse are around and free OKAY. into it now. anthma knows something bad is going to happen (book), and she moves to london because thats where its gonna happen!! whaaaat!!! and newt moves to london because uhh. witch finder i think? and he goes to meet shadwell and accidently meets tracy. not important rn. shadwells kinda bonkers and freaks newt out. ok now onto anathema. im pretty sure that aziraphale and crowley were driving around (oh btw. he has a magic bentley) and hit her!! yeoch. and after driving her home she accidentally leaves her book in the bentley and aww they gotta meet up again aw shucks. okay now they go searching for adam (antichrist) and i dont think they find him? anyways i forgot how but then tracy shadwell newt and anathema all meet up with crowley and aziraphale and do a seance. i forgot what about but ohh nooo aziraphale is in madame tracys body!!! ok so i kinda forgot how again but somehow theyre all at some big area and the four horsemen and running around i forgot what theyre doing and BLAM ADAM SHOWS UP hes mad. hes trapped his friends into doing what he wants. hes gonna start the apocalypse. average 11 yr old stuff. BUT!!! crowley and aziraphale manage to calm him down and newt blows something up. idk whats going on anymore. satan comes out, "grrrah im ur father adam". its a nice lovely moment. but oh wait!!! gabriel (heavens big man) and beezelbub (hells high duke) come down/up and r like "yall r in biiiig trouble! cant be doin all this" and they try to kill both of them. aziraphale in hellfire, crowley in holy water. that scene comes and yoo wait theyre both alive??? this is insane!!!! theyre both MILKING it, bein dramatic and then. at the end. WHAOOOAH THEYRE ACTUALLY THE OTHER ONE?????

and thats the end of season one. okay so i know that this is incredibly long but im not even done. im going to reblog this later with me talking about season two and that should be shorter. OH BTW

thats what everyone looks like ^^

OKAY BYE!!!!!!

[official-saul-goodman]

hi saul - do you mind if i ask you about what sort of stuff/signs in writing tells you when the author is using abuse cheaply? you made a post about it a few days ago, and as a writer and reader i thought id ask so i could watch out for that sort of thing. conversely, do you know any books that you consider to portray abuse well? of course feel free not to answer, thank you for your time anyway

It's a lot, let me tell ya.

thank you for asking, also please excuse my atrocious grammar.

Take these with a grain of salt, but all these are just what i noticed reading cheap books while i was traveling. these books are cheap for a reason, theyre bad, and most likely not representative of good literature. I tend to enjoy mostly mystery books as well as classics, so i dont go about choosing books that are good at depicting home lives of abuse victims consciously, and dont really have any recommendations on books that depict abuse respectfully. i reckon other people will though if you search well enough youll find books written by people who were abused and chose to share thier stories through non fiction or fiction, or find books written respectfully that tackle the concepts of abuse. but what im going to talk about right now is how apparently a lot of authors cant find any good ways to handle abuse as a topic without being immensely disrespectful to multitudes of people- just solely based on my observations from the many many terrible books ive read over the years, mostly shitty thriller novels that exist to shock people crassly.

the most common cheap mentions of abuse that i have commonly seen and read tend to be as such: evil 'crazy' villain was abused as a child which leads to why he's evil, abusers are all people who have personality disorders cause mental illness is 'crazy' and leads to evil people, abused children are 'damaged' and such will do bad things if they become 'crazy' enough, etc. It's always related to some sort of nonsensical pathologising of completely neutral conditions people have, and the demonising of already vulnerable groups of people by showing them as abusers, even though these people are most likely victims of abuse. This is the main sign that the abuse mentioned in a story is most likely being used as a scare mongering tactic against mentally ill people, for nothing but shock value. I find this to be one of the most common, cheap uses of abuse as a topic in (mainly horror and thriller) books.

The second most cheap mention of abuse is this very strange twisting of abusers as people who have he capacity to change, as some sort of optimism porn or something. In my experience and the experience of many others, its insulting that books make it seem like abusers are secretly good people who are just misguided and will change on their own 'once they realise'. Or that they can make up for their behaviour through apologies and actions, because 'actions speak louder than words'. The idea that everything can be forgiven through the power of change or some magical bullshit, incredibly disrespectful to victims of abuse. Abusers are repeat offenders, and rarely are they ever people who just have one form by which they abuse people. Physical abuse comes verbal, and emotional. but most people only focus on the physical and verbal, and think that if someone shows abusers the 'right way' they'll simply learn their wrong ways and change. thats not how it works, you would never abuse someone if you were secretcly a good person. theres a fundamental flaw in giving the benefit of the doubt to people who have done immeasurable damage to their victims, theres nothing to achieve when you dont have more empathy and compassion for the victims and their pain.

A lot of abusers were abused themselves as kids, and so choose to continue the cycle of abuse, but this cannot be used to create a form of 'oh they were so hurt and they dont know any better' type of image. because they do know better, but they dont think theyre being abusive, cause they think they have the right to behave the way they do. You can address what led people to be the way they are without absolving them of their behaviour in fiction. in the end theyre all characters but the least you can do to people who were abused by people like these characters in a similar fashion is to not write abusers like they are not responsible for their actions, jsut because they went through the same thing in the past. theres no valid reason to be an abuser, and there never will be.

the worst of all is obviously with those 50 shades type romance thriller novels that romanticise misogyny and abuse, we all know about this, some new romance novel or the other with 'spicy' scenes becomes popular every few weeks on tiktok, ahem hem for example The Wives by Tarryn Fisher. terrible book, its so fucking terrible, its downright evil.

for writing tips on accurately and thoughtfully depicting abuse, you have to actually read or listen multiple people who have shared their experience with abuse. Be intelligent with how you use resources available, and dont fall into the trap of following easy but damaging tropes to shock readers.

[ctorres74]

oh dw! I am, actually a different Asker than th one who first asked Abt the mod ,uh!

blogs creation would be super useful but I know that is a lot so I'm ok with lik!! just kinda knowing anything y'know? I watch the silly little guys like an ant farm

{ SORRY i didnt respond to this earlier ^o^"....... turns out trying to condense nearly an entire year worth of lore into something people can actually comprehend is kinda time consuming whoda thunk it . this isnt an insult to you btw this is my laughing at myself for thinking i could get this done in a day LOL }

{ ANYWAYS i do have an old google doc where i tried to compile all cesars lore (i didnt even get halfway...) so maybe i'll dust that off before making it public . but i CAN explain why they are the way he is now !!! }

{ uh essentially he got slowly turned into an alternate beecause of a program put into place by their moderator (the reason why is kinda a long story) that was put into effect all the way back in december . it was only supposed to last 11 weeks, but because a core function of the program, who you may know as cesar's evil shadow self named violet, was missing (wilt split away from cesar because the reason it was created was to fucking kill everyone and it felt like they couldnt do that effectively while stuck in cesar's body). }

{ so the program was put on halt for like . months . blah blah blah stuff happened and then on april 23rd vi rejoined cesar's body after like 3 people tried to kick wilts ass simultaneously . now the program continues as normal and things kinda kick into overdrive because cesar had been resisting the mental changes the program caused as long as they could and . long story short it caught up to him . and they spent quite a while screaming in agony because the program finished and it had to forcefully remove any humanity cesar had left. and turns out that really hurts ! anyways so now he's full alt whos a little deranged from being in constant agony for over a week and a half but theyre . getting better ? sort of??? hes trying to relearn theyr humanity a bit but its not particularly working lol .......... or is it }

[doomednarrative]

hey i’m trying to get into resident evil, how do you think i should start? should i start the games then the movies, or the other way around. should i watch the movies at all?

I would recomend the games first always. The Milla Jovovich movies don't actually tie into the games at all, only the animated ones and "Welcome To Raccoon City" do specifically. But the animated movies take place in between events from the games and generally are much more enjoyable if you have the game context in mind.

RE 0-8 are the mainline games as it stands right now. Personally, I've played 2 remake, 3 remake and 4 (remake and original,) 6, and I'm working on playing 0 as well. (I will get around to playing 1 I promise I'm just very slow.)

If you want my advice as far as play order/what you should do, I'd say play/watch a playthru of 1 remake, 2 remake, original 3 and 3 remake, and original 4 and 4 remake (theyre very similar but different enough that playing both is required if you ask me.)

I personally havent played and will not play 5 at this time, I have a lot of issues with parts of the plot and how it was done and I don't like How it plays either from a gameplay perspective. I might watch a playthru of it eventually but I won't play it myself.

6 I would recomend playing, I'm notoriously the guy who loves 6 and finds it fun to play, but most folks will tell you its more fun to play co op specifically for that one.

7 and 8 are kinda their own stories but they Do connect back thru the lore to the original games so play the others Before you touch those.

As far as the animated movies go:

- Degeneration takes place sometime after the events of re4

- Damnation is about a year before re6

- Vendetta is a year after re6

- and the newest one coming out in july, Death Island, will take place a year after Vendetta.

Thats just my advice personally, but I'm opening the floor for my mutuals to add onto this for you too for their own advice in what to do cause I'm sure I forgot some stuff here. If they add to this post I'll reblog it for you later~

[wrestlezon]

aew rampage 2/3/23 liveblog containment zone

oh yeah remember when i did these. i needed to contain my takes.

[the elite vs ethan page's crew]

i like ethan page. i do think its funny hes taking the role of over-the-top goofy extreme heel guy. mjf can't do that stuff anymore because hes too important now.

[promo time]

ok this stock footage bit was pretty funny. i dont like jay lethal and his crew but theyre being goofy which means the best friends can be goofy back. i'll take it

i also liked seeing my favorite guys in HD. please continue to put them on tv where i can see them and i will overlook how their feuds have not been very not juicy or riveting lately

[swerve vs pillman jr]

um lmao

anyway... swerve had a really cool thing going with keith lee. now that that's done, he has uh. a less cool thing going on. his henchmen are extremely uncool. his logo is uncool. the name of his group is uncool. normally this would be an instant death KO for anyone else. but swerve has so much surplus of cool and stylish he is keeping his head out of the water. somehow

[the house of black are being spooky]

speaking of cool: eddie kingston is cool. i support all of eddie's rights and also his wrongs. that being said what is house of black doing. oh they just wanted to cause trouble. well i can respect that actually LMAO keep up the good work (unironic statement) catholic detected. lets make him commit sins

[toni storm and saraya vs the rebel twins]

toni has been... extremely bronze lately. but i guess the contrast between her and saraya is pretty funny. i dont like their angle or the fact theyre evil now though. :/ the entire women's division is heels! come on!!! we're full up on heels. no more heels. the non heel portion is like, what. shida riho willow nightingale and ruby soho?? where is my whimsy spraypaint... yeah like-- see!! it looks like theyre being all soft about being evil heels too! they went so far out of their way not to spraypaint over the rebel twins' ring gear, it kinda made it hard to tell they were trying to mark them as losers...?

[christopher daniels vs rush]

i havent been watching team rush's matches because i dont like their lucha unmasking gimmick but preston's ragged mask scarf is, like, and interesting way of going about calling to that. wheres da ref... oh hes having a pleasant conversation in the far corner while daniels is getting destroyed by Lime Cable lol i wonder if thats prop money. thinking about someone in the front row reaching over and nabbing one im pretending preston hitting daniels with a wad of cash is a callback to dark order paper slaps

[expfcultragreen]

The main langley 711 closed but its whatever because they stopped making mojos and switched to shitty old wedges a few months back 😩

I actually sort of applaud whoever pulled the plug on forcing people to staff it, they were constantly being harassed by bitchy methheads

Which, no offense to methheads in general but, you know the problem people suck all the fun out of everything

That was a neighborhood 24 hour resource that kept getting shittier and is gone now, for brand integrity reasons i would guess

Like, it was rare there werent people camped out outside on the 711 lot or actively overdosing on the premises with firetrucks onsite, and most any night there were multiple active drug deals/a shooting gallery situation in the parking lot or by the dumpsters, plus whatever was happening inside with someone wanting/needing some kind of leeway and being stymied by capitalism etc

Its unclear why this sometimes happens to 711 other than, the people working there tend to be polite about it because theyre not highly regarded by the society that demands 711 either, and the people who go there habitually/camp out there, tend to focus on places that are open 24 hours because they cant go to dry shelters etc

So these businesses are often put in the position of operating in a capacity its not legal for them to operate in, (or else, making enemies in the local transient-and-wacky demographic thats attracted to certain locations for largely geographic reasons)....in order to pick up the slack left by these religiously affiliated anti-drug places that would rather people die than be housed while high

...on the topic of the transient-and-wacky demographic, if you want good advice about being cool with these people, you have to imagine that basically everyone theyve dealt with lately other than other homeless people, are essentially a faceless mass of judgemental calvinist douchbags who never cared about their wellbeing as fellow humans and demonstrably have evil/purely selfish values revolving around profit and a pyramid of enslavement and dont understand true humanism/fraternity/sorority/[any religion name here]/whatever, and every time you enforce some little procedure of whatever bureaucracy your workplace has, thats you assigning yourself evil

....which is exhausting on a long enough timeline even for people who get it, but also, are not social workers but ARE at work

But maybe we should all be taught social work skills instead of like, trig

Some of this stuff is easy for me because ive always been seeing evidence of a reciprocal balancing mechinism to linear reality (karma) ever since i started watching for it as a kid.....so im like, workplace protocol isnt as important as how i myself would want to be treated should i end up in their shoes...(never bought the myth that its personal failings that cause desperate circumstances, always saw how often people socially mob up and destroy the futures of people for petty reasons, could be anyone....cast out)

A big part of the problem is domestication; they dont know how to medicate their trauma other than drugs (for reasons; no money for therapy, no trust in therapy etc) BUT they paradoxically have largely-externally-cultivated resentment for everything about being anywhere they can get them (because theyre not remote diy producers, or colleagues of similar....maybe because they have 0 chill), ie the hostile aesthetics and ergonomics of public spaces and mainly, the people who functionally "fit" eg people who can get jobs and are earning money by flexing on them about where they can be, what theyre allowed to do

People who actively enjoy holding themselves above the people who've had the most damaging lives, entirely deserve their disdain.....but also, anyone who is even just avoidant in the wrong way reads as yet-another-one-of-Them....the authoritarians....the teachers, the stepdads, the nuns, the jocks, the librarians, the mallcops, the clerks, etc/whoever, the ones who've always been there to cast you out, poised to do it.....there are of course skids who actually dont have a problem with authority to a compulsive extent and are conventionally pleasant in demeanor, for the record....typically theyve been hurt first/worst by peers. Most skids are not having a good day when you meet them. (This is tongue-in-cheek understatement; my point is that people often hold visibly impoverished people to standards of decorum that only make imaginationland sense, to people who've never been unsheltered for long, never looked like "a vagrant" etc and might tend to take issue with the idea that its not some kind of choice, to just be "difficult" as a lifestyle....i guess for the thrill of risking being beaten to death by nazis for not being at work?)

And yeah at this point theres a counterculture of identification with being so defiant of a corrupt system in its dysfunction that its dysfunctional, like, it renders one unable to function.....imo/ime, thats trauma, when its creating loss of general functionality. We shouldnt be in such a rush to prove we're just as traumatized as anyone else or to valorize their/our own state of painful defiance, in spite of its paradigmatic righteousness, rationality, etc; the issue here is, we're in the unenlightenment when it comes to healing that pain. Some people say the best way forward is violent radical action, blabla, total rev eternal war yaddayadda....i dont think that leads us out of trauma, kids. I think we have to be like, ummm... corny about all this

Could we all just try voting progressive/lib for the gotcha one way or the other, just so everyone who said it wouldn't make a difference can really see if they were telling the truth, instead of tilting it in their own favor by not bothering and risking the kind of con wins we're bound to have a real blowsome time with, theyre like "we'll just use police to assassinate you all in raids and political prisons and blablabla" basically....its like the 1 reason to hate AI, the 1% might be using us to train our replacements

I have no idea what "basic human decency" is supposed to look like, as noted, there are many opposing views...do the 1% have "basic human decency"? Impossible, they havent abolished themselves already

[oswednesday]

okay snap a picture of this

these horny posts take place in a spin off series set when the kid twins are 17 going on 18, like space time peta is like what has happened to bill and the fellow life forms is evil they are the last of their species so its established like a time-space lock zoo that gets attached to the mystery shack and if you Know you Know and you can take your higher being family to gawk at them at the fearrarium, i get hired to watch the store/zoo (unbeknownst to me) because i have a an Alarmingly low Affected By Weird meter like the range of like things without minds range and also i have great tits and im good at sales and have a good eye for when stuff is expensive despite being awful at numbers and i have no ties to anything (plot spoiler) perfect employee-housekeeper the twin kids come to visit earlier than planned to do a surprise party for their grunkles returning from their off season travel, they see that the place is like an abandoned mess like wasnt someone hired for this??? and realize i fell into the fearrarium, they look, assuming theyre going to see a gore show and theyre Riiight but its cause im playing russian roulette with the other henchmaniacs, doing the allotment of their daily party drugs (i was lured in, not getting the lock pad but seeing spaces where it was warn and just getting lucky, but its a one way lock without the proper tools so its like oh =_= because i step in and let it close behind me but im completely and utterly sold like i was persecuted by ALL people and im like thats so sad ACAB ) and dipper has promised mabel that they'd do the party first Then work and dipper relents, after being reminded that, they'd tell other people about that later and get the shack ready for their grunkles and their party this of course is focusing in on themes of the original show but making more sense because mabel isnt an elementary school student--like if you dont take responsibility and brush difficult things off with silliness something something morals

anyway all this to say is a formulaic antics are bill and the crew are trying to escape the fearraium like aquarium squids several running gags are: bill tells me to kill the protagonists and im like b,but theyre just kids! and hes like if you kill them all you'll get to do the second line of space coke off of 8ball's head Aaaaand if you get every headshot you can be the henchmaniac of the month and im like oh boy starts blasting (the joke here is that im Always the henchmaniac of the month, any time another character is in the gallery hall of the enclosure the series of framed images are blurred out and make people turn away, go oh god, retch in their mouths a little bit) the second running Gag is that stan and ford add details how much they fucked up hiring me like stan is like oh yeah they were from a mental hospital hiring program i didnt even have to meet minimum wage haha,,,ford like i thought they were a harmless barely sentient idiot (with a great rack, stan interjects and ford starts to agree and stops himself closing his eyes, sighing, rubbing his eyes behind his glasses) and so on the third most is bill and i get so caught up in larping husband and wife that we forget what we're doing and have to be reminded final bit of tone: close to the end of the spin off series it looks like the pines family have finally Finally convinced me bill is too evil to be with and Bad for me and im pointing a lethal space weapon at him or have some hand on some lever (etc you get the idea) having some kind of sobby wet monologue and hes like "babe cmon" then "babe"(more threateningly and my like we'll stop you and save the world is really hitting its climax when im like-- Just Kidding ^x^ (scampers like faster that they thought i could move back over to bill, turning the weapon around and undoes whatever bindings through sheer dumb luck) like oh my god could you even imagine

[homophyte]

watched the first two mad max movies for the first time knowing very little abt mad max and most of it from homages to it or from stuff abt fury road and like. man those movies r just stunningly reactionary huh?

like the classic joke about the inexplicable fetish gear is very much...part of the point the movie is making? like, in the first movie its allowed for the cops because their fetish gear is that of authoritative control, which the movie likes and thinks is right, and its allowed for the...idk what to call them the 'outsiders' basically because theyre meant to be deviant queer 'others' who pose a danger to society and particularly to the sexual purity of white women through their otherness. the police (and particularly max) are permitted nay obligated to exercise violence against these people because its purportedly the only way to maintain order (read: aforementioned sexual purity), which is the only thing that matters, explicitly and textually rooting for extrajudicial police violence and police brutality because the justice system is simply too lenient on these 'others' in a way i would argue is deeply fascistic!

this is even more pronounced in the second movie because you have even more fetishy and explicitly queer and explicitly dangerous outsiders juxtaposed with a microcosm of civil society in all light colored fabrics who are explicitly identified as 'clean' (through a pretty pure white blonde woman no less) that need noted cop max to lead them to paradise where they can reestablish civilized society as it 'should be' through again killing these deviant queer others. that the second movie frames this around gasoline is like...i dont even know what i just know its extremely bleak and reeks of idolizing american empire. community of 'clean' white people with a leadership hierarchy who just want to get down to 'breeding' and are deputized to be the ones to do this through the power of gasoline which essentially acts as god or the natural order, they are the chosen people (chosen by gas) and have been given access to the power (gas), and there are roving gangs of inherently evil people (you know this cause theyre queer) Out in the Wilderness who want to steal the divine right (gas) from them and cannot be allowed to because of their deviancy.

and thats not even speaking to the body fascism of the first movie and how horrifically it treats disability and impairment. the immediate dehumanization of a burn victim ('he' becomes an 'it') and how max's wife becoming an amputee (and losing her child) is treated as equivalent to her death both speak to placing such value on the 'intact' abled white body. all of that is wrapped up in the white women of the story i think and particularly how sexual violations of their bodies and their purity serve to dehumanize them: they have ceased to be 'intact' abled white bodies and have been corrupted by the others and are thus not really human or not really alive.

the only thing im surprised isnt in here is like, horrific horrific racism because every trope of the barbarous outsider inherently unable to be a part of civil society is deeply raced and in fact a tool of racializtion. probably the only reason its absent is because the movies are above all just, totalizingly white. and even then theres this whole focus on how society has been denigrated by these outsiders which has 'lowered' white people to a shameful state. you get this with the gyro man (who lifts himself up by the end of the second movie by joining society (because he wants sexual access to 'clean' white girls)) as well as the 'feral child' who i will note uses a boomerang, a weapon notably invented by aboriginal australians. theres some race science history here about how 'aborigines' are the 'least evolved' populations of humans so theres a real reading of the 'feral child' being 'feral' because white people and his whiteness in particular have been denigrated causing him to 'revert' to a less evolved state; he and his whiteness are saved by noted cop max leading their community to reestablish civil society. that the feral child is at the end of the movie revealed to the narrator shows that his feralness was tamed out of him and he became (or evolved into) a good white civil subject. bleak!

anyway yeah theyre not very good movies. just, distractingly reactionary and i wanted to write abt it