#we're never escaping

[i-will-physically-fight-you]

Happy almost 3 years to this post, friendly reminder the SaSi canon is still ostensibly in April 2019

Say what you will of Sanders Sides, but I love the fact that the show followed a coherent timeline that was aligned with our irl timeline up until April 2019 and now it’s been ambiguously stuck in April 2019 for like three years now

[abyssalzones]

not just saying this lightly but gravity falls has maybe the most catholic fanbase I've ever seen. every complex discussion about ford pines needs "Not to excuse his Horrible Actions or anything" appended to it like he killed someone. and then you watch the show/read the books and he committed the cardinal sins of Being Lied To and Going To College. which makes sense I guess because half of the people into the show back in the day couldn't even handle mabel pines

[sleep-nurse]

hey, everyone. thanks for the support. i figured i might briefly explain my situation, although there's way more layers into this, the post would be way too long if i explained everything though

yesterday, after days of family troubles (or years, rather), me, my brother and my mom found out my dad died of suicide and left us with no money. we are all honestly shocked and my mom has to now find a job to survive, may i also add how she actually studied in university in russia and has all the shit to get a good job, she just doesn't have a citizenship because our dad didn't ever give a shit about giving her one in 20 years, so she has trouble finding jobs.

if you want to help in some way, my brother is taking comms and he draws dinosaurs and stuff alike, i might consider opening them too if i figure out stuff but i already stress myself with drawing for free

in the meantime i probably won't be as active as i was. i read all your messages and asks, i just really need some time to recover. thank you and i'm sorry for making you worry

[gaffney]

I get that you’re not happy about Robby losing the tournament, but what do you think about the leak that Johnny retakes Cobra Kai? It feels like it completely undercuts his growth.

i fully agree, because it does 😭 he finally broke away from all the toxicity and abuse tied to kreese and cobra kai, and now he’s just walking right back into it. like, i would’ve much rather they lose with miyagi-do and have johnny actually accept it. find some peace in realizing it’s ok to lose and that it won’t destroy his life this time, because he's got his sons by his side, a newborn baby girl, a beautiful girlfriend, his old nemesis-turned-idk-frenemy & the rest of his team and students. but nope, instead they’re pushing that storyline onto robby again (for the third time.. 🙃 it is NOT robby who needs to learn that lesson) it’s hella frustrating because the show had the perfect opportunity to tell a story about how there's power in moving on, about letting go of something that’s fucked you up for decades. but instead, they’re going with the tired old narrative that you can’t escape your past. you HAVE to go back and let it define you, because apparently, you’ll never succeed without it. even if johnny decides to close down cobra kai after the sekai taikai, it doesn’t undo the message that he needed it to win. that he couldn’t move forward without crawling back to the thing that caused him and others so much pain. it’s just such a garbage message.

[fellamarsh]

another thing i've been trying to do recently is read more self-published stuff. "but fell," you say, "you're a self-published author. surely you've been reading self-published stuff all along" and then i laugh for so long in response we both become uncomfortable.

see, the fear (which has for a long time been killing my mind) that i'll read other self-published stuff and find out that it's so much better than mine that i might as well stop writing forever kept me from doing that basically ever. i have a hard time not unfavorably comparing my work to others and had convinced myself i was being smart by withholding an avenue of de-motivation (reader: i was not being smart). it also doesn't help that i'm pretty low income and have a hard time spending money on books i haven't already read, and that self-published stuff isn't always available at the library---but really a lot of it was just me being a coward. which i'm working on. i could talk about how this particular cowardice is Very Silly, but i think enough has been said about it on writeblr and in the Writing Space in general that i don't feel the need to (though i will if anyone wants me to).

instead, i wanna talk about the self-published things i have read in the past few months and ask about the self-published things you love!

so: what happened was i got real sick, and while i was real sick i (naturally) read over 200,000 words of ace attorney fan fiction in the span of a few days. eventually i got bored of it (and also maybe annoyed at how people were characterizing some of my guys), but i still wanted to read something gay and romantic and nice, something i knew was gonna end happily, which isn't my typical fare.

now you may be saying (having gotten over all the uncomfortable laughter from earlier) "fell, you write gay romance. what do you mean that's not your typical fare?" listen. until a couple months ago i hadn't read a cut and dry romance novel since before i finished college. for context: i graduated in 2015. i know it doesn't make sense. i'm a guy who doesn't make sense.

but in this case it worked to my advantage. not the not making sense thing, but the not having read Published Romance in 1000 years thing. I didn't know where to start. I was very skeptical of everything the library had Available Now in the Gay Fantasy Romance category. what if it was all bad and also not good?

and then i scrolled past the familiar cover of our very own @ashen-crest's A Rival Most Vial.

now this was comfortable territory! this was a novel by a very nice writeblr person whose posts i enjoy! i already loosely knew the plot, i was familiar with the characters, i knew the names of things like rosemond street and the griffin's claw and that ambrose had blue hair and that at the end of it all there would definitely be Boyfriends. i didn't have to worry that this would be bad! i only had to worry that it would be really good!

but i wasn't worried about that, because i was officially Not Writing at the time, and because why the hell hadn't i read this book yet Ash literally emailed me some very kind words last year when my cat died??

Y'all, I devoured ARMV. If you haven't read it yet---especially if cozy fantasy is more your thing than it is mine---you should check it out Immediately. It was fun! It was heartwarming! It was sweet and earnest and confident! I was delighted to find it was occasionally hot! Ambrose and Eli snuggled up into my sick exhausted heart and found a permanent little place there. (Especially Ambrose. I have such a thing for Stiff Guys who Kind of Suck for Tragic Backstory Reasons and are So So Lonely They Don't Even Realize It. gawd)

(And a very small part of my brain spent the whole time wondering why I had been so afraid to really engage with the work my community is doing. The community that I'm in. The one I'm a part of. Why?! Maybe more on that later.)

But from there the curse was broken! I immediately devoured @stjohnstarling's What Manner of Man in a similar sort of frenzy (and hooooly shit guys am I excited for the expanded, finalized version to come out at the end of next month!) and started digging into @lurinatftbn's The Flower that Bloomed Nowhere (which I can already tell is going to be an All Time Favorite).

And now I want to ask you what your favorite self-published books are so that I can read them, too, but I think I will in another post that doesn't dedicate so much space to talking about my various and sundry Issues and isn't Terminally Long

[wildsaltair]

a few more because I literally cannot restrain myself from screencapping this man badly

[thisshitisridiculous]

move over shannon diaz there's a new sheriff in town (haunting the narrative)

✨texas✨

[spotlightstudios]

Wizard 101: Hey kid, you just got pulled into Wizard School, and it looks like you're ready to start. Go down that path and someone will teach you to fight. Oh shit, that's Malistare, uhhhh, *one minor battle later* Good job kid. Go and do some little quests and beat up some fairies, you're doing great! :)

Pirate 101: You're in jail. Pirates are breaking you out of jail! They're... asking about your trauma. You're a pirate, an orphan, the son of a whore and a scotsman, you were raised by another group of people, now you're pulling a jail break and helping other prisoners escape! A uhhh, a guy threatens to murder you. He's the one who locked you up. The pirate guy almost dies and you have to drive his ship??? *one stressful sail later* Hey kid, go beat up this guy who stole from me. I'm gonna cheat and scam you, btw, just so you know. :)

[livingonthesands]

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[feline-evil]

Dick or no dick confirmation Pickles was always going to be trans to me anyways; if he's swingin' somethin that's phallo babes, if he's not then his t-dick fat. What's not to get.

[puppppppppy]

if escape rooms as team building exercises became popular im not sure if id be more excited or terrified

[become-a-robot]

The Johns' adversion to the idea of releasing an album in December is really funny considering the fact they released TWO studio albums ON THE SAME DAY in December a few years ago

[verflares]

this all being said about the light dragon and how it is definitely the biggest highlight of totk (for me at least), i Do think a lot of the reaction to it Is dependent on botw and zelda's characterisation from that game... a lot of which is kind of lacking in totk because of her more passive role (e.g. you are told about her + see her actions after they have already happened)

like. if you didn't already really like zelda and were sold on her relationship with link (and not even just from a shipping zelink perspective, like. just UNDERSTANDING they have a strong bond from everything they've gone through together) then i'm not sure if any of that stuff in totk would've hit as hard as it did. the game does very little to build on what we already know about them, which i think is both a letdown to new players (which. i am not sure why they are playing the sequel before botw, but that is how totk acts most of the time lmao) and returning ones, and as time goes on it's become harder for me to blame people for not caring for it as much.

what a truly odd game

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

poems for Grac(i)e - (for @imissthembutitwasntadisaster on her birthday)

Maggie Smith, Good Bones // Gerard Way, How It's Going To Be // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // Griff, Vertigo // Elizabeth Bishop, One Art // Taylor Swift, You're On Your Own, Kid // Kim Stafford, At The Student Poetry Reading // Fall Out Boy, Baby Annihilation // @/daisies-on-a-cup // Stephen King, It

[roseworth]

tini howard is writing catwoman and honestly? I'm apprehensive about how she'll handle rose

i just read it and. i have mixed feelings.

some of it was alright. her characterization was about in line with how she usually is when she shows up as a side character. AND she has her new costume which i love (she didnt have it in mwsl so now its nice to see di giandomenico's art with this costume) plus most of her lines were her saying "please focus on the mission and dont talk to me about anything else"

but overall. this was a loss for rose 👎

first of all? shes on a suicide squad????? on my knees begging dc to understand that shes not a villain so she should not be up to these things. at first i was willing to let it go bc i thought it was saying that waller was in contact with her bc rose is one of her operatives (bc stormwatch) or something/ which i still dislike but im more willing to accept. but then waller mentions the members being in cells/prison multiple times and ???????????? WHAT is rosie doing there

second of all. jesus fucking christ. free her from jason

what are we doing here how did we get here. i would love selina and rose interacting under any circumstances EXCEPT "keeping an eye on her because shes jasons girlfriend" i hate it here. im not even against jay/rose im just already sick and tired of her being known as Jasons Girlfriend. why is that all you have to say about her. its very clear that tini howard does not know anything about rose outside of her appearance in gotham war

in conclusion tini howard stay away from rose forever please <3 this one was passable only for the fact that it was a one off appearance and im so happy to see her <3333 but now get away from her get a job etc

but on a completely different note... for those of us who suffered through terror titans.......... rose and clock king meet again

obviously terror titans was not mentioned in this book on account of it being nearly two decades old and also a horrible book. and i dont even know if this is the same clock king bc i do not know any clock king lore. but he looks the same #terrortitansreunion2024

[ragtimeunder]

Hey what if instead of Ralsei's suspicious behavior being the result of some grand plan with the prophecy, it was the result of a core flaw with how he attempts to treat discomfort, both his own and others'

Do you think sitting alone for god-knows how long with nothing but your thoughts wouldnt lead you to dark mental spaces? what do you do when all you have to spend your time on is wait?

I can speak from experience to some degree. You spend your time by trying not to think about it. because when you think, you realize how much time is passing.

Its perhaps not a stretch to assume the guy who says "I just wish I knew what being [me] like means" is a character designed to explore dissociation.