#when she was TWENTY THREE

[philtatosbuck]

i feel like i’m going insane each post i see about taylor swift and taylor lautner being such good friends when she dated him while he still should’ve been in high school (i have no idea if he actually was or not but lmfao) is insane to me

[forestgreenlesbian]

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[homosekularnost]

pov youre having another meeting with the annoying academics & this person in the back looks kinda familiar

[koukouture]

FFXIV Dissidia AU where Omega summons the champions to do battle in order to understand what mortals fight for.

Cloud got pulled away from a date at the Gold Saucer so he wants to finish this- NOW

Anyways, I just thought this squad would be funny because these are arguably the most popular Final Fantasy games. Which is also double funny because everyone but Cloud is from a new gen FF game. Also also Elysia already knows Noctis and Clive because of those crossover events so... the dynamic is fun.

I will make more screenshots of this because I have soooo many ideas for the squad's dynamics. Like, Clive is the quiet responsible one, Noctis and Elysia are having wayyyy too much fun, and Cloud is just... broody lmao. It's also kinda funny how Clive, Noctis, and Elysia are all royalty or royalty adjacent but Cloud is just a normal fucking guy.

Also, this group's main foes are Sephiroth and Zenos- aka psychopathic pretty boys who are obsessed with their respective heroes.

[megumi-fm]

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[thefloatingwriter]

wiress with cats.

[peaches2217]

Okay, who kickstarted the return of the Mareach baby fever? Because I logically shouldn’t post even more Expectant/Parent Mareach when I literally just posted one such fic two days ago but DAMMIT NOW I’M IN A MOOD.

…in my defense, for all the crap I’ve posted, I still haven’t given my fankid a name. 😅

[anonymusbosch]

sometimes i feel like extending the kindness you can, when you can, is the only thing there is

[mantisgodsdomain]

Fun fact about us: we really, really like doing crossovers, whether between different Things or just between different AUs of the same Thing. We deeply enjoy throwing things into each other and seeing the relative "normal" interact, tinkering with different potential outcomes of the same general thing, fucking around with culture clash and alternate realities, and all of that fun stuff.

Unfortunately, we also get into flavors of media that isn't quite finished a lot, and we often really want to throw together AUs that we have to write ourself together with things, which means that we're nearly constantly running into the same handful of roadblocks: it's really hard to write about stuff when people have no idea what you're talking about, and it's also really hard to write about stuff when you don't know half of what's going on.

This means that a decent chunk of our writing that is finished tends to stay in drafts - fics based on information that needs to be revealed in stuff we haven't yet written, fics based on media where half of the things we need to know aren't yet revealed in canon, and similar situations easily make up our second most common category of "finished but unpublished" and "finished except for That One Thing" fic (our first most common category is "we need to come up with a decent opening and writing a good hook is hard")

This is, of course, a hell of our own creation. A problem of our own authorship, that we still consistently fail to escape because of our sense of pride and unwillingness to turn out anything that isn't at least half-decent. Similar to the way that we force ourself to reread any media that we write fic of for the sake of accuracy before we can publish it. It makes things take longer, but allows us to ensure quality - though it may hold us back from a certain degree of self-indulgence, mischaracterization is the thing that bothers us most, and if we release a misreading or mischaracterization, that'll haunt us more than any level of soul-baring ever count.

Anyways, all of this is to say that peak self-indulgence for us looks like an isekai Dungeon Meshi/Runaway to the Stars crossover where we stick a handful of characters into the dungeon and let them just kind of cope with that for the forseeable future and the only thing stopping us from doing this is a sense of pride and the fact that Runaway to the Stars doesn't actually have finished & published books right now.

[cheemken]

Idk I just think this lil hc of mine is dope so hey why not draw it hahah

[acourtofquestions]

Then she asked softly, "How long?" It took the entirety of his three centuries of training to keep the devastation, the agony for her, from his face. "Two months, three days, and seven hours." Her mouth tightened, either at the length of time, or the fact that he'd counted every single one of those hours apart.

[loumauve]

I snapped today at work, and by snapped I mean I politely commented on a help desk ticket by summing up an mess of an (type of) issue that's come up for at least the fourth time in the 2+ months I've been managing user accounts, and asked the person responsible to fix it (himself for once) because last time I fixed his mess-up it took me two whole days to work out the details with at least four other colleagues from different departments and I really don't want to do it again. there's other shit that needs doing, I've been working 10+ hour days for most of this week already, so I need to cut down not add on more.

(good thing tho - at least we managed to fix the issue where the dataset of a newer employee got mixed up with another one of the same name and therefore wasn't able to apply for any of the access/accounts she needed. technically not entirely my area but it does impact us not being allowed to create an account for her so I figured I might as well track that issue down. took three days and at least three other people, but hey - it should all work out now. yay for that)

[grapecaseschoices]

ffs rebecca THREE YEARS OLD?

[hella1975]

called my sister and she told me she’s read twelve books this year and her new favourite food is pickled gherkins and i told her today me and two of my friends had a group nap in my little double bed and i think your twenties are good actually

[m4ndysk4nkovich]

i just realized sydney adamu is like, ian gallagher’s age. how the fuck.

[taylorftparamore]

people interpreting the "1950s shit" as "taylor doesn't want marriage and kids" instead of "taylor doesn't want to be a housewife and stay at home mother dependent on her husband" drives me insane. taylor has always been super vocal about wanting the former, she just doesn't want to have to stop being her own person with a career and dreams and talents! this is so basic and yet 80% of this fanbase can't understand it. (probably because they DO think getting married and having kids means a woman ought to stay home and behave herself and be a domestic servant 24/7. i can already see the concern trolling thinkpieces from "fans" when she goes on tour after having kids)

i will say there WAS a level of sexism in assuming every guy taylor dates is who she is going to marry and have kids with. not every person you date is going to be the "marry and have kids" with kind of person. even if you DO want marriage and kids, it is normal to date around and find the partner that you will connect with and trust enough to marry and have what is effectively a lifelong commitment with. like i see a lot of people scoffing that it would be sexist to remark on her dating life as if she's going to marry and have kids with every guy she meets just because she WANTS that, guys, so it's okay! no. it's fucking not. it WAS a weird "1950s shit" moment in itself.

ultimately, the "no deal, that 1950s shit they want from me" can mean a lot of things. i think the line is signaling taylor is done with input on her love life from strangers, no matter how well-meaning. i think "but daddy i love him" further shuts this down: she wants to explore connections with boyfriends who could become potential husbands without everyone screaming at him to marry her. because uh. that's really fucking weird! it's really abnormal! wanting to marry and have kids is one thing, having the entire world butt in and potentially ruin something because they're pressuring him to marry her asap is another.

there's definitely a weird vibe all around, and it sucks that taylor is put in this weird position where she wants marriage and kids, but every relationship has that pressure put on it right away. she doesn't get the chance to play it cool early in the relationship and feel out the vibe of it. & having every guy you date know tat you want marriage and kids before you can tell him yourself HAS to feel weird and invasive.

there's sooo much nuance in this that i kinda wish people would understand that a normal girl who wants marriage and kids doesn't have it blasted to the entire world, giving her freedom to explore each relationship on its own terms.