#who'd i miss?

[seraphtrevs]

BCS color theory - minor characters edition

Ernesto is true blue

Marco is red, of course

Francesca is mostly in neutral tones, which makes sense, although she notably is wearing blue when Jimmy manipulates her to join the dark side (notice Jimmy in purple - a mix of legal blue and illegal red)

Erin is fittingly in gray - her legal philosophy is the opposite of colorful

Omar is also in gray, plus a hint of blue

Lyle is ride-or-die for his yellow-coded boss

Bill Oakly is bluer than I remember - it fits because he's so deeply associated with the law

Paige is mostly in black, a color I haven't talked a lot about yet. Mike is our major character who is most associated with black, and I think it fits Paige too - no nonsense, just doing her job

[deandoesthingstome]

I don't know who I should send this to. Probably every one of my followers and fellow smut writers. Here'sa few. @sillyrabbit81 @raccoon-eyed-rebel @littlefreya @angryschnauzer @thesaucynomad @mayloma @fvckinghenrycavill @geralts-yenn

Anyway, have a good laugh (it's funny because it's true!)

I'm tagging this as every Henry character, but I think we all know they'd start where this ends and never subject us to the beginning.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

ghost horses

GHORSES

[0spookymoth0]

If I see one more person say Odysseus cheated on Penelope I'm gonna rip out your ligaments like Typhon did to Zeus that one time

[thelikesoffinn]

My current party is, like, 75% comprised of tanks and tanks only. I'm talking Karlach. I'm talking Lae'zel. I'm talking my Gith paladin Lii'ira. All the girls who can beat you up without breaking a sweat.

Powerful, strong ladies.

Powerful, strong ladies and Astarion.

I call it "Astarion and the gals".

[uncanny-tranny]

This might be a very specific experience, but I think a huge reason I didn't even realize or even want to be bisexual was specifically because of this intersection of my manhood and the way it's viewed

There's this toxic merry-go-round I find myself riding where I am so desperate to not be one of those guys to a woman that it winds up being an inability to connect to women* because of this hyperpolicing I end up doing. For the longest time, I repressed myself because of this impulse, and I find it interesting. It's interesting seeing how this aspect of patriarchy impact me in such a way that I was too afraid of myself and the people around me.

As a trans man, I felt the pressure to prove both that I'm not one of those men, but also, that I wasn't this predatory trans man, that anything I did was in service to proving why I should (or should not) continue to exist. Simultaneously, I am both not a man, but also a predatory man because of my transness, a threat to be contained. I felt this before as somebody who is multisexual, but it somehow affects me more in the aspect of how I interact with women* and womanhood* from the outside.

There isn't an overarching theme to this post, a message about what you can do. It's mostly reflecting on my experiences and thinking about where my impulse to think myself as guilty until proven innocent plays into how I've started viewing myself. I don't want to overgeneralize, but I've seen this expressed by many a trans man*.

[livelaughloverinky]

this has been in my head for a week happy new year

[blurrypxls]

The best week in paradise with my sweetie 💖

@melien

[lordsireno]

Being self aware is a blessing and curse.

[krash-8]

yayy another poem about the same damn things <333

~

I almost hate good books because they end, and kids in higher grades because they're graduating before me. I almost hate strangers pets,

and people who sit by me at the airport

and people waiting near me in line

and kids I talked to once in the halls

and weeklong summer camps

and new old dogs.

i almost hate the girl who sat across me mid flight to dallas. I think about her every day.

cuz fuck. i almost loved her. couldve loved them all. see they're all things with an ending I knew before it came, knew when I had the chance to stop it, and I fell for it anyway.

whats it worth, I ask for the thousandth time, when I walk into this again well aware the end isnt one I can change.

what's it worth, I ask for the thousandth time, tracing a worn path, reading the lines of a story I know by heart.

wouldn't it be easier to stay away. wouldn't it be easier to hate beforehand like i say I could. its inevitable what's coming, I know I know. yet i dont care until I do.

wouldn't it be easier to drop them before they can ever get the chance to drop me,

and if so,

why haven't I yet?

stupid question. I know why.

sometimes,

i sing fate like it's a camp song. most times you are singing with me.

[greenconverses]

TWENTY YEARS oh lord i can’t believe you wrote this when you were fourteen!! i did not have nearly half the talent at that age, nor the patience and work ethic to write as much as you did… you were a machine! (this is jily titanic anon In case it wasn’t clear lol)

I don't know if I'd call it work ethic when I really was just a lil fucking nerd who spent most of her time writing whenever and wherever I got the chance, and had a pretty minimal social life so I could be on the computer all the time. If anything, I was ambitious and wanted to rule the fandom as a Big Name Fan and get published at 19 (lol), like a teen with no serious responsibilities would.

Also, not to sound like a boomer, but fandom really was a different place back then. There weren't as many distractions as there are now. Social media didn't exist, so fic and art were some of the main ways to participate in fandom outside of message boards and fan sites. You could make gifs or videos, but you had to have money, skill, and good tech to do that, so that was out of reach for kids like me who were always using a refurbished computer one operating system behind. So I stuck with what I could do, writing and drawing.

Obviously, only one of those stuck, and that's how I ended up carting all of these around with me for the rest of my adult life.

(If I had work ethic, I would've finished those fics!!!)

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Seeing people saying Fit is soooo jealous about Pac being excited to meet Wilbur is silly considering the fact that Fit offered Pac advice on what to do / how to act, offered to introduce them, and also said he'd write a "strongly worded message" to Wilbur if he didn't log on because Fit didn't want to disappoint Pac. I know we all love drama but at the end of the day: Fit's happy seeing Pac happy.

[slumbergoblin]

thinking about doing another magma and or whiteboard again. sighs woefully.

[teaandinanity]

I miss having access to Respected Lawyer Friend to be able to ask questions re: justice system voting, because rn I'm just like 'I don't know what 'apply the law as written' means but given all the Republicans are using it I feel like it's a dog whistle for SOMETHING.'

[animezinglife]

I love how so many (if not all) of the in-game romance responses from third parties are like, "Aren't you worried about how this looks? People will gossip! It's not professional. Should you be crossing that boundary line?"

Inquisitor [with that specific boundary line]:

[loumauve]

the goddamn toast water post just made me utter "history is fucking real" in the most solemn and serious tone of voice, out loud, to myself, in the goddamn bathtub