#without bothering anyone in that tag

[asamis-jodhpurs]

Blossoms Playlist Annotations Because This Is Tumblr Dot Com and God Can't Stop Me

Finished my 270k fanfic and don't yet know how to fill the void in my heart so I'm doing what the title of this post implies: posting the Blossoms writing (or well, more often commuting to work while thinking about the vibes) playlist and then writing a silly little one-paragraph annotation for why it's on there because hey, maybe like two people outside of myself would get a kick out of that.

Daffodil // Florence + The Machine: I think this was the first song back in July 2023 when dem and I were driving through Illinois with a fresh case of FFXVI brainrot and I went wait wait. Stop. Run that back. Apply the Blorbo Filter. And so it's just been the general Dion stage-setting song in my brain ever since.

Fortunate Son // Creedence Clearwater Revival: Listen. Listen. Terence Poirier is not the first High Fantasy Gay Guy With Military Trauma to have this song on his Jod Blorbo Playlist and he will not be the last. Country boy I love youuuuuuuuuuu.

Young Pilgrims // The Shins: I listened to this song a lot when I was ten-ish, so I associate it strongly with being the age Terence is at this stage in the fic and well. Damned if he doesn't want to fly the whole wreck into the sea.

Wicked Annabella // The Kinks: I mean. The title. It's here because it's titled that. I skip it every time I listen because the vibes are not there but I will never remove it from the playlist.

The Boy with the Thorn in His Side // The Smiths: Annnd in the wake of Wicked Anabella's arrival on the scene Dion gets a fun new crisis of suddenly not being believed or valued by most of the adults in his live. Also "a murderous desire for love" yeah there he is that's him officer yeah he's reading that gay fantasy adventure novel for the sixth consecutive time.

Skyline Pigeon // Elton John: Turn me loose from your hand let me join the military at thirteen because that would somehow be better than the home environment you have cultivated here. But yeah in all universes and circumstances I'm 🥲 about this song in relation to Dion.

The Well // The Crane Wives: Wow for once it looks like I'm gonna make a character playlist without a Crane Wives song on it look at me embracing variety and personal growth wait what is--my GOD it's the most Blossoms!Terence-coded song ever written. I put it pretty early but honestly it applies to him in every act. It's him. That's him. Wave the flag, tell the boys to go home.

Any Way the Wind Blows // Cast of Hadestown: Act I and II Terence simply has severe Hadestown Eurydice coding. He's seen how the world is. Meanwhile Dion wears his heart out on his sleeve/is touched by the gods. Also the transition between the end of this and the start of Sunlight IS one of my proudest playlist ordering choices ever.

Sunlight // Hozier: Wait wait wait the prince is kind? He is beautiful and kind and has warm brown eyes and cares for me and treats me with gentleness and????? Yeah I'll be the Icarus to his certainty. I'll grow wings and fly in defiance of God for his sake. The Knight of the Stars Undying finds his sun.

Making the Most of the Night: Every single gay fictional character has Their Carly Rae Jepsen Song and this is indisputably Terence's. Hijack that prince, sir knight.

Piazza, New York Catcher // Belle and Sebastian: Was listening to this on a walk at work and got fully stunlocked both by "are you straight or are you gay" (Terence, actively getting a nosebleed) but more importantly. I love you, I've a drowning grip on your adoring face. / I love you, my responsibility has found a place. Terence. Buddy. How's the gay love as only purpose and bulwark against depression going kiddo.

Please // Ludo: Fifty million thanks to Bel for flagging this as a tedi song and in the process Ludopilling me god I love this band. But yeah the Imperial Wedding chapter. The apprehension. The devotion. The promise to return.

The Millionaire Waltz // Queen: You cannot convince me that in a modern au context Dion would not be fatally obsessed with glam rock. But this song felt very fitting for Dion at this point in the fic. The yearning. The loneliness. Thinking things like "my fine friend, take me with you and love me forever" but not, you know, being gay about it or anything, just putting letters in his heart reliquary jar like a normal teen.

If It's True // Cast of Hadestown: Terence really switches hard to the Orpheus role after Act II. I basically wrote all of his section of Chapter 17 to this song. Anthem of the implicit Terence v. God plot of the rest of the fic.

Search And Destroy // Florence + the Machine: Similarly I wrote basically all Terence's sections of Chapter 22 with this on a loop. He's the world's forgotten boy and he is going to start killing.

Seven Nation Army // The White Stripes: Hey that wholesale dedication to killing your way to your prince's side isn't having any physical or mental repercussions, right? Right?

Letter to Memphis // Pixies: Letters. Trying to get to you. You get it.

Path to Isolation // Jeff Williams: I am sorry I am so sorry for bringing the RWBY soundtrack into this but. Well. This song is very apt for a smothered and lonely young person with a hostile presence growing within them until it kills something they hold dear. A stranger to my heart has filled my mind, man.

Dog Gone // Frank Black and the Catholics: Okay okay so the thing about this song is the singer wrote it because his wife was so upset about her dog dying that she wished a meteor would come destroy the earth, and so he wrote a song from the perspective of the meteor. Which just felt kind of right, for Terence finding Dion after Hypatia's death.

Creep // Radiohead: I mean I don't even have to explain this one, do I?

Ruthlessness // Cast of EPIC: The Musical: GARUDA. I. I had to put something on here for Benedikta and her saw trap. Also she really did look at Dion and Terence, projecting heavily, and say, "Close your heart, the world is dark, and ruthlessness is mercy--die." Like the combination of hard advice and murderous rage. It's For Her.

Rodeo // Amy Ray: Love is a kindness that I've never known before.

Something Good // Julie Andrews, Bill Lee: That god thinks that mortal's love is divine grace! If Terence can love him then perhaps he is not a monster! Perhaps there is goodness within him, if Terence can see it.

Blossoms // The Amazing Devil: Helloooooo song whose lyrics I misquoted to get the title!! I'd been listening to this song all the time for years just waiting for a blorbo to match it and Dion Lesage immediately stepped into it like a perfectly fitted chain-mail corset ready for battle.

27 // Fall Out Boy: Bel mentioned this one after reading the Ash chapter and I became insane immediately. Live soundtrack of Terence's mental health crashing and burning dramatically as Dion's military star rises during the invasion.

Empire & The Sun // The Moth & The Flame: Okay so full disclosure I actually found it when dem and I were putting together a playlist for Phineas Thatch Midst our good friend but. Terence. Returning to Dion over and over again even in the face of the widening gulf the world puts between them.

My Love Mine All Mine // Mitski: Dion. Augh. Dion. Dion choosing love. I think I hauve covid.

Mars // Sleeping At Last: Some courageous soul with a great ear put together a Dion playlist like two weeks after the game came out and I can't find it now but this song was on it and it really became my guide for how I wanted the end of the fic (excluding the epilogue) to feel. Like light in the cold and dark, with a sad melody.

[ravene]

[incorrect-green-lantern-quotes]

I was thinking about your post about the "Batman doesn't tell the JL about his family because he's paranoid" trope but with the Green Lanterns instead, and I just thought about combining it with "Batman hates GLs" trope. Imagine the batfam hearing complaints about Green Lantern and then meeting Hal/John and thinking wow, tf? These are nice, cool guys. And then they meet Guy, who had been the JL's contact for the longest time, and instantly realize the source of all the complaints

This isn't even a question. It's just some anon rambling about how they wanna take my Green Lantern focused post and make it all about the Bats' point of view and how Guy Gardner sucks so much he tanks the reputation of all the other Lanterns.

I dislike the "Batman hates GLs" trope because it's so rarely about how different the Bats and Lanterns are on a philosophical level. Mostly it's just Batstans using the GLs as punching bags. Because everything has to be about the Gotham vigilantes and how they're soooo much better than any other hero.

And I'm

so.

fucking.

tired.

I'm tired of scrounging for crumbs of Green Lantern content while Batfamily fans get to feast like billionaires, then try to take what little we have and make it theirs too.

Maybe that's not how you intended it, anon. But it sure feels like it.

[dukeofthomas]

"Angry robin" "violent robin" "misbehaving robin" shut up and accept my alternative; spunky Robin. Determined and head strong, can out-stubborn the Batman, has a strong moral-backbone and does what he thinks is right regardless of what anybody else says, Robin. Jason who was sassy and quippy and made crude jokes with a smile on his face. Jason who hid in Bruce's cape and whispered gossip to him. Jason who, if Bruce refused him something, could keep bothering endlessly until Bruce caved. And also dramatic Jason. If Bruce tells him no, it becomes a whole theatrical show; a monologue, a narration, embellishments, and falling onto the floor in his grief upon the fact his cruel father has denied him once again.

(Jason who has suffered through abuse and homelessness and poverty and starvation, who is the Fight out of Fight or Flight, who's built up defenses and walls and when pushed and triggered responds with the thing that's always protected him; anger. He's sweet and kind and funny, and when he sees a pimp hitting a prostitute he gets furious and responds with violence.)

[cushfuddled]

Just saw “proshippers DNI” for a J@yvik group chat and I’m like

1. Thanks for the heads up (I would’ve been tempted to join the chat, but I would’ve worried about someone turning out to be an anti and harassing me)

2. I don’t know if you realize this. But the two characters you ship are in the midst of a divorce so toxic it’s threatening to shred the very sinew of spacetime. One of them literally just shot the other through the chest with a laser beam, if not killing them outright then severing their soul’s last tether to the concept of human connection. I hate to be the one to break it to you, lovelies, but shipping J@yvik does not align you with anti values re: the responsibility of fiction to model healthy relationships and condemn evil acts

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

I finally decided to create a semi-decent tagging system- enjoy :)

#hellsite hall of fame - actual legendary posts that belong in my wonderfully cursed hall of fame museum

#hellsite hall of fame curator’s bullshit - asks and other posts that 100% belong here, but alas aren’t legendary posts

#the hellsite answers - any and all asks. some helpful, some just silly-goofy-fun, some extremely cursed bc ✨tumblr✨

#hellsite hunger games - @hellsite-hungergames blorbo poll competition that I somehow was lucky enough to enter, and was runner up in. also gives context to -

#enemies to lovers angst hurt no comfort 200k hellsite hall of fame × perry the platypus - a truly beautifully cursed fanfic being written by @instantpansies about how I lost the hellsite hunger games to perry the platypus bc, once again, ✨tumblr✨

#color of the sky - my beloved favorite post that i’ve based this blog’s entire personality on. the original post is somewhere in there... if you scroll far enough :)

#bee movie script - some of the best posts on this hellsite are under this tag. scroll through it all… if you dare

#long post - any and all long posts. some are legendary, some are just obnoxious…. but that’s why I love them <3

[moeblob]

Unrelated to the art: I added a song on YT to a playlist I have for OSTs and I've listened to it like two times in full and as i was waiting on it to load to listen to while I colored I saw it had...... 5 views. Total. FIVE VIEWS. And this is the third time I've had it open. WELP. Thank you to the one person who recently uploaded a game from the Wii's OST.

Related to the art: I still love Sharena.

[transannabeth]

not to be Dramatic but i need hollywood to stop having the characters who live in the woods away from society who are seen as having a simpler way of life dancing tinikling in like half a scene

it's only happened twice but it's pissing me off

[the-girl-with-too-many-ideas]

Does anyone else get the feeling that at their core, all of mxtx's works are about cycles of abuses.

[sonknuxadow]

little psa since the update is about to drop in a few hours: ive noticed a LOT of people are using the typo "sonic froniters spoilers" as their only spoiler tag on sonic frontiers posts. so maybe double check youre spelling things right when tagging spoilers because a typo like that is definitely going to slip through a lot of peoples blacklists and lead to people being spoiled even if youre actively trying to avoid doing that

[sinvulkt]

@tonhalszendvics thank you so much for the tag, this was super fun!

1. Do this uquiz.

2. Do this picrew.

3. Tag people! : D

I don’t know how this happened. Please send help. 😂🫠

@insertmeaningfulusername @purpleopossum @trickstress333 @ravenite-void @bluntblade @pat-the-togorian @fanfictasia @kuraiarcoiris @purple-iris @kefalion @cinderfeather @wendingways @linzerj @beguilewritesstuff @doctorgeekery @threebea @aimportantdragoncollector @alex-the-gay-disaster @tramp-fiction @sogira-imno @dreaminghour @udekai @lurkinggoose, as well as anyone who see this and wanna hop in, feel free to join!!

[hwanswerland]

look at this and feel nothing challenge failed

[eachlanguagewritten]

hi hello this is not a "you're not allowed to" post because I don't vibe with that but this is a heads up post as I've seen a few people playing with it and it definitely has snowball potential and it's suuuuuper easy to miss so: INZOI's processing method involves a lot of AI generation for its fabric textures and generation of items in its character creator and gameplay. again it's suuuper easy to skim right over this fact, and I'm not saying all AI is bad, but I currently cannot find any information on how they trained this AI. as such, i'm currently erring on the side of "it was probably scraped without acknowledgement or compensation" as it's generally the safer assumption these days.

again- this is not a no fun allowed post and i can definitely see the appeal in the demo (if you can get it to run, gosh that thing's a beast in terms of hardware usage), but i dunno i just felt like they kind of whispered the part that someone should point at out loud so i'm doing that. that's all! have a good day rpc ♥

[kimetsu-chan]

I don’t think I should be allowed to move out lol

[aromanticannibal]

The pattern is that people straight up do not read™. or they read a 3-5 tweet summary of what happened and treat it as if they did. or because shonen expectations based on "the classics" is bullshit and significantly rotted people's brains when deciding wether an ending is good or not.

Which could be nothing right

yeahhh. i will forever regret reading the last chapter through leaks because it was a dreadful experience, and watching everyone ever shit on it for like a week after genuinely made me want to just get off the internet forever or something because i felt like an idiot for liking the ending (all this is my fault for getting too invested in both tumblr and mha etc etc).

All the "it's rushed" and pacing complaints barely matter to me at this point because you just cannot feel the pacing of something correctly when you're reading it exclusively through leaks. you can't absorb info like that. And don't get me started on the number of complaints and criticisms I've seen of the last chapter that are just provably bullshit (I saw someone say Izuku didn't get a statue lmao. yes he did, you just read the fucking leaks and watched twitter drama unfold instead of reading the actual chapter i fear).

[mha-vilain-au]

Izuku: *approaching a new recruit Ochaco* Hey are you OK ? You set up with the team ?

Ochaco: *nervous* I-I'm fine, but I think Medusa doesn't like me very much.

Izuku: Really ? Why ?

Ochaco: Well he continues to glare at me and we never actually talk ! He just stands here staring and sometimes he even randomly claps his hands next to me for no reason ! He scares me a little.

Izuku:...

Izuku: Ochaco, Medusa is fucking mute. He just tries to get your attention.

Ochaco:...

Ochaco: Oh.