#wrote this super late into the evening

[patrasche-enjoyer]

You know what would be cruel? Emilia learning about RBD but being bound by the same taboo as subaru, to the point where she can't even tell HIM...

I mean imagine, even if she doesn't remember the loops herself, knowing what he has gone through, what he IS going through and not being able to talk to him about it.

Not being able to console him.

Not being able to help him at all.

What if it's a normal peaceful day, she was, before she took this short break, diligently learning advanced diplomatic strategies, all in order to become the rightful ruler of Lugunica one day.

But right now, she is just a girl, enjoying her break time in a neat little pavilion in the manors garden,

with the man she loves.

He is telling of some comedic series of unfortunate happenstances that ended with his father accidentally punching a hole through his door.

But in the middle of it, he stops, she looks up to him and halts her breath.

A sudden look of absolute terror across his face, his breath stopped and hands shaking.

And then it's gone, not completely, of course. He looks to be out of breath, hands not quite still and it takes him a second too long to get his smile back on. A second too late for her not to notice.

Despite the boys' fear wrought expression just a second ago, it is actually quite hard to tell who is in more agony right now, since the look of utter helplessness on Emilias face could not even show a sliver of her true emotions at this moment.

She wants to call out to him, to tell him it will be okay, to tell him they can figure it out together but then the fear grips her before the words even make it to her tongue. The curse that wrenches her heart hasn't even activated. It is quite simply the fear itself that paralysis her, no taboo necessary.

Is it not cruel? To deny her the closeness to him by silencing her? To isolate even the pain they feel lest they share it?

She is disgusted by herself, to be so afraid of simple pain as not to be able to reach out to him like he did that day many months ago. Like he has done so many times since then.

No, this time she won't falter, she won't give in. She will talk to him, she will help him, comfort him. She will save him this time, she is sure of it.

But this time, instead of pain, the taboo took something— someone very precious away from her.

And the cycle begins anew.

[mrpenguinpants]

Hypothetical question but are we still into windbreaker (nii satoru)? Y'all cool if I put my hyper fixation on center stage?

[rexila-rites]

I’ve gotta ask- if you have any, what songs do you associate with any of the characters from the Superthieves au (leaning more towards Stan and Narry but anyone is more than welcome to be include!)? I’m just curious! ^^

Ohhh man I have like a handful of playlists for them ranging from 'background instrumental for any given action scene' to 'playlist for this specific storyline' to 'playlist for this specific character' to 'playlist for this specific character at this specific part of the fic' hahaha! I'll pick a few though:

One Thing Left To Try - MGMT - Stanley and his friend I put this in Liner Notes, but it's I think a turning point song for Stanley and his friend in the office, that moment where his friend offers the help and Stanley takes it and they get out... and there's more to it than that, but I'll have to get to it later in the volume 🤭

Bunny In A Bunny Suit - Frank Bango - Stanley immediately post-office, when he was still getting back on his feet in his newfound freedom.

Bunny In A Bunny Suit - Simone White - Mariella's playlist has a cover of a song on Stanley's playlist because aside from thinking I'm funny she's currently coming to terms with having the time and space to figure out who she wants to be, learning to be herself, and y'know, the parallels like they had in the end of Love Me Normally.

Mariella's got the most defined playlist, I think - Stanley's got his own but there's a couple of songs I could still take or leave hehe.

One more from her playlist but I think can be applied to everyone: Imposter Syndrome - Sidney Gish because while Mariella has the furthest to go to becoming a normal living person, all four of our main characters are struggling to various degrees of success of being normal functioning humans in society.

but hey! Back to Stanley and Narrator - Suburbia Overture (etc) - Will Wood is something I associate with Stanley whenever I'm writing bits of his time in the office or echoes of his backstory in the present!

Terrible Things Brick + Mortar - this is kind of a Stanley and Narrator song to me, more Stanley than Narrator, kind of comparison (But I, I'm just like you, I've got no name at all), also where the Terrible Things referred to are the deeply questionable and borderline self-destructive decisions either of them make on the job.

I actually don't have a lot of songs for Narrator specifically, he's a hard one to find the right vibes for and i'm shy about the ones I've kind of liked for him buT maybe that'll settle as I continue with Volume 2! I did pick out some songs I think he'd have liked from his friend's catalogue of britpunk in Liner Notes! I'm also shy about that, but I'll leave you with one song from it, while we're talking about Volume 2.

Likewise I don't have a playlist for Superthieves Stanley/Narrator yet, still feeling that one out, though I think Up To No Good by the Hoosiers might end up there...

Don't get too comfortable with the man who has no history

[sortanonymous]

Sorta Angry Comics #2 - "Group Trauma-Dump (and Friendship Time! :D)"

Alternate Title - "Angsty Birds"

[noisytenant]

i think maybe an implicit assumption of a lot of anti-porn or porn-skeptical sentiments is assuming that sexuality is opposite to rational thought.

there's a sense that you have to shut down your brain to get off. and that's a sexy notion--both in the sense of having widespread appeal and being kinda kinky :P--but it's deeply flawed.

in particular, there is an underlying sense that rational thought is the core defensive mechanism of all things decent and prosocial, and it must stand guard against our base, carnal natures to prevent disaster.

on both fronts, the notion is wrong: rationality and sexuality can coexist, and rationality is not harmless while carnality is harmful--both can be positive sometimes and destructive other times.

yet the so-called rational mind is often treated as the last bastion against predation (both as victim and assailant). porn with "problematic" themes is sometimes treated like a unique tool of regressive brainwashing compared to other forms of storytelling, but this seems to assume that the rational mind vanishes in service of sexual pleasure, leaving the subconscious vulnerable to implantation of backwards ideas. in actuality, i don't think porn is more likely to change someone's mind than any other kind of art, i just think it's often more honest about its hang-ups.

explicitness can seem tactless, but arguably the rawness of expression allows us to feel the whole of our responses to topics that may feel taboo and untouchable in the everyday.

and that's another thing... rather than a unilaterally celebratory attitude, i think pornographic stories can--intentionally and unintentionally--elicit challenging feelings: dread, ambivalence, confusion, disgust, and fascination, among other things. these may not be sexually arousing, but they are a different kind of stimulating.

and even if creators didn't intend for you to treat their work as anything other than, ahem, fap material, i think you can challenge yourself to read it as a story and to analyze it the same way you would other works.

if you fear losing your rationally-based moral compass in a whirlwind of carnality, then try and see if you can hold pleasure and pain together simultaneously. choose to make meaning of the work you have deemed meaningless.

when we approach with some curiosity, i think challenging topics in porn can act as a trick mirror that reflect a side of us that we may not have wanted to see, but still needed.

i would like to transmute the energy used to reject and avoid topics that trigger the discomfort of confronting the evils of our world into energy used to witness and examine our relationship to those evils. sometimes, they are so alien to us that they become objects of exotic fascination. sometimes, they are closer to our hearts than we may think. either way, i hope we can move past the idea that sexuality and thoughtfulness cannot coexist harmoniously.

[sualne]

been thinking a lot about the what happens post game and sycamore's hypothetical children.

[anonyanonymouse]

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[aenslem]

btw, I get that idea of Rubes mom being an ordinary woman is awesome, like anyone can be important for the world and all, but after everything that was shown to us, I waited for something... more

don't get me wrong, not everything should be 'big' event, but she was important just because Ruby wanted to know who she is, we as an audience have only that, we don't know her, but there are many kids out there who wanna know who their parents are, why only Rubes mom was that important that god of death wanted to know her name as well? what about father though

The woman herself did nothing but exist, the way everything around the mystery of her identity indicated that she was something big, the revelation did not match the mystery. That's what makes me like ??? ohkay... so that's it? don't get me wrong, in any other situation I would be more than happy to see ordinary people saving the day, Rose Tyler was an ordinary girl, but look at her. She became so important, important to the universe itself and us, an audience, and that's amazing, Jackie Tyler was an ordinary mom, but she could beat Sutekh's ass in a fight, not saying Ruby's mom had to do the same, the mom is not important herself at all as far as I am getting it, it was the fact that Ruby wanted to know who her mother is. Ordinary people were always there in doctor who, saving everyone, but this one feels off cos we do not have connection with the character.

I get the message, kinda? I am glad for some people it meant something, what about others though, who wants to watch a silly tv show where mysteries have some kind of answers, like me. or at least some hints indicating in what direction I should go to find the answer on my own.

Ruby's mom is just a tool. her being ordinary is not the problem, but the way it is presented for me as a viewer is a problem. You built up so much and then give us... poof. Ruby is just a girl, an ordinary girl that was important herself, I would be happy if she saved the day, and in some ways I can pretend she did, but honestly, the entire plan against Sutekh was planned offscreen and then Doctor kills Sutekh, so the only answer given to us is that the universe was saved because Sutekh waited to get the answer, cos Ruby wanted to know the answer, as if none other child on the planet Earth ever wanted to find their parents. She wanted to know the answer so much that god of death wanted it as well. And I did not even mention everything else surrounding Rubes yet. also making Ruby wanting to know identity of her mother is something I can relate to, but she also had a mother who cared for her, who loved her, who we have seen and I liked that character, but the idea of Ruby wanting to know identity of her biological mom saves the universe instead... not the mother herself. Bill saved the world with the love for her mother once, and I cared for everyone involved in that moment, because I have seen how important Bill's mom was for her, we hardly knew her, but we did have some connection with her through Bill, so the finale where she saves the world makes you feel something. That does not mean we had to know who Ruby's mom was, but whatever the show tried to show us was establishing something different from who the mother actually was. But you know what? RTD could show us a random woman who does something somewhere, a picture in the background, on tv, something, idk how it would fit the stories, but hints thrown about the woman here and there would be enough, I mean, if we saw Ruby;s mom at least once in some situation, would not you be more excited to get the answer and be like 'omg we have seen her in ep number n, that's her???' she is still an ordinary person, a no name, but we know her in some way already. but here it's like nobody out of nowhere, that's not how you make it work for the audience... A person hidden and pointing at Doctor did not make me connected with the character to care about them, but I was curious about who was that character, how they are connected to the Doctor, and why her existence is hidden for the god of death. And in the end, it was a random woman who had nothing to do with the Doctor, and her existence was important because a child she left wanted to find her, again, there are many children who want that as well, what makes this one stand out?

The way the mystery of Ruby's mom was presented felt like it has connection with the Doctor, and by the end you expect Doctor having to do something with it. The other fact is that there is god of death, who was always with the Tardis, which is fun, there are so many things happening in the past we find out only now, how fun is that we praise only some of the retcons here :)

So, we have god of death, what I get is that pup can kill all the living things in the universe, which means he can't kill what is already dead. So, I presume that he knows everything he killed, since he only wants to know one woman, which bugs me with Rube's mom here, because if the earth is dead then she is dead as well, which means Sutekh killed her and knows of her, maybe he can't indicate which dust was which person before and since Ruby is not dead and did not became dust he can't connect her mother to Ruby to know the answer lmao. I don't get why the answer was so important to the pup, though. But we will not pay attention to that, otherwise the show would not exist, and when it was that doctor who made much sense, it was always about feelings for me and emotions I experience watching the show.

Now, since we established some things above, the problem pup had was the mystery, not the person, so the answer to the mystery must be something as big to save a life in the entire universe, because the creature like Sutekh who can wipe out all the life was interested enough to get the answer. but also, the mystery must have connection to the doctor, cos the answer that Ruby's mom is important because Ruby wanted to know who she is has nothing to do with the main character of the show.

So, I wrote all of it because there is a character who actually fits the role of Ruby's mom the best in my opinion, maybe it's not as great as the answer we got is, maybe you will say there's a nostalgia whore speaking in me and I only need the old characters back and all

This character is important for the Doctor, can actually travel through time and space, the character was a mystery as well, this character is not alive, they exist between one heartbeat and another... and yes, that's Clara Oswald. hear me out

Clara was there as well as Sutekh in Doc's life for so long, she transcends through time and space, she has time travel machine as well, she can't be seen by Sutekh cos she is already dead, she is not part of his dead empire, she exists out of life and death rules, she is the mystery for Sutekh as well, you cannot kill her, she is not alive, you cannot find her, she also existed in every time Sutekh created Susans. That connection could explain obsession of Sutekh with getting an answer, that he risked everything he worked for - just to get that answer.

Also, while being a tiny blond - Ruby Sunday resembles Clara Oswald a lot, I won't start how and all, but in my opinion having a living child while being not dead/not alive fully (?) herself would be an amazing mystery to defeat death itself. And it would be so much better if Sutekh was defeated by Ruby not the Doctor, Ruby, the proof that life can exist in death, but also being connected to the Doctor. Being in his life all along and knowing that something's coming up and slowly giving hints through time and space so Doctor finds Ruby, but not actually telling him to not change the timeline and all, showing him that he should go and help her, that Ruby Sunday exists to save the life and Doctor is the one who should protect that life, that would be awesome. not the Doctor being life itself against god of death, but the protector of life.

But alas, we get what we get, thanks for coming to my ted talk

[mythvoiced]

HAPPY TOTAL ECLIPSE DAY!!! 🌒 Moon Prince Min has run across that starry bridge to tackle Sun Hyeongjong in the biggest hug!

@amisetxiles | celestial bodies making me go MASSIVE UWU

All things considered, existence isn't all that bad.

No, honestly, truly, it's pretty damn great.

Everything Hyeongjong has been granted the ability to do has been naught but a blessing to the world he shines upon. It's not arrogance that makes him claim this, on the contrary, it's a way to proclaim how honoured he feels at having been granted such power.

Things bloom beneath his sight, life on Earth exists thanks to him working in tandem with air and water, primarily, along many other finer details outside of his control and somewhat associated to him.

But where there is air and water and sun, there is also...

Ah.

Him.

The smile on Hyeongjong's lips morphs from anticipation to delight. He shines brighter for a second then, as if Minjae were a mirror capable of not only reflecting his light but amplifying it tenfold. To Hyeongjong, the moon prince doesn't take what light he exudes and reflect it dimmer, no, to Hyeongjong, Minjae represents light in a way much warmer than his own.

Hyeongjong has the ability to give life but also take it, to warm and to scorch, to overheat, to be damned to the sky and blackness he resides in, and back onto the Earth's surface, for all the ways he can destroy what he helps bring to life.

But Minjae?

Minjae is always a blessing.

He guides. He illuminates darkest of nights. He's only ever cursed when he's missed.

And even though Hyeongjong understands the disparity in brightness and the source of the moon's light, it is always the prince that will shine brighter in his mind's eye.

Just enough that he can feel relatively selfish and occasionally mentally beckon moments like these to come sooner.

He can't manifest them. Doesn't mean he occasionally tries.

He catches Minjae effortlessly, the huff he emits is feigned and followed by loud laughter as he spins them both around where he stands. The sun and the moon prince, what better duo to translate to warmth?

He sets him down with flares bursting in his eyes in strong delight and grabs his shoulders, shaking him lightly, playfully, before ruffling his hair. "Quick," he whispers, leaning closer like a conspiratorial child asking for a secret. He flares around Minjae like a circle of raw light. "Tell me everything. How have things been? Give me stories to hold onto for 'til we meet again."

[dailyoyo]

i need to think more abouyt roboy. i need to think more anout roboy. i keep forgetting him i dont want to forget him i like him.

[bisexuallsokka]

I just read “someone else” and I really like it!! I think it’s very good, the banter between Lee and Sokka felt so natural and the plot was so cute. I enjoyed reading it very much so thank you for writing it.

this is sooo sweet thank you my beloved anon 🥺🥺🥺🥰🥰🥰

[raksh-writes]

Feeling so weirdly out of sorts today. I hoped that I can continue writing the second part of my AU I started on yesterday (got a nice 1,6k in Macau's POV!) or if not that, then maybe finish up editing part 1 so I can post but... I dunno, Ive fallen into a dip of depression and I only feel like crying and diddling around doing nothing (beside All the things I need to take care of for the next two days of classes of course, ugh), so... yeah. I don’t know what to do with myself. Wasting the little bit of free time I still have doesn’t make me feel better, but then Im not even sure Im capable of anything creative rn...

[silhouettecrow]

365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 204

Adjective: Halting

Noun: Bow

Definitions for those who need/want them:

Halting: slow and hesitant, especially through lack of confidence, or faltering

Bow: a knot tied with two loops and two loose ends, used especially for tying shoelaces and decorative ribbons; a decorative ribbon tied in a bow; a weapon for shooting arrows, typically made of a curved piece of wood whose ends are joined by a taut string; a bowman; a long, partially curved rod with horsehair stretched along its length, used for playing the violin and other stringed instruments; a single passage of a bow over the strings of a violin or other stringed instrument; a curved stroke forming part of a letter (e.g. b, p); a metal ring forming the handle of a key or pair of scissors; (North American) a side piece or lens frame of a pair of glasses; an act of bending the head or upper body as a sign of respect or greeting; the front end of a ship

[just-spacetrash]

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[humanmorph]

man. the kentucky road zero intermissions are probably some of my favourite things in a video game ever

[kitabasis]

how would you guys feel if I started occasionally posting some of my own monster high redesigns in addition to my usual stuff?