#you can't have it

[millenniumcomics]

YUGIOH - "LIVING VESSEL" - ACT 2 - SCENE IV - THE CAFE

Ext, Domino Café, dehor. MUSIC: Lo-fi Main Yu-Gi-Oh theme.

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Atem and Kaiba are having coffee and fixing their decks over coffee.

FRAMING Kaiba's hands keep flipping through the cards. Atem’s hand picking up his own deck. Atem's hand starting to flip through his own cards.

FRAMING Atem, with his head bowed over his cards.

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ATEM:

"Kaiba, what's your favorite card?"

Kaiba is not looking at Atem.

KAIBA:

"What a dumb question."

Atem raises his head and looks at Kaiba, a bit upset.

ATEM:

"I know it's Blue-Eyes White Dragon! But… The White Dragon is outside of you. What is the card you feel the most inside of you?"

Kaiba raises his head.

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FRAMING Kaiba with a raised eyebrow. He is thinking about it.

KAIBA, taking time:

"Why don't you tell me yours first?"

Atem smiles with his eyes closed, he has no doubt.

ATEM:

"Hikari no Gofuken."

Atem raises the card, and shows it to Kaiba.

ATEM:

"Swords of revealing Light."

Kaiba turns his face away, as if the sight of the card is causing him discomfort.

KAIBA:

"It's a trapping card. No wonder you like it."

ATEM:

"It's a revealing card! When others see you and you can't escape, your true nature comes out."

KAIBA:

"Holy Barrier."

ATEM, surprised:

"Eh?"

KAIBA, with a hint of sadness:

"My favorite card. Mirror Force."

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FRAMING Let's widen the frame a little bit, so that we can show that they are still sitting there at the cafe table. Atem is still surprised.

KAIBA:

"When you are forced to look at yourself in the mirror, if you are not ready, you will be destroyed."

-

Fade to black.

[cherrysoftgames]

just to let you know that the font I use in a lot of Polly stuff is custom-made

[nephilimeq]

This is making me realize that Stiles actually makes me think of a raven more than anything else, and he would absolutely be a bird shifter. I could see him helping Derek out in the wild while the two of them are on the run trying to hide from people trying to attack them.

Okay, looks like I'm going to have to write this.

[dyrewrites]

Write terrible self-indulgent chapter, delete chapter from manuscript because it really doesn't fit and has no right being there but keep it because it is still interesting, find chapter in notes…read chapter…wonder what the ever-loving fuck is wrong with your brain that you would write that.

Keep chapter because it is still interesting...

[maudlintrash]

dunno who needs to hear this........ but i made the most incredible tomato soup.........

[hamenthotep]

I finally filled in the form I've been putting off since last April. It took less than two hours 😬

And it wasn't even that scary

[pink-ir1s]

omg the hat post

on my dash

Are fedoras really that bad?

YES YES THEY ARE

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

[lavendervirgos]

Breeding as a concept? Amazing

Mentions of breeding/getting pregnant during dirty talk? Outstanding

Real life pregnancy? No. Horrifying. Never. Hard pass. Worst thing imaginable.

[inkskinned]

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

[beezelbubbles]

*wraps myself around the sun like a dragon and hisses* Come and claim it

sunsets after 7pm now !!!!!!!!!!! we made it guys !!!!!!!!!!!!

[kensatou]

(✿◕‿◕) die (ꈍ ꒳ ꈍ✿)

[emilnikos]

I need non autistic people to realise meltdowns are a real debilitating thing that has a serious effect on your mental and physical health NOWWWWW!!! The way its been trivialized and lessened pisses me the fuck off. It's not a tantrum and it doesn't come from "being too weak-willed" it's painful and it's embarrassing AND MOST OF ALL IT'S INVOLUNTARY!! Don't claim to be an ally to autistic or disabled people and then make fun of people who have meltdowns. Literally get the hell out of my sight

[spyglassrealms]

had a fucking hilarious dream that tumblr replaced the "block" function with the far funnier "glock" function, which did the exact same thing except whenever anyone blocked you a random bullet hole, like a png of a bullet hole, would appear on your blog. discourse blogs were unreadable bc you'd go to the page and the sheer amount of bullet hole pngs stacked over the blogs obscured everything. I woke myself up laughing

[cozylittleartblog]

cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn't fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn't based around meaningless likes

just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks

there's nowhere good to go anymore for artists.

edit - a lot of people are saying the tags are important so actually, you'll look at my tags.

#please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads#in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

being a student during peak pandemic was so fucking surreal like. "it's not an excuse to fall behind" I cannot stress enough to you how much A Worldwide Plague Upending Life As We Know It is literally one of The Top Three Reasons to fall behind