#you'd think that wouldn't be the case

[dancewithmejustforthehellofit]

Woo boy, the fact I can't get an endocrinology appointment before fucking FEBRUARY is the worst.

[justarandomhelluvablog]

as someone with a guilty pleasure for isekai and time regression stories I am just thinking of a story where Husk dies and wakes up during the height of his Overlord days with the memories of everything that would happen and has just. From the outside perspective become a completely different person overnight and changed his ways (read: the morals he gained during his afterlife he applies to how he, uh... Overlords?). A Husk whose last soul deal is to get Angel Dust away from Valentino (and offers Angel his freedom, which Angel possibly decides not to take for the time being bc it'd be safer for him to be under contract than not, with Valentino as mad as he is), and who avoids making bets/deals with Alastor like the plague. Starts building alliances with other Overlords (maybe even including Alastor, albeit reluctantly) to steadily create a support network/team (which is also useful when going up against the Vees once they're established), and just bides his time until Charlie and Vaggie open their hotel- which, at the time of his death, he had come to love and support the cause of.

And Husk is ready to be the hotel's sponsor, immediately. Alastor gets there and finds Husk beat him to it (seeing as Husk knows about it before the interview even airs), but unlike Alastor with his ulterior motives, Husk actually wants to help.

After all, he died for the hotel, and its people, once upon a time

[saltpepperbeard]

you know what i'm so tired of? the influx of negative clickbait articles surrounding the possibility of ofmd s3. i've seen things like "taika says he isn't sure whether he wants to return for the third season" and "the show will go on without ed and stede." and the worst recent offender was "stede might be the one to breakup with blackbeard in the third season" because it misconstrued rhys' words when he was talking about ed and stede likely reuniting with the crew.

and like...intuitively i know that they are all indeed just clickbait, and are trying to take advantage of everyone's desperation for any sort of s3 news. and also, i feel like the negativity is pointed and purposeful, because it gets people talking and subsequently spreads the article around faster/gives that particular site more attention.

but man do i hate it, because it does not mix well with my anxiety.

[lucalicatteart]

-- Poorly Constructed Enchanted Tool --

A small tool carved from a fruit tree seed. Energy to power the enchantment has seemingly run-out long ago, and the method of recharging is unknown - but, based on the appearance, it's very likely that this was once used for detecting magic. Usually, looking through the glass center would highlight areas of higher magical energy concentration present in the viewer's environment, even if they were otherwise obscured to the naked eye. While this form of enchantment itself is highly advanced, the craftsmanship of the item is far less neat or complex than what might be typically seen in similar devices. It may have been made as part of training/practice, or as a hasty replacement for a previous tool that had broken.

[harrowscore]

a few days ago i (re)watched the 25th anniversary concert of les misérables and. oh god. i forgot how much this musical did éponine dirty

[silverfoxstole]

Paul as Mark North in Luther, Series Five Episodes Three and Four.

[sysig]

I hope you blink before I do (Patreon)

[loverboyromanroy]

So... How far down the fascist rabbit hile (?) do you think Roman is going to fall down? I'm scared they are gonna take it so far I'm not gonna be able to love him anymore🥺.

i meeeean i do think he will fuck (or try to fuck) mencken, and subsequently operate as an extended member of that campaign, but i also think the evidence is there to make the case that he (and several others on the show) think of politics as part of The Big Game Of Life, not something that they consider as real or relevant to them as people. so like...will he join and champion the fascist candidate? yes, almost certainly. will he like...take a real interest or stake in progressing fascist ideology beyond getting mencken in power? i don't know, i'm not convinced.

i think there is an interesting idea of mencken losing the election and roman (by way of atn) helping him launch his sort of "fake news/the election was rigged"/2020 trump response to it all, but even then i would think he would be coming from it not as a genuine belief in those ideas, but as an opportunity to do Flashy News/News as Entertainment, which is something he has talked about when pitching how atn becomes relevant again

[altruistic-meme]

if you could... describe aftg in 5 words

oh this is not as easy a question to answer as it should be akfhsdkf bc like. i could describe its plot, or my thoughts on it as a fan, or how it makes me feel, or just make a joke, or or or and bc idk why you're asking it makes it harder :'))

but let's see...

plot: gay sports mafia found family.

fan: drama, familiarity, trauma, comedy, home

feelings: love, understanding, chaos, joy, comfort

joke: you know, i get it-

(as you can see, i couldn't pick which one to go with, so choose whichever 5 words you want lmao)

[fayevalcntine]

I wish people took Claudia's emotional issues stemming from her being neglected more seriously because sometimes, a child having to put boundaries doesn't inherently mean they're emotionally stable/mature and completely fine with being neglected.....

[thecorvidcurio]

So, I may occasionally throw out little rambles about the process and progress of writing this story. I'll tag these as "[game title] behind the curtain" for any given game it's for, and the bulk will be under a readmore in case anyone isn't into that or wants to avoid such things until after they've gotten to read the content it's about first. This first one is going to be rambles about chapter 2 edits in regards to Abby, tho I have some similar posts to share in time about writing the other characters as well.

Writing Abby is really hard and so much different from any other character I've ever written but not in the way of actually finding the words. The writing itself is easy, but afterward? Ho boy. Part of why the chapter 2 edits have taken this long is that I can't stop overthinking his and Marina's part. I'm just reading it over and over again, caught between the people-pleasing urge to make him more palettable and the knowledge that the very core of his character and the intention when I made him was that he'd be distinctly UNpalettable.

He isn’t supposed to be palettable. If he's perfectly palettable to most readers, then I haven't succeeded in writing him as intended. His very nature is supposed to be so diametrically opposed to humanity that it's clear most humans would have a negative reaction to him. He's supposed to come off like a walking headache. He's supposed to be ill-fitting, he's supposed to Not Belong Among People, he's supposed to be Incompatible With Humanity.

It's hard to break the mindset of writing a character people will like, though. It's hard to shake the feeling that it's a failure that many will dislike him, despite the fact that being dislikable was one of the first traits I started with when designing him. It was baked in from the start. My concept for his character at his inception was "creature who dresses like a rainbow drank straight neon until it got sick and is a personified concentration of chaos and dissonance, way more than even most other supernatural creatures are willing to put up with."

If I make him more appealing, he won't be Abby anymore. But still, the whole time I'm editing his bits there's an urge to scrap the original intent entirely for the sake of making him more broadly appealing.

[monotropauniflora]

Sure am glad ao3 finally added block and mute features so that I can do both to whomever writes fluffy they-love-each-other-and-everything-is-fine fic about Marius and Armand.

It's much easier than tracking them each down and smooshing them with a big big mallet so that they're too flat to use a keyboard

[antirepurp]

i hate that i actually need to consider buying a new hard drive and i want to blame it on things like bloatware and video games being dozens if not hundreds of gigabytes large because no one bothers to optimize anything and graphics have to be better and show more skin pores and ray traces and shit but the bulk of my storage space is dedicated to hoarding old console games that had to be optimized at least to some degree back when they were hot shit so i think a lot of this is on me this time

[wildflowercryptid]

i just realized that if i get awl for steam, i could try seeing if it's possible to free my kids from het-locked romances. 👀✨️

[absolute-flaming-trash]

Your recent oneshot got me thinking; somewhat broken reader who has accepted their situation and has entirely given up escaping, letting mahito do whatever he wants to them with no more resistance, letting themselves get the littlest bit attached to him as some kind of "human" contact for the sake of whatever mental state they have left to preserve

Aha you're fucked, and not in a good way.

One thing that is very consistent about Mahito's behaviour is his complete willingness to drop anyone or anything once they no longer serve a purpose.

Depending what exactly he has you for, I believe there's one of two ways this would go down: He would kill you, or he would continue to psychologically torture you until you were far past the point of no return.

I think any kind of Stockholm Syndrome with him is incredibly dangerous because regardless of which role he wants you to play, once you accept it, your fate is sealed.