#you're all welcome to read it

[abisalli]

some panel redraws with young just us

[teaboot]

tranny freak :)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

hope you feel better soon!

I am riddled with ailments, but I stay silly!

[elumish]

Hello friends!

I know it's only August, but I thought I'd start early:

If you have the legal right to vote in the United States, there is no benefit to you in not voting. All that not voting does to you is remove your most powerful legal ability to impact the identity of those who represent you in the government.

By the time you reach the election, by the time ballots are printed and you are filling in a bubble or pressing a button or flipping a lever, your only meaningful choice for who to vote for are the people who are listed on the ballot.

Because we live in a two-party system, in the vast majority of jurisdictions*, you are choosing between members of two parties. If you vote for someone who is not a member of one of those parties, you are throwing away your ability to meaningfully impact who wins that election. It sucks. it's shitty. It's unfortunate. But if you want a third party candidate to have a chance in a major race, it starts years before the election, not when you are standing in front of your ballot in November.

And if you think, they're both the same as each other--they're not. For literally any policy that you care about, there will be differences. Pick the policies you care most about, find the one who sits closer to you and vote for them. That is the only way that laws will move in the direction you want, by electing people who vote for policies that are closer to what you want.

I studied game theory in college, and from my standpoint it was one of the most useful and educational classes I took during my entire academic career, because of this key idea: If you want 10, and your options are 0 or 5, 5 is a better option for you. Something gives you more than nothing, even if you want a lot.

You will not get a politician who agrees with everything you want, unless you run for office yourself. Pick what you care the most about, and vote based on that. See voting as harm reduction. See voting as public transportation. See voting as whatever gets you out to vote.

But vote.

*There are a few independents in office. An independent or third party candidate will not win the Presidency in 2024.

[s0ckheadd]

i probably could've done smth a better but i just needed to draw since i'm working next two days, not sure if i'll have the energy

[gus-dix]

i've always really liked the parallels between sena and sakuraba in the early volumes, it remains an iconic part of the manga to me

+ 2 mini comics for friends

do not erase the caption, use or rePOST my art (reblog ok)

[unsiredtribrid]

"Dear Klaus,

You'd have been proud of Hope today. She's back home for summer break. I brought her out to the bayou for the crawfish boil, hoping she'd play with the other Crescent kids, but when I turned around, she was gone. I found her inside at Mary's bedside, telling her stories and singing to her. Sometimes I think about all the unlikely things that led to her existence - You and I born a thousand years apart and all of the petty crap that brought us to that one night in Mystic Falls. It's been hard... but the truth is, I watched her curled up next to that dying woman and I knew I wouldn't change a thing. In all my life, I've never felt lucky before her.

Anyway. We miss you.

Hayley"

[lyxchen]

I feel like I'm digging myself deep into a hole and finding nothing, trying to figure out more about In-ho's family

[mistressneo]

mystery of lack, stabbing stars through my back;

forwards, beckon, rebound,

forwards, beckon, rebound.

[ringleaderising]

Godfall Terminal Access Approved- Data: Thronebreakers

System access permitted. Research Data On phenomenon "Godfall" now accessible. Secondary information Request, central data upon "Thronebreakers."- H.A.E. Employee Detected, Hello, Bastian.

Please note that the following research content is highly classified and contains the following sensitive topics: Captivity, general assholery relating to using others for personal gain?

THRONEBREAKERS || CREW CONSTRUCTS

"Who is predicting these events? // What do the crews look like?"

Those who chase Godfalls are referred to as "Thronebreakers" though this term applies to both those who casually pursue the collapses for their own personal gain, and those who seek to destroy the greater spirits (Hereforth referred to as 'The Host') That seem to garner more zealous loyalty than those who make up more common Godfalls. While loosely organized, crews of Thronebreakers typically consist of a handful of main roles, filled by at least 2 dragons apiece.

Breakers are the primary muscle of a hunting crew, assigned to attacking both the collapsing God and rival crew members they are often large, brutish, and skilled in close combat. These dragons tend to use heavily modified weapons equip with magical siphons to drain magic in a more passive manner as they deal damage to one another and the entity the crews are pursuing.

Needlers are thus the more refined, directly focused crew members who are present completely for harvesting from the entity. The middle-weight fighters using smaller, more maneuverable weapons to collect flesh, scales, bones, blood, and raw magic as they chase behind entities, they are often seen climbing across the massive bodies of the spirits and are defended by Breakers with their lives.

The Torchbearers are relegated to pathing, and tend to be of a handful of very specific breeds carrying the blessing of the Windsinger and the Flamecaller, with bodies that contain great peals of unquenchable, magical flame or lingering traces of wind, some crews have expanded to the use of those who bear a similar blessing from the Stormcatcher in the absence of access to the other two. These portions of crews thus tend to favor banescales and aberrations, for their aerial maneuverability and tendency to display such genetic predispositions. Their function is singular, to carve a pathway of magic that corrals the falling God toward an opportune resting place for their crews to prey upon.

Witnesses are the final piece of a Thronebreaking crew, and their purpose seems entirely to be attuned to one of The Host- therefore capable of detecting where a member of this strange collective might spill back into reality. Some are zealots- followers of the Host themselves, some are Beholders, dragons driven mad by their contact with these higher-tier dead, and others are born with a more prevalent sensitivity to the build of latent magic in the air. It is a crew's Witness that determines where a Godfall might occur, and where there is one thronebreaking crew, there are hundreds to follow. Given their rarity, however, Enterprising God-Hunters in previous falls put together a collective of loyalists to The Host, referred to as The Council of Fifteen. Little more than Prisoners to the crew that gathered them, The Council are used to detect and signal with more accuracy than a lone Witness where a Godfall is going to occur- and this information can be bought in shadowy corners of Sornieth for crews without Witnesses of their own.

THRONEBREAKERS || INTER-CREW POLITICS

"Are the crews working together? // How many crews attend? // How far do they know in advance? // What is the Opening Ritual?"

No matter their similarities in makeup, Thronebreaking crews are not working together for anything other than a shared final goal. Even those operating under the banner of the same crew are often seen attacking and fighting amongst themselves once the fall begins, so crews in opposition are fighting not only the entity itself, but all members of the other crews in tandem. A falling "God" is dying, and despite their impressive size and overwhelming magical power, these dragons are actively walking to their death sites- the greatest danger posed during a Godfall is other thronebreaker crews, not the entity itself. Finding a strenuous allyship in the midst of a godfall is not something that has gone unreported, but it is rare, and high-value entities, like those who were formerly recognized as members of The Host inspire far more bloodthirsty behavior as each crew jockeys for control over the bulk of what the godfall provides.

While in the early days of the phenomenon those who chased Godfalls were rather small in number, the proliferation of raw magic as a market- and the fact that there are very few ways to harvest it that are humane outside of hunting these grand, decaying entities- has led to the modern godfall location attracting easily 200+ dragons at a time. This has the notable drawback of displacing clans that already live in the locale, though some in more high-traffic locales have adapted to these events, using Godfalls as an opportunity to sell wares, buy collected magic and materials in the aftermath, and build stronger relationships with the nomadic Thronebreaker crews, should they have need of sellswords in the future.

Crews lucky enough to have a Witness among their ranks are often capable of determining the territory a Godfall might occur weeks in advance, though more precise determination is reserved for when the Witness arrives in the area, requiring the ability to detect the high-volume of magic thinning the barriers between Sornieth and the so-called Gaplands where these spirits reside. Those most capable of precognition relating to these events are Beholders, those who were present at the first, non-Godfall appearance of an entity in Sornieth- often subsently broken mentally by what they witnessed.

Those with no hints, precognitions, or essential information purchased secondhand from those who know what you need to know, however, are not completely out of luck, at least, not until the Opening Ritual. A more recent addition to the process- at least in an official capacity, the Opening Ritual is used largely as an attempt to more correctly determine what might be coming through the portal in the sky. Relying on the Council of the Fifteen, these dragons- reduced to little more than priests of the Host- perform a ritual upon which they relinquish all the magic they contain completely- This high volume of magic operates in two capacities- encouraging the portal to activate, and weakening the council member most directly related to the appearing entity- offering essential hints to those chasing the collapse about what they might be going after. In the event of the fall of a Host Entity, the member of the Council dedicated to them will die outright- though it is unclear as to why this phenomenon occurs.

[waywardmillennial]

I'm really curious to see the reaction of the 'we want lower production content just like this' to puppet history season 7 which is the most high quality thing watcher produces and that show would really suffer if they put less into it. anyway not to start dishose again but thank you for pointing that out, reading the yt comments of 'we want production just like this' when Ryan is like 'yeah hauing all that equipment was insanely tiring and it made me stressed out and more scared' is like. oh so you really just want an imagined version of what you saw. anyway sorry to rant in your inbox i just am glad to see someone else point it out lol. (no need to answer if you don't want to btw)

NONNIE! <3 thank you for reading my tags and leaving this message!

honestly I'd already considered making a post about this a couple times because when I read through the comments for GFA on yt nothing makes me wish more that the platform had a 'block user' feature -_- I wish some people a very poor internet connection

it feels like so many people don't UNDERSTAND what Ryan was trying to do with GFA. he wasn't trying to return to his bfu roots (though he said making it more vlog style was something he had in mind, but he was also constrained by what he could film alone)

GFA was a personal challenge to himself after he's been trying to get a handle on his mental health for the past few years. Ryan wanted to go completely on his own to see if removing the crew would change anything and if he was mentally capable of doing all of it on his own, and that meant running camera and sound and everything else alone too

I won't spoil the debrief in case you didn't see it nonnie, but Ryan was really insistent that he do this show 100% on his own. I can't imagine knowing the physical and mental toll this took on him and then telling him "make all your shows like this"

and yeah, it makes me wonder on the general public's media comprehension because I know overall PH is their most popular series, and one of their most expensive and high quality too. maybe there's not much overlap of the two audiences?? idk I think it's also possible that people see PH as just Shane making some sock puppets and waving his hands around a cardboard theater - but it hasn't ever been that and the closest we had was s1 if anything (I'll stop myself going off on a PH crew tangent here, but there is SO MUCH that goes into making this show as good as it is)

I keep thinking back to the December Pod Watcher episode where they talked about how they're not going to focus on making "tv-caliber content" going forward (timestamp included but I'm paraphrasing Steven here, so watch that ep if you haven't) and that makes me sad because I've always liked and appreciated Watcher for making high quality content - for having well thought out series with nice sets, great camera work, phenomenal editing, and always making sure to give credit to the people who worked on their shows

Ryan worked as a grip for a while in Hollywood and probably had dreams of going further in the film industry but wound up going a different route working on bfu. I have to assume that starting Watcher must have felt like the opportunity to make a whole production company, to be able to emulate styles and storytelling of some of his favorite filmmakers. as someone who enjoys supporting independent creative endeavors like this (and had similar aspirations of my own) I guess I can see what Watcher wanted to be from the outset, and I wouldn't feel comfortable commenting publicly on any of their work what I think they "should" be making or trying to control their artistic vision

[apoptoses]

Have you ever been reading Devil’s Minion and thinking to yourself, “damn, I just can’t nail down a face for Daniel”? Have you watched Interview with the Vampire and felt like neither Christian Slater nor River Phoenix hit the mark for you?

Allow me to introduce you to James fucking Spader.

Look at him! Is that not the face of Daniel, completely fed up with Armand feeding his cigarettes down the garbage disposal?

He’s got the naive and beautiful face but ALSO the defiant yet beseeching thing down! Also he was like 22 here, which is right around the age Daniel met Armand so he’s at peak Healthy, Pretty Molloy here. No wonder Louis decided to take him home!!

“Do you know what a zip code is, or a tax bracket? I’m the one who buys all the goddamned airline tickets. Millions. How are we going to get millions! Steal another Maserati and be done with it, for God’s sakes!”

Spader is the original 80′s pretty boy you’d assume starred as the leading man in some schmoopy romances or schlocky teen dramas and he did that for a minute. Like check him out in Pretty in Pink-

 Is this not peak Night Island Daniel, in his Miami Vice looking bespoke suit ready to head out with Armand for the night?

Look at him snuggled into his blanket in Tuff Turf, like Daniel hungover and forcibly woken up to honky tonk piano tunes!

But the deliciousness doesn’t end at his looks. Because in true Molloy fashion that man said ‘you know what? I wanna make movies for freaks and weirdos only’

In Sex, Lies and Videotape he plays the sweetest pervert who loves interviewing women about their sex lives, video taping it, and then watching them back naked but not actually getting off! He’s impotent, he’s a gentle and lovely weirdo, there’s vampire!Daniel fodder for days in this one.

Crash is a horny flick that defies all explanation and really you need to go in blind if you’re gonna watch this one, but let me just say this: If Spader and his Wife in this film aren’t the most Daniel and Armand coded couple in cinema history I will eat my shoes. Also there’s tons of beautiful footage of him driving around at night with his blond hair ruffling in the breeze.

Your prefer your Daniel with glasses? Oh, perfect, because in Bad Influence he plays a sweet guy who gets into a fucked up situation with a toxic friend and a sex tape!

In Storyville he lets himself be thrown on the floor and lays there submissively before getting involved in yet another sex tape scandal!

Don’t even get me started on Dream Lover, another smut filled romp (with some filthy deleted scenes if you google the uncut version) which has the most Devil’s Minion promo photos of all time-

Like! Get the fuck out!

I could just go all day about his body of work but some of it you’ve just gotta see for yourself. In pretty much every film you’re guaranteed smut with him being deliciously submissive, extremely gentle with his hands, and down for all kinds of kink. And in most of his movies he gets bloody at least once, like-

this is a shitty picture i took of my laptop but look at the blood at the corner of his mouth! Vampire activities!

In summary, let me hit you with a photo dump:

Daniel laying in a cheap motel room during the chase years!

Daniel with delightful 70s hair!

More glasses!Daniel!

Daniel with a half-buttoned 80′s shirt looking so beautiful it’s no wonder Armand couldn’t NOT turn him!

It’s dark, he’s wet, he looks exhausted!

He’s the ideal beautiful Molloy Weirdo and I will not be accepting any other arguments, goodbye!!

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

Hi? Gosh how do I even start with this :'D

I know it's been ages since I've last popped up on here. I've been debating when to post this for a while, but I kept adding to my draft more and more and now it's the end of JULY omgg I felt so guilty disappearing with zero updates but then thought my birthday would be the best day to finally address this considering it'll feel less random? idk but Ive always celebrated my bday with you guys and I'd feel so bad answering your kind asks without me at least explaining why I was gone for months.

Truth be told, I was dealing with a lot of stuff irl. health issues and sudden declining grades that left me stumped and drained for months now- along with technical issues like having to replace some parts of my computer that took a while for me to find to even draw digitally, which I didn't have the time for anyway with how tired and weary I felt every day.

I'm frankly shaken up by a lot of shit rn and I don't know how to be active online with this burden on my chest- Especially as it's been a while since I've even looked at utmv related content and my motivation dwindled. I swear I'd hype myself up to post or reblog something- but I'd see just how much I've missed or the overwhelming amount of posts I'd need to go through and I'd feel so swamped with exhaustion and most importantly guilt, for not clearing the air up sooner to reassure you guys that I'm, y'know, alive, and not dead in a ditch somewhere. And I'd procrastinate cause typing it all out is hard and I'd give up halfway every time and it's just not fair to you all!

I thought I was handling it well when I started going out and socializing more, instead of staying cooped up at home on my computer all day. and in the first draft of this post I made months ago I was gonna detail some of the fun plans I had, for my life and for this blog :D but relaxing my strict study schedule and letting go a bit of my tight routine, thinking it was better than wringing myself dry to keep it up, backfired horribly, to say the least.

I know right?? so silly to be hung up on stupid shit like studies of all things! but this is a very important thing for me considering my career plans and the competitivity encouraged by everyone I'm surrounded by, the pressure of keeping up adding to my already stressful days. I had to fix myself up first and I couldn't handle the strain nor interact with people and thinking of jobs and exams sapped my energy so much it's frankly embarrassing. writing this feels so cheesy too and it frustrates me to know I could've come back a month earlier if it weren't for that, but I also know putting all of this into words then would just sound like incoherent venting (not that this is very different tbf) and I wasn't in the right headspace to address my absence, or anything really- I didn't want everyone to see me return when I couldn't muster up a genuinely positive message, let alone talk to anyone with a shadow of my usual cheer

I feel like a complete mess and It drives me up the wall how depressed I've gotten. I debated deleting this blog so many times 'cause the fear of disappointing my audience and my friends, for lack of a more fitting sentiment, made me feel even shittier. I'm constantly thinking if this wall of text is worth posting, or if it's better not to burden you all with all my sappy troubles as if it's the end of the world. Trust me, I'll be fine. I'm not trying to dramatize this situation, but I don't think I'm up to pretending I'm all sunshine and enthusiasm you're all accustomed to.

So sorry for worrying you all! I'll try to catch up, deliver some missed birthday gifts, and answer some asks while I'm at it! Again, I can't state how much I appreciate your support throughout the years. It's frankly a miracle I kept any of you around with how much I keep popping and leaving at random with no warning. I definitely can't promise for my stay to be without a hitch, and if you don't mind an inconsistent schedule you're free to stay of course, but I'm afraid I can't sustain the pace I had when I first started this blog. I'll keep posting art, but lower my activity in the fandom sphere to reduce the strain on my mental health. so fewer rants and walls of text, more art, and less stress overall. Love you all and thanks for waiting for this long <3

[lauronk]

random recs on a tuesday

drowning in whumptober writing and reading and i just will never catch up ever oh no what a terrible problem to have

no but seriously i started reading with my spinny wheel of destiny at 49 and it's currently sitting at....46. despite all the fics listed below.

💜 - one-shot / 🤍 - in progress multi-chap

💜world around you by @boopernatural - there are few things i love more in the world than worried old dad joel & flannel's adult ellie-verse

💜teeth bared for battle by @two-birds-alone-together - prepare to have your heart shredded and i won't say more than that

💜but it's golden, like daylight by @becomethesun - tess & joel & ellie in jackson i just 😭😭😭😭😭

🤍baby girls, miller by @bumblepony - come here and listen to me closely...joel 👏 cuddling 👏 baby 👏 sarah 👏 and 👏 baby 👏 ellie👏

💜imprints by @penandinkprincess - love me a 5+1 so fucking muchhhhhh

🤍trade your heroes for ghosts by @two-birds-alone-together - sweet little tiny joel all mixed up in the wrong world i ADORE

[unwillingtoreachout]

So I'll admit that I have no clue as to who Sebastian is, HOWEVER... based on the vibe I've picked up here and there, I feel like this is kind of a Sebastian & Aaron coded song

[crsssie]

happy 2.5k but it’s come to my attention that one of you shitheads have been sending hate asks to another creator while namedropping me please get a fucking life