#'Of course I do. We're family.'

[ace-and-ranty]

See, the decision to do away with the romantic undertones of Annabeth and Luke was correct(TM), in my opinion. It is, at best, a boring, basic writing decision, and at worst, hella creepy.

But Annabeth's crush in the books was a quick way to establish they have a connection. A lazy way! Mind you! We gotta establish girl loves boy so let's have her have a crush, despite their relationship being explicitly planned to be familial! Lazy. Cliche. Kinda creepy. But it does do what it means to do, which is to quickly tie Annabeth to Luke.

If you're gonna change that to screen, which you should, you have to do it all the way. You can't just tell me they are like siblings, you gotta show me. Annabeth gets a gentle moment of goodbye with Thalia. Why not Luke? Where is the scene where he is walking after her as she packs, shooting instructions or reassuring her she will be okay or asking if she has her toothbrush? Where is any scene of them at all? They never get five minutes to talk. How do you want me to believe they love each other like family?

#pjo show crit #I continue to bitch about the PJO show #'cause it's fun #and it was the PERFECT time to set up a call back for the future. #I bitch a lot about the show using plot beats too soon #but this WOULD be a good time to antecipate their dynamics a bit. #You could easily have a moment of Luke reassuring Annabeth she will do great #and he will be here when she comes back #'You promise?' #'Of course I do. We're family.' #BOOM. the book fans are sobbing.

[dailyloopdeloop]

DAY 71: shy

#codacheetah #isat #loop isat #isabeau isat #isat spoilers #i'll never get over loop being described as 'shy'. what a wonderful image #top one casual remarks from isabeau that cleaves loop's facade #like loop's personality is just a targeted missile to piss siffrin off. they're not at all confident and snarky #they're doing like the physical manifestation of winning an argument against yourself in the shower #second they see the party though Oopsies we're in scary territory. That's your family and they dont know it's you Oops #ok anyways ever since i saw that post i was like damn. this is just how i view loop in party postcanon #for as much as I think they SHOULD go explore around and be their own person for a while i think realistically they would not do that. #theyre going to go be a weird freak hovering around the party and refusing to socialize with anyone but siffrin and theyre gonna feel awful #(read: they're going to antagonize siffrin and it fails tremendously bc now The Rumor Come Out and siffrin knows what loop is doing.) #like loop as much as they can barely stand to even look at isabeau (for instance) i think their claws are sunk far too deep in. #onehats maybe the circumstances are different because there is a gap in understanding. there's no point forcing siffrin to confront the #obvious conclusion that loop is them (and thus siffrin's happy ending nails loop's coffin) #(THIS IS IGNORING TWOHATS PREREQS GOTTEN ONEHATS. BC THATS ITS OWN CAN OF WORMS) #but twohats. idk. for as much as it lets loop release some of their rage and process their feelings a bit. i think it might also be the pus #that makes loop consider their own existence as a person a bit more. theyre not a sponsor->corpse theyre just loop #theyre just somebody who wants desperately. they want to stay with them #theyre still siffrin. if also loop. #i think loop would force themself to reconnect with the party in the same vein as siffrin forcing himself to communicate more. #but of course having conviction and living an experience are not the same thing. so siffrin's going to flounder the emotional honesty thing #tremendously and loop's going to be. blair witching it in the corner. #hey i might have forgotten which post i was writing the tags under. oopsies #idk if these tags are comprehensible at all. i just really want to see loop fail upwards into friendship with everyone

[puppyeared]

man

#maybe im being pessimistic abt this. im not saying u should wear a mask every waking moment of your life god knows i cant #but also. hell no i dont trust u if anything i distrust u ppl even more after how things played out for the past 3 years #like there are situations where it might be inevitable catching covid. most of my family members are nurses and in constant contact #but there are also a ton of ways to make that risk low as possible like masking and wearing a face shield and having sanitizer #for me its not enough to just say oh we're in a small group and we're all vaccinated #motherfucker your kid is sick from preschool EVERY TIME WE VISIT. of course ill be wearing a mask she gave me covid last year #also no the fuck it isnt seasonal the cases go up because lack of caution makes the virus spread and mutate especially around times when #ppl gather. add that with virus transmission in cold weather and its a matter of different factors increasing the risk of spread #im also tired of ppl not understanding that i wont be their responsibility if i do get sick. maybe they can help me recover #but at the end of the day the risk of death and long term health is all on me. i cant change that #the govt barely gives me accommodations what makes u think theyll do anything for every individual case of long covid or worse #im so tired. im so tired #i dont even know if its possible to want this to be over anymore i just wish we didnt have to deal with this in the first place #ALSO COUGH INTO YOUR SLEEVE SERIOUSLY HOW IS THIS SO HARD TO REMEMBER #oh its just a cold/dry throat its not like i have covid or anything. no!! its basic hygiene!!! how is this so hard to understand!!!!!!!!!! #and no this isnt abt whether people have the means to protect themselves this is me bitching abt my relatives not taking me seriously #vent #my art #myart #doodles #covid 19

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

the doctor isnt neurodivergent or autistic or adhd or nonbinary or genderqueer or asexual. what the doctor is, is Not From Here

#which necessarily of course says something abt their (non)whiteness #(i had all these words in quotation marks first so mentally add those to whiteness too) #but we've them be black for all of 1.5 episode now so #lets see how that develops you know #also i dont think i understand the politics of that part well enough to say much abt it #not that i probably understand the politics of these parts better but #im annoyed enough abt this Thing happening these years. in these 20s i guess. the 'representation' thing #to complain abt it anyway #the dsm isnt real and it isnt gonna fuck you buddy #maybe i'll read some books and then one day i'll write an essay driven by spite and pettiness #i wonder if i can make the thesis statement about the tension between their status of main character #in a 60 year running family adventure show vs this therapy thing we're doing now #like. you cant do that. in terms of like. what story is and does. what a character is and does. it strains #in an interesting way. like im not saying they Shouldnt have done it. im just observing. that you cant do that really. i think #or maybe you can! but i'll find that out #i also dont know shit abt narratology or whatever so. need to read books first. sigh #always have to pause my thoughts to read myself in first its so annoying. esp bc i rarely really do #bc then new thoughts new things to do you cant do EVERYTHING. you can do almost nothing. bane of my existence really #but like you might even be able to say smth interesting here about whether you can call them traumatised at all #remember that article i saw around on tumblr a few years ago i think that was abt like. some scholar in the middle east maybe #saying that ptsd is a western thing bc it necessitates a Post #all of this is western. psychiatry is western. its all stories. how you conceptualise trauma is a story #whos Other is story #where youre from is a story what you stand for is a story who you are is a story #ah. checked the article. dr samah jabr. palestinian. i'll start with her book maybe

[aphel1on]

succumbed to writing thistle fic and tripped sideways into post-canon falin character study

#dunmeshi #thistle #falin #oh to be a girl who died and came back and died and came back again and each time fundamentally changed. #the dragon is still with her. it's small enough to pick up and carry in her arms but it's still with her and it always will be #she's still falin of course. still mostly falin but that's not all she is. not anymore #how does she see herself now. how much does it influence her really. #how much does she remember from her time as a chimera and how does she experience those memories #how does she feel about her draconic traits? how does everyone else feel? #laios of course thinks it's cool as fuck #marcille though. marcille i bet has some juicy trauma around it even if she's trying her best to Not Make It Weird for Falin #do she and izutsumi bond over being monstergirls? #And of course. the question i originally started at. how does she think of thistle #this is a 'thistle lives and recovers somewhat' au bc i rly rly needed that. for me #Lots of negative emotions there could be between them but this is Falin we're talking about. #i think i can turn them into a weird little family. i really really think i can #aphelion.txt #dungeon meshi spoilers

[b4kuch1n]

frog documentation. frogcumentation

I think I mentioned a while back I'd post nibling frog momence after the gift's done given. which happened on the 2nd this month I just forgot lmao. anyways we can do it now. I used the boigameista pattern scaled up to four pieces of A4 print paper and decided to double deck it to a two layer thing, not unlike a pillow, for ease of washin. because it was gonna be gifted to a one year old child

took a long time and made a number of mistakes bc hand sewing makes me worse as a person but this guy was done in time for the birthday occasion and that's what matters. chose non-fuzzy fabrics for it because we live in a dense city in the tropics and from personal experience if I hug something made of fur I would explode. the original plan included felt patterns on its back for bonus textures for baby but that wouldn't stretch well along with the rest of the thing so had to hold that back. eventually we got this

zipper across its ass, the coat type of zipper bc I miscalculated when ordering. but it did have a shape and that's all that matters to me. will be a fun game for the baby to grow up and be severely misinformed about what a frog looks like

happy extremely late birthday to this thing also

#bakuspecial #uhhhh. whats my craft tag. I forgor. update this later #frog plush babeyyyy #I want this thing to last until the heat death of the universe so I felled all the seams down. dont recommend doing this by hand #Im so stubborn lmao I refuse to get a serger I will simply get better at hand sewing instead. damn its taking kinda long #there used to be a Lot more frogs around hanoi. but the lack of clean water ponds and lakes have driven down the population #I live like right at the edge of the city rn tho (will no longer be the case in five years) so there are still a lot of aminals #house robins. skinks. fireflies (!!!!). praying mantises. tree frogs #they love to hang out at the fountain inside the complex right across the street. had to pick em up to return to the fountain #from the hot brick tiled ground a few times #theyre so small. theyre so small.... #I miss house geckos they dont show up a lot in our apartment. I wish they would they would love the cockroaches around here #and of course. bc the kind of rice we eat is more short-grained and thus usually not all the way dried like the longer-grained type we have #so many rice weevils. do u know those little fucks do not drown for a Long time #do u know they lay eggs inside the rice grains and that's how u find out ur rice about to become the weevil beverly hill #by washing the rice and seeing hollowed out grains float up. I have become an expert at this. #but I get to see skinks in random bushes so who am I to be pissed about that. skinks rule #this has been baku talks about animals for a mile of tags. thank u for listening #well. its evening and the family wants to go out so that's what we're doin. hope u have a good time too wherever u are #see u this midnight when I reblog every new posts I've made in the last week or so lmao

[tricoufamily]

update tinder guy superliked me, asked me on a date, spent the entire thing belittling and making fun of me and seeming vaguely angry at me. then asked me for a second date

#that was the worst weirdest date i have ever been on what the fuck #like. got weirdly angry at me for having a decent relationship with my immediate family #like 'oh well at least you have [blank] 🙄😒' so many times and would not stop reminding me how much harder his life supposedly is #literally asking me to say hardships in my life so he could 'one-up' them. ???????????? #you would have literally thought i was a member of the royal family #like i had already said i was poor and was bullied in school and he was STILL kept insinuating- #-i had a family who gives me tons of money (lol) and was popular/well-liked in school. unlike him. of course #also making fun of my interests how i talk act write texts etc etc etc #you know who i bet would never do this. that's right. my crush who i can never have FUCK IT WE'RE BACK BOYS WOOOOOOOOOOO FUCK MOVING ON #one of his ice breakers was 'what's your worst tinder experience' though. guess what buddy!!!! #next time i get asked that i'll have a funnier story thank you

[anxiously-sidequesting]

So I once made a funny shit post about the Young Wizard actually beaming to the Spiral at the tender age of 45 but it got me thinking of the opposite. What if the Wizard was incredibly young

Since in the game it isn't specified at what exact age we arrived in the Spiral I think it's just up to the player to come up with that part. I personally like to think The Wizard was around 7 or 8 when this happened but what if they were actually like four or five years old

Like shieeeet that's young enough where we wouldn't really remember our time on Earth very clearly right? Our family and maybe our friends but unless we had like ungodly memory powers, we wouldn't be able to remember all of the details of our original home. Like isn't it proven that human beings first gain self and special awareness at 3 or 4? Something like that

And this can open up for some sweet scenarios - little kid Wizard running up to Malorn with a scribbled drawing of him with a big smile on his face, or us and Ceren reading picture books together or clinging onto Nolan's robes as we attempt to stand on his feet as he walks like a penguin, but there's also this sad and messed up undertone that in this universe Ambrose took what was essentially a child just out of toddler stage and decided to keep them in the Spiral instead of returning them to their family

And like imagine how that would affect us. We would see it as normal at first because we grew up in the Spiral, we spent more years in the wizard world than in our home on Earth, but what if the Wizard gained awareness later on in life and actually realized what happened. Would they even care at that point because the Spiral was integrated in them at such a young age? Would they feel any yearning towards their original family, would they miss them at all? Would the Wizard be bitter about not getting to know them?

It's different when you're 7 - 10 and onwards because at that stage in your life you've more than gotten used to Earth life. You've gained awareness and it has been emotionally and mentally established that THIS (Earth) is your home. You know your parents and you know your friends and you know your environment. You will miss that when it's gone and feel it's absence because you're old enough to at least notice when you're taken away from it. But when you're still at that impressionable and oblivious stage of like 4 - 6 years old? The Spiral is all you know now. Your parents faces will be blurry, you may not even remember the details of what your home looked like. You may remember certain smells, colors or feelings you experienced when you were on Earth but that may be about it. And the saddest part about that is depending on what Ambrose and the other adults put our Wizard through, we may grow to completely forget even those essential memories. That Earth part of us would TOTALLY be gone and that would include even our parents (or other caretakers). I'm crying actually

#this was supposed to be a happy post LMFAO #i wanted to make little kid/familial relationships headcanons with the wizard city student npcs. maybe ill still do that #i can see even nolan taking us under his wing and hyping us up and going “WOW thats so pretty!!!” at a drawing we made #penny dreadful would be the best older sister. by accident of course bc she wasnt looking to adopt but she saw us- #-one day and was like ''yeah. yeah they can be my family'' #imagine us being one of the highlights in malorns day. after a hard day of work he just sees this little kid- #-running up ro him just so happy to see him for no reason. they hug his waist and then tell him about their day #duncan grimwater shenanigans. ''ew i dont want this child near me'' (is nice to them anyway bc theyre 4) #villains when they see a toddler has come to kill them: 🧐 #even malistaire goes ''what the fuck is this you want me to beat up a child??? ambrose???????'' #we're 8 years old when we face off morganthe in zafaria #thats so fucking funny morganthe would be APPALLED #and you bitches KNOW grandfather spider would adopt us IMMEDIATELY #''good job son (gender neutral)!'' grandfather spider says as we beat him the fuck up in mirage #wizard101 #w101 #wiz101 #text posts

[irregularbillcipher]

do love how many of us bill cipher flatland truthers heard "when bill destroyed his home dimension, he killed everyone he'd ever known" and all simultaneously decided "well except kryptos. he knew kryptos. he kept kryptos :)"

#the circles trying to arrest bill for Dimension Crimes or w/e: can you explain your relationship to bill cipher #kryptos: i am bill's right hand arm. man. i'm bill cipher everything. his best friend. his confidant. his silly rabbit #the circles: his what #kryptos: his silly rabbit #the circles: ... his silly rabbit #kryptos: yes :) #the circles: is that what he calls you? #kryptos: no <3 #i see so many interpretations of their dynamic but i think it's funny how it always basically boils down to well of COURSE he kept kryptos #even the people who are like 'he finds kryptos annoying as shit and rags on him whenever he can and hates him' are like #'but yeah no obviously he kept kryptos around!' #also while i have my own thoughts on their dynamic to the point it is the main point of my fic and kryptos is now the secondary lead #i do love that however you interpret him (friend acquaintance partner court appointed attorney family member WHATEVER) we're all just like #'he was there too :)' #i also think it's funny that someone felt so strongly about their own kryptos idea that they went hogwild on the wiki unsourced and was #just like 'ummmm they're related now! it was confirmed. source-- my divine knowledge :)' and then caused everyone to go HUH #until it was taken down #bill and kryptos are very much NOT related in my hcs like very very very much not #but i gotta hand it to you. as much as i disagree with the take #it takes guts to go on the fandom wiki with your random hc and go 'this is real trust me :)' and then dip

[corallapis]

ok actually.... the dr who of it all.........

#forgetting his past/remembering his mother. the future planned for him: elite schooling. 'judgeship in the highest court.' #running away. tink (the tardis) saves him & takes him away. his own window barred to him. finding other windows to visit. #'i expected my shadow and i would join together like drops of water.' (hello. do i have to say it. the master.) #visiting wendy until. ('your friends never see you again once they've grown up. the old man prefers the company of the young does he not?') #even the edwardian -> 60s (beatlemania!) time jump. #'i know why i grew up. because i wanted to be a father.' #the way gallifrey is connected to family & realities where the doctor never left or returned (like auld mortality & the infinity doctors). #& of course all the times we're told the doctor was once a father but is no longer. #dw

[marymekpop]

you need to fill your stomach if you want to stay strong

#crash course in romance #korean drama #jung kyung ho #jeon do yeon #mygif #that foot volleyball scene where she takes care of him #that moment when he discovers who she is #all the things he does for her and her family after finding out #the jealousy #the way they look at each other #the way they dont want to be too obvious about their feelings for each other #THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN WAITING FOR #now we're cooking (pun intended) #we have one doing the cooking and the other doing the teaching #i love it i love it #2 eps per week is simply not enough for me #i love these 2 so so much #also jdy is queen but she srsly looked so so pretty and elegant and stunning in that dress #we love korea's best banchan restaurant owner #the kdrama gods heard my prayers and gave us more romance development between these 2 #you love to see it <3

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

it's like. everything happens so much. it's all happening right now but at the same time nothing is happening whatsoever. it's a liminal space of an existence. it's slowly crushing me under the weight but when I look up there's nothing actually bearing down on me. there shouldn't be any weight. something is wrong but nothing has happened. I'm simultaneously overwhelmed and utterly bored. nothing is happening and maybe that's the everything that's happening. maybe the everything is the nothing. we aren't there yet but it's all so imminent. either everything is going to crash down or nothing is. I'm just waiting to figure out which.

#I refuse to be upset at anyone. I have so much love in my heart #but I'm going to pack formal clothes for my sister in my own bag just in case. she doesn't need to know that. #you couldn't pay me to care or to stop caring. it's cognitive dissonance #because I know this won't always affect me but it's my whole world right now #I say I don't care and I mean it but at the same time I care more than anything else #it's actually almost scary how much I relate to dark alley #not in a ''I'm in a mentally dark or dangerous place'' way but in a ''yeah I compare myself to others too much'' way #and then I try to make excuses so it can make sense to other people so they won't think the worst of me #like literally I'm trying not to think about fall but it's right around the corner and I'm. falling into it I guess #pun intended of course. I don't want to lose all my friends #I want to be one of the kids who gets invited to people's houses for lunch after church and I know I never will be #because that's the kind of thing that's only for the kids who are going someplace. not the ones who stay #I'm feeling very selfish and it's probably bc I'm tired lol this happens sometimes #I'm gonna make dinner for my family and then I'll feel better skskskskk #Lu rambles #sometimes I think I could write poetry #I feel like once my vacation is actually imminent I'll feel better I just haaate the point we're at right now #which is like. it's SOON but not THAT SOON so I feel like I can't do anything bc I'm just waiting for things to get going :/

[keyrousse]

#gotcha! #official cookbook from The Witcher world #I'd suggest it to my family as my Christmas present but we're probably not doing presents this year #there's an English version as well of course #it's fun! #very classic recipes from all over the world... the Continent I mean :) #some interesting mixtures as well #The Witcher #cookbook #yes the photo was taken with the book on my sofa hence the cat fur on the covering blanket...

[randomnameless]

Seteth :

I cannot help but be concerned, given your tendency toward incautious behavior. While boldness can be a virtue, I do hope you will bear in mind that recklessness is not. A moment's negligence can lead to a mortal wound for even the most skilled fighter.

Seiros the Warrior :

"I could have killed that guy, after outrunning half a dozen spells thrown at me!"

Cichol, who knows better than to argue : "sure you could"

HC : Seteth facepalmed when he heard student!Cassandra say she doesn't need to work on her res stat if she can "outrun magic" and ranted at Rhea for three weeks straight about her giving the most ridiculous pointers to humans and how she will be banned, from now on, from giving seminars to students.

He wanted to ban her from giving seminars to anyone altogether when she revealed she never told anything to Cassandra, it's just "common sense" to run in magic circles but they were interrupted by a messenger telling them Adrestia launched a campaign in Brigid.

#3 nopes #fodlan nonsense #lizard family time? #look at them #Rhea 'of course running in magic in the best way to avoid it' #Cichol who does his rescue thing but I suppose Rhea wouldn't have needed it #Epi and pals were going to blast their allies too? Since Rhea cuts some randoms when she's running #after seeing her rando feats in this OP sequence #we're supposed to believe she died to Clout and Barney? Seriously? #it was already stupid in Tru Piss how Rhea isn't doing what Macuil does here and doesn't blast the battlefield from above #she's a sitting lizard in those gameplay battles #sure sure gameplay and battle mechanic and what not #but don't show her doing those ridiculously cool moves and then have her sit to be a giant pinata #Nopes nonsense #Rhea stuff #poor seteth #even back then he had to watch her back

[b4kuch1n]

1/ this bout of comms almost done and 2. spawndate in 3 days so I have! been fixin up some stuff for the itch store. that'll go live on the 29th! right now there Is a pack of the lineart stuff I did last year for folks who found that agreeable, still free to grab! for practicing coloring, or if you wanna mess around with colors when ur not feelin like doing lineart, or if you wanna try to figure out colors in a drastically different style than what you usually go for. or if u just wanna look at it that's cool too. small announcement that is all see u in a few

#bakuspeech #update on the situation: is mostly contained. it'll take a fair bit to make up for how much it's kicked us in the nuts #but it's doable. just Very annoying and tedious and sudden and overall it just sucks #esp. like right up close to my birthday lmao. like if it happened earlier this year I'd be like alright. sucks shit but par for the course #this year has already been so fucked up. this might as well happen #but since it's happened in december it really brings on the feeling of like. fr bitch? #right in front of my cake? me the birthday boy? the specialest fucking boy? #but well. theres a Thing around here that's ur birthday usually being the unluckiest day #but also we're the kind of folks who track death dates rather than birthdays. like up until very recently #all four of my grandparents have unspecified birthdays. their birth years aren't even correct. on paper they're like #a few years older than they actually are #and my granddad on my dads side was even from a family of some means so it wasnt even a class thing #man. last year Something was happening around this time too. idr what but it also sucked #mmm. well. what is really just is. and I've already taken a hammer to it anyhows #I'll do the same for the birthday thing. it Will be fucking good. I take a hammer to it #I'm very glad I still get some commissions even tho it was practically right up to noel #you guys are very generous. I don't say it as often as I should I think but I'm very very thankful for the support #glad to hang out around here still. glad to have the folks I have here. thank u for chillin with me #please look forward to the itch store update. got a new thing along with the old things ported over. stay tuned

[yutadori]

it's so crazy and isolating hearing my friends talk about how they want kids u__u

#i saw my friend for the first time in months on sun (we've still been keeping in touch though so it doesnt feel like that much time has #passed) and she's always been staunchly against having kids #but then we started talking about ivf (thanks to pussypedia when i flipped it open to a random page) and she talked about how she'd conside #having kids in the future and i was like HUH ??? #not out loud of course but . #she's been with her bf for almost a year now and i think being with him has changed her mind #she mentioned how he has a big family like he has a lot of siblings and his parents each have a lot of siblings themselves #so i dont really see him shifting towards the idea of not having kids bc of that idkkkk #and she said that she sees it as a chance to give kids a better life than she had and :/ #idk i'm really set on never having kids ever because i dont think i could ever do it + i dont have any sort of desire or pull towards the #and i never really felt bad about it or swayed but now that my friend who was really firm on Not having kids is changing her mind i feel #kind of bad about it for some reason !?!?!? #idk it feels a bit selfish to be upset that she changed her mind but idk it's kinda isolating #i think i only have one friend now who doesnt want kids #but if that changes then its going to probably feel .__. #i know none of my friends are going to shame me for it but :/ #idk . it feels weird and bad lol but also i dont want to have kids just because i feel left out or looked down on #ss #its even scarier because we're getting closer to the age where people start having kids..... like what do you mean we're not in our late #teens / early twenties anymore....................