#AND THIS FUCKING TOWN IN GENERAL

[anachronistic-falsehood]

"you should find a job where you want to live before you find a place to stay" mom please shut up i am more focused on getting the fuck out of this town than i am on money right now i have savings and a credit card i will be fucking fine. now go talk to my dad about he'll only ever see me as his daughter and how you agree with him or some shit like that

#whiskey yelling into the void #SORRY I AM FUCKING FRUSTRATED #I WANNA GET OUT OF THIS TOWN #IT'S KILLING ME #I WANT AWAY FROM MY JOBS #AND MY PARENTS #AND THIS FUCKING TOWN IN GENERAL #i love my parents i need to make that clear they're supportive just a little ignorant about what you should and shouldnt say to ur trans ki #things you shouldn't say include 'i will always see you as your agab no matter what you do' even if that is genuinely how u feel #bc quite frankly. i don't care to know that. #you could have kept that to yourself when i came out to you #but you didn't #and i feel like shit thinking about it #good GRIEF

[kingofanemptyworld]

hey you know what would be fun? a fic where the Royal Guard follows through with their plans to make Ichigo the new Soul King and Grimmjow promptly loses his shit because what the actual fuck Ichigo has already given these people literally everything, twice, and this is how they repay him? recruits Nel and Harribel and Urahara and Yoruichi (after Nel sits on him for a while because Jesus Christ Grimmjow you can’t storm Soul Society by yourself no matter how much you’ve powered up) and it’s the Ryoka Invasion all over again except with pissed off arrancar instead. I just think it would be neat

#king’s court #bleach #grimmichi #orihime and Chad are also there #Ishida is questionable considering the timeline and his feelings about soul society in general #I just have this perfect image in my head of Grimmjow finding out and just going to town on the shinigami over it #like ‘no one in all three fucking worlds deserves that self righteous asshole martyr #but he chooses all over you. over and over again. and for what? how many fucking times have you abandoned him? #my plans haven’t changed I’m gonna tear his throat out with my teeth #but I can’t fucking do that if he’s locked away like some fucked up fairytale princess now can I?’ #Nel in the background laughing to herself because wow grimmjow nice save there definitely no one suspects you’re soft for Ichigo #other shinigami come around to help but grimmjow trusts zero of them besides Urahara and Yoruichi so. toss up if he lets them do anything #anything important anyway #okay I’m done #I haven’t read CFYOW btw I just know this is a thing that’s talked about in it #also I know a fic like this exists for ichiruki but I’m deep into my grimmichi era so

[tswwwit]

Thinking about the episode where Dipper and Mabel went back in time and ran into kid-Wendy, who thought Dipper was cute, and it was kind of this "wow" moment for him. Now I can't stop imagining a scenario in the familiar au where a married, up-and-coming demon hunter Dipper Pines, along with Bill, have to go back in time for whatever reason to about when he was 12. He figures they should keep a low profile if they want to return to their timeline unchanged, but they end up bumping into Dipper's younger self, back when he was first dropped off and all noodle armed and couldn't really defend himself against the town bullies. Almost as if on cue, a group of kids come up on young Dipper and try to pick on him, only for adult Dipper to ward them away. Older Dipper still considering himself kind of a massive loser with a lot to learn, but his younger self just looks at this strange new-comer and thinks he's SO COOL🤩🤩🤩!!! And maybe follows him around a bit in admiration, silently saying stuff about wishing he were "that strong," or "that smart," or "ever a little cool." And Dipper has that same "wow" moment, but for an entirely different reason. Maybe he did grow up to be everything he wanted to be as a kid, and maybe even the kid version of him wasn't a loser to begin with; people were just serious jerks.

(Bonus points if Stan definitely knows who this flame-wielding stranger that just blew into town is, and seeing how Dipper's grown and matured puts him at ease and makes him more confident that maybe he can raise the twins on his own. Look at the kid go. He did something right.)

Anon, why must you tempt me with new ideas when I have so many WIPs

#answers #I have THOUGHTS about this #Many of them #But I'll keep them to myself in case I decide to do a thing #The Stan part especially is intriguing with possibilities #Dipper meeting his grunkle and thinking he's doing a great job of being a Mysterious Stranger #While absolutely not managing it at all #Either that or absolutely managing it right up until he doesn't #Double fun if Ford is around to investigate this 'strange temporal phenomena' while Dipper foils his attempts to get anything done #So as not to completely mess up their timeline #If there's one thing I love it's a skewed perspective #And DIpper thinking 'oh god oh fuck oh god I'm messing all of this up aaaaah' the whole time #While simultaneously saving the town/his younger self/running circles around Ford and generally being A Cool Guy #Is always a delight

[wilimia]

Tp Link and Zelda hate each other. That's it that's the headcanon

#like Link knows nothing about etiquette and city life in general #Zeldas never stepped outside of castle town (or never gone to anything remotely rural #both of the probably think Midna likes the other more so theyre jealous of each other #link thinks shes a stuck up boring stick in the mud #while zelda thinks hes a dumb brash n honestly gross bumpkin #like the respect each other but they dont like each other #zelda sends link out on meaningless missions just to fuck w him or get rid of him #link intentionally embarrasses zelda infront of nobles and isnt very helpful #theyre VERY competitive #the interactions the had in the game where polite sure but that was before they knew each other #they'd met like three times and everytime it involved midna somehow #midnas like there mutual friend who makes them hang out together and then she leaves and its super awkward #thats it this is my headcanon #wili talks #twilight princess

[soldier-poet-king]

Anyway yeah finished daniil's route in pathologic and man is it Floor Time

#the duality of fran #pathologic #daniil dankovsky #IM HAVING. SO MANY THOUGHTS. ABT THIS STRANGE TERRIBLE FRUSTRATING BRILLIANT LITTLE GAME #and the nature of storytelling in general. the metaphysics behind the act of creating fiction. #the interplay of fate and choice when there is a a set narrative but also a player character #the theomachism. but is it? given the nature of choice? #he came to defeat death and he must choose between the divine and the mundane #and the only way to stop being a doll. to become real. is to choose differently #refuse to take the step fated for yourself #but neither can you cease to choose at all #it is. the sidestep. the chosing the town of the polyhedron #the good doctor rather than the great thanatist #he has lost everything. he is a broken humiliated man. and we still choose to play with him. like. FUCK #genuinely started crying abt it.

[mango-parfait]

It's so funny how my father would rather starve and eat dirt if my mother isn't around to serve it to him. Girl we live in Singapore- there's at least five places to get food from right outside your door.

Mum is busy rn, you're left with the impatient and temperamental oldest daughter

#mango rants #“I'll just eat instant noodles” NO??????? WE HAVE A WHOLE ASS TOWN MALL 3 MINS AWAY ON FOOT #how the fuck are men his generation so reliant of their wives bffr

[rhymey-workshop]

Feel free to skip. TW: I'm joining the military.

Growing up is really hard, and I don't think we realize that until we're on the verge of a big change, standing on the border between two parts of your life, balancing on a precipice before you take the swan dive known to many as change.

I'm packing my things. My dad finally brought home boxes and storage tubs and I'm finally packing my things, and that makes the passage of time so much more real.

I'm packing my things. My mom opened the door to tell me to watch my sleeping brother, and said nothing about the fact my room is a mess, or that I was just staring blankly at the cardboard box I just taped the bottom of. That box is ready for my craft books and paint stuff, my origami paper, my reading stand, my books on how to make stuff like children's books and animation. She made no mention of it all, just made that same pinched expression she has for weeks and then schooled her expression into something more neutral as she nodded towards the bedroom where my brother is and after a moment I got up and stumbled in, sitting at the foot of the bed to type out some kind of vent on Tumblr.

I'm packing my things, and I'm stuck between wanting to cry and finding myself unable to cry. I'm leaving home. I've been dreaming of getting out of here off and on since I was 13. At times I had a countdown of years, months, weeks, days that I had to stay, that I had to wait for the day I could finally leave. It made being angry or sad or any other complicated emotion easier. It made hardship easier to cope with. It made it easier to get through the hard times because I knew I could leave and nothing could stop me.

I'm packing my things, slowly, piece by piece, and I'm starting to understand the weight of what my dad said, when he said I was the first person on either side of my family in generations to not run away from home before turning 18. My mom left home at 17, my dad spent more days out of the house than in it as a teenager and left the god damn country. My bio paternal family has these issues too. My maternal family is full of people that ran off, that stayed away from home and didn't look back. My mom only speaks to one sister, and can't speak to her brother as long as their mother is alive. I didn't leave. I finished high school, I got my diploma, I took my time and I didn't leave before I was a legal adult.

I'm packing my things to leave home, and it's hard. It's scary. I've never been away from home for very long, and here I am, getting ready to do something more than just "Move out".

I'm packing my things, putting my life into boxes, sorting what's going to stay, waiting for me to return, what's getting tossed, what's going to get donated or given away. I keep finding things and remembering shit related to them. I keep finding things and remembering who gave them to me. I keep finding things and remembering which parent smiled when I got it.

I'm packing my things, and in a way I'm also processing a kind of grief I didn't know existed.

I'm leaving home for something I thought through for 8 months, and I'm coming up on the one year anniversary since I made my decision. It's been just under two since I signed the dotted line, swore in, and came home to congratulations and a sureness that I'm doing the right thing for me.

In 5 days, I'm going to my last meeting. Getting a send off from a group of people doing the same thing. A couple of them doing the EXACT same thing.

In 9 days, I'll spend the last full 24 hours I've got with my family, eating a fruit tart and playing putt putt. I'll say good night and that'll be the last time I see them for months at the very least.

In 10 days, I'm hiding my key on the porch and walking out the front door while everyone is asleep. They'll wake up and I'll be hundreds of miles away from them. In 10 days, I'm hopping in a big unmarked government van (and this will never not be funny to me) with like 5 other people and we're all doing the same thing. We're going somewhere and we have no idea what is really waiting for us.

In 11 days, I'm not in civilian limbo anymore. As it stands I am subject to the UCMJ but I'm not a sailor yet. In 11 days, I'm a recruit, and that's fucking dizzying to think about.

I'm getting ready to start a new part of my life and it's going to be exciting and new and I'll make friends and I'll go a couple places and I'll have stories to tell my brother and family. I think I'll be better, when all is said and done.

But right now, I'm packing my things into boxes and tubs, and right now, I want to cry.

#if you read this far #and want to know why the fuck I am joining up #the reasons are #in order #i dont know what im doing with my life but want out of this town #submarines are fucking awesome #and im poor #i got a 98 on my asvab and i think i picked a pretty neat job #i guess there is also a family history component #5th generation to serve #basic training #sad thoughts #growing up #us navy #im scared tbh #but thats okay

[kelpiemomma]

He hesitated as the child below him smiled and reached up. His claws rested right above its head and yet it looked delighted to see him. Did it not realize the danger it was in? It grabbed his fur and giggled.

"Puppy!"

...if he was asked, he was simply raising it up to help him infiltrate human settlements better.

#Khan a. #Zoroark Khan #Raised by Zoroarks au #Khan finds Akari in the middle of nowhere and is about to kill her (bc all humans deserve to die in his eyes) #But when she smiles at him he can't do it and decides to take her in and raise her instead #There was something about her looking... Happy to see him that stopped him #(when was the last time anyone was happy to see him?) #(this is bc I thought it'd be funny if Khan raised akari as a Zoroark and then got upset and jealous #When ingo drops the fuck out of the sky and after becoming the warden becomes friendly #the weird feral child running with Zoroarks. He tries to guide her into human behaviors which she finds so INTERESTING #Esp when he decides she's good enough to go into town!!! The town humans are neat and not at all scary like khan had always said #Ingo lies and says she's his daughter. That they had gotten separated during travel. That she had to survive on her own for a time #Which is why she's... Like That. Everyone eats it up. Gives her free stuff. Tells her they're glad she's reunited with her dad. #Akari tells Khan (who's only referred to as 'malice' yet) and Khan gets jealous as FUCK. #That is HIS BABY. HE FOUND HER. HE RAISED HER. SHE'S HIS DAUGHTER. NOT INGO'S!!! #But when he tries to sneak into Jubilife to steal her back? Bring her home? Do something? He's caught and chased out. And the next morning #Things are abuzz with the news that a black Zoroark had tried to break in!! Those things are so dangerous!! Say... #Hadn't the clans mentioned a black Zoroark before? #Akari discovers then (long after befriending ingo and months since she started coming into town) that Khan had told her the truth. #That these people hated Zoroarks. Feared them. But Ingo tells her that the clans have been harassed by them for generations. #That Malice is right but also he's wrong. And Akari decides she's going to show how GOOD Zoroarks are!!! How loving the are to their family #She ends up helping Laventon and Rei with the dex. She is still known as Warden Ingo's Feral Daughter. And everyone wonders and fears #Bc somehow one of the first pokemon she caught was a zorua she keeps in her party ALWAYS. Ingo thinks her wanting to show the good side #of Zoroarks is a good thing. Peace would be beneficial. He's heard hunters in the pearl clan discuss wanting to track down and kill #Every Zoroark and zorua to keep them from hunting the clans. He doesn't want an entire species wiped out! #So there is Ingo and his 'daughter' (who he is genuinely starting to see as his daughter) and then suddenly #One day there is a knock at the door. And ingo opens it to see a young man with a nasty scar GLARING at him #And the first thing he says is 'give me back my child' which makes ingo ???) #There were more tags but Tumblr said 'fuck you that's too many' #TLDR ingo has to lie to Jubilife residents and tell them Khan is his ex and the residents are LIVING for the perceived Family Drama™️

[justafriendofxanders]

the real star-crossed lovers of btvs are xander and spike, because xander would have been dtf most days if a flimsy enough heterosexual excuse provided itself, except for that one time when he was going after spike for sleeping with anya. unfortunately for him, that is probably also the only time spike would have been down to smash.

#not a s4 spander truther because i think if they had fucked both of them would have left town #(obv without telling the other and then they would run into each other when someone's car breaks down #and then they'd REALLY be stuck together. isolated from the rest of the scoobies. you know for the drama/comedy) #that one ends on a pretty toothless 'we're not FRIENDS now but we do have a begrudging respect for each other' #anyways in general i think spike could only be attracted to a xander that's not insecure and repressed #but xander could only be attracted to spike while insecure and repressed #sad! #buffyposting #btvs

[fluxweeed]

hey. hope this message doesn't bother you. I love you. I love your work. you are one of my favorite fic authors, I am absolutely obsessed with everything you write. reread everything ten times over, drarry or not, fluffy or angsty - even when it absolutely shatters my heart (e.g. for lack of wanting, SUCH a great fic btw i'm so obsessed with it). the four doors? life changing. two to lie and one to listen? engraved into my brain for eternity. what's mine is yours? what a ride holy shit, im VERY normal about it. wrapped? my comfort read. and so it goes.

if I could aggressively smother you with kudos and love I WOULD!!!

awhile ago you said that there's no such thing as "big deals" in fandom and I 100% agree but at the same time you are a big deal TO ME!!! not in the sense of any kind of hierarchy but purely based on the fact that I think you are such a cool person and your writing is amazing and poignant and your presence in fandom makes it so much better. it's been a pleasure following you here on tumblr and just reading your tags and posts.

idk I just think you rule. that's it. thank you for hanging with us. MWAH 💛

ahhhh anon sorry for leaving this message sitting in my inbox for a couple of days but !! i have zero idea how to react to this!! you're so kind!! thank you!! please discard any and all inclinations u have that i am a cool person bc i can assure you i am NOT!!

#tumblr tag essay time? tumblr tag essay time #why can't i do this in the main body of a post u ask? pure obnoxiousness ig idk #scarier when it's not greyed out and in a little whisper innit #1) anon i love and appreciate you + your kind words so so much but i rly cannot stress enough that literally nobody here is a big deal 😭 #like i know u don't mean it in That Way but even so!!! #this is a hill i could write another 1k words about before i die on it again but i will spare u 😅 #2) ur also v v kind to say the thing abt my presence in fandom #but unfortunately i'm coming to terms with the fact that my presence in fandom is v much on the sidelines #a non-presence #i'm embracing my role as the crotchety old hag who does not attend the functions #i have a hut in the woods and u can find me there (here in tumblr tags) muttering to myself #occasionally i'll wander into the town square (ao3) and present an unnerving thing i made from mud and twigs (a fic) and then i'll fuck off #that's about all i can handle in terms of group settings i think 😅 #but the door to my hut (my DMs) is always open if u want to stop by! #3) i can't even begin to acknowledge all the nice things u said about my fics kjhsdf you are truly too generous 😭 #let me smother YOU with love!!! cmere!!! #4) this is the second nice anon message i've had in the last couple weeks which is !!!! #anon(s) i'm kissing you wherever u consent to be kissed!!! #but ofc now i'm paranoid ppl will think i'm sending these to myself skdljf #can't stress enough how open my DMs are on here/twt/discord if ever u wanna chat in a way that i don't have to post publicly to reply to 😅 #5) i'm soooo sorry about these tags #could have just said “thanks!” couldn't i #please put me right in the bin #anyway sorry again thank you again ilu very much ❤️

[bunniii-ylr]

Hey Look, I've Finally Posted Something Pony Town Related!!!!1!1!!1!!1!111

But Anyways, I Rarely See These Guys In The Lego Area Lol, But I'm Pretty Proud Of All Of Em, Especially Morro :]]

(Morro Is The One I Get The Most Compliments On Lol)

#idk #idfk at this point #help plz #aubahbsug suhnsuhnsinsnuusnuns #haha fuck #haha pain #ninjago general kozu #ninjago bansha #neuro ninjago #ninjago ronin #ninjago morro #ninjago griffin turner #lego ninjago #ninjago #lego #legos #pony town #silly guys #so silly

[sexybritishllama]

there is no horror quite like the glimpses you get of what life would be like if you stayed in the same shithole town you grew up in for the rest of your life

#eloise talks #one of my closest friends who i grew up with returned home after uni #(absolutely fair) #but she’s ended up getting a job there and getting more and more stuck into the town #repeatedly dates shitty south east english boys #works for some high street firm that makes her cry on a regular basis #in spite of all this she does say she’s generally happy with her life decisions! #which is great! #personally sounds like fucking hell but hey ymmv

[hella1975]

my mum’s just been to a WI meeting where they did a survival course thing and she’s been absolutely SLATING the guy they brought in to do the talk bc he was super patronising and crass and my mum was just very rude to him and very dismissive and he got very uppity. and i was like ‘LOL he sounds like my DofE instructor’ bc when i did DofE i was in the only all girls group and we had an actual feud against our instructor bc he very clearly didn’t like us and wanted us to do badly and - being 15/16 year old girls - we made his life HELL like im convinced what we did would have constituted as bullying had it not been only a handful of days and anyway my mum was like ‘haha his name was ____’ and i just. stared at her. like girlie we have bullied the same man

#A MULTI GENERATIONAL FUCK YOU TO THAT SURVIVAL GUY #humbled him and my mum humbled him again five years later. girl power #we got that ‘shit on patronising men’ gene 🤞🏼 #this is so funny like yes this town being teeny tiny is usually the bane of my existence but sometimes… sometimes it’s SO fucking funny #hella goes home

[pekodayz]

the fact that Nintendo is ending their online support for 3ds and Wii U is making my heart hurt so so so so so so so bad

#no more splatoon 1 no more wonder trade no more festival plaza no more acnl town visits #no more smash 4 online play #no more online in general and i am SICKKKKK #so many memories. Nintendo ur going to hell fuck u for real #i am homebrewing Wii U when I get home I cannot live like this #and updating 3ds luma bc idfk what’s gonna happen to hacked 3ds💔 #they love to kill their own consoles so fast it’s insane. cutting off miiverse then e shop now this oml

[corvidaedream]

back to planning my little 1773-boston-based point-and-click game (I still haven't done any coding since high school lmao)

#messages from the ouija board #its the one where it is the day of the tea destruction and history is happening around you #but you ARE just a guy in his 20s trying to run errands #like yeah u hate the monarchy w the best of them but like u do have to buy groceries #but! all the shopkeepers and tradesmen are at this fucking town hall meeting so ur errands keep bringing u back #also phillis wheatley and john peters are there. and paul revere. and in general random guys my coworkers portray. #but also there WILL be a puzzle where u have to fight a goose or perhaps a seagull. #ur playing as seth btw but loosely.

[hungarianmudkip69]

People often ask me, "Where are you from?"

I tell them I'm from my hometown, in Illinois, in the USA.

But the real answer is a little more complicated.

I was born in this town. I've lived here my whole life. But my mother was born and raised in Hungary, an ocean away. I may have been born in America, but I bear a Hungarian name.

I never learned Hungarian. English is the only language I speak. And yet my accent is tinted by my mother's, my heritage shading my words with a language I do not understand. Where am I from, when I speak with the sounds of a language I never learned?

I lap up the bits of knowledge I find about Hungarian history, the bits of culture my mother shares. I feel a deep loss at the fact I do not speak the language; I make steps to learn. I have been to Hungary once, when I was nine years old; I long to visit again, to meet my aunts and cousins from so far away, to explore the place that helped shape me from afar. I feel a connection to this country I've barely been, more than to the country I've lived all my life.

I recently learned that by Hungarian law, because my mother is a Hungarian citizen, I am as well. I would simply need to file some paperwork and I would be officially verified as a citizen of the land of half my blood. Does being Hungarian mean I am from Hungary? Can I be from more than one place? Can I be from a place I've never lived?

America is often touted as a land of immigrants, a melting pot. People don't identify Americans by their surnames, as they might say someone has a German surname, or a French surname. Americans bear surnames from all over the world, regardless of where they were born. "Where are you from?" is not always a simple question. So many of us carry the history of so many places in our selves, in our voices, in our traditions.

But this is not what people want to hear when they ask me where I am from. They are saying, "I have identified you as Other. Tell me what kind of Other you are." They are saying "I do not know your name, I do not know your voice. You are not like me."

How do I know this?

Because when I say I am from my hometown - when I tell them I am from the place I was born, the place I have always lived - there is a second question.

"But where are you really from?"

#xenophobia #hungarian #hungarian-american #second generation immigrant #first generation immigrant #i googled what the definition of first vs second generation immigrant is #and apparently there are two definitions. i am first by one and second by the other. #this is so fucking stupid #also why the fuck do people not believe me when i say i am from the town i am in #why would i lie about that. #we have a shitton of immigrants and their families in this town too #bc a lot of foreign students go to the university in town and a lot of them settle down here #so. why #ugh.