#go read it I dare you

[itspileofgoodthings]

one of my favorite things about pride and prejudice is that in the last third of the book Elizabeth’s internal monologue about Darcy is her admitting that she’s in love with him but also putting all sorts of qualifications around that statement that kind of ...tamp down the level of emotion (the “feelings, if not as tender as Jane’s for Bingley, at least as just” line, even the whole thing about her and Darcy being well-matched objectively speaking) and as soon as she’s engaged you get the unbridled joy in the narrative about her own joy, cc: “I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.” 

#pride and prejudice #jane austen #this is very obvious but it's in the narration itself #that she's trying to sort of distance herself from the depths of her own feelings in case this DOESN'T work out #i also think the rational stuff is totally true and she would say that after as well but she would say it in a different way #idk i just love it. it's so subtle and it's so true #also very obvious?? i feel like i'm making a very obvious point #but anyway 'elizabeth's feelings soon rising to playfulness etc. etc.' #also this is why i hated the end of a civil contract actually #i felt like she was tamping it all down and for some reason it just made me SO mad #like no. it's supposed to OVERFLOW NOW #adam being like 'and in the end the rational choice was jenny' sir i will FIGHT YOU IN THE PARKING LOT #idk i was student teaching and very emotional at the time maybe i missed something and read it wrong #but my entire spirit REBELED #like. how honestly DARE #i'm avoiding grading can you tell #yes you can I will go now

[lord-squiggletits]

The reason this fandom hates IDW Optimus isn't because he's a cop (plenty of people are fine with Prowl) or because he's a bastard (most characters in IDW are) but because he commits the crime of being an actual person who's messy, flawed, and makes a shitload of high stakes mistakes fitting for the intense situations and pressure he's put under constantly.

But we can't have Optimus actually react to his situations by lashing out or being unpleasant, no, he has to have the personality of a cardboard cutout of G1 whose only defining personality traits are "dad, funny, nice," and if he ever vents negative emotions it can only ever be #relatable depression or him being sad on his own without ever letting it show during the important parts of the story. If Optimus dares do things like be angry or frustrated or bitter it's just a sign that he's a bastard and LITERALLY the worst Optimus ever. If Optimus ever makes mistakes or does wrong things in the heat of anger/frustration/stress it's because he's just an evil bastard with no redeeming traits.

God forbid Optimus go through an unending gauntlet of war, politics, atrocities, near-complete loneliness, and a seemingly endless cycle of violence for his entire life and come out of it kind of bitter, angry, and tired of dealing with people's shit. He's not allowed to be a realistic person, context doesn't matter, sympathy doesnt matter. IDW Optimus doesn't fulfill the fandom's fantasies of Father Figure or Perfect Cultural Icon or Twinky Fucktoy and since that's the only reason most people care about Optimus in general, the fandom collectively trashes on IDW OP.

All because he can't fit into the overly simplified and childlike double standard the fandom has where if any other character is messy and flawed, that's good writing and interesting and compelling, but if OPTIMUS is messy and flawed, he's Literally The Worst and he's an asshole for no other reason than He Sucks, context be damned

#squiggposting #ive been here too long and seen the same shit too many times #i'm tired of going 'maybe it's just a difference in taste' nope #the issue is literally just double standards and people not reading the text or taking things out of context #and the worst part is if this were just something OP haters did i would get it #after all if you just dont like OP then of course you arent gonna find anything interesting or compelling #but i see this shit from literally other MOP fans who supposedly love M and OP #but their OP takes are shit and i can count the no. of people who write IDW OP on one hand #i kind of thought that at least among other OP fans there would be deeper readings but if anything it's worse #fandom OP content is 50% haha funny dad jokes g1 knockoff OP and 50% yaoi uke twink sad baby OP #so unimaginative. so fucking boring. so immature #to style yourselves some sort of mature TF fans and then viciously reject the One OP who #dared to be written a little darker and more flawed than any others #it's literally just people refusing to give a chance to any nuanced take on OP #they just want him to be There and Nice and for his biggest flaw to be Being Annoying About Equality or something #might delete later might not

[chimerahyperfix]

You’re looking for something— no, someone, too, aren’t you?

(I can’t comprehend how you understand what’s going on, with your lifeless shell. Craft as you are.)

#isat #in stars and time #live a live #isat loop #cube live a live #RAHHHHHH [COMBINES MY FIXATIONS] #behold my crack fic au. tiny robot in dormont #I’m cooking let me cook. cube has the little guy little dude vibes #and is also canonically like. a baby? #their chapter in the game happens the day they were finished #so. a baby. #cube is so <3. their chapter is a space horror #I would 100% recommend at least watching a video of it #IT GOES CRAZYYYYYY #pov flicking a card that says die child die at the floor. so #anyways. this au makes no sense to anyone but me #this is MY funny house and I’m going to play in it #worlds smartest baby [a robot] figures out timeloop shit before the party more at 2 #if you ask I WILL ramble abt the concept of this au I will #<- trying desperately to get away from working on my other au post #[I need to draw smth for it and I’m struggling lollll] #sitting here like ughhh I don’t wanna draw this imageee [puts off entire au post] #ANYWAYSSSS #LOOP WOULD HATE THIS KID. the fuck is a robot. #the fuck is this damn thing and how has it read me literally immediately #how dare you be made of craft. be artificial. and be able to read my despair like a book #how dare you; a fake being made by someone else. be more human to me than the people that once were my party #how dare you want to help me when I dont know you because you didn’t EXIST in my loops #…but. uh. thanks for the coffee. even if I can’t drink it I recognize the sentiment. or whatever #falls to the floor dramatically. oughhhh loop and cube ougughhh

[amelia-yap]

The sound of White Rose by @powertaco

#ruby rose #weiss schnee #whiterose #white rose #rwby #my art #ayyy hope you like this #this fic was a vibe i love it very much #i #have no idea what's going on with the piano either please don't ask hhghhgfhgfhgh #the plants were a random addition cuz 'oh shit the bg is too empty and awkward' lol #also it was so hard t o just choose one fic how dare you #but thank you for the silly ducky fic again lmao #its wonderful #anyway go read their fic if you havent its crazy cute

[drunkonimagination]

kung fu panda four my beloved, they could never make me hate you

#i have no idea what’s everyone’s beef with this movie but i’ve always been a HUGE kp fan (the second movie is my religion) #and given the majority of comments/reviews i read online before watching the movie i entered the cinema expecting the devil incarnate and… #it turned out to be a good movie????? and a really good one i dare to say?????? #and yes it’s not on the same level of the first two (and tbh who would ever expect that) but holy sHIT #some of you painted it as the worst movie ever and like. it is not??? #i even found the fox girl enjoyable despite having my doubts at first #and i could go into heavy detail but it’s late and that’s not important #i’m just happy we had a good sequel..bye!! #kung fu panda #kung fu panda 4

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

what spop critics say: spop is a show with a lot of potential that, with good writing and decent pacing, could have been a masterpiece. however, the writers fucked up by not giving the villain a good redemption and ultimately turning her arc into "predatory lesbian"

what spop fans hear: catra is EVIL and spop is TRASH and abuse victims DON'T DESERVE A SECOND CHANCE they should all BE TORTURED TO DEATH i'm a heartless monster who has no life and kills puppies for fun

#spop critical #spop #spop salt #spop discourse #spop criticism #anti catradora #she ra #anti catra #please learn how to read #i post a detailed analysis on how catra is an interesting character whose arc was butchered in the end #and c//a stans in the replies are like “your blog is full of HATE go kys HOW DARE you hate on a fictional character” #like calm down #tw death threat mention #tw hate speech mention

[murdermitties]

Fate Hunts You Like A Sighthound Hunts A Rabbit

Listen at this point I draw these characters when I need a break from commissions and designs @barrenclan 's story evokes very vivid images in my head and I have to try and draw em

#kat murmur #barrenclan #asphodelpaw #not my oc #how dare you make such good characters #i need to focus on work /j #i want you to know that these siblings mean everything to me?? #once again go read this story its so very captivating #back to work i go ig

[moredifferentthanusual]

from chapter 12 of Chained: To Wield the Blade we have Forged by Tinerian aka @redhoodinternaldialectical

#jason todd #bruce wayne #batfam #batman #quotes #jason todd meta #the last lines there WRECKED me #i had to go back and find it in the fic coa i kept thinking of it #good fic btw #i personally Do Not vibe with batcest but it's still interesting and we #well written enough i just HAD to keep reading #and then it started teaching me about scripture? fuhgeddaboutit! ofc im obsessed with it after that! #me: ok apparently this jaytim fic starts out with just 30k contract negotiations no romance and obviously i HAVE to read that #contract negotiations!!! #me later: i cannot stop thinking about the spiritual questions inherent in being resurrected and becoming a god but specifically for batmen #@the author. how dare you do this to me. wanna make out? #had to tell all my friends when they asked what i did this weekend that i learned about hinduism via batfam fanfic #answer for your crimes author!

[uncanny-tranny]

Quit being transphobic and adding the asterisk to make it say trans men* and trans women*. It's 2023. I thought we were past this.

This is probably about my post about trans women and trans men exchanging advice since it's been gaining traction, and I add the asterisk to signal that this isn't just about trans women and trans men. As somebody who isn't solely a trans man, it's weird to me that people have almost demanded that I just... ignore that, because it "isn't close to cisness." I added the asterisk for brevity and to signal that it's also about transfem people, transmasc people, transneutral people, genderqueers, genderfreaks, and whomever else I am not mentioning (memory loss gang, rise with me on this one).

Maybe you aren't a fan of how I indicated that difference (which is not what I have an issue with), but I truly do not appreciate being told that me acknowledging that trans men and trans women aren't the only people in this community is transphobic. If you aren't a fan of the asterisk, don't use it because that's completely neutral. But don't go after trans people who use it for literally non-transphobic reasons. Trans women and trans men are important members of the community, but they are not the only people who are trans in this space.

This will be my only response about this because I do think an explanation of my thought process in that post and posts like this would be helpful. But I'm drawing a firm boundary with how I'm talked to. This type of engagement is incredibly upsetting to me, and while I understand the aversion you may have to my language, I'm not going to be okay with being spoken to like this.

#ask #anon #trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #transphobia #transphobia tw #wish it were more common on the internet to go 'could you explain [x]' instead of 'how DARE you do [x] for this reason i made up' #and maybe anon that isn't what you intended but i'm not sure how else to read this #i would understand your anger more if i didn't have a long track record of trying to be as sensitive about trans inclusion as possible #and i know i can be better about that! which is why i've been really fluid in my language and understanding of others #anyway being talked to like this is one of my firmest boundaries. definitely brings up terrible memories

[exhaustedwerewolf]

when the dnd session was so insane you’re like “damn I want to rewatch that bit” but you can’t because it was not an incredible fantasy film but just you playing make believe with your friends

#INSANE SCENES THIS EVENING #dialogue echoing in my head includes: ‘resurrection isn’t my strong suit’ // ‘then make it your strong suit’ #‘oh darling! don’t scare me like that. come here. let’s go home.’ // ‘what the fuck have you done?’ #‘(laughs) oh yes. I’m sure if all those people had just had a sword and a shield that things would have turned out differently. I’m being #lenient but my patience is running out. so spare me the insult of your sword. cunt.’ #‘ten million is a big number. it should feel different to one body in a cage or one hanging from the rafters but somehow it… it feels the #same.’ #genuinely stopped typing to do a despair event horizon stare into nothingness #our dm can cry on command lads and he was weaponising that today :’) #so many unbelievably fucked up things happened I cannot believe it and I am having a conspiracy theory board moment trying to make sense of #it #DnD #so many other moments I have written down but can’t remember verbatim but also WHY DIDN’T THEY ASK ME… IF I WANTED TO LEAVE #@CASUALAGRESOR IF YOU ARE READING THIS HOW DARE YOU I AM SO SAD

[ganondoodle]

the way i think about my stories can be so annoying bc there will be a point when i reach a certain story beat after which i dont know how to continue, and the way i do find are usually ... not good .. or i imagine it is not so i think man i cant do that thats so dumb and annoying i gotta think of something better, but then i cant come up with anything better bc once i got a solution to soemthign i cant think of anything smarter- and then i get bored of it as a whole bc man, this really was stupid from the start wasnt it

(this is all some stupid rambling and does NOT represent anythign that will happen in destiny, i swear the actual story with a proper end makes much more sense)

listen to me rambling but this morning i thought about the essentialyl non-canon good "ending" of destiny, a kind of self indulgent dumb lil alternative where everyone lives blah blah, but then of course it cant just end there, bc the end goal of the both of them is to find out the gods plan and secrets and also kill the gods, as you do, then i got a certain point that i found cool (which initially came from the whole thoguht of what if zelda game but you could play demise and it took place after the alternative ending in which the goal is to get rid of the gods) where the fight one of the gods but are kinda losing and as the god is trying to devour demise, as gods do, he abandons his body and his spirit/core, who cant exist without his body so hes still connected through the spirits tail , and climbs through the gods interdimensional weird 'mouth' while its trying to rip him apart to reach the core of the god in a last attempt to take them down with him, while hylia is fighting to keep the god from severing the thin connection he still has to his body but fails just as he reaches the core so the god is killed but his core is immediatelly starting to dissolve and hylia manages to grab his core and put it back into his body and flee from whatever is happeing to that dead god back into hyrule

he survives but is incredibly weak as his spirit has lost half of itself (blade spirits are also forged throguh sacrificing part of their spirit/core permantently but this is besides the point, none of this makes sense anyway), something he obviously hates but cant do anything about really, once a part of their core is gone its gone (not like lost energy but gone gone) but the core is also slowly dissolving further which is a death sentence with no way to act against- then theres a whole quest to .. well, stop that, while hes falling back into self hatred and fear bc hes now so weak that hylia can break his bones without any effort if she were to treat him in any way similar to before and to a deity that all their life was never so fragile, one whos most defining feature IS his power and strength to keep going no matter what, thats gotta be pretty existentially dreadful (and also its a set back to know that they cant just go fight the gods together like that, theres still two more and he cant fight like that)

then i wondered ok what if then, even if the time doesnt quite line up but at this point the entire prophecy cant be done anymore either so everythings out of order, the cloud barrier weakens and zelda is abducted (not by ghirahim) and link goes and tries to find her, but since everythigns not as it should have been he meets hylia and demise (disguised tho) and they immediately know who he is and then go along and try to help link find his friend (hylia does it bc she got the idea to make him find the triforce and wish demises spirit to be restored, since only a mortal can do that and links the most likely candidate to be able to go through the trials of it since he was supposed to already, even if the circumstances are different- demise goes along with it bc hes still trying to deal with essentially slowly dying and not knowing what to do with himself since hes afraid to get into fights or similar, much to his disdain, so hes acting like a companion of sorts, a mentor figure in a way, not knowing what hylias plan is)

i found the idea kinda interesting to have them be like a lil group that goes on links adventured with him, but with strangely intricate knowledge of how the dungeons work, link still doing the heavy lifting but them being there like parents cheering on their kid in a competetion, all the while putting the whole puzzle and dungeon aspect in a way different light bc half of them were never completed (they wanted to escape the prophecy after all) so they all work completely differently, some bosses being maybe some of the gods creatures instead (like the skysw guardians)- the mid journey point being that they find zelda, and who kidnapped her, it being one of the shiekah having most closely worked with hylia before the whole -break the prophecy- thing started (idk if it would be impa .. idea is neat) and is hellbent on making the gods plan work out like it was supposed to, kinda like the inverse of the games plot, so they got ahold of zelda as part of making her into the new hylia (despite hylia being .. right there, but they dont believe it is her truly since the true tm hylia would never betray the gods- ALSO a paralel to how the downfall of demises world worked bc his mortals turned on him after he started destroying their version of the triforce in the belief destroying it would be the only way to save mortals from going to war agaisnt each other for it over and over, mortals believing that their true deity was gone and replaced by a demon despite demise being ..right there)

after link wins the fight and frees zelda from them they in a kind of last effort to do anything against their group they stab demise, normally that wouldnt do shit against him but in his already fading away situation it basically puts him from very slowly dying to actually dying, as a reaction to it hylia kills the mortal (maybe impa idk), which is the first time she does anything like that to a mortal but i like the idea of her being actually super ruthless when it comes to things she cares about

now with a much more dire time limit hylia sends demise back to essentialyl go hide in her temple and try to not die and to trust her having a plan to make this all still work out- he does and once he is away she reveals pretyt much the entire story around why and what is happenign to link and zelda, hylia herself cant go above the clouds as the barrier is still partially up and she cant do anything to reach the triforce either - so she sends link and zelda to go do that, and it works out in the end bc even knowing the truth know, demise was with them on half of their journey so they know and care, he WILL be mad about them wasting their wish on him (even if he is still happy to be alive- i imagined scene where hes watching himself fall apart and die, alone in hylias temple, having to come to terms with the fact that after everything they had went through hed still die alone- it made me cry while thinking about it, yes, yes you are allowed to laugh)

i didnt get that much further but his spirit was essentially reset to when he was in his prime back in the day through the triforces power- something he both likes and despises, it being the gods power of all things that lets him live again, but also lol to use it agaisnt them by giving another chance to the gods greatest enemy- the next plan is of course to kill the next one of the gods but much better prepared, as they cant just go and do the same thign again (neither wants that), one idea was that hylia goes on a secret quest to try and bring back courage (the third deity that demise killed when his world was still thriving) but it involves diving back into the realm of the gods so she doesnt tell him at first, i do think theyd go together in the end, not to fight but to release courage; the whole thing is also an elaborate revenge plot of hylia, how dare the gods do that to him!!

anyway thats most of what i got from that thinking session but its so frustrating bc none of this is even in the actual comic (since it ends in a way that leads into canon skysw, this is some brain fart nooo i want blorbo to live and succeed!!) and its also convoluted and kinda dumb, the idea to inverse the games plot in a way (instead of it being ghirahim trying to bring demise back its someones plan to make the gods prophecy happen no matter what) is neat but i cant have demise almost dying be the thing THREE TIMES, it kinda undercuts his character and is way too much centered around him, all three times also more or less involving it needing help from others to get him back, when his whole thing should be being unkillable bc he jsut keeps refusing to die, also hylia is, as of now in this spaghetti derailment of random thoughts, way too much of a side character, which i dont like, and it all would make people not like demise when im trying to do the exact opposite of that in the main actual comic

i know being super self indulgent and jsut doing what you want is good for the most part but theres a point where it becomes stale cringy fantasies about my blorbo tm and i wanna write at least decent stories- in the end none of this matters anyway as the actual REAL story of destiny is already pretty long and i got no plan to write that alternative 'good ending' anyway and i mostly just thought about it bc "i dont want blorbo to die :(" and "wouldnt it be fun if the entire plot of the game would get messed up and now demise link hylia and zelda etc can all just drink tea together and make plans to get rid of the gods that wanted them all to suffer needlessly"

i probably shouldnt post this as it was really only a vent to get out dumb thoughts from my brain before they poison me into losing interest of the biggest comic project i have worked on so far but i am unable to keep these things to myself so

if you read all of this, im sorry (´。＿。｀)

#ganondoodles talks #zelda #dare i tag it as that #long post #dont read unless you want to cringe #and yes i know even bad art and stories have value #and i know im not as bad as i always think #but this really is the kind of stuff that makes me embarrassed to even be able to think #its all shortened and badly written #but some scenes i got so clearly in my head its like a movie #and those scenes make my brain go wooooooooooooooooo even if they make no sense and i cant fit them together properly #uh oh self doubt #sorry im neither a professional artist nor writer #im autistic with a blorbo and one skill that i only have bc i didnt know what to do with my brains rapid train of thoughts other than draw #big time for “oh no i made people think i am better than i actually am- i am a liar and a cheater oh god” kind of thoughts #the want to just do whatever you want VS wanting to make soemthing of value VS not wanting to embarrass yourself

[seagull-scribbles]

Sibling Knuckles and Amy my beloved ♥️

[old version here]

#sth #knuckles the echidna #amy rose #rushed af #haven’t done any digital art for 3 weeks so this was nice #rushed but nice #anyway I’m back #this is so so messy but I rushed it so that’s fine #totally a style choice #I have so so many headcanons for these two but last time I drew them it was so bad so it was nice to try again #not even going to link the old one you’ll have to go out your way for that mess #this is much better anyway it shows their relationship as I see it better anyway #nvm tumblr had them linked in related posts so may as well…. #I still think Amy should be a power type #and knuckles should be a healer #pry that hc out of my cold dead hands I dare you #i think amy is the ine who introduces knuckles to things from modern society like slefies and coffee shop frappes and roller skating #steriotypical fun teenage girl things because sonic and tails couldnt be less interested but knuckles is always keep to learn #and then knuckles doesnt share echidna secrets but hell tell amy abiut the chaos energy he can sence and what its like #how to read chao and the best ways to interact with them #sparring positions and play fights #if he starts trying to learn a craft from his ancestors he'll tell amy when he next sees her & she'll come up with modern solutions to help #he cooks for her and can some a few really nice things #shes the one to notice first when hes feeling overwhelmed or overstimulated and anxious #and this is all before forces where they grew closer #amy gets asked on a tv interview whos she have ealk her down the isle and without hesitation she says knuckles #sonic may have had to most influence on her but once she understood knuckles isnt as grumpy as he appears they got closer quicker #he diesnt run away from her #i cant find much content for these two so if you guys wanna comment some headcanons below id love to hear them

[bamboozled-distress]

finished reading over 200 issues of invincible in the span of six days now what the fuck am i supposed to do with my life

#yes I know invincible only has 144 but I read all the spinoffs and the other stuff #you know brit dynamo 5 astounding wolf-man #guarding the globe invincible universe savage dragon capes #pact? is that what it was called and superpatriot #noble causes tech jacket all of that #oh and that one issue of bomb queen #also i refuse to read the last issue because i have abandonment issues #or maybe I’ll get to it #eventually #anyway what the actual fuck do i do #dare i go to my sketchbook and make bad art #dare i? #invincible #if anyone has read it PLEASE message me i need to talk to someone about it i may just go insane #mark grayson #laz.exe #laz reads things #image comics #comics

[geareduptom]

Mind Felix~

#g.u.t. #art #mine #bendy the dancing demon #felix the cat #Hollu's Mind felix go bye bye #babtim #honey we're goin down swingin #Inky Mystery #Read the story I triple dog dare you uwu #geareduptom

[spacemarinewithastick]

I

I’m

I

I’m about to start crying

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT

I WAS IN NO WAY PREPARED FOR ANY OF THAT I CABDHWIWJHDHWJEVEHEJHREJRJJRJRJRJRJRJE

I I can’t say more right now, I would never forgive myself if I spoiled that episode for people but just…….. I NEED EPISODE 8 RIGHT THE FUCK NOW BEFORE I DIE OF A HEART ATTACK

#murder drones #murder drones episode 7 #glitch how dare you end that as you did #do you know how much that hurt #ah FUCK AO3 is gonna be so depressing for MONTHS #I NEED TO GO READ MY COMFORT FIC #I should also…… I should go to bed

[somelostlinks]

Soul just wanted to tag along like last time! Can you blame her?

Unrelated bonus doodle of Force:

[Archive]

#the letter reads: “Link how DARE you go on another adventure without me? I swear when you get back I am going to [unintelligible ranting]” #sll #some lost links #some lost links au #lu au #lu #loz #sll spirit #sll force #sll soul #art #doodles