#my brainworms are progressing

[luuxxart]

How had ryukitann got together? 🤔

sorry this is a little rushed, but in general i think this is the gist of how they’d get together

#persona 5 #ryuji sakamoto #yusuke kitagawa #ann takamaki #ryuann #ryukita #annkita #ryuannkita #PS SORRY IF IT SEEMS LIKE I POSTED TWICE. TUMBLR REALLY WOULD NOT LET ME INTO MY QUEUE I PROMISE #I remember trying to write fic for them and gave up #there are no non-E rated fics for these guys and that is so depressing man #I hold this ship so very close to my heart fr #it’s the only one that’s really survived from my first playthrough of p5 #bc before I was into Shu///ake I was huge on Shu///yuu and polythieves in general #then I kinda settled into what I like now as I got more into the fandom #aNYWAY THO THANK U FOR THE ASK #my brainworms are progressing #I can see some people thinking ryuji is problematic here and. yes<3 #I didnt have time or space really to like. make a bigger fallout before everything is resolved #so obviously intruding upon dates is not healthy but let’s just ignore that for my boi ryuji #long post #ask

[crystal-verse]

god i want. an au where it dosn't work. where it's just arr g'raha who's woken up, and he doesn't have all these memories and all these people keep looking at him like they're mourning someone. the world has changed and time has changed and all the people he knows have changed, but he hasn't changed, he was just sleeping, just sleeping, and the world nearly ended several times and apparently he helped prevent yet another end but he has no memory of this. they want him to join the scions. he does not know these people. (he barely knows the warrior of light, now, but did he ever truly know them in the first place?) his little sister is alive and well. she looks at him like a ghost. she's changed, and she's older than him now. he acts bratty and loud and brash to cover up the fact that he does not know anything it seems, and he is tired but he was sleeping for so long, so how could he be tired?

he doesn't know these people. they seem to know him. he wonders if he'd killed someone, when it was him and not that exarch who woke up. he wonders if it should have been him who was "killed" in that way, if it is him that lives and not that man who had known and become friends with all these figures from legend. he wonders if he'll always be fated to be a historian one step back from everything, because he simply cannot be a hero.

#bound with thread | original posts #letters in verse | talking #g'raha tia #crystal exarch #hello everyone i am being Incredibly Normal about g'raha tia at -checks time- 12:02 am #you ever think about the fact that arr g'raha is basically killed/replaced when the exarch wakes up in 5.3. because i do. a lot #hi i have brainworms over this man he's SO tragic and i need to hold him gently in my hands like how you cradle a small trembling kitten #genuinely happy about his character growth and progression and happy ending and all but arr g'raha was the one who grabbed my focus #and i do miss a lot of that character sometimes yknow? post-shb g'raha isn't the same person as arr g'raha and that's intentional‚ i think‚ #because he has gone through so much that we didn't see. so much trauma and pain because of the 8th umbral era and that loss he got hit with #and he's not the same person because he's *had* to change so much to keep himself and his people alive and i'm glad he's getting to #experience life to the fullest in endwalker onwards but just. i miss arr g'raha yknow #honestly the silliest thing about it is i miss his student of baldesion tattoo. was a fun little design element you know. #show us the tattoo again squeenix. give him back his red eyeshadow that he had. #give him his bow back i am begging #this has been: incomprehensible ramblings from simon at 12 at night

[kaladinkholins]

mizutaigen is literally like. the first "toxic" m/f ship i've ever cared for. cuz like usually my taste in m/f ships is basically "unhinged baddie" x "badass wifeguy" *

* (see:yen/geralt. trevor/sypha. adolin/shallan. kataang but katara is sane and they're literally so wholesome like theyre traumatised kids in love who are each other's emblem of hope in a war-torn world! so basically they don't count. anyway. i'm rambling.)

and to that end my friend called mizutaigen yaoi-adjacent and im like. yeah you're right actually cuz like hell yeah non-binary mizu and bisexual taigen rights and all the gender fuckery in the show in general

but also like.

theres just SOMETHING else about mizutaigen that just GETS me. like there's a special secret sauce like the pheromones in that one sephora lotion attracting spiders and i am the silly spider!!! there's just something about it!!! it's not even the enemies to lovers trope cuz i personally am not even usually into that (obv it's fine if you are. but yk.)

so as i keep rotating these thoughts around i thiiink it's the fact that, yknow, theyre so similar. like i honestly truly think they could be besties in another universe: a kinder universe where taigen was not taught to hate. a universe where mizu was not born a girl in a deeply misogynistic society or half-white in a xenophobic homogeneous society.

yeah now that i think about it that really just might be THE secret sauce!!! like the fact that they COULD be perfect and happy together, if only things were different, if only they werent themselves.

smth v bittersweet about that's just driving me insane and makes me want to root for them to overcome all those obstacles, to say "fuck all that" (re:the world and all its fucked up shit) and find each other in the end. to eventually become each other's fav person and confidant. who obv still bicker and tease and insult each other all the time but they dont really mean any of it and over time it just becomes a running gag between them and no one else has to get it because it's just between the two of them.

#mizu x taigen #taigen x mizu #taimizu #[clenches fist] it's about the POTENTIAL of it all!!!!! #like taigen's last words in s1 being 'we're not done yet' like ?!? has me WANTING to see more. wanting to see them grow with each other #like i want taigen by the end to be ridiculously head over heels WHIPPED and SMITTEN willing to die and kill and just be BETTER. for mizu. #mizu. the person who changed his entire life. his entire worldview. pulled the rug from under him and made him a man forever changed. #to overcome his selfishness so he can be mizu's HOME in a world that doesn't allow her one #i want him to end up deciding like. 'on purpose. im going to love you on purpose.' #and mizu no matter how much she tries to convince herself that she cannot love or be loved. ends up accepting it anyway #love as work and violence but also love as rest and safety #and also bcs taigen represents the ideals of society. him willing to change & grow also represents society's potential to change & progress #LMAO okay sorry i absolutely cannot stop rambling about these bitches the brainworms are insane #bcs i just noticed that other mizutaigen enjoyers tend to also be in the same fandom circles for ships that i just. do not like. at all #and wondered like huh. i wonder why that is. and wondering what makes mizutaigen different #idk just ignore me i dont even know if im making sense my brain is goop from working on my research proposal #shut up haydar #fandom.rtf

[hoofpeet]

Emmutt gets called a bad dog and does not speak the rest of the day, meanwhile Zingo is showing off how much of a good girl she is and he is not <3

#mailbox #hoof draws #replacement ingo au #. #i guess my brainworm has progressed to the point where i'm just drawing the same person 4 times and calling it a day

[windydrawallday]

WIP and teaser, YEAH I doodle the dinos and even finished a colored artwork-ref but-- I need to keep going slow because I got sick during the weekend orz what a way for the month to kick me AGH

#windy squacks #work in progress #tfp starscream #dinoformers #ill probably doodle another thing to pamper myself tho #brainworms cornered me strongly during sunday night #i holding the urge to draw ventart but i can see myself giving in #but ill try doing it gently and twist it a bit because i want to wield my fears and doubt positively #still drawing dinos did me good! #want to play guess what dinosaur i assigned to screamer? nopes is not a full raptor like the original sketch~

[kappatengu]

sorry making another design poll. i also had this idea for lianhua, its not a Big change but since lianhua wears a hanfu in his human design i thought itd be cute to allude to that in his pokemon design but im not sure hmmm

#outofyokai #im not slacking off from the plot post i swear i even made progress today #i just wanna reintroduce the two with a big bang yknow #so its taking some Time #anyways u can already see how big my brainworms are for these two so

[kuroimarzipan]

i am yours to the end

so wont you fall for me?

#pathfinder: kingmaker #pfkm #kingmaker #kanerah #tiefling #my art #esteem #no i have not made any more progress in this game. #184 hours for a single playthrough i started in september and im still not done (insane) #but i still have so many brainworms.

[poorlittleyaoyao]

Forget personality types and horoscopes. The REAL measure of a person is which barely-seen character with almost no canon information you choose to obsess over.

#this was almost gonna just be a meme captioned with SHUT UP ABOUT MO XUANYU SHUT UP ABOUT MO XUANYU #but I have my own cipher of a character I obsess over so I thought this would be more charitable #(mine is Meng Shi) #(the logical progression from getting brainworms about Andromache from the Trojan War at age 15) #(and concocting multiple pages of backstory and worldbuilding for Annie Cresta in my Hunger Games era over a decade ago)

[pixeldotgamer]

I've posted photos of how chaotic my illustration brainstorm pgs are but heres an artistic recreation of what my project notebooks end up looking like

#random rambles #this brainworm project is a horror podcast #im gonna be formalizing all the prpject notes into obsidian soon me thinks #i got a few game concepts tumbling about #along with some comics/zines and now this podcast #so i need to line all my ducks (projects) up and decide which one to shoot (develop full time) #i kinda bounce between things as my ideas and motive flow #but i wanna finish some stuff soon so im prob gonna focus in on a smaller project and go from there #aint no race but i know there are some folks ive talked to my games about who are very 👀 about progress #(if you are one of those ppl ily cause u help me realize my ideas are fun and ppl would wanna actually see them lmao)

[brainworm-blitz]

Tigerstar has a supernatural power too its just a big red Reset button that magically undoes any and all character development gained by everyone in-between arcs

#having a normal one over here #reading my silly littlw cat books #going from omen of the stars into a vision of shadows if that gives any context #yes this is primarily about jayfeather but ive been making this joke since the start djdkskdi #like every time i see kittypet trashing i gotta do the thing where you pinch the bridge of ur nose and sigh real deep-- #warrior cats #omen of the stars #a vision of shadows #brainworm posting #the wc girlies love making AUs where is the Character Progression Actually Matters AU ??😭

[echotunes]

Ao3 question 11

11. What work took you the longest to write?

of the fics I posted this year, either Visitor, which was written over a couple weeks during last year's _hq holiday exchange and then finished just after new year, or one of my Fic in a Box works which I can't link because 1) they haven't revealed yet and 2) they're meant to be anonymous for the first two weeks. but I did work on that for a couple weeks also

but uh. in terms of the unpublished ones. Stares at The Big Doc. well there's this one thing I've had going since. July. and ongoing (14k words in the doc and counting........)

(ao3 wrapped ask game)

#the current half-hearted goal is to try to salvage something out of there at least by the end of this year. because it's getting ridiculous #I JUST WANTED A WARMTH PREQUEL. and instead it's become an accumulation of 14k of brainrot #and like i don't regret it i think i've done some good practice in that doc over the months #but like. ?!?!? #need you here to stay did also spring from the work on that fic admittedly. and in general the 4pac brainworms #so like there has been progress in my brain. it just. hasn't really. turned into the fic i've been envisioning this whole time. struggling #echo.txt #echo.asks #boonbeenblade #ask games #frens buds pals

[dominoblues]

I WANT TO BE A WORM CRAWLING INSIDE MOKUBA'S BRAIN AND STARE AT HIS THOUGHTS IN BLISS.

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The KitKat bar is challenging him. He is sure of it. Looking at him behind the glass with a smug expression. Mocking him, making fun of him. I dare you to push the button. Fucking annoying. He redirects his attention to the row below. The small pack of Kopiko tells a different story altogether. It is begging him, watching him with pleading eyes to free it from the sorrow of the refrigerated prison. That KitKat asshole must have everyone under its thumb, ruling as a king over the microcosmic empire of snacks called FamilyMart. Well, fuck you KitKat.  

Mokuba inserts the coins in the slot (one cherry blossom, two phoenix hall) and presses the number ‘one’ followed by the ‘five’. The machine awakes from its sleep with a buzz. The metal coils of the prison rotate releasing the captive small pack which falls in the open compartment below. Finally, freedom. Mokuba grins victorious. He kneels and pushes the compartment door reaching for his cold prize. He shoots a last glance at the snack on the other side of the glass: emperor KitKat is raging, yet powerless. That doesn’t mean Mokuba has put a stop to his reign of terror. No, the moment he turns away KitKat will divert its rage and punishment to the other prisoners under his control. Well, nothing Mokuba can do about it. Goodbye asshole. Not my fucking problem.

He walks away from the vending machine and sinks on the closest bench in the white room, his body feeling understandably heavy because he hasn’t slept in ages. Like a true Kaiba. Fuck hospitals fuck doctors fuck my idiot brother laying semi-comatose upstairs. Again. For the second time. A cosmic wicked prank, that’s what their life is. Years pass seasons change and we are clinging in this fucked up eternal looped hoax of our misery stuck in the same immutable frozen truth over and over again. I hate you so much. I love you so much. I have been surviving just fine without you and I cannot live without you.

Mokuba leans his head compliantly against the wall, closes his eyes and lingers. Seconds, minutes, hours. It doesn’t matter. If he falls asleep, someone will come waking him up just in time for the bijillion things appointed on his daily to-do list he doesn’t even bother to check. As if he needed to. cfo at 9.00 meeting.meeting.meeting. industrial illusions ceo at 11.00. report to the board at 12.00 because those assholes wants to keep up with everything that’s going on like they give a shit about him and the other idiot because this machine for pigs cannot stop grinding and profits.profits.profits Marx was right.   

Mokuba lets out an exhausted sigh. He opens his eyes again and looks down at the Kopiko pack hanging from his fingers. He pulls it open and sticks his hand in to draw the small wrapped confectionary. Lunch break at 1.00 reports.reports.reports. r&d at 2.00 testing.testing.testing. He removes the thin paper and shoves the sweet block into his mouth whole. Released from a lifetime under dictatorship only for it to end its journey in a stinky toilet. Someone somewhere has written a philosophical essay about the meaning of life of FamilyMart snacks. The intense flavor of coffee melts in his palate. Mokuba’s eyes fixes on the white spotless ceramic tiles covering the floor of the small waiting room.

Seto woke up two days earlier in the ICU. He opened his eyes briefly. However, they soon had to administer an IV dose of morphine before he went into tachycardia. Doctors tried to cheer him up saying the response to pain was a good thing. YEAH LET ME TELL YOU A COUPLE OF THINGS ABOUT MY BROTHER’S PAIN, he wanted to yell. Not a word about the rest, though. It is still too early to know, mister Kaiba. He called Mokuba’s name. That must have been a good sign, right?

He had been comatose for sixteen days, fourteen hours and thirty-seven minutes after the surgery. Mokuba had been measuring the time painstakingly with the meticulous precision of an atomic clock because that’s exactly what Seto had been for two weeks: an idle mass of still particles and unreactive electrons at zero frequency of resonance and momentum debunking the entirety of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle; an immovable and immutable pile of flesh and tubes, lines and cables sticking out his nose, chest, stomach and bladder as an extension of his own starving emaciated body.

Yet, Mokuba thinks there’s something decorous and beautiful in his blissfully simulated sleep. Even in his resting state Seto is a fixed mark in the flow of time. Pale and inert like marble crystallized in the eternal beauty of a greek statue that would make Michelangelo blush in admiration and jealousy at his sight. Seto’s charming even in a coma, gorgeous and grotesque as something born simultaneously from the hands of a Canova and a Dalí. It horrifies him and it amazes him he can barely keep his eyes away from the lifeless cocoon.

He woke up then and he went back to sleep. Seto is now a pupa. The chrysalis will complete its transformation and Seto-imago will emerge from its shell at the conclusion of this metamorphosis. Will you still be the same will you be different will you still love me will you accept the pain that we are fucking broken and I don’t care about perfection I never wanted a flawless you I want you to accept me/us for who we are.

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(WIP)

#i haven't been posting here a lot lately because i have new brainworms that have taken place of my seto/mokuba brainworms temporarely #but i'm in a blissful state right now so i'm content with what i'm doing #anyway here is some work-in-progress i hope to complete soon #seto kaiba #mokuba kaiba #kaiba bros #domino notebook

[katrinix]

tweening test! I cant believe silly pixel man is what is getting me back into animation...

#fnaf #my posts #HE HAS GIVEN ME BRAINWORMS #i dont know why its so low quality erm.... #kind of a work in progress? #i say that to everything and never finish it so 99% chance this is considered finished in my brain so i wont continue it

[gravityflops]

dear person who i promised a drawing to like two weeks ago, i promise i haven’t forgotten about your request i just got sidetracked forever & ever and only just now recovered

#was it two weeks? or just one? i don’t know time is dead #also i have Many Many Thoughts about what a yoimiya bill cipher combo could look like and i legitimately want to draw them all #and now that i’m back on track i literally have two drawings done two in progress and still one other idea i haven’t even gotten started on #i want to promise a date but like. #i could be done in another two weeks. or i could be done tomorrow. who knows #but trust me i Have Not Forgotten #why am i putting so much effort into something i’m not even getting paid for? brainworms that’s why. my brain is blorbo-infested

[fanotastic]

LP's Lost finally got me listening to their music regularly again. It feels good.

#lp is something so deeply tied into my development and interests from a young ago #age* #i felt like shit shelving something I loved for years #trying to listen to their music has been difficult because of how deeply it matters to me #the release of the song Lost really kind of changed that in a better way #cant exactly put it into words but it feels good #it still hurts to listen to OML and i think it always will #but i think this counts for progress #idk #i just needed to get this out of my brain and onto something #lost gave me linkin park brainworms

[uraniumwriting]

EVERYONE STOP THE PRESSES

I think my next wip is gonna be a podcast instead of a novel--

#morgane is doing a type #writeblr #writing #podcast writing #i haven't had much progress on my new novel ideas but i have a podcast idea and my friends it has brainwormed