#people hype them up a LOT

[skrunksthatwunk]

think i may go finish y7... oohhh...

#last time i said this i soent two hours running around kamurocho looking for collectibles though so #dont get your hopes up #i also cleared the kamurocho sewer dungeon #weirdly kinda frustrating being overleveled for these kindsa things #i want it to be challenging again!! jeez #be careful what you wish for and all that but just a little struggle and strife please #a wee bit #if i clear another climactic level end section in 5 minutes again im gonna wail and shriek and whatever #i get the vibe that WONT happen with the finale but im nervy about it ok #anyway i scrubbed kamurocho for tojo pins and i think i got all/most of the overworld ones #such that you could wipe your ass with kamurocho and be #well you wouldnt be fine you'd get so many diseases #but you wouldnt get poked #lowkey very intimidated by the prospect of playing the judgement games ngl #people hype them up a LOT #tis scawy yknow #not to mention ishin oauAUGHH #very excited in both cases!! just gotta be careful w big feelings yknow #and i also wanna do plot-centric replays of the whole series at some point before i go off to college #and probably lose all access to the series bc i simply do not have a computer of my own #much less one that could run that noise #probably gonna get a laptop before i go but that doesnt solve the gamer struggle i be avasting or whatever #sigh

[itsaboutspies]

Absolutely love that the hatchetfield series brought so many new fans to starkid but I wish people would let non hatchetfield things be non hatchetfield and not try relate it back to it all the time

#and im sure its not just newer fans doing this #but i imagine a lot of people doing this are the people who discovered them through hatchetfield #but cinderellas castle doesnt need to be past hatchetfield or anything #which so many people seem to be hoping for #why cant we just let it be its own separate thing #also people on the live stream chats freaking out at every hatchetfield mention as if its a crazy thing for them to bring up as if its not #something they've spent a long time working on recently so obviously lots to say about it #i guess it doesnt really matter abd nobody is actually harming anyone with this i just think it's a strange attitude to have #anyway i am so hype for Cinderellas castle i love fairytales #starkid

[astranauticus]

stultifera navis rerun AKA thinking about Iberia hours again because a lot of the Iberians have such fascinating relationships with the concept of home but specifically Thorns and Lumen are eating at my brain. like where do you call home when the place that is your home Just Fucking Hates You? Elysium's rewinding breeze specifically makes a point to hammers home how differently Iberia treats its Liberi and its Aegir

(which is especially interesting since this comes right after a conversation where Purestream commented on how despite Leizi being a high ranking government official, there are still some experiences that are universal for all Yanese people - because the experience of what Iberia itself is like isnt universal for all Iberians)

But all that being said, Thorns also straight up states that Aegir is not his home, and yeah, how could it be? How could a place you've never been to, never truly known, ever be your home? How could it ever feel like a home?

so where do you go when the place that you are from hates your people and the place your people are from is completely unfamiliar and alien to you? Thorns' answer at the end of the conversation with Aya is: my home is where i chose it to be. my home is where there are people I care about and people who care about me

in the complete opposite direction, Lumen's oprec asks: why do you still stay in a place that wants you gone? because the people of Gran Faro like Jordi well enough but when push comes to shove, they will want the only Aegir in town gone

and yet, when Rald the messenger offers him a chance to leave Jordi turns him down and when he's forced to escape Gran Faro after the people there literally try to send him to his death (or worse) at the hands of the Inquisitors he keeps trying to go back because like everyone in stultifera navis, Jordi is clinging to his own dreams of a golden age

but the shape of that dream is unique to every character and for Jordi, his dreams are deeply, inseparably bound to the Eye of Iberia, the legacy his parents left behind

and it's this dream of becoming someone great, of bringing about that golden age that his parents devoted their lives to help create that ties Jordi to this nothing town because despite everything, despite the mistrust of the townsfolk and the hostility of the Inquisition and the danger from the ocean, he simply cannot leave it behind

(or, because i personally dislike the official translation,)

"I just see this place as my home"

so yeah. not sure what overall point i was trying to make here i'm just. deeply in love with these stories about chosing what is and isn't your home, of saying you will not call a place your home because it has given you no reason to or saying you consider a place your home even though it has given you every reason not to. deeply unwell about them <3

#arknights #asto speaks #not much of an essay writer i just keep thinking about them and i need to force other people to think about them too #thorns story fucks me up bc like. this whole almost found family adjacent idea of like #maybe home isnt something decided by your birth but something you can chose based on what truly matters to you #it just gets to me. i guess. #jordi gets to me in a completely different direction there's nothing personal about it i just find his story *fascinating* #just a guy. a completely normal guy. an absolute nobody caught up in these dreams of greatness while also fully aware of his own normalcy #but never letting either of those overshadow the other. never losing that self awareness or that fuckin obsessive determination #god. what a Character #i love jordi so much like genuinely #i joke a lot about him being just a Guy but thats also kinda like the best thing about him #the fact that he is the way that he is and does all the things he does despite being just a Guy #gently holds #for context i was so hyped about new iberia lore when sn was announced i read the whole thing as soon as it dropped on cn server #cuz someone uploaded all the story sections to bilibili right after it came out #and '我只是把这里当作自己的故乡啊' fucking hit me SO HARD #in like the greater context of elysium demanding to know why hes risking his life in like 5 different ways to return to gran faro #because yeah jordi just doesnt want to leave his home but like we the audience knows the full *weight* of what that home means to him #and the weight of the dreams that made him chose to see Gran Faro as his home and to refuse to let go of that #thats why i like the original a lot more than the translation i think like it really emphasises that active *choice*. #this is the place jordi has *decided* to see as his home and he knows what that means and what it means to him #side note the part on thorns might not actually age well depending on whether hg decides to ever release more aulus lore #i mean i'll gladly take the L if it means more aulus and/or thorns lore like #i just wanna know what (if anything) is tying him to iberia yknow #ak #iberiaposting

[sophieswundergarten]

New Ask Game to Hype Up Fic Writers!!

This is intended to be geared towards other people's work, not that of the person opening their Ask Box. There are plenty of Ask Games for people who are promoting their own writing, and while that is wonderful, I wanted to make one specifically for complimenting other writers!

Really good OC a writer has come up with

Terrible OC (In terms of, like, villains. We're being positive today!)

Headcanon you've adopted from a writer

Great Angst Fic

Great Fluff Piece

Interesting AU

Specific Line that has stuck with you

Specific Scene that has stuck with you

Amazing Title/Chapter Title

Fic(s) you would/did create fanart for

Memorable Ending

Memorable Beginning

A detail from canon that was expanded upon

Fic(s) you reread a LOT

Fic(s) that inspired you to write

Author you give the most unhinged comments to and why

Author you give sweet/sincere comments to and why

Fic(s) that keep you up at night (Either reading or thinking about)

Fic(s) you bookmarked (Maybe forgot about) and then were really happy you saved

Fic(s) you used to reward yourself (ie: "When I finish this chore/homework/task then I can read that")

Fic(s) you would/have forced someone else to read

Fic(s) you could do a whole PowerPoint Presentation on

An unfinished/updating fic that is totally worth the wait

An older fic that you still commented on/saved

A fun writer quirk you've noticed (Specific word(s) they repeat, detailed setting description, a lot of adjectives, trope they write really well, etc.)

Feel free to use, if you'd like! I hope you have a good day :)

#You don't have to send me any asks or interact with this at all #I just wanted to try creating one of these and pushing myself out of my comfort zone with something new #I tried to avoid saying “favourite” because personally that causes a lot of pressure and stresses me out #But I also tried to include a variety of questions #I feel like every story/writer needs someone who hypes them up and always supports them #And so I wanted to try making a game of it! #I hope this turned out well #I'm not sure why people don't comment on older stuff but apparently that's a thing people worry about #So yeah #ask game

[good-beans]

(Milgram self-insert oc masterpost hehe)

Name: For the sake of posting online I’ll call her Rose!

Color: #E7355B [the pink in the art]

Age: I guess she’d be 20 given when Milgram started huh.

Status: Milgram Staff, Machine Technician

Symbols/imagery: ballet/musical theater, science experiments

Song genre: very similar to Mahiru's, something upbeat and extra pop-y

Tentatively she's number 011? She's not really prisoner but she's also not free to come and go, so I'm not actually sure if she'd get a number (Edit: I've decided she'll actually be 012. Staff is given the 01X range, and even though Es doesn't actively have a number they'd be staff member 011, making her 012.)

Story: Since the project is supposed to be realistic/present day, the mv machine would be brand new and unpredictable tech, so they’d want someone keeping up on maintenance and making sure the brain-invasive process won’t cause any harm to the prisoners. Rose was studying abroad in Japan working on some cool neuroscience tech (irl I know nothing about technology or brains but shh) and she stumbled upon some secret tech/plans from Milgram. Long story short, she was dragged into the experiment to make sure things ran smoothly.

Writer's Reasoning: She’s really fun for me to play around with, as she allows me to work with a character who has a tiny bit of pull over Es’ mindset in conversation but not the final decision (aka mirroring the voting system), and someone who is simultaneously trapped in the prison but has a reason to see all the canon content.* I really enjoy the character interactions and dynamics Milgram has set up so far, so it’s been super fun seeing how things change for better and worse when someone not quite aligned with either Milgram/the prisoners is thrown into the mix!

*As much as I love dramatic irony in fiction, it would drive me crazy if I knew every detail of of the vds/mvs but Rose didn't – and every single Milgram character is The Worst Communicator Ever so I couldn’t justify that she’d hear it secondhand from them...

Story roles:

She’s a bit conflicted -- she’s officially Milgram staff and knows she should remain neutral on the prisoners, since she won’t be allowed to interfere with the process/executions. At the same time, her job description is literally “make sure the machine doesn't hurt them and everyone's safe :)” and she's way too emotional to avoid getting hopelessly attached to everyone 😅

I really enjoy the theory that the machine extracts videos based off of priming, so one of Rose’s duties involves listening in on the interrogation and making sure there’s been enough material discussed/not too much time has passed overall (hence the ringing of the bell happening at different lengths for each vd -- That's her ringing it :3). She then watches the mvs along with Es to make sure there are no machine glitches, and know how to calibrate it better for next time.

(IEdit: I've since decided to add in official trial mvs, but before when I wasn't ready to tackle that:) She has to run some tests on the machine to make sure things are calibrated correctly, so she'd extract little things here and there. It gives me the opportunity to think up lyric snippets and recurring symbols for her without worrying about full encompassing music videos.

I'm not afraid to admit she can fall into Mary Sue territory every so often by being everyone's friend, because it's less about "aw everyone likes her" and more about "canon is too painful rn and I need a fix-it tool to take care of these guys and give them hugs and tell them someone forgives them and cares about them and unfortunately these characters wouldn't let anyone less than a friend do that." Rest assured she's definitely not perfect and will fuck everything up on occasion :3

Miscellaneous: Whenever I play around with normal au ideas she's still working on the machine (but in a public, more ethical setting), and she's Mahiru's roommate :) Her character isn't super focused on love, but if I had to pick a cover song it'd be Stickybug II. It's very much my vibe, the lyrics fit well enough (better than most songs, at least lol) and it's one of my favorites out of my limited knowledge of unchosen Deco songs! (Edit, I've actually given her non-deco cover songs hehe)

So yeah, I hope she's not too boring without a cool crime to decipher, but I wanted to share since I was really proud of her! It took a bit of tinkering to find a way to fit her into a perfect secret-third-thing role that runs very smoothly with all of canon, so I was very excited!

#waaahh posting before i chicken out #I've never posted about a self-insert so please be kind lmao 😅 #i dont expect a ton of hype for her but if people have questions im always down to talk about her hehe #this is my only art -- i rarely draw oc stuff but i was really happy with how this came out #i definitely dont think shed get a number or those side rune straps by canon standards but the art wouldnt look right without them #im mad that the lab coat and gloves make her look a bit like shidous design :/ i definitely wanted more scientist vibes than doctor #dw she wears her PPE when she works on the machine 😤 #yeah yeah theres some shipping aspects sue me -- but genuinely its mostly for fun character studying and fix-its #mkdr and neoneon also hold a special place in my heart but i didnt want to double up on covers #im so sad because she just. doesnt fit into LCSyS #the machine is fake in the au so shed have no opportunity to join the experiment #plus even if i made her generic staff shed just be on the receiving end of the lie with es... which is just canon until the very end adfsdf #WOO huge thank you to kyanako5972 and purgemarchlockdown for enabling me to be annoying once again >:3 #and thank you gunsli!! our chat was the first time i ever talked about her and it really gave me a lot of confidence :') #not maintagging but i will edit for organizational tags later #i also may put this on my writing blog at some point but we'll see #my art #rose posts #ocgram #milgram

[youredreamingofroo]

my friend, ive been wanting to join that server since i came across ur blog but my social anxiety is SOOO bad in discord servers 😭😭😭 @zombielink5

#trust me ive been trying to hype myself up but everytime im like FUCK nevermind... maybe another day <:T #its mainly cuz i dont know/i'm not mutuals with most if not all the people in that server 😭 so i feel like its just gna be 20x more- #-awkward for me to join 🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️ #altho im sure id fit in. my entire discord profile is like a shrine to kyle gallner rn LMFAOOO #**i will say that i do know of a lot of ppl who like the passenger (like river LMAO) but im not like. mutuals with them agahshsj 🧍‍♂️ #yapping

[designernishiki]

okay hot take time with tumblr user designernishiki yet again.

i really don’t get the hype over majimako like. at all. I’ve tried to wrap my head around it but every time I just end up so confused how it’s such a popular pairing and wondering if we played the same game like?? they had no chemistry, barely even knew each other (and what they did know of each other was almost entirely built off desperate traumabonding) and people treat the pairing like it’s the most deep, romantic thing in the world despite there being like. nothing there. at least romantically speaking. it’s honest to god baffling to me.

their most iconic “romantic” image together comes from a scene where makoto wants to fucking run away from him because she wants to find lee, who she fully trusts and who’s in danger (and probably also because majima’s literally just admitted to initially planning to murder her.) and he has to hold her there so she doesn’t get herself killed by running (literally) blindly into the street or something. how on earth is that a romantic scene.

their little sort-of date consists of majima being kind and sympathetic to her, sure, maybe even displaying some surface level feelings, but she’s completely preoccupied because of the massively important issues going on at the time with the lieutenants who wronged tachibana, she’s more or less probably plotting their deaths in her head during that scene, and in the end she purposefully has him run to get takoyaki so she can flat out Leave without him stopping her. because she has other priorities and is Not In The Headspace For A Soft Sentimental Escapade to say the absolute least.

Whatever they were, they were not In Love, they didn’t have time or circumstances for that, or to get to know one another as Actual People rather than as incidental liferafts in the midst of a sea of traumatic, nightmarish events. majima attached himself to her and felt strongly about her safety and eventual return to normalcy because she reminded him of himself and wanted her to have the pleasant civilian life he couldn’t give himself. on her end? honestly I don’t think she felt that connected to him at all up until the end, namely up until when he fixed her watch. and even then “romantic” is not even close to the word id use for what she was feeling– in fact I think that waters it down, if anything. I mean like fuck she was there bringing flowers to her brother’s grave in the spot where he died in front of her i really don’t think this was about romanticism, it was about compassion and selflessness and wishing her good luck in her new, free life, while expecting nothing from her in return. he cared about her and her outcome in life deeply and this would be the case regardless of any romantic feelings for her.

Anyway I didn’t mean for this to turn into an essay and somehow I could go on for longer but I absolutely do not need to. I just. am so secure in my thoughts about this and sometimes seeing how people talk about this relationship and it’s supposed deep romanticism makes me feel like I’m losing my mind or played a completely different game or something ngl. don’t get me wrong, ship whatever you want I’m not saying it’s problematic or something it’s just. bizarre to me how popular and sensationalized it is. and a little frustrating how applying this overdramatic romantic narrative to them can so often water down a dynamic that’s way more nuanced and interesting on an individual character level.

#long post #rambling #it drives me a little insane. can you tell #I don’t know man #sometimes I really feel like a lot of people just like it because it makes majima seem more Normal and Less Fruity #not saying everyone is like that #but #I do think a large portion of the hype comes from this mindset consciously or not #and if I wanna get Real spicy for a second. I think the insinuation that he somehow developed feelings for her after knowing her for like #less than a week and only in the worst possible situations was written in as a way to- at least somewhat intentionally- #provide an excuse for why majima’s relationships with women in future years either crumble horribly (mirei) or he doesn’t take any #genuine interest in pursuing them at All. it helps to be able to point at shiyawase nara iiya and go look! he’s Like That because he’ll #always only have feelings for makoto! there’s definitely not anything fruity going on with him at all and he’s definitely not been #into his close male companion for possibly entire Decades #and what’s annoying is that this strategy. if it was. in fact. a strategy. worked pretty well #people really do think he’s been romantically hung up on her for years and that’s the sole reason he doesn’t pursue any women #(sans mirei but that’s. a whole different discussion. and obviously did not work out very well.) #but anyway #yeah #fun fact this pairing is the only tag I have filtered on tumblr like. period. fhfjfjdjdjdj #I KNOW that’s petty of me and like I said there’s nothing like morally Wrong with it or something it just. annoys me. #and I’m gonna be real since I’m dumping all this here anyway. every time I see an alternate timeline pic of them where they’re like. a #Normal Couple with a Normal Life and majima is a Normal Guy i physically recoil i just. i hate it dude i really do #like agshdhfhdhdh majima’s development into who he is hinges SO MUCH on embracing and accepting the fact that he’s not Normal and will never #be Normal and that’s okay– in fact that’s great in its own way because he doesn’t have to fit into a mold and can explore whatever #eccentricities and hobbies and parts of an identity he wants to create. for better or for worse. y0 majima still clings onto hope that he #has the capability for ‘normalcy’ and he sees that potential in makoto. but eventually has to come to terms with that not being an option #for him. and he mourns it at first but is quick to take advantage of the freedom that comes with that realization. and etc etc etc. it’s so #important to him as a character and such a big queer theme as well and I hateeeeeee when people erase it in favor of ‘but what if he was #Normal and not a Freak.’ bdhxhffjbfb I ran out of tags so I need to shut up fr fr

[adozentothedawn]

And so it is done! Praise be our bird lady Hylea, even though she was a dick to me while making it.

I tried getting multiple different lighting situations, but unfortunately none are great. If we're getting some sunlight tomorrow maybe I'll post another one in natural light.

Now, eagle (hah) eyed viewers might notice that there are two different shades of pink in this banner. This is definitely on purpose and not cause I ran out of the first one and bought a wrong one to stock up and then only noticed when it was too late.

You might also notice that wings don't look like weaving. That is cause they aren't. While the egg and the top part honestly went amazingly well on the round loom, the wings unfortunately bend into the wrong direction for the most part so it looked garbage when I tried to weave it the way I do usually. I then tried to weave it on top of the background, using the weft as another warp, but didn't look great either. Then I got the idea to maybe use the fact that I branched out in textile arts recently and just try something completely different. I ended up using a backstitch basically, but through the string itself to make it stick in one line. Honestly I'm kinda proud of that thing, cause it did come out pretty good. (Except that the one top line somehow got too long which meant I had to staunch the right wing so it wouldn't look too off kilter but at that point it would have been ludicrous to try and fix it so I did my best to work around it.)

Tbh I was too lazy to look up proper rim techniques but hey it works, so whatever.

The next project will take a while for sure, because I have about 5 million Christmas ducks to crochet, so we'll see when I get back to it.

#pillars of eternity #art #crafts #weaving #hylea #my project #i am hyped about the wings #it was what we in austria call a fiaseloabeit #lots of tiny precise bullshit #but it turned out rather well i like to think #and i finally have something to add to fandom again! #tbh i have gotten a bit jealous with people suddenly showing up again and me not having anything to join in #i am busy with other things right now #but i will try to update Hildraed sometime maybe #i know i keep promising to go back to writing and then not doing it #but i am trying really #i am just unfortunately failing #i'll get to it someday #i really do still love these games #and i'm so happy more people appreciate them #it is motivating but unfortunately motivation is just always enough #But! #i have this done finally #and that does make me happy

[archorcist]

most of my verses don't factor in adam's death (with the exception of his sinner verse where he returns as a demon) but if and when they do, his death was at the hands of lucifer!

#-ˏˋ ━━━ ( out of character. ) #-ˏˋ ━━━ ( about. ) #Those that have ever written a character whose death was handled comically will understand but like. #It's frustrating to rp a villain (...or anyone but usually villains) whose power is hyped up/their threat is hyped up. Only #for them 2 be negged by sum1 a lot weaker than them. It tarnishes their entire character and anything they are capable of. 💀 #Just makes more sense if it's Lucifer. Someone who is actually stronger. #Say Adam goes to attack them again after his ramble and Luci has to put him down idk yet but like?? Anything. #His abilities and or fights with Alastor & Charlie do not matter now because people will only remember him for his comical death #at the hands of a significantly weaker character. If you were to bring up his #abilities in a positive light... People will be like 'only to be killed by Niffty' asdfghkl. I get that. But it's very comical & Too soon. #I understand they only had 8 eps to work with buuut. It's probably a bit more dramatic and a longtime coming in my canon. #Still happy to joke about it and stuff but yeah hehe Lucifer is the only one that gets dead Adam rights atm. And maybe Lilith. #And anyone else if it's actually plotted and makes sense but. Lol #N e ways sorry for the ramble. Just establishing some canon things.

[gaylittleguys]

it’s actually so fucked up and evil that random white npcs from bg3 that show up twice got more dedicated fans than Wyll

#racist fans will do anything to avoid actually engaging with a black character #like. no offense to normal people who like some of the fun npcs #there’s a lot of them! I love all the detail put into the npcs! #but. #HUGE but #it’s weird right that there was more fandom about background guys than one of the major characters #and then people would go ‘ohhh but wyll doesn’t rly have any content :/‘ #like guy who’s there for like 3 scenes max could possibly ever have more depth than A MAJOR CHARACTER #I’m not even excusing it as oohhhh but people want hot tiefling characters bc WYLL #I will defend Wyll to the death #if there’s no Wyll defenders I have died #if Wyll has a million fans I’m one of them. if Wyll has 5 fans I’m one of them. if Wyll has 1 fan that 1 is me. #like yeahhhhg Larian did him dirty with his storyline and fucked up that he was hours less content than other origin characters #I’m not excusing that that’s awful too #but like. idk if you say Wyll is boring while hyping up white npc no.324 I’ll kill you #he’s funnyyyy and cool and kind and I like him #.doc #what everrrrr #I’m hoping the bg3 has calmed down a little I don’t wish to be crucified for this but it shouldn’t be a controversial opinion #boring bg3 fans would throw up if they’d see the shit I think about these characters #Larian let me have a go I’ve got good ideas for his story #sucks that Wylls arc revolves so much around other people #I still think it would have been soo interesting to explore his ideals/alignment leading him astray like his misconceptions about karlach #like a whole if he belives what he’s doing is for good but it’s not where does that leave him how would he feel about that #whateverrrrrr #wyll my best friend wyll #my beloved

[jackdawsfavorite]

On Symbolic vs Factual Beliefs

“The Truthers, in short, maintained that the government had gone to extreme measures, including killing thousands of its own citizens, in order to carry out and cover up a conspiracy. And yet the same Truthers advertised the conference online and met in a place where they could easily be surveilled. Speakers’ names were posted on the Internet along with videos, photographs, and short bios. The organizers created a publicly accessible forum to discuss next steps, and a couple of attendees spoke to a reporter from the Times, despite the mainstream media’s ostensible complicity in the coverup. By the logic of their own theories, the Truthers were setting themselves up for assassination.

“Their behavior demonstrates a paradox of belief. Action is supposed to follow belief, and yet beliefs, even fervently espoused ones, sometimes exist in their own cognitive cage, with little influence over behavior.”

#News articles #politics #the article goes on to suggest that misinformation is a symptom of the social unrest we accuse it of creating rather than the cause #Idk man maybe #Personally I’m more interested in trying to understand people who… #Ugh I don’t have the vocabulary for this. But like you KNOW flat earthers know the earth isn’t flat #but they argue it is and lump in with people who will indulge them because it’s not actually about the shape of the earth. It’s a social #thing. #And I think a lot of energy gets wasted trying to persuade conspiracists that specific things aren’t true when their espousing that belief #in the first place is never About whether it’s true. #When you debunk their shit they’re not like ‘’this person is joining me in my quest to perceive reality and is simply wrong’’ #They just categorize you as Outgroup and go back to getting hype with their friends. I’m so sure that’s what it’s For. #Anyway this article has a lot of sources on That to follow up on so it goes on my blog

[yoistars]

i made this post before on my old account and i'll make it again. i love people. so much. even the bad ones. i think everybody deserves a second and third chance and i think everyone deserves to have a pillow to sleep on under warm bedsheets and a nice and loving home. i love people so much. i was at an amusement park and i told a boy today i liked his sweatshirt (it was taylor swift, i had to) and he went from having a melancholic look on his face to something so bright. his dimples were showing and he had navy blue lacing on his braces. seeing him smile was like looking at the sun. he said thank you and i could hear an exclamation mark in his voice. that made me so happy. i hope hes having a great day. i love people

#（ꈍ ꈍ） – shut up addie ! #i don't like hearing the phrase “i hate people” so often #you don't hate them; you hate socializing and that's so totally okay bc girl same #i think a lot of people look at the world in swamp colored glasses and excuse it with “if u expect disappointment u wont be disappointed” #which is so sad #why are you expecting disappointment all the time? #hype yourself up for things that won't happen #pretend you're captain america and you're saving the world even if you're just getting the mail #being positive won't kill you; it'll make you stronger #i think everyone should be kind and be treated kindly #i love people :) #even if they hate me i still love them #there's beauty in everyone and everything

[canisbeasts-ooc]

Goregle: How to dance in 5 easy steps

Inspired by this post by @trenchgardens-ooc-ooc !

#hope it’s alright to tag you! I can take it off if not! #Mod Dog barks #doggy doodles #Arf posting #time for tag ramble >:3c #Sphinx Flinks #Respit Loamar #I was getting a bit tired at the end and that’s why there are amongus #Sphinx up top right needs hydration #Also Sphinx wondering how to dance with very tall people #hypothetical Sphinx tail jumpscare. rahhh :3 #Upper left is the two of em dancing #I imagine them dancing a lot more freestyle than any one form #Probably more like those very cool Jack & Jill dance competitions? #emphasis on working together and having fun :] #Respit is unsteady on his skates but at least someone is there for support #also the rollerbladers are the coolest trolls around #got the hype squad for them!! #Carmine-Clownfish #trenchgarden-ooc

[astramachina]

i enjoy looking at the stats for this specific fic because it makes me think that, potentially, there is someone out there catching the tiny nuances and obscure references i keep slipping in there. and i'm not talking game lore, i'm talking "old enough to recognize this minuscule musical reference and its thematic relevance".

#texts. #working on chapter 35 at 1:12am whaddup. #i refuse to start actually writing The Big Project until i finish this fic because if i don't...god knows when I'll get around to finishing #(spoiler alert: i probably wouldn't) #ngl it's been a bit of a hassle to upload chapters every week. #i don't mean writing them because it's been super fun and i'm holding this fic close to my heart #but a lot of the time i just sigh when i have to take a sec to clean up and publish an update. #i know people are reading it still but that annoyance from back in november still remains. #the constant 'update when' and now that the hype's died down it's like tumbleweed season. #world's most awkward performance where people come in every week. watch you perform and then leave without saying a word. #i'm left standing there going 'soo how's everyone doing?' into the mic to more prolonged silence. LMAO #w/e w/e it's fine.

[gibbearish]

hey @humans saw yall responded to a post making fun of you for updating the pixel alignment of a dash icon rather than fixing anything important saying "changes like this feel small but can make a big difference for some people" which is a bullshit cop out if ive ever heard one so im here to tell you directly in a way you cant wiggle out: you know what would actually make a big difference for a LOT of people? not being transphobic assholes

#that response was so deeply annoying to me like they couldve been like 'yeah its not big but it was technically an update #so we had to include it in the update report' but they tried to frame it as 'well ackshully everyone was BEGGING us to perfecltly #align this pixel so youre WELCOME' and its like. man fuck off you dont get to throw a fit that your userbase is pissed off about #repeated blatent bigotry and then try to act like youre doing us a favor moving an icon a smidge #yall know exactly what the users want you to do to improve this site and are ignoring it because you dont actually give a shit #but you cant say that bit out loud so you have to keep talking circles around it because you know the dirty queers are the main people #keeping your site the tiny bit afloat it still is but are unwilling to actually treat us well so you have to #talk in circles and pretend you give a shit and hype up minor updates like theyre godsend while fucking over trans people anyway #anyways i hope the transphobe on staff is the one who opens this tag notification #just kidding thats all of them because if youre willing to keep a transphobe on your team and allow them to make changes #that directly target lgbt people then you are all transphobes #whats that saying thats like 'if you have 3 nazis and 9 regular men at a table you have 12 nazis'? that #i dont actually expect them to respond to this post bc like. theyre obviously already aware people are mad about this and have just been #avoiding the subject especially if PIXEL ADJUSTMENT is something theyre responding to instead but #w/e #also moving an icon slightly does not make a big difference for anyone sorry not sorry i guarantee if it hadnt been #included in the updates post not a single person would have noticed or cared #they just need something to pad their uodates post out with so people hopefully eont notice the glaring lack #of 'fired the transphobe' 'unblocked queer tags' 'turned off the image filter that targets trans women a lot for some weird reason'

[goatyoat]

this may be the autism popping out but i didn’t even realize Hugh Grant’s character was supposed to be Benoit’s husband/partner/etc. 

#dont get me wrong #im here for it; and if they made it explicitly canon in a future movie i'll be hyped about it #but tbh nothing about it read as them being partners romantically #i genuinely assumed Benoit just had a roomie bc sharing rent or w/e #idk it just did not occur to me #and im wondering if that's actually the case for a lot of people and it only blew up after Hugh Grant made a comment about it #knives out #knives out: glass onion #glass onion