#possibly one of my favourite ones yet

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

BBC Merlin & Text Posts (12/?)

#possibly one of my favourite ones yet #merthur #morgwen #arwen #arthur pendragon #morgana pendragon #gwen pendragon #merlin #bbc merlin #merlin memes #merlin text posts

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Thank you all for voting in the poll to decide who was going to be the leader of the band! It turned out to be such a close race!

#poorly drawn mdzs #better drawn mdzs #mdzs #madam lan #A-qing #Band AU #(Reminder that Madam Lan's design inspiration goes to Qourmet!) #Madam Lan may have been the winner per vote count but there were so many strong advocates for A-Qing! #I played around with a few versions of what the 'poll winner' art was going to be and ultimately decided I wanted them both. #As any good theater love knows though - The battle for leadership was a ruse. They *all* get a chance to be featured. #Cooperation was the real end goal! However I do think these two have the best frontman energy of the group. #Or at least 'crowd favourite' energy. I also really loved hearing what people thought their vocal styles would be like! #This was probably one of my favourite polls to do and I love drawing these characters a lot B*) #I'd love to spend a bit more time in this AU so count on me bringing it back. #One thing I keep feeling like I need to redeem myself on is Madam Lan's Translucent skirt. I have *not* done the concept justice yet. #It is such a crack-platonic ship but I want to think Madam Lan and A-Qing would enjoy each other's company. #Possibly also with JYL as well. They can be like mutually beneficial therapy dogs to each other. #Madam Lan never got to see her kids grow up into teenagers after all. She only had sons. Never daughters. #Even if she saw her kids once a month we do know she treated them with so much love and kindness. #She would bite the shit out of YZY for yelling at JYL. What a sight to see. A-Qing would also start biting (for fun).

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

words can’t express how much i love him, his courage and fearlessness of expression in everything he creates is pure magic 🖤

#this is his day and he deserves ALL the love and appreciation in the world #what did i even do with my life before i found this man’s music?? #at the time of posting i actually haven’t sat down and listened to omb yet because i’m still super ill with covid #and don’t want to associate miles’s new album with that lol #but the little cd/t-shirt/signed print pack arrived today and god did it cheer me up just seeing it #these photos from the booklet are just my absolute favourite 💗 #i can’t wait until i’m well enough to listen to the album properly #i know it’s going to destroy me in the best way possible #i’ve literally been so excited for this moment for months and the singles off it he’s already released are some of my favourite songs ever #so so proud of him and everything he’s done to make this beautiful music and infinitely grateful to him for sharing it with us 💜 #miles kane #one man band #lulu posts

[gingerbreadmonsters]

it's wip MERMAYnesday, babey!!

(technically it's thursday, ignore that, we're sticking to a theme here)

thank you to the lovely @k9rage for the tag - i'm actually relatively early for this one for me at least, so let's have a quick, no-pressure look..... @zozo-01 @lovelylonerliterature @romirola @autisticempathydaemon @sealriously-sealrious @epsi-l0n @danislitllelounge how are we looking this week?? 👀👀

i'm not normally very good at AUs, but @sri-rachaa has some EXCELLENT ideas when it comes to these sorts of things - consider this wip a love letter to her magnificent solaire pirate!au 🤩🤩🤩

#redacted asmr #redacted audio #i wonder if it's possible to guess who's speaking here...... mmm... probably not just yet?? #or maybe i'm better at this than i thought #or maybe i'm just predictable?? yeah it's that one #i am VERY much looking forward to this one hehe #it's full of all my favourite things #kissing and melancholy introspection and body horror and pretty men in not a lot of clothes #it's got it all 🥰🥰🥰 #ginger writes #gingerbreadmonsters

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

Replaying the dr games is giving me a new appreciation of them overall, but I really did not realize how much I loved certain characters until now. I’m ecstatic any time nagito’s on screen, I guess he’s for sure one of my favourites fjdhf

#shut up me #after we finished playing for the night I was talking to her vaguely about how excited I am for v3 #and how excited I was to see my favourite character #and she was like ‘oh you mean the guy with the checkered scarf?’ #and I felt every emotion possible at once #*through gritted teeth* n-no not exactly #“but you cosplayed as him + have a pin of him on your bag + a sticker of him on your tablet #y-yeah.. yeah I do…. #cant get into the weeds on that one yet but where’s the Justice for my boy Gonta. I need to up the Gonta love

[somedaytakethetime]

He's literally obsessed with kicking the ball at this kid in this fashion lately... show off..

Bonus of my favourite, precious dansk rotte:

#the way i learn words just to be able to use them when referring to this man.. #also if that's not correct? i don't care 😤 come speak my language and find out it's not so fun either #anyway in totally unrelated news today i have that song from Barbie stuck in my head #you know that one that Billie wrote for it? the really depressing one? #yeah that one.. you don't understand the melancholy i'm living with besties.. #meanwhile Kasper is posting about the beach on his stories while i'm out here rotting away #and it's sick and twisted because i KNOW he's about to hit that sauna again.. my man *is* obsessed with it.. and he'll never post about it #he'll never drop a little selfie like he did.. totally shirtless... i miss that... #enough sorrow let me get back to work #Kasper Schmeichel #king thicccness #danish captain america #actually now that i think about it.. #i could have written min yndlings dansk rotte.. but i don't know how to say precious yet #i'm poor on complimentary vocabulary.. or vocabulary in general 😅 #edit to add: learning that that is not correct is hilarious #so if i want to say it that way then I'd have to attach possibly dansk rotte to it too? #because apparently yndling is a noun so you have to add the s and make it into a compound word? #there's also favorit and that's an adjective which makes it simpler because i can just write 'min favorit dansk rotte' but #favorit doesn't necessarily mean it's my personal favourite from what I'm reading and Kaspy is definitely my personal favourite so.. #min yndlingsdanskrotte? min yndlingsrotte would likely be more correct? HOW BIG CAN THESE DAMN COMPOUND WORDS GET?? #learning is hard and I'm too old and dumb 😔😔😔 #i genuinely don't understand this language and it makes me want to cry but anyway 😂

[martyrbat]

the homoeroticism of sharing a cigarette while overlooking a city you both want to save and are willing to sacrifice everything to do so while desperately clinging to the hope you both can somehow still live to see another sunrise.

#shoutout to batgordon gotta be one of my favourite pairs that makes my mutuals annoyed <33 #its about having that boundary and barrier that literal mask staring you in the face every single time you talk — the painful reminder you #will never know the man underneath it entirely! yet still that trust to uphold his secret identity! to not peek or rip it off! to not turn #around when he uncowls himself behind you in a theatrical show of HIS trust! its about not opening your eyes while bandaging his injuries #and as your fingers graze the skin that you dont allow yourself to see! its about seeing this mask and accepting it as part of the man and #something he must do and have! its about finding the other person that actually cares about this city as much as you do! #everyone around you is telling you its hopeless yet you remain that hope! you remain dedicated to it and your sisyphus labour because #theres such a small possibility that one day things WILL get better and that's enough to keep you going! its about finding the other person #that has sacrificed and sabotaged their own happiness and life for this city! #its about the smoke burning in your lungs and the cold air you two will always share — if youre lucky. #its about having a consensual workplace relationship that neither of you will acknowledge! #and why should you! theree no point! its never going to happen; gotham and your family is always going to the priority for both of you #but god the stars are beautiful tonight and its so nice to have a friend that actually understands why youre bleeding for this city #its also about sad old men sex & bittersweet heartache memories shared of watching this hungry city shift and change as your blood feeds it

[sysig]

Me, looking at Charm: Mm, she’s not deranged enough Me, looking at [Purple Text]: Mm, they’re not deranged enough!

Ft. an old idea (Patreon)

#Doodles #It's been too long since the last sona and I had an Idea #Actually pulling from a lot of my favourite angel interpretations! #DQIX's Celestrians and Fantasia's Cherubs #And my own AGE angels <3 #Still need to decide on a Center but I have decided the Concept so that's a start! #The caption may seem a bit funny since Clearly That is An Angel - I've only been talking about angels so far! Obviously! #Well ♪ #I was also thinking about Fallen Angels which both AGE and DQIX have! In a few different ways each in fact :D #Fallen Angels can be as deranged as I want lol #Maybe justification of why they look kinda normal too? Pulling from DQIX on that one - Fallen Celestrians appear almost human #I guess Corvus' second form would be his Demonic form? Not quite to that level here - yet - but the possibility remains! #A good base for a Biblical Form as well - or my headcanon for ''baby'' Angels! Both AGE and DQIX got effectively the same idea lol #(Their baby form would just be a pink ball of light/halo btw lol) #As for the Cherubs it's more of a utility thing - normally I wouldn't be cool with any of my sonas being naked but there's literally nothing #Utterly sexless and genderless - just how I like it lol #That said the clothing really does pull it all together - I was specifically thinking of an old Flash dressup game I played ages ago #I'll have to see if I can find some screenshots sometime #Also another reason to not make them a Biblically Accurate is 'cause [Purple Text] kinda already has that covered lol #I've still never shown off their eyes but I promise you they do not have two haha #I do want to work on this design more so maybe as I get further away from the base I'll be happier anyhow lol

[s0fter-sin]

finally figured out the reason it’s been difficult to get back into reading books after reading fic for so long is so many fantasy books are just self inserts and the mc has no personality beyond the bare minimum

#i dont want to imagine myself in the characters place #i didnt just spend 30 bucks for you to give me a long form imagine #i can do that by myself #i dont want a blank shell i want a character #like you read fics and they feel completely different depending on whos pov youre reading from #i think its why sp is still my favourite series despite it being ya #val is arrogant and selfish and she fucks up and doesnt get the boy she wants #her relationships constantly fail and theyre not the main point the plot always is #she has so many flaws and that helps serve the narrative #shes a character and im reading her experiencing things #not me vicariously experiencing things with the blandest possible reactions so i can pretend theyre my reactions #damn near every fantasy goes the same way #im new to this world/my powers and i need help/cant control them and the mysterious boy everyone tells me to stay away from and is super #mean to me has begrudgingly decided/is forced to help me and i discover hes only mean bc of tragic thing and he opens up to me #and the powers/world are never the point except that im secretly royalty and/or the chosen one that will end this war/battle without #really doing much #and i learn to master my powers by believing in myself and my emotions bc its 2023 and fem characters still have to fall into this trope #i want an interesting mc that drives the plot and is equal to the love interest #or better yet the love interest is so far in the background its only brought up in book 4 #lay some ground work for fucks sake theres no time limit this isnt a movie #heres hoping the bunch i bought the other day do that and get me back into it #or ill just re read the same four series ive been reading since i was 12 #and stick to fic as my main source of entertainment #it hasnt let me down so far #coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt

[anguis-sapphire]

Do I attempt to play Fire Emblem: Three Houses at twenty past ten at night

#a call from the void #posts made by me #i have spent the past three hours sat here laughing at skyrim videos #which may not have been the best thing to do considering i'm ill and it's specifically throat-focused #(that's not the right phrase but you know what I mean) #but i feel like i'm just stalling/waiting and i don't know what to do in the meantime. which isn't nice! #so on the one hand something that requires thought may make sense #and yet on the other hand I do not know if I have the brainpower currently #we shall see #echo plays three houses #potentially #probably #possibly without turning the TV sound on though #because a) it's late and b) one of my favourite songs just came on so i'm not turning my headphones off anytime soon

[kxowledge]

#got to do a tour last year with one of the professors & loved it #in general this is possibly my favourite place in geneva & my favourite church #austere & v much protestant yet also majestic & somehow inviting at the same time & the light!! so good and so much history behind it #also la chapelle des Macchabées doesn't feature in the video but it's a true wonder #country: switzerland #Youtube

[the-busy-ghost]

Something comforting to think about today- there are lots of people in the world who hate, loathe, and despise my favourite books

That doesn’t sound like it should be comforting because of course at heart I want everyone to love them as much as I do. And it does annoy me when people hate books based on what I sincerely believe to be a complete misinterpretation of them (cough-cough, the recent “Wuthering Heights is just a silly problematic romance novel” issue). But if I’m being honest I also hate it just as much when people LOVE my favourite books based on a complete misinterpretation of them and for all the wrong reasons (”XXX did nothing wrong!”- what book were you reading???). And in either situation it isn’t really my business, though I reserve the right to be irritated.

But lots of people have valid criticisms of these books. Others simply didn’t vibe with the book on a given day and maybe never will- they don’t owe me or anyone else a reason. And I may not agree with them, but I do like it when I can completely understand why some people don’t like these books. For example, I think “Middlemarch” is one of the greatest novels I’ve ever read but for other people, it’s just not for them! They simply enjoy a very different kind of book, or they were disappointed that it wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, or they couldn’t understand the characters, or it just wasn’t the right time for that book to come into their lives, or it was just too damn long for them.

And firstly I find that comforting because it shows that we’re all different souls. We all have different tastes and experiences, and that means that our favourite books actually MEAN something to us, rather than just being a Generic Important Book That Everyone Likes. And often the reasons why one book is my favourite, are very different to the reasons that they are someone else’s favourite- the best books are multi-faceted after all. It’s a wonderful testament to the diversity of human experience and creativity (because in my opinion, there’s a great deal of the reader’s own imaginative ability goes into engaging with a book). So all that is required is for people to be open-minded and assume that when someone says they love a book, they have their own reasons, and these might not even be the reasons you think. 

And secondly of course, is that if even the books that I think are the best thing to exist, a physical symbol of worldly greatness, aspiration embodied, don’t appeal to everyone- then the things I create in turn don’t need to either. If even the greatest authors have harsh critics who will simply NEVER like their work, why are we all worrying so much about the merest hint of rejection, in life as much as in art?

#I talk a good game of course rejection is still very painful for me #And note valid constructive criticism is a different thing from rejection but if people's books can survive completely dumbass rejection #Based on complete misreading of the situation I think I can survive someone not liking me #books #reading #booklr #Also constructive criticism of my favourite books is good because it means I get to go back think it over #Argue it through in my head; point out other passages of the book in defence of it #And STILL come out of it loving the book possibly even more because it's drawn my attention to things I didn't realise about it #And sometimes I can't answer them fully either and that's ok too #Sometimes I've had the same thought as a novel's detractors and they've drawn attention to it #For example I was wondering at the end of Wuthering Heights why Heathcliff bothered keeping Nellie around #Why didn't he just send her packing rather than continuing to employ her at Thrushcross Grange #And I have lots of ideas but none of them quite stick yet #One is that she's possibly an unreliable narrator so she may- against her better judgement- have helped him more than she likes to admit #Another is that he is labouring under the impression that he can control her and so keeps her around in case he needs to use her influence #A third is that he needs a witness- there's some element of performativity in his cruelty and SOMEONE needs to see him destroy things #But I also like the idea that the four of them are all siblings really #Nelly- though she has a mother and other family at home- spent much of her youth at Wuthering Heights #And describes herself as Hindley's foster sibling in the sense that her mother was his nurse (a powerful bond in the pre-modern era btw) #So really she's as much one of the Wuthering Heights Nest as the lot of them #Heathcliff doesn't have as much reason to despise her as Hindley nor does he have so much reason to love her as Cathy #But she's still a sibling of sorts and maybe Heathcliff- whether he recognises it or not- sense that she has a right to be there #He doesn't seem like someone who needs a family but then maybe he's not as in control of the Heights as he thinks he is #I really don't know yet I will have to reread it #But yeah I think Nelly is as much a part of that nest of trouble as the rest of them #I'm getting off topic though- but see what I mean about negative criticism being important and fascinating! #Ok so I keep finding my way back to Wuthering Heights a lot over the last few weeks but this applies to othe rbooks too #I had similar feelings about some of teh criticisms of Flemington #reading log

[minarcana]

i have been receiving and reading daily poetry emails for quite literally every day of my adult life. yet somehow every time i seek to compile collections of quotes for people, there is a solid 70% chance a line from andrei bely will creep in there, a man who normal english-speaking people have never heard of and who i obsessively read every single one of his works i get my hands on.

i feel like both of these are if not individual red flags, at least yellow ones, and they are both things that make me go "fucking of course you write urianger, you weird little fruit"

#bely is supremely uri tag. in a certain way. not in all of the ways but in a direction. #this is a feeling that only i can comprehend #bely is one of my favourite writers of all time. the first time i read his most famous book i went 'well i hated that time to never think #about it again' and then i read it four more times and own it in two languages. normal #no one knows who he is except for REEES people. #and yet everyone knows dostoevsky. personally i think dostoevsky is Tedious. #ooc #me looking at my high school self like 'and you thought you couldnt possibly be a libarts major. you fool.' #anyways if anyone ever wants poetry to read first off i recommend amichai #about fifth on the list is petersburg by andrei bely. its excellent. it will give you physical repulsion. it will linger #petersburg is described as the russian equivalent to james joyce's ulysses which ironically i have not read #i dont know how this tag section became Dezember's Literary Discussion Circle Of One Man Discussing but here we are #no im not deleting any of them #this is a stream of consciousness adventure and now youre just on this ride with me #if you read petersburg you should also read the silver dove but only after i tell you the absolutely incredible saga of its origin #kotik letaev is also p good once ur used to belys bullshit. i named my cat letaev bc he is my kotik. thank u