#the progress of your touches

[starsxinxthexbluexsky]

WangXian: Wrist and Hand Touch Edition

#the untamed #cql #theuntameddaily #they are always holding each other by the wrists it is so romantic #i think that lwj touches wwx more and that he is not supposed to touch anyone #the progress of your touches #this is the edition of touching hands and wrists but also hands #they make me so soft #my baobaos #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wangxian #my gifs #mygifs.cql #1k

[six-of-cringe]

"haha wylan walks in on jesper kissing the wrong guy" yes funny but moving on, have you ever wondered why Wylan was up there in the first place. Because the last he'd seen of Jesper was him being yelled at by Colm to explain what was going on or Colm would "tan your hide so bad you won't be able to sit down for two weeks". Everyone else finds Jesper getting full government-named very funny, but to Wylan this threat would not seem empty - that is just what happens when sons make mistakes. Consider that he wanted to check on Jesper, to see if he was alright, because though it's not really addressed directly, the story gives us several moments of Wylan not trusting Colm and trying to "protect" Jesper from him. Wylan had been isolated to the point where he only knew one father-son relationship, or even one relationship at all, which was between him and Van Eck. Why would he trust Colm? Maybe he just wandered into the room for a silly plot convenience, but I think he was there to assess the damage and be there for Jesper in case the thing that happens between fathers and their sons happened to him.

#he lies for jesper in the tomb early on bc - as he puts it - he doesn't want to watch colm go from confused to disappointed to angry #and to him this is just the natural progression of things that he's had no reason to question #you mess up and so your father rips you apart body and spirit. duh. but he doesn't want to see it happen to jesper bc he knows it hurts #like. he can't fathom a relationship that doesn't follow this causality. someone help him #i am very normal and think about wylan's undoubtedly fucked up psyche a normal amount #leigh only got into his head for like 5 chapters total. there's so much that most definitely is in there but was not touched on at all #you dont get treated like that for most of ur very young life and come out cool and fine from it after a couple perspective-changing heists #anyway the kissing the wrong guy thing was pretty funny tbh but i feel like the fandom made it boring. overused!! #i'm normal #wylan van eck #jesper fahey #colm fahey #six of crows #soc #tgt #soc meta

[elvhendis]

I think my new pet peeve are Astarion fix it fics

#i mean where people fix the first time they sleep together #by having tav notice what's up immediately #because the fact that Astarion puts up this act to fool the player is the whole meat of his story #the twist that this isn't in fact what he wants and everything is just a show is the spice #if you remove that from the story immediately then where is the story? #where is the progression #where is the twist?! #isn't what makes his story so satisfying the fact that he opens up to you later and tells you the truth about how he feels about sex??? #he feels comfortable to tell you FIRST #the whole confession deal is what makes it so sweet and touching #to me at least #also bffr would your tav really immeditaly know? #would they?? #i think it's so much more interesting if they're oblivious at first #but that's just me idk #also like with the people who woobify him it just feels like people are babying him #imo he needs to come to this realization by himself #sry for ranting #it's just by doing this you're literally removing his whole ARC #do you get me at all???

[supahstarrr]

"whitemisia" are you fucking stupid.

#white people want to be victims so badly #''an example is getting hair touched when your blonde''???? ''people staring at you for ‘looking different'''????? #do you fucking hear yourself. #also let me remind yall. these people whining about ''whitemisia'' are radqueers. #idk whats up with that space but bitches on those communities always turn out to be racist as fuck #oh and i heard that theres ''slavery flag'' where you want to be a slave or want to be a victim of past slavery #so that could also tell you a lot about radqueers (and about how they view generational trauma from slavery ^^) #i feel like out of all of the classic ''community that give a font that they're progressive but actually very fucked up and racist'' #communities that makes me so angered the most... its got to be radqueers #genuinely have no fucking idea whats up with their ideology. and i heard so much from minors escaping that community #ive definitely heard some fucked up stories about constant grooming.. like wtf #this community is SO detached like.. do you hear yourself.. racist mfs. full of nasty and horrid bigots #i wish therapy was free!!!! almost seems like they need it more than i do

[stargirlfics]

thinking about writing a battinson fic with a bit of a friends to lovers situation, you end up having to help him get his shirt off when he comes knocking with a dislocated shoulder and well that’s the first time you’ve ever touched him so close and suddenly you’re both catching feelings 😌

#brainstorming! thinking! feeling! whew! #like god imagine him flinching at your touch but it isn’t bc of pain it’s bc he can’t believe you’re touching him #battinson x reader #fic inspo #works in progress

[toytulini]

god I know this is like The Wrong Stance on AI. I know its not about whether the art is Real and Human or If It Has A Soul and how a lot of the arguments against it are the same bullshit arguments people made against digital art like I Know. I Knowwww. but god, I'm really sorry, not to post like one of those annoying poetry bloggers I cant stand (yall are valid, live your truth, theres nothing wrong with what you post I'm just a petty bitch who hates poetry. unless I dont hate it.)

But theres just something about the way AI art will almost certainly never be able to mimic the exact way my pencil leaves an indentation in the paper, the way some of the lines I can never fully erase cause I pressed too hard, theyll have to at least train them to draw with a physical pencil first, and sure, they could train it to draw with a pencil and even erase the exact same piece I drew, line for line, on a piece of paper with a robot arm powered by AI, but they can't replicate. idk. the lineage of lefty bitches in my family, and the way I grew up going through school with my entire left arm silver with graphite, from doodling on my schoolwork. not yet anyway. but I guess I do live for the day we make the ai sentient enough that we can traumatize it by giving it homework after kneecapping its executive functions so it copes by drawing a big tiddy lobster monster. sure

#toy txt post #reblogs OFF i dont trust yall to be normal with this one i do NOT want it getting notes #i posted part of this before in a chat to a friend but im feeling it again. so #i havent drawn my big tiddy lobster bitch in awhile i should draw her again #also yea SORRY im sure this is The Wrong Feeling To Have About AI but also sometimes im a little grateful that i dont think my style is #smth a lot of the ppl coding ai to make art find to be worth trying to replicate except maybe as like a fake progress shot on a piece #which is smth i used to be really insecure about. how unfinished all my art looks bc it isnt to the point i cant fucking watch #like speedpaints and shit bc i just start feeling stupidly insecure about all the points in the video where I Would Have Stopped and been #like. im not touching it anymore i dont want to ruin it #and ive been insecure about my inability to really do digital art with like a stylus and shit like the way i do it with a pencil #and i know that is just me needing to Practice it but being too frustrated by it #anyway i know its just a Tool and its Fine and the problem is the art theft and the labor problems of it but liiiiiiike #i just. #im sure there will be unique things and usages of ai as a tool and i genuinely hope that ppl can figure out a way to make one that isnr #isnt* just full of stolen content bc theres unique fuckin shit about like digital art programs u can write stupid poetry that you hate #about it. or stupid poetry that i hate. cos im the poetry hater. listen. i cant stress this enough: its fine. youre fine. keep posting your #poetry and reblogging shit that speaks to you. im just a Bitch okay Ignore Me #i should go draw bokrae like. eating a computer about this #the real reason for that graphics card shortage was bokrae ate them all when she was in the mood for a crunchy snack

[hard--headed--woman]

"sexuality has nothing to do with sex"

do i even need to comment

#the rest of the comment was also crazy and homophobic but this part is clearly the best #gendies stop. go outside. enough internet for your entire life #radblr #radical feminism #radfem safe #radfem #gender critical #radical feminists please touch #radical feminist safe #radical feminists do touch #radical feminist community #lgbt #progressive homophobia #sex not gender #gendie brainrot receipts #tra receipts #receipts

[malhare]

"Joshua Graham is homophobic because he's Mormon XDD" takes are stupid as fuck, what straight man wears jeans that tight

#In all seriousness though I HATEEE HATE takes like that I will gouge your eyes out #Religious character: [Exists] The brave and progressive denizens of tumblr: Oh so they're racist homophobic and sexist by default #We need a version of 'touch grass' that's just 'exit your echo chamber' #malhare.txt

[vorakh]

once again being completely insane about the marble nest (:

#what is death? what is a miracle? #is it possible to look into the eyes of death and refuse her forever? #is it even living if there is no choice‚ no change‚ no progress? is it defeating death or just a different form of dying? #what is a soul held captive inside a walnut? #‘you seem to have forgotten something very dear to you’ #‘a warm‚ dry hand seem to have touched your forehead soothingly… it's going to be… alright’ #obsessed with the thanatika lab questionnaire obsessed with the child games of knock knock #it's personal tag again

[anurarana]

going to the bathroom is so spooky

#you leave the bathroom where only one light is on into and office space with the wall tiles peeling off #the moving on into this big empty shell and you know no one else is on the entire floor #the only thing there is the oppressive sound of an ac unit and the faint notes of cant touch this progressively growing louder #as you get closer to a dead escalator that hurts your knees to walk down #sstfu.txt #at least my manager got the good toilet paper lmao

[pangyham]

Bg3 is insanely fun to me so far. very early in the game but knowing ive barely started makes me excited at the prospect of more cutscenes, quests, and character interactions..!!!

i was just talking to my friend about how easy it is to REALLY project yourself into the game because of how authentic and variable the character + spatial interactions are and i was like. oh god i would not survive in this world. i think for rpgs in general i will never not be able to separate myself from the chatacters i play as just because i control them. but they will always be a separate, well established character with just a bit of me in them. it's different in bg3 because of how my personal ideologies affect the storyline and characters around me, and i think it's really interesting playing a game where your character and the world around you arent narratively static or fixed (it also helps i customized my paladin) It feels real! and this isnt new, it's just very novel to me as someone who doesnt play games like bg3, and i wonder what other games offer this immersion? my only exposure to open world rpgs are genshin and botw/totk but they cant really compare because genshin has a linear storyline and you dont really influence the characters and teyvat because the narrative is already laid out (and it also clashes against the game's open world mechanic which makes the world feel, at least to me, very synthetic). botw is more of an exploration game since its whole point is testing the limits of open world. so it's not super story driven imo, not to say it doesnt have a solid story. but i love these games dearly, and bg3 offers a really satisfying and fulfilling extension to what i truly want in an rpg

but anyway that was just a tangent but basically i told my friend how my paladin pangy is kind of.. stupid. *I* am stupid. HAHAHA i happen to fall for a lot of schemes and am easily deceived. astarion killed me because i didnt shove him away after letting him bite me, afraid he might die of malnourishment. got pickpocketed by a kid (and my character ironically failed the perception check TWICE. i had no idea what was going on until my friend in call told me j just got robbed). believed the fake sobstory of the paladins who attacked karlach and had to reload my save slot so i had the upperhand. i have 0 survival instincts...it's almost ridiculous but also incredibly funny. it made me realize that this is a game worth taking seriously (and that im just. really clueless 🧍‍♂️). but the experience is fun, and i like how the stakes are high (for the most part). i have Got to get my shit together i cant get jumped like this all the time

#im also insanely sexless and rizzless #i dont pick up on romantic cues at all bro and this one i can see Why #because i have trouble picking up on some conventional social cues irl 🧍‍♂️ #it's just the touch of the tism... #but anyway i accidentally rizzed up karlach and i didnt know telling her “we should deal with that engine of yours” after she offered sex #was like.. a confirmation. i thought it was a NEUTRAL response #my friend told me that the chances of me wooing other characters are slim because my romance route is fixed on karlach #or more like theres no guarantee i can romance others if ive progressed too far with karlach #and it had me kinda deflated because i was somewhat set on shadowheart. so i just went back 3 hours of gameplay back to the save slot #where i encountered the first romance scene w karlach to explicitly turn her down #have to redo all my progress since then but i just took the L if it means it saves my chances with shadowheart🫡

[variousqueerthings]

Something that I’ve been thinking over and over as I watch MASH is the way in which a lot of modern mainstream TV seems to portion out touch like it’s rationed. People don’t touch each other casually/often/like they know each other well, especially if they’re not romantic partners, and especially men

and in a lot of stuff I’ve seen the touches that do happen tend to feel scripted, like here’s a moment where someone is “allowed” to express a tactile moment, which is weirdly jarring somehow, especially when characters are meant to be incredibly close to one another

On MASH people might casually brush a hand against a shoulder or slap someone’s back or hug deeply or hold onto each others shirts as they speak etc. and I assume some of it is the actor’s natural instinct to communicate in certain ways through a character (sidenote: Loretta Swit ruffling Alan Alda’s hair in “the smell of music,” thank you for doing that service ma’am), but I’m a big fan of watching a scene and wondering if that take was directed exactly like that or if xyz came out of tight shooting schedules and no retakes or if this thing is just indicative of the relationship between the actors and filtered through the character dynamics

I just think if you’re creating something in which people are meant to be very close they should touch each other, unless there’s a distinct character or plot reason not to 

I feel like I’m touch-starved by proxy and now this show is overwhelming me with tenderness 

#MASH #im watching MASH #loretta swit #alan alda #if they're happy... they'll hug! they'll grab each other if they need support! they'll hold each other in comfort #they'll be doing something else and simply reach out to touch in some way #can you believe it????? #this slightly relates to other things that feel more stilted in a lot of modern media #things like talking over one another -- stuttering and restarting a sentence -- being able to influence your character progression #feels like there's more disconnect in certain things

[v-arbellanaris]

so fuckin late i just found out abt the matt healy nonsense and im fuckin disassociating bro x

#decades of work by grassroots organisers just to get the extremists to look away and pay no mind to queer people #so they can just fucking live. when public canings and beatings and jail time STILL HAPPENS for being queer bc it's listed as a crime #imagine doing that shit in a country where the rec 'treatment' for being gay is conversion therapy #imagine doing that. putting that spotlight on the thousands of people who are just barely surviving by relying on living in the shadows #while they chip away at the social constraints impeding progress bit by bit. imagine doing that. saying that. and then fucking off home #and ignoring all the homophobia and transphobia in YOUR country because it doesn't matter presumably bc its Worse when its nasty brown ppl #going BACK to your own homophobic transphobic country. leaving the thousands of people left exposed by that limelight. #im not even going to touch on ''im taking your money'' and the inherently disgusting colonialist bullshit in that #expecting him to donate to local queer charities is too much when he's a piece of shit #but jfc. and all his fucking insane fans going queer malaysians who have to live w the consequences of matt's actions who complain abt that #are suffering from internalised homophobia & i have no sympathy for you #firstly. queer malaysians saying 'stop - this is not advocacy it's actively threatening us' is not internalised homophobia #secondly. explain why you have no sympathy for queer people with internalised homophobia. #like. explain. as if we weren't all questioning and struggling. as if we come out of the womb just lucky enough to Know without a doubt. #as if we dont exist in societies and families that shape us into something we're not until we can't recognise ourselves #like explain why you have no sympathy for your fellow queers and act like they're the enemy. explain why you're siding with some cishet #trash white man actively endangering brown qpoc in the THOUSANDS in a drunken fit on stage. over the qpoc actually affected by this. #explain it. go on. #fucking sickeningggg it's SICKENING #tbd

[shopcat]

i think perhaps saying dnis don't work is a bit silly because well they do as the function of them By and large "work" by showing what you will and won't tolerate or stand for as a person and what you will be posting about in that regard and anyone who willingly follows you will know this and if they didn't read it and would be upset by the criteria on it for whatever reason it's their own fault. it's like a built in contingency as well as a statement more so for others than a big sign saying "keep out racists!!!" that the racists will sadly walk away from your blog with. so. you can't reasonably say do not interact x y and z especially for systemic bigotry that anyone including ourselves are capable of enacting but you can reasonably say i don't agree with or tolerate this shit and will kill you if you are near me, which i think is better than people just assuming so personally, esp bc a lot of things AREN'T just like, something you can assume. mostly i think it's just quicker to say a 3 letter abbreviation than anything else.

#🐾 #like yeah ppl will do whatever they want anyway but i'd say most ppl esp the kind in my dni for example #are very insecure and hateful individuals who consider themselves the victims and do not want to be quote unquote ''discriminated'' against #WHICH is why anyone saying something like pr*shippers dni works anyway bc they're so entitled that they wouldn't be ABLE #to follow someone who hated them they would rather pitch the mother of all tantrums than do that lol #and if they did follow or heavily interact despite it they have to put up with people being hostile towards them so well it's lose-lose #for them.. lol #dni's as a function anyway came from im pretty sure just normal etiquette culture in certain communities #like those banners and stuff ... ppl integrating them into their blogs themselves is a pretty natural progression but does come with other #issues that i guess other people are critical of but i don't really see the point in being so bc like well everyone KNOWS so who cares #like yeah you can't actually control who sees ur blog or posts / no one checks people bios before interacting w something #but it's expanded to just mean a plain ''don't follow me/talk to me or i'll block you'' #you can't necessarily be mad perpetually at the idea of someone you dislike as a person touching your stuff but you can control ur own like #space... #other stuff that's like sounds obvious/could be interpreted as pandering/is ''the bare minimum'' is like well okayyy but it's not FOR THAT #it's for saying you don't tolerate that type of harmful bigoted shit

[a-lonely-dunedain]

"Don't touch me!" From the angst/hurt/comfort prompts 👀

Hehehe I’m using Margim and Celeair for this bc I was actually planning to write this interaction in Bitter Ash and Stubborn Flowers SO! You get a sneak peek of the chapter after next! (I think? That’s probably where it’ll fit in)

also I edited the inflection on the initial prompt just bc I think it sounded more natural in the context that way

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“Don’t touch me.” Margim commands, grasping my hand tightly –though not enough to hurt– and pulling it away from the wound on her shoulder. Her voice was stern, and though it seemed devoid of fear or anger, I am still startled by it and do not know the words to respond.

“The last time you tried to do that you looked like you were about to drop dead afterwards,” she continues in a matter of fact tone, releasing my hand “do not waste your strength on a wound so small, save it for dire need.” she looks at me plainly, “I have survived worse with less care.”

I must reluctantly admit that she has a point. I had been trying to block out the memory of the grasping shadows I encountered the last time I tried to call upon the healing arts, but perhaps that was foolish of me. It is dangerous to open my mind here, in this land so dead and cruel, yet I still instinctively tried to do so. It feels just, so wrong, to see an injury and refuse it care– even if it is for my own safety. It feels selfish. Still, Margim told me to do so, and I cannot tend to it without her permission.

“Alright, I will not use any of my strength on it,” I concede “but you are still hurt. The wound may not be serious now, but it may become so if I simply ignore it. At least let me try to clean it, so that it will not become a dire need in the future.”

“...what future?” she mutters quietly, a question that did not seem directed at me, spoken as if she already knew the answer.

“The future outside of Mordor, in Ithilien and beyond.” I answer anyway.

Margim is quiet for a long moment, her expression unreadable. “Tell me, Celeair,” she eventually says, “was any of that real? What you told me about your homeland?”

“Of course it was. What reason did I have to lie to you?”

“None that I know of, but a madman needs no reason.”

“You think me mad?”

“A little bit.” She says flatly “I do not know what else to make of you.” I do not take offense at her words. I guess my descriptions of the outside world would sound a little mad to someone who has only known this blasted and evil land.

She pauses, a conflicted look on her face “…I hope you are not mad, though.” she quietly adds.

“Well, you have humored me this far, will you allow me to tend to that cut at least? So that you might survive long enough to see for yourself whether or not I am a madman.”

“I still think it unnecessary.” She sighs, almost sounding defeated “but… I will allow it. I have humored you this long, after all. What difference will another day make…”

“Maybe everything.” Or maybe nothing, but I will not speak of that possibility.

#I didn't go nearly as angsty as I could have with this lol #But! if it means that I could actually make a little bit of progress on BAaSF (gosh what an acronym) #I will consider it a victory #when I add this to the fic proper Margim's line will probably end up changed to just ''Don't.'' #holds the same meaning but it sounds more natural coming from her. she is a lady of few words #anyway this COULD have been more angsty but I was interested in approaching 'don't touch me!' from a different angle #instead of 'don't touch me! (hurt/afraid/angry)' I went with 'don't touch me (for your own good/I'm not worth helping)' #bc yeah remember it's actually really bad for Celeair to try to use his loremaster healing skills here #it could seriously hurt him but he lacks a self-preservation instinct so Margim has to step in lol #ty friend! #lotro #lotro fic #lotro oc #Margim #Celeair #ask games

[sonic-adventure-3]

sega when do the minigames get easier sega. these are required to progress the main story sega when do they get easier sega. sega i’ve failed this minigame 7 times sega do i have to fail 10 times sega. do i have to fail ten times. sega.

#THE TIME LIMITS ON THESE MINIGAMES ARE WHACK THE MINIGAMES THEMSELVES ARENT TOO TERRIBLE IF ANNOYING AT TIMES BUT FUCK THE TIME LIMIT #THIS FUCKING BRIDGE THE GAP MINIGAME FUCK OFF!! #if the time limit were 5 seconds longer. if the timer stopped counting down WHEN YOURE AT THE FINAL SEGMENT WITH NO OBSTACLES #come the fuck on i made it to the final segment where it’s a straight shot down 3 times!! my first try even!! #i touched the ground once. the timer was over and i failed but i touched he fucking ground. fuck you #frontiers posting #why do you have to play minigames to progress the main story at all this is such a strange set up