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gramarye · 4 months

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really really long post where i just talk about johan from yugioh gx thank you

im thinking about johan tonight bc i was drawing him and i wanna talk abt him. bear with me. I REALLY LIKE JOHAN . TO START THIS OFF WITH i have an official licensed johan "WHERE AM I" shirt and i adore it its really funny also i used to have like a johan pin i bought from a german anime store and it was like 8 euros but i shipped it off to my friend who is really really crazy about johan

^johan where am i shirt

anyway johan. jessejohan. i like johan so much believe me he is my nordic scandinavian brethen i just think his writing has issues mainly that he has like no real relationships outside judai and like. i know as a gay person -- i am literally a lesbian In A Lesbian Relationship In Real Life -- that characters will become more likeable when they're queer coded bcuz its Different and its relatable. however i think his writing is kind of really weak and i quote this thing my friend said in 2022 like a lot

HARD TRUTHS TO SWALLOW jesse is a beautiful damsel in distress and his personality outside jaden and crystal beasts is kind of nothing. i love him tho

but the most offensive thing abt it writing wise is like in season 4 when they duel against trueman sorry it was fujiwara. okay i was rewatching gx ages ago and my ex was watching it with me and it was her first time seeing it and shes a literature major and when the whole. "what is the darkness in johan's heart" scene, AFTER IT WAS ESTABLISHED EVERYONE, EVERY STUDENT INCLUDING MANJOUME SHO ASUKA O'BRIEN ETCETC has darkness in their hearts,

my ex goes "if they reveal that he has no darkness in his heart because hes such a special boy im going to be so fucking mad because hes already a mary sue" (HER WORDS NOT MINE she was so mad about johan its funny.) AND THEN THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY DO

like he is literally too perfect. his only flaw is his one (1) time thing about getting lost which is never really brought up again (also its more of an endearing haha funny thing and yes i like it i have a shirt referencing that scene.) and the fact that.. he gets taken over i guess.

i do think the switch around where they bamboozle fujiwara is really funny. it is a funny scene i just wish they literally didn't do it at the cost of "johan is a perfect person without any mental weaknesses when literally every single other character has some flaws" I DONT GET IT!!!

maybe he can just photosynthesize his worries into strength i dont know. does anyone remember that meme

but really like WHAT IS JOHAN WITHOUT JUDAI!!!! why is he literally perfect and above other characters also. why could they not give him any darkness like What possible reason does that serve except me think he is BORING!!!! i do like johan btw as i said i really do. i just think his writing kinda sucks and people are way too nice on johan because he is queer coded but the fact is his writing is really weak. this isnt exclusive to johan ok i also dislike some aspects of jadens writing and asukas and so forth (naming characters i really like to prove my point) I AM CRITICAL this is just. about johan. ok.

and this brings me to the weirdo youtube essayists who only care about s3 and think its the peak of gx and yugioh in general and also. ONE SUCH YOUTUBER. WHO SAID IT IS "HOMOPHOBIC" THAT JESSE IS SOUTHERN IN THE DUB WHICH. WHAT?

you think all southern people all homophobic??? im sorry but i know so many goddamn queer people in thhe south. are you out of your mind. please blow up. LET HIM BE A GAY TEXAN you are just showing your own prejudice literally why did so many gx fans eat up "umm it was homophobic of 4kids to make him southern" they give like everyone accents. he has cowboy boots in his design. its not homophobia hes just southern and southern gay people exist. watch brokeback mountain or something

anway

i think johan is a much more interesting character if you incorporate his manga counterpart into it. like combine him with his anime self and it'd be really fun. his bug enthusiasm in the manga is fun like he has an actual hobby and personality. ADHD bug king

also i think personally they should lean into him being scandinavian more. ITS FUNNY. i think he should try to feed manjoume blodplättar because he looks anemic. he should open a can of surströmming around asuka (canonically very much hates food with strong smells) and she gets so upset she has to like leave the building entirely. she should get into a cultural dispute with o'brien because he thinks carola's swedish cover of mickey is better than toni basil's original

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i think this and like. septembers mikrofonkåt is what he should listen to. swedish pop baby

anyway. i like johan i just think Some of his fans are insane and thats why i need to take him down a peg every now and then . in a loving bully way. also hes very gender to me dont worry about it. also TWO different people have said some variation of the "fuck danganronpa and its fans i hope komaeda marries a woman" post about him to me in different years which is so funny.

anyway yes i love jessejohan. send post

#everyone quoted in this post has been censored for WITNESS PROTECTION #i think i she/herd johan at least once in this post by accident well freudian slip?#anyway come listen to carola's cover of mickey with me right now. ÅH MICKEY ATT DU INTE FATTAR VAD DU FÅR JAG VILL AT DU SKA STANNA VARENDA #tess talks

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lilflowerpot · 1 year

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hello flower! i’ve never submitted an ask to tumblr before, but i just wanted to say this.

(btw, everything in this post is true. it’s kinda an unbelievable story)

i’ve been a fan of LB since it’s publish! i’m pretty sure i discovered it in mid 2018, so i’ve been here for a long time!

i’ve been following ur writing for years and watched you improve annually. i fell in love with your story and writing extremely quickly, and i always looked forward to your new chapters. i distinctly remember feeling ecstatic when keith finally revealed his face !!

however, in 2019, i suffered a catastrophic head injury whilst skiing, which caused me to lose most - if not all - my memories. in truth, i should of died or been in a coma, but i escaped with some critical injuries instead. a broken neck, fractured skull, broken eye socket, the whole shebang lol.

luckily, i was not paralyzed, and i can say now that my recovery has been well! i’m back to being fully functional (sometimes) except for a couple motor control issues.

but the real problem was my memory, i could remember my family and relationships, but i forgot practically every fundamental fact about myself, including my middle name. additionally, i suffered a lot from aphasia and neuro problems which made me struggle to understand sounds coming from people if that makes sense. to cure this, my mom and dad introduced me to (guess what!) voltron. they knew it was my fav show before the crash, so in a sense, they tried to reignite my memories and help work on my sensory processing ability.

i fell in love with the show - again- and watched it during my recovery. probably the only reason i can talk today is because of vld! i find it a little ironic that despite losing myself in the crash, i came full circle. and u can probably guess what happens next!

in 2021, i rediscovered ur fic whilst in the voltron tab. it kinda shocked me to see “Visited: 309” under the fic because i had no recollection of ever reading it. the person i was before must’ve loved it, so i gave it a shot! (btw, me before crash and me now i consider different ppl)

so, i began to read, every word from start to finish. and, as cheesy as it sounds, i think i fell in love again. my recovery has been endlessly difficult and was particularly rough 2020-2021, so this kinda supported me in a way. seeing the growing number of how many times i visited LB reminded me that i had existed the day before.

to give context, every morning i woke up, i would forget almost everything abt myself. eventually that got resolved, but it was jarring. so, seeing that number rise, and reliving the joy of reading LB for the first time gave me hope.

LB means so much to me for this reason. sometimes when it felt like i was losing my humanity to depression and pain, it reminded me that, out there, the previous versions of me were hoping to read LB again. in a sense, i was motivated to read the new chapters as an ode to my previous-day self if that makes sense.

now, 7 months after successfully waking up and remembering the previous day, i am writing this with tears in my eyes. i am writing this with a smile, and i’m writing this with the hope that it reminds you that your literature has saved me, and i’m sure countless other people.

in a way, i view LB as the sunrise. even though there’s the chance that tomorrow never comes, the sunrise serves as a reminder that the previous day existed, and that there are more sunrises to look forward to.

and, to be honest, i think that if i woke up forgetting everything everyday, id be okay with it because i get to read your fic for the first time - again. also, the humor in it is 10/10 haha!!

(also, if u were wondering or worried, i’m also okay with waking up with no memories do to other things and not just LB. incase u were worried that i’m strictly dependent on LB, which i’m not LMAO)

i would’ve submitted this a couple months ago, but i couldn’t put it into words. i don’t think i can possibly explain what you and your fic means to me, so the sun over the horizon will have to do.

even if you think that it’s cheesy that a goofy voltron fic means so much to someone, i hope you find it in yourself to treasure your talent and skill in writing.

i’m so excited for the next chapter, and the next sunrise i get to see <3

here is a pic of the sun i took this morning. thank you for writing, and reading this really long ask. there’s no pressure to respond, although it would be cool to see, but i hope you read this nonetheless. btw u can publish the response if u were wondering.

sincerely,

D <3

I have been trying quite desperately to compose an answer to this one since it first appeared in my inbox, and at this point I don't know that I'll ever be able to do you justice, but two months is far too long for you to have waited for something of this magnitude, so please bear with me while I endeavour to do my absolute best.

First and foremost, I am so sorry for everything you've been through (though I can only assume you've heard that sentiment ad nauseam, so do forgive me if you're sick of it), but more than that I am distinctly and unbelievably proud of the grace with which you seem to have taken such catastrophe in stride. I couldn't possibly claim comprehend the true scope of all that you've endured, but I hope in some small way it might give you,,, comfort? a sense of camaraderie maybe? to know that aphasia is something I'm intimately familiar with as a recurrent symptom of my migraines, due to them being hemiplegic in nature, so I know the frustration of being unable to comprehend sounds you know you should recognise- being unable to articulate your own thoughts- feeling half trapped inside your own damn skull- all too well, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone, least of so sweet a soul as yourself.

My darling, I'll say again: I am //fiercely fucking proud// of you, for not only enduring but in truth overcoming all that you have. Though we do not know one another, this message alone bleeds with such admirable strength of character that I cannot think you anything less than a remarkable and resilient individual, and to know that my writing could in any capacity support you through such an ordeal is both an honour and a privilege.

All my love,

lilflowerpot ♡

#sincerely I am in tears #sa screams back #the author speaks

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spirallabyrinthpodcast · 2 years

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Do you guys have any idea how the dimensional shit works in TSC? Like, when another dimension “splits off” from the original timeline, does that mean a second version of every single being involved in that timeline is created, including beings that already come from other dimensions, like demons? Like, was a different Lilith created for Thule or was it the same Lilith? Is it like a PJO situation where greater demons are like gods and can exist in different places at once? Also, if Thule is called Thule what is our world called? And how do the Thule people know their world is called Thule? Just thought I’d ask y’all cuz I figured you might have thought abt it or have theories lol. Love the podcast!

Okay, okay, okay … this ask both made us laugh and lose our minds a bit 😅

In short, no, we do not know how the dimensional shit works in TSC. But we thought about it and have some (kind of) educated guesses to throw out.

☆ DIMENSION NAMES

Let’s get this out of the way first, because it has more of a definitive answer. I actually did research on this recently for a fic!

Thule was the name given to a mysterious northern location in Greek and Roman literature. Later on, Thule gained a metaphorical meaning in medieval and classical lit as a place that lies beyond the known world.

Also, Edom was a biblical town that received God's wrath for being too prideful — very similar to the fall of the Nephilim in our Edom.

With that info, I’m guessing that our dimensions are given names by the inhabitants based on their parallels to fictional worlds after they go downhill.

☆ HOW DIMENSIONS WORK

This is where the two of us went off the rails tbh lol dimensional shit is wild.

I was thinking along the lines of the Loki show on Disney+, which is pretty much what you suggested.

There’s one timeline (which is the normal world), and it splits each time something goes incredibly wrong that deviates from the course of the initial timeline — creating an entirely new dimension.

The original timeline rights itself, but the strayed timelines become their own separate dimensions.

Enjoy this awful notes app diagram:

It should be noted that we're talking only about the dimensions that mirror ours when considering this theory of divergence. Hell dimensions like Diyu and Belphegor's realm exist as separate entities altogether. Edom is, of course, labeled a hell dimension as well, but we think this has to do with Lilith's long-term involvement, along with its fatal demon infestation.

☆ GREATER DEMONS AND THE SUCH

We would say it’s similar to PJO, where there’s only one set of our Princes of Hell, Greater Demons, etc.

They’re technically fallen angels and they can move from one dimension to another — sort of transcending them — which we see them do quite often. They don’t belong to one dimension as much as they claim them.

Also, because of their status above humanity, it just seems unlikely for them to have multiple versions of themselves. It takes away their other-worldliness and makes them feel less important (?) as individuals.

Thank you for this ask and the madness it wrought! It's always fun to pick apart story elements like this :) And it makes us so glad to hear that you love the podcast! We love you right back! 🧡

Bry 🖤

#krp asks #dimensional shit #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #sobh #secrets of blackthorn hall

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elytrafemme · 2 years

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i wrote like a massive rant about the way english/literature is taught in highschool (i know nothing of how it is in college and i suspect is varies from college to college) and realized that it is just simply not necessary. however i understand your pain at least a little. last year in my honors english class (there’s no ap english classes at my school) the teacher had us do worksheets on narratives with the same crap on it that i did in like 3rd grade.

i am full of spite (almost said sprite, which i haven’t had in a bit. except that one night where i tried salt and sprite) and i think i’ve learned more about literary analysis on youtube than in school. which might be a bold statement but i mean i didn’t do well in english till i started watching videos of people explaining how to write stories and ways to analyze them and stuff.

okay anyway good luck on your work and i realize this is just as unessisary as my long rant i didn’t sent so you can delete this if you wish. just sending you support and also like a solemn nod of understanding. glad to see it will not get better in any future year of school </3

hey jinx my bestie im half awake srry for response rambly yeah

LITERALLY. YEAH. it's sooooo ridiculous ive taken so many english classes that just tell me to do the same fucking busy work and i dont get what the difference is meant to be? just MORE work? thats not what we should be doing! that isnt analysis! im very passionate aobut this subject so it irks me heavily!

i dont like sprite but i do wonder what the salt and sprite experience is. and no literally i think class curriculum needs to do MORE abt teaching analysis and i think there r soooooo many amendments needed for English classrooms 2 do it. i could have done a project on it that might have actualy helped but nobody answered my god damn email so i guess that interview data just sits in my google docs now

ty my friednd <3 its ok i do love my classes next yr EXCEPT MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS. and kind of choir I love choir but like everyone in that class except my best friend and one other girl hates me bc im a complete social recluse and kind of mean. im working on the latter one and the former well it makes me comfortable to be alone and i should allow that so long as i am not being rude abt it! constant character progression babyyy i amgetting kinder over time!!!!! but yes good luck 2 u too

#nightmare.ask #sleepy anon ☁️

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thetonethetollandthethunder · 2 years

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HI YOU HAVE SCYTHE OCS?

Tell me about them please

YES ACTUALLY!!!

I WAS WORKING ON A HUGE ASS INFO DUMP ABT THEM BUT FORGET ABT IT FOR A BIT SO ITS NOT FINISHED BUT HERES WHAT I HAVE SO FAR

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OKAY SO LIKE, Scythe Chaucer (Real name Alden Harper, Scythe Name after Geoffrey Chaucer the father of english literature bc my man loves literature) like most scythes especially in the new order never really like tonists, he always saw them as crazy weirdos but he never like had a SERIOUS hatred towards them to the point of mass-gleanings (*cough cough* Goddard) He’d only been a scythe for around 3 years, but got used to it rather quickly.

One day he had selected a tonist to glean, his method would be a quick poison injection with little to no pain. And there he met Dorian Finch, another tonist similar in age to him who was NOT happy with his presence. He kept sneering at the scythe the leave, trying to get him to not glean his fellow tonist.

Now Chaucer found this rlly interesting, as a scythe he was always given whatever he wanted, people would do anything for a scythe, they were above the common person, but to find someone who outwardly challenged him even threatening him, definitely intrigued him.

[“Well, aren’t you something? Y’know it’s a really bad idea to threaten a scythe.” Chaucer said with a smirk. Dorian flinched a bit, but stood his ground. “Ha! Don’t worry, I’m not as horrible as you think, not gonna glean you for something like that.” He said. “Y’know I thought all you tonists would immediately fold in the presence of a scythe, guess you proved me wrong! But I still have to glean your friend, good on you for trying though.” Chaucer told Dorian in a cheery yet patronizing tone.

“Get out, right now.” Dorian repeated once again. Chaucer smiled at him, if he could Dorian would rip that damn smile off of him. But he knew he couldn’t. “Y’know it’s a shame you’re a tonist, you could be a pretty good scythe with that attitude.” The scythe told him. That made him angry. “I’m nothing like you! I’ll never stoop to your level.” Dorian sneered. “We’ll see about that.” And with that he dragged the other tonist away to glean him, with little resistance from the others. He sighed, he failed despite his efforts. That which comes can’t be avoided he supposed.]

Dorian of course had to get over it. Scythe deaths weren’t accepted by tonists, but it haunted him in the back of his head. Specifically what Chancer said. That he’d be a good scythe. This completely baffled him, that’s the last thing they’d wanna be compared too. Dorian hated Scythes, they saw them as the true evil of the modern age. He always wondered if life would be better in mortal times, a lot of tonist-living was about mimicking it after all. But to be actually there, it always intrigued him.

Meanwhile Chaucer also had a lot to think about, he’d never seen a tonist act like that in person, though he had heard stories. And he had an idea brewing. He always wanted to be renounced, famous, like how Goddard was even if he didn’t like him.

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I do plan on finishing this info-dump so don’t worry!!! I’ll talk abt them again pretty soon!

#the tone speaks #arc of a scythe #the tone answers #scythe ocs

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seelestia · 1 year

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hi!! its been a while hehe

FIRST PARAGRAPH i totally agree jsjds

i JUST took a chem test today UGH stoichiometry <<< but my fav is also bio WHAT!! i specifically love genetics, i'd like a job in it someday.

i actually just finished + posted a fic, its a childe fic where childe has to give up the reader for his family. if u find it maybe my identity will be revealed hehe

LOL i hope ur stomach is okay after all that, actually whats your fav drink? mines def water or coffee. AHHHH INFJS THE CINNAMON ROLLS!! how's life as a j? i really wanna be an intj ugh :(

ME TOO!! i mostly do it with mbti BUT WHATS UR ENNEGRAM!! and do u wanna take a shot at guessing mine? if not its okay

i wish i cld add more to this ask but something is demanding my attention very this second n i'm too lazy to rewrite this all.

BUT!! whats ur fav scent? like perfume wise?

have a nice timezone!!

-quill !

quill, hi hiiii! the way i was planning to come online when you sent the ask?? destiny. the fact that we despise chemistry??? also destiny LMAOAOOA. I SHALL PRAY FOR YOUR BRAIN 🙏 and hello??? fellow bio lovers unite! yooo, it's good to know that you'd like a job in genetics because they're super cool 😩 this makes me wanna look back at my notes abt meiosis HELP. tho, i personally love the digestive system! but i think i might just end up taking linguistics or literature courses when i go to uni soon.

(remember me when you get that huge salary, quill. so cash money of you /lh) AND OMG. i think

my fav drink is... iced chocolate. quick, act surprised LMAOAO why is this no different than choco milk 😭 but any types of iced fruit tea are super good imo! water and coffee... quill, you're so self-sufficient and easy to take care of, jfjwkkfkwm. don't be like me, be practical and save money 🚶

CINNAMON ROLLS?? US INFJS?? TY, TY! we are all silly people, i promise. like everything, being a j has its pros and cons: because we make plans and take some time to think for stability + this helps us feel secure knowing how something turns out. but at the same time, it makes us more frigid when it comes to change?? it's not like it'll kill us but most j's can get a little moody/panicky when the plans take a turn — which i do think we can afford to relax a bit more abt 😭 (i talk like a p, but i think it's just the introverted intuition (Ni) in me jfjwjkek) + it takes away our chance to experience how unpredictablity can make things more enjoyable than they seem disorganized!

YEAH! i do more with mbti and cognitive functions too but i recently researched more into enneagram. i personally recc using the sakinorva site if you haven't because they go more in depth >:)

ALSO HI YES. i'm a 9w8! your local and private cheerleader <3 and ofc, i'd want to guess, hehe. hmmm, i think... you might be a type 6?? i got this feeling because of how you said that you wish you could be a j/intj, so i can somewhat theorize that you desire security and stability (which sounds like a 6 to me but again, this is just a silly guess fjjwkdkke.

NO WORRIES! go take care of those things like a boss and a good timezone to ya too, quill <3 thanks for stopping by~ i'll keep a lookout for the childe fic you wrote because ayo, the family vs lover trope??? yes. 👀

#i love how i can feel like a nerd and a student *and* a writer when i talk with you. man ily quill 😭 (/p)#OH AND my fav perfume scent is usually soft floral like ylang ylang! WBU???#HAVE A NICE TIMEZONE QUILL <3 #ask box! 📬#visitor: dearest quill anon! ✒️

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troglobite · 1 year

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re: my lrb abt autistic processing (copied & pasted from my rambling abt it in the tags of the reblogs, then i didn't wish to be Perceived so i bailed and am posting abt it here instead)

i'm also now thinking abt something v interesting

okay so part of the reason i pursued an english degree was bc i think this process make literature analysis intuitive to me? i'm guessing

in hs we were being taught how to write higher level analytical essays, and all of the steps and assignments to learning it and parsing out the different pieces of planning and writing the essay were actively detrimental to my ability to do so

i was like STOP MAKING ME GO THROUGH A BOOK AND PULL OUT QUOTES AT RANDOM STOP MAKING ME WRITE MULTIPLE DIFFERENT THESIS STATEMENTS STOP IT!!!

bc i could finish reading a thing, be given a direction for a prompt, and then go okay here's my thesis statement and entire essay concept

and to the traditional teaching and order of operations that was Wrong, bc How Do You Have a Thesis Without Evidence? but i DID have evidence, i just had to go back and find it now that i'd coalesced it into an argument

i did the processing of details and evidence WHILE READING. it made no sense to me that you would finish reading something and NOT have an observation or argument to make abt its mechanics and purpose.

luckily my teacher was really neurodivergent-friendly, even if neither of us knew that's what it was at the time, and he went yeah no problem you can skip these assignments or do them differently. you can already do this just keep practicing i don't wanna mess w your process.

so that was v nice, highlight of my young education. is this bragging? i'm not gonna put this in the tags i'm making a separate post.

okay copied & pasted section over

but the reason this feels like bottom-up autistic processing is--

none of the other kids would have a Clear Idea abt what the book was already abt. the way it was often taught was more open-ended in our classes that year bc the point was to encourage us to read critically ourselves and learn to develop this skill. and so to them, they go into a book and are lost in the forest bc they can't see/understand the trees. they get to the end and are like What Just Happened. then they have to go back and start looking at all the trees again, now that they have a rough idea of the size and shape of the forest, and maybe the type of forest it is (rain, temperate, conifer, etc.)

so i'm not a genius master at this, but i feel like the only "big" concept i need is Story, or Book, or whatever. and then i walk in and immediately start encountering and identifying trees.

by the time i walk out the other side, i've already collected all of that information as part of my journey. so as soon as i look back, i have all the information to make sense of the Larger Context of the forest, and i go "oh i see. so THAT'S why this thing/pattern happened."

that's what feels bottom-up to me

i was honestly worried and gaslighting myself like "no that's definitely top-down" but it's not. if it was, i would need to what kind of book or story beforehand, etc., and have that to guide me. but i think that's counterintuitive, personally. i think it can become obvious what someone thinks, really, when reading their writing (given that they are/were in a temporal and geographical context close enough to your own to have reference points). then getting extra information abt that later is further helpful.

anyway there's my little bit of reflection for the day.

which unfortunately isn't terribly helpful w my ongoing crisis of identity at the moment bc it doesn't answer many questions, but it does sort of offer empirical evidence that that is something i'm good at, that my brain likes to do.

and also i want to own up to the fact that sometimes i finish reading something and i go "idk wtf to make of that. goddamn."

and that could be bc it was poorly written or was trying to say a lot. it could be bc it didn't mesh w my brain. it could be bc i need the act of writing abt the piece of writing to understand it (the way i have to talk out loud to understand my feelings abt something). it could be many things. but point being: i'm not trying to brag that i'm some magnificent genius, and i'm not trying to say this particular thing should be Easy for all autistic ppl. the way my brain works w words and stories is such that the bottom-up processing applies here and works well, but it's not the case for everyone.

i wish i hadn't spent the last minute or two typing that up bc i guarantee no one reads this and less self-deprecatingly, i'm tired of feeling like i have to anticipate a negative reaction to something and i'm tired of being responsible for someone misreading this and taking it as an insult if they weren't good at this same thing or assuming this makes either me or them not autistic bc we're not the same on this point

i just need the baseline understanding to be that NOTHING IS UNIVERSAL and ppl talking abt their own experiences is JUST THAT AND NOTHING MORE. it is also an invitation for ppl to relate. but y'know. anyway.

how and why am i managing the feelings of hypothetical ppl who probably won't even read this? i'm v tired.

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carmeloffie · 2 years

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yes i DO want to hear so so much abt your ocs !!! 🐪🧸🍓🍍🥭💚📀🌻🧷

okay hm im going to try and make this not so so long so here we go <3 so for a general rundown of my characters themselves florentius is blorbo from my mind. he’s a senator, but he’s only doing it because he doesn’t want to betray his parents legacy. he’s soo into like poetry and philosophy and other academic subjects. he also really cares about keeping his morals and staying out of corruption in politics even in an age where that type of thing is pretty much commonplace. Florentius’s wife is named Cassia and she’s sooo wonderful i love her a lot <3 since florentius could honestly care less about his political career, she’s honestly sort of masterminding it from behind the scenes. she loves literature and is in gay love with Lollia. I’ll talk about Lollia next <3 she’s not from rome, she’s living with them, but she wasn’t born there. She has a passion for the performing arts and is like. the ray of sunshine character between all of my guys. she’s dramatic and silly and i love her <3 and now Laurus <3 so remember how i said Florentius prides himself on his moral upstanding? Laurus is the opposite. he’s willing to do pretty much whatever it takes to do what he thinks will be best in the long run. him and florentius are in gay love too btw. so he’s actually in politics because he wants to be like that’s his motive, political ambition. anyways i’ll try and give you a plot summary!!

So Laurus is running for (desperately racking my brain) um! Praetor! Yeah, praetor. he’s willing to go to the far ends of the Earth to get this positon. Its essential to note we are rooting for him throughout this, I’m actively portraying him as better than the alternative, I don’t care if that’s a bad thing to do, you WILL root for my toxic gay guy who’s actively planning a government coup. If you aren't rooting for him then. Kill yourself I guess.

I’m literally on a kick where all I want is for there to be a conspiracy. I think thats so so sexy okay. Who are we murdering? Um! The senate! Sure! Why is this important? Well, because I love toxic unhealthy twisted gay romance and whats more twisted than your lover going behind your back to plan a coup, betraying the morals you’ve held so close over all these years, and not even telling you about it!

But I think the end result should probably be the same, I want Cassia and Lollia to get their happy ending but Florentius and Laurus might end in tragedy. Or not ! Or they might just make up and get exiled together bam crisis solved <3 everyone gets out of Rome, which is what most of them wanted, and Laurus isn’t murdered for attempted treason or whatever.

#sorry this is long again widhjwbdjed i care sooo much they’re literally like my brain children.#samael speaks #angel radio #gerry <3 #oc tag

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keywhole · 3 years

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Okay, so- I'm not a Wix coding expert, but- I believe the "ae1ou" (can't recall it exactly) code isn't part of the ARG

Basically, that code isn't the actual editable image name. You can see that the image name has "sin título" in it, which translates to "no title", so I'm guessing Martin didn't do anything to that.

But the code that you copied? It seems like an ID that Wix (the website maker) personally assigned to it. My proof, as it is, comes from the fact that it begins with "fec7d3", which going through the page's view-source reveals to be the same as the beginning of Martin's Wix owner ID. (if you want to check that, just Find In Page "ownerId": with the quotes)

This would also explain how you got the florida housing listing, too. Either way, if I'm right, then its still a very very funny coincidence that it leads to "he's alive"

holy SHIT is this cool okay so i do wanna explain my thinking abt how i went about this but first i do want to say I Do Not Claim That My Findings Are Canon. obviously with any arg that’s like this pretty much Everything is up to speculation based on theorizing. with that being said, here was my thinking of how i, personally within my theory, think/thought it held relevance.

i am no way even CLOSE to being an expert in coding. the only reason i thought to use a base64 recoding website was because of my interests in five nights at freddy’s and doki doki literature club. that was the only coding i remembered from watching game theory, trying to learn how to do these types of things. as i mentioned before, i used this website and set it to “AUTO-DETECT” because, again, i don’t know SHIT abt coding and didn’t know wtf the other options meant lol

the picture that i used was the only picture that had a different kind of file name. the other two looked like the same style, but that one was different. so when i got the final result as some weird ass shit that, when googled, said He Is Still Alive, i thought there was no way in hell that it could be a coincidence. along with the fact that my findings circulated on twitter so much that i’m sure mr. walls would/has seen it. it has it’s own posts on my main twitter, my tiktok, and it’s in the thread of the tweet where he dropped findjackwalten.

i sincerely think that, if i hold any water in thinking he has seen it, he would’ve come out and said it wasn’t true if it’s that big of a coincidence. like, if someone accidentally found out a WoW website that has a title that might fuck up your whole series, it makes sense to me he’d say “hey i didn’t intend that” or something like that idk. unless he wants to keep us on our toes that’s fun

but as for what you’ve said; yeah. there’s a HUGE chance that all i found was absolutely nothing and just a mega coincidence given the evidence of Wix’s coding which i had and (besides what you’ve told me) have 0 clue about. given that it’s a scary arg about chuck e cheese robots with dead people in them it would make sense that a WoW website holds no relevance what so ever. i’m really happy you sent this in actually bc this’ll keep me on my toes, and probably a lot of other people!!!! i’ve always had a theory that jack is alive, but this does dilute just a bit of my “”proof”” on such, which is fun as hell (/gen).

but like you said, the coincidence is a little funny. if it is a coincidence, that is 👀

#ask #anon #WAY TO GO BUD WE’RE ALL RLY GETTIN IN IT NOW!!! /GEN #twf

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fluffyheretic · 4 years

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I’m so fucking tempted to say “every single question with Kazushuu or Hitoshuu (except for the nsfw ones i guess)” But I don’t want to singlehandedly kill you

ok let’s do it

as a side note sometimes the answer is the same or similar for both ships just bc shuu is uh. the same person. but ofc not always

under cut for lengthhhh

1. Who makes the first move and how?

hitoshuu: normally im gonna say definitely hitori. he probably decides to be direct and just straight up ask. in iwasweetie au specifically tho i want it to be sweetie if only bc i need to make him get over his shit. he also asks “directly” but it actually involves a lot of stuttering and beating around the bush so it ends up not being very direct

shuukazu: im not sure if it would really be one of them specifically, i can see them as the “this kind of just happened” couple. maybe kazuaki is the one after several months whos like “so um… what are we…. lol………..”

2. Who is the most insecure and what makes them feel better?

hitoshuu: shuu, not that hitori is the paragon of confidence but shuus like “wtf hes the ideal young man and im Bastard Supreme but ok i guess”

shuukazu: BOTH LMAO but kazu is more vocal abt it and shuu is the Bottle Up EVERYTHING type

some good ol body positivity cuddle sessions work in both cases

3. Who is the most romantic?

anyone but shuu for obvious “i dont even know what feelings ARE” reasons

4. Who can’t keep their hands to themselves?

again anyone but shuu for obvious “i dont even know what intimacy IS” reasons but specifically hitori is just more confident and kazuaki isnt necessarily confident but is more just. shameless

5. Who says ‘I love you’ first?

not shuu for similar reasons as above. there’s a trend here, you see

6. Who would they ask if they ever had a threesome?

THIS is a CHRISTIAN blog

7. What do they get up to on a night out?

hitoshuu: going to dinner at a place thats nice but not TOO nice. like good comfortable atmosphere and good food but not posh

shuukazu: they probably just wander around, maybe go shopping, kazuaki keeps pointing out stuff he wants and dr iwamine “i dont know what to do with my money bc i dont want for material things” shuu just buys it for him. shuu please stop enabling him. stop it.

8. What do they like in bed?

hitoshuu: cuddling :)

shuukazu: snuggling :)

9. What is the most embarrassing thing they have done in front of each other?

i feel like shuu considers every single new couple-y thing he does to be the new most embarrassing thing he’s done. we’re holding hands? embarrassing. i kissed you? god now THATS embarrassing. you caught me wearing your sweater that you accidentally left at my place? well put me in the fucking ground thats literally the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to anybody. how dare i show sentimentality. despicable

kazuaki is similar in that he’s constantly one-upping himself and getting a NEW most embarrassing thing but his things include stuff like getting caught watching really strange anime and scream-singing pop songs and anime OPs in the shower

hitori probably like tripped on the sidewalk once

10. What two songs, two books and two luxury items do they take to a desert island?

these questions are difficult bc man idk what media exists in 2188 bird japan

11. What do they hide from one another?

in both cases shuus answer is “just about everything” hes terrified of the mortifying ordeal of being known. pretty much everything you learn about him has to be squeezed out

hitori hides how troubled he really is because he wants to seem like the responsible one everyone can depend on so that they dont have to worry about him. he does his best to hide when hes struggling but since shuu has that exact same impulse they pretty quickly start to see through each other, but are also very understanding about it.

kazuaki probably doesnt have as much to hide but he might be shy about portraying how REALLY in love with shuu he is too soon because he doesnt want to scare him away. he also hides the weirder shows and games and stuff that hes into lol

12. What first changes when it starts getting serious?

hitoshuu: i can see them having that kind of relationship where at first its casual and almost competitive in a way, like a “i think youre sexy and the only thing i know to do about it is see what i can do to make you flustered, then act smug when i succeed” thing. but over time when the novelty of that starts to wear off they both kinda realize they just straight up like each other and start being more genuine and soft.

shuukazu: again its a similar thing with shuu where he starts feeling more comfortable with letting himself be a little more genuine and START opening up. kazuaki picks up on this as a good sign and starts to worry less about trying to impress shuu and more just enjoying their time together.

13. When do they realize they should get together?

this is another one that i think is a similar answer in both cases, at least for shuu’s part he has a “dammit. i cant lose him” moment. since hes a person of very few words he tries to communicate “i want us to be serious” via letting down his walls a little bit, which hitori/kazuaki hopefully notice is happening and then are like “oh maybe we can work”

14. When one has a cold, what does the other do?

for shuu and hitori its “responsibly take care of you, bc its what i should do but also secretly i get STRESSED AS FUCK when someone i care about is sick so i gotta make sure youre okay”

for kazuaki its “take care of you, although i dont really know what im doing, also i thought since youre bedridden we could cuddle but its not as enjoyable as i wanted so like I’m Here but also im gonna watch tv okay? ill get u crackers and ginger ale”

15. When they watch a film what do they choose and why? Who gets the final vote?

hitoshuu: shuu’s gonna say he doesn’t care, but hitori also doesn’t really care so eventually he’ll get shuu to admit that he’d like to watch a nature documentary. especially if it’s marine-themed. hitori likes that too so hey there you go

shuukazu: shuu WILL watch the 76th pokemon movie OR ELSE

16. When the zombie apocalypse comes, how do they cope together?

hitoshuu: both are cutthroat bastards that do anything it takes to keep each other safe. their reliance and trust in each other is probably 99% of what keeps them going.

shuukazu: again shuus gonna do literally anything it takes to keep kazuaki safe, but to be real i dont know if kazuaki is making it out of this one. and if he doesnt then shuus not either.

17. When they find a time machine, where do they go?

shuu’s answer is going to be at various points in prehistory to study organisms that are now long-extinct (side note god thats definitely my answer too). his bf is worried abt the dangers but comes with him to make sure he doesn’t get into trouble.

i think hitori might not have anything specific in mind but going to historical sites in their heydays seems like a good choice.

since kazuaki likes literature he’d probably want to see historical stuff related to that, like seeing shakespeare plays when they first came out and meeting his favorite dead authors to ask them questions.

18. When they fight, how do they make up?

hitoshuu: hitori doesn’t like to dance around that kind of thing, after a little time has passed for them to both think about it then he’ll just be direct and say “hey lets talk about that thing that happened” if he feels he was in the wrong then he’ll then follow that up with an apology. i can see hitori being a little grudgy but then quickly getting tired of it and just wanting things to be resolved. shuu hates talking things out because hes bad at it but he knows its best so he’ll just try to explain how he felt at the time but also what he’s considered since then. even if he’s not good at explaining himself, hitori is good at understanding him anyway so they usually work it out pretty quickly.

shuukazu: they can be messier since kazuaki gets really emotional really quickly and sometimes says things he doesnt mean. theyre both bad at dealing with it afterwards though until after a few awkward days, kazuaki cant take it and is like “waaa i dont want us to be fighting anymore 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺” and shuus like “ok.” because yeah he’ll take the easy way out. they could probably improve their communication tbh

19. Where do they go on their first date?

hitoshuu: they probably decide to do something simple and casual to make it less awkward so they just get coffee. shuu feels like, from what he knows, that he should be expecting hitori to make a move on him. hitori doesnt because he wants to be considerate of shuus comfort level, but shuu takes it as a sign of disinterest. luckily shuu realizes hes wrong about that when hitori quickly invites him on Another date where they take a stroll in the park, and thats when hitori goes in for the tactical hand-hold maneuver.

shuukazu: kind of the opposite of hitoshuu in that they dont really declare it officially as a date. kazuaki just asks shuu if he wants to see a movie with him, not really calling it a date but kind of implying it to be one. shuu probably doesnt care about the movie but thinks this might possibly maybe be a date so he should go. kazuaki then uses it as a chance to Put On The Movies, as awkward as that might be, including the classic “stretch with my arms up and then let one down over your shoulders” move. shuu doesnt really know how to indicate his own interest in response but hopes the fact that hes also not complaining in any way gives a hint. despite it not REALLY being an official date at the time, later on theyll look back on it and decide that yeah that was their first date.

20. Where do they go on holiday?

shuu hates taking time off work, but if he must, then he’ll be content as long as theres something scientifically interesting there like a museum or an aquarium.

hitori doesnt really mind where they go, hes just grateful to get to go on holiday at all, so he’ll let shuu pick. and again, that’s going to be somewhere with a natural history museum, probably a very nice one and they’ll both enjoy it.

kazuaki is similar in that he’s just happy to be there but his ideal holiday destination is probably just…. akihabara. so shuu relents and goes there with him occasionally. kazuaki does like to visit aquariums with shuu though! they do both

21. Where do they get nervous about going with one another?

hitoshuu: the cemetery, at least at first when they arent used to being that vulnerable in front of each other

shuukazu: well shuu sure as shit is nervous about going to anime cons with kazu

22. Where does their first kiss happen?

in both cases, definitely at one of their homes, because shuus too much of a wreck to have a moment like that in a public place.

for shuukazu, i picture it that theyre just hanging out at kazuakis place and relaxing, and they end up cuddling a lot, and kazuaki kisses him kind of impulsively. hes then very apologetic about it before shuu manages to assure him that its fine.

hitoshuu, maybe hitori walks shuu home after a date and goes for the classic end of date goodbye kiss, but just on the cheek. then when once again hitori has walked shuu home, shuu wonders if he should expect a real kiss this time, but hitori goes for the cheek again. shuus disappointed and grabs hitoris sleeve before he turns away because he doesnt know how to say he wants more. but hitori takes the hint and kisses him for real this time.

23. Where is their favorite place to be together?

in both cases it’s at home, because shuu finds it much easier to be intimate when they’re in privacy. i think all three of them really appreciate just getting to relax together.

24. Where do they first have sex?

what did i say about this being a christian blog

25. Why do they fight?

usually its because shuu said something a little too tactless. hes not so clueless that he’ll say something really obviously offensive, but sometimes he really doesn’t know what’s too much. but his bf is hopefully understanding of this and corrects him Still Firmly but still with some “but i know you didnt mean it like that, we’re okay” way, because chances are he really didnt.

for hitoshuu specifically, hitori has to be on shuu about eating properly and can sometimes get kind of annoyed about it. shuus kneejerk reaction is to then be offended because hes an adult who can take care of himself. but they calm down and make up when shuu remembers that hitori just worries for him, and hitori remembers that shuu doesnt not eat just to spite him.

for shuukazu, i can see kazuaki’s lack of responsibility and aloofness start to get on shuu’s nerves, and when he brings it up kazuaki thinks he’s just being mean. again, similarly to hitoshuu, they get over it when kazuaki reminds himself that shuu wants him to be able to take care of himself, and shuu reminds himself as well that he can be too abrasive and should work on it.

26. Why do they need to have a serious chat?

hitoshuu: they dont have to right away but over time it would be good for them to be honest abt their respective traumas and the shit theyre dealing with instead of hiding it

shuukazu: similar, shuu should probably get around to being more open abt his shit. they might also want to have a talk abt what a serious relationship is gonna look like for them

27. Why do their friends get annoyed with them?

hitoshuu: i answered this already! but again, its bc theyre so ~responsible~

shuukazu: ppl either see kazuaki being super clingy and think “man hes so overbearing, his poor partner 😒” or see shuu being emotionless and think “man theyre so cold, their poor boyfriend 😒” actually they gotta mind their own damn business

28. Why do they get jealous?

hitoshuu: i feel like hitori actually gets hit on a pretty decent amount. shuu is never happy about it, but the death glares he starts sending usually scare the person off anyway

shuukazu: both of them think the other is too good for them so if anyone looks at them with even a little too much interest the other is immediately like “well i guess this is it”

29. Why do they fall a little bit more in love?

hitoshuu: little moments shuu loves is when hitori asks him how he is, how he slept. when he makes him dinner. hitori loves when shuu looks deep in thought, tucks his hair behind his ear, and he definitely likes to see him get along with nageki, which he does.

shuukazu: shuu loves when kazuakis eyes light up with excitement when he sees something he likes, especially when shuu realizes that hes one of those things too. he also loves kazuakis really nice hugs, especially when shuu just woke up from a nightmare. kazuaki loves how shuu listens to him intently, and asks questions about the things hes interested in, and sometimes rests his hand on him when hes getting tired.

30. Why does it work (or not work) between them?

hitoshuu: both are important figures in each other’s lives, obv shuu helped nageki but also hitori is probably the first person to get even a little close to shuu after ryuuji died. theyre both just pockets of trauma but are doing their best so it would be good for them to support each other and try to heal. theyre both pretty dependable so when the going gets tough they’re each other’s rocks

shuukazu: theyre definitely the “it will never work” couple that ends up working anyway. shuu might think kazuaki is annoying at first but if ryuuji is any indication shuu definitely seems to gravitate towards people who are more chill and even a little silly, and when shuu realizes that kazuaki isnt as dumb as he makes himself seem that helps a lot. for kazuaki shuu definitely has a ~mysterious~ aspect that draws him in initially but when it wears off as he learns more about shuu, instead of the magic being gone he just starts finding him more relatable and endearing so their relationship actually improves.

#hato #hitoshuu #shuukazu #shuu #hitori #kazuaki #kirogaraii #these were really interesting to answer #it made me think a lot abt the ways i think these ships are similar but also different #and how theres always one constant: shuu is a mess #but theyre ALL messes so its ok theyll be messy together <3

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( kristen stewart, twenty-seven, cisfemale ) by chance have you met TAYLOR FLEMING yet? i hear SHE has lived in CAPITOL HILL for THREE YEARS and works as a WRITER. i’m surprised you haven’t met them yet but for when you do, i hear they can be quite CALLOW but also BEGUILING. for whatever reason they remind me of OLD FLANNEL T-SHIRTS, WORN DOWN CHUCK TAYLORS & WEARING SUNGLASSES AT NIGHT.

folks!! *claps hands* i’m ron & i’m very glad to be here w all of u cool ppl. i’m 23, pronouns she/her & i live in the gmt -3 timezone. anyways, now that all that info is outta the way, i should probably tell y’all i’m a messy person who loves messy plots so yk, any plot??? we love that, we’ll stan it, we’ll spice it up. the Flavor, yk?? so okay, let me not ramble anymore and start talking abt taylor god why do i talk so much

first of all i just wanna say taylor is the human form of this vine and also her personality is just the real bros of simi valley although??? she was born and raised in new york but who the fuck knows ya know

there’s nothing particularly strange to taylor’s story, no batman-esque Origin, no tragedy other than being completely ordinary and feeling frustrated because yk, milennials rlly b out here thinking they are special

she has an older and a younger brother, which is why she’s not really a girly girl and learned how to throw a nice uppercut really early in life so her brothers would leave her the fuck alone

during high school she was def “not one of those girls” which quickly subsided into oh fuck i’m not one of those girls cause i’m fucking in love with those girls. or any girl. she’s fucking gay :/

that whole panic lasted a few days until she decided to come out and wow big fucking shocker her whole family was already sus so it was like, not a big deal? like ofc her dad took a while getting used to it but by now they are all settled n ready to go. and her mom confided in her that she had previously experimented w women which is not something sixteen year old taylor wanted to know but guess what??? she did anyways

definitely one of those moody teens who were like no one Understands my teenage angst and spent days shackled up in her room watching old movies and feeling so unique and special writing her poems and drawing on her sneakers and listening to all time low ya know

she also really liked skating and like, experimenting with drugs which is not something she does anymore but she really made a lot of dumb choices when she was a teen. not anymore though, she will indulge in the occasional mary jane, howmstever

due to believing she looked like a fucking alien during high school (which we know its not true), she developed a personality that’s very charming and agreeable with people because it was the only way she could approach girls

anyways, she eventually grew out of all that bUT the writing and refined her personality a little. she’s less of an obnoxious person and more of a dry humor but still v approachable kinda gal. she has only written one book so far and it’s surprisingly doing well?? though she def has room to improve

she went to nyu for english literature (cliche, i know) and during that time taylor really exceeded expectations with her essays and chronics and the polished but humorous kind of way she writes. sort of a tongue in cheek kinda thing where even her most difficult professors found charming yk

her move to seattle three years ago was due to a job offer for writing for the seattle times, and she writes little chronics every now and then while she’s working on what should be her next book but we don’t know if it will ever see the light of day

*claps hands* personality

has an emotional support succulent collection

can be kind of funny in a really silly way or be very sarcastic and there’s no in between

dude and bro are definitely endearment terms

has a hard time talking about her feelings and expectations bc most of the time she feels like fucking shit which, relatable

vapes a lot :////

flirty fun & fresh but don’t try to pin her down to commitment cause....... that’s not a can of worms we want to open today mi amigo

self sabotage galore!!!

sometimes dresses like a dad and she won’t realize it until she sees an elderly man wearing the same outfit minus the baseball cap

dogs??? we love them in this household

an asshole but a nice??? asshole?? ig

here’s her pinterest board

idk if this intro makes sense at all but i tried and that’s all we can do, isn’t it??? anyways, if you’d like to plot w this???? alien pls like this post or wish upon a star and i shall contact u

#206.intro #im so sorry y'all had to go head n read this i truly am

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daeneryses · 5 years

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im sorry i have to rant again

i just cant understand how u can fuck up e v e r y s i n g l e o n e of your characters in one (1) episode

WHAT THE FUCK

god knows 2014 me wanted pol!sansa more than life itself BUT NOT LIKE THIS. she’s supposed to be kind and intelligent and c o u r t e o u s and have more than two functional braincells. she’s not supposed to be LF reborn or ms cersei lannister wannabe.

why is she scheming behind her brothers back. why does she hate daenerys so much. why is she the way she is. WHY IS SHE TRUSTING TYRION. this is the biggest mess i have ever seen. she goes against dany as if the north had more than 12 survivors im sorry but I HAVE TO LAUGH BC DANY STILL HAS (HAD) 1 (2) WHOLE ASS DRAGON(S). like if this was a well written conflict i would be enjoying my Clash of Queens but ts just PURE CLOWNERY BECAUSE THEY NEVER EXPLAIN WHY SANSA DESPISES DANY. SHE ISN’T JUST WEARY OF HER SHE STRAIGHT UP HATES HER. my girl sansa is a smart bitch do u really think she’d want to burn (lol) bridges with the most powerful player atm???THEY NEED TO REBUILD WINTERFELL AND THE WHOLE ASS 12 NORTHERNERS WHO SURVIVED THE AVERAGE LENGTH NIGHT AIN’T GONNA BE ENOUGH. MMAYBE THE UNDEAD DEMONS ARE DEAD BUT IT IS STILL WINTER THEY NEED PROVISIONS (although, to be fair, there aren’t many people left)

god

i dont even think there’s a single powerful house in the north anymore (besides the starks) like who would even rally to them who would they be ruling over i d o n t g e t i t.

also wtf is gonna happen to the glovers???? they betrayed their liege lords and nothing’s gonna happen to them??? GUESS WE’LL NEVER KNOW BECAUSE FUCK CONSEQUENCES. CONSEQUENCES ONLY APPLY TO DAENERYS TARGARYEN NOW APPARENTLY.

why is she emulating the worst of LF did she learn nothing? am i in hell? if she thinks jon is such an imbecile (which, i agree!!!) WHY does she want him on the throne. why, all of a sudden, everyone wants jon on the throne? the dude doesnt WANT IT!!! mAyBe thE BeST ruLErS dOnT wANt To rULe yeah well varys how did robert baratheon turned out????

god the northern plotline really sucked ass. and i really had hope. i really really did. i should have known the story was fucked up the second they sent sansa to marry ramsey instead of fArya.

ITS ALSO SO FRUSTRATING WATCHING THEM MERGE CHARACTERS TOGETHER

the whole ass mess we’re about to get with jon and dany is happening solely because they didn’t want to include fAegon. and okay, no biggie, but u cant have ur cake and eat it too. if there is no fAegon u cant have a targbowl. u cant have a golden company. and u should have figured out a way to write cersei out of the story bc by the looks of it fAegon is gonna deal w her in the series. jesus fucking christ. but they couldnt do that could they? which is the reason why we’re 2 episoded away from the grand finale and cersei is still on the throne, the NK (arguably the Great Other) is dead and jon is gonna murder dany. neat. totally not nihilistic. super bittersweet. a+ story telling. IM IN HELL.

Jon and the Young Griff are so....different....how can u even fathom the idea of merging them,,,,when their motivations are so so so so so different. their stories, their motivations, their goals, their upbringing. how much of a dumbass do you have to be to think they could share a storyline.

they also sloppily merged ELLARIA SAND AND ARIANNE MARTELL, with a mix of fucking darkstar in there with the whole “lets assassinate myrcella lol that should work” plan. HOW DID THEY MANAGE TO FUCK THAT UP SO BADLY. DID THEY READ ELLARIA’S SPEECH ABT HOW VENGEANCE DOES NOTHING? HOW SHE WANTED THE SAND SNAKES (the real sandsnakes not....whatever THAT was) TO STOP BECAUSE THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE NEVER ENDS???? IMAGINE INDIRA VARMA DELIVERING THAT SPEECH G*D I WAS ROBBED. but they said “hey, u know what’d be neat? having a deceased prince’s paramour and his three bastard daughters overthrow an ancient noble house and face no repercusions whatsoever from the people (who canonnically loved oberyn) yeah that sounds h a r d c o r e”. house martell is dead and so am i.

and now, arguably The Worst Of Them All: they merged arya and lady stoneheart. fucking stoneheart dude. s t o n e h e a r t. somehow, zombie!cat who is hell bent on revenge and living, sentient arya stark share the same goals. dont get me wrong i’ve been a little bit of a hypocrite bc i sure as hell cheered when arya obliterated house frey. we got that, but at what cost? i’d rather not have that scene and have a human arya stark who is not obsessed with murder and can grow as a character and, u know, be a fucking human being.

i need a whole post to rant about the arya and stoneheart merge

this has been rough bc throughout the years i’ve seen them butcher storylines and fuck things up but i always wanted to think that it was for the best. the show is not the books, after all. george doesn’t have a budget or deadlines, he can take his sweet time (as he has been doing) and build incredibly complex plotlines and keep adding characters and its okay. d&d dont have that. but i dont think its fair to monumentally fuck characters up the way they have been doing.

i dont mind the divergence from the books, i think they are way too rich for any visual media, the plotlines are too intrincate, and d&d had to end the story one way or another. they could tell their own story, it didn’t have to live up to the grand finale of ASOIAF, but they had to respect their audiences.

thorughout the years, whenever i saw what they were doing i was sure they had a reason. that they had an ending planned and all the cuts were made because those particular aspects of the story didn’t matter in whatever ending they had planned. but this season (particularly last episode) has proven me wrong. they never knew wtf they were doing, they just want to shoot cool scenes and that’s it. and now we’re gonna get a half-assed ending that they have only now started to foreshadow and hint at. because they never knew wtf they were doing.

THESE TWO IDIOTS REALLY TOOK ONE OF THE RICHEST PIECES OF FANTASY LITERATURE EVER WRITTEN AND CRUSHED IT THE FUCK DOWN.

EVEN WORST. THEY TOOK THEIR OWN STORY, THE STORY THEY HAD BEEN HINTING AT, AND TORE IT THE FUCK DOWN.

im so mad u have no idea

#got rant #this is like super negative and contains leaks so #dont even open this u dnt wanna read this

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badbirep · 3 years

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okay so i can look back and laugh once i finish it here are some more dta thoughts (spoilers up to map of the world ch6)

firstly like i have a cursed attention span AND dyslexia so my reading experience is all over the place! i'm reading this twice at once basically cause i keep reading whole paragraphs and realising i understood nothing. this is not a dta-only experience tho! this happens with every serious book, dta passed the real literature test (whether i get it or not)

me pausing after a paragraph and walking myself all the way to the start like once more with feeling!!! this time we comprehend words, team!! however i AM having a ball in this bitch

firstly i love books where i'm like??? what's going on!!! which is most of this even without the reading comprehension issues.

mysteries that i'm really into and my theories for them :

obviously the huge one, which is why is lucifer sleeping on the apocalypse? my theory is that the Official End Of Times still can't start because the official kick off was the micheal sword's destruction and guess who's running around rn? DEANO.

one of the things that i Did Not Get is how/when DTA!Time Travel Dean got there. if he got there before spn canon dean got sent back then technically the DTA world was never deanless, thus not actually kickstarting anything. also i love the idea that the apocalypse was avoided (for now lol) on a technicality. like, OOPS, destiny forgot to read the fine print. also we still don't know whomst sent time travel dean there in the first place and why, so maybe it was actually to help avoid lucifer's total victory.

also my naive hope when i'm on ch6 of 1mil words and i'm like the apocalypse was avoided right?? right guys??? when lucifer could suplex the whole camp three paragraphs down and i would b none the wiser

also here's i text i sent my best friend abt this exact theory 😌

next mystery is the wards on cas' cabin and this one was actually solved already! in THEE most satisfying manner!!!

only dta!cas would pull off a huge metaphilosophical rant in which he claims dean ownership (and then says he finds it distasteful like bitch there was six other ways to phrase that you did this to yourself)

and i'm reading along like okay... d'acc... what is the point??? only to realise that frankly there is none, cas thought it would be neat and he's proud of his trick and dean is like actually that's dope!!! the only thing i'm elated about *sigh* huge downside is that we have to be roommates now!!! this totally useless spell to make me invisible in your cabin gives us no choice!!! but to be roommates. *sigh* i guess i have to sleep in here forever now cause being invisible in this cabin is sooooo important.

disclaimer: it's very possible i misunderstood something completely cause right now i really don't get howwww dean being invisible to everyone except cas in his cabin is useful in any way to them at this specific point. especially since at one point cas is like so we're gonna get the reports in here now! andddd vera talks to dean in the cabin as well so she clearly can see him so what?? and even if they truly couldn't it's not like they're keeping it a secret from camp that dean is sleeping in cas' cabin so what use it if he's invisible in there?

is it only in case someone breaches camp security and as a last resort dean can hide in there invisible? bro if an enemy is already in there who cares abt dean they don't need his blood anymore to get in.

but yes in case i haven't missed anything and that's actually genuinely what's going on : props to dta cas for having thee most complicated way of giving someone a key to ur house

also how cute like HUMANS R HUNTER GATHERERS DEAN!!! unevolved little creatures!!!! that's why the concept of home is just whenever i'm with you dean, that's not romantic at all it's PRIMAL SURVIVAL

however the mystery of what happened to cas when he fell that dean had to lock him in the cabin is still intact and i don't have a theory on that rn at all! i just know it'll probably hurt!

more coming when i remember mysteries that i forgot lol

#jayspeak #dta tag

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Oooh okay so thoughts on queer literature, thoughts on the newest thing you're fully obsessed with and thoughts on going back to uni after dropping out? (Not calling you out on the last one bc I did too lmao)

Aaaa bekah tysm for the ask!

okay thoughts on queer literature: I've not been reading that much lately? I think the last Actually Gay book I read was The Colour Purple, which was of course amazing but idk a lot of books just don't Excite me bc they're either about teenagers which I'm not or they're romance novels about like 30-40 year olds which I,, am not. I feel like I need a specific vibe but I can't figure out what and also I think a lot abt that post w the Lgbt ya goodreads thing being all boys don't you find it odd how mlm books are considered universal but wlw books are Only For wlw? Just something I've been thinking about....

Latest thing I'm obsessed with: I've been jumping through obsessions stupidly quickly lately but uhh Jeeves & Wooster is funny and cute and amazing would recommend, everyone's playing animal crossing so nobody needs my thoughts on that, uhhh idk what else I'm into... If it makes me yearn I probably imprint on it idk

Thoughts on going back to uni after dropping out: are you reading my mind ajskgkkg I think about it constantly, it really stresses me out bc everyone I know tells me I should go back, and I feel like I'm ruining my life by NOT going back and for dropping out in the first place but I have no idea what I'd want to study bc I've got that sweet brain fog and I'm scared of going there and hating it. Also I'm 21 almost 22 and I feel like that's too old which I know is stupid ajfkfkkg but if I'm surrounded by 18 year olds,, yuck, and also do I want to give up my boring job to go spend £9250 a year to get stressed? Tldr I think about it a lot and I often feel like I should go back but I don't know if it's bc I feel like it's what I'm Meant To Do or bc it's what I WANT to do and also I feel like I missed out on a huge part of my social development bc I did not. Make friends. While I was at uni the first time around and now I have no situations where I can make new friends which is hard

Damn I guess I have a lot of thoughts on that but long story short I don't think I would go back even if maybe I should or if I want to.. Idk man idk

#Tldr no thoughts head empty #Ask me for my thoughts on stuff my dudes

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aaron-noodleman-blog · 7 years

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The Serving Library & Troll Thread

Both of these publishers have rid themselves of some reservations about what professional or real publishing looks like. The Serving Library uses a friendly sans serif that could be mistaken for someone’s natural handwriting, while Troll Thread uses tumblr as its platform. In the middle of the screen and at all times, there hangs a skeletal sketch of a red book, optically appearing to face both inward and outward -- The Serving Library’s logo. It’s a bit intrusive at times, and you might click on it by accident, but it seems to sit well with the overall warmth and humor that the website conveys. A good sense of humor also seems to be important for Troll Thread, as evinced by pieces like “different worlds,” obnoxiously ridiculous meditations on simple shapes in order to imagine them as something far less than finite; and “Tractosauraus,” the story of a half-tractor / half-t-rex who slowly flattens all language internal to the story, leaving only the repetition of “tractosauraus” to remain in currency.

But The Service Library is obviously doing something that requires a bit more restraint, focus, and discipline than what is required for Troll Thread. This seems to be related to their public vision-- that they want to teach and share ideas, take their cues from particular art movements built on democratic thinking and aesthetic excellence. Amidst all the quirk, there is a clear respect for the readership as well as for the tradition that has made this possible. Meanwhile, Troll Thread has no such aspirations. “I am not interested in being some angel, sacrificing my time and unpaid labor for the sake of others (which is always done for selfish reasons, admittedly or not) and this arrangement allows me to continue being the non-angel (or monster) that I am while somehow giving other people a place or space to distribute their work, which is okay with me I guess,” says Troll Thread member Chris Sylvester. Readership respect is coincidental for Troll Thread, freeing them to explore the most privately fascinating thought experiments that their blazing fast publishing style can facilitate. Nevertheless, there is also a teaching element to be found on the Troll Thread tumblr, namely with the piece “HOW TO STOP WORRYING ABT THE STATE OF PUBLISHING WHEN THE WORLD’S BURNING AND EVERYBODY’S BROKE ANYWAYS AND ALL YOU REALLY CARE ABT IS IF ANYONE IS EVEN READING YR WORK,” a self-help manual to DIY publishing.

At one point in the interview, Holly Melgard of Troll Thread quotes Roman Jakobson:

“He says more or less that literature is a series of systematic acts of violence committed upon previous notions of “literary” language through violation of convention, which updates the larger cultural definition of “literature” and “literariness” as a result. And it’s funny because it seems like these days, everywhere I look I see nothing but violations of conventional textual codes as a byproduct of this process of digitizing the archive away from the print paradigm. ...

“So if violating convention is what literature does, then maybe that act is more embedded in the defaults of our writing/reading platforms than it was before, making the labor that goes into the production of literary texts absolutely different than how I (at least) was taught to read poems.”

The notion that some convention-violating force is embedded in our default ways of writing and reading is not too hard to get on board with, but that the work showcased on Troll Thread is emblematic of our default ways of writing and reading is not clear or convincing as it stands-- which is, of course, the answer to the why-do-it? question in the first place (you do it because it is pointedly unconventional and in a way that people acting conventionally do not engage with). The other thing to wonder about is at what point these so-called “violences” or “violations” of language cease to be anything more than a cute exercise, safer than the thing its pretending to transgress-- at what point the does violation become its own tradition, its convetion. In his essay “Experimental typography. Whatever that means,” Peter Bil’ak considers this very back-and-forth with convention:

“Anti-conventionalism requires going against prevailing styles, which is perceived as conventional. If more designers joined forces and worked in a similar fashion, the scale would change, and the former convention would become anti-conventional. The fate of such experimentation is a permanent confrontation with the mainstream; a circular, cyclical race, where it is not certain who is chasing whom.”

This need for conventionalism at all times--even when doing violence to it--makes the position of a purely selfish publisher seem contradictory, maybe even impossible-- as impossible as the notion of a purely selfless publisher. The Serving Library seems to find a happy medium between the two extremes, indulging itself at times in its ability and awareness, while also appealing to the freedom of its audience-- working through convention, though perhaps both of them are doing that, whether or not they like it. Troll Thread Interview on the Poetry Foundation Website

Experimental typography. Whatever that means.

The Serving Library

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