#which really paid it all

[mayplantstarrwaters]

feeling real groovy and happy today so everyone have these ELP bánh trôi nước ^^

#no but today is a real groovy day because my school advisor lady really gave me an early xmas present #and she even congrats me for my progress in works #and also my teacher approved my works which i put alots of my efforts too despite i did it all when i was in a really bad mood #which really paid it all #and my outfit looks real nice and groovy today as well #happy jolly tuesday with elp bánh trôi nước hehe #my art #emerson lake and palmer #posts i pulled from my draft

[taxinealkaloids]

kill your darling, it's just that easy!

#tlt #my art #i reblogged these outfits the other day that were giving me big ianthe & naberius vibes so i wanted to draw something with them #got really funky w/ this one! i just wanted to play around i havent had the chance to draw in a while #so i just kinda let myself do whatever w/ the colors and art style and everything #idk how i feel about it but it was fun #anyway ive seen some posts suggesting that ianthe somehow cheated the system by sacrificing naberius and like... #no she absolutely did not? she paid that price exactly by the book (making her one of the few to actually do so) #and now she suffers forever for it :) #oh the line on top is a quote from the book and the caption is a lyric from 'kill your darling' by cloudy june #(which aside from that one line is not at all a ianthe&naberius song lmao)

[kedreeva]

Okay if you haven't yet, and you have Netflix/Paramount+, consider giving "School Spirits" a chance.

It looks like a silly little cheesy teenage ghosts show, I put it on for background noise, and then got totally engrossed in the mystery. It's VERY well written, very well filmed, the mystery was GREAT and the payoff at the end is also great.

One of the things majorly lacking in shows I've recently tried to watch is that they try to do a twist/reveal at the end that comes out of nowhere. They don't want you to guess what they're doing. This show doesn't do that. This show wants you to guess. They give you seven different mysteries and enough clues to guess (most of) what is going on, so that when you get the final puzzle piece to any given mystery, it feels GREAT.

The story premise is this: a teenager in hs wakes up as a ghost in the hs, and doesn't remember how she died, and with the help of the other ghosts, tries to solve the mystery of her own death.

Simple premise. BEAUTIFULLY executed. Not all of the questions that arise get answered, but the main one (what she doesn't remember) gets solved by the end of the season, leaving the "why/how and what comes next" to be carried to the next season. It does a cliffhanger RIGHT. But now I desperately want to see the second season (which I believe has been approved, so it's a matter of waiting).

So pretty please, if you're looking for something to do and a great, engaging lil mystery to watch, consider! School Spirits!!

#school spirits #there is so much in this show #Spike and I finished watching it today #her for the first time me for the second #and the second time through it was even better because I was picking up the right threads #the first time through there are SO MANY CLUES #but there are also SO MANY MYSTERIES that you aren't sure which clues belong to which mystery #and then the last half of the last ep hits #and dumps out all the final puzzle pieces to several mysteries #and we spent like an hour digging through thoughts afterword #pulling out themes and clues #and there are some potentially REALLY CLEVER things done #and actually they 100% followed through on the things they set forth and paid off so far #so I feel pretty confident some of the things we pieced together actually belong to the puzzle #and aren't just mistakes #or coincidences #and it's been so long since I got to see actually good writing STAY good writing through #I'm so stoked for this series

[chirpsythismorning]

#byler #stranger things #no but why did they need his stand in present doing shoots in the blue while he’s in the yellow that’s my question?… #like why wouldn’t he be wearing yellow like Noah if they just came from a different shoot #also Millie is in the milkshake dress #which means the priority for the time of this shoot was those shots of her getting the milkshake on her #they had like 4 days to film at the rink o mania location #meaning the stand in would not be there unless he had to shoot something and the same applies to Noah #if Noah wasn’t getting paid to be there to actually film he wouldn’t be in costume #basically them having only 4 days means those 4 days were dedicated to only rink o mania shooting #they can film in studio anytime so using precious location time to film elsewhere would be really poor time management and uneccesary #but what I find interesting is it honestly doesn’t look like anyone is on the rink except these guys? #I remember a few TikToks/videos coming from Noah on the rink with his stand in plus Millie #(was it just them all alone with their stand ins at this moment bc they were filming a spoiler filled s5 opener vecna sequence???) #👀👀👀 #birthdaygaters chillin #(with fear)

[sparklecarehospital]

due to the nature of things right now and the possibility of this site sinking ship i'm looking into possible ways of moving my AUs onto their own website(s). the only issue i'm running into right now is how i would manage to use an ask box. the only possible alternative i have right now is using disqus (what i use for the SC site comments) but that would make all questions public and make people able to reply to each other and i don't really want that

this isn't a definite decision i've made, don't worry, and i may not end up going through with it at all but it's something that's being considered in the event of worst-case-scenario. i just wanna be prepared y'know

#all 'form' services are unreasonably expensive paid services and they offer more anonymity than i am comfortable with #this is the only social media i really use anymore either so i'd basically just be off social media altogether if this place goes down. #which would be really sad because i couldn't interact with fans anymore #text

[coquelicoq]

what i love about the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi of it all is that...it's not just that he's famous and therefore widely recognizable wherever he goes. like yes that is very funny because he was an exorcist before he became a famous actor, which means he CHOSE, on purpose, a day job that would make it harder to hide his double life/secret identity from the hordes of his adoring public, but it's more than that. it's not just that he's famous, it's that he's famous specifically for being an ACTOR, aka a person whose job it is to dissimulate, to make believe, to inhabit roles and emotions other than his own. like he decided he was going to become as visible as possible (which again was literally not necessary! he could have gone into any other career for his day job!!) but in such a way that everyone would see him but no one would see him - they would just see his various made-up personas, including the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi persona. i can't decide if he's a genius or if he just made so many absurd decisions that they canceled each other out and circled back around to working out. he's either playing 9-dimensional chess or he's eating the pieces. too soon to say.

#the other thing i love about it is that in a very real sense it's his actor day job that is his alter ego #being an exorcist is his normie job. he's just a famous celebrity on the side #which isn't that uncommon in secret identity setups but it's still very funny #natsume's book of friends #natsume yuujinchou #natori shuuichi #natsuyuu meta #my posts #f #i think probably the actual answer is that acting was a very natural career choice because he already masks so extensively #both to hide that he can see things other people can't (and that youkai exist and that he exorcises them) #and to hide what he's really feeling so that no one can use it against him #so if it's already something he has to do & he's good at it...why not have someone tell him exactly how to do it & get paid for it? #and the other part of the answer is that most ppl don't go into acting assuming they'll get famous. the fame was a side effect #so each decision as it was being made probably made perfect sense. but put them all together #and you have this hilarious assortment of elements that seem to directly contradict each other #okay also i would be remiss if i didn't mention the other possible answer which is that the attention came first and was unavoidable #and the acting developed from the need to protect himself from the attention that he was going to be attracting no matter what he did #because he's so beautiful. and (in the exorcist world specifically) because he's the last of the natori #the more i talk about it the more i'm like no becoming a famous actor was the only path that made any sense for him lol #1) he's gonna be watched no matter what bc he's him -> gotta figure out how to hide his secrets -> learn to act as self-defense #or 2) he's got secrets -> he's gotten a lot of practice hiding them -> hey you could make a career out of this! #all roads lead to actor natori shuuichi. and since he's beautiful...all roads lead to FAMOUS actor natori shuuichi #i love it when i ramble so much in the tags that i end up contradicting my own post lol #he's neither thinking ten steps ahead nor is he irrational. he's simply making sensible individual decisions #that follow logically from what is available to him and what his priorities are

[skunkes]

#i went and got Examined and Cleaned at dentist and of course paid with my own money #which i save for these exact reasons! health stuff #and i feel much better after going... like in general #i needed a cleaning its been a while since my last one #anyway i get home and both my parents are acting like it was all a waste of time and money #which makes sense bc like. this is only my second time ever going to a dentist. ykwim #i never went to doctors growing up because Waste Of Money We Dont Have #so obvs they think that way #but it Affects Me. ykwim. like oh i really am going to have insane obsessive massive self doubt over every decision i make until i die...ok #like maybe i shouldtve gone maybe it wldve gone away by itself i dont knowwwww #joining the war on All The Men In My Family Dying Bc They Dont Seek Medical Care on the side of the Men #talkys

[pagesofkenna]

me days ago: i want to get some marcille/falin figures to match, but theres no falin merch yet :(

me: i'll get the marcille popup parade figure for now, in the hopes that someday they release a falin popup parade figure to match

goodsmile company, making my day and taking my money:

#SHE'S HEREEEE #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #delicious dungeon #i literally decided on the popup parade instead of the marcille nendo just because it was a little bit cheaper and it PAID OFF #though they might announce a falin nendo in a few days for all i know lmao #they kinda... cant?? mild spoilers ahead #because like the other thing is i was worried when they released a falin figure it would be of her redesign #i dont actually. love her redesign #so i was really hoping there'd be an original flavor falin and there she IS and im so happy about it! #but that means a falin nendo if they make one would probably be of her redesign which makes way more sense #theres not enough content for original flavor falin design to do multiple faces and poses and props

[conspicuous-clown-car]

considering how fnaf was based off of chuck e cheese, them doing this sly 'fnaf but not legally fnaf' cash grab just proves my point of how spot on scott cawthon was with making fazbear entertainment a shitty company. CEC Entertainment really is that bad

#theyre really profiting off of the fnaf movie when they LITERALLY GOT RID OF ALL THEIR ANIMATRONICS??? #COME ON #do they really need money THAT badly? #and as someone who worked at chuck e cheese for a long ass time #trust me its really bad #cockroaches fucking everywhere #throwup soaked into the carpet #everything is dirty and nasty as fuck because they dont hire enough people to clean everything #has violated several osha rules #all their stuff is cheaply made but overpriced to hell and back #treats their staff horribly (at least at the one i worked at) #getting paid for one job but having to do literally e v e r y t h i n g (in my case) #always understaffed and overworked #the pizza isnt reused tho its actually fresh as fuck #overall terrible place #ESPECIALLY if youre working there #which is why i dont regret stealing over $200 worth of prizes from the prize counter throughout my time there #im still salty about this almost a year later #fnaf #chuck e cheese

[debellatis]

save me dog hob... dog hob... dog hob, save me......

Makes pair with my cat dream

#weeeewoooooweeeeewoooooo #hob gadling #dog!hob #dreamling #finally can tag it dreamling nice #furry dreamling lol #for this nice art I paid the price of 1 (one) back pain #don't use improper tables/chairs while doing art kids! #I wanted to make him a breed of work dog (cuz duh) that existed at least since the 1500s #so I mixed mastiff retriever and something else I forgot #and for the flower I looked it up #first I searched for flowers that meant “wonder (for life)” and then “immortality” but what came up was too connected to divinity and shit #and I didn't like that cuz I read Hob as too... earthly I guess #more like too human #you know a proper mammal of flesh and bones and blood #so I instead looked up flowers that meant hunger #and the lupine came up #I got yellow for “willingness to take on new challenges; adventurous spirits; never-say-never attitude; struggle to survive" #and I got red for “passion; admiration or adoration; endurance” #I didn't get the other colors cuz even though they can be associated with parts of Hob's life #they didn't really associate with all of it #I like how the red one can be associated with Dream's ruby #which makes me think that I completely forgot to draw it in the cat dream one wow #way to go me #ahhhhhhhhhhhh anyways #mine #fanart #my art

[guinevereslancelot]

eye doctor was trying not to scare me today bc i have a sight threatening condition 🥲 it's probably treatable but i need to go to a specialist

#havent been to the eye doctor in six years but i was like okay i need to update my prescription my headaches are getting really bad #and my prescription barely changed so the doctor said it wasnt that #also this other condition doesn't cause headaches either so treating it wont even help :( #tho it does make me light sensitive which is a trigger ao maybe it will help a little i hope #but mostly i hope its treatable #also i have no health insurance so hopefully its not expensive lol #but at least the job search is going well so maybe i can handle the treatment myself #but since i will go blind if its untreated my parents will definitely cover it if i cant i just feel bad #they paid for my appt to get the new prescription today too but that wasn't very much i didn't even get the new glasses #but seeing a cornea specialist regularly to treat a scary condition is going to be expensive 😭 #i dont even know how expensive yet tho #maybe i should make a gofundme or something #this has been a shitpost #im not 100% sure my parentsncan afford it if its expensive #probably depends how far its progressing and how fast andnwhat the cause is and a million other things #but i know it can be difficult and resist treatment 😰 #and its not early for catching it at all

[theshadowrealmitself]

Fell asleep last night thinking about an au where Norman recovers from being the Green Goblin, but he ended up doing some really creepy stuff beforehand including attacking Peter as he was Peter Parker and not Spidey and then keeping him locked up for several days (Peter ends up with a few scars from it)

Norman avoids any jail time because he’s rich and revealed somewhat of the truth, that a medicine he was working on for himself had terrible side effects, no one knows about him being the Goblin, they only know about him attacking Peter

Peter is able to successfully get a restraining order against him tho, but Norman’s a jackass who keeps hanging out on the fringe of the distance he’s supposed to be at and speaking/yelling at Peter, stuff like “when you finally forgive me and drop this restraining order, I’ll be here with open arms,” and “Uncle Ben wouldn’t want you to hold this hate in your heart” and because of the previous mentioned richness, Peter can’t do anything unless Norman steps too closely

And tbh Peter mostly got the restraining order because he was worried it would look suspicious if “Peter Parker” didn’t seem too badly affected by things, since he was used to being attacked by Norman as Spiderman

But now that he’s keeping Norman away, even if he still hangs around, and he has visible scars from it that everyone can see, and everyone knows about the court case and what happened and keep asking him if he’s okay, he’s…starting to acknowledge that it all was traumatizing, not just the kidnapping event but the whole thing with the Green Goblin, that he was just pretending it wasn’t because he’s a hero, and people seeing how badly it’s been affecting him is actually healing in a way

#part of the au #was that Peter runs Parker Industries #and although most people are on Peter’s side #every time there’s a science event the people who set it up complain at him and try to get him to drop his restraining order against Norman #because they’re going to invite Norman #he’s rich and runs a science company #but they also have to invite Peter because even if it’s a small company he’s always putting out amazing inventions #and it makes it difficult for the organizers to plan it with the two of them always staying a certain amount away #so they’re dicks. #and Miles was upset that people could just harass Peter about his restraining order and that he’d have to deal with someone who hurt him #at this event #so he gets his dad involved as some unofficial security guard since Norman probably paid off all security at the event #which was really sweet of Miles but now Peter has no way of escaping as Spiderman #and then I fell asleep before figuring out how he’d get around that because if Miles is also at the event then his dad #would be paying attention to him too especially if Norman Osborn is nearby #so that’s why this section isn’t in the body of the post #I love Norman Osborn but sometimes gotta acknowledge he was a creep who greatly traumatized Peter #Peter Parker #Norman Osborn #Spiderman #spider man #spider-man #the green goblin

[meraki-yao]

I'm trying to figure out how to summarize and translate Taylor's editorial from Port Magazine and oh...boy jeez this is gonna be a lotta work , the writer is really incompetent, the translation from Taylor's English to the written Chinese is choppy, the flow and focus are all over the place and I'm cringing

Still gonna do it though, I genuinely enjoy translating stuff for the fandom, and tbh rather do this than cell biology

#rwrb #red white and royal blue #rwrb movie #taylor zakhar perez #alex claremont diaz #rwrb rambles #this magazine is really incompetent #the physical copy was supposed to be sent out in mid January #but it's still not out #apparently due to printing issues #but everyone paid with the promise of a mid January release #but all business are gonna shut down by next week for Chinese new year #which is like a whole week holiday #also the writing i hate it so much and I've written and read editorials before #ughhhhhh #back to my second hand embarrassment of Taylor experience not so good stuff on my turf

[widevibratobitch]

when i say i am obsessed with him

#'indescribable insolence' <3333 #dumas writing aramis in '20 years after': #i am going to create a character that is so egdy sarcastic provocative and irritating to everyone around him #and im gonna make stirring shit being an asshole and gruesome murder his favourite hobbies #and he did just as he said. bless him. #most character ever #and what makes him even better is the contrast between 20YA!aramis and t3M!aramis. its hilarious. #my man really went feral. midlife crisis some call it. i call it character development of all time. i call it serving cunt. #aramis as a musketeer a soldier a man in a profession where you're literally paid for killing people: #sweetness and mildness personified writes poetry and theology essays in his free time never gambles dreams about dedicating his life to god #aramis as a priest: whooo boy i hope i get to fUCKING KILL A PERSON TODAY >:D #anyway. i love him a normal amount or something. #the three musketeers #alexandre dumas #anyway. i reread this scene and the charenton battle today because it's definitely in my top 3 aramis moments #also the english translation on the gutenberg page omits two lines of dialogue that i remembered from my polish translation #and it goes something like #de Chatillon says 'i think you're looking for a fight sir' to which Aramis basically responds with 'oh nooo you *think*? Imao'. iconic. #(and its even funnier cause that makes athos immediately go 'aramis stfu plz' and aramis just goes 'no <3' im obsessed with them) #vingt ans apres #do i have a #twenty years after #tag?? not sure tbh i think i dont but tagging just in case ig

[carcarrot]

do i really want to make individual drinks again

#reaching back into the file cabinets of my mind to remember how i made certain drinks when i worked at the cafe #in preparation for the possibility of this new job #it would certainly mean far less goofing off time than i have at my current job. and i value my goofing off time dearly #but the people here are so fucking annoying lmao. i hate them soooo much #not that the people at this new job would be any better. we're still dealing with investment bankers #godddddd. what i really would want (which would be impossible) #would be to go back to working at the cafe but like. still have paid time off and insurance lmao #but the cafe was a small business and he was not offering paid time off and insurance. and the pay was way less #but i did get to play whatever music i wanted. unfortunately you cant live on that #like i can always say no to this new job if its offered to me. but is my goofing off time worth: #2 dollars less in pay and a half hour to an hour's more commute. well i dont know #a shorter commute would mean i could sleep more. and have more time at home . #i mean i probably don't Need all this goofing off time. but its nice #i dont knowwwwwww #like even though im a bit nervous abt doing it again i know that i would easily fall back into the routine of making drinks #which i was fairly good at. my one drawback is that i cant do latte art but i dont know that theyd really care here #and (because i found the menu of where id work) theres not a ton of drink options?? just the standard stuff #its being called a starbucks cafe but 1) its not managed by them and 2) it does not have their 5 billion drink options #so thats good. less to worry about #doesnt look like i even have to make anything foodwise which i had to at the cafe #here it looks like people can just buy a pastry and thats it #the hours are like. the same i work now. also good #sorry im like using this post to think through my thoughts. #uhhhh oh i looked up the manager who looks like a weenie so im not keen on the prospect of interviewing with him #but i probably would have thought that about my current manager if id seen a pic of him prior to interviewing. i guess??? #and with these kind of catering units it seems you dont often deal directly with the manager that much anyway #i just gotta see if i get good vibes #rn i have unsure vibes. but i need a sign to see if this could be good for me #oh id also save money on transportation. and taxes! bc i wouldnt be working in ny anymore #lol oops tag limit. well i hope you enjoyed my job thoughts you probably didnt i know i didnt

[jimmyspades]

They don’t show it much I think he only goes out there once or twice but the little patio off Alan’s office is so cute… his enclosure for reading comics and talking about cannibalism

#I didn’t get a screengrab of it but he really is reading the funny pages here. I bet he loves calvin and hobbes :) #alan shore #I could spend 100000 hours thinking of little scenarios #but like. imagine you’re talking in his office and it starts snowing the first snow of the season and you love snow #so you go stand on his little patio balcony on the 14th floor. he thinks it’s silly he’s never paid the weather much mind it’s just there #but he watches you look out at the skyline and there are little snowflakes falling in his hair and the wineglass he’s holding and he smiles #and the office holiday party is next week so he puts his drink down and comes up behind you and says we should practice. and dances with you #which is even sillier than the snow. but there are snowflakes in his eyelashes the cold makes his cheeks rosy your breath clouds together #uh. who tf said all that. embarrassing