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#polls #this all of this #smoking fucking kills you and it can kill people that you smoke around

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Oh shit I just found the PERFECT title for the first of the follow-up fics! Once again my habit of being inspired by song titles/lyrics has pulled through!

I'm going to go and update my House of Tarot Cards au playlist to include mood music for the first of the two sequel fics. Title is yet to be settled on but I know that one of the chapters will be entitled

"The Star - Upright"

#brains is just talking to themself #House of Tarot Cards au

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I'm going to go and update my House of Tarot Cards au playlist to include mood music for the first of the two sequel fics. Title is yet to be settled on but I know that one of the chapters will be entitled

"The Star - Upright"

#brains is just talking to themself #House of Tarot Cards au

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Reblog to give the person you reblogged from the ability to finish their WIPs

#plz plz i haven't been able to finish any writing project in so long #i feel like my skull's turning inside-out

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While I like to talk about the benefits of therapy, it’s also important for people to recognize when therapy is harming them. It may be because the specific therapy is wrong for them, the therapist is wrong for them or they aren’t in the place for it, or any number of reasons.

Therapy can be a wonderful tool, but finding the right type of therapy and right therapist and navigating it all can be so complicated.

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Sharing this here too

I do not usually make posts like this but recently I have seen a lot of content on Instagram, Twitter and I think tiktok too misunderstanding the meaning of intrusive thoughts, which may cause people experiencing them to be upset.

I have tried to shortly explain the difference of impulsive and intrusive and hope it will help people to understand and use the words correctly.

Reblogs are very much appreciated!

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Imagine walking into an Italian restaurant, looking the other customers in their eyes and saying, “wait, this place serves pasta? What’s pasta? I’ve never even heard of pasta, but it’s probably not good.” 

that is what you sound like when you’re a Tumblr user who has never heard of Cecil Palmer

#lmaooooooo

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Reblog if you think fanfiction is a legitimate form of creative writing.

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Reblog if a band has somehow changed your life for the better

People don’t usually understand this 

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#oh yeah this fucking rules #awesome art

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something that is very interesting rereading early MTMTE is that the comic is actually very much written with the assumption a ton of its readership are specifically pre-existing IDW comics readers, which can sometimes be difficult to remember because of the fact that a lot of people wound up coming onboard to MTMTE from outside the fandom in the end and now it has a reputation as an entry point as a result. this manifests in a couple ways throughout the first couple major arcs. one obvious one is that the Overlord stuff functionally makes it a sequel of sorts to Last Stand of the Wreckers, at a time no direct sequel was planned. but my favourite is that there's a kind of narrative trick the comic pulls with the leadup to the payoff Remain in Light gives us for Magnus.

the Magnus we get in early MTMTE is not the Magnus we get in earlier IDW comics. he's very exaggerated; where phase one Magnus is a by-the-books stickler for not so much as bending rules and someone we see struggling to maintain that sense of moral uprightness in the face of the war and the people around him being far less dedicated to staying on the straight and narrow like him, it's completely turned up to eleven in early MTMTE. phase one Magnus would not be doing endless doorframe audits, or throwing people in the literal brig for crooked badges. but this doesn't necessarily register as a change in character so much as a change in genre. MTMTE is also a dramedy with heavy emphasis on the comedy side of that in a way no other IDW comic is, and the shift in Magnus' characterisation therefore feels like 'well in THIS genre, that's what that archetype is like', rather than a diagetic shift in character. even if you come to MTMTE straight off those prior comics, it is very much a 'roll with the genre shift' thing rather than a 'hm. Magnus is acting… weird' thing. you let it go.

there are a couple indications this might not be the case early on. Rodimus especially seems to be under the impression that Magnus is acting uptight even for him, with his insistence on waving it off like 'he needs to relax, Swerve can you get him to chill on Hedonia because my guy is REAL stressed' and the like. (this makes sense- Rodimus is the person on the ship who has actually been directly interacting with Magnus regularly pre-MTMTE.) but it's not super obvious and not heavily emphasised.

which makes the eventual post-Overlord and RiL reveal, which is that Magnus has in fact been acting weird because he's having a breakdown that has largely gone unremarked upon by his shipmates, really really good. Magnus has not been doing doorframe audits because he's the comically uptight second in command acting as straight man for genre purposes; Magnus has been sending Rodimus a million memos a day and losing his shit over nothing because as someone whose entire identity as 'Magnus' is rooted in a wartime role he escaped into, he's been having an existential crisis now the war is over and he has no purpose and doesn't know what to do because he never expected to have to play that part in peacetime. the entire time the genre shift was somewhat obfuscating the fact this characterisation was a thing that is in-universe relevant, which also then reflects back on the fact Rodimus is like. hm. probably should have noticed that, now I feel like an asshole for not realising. (the scene where he and Rung discuss those unread memos, post-Overlord.)

it's a small thing, but it's a really effective misdirect for the payoff Magnus gets in RiL that reads a hell of a lot more clearly on reread and rewards that chance to revisit the early issues with that knowledge. of course that wasn't just a gag, of course he's actually slowly losing his shit slightly, he cannot go five seconds without making it clear he is Stressed As Hell. but until you get to that actual reveal, there's just enough room for the comic to let a reader assume it's, you know, we're in a comedy now, we need a hilarious straight man, and Magnus is it. it's great! all the stuff MTMTE pulls to simultaneously obfuscate the Magnus/Minimus reveal while also making it feel completely reasonable on reread is great. really good use of reader bias there.

#mtmte #so damn good

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LET'S DO THE TIME LOOP AGAIN!

#sanders sides #yeeeees I love this

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Round 1 Side B

28. Flores Facets - @/Whiskey_With_Patron (ao3) vs. 33. For the Record/The Sanders Archive - @/VillainVogue (ao3)

Propaganda:

Flores Facets:

Image ID: A screenshot that reads: It's just so cool. It's a lot about getting help/a bit about therapy. Plus. The Facets and the Sides meet. And it's the best thing ever.

End Image ID

For the Record/The Sanders Archive

Image ID: A screenshot that reads: It's a 3-fic series and it's sort of a crossover with The Magnus Archives which is a weird combo but very fun at the same time

End Image ID

#sanders sides #polls #Sanders Archive will always have a firm place in my heart because it's legit the fic that prompted me to listen to The Magnus Archives

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Based on a theory from @lickoutyourbrains and my post

What if Orange was placed in between Patton and Roman, therefore isolating Roman from his comfort people

Considering he has Remus between him and Virgil, his main comfort, and would then have Orange between him and Patton, a familiar, yet past comfort person

#YEEEEEEEEEESS THIS RULES SO HARD #cornered and having the voices of his friends muffled #sanders sides #I adore Roman's expression #mmmmmmm Orange having sharp teeth like remus my beloved

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Round 1 Side B

1. Deja Vu/Hero Worship - @/Greenninjagal (ao3) vs. 40. House of Tarot Cards - @/FlowerMeat (ao3)

Propaganda:

Deja Vu/Hero Worship:

Image ID: A screenshot that reads: Absolutely amazing Remus-centric superpower au. Remus can see the future, and nobody believes him until he meets a shapeshifter at a casino and they become partners in crime. Dukeceit. Lots of Creativitwins angst. Also lots of temporary character death, but well worth the read if you love the angst.

End Image ID

#sanders sides #polls #you guys don't have to vote for HOTC just because it's my fic #check out both fics and vote genuinely on which you enjoy more

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Boogie woogie woogie

#in my mind Boogie is doing a little dance and caramella dansen is blasting in the background #sanders sides

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their friendship is everything to me and they have me in fucking shambles

(strictly platonic)

#sanders sides #aaw how lovely