#'Oh no! you're right..'

[commanderfloppy]

Floppy! How do you feel about Gorrik? @ratasum

Gorrik is great! He was a wonderful addition to the team! I know some people have issues with his..eccentricities, but personally seeing him so excited about things makes me happy. There are some moments though, like when he first joined, I had to remind him of how deadly the scarab plague was whenever he got a little too into studying it. Blish also helped a lot with that…

I still feel bad, sometimes I wonder if things would’ve gone differently if I was more prepared, if I wasn’t so shaken up after…well it’s all in the past. I shouldn’t dwell on it.

#ask game answers #commander floppy #vlixxa floppy #Gorrik is part of the 'floppy's children' collective of dragon's watch #honestly I think she saw his autistic ass infodumping about bugs and was just like 'Oh he's just like me when i was a kid!' #I think the only issues they probably had a bit of at the start was him forgetting about ethics #'It truly is amazing to see how quickly the scarab plague spreads' #'Gorrik people are dying' #'Oh no! you're right..' #love my little bug boy

[inkskinned]

yesterday while feverish i wrote about how boats can moor next to each other like pigeons, cooing with the gentle rap of water against their hull. you once said that that the way i see things - birds in the water, feathers in marina paint - was "childish and naive." you said i'd been misdiagnosed - "it can't all be adhd. you might be just kind of stupid and lazy."

i still do certain things like how you taught me - turn the pillow case inside out before putting it on. drive defensively. hate myself entirely.

the prompt for this poem is "mahler's fifth." i wish it wasn't, but mahler's fifth was our song. it ended up in my book. every person that knows your name has promised me they'll give you one swift rabbit punch, right to the face. dean read the book and showed up on my front porch, drenched in sweat from running the 8 miles at 4 in the morning. he was shaking. pacifist and gentle - he works with children - i'd never seen him furious. a punch isn't going to do it, he said, and then said i'm sorry. i had to come to see if you were okay.

mahler's fifth was mine first, like my girlhood. i like the way each movement piles onto the next movement, each instrument bleeding into the next. i like the horn version the best. before i met you, i danced to it on grass still-wet from sprinklers.

later you would tell me that the way you heard it was somehow better. you understood something in it that i couldn't quite wrap my fingers into. once, on our anniversary, you asked the classical music radio station to play it for us. we missed hearing it because we were fighting. one of the things people get wrong about abuse is that sometimes victims are, like, brutally aware of the stupidity of our situation. what do you mean that you thought i wasn't good enough for you? you? you're just... nothing.

sometimes people can pull the poetry out of your life. i watched my words become clothesline, and then thin out into kite twine. i watched you chew through every good syllable of me. so many good songs and places and moments were ruined. i am glad you didn't like most of my music - less to tie back to you.

but still mahler's fifth. the music swells, and i am 21 and throwing up in a bathroom on my birthday. a woman i will later refer to as lesbian jesus runs a cool hand down my back, her perfect pantsuit starch-pressed. she told me to leave you. she said - and this is true, and not an invention of rhyme or fantasy - i'm you from the future.

i am 22, and i got home from an award ceremony, and i remember you telling me - you act so proud of yourself when you're actually so fucking embarrassing. i took you to disney world. you took my virginity. i gave up visiting spain for a week with my family - i instead choose you, to spend the time just-cuddling. you called it "our fuck week." the music swells. it probably should have been a red flag that for about 3 years - i just gave up on crying. my grandfather died and you said nothing. my uncle died and you ghosted me for 3 weeks. you said i need to protect myself from your ongoing tragedy.

every so often i come back to the memory of one of our last afternoons in person. i had just told you that i wasn't going to law school, despite the free ride - i was going to join a creative writing program. master's in fine arts. i was going to finally do it - i was going to follow my dreams. this blog was already internet-famous. however reluctantly, i would occasionally refer to myself as a poet. i got into umass amherst's writing program for fiction authors. it is one of the the top 5 programs in the country.

wait are you seriously considering actually attending that? dumbfounded, you turned completely towards me in your seat. for the 3rd time in our relationship, you almost crashed the car. you actually want to be a writer?

the first time i went viral, it was for a poem i wrote about you:

he wants to say i love you but keeps it to goodnight because love will take some falling and she's afraid of heights.

every time i see that, i want to throw up. you weren't in love with me, you were in love with the control you had over me. a little truth though: i am afraid of heights. you caught a rabbitgirl and skinned her alive.

mahler's fifth still makes me sick.

give me that back. give me back music. give me back everything i had before you. give me back fearlessness. give me back bravery. give me back a scarless body.

give me back what you took from me.

#nosebleed club #sorry stephen not ur fault #just like. thinking #writeblr #spilled ink #warm up #every time nat is like - oh let me get that for u #im like .... this is a trick right like ur gonna be mean now bc u did something nice rn #so obviously if ur being nice now either u did something mean and im about to learn about it #or you're going to BE mean #or ur gonna hold this over my head forever and i'll never get a nice thing ever again? #and every time nat is like .... babe i just actually like u #lesbian jesus story is 100% real btw. she also told me not to be an event planner #literally changed the shape of my life

[vaguely-concerned]

sometimes I think of all the on-the-surface warm, well-meaning but deeply ineffectual advice and attention john gives harrow through harrow the ninth (make some soup and get some sleep! get a hobby! don't be so hard on yourself! self care harrow! as long as I need take no actual responsibility in this relationship whatsoever I would have loved to be your dad!) set up against the stark truth that with his other hand he has been staging her attempted horrific murder again and again and again like a living nightmare on the logic that it will 'put her down or fix her'. and then I find that I wish there is a hell. a special hell where twitch streamers turned necromantic death emperors go

#the locked tomb #harrowhark nonagesimus #john gaius #harrow the ninth #this is why I don't buy john as misunderstood and initially well-meaning AT ALL #this is a pattern you see with him again and again and again -- right down to his interpersonal relationships #(and indeed it's in the more grounded interpersonal relationships you can most clearly see him as he is I think #the fantasy death empire of a thousand years doesn't register quite as viscerally because it's like. heightened; not quite real #but the emotional violence and manipulation that surrounds him? oh boy that is EXTREMELY real and scarily well-observed) #there's a premeditation to so much of what he does (contracts with planets that only end 'in the event of the emperor's death' anyone? #yeah john we get it you're hilarious and I wish you weren't) #the greatest trick john ever pulled was making anyone think he's just a lil guy. what does he know he's only god #when you first read the book the complete callousness of the other adults is so horrible that john seems like an oasis of care #(though you start to get this uneasy feeling when that care never seems to translate to like... relief or soothing or resolution) #and it makes it feel almost obscene when you find out what's actually going on #it's the mercy & augustine enabler hour but at least they're completely honest in their cruelty there #while john is -- well he sure is being john huh #this is just me being angry with him btw philosophically I don't think this is how the story will or should end #(with john slam dunked right into hell that is) #it's just... harrow is so vulnerable. and what he does to her is so insidious and fucked up #john is very deeply human. unfortunately the capacity to quite simply suck so much is deeply human too

[merricatblckwood]

what a wild fucking thing to say babygirl

#this quote just popped into my head like “oh that's right he fucking said that at one point” #you're so deranged babygirl ily #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 118

Everyone is freaking out. The titan tower was broken into, no signs of who it was, and Tim- Robin- is missing. There’s blood on the walls, taunting them, implying that Tim is going through agony, and they can’t deal with another dead Robin, they can’t- 

Meanwhile Tim is bemused, maybe a little concussed because that would explain things maybe, as he’s found himself in a living room full of books and there’s a pair of kids too? One is straight up adoption bait- wait no there’s three, with two of them being adoption bait and the third being a redhead. There’s a trio of small children there already playing by the couch he’s been bundled into. 

Where the heck is his mask- or his bo staff or any of his supplies- is that the fucking Red Hood?! No, couldn’t be, must be the concussion, because why would the Red Hood be feeding him a bowl of soup?

#prompts #dcxdp #dpxdc #Jason found lil tiny fenton siblings before he started some of his attacks #Pit latched on just as much as he did #He's a broody halfa whose ghost logic is that Tim is also his baby now #Baby took/shares his Name so therefor is part of his Fright #Is Jason a tad feral? Maybe #Are the rest of them twice as feral? #Oh definitely #Tim might have a concussion and is very confused because last thing he saw was red #Don't worry he didn't get beat up #The blood was a mixture of human and animal #The Pit when Jason is thrown in: Omg a baby #The Pit: My baby now let's go make sure you're healthy by scaring the humans and havin fights #Jason: *confused halfa noises* #Jason: I am an adult but also baby but not too baby to not adopt these smaller babies #De-aged Fenton siblings with only bursts of memories: Yeah that seems about right #Concussed Tim: But I already avoided adoption before.... :(

[kthulhu42]

friend was talking angrily about the news here (a young male committed rape and sexual assault on two girls and was asked to pay $3000 and must attend therapy)

and her POS boyfriend said "I hate it when you get worked up about this kind of thing, you get so mad about men and then *I* don't get laid when I didn't even do anything"

And we all gasped because what the fuck dude

And she quietly goes "so you don't like when I get upset about young girls being raped because it means you don't get any?"

Anyway she got up and left the table and he followed and I hope you will all join me in a prayer that she is dumping his ass

#radblr #radical feminism #feminism #sexism #oh my god #Kam #For real tho imagine taking womens anger and fear and desire to protect our vulnerable girls and making it about your dick #Shut the fuck up dude you're complicit #It's not even “I don't like how much this affects you/I hate seeing you upset” oh no this is about his RIGHT to get LAID

[aroaceleovaldez]

One of my favorite things that could potentially come out of Nico being implied to be guaranteed immortality after he dies is, knowing how he is, there is a non-zero chance he could die defending his friends.

Which means you could totally have a scene where Nico is killed in a fight protecting his loved ones, and they see he is dead. Everyone is 100% certain he is dead, because he is. But then he just gets back up. And absolutely wrecks shit. Because he just entered phase two of his boss battle and he’s a GOD NOW.

I just need everyone to picture that scene. Imagine it in your mind’s eye. Good. Enjoy that.

#pjo #riordanverse #nico di angelo #Nico is the embodiment of ''I'll stop when i'm dead'' except he CAN'T. DIE. #Everyone: Oh no nico is dead :( || Nico getting up off the floor and jumping right back into the fight: *AAAAAAAAAAA* #in actuality though given his family's history there's only 2 real ways Nico could die and that's electrocution or being crushed to death #maybe both if you're Bianca and Maria

[cairoscene]

Brian David Gilbert on Sad Boyz

feels fandom relevant.

[ID: A series of screen captures of Brian David Gilbert speaking on a podcast: "The thing that you invest your time in can feel so important to your identity that occasionally you feel, like, you need to close it off from other people in order to keep it safe. And I think that's where a lot of nerd culture, all that gatekeeping stuff, all of the toxicity stems from that thing where it's like, "In high school I didn't have a lot of friends or connect with a lot of people, but I did have this comic book, and now this comic book is super popular, but these people don't like me. That must be because they're not real fans."" End ID]

#feels very appropriate recently #oh you didn't read those comics? or these ones? or any? you're not doing it right #oh you're not including my favorite character? you're not doing it right #your fic/headcanons/meta annoys me? you're not doing it right #like come on these comics are 80 years old #obviously fanon vs canon is a battle that exists in almost every fandom but it's been esp prevalent in this fandom i've noticed #let's be real guys the comics are sometimes really bad and sometimes fanon is really good #anyway i watched this and it felt applicable #so that's my two cents #gatekeeping #fandom #etc

[theminecraftbee]

-slamming bolt upright in a cold sweat- what do you mean verbal contracts cleo. what do you MEAN verbal contracts cleo. artists if you're doing commercial work you're A) charging much higher rates and B) making them SIGN A CONTRACT, right? right? you understand why that's VITAL, right? why having a written contract is VITAL for commercial work? you understand? you make them sign a written contract? please if you go looking in proper artist/graphic design circles i'm sure you can find a basic form that's legal in your locality and doesn't require you talk to a lawyer but if you're doing commercial work you're MAKING THEM SIGN A CONTRACT RIGHT--

#stream liveblogging #sorry someone in a chat in my discord mentioned cleo said they were using verbal contracts and my raised-by-lawyers self sat bolt upright #artists: you can get away with just an email chain with a noncommercial commission #but if you're doing someone's branding/merch/commercial work #you've both GOTTA charge WAAAAY more #and you've GOTTA have a contract #and you've GOTTA check out the rights stuff (hint: you aren't giving them perpetual rights to the design unless you're charging out the ass #i'm not an artist or a lawyer so i don't know the exact details of how this should go down but #ohhhhhhh my god. #anyway this isn't supposed to be discourse i am certain basically every youtuber does this. unfortunately. #and i don't BLAME the ones who have because they just probably hadn't realized/assumed the people they were commissioning would know #but i'm just losing my marbles for a moment don't mind me. #oh my god. #ANYWAY BACK TO MY NORMAL SCHEDULED POSTS--.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

ahem. dear Sally,

I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE

#im looking Directly At Sally #i know what you are.... i see you you're not slick..... #i was looking at the spider and went 'oh hey the legs look kinda like the. kinda like the.... Motherfucker-' #SAME COLOR SCHEME TELL ME IM WRONG YOU CANT #THE BODY IS LITERALLY THE FIRST THREE COLORS #could be a coincidence but mmmmm thats a mighty big coinky dink right there #*slams these images onto the corkboard* THE DOTS HAVE BEEN CONNECTED #this is technically all heresay but im a lesbian sally truther we all know this #could be candy corn colors but its a biiiittttt on the nose dontcha think #welcome home #homebogging #absolutely unprompted #'im a thespian' only a coupla pronounciations off there sal cmon you can do it i believe in you

[pocketgalaxies]

Is this the beginning of our throuple? (C2E51 || C3E72)

#critical role #criticalroleedit #sam riegel #travis willingham #matthew mercer #marisha ray #gifs #* #*cr #*parallel #cr2 #cr3 #travis & sam #sam & matt #scheduled #33m c2e51 #2h56m c3e72 #dkfjskdfjksdjf my first c2 gifset and it's this idiocy #sometimes you watch a scene and you're like oh i could gif that Right Now #thanks sam riegel for the bisexual representation???

[buckttommy]

this isn't a horny post but. has buck even... seen a hard penis before that was not his own? like yeah yeah porn but. that's not really the same is it. not when you're not even looking. not when you don't even know that you want to look. like for all intents and purposes buck is completely virginal here and that's. ummm. that's a lot.

#like. oh. oh he's such a baby. he really is a BABY gay like sweet boy. you know nothing #you are about to get your entire perception of life and your body and your inner being absolutely fucking rearranged #especially the perception of his life like. for 30+ years he has lived in one world and it only took one kiss. one handful of seconds to no #just *change* that world but transport him to a completely different one. #everything is going to be different. from the way he approaches his politics (because it means something different when you're actually #fighting for your OWN rights) and the way he approaches his body like. and that's the real kicker for me is like #buck knows his body. he knows what he likes and this that and the other #but he doesn't actually KNOW his body because he doesn't know ALL the ways that it can feel #and all the ways that it can make HIM feel #he has not yet tasted the way his body can electrify him and render him undone and it's like #it truly is like he's becoming another person #and i know that's cheesy to say but this really is like being born again. #oh my god. i'm actively falling asleep. i don't know if this makes sense. you guys get the picture

[luchsyy]

i think every single person who was ever shamed as a little girl for liking feminine/"girly" things, while also being forced to be feminine, while ALSO being pitted against / forced to compete with other girls, should be allowed to kill whenever they want. btw.

#talks #i hope this won't reach the wrong audience. i was just having thoughts while making barbie fanart and got angry #'oh you like makeup? yeah that's cringe. but also you SHOULD wear makeup because you're a girl. and if you don't do that youre also cringe' #'if you dont like feminine things youre a pick-me but if you do like them youre annoying' what if i had a large rock in my hand right now #nothing happened btw it's just the years of repressed anger and violent thoughts ^__^

[himbofication]

"Ah... Kofu did it."

#straycatj #shin megami tensei #真女神転生 #strange journey #smt strange journey #hey so did you see landlady add a picture of mikami from strange journey onto one of her posts. i did #this image was in my mind ever since i saw it #and i'm pleased to have made it... #btw i'm not sure if the japanese is right because i'm not that good so. don't come at me #and landlady if you're reading this... すみません、これは真・女神転生 ディープストレンジジャーニー。。。ありがとうございますねこしゃしん！！ ＾＾ #oh. i should tag this spoilers huh. oh well. #the game is old i have an excuse #forbidden.txt

[fu-cough]

adrien agreste + taylor swift lyrics pt. 1

- mirrorball, illicit affairs, the archer

#this boy can store so many issues!! #his Akumatized form from ephemeral didnt fit:( #adrien agreste #taylor swift #miraculous ladybug #everytime i listen to a taylor swift song i immediately think of this dumb kids show #i still haven't added you're on your own kid #or tolerate it #or dear john #or my tears ricochet #SO MANY!! #i don't even know if i did this right but oh well

[fridaypls]

Sorry, but can we just have a moment for

Pissed Daddy Halsin;

He's here to fucking kill you.

Cold. Focused. Relentless.

#angry halsin #is way hotter #than he has any right to be #oh my god #daddy halsin #baldurs gate halsin #halsin bg3 #halsin #he's so mad and so right to be mad #i mean fuck he defeneded that place for a hundred years #just for the durge's bitch ass to betray them all #...because if you took this route #you're obviously a durge #RIGHT??