#HOW DID YOU FALL THIS WAY

[bonetrousledbones]

ok i wasnt gonna post anymore tonight but i just went on an emotional journey ok so i recently went and found an old fic recommendation that a mutual recommended years ago and started reading it and was like This Feels Familiar In The Bad Way. I look at the ending and realize ah yes i have definitely read this before because that ending is what pissed me off enough to write my own long as hell fic in middle school btw that i have long since abandoned but oh wow isnt that something ! but oh the fic’s been orphaned now, but I could’ve sworn I’ve seen more recent fics from the author, and I mentioned them in my own abandoned fic so i’ll just look them up to see what they’re up to now! anyway its minecraft youtuber rpf

#only a middle schooler could have the fucking audacity to mention a fic and author by name and say ''yeah that ending sucked'' #FUNNIEST PART IS THE AUTHOR COMMENTED ON MY FIC. LIKE THEY KEPT UP WITH IT AND EVERYTHING AND THEY WERE SO NICE #HOW DID YOU FALL THIS WAY #WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU #LAST I CHECKED YOU WERE MAKING VAMPIRE PAPYRUS KISS COWBOY PAPYRUS WHERE DID THIS COME FROM #WHY IS YOUR LAST UNDERTALE RELATED FIC SANS X DREAM SMUT #delete later for the love of GOD

[time-to-write-and-suffer]

I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."

I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.

Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.

Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.

#anyway this is just more of that lefty shit where 'well i can't be racist because i'm gay!' #'well i can't be media illiterate because i love villains!' #not how that works babes #'well I KNOW bad from good so i can't be affected by media!' #'everyone else also knows bad from good and defines it the exact way i do!' #'so if i think this is bad then the author must also think this is bad!' #i have bad news .... #also how do you know bad from good? who taught you that? hmm? #did you fall out of the womb knowing? or did you pick up some things on the way here? #'i just know' no you don't! that's what i'm saying! #assuming one thing is always true is the opposite of being a conscious consumer of media soz #assuming someone thinks and knows the exact same shit you think and know is not media literacy!!

[commsroom]

the u.s.s. horrible unending nightmare 💥 (once again from the incredible @hehearse)

#wolf 359 #w359 #doug eiffel #hera wolf 359 #hera w359 #art #id in alt text #i've been holding onto this one for a little while. for no particular reason i just wanted to. #but here it is #thank you so so much!! #incredible eye for detail as always and i'm obsessed with how you draw people. and also. everything #this is such a good eiffel. the circle kind of suggesting a helmet worked out so well. the way you did the star!! the glitch effects!! #the use of an actual sound clip and the heart monitor through it and all of it through his chest. genius to me. #and this ended up leaning more in the direction of eiffel's general repeated misfortune but i also really love the element of #eiffel and hera both being prisoners treated as test subjects. i like how it can read as much like him being pulled away as falling. #and with the soundwave and communication as a bridge and that specific clip from mayday and hera being the voice in his head that saves him #etc. etc. i love it thank you so much again!! <3

[astrhae]

...maybe it's all part of a great big ineffable plan

#a LOT happened but #its the way the timing of their wings align #(conditional on tumblr loading this gifset right for you akdskdsk) #it's also the way that it's crowley who did the wing thing first #and when he did it the universe was so full of color and stars and fire #because there weren't any sides yet #and when it was later aziraphale who did it #the color is all black and whites because there's sides now #and it was rain and water falling on them #it's just the CONTRAST between the two scenes #but also the constant between them #which is. the two of them. next to each other #anyway i'm not done processing the first scene #how to i process the rest of it #good omens #good omens 2 spoilers #good omens spoilers #good omens season 2 spoilers #crowley #aziraphale #good omens 2 #my edits #goodomensedit #tw flashing #ineffable husbands

[brother-emperors]

TRY AGAIN LATER

it's like. well. its several things.

(Plutarch's Crassus, trans. Warner)

and also this

(ibid.)

that compliment sounds like an insult, baby.

anyway, there's a fun kind of eroticism in being given everything, in taking things that aren't yours without any real consequence, in climbing towards becoming a Roman Alexander, only for one man to deny you, over and over and over again, at every turn. Sulla tried, Crassus did it better. who would put a butcher in their place? who else knows you well enough to do it? who else can match you step for step like this? doesn't it feel like a kind of intimacy, a kind of—

it's also about the 'even sulla kissed my sword/so you want me on my knees too?' innuendo was too good to pass up. that was actually the first line I wrote, I figured out the rest of this to justify making a comic with it

and finally! the sword line is referencing/playing off of Lucan's Pharsalia a little bit because it fucks hard

(Lucan's Pharsalia, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce)

EDIT: oh, and that's a public domain anatomical illustration of a heart. you know how it is with love and hate.

#marcus licinius crassus #gnaeus pompeius magnus #tris homines #komiks tag #roman republic tag #drawing tag #its about how many ways i can create situations where i have crassus call pompey a brat #the subtext going on here is that pompey and sulla are in the middle of their political falling out #and pompey is like. okay motherfucker. and crassus is something that sulla had under his hand #but uhhhhhh. its not going that well for pompey. because sulla got there first #and left his mark #dont worry tho pompey you'll get him in the end. your descendants are going to marry each other #and name two of their sons directly after both of you!! fucking wild. LOVE it #can't get much closer than that! altho pompey did try something when he married publius crassus' widow #crassus himself however holds true to his statement of 'no one is ever going to touch me ever again.' #he's like. not alive right either so it'd be hard to pin him down anyway #too haunted. your ghosts your dead your ancestors have escaped your family house buddy

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts - Dalmatians' House

#kingdom hearts #kh1 #traverse town #dalmatian puppies #scenery #my gif #it's so unfortunate what happened to the puppies #but i think being able to collect them and return them to their parents was such a cool little side quest #not only did it give you a reason to return back to traverse town every now and then #but it also showcased how tragic it is that a world falling to darkness can spread its inhabitants virtually anywhere with no way of return #you saw how sad leon was when he talked about the lost puppies and how depressed pongo and perdita look when you first visit them #they eventually perk up as their family slowly makes their way home and it was cute to receive gifts of gratitude #being able to gradually see more puppies return to their cozy little house felt so rewarding

[eddiesghxst]

steddie x sensitive!reader where eddie’s ur best friend that you do ‘more than best friend’ things with and steve was the asshole at school that would tease you and always make you cry.

eddie knew about it but he didn’t know your bully was steve so when eddie and steve start working together and you stop by one day eddie doesn’t think much of it when u see steve and ur really jumpy and look like ur ready to bolt out of there because you’re often shy around strangers.

and steve doesn’t even fucking remember you and so when you leave steve is like “is she always that jumpy?? like was i being weird or??” and eddie just shakes his head and is like “nah she just has a hard time w strangers. some asshole used to tease the shit out of her in high school. she never told me who it was but the day i find out i swear i’ll hunt them down and strangle them myself.” and steve is like wow what kind of an asshole would do that to a girl like you??

because steve thinks you’re pretty and sweet and he likes you and he thinks he wants to ask you out but how will he do that when he: 1 - can’t seem to have a conversation with you and not scare you off 2 - is convinced you and eddie are definitely dating even if eddie says it’s not like that and 3 - can’t decide who he’s more jealous of when he sees how close you two are

because is that even normal? is it normal to like two people at the same time? is it normal to feel left out when you and eddie are snuggled together during movie night? is it normal to want to hold both of your hands, kiss both you, touch both of you??? iS iT ?!!?!

#okay brb i have an assignment due in 20 mins #but #steve doesn’t know he’s going through a life crisis #steve falling to his knees when he realizes it was him that bullied you #eddie hating steve for it but being so heartbroken bc of how close they’ve become #steve begging for forgiveness #eddie teaching steve how to treat you the way you should be treated #steve having to learn to be patient to mend the damage he did #steve having to earn both you and eddie’s trust but also eddie trying to show u that steve isn’t like he was before #i have thots i have thots i have thots #i can go on and on guys fr #eddie munson x reader #eddie munson #eddie x reader #steve harrington x you #eddie munson fanfic #steve harrington blurb #steve harrington fic #steve harrington x reader #eddie munson x steve harrington #steddie x reader #steddie #rachie speaks #wips

[kaasiand]

S1 flounder if it was good

#I've had the idea of “flounder with tunnels connecting the two low grounds” since all the way back in S1. I finally get to make it real #The map just feels so much less real in 3. Fuck man #Also you know how some weapons have trouble getting up the walls? Yeah don't do what S3 did and flatten the entire map bc then the map's #whole design will just completely fall apart. That's why I added some dashpads in key spots; extremely useful though a bit predictable #splatoon #splatoon 3 #my art #3d art

[benoitblanc]

making an emily-arc gifset and screaming internally. why the fuck did they do that to scully

#also kind of why the fuck did they do that to mulder. like obviously it is WAY worse for scully but imagine: #your best friend slash love of your life calls you. she's just found out that a. she can't have kids #(which you have known for several months but didn't tell her because she was DYING OF TERMINAL BRAIN CANCER) #and b. when she was kidnapped and medically raped by the government a child resulted from this and she's only now found her #and you fly out to them and the little girl is darling and precocious and terrified and your partner ADORES her #and seeing them together hits you over the head with how badly you want this for her. how badly you want this for YOU #how any children you were ever going to have would have always been hers #and you make the girl laugh and you threaten the men who did this to her. you want everything to help her. and she dies anyway #your pseudo-mother-in-law calls from the hospital. your partner's brother just had a baby #you watch your partner fall apart and you grieve for her loss but also for yours. that was your daughter too. or she would have been #arwen.text #the x files

[lightbulb-warning]

Same person that said your art style scratches the inside of my head (I used the wrong your in the original ask smh)

I wanted to also say how much I love how you draw Shuichi <3 It's perfect, people have already complimented how you draw Kokichi (perfect, as well) so I thought how you draw Shuichi deserves some love as well

ive been looking through my drawing folders and have come to the conclusion that your definition of "perfect shuichi" equals to "stressed out of his mind", which i find hilarious /lh

i fucking love shuichi i find him to be such a compelling character. *puts this in your pocket when you're not looking*

#hate his hair too btw #i love this bitch he's so stupid #and also a really nuanced interesting character blah blah blah HES SILLY #im not that comfy with how i potray “shuchi vibes” yet! “quiet and subtle” are things im currently still learning to incorporate in my draws #which makes me honored you think its anywhere near perfect?? wowza! im glad ;u; ill only get better from here!! #*proceeds to draw ooc sassy shuichi* /j #Shuichi Saihara #saihara shuichi #drv3 #dr shuichi #i DID notice the wrong “you're” and it took a lot of effort to not fall into my “uhm actually ways” /lh #but now that YOU'VE brought it up... *points and laughs at you because you made an inconsequential and irrelevant spelling mistake* /j #jk mistakes happen mate!! plus you're on anon nobody has to knowwwww #ask maiora #maiora draws #eyestrain

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

to you (unfinished, off the top of my head) x Fall Out Boy lyrics

in order: (Coffee’s For Closers), Sugar, We’re Going Down, CFC, Thriller, Miss Missing You, w.a.m.s., I Am My Own Muse, w.a.m.s., Favorite Record, CFC

#i know several of these preceded to you unfinished and i also know that several are Not directly from that post #HOWEVER #every time i hear that line in muse i think of it and i am constantly thinking about this specific piece of pete’s poetry echoing #forward and backward throughout their history #i didn’t include saturday bc pete already did. and also i needed sugar in there i think about that SO much #lie on the grass next to the mausoleum // fell asleep on the grass in the summer fest days… WAUGH #also there’s some pretty easy ties to west coast smoker and XO if you wanted to go there but i kinda didn’t #bc that’s the one section that wouldn’t quite fit properly in the layout of this #but ‘’ Wake up on the west coast inside a flask’’ // west coast smoker #and ‘’ The good books in the drawer next to the bed you pissed in’’ // XO chorus #idk i just think about all the parallels A Lot idk if i like the way this turned out or how i cropped everything but like. yeah #it’s 1am this is what i’ve got #Lu rambles #music #fob #fall out boy #pete wentz #web weaving #lyric comps #kinda???

[oatbugs]

my research partner and i are huddled in a blanket in paddington waiting for a too-late train i already miss you and you and you

#he keeps falling asleep almost on my shoulder and waking up and readjusting but i want to tell him its ok weve seen a lot #of each other ive seen your brainwaves you called me crying a few nights ago. research partner right now is a potentiality #friend is a certainty. i met a banker passionate about finance. he said his advice made the lives of others better and he likes the numbers #more than he likes anything else. on a high rise near canary wharf the view was wonderful and the people even moreso #he said i loved her but i spent 33 grand on her and i cant do this anymore. his voice cracked talking about her. he did love her. #and she talked softly she grabbed my hand she bought me a pack of Marlborough gold she told me to snap #the russian menthol cigarettes of the tortured polish man near us with my teeth i kept staring at her teeth #bright white and sharp. i couldnt find her heartbeat but i did find warmth and i did find her lips and i did feel #how she felt pressed against a wall. a pretty boy held my hand and i gave him my number. i couldnt stop smiling about her no matter #how many runways youve walked on how many collections youve designed how many students youve taught. senior lecturer teaches me how to do #very unethical things ethically over a double shot of vodka made by the half-persian with broken farsi. she talks softly #and she says her eyes are hazel but they appear a shade of red. pure gold on her hands and leather on her back and her fingers on my lips #(she talks softly sees through me she says something i cant hear but i wont forget the way she flies) she talked to my research partner #about the possibility of moving to sunny dubai with the rest of her family and my heart felt pierced. on her arm i traces a tattoo of a #knife passing through a rose. she told me she thought there was romance in severing so i kissed her some more. #he sat me down and asked me what i loved and i told him and he said no romance no person no tragedy will take that from you. #the room was filled with a collection of people in love with something that wasnt a person and i kept looking at her. #red eyes bitten jawline beautiful hands. it is 3 degrees Celsius my head is on his shoulder i miss my friends #we walked out the lecture hall with arms linked a photo of two years ago and we both said #jesus christ. i miss you all. and i miss logic metatheory lectures. im glad i get to stare at the depth of your eyes #i wish i had met you years ago. #crushposting

[greenfrogartist]

Been a while since I’ve drawn anything but guess what

A fanart! For the fic “Missing”by @zoiaeras !

Honestly it’s more of how I imagine Peter’s design to be rather than a fanart, cause usually when I do a fanart I either draw a scene or as I’ve lately been doing draw what I imagine the cover would look like (to be fair I kinda drew the breakfast scene? )

So this is more like a very small character sheets?? And the design is wrong a bit (his hair is supposed to be a bit longer but I only ingrained the choppy hair part)

Tried to keep the blue and red of his spidey suit in, but darker and paler to show the effects Gotham had on him

Honestly the fic is amazing! and the pacing is a chef kiss, and the comedy is on point for me and what I love the most about this is that it’s doing other stuff rather than just sticking to the norm of peter - Gotham crossover

Other characters are present, there is a plot being made and the characterization makes sense for the life the characters lived, and we’re even out of Gotham and introducing other superheroes to the plot like Superman and the flash and also villains like lex Luther

And what’s fun about this fic is that currently, the strongest thing Peter have is his brain, but he is still stupid outside of building stuff (I love this adorable bean)

My most favorite thing about it is probably the plot point and that things are actually happening with consequences to them that change the status que of the fic

The fic feels like a never stopping train wreck about to happen and I’m so excited to see just how big the crash will be and how sharp the debris left of it are

Honestly I can go on and on about this fic forever but that’s mean more spoiler which is a big no no

Just know that if you want a dc x peter crossover, with more justice league characters in it, this is the fic for you

#also he has freckles cause what’s better excuse to give him freckles than him being in a slightly different body? #by the way he doesn’t have a camera in the fic I know #but I wanted to have him hold something #and not just stand like a stick #also fun fact #his shoes not only is made of 30% duct tape #it’s also a signal merchandise #I would like to think he likes signal #cause he is the only day time hero in Gotham #and Spider-Man used to be a day time hero too #also nighttime occasionally but whatever #I wonder who’s his favorite bat #Damian is out already lol #but I love the beef peter have with Damian #they already act like siblings now all they need is for Bruce to get the adoption paper out of his pockets already #also did I say how much I loved the falling gun scene in the library? #absolutely hilarious #ok ok no more spoilers #guys you gotta read this #fanart #art #digital art #another fanart #ao3 fanfic #ao3 #spider man #peter parker in dc

[sysig]

can you draw edgar and scriabin playing on a park like brothers for the vargastober? ty!

Day 7 - Play stupid games

#My art #Requestober #Vargas #Edgar #Scriabin #I cannot tell you how tempted I was to make a Les Enfants Terribles reference for this prompt lol #I knew it'd be too much to ask for a daily challenge tho lol so single tube-tunnel for these two! #How /did/ Scriabin get up there tho - did he fly up? Think himself up there? Actually crawl up there? #He generally keeps his abilities pretty realistic when he's a kid which is very cute haha ♥ #But even if he did cheat his way up there it's also a very charming thought to realize only in that moment that he's very small and scared #Got himself into a situation he didn't think through and was bad for him! That tracks lol #Edgar goes on a quiet rant about playing safely and Scriabin just ignores him haha #There's also something cute about them both agreeing to cheat for a moment and Edgar pulling him down into the tube with him hehe <3 #''Just close your eyes and fall through!'' ''Catch me!'' It's cute 💕 #Kidverse is always cute tho ♪ And sad - but mostly cute!! #Also you know this is Requestober over here right? X3 I'm not doing Vargastober this year! #Shoutout to disposal-blueeee's prompt list tho :) Very cool! #One of these years I'm gonna do a doodle for every chapter of Vargas ♫ There's enough to choose from! Lol

[kaitobromota]

love the ultimate imposter. just thinking about how even when theyre trying to impersonate someone as cold and aloof as the real byakuya they can't help being caring and protective in a way he never was. the way no matter how good they are at their talent their real personality will always shine through because theyre that kind.

#do u ever just think about how the imposter was probably the main initiator in the fall of the togami family #like what better (most despairful!) way to destroy something then from the inside out #do you think when they wake up from the simulation #and realize *despite* what they did to his legacy #that the real byakuya still stood with makoto to betray the future foundation #and save the remnants #imagine the GUILT #no wonder they were the first to forgive ryota #anwyay #ultimate imposter #twogami #byakuya togami #danganronpa #super danganronpa 2: goodbye despair #sdr2

[dollya-robinprotector]

I know I have a habit of always keeping things to myself… But why am I still surprised when people don’t know what I know?

#This applies to so many things in my life #this is so incredibly unhealthy #toxic even #yet i can’t help but keep doing it #and now my friends too #those who said the loudest ‘you have to talk to us if we did something you’re not comfortable with so we can come to terms’ #turned out to be bottling the hugest amount of distraught then explode without warning #now everything is in pieces #and there’s nothing that could be mended anymore #thought we had something special you know #then why… why can you sabotage everything so quick and run away so fast #why you do this to us? #what were we to you? #You hurt us all and even yourself with your ego saying we don’t have to care about you #but what were we if not friends? #why? #please I can’t continue like this #I desperately aware that things will never be the same and I can never see you as the same friend I’ve known for years #but I still refuse to believe this is really happening #it’s like sand #the more I hold it the harder I clenched my hand they would still eventually fall through my fingers gaps #are we not friends? #why? Why you did it? #You said nothing and yet expect everyone to know how you feel and to sympathize with you and your reasons #I mean we could #we totally could if you just let us know just the tiniest hint you know? #so why things turned out this way? #where has the years gone? #will I ever stop grieving the past if things keep turning out like this? #what does the future hold anyway and where’s my motivation to grasp it?