#I mean a lot

[clown-cult]

Being a Greek myth lover nowadays is way harder than one would think, y’all…

#I’m tired #stop it #greek myth #greek mythology #greek gods #hellenism #hellenistic #anti lore olympus #lore olympus critical #tbh this is critical of a lot #I mean a lot #but LO is certainly Exhibit A

[rubusart]

#severus snape #pro snape #best friends snily #snily #lily potter #hp fanart #lily evans #severus snape art #they usually bought a lot of books #I mean A LOT #like #for Merlin’s sake Snape stop it #what are you going to do with all that books - bury me in it? #Actually yes Sirius #that’s his plan #graceful revenge👌

[gladumfdoodles]

me: oh, I haven't written that much this year, just the princess bride au and a few one shots

my ao3 statistics for 2024:

#WHAT #WHAT DO YOU MEAN 61K #anyway guys I'm a hermitcraft/life series writer and you should check out my stuff #there's a lot of it #I mean a lot #like well over 100k words now #gladumf rambles #trafficblr #hermitblr #writing #fanfic #ao3

[glitzybunny]

Melanthios Oleander! He hates nicknames but he get’s them anyway pffff, good ol’ Melan, good ol’ Mel PFFFF

I have OC’s that are in the same universe has him but they aren’t nearly as fleshed out- 

(Unless Alea is in that category I don’t even remember, I can’t keep track lol, I tacked some of them on the end as a bonus- They have like different clans or something the markings have meaning and what not)

 These assorted drawings span from like Mid December to idk jdfhbgkdjsbgjfdbg I cannot believe I never posted about him omg (there is a high possibility I have and are blind lol)

My Friend’s even drew him!!! OMFG DFHJBKJHBGJHB

#my ocs #my art #original characters #character design #I have so many OC's I haven't posted about #and so many OC's I forgot about either due to that or other reasons #it's insane #and I love these guys #this is definitely not all of the drawing of him I made either #I draw A LOT #I MEAN A LOT #and the majority of it never gets posted #most of the time only my discord server gets to see it #LMAO #DJBHFGJKHBDFG #glitzybunny #this was an era where I was obsessed with drawing horns #because I wanted to prove something #lol

[ahjuummas]

you know chanon is evil now cause he speaks an octave lower and squints his eyes a lot

#faceless love #i mean A LOT

[yangxteez]

Our bby tsundere Lee Know <3

#lee know #minho #stray kids #k-pop #bias tag #bias wrecker #i died a little #i mean a lot

[a--l--x]

testing out some new brushes and stuff, learning how to paint eyes

#very busy at the moment so not much painting #also titanfall 2 is fixed and updated so ive been playing it a lot #i mean a lot #digital art #painting #kritaart #krita

[the-cinnabunny-archives]

The Kumi Chronicles

A collection of oneshots set in the universe where Dabi and Hawks acquire a baby who accidentally builds a massive family. I mean, massive.

Kumi

The League meets Kumi

Auntie Himiko takes care of Kumi

Kumi (kind of) learns what ‘jailbreak’ means

Kumi’s parents have A Talk

A series of Kumi’s firsts

Kumi talks vigilantism

It takes a village to protect a villain

Kumi’s grandfather gets hit with a car

Mirko learns a little bit about Kumi

The Todorokis’ theories about Kumi’s parentage

Touya’s old family meets Kumi

Eraserhead talks to Kumi

Hawks tells the world about Kumi

Kumi attends a wedding

Kumi’s eighth birthday sure is something

Taiga

The news about Taiga

Minami Sakura is a good friend

The not so hellish Todoroki family (and co.)

Aizawa names his headache Kumi

Kumi’s first sports festival

The UA Demon: Vesta

Kumi adopts Eri’s sister

more to follow

#my hero academia #mha #bnha #boku no hero au #dabihawks #todobaku #shiganatsu #eraserdad #lots of OCs #I mean a lot #there’s like 30 #idk where they all came from Kumi made them it wasn’t me

[fried-manto]

still waiting for the Encanto series that was set to premiere on Disney+ on 2022

#dw jared bush #its still 2020 to me #you still got time to polish it up #make sure to give bruno a lot of screen time pls #i mean A LOT #no wait #give bruno and pepa banter screen time #let me see these two chaotic duo TALK

[tangerinequeen19]

Louis should really be doing a welfare check on us tbh

#this is a lot #i mean A LOT #to take in #i am high on sunglasses and tanks #and also on the floor

[thebigbadspike]

//I've got some whiskey 🙌 and cheap food is on the way

#and by some i mean a good amount #a lot #i mean a lot

[fiction-is-god]

Sometimes I just want to copy paste the plot of sablier and pre-sablier and blaze it and see what happens

#I mean a lot #a lot happens #hmmmmmmmmmmm #pandora hearts

[dinololcake2]

sunny x kel

#I might be a little attached to them #And by a little #I mean a lot #😌😌😌

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

#yeehaw #1k #5k #10k #posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours? #also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that! #unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference #edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense #also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags #1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now #he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic #2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign #like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock #3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing #it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is #extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once #it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life #i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about #Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect #if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it #aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week

[whats-this-mustelid]

I just think that 'animals are living intelligent creatures that have feelings and deserve to be respected' and 'when done properly farming is beneficial to both people and animals and there's nothing wrong with raising and killing animals for food, clothing, and other products' are concepts that very much can and should coexist

#i think a lot of people get too carried away in farming discourse to actually remember both of these things #some people are so aggressively anti-farming that they forget that meat and fur are necessary for some people #and that farming helps prevent overhunting of certain species #but some people are so aggressively pro-farming that they begin to think of animals as objects #that only exist to provide them with a product #animals deserve to be treated with respect and be given the best care possible while they're alive #but that doesn't mean that its a bad thing for them to die

[tearlessrain]

please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!

gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.

SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:

diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.

non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.

the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.

now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.

if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.

it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.

but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.

#I found their original stuff while I was researching various waterhorses and their folklore for no reason #because one of the characters in their original work happens to be an each uisge #and then it turned out it ALSO included a lot of figures from welsh folklore in general #so yknow if you happen to have my incredibly specific hyperfixations you'll love it but even if you don't it's great #I didn't mean to bring up phantom of the opera so much it just happens to be very relevant to a lot of my talking points #I haven't actually seen it in years