#I saw no shovel

[k7ino]

!! this is a peter strahm centric post !! yes the second one is him as marvin falsettos .whatever

#saw #saw franchise #mark hoffman #peter strahm #hoffstrahm #my art #fanart #time to go shovel snow ill be back i think #might make a saw related snow sculpture

[onewithblankets]

“what’s ur gender?” idk it was stolen by a blind pickpocket in the deep city streets in the summer of 2012

#and I saw her face #it was fucking haruhi from ouran high school host club #will wood #hand me my shovel im going in #self-ish #wwatt #will wood and the tapeworms

[the-itzy-bitzy-spider]

Not sure how I feel about this but my redneck hick boss just warned me to be careful because people are having violent anti-jew protests and I am visibly Jewish. And I mean, yeah, I know it's rough out there. But my boss is ALWAYS either high or drunk (or both) and he immediately clocked that it's not about Israel or Palestine, but about hating Jews. And I'm grateful that someone cares enough to say something, but it also means the bar is so fucking low that it'son the ground. If this guy can see it, the rest of y'all are being willfully ignorant or just flat out lying about your intentions.

#antisemitism #judenhass #i/p #y'all chucklefucks saw the bar was on the ground and brought a damn shovel #i can't take anyone seriously about their concern for palestine when the only thing they mention is how we're all evil #we need to bring the hostages home AND we need a ceasefire #we care about all human lives in this house #not just the ones like us

[fluffs-n-stuffs]

Finally catching up on the Horizons episodes I missed 👍

#fluff binges !!! #I've missed out this one and the one from last week that I'll watch once I settle my work for tonight--mainly due from a whirlwind on my en #even if it were just for two weeks I missed these sillies sm 🥺🥺🥺 #Diana was finna gonna murder that man you gotta respect that #I think I saw online that not that many people liked this episode because of the main concern that Friede usually saves the day #I do get that though I actually really enjoyed this episode because I think it's one of Roy's best battles (aside from the top one which wa #--the confrontation with the explorers in Diana's hideout) #he got a couple hits in and even thought to send in Wattrel when he realized that he'd get an advantage up in the air which was so so good #the kiddos mainly fumbled this time 'round because they forgot about the foongus/didn't have another mon to counter it #(maybe Hatena could've countered but Liko still needs to learn How to use her in battles--she does want to help though !!! with how she #--moved that shovel on her own - which I thought was a nice lil indicator of a possible battle highlighting her in the future) #I loooved that moment at the end with Diana showing the dude his true self through Bronzor's reflection that was actually very sweet #so yeah it's a simple ep but an enjoyable one - I think people gotta chill with constantly wanting peak sdkjfskndjfs #loads of Horizons content are focused on character moments and a slice of life feeling to everything which is something I love personally #this is a nice breather after the insanity of the last arc methinks hehe #anipoke #pokeani #pokemon horizons #diana pokemon #arcanine

[marvel0us1]

If you are going to Joker out concert i wanna warn you: THOSE GUYS ARE EVEN HOTTER IN REAL LIFE.

#i saw them irl and i almost died #and i wish somebody had warn me beforehand #i mean i new they are all very atractive #i've seen the edits #but i'm telling you #nothing can prepare you for the shear sexiness that gonna hit you in the face like a shovel the moment you lay your eyes on them #these guys should come with a warning #joker out #jokerout #bojan cvjeticanin #bojan cvjetićanin #nace jordan #jan peteh #jure maček #kris guštin

[pencilofawesomeness]

What is Twisted Wonderland and how would you sell someone on it?

Ohoho. Ohohohoho. Anon. You have activated my trap card >:D

(I'm about to be soooo annoying/unhinged and I'm sorry. I'm not.)

Alright, so:

Twisted Wonderland is a Disney mobile game made in Japan and co-produced by Aniplex. (Yes, that Aniplex.) I'm not here to sell you on the game, so much as the story, but it is a sort of story-book rpg with turned based fights and rhythm games, where you build character units from a gacha pull. As far as gameplay goes, it's very simple, and most of the emphasis lies on the characters and the story. And it's wonderful.

The on-the-box description of this game doesn't do it justice, per se, but that might be because Disney has a little bit of influence on it and they suck at knowing who their target audience is. It is about a high school based on classic Disney villains—but no, not in the way you're thinking, because I once made that mistake too. It is not a villain school. Rather, the world of Twisted Wonderland is its own entity, with characters built as sort of nods or foils to classic Disney characters. The world itself is somewhat built with these films as its past, and history has become so twisted (ha) that modern society views some of these classic villains as the heroes or supporting characters of their stories, and respect them as The Great Seven. (The seven in question being the Queen of Hearts, Scar, Ursula, Jafar, the Evil/Raven Queen, Hades, and Maleficent. None of them are remembered by name, though.)

The game takes place in the modern era, a society with both technology and magic. Specifically, it takes place in a magic high school called Night Raven College, an all-boys dormitory prep school where the only requirement to get in is a magic mirror that peers into your soul and determines whether or not you can a) do magic and b) kin the Great Seven. And, of course, the player character is a regular-ass human who gets isekai'd in and gets stuck with a talking magic cat direbeast named Grim.

Now. That is the general synopsis. I, on the other hand, affectionately call this the Mental Breakdown game.

See, here's the kicker. The magic system is pretty nifty; while it's functions as a standard magic-is-magic sort of soft system, it has ✨consequences✨

Magic has this byproduct called blot. It's this icky stuff that builds up when you a) use too much magic and/or b) are emotionally distressed. But less so in a "I'm panicked right now" sort of way and more so in a "I have chronic depression and/or anxiety" sort of way. And, when a mage is powerful enough, and sad boi enough, and then goes and uses way too much magic and sad boi juice in one sitting, this amazing phenomenon occurs called "overblot"—which is pretty much a super-powered evil form that turns the mage into the darkest form of themselves and then uses magic until they die.

Naturally, this happens in the game. A lot. The formula is pretty much that each "book" of the story, there is an overblot. One for each of the seven dorms, which are based off of the seven villains/the movies they come from. (And "based on" is pretty loose. Yes you can see the similarities, but these are dumb teenage boys with their own hopes and aspirations, and, sometimes, the game completely lies to you about what character they emulate the most. The guy who's Jafar? Well yes but he's actually just a really stressed out Genie stand in. The Hades guy? Whoops that's Meg. Is that a card soldier or the White Rabbit? Doesn't matter, he's got problems.)

The characters are so well written. I could gush about them forever, and they are the driving points of this plot and it means everything to me. They are some of the most traumatized and messed up individuals, but also, they are dumb teenage boys who do dumb teenage boys things. It is all incredibly well balanced and startlingly realistic for a game that amounts to beating the emotional constipation around people. Mostly because it cannot be beat out of them. The blot can, but they have to deal with their emotions with their own two hands, with varying levels of success.

And the shenanigans!!!! Oh, the shenanigans. I call this the Emotional Trauma game but I have once laughed so hard someone heard me through the floor. It's not all doom and gloom for sure. Sometimes you're watching your friend fall apart because his toxic mother instilled debilitating perfectionism and slowly start making enemies of everyone and sometimes you're sending three of the most gremlin students plus one cinnamon roll to infiltrate a gala that a bunch of weather fairies are throwing in the greenhouse because they stole your temperature regulating magestone to be shiny jewelry and you want it to stop snowing inside your dorm room. And sometimes you can have the exact same character who experienced losing his little brother right in front of him gush about a magical girl sledding anime and all of his gacha games. It is the best of both worlds.

And, that's not all! No, no. We get amazing character interactions. Not just pre-determined friend group interactions, but also random interactions. Yana Toboso (the writer/artist) really likes to stick names in a jar sometimes and make them interact and it is the best thing ever. Every single one of these characters I hold in my hands. Every single one of them gets to have their moment to shine. You can emotionally invest in all of them and be rewarded for it.

The game itself is free and pretty easy to get into. There's not really a bad power creep so you can get through it with what you got. Of course the fun part of collecting cards is that there are stories attached to them that you can watch, and those are also sources of joy. (And it's well documented, so you can find things online pretty easily to catch up and see more.)

I just think it's neat. (Read: I accidentally became wholly obsessed with this game and its characters and they are all blorbos to me.)

You should definitely fall into this rabbit hole with me :))) It's so worth it :)))

#twisted wonderland #ask #anon #I could gush about the characters individually but #we would be here all day #anyway I love them all #and this game does a surprisingly good job with mental illness and neurodivergency #despite never naming any of it #it's pretty obvious though #even if not to the character themselves all the time #also this game is absolutely gut wrenching in the most positive way #it accidentally made me reconsider my entire life and well being #when I saw a little too much of myself in one of the characters overblotting #like WHOOPS I see the issue #but that's a me thing #anyway its very good and I can easily be enabled into blabbing about it more #this is just a very general overview really #and if that's not enough then know that in the first book #I character once says “no I am not going to put down the shovel I am still DIGGING” #and that's when I knew this was going to be fun #and then the end of the book I hear the VA of Tanjiro have a full cry and I knew this was going to consume me #is a very good story and a fun lil game

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

What do you take me for. No, seriously, what you take me for? In passing, what traits do you decide are those that matter? Do they make you smile or grumble under your breath about kids these days and Internet tenderqueers? Do you account for a margin of error, do you allow even in this briefest estimate the possibility that this is just one facet of a nebulous multidimensional personhood, or would it bring you more comfort to think of me as a background character, face half-erased and one prominent feature exaggerated to distinguish me from the crowd of stick figures? If I got so close I could see the reflection in your eyes, whose reflection would it be?

Would it have my smile? Would it make me flinch?

What do you take me for

#ignore me i was in public again #touching grass is cool but being perceived as a semi-passing trans disabled person is such a mindfuck #we had the loveliest conversation and you could never guess my name right #we chatted briefly about books and you would never guess i have anything to do with sports and shoveling snow in a small village far away #i made up a job for myself on the spot to not have to explain why I'm still in highschool #because otherwise the nature of the conversation would instantly change #you smiled so warmly at the person that you saw and i wish that was truly directed at me #oleg's writing #kind of

[sprout-fics]

hello i hope you have a good night.

I was browsing the internet and I found this one I could bear this image that some of us identify with this.

The artists that draw König with a dumpy are doing more service than any US Marine tbh

#looking at you bluegiragi #I saw the ass on Bunny König you know I did #no but in the words of my grandmother: #someone got hit in the ass by a shovel #König

[actualbird]

aaron is a healer but dont forget hes still NSB

#tears of themis #aaron yishmir #ok last post of the day promise i just saw the meme and IMMEDIATELY HAD TO SJFVJFGJHVJ #tot aaron #tears of themis memes #....a shovel talk from aaron would be wild i realize

[wildflowercryptid]

i've always got to pick faves that have the dumbest fucking takes made about them i stg

#i just saw a kieran post that's making me clench my teeth so hard that they crumble into dust #stop acting like he's some evil mastermind he's a fucking 14 year old w/ self image issues & an inferiority complex not ghetsis #BE NORMAL ABOUT HIM FOR ONCE I'M FUCKING BEGGING ON MY HANDS & KNEES #the pokemon fandom wouldn't understand nuisance even if it hit them over the head with a shovel cat in the hat style #sorry if i sound bitter it's bc i'm bitter #after having gordie as my fave last gen my patience for bad faith takes on my faves has run kinda thin #i wasn't even looking through her tag tumblr just served that shit to me on a silver platter i'm so tired #mj.txt

[belethlegwen]

The Rescue - Chp 54 - That Dark Old Friend [+ Life Update]

Hey there everyone!

So sorry about the delay in updates since the Christmas season, there's a lot of shit to blame for it and I'll get into it in more detail, but in short this was a wildly busy Christmas season where I had 0 time to write between work and family stuff from like, November-end of December, and then a whole lot of house shit started happening and I've been unbelievably stressed since just before New Years.

Longer details and stuff below the cut for people who are interested, but in short the important details are:

Updates to works on AO3 may be at random times with long delays between for the coming year. Can't be sure, but for now that's how things are looking while I have way too much shit going on IRL.

Please enjoy this little chapter for now, and if you're up for a long winding journey about why it felt like all of my hair has been falling out for two weeks, meet me below <3

So the Christmas season at my job was wildly busy, on top of that there's some issues going on there between the business owner I rent space from and the person who owns the building. It's a mess, for a while it looked like/still kinda looks like we're going to have some major issues with the lot clearing what with winter being a major issue where I live in the Frozen Nor'Atlantic. That was all bad enough.

I had been told back in the fall by my landlord, who I've been renting from for 10 years now, that her mortgage was up for renewal in January and that it looked like it was going to go up a hot amount. Rates are super fucking high in Canada right now, shit's bad, the mortgage specialist at the bank I was talking to yesterday said that it's bad enough they legitimately expect the government to be stepping in soon to do something about it before it's a crisis (or more of a crisis because personally, it's already a fucking crisis and has been, but I digress). She warned me the rent was going to have to go up, I told her I expected it, I knew it was going to happen, she's been amazing to me for 10 years, if it's gotta go up it's gotta go up, I get it.

This past fall is when my partner Zip came to visit for 6 weeks and we got engaged, and when we started to plan to move them up here so we could start immigration and the like, which we were aiming to do for the beginning of this summer.

So as we're gearing up to New Year's and everything, I am expecting to deal with the start of immigration application readying, and expecting rent to increase. December 27th, I got a message from the landlord that uh, someone wants to buy the house (as an investment property and keep the renters) and despite her best efforts to try and bounce around and get a lower mortgage rate, it didn't work out and she's going to have to sell either way. So we suddenly had to get the house ready to be listed and viewed.

Viewings were fucking hell, by the way. While priority for accepting the offer was going to someone who wanted to take the property over and keep the renters in place, Real Estate agents just want the fucking sale, so being in my home while people are wandering around it scaring my cats and talking about how my bedroom was going to be the kid's room and my office was going to be turned into something else? Shit time, don't recommend. Not to mention the agents that were showing up half-hour not just away of their own scheduled appointment but a half hour outside of when viewings were actually permitted to happen.

I'm glad we have such high paying careers available for people who are, apparently, fucking illiterate, but I was getting extremely rude to agents and their desperation for a sale by the end of it. Someone tried to show up yesterday after a offer was accepted literally the night before and we sent them packing fine enough, but now anytime the rain hits the gutters too hard I think someone is walking into my home so that's fun.

We have signs all over the house about keeping doors closed to keep the cats inside, including one on the back door (where it isn't an enclosed porch) that says in extremely large lettering Access To Patio From Outside ONLY, and there were still at least two agents that opened the back door, so. Nightmares all around.

An offering has been accepted, the person who is hopefully going to buy wants to keep us as tenants, and I'm locked in a lease until later this year anyway. Things are at least, as of yesterday when I got the confirmation that an offer was in that stage, stable now that I didn't throw up this morning. Hooray! It's been hell. I can not stress enough that this has been hell.

It still leaves the later part of the year up in the air a lot, because new landlord may still want us out at the end of the lease of whathaveyou, and between now and then I am flying down to America to drive across that wild country with a car full of stuff to move my fiancee here, then we gonna get immigration rolling and the employment switchover and everything else. My Dad has been a massive rock for me during this time in terms of trying to keep me level, and as he says: "this is all just one-step-at-a-time things. You're just keeping ducks in a row".

And as I keep saying: "Yeah but I've got a lot of fuckin' ducks, man."

So that's the kind of thing that's in the air right now for me. Lots and lots of stuff going on. I'm still picking away at writing but to make things easier on myself, I'm going to not stress about any kind of schedule or the like right now and just play with whatever flows come when I have them and have the time/ability to focus on them in the few quiet moments I have between all of the other stuff.

Much love to all of you, thank you all again as always for the wonderful comments you've all left, the kudos, the people who reached out, all of it. You're wonderful <3

Take care of yourselves out there,

~ Belle

#The Rescue #AO3 Update #g/t #giant/tiny #giant tiny #gentle giantess #gt #g/t author #g/t writing #gtauthor #author thoughts #big little thoughts #IRL update #life nonsense #real estate agents have no fucking respect for your time #the one that lied to my face THREE TIMES IN A ROW in just a matter of minutes still fucking gets me #And she drove a fucking Tesla so #that says more than I'd want it to to me #'I have a written confirmation for the time' No you don't #'I wasn't expecting anyone to be home' you pulled up in front of my house while I shoveling and salting the driveway and saw me come inside #'I'm gonna step outside and call the listing agent to clear this up' she did no such thing #fucking hell man

[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

I am so glad to find your blog because as my gremlin brain need more BD1st generation contents outside of character x reader fics which I adore to the moon. I need someone who actually talk about their dynamics and posts. And your blog is very helpful in me writing for my OC who is primarily interacting with BD 1st generation due to plot and i for the love of God have difficulty how to wrap their conversation. I actually once again say thank you for writing that 17000 Takeomi post and how Wakui put him as a foil in Shinichiro. I have download it as pdf have make notes meanwhile I re read the manga chapters. Thank you so much. You are very big help ✨

I'm getting compliments in a such a little amount of time, I'm not going to survive

Seriously, thank you hjvbhvdjkl ☺

I'm very happy that what my little mind find and come up with can be helpful to other people. The fact you downloaded the Takeomi post is going to make me blush fr, it's such an honor (I don't consider it my best-done post but it's my lil pride still)

If you ever want to ask or discuss something about them (or TR in general), feel free to! I'd probably take some time to answer bc irl life love interfering with what I want to do but I'd gladly do it when I'd have the time!

#i could talk about Shinichiro and Takeomi forever. one brainrot away from being the same with Wakasa and Benkei #just need to find the time and energy and then.. and then.. perhaps ill reach enlightenment #i love them lots but still havent dig much with my shovel. to be fair i agree with the general consensus that i saw so #yeah #i am once again begging for more information about black dragon first gen. a spin-off to but i rather not get too delusional #*a spin-off too #answering asks #✨

[exponentiate]

[incoherent screaming about Exordia]

#the thing about it is that actually #much like Baru Cormorant #I don’t even particularly want to scream about any of the events #like it’s not Action Packed in the sense that I’m like OH MY GOD I CANNOT WAIT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT I HAVE THEORIES #like it has so far been Packed with Action #but Action like someone hitting you with a shovel #but like if you saw them with the shovel and you were like hm whatcha doing with that shovel #you know? #anyway I’m really into it #the worst thing is that earlier hunter and I were talking about something unrelated #and the phrase Philosophical Body Horror was used #and I had the though: you know actually I bet that’s a thing that’s going to kind of happen in the book #you know what I’ll even tag it #exordia #seth dickinson

[rapidhighway]

what do you mean i cant just print out a gif and stick it to my wall

#i would print out the jesse shovel gif ngl #i keep thinking about it since i saw it

[watermelinoe]

you may fascinate a woman by taking her to a beach to gather fossilized shark teeth and other assorted fossils

#i know this to be true bc i saw a lesbian couple and one of them had a shovel sifter #''which one of you shovels and which one of you looks through the shovelful for fossils'' #this is actually a fantastic date idea btw #if you love watching women shovel and/or women watching you shovel.... #i'm just sayin

[oatbugs]

. anyway after writing the tags 4 this post i told my research partner i will no longer follow his dreams lmao. still helping w it but i need to engage in research that i find satisfying

#i think ive been waiting for something for a while and i will spend the next year waiting for it too #i thought i felt panic but i have decided to read it as anticipation. the thrill of rejection or of moving forward or the latter as #a result of the former. i left you with your backpack unattended in the cafe because on fridays i am done #putting my life on hold for another whim-without-a-warning #this cross country service is delayed by 26 minutes so i will grab a bucket and start shovelling the water away from the tracks #everyone is moving on in some different way and im sorry if you think im mean for telling you getting so drunk will disable you from #recording your brainwaves effectively but it seems like you think i owe you an awful lot. one year ago in four days my friend got me hegel's #science of logic for my birthday and i thanked him for proving to me the existence of things this is what i do he said #and then he will spend the rest of his life breathing philosophy and i dont want to spend the rest of my life #breathing someone elses dreams i wait for the moment of realisation. this is now a 30 minute delay. i was supposed to worship beautiful #things and that is what i will do. i think i have a best friend and i know i have a lover and i know to #restrict my love the way you have. im sorry. i hope you understand when i tell you. i am now sitting on the floor in the luggage section of #this incredibly busy train and i saw a photo of her with her boyfriend and her hair in braids smiling like a fool this is the #except a week ago you told me you almost took too much this time to live. you are a beautiful girl with a beautiful soul and you know you #have already changed the world and it somehow was not enough. now you are smiling without any makeup on next to him #and yesterday you cried in an airport in the states when you were too full of love. this is the most extraordinary human being i have met. #tomorrow he heads off to princeton while his best friend heads to harvard. he goes there to make the world a better place. he is the most #extraordinary person i have ever met. the issue with human beings is that we are incredibly good at almost dying and keeping going. #you try to kill yourself and publish a paper and give a talk. you negotiate the seperation between your own parents and submit another #phd application. i am surrounded by extraordinary people with extraordinary minds and incredibly broken happy hearts. #i only see you smile when you talk about robotics. i still dont know how manifolds work and i love the concept anyway. i dont know. #i do know that i refuse to live unsatisfied. #you can keep drinking. im going to drink this reality up #i think i was a horrible person and i refuse to engage with that mentality again no matter what it takes.