#am i too late to jump on this bandwagon

[usedteamachinekillsagain]

It's been years and I still cannot believe Mario Kart made a track in tribute to Goncharov (1973)

#am I too late to jump on this bandwagon? #goncharov (1973) #unreality #mario kart #unrelated but tick tock clock is one of my all time favourites

[finnicus-gayicus]

Fuck it, YOLO

When there is not enough content about a rare pair, you make some yourself.

#jamitch #twdg mitch #twdg james #i am trash #gimme me emotionally confused gays #there is almost no content of them? #fine i’ll do it myself #i know im late #im so late #like six years too late #better to jump on the bandwagon now #i blacked out on google docs and woke up with 150 pages done #ill post the link later #jitch

[thatanimewriter]

COULDA, WOULDA, SHOULDA, DIDN'T (ALTERNATE ENDING).

➳ synopsis: aventurine has never lost. that's what he tells people when he makes bets and in passing conversation about gambling. but every night when he lays in bed, he will always think about the day he almost lost you. angst version.

➳ character/s: aventurine

➳ warnings: 2.1 spoilers, aventurine backstory spoilers, aventurine real name spoilers, mentions of death, slavery (it's not romanticised, you're safe-), mentions of torture, blood, hurt/comfort, marriage, sleeping together (literally), reader described as beautiful

➳ word count: 0.7k

➳ notes: here's the happy version for those who were asking for it LMAO also i jumped on the bandwagon of fic writers inspired by aventurine official art-

𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 / 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭  / 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 / 𝐰𝐢𝐩 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭

aventurine will never forget the day he met you. he himself didn't know much better than you did as you ran for your lives as children, but he knew he never wanted to see you like that ever again. that night, he thinks he fell in love.

even with the heavy metal cuffs crushing your wrists, he thought you were beautiful. in the most horrible circumstances, you found solace in each other's arms. aventurine made it a habit to kiss your brand mark and then your forehead as he let you use his arm as a pillow. any screams of pain either of you made as you were roughly dragged from your cell to undergo 'disciplining' haunt your minds in the rare moments of emptiness.

the day aventurine was bought away by jade, he's never felt fear quite the same as looking back and seeing you be dragged away by your cuffs, calling out for him as he left while you were pulled further down the abyss of pain and agony.

"i'll come back for you, wait for me!" he yelled behind him. he was desperate, he didn't know if he would ever get to come back for you and ultimately, that scared him more. the idea that his last interaction with you was filled with despair only fueled his desire to rise to the top. he would free himself and ensure that when (if) he freed you, you would have everything you needed immediately.

aventurine remembers the day he came back for you. he'd beat up a lot of guards, and possibly killed a couple, only to find you unconscious and bleeding onto the cold concrete floor in your cell. scrambling to his knees, he held you in his arms and bolted out the door, desperately praying to whatever god would listen that you were alive.

he lived a nightmare as you recuperated in hospital, but nothing came close to making him cry since leaving you than holding your hand and kissing you all over again as if it was your first time. each night as he slept in the chair beside your hospital bed, he wondered what would've happened if he never got to you or was too late.

when he proposed to you, it felt like a fever dream. when he woke up the next morning to see you beside him, ring glinting in the morning sun and cheek pressed into a silk pillowcase rather than dusty concrete. he smiled in adoration, pulling you closer by the waist and chuckling at your sleepy whine of protest before burying your head into his chest and falling back asleep. taking your hand in his, he kissed the ring he'd given to you as a token of your engagement, resting his chin atop your head.

his phone rang and he sighed, blindly reaching behind him to check who was calling him. dr. ratio.

groggily, he answered. "you're calling early, don't you know i'm spending my paid leave with my wonderful fiance?"

aventurine could practically hear the eye roll from dr. ratio over the phone. "i am well aware, i just thought you would want to be informed that i have located your old master that was missing from the premises when you were searching for them," he said, probably polishing one of his marble busts to occupy himself.

"...keep an eye on him. i'll figure out what to do with him when i get more sleep." and with that, aventurine hung up the phone. he returned his attention to you and caressed his thumb over your hip as he pondered this newfound information.

he could've lost you if he didn't get there when he did. he's grateful for that, because he can have you by his side forever and a little bit more. he would've come looking for you to discover you'd died if he didn't push himself harder than recommended to rise to the top. he should've lost you, for that is what the sick gods on some alternate plane of reality deemed reasonable for his kind.

he didn't.

#honkai star rail #hsr #aventurine #hsr aventurine #honkai star rail x reader #hsr x reader #aventurine x reader #hsr aventurine x reader #honkai star rail imagines #hsr imagines #aventurine imagines #hsr aventurine imagines

[friend-of-giants]

Am I too late to jump on the Barbie mugshot bandwagon? Yes? Too bad. You get a Telwren version. I didn't intend to color this, either, it just happened.

Anyway, when I first saw this meme I thought it would be perfect as an alternative ending to chapter 10. If you've read it, you know.

#i kinda hate myself #barbie mugshot meme #teldryn sero #wren indoran #theyre criminals sometimes #especially her #shitpost art

[goosewriting]

i wanted to be one of the cool kids and jumped onto the bandwagon sdfsdfs i present to you: the spidergoose 🪿

sorry it’s kinda quick and dirty but i really needed to get this one out of my system lol blue and orange is one of my fav colour combos so ofc i spent way too much time researching spiders and looking at an unsettling amount of images until i found one that had a colour scheme i liked lol also totally not me outing myself with how short i am irl what are you talking about (🥲)

imagine being a thug in a dark alley at night and there’s a voice from the darkness going “noot noot motherfluffer” and they knock you out with a flip kick lmao also consider this: some person going to the park and feeding bread to the ducks and stuff and spidergoose appears from thin air going “hey bread is actually harmful for the birds; try seeds or peas instead. but i can eat bread. give me the bread (threat)” xDD

take these close-ups as well aaaand now i‘m off to bed because i stayed up late to finish this, which i‘ll definitely regret in the morning hah

#goose honks #goose scribbles #spidergoose #the spot my beloved<33 #atsv #across the spider verse #spidersona #feel free to draw them btw #with your own spidersona too! #and tag me i’d love to see <3

[stephenjaymorrisblog]

Warsaw

Gaza City

While Gaza Burns

(A different take on the Middle East)

Stephen Jay Morris

10/10/2023

©Scientific Morality

            If you should come across two bears in the wild, fighting each other, you best run away as fast as you can. Regardless of which bear wins, you too will die, if you stick around.

This adage I heard many years ago. What does it mean? It means that when two evil forces are fighting each other, you don’t have to take a side. Let’s say that White nationalists are having a war with the Taliban. Would I support either of the two?

So, now—let me get this out the way, Okay? Fuck Hamas! Fuck Benjamin Netanyahu! Got it? Hamas wants to make Palestine an Islamic state. Netanyahu wants to make Israel a Jewish Theocracy. He wants to get rid of all Arabs living in Israel. He is a Jewish separatist; a lukewarm Rabbi Kahani.

As it stands now, Israel is a secular democracy. The Likud Party is a war mongering, right wing party, one of the many parties in Israel. That is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party. They are a bigger threat than Hamas. Ask the thousands of Israeli protesters who wanted him ousted as Prime Minister. He wants to weaken the Israeli Supreme Court. Essentially, he wants to be Israel’s dictator.

Meanwhile, in Gaza City. Hamas—the flunkies of Iran—is putting innocent Palestinians at risk by breaching Israel’s border and kidnaping Israeli women and children, beating elderly Jews, and raping female Jews. Oh, did you see the video of a jihadist trying to behead a Jew with a backhoe? He couldn’t get the job done. I guess he couldn’t find an ax. I saw this video on mainstream media. Man, Israeli propaganda is a ratings grabber! What about the videos on how when an Israeli bomb falls on a building in Gaza, it crushes the occupants to death. The B.B.C. might show you that one.  Yeah, those videos shown on major networks are supposed to enrage you, to make you think, “Those Palestinians are vicious animals! Kill them all!”

Those videos don’t faze me at all. I know war propaganda when I see it. Doesn’t mean I am a heartless sociopath. I am just a cynical, 69-year-old with a callous heart after having seen how propaganda works.

Now I want to say a few words about the Authoritarian Left who support this Islamic group. Are you fucking nuts!?! The Left is supposed to be anti-religion, no matter whom they are! A lot of Tankies and Trots support Islamic groups because they represent oppressed, Third World people opposed to American Imperialism. Are you fucking stupid!? Islamic groups will oppress their own people! As an Anti-Authoritarian Leftist, I hate the religious Right, whether they be Jewish, Christian, Islamic or even Hindu!

You American, Right wing Chuds, are a hopeless case. Of course, you support Israel! In your Bible it says that Israel is where Jesus will be when he returns. It will be the headquarters of Christianity and Israel will become be a Christian state. Oh, speaking of Right wing dumbasses, Donald Trump couldn’t stand the fact that Israel was getting all the news coverage lately. So, he had to insert himself by jumping on the Congressional Republicans’ bandwagon and declaring that President Biden is at fault for inflaming the Israel/Palestine war.  Shut up, Donald! Go away!

How will this conflict end? I don’t know! However, nothing good will come out of it, of that I am certain. Both sides will lose. Oh, one question I have: What happened to Israel’s Iron Dome? Somebody forgot to plug it in?  I wouldn’t feel too sorry for Israel; they do have the Nuclear Bomb.

I said it before, and I’ll say it again: Being Jewish is not my ideal race for being. I wish I had been born Italian; Irish; Shit! Even Polish Catholic! Am I self-hating Jew? No, not really. In the early 20th Century, in New York City, there were Jewish Anarchists’ newspapers written in Yiddish! That’s the Jewish identity I crave. Did you know there are more Jews in the United States than in Israel? There are 7,300,000 in the U.S. and 7,106,000 in Israel. I guess that this diaspora is too cool to Aliyah to the holy land of Israel. What does that mean? Look it up.

P.S. Dear Lefties: Stop calling Israel an Apartheid state! Palestinians are a nationality, not a race of people. Racially, Arabs and Jews are Semitic. As far as Indigenous Americans go, they were and are victims of American apartheid, as are Mexicans, Asians, and Blacks. But, Israel and Arabs? No such deal.

חופש לכל האנשים על פני כדור הארץ

#stephenjaymorris #american politics #youtube #anti zionisim #israel #free palestine #jewish history #anarchopunk #anarchocommunism #anarcho capitalism #Anarcho-feminism

[hihopelessromantics]

The Learner Learns Nothing

In which the writing of Seven Deadly Sins expects us to believe that Merlin, the glutton for knowledge, is incapable of learning what really matters over the course of her 3,000 year journey. 

I wrote this inspired by @zeldriszezinho‘s comment on how Merlin was able to reactivate Elizabeth’s curse. The implication that Merlin at some point during the 3000 years gained the ability to break the curse and could have done it AT ANY TIME from that point forward absolutely blew my mind. 

If so canon Merlin is DEAD to me I swear that is so WRONG.

I've never seen a master manipulator character written like this before and I'm not even sure if this is a good way to write a trick villain or whatever the hell she was supposed to be. It sure is baffling so nakaba got that right. I was just as shocked and disbelieving as the sins were. Still am. Regardless of how well it fits her “canon” character and personality it is NOT consistent with the found family themes 😭 Plus it would make her RIDICULOUSLY overpowered... how would she have as much power as a god without serious consequences? And literately no one noticed, ever? Britannia started literately falling apart when Meliodas had that much magical power.

You know what I think I will jump on the hating canon Merlin bandwagon with you zeldriszezinho. I am stitching the Merlins from fanfictions together to make a better, healthier one as a present to the sins for all they've gone through together.

Merlin is just - ugh - it’s too sad. Everyone else gets to be, as the people who remember English class would say, a round character, including many of the antagonists! Tons of minor characters get memorable moments of growth, but Merlin, one of the major characters? She stays static for the most part. Trapped as a plot device until the very end. The narrative leaves her alone, torn away from her found family by an insane twist that I don’t quite understand.

 It’s like Merlin never gave a second thought to how the sins are acting. Ten years out of 3,000 isn’t a lot but someone as smart and observant as Merlin should have seen the way the other sins treat her. They knew close to nothing about her, and she constantly isolated herself emotionally and physically from them, but they never made a move to exclude her from the group, or pry too much, or question her origins. They just loved her unconditionally even though she wouldn’t let them in. There was so much raw potential for her character to have a unique and complicated bond with the sins as a group. Maybe it should have been the wakeup call she needed that the unhealed child inside of her could still learn to receive love. That it wasn’t too late to have a life outside her chaos obsession. Canon left us with a pretty unsatisfying answer as to why she acted the way she has. Like hmmm. Really?

Canon Merlin, you had 3,000 years to decide whether to seek help for your childhood trauma and learn how to love in a somewhat healthy manner and you want me to believe you didn't even try that route??? And that on top of that you effectively prolonged the torment of the only two people shown to love you unconditionally? Whom you supposedly loved in return?? Uhhh heyo! I don't believe you. And also I am holding a sword to your throat getting your shit together is no longer optional.

Sure Merlin can be seen as a character study of how obsession can cause someone to forsake all other aspects of life. We saw it in Frankenstein - saw what became of that whole spectacle and how quickly the perpetrator learned that they didn't actually want [insert here], they were just looking for that basic hierarchy of human needs and weren't ready for the responsibility that comes when using the pursuit of scientific advancement as a substitute for, idk, I think in Merlin's case it would be coming to terms with essentially being treated as a weapon due to her abilities. (meliodas and Elizabeth parallel anyone?? We were robbed of three child soldiers learning to love together and be a family smh thanks a lot gods ) anyway back on topic. What Merlin and Frankenstein have in common throughout their story there are a lot of opportunities that they didn't take, and friends that they kept brushing off, never confiding in them until it was crisis time. Frankenstein's story is a tragedy - he keeps abandoning the rational thought and commitment to ethics that make a good scientist. Any second during his story, while he was neglecting correspondence from friends, neglecting to sleep and eat and pay attention to his needs as a person that the obsession had tossed in the trash bin, he was free to say “hey actually I CAN spare a second from my neverending workload to breathe and think about what's important to me. Why I'm doing this? And how I could do it better. Have I learned anything in this latest deep dive into knowledge?” Instead he is ruled by his emotions, which in the end, keep him from properly emphasizing with other people and actually achieving what he wanted to do. I don't even remember if Frankenstein KNEW what he wanted to get out of his experiments. Probably not considering this the way he immediately freaked out when it actually WORKED. And then it was crisis time, so he goes to his friends, but does he confide in them what really happened? What part he had in it and how he feels about the whole thing? Don't think so. So they just think he's depressed as fuck and going a little crazy. They're completely unable to help him in any substantial way. 

We see this with Merlin. She has to have complete control of the situation at all times so she tells no one. If she can get this ONE THING right finally everything will fall into place. That must be what she thought. But what the hell? Knowledge is and has always been collaborative. We know she was never learning just to learn or for the love of it - it was a poor substitute for the love and attention a child needs to grow up with a good understanding of how to pursue fulfillment. So she was always aiming to accomplish something with her knowledge and all around her were people working together to accomplish something. Hell, she worked together with the sins to accomplish her goal. 3,000 years. She stopped her own time. Physically, right? Or was it mental too? The science there doesn't seem to work with the brain literately rewiring itself as it gets new experiences so. We're just meant to assume she spent 3,000 years trapped in the same mindset while traveling all over Britannia and interacting with God knows how many people. Just out of pure necessity to survive and obtain the information and tools she needs she would have to interact with a LOT of people. That's not even mentioning the people she did research on. And we're expected to believe she didn't learn anything that would make Merlin- smart, curious, motivated little Merlin who tricked two GODS on the OFF CHANCE that what they give her will satisfy the hole in her heart - didn't learn enough about human behavior to give abandoning love and true connection a second thought? Or even TRY to engage meaningfully with anyone? It's not like she had never made that connection with anyone before. What about Meliodas? What about 106 Elizabeths? 

This twist that Merlin might have been manipulating the Sins all along, rather than blowing the reader’s mind with the clues and clever foreshadowing that were there all along, blows a hole in the overarching themes in the story. Merlin’s betrayal is a catastrophe of the highest proportions because it calls into question EVERYTHING they learned up until that point. What she did would cause extensive trauma to everyone involved - all this time they believed that hey, maybe fate brought us together, wasn’t it so good that we finally found people that could understand us? And now they are questioning all of it. So yeah, emotionally, the twist does what it is supposed to. It hurts. But... it doesn’t make sense.  Being in the Seven Deadly Sins causes every other member to learn how to reconcile with themselves, their pasts, their feelings, and their relationships. Why is Merlin the exception? This feels like disappointing writing and a huge waste of character potential. 

It's not like abandoning all emotion and other desires was remotely necessary for Merlin to achieve her goal. She's had fun along the way and that's shown to us. Why are we given ‘i used to have a crush on Meliodas’ as a reason why she would give up on connection or whatever? Merlin that was literally 3,000 years ago when you were 12(?). You didn't talk to anyone about THEIR childhood crushes in all that time? And it's not like Meliodas ever stopped loving or caring about her. Even after getting his emotions stolen bit by bit he only abandons her and the rest of the sins out of necessity. Here she's got a good friend to confide in. And he's EXACTLY the kind of friend she needs if she wants to resurrect an old god! Meliodas is trusting, supportive, willing to Go the Distance for anything he believes in, AND desperate enough to consider extreme courses of action in order to break his and Elizabeth's curses.

All Merlin has to do to potentially get Mel on board is say, "Hey, some of my personal research has turned up something I think you might be interested in. The existence of an old god that the Supreme Deity and Demon King locked away because they feared her power and didn't want her to interfere with their goals.  I've been curious about rumors like these since I was a child, and now I have finally found enough solid evidence to confirm that this god exists. It stands to reason that such a god would be able and even willing to help with the curse on you and Sis-sis. Not a timely solution, but a good plan B or C. I'll be looking into it, and I'll let you know if I find anything that could help you."

What's Meliodas going to say to that? Probably, "Thanks, Merlin!"

He was not afraid of potentially starting an "age of Chaos" when his father told him that is what killing him would mean. Chaos is a mysterious entity of both darkness and light, good and evil, creation and destruction. Previously worshipped by goddesses and feared by the demons. Its agenda, if it even has one, is even more mysterious than Merlin's was before the big reveal. As far as I can infer, Chaos (without the influence of fantasy racism) seems just as likely to bring balance as it could bring upheaval. Something that Britannia desperately needs. And since Chaos is the mother of life in this universe, why would it destroy everything it has created?

It makes sense that if he had known, Meliodas would have been wary of this god, and warned Merlin to be careful, but in the end... wouldn't he have as much reason to help his friend as he would to stop her? Why continue on to release Chaos after the curse is already broken? Fair question. But why not?

Meliodas just wants to live in peace with his loved ones. If releasing Chaos means an "age of Chaos" will occur, well, that just means going back to the beginning, before the eternal game between the Supreme Deity and Demon King. So. The same unknowns that he's faced in his life thus far, except the two dictators manipulating everyone into an eternal war are replaced with the creator of life itself? That would actually sound pretty good to Meliodas, right?

Chaos is disappointed with the weakness of humanity but acknowledged it as, hehehe religious parallels my beloved, "the race most like itself, that embodies its values." Now, this could be 4+ years of religion classes talking but Chaos's previous goal before the Holy War seems to have been to create a race "in its own image." And it did. The question is, now what? I doubt this god is capable of being truly evil because why would evil create creatures with moral compasses? Evil cannot create good and vice versa. We the audience know what happened in Four Knights of the Apocolypse thus far regarding Chaos's preference to humans, but Meliodas and the other Sins have no reason to suspect the entity of chaos would ever go full genocide mode on its own creations. A god that creates all life according to a set of intricate rules (physics, etc.) tends to have patterns of behavior that make sense. Creating everything just to kill it all off doesn't really make sense.

Merlin could damn well have told the Sins, or even just Meliodas, that her goal is to resurrect the original god of their universe that was locked away by the Demon King and the Supreme Deity, who play with people's lives for fun and obviously freaking suck - without making herself look like she has a) gone off the deep end or b) working toward an evil goal that they should immediately put a stop to by any means necessary.

Instead, she just tricks Meliodas and the Sins outright in the most painful way possible. Wtf?

She doesn’t have a solid reason to hurt the people who love her like no one ever has. Who, in their own messy way, have treasured her like her own parents and her people never did.

The twist that her true goal all along was to release Chaos would still work, both as a plot mechanic and for shock value. What’s not shocking about your friend actually being serious about releasing an ancient god, and doing it so soon after Britannia was nearly destroyed by a Holy War? The Sins would have been shocked and hurt all the same with how she orchestrated them coming together, trained Arthur for this exact purpose, and prompted Meliodas to confront and kill his father - all things which were ultimately for the best for all of the races, but with Merlin’s questionable choices, involved a lot more trauma for everyone. Hell, if Merlin got a character arc like the others, the Chaos reveal would actually hurt the Sins MORE. Instead of realizing they didn’t really know her, they would be realizing that the sense of warmth and belonging and the bonds they had forged with each other hadn’t reached Merlin’s heart. That whatever effort they had put into bonding with her wasn’t enough, it didn’t help her the way she had - the way they thought she had helped them. That they had been oblivous to their friend’s suffering and emptiness, that she didn’t trust them the way they trusted her, etc, etc. A deeper and more cutting reveal if you asked me. 

As it is, the reveal makes it so that they didn’t lose a friend and member of their found family. They lost a person who was just... there. Forgotten until it was strictly neccessary for her to be there. Who never truly cared (?). While that’s sad, it’s... not what it could be if she had gotten the chance to genuinely be a part of the sins, physically and emotionally. 

It seems to me that in the moment, Meliodas doesn't seem overly concerned about Chaos. He's angry that Merlin would be willing to blindside and manipulate him, making light of a friendship that's spanned over 3,000 years, for the sake of something that might not even exist. He's angry she seems to value that over everything she already has. Is this the only thing she truly cared about? Was he and his loved ones nothing but pawns to her, just as he was a pawn to his father? Same with the other Sins - they don't know what's going on, but they are angry and hurt at the prospect that their friendship with Merlin was a lie.

THIS, Merlin could have avoided entirely! She is an intelligent, powerful woman - a genius according to some of the most powerful demons alive - and she has BETTER OPTIONS! Choices. By all means, she could have had wonderful, meaningful times with the Sins for all of their journey together, and kept them as friends afterward, maybe finding true fulfillment in the process. All without giving up her pursuit of releasing Chaos. 

She could have learned. Why didn’t she? 

#merlin nnt #merlin #nnt spoilers #sds spoilers #seven deadly sins spoilers #nanatsu no taizai spoilers #no disrespect to the author but WHY #ah yes the favorite manga - love it but also hate it! #Merlin in canon is literately the same as Merlin from the Seven Deadly Schmucks. we need to help her #I'm scared to see what nakaba does to merlin in four knights of the apocolypse

[dimpledpran]

2022 brought a lot of incredible moments. But it did give almost an equal amount of highs and lows. So glad that it is over, and here’s to hoping that 2023 brings nothing but the best. Thank you to everyone who has made this past year more bearable for me. Whether you are someone I’ve talked to on here, made content that I enjoyed seeing on my dash, or reblogged stuff from me with wonderful commentary, thank you for making my time on this godforsaken beloved website more fun!

Since life has been getting busy, it has been harder to keep track of content and I am sure I have missed so many creations lately. And so, I am also jumping on the bandwagon to have a tracking tag. I will be tracking #lightmiup (light me up). It is kinda a play on my name, and with the meaning since my name means light. So feel free to use that to tag me in your creations.

Will reblog: ~ Asian media (series and movies). Mostly BLs, but not entirely limited to that. ~Preferably stuff that I have watched, but I am also open to more recs ~ Asian artists (mostly CQL cast, Ohm, Nanon, Jeff Satur, Indian personalities) ~ Countries: Thailand, India, China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore

Will not reblog: ~ reposts, whitewashed content, brownfaced content, discourse

With that, I am also going to take a month off from Tumblr. Shall spend January introspecting and planning out my goals for the year. My blog will be going down memory lane, and will run on queue with my fave posts from 2022, and if I get tagged in stuff. Though I might pop in a few times with some 10YT sets if the feels get a bit too much.

Here are my top 10 series/movies I watched in 2022 (starts from tomorrow) and Fave Creations (MDZS/CQL Faves , Bad Buddy Faves, Other Faves) in the mean time.

Wishing everyone a wonderful 2023 filled with lots of love, joy, peace, positivity, success and good health! 💙

Take care and see yall around! Mimi :)

Tagging a few people to spread the word : @aheartfullofjolllly​ @carloslouwho​ @eohachu @fangrui @gege​ @highwarlockkareena @i-got-the-feels @isvisomewhere @kaajukatli @lan-xichens @liyazaki @machikeita @manhasetardis @nanons @nongnaos @nyx4 @oswlld @phukaoapologist​ @rinielle @talays-portkey @seawherethesunsets @yibo-wang​ @yilinglaozu

#not sure how well the tracking tag will work but giving it a go #once again thank you to everyone and happy new year!! #mine #2022 recap

[tilda-rothery]

Jumping on the hicsqueak bandwagon five years too late and finding myself struggling to write British characters, even though I myself am British. Like wut?! (I'm definitely overthinking)

Then asking myself have I even written English characters before, turns out yes I have.... Over a decade ago (I have been out of retirement for a year now, thank you Dovesso!) and very fleetingly.

It's probably all down to me watching far too many American TV shows and falling in love with certain ships...

Even so, I'm having far too much fun figuring out these one-shots I have crammed in my head! How British dare I be....?

#honestly not sure how to tag this #ramblings of a british person #new hyperfixation #writing english characters #hicsqueak - five years too late

[ladylucksrogue]

[Get to Know Me Game]

Thanks for the tag @impossibleprincess35 and @yourfavoritefridge 🩵🩵

Last Song: Cruel Summer. I have a confession to make....I am notorious for stubbornly rejecting trendy stuff/people/books etc just because they are trendy. Eventually I come around and jump on the bandwagon, at least with some things... deserving things...like Hunger Games or Taylor Swift. I will admit, I don't like the song Anti-Hero because they blasted the thing on the radio every fucking day non stop. The first time I heard it, a few lyrics hit me the wrong way and my kid was like, this song is a like a fever dream, I had to agree...but...besides that song and Teardrops on my Guitar, her music is actually good. I've come to the dark side, I'll admit it. I still can't listen to Teardrops to on my guitar because it came out the year before I had a really nasty breakup with my ex and his name is in the song. During my break up it was on every station, I swear...ugh... Moving on... Cruel Summer is actually epic...and well, I've been kind of on a fanfiction binge lately, was reading some Obikin and just had the epiphany that the song fits some messy modern au so well…

Favorite Color: blue and green. I love bright colors though, like the ones most people hate. Like bright neon green or burnt orange or that weird ochre yellow color. I don't wear said colors, I wear a lot of grey and black, but I like those colors for decorations.

Last TV Show: CSI Las Vegas. Hubs has been binging early seasons. Shrugs. I usually half pay attention half read. It makes him happy.

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Savory. I love stuff like chips or fries. Beef jerky, cheese, etc. I have to watch it a bit, as too much salt is not good for my kidneys or blood pressure but everything in moderation. I love spicy when it's actually done right, like the amazing Chinese restaurant in NYC that had real Sichuan chili oil, so good. Or a good vindaloo curry. Sweet stuff is not really my thing. I stopped drinking anything with sugar (non alcoholic anyway) 3 years ago and now everything with a lot of sugar tastes too sweet. Except chocolate. Chocolate is always ok.

Relationship Status: Happily married. My husband just sent me the link to one of the black series Obi-Wan figures I don't have, telling me he took care of it 💖 He enables my obsession 😆 Nah but for real, he's the best for so many reasons.

Last Google: That was a whole odyssey…the doctor's office fax number so that my insurance could fax a confirmation of insurance for my son. His card was apparently expired and I spent the whole morning playing phone tag to get it sorted.

Current Obsession: Lindt Christmas chocolate, Kenzo’s Cedre secrets perfume, my new flannel blanket, Book Lovers by Emily Henry (thanks again for the rec @yourfavoritefridge I'm halfway through and not sure what to do with my life when it's over, I'm so invested 😂), Seal Team, scarves, and of course Star Wars.

Open tag to whoever wants to participate! I'll go ahead and tag @sendpseuds @quigonsjeans @piccolaromana @elwenyere @spectral-musette

#ask me questions #ask game

[simpingwriter]

So. For those who know how I am...severe procrastination, loss of motivation and so on...feel free to ignore me rant in a moment.

For those that don't, BE MY GUEST IN THIS IDEA. : D

Cal Kestis Fanfic.

I am jumping on the bandwagon like...way too late, with Survivor about to be dropped any week now (and tbh, I prefer Fallen Order Kestis...older Cal isn't my Cal.). But I only just recently have been blessed with enough money for a Gaming Laptop, my very first, and Fallen Order was on Sale, I am a Star Wars fan, so it had to be done.

To my Fanfic idea:

Cal runs a mission on (currently still unnamed planet), runs across a sudden spike in enormous Force Energy, for like...a split second, but even that was enough to take his attention off his initial target (He sees weird stuff or chest, he goes for it, Magpie Cal)

The Empire ofc also notices that and is on the Force Sensitive in minutes, causing Cal to run into a wall of Stormtroopers.

In an act of "safe the idiot from getting himself killed", they end up as a team for his mission Yada Yada Yada.

Goes on for a for a while, she joins the Mantis Crew, I might, depending on my mood, skip a big part of that bonding time since that ISN'T the main attraction.

It is...Inquisitor Cal Kestis. Yes I know, I am so original, give me an Oscar rn...

The main Character is already a more neutral Force Sensitive, to a point she doesn't just question the Dark Side, but also the Light, the one she's supposed to serve. But that's something she keeps in her background monolog, never let's anybody openly know until later.

She's basically a Grey Jedi...well, Padawan. They both were never knighted before the Purge after all.

Anyway yeah, tldr:

Begins as Basic Cal Kestis x Force Sensitive OC

Ends in a chaos of "What is even right anymore?" Inquisitor Cal Kestis x Inquisitor OC

I will try to add Smut, if we even get that far

NEWCOMERS, DO NOT LOOK AT MY FORMER WORK. DO NOT SPOIL YOURSELF FOR THE MISERY THAT HAS TO ULTIMATELY HAPPEN.

EDIT FEW SECONDS AFTER POSTING:

I am literally hanging myself on ONE song for my obsession, so it would probably fit best to listen to while reading (if I make something)

In the name of Love

Both the normal version and the slowed one. Gives me tingles for my pairing.

#Star Wars Fallen Order #cal kestis x reader #cal kestis #Cal Kestis x OC #this is a mistake #Someone stop me from making myself miserable #fanfic ideas #author rant #rant #inquisitor cal kestis #inquisitor cal kestis x OC #inquisitor cal kestis x reader

[lostmykeysie]

hii i’m not trying to pressure you or anything but i love tml so much and i’ve noticed it’s private now i don’t really know how that works but i’m just wondering if you dropped it or the last chapter is coming no pressure or rush xx

HELLO sorry i'm so so late!!! your question has already been answered because final chapter and epiloggy one of TML has been posted woooo, epiloggy two is being written as we speak!!!

i changed all my works to private because of the AI thing - i actually can't remember the details and i can't find the article either, but essentially the idea is if work is private than AI can't use it? i'm assuming this is so AI bots aren't ripping off your fics but in all honesty i just did it without thinking about it? a lot of my writing pals did it so i just jumped on that bandwagon baby but i'm sure there's a reason? in fact i am 1000% sure there are plenty of well written posts about it on here and i am too lazy and useless to cite them sorry

hopefully that didn't cause any issues for anyone - i didn't even think about the fact you wouldn't be able to read it without an account, although to be fair i had no idea there was a waiting list for accounts on ao3 because i'm being serious when i tell you i am really quite dumb, i am incredibly oblivious, and i also have a worrylingly-poor memory. if anyone wants me to put it back on public for a short while so folks can finish/download it, i'd be more than happy to

#someone asked me a q #lovely wonderful anon #chimaera & the wolf #the missing link #sorry these are such late responses i was offline being useless

[unioncolours]

I've been thinking a lot about Inojin lately and genderfluid/cis. What part of Inojin do you think makes him seem more feminine/genderfluid than others in the series?

Ooooh WHOAH! Thank you so much for the ask, anon!

However, I fear I might disappoint you with my answer because the answer is ✨vibe and imagination✨

Everything is only my own interpretations and ideas and vibes, and do not represent Inojin's fans as a whole or anything.

Keep reading to see more 🌱

I admit the genderfluid headcanon didn't pop up from nothing inside my head just like that - I had read about this headcanon from a friend and immediately jumped on that bandwagon because I thought it was an awesome idea. The fic I've written where Inojin is genderfluid was originally a gift to this friend too, because I wanted to make her happy. I do love this headcanon on my own too! Especially the idea that he would be genderfluid and not nonbinary feels important for me in this headcanon, for some weird reason. I definitely think he in this case enjoys and wants all traits from any kind of gender presentation, and not take a stance away from defining himself. I think Inojin likes having words and tangible ideas to hold onto.

Now, which parts of Inojin are feminine, and ooof. The affection he showed towards Akkun, the colours of his choice when it comes to his Ink creatures (pink, purple, light blue and yellow - all colours heteronormativitely connected to girls), the attention the show gives to his insecurities without having him have a great training montage (so he goes against the norm for shonen boys) and the rest is just VIBES.

My headcanon he is into boys comes with a certain type of package too (not necessarily, but can be taken into account).

Anyways hopefully I made some kind of sense. I am not used to talking about this topic so I might not have all the articulate thoughts needed.

Thanks 🤍

#thank you for the ask! #inojin

[smokeybrandreviews]

Cheated

I was so excited when one of my favorite manga, Isekai de Cheat Skill wo Te ni Shita Ore wa, Genjitsu Sekai wo mo Musou Suru ~Level Up wa Jinsei wo Kaeta~, got an anime adaption. I haven’t done a spotlight on this one just yet, mostly because i waited too long and didn’t want to seem like someone jumping on a bandwagon when the show dropped, but i am very glad that i waited because the anime adaption is bad. I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World, Too is one of the laziest anime adaptions of a rather ambitious manga, I've ever seen in my goddamn life and i hate it so much. Seriously, i love this story a great deal and, while the narrative changes aren’t too egregious, the rest of the production kind of s. Actually, i can’t even say that because this thing i animated beautifully, most of the time, but nothing f*cking happens. Like, we are, what? Nine? Ten episodes in and nothing is happening. Not a goddamn thing.

Listen, o the top, the manga adaption of this light novel is exceptional. I can’t even front n that. The art is exception and the overall character designs come across as inspired. Minatogawa Kazuomi’s art reminds me a lot of Oh! Great but with a much more subtle use of movement and perspective. his book is f*cking gorgeous, man, and i look forward to every update i get. That said, it’s not like the plot is trash, either. Listen, this is an Isekai power fantasy. If you're a  fan of anime or manga, then you know all the hallmarks by now: Overpowered protagonist, multiple heroines, spirited away into a brand new world where our mild mannered, yet, socially righteous lead character finally get recognized for the hero they always have been. By this point, it’s borderline cliche. However, the devil is in the details. It’s how you execute that Isekai formula and i think Miku does an excellent job of doing just that. Cheat Sill isn’t doing anything new with the genre but it does deliver a solid narrative with realized world and strong characters. SO why does the show suck so f*cking bad?

Anime adaptions are always hit or miss but, lately it’s been all hit. My Dress Up Darling, Overlord, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Murder Mittens (Reincarnated as a Sword for those of you who don’t follow me and wouldn’t understand that reference), Spy x Family, Uncle From Another World, BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War; All released last year, all straight up bangers in their own right. The future looks amazing, too. The previews for Sentai Daishikkaku and Mato Seihei no Slave look fantastic. Slave is actually on the same list as Cheat Skill and i actually did give it a spotlight. Long story short, sh*t real good. Feels very Nineties with the action and fan service. Looking crazy forward to how that one is received in this day and age, but i digress. How is it all of these other adaptions turned out so fantastic and the one i was looking forward to the most, is ass? Like, it’s not CG Berserk ass but, i mean, sometimes it is. Like, the scenes where you’d think the animation can really flex, I'm talking fantastic fantasy battle sequences or a straight up fist-to-fist scrap, the production values drop off a cliff!

I sh*t you not, when the protagonist travels to the fantasy world and dons his undeniably dope armor, his character model switches to CG and the quality of everything immediately drops. There is no dynamism in the way those models move so trying to actually animate them in a frantic, chaotic, bloody, clash with, say, an ogre, just doesn’t f*cking work. That sh*t should be the stuff you actually hand animate or, at the very least, render your obviously cost-cutting models better. People give UFOtable sh*t about their use of computers but i defy you to give me a better example, in modern anime, on how to blend that CG sh*t with proper animation and produce a product as clean as Demon Slayer or any of the Fate adaptions they’ve made. Bro, i know Heaven’s Fell is a film series but those production values were goddamn brilliant. That’s the type of sh*t i want out of my CG animation, not these overly stiff, action robbing, computer models every studio looking to save a penny or two, seems to default on. It’s so frustrating to seem especially coming from a studio like TMS Entertainment. They’ve been around since the goddamn Forties! You’d think they’d have enough experience in the industry not to release such frustratingly mid content! Seriously, if you’re interested, at all, in I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World, Too, read the manga. The anime does not do these characters, that narrative, or he entire world any justice.

#Isekai de Cheat Skill wo Te ni Shita Ore wa Genjitsu Sekai wo mo Musou Suru ~Level Up wa Jinsei wo Kaeta~ #I Got a Cheat Ability in a Different World and Became Extraordinary Even in the Real World. #I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World Too #manga #anime

[decibelcoatl]

Archie Sonic vs. IDW Sonic - No Contest

I've kept quiet about this for way too long, and only because an ex-friend who just won't shut the hell up about preboot Archie Sonic like a nostalgia-blind hypocrite would just shoot this down as always, but y'know what? I'm going to say it anyway because I can, and I will!

To put it bluntly, yes I have been enjoying IDW Sonic as of late. I'll admit, I was a little hesitant to jump the bandwagon at first, but after getting partly spoiled by the Zombot arc, I decided "Screw it, I'm just gonna go ahead and read it, even though it's not the same as the previous series."

...I ended up marathoning the series up to the latest issue (at that time, it was Issue 24). I even read through the mini-series as well as both of the annuals. And the more I did, the more I actually liked it (admittedly, even more so that Archie Sonic). It reached a point where, last Christmas, I ended up getting all eight of the current volumes for IDW Sonic...and I still read them to this day. And I also ended up with a plethora of favourite from the comic series, several of whom I can relate plenty to (especially Surge).

Now, don't try to get me wrong, I am aware that IDW Sonic isn't for everyone. Just as I came to realize that preboot Archie Sonic was probably never meant for me to begin with. But the important thing is that YOU (yes, you) choose your OWN preferences, and YOU enjoy what you want to enjoy! If you still prefer Archie Sonic, that's fine. HOWEVER, trying to force people to like it just because you do is immature, wrong, and just plain rude, and will only serve to push people away from you. Furthermore, rambling about the same thing over and over on every single Sonic comic-related post is just as immature, and will discourage people from talking about literally anything else.

Anyway, my point is that if you like IDW Sonic, great! If you still prefer Archie Sonic (preboot or reboot), also great! Once again, the important thing is that you enjoy what you like, and that you enjoy it to the fullest! Don't let other people's opinions leave you discouraged.

...I've rambled on about this long enough, so I'm just gonna leave it at that. But yeah, consider this my two cents.

TL;DR, there really shouldn't be a contest as to which iteration of the Sonic comics is better. There never was, as a matter of fact.

#cyber rambles #IDW Sonic the Hedgehog #Sonic the Hedgehog Archie Comics #Sonic the Hedgehog

[freedfromthegalactichivemind]

I’ve been up, working on a slew of entrapdak stories.  I’ve decided to participate in one of the fandom-events where prompts have been given, although the official month for it happens later.  I’m doing things ahead of time because I have other things to do.   The problem is, I’m not even sure I’m particularly ���welcome” to do this.  I’m pretty sure the person who runs these fandom-challenges has blocked me, even though I never had any direct altercations with them.  I think they jumped on a bandwagon of people who do not like me because of some events that happened in discord last year.  I had a very rough time, was extremely mentally unstable and did some things that I regret.  Some personal misunderstandings turned into me being a bully to certain people and I feel like I cannot apologize to them directly because I’ll probably give them a panic attack just by being around.  I mean, just seeing someone’s name pop up on a “we recommend this blog!” prompted me to hit the block button not because of anything that person did to me, but because *I* had a panic attack.   I had a really bad spiral, and yes, I do regret a lot of things.  But, only the things I actually did wrong, as I think I have been accused of some things I didn’t actually do.  I *know* one person accused me of faking my distress.  Joke’s on them... I have memories of a hellish hospital experience now that will haunt me for the rest of my life.  Har-de-har-har.  My own damn fault. In any case, I’m just sort of left not even knowing what the right thing to do is because I desperately want to reconcile things (though not to be friends again with any of the same people involved) - just to be at peace, but the conclusion I am left with is that I simply can’t.  And it hurts me that people who weren’t even directly involved just kind of hopped on the bandwagon of...seemingly trying to ban me from a fandom?   I don’t know, I just am approaching the date at which I went to the hospital and I think about it every day with a mounting nervousness to the anniversary.  (I honestly used to get like this in late April, too, for a few years due to a purely physical nearly-dying experience from sepsis I had back in 2016).  Now my new trauma is “October.”  And it’s all involved with a fandom that I stubbornly refuse to leave.  I am doing my own thing now.  I’m not a part of the community I was in before.  I do not want to be.  But I do want to make some sort of peace with it.  I can’t help but think sometimes it would have been better if I had not survived simply because I wouldn’t have shown up again.  People wouldn’t have had to think about me at all.  I was neatly swept under the rug.  From what I saw, no one really asked about me.  The one person I trusted enough to let know what was going on didn’t report anything to me about any kind of concern.  People would have thought what they’d wanted of me, that I was whatevertheworstofrumors or “Oh, she went nuts” and just fandom-flounced and fucked off and no one would have thought any more of it.   And this is not an “Oh, look, she’s feeling sorry for herself!  Ooh, look at her trying to stir up drama!”  No, this is cold hard facts.  I am facing facts. Writing it down helps me to process it.  The facts of fandom and online existence is that, yeah, you can make good friends here.  You can make lovers here, but like any other communication-system, the people you grow actually close to will be very few - and it seems much easier with online, text-based communication to simply think of it all as “just text on a screen,” a certain un-reality washed over the people you meet.  The Internet is a communication-form of distance, with all that entails, both the good and the bad.  I need to remember that. We’re all sort of unreal to each other here.   I am holding back - not participating in Secret Santa, for instance, because, you know, I’m pretty sure someone would draw my name and just... you know, be annoyed or disappointed and put in the most minimal effort.  It would be like my seventh grade obligation Secret Santa classrom experience all over again, except with an online fandom-flavor.    And it’s like, you know, the most major fandom-event that I’m looking forward to doing this year isn’t in She-Ra fandom.  My Zelda-blog is about to get a whole lotta art.   Just things I ponder in the small hours of the morning.   I’m here, but should I be here? In this fandom, stubbornly plugging away on stories when no one invited me to the party?