#and they marketed it as a love story too :)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

i wanna know more about svsss menopause

They synced their periods together too well. Now they are synced through their perimenopause years.

#Poorly drawn svsss #svsss #shen qingqiu #luo binghe #shang qinghua #mobei jun #ask #I truly think that the peak of the SVSSS (peri)menopause era is just them commiserating over the experience of it. #Not pictured here is Liu Qingge barely suppressing his hormonal rage. He would have it *bad*. #I think Liu Mingyan is the only person who does not have a bad time with menopause because she takes estrogen supplements. #Which sounds like a trans headcanon but I think regardless of cis/trans status she's researched this and is prepared. #I have developed a sense for what menopause is purely by exposure to the various complaints I have overheard/been told. #These are all very specific and yet very common stories. #I do not know what the overlap is for SVSSS fans and people (not just women) going through menopause. I hope this is funny to SOMEONE. #It's an untapped market of potential! Too many young'uns in these woods. #Synced periods this. Ovulating that. Where's the menopausal homicidal rage? #Come on! Ripping off your clothing in a sudden burst of heat is *SO* SVSSS core!!! Make perimenopause sexy!!! #Anyways. Please put your menopause headcanons in the comments/tags <3 I'd love to hear them. #Thank you joblessmonday for following up with an ask and giving me an excuse to release this train of thought.

[thebirdandhersong]

on the good news train today: I have finally finished the last chapter(!!!) of my Inklings challenge story, which marks the FIRST ever Inklings challenge story I've ever completed properly :'D coming in at 30,810 words (yikes) (it did get out of hand, I must admit), it is definitely not a short story, but it IS a piece that I think articulates a lot of what I've been thinking about lately re: love and death, and, considering everything, is probably something I needed to write. I am very happy!! It has been a wild ride, but a deeply clarifying one.

#ALSO i went to watch hadestown on friday and i came out of that a changed person. i will literally never recover from that experience. #hadestown also has significantly shaped this story along with HMA's little mermaid and goblin market and sir orfeo btw #anywayyyy i am going to BED i have midterms to study for tomorrow which i have been putting off for too long!!!! #inklings round 3 #i'm bracing for impact this week (it's gonna be ROUGH) but i am holding to julian of norwich's wise wise words for this one #all shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well! #including midterms (of which i have TWO right after reading break. ain't no rest for the wicked and the righteous #don't need none and who knows where i fall) and boy problems and family worries #all SHALL be well!! #why my soul are you downcast! why so disturbed within me! #put your hope in God for I will yet praise Him my saviour and my God #magpie said think of jane austen's wise words too #(friendship is the best balm for the pangs of disappointed love) and she was right :) #im sitting on my little raft and paddling steadily onwards! #thank you for sitting on the step with me through the dusk and blue hours and dark days #all shall be well for pete's sake!!!!! all SHALL be well!!!!! #last year of school log

[dishsaop]

does anyone have recommendations for fictional media that has like. actual lesbians in it. not like supergirl Two White Skinny Girls, One Blonde and One Brunette Kiss media, or "its implied lesbianism!!!" but just regular fucking lesbians

#i say lesbians but i guess i mean sapphic #im just like. tired of gnawing #and of men also. sorry men in my life i love you but on god if i have to pretend one more man is butch just to get #content that isnt m/m or m/f im going to turn into a horse and run into the wilderness until im saved from the glue factory by a plucky #young woman except instead of letting her have her formative summer where she trains me and bonds w me and wins a competition w me #im going to commit horse suicide in front of her & change her life forever. just because im so tired of bland CW-marketable women kissing & #digging for scraps in a refuse bin while brushing aside 7002993829292929939292929399394 gay and het romances #m text #i will also take nonfictional lesbians if its like a story #not to be whiny on main but one of the hardest hurdles i had to jump wasnt realizing i was a lesbian. i came out to myself and to friends a #lesbian multiple times. but i would always walk it back when a friend would express doubt or a male friend would ask me out #bc i dont and especially then didnt know very many lesbians in person. and so i had to turn to examples #and all i fucking had were fictional women who liked men. or fictional lesbians who were so cleaned and sanitized and prettified #(you all know what i mean right. the 2 skinny white girls one blonde one brunette. im not crazy right) #and i would be like. i dont feel things when i look at these fictional lesbians so i guess i belong back here #(this is also bc my gender ended up being fuckier than i realized but shhhhh) #I WAS GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THESE TAGS but theyre too long and im lost. #anyway the point is if people werent so fucking weird abt fictional or onscreen lesbians maybe thered be a lot more people comfortable bein #out as lesbian #like sorry but this awful ouroboros of 'all lesbians onscreen have to be cute and sanitized' meaning that people write and believe wlw has #to be cute and pure and sanitized (OR a 'badge of honor' bc good for u u doodled two women together or had it as a background in ur fic) #meaning that therefore all portrayals of lesbianism continue to be like this. is just #and im also gonna be honest theres probably a lot of good sapphic media im just in the wrong circles to have stumbled into lol. so #yknow. personal viewer bias here #but i still like swing wildly between overly brandishing my dykeness as a badge to feel like im proving im lesbian #and like. backing up under a blanket bc i dont wanna be weird or annoying or freak people out #but if people just Saw Normal Ass Lesbians. aough. #im going to watch revolutionary girl utena one of these days even if i struggled w the writing style the first few episodes #I JUST WANNA SEE AN OLD BUTCH ONSCREEN GET SOME PUSSY. #like it also doesnt help im mostly femme4butch so seeing 2 femmes on screen is like. okay cool so what. but only femmes are 'marketable'

[deacf-coffee-is-a-sin]

yall i know im late to the party but u HAVE to read 13 storeys by jonathan sims. holy fucking shit this book was so fucking good

#deacf talks #like omg im gonna be thinking abt this nonstop for like the next week lmaoo #like omg i loved seeing the progression of everyone showing up in each others storeys and trying to piece together everything #like i wasnt too into it at 1st bc this book kept getting marketed as like 'pure horror'which it really isnt at least to me. at most its #just extremely unsettling. Which is good!! some of the storeys like jason and Anna /really/ unsettled me!! #but yea its def not the straight horror all the quotes on the book made it out to be #its mainly reflective? if that makes sense #like all of the stories have the central theme of 'capitalism sucks!' and u get to see how either bc of their complicity with the struggles #of the working class below them or the struggles they face as being the working class influence the horrors they face #while also tying into fells misdeeds!! and its just so good #and it made me like sit there and while also trying to piece everything together be like 'capitalism Does suck :|' lmaoo #this is one of the few books where im REALLY looking forward to a reread bc i want to mark the book up #an keep track of who show up where and my own opinions on why these ppl r facing their specific brand of 'haunting' and how it ties to fell #but like!! yea!! i know im making no sense here lol im just trying to get my thought in order lmaoo #so many times id read like a sentence or paragraph and hear it in johnnys voice. like DAMN id love to get my hands on an audiobook #but go read the book!! its so fucked up in a good way! #but im gonna go Insane thinking abt this book lmaoo #thirteen storeys

[cowboy-robooty]

physically holding back my rage when i go get my weekly uchuujin no kakushigoto update and see people bitchin and moaning about it. I WANT TO HURT YOU AND IM NOT FUCKING AROUND. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEAR MACE SPRAYED IN YOUR EYES SINCE YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE NO FUCKING APPRECIATION FOR GOOD LITERATURE. S2G SHUT YOUR DUMBASS UP BEFORE I GO AHEAD AND SLICE OFF ALL YOUR FINGER TIPS TOO AND PUT YOUR TONGUE IN A BAG CORPSE PARTY STYLE CUZ YOUR OPINIONS ARE ACTIVELY MAKING SOCIETY WORSE.

#i will make a review for uchuujin no kakushigoto later... bc rn i want to see more how the story plays out to see if it gets even better or #if it falls from grace #rn tho im so hooked like every week i need my update its what i look forward to ngl #the manga is soooo good i adore it from the artstyle to the characters to the romance to the message #i love the pyschological aspects so far and think its been interweved nicely if not a little too in your face but its being done p well #i cant wait to see how the author handles the main theme rn of exploring the selfishness in helping people #so many people keep saying its 'so weird' and 'keeps getting more fucked up with each chapter' #AND I DONT GET IT #ITS NOT WEIRD IMO ITS NOT A BIZARRE STORY #ITS A GOOD STORY AND I THINK EVERYTHING MAKES PERFECT SENSE LIKE TBH #IM SURPRISED WE HAVENT SEEN AN ALIEN ROMANCE STORY LIKE THIS YET #THIS IS AN UNTAPPED MARKET THATS LIKE UH DUHH!! WHY DIDNT I THINK OF DOINF THAT FIRST?!? #IDK LIKE I DONT THINK ITS WEIRD I THINK THE AUTHOR IS MAKING VERY NORMAL DECISIONS TO PROGRESS THE STORY #you wanna read weird go read fuckin #KAMI NO KODOMO #I HAD TO FIGHT FOR MY LIFE ON BAKAMANGA TO FIND THIS AGAIN #i should write a review for it. its interesting #not really a fan cuz it just doesnt hit for me but its interesting and unique

[catboybrain]

sniffles sadly. every day im so sad that fnaf didnt go with placing vanny into aftons role.... god forbid women do anything ! ! !

#just saw gtlive finish the first ending n like. urgh #maybe if i liked eclipse more i wouldnt mind how prevalent they r but woof man #like i get it its charlie and evil baby or whatever in the same body but come onnnnn #that and the candy cadet stories just bashing the same kid going into woods framework into the ground #i miss when it was like. this dude sewed 5 kittens together! this lady melted 7 keys! stuff like that yk that was different and scarier #i do rlly think the series is going toward this like polished marketable thing instead of the grimy sludge i liked .... </3 and the AI stuf #is sooooo boring like fuuuuck its so boring. i wouldnt mind if its charliebots bc at least theyre interesting !!!! #but mimic as the new villian? bro. dude. thats so boring come on... afton was interesting bc he was fucked up severly #and robots r just like. theyre just robots dude its not even scary its just a thing being programmed smh #without the afton behind it its kinda just ..... bleh #honestly i wish they would cap the story? like make vanny take aftons role; do some shit; end it in a tragic but cathartic way #and then if they want to make more games do either other families in universe (like fazbear frights) or prequels/ world building shit like #something set in circus babys pizza world or w/e .i mean you could argue its about cassie now but if her dad is bonnie bro we're still stuc #in the afton central place. and i dont like that hteyre moving on without wrapping up the 102938120 loose ends they already made URGH ! ! #is it too much to ask for a fnaf game thats crusty round the edges and really metaphorical for theorists to dig into but logical enough it #can be solved and also creates a good plotline . yeah i guess hell will freeze over before that #d.txt #sorry im sooooo normal about fnaf <- is abnormal. fuhnaffs theories r GREAT thoguh i love that guy he makes me happy about the franchise :o

[fragmentedblade]

I'm honestly obsessed with Mr. Xiao. He may be my favourite (very) tertiary character ever. I love everything he adds just by being how he is in the context of the worldbuilding and sidequests of the Xianzhou. Arguably something similar happens with master Huaiyan

#The beginning and the end #No but really I love him. I'm taking pictures of Mr. Xiao like crazy this is stupid. I have over a dozen now xD #But it's all so intriguing? The potential of the vagueness of barely knowing him? #And still how telling and meaningful and fitting it all is? Goodness did they include all that on purpose? #Am I reading too much? Is HSR really this careful with details? #The first thing Mr. Xiao tells us is that he *guarantees* he'll fix whatever we need #and that it would be good as new‚ which has echoes of the 'arrogant craftsman' #Then he is silent and stubborn. He doesn't want to beat around the bush or engage in idle chat #And the fact that Mr. Xiao was the one proposing the renovation of the market seems to be so fitting #of someone who once studied under Yingxing? Yingxing‚ who against all odds was able to do what he did as a short life species #Yingxing‚ who liked to go beyond expectations in his crafts‚ beyond what could be done #Mr. Xiao being open to change‚ and change brought over by short life species‚ makes so much sense #It also works in a symbolic way I think. Mr. Xiao as one of the last remnants of that period that is lost to tales #Yet accepting and encouraging the change #And still in his shy stern stoic demeanour he gifts us the object that tells a story about that which was and that which made him who he is #I don't know... Every detail around this character is so well integrated and serves as culmination or terminus of so many stories #I like him a lot as stupid as it is to be so fond of such a fleeting character haha #Mr. Xiao #I talk too much

[m0e-ru]

i miss friendship so bad i miss you okyakusan do you feel the same

#kommento #// ah the parasocial relationship marketing strat itsok tenchou's got this in order <- crying as they speak #// my writing's been on the polar opposite ends of the spectrum whereit's tooth rottingly sweet indulgence but its too far into the au i #// cant talk about it or it's too dramatic and out of context so i cant post either because of the lack of . context #// it's crazy and i've been here for three years and took three years to mostly get everything figured out #// it's okay my customers come and go and i have new ones who might want to experience the story real time as i wanted so long ago #// but im not sure how that'll work now actually im kind of a bit scared #// a fixation made during the pandemic is so special to a girl did you know #// anyway im doing as many creative endeavors as I can when i can #// i really love you all & your support throughout the years whether you just got here or have been here for quite a while im blowing kisse #// i should get back to real work soon i hope everyone's having a nice day !!

[brainjuicey]

oh my goddddd early days tom cruise films make me feel something entirely different its something the scientists havent discovered yet

#its not even that i find him attractive although he is sort of pretty in an eyebrows kind of a way but he plays the roles so rigid #and #im half convinced he doesnt know how to act he just loves being in front of a camera #but there is always some sort of intricate rituals homoeroticism and natural domesticity about the movies #hold up i need to google if jerry bruckheimer made the outsiders #theres just something so verile about the way the men are portrayed in that kind of Romantic action #prepostmodern james bond kind of action movie if that makes sense #early fast and furious has it too but grittier #transformers but the 1986 animated version #like what is that genre of classic golden age american propoganda and theatrical rock mixed with tragedy and heroism? girl idk wht im sayin #guys im so freakin pissed that narcos white guy whats his name boyd holbrook ?? was a blatant paul walker rip off but now ive watched #top gun now i understand he is also a goose rip off #like stop trying to make more media like this we've progressed past the need for reviving romanticising the 70s in what is obviously just- #romanticising the 50s.... #america* btw if thats not clear #guys i hate contemporary american media and i hate the hyperconsumerism and i hate the oversaturation of the market but #dear lorrdddd something about that whole being a man with an attitude just living his life and the story is just about a guy and his bros #and of course there is obvious sexism and exclusionism <333 but this is fiction so! #just a guy and his bros ! what more could u want #plus the fuckin pre-digital age transparency between creator and art is pretty sweet #i miss watching a movie and being able to enjoy it as a viewer and not a cynical judge on the methods and ethos of what goes in #like i just dont care and its vicariously thrilling #maybe its an esoteric lack of pop culture #top gun

[night-market-if]

Quick question is Belladonna a vampire cus for a while now she giving major vampire vibes

She's not, not a vampire. :)

#the night market #belladonna malady #vampire belladonna #her story is coming up guys #i love how she is a bamf female too

[cbgisland]

someone needs to do a scientific study on wonwoo because how is he so. wow. my mouth aches for him constantly

#i love reading ass nerds like genuinely #come here bby read me a bedtime story about the stock market or some shit #ideas too dangerous for main

[overthemoonwithme]

Midnights is giving me Lover/Rep vibes but with a more sophisticated aesthetic

#it's actually kind of going against the original premise of the album #and i wonder if she changed tactics after seeing all those people complain about how sad it's going to be? #and...i hope it isn't because i can't take another album about how cool it was that she met the fated love of her life six years ago #and how terrible it was when people hated her in 2016 #it feels like when it comes to her life she's frozen the topics to just the masters heist meeting joe and the summer of 2016 #which is FINE #but that's why i was hoping she'd move towards storytelling instead #because otherwise....it feels like we're hearing the same three stories over and over again? #and anyways that kind of storytelling is so RARE in mainstream music it's something she really has a monopoly over #and i feel like she's hurting her image especially by focusing too much on being a victim over things that happened years ago even now #when she's a millionaire being called out for actually shitty things like with air travel #anyways im curious as to how this will turn out because i really loved the initial marketing but the more recent stuff with midnights #mayhem has me feeling like she's gone back a few years as an artist #taylor swift

[loverboybitch]

“take a deep breath there is hope in the air.”.//.

#uploads #saw this walking home on sunday from a lil vintage market #love to see a thing right when u need it.. the city provides #n the snow was so so pretty too #had a nice little day yesterday i went for drinks with falcon casue we havent seen each other in like months or really talked #it was really nice n we went to this bar down the street that has a really nice lil atmosphere #we got to chat for a while n then they were having this story telling event where some people told folktales it was really cool n sweet #this one about a king who learned to weave so a woman would fall in love with him and it ends up saving him in the end from some pirates #very sweet very im love #very love to see a thing right when u need it.. #sweet little time maybe im not gonna die but maybe i also am idk #very job still making me want to die but at least i can hear a nice story and have a good little conversation #<3

[oreolesbian]

another year, another slew of wlw show cancellations 🙃

#first kill #the wilds #gentleman jack #batwoman #at this rate i wouldn’t be shocked if they cancelled arcane after s2 #it’s not even that they get cancelled..its also just the idea of cutting a story short #not even giving the creatives a chance to try and wrap SOMETHING up #and the fact that this is ANOTHER surge of wlw shows just like the year prior w/ #i am not okay w/ this..teenage bounty hunters..etc #first kill is an enigma to me too bc that show did really well for a small budget #it got high watch time and top ten for a while #but no..they push their pride month series and then quietly let it go #every time 🙃 #am i glad most ppl recognize the double standard even though we all love heartstopper #like from a marketing stand point i’m genuinely shocked they didn’t cancel heartstopper instead..not that i think either show should go #having two strong teen-friendly queer shows! amazing! #*sigh* alas

[ars0nism]

"i want more aroallo rep i want more aroallo rep" ok pick up ur pen loser. open that google doc. write the rep you want you have been writing for as long as you can remember existing

#this is a self callout tbh #i like writing romance too muhcb #ill try #but you cant. base an entire novel on the premise of an aroallo protagnosit #esp if ur like me and you dont want to write about high schoolers (bc ur not american) #(or british) #i could write a dutch novel on it but fuck no #i could make the protagnosit of my art project aroallo now that i think about it but #BUT!! for thst to become a story id have to come up with more concepts than just catboy and person with wings #id make a comic out of it #tbh #im sure theres a market out there for the three ocs i came up with #but honestly the story is so inspired by mag id probably get called out for plagiarism #itd basically be a mag webtoon but with a different. thing #instead of horror stories its notes made by the protagonist #and theyd be one of two pages so maybe not a webton #but occasionally right?? intermissions. where i draw the actual characters #i love those three but i just have no plot