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txttletale · 2 days

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(Other than the really weird bit about "Male presenting Doctor") what were your thoughts about the specials?

pretty mixed bag, pretty messy, but good overall. i think they were very obviously a nostalgia trip for people around my age lol and it worked! i loved seeing tennant and tate back onscreen together, their chemistry hasn't aged a bit, and honestly just watching doctor who that wasn't written by chris chibnall was a breath of fresh air. they weren't boring, like seasons 11 and 12 were, and they didn't go too far off the other end into nonsense like flux did. characters want things again! the show can let itself just be silly! i was literally cheering out loud when donna and the doctor were just saying random scifi gobbledegook at each other for like a solid several minutes during the star beast.

the structure of the specials kind of baffles me. i love wild blue yonder--i think it's definitively the best of the specials as a standalone, it's absolutely fantastic, creepy and atmospheric and bringing things around to RTD's strength, which is well-written characters interacting with each other and letting good actors just act. but at the same time i dont understand why it exists? it feels like...idk. imagine if you watched the star wars original trilogy but instead of the empire strikes back the middle film was just a feature length film about luke and han surviving on an ice planet with no reference to anything that happens in the last film except the two characters' relationship. and then the next film was still return of the jedi, unchanged. it felt like that

i liked all the weird campy silliness of the star beast and the giggle, and they were both very fun! neil patrick harris gave a fantastic performance, there are a lot of very memorable sequences from the giggle, but it's very very all over the place. so many threads get kind of picked up and go nowhere. the toymaker's haunted house dimension goes nowhere. RTD's eyerolling social media commetnary goes nowhere (thank god tbh but yknow im illustrating something here). even the toymaker kind of goes nowhere, after ncuti gatwa shows up he's bascially an afterthought who loses by dropping a ball. obvious parallels to david tennant's first episode with that ball scene could be made, but just... aren't. it feels like load-bearing sectikons of the plot and themes were cut out to make room for a backdoor pilot for the stupid fucking UNIT spinoff

oh and it goes without saying i fucking hate all the UNIT wank in the star beast and the giggle. i hope space nine eleven 2 happens to their stupid fucking avengers tower i cannot stand kate stewart who is constantly a murderous bonehead (in the giggle alone she gets two pepole killed by not listening to the doctor and assuming that this teleporting godlike entity could be restrainted by Two Guys) who is both in and out of universe just a boring nepo baby with no merit of her own

um. i still dont know what happened with the regeneration. i think the implication is that when david tennant dies hell time travel back to become ncuti gatwa inside himself--at least the rehab dialogue seems to make that implication. but it's not really explained or explored? baffling. i do think that fourteen getting to settle down and live a peaceful life with his friends is cute.

oh yeah and the ask said other than that but goddd there was some good stuff in the star beast and honestly with the state of the UK media i will take any perspective on trans people that includes baseline human erespect but some of those lines made me cringe so bad. anyway overall i am cautiously optimistic for the future of the show--oh ncuti was fucking great did i mention that i instantly bnought him as the doctor he owned the scene, the moment he was there it was clear he was the protagonist, and i liked the church on ruby road well enough too--i am cautiously optimistic but i worry that a big UNIT-shaped tumor will devour huge chunks of it and it'll be annoying. also russel t davies is like 60 and i just dont want to hear what he has to say about twitter so im not looking forward to dot and bubble

#ask #doctor who

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stevethehairington · 1 year

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OH BOY book announcement. on the one hand im excited because MORE EDDIE HELL YEAH and also ive heard good things about the other books, but on the other hand nO i LOVE the backstory that we as a fandom have created for eddie, i don't want anything else!!! i don't want to see it any other way!!!

and im also hellllllla not looking forward to the upheaval it surely WILL cause when Certain Things do/don't get "confirmed"

#and yEAH i KNOW the books arent canon but theyre also not not canon?#like theyre this weird in between kinda thing #and yeah i just dont like the Implications #ALSO the plot for it makes NO sense AT ALL???#a record producer 'discovering' eddie PRE S4?????#we obviously all know how that pans out so??? whats the point????#ALSO if this paige lady is a love interest (which is highly suspected) that is a GROOOOSSS power imbalance i am Not Here For #like idgaf if shes a woman bc bi eddie? hell yeah!!!!#but like her being in this position of power over eddie offering him everything hes ever wanted???#if she IS a love interest then yikes yikes YIKES #(also HOW is that gonna work with the cc boys????? unless they make a whole brand new set of bandmates)#ALSO i dont like the name al for his father lmao that Does Not fit with the image in my head #eddie munson #stranger things #flight of icarus

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carnivalcarriondiscarded · 8 months

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if you would all allow me to be delusional for a moment - so i went back to staring Very Hard at the neighborhood map and. um. well. im chucking my marbles out the window! as always take all of this with a Hefty grain of salt!

i thought i saw a weird pixel in Frank's window so i zoomed in. then i took a screenshot, and fucked with the contrast/brightness settings. and uhhhhhh

UHHHHHH

FRANK??? HELLO???? HE'S IN THERE? i'm pretty sure im Not seeing things bc that is definitely a vague gray tube-outline with a yellow spot in the shape of Frank's nose. hidden in the dark. and i might be seeing things but in the pane next to his face it kinda looks like his hand is on the window? but! Frank's in there! what the fuck!

so naturally i slowly scrolled through the neighborhood Zoomed The Fuck In. obvi there's nothing in Home's eyes, and Barnaby's & Sally's single visible windows(?) are closed. I couldn't find any out-of-place pixels in Julie's or Poppy's.

but! Eddie's kinda freaked me out a little! look at this shit!

on the top left pane... are those fingerprints pressing into the glass? and in the lower left, is that a fucking Face peering out? a creepy ass face that almost looks like some sort of mask? there seems to be another Shape in the upper right... another face perhaps?

and then there's the weird window shine in the lower right (along with maybe Another face...). it almost looks like a string of letters. there isn't a single pattern/design like that anywhere else in the neighborhood. what's up with that....

oh and also, just went back to double check the post office's display window

there seems to be another face - all the way to the right in the darkness. judging by the shape of the paler (yellowish?) pixels between what must be eyes, i think that's Eddie. and i think i see ears and a hat... not sure though. this one is really tough to see but it's There

(side note: Eddie is totally fucked, isn't he? between the faces(?) and hands behind his door, Home sitting in his display, and the hyacinths by his building, the emphasis on his memory (or lack-thereof) in a project that is, in a sense, About memory... i'm concerned! and eating it tf up! hell yeah lets get funky!)

now i couldn't see any, like, concrete Faces or anything in Howdy's store. but! you can kinda see inside! observe~

in the big open window, you can kinda make out some sort of container on a counter and what might be shelves or a kind of brick pattern. and then above the 100% sign... hold on are those fuckign Eyes? lets take a look zoomed in & without the image adjustments!

yeah those uh. i think those are eyes. Wally-esque eyes peering out of the darkness. though they also mildly remind me of eyespots on insect wings. butterfly eyespots, perhaps. inch resting indeed...

WAIT I LIED!!! there DOES seem to be another string of letter-like symbols in the neighborhood, not just the post office's window shine. now it could be just a wild coincidence, but at the same time it seems kind of... purposeful. like that's not normal shading/coloring.

check out the blue window border on Howdy's Place, next to the apples. the lighter blue pixels seem Arranged. i think i see a clear N, and either an R or a P... along with some other symbols that i don't recognize as anything. the lower ones look kinda like faces? what could the top one be? is any of it anything or am i looking too hard?

in short: they're watching us watch them and there's way more to the map than initially meets the eye....

(edit: i've added a reblog w/ the images outlined! badly outlined but a clearer View of what i see nonetheless! + some notes on more little things outlining helped me notice)

#throttling my laptop WHAT DOES IT MEAN??? WHAT DOES IT MEANNNNNNN #got a little spooked there ngl....#noticing the faces(?) in eddie's gave me a lil startle. got a little chill up my spine #I LOVE IT!#im gonna be reeling over this all night....#the implications! the arising questions!! the Choices!!!#frank and eddie being the only ones with their faces in their windows (plus a couple extra)#eddie and howdy having letters/symbols(?) on their buildings #THE EYES IN HOWDY'S STORE!!!#i feel like these are important misplaced pieces of a puzzle i havent even opened yet #god and like. tiny home in eddie's window yeah but that With the eyes in howdy's store?#both buildings - both Stores! - seeming to have hidden letters on them??? WHAT DOES IT MEANNNN #of course i could be just plain insane and seeing things #but some of it.... ough i dont think i am fellas #welcome home speculation #wh speculation #homebogging #ive been meaning to Examine the updated map.... not much Changed or caught my attention but a few things did #why does barnaby have a carton of milk outside his house? something to do with the phrase 'no use crying over spilled milk'?#the flower patch behind julie's house is Oddly green.... kinda reminds me of a body dump #that plus the red thing next to the bowling ball (a ribbon? scissors? something else?) makes me Suspicious #along with a mildly delusional Theory i've had since my first good Examining Of The Map (before the update!)#but thats not what this post is about #theres just. theres interesting things in there!#thank you for reading! i need to go Think about this all....#im feeling the urge to up the contrast/brightness of Every Single Slightly Dark image on the site <3

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the-dragon-girl-27 · 1 year

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this is one of those things where it was funny in my head but now that i drew it i realize it was probably not worth the effort but no point in not posting it i guess i find watching the Mu saga unfold extreamilly funny for some reason i wish i had a quality pic of the % being even lower

#milgram #mikoto kayano #muu kusunoki #milgram project #meme art #i was one of the people who with the first trial video was like aww i fweel so bad for muu im glad shes voted innocent #then second trial vid drops and imediate NOPE NOPE NOPE #i think the only people voting muu innocent are just haruka fans and not people who actually forgive her lmao #tbh i thought haruka was also guilty from the start and the second trial reienforced that so #oh yeah also mikoto is here people who know me from discord or watched that one stream i did must find that funny #i have a long rant agaisnt why meme is overrated and how dumb i think mikoto looks but i think he looks less dumb when i drew him #also i just noticed the way i drew his hair literally almost looks like a recolor of one of my ocs.... oh god #i made that oc in like 2018 or 2019 tho so i dont have to worry about the implications of that because there are none #fr mikoto's hair looks like it has the texture of wet mud #oh god that was a lot of tags for a drawing i feel so incredibilly netruial about

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sydmarch · 1 year

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was shit talking waterparks to a friend who only knows of them through me (as any parx fan does) & I'm like no really some of the more recent lyrics are so bad. read this. show him the genius page for fruit roll ups & he's like "STOOOOP YOU LIKE THIS BAND?? but you usually have good taste" lmaooo

#i finally sent him a carefully curated playlist of parx songs that are actually good for him to listen to lmao #i had been talking abt how i lost all my goth points at this shop i go to by admitting an an employee im friendly w there about going to #another country to see parx & thebguys just like 'oh... cool!' LOL & my friends like wait why would he react like that #dont you like that band? & im like yeah absolutely but there are Implications to liking them. he gets it now LOL #texticles

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doomed-era · 11 months

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ok so I found this after doing some research last night

URBOSA???

URBOSA GIRL THATS

(im aware that the yiga survive aoc just fyi)

#yiga clan #age of calamity #i made this joke on discord last night I just think its funny #also disturbing as heck but #look I know this is a common fantasy trope like ooh yeah go kill the evil cult oooOoOOo #its still.#look i am all for war crimes urbosa #but man neither the devs or the fandom think abt the implications of this </3 #like the truth is they are a unique ethnic group at this point. they have been split off from the sheikah tribe for thousands of years #we know they were in hiding for a long period of time. ppl dont usually join them.#do you know what this means????#well it could mean a bunch of things but the only other alternative I can think of besides that the yiga #would either Definitely have children + elders who would be killed by an attack on the hideout #is the yiga are just capturing and brainwashing ppl to join them. im not sure which is worse #but either way we'd be killing innocent people!#unless theyre all immortal? but What.#loz

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quadrantadvisor · 19 days

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I started shipping Dick Grayson and Percy Jackson as a joke and then got accidentally invested. Help.

The thing about them is that I think they would Know. They would each know that the other had been though more than any one person could be expected to bear. They would feel secrets like a weight between them. And they would just. Not ask. They would decide to be eachother's simple thing. A bright spot of good in a world that's too hard.

Dick comes across as a ray of sunshine but he keeps up with Percy's snark. Percy's bleeding heart for the downtrodden and disdain for any authority endears him to Dick. They just have complimentary energies.

What makes this funny is how everyone else reacts to them.

Dick's family is panicking, since Percy is The Most Suspicious Man on the Planet. He works six months out of the year at summer camps that don't exist. He was accused of terrorism as a twelve year old. They keep trying to bring this up with Dick, who is exaggerating oblivoiusness. "What, Percy, suspicious? Never. He's great with kids, I'm sure the campers love him, isn't that sweet?" Tim is pulling out his hair.

Meanwhile, Percy's telling Annabeth (who he is still dating, polyamory ftw) all about his new guy, and Annabeth is like, "Let me get this staight. You're dating a rich trust fund kid, who's also a police officer, named Dick? That's not a real guy. That's a parody of a person. Who are you and since when do you tolerate cops."

#Percy trying desperately to defend himself: Ex-cop! He teaches gymnastics now #Annabeth: Better if still slightly ridiculous #percy introduces them to eachother and Annabeth is so prepared to grin and bear it when she can't stand this guy #and then she actually meets him and gets exposed to the dick grayson charm and she's like '#'no i get it now'#percy: 👀 oh yeah really? interesting #he keeps inviting them to things together to see if he can set them up #the bat family is not so easily swayed #of course they LIKE percy like he fits in perfectly #that doesnt make him any less likely to try to murder dick in his sleep or something #they have no idea honestly #they just dont know what he's up to and there's so many holes in his life story #and bats hate not knowing #honeslty finding out that there's a whole world of mythology that they can't see wouldnt be any better for them #'so the Greek gods are real? and greek creation myths and cosmological explanations and the implications thereof? that's all REAL?'#percy: 'yes but every other explanation is also real at the same time so honestly it shouldn't affect you much so dont worry about it 😊'#this raises more questions than it answers #percy jackson #dc #batfam #my rambles #yes i am crossover posting out here sorry for getting silly with it

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qcoded · 1 year

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You guys don't know how mentally ill I got over these screenshots like!! Ok I know Collector is under the impression it's Raine BUT just the thought that Belos is technically the one there just AGHHHHHHH (Mouth foams)

This is the closest I'll get to seeing Belos treat Collector so sweetly (like please, look at how they smile at each other he's holding the Collector's hands AAAAA) so I'm loosing my crap

anyways! I loved Watching and Dreaming and have never been this emotionally devasted

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puttingwingsonwords · 5 months

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Renfield (2023) was a lot of fun but I have to say at the end when Rebecca was like ‘no you shouldn’t be punished you should be an example that it’s never too late to better yourself’ I was like ummm 🤨 girl you are a cop? So un-self aware lmao

#renfield 2023 #renfield 2023 spoilers #i usually just kind of. dont think about the wider implications while watching a fun movie that has a cop in it #im annoyed about it usually but it doesn’t have to ruin the movie #like unless the copaganda is extreme it’s just. yeah okay acab but im just watching a movie rn #but that remark really took me out of it lmao

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suffarustuffaru · 10 months

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hi again i ranked every parent i could think of in rezero based on parenting skills + how much they give a shit

#i forgot to add the dude thats now married to garf's mom but he would go in 'seems alright'!!#ALSO LIKE GARFS MOM... THE POOR WOMAN.... SHES LIVED SUCH A ROUGH LIFE LAJSLDFJ I HOPE SHE'LL BE OKAY... but also yeah um. rip fred and gar #bc their mom dipped. like to find garfs dad yeah but like. girl :((( but also the implications of How she had fred is. :((( honestly. maybe #for the best that that woman lost her memories.#fribal (theresias uncle) is only ranked that high bc he at least shows REGRET for his actions.... he apologizes to theresia as he dies..#the juukuliuses all seem like they were alright. rip daisy and klein though they died in that flood when julius was a kid ;-;;;#alviero is only present for like one scene in a side story but like. he seems alright. he def cares given he and his wife took in julius #after julius's parents died. and also alviero and maria have been taking care of joshua and julius... so they DO care but i dont think #alviero was perfect just judging off of. you know. how julius and joshua have turned out lajdslfjs. alviero is so gaslight gatekeep girlbos #and like overly concerned with how he comes off to others that you can see where joshua and julius got that shit from HAH.#heinkel is only up that high on the list bc felix's parents and roswaal exist. like its very hard to beat that LMAO T^T #and yeah rem and rams parents did not give a shit about either of them ngl.#rezero #WAIT I FORGOT TO COUNT RYUZU. SHOULD I HAVE COUNTED RYUZU?? PROBABLY RIGHT???

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todayisafridaynight · 1 year

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my copy of judgement lookin kinda crazy yall ngl

#snap chats #CRYING AT THIS #that IS takuya kimura im not just being delirious and he IS playing a prosecutor in this movie. also tsutsumi's in the back hiiii #anyway hi i just watched Hero SP :)#i tried to find Princess Toyotomi but it wasnt available on any of the sites i checked #that being said im really glad i was able to watch this movie tho !!#shit had me CACKLING #ALSO SURPRISE STAR HARUKA AYASE???? i love her...#AAND NAOKO IIJIMA ??????#my fuckin ja dropped i loved her in kinpika...#but yeah i loved the movie- it wasnt only funny at times but it was genuinely engaging #even if i already suspected why takita committed murder it was still great watching everything go down #and it was great watching everyone interact and to see tsugaru and izumitani become more engrossed with their work #seeing tsutsumi in that fuckin fishin gear had me crying tho just the harsh cut to it #CHRIST. dont even get me started on the implication tsugaru has five of the same suit and tie at home #like bro 😭😭#NAKAI WAS LOVELY he wasnt super in the movie but the whole confession scene had me weak brothers #that was a great scene.... everything was great UGH i love crime movies #just watching everything come together and seeing everyone work so hard #such a good movie tysm tenno for telling me about it #OK I HAVE TO GO THO I HAVE TO DRIVE HOME AND ITS DARK WEEHHHHHHH #i see the asks in my inbox and id love to sit and talk- esp bout this movie-#but i really gotta go. ill get to the asks later #for now bye byeee

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flowers-that-sing · 10 months

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"baby, if it feels good, then it can't be bad"

(a post s3 steve harrington songfic based on Gibson Girl by Ethel Cain)

TWs// sexual content, dubious consent to put it lightly but it's more implied to be sexual assault, past csa, grooming, it's not super detailed (the csa much less so, and told through memories where steve doesn't even exactly know what's happening), but like. you know. it's pretty bad. referenced physical abuse. referenced past incestual sexual abuse. alcohol consumption, smoking. lightly implied drugging.

also, disclaimer: this is all told through steve's eyes—the way he sees things is very warped, his relationship with sex is unhealthy to say the least, and just because he's saying he feels good does not mean that anything that happens in this is good. it isn't. nothing about this is good or healthy at all.

She approached him in the dark behind the bar, where Steve was half-considering lighting up in spite of his promise of quitting to Robin. He had drank enough that it didn't seem to matter. She had leather pants on, and sunglasses, despite the dark.

"Corey Hart fan?" he asked lightly. She didn't bother to answer.

"Just saw you leave the bar. I'm glad you stuck around."

Steve didn't recognize her, and she didn't seem to recognize him either. She was dragging her eyes across his body, and Steve was suddenly all-too conscious of his scars on display, his sweat-melted hair wax.

He was sick of it, he was sick of feeling ugly, and this girl had desire in her eyes. Steve was craving desire.

And he was craving thrill. His thoughts had been rapid all week, his body more fidgety, his stomach constantly filled with bees and his energy so high he hadn't needed more than a couple hours of sleep a night. He had so much time in every day, but nothing to fill it with besides the monotony of work, and he needed adrenaline. There weren't any monsters to fight now, and there weren't any basketball games to play since high school, and he needed the feeling. The melting, excruciating, nauseating excitement, racing heart, the feeling of something about to happen, the fear, the risk.

"You came alone to me—from however far away," he mused, lighting his cigarette, delicately placing it between his lips, exhaling into her face.

"How'd you know?" she asked with a grin.

You're all the same.

Steve shrugged. "Lucky guess."

She stepped in, so he could feel her breath on his face. "You gonna buy me a drink?"

Steve put the cig out on his thigh. He didn't feel the burn. "I was just about to ask."

If I'm still walking straight, I need another drink anyway.

They went inside together, sat back at the bar. Steve opened a new tab.

By the time he had a glass of whiskey in his hand, she had a hand on his thigh. She didn't even pretend to drink the vodka she'd ordered, and he was still downing his last gulp of whiskey when she pushed it into his hand with a little half-smile. He drank it.

The lights were bleeding all over him.

He felt a hand in his back pocket, and when he looked up, she was pulling cash out of his wallet.

You wanna love me right now?

"You wanna get alone with me?" Steve asked. Her eyes were bright, and she nodded, pulling him to his feet and all but dragging him out of the bar. He wasn't exactly sure when he'd gotten there, but he was in the trunk of a car, the backseats folded down to make room. "You wanna get my clothes off and hurt me?"

He hadn't meant to say 'hurt.' But she just laughed and grinned, and ripped his clothes off.

☤

"Baby, if it feels good, then it can't be bad," Lynn says. Steve's eight now, beginning to question if it was wrong. He's remembering his Sunday school teacher talking about how nakedness was wrong, or something. And a new word, he doesn't know what it means. 'Chastity.'

Lynn's touching him, she says it's to make him feel good. He doesn't really know how he feels. It reminds him a little of his grandfather, but Lynn's a woman, and she's not family, so it's different. It's better. If he closes his eyes and lets himself sink into it, he likes it. Is he supposed to like it? Lynn says he's supposed to like it.

He tells her he does, and opens his eyes when she's done, and she's smiling. She promises him a new teddy bear. But for right now, it's his turn to make her feel good.

☤

Steve likes to think he's a good person now, but he knows he's still a whore, and he can't deny the high that comes with being immoral in a stranger's lap. He's kissing over her chest and grinding down onto her leather pants, and she's digging her nails into his back. He still doesn't even know her name. She doesn't know his. Maybe it's better that way.

She hasn't taken off more than her shirt still, but he's fully naked. It's dark, the only light coming from a dim greenish streetlamp outside the car, and he thinks maybe she can't see his scars, but she's running her hands over the scar on his chest, from where the Russian guards had cut him open. She looks at it with something he can't quite decipher. It almost looks like fascination, but he knows that isn't it. Her eyes are wide, her pupils dilated.

Ah. Desire.

"You know, I was serious about hurting me. You wanna add some more?"

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"I'm in love with your body. That's why I'm fucking it up." Steve listens to Lynn's voice from where she sits on the back of his legs. He is on his stomach, face turned to the side so he can breathe. He can’t see her. He sees his disorientingly patterned wall. He smells rosewater and orange zest, and his head feels fuzzy. Something hurts. Everything hurts. He doesn’t think about it too much. He just focuses on the warmth, the heat from the points of contact between him and his babysitter, the sweat in the backs of his knees, on his upper lip. The bedsheets are damp. It’s itchy.

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Steve tasted his own blood on her teeth as she bit his upper lip. He was starting to see colors in the spaces where she'd been after she moved. And then his face was between her thighs, and when had her pants even come off at all? His heart was racing, exactly like he'd wanted, and his body was wracked with tremors. He listened to the music coming from her lips, the moans rising from her chest, and his heart leapt. I did that. I'm making her feel good.

His arms felt a bit numb as he reached up to rub his thumbs into her hips. She was panting hard, and he was giddy.

"Oh, fuck—you really are special, baby," she hissed.

Steve's eyes widened, watered, and he whimpered against her.

I'm special. She said I'm special.

Steve was going to ride this high for at least a week. He was desirable, wanted, special. He basked in her attention, even if he knew he wouldn't see her again after tonight.

He felt like he was being shown something he could never have. Something he'd searched for all his life. For a second, he could pretend it was love. Love for his brain and his scars and his body. Him taking all of her attention and giving back anything she wanted in return. Just to feel special. He'd do anything.

Because that's what love was, right? Love, want, attention, specialness, was just tied to sex. Maybe his parents didn't love him since they couldn't fuck him. His grandfather loved him, his babysitter loved him, and for one night at a time, anyone could love him. And growing up, it was the only way he was really touched, with affection, at least. In ways other than a beating.

He knew that wasn't right, because him and Robin loved each other. He loved the kids—never in that way, ever, and he still loved them. It was a different kind of love. But then, it was another different kind he was looking for, anyway. Maybe he was ungrateful. But he was hungry for attention, for someone to call him special, to want him around, he was starving for it.

His thoughts weren't making much sense anymore.

She was holding him in her lap, his boxers were back on, he was resting his head on her shoulder. He assumed she'd finished at some point, he didn't remember, and he knew he hadn't, but he hadn't really wanted to anyway.

He was drooling, and he couldn't stop himself, and he couldn't see much, but her body was warm. He crawled closer, squirmed in tighter. It felt good to be held. He felt good.

He woke up almost naked on the sidewalk in the sun with drool pooling at his chin and the rest of his clothes on a pile next to him.

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carnivalcarriondiscarded · 6 months

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I'm piggybacking a bit off of the last ask of asking for writing tips but I have an odd question... Am I the only person that struggles actually PICKING a book? It's the absolute bane of my existence because I feel like I can be so picky... Don't get me wrong, I love being a bookworm, and I'm trying to get back into reading physical books but it's so difficult to find a real taste of what the book is like without being completely spoiled or something... I miss when backs of books had an actual summary and not just NO.1 NEW YORK BESTSELLER!!!! It's so frustrating... I've been trying to get back into it by re-reading fond chapter childhood books read to me (The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane & A Wrinkle In Time). But at the same time I'm also trying to get into more "adult" books that isn't... Well, you try googling "adult books" and see how that goes, I didn't think too hard about what a poor decision THAT was. But I'm working up the courage to read Cat's Cradle right now to start with "Classic Authors" I guess!

Anyway I'm rambling here, I guess my question is... How do you pick out the books you read? I don't really have friends that read many books to recommend to me :')

Thank you in advance, Bog! I hope you get a callback from that interview soon!

no ok actually you've mentioned something that's been bothering me for a while - What The Hell Do Y'all Mea, Books Don't Have Summaries Anymore???? i have not once in my life found a book that didn't have a summary. i was in barnes & noble recently and everything i looked at had a summary. i have literally never seen a book without one in my life of reading & looking at new books on a regular basis

softcovers have theirs on the back. hardcovers are on the inside of the sleeve - lift the cover and it should be printed right there on the inside flap! summaries aren't legally required but both the author and Especially the publisher(s) know that no one's gonna buy a book without a summary. trust me, all books worth reading have a summary. if a book doesn't have one, it's probably not worth your time anyway. you just gotta know where to look!

so my answer to how i choose books... i read the summary lmao. if it seems interesting, ill either write it down to get later or ill get it there and then.

Before the summary though, i look for any titles that jump out at me from the shelf. then i look at the thickness. i like a bit of meat in my literature, so i tend to shy away from thinner books. thicker ones grab my attention more easily. then i look at the cover - if it interests me, then ill read the summary. i don't have specific tastes in title or cover. as long as it makes my brain "hm" thoughtfully, ill take a gander!

and really, if you have access to a bookstore (chain or not, ive found plenty of bangers in tiny used bookshops) or library, the best way to find a book is to physically browse. even if you dont buy anything, you can take pictures of books / write them down to buy online. but going to the store lets you search them out, examine the length, cover, title, summary - and easily put it back on the shelf or keep it. i hate shopping online bc there's ads, you can't examine the product, nothing really stands out since it's all portrayed similarly, there's limited pictures instead of the physical thing, and photos can lie.

plus, everything is (typically) meticulously sorted by genre & age range. when you go into a section with literature aimed at adults, you'll find exactly that instead of smut novels lmao. real life bookstores can be more accurate than online searches. & there's just something so good about walking through shelves, searching for that one book before you know it exists, smelling the paper... yeah...

#like for example i recently bought priory of the orange tree #ive been wanting it for a while and havent read it yet since im finishing something else #BUT! i remember when i first saw it #nothing had gotten my attention for a while #but then i saw the thickest fucking book ive seen in ages - which was automatically very sexy of it #and then the title was unique - priory of the orange tree??? whoah! what the fuck does that mean!!!#so automatically there was the interest of neat title + a new word that i get to learn + the implications of the word now that i understand #and then i picked the book up and it was deliciously heavy - & there was a Dragon on the cover. which. YES PLEASE #then the summary was fascinating!! the book was immediately seared into my brain! im very excited to read it #so thats a highly successful example of my book choosing Process #it checked all of my boxes so it was a win #most books dont check all of my boxes but as long as it hits most of them im down to clown yk yk #but yeah im picky too so! nothing wrong with being picky or having high standards!#rambles from the bog #my shelves are fuckin Full of books ranging from 'it was ok' to 'I WILL RECOMMEND THIS TO ALL WHO WILL LISTEN'#and then i have a drawer filled with books that i just could not care less about / dont like #but dont have the heart to throw away bc. well putting a book in the trash kills a part of my soul #i need to donate them...#but yes! i hope that helps!#and Thank You! i hope i get a callback as well...

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sonknuxadow · 8 months

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in maria’s defense, she was just a child who had yet to understand the inherit evils of the government until it was too late

yeah i know that, im not blaming it on her or anything its just ironic to hear the character who would literally be killed by them talk about how brave they are and stuff

#asks #one detail i dont like about shadow the hedgehog is how they try to convince the player that gun are the good guys #and its not just marias dialogue that implies this #in the morality system attacking gun soldiers is an inherently bad action that makes your dark meter go up #and sometimes when you attack them while working with hero characters theyll scold you for it #like ''hey what are you doing theyre on our side'' or ''stop those are the good guys'' or ''they didnt do anything wrong leave them alone''#all this is especially annoying when theyre doing it in the game where shadow is the main character #you know. the guy whos whole tragic backstory was caused by gun being shitty and corrupt #also even in shth where they try to tell us gun is good theyre still constantly shooting at you no matter whos side youre on #yeah real heroic behavior there (sarcasm)#and i GET that alongside the black arms and eggmans robots #they needed an ''army'' of sorts of generic hero characters that could show up in the levels and stuff that had some connection to shadow #and gun was probably the only thing they could think of #but still. dont really like the implications there

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neurotypical-sonic · 1 year

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do you think when they're older tails and amy sneak off together and get matching tattoos. all they have to do is keep them hidden until the fur grows back and then No One Can Tell

#lots of thoughts about mobians with tattoos. most furred mobians simply dont bother unless its like. in their ear or something #HOWEVER i fucking refuse to like draw them with ear tattoos just because of the implications. like in the context of what that means irl #but yeah they get matching tattoos because they are friends and they love each other :)#egg.txt #amy #tails #amy&tails #sonicposting

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cycle-hit · 29 days

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however also interesting that she's still choosing not to live with her family. especially since im kinda convinced her grandma + parents + older brother all live together. her mother being a housewife could signal that her family's more traditional- which makes her grandma being mentioned an interesting detail.

the intergenerational model of "the younger generation takes care of the older" isnt as common in japan as it used to be but it definitely was common! at some point! and family's still a pretty important part of life in japan even without that! if kotoko's family leans on being more traditional its likely her grandma lives with her parents, supported by her father. and her older brother would live with their parents to support both their parents and their grandmother. i have no idea why ive absorbed this into my brain so solidly as canon when its entirely possible that might not be the case.

but anyways. if that rings true it means kotoko is the outlier to this- for some reason she's living separate. why are you alone, kotoko? did you get away? did you "escape"?

#freelancer kotoko is so funny to me i dont know why. like yeah of course you're a freelancer girl.#also sadder to think about- kotoko couldve been FORCED to leave. and of course theres always an option that kotoko is just Living Very-#-Normally On Her Own! No Other Reasons! Ignore The Implications Of Her Family Structure! And Literally Everything Else! She's So Normal!#freelancer with 33045804358 ear piercings an undercut and is on break from college and lives alone instead of with her family which is comm #-on in japan. expected even. and her family is implied to be traditional. Yeah Shes Normal. For Sure! 👍She Has No Issues With Her Family #Or Anything Else. Ever! Trust! i know what she is. from personal experience. CUT THAT SHIT OUT KOTOKO!!! STOP MAKING ME SEE MYSELF IN YOU!!#anyways. i hope this was coherent #little guy posting #🐺#not maintagged bc i think ill make it more coherent when i wake up maybe

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