#as we've been doing for a long time now

[ask-the-totally-real-peppino]

Happy Holidays to Pep and the gang!

Pep: "..."

Pep: "Mrrp!"

Pep: "Niaga uoy ees ot deticxe ma I!!! Syadiloh yppah!!! Sdneirf olleh!!!"

Pep: "Kool emoc! Enoyreve rof staert gnikam yad lla ysub neeb ev'ew!"

Pep: "Olleh yas sdneirf ruo! Kcirb ,kool kool!"

Brick: *happy greeting squeak!*

Pep: "Enoyreve rof eikooc a edam ew! Kool!"

Pep: "Sdneirf, uoy rof tsuj eno laiceps a s'ereht dna!"

(Happy holidays to you too! Everyone can't be here right now, but I hope you guys enjoy a little bonus post for now, hehe)

#pizza tower #fake peppino #brick the rat #peppino and gus are here but I am not gonna tag them #also not gonna tag all the cookie characters #translation: “Hello friends!!! Happy holidays!!! I am excited to see you again!!!” #“We've been busy all day making treats for everyone! Come look!” #“Look look Brick! Our friends say hello!” #“Look! We made a cookie for everyone!” #“And there's a special one just for you friends!” #bonus story post #that'll be the tag for now #probably worth mentioning that this is a few months after where the current story is #hence cookies of Vigi and Pepperman #also probably too detailed for real cookies but I do not care #Pep is so talented he can do anything like detailed cookie art #and Brick too she helped #ALSO ALSO YOU CAN'T SEE IT #but Brick's sweater says 'Merry Cheesemas' and I need you to know this #okay enjoy the post I spent too long on making those cookies it's time for bed

[jinxofthecipher]

As someone who hasn't considered the ship of ichigo and byakuya in more than a "oh that'd be an interesting ship", getting to the whole fullbringer arc really made me interested.

Like Tsukishima is able to place himself in memories and shit, which he does with the important people Ichigo has in his life. And all these people, Ichigo's family, his close friends, and the girl who loves him, instantly turn on him when Ichigo attacks Tsukishima.

The people who care the most about Ichigo and trust him with their lives are unable to break out of the ability or even question it. Orihime and Chad do try and fight it near the end but even they don't manage it before being removed from the situation entirely.

Tsukishima does this too with Byakuya and yet, out of all Ichigo's friends and family, it's Byakuya who actually goes against the enemies ability and cuts him down because anyone who dares to hurt Ichigo, even if they're a friend, must be cut down. And he does this almost instantaneously, without mulling it over unlike Chad and Orihime who only started to question things later.

That's just. . . Very interesting that out of everyone, it was Byakuya who would do such a thing, especially since, up to this point, we've not seen a lot between him and Ichigo.

Anyway I can see why my friend was a bit obsessed with these two when she was reading the manga. I can certainly see the potential even more now than I did and I certainly did earlier.

#yeah yeah I'm late to the party. #i read bleach a long time ago and stopped before the fullbringer arc cause the manga wasn't done and I decided to wait till it was and then #promptly forgot about it till this year cause I've been in the middle of like 50 manga titles #bleach is still definitely up there in my top five favs though. I love it #this couple though is just so interesting. I wish they got more attention now that I'm seeing the possibilities #im sure someone will point out that it doesn't mean shit and byakuya is doing it for 'some other reason' but I don't care too much. #I just think it's an interesting difference between byakuya and Ichigo's family and friends #bleach #byakuya kuchiki #ichigo kurosaki #byaichi #fullbringer arc #tsukishima shukuro #don't mind me obsessing over bleach in my little corner. it's normal #especially since all we've seen with Ichigo and byakuya is their fight. no downtime or anything between em and byakuya has THIS reaction?? #kinda love it to be honest with ya #i think it's one of my favorite scenes from the arc now that I think about it. plus I've been obsessing over this entire scene for like a wk

[homuncvlus]

Buy me a coffee

THIS HAS BEEN SITTING IN MY DRAFTS FOR LIKE TWO HOURS ASKING FOR THINGS IS LITERALLY MY WORST FEAR BUT FUCK IT WE BALL

my mum could really use £30-40 for groceries. We've spent a lot of money fixing stuff this month like replacement pipes and central heating (that really should be our landlord's responsibility..). She only has £150 left but we've still got bills to pay later this month so not much to spend on food and other necessities. Universal credit + her wage doesn't get paid until the end of the month (something is coming next week too but idr) 🥲

Usually we ask family and close friends for borrowing money but no one has been able to lend any aaa

No pressure to donate whatsoever — but if you have some extra money, any support would be greatly appreciated mwah <3

#minimum wage paired with her being a single parent and all that isn't really the best combination but eh #If it weren't for everything breaking at once I wouldn't have to ask #Anyway I need to shit on my landlord for a sec because I'm so pissed off #He doesn't fix anything (or at least takes a long time — he's been “fixing” our fence for thr past 4 years because its soo expensive and #otherwise he can't go on his quarterly holiday 🥺) #And he still has the audacity to raise rent every year when we've been renting for 10+ years now and never missed a payment #How do you go from £900 to £1500 a month for 2 bedrooms #We even pay a day in advance just in case something doesn't work or we can't pay later #But the one time she payed at 10 in the morning on the day he automatically started asking if its been transferred bc he can't see it #Even though its any time during the 24h and then the grace period #Its in the contract that YOU WROTE erm #Maybe stuff wouldn't be breaking all the time if you actually invested in high quality pieces #When we signed the first contract he literally bought the house 2 days prior and didn't renovate anything lmao #lasar being incoherent

[july-19th-club]

love an ending that is 'happy' in that a desirable outcome is produced, but made complicated by the fact that the protagonist has given up something integral to themself in order to make it so. it's sort of uncool in some circles to admit you LIKE when characters give up something really cool for something pretty basic, but it's all about context and quality of storytelling, right? that sort of conviction - this is a part of my personality that i am permanently renouncing access to, and it's my choice, and i'm going to miss it, but i'm not going to regret it - that's compelling. ending in which a character who loves nothing more than the rush of finding the answer to a question is handed, one day, a puzzle they just don't want to solve. and that part of their life is over, but it's not a bad thing. maybe the answer doesn't need to be known. maybe not knowing it opens you up to a creative mindset you never had before. character who gains some kind of special power chooses to give it up not because they no longer love the ability, not because it hasn't improved their life, but because this thing they love comes with costs, is getting in the way of a life someone they love or loved and lost would want them to live. i'm glad it turned out this way. i miss the missing thing with all my heart. i would let go of it again if i was asked to choose.

#stories where people give up something beautiful to live ordinary lives because there's something in the ordinary life they want more #a very common variant of this is of course the 'immortal character renounces their lifespan for a mortal lover' plot #which is fine and all #but i like more nuanced versions . like my tobias animorphs epilogue idea where he and his mother reconnect more permanently #and one day when he's at her house they have a long. long talk. about what he is going to do now. it's been years but he's still #in this holding pattern of grief and solitude. but his mother is his one anchor to the world of humanity. and she's not getting any younger #and hawk lifespans aren't getting any longer. and they spent so much time away from each other #and he says. i miss her like an amputation mom. how do you keep going? #and she says. not missing your father because i didn't know that i loved him and he was gone was worse #and she asks hm if he's sure he could be human again. if he could give up his hard-earned flexibility of form #and he says we've been sitting here talking for three hours. little late to second-guess it now #this got away from me . but you see my vision #writing tag #animorphs i guess also lol #q

[polkadotpatterson]

okeydoke as I have not had much energy for working on stuff lately (but lots of motivation) I'm not gonna do proper NaNo with a wordcount or anything, BUT I am gonna make it a goal to get some amount of work done on a writing project every day (at least until I go away on the 24th). Main priority blaseball projects are, in no particular order:

Fic about the ending

Abner fic

Simon's Quest

secret fic(s) :)

get the Talkers exchange set up

Aside from that, I've been poking at more non-blaseball stuff, which is a good excuse for me to plug my writing blog @cyndakip! All my fics get posted there, so if you're interested in my writing beyond just blaseball (especially if you like pokemon), I recommend following me there, since I don't post non-blaseball fics here.

#I'm in a weird place rn where the end of blb is coinciding with me finally feeling ready to get back to nuzlockes #and I very much want to keep writing blb fics! it's just complicated by me getting smacked over the head with pokemon motivation #and separate from that I think it's just been hard for me to work on blb fics knowing that it's over #writing the ending fic in particular means confronting that. and I definitely haven't fully processed it yet and idk when I will #I really truly do want to keep writing blb fics for a long time but I worry there will be not much of an audience anymore #and I know that doesn't matter. I'm gonna write what I want and I know some people will still read it. but yknow. it's rough #also my relationship with pokemon and the nuzlocke community has been really fucking complicated these past few years #to the point where I stopped engaging altogether bc it was stressing me out too much and I had lost all confidence in my writing #this happened to be right before I got into blb. which came along at the perfect time and gave me the community & confidence boost I needed #now it kinda feels like we've come full circle. blb has changed me and now I'm ready to go back with a whole new attitude #I just don't want these two things to be mutually exclusive! I want both! but that's easier said than done #especially bc I haven't had enough energy to work on much of either lately! I want to say things are getting better on that front but #it's complicated. you know how it is with human bodies. treacherous things #the thing is I don't want to waste this. I feel ready for pokemon again and god I missed it and I'm gonna ride this wave of motivation #if I had more energy this would be less of a problem. ah well #gonna get all this done sooner or later #talking moistly

[fungi-maestro]

fuck it we bingle

this is so true. fuck it we bingle.

#seal.txt #anon #ask #maia arson crimew #i will say that now that we've had our fun. we need to focus on the actually horrifying information revealed by crimew #it did the legwork now we need to take it seriously enough to do something #the united states is on the precipice of disaster that has been a long time coming #current events

[ikosburneraccount]

thinking back to my tlc posts in 2015-16 i was soooooo valid for calling kai “emperor foot fetish.” like i genuinely thought i was being dramatic or dragging tf out of the foot jokes but no. even in retrospect kai is still unhinged for hoarding her foot like he is no less insane than i remember him being like 7 (BARF) years ago 

#the last time i was this active in the fandom i was literally 14 *sob emoji* #my reread of this entire series was literally triggered by this assignment i had to do for my 1 credit college class #and the assignment was to make a 'past journey map' where we talk about the stuff that shaped us as people #and i put the lunar chronicles on there but i assumed no one would recognize it because this series is pretty niche #and i showed it to my friend as a joke but she recognized the series and we BOTH WERENT EXPECTING THAT #so now we're in the process of rereading #im mostly done and she's about to finish scarlet #and we've managed to convince three of our other mutual friends to start reading the series #like i haven't been this excited about something in sooooooooooo long #and rereading has made me soooooo nostalgic but i promise you this is so much better than the fandom was 7 years ago #like it was actually unhinged. i found a post arguing to tag kiko as kinko because the kiko tag was full of other content #literally was fighting grown adults on this website at 13 #adults romanticizing cresswell. ADULTS FULLY GROWN 20+ CAREER ADULTS #like there was <200 lunar chronicles fanfics on ao3 #lovelunarchron had the fandom in a CHOKEHOLD #this is pre-eerna too #the lunar chronicles #mine #prince kai

[thebleedingeffect]

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#okay I'm talking in the tags of this post cause shit is happening in my life and I gotta talk about it somewhere #one part of it is my step brother crashing and burning before my very eyes and there's nothing I can do to stop his own destructive actions #so it's just me watching this poor kid ruin his relationships and blame everything and everyone around him as he does so #despite the fact that he's undeniably been treated horribly at times- he's just turned that anger back onto others and himself #and I have no idea what to feel as I watch him get arrested. have drug problems. because I'm just waiting for the inevitable spiral #it doesn't help that my mom has been comparing us and saying that I'm the much better child and she wishes he was like me #not understanding that I could’ve been him if I was just more angry at the world at that age instead of being so sad and scared #and that leads me to my fucking mom cause like- I love her. we've been through alot of bad shit with her #I've almost done some really bad shit for her and I know that she loves me more than anything else #but it feels like its been getting more and more suffocating cause I'm not sure she's able to start seeing me as an adult #and start loosening her grip around me and let me breathe. to have my own experiences without her by my side #to be able to go places and imagine a future without her constantly by my side #she talks and it's like she doesn't even think to wonder that perhaps I want to form my own experiences #and experience the world on my own terms because I feel like I've spent my whole life having so little damn control #religious family. shit and neglectful father who turned into the exact opposite and nearly killed me. family who refuses to listen and talk #having to move and run immediately. put survival above all else. go to school. get out. and god I just wanna breathe #she loves me so much and I love her too. but I feel like I'll be sooner crushed if I stick here for long enough #I'm just mad that my life has been nothing but absolutely no love. sudden waves of intense love. absolutely nothing. sudden spike #and I feel like I'm just finally starting to form good. healthy relationships on my own terms and actually make friends #because I had no idea what I was doing when I was a kid cause I was so fucking lonely and hurting #now I just. gotta figure out how to tell my mom that I can't carry this expectation that I'll continue to stay forever by her side #it just feels like I'm her child first and a person second. and it sucks. it really sucks. #ough. spins and spins and spins and spins-

[thethingything]

managed to nap for a few hours and wake up at around the time we'd actually normally wake up if we went to bed at the right time which is great but also god it's nice to wake up at the right time and realise it's still light and sunny outside

#personal #thoughts #🍬 post #happy posting #we keep getting that thing of like ''oh it feels like this time last year'' #but this year up to now feels way longer. like I'm guessing because we've been trying to do different stuff and vary the things we do #it's probably made it feel like time's going slower so it feels like it's been longer? maybe? #which is interesting and also exactly what I was hoping for because I hate the feeling of the months passing by so quickly #also we started putting together a little cleaning schedule and preparing for the summer SAD symptoms we get #because apparently late March/early April is when we suddenly go ''I can get my shit together now'' #but also planning for summer in advance last year seemed to help and we're trying to use what we learnt from that to help this year too #it's kind of fun learning what makes us feel good both in terms of what's fun and what improves our mental health in the long run

[go-saeng]

thinking of making sth for skz's anniversary and i can't believe they've made sooo much music.

#like damn we've been here for a LONG LONG time #3-4 albums per year CRAZY #also is throwing me of how do i gfx now HAHAHA #shutup kashi

[nexus-nebulae]

wait i just realised something i think we defeated our self-fakeclaiming finally

#cause we havent been able to really Do system stuff for like a month #and have been really closed off from the system overall #so we've had barely any activity from it #but somehow that hasn't made us start doubting ourselves yet #we finally 100% accept that we're plural and aren't afraid of Doing It Wrong anymore #bc we haven't like. self-fakeclaimed in a while. that thing where I'm like OHHHH I'M TOTALLY FAKING I'M A HORRIBLE PERSON #even though my sysmates are all standing around me like m8. we're right here #i think the discovering the stuff from when we were younger and getting direct evidence that this was a thing for like. years #the fact that without a doubt we were a system for at LEAST 5 years before the syscovery #and honestly as a child had such plural tendencies #like. i don't think imaginary friends are supposed to get THAT complex. Or have long ongoing plots that *I* forget about but *they* don't #like Matt had a broken arm for three months??? and every time i expected him to reappear Fixed he just wasn't???? #or id have like. Big crowded conversations with all of them at once. similar to times when we're all cofronting now

[united-under-skyfall]

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#i think one thing i really didn't prepare for w overnights is just how fucking lonely it is. like yeah 80% of the reason i took it was to #get away from customers but like. it worked. and the night shift team is v v small. there's only 4 of us and we've never been scheduled all #at once yet. and usually we're running around on completely opposite ends of the building going long periods of time without #radioing each other. and then i come home all amped up and the rest of my house is still asleep. and then when they wake up #it's just to get ready and go and we don't really have time to talk. and by the time they get back i'm sleeping #and it's my first night off and i can't fuck up my whole schedule i worked so hard to switch over to w them flipping me all over the place #so now i'm just like. sitting in the half light trying not to wake anybody up not doing anything. the only places near us open are #gas stations and i can't exactly loiter there and what would i do even if i could. and it's too cold to go for a walk or to the park #or something. and i feel like i haven't talked to another human being about something that wasn't related to work in years #and it's only been a week. #and we can listen to music or podcasts or something but our carts and machines are so loud you miss half of it. and we can't hold #super long conversations when we ARE in the same room for the same reasons. plus we all want to die so none of us feel like talking. #and just. im tired and lonely and want to sleep and im already regretting this but i'd feel bad for backing out now when they have so #few options and i volunteered for it in the first place #and then there's also like. even just doing my usual solitary thing at home feels so much more isolated bc there's not the noises #of other people existing nearby. the nearest signs of life are some coughing and then a car on the other side of the block #just. what am i even doing here. #tag ramble

[vioshortforviolence]

#I will honestly be so sad if we can't pet the doggies #we've been asking for so long now #please nintendo 🥺 #I hope the dogs will have more things they can do this time than just finding buried chests #and I hope we can still summon wolf link! 🐺 #loz #loz totk #the legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom

[vagalumess]

A friend of mine is graduating, but she knows i won't be able to be there cause I'm flooded with exams until january and she just

messaged me saying she's gonna print a picture of me and take it so i can be there with her i???? the honor?? 😭

#im so exhausted ive barely been able to process but just #im so grateful like #we've been apart for so long now but she still #orz #man having friends is such a rollercoaster idk if i can take it #being tossed aside by 10+ friendships over their recently acquired boyfriends #meanwhile someone i spent a year with is doing this #i took some time away from most cause i needed to focus on my studies and also bc so many of them disappointed me #in a way or another #meanwhile there is her and #one that i havent talked in a while messaging me to gift me art for my birthday #honestly :') #the majority of what i considered my friends making me want to give up on friendships #meanwhile 3 people holding that falling building #i wonder if they noticed #if i manage to get out of this hole #these 3 will have been my lifeline #my last line of defense #it's so interesting #the ones holding me rn arent the ones i expected #im so grateful #i hope I'll be more grateful in the future #rn it's tough #geez this got long #i used to live trusting friendships but i realize i cant do that #but it's nice to have them #personal #i should probably delete this later

[varjopeura]

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#is it even possible to end a dnd campaign without crying??? #like yes the story is coming to an end and i've known that for a long time. even informed my players about it in the summer #but now that the final boss territory is very close at hand i only have two modes: #a) crying about how happy i am to have had these wonderful players at the table. how lucky we've all been to experience this thing together #and b) crying about how terrifying moving on will be. will there be a new campaign after this? is anyone willing to continue #with me as their dm? #(one of the players is Very likely to drop off once the campaign ends. she moved to a different city during these years and #playing remotely has been really tough for all of us. having even one of the players Not There just makes things very hard) #(and because of that i'm worried about the other ones too. if the group is already losing an entire person who knows who'll stay after it) #i'm afraid to talk about The Future with them before the game actually ends #cause y'know. what if it turns out they'd rather not do this thing anymore after this one ends? would it make things weird until the end? #would *I* make things weird?? #idk i'm just. tangled in my head. happy about this wonderful game and terrified of the social aspects of doing it with other people #is there like. a good guide book or something about gracefully ending a very long rpg campaign? #sussitalk

[grinchwrapsupreme]

Hi its me your boss. Just came to say i know i didnt train or support or guide you at any step in the process but why did you fuck it up so bad lol are you stupid or something? Ok good luck fixing it bye

#gonna tear my boss's head off #just 2 more weeks i just have to get through 2 more weeks #i literally just asked if there could be time to test something i the theatre we're actually going to be in #and instead of giving me a time we could probably do it #he said it should have been done here where its free instead of in a building where it costs 300 bucks #and i pointed out we did try it here we just dont have the space or equipment to do it properly which means we couldnt do nearly enough in #the time provided he told me yeah he was surprised at how long it took and i should have been more organized in what i gavethe tech #like hello??? we did the best we could inthetime and space allowed #i gavehim everything he needed and ittook forever to do because the space and equipment #is NOT designed to do what we need to do #and you scheduled it so we only had an hour to try it out #and you havethe fucking audacity to complein that we didnt try itthe way you wanted to try it like #babe #you were inthe room why didnt you suggest it or ask or literally do anything but stand there thinking about how you cld have done it better #like my position is literally designed for me to learn from you so can you fucking teach me something? please? #instead of treating me like an autonomous arm that does the stuff you dont want to do? #im literally sitting here asking for your help and you use it as an excuse to tell me how badly i did fuck you #'can we try it on site?' 'you should have gotten it done here :^/' okay??? and???? we're here now #we've reached thispoint #so can we PLEASE just push forward unless you actually want to act like the mentor youre supposed to be #anyways sorry im really looking forward to being done at this job