#babbling nonsense

[inkbarista]

Ngl you can really tell the gap between new users and old users with this Reigen vs Cecil Palmer poll because like 80% of the notes I saw voting for Reigen don't even know who Cecil is lol

On top of that they don't know the influence he had on Tumblr or the fact that he was one of the most loved gay characters in 2012-2013 which was HUGE at the time. Reigen is a fun character but Cecil is one of the OG sexymen. I did not sit there and see every single lanky, 3 eyed, tentacle white Cecils for YEARS for him to lose here jshrkajdksmd

Anyways vote Cecil LOL

#babbling nonsense #i should not be this invested but all these guys with the audacity to say 'know your roots' talking about Reigen got me steamed l

[cluelesspigeons]

This is written for the song ‘Constellations’ by The Oh Hellos from @drarrymicrofic

Word count: 101

Drarry microfic: babbling nonsense

“And right next to the Draco constellation, you can see a part of Hercules and above that the Swan...” Draco trailed off. He glanced at Harry, at the curls covering his forehead and those green eyes that had a faraway look in them.

“You’re not listening anymore, are you?” he asked.

Harry turned to look at him, his expression sheepish. “I’m sorry. I guess I got lost in my thoughts.”

Draco shook his head, a soft smile tugging at the edges of his mouth. He leaned forward and placed a kiss on Harry’s cheek. “It’s okay. I was babbling nonsense anyway.”

Prompt from November 1st

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#drarry #drarrymicrofic #drarry microfic #drarry fic #drarry fanfic #drarry fanfiction #draco malfoy #harry potter #draco x harry #harry x draco #my writing #cp writes #cluelesspigeons #november 2022 #constellations #lost in thought #babbling #babbling nonsense #stargazing

[inthegloomglow]

The way he’s already dead and the Duffers couldn’t even let us have the ‘Dear Billy’ ep without ruining it.

#billy hargrove #and I have no clue what the actors are doing #babbling nonsense

[anghraine]

I'm feeling like supporting some women's wrongs! (And rights, but definitely also wrongs.)

#anghraine babbles #poll nonsense #thought of going more tournament style but i'm too lazy :P #carmilla #vittoria corombona #mary crawford #austen blogging #attolia irene #catra #she ra and the princesses of power #this is an attolia irene appreciation blog #tar ancalimë #legendarium blogging #lucrezia borgia #political shenanigans and codependent siblings #procne #the metamorphoses #miranda lawson #the adventures of space redacted #cersei lannister #asoiaf #kuvira #avatar: the legend of korra #clytemnestra #the oresteia #man it was hard to choose between mary and ly susan but i had to go with my eternal fave mary

[y-rhywbeth2]

Watching Gortash and his decidedly un-Banite desires to have his authority questioned, valuing and desiring the esteem of another, wanting the Child of Bhaal to step on him: having my Durge rub their bloody little hands over him while looking Bane dead in the eye as they - the barely-divine progeny of his inferior/subordinate - taint his investment/property with disloyal desires and feelings:

Does This Bother You, Lord Bane?

#Bane acts like he isn't bothered while he yells and throws things offscreen because even the most minor dent in his ego is unforgivable #Bhaal gives an expressionless nod of approval #Myrkul is probably willing to overlook the Ketheric incident in favour of giving the Dark Urge a high five #I am still high on this bullshit #...Vel is actually perfectly reverent of Bane as he is with all gods but that's not the point #*I* want to flip Bane off #babbling #/durgetash #/durge #/gortash #the idiot three #the garbage men #villainous nonsense

[kitty-meowskers]

AVENTURINE RAMBLE ALERT!!!

tw: suicidal tendencies/ideation? let me know if i should add anything because im not used to needing to add this stuff- im usually goofy abt him but ive been thinking about this for a while now

aventurine puts quite the emphasis when he tells us that he doesn't make deals he can lose

yet he doesn't seem to hesitate to risk his life, doing it willingly even, like in the final victor light cone where it was down right unnecessary

sorry pal but no sane man would do that, it's almost like he craves to 'lose' one of these gambles, like dying would be a kind of victory in and of itself.

and in a way, taking his backstory into consideration, it does kind of make sense...? he doesn't have anything to live for other than being the sole survivor of the massacre. he was bought as a slave because he was lucky enough to survive. he climbed the ranks because he was lucky enough to win the bets he made, the bets he made in hopes of regaining his freedom. but at some point it wasn't about regaining his freedom anymore. even as one of the stonehearts, all he is is a chip for the ipc. and he's accepted it.

he cant get out of the system (unless he dies) and he's accepted that he's just a tool. it's even mentioned in his first meeting voiceline.

"Your humble servant Aventurine at your disposal, just a cog in the machine called the IPC's Strategic Investment Department. Nevertheless, I can also play the role of friend if needed"

(wow promoted from slave to servant)

before the thrill of the gambles was 'If i win this, i'll finally have a little more freedom' but now it's are 'if i lose this, i'll lose it all' (a part of me considers that this is where kakavasha became aventurine)

he's a coward in his own way to me. i think the majority can agree that this man is suicidal (HE FUCKING ATTEMPTED MULTIPLE TIMES JUST TO 'CHECK' IF YOU COULD ACTUALLY DIE IN THE DREAMSCAPE WTF??) but he's suicidal in the way that although he does want to end his life, he's too scared to do it directly by his own hands.

but also perhaps it's not just fear. as the only avgin left he also feels the burden of making sure his people don't just 'go extinct' (for lack of a better word). his family put so much faith in him before they left. would it really be ok for him to give up like that?

(side note: he mentioned before he didnt really appreciate the rain. perhaps the two are related?)

so instead, comparable to a person who stops checking for cars before crossing the road, he gambles, willingly risking his life, in hopes that his luck will eventually run out by itself...

i love him guys. i promise.

#i feel like i just typed out a whole loadda nonsense #i hope this wasnt too serious or anything... #i feel oddly bad abt posting this #babbles #hsr #honkai star rail #aventurine #hsr aventurine #aventurine hsr #badly written char analysis? #star rail #kakavasha

[carlyraejepsans]

i can imagine DR sans telling toriel a science-based joke, and when she doesn’t understand he tries to explain what the joke means, but it shifts into a full on ramble about quantum physics

sans is lucky he’s got the cougar up stat bonus otherwise idk how the hell toriel wants that guy

are you telling me an elementary school teacher of all people—dispenser of interesting snail facts, the gastropod entusiast herself—would ever fault her new bestie for infodumping about a topic he's clearly passionate about?? FOOL! she would ask him to elaborate and then listen politely while understanding nothing, in part due to sans' own meandering and counterlogical metaphors, but most likely due to her present mind being occupied by thoughts of convenience store based public indecency

#you can't teach kids without having a passion for hearing tiny people chatter nonsensically about stuff that makes them happy. #she doesn't like him in spite of the rambly science babble. she loves him BECAUSE of it #as well as his sense of humor and general buffoonery #she's a goofball as well. it's a shared trait that's common trodden ground between them #answered asks #soriel #sans #toriel #deltarune

[knickynoo]

Marvin Berry wondering why he ever let that strange little guy from the trunk onto his stage: a compilation

#back to the future #bttf #marvin berry #we do not get NEARLY enough of Marvin #look at that man #this is the weirdest gig he's ever had #the progression of his expression in that 2nd gif!! #Marty's up there babbling nonsense into the mic & Marvin goes from :) to ?? to ?????? #what did Marvin go home and tell his family after this

[annies-scrapbook]

look, i studied biology, i know what a thallus actually is, but i still maintain that it just sounds like a fancy word for a nonbinary person's dick

#biology #trans #nonbinary #stuff and nonsense #not safe for wildebeests #babbles

[bazzybelle]

Good Omens 2 and Wayward Son - A Fan's Commentary on Fandom Reactions

I’m going to start off by saying apologies for any obvious grammatical errors. I am writing purely from the heart here. 

Also, apologies to my Sandman friends. If you haven’t read The Simon Snow Trilogy, this will go over your heads. However, I have been going back and forth on writing this meta since the release of Good Omens 2, and I just finished reading a spectacular meta on queer ships becoming canon by @avelera, which you can find here (read it, it’s brilliant). Anyway, I feel now’s a good time to let out all of my feelings when it comes to Good Omens 2 and how similar it was to reading Wayward Son. 

Simon Snow friends, you all know that Wayward Son is my favourite book out of the trilogy. You also know that this can be considered a controversial take within the fandom. And I don’t mean that in a toxic way, this fandom is one of the more wholesome fandoms I’ve seen; But in the way of like… Wayward Son is itself a polarizing book. 

I say this, knowing full well what went down when Wayward Son was released. Perhaps I had the advantage of not being completely embroiled within the Simon Snow  fandom until after I’d finished reading the book, but I lived on the periphery. I followed Rainbow on Twitter (fuck you, I am not calling it X), I had saved some artwork on Pinterest (before I found out those were stolen, wherein I immediately unpinned them and deleted my fandom folders), and I was excited to get Wayward Son as soon as it came out. So much so that I asked my husband to go to the Indigo near his office and buy it because I wanted to read it right away. 

Friends, I demolished that book within a DAY. 

Then I read it again. And again. And again. 

Then I wrote my first fanfiction in eight years. 

This book changed me. But you all know that. I’ve talked about it often, and that’s not what this meta (Editorial? Opinion piece? Shouting into the void?) is about. 

What I am going to talk about is the amount of pure vitriol this book got once it was released. There was SO MUCH complaining about the book. It was too short! There was no point to it! Why aren’t Simon and Baz having sexy vampire sex? Why aren’t they living together (never mind that this was briefly discussed at the end of Carry On, but go off I guess)? 

And you know what’s even funnier? Within a couple of weeks (it might have even been days, I’m a little fuzzy on timelines) Rainbow announced the third book. We knew, right away, that Wayward Son was meant to be an in-between book! Rainbow, being a fandom person herself, has said time and time again that she had always considered Wayward Son as an in-between book, structured like The Empire Strikes Back within the Star Wars original trilogy. Like think of the in-between books of any series, they are ALWAYS the darkest ones. In order to fully appreciate the win in the end, you need to go through the tough shit. 

What I loved about Wayward Son was it took that idea and spun it. It went all “ok, yeah we dealt with the win, now let’s deal with the aftermath. Only then can we have the makeouts and sexy times these guys deserved.”  (and damn, did Any Way The Wind Blows deliver on that promise).

But I am getting away from myself again. Point is, it was always meant to be an in-between book. There was always meant to be a resolution at the end of the trilogy. But that sure as hell didn’t stop people from outright demanding Rainbow give them the happy ending NOW. Pestering her on Twitter, (not so much on Tumblr) demanding she do this, or do that, or “you better not kill Baz” (even though she has ALWAYS SAID SHE NEVER WOULD) or “they better not break up” (even though, narratively, it was heading in that direction). The closer the book got to release date, the more people complained about how awful Wayward Son was. 

It was really disheartening to see. 

Which is why I got really upset when the SAME THING happened after the release of Good Omens 2. 

(For clarification purposes, because several of my friends have spoken to me about their own personal issues with Good Omens 2. And you are all super fucking valid. I am strictly referring to the amount of anger I saw online because although Aziraphale and Crowley kissed, they didn’t have an immediate happily ever after. I am also speaking of the anger expressed because the season wasn’t wrapped up in a neat little bow.)

Like with the release of Wayward Son, people seemed to have forgotten that season 2 of Good Omens was meant to be an inbetween season. Neil Gaiman has not been shy to talk about that. He has said over and over again that Season 2 was always meant to be a bridge between the Good Omens he and Terry Pratchett wrote together, and the sequel they had been planning. 

What… did you all just forget about that? Do you not know how narrative writing works? 

It’s like people refused to take a step back and breathe for a second and appreciate the season for what it was. A beautiful romantic story (because, IT WAS! Just like Neil said it would be), as well as a lead up into what will be the epic, dramatic conclusion. No, instead people started demanding the happy ending NOW, and getting angry when Neil wouldn’t budge and offer more information (even though he never has before) (funny how people just… forgot that).

It was Wayward Son all over again.

Yeah, I’m not going to lie, I was crushed with the way Good Omens 2 left off. Just like I was so confused when Wayward Son ended out of the blue. You know what I did about that? I wrote fic, I read the book again, and I happily anticipated the upcoming final part that would tie up all the loose ends.

Know what I’m doing to heal after Good Omens 2? I’m looking at gifs, rewatching episodes, laughing at memes and crack, and hoping to all the gods of story writing that Amazon approves of a third season, so that Neil Gaiman can be allowed to finish the story he and Terry Pratchett built together.

It’s become sad to watch this feral hunger from fans demanding immediate gratification, and getting upset when it isn’t the ending or gratification they were expecting. Wayward Son came out after years of Carry On fans having nothing else but the one book. Like I said, I wasn’t part of the fandom then, so I don’t know how fans from 2015 felt upon learning they’d get more Simon and Baz. Same with Good Omens. I only really got into the fandom a few months before season 2 came out. So I don’t know how OG fans felt waiting and waiting and waiting. So maybe I have that going for me as an advantage, that my hunger wasn’t growing more and more feral. 

Then again, I’m now a part of The Sandman fandom, and we’re essentially waiting on Season 2 to start development. And while I’m hoping a few things are tweaked (like Dream and Hob’s relationship), I’d be more than fine if it stays the same as in the comics. And if they decide to go about that in an entirely different way, I’d be fine with that too. You know why? Because I’ve learned to trust the writers of the stories I love not to lead me astray. 

And if I’m unhappy with something –because nothing is ever 100% perfect, and even my favourite stories end up coming short– there are always fanfictions to write, gifs to laugh at, and fandom friends to discuss plots and meta with. 

I may have lost the point of this meta. I tend to do that, following a train of thought that doesn’t always make sense in the end. 

Fandom friends, can we all just agree to take a breath and be thankful of the stories given to us? Can we learn to appreciate the entire picture, and not just a tiny section of it? And for the love of all that is holy, can we learn to be patient and to listen when our story tellers remind us to wait and see? To trust them when they assure us that our characters will have a happy ending, even if they need to traverse a little in the dark to get there?

I sure as hell am, and I hope you will too. 

Gonna tag @carryonsimoncarryonbaz because she was instrumental in encouraging me to write this.

#belle babbles #more like belle shouts into the fandom void #GO2 just reminded me A LOT of Wayward Son #both with the fan reaction #and with the overall vibes #I may write another longer better thought out meta comparing the two #but for now I just wanted to get my initial feelings out #as a fan who loved both WS and GO2 #who was very sad to experience this nonsense twice #simon snow #baz pitch #the simon snow trilogy #snowbaz #wayward son #anthony j crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #good omens #good omens 2 #neil gaiman #rainbow rowell

[ineffably-idiotic]

the fact that crowley essentially says "one fabulous kiss and boom its sorted" when trying to get nina and maggie together, like that's how Love works. and his Last Ditch Effort at getting aziraphale to stay, to keep living in this comfortable existence they've carved out for themselves, to love him back, is a kiss. it's the most Human way he can think to express this love and desperation that is overflowing in him, because he knows that aziraphale loves humanity, they BOTH do. "to the world", and all that. "to us".

i wonder which kiss made him think of that. i wonder what historical event crowley saw, a miraculous kiss, and immediately realized "that is how humans love. this is what they do". was it in biblical times? was it from a romcom?

it's not even a GOOD kiss! neither of them have ever kissed before! its a messy smushing of lips and they're both shaking and crowley isn't sure if he's doing it right, aziraphale isn't sure what's Happening.

and aziraphale, in his fear, calls crowley's desperation "temptation". he forgives crowley for a sin that he himself has reprimanded himself for, many times over the years. its easier to blame his own falling in love on the demon himself. it's easier to backslide into an awful way of thinking that has kept you safe for millennia than take an unsteady step forward, a step where aziraphale isn't sure he'll have a place to land.

aziraphale is a guardian by nature, and what he does at the end of season 2 IS him trying to help. trying to protect, trying to fix. but for aziraphale to really break that cycle of running back to heaven for a secure attachment, he needs to realize how awful heaven is from the inside. because crowley sure as hell isn't opening up about what happened to him. because they never talk, and ESPECIALLY not about important things.

#can you tell i Just rewatched the wholw thing #anyways this is just a bunch of disjointed stream of consciousness babbling #i'm just so enamored with aziraphale and crowley's perception of love #i'm also deeply deeply in love with aziraphale for being a character who Isn't Perfect #sorry not sorry. nonsense in my brain > coffee theory #honorable mention for a thing i couldve babbled about? 'do it again'. because Oh my god #okay im normal now #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #gomens #aziracrow #good omens season 2 #do it again #season 2 episode 6 #the metatron

[inkbarista]

Sometimes I post things and kinda forget that a lot of people still follow me (and I thank every one of you lovelies for doing so!) so suddenly it gets notes and I'm just

#babbling nonsense #especially forgetting people actually like thr vgf comic and its like WHO THE HELL-

[merry-andrews]

Ok BUT WHAT if Johnny and Kenshi different first meeting (warning for mentioning drugs);

when Johnny's visiting Japan (Kenshi is a Yakuza member in this au!) And this superstar, this gorgeous man approaches him in one of fancy clubs (also belongs to gangsters) and flirts with him openly, he buys Johnny drinks and before he knows, Johnny drags him in bathroom, makes two lines of cocains, Johnny gets high so fast (you never get used to drugs) while Kenshi's still sober (he's a criminal after all, it takes more than one line to get him high) and they make out in the bathroom, Johnny pulls him in one of stalls and drop on his knees as Kenshi caresses his face, runs fingers through soft, brown strands of hair...💕

#johnshi #johnny cage #johnny cage x kenshi takahashi #kenshi takahashi #kenshi #I mean he's an actor and one of those flashy ones I bet my whole money he uses drugs sometimes #not like all actors are like this gxgxgxg!!! please don't be @ me! #its just... I just know Johnny will do that #and a high Johnny..him babbling nonsense of how kenshi is so handsome and hot and how good he feels.. #kisses kenshi's neck and tugs gently on the collar and that's when he realizes Kenshi has 'special' tattoos.. #johnny finds it hot so #hhhh he pins Johnny down and kisses at his chest's tattoo while Johnny won't stop talking! #locking his arms around Kenshi's neck. kissing him fierce and asking him to 'just take me!!' and sobbing in his shoulder #because 'God Kenshi...you feel so good I want to keep you for myself' #💕💕💕 #mk1 #mortal kombat

[bonefall]

If you could completely remove a character from the series, who would it be? Would another character take their place?

gray wing.

Or even just kill him instead of Shaded Moss, have HIM originally been the leader of the Sundrown Patrol and after his death, all these cats start invoking his name like a god.

"I do this in the name of Gray Wing the Wise." "As Gray Wing the Wise once said..." "Gray Wing the Wise wouldn't have approved of this."

And Thunder would have known him like this ancient, wise sage... and been frustrated by it. He doesn't KNOW this guy, but apparently he was a god among cats, and everyone thinks he was on THEIR side. But all Thunder sees, looking at a sea of heartless tyrants and selfish cats clawing each other in the back, is people who make their choices first and then use his sacred name to justify them afterwards.

and the SHOCKKKKK on all their FACES during the First Battle, when Gray Wing comes down from the stars himself, and tells all of them, "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY NAME?!" the VINDICATION for Thunder when this God Among Cats turns to him and says, "You. You are the one who has followed my teachings-- by questioning them, by challenging those who misspoke. This is wisdom."

Bright Stream would take all the roles of Gray Wing in-canon and have an arc about realizing that she was defending her abuser. And been Thunder's single mom.

#bone babble #I hate canon gray wing. He's bottom two most hated characters in all of WC for me #Clear Sky is WORSE but Gray Wing is frustrating #Clear Sky is a fantastic villain before they nonsensically decide that killing the weak and disabled is a funnie joke #and war crimes are fine if ur scared #but gray wing is never good. He has like 3 good scenes that promise something good and never deliver. #dotc hate #It's hard to think of a character that needs to be totally removed OTHER than gray wing. for me #I think most characters can work or are just inoffensively bland like Background ThunderClan Bloat Cat 23 #but gray wing........................... WELL I've done my fixes for him #and I have put a lot of love and effort into that fix that I am proud of #But it's only made me like... really realize that this story would have been stronger if he died in Sun Trail like he was supposed to

[anghraine]

By popular demand (aka two people asked lol), a secondary Women's Wrongs Poll for characters I considered for the first one, but ended up not choosing for various reasons:

#anghraine babbles #poll nonsense #ursula #lady macbeth #medea #lady susan vernon #austen blogging #azula #the wife of bath #electra #caterina sforza #maleficent #athena #lobelia sackville baggins #avatar: the last airbender #medieval blogging #the oresteia #political shenanigans and codependent siblings #legendarium blogging

[y-rhywbeth2]

That one moment of hesitation Gortash has is so little, and yet SO MUCH.

More than any of the manipulations and insight rolls that frankly, I did not trust (although he's teasing you, he missed this - he missed this bullshit manipulation that he knows you know is manipulation and that you know he knows-) but that flicker of hesitation because he truly does care for you enough to fucking hesitate at all, and that doesn't matter in the end, it changes nothing and you will attempt to kill each other, but it matters because it exists.

...Expect no coherency from me today.

#They are horrible terrible people #AND IT EXISTS #babbling #/durge #/gortash #/durgetash #the garbage men #villainous nonsense