#because I HAVE TO

[teartra]

Of course Stringbean is a snake shapeshifter

Her owner couldn’t even choose one major and what to wear to grom

#iconic behaviour #the owl house #toh #the owl house spoilers #toh spoilers #luz noceda #stringbean #stringbean noceda #because I have to #for the future spoilers

[coughloop]

2025 will be my year I know it

#but in the mean time i going to force myself to dress more femme more often #because i have to #or ill die #she/they or i block you

[hamartia-grander]

Rose: the recipe says to beat three eggs.

Heisenberg: at what? Hand-to-hand combat?

Ethan: must be. Mia banned firearms in the kitchen, remember?

#two himbos and their chaos daughter #happy mother's day #Oh look at that I included Heisenberg this time #Incorrect resident evil #Ethan Winters #Rose Winters #Karl Heisenberg #Lord Heisenberg #Mia Winters #Resident evil #Wintersberg #Mithan #More of Ethan's polycule rep #Because I have to #Resident evil 8 #Resident evil village #Re8 #Re village #resident evil memes #Ethan's polycule

[todayisafridaynight]

should we hope rgg starts doing medical research before cooking up new shit like that or just keep laughing + pulling our hair out watching it burn cuz hoNESTLY

masato is a special case but i’m also still not over mine being like ‘he’s nothing but a tangle of tubes now’ when daigo was only on a ventilator when we saw him?? Like sweetie that’s not even life support, that’s an oxygen mask. It can be blamed on mine being a dramatic bitch so it’s fine

hinting that kiryu’s cancer is caused by some (also badly researched) radioactive waste when bro’s been smoking all his life was also laughable

so silly… rgg hospital :]

I Personally am a big fan of when things Arent accurate cause it truly is really funny finding out HOW inaccurate stuff is. Plus its a fun learning experience along the way :)

#iw spoilers #because i have to #snap chats #kiryus cancer Allegedly being caused by cancer is funny cause its one of those Its Not Impossible But WOW situations #like yeah i GUESS your cancer coulda been caused by radioactive waste #but you mustve been the luckiest/unluckiest bastard on earth to dodge cancer from smoking just to get it from radiation #i think the funnier bit about daigo being comatose is that he absolutely heard mine talking all that mess like i do not doubt it #maybe thats why mine was so ready to jump hed have to explain allat to daigo otherwise

[bluheaven-adw]

It feels a bit like drowning

#this will not be what breaks me #I refuse to let this break me #but god it hurts #like nothing else #I want to just wash all of it away #no... i'm not ok #but I will pull myself together #because I have to

[keeperofthebees]

you ARE her dad. or the closest thing she has to one. I know you're scared. I know you're terrified that you have to lose somebody else. and you would rather them hate you than them love you and leave you alone again. i know, joel, i know, i know, i know, but this isn't the way joel. open your heart. let love in. it wins. even if it loses it wins. because it happened. if it happens then life is worth living and love has motherfucking won you beautiful BASTARD

#joel miller tlou #joel tlou #joel miller #joel the last of us #tlou #tlou hbo #tlou show #hbo the last of us #the last of us show #the last of us hbo #the last of us #a love letter to joel #because i have to

[roamwithahungryheart]

This week is just grief upon grief. But I stay silly.

#because I have to

[seyaryminamoto]

Damn I love how absolutely clingy and shamelessly devoted Sokka and Azula are to each other in the Gladiator related chapters you’ve written for Sokkla Saturdays 2021 and 2022. It makes completely sense for them to be like this considering how much they suffered in Gladiator, first by needing to hide their relationship and later by being brutally separated from each other. They’d give Gomez and Morticia a run for their money and I love this for them.

Hahahaha, oh, what's the point of pretending anymore... 😂 those particular chapters were meant to serve as a very helpful balm over my suffering of not writing them together for WAY too long in Gladiator. Helped me to remember that I had that pretty future to look forward to!

But yep, basically, those chapters are glimpses of how things have progressed several years after the big disasters we've seen so far. There were a few hints in there that I very much added to further stir up the "is it Gladiator or isn't it?" mystery, a lot of things I've kept shrouded in secrecy, some characters aren't mentioned so I can continue to torment everyone over the uncertainty of their fate... but ultimately, the truth is what it is 🤣

Anyway, they very much are impossibly obnoxiously in love post-Gladiator, there's no questioning it, no denying it. They ocassionally hold back (particularly whenever Ursa, Hakoda or Gran Gran are around because Azula is going to be a biiiit more prone to embarrassment around those three), but most the time they're just shamelessly basking in not having to hide what they mean to each other. They didn't fight as hard as they did to get to where they are just to... sit tight and behave themselves? 🤣 that'd be too boring!

So yep! They're very much exuding Gomez-Morticia vibes all around, being each other's biggest hypeman/woman and just raising their little dorks as best as they can. Those are the happy lives they deserve 🥺 may their worst problems be who ate the last slice of pie (... okay never mind we know it's always Sokka), rather than ending a hundred years of war and surviving a million anguishing situations just to return to each other, right? :'D

(... also... as I'm here admitting things even though I tried not to admit them but you all were smart enough to figure me out because I was just that transparent... I'm gonna let ya know that chapter 2 of 2020 is also Gladiator-related, sorry not sorry, I was a lot better at hiding it that year but there you go, that's the truth...)

#anon #if your sokkla aren't simping each other are they really sokkla #I'm gonna say no (?) #but honestly it's a lot of fun to look back at how they started out #and then look towards where they're going #what a wild adventure we've all been on with these two #I really hope I can just... write a lot #very soon #because I have to #big things going on in my head #and hopefully soon on paper #I don't have that much left to write people #it's craaaaazy! #maybe the last arcs will be a bit long but #... I can't believe we're almost done *sobs* #and almost to this pretty future almost...

[all-hail-moon-dogs]

sometimes you take a little break from your podcasts and miss a fuckton of emotional damage

#this is in relation to me being behind on critical role #like behind behind #and yet knowing all the spoilers #but i'm STILL LISTENING #because i have to #critical role #crs3 #critical role bells hells #bells hells #honestly this goes for all podcasts tho #podcasts #shitpost #fiction podcasts #wtnv #tma #old gods #kfam #hello from the hallowoods

[ancientstone]

was anyone going to tell me about the rich text editor on ao3 😭😭 I’ve been struggling with html for years

#do you know how long it sometimes takes me to upload a chapter or fic?? #HOURS!! #BECAUSE I HAVE TO #ADD IN #ALL #THE #EDITS #i'm crying shaking throwing up #written in stone

[lilysroserealm]

alright so right after I started writing how I think my cmc got into the agency and how the agency works I went to the wiki to find some info about when seven joined the agency and... I realized that the wiki timeline lacks...sense? take a look at the following 3 photos and tell me how this is possible.

explain. EXPLAIN HOW THAT WORKS. I AM VERY CONFUSED. so now I've taken it as my duty to make my own version of the timeline that fits with os and as AND with my custom timeline.

#:') #this may take awhile #but IM GOING TO DO IT #because i have to #and also because its interesting #either the wiki is really messed up or we are just lacking info to make a sensical timeline #no but fr someone EXPLAIN. I AM SO CONFUSED

[crudlung]

I hate having to start from square one here

fuck everything going on on Twitter

it's not even like I had a huge following over there but at least I had *something*

I hate having to tag shit I hate being buried under massive social circlejerks that have existed since 2009 I hate not being able to find other small accounts organically

no character limit is nice but at what cost

I just want to not feel like I'm yelling at a wall

#tumblr #genuine #text post #twitter #complaining #fuck #here i go tagging again #because I have to

[rjalker]

Anyways crossovers are fun. Provide the content you want to see in the world.

Murderbot's first guess had been right - it was some sort of giant fucking nightmare lizard, twice its size, with blue scales marked with silver stretched over a frighteningly muscular form, staring down at it with dark, predatory eyes over a short muzzle, its deadly-looking claws securely wrapped around the same storage hooks Murderbot had tried to use to escape.

#The Murderbot Diaries #The Books of the Raksura #Murderbot x Raksura crossover #also: #Murderbot x Raksura x Alien crossover #because i have to #i camt not

[onewomancitadel]

Love Endures

I was thinking about the Power of Love today because of course I was thinking about compassion, and my feelings on the subject have potentially fully formed, or are at least moving in the direction of doing so. Power of Love is insufficient a trope. I don't think I like it. The Power of Love can be inspiring or it can be a horror. The way Power of Love is described is usually the former, but I don't think it's enough, which is rather appropriate since that in itself is the criticism of Power of Love.

What I would describe as the Power of Love as usually explored is the idea that love inherently redeeming and saves the day – not just romantic love, but all kinds of love, though for the sake of this post I'm focussing specifically on romantic love. Motivating it is the idea that love alone is enough, usually with the implication it’s an inherently positive thing and a means to its own end with not much beyond it. The focus is usually on the recipient of said love who is someone that needs help, but the scrutiny is less often on the person directing the love (since the Power of Love is a foregone conclusion).

Rather, I think the idea I specifically enjoy is Love Endures. This is not as interested in the utility of love or saving the day but is something mystical which persists on anyway, even if it's not enough. To me love in romance or love in stories isn't just about the kiss/the consummation - I'm talking about people not really into romance but the way it's perceived in popular culture here - but all of the surrounding context of dedication and transformation.

With that being said, I think I am less interested in the idea that 'love saves' but rather that love is transformative. When I think about it in the context of redemption arcs - where I am specifically interested in enemies-as-lovers romance - I am actually not only interested in how the villain is transformed but just as importantly am interested in how the hero is transformed. Love is not merely an asset that’s deployed. It transforms and it endures. In this case, there is the potential to adress criticism of the Power of Love that if only a character had been loved enough they would've been redeemed or never have been evil; rather we're looking at the ways characters interact and change, which to me has always been the message us pro-redemptionists have tried to convey.

I think that Love Endures can encompass a lot of ideas tonally, particularly in the context of seemingly tragic romance or ultimately tragic romance. The idea I am interested in is the extreme edge of experience and the actual limits of love and compassion as a test of will. I think the Power of Love is also a bit more focussed on the recipient, as opposed to the person in question exercising said love. It's a two-way thing.

I did consider if this were a case of what is effectively the endless cycle of term overuse and misapplication so let's build a new one, but in this case I think maybe some of the perspective shift is warranted. I also realised whilst writing this post that I subconsciously borrowed Love Endures from Lavellan's Var lath vir suledin, generally agreed to translate as, "Our love will endure," which encompasses everything complicated about Solavellan.

As opposed to trying to de-emphasise the role of, say, the hero in love with the villain, because the Power of Love 'isn't enough,' and that's a potentially reductive message to send, I instead actually want to overly emphasise the experience of, in this case, the hero's love. I also want to emphasise the transformative aspect and the agency of the characters involved - by agency I mean from a strictly narrative perspective, that loving is an active choice. As always, in the context of enemies-as-lovers, it's something that might be incredibly difficult to do because it is effectively forbidden.

I think it also elegantly side-steps around those messy questions of, "Is it enough?" The question is not really about whether it's enough to save someone, or save the world, etc., but rather about the characters in question. Or in the case of love which is messy and complicated and fucked up, it might come to a different conclusion than something which is redeeming, or something that saves.

But as always, someone has said it better than me. I now fully understand why Joseph Campbell discussing romantic love in Power of Myth touches me emotionally and makes me cry, it's because it's where the spiritual test of love has actually been articulated, the agony and endurance of it. That's all of the stuff I adore.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: What he was saying is thatthis love is bigger even than death, than pain, than anything. This is the affirmation of the pain of life in a big way.

BILL MOYERS: And I would choose this pain for love now, even though it might mean everlasting pain and damnation in hell.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: That’s right.

[…]

BILL MOYERS: So there’s joy and pain in love.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Yeah, there is. Love, you might say, is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. And the stronger the love, the more that pain, but love bears all things.

Love itself is a pain, you might say, but is the pain of being truly alive.

What I would summarise as Love Endures is that love is a transformative experience for characters to go through and accompanying that transformation could be the idea that love is redeeming and is something worth believing in, but it can also encompass the darker and more painful experience of love. Probably most interestingly to me, it doesn't dismiss or gloss over the strength of the character exercising that love. It is also not its own conclusion; it describes a mechanic through which you can realise other ideas (and not just 'Love saves the day' as the idea is so often watered down to). In this case, I think it is useful (for me personally) because then it's not just a tacked on theme, but something you can use to holistically integrate into a greater work.

I'm still figuring out my feelings so I might write something expanding more here. I like where this is going though, and I think you can definitely see what motivates a lot of my fanfic writing with this perspective, so it's worthwhile just for that.

Love Endures is already exciting for me just because, in my eyes, it can already ward off most of the criticism facing Power of Love, but still carry the meaning and the strength of it, if not more.

#the power of love #love endures #wound of love #var lath vir suledin #because I have to #I posted again because I made more major edits and had a big dummy moment

[red-cavalier]

You guys have any OC’s you call by the wrong name constantly? 

Carrot man from the last drawing’s name is Tulio. It used to be Clay, and I still call him Clay, because I refuse to call him Tulio. But call him Tulio, because that’s his name. Only I can call him Clay.

#i don't struggle actually writing his name like that #because I have to #but nah still clay

[theredtours]

why yes I AM making boop gifs from screen recording

#they're transparent and i'll post them when I am finished. #I won't even tag them because everyone should have them #boop #text