#bent not broken

[thecrusadercomrade]

Very Important Announcement

As of tonight, I have come to a very important decision regarding my works: I will be orphaning all of my shipping/romance stories.

Some of you may have seen this coming with the other decisions I've made in the last few months, but I imagine most of you are very shocked by this, so please let me explain.

For a long time now, I've had a growing distaste for the focus I've put on ship fics and romance in the past. Even with me now writing non-romance fics, they are still vastly outnumbered by the fics that do have romance as a major component. Looking at my account statistics, the vast majority of the numbers in every category are mostly from ship fics. This domination is not the way I want my account to go, and it's not the identity I want to have as a writer. Thus, in order to "rebrand" myself as a non-romance writer and fully change direction, I will be orphaning all my stories that have romance as a major component, including my Amphibia and TGAMM oneshot collections. Through this I will have a fresh start without having to move to a new account.

Keep in mind that I am merely orphaning these works, not deleting them! Though I'm not very satisfied with them anymore, I know many people have loved them, and I don't want to just completely erase them from existence just because I don't like them anymore. By orphaning these works, people will still be able to read them, and they won't be lost to the void, so there's no need to fear that. When orphaning works, there's also an option to attach my name/pseud to the works even though they're not on my account anymore, which I'll be using to help avoid confusion when people see that they've been orphaned.

This is an absolutely huge step, and it's not one I take lightly. I've thought about this for a long time, and I've decided that it's the best way for me to be happy with my writing going forward. All of my ongoing fics, like The Long Road Home, Two's a Crowd, my TWDG What-If collection, and To Continue On will all be unaffected by this change, so fans of those works have no reason to worry about them.

Thank you all for your patience with me over these last few months. I've been going through a lot of changes in my personal life, and this is a really big milestone that I'm glad I've finally become brave enough to reach, even if I'm still a little worried about how people will react. I hope you'll all be understanding, and that those of you who are fans of my current ongoing stories will continue to be fans despite this upheaval.

Thank you very much for reading this, and for all your support over the years I've been writing. I hope you'll be with me for many more to come.

#CrusaderLife #CrusaderWriting #all the names that follow are works that will be orphaned #Cell Dates #Tactical Affection-Giving and Other Short Amphibia Oneshots #Ghost Stories: a Molly McGee Anthology of Short Oneshots #Competitive Spirit #A Most Peculiar Coven #The One Where Marcy Is NOT Okay With This (Until She Is) #Faux Pas #My TWDG October Challenge Prompt Responses #The Long Road Home (Old Version) #For You #Bent Not Broken #A Stolen Moment #Amphibia Skulls

[gunitnekoh]

Genderbend and racebend art is fine (except whitewashing) I just get annoyed that the “opposite” gender is always sexy-fied

#also you don’t see a lot of androgyny bent or whatever we would call it #like gender is a spectrum I’d like to see more to genderbent art than just the binary #genderbend #gender bend #gender bender #genderbent #gender bent #rule 63 #internet rule 63 #gender swap #gender swapped #racebent #racebend #race bent #race bend #bent not broken

[yakitori-queen]

Preface (please read!):

This one's pretty fucked up gang. TW for UNNATURALLY BENT/BROKEN/DISLOCATED LIMBS.

This is based on a one-off phrase by Jon Matteson in his TGWDLM watch party during Let It Out where he said "Was that bones breaking?" I'm assuming he meant bones cracking, as in the sound, but this got me thinking of an interpretation of Let It Out in which Pokotho breaks Paul's bones to make him pose and dance.

#starkid #hatchetfield #tgwdlm #fanart #art #hatchetverse #team starkid #the guy who didn't like musicals #paul matthews #pokey #pokotho #tw injury #tw broken limb #tw dislocated limb #tw unnaturally bent limb #yakitoriqueen's art #this took sm time and effort fr.... comics are HARD

[jae-moomew]

fanart for one of my fav fics "Not Broken, Just Bent" by @feallangilyvor !! its super well written, has natural dialogue, complex characters, and has bad sans poly x reader

they recently posted a new chapter and i reread it all lol

a scene from chapter thirteen <3 i made a super cute reader and im in love with her hair

He’s the one who eventually breaks the kiss, pulling back but resting his hands on the counter behind you to keep you in his space. He watches the way your cheeks bloom with colour, listening to the way your quiet breaths quicken just a hair.

“mine,” is all he says.

#x reader #dusttale #dust sans #bad sanses #bad sans poly #dust x reader #fanfic #fanart #Not Broken Just Bent #undertale #undertale au #sans au #utmv #utmv fanart #this fic stratches my brain mmm #moomewart

[stewyhosseini-bf]

gay kendall throwing his feet up on a desk always at the scene of the crime

#seen someone jokingly say this was the moment shiv decided not to give it to kendall but in a real way this moment was so similar #to that pilot moment .. logan's face when he walks in lol. the way he brings up 'i hear you bent for him' as the reason to not give it to #him later on #and to shiv its a similar thing of like. i can't stomach giving it to you. watching him throw the feet up on the chair and being cocky #is what makes her decide she can't let him have it the same way this is what makes logan decide he can't let him have it #its not even about what he says just how he inhabits the space like he deserves to i guess idk #which. not to get too deep abt it on a post about kendall sucking dick but . in a real way it IS that whole 'he loves the broken you' thing #idk. anyway #succession #succession spoilers #kendall roy #kenstewy #parallels

[mishapen-dear]

thinking about 4halo again and dying

they just. they used to be so sweet together. and then the election arc managed to genuinely turn them against each other (and bad is still affected by being caged in the museum) and i would NOT have been surprised if a rebellion had started within the next few weeks after their last fight and. they used to be friends and then they almost destroyed each other

and then the eggs went missing

and there are so many parallels between them, but one of the biggest parallels is how they're both protectors. they both protected the eggs (and, when he became president, forever extended that protection to the other islanders) but the eggs went missing and they had to put all of that aside. Forever was quicker to put it down than Bad was (it felt like only a very temporary truce, from Bad's end), but they put their problems on hold, because their eggs. were gone.

and another parallel. the destruction. both of them with their plans to cause ruin because then, maybe, theyll get their kids back. bad caused most of the grieving arc damage directly, and got aypierre and antoine to help him. he dug holes in the ground. he placed mines everywhere and leapt into them. he started the lavacasting process of the fed building (and was interrupted by admins, so he stopped, but philza and fit were still right to laugh at him lmaoo). he drilled a hole through the side of the federation office from a huge distance away. he has chosen to hurt his friends and himself to get the eggs back. whatever the cost.

forever destroyed the island. or he planned to destroy the island. or he was interrupted just before he destroyed the island or or or. I don't know. but it was big, and it was bad. bad enough that the feds had to step in and forcefully drug him, and kickstart the happy pills arc.

and the happy pills arc..... oughghghgh as fucking awful as it was for their characters to experience i genuinely truly think that it saved them from each other. when he was first told about forever being fucked up bad was still in the "i need to kick his butt" mindset, and was all ready for an excuse to kill forever. and then he saw forever. and the first proposal happened. and bad was angry and he was sad and upset and he was careful. forever tried to kill him. bad decided to save him. forever kept trying to marry him. forever kept taking the pills. forever was so scared of his own anger and all of the damage he could and would have caused to his family that he kept taking drugs that kept him so out of his mind he hallucinated his son was just sleeping safely at his house.

and they both tried to kill each other. and they both failed.

and bad showed phil and cellbit (and tubbo) the item scanner that dapper discovered, which could destroy him, because nothing else was working. because they needed to save forever. because bad was reminded by then that forever was a victim of the federation instead of just a mouthpiece for it. and then when forever woke up he saw bad, suffering, and so excited to see him awake.

and now they're here on opposite sides again with forever projecting his protection urges onto the fed worker in bad's basement and bad frustrated that he isn't being believed and his evil plans of giving ron lemons apology brownies is being interrupted and. look at them. soft "i hate you" and the appreciation room and bad's quiet heartbreak when he learned about forever being missing and the "i miss you" book bad got mad at because it asked him not to torture fed workers. does anyone hear me im so ill about them. do you understand they care about each other so much and the happy pills arc reminded them of that. forever realized bad is colourblind and bad assumed forever was poisoning him and then forever helped bad cheat on another colourblindness test and forever was giving bad flowers and bad was accepting them and accepted that he was colourblind despite his previously constant denial and! i don't know if im being comprehensible and i dont really care i will be honest i just need you to know i am frothing at the mouth like a rabid little beast. they are a TRAGEDY of miscommunication and external pressure but they love so so much. platonic or romantic or qpp they CARE and it tears me to shreds

#qsmp #4halo #i feel like ive talked about this exact thing like three separate times but #its one of those things that really Kills Me #and its CRUCIAL to understanding them and their relationship #they were fighting and now have found peace in hell #and forever using his care for bad as a distraction to not focus on his Own woes #and the way he's so sure bad needs help the way he was helped that at heart bad is a good person who doesnt want to be hurting people #and in a Way he's right. bad doesn't want to hurt his loved ones. everyone else? yeah. in a heartbeat. but his family... #but he's still makign the choice to do it. it's not lashign out in desperation the way forever destroying the island was #bad is hurting people with Purpose. he's putting thought into it. he's testing people and their knowledge and their motivations and he will #use them all as tools that can be bent and broken if it means they get the eggs back. he'll do it to himself too #especially to himself #ghhhgrhrgh the way theyre both self sacrificial and self destructive the Parallels the fucking parallels #i can best examine their relationship from a bbh pov and it agonizes me because i can't get all the nuance of forever's pov #because i dont speak portuguese yet :c #so best i can do is talk crazy about them like a Lure for other analyst shippers #pspspssps dont you see my ship. dont you see how canon 4halo is !!! in 8 acts #dont you want to examine them and their parallels and the way they are both so strange about relationships but they're finding a way to car #in a way that works for them #pspspsps #like me talking about qbbh vacation arc got the fandom acknowledging his sillies and directly got me a friend to talk about him to (hi kia! #maybe it will work here also #come to the dark side we have complex relationship dynamics that are frequently misunderstood and mislabelled #YOU can help change the world

[bestworstcase]

the question of ruby’s character development prior to v9 really is interesting though—because there has undoubtedly been a marked shift in how the narrative is handling her now, versus the last eight volumes, even if the people who read it as a shift from static -> dynamic are mostly numpties. ruby’s character development throughout v1-8 is predominantly negative, in the specific sense that beneath the deceptively steady surface of her relentless optimism she has been sinking continually deeper into this mindset and ideal of noble, dutifully self-sacrificial heroism laid out by ozpin and reinforced by the huntsman system generally; she has learned and grown and changed from the person she used to be, nearly all of it in ways that were and are profoundly harmful to her own well-being, and in the current arc of the story she discovers this reality and is being made to face it. and the immensely self-destructive nature of her prior character development was largely obscured by her outward resilience, because rwby is the rare story that understands what extreme emotional repression can really look like.

in essence the narrative has given its protagonist eight volumes worth of character development that she needs to now unlearn because it’s killing her. and within the context of the story itself this is not a surprise (or it shouldn’t be) because it became inevitable the minute ozpin told ruby that good leadership requires her to never ever be anything less than perfect again and ruby took that as inspiration and a source of strength, and we’ve been watching her actively (if gradually) spiral since volume six—but it’s a surprise to the characters and it’s also a wild thing to do with a protagonist in a genre where the convention for protagonists is fairly linear development from struggling underdog to capable hero with, at best, a few temporary crises of self-doubt along the way—certainly nothing on the level of emotional harm ruby has suffered in the course of trying to have the conventional fantasy hero character arc.

#god i really am having so much fun. #the payoff and execution of everything #set up in the last eight volumes #wrt the huntsmen and ozma’s ideological model #is already SO good and it’s just getting started #genre is made to be bent! broken even!

[leclercskiesahead]

You mean people just get to see Carlos up close when he’s in that outfit like that?

#when he bent over??! #caption said post-run but I refuse to believe that because he has barely broken a sweat? #carlos sainz jr #scuderia ferrari #f1 #silverstone 2023

[icewindandboringhorror]

I got these shoes from someone recently but thought they were way too plain looking, so I set out on a quest to customize them with some sharpies and charms and miscellaneous ribbon I had in my craft drawers. Mostly sky themed (clouds, rainbows, rain, stars, etc.) because that's my favorite aesthetic, but I had to include some cat imagery as well, of course lol.

#also honestly had NO IDEA that real converse have that star logo on the INSIDE not the outer part??? why the hell would you want it on the #inner portion where nobody can see it?? my entire life I always would have sworn it was on the outer facing portion.. #I think these would be perfect IF they were just slightly taller (top part higher above ankles instead of just weird hard material digging #right into your ankle whenever you walk) and if they were actual good platforms. they're so short. It's good that 'chunky' shoes are gettin #more popular as they've always been my favorite Look ever since I had these shoes with roller skates that pop out of thebottom (not heelys. #but like. before those. it was two whole entire roller skate wheels like a normal pair of roller skates) and the bottoms were so tall and #clunky and it made my feet look giant (because it had.. entire wheels in the bottom pockets lol). so #I've alwatys been into the aesthetic but . still I find a lot of the 'brands jumping on trend' are too short of platforms #OR they're plafrorms with a raised back/heel/wedge which to me is not aesthetically good and also makes them exceptionally uncomfortable to #wear compared to just plain completely flat chunky platform bottoms. ANYWAY.. if these shoes had a 3 or 4 inch platform I think they'd be #cooler. however for what they are it's still fine! and I like them more now that they actually have some sort of anything to them and #aren't just plain white. The weird thing is that the material it's made out of (maybe some sort of leather or something) absorbs sharpie? #the color changes over time. You draw a mark and then leave it for a few days and it either fades into being barely there or has changed #colors. so I had to go back in and redo parts. ALSO the shoe chains are so funny because I did NOT have the right tools for them #I don't have the stuff to make bracelets or open and close the little rings. they're held onto the shoe with just safety pins and the actua #little rung things that hold the charms on half of them are like broken or the metal is just jam smushed together bent and warped hhbjhjhb #I actually like the back a lot where there's the irridecent star thing hot glued on there. it's cool and shiny. and the clouds #are sparkly on the main parts of the shoe though I'm not sure how well it shows up in pictures #ANYWAY... shoegs..... If I were rich this is one of the things I would definitely custom order from craftsman #why would I spend like thousands of dollars on plain ass shoes that are just expensive because they're a Luxury Brand when I could literall #like pay people to create me custom shoes to my exact specifications?? I could have like 5 inch flat platform boots with fur andclouds #and cat shaped holes in the bottom with LEDs in them with pom pom and charms and etc. etc. etc. Like as gaudy and excessively over #decorated as I want lol.. AND they could have skates in the bottom somehow!! ghjgbhjb #this on top of all the custom wizard costumes and period clothing I would order.. Like i LOVE customizing things. I love everything in my l #life being as particualr as possible and cultivating every experience I have to meticulously meet my own specific criteria as much #as is possible. If I had the money to I would never buy something from a store again. EVERYTHING I owned from furniture to clothing #would be either made by me - or mostly - comissioned from craftsmen. custom tiles for my floors. custom bed. custom table. #even like. custom toilet. custom sinks. etc. etc. ouGGH... but yeah.. anyway... shoes..

[frodo-with-glasses]

Merry Christmas! Here are the LotR-themed presents I received this year: a notebook, LEGO Gandalf and Balrog, and a steel model kit of Minas Tirith!

The model kit was a surprise gift and is the best worst thing anyone’s ever bought for me. I’ve worked on this thing for about four hours so far, and it’s not even halfway done. It’s gonna be the death of me. I love it so much 🤣

#merry christmas! #lord of the rings #lotr #model kit #don’t look too closely at the model; a bunch of things are definitely bent or broken #i’m new at this okay 🤣

[psychologeek]

Wild Hearts (pt 4)

Day 27: Clothing swap / Clone DAY 22: "you weren't meant to be there"

Part 1 Part 2 part 3

There's a baby in her arms. Jazz can feel her, but can't let herself look down.

There's (a clone, a daughter) in her arms, and explosion in the background and she's not sure what's happening or what's going on or -

Focus

There is a child in her arms, and Jazz need to focus right now, because that child needs her. No matter who she might be, the kid is helpless and hurt and Jazz can't freak out. Not yet. Not until they reach safety.

There's a kid in her arms and blood on her hands and her ears are still ringing and she can't really think-

But there's someone else who needs her first.

So she takes a deep breath. Lock the panic away in that box in the back of her mind, right with things like "being fifteen" or "The Incident" or-

She finally let herself look down, and look at the toddler in her arms.

She's so small, she thinks. How could they do that?

She reach the car she brought, hidden by nature and just a touch of ectoplasm.

There are clothes she can change into.

There are things she can do to-

(Erase every single memory, pretend it never happened.)

But there is a child in her arms, in a collar and white little straight jacket. There's a shivering toddler in her hands, covered with blood and ecto and things she doesn't want to think of. There's a baby she put on the back seat as she take of those cursed things and wipe the dirt off her little body, the best she could. Take the clean shirt she kept in the car and carefully dress the little one, covering scars and wounds and layers of pain.

There is a daughter that opens her eyes for the first time, and her lips shiver as she cry

"Mommy?"

(Like it? I have more mini-fics in this au. And full size fics on ao3. )

#danny phantom #fentonic #fentonic2024 #my writing #febwhump #febwhump 2024 #dani phantom #ellie phantom #phandom #lost and found au #monthly challenge #monthly prompts #jazz fenton #writing prompts #writing challenge #prompts #february prompts #not broken just bent au #to love and protect #Kid fic #Baby Ellie #Trauma #Whump #Day 27 #Clothing swap #Clone #DAY 22 #“you weren't meant to be there”

[gifsaregifts]

Rewatching Season 9 is like visiting with an old friend if the old friend makes you weep by the end of the visit

#i am broken #doctor who #12th doctor #twelfth doctor #clara oswald #dw season 9 #face the raven #heaven sent #hell bent #gifsaregifts #text post #og post #dw series 9

[sprucewoodmpreg]

i NEED to learn more about games and rules because the life series is so unbelievably tied up in Systems that it's like. breaking those rules has historically lead to many fan-favourite dynamics/characters (3l desert duo, ll bdubs and etho, dl pearl, to name a few)

#i guess it's like. systems of rules that you choose to hold yourself to. and what are the consequences of breaking those rules #when and where in storytelling does bending the walls (rules) of the game add interest that you couldn't have otherwise gotten? #maybe part of it is an inherent interest in seeing a system lose. or be ''beaten'' or outsmarted. but theres more to it than that #ALSO. the ''death games'' are far closer to a sport than a typical video game. which is cool #since the rules in the life series are (typically) moreso guidelines rather than like. being unbreakable #they CAN be bent they CAN be broken. vs video games where you simply aren't programmed to go outside the rules #anyways i watched a really specific essay last night and i've been thinking abt it ever since. i probably gotta go read up some more

[amillixnvoicesarch]

Send ‘NAME’ for a starter where soulmates have each others names written somewhere on their body. - ( Bea ) @legeandary

The thing is: STATISTICALLY speaking, it's highly unlikely for people to find their soulmate, Nora knows as much. Even if you find someone with the name that's written across your skin, there's no guarantee that it's the right person. There's a hell of a lot of people in the world, and it's easier to settle for someone you can see yourself having a future with, regardless of your connection, because again: still meeting that person, even after marriage, is very unlikely.

Of course she's heard the stories about people finding each other. About how you're supposed to FEEL it when you come across what society has deemed the right person for you, but Nora's always had a habit of dismissing things that couldn't be proven for herself, and if she's being honest then she's had better things to do than going looking for a soulmate.

Her own mark had appeared on her eighteenth birthday, as they do, and Alex had been the one to discover it, the name Bea etched in the skin on her ribs, and honestly? Alex had seemed MORE surprised than Nora. It hadn't been the reason they had ended things, and she's glad about that, she really has.

Now she's got her arm linked with his as they fall into the line to be greeted by the royal couple whose wedding they're attending, along with their siblings. Alex is...in a MOOD, but Nora is determined to enjoy herself, so she smiles and swats at his shoulder when he misbehaves, and they're both eventually greeted by Prince Henry and his sister with smiles. Nora returns the smile and extends her hand to the woman, feeling a flash of electricity rush through her veins the moment their hands touch and her entire body seems to lock up for the briefest moment and then the right side of her ribcage begins to burn ever so slightly.

She tries to blink and regain some sort of control, her eyes snapping up to meet the other woman's, if only to gather whether or not she's the only one feeling whatever the hell this is. "PLEASURE to meet you," She finally manages, somewhat out of breath.

#legeandary #v: we're not broken just bent & we can learn to love again ( soulmates au ; legeandary )

[cinnamon-phrog]

Bought my own table now I can finally do art in my room 💪💪💪💪💪💪 only 15 quid and it's got draws that you can pull out!!!! Chuffed

#i've been trying to draw bent over like a prawn but nothings' come out right. not even the art i actually shared. UNTIL NOW!!! #my living space let me borrow a chair but it's a bit too short for me to reach the top comfortably #but that's where the pull out bit comes in! i can reach that and have other stuff on top!!! win-win situation!!!!!!! #i've been very lucky today. first an asda shopping trolley in the street so i can pull my groceries home and then i found this #the guy who sold even helped me get it across the road!!! it would've probably broken otherwise. british roads aren't famously smooth lol

[sootnuki]

oakley life update: i somehow managed to fuck up my arm while getting up this morning so that’s great

#oakley speaks #it’s not broken or anything but it bent too far the wrong way and i’m in agony #edit: i can’t fucking FIND the pain medicine