#but anyway yeah

[overthinkinglotr]

Can I just tell you I love your Hobbit comic anyway, but the illustration when Bilbo explains that he isn't married for reasons he can't articulate almost made me cry

I've never seen anything hit that feeling so perfectly

Ahhh thank you so much!! ❤️♥️❤️😭😭 🫂<3 This was a page I labored over for a while because it’s a line that’s important to me, and i was really hoping other people would connect with it. I remember reading that Gandalf quote in the Unfinished Tales/The Quest of Erebor for the first time and feeling like “””“!!!!??!?!?!?????!!!!!!!!”””

And now I found that [Bilbo] was 'unattached' (…)I learned that he had never married. I thought that odd though I guessed why it was; and the reason that I guessed was not that most of the Hobbits gave me: that he had early been left very well off and his own master. No, I guessed that he wanted to remain 'unattached' for some reason deep down which he did not understand himself - or would not acknowledge, for it alarmed him.

A lot of the way Tolkien reframes Bilbo’s story in later works like LOTR and the Unfinished Tales are fascinating to me, but I love this line in particular. It’s the queer metaphor of it all— the pain of not understanding yourself but also being terrified of the introspection it would take to fully understand yourself, and so avoiding that introspection by attempting to repress it and put it off indefinitely…

#but yeah thank you again!! 😭❤️ #it really means a lot #I was kinda worried about a lot of the stuff in this chapter and im glad this landed for you #lotr #overthinkinglotr #the hobbit #lord of the rings #but anyway yeah

[bonefall]

yo, puffballs can be used to dress wounds? how does that work?

It's the simplest use in the world. I wouldn't even be able to make a whole guide on puffballs as a wound-dressing it's so simple. You literally just cut and apply to a bleeding wound.

It's a hemostatic; its spores stop the bleeding. So when it comes to puffballs, you either harvest them young and eat them, or let them mature and harvest as a medicine.

This is a puffball when it's young enough to be edible. The flesh is pure white. When the spores have started to form, this will turn yellowish and become a poison if ingested.

You can just use a slice as a gauze, or powder it. It's that simple. No processing required. It makes the blood coagulate and stops bleeding.

#Culpepper was a good guide for the writers to use to be fair #For the very basics #But once you actually start to move past the basics you realize that a lot of the treatments they use in canon would actually be- #-totally inaccessible #Because culpepper assumes you have a garden. #And he ends up totally skipping over some SUPER useful and relevant historic herbal treatments #Such as puffballs #But to be farierer I do have like... a bit of a background in pharmacognacy because of a family member being educated in this #so I kinda know what to look for and How things work #But anyway yeah #Herb Guide #Clan Culture #Puffballs #Mushrooms

[kaladinkholins]

guys cmon. be ffr please. akemi did Not love taigen. the only reason why she was desperate to search for him to the point of putting herself in danger is because she didn't want to get married to an abusive man (which she believed at the time that takayoshi was). when seki tried to dissuade her from running off, her reason was not "but i love taigen and wanna be with him 🥺" it was because she refused to be controlled and have her autonomy taken from her; she literally says "i won't be locked away in edo married to a stranger." and when seki still tries to argue that getting married to the heir of the shogun would be better than getting caught by brigands, she then says "that kind of man"—referring to takayoshi—"treats women like animals. they say he's a tyrant." and when seki chuckles and says "what man isn't?" her response is "you." she doesn't even talk about taigen. she is using him as much as he was using her. they both see—or, well, saw—each other as means to an end. for taigen he saw that marrying into the tokunobu clan would elevate his status and wealth. for akemi she wanted the right to choose who she married, and she wanted that person to be someone kind. that's it! neither of them loved each other. but since they were courting of course they acted sweet to each other, and they do still care for one another, especially due to their romantic history. but let's be real! akemi is a boss bitch who dropped taigen and forgot all about his ass as soon as she saw takayoshi was a nice guy. because duh? not only is takayoshi a better lover (it's implied their lovemaking lasted a long time) but he's also kinder towards her and presents her with an opportunity to claim power and freedom, which she would not have if she had married taigen, as she would have still been stuck under her father's thumb. so literally why should she settle for taigen's stupid ass! she may be a little naive at times but she's still incredibly intelligent. she would not do something stupid for the sake of "love." you know who would though? taigen.

#blue eye samurai #wank.mp3 #kinda? #fandom.rtf #shut up haydar #like out of the 4 main characters #akemi is the brains (the mental aspect) #she mainly uses reason and rhetoric. that's why she's so good at persuasion and manipulation. #ringo is the soul (spiritual aspect) #ringo serves as the show's moral compass and gets mizu to follow her morality #taigen is the heart (emotional aspect) #taigen will always impulsively follow his feelings (he's so brash for this reason. if he feels angry he will act on it etc) #mizu is the body (physical aspect) #mizu suppresses her emotions. her reason. and her morals. she only lets her skills and primal instincts guide her. #that's why she's almost super human sometimes #but anyway yeah #akemi? is a strong-willed self-empowered woman! she is not some damsel. she is intelligent though somewhat naive #please do not mischaracterise her cuz she is a boss bitch! she is a queen a cuntress a baddie #also on that note. the nature of taigen and akemi's rship is one of the reasons why im not keen on a polycule ending #like please explore it in fanfic and fandom! i personally just dont want it canon. i just dont see it working! #like literally i dont even think taigen found her attractive... #i mean he did obv find her very beautiful as everyone does. but did yall SEE his face when she propositioned him? #no desire in that man's eyes. he is GAY! his sexuality is men + mizu. he is a raging and bitchy bisexual!

[bottomless-brainrot]

One thing i will never get over with Saltburn is the little details.

Oliver going through the house naked following the same route that Felix guided him through when he first visited…

The camera work with that scene for Felix panning to the right constantly as he explains the different ‘landmarks’ for Oliver to remember his way around the house… but with Oliver’s scene the camera is constantly going to the left as it follows him dancing through the halls.

How quickly the camera follows Felix in the moment, almost too eager to keep him in the line of sight… but for Oliver its slower and uncaring that it lags behind him or that it gets Ollie out of frame from time to time.

( gif visual )

the writer in me has two things in mind:

it could be the house itself, reluctant to become a home for this new invader but cannot ignore him.

or its Felix’s ghost. His soul having not passed on just stalks the halls trying to make Oliver uneasy and afraid just as he felt the night he died, but Oliver kinda just revels in the attention like a freak.

#saltburn #oliver quick #felix catton #cattonquick #idk maybe im just weird myself but it just tickles my brain #like its all so nice and i want to think its something well thought out but it could have just been a fluke #but anyway yeah #— to yearn : saltburn

[seaofashes]

This one's for the SweetHeart nation 🫵

#I've discovered Kata is actually harder then I anticipated to draw #but anyway yeah #a quick sketchy piece of them #because...yes #i love two tall boyfriends so much actually #SweetHeart #they won with ship names bc it's cute #donquixote rosinante #charlotte katakuri #corazon #katakuri #one piece art #Rosinante x Katakuri #Corazon x Katakuri #one piece #art #my art #nyx draws : one piece #nyx doodles #simple but I like it #katacora

[pocketramblr]

Kill the child of one of your most hated foes? ❌

Find their son and get him pregnant instead so the child you conceived with said son will kill him ✅

Don't fact check me this is canon.

APPARENTLY IT IS

#I am trying to figure out. how i think about this. because it's one thing for afo to orchestrate the tenko tragedy and I always figured he #did. #it's another thing that he orchestrated Tenko's entire existence!!!!! what the hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #this isn't just a brudoichi situationship pregnancy dark mirror #Todoroki children i see you too I'm just processing this all still #oh the fuyuhana i am sure will eventually. eventually spark from this #but anyway yeah #CANON I GUESS #pocket talks to people #anon #bnha manga leaks #bnha manga spoilers

[royaipercabeth]

I see your headcanons of Percy on his school's swim team and raise you:

Percy on his school's fencing team.

He won't feel like he's cheating.

He gets to keep up his swordsmanship (which is a skill he has to practice, not a power).

The team still gets someone who is freakishly good.

#only downside is he'd totally have trouble keeping up with the fencing rules #because his brain sees sword-looking thing and goes 'survival mode activated' #but anyway yeah #I feel funny about him on the swim team of a mortal school at least but I can see New Rome Uni being like 'yes finally a son of Neptune' #percy jackson #pjo #hoo

[clown-eating-pig]

Be honest does this even look like the same guy

#tma #the magnus archives #tma fanart #art eating pig #jonathan sims #jon sims #idk how I’m supposed to tag him sorry #deleted and reposted this bc I forgot his ‘season whatever’ scars #which was too embarrassing to let go of #but anyway yeah #really leaning into the grubby Jesus thing with that second one #my cruel hands work against me

[churrothezanyrabbit]

so uh

i’m actively listening to a bbieal song (that’s what i do by axie) and

i all of a sudden had a hand slip

and made another au

for once not with churro

but with mortimer

#churro draws #mortimer mouse #baldi mortimer #the second one just has a little mini mickey that i’ll add a reaction to #but my partner added it #oh yeah my partner is great btw #i love them #they’re so cool i hope they stay in my life forever and ever #what no im definitely not obsessed with them #i totally don’t think about them all day #wait this is getting off topic #i still love them to the ends of the earth tho #cuz they’re amazing #but anyway yeah #bbieal au #mortimer baldi #mickey mouse #mickey #mortimick #mortimick question mark #my art <3 #whiteboard #art

[funnierasafictive]

some advice i see a lot regarding how to tell if someone is a fictive or just a character that the person is imagining is to try to imagine them doing something they wouldn't and see if it feels wrong or if they flat out refuse but i was wondering is there any way to tell if you've just imagined them refusing? like, if it's more in character for them to do so is that not simply where your mind would go? how can you tell whether there's a person behind it or whether it's just that your mind itself doesn't want to cooperate??

Honestly, I'm not sure how to answer that. BUT, it does remind me of when our old host met Jaiden (not a fictive) and they read that a way to check if someone is really sentient, you do this specific exercise about balancing a feather on their noise or something. Honestly none of us remember the point of it or how it would have worked, but what happened was, Jaiden was already Real. He split real, Jamie just wasn't sure (thank you denial). Because Jaiden cared about Jamie, he indulged him and did the exercises. But it would go on for DAYS to the point where Jaiden literally told Jamie to just "stop". "I'm real!" and even if Jamie told him to do these exercises, it was annoying him.

So yes, having them do something they'd like is an option. But have you considered annoying them to the point where they snap at you?? SKDFJS

OF COURSE DONT like. put yourselves on bad terms. but its something to think about. A lot of the time when we're in denial, the person we/the current front is in denial about, starts getting annoyed, and then we feel bad about hurting their feelings.

So I'm not your therapist and I can't tell you what's what- but I guess you could also think.. "If I annoyed them, and they react badly to me annoying them, and that feeling of them scolding me makes me feel bad.. why would I ever make that up?"

Also give it some time. Sometimes if a split is new (or you think someone just split) it'll be hard to tell. Denial is a BITCH. If you already are used to having alters or system members in general, The fictive who just split WILL eventually be comfortable enough to be "concrete enough" with you, if they already even know who they are. maybe your brain itself is still figuring things out. We talk about splitting as a community a lot--where spliting is usually depicted as like this FAST thing. but sometimes its slow! which DOESNT help if youre trying to figure out if you have someone or not!

#ask #Anonymous #and then of course tehres like. so many different factors like sure maybe its ocd or something #but anyway yeah #i do not recommend HARASSING people but im NOT a good role model so. nudging them a little might do something #bc like with ANY ALTER (not just fictives) a lot of the advice tends to be 'get a reaction out of them' lol #Talk to them? #im going to stop talking now because i feel like if i do my advice will actually get like really bad and you should NOT just listen to me g #'annoy them!!!' BAHAHA #-SUSIE / blurry susie i gyuess #ANYWAY HOPE IT GOES WELL! #be patient with YOURSELF and be patient with this possible fictive #its valid to live life being like 'idk' and then find out the actual answer a week or two later or more #i mean yk some systems only find out they had a fictive of someone YEARS later /gen yk #not funnier as a fictive #sorry its long lol..... #i also dont usually use commas but i used them here so im a little more comprehensible

[see-arcane]

Hey there hi there just a friendly reminder today that no matter who tells you it's pointless or how jaded you may feel about the process, if you have not already:

FUCKING.

VOTE.

'Both sides are just as bad!'

No they are not. They never have been. Neither side is perfect. Neither side is 100% pristine. But if you legitimately believe both sides are equally adamant in their routine evil for the sake of profit, bigotry, and generally wanting everything shittier for anyone who is not them, you've been purposefully living under a rock or else you're digging for an excuse not to bother with the tedium of standing in a line and pushing a button.

Do you want a Trump 2.0? Do you want a system stacked entirely with a red deck? Do you want more rights, protections, and sanctions against little things like Not Fucking the Environment Further and Bodily Autonomy and Letting People Who Are LGBT Exist Like Real People thrown into a woodchipper?

No?

THEN VOTE.

Vote like your life and the lives of your loved ones and the lives of total strangers depend on it. Because they do! They very much do!

I won't waste time compiling yet another megalist of all the reasons to vote, all the reasons that people not voting only ever benefits the worst candidates (DON'T FALL FOR THE, 'Oh, but everyone knows better! Plenty of people will vote right! I don't have to!' THOUGHT. THAT AND 'JOKE'-VOTING GOT US TRUMP.), all the huge things the Biden administration has accomplished, all the pure cartoon villainy bullshit the Republicans keep smearing on the country and all the even worse things they want for the future. A future that may or may not contain Trump or someone worse making a presidential bid.

Those posts already exist. So does Google. So does a heap of national and local news sites. Look them up or don't.

But please.

Please.

Please do not let yourself make excuses. Do not let other people try to convince you your vote is empty, that it doesn't make a difference. It does. It always has. This is the one tool we have that lets the pressure of the masses matter when it comes to who we put in charge of the states and the country as a whole. It's why these guys campaign in the first place.

Because the candidates know it matters.

No matter how good or bad or tepid the results are, do not let yourself be one of the people who sat back and threw up their hands just to say. "See? Told you it wouldn't matter!"

With enough of us it does. Whether that's enough of us making the effort to make sure things don't get worse or enough of us sitting back and plugging our ears while everything burns, it matters.

Please. Go. Vote.

#and that's my soapbox moment for today #might reblog later #but anyway yeah #VOTE

[not-poignant]

hello :))) for the meme - the wind that cuts the night (<3) - 17

17. What was the hardest scene to write?

*thinks* That's such a long time ago now (7 years) that I don't actually fully remember that well.

That being said the scene that required the most research, hand down, was Elliott's garden. All those plants I used are coastal tolerant plants that can handle ocean winds directly coming off the sea.

I knew that like... 'coastal tolerant' doesn't necessarily mean 'literally living on or near sand dunes', and that ruled out most plants. I probably spent, all up, about 8 solid hours over 4 consecutive days researching plants, images of houses that used those plants (so I could see how close to the sea they were), what the plants looked like flowering, and of course I had to look through over about 300 different species of plant to narrow down my list.

To this day, for something that amounted to like, a fairly short description of the plants re: Alex describing them to Elliott, that's like...the most research I ever did for that fic. Once I had the research done, writing the scene was from memory pretty easy. But the research was intense!

~

From this meme!

#asks and answers #the wind that cuts the night #stardew valley fic #sdv fic #sdv elliott #sdv alex #okay so true story i did a full answer for this for A Stain that Won't Dissolve #because i get those two names confused all the time fsdalkfjdsa #but anyway yeah #i have a feeling that i also struggled a bit with alex just getting the garden built in the storm / finding the rocks etc. and then getting #into elliott's house #that whole sequence i wanted to do quickly but it was very fiddly to write #administrator gwyn wants this in the queue

[amateur-madder]

Explain your paracosms but badly, go!

#had a random thought #and by random I mean I'm forcing my friend to help me chose which paracosm I daydream with but without explaining I have madd #very niche problem because I'm indecisive #but anyway yeah #maladaptive daydreaming #immersive daydreaming #actuallymadd #paracosm #my tags are longer than the posts itself whoops

[inkykeiji]

Nanami clari!!

aaaaaah anon >.< i’m really not a huge fan of nanami!!! i can see the appeal because he is Daddy as Fuck but he’s also sooo not my type and like,,, eee i find him kinda ??? boring??? normal??? LMAO like he’s too good he’s too healthy i can’t make him a toxic man in the slightest i just don’t think it’s possible HAHAHA

#my two bffs LOVE nanami tho #like LOOOOOOOVE him #like self ship with him and everything #so i get it!! totally!! #but he's just like :((( not my type y'know??? #also i think he would hate me HAHAHAHA #but anyway yEAH #thank you for your suggestion anyway anon bb it means a lot!! <33 #i hope your sunday has been fantastic <3 #stay safe n enjoy ur upcoming week! #inky.bb #clari gets mail

[dalliansss]

Seeing artwork of Melian and Thingol especially in Nan Elmoth will never fail to make me cringe.

I know there are some who think Melian and Thingol’s story is ✨romantic✨ but idk, that 200 year trance has always rubbed me wrong and sounded so r a p e y to me. Also altering Elwe Singollo’s very hröa (and mind, even, you can’t really separate mind and body, Elves have mind and body in harmony, in contrast to Edain), enough to make him take on different names??

Sus, yo.

#salt mine #really doesnt it make you think tho? #we wont even get into the entire illegality of Luthiens existence #made worse with ✨plot armor✨ #but anyway yeah #one core premise of the #from cuivienen with love #au with skaelds

[unhingedlesbear]

Erin throwing the lamp at Du’met > Charlie body slamming Du’met icl

#Idk if you guys can tell but I’m REALLY bored rn I’ve been waiting for class to start got nothing else to do #But anyway yeah #I LOVE when she throws the lamp #Like yes small bat woman!! #Get his ass!! #Erin keenan