#but now it’s just. somehow different

[ectoplasmer]

Today in sociology we did an assignment where we had to read through statistics about marriage, reasons why people get married, divorce rates, views on how certain couples influence children, etc. and then we had questions at the end that had more to do with how *we* felt about marriage and what we thought about the other things brought up in the article and when I tell you it lowkey physically hurt to write out how I didn’t really care for marriage. good god

#it’s like i DO care for it but the people who i want to marry aren’t real so like ??? #i think of me having a traditional wedding with anyone else and physically retch i’m sorry #there was a straight week where i couldn’t stop thinking about getting married to my f/os or how we would set that up considering #body sharing or whatever #y’all are lucky my brain was so rotted that i never posted anything about it #btw. expensive. very expensive #marriage in general is just… woof. even elopement costs money?? did not know that #anyway uhhhhh yeah that was. an assignment. definitely #had to write it multiple times and each time it was a stab at my heart u_u #but like i want to reinstate the fact that i did not care whatsoever for marriage before my current f/os #i looked at it and just saw it as more of a hassle than anything #but now it’s just. somehow different #i’m really not good at articulating my thoughts or how exactly i feel over it but #i dunno. i care more about the idea now than i did with past f/os #current f/os are different etc etc but i love them and maybe sometimes i do think about getting married to them #putting that on hold right now of course because i have a lot of things to worry about before then but #it’s just… getting to build a home with them i guess?? a safe place for all of us?? #obviously their lives have been much harder than mine and i want to support and be there for them #and i want them there for me too. i guess that is what changed my views towards marriage #but only specifically for them apparently lol #i dunno. i’m just happy i feel this way over them :) #quartzshipping

[journey-to-the-attic]

approximation of an idea i had for how ik solves levi's ordeal whenever it's his turn for this weird demon puberty everyone in nb s2 is having

from this post

#obey me #art #ik gets nightbrought #obey me leviathan #jtta ik #also i nicked the makes-it-rain-when-sad from neuvillette again #nightbringer #edit added the link to the post and PUT THE WORD IT INTO THE 2ND PANEL BECAUSE I FORGOT THE FIRST TIME SOMEHOW #this is what i call ik's nightbringer outfit now btw!! just to distinguish it from classic jtta #and also since she'd probably have a style change in the time between yknow #big jumper has been swapped for big cardigan and that's the main difference #also just for variety she has her hair tied up

[emry-stars-art]

Reintroducing these two Trojans ❤️💛

#yeah here they are #fan art #my art #aftg #tsc #tsc spoilers #just to be safe #the sunshine court #jean moreau #jeremy knox #wow now im all mixed up. hmm i had thoughts about them but that is gone now #no tag commentary this time #enjoy #somehow managed to hit post early #oh yeah #might lean into the height difference a little more than this

[kagoutiss]

din’s champion

#tloz #ocarina of time #oot #ganondorf #din #um #ganondin #…..does anyone here ship them ha. hahaha #i mean their whole thing is funny actually because she didnt even choose him but he managed to steal her triforce and #so then hes her ‘chosen’ by technicality. but with her virtue being power it’s maybe kinda one and the same #and anyway beyond that ​point i feel like she loves shaking him around like a mortal dog toy #but like in some way she also must have believed in him enough to give him Power in a different lifetime. so he’d survive his own execution #i;m just saying there is so much you can interpret about their relationship. despite her being #literally an unseen 4th dimensional being who is the embodiment of power and fire and change amd earth itself etc #like what do they think of each other. what does she think of this tiny mortal who somehow stole a piece of her and now theyre bound by it #take my hand walk w me thru mortal x god hyperdimensional traumatic power imbalance situationship. and youre both girls

[feddy-34]

......hello

i don't think you've actually watched seb race at all because he ran people off the track and crashed into them just as much, if not more than max does now.

not to mention: the entirety of multi 21

#every hyperlink is a different seb crash #this is not me hating! #this is me frustrated that people have let popular narratives overtake the reality of what actually happens in formula one #seb was viewed in just as much controversy in 2010 as max is now #and he was literally known for crashing into people #like his nickname was crash kid #his first years on the grid #to pretend that max and seb are somehow different in both driving style and championships is to be ignorant of f1 history #sorry you dont actually know the sport #f1 #sebastian vettel #max verstappen #red bull racing #ferarri

[stil-lindigo]

50% of all revenue for my store, starting now, will be donated to CareforGaza and the PCRF.

[ PURCHASE MY ANTHOLOGIES HERE ]

hi there! i'm lindi. you may have seen some of my comics floating around in the past year or so.

if you’ve ever liked my stories and wanted to purchase a copy of one of my anthologies, I invite you to do so now. This policy will be in place indefinitely, and the list of charities/organisations may be subject to change depending on their effectiveness. Currently, the focus is on providing aid and food to the innocent Palestinians in Gaza, but in the future I hope to increase the scope to tangibly support the queer community and help fund independent artists in Australia.

below, I'll list a few resources for people who'd like to directly donate at the source:

credible organisations that are doing work on the ground in Palestine:

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PCRF / Palestine Children's Relief Fund: non-profit organisation that distributes essential food and resources to families in Gaza. Most recently, they delivered 30 tons of vital medicine, and 82,000 pounds of flour.

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#disclaimer: I do want to say that I'm also regularly donating a significant portion of my own personal funds and have been for a while #however I think these additional donations will make all the difference. #just donating alone isnt gonna stop the genocide happening in gaza but im trying to put my money where my mouth is #thank you all in advance for your generosity #i appreciate the audience ive cultivated here immensely #and if nothing else i hope this weeds out the trash that mightve lingered here. somehow. #dont dare try separate the art from the artist with me. #everything ive ever made and will ever make stands with palestine from now until it sees its liberation #free palestine #palestine

[larabar]

rouge >>>>>>>>

#rouge has never really been a favorite but theres something about how shes written or animated or designed that just clicked and i love her #so so much now #ive always loved her !! this one just hits different #struggled so much to make the pinks purples and blues work together tho .literal bisexual mess but it works somehow #personally a big fan of her bigger wings theres no way game canon rouge can fly insert bee movie script #sonic the hedgehog #sonic prime #rouge the bat #sth #doodles #this show will be the end of me

[skellizo]

I thought after Måneskin won we would get a bunch of Rock?? Like the fuck happend?

#eurovision #eurovision 2022 #esc #eurovision song contest #really I just expected LESS ballads but somehow it feels like there are more now?? #like I did not love Austria or San Marinos vocals but they brought something different to the table #Also Albania just brought THAT energy #Ireland was a Bop #Latvia was Iconic #Denmark WAS A MORE ROCK ENTRY #Slovenia was a vibe #Georgia was weird but in a good way

[absurdumsid]

slowly getting sick of the horror.... speaks.. like this.... dialogue im shoving that onto dust now

#fanfic authors ily but i will now put ur hc onto a different character teehee #sid rambles #i just i think a lot ok #as a HUGE believer of the dust is korean hc #it just fits #it just fits.... #<- like he would struggle to remember words so he needs to pause a little #or. if u are not a korean dust hc believer (i WILL convert u somehow) #<- because he generally does not care for anything other than. his ultimate goal of killing the player he doesnt talk much with others #+ so it results in this sort of. derailed (insane/jumbled u can choose) speech because he has to REMEMBER how to speak (he has been alone #+ for so long)

[l3viat8an]

Leviathan: Have we always called you MC?

MC: Yeah...?

Mammon: Wait what?

Asmo: Seriously?

Satan: Wow I just noticed that...

Leviathan: What if... our life is just a simulation?

(Everyone stares at you irl)

Beel: Who's that?

MC: That's me!

Mammon: But ya right here?

Belphie: I don't really care...

MC: That's me in real life!

Barbatos: Why would you tell them now?

MC: HEY I DIDN'T TELL THEM THEY JUST ASKED!!!

Barbatos: See now I gotta alter the time and erase memories, then I have to find ways to avoid this outcome...

MC: Awww cmon Barb!

Barbatos: It must be done, I'm sorry...

MC: Okay then, do what you must...

Omg i did not mean for that to get angsty, i just thought abt this. It was inspired by another post but i forgot it😭 I LOVE YOUUU❤️❤️

“Wow I just noticed that….” NAHHHH

And why are they breaking the forth wall??! nosy ass demons, can’t mind their business smh 😒 this is why they have so many problems!!! And why MC has to fix them helpsjks

and the end??? Barbatos and MC have to fix another timeline that’s like their part-time job now jsksjsk

#I LOVE YOU TOO SUGAR <333 #also this idea is soooo cool!!! #it could get even more angsty if (somehow) the brothers don’t completely forget- #like they just have a vague feeling you’ve looked or sounded different at some point…. #ANYWAYZ!!!!- #I’ll shut up now 🚶🏼‍♀️ #moot mail! #obey me! #ro rambles #obey me incorrect quotes #om! #om! incorrect quotes #obey me

[georgieluz]

masters of the air, episode five: when the silence is louder than the noise that it replaced

#masters of the air #mota spoilers #it's not really an edit bc it's just some text and my screenshots #i just felt so deeply struck by the oppressive silence in the final scenes that i had to post about it somehow #when places so full of noise and movement and people rushing about hectically debriefing their missions #suddenly fall silent #and not just quiet #but like every bit of air has been sucked out of the room #like a vacuum of emptiness and it's so inexplicable #it just hits so different #these locations are always shown to us as loud and busy and full and now it's a single table of people barely uttering a word #julian made a thing

[nuclearanomaly]

I'm glad you're here with me At the end of all things...

#ffxiv #Endwalker #Ninira Nira #Estinien #Estinien Wyrmblood #Estinien Varlineau #Estinien x wol #wolstinien #art: mine #I started this picture 2000 years ago #I remember wanting to experiment with a different render style and surprise! getting frustrated #so it's been sitting as a sketch since #then the other day Cyan was like hey this song gave me Estinini vibes #And I was like l o l slides Estinini playlist back across the table and circles Sans Soleil like that's because it is #and I was like man I should go back to that picture #and just kinda yolo the render bc beating myself up about not being successful in my last render will never get it done #so here it is in the usual idk what's happening slap colours everywhere flavour #Nini could have used a bit more work re getting her size right maybe but we're not caring right now #I DID it at least checks the box and somehow does another piece of art in under a month idk what's happening rn energy I guess #Ultima Thule makes me normal #This part of MSQ was f i n e :')

[ridl]

how to start a day at the Yujing Terrace

#ganqing #ganyu #keqing #my art #just coworker things right #imagine when they were on bad terms and ganyu would force a smile and grit her teeth before mustering the normalest good morning she can #despite disliking keqing #and now it's like #ganyu saying good morning in the normal polite tone to everyone and then giggling twirling hair when she says good morning to keqing #just imagine.... keqing somehow always getting the special treatment from ganyu but in two entirely different ways lmao

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

excuse me i need to Muse on something for a moment

so in Wally's secret 'vinyl' audios, specifically the last few (if we're listening to em in chronological order), obviously he starts to sound more strained/distressed. his breathing is more labored, like it's taking all of his energy to make contact.

but the audio that really caught my attention was the "But i still can't see" one. cause he just said he has more eyes than he did before. he knows We draw them a lot, and it's thanks to that that he can see. but he still can't see?

so my question is: where is Wally physically? cause although he can (assumedly) see the WHRP goings on, he can see through the eyes We draw, that could all be on a, uh... more Intangible level of sight. like the spiral pit is forming an eye, and then there's the eye on the ceiling in the secret Staff Only section - could Wally be in the pit, that space between his reality and Ours, "watching" through the eyes? but unable to actually see with due to the pit being pitch black nothingness? is he somewhere else? is he stuck? he can see, but he can't... see.

(or is he trying to explain an abstract concept - he's not actually viewing anything, but he can sense it. like how he knows We're there, even if he can't see or hear Us. but he just doesn't have the words to describe it other than using physical senses - see, hear, look.)

and him saying "...that I can see. But it is still... I can't..." but it's still what, Wally? dark? something else that he doesn't have the words to describe, so he just says that he can't see?

i know that in the Livestream Trivia Document (compiled by @/the neighborhoodwatch) there was something said about Wally being in a box. my first thought reading that was "oh, so he's in storage? the physical puppet, i mean?" which would make sense - show's over, there's no more use for him. pack 'em up and put him away. but that paired with the "can't see" audio makes both seem a lil... connected.

Wally can't see > he's likely somewhere dark > the inside of closed boxes are dark > Wally's in a box. (or maybe the Neighborhood is the box? it's a stretch, i know, but the map is a box. television sets are often set up in "boxes". maybe it's less of a physical storage box and more of a 'boxed in' sort of thing...)

one question i've had since the Start of my interest in this incredible project is: how is Wally communicating? how has he connected to the site? how does he connect to our reality? the pit almost definitely has something to do with it - most likely acting as a bridge, or the deteriorating of the barrier between our two 'worlds' - but if Wally is in a box and Not the pit or even just in the puppet's reality... how is he reaching us beyond just seeing through the eyes he's given?

or is he in their reality, and he can contact through the pit or something, but he can't actually see the other side? Our side? he knows it's there - that We're there - but none of it is visible to him. maybe his apparent disassociation in the 14 bug audios is a demonstration of him contacting Us. we can see through him, but it's a one way street.

and speaking of the pit - i just had a thought. his whole thing with Us letting him in, opening... the pit on the neighborhood map is getting bigger and clearer. but the presumed Other Side, the one on the Staff Only ceiling, is small. it's the size of a ceiling panel. it seems to me that Wally is chipping away at his side of the pit or 'portal', trying to reach Our reality, but he needs Us to do the same thing on the other side. the QA can hear him calling, but there's no phone on their (Our) side of the pit. how do We call back???

there's a fundamental barrier & lack of understanding between Wally and the QA/Us. he's trying. he wants to be let in, but what does that mean, really? let him in where? open what? he's desperate. he wants us to understand. he's trying so so hard Without the right tools to clearly communicate what he wants. he can't see Us, We can see him, both know the other is there, but there's no way to connect. and the attempts are hurting all parties involved, however unintentionally

#and its very ah. Autistic/Neurodivergent Horror i think? #the Wanting To Explain but Being Unable To because the people you're trying to communicate with #function differently than you. they don't understand. they Can't understand. their brains are wired differently. #no matter how hard you try there will never be understanding. your attempts to connect are somehow Incorrect. #and often - in my experiences at least - being that Different gets you hurt. people perceive your actions/behavior as a slight. #or as intentionally malicious! and then they get mad and you just.. dont get Why? you didn't Want to hurt anyone. you wanted to Explain. #you wanted someone to look at you and Understand. say 'oh. i see you! i get it now!' and have that Connection. #but you will never be understood. never Seen nor Heard. left in the dark. you're accidentally hurting them. they're hurting you. #it takes all of your strength to try to reach them and yet you still. fall. short. because they don't reach back. #anyway ive had these thoughts simmering for a lil while #Knowing whether or not the bug audios are present day or not would cross some theories off and write up new ones i think #that confirmation seems Important imo.... #homebogging #welcome home speculation #welcome home theory #then of course there's the question of how Home fits into all of this... in the early days i was a 'home is evil' believer but now?? #nah. home's not outright Evil i think. there's something complicated going on between them and wally and its role in all of this #im just... unsure of what. i think confirmation of whether his morse code says 'help me' or 'hello' would massively help clear up the sitch #is home an accomplice? a victim? a perpetrator? a secret fourth option? who's to say (yet) #i have many Thoughts about it based on a couple different things - the distorted voice under wallys. the waLLy guestbook entry. etc #but this post has gotten long enough and its Not on that particular subject #*grips the bug audios & home's morse code* you two motherfuckers would clear so much up i stg- #the bug audio's timeline placement could tell us whether or not wally is with his neighbors or if the neighborhood is intact (in some way!) #home's morse code would give Major insight into their place in all of this!!! #AGH THIS FUCKING PROJECT MAKES ME INSANE. IT'S SO GODDAMN GOOD WHO AUTHORIZED THIS- #as always take my words with a Hefty grain of salt & i hope it's coherent! #anyway there's nothing more dangerous & all-consuming than the need/desire to be understood <3

[alsojnpie]

dishes are forever

#I MISSED HAVING A TABLET!!!! #ht papyrus #a gentle touch when you're sad #a menacing touch when it would be funny #he can do it all #LITTLE PRO TIP LIFE HACK THOUGH: IF WASHING DISHES MAKES YOU WANT TO LIVE ON A DIFFERENT PLANET #MAYBE YOU HAVE TOO MANY DANG DISHES #BEING IN A SITUATION WHERE I HAVE 80% FEWER DISHES THAN BEFORE MEANS I DO DISHES MORE OFTEN BUT IT'S SO EASY #AND NOT SOUL SUCKING AT ALL #JUST MY EXPERIENCE!!!!!! THAT'S ALL #I'm sure when i am reunited with my other dishes i will languish in bed staring at this psyching myself up to the task #but i like keeping random jars from food i bought and dishes that i picked up in different places. #they physically remind me of everywhere I've been and sometimes i just look at them and remember where I've been #my favorite is the old ratatouille jar i bought at carrefour in Chengdu #that jarred ratatouille was the nastiest food to grace this earth #i bought it in case it would make a quick easy meal (you don't really find those at the grocery store in China at least not back then) #but even my cheap lazy self couldn't eat it #so no one ever consumed that ratatouille but the jar was pretty big so i put other stuff in it and now it's my dish #and somehow the label is glued on PERMANENTLY it has never washed off after all these years #actually idk maybe it eventually did it isn't here for me to look at but it lasted a long time i know that

[whetstonefires]

“The Justice League and the Avengers are very different teams”

In what respect? Like, how would you say both teams differ in terms of overall function, how they respond to threats, how they’re viewed by their respective publics, etc?

😂 who even are you?

anyway, these two teams have been reformed and rebooted so many times and are the flagships of the two juggernauts of their industry, so their natures have evolved and influenced one another heavily over the decades as you see armies tend to do in prolonged warfare, so there is probably not one single statement you could make about either one that's always true.

it would be crazy to try to explain the difference in diegetic terms, because those aren't goalposts they're hockey pucks. the difference in kind exists at a publishing level.

fundamentally, the Avengers was designed to rest, in narrative terms, on everyone's personal relationships and neuroses, and develop soap opera subplots and office drama around how these intersected with each other and various villains. because in the 60s Marvel was launching the Big New Thing which was heightened naturalism and relatability in comics.

(spiderman and the whole genre of underdog superhero who can't catch a break rather than slyly winking at the audience as the world looks down on his secret identity, not knowing how impressive he really is, dates to this pivot of Marvel's. both Superman and Captain America did the latter in their early days, which is highly dissonant from Cap and Bucky looking at them today, but Cap was retired from print for like 20 years and got heavily rebooted for the new age.)

they had an actual mansion they could all live in, and many of them did, for a solid chunk of time early on. there's a reason people swung so hard for the 'everyone lives in stark tower' scenario foreshadowed at the end of Avengers (2012)--that's how the Avengers are! you bang the action figures together and give them angst and bonding about it!

they fractured repeatedly under the weight of all that drama (because psychology and because stories that don't end are unable to make any narrative sense, and breaking up a team is honestly a half-decent substitute in the Eternal Now of big comics) and at this point the current avengers is much more impersonal and even pays salaries, like basically the commune-underwritten-by-rich-buddy has reincorporated as an NGO.

but it still runs on the same types of narrative tensions mostly--huge epic stuff will be happening, but the Avengers tension comes down to whether everyone really hates T'Challa this month for that thing he did. and what this is doing to group cohesion.

the Justice League on the other hand was not built for character-driven story.

they've done plenty of them, after it became the done thing, and even imitated the Avengers and did the diegetic collapsing and reforming arcs and so on. but it's not fundamental to how a Justice League runs; you could do a super long run where the interpersonal tensions never rose above B-plot status and it wouldn't be tonally dissonant.

it would be weird for many of the Justice League to live together--when a character is shown living in Justice League facilities it is usually to signify that they are isolated and don't have a life and this is Bad. the Martian Manhunter and Maxwell Lord dominated era was deliberately aping the Avengers imo and came out weird as a result, and Lord turning out to be a mind-controlling supervillain was not unrelated to how weird most people felt it was.

the Justice League is like. joining a club rather than a frat. like being on the board of an NGO, rather than taking a full-time job there.

you know? the type of commitment is different. the level of intimacy is different.

cap and iron man's relationship has generally played out primarily in the context of their positions within the Avengers, even though it spills into their own titles, while superman and batman have had entire joint books just for them, and their friendship has not usually been allowed to take up much page time in Justice League issues. because that would be indecorous.

commercially speaking, Justice League is first and foremost an easy-buy showcase for high-profile hero characters and anyone you want to burnish up by displaying adjacent to them.

They've totally gotten messy with it over the years but like. I think the seminal Justice League internal dramas were 1) that time Barry Allen killed the guy who'd killed his first wife and was about to kill his second one and they put him on trial 2) that time Wonder Woman killed a dude who told her under truth compulsion that the only way to stop him from mind-controlling Superman to murder people was to kill him and they put her on trial 3) blah blah Batman paranoia exploited by eeeeevil (barely counts imo) and 4) that extremely oogy time it turned out the Justice League had been using magic to forcible reform criminals and erased Batman's memories of this being a thing when he found out and objected because ethics wtf.

That last one was sufficiently story-breaking they started pretending it hadn't happened as quickly as possible. Which was amazingly quickly considering Identity Crisis was the basis for things like killing off the presiding Robin's remaining parent. They actually soft-reset the whole world fairly soon after by timeskipping over most of a year and being like ahem anyway the past is in the past. And then the universe just kept serially ending for over a decade, so it's been weird.

Justice League has reliably gotten a shiny coat of polish with every reboot tho lol.

(Still not over the way they were like, okay we're wiping Green Lantern back to Hal but now we don't have the token black guy everyone who saw the cartoon expects, let's promote Cyborg people know him because of that other cartoon, ah shit he doesn't work without a partner to do bits with. well we can't put garfield logan in the justice league it's too prestigious, he's from the doom patrol for a reason, yeah i know we've had folks like plastic man shut up this is a Cool Sexy new reboot where Superman and Wonder Woman are fucking, we're not using friggin beast boy. how about Captain Marvel? yeah ok shazam is An Silly Joker now and besties with this 20 year old who may or may not know about his elaborate cognitive situation. i don't actually think they put even this much effort into it but otoh maybe they debated really hard and this was the compromise.

........actually vic could probably work up a decent oppositional patter with eel o'brien ik they were never gonna use plastic man but i don't hate it.)

Right. There was a point.

Obviously I'm probably missing a few big dramas here, but the point is DC was trying to keep up with the fantastic dysfunction of the Avengers because if it bleeds it leads, but even in the Dark Age they could not dive in groin first without tarnishing valued brands. The Justice League is simply not built to tell the same types of stories that the Avengers are.

In Justice League stories the narrative will typically be split in focus to a varying degree between the problems created by the villain and the personal emotional situations--the problems--of the heroes. Usually the villain leads and provides the emotional stakes. Only occasionally, overall, do problems between the heroes rise to the same level. Even when they're having them canonically in some other book Justice League tends to be ruled not the right place for that.

Secret identities are traditionally kept to a minimum in the League and League stories, though what this means in practice has gone through some shifts.

This is not just the difference between DC and Marvel house styles, though of course that's part of it, nor is it the League being older, because it isn't by any significant amount. It replaced the Justice Society of America in 1960. Other teams, even the Titans to an extent which was just the junior wing of the League at first, were allowed to get more into the grit sooner, and have the experimental story of Speedy's career-ending heroin problem happen and intra-team dating drama take the foreground, and all that. Doom Patrol was all about the dysfunction, god.

But the Justice League is simply not designed to be that kind of a team book, and when it's occasionally written that way the seams usually creak.

#ask #hoc est meum #Anonymous #despite racing to the bottom of the pit in many ways #dc has never stopped being fundamentally more conservative than marvel #somehow even now that marvel is disney owned #like partly that's just dc being in internal meltdown mode #but also like the incredible hulk got to be a hellacious horror comic under disney etc #soon i will be out of quarantine and these asks will stop working #comics #damn i spent so long writing this shit i almost lost my duolingo streak #i need to make different life choices #i'm putting away laundry and going to bed