#by dissing them to the oblivion

[thevalleyisjolly]

Morwen and Eówyn for the ask game?

-@outofangband

Ahhh, thanks! I don't really feel like I can say much about Morwen because it's been a very hot minute since I read the Narn and I'm fuzzy on most of the details, so I'll give more detailed answers for Eówyn instead.

Sexuality Headcanon: Y'know, the more I think about it, I like grey-ace Eówyn. I don't have a nicely thought out meta or reasons for this, just a little bit of projection and a thought that Eówyn doesn't really express pressing physical attraction towards either Aragorn or Faramir, rather both her relationships with them are much more about how they see her and what they represent to her. Gender Headcanon: Some flavour of nonbinary, with a dash of expressing gender roles according to the cultural norms she's familiar with. Essentially the equivalent of a silent shrug and "Suit yourself" when people ask or presume. A ship I have with said character: Faramir, which I don't think is really necessary to explain too much. A BROTP I have with said character: Out of no small amount of spite for the ship wars, I like to think that Eówyn and Arwen understand each other fantastically. They both know the grief of watching loved family members suffer and wane day by day, they both know quite a lot about what it is to be constantly perceived in others' eyes, they are both two people who have left their kith and kin for love. On less of a serious note, they can fill up entire afternoons chatting about horses and swordsmanship and the practicalities versus the aesthetics of trailing skirts. A NOTP I have with said character: I don't actively dislike it, I just don't agree with the argument that Eówyn/Aragorn should have been endgame and I can remember when arguments in favour of Eówyn/Aragorn used to just be excuses to put Arwen down. Guys, we don't have to put down other female characters just to enjoy a ship. Eówyn/Aragorn is a perfectly good ship on its own (even though it's not my personal cup of tea) and it doesn't need to diss on Arwen in order to stand on its own two feet. A random headcanon: She used to go out and about in Edoras as Dernhelm. A lot of people definitely knew, from the royal guards to the ferriers to the random civilians on the streets, but they also figured that she deserved some privacy and space, especially with the growing pallor over Meduseld, so there was a sort of silent compact that if you saw Dernhelm, 1) give them their space, and 2) why would you talk to anyone about it, it's just Dernhelm, there's absolutely no reason to tell anyone especially the king or more specifically his councillors. General Opinion over said character: It's about being alone for so very long and some hidden, soft part of you longing bitterly for someone who looks at you and understands you yet also not wishing to be seen as you currently, that nebulous space between wanting to be seen and not wanting to be perceived because what are you now? A shield-maiden, a lady of Rohan, a niece, a sister, and you know your roles and you do your duty even as it closes around you like the bars of a cage and the only escape, the only recourse, seems to be to fling yourself at the everlasting darkness in one shining moment of 'here I am' before oblivion- and then you pass through the darkness and you live. And it is not always easy, but you go on. And one day, not right away but someday, you smile again and you mean it.

#thank you! <3 #asked and answered

[honeymoonjin]

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These fics are the b-side, my older works which I’m not as happy with as my newer stuff. I don’t want to delete them since some may still enjoy them, but I wanna start fresh with works I’m personally proud of on my main masterlist from now on, so these are the ones that didn’t make the cut.

♔ smut || ➴ angst || ✭ crack || ☯ fluff

〚 darlin’ 〛✭

❝ you’re an actress that needs to learn to ride a horse for your next role. jin’s the cowboy tasked with teaching you. ❞

〚 pine 〛☯

❝ you’ve been hiding your crush on your best friend jin for far too long now, but it turns out he feels the same. ❞

〚 transition 〛✭

❝ seokjin’s job as a grim reaper is to guide souls after they die, but you’re not interested in moving on just yet. ❞

〚 pasta la vista 〛✭

❝ in which you, a food critic, wonders how kim seokjin manages to stay in business, considering how terrible his food seems to be. alternatively, kim seokjin does not know how to flirt. ❞

〚 come dine with me 〛♔

❝ yoonji eating you out in the kitchen that is literally it. ❞

〚 daegu hold ‘em 〛☯

❝ yoongi loves spoiling his girl. you love having a sugar daddy. that’s called synergy. ❞

〚 baby fever 〛♔

❝ doctor min yoongi is your fertility specialist, but during the artificial insemination procedure he has some…unorthodox methods. ❞

〚 mi casa 〛☯

❝ when yoongi brings you home to spend the holiday season with his family, he finally realizes he’s in love with you. ❞

〚 curious ft kth 〛♔

❝ taehyung is unsure of his sexuality, and you and your boyfriend yoongi are only too happy to let him experiment with you. ❞

〚 땡 / ddaeng 〛✭

❝ when blackmailed by a sasaeng, you and yoongi decide to instead release a diss-track featuring audio from an illegally obtained video of the two of you having sex. ❞

〚 unravel 〛➴ ∙ ☯

❝ you just want yoongi to see himself the way you see him. ❞

〚 heavy 〛♔

❝ mafia leader hoseok is having problems with loyalty in his ranks. luckily, you’ll always be there for him to relieve a little stress when he needs it. ❞

〚 close enough 〛➴

❝ hoseok thinks you’re getting a little too close to the other members, and he’s sick of it. part two now available here! ❞

〚 us 〛☯

❝ amongst the publicity of being an idol, hoseok wants his proposal to be a private affair. ❞

〚 unwind 〛♔

❝ your boyfriend is about to give an important speech at the United Nations but isn’t handling pre-speech nerves too well. luckily, you know some ways to help him relax. ❞

〚 keyed up ft kth〛♔

❝ when your mutual roommate namjoon gets a little too strung out, you and taehyung offer to help relieve some tension. ❞

〚 hey mama 〛☯

❝ one-shot for mother’s day. you spend an evening in with namjoon and your two boys. ❞

〚 going up? 〛✭ ∙ ☯

❝ you didn’t expect to be trapped in a faulty elevator with the president of south korea, but it’s still preferable to having to take the stairs. ❞

〚 sick day 〛♔

❝ namjoon gets a week off work, but you don’t, and he’s starting to get a little frustrated. ❞

〚 tumble dry 〛♔

❝ when jimin overhears you confessing to jungkook that you want to ride his thighs, jimin allows you…on one condition. ❞

〚 radio silence 〛♔

❝ jimin wants to indulge in his exhibitionism kink on the grandest scale: while at the grammys. ❞

〚 appa 〛☯

❝ jimin comes home from tour to visit his newborn son for the first time. ❞

〚 breaking point 〛➴

❝ you don’t think you can continue being in a relationship with jimin anymore. ❞

〚 arrivals 〛➴

❝ things go wrong at the airport when jimin’s wife and daughter accompany bts on a flight. ❞

〚 keyed up ft knj〛♔

❝ when your mutual roommate namjoon gets a little too strung out, you and taehyung offer to help relieve some tension. ❞

〚 roomie 〛✭

❝ falling in love with your cell mate isn’t generally advisable. ❞

〚 confessions of love are best done sober 〛➴ ∙ ☯

❝ kim taehyung used to be your best friend in primary school, but he’s changed into a completely different person. while you drink yourself into oblivion at a party, he has something to tell you. ❞

〚 itty-bitty 〛☯

❝ after finally moving in with your just-married husband, you have some more exciting news to tell him. ❞

〚 curious ft myg 〛♔

❝ taehyung is unsure of his sexuality, and you and your boyfriend yoongi are only too happy to let him experiment with you. ❞

〚 green room 〛♔

❝ jungkook isn’t happy with how you acted while he was on stage. ❞

〚 high-rise 〛☯

❝ getting locked out on a rooftop when you’re meant to be going on stage in five minutes is less than ideal, but luckily Jungkook has his girlfriend to keep him company. ❞

〚 shark week 〛✭ ∙ ☯

❝ when you get your period while at a restaurant with your boyfriend and the rest of bts, you just want to grin and bear it, but jungkook seems determined to show off to his hyungs how supportive he is. ❞

〚 the name game 〛✭ ∙ ☯

❝ jungkook likes to think he’s a genius at coming up with baby names. you, his heavily pregnant girlfriend, would have to disagree. ❞

〚 roll credits 〛☯

❝ after a string of misfortunes and troubles, you find yourself crying your eyes out in a movie theater. luckily, the cute usher wants to make sure you didn’t miss the film. ❞

〚 the daily grind 〛☯

❝ jeon jungkook has a crush on the girl that comes to the coffee shop he works at, but she’s too invested in her studying to even give him a second glance. ❞

〚 makin’ monet 〛✭

❝ jungkook’s attention is caught by his roommate taehyung’s odd collection of fake paintings, and he’s determined to find the painter. part two available here. ❞

〚 love yourself: the collab 〛✐ ∙ ♔ ∙ ➴ ∙ ☯

❝ twenty-six authors, twenty-six songs. a collab me and @/jeonau created to celebrate the one year anniversary of lya. each song (plus four bonus tracks) has its own fic. ❞

⇥ masterlist here

⇥ pairings: several, at least one of every member x reader

〚 roll deep 〛✐ ∙ ♔

❝ six one-shots, pornstar au. ❞

⇥ masterlist here

⇥ pairings: one of each member x reader, yoonji x reader

〚 wouldst thou like to live deliciously? 〛✐ ∙ ♔ ∙ ➴

❝ jimin is sick of being a virgin, and the pressure of the first time with a girl, so he decides to summon a sex demon to get it over with. ❞

⇥ masterlist here

⇥ pairings: jimin x reader, namjoon x reader, yoongi x reader

〚 cum!bts 〛♔ ∙ ✭

❝ in the newest run! episode, the members compete to see which of them can make you orgasm the fastest. ❞

⇥ masterlist here

⇥ pairings: one of each member x reader

〚 sovereign 〛✐ ∙ ♔ ∙ ➴

❝ when you hear that your recently deceased grandmother left you her property in her will, at first you think that a dinky old cottage in the middle of nowhere isn’t going to mean much for you. but after spending a night there, you discover something far more valuable than the house itself: a hidden door that leads to another time, the same place but over 200 years in the past. in the late 18th century, there is a king who will die before his 21st birthday unless you can save him. will you help him, even if it means leaving your own life behind? ❞

⇥ masterlist here

⇥ pairings: jimin x reader, jungkook x reader

〚 lost in translation 〛✐ ∙ ➴ ∙ ☯

❝ you decide to uproot your life completely and move to korea to help teach english at a primary school. ❞

⇥ season one masterlist here

⇥ pairings: none so far

〚 seven 〛➴ ∙ ☯

❝ life with seven boyfriends isn’t always a walk in the park, but you wouldn’t have it any other way. ❞

⇥ part one || part two || part three

⇥ pairings: ot7 x reader

〚 dul, set 〛☯

❝ work can be tough. at least you have two boyfriends to come home to. ❞

⇥ part one || part two

⇥ pairings: hoseok x reader x yoongi

〚 spotlights 〛✭ ∙ ☯

❝ a fully interactive (~50 parts, 21 different endings) bts fic. you’ve been seated next to bts at a televised award show. will you end the night with a boyfriend or with a disaster? each member has 1 positive ending and 2 negative ones. ❞

⇥ entry post here

⇥ pairings: one of each member x reader

〚 enjoy your stay 〛 ♔ ∙ ➴

❝ working the graveyard shift at a hotel isn’t the most exciting job in the world, but your coworkers are certainly happy to have you here. ❞

⇥ masterlist here

⇥ pairings: jin x reader, jungkook x reader

〚 런닝맨 방탄 - running man bangtan 〛 ♔

❝ you and the other seven members of the popular variety show running man celebrate your 100th episode by completing various missions. ❞

⇥ part one || part two || part three

⇥ pairings: taehyung x reader, hoseok x reader x yoongi

#bts masterlist #bts fanfic #jin x reader #yoongi x reader #hoseok x reader #namjoon x reader #jimin x reader #taehyung x reader #jungkook x reader #bts x reader #bts one shot #bts fluff #bts angst #bts smut

[gwhiz-138]

Added Track Descriptions on Gerard Way’s Soundcloud:

Phoning It In:

Phoning It In. I’ve always loved the phrase and I was just inspired to write a song with it. To keep in spirit with the title of the song, I made sure not to try too hard on any one element. I wrote the riff quickly, wrote the lyrics quickly, we got the guitar sound quickly, and there was no overthinking or really changing anything. My only complaint about it is that I think it is a little too fast, so it forces me to sing harder to keep up, and it doesn’t fully sound like I’m phoning in the vocals. So I thought about slowing it down and delivering a more load back vocal take. Just ever so slightly. I played the guitar, sang, No bass yet. Doug programmed the drums. Every once in a while we will have someone play drums on the songs, but usually only when we are finishing something for release. Otherwise, all the drums in the demos are programmed by Doug, and I think he does a really good job of making them sound kind of real and natural. I get attached to them. All of Hesitant Alien started as demos with programmed drums by Doug. He and I have a cool relationship, and have evolved together over the years since he engineered Black Parade, Danger Days, and engineered and produced Hesitant Alien. We work in the same space, the studio at my house, called Milk Friends. I just let him have the space I’m not using and he brought in all of his gear and works on various projects, recording, and mixes, and I would be in the other room, the office, writing comics. And every so often, when neither of us is too busy, we record things. I like sharing artistic spaces with people, especially Doug. It’s nice to have a friend that can record you when you have an idea, because I’m terrible at recording and I barely even know how to use Garage Band. So all the singles you have gotten from me over the last couple of years have been done with Doug and I, and then various musicians who would replace certain things, making them real, and sound better.

Crate Amp:

This is one of maybe five tracks of me messing around with this Crate amp I got off of Reverb for cheap. It has a mysterious stain on the front that looks like someone had put a candle on top of the amp and the wax just dripped down the front. In the listing, the stain was described as “a stain that mostly comes off”. One of the things Doug and I were experimenting with for the last three months was how bad we could get stuff to sound. That’s not me trying to diss on Crate amps, as the very first amp I had— the one I wrote Skylines and Turnstiles with— was a Crate amp with built in distortion. But they do not have a reputation for being high quality amps, at least in the musical circles I was in. A lot of people get kind of snobby about them. But I think a lot of metal or thrash metal musicians swear by them. They are very crunchy, so I think that is why, since some metal has a lot of crunchy distortion. But we would turn the amp distortion on, and then run a distortion pedal through it, to see how fucked up we could get it. I’ll probably put the rest of the jam tracks up, but I think it’s a lot of the same riff over and over, since I didn’t know when Doug was in record-mode and I wanted to make sure I got the two or three parts down once I discovered them. This is just me playing guitar meandering through ideas, sloppily. Maybe some of these riffs will become songs.

Success!:

Back before Hesitant Alien was a thing, and before I wanted to pursue a solo career, I wanted to start a band and just sing and play guitar, after my chem broke up. The name of the band was going to be Baby Animal Hospital (the record label hated the name, especially since it included both the words ‘baby’ and ‘hospital’ in the same phrase), and I did a bunch of rough graphic design for it, but in the end, it really felt like a solo thing, so that’s what it became. But when it was Baby Animal Hospital (I wanted something that sounded warm and fuzzy and loud, like the tones) I recorded this track with Doug for the opening of the record. The lyrics/sounds are just the word BAH over and over again, which where the first letters of each word of the band name, but that wasn’t intentional, I just liked the sound. And this was us really messing with auto-tune to try and make it sound like an instrument. It was supposed to be this track as track one and go right into Action Cat. Later on, I figured I would just make a zine with the name Baby Animal Hospital, but I didn’t get very far with it. Still like the name, and may do something with it in the future. Maybe one day I’ll share all the graphic design I did for it when it was a band, a lot of which was cut and paste by hand.

Welcome to the Hotel:

This was something Doug and I threw together for the release of Umbrella Academy Volume Three: Hotel Oblivion. Just something short for an instagram video. We did this really quick, didn’t give it much thought other than trying to make something that sounded a little like The Stooges. A few months later, I actually wrote a verse and some new lyrics and a new vocal melody for the verse, and then I kind of wanted to finish the song. Someday. Like most of this stuff, it’s me playing guitar, bass if there is bass, doing the vocals, and Doug programming the drums.

#he also changed the titles of Phoning and Crate Amp but they sound the same #gerard way #hesitant alien #soundcloud #phoning it in #crate amp #success #welcome to the hotel #hotel oblivion #my chemical romance #mcr

[dolphin-enthusiast]

Hcs on the types of drunks Jotaro, Mista, Dio and Kars would be?

Here we go with the chaotic drunk asks once more AJDHADSFJSFS

Jotaro:

- He’s like a tie between the sad melancholic drunk and the dumb drunk that says all sorts of random shit. He is MUCH more giggly too and will literally snicker at any bad pun you say. Hell he’s even going to wheeze if a fucking water bottle falls off the table or something.

- Like he constantly shifts from one type of drunk to another. One second he could be reflecting over some unpleasant memories from the past and getting all emo then next thing you know he’s telling random facts about marine life with a dumb but lowkey adorable grin on his flushed face.

- He literally keeps shifting through these 2 modes until he drops catatonic from exhaustion. It doesn’t even matter where he fucking lands all that he knows is that he is s l e e p y. He usually doesn’t snore too loud but that greatly changes whenever he’s drunk. Expect him to deny everything the next day when he returns back to his usual self and act as if nothing ever happened. But deep down he’s embarassed as all fuck of his erratic behavior from the day before.

Mista:

- One of the most chaotic drunks out there. He also has a relatively high alcohol tolerance and so the chaos level slowly escalates the more he drinks. He already likes pranking people in general but whenever he’s drunk Mista actually fucks with everyone even more, which often results in drunk fights.

- L A U G H S at anything. He already has a loud ass laugh but now he will literally h o w l at anything around him. You could just be saying something totally normal such as “the wheather is so nice today” and Mista is going to break out into uncontrollable laughter.

- It’s as if he gains more energy whenever he drinks because this fucker stays up late as all fuck then drops catatonic at around 6 am and sleeps the entire day after. He always wakes up with a horrible hangover and everyone tells him just how obnoxious and annoying he was behaving last night.

Dio:

- Probably the one that has the highest alcohol tolerance out of all. He’s literally immune to wine and can only get buzzed if he chugs down more types of alcohol at the same time.

- If you do manage to ever see him drunk somehow then prepare for absolute fuckery. He’s EVEN more overdramatic than usual if that’s possible and he keeps ranting about random shit and basically acts like a damn drag queen, dissing everyone that ever walked the earth.

- He’s the embodiment of the IM WASHING ME AND MY CLOTHES vine. He’s so fucking chaotic and likes fucking with everyone around him worse than he fucked with Polnareff on the stairs. The next day he has 0 recollection of what happened and he will not believe you once you tell him how he acted.

Kars:

- One might be inclined to say that he has high ass alcohol tolerance, but the truth may just surprise you. He doesn’t indulge in alcohol often at all, saying that it’s “just another human vice” but oh boi when he does drink even a little is it fucking p r i c e l e s s.

- He’s like Dio but on steroids. On top of that he also gets drunk pretty damn easily giving that he usually doesn’t drink at all. Expect him to drag everyone that approaches him including the other pillarmen. He once made Esidisi cry and Wamuu is still pissed at him for it even to this day.

- He also likes squaring up people even more than usual when like this so you better watch what you say to him or else you might find yourself being trapped under Kars’ massive tiddies. His main method of attacking people while drunk is by straight up bodyslamming them. This is why even the other pillarmen act overly nice with him out of fear of getting slammed into oblivion by his majestic big tiddies.

#tag urself im kars JSJFSJFSJ #jojo's bizarre adventure #jojo no kimyou na bouken #jotaro kujo #guido mista #dio brando #kars #jojo headcanons #headcanons #anon #feral tag

[tornrose24]

EtoCU IN SPACE! Thoughts and complaints (Spoilers!)

So I too decided to watch all the episodes of season 4 in one day. I had... mixed reactions. More so compared to other seasons. Here are my thoughts:

-I KNEW Krupp went to school in the 90s! Even better, they gave us an exact year on his yearbook! (1993 to be exact! That was the year ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ came out!)

-Krupp was less of an asshole and more of an idiot the entire season, wasn’t he? There were too many examples to list. To no one’s surprise, he did to take over more than once, but I’m glad it didn’t go anywhere.

-I liked that Moxie was the most realistic adult on the show to date. I also liked how she could barely stand Krupp and not even Fitzgibbons cared for him.

-I feel that George and Harold’s enthusiasm and history with adults did make things a lot harder when it came to listening to Moxie and Fitzgibbons.

-CU is WAY more competent in this season! Holy crap that was nice!

-Also the boys cried when they thought he died! That was sad, heartwarming, and harsher in hindsight all in one (These incarnations would NOT take it well if they had to go through book 12 or the movie).

-Melvin’s rapping was both hilarious and awesome!

-Him and Erica REALLY don’t want to be on the show anymore due to being fed up with the toilet humor, LOL. Oh boy I think they’d prefer She-Ra or Kipo and the age of Wonderbeasts in that case.

-I want to see Erica and Moxie hang out more. She seems like someone Erica would more than look up to.

-So does Sean Astin actually have a daughter?

-When they were dissing shows that took place in Space, I was thinking ‘Doctor Who is good’ before I saw that it was a fourth wall joke.

-That Hamilton reference was hilarious as is, but then someone hating the actor enough to hurl a fruit at him made me think of why its controversial at the moment (coincidence?)

-Having Krupp be part of the Misfarts was... unexpected. Funny, but unexpected.

-I KNEW we’d get a Planet of the Apes reference! But it went so fast.

-Oh George and Harold... if kids ruling things is a bad idea, wait until you read ‘Lord of the Flies.’

-We ended up getting a Passengers reference of all things. Unlike Passengers, it’s actually entertaining and not creepy. (Don’t watch Passengers–look up the plot to know why). I can’t believe Krupp thought that waking up the boys would be a good thing–he should have known better by that point. I would have been down for JUST him being awake, but what we got was funny.

Ok now for my complaints.

-SO MUCH WASTED POTENTIAL! Where were the aliens from the last few seasons?! And I don’t mean for that one gag! I thought they were going to play a part! What where the producers/writers thinking?!

-I was expecting Dupe Plicitous to be an alien in disguise. Sadly that would have made the show far more interesting compared to some of the things we got instead.

-Oh great, another new science teacher we get to know little about.

-It’s cool that we got to see Dressy as a bad guy, but not only did they make it way too obvious, but the boys drew her as the monster in the comic before they even knew. 

-So... Krupp actually.... he really did go in his space outfit, didn’t he? They ACTUALLY made that joke. 

-I have a few reasons as to why I think they cut this season short. But I now think that they could have done more episodes because we could have gone to another planet or two.

-Oh hey, it’s another ‘let’s show how much Krupp desires having a girlfriend while still refusing to bring in Edith’ gag in episode 3.  *SCREAMS INTO OBLIVION* I WAS PREPARED TO ACCEPT HER BEING AN ALIEN IN THE SERIES!VERSE THIS SEASON FOR A REASON YOU COWARDS!

-I had a feeling I wasn’t going to like the ‘kids rule everything on this planet’ episode. I was right in a few ways. For one thing, this is the closest we’ll get to having CU and Krupp together and it wasn’t how any of us would have wanted it. ALSO this was another example of ‘this could have been book 8 COMPLETE with an evil version of CU’ but we got denied YET AGAIN!

-Oh yeah, if you read books 2, 3, and 11, you’ll know what could have been adapted too.

-When I saw episode 4 and saw Krupp being with his blue counterpart, I KNEW we’d get fan stuff of those two later on. Honestly, I’m not thrilled about it.... ugh... yeah. No.

-Oh great, Melvin is evil again. Sarcastic whoopie.

-So we SAW Krupp turn into CU right in front of George and Harold’s friends. The fact that he went with them should have tipped some of them off. So do they know now or....? ANSWERS DANGIT!

-The last episode having that big fight was cool, but then the space cops turned out to be real and I just... ugh.

-The planet of the Apes references was... too fast. I thought the monkeys being part of P.O.O.P.S.I.E. would tie into it. And then the Back to the Future reference at the very end felt squeezed in. Also–HOW THE HELL DID CU GET A TIME TOAD ON HIS OWN?!

-So... did season 4 NOT happen at all? If the boys undid the entire season at the very end, then that was a huge let down for many reasons.

So overall, this season had it’s merits, but it COULD have been better with better writing in a few episodes, a couple more episodes, etc. Its never a good sign when you think back and know that the fandom could have done it better. I highly doubt the Coronavirus played a part, considering how long it must have taken to make this half of the show.

I’m guessing that we’ll have to wait until February (or longer, considering what happened this year) for the next season since they didn’t confirm or deny a season 5. If season 5 is the last season, it better be more than six episodes and it better be an improvement to season 4.

#captain underpants #the epic tales of captain underpants #cu epic tales spoilers

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

Time to start working on my bookmark hellhole again. Now we find:

- writing tips/references I’ll never use but saving them gives the illusion of being an active and dedicated writer (don’t mistake, the fact that I am doing this reorganization thing at all is because I am procrastinating on writing the next chapter of my wip. My procrastination skills are superb.)

- Teen Wolf fanfic that a good soul recommended to me and I lied and said I’d check them out :’) now I barely remember what Teen Wolf was about at all. Maybe nobody actually knows what Teen Wolf is about, if it is about something.

- The food timeline

- a video of Sebastian Stan

- pictures of Sebastian Stan

- some feminist article that says nothing we didn’t know

- the timeline of historical terms/slang for sexual things, which I suppose belongs in WRITING REF because of reasons

- aaaaah the ebay search for “yankee candle mountain lodge”, because the Mountain Lodge candle isn’t for sale in my country but buying it from abroad costs a lot of money so, um, in case you were wondering what to get me for Christmas, just saying

- the Yankee Candle website. Granted, I buy my candles at a physical store because they give me lil stamps on the card and once the card is complete I’ll get a free candle. I miss going into a store that sells Yankee Candles and sniff all the candles, but I think that sticking my nose in things is not exactly the most courteous action during these times.

- online instructions to make artsy stuff, which I’ll never do, but again, the illusion that I will ever do them at some point in the future.

- the time traveler function on the Merriam-Webster website

- g...gregorian chants?

- various articles that if I didn’t read back then.....

- oh boi guys this is so boring

- I think one was a podcast that dissed Glee but it doesn’t exist anymore

- cookie recipes but I hate baking cookies because I have a small oven so you either make like 2 cookies at a time or they’re too close to each other and go all together, so it’s not great

- lots of things that don’t exist anymore. Things can die quickly on the internet

- slime videos from my slime phase

- needle felting instructions, which I never actually tried

- an etsy store from when I wanted to buy wooden sunglasses. I never bought any but I already own nice sunglasses now... wooden sunglasses are cool tho

- 403 Forbidden. Jeez judging from the name it’s a recipe site, that’s intense

- more fic recs that get immediately yeeted in the fic folder so I can forget about them there but at least they’re in order

- more videos and pictures of... you know

- a couple BBC HardTalk (which my mom watches) videos, which I told my mom I’d watch

- other random stuff that either went in ESSAYS or MISC or in oblivion

- an entire folder called “mcu press tour things” *facepalms* (I decide that not even my appreciation for Sebastian Stan can save these bookmarks). The folder also includes, for some reasons, tips on how to grow vegetables, writing tips, something I have no idea about, a Japanese cake I can’t get all the ingredients for in Italy anyway, and more Asian recipes

- “5 places where to get bubble tea in Milan” it doesn’t even include the ones where I have in fact been. (There was a very, very, very good one but I’m afraid that it might not have survived the lockdown. Fingers crossed it’s still there when I’m allowed there again...)

- aerial photography!! My great true love.

- I love fanfiction, because only in fanfiction you can find things called “Becoming Human by sparkly_butthole”

- oh no, cute lbgt+ things that cost money

- more Asian recipes, but they’re hard to make without access to many ingredients or tools 😭

- way too many videos of the MCU cast again, they just go away, shoo

- makeup tutorials??? I don’t??? wear makeup??? why

- sorry to all my friends who told me to check out fics and I lied and said I would. At least I bookmarked them...?

- Peter Holoda, an incredible pole dancer

Oof enough for today...

#blabbering me #bookmark adventures

[lia-nikiforov]

Spring 2018 Anime Final Review

So, uh, this is six months late. I’ve had half of this post in my drafts forever. To make it short, as I’ve mentioned previously, mom lost her job, which has not only been a heavy hit to my sense of stability for the last six months, but also means my time to watch anime was seriously reduced and even now a slight change of plans fucks up my whole schedule and sets me back for a full week. Anyway, nobody cares about any of these shows anymore so let’s get straight to it? I’m gonna ommit the two-cours that continued into the Summer - hopefully I’ll be able to make that post soonish? idk. Worst to best, same as usual

The crappy gender politics pit of shame

Darling in the FRANXX: I think everyone has ripped this show to threads at this point and there isn’t much I could add to that. It is quite funny to me to see how many people flipped out when the show went completely bananas in its last few episodes. Feels a bit like KADO, I’ve been telling y’all this was a ton of empty crap since episode 2, it just took the writing to completely self-destruct for everyone else to notice. A part of me feels tempted to do a long post breaking down just how badly the show collapsed in its final shebang, specifically how every single twist and turn completely nulled any remote kind of message or central thesis the show may have had, but at the same time it doesn’t seem worth the time. In the end, I may have given What is Internal Consistency, The anime way too much credit. It’s not hateful antigay propaganda, it’s just dumb as shits, with a writer and creators who didn’t think for half a second of the implications of what they were doing, and who were so incompetent they couldn’t even conserve the minimal plot and character coherency within a single episode, let alone 24. In other words, Darling isn’t saying “gays shouldn’t exist” but “I have no idea of anything regarding gay people”. What makes it egregious is that the show spent so much time acting like it was “meaningful” and “important” and yet it ended saying absolutely fucking nothing. Except mayb “have babies”. Down to oblivion you go, along with the likes of KADO, to the void of shows that couldn’t even be offensively bad and no one will remember a year from now. Bonus garbage points for the half-assed “bury your gays”.

Nil of Libra Admirari or whatever this show was called: I’m not trying to diss on the show, I just genuinely never remember the title because I have the JP and EN all mixed up. Not that it matters much, as far as I could tell, the show could call Shalabalabatuna and it would have the same significance in regard to the content. But the title isn’t important. In fact, it may be a bit unfair to have this show in this section. For the most part, Main Girl is very self-determined and has an active role in the story.... but then the last two episodes heavily featured a lot of rape threats or rape themes and forced pregnancy (real and threat) and I don’t really understand why they’d go there all of a sudden. One of them was treated relatively well, even empowering the victim in the process, but when the ikemen bad guy was rambling endlessly about how he wanted to impregnate the protagonist it really turned me off :/ I’m also not a fan of “main boy was her secret fiancé all along”, but at least they also handled that somewhat decently. It’s a very disposable series, but since I watched all of Amnesia, I think I owe every otoge adaptation at least the smallest chance to clear that very low bar, and Libra of Nil does it, more competently than most other stuff in the same genre.

Hisone to Masotan: I really, really wanted to love this show. Even now, as I put it in the pit of shame category, I’m pained. There was a good show in this, and a lot of it made it to the screen: an adorable, charming little story about a woman finding her place in the world, making new friends, finding her calling and bonding with an adorable dragon. Unfortunately, it got buried down under this opressing, horrendous gender politics that tried to do something with bringing attention to sexism in the military only to cancel it out making the one dude that embodied that sexism getting rewarded with the affections of a girl he explicitly tried to crush. It also called back on the virgin or whore fallacy and even managed to shove in a “bury your gays” trope. Even though Hisone challenges the ritual bullshit, it’s too little, too late, and she does end up carrying it out anyway, so the defiance to the status quo is of little importance in terms of problematizing the ritual itself. Sorry BONES, it wasn’t meant to be this time. 

The ni fu ni fa section

Ni fu ni fa is a Mexican colloquialism for “It was okay but it didn’t change my life.”

Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu HAPPY KISS: This soft reboot of the franchise had some really great episodes and did an actually good job of developping its characters. For the most part, it achieved what its predecessor did in terms of satirical comedy and I enjoyed it quite a bit. However, what bunked it down so low in the list was the final episode. At some point, the writers forgot they were doing a parody and made the show somewhat self-serious, way closer in tone to the magical girl anime it was supposed to be making fun of, rather than the satire its predecessor was. Whereas S1 ended with the whole Magical boy stuff being revealed as a crappy space reality TV show, this one ended with a real cheesy conflict about happiness and family and blablabla. Which is not bad by itself if this were a Precure show, but that kind of self-serious plot development just didn’t work for this series. I still enjoyed it, and the fanservice episode is one of the best of the whole franchise, but I’m a bit sad the finale missed the mark so badly.

Hinamatsuri: Hinamatsuri was very hit-or-miss for me. There were some truly brilliant episodes, a lot of funny vignettes and heart-warming stories, and then there was some stuff that made me uncomfortable -like every single Hitomi story- or felt unnecessary and dry. It also threw me off that the superpower dynamic completely disappeared in the second half of the show, especially in Anzu’s part of the story. It was okay but I feel like I needed something that felt like a closing, and choosing to end it with Mao who featured very minimally in the show overall didn’t cut it. It’s a fun show, I’d reccommend people check it out, but it felt a bit too disjointed for me

Persona 5: The Animation: This is a hard show to place because I love the looks of it and I think the concept is interesting and pretty cool, but there is something that’s keeping me from connecting emotionally to the story. The part where changing the villains’ heart makes them repent from their sins and become “good” feels very artificial and very tasteless when you’re dealing with rapists and abusers. I ended dropping it at episode 16, I just couldn’t find the motivation to catch up with the 6 episodes i’d fallen behind on because my schedule is a tragedy

Tokyo Ghoul: Re: I guess it’s fair to say I’ve kind of outgrown Tokyo Ghoul. There’s something messy and confusing about how this season panned out, and there comes a point in which misery porn just doesn’t cut it anymore. I still watch because Ishida has a way to make every single goddamn character extremely sympathetic, which makes for an emotionally engaging viewing even when you’re not sure of what the plot is supposed to be or who you should be rooting for. I tried picking up the new season that just started airing and immediately found I had no idea of what was going on, who was on who’s side and in general, who the fuck were 90% of the characters, so I dropped it.

Nanatsu no Taizai: Imashime no Fukkatsu: I’ve mentioned it before, this second season had the opposite problem than the first one: the pace was too slow. It took more than half of it to get to Escanor, and then the season ends at a kind of random spot. I really thought we’d get further along on the story, since Gowther’s backstory was hinted at in the openings, but no such thing happened. They did manage to give us a variety of cool moments and fights, and I love Ban so his scenes with Zhivago and Elaine made me quite happy, though I really wish the romance between Elizabeth and Meliodas wasn’t su dubious and cringy. In light of some revelations that take place further along the manga, going out of their way to emphasize that Meliodas was a sort of mentor figure for Elizabeth when she was a toddler seems unncessary and just very squeamish. I do hope we get a third season though, and an OVA of the Vampires of whatever side story would be great too.

Rokuhoudou Yotsuiro Biyori: I was pleasantly surprised by this show, and it’s closer to being one of my top of the season than it is to “meh”. It had some weaker, cheesier segments, but it also managed great whacky moments and a genuine soothing atmosphere. What surprised me most is that the vanilla looking cast of moderately handsome dudes managed to develop into interesting, funny individuals with a dynamic that made every episode enjoyable. A solid reccommendation for anyone wanting to see delicious looking food and moderately handsome dudes being ridiculous. Also, the cat episode is the best episode of anime ever produced.

The I’m probably the only person alive who enjoys these shows

Mahou Shoujo Ore: This is a difficult show to place because it wasn’t quite as great as I wanted it to be and its parodic nature took me by surprise, but somehow I was still seriously entertained more often than not. The twists in the final quarter and the absolutely bonkers finale was a total riot, but I definitely advise caution before going in, given that some of the jokes may seem insensitive or in poor taste in regards to gender presentation, sexuality and there are even some mild harrassment jokes that certainly made me roll my eyes.

Yowamushi Pedal: Glory Line: I don’t know if anyone’s noticed, but I think through half of the show’s 25 episode run, I was convinced the title was actually Glory Road. It’s kind of anticlimactic that it’s called Glory Line if they don’t actually reach the final Goal btw. Anyway, I feel I say this a lot, but really, if you didn’t like the previous Yowapeda seasons, there’s nothing here for you, and if you did, you’re probably not gonna hop off this late in the game. This season does suffer from the same dragging than its predecessors, with the added issue of being quite pessimistic for no reason in about half the episodes, and a diminished presence for Onoda. I really wish they hadn’t dragged the Day 2 goal so long, I really hoped we’d see the end of the race, but no such luck I guess. Still love most of it and hope we get one more season or a movie to complete the story.

The favorites of the season

Golden Kamuy: In spite of its pacing issues, terrible animation and general clunkiness, I can’t help but love this show. When season 1 ended my feelings for it had mellowed quite a bit, but as soon as I picked up season 2 this Fall I just fell in love all over again. It’s fun, unique, over-the-top in some ways, incredibly grounded in others, and the dynamics between the characters are incredibly charming. 

Hozuki no Reitetsu: It’s hard to talk about this one because it feels repetitive, given how tonally the show remains just the same across its three seasons. It could’ve very well been a one-season, 36 episode show, for how little it changes in spite of the time that transpired between the first season and the second. But in short, the comedy continues to be as spot on as always, the Zashikiwarashi twins are the best addition to the cast. It’s definitely a show I could watch endless episodes off, and the rare case of an episodic series with no overarching plot that I can enjoy wholeheartedly. 

Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card arc: Over the course of the series, I’ve expressed a few concerns and misgivings about how the story of this 20th anniversary sequel was playing out. The final episode was particularly troublesome in that it left the story unfinished in spite of deviating from the manga. In spite of this, more than anything I’m very happy that this continuation still retains what made the original so special, that they captured the magic behind Sakura’s “everything will be alright” spell and gave us the chance to spend more time with these beloved characters and see their stories continue. The slow but sweet development of Sakura and Syaoran’s puppy love is a definite highlight. Needs more Touya/Yukito and Yue in general.

Piano no Mori: This show got heavily overlooked because it was kidnapped by Netflix (pls stop immediately), and then when it was finally unceremoniously dumped a month or two ago, it came under fire for the wonky CGI during the piano scenes -and it is indeed very wonky-. But beyond that, I found the story very engaging, especially because Kai is such a fascinating protagonist, his intense rivalry-friendship with Megane-kun (sorry, it’s been six months, i can’t remember names) is exactly the type I can’t help but root for. Kai’s participation in the final episode gave me goosebumps. I’m very happy we’re getting a continuation,  can’t wait to see how the Chopin competition develops.

Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii: Sweet, funny and absolutely delightful from start to finish, Wotakoi was easily one of the highlights of the season. Although there were some aspects about Cosplayer-senpai and Yuri Otaku-senpai’s (I’m really trying to remember the names, I’m sorry!! ;---;) that didn’t work for me -namely the izakaya segment- Narumi and Hirotaka more than made up for it with their clumsy yet adorable romance. I spent the entirety of the amusement park episode screeching. I really hope we get a continuation -and get a chance to see more of Hirotaka’s brother and his gamer friend too- and that in general we can get more anime about adult stories

Megalobox: Who would’ve thought that a show that wasn’t even in my radar before the season started would’ve end as one of my favorites, possibly of the year? Even as someone who’s only marginally acquainted with Ashita no Joe and has no interst in the sport of boxing, I was completely enthralled by the style and passion of this production. As I said a bit above, intense rivalries are very appealing to me, and the build up in the tension between Joe and Yuri was almost palpable, their mutual respect gave me chills. Definitely the surprise of the season, made even better by its optimistic happy ending to contrast with its predecessor’s tragedy. Megalobox is a unique anniversary project that is closer to an homage and it works perfectly. Definitely check it out.

That’s it for the Spring season! I hope i can do the summer season this weekend and maaaybe even my watchlist for the Fall season. Fingers crossed i won’t get swallowed up in other stuff :’D 

#anime final impressions #spring anime #god i've forgotten 95% of my tags #darling in the franxx #megalobox #wotaku ni koi wa muzukashii #piano no mori #card captor sakura clear card arc #hozuki no reitetsu #golden kamuy #yowapeda #mahou shoujo ore #rokuhoudou yotsuiro biyori #nanatsu no taizai #persona 5 #tokyo ghoul: re #hinamatsuri #hisone to masotan #binan koukou chikyuu boueibu

[bokutosbiceps]

Hey! Is the inbox open for jjba? Because if so can i request for Josuke and Jotaro's relationship headcanons? Sfw and nsfw? Thank you!

Um ??? yes ???? absolutely ??? you can ??? these are my two best bois right here. I hope i do them justice !!

- pocky

ps. the nsfw part is fem specific but the sfw is gender neutral since it wasn’t specified :3

Josuke

what a little shit. dating Josuke is like having a child 80% of the time and then having an actual boyfriend for 15%. the other 5% is when he’s sleeping ,,, when he’s sleeping you don’t really know what he is. but it ain’t human

it’s fine though, because there’s never a dull moment with Josuke around

you were the first person to ever render Josuke speechless, and the first to ever make him actually turn his head away for fear of burning you with his fiery blush

he didn’t really get up the courage to ask you out until Okuyasu voiced his plans of doing the same

Josuke wanted to beat the shit out of Okuyasu, but managed to frantically explain his feelings for you to him

and since Okuyasu is such a Bro™, he backed off

but Okuyasu rushed the process by quickly telling you Josuke’s feelings and then running off before Josuke could actually beat the shit out of him

when Josuke confessed, it was the most flustered you had seen anyone. he kept stumbling over his words and muttering things that didn’t make sense, but in the end he got his point across

he was so relieved when you accepted his feelings and reciprocated them that he gave you a huge hug, tackling you to the ground in the process

your first date consisted of helping him track down Okuyasu, that same day, and helping Josuke beat him up. just a little.

Josuke is quite content to lay around and do absolutely nothing with you. as long as you’re cuddled up to him

if the two of you are playing video games, he wants you in his lap so that he can have you right there in between his arms while he focuses on his game

sometimes he’ll make you play video games, but depending on how good/bad you are at them, he’ll make you stop playing

if you’re good at them, and better than him, he’ll want you to stop playing to preserve his pride

he loooooves it when you play with his hair, especially when it’s down. you love that it’s long enough to braid, and he doesn’t shy away when you try crazy hairstyles on him

he was a bit nervous about you seeing him with his hair down for the first time, though

for some reason he was super insecure about it but you reassured him that he looked just as cute with his hair down, maybe even more so

Josuke is actually the perfect boyfriend to take shopping because he has a pretty good sense of fashion

that and he thinks you look good in anything (most of the time)

he will always carry your bags for you and wait patiently for you to try on clothes

he’ll give amazing feedback when you try on clothes and show them to him

sometimes he’s a bit too honest about what he thinks of the clothes you picked out, and if he feels super bad about it he’ll buy you the clothes he dissed (if you liked them) to make up for it

all in all, josuke is pretty much a Good Boyfriend™

Jotaro

this guy is suuuuuper protective

one time, you and Jotaro were out for groceries, and Jotaro left you alone for one minute to go check out the news-stand section and by the time he came back, there was a stranger chatting you up (to your oblivion)

you did not even notice that this stranger was hitting on you, nor the fact that your hulking boyfriend was behind you, shooting the stranger a death glare, until the stranger ran away with their tail between their legs

to claim you as his territory when you guys are out, he’ll keep one arm secured around your waist or hold his arm out for you to put your through, and his eyes will always be fending off predators

in the privacy of your home, Jotaro turns into a big whiny baby

if you’re in the kitchen or at your desk or away doing something that isn’t paying attention to him, he’ll come up behind you and rest his chin on your head and keep applying pressure until you pay attention to him

even if you’re right beside him, he’ll make sure you guys are always touching

anytime you sit down on the couch or the bed beside him to read, he will make himself comfortable on your legs or rest his head in your lap

Jotaro really really likes to do stuff for you, whether it’s cooking or being a handyman. he likes to feel like he’s your big, strong man that you couldn’t live without (even though he knows you could totally kick his ass if he screwed up enough)

he likes to splurge, but only if he’s spending it on you. he’ll take you out for extravagant dates or buy you expensive gifts, even though you don’t ask for much. he just likes to make you feel like royalty because you deserve it and he knows it can be tough from his expressions if you’re appreciated

Jotaro is the type of drunk to either a) get extremely violent b) get extremely lovey-dovey/sappy or c) both

you guys could be at a bar while Jotaro’s just a bit tipsy and if someone is bothering you, Jotaro will nearly kill them

but he doesn’t like to get drunk in public; he needs his wits about him so he can protect you and make sure you’re safe

Jotaro could come up with a poem just about your smile if he’s drunk and he could recite it to you over and over again until he passes out

and by both i mean he could nearly kill someone for you – in the name of love

you’ll only hear the words “I love you” from Jotaro once a month, maybe, but the way you’ve found to tell if he really loves you is by the way he looks at you and by how much he touches you

it’s the softest look you’ve ever seen given by a human being, and it’s certainly the softest you’ve ever seen Jotaro

his eyes will be lowered just a bit, his neck will be craned to look down at you, and a very soft smile plays on his lips. it’s a beautiful sight and it makes you feel so special just to be looked at like that.

Jotaro is only touchy-feely with one person: you. anyone else touches him ? they’re getting a glare so hard it’ll burn right through their skull. his favorite places to touch you are holding your waist or letting you drape your arm over his and cuddle into his side.

!!! WARNING: NSFW UNDER THE CUT !!!

Josuke

a HUGE tease

you have to beg to get him to comply, but even then, he’ll take his sweet time ravishing your body

he is a master at oral. it’s insane.

before he dives in (ha), he likes to get you soaking wet first by rubbing you through your clothes and undressing you painfully slow

you will end up with so many love marks. but none on your neck, just because he’s considerate like that. there will be love marks on the inside of your thighs, your shoulders, and sometimes even your ass

his dick is pretty average, but with a bit more girth than you’d expect. 6 inches while hard and very very well-maintained. he’s a master at man-scaping, what can he say?

he adores you when you’re submissive, but when you’re dominant over him, it really gets him going

if you want to make him hard fast, all you have to do is fight back against him when you’re kissing or doing anything really. y’all could be playing a card game and if you get competitive, it’s off to the bedroom you go

Josuke’s favorite position is you riding him. he likes to see your face and your lovely body as it bounces up and down on his dick. he’ll just look up at you with the most smug expression. you hate it.

aftercare is so important to Josuke. he’s an absolute cuddle bug after you guys both finish (he’ll always make sure you finish)

he loves when the two of you take a shower together after sex, and he’ll insist that he washes every inch of you

after that, it’s back to bed and his arms are around you and he’s back to being his goofy self

Jotaro

there is no being dominant against Jotaro. he is the most dominant partner anyone could ever have

like the kinda dominant where if he wants to get it on, he’s picking you up, slinging you over his shoulder, throwing you down on the bed, and pinning your wrists down while he starts to just attack your body with his lips

of course, you end up with love marks. but he likes for you to show them off, so they’re all over your neck for everyone to see, but then the rest of your body is littered by them

he also ends up with some scratch marks down his back, because he can get so rough, you just can’t hold back

Jotaro isn’t really one for foreplay, he just likes to get down to it and doesn’t waste any time

but when he does partake in foreplay, it’s usually directed at you

biting and sucking at your neck and inner thighs

stretching you out with his fingers

his favorite position depends on his mood

if he’s feeling rough and a bit desperate, he’s pushing into you from behind

your ass is up in the air, your head is pressed into the bed

he might grab your hair and pull it, but not enough to hurt you

if he’s in a more romantic and easygoing mood, he’s on top of you

when in this position, he’ll make eye contact with you as he pushes into you. sometimes he’ll ask if you’re okay or if it hurts too much, and he’ll continue if you’re good

when he gets close, he’ll bury his head into your neck and breathe into your ear that he’s close

JOTARO IS AN ASS MAN

Jotaro is a big man. therefore, he’s got a big dick. it’s big all around. 7” hard and very very girthy. lots of veins. god have mercy.

Jotaro’s aftercare consists of cleaning you up, getting under the covers, and falling right the hell to sleep with you pressed tightly to his chest

#jjba #jojos bizarre adventure #jotaro kujo #jotaro #higashikata josuke #josuke #jjba sdc #stardust crusaders #diamond is unbreakable

[crobones]

is there anyone else tired of the "my last two brain cells" or "this group has 1-2 braincell(s) between all of them" jokes? like, the "if I listen to you speak I can feel myself lose braincells" is one thing because it's a diss, but the "last two braincells" joke was never even funny before it got overused into oblivion

#like white culture is not only appropriatung other cultures #but it's also making jokes that aren't funny and overusing them like some fucking sitcom catchphrase

[sass-y-squatch]

I’ve decided I’m going to start inputting my academic goals, overarching task lists, and weekly/daily to do lists here because my IRL ‘goal setting group’ quietly faded into oblivion as folks grew increasingly overwhelmed and I have the type of brain that needs lists to function. Perhaps spewing my plans into the tumblr void can be my new accountability system. Context in case anyone stumbles upon this: I’m a 4th year PhD student in a 5 year program at a Canadian university. My disciple is in interdisciplinary social sciences.

For degree milestones I have: - completed course work, comprehensive exams, and the thesis proposal. - I am basically finished fieldwork (ethnography & 43 interviews) and will start drafting the diss in the next few months, though I still need to finish transcription (which I HATE!!!). Publications: - two sole authored papers published. - Currently have 1 sole authored manuscript under review (got a very positive R&R which I have resubmitted!), and 1 sole authored book chapter under review. - Am working on another manuscript (first author out of 2) which is giving me SO much trouble. Hope to submit by end of year. Think I have to bring Deleuze in for analysis and I am NOT a Deleuze bitch (.... or am I?....???) - Will begin working on another manuscript next month which I am dreading as it’s quant. The PI is running the stats but having to figure out how to talk about any kind of stats is terrifying. - submitting an abstract for an academic encyclopedia on monuments in Ottawa due December 10 (note to self!!! stop forgetting this).

Projects on the go: - dissertation, obviously - Have started interviews for another project I’m working on. Have only completed 7 thus far, and honestly this is a low priority project given I want to transition to working near full time on my diss come 2021, so unlikely to publish anything on this until mid-2021 - RA project #1, the above referenced quant one :( - I think I’m getting roped into another RA project by my supervisor, which I may have to duck out of because my brain is mush and I’m basically at capacity right now. But depending on timeline can maybe stay on board. - I guess the monuments thing if the abstract gets submitted? Very low stakes. Really just want to shit talk the Stanley Cup monument a little, as a treat. Teaching: - am currently a contract instructor for a third year coarse. My first time teaching! Going really well and the course is almost over. Will be glad to have my time back, despite how I’ve enjoyed teaching. - currently grading their final paper proposals and honestly they’re doing such good jobs. I’m very proud of them. - next semester will be back to working as a teaching assistant, which will be nice and low-stress! Funding: - fortunately won a very lucrative multi-year funding package that will last until my 5th year - however, my departmental funding runs out at the end of my 4th year, so am applying to grants to mitigate that lost income - grant #1 due Dec 14 - grant #2 due March 5 - not sure if I’m applying for grant #3, due Feb - reminder to discuss with supervisor re: eligibility.

I think that’s everything I have on the go? Am moving out of the country in 6 weeks so am also trying to get that sorted amongst everything, whilst trying to keep my brain from melting out my ears due to Covid stress.

#academia #phdchat #note to self

[honeymoonjin]

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Play Hard Every one of your friends in the industry told you when you were starting out that the secret to fame was Kim Seokjin. Every person that had subbed under him in his exclusive Play Hard webseries had quickly become a sought-after name in porn. The only catch? You had to survive him first. 

darlin’ You’re an actress that needs to learn to ride a horse for your next role. Jin’s the cowboy tasked with teaching you.

pine You’ve been hiding your crush on your best friend Jin for far too long now, but it turns out he feels the same.

transition Seokjin’s job as a Grim Reaper is to guide souls after they die, but you’re not interested in moving on just yet.

pasta la vista  In which you, a food critic, wonders how Kim Seokjin manages to stay in business, considering how terrible his food seems to be. Alternatively, Kim Seokjin does not know how to flirt.

Boseong Breakfast it may be misfortune that brings you to min yoongi’s door looking for a place to stay, but luckily holly lodge has a vacancy.

Empress (yoonji) The most powerful woman in the nation, Empress Min gets whatever she wants. And she wants you.

daegu hold ‘em Sugar daddy au. Not really any plot lmao.

baby fever Doctor Min Yoongi is your fertility specialist, but during the artificial insemination procedure he has some...unorthodox methods.

mi casa When Yoongi brings you home to spend the holiday season with his family, he finally realizes he’s in love with you.

curious ft kth Taehyung is unsure of his sexuality, and you and your boyfriend Yoongi are only too happy to let him experiment with you. Threesome.

땡 / Ddaeng When blackmailed by a sasaeng, you and Yoongi decide to instead release a diss-track featuring audio from an illegally obtained video of the two of you having sex.

dul, set - ft jhs After a tiring week, you relish the chance to cuddle with your boyfriends.

dul, set part two - ft jhs You enjoy a lazy Saturday with Hobi and Yoongi, and they help you unwind.

unravel You just want Yoongi to see himself the way you see him.

warm ft jhs  Officially a sequel to my two-part series, Running Man Bangtan (listed under the OT7 series banner above) but can be read as a standalone. 

hot fuzz ft knj your two boyfriends play good cop-bad cop.

heavy Mafia leader Hoseok is having problems with loyalty in his ranks. Luckily, you’ll always be there for him to relieve a little stress when he needs it.

close enough Hoseok thinks you’re getting a little too close to the other members, and he’s sick of it. part two now available here!

us Amongst the publicity of being an idol, Hoseok wants his proposal to be a private affair.

dul, set - ft myg After a tiring week, you relish the chance to cuddle with your boyfriends.

dul, set part two - ft myg You enjoy a lazy Saturday with Hobi and Yoongi, and they help you unwind.

warm ft myg Officially a sequel to my two-part series, Running Man Bangtan (listed on the series masterlist) but can be read as a standalone. 

“I forgot I was a single parent.” Short drabble.

hot fuzz ft jhs your two boyfriends play good cop-bad cop.

sexual healing When your own hand won’t work in relieving your sexual frustrations, you turn to a professional.

keyed up When your mutual roommate Namjoon gets a little too strung out, you and Taehyung offer to help relieve some tension.

hey mama One-shot for Mother’s Day. You spend an evening in with Namjoon and your two boys.

going up? You didn’t expect to be trapped in a faulty elevator with the President of South Korea, but it’s still preferable to having to take the stairs.

sick day Namjoon gets a week off work, but you don’t, and he's starting to get a little frustrated.

extracurricular  In an effort to make a good impression on his parents, you get Namjoon to teach you some Korean.

chingu?  You reunite with your childhood friend Kim Namjoon on a Korean variety show.

tumble dry

When Jimin overhears you confessing to Jungkook that you want to ride his thighs, Jimin allows you...on one condition.

radio silence Jimin wants to indulge in his exhibitionism kink on the grandest scale: while at the Grammys.

appa Jimin comes home from tour to visit his newborn son for the first time.

breaking point  You don’t think you can continue being in a relationship with Jimin anymore.

arrivals  Things go wrong at the airport when Jimin’s wife and daughter accompany BTS on a flight.

the a.m  Jimin’s not too happy when your alarm wakes him up in the morning.

“Quit it or I’ll bite.” Short drabble.

Upstream Colour You go to Venice to decompress from your stressful job. Instead, you find a soulful gondolier that makes you never want to leave.

keyed up When your mutual roommate Namjoon gets a little too strung out, you and Taehyung offer to help relieve some tension.

roomie Falling in love with your cell mate isn’t generally advisable.

You’re an artsy person This is actually a scenario/headcanon, but since it’s just for Taehyung I’m putting it here. You meet your boyfriend at an art exhibit where he seems completely entranced in a painting.

Confessions of Love are Best Done Sober  Kim Taehyung used to be your best friend in primary school, but he’s changed into a completely different person. While you drink yourself into oblivion at a party, he has something to tell you.

itty-bitty  After finally moving in with your just-married husband, you have some more exciting news to tell him.

curious ft myg Taehyung is unsure of his sexuality, and you and your boyfriend Yoongi are only too happy to let him experiment with you. Threesome. 

anpanman your best friend jungkook finally convinces you to seek therapy for your failing mental health. the only catch? the one therapist that’s within your price range is an alternative marriage counsellor, jung hoseok, and the only way jungkook managed to get you an appointment was by saying the two of you were married. will couples counselling actually be useful for your wellbeing, or will something that runs much deeper rise to the surface instead?

green room Jungkook isn’t happy with how you acted while he was on stage. 

high-rise Getting locked out on a rooftop when you’re meant to be going on stage in five minutes is less than ideal, but luckily Jungkook has his girlfriend to keep him company.

shark week When you get your period while at a restaurant with your boyfriend and the rest of BTS, you just want to grin and bear it, but Jungkook seems determined to show off to his hyungs how supportive he is.

the name game Jungkook likes to think he’s a genius at coming up with baby names. You, his heavily pregnant girlfriend, would have to disagree.

Roll Credits  After a string of misfortunes and troubles, you find yourself crying your eyes out in a movie theater. Luckily, the cute usher wants to make sure you didn’t miss the film.

The Daily Grind 

Jeon Jungkook has a crush on the girl that comes to the coffee shop he works at, but she’s too invested in her studying to even give him a second glance.

makin’ monet + part two Jungkook’s attention is caught by his roommate Taehyung’s odd collection of fake paintings, and he’s determined to find the painter.

“You look pretty hot in plaid.” Short drabble.

miscellaneous ot7 content

“For the hundredth time, I’m not your babysitter.” Short idol!verse drabble.

bangtan baby - ot7 x reader fluff Just a little headcanon I wrote where the reader is dating Hoseok’s sister and he becomes their sperm donor surrogate and then all of bts become like dads to this baby.

seven - ot7 x reader angst You fly out to surprise your touring boyfriends and give them some exciting news, but you find out you’re not welcome.

eight - ot7 x reader angst and fluff A much-requested sequel to seven. The boys find out what happened, and why you came in the first place.

ten - ot7 x reader fluff A look at how your life changes now that you’re parents. The final part to the Seven and Eight one-shots.

#bts x reader #bts fanfic #bts fic #bts smut #jin x reader #hoseok x reader #yoongi x reader #namjoon x reader #taehyung x reader #jimin x reader #jungkook x reader

[sophrosynic]

Okay, I have A Lot Of Thoughts about Star Wars:

[TLJ SPOILERS ABOUND]

1) The movie was way too fucking long for what happened in it. They could have cut back on a whole bunch of stuff and still had a decent movie but nooooooooo Ryan Johnston INSISTED on cramming all that shit in there like sardines. Because who ever needs subtlety right? 2) If you honestly walked away from this movie thinking that the Kylan Roe Redemption Sequence actually made him look like a good person and not someone who has a repeated & consistent pattern of being a horrible fucking human being, then you were watching the wrong movie lol. 3) Speaking of which, the best fucking thing about the rest of this movie series is the fact that Kyaln Row's story line has finally been set up so that he's the final villain. Like, we have gotten the shitty failed redemption arc crap out of the way now and there's no more turning back sooooooo can't wait for ReysGonnaWreckHisAss2k19 4) Anyway the good stuff 5) LUKE LOWKEY DISSING OBI-WAN KENOBI AND THE JEDI ORDER THOUGH LIKE :ALKSDJF:DLKJF:SDLUORUDSKJ:DSKF 6) OBI-WANS PROBABLY SCREAMING OFF IN THE DISTANT VOID LIKE 7) "SHOULD HAVE FUCKING LEFT YOU IN TATOOINE ASSHOLE!!!!!" 7.5) (When Luke dies and becomes one with the Force, Obi-Wan legit follows him around DEMANDING royalties for the "if you strike me down" shit) 8) Also, I WAS RIGHT ABT REY'S PARENTAGE I WAS RIGHT I WAS RIGHT I WAS RIGHT AND I AM SO HAPPY ABOUT HOW RIGHT I WAS 9) Because the whole POINT of Star Wars has always been about found families. 10) WHICH, speaking OF, is yet another damning indictment against Klo RowRow. Because family doesn't mean shit. Because choice is everything. Choosing the goodness within yourself is what matters the most. Because no one is born with inherent light or inherent darkness within them--they choose these things as they go on and it's those choices that matter. 11) WHICH LEADS TO YET ANOTHER POINT BECAUSE FINN!!!!!!! REY!!!!!!!!! POE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 12) THEY HUG 13) "FINN NAKED LEAKING WHAT?????" 14) "HELLO IM POE." - "I'M REY." - "I KNOW IVE HEARD" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 15) IDC IF THATS WRONG OR NOT WHAT THEY SAID BECAUSE FUCK YOU 16) REY!!!!!!!! LOOKING AT FINN!!!!!!!!! BEING KIND TO ROSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 16.5) (OT4!OT4!OT4!OT4!) 17) ANAKIN SKYWALKER'S LIGHTSABER BROKEN INTO TWO DAMN PIECES IS THE BEST WAY FOR IT TO GO 18) (SOMEWHERE OUT THERE IN THE FORCE HE'S HEAVING A LEGIT SIGH OF RELIEF AND PADME GIVES HIM A HUG) 19) (LEAVE THE POOR BASTARD ALONE HES DEAD) 20) THE SUBTLE AND INCISIVE CRITIQUE OF CAPITALISM AND WEALTH AND WAR AND IMPERIALISM, ALL IN ONE SINGLE SENTENCE THOUGH. 21) Hux is SUCH a fucking LOSER like WHAT THE FRUFKC klajd. 22) (Honestly this is just gonna make all the shippers so much MORE annoying tbh!!!!!) 23) HONOURABLE MENTION 1 GOES TO: Luke tossing the lightsabre over his shoulder and rolling his eyes and walking away LIKE THE DRAMA QUEEN HE IS  (There are no more honourable mentions after this one.) 23.5) (SOMEWHERE OUT THERE IN THE FORCE VOID ANAKIN IS CHEERING IN DELIGHT) 24) Listen. LISTEN. It is in fact an intergalactic resistance meme by this point to make fun of Hux at any given opportunity, in as many increasingly bizarre and surreal ways as possible. 25) Galactic social media is just filled with shitty Hux memes 26) Most of them are just variations of "Uh hello??? I need to speak to Hucks? With a K? Rhymes with Fucks, as in, I'm all out of fucks to give abt the First Order????" 27) (Poe may or may NOT have ripped it off of a Resistance fan Twitter, but can you BLAME him when so many people are so damn creative???) 28) THAT ONE MOMENT WHEN HUX MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BECOME A GODDAMN INADVERTENT HERO BUT NO. NO. FUCK YOU!!!!! 28.5) (Shitty TLJ AU where he DOES shoot pylon rowboat and becomes an accidental-but-totally-on-purpose-for-the-lulz posterboy for the Resistance & they manage to bring down the whole First Order by just refusing to take Hucks seriously) 29) "Do you think you got him???" 30) Ok, I'm reading through this list and there isn't enough appreciation for Rose, so here goes: 31) ROSE STOPPING FINN WHEN SHE THINKS HES RUNNING AWAY AND THEN JUST CASUALLY MENTIONING THAT SHE ZAPS DESERTERS INTO OBLIVION WHENEVER SHE COMES ACROSS ONE 32) ROSE FEELING FOR THE BIG HORSE THINGIES SO DEEPLY 33) ROSE HATING CAPITALISM!!!!!!!! 34) (IN A MOVIE WITH AT LEAST ONE CRITTER THAT WAS SPECIFICALLY DEVELOPED FOR MERCHANDISING PURPOSES ONLY) 35) SAVING FINNS LIFE WHEN HES TOO CARRIED AWAY TO DO IT HIMSELF 37) (Just also want to mention briefly that Obi-Wan is also lowkey pissed that Luke just copied his shitty Old Man Day Drinks Himself To Oblivion in Solitude aesthetic, ALL THE WAY DOWN to the badly written George Lucas dialogue like HOW and WHY but most importantly HOW DARE YOU) 38) (But he will give him points for the whole "every word in that sentence was wrong" bit) 39) (He's also happy that at least SOMEONE picked up the Kenobi instinct for wrecking people by shade alone) 40) Anyone who mistakes Rey's efforts to bring that undeserving fuckwit back into the light as anything EXCEPT the actions of a pure, wonderful delightful human being who is committed to goodness and NOTHING ELSE watched the wrong movie 41) I'm sorry but you did 42) I'll probably scream abt that in a different post tbh 43) In summary: Ryan Johnston got mildly lucky and I'm prety sure the movie would have been ten thousand times worse but there was just so much stuff there that there was enough stuff to make it partially worthwhile so yeah

#v. scriptoriis #long post #tlj spoilers #star wars #the last jedi

[thebonezone66]

Her Unfinished Beans

((Part 11 of 19. Continued from: X))

KENO:  She continued to eye the shadowy figure. An odd familiarity on her  face, and yet a lot of distrust. Why was her anger bubbling up again?

 Was it only because this being had been apparently causing her to lose  sleep? She wasn't sure.

 * ... I ca't really say it's been long. Considering you watch me every  night.

 * Creepy stalker tendencies run in the family, huh?

 She laughs nervously, looking back and forth from father and son. What  was this that they were signing her up for?

THE GOOD DOCTOR:  He blinks, tilting his head.

 "...I have?"  A finger is held up, away from his body. He directs Keno to look at it.

 "If you look directly at this finger, it is in your focus, your  attention. Yet out of the corner of your eyes, you still see 'me', and  the world around you. I have not been staring at //you//, even though  you may have been in my vision. I assure you, my presence has not been  upon you in full since you first saw Sans however long ago."

 He hums, withdrawing his finger.  "And, 'stalker tendencies' may or may not occur when just a few days  (weeks? months? how long has it been, Sans?) ago, you were not only on  good terms with us, but someone we both trusted with our lives. To  suddenly have you disappear and reappear with nothing akin to memory  of either of us was... jarring, to say the least.

  If anything, the notion that you're starting to remember us - in a  way - justifies Sans' reasoning, IF not his actions."

 The Doctor reaches behind him, wheeling out a nice desk chair from  oblivion, and perching himself upon it backwards. His arms are crossed  over the backrest of the chair, still looking at Keno.

 "So, I suppose I should describe the context, before going into the  events leading up to... well, a rather //livid// display."

KENO:  * No.... It's most definitely you. Or... Something like you. I don't know.

 A grumble as her head throbbed, the goop now dripping off her chin as  she tried to get comfortable seated upon the small skeleton's mattress. God how did he live in such a pigsty?

 * I know basics.

 * A human fell. Apparently befriended me and that guy.   She'd gesture in Sans' direction.  * Then something happened, everything stopped and was abruptly erased,  somehow destroying existence only to rebuild it all, leaving that  idiot.

KENO:  Another gesture

KENO:  * In some kind of despair, thinking he'd lost both me and Frisk

KENO:  * Which apparently isn't the case, since I'm having some awful chain  of memory granting nightmares, and a human JUST fell about a week ago.  Making his whiny bullshit pointless since that means both Frisk and I  are okay.

KENO:  * Gods why am I so MAD at him? I don't feel like me dissing him this  much is normal. Is this normal?

SANS(BZ):  The skeleton in question seems to shrink at each rebuttal, but for the  most part cannot tell if what is happening is a GOOD thing or a BAD  thing. His expression is fluctuating pretty randomly with the wincing  in the insults. No, he deserved it. He probably deserved more.

 * yeah. i'd say it's more or less the norm actually.

THE GOOD DOCTOR:  "Well, seeing as just before everything went to hell you two were  romantically involved-"

 "No. At least I'd hope it wasn't. You were angry at us for leaving the  corrupted child behind as your old timeline fell apart. The human -  Frisk - here, is new. Someone completely different to the one whom you  had placed your faith in. Your last words were emotionally charged,  blaming us for everything that had occurred, stating your hatred for  us."

 He goes quiet.  "I will not gloss over that. You deserve to know that the last we  spoke, you were angrier than I'd ever seen."

 "...I can restore the memories in full, Keno. Skip the trainwreck of  them slowly coming back to you. The shock of which may be jarring, but  in the long run, may be for the better."

#IC #Event:RESET #UNDERVEIL #Her Unfinished Beans #RPNow

[ughomgwhatever]

Why do people discredit Disney characters who search for a love interest as weak and incapable people?

1) Snow White sang about it but she was also living like a slave, wishing someone would whisk her away out of her prison. She’s also a princess who’s supposed to be married off (not that that’s any better) if met with prospective suitors. Anyone else is better than the Queen and she did prove herself a capable woman at home, finding her own way out of a fucking assassination attempt on her own life.

2) Cinderella was in the same boat. She used to have a good, comfortable life but then lived in terribly poor conditions in her own fucking home. Sweeping and cleaning furnitures she could never could never hope to use. Washing clothes she could never wear. Still, she grew up kind-hearted and resilient af. She never wished them ill or be hardened by fate. She went to the ball because she wanted to party for godsake as she would have done should her parents were still living. She didn’t even mean to steal the prince away from anyone. She didn’t introduce herself. The prince literally strode up to her and the rest is history.

3) Aurora, a princess, grew up in a cottage, in the middle of a forest, with no contact to the human world but two and a half old, dumb, and colorful fairies. She was also like 16 and probably had bedtime stories of gallant knights saving the day read to her as a child. She literally sings a song about how animals have their own mates but she would probably die alone if she doesn’t meet anyone. Now, think about this. She’s never met ANYONE. No friends, much less a lover. If you were a lonely peasant, you’d probably just wanna grow up living simple dreams with a simple domestic life. There wasn’t fucking CNN to tell her that the kingdom is in peril by another fucking fairy cursing the land so she’d know to buckle up and save everybody. She also NEVER met her parents and must wonder where SHE came from or she just romanticizes a normal relationship. Those fuckin fairies probably told her shit like “les filles sont nées dans les roses et les garçons dans les choux” idk. When she met Phillip then found out she was a princess betrothed to some stranger, WHO THE FUCK WOULDN’T CRY TOO BITCH?! She just found out that her life wasn’t simple anymore. The moment she met another human being she had interest in, she was to be sold away like cattle. BTW, SHE HAD 18 LINES IN THE WHOLE MOVIE AND THE PRODUCTION WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ARTISTIC AND SHIT SO YOU CAN’T SHIT ON HER WHEN NO ONE REALLY KNOWS HER.

4) Ariel, ARIEL, BOY THIS LITTLE MERMAID. LET ME TELL YA. SHE WAS A REBEL AT HEART. DON’T SIT THERE AND TELL ME SHE AIN’T STRONG WHEN SHE COLLECTED A WHOLE TROVE OF SEA CONTRABAND OUT OF SHEER CURIOSITY. She went to that ship to see the fireworks and get a close up on the humans. Lo and behold, she sees a beautiful fucking human. Now, would she have sold her voice to the witchy calamari if her father didn’t come in and destroy her secret treasures which bothered literally no one? She’s been in the ocean all this time, how had she not fallen in love with a merman yet if that’s all she cared about?? The backstory also revealed that her father literally banned music because his musical beloved died. And what did Ariel do? SHE FUCKING JOINS A SPEAKEASY/SECRET NIGHTCLUB TYPE OF SHIT THAT EVEN THE ROYAL CRAB IS A PART OF. She never followed the rules if they don’t make sense and sticks firmly to her beliefs. And the moment she knew she fucked up from having made a mistake, SHE ALWAYS PROVED TO GIVE HERSELF UP AND BE IN THE LINE OF FIRE WHEN THINGS GO TO SHIT JUST LIKE HER MOTHER. She saved royal crab bff from getting crushed to pieces by a deranged nanny. She grabbed the angry calamari’s hair for trying to blast her father into oblivion and proceeded to have her TRUE LOVE impaled her with a ship, ridding not just one but ONE OUT OF TWO evil witches of the sea. She also searched the seas herself when her daughter went missing because she decided to ABANDONED HER WHOLE OTHER LIFE AND PAST WHERE HER KINGDOM, FRIENDS, AND FAMILY ARE. SHE DID NOT GET TO SEE HER FATHER, HER SISTERS, SEBASTIAN, AND ESPECIALLY NOT FLOUNDER WHO HAD TONS OF KIDS WHILE SHE WAS AWAY PRETENDING SHE WAS BORN A HUMAN. ALL THE MOMENTS SHE COULDN’T CELEBRATE. ALL THE GOOD PEOPLE SHE COULDN’T SHARE WITH HER DAUGHTER BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS DOING THE RIGHT THING. EVEN JUST THINKING ABOUT ERIC, WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN THAT FUCKING BRAVE TO WANT SOMETHING AND ACTUALLY GO GET IT?

5) Belle was odd, smart, and strong-willed. ‘nuff said.

6) Jasmine had a pet tiger and tried to run away from an arranged marriage. She didn’t reveal herself and give up her newfound freedom until she saw Aladdin was about to fucking die. SHE ALSO KISSED THAT DISGUSTING SNAKE JAFAR TO BUY AL TIME LIKE GET JA*FAR* AWAY FROM HER K?

7) POCAHONTAS WAS BADASS AS FUCK. SHE DISSED A MAN SHE WAS STARTING TO LIKE RIGHT OFF WHEN HE INSULTED HER PEOPLE. SHE ALSO STOPPED A FUCKING WAR FROM HAPPENING WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT. ALSO, WHEN J. SMITH TURNED INTO AN ASS, SHE TOTALLY LEFT HIM FOR A BETTER MAN BECAUSE SHE KNEW WHAT WAS GOOD FOR HER K BYE.

8) MULAN? MULAN.

9) TIANA WAS TURNED INTO A FROG BY A MAN SHE HATED FROM THE START. SHE ALSO WORKED HER WAY TO SUCCESS EVEN IF SHE HAD NAVEEN’S HELP (WE DON’T KNOW THAT EITHER) BECAUSE SHE IS AN INDEPENDENT, BLACK WOMAN WHO DON’T NEED NO MAN. SHE WAS ALSO BUSY AS HELL WORKING HER ASS OFF SO NO, “A BLOKE” WAS NOT THE CENTER OF HER LIFE.

10) RAPUNZEL WAS MANIPULATED BY AN ABUSIVE FAKE MOM FOR YEARS. THE MAN WHO SHE CAME TO LOVE WAS FIRST A THIEF THEN HER FRIEND. SHE DIDNT WISH FOR SOMEONE TO SAVE HER. SHE JUST WANTED TO SEE THE FLOATING LIGHTS.

11) OK MERIDA. SHOW ME A FUCKING BOY SHE TRIED TO CHASE IN THAT MOVIE AND I’LL YIELD. THE LOVE SHE HAS FOR HER MOTHER ALSO COULDN’T BE ROMANTICIZED BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY *Anthony Ramos’s voice* THAT SHIT’S SICK.

12) ANNA CHASED A BOY BECAUSE SHE WAS TRAPPED AND LONELY AS FUCK. SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MARRIED OFF TO A PRINCE ONE DAY, ANYWAY (not that Elsa would like it or allow it unless completely necessary but she still has to listen to the people. No country is truly run by one person). HER OWN PERSONALITY IS KIND AND NAIVE BUT DON’T TELL ME SHE AIN’T BRAVE OR STRONG. AND ELSA? HRNNNNN.

RANT. OVER.

#stop ruining people's work by saying dumb shit #rant #disney #opj #ughomgwhatever

[werelikenomadsfindinghome]

I am going to sleep at 10 pm before, but suddenly internet takes me over. And now the coffee I drink before kicking it and here I am at 4.30 am writing this post while listening to adzan.

At first, I just want to open twitter, to see what's the update for jouska problem. Then I thought ah let's open my real account to get more information. Then I saw a personal message from a mutual on my fan account (which I just deactivate) and she asks me about my well-being and why I disappear. Then I stalk her and see some of my mutuals really concern about me and I feel so so so touched, cause someone actually cares, cause someone wants to know how am I doing, cause someone on internet want or know if I am okay or not. Lately I think a lot about my existence in this fandom world (not a big thing actually but for my overthinking ass it is). Do I have contribution in this fandom? Do I left my trace here? Will people look for me when I am gone? Will people notice when I am not here anymore? Will they remember me? Suddenly I become Augustus Walter, I fear oblivion. I am afraid people will forget me when I am no longer in this fandom cause I never contribute anything here and I never leave the trace. That's so freaking weird cause this fandom is so big and full of people I will never meet in real life and I do this for the people who will never notice me so why I try so hard to impress the people on internet? I don't fucking know either. Maybe I just some bitch who is thirsty for attention from people I will never meet? But funny thing is, when bunch of people make some group chat so we can talk more and being close to each other, I don't want to join them. Cause I feel like I don't know what to say, I feel like my opinion is not fresh at all, I can't really gather my thoughts and speak it, I am afraid people will attack me, I don't get internet slang, my grammar is so freaking bad, and I am afraid they're asking personal question I don't want to answer. And I think I am just a socially awkward person online and offline and I don't know to do about that. Complicated right? In some point I want people to talk to me but at another point I don't know what I will talk about, so I am just being a spectator, looking from a distant, and being envy cause everyone in my timeline know each other.

Then this keep-scrolling-on-internet don't stop here cause the next thing I know I see my ex-crush follow me on twitter then somehow it reminds me of my ex that lately appears on my dream (i swear i don't even know where the correlation is), and i start stalk him in twitter and tumblr. Sometimes I wonder what actually I am looking at his social media when we have been broke for 5 years? Like am I really thinking he will tweet something about me? Am I looking for some hint he throws that sign he still into me? Am I believing that after all of this years, all of this fights, all of this broken heart feeling, he still loves me just a little? When he fucking tell me two years ago that all of his tweet and post is never about me anymore? Like, why are you so stupid, girl? He's not into you anymore, it's been five years, you gotta move on. Yes, lately you dream about him and how you are getting back together and so what? Do you think it is the sign from universe that you are belong to each other? No, it means you think a lot about him and you should stop. Stop projecting there will be something between you in the future. Stop making him the lead male in your imaginary love story. Stop thinking about what if he still loves you and want to be with you again. Stop looking for a hint that will never be there. Cause you yourself don't even know you still like him or just feel so lonely. So stop being this stupid girl who is not over his five years ex, not cool at all.

And this lead to another stalking real life friend's twitter. Seeing what happened and what's the update in the town. Judging them with their tweets. Dissing the retweet and the issue they talk about. Looking at who is the indie and popular kids back at home. Wondering what's going on when their tweets feels too hard and hurt. And I realize that I don't really know about what's going on in their life, what struggle they have to face, what kind of comfort I actually can offer. Like cause they don't talk to me about their problem and I don't see their social media, I assume everything is fine. And I believe it's the other way around. But I feel like a jerk cause I care so much sometimes about my mutual in my fan account and about the strangers that I met in internet, like I really try to comfort them when they tweet something triggered warning, but I didn't care at all about the people I know in real life and that's sad and bad, right? Why am I like this? Am I scared that because I know they are real, their struggle is real, and if I know the real story it will struck me real hard and I will start to feel worry and anxious and overthink it? And I avoid that feeling so much and at the end I am just being a coward who can't even offer comfort for her real friends. It's pathetic, right? This is what happened when you feel like you have to save everyone.

So it's been a while to feel this chatty through the night, to know that someone actually care, to look back at the memories, to stalk people and see what they've been through, to think and feel and gather it and write it here. It's kinda nice.

P.s. I swear I am a bad writer.

[entergamingxp]

Pokmon Mystery Dungeon DX review

I am trying to think of what game it was that Pokmon Mystery Dungeon DX reminds me of and honestly, I just cannot remember. Which is apt! Or we’ll make it apt anyway, if you’ll bear with me. It’s apt because Mystery Dungeon is one of those dreamy, trancelike, somewhat transient games. A playable hypnagogia daydream: all quite pleasant while you’re there but then as soon as you leave: poof! It’s gone from memory.

Pokmon Mystery Dungeon DX review

Developer: Spike Chunsoft

Publisher: Nintendo

Platform: Reviewed on Switch

Availability: Out March 6th on Switch

Much of that dreaminess comes from a fairly obvious source. Mystery Dungeon DX is a remaster of the Pokmon Mystery Dungeon Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue team games that came out in the early noughties, and one if DX’s headline revisions is how it looks. The pixel art is gone, replaced with a kind of watercolour splash, and as such you’re reminded, a bit, of that classic quest in Oblivion (no that’s not the game I was thinking of) where you’re stuck inside a painting. Then there’s the fact you are literally a human trapped inside the body of a Pokmon, and that you keep having these rather disturbing dreams, and all the contrast and saturation seems to be dialled-up beyond the natural average, and yes. A dream. Slightly magical, slightly unsettling, a tiny bit forgettable, and at the same time a tiny bit of it will be burned into your mind’s eye.

The setup is all very typical for the mystery dungeon crawler. There’s a central town hub, which is small but full of endearing Pokmon roaming around or managing one of a handful of important shops, and then there are the dungeons that you visit for the actual quests. These dungeons have random layouts each time you visit, with wild Pokmon that attack, various traps and obstacles, items to collect, and a friendly Pokmon in need of rescue. The nuance comes in how you manoeuvre your party of Pokmon through the dungeons, ordering them in specific ways for specific circumstances, and in how you manage your inventory, trading off between items you want to keep with you and space for picking up more.

It’s a departure from the main Pokmon games, of course, but there are actually more similarities there than you’d think. The combat is turn-based and quite strategic, a mixture of the four-move, rock-paper-scissors familiarity of the main games and a bit of XCOM, if anything, in the importance of positioning and range. Your inherent knowledge of type matchups, utility moves, status effects and all of that will remain incredibly useful – although Mystery Dungeon kindly indicates what moves are super effective and what aren’t through its UI – but you’ll need to think further ahead and in a greater number of dimensions for success. Everything in the dungeon moves when you move, so while it feels real-time it’s really turn-based through and through, and as you get further into the game, where the puzzles get more elaborate and the enemies tougher, plotting your way through can become a genuinely interesting challenge.

You’ll also still be collecting Pokmon as you go, although there’s a twist to how that works, too. If you beat a Pokmon in a dungeon there’s a random chance they’ll want to join you, tagging along for the rest of the quest and, at the end of it, being able to join you as a squad option permanently – likewise for those issuing the quests too. But for them to join you, you need to have unlocked the right “camp”, which costs coins, which you need to visit more dungeons to earn, where you’ll meet more Pokmon that need you to have unlocked other camps, and so on. The salient point really, though, is that you are just a bunch of swell guys and everyone wants to hang out with you.

This also amounts to most of Mystery Dungeon DX’s plot. Your pal – who you choose at the start but obviously it’s Psyduck – knows you’re a human but still wants to help you out. There are rival rescue teams, that often face off in these sort of West Side Story diss battles (you don’t actually battle them that often), and there are legendaries, which seem to be pulling the strings in their classic mortals-caught-amongst-quarries-of-the-gods fashion. It’s delivered with genuine warmth and abundance of heart, and actually does a better job of staving off the excessive tweeness than the recent mainline Pokmon games.

The problem, though, is that above the warm and fuzzy feeling it might give you, there isn’t a huge amount more that Pokmon Mystery Dungeon DX has to offer. The complexity of its dungeon crawling is undoubtedly the big selling point but there’s as much frustration to be had there as there is depth. The movement with the analog stick of the Switch is incredibly clumsy – you’ll often overshoot steps or go slightly either side of diagonal, if you’re anything like me, which is a real problem as you progress to more complex dungeons where precision counts – and with the D-pad, which it was originally built around, it can be painfully finickity. There’s no way to know your enemy’s stats – even their current or maximum HP – as far as I can tell, which makes advanced planning and strategy almost impossible. And the constant depositing and withdrawing of items and money combined with the blind chance of which Pokmon might want to join you – and which camps you need to unlock in advance for them to do so – inevitably leads to frustration. It’s no fun to find a cool, rare Pokmon that wants to join you, but have no way for them to do so because you didn’t spend your paltry coin on the right one of several dozen camps ahead of time.

Along with that, there’s just the sheer repetition of the dungeons and the moment-to-moment grind that gets a bit much. Although the dungeons change each time you enter, you’re fundamentally doing the exact same thing each time you go in, and without those necessary bits of information about enemies and the like it can become an incredibly passive experience – exemplified by the addition of an “auto mode”, where your team runs around looking for the next item without you even needing to do anything. There’s absolutely an endearing charm to the characters – Pokmon’s had that locked down for decades – and the cutesy town will scratch the Animal Crossing itch for a short while, but it will only be for a short while. And although the crawling combat is undeniably moreish, the patterns of play lining your mind like a novel sort of Tetris effect, it doesn’t seem moreish for any good reason. It’s busywork, really, for idle thumbs and idle minds. Pleasant enough as a daydream, but not one I’d love to be stuck in for any great length of time.

from EnterGamingXP https://entergamingxp.com/2020/03/pokmon-mystery-dungeon-dx-review/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pokmon-mystery-dungeon-dx-review