#catching the thread

[blessphemy]

me when real human beings read something i wrote: woah. neat.

#nullverse #sometimes i think about that #you know #the effort and attention that it takes? to read something? #i think about it. the handshake of time and effort it is #i spend fucking forever writing something down. time and sanity. so much time and sanity lol #someone on the other end #catching the thread #and reading it. carrying it into them too #idk guys... #something like a psychic connection #two experiences resonating with each other #detached and fundamentally unknowable to each other #but still sharing the same words. in a way.

[souredfigs]

Of lovers burdened with glory and doomed since the beginning of time

Book mentioned: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller/Song used: Achilles come down by Gang of Youths/Jujutsu Kasien 0 manga/Jujutsu Kaisen light Novel 1/Jujutsu kaisen manga chapters 78 and 236 by creator Gege Akutami/Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 , director Shōta Goshozono

#so please please please let me let me let me #im not even kidding when I tell you how long ive wanted to make this thread #like the resemblance is INSANE #also let me just say im new to webweave and I need to get seriously better at it but anyways #Satosugu #satosugu webweaving #blood curdling angst #they loved each other sm you guys): #jujutsu kaisen #jjk 0 #jjk 236 #gojo satoru #geto suguru #geto is quite literally gojos achillies heel fight me on that #im gonna read some teacher geto aus to dull the pain #jujutsu kaisen season 2 #gege when i catch you gege #gege when i fucking catch you #madeline miller #the song of achilles #the iliad #and vampy once again screaming about fictional and historical gays #theres so much i wanted to add in this thread but oh well #achilles come down #patrochilles #their stories are one in the same ur honour

[such-a-downer]

Finally the trinity is complete

#black butler #d.gray man #pandora hearts #black butler meme #d. gray man meme #pandora hearts meme #o!ciel #ciel phantomhive #allen walker #oz vessalius #anime meme #lol they're all dark fantasy #despite making this meme I still have no motivation to catch up to dgm #bcoz i scanned through rdt threads and they say that allen is now a soup of mixed identities #gosh #pandora hearts is great too. there should be a reboot #despite the plotholes and lack of closure #fortunately #black butler is still breathing #anyway if i were to rank them by darkness factor #I'd say #1) PH #2) BB #3) DGM #dark fantasy anime

[clockwayswrites]

...I played myself I see.

Catching Cold... the start or something

“Danny, dude, where have you been? You haven’t been answering your phone or anything?” Tucker asked, sliding into the desk next to Danny.

Danny frowned a little, head tilted. “Oh, my phone…? I don’t know where it is. Sorry.”

“Are you sure you should be back at school? I know you’ve been trying harder and it’s senior year and all, but you look sick. I’m sure you can miss some more days,” Tucker reached out to press his hand against Danny’s forehead.

The warmth felt good against the clammy skin and Danny felt his eyes closing. He wished he could go back to bed. He felt like he hadn’t slept for weeks even though Mom had said he’d been sick in bed for a few days. Something about that…

“But can Phantom?” Sam asked. She dropped town into the seat in front of them, arms crossed over the back of the seat.

“Sam!”

“Look, I get it,” she said with a roll of her eyes, “But Boxy wrecked the post office last night and that’s just Boxy. What if a real ghost had attacked? Where was Phantom?”

Why did she ask that so pointedly? Danny blinked, trying to scrap together his scattered thoughts.

He yawned widely.

“I don’t know… Mom…” Half a memory played at the edges of Danny’s mind. “I think Mom said he was gone or something? No, um, wouldn’t be a problem anymore? So people should be safe from him.”

His friends didn’t look comforted like he thought they would at the news.

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AN/: Filled a prompt (Dead on Main + adj.). Made it worse. Took joy in the suffering that I caused.

Now I'm here.

Welp.

(Yes, it is okay to still fill the base prompt with your ideas too! But this and future catching cold parts are not part of the prompt!)

Edit: subscription post

#rip me and all that #I am my own worst enemy #I'll make a subscription thread when there is not a cat asleep on my hand #not the complaints manager #the sound engineer #dead on main #dp x dc #catching cold

[chandralia]

the intimacy of Deku just sitting behind Bakugo in class…

#I could write a NOVEL about this #SO I WILL #it’s such a ‘so close yet so far’ thing like??? #and the calm existence between the two #having to be quiet—to pass test papers back between one another— #every shift or sigh or stretch or yawn catching Deku’s attention #and the same for Bakugo’s Professional Eavesdropper ears #ALSO #the imagery of Deku always following behind Bakugo being threaded through something as mundane as class #Deku being seated behind Bakugo is like a funny jab at another annoyance Bakugo has to endure #but it turns into a glaringly obvious thing he would miss if it changed (AND IT DID WHEN DEKU RAN AWAY) #and in a story where tiny details are carefully chosen by the author SURE everyone else’s seats might be randomized #but not bkdk’s #Deku has the cliche anime protagonist desk position AND BAKUGO IS RIGHT IN FRONT IF HIM? #not off to the side or a row over—RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM??? #this just reiterates Bakugo as the deuteragonist too #ALSO ALSO it just scratches an itch in my brain #bkdk #dkbk #bakudeku #dekubaku #:’)

[writer-room]

Love that the team continued to uphold Lloyd being extremely mentally unwell at all times. Barely functioning but insisting its fine. Plagued by the visions™. Legitimately had a panic attack when everything started to go wrong. Completely willing to fuck over his entire physiology with weird dragon magic because "yeah that'll probably be helpful later". Waking up screaming and shrugging because its totally normal to have nightmares that horrifying on the regular. A+ on this assignment lads, you've broken Lloyd down to his bare essentials.

#ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #lego ninjago #lego ninjago dragons rising #dragons rising #lloyd garmadon #text post #talk #ninjago team #it was WILD to hear lloyd say 'my panic attack' like OH #YEAH THAT IS WHAT THAT WAS. COOL SO WE'RE ACKNOWLEGING IT #lloyd has zero understanding of basic mental health #and the parts he DOES understand he just chooses to ignore bc 'im built different' #my sweet summer child you sure were built different. you were built so different that you need like #triple therapy #lloyd is hanging on by a thread #that thread has snapped multiple times #somehow there is always another thread underneath for him to catch #usually this thread was thrown down by the others to make sure he doesnt fully plunge off the deep end #because frankly if he does it will go one of two ways #hes going to kill everyone in this realm OR himself #the fun part is figuring out if hes gonna do either of those things on purpose or total accident

[dreamingpartone]

He was very aware of how close they were... Just like their picnic, when it was two of them bathed in candlelight. When a million things could have happened next, but Asahi knew exactly what he wanted.

Threads of Gold: chapter five

#nishinoya yuu #azumane asahi #asanoya #threads of gold #haikyuu!! #haikyuu fanart #doodles and miscellania #i was away for a few days last week and am still catching up on things so sorry this one's posted late again !! #i hope it was worth the wait :') #unfortunately ch6 will also be delayed bc spade and i somehow reverse uno'd our health and she's sick now :'( #poor spadey :( #in the meantime i hope everyone else is staying well <3

[ghostofdiamonds]

teru liking aoi (the girl) doesn't make any sense to me. but more importantly, it's not narratively interesting. we never saw them interact before, and you're telling me teru has liked aoi for years? it sort of feels like it came out of nowhere.

as i see it, teru as two options for crushes that could be really interesting in terms of the narrative.

terukane. You knew this was coming. Aoi and Akane have inverse names, for god's sake, and Teru said "I like Akane-san"? The way Teru looks at him sometimes? I'll feel so bad for him if this is true but sometimes it really feels like Akane (boy) is more likely to be his crush than Aoi (girl).

terunene. Much less proof, but the angst of Nene trying to win him over and even getting entangled with supernaturals, while in fact he liked her all along, would be DELICIOUS.

#jshk #tbhk #honestly even though I like terukane more I think terunene would be super cool if true #the common thread is teru being unable to catch a break #terukane #terunene

[ride-a-dromedary]

Wyll's relationship with alcohol/Halsin's relationship with alcohol...

#BG3 Musing #there's a point somewhere here that i am circling #in a way that it's interesting that it's in a conversation with wyll that halsin admits that at some point in his life #he had an unhealthy relationship with alcohol (and he still might) - the extent of which we don't know for sure #but interesting in the way that wyll's response to halsin admitting that he did was that he would buy the first round when it was over #(in the determined way that they would come out of this on the other side but an intriguing response nonetheless) #(that that was his first thought to respond with) #there are hints that wyll's relationship with alcohol may not be the healthiest either #though he is still at the point where perhaps he hasn't realized the extent #interesting how wyll and halsin could have very likely both had the face scar and eye difficulty (if it weren't a glitch) #AND potentially an additional conversation regarding alcoholism #two different points of life same catch in the thread #current potential alcoholic/recovering alcoholic

[hawkeyequeerce]

I finished the embroidery on the pocket today!! It's all ready to hem and stitch in place :)

#im so very pleased with how this is all turning out! #truly has been such a lucky project--I even ran out of bobbin thread just as i finished a hem today #funny bc this is the robe of a guy who simply cannot catch a break #mash #hawkeye pierce #hawkeye robe #mashblr

[aellyne]

MY DEAREST 연인 (2023) EP. 02 // EP. 10

#my dearest #kdrama #kdramaedit #kdramadaily #kdramasource #ahn eun jin #namgoong min #mygif #m: my dearest #연인 #period drama #[the first time he gives out his hand and the first time she takes it] #[the more i think abt gil chae's dream] #[the more i think (and hope) it may be abt her catching up to jang hyun when it comes to the depth of their feelings] #[and not you know... abt them meeting in the afterlife] #[it's the red thread of fate afterall] #[let a girl have some hope]

[serialreblogger]

the thing about the joker

is that - well, even canonically, he’s not actually “insane.” in the most canonical version of his backstory (bc there are many conflicting incarnations, but this one is the touchstone for a lot of later canon), he was part of a street gang before falling into a vat of Nondescript Toxic Waste that damaged his melanin production and That’s It. he supposedly “lost his mind” after seeing his reflection, which is absurd on many levels. no. he’s not “insane.” what he is, is an angry white boy.

the thing about the joker is that he exults in his own uncontainability. He laughs, because all of gotham - all the world - is built to be his playground. the only lunatic thing about him is the lunacy of ~Society~, to borrow from the joker’s own playbook; the lunacy of the joker lies in the world that grants him power: in the inheritance of loss: in white privilege, and what it means for everyone else.

“to prove a point.” those were the joker’s exact words, when he shot and paralyzed Barbara Gordon. she asked why: he laughed. “to prove a point.”

because that’s all he ever does. he hurts people because he can. and because all the power in the world can’t save him from getting hurt - and isn’t that just peachy?

because the thing about the joker is that he can get hurt. he has been hurt. but he has so much more capacity to harm than to be harmed. he is immortal. he and he alone will never have to face the consequences of the hurt that he inflicts on other people.

so then: why not hurt them? misery loves company, after all.

the joker is the embodiment and end result of our own social system: the madness of the exception: the laughter of the white man: the imprecation to smile, as he kills you.

(no one ever says it, i find, but it’s still true: barbara deserves to kill him.)

and who, then, is the batman? if the joker is the yin to his yang? if they’re two sides of one irredeemable coin, if they represent the “balance” of an unjustifiable system - who is he if not another white man?

because he is. Bruce Wayne is a white boy born into unspeakable privilege and forced to endure suffering anyway; who copes with his suffering by taking it out on others; who copes with his suffering, not by taking advantage of the world as it is, but by attempting to reshape it. to make it in his own image - as if it isn’t already his, as if claiming it further will crush out the pain.

the batman is the benevolent oppressor to the joker’s malevolent one. he changes nothing, in the end. two privileged white boys with their own respective navel-gazing grudges - where, after all, lies the difference between benevolence and malevolence?

because they are not “chaos” and “order.” not really. They are laissez-faire laughter and law. Joker exults in the disease of the system, Batman seeks to treat its symptoms, but neither of them will ever change anything about the root cause. because they may have suffered the faults of this system, but they still benefit so much more from it as it exists. Uphold it or break it, neither of them wants to change the law.

but the law is only as good as the people it’s made to protect. and who does that law protect, really?

waylon jones is, in one issue, explicitly depicted as Black. between that and his skin disorder, there has never once been room for his character to be any more than a monster: king croc is, always, a character to be violated and brutalized, over and over and over and still - always - written as the villain. (he tried so hard to scrape out a place for himself, so many times, in so many incarnations, and each and every time he finds himself relegated once more to the sewers. he will never be anyone’s king. there is no place under the sun for people like him.)

victor fries only ever wanted to save his wife, and a capitalist mogul decided a few extra numbers on his eight-digit paycheck were more important than the people whose lives depended on that money. fries’ body was damaged to disability by that choice, left without the resources to find a cure for his wife, and he robbed banks because there was no other option available to him. we seem to have forgotten, or maybe never really understood, why that matters. why a desperate man trying to save his life and that of his loved ones under the crushing gears of capitalism is a villain, and the one who stops him is our hero. why, under the law batman upholds, a bank vault and a CEO’s hoard is worth more than a life.

poison ivy just wants to live, too. wants a life not defined by the devastation of her body, of the beings that exist as extensions of her, a life where green and growing things are not commodities to be plowed up and poisoned and destroyed for the sake of another man’s profit. these are villains; they are written as such. these are their motives.

who does batman fight for, really? who is our hero, this emblem of our law?

is he our hero? ours, the broken and bleeding members of the world he claims to protect?

who does the law protect, except him - him, and the joker?

#i'm having another Moment over batman friends #this is not a bruce wayne hate post #for the record. there is so much to be said in a bruce wayne hate post about child abuse and authorship and diversity of canon #but this isn't about bruce wayne. it isn't even really about the joker #i'm stuck on batman. batman as a story. batman as a myth #because the myths we tell and the threads that run consistently through them despite the multitude of tellers and times - #those say so much more than people give them credit for #who batman is - who his villains are - what those heroes and rogues represent? that *matters.* on a level wholly distinct from comic fandom #because one of the few things that remains true of batman across his many incarnations and authors and settings and media #is that: he stands for the law. (except for all the ways in which he breaks it.) his only role is to catch the criminals #when he loses control and begins dispensing Punishment he must be drawn back from the edge. because that is not Batman #Batman is Jim Gordon's only deputy. Batman is the myth of the Good Cop #and the joker? the joker is batman without the law #this too is one of the few strains that carry through nearly all tellings. the joker is never his opposite: #the joker is him without a direction. without restraint. without limits. without control #and these things say a lot about the world beyond batman. about the storytellers behind him. who - to them - is a hero? who is human? #and who is a monster? the joker is a monster because he is lawless. because he is ''mad.'' because he looks Wrong #bruce wayne is a hero because he is lawful. a dark hero because he walks very close to the line of that law - but lawful still #and what is that law? what law do these storytellers see fit to uphold? for which characters does that law do any good? #which characters explicitly harmed by that law are disposable? which are villains by birth? #the fact that someone made the creative decision to depict king croc as Black in a 2008 graphic novel wherein he went cannibal - #the fact that the issue where babs was assaulted and paralyzed was also the issue in which batman sat down and sympathized with the joker - #that all of these villains are neurodivergent or queer-coded or intersex or disabled or Disfigured or just plain not white - #it says a lot. not just about the comics; about the world in which so many writers have crafted this consistent narrative of heroic cruelty #the world that accepts these as our villains. these as our heroes. it says a lot. and it *matters.* #batman #dc comics #linden writes an essay #linden's originals #linden in the tags

[rennebright]

DAY 1 by 28 || Click here to view the whole series! ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. Please do not remove the source. Make sure to support the original artwork.

#yuri #百合 #282teeth #original #オリジナル #イラスト #posted art #It's an ongoing series so I'm wondering how to make it all easily accesible for people on either tumblr no idea how lmao #most recent first view is annoying and artist hasn't made a thread/moment view for them so just go to pixiv thats more streamlined #also i'll be posting 2 per day til I catch up and then I'll try to be on par

[yume-fanfare]

I think one aspect to measure a ship's rarepairness is it's popularity when compared to crackships. If it's more popular than generic crackship 254 then it's probably not a rareepair but if more people will know the crackship than the alternative serious and maybe even well thought out ship between two characters then it is probably most probably a rareepair

i wasnt rly talking about differences between rarepair and crackship but more "what makes a ship popular" in general

imo the difference between crackship and rarepair is the amount of canon content 🤔 crackships don't need a base at all but rarepairs usually have one. if it's "these two characters who haven't talked much would be interesting together" then it's a crackship (what makes a ship rare is a bit harder to measure and each case it's exclusive because you have to take a lot of factors into account). But. i don't think they're mutually exclusive things it's more like. all (or almost all) crackships are rarepairs but not all rarepairs are crackships. for example i'd say rinne/shu is somewhat a crackship? it doesn't have much canon content afaik. meanwhile mitsu/haji, who are both in the same unit and have had several 5*+4* events together, are more of a rarepair: neither are each other's most popular ship, or even second most-popular. but also rinne/shu have 80 fics on ao3 (which is more than some def not rare ships) and mitsu/haji have 11. of course character popularity plays a huge part here (big part of why i said its hard to measure how rare a ship is) (did u guys know kaname has more fics than mitsuru) but my point is.

you could place mitsu//haji in rare, rinne//shu in crack and (spins roulette) haji//shu in both and it all quite checks out

#your example specifically remids me of this one time i saw a twt poll where hii.kasa won over trks for best tsukasa ship #and there were a few people on the qrts like ''guys maybe we should catch up on our reading if trks rly lost'' #(there was however another factor to be taken into account on that poll: it had quite a number of hiiks qrts in spanish #and those guys are infamous for botting #the poll had several hundred more votes than the others in the thread it was funny sdjgjklmks i only saw it after it ended #but yeah measuring rarity is hard #starpros sunshine #preguntas

[hunx147]

@the-kr8tor

Katy, when I catch you Katy, Katy, when I catch you Katy

#TTN #the kr8tor's creations #thread the needle #ttn meme #WHEN I CATCH YOU KATY #i love you katy❤️