#grace goes to work

[vulpiximisa]

“It’ll be easy” they said

I have second degree burns

#grace goes to work #how I get more burned from handling hot rice than working the literally fryer

[mewnia]

For Tales of Sunday today I was very self-indulgent and did two drawings of my Graces redesigns for Sophie and Cheria :3c took the first (full) pose of each character I found in a search and drew my designs in a similar manner!

Surprising they don’t draw Cheria in a full-body pose very often…

#Tales of Sunday! #Tales of Graces #Cheria Barnes #Sophie Lhant #I’m slowly working on an Asbel design so we’ll see how that goes #my friends and I beat the main story of the game so it’s been on my mind! #Tales of Graces f #mewnia's pawprints

[worstloki]

imagine being Loki and you're on thin ice playing pretend to fit in on a tyrannical mystery garbage planet until you find a safe way to get rid of the murder-happy ruler who you're very clearly keeping up the bit of having no suspicious connections to the shiny new gladiator that was rounded in and then Thor gets angry about it and immediately gives the lie away by saying you two are brothers.

#weeks of work down the drain #i'd be so annoyed #that loki visited thor in that cell waiting room area at all to have a decent conversation was too much grace #do you think loki compromising work to account for thor is a regular thing bc i think it was done pretty seamlessly #like he's very used to it #thor then goes in the ring and alerts everyone to the fact that loki has a connection to HULK too like #thanks thor you bludgeoned through everything then ALSO lost the fight. not to mention the man now wants to melt me into burnt goo #and has an excuse to do it too #did thor really have to denounce loki as a liar 1 sentence into the conversation with no understanding of what was going on #like sure thor was angry but loki was waving giant warning flags at him and NOW he argues for their brotherhood??? #thor had enough context to not do that stuff!!!!!??? #that sounds so tiring #loki should've gotten to kick him at least once

[zukkaoru]

i love sleep. would love to be able to get some one day.

#if you play music loud and shout enough that the people living below you can hear it past 2am on a thursday night #i hope you get sent to the shadow realm #i have work at 7am. my alarm goes off in less than four hours. i would LIKE to get more than ~3 1/2 hours of sleep #especially since God knows if my roommates are gonna let me sleep tomorrow night #i feel like this shouldn't bee too much to ask for you know? #basic human decency??? do people have that anymore??? #hello grace here

[dallonwrites]

actually making my tags from my last post into their own post. writers who struggle with grammar, spelling, typos, errors etc i love you. writers who struggle with rereading their stuff thoroughly no matter how much they try, who don't always have access to other people to help them read i love you. whilst reading through and checking for these things is good practice i really believe that the weight of it should not be put wholly on the writer's shoulders. especially writers who are neurodivergent, disabled, have any condition that can impede their reading + comprehension, are overworked and overtired, are not writing in their native language, list goes on....because grammar mistakes/language mistakes/typos have nothing to do with your abilities as a creative. this is where editors should be uplifting writers, helping them, not scrutinising them for something they cannot always control

#and in case anyone is going to say it...like i said in my tags i get that it can be frustrating #if it feels like a piece has NOT been reread or checked for these things at all #but even then its like...do you know the writers context? their background? #does the story itself still hold up strong creatively? #im just saying some leniency and grace goes far and esp in the short story/litmag scene i think #an editor who is considerate and inclusive should not use those things against a piece's worth #for me its like....1) the word spelling and grammar check is really confusing to work with sometimes #and also just. straight up does not work sometimes #and 2) no matter how much i reread and check for spelling and grammar i will forget a word. i will misuse a word. i will forget things #a bitch is forgetful! a bitch struggles with rereading their pieces and i do what i can to help that #but i need help and grace from the editors who wish to work with me! #i remember one time i wrote vacancy as vanacy in an excerpt in a writing update #literally passed me by and i was so humiliated?? nobody even pointed it out #but i assumed people were going to think of me less that i would make a simple mistake #its just...v hard and daunting being open with your writing sometimes lol lets all be kind to each other

[popponn]

to make my own day, i will talk about my favorite boy

the isagi spectrum is so you get smiley boy next door who is undeniably plain outside but then boom turns out he likes totoro and has a cute taste and is c u t e and has a smile so bright i fell in love within two smiles. t w o. and silly weesagee. and then the inside aka the one that passionate, kinda twisted (it's not kinda. he is.), who works hard and do everything he can to achieve his dream. competitive as hell too.

#you love bf coded isagi? VALID you love sharp smile “i will devour you” isagi? VALID you love lil isagi who goes :D at his moms food? VALID #in this house we appreciate every form of yoichi from the : D to the >:) #but i argue the concept of yoichi falling in love not like a shoujo ml but like a shoujo heroine is very cute #but clumsy isagi who is also boyish and awkward and “figuring it out along the way” is also cute #BUT I ALSO LIKE isagi who understands social cues and grace so much he is very cool and very ikemen when he falls in love #but for a bit i will focus on isagi who is like shoujo heroine because i dont think i explore this much #also the crying and the frustrated one too but that is story for another time #babblings #why do i keep making this whenever im under the slightest bit of pressure i dont know but i think it's working for me

[ssaalexblake]

Graham is the Anti-Tecteun. Graham is the narrative Tecteun foil. If Graham met Tecteun and found out what they’d done Graham would punch them on the nose. Graham is the good example to the cautionary tale. Graham is everything Tecteun is too awful to realise she should aspire to. 

#dw shit #like as far as narrative purpose goes #he's like #the evil abusive parent foil #he's the parental figure who did it right consistently #even to his step son whom he was clearly pissed off with on ryan's behalf #and grace's probably too #he still tried to put in the work though #i didn't go into it in that ryan ask but like #ryan and doctor parallels or i guess Anti-parallels are making a point also

[deputyash]

Ships as Tarot Card Pairs Quiz

Tagged by @adelaidedrubman to do this quiz! Thank you! :D

Tagging: @strafethesesinners @harmonyowl @derelictheretic @teamhawkeye @purplehairsecretlair @peachyaliien @ri-a-rose @redreart @statichvm @shellibisshe @minilev @beemot @radiojamming @glowwormsmith @fuckin-nancy @wrathfl @isobel-thorm @jacobsneed @cassietrn @blissfulalchemist @direwombat @jacobseed @wrathfulrook @dumbassdep

Dove x John:

the devil + the emperor

There's only one religion for the two of you, and that religion is the other. You two are very nearly unhealthily obsessed with one another, and that's just how you like it. When they touch you, they can feel the blood pumping under the surface of your skin. Your hearts beat for one another. When the day comes that one stops, the other will soon after. Until then, you both will live out your lives in perfect, gothy paradise. Deck: the tarot of vampyres.

Dove x Grace:

the devil + the emperor

There's only one religion for the two of you, and that religion is the other. You two are very nearly unhealthily obsessed with one another, and that's just how you like it. When they touch you, they can feel the blood pumping under the surface of your skin. Your hearts beat for one another. When the day comes that one stops, the other will soon after. Until then, you both will live out your lives in perfect, gothy paradise. Deck: the tarot of vampyres.

Dove x Cooper:

ace of cups + ten of cups

Your romance is the love story that seems only possible in movies. It starts from a youthful first meeting, innocent. And from what may seem like a lifetime later, you both end up happily in union, perhaps even married! Your coupling is the epitome of emotional fulfillment and devotion. Neither of you thought you'd end up here, but damn if you aren't glad you did. Deck: thelema tarot.

Dove x Anya:

ace of cups + ten of cups

Your romance is the love story that seems only possible in movies. It starts from a youthful first meeting, innocent. And from what may seem like a lifetime later, you both end up happily in union, perhaps even married! Your coupling is the epitome of emotional fulfillment and devotion. Neither of you thought you'd end up here, but damn if you aren't glad you did. Deck: thelema tarot.

Lyla x Daud:

the two of cups + the star

Your romance is a wish granted. Finally, finally, they're here. Finally, *it's* here! The time where you don't have to feel lonely anymore - you'll never feel that way ever again. Laughter, joy, sweetness, kisses - be at ease. All of these are things you have found someone to share with. Your love is a dreamy fantasy of love and devotion and miracles. At first, your chest gets too tight when they're around - until they become as natural as the air in your lungs. Deck: ethereal visions tarot.

Izel x Astarion:

the devil + the emperor

there's only one religion for the two of you, and that religion is the other. you two are very nearly unhealthily obsessed with one another, and that's just how you like it. when they touch you, they can feel the blood pumping under the surface of your skin. your hearts beat for one another. when the day comes that one stops, the other will soon after. until then, you both will live out your lives in perfect, gothy paradise. deck: the tarot of vampyres.

#Dove goes all in with her partners haha and they usually do the same for her #Lyla and Daud's is surprisingly sweet 🥺 #Izel & Astarion are still pretty new so I'm still gauging their relationship but this works for now lol - its my brand of ship #Side note - not totally happy with izel & astarion's banner but I dont have photoshop rn so it's the best I can do #my ocs #deputyash's ocs #dove ash #lyla blackwood #izel #dove ash x john seed #dove ash x grace seed #dove ash x cooper mccoy #dove ash x anya cherkov #lyla blackwood x daud #izel x astarion ancunín

[incidentalblr]

listen valvert is a better exploration of les mis’s themes than enjoltaire could ever be

#swinging at the hornet’s nest here but it’s true #redemption and forgiveness??? #mercy vs justice??? #like valjean and javert are literal embodiments of the work’s central questions #so in asking how these two people could come to love each other you must needs confront these questions head on #with the same grace as the original narrative #enjoltaire just have some dense political metaphors packed into their relationship and characterization #but they’re often taken out of the original context because in the 21st century their intensely specific symbolism just isn’t as relevant #les miserables is a transcendent work and valvert are transcendent #maybe im just pissed off because like 90% of the fandom attention goes to the amis when valvert is. right there??? #and i used to be one of y’all but #anyways 🥰 #and like i get it fighting for a new dawn is compelling or whatever sure #but self sacrifice i think is given more credit than it deserves when the real profundity to me is the human drive to live #like okay #giving yourself up for something greater than yourself??? #whatever #played out as all hell #choosing life in spite of all its hardships #choosing life as the only way you can experience love or growth? #self sacrifice is too glorified #show me learning the value of the self and then we can talk

[inked-out-trees]

Ninety percent of the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society members are time travelers. None of them are meant to be there. Therein lies the problem.

(A story of two unstoppable forces: the flow of time, and a group of friends fighting to return to each other.)

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hey hi the time travel au has landed! after a whole year in the making!! pls enjoy!!!!

#hi guess what it's lunchtime at work and i posted a thing #the fixed point theory #ttau #the goes wrong show #mischief theatre #shoutout to everyone who's excited for this. i am sitting next to you and smiling #maybe holding ur hand if you're ok with that #<3 #grace writes

[parcoeurs]

Steph is the original feminization kink haver. He wants to be a good wife and a baby girl.

gender isn’t real except for when that man changed his name from wardell to stephen to STEPH 🤔

#HE WANTS TO BE A GOOD WIFE!!!! #grace singlehandedly deciphering everything that goes inside his mind with one sentence #the way he held the mic for him but then also gave him the mic on the stand #guys i know i sound insane but those were such wife antics #all while sipping his little drink 😑 #while his husband (teammate) goes to work (makes him a paper airplane) #baking-soda #asks

[vulpiximisa]

Really had a guy ask me for a smile

Me: 😷

#grace goes to work

[yardsards]

unironically want to write some long analysis about how infinity train says acab

#eliot posts #intr #infinity train #mostly book 2 bc cops are the main villains there #and the introduction of the mirror police in book 1 #but also the minor antagonist in book 4 and possibly the idea of punitive vs restorative justice related to that??? #book 3 there's Less there to work with directly #except MAYBE that flashback of grace at the police station as a kid #though there are of course heavy themes of oppression in book 3 that tangentially tie to policing? and some relations to book 4's justice #it goes beyond just making an evil cop is what i'm saying

[lumalalu]

man fuck it im gonna start doin wip wednesdays here

Summer is sweet and endless and she has nothing to do but look at me. She's looking at me now, through the sun's glare on her mirror. She shadows the shapes of my mouth, but doesn't put her voice to my words.

My parents are worried about Grace. They think something's wrong with her - I know what it is. Grace knows, too, looking at me, looking through the glare in the mirror. Everything about her is wrong. I could fix her, if she would let me.

Solid, measured knocks. "Gracie?"

"Yeah?" She pulls her braids back to look at her shoulders uncovered. The angle of her jaw. She is trying to see how it matches up to mine.

"Your mother and I are going to go to the mall. Do you want to come?"

I've never been a fan of the sweltering heat of a cracked-asphalt parking lot, nor the chill on my skin in a Macy's. Grace says, "Okay." But she only said that so that she can look away from me. She is a fool. I can be found in anything that can reflect. I watch her in the windows, in silver lockets, in the mirrors she models new boots in. She parades about like a wind-up toy, a ballerina in a music box. Her mother hands her new skirts for the new school year, button-up blouses, low-cut but not whorish, and modest stockings.

The dressing rooms are hidden in the corner, neatly separated by two icons of triangles - one upside and one downside. I follow her to the wrong one, the wrong stall. It's cramped and ill-fitting, somewhat like a body. Grace tries her best to avoid me still. It's a valiant effort, I'll give her that much. But at some point, in a few minutes, maybe, she'll have to turn around and face me.

Grace takes off her tanktop like the accused pushing off concrete slabs. She hisses with impatience at the clasp of her bra and its stubborn claws in her skin, throws it on the bench with more violence than is necessary. Branded into her back it remains, aching, smoking. Cramped and ill-fitting. She itches at it like the fabric is stuck in her, like it still remains subcutaneously and she could pull it away finally, permanently, if she also removed the skin. Her nails are well cared for, and so, won't do the job. I smile at the sound of her bent elbows.

Her pants go too, her keys squeezing free of the claustrophobic pockets and diving with raucous applause to the floor. Her phone is in her purse, because the back pockets are only decorative. Grace doesn't curse. Her words are never ugly. Instead, her lips bend into the shape of: "shit", and then she bends and picks up the keyring. It is unadorned. Why should it be anything else? A key only has one purpose.

For a moment we stand there together, Grace's back to me, my back not quite to hers. She is hesitating, stretching out the moment between one set of clothes and the next. The blouse is slippery and coarse in texture, sends spider legs running over her back. The skirt is of good quality, but takes up in the back, so she is afraid to bend. No pockets.

I ask her if I can see it. She stares at the off-white wall in silence, and then she turns.

"Oh, no, Gracie. That won't do at all." I tell her. "That thing isn't even fit to be a tablecloth. It's see-through, it's itchy on my ribs. It's pushing my skin too close to my bones, the points of my ribs poking at my lungs. It's like a coffin leaking air, sighing its way into the ground." 

Her breath hitches. "I don't know what's wrong with me." She's saying to herself, to the mirror, to me. I make a sound - in my mouth it is sympathetic, but in hers it is animal, pained, cornered.

#the erm #well i already have all of my future changes planned out but might as well talk about it here #the introduction to this scene needs to be a bit more involved or like. #ren calls it cinematic lol #wip wednesday #UHHH #writeblr #writeblogging #the next part that im working on today will be the reflection giving her different clothes to try on #i dont know whether to lean harder into the dysphoria in like a 'i just look like a girl in mens clothes' or into a euphoric way #i can probably figure out a way to do both? #like... if grace is like I hate this and the reflection goes But look #here is potential for something else #the more i write it the more im confident its like #clear enough so as not to be confusing #like even if u dont get the intended meaning youd probably come away with Something #i havent had many people read any of this yet tho #since im not in a creative writing group anymore i dont have a lot of people To show #maybe theres something like that that meets up at my library #or maybe i could start something? #idk how youd even like. advertise for that... #i dont actually think this is long enough to warrant a readmore but i thought it would be polite still #i guess technically this is transgender but its not like #its prose lol #oh this is a short story im intending to submit to a lit magazine when its finished #id liketo find specifically a queer one #ive been trying to make a lil personal website on neocities to host my original stuff too so ill probably put this there when its done #sniffs #🕷❣ #TRYING NOT TO BE NEGATIVE I CAN WRITE! THIS IS A SECOND PASS BUT ITS STILL GOOD AND WORTH SHARING

[lobotomyladylives]

are friend break ups supposed to feel like you've been shot with a canon

#my irl ''bestie'' is done with me apparently. lol #shes such a fucking hypocrite but i cant say that bc then ill be the villain so i just have to be graceful about ot #about how she was never there for me in college when i was drowning and she had her own group of friends that she never let me into #about how I've set up basically every hangout we have ever had since high school #but its not enough bc i dont text back promptly enough and her therapist i guess convinced her that this means i dont value her time #youd think someone whos struggled with depression would understand mental illness in her friends! you really would #i helped her move for 7 hrs last year & asked nothing in return. i bring her gifts for her bday and she never reciprocates. but NOOOO #i didnt text back fast enough so there goes 14 years of friendship! #im seriously so fucking upset. gonna go listen to liability on repeat & cry abt how i cant maintain relationships #bc not even my closest friends understand or cares to understand how my brain works #except my real bestie. who i met online ten years ago. shed never do this to me. why couldnt she be the one who lives in my city

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Love how people on here are like "yes we write fix it fics but we all fundamentally know in our hearts that Roy and Riza get executed for their war crimes," because I do not believe that At All, and this isn't even denial. I am perfectly convinced they find a way out of it and go live on a farm somewhere. My trust in them and their ability to live is implicit rip to you but I think they're different.

#fullmetal alchemist #fma #also I read the mini-story released after the final real chapter where they're all working on fixing up the country #they'll be ok #but Grace the fact they aren't punished for it goes against the point of the story!!! #maybe having to live happily knowing how many they stopped from being allowed to is punishment enough #look fundamentally #I believe the world of fma is just slightly too kind for them to be executed #it is a surprisingly kind world #and it has enough forgiveness in it somehow #that's the core of my belief in this -- I don't think it's a world in which that would really happen #Maria lived and returned! they will in the same way I am sure of it!