#i figured

[puddinginthemix]

#uquiz #the terror #henry goodsir #i figured

[kickis-conan-king]

Why DO you want to pull on Keith’s pigtails, Lance? (They’re in time out 😊)

#klance #lance mcclain #keith kogane #voltron #lance #keith #klance fanart #my art lol #I figured #fuck it lol #every single fanfic author I love also does fanart #so I will too lol #thanks #ibispaintapp #I had fun making this!!!!

[geteffed]

Rick is neurodivergent confirmed

I forgot what episode but trust me it was said.

#best part #rick and morty #rick sanchez #I figured #funny #grandpa rick #daddy sanchez #rick fucker #MMMMM

[jayktoralldaylong]

Toxic Couple Tango: MXTX side pairs (will only cover MDZS since there's a lot of side pairs.)

Lan Xichen: So are we doing this for all the people we're paired with? Cause....I have a list.

Nie Huaisang: How about we stick to actual canon relationships?

Jiang Cheng: Sounds fair. My Better Half abandoned me to go spend the rest of his miserable existence fucking some guy from the Lan clan. -1000, do not recommend.

Wei Wuxian: You gotta build your own nest some time my Treasured Memory!

Jiang Cheng: Talk back when you've actually kept a single promise you made to me!

Nie Huaisang: Okaaaay, since we're doing brothers, (flips out fan) my StrongHold promised never to leave me but look how that turned out.

Nie Mingjue, snorts: Sorry, my Little Dagger, I was too busy getting murdered by one of my other halves, the Golden Arrow.

Jin Guangyao: Sorry, but not sorry, First-Love, since you had the audacity to talk shit about my mum. Our Angel would never do that to me.

Nie Mingjue: You speak as if you didn't spend the whole series gaslighting my Shining Saber.

Lan Xichen: My other halves, Teddy Bear and Little Bee kinda....(massages his head in overwhelming unearned irreparable trauma). I love them so much but I also....would not recommend.

Xiao Xingchen: Technically, I also have two other halves. My Sworn Love kind of kicked me out over something my little Lolipop did. Then my Lolipop proceeded to gaslight me to death. At the end of the day they both broke my heart.

Lan Xichen: Bestie. ^_^

Xiao Xingchen: We deserved so much better. (^^)

Xue Yang: I definitely deserved better than you offing yourself, Sugar. Could have given me a chance to change.

Song Lan: Maybe you could have started by not making my Snowflake end me.

Xue Yang: Nah, you had to go.

Jin Zixuan, whispering: I-is it weird that we're like the healthiest relationship here my Lotus?

Jiang Yanli, also whispering: Considering we died barely a day apart, it is worrisome my Peony.

#Coming up with names of endearment is actually hard (TT) #i figured #xuanli #wouldn't overthink it and go for the simplest option #mdzs memes #mdzs incorrect quotes #incorrect mdzs #twin heroes of yunmeng #yunmeng prides #twin prides of yunmeng #i do not ship Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian #nie brothers #nieyao #xiyao #3zun #xuexiao #songxiao #songxuexiao #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #wei wuxain #nie huaisang #nie mingjue #jin guangyao #lan xichen #xiao xingchen #xue yang #song lan #jin zixuan #jiang yanli

[barryroyco]

there is nothing, and i mean NOTHING, that i quote more often than one line in dead poets society. a line that is impossible to naturally interject into conversation but is funny nonetheless

YOU JUST SIGNED YOUR EXPULSION PAPERS, NUWANDA

#does anyone else do this #just me? #i figured #ITS SO FUNNY #THE LINE READING IS SO GOOD #dead poets society #richard cameron #dps #todd anderson #charlie dalton

[jacenotjason]

im gonna be so honest I thought i asked the "how did noel die" questiom in the ask blog but i went to the wrong kne 😭

it is okay

#i figured #lMFAO

[duchessanon]

She’s inhabited my soul and has this message for Chucky:

HEY CHUCKER. SHOVE YOUR NON EXISTENT CORONET UP YOUR FUCKING ASS!!! WHO THE FUCK ASKED YOU BITCH FOR YOUR SHIT CORONATION??? BLOODY FUCKING BITCH!!! GET A LIFE!!! Who the hell said I am bitter??? Move along bitch. No one asked you for your damn coronation!!!Spare me your stupid coronation. If you can’t even see what is in front of you (Anne) that shows how dumb you are. Birch, I never went away at all. Also, FUCK YOU!!!

@lionessofwindsor

#i figured #I FORGOT YOUR MOTHER IS A PROSTITUDE WHO FUCKED A DOG & GOVE BRTH TO A WHORE/BITCH LIKE YOU!!! #might get me banned #lmao

[bb25hater]

Taylor said on live that the whole cast appears in the finale

#bbrg #I figured

[grabyourpillow]

🌿🍊Clementines and Peppermint🍊🌿

Pt.1/6

___

Robin and Nancy go on an ice-cream not-date. We're friends, Robin has to remind herself.

___

"Now the most important question. This, will determine your. Life," Robin holds up her ice-cream cone – clementine, with earl-grey scone toppings — like a mic to Nancy's mouth. 

Robin had been hanging out with Nancy quite often lately – especially since Steve had been quite busy in the last weeks, taking care of Eddie. 

It was however, the first time that Nancy had specifically gotten around to Robin's workplace, to ask her on –not a date, not a date, she reminds herself.

Despite how different her and Nancy's personalities initially seemed to be, they got on surprisingly well. 

"Miss Wheeler," Robin says in her best presentator-voice. "Mint choco. Thoughts?"

"I like mint choco."

"Well, you heard it here first folks, Mint-choco should be banned in all– wait seriously?" Robin jumps in front of her.

"It's... I mean it's not...bad," Nancy justifies, in a sorrryyyyyy I know what you want me to say but I just disagree way.

"It tastes like toothpaste!" Robin squeals, crossing her arms behind her back, smile wide. She is having so much fun.

"It's. refreshing!" Nancy defends herself. "How can you even tell what toospaste tastes like," she arches an eyebrow.

"If you want refreshing, just buy a sorbet, it has actual, refreshing fruit! As for your question, it may seem incredible, I know" Robin says, "but I brush my teeth."

Nancy looks at her blankly. Then erupts into laughter. 

Robin feels elated, thank you very much. She easily laughs along.

"Ahhh," Nancy exhales, wiping the tears from the corner of her eye. "Why is this so funny."

"Natural talent," Robin winks. 

"Can I try your ice-cream now?" Nancy asks. 

Where Robin herself had very fixed tastes and opinions, when it comes to certain things, Nancy was very open to trying new things, and purely delighted whenever she got the chance to find out more about some novelty. And she wasn't particularly difficult.

She generally enjoyed the movies Robin suggested, sang along to her songs even if she didn't know the lyrics. 

"Also, you may be funny, that's good, but your journalistic skills are... Terrible," Nancy adds, eyes twinkling once they have exchanged their ice-creams.

"You can't voice your opinion on people's answers this... Straightforwardly, or no one is going to want to answer your questions."

"Good thing I'm not a journalist then," Robin snorts, and tries a bit of the ice cream. "Ugh vanilla," she groans. "Do you know how many people requested vanilla at Scoops Ahoy? Our tastes in ice-cream are definitely not compatible, Nancy Wheeler."

Nancy shakes her head laughing silently, her brown fluffy curls bouncing around. Her smile is warm, like the sun.

It burns if Robin looks at it for too long.

She has a boyfriend. She has a boyfriend remember that Buckley. 

"So, uuuhhh. How are things with Jonathan?" Robin asks, ignoring the twist in her stomach – she should be accustomed to it by now, shouldn't she? "I mean, you must be happy he's back."

Immediately, Nancy sombers. "Yeah! Yeah everything's uh great."

"That doesn't sound very convincing?"

"He's... So kind. And he cares so much for Will. And he helped so much with the repairs."

"But?"

"He asked if we were okay. I said yes."

 

Jesus Christ this is like pulling teeth.

 

"And that, is definitely how you one-hundred-percent really feel? I'm not saying anything!" Robin holds her hands up in defense when Nancy looks over suspiciously. 

"Yeah totally! I mean yeah... why wouldn't we be," Nancy says, closing her eyes rapidly, her words staggering. As always happens when she's not being honest, Robin thinks.  "He had a good reason to... Not be here."

"Just because he had a good reason doesn't... negate the fact that you felt upset," Robin insists,  thinking about the matter. 

"Yeah but... But it doesn't matter anymore! He's back, and it's all going to go back how we were before, and it's going to be fine."

"Jesus Christ he's your boyfriend Nance! You gotta be able to be honest with him."

Nancy's face sours, and Robin fears she might have hit a sore spot. 

"I'm just trying, to help," Robin speaks slowly, trying to mend her words.

"While I appreciate your concern Robin," Nancy says, suddenly snippish. "This is my relationship. And my life. And I don't need, your. help." 

She plants her ice-cream cone into Robin's other hand. "Enjoy the rest of your ice cream." 

"Nance. Nancy!"

Robin calls after her, but Nancy strides away decidedly and doesn't look back.

Well, Robin thinks, as she is standing there, staring dejectedly at the two melting ice-cream cones, that went well. 

 

The church-bell rings four times. 

Shit, I have to to talk to Eddie before Steve's shift ends, she remembers urgently, and gets herself to move again. 

At least figuring out whatever Steve and Eddie have going on will distract her from her own matters. 

____

>>Pt.2

Read full on ao3

#i figured #this one is shorter let's just publish it on here #clementines and peppermint #ronance #inam collecting steddie and ronance fanart comics like the jewels they are #stranger things #robin buckley #nancy wheeler #robin x nancy #nancy x robin #very light mentions of steddie #upside to the down-verse #🍊🌿

[kaleidoscope-vol2]

So that guy was right about Victor Timely being in season 2, so the rumor about S*lki being a thing in season 2 must be true.

#i figured #but i hoped they'd pretend it never happened #like bruce and natasha #but nah let's keep ruining Loki #loki spoilers #antisylki

[idontkillorphans]

⛵️ go sailing (reverse)

"Come on, whats the worst that could happen?" Sleipnir urged the woman onto the small boat, Sasha his dog already waiting up on the top, barking when they finally came up the small walkway.

"Can't be that difficult. Can it?"

#i figured #they're both retired soldiers #so they either met in the same squadron or place #or they met in recovery? #the variant #thevarient

[tardis--dreams]

Guess who just booked a hostel room for that glass animals concert in berlin that i was planning on canceling

#because #the thought of going was exhausting #but you know #i figured #I'm wasting my life doing nothing at all Or doing things i hate and all of it is exhausting #so i might as well do something exhausting that i actually like #i like concerts #i like glass animals #it's just one day #i can do it #shut up amy

[noelledeltarune]

EVERY SINGLE DAY there are MILLIONS of characters in their late 20s who get falsely accused of being father figures to teenagers when in reality the description of "weird older cousin" or "step-sibling that moved out before you were born" is 1000000x more apt

#talk tag #IT KILLS ME. REIGEN IS NOT MOB'S DAD. HE HAS A DAD. INGO IS NOT AKARI'S DAD. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CAN ANYONE HEAR ME #(not even necessarily to say that ingo is in his late 20s but still) #(even if he was a 30-40-50 year old no matter how old he is no fucking teenager is gonna call some guy they met as a 15 year old ''dad'') #GAI IS NOT A FATHER FIGURE TO ROCK LEE HE WAS LIKE 13 WHEN HE WAS BORN! PLEASE!!!!!!!! #one time i saw that a ​person wrote a fic where mario was like a father figure to luigi. #they are TWIN BROTHERS. #not what this about but idk where else i can say anything about this. #just horrible #also sometimes someone is just An Older Friend like no familial relationship just a friend or acquaintance who is a lot older than you

[ukulelekatie]

I just revived my old iPod touch that I haven’t used since ~2013 after believing it to be dead dead for years and oh my god it’s like opening up an old time capsule. There are photos of me and my friends that I haven’t seen in years, taken in an old high school building that doesn’t exist anymore. I have games that are no longer downloadable on the app store. It’s running iOS 5 with the original skeuomorphism app icons. I still have the youtube app. My contacts app is full of maiden names and deadnames. The music app has songs I haven’t heard in almost a decade but still remember all the lyrics to. A daily alarm set for 5:30 AM (god I can’t believe I had to wake up that early in high school) and another set to 11:11 PM to remind me to make a wish. Reminders to finish homework assignments, or to write my application essay for the university I ended up attending, and one marking the release date for the final episode of Cabin Pressure. The last thing I googled was “how to draw people hugging”.

Possibly the strangest thing is that the tumblr app still opens, but it’s stuck in a permanent snapshot of 2013 where it won’t show me any new posts no matter how many times I refresh. My dash is full of old BBC Sherlock posts from long-lost mutuals who have either since deactivated or got unfollowed or changed urls so many times that I don’t even recognize them. Lady Gaga and Game of Thrones are the top trends. My profile shows my previous url and icon, with only 43 followers. I feel like a time traveler

#just katie things #if I can figure out how to get photos off of it i’ll share some screenshots because it’s so WEIRD

[panstarry]

heads up: this games charity bundle was finally approved on itch.io! it opens this friday, april 12th, and will run for a week. all proceeds will go to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

you can check out the bundle on itch.io and follow @vgforpalestine on twitter for more updates!

—

EDIT: as of april 20th, 2024 this bundle is now live!!

#free palestine #itch.io #charity bundle #video games for palestine #palestinian relief bundle #pan talks #just got the email that the project is finally live after a couple tehcnical hiccups and itchio road bumps here and there #they said we could share so i figured i'd post abt it here on tumblr since it appears that they're not on here o7 please boost! #i have a zine in this one but please be sure to check out all of the work

[tearlessrain]

please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!

gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.

SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:

diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.

non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.

the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.

now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.

if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.

it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.

but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.

#I found their original stuff while I was researching various waterhorses and their folklore for no reason #because one of the characters in their original work happens to be an each uisge #and then it turned out it ALSO included a lot of figures from welsh folklore in general #so yknow if you happen to have my incredibly specific hyperfixations you'll love it but even if you don't it's great #I didn't mean to bring up phantom of the opera so much it just happens to be very relevant to a lot of my talking points #I haven't actually seen it in years