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#idk something abt supply and demand
queenofgraveyards · 1 year
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ok so picture this: ivy briefly mentions being interested in something that you have classes for (yoga, painting, etc) literally just bc she saw a post on twitter about it and it piqued her interest. harry being the lovely sugar daddy he is takes this to mean buy her like a years supply of that class at the best place (which is obviously just the most expensive place) ivy goes once and HATES it but of course she can’t tell harry this bc he spent all this money and was so happy she found something she liked doing she would just feel way too guilty. so she’s spending like weeks going to this class trying to figure out a way out of it and one day she’s just so frustrated with herself like why can’t she just like the dang class that a few tears slip out on the walk to the parking lot where harry’s picking her up. she hides them but ofc he sees and demands to know what’s wrong. she tries to get around it but he knows she’s lying and gets her to tell him everything and he goes full daddy mode and sits her down for a lecture on not doing anything she doesn’t want to do, money doesn’t matter don’t feel guilty, i just want you to be happy yadda yadda yadda… sex to make her feel better
SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!!!! she really would be like this too!!!!! you know what she’s like and you know what she’s like about him spending money on and especially this time around bc like it was so much money and h was so happy that she found something she liked and hey who was he to complain abt her getting into yoga bc Ivy had suddenly become a lot more…flexible but really he just wants her to be happy and have her own interests to keep her happy and active like he does and ofc those yoga leggings are something he enjoys seeing her in when she gets into his car when he picks up and hey they fuck a lot and more often than not don’t make it back home when he’s ripping them apart and ivy knows this as well which only ADDS to her guilt and she just likes seeing him happy and she also loves the sex so she doesn’t want to give that up either!! but man yoga actually fucking SUCKS? and she hates how she always end up next to some old woman who fucking FARTS every class and idk but she’s pretty sure she’s getting a fucking infection from the tight leggings and shorts and she’s always fucking SORE now and everyone in the class is rude and she hasn’t made a single friend to day drink with and everything sucks and she just cries and shes so worried h is going to be disappointed in her and that’s worse than everything else COMBINED!!!! but h is as always, just h who only ever wants the best for her bc he cherishes her and how she never ever has to do anything she doesn’t want to do no matter what it is, food, activities, relationships you name it she’s in control ALWAYS and hey so this one thing didn’t work out, there’s hundreds more hobbies for her to try and he’ll be there every step of the way!
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01tsubomi · 3 years
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it’s always interesting the way fandom sizes impacts creator visibility (like with supply and demand) but i’m especially thinking abt it rn bc i almost only ever write krbk which is such a big ship inside a huge fandom so i expected Nothing posting kagepro fic but half the people who read it left comments which is a crazy ratio. like i knew kagepro fandom is going thru a Renaissance rn and it’s a very cozy caring dynamic but i was always thinking “kagepro fandom small i will get 50 views tops” but in the end cozy and caring wins out over small in terms of engagement which is interesting 
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arc-el-ion · 3 years
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posting at the polar opposite time than I usually do feels like a halloween thing I think
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bulkhummus · 3 years
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Welcome to Night Vale SPOILERS/////
listened to wtnv 171 again and having big thoughts and feelings about a cecils literal manic episode about (literally, heavily implied) killing the version of himself in the mirror while on public radio in light of wtnv 192
some quotes that really got my gears turning regarding the big plot drop of supposedly cecils father and his inability to remember correctly (not new But really prevalent in recent episodes) and im not making connections or anything im just drunk and spitballing and the episode really had some gnarly philosophical questions dinnit?
1. “If you think about a memory long enough, doesn’t that mutate the truth? Isn’t every act of remembering another log on the fire of lies?”
“You think awareness and manifestation are one and the same, don’t you?”
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“Could that [a crack] be an egg, or a twig, or a leg? Narrative is everything, isn’t it?”
An unreliable narrative is one of my favorite things in story telling. One of my favorite books has to do with the unreliability of memory, and how a distorted memory (from time, trauma, bias etc) comes to be the most accurate version each time you remember it. It gets watered down each time. I think its cool that Cecil is aware of that, and also that its understandably a huge point of distress for him. He’s constantly misremembering and eventually trying to decipher if what he feels or thinks is even real. Pulling things out of context often makes them seem crazy, when there is no narrative to connect them. Cecil’s job is literally to offer that narrative, but what happens when he can no longer supply a somewhat coherent one? What happens to Night Vale? Why does cat ballou not hold up anymore? also i love that cecil watches the movie on repeat (mentioned at some point) bc its like that thing about people who are anxious like to watch things theyve seen because its low stakes and you know whats gonna happen and you dont have to make space for new story or characters in your head? IMAGINE PUTTING ON YOUR COMFORT MOVIE TO FIND THAT ITS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT???????? ouch
2.“When was the last time you saw your mother?…Did she lean over your sobbing face and ask you: ‘Why are you crying when you don’t even exist?’ Did she tell you again about the mirror?’”
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“What unholy monster [the one in the mirror] cries like a child, what does it want—Why won’t it stop?!”
“Did you ponder the idea that such a coat was so basic, [angrily] so unassuming, so without frill or feature that no one had ever thought to create it? [angrily, scarily] Do you want to know what’s in the drawer below the table?”
I like here, that these quotes are kind of like call and response within the episode. Cecil talks of his mother asking him why hes crying, and moments later Cecil wonders why the monster in the mirror is crying. His mother tells him he doesn’t exist (SO fucked up) and moments later he’s the angriest he is the whole episode (voice literally rumbling goddamN BALDWIN) talking about how something could be so unassuming that no one bothered to even spend the time or energy to make it. Didn’t think anybody would need it or want it. Why else would they include that angry thought about being so unneeded that the thought never even crossed a persons mind to make the thing? It it weren’t Cecil talking about himself? Panicking about his existence and if he’d ever been wanted or needed to the point of him being there for whoever does?
2. B —“You didn’t ask for any of this, did you? But what have you ever asked from the universe that you could not get yourself, and when has the universe ever obliged?”
c-carlos? Maybe is that one thing possibly, good, that has simply happened to cecil ??? (And Their SON??? Obviously but that wouldn’t have happened without carlos there) im just thinkin abt it
3. “What was it your mother said before she left home when you were a teenager? Did she tell you she was an oracle?”
CECIL IS AN ORACLE!!!!!!!!!!!!! LIKE I wrote a big long rant about wtnv 192 and now I listened to this episode and had a conniption when he mentioned her disdainfully being one. A mother telling a child they know them and who they are can feel like divine truth, and if they call you a monster and tell you that you don’t exist, then is it still divine truth? Is she still all knowing? Do you believe her because shes your mother and mothers know best?
4. Do you notice it wears black rings?”
Cecil says this of the monster in the mirror, and says this about the man digging into the tree in wtnv 192, and he thinks that that man is his father. BUT if the monster in the mirror is the cecil we know, who killed the mirror version of himself from another reality who was a teenager (as it’s been implied since cassettes and the intern anyways) then what does that imply???? oy vey
IN CONCLUSION : none of this is literally an essay about anything. Im just drunk on a sunday and put on night vale To fold clothes. i wonder if other people in night vale are as fragmented by the weird reality bubble they are in as cecil? he seems to be caught in the in between one foot in and out With cal and his father and sometimes knowing carlos and sometimes not and whatnot
ALSO AS A FUNNY SIDE BAR: IMAGINE BEING A PERSON IN NIGHT VALE maybe u just cooked dinner maybe ur taking a drive and the fucking local radio host is just having a manic episode with severe instances of unreality (in every sense of the word) on the radio ?????? i so deeply wish after weird episodes like these where cecil is just balling out in the disassociation soup that in the following episode someone would say something about it in passing like “yeah what WAS that the other night cecil? u know we can hear u when u do that right”
also in the REAL world like our world, cecil is a direct metaphor for ptsd, feelings of unreality brought on by anxiety, period of disassociation and just like the mental state being fragmented by trauma. Its like such a direct metaphor lmao.
also like the episode had everything and Cecil Baldwin really used the full command of his voice. truly bonkers, that he could pack so many different emotions into a 25 min spiraling monologue. it could have been so boring but he really organically (while still imploring Cecil palmers flare for radio host dramatics) had the full decadent range of delicious anger, fear, disdain, apathy, panic, disgust, demand, hollow joy, etc and that he sounds so BITTER at the end when he says “wont you have a good night, night vale?” it feels like such a slap to the listeners face because while we get to end the episode (and the town in the show), cecil palmer continues to writhe in these questions and worries and fears. Like it was SUCH a good way to end it.
—also all the funky sound design is so good and I like then warped version of the main theme! they should do more of that (tastefully)
if you’ve read this far godspeed and keep on trucking idk what the fuck was in that vodka lemonade but im wired
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straighttohellbuddy · 3 years
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World building is the best tbh. I’m forever world building and now I have several worlds to play in and my neurodivergent brain cannot stay still enough to focus on one lmao. SLOWBURN ROMANCES ARE MY LITERAL JAM LIKE PLS!!! I LOVE THEM!! Also!!!! Concepts!!!! Pls share!!!! I love learning about the worlds of my fave fics and I can hands down say right now that this fic will literally shoot to the top of my list of favourites which means you’ll occupy the top three spots. Sorry to hear that ur feeling rough, so am sending u the biggest hug. I’m not okay but I’m taking care of myself today so that I will be 🧡-🐈‍⬛
alsjfsldkjf i have too many worlds TBH, literally one of the best parts of my 2020 was writing for the classic rock fandom and writing one of my good friend’s ocs alongside mine, like there’s so many different worlds that our two characters have now, i’m like 26k deep into a high school au that i need to get back to at some point, and then i wrote a oneshot abt the high school au but they’re adults, and then there’s also the original timeline, and then there’s the present day in the original timeline where they have kids and i probably care too much about people who aren’t real...... hahaha
OKAY OKAY OKAY HERE WE GO I’LL GIVE KIND OF AN OVERVIEW OF THE ALBUMS AND A FEW SONGS BUT IF U WANT ME TO GO IN DEPTH ON ANY OTHER SONG JUST ASK!!!
yes i have a playlist for each, if you wanna hear how i interpret the vibes of the songs. if you interpret them differently, thats awesome!! i’d love to hear y’all’s opinions on them!!
testing one two - the first ep they release, the song titles are mostly themed (fast forward, press play, pause, rewind), but are mostly things y/n has been working on for a while but never got around to finishing, things they are rather proud of. i see you shiver with... is the first song they wrote specifically for the album, and it’s the last song on the EP because it’s a Rocky Horror reference; i see you shiver with...
a n t i c i p a t i o n - first full album!! the vibe is Hopeful But Hesitant it has all the songs from the ep, plus some new ones!! collabs with youtube musicians troye and dodie, and y/n’s label sets up a collab that turns into a genuine friendship. the breakout dance hit is what else is there to say ft. Troye Sivan, which is about not knowing what to make content about when it feels like you’ve already told the world everything. it featured the prechorus and hook
You, know, ev-ery-thing about me / gave it all for free / my life in HD / So, let’s dance, let me see your hips sway / we’re gonna be okay / what else is there to say?
So say that you love me, say that you love me, say that you love me / let’s die hand in hand. / I’ll tell you I love you, tell you I love you, tell you I love you / supply and demand. 
personally, i also conceptually enjoy srs bsns which is a really upbeat song about how they don’t care if people don’t take them seriously because they know in their heart that what they’re doing is good
hyperfocus - 2nd EP, a pretty substantial departure from their usual style, but also happens to quietly be Corpse’s favourite, and is actually y/n’s most polarising, because it has both the Grammy award winning HEARTBURN and the o brother where art thou which was written partially as a joke to capture a fond moment of them and 5SOS dicking around together in a hotel. written while on tour wit 5SOS, im writing the reader as having ADHD (because I have ADHD and i can do what i want), and the backstory is that they’d changed the medication/dosage they were taking, and as it’s their first full tour, they were under a lot of stress and were in a weird place mentally and emotionally, and hyperfocus is the result of that. i’m going through some stuff has HUGE agoraphobic vibes. 
HEARTBURN has the same vibes as Florence + The Machines’ Howl. It’s about being a demon without saying that or directly implying that unless you know demons real well. This is when the pressure for them to confirm their identity got real bad, and it was their way of working through those emotions.
tear in existence in the shape of a person / when i’m seeing clearly i can’t see myself / world can’t swallow what it can’t get it’s teeth into / got everything i wanted but i ain’t got my health
Got heart-burn--- / I’ll tear me apart / I’ll tear you apart / I’ll tear me apart. 
SCREAM gets rereleased as a remixed single featuring Fall Out Boy the following year. It won the MTV music award for best collaboration in 2018. 
In the time between hyperfocus and working on it, Y/N releases several singles, including a cover of Tell Him by The Exciters to be featured in To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before. They also take time to sort out their health, do a little bit more YT stuff, and travel internationally to do festivals. 
working on it - is kind of a middle ground between their original stuff, and hyperfocus, like pop-punk meets horror-pop meets whatever you’d classify halsey as. the first three songs were mostly written before the fic starts, so before they’re getting back to YT, but the last three, nightmare scenario, designed to hurt (touch me), and not scared were all written after they’d started hanging out with sykkuno and corpse. 
in-universe, imposter syndrome was originally something else, along the same lines of tired that they’re hiding that they’re a demon, but after meeting corpse nd sykkuno and having people who know, and lowkey being influenced by corpse’s music, the song changes directions, and YO OKAY YO::
I literally am so fucking flattered, my darling friend @bingusmode​ wrote lyrics for imposter syndrome and I’ve been yELLING about them ever since i’ve read them!! (also bunnie is fantastic and lovely in general 10/10)
if you thought you saw me 
i’d think about it twice
cuz while i know i’m naughty
everybody thinks i’m nice
cutest giggles get me
places that i long to be
but it’s not long before
everybody hates me
when you figure out i’m fucked up
you’ll probably think that can’t be right
but babe my image runs to save me
cuz i’m ugly day and night
nothing good about me
not the angel that i seem
cuz i’m a piece of shit
and i’ll ruin your fuckin dreams
i’m an impostor babe
you better run for your life
cuz there’s a bloodlust runnin through me
and you’re dripping off my knife
there’s no one here to save you
cuz you ate up all my lies
so beg me while you can
and draft up all your goodbyes 
if any of y’all are inspired by anything i put out, feel free to take it and run!! you have my blessing!! i am so overwhelmingly flattered by people who like my stuff enough to create because of it, directly or indirectly! lyrics, art, songs, anything!! legit! I love you!!
okay so designed to hurt (touch me) has big House of Memories by Panic! At The Disco vibes, and YES it’s about Corpse. YES it sends mixed messages. YES it has greek myth imagery and YES that imagery is confusing. not sure if any of these sets of lyrics actually go after each other but also idk??
will my fall from grace be graceful / as each move i see you make? / propped up on pedestals side by side / beneath our feet they shake / i’m the only one to hear you ask  / “What have they done to me?” / My boy, your wax throne is sun-drenched / you’ll fall in the name of your legacy.
eyes like yours watched rome burn / while hands like mine lit the pyre / we both heard me say we’d go down in flames / now you’re turning me into a liar / since you smile like that, like you can’t feel the sting / and we both know i can’t feel the fire
been telling myself i’m designed to hurt / but, baby, aren’t we a sight? /
check your reflection, your angles, apollo / you’re icarus in the right light /
we’re on the edge, i’m not scared to fall / we’ll take refuge in the night /
been telling yourself you’re designed to hurt / but, baby, doesn’t this feel right?
also, albumtouralbumtour is a reference to Bohemian Rhapsody.
OKAY AND FINALLY
n o s t a l g i a - the album the reader’s working on during the fic.
literally as i was writing this, bunnie sent through some FIRE lyrics for how the light gets in, (@bingusmode) i am going to be thinking about these on REPEAT for the next MONTH BRUV
little bit of darkness, treat me like a toy 
i got my hopes up and got them destroyed
bitter taste of regret sitting heavy on my tongue
can’t believe i let you convince me that you were the one
sitting here in silence, fabric running thin
petals burning in my lungs and stealing oxygen
embers from a cigarette falling to the floor
god i can’t take anymore
so i stumble to the window and pull the shades
and the moon pours in like you threw a grenade
i can’t understand why
i keep trying
cuz i never seem to win
but having any hope is how the light gets in 
from there, moment before impact ft. Billie Eilish is a club anthem along the lines of bad guy or COPYCAT, bass heavy with a drop that’s out of this world.
powdered pain, i’m in your veins / i’m the sting, the drip, the thing / you’re craving, but you hate to see me misbehaving / i heard my breakdown got you high / it’s true, but baby i can’t lie / i never got that rush, that burn / that makes you feel alive, i had to learn / to pick the slippery slope down which i fell / plan my pitstops on the way to hell / to pick my padding before i spiral / so if i break it’ll be in style
watch my misdirect, now freeze, / notice you can’t see the forest for the trees / you’re so desperate for my demise / but baby, i’ll make you watch me rise.
this is the moment before impact
controlled chaos, crash land / take a breath, trust the plan / i know you hope i’m not okay / you get off on my audio misery
controlled chaos, crash land / take a breath, trust the plan / i need you to know i want it this way / my breakdown won me a grammy
and this is the moment before impact
ur my favourite - interlude ft. sykkuno is probably one of my favourites, it’s just really soft, just a snippet of a conversation between the reader and sykkuno, maybe one of them told a joke and they both just sound real happy and sweet. its nice. it’s a nice moment.
means something is also for sykkuno!! it’s about how good-strange it is to be open and honest with friends, and how they usually aren’t but they’re glad they can be open and honest with him!!
meanwhile, i don’t think about u - interlude ft. CORPSE is a phonecall between corpse & the reader right after they announce they’re going to feature on acting like that, where corpse asks if they do this sort of thing to spite him, to which the reader responds ‘do i consider you when i’m making decisions about my career? no, corpse, actually i don’t think about you at all’ which then directly contrasts the song that ends the album, which is (how it feels to be) beautiful fireworks, which is essentially ‘i know how hard it is to exist like this, to be the centre of attention, to give off light and bring people joy, even when you’re in pain. i’m here for you. i love you.’
okay, i swear im done now, i’ll get back to writing the fic! (also i cannot BELIVE i managed to figure out how to embed those playlists but im so happy) edit: it didn’t actually work when i posted the ask, so anyways im sorry but y’all are abt to be spammed with playlists because i care too much abt this fic
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wonderwomanfantasy · 4 years
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IM LATE BUT CONGRATS ON 5K!!! OMG I SAW A VID ABT YO SHIDO AND WAS LIKE O_O can you do prompt 10 from the smut list with him?? i beg
idk what’s up with me but this is like the third time I’ve been like “yeah reader fucks Shindou in a closet that sounds good,” so here we are. Smut Warning      5k prompts 
Yo Shindou was nothing but a backstabbing fuckboy. Not that you minded, of course, I mean if you were fine with the one night stands or if he was on your team then he was an alright guy. If anyone asked you would tell them that you put up with Shindou because he was a strong hero, definitely not because he was the best dick on demand that you’ve had in a while. 
“Hey, want to train?” Shindou’s eyes were glimmering with mischief as he asked the question. 
“Sure,” you shrugged casually. Taking the hand he offered you. 
“What do you have in mind for training?” you asked once you were out of earshot of the others. 
“Endurance training,” he said with a smirk reaching around to smack your ass. You jumped and scowled at him. 
“Your pickup lines make me gag,” you said as he tugged you into the Shiketsu gym. Perfectly empty. 
“I have something else to make you gag,” he laughed and pulled you into the supply closet, locking the door behind you. The room was dark and filled with sports equipment. You felt along the racks until you found a gap, a space just wide enough for two people to fit. Shindou didn’t waste any time pressing you to the wall, his lips crashing against yours in a messy, rushed kiss. Shindou tugged at your clothes messily, not caring if something ripped.
His tongue ravaged your mouth. Your body writhed in time with his, you grabbed tufts of his wild black hair and tugged making him moan into your mouth. 
“Naughty girl here I thought you’d play nice,” he laughed leaving sloppy kisses along your jaw and neck. 
“I’ll be good, if that’s what you really want,” you teased,
“Hey I wasn’t complaining, you know I wouldn’t change a thing about you babe, you’re my favorite little brat,” he laughed undoing his belt and pulling out his cock. He pressed the head of his cock against your clit making you moan. The sharp creak of the door opening made you both freeze. It sounded like a group of people entering, luckily no one came to try the storage room door. But if you made any noise they would. Shindo smirked and slowly pushed inside of you. You clapped a hand over your own mouth stifling the moan that threatened to spill over. He leaned in close and whispered in your ear. 
“Stay quiet baby,”
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lookwhatilost · 5 years
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like I think my entire thing w haes (and fat activism, which is what something like haes is rooted in) is that i do believe that everybody deserves to be treated w dignity no matter what. that’s a human right and I’m completely behind it. the depths of people reach so far beyond their physical appearance even if this is an integral part to how we see them—it’s their humanity that should be the focal point above all else. it’s something that should go without saying. that’s rly the only part of it I stand behind.
but if the people who are on board w this rhetoric wanted to make life better for fat people, they’d be blowing up the food-industrial complex. they’d be going antifa on monsanto and mcdonalds for fucking up our food supply. they’d demand more research into dietetics to figure out /why/ so many diets fail and get people on better diets (or “adopt sustainable lifestyle changes” if “diet” has become a dirty word even tho it’s a generality) that do work and improve lifestyles. they’d demand an end to corn subsidies for hfcs, and subsidies instead to make healthy, nutrient dense food as inexpensive and accessible as fried convenience shit. they’d be agitating for nutrition and cooking classes to be taught to adolescents so they enter adulthood knowing how to properly feed themselves—esp in food deserts, where few people are educated on healthy food, let alone how to cook it.
or focusing on how, in some cases, obesity is a symptom of a larger mental health condition. survivors of sexual trauma often overeat as a coping mechanism. so do kids who grew up in a food-insecure household. the first step to helping these people is resolving the psychological conditions that push them to overeat in the first place. you’d think the activism related to that would be doing everything you can to raise awareness of these issues and demanding that doctors train in treating these issues to better meet the need of overweight or obese patients.
that is radical change! that’s changing social response!
instead it’s all vanity politics—something I’ve kinda talked abt in the past (w ace discourse, namely) that only operates to absolve people of feelings of exclusion and serves little greater purpose. let that survivor or former child who grew up in poverty suffer health consequences so someone else can feel a little bit better abt their pant size... getting on your soapbox abt how “it’s not what it’s made out to be” is easier than, idk, actual activism.
it’s very irritating to me. i think people assume I photosynthesize or something, even mental health professionals, which is frustrating. but i have a strong knowledge base in this stuff and if you’re telling me bullshit I’m aware is misdirected, you’re impossible for me to engage w properly. having a politically sensible therapist only rly works when those sensibilities align w yours I guess.
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