#io rambles

[ikemenomegas]

It's so difficult to wrap your head around and understand that yes, Gojo takes a sort of wild delight in absolutely destroying his enemies, but especially during the Shibuya arc, it doesn't feel like there's a lot of outright joy

He's upset. He doesn't like that non-sorcerers are being used as canon fodder just to stop him, he doesn't like that people are dying because he's around them. He doesn't like these curses and he's gleeful about very quickly showing them they're not as smart as they think they are.

He jokes and teases with he people he likes, but Gojo Satoru is scary. I think there are times he smiles just to put others at ease, because when he's not smiling his face just gets so empty sometimes.

Even in the new panels, people are complaining that Gojo isn't showing enough emotion about Megumi.... he just got here? And for him, the wildly shifting emotives are probably more telling than anything.

He can't dwell on the implications for him personally because in a battle hesitation means death. He's already doing a lot more emotional thinking than is typical for him, so he falls back on his habitual deflection. With fake-Suguru the bantering is definitely habitual.

I honestly think he doesn't know how to respond to Sukuna-in Megumi. His understanding of incarnations is that it makes the body into the person inhabiting it which means he's also not talking to Megumi, because he's not going to gamble on such a thin chance.

So he's going to goad and he's going to fight. Part of what makes Gojo a good fighter is his ability to control his emotions or find a moment of serenity even in a battlefield. He's not letting his emotions control him, but he has a certain talent for annoying anything so he'll use that as needed to get his opponent to lose their cool and put a gap in their armor.

#gojo satoru #jjk #brief meta #jjk spoilers #jjk 221 #from the margins #io rambles #not to babygirlify him too much #i just don't think he's a particularly happy person #he's not exactly unhappy #but his expressions tend to seesaw back and forth with things like the last panel being the “real” expression #and that silly little thing on the left being what he shows other people

[iodoesdolls]

I love DCSHG dolls. A lot of people love DCSHG hands. This means I wind up with a lot of handless dolls. Currently trying WWE Superstar hands as alternatives. I have tons of them to steal their clothes and shoes for the DCSHGs.

The Superstar hands are much larger, but maybe I’ll get used to them? Fortunately I have just about enough DCSHG hands for all of my currently planned characters. I’m now up to six dolls that are finished except for clothes, so it’s probably sewing time.

#dolls #1/6th scale #mattel #dcshg #dc super hero girls #wwe superstars #Io rambles

[ionized-alpaca]

hii, ask game :)) - List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you!

!!! i have been on this blasted platform >10 years, guess it's about time i do an ask game lmao

a hot cup of tea

jigsaw puzzles

a good craft (i started on origami as a kid, picked up crochet as a teenager, finally learned to knit a little recently)

ice cream

spending time with friends :)

#io rambles #sorry this took me a minute lol thank u for ask-game-ing me :D #a-bed-of-moss

[iowriteswords]

Just had a dream I was writing a really funny fic where despite attending magic school for literally years, Harry Potter just refused to believe magic was real and was convinced it was all some weird long con or possibly a cult. The first line was “The most important lesson Harry had learned in his short life was that adults were never to be trusted.” The rest of the details, alas, are gone.

Unfortunately I’ve only read Harry Potter once, nearly a decade ago, and I have no desire to reread it solely for the sake of a really fun dream.

#Io rambles #stories I’ll never write

[stelarcat]

unlocked mental illness symptom of being so close to my deadlines that i am overly productive and can focus literally only on the thing that needs to get done

#io rambles #i dont feel hunger i dont feel thirst i only feel hyperfocus #this kinda sucks cos im disconnected from everyone except 2 of my friends that are doing the same thing as i am #sorry for being manic this week will quite literally determine my future

[ionalottabookmarks]

This morning’s comment section pretty much ruined my mood for the day, but my usual commenters are awesome and have as usual improved my mood, and my ereader is going to be fixed before my ebook is ready from the library, and I get to snuggle with *2* dogs tonight, so things are looking up.

#Io rambles

[arieswritez]

yan!mark talks to you this way when you try to escape btw!! 🫶🏾🫶🏾 restraining orders are literally just suggestions when it comes to mark 🥺

mumble mumble predator/prey dynamic with yan!mark mumble mumble

cw; mentions of stalking, yan!mark, no smut but suggestive, just me rambling lolll, mdni 💕

yan!mark who never thought about pinning you until one day you sneak up on him to scare him (joke) and he just completely flips you over his hip and onto the floor. you have to fight back the vertigo from the way your entire world tilted to tell him it's just me! just me!!

and he's got his fist in the air, ready to strike.

his gaze softens when. . yeah. it is just you.

but he still hovers over you because. . you look so alarmed. your eyes wide with fear. your breath picking up. he can hear your heartbeat if he concentrates.

you look like a scared, cornered animal and mark has. . never been harder LMAOO. don't be surprised if he just gets on his knees and starts pulling your pants down <3

good luck trying to break up with him!! stalking you gives him a stiffy!!! xx

#MOANS ANF CUMS AND DIES #AAAAHGGHHHH #MMHHH AAAHHH #io ramble ramble #invincible x reader #invincible #mark grayson #mark grayson x reader #yandere mark grayson #yandere mark grayson x reader #BITES HIM BITES HIM BITES HIM #miss u marky markk #pookie bear <333 #sweet pea love of my life!!! #i just know he talks u through it #wanna **** him so **** his goggles fog up

[tainted-sweet-meats]

if you ever wanna make fake fashion mag pages use font Badoni for the title designs and Helvetica to read. you will thank me later

#asmtsm rambles #badoni is for fashion only and a text used to sell fashion #kinda like how colors claim to clam folks down #samesies #Helvetica makes reading easy everything you see that wants you to stop and read is some form of helvetica #god I wish I could link all the major fonts I have that I I paid for in art college... I mean I paid for it I should be god damn able to =_ #if its one thing I know ios font and type face... thanks MR masi for scaring us shit less to ace your class

[sibillascribbles08]

I'm about to make you FEEL

Whoops these two again, in a piece that kinda parallels the last one I did hmmm

ID under the cut

[ID: A digital drawing of two characters, one a human disguised android and the other a ghost. The ghost character hovers above the android who is leaning back. The ghost looks smug, face close to the android's, but his left hand his wrenching back a bunch of wires that are sprouting out of a heart shape on the android's chest. The android looks shocked and stunned, but has tiny hearts in his red eyes. A bunch of scattered text behind the android reads: ERROR.]

#sibillasart #sibillasocs #blood // #okay here's a quick ramble #Frigidus's ghost can only interact with tech based stuff #due to this even though Io cannot see him he can still FEEL him in a way if Frigidus touches him #so Frigidus is the reason Io starts feeling things both emotional and physical #wheee

[sith-shenanigans]

Ma’am. You are from Technology. What are you doing with my relics.

Also, why did they put you in the seat a few months to a year after you did this nonsense. Standards, people.

#swtor #io's rambling

[salaciousslut]

im a simple girl, i see evil women and i fold

#ci rambles #awakening darkness my beloved #or when io was in chains #so sexy

[ikemenomegas]

To start off, I love meta-conversation, meaning I love finding behind-the-scenes information which helps explain certain storytelling choices. Sometimes this is disagreement among the creative team, sometimes this is finding out about deep-cut references in a work, etc. There are good and bad reasons for a creator's decisions to be challenged or changed. Especially in a serialized thing such as Naruto, even if there was an "idea" of an ending from the start, things will inevitably change.

One of those changes seems to be regarding Sasuke's character arc. I've read a number of metas in the past few days which seem to agree on a few things: that the overarching themes of children being the products and victims of a military complex was dumbed down or concealed because shonen jump decided it was too dark (and that a number of inconsistencies resulted from this change in philosophy); Naruto's "hero's journey" was meant to be challenged by Sasuke's existence, but due to the needing to keep Naruto as the hero (and perhaps again the difficulty relating certain kinds of situations in a teen-targeted magazine), his ability to represent change while also maintaining a forgiving and optimistic heart was sacrificed and therefore, Sasuke's ending also fell short.

With that out the way, these are some thoughts I wanted to post because I think I'm going to have to add Sasuke to my character list, and I'm thinking through things in real time as I read the manga… I don't feel at all bad about being more obvious about things the manga was probably only able to hint at (or avoid entirely) but those things will inevitably change the trajectory of things as we go on.

- I'm reading the manga for the first time as an adult, but I started watching Naruto when I was about the characters' age. It actually puts into perspective how the characters actually show their age really well. Sasuke's post--Danzo-fight adrenaline high isn't doing him any favors, but watching the scene recently, I really felt like there's a lot of fear on Team 7's side driving their desire to pull Sasuke back from the brink. They are afraid of what things look like if he refuses to come back, and what that means for each of them. The villages have also established themselves as a kind of safeguard against the free-for-all mercenary war that was the warring states period, and there's some fear there of what replaces a village system.

- Sasuke is jumping from grief-mad idea to desire, but it occurs to me (as I'm sure it has many others) that he doesn't actually have to attack Konoha. All he has to do is tell the truth of what happened to Itachi and have people believe it. Easier said than done, but there's a reason the elders ordered the Uchiha massacre to be perpetrated by one of their own. I find it unlikely that some of the major clans (the Nara, mostly) haven't considered that the event was village-ordered, but getting the information out publicly would lead to a certain amount of outrage. I imagine he doesn't do this because he's worried for his clan's reputation - martyr is better than traitor - but it would be super interesting if someone tried.

- Justice is hard, it's harder than revenge. The way I write him, Sasuke is loyal to Naruto (and his teammates somewhat) by the end of the canon arc, not the village. The village can't afford to give Sasuke justice (at least all at once) because that requires it to change its own power structure - it's a shitty fact about institutions ruled by people invested in those institutions continuing. A war is a great chance to make change because of the upheavals it causes, but it requires balance because common people are just as invested in "returning to normal" as those in power once things settle down. We know that this resulted in a pattern that culminated in a literal war against the past, but as we've seen so many times, even world-shaking events have a difficult time dislodging those in power...

- And that's part of the reason Sasuke leaves after the war. Sure, he wants to recreated Indra's journey in some narrative way, but this may have been was one of the only ways the author could figure out that gave both Sasuke and Naruto what they wanted. Sasuke travels the world finding faith in humanity again, but also trying very hard to bring justice (in the literal, not the institutionalized sense) to the people who don't live in shinobi villages; the people a little like the children Nagato, Konan, and Yahiko were, and what he himself became - a child who lived in a shinobi village but was not protected by it. Sasuke's "reparations" are to leave things better than he found them in the outside world.

Tl;dr: I think it's appropriate that Sasuke spends so much time away from Konoha given how the village system cannot give him what he wants. Also, if I went through what he went through I wouldn't want to live there either. Sure, he's intelligence gathering, but I genuinely do not think he finds a world ending threat every other week. He's tracking down those things, but I prefer the idea that he learns how to connect with real people again too. The Uchiha brothers are awkward af, they need to go out and meet/see real people.

I'm in no way claiming to speak for canon. This is just what I am toying with based on what I've read so far. So if anyone is curious about the ideas I keep in mind when writing Sasuke's bits, these are just some things.

#uchiha sasuke #io.hc #worldbuilding #I am a terrible naruto “fan”. I stopped watching shippuden sometime after gaara's rescue. #so now i have to sift through lots of... honestly garbage to find objective information #and then i get to be subjective and suspicious about it like everyone else #io rambles #I talk too much #from the notebook

[iodoesdolls]

So throwing all your dolls - play line, collector, vintage, and custom - in a box together for a year is…a bad idea. Which I did realize at the time, but there was a Basement Situation, I had to get them packed fast, and I haven’t had the space to unpack them since. Until today.

the damage is not as bad as I was afraid it would be. The most concerning development is definitely this:

I’m working on de-staining now.

We’ve also got some malformations which I assume I can boil out, but since one of the dolls is flocked I’m not sure it’s worth it:

Starfire is okay; I just included her to show how Blackfire got squished. But I actually kind of like the rounder look it gives her face?

in similar but unrelated news, my Christmas decorations suffered some mold damage due to a leaking snow globe, and I’m trying desperately to save a beloved, 25 year old stuffed Santa. I think he’ll pull through, but it’s been a really stressful day

#Io rambles #Dcshg #christmas

[ionized-alpaca]

wtf why are avatars gone from the dashboard

not being able to tell at a glance who posted anything longer than a couple lines is wigging me out

everything is too far left

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

filing a complaint with @staff immediately >:(

#io rambles #is everyone's like this now or did i get “lucky” >:( #already left a pissy feedback form with Tumblr Support

[iowriteswords]

Just finished writing ch 19 of We’re All Mad Here! Need to write one more chapter, then two chapters of my serial project Silence, to hit my goals for August. Then I’m gonna spend September knocking out a new draft of another novel. Back to We’re All Mad Here and Silence for October, and then another break for nanowrimo.

Which btw is why we’re only doing once weekly updates on We’re All Mad Here instead of twice weekly - I’m doing Silence at the same time and need to allow myself those two month-long breaks from All Mad out of the four remaining months of the year.

#we’re all mad here #Io rambles #silence

[stelarcat]

unlocked mental illness symptom of being so close to my deadlines that i am overly productive and can focus literally only on the thing that needs to get done

#io rambles #i dont feel hunger i dont feel thirst i only feel hyperfocus #this kinda sucks cos im disconnected from everyone except 2 of my friends that are doing the same thing as i am #sorry for being manic this week will quite literally determine my future