#life in quarantine

[miuamor]

give me inspo on what to do in quarantine i‘m late to the party and boredddd

#nan.txt #life in quarantine #nan rants #<3 #things to do in quarantine #covid 19

[fenori]

some bettos feat. bettel 2 and the jester's gambit

#bettelful #gavis bettel #holostars #hololive #tempus #vtuber #art #doodle #that first one i drew while feverish and quarantining for covid in another country #LMAO #also the twin streams give me so much life i cant wait for chess chaos #meme

[feral-teeth]

Smosh - omg thanks to the brainrot not only has my hyperfixation with them help my art, they have helped me get out of my years long writing hiatus

(Some I haven’t even posted yet!! Or even be able to post because of how much I’ve drawn - And there are sooo many WIPS that are all smosh)

#I can also thank the owl house and nimona during quarantine to help me w my art #smosh #feral teeth smosh art #feral teeth art #art #my art #smosh fanart #and fandoms significantly help me with improving my art cuz I’m never not thinking about new ways I can draw them as I watch you know> #? #spencer agnew #shayne topp #amanda lehan canto #shaymien #damien haas #frank n furter #courtney miller #angela giarratana #keith leak jr #erin dougal #the Erin drawing I did was like so out of my comfort zone idk how to describe it #like I put my all into drawing it #cuz I was so inspired by her and the post that she made #same as Courtney’s Saturn one and the explode one #feral-teeth art #feral-teeth smosh art #being autistic is like #I’m bored without a hyperfixation #and when you finally get back into one #it takes over your entire life #and eats you whole

[whetstonefires]

“The Justice League and the Avengers are very different teams”

In what respect? Like, how would you say both teams differ in terms of overall function, how they respond to threats, how they’re viewed by their respective publics, etc?

😂 who even are you?

anyway, these two teams have been reformed and rebooted so many times and are the flagships of the two juggernauts of their industry, so their natures have evolved and influenced one another heavily over the decades as you see armies tend to do in prolonged warfare, so there is probably not one single statement you could make about either one that's always true.

it would be crazy to try to explain the difference in diegetic terms, because those aren't goalposts they're hockey pucks. the difference in kind exists at a publishing level.

fundamentally, the Avengers was designed to rest, in narrative terms, on everyone's personal relationships and neuroses, and develop soap opera subplots and office drama around how these intersected with each other and various villains. because in the 60s Marvel was launching the Big New Thing which was heightened naturalism and relatability in comics.

(spiderman and the whole genre of underdog superhero who can't catch a break rather than slyly winking at the audience as the world looks down on his secret identity, not knowing how impressive he really is, dates to this pivot of Marvel's. both Superman and Captain America did the latter in their early days, which is highly dissonant from Cap and Bucky looking at them today, but Cap was retired from print for like 20 years and got heavily rebooted for the new age.)

they had an actual mansion they could all live in, and many of them did, for a solid chunk of time early on. there's a reason people swung so hard for the 'everyone lives in stark tower' scenario foreshadowed at the end of Avengers (2012)--that's how the Avengers are! you bang the action figures together and give them angst and bonding about it!

they fractured repeatedly under the weight of all that drama (because psychology and because stories that don't end are unable to make any narrative sense, and breaking up a team is honestly a half-decent substitute in the Eternal Now of big comics) and at this point the current avengers is much more impersonal and even pays salaries, like basically the commune-underwritten-by-rich-buddy has reincorporated as an NGO.

but it still runs on the same types of narrative tensions mostly--huge epic stuff will be happening, but the Avengers tension comes down to whether everyone really hates T'Challa this month for that thing he did. and what this is doing to group cohesion.

the Justice League on the other hand was not built for character-driven story.

they've done plenty of them, after it became the done thing, and even imitated the Avengers and did the diegetic collapsing and reforming arcs and so on. but it's not fundamental to how a Justice League runs; you could do a super long run where the interpersonal tensions never rose above B-plot status and it wouldn't be tonally dissonant.

it would be weird for many of the Justice League to live together--when a character is shown living in Justice League facilities it is usually to signify that they are isolated and don't have a life and this is Bad. the Martian Manhunter and Maxwell Lord dominated era was deliberately aping the Avengers imo and came out weird as a result, and Lord turning out to be a mind-controlling supervillain was not unrelated to how weird most people felt it was.

the Justice League is like. joining a club rather than a frat. like being on the board of an NGO, rather than taking a full-time job there.

you know? the type of commitment is different. the level of intimacy is different.

cap and iron man's relationship has generally played out primarily in the context of their positions within the Avengers, even though it spills into their own titles, while superman and batman have had entire joint books just for them, and their friendship has not usually been allowed to take up much page time in Justice League issues. because that would be indecorous.

commercially speaking, Justice League is first and foremost an easy-buy showcase for high-profile hero characters and anyone you want to burnish up by displaying adjacent to them.

They've totally gotten messy with it over the years but like. I think the seminal Justice League internal dramas were 1) that time Barry Allen killed the guy who'd killed his first wife and was about to kill his second one and they put him on trial 2) that time Wonder Woman killed a dude who told her under truth compulsion that the only way to stop him from mind-controlling Superman to murder people was to kill him and they put her on trial 3) blah blah Batman paranoia exploited by eeeeevil (barely counts imo) and 4) that extremely oogy time it turned out the Justice League had been using magic to forcible reform criminals and erased Batman's memories of this being a thing when he found out and objected because ethics wtf.

That last one was sufficiently story-breaking they started pretending it hadn't happened as quickly as possible. Which was amazingly quickly considering Identity Crisis was the basis for things like killing off the presiding Robin's remaining parent. They actually soft-reset the whole world fairly soon after by timeskipping over most of a year and being like ahem anyway the past is in the past. And then the universe just kept serially ending for over a decade, so it's been weird.

Justice League has reliably gotten a shiny coat of polish with every reboot tho lol.

(Still not over the way they were like, okay we're wiping Green Lantern back to Hal but now we don't have the token black guy everyone who saw the cartoon expects, let's promote Cyborg people know him because of that other cartoon, ah shit he doesn't work without a partner to do bits with. well we can't put garfield logan in the justice league it's too prestigious, he's from the doom patrol for a reason, yeah i know we've had folks like plastic man shut up this is a Cool Sexy new reboot where Superman and Wonder Woman are fucking, we're not using friggin beast boy. how about Captain Marvel? yeah ok shazam is An Silly Joker now and besties with this 20 year old who may or may not know about his elaborate cognitive situation. i don't actually think they put even this much effort into it but otoh maybe they debated really hard and this was the compromise.

........actually vic could probably work up a decent oppositional patter with eel o'brien ik they were never gonna use plastic man but i don't hate it.)

Right. There was a point.

Obviously I'm probably missing a few big dramas here, but the point is DC was trying to keep up with the fantastic dysfunction of the Avengers because if it bleeds it leads, but even in the Dark Age they could not dive in groin first without tarnishing valued brands. The Justice League is simply not built to tell the same types of stories that the Avengers are.

In Justice League stories the narrative will typically be split in focus to a varying degree between the problems created by the villain and the personal emotional situations--the problems--of the heroes. Usually the villain leads and provides the emotional stakes. Only occasionally, overall, do problems between the heroes rise to the same level. Even when they're having them canonically in some other book Justice League tends to be ruled not the right place for that.

Secret identities are traditionally kept to a minimum in the League and League stories, though what this means in practice has gone through some shifts.

This is not just the difference between DC and Marvel house styles, though of course that's part of it, nor is it the League being older, because it isn't by any significant amount. It replaced the Justice Society of America in 1960. Other teams, even the Titans to an extent which was just the junior wing of the League at first, were allowed to get more into the grit sooner, and have the experimental story of Speedy's career-ending heroin problem happen and intra-team dating drama take the foreground, and all that. Doom Patrol was all about the dysfunction, god.

But the Justice League is simply not designed to be that kind of a team book, and when it's occasionally written that way the seams usually creak.

#ask #hoc est meum #Anonymous #despite racing to the bottom of the pit in many ways #dc has never stopped being fundamentally more conservative than marvel #somehow even now that marvel is disney owned #like partly that's just dc being in internal meltdown mode #but also like the incredible hulk got to be a hellacious horror comic under disney etc #soon i will be out of quarantine and these asks will stop working #comics #damn i spent so long writing this shit i almost lost my duolingo streak #i need to make different life choices #i'm putting away laundry and going to bed

[casualbuckley]

New fic just dropped! The Buddie hockey AU that I've somehow been working on for four years.

"You should see the other guy," Diaz smirks.

His lip is busted, and it looks like he might have a black eye when all is said and done. His hand is wrapped in gauze, and he winces a little as he flexes it.

“You didn’t have to do that,” Buck says.

"Yeah, well. Everyone seems to want a piece of you." Diaz says, and Buck thinks his brain is short-circuiting.

#buddie #evan buckley #eddie diaz #911 #this fic took years off of my life and it's only 15k words #I started this shit in quarantine #and now it finally sees the light of day #thank god

[bellamysgriffin]

this is in no way in defense of ariana grande’s ex husband or whatever bc idk anything but between this and joe alwyn, everyone acts like the only reason fame could interfere in a relationship is if the guys masculinity is too fragile to handle someone being more important than them. like that could be true but like having to take security everywhere you go, even though it is necessary, is a very big demand and definitely changes the kind of life that you live

like, let’s not pretend that being the significant partner of a very famous person doesn’t require you to live a certain kind of life that might not work for somebody.

#idk i just read that things changed post quarantine when #their lifestyle was affected by her fame #and then i saw like a hundred tweets comparing him to joe and mocking them both #and yeah MAYBE they felt threatened #but you might want to live a more private normal life and it can be difficult to reconcile that #with a partner who is in a different places and is choosing a different lifestyle than you #dana rants

[silverbastardgoldenfool]

Fitz:

Also Fitz, immediately after all this: oh the Fool is gone forever and I missed my last chance to convince him to stay and we didn't even get to say goodbye and he left me a heartbreaking poem that makes it clear he never wanted to leave me in the first place and a carving imbued with the most intimate memories imaginable - well, good thing I have exactly zero thoughts or feelings about any of that I'm like so 100% fine and I'm good actually a horse can't wear two saddles anyway so giddy up Molly I'm a-comin and don't worry I'm definitely not irrevocably damaged by the events leading up to me returning to you, it's totally fine that I lost my mind and defied the fates to bring my beloved back from the dead only for him to abandon me right afterwards I'm gonna be so normal about that for the next twenty years or at least I assume if I don't talk or think about it whatsoever it can't hurt me and trust me I know from experience that repression always works haha so yeah omg love you Molly I'm so glad we get this happily ever after and I promise there are no gaping holes at the core of my being everything's gonna be just fine :)

#i felt as though i were bleeding to death my life trickling out of me. but anyway where's molly at #realm of the elderlings #fitzchivalry farseer #fitz and the fool #realm of the quarantine #the fool #rote #turns out I'm never getting over this #i feel about as sane as Fitz right now

[aboxthecolourofheartache]

If anyone’s got some reassurance to spare, I am Having A Day, and it looks to be shaping up to spill into the weekend.

#I’ve been in Covid quarantine for four years #and Big Changes are afoot #and I am feeling very small and stunted #very out of practice with anything but this small life #(and lmao I will STILL have to maintain Covid quarantine through the whole process I’m sure glad the pandemic is ‘over’ haha)

[sanitizarium]

every day the disease gets worse (considering making a pokemon sideblog for shiny hunts etc)

#ripley.txt #i mightt.. do it.... #shiny hunts have unironically taken over my life #this is all i do in my free time anymore #n e ways. would anyone be interested in that... i need to quarantine my autism

[chloeseyeliner]

i may have a very complicated relationship with my mother, but the thing is, one part of it i would never change is the fact that she introduced me to some great (and often times not so great for my taste, but still fun and interesting) music.

most important of it all: this woman taught me how to scream queen from the top of my lungs.

i think this in particular says a lot.

like, i was a ten-year-old, just a year into learning english, and i already recognised the first note of i want to break free. i went camping every summer from when i was 12 to when i was 16, and i introduced the kids in the same dorm as me to the euphoria of clapping to the rythm of we will rock you. i danced in the darkness of my room to radio ga-ga during quarantine, because i was scared and confused and ate toast for dinner for two weeks straight since there was nothing else there. i hummed bohemian rhapsody while studying during what i then thought of as the most academically challenging year of my life to keep myself sane in front of calculus. i fell in love for the first time the same year, and i thought of her while listening to good old fashioned lover boy and you're my best friend, because i wasn't able to tell her, so i kept her close to me that way. i went to study in another, unknown city, to live on my own for the very first time, and, inter alia, i put on killer queen, innuendo and don't stop me now, and even i'm in love with my car, to feel like home, a place i never had, because...

i may have a very complicated relationship with my mother, but sometimes my heart thinks that the music we both love will bridge the gap between us. that queen will magically make her arms feel like home, and not somewhere hard and suffocating to be inside of.

#i don't even know #i just saw a few queen posts #(and also somewhat unrelated: thought of freddie changing his name and all that... yeah. ugh) #and just boom it came out of me #also i am aware these songs are some of the most popular #but i love them all #so much #so yeah #queen rocks #(pun unintended) #mother daughter relationships are so... confusing #but at least we still have queen #queen band #freddie mercury #brian may #john deacon #roger taylor #the irony of it all #now that i think about it #she doesn't know i am queer but she introduced me to the band whose main singer is a queer icon. #fun fact #(not so fun but oh well) #i had an assignment on aids at 11th grade #and i sneaked in freddie in the epilogue #and my teacher (who liked the assignment and gave me an a yay) was so moved she sent me 'love of my life' via email #because i 'needed to listen to it ASAP' and 'queen was her favourite back when she was younger' #(it was during quarantine) #personal rant

[gum-iie]

dottore’s lab (canon)

#when you finally find the person who ruined your life (points at mirror) #you're looking rather hot today doctor #genshin impact #dottore #zandik rights #okay but if we don't see more than one clone on screen at the same time i'm uninstalling #i WILL FINISH THIS #i have to my pride as a zandik main (real) relies on it #wip #quarantine doodles

[cellgatinbo]

i'm still just like rocking back and forth excited about quarantine, like i got really into dnd last year with jrwi and though i haven't seen much of ordem i'm REALLY interested (hell i bought merch even before finishing the first season) so this with other creators ive gotten into recently is. really fucking cool i'm. the only way i can express myself is just >:DDDDDDDD

#ordem paranormal #like sure i've had this qsmp blog for ~3 months #i was on my old jrwi blog for over a year (rip rumiraclemi </3) #and though i. still havent actually played a game in my life. i'm still super interested in rpgs #so quarantine is like. made to make me specifically go feral #the eggs can come back or whatever on saturday i'm gonna be fucking BUSY

[lesbianfakir]

If I was a STEM person and not cursed with my affinity for humanities I’d be doing unethical mad scientist shit to transplant my consciousness into a life sim of choice. Can someone work on this for me? I’ll let you stick wires in my brain

#ever think about how much easier you’d be at life if life was like animal crossing or stardew valley #I mean during quarantine I basically lived in animal crossing #I’m tired :/ #lea talks #lea off topic tag

[theprodigypenguin]

I bought a keffiyah a few weeks back, as I'm sure a lot of people did, and I wore it today because when I woke up it was absolutely pouring. It is so warm, so comfortable, probably better than any scarf or shawl I've ever owned before. Better quality for sure.

And now I can't stop thinking about how something made by kind Palestinian hands is keeping me warm and giving me incredible comfort and security while those same gentle hands are digging the corpses of family and friends out of rubble.

And I'm dizzy and sick to my stomach from anger and shame and love all at once.

I am so lucky, so privileged to be where I am, even if this country is my greatest shame. What an honor it is to have a voice I can use to speak up against injustice. My heart bleeds for Palestine and will continue to bleed until everyone is free from the river to the sea.

#free palestine #ceasefire #dont stop talking about palestine #the west bank #boycott works #boycott israel #i have never felt this much in my heart in my entire life #where i always knew the us was absolutely fucked and would do what i could #like protesting in a blm march during quarantine after george floyd was murdered #i dont think my anger has ever reached this level #ive gotten angry over injustice before yes #but never like this #and im not sure if i should be embarassed and ashamed or eternally grateful #probably all of the above

[vermillioncrown]

no one asked but i gotta put out one of my biggest fandom/fanfic pet peeves:

"unthinking/meme-poisoned socmed usage assigned to every character"

why does everyone have to be a twitter funnyman. why does everyone act like they post for clout and monetization. when would they have the time? what does account verification entail, and would they warrant it.

think it through 🤔

#opinionated verm #not everyone is showing their whole ass on twitter #and by that i mean being a public clown #ppl lurk other places #niche ecosystems and all #or the discord servers that are...god i will not even get into those #example: my friend and his brother spent a whole local election cycle trolling our home city's nextdoor. it was on fucking fire #ppl were following this trainwreck w bated breath #or subreddits. weirdly specific ig accounts #idk every time i see those overly contrived socmed imaginings or fake posts 90% of the time i feel it tells on OP more than anything #1) lacks attn irl 2) can't fathom another life perspective 3) hasn't introspected on what truly fulfills them yet #treat the construction of your fictional online social environment with the same respect as physical worldbuilding and logistics #something something we were all so socially damaged by covid and the quarantine period #let's have some variety in our blorbos c'mon

[ladytemeraire]

It has been One Of Those Days.

I spent a good chunk of the morning at the vet getting some potentially scary lumps on Sadie checked out. They ended up being regular lumps (sebaceous cysts, perfectly harmless and honestly normal for Sheps) and I was SO relieved and ready to ditch that stress and finally be able to enjoy the holiday -

And then my mom called over lunch to say she tested positive for COVID today.

So now I get to decide if I'm going to travel and just stay with a friend and minimize the time I spend with the family, or (more likely) cancel travel plans for the holiday entirely.

Because I have to work, and I have to take care of myself and Sadie, and I have to deal with travel plans for work in the new year, and I cannot afford to get knocked on my ass for a week or more - and that's before you even consider Long COVID or other health complications.

I absolutely hate this.

#life with ladytemeraire #coronavirus #COVID19 quarantine #not as much as my family is gonna hate me bailing but yeah #which one of you left Mercury in the microwave again