#ljs life

[lionofstone]

something ive been thinking about since the ph finale:

this is going to sound insane but when my friend died earlier this year, one of the things that brought me incomparable comfort was the quote from the hot daga that’s like (and i may be mixing up some words) “what is there to do in the face of such monumental loss but heave a weary sigh, as the world’s a little quieter now”. and i thought about this quote in relation to my friend and…I don’t know if he even knew that the hot daga was a thing, but knowing him I’m certain he would’ve been okay with me dealing with his death by relating to the death of a fictional french fries. I just think he would.

and then last night i watched the puppet history finale, and seeing that meteor/asteroid talk about how it had never known where it was going but this looked like a good place to land, and that montage of all this beautiful sights and places on earth—and that just really hit. because the world is a little quieter now. and I’m still dealing with all of my grief (not just for my friend; I also lost my grandpa last year and I have recently moved across the world again and am starting over in terms of making friends and connections), but this is a beautiful world. and this is a good place to land

i don’t know that shane madej or the people at @wearewatcher imagined that this would be the impact of those lines and those scenes, but… it’s helped a lot. so thank you anyway <3

#ljs life #grief tw #puppet history #hot daga #watcher #watcher entertainment #buzzfeed unsolved #shane madej

[xxsweetoothxx]

Workin on Redesigning Jackies Colorful version and Im stuck as hell on clorors to pic for their Hair. Tried a billion different ones but These 5 seemed to work best I think

Also also Redesigning Isaac as well as his Sister. The old story I had for them was okay but then I got a better idea that makes Isaac the irredeemable shit I wanted him to be originally!

Also this idea allows me to tie in the whole thing from the cannon creeps comic of everyone seeming to hate LJ. Only in PM I plan on it to be a bit different with Ragz. Mainly that they didn't really do anything but SOMEONE did.

A Hint on why Ragz may be heavily disliked.

#im very unsure on a hair color so by all means give opinions! #either way its gonna be black in the version of them with less color #on another note #if it wasnt obvious Isaac is just being straight up malicious by dressing like that in the underworld #mf is intentionally pretending to be this clown to cause problems because hes pissedbabout being very justifiably killed #I'll get into that backstory one day #i gotta admit tho. Clown Isaac is very fun to draw #i got the idea because when reading the original LJ origin story #the thought of 'hey what if LJ is actually just Isaac?' #like yeah LJ killed him blah blah #bit what if LJ really was just an imaginary friend and the death was more a metaphorical one #im sure someoen else has had the idea before #but it came to mind a long time ago and it inspired me to be like #“what if after getting killed by this clown Isaac said he ruined my life so ima ruin his now” #and just dressed up to cause problems on purpose for them #anyway actual tags now #creepypasta #proxymorons #crp #creepy pasta #creepypasta art #doodleteeth #creepypasta redesign #laughing jack #isaac grossman #Izzy Lockwood #Isaac Lockwood #Ragz #Jackie Ragzdale

[blacksailsgf]

once again thinking of jonathan e. steinberg in that podcast saying something about how the iliad is a story about glory-seeking vs. homecoming & that he likes to clarify characters & their dynamics through that lens. are they achilles or odysseus? in black sails, flint tells us pretty early on that all he wanted was to walk away from this life at sea but then he had to wage a war with him at the helm in order to get there & in the vulnerable moment when he is still achilles, silver, with this newfound love with madi, had to prioritize the desire for homegoing. & so silver unknowingly locks himself out of the house, forever unable to come home

#black sails #& i'm trying to turn the idea in my mind whether or not it's also glory-seeking in its own twisted way that billy created LJS #sorry for never getting over anything in my life. whatever

[jtl07]

15 questions for 15 friends

tagged by @possibilistfanfiction!

Were you named after anyone? kinda - my birth name is from a character from a tv series. my preferred name, however, (jt) comes the initials of a "new" name my former coworkers discovered when you say my full name quickly

When was the last time you cried? yesterday, while eating a delicious apple kringle - grief, man. can never expect it.

Do you have kids? nopers - tho i do have a deep love for my friend's kids, especially the youngest

What sports have you played/do you play? my base is in martial arts - grew up with karate, then as an adult muay thai and bjj (did not compete for the former because i hated getting punched in the face; did compete for the latter but mostly local tournaments). sadly never got into weapons, though due to doing military drill in high school and college, if you give me any sort of stick-like object, i will immediately start to spin it lol. i wanna get back into sailing and weightlifting (former i haven't done since high school, latter i got into last year) but trying to pace myself

Do you use sarcasm? only i know you well (or: i'm irritated af)

First thing you notice about people? how tall they are lol (see below re: height)

What is your eye color? brown

Scary movies or happy endings? i cannot handle scary movies worth anything oh god

Any talents? i meow? lol - i love imitating sounds, accents. i have not yet mastered the crows here though. (frustratingly, i'm shit at vocal imitation)

Where were you born? japan! okinawa to be exact

What are your hobbies? walking, napping, getting back into the guitar. oh and yeah, writing

Do you have any pets? sadly, no

How tall are you? sighs the sigh of someone who finally caved and bought a step stool for the kitchen: five feet.

Favorite subject in school? english lit for sure

Dream Job? no job only dream

tagging but absolutely no pressure: @littledata @gowalkyourself @gohandinhand @piratekane @rustingcat

also if you see this and wanna do it, go for it!

#life with jt #jt answers #oh man this reminds me of lj days

[not-poignant]

Out of curiosity, when did the, 'fanfic doesn't need to adhere to canon, everything is valid and good, don't give concrit unless specifically asked for' attitude become the norm? Genuine question.

I was active in fandom back in the LJ days, when sporkings and comms viciously mocking Mary Sues were the norm, but then I sort fell out of fandom spaces for the past (checks notes) fifteen years holy shit. The current attitude seems diametrically opposed to what I remember fandom being like (kinda shitty, it was 'cool' to be an asshole back then), and I'm just curious as to when and how the shift happened. I mean, I assume it was a gradual thing, but is there anything in particular that stick out to you?

(Also, because tone doesn't convey very well through ask, and I don't want to leave you with a poor impression-- this is by no means a defence of the 2000s attitudes, nor an aspersion on the current ones. I'm genuinely only curious about the evolution from one to the other; I hope that comes across.)

Hi anon!

TL;DR because my response got LONG -> Anon this existed before Livejournal as an attitude, in fact modern fandom was literally born out of being not canon compliant (*waves aggressively to Spirk shippers*) and this existed on Livejorunal too and there have always been big pockets of fandom that really frowned on sporking even there, like that was not cool when I was on LJ, unless you were a certain age, or in certain spaces in fandom.

But also AO3 was its kind of final death knell re: making it cool to bully 13-16 yo writers (who were largely the victims of sporking) and killing dreams, which was born out of meta happening on LJ and in other places about like... not trying to make people miserable for writing a free fic out of the love in their heart that someone else didn't like or think was good enough.

Anyway, the longer version of this under the read more!

(For everyone else, welcome to some of the uglier aspects of 00s fandom!)

So there was actually criticism around all the stuff you mention 15-20 years ago as well. I was also on Livejournal during that time and there was a pretty big proportion of people in certain fandoms who recognised even then that like... setting up communities to mock say, Mary Sue writers, was actually a pretty weirdly cruel thing to do to people who were providing free labour and the literal only 'payment' they could get in a kind of energy exchange was people just not being complete dickheads to them.

So things were already changing, especially in many LJ communities and awards communities. There were a lot of big debates over whether concrit should be asked for, and a growing movement of authors who said they welcomed constructive criticism for example, instead of assuming it should automatically apply. There was also a lot of meta around the function of fanfiction and whether it should even be 'good' by published standards if the author was just doing it for themselves, and for fun (esp if they were just going to get punished for it by folks who were elitist, judgemental, grammar purists etc.)

Things really changed around the time of AO3 (2009-2010 - literally around 14~ years ago, you may have just missed the big change anon!), Strikethrough and the Dreamwidth exodus. There was a massive swing away from leaving concrit unless the author specifically asked for it, and fandom became a lot more generally able to recognise that a lot of labour goes into fanart and fanfiction and that paying with public criticism is shitty actually. Also people were just more able to recognise that like most fanfiction writers aren't trying to become professional writers and many don't want to be.

(I would actually say things changed around the time of fanfiction.net too - rude comments there were definitely noticed and could create some pretty forward 'hey why are you doing this on something you literally don't have to read' responses from fellow readers - idk what fic sites you were on. The small indie fic sites where you could often only comment via email for example, definitely drew a lot more critical attention than sites that tended to have public comments).

The 'fanfic doesn't need to adhere to canon' literally exists since the very first Spirk slash fic in modern fanfiction in the last few decades. Literally, as soon as you write Kirk/Spock, you're not adhering to canon. Our fanfiction 'ancestors' literally paved the way for a legacy which is about not adhering to canon in order to see the world/s and thing/s you want to see, be entertained by, by turned on by, or enjoy, from the very beginning. You may not have been in slash circles anon, but the foundation of queer same sex fanfic is in many ways the foundation of fandom. But yeah, this is literally where fanfiction started! As soon as you're shipping characters that aren't canon for fun (or for whatever reason), you're making it pretty clear that you want stories different to canon, and you have to change things to often keep those characters in-character.

So yeah! That's been there for decades. Idk what circles you were in on that front! While it was fairly common for a while to criticise characters for being OOC (Out of Character), imho, a lot of folks started to recognise that they literally weren't paying for what they were criticising, and they could just walk away and potentially not like...blast the fanfic. Some folks started to recognise more that people were writing with ESL, or were teenagers (some 40 yos in fandom realised they were mocking literal 15 year olds in their proto-podcasts and websites and realised actually that's just...mean? Really mean? Not the way to nurture new generations of fanfiction writers. Definitely in no way encouraging), or were writing for themselves, or writing for like one other person, or writing for fun, or writing for free, or writing for personal reasons etc.

'Don't Like Don't Read' wasn't just about political stuff, it was also about just walking away if you feel the urge to slam a fanfic in the comments.

I've been in fandom for around 2.5 decades anon, and there were so many spaces that were not actually as shitty or mean-spirited as the ones you were in? Or ones that at least had a lot of different thoughts etc. Like, sporking (mocking/bullying badfics and sometimes the folks who wrote them) was disapproved of by a lot of people in fandom even while sporking was at the height of its popularity (the Fanlore page goes into more detail about this). It might have just been the fandoms you were in, or the people you were hanging out with (and that might have been dependent on your age or just if you were around people who wanted to be 'cool' back then - in the same way that being an 'anti' is cool among certain crowds today. It's possible to spend years in certain crowds and never get an image of broader fandom for example - we can all end up in spaces like that! I know I have.)

When I started writing fanfiction (which no one will EVER find lmao), generally giving positive comments was normal. Constructive criticism was actually pretty rare and there were already fanfiction aggregate sites that generally disapproved of it in their Rules of Conduct. People were encouraging and polite. And this was around 20 years ago on Livejournal and private indie fanfiction websites.

I would actually say there was never exactly an evolution from 'one to the other' because like thousands of people in fandom already believed this and argued in defense of supporting fanfiction and transformative works via accepting that people are labouring for free and that not everyone wants to become a 'better writer' etc. - the meta was there on Livejournal in the 00s. There were communities where sporking was seen as hip/fun, and communities where it was literally banned or at the very least, super frowned upon.

There were meta fandom communities where sporking was the subject of discussion and you know eventually in a lot of those meta communities, that's where a lot of folks decided actually that calling out the fanfiction of 16 yos as 'cringe' or 'badly done' maybe said more about us as human beings and what we wanted fandom to be, than it did about the actual fanfic itself. By the time AO3 came around, people built it with this in mind.

To this day on AO3 it's mostly considered appropriate to say you want concrit in your author's notes, and to otherwise assume as a reader it's never welcome if it's unsolicited. That started during the LJ era. And it was talked about at great length. There's obviously going to be people who disagree! But for the most part I'm a big believer in compassion and 'not everyone is here for the same reason' and 'they literally gave this to us for free and it's meant to be fun' (like yourself! What we do/think/argue 10 years ago on LJ is sometimes different to what we do 10 years later lol, I used to be against trigger warnings pre-AO3! Times change a lot :D )

So yeah, this was definitely something that was around before you and I came to fandom, and it was something that continued to grow as an attitude during, until finally it kind of won out on AO3. But yeah fandom as we know it was born in people literally not being canon compliant to make some gay dreams come true (Spirk shippers bless them all), at a time when there was no representation.

Even in the earliest days of fandom where comments could only happen via email, one of the earliest phrases authors used were things like 'flames will be used to roast marshmallows.' For those reading who don't know, flames are hate comments, critical 'this fic is bad because' comments etc. Except you emailed them directly to the author, because there was no place for comments on a fic.

And this started because authors in part got death threats for writing gay stuff.

So you know, from the very beginning, authors in fanfic have by and large had a very low tolerance for criticism / hate over something they're doing for free and making no profit out of, when they're changing/altering the canon as they please to create representation (or hotness lmao), that is literally a labour of love in a world of very little representation. From there, things have just grown. The whole 'flames will not be tolerated' existed even before Livejournal did.

Honestly there are still people who love sporking and you could probably find groups and Discords dedicated to that even now (actually you literally can, there's a Dreamwidth group for it), it's kind of wild but it started to get cool again. Just like 90s clothing :D (Which is also wild because I can just take that crap out of my closet and wear it again).

But yeah it also sounds like you may have been in some pretty crappy pockets of fandom! When I was on LJ in the 00s I avoided those places and still got to experience fandom across multiple fandoms (mostly NCIS, Captive Prince, HP, Profiler, The X-Files and some others) and communities.

I was super active in some fandom communities and saw a lot of meta happening, and my view during the early and late 00s was that sporking was largely pretty frowned upon after a very brief (like 3-6 month) era where it was cool for only some folks, and then everyone (including some - but not all - of those folks) was like 'heyyyyyyy hang on a minute.' It was something that the bullies did, and enjoyed, and otherwise folks kind of stayed away from it, especially once they learned people were becoming too scared to write fics, which is the inevitable outcome of mocking/bullying folks and fics that have been made purely out of love for something.

Like, publicly making a spectacle out of what a 13 yo (they were often teens - and it's kind of sad how many 40 yo women were doing the sporking :/ ) wrote out of love, just for fun/clout was not considered cool by everyone even back then, because like, a lot of us saw that as killing new generations of fandom (some folks who sporked considered it a win if a fic or account got deleted, this is not based behaviour), not actually creating good writing, internalised misogyny (Mary Sue hatred and self insert hatred), etc. It's hard to explain because I do really think we were in different corners of fandom at the time, but I don't know anyone personally from my time on Livejournal who actually liked sporking as an idea or enjoyed it or enjoyed listening to it or reading articles mocking fic.

I knew about it from very lively 'is this okay' 'actually no it's not even if it's just for fun this is trying to hurt people and saying 'it's just the fic' is not going to be the bandaid a teenager needs to understand why older folks (generally) in fandom are mocking them for being new at a skill' discussions on LJ in meta fandom communities. So this is how much I could be in fandom and not be a part of it and also have like a wildly different experience to your LJ experience!

I think if I'd been a teenager during that era it would have seemed a lot more appealing (in the same way that many teens are antis now before they grow out of it), and fuck it if I was a more bitter person who was just around people who liked to make fun of what other people created, perhaps I would have enjoyed it too, I can see a lot of reasons why a person would fall into that in LJ -> but I was an adult on LJ trying not to be mean to people or what they were creating, so yeah I was maybe just in very different spaces! (Don't get me wrong, I have my giant fucking character flaws, but I was very scared of people hating me so like I didn't want to do things that would make that happen, lol, and also I was scared to put up fic myself during the era of active sporking. I know for myself that sporkers didn't just scare away writers of 'badfic' - they...intimidated a LOT of people).

Before AO3 I was on FF.net, posting fics on LJ, posting on Schnoogle, gossamer, and a couple of other archives. So I don't think my experience was that 'narrow,' I just think I wasn't around like... anime at that time or other places where it might have been happening. I also avoided like...Draco/Malfoy where CC drama was happening and I know sporking was popular in that specific arena / pairing for a while as well (er, as well as anything to do with Mary Sues).

So yeah! That's about where that is. Generally gatekeeping fandom is just seen as not a great thing to do to people, and that creates other kind of beliefs that are generally upheld as being more inviting/nurturing. After all, if someone truly wants to get better at writing, they can ask, or do courses, but as we all know, everyone has to write some bad stuff to get good at it, but not everyone wants to be good. Folks are in fandom for different reasons. I'm rambling now so I'm going to finish my lunch! :D

#asks and answers #pia on fandom #pia on writing #god i do not miss sporking #but it's still happening tbh in some sections of the internet #and it always will!!! #there will always be fics that piss us off or that are just written painfully #generally speaking it's just encouraged to share that with afriend privately #instead of creating a website and recording an interview or discussion or slam #or writing an article for fandom to see #and using BNF energy to chase fic writers out of fandom #it's wild that it was actually around for as long as it was #on LJ #i feel like that was the mean-spirited click-bait era before click-bait then came around #anyway it's grown in popularity again because of Tiktok! #such is life :D

[quicktimeeventfull]

✨quicktime's very special vintage death note fic rec list✨

fandom moves fast but it doesn't have to. here's a rec list of fic from fifteen years or older, which i feel will be just beloved today. ordered by age. just that and paper cranes (2004): lawlight a sweet yotsuba-era oneshot featuring light being kind of bad at origami & L trying to amuse his friend and captive. this is one of my all-time favourite characterizations of both Light and L -- soft, gentle, and yet perfectly in character. i read this nineteen years ago and i still think about it on a weekly basis, for whatever that's worth

have some cake with your sex (2005): lawlight an itemized list of light's birthday presents. cute, funny, and sexy in a tongue-and-cheek pinup sort of way

borrowed clothes and fake jewels (20 things you never knew about misa amane) (2006): misa-centric, with background lawlight and (sort of) misa/light a list of twenty facts about misa amane, bringing you through her childhood to the series' end. heartbreaking and haunting

and the guillotine laughs again (2007): gen, ensemble disturbing, dreamlike magical realism set after light's death. this fic changed me as a person tbh

grace (2008): sachiko/soichiro a melancholy story of sachiko and soichiro's relationship, from their first meeting through and past soichiro's death

#fic rec #death note #these are all off ao3 so HYPOTHETICALLY if ao3 were experiencing a ddos attack you could still read them #its my life’s mission to make everyone read just that and paper cranes #if you’re on mobile you might have to open these in a web browser by the way #just to get out of the tumblr shell #lj was not expecting us

[artemispanthar]

I was going through my old LiveJournal trying to find my reviews for the Green Day concerts I went to years ago. Found them, but then I fell down the rabbit hole of reading old posts (I started my LJ when I was 13. 13!) and interactions which old friends and trying to follow link trees to see if I could find old friends I've completely lost track of. Then from there I started looking at my old DeviantART and old forums I used to frequent (those still around anyway) throughout my years on the internet and, man, this stuff feels like lifetimes ago and yet also like it was all yesterday.

And then a little later a Panic! at the Disco song came on in the car and, like, that was not part of my childhood but a couple years back my little sister was into them so now I connect that sound to particular point in time and I feel nostalgia for it.

I have this feeling of, like, I'm a nesting doll where everyone I ever was and will be simultaneously exists as one with who I am now as well as their own individual self that existed only at that point of time

It's interesting. You think of your life as one entity but really it's like you live a bunch of little lives that you're only aware of looking back on it

#artie's personal life stuff #I'm in some kind of mood today #it's funny how much stuff I forgot #I read some old posts where I had stomach bleeding from anxiety and stress #reading about it I do now remember it but I had completely forgotten #actually in general the level of anxiety I had back in my LJ days was insane judging by these posts #and now it's a distant memory #time moves forward and it turns out you'll be okay actually

[brights-place]

hii!! Can i request general headcanons with Laughing Jack and Candy Pop? (Creepypasta) thank you <33

Never ever safe when with us!

Pairings: Laughing Jack, and Candy Pop

A/N: OMG OMG THANK YOU I LOVE THOSE TWO SO MUCHHHH one of my top 3 (*´ー｀*)

Laughing Jack

- He allows Sally to paint his claws sometimes but gets rid of them before a kill.

- He tries to act sweet with the creepypasta kids but due to his experience with Issac he seems to be creepy. Took the kids awhile to try get to know him more.

- Thrives on pranks

- Bipolar

- gets into some arguments with Kageko on who’s the better dressed in Black and white…

- Jill and ChessMaster always glance at eachother before recording the scene.

- He likes to watch Some creepypasta sleep since He dosen’t need to He finds it weird.

- When you came to the mansion he started to poke you whenever you where sleeping

- LJ takes particular interest to befriend most of the children of the slender mansion trying his best but when it comes to his victims it’s a whole diffrent story.

- like to talk about his victims and how he kills them.

- Very Childish

- He dosen’t understand emotions that well.

- When he’s angered He’s either very creepy or he flips onto the floor and throws a tantrum like a child due to the fact he had been surrounded by kids his whole existence

- These temper tantrums is how he thinks how people should be upset Lora do people get hurt though.

- about 7’3-8’0 Mans Lanky

- Hates being left alone, forgotten or ignored he would throw a huge fit.

- Slender created a rule to never touch the music box until it changes spots.

- LJ use to find it comfortable to be in the box at first when entering the mansion and rarely would come out unless he went out to do his little Adventures.

- Likes to dress up

- He smacks the shit out of anybody who comments on why he wore a dress around the place.

- “You Ugly Brat I look fashionable”

- He dosen’t swear much he uses words such as ‘Butt hole’ and ‘Poop Brain’ as insults unless he’s really pissed then he’s going to start cussing like there’s no tomorrow.

- Enjoy Listening to Classics music or HyperPop music he’s open to any.

- Very sharp teeth

- He has poisoned sweets in his left pocket and Non-poisoned in his right

- He dosen’t know his lefts and rights so sometimes he gives Somebody a poisoned one by accident.

- Doctor smiley hates LJ for the amount of times he gave Toby, Sally, and Zero poisoned candy by accident.

- purposely trips over Candypop once for stealing his sweets.

- Likes to mimic the personality of his new “owners” (aka his victims)

- Very stretchable and can jump super high

- He Likes to Hum to pop goes the weasel multiple times

- You Can Hear him from a mile away because of his humming of the song.

Candy Pop

- Best friends with Nathan the Nobody

- Gossiping King He knows everything going on.

- Likes to torment his victims

- He’s an Incubus, once a genyr before possessed by Night Terrors

- Man’s in his 6000’s

- Loves pranks like LJ but takes them very far

- He Likes to make bets with his sister and Nathan

- Him and Candy Cane like to switch up their outfits sometimes giving each-other little tips.

- Nightmares Whenever

- Cocky Asshole

- Can’t be in the human world physically for a very long time

- Loves every genre of music

- He has 3000 kids yet He dosen’t Care for them though (MF HAS CHILDREN 😭)

- Loves to fuck around with Night Terror

- Loves draining the energy and torturing his victims

- Most do his victims have mental illnesses cause he finds it funny to see their reactions and thinks it’s much easier to toy with them.

- master manipulator

- doesn’t kill the victims himself drives them off the edge if you know what I mean

- Likes to try different styles of clown makeup but always sticks to his usual look

- Has step by step guide for his hair

- he is kind of similar to Slender-man and puppeteer though if he gets enough energy to use in this reality it will bring chaos.

- uses his hammer when he REALLY needs it or deems it Useful for his situation

- found a child too annoying he claimed that “The child had something on him I had to smack it with something!”

- His laughs are psychotic

- Friends with laughing Jack due to the fact both of them could of been created by the same guardian.

- Demi-Boy

- Likes to hangout with Jason sometimes.

- gets pissed very easily

- Can Kill you in dreams or In real life You are not safe.

- He Acts like your bestfriend before it gets too much for you to drive you into madness.

- He pierced his ears.

- On his activities He dosen’t have allies nor help he works alone.

- His candy is filled with Melatonin so his victims sleep quicker

- When you arrived in the mansion he tried to kill you in your sleep… you guys made bracelets in your dream instead.

- Damages anything in his path whenever he is angered

- Large mood swings

- Night Terror always has some problems and he likes to move night terror somewhere else just to Piss him off which always works.

- People in the mansion where informed to never be vulnerable around Candypop.

- dosen’t like to admit that he is amazing at cooking and sewing.

- likes to show off his tricks

- The bells on his collar are loud along with the bells on his wrists and shoes but he can quiet them down in a second when he wants to.

- Get Jump-scared whenever he is around cause he will pop up anywhere anytime

#fluff #gore lover #x reader #creepypasta #creepypasta lj #creepypasta candy pop #creepypasta headcannons #headcannons #slenderman #HeadcannonsYayy #What am I doing with my life? #creepypasta CandyCane #clowns #Jesters

[scary-spaghetti-enjoyer]

“My dad said you can come to my birthday party if it’s okay with your your dad”

Wonky doodle of Lazari cause it’s her birthday 🎉

#Fighting off all the LJ birthday post with my life rn #ITS HER BIRTHDAY TOO #Lazari swann #Lazari creepypasta #iepfb #Creepypasta #creepypasta fanart #creepypasta fandom

[lionofstone]

thinking about diatrice alraune again (thanks, @xenonmoon for your mk blogging!) and how much her existence frustrates me. that run has a multitude of flaws but the one that always gets me grinding my teeth is how little of diatrice's existence makes sense. i can understand marlene hooking up with jake (even if i do think it's slightly ooc because marlene always seemed to like jake the least—i do like that jake likes and cares for her, and later runs do somewhat interesting things with it) but i HATE that they act as though jake isn't her father?? jake is the only one, at this point, who has any kind of relationship with marlene. he's the one who slept with her, he's the one who goes to visit her, and yet diatrice knows him as uncle jake?? literally WHY. why did they tell her that marc is her father??? why does marc immediately accept this???? i think it's such a disservice to all the characters involved. marc is made to feel like an absent father, jake isn't even allowed to refer to his daughter as such, marlene continues to be so incredibly blasé about the system and her treatment of them, and diatrice is given a really incomplete impression of her family dynamic. (also what about steven?? does steven even play in at all? i don't remember. but like, in the og comics, steven was the one who marlene liked best/was dating, even if they retconned that sometime in the 90s. shouldn't he also care about this child he knew nothing about???)

#ljs life #moon knight #moon knight comics #i don't remember this run super well except for That One Issue but i digress #the point is that diatrice being *marc's* daughter does not make sense but they all act like it does #and i'm like. what. #and i'm sure!! that they are systems/plurals out there who define their relationship to their children in a variety of ways #but when jake is the one who slept with marlene & is the one present in diatrice's life - why doesn't she get to call him dad? #seems wild to me idk that's my hot take #i swear i have more coherent thoughts and analysis on these stories/comics than any of my posts make it seem #this is simply word vomit bc i looked at xenonmoon's blogging today and had Opinions

[alicentsgf]

was the Spain vs England Final "good"? no it was not. Was it funny tho? Yes. yes it was. very fucking funny.

#the amount of swearing and shoving and lucy marching around with her hands on her hips #hermoso flipping off england #earps yelling Fuck Off so obviously in front of an international audience of millions #hermoso accidentally snapping the prewrap on her head in frustration after missing the penalty #paralluelo kicking the ball straight out and shrugging and trying to look innocent #the fact every time LJ got the ball she was shoved straight over and just sat there looking shocked for a bit #it was the most unserious match i've ever seen in my life #wwc 23 #wwc 2023 #engwnt #espwnt #esp vs eng

[elympios]

Ludger’s social life is funny I just have to assume that for twelve years Ludger looked at the concept of making friends his age and went “no thanks I have my brother” and then when he finally did make two friends in high school he ghosted them after graduation and went “no thanks I have my brother” and then when he finally did make a bunch of friends during the game he killed them all and

#im being comedic but theres a reason why i think ludger is a brocon too #okay realistically he was probably friends with the neighbours and thats probably most of his social life when julius isnt there #lj #v #x2 #but this is funnier okay

[hmasfatty]

I spent nearly four hours doing my intake appointments for the Pain Clinic today and, irony of ironies, have come away from it all with my first migraine in about a year AND a flare-up of all my other pains 😩😩😩

Thankfully they don’t seem like they’re in a rush to do anything drastic with my medications, and if I can pass a “movement assessment” they’re going to put me in their hydrotherapy program, which I’m very excited about. All in all it was a good outcome of a long day but…ouch!

#tumbling like it’s LJ #chronic pain life

[charybdiss]

LiveJournal just emailed to inform me about my 21st anniversary on their webbed site

#and then when i logged in there was a message about how my password hasn't changed in #TEN CALENDAR YEARS #haha anyway life is crazy #i haven't posted on LJ since 2011 #and it was a post about Rift #and the background is a broken photobucket linked image #photobucket is dead #but livejournal persists

[mylittleredgirl]

unreal

#at first i was only lj friends with my real-life friends and the daniel/janet fans who sent me an invite #but i have known some of you almost that long #livejournal

[mr-stottlemonk]

hii! Do you happen to have any angsty stottlemonk fanfics and/or writing prompts recommendations? I recently started rewatching Monk, and I was disappointed to find that the fandom isn’t very active. However, I found your blog, and I’m so grateful for it! Thank you :)

hello dear <3! hehe, thank you, i'm glad you do 💕.

about the fics and prompts, i do have some! i made separate posts cause i didn't want to make this post eye-alarmingly LONG trying to include both lmfao.

here is the angsty stottlemonk fic recs post.

and here is the stottlemonk angst prompts i've compiled from a list of so many ideas i have lol. :3c please feel free!!

also, yes i get you T-T, i'm such a big fan of angst myself so i'm always craving for that too! but slowly goes by, i think we may get them.

if not, i have quite a few up my sleeve. majority of them are multichapters so it may take me some time lolol, but on the fic rec list i've included two i've already posted!

fear not though, i have hope the fandom will come alive again, even by the barest breaths. but meanwhile, we can feed each other with what we have <3!

feel free to bounce any idea off me via inbox or dms (๑˃ᴗ˂)ﻭ. cheering you on anon! i hope i helped!!

#anon asks #angst is life <3 i getchu anon #hope the list of prompts help #man i wish i had eight hands. id churn out more just to feed you LOL #theres a few on lj and like other archives but those have been moved to ao3 or squidgeworld #ive dug deep anon lolol.