#means so much

[razbataz]

happy birthday to the best album ever <3

#my favorite album everrr ever #means so much #fall out boy #fall out boy fanart #fob art #patrick stump #pete wentz #joe trohman #andy hurley #so much for stardust #art #smfs #smfs era #fob smfs

[frnkiebby]

Frank….baby….~🎃

#thank you so much for putting this on the internet frank #means so much #because i am dead #honestly killed me #fuck #fuck fuck fuckfuckfuck f u c k #graveposting #frnkiebby #mcr5 #frank iero #mcr #mcrmy #frnkiero #frnkie #my chemical romance #my chem

[devilslxd]

Five Comfort Characters. Five Tags

tagged by: @thiamsxbitch @outcastpack @ksbbb @de-constructmybones @mmoosen​ @idkthisusernameistken​ @thiamblogger​ @wolfboy88​ @phantomraeken​ 😭🫶🏻 thank you everyone for the tags, appreciate it

1. Jason Todd (DC)

2. Theo Raeken (Teen Wolf)

3. Spike (BTVS)

4. Wade Wilson (Marvel)

5. Todd Anderson (DPS)

Honourable mentions, I get to do because so many people tagged me 😭:

Roy Harper, (DC) Liam Dunbar (Teen Wolf), Buffy Summers (BTVS), Peter Parker, (Marvel) And Neil Perry (DPS) (my nr 2 babies after these 5)

Not tagging anyone, 💀 because like honestly who hasn't done it at this point

#thank you everyone for tagging me <3 #also thank you everyone for thinking of me!! #means so much #teen wolf #dc comics #spike btvs #marvel comics #dead poets society

[hanginghope]

i had my first competitive grant approved today and i am so happy and excited about what that means for the community i work for!

#personal #it’s money to buy wonder books (kids’ books that have audio attached to them) and supplies for a program to promote them #this library has a bare bones budget and being able to offer this thing that typically only larger and wealthier libraries can do? #means so much #that’s ​government funds actually investing in equity baby!!

[steel-and-fire]

Igrisigrisigrisigrisigrisigrisigris

#scarf #Its so nostalgic #Means so much #The red scarf #Aaahhh this is one of the best arts ive made of him #Art #My art #Igris #dragon warrior #fantasy #dnd #lol #oc #original character #sketch

[royallylk]

May flowers grow in the saddest parts of you 🤗

😭❤️❤️

#lk answers #thanks anon #means so much

[myboyfriendjake]

blown away by blackswan's karma, especially as an indian-american. cultural appreciation. this is a respectful way of representing other cultures.

#i'm like two weeks late but i just watched the video and wow #feeling so seen #desi culture is often made fun of #and appropriated in kpop so to be appreciated #like this #means so much #black swan

[cotl-inspiteofyou]

It's not a question but I liked your Au, your drawings

And your comic's

Please more my English is terrible

I love you

Aww, thank you so much!! Love you too, dear! I hope you continue to enjoy what's to come! ♥️

#anwser #really thank you #thank you #means so much

[jocelynships]

My niece started watching Rise and my sister is now very well aware that I’m unhinged over Draxum, and told my niece he was my favorite, and my sister said my niece asked if I would like a drawing of him

I love my niece y’all

#also. the fact she picked up art because I draw?? #means so much

[thebahwrites]

The outpour of love and feedback for Give Your Heart A Break has me crying in the club homies.... my insecure ass is just.... I'm so glad I don't even know where to begin...

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

#bah rambles #I don’t think yall UNDERSTAND #i got so badly bullied for my writing before this is why i disappeared for six years #and THIS??? #means so much #so so so much #im so thankful rn #also chuckles at killshot being my fave but also the ugly child that gets less love #its what you get for being a niche ass AU #abt: gyhab

[theoasiswinds]

This means a lot. With everything that's happened, this comment gave me the feels. Thank you darling! 😭💖

#seriously thank you #means so much

[eupheme]

I just wanted to say how much I loved PFYT !! I've read each chapter about 4 times. My thirst for alfred after the batman was unreal and you absolutely helped me double down on the obsession. I enjoyed every chapter and drabble so much. It was beautifully written and is definitely a forever re-read for me <3

Ahh hi JJ!! I saved this until I had a little moment because I really wanted to say thank you - it was so kind of you to send this! 💖 This was my first try at a long series and I’ve gotten so attached to it. So just feeling incredibly happy that you’ve enjoyed it, (and then, even more so to hear you have more than once!)

And here’s to more (hopefully) moments of Alfred in The Batman 2! He had such a criminally small amount of screentime.

(btw I am peeking at your writing blog and very 👀 at your LOTR headcanons and I love your ezra counter - where the hell is he???)

#this was so sweet thank you!! #means so much #eupheme answers #primasveraas #to keep and cherish

[zorteh]

such a lovely blog, gorgeous screenshots ♥️ ur editing style is so soo pretty

Thank you so much again ♥️♥️

#means so much

[thisiskatsblog]

Oh fuck this shit, I’ve been on a break and was wondering what happened to Lorna. If you are in private contact with her, will you tell her how loved she is?

I need to check if her number is still the same but if it is I’ll tell her

#lornasaurusrex #we miss you #so much #i left mysefl for a year or two and didnt stay in touch with a lot of people #so i dont know #but before that i had it i think #thank you in any case anon #the fact that people care #and show it #means so much

[ninjasmudge]

last night i had a dream that i was playing minecraft and i noticed i had 77 blocks of cobblestone in one slot instead of it being capped at 64 and it was so jarring to me that it literally booted me out of the dream. like sure you can fly now and your childhood home is a pharmacy but 77 pieces of cobblestone? unthinkable. wake the fuck up.

#minecraft #tagged so i can find it ig #PROBABLY MEANS I PLAY TOO MUCH MINECRAFT TBH #IT WAS 77 COBBLESTONE DO U UNDERSTAND HOW JARRING THAT WAS #IT LEGIT WOKE ME UP BC I WAS LIKE 'that cant fucking happen.' #shark talks #l

[tearlessrain]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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