#or the preamble to it anyway

[04tenno]

So, uh...

Mine lived(?)

How Are We Doing.

#yakuza #like a dragon #yakuza 3 #yoshitaka mine #mine yoshitaka #masayoshi yokoyama #kson #I THINK THE STAFF MEMBER IS SANTO. LIKE 90% SURE IT'S SANTO but i don't have the video clip and cannot identify him im so sorry #i included the “preamble” to make it clear he was talking about mine and why but i'm just obsessed with the whole conversation honestly #kson having the opportunity to go up to yokoyama and say “do you think mine is out there somewhere.” living the dream #yokoyama's character arc not particularly liking mine back in the day and falling for him later on like me too bro #also he literally does just straight up say mine is alive. with zero ambiguity and even with an explanatory tone. #i ADDED what ambiguity there is because i don't want anyone to--as the tweet says--expect too much #anyway that's the end of the normal tags the rest of this is just going to be overwrought melodramatics #i hate the entire ending portion the transition and effects are godawful #not what my vision was at all #this is my first time actually editing and it shows. but it'll have to do. #i'm also nothing short of embarrassed of the timing and the missing words #but i really did do my best. i really did pay to have it professionally transcribed. #and part of me certainly wonders if this is all a mistake and irresponsible to put out there. if i'm giving people false hope. #if the extent of my understanding just isn't good enough to know better #yet if there IS something there... then what good will it have done to keep it to myself #original #my clips #my translations

[in-tua-deep]

Sometimes you are just trying to sleep and your brain conjures up an image of Jack Frost from rise of the guardians to earnestly explain to you that he’s “not human. Not really. Even though I started out human, I’m not now. It’s like eggs, right? You can start out with eggs, but then you start adding flour and heat and all sorts and suddenly you have cake. Once you have cake, you can’t ever go back to being eggs, even if you started as eggs. You see that right?”

“Anyway, when I bleed I don’t bleed blood, it’s all just river water, see?”

#my dreams #eggs into cake dream #hey brain what the fuck does this mean what are you trying to communicate here #Jack Frost #the absolute earnestness he was giving off when he said ‘it’s like eggs right’ #I guess this is applicable to my oc dusty who is fae but started out human?? the wrong changeling child? #also need people to know that the last line was said with just as much earnestness #maybe it was all a preamble for Jack Frost to show off the fact that he bleeds water idk #thought it would spook me if he didn’t convince me he straight up just wasn’t human first? so maybe I shouldn’t expect blood? #didn’t Jack Frost die in a pond anyway #shouldn’t he be bleeding pond water not river water #idk I’m going back to sleep I have work tomorrow

[tarotphil]

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#so the thing going on w me lately #has been a big depression induced apathy #where only the content I’ve been enjoying has been sparking basically any emotion #and I’ve been trying to lean into the things I like bc!!! there’s really no point in being embarrassed about liking things #especially if they’re the only things making me happy yk #dan and phil being one of the main things #anyway basically this is the a preamble to me saying i want to make a bunch of edits mashing dnp with my most random interests #it will be diabolical. target audience of like. 5 people #maximizing on endorphins

[kickbutts-singsongs]

YOU LIKE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA!!

what is your favourite song omgomg

OMG DONT MAKE ME CHOOOOOOOOOOSE

Obvi the title song slaps, All I Ask of You is so sweet, Think of Me makes me jealous of sopranos cuz I can’t sing all the high notes, Prima Donna is fun, Music of the Night uhh did things to me lol, Angel of Music is so soothing, and Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again made me tear up a bit.

I can’t narrow it down to just one, so imma say my top three are:

Music of the Night (especiallyyyyy the Ramin Karimloo version from the 25th anniversary)

Phantom of the Opera (nuff said)

and Point of No Return (the movie version)

It’s so good to see a fellow Phan!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩

#I was absolutely infatuated with The Phantom after I watched the movie (three times in a row) #I mean he checked all my boxes #aesthetic? check! #musical talent? check! #lives in a place with secret passageways? double check! #but then I had a dream where The Phantom was revealed to be my father and I think my brain was tryna tell me smth 💀💀💀 #phantom of the opera #poto #man I was totally obsessed with this musical I even got to see it on Broadway before it closed! #I made an entire spreadsheet analysis on the different melodies and where they were used and what they meant #you know there’s one melody that always plays after the Phantom does or is mentioned to have done smth crazy or amazing #but then someone says or does smth that really just reminds the audience that the Phantom is not a demon or an Angel #he’s a human #I called the melody ‘true colors’ cuz idk what else to call it lol #it doesn’t have its own song it’s just used in spurts #its used after Erik gets after Christine for taking off his mask and Christine hands it back to him #(and we see him go from anger to vulnerability and then it plays) #and again in the preamble to All I Ask Of You when Christine goes #‘yet in his eyes / all the sadness of the world / those pleading eyes / that both threaten and adore’ #(and we see Christine go from ‘he’s scary’ to ‘he’s wonderful’ to ‘oh u know what he’s sad and lonely’) #and more but I digress #anyways sorry that was a rant but I don’t really want to delete all that so there u go 😅 #asks #Thanks for reaching out!! ❤️❤️❤️

[vonlipvig]

did oppenheimer win or what is al pacino doing im confused fkfkfkdk

#i was like OH. ALREADY? NO PREAMBLE? #anyway YAYYYYY CONGRATS #oscars 2024 #according to jules

[sadfruittheatre-rp]

Oh boy I get to segue into talking about Bragi's collection of moms! Bragi loves moms. He's never been a son before but in his experience moms are nice ladies who will give him stickers and juice and maybe pat him on the head when he's done a good job. He's also a fan of the whole unconditional love aspect of having a family but he hasn't unpacked his own psyche enough to actually say that lol.

The lineup:

He's got Flann, who is his de-facto mom (because she is very jealous and is exploding the mompetition with her mind >:3). He calls her Mom because she literally asked him to, but is very shy about mentioning her that way to other people because a kai being adopted by mortals (and a majin no less!) is kind of weird and he knows it.

There's Dulze, who is really more of his cool aunt, but is a mom of 3 so she is still a mom by way of occupation. They have a very awkward and tsundere relationship but she cares about him way more than she'll ever admit.

Ogma kind of counts also even if neither of them would ever classify their relationship like that. Like she's his boss but because he's still a dumb kid, she still worries about him and kind of has to take some responsibility for him lol. We also have a silly AU where he's the child of Ogma and Roh but they're incredibly fucking divorced (Ogma has custody) so he's gotta live with that lmao

If you want to mom him (or dad him, he has very little experience with dads actually) he's absolutely not complaining--

#tidbits: bragi #((just know that he is NOT a very loyal son because he just kind of goes to whatever Trusted Adult is available at the time)) #((he was raised collectively so the idea of 'You Get One (1) Mom' does not register to him like AT ALL lmao)) #((anyway this is all preamble for me sharing a silly old comic i did but i still think is really funny))

[musical-chick-13]

Tfw you're gonna need someone to Look Over Your Writing, but the writing topic is kinda fucked up and you don't want to traumatize whoever will theoretically be looking at this.

#I mean like. UGH. okay I don't know how to Explain™ my issue without ACTUALLY explaining this. but. idk it's not. like...'dead-dove' #levels of Fucked Up™. but it's still A Lot and covers something a BUNCH of people are gonna be wary of probably #(at least according to What I Have Witnessed) so. eh?? #like it's in this weird place where it's probably not a serious enough exploration of this topic to be 'acceptable' to a certain crowd #and I don't think it would be fair to label it full-on Darkfic™ but it's still MESSY #and don't get me wrong I'm going to finish and (eventually) post it anyway because it's my idea and I want to do that but. jfc it would #help to get another pair of eyes #but I can't exactly be like 'hey would you like to evaluate my story about [incredibly fraught and potentially triggering topic]?' #like I feel like. I shouldn't just. ask that. without preamble. #ALSO this is a much different kind of 'fucked-up' than people usually write for this pair (if they write fucked-up stuff at all) #(and like...again. in the grand scheme of things. this probably isn't really actually that fucked-up. it's just. A Lot.)

[whatelsecanwedonow]

watching the masses suddenly follow TLOU, and react to this story that has grown in my soul like a fungus for 10 years, is wild. i’m wondering if it’ll click to some people how impactful it is to experience this narrative play out in a video game where you aren’t just observing the story and watching these people but instead you inhabit the character(s) themselves.

the story deviates in the ways it deviates between the game and the show, the game has plenty of gameplay things that don’t translate to TV and whatnot, but playing the game you end up sitting for hours on end sinking into this story not as a watcher but as a participant. there’s this extra level of attachment that grows out of that, something unique to playing this story, that is just... yeah

#tlou spoilers #personal* #just a brain dump of a feeling i had to get out!! #this is not to say the show is any LESSER in any way shape or form #it's incredible #it's more a statement regarding the greatness and... #impactfulness is the only word i can come up with #of the story being told #of the characters involved #it just hits so fucking hard #is this a preamble to me explaining my opinions about things that happen later? #MAYBE. MAYBE IT IS. I LOVE ELLIE OKAY #anyway #also a statement on the power of storytelling SPECIFICALLY IN VIDEO GAMES

[nose-coffee]

behold acapella mountain goats cover from earlier today when i found a room with really good acoustics while mopping at work

#my post #preambles #fuck off lou #the mountain goats #singing #me singing lmao #mine #idk it just ended up not sounding completely awful #even though you can hear me mopping really aggressively during the whole thing #so i just kinda wanted to share it #anyway

[tuiyla]

really my only beef with how Leighton’s arc was resolved is that it was rushed and therefore didn’t feel earned, and therefore instead of being wholeheartedly happy for her like I should be I’m just like... damn girl okay so in the last two episodes we’re gonna pick up where we left off at the end of season 1 huh

it’s a good storyline it’s just not earned they way the writers thoughts it was. loving where Leighton ended up but she deserved a better journey there

#tatum being supportive and understanding in eps 7-8: am i a joke to you? #LIKE it's a good story and i don't have a problem with alicia reentering #i DO have a problem with how it was executed and tatum thrown under the bus with no preamble #feels like they didn't realize they should have been building up to this season 2 eps 1 through 8 #anyway got it off my chest #leighton murray #tslocg spoilers #tslocg #'but tatum represented--' no but SEE you need to out the narrative weight behind that #you can't just 180 leighton into being like omg hi women's center besties!!! #idk my girl deserved a more well rounded development

[todayisafridaynight]

'im gonna sleep' he lied

#snap chats #i love making the main text Bullshit and then putting the actual post below. ive said this before but idc its my art #its like... the main text is the title and the tags is the actual article.... does that make sense #i should sleep my eyes are heavy but im being tormented by concepts i want to execute #gotta apologize for all the arasawa posting as of late but ive been enabled #tbh on the lowest of keys i did post bout them on occasion in the past but. but now it's feel-speed ahead #twt has been driving me insane so i just need to hop aboard me other boat yk what im saying... please say you do i refuse to elaborate #for the sake of the people i wont but man if you know you know #anyways. the actual meat of this text post See All That Preamble Shit is meant to deter people. it is a warning #'i am bring cringe down here do not look. wait for it to be art so it's harder to ignore' #'snap i thought you didnt like sharing things if you were gonna do something with it' ok well the delusions are strong tonight #and im too tired to do anything and ill prob be too brain dead to do anything tomorrow LET ME SPEAK #ok cringe time. i just think jo gradually accepting physical affection can be something so personal and good SUE. me. #and when i say 'gradually' it will be ten years before he accepts it and even so it'll be quietly #i think by his 20's hes beyond flinching/wincing at random contact- or at the very least he's very good at suppressing the reflex to #more so if its not something like a handshake- like just casual contact- i imagine he's more confused than anything #i had friends who were obsessed with like. hugs and holding hands and those things always had me like ??? #i imagine Same Shit for him ☠️ 'this isnt a bad thing but this isnt something im familiar with What Is???? this feels weird.' #im gonna make myself throw up thinking anymore about this. i be making these hardened yakuza men sweet and sentimental #twitter really is decaying my brain.... #let me be worse. cause i hope arakawa introducing that sort of physical affection rubs off on jo. no where near the same level as arakawa #but itd be SOO funny if like.. jo starts walking close enough to occasionally bump shoulders with him #i hope when arakawa starts nodding off in the car and ''''accidentally''' lays his head on his shoulder he stops tensing up #heaven forbid jo even rests his cheek against arakawa. id be ill #Let Me Clutch My Pearls For This One i hope when they hold hands jo starts to hold arakawa's a lil tighter than he used to #just very /very/ little things like that. very little things that'll still make me insane I'M DELU-LU TONIGHT SORRRYYYYY #expect more of this bullshit but. in art form in the future. whether it writing or drawing idk i just need it #i need it injected right into my veins its my weakness your honor TAKE ME AWAY i AM guilty for making the scary gangsters cute #ok im pissing off fr now bye.

[oceanoecielo]

( closed starter for @tenkabito-za )

One might think that Simon would avoid the ocean after the Awful Deep situation—however, that isn’t the case at all.  He does still find himself able to enjoy it, although he certainly doesn’t want to take the extended stay in it that he did before, not with all that existential dread that was supposed to be shared with thousands of sacrifices bearing down on him at once.  But it is nice sometimes to be down there without the weight of catastrophic fear and failure on you, just the heavy pressure of the ocean pushing on you from all sides, squeezing everything right out of you, clearing your head remarkably fast.

He also enjoys being down here for the simple fact of discovery.  In all of the years that the world has been traveling by sea, it has been accumulating more and more at the bottom of it, as vessels and other items go under.  Due to rising sea levels, it also isn’t uncommon to find entire buildings buried under the water, and that is exactly what he discovers this time.

A large temple, which takes him a second to actually see, due to the low visibility this far under the water.  It gives him a mild startle to see the gaping entrance of the building before him, and he laughs, though no sound comes out, the sea water instantly rushing in to fill the space.

He swims forward, which is remarkably easy for him, despite the fact that anyone else would have had all of the bones in their body broken by now, and he feels along the walls as he goes.  They’re covered with the slime that all things this far down are, coated in trillions—maybe even quadrillions—of little microorganisms, and if they had the ability to think, that would have been a magnificent dose of fear for him.

He does spot a faint glow ahead, and seeing as he can’t see well enough to properly investigate anything else, he decides to swim towards it.  It does take some fumbling along walls and pressing against columns and entrances to finally make his way into the room.  And where he assumes he will find a little bioluminescent creature, not afraid because they can never get very big all the way down here, he instead finds a sword glowing lightly purple.

He picks it up, utterly irreverent of the dangers, and turns it around in his hands.  It is obviously an Artefact of some kind, potentially belonging to the Slaughter, but seeing as he has already been claimed by an Entity, he should be able to carry it with him while keeping his wits about.  His friend Jonah would really like it, wanting to study it and keep it in storage at the Institute, so with that in mind, he takes it and begins to swim back towards the exit and then to the surface.

#you and i‚ we're flying high. 『 ic 』 #tenkabito za #//please don't feel like you have to match this haha #//a lot of it is preamble anyway #//my writing... has gotten... so long... in the multiple breaks that you have taken haha #//i'm looking back at my old multi and seeing threads that are like less than 100 words long #//and i'm like. how. how did i do that

[dirty-bear-rick-sanchez]

Over the past couple of days, I’ve written 7070 words across 4 different fics. If I’d just focused on one I could’ve finished one by now

Why am I like this

#i hate editing #i can sit down and pump out a load of shit in one go #but it’s combing through the shit to get the good bits out #and adding new stuff to replace the old #that takes the time #hence why i’ve started 4 separate stories and done the initial first thousand words or so #but not finished any #also one was just a vent fic that i may not even publish #one of them has extra like preamble shit i need to write but cannot be fucked with #this why all of my fics are just ‘this happens and it’s sad’ or whatever #plot is hard #writing is very much like coding in that writing some shit down is easy but making it work is hard #but also making it work is satisfying enough that you carry on anyway

[fishfingersandjellybabies]

Its probably mean and very jondami-fan of me, but i find it very amusing that a lot of people are not liking jon’s pride story 😂

But i do like the idea of jay and damian being vaguely friends (but I’m not sure I like that jay already knows damian’s secret identity if I saw those story panels correctly???)

#bee rambles #probably tbd #comics and shit #anyway im just pretending this is all preamble and growth to dami being ace and dating jon #damian wayne

[ranger-kellyn]

okay i think. i've had enough. i think i gotta log out for a while again. all the discussion about EDs and fatphobia and all that regarding taylor's mv is officially too much for me, someone with an ED.

my two cents before i log out is that: solving an ED for a thin person and solving an ED for a fat person are two completely different treatments. what's helpful to one is triggering to the other, and vice versa. I'm thinking along the lines of that post where the one person couldn't concentrate without stimming by bouncing their leg, which was wrecking someone else's concentration by it being too distracting or what have you. the compromise there was for the two people to study or test in different areas. (the only true solution here is the global eradication of fatphobia--but if i knew how to truly do that for everyone, i wouldn't be here on tumblr would i?)

at the end of the day, it's the eurocentric bullshit standards of beauty that are the root of the problem. our fatphobic society is the problem.

forcing taylor to edit that one part out of the video didn't solve fatphobia, it's only making it harder for others to come to terms with their own ED.

#anyways the live getaway car preamble is screaming loudly rn #also don't worry about me i'm fine #i'm doing this preemptively bc scrolling on here and twitter is starting to feel like emotional self-injury #and i gotta stop that before it gets out of hand #i'll be back on for nanowrimo #so like less than a week lmao #talking tag

[modernmutiny]

The fucking computers keep going down at work like every hour now and I stg I am Sisyphus and this stupid system is my goddamned boulder

#teddy talks #i did for reference say this aloud #i work in a pizza shop so everyone else fully believed i was shouting nonsense at them until i explained #like i really dont jam with intellectual/academic superiority (point in case: me chillin working at a fast casual pizza place for 3 yrs) #but also i really really wish literacy beyond just knowing letters and things was more advanced in our culture #so i can yell about greek myths without the 5 min preamble #anyways. #sisyphus. boulder. im gonna throw a computer through the window into the parking lot. etc.