#perhaps they're all bad

[britneyshakespeare]

do you ever feel like people only like chick-fil-a so much because they're not supposed to

#i've only had their food like twice in my life (for the longest time i didn't live close to one) #like i don't get it #text post #i don't see ppl talk so fondly about other fast food restaurants in the same way #well i mean sometimes. some people do. if they're genuinely like fond of one for some specific personal reason #but like the certain endearment it's just normal to express about chick-fil-a... i don't get it!! #and im just supposed to grit my teeth and not bring the word 'homophobia' into it #again im not like accustomed to their food admittedly but the few times ive had it. its NOT that great #maybe this is also a northeastern thing for me. maybe it's different where u grow up #i see more locations near me popping up nowadays but perhaps if u live in the south it felt more like your upbringing #idfk. i know i'm not spouting an unpopular opinion on tumblr by saying Chick-fil-A Bad #but when i see normies where i live being excited about new locations popping up im like. hm. well we all know right... #ur fine w sending this message to your queer friends and family? ....... ok #yeah go get that disrespectful ass lemonade then

[crookedlyinnernightmare]

tbh i think abt the black feathers in teruhashi's aura sooo much.. fallen angel imagery w her would go SO hard

#tbh i think aiura's gut reaction to teruhashi's aura becoming progressively dark would be negative n she might want to intervene #but the more she comes to understand kokomi's circumstances and troubles and trauma she starts to wonder if this change might be necessary #perhaps even good.. #lol what if i made them go through an entire corruption(?) arc where its uncertain what is 'good' and what is 'bad' anymore n they toe the- #-line of losing themselves. also they're wlw #i haven't thought abt this a lot at all btw. aha. heh... #saiki k #teruhashi kokomi #aiura mikoto #<because of the tags

[benetnvsch]

seriously obsessed with your furry knkdzs thank you for them <3

waaaaaaaah- thank u thank u ;; they are My Favorites so they get the Furry Treatment PFFT-

have another as a treat :dances:

#BUT YEA THANKS IM KINDA INSECURE ABT SHARING FURRY ART ON MAIN BC IM A WEENIE SO THIS MEANS A LOT WEEPS #kite draws #bsd #Bungou stray dogs #LITERALLY ?? GET IT CUZ THEY'RE DOGS LITERA- (gets shot by bad joke police) #kunikidazai #knkdz #kunizai #Dazai x kunikida #kunikida x dazai #kunikidog #kunikida doppo #Dazai osamu #kite watches bsd #furry art #I have been drawing all of these on the same canvas and just have been hiding layers lol #the title of them all is lmao and when I export em I just add a number this was LMAO3.png #the background was overkill perhaps but I wanted to shade fancy and needed a light source SHUSH #also peep Kunikidas tail wag LOL I am proud of that #nothing is sillier to me than giving animal character actual animal behaviors #like imagine a cat girl who coughs up hair balls time to time I love her girlboss

[pennyserenade]

Last Line Tag

thank you for the tag @cutemothman <3

The simple truth of it was that if she wasn’t a whore and near destitute, he’d marry her in a heartbeat. While Livia Cardew was a wonderful choice, and one he was close to sealing the deal on, she wasn’t like this woman. He knew that there would never be a danger of loving either of them, that his heart could never open the way it had for Lucy Gray for anyone so cold and cynical. But he also knew, unlike with Livia, that he could delight in life with this one—that she could make him better, not for her acquiescence, but the process of wearing her down to surrender. There was no better life for a future Gamemaker than to live constantly in a game of his own devising, was there? No better practice for a future President than facing such staunch opposition and overcoming it. Of course he wanted her.

tagging: @whatsnewalycat, @perotovar, @moonlight-prose, @egcdeath, @chronically-ghosted and whoever else might like to do this <33

#misc. #i do have to admit this coriolanus fic has defeated me a little #bc i cannot write a version of him that is not the worst. i don't have that in me #i wrote so many different iterations of this the past few days #and today i was like 'oh my god they're not going to like him this is too dark' #and then i realized that perhaps that meant i had struck the core of his character lmao #i'm so bad at writing fanfic that is solely romantic or romantic at all. im fighting for my life rn

[flufflecat]

can writers stop amounting their characters to such a husk of themselves that them literally killing themselves for no reason is considered a good death

#suicide mention #technically? #can you guess whom this is about #I'll give you two guesses and both of them are probably right if you know me well enough #did you guess gojo and also crowley from supernatural for some reason?? well if so.. ding ding ding! #correct answer!!! #like sorry you're all terrible writers but uhhhh no it's not satisfying for a character to die doing LITERALLY nothing #and sacrifice themselves just for the sake of getting them out of the narrative #how do you fuck up so bad that your message is 'suicide is the better option' #'their lives sucked really bad and they were sad or something so actually this is a better option and is super heroic' #just say you don't know how to write your own characters. just say those words for me you shitty writers. #admit it #stop trying to write 'dramatic plot altering sacrifices' when the only plot in question is one of your own contrivances #'well they were sad in life but don't worry!! they're dead as shit now :)' #wow what a good meaningful story. thank you I didn't look at it that way. I didn't realize suicide is so good as a backup #LIKE?!?? #if you take two seconds to pick apart the narratives this is the message that you find #and it's a bad message #can editors like.. stop this sometime #can any editor ever perhaps be allowed to say 'maybe write something less stupid and bad' #once again greed fma proves superior in that his sacrifice actually meant something and wasn't just a useless goddamn suicide #when your characters can avoid death through their actions but choose to die for.. some inexplicable reason #than that's just suicide lite lol #and no. shoehorning in that someone is just 'looking for a worthy opponent' #(as if you just watched kung fu panda last night and thought tai lung was the protagonist) #does not make their death ~~Meaningful~~~~~~ #I wrote this rant in the tags bc I didn't wanna put it on people's dashes for real #and read mores bore me #read my tags if you want to see into the anger that festers in my soul because of poorly written characters from dumb media #I should stop liking characters other than greed. he's really the only character that ever matters

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

Rotating “Living History Diamond Clan having shenanigans in the present” in my mind…

Iscan discovering the Marine Tube (and Palina h a t i n g it due to her terror of the ocean). He seems like he would have dreamed of seeing the world as a Water Pokémon does.

Sabi would somehow befriend or generally be chasing the ghost girl in the Old Chateau. (This matches up with her descendent, Cheryl, whom you also meet in Eterna Forest.)

Mai and Melli entering a Contest. Melli loves the concept and Mai loves the costumes. If you look at their outfits they both have embroidery that no one else in the clan seems to have, plus I just imagine when united they have Unstoppable sibling energy—until Melli yells at a judge for saying his Skutank isn’t “Cute”

Arezu finding out about Mars and immediately dyeing and cutting her own hair so no one will mistake her for a former criminal. It has mixed success, largely because now she looks like a former criminal trying to disguise herself.

Adaman sees everyone in the present is always rushing, trying to keep schedules and deadlines, never slowing down… oh almighty Sinnoh-Dialga, it’s beautiful. Finally no one is wasting time! This lasts about ten minutes before he realizes how bad it is for everyone.

OOH ANON I LOVE ALL OF THIS MWAH

iscan and palina seize the opportunity to have an Actual Date while the clan leaders aren't here (they trust their fellow wardens to keep mum about it, i have a lot of Thoughts abt that, cough). iscan found a pamphlet and is really hyped and palina agrees without really thinking about it and then takes one step inside The Tube and is like i have made. a Grave Miscalculation

(they split up so she can go do [x thing i havent decided yet. go get lord arcanine a grooming?] instead and regroup for lunch, it's fine)

(though if we're going with "the clan leaders are in unova and everyone else is in sinnoh" they would be nowhere near the marine tube... hmm... maybe they're gonna take a boat out of canalave instead?)

aww maybe sabi and cheryl wind up investigating the old chateau together! in the anime she's an amateur treasure hunter so it would make sense for her to be intrigued by it. sabi just gets Good Vibes from her and isn't totally sure why, cheryl, being unaware sabi's from the distant past, is also clueless. i think gaeric or someone was probably supposed to be watching sabi but got distracted so she wandered off to investigate the Weird Thing in the woods instead. it's fine she can handle it!

ACTUALLY. ive been thinking abt that embroidery and my hc is that it's actually a hobby of melli's. gotta have something to do while he's sitting around in the hollow seat! mai's was either a gift or she put a hole in her clothes and had to, Extremely begrudgingly, ask him to patch them. and then he did a really intensely good job for no reason. anyway none of this is relevant I LOVE THEM GETTING INTO CONTESTS. maybe one of them also gets really into making poffins but skuntank refuses to eat any of them so it's a montage of them, plus an increasingly large crowd of chefs Rising To The Challenge, trying to figure out what it WANTS. finally mai thinks to add some of the hopo berries from her bag, prompting every spectator to lose their fucking minds bc hopo berries don't exist anymore

arezu and cyllene "oh fuck our descendants are part of a fringe world-ending group time for some Emergency Makeovers so we stop getting weird looks and/or questioned by the authorities" bonding session! ooh if iscan does wind up taking a boat ride maybe they drag palina along to distract her from the "MY LOVED ONE IS ON A BOAT" anxiety

adaman admiring the gear station schedule and how perfectly exact and followed it is which is incidentally how the leaders wind up running into emmet. adaman is SHOCKED to find out that emmet isn't from sinnoh, which prompts emmet to start bitching about Waiting Period, which surprises adaman even more to find out that the modern day diamond clan descendants suck at not wasting time! this conversation is had while walking ofc bc emmet has Places To Be, and adaman is absentmindedly following, and then adaman boards a random train and accidentally strands irida in the station. whoops

#the nemesis answers #the nemesis speaks #anonymous #living history au #actually iscan and palina don't have descendants i don't think which would mean they also wind up in unova instead but UH #i like them being with the wardens instead... perhaps i shall simply handwave that #also between mai dropping random hopo berries and laventon wandering around asking people random questions #and the other wardens Being Themselves #im kind of thinking now that they're sort-of trying to keep the fact that they're time travelers quiet #but then they all end up individually breaking their cover at almost the exact same time #all coming back like so i have some bad news uh

[vohtaro]

.

#i keep thinking abt my coworker saying that the maintenance phase podcast was too angry for him #and i have not stopped thinking about it all day basically #bc like. firstly it rlly doesn't sound that angry to me. #but secondly i'm trying not to read too deeply into his application this impression of the word anger towards ppl who are passionate #and sometimes speaking from a place of deeply felt hurt #like yeah sometimes they're like WHAT THE FUCK when talking abt a subject but i'm like. rlly ??? the eps i've played have read as angry?? #kinda feels bad too bc i've been feeling far far less close to him for the past couple years #he's the kind of guy who is like. aware of his privilege in some places but also so deeply naive in others. #or just ambivalent perhaps #like if i have to hear him say 'the best you can do is vote' one more time i might go ballistic #anyways. just unfortunate things that don't matter much i suppose. just feeding my general disconnect to living here anymore. #personal #also hey go listen to maintenance phase bc i love that pod and the hosts are delightful ✨ #like if you hear aubrey's giggle and don't feel healed by it idk how to help u

[uroborosymphony]

@ofgentleresolve writing me a starter even if I didn't ask for a starter it's a surprise starter it makes me so happy

#AAAAAAAAH #I'M BLUSHING FERRE WROTE ME A STARTER I GOT MANIC ENERGY NOW #THANK YOU THANK YOU #I love surprises!! #Also it's our girls fighting that's so sexy to me #Oh my god now I'm imaging all the possibilities of the Myungdae Felicity gang vs. Quinn as she's clearly up their business lmao #I think the most unforgivable shit she could do would be threatening them when she works with Hyuk - to jeopordize Myungdae's love interest #Even though she does it to protect her gang and protect herself #BUT #If eventually ANACHRON is the reason why Annie has been hurt I can picture them uniting and working together like Quinn would wave her flag #Quinn would want to avenge Annie but perhaps by learning more of ANACHRON'S ANTICS would offer her gang strength if they're the big BAD #Cue cool scenes of Annie learning how to hit and gaining her mojo back and becoming a whole ass BADDIE go babygirl go #It's like in the end they're all in the same side they want Justice #It's that Quinn has to drop her games - leave Hyuk alone and get a psych eval to earn their trust if they do associate in the future #Oh my god it's our SUICIDE SQUAD #Cant say Justice League it sounds so lame i havent watched the movie i just like villains better #SUICIDE SQUAD LETS GO #Damn #I'm spiraling

[leatherbookmark]

i quite wish slash hope jgy (i’m talking about him because he’s my #1 boy but this also goes for jc and xy and probably every character that inspires such takes) didn’t have the fandom just... regurgitating the most random takes and/or treating them as gospel and Such Good, Insightful Meta because it agrees with their Vibe Read of jgy, when said Vibe Read is 99% rooted in fandom and maybe 1% in zanzan’s evil smiles, and Very Little, If At All, rooted in the things that happen in canon.

#especially if they contain sentences such as 'well logically this doesn't make sense but since when this character makes sense!' #yeah no they do make sense but you have to consider their situation and perhaps take even a tiny part of what they're saying seriously #if your take on jgy is that -- for example -- he is always ALWAYS lying... you're not going to have a good grasp on his character i'm afraid #but people think that all the time! that he's a master manipulator and every single display of emotion he shows is a lie expertly #tailored to make as many people as possible buy into it and feel bad for him. so you've got jgy breaking and TALKING to nmj #(yknow the thing everyone insists would fix 3zun. if they just TALKED ^__^) about how he's scared of everything and everyone and his #hands are tied and he IS different from all the people he's killed because NONE OF THEM were children of whores despised by the society #to which nmj reacts like he does. (they talked! ^___^) #there's also the eternal 'well he did one bad thing i think is inexcusable so i'm going to assume they're down for all the others' #they stole a thing from my favourite character so in my books they're not perfectly fine with: murder; rape; beating someone to death #with a metal bad; school shootings; child grooming; emotional manipulation; gaslighting; and tax evasion #also they have bpd and are a narcissist. i'm saying this with no prejudice at all btw ^_^ #mam trochę dość tbh #shrimp thoughts

[miodiodavinci]

i need to be asleep but i'm looking at the tax return money i have stashed away and wondering just how much of a quality upgrade i should make in terms of mixing headphones

#the brand i've been using has served me fairly well #but i don't know if they're still in production because the last ones i've ordered came worn/damaged and had to be returned #and my current pair is Quite Literally hanging on by a thread #(read: it is taped together with electrical tape and a large tongue depressor to replace the broken hinge) #(and has a small bead jammed into the cup joint to prevent it from swinging outwards) #(and i have to put a folded sock on my head to counteract the compressed headband foam) #so i've been thinking i ought to upgrade just a bit from the $20 range to perhaps the $50 range #but i'm staring at the company i'm thinking about ordering from and wondering if i should just #go ahead and spend a little more to get a slightly more sensitive and collapsible studio-level pair #but spending more is scary ! ! ! ! #what if they're bad ! ! ! #what if they sound terrible and feel bad and get lost in the mail when i try to return them ! ! ! #or what if they sound so so good all my mixing things will sound terrible no matter what ! ! ! #or well i'm not sure how to describe that last fear but i think it basically amounts to #what if it makes vocal synth voices sound bad somehow #ughhgh i know it'll be better for me in the long run to invest now while i have the option #because no doubt the more expensive pair will last longer and give me better quality results #(evidence: an astounding number of people reporting they've used theirs for 5-10 years with no sound decay) #as opposed to my current ones which i've had to replace every 3 years #$70 for potentially 10 years of good audio . . . . #which is roughly what i'd be paying with the cheap pair but with only mid-tier audio #h m m m m m #i'll sleep on it i guess . . . .

[chickensoupleg]

Shower Thought

So like. El. AU where El is just a quiet and frankly unsocialized little girl who lives really close to the sea with Hopper. She was found in the middle of the forest during a patrol with no memory of how she got there, who she was, or anything outside of the most basic forms of human knowledge (Like how to use a toilet and what forks are).

So Hopper keeps her in his little cabin by the sea when El shows no sign of any family member coming forth to the station to claim her as their child, and essentially just becomes his Eggo loving daughter.

El, as any curious child tends to do, ends up escaping one day and running to the sea. She sees it outside her window all the time after all, and she wanted to get up close and personal.

That's where she meets Max. Max is actually a mermaid, just Arieling it up or whatever, and of course ran away the moment she realized a girl had snuck up on her. That's fun. El thought it was strange, but didn't find it weird enough to really tell anyone. She's read tales about mermaids, seeing one in real life couldn't be that weird, starfish are in books too and those things are real.

She also didn't think she'd keep seeing Max, but alas Max really likes making Billy's life hard as hell by escaping and chilling up at the surface. Rebellious teen phase and all that. So, of course, they kept meeting every time El snuck down to the water (Which was often. Wet sand was SUCH an experience and El kept going down to do normal people things) and eventually sort of became friends. Who knew mermaids spoke human languages. They bond, and Max is happy to talk about normal girl things, even if said normal girl things are kind of ocean related, or just things Max has seen people do.

Perhaps from there the boys end up finding out about Max's existence, or maybe Hopper, or perhaps El goes on a little rescue mission when one of Max's surface excursions lead to getting caught in a net or being captured by people who wanted to make a profit out of her.

#stranger things #el hopper #max mayfield #elmax #it's the max levitating scenes except this time in a fisherman net #no powers for el but she DOES get a neat collection of pearls and funky seashells #she also learns how to swim from max #maybe el even gets to meet billy at one point #perhaps even bond a little #i'd like to think that billy here is... well he's still mean but he's not BAD he's just not fond of max running away so much #the ocean is massive as hell and apparently curfews exist where the sun barely shines #and sharks. being half fish can totally mean you're half lunch #billy probably isn't actually tan since... he's underwater all the time #but maybe his skin tone is just naturally tanned like that? like a clownfish? #el is just fascinated by how cool max looks #maybe even makes a little clay version of her for fun #would max smell like ocean or like fish #it'd be funny if she smelt like salted caramel for no reason #the party would probably also be in awe of a real life mermaid #but unlike el who just accepted it instantly they'd be a little more in shock because they're supposed to be a myth #max gets barraged with questions and leaves because she's getting annoyed #and then el gets a little pouty because they made her friend leave >:( #max's diet is probably fish if not like sea flora but el shares her eggos with her anyways