#so it'll probably be fine

[dyrewrites]

Someone bought the short story with the monster assault in it so now I'm over here worried they're going to review that thing.

#nobody reviews my shorts #so it'll probably be fine #but also ahhhhhhh #the other ones have sold a few copies #which is fucking awesome btw #but not this one #this is the first #and i am scared

[cesium-sheep]

honestly ordering groceries online is really difficult for me even though everyone else seems to have decided that this layout is the optimal one for online shopping. like it works pretty okay if you know exactly what you want, sure, but part of how I actually manage to stay fed is to go in and look for ~inspiration~, something I've gotten to do uhhhhhhhhhh twice in the past 15 months. but I flat out do not have access to a grocery store right now, and even when I do my access is very limited by exposure risk.

but like. arin said to pick out lots of groceries for myself, and she also needed a few things. even then, with a $10 delivery fee and a 15% tip (I'm aware some people feel that's still lowballing but I don't have the option to not get delivery I'm not getting a luxury splurge here), it's about $130 and will probably last me until I leave. because it's hard for me to spontaneously generate ideas just looking at a webpage of food links, and I eat less when I'm distressed, and I'm very good at getting by on only a little even when I'm not Basically Dead. the last $95 grocery delivery was 2 weeks ago, and she's only really filled in with a couple little snack runs since.

*correction: the last grocery delivery was $92 and it was about a week ago, but we only got groceries twice in april, $55 worth in a pickup order and then matt picked up a load of groceries while he was in town. and we're probably not going to get groceries again this month. point being I do not get many groceries and I do not get them often. arin does supplement with picking up like chocolates and stuff from time to time but that's very distinct in my head. and getting fast food once or twice a month is a splurge expense and an unusual occurrence so it's not like we're just eating out instead.

it is not a good thing, because food flat out is not that cheap right now. it means I'm not eating enough, or enough of a variety. she's mostly eating from the work cafeteria which is comped, but still.

I'll be home soon and matt really really wants to cook for me and keeps brainstorming ideas. plus he's shown a willingness and capacity to take a picture of the shelf in the store and let me choose if I can't provide specific items when I send him out.

It Has Been A Bad Year. in so very many ways that all fold in on each other.

#long post #ask to tag #which is part of why I worry about her only having her small disability income soon #cuz it's double hard when money becomes an additional Hard Limit rather than just something I keep an eye on #and like matt clearly already has a way bigger food budget than we do #so it'll probably be fine #and he wants to cook for everyone so that will stretch it further #but still. #I worry. #with good reason.

[hauntzbin]

i feel like it's pretty safe to assume the people who say Chaggie is toxic because of Vaggie's attachment to Charlie haven't really been deeply in love before, especially not in a situation where their partner literally saved their life.

Sure a dynamic like that could go sour if you become too overbearing/demanding or controlling out of fear of losing them, but Vaggie is very obviously not that?

I can't exactly put the feeling into words, it's sort of a situation you have to experience in order to understand. But when you owe someone your life, especially when it feels that person is also your soulmate, of course you dedicate the rest of it to making them happy and giving unyielding support. Of course you feel like you owe them the world, because they're your whole world and the only reason you're even still here.

Yes it can create a power imbalance and your partner could take advantage of the obsessive loyalty that level of dependency breeds, but Charlie chooses not to because shes not abusive and she respects and loves vaggie.

Charlie recognizes that Vaggie has self worth issues and places her value in how useful she is to her, and instead of making it into a toxic situation charlie takes the time to reassure vaggie that she doesn't need to be 'proving' herself and that she is loved and valued as she is.

#Idk chaggies dynamic mirrors me and my fiance of 10+ yrs so I'm biased and will b blocking ppl that say dumb shit probably lol #Yes it can become toxic very easily if either party chooses to make it that way but if you truly love your partner you simply #Don't? Take advantage of them?? And both parties of chaggie very clearly respect and love eachother. #And as time goes on it'll be easier for Vaggie to believe her worth outside of her relationship and accept herself #idk I see some of the discourse abt this and it's like. /SO/ clear you guys don't get it. #And that's fine bc it's really not something you can truly get if you haven't gone through it yourself #But idk how you can say with your whole chest that either Vaggie or Charlie are taking advantage of eachother #Tumblr is all for supporting ppl that are struggling until it comes down to people who actually heavily depend on that support

[valiant-portabella-pirkko]

weird thoughts I get at odd hours of the evening:

it'd be cool to have something in Guild Wars 2 similar to the og game's 'mercenary slots,' which allow you to save your characters as usable NPC party members to play with on another character. it'd be great to have something like that even just for photoshoots, slapping multiple characters into a setting so you can take fun pics.

#my posts #GW2 #Guild Wars 2 #is this an incredibly niche wish? probably #and do i think it'll ever happen? probably not #but i still kinda wish we had it because of what you could do with it + add a proper photo mode along with it #i know i have a lot of characters that are supposed to be from the same continuity so it'd be fun to have them together #even if it was really only for photos or could only be used in story instances or smth. limitations would be fine honestly #i'd definitely abuse the heck out of it for cool shots either way lol

[one-bunny-a-day]

08/05/2023

#daily bunny #128 #standalone bunny #my laptop keyboard is trying to die #so I can't use ctrl z sometimes #which makes art so uncomfortable I just FDGHGF #was gonna be milly trigun but ig she'll wait till tomorrow #anyway donate to my kofi so I can worry about my laptop instead of groceries //jk it'll be fine probably

[partywithponies]

Protect me from the Terrible Urge to start new tumblr poll tournaments despite still never finishing the last one. 😩

#I will finish it. eventually #I made it too personal was the problem. #I filled it entirely with My Petsonal Favourites and then felt like I couldn't move on without giving each one enough appreciation #so if I just don't do that again it'll be fine #probably

[littlespoonevan]

the thing about romcoms is just- it's never meant to be 'is it believable?' but instead 'do you believe it?' do you believe these two characters are actually falling in love with each other??? do you believe their chemistry??? do you believe whatever obstacle is thrown in their way is legitimately something that might keep them apart for a time and not something that could be solved with one conversation?? do you believe that they believe they need to fake date for this very specific reason??? do you believe the reason why they're 'enemies' at the start, no matter how silly a misunderstanding it may be??? do you believe the grand romantic gesture fits the characters and is actually how one character would show their love to the other?? like!!!! it's about empathy and authenticity and feeling what the characters feel so strongly that even if it's a trope or a cliché it doesn't matter because you believe it

#this is what separates a good romcom from a bad romcom for me #if the conventions of the genre are used in a way that feels authentic to the characters then it'll never feel cheesy #one of my biggest pet peeves is some of the romcoms of the last decade who have this real 'we're not like other romcoms' energy #where they try to act like they're Different and move away from the usual tropes but it's shit bc that's not the point!!!! #those tropes and conventions are staples of the genre for a reason #it's how you utilise them and incorporate them that matters #like fuck me i hate action movies but i know if i go see one there's a 99% chance there'll be a car chase scene #bc that's usually a staple feature of an action movie and i mean idc but that's fine bc i know it has a function in the story to increase #the tension #and even at that someone who really loves action movies could probably tell me the difference between a good car chase scene & a subpar one #in the same way that just saying something is fake dating doesn't automatically make it good #but if i believe it and i'm in it with the characters? oh boy i'm about to feel so dELIGHTED for the next 90 minutes thank you so much #anyway i'm rewatching the lost city and every second of this movie is so silly in a fun way and fantastical but oH BOY DO I BELIEVE IT #mine

[bumblingbabooshka]

My baby's just fine. She knows all of her rhymes. [Patreon | Ko-fi]

#bea art tag #comix #Tuvok #Asil #st voy #star trek voyager #star trek voy #st voyager #Asil not wanting to speak to her dad...too many emotions...what's the point? Why should I? #This is from the timeline in my head where she becomes a priest and undergoes the kolinahr because her anguish over losing her father #is too much #I typically have all his children being adults by the time Voyager returns with the youngest having been a teenager when he left #But AAA.....oh it DOES hurt the heart good to imagine that his youngest was only a child...comes back to nearly an adult. AGH. #And it'd probably hurt a lot...Tuvok obviously values teaching as a means to bond with children (see: Innocence) #<- And his relationship to Kes in some respects though she is NOT a child. I just know that teaching mental discipline would be high on a #Vulcan parent's priorities #The thought of Tuvok missing all that childhood development...he knows it'll go fine without him. He trusts his wife and his community but #it still must hurt...to see your child grow so much without you. Even more so because as a Vulcan their childhood is such a vanishingly #small part of their lifespan. They're a child for like 18 years out of their potential 200. #happy tuvok tuesday!!!

[rapidhighway]

look at this gorgeous woman

#i have noo fuckin idea what im doing ill just take a look at its guts and maybe dust it off #the speaker cables were cut off so id have to find a replacement #everything else seems in order #theres warnings about the laser inside and im not planning on disassembling it so it'll probably be fine #if there's spiders inside I'm burning the house down

[pyxy-styx]

Dragging your friend into a fandom with you so you can watch them suffer the same way you did is fun

#:) #hello fren #It'll be fine maybe probably #i can't wait to start sending you comics and fics once you have moee context #>:3 #tmnt #rise of the tmnt movie #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #there are so many typos in those tags lmao

[strangesickness]

what i wasn't prepared for when i started passing sometimes in public was going from being treated like an adult by strangers to being treated like a preteen. like yeah i pass... as a CHILD. also i only pass if i'm careful with my posture and mannerisms and don't talk so its so funny the moment when they "realize" "oh shit i just called an adult 'woman' bud" and start desperately over-correcting.

#my summer job this year is camp leader and its going to be so awkward #when all the kids assume i'm a guy and all my coworkers are like no thats [birthname] #or if i get there on my first day and they assume i'm a high school volunteer or something #or if the parents assume i'm another one of the campers... #there is fear in my heart #but it'll be fine. probably. #posts afflicted with a strange sickness #trans #transgender #transman #transmasc #ftm #lgbt #lgbtq

[raiiny-bay]

my favorite edits - 2023 edition 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9

#ts4 #simblr #once again i don't know how to tag this so... #i'm just gonna use the same tags i used last year ig #2023 was apparently the year of the monster boyz #only 3 of these are not mb posts & i'm ok with that actually #ik i've said it a million times already but #i had soooo much fun doing mb stuff this year! #i'm really excited about all the stuff i have planned for the AU tbh #like. i have a list #i'm hoping................... to get the origin stories done at some point. #probably gonna do some writing here soon ish. #i've gotta make all of the side characters still & finish the character page so idk. i'll figure it out. i have a lot of ideas #i really wanna start sharing more about the story & the boys' actual personalities so that's probably what i'll focus on this next year #edit-wise i mean. like doing lore edits & stuff. idk #making cricket's was really fun so i think i'll like making stuff for everyone else too #i just have to not try to do a whole story bc then i'll lose interest. it'll be like the degenerates all over again lmao #idk why i just hate making story posts #lore posts are fine but story posts? mm no. not for me. idk how but they are different in my brain ok #n e way #i rambled. sorry. bye lol

[pickleking8]

9 - Adoption Isn't All It's Cracked Up To Be - Chapter 9

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Tw: kidnapping, general creepiness, trauma discussion, injury discussion, death discussion

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The shifting sea of their glances oozed over him, covering him in a substance that he could only wish to be rid of, slimy, sticky, and squirming, finding its way into every orifice, every pore, and burrowing deep inside him, making his skin feel all wrong, like it was too tight and too loose and he was too hot and too cold and his organs rolled in his body and his eyes in his sockets and his nerves curled and twisted and writhed, and it was wrong, so wrong, and then Danny was running, his headache worsening and building into a single point of awful focus all while tears gathered in his eyes. He pivoted fast, pounding feet in rhythm with the pounding of his heart, and he heard the shouts behind him, garbled and unintelligible, and in his mind’s eye he saw the grasping hands, reaching from an impenetrable maw and snatching for his ankles and tearing at his clothing and now, blue-gloved and covered in oozing green, dripping slowly with the consistency of honey. Danny slammed into a wall and quickly recovered, pushing off of it, borrowing momentum, and stuttering to a stop as he came face-to-face with a tall man with dark hair, who grabbed his wrists and smiled. 

Others would describe the smile as easy-going. Friendly, calm, inviting. Danny saw the way it stretched too wide, the way it betrayed a sense of triumph upon his capture that was too leering, too predatory; he saw how the man felt fulfilled with the chase in the way his teeth were too sharp and too hungry. Danny saw all of these things, but he was really looking at the eyes. The eyes that scanned and assessed and were all too alert, and the eyes that didn’t crinkle with that mask of a smile, that only showed a coldness and calculation. And Danny was terrified.

The man didn’t let go when Danny threw his weight against his grasp. He didn’t even falter. They stared at each other for a fraction of a second, Danny’s breaths panting and frantic, the man’s slow and calm. And then the smile widened further, until the man’s face split and Danny was left waiting for more cracks in his porcelain-perfect face to appear. Before they could, though, the man dropped his wrists, and before Danny could react, enveloped him in a crushing hug that made Danny’s skin crawl. Danny flinched as the man laughed, a sound that was distorted and much too loud.

He shoved the man off him, hard, and the man let him (and he was sure that the man was letting him). He fell back against the wall, tears finally spilling down his cheeks, stinging as they fell over cuts and scrapes, and settling in the folds of his shirt. The man finally stepped away, finally stopped being so close that he could feel his breath, hot like fire, on his neck. Danny watched, afraid, breathing erratic and hands shaking, and more and more people filled the hallway, coming from all sides, surrounding him, and his already-meager escape routes dwindled until he was stuck, alone, with that sea of predatory eyes boring into him. 

“Jason? Are you okay?”, the man finally spoke, not in static and whispers, not garbled and distorted, as Danny had expected, but normal. Understandable. Not in the voice of the monster that Danny knew lurked. In his opinion, the normalcy of his voice might have been worse. This meant the monster was good at hiding. Danny stared at him. And then, not knowing what else to do, he spoke.

“Who are you? Who’s Jason?”, he said, and it was fast and panicked and the words sounded as though he had to force them out of a throat clogged with years of decay. The people donned various looks of surprise, eyebrows rose near-imperceptibly, breath was sucked in all too fast, the man who hugged him even jolted, and they all had the audacity to act wounded. 

“You… don’t remember us? We’re your family, come on, Jason,” the man spoke, daring again in an insurmountable arrogance to sound hurt, to sound upset. Danny felt his chest tighten, the panic somehow rising, as did his anger. Fueled by his pain and the man’s words, he managed to spit out in a sputtering flame of fury, 

“What the fuck? No, I’m not. No, you’re not. My name’s not fucking Jason, I’m Danny,” his voice softened, and it took on a pleading tone, one that was laced with desperation, “I don’t know who you are. You’re not my family, I know you’re not my family, just, please. Let me go. I won’t tell, I promise I won’t tell, please just let me go,” 

“Your act will not fool us, Todd,” the smallest one spoke up, with a tone of superiority and confidence, “We have examined your injuries, they are the same as Todd’s when he ‘died’, and you bear his exact resemblance. You cannot possibly think that your subpar acting skills will convince us otherwise,”

Danny felt his heart sink as his skin crawled all the more, and his expression betrayed every emotion. The tears picked up again with renewed intensity, running in ruts down his face and creating shining trails paved with despair, as he looked up and met the hundreds of shifting eyes.

“Please. I promise, okay, I promise, I’m not Jason, I don’t know who that is, please. I want to leave, I want to go home, I just- ... please, let me go home,” he whispered, his voice scratching and filled with choked-down sobs. 

A girl in the back suddenly stepped forward, melting easily from the darkness. She was younger than the first man, it seemed, with eyes that were much too black and sucked in the light around her, leaving her a shadow that was too silent, too empty, too seamless. This monster was good at hiding. Danny eyed her warily.

“He is not lying,” she said, and Danny’s heart swelled, “He truly does not remember,” she finished, and Danny felt his chin hit his chest. The people looked close to doing the same, until a short one with spiky hair snapped up suddenly, too suddenly, with a determination in his eyes that made Danny recoil. 

“It’s okay! This is probably a trauma response or something! I mean, his maybe-death was probably pretty traumatic, so he’s probably blocking that or something. He’ll remember. We just have to give him time, and being around us and all his old stuff will probably help,” the boy almost yelled in triumph. 

The others nodded enthusiastically, and as they accepted the idea, each one gained a manic tint to their eyes and their smiles widened to curl behind their ears and they all seemed to flicker green. They turned, slowly, their feet making no sound despite the heavy shoes many of them wore, and once again all of their shifting eyes, their warped smiles, their too-sharp teeth, and their twisted faces, all focused on Danny, and their jumbled speech flowed once more, horrible words that burrowed: 

“It’ll be okay, Jason,”

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Hey! Hope y'all enjoyed this chapter, I wasn't sure if I was entirely happy with how it turned out; I don't think I got the pacing quite right? And I was trying real hard to lean into the unsettling vibe and I think I leaned too hard. Ah well though, it's late, no time to think through decisions about posting. Or editing. It'll be fine, right? Anyway, thank you for reading! Constructive criticism would be appreciated.

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Taglist: @tkiesai

#dpxdc #dcxdp #crossover #jazz fenton #danny phantom #jason todd #batfam #adoption isn't all it's cracked up to be #I'm like #proud of how much I wrote #but there's *something* off #perhaps the pacing #but im too tired to fix it #I should probably wait and post it tomorrow so I can fix it #but nahhhh #it'll be fine #thanks for reading anyway!

[itsbrucey]

I have a million ship art ideas for them. And I chose " vaguely homoerotic headlock"

#dndads #closeson #pray that i finish this in some capacity MY DNDADS WIPS.... ARE PILING UP.... #also i don't know how to draw Glenn im so fucking sorry. i imagine him in so many different styles and designs. #Glenn's hair will probably change. shrugs. as long as he looks kinda scraggly and smug it'll be fine #holding him NOT GENTLY AT ALL. HIS NECK WILL BE BROKEN IN 5 #in my mind its Glenn trying to do an escape artist trick but he underestimated the Beef

[kirby-the-gorb]

#kirby #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #you're taking him with you right #(our other partner will be here tomorrow!) #(then after this weekend the next time I see them they'll be driving me home at the end of next month.) #(I'm kinda tired today which makes me Nervous but. I got a lot of brain-work done this week) #(so that if worst comes to worst my partners can pack most of my stuff for me.) #(and it probably will not come to that. even abled folks have low days.) #(but the prednisone is not a permanent solution and I don't actually know for sure how long it will even work.) #(so. being tired makes me Nervous. but it'll be fine.) #(like to clarify it is a lot closer to Regular Tired than the completely debilitating fatigue I was struggling through last weekend) #(but it still makes me worry a little -n- )

[lollytea]

How do I say, without coming across as a jaded miserable little bitch who likes raining on everybody's parade, that the PJO Disney plus adaption is nostalgia bait, in the same way that their live action remakes are

#it'll probably be good #it sounds like its gonna be a pretty faithful adaption #im not denying that #but #20-30 something year old you ARE being pandered to by the Walt Disney Corporation #its fine to be excited for it. just so long as we are all aware of whats happening #also we gotta stop acting like mr riordan is some underdog in this situation #hes written one of the most successful teen lit series of all time #and in disney's current quirky girl phase of grasping hold of anything that already has a following #of COURSE they snatched this shit up #''Percy Jackson. A Disneyplus original.'' #do you have any idea just how much theyre salivating to have their name attached to this series? #(tbf the books were owned by disney too. but a streaming service makes their link to the franchise all the more evident) #anyway. maybe i sometimes get a little bitter when i think about all the original projects in production that were abruptly cancelled #usually because of the current fear to take risks and put something new into the world #and then i remember adaptions like are going ahead #there is no risk associated the pjo series. the first few books are relatively squeaky clean for a teenage audience #this is a comfortable direction for them to go in #''but but but theres gay people in it'' hush. disney is not afraid of captilizing on the gay experience #also im pretty sure the gay people dont show up until like. 8 books in #thats 8 seasons #can you imagine #''guys we need to keep giving this show our support so we can eventually get solanjello (or whatever its called)'' #ooooh theyre quite evil. very interesting #even tho like. dont worry you'll get your gay people eventually. you'll get all your book adaptions. you'll get all those seasons. #this franchise is disneys new pet #you can smell it #the hype. the cast announcements. the promotion #LIN MANUEL MIRANDA??? #theyre going to squeeze every last drop of engagement they can get out of it