#sort of rambling

[sweetronancer]

no bc what if nancy and robin dont have that many scenes together bc the duffers know they have too much chemistry like what if like they force them apart bro.. like they cant have robin ruining that stupid ass love triangle.

also i like totally refuse to believe that robin and nancy didnt like. have any more interactions after fighting vecna or wtv. like!!! it js upsets me.

they shouldve at least kissed or smth. a little peck on the cheek yk.. /hj...../srs NO BECAUSE YOURE TELLING ME NANCY DIDNT PAY ANY ATTENTION TO LIKE ROBINS SUSPENDER OUTFIT LIKE IF I WERE HER I WOULD BE GIGGLING AND I WOULD LEAVE JONATHANS ASS IMMEDIATELY!!!! /HSRS

ronance gets me so worked up its not funny anymore thtbgji

#ive shipped this for a while tbh #like this is my third year #ronance #sort of rambling #i suppose #i just cant #if the duffers seperate ronance i will actually cry #and throw hands.. #BUT LIKE RONANCE!!! #i need them to be canon sooo bad #stranger things #robin x nancy #nancy x robin #robin buckley and nancy wheeler

[thor-is-trans-and-pan-he-told-me]

Monsoon is obsessed with frogs and lizards and axolotls

also mistral and monsoon are both autistic

thank you for listening to my ted talk

#monsoon mgr #mistral mgr #headcanons #autism headcanon #hopeless rambles #sort of rambling

[madcatdaderpydrawer-blog]

The act of violence/assholery that makes the infected brother actually reconsider would be really chaotic in the human au. I’ll use the role reversal au as that’s the one where I have this event planned out.

Now, I don’t know what’s funnier: moon willingly jumping off the second floor balcony to escape monty while he’s distracted, or moon ducking under the railing to dodge being grabbed by him and promptly falling off the balcony by complete accident. Either way that argument would come to a very abrupt stop as infected sun has to get to the ground floor to make sure his brother isn’t fucking dead.

The doors don’t open till 6 either so they’d have to figure out a way to treat the injury until they can actually get him help.

The Injuries would probably be having issues breathing normally from being choked or well general movement. Now he couldn’t get his back actually literally torn off, but the harness would be broken. He probably got stabbed in the back of the neck/in between the shoulder blades. Which just makes sun panic even more when he falls off the goddamn balcony and somehow avoids dying and instead just fucks up his leg and further fucks up his back. So needless to say he can’t move very easily, or much at all.

As is with the normal infection, nothing is stronger then being terrified for your sibling.

This would also apply to infected moon. Like he’d also lose his shit that his brother just cracked his head on the floor and forget that killing them is kind of the goal. (Again I still don’t know exactly how he’d hurt him even in the normal au, but it would probably have to do with heights. So dropping him or something, or putting him in a situation where he gets injured in his panic over not being able to see and having a phobia of the dark which I can see him doing. Whatever I do decide on, it will involve a head injury.)

#fnaf moon #moondrop #daycare attendant #fnaf sun #sundrop #sunrise #fnaf security breach au #human au #sort of rambling #redemption au #role reversal au

[cheridraws]

The last character you drew/wrote about is now stuck in the last game you played. How screwed are they?

#what sort of funky crossover do you have!! #my rambles #I’ll go first :] #reigen arataka in scvi. he’s having fun

[dougielombax]

I wonder what the largest shellfish is?

Edit: Okay this post is getting a LOT of traction. What is going on?

Edit: Fucking hell.

This post has set off a fucking MINEFIELD!!!

What have I DONE????!!!!!

I’ve lit the blue touch paper and found there’s nowhere to run to!

I’ve summoned a wolf only to unleash a tiger!!!!! Made of fire! And nails.

Probably….

Idk.

Edit 2: 5,000 Notes! Good god! What the HELL do you want from me. I’ve never had a post of mine take off like this until now.

Some got close like the one about homeowner associations (fucking powertripping middle aged mediocrities!) which got at least 1.5k notes but this is the most I’ve gotten on a single post so far.

Anyway.

AND this post has officially gone to hell. (6,666 notes)

Edit: 8,000 notes! Holy shit!

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WHO THE HELL TURNED OFF THE REPLY THREAD FOR THE REBLOGS?!

Okay never mind it’s back. For now at least.

Anyway.

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #shellfish #sea life #wildlife #maritime shit #fucking hell #molluscs #mollusks #fish #speculation #holy shit #what is happening #viralpost #sort of #kind of #maybe #5k #viral #idk #8k #9k #10k #15k #20k

[goldensunset]

did you know? if you do your laundry you can get your clothes back

#fascinating stuff. let’s see if i (person with the worst executive dysfunction when it comes to doing laundry) remember it #i literally have this issue where i’ll let dirty clothes pile up in the laundry basket for an entire month #like it takes me that long to get around to it #and then- who would’ve thought- i find that i don’t have anything good to wear. strange! #finally did it last night and i’m like ohhh that was so difficult but the payoff finally #augh #peach rambles #hall of fame i guess #shut up about socks. idc. #this was a fun positivity post of sorts it’s about overcoming executive dysfunction #derailing into jokes about losing socks is. it’s not horrible but just boring and annoying #it was supposed to be celebration!! and encouragement!!!

[thebibliosphere]

One of the really fun and interesting things about writing a polyamorous romance as someone who is ambiamorous/polyamorous is finding new ways to make sure the narrative hits the expected genre beats without just sort of... mushing it into a pre-existing monogamous romance mold, which is what I'm afraid happens a lot of the time.

Trust me, it was my job in the publishing house to make them fit that mold. I hated it.

Reading other poly-centric romances, I can always somewhat tell when someone is writing polyamory from a sexual fantasy aspect (zero shade; I'm here for all the group sex) without actually considering how it functions as a relationship dynamic, which can often come off as... well.

It's lacking for me as a romance.

Erotica-wise, it's fine. But it misses the romantic beats for me that I want as a polyamorous-leaning person.

There's so much emphasis on the polycule and never the individual dyads within the larger relationship.

For example, in a triad, there are actually four relationships to handle.

The dyad between A + B. The dyad between A + C. The dyad between B + C. And the overarching relationship between A + B + C.

With monogamous-leaning authors or authors that've been pressed into conforming to the pre-existing genre beats, there's a tendency to treat the relationship as a homogenous mass where everything is fair and equal, and you treat all your partners the exact same way.

And I get it. It's easier to write everything as peachy-keen and to have external conflict be resolved with either acceptance or a brave confrontation.

But it doesn't always land for me as someone who wants to see my style of love represented in the genre.

In healthy polyamory, either closed or open, each relationship is unique in its own way. Taking the example of a triad again, the way A acts with C likely differs from how A acts with B.

And that's a good thing!

Because C might not want the same things as B, so trying to treat them both the exact same is a surefire way to make sure someone isn't getting their needs met, and that will lead to conflict.

Polyamory isn't striving for equality between partners but rather equity.

What are your individual needs, and how do I meet them, as well as meet the needs of my other partner(s)? What do you want from the larger relationship as a whole? How do we accommodate everyone without making someone feel neglected or uncomfortable? How do we show this in the narrative? How do we make sure character A isn't just treating B the same as C in every interaction? Do they ever fall into that pitfall? How do they remedy it?

It seems like common sense when you write it out like that, but it's a major pitfall I see time and time again. The characters never alternate their approach between partners, if there's any focus on the individuals at all.

The other major telltale thing I've noticed is that taking time to be with one partner is seen as a step down from the "goal" of the greater polycule.

The narrative is framed in such a way that they might start out with individual dates, but the end goal of the romance is to eventually be together 100% of the time all the time, and wanting individual time alone with any one partner is somehow "lesser."

Which is the goal of romance in monogamy, but it's not the goal of romance in polyamory.

Granted, you do need to end on a Happy Ever After or Happy For Now for it to fit the genre requirement. And a nice way of tying that up is to have everyone together at the end as a happy polycule all together all at once. I'm not disputing that as a narrative tool. I'm just pointing out that there's a tendency to present those moments as the sum total of the relationship when in actuality, there are multiple relationships that need to end happily ever after.

The joy of polyamorous love is the joy of multitudes. It's the joy of experiencing new things, both as individuals and as a polycule. If you're not taking care of the individual dyads, however, your polycule is going to crash and burn. You cannot avoid that. So why, then, is there such avoidance of it in stories meant to appeal to us?

Is it simply inexperience on behalf of the author? Or is it that they're not actually being written for us? Is it continued pressure to meet certain genre beats in a largely monogamous-centric genre? All of the above?

Either way, I'm having fun playing around with it and doing all the things we were warned against in the publishing house.

I'm having fun with Nathan and Vlad enjoying their own private dynamic that is theirs and theirs alone. I'm having fun with Ursula and Nathan being so careful and vulnerable around each other. I'm absolutely 100% here for the chaos of Vlad and Ursula without a chaperone. And I'm here for the chaos of Vlad and Ursula together and Nathan's fond, loving eye roll as he trails after them, too enamored to tell either of them no because where would the fun in that be...

Anyway. Don't mind me. Just getting my thoughts out while everyone else is in bed.

#long post #rambling with joy #I see so many interesting stories just sort of... neglect the dyads in the end #and it makes me sad #I wish it happened less

[goblins-riddles-or-frocks]

forever obsessed with dynamics between vampires, specifically that of a maker and fledgling, as a way to explore abuse. the creation of a vampire itself can so easily be a literalization of the lasting impacts of trauma and also much more simply the ways a perpetrator might shape their victim’s very identity. the extremes of isolation in the way that the new vampire, in most narratives, must cut all ties to their mortal life, or else go through an elaborate charade to maintain the facade of humanity, while forever still being removed from it. and the sheer dependence and vulnerability of being in an entirely new state of being, wholly uncertain of what it entails, and relying on another person to define… everything.

#or just the moral dilemmas #rewatching amc interview is kind of making me insane #that moment in episode two when louis is looking for a sort of assurance in the fact that lestat may actually have some good in him #look at how he cares about music look at the simple wondrous things that can bring him joy #and then the immediate dread when the opera performance turns out to be imperfect because he knows how lestat will react to *that* #I think there’s also something really interesting in the highlighting of lestat upbraids the less skilled singer before killing him #(slowly) #but also I will wait to watch more before I articulate my thoughts #vampires #interview with the vampire #amc interview with the vampire #i ramble sometimes #I do still find the lestat and claudia film and novel dynamic by far the most compelling for how she tries to usurp him but almost to be him #but I’m enjoying this #I’m very curious if I will like show claudia more on rewatch #the movie always resonated most with me (sue me lol) because there seemed to be more simultaneous fondness and attachment even at the end

[desertduality]

Not enough was done with the bit from the crossover where hermits were like. their own whole species. And their biggest defining trait was that they were shorter than the average player,

Imagine Joel and Skizz joining hermitcraft and immediately shrinking like six inches. Joel would lose it,

#raven rambles #idk what to tag this honestly #smallishbeans #skizzleman #sort of #hermitcraft

[the-adventures-of-dave]

Around tumblr lately I’ve seen people with the opinion that not only are free roaming cats bad (correct) but also supervised cats in catios or on leashes (????). I assume it must stem from that “ecology of fear” post from a few months ago, but to me the sudden appearance of these kinds of posts just strikes me as odd. I’ve seen multiple posts like the below one in just this week.

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If your cat is contained to your yard/catio/the sidewalk, then it still allows for predator-free safe places in your neighbourhood for wildlife, and creates predictability for them too. That’s one of the reasons why hiking trails ask people to stay on the trail— so you (and your dog, horse, cat, etc) can safely enjoy nature while still giving it space. It is possible to exist outdoors in natural spaces like that while maintaining wildlife comfort. If it wasn’t possible to do that, dog-friendly or (even just hiking trails in general, since humans are predators too) simply wouldn’t exist.

The problem with free roaming cats is that they break boundaries between human area (ie. trail, back porch) and wildlife area (foliage, etc) and there is nowhere the wildlife can go to exist that is safe from predators.

Idk, this is just my opinion but I just think there can be more nuance to the outdoor/free roaming cat issue than “never let your cat step outside under any circumstance”.

#also it’s just dog double standards again #no one’s calling for people to stop walking their dogs 🙄 #arguably a dog barking at and chasing a rabbit is way more stressful than Kepler sitting in his backpack on the porch with me #it’s possible to coexist with wildlife you just have to be smart and respectful about it #anyways ignore my 8am rambling #I got woken up by the fire alarm at 5am and then immediately saw some bad takes on tumblr once that was sorted #so now I’m like :/ #outdoor cats

[angelboybreakdowns]

rb for reach pls :) (im doing market research /hj)

#rambling #my polls #making ocs for my story and trying to figure out whether i should make another werewolf or some sort of vampire-adjacent creature #and also if i make a vampire-adjacent person should they be a woman (most of my vampire fan friends are women likers)

[umbrvx]

a villain’s journey

#scum villain's self saving system #svsss #luo binghe #shen qingqiu #shen yuan #finally read through the official localization.... it sent me right back to where i was when i first got into mxtx in 2019 #back then my art was kind of in a transitional period so even though mxtx had me making art like crazy i didnt like much of it #and nowadays my mxtx tl on twt has all but vanished... but once again these books have rejuvenated me creatively #and i feel like ive progressed enough to do justice for how these stories make me feel. and properly scratch that creative itch #anyways. i hardly ever ramble in tags like this but im so emo about these books and i finally feel creative again #so i hope this is able to spread that joy...! sort of. ehe

[veetowervaporwave]

Nothing is funnier to me than one-sided radiostatic + preestablished staticmoth.

Vox could be having evil sex with his villain wife anytime he wants but he chooses to waste his energy simping over a furry with a bad haircut

#hazbin hotel #radiostatic #staticradio #voxval #staticmoth #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin hotel valentino #alastor #vox #valentino #val truly doesn't care #on one hand it means he's not jealous at all and it's kind of funny seeing vox getting so out of sorts #on the other: he really doesn't care about alastor so he has a limit on how much alastor talk he can tolerate lol #.ramblings #vox's hateboner

[she-dwells-within-the-forest]

I keep seeing posts asking Larian to add a hug option for that scene with Astarion. While I understand it, I completely disagree, and I hope it's never added in.

That scene isn't about Tav. That scene isn't about their relationship, romanced or not. It's solely about Astarion, and the beginning of his journey toward healing.

Sometimes I think about hugging and why we do it. I think a hug in that moment would be more about comforting ourselves through an uncomfortable moment, rather than actually offering any comfort to Astarion. I don't think he would have the capacity to fully take it in or accept it. The brain operates at such a primitive level when you're experiencing trauma. Therefore, it's best to hold back and let him be.

He needs to have that moment for himself, alone. To scream for the rage, the grief, the sadness, the terror, the pain. All of it, all 200 years of it. Long before he met Tav and the gang.

It's perfect as it is, and when he's ready he comes to you and thanks you. Perhaps a hug option at that point would be more appropriate? But again, I feel it really isn't necessary. It's already perfect.

#just my thought ramblings #bg3 astarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldur's gate iii #astarion #astarion ancunin #i guess this sort of discourse #sorry guys #just been seeing it alot and have alot of thoughts about it

[saltpepperbeard]

gnawing on my arm because i think there's something to be said about how stede not only dreams about himself with a beard, but ed with his full beard back too. like, the dream seems to be riddled with imagery that he thinks ed would want.

and i say this especially because of how stede reacted when ed had to shave his beard. he freaked out on his behalf. he shrieked in horror whereas ed was entirely unbothered. he feared he had ruined him, had dragged him down to some despicable level, when in actuality, ed was completely content to shed that part of his persona.

and then there he is dreaming about ed with that part right on back.

so there's very clearly still a part of his mind that's convinced that's what ed wants. because why wouldn't he? everyone else seems to. and why would he want the softness and femininity stede had been bullied for his entire life?

which in turn plays into his own imagery too. bearded, masculine, fiercesome, rugged...

because how could someone love what everyone has hated him for? how could someone want what everyone has tried to quite literally beat out of him?

#OFMD #OFMD Season 2 #OFMD S2 Spoilers #Gentlebeard #Blackbonnet #Edward Teach #Stede Bonnet #Revenge Rambles #ALSO #I SAY ALL OF THIS TO SAY #I really REALLY hope they have a conversation about it #Because Stede clearly has some issues going on with his self-worth still #He's getting BETTER #But he's definitely still having issues #And I really hope I'm on the money when it comes to that one shot where Ed seems to be looking at him drinking/partying in Spanish Jackie'z #And is looking TROUBLED #I keep envisioning an exchange where Ed is like 'Well this is...different' #And Stede cheerily goes 'Ah yes. Trying something new! Do you like it?' #And Ed looks him dead in the eye and goes 'Do YOU?' #Also it kills me how they're both sort of having the same issues just in different fonts #Ie Ed worrying that he's unlovable how he is #And Stede ALSO worrying that he's unlovable how he is #They both want to change parts of themselves/shy away from parts of themselves #When in reality both of them love each other for who they really are #AND I HOPE THEY HAVE A CONVERSATION CENTERED AROUND JUST THAT #I HOPE THAT'S WHAT AAAALLL OF THIS IS BUILDING TO

[rassebers]

Pull yourself TOGETHER man

#panel one that's ritsu and serizawa assisting mob. just btw #who is mob marrying? well... who knows ... #for real though expanding on post canon is so real to ME #because of mob psychos central idea of growing up and getting older and life moving on #like it makes my heart warm to know these kids will GROW UP and GET JOBS and MEET PEOPLE IMPORTANT TO TJEM #and maybe even get married !... #i do think Reigen doesnt often think abt how far they've all come until some sort of big milestone #like a wedding or someone buys a house or graduates from school and etc #and then he's like damn.... ive really known him since he was a lil kid. and here we are now #excuse my rambling im just so sick and crazy and it makes my heart warm #mp100 #my rart #shigeo kageyama #reigen arataka #mob psycho 100 #ritsu kageyama #serizawa katsuya #their network of psychics and friends all chip in to help at the wedding