#stretched thin

[slaughter-books]

Day 1: JOMPBPC: Comic Books

Graphic novels! 💞

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #comic books #ms. marvel #stretched thin #gotham high #miles morales #shock waves #the oracle code #graphic novels #beautiful covers #amazing authors #i love books

[trulyyoursjen06]

The Funky Spaces

Sometimes, we are just in a funk. There isn’t anything that has happened necessarily to cause the funk. There’s nothing you can pinpoint. Maybe the motivation to get up and get moving isn’t quite there? Or maybe there’s an apathy toward things you would otherwise be excited for? Whatever it is, you just feel it. I’ve been in that space off and on for the past week. Nothing is wrong. I’m just…

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#funky #honest #stretched thin #vulnerable

[cocotine]

big strench...

#caterpillar.... #she looks so thin when she stretches out like this 😨 i do feed her i promise #gerbil #gerbils #honey n lemon

[canisalbus]

hello! i've been thinking about asking about this detail of machete for a while now and figured i'd just go for it, it sounds quite dark but it isn't my intention for it to i'm just really intrigued by his character and want to learn more about it yknow? essentially, with all the hardship machete faces, long before he meets vasco i mean, why does he continue to have such a drive to keep going? (when it'd be so easy to give up long before he meets vasco) what drives him to strive to do so well (in terms of succeeding not, well-being wise) essentially, in the path he is handed? it isn't that i do not find this believable and that there aren't many possible motivators bc i do see that wholeheartedly which is specifically why i am just very curious as to what specifically motivates him in his youngest years you know? does that make sense? i know you've mentioned guilt and perfectionism, are those already his driving forces? does it go deeper than that? is it simply not that deep, etc? (ps. much love for the creation of your storyline and your characters, it's immaculate, and your art illustrates all of it so well, it gets across exactly the things you intend to me)

I think guilt and perfectionism definitely play a big part in his drive to be successful, but the main motivator is probably his low self-esteem. He's overcompensating to a pathological degree, he needs to convince everyone, including God and himself, that he's not weak, stupid and useless. He was somewhat neglected and eventually abandoned by his birth family and since then he's been seeking approval and validation from outside sources, the more esteemed person the better. He's not highborn, particularly talented or good looking, but I like to think he's naturally inquisitive and academically oriented so being the smartest, most educated person in the room just gradually became his objective in life. He was also extremely hardworking right from the start. Many of his teachers regarded him as an exemplary student with great potential, but behind the scenes he was sacrificing much of his health and wellbeing to keep up that "gifted kid" image, constantly fearing of not living up to their expectations and failing everyone who had ever believed in him. As a grown man he continues to measure his worth by his achievements which leads to stress and overworking, but also rapid and impressive career progression. I believe he goes through multiple burnouts before he snaps for good.

#answered #anonymous #Machete #own characters #he does genuinely like reading acquiring knowledge and organizing things so it's not like he hates his job he's very good at it #it just stretches him needlessly thin at times and he doesn't know where to stop

[sophitz]

“unraveled is ESSENTIAL READING for book ten!” well if your third-person limited series needs its love interest to become a deteragonist with his own POVs to make sense, either it was poorly planned or your known keefe stan of an editor is pressuring you

#like. watch it be fifteen chapters of meaningless fluff with the one-chapter ‘essential’ revelation stretched thin as wire within it #i knowwwww this shit was not necessary. i am already sure of it #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #unraveled

[r0b0t1me]

resistance base floor plan/layout! i do not know what i'm doing nor am i shooting for total realism, but all of these ideas have been rotating in my head for ages and im having issues creating concept art for the setting without some kind of baseline to work off of so tada

#bad future #im not sure how much of the infrastructure was added on #also i use donnie tech to excuse a lot of things #i am aware #but once he dies he haunts it all. the walls. the food. the air #also i hope it works as a visual representation #of how far thin he stretches himself. he does it all baby! #anyway idk anything abt building construction im treating this shit like sims

[katnficer]

day 14: castle

#katiferdraws #castle of nations #uhg im stretching myself thin here #i actually originally wanted to do howl's moving castle but it would've taken too long to finish within a day... #on the bright side. finally did castle of nations fan art after all these years!

[socialistexan]

Watching the 13th Doctor finally and I can't help but feel like the biggest thing that really held back this Doctor was overloading her with too many companions that cost both her and them characterization and development.

Only 3 Doctors has 3 companions in their first season, and one of those was the First Doctor who was trying to establish himself. Then there was the Fifth Doctor, and one of his companions was well established (though not loved) like Adric, a familiar face with an established story from a previous serial (Nyssa), and only one new comer who still was with the previous Doctor for a story (Tegan).

Bringing in a new Doctor with even a single new companion is extremely tough, you really have to have a specific vision in mind for it to work (9 and Rose, 11 and Amy).

Most them inherit a companion the audience is already comfortable with and allows the new Doctor to breathe (4 and Sarah Jane, 10 and Rose, 12 and Clara) or give the show time to develop what it wants to be in a new era before it moves on to better times (7 and Mel, because his stories really took off once Ace came along). It doesn't always work (6 and Peri), but having 3 new companions with a new Doctor is so much of a risk and it seems like it failed miserably.

If it has been just 13 and Yaz, I think it would have had serious potential (I'm 5 episodes in and I quite like her and the dynamic with 13). Or even the pair of Ryan and Graham or bring them in after Yaz is developed it would have at least been interesting, especially if Ryan was better written.

But having all 3 at once just feels like it torpedoes the potential of all of them.

#that and some of the writing was just bad #chibnall obviously stretched himself too thin writing so many episodes #and some of the other writers turned in some trash #jodie Whittaker deserved better #doctor who

[hunkahulkaaburningfudge]

KAMALA WRITES STONY FANFICTION

Ms Marvel: Stretched Thin (2021)

#kamala khan #ms marvel #malik khan #tony stark #iron man #captain america #steve rogers #stony #stevetony #marvel comics #ms marvel comics #ms marvel stretched thin #616 kamala khan

[lavenoon]

@naffeclipse cat trapped him yet again (if he won't rest I'll make him)

*self insert Aster is not a girl (he/ she)

og detective au by sunnys-aesthetic!

#post let luce #dcamv #bloodstain fool #naffeclipse #my art #menace4menace #do i draw him doing paperwork a lot? yes bc i need cozy domestic shit for these scenarios to work #plus bounty hunting has gotta be a lot of boring paper research too #cant just be cool hunting bounties through the city #n mans has a bit of an issue stretching himself too thin #also i wanna be carried to bed maybe #god i. i need to be horizontal now oops fhdjs #glad i got these out but the heat is killing me and i hate it #wheres my bf to carry me smh smh

[wandixx]

Dani gives people heart attacks and brings down a lot of trafficking rings, making friends along the way. Everything by accident, really

Dani traveled around world, hadn't she? While doing it, she had to meet a lot of interesting people.

Like heroes or villains.

In civies or not or both who knows.

But to actually learn things about someplace you have to spend more than one night there. Like, idk? Month? Probably more but I doubt she would be able to sit in one place for any longer. In many places she is shorter.

Month is long enough to create some connections though.

Enough to get someone to realize when you disappear...

Yeah, Dani on her way of gremlin and self discovery ghosted bunch of people without second thought. They'll probably forget her in few months anyway. And she was everywhere in USA. She didn't left American soil only because she didn't want to be too far from Danny in case of emergency. Before anyone tells me he was in space so he could fly to her wherever on Earth she would be, Earth's atmosphere ends about 100 km above sea level and officially this is border of space. Telecommunication satellites are between 8000 to 12000 km up. It's about how wide Atlantic Ocean is.

Plus y'know, time. If she needs help, she probably can't quite wait until he flies all the way to Hong Kong, Wladywostok, Rio de Janeiro or wherever she is.

So America it is. For now at least. When they're 100% sure she is stable she'll fly elsewhere.

Anyway people who she ghosted are used to batshit crazy stuff but "this tween is alone on her road to self discovery and just left for new city" isn't first thing anyone thought about. Maybe outside of Martians. They know. Everyone else? No idea what happened to this tiny, chaotic, snarky, probably meta child.

First thought though?

She got kidnapped.

So now 3/4 of Justice League, some individual heroes and bunch of less intense rogues are scrambling around their cities tracking every trafficking ring they found glimpses of, trying to find Dani.

Flashes work with Captain Cold on this and seem to slowly descend into madness. At the same time, Dani eats ice cream with nice museum lady from Washington who introduced herself as Diana. Then she helps at animal shelter with kind stuck up boy called Damian. Oh, Danny likes aliens, let's visit Martian Manhunter. Maybe she'll manage to get autograph for her template. Wait Space Cops? Kinda sucks but Danny would probably like their signatures too. Let's go. Oh, Superboys are fun mess with and older one is like her! This Nightwing guy puns like Danny but she always feels like he looks at her weirdly. Billy should eat more, magic or not, fighting is tiring. Good thing she has Sam's money to buy him burgers.

She has time of her life while people she met are slowly dying.

She probably doesn't even hide that she is traveling but for whatever reason they don't think she actually left.

They don't bring it up on any meeting because no matter how concerned they are, it's not really whole league type of business. And Martians just discreetly enjoy chaos.

There is a lot of ways it can get resolved (or not) but I kinda thought about Jon introducing his old buddy Damian to his new buddy Dani because he thinks they would get along and they just stare at each other for long moment before:

"Dani..."

"Dami!"

"WHY DID YOU LEFT WITHOUT A WORD! WE THOUGHT YOU WERE KIDNAPPED OR DEAD!"

Some screaming and revelation that Killer Croc was looking for her too, Dani hits moment of realisation.

"Wait, is this what people think when you just up and go?"

"Honestly? Yeah"

"Oh, Ancients I did this to so many people. So many..."

Idk, just Dani traveling and leaving people behind.

Do with it what you will

#dp x dc #dpxdc #dc x dp #dcxdp #nobody really questions why Martians brought popcorn to Watchtower meeting because their stretch to thin between attending said meeting #and wondering where this tiny gremlin disappeared #it would be kinda histeric to me if she visited some cities few times but met other people #like first time in Gotham she bothers Jason and pets hienas #then few months later she has brawl with killer croc and becomes Duke's kibda sidekick for a week #then she smacks Joker and volunteers at animal shelter with Damian #and somehow they don't connect it #or they do and think she repeatedly gets kidnapped and escapes but doesn't leave the city because something #only hope flashes have left at this point is that she didn't show up in morgue #they actually consider running back in time to save her #also #some heroes and villains heard some thing and they *preparing weapons* #just want to talk with Vlad #just talk they promise #idk just enjoy and spread the chaos #have a nice day dear stranger who got to this part

[demonblush]

days 7 & 8: plants & fantasy. dude i’m so tired

#ace attorney #narumitsu #miles edgeworth #phoenix wright #wrightworth #micron art #inktober #my art #it’s not even half way thru the month. can i pretty please have One day off with no deadlines or nothing #i am so so tired and so so stretched thin. (jazz hands)

[7central]

i don’t believe for a SECOND, powers or not, that five would tolerate middle/high school in s4.  that brat would kick a social worker right in the balls if someone somehow found out about the 13 year old kid who’s too busy doing old man shit and betting on poker to go to school. do not kid yourselves.

but if they DID do the school route anyway, he would definitely come so close to murdering a clingy teenager who ends up being coincidentally useful in a stupid ass way.  like five’s “friend” getting him the worst fake id ever and knowing which gas stations are the easiest to steal booze from which just so coincidentally leads him to the right clues for the main plot.  but then five’s “friend” doesn’t understand intro calculus so he nearly kills them out of frustration and ends up just cheating for them instead of trying to explain.

preventing an apocalypse may be stressful but it’s nothing compared to being 13.  and if u think, ‘but hey, five is very smart and resourceful, he’ll be fine in the real world,’ you’re forgetting something very critical about the brief period of time that five spent in the real world, way back when he was actually a child, which is that he was homeschooled. he will die out there.

#picture: stan #but a stan who doesn't know about time travel #five w/o powers is gonna be stretched so fucking thin man #the apocalypse is literally nothing compared to being 13 #five hargreeves #number five #tua #tua4 #the umbrella academy

[bitter-rabbitholes]

sorry no....I would attempt drastic measures if kuro ends soon lol.

like I know yall keep insist it'll be over but stop it!!!! 😭 like we still have the main mystery with ciel's parents, the queen, whatever undertaker is doing, the unresolved mess with lizzy and soma, o!ciel reuniting with the servants, confrontations with many other characters and what??? yall hoping it'll end on his birthday???? no!!!

and even if some of plot threads can be tied at once, imagine how rushed it all be. didn't we spend 6 years on the servants alone!!

and to be fair, I'm side-eyeing yana more than yall. I honestly believe this all could have been more steadily approached. which is why I'm hoping the blue arcs is actually just the start of kuro's shippuden era, not the beginning of the final act. so please yall please....

#like it makes more sense the blue cult and twin reveal #was just to get the story moving in different direction #rather then end the story... #there's just so much to be developed in my mind #im not asking yana to stretch the story thin #i just want her to not restrain the plot #kuro is already pretty off the rails already #might as well go out with a bang #kuro #kuroshitsuji #b.txt #yana toboso

[canisalbus]

I realize this might be a slightly odd ask, but… Out of curiosity, what sort of foods do you think Machete would be fond of? And do you think they’d differ noticeably from when he was young vs once he’d grown older?

He's a fussy eater. He rarely eats for pleasure and dislikes being seen dining in company, but attends formal dinners and banquets if invited, since declining without a very good reason would be at best rude and at worst a devastating faux pas. He prefers fowl dishes over red meat and greatly dislikes sea food (which is just peachy since this is the Mediterranean). Pasta seems to be already a well established part of the cuisine at that point, maybe he's into that. For the most of his life he's eaten rather simple foods so he finds bland soups and broths very safe and comforting. Pomegranates are his fruit of choice, he doesn't have much of a sweet tooth but enjoys candied apricots and figs on occasion.

He's exceptionally bad at holding his liquor, and he can't stand the feelings of unpredictability, disorientation, unsafeness and potential loss of control that being intoxicated causes in him. Unfortunately, drinking plain water was very risky and uncommon, it was contaminated and unsanitary more often than not, especially in population centers. Generally the main drinks you'd consume through the day were diluted wine and beer/ale (this was the case for children as well). Machete tends to prefer wine, which he waters down heavily, and sometimes has it flavored with spices, herbs, honey or sugar. Having even a little bit of alcohol in the mix would kill at least a portion of the bacteria (not that the concept was known at the time, people believed many illnesses were caused by tainted air and foul smells, I mean fair enough, if your water is filthy it probably smells bad too).

(Fun fact, apparently Ancient Romans had more or less perfected the art of winemaking but by the Middle Ages a lot of the techniques had been lost. During the Renaissance wine was generally very low quality and the way it was fermented and stored (making the switch from sealed ceramic amphora of the Antiquity to those iconic wooden barrels) meant it would only stay good for a year at best and the taste would start to deteriorate within the first couple of months. Vintage wines weren't a thing, the best stuff was fresh. Apparently European wine was pretty bad for hundreds of years and would only start to improve again around 1800s. Or at least that's what I've gathered, I could be wrong, I'm not a wine expert).

Europe hadn't quite adopted tea yet and he narrowly missed the time coffee began to spread to his corner of the world (I bet he would've loved both of those, with the help of caffeine he could've been twice as much of a jittery sleepless wreck). I've read that people would distill sage and drink the resulting concoction with hot water to create this very tea-like minty drink, that sounds like something he'd like.

#answered #take-ya-to-the-ghey-bar #Machete #every now and then he goes through these bouts of somewhat disordered eating #his brand of self-contempt manifests as severe self-denial and abstinence #sometimes when times are particularly rough he gets into this headspace that he needs to earn the right to eat #either that or he's just so busy and stretched thin he flat out forgets #you should take all the historical tidbits I say with a grain of salt I'm sharing them in good faith because I'm an autistic nerd #but I might be misremembering things or just plainly mistaken so don't think I have any authority or expertise on this stuff

[cat-mentality]

Pol remembers everything.

He doesn't speak about it of course, not when he realizes how unfriendly those new Islanders are about the Federation, but he knows very well who he is and what happened before.

The ice was.... Uncomfortable, not exactly his desired outcome for any of them, but given the circumstances Pol admits it could have been worse, it's just generally better to not think about those things at all, the ice happened but it's over now.

The more they forget about what happened the better.

None of the others seem to remember anything, a pity really since Pol would be interested in talking about some things with young Nikki or with Bagi, Bagi in particular used to lead some very interesting missions on her days, but both of them don't seem to recall him or their previous job.

Well, a shame really. But he supposes that the Federation must have their reason for wiping their memories. Far from him to try to insert himself into things that are none of his business.

Pol is retired. As much as one can be while still living on the Island at least, and he is happy with how things are going now, with being left to do his own things while occasionally being called to touch up on some previous jobs or to create something new, the excitement of being needed never fading away.

Pol remembers everything even if he is not going to disclose that information to anyone.

Tubbo doesn't remember anything.

He can't.

They wouldn't allow it.

It's too dangerous, too volatile, too unpredictable.

It's been many years, decades, so much that most of the workers, even the high ranking ones, do not know about what happened. The ones who did, well they are mostly long gone, destroyed alongside all of the written reports.

The Federation went to great lengths to erase Tubbo from memory.

They couldn't allow him to be remembered by anyone, let alone himself. Many had argued that he should have been killed, others that he should have been buried somewhere else, somewhere no one would ever be able to find him again, but those had lost- He was too valuable, the ones with the final say had determined, his skills unmatched, they couldn't risk losing him and not finding someone to take his place.

Replacing him isn't the same as replacing the workers. 

So Tubbo was allowed to live.

Frozen, his memories wiped, all traces of his existence erased from records, most of those who knew him, knew of him, erased alongside it, some few, too valuable for the same fate, embraced the offer to be made to forget instead.

(Pol looks at Tubbo and frowns.

He knows this kid.

There is something disturbingly familiar about him, about his smiles, about his loud voice, about his joy and his laughter.

Something even more familiar about his rage. About the craziness shining in bright eyes, in the smile that shows too many teeth, in the easiness he can craft machines of mass destruction, in how willing he is to put them to use.

Pol asks Cucurucho about it, once. 

The bear does not answer him directly but Pol is not stupid. He can understand the "stop asking" left implicitly in the message.)

Tubbo doesn't remember anything.

But Cucurucho does.

He looks at the boy and a part of him, the part that is capable of feeling, burns with anger.

He remembers what that boyish charm hides.

He remembers the devil hidden in his smile.

He remembers how hard it was to put a stop to him the first time.

And he hates that he was brought back with the others, that the higher ups cannot seem to want to give up on someone they know they cannot predict or control.

It has to be different this time.

He needs to feel fear, he needs to be afraid of the Federation and it's power, he needs to be beaten down so hard that he could never consider getting up again.

The Federation needs his skills, not his spirit.

How unfortunate then, that this time Tubbo is walking a path where the Federation is his enemy. When he was their employee, when he was one of the higher ranking members despite his young age, he was a weapon, a loose cannon that they could barely keep in check, too dangerous to let loose, too valuable to kill, too unstable to be properly efficient, but he was still bound to them.

It's worse now.

Cucurucho looks at the bright eyes and defiant smile and plots. He keeps his gun closer than usual, and satisfaction bleeds on his smile when the light on those mismatched eyes dims just a bit, when hesitation is made known even if for a second, when he freezes, when he flinches upon seeing him.

Good.

The boy is as defiant as always but there are cracks on him now and not having his memories means he lost the ability to fall back on his arrogance, on the acknowledgement that he was too valuable. He is vulnerable now, just a reckless young man who can be broken. Who will be.

Cucurucho looks at a worker with a bleeding heart and questionable actions and pretends he doesn't see anything. Better the mechanic sees them as equals, as things to care about, than as disposable pieces of a machine, as enemies.

Better he has something to lose.

Cucurucho looks at a lost child and his smile gets wider, showing teeth. He feels satisfied with a job well done, with how things have fallen into place at least.

Tubbo will fall in line. He will behave, like he has never done before, because if he doesn't.... Well a little collateral damage can be easily justified, no one will really miss a broken worker or a spare egg.

#i 'cooked' this from thin air this is like a kids play dough meal #it's real in literally no place but my own mind #but i REALLY enjoy the idea that the frozen players were all ex Federation workers #and they were not frozen as a punishment but maybe to save them from something more dangerous #not tubbo tho #that was totally a punishment #also particular headcannon of mine that carre and bagi were frozen in different moments than the others #and tubbo was frozen before any of them #like WAY earlier like when Pol was young type of early #qsmp tubbo #qsmp theory #qsmp #qsmp polispol #also theory may be a stretch