#thanks for the ask love!!

[tenderlady]

Just wanted to say I came across your tag on a post about Phantom Thread John and Yoko and ohh my god I can't believe I never made that connection as that's one of my favourite films. It genuinely fits how I see their dynamic so much, even if Reynolds and Alma have quite different personalities. There's even that weird story about how after they got back together with Yoko's promised "smoking" cure, John was throwing up for like a day and then coming out disorientated and different.

Like if PTA came out and said he was inspired to make the film partly based on insider knowledge on late 70s JohnandYoko I wouldn't even be surprised.

Omg, hi! I totally forgot about that post (and I can't even really remember what I would tag about that aside from The Knowledge Deep In My Soul), but this ask reminded me of how passionately right I am about that!

I don't think John and Yoko are perfect corollaries for the characters in Phantom Thread, but the dynamic they had going of Yoko essentially being a toxic mommy to John while giving him things that were intended for his health while actually making him sick, thus reinforcing his dependence on her, is SOOOOOOOO Phantom Thread.

They were both obviously obsessed with each other, and I think part of that obsession came from a Reynolds-esque desire on John's part to no longer have to be the hypercompetent, "leader" [akom you didn't see this] figure and Yoko's desire to have a sense of control over something. As PTA understands, there is an eroticism inherent to that kind of inversion of power, and the weakening of the both of them (physically, psychologically, emotionally, spiritually, etc.) looped around and further reinforced their codependence on each other.

I would be chuffed beyond belief if PTA were familiar with John and Yoko's dynamic and that influenced the myriad fucked up relationships in his films (reading SOMETHING into The Master rn, not sure what though). He is one of the working directors that I would graciously give my blessing to make a Beatlemovie, and a lot of that is because of his clear interested in fucked up psychosexual dynamics and mutual obsession.

Anyway, I'm glad you see my vision, and tell me you couldn't see Yoko pulling this shit

#thanks for the ask love!! #nothing makes me happier than people genuinely wanting me to talk about the beatles and film #there truly are beatles everywhere for this with eyes to see <3 #creating a tag so i can keep all this shit together: #bugs in film

[littlemissmanga]

I need to know everything about Yen x Dogma so it was really hard to narrow down my questions LOL.

Who makes the other blush all the time and who finds it adorable?

Who sings in the shower?

What small quirks do they love about each other?

Who makes the other laugh more?

How do they express their feelings (Words, visual art, a song, etc.)?

Love u 🥰

My sweet Pineapple!! Thank you for showing this pairing some love <3

Who makes the other blush all the time and who finds it adorable? So Dogma doesn't really blush, but he does get awkward and Yen finds it adorable whenever he clearly is in new territory and is trying his best to keep up. BUT Yen is super not used to the level of chivalry and acts of service that Dogma naturally brings to the relationship. She's not used to being cared for and because she knows Dogma is just doing it out of love and not because he doubts her capability, she blushes HARD anytime he does something sweet for her. Dogma doesn't immediately think "adorable" but he loves that he can see how much it means to her and feels 100 ft tall every time.

Who sings in the shower? Yen. Literally every time. It's not a shower if she doesn't have music. It's the one time/place she can really let go like that. Dogma will refuse to sing - mostly because he thinks he won't be good and singing in the shower just feels weird to him. But he loves Yen's performances.

Who makes the other laugh more? Yen usually makes Dogma laugh more, but that's because he finds her sharp wit really funny. But Dogma is no slouch. He's not as quick, but he'll land a few really clever one liners that have Yen rolling in laughers.

How do they express their feelings? Yen very much uses words of affirmation and physical touch. She never leaves things up to assumption - she makes sure the people in her life know she loves them and exactly why, especially Dogma. A hand on his shoulder, the drag of her nails through Dogma's hair, a gentle squeeze on his arm, the press of her lips to his cheek, or full body cuddles are all ways she emphasizes her words with physical action.

Dogma is all acts of service. Anything and everything he can do to make Yen comfortable or ease her day, he'll do without hesitation. Words are hard for him and he isn't the most eloquent. He always feels they're not enough and wildly inaccurate. But making her breakfast, taking her speeder for repairs, running a bath for her are all quantifiable ways Dogma feels he can show his love. Over time, physical touch becomes a close second, but that's also just because he loves holding her close and feeling her against him.

#thanks for the ask love!! #dogma x yen #clone trooper dogma x oc #clone trooper dogma x yen

[hopelesshawks]

For the ask game!

Orchid please ❤️

Thank youu :)

Get to know me plants

Orchid- what’s a song I find perfect?

Evolve by Phoria. I first heard it while watching the Magicians and I’ve adored it ever since. One of few songs that made me emotional my first listen through. You can just close your eyes and melt into it, it’s really stunning

#hopeless.inbox #hh.plaggi #thanks for the ask Love!!

[cherryjuicegf]

🌹

hehe

“Come now, you are in denial. I know how you crave not to prove the one person who dared to love you wrong.”

heheheheeheheehe

#laughs in evil #thanks for the ask love!! #answered #toboldlynerd

[bookishjules]

♾️

the lyrics: "would you love me for the hell of it? / all our fears would be irrelevant"

the song:

idk why this is the only song I've listened to by this artist because its so good lol

#thanks for the ask love!! #cece 💙 #asks #ask game #lyrics

[archxngxl]

X

:)

Leila & Gregory

She probably took this when he wasn't looking, caught him in the moment. Probably getting ready for a fancy dinner or somethin 😚

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Sonny & Cassie

Sonny probably took this when on a trip at a mountain retreat. He had his camera and just had to catch Cassie lookin all cute

#thread: leila and gregory #thread: sonny and cassie #thanks for the ask love!!

[retquits]

1.6 is coming—see you march 19th!!! 🥹🌱

#stardew valley #can you imagine pouring blood sweat & tears into a game #releasing it for like $15 #and then working for 8 more years to add more content without asking for a cent more #for what could have easily been several dlc packs #i love you stardew valley i love you concernedape i love you indie games thank you for being my home all these years #EDIT: added image ID in the alt!!

[hellsitegenetics]

When I followed you earlier today and then realized this blog wasn't even two days old it made me feel like I invested in a startup.

Do you think if you did the lyrics for Fireflies by Owl City, your database would give us fireflies? (Will also accept owls. And there's a line about sheep too).

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#tumblr genetics #asks #requests #sent to me #the-cinnamonroll #cephalopods #cuttlefish #fish #ocean #kisslip cuttlefish #thank you for the ask! unfortunately i could not get to it until just fucking now bc of the backlog #this ask was sent on feb 8 when the blog was abt 2 days old lol #anyway. love this animal. its shaped like a goddamn spaceship

[dek0pon]

beetle table <3 maple, white oak, walnut

#i made this and i need you all to look at it. thanks love you #beetle table #<- ask about how i made it is tagged beetle table also

[wispscribbles]

I love your ghost design. I wanna squeeze him :⁠^⁠)

If no hug then why hug-shaped???

#thank youuuu! squeeze that mentally unstable adult man! he needs it! #ask #anon ask #ghostsoap #soapghost #my art #cod fanart #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #soap x ghost #doodle #fav hc about ghost is that he is so incredibly touch starved and everyone just assumes he hates touch #but Soap is so touchy he keeps forgetting not to hug and pat and lean on Ghost #and each time Ghost is like ‘what is happening to me?? why do I want to melt rn??? I think I’m in love???’ #outwardly he is a stone wall as usual #until Soap actually remembers to give Ghost space bc he thinks that’s what he wants #and Ghost has to finally be the one to reach out and ask for touch #and Soap is the happiest camper #from then on they are stuck together with glue #this all has nothing to do with your ask I’m sorry #I’ve got ghoap on the brain I can’t help it #complete side note: I have many asks in my inbox and I’m so happy y’all write!! just pls bear with me bc I am very slow to respond

[stealingpotatoes]

What do Luke, Leia, and more importantly PADMÉ (and the whole gang really) react to Anakin having siblings - and those siblings being literal Dathomiri Force Gods that Anakin also was instrumental in killing

can u imagine if they DIDN'T die tho

(donation doodles! // tip jar)

#i need to draw the mortis gods abt 3000x more i love their designs sm #anakin skywalker #the daughter #the son #leia organa #luke skywalker #padme amidala #mortis #mortis gods #padmé amidala #skywalker family #mortis cousins au #star wars #my doods #thanks for the ask! #mortis arc

[catboy-teeth]

ToToDental - Only the Best Dental Care for your Pokémon Companions!

*Don't forget to schedule your Pokémon's annual check-up!*

#pokemon #pokémon #gengar #totodile #mawile #snorunt #meowth #galarian meowth #scraggy #poochyena #pokemon irl #ive had these at 90% completion for over a year idk why i refused to finish it #and yes Mawile is my favourite pokemon thanks for asking #i just love mundane in-universe things like this!! the care would vary so wildly between pokemon #they probably shouldnt have totodile as a mascot but its too late now #also pls appreciate the bruxish toothpaste ad #my art #pkmn

[egophiliac]

What do you like about the Diasomnia boys if I may ask?

I always love hearing about the different reasons people enjoy characters.

I mean, c'mon. he has split custody over Sebek okay

also, Lilia in particular has maybe the best timeskip character development of all time

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 chapter 4 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 chapter 4 spoilers #stage in playful land #i hope this is legible whoops #anon i am sorry but you made the fatal mistake of asking me to talk about diasomnia #insert 'i just think they're neat' jpg #i do like the other characters a lot but they are definitely my favorites #they just hit a lot of my favorite things in characters i guess! #yes even you sebek even though you keep shrieking NINGEN at me #(it's okay he gets Character Development™ later) #and their dynamic! it's great! these guys frikking love each other SO much and they WILL have terrible terrible angst about it #ohoho delicious #give me all your emotional hangups baybeeeee #also somewhere in there i went from 'i like them all equally (but lilia is the most fun to draw)' #to 'lilia is absolutely my favorite (and still the most fun to draw) (EVEN MORE fun now thank you swishy ponytail!)' #(it was probably when his candy coating got a little scratched and whoops all the tragedy fell out) #(where's that 'get loved loser' post because i need to staple it to lilia's forehead) #i am extremely bad at putting things into words so please don't ask me to explain it any further #just know that the diafam is everything to me and if we don't get more episode 7 soon i'm going to crumble into dust and blow away #we'll be getting the crowleytimes on monday and maybe there will be. idk. some foreshadowing or something in his groovy #probably not but LOOK i'm desperate

[inkskinned]

so while i was writing the book, i became violently suicidal.

this was mostly due to the fact that i had a very bad reaction to some meds and my brain stopped producing any serotonin. also i was in the last semester of grad school where it's actually illegal to feel anything but dread. so it wasn't going well.

somewhere in the fog of it i became aware i needed help. nobody was taking clients or my insurance. i didn't want to do inpatient care - it wasn't right for my needs. there's not really an "in between" stage between "inpatient" and "no care," but i was trying to do the right thing. i was trying to activate the chain of command that was my emergency plan. i knew i needed help now.

i used betterhelp.

i know, i know. i'm a straight-A student and so smart and so clever, how could i ever use something so blatantly bad. to be honest with you, i didn't feel particularly keen on it from the getgo - things that seem too good to be true usually are. also, if something online is free, the price is usually your privacy.

the thing is that there was kind of a global pandemic happening at the time and i worked 5 jobs alongside of being a fulltime student and also like writing a book on the side. it is a miracle that i even thought about getting help. i would love to tell you i had the mental wherewithal to like, process whether this was the right choice for me. mostly i was desperate. i was so suicidal that i was trying to find a reason to stay inside of fortune cookies. i was the kind of suicidal that looks like splatterpaint. i hadn't been that bad in an entire decade.

they took my data. i gave them it freely. somewhere out there, they have a dossier on me. on everything i survived. my story in little datapoints, scattergraphed beautifully.

the first woman told me that really i should be grateful, because (and this is a direct quote): "at least you're not anne frank." i said that i felt that statement was antisemitic, as anne frank's life and experience shouldn't be compared to like, a nonbinary lesbian in western massachusetts. the therapist said that i should try to use lucid dreaming to try to picture myself in an actually scary situation, like running from nazis.

i applied for another therapist. i was willing to accept the possibility that there was a bad apple in the bunch. the next therapist and i even laughed about how inappropriate that statement was. and then, in our next session: the new therapist said if i was struggling with body image issues, i should just work harder on my appearance. she spent 3 sessions in a row talking about how she was grieving, and made me memorize facts about her grandmother so "she can live on through my clients."

i am a three's-a-charm kind of person. okay, so what if the last person made me uncomfortable. i figured it was just a misunderstanding of priorities - she had felt she was sharing with me, i had felt like i had to take care of her. i applied for another therapist.

the last woman asked me to help her pray. she bowed her head. i stared at her, frozen, while she said: lord, i beg you: cure her. take the pain of being gay away from her.

i spent somewhere between 2.5 and 3 months on betterhelp. in that whole time, i was not getting the professional help i so desperately needed, even though i was fucking trying.

in the end, i survived this because i finally could get off the meds that were literally killing me. a request for a real therapist finally went through. i survived because my friends saved my life. because nick let me sob myself dry in his arms. because maddie took the razors out of my room when i asked them to. because grace slept over in my bed for like 3 weeks in a row since nobody trusted me not to hurt myself when i was alone. i survived because i got fucking lucky. because even when i was desperately suicidal, i was too old and too self-aware to take "you need to be prettier" as good advice.

the thing is that there's a 19 year old me who isn't like that. who would have heard "just think about how grateful you should be" and said - oh, i see. i would have assumed that is what it means to be in therapy: the same thing my abusers used to tell me. that i am just pretending and lazy. that i am ugly and unworthy.

betterhelp positioned itself to take advantage of an incredibly vulnerable community. it preys on desperation. it knows it is serving people who are not doing well mentally. it saw that there is a huge need for real, immediate, compassionate mental health care: and then it fucking takes your money and privacy.

i still get their ads on instagram. last night i watched as a woman in a pool pretends to talk to a different woman. they discuss her anxiety.

there's a 19 year old version of me, and she didn't survive this. she was too tired, and drowning. i almost fucking died. this thing almost fucking killed me.

in the ad, the woman playing the therapist takes a note on a clipboard and then nods once, sagely.

i have to admit it's a pretty scene. the steam and light coming off the pool water lands on the actresses. like this, it almost looks baptismal, holy.

#writeblr #the book.... #coming soon #hey so if ur someone who has ever said “you need to write a book” #i wrote the book #it's ... probably the best thing ive ever written #this is maybe too honest lol #okay to reblog thank you for asking i love u i am in love with u our wedding will be in may

[cherryjuicegf]

4, 8 and 19 💜

4. which cryptyd being do you believe in?

ah the loch ness monster maybe, it's just a lakey dude

8. how many water bottles are in your room right now?

just an empty one i forgot to throw away

19. imagine we’re at a sleepover, would you paint my nails?

yes!! although i would paint your fingers too a bit afsgdjk but the result would be good

weird asks :D

#thanks for the ask love!! #answered #maureen tag #something-more

[archxngxl]

X for both!

Valentina & Dorian

She probably snapped this one when they were outside, and a dog approached them. Valentina thought it was the cutest thing ever!

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Shay & Veronica

Shay probably took this picture for Instagram or something, but he really does like it and thinks Ronnie looks really cute 🥺

#thread: valentina and dorian #thread: shay and veronica #thanks for the ask love!!