#that's the thing

[jtl-fics]

Kevin and Aaron share exactly one class together throughout their time at Palmetto State University and it is a History of Medicine class. The two become the most insufferable humans every time they are together during this semester.

Katelyn watches on as her boyfriend and Kevin talk about the 'bacteria' parties that were thrown during the course of curing pallegra.

Katelyn: "Wow, so this is what hell is like. I thought it would be warmer."

Andrew: "Hell is never what you expect it to be."

Katelyn: "Well, I expected one thing."

Andrew: "What?"

Katelyn: "You're here." :)

#Kevin Day #Aaron Minyard #Katelyn MacKenzie #Andrew Minyard #Let Andrew and Katelyn be Frenemiess #Guiding light will always be katelyn calling Andrew 'the jock' #that post kills me every time #AFTG #AFTG Shitpost #Andrew can't even be mad #that's the thing #It was a fucking good one

[incandescentflower]

"Be my family" is such a wonderful way to declare/ask for commitment. It's such an adult way to confirm the status of a relationship. It makes me love Doctor Slump even more.

#doctor slump #spoilers #somehow dramas are winning me over with these really character-driven proposals #that's the thing #it's all about the characters

[lover-of-mine]

Waiting for Sason 7 is the thing that will drive me crazy.

#74 days to go #being in my brain is not fun right now #there are so many threads pulling me around right now like #OH MY GOD #911 #911 speculation #because anyone could be presumed dead #that's the thing #it's water #a whole ocean #aaaaaaaaaaah

[vyragosa]

i honestly think it's for the best THE FACT THAT HE GOT THE FUCKING GIMMICK FROM BRIDGES HIGGS WHEN HE WAS ACTING UP, HE'S COMPLETELY BREAKING CHARACTER AND WE ARE GETTING "PETER" IT'S HILARIOUS.

HIS HANDS COMPLETELY RETRACTED INTO HIMSELF WHILE WEARING THAT HE'S TRYING SO HARD TO NOT ACTUALLY SEEM LIKE A COMPLETE THREAT

fragile: he's trying to kill us

WELL..I'M REALLY NOT SURE ABOUT THIS....MISS GLOBALIZATION ......

#that's the thing #of fucking course she would frame him this time #because remember that she tried to defend him so ardently in first game #it can only go toward a real confrontation this time on equal grounds #and honestly they better go at it i will fucking watch #cain and abel style just fucking do it

[svenskaghost]

Hetalia AU that is still being worked on but I love so much so I will ramble about it.

More under the cut :)

Vicente is the oldest of the Wong siblings (23 years old) and works as a dealer in a casino, and makes a decent amount of money to keep him and his sisters comfortable. He's become their sole guardian after he fought for custody of them because their parents are absolute garbage. And because of his upbringing, being so preoccupied with taking care of the girls, work, and him just being an introvert, he doesn't have much of a social life. He does have a friend, Monique (Monaco), his childhood best friend and works at the same casino he does.

Xiao-Mei is the middle sibling at around 14 years old. She has a huge interest in birds and would like to become an ornithologist when she grows up. She also has an interest in anime and she has some friends because of that. Both Xiao-Mei and Nyo! Hong Kong were born from their mother getting divorced from their father and her having a second marriage, that is to say nothing improved much here. Their new dad was a deadbeat who only really gave their mom some money she could blow on alcohol and drugs. This caused Mei to really despise alcohol, drugs, and her parents.

Nyo! Hong Kong (I genuinely do not have a name for her, so if any of you have any name ideas then please let me know) is the youngest and is 12 years old. She has an interest in becoming a pyrotechnician in the future. She's good at business and fashion and is currently taking karate classes. She's interested in finding out more about her parents as she was super young when Vicente had moved them out of their household. Even if her older siblings tell her that their parents were awful people, of course they don't know that she's searching for them.

That's the info I have on the first family this AU will be focusing on. The second family will probably come as no shocker to anyone who knows me. But anyways that's all for now, bye!

#please anyone give me a name for nyo hong kong #“but sven why did you use nyo hong kong to begin with and not just regular hong kong?” #that's the thing #shut up #i wanted to #nyo hk is pretty #hws macau #hws taiwan #hws hong kong #hetalia #nyotalia #my art #svens stuff #svens art #nuclear family au #that's what i'm calling it for now #i might change it in the future

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

There was a post I saw recently about how there isn't a Narrative in real life and believing there is can be really bad for you. And, it was mostly about taking pain medication when you need to because suffering isn't valorous (true), but it really hit me.

Because about ten years ago I decided I wanted to go to graduate school, get my PhD, and go into academia. I spent nine years doing that, and then realized it just wasn't good for me, and left my grad school program three months ago.

And everyone keeps asking me what I want to do next and I don't fucking know. Because I had my Narrative! I spent years on it! It was integral to my sense of self! But it was very bad for me. Maybe it could have worked if certain things had gone right instead of wrong, but it didn't.

And the standard narrative for leaving grad school is that you immediately leap to something better. You go to industry and make more money, you start a company in a garage, etc. People want me to have that story, they want to be comforted by the fact that this was just a small hurdle on the way to What I'm Supposed To Be.

But I can't just swap in a new life goal overnight, not after getting so burned by the pursuit of the last one. And it sucks because I also want the comfort of a narrative for myself: who I am and where I'm going and what I want. But it still feels like a trap at this point, like I'd repeat the mistake of picking something and sticking with it while it made me miserable.

#haunted by the lack of narrative #except you know what there is someone who writes about this exact fucking thing and that's john darnielle #in my 'sitting in a room waiting for something to happen' era #but I don't KNOW if something good will come of it or if anything will come of it at all #because I'm still IN IT #that's the thing #my nonsense #graduate school

[soggypotatoes]

role reversal with mum getting really intense

im trying to go up to her place more, even though literally every time I go there I relapse (I don't at home these days!) bc I know she's lonely.. and she's having surgery soon and I don't trust my dad and brother to look after her (aka not let her do all the cleaning still lol)

so I'm slipping back into the role of kid parent and I feel myself also slipping into. being a little kid again who's in over her head

I don't know what to prioritise :/ my therapist always tells me I'm supposed to put myself first, my biggest problem is Ive never known how to do that. but that's the problem!!! what does that mean!!! if putting myself first means not looking after her, I'd hate myself for it. she needs me. and I'm neglecting friends, too - I haven't been able to even glance at any of my messages bc I'm too overwhelmed with other people's needs. is prioritising myself checking their messages and making time for them, or is that prioritising friends over family over me??? WHAT DOES IT MEAN GUYS

I just really don't know what I'm supposed to do to look after myself. I'm stumped!

#anyway. ugh #i feel the need to put myself aside and focus on her #but the problem is if i do that i will wither away #and stop existing #and also when does it end? #that's the thing #if my brother and dad never plan on putting effort in.. #and the fucked thing is #i dont blame my dad at all #hes. a child. he never grew up #rn all my anger is towards my brother #isnt that messed up? im angry at him for not parenting our parents lmao #i want to exist for myself and do things i like to do #i just dont know what that means or who im supposed to. um #like who to let down. in what order #do i let down my mum or my friends lol #cause i only have space for 1 or the other #ed mumbles

[professuntothelord]

i really would 250k word a post finale fix it with doom patrol. i truly would

#the moment i add doom patrol to my general interests i get a boost in potential and capability #i want jimmy and larry to have bonding time #i suppose niles could to an extent be a mirror of chuck in so far as orchestrating their narratives and secretly being the Big Bad goes #now crowley IS willoughby. im not even gnna fuck w it idec that's willoughby #that's crowley #i need to have meg meet rita and have a one night stand that's a given #now i know claire and jane seems cheap and obvious but truly and utterly it's imperative AND it will involve kaia #also the jane/cliff and dean/claire parallels. oh. ohhhhh #cliff and dean i could write about alone. genuinely thats the heart of this crossover this is driving dean's arc #i need him to meet cliff. i need him to understand cliff. i want cliff to pick dean up and spin him around man #i want cas and larry to spend evenings in the greenhouse discussing yeah yeah gay trenchcoat celestial things but also the family the #shared trauma of testing and kidnapping and lobotomy #i am certain cas can handle my old man's radiation they can no bandage that shit it'd be great #victor and sam #that's the thing #it's the bodily autonomy #it's the brains. it's the technological ability. #it's the rift in social life and friends. SAM AND VICTOR PLEAAASW #now please. if you will. laura (madame rouge) and queen of hell herself rowena #EASE. #please #i want to be there. #okay that's my manifesto

[not-poignant]

Hi Pia! What work is you think is your best one? In your opinion, not counting readers response, kudos and so on, which work you are the prouder of?

I don't know, anon!

The works I feel are my best are not actually the works I'm always proudest of. The works I love the most are not actually my best. So here we go:

The work I think I've written that is my best: The Ice Plague (particularly books 2 & 3)

The work I've written that I'm proudest of: The Golden Age that Never Was

The work I've written that I love the most: Falling Falling Stars

It was hard to narrow this down because it's also changed over time and I expect it to change in the future as well. In the past for example, I would have said that Inmates was probably my best work. Or that I was proudest of Stuck on the Puzzle. So I definitely don't think this is static!

#asks and answers #pia on writing #stuck on the puzzle #the golden age that never was #the ice plague #fae tales #that's the thing #feeling that something is your best work #isn't necessarily going to be the work you're proudest of #and it isn't necessarily going to be your favourite (which is also how i interpret 'best') #i really do believe the ice plague is probably the most objectively solid writing i've ever produced #and some of the tightest in terms of balancing such a huge plot with so many ensemble characters #and i frankly think the pacing in particular in book 3 is on point #but i can't be the proudest of it because it hurt so much to write and it failed compared to GT and COFT #so i'm not actually as proud of it #anyway i have a lot of feelings about all of those stories #TGATNW was like the 'oh this is exactly what i wanted to do in this fandom and i think this worldbuilding is solid' #it's a tight work AND represented what i wanted to capture re: jack and pitch #but my heart will always be soft for FFS

[flythesail]

Me whenever I hear someone in Andor say "hope"

#that's the thing #the thing rebellions are built— #andor #flythepost

[tommyssupercoolblog]

.....

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Do y

"Do you want me to kiss you?" /ref

#i made a textpost #septicinnit #I saw this on Seán's Pinterest and it was like. #YO THAT'S #THAT'S THE THING #THAT'S THE THING!!!!! #sfw poppytwt #Poppyblr #Poppytwt #sfw 💐twt #Sfw 💐blr #💐blr #💐twt #rpf safe #Sfw rpf #RPF #video blogging rpf

[aparticularbandit]

but also - for me - writing a companion piece to kisses from agatha's pov was always going to be...difficult. not just because i keep trying to make things identical and had to overcome that hurdle, but because kisses is one of my favorite things i've written. or it was at the time. and trying to write a companion piece that felt like it matched up to what kisses was...wasn't going to be easy. isn't easy.

but i think it has some very good moments that match. i think a lot of agatha's relationship with magic is very well done. and her discussion of superheroes and legends and then getting to nah, the scarlet witch isn't real, that's just a legend and slamming the narration with just like all the other legendary superheroes - like there are moments in this that i really really like.

anyway.

just me. mumbling about. me writing. >.>;;;;;;

#musings #bandit writes fic #wagatha five times kissed #that's the thing #even when i /don't/ like something i've written #i tend to find a lot of good stuff in it that i think i did well #there's a lot of good stuff in kisses #there's a lot of good stuff in thrall #i'm not sure that i like one better than the other #it's like part five of ff is a bit of a wreck #but it still has some of my favorite scenes in it #LIKE ALL OF THE SECOND PERSON AGATHA STUCK IN AGNES STUFF #like when wanda shows up to get her #like when wendy meets agatha for the first time #neverland just has a special place in my heart in terms of my writing i LOVE neverland in part four #i love wendy making agnes in part five #like #there are so many GOOD things i like about my writing #even when i don't like it #and there are more in the ones i DO like #XD #like luisa and the fox is not amazing but it's my favorite of anything i've fanfic written and i love it #and i keep trying to scrub it and failing because like #it's luisa and the fox #that's what it is #/anyway/

[linterteatime]

Hello. Can I find somewhere your old invader zim arts? I heart that you created another blog for it.

(I hope that you heard that in my account from me and not...somewhere else lol) that side account is purely for me now, to keep that stuff stored or something, but I could maaaaaybe consider giving you the link if you account didn't have well... Straight up nothing, but since it has nothing shit's pretty sus sorry bro, don't worry tho I will maybe free them Posts once I fully develop my brain in however many years that will be...well i know how many years that is, y'all don't, that's private infomation.

#Ask #I hope this doesn't show up in the tags of yknow #but I'm not gonna check anyways cuz I don't want to see that fandom tag #Eugh I hate talking about this but like I know I have to #cus I hate that fandom #well not all of it but a very big chunk of it #if anyone for some reason wants to get vibe checked please go to my messages not my ask box please and thanks #if you don't pass the vibe check you get blocked that's the joke #time to rant #man that fandom made my mental health so much worse like I genuinely mean it #my pretty manageable anxiety got to the point where every day I was feeling anxious ugh #and the worst part of all of that is that I just...drew the same stuff I draw for other fandoms? #and YET my brain got burned big time with bullshitery #children cartoon fandom's are insane I guess #or maybe weirdos should just get run over twice and die... #yeah that should happen #god if you exist please hear me out I don't ask for #but even if I didn't get involved in making cringe ship art I could ended up privating all of that fandom stuff anyways #that's the thing #because it was a LOT of stuff what made me snap #not just ship shit #but whatever #wait one last thing #before I turned off anon someone sent me an ask telling me I was and some other shit and like #BRO???? What are you on???¿? Lmao #infamous for leaving a fandom cuz it was bad for my brain??cuz people were being weird to my drawings of characters that were minors??? #cuz i got ppl telling me die due to missinformation on a characters age?? #A little bit of everything really #what a silly fandom with silly people aww #these days have been actually so much more chill being out of it and Idk if that's funny or nah

[kinetic-elaboration]

I really don't feel like working on this fic, and like to some degree I just...don't feel like writing at all, I feel a real Sunday malaise today, but in another sense I just... don't want to work on this specific one, and a part of me is like, yes, you just did all this work to get it right to the point where you can write it but maybe you should just backburner it after all, maybe if it doesn't spark joy and you have a bad feeling about it, you should trust your instinct that working on it will be overall dissatisfying and sort of a waste. I just... I do want to actually write, like words on page write, during my vacation. I don't know if I can get SGAU to that point in the next week. But maybe that should be my goal? Maybe it is plausible and I should put effort there? And if not, this fic I feel meh on will still be there? I don't know. I don't know. I always get a certain degree of anxiety about writing, it's just with this fic in particular, I'm writing out a new, better outline for it, and I'm thinking 'this is going to be one of those stories where I look at the finished project and just think it's silly' and that is so far away from the fun almost crack-y feeling it was meant to inspire in me. I'm very stubborn and hate feeling like I'm 'throwing away' work but at this point it's all outlines and ideas, not actual scenes.... Really feeling some types of ways about this.

#mundane #i haven't had any active project where i'm actually writing and not just planning #since i finished the draft of new man #and i think that makes me kind of antsy #but this one is the closest and i just do not feel excited about it #but i can't tell if that's bc of general writing anxiety or bc of this project specifically #that's the thing

[youve-always-had-me-cas]

The Reddit blackout is really funny because I fucking hate Reddit, I can't stand it, I will rant about the flaws in Reddit's Moderation system at the drop of a hat and as someone who used to mod a >300k subreddit believe me there are so, so many of them, but finally the admins of the website who have been profiting off the unpaid impossible labour mandated of their moderators by the structure of their website for years are getting the exact same treatment mods get every day. Your users are demanding an impossible thing of you. They hate you. They hate you. They want what you are offering them but their sense of justice is irreparably skewed and they will not listen to a single thing you have to say anymore. But unlike the people stuck trying to hold a community together under these absurd constraints they do not control you made this horrid mob of people and fostered this culture for decades this is entirely one hundred percent your fault.

#brain.txt #the redditors are right btw #that's the thing #it wouldnt be impossible if they were wrong #redditors are always right about knowing what would be best for them as an individual but because of the way the site works what is right #for the individual is in direct opposition to what is right for the group #and for the people calling the shots #so there is never a compromise and there is never a halfway everyone is just supposed to hate the ones at the top as a way of feeling like #they have some semblance of control over the situation even though it literally doesnt have to be like that #tumblr exists #pretty much any website that isnt reddit exists ans doesnt force people into this unbearably shitty mindset #ugh #one comment and i drop the manifesto honestly #AND BY DESIGN THE ONES AT THE TOP GETS OUTSOURCED TO REGULAR PEOPLE JUST TRYING TO DO GOOD #its so evil #reddit as a metaphor for everything that can be wrong with a society #i sound crazy but you havent seen what I've seen!!!

[bookwyrminspiration]

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He's back!! At least I'm assuming this is the part you were at here. I gotta say that was my exact same reaction when my good friend Jonathan popped into my emails again.

I had gotten rather attached to him throughout the earlier months of the novel and then he was just. Gone :(. Don't get me wrong, I adore Lucy and Mina, but like...Jonathan was the first and we have something special. I say about a fictional character from 1897.

I don't know if everyone else got attached to Jonathan that way, but for so long it was just us and him! His diary every day, his horrors. It was a special little time where we watched the story start to set itself and unfold. I think Jonathan's time in the castle was one of (if not my favorite) segments.

#dracula daily #quil's queries #gaslight-gaetkeep-gayboss #all of the characters are so so dear to me #but I only listen to one of them for months on end haunted. hunted. all alone #that's the thing #jonathan was alone and we were there with him #every other character has someone now. there are other people #but we were jonathan's only companions and he didn't even know we were there #i love him #tw caps