#there are a few lies in this piece

[kaatiba]

oracle wip excerpt — in which a phenomena is (not) experienced

❝Magic spills across the skies in ribbons of fiery blue and green and all the shades in between, licking at the velvet black, the stars, the very air. Usually, only kindlers of particular strength or skill or both can see or taste or feel magic, but when the skies are ablaze, everyone can feel it, can see it.

It’s a song, tugging at your heart, sending ripples of sensation down your spine, making all the little hairs on your arms and the back of your neck rise, making your scalp prickle, making your eyes water with pure indefinable emotion. It’s vitality, waking you up more fully than you’ve ever been before, making every breath feel like the first true free breath after long imprisonment, making your blood rush and soar.

It’s awareness, real awareness of Reality, of yourself and the magic inside you and in the earth just as it is above you, paths everywhere, through everything, linking it all together, one great mass of arteries, one great body, one great heart, alive alive alive. It’s entrancing and wondrous and—

—and to Ro, it’s nothing but pretty lights. Magnificently pretty, yes. But only something to look at.❞

general tag list: @lockejhaven

(taglist is open! both for all my writings, and just for this wip!)

#oracle.wip #Ro is Not Sad about this by the way #Ro thinks Being Sad is a silly waste of effort honestly and not very comfortable and why on earth would anyone indulge it #when its so much easier and better and enjoyable to be Not Sad and just...happy #so she chases after and keeps the things that make her Happy #which is usually gold and thus sometimes murder #(she's an assassin i love her) #this was inspire by seeing a video of northern lights btw #there are a few lies in this piece #but are they lies really? #'everyone' can see it and feel it #but do you count if you're a void? #kaatibawrites

[reverintherevery]

Expired Noodles, am i right.

#shitpost #debated going back to clean the lines but i think the charm of the piece lies within its.... simplicity #lmk expired noodles #lmk pigsy #lmk #lego monkie kid #lego #monkie kid #lmk fanart #lmk six eared macaque #lmk macaque #pigsy #macaque #six eared macaque #expired noodles #my art #shipping this as a joke but pretty much aware i wont be joking in a few days #i need more pigsy and macaque interacting people #if anything this is yall's fault for not giving me normal content

[moonpaw]

thinking about how spoiled i got with reading bnha fics because there was a million and one fics over any au i could think of and now im suffering because i wanna read a million and one fics over one piece but there’s just. not as many

#one piece #i lied there's a million and one fics but only if you like ace/marco or sanji/zoro #or a focus fic on ace and sabo #or luffy/law #or marineford au or reader fics or #ANYWAY ITS ALL THE WRONG STUFF #i hold up luffy and strawhats friendship/family in my sad little hands #also it's. so hard to look at recent fics while also dodging wano like the plague #it's also a crime that theres so few fics focusing on dragon #i've burned through all the good stuff and now im suffering :(

[compacflt]

wip wednesday: boy you really would’ve thought I’d have posted these by now

#it’s 80k of scenes that are individually 50-90% complete and not a single one is done #there might be a lot of cutting too because a bunch of these are stupid fluff pieces that simply aren’t interesting or important #so need to cut this down a whole bunch #they will be banished to the Dark Google Doc where lies the original draft of chapter 6 and the rough draft of the slider one-shot #1. ‘so… about what happened last night’ post first kiss #2. ice gets curious about mav’s family #3. Admiral Kazansky gets a little jealous #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #top gun #top gun maverick #icemav #top gun fanfiction #i might pause wip Wednesdays for a few weeks. I’ve posted a snippet from 70% of the scenes which i think is detrimental to the end reading #experience. #sorry these are taking so long but they really are just extras so don’t worry about it too much #dont let me overhype them. like im extremely proud of some of the writing (it’s much better than some of the stuff on ao3) #but they’re not necesssry to the story overall

[bbibbirose]

he's lowk a little weird for that

#he ends things bc he's still not over smtg from his past which is all cool as long as he's being honest #but then he posts on his PUBLIC instagram notes *I thought it was me vs the world but turns out it was me vs me* #which first #is cringe #second #why are you vaguing me like that #so I posted back a few days later in my notes #*the chai was good but I lied abt everything else* #implying I was tryna fit puzzle pieces that don't match #also bc he made chai for me but he kept apologizing for how shit it was #then he responds with *they want me to settle but I forgot how 🫠* with a rap song #I think I dodged a bullet #.text

[obstinaterixatrix]

A man named Lee Jung-yool appears out of nowhere in Han Gitae's detective agency, and Gitae suddenly finds himself under threats to cooperate with his plans…! What exactly is the massive conspiracy that involves the two of them? And what will become of these two?

this one’s a short 14 chapter m/m I really enjoyed—packs a lot of action and drama in a pretty compressed length, plus the art & atmosphere is really good. (I was a little lost when it came to the political intrigue and police drama, but it wasn’t what I was there for anyway) (also it’s actually read left to right, and I think I kept getting tripped up by that). still, the vibes grabbed me because they’re like

the vibes are really

good for folks who want to read somewhat rancid vibes, but not hardcore rancid vibes. it’s dysfunctional!

#orlbs #misclb #recs #mm recs #my definition of hardcore rancid might be different from other folks tho #the love interest is a piece of work (lmao) #but I wouldn’t consider this hardcore rancid because [spoilers] the mc dumps the li when he thinks the li is still working as a cop #which was REALLY funny. love that for him. what a good mc. they get back together but still #this is spoilers but the one thing that gave me pause #was the mc tells the li ‘no! don’t kill that guy! if you do you’ll become a criminal!’ #and by that point the li had already blown up a warehouse #the explosion killed a few people #I think the ship has sailed on that one. #he was talking about the label of a criminal as opposed to an anonymous crime I guess? #oh well

[pocketsizedquasar]

i genuinely, sincerely, deeply hope, from the bottom of my heart, that every single person who spread and propagated that bullshit lie that israel didn’t bomb the hospital, destroying the whole building and killing hundreds of people, but it was a “misfired hamas / palestinian rocket” — i hope every single one of you rots in hell.

#quasartalks #i’m so. #there are a lot of things about this that are breaking me. #but. this. #we knew all along it was israel of course it was. #but it’s now been confirmed over and over again and israel sent a warning to every other hospital in gaza that they would bomb them. #but like. we fucking knew. we knew. #1) hamas has NEVER had a piece of weaponry capable of the destruction we saw at that hospital. if they had shit like that do you think - #-they wouldn’t have used it against israel already?? #2) israel warned that hospital they would bomb them. they hit the same hospital a day prior with a ‘warning strike’. they said multiple - #-times they were going to bomb it. #3) THEY ADMITTED TO BOMBING THE HOSPITAL. then changed their fucking story when the PR got bad!!! #but y’all believed them when they said it was hamas. and then said it was a misfire. and then and then. u believed them despite already- #-having seen them lie for WEEKS about hamas and beheaded babies and everything else. u believed them. #but yeah the NYT has forensically confirmed it. british analysts have forensically confirmed it. multiple fucking sources have confirmed it #and of course a few days after that hospital was bombed EVERY OTHER HOSPITAL received warning of it. #genuinely. genuinely genuinely. if you spread that blatant zionist lie. i hope you rot. #if you spread those lies about beheaded babies and raped women. i hope you rot. #i don’t care if this is cruel or rude or unfair of me i don’t care #an entire fucking people is being genocided and all you can do is police what they say about it. #palestine #israel

[moonscape]

GOD THIS PERSON GETS IT!!!

#bwark #ignoring the ignorant use of the c slur as an adjective i am feeling so validated here #for all of sv's problems as a functioning game it's still full of personality and charm with a great story #it's like the pieces were there but they couldn't make them fit because of the strict release schedule #i vehemently disagree with the narrative people push that gamefreak doesn't care because in my eyes they clearly do #the problem is crunch time and the toxicity of the video game industry. that's always been the case #so really what's totk's excuse? 6 years of development (one year being dedicated to polish alone) for a game that lacks confidence in being #a sequel and strips away any of the charm and personality that botw had? please. #sorry i lied about not being as much of a totk hater anymore but do you understand how vindicating it is to see more of these critiques #finally coming out the past few months? i was disappointed with it within the first week of release and it felt like you couldn't express #any kind of negative opinion on it (or botw tbf) without getting insults hurled at you #i remember i was trying to respectfully disagree with someone who was my mutual at the time on our differing opinions #and some complete stranger came into the replies and started being rude to me #like idc if it was playful rudeness you're a complete fucking stranger so don't talk to me like that

[apollo-cackling]

🔥 on malazan, if you don't mind!

[I'm ~1/3 done reading HoC for context]

oh hmm what's an actual unpopular malazan opinion? pretty sure "I would defend Felisin with my goddamn life" is at least a contested opinion on the subreddit, but most folks agree on that here uhhh. here's a few scattershot opinions, hope at least one of them are unpopular:

I do rather like the opening to House of Chains? I saw several people say they didn't like it/that Karsa wasn't interesting enough to carry it, and I don't know if that's the general opinion or an outlier that I stumbled upon but yk. disagree it was fun watching him fuck around and find out + the Silanda reveal (and the other worldbuilding stuff) was really goddamn cool. I wouldn't say it's in my list of favourite malazan parts but it's nowhere near the bottom

Siege of Capustan was a really compelling sequence, but between it and Toc's PoV, somewhere along the line the Pannions(' brutality) broke my suspension of disbelief a little? I've never really liked gorey evil empires though lol tbf

the malazan marine POVs are generally pretty solidly mid-tier for me? they're still good, just outclassed by the other POVs (so say Felisin in DG and Itkovian/the Envy entourage in MoI)

I get that this is more a "we didn't really have the opportunity to see it" thing than anything else bc clearly it does happen (Felisin on the transport ship to the otataral mines) but I wish it wasn't mostly non-Malazans perpetrating (onscreen) sexual violence not sure on the implications on that one. ...although I have seen something to the implication that these books are in part in-universe propaganda? nvm going to reserve judgment on this one

#thanks for the ask! #my rambles #this got pretty rambly + messy idk how much sense it makes lol #+ memory's a bit fuzzy rn sorry for anything that causes #always a lil nervous talking about malazan stuff lol bc ik for a fact I'm missing so many pieces #actually one thing I find really interesting about Karsa right is how much of a self-imposed problem he is? #like iirc there were >0 parts where at that point he just wanted to get back to genabackis to... #reveal the lies the Teblor have been living under?? forgot but anyway the malazans keep chasing him which is how he ended up with leoman #which like #ties into another thing I really love about the setting right there's so many supremely powerful people it's like natural disasters #I don't believe in punitive justice but like. karsa's killed and hurt this many people and the best course of action is to let him go #not bc he's repented or changed or anything just bc we don't think he has a reason to do it again is yk. bleak #did I write the 'I love the way the malazan setting goes yes gods are human. and that's *horrifying*' post #cool stuff! #note that I took the race science stone tablet to be an in universe fuckup bc *gestures at the state of the Teblor* #if it's not actually a fuckup my liking of this section's going to go down a few notches though #also tbf to the malazan marines they're pretty top notch execution of what they're going for #the thing they're going for just isn't my thing though lol #malazan #ask #ask game

[empyreanmirror]

i hope you know im selectively uploading things to protect you all from lies of p content

#(as in ive only uploaded the first and third one here and the other three are LOP) #not art #why? because i wasnt even the fucking one to play it i watched Asunder playing like. a few fucking scenes because he chewed #through that fucking game like he'd played it a million times (and enjoyed it). and like. i know nothing. of the game #im one of those ''if im making fanart i better know half the games lore minimum or have been playing for years (eg TES)'' #but this game? I know next to nothing about it #im saving you from ''haha interesting character concepts go brr but i have to put it in my style so i know nothing AND am playing #with the characters like dolls'' content. just kidding mostly im stopping myself personally but like #its funny af bc i generally upload everything i do (yeah. i really genuinely did stop drawing for ages bc i havent been awake in this #body more than like five mins a day since spring yaddah yaddah but yeah its not that im just not uploading lmfao) and then i open #my recents and its like. I Do Not See It. its very clear that the only things i havent uploaded(or am avoiding working on BECAUSE #i dont want to upload them) are lies of p LMFAO #.... oh when i say ''if im making fanart'' i mean continuously. i do bits and pieces here and there but can you tell lies of p may become #a theme for a hot minute #god wtf has this game done to me. i really cant stand fairytale-based games nor do i ever really like soulsborne-likes lmfao #i also dont like character design when all the characters are really conventionally pretty or lean towards it #...... i fully expected to never even slightly connect w lies of p lmfao

[fragmentedblade]

Just how big was Teng Xiao if Cirrus calls Jing Yuan a "lightweight"???

#I talk too much #I should probably delete this later #I guess they don't mean it physically and more in countenance given the insults they direct to Jing Yuan #but that was my first thought lmao #I keep forgetting people here don't age so I always picture the masters old or at least like Gongshu aesthetically #so this line made me reconsider how Teng Xiao may have looked like #I always think of him‚ Fu Xuan's master and Huaiyan‚ for example‚ as old(ish) people #until the reminder of how they don't age hits me on the temple with a pan lol #The one time I saw Huaiyan art it took me a moment to place who that pretty man was because it wasn't anything like I pictured him #And then the idea that he could actually look like that even nowadays dawned on me like a punch. Same thing happened with Fu Xuan's master #Yet even after the punches I keep forgetting after two days and go on to think of them as rather old looking #only to be hit with the realisation again at some other time. Like right now xD #Super funny that he just pushes the fight on us. In line with his 'okay but why do I have to deal with this? This spark isn't even worth it #And then he pulls the 'if you lose you must answer one question without lies or tricks'. The same guy who can't be named in front of #the prisoner who collaborates with the interrogations of the Ten Lords Commission and that has a few free days yearly #This is so his way of doing things and god I love him so much for it #Odysseu.s-adjacent kind of character. A scoundrel truly in many regards‚ Fu Xuan was so right. I love him so. He should have been my fave 😔 #Cirrus talked about chessboard‚ pieces and pawns. I love how Jing Yuan's opponents keep talking in chess metaphors #And how he manauvers conflict and his moves in a similar fashion yet how he draws a clear line between real conflict and a chess match #when asked if war is truly similar to a xiangqi game #Ahfksjkd I love him sooo much haha

[unofficialadamtaurus]

Bro if we ever get a rwby next!gen, how cool would it be if Blake and Yang's kid meets and trains with an older, survived but weakened Adam post-V6 and doesn't know it's him until they find his old jacket and they realise who he is but Everything's Difference Now and ahhh!

I don't personally care for next-generation or kid-centric fics but you do you

#anon #unofficial adam answers #could be neat to have him as a mentor figure #alright fine my brain is engaging so: #he's just passing through their town after a decade or however long #thinking that he wants to apologize to blake yadda yadda #but when he goes to their place (he asked around to figure out where they live) #they're not home but their kid is #and he panics because he didn't realize they had a kid #so he lies when the kid asks who he is and says he's an old huntsman friend #and this kid is immediately like oooh that's so cool you use a sword like mom #adam's like...kinda #kid wants adam to train them because moms say they're too young for now #(both blake and yang want to preserve the kid's childhood since both of theirs were tainted) #adam realizes he can learn more about them and how they're doing with the kid #so he'll be able to get through his apology hopefully without getting punched into the sun by Yang #so he agrees on the condition that the kid keeps their sessions a secret #with the blatantly obvious lie that showing off those skills could be a super fun surprise when the kid's birthday rolls around #in [insert amount of time you want the fic to span] #and over time the kid (who's overheard their moms talking about adam late at night a few times) puts the pieces together #but says nothing because they're realizing that adam isn't training them for the birthday thing #but because he wants to make up for things and apologize and he doesn't know how to do it properly #so when the reveal happens at the birthday and adam shows up after everyone else has left #the kid defends him (verbally; it wouldn't escalate into a brawl)

[waugh-bao]

Dublin + London: Days 1 & 2

#I’m a jet lagged mess #but I got to have lemon kumquat tea with li hing #and a 24/7 gym membership #(undergrad me could run outside in the London summer. PhD me needs an air conditioned treadmill) #so all will be well #especially because I start archive stuff tomorrow #not the stones #me stuff #dublin #london #((ngl this is all I’ve eaten in the last 48 hours other than a few pieces of tuna nigiri. the time zone change loss of appetite is real))

[kulliare]

everytime i hang out w my friends i feel sooo depressed after its like

#i feel like its what masking feels like lmaoo #i don’t even know if i like these people i just kind of hang out w them #tbh im starting to feel like all i want to be is lied to LMAO #like im aware this art piece is messy but there was no way i could make it look good in 1/2 hrs like 😩 im baby #they didnt mean to be rude i think its just what we do but im so tired of it #like sometimes i just feel sick after nd im like ok well. wats up w u lmaoo #at least i could talk this time bc last time i couldnt and it was messy #also i swear these will be my last few personal posts in awhile lol #1 or 2 hrs not like 1/2 lol :(

[mchiti]

There's a super famous singing festival in italy that airs for a week every year. This year, one of the singers, Ghali, did some very remarkable things on that stage. Ghali was born in Italy from Tunisian parents, his career has been going on for a while, but this was his first time on that stage.

He made a song where he references Palestine where he sings: "how can you say everything is fine down here, where in order to trace borders with imaginary lines you bomb an hospital, for a piece of land or for a piece of bread there is no peace" . He also did a medley, singing also in arabic for the first time in the history of the festival.

Last night, during the final, he ended his performance asking to "stop the genocide!" I don't have to tell you that there's absolutely nothing pro-Palestine on italian media... and he used the biggest stage he could use to say that.

Today on a tv programme he was accused by the Isra*li ambassador of spreading hate and violence, to which he replied with those words in the following video (credits to the person who translated it here):

The italian TV broadcaster quickly posted a press release to distance themselves from this speech and to reiterate their whole support to Isr*el lol Towards the end of this tv programme, a few hours after Ghali said what you can hear in this video, they read the press release out loud. This is how Isra*li propaganda works everywhere, thanks to the complicity of our governments.

Just want to post about him because he really risked it all and I appreciate him incredibly for everything he did...if only everyone could do the same. And fuck italy and its fascist government.

#ghali #free palestine #sanremo #freepalestine #palestine #gaza #free gaza #*

[secretmellowblog]

People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.

But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.

The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.

This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.

Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.

So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-

And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—

And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!

If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.

The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.

It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)

I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.

I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.

The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win

#November 5th #november 5 2020 #the fifth of november #just a random ramble #November 5th 2020 is such an important day to me #it really is a holiday #but it does confuse me when I see people analyzing it primarily as a supernatural thing #instead of a ‘hysteria over an election reaches a breaking point when inane zero stakes fandom news comes out and we all latch onto it’thing #but yeah!! #this is my personal essay out of love for the holiday