#they break the rules on PURPOSE

[cuoredimuschio]

okay, but where's my steddie AU where steve wants to learn to play guitar to impress a girl he's infatuated with and he remembers that munson kid was always hanging up posters for his weird band at school, so he hikes out to eddie's usual dealing spot behind the track and asks (with far less groveling than he really should have) if eddie will teach him how to play, and obviously eddie says no because why would he want to help king steve, but of course, steve offers to pay him, $20 a week, and well, that's the kind of get-the-hell-out-of-this-shithole-town cash eddie really can't afford to refuse, so fine, he'll teach steve to play and they'll spend inordinate amounts of time together tucked away in eddie's room and they'll start to see that they have more in common than they thought and that they kind of had each other all wrong, and eddie will put his hand over steve's to help him get the placement for a tricky chord and it totally won't awaken anything in either of them?? where is it??

edit: i started writing it

#steve x eddie #steddie #stranger things #someone tell me this has already been written because i need it. please. #bonus points if steve shows up to the first practice session empty-handed #and eddie nearly calls the whole thing off when he has the Audacity to grab at eddie's sweetheart as if eddie'd ever let him play her #and he doesn't even teach steve anything that day because rule number one get your own fucking guitar and keep your mitts off mine #but by the end when eddie is deep deep deep in love and it's time to send steve off to woo this lucky girl of his #he offers to let steve take his sweetheart because she's guaranteed to make him look ten times hotter and cooler #and he'll have no trouble sweeping his girl off her feet and maybe eddie's breaking his own heart but it's fine—as long as steve's happy #except steve doesn't seem nearly as happy as eddie thought he would be #he seems sad actually and eddie kind of hates that so he starts to make some lame joke about how steve should be honored #because eddie wouldn't lend his baby out to just anyone and that gets steve to crack half a smile #but then he puts the guitar down on eddie's bed (with all due gentle reverence) walks over takes eddie's face in his hands and kisses him #kisses him like he's been dying to do it for weeks. because he has #because somewhere along the line it stopped being about wanting to impress a girl and started being about wanting to be with eddie #it started being screwing up on purpose so that eddie would grab his hands and show him how it's supposed to be done #and forgetting about lessons entirely and just sitting around and listening to eddie talk or just watching him play #because somewhere along the line steve fell out of infatuation and into love with the last person he ever expected.... #anyway idk where i'm going with this

[skunkes]

#something he keeps saying lately #also idk how to word this but my stuff almost never looks good when i flip the canvas but aiming for symmetrical too Stiff #i hope my stuff is at least a Good wonky and not a ''dude this looks so bad you just cant tell yet'' wonky... #i want it to look like i made it bad on purpose not like its bad because im just unskilled.... #but it definitely is not ever on purpose or in an informed; breaking the rules ive learned way lol. #<- speaking generally here bc as of rn i dont think this doodle Sucks its just lopsided i think...thats what the canvas flip says at least #i always say this but i wish i cld switch between my perception of my stuff and someone else's perception #i hate feeling so in the dark about my own stuff. i wont even be able to tell if this sucks bad until anywhere from one day to 5 years #from now. ykwim. #a doodley #ok gn ^_^

[block-swing-perry]

fanfic writers writing babies and toddlers talking never get the interesting quirks about early children speech right. like i spoke entirely in colors when i was very young because my mom accidentally made the classic mistake of stressing the color rather than the objects name (ei, look at the red apple instead of look at the apple! its red!) and also she would forget the name of stuff frenquently and would ask me to grab the "purple" thing. but never in a million years would i or any child would have gone "me hungry" or "sorwy" unless we were doing it on purpose because we knew thats what some people thought babies sound like

#like you gotta remember a baby is optimized to absorb the weird language rules #so like maybe they havent quite grasped a less common one yet like i eated vs i ate #the 'me hungry' is adults purposely breaking known rules to try and convey a lack of experience

[mars-ipan]

I JUST WANNA MAKE THE WHOLE EARTH SMILE

#martzipan #nagito komaeda #sdr2 #WAUGH. kinda slayed with this one. kinda fucking killed it #i will use komaeda as a battering ram to break my artblock. worst comes to worst i can always draw him #i wanted to put him in! a box. bc it would make a neat pose. and then i broke rules on purpose to make him look cooler #i considered making this servant but then i realized i did not want to draw his leash or figure it out compositionally #i tried so many new things on this one. gradients mostly. i messed around with the csp texture materials too :3 #proud of myself on this one #oh yeah! this was also an excuse to test out the new maeda playlist #and the verdict is: it's good :D i wanna add more over time but deffo a good base #anyways. i was not expecting this to turn out so good but safe to say it is now going to be the cover of that playlist. which is cool #OK TAG RAMBLES DONE. tumblr please be good to me on this one i really like it

[smolsammichowo]

I'm pretty sure Cucurucho is going to strangle Tubbo like Homer simpson strangles Bart if Tubbo keeps breaking rules / trying to break rules

#qsmp #qsmpfanart #fitmc #tubbo #cucurucho #ramon #qsmp ramon #it hasnt even been a fucking week and Cucurucho has pointed a gun at him multiple times for trying to do stupid shit #And Tubbo tried to get him on today by breaking rules on purpose today lmao #fit and ramon are there because theyve been there witnessing or have caused inspiration for his mayhem

[padfootastic]

No, tell us about the dorm parties and Lily finding out about them, pretty please

ooooh a tag question! love these too hehe

okay so. a lil bit of backstory: i had a semi-wild teen life, ykno? like. not as crazy as ~american high school movies but in the context of the country i grew up in? pretty unreal. there were parties and alcohol and weed and a lot of hooking up. so much petty drama. so much irreverence.

point is: i dont like it when teens are portrayed as some pure, untouched, prudish creatures who've never heard of fun or drugs or sex. it just doesnt fit with what i know.

and i fully believe that hogwarts--a boarding school where kids have MAGIC (which really just means unending possibilites)--was a place where the students went wilddd. one of the ways? dorm parties. u have these private spaces for just you and like. 5 others. u can do a shit ton with ur wand. why wouldnt u use it for parties ykno?

so yeah, i think the common room had larger parties after like. quidditch wins and end of exams, but bc its more people and more younger kids, u had to be more careful. dorm parties tho? smaller, more intimate, and ur with the people u know/trust so crazier shit will happen.

the marauders were invited to a lot of them in the girls dorms (and vice versa) and ykno. they went to a lot. bc teen boys and girls. it was all very scandalous--booze and short skirts and shirts unbuttoned off their shoulders and hazy smoke filling the room and lipstick marks smeared over chins and necks and the like--and incredibly fun. just kids being kids, yeah?

lily, though. i've long been playing w the idea that her friendship w snape (and chastisement of james--and sirius, to a lesser extent) came w a substantial social cost. her defending someone who was so shady didnt win her any points and i hc as her a person who hid her insecurity w self righteousness (on top of just. being a bit of an abrasive person) which didn't win her additional favors. so even her dormmates maintained a certain distance and the dorm parties didn't often include her. she only found out accidentally when she went up to the room it was happening in to get a book back and saw everyone buzzed out and dancing and more relaxed (intimate) than she'd ever seen.

it was genuinely a huge shock when she saw the boys sprawled across the room in varying stages of undress (james had a girl and a guy on a thigh each, arms wrapped around both waists; sirius was hanging upside down w a joint dangling from his lips and its a wonder he didnt choke himself to death) and she squeaked out of the room in a moment of severe cultural shock.

it was only later that she worked herself into moral outrage and just. hurt-filled anger type stuff, ykno? her roommates sort of had to give her a reality check in that moment. the marauders only blinked at her in bemusement, amused at her high-handed attempts to manage them.

#lily evans #friend i'd apologise for the word vomit but... #hc that u can fly a broom up the girls stairs #its a classic and surprisingly unthought of move #and the maraduers quickly discovered it during a nighttime experiment #in fact. id argue that them sharing this knowledge (bc its not meant to be hoarded and on promise of not leaking to authorities) that #made them half as popular as they were #people were in awe #and wouldnt stop thanking them #many couples formed on the spot for the express purpose of breaking this exciting rule #anyway #okay but like #why do i wanna write this conversation b/w lily and her roommates now #bruh why do i always do this to myself #make up some ridiculous AU/HC situation in my asks/tags #and then i wanna bring it to life #but i can picture it so vividly #lily just spluttering- but but BUT #and her roomates are like. no. u dont get to pull away from us and look down ur nose at us and then disciple us at the same time #yum yum yum #this lily evans is also. i can admit. my pushback against her deification which will never not rub me wrong #but once again. another rant for another day #i just realised what a novel length response this became lol #but i hope u like it anon! #pen’s asks #pen’s notes

[tmae3114]

the other day, a friend of mine invited me over to testplay a paper-and-pencil storytelling game he's been working on for a while and feels like he's finally got a workable version of and one of his mentioned reasons was that "you're a fellow storyteller, I want to see what you'll do with it"

I promptly created a character which violated exactly zero (0) rules but nonetheless obliterated one of the core intended mechanical limitations of the game and I didn't even do that on purpose

after the game, when we were laughing about this, he admitted that one of his other reasons for asking me specifically to testplay was because he knew that "if there was anything that could be broken, you would find it and break it"

#me #so basically there are two categories of player character that you either control both of #or you play as a team of two and control one each #one character exists within the context of the setting and the other is a reality warper #the rules for these characters are very very simple. the in-context character MUST exist within the setting and understand it to be reality #and the reality warper can do whatever they want to the setting SO LONG AS it does not break the in-universe character's understanding of i #you are. to borrow my friends' phrasing. not allowed to break the fourth wall for the in-context character #how did I completely break this situation without actually violating any rules you may ask? #I made my in-context character be a random guy that my reality warper zapped into existence at the start of the game #thus. his understanding of reality was still forming. #and reality warpers could interact with him at will because HE DOESN'T KNOW THEY'RE /NOT/ SUPPOSED TO BE THERE #again. I did not do this on purpose. I wouldn't even have realised it if he hadn't pointed it out #I just thought my guy being created by the reality warper for the purpose of the game and being like five minutes old while he saved the wo #*world #was REALLY funny

[russilton]

Confession: sometimes I scroll back through George’a old twitter posts (he doesn’t have a lot it isn’t hard) to check he actually made the tweets I remember when I feel particularly insane about people on tumblr misinterpreting him

#wank/rants #why am I awake? why are you asking questions weather boy #The guys who was the first person to publicly declare support of Lewis after Abu Dhabi and Nelson Piquets comments #is not gonna be besties with Max verstappen #BEGGING some folks to realise there’s a massive bridge between #bitchy driver who gets cocky but ultimately follows rules (seb Lewis george) #and driver who breaks the rules on purpose and expects to be allowed- (max and Fernando) #and the hate George gets isn’t even remotely equivalent to the hate max does #which is why I feel like people conflate him an max to argue that they are similar #max has earned it- by proving over and over he will defend bigots and blame everyone and his team before taking accountability #George takes account of his faults and advocates for change while still being self confident #you know #like seb did #when people hated him #this is a lot tamer than the rant in my drafts #posts I will probably delete after I have slept again

[grissomesque]

Not Terry Matalas admitting his absolute lack of understanding of his own characters by saying, and I quote, "I'd like to be one of those captains that breaks the rules all the time -- I'd be more of a Shaw I think."

#w h a t #oh you mean captain liam 'we will not be breaking the rules today' shaw? #liam 'no explosions accidental or on purpose' shaw? #captain 'turn this kid over right now it's none of our business' liam shaw? #please leave #please please leave #terry matalas #war criminal #star trek picard

[motheatenscarf]

The nice thing about being caught up on MSQ is I can go through character tags just fine and not get spoiled!

The bad thing about being caught up on MSQ is I can go through character tags and realize oh god, oh no, people are trying to include Urianger in their cute little fancomics and no one is taking the like 30 minutes it would take to figure out the grammatical rules on his speech patterns, OH NO.

It's a very stupid pet peeve of mine but it's just one of those "I know it when I see it" kinda things about BAD fake early-modern English. I'm far from an expert, I never did get my degree, Life Happened, but I don't think you need to be an expert to make it... not... terrible...

Like, literally 30 minutes of research on early modern English, you don't need to be a scholar of Shakespear or the King James Bible, you just gotta remember basic grammar and read shit out loud and if it's Technically Correct but sounds bad, change it and be wrong anyway.

Just. Ngh.

#it's VERY DUMB i'm not the fandom grammar police it's just a personal pet peeve but it really makes me twitchy #i guess i kinda envy their confidence to just be bad at something and not put effort in and post it anyway #i mean if it's their self indulgent hobby then go off i guess but god if ur gonna put it in the character tag pls try orz #i want it on record i don't care that it's Wrong i care that it Sounds Bad #language doesn't exist to have rules it exists to serve the purpose of conveying thoughts to others #but the rules can serve as good guidelines for making that clearer and easier and not sounding like absolute ass #break rules if it serves language better absolutely that is what a Writer Does but it is easier to break rules when u know what they are #or at least it is easier to break rules in ways that are interesting and sound good and use words to convey your ideas #which is what writing is pls just try

[skunkes]

I mean this vent completely neutrally and as an observation rather than Woe is Me negativity but going ham in my sketchbook has been Fun but along with not really Learning anything (tho historically no art knowledge ever sticks to my brain) I'm no closer to understanding how I WANT to draw! if that makes sense.

I dont really identify with or want to continue any of the patterns I try (nor do they get any more muscle memory-y, in the fundamentals area).

Its fine as long as its Fun but I really feel the aimlessness. Like I'll keep going but I've also. Been doing that. All I do is Keep Going, when does it all tetris together!

#continuation of this is like. idk how to trust my eyes if im being honest! and im understanding rules but not how to break em #like how i understand that in realistic proportions theres as much space above the eyes than below them on a face #but obviously people draw characters with shorter foreheads/skulls all the time #ive done it too. but it looks Wrong when i do it on purpose. i feel everything i try to do looks unintentionally wrong #idk how to get to the intentional part or what i even want that to look like! #the permanent issue of not knowing what i want it to look like i just know i dont want it to look like this #which is bad bc you shouldnt qualify things by the negatives like that....wagh #im no good at making things from scratch i wish someone wld just draw in my ideal art style already so i cld study it #(jork) #technically i cld do this with urasawa bc like i said thats a dream style right there ill just infuse it with mine #but it Feels wrong #and i know u dont need to have 1 art style forever but i draw one way and forget all the previous ways ive ever drawn #i rly dont understand! i wish we cld share brains with each other so i cld gain understanding of what to do next ykwim #bc ill always keep going i just worry im never going to Get it #that there will always be that bizarre and extreme disconnect between eye and mind and hand #talkys

[bittersweet-mojo]

something something sexy goose

#geralt of rivia #jaskier #julian alfred pankratz #geraskier #the witcher #the witcher netflix #my art #Bitter Content #fanart #digital art #photoshop #ive been chipping at this since finals week #i learned all these rules about perspective #so now i get to break them on purpose #fisheyes are very fun even if they take a lot of prep #and photoshop having shittier lines than procreate makes this harder #but i desperately needed photoshops adjustment layers for the amount of neon in this so whatever #this piece was for funzies but i am very happy with it

[neatokeanosocks]

ok Sir Wearing-a-neck-tie-like-a-bow

#SIR THE ENDS OF YOUR BOW ARENT EVEN LEVEL. #I SHOULD WEAR MY TIE LIKE A SCARF AND YOU SHOULDNT BE ABLE TO SAY S H I T #riddle roseheart's fucked up tie makes me endlessly mad every time i see it and this is the straw that broke the camels back #i bet when he does it everyone calls it 'sprezzatura' BUT WHEN THE MC DOES IT ITS 'BREAKING THE RULES' #much like irl sprezzatura you cant make it work unless you're rich and have fanboys #this better serve a narrative purpose. i hope hes slipping a weapon r smthg into the MC's pocket and using the tie-adjusting as a cover #just to be clear: i am watching a silent playthrough of twisted wonderland with english subs because nobody would shut up about it #do not judge me #judge riddle and his sTuPID TIE #shitpost #twst

[cataclysmcrows]

@haruspexism for you

#alex speaks #oc tag #damien #cata #clysm #if you see me breaking my no directly posting about clysm rule (for avoiding spoilers purposes) no you dont

[sisterdivinium]

Just a little warning but I did some digging because of a show I used to watch and you might or might not be in for a few reblogs concerning Hild from The Last Kingdom and I DO NOT want anyone to come and tell me I am predictable for loving the warrior nun from another show. I know. I know. I have a weakness, okay. I'm not sorry. And I already loved her before, you all just didn't know it. Today I just woke up with a mighty need.

We'll be back to our usual Warrior Nun posting shortly.

#don't worry i won't be writing any fic or anything. i might break my rule and Read One though #hopefully those of you who stick with me through this moment will understand why i love hild just by looking at her lol #fun fact i actually didn't finish watching tlk and i should one of these days #i stopped in the middle of s4 for no real reason #jsyk it's not for everybody but if like me you have watched vikings and you like the whole vibe and don't mind the violence... #tbqh i think tlk is better than vikings but anyway. i am stretching the purposes of this blog with these tags lol #no show posting! only nun posting instead!!!! #silly blabbering

[bees-with-swords]

There's a special circle of hell for parents who try to "train" their kids out of stimming

#back to working with The Public #also shout out to the teacher who only disciplined the black kid for “acting out” #when he was doing the same thing as 3 other kids and was way more enthusiastic about the science than any of them #I was killing her with my mind #I knew his name and none of the other kids names just from how often she said his name scoldingly #literally the worst part of my job is the grown adults #especially the ones who think it's funny to break the rules for the sole purpose of scaring their kids : ) #sir. your child is anxious. you're purposefully making it worse #with the implied threat that youll laugh or think theyre stupid if they break down #this is not a bonding experience #this is teaching them you don't think their feelings are important