#to be clever and mess with you

[lilislegacy]

annabeth as a gf is literally the embodiment of only i’m allowed to make fun of him

like if percy says something stupid, she’s the first one to call him an idiot. (sometimes accompanied by a loving eye roll, more often accompanied by a laugh and kiss). she can do it because 1) she doesn’t actually think he’s stupid. she’s seen him do some absolutely brilliant things that have saved their lives. she respects him immensely for his intelligence. and 2) she knows that he knows she doesn’t actually think he’s dumb. he quite likes it when she makes fun of him. plus, he loves how smart she is, and he isn’t threatened by it. so she can call him an idiot and make fun of him as much as she wants. she always has and she always will. he finds it comforting. in their own unique percabeth way, it’s one of the main ways she shows him affection.

but if literally anyone else calls him an idiot, or tells him something he said/asked was stupid, she feels her gut twist in anger. she immediately defends what he said and justifies it as a smart and valid comment/question, and then shoots the absolute most clever and utterly brutal insult toward the person who called him stupid. she destroys every ounce of self-confidence they had just seconds ago

don’t you dare call her seaweed brain stupid.

#oh you think you’re clever for degrading him? #shut up and sit down #don’t mess with her seaweed brain #don’t mess with her at all #percy jackson #annabeth chase #heroes of olympus #percy jackson and the olympians #percabeth #pjo

[basilpaste]

sometimes you have an idea thats like 'wow would that be fucked up or what?' and like. yeah. it would be fucked up.

VERY IMPORTANTLY: not canon. this is not canon to osis. but think about lock in your brain. it is so mentally well does not feel crippling guilt over the fact that it gave up.

#in stars and time #in stars and time spoilers #isat spoilers #isat #isat fanart #of stitches in sequence #basil paints #its named after locking stitches! or lock stitches. depends who you ask. #locking stitches are a way sewing machines can anchor a line of stitching without the mess of backstitching. #you use them at the start and end. #snile. #also im very fond of the dress form thing i like to think im clever.

[bob-mirum]

medic x anon … anything sweet ….. please …. thank you

A little literally, hope you'll forgive me x"d But this is a Medic, you know... I hope everyone understood what the reference was to

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 medic #tf2 medic x reader #tf2 x you #I hope I didn't mess up anything I was trying to add clever words to medic fldsjijslks

[villainihavedonethymotheronao3]

Not sure how to explain my enduring weakness for Liliana’s shitty mom antics. It’s just. In a modern AU she’d be 53 year old separated-but-not-divorced semi-employed conspiracy theorist living a cabin off the grid chopping her own fire wood and corresponding exclusively by messenger pigeon. She’s got a an anti-religion religion that involves communing with the moon. She might be on the No-Fly List and she’s definitely banned from multiple local churches. She has a bittersweet relationship with her adult daughter who moved out and got on good medication where she couldn’t. There’s a twenty year old arrear against her for child support but she and her ex still have pictures of each other in their wallets. I know this woman. If she showed up to a family reunion and introduced herself as one of my aunts I would not question it.

#liliana temult #critical role #I come from a storied lineage of scientist farmers with hermit tendencies #whose repressed mental illness steadily alienates them and poisons their efforts to lead a normal life #if you think that’s a weirdly specific archetype please know it describes like three of my great grandparents #it’s just ranchers and engineers and rancher engineers and itinerant chemists all of them with drinking problems #a lot of new age mysticism too! amazing what being moderately clever and insanely depressed in the seventies inevitably lead to #she’s a mess but she’s a familiar mess

[aelswiths]

Aelswith & Aethelflaed (aka Aelswith being so proud of her baby girl) in 2x03

#the last kingdom #sevenkingsmustdie #tlk aelswith #tlk aethelflaed #god #she's so proud of her baby #and aethelflaed is soooooo cute #she's like mom I'm so smart and clever #and aelswith is like yes you are baby girl #I'm crying #aelswith loves her kids so much #I have so many feelings about it #I'm an emotional mess #I'm also sick so thats probably part of it lmao #but god #G O D #aelswith and her kids #I am #obsessed

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

thinking so so hard about LaughingStock and how that'd go down. disastrously, probably

#and ill talk about it at Length in the tags until tumblr cuts me off like a rowdy drunk after last call #please keep in mind this is all in my Brain and relationship dynamics etc are all technically speculation. anyway #so while franklydear is your more classic 'oh no im in love with him! / aw shucks im in love with him<3' #laughingstock is 'feelings what feelings / oh shit oh fuck this is bad' #to Me. #in my mind howdy is completely oblivious to his emotions #he's out here like 'gotta get the store impressively neat & shiny for barnaby! and everyone else' without blinking an eye #he starts assembling barnaby and wally's dogs slower an slower so that barnaby has to hang around a smidge longer than usual #he's out here giggling at barnaby's jokes while sweeping Hours or Days after the joke was told like a lovesick idiot #all while being like Ah Yes Barnaby My Dear Friend. My Platonic Buddy Whose Jokes I Laugh At A Little Too Hard. Platonically. #meanwhile barnaby Realizes his own feels. has a minor crisis. goes through the 12 stages of grief and absolutely panics #he's like 'ok just gotta play it cool. normal. dont be weird. he'll fall for your natural charm in no time' #'ill hold all of my feelings right here until i die or howdy reciprocates. i just cant tell anyone about this.' #'....hey wally you can keep a secret right' #and rizzes it up yk. rolls a nat 20 on charisma every time without howdy even realizing it. ig barns rolled for stealth too #and from barnabys pov its going great! #howdy is flirting back! hes showing all the signs! when eddie views their interactions he comes to barnaby later and is like A+ gay as fuck #so barnaby is a soft pining mess and howdy is Absurdly Oblivious despite being a clever & observant guy #so im imagining (will freely admit that this Train of Thought is slightly inspired by the latest chapter of Stamps by Indigopoptart) #that eventually barnaby is Confident in their budding relationship ok. hes ready to ask howdy out. #everyone who Knows (wally & eddie) are like Go For It He Clearly Loves You #and when barnaby tells howdy. howdys like 'ohhhh geez um im really flattered 🥺 but i dont feel the same 😔😭' #cue barnaby turning into the 'never again' meme while trying to laugh it off and pretend like he didnt just have his heart mr starked #so he goes home to smoke his pipe and cry and howdy goes about his day feeling Strange #why cant he stop thinking about that confession. what are these emotions. i mean its not as if hes in love with Ohhhhhh No. Oh No. #so howdy has his 'holy shit! im in love with barnaby! (lovestruck. swooning) ....Holy Shit I Rejected Barnaby (horrified. nauseous)' moment #cue howdy expecting barnaby to come by in the morning as per Routine so they can talk. he Doesnt. cue howdy stressing the fuck out over it #meanwhile wally sally (eddie sent her in his place. hes too busy) and barnaby are having a girls day (eating ice cream and watchin romcoms) #eventually barnaby hears that howdy has been Dropping The Ball and cant not check on him. cue emotional heart-2-heart outside the bodega #this is all very specific but its in my brain. these scenarious lull me to sleep every night lately

[howlingaround]

I made a storyboard comic thing about the Pistol Possum from Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Explanation:

Theres a fan theory that the Possum is the secret identity of Judge Doom (which is canon to me, the comic backstory is meh)

During the making of the Roger Rabbit movie, the idea was thrown around about Judge Doom being the hunter who shot Bambis mom

I combind the two cause i like the idea that the Possum got a taste of killing toons and developd an obsession, which is why he came up with the Dip

Dont know how building a highway makes sense tho

EDIT: i forgot so say - they obvisouly cut this scene in the final Bambi film, wouldnt get past censors otherwise

But Possum is never on screen anyway, which is probably not clear enough in the panel scribbles

#Who Framed Roger Rabbit #My Comics #I thought the red eyes was clever okay #The whole comic is supposed to be clever in the way you dont know whats going on until it happens but yikes its a mess #Ah well #Howlings Aroundabout #Btw i should say i dont think Possum did cartoons with Roger and Herman #I like the idea that he did Maroon Cartoons with Bongo the Butler Gorilla and maybeee the weasels (but much later) #Judge Doom #Pistol Packin Possum

[ghouljams]

if you're still do Uquiz things can you do one for Luck or Hush?

-Hot Mess Rambler

I can do one for both because I've been thinking about both of them! I'll do Hush first, then pop Luck under the cut so it doesn't get too long.

You've got it all figured out huh? That's what you're hoping I'll say, at least. You so desperately want to protect everyone that you're willing to let it consume you. Protecting others won't stop you from feeling like this. I know that rage boiling just under the surface is just waiting for the right moment to explode.

Most people would call you easy going, but most people don't actually take the time to get to know you, do they? You've known who you are for a long time, and you're not afraid to defend yourself. No one else has ever seemed eager to defend you, but maybe that's because you beat them to the punch every time. You're so self sufficient that it sometimes alienates the people that want to help you. You know you don't have to do everything yourself, right? You can rely on other people sometimes without them thinking you're weak. Which is really what you're scared of, weakness. You have to be strong, not just for yourself but for everyone else, but the world won't collapse if you let it fall from your shoulders.

Also maybe you could take things seriously once in a while? I know the humor is a defense mechanism to keep people from getting too close to you, but you know you can stop the jokes any time. People will still like you even if you're not making them laugh. Being "low maintenance" isn't the badge of honor you think it is. At the end of the day you're not just sheltering yourself from hurt, you're sheltering yourself from genuine connections too. Tell your friends you love them once in a while, they might surprise you.

Good things just seem to happen to you. People call you lucky, but really you're just setting up the dominoes to fall how you want them to. You work your ass off and everyone seems to give the credit to fate. You're a type A working to look like a type B, for what?

People seem drawn to you, whether it's your optimism or your enthusiasm you always draw a crowd. You've always been told that you have no trouble making friends, but really other people seem to have no trouble making friends with you. You often worry that you come off as childish in your sincerity, but your ability to unapologetically be yourself are admirable, and enviable. That's not to say you don't have your problems, you optimism covers up a deep seated fear that everything will eventually come crashing down around you. Maybe if you tell yourself things will work out enough times nothing will ever go wrong! You tend to panic when things go wrong, and that's when all your rational decision making flies out the window. You've made some truly stupid decisions in your life, ones that could have(or did) change the trajectory of your life, but you're making the best of it.

You've noticed recently that your friends tend to be a little protective of you, and if you haven't noticed.... well maybe you should examine why people always seem to be trying to take care of you. You're a romantic but you're not going to, like, do anything about that. You're pretty sure that when the time comes the universe will simply deposit the perfect person in your lap, and that's the story you're sticking to! Good luck with that!! Maybe we try talking to our crush though bestie.

#ghoul speaks #oc: hush #oc: Luck #ghoul uquiz #hot mess rambler anon #hot mess anon #very proud of Luck's little banner #ghoul you're so clever #thank you thank you I know

[findmeabowlofundertale]

So far we have:

Toss Him Tuesday (who was laid to rest with a beautiful memorial that is now my header, after realizing it was not a widespread meme like I thought— I was just confusing people in the One Piece tags)

WASH HIM (Wingdings) WEDNESDAY, which Benana came up with bc she is so good and clever. I inserted “Wingdings” because I was secretly considering making “Wingdings Wednesday” yesterday but couldn’t figure out how it would even work so this is me attempting to still act like I have cool ideas

and Manhandle Him Monday, also thanks to Benana being so cool and smart.

How do we feel about Form Change Fridays where I make Asteri look different every week? Is that too contrived? I am open to suggestions I just wanna give Asteri a day too

#when I tell you I spent a half hour on the thesaurus looking for something that would work to replace the vibes of toss him tuesday #only for benana to come up with manhandle him mondays #man #it was so cool #not to date myself here with an ancient meme but: mind = blown #for the record ALL of you are cool and smart and clever and good #anyway no I just want Asteri to have a silly day as well. #either to be levitated (blue magic) #or some other silly thing #she’s not nearly as cool and collected as I usually draw her #I need you guys to know what a mess she is #seeker talks #⁂

[dw-flagler]

fuck. I was writing this emma barnes fic and I've come to a realization. For a period of exactly seven days in 2009, Emma Barnes is a completely different person from the one in canon. Like, I always knew that meeting Shadow Stalker the second time shaped her as a person, but it's genuinely shocking how utterly different the road of her life could have been.

Like, for my fic I had these two paths I was struggling to pick between, which I'm calling Wire and Cloth, as a joke about imprinting (see neither is good but one is distinctly better than the other), one where Emma ends up being kidnapped by the ABB and one where she ends up as shadow stalker's apprentice. But.

Look, here's a line from Interlude 19: "What got her, the nebulous idea that haunted her, was the impact those scenes had.  There were so many defining moments, so many crises, big and small, that shaped the people they touched.  The biggest and most critical moments were the sorts that wiped the slate clean, that ignored or invalidated the person who had existed before, only to create another."

Like, yeah, she's talking about triggers, but what's getting to me is how empathetic (in the literal "I can relate to your pain" sense) and compassionate she sounds. Like. Emma shuts herself in her room for a week because she's incapable of dealing with the horror of knowing that hundreds of little girls are going through what she did every minute of every day. She can't deal with it.

This emma, who only exists for a week, is haunting me. She's just--It's just weird!

And the Emma who exists for the rest of the story, for every section except for less than half of one chapter, you can see the remains! She's there! Emma recontextualizes her existential despair at the enormity of human suffering, something she only really understood in abstract until now, as Sophia's predator/prey philosophy, right? It's so easy for her, because it gives her a way to explain it. There's predators and there's prey. It already slots into her worldview. Like (and I'm really just harping on about victim blaming today aren't I?) those girls who suffered like Emma did, they suffered because they were weak! It's simple now. There's two kinds of people, the ones who are hurt and the ones who hurt, and all Emma has to do to make sure that she is never hurt again is to be the one who does the hurting.

But for seven days, there's that ghost. The kind Emma Barnes, who doesn't want anything like what happened to her happen to anyone else. It's not as narratively interesting, I get that. Who wants a worm character who's all peace and love? That doesn't make for a mentally disturbed teenage girl doing horribly violent acts, and that's what we in the worm fandom all want to see. But still she haunts me.

#don't worry about the emma barnes fic it's altpower schlock #worm spoilers #arc 19 #look i know that emma being kidnapped by the ABB doesn't make sense it's not really a possibility in universe #but there's like reasoning and justification for that one it's not out of nowhere stupidity okay? there's stuff. There's stuff okay!? #i'm sorry if I offended you with the empathy/compassion thing. I know that's sort of a whole mess #if you know a better way to put that please tell me? I don't want to make anyone feel uncomfortable or offended #JUST to be clear: I'm skimming over sophia because this is an Emma Barnes post but I do NOT blame her. #I think that she deserves infinitely more mercy than she was given by the narrative and ESPECIALLY by the worm fandom. #so DON'T think I'm saying she's a monster #i'd say give me your thoughts but nobody reads these anyway #aren't I clever for my house of leaves reference? it's sooooo subtle

[finexbright]

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#thinking thoughts that harry might actually be leaving his label and management and the whole three contract deal #wasn't a rumour at all because like what the fuck is actually happening #really fucking sorry but even if harry was straight. or wasn't with louis. he would NOT be dating this woman after everything #like every single person can see just how vile she is and how she's barely keeping up with her own lies #if you really want me to believe that harry is dating this woman who has no shred of self awareness #and has such a twisted view of things. and has been so cruel to so many people on set. and has supported #an actual abuser. and has looked down on one of the most respected actresses in hollywood rn. and has been spinning lies #then i honestly don't know what to tell you #i don't know how much truth there is to the nanny story but there was this quote about how she's fame hungry and how much she cares about #what other people and she's only with harry because of his fame and i think that was the only truth in that article #i don't know what sort of a hellish deal she negotiated with harry/his team but she was really fucking clever with it because what the fuck #convinced she doesn't have a team or publicist or whatever and that she's been pulling strings all along. anyways for fuck's sake #free harry from this mess and do you know what let him disappear for some time while she digs her own grave for her career #like you guys do see that she's been in the industry for over 20 years and has had so many career changes #acting/producing/directing etc and the thing that's gotten her the most fame is this pr stunt. is her bearding. says a lot about her #priorities and who she is as a person and if after all this you still think that harry is actually with her or that he's not #miserable with her. then boy do i have news for you. i don't claim to know him or whatever but like. any decent human would see through #her facade and back the fuck away. like any self respecting person would've seen her world of lies and said nope. i care about my life and #career goodbye. so yeah anyways hope this ends soon and hope she vanishes because it's clear that her career in hollywood is done for

[cellody]

Late Sinful/Sweet Sunday: Does your OC enjoy food play in their entanglements?

It is a rare treat (pun intended, d'ohoho)! There are only a few things he'd allow let alone feel anything from, though, and all would only really take place during foreplay. (The main activity almost never has added toys or twists since it takes concentration to keep his weak, jumpy heart from being overwhelmed.) Grapes are a fun, royal-esque, flirty option and for something more viscous upon the actual body, he favors a bit of honey.

#it seemed to be an ooc-based question so YOU GET THE DEETS #clever work-around because lance is such a flustered mess ic ;^) #thank youuu!

[flaresanimedump]

Not me getting kinda interested in the submarine ship Ango/Chuuya because I saw one (1) doujin cover on suruga-ya even though I dislike the majority of Dead Apple

#Ango/Chuuya #what is this ship #where did it come from #what are you guys doing #anyway Dead Apple isn't good because 1) the very next arc establishes that Mori could NOT beat Fukuzawa under any circumstances #2) if Dazai really went bad and tried to destroy the city Akutagawa would not try to stop him he would offer to take downtown #3) it doesn't make sense for half of their abilities to be able to attack them #4) No Ranpo #5) Dazai's problem solving usually seems equal parts really clever and really messed up insane #and the pill in the mouth thing just seemed like an asspull lol

[underhanded-lamb]

if theres one thing I love more than posting my obscure mages AU, its drawing the boys in a state of gay panic

ft the garbage line Y/N dropped to make this happen (these are out of context because I haven’t finished the ding dang chapter these scenes are in rip my adhd)

#fnaf sun #Fnaf Moon #fnaf au #mage!au #lambs art #guys I'm living for this tablet im having so much fun with it #also just just a tick of context #sun has never been called clever once in his whole life and he does not know how to act #and well #moon will never admit that he gets weak when you call him pretty #and y/n is just a natural flirt they literally can't help it I mean shit dude #I might mess around and post a snippet of what I'm working on #just feeling cute might delete later lmao #also I HATE drawing hands #like I love hands #but I'm literal dogwater at it and I am too weak to practice #so I must continue to practice thank you ya'll for suffering with me

[lycheej3lly]

i listened to this podcast ep abt eeaao that was rly good and talked a lot abt the movie's usage of the multiverse to encapsulate the immigrant experience and the question of like what if your parents' lives really would have been better if they hadn't come here, but anyway one thing i disagreed w was that they characterized the ending as like very complacent almost? they're like "oh we just like embrace disappointments and all that matters is us here" which like yes, but it's also a fundamentally hopeful ending bc not everything is fixed, both in the rigid and repaired sense, and it's stupid to think that all that parental trauma just like goes away w a nice speech (however much it made me sob) and a night of sleep or whatever (and the movie accepts that! like joy outright says so what, you're just going to ignore everything else?) but like it's abt how evelyn's worldview and goal change -- initially she's all about reverting to what she sees as the "good" status quo and making everything "normal" again (her lines about wanting her daughter back, what joy/jobu says abt "right" just being an oppressive box to try and fit people into), but by the end of the movie she's more willing to acknowledge and confront the problems in her life and work to make them better, recognizing that her previous reality was one that was undesirable to return to in the first place -- and all of that is reflected in her at the end of the movie actually asking what were you saying and trying to gain clarity abt the situation, whereas every time before then when she's been caught off guard or not paying attention she tries pretending like she was present

#eeaao #everything everywhere all at once #this was phrased like such a mess but idk having gone thru a v similar process w my mom like. that parking lot scene broke me #and like using the multiverse as a framework for the nothing/everything matters dichotomy was so incredibly clever #bc it's like sure there are an infinite number of universes where anything could have happened #but any little thing you could've done matters enough to make that separate universe exist #all of that to say yes there is so much that is bad about this world and yet that's precisely why it's so important to be kind and hopeful #and like the portrayal of joy's depression and how that really just like encompasses everything and makes you think like oh nothing matters

[wolves-etc]

there's a moment in the second hobbit film, a flashback, where thorin's sitting down in the prancing pony inn and going straight for the food and watching as a human dude just picks up a hobbit and sets him on a barstool, right?

it's a moment that looks habitual. familiar. the human says "master saddle," the hobbit seems comfortable with it. thorin doesn't even visibly react much. but I love the thought of him quietly in the back of his mind thinking "if anyone tries that with me, by my grandfather's blood they will get stabbed," and also "I will never find it in me to respect a hobbit."

#admittedly I think the dwarves are too heavy to lift that easily but a person could still try‚ and regret it in more than one way. #the hobbit #the desolation of smaug #orig #I'm having more thinky thoughts about thorin on this watch-through #and realising that he is multiple layers of trauma and fear and horrific expectations bundled together really helps matters #though interestingly I feel like even when he doesn't yet Respect bilbo he does still want good things for him #bilbo's life in the shire is the kind of home and safety thorin feels he can never know now #not now he knows what's out there. not now he's seen what the world can do. #so every dismissive and rude comment suggesting bilbo should be back there is ABSOLUTELY what it seems to be #but it's also maybe a little ''you can have that. I can't. you can still go back and have that‚ so you should.'' #anyway yes I can't remember anything i've seen about the ship I'm just poking at the films out of curiosity #the book kinda confused me as a kid when I reached the point of bilbo's betrayal #I've yet to reread as an adult and am not at that point in the films yet #but I seem to recall they presented it maybe more clearly as a kind of protecting thorin thing? #which I could buy. #bilbo's interesting. clever and mild and manipulative. I don't like him as a person but I kinda do as a character. #but thorin just… the guy feels doomed from the start. you can't put a person on that kind of pedestal without messing them up majorly. #the ''I looked at him and saw someone who could lead us as king'' moment (paraphrasing) was chilling to me #as grand and noble as it was meant to be too. but that might be what made it so tragic. #I'd apologise for these tags but I'd be lying. reserving the right to come back and shape them into coherent thoughts later though.