#well I guess they do kinda exist

[thefiresofpompeii]

every other poster on the tube right now is advertising a new musical called ‘the time traveller’s wife’. for a blissful moment i forgot that a ‘wife’ is something that a heterosexual woman can be, and, believing it to be a beautiful lesbian tale akin to tihylttw, decided to google the synopsis to see if it was worth checking out. big mistake. ‘man first encounters his future spouse as a young girl, returns to kiss her at 18 and marry her in the future, remaining the same age as barely any time passes for him meanwhile she spends years alone pining for her distant angel’ blinks. what does that remind me of. oh yeah apparently this came before. i’m already suffering through series 5 at the current moment, so, plenty enough of that for years to come, thank you, and— what a surprise— the novel the musical’s based on was a primary inspiration for you-know-who’s weird fixation on this particular plotline. the worst part about the time traveller’s wife is that there aren’t even any cool steampunk clockwork droids or gorgeous 18th century french dresses to make up for the vomit-inducing implications. i have never been more disappointed. mind wipe, now

#in hindsight it’s funny how enamoured i was with tgitf when i first watched it. because i had in my inexperience considered it original and #clever. instead of a rehashed version of a story that already exists and is just as awful when you think about this ‘romance’ for over 2 #minutes. and then he does it AGAINNN #babe wake up it’s beating steven moffat with hammers monday #so this is where the poison root spread from. i’m going back in time to erase the novel from existence so he never reads it. come up with #better ideas. also leave little girls alone #i still love tgitf but only for the reasons above. the aesthetic and the scifi aspect. and the tragedy i GUESS. kinda because for reinette #it’s a tragedy but for ten it’s literally like. five hours max #do you think he didn’t come back for her on purpose? he couldn’t bring her along because she was too important a historical figure? he left #her there despite promising to pick her up in five minutes. knowing full well she would be gone before he heard of her again #i bet he did that deliberately. had to keep her living in hope because he couldn’t refuse her but he couldn’t take her out of her own life #wow this post veered somewhere else entirely. sorry guys #doctor who #dw #the girl in the fireplace #the time traveler's wife #jamie.txt

[lieutenantselnia]

I've been thinking about whether my way of naming my self-inserts might be a bit inconvenient ... to clear it up:

Selina with an i - My modern day s/i that I ship with Doofenshmirtz, she's probably the closest to my actual self, though I still take creative liberties in some aspects.

Selena with an e - My PotC s/i, I have two different AUs for her to ship her with both Barbossa and Davy Jones. She's a bit more like an oc, but I still also see her as a self-insert.

My original thought was to give them slightly different names, so I won't always have to mention about which universe I'm currently referring to. Since they're all based on the same "template" character though (which is just ... me I guess😂), I didn't want to give them entirely different names, plus while I didn't want to use my actual first name anymore, I still wanted a name that I can identify with. In my head it makes total sense, but I can see that this may also be a bit confusing😅

#not actually sure how to handle this if I want to make more s/is as the number of reasonable variations is surely limited #*looking at the Black Cauldron s/i that's been floating around in my head since last Halloween or so* #(tbf she doesn't really exist yet aside from some very vague backstory concepts but i really want to create her) #aside that I also sometimes have the inner logic of 'Selina' - more self-insert and 'Selena' - more oc like #or 'Selina' - modern day and 'Selena' - historical/fantasy setting but I can't really commit to either of those concepts #like I think adding more name variations into the mix for every s/i might make things more confusing #but on the other hand when I just stick to those two it kinda renders the entire system pointless and I might as well just use one #but I've already gotten kinda used to them by now ... aahhhg why do I have to make these things so complicated in my head😖 #self ship #self insert #self insert lore #sorta I guess? #selnia talks

[tariah23]

They’re calling my baby Gojo, Joseph Joestar now

#rambling #the diff is that Gojo did apologize after being called out and face to face with his racism whilst Joseph literally befriended nazi’s 😵‍💫 #and there was never any explanation from araki as to why he’d even wrote German soldiers in the shit in the first place like that was #absolutely jarring as hell to read for the very first time back when I’d gotten into jjba #well I watched it first but you know #like Joseph really thought fondly of Stroheim as this stand up guy even though he’s first of all #a Nazi #and second #the first scene that we were introduced to was of him sexually harassing a Woman #it’s……. 🗿 #still to this day I wonder if araki had ever addressed this because lord #Joseph was just happy to get the help I guess but that felt so ooc for him from what he’d seen 🗣️ #happily receiving the help of a Nazi and calling them a nice guy ahhh Joseph- #Gojo would never sjjsaj #my boo boo is a little prejudice but he’s working on it 🗣️ #I still think that gege was trying to have a ‘racism is bad’ moment but again #the execution was pretty awkward and it felt out of place considering what had been currently going down in the manga #like the Racism was pretty random but it was swiftly put to a stop which I can appreciate even if it shouldn’t have been a point of #conversation to begin with since why couldn’t Miguel just exist as a character instead of him being the now token negro #who everyone sees as instantly more frighteningly powerful than everyone else like this didn’t even need to be brought up wllssldk #idk gege was trying to be ‘woke’ 😭. sorry nbs and wp ruined the term for me but like basically lol #gojo’s pretty intelligent and extremely gifted but he’s never been perfect lol #it’s just that idk why gege chose to talk about antiblackness in Japan out of nowhere about the only black character on screen hehhhhhh #like gege tried but lmfao #this is so funny to me #at least it didn’t drag on putting Miguel in an even more awkward situation than he already was and it was nipped in the bud quickly #Gojo isn’t one to dwell on things but when he’s face with new information and is taught something he does try to reflect and do better and #I’m sure he probably started to become even more aware of what he’s saying especially when talking to Miguel in an honest way since that’s #always been the kind of character who he was despite the horrors #the only ppl who’ve been kinda annoying about this are nbs and white people as always 🗿

[ilostyou]

feeling like there is something like. inherently wrong with me or something 🤠

#if i’m being realistic i guess i think the best guess is that my near crippling anxiety from these past few weeks has settled but #in a way that now it’s a blanket on top of me stopping me from being Not tired and like getting anything done without feeling like crying #or something? #everything feels kinda heavy for no reason i guess idk #no reason aside from said reasonable anxiety lol #but like i said it’s a little different in the way it feels rn so . idk what to make of that #like. i know i have work to do but everything in me is protesting even starting it #and i feel sooo. exhausted even though i slept well which. is why i don’t think it’s a sleep tired 🫠 #so then i’m like. but i’m tired i should take it easy not stress myself out get into bed whatever #but i have work to do!!!! lots of schoolwork due in the next couple of days/this upcoming week #i kind of want to evaporate to be so honest #if i existed as a mist would i feel all this still lol #this has been a rant

[bucketwingthoughts]

What are your opinions on shattered glass Megastar? I know you're into AUs and I find the concept of them meeting differently very interesting.

okay this may be an upopular opinion.

This is so funny because I've actually been talking about this on my twitter but eh....I do not like shattered glass megastar because i don't really like nor care that much about shattered glass starscream. i love aus, but to me, shattered glass megastar doesn't feel like megastar. in extension, shattered glass starscream is not starscream to meee. the qualities i love in starscream and the reason i am drawn to and like him as a character do not exist in shattered glass starscream. and in my MY MY personal opinion, a lot of fans tend to project shattered glass starscream's personality and stuff onto canon starscream and that's when we get like the soft boy starscream that i kinda don't really like or vibe with.

maybe if i read shattered glass in depth then i'd think differently but now, no not really. like i see it as a ship but just not megastar if that makes sense.

#i also don't really like how people act like shattered glass megastar is the acceptable megastar #that really does add to why i don't like it #all the 'kills yourselves if u ship megastar but shattered glass is okay' #well then guess what i specifically dont ship THAT one #and i tend to associate shattered glass star with people i don't like #i dont mind megatron being good #but in any au i would like starscream to be a little wicked and a little fighter who started from the bottom and came up #which is why he's so cold and kinda a bitch #like i like him being evil or morally ambigious (if written well) #i don't like him being all out good #but i do like aus where megatron is good if that makes sense #i always felt it's just more interesting to work with megastar as how it's presented #as someone that is incredibly fucked or however you see it #and at least imo work on how to make it better or work on healing #and work on just digging out the ugly parts of both of them #and with shattered glass megastar it doesn't exist to me #like ill say yas that's megatron but that is not starscream he is beign shipped with #that's just some seeker

[smilesrobotlover]

ok I have a question. Your brain seems to have a lot in common with mine. We clearly think about Zelda too much. In particular, we both seem obsessed with Twilight Princess side characters. And some recent posts have made it clear you love Star Wars to a degree too.

this is an idea I had a while ago but am not confident enough to draw— the Resistance, but the Bad Batch. Link as Echo, Rusl as Hunter, Ashei as Crosshair, Shad as Tech, maybe Telma as Wrecker (and Louise is her Lula), and maybe Zelda as Omega. no worries if you don’t take requests. But these thoughts live rent free in my head and it would look so good in your style

Oooh yes it’s a fun idea! I do not take requests and I hold a lot of resentment towards the bad batch unfortunately (I still haven’t seen season 2 but that’s mostly cuz I don’t have the motivation to watch it BDKSBSK) but I love teams like that <333

#asks #look I have a thing against babysitter plots #and Star Wars has too many babysitter plots #I wanted to see the bad batch be aweosme not babysit a stupid child #and omega doesn’t make any sense to me #sorry I won’t get into the details but I am salty #don’t get me started on the Kenobi show #I literally posted on my Instagram story before the show came out #and I was ‘if they somehow turn this into a babysitter plot I’ll be livid’ #WELL GUESS WHAT #worst Star Wars show in existence #idk maybe I’ll like season two of the bad batch but they did something to my fav character so…. #I’m not pissed at it like I am the Kenobi show so #I just kinda wish they didn’t do the things they did dhdkdbdkdbk

[aropride]

i want to make podfics so bad but a) i do not like the sound of my voice eventhe littlest bit and b) i genuoinely cant read out loud

#text #i can say words that are on a page. allegedly. sometimes. but i cant like #like i have to go word by word so i cant understand what the sentence says #when i read in my head i kind of like. skim text i guess? and then go back and actually read it. like i look at the sentence/paragraph #and kinda see like Oh this is the shape of the words. and then i actually go back and Read it. i guess ? #im not explaining this well. point being when i cant do that every word exists in a contextless isolated void and i dont really #know what im saying #and i wouldnt be able to do the right. inflection ? or like voices or anything #and also i stutter and lose my spot in the line etc etc #its weird cuz i dont think i have any reading problems (aside from like.. adhd but thats just an Everything problem) #like i read fine in my head i jsut cant translate it to out loud #its SO FRUSTRATING i just want 2 tell little stories and put them on the inter webs for other adhd bitches who like audiobooks

[aroacedavestrider]

Worried for you every time I see your system bitchcount go up. Get well soon yall

hrk well…! hiya im yoi!! (yoimiya genshin) and im answering this one cause im the most recent split hehe. honestly its kinda like….. i dunno were just trying to cope with stuff i guess! i split back toward the end of our fall semester when shit suddenly got really bad after a really good period, (im talking grade dropped from an 85% to a 59%!!! yikes) and, well…….im naturally a cheery person! so i think thats just kinda what we needed during a time of extreme stress and disappointment and i know i am sure happy to provide!!

last time someone split before me was shoby (shinobu genshin) and that was back in may when we were finally kicking our really cringe ex to the curb anddddd we needed a strong assertive force to do it! and shobys been really good at actually getting us in the mindset to sit down and do important tasks ever since. :)

so yeah it does suck that a lot of the time we come about cause something huge happens and were like “uh oh, how do we cope with this?” but i think were here for the better and were all like a little family! im happy to be here and im happy to introduce myself to daves friends on tumblr dot com!! and thank you for your concern too, were doing better ^^

🎇 yoi 🎆

#whoops sorry it got so long!! i like to talk hehe #but i do really enjoy being here with the rest of brainstuck its really reassuring having a whole system there for you when youre down #for a while i was worried i wasnt actually like… real?? since were so fictive-heavy i was like. #almost scared to make myself known? or like. officialize my presence i guess ugh i dunno its hard to explain!! #cause you know. fictive-heavy systems tend to be like ‘uh oh. am i faking? what if this is just a blorbo i think is neat?’ #but… apparently a few others in here had the same kinda feelings #tao back in sept 2021 #koko in april 2022 #hell even our karkat has had some instances where he felt really strange about just. being #but its ok!! were allowed to just… *be!* and i had to really internalize that ESPEEECIALLY after everything calmed down after the fact #like ‘uh oh am i still needed?’ typea thing. which isnt a very good feeling :/ #but. headmates are so much more beyond being useful at a specific point in time #my headmates are my friends! and i like existing :) its fun. we sing in the car together #which btw i have a really solid handle on my voice now!!! yay!!!! #anyway enough rambling hehe. yoi OUT #ask #anonymous #dave speaks #(well… not really!) #dave fictive moment #plural system

[ezraphobicsoup]

watched all of fleabag in like a 24 hour span, maybe even 12 hours idk. the Feelings haven’t hit yet but hey maybe they will when i play in the fucking cèilidh tomorrow!! what even is a life you get what i’m saying

#silly hours posting #not gonna lie this does not feel like a real life at this point #everything is so fucking bizarre (not in the cool jojos way) and surreal #like my dad vanished just up north for a night?? but was like super secretive about it which is unusual #uhh earlier yesterday i read some inspector calls fan fiction it was certainly an interesting one #they turn into birds for some reason idfk why #i guess right now i’m in a weird state of being on the verge of minorly delirious #weird kinda feeling but i’m still at least half in control of my actions #might do some fucking work experience now there are no rules nothing actually really matters righgvmow #also i hope you are feeling better even if you’re not the person i am expecting to read this #and to that person i do apologise arguably i should just not do this post but i feel compelled to #plus it means i can get out my thoughts without directly bothering anyone. however regardless i am sorry and i hope you’re well #thank you for existing :)

[satanfemme]

with every passing day I just grow more anti-psych tbh. like. burn the whole industry to the ground and start over lol

#don't unfollow me I've literally got brain problems myself and support mental disorder rights and etc etc etc #but I’m serious. especially lately with the recent influx of casual ableism... has anyone else noticed that too or? #would apologize for not listing examples of what I mean but honestly.... there's so many examples just Look Around You #and it gets to the point where you ask ''is it fair to label all 'dangerous' people mentally ill?'' and the answer is: #any label that is being applied to both social classes ''serial killers'' and ''trauma/abuse victims'' is a fucking meaningless label 100% #and needs to be scrapped. #idc about who is or isn't ''technically'' mentally ill. it's a label that's being applied. look at who it's applied to. #if you think ''mentally ill'' is a neutral - let alone positive - label in our society idk where u live #and if u think about the full subjectivity of the mentally ill label - as well as individual diagnoses labels - for even one second #where stigmatizing labels can be applied or taken away by authority figures to anyone for any fucking reason they want! #...I mean! u see why maybe it's all kinda just one big pseudoscience huh! #even if ur using diagnoses for the ''correct'' reasons it's still borderline meaningless too tbh #you wanna diagnose people to 1. help understand a set of disabling traits that commonly co-exist in individuals #and 2. help predict the best course of ''treatment'' for that subjective group of traits #but???? I mean. actually look at this exact diagnosis process in action #where it's all about just Guessing based on ?personal anecdote and the therapist's personal biases??????? #''you're sad a lot of the time. obviously this is because your brain is fucking broken with Too-Sad-Disorder -- #-- no we aren't gonna do any objective medical tests lol I'm the doctor here I can tell your brain is broken just by looking at u obv 🙄'' #and that's how u get diagnosed like 100 dif drugs to fix an environmental problem. it's insane #the way therapists are always underdiagnosing or overdiagnosing or #''well XYZ disorder is very rare and usually happens in rich boys so I think you have Hysterical Bitch Disorder instead <3'' #and u can't even ''well not all therapists'' this cause like. why is it that every single person I know has had experiences like this #if it were really an isolated problem it would not be so universal. nor would it be fundamental to the field's knowledge #how is it anything more than a guessing game at best? #I'm serious. anyway. I wish every psych institution a very die

[dan-crimes]

I don't personally enjoy death in my stories for one because I have no experience with it personally and for two because you can't torture a character anymore once they've died 😇

#and I mean like perma death not talking abt any afterlifes and the afterlife in my story is based on DnD type deals #but even harder to get to like people can't just die and come back like nothing it is a PROCESS and NOT an easy one and also #not commonly practiced because it is rare to get it right (to be more direct it HASN'T been gotten right yet it's just a theory atm) #I never talk about my story or character OCs BUT I guess here's a taste of it #anyway I don't really kill off my characters but if I do experience a death of some sort then I probably will start writing abt it #but for now my characters are relatively safe also this isn't to say I'm unwilling to write abt death I just don't feel equip to handle it #in terms of a story revolving or somewhat revolving around a grieving process of some sort of dealing with all the different feelings #I dunno that stuff so I wouldn't write it as of right now #torture on the other hand #OH a good example for how I view the whole death thing in my story is kinda like Adventure Time #like that episode with Ghost Princess like ghosts and other paranormal stuff exist and are prominent #and they do go and meet with death thru a portal but that's like the surface level afterlife you can't really hit the deeper levels #unless you are dead and no one can see that stuff unless they are dead like when Finn dies we finally see what it's all like #as for like the levels and stuff I dunno abt all that I have like a very vague concept of how that would work but it's kinda like #beyond human comprehension y'know? that's how I view it and like death is PERMANENT and it's not suppose to be messed with #or bad things happen 👻👻👻 #there are even more things abt it like little exceptions to the rules but the rules still apply even still it's just like #living on borrowed time or being forced to like #well I don't wanna get too much into that tho that's like super spoilers #but man I enjoy thinking abt it

[captainshyguy]

watching a walkthrough of the stanley parable endings (inc the new ones) and man

#tsp #idk im just...kinda thinking on some of the more classic ones #where ur taken from stanley's body and it makes stanley unable to do anything even as the narrator pleads and the credits roll #(with theimplication that this is the one they wanted to end on in a way. a thesis statement) #after all. stanley was already dead from themoment you hit start #idk i guess...i find it interesting that there's ship rt and interactions drawn between stanley and the narrator #because i gues....to me i really took that quote to heart in a way. that as long as we. the player are here #he is dead. so...evey interaction with the narrator in game is well....its us and the narrator. not him and stanley yknow? #we are stanley stanley is dead etc etc the two of the can never be free as long as we were here nd forcing them into these roles #they can never be free but also if we arent there they can never be #something something the nature of characters #guess in a way you can have th two find common ground there. two people bound by the laws of heir nrrative. #one whos forced into the npc/narrator role and the other is who forced to be puppeted #but its lso...not quite like..idk kris deltarune fr example #where they clerl do have this life and history and full alive town they live in #the narrative is.....real. but stanley's isint. it flarest life the moment you hit start. and stanley was dead from the momnt you hit start #nothing outside the building is consistent because it doesnt exist. they're trapped in the box. the end is never the end is never the end #u could argue that abt all games i know but...it feels like this game espcially exxists n a very high meta level like that #where the POINT is that its not real and they're trapped #luke rambles

[missingn000]

#final thoughts as i sit down to reply to comments on 28 #many ppl were like omg congrats nanamin on fastest adoption award #i actually think it's tied for the fastest??? getou vs rika -> yuuta adoption took ~20 mins as well #im gonna say makis took 6 months bc thats how long it was btwn when they met and when toji fought the special grade & she moved in w him #not sure where to put yuujis since it was kinda gradual and snuck up on both of them #toji & gojo were also kinda gradual but if were going by like..exact dates they met on dec 11 and toji refers to gojo as his kid #in toji vs getou for the first time which was on aug 29 of the following year. so like a bit over 8 months #as for pre-tpg i think miminana is tough to say bc i dont think getou was thinking much at all when he killed the village but #probably distantly knew he'd be their caretaker when he made that initial decision #as for gojo #he knew of the existence of megumi for a year before doing anything about it but when he did decide to do something about it #it was with full intention to immediately adopt him so. not sure where to put that one either #and i guess tsumikis was...kinda instant since he learned of her and immediately adopted her so?? #anyway #tpg

[theloveinc]

I'm glad he's alive (?) but this plot is awful

LOL SAME + FACTS but what can we really do other than just ride the whole wave out? i always find myself surprised by hori's ability to pull random stuff like this out of his ass.

#like WHOOOOOO woulda thought #not me #kinda seems like he...... didn't plan this at all #like he thought. well. everyones mad at me so what can i do now not to prove them right? #oh yeah edgeshot is a ninja! how abt i throw him in there #anyway like i guess i not mad bc only bc my expectations were and are on the floor #although i wonder like. #why does he (and others) always pull the 'IF U DO THAT U WONT BE ABLE TO COME BACK' #like heart transplants exist i dont get it? #and like... is he just supposed to become an AM like being by... becoming a heart and then... forgoing consciousness by being #so bored by the activity that he no longer exists? #or will he be conscious the whole time? #bc what happens to his brain? #he could unravel himself before so why is this... different #guaskjdfajksdn #caitie answers #anon #bnha spoilers

[shadows-story-abyss]

[X-2]

#[x-2] #alright so this. i must explain. #demon snake reappeared (for like the third time but this ones a different one) #bc when shadow died (gasp! spoiler!! my main sona dies wow who wouldve seen it coming /hj) her energy was released #which then manifested into a new demon snake but like. a blank slate i guess? has nothing to do with the old one #anyway this ones kinda. well. theres not really its own power to combat it. so the next best thing? #three characters with segments and relations to that power #photon - telekinetic and telepathic and doesnt know how to use the full extent of his power (just like shadow) #newton - well. technically the glitch. ill do some lore posts here sometime lol #and vex - bc he and shadow were linked by their powers and he was created by hers (technically he shouldnt still exist-) #unfortunately while photon and newton are part of the Imaginatrix (the good guy team ig) vex downright REFUSED to be part of it #so hes only getting involved bc he wants the energy for... whatever reason #literally just being a dick. nah nah he has a goal that inevitably backfires and... cv is made :3 #OH MY GODS I FUCKIN RAMBLED AKSHDMDJKSHF- #slbu

[noxtivagus]

HELP no one talk to me rn /lh i'm in such a flirty mood for no reason, i'll flirt w anyone n everyone rn 😭😭

#🌙 rambles #LOWKEY SICK OF BEING SINGLE I KINDA WANT TO FALL IN LOVE ??? #but... studies first ig... sob #this is why star-crossed lovers & soulmates are my fave tropes... #IT'S FINE I'LL LOVE MYSELF AS I'VE ALWAYS DONE #being in an all-girls school made me a hopeless romantic and i hate it /hj #/hj bcs the tragedy feels kinda nice actually /lh 😭 #my discord status rn is: if i call u cute that means ur allowed to kiss me #bruh can someone volunteer to be my kitten or smth #let me practice flirting on you or smth #HHHHHH that's all a joke #i shld head to sleep soon bcs i'm going out tmrrw #but seriously tho #how do ppl even get into relationships. do romantic relationships even exist. does mutual pining exist #nah not that i want to fall in love tho nah #i wrote a bit more today and read some of my old writing so i guess that's why i'm like this rn #i'm just so baffled bcs i remembered that i have a friend that #a friend in another school and she has an s/o !?! and ik she has a friend as well that already had an s/o way back in middle school #DAMN HOW DOES THAT WORK ? #being an independent person kinda sucks sometimes #i'm afraid of getting attached but yk #i'm not against someone falling for me first 👉🏻👈🏻 #ignore me 💀