#wtnv is probably fucked lets be honest

[lehhoh7822]

all of the media i consume is problematic jesus christ

i just

i just gotta keep my head above water

people hate you when you turn to apathy

#the dsmp is the dsmp #wtnv is probably fucked lets be honest #st and tua (fuck tua) is antisemetic #(thats not spelt right kill me) #jse was a cataclyst for a boundary breaking relationship #if i subscribed to purism culture jregs content would fry me from the inside out before i could even write a callout post #heathers doesnt put enough weight onto the issues it covers or somethig #hamilton lead to fetishation of shit that was absolutely awful back in the day #bmc is probably also fucked #cobra kai has a lot of ooooooh sfcary smut with people under 18 #i know i know ill hate that i posted this tomorrow #idk #i feel like im running out of caring do you know what i mean #if im a good person who respects those who practice judaism or not even that #a half decent person who does the bare minimum to respect jewish people #does that mean boycotting tua for having an antagonistic character speak yiddish or st for the (awful) using an actual prison and allusions #with tatoos? #Do I just consume it critially and think 'I enjoy this but I have to remember that this is also problematic and hurts a lot of people" #idk what crime we want to convict the dsmp of today so like #lets give a random one right? transphobia #do i boycott all of the associated media? do i write anything about it with an asteriks on the end of every sentence reminding you that whil #yes transphobia exists its not my opion personally and the dsmp is a problematic piece of media #i know that this all makes me sound like such a piece of shit right #because people deserve rights more than i deserve to consume a random peice of contnet #im just #tired and unsure and i just want to forget about it and pretend it doesn't hapen #idk guus #if you think im shit for this post just leave #im kinda a dick and i just dont know whats next #and im not exacrly looking for ward ot it

[buckttommy]

Do you recomend the bright sessions? I recently start liking science fiction /storytelling podcast so I was wondering about starting that one

I do not recommend The Bright Sessions. It's fun if you want to waste time and 4x08 contains one of my favorite fictional breakups of all time, BUT... the story itself is weak, many of the characters are tolerable at best, unlikable at worst, it's cheesy in a bad way, Sam is annoying, Lauren makes obnoxious choices as a writer, and I honestly stopped listening not long after Damien's character was written out.

If you want good sci-fi audio drama podcasts, try:

Wolf 359 (4 Seasons)

Eos10 (4 Seasons)

The Penumbra Podcast {Juno Steel arc}

Welcome to Night Vale (200+ eps)

Dreamboy {cancelled after one season, still such a good listen}

King Falls AM {100 eps; cancelled on a cliffhanger but was a favorite for YEARS}

Have to say that I find Wolf 359 to be one of my favorite stories of all time, definitely probably the second-best audio drama of all time next to Night Vale. It's been over for years and so many parts of it still live in my head rent-free. Both Eos10 and Wolf 359 start off silly and then hit you with some of the most gut-wrenching storylines/dialogue you have ever heard. Same with Penumbra except you already know Juno is fucked up from the moment you meet him. I'll be honest and say I've only listened to a few episodes of WTNV because getting through it is such a MONSTER, I mean, it's 10yrs worth of episodes. But I have to recommend it because Night Vale is a classic and more people should listen to it and enjoy it.

There are also other genres, if you're interested — horror, fantasy, slice of life, etc. I still have my podcast app on my phone and I have over 100 shows saved, I think, even though I haven't listened to them all. Let me know what you think about Wolf 359 if you give it a listen!!

#Wooden Overcoats is also very fun. SO funny. I love it so much #jack answers mail

[bleedingdesert]

[fictionkin asks] 9, 14, 25 for Kevin and/or Smile ~

9. If you could change anything you did in canon / go back and do something you didn’t do, what would it be?  

Kevin: For a while I used to think something along the lines of "don't listen to Cecil". (For those not familiar with source Cecil told me that we wouldn't be taken over by strex.) But really there wasn't much I could do or much I would've changed at the time. So now I don't know what I'd change, maybe I'd sneak into Cecil's town and play a prank on one of their sports teams. Sounds like something petty I'd do in those days.

Smile: At one point I scared our then boyfriend, future husband really bad. Like recovering from Strex programming was a huge ass process. Basically, I was super fucking jealous of his (eventually our) kid Donovan. Basic thought process was like how dare this little shit hog attention from the first person to like us! So at one point I threatened Donovan by holding his fragile little hands too tight- I wanted to feel them break- But Donovan being Donovan diffused the situation by... I don’t remember exactly. Just some adorable child magic or whatever. It scared me into letting go- not because I was afraid of him, but I was afraid of the pang in my chest Donovan gave me. Charles saw and was you know a little fucking terrified of us for a bit, which fair, but hey it worked out in the end. Just, neither of them deserved to have that memory.

14. What was something you loved in your canon?  

Kevin: I'll spare you the cheesy answer of my husband and our son. But I really loved my town. My love for the town might have been for an idealized version that never existed, but I really did want the best for the bluffs. We were very close to one another before strex, and it took a lot to rebuild that closeness. There was this suspicion in the air that someone would revert back to the way they were under Strex' control. That and plenty of people held resentment for things that were done to them or people they knew. All of which was completely understandable. But! We healed the best we could.

Smile: Blood. It was programmed into me by Strex to have this sort of dopamine spike on sight. It drove a lot of my actions during the Strex days, and it became an inedible addiction. I had other addictions like Strex’s drugs they constantly kept us on, but blood was the thing I could still feasibly access afterwards. At first this led to some unethical shit (but lets be honest most of my existence was pretty unethical lmao), but eventually I found ways to satisfy the addiction in a more consensual and safe way. Mostly taking some from our husband~

25. Favourite image of your kintype?  

Kevin: https://www.pimerang.com/p/2332856351624287915 This is my current favorite image! It’s not entirely accurate to what I looked like (scars and smile aren’t quite right) but its pretty close!

Smile: https://bleedingdesert.tumblr.com/post/626275111263240192/fever-party-gold-refinery This isn’t really of me, but I vibe with it hard. Like its a very me image, and eldritch spooky shit is what I viewed myself as in this life. Close second though is the tarot card. That lil smiling shit in the mirror is probably the closest thing to me existing in canon lmao.  https://bonesnail.tumblr.com/post/101453776678/wtnv-tarot-king-of-wands-kevin-energy

#kevin #smile #desire.txt #reason.txt #smile also thought about rewriting his love response to be for the church for the smiling god #but that may eventually end up being a different post #if he feels like it #also sorry this took so long we both answered at different times #memory.exe

[mudstoneabyss]

ok here are some wtdb thots (well, one thought I guess) bc cha boy be thinkin

the blood and gore and focus on perfection and productivity aren't a strex thing, that's just kinda how desert bluffs is. strex certainly increased them but they were always trademarks of the bluffs. strex is, after all, a product of desert bluffs, not the other way around.

I mean even night vale is p gorey idk why nyall think the pre-strex bluffs wouldnt be and during the who's a good boy arc the bluffers who moved into night vale are referred to by ppl who arent biased (so like dana and hiram not anyone like cecil or sam) as being just like. nice normal people who are honest and hardworking and dana also mentions that they're all still like. covered in blood because they're from desert bluffs and db is just. Like That

and years after strex kevin still enjoys gore and violence and talks about hard work and shit and while, yes some of that probably is residual strexy stuff, it is just the way my man is. he also, pre-strex, says "unhappy" in place of more negative terms and describes someones reaction to a screaming vortex opening letting out shadowy figures in the db mall food court as them "hopping up and down joyously"

in good morning night vale, which, guaranteed, not necessarily canon just meg's, symphony's, and hal's thoughts opinions and hcs, when krf says kevin isnt evil, meg I believe (might be wrong idr) agrees and says smtn about how if he grew up in a place where having gore everywhere is normal then hes not really bad for it.

even w that not being, yknow, explicitly canon, it's still someone v familiar w wtnv taking what we know and coming to the conclusion that yeah, gore is the norm in db even before strex

and last line of thinking, possible reason why cecil especially hates desert bluffs so much in addition to just the db/nv rivalry. hes squeamish when it comes to gore and that's the bluffs trademark

conclusion: idk let desert bluffs be it's own kind of fucked up weird that night vale is they're not the same place or same people, just similar. strex just took what the bluffs already was and turned it to 11. thanks for coming to my ted talk.

#this is longer than i meant it to be b #got these things in my head called thoughts and if i dont share them on tumblr dot org i will die of internal bleeding #soy.txt #wtnv #wtdb

[carbootsoul]

things to do in quarantine!

i hadn’t seen a list like this yet and i thought that was kind of odd. we’re all stuck inside the house for who knows how long, which means (as my girlfriend is stressing) we are all going to have to get some fucking hobbies. this list is a bit long so:

-friendship bracelets! embroidery thread works best (i have a lot left over from my brief embroidery stint when i was younger) but i think you could do it with other kinds of string! you can find a lot of patterns here, and they’re all free! my favorites are 1, 2, and 3

-amigurumi, which is making stuffed animals out of crocheting. this doesn’t work great if you don’t have any crochet hooks, but if you’re living with your parents or with any crafty friend, they’re likely to have some. this website has a ton of patterns (i’ve linked the free ones, but they have even more for ~4/5 dollars). personally, i’m really excited abt this plant.

-itch.io games. itch.io has TONS of free games, as long as you have a computer that can handle like, stardew valley, you’ll be able to find something that works. my favorites are butterfly soup, the bird museum, and cheeky chooks, but just browsing through any tag will give you so many things to play. also, if you’re not up for downloading stuff, not only does itch.io have browser games, but you can always come back to coolmathgames.com

-draw some stuff!! on paper with a pencil (a novel idea, i know). here are some idea generators! alternatively, on your computer/tablet. pixilart is a free to use, online pixel art tool, and aseprite is a downloadable tool. aseprite is the best out there, but it’s $15 if you can’t compile it yourself. finally, krtita is an open source alternative to photoshop that works pretty well, imho.

-make a game. i know you can do it. a lot of these game makers aren’t super difficult to use, but require you to sink a few hours into them to figure out what’s going on. perfect for quarentine! whether you’re making a visual novel, a text adventure, a retro gameboy ROM, or just a quiz, it’s a way to kill time and there’s nothing more satisfying than Making Something. 

-start working out- i know it’s intimidating, but you don’t know how much exercise you get just by walking around until you are stagnant in your bed all day. here’s an illustrated guide for workouts designed for transmasc people (i use this!), and here’s an article about working out without equipment. please try to do something. you will feel so much less greasy, even if all you do is stretch and walk around a bit before showering. 

-bake some things! bread is yummy and a classic but unless you’re used to it, it probably won’t work out how you want it to. that doesn’t stop me from trying tho! kneading and mixing are both good ways to get your stress out. i’ve been compulsively making snickerdoodles, too. @butchhousewife has almost a whole blog full of vegetarian recipes that you can browse through.

-waste your time with phone games, too. games aren’t limited to computers and consoles! i bet you thought phone games were just mindless things you did to kill time. well, you thought RIGHT but ALSO WRONG. my favorites are adorable home, seabeard, good pizza great pizza, and dadish. also, download an nds (i use this one. i think it’s like $7 but you can play ace attorney and animal crossing. think of how much those would cost normally) and a gameboy emulator while you’re at it and nab some ROMS. remember, it’s not piracy because these games aren’t available anymore and also fuck capitalism. 

-write fanfiction. idc if you write all the time of if it’s been years or if you’re a “shit writer” i literally Do Not Care. find something a concept you love (50s diners. sitting on roofs and stargazing. lazy mornings with a girl you love.) and write abt the characters you love. post it on AO3 because lets be honest, wattpad is a biiit trash. 

-the useless web. 

-try to stay connected with your friends! this might seem dumb but believe me, we’re social creatures. these next few weeks without any touch are going to SUCK. do what it takes. snap them. facetime. even just a good morning text. maybe get more creative! watch movies together with kast (the rabbit replacement? idk tell me how it works) and videos with rave, play some co-op stardew valley, or new horizons when it comes out. without is an app for long-distance couples, but now ALL couples are long-distance because you can’t leave your house! also whatever the fuck touchroom is. it seems cute. 

-practice all that self-care you never had the time for. clean your room (@unfuckyourhabitat has some tips here). take a bath (or, if you don’t have a bath, sit on the floor of your shower and pretend you are anywhere else). masturbate. online underwear window shop (meundies, adoreme, and aeire are some of my favs) just for the excuse to look at happy women in fancy bras. make yourself some kind of meal and drink water. sit naked in front of a mirror and compliment what you see (or work up to that! you’ve got time).  remember that these weeks will be hard. do your best.

-read!. if you’ve got a stockpile of books-i-need-to-read GREAT. read them. otherwise, read this lesbian erotica that is inexplicably also a cosmopolitan article, or this article about lesbians and also hands. or ebooks on any of these free book websites. or fanfiction (again, linking ao3 because wattpad embodies all the worst parts of my life). if audio is more your thing, this is an article with links to free audiobooks. or try podcasts! i’m a huge proponent of the gay ones. try wtnv, the penumbra podcast, the magnus archives, and wolf 359.

-bonus! likely you will have things you need to do while quarentined, whether it’s homework, things for work, or just brushing your teeth and showering. habitica is a free productivity game that rewards you for finishing those tasks! it’s super cute and it works. 

#self care #things to do #coronavirus #leo.txt #man idk how to tag this???