#you are braver than any us marine and I want to be you when I grow up

[alicuntisms]

i got a dvd of flowers in the attic: the origin for christmas and like......the urge to learn to gif is rearing it’s ugly ass head. 

#i know it's the devil talking #i am trying to ignore her #if my stomach twists with anxiety when a fic flops #i do not want to know what my anxiety will do to my body if a gifset flops #like every gifmaker on this website is braver than any us marine you know?

[flying-nightwing]

I gotta know.

In your professional opinion, do you think slade knows the hand on the lower stomach trick and the pillow trick?

Do you think anyone else your write for knows them? 👀

hehehheheHEHEHE 👀😏

I believe Slade knows, and knows it *very* well. HOWEVAH. Him using either entirely depends on whether or not he cares about the pleasure of the person he's having sex with. He's definitely not using the techniques on someone he's having a one time thing with, that he never wants to see again. Can't afford to have someone trail after him begging for more and/or have them recognize him out of all things because of it if he's on a mission or smth, y'know? bc yeah that will happen he's that good (man's got an ego to the moon). But if it's someone he wants around? Someone he wants to see again? He's never gonna tell them that, that's for sure but that orgasm WILL bring them back to him without fail. every. goddamn. time.

As for the other characters, Bruce knows them. And he's good at it. Selina taught him and it changed his mf life. He definitely uses them more leisurely than Slade, Brucie's a giver in bed and he just LOVES to see his partner's soul ascend from what he's doing to them. He's got a reputation to uphold and he'll literally die before he lets down a partner of his.

Dick knows too. I refuse to believe he wouldn't. But I feel like he would act like it's something incredibly normal. Like, he wouldn't even notice he's doing it, and he'd genuinely be surprised when his partner reveals it was the first time a man did that to them (eventually he'll realize that not everyone actually knows that or are bothered to do it, but he still wouldn't treat it as a special event kind of thing). He's just out there, casually raising the bar for everyone else. Dick game strong in every sense of the term babes.

Jason's case is a bit more complicated. If we take him right after his resurrection, them no he doesn't. Jason died a virgin, I will die on that hill, and whatever happened with Talia didn't actually happen I don't know what you mean. Bro's caught up in revenge and taking over a crime empire, he does NOT have the time for a game of dating and seduction. He's under so much stress, oh my god. And when he begins to chill, his partner is Roy, and Jaybird's not the one on top babes (again, HILL I WILL DIE ON). But Roy does teach him the trick so older Jay knows too. When he uses the tricks, it's already bc he trusts his partner enough to see him naked and vulnerable so it's pretty much always in a sweet way.

Since we're on the topic of Roy, well, he obviously knows. Roy "I seduced a dangerous international assassin to the point where she had my kid" Harper absolutely knows and he's SMUG about it. As the Youth™ says, bro's got rizz. He knows your exes weren't as good as him. By the time he's done with you, you won't even remember you had exes.

Tim read about it one time when he fell down a rabbit hole of research after opening the internet to (initially) look up romantic gestures idea. He tries to use it but it turns awkward the first few time, bc he treats it like any other skill and it just breaks the mood. Until he can find someone he trusts enough to practice with, he'll just refrain from doing it.

Steph knows. And she will openly criticize the men in her life that doesn't. Being ego checked by Steph is probably the most mortifying thing ever. "Oh? You don't know about those? Yikes... That's embarrassing. Yeah. Yeah no you should take down that tweet about being a sex god, yeah, you're just embarrassing yourself more now. Please stop" She's braver than any US marines.

(that's pretty much the main ones but if i forgot any lmk)

#slade wilson x reader #bruce wayne x reader #dick grayson x reader #jason todd x reader #roy harper x reader #stephanie brown x reader #slade wilson #bruce wayne #dick grayson #jason todd #roy harper #steph brown #dc #batman #robin #tim drake x reader #tim drake #dc fic

[liesmyth]

What do you think the worst kind of necromancy to have someone start doing during sex is? I'm split between soul siphoning and psychometry personally. I don't want to end up with tongues for eyes during sex, but I also don't want someone knowing all the other places this strap's been.

Psychometry for sure!! Like yes, with soul siphoning you risk turning your partner into an unholy death demon with an alarming amount of tongues but that's a feature, not a bug if you're into monsterfucking. otoh I can't imagine one (1) person who wants to know how many people had their mouths where they are currently putting their mouth

Flesh magic would also be A Lot, but canonically non-lyctor necromancers aren't strong enough to randomly give someone extra holes or whatever, so it's probably nbd unless you're banging Mercymorn. In which case you'd be banging Mercymorn so you already have issues.

(I want to make a "braver than any US marine" about all the people banging John at the height of his Slut Phase but those ARE. technically. space marines.)

Anyway. This is the conversation Tamsyn Muir wanted us to have when she sat down to write these books. I can feel it

#Anonymous #tlt sex headcanons

[the-unconquered-queen]

i need your opinion as an aerin stan (braver than any us marines): do you think pb always planned to make him a real LI in book two or do you think people were so obsessed w/ him and pb saw/took the opportunity??

Okay, this is like 30% answer, 70% tangent, but bear with me

I think it depends on when your idea of the planning would come in, because, for example, I don't think they thought when they were writing his fake-out route in b1 that it would be successful enough to merit a sequel, so at that point, no (I figure they must've tweaked their plans to make way for b2 at some point, which is reflected in the choice to capture him, but yeah, Blades was a really complicated book to make and it's not the most popular genre so I don't think they considered a b2 to be a given).

As for whether they meant to make him a real LI, I really don't know. I think that as soon as they decided he could have a sort of "redemption" (or at least a change of heart, to not be evil) in book 2, they might have realized that there wasn't much of an obstacle in making him romanceable to an extent. But while I had previously thought he'd achieve full LI status (there was no reason to think otherwise), by now it's clear that at most he'll be a hasty fling. For many, he's not even that, because unless you had his lake diamond scene AND captured him in b1, he has no route whatsoever. If you had the lake scene but didn't capture him, you only get two chapters with him, and if you captured him but didn't have the lake scene, there's no base to their romance because he simply doesn't have enough screentime for it to be anything other than rushed (and with the complexity of the in-universe relationship between him and MC vis-à-vis his betrayal, a fast-tracked romantic relationship feels completely inadequate).

But ultimately my issue is that I don't see why they wouldn't have made him a proper LI in book 2. If he'd only been gone for three chapters or so, then that still works, but the way they wrote him out all of a sudden with only two mentions of him in passing since, just feels like a structural issue. I don't know how to explain this, but it feels exactly like when you're watching a show and all of a sudden a character makes their departure and even without knowing about what's going on behind the scenes, it's glaringly obvious as a viewer that it's that the actor left and the writers were just scrambling to justify it, even if the reason they gave on-screen is plausible. It's like, sure, I could see Aerin needing to take his leave from the party to regroup after his life got turned upside down and back again, but more than anything it's obvious that the actor playing Aerin just got sick of being in Blades.

What I guess I'm trying to say is that there is every possibility that they might have wanted Aerin to be an LI in book two (iirc the writers really liked his character, and it's wild to me how much effort was clearly put into the few scenes he did have, to the point that his blew the others' out of the water imo) but for some reason the execution didn't reflect this and now I don't think the AerinMC route in canon will ever be able to fully recover from the decisions the writers made.

#ask #answered

[bougiebutchbitch]

I started rewatching House and have now rekindled that good ol hyperfixation, and I just wanted to stop by and thank you for providing Bottom House content. I am starving for it. It's weird because I'm not normally super picky about what characters are in what sexual positions/roles, but like. [Disclaimer: Everybody should have fun and read/write what makes them happy regardless of my own preferences, fandom is about having fun, I'm not out here trying to police how people enjoy shit blah blah blah]

...But on god I just cannot imagine watching this show and walking away with the interpretation that House is a confident dom top when it feels like every other episode shows him being such a bratty sub bottom. He's his usual brand of sarcastic about it all, but his sexual jokes and his general attraction to authoritative women... How he encourages his fellows to fight back against him and put him in his place if they think he's going off the rails or that they're right and he's wrong... The neediness... Come on! Man is such a bottom. And that's not even getting into Wilson's whole predisposition to just constantly soft dom House, or just how much more interesting I find it to explore House being a needy little sub while he also has to constantly face the ableism of everyone around him-- YES, he needs someone to make him heel and to express that kind of vulnerability around, but also Wilson and Cuddy do have this tendency to assume they know what he needs and approach his vulnerability in a condescending and (Wilson especially) morally superior kind of ableist way where they just "know so much better" than him about himself and his pain and his experiences. It can make for such engaging conflict and interesting exploration of themes in a way that I just don't really see in fics that position House as a cocky asshole dom top and Wilson as a blushing little softboi, and I often turn away from top House fics because House, Wilson, and their whole dynamic just feel ooc to me.

Bottom House is just more fun to me, personally. And more sexy, I'll admit. But there's such a startling lack of it! Babygirl's show has existed for almost a decade now, and he does not get railed nearly enough in fanfic! So I want you to know I appreciate and value your contributions to the cause. You are braver than any US marine.

I can add absolutely nothing to this wonderful essay because it expresses my thoughts exactly. Apparently a majority of the original fandom back in The Old Days of the noughties watched the show and came out under the impression that House is - a dom??? Like?? WTF???? Were we watching the same show???? Were doms just Built Different back then??? That man is as bratty bottom sub as they COME. Like. THEE OG mold of bratty bottom. All other bratty bottoms aspire to be House.

He constantly pushes buttons until people snap? He's forever testing his friends and coworkers, longing for them to bark back at him and visibly getting off on it when they put him in his place?? If they ordered him to do something he would leer at them and growl 'make me'???

I was chatting about this with a mate literally yesterday, about how we both like a little switching with almost all of our ships - but HOUSE IS ALWAYS A BRATTY BOTTOM BITCH FOR US

HE JUST IS

it's right there in the show

we don't even need to write a meta explanation (though I appreciate yours greatly) because we have an 8 season long essay on the subject

(yes, yes, I am echoing your disclaimer that anyone can ship whatever they want in whatever way they want; no hate to anyone, etc. I'm just. Baffled at how popular dommy top House content is because I do not see it. I am blind to it. I cannot understand it skdhfsldfgsdfg)

And blushing softboi Wilson is just ???????? to me. Where is that man? Where???? I didn't see him in the series, that's for sure!

Is it literally just that he's smaller, traditionally prettier, and more feminine - and as we all know, the shorter feminine guy always bottoms???? /s, I know it can't just be that khgkgkjgh

Eh, c'est la vie! But at least there's a little community of us all shaking each other's hands and going 'THAT MAN IS BLATANTLY A BRAT'.

Also, you are 100% right about the main fascination of this show being (for me, a Physically Disabled) the intersection of the ableism and infantilization House faces, and his desire to sub and be vulnerable with others. That's so fucking juicy, and I think a lot of interpretations of his character miss it T^T

#these are all personal opinions and people are welcome to disagree ofc! #anon out here dragging me back into the house md fandom by the ankle #as I kick and scream and cling to jjk

[kaizokuseb]

hi! i’m drunk, and i love one piece so much. here’s everything i love about the straw hats (that i can think of right now):

luffy is so incredibly loyal. once he decides you’re worth something, he’ll never change his mind, no matter what. even when nami stole everything he owned (except his hat) and told his crew she wanted nothing to do with them, he didn’t care. she was his friend, his crew, his nakama. he loves her, and he fought for her without even knowing why. that’s what gets me the most; he had no idea why she wanted arlong dead. he didn’t know why law wanted doflamingo dead or why robin was on the run. it didn’t matter. he loved them, and he fought for them. he put his hat, his treasure, on nami’s head and fought for her without knowing why.

zoro is strong but not just physically or even mentally. he doesn’t show it as openly as luffy, but he loves his crew. he made luffy promise that they wouldn’t get in the way of each other’s dreams, but he would gladly die for any member of the crew, even sanji. remember when he took luffy’s pain on thriller bark and refused to let sanji get in the way? zoro is luffy’s first mate, his right hand man. he understands his captain better than anyone else on the crew, and there is nothing more important to zoro than his principles. he doesn’t like to show it, but the crew means everything to him.

usopp is brave. my dad told me when i was a kid that bravery isn’t having no fear, it’s doing what you need to do despite your fear. usopp is braver than the monster trio in this way; he’s so afraid all the time, yet he keeps going. he fights and he lies and he protects his crewmates, and the whole time he’s shaking in fear, but he does it. his dream is to be a brave warrior of the sea, but he doesn’t realize that he already is one. he has been since he lied to those kids on syrup and decided to fight kuro to protect his village and kaya. he’s so, so brave, and he doesn’t even know it.

sanji is so kind. i’m so inspired by his belief in one simple thing: no one should ever have to starve. it doesn’t matter if he hates them, if he wishes they were dead, anything. all that matters is that they’re hungry. now that we know his backstory, we can see why he treats women and men so differently. everything is exaggerated in one piece, but as someone with an abusive father and a loving mother, i feel like i understand him so well. i too have treated women as better than me in my life because of my own trauma. i get it. i love him. out of all the strawhats, sanji is my favorite.

nami. where do i even begin with nami? i remember clearly the first time i watched one piece and how i cried a little at different flashbacks. but when it came to nami’s, i sobbed. i felt like a child who needed his mother, i felt my own heart break, i felt an overwhelming need to hold her and keep her safe. the way she acted at punk hazard, her inability to turn away from desperate children and her soft spot for female marines, made me fall in love with her all over again. nami acts selfish and uncaring, but she is so full of love that she can’t hide it. she reminds me of my own sister, the eldest who had the worst childhood out of my siblings. that strength born of trauma, that protectiveness for those younger than her, that adoration of loving parental figures. i just love her.

chopper is so determined to be good enough that he’ll turn himself into a monster just to make himself useful. sweet, innocent, loving chopper. his mentor/father was so brave and wonderful, so caring, and chopper learned everything from him. even doctorine was caring at her core, and chopper soaked it all up like the world’s most adorable sponge. he’s so cute. he’s beyond brave. his reaction to what was happening to those kids at punk hazard was so real and raw. he’s what a doctor should be—a bleeding heart, kind and caring to a fault. plus his “SOMEONE CALL A DOCTOR” running joke is so funny to me.

robin. again, where do i start? she’s so kind and friendly at heart. in a way, she can be very childish in how she thinks. cute. but she’s also dark, and i think she would have been that way even if ohara had survived. nothing will ever hurt me the way “I WANT TO LIVE” hurt me. whether watching it or reading it, i cry like a baby. all she ever wanted was a family, a home, and she found one when the strawhats declared war on the government to save her. she didn’t believe she was worthy of that love, but it didn’t matter because they loved her all the same. she betrayed and killed people to survive, and i respect her so much for coming through all of that with kindness still in her heart.

franky is a bit of a wild card to me. i hated him in the beginning, and it took me a while to get over what he did to usopp. but there’s something profound in what he went through for tom. he was ready to die, should have died to save his father, and he has no prejudice in his heart. i fully believe, out of all of the strawhats, franky would the most accepting of a queer bro. i also just love that he’s meant to be american and he’s pretty accurate lmao

brooke is another one that i don’t know how to describe. he’s been through so much grief, so much pain, and he uses his own misfortune to make his loved ones laugh. think about it. his “skull jokes” wouldn’t be possible if he wasn’t a skeleton, and he wouldn’t be a skeleton without the horrific events that led up to it. he turns his pain into humor to lighten the spirits of the those around him. there’s a strength in him that goes ignored too often. the man isn’t entirely sane, and i wouldn’t expect him to be. but he’s so full of love and joy, a true example of someone coming through trauma with love and kindness, making the best of a horrible situation.

i don’t know jinbei well enough to describe him, but i do know that he’s loyal and strong and extremely principled. he’s similar to nami and sanji in that way; there are lines he will not cross, but he knows how to make hard decisions for the good of the people he loves. out of all them, he seems the least “pirate” to me, in that i think he would be happier not being one at all if only the circumstances were different for fishmen. that’s all i can really say about him as someone who hasn’t finished wano (meaning maybe we get more characterization in chapters i haven’t read yet).

anyway, i love one piece and i love the strawhats, so here’s this.

#one piece #mugiwara kaizoku #the strawhats #strawhat pirates #i also relate to sanji because i specifically believe that no one should ever die by suicide #i don’t care if i hate the person with a burning passion #i will do everything i can to stop someone from dying that way #his principle is born of trauma and so is mine

[positively--speculative]

It's so weird how there are so many white people that don't want to be called racist, but when you call some of the "founding fathers" such as George Washington racist, they clutch their pearls and cry about how slavery was seen as normal back then as if the hands of slave owners were tied. What I find strange about this is that there are BETTER white people they could claim. There were white abolitionists who put their livelihoods and sometimes their own lives at risk to help Black slaves escape their plantations. Like, not to beat a dying meme, but they *were* probably braver than any US marine.

But for some reason, they all just want to beat their chests over confederate statues getting vandalized because they feel like they're the only white people in history they have.

#Racism #white supremacy tw #US racism

[todaywasafairytaletv]

#if you saw the first one no you didn't <3 #jamie talks #polls

[danteadredkin]

Okay I have a lot of gnender questions but here's the big one that bothers me a lot:

I identify as a man, but I still like presenting femininely. I know that men can be feminine but for some reason when I wear a dress and do up my hair I look at myself and immediately see a girl. Sometimes I like they/them and other times I prefer he/him but I've never liked she/her, so whenever I wear those clothes I just feel yucky even though I love dressing up. And at first I thought I might be trans but then i realized that I didn't want to transition so I thought I might be genderfluid but something about that label just feels not right for me.

Sorry for turning this into a gnender rant but the gist of it is this: I don't think I'm trans but I know I'm not genderfluid, so is this just good 'ole confusion or is there an actual label for what I'm feeling>

I've had a few somewhat similar feelings before, with some labels feeling almost right but not quite, and sometimes two different ones feel right but they're conflicting labels, sometimes the labels that fit me change day to day, ect ect. What I eventually settled on that made me happy is just calling myself 'queer'. It's the word that I decided best describes me, encompassing everything and committing to nothing. I can be asexual one day and bi the next and trans the day after. It's lgbtqa+ all in one simple word.

As for gender labels specifically...the equivalent might be just calling your gender 'gender' lol. Personally, I would consider using 'queer' as my gender, if I was feeling what you describe. You also might find happiness or satisfaction in being one of those people who just say 'what are you, a cop?' when asked their gender. You might be happier trying to learn to live with and even love a concept without a name for your gender, leaving it unnamed. It doesn't have to have a label, if it's causing you more stress to look for one that's perfect than it's worth.

You might also try aiming for androgynous fashion, or looking male with your body but feminine with your clothes. Personally, I actually really liked experimenting with makeup styles meant to make female faces look more masculine, you might try that. I've also been thinking about trying male voice training, I think that would be similarly satisfying, you might try that.

You said something about not wanting to transition. I can kind of feel that. On the topic of my own gender...if it was a perfect world, and I could switch my body's gender with the flick of a button, and transphobia didn't exist, I think I would. I would pick a male body, but I would probably still dress it pretty feminine quite often. But this is not a perfect world, and transitioning is difficult and painful and expensive, and most of the world is some degree of transphobic, and honestly I barely have any body disphoria worth mentioning. So I choose to stay a woman most of the time, because it's the easier option. I often think that people who choose to transition are tougher and braver than any marine.

One place I think you might also find a kind of kinship is actually with drag queens, I think. I've met a few before. Now from what I understand, most drag queens won't answer directly if you ask their gender, but from what I understand, a fair number of them aren't actually trans women. They're just men who present feminine, sometimes or all the time, men who look like women, which sounds like some of what you've described. You might seek out your local drag queens (and kings) for further wisdom on the subject.

I also have a little brother who is trans, but he still chooses to present as very feminine. Most people look at him and see a girl. He's had a lot of mental health struggles around his gender. It feels to me like you have a lot in common with him. If you want, I could ask him to make a throw away account, and you could message him, or annon him? He might have better answers than me.

And also one thing that makes sense to me, that's helped me make sense of some gender things, is this thing that I heard once. It goes something like: "I am a man. And this is my skirt. And sense this skirt belongs to a man, that makes it a man's skirt, not a woman's skirt." This line has helped me make sense of a lot of gender things. That might help you too, when presenting feminine? Go through things one by one, and say 'I am a man, so that is a man's skirt. I am a man, so that is a man's ponytail. I am a man, so that is a man's makeup.' Or substitute they/them, when the mood strikes. Make it a kind of morning affirmation, maybe?

I kind of got all over the place with this reply...sorry about that. The end question was on labels, wasn't it? I'm sorry, but if there is a single, perfect label for what you are and what you're feeling, I don't know what it is. I've had some similar feelings, but the *not knowing* has never bothered me enough to really dig into it with a lot of self examination and research. I hope something of my experience helps though, and I hope you know I care about you no matter what your gender or clothes are. Even if there isn't a word for you, or if the word changes every day, you're still *you* and I still like *you* behind all the labels and the clothes and the body. I hope you likes *you* too. And you can feel free to ask me any time, though I'm sorry if I don't quite have the right words.

[gaydennisreynolds]

feeling like over sharing on Tumblr dot com tonight...as a gay person who grew up in a homophobic environment and struggles with an unaccepting family....mac's journey with his sexuality is SO relatable. and my heart breaks for him because I can't let it break for myself. the weight of denying yourself love and sexual affection and acceptance and the mortifying ordeal of being known because the people who are related to you would rather know this idealized version of you or not know you at all than get to know you as a homosexual person is. smothering. I have struggled so much feeling like I've lost good years of my life to self hatred and forced denial and I'm only 24. imagine being 40 years old and realizing you don't have time left to deny yourself what you want. and that you can't live that way regardless of what your dad or God or anybody has to say about it. and independently with no therapy or natural support deciding to be unapologetically yourself. Fucking Imagine the balls that would take, to open yourself up to rejection like that. God!

and your friends know you're gay but they Don't Get It, not really, it's just a joke to them. but you want to show the world who you really are, the person you've been hiding all these years, and you're tired of pandering to other people's comfort levels, you're gonna make a Big Show of it all. But it's Just For You and your intended audience so you don't tell the people you love most about it. You're good at keeping secrets, right? What's one more? Not realizing that keeping this from your friends is still a denial of yourself. How many times have I come out to one person and then faltered and put myself back in the closet or pretended to be different in front of someone else because it's fucking Hard every time.

But god. Imagine being brave enough to do something like that in front of a crowd and keep going when your dad walks out on you. Mac is literally braver than any US marine I can't even tell my family I'm married and he can do a whole religious performative dance in front of everyone, and KEEP GOING when he's rejected, and stays out of the closet and true to himself afterwards. I hope I can be that brave someday. Rob McElhenny thank you for gay rights. Mac Finds His Pride is the most important TV representation ever made for mentally ill sad gay people from homophobic families.

#i didnt like mfhp when i first watched it bc i was like . whats funny abt this. this is as serious as a heart attack to me. and now im like #danny devito voice: i get it now. #fuck. #c.txt

[sapphire-weapon]

Do you ever self ship with Leon? Or you usually fantasize about Eagle One? I’m having a hard time understanding ANY ship because I want that hunk for myself… (I do ship Chreon a bit but it doesn’t count)

the long answer is: no for very specific fandom boomer reasons. in my day, if you self-shipped, you were called a soulbonder (even if you weren't soulbonding) and exiled from fandom spaces. it served a good purpose (except for when it didn't), and we had our reasons for doing that. but it's not a mindset I've ever unlearned, and I'm probably too old now to try.

the short answer is: I believe self-shippers are braver than any US marine

the medium answer is: I actually am not all that attracted to Leon. I'm attracted to RE4make Leon specifically and no other version. I basically grew up alongside him as the series was being released; he feels more like an old childhood friend to me now. And also I'm not entirely sure that OG Leon in particular would be a good lay. So I mostly just wanna get drunk and watch football with him, really. It just seems like a better use of my time.

[besidesitstoowarm]

"Army of Ghosts" thoughts

i really need to stop doubting russell. he put his whole pussy into some of these episodes

so this is one of those stories i've never rewatched, ever. the ending to "doomsday" devastated me so severely in high school (11-ish years ago) that i shied away from ever returning to this story. so far, it bangs

it begins w narration from rose about nothing ever having happened to her in her entire life, you can actually hear billie smile when she says "and then i met a man called the doctor" and like. i really can't stress enough. rose is the insane one in their relationship. rose carries the brunt of the derangement. house/wilson, hannibal/will, i am a huge sucker for pairings where the "normal" half is the sickest person alive and that is the most interesting interpretation of rose, to me. she is so bored of normal life that she would literally rather die than return to it, and she LOVES it, she craves it, the danger is the appeal not the doctor. she obviously has feelings for him (mutual) but it doesn't matter if he's ancient or ugly or whatever, she needs this life. rose is insane. bless

i do love her kindness tho. her being very delicate and gentle w jackie over the ghosts thing, reminding her that her dad is dead, saying she wishes she could smell the same cigarette smoke but she doesn't

and the doctor's reaction to the ghosts. "don't you think it's beautiful?" "i think it's horrific" ouch. he's right but ouch. i do think jackie has a point, though not the one she thinks she's making. the fact that people have the capacity to love so deeply, so intently, that they see blurry figurines appear out of thin air and assign qualities and personalities and scents to them, they see a footprint and vividly reminisce about the boot, i do think that's beautiful. the human capacity for love even in the strangest circumstances is, to me (a historian by schooling, vet med by profession) one of the most endearing, admirable traits of humanity

rose blowing off jackie's concern for her new lifestyle by being like "i worked in a SHOP" [ie my previous life had no meaning or value] and jackie defensively saying "i've worked in shops" yes girl. retail workers have value and are in fact braver than any us marine (source: worked in macy's on black friday). rose has this nice dichotomy that feels deeply real, where she is kind of ashamed of her life (living at home, working retail) but also protective of it (defends her mom, always makes a point to talk to "the help")

we get our first allons-y this episode

we also get the resolution to 1000 mentions of torchwood this season. my boyfriend actually didn't know torchwood was a dw spinoff before he started this watch w me, which is kind of funny. torchwood isn't really worth all the buildup, tbh. it's not worth the hype. huge shoutout to burn gorman tho, wildly underrated as an actor. "we must defend our border against the alien" and wanting to harness the power of the hole between worlds in order to "never depend on the middle east again" wow really not subtle here. even ignoring the plans to reinstate the british empire. davies is virulently anti-establishment in this show (and i assume irl) and it's deeply refreshing; i think doctor who can be a little too liberal-centrist for my tastes at times (capaldi zygon two-parter my beloathed grrrrrrrrrrr) so i really respect how often he went whole-hog acab fuck the government. it's one of the biggest reasons i'm excited to have him BACK

oh also hi mickey again

anyway part 2! can't wait to die!!

#DW S2 #besides its too rewatch #Doctor Who #Army of Ghosts

[mickstart]

hai we're mutuals but we have never talked so im putting this on anon but I just wanted to say thanks for talking about cod and all the lore bc there's an artist I really like who just draws and rts soapghost (I think it's called) and now I feel like I understand them a lil more now. Hope that's not a weird vibe ♡ have a good day

Aw thank you I literally feel so validated when people tell me my rambling about cod lore is okay! Also shout out to the artist you like any creative person who makes stuff for cod is braver than any us marine. They don't deserve us!

[catboyithaqua]

@ ppl who r balding i fuckin love you. It doesnt matter why it doesnt matter how much hair ur losing if ur losing hair u r beautiful and wonderful and braver than any us marine and cop and fuckin anyone ever. This is completely unironic and i will fucking kill anyone who clowns on this fucking post people who are losing hair are beautiful and gorgeous and stunning and i want to give u all a big ol platonic kiss if thats alright bc no one ever talks about how fucking terrible it can feel when no one ever mentions we deserve to feel beautiful too. We deserve to be loved and cherished and made to feel good abt ourselves and not into fucking pity pieces or warnings about the very things causing us to lose it in the first place. We dont deserve to be shamed for something out of our control.

Every fucking time im trying to get tips on body positivity no one mentions it. Its all "dont starve yourself cause my hair broke and fell out" or "chemo ruined me because of my hair falling out and i have to wear wigs" or "i have tricho and i hate myself because i keep pulling my hair out its uncntrollable" or "im so embarrassed because my hormones make me lose hair" or even like just. Amab ppl feeling they need hair transplants or ways to make their hair grow back STOP that shit rfn and i mean that with all the affection in the world. Your hair loss is part of this journey too. Your hair loss is not something to be ashamed of. Dont shame yourself and use yourself as a cautionary tale, or a success story of beauty standards making you feel so insecure you need to get it back. I promise you, you deserve love, youre fine as fuck as you are and i know that no one ever makes us feel this way but i am rfn i love yall. Every single one of u.

This is not to shame anyone who does this, but man its a fucking reminder to love yourself and your hair today, or ill fuckin do it for you. This is a Promise!!!!

#maxposting #this is my daily affirmation of the day but this is for everyone who needs it too #like i have pcos and im losing hair bc of it and i ha t e the pressure i feel to grow it back #or shaving it off so it looks even or wearing wigs or taking pills to hide it #im so tired of it homie!!!!! #i want to love and be loved for the balding bitch i am!!!! im losing hair!!!!! and im tired of being pitied or mocked or shamed in any way #bc i cannot control it!!!

[youngster-monster]

i may very well message you at some point should the bit become less funny (i’m unconvinced that it’s possible) or perhaps if something makes the constant anon asks especially inconvenient but until then you’ll receive copious amounts of asks from me !!

getting into the game as late as i did has made it preeetty difficult to keep up with the lore especially when they seem to enjoy retconning things more than anything else in the world, but it’s so funny that out of any of the characters i could’ve looked into lorewise i decided that these two particular dead guys had Something going on that was ridiculously fruity. you are ALSO so right 🤝 no matter the decade or person one consistent remains and that is they had some crazy romantic tension going on

anyways i will never escape hell and frankly at this point i don’t really want to because now i have a crippling addiction to mount collecting and as an extension to that i get to learn more lore which is VERY fun to me and also means that when i read fanfiction i have a little more knowledge about canon events that are referred to in any capacity so. either way it’s a win for me

I am not immune to the social media reward loop (ask notification make my brain go :])

Honestly seeing how I'm struggling keeping up with just the lore up to Legion I feel for you anon, the retconning is just So Much. You are literally braver than any us marine for that one. @ blizzard turn on your location I JUST want to talk

Have you watched or played warcraft 3? Everything Kael has got going on in it is literally so funny like why are you so obsessed with another man like that

Also I feel you with the crippling mount addiction. I got into FFXIV recently (it's been taking over my entire life like a brain eating amoeba) and aside from the story (which is making me insane (affectionate)) the collector brain really is going wild over all these cool little guys I can ride. Mmorpgs man.... They're dangerous

#Asks #anonymous #I have a lot of fondness for the warcraft universe #But my feelings for it can also be summarized by that one 'i could be an excellent writer for blizzard how do I apply #'blizzard doesn't hire excellent writers' 4chan screenshot #You should tell me about your favorite characters/story beats so far tho I'd love it #This goes for anyone reading these tags. If you can't love wow yourself crowdfunding it is fine #In other news #Just before writing monachopsis 1 I remember watching all of w3 cutscenes and live blogging it #So I went looking because I thought I remembered noticing some particularly fruity Kael moments #But oh Christ oh god (had to look at my own 16 year old self's posts) #So don't do that please

[mintkupocream]

I just want to say that I followed you when mass-following Nikki blogs, and I'm tickled to know there is at least one other person posting both Nikki and Disco Elysium. thank you for your service, you are braver than any us marine

Ahh, you're welcome and thank you! Sorry I don't post more of them!

#ask