#I'm chill. I'm normal. I'm good

[cuppajj]

hey sorry im just curious. How come you dont like beast x ancient? Whats wrong with it? arent they actually kinda like soulmates or somethin like that?

It's the mutual romance angle that I don't like, it just feels kinda off and wrong for me, given what the beasts put the ancients through. I just don't see the ancient going through beast-inflicted trauma and then turning around and confessing their love. I know some people give them aus where it makes more sense, and that's fine, but it's just not my personal cup of tea yknow? And again I don't have any issue with people who ship them like that, it's just ehhh not for me.

I WILL say that I'm behind the idea of beast x ancient if it's unrequited love though, as in the beast has a toxic crush on the ancient. That feels more in character to me. It's how I see SM/PV personally, Burning Spice could feel that for Golden Cheese post-chapter (lowkey waiting to see if ES/HB are the same. kinda hope so lol), and I suppose some people would still call that Shadowvanilla/Burningcheese? I wouldn't, but that just goes into a whole other topic of what classifies as a ship and what doesn't. It just boils down to the individual's interpretation at the end of the day, I suppose.

but all in all ship and let ship yknow, I have better things to do than join the CRK Shipping War lol. I've got my opinions and that's as good as that. if anything, im more bothered/tired that some of these ships take up 80% of certain tags, but not much you can do about that lmao

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

YES YES ALL OF THAT THANK YOU FOR PUTTING IT INTO WORDS AND FINDING THE SCENES I think those were exactly the scenes I was thinking about but failing to recall in specifics (the "you seem more fragile" scene and the owl scene) and I hadn't even fully consciously connected it to his own comments about not being able to be broken mentally, just kinda a vague subconscious sense that his perspective on this was somehow effected by him not being entirely "human", or at least seeing himself as not fully human

also. also when you say that he feels like he shouldn't care about witnessing horrific things, not after everything he's forced others to go through as the king... do- do you think he feels at all- like. guilty. that he could do all that and then like. if he did so much harm to others, what right does he have feeling bad about "less horrific" things happening to him? if he's done worse to others, he can't just. need comfort. after all that. like. on top of it making him feel so much smaller than he once was, being such a blatant demonstration of all he's lost, and a terrifying reminder of how vulnerable he is now, how little he can do, and now, how little he can cope with and even fully comprehend.

and just. john and his fear of being small, and weak, and useless. because his mind is all he has, if he can't control it, if he can't use that to keep himself... augh

he's already had to give up on lies and threats and manipulation to force control of a situation to protect himself, and now he's having to grapple with the fact that he is small and vulnerable and scared, and that he has to accept and process that, because lying to himself and Arthur about it hasn't worked

I kinda get the vibe from John that he considers most of what has happened to them over the course of the podcast to be Arthur's trauma, not his own. As if the fact that he's not the one to physically take the punches thrown at them, physically gouging out people's eyes to survive, that Arthur is taking the brunt of most of it, somehow cancels out the trauma of helplessly witnessing it all, unable to stop or directly influence it in any way, while having just as much risk to his life as to Arthur's.

Like, he understand the Dark World, and having to keep secrets from Arthur, and loosing Noel as bad things that happened to him, and that he has to deal with and process, but I get the impression that he hasn't really extended the same logic to very many of the other traumas that they've both mutually experienced, that Arthur experienced directly and he had to watch

not sure if I could find evidence to support this or not, as I haven't had the chance to look yet, but it's a thought I've had during a few different scenes

[hot-faerie-threesome]

Book Design: All My Words by Itallends

I haven't been able to stop thinking about @goldencuffs's works, and while I try to cope with waiting for yngt's next chapter, I finally finished my mock-ups for All My Words (which I'm still very much not over).

I struggled a lot with this one, but I thought I'd share all my options and maybe get some feedback?

Concept 1: Paintings & Lemons

Art is very present in this fic; Damen's a writer, Laurent an aspiring one, one of their first dates it's at a museum. Art is also messy, full of emotion, often something that consumes artists – similarly to how their love consumes them.

Damen is pretty obsessed with Laurent's lemony scent, so that's a theme I kept coming back to. Beyond lemons (both the fruit and the colours), amw also makes me think of tones of blue – the sea, the depression, depth of feelings.

Concept 2: Lemons & Words

Now, this concept technically also uses a painting (Donald Sultan, Black Lemons), but it has a more gritty feeling to me and combined with other graphic elements like the handwriting or textured background it feels very different from the previous concept.

On the first version of this concept, I also used smoke on the front cover as a nod to Damen's weekly cigarettes.

Concept 3: Flat Design

A more modern take on book design, this breaks away from the lemon imagery and instead focuses in Damen's vice and guilty pleasure – which could very well be also used to describe Laurent for him.

This is the only version in which I added a long excerpt, as well as the original fic's description. I ended up liking it a lot more than I thought I would...

Concept 4: Liquified Lemons

There's no much thought behind this one other than I really wanted to try the liquifying tool and the lemon obsession served me well for this one. It looked a bit empty so I also added some of the handwriting to the background. Not my fave, but it was fun to work on it.

Also, if anyone wants to see these in higher quality or get one of the designs for your own use, let me know and I can share :)

[justanotherfanfolks]

CHAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTT!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!!??!?

[technicallyoneofakind]

I open firefox to submit funny pictures to a blog I follow...

And I see something I never thought I'd see this or the next 4 years.

WHAT IS GOING ON ANYMORE??? AM I LIVING IN A SATIRICAL FILM????

Edit: Here's the link:

Context: Apparently Trump THREATENED to cancel contracts with Musk companies that support Space X and NASA. Please read the full article.

[silversinfinity]

B/eastars is already such a horny show, and then they animate snz like THAT?

someone put their entire dick and balls into animating that spray, that's all I'm saying...

[queerofthedagger]

wrote more in the last three days on stolen hours while having mia over than i did in the entirety of march and april together we're so back babyyy

[microwavetoaster-selfships]

I think I need that "Wow, I haven't stubbed my toe in five months! I was then shot fifty-seven times." Audio again

[jula483]

new short hair for season 27!

[hurlumerlu]

Another thing Fadel & Kant got in a common is that their fanfic iterations have me going he would not fucking say that at an alarming rate.

[judasofsuburbia]

okay the tumblr posts were right a reallllly good smooch will cure so much

[welcometogrouchland]

Finally saw Wicked today. I fear it is, in fact, actually all that and a bag of chips. Like it is genuinely that good

[caus34concern]

she's not sorry because this time she won't be late :(

[scoriarose]

I just found the spider who moved into the top of my gecko 's stump wet hide and caught a cricket many times her own size (and now she's 20x larger than at the start of the week) has been... busy.

So busy.

I don't know what to do with this Amazon woman and her baby daddy and all their unborn children. I would let them hatch outside but it's winter and I don't want to kill them.

Lolth help me, I get myself into problems regular people would never dream of.

[fantastic-mr-corvid]

oc smash or pass! Celia/Muro

Bisexual & genderqueer [he/she] criminal who went from underdog to Capo in less than a decade. Had the glow up of the century but has a boatload of internalised issues as well as a family she would stab you in the back in a heartbeat to protect. Does respect women despite the internalised misogyny. Everyone thinks him and his two closest friends are in some kinda love triangle and despite the protests noone can be convinced otherwise, and he's still in love with his teenage crush. Will die at 26. But more importantly is 6 foot 4, buff as fuck and will cook you breakfast. Is also more than happy to scare off your shitty exes. Warning: has critical levels of mommy issues & oldest daughter syndrome.

Tyy for the tag @arendaes ! I have many ocs so I'll do one per tag, Cecio next

Take this as a free tag if you want I would love to see more of these!

[good-night-space-kid]

i <3 when my resting heart rate randomly jumps to >100 bpm for literally no reason (i'm laying down and have been for hours)