#Wait no I lied

[funkytttitorceo]

kinda spoiler alert, cough

i hope these two friggin explode and DIE (lovingly)

here's some alt versions and close ups el oh el

[samforgoragain]

Guess who made the mistake of becoming my new favorite blorbo!! (He will now suffer the horrors by my own hands)

[justlarkin]

This guy is the only man I'd fear on the battlefield. Not anyone with super sophisticated and powerful sacred artifacts or high-tech gear. Just this guy. There's something unnerving about a bum wielding nothing but a street sign as a weapon. Do y'all know how fucking heavy those things are? Especially the cylindrical ones? And he's carrying it with one hand. Yeah, absolutely fucking not. If I run into this man during a battle, I'm leaving IMMEDIATELY before the police have to search for my various body parts in different area codes and reconstruct my face using AI to get an ID.

[woolmasterleel]

I love thinking of potential names for themes for my characters, if I was at all good at music I'd try to make them

Anyway

For Atomus and Evelyn, I'd imagine they'd have their own themes but share a motif. But when they fuse Eden... "Lose Your Paradise" would make a kickass name I think

Since like. Myth of creation, Paradise Lost, ruining Mirror's creation of his perfect world, etc etc etc etc

I don't know if it was obvious that's what the twins were based on, I feel like it is ??????? Also they came to be solely out of spite but I am so proud of how well they fit into IV.. I love them

[cyberstabbing]

going to be marching in a pride parade for the first time today :^))

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

hero/villain showdown but one of them has a spontaneous medical emergency and the battle gets put on hold while their archnemesis drives them to Urgent Care

[kazodus]

came to me in a dream

[stimmingandstruggling]

i’m still figuring out how redbook works so i can’t share the video here yet, but y’all.

a woman made a post on tiktok talking about li hua, a pseudonym students in china learning english would write under to american “pen pals.” these letters were never sent. apparently it was crazy common, hundreds of letters have been written from li hua.

and people have started saying they feel like li hua is getting a response.

this woman posted this on tiktok and the comments were full of people writing responses, apologizing to li hua for not being in touch for so long. and one american mentioned how when they were a kid they dug holes in the beach and thought if they dug deep enough they could reach china all the way on the other side of the world, and that just awoke some MEMORIES. like, i did that. i dug holes in the sand and wondered how close i was. “as children we dug holes at the beach to try to get to you. we wondered what you’d be like our whole lives.”

the same woman made a post talking about THAT on redbook, saying it feels like we’ve both been just struggling to reach each other for so long. “i suddenly realize, this meeting was actually a two way effort. it’s like you’ve done a lot of hard work and come a long way before a date, and the wait was too long that you gradually started to forget the original intention of embarking on this road, and began to doubt, is your date real? suddenly one day, they really appeared in front of you and tell you i also made an effort to see you. and that’s a wonderful thing.”

idk that just made me cry a bit. i’ve seen a couple people refer to the feeling of being a little kid at the playground again, awkward and clumsy and sometimes hurting each other but everyone just eager to meet and share what they love.

[inkiedraws]

His mom was just jealous of his natural eyeliner.

[rebornexplorer]

homework to do but no energy to do it...hmmm....(actually i do have energy i just don't feel like it)

[excusemyobsessions]

Zayne loves you quietly. Gently.

But eagerly.

He'll be spontaneous just for you.

To see you, he'll climb up steps in two. Just to save a few seconds.

He'll hang his coat haphazardly. To meet you outside.

He'll close his laptop without waiting for it to shut down. To look at you just a little sooner.

He'll grab his jacket and toss it over his arm as to not waste time putting it on.

He'll walk faster because you're waiting. No, because heart his waiting to see you.

He yearns for you even when you are two steps away.

He loves you tenderly. Softly.

But oh so eagerly.

[geekdilettante]

Hooray, a happy ending to Lucky Syan's story arc! THEY FUCKING MADE IT!

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

Homer!Odysseus and Epic!Odysseus would try to kill each other if they ever met

[parasolladyansy]

When Anger burns BLUE.