#Wheres that Thread post

[moncheriful]

YOUR HONOR THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU

Old Money, New Money x

[takemetodragonstone]

imagine saying this to a nonbinary person and thinking you’re “checking their privilege”

[astralleywright]

spent like an hour trying to find a post abt the disparity of origin companion's content in bg3 and couldn't so, hey, this fucking sucks

[rabbitmotifs]

rule 1: no taking "candids" on patrol

[mordenandmerry]

Gay people have to stop doing this or I’m going to actually go insane one of these days

[becquerel]

i just dont think i like looking at him like i just dont at all. yet he reminds me of crashbox. this whole chapter feels like crashbox really. hi rouxls. love you rouxls.

[dire-vulture]

honestly it's not even just people implying fat designs are unappealing, some people in the forums have been outright saying nobody wants or likes fat designs. and like...no, there are many people here who want and like fat designs. and i really hope flight rising might hear us and consider if they want to keep appealing to fatphobes or if they want to support a community where diversity can be appreciated.

[thatweirdtranny]

who’d have thought that reddit trans spaces would be more open to the concept of transandrophobia than tumblr trans spaces

[anghraine]

Just thinking about Spock's obvious annoyance and jealousy upon finding Kirk kissing Helen in "The Dagger of the Mind"—which only happens as a result of Helen and Dr. Adams implanting false memories and feelings in Kirk's mind. And Spock actually knows all about the mindfuck machine at that point, and saving Kirk from it/Adams is why he's there in the first place, and his look of annoyed judgment happens after Helen says, "This isn't right! Dr. Adams did this to you!"

The episode ends with a visibly shaken Kirk returning to the bridge, talking about how he can actually believe in death from loneliness, and staring blankly into the distance with McCoy right behind him. Then Kirk looks at Spock (who is physically further away) and smiles, visibly brightening after Spock smiles faintly back.

I'm also thinking about how upset Kirk is by Spock's spore-addled interest in Leila in "This Side of Paradise," and even more by Spock's disinterest in him. Leila herself will eventually admit that she knows Spock would never enter into a relationship with her except via the sex pollen/docility spores, and previous to all this, she said Spock would be given no choice in all this. Spore-influenced Spock also begs Kirk to join them ("It's a true Eden, Jim. There's belonging and love [...] you'll come around sooner or later. Join us. Please"), and Kirk instead hatches a plan to force him out of the effects of the spores.

Afterwards, Spock bleakly tells Leila, "I have a responsibility to this ship, to that man on the bridge. I am what I am, Leila, and if there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them." He admits to Kirk that falling under the artificial tranquillity of the spores is the closest thing to happiness he's ever experienced.

Kirk is more outwardly cheerful, expressive, and easy-going than Spock, occasionally admitting that he's lonely, but not much more, apart from the implications of how he explains romantic love in "Metamorphosis" ("Is he important to you, more important than anything? Is he as though he were a part of you? [...] By your feeling for him, you are condemning him to an existence he will find unbearable. [...] You may keep him here forever, but you will always be separate, apart from him"). It's only when he gets literal amnesia that he can admit that he's pretty sure he's never experienced happiness before.

The seething jealousy even in obvious dub-con circumstances and quiet, restrained unhappiness pervading their lives just feels like—well, so much. There are so many other cases, too, like when McCoy jokes about Spock falling for a computer (not an android, a literal computer) and Kirk gets visibly upset and jealous until Spock tells him in front of everyone that Kirk is irreplaceable, obviously. Spock spends an entire episode miserably jealous of an actual android love interest of Kirk's, and after McCoy tells him he fundamentally can't understand the agonies and triumphs of love Kirk experienced with the android, Spock waits for McCoy to leave then deletes his rival from Kirk's mind while he sleeps.

They aren't well, but they sure are something!

[kryboxkrinkledicks]

guys i think hes picking up embroidery. idk just a thought

[decepti-thots]

i will never stop being impressed that chinese TF fandom has fan translated the entirety of IDW1. actually, just. seemingly every TF comic ever written. but IDW1 is so many goddamn comics, and eng>chinese translation is famously so complex and difficult, and IDW1 was so many comics, seriously. that is incredible. oh my god. one day i would LOVE to speak to someone bilingual who is able to tell me about translation choices made for MTMTE, like i would LOVE to know how certain things are handled. what a cool thing.

[minrathous]

it's so frustrating they don't take the necropolis as an opportunity to explore spirits with more depth in veilguard. or even Manfred's whole thing. Manfred being able to learn to speak implies that any wisp is capable of it with time. they have preferences and emotions and comprehend speech but you still shouldn't be concerned that they are used for slave labour in the necropolis. you're supposed to be horrified that Hezenkoss is abusing spirits but not at that. engaging with spirits as people introduces too much nuance to the situation and veilguard is absolutely incapable of dealing with it. otherwise they'd have to engage with why Solas wants to tear the veil down

[captainsavre]

The best of Spampi 1/?

[iraprince]

now that the nt99 thread is getting kind of beefy, another somewhat hidden quality of life thing: if your comp/phone/whatever is struggling to load everything, you can scroll up to the top of the page and hit the button here that says "last 50 posts." it will truncate the thread to, as promised, the 50 newest posts! usually that's enough to backread the most recent update (sometimes the last 2 updates if you do last 100 posts instead, but it depends how many suggestions there were). this makes it much easier for "expand all images" to load and saves you a lot of scrolling when you're already caught up and just want to read the most recent bit

if you're backreading and want to skim past reader suggestions (which i don't always recommend bc the suggestions ARE part of the story! but like, when ur just trying to refresh on the content of updates themselves, etc), all updates have my author tag, FRACTAL, so ctrl+F-ing "FRACTAL" and hopping around that way is a neat trick too

[crystal-verse]

hello ffxiv tumblr. please enjoy this doodle of mister crystal exarch i did last night

[purplebass]

Where you go, I go What if This Storm Ends?, Snow Patrol // Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë // Sir Edward John Poynter, Orpheus and Eurydice // The Fragile Threads of Power, V.E. Schwab // Joseph Wright of Derby, Romeo and Juliet. The Tomb Scene // I Will Follow You into the Dark, Death Cab for Cutie // Home, Edith Whiskers