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[chocogi]

hi guys how are you all doing

does anyone want to read me trying to write for sagau again

uhm. i started this draft with no ideas in my head pls help

this has no title i am too boring and lazy to come up with one

"Do you know what's happening?"

"What do you mean?"

"People just.. they're all saying the same things they said yesterday, like someone broke them and gave them predetermined lines."

"Oh, that.. I don't think I've seen anyone retire for the night too, now that I think about it."

Xiao listens to the distant conversation. They've said the same things yesterday, and the day before.

Odder and odder phenomena happen in the night.

The Acting Grand Sage reported about solved mechanisms in looted ruins. Lingering proof that a vision user came and went, even though all vision users are accounted for, and none of them have stepped beyond Aaru Village.

Barbatos has awoken, crying about watching Dvalin and Andrius die, time and time again, only to see them wake up with not a single memory of the fight.

Morax has come forth, and his own people cannot react to his presence— they all stand around with blank stares and permanent faces.

On some days, the vision users, too, are affected. They stand around and you can only say certain things to make them react. Most never figured that out, though, and they leave the living statues alone, pity and worry and frustration bubbling inside them.

It's never permanent though. For the vision users. Those unlucky enough to be without a vision, they never break out.

Baizhu wonders if this is an illness. A plague that has taken over four out of seven nations.

The remaining three worry. Their people, who have traveled to those affected nations, never return. They ask vision users living there, and they confirm that the foreigners, too, are now simply living statues babbling out the same words.

Some want to blame it on the traveller. They notice that only the nations that they visit are affected by this. Others defend the traveller. It is just a coincidence, they say. They have saved the nations they visit, and they have done nothing wrong.

The latter retort that if being saved means they turn to living mannequins with only a handful of words, then maybe they don't want to be saved.

Fontaine's Archon worries. their nation is next, they're sure. They feel suffocated, this whole thing feels unreal. Time sensitive quests that the traveller takes, never seem to end in havoc if they abandon it in favor of a different quest. The people affected in the quest stay frozen.

Time feels artificial. Every move done feels scripted.

Teyvat doesn't know what to do.

[girlbob-boypants]

At work and thinking about it even more now. Poor Operator.

You did your best to be the grown up on the Zariman when all the kids lost their parents (even you).

You became their experiment. They wanted to prove they could fix you. And when that took too long they made you their weapon.

You quelled the screaming, tortured minds within the Orokin's experiments. After all, who could understand them better.

You fought countless battles in countless bodies (can you even tell what memories are your and what belong to those machines of war?). You were given no choice.

You fought in a rebellion. An uprising against oppression. That was your choice, wasn't it?

You slept.

You woke to a new era. Not to celebrate the good things your rebellion gave rise to, but to deal with the problems that have arose, new and old.

You learned who you are(n't). It left you to pick up the pieces of your identity. You were almost killed for learning it.

And at every turn, someone is there to remind you that you're a child.

Your mother wanted children. You were. You are. Her child.

You want to learn what's happening. Your warrior mentor reminds you that you're a child.

Your mind is almost enslaved by a cruel leader. She revels in your youth.

You other better half is given a task none other can do. They travel far away, leaving alone. The people there talk about you sometimes. They call you a child, too.

Your creator even says the worst thing your other could be is a child, just like you.

You've done things no one could imagine of accomplishing.

You're a child. This is what you are.

Would you like to start another mission, Operator?

[youngpettyqueen]

I wish Julian and Martok would interact more cause I think they could have the funniest possible dynamic. they spent 5 weeks together in a Jem'Hadar prison I just know they have a friendship that looks fucking INSANE from the outside looking in

[onnahu]

shen qingqiu is the most relatable mxtx character ro me, because i too don't know what's going on most of the time and just bullshit my way through any problems

[spookythesillyfella]

hey guys . this is my special halloween drawings you folks can shoot me now.

[thenearsightedmicroraptor]

Did you know? They made Popular Franchise a movie. But it's bad. It's gonna be bad. Did you know? Here's why it's bad. Here's why it's bad. Here's another reason why it's bad. Here's what they should have done to make it good. Watch the trailer. It's bad right? Look at how bad it is. Why didn't they make a good movie. Who could have seen this happen. We must talk about it more.

I'm happy for your guys or whatever where you live in a world where you don't expect franchise movies to be necessarily terribly bad all the time and sorry that this comes as a shock. For me personally I would like to talk about something else instead though.

[tearlessrain]

jesus christ deviantart is an absolute cesspit of low effort AI cash grabbing now. made the mistake of going there to see if I could find a pose ref. I did not.

really glad I left when I did.

[2-faded-memory-2]

hi chat im finally at that age were i realize what my parents marriage did to my concept of love bc it wrecked it more than the divorce

[asvidema]

sometimes i wonder who's testing me

[penisbilt]

one of my only surviving memories of one of the churches my parents tried when i was a teenager, the pastor spent like half the sermon ranting and raving and yelling about the blasphemic lady gaga and how she had recently sang "god bless the u.s.GAY" during her performance of the national anthem at like the superbowl or whatever and they unfurled a gay flag instead of an american flag or something and about how it was SO DISRESPECTFUL to GOD and our TROOPS and that gay people should be ASHAMED for this and how lady gaga must be the devil's attempt to influence OUR INNOCENT CHILDREN into doing EVIL. like turning them gay i guess. or something

[solardrop]

I should no longer be surprised by this sites ability to attach to white men in media. Ain't no way y'all are thirsting over the one white man who wasn't overtly racist in that movie. There's no way.

[divinekangaroo]

attempting to get into the fluidity of using sharepoint and finally starting to feel my age re: interface design

[yunmeng-jiang]

is that... is that nmj with fat tits? am i being advertised a badly done line-art of nmj with fat tits? in french?

[freezegirl]

totally correct quotes ft. @himbohotel's anthony larusso / psd.

[mossterunderthebed]

yknow, sometimes i see posts about jjk and it's themes and thematic elements, the passing torch, the generational cycles being broken, Yuuji being a type of the bright future where Gojo was representative of his own 'kind' of sorcerer- brute force, weaponization, kids who weren't really treated like people but instead made into tools- and at the end, there's no true definitive change, but there's definitely an air of 'things are going to be different' but like...

im the one with the pen right now, so im just gonna ignore All of That

[butmakeitgayblog]

why is adc's fanbase so obsessed with her being a lesbian? like lol

They're... not? We're not? Lol wtf?

I mean is there a small faction who seem keen to leaving the possibility open? Yes. But literally that's true for any fandom. There's a portion of Swifties convinced she's gay/bi, there's 1D fans who have this whole narrative about some of the guys being in love, there's heteros who insist that some queer actors are actually straight and only pretending to be queer for attention, there's straight fans who fetishize gay actors as straight and straight actors as gay depending on what they want to fantasize. Not to mention the really flattering ones who call queer actors "a waste" for being hot and gay because somehow being gay means now they can't hypothetically fuck them (as if they'd ever touch them with a ten foot pole) or that it makes them inherently less attractive. That's always lovely and not at all a fucked up, homophobic thing to say.

Certainly don't hear anyone throwing fits over those comments though 👀

But I digress.

Like??? It's not a new ~phenomenon~ for people to want their fave actors/artists to be things/people/orientations that they can identify with. And, shockingly, there ARE loads of gay people in Hollywood who are very deeply in the closet, so it's not an outlandish thing to wonder about. If you truly believe in an industry filled with hot people who love to dress up and be dramatic and be creative and be glamorous, that there's only a handful of queer people in the bunch??? I've got a bridge to sell you. I could use the money.

Now, I'm not saying it's exactly a healthy thing for fans to focus on out of everything that makes up a person, but it's certainly not uncommon nor beyond understandable why they'd gravitate to the possibility given how little open representation queer people have in Hollywood. And tbh the tone of this ask was belittling and reads kinda lesbophobic/homophobic at its core, but I think you probably knew that when you sent it and did it intentionally to try and kick up dust, so. Idk. Congrats?