#because it doesn't work for everyone

[foxstens]

re andrew asking neil to talk to betsy: i don't think andrew would ask, and even if he did i don't think neil would go

[lucabyte]

even dogs pass the mirror test

[lalalaugenbrot]

also i learnt this semester that in 1960 only 6% (!!!!) of german students/youths made their abitur so i would like every person who's parents or grandparents or even great-grandparents!! have abitur or went to university even to do a little reality check and understand that they're from a very privileged and not normal family because i hate the way people from academic backgrounds assume everyone around them has an academic family background too, because let me tell you that is just very unlikely!!!!

[fyuyushia]

Nah nah nah hear me out!! Hear me out!!!

Sung Jinwoo finding you in the world after he turns back time but he's a little too late for romancing you.

By too late I mean by the time he comes to find you and DOES find you you're already taken. He's absolutely devastated when he sees you already being lovey dovey with someone else.

You're holding hands with someone, dating someone and everything by the time he tries to rekindle the bond that sparked in the time nobody remembers.

He's heartbroken, disappointed, betrayed and all—and he contemplates giving up on you. Clearly you're happy, clearly you're content in another's arms. He only has himself to blame for seeking you out too late.

But a part of him refuses to give up—nah he likes you too much to just give up so easily. After much encouragement from beru and his other shadows (who insisted it is much too early to give up—if there's no ring then it's not too late yet!!!) he approaches you.

Baby steps. He tells himself. Baby steps.

He'll start as an acquaintance, work his way to a friend, and then best friend, and then the next part—the hard part—your boyfriend.

He's practically praying for the downfall of your relationship(he feels bad because he doesn't want to see you hurt but he also doesn't want to see you with another guy)

When with you? Oh yeah he's every bit the best boy best friend you could ever get.(It's too the point your boyfriend gets jealous)

He's there to comfort you whenever you argue with your lover, he's there whenever your boyfriend pushes your boundaries and makes you uncomfortable, he's there to let you yap about everything when your boyfriend won't listen.

Jinwoo stays, steadfastly loyal. As your best friend. And when you finally FINALLY break up with your 'boyfriend'? Oh yeah you best believe he's celebrating on the inside while sympathizing with you on the outside.

You're sobbing, saying you'll never believe in love ever again in his arms and he's nodding along, uttering words of assurance like the good friend he is.

You don't even notice he's smiling as he says them, don't even notice the way he has to physically hide his joy because YESSSSS HES NIT FOREVER!! HE HAS A CHANCE!!!

Inside the shadow realm everyone's celebrating!! The cockroach is no more!! Our king's lover is free from the curse that the wretched man had cast on them!! True love prevails!!

[lolli-popples]

I think it'd be fun to do some kind of Life Series AU where they're ALL enhanced individuals (superpowers) but are afraid of telling anyone due to stigma. Then the plot would be everyone slowly realizing other people have powers too until it clicks that everyone has them.

But that's not the fun part. The fun part is I think Joel's "superpower" is that when he looks at someone, they are unable to use their abilities. But he doesn't know that. So there's an unbelievable amount of hijinks around people trying to prove to him they have superpowers while he continues to say they're all deluded.

[catsharky]

Yeah I was right and there was no way I was getting the rest of this done without making you all wait another month or two, so I just went to the next good break point. We're officially past the halfway point with Astarion though, so not too much longer before you actually get to see Rolan again!

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[arimabari]

i'm probably only going to throw my two cents in once but fantasy game fandoms - Elder Scrolls AND Dragon Age - need to stop pretending like these games are divorced from the political landscapes they were made in. No one is saying you can't like so and so character or even have a fascination with an "evil" faction, but you're gonna get the hard side eye from a lot of people if you're looking at this group uncritically.

These games were not made in a bubble. You can like fantasy for fantasy's sake while still using those media literacy skills they teach you in middle school to critique the things you love. I promise it's not going to kill you.

[starry-bi-sky]

watch me end up making a superdad au coz of WTNS

because!!! because i was thinking about how funny it is that Bruce's first two kids (Dick and Danny) would be superman fans, and how funny it would be if that influenced his opinion on Superman when they first met. And then I got to picking that apart, and how Danny's opinion and feelings on Superman would have the bigger impact on Bruce than Dick, since Dick's admiration for Superman (presumably) comes from the standard little kid "he's an alien and he can FLY" (and flying graysons) stuff. Which, while very very cute, is easy to ignore and disallow swaying feelings on.

But DANNY? It's not the same. While part of Danny's admiration comes from the same "holy shit he's an alien and can fly thats so COOL" vein, it also comes from a place of feeling deeply relatable to him. Both he and Superman were/are perceived as incredibly powerful, deeply dangerous creatures that are nigh impossible to stop, they have a handful of powers that are similar to one another, and they are (one of) the only ones of their kind. Superman is (one of) the last Kryptonian, Danny is (one of) the only Liminal in existence, and they might not be the same species but the principle remains the same and they're in the same boat.

As a result, Danny would just, god, he'd find so much relation in that. And yeah they're not the same but Superman would make him feel just a little less alone, a little more seen, and he'd find so much comfort in that.

And Bruce, by the time he meets Superman, would know by then about Danny's powers and his experiences and his time as Phantom and as a Liminal. And it's easy to ignore your kid's admiration for another Superhero when it stems from a place of plain hero worship or simple appreciation. It's harder to ignore it when your kid admires a Superhero because they make them feel seen and relate to them on a level you can't reach them on.

When that's the reason, how could he not think differently about Superman? When, by then, he's seen the scars left on Danny's body from all of his fights; when he's seen him cry and break down over never being able to fly again thanks to the blood blossom poison; when he's heard all about the struggles he faced with his powers, the fear he had about being found out, the fear he had when he was first developing them; and how he was ostracized by his city for his efforts just because he wasn't human, despite how much he was just trying to help.

How could he not look at Superman when they first meet, mask-to-mask, and have a little voice in the back of his mind go: 'my kid is a lot like you'

its making me emotional. if these feeligns persist im going to end up making a superdad au

[statementlou]

what's really sad to me is I think what happened is that Louis just went out to have a good time and do his thing last year at glasto, like sure he packed fits to get papped a little but it wasn't supposed to be anything out of the ordinary- but then it spontaneously ended up being the best press moment he'd had in years and this huge boost... so then this year instead of lad party weekend it's an OPPORTUNITY and they had multiple teams and various players coordinating like a fucking secret op like damn. No wonder he looks like that; MEH indeed

[thenamesapollo]

state of deltarune theories is so so bad cuz they all try to connect back to the theme of escapism without noticing that that theme isn't even in deltarune.

[judaismandsuch]

A bit more political than usual but:

There has been a rash lately of blogs posting anti-Israel stuff in the jewish tags.

Now, I am not going to get into a discussion about whether or not being anti-Israel or antizionist is antisemitic or not, if you care you can look it up yourself.

What I will say is as follows: the 'jumblr' and 'jewblr' tags are used for jews to talk about jewish stuff. It is also used by non-Jews to talk about Jewish stuff on occasion, or for Jews or Jews-in-progress to talk about whatever.

All of which is fine, I am not a gatekeeper of tags.

But what it is not for is for a non-jewish person to use in a post unrelated to Judaism, written in an intentionally inflammatory way, so as to aggravate at least 80% of tumblr Jews.

You have also started to use the 'orthodox' 'Judaism' and 'frumblr' tags, which are (even amongst Jews on tumblr) basically only used to discuss the religion itself.

So I want to be clear: You are being antisemitic.

You are entering a Jewish space and screaming loudly so as to drown out whatever the Jews are trying to say.

It doesn't matter what your screaming, you could be making posts about star wars with no political implications and it would be the same (provided you did it with the same frequency).

I am pretty sure this is all one person, as there have been about 10 new blogs in the last 5 days that follow basically noone, have one non-political post, and then constantly spam politics in the Jewish tags.

And the fact that you have made all these accounts (with seperate emails, as each one has it's own like and following page which doesn't happen with sideblogs), means you know on some level that what you are doing is wrong.

I do not care what you're reasoning is, what your defense is: You are making the primary way that Jews on tumblr communicate with/find eachother practically unusable, and that is an antisemitic act.

So, to whomever is doing this. If you have an ounce of capability of self reflection: read this. think about it. be better.

If you don't? Well, you are fucked anyways, because this behaviour will eventually leave you friendless in the real world.

[ingoodjesst]

have you put the pieces together yet, detective

[tragedytells-tales]

"A compromise, then." - Fic and AU by @ducky-dawn47

Quick doodles of some Spicynoodles from the Legendary AU because I re-read the fic and wanted to draw a scene

[psychopomp-namine]

the way everyone has a dislike in their profile that actually says something integral about their character. lu guang doesn't like plans getting messed up, cheng xiaoshi dislikes loneliness, xia fei with owing favors, vein with lying...

and then you have liu xiao, who dislikes... cilantro. and fish mint.

(shakes fist) (putting him in a glass jar and shaking vigorously) learn to be vulnerable!! tell me something about yourself!! I guess him liking movies lines up with the theater metaphors, and there's him liking chess, but that. doesn't count methinks

[smileyobrien]

COUNTDOWN TO LOWER DECKS SEASON 5 1 WEEK – Everyone* else (*not really)

[slayerdurge]

Durgetash Resurrection AU

"Is that...? That's my body. I remember now. The Morphic Pool. The Elder Brain, it... I was dead. What did you do?" "I made a deal... with Lord Bane."