#i'm going off on a tangent....point is...

[gayeredin]

he needed so little to get a win

[the-tenth-arcanum]

I can't believe trump is winning the elections...

[sunsetcorvid]

genuinely been really wanting to get into music composition but it's one of those things that i've never fully learned and that everyone who actually does it has just been doing it since a young age and knows more things which. yknow is normal.

the Want to learn music and the Fear of Fucking It All Up Somehow

[cathymee]

maybe it's to maintain a sense of tension & turmoil that would eventually reach an explosive peak, a sense of tug-of-war, a back-and-forth to hammer home the ideals they want to deliver and for the viewers to chew on, but although these arguments regarding hiroshi & his stance as a man torn between his loyalty for his country & the loyalty for his Filipino friends and lover is of course important, how they write these scenes & the points they present from this week alone is getting too repetitive...? literally the argument scenes from last night & tonight between adelina & hiroshi is basically the same; the ideas were the same, the dynamics were the same: the aggressive, radical adelina, bristling rage and fear over the injustices she's seen thus far, and the cautious, inspiriting hiroshi, all hopefulness and reassurance one moment as a lover, defensiveness and sternness as a japanese soldier in another. this debate will be ever-present ofc, it is one of the series' biggest conflicts, but it is unfortunately so easy to tell when it is a.) being pulled up as a main topic to move the plot along / be a necessary conflict for character development/introspection / be the conflict to deliver the morals & messages the writers want to send to their viewers, or b.) when it is being pulled up only for the drama and filler to pass the time. like watching the characters sit down to argue for 10 minutes, do other things for the plot for 2 minutes, then sit down again to argue for the next 20 minutes. lol.

[seventh-district]

again and again i find myself lamenting that audio roleplay isn't taken more seriously by some people. like yeah, they often have a romantic element, and by nature they usually directly involve/address the listener- and i totally get that those things aren't to everyone's taste. no art or entertainment is universally appealing, and that's okay! but.. it still makes me a lil sad that the "cringe" reputation of asmr/audio rp precedes it. there's a whole lot of talent and creativity being poured into these audios by so many people that i feel goes unrecognized and/or disrespected simply due to the medium that the stories are being told through.

[roomba-mangga]

taking a little break from writing for a few days to cool down the brain but first... yaad&thistle au fic preview under the cut. this is clocking in at 12k atm, i haven't finished drafting all the scenes yet, but i am deeply enjoying this one.

[useless19]

So after you released day 16, looking back on some other moments after that, the Luigi falling asleep against him at the end of day 27 after the battle now seems extra nice and was just wondering if you had any other thoughts or insight on that.

I don't know that I put a lot of thought into them being a parallel moments when I initially wrote them. It's more likely that I wrote those parts at a similar time or during a similar mindset, and one of them (probably Day 27) is partly recycled.

But, it does make a nice moment to contrast! I like that it turned out that Luigi can always find comfort once he's comfortable enough to fall asleep around Bowser. A lot of days ended up with Luigi falling asleep at the end, and a lot of his more important interactions with Bowser took place towards the end of the day too, so it made sense that those two things would coincide at some point.

I guess it even goes from 15 (Bowser unaware, Luigi accidental), to 27 (Bowser aware, Luigi accidental), to 69 (both aware).

I imagine it's important to both of them, though probably unspoken. Luigi is used to there being noise of other people around when he's sleeping and it helps Bowser fight his abandonment issues when there's such obvious proof to wake up to.

We don't see the wakeup in Day 27 (or, I guess it would be 28). You'd think it would be much sweeter than in Day 16, but these idiots still have 2 more days before anything gets admitted, so not a chance :D

Luigi sleeps like a log most of the time, so he's fully under for the rest of the trip. Bowser has been dozing on and off, in his more lucid moments he does some more paperwork, but mostly he's just enjoying having someone he has a crush on snuggled up to him.

Then a Shy Guy bursts in to tell Bowser that they're coming in for landing (standard procedure). The door crashing open wakes Luigi up, who yelps and falls off the chair. Bowser snaps the pen he was using and gets ink all over one hand (because Luigi yelped, he's used to slamming doors and shouting minions). Luigi is pure flustered embarrassment (was he drooling?!) and makes himself scarce. Bowser tries to go after him (that would've been a good way to segue into the topic of going steady, dammit!), but it's a busy airship and Bowser does need to organise/shout at his troops or there'll be even more disasters than usual during unloading. The moment's lost, so Bowser goes to his room and passes out until midday now that the fight adrenaline has finally left him.

(The Shy Guy is ridiculously grateful that he wears a mask, because the face of glee he pulled at the thought of winning the betting pot would have gotten him roasted if Bowser had seen it.)

[dumners]

Going on a lore dive on uesp and getting Mad

The hyperfixation is So Back my guys

[markantonys]

odds of the show giving mat additional (non-endgame) love interest(s)? the books make such a big deal about what a flirt he is, but he doesn't actually do much Onscreen Romancing before he meets tuon, just his brief flings with melindhra and aludra (no, i do not count tylin as a Mat Romance). i feel like since they gave perrin a wife and made randgwene actually have a real relationship, it's not outside the realm of possibility that mat could have new romance(s) added if it served the story.

or they could also just flesh out his book ones more, especially aludra since that one is almost blink-and-you'll-miss-it in the books (although there's no guarantee aludra would make it into the show - depends on how they're planning to handle the dragon-cannon invention plotline). plus, with the condensing of events in the show, there may not be much time for him to have more than a 1-scene hookup with anyone besides melindhra (season 3 or 4) and tuon (whom he could potentially meet in season 5 if his ACOS & WH ebou dar activities are condensed into a single season).

[petercushingscheekbones]

the main reason I will always be obsessed with David Tennant is that fundamentally, we share the same mental illness

[byanyan]

i'm not saying that creating & writing & hyperfixating on byan has influenced me at all........ but i did pick up a new comforter for my bed today that's black on one side and a bright vibrant pink on the other

[unproduciblesmackdown]

maybe i already expressed specifically this amidst a thicket of tags but speaking of the Unexpected & Dynamic all throughout bsol's finale of a [hey all the characters are in the same place] beautiful stretch of vivacity, it's great that like. i mean one figures you're not gonna get [villain immediately kills hero] & you're right b/c that would be a surprise & slightly humorously so but too unrewarding in all other ways to be worth it as the end of a whole entire story & arcs here....but then the ways that banana has this like totally Self Imposed arc about wanting to be able to do whatever it takes to help the musician in return / in general, self imposed b/c the musician himself is like no you're good you're perfect my special little guy i will die without, & we're not exactly subject to any other characters' input like um btw banana you & your Failure to be as heroically bold & brave as to do whatever it takes, as the musician does, except when he feels he can't at some points including if he doesn't have banana with him on this journey, but not b/c he asks anything more of him but to be there with him on this journey....

that is to say, i say as i go "wait what was the specific thing i was gonna talk about in this specific post," that like it's a surprise banana might die of his own self imposed doing whatever it takes, but one of the Least surprising surprises perhaps, like ah yes the funny little guy devoted sidekick? what else would such a guy be For, even if the musician doesn't feel that way, see also: me taking 990 words to say it's fun how at the beginning we could think banana is misguided about the musician encouraging him with his heart words not his mouth words to dance, but then we would be proven wrong when the musician is like cough argh augh i Need banana & i will be encouraging him to dance with my heart And mouth words....but so that yeah even as it may be like Nooo & have stakes & suspense it could still be like ah well yeah that'd be what banana is for, alas, & That is the surprising & not "this was a total success for our heroes" downside to this finale. but it isn't, & banana getting miraculously saved himself as he nonmiraculously protects the musician b/c he wanted to do that himself too

just bringing all that back up to say i was thinking again about like "you wouldn't expect a private little moment following banana but you get one" and "and it's so earnest all throughout & with the more wrenching shift amidst the still perfectly [funny little guy] material & it Does make me cry" and then i was like :( and if he Had died i would have to cry about that too like nooo not banana for would-be dispensibility of the funny little devoted sidekick guy after it was like nooo banana :( (also held hostage in the evil marriage normativity larping but again also all the more "successfully" so b/c his guntoting spouse doesn't actually care about the mutual genuine affection you're also Supposed to have with this) & nooo banana :( (singing his beautiful sweet earnest prayer in this relatively brief song bookended with relative levity (relalelalevity) but still earnest b/c it's all earnest b/c where do you think we are) like yeah basically like i weep at that little moment with him Expressing the depth of his feeling about wanting to do this for the musician despite the musician being like huh wha of course i don't ask that it's nbd, if it paired with "& he does Resolve this by dying about it later" like noooooooooo. tambourine miracles (again thinking of a real tambourine with a disclaimer waiving liability for acts of god associated with? channeled through? that tambourine. sure)

wrapping up a post even less sure if i said anything novel or clearly enough what i wanted to say b/c i went on a journey like maybe it's about something else now, but i don't think so, i think it was just me like wah if banana died i'd be all the more like Oof Augh about his little solo packing its punch of perfect earnest real depth of feeling b/c Everyone's presumed to have that, and they do, and it shows, funny little nonprotagonists or no(s)

[bart-phobe]

(Coming back to this fandom I was surprised at how kind everyone was.

I suppose that's a lesson to learn. To not allow the 1% of jerks to define our fandom experiences. I'm happy to see so much kindness and positivity here though, in a fandom that might have a reputation for being perverted and negative.

And I don't see any debates in this fandom about whether the Simpsons Comic Books are canon (something that tends to be controversial in other fandoms where book canonicity doesn't really line up with the source material. It can be an interesting debate, but too much arguing I feel ruins the fun). I'm glad people, for the most part, can enjoy our books, because regardless of if they're canon: they're creative and a lot of fun!

Point being, I'm glad I returned. Even though I miss some of the people who abandoned their accounts here.)

[hannie-dul-set]

ANON WHO JUST SENT IN TAESAN LET ME KISS YOU ON THE MOUTH.

[stellardeer]

i have to come to terms with the fact that I am actually well off for someone in this country now, like.. idk it's weird

i'm still living the exact same lifestyle that i was before, so for the most part it feels almost like nothing has changed, like maybe im spending a little bit more money on food and buying the "good" toilet paper, but all that does is allow me to actually have savings in my bank account

i still stand with the working class and impoverished people of this country, and I am very much still in the boat of "one [very] bad day from homelessness" so i am not taking this for granted whatsoever

i've just been watching some of those youtube channels where they interview random people all over the country and just like.. kinda show what their life is like and it's definitely putting mine in perspective

very very grateful for the opportunities i have had and very proud of myself for forcing myself to stay in college (even tho it took almost 10 years to finish and left me with a mountain of debt) and just like.. idk, i feel like i could be doing more to help people out, i can't wait til im out of debt ;o;

[sorrygotthesesacks]

I had this idea pop into my head...for reasons I can't remember...and all I remember is thinking "hmm, that, but with Silbek."

And now I can't remember the idea or what made the idea pop into my head and I am sad.

(as if I needed another idea)

But also: fake dating

(which is not the idea that popped into my head but I am a sucker for many of the tropes. Of course, that trope doesn't work as well with Silbek since they're kinda already dating but just don't know it.)