#once again how did we get here...

[bodybeyondstories]

if you want to expand the virus story there’s so many possible lanes

epidemiologists examining the first cases in a lab

mishandled virus sample in a lab

quarantined facility with strict and embarrassing measures to assess if people have contracted it

the making of a government psa about how it spreads, warning signs, and at home tests

Ok public health crisis world building!!!

With that viral ass expansion story, and others like it (like Growth Notes), I'm really interested in that balance between rate of spread and severity of cases in which you can have this tension between 1) people denying it's even happening and downplaying discourse on social media as fantastical or morphed; 2) people accepting it and being largely unconcerned because they don't think it's a big deal or only had a mild case (with the added caveat of the increasing visibly/showing off of perfect bubble butts because of mild cases); and 3) the small percentage of extreme cases that are increasingly hidden away but become harder to deny as the virus spreads. So you have all these slice of life moments of the virus impacting different parts of social and cultural life, but you also get the makeshift clinic scene of beach ball sized buns bursting out of hospital gowns, men trying to readjust to normal life even though they have to squeeze through doorways, etc. Also dudes who enthusiastically seek out multiple infections in an effort to end up with extreme cases that give them freakish proportions.

Like how long does it take until this mysterious ass expansion virus is recognized as such? How does word spread before it's actually declared an epidemic? What's the community-level response before there's a systemic containment plan? What's the messaging strategy to get dudes to get over the awkwardness/embarrassment/denial and seek treatment before their asses are impossible to hide? What are the longer term impacts on mens/masc beauty standards and body politics across the landscape of gender and sexuality? On fitness and fashion? Or accessibility accommodations for this thing that people are largely denying, laughing at, or lusting over?

It would be cool to do sort of a messy, not fully edited documentary type story that's composed of short vignettes from different perspectives. Maybe??

Also, soon after I wrote that prompt, I actually came across a much more developed and very well done story with a similar premise, "Off Sick," by Anonymous Fox on Gay Spiral Stories. It's a viral ass (and etc) expansion story that plays off the specter of long covid in kind of an inverse way and presents a commentary on normalization, manufactured consent and the failures of public health in this moment. It's also really hot. A must read!

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[venelona]

A pic I drew for my fanfic 'Write My Report' where we're doing paperwork mafia-style

[zarnzarn]

after the events of three in the morning, safe inside Athena just kinda tucked ody under her wings.

Idk why I think that but anyway it's cannon now that after ody gets thoroughly fucked Athena pulls him close and wraps her wings around him like a cocoon

yessss she sort of chirrups and coos down at him with the owl head tilting, nuzzling at him as she cleans up. she'd do it to penelope too but homegirl is practically steaming from how overheated all the exercise made her so she just goes and usually falls asleep face down on the bed until she's cool enough that athena can drag her closer as well.

in general i think athena would be there for the aftercare because I don't see post canon odypen knowing when to call it quits, which leads to both of them being absolutely exhausted and useless after the last round. she usually just rolls her eyes shakes her head and handles it all; but they both know she's awake for hours just trilling down at them and staring happily.

[moeblob]

TY Shindanmaker for clocking me as a chronic liar (true) who is more caring than I should be (true, thank you anxiety) and also more of a romantic than horny (true, as an ace who enjoys the concept of love but doesn't really partake).

[rainyraisin]

I think Gerald Robotnik is the perfect example of how sympathetic doesn't mean forgivable and I havent seen a single person talk about it

[noirandchocolate]

Scale of one to ten, how mad do you think Kohga is when, after he describes his/the Clan’s long, difficult work to figure out how to use Zonai tech, to collect charges, and to reconstruct a mighty ancient construct to gift to Lord Ganon, and after he debuts said amazing piece of engineering (which he’s even dressed up to show it’s special and his)*…

Link can just stand back and let his own mech, that he built in like two days tops and that is powered by a sage who barely knows him and is following him more or less blindly because he’s the Princess’s Chosen Hero…

Bop his creation repeatedly with a spiky metal ball (his own signature weapon)?

Because I think the answer is over 9000.

This is the mask of a man having a breakdown.

[kaisollisto]

the instant i saw you reblog the europa stuff i was like 🥺👉👈 wheres the avatrice/avalil/bealil SLASH all of them au for poor sick victorian boy follower?🥺 (translation: i love how u write about space & also Landscapes and also The Characters and Europa is so😳what if we met in the ice tunnels beneath a burning sky that is always, ALWAYS cold, and what if home was very far away? but also here, where bodies are hearth-fires and your breath can die inside your mouth)

hi this was back in april when i was fighting for my life 🙇‍♀️ oops i'm so slow at writing. um i'm in tears, i remember when i got this ask i was having a rough weekend and this really blew my ass up. i love u thanks for waiting o7

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“I tell you to jump, you fucking jump, I tell you to fucking shoot you shoot. What’s not clear?” Mary is livid, her fury burning the front of Lilith’s soaked suit. She can’t see her face but she knows it’s hardened, her teeth peeking from her lips a dull white against her dry skin. Her shoulders shake with each breath waiting for Lilith’s pithy excuse. Mary catapults through her anger regardless of the destruction and waste, (Lilith knows this, catches herself in the reflection of Mary’s fangs).

It’s a fleeting thing that blindsides her, the memory brushing up the back of her neck. (Shannon’s fingers quick and light riding the slope of Mary’s arm pressing hard enough to feel in the frozen tundra as Mary works her jaw). A stolen moment she shouldn’t have seen but one that ached in different places of her body.

It is Europa’s disease, the weak imitation of heat sullying the minds of any living thing it touches. The earthsiders have a word for it, the hunt for any hint of warmth that drives barracks mad. (They cannot conceive it, a famine that thrives through the flesh. Europa’s twin, born second, void of anything, now at the heart of a feast gorging everything it can touch).

It is a disease they cannot combat, the yearning ache to go home.

cont.

[itspileofgoodthings]

one of my favorite things about getting older is that I’m just more sure and more confident in taking control in social situations and making other people feel at ease. I really love it!

[egophiliac]

A-anime?

you know, sometimes I forget that Twst is actually an isekai that starts with the protagonist getting run over by an inexplicable horse-drawn carriage. and every time I'm reminded is a delight because that's AMAZING.

also. look. okay. there's a lot of very fun stuff in the trailer but I am obsessed with that Crowley surprised pikachu face. me when I spend all my keys and gems literally hours before they announce overblot SSRs and drop the anime trailer:

[camellcat]

it confuses me when people say they like willow or xander and then get all uncomfortable and condemning about, like... major parts about them. you don't like that they're wildly possessive of which often leads them to acting irrational and awful...... which is like one of their biggest traits? oh, and you hate that they're not fantastic friends to buffy............. which is also like. how they are. pretty much the entire time we know them. okay!

wow, you find xander to be annoying bc he's a dumb dude who seriously needs to unlearn some ideals and really outta treat his girlfriends nicer. I'm dismayed at his typical guy-ness. bummer, we don't enjoy that willow is like totally abusive when it comes to exerting whatever power can get over people. that sure is a bad thing she does.

I just. I like them BECAUSE of these things idk how the hell you could possibly separate these things from them and still enjoy these characters it boggles my mind

[discjude]

SO funny that the only explanation for why Aric stabbed Rhian is, in Japeth's words, "because [Rhian] said things about [his and Aric's] friendship" (the full actual quote is "because you said things! About him and me! About our friendship!"). Which is such a funny way of phrasing it because that could mean LITERALLY anything. Soman why would you phrase it like that. genuinely

The only other elaboration we get on the stabbing ever is right after the first line and it's vague as to what it's actually talking about, which is where Rhian says "Because he was a monster / a sadist with no soul" (which. yeah lmao), but that could be either "he stabbed me because he was a monster" OR "I said those things because he was a monster", and the rest of the line supports the second interpretation, so we just???? don't know what made aric do it??????? This is the single most influential event in the series it literally doubled the series' length what do you MEAN there's only ever two lines about it????? ? ? ??? arbed prequel when hello

[seaofreverie]

The biggest problem with trying to come up with a dream Sparks setlist is that I truly want them to play just about every song. Or at least 80% of them, would that really be too much to ask..

[immortalsins]

:/

[feline-evil]

Dick or no dick confirmation Pickles was always going to be trans to me anyways; if he's swingin' somethin that's phallo babes, if he's not then his t-dick fat. What's not to get.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

sorry if you've already mentioned but what (re?)ignited your love of comics/x-men/cherik? curious because there are so many different adaptations of them

i think im gonna speak for a few (or a lot of) people when i say that TL;DR the wolverine x deadpool movie that came out this summer is what pulled me back into comics and i COULD leave it there but i will go into excruciating and unnecessary detail instead because i love an origin story and i love oversharing.

under the cut tho because im nice sometimes (there's also wxdp doodles in here. if you want to see that)

ironically (and probably commonly), growing up i was more of an avengers kid. Kinda. Loosely <- binge watched the cartoons and movies and read copious amounts of comics and fics and i am hoarding fanart in my old dresser as we speak ok 'loosely' is a modest lie.

embarrassingly i remember getting into discus cause of captain america LMAO so yeah needless to say i was a Humble Fan- me joining my school's comic class/club didnt help either (shoutout to my teach from that she was the realest one out there for. A Multitude of reasons). she definitely is was inspires me to even draw still and make comics and i often think bout the tips i learned from her class tbh she was great

back to the movies t and comics tho, i got into em because my brother would offer to take me and that's how we'd hang out (i rarely saw movies in theaters and i even more rarely went anywhere as a teenager. still kinda like that today tbh ooops) and yk. it just snowballed after that.

my brother and i have always liked comics- he just more than me for a while (though he still very much loves comics and As We Know From My Posts we still talk about them whenever i see him To An Exhausting Degree)

durin then i was really into stony and i have a few surviving doodles i made but those are between me and god. and anyone who asks tbh LOL

'snap can you make this related to x-men again this is long' ok so fast forward to This Summer again I Still Don't Really See Movies but my brother offered to take me and this was the first time i'd actually seen an x-men movie in full

as a kid i only remember seeing the 'perfection' scene between erik and raven in first class while i was channel surfing. pretty sure i changed the channel after seeing mystique naked cause i was scared my parents would get mad at me if they caught me watching it LOL

BUT MOVING ON As A Kid i think it's also natural you'll sometimes watch 92 if it's on And I Did though evidently it didn't stick too hard (i do remember really liking beast and gambit though.... still do really): my knowledge of x-men was. INCREDIBLY sparse. like diabolically so so i didnt have too much expectations (aside from the fact i vaguely liked deadpool beforehand).

tbh i dont know why my bro never took me to see any of the x-men movies. it's not like he doesn't Also like x-men (90% sure nightcrawler's his favorite but my brother will be caught dead saying he has absolute favorites like that)- he owns a bitch load of deadpool comics/omnibus sets too (of which ive read over the years and reread this year) but Shrug moving on

Much Like Most Of The Internet i fell down the rabbit hole that way. i have some doodles i made a couple days after seeing WxDP that i now have an excuse to throw at all of you Look And Perceive

and so. As I Do. i got curious and told myself i'd binge watch all the x-men movies the week before i went back to school And Then I Did ft. My Brother Sometimes and then i said i'd binge watch all of '92 and And I Did That ft. My Brother Sometimes But Less So and now we're here. currently watching Evolution...

once i got to school i realized i lived near a comic shop and started getting into the comics that way (the first ones i got since going down this rabbit hole was Magneto Was Right!, The Resurrection of Magneto, and The Trial of Magneto. if you were curious !!!!! clearly i didnt care too much about context i just needed to see My Guy jelvejlkvj i have no regrets and Evidently ive read more since)

i'm pretty sure what dragged me into cherik specifically was the fact i saw a clip of The Famous ending to 92 where erik's aghast at the notion jean even has to question his love for charles. i think that was what officially had me refocus my lens on them: not a single poolverine thought after that LOL (all the cherik posting i saw on twitter definitely helped too but that was the nail in the coffin for any other interests i had: i was locked into cherik and x-men in general now)

that clip specifically, i was surprised at the fact they- frequently even- have the x-men franchise say erik loves charles and vice versa so bluntly. even if it's not meant to be romantic, i fear im just a fan of how casually the word's thrown around with them two and i got tender bout it all. Then Yk. i just live for the drama. the hilarity even. the sincerity .... they make me sick if i think of them too long so im gonna end it here

before i go tho ironically enough, the first x-men issue i owned was This one (story a this is that while stuck in some wacko dimension charles accidentally gets himself trapped in logan's mind while utilizing his astral projection. if you were curious). pretty sure i got it for free with another comic set i got years ago since our old comic shop loved to do that, but it's poetic aint it. maybe ill doodle something referencing it..

i should probably look into finishing this arc someday im Dummy curious to even know how it started and how it ends.....