#this is nothing in comparison

[alwaysupatnight]

oh no The Alien Abduction and Nakedness Show is upsetting people again 🙄

[jasontoddsguns]

“Boromir apologist” he doesn’t have anything to apologize for????? He fell victim to evil ringTM like once. and then immediately redeemed himself. Guys come on.

[wordsofwilderness]

I have learned things about myself writing this next chapter of Spotlight. Outlining me? Cruelest bitch of the land, will giggle and twirl my hair at how the readers will feel. Writing me though?? Giant softie and will cry about the beloved characters hurting even the slightest bit

[comfortlesshurt]

Nowhere to call home (so I'll pack and run away) - 11/15 - Addiction

Feeling the wrong way (looking for good days)

Chapter TW: recreational drug use

Giving all those IOUs even in a desperate moment, as anyone sane would’ve warned him, was not a good idea.

He’d been prepared to owe a day of heavy manual labor or maybe a lift to somewhere far enough to run him a week’s worth of his fuel budget, but somehow he hadn’t imagined being roped into filling in as a plug.

On the plus side, his curiosity about the mushrooms left in Shiro’s his shack is resolved when he sees the similar-looking fruits in one of the gallon bags his neighbor pushes on to him.

“You owe me fifteen hundred after it all sells, and you can keep anything on top of that,” his neighbor offers. “And don’t think I won’t know where to find you if you try to run off on me.”

He’d walked Keith through the going rates for the items in each of the bags and sent him on his way.

It wasn’t long before his greed got the better of him. If he only needed to hold onto fifteen hundred dollars, he was holding an extra two thousand dollars in his bag right now at the suggested going rates.

If he kept it up, that was enough to ensure the bike would never be out of commission for long again, enough for three meals a day every day, more than he could conceivably think to ever spend.

Within a month, his original haul was gone and he no longer had to seek out potential customers. They came to him.

It was an easy decision to return to his neighbor and ask for more.

It’s a harder decision to set it all aside to sell this time… so he doesn’t.

He’s in the green, he’s no longer doing this by force as a return on an IOU, and to be honest… he’s tired. Tired of the drag of the lonely days inching by, tired of the way panic grips him seemingly at random throughout each day, tired of trading his time and wear on Shiro’s bike for unlivable wages delivering mediocre food to ungrateful customers, tired of thinking about what he’s lost and what little he has to look forward to.

What he has now helps chase it all away when it gets to be too much. It makes life… livable. For a bit, at least.

It won’t be for long. He can quit whenever he wants. That’s just not today.

[toppamplemousse]

reblogging this if you’d like to rpf today some MORE

my beloved, neither do you

“Charles knew. He had known from the moment Max had confessed his feelings between motorhomes, kissing Charles like he held the air to breathe in his lungs. He had known from the way Max’s hands fit so perfectly in his, fingers interlocked, emotions interweaved. He had known from the times they fought, the way their anger and irritation presented so vastly differently, but their love always brought them back together, back into each other's arms, back home.

Theirs was a story written long before they were aware, a story intricately traced in the tides along the coastal cliffs, churning and crashing, dappled with sunlight and presided by the moon.”

charles leclerc/max verstappen, 7k words, on ao3

[dreadark]

also I haven't seen the stickers in such high quality before... unknown sorrow my beloveds...

[nenoname]

the shoulder angel and devil raccoon deleted scene

+ a potential reason why this scene was cut

[ataudcanela]

[w1f1n1ghtm4r3]

gave some critters some colors

[nerdy-hyperfixations]

My mom (and my sister) said that both baby Stan and Ford are adorable but Ford is cuter and she likes him better and I think my heart is shattered.

This post is dedicated to my favorite kid Stanley panels:

My mom didn’t even like him when I showed the one where he murders those two kids 😭😭😭 that’s the best part!!!

[orionhelluvaranting]

Brutal honesty vs Soft hypocrisy

Why they could never make me hate Stella:

Why they could never make me like Stolass:

In fact, I never had a problem with the characters who are assholes while the narrative treats them like the ones, without attempts to justify or whitewash. Bad guys exist for a reason, they play an important part in the plot.

But I can't stand the characters who are assholes while they're totally woobified, portrayed as misunderstood heroes / perfect victims, and their misdeeds are constantly downplayed / ignored by narrative.

This is the situation I have with Stella and Stolass.

On the one hand, Stella is a rough ridiculous caricature of what an abuser supposed to be. From such she, essentially, got only the name and a few basic traits (breaking stuff, yelling, etc.) so you could project on her whatever you want. I'd assume she acts more like a bully than an abuser. But what exactly prevents her from being believable representation of such a serious, complex topic?

Honesty!

Stella never* pretends to be good, neither lies about her intentions nor tries to increase attachment in her victim. She proudly hangs all her red flags out and screams at the top of her lungs, 🚩 "Hey, I'm abuser!" 🚩 And... probably, people like this do exist (people are different). Although they're minority for one simple reason: honesty wouldn't let them fool anyone and escape punishment. (Add to this Stella's lack of magical skills, power, brains, and then you'll see her writing is complete nonsense.) Oh, and don't you dare spread the "It's Hell" excuse on me! I've made a whole list of reasons why this point doesn't have any sense.

On the other hand, Stolass is much more subtle. He speaks civilly, stays calm (most of the time), tries to make a good impression. Stolass tells you how flattered he is that you invited him to the party; he treats himself to a drink and sings on a stage with you. So you'd think everything's fine… But as soon as you turn away, the owl will hide in a corner and bitch with himself about how petty your social event is. And despite this we're supposed to SIDE with Stolass because allegedly he isn't as petty as anybody at the anti-Blitzø party since he came there purely out of ✨politeness✨! Yeah, it's sooo polite to show up and act like a hypocritical jerk! Apparently the dumbass never heard about the polite refusal option.

Conclusion: Choosing between obvious asshole and woobified asshole I'd prefer the first one. At least in that case nobody's trying to force me into sympathy for a hypocrite.

*The ONLY truly manipulative moment from Stella's side was the fake hug in "Mastermind", and even that was pulled out of nowhere and then thrown into nowhere immediately. I guess that was made so people would compare Stella with Mother Gothel while they have nothing in common (sadly).

[foldingfittedsheets]

I’m trying to complete the mastery challenges in Assassins Creed Valhalla. I have gold in literally every challenge except the one where you must exclusively aerially assassinate the targets and the most vexing part is that I’d have beaten it several times if the fucking game mechanics worked.

So for instance if I put two enemies to sleep but they’re too close to each other I cannot assassinate either of them. And if for instance one enemy is asleep and another is standing over the prone body I just need Eivor to target the one who’s not unconscious but this is asking too much and twice I attacked only for the alert enemy to move and for Eivor to launch herself at the sleeping enemy, blowing my cover.

Which is how I came to be quietly hissing at my TV at 10pm saying “Eivor you absolute doorknob,” trying to get her to target the right fucking man.

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

I rlly hope you saw that lil doodle i made of my oc in that mud au you did…sighs..wait that sounds self-centered its not oh dear GOD

ANYWAYS- i was wondering..abt mud in ur au, does he like a resting post/nest (yes im getting this from tf2…shush) or is he usually by diligences side most of the time? Also does mud know abt mel in this au or does ken just never let him see her…💔

I did see your little doodle!! Your OC is SO cute, I lover her sm with her fancy uniform and cool mask, love that you played around with her design for this AU :) Everyone else should also totally go check your OC out! She’s very cool!!!

To answer your question, Mud technically does actually have a nest on top of the gate that he regularly has to climb up to to do perimeter checks / lookouts from above, but the rest of the time he's mostly stuck next to Diligence at the gate :)

Since he's almost always busy and on the job, he doesn't usually get the time to sleep so he’s rarely at his nest for long enough to rest. He's learned to sneak in a few naps throughout the day whenever he gets the chance. He's gotten scarily good at sleeping upright without anyone noticing! Although he did get caught. Once.

He didn’t realise even when he woke up and no one told him so he doesn’t even know about it 😭

Mud does know about Mel! In fact, she’s the first Smiling Dead he meets when they break into Heaven. It was while they were running away and everything was in chaos, so you could say that their meeting went… a little violently.

[doekimakura]

They are DONE!!! LOOK AT THEM AAA

They will now be there under my monitor (totally dont mind the shamos chilling behind them...)

[zukosbangtan]

girl zuko as the blue spirit was seriously such a FORCE man...like no bending no honor just a mask his two swords and a dream like i don't think some of yall get just how crazy he was omggg.. like while he has always been a good firebender i feel like if he would've tried to capture the avatar as the blue spirit right from the beginning the series would've ended after like 3 episodes already with them on their way back to the fire nation together omg thank God he wasn't really thinking things through yet back then 💔💔

[greencarnation]

eleven is fascinating to me because he came right off the back of tens horrible traumatic breakdown after he lost everything and he immediately tried to establish himself as the opposite of that. he is funny and goofy and almost childlike, and he bulldozes on in his adventures with amy like nothing happened at all. but then something happens and his masks slips and it's like oh! the core of this man is still anger. he is so so angry all of the time and this façade is the only thing stopping him from being consumed by it. he isn't over any of it and he hasn't moved on. he is wearing a fez and laughing but under that all that exists is age old anger and grief and it is going to consume him