#(and misanthropic!)

[capricornlevi]

nsfw, mdni!!!!

your neighbour nanami, who's grown awfully tired of seeing you bring stranger after stranger into your apartment, the smug looks on their ungrateful faces as you tug them by the sleeve down your shared hallway. he shuts his own door behind him with a frown etched on his face and a familiar ache wracking through his body.

neighbour nanami, who is sick of seeing these strangers leave the following morning when he goes out to collect his coffee and the morning paper, shit-eating grins on their faces despite not earning any degree of self-satisfaction. your shared walls are thin, painfully so, and so nanami has first-hand evidence of their mediocrity.

neighbour nanami who has started to notice the way you brush up against him whenever you rush for the elevator at the same time; with him holding open the door, your lower back grazing against him slowly, deliberately as you duck under his arm. it could have been an accident at first, maybe clumsiness the second time, but he has since figured you out.

the way you fold your clothes in the laundry room when you know he's there: tiny dresses, lacy nightgowns that must cling to every curve, every piece of lingerie that he makes no effort to avoid staring at and you make no attempt to hide.

the way you've started to meet his eye when he sees you in the hallway bringing other people home. how you know he watches, daring him to make his move at last. letting him know his attempts to hide his jealousy have failed pathetically.

so when he shows up at your door late one night, his usually-tidy hair unkempt and tie undone around his neck, desperation emanating from him like a fever, you know you've won.

neighbour nanami who has no qualms in showing you how he can fuck better than any of the pathetic lowlives that never knew how good they had it. nanami who smiles as he puts his mouth everywhere that will elicit one of those pretty noises from your lips, who takes you against the shared wall between your apartment and his, just as he imagined all those nights with his cock in his own miserable hand.

this was a battle of wills he had no shame in losing.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

My rendition of @tempo-takoyaki's DTIYS!

Congrats on the milestones! And to everyone else, please go check out their 'Drawing TGCF (except I haven't read the books)' series!

[here-there-were-dragons]

there’s something deeply wrong with the fact that if i just simply decided to walk around everywhere on all fours all day, and did absolutely nothing else differently, i would be guaranteed to have the cops called on me and be put back in a psych ward with at least 5 new diagnosis by the end of the day.

walking around on all fours isn’t even something i do or would want to do. it would destroy my arthritic-ass spine. but there’s something deeply, rage-inducingly fucked up about the fact that even something that small is enough for this society to deem it morally acceptable and necessary to dissapear you into fucking conversion therapy torture jail indefinitely and saddle you with life-ruining legal tags forever “for your and everyone’s safety”!

just commenting on this as being fucked up could very easily be enough to get me the same treatment if someone decided they wanted to! it’s not like anyone’s going to stop some psych person from deciding that this is totally real undeniable freudian slip 100% true we promise you guys evidence that i’m some kind of feral mentally degenerate personimal mindlessly beholden to some illogical instinct to crawl around and bite good normal god-fearing real people because CLEARLY you’d have to be crazy yourself and/or want to DO the thing yourself to defend this UNCOMFORTABLE THING, right? nobody could just think it’s fucked up how we treat doing (abnormal thing) without being a Secret Monster themselves, REAL people obviously know unquestioningly why it’s bad, you just want to be allowed to give in to your corrupted malformed wrong EVIL base instincts that you definitely have (INSTEAD of a conscious mind with any valid logical thoughts or worthwhile human experiences in it) because i said so and i’m The Expert so everything i say is true and right!

i can’t even figure out where to fit in the bit about how fucked it is that if you did anything “abnormal” like that literally everyone automatically assumes you’re going to be dangerous and violent about it. that if someone decides to go around on all fours then CLEARLY they’re going to randomly bite GOOD HEALTHY NORMAL REAL people for no reason. it’s like people can’t comprehend the idea of any even slightly deviant behavior that isn’t violence and just assume if anything even slightly weird’s going on it’s moving in the direction of mindless bloodshed-of good normal people’s blood, especially, personally, obviously. human-shaped things come in “actual person” and “mindless rabid horrordemon that desires only real human’s blood and pain” and as far as they’re concerned everything that even slightly inhabits, leans towards, or vaguely reminds them of the second category is functionally identical and will inevitably attack real humans the same way-for literally no reason beyond a cosmic ontological sort of Wrongness and Emptiness Of Real Thought And Soul-if allowed to exist in their field of view longer than thirty seconds.

[ciderbird]

[thermodynamic-comedian]

imagine if the way augustus shows up isn't by reading a casement or anything, but instead one day colin just sees the computer is on and it's reading out text and the text is just

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION-

[comradekatara]

“katara is uptight and gets offended when anyone swears in her vicinity” has gotta be one of the lamest fandom jokes. for what it’s worth, i don’t think any of the atla kids wouldn’t swear out of some naive sense of propriety (with perhaps the exception of azula, because she’s an obedient goody two shoes who thinks coarse speech is for the lower classes), but katara would be one to swear a lot. she definitely swears more than sokka, although she’d also regulate her speech better so as not to offend those around her (especially if she is in the process of sucking up to an adult). sokka would swear just because he’s a grumpy, easily frustrated person whose choice of words reflects his frustration, but katara would swear out of her fundamental sense of rebellion. a deep thrill runs through her every time she says fuck or shit, because she is fourteen and away from the admonishing tongue of gran gran for the first time in her life. katara, toph, and aang are still young enough that saying “bad words” fills them with a sense of excitement over “breaking the rules,” whereas for sokka, zuko, and suki, that novelty wore off a while ago and it’s simply a part of their everyday speech. but while sokka is a teacher’s pet at heart who presents as a misanthropic asshole, katara is a mischievous ne’er-do-well at heart who presents as a beacon of polite decorum whenever she wants to get her way (typical elder vs younger sibling distinction). but you know that when katara is yelling at sokka, pakku, toph, zuko, and every other unfortunate soul who may find themselves on the receiving end of her wrath, she’s cramming in as many “what the fuck is your problem?!”s and “get your shit together!!”s as she possibly can. then again, katara would definitely respond with righteous indignation if toph cursed in front of her, but that’s hardly because katara is offended at toph for saying bad words. rather, it’s simply because she also happens to be. a massive hypocrite.

[sukimas]

nobody ever remembers that yukari's actual job that she cares about is being an extraordinarily smug author. that's what she does on the day-to-day instead of managing gensoukyou.

exceptionally words woman. probably why she took such an interest in kosuzu, too.

[oatmealcrisp-freak]

Rei knows how to talk in a way a kid will understand without patronizing Miri but doesn't know what a mcfkn teeter totter is. People will look at him and expect a bad boy but in reality he's sincere and earnest and maybe a bit dumb.

Meanwhile Kazuki is an acts of service bitch who will manipulate people and lie to their faces with a smile. He's petrified of moving forward but at the same time if he and his aren't taking first place in whatever imaginary competition he just thought up like 'best dressed at daycare' he'll die.

Rei looks up to Kazuki and thinks he's the 'brains of the operation' but questions him constantly. Kazuki is in a perpetual state of conflict with Rei's desire to give the lost a home in a home he homemakers for.

looking at them... I'm a fan.

[batsplat]

hello i saw in your tags that you don't think people on here get casey stoner and as someone relatively new into the sport i would love to hear your thoughts <3

(context here) okay first of all, this post will be framed as ‘things I wish people talked about more with regards to casey stoner’, rather than arguing against what I think people think

I've tried to come up with a concise response to this ask but kept heading into thesis-length territory. so I decided to write a bullet point list and it’s still… yeah… but well it could be worse. if you, dear anon, wish to read thousands of words of casey stoner lore then please let me know. otherwise, here are just a few things I find interesting about this bloke:

casey has a very complex relationship with the concept of confidence, both in other riders and himself, in the sense that he KNOWS how important it is but also believes/wishes that he specifically is kinda above all that

this feeds into how he wishes that racing were Just Racing and not all this other stuff… not his brain not his body not other racers being assholes on/off track not talking to journalists or doing photoshoots not having to deal with politics etc etc - central underlying tension of his career

he has openly spoken about not ever really enjoying race day, saying the only thing he's missed after retiring is qualifying. very perfectionist, the anxiety, the over-thinking, craving control… all key casey traits

(which also ties in with the valentino rivalry, because valentino obviously adores racing (in particular wheel-to-wheel battle) but he’s also great at all that other off-track stuff)

some very rigid ideas of How The Sport Should Look, which you can see in everything from how he talks about racing standards to the introduction of CRT riders (he had it OUT for them, head hot every time aleix espargaro shows up in parc fermé) to valentino’s influence on ducati and the importance of the colour red

let him have his mean streak! the grim satisfaction in discussing jorge’s 2008 injuries after his early-season arrogance towards casey, the dismissiveness towards dani, some of the wilder valentino remarks (this isn’t a criticism to be clear, alien-on-alien violence is part of the natural order of things)

casey is a classic case of ‘just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they aren’t after you’. definitely a suspicious guy and perpetual underdog 'me against the world' mindset. not to get too psychoanalytic-y, but I reckon this was partly born out of how he had to leave australia as a teenager (with his family completely dependent on him succeeding) because of how the racing establishment down under fucked him over

they definitely were out to get him a lot of the time, cf yamaha and then ducati drama plus the slander from some of the greats of the sport, fellow riders, the media etc etc (particularly egregious in 2009 when he was dealing with his mystery illness and a lot of people said some pretty unpleasant stuff in his absence - here is just one example)

his struggles were constantly downplayed. the chronic fatigue misdiagnosed as lactose intolerance led to people calling him weak-minded, broken, running away from the sport (part of why he was so allergic to the idea his results might in any way be connected to what was going on in his head). add in the undiagnosed anxiety and you have all this invisible strife people wouldn't even take seriously

that being said, he definitely did have a propensity for jumping to the worst possible conclusions

two specific examples: firstly from his autobiography, where he makes the claim that valentino may have been sabotaged in the 2006 title decider and was deliberately given a rubbish tyre to make him lose the championship - to which casey’s response was: “welcome to my world, mate”. he does have a tendency to believe he’s being sabotaged, and is constantly on the look out for conspiracies even when they are… unlikely

the other example is mat oxley talking about his issues with casey in his stint working for ducati, partly based on a misunderstanding:

something allegedly written about him in 2001!

let’s just say he can definitely hold a grudge

the moaner stoner stuff was definitely nasty, calling him mopey and whiny and all of that, but he also has never shied away from some good old-fashioned complaining (some of this was a bit of a spiral - complaining for good reason worsening public perception of him leading to more reasons to complain)

see also the lingering marc grudge, who probably did play a significant part in getting casey kicked out of honda (as casey has accused him of). whether marquez prevented stoner from racing in 2015 is more of an open question. casey still speaks about how honda made a mistake by only listening to marc (which, again, does have some truth to it)

casey was always very quick to shut down the idea that momentum, motivation, confidence etc could affect his results (unlike that of his competitors) because he argues he was always very rational & clear-sighted about when things were his fault & when things could be blamed on the bike + extraneous factors. he really goes into detail about this when discussing 2008 laguna seca in his autobiography, which he argues had no effect on him psychologically (but was followed by him crashing out of the lead of the next two races)

has definitely spoken more about his rivalry with valentino than valentino has, which probably has also helped shape perception of it over time

on ‘ambition outweighed talent’ - I feel like people almost understate just what a (hilariously) out of pocket remark it was in context. it was rossi’s second ever race at ducati (and the start of his season was impacted by his shoulder issues) - and the rain meant he had a ~win it or bin it~ approach because he knew it was as good a chance as he might get for some time (despite starting from 12th). the move on stoner for second place was at best optimistic, most definitely impatient and at worst foolish - but sort of understandable in that situation, rossi was definitely rapid, and this stuff can happen in the wet. in that sense, it was obviously more a reaction to the manner of the apology (and his frustration with the stewards) than to what casey himself described as a racing incident

stoner made a remark in his autobiography about how rossi had stolen 25 points in a title battle he was never going to be a part of (oof). whether you're obligated to race title contenders differently is already a bit sketch but certainly should not be a consideration for anybody in round TWO

he was forced to publicly retract the remarks, though he doubled down on them to a deeply funny extent in his autobiography by suggesting they were true of valentino’s entire career and that he’d just benefited from a weak era. rossi mostly took it on the chin especially when interviewed about it for documentaries, probably because with something like that you do just need to take the L

it's understandable how it’s become such a defining image of their rivalry (along with laguna seca), not least because of how evocative the whole thing is - rossi showing up still wearing his helmet, trying to make a PR apology stick while he’s been eating nauseating amounts of humble pie at ducati; stoner casual as you like, pissed off about the points loss while still indulging in schadenfreude about how the Great Big Ducati Adventure is working out for rossi

but again, I think it’s funnier because of just HOW over the top an insult it was in that situation (and more broadly how it does have a different vibe to their interactions when they were meaningfully competing, aka 2007-2008)

in conclusion: casey has his doubts and his insecurities and his obsessions and his foibles… a complicated guy in his own right

and a big thing I’d like to stress here is that the rivalry with valentino does benefit from treating them both as somewhat unreliable narrators

I just think he's neat

[inchidentally]

I love that of the typical posh public schoolboy physical qualities, Oscar has rugby legs/ass, that flop of hair and skin pale as moonlight while Lando has the permanently golden skin of a boy who somehow always finds sunshine on his family's country estate and a Peter Pan body right down to the little bow legs

to me Oscar is a Dead Poets-Brideshead Boy and Lando is William Golding-Brideshead Boy

[gh0stward]

my favorite ship dynamic: a mad creation of science x mad scientist

[natalieironside]

I know misanthropy has fallen out of vogue these days but I wanna remind everybody that "Thoughts don't matter, only actions" also applies to those days when it seems like 99% of the people you talk to are mean, ignorant, short-sighted, nasty little barbarians.

Letting things pass without comment is a vital skill when your brain is broken and it's put you at war with humanity. If you don't want to be an asshole, religiously practice the following mantra: "That's just his way, and if it don't bust my balls or pick my pocket then it ain't my problem."

[narsh-poptarts]

Finished these character turnarounds for class :D

Just about the only thing I finished for class

I've had these guys in my head for about 4 years now but I'm only just now getting around to actually drawing them

Barnes (he/him) gets subjected to the horrors for the first time and Andromedus (genderfluid she/he/they) is... well I'm sure they care

[lizardstho]

no actually laios is exactly like me you don't get it. the resentment building up over an entire lifetime. the inherent knowledge that he wasn't like anyone else he knew, so he latched onto something distinctly other than human. the desire to become a monster, to become powerful enough to take revenge and transcend the envy of being born lesser. you dont get it hes JUST. like me

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[theinfantboiler]

I want to make friends

-Ten minutes of socialization later-

I want to kill my friends