#94:start

[runcwcyz]

starter aberto. @1994starters

“você por acaso conhece um restaurante bom aqui perto?” perguntou para muse, fazendo uma careta em seguida. apesar de não receber uma quantia ruim por mês, shawn tinha a mania de guardar dinheiro mais do que gastá-lo. claro, isso poderia parecer responsável aos olhos dos outros, mas seus motivos não eram tão nobres quanto investir em algo para o futuro, e sim o constante medo de que algo desse errado. mas, naquele dia, decidiu que precisava de algo diferente além dos (nem tão variados) pratos feitos em casa e comidas de restaurantes próximos que nem sempre eram da melhor qualidade. “tipo, um bom mesmo. bem gostoso.”

[damnitkiara]

starter aberto ! @1994starters​

encarou as duas únicas caixas restantes para subir até ao segundo andar. não eram muitos lances de escada, mas ambas eram bem grandes e pesadas. após tomar conhecimento da falta de água de prédio, havia ficado um tanto receosa de por acaso a energia do prédio cair também; não seria algo incomum. a ultima coisa que precisava nessa manhã era ficar presa em um elevador depois de tanto cansar, morrendo de calor. "ei, licença. você sabe se por acaso o elevador tá em manutenção também ou algo assim?" mencionou um tanto envergonhada assim que viu uma pessoa passar pela porta de entrada ao seu lado. " 'tô com coisa pesada pra subir, mas sei lá, você acha que é melhor esperar?" perguntou desviando um pouco o olhar se sentindo boba. afinal não tinha certeza se a pessoa sequer era moradora e saberia lhe aconselhar na questão em mãos.

[mabcllns]

" — merda!" exclamou para o comunicado na parede, a toalha ameaçando cair de seus cabelos úmidos e escorregadios pelo condicionador. maldito o dia em que resolveu dormir mais um pouco - se tivesse acordado em seu horário habitual, a água não teria acabado bem no meio do seu banho. " — opa, oi! você, por algum acaso divino, encheu um balde antes da água acabar?" perguntou assim que notou que não estava mais sozinha no corredor.

@1994starters

[crowkip]

slides u some timkon wip scribbs

[hikarry]

Stopped my walk while scrolling just to show yall the most 'upset wife' pose I have ever seen in my life

If this is not the picture perfect of 'I don't believe I am married to this dumbass', I don't know what is

[coranfucker94]

coranfucker94 fic recs 4/14 - 4/21

hey, mom, i met a boy by mothpoem

klance, rated T, 30k words, open ended in an optimistic way! keith has visions of a possible future with lance in the quantum abyss. REALLY REALLY good quantum abyss fic. i’m pretty sure i’ve seen this recommended on tumblr before? it’s fantastic. i’m absolutely obsessed with it.

you came back like a wave by wheo

klance, rated T, 15k words, canon universe with slight alterations. this is an au where keith and lance (and hunk and pidge) were friends at the garrison pre-kerberos mission! i really really like how it deals with keith leaving and the emotional weight of it because they WERE friends before. i loved it a lot!!!

walk with me by @bluemantics

klance, rated T, currently at 15k words, post canon!! keith and lance clean out keith's shack. the YEARNING oh my god. this is probably going to end up being one of my favorite post canon fics of all time. tumblr user bluemantics you are KILLING me.

the wheel of heaven by @honeyspeeches

klance, rated T, currently at 26k words, canon divergence! deals with keith and lance crash landing on earth after the season 1 finale. it's a really interesting exploration into their characters, and i'm extremely excited to see where it goes!!!

get some by wonderboy

klance, rated E, 38k words, fwb college au! it’s silly and heartfelt and sweet. the interactions between keith & lance & hunk & pidge are SOOO good. it made me laugh so much and i definitely got a little emotional about the friendships. i feel like a lot of klance fics don’t place enough value in their friendships with hunk and pidge and shiro and this one… this one was REALLY good about that. ough. 

electric touch by somethingmorecreative / @somethingmorecreative1

klance, rated E, 41k words, post canon, slowburn. it’s a little open ended but i genuinely think the way it ended is a thousand times more satisfying than a more definite ending would be. i cannot recommend this fic enough and i don’t think i can describe it in any way that does it justice. it’s about the long, slow path to recovery. it’s about intimacy. it’s about long distance relationships. this fic is what made me start writing this rec list– commenting was not enough, i need to shout from the rooftops how good this fic is!!!

[dizzybizz]

mostly jrwi riptide but also @bardace's oc forts is here

[viceandmature]

Vice and Mature's first cameo appearance in King of Fighters 94 and 95 / Vice and Mature's upcoming King of Fighters XV DLC appearance

[theflopwonder]

The very interesting way that sb94 writers are well aware that Kon is a child and still immature as he (as to be expected from people who are 16 but also 1 year old) is trying to make sense of the world around him but also like …. Puts him in these immensely fucked up and traumatizing positions with none of the concern that would normally follow such heavy storylines is what makes it an equally frustrating and compelling read. It hits like a gut punch every time you analyze its themes past surface level cape shit. It goes from “oh he’s so wacky” to “oh….they’re def exploiting him rn” within one page. It’s actually kinda horrifying.

It’s like when you’re watching home alone and Kevin’s mom is calling the police to go do a home check on her 8 year old son that she accidentally left in the house by himself and they’re like …. Lady. This is nothing to get hysterical over. You’re wasting our time. There’s no reason for us to do that shit lol he’ll be fine. And you’re just sitting there like oh wow, that’s… that’s not?????? And then that terrifying reality sets in that’s like oh yeah … not leaving young kids alone at home only stopped being socially acceptable VERY recently. And then you have to spend the movie watching this little boy be endearing and charming cuz he’s smart and capable enough to get himself out of these sticky situations but he literally should not have to be. He should not be in this situation at all, actually.

That’s how it feels reading Superboy 94 sometimes. What do you mean you don’t have a birth certificate?????????? WHAT DO YOU MEAN “CUTE IN A JAILBAIT KIND OF WAY”????

[cacw]

it sucks to be me

[pocketdogs]

there are games that i have been known for taking too seriously but ffxiv is absolutely not one of them. my preferred style of play is to just go in blind and hope for the best. if you die because of me, unlucky. it will happen again.

[chiisana-lion]

god i really love the ongoing pattern of hana coincidentally saving shuumei and shuumei in turn just coincidentally helping out yuuma as well. what with shuumeis absolute mess of a (´･ω･`) dog behavior in front of her as hana compared to his begrudging attitude when it comes to yuuma and yet for some reason he just cant leave her alone either. also this panel is still everything to me

[swamplevel]

as someone who came from gacha games where the 'main character' is kind of Fine at best, it is really crazy to me how strong they let M4A1 be

[syoemei]

some of my favorite wolverine panels so far

[pinnedangel]

yes closer by nine inch nails is a really hot song for regular reasons but to fully understand its effect you need to consider its place in the larger narrative of the downward spiral. your narrator is a man who, throughout the first third of the album, has just been through all of the events that kick off his spiral of complete and utter self destruction. the painful betrayal of someone he used to trust, which he cannot even admit to himself hurt him in any way. the utter loss of faith in a religion he was clinging onto, because he cannot conceptualize of a loving god in the face of the suffering christianity has brought upon him and the world in general. and lastly the violent subjugation that authority and society at large has used to pick him apart no matter how much he tries to please them. all of that leading into a song that on contextless listen mostly sounds like it's about desperate animalistic sex. which it is. but once you take those events into consideration, it becomes so much more clear that there is also the gorgeously erotic desperation of a man who is beginning to lose touch with humanity because of the violence wrought upon him, seeking to redirect that violence through sex in order to feel any sort of power. it's in how much the narrator emphasizes that the subject is "letting him" violate/desecrate/penetrate. it's in how much baggage saying that the subject brings him closer to god has when two songs ago he was screaming about god being dead because of the manipulative nature of his experience with religion, being brought closer to god now taking on the meaning of being able to desecrate her entirely. it's in the focus on the primal senses he's feeling, the desire to get away from himself and his sense of reasoning, when in the broader narrative this is the last point before the narrator actively starts to distance himself from humanity and become more machine than man. it's in the fact that when he says "you make me perfect," that is essentially the only positive thing he says about himself or anyone else throughout the entire album, and it is directly followed up with "help me become somebody else."

essentially, it's about using sex as a method of feeling anything pleasurable at all when you feel like you're at your lowest (and then getting even lower afterwards). it's about feeling like you are stuck in an absolutely horrific life where you hate every fiber of your being and are utterly powerless against any of the forces keeping you there, but the one thing that is holding you together and convincing you that you are worth anything as a person is the animalistic sense of power you have over someone else by means of subjugating them sexually. which. once you have context for them, all of those things make the song even hotter.

and all of that of course feeds into the reasons why, while closer is undeniably an incredibly hot song, the hottest song on the downward spiral is reptile. where the narrator, now having lost all humanity, returns to this same person because of what we now learn is (at least to him in his machine-state) her sexual manipulation towards him. faded behind the last chorus, you can hear him begging her to let him go, screaming no, even begging her not to hurt him in some live performances of the song. (i recommend listening to the woodstock 94' performance in particular to hear the begging and screaming better, but that's also because i'm normal about trent reznor covered in mud.) i could go on about this but i will save us all time and conclude with if you, like me, enjoy emotionally damaging freak sex as well as industrial music, you can and should be beating your meat to all of the downward spiral and not just closer, not because closer is not worth jacking it to, but because it is even more worth jerking that thing to closer when you know just how fucked up the sex they're having is. thank you and goodnight.

[unopenablebox]

my COMMITTEE MEETING is tomorrow and i fly out to my grandfather's funeral LITERALLY IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARD and my girlfriend is in GERMANY right now so i have to make sure the whole apartment is fully cleaned & ready to potentially have all the power shut off during a heatwave for a couple of days just in case that happens & also make sure my work samples don't die and all the antibodies i ordered still get in the freezer etc while i'm gone

and because i only learned i was dealing with this yesterday morning when he, you know, died, i absolutely did not budget time for both meeting prep and other work tasks and life stuff AND a deep clean of the fridge & kitchen or whatever it is i should do, and of course i also guessed completely wrong about what my PI would want me to be doing for this talk so i still have a bunch of stupid fiddly little figure adjustments to make each of which takes me an hour due to my like, bad intrinsic nature, and also i am having trouble focusing because my GRANDFATHER IS DEAD, AGAIN, FOR THE SECOND TIME THIS YEAR, so i am going to be working on slides for like 28 cumulative hours and yet will have practiced this presentation zero times before giving it. so i hope they don't, you know, form any opinions about me based on it or anything