#How are y'all doing

[nep8ta]

guys what. what if I said

[worrywart-ish]

"Look. If this was... If this was all just some kind of ruse... on my part, I mean, how.. base... Why would I lead you all this way? I'll level with you, yes, I, would, like, it... back. I'd very much, if you must know, but... You know what? At this point I would settle for not being wiped out of existence. I would happily settle for that."

(...)

"We're in a good spot here. A good spot. I kill you, I get my town, get the Transistor... Not bad... not bad. Or you kill me, and well, I've often wondered what it's like in there, so... in a way, no matter what... I win."

(...)

"Poor Asher. For the end, he just... He went and told you our whole plan, did he. Expecting what? Your sympathy? Your mercy?"

me, every single time:

[waitineedaname]

dungeon meshi went so hard this week

[rainy-circle]

stranger things 1-3: hey, look at all these romantic dynamics you could fall for! The High School Friends Who Have Grown Up and Are Single Parents Now and Have Gone Through a Lot of Love and Loss! This Whole Polycule of Teenage Monster Hunter/Detectives! All These Different Varieties of Cute Puppy Love!

me: no, yeah, they’re great and I love them all! I could definitely write something for at least one of them one day-

stranger things 4: Hey, here’s Two Characters Who Have Two Scenes Together and at the End of Scene 2 One of them Dies

me:

[drawnecromancy]

Sometimes you borrow a book from your dad and you find old cards full of notes and you're like woah. My dad was a student once. It was 1995 and he was revising for university.

[byakuyas]

hi

[weuschoiceheart]

...hi?

[goblincaptain-a]

i went to the dentist, and now i'm here. good morning <3

[confusions-shed-of-ideas]

Have some Octopath art because I haven't drawn in a while!

Here's a sketchlike-esque drawing thing I did of Yusufa from the game! She's wearing a flower crown because I think she deserves better so she gets it

I had a lot of fun with the watercolour brushes from ibisPaint X, I don't usually use those brushes unless I'm drawing clouds n stuff but I really like the shadows and highlights in this style

Yusufa's story was so sad so here's a drawing of her looking happy to make up for it and also because she deserved a better ending :')

[nickpeppermint]

They didn't waste a second...

[unforth]

Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.

[fearandhatred]

the genocide is fucking crazy bc at the end of the day it's so extremely xenophobic. like it is genuinely unthinkable for this to happen to a western or white-passing country. it would be shut down so quick

[thecruel]

ANATOMIE D'UNE CHUTE 2023 — dir. Justine Triet

[male-thirst]

Andrew Miller | Next Door's Fuck Around and Find Out

[haywirecompass]

whoever the fuck i saw saying "i can't stand english bitching because they're so complacent" and whoever else thinks we're not doing enough i'd like to invite you to DO SOME FUCKING RESEARCH.

a law was recently passed that deemed any kind of protesting as disruptive and able to be punished by the police, alongside giving the police more power.

we all watched the police storm the PEACEFUL VIGIL for sarah everard - a woman raped and murdered by a police officer.

PEOPLE ARE CURRENTLY BEING ARRESTED FOR OUTWARDLY EXPRESSING ANY SORT OF DISPLEASURE WITH THE MONARCHY.

A WOMAN WAS ARRESTED FOR HOLDING UP A SIGN. JUST HOLDING IT.

PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED FOR BOOING.

everything in britain has been put to a standstill. hospital appointments have been cancelled. funerals have been cancelled. we can't do anything about it.

many of us will be unable to pay our energy bills this winter. we will freeze. we will starve.

it has been demonstrated to us time and time and time again that protests simply make people talk about how we were protesting and never why. and now the police has increased power to punish us for any public opinion that they don't like.

we have been under tory rule for 12 years. 12 years of the same people - hey americans, can you imagine that?

we are tired, no, we are exhausted. we are struggling. we are scared. and it has been made clear to us that our government does not care.

so fucking forgive us if we're putting our own survival over the opinions of americans (and other non-brits but americans are the worst) online who expect us to learn everything about their politics and their country and don't put in an ounce of effort to learn about ours.

[zillychu]

Consider for a moment: A slow-burn identity reveal “no one knows” AU with an emphasis on ghosts being taken seriously as an actual, world-changing threat.

Ghosts are treated as an exceedingly dangerous, but unavoidable force of nature. They can come and go without warning, through naturally occurring spontaneous portals. They're territorial, driven only by obsession and hunger for the living. Particularly powerful ghosts are on par with natural disasters.

Life goes on because there's simply no other option. All major buildings have varying levels of ghost shields, some stronger than others. Just about everyone has some form of personal shield, weapon, or general deterrent. For the most part, humanity takes this apocalypse in stride, barely keeping it all together because there's just enough safety to keep them all sane.

Which is why the rumors of Phantom being able to fully mimic a human body incites panic in Amity.

Phantom was already a nightmare as it was–one of the most powerful and intelligent ghosts on record. His territorial fights with other ghosts for haunting (hunting) grounds in Amity have made global news several times already. Powerful ghosts could appear more human–but to think he was transforming down to a cellular level? Hiding among them? Bypassing ghost shields and alarms? Picking them off one by one?

The focus is mostly with Lancer's class, and how the school deals with this new threat on top of everything else. Everyone is a suspect, no one is safe, and Danny Fenton in particular gets slowly more and more exhausted, apathetic, and… unnerving.

The stress, the lack of sleep, the fighting, no one to turn to, not even his best friends or family–it takes a toll on him. Starving himself doesn't help, but he refuses to do more than take small bites from the ambient life energy and emotion of the living around him. Nothing that won't actually do lasting harm. He begins to slip up more and more, which Sam and Tucker begin to notice but haven't quite connected the dots yet.

But, well. What else can Danny do when Pariah Dark comes knocking on Amity’s doorstep, and his whole class is in the line of fire?