#I'm glad they're ok YIKES

[royalarchivist]

Tubbo: IT'S OK!!!

Coypiso: Is this a bad time to say I don't believe in vaccines?

[The toaster lights on fire and everyone starts screaming as the fire alarm goes off]

[pudding-parade]

OK, so this isn't Sims-related, but I thought I'd show some pics from Planet Zoo, which I'm really enjoying. I'm still learning the game and learning how to build nice habitats, but I'm enjoying the process. I'll put it behind a cut so as not to take up your dash space if you're uninterested. :)

These are pics from my first "real" zoo. (As opposed to ones I started just to figure things out that didn't turn out so well. LOL) It's a franchise-mode zoo. For those who don't play the game, franchise mode is where you start with a small amount of money to get your zoo started and you have to build it up and have it make money so you can expand it and buy the more popular animals that will bring in more guests, which earns you more money, etc. You also have to have your staff do research to unlock more building items as well as to learn things to improve your animals' habitats and all that. And, of course, you have to build all the habitats and guest and staff buildings. So, they are constant works-in-progress. This is opposed to sandbox mode where, depending on the settings you choose, you can build your zoo with unlimited cash to buy whatever animals you want and with no research required so you can build your buildings and habitats with anything from the start and spend as much money as you want, etc.

Anyway, for my first franchise zoo, I chose to make a small, all-reptile zoo (plus some amphibians and arthropod exhibit animals) in a tropical biome. Why? Because I like reptiles, and it's hella easier to keep them outdoors in tropical environments. LOL

So here's its "entry gate" and a food-and-drink stall, the latter of which partly extends into one of the habitats:

Here's my little Galapagos Tortoise family, parents and their three babies:

(The babies are so cute, and the adult female is gravid again! *squeal*) This is the exhibit that's on the other side of the food and drinks. These were the second animal I added to this zoo.

Here are (some of) the Nile Monitors and a wider view of their habitat:

The Nile monitors were the first animals I had in the zoo because they're cheap to buy and cheap to feed. LOL I started with a male and two females. (The male is in the middle of the first pic.) The game says they're difficult to breed, but both my females ended up gravid pretty much right away, and they had a total of 16 babies! Yikes! So now their habitat is slightly overcrowded. LOL But, I can trade away or release to the wild most of the babies once they're old enough.

And then there are my gharials, which are my favorite crocodilians, so I'm glad they're included in the game. :) Lookit this big boy:

OK, so maybe he doesn't look so big in the pic, but here he is in comparison with a female:

The female isn't that small herself. I think she's 7ft/2m long while the male is, obviously twice that. That's how it is with gharials.

And here's big boy checking out the guests:

Not to worry, though. Though they are very large, gharials are exclusively fish-and-amphibian eaters, not large-mammal-eaters. That's what their long, skinny, and rather weak (as crocodilians go) jaws are adapted for. They're also the only crocodilians that are social, in the sense that a male will have a harem of females, and he will defend them and the babies from threats.

ANYWAY! I started with a male and two females, and I made a very large (and mostly water, since they are primarily aquatic, not land, animals) habitat so they could go wild with the babies. And they have. Both females had a clutch, so now I have nine babies, too. So CUUUUUUUTE! <3 Apparently, I haven't taken any baby pics, though. Need to fix that... But here's a bird's-eye view (including the game UI, oops!) of the gharial habitat as it stands now:

It's still not done, but it's getting there. I'm having fun doing underwater decorating. :)

I also recently added Komodo dragons to this zoo, but I'm still working on building a basic habitat for them, so I haven't moved them into it yet. I tend to build a basic habitat, then let money accumulate a bit, then work on more fully "dressing up" each habitat. After the dragons, I think I will add American alligators. Hopefully I'll have the credits to get an albino one (since people are usually selling those for conservation credits rather than money on the market) because that will be cool to see/watch. I also need to do some more general decoration of the non-habitat parts of the zoo, because it's pretty plain. LOL I have the money banked up. I just need playing time to do it. And a plan. A plan would be good. LOL

Of course, I also recently started a sandbox zoo so that I could build freely and not have to worry about things like research or power and water filtration and other things, sooooooo.... LOL

Anyway yeah, really like this game. I like the management aspects, I like just sitting and watching the animals in their habitats, and I especially like the building in it, both of animal habitats as well as other things. I've been watching some YouTube videos made by far more experienced players than me, so I'm itching to try out some Techniques(TM). LOL

[sapphic-sir]

Ok so heyy I dmed you about this beforehand so yk what I'm doing. I just need to ramble and I think it would be neat to have a lil audience cause I'm silly like that :)

So I'm in a bit of an interesting situation, I have this close friend of mine. Well call them cherry for the sake of anonymity. I've been talking to cherry for a lil while now and we're moots on here (Which is why I'm in your ask box cause I cannot publicly say anything without this lil shit knowing 💀) we've also been flirting heavily, it's gone from casual flirty remarks to phone sex a lot quicker than I had expected, and while I'm not complaining, I'm just getting worried my polyamorus ass is gonna fall for them.

Its reasonable, however there's like a handful of complications that would come along with me actually falling for them. The biggest one being it's very long distance... As in two different countries long distance. Also idk how cherry would react to this shit considering we've only really been talking for like four, maybe five weeks. Which I know, someone's gonna laugh, but like in all fairness in my current relationship (almost 3 years now) we got together within two weeks of knowing eachother. I fall fast and hard, this is so painful guys-

However cherry's so wonderful, they're such a sweetheart, so fucking kind to me and they're already friends with my lover/they're also kinda flirty with my lover. It's cute imo. So in reality, theres no problem with me being into them and being a lil romantic, I'm just worried I'm gonna fall in love.

Anyway, questions? Comments? Concerns?

- 💫

hiii !! heehee drama. ok let me liveblog as I read through this :3

we love an ask box confession!! cherry is immediately interesting to me, I'm intrigued. (go on /silly). I LOVE a good flirty phone sex type relationship. falling for someone.... the real struggle

you can NOT come into MY ask box complaining about "oh we're in two different countries" I've fallen for people who live on a different continent in a different timezone whose first language isn't english. at least twice. maybe three times. but anyway, falling hard and fast is the wooooorst. if u knew all the details about my situation w/ the girl I'm in love with... yeah, yikes

I'm glad cherry is wonderful and amazing to you and your partner alike. I feel like falling in love isn't as big of a deal as you're making it out to be despite the distance; if you want it to work, and they want it to work, it'll work. that's my stance on it

best of luck my good friend, keep me posted cause I'm nosy :3

[birgittesilverbae]

omfg ur killing me (softly) with the dads AU. Thanks for filling my prompt the other day, it was beautiful!! And the new one where Libby calls Ava mom for the first time aaaaahhhhhh. Im thankful to the powers that be ok that u ship ava/lilith/beatrice so that u could bring to life the masterpiece that this AU is.

thanks I'm so glad you're enjoying it (and thank you for the prompt!). they're too messy not to want to keep poking at like a cocaine-addicted lab rat; Ava being the most well-adjusted of the three in dads au? big yikes

[whoa-its-dani]

Some quick life-updates from yours truly:

Realized I was, in fact, nonbinary. Being honest with myself and being away from the internet really helped me figure that one out. I'm still largely in the closet, but I'm planning on where I go from here. I know I'm going to get top surgery or at least a reduction eventually, but that's a Future Leigh thing.

I developed a shellfish allergy which is a thing that can happen. Your body can just... decide it's allergic to shit. I know it's an immune system overreaction but wtf wtf wtf we've eaten shrimp and clams and crab our whole life wtf wtf wtf There's the slight possibility it was a spice or the ramen I was eating them with but like. It's more than likely the fucking shellfish.

I'm currently outside of the US right now and FAR away from home. I'm not immigrating, I'm just helping a friend with some housework and also getting my first vacay in like a decade. Also I dealt with quite a bit of ableism and assumed misogyny (bc still in closet) with immigration to the point they had to bring two different women officers to deal with my sitch. Like I don't wanna spread the stereotype of men being insensitive and women being "more compassionate" or w/e but yikes. I'm struggling so hard right now not to let that asshole taint all men. I'm beating that sexism back with a fucking bat.

My cynophobia is in severe decline, at least with smaller and some medium sized dogs! Anything bigger than like a corgi still triggers me (shaking, crying, panicking, etc.) but smaller dogs are so fucking cute and fun and snuggly!!! I love when they curl up in your lap and when they roll over for tummy rubs!!! I really miss my mom's dogs right now 😭 but I have a cat here so it's kind of ok

Had some True Crime shit happen to my family. My aunt (who's always been in poor health) passed away in her sleep. Her husband had her cremated asap, threw out all of her stuff, repainted the room she slept in, and then waited a week to tell the rest of the family... by text. Originally it looked like she had died in her sleep while he was at work, but then he admitted to his daughter (who then told the fam) that he had been home all day, that he lied to police about being at work, and that he was glad she was dead. So it's looking more and more like he killed her, or at least let her die. Like... he's always been an asshole. It's totally believable he killed her, but I hope (for everyone's sake) that he didn't and he's just being a selfish jackass who doesn't understand how sus he sounds.

My mental health has been the best it's been in years. I still have bad days (esp right now bc of the shit that happened with the border officer) but I'm kind of in awe that I'm like. Alive? Like I'm entering my late twenties. My first suicide attempt was when I was 11. I never imagined I would make it past 21. Bitch I'm still here!!! Life is not my problem, I am LIFE'S problem!

I learned how to make stroganoff and became mildly addicted to it for like a month.

Lived to see cicadas in the summer! Saw SO many!!! I think about them when winter makes me sad. They're my light at the end of the tunnel.

I ALSO SAW A BABY (ok more like a young) POSSUM!!! My dad discovered him in a box of apples we had outside. He was havin a FEAST lemme tell you. Boy went through like four apples that were about half his body size. Hell yeah.

I've currently been trying to exercise and strength train because I tried to climb a tree to get a cicada shell and yeah. I didn't even make it off the ground. Spaghetti ass arms. Right now I'm too sore from the travel (& stress & panic attack due to border issue) to see if my strength has improved, but I can definitely tell there are muscles in my arms and not just mush. Human bodies are so fucking weird and cool and shit.

I still remain uneducated and unemployed, but I actually checked out the GED study guide from the library earlier last year. I had a panic attack and ended up returning it, but... it's progress! A few years ago, I would've just passed it by. I actually opened it and looked in it and shit! Give me some more time and I'll actually be able to USE it and then get my GED and then bitche!!!! :D I've also decided I'm going to try to become a mortician. I doubt I have the patience to become a medical examiner, but I'd still like to work with the dead (not in a creepy way, I'm just better with dead folks) AND I got some family in the business back home (here's hoping I can use nepotism to my advantage teehee) so it's a good idea. I'm not saying it'll work out, but it's a plan.

I beat Pokemon Diamond again, and Skyrim. I made like four new characters but only ended up completing one (and they became a sneak archer because of course.)

I've done a little more sewing! I'm still kinda sucky at it and my brain can not figure out how the hell a back stitch works but I'm having a lot of fun!

Ok that's all I can think of right now but yeah. I'm surprised I haven't completely lost my mind yet but hey. There's still time 😌

I'll hopefully be more active on here in the upcoming days (bc I've missed my sweet little garbage trash site and all my gay little mutuals), but right now I'm just trying to exist in as little pain as I can. Very fatigued but also incredibly sore (shoulders, back, and legs).

I'm so grateful to all the kind messages and asks you guys have sent me while I was gone, and I hope your lives have been going well. Things are tough right now for everyone, and I hope you find the strength and support you need to go on. Fucking love you guys.

[quietzap]

So I've always enjoyed your reblogs of 911, I never actually watched it until very recently. I rmr watching Ryan in the boy next door and thought he was a good actor! Now, I've been seeing here and there what's happening in his personal life right now..can u tell me why him and the wife were toxic together? I'm so fkn nosy! 🤣🤣🤣

Glad you enjoy the reblogs! Fun fact, Oliver who plays Buck also auditioned for The Boy Next Door! And yess Ryan's such a good actor! iirc the original 911 showrunner specifically wanted him to play Eddie! (And Maddie was supposed to become his love interest but thankfully JLH wanted Chimney instead aha)

And well it's just that they weren't compatible to being with 😅 thing is she got pregnant only a few months after they started dating and Ryan had talked about how much he wanted children so yeah they stayed together and then they were gonna break up but she got pregnant again during the pandemic and they tried to make it work again (and got married at home 😅). Anyway, she's very into social media and he isn't (he's into painting and photography etc), she's into restrictive diets and excessive workouts to look a certain way and he isn't (he said he doesn't want to spend time and energy on what it takes to look like when he was younger, and she acknowledged that it's not easy to deal with her when she preps for her bodybuilding competitions). She seems to have certain values that don't align with his (I mean she does seem to be open-minded but she also loves guns and stuff). He's also made comments that make it sound like she's quite jealous and has to approve his female love interests on the show. And I rmbr he posted about how she taught him to focus on what he needs instead of what he wants even if it's hard bc it's worth it 😐 Also he was always showing her support with her endeavours and more recently her singing meanwhile at first she posted about the show but the last couple years she only praised his looks, like nothing about his artworks. And like, throughout their relationship every couple of months she'd be passive aggressive on her instagram about their relationship so everyone would know things weren't ok lol and she'd post pics without her wedding ring on, and Ryan would be more lowkey and delete pics of them/her as some kind of retaliation I guess (it seems being with her made him a bit childish, or maybe he just wasn't happy that she was public like this). And then they'd be ok again and praise each other lol anyway. Since the beginning of the year it was clear things weren't ok like she made a passive aggressive post on V-Day about how challenging it is to watch your partner grow and all basically saying they're growing apart lol, and he commented basically agreeing things were nightmarish 😅 and recently he'd been deleting a few posts here and there and she posted about getting rid of "dead ends that no longer serve" her (yikes). Then they posted an old family pic on their stories (I guess to mean they're still a family through the kids) and now they've both unfollowed each other and deleted all pics of each other etc. So I guess they're officially divorced now 🤷 so yeah it seemed Ryan tried to be another person with her at first to make things work and then as time went on he cared more about what makes him truly happy and that wasn't compatible with what makes her happy 🤷 So yeah as you can see this wasn't very healthy! But kudos to them for divorcing now and not staying together for decades just for the kids, it'll be much better for them to see their parents separated but happy than together but miserable!

[princesshillaryellaworld25]

Sick Boyfriend gets Attacked Part 4

At the hospital...

BF(Vincent): Man I hope Sick Boyfriend is okay...

GF(Galina): Yeah, me too, I can't believe that girl would do something like this.

Sick Girlfriend and Penelope came.

Sick GF: We're here, we came as soon as possible.

Penelope: Where is he?! Where's my gaming buddy?!

GF(Galina): Whoa, Whoa calm down penny, Sick Boyfriend is being treated right now!

Penelope: *sigh* I'm sorry if i'm being too emotional,I'm just too upset!!!

GF(Galina): It's fine Penny, we're all upset about what happened.

Sick GF: Did the police find the attacker yet?

GF(Galina): No they're still searching for her.

Penelope: *eyes glowing red* Grrr when I find the person who did this to Sick Boyfriend, I'm gonna hurt them so badly!

Sick GF: Woah Penny calm down!

Penelope calmed down a bit.

Penelope: Sorry I lashed out a bit.

BF(Vincent): It's cool

Penelope: Is Drugfriend coming?

BF(Vincent): Yeah, Freund texted me saying that they're on their way right now.

Sick GF: Drugfriend didn't take the news well didn't he?

BF(Vincent): I heard him crying over the phone, he was devastated.

Sick GF: Oh god...

Penelope: Oh no, poor Drugfriend, He must have been so upset when you told him the news.

BF(Vincent): Yeah, let's hope Sick Boyfriend is okay.

2 minutes later, Drugfriend and freund showed up

Drugfriend: Sick Boyfriend! Sick Boyfriend!

Freund: Mr. Drugfriend, Slow down *pants*

BF(Vincent): Looks like they're here

Sick GF: Drugfriend, we're so glad you're here

Drugfriend: WHERE'S SICK BOYFRIEND?!

GF(Galina): He's being treated right now

Drugfriend: Oh god, Oh god!!!!

BF(Vincent): Drugfriend, We know you're upset please calm dow-

Drugfriend: HOW THE FUCK CAN I CALM DOWN WHEN I JUST FOUND OUT THAT MY HUSBAND JUST GOT ATTACKED AND IS BEING TREATED RIGHT NOW?!

BF(Vincent): Beep! *got startled*

Sick GF: Whoa!

Penelope: Please calm down!

Drugfriend: *sigh* I'm sorry i snapped, it's just that I'm just worried about Sick Boyfriend.

GF(Galina): It's fine Drugfriend, we're all worried about him.

Freund: Did the doctor tell you guys any news?

GF(Galina): Not yet, we're still waiting for them.

Drugfriend: Okay....*tears up*

Sick GF: Drugfriend, Are you about to cry?

Drugfriend: N-No i'm not!

BF(Vincent): We can see the tears dropping down on your face.

Drugfriend: Ok fine, I am crying, it's just that it's all my fault!

GF(Galina): Your fault? Why would be your fault?

Drugfriend: Because I should’ve went with him to the park, if I haven’t let him go by himself, none of this would’ve happened!

Freund: Mr. Drugfriend, It's not your fault-

Drugfriend: Yes it is, if I didn't let him go by himself not knowing someone was gonna attack him, he wouldn't be in the hospital fighting for his life right now!

Penelope: Drugfriend, Come on, it's not your fault-

*crying* YES IT IS! I LET HIM GO FOR A WALK BY HIMSELF WHILE I WAS AT WORK, AND NOW HE GOT ATTACKED BY SOMEONE BECAUSE OF ME!

BF(Vincent): Yikes!

GF(Galina): Drugfriend, Please stop crying! it's not your fault!

Freund: Yeah, it isn't your fault, in fact it's nobody's fault, it just bound to happen.

Drugfriend: *crying* B-But he got hurt and I couldn't protect him, I'M A TERRIBLE HUSBAND!!!!!

Sick Girlfriend couldn't hold her tears any longer and then snapped.

Sick GF: DRUGFRIEND STOP! DONT SAY THAT YOUR NOT A TERRIBLE HUSBAND, YOU A GREAT HUSBAND, ITS NOT YOUR FAULT!

Drugfriend: Huh?

Sick GF: It's not your fault and you're not a terrible husband to Sick Boyfriend, your the greatest and most person that anyone could ask for, me, I know I wasn't the best girlfriend to him because I cheated on him and left him to drown but at least I supported you guy's relationship. I would be crushed if my ex-boyfriend was hurt or killed and I don't want that to happen so I don't ever want you to say you're a bad husband!!!!

Everyone was shocked that Sick Girlfriend had said all of that. Penelope was touched that Sick Girlfriend had a soft spot after all.

GF(Galina): Sick Girlfriend....that was the most sweetest thing you said.

Freund: Yeah

Penelope: Sick Girlfriend's right Drugfriend, you shouldn't blame yourself for something you didn't know was gonna happen.

Drugfriend: *sniff* I know but I'm just worried about him, what if he’s badly injured, what if he goes into a coma or w-worse, what if he dies?!

All: DRUGFRIEND!

Penelope: Don't you ever say that!

Drugfriend: B-But what if...

Penelope: Daniel Handles! You listen to me right now! Don’t you dare say that again! He’s not gonna die! He’s gonna be alright, I know him, he gonna survive! So don’t you ever think that Ok?!

BF(Vincent): Yeah, He's gonna be fine

Drugfriend: *sniff* Your right, he's gonna be fine, I hope...

Penelope: *sigh* Look, I know my best friend, he survived once, I’m sure he’s gonna be okay.

Drugfriend: *sniff* y-you think so?

Penelope: *hugs Drugfriend* I know so, I’m sure he’s gonna be okay.

The rest of them hugged Drugfriend.

Then one of the nurse came, Nurse Daisy.

Nurse Daisy: Is anyone here for Sick Boyfriend Sickest?

Drugfriend: Yes that’s us!

Penelope: Yes, we’re here for our friend!

Nurse Daisy: Ok then

Drugfriend: So How is he?! Is he okay?!

Penelope: Please tell us he’s alright?

GF(Galina): We're worried about him!!!

Nurse Daisy: Ok Ok calm down you guys, I have some good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear?

Sick GF: Uhhh idk good news?

Freund: Tell us the good news first!

Nurse Daisy: Ok, Good news is that your friend is gonna be alright, the scars and lashes all over his body is gonna heal, you may have to use a cream to heal the marks and he’s gonna be okay.

BF(Vincent): Oh thank god

Sick GF: I knew he's gonna be okay

Penelope: Wait what about the bad news?

Drugfriend: Yeah what's the bad news?

Nurse Daisy:…

Penelope: N-Nurse Daisy?

Nurse Daisy: *sigh* The bad news is that the person who attacked him with a iron bull whip may have hit his spinal cord very hard which causes his veins go down slowly and his nervous system to shut down, he’s lucky the person who attacked him didn’t automatically kill him but it may cause his body to be in a coma and he won’t be able to stand or walk.

The others were in uttered shock with fear and sadness.

BF(Vincent): *crying*

GF(Galina): *hugs Boyfriend* There there Boyfriend

Sick GF: No....

Freund: Oh blyat!

Drugfriend: W-Wha....

Penelope: W-Wait, so you’re saying that Sick Boyfriend won’t be able to walk?

Nurse Daisy: Yes but it’s only for 3 weeks and he has to be in a wheelchair and someone has to take care of him until his wounds go away

Penelope: Oh god….

Drugfriend:(mind) N-No….Sick Boyfriend….

GF(Galina): I knew this would happen

Sick GF: *mind* I'm going to find that bitch and kill her!!!

Penelope: Ummm May we see him?

Nurse Daisy: Yes you may see him but he is resting right now so you have to quiet

Drugfriend: Ok….

The others went inside the room, they saw Sick Boyfriend laying down resting, There were bandages all over his body underneath his hospital gown.

BF(Vincent): Poor Sick Boyfriend....

GF(Galina): Yeah, I can't believe somebody would do this to him

Penelope: Oh Sick Boyfriend, Please be okay!

Sick GF: *couldn't say anything and feels guilty*

Freund: Mr. Drugfriend, Are you okay?

Drugfriend: *tears up again* N-No, I'm not....

Freund:....Guys, I think we should leave these two alone.

GF(Galina): Yeah, I think we should, Come on guys....

All: Ok...

The others left the room. It would just Drugfriend and Sick Boyfriend now.

Drugfriend sat down on the chair and hold Sick Boyfriend's hand.

Drugfriend: Sick Boyfriend, I know you're unconscious right now, But I just want to tell that I'll stay by your side and make stay here until you wake up. So please be okay....I....miss..you.

Meanwhile with Sick Sky:

Sick Sky: Ugh! What is taking Sick Daila so long? I hope she did what I asked.

Sick Sky heard the door open and turned around to see Sick Daila.

Sick Daila: *pants*

Sick Sky: There you are. What took you so long?!

Sick Daila: Sorry, I had to run to make sure I wasn't being followed.

Sick Sky: Nevermind that, Where's Sick Boyfriend, Did you bring him here?

Sick Daila: uhhhh

Sick Sky: Sick Daila?

Sick Daila: No I didn't bring him with me....

Sick Sky: WHAT?! WHY?!

Sick Daila: Somebody spot me and I had to leave Sick Boyfriend and flee the scene

Sick Sky: I told you not to get caught!!!!

Sick Daila: i know it wasn't my fault, Sick Boyfriend ran to the park and I had to follow him there!!!!

Sick Sky: So you were spotted?!

Sick Daila: Yes and now the police are searching for me!!!!

Sick Sky: Great. just GREAT!!!!

Sick Daila: Sick Sky, Look I'm sorr-

Sick Sky: I need to be alone right now!

Sick Sky left the room to cool herself down.

Sick Daila: *mind* God damn it, I messed up, But I'll try to get him next time I see him.

The end!

[mejomonster]

So I started Tomb of the Sea again:

Ok so. I went in fresh instead of "craving" more of a specific dmbj thing and I think it made me much more open to it

I actually love how it opens a ton. Li Cu's life is given to us and it's a hot fucking mess. He and one of his only friends are 2/3 who failed the college entrance exam. His dad is so nightmarish he's got claustrophobia (and learned how to Pick Locks which I'm sure will be useful later). He skips class and is glad his mom ran and I wish he could too ;-;

His "best" friend Su Wan stalks girls with cameras so lmao he Ain't A Good kid, but he is a Rich Kid and puts up with Li Cu since they got a special "wtf are we doing" energy so at least Li Cu's got A friend. Questionable friend. But Su Wan seems open to helping friends and warm despite some Yikes immaturity levels and Yikes choices so li cu can you just run away to live with him?

The girl friend Shen Qiong? I forgot her name sorry you know who I mean. Now with fresh eyes, I really like the 2 bogs "liking her' and the little rivalry about it. That Li Cu seems to like her in the sense of Sincerely caring maybe deeper than Su Wan. But on the other hand Su Wan definitely wants to kiss her more lmao. The 3 of them scream friends since childhood and I picture them as sora riku Kairi now (but who is who I'm not sure). The Little friends with a crush inside the friendgroup plot feels so NICELY like a different genre - like Go Ahead or something that's realism slice of life so parents are potentially abusive or life's fucking Heavy sometimes, but they're still TEENS who care most about avoiding punishment and talking to crushes and being silly alone with friends. It's a taste of what "genre' I guess Li Cu's life would've been if he never intersected the tomb raiders. A dark heavy realism piece like The Bond (starring Bai Yu). But with that human simple joy of friends/found family in the bright spots.

On that note: they paint a picture of how grungy and miserable Li Cu's negative aspects of life are and that works SO WELL. Wu Xies life before tomb raiding? We get the sense Maybe his parents were sometimes absent, and definitely coddled him and picked a life path NOT like the Wu family's and tried to push him. And the whole San Shu abandonment/codependency thing wu xie developed ToT. But overall wu xies family had good money, sent him to a good college, he was perfectly smart, could get his own business, he had friends (although his penchant for tombs means he transitioned to more killer/criminal types over time lol). He had a very nice easygoing civilian life before things went to shit when San shu left him. He craved Excitement, knowledge, danger, curiosity. But he wasn't running from anything and his life would not have been "worse" had he never went into tomb raiding (he'd lack his loved ones who are tomb raiders of course but u know what I mean - he wouldn't know he was missing those friendships). His biggest pain if he'd kept to civilian life (and enjoyed it - but he didnt) would've been his fucking uncle San abandoning him and his pain at not going to look for him. That'd be mostly it though. But LI CU? Even a person kidnapping him is preferable to the 24 hours he goes through in the first ep.

Li Cus apartment window faces a fucking wall, he's got claustrophobia and his dad locks him in, his college prospects are dead in the water, his best friend/crush is going off to college (more on her later), his friends still around keep getting into fights so he's beat up at like 12 midnight with them, his teacher keeps calling his dad increasing the abuse from that, he's broke, his moms gone and he clearly loves her so he's missing her. He IS the kind of protagonist who'd want to leave for any New Life. He loves his friends but if they're taken he'd have NO reason to remain, even with his friends he'd likely leave his dad if given Any decent opportunity like a job with money. Unlike Wu Xie, Li Cu doesn't leave for adventure or trying to find a loved one (San shu), Li Cu is instead trapped and it TAKES absolutely batshit events to "free" him which just put him in a new trap of kidnapping. It's just Very Cool to me to see the contrast.

And to END the ep with Wu Xie saying his name, revealing he's the kidnapper and the spies are his. The stabber who harmed Li Cu was HIS guy. I love the flip from wu xie usually being painted as the shiny kindhearted (somewhere in there) adventurous young man, to this shady cruel (in Li Cu's opinion the source of EVEN WORSE than his ordinary life) man who echoes San shu. It must've been fun to set that up.

The girl. Sheng Qiong?? OK I'm just curious if in another Novel it mentions she ALEEADY went tomb raiding. Or something. It seems Iike she went with wu xie (or other tomb raiders) people while on "vacation travelling" then maybe stole their magic tentacle monster box and. Who the Fuck knows why she gave it to Li Cu... either she hoped to hide it with him, or she intentionally wanted to hurt him (I assume she just wanted to hide it). But yeah she seems to know WAY more about the tomb side of shit. I'm curious if we'll find out more.

TENTACLE MONSTERS WHAT DID I SAY. I still LOVE this shows opening. I love the body horror of the mini version jumping into li cu. I love how genuinely SCARY tomb of the sea is compared to some other dmbj seasons. It looks good, the action looks good, the horror looks good and LANDS <3

The pacing is good so far thank fuck (I'll drift away if pacing tanks tbh)

Ep 1 is Li Cu's no good very bad day THEN when you thought it couldn't get worse it turns out it's just a Normal day for him, and then spies come in so it's Action Adventure now instead of teen slice of life realism, THEN a tentacle monster shows up jumps into him and its HORROR then the guy fucking STABS HIM AND THEN WANG MENG KIDNAPS HIM (go you wang meng you were very intimidating and <3 love u I hope u get paid more. Love the show implying wang meng is so hot he makes doctors forget their oaths). Like... it sure does ESCALATE into a terrifying nightmare esque situation and I love thattttt

[nobodysdaydreams]

Mysterious Benedict Society Liveblog Season 2 Episode 7 "A Joyful Lens"

Well you all know the drill. I wanted SQ, Garrison, and Martina, but the boy hasn't shown up and the others were short-lived. Nevertheless, I am still hopeful. At least we might get to see Curtain interact with his brainwashed family (brother and niece). Oh and we have that episode description about someone escaping with the team. I hope it's SQ but I wouldn't mind kidnapped Curtain for reasons of comedy.

1:16- Curtain knows about the tea. He has to know. Oh no Auguste. What did you do to that boy Curtain? "I enjoyed our tea consumed or not" oh he knows. Also "Big day today". Nothing good comes after he says that.

2:40- oh no Nicholas looked scared for a second when number 2 changed. You can tell a part of him is able to fight it. I wonder if Nathaniel would be able to fight the happiness if he was under it (since they are twins).

3:44- Yeah Reynie did you believe Kate was staying put? It's Kate.

4:21- OH MY GOSH JEFFERS THE STRAIGHT JACKETS. This man has had his moment and he's not letting them go. Constance looks so calm in hers, which is hilarious because Sticky must be absolutely terrified. "Take them off now". Does Curtain know Constance is happy? He has to, she's smiling like a psychopath. Oh my gosh, Jeffers having trouble taking them off, the poor man. "Barbaric treatment" you put Sticky in the waiting room Curtain, don't act so high and mighty! YES, STICKY GO OFF. Come on Curtain, you took away his anxiety once, is he really gonna fall for it again?

7:00- Oh dear we got number 2 and Benedict acting crazy now. Oh good Nicholas has been fighting it. Oh dear number 2 is actually making his doubts disappear now, she REALLY got into the happiness thing. IS SHE SINGING? Nicholas' "oh" when she started... oh now he's into it. NOT MILLIGAN AND RHONDA FINDING THEM LIKE THAT. This is funnier than I could have predicted.

9:00- Awe number 2 still likes yellow even brainwashed. Oh yikes there's Auguste again that creepy boy. He acts like a robot. This is so weird.

10:00- Awe Reynie. Oh no. Constance smiling. Ha, Reynie grabbing the spyglass to verify. Ok, Sticky is aware. I'm glad he's faking it. I was gonna say, no way he's being taken in twice. Kate: "I'm not putting those clothes on" *Cut to her with the clothes on*

13:00- Curtain: "To release inner joy takes skill" Yeah, the skill you don't have you, invention-stealing buffoon.

13:30- "they're ready" READY FOR WHAT? Oh, they can spread it now without Curtain being there. How does that even work? I guess Constance is a liability now. Sticky you poor hopeful boy. "Yeah... they're just good at faking it" Poor Kate.

15:00- YES NICHOLAS FIGURE IT OUT. FOLLOW THEM. He can see his brother's distress. He knows something is wrong.

16:00- "Not now Nicky" - HE CALLS HIM NICKY WHEN HE'S STRESSED AND NOT THINKING HE STILL DEFAULTS TO THAT. I hate Curtain but that's still kind of sweet in a twisted sort of way. I hope Nicholas calls him out. YES FOLLOW HIM.

16:45- Oh no they got Ms. P. Oh dear "it's understandable" "conflicts are unnecessary" oh my gosh they really got Milligan. What did they do to Rhonda and Number 2's outfits this is awful.

19:00- Oh no Constance. Wait she's spilling the tea on Garrison. I hope Garrison comes back. Yes, Kate got the notebook! And yes Garrison and Curtain can't be trusted, that's been clear from day 1.

20:00- Nicholas, you gotta snap out of it and save these people. You know what the right thing to do is. "SO FIX IT" Yikes Curtain, that's your job, you made this mess. Poor Jillson and Jackson look horrified. See Nicholas, this is what your brother really is. A terrible boss and a deadbeat dad who has no idea where his son is.

20:40- ARE THEY TRYING TO GET THE PROMOTION NOW? Honestly, they deserve it. Go off Jackson and Jillson. I love these two. "unlike previous owners of the position" *cuts to Marlon* OH MY GOSH IT ACTUALLY CUT TO MARLON, I love this so much. I hope Marlon can hear them.

21:15- "Correlation. Which is not the same as causation." Okay Curtain, trying to be a high school psychology teacher. He's not promoting them? "Don't bring me problems", Curtain you suck at leadership. Jackson and Jillson need to get out of there.

22:00- The way Nicholas perked up when he heard Constance! <3. He sounds genuinely happy! I hope they can somehow un-brainwash each other.

23:00- Yes! We're going on a mission! But how are these household gadgets gonna work against Garrison's inventions? Love the montage regardless. It'd be funny if it didn't work and they just ended up blinding Curtain with flashing lights instead and he has to use a seeing-eye alpaca for the rest of the series.

25:00- What. What is this. What is this Hippie dance party. Curtain would absolutely hate this. I'm sure he views this party style as the price he pays for control. Or maybe he would like it since he clearly enjoyed creepily dancing in his room. Wow, Ms. P is really feeling it. And yeah, the fact that Mr. Benedict knew he should be worried but couldn't feel anything is extremely concerning.

26:30- Contemporary Jazz and Folk Style? Kate has a very specific taste. Oh, THAT's the worldview wash. IS IT WORKING? YES, IT WORKED. NOW FIND CONSTANCE. Rhonda looks disgusted with herself, I can't. This is hilarious. NUMBER 2 IS GONNA BE SO UPSET. "I'm Vibing"- please.

29:00- Jillson and Jackson do not tattle. Curtain is clearly evil and you deserve better. Oh dear. Now we're getting our drama! OH NO. NO. THEY DIDN'T GET CONSTANCE YET. PFFFT- WAIT THAT WAS THEIR WHOLE PLAN? JUST TO RUN AT HIM AND TACKLE HIM TO THE GROUND? AND IT SORT OF WORKED? Except for Jillson's shoulder. Love the team rocket energy. YES KIDNAP CURTAIN PLAN IS BACK!

31:00- I love how Nicholas is totally willing to kidnap Curtain if they can stay together. He just really wants to be with his family.

32:00- Not the creepy mirror talk again Curtain. If you keep doing that you might accidentally hypnotize yourself. Actually, you know what, keep it up. Maybe once you are frozen, SQ can finally leave you. Oh, Curtain's not feeling it anymore, he's actually worried. I like that they are showing this. He's questioning himself even for a brief moment. Is he worried about Nicholas or SQ? They said he was on a walk so it's implied that SQ took the "happiness" too. FLOWER DELIVERY? "Oh I see". I can't with this. It's like the "Acid?" from season 1, just way too perfect. Wait a minute, DUSKWORTH? Ooooo.... I vaguely remember that from the book. So it will probably be important.

33:00-34:00- NICHOLAS LOVINGLY PATTING HIS BROTHER IN THE BAG I CAN'T- AND THEY JUST CRASH THROUGH THE GATES HAHA. No, Jackson and Jillson, my people, don't say anything. Just announce that Dr. Curtain's final wishes were to put you in charge. Don't fumble the bag.

34:25- They are sleeping on top of Curtain? Like he's a mattress? This is hilarious. NICHOLAS NO. NOT THE NECK. WHAT ABOUT CONSTANCE? Oh, dear. Nathaniel better have some remorse and concern about his son. Wait, that's it?

Well, I guess they really, REALLY couldn't get SQ's actor back. That is the most disappointing thing. But I love where this is going. Seeing the adults in brainwash mode was hilarious. Curtain's "oh, I see" after the flower delivery was amazing. Also, the fact that he didn't recognize Kate's voice. I wonder if Curtain will actually feel bad about his brother and niece being frozen. I wonder if he actually cares about where his off-screen son is right now. I suppose we will find out. Also excited to meet number 2's family and get her name reveal. Hopefully, we will also see Martina and Garrison again.

[marierosejosephtascher]

The Empress Ep.2 and 3

I...don't feel bad for Sophie, LOL

Why are the side characters dressed so well while the main one is in clothes that worsen her look? Like, I get she's supposed to be rebellious but she can be rebellious and look good in the process!!

Aww, a monkey!

OK, i'm liking this dress better.

His smile...

Helene went full Karen, it seems.

Oooh, Sophie saw someone in Sissi.

Max is still an ass. I'm glad she's calling him out. And for the record, he's not more handsome than Franz.

Yikes, what is with Strauss' hair? Does he not own a brush???

Sneaking away to makeout? I love to see it.

Wow, they don't wear underwear? The snail trail tho.

That medical exam thing was so uncomfortable. I'm glad she kicked him. Poor girl. :(

And she's back to the ugly costumes...

Wow, Sissi's mom is outright unhinged. Pushing the waiter like that and she achieved nothing.

Sissi is totally right about those two men looking under her dress.

Ugh, are they actually doing this? Franz is this Prince of Vasa's son and therefore illegitimate? 🙄🙄🙄

Oh, so now Sophie is the woman in love? I kind of like it.

Aww, Sissi and Helene are friends again? Love to see it.

The ending of ep 2 was underwhelming do I'm combining the two.

I'm not...a fan of the wedding dress. It's not ugly by any means, but I wish they'd at least tried to make it more historically accurate.

Franz is serving tho.

Wow, they're really giving us 'The Crown' realness.

Is the court dancing to Beyonce? I'm pretty sure that's not what waltz looks like.

Ooh, the mistress is here to stir shit up.

I'm with you Franz, Max is a little bitch.

OH MY GOD, Sophie is getting it on at her son's wedding!! Get it girl!!!

...is she going to blow him??? For a moment there I thought they'd start role-playing LOL.

Her dad is such a degenerate. She's right. He acts like an asshole and calls it freedom.

OK, I the wedding really the place and the time for diplomatic conversations? I swear, he held like 3 important state talks instead of being with his bride and enjoying himself.

I'm getting lesbian vibes from Sophie's bestie.

Max looked like a lunatic and a little boy while he was sitting on the throne.

God, Sissi's family is awful. They all want something from her and when they don't get it, they're shit talking her. Shame on you, bastards!!!

The sex scene was hot.

[gaykey]

I'm glad someone is finally talking about age differences between bl characters/actors... I feel like if it was het pairings people would protest. idk who the people you mentioned are but I'm watching kp and the kimchay parts make me v uncomfortable! I was hoping they would fix the original plot, say by making Kim wait until Porschay is older. It'd still be grooming-adjacent but in their case it was the younger person pursuing the older one so it's not as gross, even tho Kim is a manipulative creep ("detective").

It feels unnecessary, especially since it's so unrealistic. While Chay's crush on his idol is 1000% plausible, Kim's feelings are not. I'm the age that Kim is supposed to be and while I can imagine thinking Chay is adorable, it is only in the way that a puppy can be adorable. He's a child, there's nothing in him that someone my age would want in a partner. He's popular, he could have anyone, so why would he choose a highschooler? I think this is made even worse by the fact that the actor's age gap is even bigger while the younger one is still underage 😐

(Sorry for such a long ranty ask 😅 i hope you have a good day today!!)

i'd say it's something that actually gets brought up quite a lot? i mean, not enough but still

yes, i see people shipping actors that have way too big of an age gap for it to be appropriate but, there are definitely people that aren't ok with it

i wouldn't say it happens too much? most companies have their actors in age appropriate couples, from what i've seen. but zeenunew, maxnat...........yikes.

yeah, about kimchay...iiiiii ah, i'm not a fan. they're cute i guess, but i watched their little part in last ep through my hands because i was so worried they were gonna have them kiss.

but, they have kept it pretty pg thankfully, and i think they'll continue to keep it that way.

also, originally the part of porchay was meant to be played by gameplay, who's worked with jeff and is the same age as him (well a year younger but).

but, after all the production company drama, he couldn't be on the show anymore, so they recast the role, and barcode got it.

the entire crew & cast are so good with making him comfortable, and safe, and everything age appropriate for him though. they really do well by him, which should be the standard, but unfortunately isn't always.

in terms if the actual story though yeeeeeah it's? i too don't get what kim could see in chay beyond being a sweet younger friend.

but?????

that's just the plot - and kimchay is a loved couple from the novel so it's not like they coukd just get rid of it.

[runawayrobby]

So I just watched the season 5 trailer (I know pretty late) and it looks like Johnny takes Robby to Mexico but without telling him they're going to find Miguel, at least at first. Like???

So Robby agreed thinking ok a father son trip, still a lot of issues between them but still agreed to the trip only to find out it's about Miguel, again. Yikes, that's gotta hurt a little bit.

I love Miguel too so I'm glad Johnny is going to get him back but... where was this energy when Robby ran away 🤨 Johnny? You literally gave up mid search but for Miguel you're gonna cross the border and fight the people of Mexico? I hope they beat you up Johnny.

[gothamcityneedsme]

I just went through your time displacement fic, (very very good, my strider obsessed brain is loving the juice, may or may not have read a few spoilers on your blog) and let me just say, I've only had this Dirk for 3 days, but that if anything happended to him, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself. Good thing that will never happen riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight? :,)

In all seriousness, I LOOOOOVE the way you write him and Hal! Like they are both very clearly struggling with their own problems, (Hal my man especially) but still love Dave very much and are trying their best. And I love the way you adress Daves trauma too, and how he wasn't just scarred by his Bro, but by events of the game as well! (Like everyone was scarred!! Those kids need therapy!!! No Rose, you as a fellow victim are NOT fit to play therapist here!!!!!)

I could probably write something more coherent of an analysis, but as is I just wanted to come to the source to show my appreciation and to wish you a nice day.

@tflora04 Oh!!! Thank you so much!!!! This made my day, I appreciate it a lot!!!

and yes it will never happen everything will be fine forever ssshh. If Dirk was more genre savvy he would notice is own death flags, smh. (ok i do promise an overall happy ending though I really do I promise this isn't a tragedy just things get hard and then they'll get better, shh)

I'm so glad you like Dirk and Hal! They're a shining part of the fic for me, if it weren't for them I don't think the story would've ever gotten so long. I had the initial premise in my head for awhile, but as soon as I really started to settle in to think about it, Hal especially started to interest me more, since an adult Dirk and Hal in a different world just changes SO much about how they work together. Things start really bad then they HAVE to get better because they have so many YEARS. They're still so alike to each other, but they're also so different. They're both guardians to Dave, but they approach it differently which is really interesting to work with. As the story moves on, we should get more with Hal--I think there's probably still a lot about him here that hasn't gotten a chance to shine as much.

And that's a good point about the Sburb trauma! The game really fucks with everyone, both before during and after. It's fun to think of what the Game has done (and will do) to everyone, because absolutely. Dave gets a whole special category of his own, being a Time player, who really in a lot of ways get the short end of the stick when it comes to trauma. Timeline upon timeline, and in canon-verse, the whole need to continue to maintain the Alpha Timeline, and the knowledge that you will die if you don't--yikes.

;akldfjsl I'm rambling, I love talking about TD. Thank you so much for reaching out to me, I appreciate it so so much! :)

[vvatchword]

Failure on Every Level: A Texas Story

Shouting Lady got on the bus today and we nearly had a full fucking fight. There was a security guard on the bus and idk what they taught this man but the very first thing he did was rare up and throw out a hand as the Shouter mounted the bus stairs. Guys that is called escalation. I know he meant well but I was like yikes is this your job? You suck.

Shouter was perhaps late fifties, big sunglasses, clearly homeless because she had a rolling suitcase and all her bags balanced on top of it. The homeless often have reusable bags donated by or acquired from a big local grocery store. I'm guessing that the local aid groups use them to donate supplies. You can pick them out of crowds.

What is with mental illness and the n-word? What the fuck is it? The world is full of slurs and all they have is that one. Okay, and fatass. They've got that one down. I never say or do anything to these folks but they tend to pick me out. They ain't wrong, this ass is fat. Again, doesn't bother me. It's the truth and they're stuck living one of the most miserable lives I can imagine. They can call me whatever they want. Won't change the fact I'm on top of the world, comparatively speaking, and if they can get an ounce of pleasure out of it, I'm actually glad to provide the service.

But again. The n-word. My friends. Why. I think because it's the most vile taboo word outside of, perhaps, "cunt." It always makes you cringe and sucks all the comfort out of the room. And there are always, always black folks on the bus when they employ it. Sometimes the slur-user is spitting full racist screeds and you turn to look at them and they are black themselves. And you're like wait. Wait what is going on. This is cursed

My supposition is that it's a way to stop being invisible. It's so awful that everyone becomes aware of it and the speaker becomes the most visible person on the bus. The other riders can't ignore it. It may also be a way of blowing off steam or attempting to wrest some kind of power back--claiming you're better than so-and-so because you're white and that's all you have left. Maybe several elements at once. I mean nobody gets on the bus screaming poetry, you know.

I take that back. There's one homeless guy who freestyle raps every time he gets on the bus. Annoying as fuck but preferable. Once I complimented him on his skills, but he flinched and stared at me like I was going to smack him. Poor guy, seriously. I haven't seen him since the winter. I hope he's okay.

anyway today's shouter was very white. She was screaming furiously into a phone. I'm not sure she was even talking to anyone. She was screaming about dying in the heat, and the implication was that someone had kicked her out. I vaguely remembered her from somewhere, which is a bad sign.

"MA'AM DON'T GET ON THIS BUS ANGRY PLEASE," shouted security guard. This always works, as does "calm down" and "have you tried yoga?"

"HAWRAnGANGaA" or something from the Shouting Lady. She was always talking, always in a stream of consciousness sort of way, with every word shouted and the same non-stop rhythm and volume and mood, like an unstoppable river current, so it was kinda hard to tell what she was saying. She never shut her mouth unless someone was talking to her, and the only reason other people talked to her was because they were telling her to shut up. At one point six unrelated people were yelling at once.

"Ah good," i thought. "Hell."

Security guard yelled about how he was a security guard and had been in the military. Big cringe moment friends. If you are, you are, you know? If you have to bring out your credentials your insecurity is showing. Also he's already twice her size and ten years younger, if she's not respectful now she's not going to start, ok

"I don't care if you were in the military!" Shouting Lady shouts.

for the record, he was trying to win by cowing this lady and this lady thrived on anxiety. Here's how you deescalate, for the record:

You smile. You speak softly. You hold eye contact. You ask their name. You use their name often while speaking to them. What has their day been like? What's wrong? Oh that's too bad. What do you think the solution is? Oh, I agree. Lots of nodding, smiling, gentleness. You make the conversation all about them, all open-ended questions. Their voice may not go down, but it can refocus them, make their tones more pleasant, and they don't have the urge to attack strangers. Half of the problem is that they feel like nobody sees them and nobody cares.

You don't go all full Tough Guy and threaten to pile-drive them like Security Guard literally did.

Everyone settles down somewhat while Shouting Lady shouts her interpretation of what had just happened ("i was attacked by that guy for no reason! You are going to lose your job!!!"). Bus driver asks her to calm down. Shouting Lady shouts about her civil rights and how bus driver is just supposed to drive.

Without warning, Shouting Lady gets up and lifts her phone and marches up the aisle to take a picture of Security Guard. Security Guard launches off like a furious doberman screaming "GET THAT CAMERA OUT OF MY FACE I WILL RIP IT OUT OF YOUR HAND" and Shouting Lady staggers backwards, clearly terrified. Won't lie, it was kinda gratifying to watch her nearly piss herself. A wise motherfucker ain't fucking with Security Guard. He exuded Do Not Mess with Me or You Have the Right to Stay Silent FOREVER. The guy was short, but stacked, and you had the sensation that he could flip that old lady and smash her flat like a coke can. I noticed she didn't use the n-word on him. She had that much sense, i guess.

Security Guard and Shouting Lady go back and forth a bit. I'm sorry, who taught this man shit? Fire them. Then fire him. As far as I'm concerned he was just making things worse. Made me think about shitty police work. Fight everybody, threaten them, if they don't stop, make them stop by force. Diplomacy? Wtf is that lol. Imma big man grrrr big cock grrr strong grrrrrrr

It also bothered me--i was listening to other passengers--how people attributed her behavior not to mental illness, but to her specifically. Like they couldn't see the reason for why she was acting like that. Do you not see the way she's speaking, do you not hear the way she strings words together, do you not realize that this isn't normal? So why are you trying to use reason on what is clearly emotional? The computer is borked, do not appeal to the computer. Find the root and dig it out. It's emotional and social need. And medicine and therapy. That too.

And then one of the other passengers, an older man in a page-boy cap--might've been the same one from two days ago--rose up and shouted, "Lady if you don't stop I'm going to call down Jesus into this bus right now. I'm going to rebuke that spirit in you. There is something wicked in you"

Me: (thinking) it's called mental illness and a shitty social safety net but go off I guess

Page-Boy Cap starts loudly praying and suddenly Security Guard stalks down there and slaps a hand on his shoulder, then bends his head in prayer. For those of you who don't understand, there's a belief in evangelical churches in the power of healing with the laying on of hands and "where two of you are, there I shall be also". Implication is that you can have miraculous powers if there are two of you or more. Long story short, little public exorcism right there on the bus.

Texas, my friends. Texas

Shouting Lady looks concerned for the second time. I almost never see shouting people of her ilk look concerned. I guess being told you're demon possessed is kinda startling no matter who you are. Also, she probably considered herself Christian too, i realized after some thought. Not uncommon for religion to be the subject of some shouting people. Everyone is trying to impose order on an unreasonable world and that's the crux of faith in general.

Bus driver finally slowed down and she's like, does anyone want to get on the bus behind me

Everyone gets up at once. I think that's when Shouting Lady realized nobody was on her side. She got off the bus in a huff and marched off toward a store to make everybody there sad.

Security Guard got off at the capitol stop.

Oh my god. You know what this means? He's probably one of the guards at the capitol building. That building is absolutely covered with guards fully kitted out in bullet-proof armor and automatic combat rifles. It's actually terrifying to walk in there. There is no reason to have a full platoon stationed there unless you are the most insecure and/or hypermasculine piece of shit imaginable. And guess what Texas' political top dogs are? All peacocking and grandstanding. We neeeeeeed 300 guys in bullet-proof armor and combat rifles here in order to show how very in control we are. We need to protect ourselves from (checks back of hand) high-school trans athletes!!!!

We're in their hands my fellow Texans. We're in these giant children's hands and I hate them

[idleorbitals]

OF ep 2 watch through part 1

ok! ok. ok. goddamnit this show has me wrapped around it's pinky. this got long so I am cutting it in hopefully only two

come relive with me let's talk about this beast

#1 this scene does so much so fast to establish:

mew again as someone with his own agency...the way he talks about top is like surprisingly? healthy? idk I'm glad they're making these characters so smart and nuanced you know they're feeding us well

ray's feelings for mew as (again, surprising to me) relatively pure seeming. he's going to suffer but he's not going to take it out on mew he's probably going to take it out mostly on himself and secondarily on people he doesn't think matter to him (*cough* sa– *gunshot noises*) also ray starting this scene day drinking alone 💀

the power play is so loud in this laser tag arena. why do I feel like top is going to get hurt and they're going to make me care. I don't want to care

side note but very distracting to me personally isn't anyone going to fix mew's one squished up ear? bookie that's not uncomfy??

same ray. god they're both going to get hurt so bad

ok we're in the club now. can't believe the one frame of ray smiling at the dancer is the only moment he's acting to hide from sand and not trying to crawl out of the scene. they were really playing us with that trailer huh. also ray being so polite to everyone there even though they're all just in his way hashtag not as much of an asshole as he'd like to think

lots to say about bostonnick but more importantly about mark pakin eating this pose for breakfast

boston is a rich boy too? did we know this? he's definitely a terrible person playing with nick's insecurities "if you weren't cute I wouldn't sleep with you a second time" boston shut tf up. lmao I'm sorry but atp I love neo in this role so much I'm just enjoying it

not sand this invested in what ray thinks of his wine and ray this flattered by him calling him someone with good taste. now sand likes ray's music too, or at least his dead mom's music. "how and when did your mother die?" sand back off a little baby

okay the cut from the bottle and glass next to her body to him drinking? yikes. I bet we're going to learn more about this and I'm ready and already torn up about it. was it an accident? was it intentional? or mirror on the secret third thing where ray is self-sabotaging himself into oblivion because wealth and privelege don't make you happy but do give you the tools to feed your worst tendencies

not to detract but on the first watch I was so hyped up and fully did not get that was supposed to be baby ray and was like: murder suspect? no it was the maid???

sand noticing he introduced too many feelings and going to lighten the mood: cute. correct

sand starting his forecasted "sugar daddy" storyline by saying very loudly that he doesn't want to call ray sugar daddy but also, you know, he would, you know, if he had too, but only if he really /had to/, you know

this totally-uninvested-gaze lasts for so many frames my screencapping fingers got lazy

okay we're at the water now. some people are shirtless and some people look hotter than they should in rash guards (*cough* khaotung *cough* nonnie wtf)

this devastated me I had to pause and add precious seconds to my live watch to recover

ray is really one of those people crashing through life taking psychic damage at every turn huh. I'm sorry I am so weak for characters that think they are terrible people

april and namcheum interactions so cute. april unfortunately looks and is styled so much like my ex in these scenes that I'm having trouble seeing objectively

this is so intriguing god damnit. boston is playing aggressor but top is into it? a little? swear he's smiling in this scene. but also not engaging. does he want it a little but not as much as he wants to not wreck things with mew? did something else happen in that photo booth? how does he like it

...top secretly loves to bottom and boston's going to woo his seme-acting ass by seeing through to the real him

jk jk.

or? 👀

yeah same top honestly. I don't trust either of y'all

📣 multiple types of queer sex on screen 📣 p'jojo we love you!

oh god the friends with benefits vs fuck buddies talk. Nick's going to get so screwed. does he already know this? he sort of knows, right

the problem is that even though they are clearly winning the most-uneven-investment contest I am enjoying both these characters more than top and mew atp. maybe just because I enjoy a trajectory I can visualize a bit even if it's fucked up who knows

alright we're back at the bar and ray is trying to pick up a girl with his plant line. this is relatively wholesome but ray is not watching the show he's in. buddy you only get to sleep with people if at least one person is going to be fucked up about it

(part 2) (all ofts watch throughs)

[desperateground]

Tallie Playlist

I made an album playlist for the character of Tallie from Ascent From Perdition!

This was a pretty fun creative challenge because while Tallie is a fully developed character, he’s not a very likable one. he’s an antagonist, and we’re rooting against him, and although knowing his backstory makes him more interesting and perhaps even more relatable, he is fully not someone the reader is aligned with in any way.

But the thing about songs is that they are, almost by definition, supposed to be relatable. most songs are an attempt to communicate about some kind of shared human experience. even when a song’s narrator isn’t explicitly intended for listeners/singers to identify with, something about the song is. 

So this was me having to think about the character from a different angle and take a creative approach to intertextuality and interpretation and all that…ultimately, this is partly a sort of narrative following what we know of Tallie’s story, and partly a collection of songs that I think capture the character in some aesthetic way.

Also, I am very high and I already wrote this post once before tumblr ate it so if that makes no sense or sounds like it was written by a stoner trying to remember what they were trying to say, that’s because it was

ANYWAY here goes…i can’t figure out how to link my spotify without de-linking it from my facebook (yikes lol) so i’m gonna just post links to the songs on youtube i guess. uPDATE i just wanna post this, so here it is without links, and i'll update with links later when everything is less of a struggle!

Help I’m Alive - Metric

I tremble They're gonna eat me alive If I stumble They're gonna eat me alive Can you hear my heart beating like a hammer?

Lover I Don’t Have To Love - Bright Eyes

I want a lover I don't have to love I want a boy who's so drunk he doesn't talk Where's the kid with the chemicals? I got a hunger and I can't seem to get full I need some meaning I can memorize The kind I have always seems to slip my mind

Keep Yourself Warm - Frightened Rabbit

No you won't find love in a, Won't find love in a hole It takes more than fucking someone To keep yourself warm

By The Throat - CHVRCHES

All that's golden Is never real And I won't play fair With you this time

A Little Piece - The Jezabels

I could have chased it down. I could've held your love, But wouldn't you think me weak.

Postcard - Jukebox The Ghost

Yeah you dream but you have to Work out the secrets you have Kiss him under the dream light Don't tell me, I won't ask I just want you to feel happy I just want you to be glad So that every time you wake up You're not thinking of someone Who's trying to set you back Well good idea, good idea, you keep me waiting round I'll just wait here until you decide to come back to town

Call Your Girlfriend - Robyn

Call your girlfriend It's time you had the talk Give your reasons Say it's not her fault But you just met somebody new And now it's gonna be me and you

I’ll Wait For You - Iris

Time passing by Don't know I ended up so alone How you have tried To let it go and find your home Coming back, away from me I am here, I'm on my own If it's true, you will see This is all you're looking for Looking for If you want me to, want me to I'll wait for you

Bruises - Chairlift

I tried to do handstands for you But every time I fell for you I'm permanently black and blue Permanently blue for you

The Swimmers And The Drowned - Winterpills

my lamb, my sheep you confessed it talking in your sleep you know that nervous system isn’t yours to keep my love, my pet you know i memorized your silhouette the way your eyes follow me like some bad debt

From The Mouth Of An Injured Head - Radical Face

When I'm down near the window I feel your hands as you bind my head I'm watching birds through the open shades I hear you wonder if I'm OK Or if the cracks are too deep in my brain

See America Right - The Mountain Goats

Your love is like a cyclone in a swamp And the weather's getting warmer

Glass Piano - Kathleen

Well, I've always been good at pretending Wearing permanent rose-coloured lenses 'Cause I don't wanna see when the flags are red Push and pull me, build then ruin me How close is your past? 'Cause it consumes me Bend and break, ignore then take, you Play me like a hammer on a glass piano

Oh Lately It’s So Quiet - OK Go

I don't think much about you, But if you're not lurking behind every curtain, I'm wondering Whose house are you haunting tonight? Oh whose name you hiss? Or whose clutching fists? Oh whose house are you haunting tonight?