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cutie-chimera · 10 days ago

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Just a Barbarian and her bestie 🥰

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solargeist · 5 months ago

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i wonder if (Saint) Xelqua regresses sometimes without fully turning into the kid form.

Just suddenly more whiny, bratty, stomps his bird foot, generally just doesn’t want to deal with anything—well this is more of a tantrum isn’t it, but Grian manages to calm him down, pats his head without thinking and Xelqua leans into the touch slightly.

That’s something the kid form does, seeks out comfort from Grian specifically, not that the Saint would be aware of that fully, but he is subconsciously also doing it.

Grian suggests they go flying. They can play tag and chase each other around the sky.

#just thinking. i saw an age regress tag and remembered ah that’s basically what Xelqua does..#more complicated of course and actual body switching #but I wondered if it’s something he’d do without body switching #xelquas personality by default is pretty playful. Being a Watcher it’s not surprising.#kidxelqua #i dont usually talk abt actual age regression soryyyyy if this sounds odd #i was also just thinking abt how their dynamic doesn't change much between forms #its always brothers or papa and son hahahaha

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luckyashes-art · 2 months ago

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[PJSK Monster AU]

Imagine if u will . Akito taking Toya up for a flight in the sky (probably before learning abt his fear of heights, whenever that is [I haven't read any of the VBS stories])

Shenanigans ensue

#i wanna play around more with characters using their abilities w/ others to mess w/ em . really silly #like. eventually I'll draw leo/need just traveling around for fun because they have Free Will (either Honami or Shiho (depending #on how big her wolf form [NOT WEREWOLF FORM] is) would prolly be carrying Ichika)#or maybe another thing where Akito's showing off his dragon form to the others of VBS . hm man that made me think of how MMJ #doesn't have a lot going on w/ em (maybe i can do smth silly w/ minori and airi going 🤝over how pretty haruka and shizuku are #(minoharu and shizuai moment)) uuhhhhhhh ouuu my wondashow... i want them playing at a beach ☝️i need them #doin something chaotic to be silly (rui sets a volleyball on fire and spikes it at tsukasa (its fine because angels are immune to fire LMAO #i also wanna amuse wxs also flying thru the air (tsukasa holding emu & rui holding nene) .. ALSO TSUKASA AND RUI FLYING THEMSELVES #IN THE AIR COULD BE GAY AS FUCK (walks away) . anyway . theres not a lot i could do w/ nightcord maybe . tho would be really funny #if i had vampires briefly able to basically puppeteer/mind control someone and the group (probably mizuki especially) convinces #mafuyu to fuck around w/ it JDSHFJKHDSF could also do smth with mizuki possibly inviting someone to her pocket space but idk..#itd be very personal . mhmmhmmm . stupid ooc idea: full moon either leo/need or nightcord takes shiho or kanade to a dog park JDSHFSD #anyway i kinda just came up with all of those rn but i like playing around !!!!!!! i want them to be silly and just have so many shenanigan #ash chats #pjsk monster au

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skullzy20 · 2 months ago

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Man. What I wouldn't give to have more KIM conversations rn

#warframe posting #Finished all the new storylines through kim like .. 2 days ago I think ?#and Man I want more #and especially with the rest of the Hex because I miss talking to them more than anything #if only I could replay all the messages without having to reset all my chemistry and stuff #like I know the kimulacrum exists but it's not the same of course #I miss my besties 😔#the kim system though has genuinely become one of my favorite things though #its so small but I'm absolutely in love with it #there's just something about being able to talk with the npcs so realistically and form connections and bondd after-#-going through the whole game basically being alone aside from the lotus pretty much (even though you can't rlly speak to her)#well! a man can dream. and I'm that man

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chainsawctopus · 2 years ago

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I made a Yoshida-Denji roleswap AU some time ago but gave up on it cause I don't know how to design a good Ocean Devil Hybrid design LMAO 😭 Octopus Pochita's name is Takocchi, more random info in tags

#csm #chainsaw man #chainsawman #hirofumi yoshida #csm au #Yoshida is the Ocean Hybrid cause I think the fear of the ocean makes more sense than octopi for such a powerful devil #Idk ocean devil just seems like a more even match for the chainsaw devil #Yoshida bites his finger off and the tentacle starts forming from there and blah blah #Did that cause Denji's transformation is pretty violent and I needed some kinda balance #Denji's earring cord pull isn't like when he pulls the cord in og cause its not actually attached to him #its basically just the equivalent of yoshida crossing his fingers to summon octopus. chainsaw devil sees the motion #im too lazy to explain all the other au details i made up so far #maybe try and search my rambles on twt lmao #i tagged some with OctoYoshi AU iirc #Denji's angsty looking cause his whole thing for this au is just fighting the bisexuality devil /hj #TK's art

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icewindandboringhorror · 6 months ago

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Pictures and things

#photo diary #image 1 - pretty sky!.. so many sky photos as always #2 & 3 - baby son keeping me company during one of my Sickness days where I kind of just sit on the floor in a blanket #for hours slowly sipping pedialyte and having applesauce and such lol #He likes to bite the squeezy apple sauce pouches.. and try to steal the heating pad #4. Sky again. lighter more scattered fluffy clouds.#5 - greeting card that I drew at someone's request so they could send it to their elderly family member lol.. It's like.. cats baking #in a kitchen I guess? My eternal curse.. being the number one lover of cats in the world yet still somehow barely having a grasp #on their anatomy so they always look ridiculous when I draw them. I have both drawn and looked at cats for my entire life basically #yet somehow those two things do not come together to make me a good cat artist.. alas..#6 - underpart of an outfit I did (and havent yet posted of course because of my evil backlog of onemillion drafted posts)#I took the main dress off the top but thought the underneath part looked cool on it's own as well #7 - more sky.#8 - Mushroom fettucini alfredo. steak. and grilled asparagus. A fun little meal for me though I can't remember the occasion. I think maybe #as a reward for getting my covid booster or something. Though I still feel it's not as much of a reward when I am personally cooking #everything myself at home gjhbjh.. so its like... I'm having to do quite a lot of labor which makes it feel less relaxing I suppose. but eh #a treat in some form. Still cheaper by overall cost than ordering from a restaurant - and also can be customized and prepared #exactly how I like - which is the point. I guess more I just wish I weren't the only cooking person in the house. Everyone could #take turns making special meals for each other rather than like.. ''hmm I feel like having a treat. suppose I shall spend an hour #making it all myself and then feel tired whilst eating it'' lol.. ANYWAY #9 - and then.. you guessed it..MORE sky pictures!!! This time pinky bluey and so on.. huzzah..#A very sky heavy entry into the photo diaries I suppose #The sky in the 1st/7th image is jsut very ethereal seeming to me. something about the way the lighting is behind the clouds. It's #transportive. An interesting sky will make me feel like many other places in time or things I've seen in dreams or something. You get #a sense of being in a different world or like you're looking out over something you once imagined whilst reading a storybook. maybe lol

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serpentface · 1 year ago

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Do psychotropic drugs and/or ritual play a role in any of the blightseed cultures? A pretty broad question, lol

Yeah that’s a very broad question, the answer is about as much as it tends to play roles in real history. Alcohol is pretty ubiquitous (outside of cultures that abstain from intoxicants) and used for a variety of purposes, opioids are commonly used in some parts for pain relief or recreational purposes, stimulants (usually in mild, natural forms) are used to provide extra energy, and hallucinogens are most commonly used as part of a larger religious framework (rather than for recreational purposes). Any more elaborate answer kinda has to be case by case in a certain culture or part of the setting.

I'll just take this as an opportunity to talk about the one established sect that pretty much REVOLVES around psychoactive use. This is the Scholarly Order of the Root, which is a sort of mystery religion + elite community of scholars who currently occupy the Ur-Tree and its forest in the far southern Lowlands (southeast of Imperial Wardin, on the same land mass).

The Ur-Tree is the obligatory Huge Fucking Fantasy Tree (and its surrounding forest). It’s a mass of vegetation about a mile tall and almost as old as Plant Life Itself, its upper branches are primeval plants, which become more modern the nearer they get to the ground (and each 'level' holds tiny ecosystems, some containing descendants of LONG-extinct arthropods/other small animals). Its lowest branches and the surrounding forest are contemporary plant life, and all is connected and protected by an incomparably MASSIVE fungal mycelium network (which is itself a living god).

A lot of the Scholars' more secretive practices revolve around experimentation with substance use with the goal of expanding the Mind and transcending the body to fully connect to the Dreamlands, and they have a supply chain of traders and mercenaries called Rootrunners who traffic substances into the Lowlands. Most of their psychoactive use is in a very intentional capacity and not just like, for fun, but a LOT of them are just straight up addicted to cocaine (in the form of alchemically refined bruljenum, which is used for practical purposes of its stimulant effect during long hours of work).

All known psychoactives are desirable for experimentation (particularly hallucinogens), with each having properties that either allow expansion of the Mind, transcendence of the body, or outright divine communion. Their effects are logged in great detail and interpreted to form the basis of the Scholars' understanding of the natural world and reality itself.

The most important substance is Ur-Root, which is root matter from subterranean levels of the Ur-Tree that have both their own intrinsic psychoactive substances and a very, very high concentration of living god mycelium. The tree root contains DMT and the mycelium has its own wholly unique effects (being an actual living god). They alchemically refine it into a purer, more potent form, and use it to expand beyond the body and directly commune with the Giants, a group of entities they have identified as the only true gods.

An Ur-Root trip starts off with minor visual distortion, which turns into shifting fractals that slowly obscure the vision. Eventually the senses are entirely taken over by a 'tunnel' of rapidly shifting fractals and geometries. In a complete trip, the experiencer gets a sense that they have been pushed through a membrane and entered another realm, finding themselves in a distinct experiential Space.

At this point they may encounter entities which communicate to them in a language impossible to describe but wholly understood. These beings are understood to be the Giants, or at least aspects of the Giants that mortals are capable of comprehending (they often take familiar tutelary forms of the Mantis or the Snake, or appear resembling the same type of sophont that the experiencer is, all composed of ever-shifting geometries). The experiencer often feels a sense of unconditional and endless love from these beings, though the Giants may be more hostile and may appear in the form of the Trickster (usually a cultural figure regarded as malicious, be it an animal or otherwise) in a bad trip.

(^Up until this point, this has mostly just been a DMT 'breakthrough' experience ft. 'machine elves' and the like).

They are then removed from this space and returned to something that feels like the real world, but is nearly unrecognizable. They have a sense of rapidly moving through time, and will usually see 'the spires' towards the beginning, which just so happen to look like this:

(source + some context via Implication- the spires are exactly what this art is depicting)

The experiencer continues to move across an unfathomable amount of time, occasionally 'seeing' other such flashes of unfamiliar landscapes and creatures, and yet also being devoid of all their senses, the 'seeing' is pure, unfiltered experience. There is a sense of interconnectedness with all life, and that one has become the forest (or even Life) itself. The sense of time is wildly distorted, the trip lasts only about 5 minutes but feels like an eternity and is understood as literal hundreds of millions of years.

The experiencer has usually lost any remaining sense of Self and individual consciousness during this phase (in which case this time distortion is usually a neutral or even peaceful experience), but some retain a fraction of their identity, and find themselves trapped and conscious while experiencing what feels like eternity (which can be LIFE-CHANGINGLY distressing, even after the fact).

(^This latter part of the trip is the effects of the Ur-Tree fungus).

The trip ends with a sense of rushing through the ground and back up into one's body, at which point they will abruptly return to their senses and consciousness. The details are then immediately retrieved via interview and recorded in immense detail. The whole experience is understood as having been full comprehension of the Dreamlands, communion with the Giants, and then a tour through the act of creation.

This is done as part of the initiatory practice into the inner mystery-religion of the scholars, and as needed for study by high scholar-priests. It is not taken lightly, both as it is absolute communion with the gods and reality, and in that it can be a very, very difficult experience. People who have gone through this often walk away with a permanently shifted perspective, often in a positive and/or comforting way- a sense of interconnectedness with all life, a peace with the concept of death, seeing less of a point in individual ego and the concept of Self, and comfort in the sense of divine love they (may have) experienced. This heavily influences the philosophy of the Scholars and has had effects by proxy in the religious worldviews of the region.

Details of this experience are closely guarded, and initiates are given absolutely no prior knowledge and expectations for their trip. This is seen as a necessity- their naivety will allow for a true, unfiltered experience, and can be used to gauge whether they should or should not be accepted. Those that have a distinctly bad trip upon initiation may be assumed to have been 'rejected' by the giants and thus denied full priesthood, though this largely depends on How they interpret their distressing trip- those who identify this as a test and harsh lesson in a journey to enlightenment may be accepted (as this is how fully initiated scholar-priests interpret and handle their bad trips).

This inner priesthood is only a small fraction of the Scholarly Order, and its greater function is as a hub of education and repository of knowledge, and Scholar-trained doctors can provide some of the best medical care available in the setting ('best medical care in this setting' only means so much but it's pretty solid, relatively speaking). Only a chosen few Scholars ever get to commune with the Ur-Root, and most of the divine secrets revealed in the process are kept hidden (though they indirectly influence the politics and worldview of the entire order).

#I'm kind of fascinated by the quasi-religious beliefs that have developed around recreational hallucinogen use (ESPECIALLY DMT)#In contrast to like. Uses of DMT-containing substances like ayahuasca for long-established religious purposes #So this concept is basically 'what if a religion was FORMED from pretty much the ground up out of DMT usage'#Like the common 'entities' people encounter in recreational use being identified as the Real Gods and producing a religious worldview #that is mostly rooted in this experience (while still influenced by other cultural factors)#Also the like. Meta going on here is that the fungus is a 'living god' and the oldest one on the planet #It is a VERY rare type of living god that is 'created' by non-sophont (non-sentient even) beings and exists as a mycelial network #that perfectly supports and protects an entire forest. Basically a god for plants. It is so deeply interconnected with its forest that the #usual power sophont belief would have over it has basically zero influence. This is absolutely the closest thing to A God in canon.#(While still not being a Creator/sapient/or even supernatural within the framework of this reality. Just VERY unique.)#The Ur-Tree has always been above water and grows very very slowly over the course of millenia by kind of 'pulling up' plant life from #the ground (so you see ancient long extinct plants in its higher branches and contemporary plants close to/on the ground)#The mycelium helps shield and feed extinct plant life that could not otherwise survive in the contemporary environment #And the forest is big enough to produce its own weather (it is a rainforest and has been ever since the capacity for rainforests Existed)#It's not really a tree at all in any normal sense but an amalgam of thousands of types of plants-#Some growing on top of others and some interwoven beyond any distinction. It does form a superficially treelike structure #(mostly in order to physically support its own mass) with a very wide 'trunk' and massive 'roots' (which end in actual roots).#It feeds on its own perpetually shedding and decaying 'body' and any animal life that dies in the forest is VERY rapidly #decayed and absorbed by the mycelial network (to the point that many large scavengers cannot survive in this forest)#(If you kill a cow and leave it on the ground for just 1/2 hour you'll see little strands of mycelium already growing up around it)#The fungus fruits and spores on a very infrequent basis (scale of ten-thousands of years) which causes the forest to very slowly spread #Fortunately this isn't really an existential threat because the spread is VERY slow (even on a geological scale) and the fungus #itself is rather mundane in nature and cannot usually compete against established fungal networks in other places.#Though there are little Ur-Tree mycelium groves and woodlands in other parts of the world that may (over untold millennia)#generate their own Ur-Trees (there's already a few but they are all MUCH smaller and not readily recognized as the same thing)#WRT THE TRIP:#Most of what I'm describing is a DMT trip but consumption of high doses of Ur-Tree mycelium has both mundane psychoactive effects #and IS kind of the person experiencing the fungus' entire lifetime and seeing flashes of the world's actual evolutionary history.#The amount of material knowledge that can be accurately gleaned from this this is VERY limited though.

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sadhorsegirl · 2 months ago

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sometimes you go to a high school production of the sound of music bc some of the kids in it are in the hebrew school your friend teaches at and then when you go to look up what restaurants are going to be open after the show in your everything closes at 8 town and you forget that you were working on the newest chapter of your wicked fanfiction on google docs and everyone sees the open doc before you can change tabs bc there are only three of you and you are all sitting close together in creaky high school auditorium chairs. and then you have to keep living 💚🩷🫶🫰

#sorry girls at least they (gelphie) werent scissoring #this post is now a form of social pressure to finish editing the next chapter lol #also a psa that this blog is no longer best friends with wot but is returning to its first wife gelphie #was it pretty much completely mortifying? yes #did everyone basically tactfully ignore it but share a knowing look over your head while you quickly changed tabs? yes #was one of the friends the girl who confessed she was in love with you for 10 years after going to see the wicked national tour together #but shes basically engaged to a man so nothing can happen but u kind of dont want anything to happen in the first place anyway so its chill #so now you are trauma bonded by a world crushing emotional moment that is forever wicked adjacent?#YES #gelphie lore runs deep round these parts lmao #all other details in this post included to show i live a layered and full life 😏#havent made a personal post in um. literal years do nawt know what to tag this as #extra extra read all about it

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orcelito · 3 months ago

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Oh yeah yesterday I went to my C programming professor's office hours to ask about what's being covered in class tomorrow. Since I can't go bc of my PT appointment overlapping with it & I'm apparently the kind of student that cares about attending every single class now.

While I was there, I ended up chatting with him about a few things, including my current standing in the class. He asked what I got on the midterm exam, & I answered it was an 87, and he told me I was one of the top 5 or 6 scores in the Whole Class (this being a like. Maybe 70 or so person class). Top score was a 92 or 93 (idr lol) & the class average was a 72. Apparently there were a few of us in the upper 80s/lower 90s, but most people got 70s or lower. And once he does the curve on the exam, he said I'd probably end up with a 97 or so on the exam. So yay!!!

And then he told me how he's noticed how I come to class every day and am really active with taking notes and answering questions. Bc I also sit up front all the time lmao. Hadn't even realized how much of a damned teacher's pet I've been being, but I've been Trying to be a good student this year. But he said I was the type of student that if I got an 88% or smth in the class, he'd likely bump me up to a 90% so I'd get an A lol. But he also said so long as I keep up with how I have been, I could possibly get a 100% in the class by the end (bc I've been there for all the extra credit questions in class and whatever).

And just. I went there bc I wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything important in class on Wednesday, and I ended up having my ego stroked for Real. Felt good to have my efforts be recognized.

#speculation nation #now if only i could care that much for my web coding class. but oh well im still keeping up even if its a reluctant shamble much of the time #other stuff we talked about was how im graduating this semester & how i plan to stay in indiana to work #bc i have family here & i like the relatively low cost of living. & im not particularly ambitious.#just wanna make enough money to live comfortably. dont need anything fancy beyond that.#& he talked about how that's a good outlook in life. how he's known ppl who went to fuckin silicon valley or whatever #with high paying jobs. but the cost of living is so high that theyre effectively not making much more money than here #he said smth about like. a $70k salary has just as much strength here than a $120k salary there. smth around those #& he praised me on how i seem genuine and hard-working. so he thinks im gonna do just fine in the industry 🥺🥺🥺#i kinda wanted to keep chatting with him but i had to go to bowling class lol. ended up late to it even #bc i checked my phone for the time while chatting and went Oh Fuck bc it wss 1 min after the class started hfkshfks had to rush off then #but yeah makes me feel very nice about that class. i think it rly is my favorite class this semester.#web programming is pretty rewarding and im glad im taking it. but i was basically a complete newbie in html css and javascript #so ive spent quite a lot of time wanting to tear out my fucking HAIR over these labs. b4 it clicks and im like Haha yayy :3 #i like C programming bc it's just so much more logical and regimented. it IS the language that got me to give up my engineering degree #since i was thinking about computer engineering. took my first coding class freshman year. and went 'i love this. i want to do CS now'#didnt do that obviously. but im happy where ive ended up. i wouldnt wanna be a programmer lol #and then my quality engineering in IT class. it's certainly engaging. it's the class i constantly have presentations in tho #had Another one this morning. blah! good to keep in practice but i still dont rly enjoy public speaking lmao #probably the most work intensive of my classes. interesting but Blegh #C programming i just keep up with the labs and do the exams and it's wonderful... so logical and comforting...#oh yeah web programming i also have a few presentations. also gotta fucking. code my project pages by next week 😭😭😭#i think it's just the html and css? no javascript yet. thank god. javascript is by far the hardest to learn #but css is so finicky too!!!! ive been struggling with trying to move these fucking input boxes around #i wanna have them on the right!! but they wont go there!!! gotta poke at it more. at least i managed to finish building the form.#still have to finish the lab tho. that was due 2 days ago. lol. also have another one due sunday. AND the project pages. gah!!!#they havent even graded the wireframes yet. i wanted their feedback b4 proceeding to coding >:( oh well #anyways yeah..im keeping busy lol

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darabeatha · 3 months ago

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@iappearmissing replied ; as a little treat im gonna take him to Actual Hell

NO- NO NO NO! DONT BRING HIM BACK TO THOSE DARK WOODS!!! TO THE REALM OF MALICE AND FRAUD!! OF BESTIAL APPETITES!!! HE'S SEEN ENOUGH OF THAT NIGHTMARISH PLACE!!

unless....

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would you.... 👉👈🥺 Would you guide him then― hand in hand........ I mean; it's very dark and scary....... and depressing. But that's beside the point―

#iappearmissing #;d.ante #me muttering: freak-#its funny bc;; he is talking as if he experienced these things but it was his self insert in the poem that did #but since theres barely any difference between d.ante from the comedy and the real one #+ the whole pretender class freaky phenomena; he remembers the plot as personal experiences #as a summoned servant; he already journeyed through the entirety of the d.ivine c.omedy; but its still funny #so its like he really knows how that all went #its difficult to explain in a way-#basically; real d.ante is pretending to be the poem's d.ante but both are pretty much the same since he was self inserting himself #so theres barely any difference #the only thing is that now all the experiences of the d.ante from the poems form part of him as if he's lived through them

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insidejupiter · 2 years ago

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jingliu is a perfect example of "if this female character was male, shed be universally loved instead of heavily criticized"

#im not saying you cant criticize a character but its sooooo telling that she gets so much of it #“shes a hypoctite. shes too mean. shes too cold.” yeah uh huh but those kinds of traits are fine on ren okay got it #people saying her character design is basic like im sorry but star rail doesnt have very many ground breaking designs for anyone #and yet i only see people bringing up jinglius design. also saying shes too pretty and done up #like the men arent also conventionally attractive. *yes* hoyoverse is bad for unique female designs #buts lets not pretend its solely a jingliu problem. it was an issue before her #shes just another victim of the short dress exposed shoulders look. also her design is not in any way shape or form the worst female design #im not going to give my opinion on that here tho because its not important #im losing my train of thought so im just gonna say people wouldnt be handwringing over the prospect #of jing yuan having romantic feelings for her. in fact thered be droves and droves of girls shipping them if jingliu was a man #not to mention shipping her with ren if she was. and dan heng/feng #but shes not a man so shes being scruitinized and picked apart for any potential “flaws”#like theyre so transparent about it. like im sorry she was mean to ren/yingxing fucking forgive her for having complex feelings #about a messy complicated issue while shes dealing with her own #trauma and guilt and anger and everything else that wouldnt be a problem if she wasnt a female character #the hypocrisy of it all never ceases to astound #hsr

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dietdoubledewme · 6 months ago

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found a treasure trove of unfinished south park slash in my google docs from 2019... like over 15 unfinished fics. when I finish ready for you I'm hoping I can have the energy to finish some of these because they're making me laugh.

#i love looking at my old stuff #seeing that nothing has really changed #one of them is like... a horror/comedy fic about the goth kids getting kenny trapped in the ghost plane (that one looks fun to write)#another is called “the romeo & juliet of hell's pass sanitorium” and its about stenny meeting at the psych ward lol #another about the amazing butthole's amazing butthole #basically a real (AGED UP) superhero au about everyone having fun with butthole #i have ones written with mysterion super craig & wonder tweek and toolshed theyre all pretty funny #also a long form crenny fic about them going on a road trip to find their “true home” but they just realize thats just each other #idk they all look fun and i wish i had like an infinite time on this earth to just write and draw sp shit #autism powers activate!#sorry for rambling injust feel overjoyed i found thiss tuff lol i dont even rememebr writing jt

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speedswarm · 6 months ago

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