#What Else Can I Do?

[elijones94]

🌸🌺 Isabela Madrigal is still graceful as always when swinging on vines. 🌵

[almaadst]

I hate the plumber and the manager of my building. When I told the plumber that the radiator was heating only on three, he said "That's the way it is, I won't do anything about it" Like WTF??!! A radiator shouldn't work like that! Not to mention that the bill for heating the building last season was PLN 51,000… I guess they should care that it works well otherwise WE pay for it ...

[rrdcooc]

I’m listening to “What Else Can I Do?” and I’m just suddenly struck with the realization that Mirabel is singing the harmony and backup for Isabela. In other words, she’s actually listening to and supporting her sister for the first time since they were little.

[yunwooz]

no im sorry i know dottore did awful things i know he’s a piece of shit i know that by all means he is in fact a horrible person but alas he’s hot.

[monster-loverr]

DAMN YOU, CHARA! UPDATE

Chapter 40 - In the middle of the night (1)

This fic is objectively an inconsistent mess but it's beautiful and it's mine. I love my mess.

NSFW DO NOT PROCEED IF YOU'RE A KID

[docholligay]

Me dealing with anyone’s collector’s nonsense.

So I’m still trying to figure out what all this means and figure out what can stick, but is this about history? Like, the idea of history being passed through our ancestors, and so even if other mushi who came to the sea died, it lives on in this way?

PLease please do not spoil anything for me in your excitement. I don’t want to know anything! I don’t even want to know if something is a  cultural difference, or if you can’t wait for me to get to a part. If I  wonder about something, please don’t say stuff like “Just wait til…” You know what is great for all that? The discord! Which apparently has its own mushishi channel now, which must mean y’all are excited for it!  

[stormr]

Some doctors told me not to take painkillers. That it will end up bringing me other health problems. But when I ask them for an alternative, they don't offer me anything. Without painkillers, I can't function. I know this because I limit myself in their use. I endure the pain, until I break down. Sometimes I go through my day without taking anything and it affects my mood in a dramatic way. It's not a way to live. And so I feel guilty for taking one or two pills in a day (When it's write down: 1 each 4h). There is a big difference between the two situations. So, do I really have to be deprived of medication? If no solution is offered to me, what else can I do?

[tysonfurybattlepass]

having an identity crisis. love being in a building full of people who do exactly what i do but better in every way

[iamanartichoke]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

[blueboyluca]

“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)

[themarychain]

my corporate white-collar life + having anemia makes it so that I perpetually look like I haven’t slept in a month

[guardian-of-soho]

The more I think about the last minutes the more I’m sure Crowley was saying goodbye from the minute Aziraphale told him he’d said yes to Heaven. He doesn’t confess his love like he’s hopeful, he confesses it like a eulogy. He doesn’t kiss him to make a beginning, he kisses him to seal the end. He watches him go like it’s the last time.

Crowley knows Heaven. He knows they’ll want to either make Aziraphale just like them, or destroy him. Either way I think he believes he’s seen his angel for the last time.

[lazylittledragon]

i refuse to believe that boycotting is hard. my favourite thing in the world is ordering maccies after a late night at work/a concert/getting drunk. yes i do miss it sometimes. but the other night i ordered from a small place near my house instead and it was the most orgasmic burger i've ever had in my life. i very rarely say this but fucking suck it up people are DEAD

[glo-shroom]

yes & no by Natalie Wee | Trigun Ultimate Overhaul

[feniksido]

"We are brilliant." "..."

[ironunderstands]

The way some of yall mischaracterize Ratio as being stoic in chill when in reality he is 24/7 resisting the urge to rip everyone around him a new one is crazy to me like. He cares so much, so much. It’s unhealthy, he loses the idgaf war every time because Ratio is the least nonchalant person ever like

He was this close to breaking character and throttling Sunday like you cannot tell me he wasn’t planning a murder in this scene. Ratio straight up calls Sunday a crazy bitch but everyone brushed it aside 😭

Honestly his entire conversation with Screwllum is just him tweaking, watch it on YouTube the VAs performance is amazing, you can here just how much He Cares

Genuinely, Aventurine is way better at concealing his true feelings that Ratio. Ratio may be acting for the sake of the plan but the way he truly feels about anything he’s doing always seeps through, it’s why he apologizes to Aventurine in 2.0 in their staged argument scene. It’s why he is as mean to Sunday as he can be. It’s why him pretending that he “hates” Aventurine makes him act so silly. Ratio can’t fully commit to the bit, he can’t force himself to not care or to be someone he isn’t, because fundamentally Ratio CARES and that is something he is incapable of hiding, alabaster bust or not.

The problem is that him expressing his care is often done in a rude and/or blunt manner which people tend to interpret as stoicism or apathy when it’s anything but. Ratio’s vial that he gives to Aventurine is short, sweet and gets straight to the point, because that’s the easiest way for Ratio to express his emotions, even if it’s often detrimental for him and anyone else around him. However Aventurine understands him quite well, and knows that although brief, Ratio telling him to “stay alive, survive this and keep on living” is how he truly feels towards Aventurine, and that’s enough to keep him going.

Underneath Ratios carefully crafted marble facade is a man who cares so much and is so bad at expressing it and I wish the community in general, especially Aventio shippers would acknowledge that more. Ratios true moments of sincerity are brief, but they are anything but stoic. Let the man be soft, it’s in character.