I like to think f!Tsumugi has a few lovely outfits shoved at the back of her wardrobe from when Hiyori took her shopping while scolding her about looking like that when she has an executive job now. Occasionally they come out to universal O.O faces.
WAHHHHHHH THATS SO CUTE................ I LOVE EXFINE DYNAMICS SNIFFLE..........................
tsumugi definitely has alot of cute clothes though id imagine!! shes an idol after all!! but in her spare time she probably just prefers comfier and cozier clothes and who can blame her tbh
Ough i LOVEEE LOVE LOVE that scene where gill wakes up from The Nightmare™. His first instinct is to stab himself? Golden. The manic screams and yelling and his reaction to the knock on the door? Absolutely gorgeous. Keep doing it charlie slimecicle because you are doing it right
begging for some hairy hotch headcanons ma’am 🧎🏽♀️
WKFJRKFKSKXKFK OKAY OKAY this is my MOMENT IM OBSESSED
G o d okay so you can see just how hairy this man is okay, like he has lots of dark hair (sadly not on his chest 😭😭 but we can forgive that) esp around his legs like you've seen those thighs?? FUCKING YUMM hes been fucking blessed.
I am sure he has the most delicious looking happy trail from just below his belly button, and it gets very thick the closer to his pubic bone it goes 🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣 and then OOF around his cock and covering his balls, such a gorgeous amount of hair there. Like burying your nose in it would just be heavennnnnnn 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
He would be so so surprised if you beg him to not shave a single inch of his hair. Yawl saw him with the razor or trimmers one day and you are horrified KSKSSKSK but you'll show him easily enough just how much you like his body hair 🤤🤤🤤
He absolutely shampoos/conditions his pubic hair so that first time after washing it when you throat him it's alllll soft 🥰🥰🥰 but you can't smell his scent so much
Nuzzling into his hair when youre going to bed sometimes cuz you just adore his hair, but oop-- it makes him feel toooo good and now you've got smth hard poking your cheek 🫣🫣🫣
Sliding your tongue through the dark hair if he's cummed on his stomach would make him groan so so loudly 😵💫😵💫😵💫
He's just such a hairy man and OUGH the fact that it's always hiding under a tight suit just makes it all the more tantalising 🤤
i am mad at this tiktok trend of video essay recommendations, and not just because i have a very very intense special interest in video essays and youtube commentary. -___- guyssss, a video essay does not have to be scary or unsettling to be a GOOD video essay. all of yalls reccs are like, 20-something minute videos about "gadagoobies left toe: a creepypasta turned real" and tbh thats like, a sphere of video 'essay'. imma say it, and imma be a lil time-elitist here, but 20 minutes is a video, not a video essay. if youve chosen a topic, and said topic cannot fill more than like half an hour, consider me unimpressed in either your research skills or topic choice. not to mention, again, horror internet video essays are like fuckin, 1/10th of the video essays out there. show me breadtube video essays, movie video essays, whatever the hell Jenny Nicholson is doing, Ro Ramdin, Contrapoints??
do yall want me to show you my spreadsheet O___O ill show u my fuckin spreadsheet, theres so much more out there besides your half furry sprites talking about internet horror from 2011 for 23 minutes.
my reccs? literally anything by Ladyknightthebrave. she has very very in depth and emotional video essays about media, including a big focus on holocaust media as she is Jewish. her Jojo Rabbit/The Book Thief video makes me cry EVERY time, and i cry like ten times a year. ough, she has a video about Cowboy Bebop that focuses SO MUCH on the music! A video essay about a bad holocaust movie where she literally interviews holocaust expertsss! Her video on MASH made me go watch the whole thing, same with Stargate. and gods, her video about Fleabag blew me away. just pleeease go check ANY of her videos out.
Jenny Nicholson. you want random? she's got it. she has a video where she reviews every single Land of Time movie, and theres a LOT of those. She deep dives into the brony fandom. etc etc. i know she's popular but still, theres a reason for that.
Contrapoints. absolutely gorgeous video making about politics, self, etc. and she's queer as hell, amazing. I just can't describe the depth she puts into her videos.
FDSignifier. a huge part of breadtube (or leftist youtube) who makes a lottt of excellent video essays on black masculinity. Big, full videos, with a good perspective to see if you are a white viewer.
CJ the X just has a ton of excellent video essays as well. They are very intellectual.
Ro Ramdin, my gods, most of her videos are not what i would call video essays, but she tows the line. Emotional, funny, to the point, amazingly shot, and compassionate to the bone.
i probably have more but here's my point, branch out, dont put non-horror video essays down. we get it, you watch gore on liveleak and draw ur edgy fursona with scars all over them. (was that harsh? sorry, just uhhh please consider perspective and the culture of creepypasta/horror online being a cesspool of self harm via forcing ones self to watch upsetting things)
happy early valentine's day to all of my wonderful friends, looks like you've got mail 💌
@liamthemailman 💌: the amount of effort and time you put into your story and art is something to be adored, you constantly inspire me to improve and create and i cannot believe you're my mutual
@fossilizedpr0tienpowder 💌: ough i love seeing your art on my dash, it's so pretty and satisfying, also thanks for introducing me to kwite, he's a weird little creature but he's funny (and his music is fucking great)
@purpleart00 💌: the way you draw different perspectives with such detail absolutely entrances me, also i love your ocs with a burning passion even though I have no idea what any of the lore is
@bugzzzzx 💌: you're an absolute ray of sunshine and your style is so unique and personal i absolutely adore your art and the time you put into it
@tumanlll 💌: your art is so breathtaking and gorgeous it's incredible what you're able to create, you're also by far one of my most cherished friends and the bears and i wish you a smooth recovery
@teabagtoes 💌: you're a joy to be around and your style is so precious and always makes me smile, i love the attention to detail, even if it's just a little doodle (beanie bros🙌)
@actuallyacat 💌: you were one of the first people to ever interact with my art and you've stuck around for this long which is so appreciated you have no idea, also your art is so comforting and warm, it feels very homey
as usual, these rankings are based on some arcane mix of objective quality + my personal enjoyment (previous year's lists)
it was another weird reading year! i did a lot of reading for school, more so than in the past; some of it was really good and some of it was, uh. well, some of it was william wordsworth. nothing i absolutely loathed, though (most of the reads i disliked were books i could at least appreciate on an art/history level), which is cool. so i'm bringing back the runner-up category. did not make it onto my top ten list but were really good anyway: beartown by fredrik backman (books that no joke made me understand why people are insane about sports) and the GORGEOUS re-release of my dear @yvesdot 's debut, something's not right, which i have read before but will always gladly revisit again.
my top anticipated release for 2024 is alecto the ninth again.
(but shoutout also to just happy to be here, king cheer, and henry henry. trans people! shakespeare, even!)
and the list! in increasing order of enjoyment, with pictures this year!
10. The Common Liar by Janet Adelman
no, i can't believe i'm doing this either. i can't believe i did all that preamble and the first book on my list is an academic thesis analyzing shakespeare's antony and cleopatra. but also? it's the only book anyone ever needs to write about shakespeare's antony and cleopatra. janet adelman said it all. which is cool, because i have a fixation on that play, but also sucks, because i was also trying to write an essay on it and mine wasn't nearly as good. btw if anyone wants to buy this for me, somehow, for the $120 it costs on amazon because academia is awful, i will send you my address,
9. Robert Icke's Oresteia
i don't need to say anything about this play, because it's the source of "this was always going to happen. she's been dead since the beginning." that should be enough. but after becoming deranged about the oresteia last year, i finally read this, and holy shit, this adaptation of the story is so fucking genius and icke's writing is so fucking good. it's antiwar! it's about mental illness! there's gender! the fucking ENDING! (i have a pdf if anyone would like it. anything to plug this play bark bark bark rufrufruf grrrrrr)
8. Down Girl: the Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne
this is a little bit cheating, because i haven't finished this book yet, so maybe in the final chapters manne will say something like "what if we blew up every orphan" and i'll have to retract this. but right now it's fucking excellent! i've been making an effort to read more nonfiction lately, and this one shines; manne sets out to analyze misogyny not as a personal hatred of women that some men harbor, but as an intricate and structural system forcing women into the role of Giving (attention, affection, power, etc; sometimes their lives). and it's sooooo smart. some of it is stuff i already know (and some of it is Academic Philosophy TM that goes right over my head), but manne articulates her point excellently and i can feel it rearranging my brain, so it's going on the list for longevity and skill!
7. Dictator by Robert Harris
does this book objectively deserve to be on this list? you know what, yeah. i'll say it with my whole chest. i don't like how harris writes women and there are plenty of things to pick at in his cicero trilogy, but i had so much goddamn fun reading it that i can't not put it on the list. this was my year of being really really into cicero, and this was fun to read alongside e-pistulae. harris is sooooo good at making ancient roman politics gripping. the last scenes of this book. augh. ack. ough!
6. Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters
there are a lot of valid critiques of this one (a lot of bad critiqus, too, but such is writing literally anything about transness), but i fucking adored it. i LOVE dual timelines, i LOVE unlikable characters, and i FUCKING LOVE TRANSSEXUALITY! moreover, i love that peters isn't afraid to Go There, to poke at the messy ugly sides of transness (and queerness in general) that i think a lot of us don't like acknowledging, especially to cishet people whose view of the community is already skewed. i don’t think this is the One Great Trans Novel; i think there are a lot of great trans novels, and we need more. but this one did hit me RIGHT in the chest, and i couldn't put it down.
5. Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane
the iliad but achilles is a trans woman and she's fighting the war on both mortal and divine levels and she and helen have an insane homoerotic half-god rivalry and everybody is fucking crazy. pitched as "for fans of TSOA" but as i said in my review if TSOA is a pleasant but watery iced tea then this book is gasoline laced with crack. there is a bisexual transgender threesome. i fucking love women. book of the fucking summer
4. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
i probably enjoyed wrath goddess sing more, but i can't not rank this book highly on this list. this book is such a fucking masterpiece. it's tolstoy for the modern age. it's a sprawling multi-familial multi-cultural multi-generational epic about race and gender and religion and science and humanity and britishness. smith's prose is fucking amazing; her character work is even better; this book has no plot but it uses its length sooooooo well. the first zadie smith i've read, but by god there will be more. she wrote this at TWENTY-FIVE. that's fucking CRAZY. do you know how much control over your craft you have to have to write this at twenty-five. bonkers. it is also the only enjoyable book i read in my modern literature class, so shoutout to white teeth for keeping me sane,
3. The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel
this book is ostensibly about bechdel's relationship with exercise. it is actually about bechdel's relationship with her own body, her own soul, her desire for individualism in the style of the transcendentalists, transcendentalism in general, mortality, and aging. i can't really tell you more than that because i didn't actually "read" this so much as i absorbed it through my skin like a frog while trying not to tremble like a little purse dog. i am not gonna lie man i did not have a very good. um. august. or september. or october november december. so this book really could not have come at a better time. alison bechdel i am obsessed with you
2. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
ALISON BECHDEL I AM OBSESSED WITH YOU!!!! this one narrowly edges out secret to superhuman strength because... well, i'm sort of rating the entire comic strip's run, and dude. holy shit. i love lesbians so much. this strip is such an important piece of lesbian history; it reminded me that a lot of the things lesbians (and LGBT people in general) argue about and deal with today are... the same things we've always argued about and dealt with, from intracommunity label discourse to global politics to hitting on women badly. but history aside--it's also just really fucking good! it's really funny! if you are a neurotic leftist, as so many of us are, it's hysterical! it's smart! it's hot! it's heartwarming! i read it over the first half of the year, in little bits and pieces, and by the end i felt like i really had gone decades with these characters. really just. so good. the power she has the range she has
1. the suzanne collins reread
okay. this one is definitely cheating. because i usually like to keep this list to books i'm reading for the first time, and i HAVE read the hunger games and the underland chronicles. but i read them, like, almost ten years ago, and i was not prepared to be so thoroughly fucking bodied by them this time around, now that i have critical thinking and analysis skills. we all know the hunger games is a fucking banger, so let me pitch the gregor the overlander series: something of a modern alice in wonderland setup, where the eleven-year-old main character falls into an underground world full of strangeness, except this world isn't whimsical, it's dangerous and stuffed with giant talking animals like bats and rats and cockroaches. there's a war on. there are plagues. there are war crimes. there is a plotline that is extremely explicitly about ethnic cleansing. there is some of the most heartbreaking fucking shit you've ever read in your goddamn life. there is also a rat who quotes macbeth and the underlanders revere a guy named bartholomew of sandwich. this series is for middle schoolers. i cried. not when i was a middle schooler reading it the first time; i mean now. so i'm breaking my no-rereads rule, because it really would be a lie to say that my best reading experience wasn't revisiting all of collins' work with my friends (yes, i read TBSOS; i think it's fine but not great). sorry to give publicity to an author who definitely doesn't need my help, but a few years ago my #1 spot went to shakespeare, so.
if you've read this far: thank you! please tell me your thoughts! tell me your favorite books of 2023! tell me which books you're excited for in 2024! and have a very lovely new year :)
🔥favorite and least favorite doctor who episodes (if you can choose at all lol)
OUGH this is hard... can i do top five and bottom five maybe
bottom five:
let's kill h*tler. do i need to explain this one? i don't think i need to explain this one
spyfall part 2. i don't think i need to explain this one either.
girl in the fireplace. i know that's the one my pfp is from. rose is just so pretty in it. anyway. it's a poorly written episode that gets way too much praise, not to mention just how painfully ooc everyone is. you can really feel how much moffat hates rose in that one. and also it feels so gross when you think about how the real madame de pompadour was groomed from age 6 to be a king's consort and basically allowed no agency in her life whatsoever, coupled with moffat's weird obsession with "someone meets the doctor as a little kid and grows up to be obsessed with him" is so painfully... icky.
kill the moon. outside of being an awful episode with a weirdly anti abortion message, it's the episode that made SO MANY PEOPLE give up on my baby girl twelve. if you stopped watching twelve because of that episode i'm begging you on my knees to give him another shot his era is so so good other than a couple stinkers.
legend of the sea devils. i cannot even begin to express my sheer hatred for this episode. everything about it sucks so so bad and i'm beating it with hammers in my mind 24/7. it's just everything i hate about the chibnall era coalesced into one steaming pile of dogshit.
top five:
heaven sent. sorry to be basic but. heaven sent. i love it so much it's so perfect. and reading it through a classics lens makes it even better. i'm planning on doing the capstone for my degree (partly) on this episode as a modern representation of katabasis. the acting, the music, rachel talalay's directing, g-d. it's so good.
dalek. honestly every single one of nine's episodes fuck so hard and i don't dislike a single one of them. but eccleston really acted his ass off in this one and it's such a wonderful exploration of the doctor's time war trauma. it's the only episode that manages to make daleks scary. rose is amazing in it. "it's not the one pointing a gun at me" and "and what about you, doctor? what the hell are you changing into?" "oh rose. they're all dead" OUGHHHH. the ending hits so fucking hard.
mummy on the orient express. i think i'm legally obligated to put this one on my top five because i have watched it nearly a dozen times this year alone. it's such a good episode. great monster. clara and the doctor both get to be incredibly bisexual. it's the one episode of doctor who in which the phrase "sex machine" exists. what more could you possibly ask for.
the christmas invasion. it's sooooo good it's so good. it's tied with the husbands of river song as my favorite christmas special, but it's higher on my list of Overall Episodes. if that makes sense. again rose is incredible in it. david tennant makes the entrance of all time. they're so in love and so fucking stupid about it. song for ten... well i woke up today... and the world was a restless plaaaace.... it could have been that way for me........
the pilot. bill is gorgeous and perfect and wonderful. twelve being a wacky professor was the best choice anyone has ever made. it's like a crash course in doctor who but also a fun and well made episode with absolutely gorgeous music. i love it i love it i love it. murray gold put the s10 soundtrack on spotify right now.
it's so hard limiting myself to just five... i'm sure i'll think of an episode tomorrow and be like DAMN that should have been on the list... but that's okay <3
I'm a little in love with that blue and gold brocade dress at the bottom.😍
Another batch of amazing, AMAZING CHOICES!
I can absolutely see this as a quirky dress Connie wears while working at the coffee house. It looks like it would be positively adorable with an apron and Doc Martens as she runs espresso to grumpy customers.
Bess dress, for sure! the flower-meets-lace design is so perfect! i could see this wearing to a London party with FeFe, after she's already introduced her to the London scene. It's a fundraiser, and Bess is greeted and complimented by many. "Wonderful to see you again, Ms. Elizabeth! You look lovely."
This is so cute and feminine! I can see this an another dress that the girls share amongst each other. It feels like such a cute dress for chatting in over coffee on a date. Or, maybe for a business-casual business luncheon?
Okay, all the girls would look so beautiful in this, but sweet Addie descending the stairs in this for her first date with Tom? Her hair done, delicate jewelry, and all dolled up for their first dinner date.
Classic clubbing dress for Connie. This is a "horrible-day-at-work-dance-it-out" dress. It's early in her "hot girl era" with this. Before she's more...stable with the girls in the cottage, let's just say. Quitting a problematic relationship and recovering from drug/alcohol addition yielded some...less than glamorous moments for Con early on.
A sassy TeTe blouse for when she needs to make some deals for her charity. Give her a pencil skirt and gold pen, and with this blouse, she will buy and sell buildings larger than some communities.
I can see Hela gifting this dress to Connie. It's gold, bright like sunshine, and a perfect dress for her to wear for her first dinner with Harry and Hela, as well as her extended family. Well, and Harry's extended family ... which is Scrooge, lmao. We never do find out about Harry's father, which is...very concerning, but yeah. Connie is so grateful, and of course, dazzles in this.
Now, I can see Bess in this dress as well! Those midnight blue accents would be stunning on her. This with some matching, blue velvet boots? It would be so perfect for an opulent event. Oh, or a fancy tea party! With her hair done up Regency-style? Ough, I love it, honestly.
This feels like a DND-verse dress for Connie (who we;ve discussed SUPER briefly, nothing is solidified, but I just have a vision lmao). Like, the more rustic but gorgeous fit feels like something out of a fantasy game. Like, she's carrying her remaining riches and trinkets to set at the markets and doing fire magic tricks to make some coin after leaving Orin.
BESS IN THIS IS ICONIC. this might be my second-favorite look for her, after the iconic love-at-first-sight silver dress. Like, this could be worn to fundraisers, parties, events and definitely upscale dinner and theater dates.
My question this time is, if you had to rank the TMNT series from your ultimate fave to your least fave, what would you pick and why? 😄
Thank you! 😊
Hello! I got four hours of sleep but otherwise yeah I'm doing okayish.
OUGH okay-- here me out-- I'm doing this by my personal tastes, this is not what I think is the "best" show objectively. By "series" I'm going to assume you mean the TV show series, because if I get into the comics this is gonna get messy fhgkdfjg
2003 (personal favorite, I love the story and the characters so much, the animation still holds up, I have nostalgia bias for it)
Rise (absolutely gorgeous animation, the story is great, the characters are great, honestly if they'd gotten a full second and third season like they wanted it would probably be my favorite)
2012 (fun character dynamics, a long show which I know throws a lot of people off because the pacing can be ough sometimes but I enjoy the content, I... Highly disagree with a lot of the writing choices they made but the amount of POSSIBILITIES also the turtles tell each other "I love you" and that's a lot of points)
1987 (this show!!! is really cute!!! and fun!!! but I can only handle a little of it at a time. There's no cohesive storyline except for like, three seasons I think? The humor is fun, the animation is.... both bad and really good at times. Very unreliable. Very cute turtles tho 10/10)
The Next Mutation (THAT'S RIGHT I BROUGHT IT UP. I'm still only halfway through this one because we only watch 2 episodes every other week but OUGH this show can be so fun to laugh at. The amount of sound effects, ridiculous. Venus, I love her. They do take the Bold Stance of pulling a "we're not blood related" even though they most likely would be??? just to have a romantic plot with Leo and Venus?? which hasn't come up yet, but ough I am so afraid for when it does. The costumes aren't great, the story's not great, if this was a fan-made project I would be really impressed but this was a full production thing and just-- jesus fhgkdjfg)
Hi Kita 💜 I've seen other people doing this since the year is ending so what were some of your favorite fics you read this year??
omg yes there's so many incredible works I read this year but since I lost the ability to edit asks on here these are just the ones off the top of my head rn! I hope everyone has a wonderful new years eve and finds tons of inspiration next year <3
Tuesdays by @elusivemoon
io is beyond talented and deserves so much recognition this coming year for being one of the best writers on the app! Tuesdays feels like if satoru never became the annoyingly adorable character we know because in ios setting there's no curses, instead he's endearingly sweet and this is a wonderfully written peek into what that version of his life would look like
The taste of your lips by @staryukis
everyone say ty logan for giving us desperate kiss starved satoru <3 I've thought about this at least twice a week ever since I first read it, logan has such a way with description and setup everything plays out so smoothly like a movie in your head plus satoru is adorable in this I love it sm :3
Driving you crazy by @aestrayla
angi's writing is absolutely magical, I couldn't believe this was their first time writing smut because it's just an absolutely perfect portrayal of mammon and impatient needy reader is one of my absolute favorites to find
Sleepy sins by @another-lost-mc
JEALOUS BELPHIE JEALOUS BELPHIE plus the primal kink??? jes has hands down the best grasp on every brothers personality out of anyone in the fandom but this belphie fic is one of my all time favorites, however if I could link the entire masterlist I would because everything they've written is phenomenal!
Angel of small death & the codeine scene by @marble-anime
this reawakened my blood kink SO BAD if you've followed me for a while you know alucard is one of my all time favorite characters and when I found this going thru the hellsing tags my eyes nearly popped out of my head
Know it all by @elusivemoon
io on here twice because if I could link everything they've written I would but we'd be here forever ajdhsksbak it shows immense talent to take a character and put them in a setting like the grecian pantheon and have it be so seamless it's like they always existed there
Intimacy by @vixstarria
A beautiful glimpse into Astarions struggle with sex and intimacy and it also captures in a really gorgeous way the struggle of both parties when navigating something like that with a partner. Especially how Astarion wants a sexual relationship with tav but just doesn't know how to get through to that point, just makes me go insane every time I think about it
Yandere satoru by @yandere-daydreams
I think this one is brilliant because someone with satorus background would feel inherently entitled to nearly everything even if they can "do the right thing" most of the time, including the reader because someone raised wealthy and with power usually struggles with that line of thought. The way he blames reader? ough absolutely delicious