#and basically nothing else

[casual-eumetazoa]

my brain has decided to celebrate the autistic acceptance week by entering burnout mode, i guess, cause i cannot force myself to do even the simplest things. this is, uh, not good, considering there is a whole week left till the easter break and i have work to do. i’m going into energy preservation mode trying to skip all the things that don’t have compulsory attendance. i really need some time off y’all. i think at some point this month i pushed myself too much and my mental battery stopped charging,,,

[amiibo-king]

tfw a specific person u follow keeps reblogging A Specific Brand of jokes that make u wanna block em but ur hesitant to unfollow them bc youve been following them so long ur attached so u have to figure out how many more strikes ur willing to give them

[chalkrub]

new guyyy whom i love from a design trade

he's a demigod cimera knight who was brutally defeated and then spared by a tyrant queen, with the caveat that she cut off his goat head and uses it as a hostage to keep him loyal to her. unfortunate but what are you gonna do

[sarcasticdolphin]

Todolf modern mafia au. “I won” This is pure filth with only a slight vestige of plot. Like I’m serious. And there will be a part two that will also be 95% filth as well.

In the end, all it took to get the jury to finally come to a verdict was food. They returned half an hour after the dinner break ended.

Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty

Normally defendants, especially ones accused of this particular crime, tended to be coldly stoic throughout the entire trial, but there was a part of Rudolf that reveled in the despair on the man’s face, at the desperate pleadings and thrashings as the bailiffs handcuffed him and half dragged him out.

He thanked his pair of assistants, his angels, before dismissing them and stepping into the corridor. Gabriel was waiting around the corner. He followed the other man to the waiting car and they all made the journey back to Tod’s penthouse, the blood in Rudolf’s veins still singing at his own triumph. 

Tod was in the sitting room when Rudolf arrived, throwing his jacket off before plucking the tablet from Tod’s hands, straddling his lap, and pulling him in for a kiss by his loosened tie.

“I won.” He purred, vicious and triumphant. “And your lawyer was dragged away, pleading for mercy.”

“My prince.” Tod purrs back before Rudolf cuts him off with another kiss, more violent than the last, full of teeth.

“And now I want my reward.” Rudolf cupped Tod’s chin, forcing the other man to look up at him.

Tod smirked and pulled Rudolf into another kiss. “I do believe that can be arranged.” He stood, dragging Rudolf up as he did so, half hauling the younger man along with him to the elevator, ignoring Rudolf’s indignant squawk. “And didn’t I also threaten to take you on vacation if you kept working too hard?”

Rudolf moves to his own seat in the car grudgingly. He’d prefer Tod’s lap.

The car ride is uneventful and they were on the plane soon enough. Rudolf wasted no time in tucking himself into Tod’s side, his eyes gazing upon the pinpricks of light beneath them as they grew smaller and smaller before shifting to the distant light of the stars. Tod held him close, fingertip resting above the raven, and Rudolf finally felt the exhaustion of the trial in his limbs and his mind, not even trying to suppress a yawn before dozing off. 

He woke in the pink light of the dawn to the soft crashes of distant waves, swathed in the fine white linen, amongst the familiar furniture of Tod’s island. The man himself had a gentle arm around Rudolf’s middle, but it was easy enough to shimmy out of Tod’s hold. Rudolf padded out to the balcony, taking in the ocean. He could see a pod of dolphins offshore, their dorsal fins appearing and disappearing time and time again. 

Tod wrapped his arms around Rudolf and pressed a kiss to Rudolf’s neck. “Good morning.”

“Mmmm. Morning.” Rudolf turned in Tod’s arms and nuzzled into the other man’s chest. He let out a deep breath, letting his palm rest on Tod’s bare chest and stepping forward, causing Tod to step back. 

They took more and more matching steps until Rudolf advanced and Tod didn’t retreat - his legs only a few inches from the edge of the bed.

“Where were we?” Rudolf purred, bringing his other hand to rest beside the one already on Tod’s chest. “Ah, yes. I won.” He shoves Tod hard, sending the other man onto the bed, before clambering on after him, straddling his lap, and demanding another kiss. 

Tod’s hands rested gently on his hips while Rudolf’s went to Tod’s shoulders, shoving again, making Tod lay fully on the bed. “And I suppose I ought to demand a better opponent. One that doesn’t crack under only a little bit of cross-examination.” He kissed Tod, moving his hands to Tod’s before pulling them off his hips, gently pinning them by Tod’s head. 

Rudolf’s eyes flicked up to the black velvet ribbon on the nightstand. He pushed Tod’s arms up, bringing his hands together at the base of the headboard. He looped the black ribbon through the ring, twining it around Tod’s hands and tying them in place.

Tod’s expression was even but lustful as he tested the bonds. Rudolf had no doubt Tod could get out of them if he really tried. He leaned down to offer Tod soft kisses before turning to the table, where the little bottle of oil was, shaking his head and sliding down, removing Tod’s boxers and pressing a long kiss to the other man’s cock. That drew a groan from Tod, so he pressed another, on the tip this time, raising his eyes to Tod’s as he did so.

“Get on with-” Tod’s voice faded to a groan as Rudolf took the other man’s cock into his mouth, laving at it and groaning, the vibrations pulling another groan from Tod even as Rudolf took Tod’s cock deeper into his throat before pulling off and tossing his own clothes onto the floor and moving to straddled Tod’s hips once again, the other man’s cock pressed against his ass.

He pressed three fingers to Tod’s lips. “Suck.” Tod’s eyes were full of lust and something couldn’t quite place as he took Rudolf’s fingers into his mouth, wetting the digits.

Once he was satisfied, Rudolf withdrew the fingers and inspected them before slipping a pair inside of himself, and opening himself up. His head fell back as he scissored himself open, moaning as he found that spot within himself. He added the third finger with a groan, opening himself further and letting his eyes drift down to Tod’s. The other man thrust his hips, causing his cock to press into one of Rudolf’s ass-cheeks. He withdrew the fingers and leaned down to Tod, placing the ghost of a kiss on the other man’s lips. “So impatient”

He sat back up and guided Tod’s cock into him, slowly sinking down until he had taken the other man to the root, moaning and gently moving his hips as Tod bottomed out. Rudolf felt so full, so secure. 

He started moving his hips gently, but soon enough he was riding Tod with abandon, his hands on the other man’s chest, helping with leverage. His own cock strained for attention, but Rudolf denied it. He wanted to cum from Tod’s cock alone.

And soon enough, he did, his seed painting his own chest and the bottom of his chin. He wiped some off with the back of his hand, lapping it up before leaning down to kiss Tod. He could feel the other man’s member, still deep inside him, still hard. Tod hadn’t cum yet. 

Tod snapped his hips up into Rudolf, drawing a whine at the oversensitivity. Rudolf’s hands traced up Tod’s strong arms, feeling the muscles that were so much stronger than his own.

Tod thrust up into Rudolf again as Rudolf kissed him, swallowing the sound of half-pain half pleasure. 

“Scared?” Tod quirked an eyebrow up. A challenge. And oh, how Rudolf hated to lose.

Rudolf kissed Tod again before speaking, pressing another kiss between each of his words. “Do your worst.” The kiss at the end was the longest, as Rudolf’s fingers gently undid the binds.

Tod flexed his wrists, moving them in a few small circles before gently resting them on Rudolf’s hips, his touch feather-light. “My beautiful prince. You should have seen how magnificent you were, taking your pleasure, head thrown back in abandon.”

One hand trailed up to Rudolf’s neck, pulling him down for another kiss, soft and gentle and promising. Rudolf let his eyes flutter shut as the sweet sensations.

It all happened with a speed even Rudolf was shocked by. Tod’s grip - on his hip, on his shoulder - became iron, fingers pressing in unforgivingly as the world spun around him.

Tod was above him, leering down. “My turn.” He pressed a gentle kiss to Rudolf’s mouth. “How many counts was it? Seven? I ought to reward you for all of them, don’t you think?”

Rudolf didn’t get to answer beyond a moan of pained pleasure as Tod snapped his hips.

TBC ...... 

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This got out of hand (length wise). But isn’t that like tradition now?

[beansnpeets]

Thinking about human behaviour compared to animal behaviour again.

It's funny to hear people (the older gens) complaining that "kids these days are lazy, they don't wanna work, etc." What do we get for busting our asses? There is no reward. Many will never own homes. Many are unemployed, trying to find work, and nobody will hire them because they don't have a million years experience and a masters degree OR they want people to work for minimum wage??? People are giving up because there is no reward. Why would we do all this for nothing?

Same as a dog that won't recall when you haven't reinforced it with a reward. Your dog isn't going to do what you tell it to if there is no incentive. No, your dog SHOULDN'T listen just because you're boss and it should respect you. That isn't how it works. They don't think that way. And honestly neither do people.

When we went hiking Sprocket wasn't always taking treats gently from me when I recalled her or she checked in and I rewarded and my one friend told me to stop giving her treats. I told him I won't work for free so why should she. And he said "I do things for free all the time because I want to do them," and I didn't say it then, but I wish I had, but if you like doing it, that's the incentive. It's a self-rewarding behaviour. Just like anything else a dog does, like chasing a squirrel or sniffing things or getting into the trash. Heeling instead of going off to sniff stuff or recalling off of something they want to chase is something you have to reinforce. You have to give them something better so they make the choice you want them to make. They won't make it just because they *respect* you. They won't willingly recall off of exciting prey out of RESPECT. You need to give them a tangible reward for that. You cannot possibly expect your dog to listen just because and then punish them for disobeying you.

Yeah, Sprocket bit my fingers a couple times. The one time pretty hard. But she was excited. She knows how to take gently and I reminded her and she tried very hard to be gentle most of the time. I wasn't going to stop rewarding her for checking in with me and recalling while we were off leash hiking in the woods. I want her to know that coming back to me is good and in the event of an emergency I would like her to not blow me off.

[softpng]

sometimes I think about that guy on amazon who reviewed pride and prejudice and did an entire angry, weirdly math focused rant about how awful darcy is and then ends it all with "I could carve a better man out of a banana"

[bakuhatsufallinlove]

Let's talk about Jump GIGA

Jump GIGA covers, 2016-2024. Volumes are published (left to right per row) as Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn releases, with 2018 and 2019 briefly breaking the pattern by having three Winter and three Summer volumes each. 2023 has an Early Spring volume in addition to the standard four.

So, people have pointed out that the 2024 Spring cover is, uh, not like other covers.

But I've only seen comparisons to other MHA GIGA covers and MHA Weekly Shonen Jump covers. Out of curiosity for what GIGA's typical marketing aesthetics might be, I put together a comparison between all of Jump GIGA's covers to date.

And, um. Some things stand out, to say the least.

First, let me clarify what Jump GIGA even is: it is a seasonal magazine from Shonen Jump, published separate from Weekly Shonen Jump. SJ is an absolutely massive brand and they have a number of magazines serialized outside of the most well-known weekly magazine.

The content of Jump GIGA is primarily made up of one-shots and spin-offs. From the beginning, a lot of the appeal has been the cool cover illustrations which showcase special merchandise that comes with the purchase of GIGA. Usually the cover also promotes big things going on related to the WSJ series, like movie events, new games, or special figurines for sale.

The marketing aesthetic has been clear from the start: the cover consists of one core illustration and a number of ads surrounding it. Most often you get a cover illustration of a protagonist, and then ads and merch for other series, e.g. Food Wars protagonist cover with One Piece film promotion and Haikyuu!! merch.

The purpose of this marketing direction is pretty obvious. Spin-offs and one-shots are not likely to generate a ton of interest consistently, so they lure people in with the cool covers and tempting limited edition merchandise of the series they already know and love. In this way, highlighting one series with the cover and different series with the merch makes sense, because maybe somebody doesn't care about Food Wars, but they definitely want those Haikyuu!! stickers, stuff like that.

Starting from 2020's Autumn volume, you can see a shift. For the first time, basically all of the merchandise is for the cover series. The Demon Slayer manga had already ended five months earlier in May, but a two-chapter spin-off was scheduled for release in WSJ during October. This GIGA was released exactly one day before the second chapter was published and it capitalizes on the hype.

After this point, only MHA and Jujutsu Kaisen dominate the cover and the merch in quite this way, with Black Clover getting attention last volume as a way to highlight the fact that it actually switched syndication from WSJ to GIGA.

Anyway, most commonly the cover illustration is a solo shot of a core cast member (usually but not always the protagonist), and if it's not a solo, it's a big cast illustration.

Only a few covers focus on two characters, and usually it's a crossover as opposed to characters from same series sharing the limelight.

Here we've got Food Wars' protagonist with the main characters from Dr. Stone and Act-Age.

The two covers most similar to the Izuku & Kacchan cover are 2022 Winter and 2023 Autumn.

Winter depicts the main trio of Blue Box in a seasonally-appropriate aesthetic. Not gonna lie, this one kinda makes me laugh--Blue Box is a romance and sports manga, and even though Christmas has a romantic air to it in Japan, instead of depicting any sort of like, hesitant but hopeful romantic energy between the heterosexual couple that actually get together later in the series, they focus primarily on the two girls being cute with the guy is a wee footnote? I mean, all right.

Meanwhile, Autumn depicts one of the protagonists with the series antagonist with a typical cool action style. I'm not very familiar with JJK, but I hear these two have got Some Drama going on, so, there's that.

The merch itself has also evolved over the years. Stickers and posters were present early on, but they have since expanded to decorative folders and now acrylic stands and coasters. 2021 Summer sees the first time the cover illustration is marketed as merch, with the Jujutsu Kaisen cover included as a decorative folder.

Right after that, the Kacchan cover of 2021 Autumn is included as a poster alongside earlier covers featuring Todoroki and Izuku.

2023 Summer's cover is a huge, wrap-around MHA cast illustration and it was published three days after chapter 396 came out, strategically timed to highlight the big shift in the final battle as Ochako vs Toga ends and All Might vs. AFO begins. Merch includes a decorative folder of the wrap-around cover and character motif stickers.

And then we get this!?

A duo cover illustration where the cover art itself has been merchandised to hell and back!?!?

Acrylic stand and pin set!?

Double-sided coaster showing bkdk greatest hits!? With volume 29's river scene cover!?

There's also a double-sided poster featuring the Spring cover with the ninth popularity poll art and a decorative bag with the anniversary art. The cover art itself is plastered all over the volume, front, back, and spine, apparently a total of 19 times.

I honestly don't know what to say about this. It feels wild that this is actually what the cover is. Obviously it is a huge marketing push in anticipation of season 7, and Izuku and Katsuki are the most popular characters, but. it just feels... unique.

In the course of Jump GIGA's publication, this direction is kind of unprecedented. Genuinely no one could have expected this. This seems to be the first time there's been this much merch for a cover. And it was a solid fucking move, marketing-wise--it's sold out basically everywhere, everyone is talking about it. And even people who don't follow the series or ship these two can't help but comment on how strikingly romantic it looks!?

I don't know how much say Horikoshi had in what the cover was, but damn it sure feels like he drew this with immense affection. I kind of wonder if he personally pushed for it to be these two, rather than the typical solo shot, cast shot, or even a protagonist vs. antagonist shot.

I'm KO'd, man. idek if this post is useful to anybody I'm just on my hands and knees here.

Everybody knows what we're all here for, and it's these cute boys finally getting their happy ending.

[egophiliac]

I love your take on Crowley!

I know that the early, non-Diasomnia stories aren't really your thing, but are you reading the novels at all?

I have been following some of the fan translations and the second book seems intense! Would love to hear what you think about them.

thank you! 💚💚💚 I'm not really sure why you think I don't like the earlier arcs though, I love pretty much all the characters and their storis! (I think 5 and 1 are my favorite of the past episodes, though 6 infected me with the Shroud brainrot something fierce.) I just...ESPECIALLY love diasomnia. :') but there is room in my heart for all of these dweebs! like, who among us is not just as ride-or-die for Adeuce as they are for us.

that said, I don't really follow the other adaptations like the manga (aside from a dip-in just to see the new Yuus) or the novels, though I keep meaning to check them out! I do like seeing the differences between the different forms of media, and how certain things get adapted one way or another! but alas, time/a lack of accessibility stands in our way more often than not. :( someday...someday I will have time to consume all of the media...

[halorvic]

[redr0sewrites]

i will forever defend these two- NOT to start discourse but they are both so heavily mischaracterized by the fandom its INSANE like omg yes they are flawed but they are also trying their best PLEASE leave them alone 🙏🙏🙏

as usual im yapping in the tags if anyone cares

[blueskittlesart]

hello, did you know that there is a deku tree lego set on its way? i just found out and i don’t know if you’re a lego person but i think that’s neat

HOLY SHIT. ANYONE WANNA VENMO ME $300

[chuckwon]

I simply don’t like when people act like what happened to Jack is what should have happened (as if the show didn’t deliberately spell out it would be Bad beforehand!), or like we can hand-wave GodJack as being fine and good in a continuation as long as other ~more important topics~ like destiel are eventually addressed.

Jack’s fate is the crux of the tragedy of the finale. Supernatural is a show about parents and children, and that cycle of violence remains unbroken. Jack was forced to become like his grandfather (the cosmic Father of the universe) because that’s who his fathers needed/wanted him to be. Jack shouldn’t be seen as an afterthought or a side note. He’s the thematic center that ties everything together, including the queer family structure of destiel.

So here’s my hot take: whether or not they go fully explicit with any kind of Chuck won concept (and they don’t necessarily have to)… any continuation must address that what happened to Jack isn’t a good thing — for him, for their family, or for the universe since the show stated God shouldn’t have personhood — in order to truly be fulfilling.

[hellenhighwater]

Hmm....how hard can large scale mosaic possibly be? I feel like my plans for the room I'm working on could use something really shiny and impactful and maybe I want to make a fold-down cutting table and maybe I want to do it out of mosaic, even though that will be ungodly heavy.

It's a fun idea. I'm not sure if it's a good idea.

I haven't done mosaic since a one-off high school art class but I feel like the component skills are ones I already have, sooooo....

I have been keeping to a blue and gold celestial theme for both my guest room and my art workspaces, because if and when I move those spaces are likely to be combined. Cutting table, even though it would be for a different room, falls in the same vein, so I'm thinking something with a nice dark night sky and maybe some branches or leaves...

[jsheios]

Distance

[i-make-fun-of-spn-characters]

Take my "How much of an eeeevil hardcore stan are you" uquiz

According to MEEEEEEEEE

[cinnamin-is-a-star]

I finally have some actual free time again! To celebrate, here are some very quick villain Sif doddles as I try to get back into both the writing and drawing groove lol