#and everyone i work with is like folks what you are asking is LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE

[senatortedcruz]

was on a call with boss's boss and he said my least favroite client might be dropped soon and I did a sign of the cross

[evilminji]

You knooooowwww... >.>

The only difference, technically, between a school in the Zone? And on Earth? Is the American government won't recognize your Zone diploma...

Not accredited. But like..... I'm JUST SAYING? If you didn't try to pass your school off as some Big Ivy League type? Pulled the "oh yeah, you'd never have heard of it, it's local." And the COMPUTERS say it's legit?

How many people will dig deeper?

If you legitimately have the knowledge, you legitimately have the knowledge. Not YOUR fault you left out the whole "extra-dimensional" part. It makes folk nervous! And nervous folks get stabby.

So like? If you were ALREADY planning to "Move" as you euphemistically put it? Talked it over with your VERY concerned folks and friends? Who do NOT like the look of the steady but concerning rise of Anti-Ghost Powers That Be? Who finally put their foot down and reminded you that you are a TEENAGER and it's NOT your responsibility to fix the world?

Well...

Fuck those guys, I guess. You'll miss the old house, but Team "Taking our ball and going literally anywhere else" makes some good points. Why ARE you putting up with this?

And honestly, you've never SEEN your dad have so much fun. Him and the Reality Realtor just sorta... Vibe. Himbo to Himbo communications. Smatters of advanced physics. Fudge. It's great.

They move the portal. Collapse the old one in a way that makes it impossible to recover or recreate. You... kinda don't want to ask. They had that "mad scientist glint" in their eyes.

And while everyone's checking out brochures to different realities? You? Head off to the nearest College. It's the Zone, so technically you could go to any of endless billions. But you'd like your education some time this century.

Cue! Danny Fenton! Entering?

Academia's wet dream. A sprawling CITY of a college. Where the classes are on EVERYTHING and the price is FREE. People have Obsessions okay?? They NEED to teach. Debate and discuss! Study! Right papers and read them! It's been going on a while! And what happens when you find a subject that's NOT covered?

YOU COVER IT!

It's like if New York was a College. Good fucking luck find the dorms. Sleep on the floor like the rest of us, you casual.

Danny was Not Prepared ™.

He loves it though.

Classes on aeronautics next making the perfect sandwich, shoved next to historical basketry, stacked above alien slam poetry. But only on Tuesdays! Ever shifting. Breaking his Fenton Born Adhd in to a fine PASTE to be smeared upon bread. Happy mental stimulation chemicals go Brrrrrrrr

If it wasn't wildly inappropriate, he would LICK IT to claim it as his then wrap around it and gaurd like a territorial cat. He thought he HATED school! Turns out he just hated high-school. College though? College, or at least ZONE College, is fuckin AWESOME.

He's sit in SO MANY random classes just cause.

Picked up and dropped them at a whim. When they no longer sparked joy. He's been a flighty bitch and for once? No one CARES. No one says "you HAVE to commit and stick with this FOREVER once you choose this" and? It just? It's so FREEING! He's learned so MUCH!

He's probably gonna come back!

Which? Is how a deeply, DEEPLY weird aerospace engineer from supposedly bumfuck NOWHERE, end up working at Wayne Industries. He's.... a lil crazy behind the eyes. Ha ha... CONCERNING ™!

Dude sleeps on the lab floor. Has weirdly spotty knowledge. Can be an unprecedented genius one second and not know who the current president is the next. Doesn't know what DAY it is. Forgets to eat. Tried to make a fusion reactor out of the break room toaster before Sandra from accounting distracted him with pictures of her cat.

It's like he wanders through life blissfully unaware that he is both terrifying and about three seconds from killing them all. Then FUCKING TRIPS because he forgot to tie his shoelaces again.

Who hired this man?

WHY!?

I mean, we KNOW why. Probably to put him on a watch list. But? He's like a terrifying murder puppy! Built like a tank! That's stoned out of its mind half the time. And have you HEARD his college stories? That CAN'T be legal. Was this guy raised in a cult!? Aaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!????

@hdgnj @legitimatesatanspawn @babbling-babull @dcxdpdabbles @hypewinter

[copperbadge]

I contacted https://www.tumblr.com/support and they said:

 It sounds like your account may have been selected to experience a test of one of these improvements.   Thanks for your patience while we work on this! You may see your Tumblr experience return to normal as we continue testing.

So what I hear is that everyone should contact them who got that and say that it's bad so they change it back for us 'selected' folks.

Ah, thanks for the advice! I went to support and entered a perhaps aggressively simple ticket. Transcript follows; I've bolded my speech to set it apart from the responses.

Me: Please put my dash back the way it was.

Response: Hello, there.

We often test new ways to make Tumblr better. It sounds like your account may have been selected to experience a test of one of these improvements.

Thanks for your patience while we work on this! You may see your Tumblr experience return to normal as we continue testing.

We regularly collect feedback to pass along to our development teams. And while we may not implement all those suggestions, the discussion around them is what drives us to make great things.

If you'd like to start a conversation with us and the wider Tumblr community around your ideas and opinions, you can now send us an ask or submission on our Work in Progress blog: https://wip.tumblr.com

Me: How do I go about setting up my account to be unselected for this testing and all future testing?

Response: Hi again,

The testing is randomly selected, and only certain percentages of our users at a time.

There isn't a way to opt out of tests like this at this time, but that is definitely something you could submit as an idea to WIP!

Me: Is there literally nobody at Tumblr who can reset my dash back to its previous appearance?

Response: Yes, that's correct.

Since this is a test, this may go back to the original configuration, but it may also stay this way as the new experience.

All of us in support are unable to revert or alter these tests. The best way to be heard from our developers is feedback through that WIP blog.

Me: The WIP blog whose askbox won't be open again until next Monday. Useful. Thank you, you can close out this ticket.

As may or may not be evident, I was already having a shitty week and I find my dash currently almost impossible to look at or navigate. I wasn't aware I was nearing the end of my thermocline but apparently I am.

I've emptied my queue and I may not be here much for the next few days while I decide whether I want to be on tumblr at all. @wip here's that feedback support staff is so desperate for me to give you, since your askbox is open twelve hours a week.

[nothorses]

there's also an implication in this conversation that I do not like- and that I have seen vocalized pretty blatantly, too- that atheism isn't actually something that truly exists, and the concept itself is just a damaging remnant of Christian ideology.

like- the idea that whether a thing is religion or not is purely arbitrary, that there is actually no easy way to define "religion" and not participate in it, also very much means that things like "the separation of church and state" are necessarily impossible. right?

and if your religion is also just the culture you're a part of, you can't really consider yourself non-religious, because culture is just religion. if you have culture, you have religion, and everyone has some kind of culture.

I often see people point to like, Hinduism; originally not considered more than a lifestyle, until Christians needed to define it in order to convert people from it.

and yeah, yes, the two are very heavily tied. but I think y'all misunderstand what atheism is if you think of it as an absence of belief.

Atheism means you believe that there isn't a higher power. like any religion, there are values that follow from this: we have to decide why it is we should do good things, what it means to be good, what the point of living is, and all the other questions every religion has to answer.

it's just... not formally organized, so those questions are usually asked and answered individually, or in small family groups and maybe social circles.

and yeah, there are atheists that never do this. we don't have systems or processes for converting, so it's easier to just like, decide you aren't religious anymore and never question what that means or entails. but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen, either; it doesn't mean that deeper introspection isn't a pretty logical next step for a good number of ex-theists who become atheists, and a pretty intrinsic part of being raised atheist.

what it means to be an atheist varies by the person, their individual experiences with religion, and surrounding culture. the beliefs you have are likely going to be informed by how they contrast to the religions you have experience (direct or tangential) with.

and... that's also not untrue of any religious person.

what bothers me about this conversation is that a good amount of it relies on how people view atheists from the outside; a lot of which is informed both by the surrounding Christian-dominant culture of a lot of these folks, their own religions and individual experiences with religion, and the interactions they've had with atheists.

the reason we see people framing atheism as a total lack of personal ideology is because they literally just don't know what it is, and they're often unwilling to listen to atheists about it. a lot of them don't question (ironically) that these ideas they have come from Christianity and religion, even if they themselves are not Christian.

and if that sounds like how a lot of atheists in Christian-dominant cultures view minority religions like Judaism, that's because it is!

I don't think it's the exact same; there's obviously a very different system of power and oppression at work with religious minorities than there is with atheism. but I do think that the people trying to criticize atheists who aren't making an effort to listen & learn about religions they don't already have direct experience with, also need to listen & learn about the thing they're trying to criticize. ideally from multiple people who have direct personal experience with it, and ideally from a diversity of experiences within that group.

and I think the crux of this conversation is that everyone needs to be operating under the assumption that their ideas may not be coming from pure logic and reason.

[literaticat]

I thought the main appeal of scholastic (YA & mg is all I know about) was the fair component? I've heard from several scholastic authors the vast, vast majority of their sales came from the fair and there wasn't much done beyond that. As in, really nothing.

So assuming you are a marginalized author signing with Scholastic, it's likely the sales will be majorly different post this decision to let folks opt out of books with marginalized rep, right? I find that deeply concerning and certainly worth a boycott of the publisher as a whole. Or am I not seeing some other factor here?

While it's true that Scholastic can move a lotta paper through their clubs and fairs -- Scholastic clubs and fairs doesn't necessarily pick up every book that Scholastic Press publishes -- and Scholastic Clubs and Fairs carry more than just Scholastic books.

(For example, I just looked at the random first page of the Scholastic Clubs YA section, and while there are Scholastic books there, I also spy titles from Harper, S&S, Disney, Viz Media, Abrams...)

I totally understand being concerned and irate about this bone-headed "opt-out policy." I am, too. But I also know that Scholastic Clubs and Fairs has a looooong legacy of making sort of mealy-mouthed and lousy "try to please everyone" decisions -- that for sure isn't new. I mean I get WHY -- they have accounts across the political and socio-economic spectrum and they don't want to lose money -- but if course, you can't please everyone, and when you try to please everyone, it ultimately pleases no-one.

It ALSO makes me beyond-words angry that this policy actually exists (VERY SADLY) because the environment in some school districts and states has gotten so dramatic of late that teachers and librarians are being targeted, harassed, fired and sued over diverse books, and that a handful of complete assholes are making it impossible for educators to share great books with their classrooms, that teachers jobs are being threatened because certain books *exist* on school property, etc.

I think there's better ways for Scholastic to deal with it, probably, and I'm guessing that they are currently scrambling to figure those ways out. (Or not! I don't know! But I AM pretty sure that they are scared as hell -- in my mind I'm picturing a bunch of clubs and fairs people cowering behind Clifford the Big Red Dog as both liberals and conservatives wave pitchforks and torches at them. CLIFFORD, DO SOMETHING!)

So yeah. I dunno, I do think that the Clubs/Fairs business is at some kind of crossroads right now, and yes, it could be that how they work will end up changing even more, and that might affect author's bottom lines. It's definitely something to watch out for and be mindful of. So far I haven't seen dramatic dips in Clubs/Fairs income for my authors, but I also haven't been doing like a *forensic analysis* of it, nor can I see what the big picture numbers look like.

As far as a boycott, what I'd ask anyone to consider is, what does a boycott of Scholastic look like? And who is it helping?

Is it that you/the public aren't buying any Scholastic books? When they DO publish loads of marginalized authors? You'd certainly be making an impact on those authors, but not a positive one. In fact, I'd argue that the book banners who are behind all this chaos would LOVE for you to boycott Scholastic. They are, in fact, URGING people to boycott Scholastic. I've seen material from certain right wing groups about how Scholastic and their authors are degenerates that literally made me sick to my stomach with fear for my authors' physical and mental well being. I definitely don't want to do what THOSE people want us to do.

Is it that you, as a parent or school administrator or whatever, decide not to do a Scholastic book fair at your school? I get that, and as far as I'm concerned, as long as you are doing that for nice, wholesome reasons, like you want MORE diverse books in your school and you'd rather support a local independent bookstore who can bring great books in, it sounds like a fine idea to me. (If you are doing it because you don't want kids to have access to ANY BOOKS or something, well, that's gross as hell!)

Is it that you, as an author, are asking your agent not to submit to Scholastic? That's totally within your rights, and it's perfectly OK -- but also, they DO have some great editors, and I think it's also perfectly OK to not want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, so if you DON'T want to avoid them, I don't think that's a problem.

I'll be watching how all of this continues to play out, and I'll be watching the royalty statements and such, and if there comes a point where there IS a huge dip in income or something like that, where it seems like "OK, they are not a viable publishing partner" -- that's another conversation. But so far we aren't there, that I can see. I reserve the right to change my mind!

In the meantime, I URGE YOU, VOTE, especially in local elections -- people just don't vote for School Board and such, so the only people who ARE reliably voting are the terrible people, which is how they get so much power. If you can, give money to organizations that are fighting the good fight against censorship and protecting librarians and educators. And if you have it in you, get involved with your local library board, school board, PTA, or whatever you have to do to BE IN THE ROOM when these psychos are trying to ban books and take away children's freedom to read.

[callmearcturus]

Do you have any advice for finding people to write fanfic with? You talk all the time abt your collabs with punct and it sounds like in addition to providing a second opinion, the two of you really help motivate each other to keep working on stuff :)

UUUUUUh I am uniquely not the person to ask this I think, lmao. Instead of "coauthor" lets say "collaborators," because that's much more common for me.

Because for the PT Benji AU, that one is pretty unique. Punct had the initial idea and I think we haggled a bit over "well SOMEONE has to write this, the idea is so fucking good" and I started turning the brainstorming sessions into an outline. Then because I know Punct and their skill level, I jsut started.... Poking them to hop in and directly help? And that submission scene two(?) chapters ago, I just fully asked them to take a swing at writing it and I'd revise, which worked fabulously. Hell, just last night, Punct reworked the outline for the last 2 chapters of act one, and it's amazing.

For me, cowriting is difficult because, uh, my speed and intensity. As you may surmise, I write Very Fucking Fast and I have a lot of ideas about the Process, so I often feel like... Roping someone in to work with me is a huge ask.

You know all those posts you see about how writing is a slog and how blank word documents stare back at you and, like, that genre of post? I don't relate to those. When I am entrenched in a project, I often have to STOP writing or I risk literal physical injury. (My worst injury came from writing TSAD, never fucking let ANY human type at that speed, folks.)

I am, frankly, a freak. So as we started collaborating, I told Punct "hey bruh, I know that I am like really intense and i work very fast, please know I DO NOT expect that from you, okay." And reiterated it a few times. /looks over at Punct. So they better keep it in mind!

Anyway, enough conceited clarification, onto the point of your question.

How do you find people to create stuff with.

The number one thing that I will keep saying until I am blue in the fucking face is: post positive stuff you are interested in.

I do not hateread. I try to keep drama to a minimum on Tumblr. When I see opinions and takes I disagree with, I tend to post alternative takes in a hopefully positive manner instead of trying to take down others. I think there is a big habit in fandom for people to go "UGH why are people posting X when they should post Y." And that bitching never actually gets you more Y, it just makes everyone less excited about creating stuff.

When you are looking for collaborative souls, you are looking for people excited about creating stuff. So you need to telegraph that's what you're into in a constructive way. But I think an unfortunate pitfall a lot of people fall into is... Just announcing it.

When I got into Mission Impossible, I didn't do a lot of "hey I'm into MI now, pls come talk to me about it." Instead, I started making posts of why I was into it. Here's some batshit stunt facts, here is a treatise on Ghost Protocol's deep unorthodox streak, look at these pics of Ethan from Fallout.

They're like setting out treats. Sometimes, you lure in people who are willing to say "yes, and." And when you find those people, you keep track of them and see if they continue to be willing to play with you. Then you sidle up and go "so can I pitch you on an AU." And you put them in a cardboard box and carry them away to Discord.

There's more I could say, like how sometimes I try writing towards specific people (like how KTOWL was written at @thedoublepp and I feel like I learned a tremendous amount by doing that) and honing writing based on that, buuuut this post is long.

[mitochondriaandbunnies]

Miami Vice S1E13: Milk Run

An almost perfect episode with an ending that guts like a fish knife.

Milk Run is the episode that Little Prince wanted to be, and it's super weird to me that they're back to back. It's better written, better paced, and commits much more strongly to its message, so it feels a bit like you watch the rough draft of an idea and then the final draft right in a row.

It's also significantly more fun than Little Prince, which both makes it more enjoyable to watch, and makes the tragedy that much more painful. The first half of the episode is played very light-- jokes and smiles and sunshine-- and then by the final quarter you're left with the cold, sinking feeling that something terrible is going to happen and it's going to fuck everyone up forever.

(it does)

The episode opens with Sonny creeping on a lady who bends over at the airport, and Rico walking (crotch first) into his line of view and giving him a serious Sitcom Wife look. It's hard to shake the sense that this is a "Rico shoots his shot and Sonny straight up doesn't notice" episode; the smile he gives Sonny when he tells Sloane they're partners is shy and flirty as all get out, he literally grabs Sonny and walks with him arm and arm as they cross the street, he brushes his fingers against Sonny's and pivots around him a centimeter away as they lean on the hotel counter. Sonny ever so slightly leans into him after that, like there's some recognition of their closeness, and then they see Eddie and Sonny spends the rest of the episode freaking out about Justice(TM).

This is the episode where Rico reveals he is a vegetarian, and Sonny kind of brushes it off like "that's simply impossible, no such thing."

Tubbs says a bunch of stuff about a Colombian god who originated in Nigeria and seems to be surprisingly knowledgeable about folk religion, and then in the next scene he and Sonny have a conversation about Santeria that's so far removed from anything anyone has ever known about Santeria that you begin to wonder if he just made this "Colombian god" up to sound smart.

While Crockett speaks to the "Santeria Priestess" (a teenage punk who works at a movie theater and is absolutely not a Santeria Priestess), a bald woman behind him sports what appears to be leather bondage gear

A young Eric Bogosian roughs up Tubbs; later in the episode he says that Pepe Moya is "a freak" who "gets off on weeeeiiiiaaaahhhhd stuff." Okay, Worcester boy. Sure. That's how everyone in Massachusetts Miami talks.

The transition from Rico leaping into the car to the boxing gym, overlaid with Hit Me With Your Best Shot is just an absolute joy, A+ fun, silly, wholesome sequence.

Castillo asks Crockett to put surveillance in place and Sonny says he's already put "Mann and Terranova" on it. While I believe wholeheartedly that Miami Vice and Wiseguy take place in the same universe, it's a but strange to get your creator to do surveillance for you.

Tubbs makes the obligatory S1 "you will be sexually assaulted in prison" threat this episode, which is highly out of character and, as far as I can recall, never happens again. Sonny just screams at the kid.

Eddie tells Sonny that he can't speak to the police because his lawyer told him "you're just gonna use me."

Well.

Considering the ending.

It's almost

Like you shouldn't

Speak to the police

Without your lawyer

I think it's important to point out that Eddie, who is tragically killed in a way Sonny does not expect and cannot really have prevented (but feels like it could have been preventable to him), doesn't just share his first name with Sonny's prior partner. His last name is also Rivers-- too close to Riviera to be a coincidence. One of the themes of Vice is the cyclical and repetitive nature of tragedy for anyone who is involved in either criminality or the justice system (Mann generally posits these two things as mirror images or inexorably linked halves of one whole; see Heat). Eddie Riviera was a cop, thematically framed as an innocent, and Sonny couldn't save him, and Eddie Rivers was a criminal, thematically framed as an innocent, and Sonny couldn't save him. The only people who make it out are ones like Caroline, who divest themselves completely from that world. Anyone on either side of the law is equally damned.

From the time we see Eddie's body rolled away to the credits rolling is two full minutes of a 48 minute runtime; Sonny is sitting on the floor, mostly facing the camera, for the entirety of that two minutes. The amount of time from when the other characters leave and Rico sits down next to him to is itself a full minute, and the last 40 seconds of that minute are wordless. I don't think it can be overstated how endless a minute of hollow-eyed silence is in a television show feels.

[greyeyedmonster-18]

"this is content that we make for free and people have the audacity to rank things in the bookmarks????"

yah.

we make it for free.

and while yes it is mean to actively comment this on someones fic or come into an authors ask box and say "hey this sucked, you should reconsider" or even offer "Constructive criticism" and that is something that readers should definitely not do ever, that does not mean folks arent allowed to have opinions?? to leave in spaces?? that are meant for readers?

because its made for free, someone leaving a bad review or having a bookmark there of like "3/5" (when we do not know what that means or what these numbers mean to the reader we are just assuming!!), should have no bearing on us! its free! a bad review does not mean we are going to make less money, or impact "visibility" the way a bad review impacts writers who...write for a living.

someones opinion on your fic does not...have an impact. other than our feelings. and like yah it sucks but like, c'est la vie.

to which i have always said: well, its likely you didn't write this fic for the one person who didn't like it. this fic was not for them. and that is okay. you cannot expect your works to be for everyone, just like you as a human are not for everyone. to be universally liked by everyone and for everyone to give it 10/10 in their bookmarks. that's literally impossible. and if that's the expectation you have for yourself and your fic and the reason you are creating in the first place that is a different conversation that you need to have with yourself.

[pixeljade]

Lets talk about ethical consumption under capitalism, shall we?

Honestly I'm wholesale against judging folks for shit like spending money on problematic stuff as long as they're like. Aware of it and consistent about it, if that makes sense?

Like I definitely *encourage* people to consider the fact that every dollar they spend on FNAF or Spotify or Harry Potter WILL go toward conservative power structures that absolutely ARE killing people! But you wanna know something? Virtually every company you interact with, ever, uses U-line products in their back-end, because they're really the only company that provides it. That company is owned by the Uihleins, who are also extremely conservative and fund horrible legislature. Most of those companies ALSO use Amazon, and the crimes there are incredibly well-documented. I could go on with examples like these. This is true of all kinds of companies, including your favorite indie game companies, because capitalism means competing for survival, and things like "this company provides me what i need faster and for cheaper" are basically required to maintain a competitive edge. Some companies can manage to take a hard line stance against these things, but usually only after seeing massive success in their arena. Its an enormous crapshoot to continue to feed yourself and your employees without supporting evil support companies.

And yeah, we all know the whole "no ethical consumption under capitalism" and we all also know that its not a free ticket to do whatever you want and pretend its fine. Its not fine! But my point is that literally everyone in Capitalism is living unethically! Think of Doug Forcett in The Good Place; trying to live absolutely ethically and he STILL failed to meet ethical standards of The Good Place! Because its impossible!

So if nobody can be truly ethical, that means everyone has to find the way to be as ethical as they can while still just...living a life worth living. Which IS still important! The whole point of ethics is that enjoyment of life is something we all deserve, and that impeding that for others is fucked up! But since enjoyment is a personal, internal thing; I cant help but think that the balance of living ethically versus living a life you enjoy is also a very personal one. Therefore, judgment of others, especially when you dont know what they got going on in their lives, can often have the effect of making them feel bad about feeling good, ever! Theres been countless posts by folks with OCD here who struggle because they equate anything enjoyable with a lack of ethics! Judgment feeds into that just as much as it prevents conservatism going unchecked.

So am I saying that we should just let people do whatever? NO, definitely not! All of this is just to say that we are all fucking HUMAN! And that being a human is hard, and all that can be asked of us is our bests. Having an ever-watching social eye over our every action is just as harmful to our wellbeing as it is in the workplace, NOBODY works better under mass judgment! So if you want people to do better (as you should!) The best way to do so is without judgment, but instead with kindness and understanding.

[callsigndragon]

hey this is more a request than anything else but even then you don’t have to take it into consideration — but you’re just one of the most inclusive writers on here with your making athena kerner demi and everything so i thought i’d ask — would you mind making red a little bit more racially ambiguous? in that right now with the super blonde baby and her emojis’ colour (small detail, i know, not trying to nitpick, sorry!) she sometimes seems very white? which is completely okay!! just like i prefer x reader fics over ocs primarily because it doesn’t feel so gatekeepy w/ regards to race or body types or whatever, and as a woc it’s just nice to pretend you can live in others’ fictional worlds even if it isn’t like overt representation lol

so sorry if this comes off the wrong way, genuinely a huge fan of yours and your stories, can’t wait to see more xx

Oh, anon... I adressed this topic already on one of the posts. I apologized bc yeah, I realized that I made Red as a white character, but here's the thing: it's kinda difficult to include pictures and make it 'racially ambiguous'. If Red was a black woman, then Liam should have dark skin, if Red was asian, Liam should have asian features. If Red was a Latina, Liam’s skin would also be darker. So it's impossible to show you what kind of pics Jake takes, or the rest of the squad, to make it look a bit more real with all the lockscreens and stuff, without indirectly adressing Red's skin color.

I literally just open pinterest and use whatever pics I find. In my head, Liam was the tiny version of Jake, and I, unintentionally, allowed my work move in that direction.

I'm really, really sorry for that.

I explained that pics are just a reference, because my Pinterest is mainly white folks being aesthetic (good job, pinterest) and even though I tried to look for pics where Red isn't visible, Liam is gonna be everywhere, and in everyone else's mind, he's already a tiny white baby with blonde locks.

It's kinda hard to change that.

I, however, will keep that in mind for the rest of series, one-shots and blurbs I publish in the future. (But for example keep in mind that in Legends Never Die, a retelling with reader being Goose and Carole's daughter... she has to be white.)

I'm not white myself, Spanish people have tanned skin, we're included in the 'Hispanic' ethnicity (some people think it's a race but it isn't). So yeah, here I am, writing about a white woman when I'm not white. But again, let me emphasize that Red's pics are only for reference. I've seen interracial kids with blonde hair too (they're absolutely beautiful). There's cases of black women and white men marrying and surprise! Kid is white. It's rare, but it happens. Maybe Liam could be one of those rare cases in your mind.

It's too late to change that now, and about the emoji, never thought about it cause I have friends from different races who just use the white ones, never gave it a thought. I'll also keep that in mind for the future.

Again, I'm really sorry, but I believe this fic will have to remain as it is, because there's a lot of convos and pictures in said convos that I can't rewrite.

Thank you for adressing the topic ❤️

[whitenoisewrites]

You know what, fuck it. Literally the whole point of starting this blog was to teach myself to stop fearing being seen as cringe or whatever. To get more comfortable with putting myself and my weird little bits and pieces out there. So, against what *pretends* to be my better judgement but is actually just anxiety, here's the thing I vented about making in my last post:

"We Don't Talk About Gaster"

(Yes I know that's already a thing, but I *think* my version is different enough that it's *probably* okay. Do go check that one out though, it's pretty cool. There's an animatic and everything!)

The basic premise is that Frisk found the grey door and the followers and starts to wonder if Gaster might be the missing key to saving Asriel. After everyone's more or less settled in on the surface, they start asking around, starting with…

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[...Toriel and Asgore. Toriel only really knew him as the Royal Scientist. She believes he stole their magical secrets for his own benefit and went into hiding. Asgore knew him more personally and thinks he died in a lab accident (closest to the truth), but when Tori sets her mind on something…]

We don't talk about Gaster, no no no No-one talks about Gaster

See, it was a joyous day, (Such a momentous day!) The CORE was almost finished And in hours we'd soon see the sky, (Hours away from the sky!) An intern walks in, with his face looking grim (So sad…) Are you telling this story or am I? (I'm sorry, Tori, do go on~)

Gaster disappeared that day (Where did he go?) Destroyed his work and ran away (Will we ever know?) Our years of trust in him, betrayed! (I don't think that's true, but anywho)

We don't talk about Gaster, no no no No-one talks about Gaster

[Alphys was in her teens when she interned under him. She knew him as an intimidating but fair mentor. She believes he cracked under the strain of his impossible mission to break the Barrier and either fell down from despair or committed suicide.]

Grew to live in fear of Gaster stuttering or stumbling I could always hear him sort of muttering and mumbling Tough to comprehend him even if you spoke in hands It's a heavy burden, the task so daunting Takes a chilling hold, always there and haunting Having felt the weight of it myself I understand… Do you understand?

[Flowey found the grey door and the followers once each and NEVER went looking for them again. He believes Gaster is basically a creepypasta character, a vengeful void demon that will someday consume all. He never really knew Gaster as Asriel, so lacks knowledge of the REAL Gaster to contradict this, and never asked the others during his many runs due to his new fear.] [Or so he claims... it's possible he does know better and he's just screwing with Frisk for fun. IDK seems like the kind of thing he'd do]

Seven foot frame, face all warped and cracked When you call his name, it all fades to black There's no escape, he'll seal every fate

I don't talk about Gaster, no no no (note: chorus still says "we") No-one talks about Gaster

[The followers' relatives. Some remember more than others. The ones that do remember blame Gaster for their losses.]

My dad got a job with him, a year on? Gone. My boyfriend worked for him, now I'm all alone!

[MK. They only have one sibling... right?] I'm sure glad none of my folks knew that guy, they'd prob'ly be dead!

[All follower rels] He risked their lives just to put himself ahead!

[Sans. Gaster's experiments gave him his blasters, shortcuts and KR. He knows his dad wasn't a great guy. He still misses him.]

He told me that my brother would grow up and live freely under the stars. He told me that I had to be stronger so I could protect him from harm.

[Tori] It seems our guests are on their way.

[Papyrus. He never knew Gaster at all, he was only a babybones when whatever happened happened.] Sans told me that our dad would be proud of the man I've become, One who never surrenders! It's like I hear him now…

[Sans] Hey, kid. I'd drop all this if I were you… (It's like I hear him now,) (I can hear him now!)

[Frisk] Um, Gaster… Yeah, about that Gaster, I really need to know about Gaster. We need the truth and the whole truth Gaster!

[Flowey] Franken-lizard! Your girlfriend's here!

[Everyone at the house] Time for dinner!

[The big rounding chorus goes here, don't feel like typing it all out lol]

[Frisk tries to call to him. Not much happens, but they are DETERMINED. As they feel that familiar surge of energy, the shadows in the corners of the room start growing…]

[Chorus] Don't talk about Gaster!

[Frisk] Why did I ask about Gaster?

[Chorus, distorted as the VOID closes in] Not a word about Gaster!

[Frisk (& Chara)] I (we) never should've brought up Gaster!

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(Please don't forget to go check out the TwoAllNighters and co. take on the concept, I'd hate for my little shitpost here to take traffic from them after they put in so much effort. I know that video is a year and change old now but still.)

[carnivoraformes]

@auburniivenus asked, "🔥"

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//I am not big on 'anti's'. Not that I have a problem with people that say they are anti-proshipping, anti-racism, anti-literally list any gross thing no one in their right mind is here for (myself included). That isn't what my gripe is about.

It isn't even because I have a problem with others having a hill they are willing to die on or fandoms they refuse to touch with a ten foot pole, more power to you!

I also really don't have an issue of people being outspoken about something you are against! Fight for what you believe in! But when someone says 'I am an anti-whatever' I see it as you telling me if you are 'anti' something and that I am not allowed to ask you how you feel and why you feel the way you do because I am proving I am the problem with society and that person is an angel doing whatever god they do or do not believe in's work. And I am not here for it.

Do I think everyone that states they are anti is like this? FUCK NO. But if I personally believe when you are willing to put your beliefs on blast then you should be willing to prove that you are respectful and open to explaining things that most people could reasonably believe isn't the kind of thing that say my 60+ year old southern drawl but educated country folk family would not immediately understand the issue with.

Like just as an off hand example someone is anti-MHA, fair. Now why shouldn't that person be expected when asked politely EXPLAIN WHY and use their adult words, not their angry words, if someone can't without getting pissed off with then I believe that that kind of person is part of the problem because it justifies the thing they are against. I mean it is human nature to be drawn to the thing we are told is evil, is it a good thing, not really, but we are human beings.

But for better or for worse I immediately assume that those that label themselves 'antis' can't do that even if they totally can until they step up and prove it. I know it is unfair. But since this is the internet it is damn near impossible to figure out who someone is until you get cussed out by some self righteous person that sees themselves as a knight in shining armor or get it calmly explained by a reasonable human being. And I already have a hard enough talking to people, I am not here to get cussed out or ignored because I asked a legitimate question.

I can't know who can and cannot act like an adult until we actually talk (even though I exclusively follow adults) so I try to take cues on someone's beliefs based off their rules. And for me 'anti' is the same level of red flag as a person that says 'I want someone to meet me in a dark alley in two states away from their home for a first date' on a tinder profile.

Now this isn't a jab at people that have a list of fandoms they won't touch, blogs they won't interact with, or just things they are against but I live under a rock and everyone has a right to curate their space and I will curate mine how I please and I hold no ill will against those that do the same. Until they ignore me or start screaming at me for being stupid. I am open to learning and learning from my mistakes. But what I am not open to his being yelled at for not knowing creator 'x' said a bad word 15 years ago when I had no reason to find out or way of even starting to know they said it in the first place. I am literally Patrick Star under a rock. If I am ignorant enlighten me.

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Hi Steph, I hope you’re well. I also hope this message isn’t hurtful in any way. See, I’m not even 25 yet, but I struggle with shame at the idea that I’m still on tumblr and reading fanfic. It just doesn’t feel grownup or mature enough. It feels like I should get over it. It may seem like a childish concern but the level of distress and shame it causes me is significant. Have you ever felt the same way ? How did you overcome it ? Much love to you.

Hey Nonny *HUGS*

Listen: The idea that fandom should be discarded when you get older is UTTER FUCKING BOLLOCKS, and the majority of people shitting on older fandom folks and trying to make people feel bad about it are either too young to comprehend that there's no magic door you go through in your 20's and suddenly you lose interest in everything you enjoyed and pop out on the other side in a suit and tie, or "high and mighty" ass-twats who think they're better than everyone else, that everything except for what they like is “cringe” and are the same folks who think sports fandoms aren’t weird-as-fuck either.

They don't understand who keeps fandoms alive. They don't understand that the creators of the media they consume are also adults over 30 (this one ALWAYS confused me... like... who they fuck do they think wrote the content they currently enjoy in the first place???). They don't get that not everything is made for them specifically, and that people are allowed to enjoy different things.

They don't understand that being an adult doesn't mean losing a part of yourself, nor losing the things that make you happy.

And they CERTAINLY don't comprehend that it's fantastic being an adult in a fandom. I can now afford a Funko collection, or buy those prints I wanted, collect comics, create the art I enjoy, interact with people who share my interests, and play video games without rage quitting because now I enjoy the challenge that they present to me.

And, ESPECIALLY in this day and age of the entire world falling apart, obligations having to take precedence over yourself, and jobs working us so much that it’s nigh impossible to have free time anymore, we adults need things that make us happy, to help us make sense of the world, to help us escape it for just a little while, because honestly once you have to deal with real life again, it can sometimes really suck.

I've written and reblogged posts about this very thing in the past that you can check out, before I get to my main point and answer your actual question:

MY POSTS:

Fandom Twitter seems so ageist, I see why you don’t like it (with reply from JBaillier)

REPLY: I’m a 33 year old nurse, I come to fandom to escape

HATE REPLY (to a different ask): That other Anon is right, it’s weird you’re almost 40

REPLY to REPLY: Don’t let the ageism get to you

REPLY to REPLY: Don’t listen to that other anon

REPLY to REPLY to REPLY: Anons are mean

REPLY to REPLY: I’m 18 and it makes me mad people are ageist

OTHERS' POSTS

On Fandoms, Age and Gender

On Fanart and Fanfiction: When Are you Going to Stop It?

Ageism in Fandom

Ignore the Fun Police as you Age

Your Fave Author is over 30

You only need to like a thing to be a fan of it

Ageism in fandom, 27 is too old?

ALL THAT SAID, finally, Nonny, I can’t 100% relate to how you feel because I was fortunate enough to have family and friends who encouraged me and my interests given my affinity for art and my initial desire to be an animator. Of course I had the occasional adult belittle me, AND I still keep my fandom life VERY much separated from my personal and work lives, AND I also hyperfixate on fandom things so I’m always “weird”, so in that regard I have felt shame. But when I got into my late 20′s and early 30′s, I suddenly realized that those people who shat on me for liking the things that I do were just miserable people themselves, who had very little interests of their own, and their impact on my life is literally a blip of a moment in a life that could be 80 years long. Suddenly it didn’t make sense to me to stop doing things I enjoyed and be shameful of that stuff, because there’s so little in my life these days that makes me happy, and my Stuff and Things™ are precious to me. Sure, I still have a Personal Life, Private Life, Work Life, and Fandom Life that all vaguely connect together but are for the most-part kept separated, but it’s not out of shame, it’s out of “my job doesn’t need to know what I do in my off hours because it’s none of their business”. It’s worked for me, and perhaps it can work for you.

I mean, who wants to essentially go to work 40+ hours a week, pay bills, do essential and obligatory tasks and chores, try to stay alive, and then in what little free time one has and just.... do nothing? I genuinely do feel sad for people who feel like they have to abandon what they once loved... it must make life feel very lonely and very unfulfilling. For me, I do all of the adulty things mentioned above, plus I watch movies, I draw, I write, I maintain a blog that fulfills me, I read, I collect stuff, and I play video games. I can’t afford to travel nor do I have any partner/s in my life, so it’s these little things that make me happy. And once I realized that, it was easier to let go of any residual shame I still had.

Don’t ever stop enjoying fandom. No one does... Conventions of any sort would never exist without fandom. Sherlock Holmes is still a relevant literary figure because people STILL adapt it over a century later. Sports live on forever and no one ever shames those people, right? Like, I don’t GET football or hockey or the fandoms surrounding them, and I don’t GET enjoying a sport I’m not actively participating in, but sports isn’t my thing, ergo, not my place to shame someone else for it. 

As one post put it up above there: a LARGE chunk of your favourite fic authors are in their 40s/50s/60s. Fandom is multigenerational and no shame should ever be had about reading fan fiction. I don’t make it a secret anymore that the only literature I read is fanfic. Quite frankly, it’s easier for me to consume because the worlds are already established, and I just get to read about what the toys I love are doing in the sandbox this time from someone ELSE’S perspective.

*HUGS* Please don’t feel shame, Lovely. It will take time, but once you realize how insignificant other people-who-you-barely-know’s opinion really is, you genuinely do stop caring what other people think. Literally just a blip.

*HUGS* Please take care, Nonny. I hope my words comforted you at least just a little bit.  

[delicrieux]

☆ﾐ 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚊𝚢 “𝚘𝚑”

PART 10: BIG DICK IS BACK IN TOWN

y/n is back in brooklyn for the holidays. thinking that a stream will make her feel less homesick for cali, she starts working on her famously titled hentai.free.srv. what was supposed to be a relaxing stream turns into a special delivery about two hours in.

─── corpse husband x reader ─── soc. media + written fiction! ─── word count: 2.2k ─── ❥ req: Here's one... You know those apps for delivery like Domino's or whatnot... What if reader is streaming Among Us with Corpse, and reader mentions they're hungry and Corpse offers to order them food, and readers like no no it's fine... Then there's delivery at the door (Corpse ordered beforehand) 

author’s note: fucky format is also back in town baby!!! also if you find any mistakes - no u didnt <3 thank u everyone for enjoying this story sm i literally cant believe how feral yall going strawberry cow was a nuclear explosion im still recovering tbh. got an ask a while ago and decided to incorporate it into myso. happy holidays everyone! myso will continue on monday!

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Indeed, being soft on any social media platform was the biggest disgrace and needed to be eliminated post haste. Moreover, it was a slippery slope - once you start flooding your timeline with cute imagery and heart emojis, what will stop you from posting inspirational Facebook quotes? Disgusting. If Rae were here, she would chide you (not you thinking about her as if she’s dead or something). For once in your life, you feel like you deserve it. 

Alas, you hope this little chaos you’ve caused is enough to throw everyone off. The stans, especially. You know the hashtags, you’ve seen ARMY scourging for info online with the same fervor and ruthlessness 1 Direction fans hacked airport security cameras just to spy on the boys. If you had any dirty secrets online, they are out to the public now - thankfully, besides the Harry Styles stan account (with edits and all), you have nothing. Though, now that you think about it, exposed nudes would have been better than your Punk!Harry edit receiving almost a million views. God, your life’s a fucking mess.

Your fans aren’t the only ones out for info - you, too, are trying to decipher Rae’s message. Code: Barbecue Sauce. The two of you had come up with it roughly two years ago, around the same time when you promised that if you didn’t find significant others by the time you’re 40, you’ll just marry each other. It was one of the many rules found in your friendship codex. Barbecue Sauce signifies information - an exchange of information. And depending on how it ends or begins (”So I’m sitting there” alludes to Rae, “On my titties” alludes to you), secret data on that person is given away, usually free of charge. 

But why? And to whom did Rae give away what? You had pestered her mercilessly and even sent some voice messages where you were crying. You were only crying because of a video of a grandpa smiling you saw on TikTok, but you are a snake, and so you put those tears to good use. If streaming doesn’t work out, you’ll just become an actress. Hollywood would love you. Your PR firm sure as fuck wouldn’t, though.

Rae was having none of it. She said you’ll figure it out eventually. Told you to channel your superior puzzle skills. You were quick to remind her that you can barely count to ten without having an aneurysm. Oddly serious, she admitted that she worries for you sometimes. Why only sometimes?! you demanded. She merely sighed. uttering under her breath something that sounded closely to “Boke.”

You leave her for barely a week and she’s already neck deep in the gay volleyball anime, hoodie and cardboard cutout and everything. Your life is falling apart.

But Brooklyn is nice. It had snowed when you stepped off of the plane. Thousands of snowflakes sprinkling into your hair, dotting your cheeks and nose. You missed this sight back in Cali. You missed your parents, too. 

Home cooked meals, old sweaters, your old room and about 40GB worth of old high school pictures on your computer. You went through them all one night. Some were stomach churning, cringe inducing nightmares. You were especially fond of those. Texted some of your friends that were still in Brooklyn, met up, decided to bake. Bad idea, Rae was the resident chef back in Cali. Besides laughing till your stomach hurt, and almost burning down your kitchen, nothing all that significant happened. Somewhere down the line, at about 3 am, half-way through a cheesy rom-com you had the overwhelming urge to text Corpse.

That’s where the problems really started. God, you missed California, missed being in the same timezone with a guy you hadn’t even met yet, how embarrassing is that?! You missed skating around and taking pictures of the beach in the setting sun, sending it to him, silently wishing he was with you to admire the view. 

You really want to call him. And to hang out with him. But for some reason, the thought of that springs up immediate anxiety and you shy away from asking. Him sending you cute good morning texts doesn’t help, either. Maybe it’s better he doesn’t know that you’re a blushing, stuttering mess each time you read “baby”. 

Late evening. Your stream is already set up, people are slowly trickling in and you greet them with a grin and a soft “Hello! Hi hi!”. You did your best to make your room a perfectly chaotic backdrop - led lights, an embarrassing amount of anime merch and plushies. You always try to balance out your weeb side by dressing hot as fuck for your streams - today’s inspiration just so happens to be egirls. Mostly because you watched one too many egirl make-up tutorials on TikTok, and also because you’ve been listening to Corpse’s song all day.

Yeah, no, who are you kidding, you dressed up this way because you were hoping Corpse was watching your stream. You didn’t forget your cat headphones, either. You know he likes them. You want to make him suffer. Perhaps then, finally, he will ask you out, so you wouldn’t have to.

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“I feel like,” You start when you put away your phone, staring idly at the chat, “I feel like I need a new name for you guys. Calling you guys after two years of streaming is just... weird, no? I also don’t respect men so I don’t want to call you guys. Like, so many creator’s have, like, a name for their fans. Uhm, Cody Ko has the chodesters, Kurtis Conner has, uh, folks? Kurtis Town? Citizens! Markiplier has mommy issues--” You can’t help snorting, “So, I’ve been, like, thinking - I know, shocking! - so I was thinking I’m gonna name you cockroaches. Because you’re grimy little shits impossible to kill. And also then I can use the legendary Minaj meme ROACHES!”

Your stream enthusiastically echoes ROACHES, making the chat swim. Yes, if anyone would enjoy such a name, it would be your audience. You’re as equally proud as you are disturbed.

“Well, anyway.” Leaning back into your chair, you throw your arms out with a bright grin, “Big dick is back in town, baby! If you noticed the backdrops different, it’s cuz I’m in Brooklyn now. Don’t ask me when I will return to Always Sunny, I don’t plan that far ahead.”

While Minecraft boots up, you decide to answer a few questions.

r u dating sykkuno?

You want to smack your head into the keyboard, but as it is, you can’t exactly afford a new one, so you refrain, “No, Sykkuno and I are not dating, we are just good friends. Uhm, I’m not sure how much I’ll have to repeat this, but, we really aren’t, so if the roaches could chill - Oh my God, that sounds so stupid, I love it - uh, yeah, if the roaches could chill that’d be great.”

the roaches lmao sounds like we’re a sports team

“Oh shit, yeah it does, uh-- maybe I can make like, jerseys or something. That’d be cool, I think.”

how disappointed are your parents with the way your life turned out?

“My parents are actually not disappointed at all!” You say with a cute little smile, “Uhm, they’re both really proud, actually. They’re glad I found something I love doing and made a job outta it. Dad finds my Youtube videos endearing. Yes, they watch pretty much all of my videos, unless I explicitly tell them not to. And yeah, with all the fucks and thirsting for anime characters. Uhm, it was very embarrassing at first, but I mean, after a while, shame just...doesn’t exist anymore, I guess? Funny thing about my parents, actually, when they watch my videos-” You eye catches a comment, “Oh! No, they only watch my Youtube videos. They don’t know how to use Twitter, thank God. Uhm, anyway-- when they hear a name they don’t know, like, I dunno, Dabi, or something, they google--” You’re grinning by now, eyes crinkling, giggling softly, “--who that is, and buy me like, merch and stuff. It’s really cute. 

can i be adopted by ur parents plz

will you and corpse ever collab?!

You were about to answer, though the man of the hour himself decides to do it for you.

Corpse_Husband: yes.

Okay, not to say your heart skipped a beat, but it totally did. With a pleased smile, you nod, like one of those bobble head toys sold at the dollar store. The motion is oddly reminiscent of Sykkuno’s own nod. Perhaps you had picked it up from him. The chat seems to notice.

pack it up, sykkuno

More questions pile about this mysterious collab you and Corpse are planning. Yeah, you’d like to hear more about it, too, since he single highhandedly decided one was happening right now. Corpse remains silent. Fine, keep your secrets. 

“Okay, guys, oh, I mean, roaches, Oh my God--” You’re covering your mouth, giggling, “-calling all roaches, calling all roaches, calm down. Everyone grab a snack and a blanket I’m turning up the music volume so we can all chill. Entering chill zone. Entering chill zone. Roaches, prepare.”

we are prepared

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An hour or so passes and you grow hungry. It shows with the amount of cakes you had baked in your server. Currently, you find yourself throwing eggs at the wall of one of the renovated houses, your face scrunched in concentration and slight frustration. 24 of the 50 eggs have been wasted. “What’s a girl gotta do to get some chicks around here?” you had uttered under your breath, until, finally, a screech - the egg finally spawns a mob. Your mouth falls open, “Aww, look!” You approach it, so small, walking in zigzags beside you, “It’s a baby chicken! Die, bitch.” The baby chicken is no more as you swing your bedazzled (you have mods) diamond sword. You’re cackling by the time the dust settles.

y/n is a child murderer

“Roaches,” You address your fan-base, spurring another fit of laughter - you can’t get over the name, “I think I’m like, forgetting that eating in Minecraft won’t actually make less hungry in real life.”

take a break and go eat queen <3

“Fuck no, we starve and die like men. Now I actually really need another chicken.”

Another twenty minutes trickle by and you’re trying to lure back a panda from the jungle when there’s a knock on your bedroom’s door. Whipping your head to the side, you slide down your headphones. At the same time, your mom pokes her head through the ajar door, “MOM!” You scream, “Get OUT of my room I’m playing Minecraft!” But your yell has no actual bite to it, as you don’t manage to hide your smile. Your mom laughs, doing some sort of sign language and motioning for you to follow her with her head. That or it’s some sort of performative dance. 

“I’m live right now,” You tell her, pointing at your screen. She knows this already, though, “do you want to say hi?” 

The roaches spam the chat with friendly hellos. You mom, quite impatient now, waves you over. 

“Sorry, roaches, mom needs something. Be back in a bit!”

Stopping the stream, you rush out of your seat and pleased she slinks into the hallway. “What’s this about?”

“Your pizza came.”

“My what now?” You echo, confused.

“Domino’s. You ordered pizza?”

“What? No? I was busy with the stream, I never--”

Thankfully, you had managed to grab your phone from your room before you exited. You almost choke on spit once you read the messages.

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You decide that it’ll be impossible to stream after experiencing what you had just experienced. You tweet out a quick apology to the roaches (God, that fucking name) and say that you had a breakdown but you’re okay. That is as a close to the truth as you managed to muster. It’s a sad sight, chewing and crying; your mom winced when she saw your state - disheveled hair and rundown eyeliner and everything. “D’aww,” She had muttered, caressing the top of your head, “don’t cry my little raccoon.”

If anyone was ever to ask you where did your chaotic nature come from, you’d answer with my mom. To make yourself feel better, you took a selfie - duck face and peace sign and the horrible 2000′s angle. Sent it to Rae. 

looking hot, her message read. 

thanks, was all you replied with.

You couldn’t just leave things as they were. Once you calmed down, you wanted to text Corpse, but how would you follow up the ungodly caps lock and screeching? Impossible. An idea sprung to mind, one that was brave. Taking the first step.

Instead of sending a text, you sent a voice memo.

“Thank you for the pizza, it was delicious.”

You voice still sounded a bit raspy. His reply was instant. Your heart skipped a beat. He sent a voice memo back.

“Glad you liked it, baby.”

He was going to be the death of you.

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more tags are in the comments bcs tumblr only allows me to tag 50 people max 💙

[problemswithbooks]

I’ve got a lot of things to say about 336 but I’ll wait until the chapter comes out, but in the very least I think it’s safe to say--fuck Aoyama’s parents!

Like if you think about what they did to Aoyama, it’s really terrible and I’d rank them up with Enji, Kotaro and Hawks’ folks on the list of bad parents in My Hero. Yet I really don’t think that was Hori’s intention. It’s just a side effect of him not really showing what being Quirkless actually means in this world.

The only thing we know is that Izuku was bullied by Bakugou and was told he couldn’t be a Hero. Now, I might be wrong, but I think Bakugou admits that it wasn’t just the Quirklessness that caused him bully Izuku. It also had to do with his Izuku’s personality and that he so quickly tried to save without thought. So, that means that it’s possible that if Izuku had had a different personality the bullying would have been less or that even if he had had a Quirk Bakugou still would have targeted him. 

As for not being a Hero--that is literally the only job that requires someone to have a Quirk that we know about. Because Quirks aren’t allowed to be used whenever the user wants, it doesn’t seem that having a Quirk effects whether or not you can get most jobs. It doesn’t force someone into economic destitution or make them second class citizens with limited rights. Plus, because Quirks aren’t supposed to be used publicly and some people have Quirks that have very specific activation requirements it’d be easy to just lie and say you had a Quirk when you didn’t and no one would be the wiser. 

So, Aoyama could have had a perfectly normal, happy life without a Quirk. Maybe he couldn’t be a Hero, but losing out on one job doesn’t doom a person. So many little kids want to grow up to be something that is either impossible for them to be (like a princess) or nearly impossible for them to be (like the President). Growing up and learning that you can’t do a cool, or idealized job doesn’t ruin someone's life. Many people have to grapple with the realization that for whatever reason, either physical or mental or even talent, there are just some careers they can’t do--and that’s fine, life is still worth living.

But, even with so few obstacles Quirklessness causes people long term, Aoyama’s parents instead go to some guy they must know is shady as hell (if not downright evil), and ask him to give their son a Quirk--to fix him. Even though that will indebt Aoyama to him forever, could later put him in prison, and as it turns out actually leave him with a Quirk that physically harms him, and if used to much could kill him. Instead of supporting their kid, and telling him he is just as great as everyone else regardless of his Quirkless status, they put him at the mercy of AfO, just so he has a chance at being “normal” and it doesn’t even work. 

I get they wanted to make Aoyama happy--but they’re the adults. They know that although he can’t be a Hero, that he can do literally anything else in life. Some kids might tease him, but they seem to have more then enough money to home school him if it truly gets that bad. But even if they couldn’t do that, there’s really no good reason to put your kid in debt, and give them a permeant aliment just so they can fit in during their childhood.  

This is like parents that put their kids through painful, dangerous medical procedures for no other reason then that they don’t fit some norm. Except in this case Aoyama is also the one that has to pay the bill for those botched procedures and the people his parents went to were in the Mob or something and he now lives in constant fear of his life if he can’t pay.

[hunxi-guilai]

I LOVE THE UNTAMED BUT I HAVE SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN BOTHERING ME. So can I ask you... when Wei WuXian lets go of Lan Wanji's hand and falls down to his "death" during the big battle... why does Lan WangJi watch him fall with a horrified expression instead of just jumping after him? Lan WangJi could fly down with his sword, catch Wei WuXian, and then fly them both back up with his sword, right? ? Am I missing something?

ah... yes... well, about that...

so, falling to one’s death is a complicated thing in wuxia/xianxia. Not like, as a narrative trope, but kind of as a function of worldbuilding.

First of all, everyone just flying around and parking their backsides on roofs to have moonlit swordfights/conversations? That’s 轻功 qinggong, literally ‘the skill of lightness,’ and is like, a basic skill every martial artist in the genre of wuxia / xianxia learns. It’s not even noteworthy (although what might be noteworthy is the discussion about how Crouching Tiger was the first film to recast qinggong as supernatural spectacle, rather than a King Hu Touch of Zen-style oblique superhuman ability, but whoops that’s a different paper I wrote--). Basically, it’s normal for folks to just float around via wire-work in wuxia/xianxia -- the more you watch, the more you’ll get used to it

CQL/MDZS has the additional element of 御剑 yujian / sword-surfing (all right, more like ‘sword riding’ or ‘sword driving-as-if-it-were-a-chariot’), in which cultivators can use their peijian as modes of transportation. We see this, briefly, in the moment where Wen Chao & Co. throw Wei Wuxian into the Burial Mounds. It looks... pretty dumb in live action, gotta level with y’all. (It does look moderately better in the donghua, but then again, a lot of the action scenes just look better in the donghua, sooooo)

So, between these two canonical abilities, it makes it pretty difficult to believe that a character can fall to their death in a wuxia/xianxia world. Possible ways to achieve the impossible are:

sheer exhaustion -- you’re Too Goddamned Tired to exert your superhuman abilities, and go splat like a regular person

you fall really, really far, and terminal velocity wins

you fall into a substance that is not survivable (i.e. lava)

As for why Lan Wangji doesn’t go after Wei Wuxian, I think it might be a combination of some of the factors below:

first of all, this scene doesn’t exist in the original text. dramatic wangxian moment on the edge of an abyss is purely a product of the live-action adaptation. you can read about the differences in this iconic meta by @pumpkinpaix, which I will cease to link when the sun goes out

Lan Wangji is in no physical condition to do so -- he has, at this point, flown his sword to the Burial Mounds to pick up A-Yuan, then back to Gusu to drop off A-Yuan, then back to Nightless City to catch up with the rest of the cast, then fought both Wei Wuxian and even more puppets, suffered an arm injury, probably dislocated the same arm by catching the body weight of a fully-grown man going over the edge, and -- yeah. Lan Wangji’s having a rough time of it, physically and emotionally

honestly, to a certain extent, I think Lan Wangji respects Wei Wuxian’s choice here. If there’s one thing we know about the difference between Lan Wangji and his father, it’s that he will not keep Wei Wuxian against his will. Lan Wangji wants to bring someone back to Cloud Recesses and hide him there, but won’t, because he’ll be unwilling. Lan Wangji pokes and pesters and pressures Wei Wuxian to give up his alternative cultivation, but never once does he force him. Lan Wangji cares fiercely about Wei Wuxian and his agency, which means that he’ll respect Wei Wuxian’s choices, even if it tears his own heart to pieces. And so if Wei Wuxian wants Lan Wangji to let go so badly that Wei Wuxian will tear his own hand out of Lan Wangji’s grasp?

Lan Wangji will let him go