#and it wouldn’t leave me alone lol

[newtennants]

Ghost picks at the skin around his fingers when he has empty hands and idle time. Because of this by typically tries to wear gloves even if he’s not on a job, but sometimes he forgets and doesn’t notice when the picking starts again.

Soap notices and gets Ghost some nice gloves to wear when he’s on leave or on base so he isn’t constantly wearing tactical gloves.

Soap also starts carrying little bandaids on his person. He has ones with designs for Batman, Hello Kitty, and even some skull ones. If he notices Ghost has forgotten his gloves he offers him a bandaid. The first time he did it Ghost just stared at Johnny and the selection before wordlessly picking a skull one out. Now if Ghost notices before Soap does he’ll ask for one.

[siminiecricketart]

Reminder that user Vixnarts has been openly racist against leah being cast to play Annabeth, and makes it well known they are against anything to do with black Annabeth, and harassed me for months and spread constant lies about me to my mutuals xx

[pixelatedraindrops]

You can't just leave him to suffer all alone Makoto... ;w;

So this is essentially a role-reverse of this comic XD (idk why)

Makoto may be super moody and fussy when he catches the flu; but if Yuma catches the flu, he's super needy and clingy when delirious. And it looks like Makoto can't say no to him... x'D

I guess your work is going to have to wait after all. Now you better properly take care of your sick original! (just try not to get sick yourself hehe)

I know this comic is usually supposed to be heartwarming but...I made it more silly.

because they're silly lil' guys... x'D

Based on another skit from @foxes-in-love

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

The whole discourse about the privacy/secrecy/support thing has been sitting with me for a few days (I mean other than it always does to a certain degree) thanks to all the excellent discussion happening and I know I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said a million times before, but I think what we're seeing and what we're going to learn (e.g. from TTPD) is that it wasn't just the support issue, but how it was shown/handled.

We've all gone out of our way to show that introversion =/= lack of support. Someone can be shy, reserved, etc. and still show up for their partner, whether in public or at home. To chalk any of the differences up to the clash between introversion and extroversion is unfair to folks who count themselves among either tbh.

@thisisctrying said something the other day that hit the nail on the head about how if that support had been offered in private, there very well may not have been a Joever to begin with, or at least not at this point in time. (Sorry for loosely paraphrasing, and for namedropping you! Long time listener, first time poster.)

If this were a case where the "shy" partner said, "I am really uncomfortable with the spotlight personally and do not want to court it, but I will support you in your ambitions and offer you whatever you need to make them happen and make the glare bearable," I suspect that would have gone a long way to making Taylor feel seen and comfortable in pursuing her goals in the way that she now has. Again, that might have been more akin to the balance that seemed to have been struck around 2019 from what we can see, but even speaking in a general sense, there are lots of couples out there, celebrity or not, that have similar approaches where there are highly driven people and busy careers involved.

(A famous example being Dolly Parton's marriage. Tbh I know next to nothing about her and Carl, but she's always heralded as an example in this regard, because her husband is famously uncomfortable with the spotlight and hasn't accompanied her to public events in decades, but she's said that she never minded that because that was always work to her, and what was important was that he supported her in pursuing all her career goals and basically ensured she had a place to call home to return to at the end of the day.)

We're kind of in a brave new world with her current relationship because it felt like, at least at the start, we were maybe watching her figure out her boundaries in real time as to what she was comfortable with or not and adjust accordingly. Like so many have said, I fully believe the extreme privacy thing was initially driven by herself and her experiences in 2016, and she needed that quiet time to recover from all of the things and figure out how to exist in the world again.

Stating the obvious, it seemed like eventually privacy was equated with secrecy, turning the relationship and the celebrity into the elephant in the room and something to never be spoken of to the outside world. People are free to choose whatever works best for themselves and their relationships, and for some the separate public lives might work, but the “kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath” theme is all over her work and it’s clear that it’s a sore spot for her, because she’s been made to feel shame just for the life she leads so many times in the past.

What I’m trying to say is that it’s pretty obvious something Not Great was happening behind the scenes, which didn’t just amount to “she wanted to be a public celebrity and he wanted to be a private hermit.” (Also, in case anyone forgot, this is a person who also chose a public-facing career who also has to engage in press for it, but I digress.) As her career reached new heights post-folklore, if she had the support at home to do all the things without judgment and with encouragement, and in turn offer the same support to her partner, she may have very well lived just fine with that, not unlike Dolly Parton’s case.

By reading between the lines in all the press since, as well as comments on tour and general ~vibes~ with TTPD teasers, it seems like one of the issues was that that was likely not the case. There was all the stuff that we saw — the reticence to acknowledge each other in the media (particularly on one side), the lack of public support even at events at which they were both in attendance for their respective jobs, the great lengths they went to not to be photographed together at events they attended yet no problem taking pictures with other friends and coworkers, the jobs that separated them, the withdrawing from the public even for work accomplishments, etc. Which could all be manageable if a couple chooses to do so together and are not inherently a sign of trouble in themselves.

But what we’re seeing now I think is a reflection of the things we weren’t seeing then, and it seems to indicate some very deep hurt. (I know, call me Captain Obvious.) And like so many have been saying, it feels likely that that part of that hurt is rooted in that very lack of private support where a person would expect it from their partner. Obviously as a Taylor fan blog I’m going to be more inclined to understand her side of a story, but tbh, it’s also because… this is sooooooo common, and something I’ve experienced in my friend group. (@taylortruther is right when she says most breakups are the same one way or another lol.)

One partner is resentful of the other’s success, or resentful that the other’s priorities begin to evolve as new experiences unlock new goals, or feels the other’s ambitions are not worthy of pursuit, and coupled with perhaps their own struggles in the same domain, it’s easy to see where that can chip away at the other partner’s morale and faith in the relationship. I know I’m just speculating here, but I also don’t think it’s totally unfounded. (Again, because a) I’m picking up what she’s putting down and b) it happens to sooooooo many women even among us dull normals.)

With all the pointed mentions about how much Taylor feels supported in her current relationship and how she in turn loves to offer the same show of support to not only her partner but other loved ones, how she’s stepped out more in the last year to a whole host of events, how she’s mentioned feeling like she locked herself away for years and she’s just proud of her partner and happy she can show up for him even if the chaos around it is unsettling, it paints a picture of what perhaps was happening before last year.

To feel like you’re all alone in carrying the weight of the relationship (or burden of it), of twisting yourself into knots to accommodate the other person’s boundaries (or insecurities) but not feeling reciprocity for your own has to be so painful. (The idea that it may have been even darker and to have a partner not only be unreceptive to your own needs but even perhaps resentful/dismissive/belittling of them is even more painful to think of. I guess we’ll find out when TTPD comes out if that was the case, too.)

At a certain point, that lack of acknowledgement will force your hand to be able to reclaim yourself. And it feels like the further removed Taylor in particular is from it, the more she moves from being sad about the life she felt she gave up by leaving, to angry at the life she felt she was giving up by staying. Especially being in a relationship now where it seems like everything comes much easier, where she can be open about the person she’s with and show up for them, all the stuff that seemed as challenging as climbing Mount Everest in her past is nothing more than a molehill at best in her current life.

TL;DR: I don’t think it’s privacy that inherently spells doom for a celebrity relationship like this; it’s the mutual support and respect that does. If Taylor had felt that in the later years of her previous relationship, I think we could be seeing a different, though not necessarily unfulfilled, person right now in 2024, who’d be happy on tour but whose personal life would look a little different. But it seems like by losing that support she lost parts of herself, and we’ve seen her reclaim that in spades in the last year, and perhaps to degrees she didn’t even realize she could from before all the Bad Stuff started happening in her young adulthood.

I know this was extremely long-winded and unnecessary, especially about total strangers we only know through scraps fed through the media, but I just always bristle at this idea that issues like these boil down to “personality differences,” as though one person wants to live in a city and the other on a remote island, or some shit like that. The whole support (and gender tbh) issue is one that’s just very close to my heart because again, I have seen it play out with so many of my friends in long term relationships and marriages and I just think people in relationships (and women in particular in some circles) deserve better than to feel like they’re being, well, tolerated.

[bamboozled-shenanigans]

POV your boyfriend likes to turn into a snake and give you snake kisses

[maxgicalgirl]

Imagine if Arthur Lester wore glasses and while he’s being thrown around by eldritch horrors like a ragdoll we had to keep pausing so John could shout “FUCK ARTHUR I CAN’T FUCKING SEE YOU LOST YOUR FUCKING GLASSES WAIT STOP PICK THEM UP I CANT SEE”

[foreverppl]

Take It From Me by up-and-coming alt rock band Way Way Downers for @infamous-if

Hopefully tumblr doesn’t mess up the quality too much but I spent sooo long last night after reading infamous coming up with song ideas. Most of them were horrible, but some of them I actually liked so i made a genius lyric thingy lmao.

[luvyass777]

Huh ?

[coconutdays]

when will I ever be able to share an exchange of messages with a man without knowing he’s feeling me some sorta way

[glamgoblin]

“I can fix him”

“I can make him worse”

Yeah well I can sit through his physics lecture so there’s that

[capricioussun]

A common misconception about Sanses is that, when you put several together, they enjoy sleeping flopped all over each other like cats. This is untrue. A Sans requires space, and a delicate balance of cool air and warm blankets. This usually results in lots of pushing, shifting, and waking up just enough to settle into a strange yet comfortable position several times throughout the sleeping period. Sanses would likely annoy each other in this way, and would wind up spreading out across the room as the sleeping period went on.

While a Sans can nap almost anywhere, for true rest and proper care, make sure you supply your Sans with ample space and several blankets so he can adjust as much as needed for optimal sleep results.

[pegging-satan]

Ok no but have you ever wondered about this

Fukuzawa canonically loves cats. He has many cats. So it is not unlikely that one day he fails to show up to a “super important meeting” and they call him up and it’s just

Fukuzawa: yeah sorry I can’t make it today my cat… decided to give birth-

Mori: You can’t ju–

Fukuzawa: …on me

Mori: oh. [long pause] Um,,, understandable. Uh… congratulations?

[justanotherfanwriter]

The fulfilling character arc for Damian Wayne that Id love to see but don’t think we’ll get it, came to me when I read the art club comic from Wayne family adventures. I’d love if he just went with it, solidifying his mild manner alter ego, and as his new club and hobby are encouraged by his older siblings, he slowly becomes acquainted with a Gotham no one else in his family really knows. Like, yes, obviously everyone experiences grief and hardship in Gotham, but I think it would be interesting for him to know people who encounter those themes and decide not to become vigilantes but to process the emotions as they are. And as he gets older, and makes friends his age, and sees what “normal” (in Gotham, at least) is, he ends up liking it. A lot.

And he has to look at his family and go, “I don’t want these adult responsibilities. I would like to be a regular kid, like my friends.” And, idk really how they’d respond, but I’d like to think that, at least his siblings, would be happy with the idea because he had the ability to chose what they felt they couldn’t, and with them, he feels safe enough to make that decision. It’s not a gritty, hardcore take, but I think in some ways it would be fulfilling because the batfam save people everyday, but everyday the same bad things keep happening, and with Damien choosing a different path for himself, despite the expectations placed on him since birth, would show that their efforts, in some roundabout way, have real payoff.

[radioactivepeasant]

This week's prompt poll:

I'll be using a lot of November to work on Faulty Info for NaNo, but I do have an abundance of plot bunnies that attacked me while working on the sick fic, some of which have snippets attached

[friendofelphaba]

Me (a criminal with anxiety) sending a ransom note to my Beta Reader (a detective who has spent months earning my trust and now feels kinda sorry for me): okay so I’m mostly looking at tone and grammar here. I don’t want to look TOO evil, you know?? Oh and no identifying info ovbs. Thanks for catching it when I signed my name on the last draft!! I’m gonna go kidnap her right after you edit this to pls do it asap <3

[mymelodyisme]

Just remembered how in fourth grade there was a new girl in our class so I introduced myself and spent the whole day with her so she had a friend and she made new friends the next day and didn’t hang out with me after that,,,,