#ask-abject

[wildmoonatic]

DAWG WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON THE NEW UPDATE IT GORES HARD ,YES YES?

The screm i scumpted when i saw otis oml 😭

10/10 would stress again

[sublimati0ns]

I remember watching TFA as a kid and there was an episode where Blurr was crushed in a compactor and later on I found out he actually survived it and got uncubed even. I think, yeah, you are right. Neatly cubed Knock out would be great. He would in fact make the prettiest and shiniest cube. The best decoration. Giving him to Ratchet for uncubing later is optional...

I THINK ABOUT BLURR CUBE SO MUCH… I wish they were able to have been renewed for more seasons; TFA!Blurr was so cute and I would love to see more of him 😭 (To clarify I haven’t finished TFA I’ve just seen some clips / episodes)

Knock Out cube is particularly funny to me cuz many people associate him with John Carpenter’s Christine (1983) and, uh… spoilers…

It would be sad to keep him cubed for too long though; he still gives me the most joy when he’s being a pretty menace 😂

[ahappydnp]

Thinking about dan and phils financial situation genuinely stresses me out. I dont know how they do it. Im a uni student with a real adult job, living at home and I still stress endlessly about money. How they were living in a big city not knowing where their next paycheck was coming from and constantly having to do something new to earn money would actually kill me I think. Like still to this day. Yes they are rich but oh my god

i think while it was for sure stressful their situation was a bit different in that they were almost guaranteed the radio 1 gig by the time they committed to moving to london and were already signed on to doing some series with them (like their fringe festival videos). also just the sheer fact that there was 2 of them earning income so they always had someone to split financial responsibilities! obviously commission life must have been hard but dnp were still in better situations than a large chunk of young people

[txttletale]

How would you, as an ML, describe/justify Socialism in one country? Doesn’t revolution need to be international?

it provably doesn't! attempts to force socialist revolution in states that do not have their own organized revolutionary working-class movement at best create weak socialist states without mass support that collapse the moment they lose the aid of their sponsor and at worst end in abject disaster and pointless war. the moment a revolution succeeds, a global counterrevolutionary campaign is set against them and they cannot possibly fight that battle in an offensive capacity. history has proven that 'exporting the revolution' is not a viable or sustainable strategy for socialism, and every time it's been tried it's been a failure.

certainly there needs to be international solidarity between revolutionary movements and socialist states, and true communism requires the breakdown of national borders--but while bourgeois states continue to use anticommunist violence, repression, imperialism, and economic warfare to isolate and undermine socialist states, those states must make themselves as self-sufficient as possible and focus on their own socialist economic development for their own survival.

[novelconcepts]

i'm the same anon who asked abt the tattoo, so. you can be as controversial as you want, but could i ask why taivan is not as prominent/noticeable in comparison to shaunahat, or fanon ships? like, your opinion. because, genuinely, as much as i see their scenes and ppl cheering for them, idk, it's not as HARD and LOUD if that makes sense. thank you in advance!

I dunno about controversial--I'm never actively trying to be a shit-starter, I just. My honest take is twofold. One, people are definitely being steered by racism. I mean, I see that just in the way Jasmin is constantly under fire no matter what she does or says. This is a biracial Black queer person (noticed recently she's operating with she/they pronouns, playing in the gender sandbox, and good for them) who is clearly always working so hard to better their world and be a voice for the various minority groups she inhabits, and I feel like I'm just constantly seeing people be awful to and about them. Like, constantly finding excuses to set her aside, or send her the worst messages in the world, and I'm just like. Let this person live, for the love of Christ. The inability to not take unearned ownership of someone else's journey is...insane to me, but I feel like I see it constantly with her. So to have Taissa be this incredibly complex Black woman who is not always likeable, not soft and sweet and constantly striving for other people's approval--yeah, I'm not surprised the fandom ignores her. Furious! Always furious about it! But not surprised.

Van, too, gets set aside an awful lot, and that's obviously not about racism (although the interracial couple aspect is there). I think people are...so volatile about Van in ways that will never make sense to me. Half the time people are calling her a villain, the other half they're calling her boring, and in both cases, those people are just not watching the same show I am. Liv's performance is so nuanced and so carefully escalated, and Lauren is following suit; there is so much going on with this character, with Taissa's character, with their growth together and apart, and...yeah, I dunno, man. I think it's a lot of what Tai says onscreen in season one. They're not what people expect, or what people want them to be, so they get written off as "boring" or less appealing than the noncanon ships. Some of it is the racism, some is the complicated nature of gender and Van's butch qualities, and none of it makes sense to me because those aspects are so much of what I love about Taivan as a ship. Like. They are so real, so multifaceted, so good and so toxic for one another at the same time, and they are played by 3/4ths (at least, I don't know Ambrose's life) openly, proudly queer actors. DUDE. For me, that's the fucking dream.

THAT SAID. My other thought is a lot simpler. And that's just: what happens in canon belongs to the writers, and we get to share it. What happens in fanon belongs solely to fandom. The fanon interpretations of characters can be worlds away from the actuality of those characters onscreen, and I think there's a freedom there that a lot of people really love. Subtext has been the bread and butter of queer audiences for so long that I think a lot of viewers just naturally feel more comfortable in that space, reading between lines and making up the necessary filler as they go. It doesn't hurt that a lot of these characters are white and/or conventionally attractive, but I think it's more to do with...not needing to put the canon of it all at the forefront. Like I love Jackie/Shauna, I love Lottie/Nat, I live for Shauna/Lottie--but they're all subtextual relationships, to various degrees, and so I can just sort of...do whatever with them in stories, so long as I'm feeling the characters out. I personally have a preference for writing fic as close as I can to existing character profile/voice, but that's not for everyone, and I've noticed a lot of the fanon-born ships are...not simpler, necessarily, but simplified. Which, in turn, makes them more palatable. I dunno. I get it! I do. But I will never understand throwing aside the canon queer ship in favor of subtext. That just...ain't my bag.

And then I guess there's a third, less prominent idea of like. Who's the main character of the show? If you had to boil it all down, it's Shauna. She's the POV character, if we have one, from the start. So not only do you have the freedom of fan interpretation, but she's front and center a lot of the time just by the nature of the narrative. And then Natalie is probably the next "main" character, so...that speaks for a lot of the louder ships, I suppose. I'd really love to see more attention on Taissa for the same reason, since she's been at the front from the beginning, but...see above, i guess.

[jellydragons]

wait YOURE THR ONE WHO WROTE YOUNG VOLCANOES????????????? IT ONLY JUST CLICKED WHY AM I SO STUPID???????? THATS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE FICS EVER I RECOMMEND IT TO EVERYONE??????? OHHH MY GOD??????

i’m legit struggling to work out how to respond to this lol - like every time i read it i get all giggly and flustered and lose all ability to articulate Words And Such, so now i’m just left making vague gestures and incomprehensible noises of flattered delight and vague mortification at the Being Perceived. aka i keep forgetting that whoopsie doo! turns out people do in fact. y’know. Read Things I Have Written and also Remember Those Things Exist. funny that!

anyways, yeag i wrote that one 🥰 it’s actually one of the fics that i’m the most proud of ngl, like i’m really pleased how it turned out overall :) it’s definitely one of the ones that i go back and reread semi-frequently lmao

the point IS, i’m glad you like it 🥰🥰🥰 i’m INCREDIBLY flattered and absolutely gonna be riding this high for at minimum a solid week 👍

[tothechaos]

ever since i started doing card tricks people in my life have had. uh. mixed reactions. my mom gets annoyed because she cant figure them out, one of my friends literally walked away from me calling me a freak, and another saw me holding a deck of cards and grinning as he came out of the back room at work and just went "oh god" with a look of abject despair on his face. but i will never stop. because it makes me laugh. also if i can find drunk enough people i dont think i ever have to pay for drinks at a bar again

[amatres]

why did balerion take her to valyria, why. did he want to show her something. why did he bring her back, did she tell him to, or was it bc of what was happening there and he was trying to save? her? what happened

[ask-the-curtis-gang]

That's alright Steve, still love ya though, I know how ya feel wish mine felt bad bout it later though, mybae not it'd probably make it harder to realize it's abuse still

it ain't. don't use that word. it's ain't that. look. everyone's parents holler at them sometimes. whatever. he wouldn't throw shit normally. he was just. more drunk than usual. look. it's. whatever. I don't wanna talk about this.

[discordiansamba]

Does yukio also train to be an exorcist in the vampire au

Yep! He can still see demons from birth, so Shiro still eventually asks him if he wants to train as an exorcist. He doesn't specifically tell him anything about Rin in the moment, but during his studies, Yukio definitely pieces together what his brother is...

[parrot-parent]

My aviaries are hopefully getting assembled today. I'm nervous 😓

[itissadbutitsmy-artblog]

ron gets ominous updates on his coworkers while he walks blaine home

[hummingjay]

-Elster suddenly, after fighting again, and again, and again, knowing, the cycle, and knowing that she only suffered a part of it, once she defeated falke for the last time, exists in the middle of nowhere, while Ariane wakes up in a hospital in a room, that no other people can see, and by luck, help, and determination, they meet, and get a house in the neighborhood, after a long time on Earth, while they both share their terrific memories with eachother in their sleep. Reliving the deaths of Elster and the constant suffering of Arianne in every dream, causing more insanity.

The concept has been around my mind, again and again. I can't write the full story, since I lack motivation (adhd??) but still, I wanna share the concept, pls no art (unless you really want to, cus I want your thoughts on it too)

Okay so If I'm understanding correctly we're looking at signalis BUUT at the end they get a cute earth-human AU and proceed relive the events of signalis through their dreams? (and consequently go insane- at least slightly?) Okay my thoughts? The point of signalis was an unhappy ending. The game was about a doomed love. There was never any feasible way for happiness and any one of the endings is heartwrenching at best. Nobody is happy at the end, not ariane, not adler,not falke, not elster, no one. Everybody goes down suffering.

BUT I get the idea behind a happy ending, you know? A little fanfic to make things better; on us AND on the poor space-lesbians.

I don't have much to add on that! Someone here, @/artifactart, has already made a number of fantastic pieces for this purpose! (minus the insanity-inducing nightmares.{I think}) and I HIGHLY recommend you mosey on over and check 'em out. The art is phenomenal and the concepts are great.

Now as a concept are we looking at IT WAS ALLLLL A DREEAAAM WAKE UP IN YOUR SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOOOOOOOD or YOURE DEALING WITH FORCES BEYOND COMPREHENSION AND ALSO CLEAR EVIDENCE OF MESSING WITH TIME AND REALITY WHICH JUST HAPPENED TO CHANGE INTO A SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOOOOOOOOOOOD

Cause both can work. I think artifactart went with option 2 which ROCKS since i'm not the greatest fan of 'it was all a dream' trope.

[firstworldbank]

hoxton live execution 3d

straight up doing some leng tch'e shit to him

[microcosmtoxin]

human!jester is slovenian. from izola. marion is ethnic slovenian and moved to trieste for business after jester grew up, and the gentleman is sicilian but moved to madrid also for business. so ethnically she's sicilian-slovenian but didnt even know about the sicilian part for a long time

[stellerssong]

a heartbreaking thing is when you are going through fandom edits and gifsets and such and you find a gifset with lyrics from a song you don't know that is SO i mean SO completely on the level with one of your unhinged personal aus that it makes you start wriggling and writhing and bouncing up and down in your seat and has you actually pecking sentences into your wip

and then you look up the song and it's bad.