#bc fuck the algorithm >:'D

[maigetheplatypus57]

I'm fucking crying so Ranboo coming out with using he/they pronouns is trending on twitter rn... but bc twitter apparently cuts off phrases after the "/" this is what shows up on trending:

[whydoifeelthisquiet]

I’m soooo pissed at the fact that cognitive dissonance has more of a chokehold on society than ever before

[t-pose-to-assert-gayness]

Twitter migrants checklist:

Put a profile pic on your account. people will think youre a bot and block you on sight. (avoid using a pic of a hot woman bc only the porn bots use those.)

This isnt twitter. reblog shit. worried about your blog's aesthetic or whatever? MAKE A SIDEBLOG. Keep your shit organised, or not. i dont care, just reblog stuff. This website circulates posts from 10-15 years ago on the regular. it's normal.

Don't try and become a meme page. This is tumblr, not instagram. You'll be laughed off the site.

Remember to reblog things. looking at you, Lauren.

Don't ever look at the replies on a political post. There will always be people with no critical thinking skills in the political posts, just like real life.

Add a bio to your blog, especially if you plan on interacting with adult content on tumblr. Lots of artists and creators regularly cull followers with no age in their bio for their own safety.

reblog things. im not telling you again. reblogging things is like churning out hot nutrient rich sludge into the ocean for everyone to nibble on and enjoy

if it's not fucking hilarious, leave your comments in the TAGS of a post. tumblr etiquette 101. If you leave your comments in the reblog itself, everyone will think youre an old man who has never used the internet before.

we talk about killing people here. its fun. we enjoy talking about how we wanna kill billionaires. so d0n/t g0 ar0u/d t4lk in//g li//ke thi$ or I'll appear inside your home and shove my whole foot in your mouth while you sleep. And i'm a size 11. You dont want that. Speak normal. This ain't tiktok, mary.

#7 was a lie. The reblog button. kiss it on the mouth. love it. marry it. press it. if all you do is like things on tumblr dot com, then you may as well have no account at all. I'm 100% serious. reblogs mean everything. There is no [meaningful] algorithm [that anyone uses] on tumblr. reblogging is the only way for artists work to be shared around. Help them out. it costs nothing. REBLOG A DAMN POST.

[clarionglass]

tagged by @monimolimnion! thanks for the tag babe, it always takes me forever to get around to filling these in but i do love em :D

Last Song: oh god. okay yeah i have been playing neath! a fallen london musical on a loop for the last like. four? four days. yes i know i'm a nerd, but it's a bop and i do not apologise. (the only other thing i listened to today is a bardcore cover of i'm just ken (the youtube algorithm finally got me pegged) and once again i apologise for nothing)

Favourite Colour: purple! it just slaps as a colour!

Currently Watching: does dimension 20 count? if so, i'm tag teaming burrow's end and a starstruck odyssey. if not, i'm watching a show called wolf with the parents purely for reasons of sacha dhawan being unhinged. look the man has never played what i would call a hinged character in his life and i am loving this for him

Last Movie: finally successfully went to barbenheimer part 2: 3 hours of man pain with a pal a couple of weeks ago--we tried it like a month before that and there was only one ticket left. so we just went to see barbie instead (my second time, his first)

Sweet/Spicy/Savoury: on the whole, sweet! i am a fiend for chocolate ngl.... although that said, sometimes i get a craving for salty/savoury (usually hash browns) that supersedes the desire for sweet

Current Relationship Status: single,,,,, perpetually so

Current Obsessions: the fuckign. the fuckign larp thing i did a couple of weekends back. fuck. i had to write something for my character over the last couple of days bc i felt actually possessed. wow. other than that i am currently going insane over fallen london, everything d20, and i am preparing for november when i will once again fall deep into my doctor who emotional hole

Last Thing You Googled: "40*8*2=" (although i just used the search bar as a calculator, i didn't actually press enter) bc i wanted to double check my maths was right before i sent an email

tagging @trekthecyborgwizard, @classicallymar, @nonsense-palace, and any other mutuals who see this and want to do it!

[yandere-sins]

Hello~☆ Here for my thoughts on your blog and it's actually the perfect timing bc I've been thinking on whether or not to tell you smth. That something being...

How grateful I am for you!💜!💜!💜! Like, I think you're one of the first yandere blogs that opened my eyes and really pulled me into this special hell. I like how you...stay in character? Might sound weird since you'd think that's the standard but it's just what I noticed. Like, they way you write characters is very much believable. And the way you write is also just so easy to read, digest and pops like a Nimm 2 candy. It was also kinda surprising to know that you're also German bc of how fluently and well you write but also bc it just feels very smth distinct I can't describe to know that there's smn who's also into this fucked up shit in the same country as me.

Anyways, I love your stuff and I owe you my life 🤗 take responsibility for what you've done to me

Late replies, but thanks everyone who sent something in! I’ll go through it now ^-^

Thank you! I am really glad that I’m still able to keep up making the characters feel believable despite distorting their personalities! I’ve always tried to stay as much in-character as possible with my fanfiction, and I try to grab what I can for yandere and build on it (or wreck it hehe)!

I know that I make a lot of mistakes still, but I’m glad that it seems like non-primary english speakers are still able to read it! I think that’s already an achievement in itself :D You’d be surprised, though, how many Germans I got to know via my blogs, so you’re definitely not alone with whatever your preferences are! And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with enjoying what’s enjoyable for you personally :3 I’m glad that I’m able to give you the immersive experience through yandere in writing that makes you feel a lot of things!

Thank you for sharing and I hope you get to enjoy a lot more stories in the future!! ♥

I can’t take responsibility for your life tho, pls have mercy I can hardly manage my own x’D

It’s never too late, thank you for reaching out ♥

With the concepts, it’s a lot like with the characters, where you set on a completely normal, harmless point and then just drag it down to hell. It’s just practice I’d say! Nevertheless, thank you for your kind words and support! It means a lot to hear you say these things about my stories, especially when I try (even when I’m struggling at times), to present them the way you just described! I hope you’ll enjoy a lot more of my stories in the future :3

Welcome back! I’m glad to hear from you again ^-^

(POV and perspective are both okay to use, no worries! :D) Thank you so much for your insight! I’m sure you noticed I’ve been trying different POVs lately, and from different people, so I’m glad you found them all enjoyable regardless! I definitely want to do more yandere pov in the future, especially with the prison project still running (I think that would put a very different, interesting light on things >:3), but sometimes I get insecure and just hope it’s not too difficult to read as a reader who might not be able to relate. But I’m glad you don’t seem to have a problem with that! :D More power to you!!

Reblogs are definitely the best form of support, even for older works! Oftentimes I see someone reblogging a piece from a while ago and suddenly it gains notes again! Tumblr algorithm is crazy sometimes, but it of course makes me really happy to see that my old writing gets another chance at life ^-^

As for the OC content, I will admit that has slacked a little. Rhys is mostly finished and I think a lot of people don’t really know him since he’s quite old, but I have one more general headcanon request for him which I will do (hopefully soon). I don’t think Atreo will be featured in the upcoming MerMay again but I am still working on plotting out the story, so who knows! However, it’ll feature three new OCs so... that’s something xD As for the Alien Project, which is not only hosting my OC but also other people’s OCs, that’s probably the best bet for OC content! The next time I get to write about it, we’ll get some more Azazel action at least, so that’s something to look forward to!

Otherwise, I hope you’ll enjoy the semi-oc’s I sometimes write about, and who will keep popping up here and there, but I don’t have any more planned aside from the mentioned above yet, sorry >-< Maybe the next time, we’ll switch things up and get a darling OC where we are the yandere? Who knows, but I think that could be fun as well ^-^

Stay safe & healthy as well, and thank you for checking in ♥

[lilolilyr]

10 characters, 10 fandoms, 10 tags

Tagged by @thearchdemongreatlydisapproves ages ago, thanks for the tag <3

Rules: Share ten different favorite characters from ten different pieces of media, in no particular order, then tag/send to ten people (anon or not) 💜

1. Lord of the Rings: Galadriel

2. Warehouse 13: Helena (H.G.) Wells

3. Leverage: Sophie Devereaux

4. Miss Fisher: Dr. Elizabeth 'Mac' McMillan

5. Ocean's 8: Lou Miller

6. Matrix: Trinity

7. Star Trek: Captain Philippa Georgiou

8. The Devil Wears Prada: Miranda Priestly

9. Marvel: Agent Phil Coulson

10. The Old Guard: Quỳnh

Bonus: Goncharov: Katya Goncharova neé Michailov xD can't add a gif bc limit reached but who doesn't love Katya right? :D

Btw @staff what the Fuck happened to the gif search? I type in a name and get 90% results that don't belong to it! And not in the 'other gifs from the same gifset' way (which would obvs be correct and appreciated) but no, just, what I assume must be other Sophies (gifs that have nothing to do with Leverage), all kinds of Helenas instead of just Helena Wells, etc... The gif search feels even more broken than the general tumblr search and I'm sure it's because it's no longer a tag search but some algorithm bullshittery

Everyone, @wip askbox should be open tomorrow, if you have the same problem please let them know

Anywayy tagging @existentialvoidofexistence @banashee @ongreenergrasses @jackwolfskid @salzundhonig @verbumproxen @charlottepriestly @alessandramortt @geek-goth-gay @rosalie-starfall

[garfieldsladybird]

blog boundaries.

🧸 this blog is a safe space for all my birds 🪺 i dont have an age setting, so all are welcome!! requests for blurbs are currently open, i’ll try my best with them. dms and asks are always open to talk!

Basic rules:

-> My blog is for all ages! Idc what age you are just dont be weird & rude. dni if you are an 18 plus acc. you should be following your own rules.

I do not give permission for any of my work to be published anywhere without my consent. I only post here. if you see my work somewhere else please inform me and report them.

A) don’t sexualize me.

B) don’t be fucking rude. (the meme way but i mean it)

C) i’m a stoner, not a doctor. ask questions if you want!

D) i’m an idiot when high & spelling does not exist here bc of so. also i use a lot of cuss words.

I’m not responsible for what you consume and read, and also what you learn from the things you read. good luck!

I don't support racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, ableism, ageism, pro-lifers, r.pist supporters, abuse, etc of anything going with violence.

I do not support jkr, t*m f*lt*n, h*rry st*l*s, (<-Twitter link-> my post of it), el*is pre*ley, and an*r*w tate.

a note to h.s stans; I don’t care if you follow, I may or may not follow. I won’t care abt any of the posts or anything you say abt him, just please don’t try to make me a stan of him, i dont like him, he has great music yes but I do not support him.

Basic information:

-> I’m okay with any nicknames, garfy & birdy are the main hoes. if I ever make you uncomfortable, in any way, please tell me so i don’t do it again. You can always message me and talk to me abt anything. And you can always ask questions. if you would like to request, please check if I’m open to writing but genuinely please send a way!

I am a minor. if that makes you uncomfortable don’t follow, and please do not interact with me sexually.

Because i am a minor, if you have a problem with minors discussing, reading and/or writing about nsfw topics; Don’t follow and do not bring hate to my blog and/or the writers that i follow.

another thing; i am a stoner. there will be mentions about weed and/or me smoking, and I do have fic’s that include weed too, most of my fic’s be abt weed. i also have a tag which i put on my posts when i am high.

-> the high algorithm <- weed questions list. i always do research about the questions i am asked before putting the answer together and posting it.

‎© 𝗀𝖺𝗋𝖿𝗂𝖾𝗅𝖽𝗌𝗅𝖺𝖽y𝖻𝗂𝗋𝖽 2022 — my works are not to be plagiarized; copied, translated, or stolen.

[writinglittlebeasts]

Oh look, something else to distract you! 😈

When you get this, answer one of the questions (or all if you really want!) then pass it on to 5 writer friends! 🥰 If you have more than one WIP, pick at random! We want you talk about your works and celebrate with you! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 1. What are you most excited to write with this WIP? 2. How has this WIP changed since the “daydream/brainstorm” stage? 3. Who is your favorite character in this WIP and why?

~tabswrites

NICE TRY but i already submitted my swap write-up 😌distract away, demon

i will answer :

2. How has this WIP changed since the “daydream/brainstorm” stage?

i'm going to talk abt erotica now lol

so i've mentioned before that wolf's tooth was initially just, like. i was at c2e2 and i was sitting in on panels and i needed something to do with my hands so i started designing characters for a smut comic feat. werewolves and that those characters were raleigh and kirby. and then i never finished the comic lol but i kept drawing the characters-- raleigh in particular, who's made of such fun shapes and doesn't have kirby's fucked up nose and is just so fun to draw over and over again for eternity.

EXCEPT.... you'll notice that in the drawings from 2019 ( those trad sketches are, like, The First Raleigh And Kirby Drawings, Ever, Drawn At-Con) raleigh Already has his story-reliant neck scars. that's because those were initially a sex thing lmao, BUT because i wasn't going to be finishing that original comic and i was getting more and more attached to the characters (and because i love thrashing my characters), i couldn't just... Not... explain those scars. And Therefore:

(look at how itty bitty the scar on his face is btw... it's just a baby :')...)

so the concept behind this stage in wolf's tooth's narrative is largely the same: raleigh goes to his boyfriend's mother's house with kirby's cousins and the house is surprise-attacked by another pack of werewolves; raleigh is bitten but he doesn't turn into a werewolf (at this point it was just, like, biology; sometimes it doesn't work and we don't really know why-- may revert to this if my balls out draft doesn't mesh in the end) and the gang goes on a roadtrip to get some revenge. However, in this stage the pedersen pack was much more, like... Chill. i'm really into werewolves and i love reading werewolf stories, and i'm really into comics so i had been spending a lot of time reading on tapas, and i realized that there was like a veritable wellspring of indie werewolf prose fiction on tapas. Unfortunately a lot of what i ran into was that, like... essentially-just-omegaverse; crazy-unexamined-power-dynamic; gender-essentialist; one-of-these-characters-is-just-going-to-be-a-woobie-nervous-baby-while-the-other-one-is-a-hotheaded-d-bag; one-of-them-is-16-the-other-is-30; horny-but-in-an-adolescent-way -type deal, and a lot of them had these like heavily abusive hypermasculine misogynist (without any women???????? this is the omegaverse factor bc even the, like, gay omegaverse is like bioessentialist misogyny with extra steps) pack dynamics that were seen as like Genre Standard (and i think it's because the Algorithm was feeding me largely romances + genres tend to eat each-other like that) and the oversaturation of it was really grating on me so my little transgay anarchist ass was like 'my werewolf pack is just going to be one big happy family', so i had essentially just cut the power dynamic factor entirely.

uhhhhh but then i had trouble writing the story, because there was a single conflict and i couldn't make that conflict work in my fluffy little werewolf world-- it just didn't fit the vibe, it didn't make a lot of sense. so i started to add power dynamics back into the story in a way that felt more meaningful and thematic: lovise wants her direct bloodline to maintain control of the pack but kirby doesn't want to be the alpha; the pack is too large for a single alpha to direct, because she can't be everywhere at once, so her subordinates are becoming impatient with the rigid rules she's implemented to try to keep up; individual interpersonal conflicts between wolves in different pods that make the pack less cohesive; external pressure from other smaller packs because the pedersens are just so scary powerful, etc. it's much darker and more stressful a narrative than it was initially, but to my genuine relief it's nowhere even close to those stories that i was trying so hard to push away from lmao

and that's how awtfr went from pwp (porn without plot) to pwp (porn With plot) to handing out trauma like i'm bad santa

thanks for the ask lol

[zan77]

alright it’s confirmed now, my dash is showing my reblogs in a weird order and can i just say if this turns into another one of those trash sites who shows me things in the order it thinks i’m interested in rather than strictly in order of posting I AM OUT OF HERE, THIS WOULD BE THE THING THAT BREAKS ME TUMBLR, I ASSURE YOU

[cloudy-ainsel]

1 January, 2019

How interesting that on the first day of the new year I have a dream where I speak with Death. It was rather fun, actually. I'll give some context. Hopefully it doesn't get flagged :^D (you'll see in a bit). Sorry again for the long post but I just have so much to talk about!

So, there's this interesting portal, where you punch in coordinates and get transported to alternate realities. Sort of like Rick Sanchez's portal gun, but it's not portable - it's always in the same place, in this hidden little room in a house that looks like the beach house I lived in between 7-11 years-old. I knew it could transport me to places I'd visited before in dreams, but most of them were dangerous and I wasn't interested in revisiting.

The portal was also stationed at a place I was studying. Even though it was a university course the classroom looked like one of my high school's. I was studying a computer science course, just an elective I had mild interest in. I remember there would be times I'd leave one reality in particular to come out and resume class, feeling giggly like a small child with a secret.

This one particular reality. It was like a huge treasure trove. A tiny little pocket, full of the riches this famous old thief stole and carved out a little safe haven for himself using some kind of old cosmic power he barely understood. You could feel it was slightly unstable, but it had held for hundreds of years, bordering on thousands.

It was also home to porn. Like... a lot of porn. Gee wiz.

I wasn't the only one who knew about this place. There were a bunch of people who'd found it either by accident or word of mouth on the dark web. They usually would come here for the massive porn stash :^) But you did have the occasional would-be treasure hunter. Every now and then I'd see if it had a ridiculously specific kind of porn out of morbid curiosity.

Anyway. To finally get to my original point.

I can't remember how. But one time, as I was going through the motions, I met Death.

I think he he may have knew someone who knew me. It was likely Simon. He and my larger friend group did make small appearances in this dream. I spoke with him/them? like I'd maybe had small chats with him before. We were going to the treasure trove portal. I just wanted to see if I could find something, some kind of rare collectible I'd talked about with my classmates from the computer science course. I think Death was there for something slightly different, but for whatever reason I stuck by them.

They felt strangely comforting. Not like a dementor or anything, how Death is sometimes portrayed. They did wear a black robe, but they felt like an old friend, like I was safe with them. This treasure trove was in a dark pocket. If you got lost or stuck or attacked, you were here forever.

Who'd attack me while Death was there?

I was a bit drunk at the time, I admit. I had a piece of paper with me with directions I'd written down, and was just rambling. I felt like Death was used to this, and was staying with me out of politeness. Eventually I found what I was looking for and returned to class.

A day or two went past and I received a letter, or saw it on a blog, I can't remember if it was one or the other or if it was a weird dream mixture of the two. Death had written me something. They had drawn me several pictures, of them talking and myself. They were really well done. They were a sequence actually, of the conversation we'd had earlier. Around them were words. He was talking about how nice it was to have someone talking with him as if it was any old conversation, rather than a constant feeling of them trying to one-up him or interrogate him or impress him. He wrote about how I'd giggle when I thought of something funny to say, or go "ooooooooh" when I found something interesting.

The sequence ended with him giving me a hug, in a form he could sense I would have found the most comfortable, which was what he wanted to do at the time, but didn't, and he regretted it. The form still wore black, but no longer a robe. Just a jumper. He had a shock of black hair, and a gaunt face, but he looked familiar.

I felt rather shocked, but in a good way. I had no idea Death felt this fondly of me.

Later, I got into some trouble with someone who I had known for a little bit but he found something in the trove that drove him mad with power, and there are several vivid scenes where I remember trying to stop him... cowering in a corner as I waited for him to emerge, and only realising then that his "powerful army" was like 3 clones of himself with guns he could barely operate and giant chicken legs. :^) And then Death came in, found what was going on and made short work of it.

Death and I were walking down a street, resembling a block I used to pass on my way back and forth from school. A steep hill, no path, long grass. I said to Death I was visiting my friend Simon's house before heading off to home, as I was feeling thirsty and just wanted to stop for a rest and a drink. Death said, "I miss those days. When you were younger and you'd spend time with me, and then off to go see Simon."

I joked. "Yeah, for a 13-year-old I certainly knew a lot of immortal death-related beings!"

I should specify that I only met Simon when I was 18. He started his experiment when I was 13, but I had no clue he existed until five years later. I also definitely don't visit his house.

Time jump to later, I'm at my house that I mentioned before, and Death is with me. He brought a woman who I assumed was his love. My guardian had disappeared, at the same time as that guy who tried to build an army. I had a nasty feeling they were involved. So, Death was watching over me until I was stable enough to handle things by myself.

I was just struggling with a metric ton of bubbles while washing the dishes and Death was looking amusedly at me, when I woke up.

[toytulini]

@last post tho ppl do/did also legit accuse black activists and leftists on here of being russian psyops/trolls after that tho which is super fucked up. there having been actual psyops and trolls is not a good reason to accuse black activists of being trolls for not being centrists.

[thedreadvampy]

indulging my bad habit of watching YouTube drama videos (I am not proud) but like

what the fuck

[ID: cropped screenshots of two sets of YouTube subtitles reading "...mental illness and self un-aliving. So if that makes you uncomfortable, um, then don't watch. But also I do censor words and stuff so it's ok. But..."]

this is like. Making explicit something I've felt for a long time is how people think this works? 'I'm going to talk about upsetting things but I censor words and stuff so it's ok.'

like that the thing that makes people uncomfortable are the WORDS "suicide" or "rape" or "mental illness" not the IDEAS. like 'you can't talk about rape because that might trigger someone but you can say "I hope you get r*ped" bc you bleeped out the Bad Word'

the point of censoring words like suicide or rape isn't SOCIAL it's ALGORITHMIC. unbleeped or uncensored versions of "bad words" may get your content flagged or delisted and then people won't see it. but there's this like GROWING belief that bleeping out words describing potentially distressing ideas is for the sake of the viewer, which it just. it isn't. and it really fucks me up that people think talking about 'nonconsensual sex by force' wouldn't upset someone who WOULD be upset by 'rape'.

like I've talked before about how I think censoring words about Bad Things has a net negative result like. words like rape or death or suicide INTRINSICALLY DESCRIBE THINGS THAT SHOULD BE UPSETTING and it's a hard fight to keep the severity of those ideas in sight without finding mealy mouthed cutesy ways to talk around them. but I do get that on platforms like TikTok there's an algorithmic reason to do that. but it's not so it's Ok And Not Triggering to talk about it. It just IS going to be triggering for some people to talk about trauma and mental illness and that's not something you can avoid by saying 'self un-alive' instead of 'suicide'

but also this ties into a thing that's been increasingly annoying over the last 5-10 years imo like. if you use a word you're uncomfortable saying you can just. not say that word. or not talk about a topic you think is going to be harmful. but instead ppl just say whatever the fuck and then bleep it out and say BUT IT'S CENSORED IT'S FINE

like censoring words is for REPORTING OTHER PEOPLE'S SPEECH like if you said "Jeffree Starr uses the n-word a bunch [bleeped out clip of him shouting "you fucking ********"]" that would make sense to me. like you don't want to say that word but you do need to gesture to it to get across what you're trying to report.

but for years now people will say stuff like "why don't you go k*ll yourself you r-word sl*t" and it's like. say it or don't. but you chose to say it knowing those were harmful words so why would you say it to hurt but censor the words YOU CHOOSE TO USE???

like honestly (and this is why I am ashamed of my drama YouTube habit) there are SO MANY VIDEOS where people will fastidiously cut out or self-censor any Bad Triggering Words and then say some shit like "well she said it was r-word but I think she's lying because would a real SA victim do XYZ like honestly I don't think anyone should unalive themselves please don't ****bait anyone but I think it's disgusting that she'd even call that r-word just because she was dr*nk and passed out and couldn't consent to Adult Time"

like it doesn't make it ok! You haven't magically got off the hook for talking about rape and sexual assault and suicide just bc you didn't USE THOSE WORDS. It's good to talk about these things (not in the way that I showed above but in general we SHOULD make those experiences visible) but like. It IS going to be potentially upsetting and YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT.

Talking about suicide and talking about Making Yourself Unalive. Discussing rape apologist and discussing **** apologism. Calling someone a fucking dyke and calling someone an effing d-slur. are. the same thing. you have solved nothing except your openness to algorithmic deplatforming.

[waynedunlaptheorgandonor]

watched s11ep1

i will provide you with a quick review before i disappear back into the ether of twd avoidance

lots of spoilers under the cut. also i wrote way too much and i worked all night and haven’t slept so i didn’t bother to reread literally any of it, so it might be completely nonsensical, tho if you don’t expect that from me by this point idk whose blog you’ve been reading

enjoy:

hokay, first off, i’ll start by saying that i enjoyed it more than i expected to. i’ve been avoiding any sort of discussion about stuff, but my google algorithm is so fucked at this point that i still get recommended articles and stuff every now and then, so i was already pretty aware of what i was walking into, and was expecting it to be eh, but actually i prob enjoyed it more than i enjoyed the finale

(don’t get too excited tho, the finale was rly boring lmfao)

anyway

episode starts off with a tense scouting mission

it takes .005 seconds into the episode for caryl to exchange a look of longing, establishing that they are still having weird conflict and are both too fucking stubborn to do anything about it even tho they hate it desperately

i imagine that will continue for a while

rosita, kelly, carol, maggie, what’s her face with the bad hair, and lydia (i think that’s everyone?) lower down to some army bunker or something, where a bunch of walkers are taking a snooze, and the girls are very respectful of walker naptime, and do their best not to wake them up

obviously they eventually wake up, but i’ll get to that in a sec

as they’re tiptoeing through the walker tulips, there’s this split second where carol spots a machine gun, and looks at maggie with a face like, “can i plzzzz, i am mad horny for that machine gun,” but maggie tells her no. (i 110% expected her to defy orders and accidentally wake up all the walkers, but she actually behaved herself for once. well. mostly)

never fear, tho, after the girl gang collects a bunch of MREs they go back to wait for the dudes waiting up top to pull them up, and bc men ruin everything, one of the ropes break, and daryl catches it before it falls, but then a slow motion drop of blood falls on a walker’s face, and just like that, walker naptime is over, and carol uses her bow and arrow for two seconds before she is like “fuck this” and whips out the machine gun

yes, she is super hot using it

yes, daryl watches her do it

anyway, all the other girls get rescued, and carol is about to be pulled up, but bc she is a #girlboss, she first makes a beeline for one more crate full of MREs. daryl covers her while she gets the loot, and when she gets back up top they have another charged moment as carol hands him back his knife

just fuck already, jfc

titles!

cut to alexandria where everything is still not smilestimes

BUT, we do get to see uncle daryl run and hug rj and judith (and dog), and FUCKING HERSHEL JR, LIGHT OF MY LIFE is also there

istg, they could not have casted a better child, i a d o r e him

oh, and some friends of maggie’s show up too, idk

cut to a staff meeting where everyone is like, whomp whomp, we’re all gonna starve to death unless we figure out something quick

cue maggie going, “oh, i know where food is, but it requires me to tell you my tragic backstory, in case anyone didn’t watch my bottle episode”

she tells her dramatic backstory about all her friends getting slaughtered by the reapers for no apparent reason, and then she’s like “anyway, let’s go back there!”

no one thinks it’s a great idea, but a group of people decide to go anyway, including daryl and gabriel. rosita is super pissed that gabriel is going, and carol doesn’t go, probably partly bc it’s a shitty fucking idea, and also bc they have to keep caryl apart bc otherwise they’ll fix their problems ahead of schedule and they won’t be able to drag out the needless angst

daryl looks kind of annoyed that carol doesn’t volunteer to go 

bitch, i thought you wanted her to stop putting herself in the line of fire! make up your damn mind!

moving on

cut to a thunderstorm, where, if you look closely, you’ll notice daryl is wearing the STUPIDEST hat i’ve ever seen. just get an umbrella, jfc

for some reason negan is with them, bc ig he knows his way around washington dc, and no one in six years has bothered to figure out how to get around the city and/or get a map, and he is like “hey guys, maybe we shouldn’t try to walk in this fucking hurricane,” and everyone is like “FUCK YOU NEGAN, YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF US!!!” 

this will be a common occurrence 

but eventually daryl is even like “actually, it’s rly unpleasant out here, and my hat is mad stupid, can we go inside plz?”

so they go inside an old metro station, which is actually a rly cool cinematic choice. i rly like the idea, and they executed it rly well

speaking of executions

there are some fucking RULL CREEPY walkers. idk why they bothered me so badly, but they were what they at first assumed were corpses wrapped up in tarps, but turns out none of them had been properly put down, so they go through killing these rotted bodies that had supposedly been there since The Fall, and it’s very gross and cool

this entire time, btw, negan is like “hey, i know i’m a shitty person, but i have some rational arguments about why we shouldn’t be doing this right now,” and everyone is like, “FUCK YOU NEGAN, YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF US!!!” and he’s just like “god fucking damnit”

(i forgot to mention that at one point, when they’re headed into the metro station, negan is trying to warn ppl of the potential danger, and everyone is ignoring him, and he tries to talk to daryl, and daryl is like “fuck you, you think we’re BUDDIES?” and negan is like “oh, ok, so you’re gonna be like that too? fanfreakingtastic” and it’s very funny)

anyway. a fat monster zombie escapes its tarp at one point, and tries to eat some npc, and negan saves him, again is like “hey, anyone else realize that this is a FUCKING BAD PLAN?”, and everyone is like “we don’t care, you’re still shitty and we’re not listening to you, and you don’t actually care about random npc i would literally not be able to pick out in a lineup bc his face is so generic, you’re not the boss of us!!!”

it’s at this point that negan finally is like, “why am i even here? bc i know how to get around washington dc? do none of you have a map?” and i was like, “right?! that’s what i said!” 

it’s then revealed that maggie only brought negan along to murder him under the guise of “oops, he got hurt in the line of duty, it wasn’t my fault,” and daryl has this look on his face that says, “i seriously need to stop hanging out with lethal women bent on revenge bc it’s gonna give me high blood pressure,” and maggie has a badass moment where she points a gun she has for some reason at negan and is like “i have like, one shred of human compassion left inside of me, and if you keep pushing me i will fucking kill you without a second thought, so shut the hell up”

(in her defense, negan had just dropped glenn’s name to purposely antagonize her, which was rude as hell)

(for the record, i’m completely on maggie’s side here, but negan still is right that trapping themselves in a metro station is a bad call)

anyway, moving away from that briefly

i think this jump cut happens sooner, i don’t actually remember, but whatever who cares, point is, we get to the part of the show that actually matters, and that’s anything involving my love, juanita “princess” sanchez

and also eugene, yumiko, and ezekiel

they are being asked increasingly invasive questions by commonwealth ppl, some of which i wish they actually would of answered (what do they use to wipe their asses with?? surely toilet paper has long since become extinct)

zeke, who is so much more tolerable as a character now that he’s not larping as a king, has this incredibly weird and sort of sexually charged moment with a dude in an orange stormtrooper costume, where he’s like, “i bet you were an asshole cop back before The Fall, you stupid fascist, #fuckthepolice, mb literally? idk, this moment has a lot of pent up aggression that could easily translate to hate sex, it might just be the intense eye contact, but w/e, let’s just move along,” and then he has a coughing fit to remind the audience that he’s currently dying of cancer, and orange stormtrooper is like “lolz, loser, drink some water you dumb piece of shit”

cut to the wholesome foursome sitting at a picnic table in a guarded courtyard eating gruel, and yumkio, who finally has a personality, and princess are like “hey, this place fucking sucks, can we leave?” and zeke is like, “yeah, i met this orange stormtrooper who i think might be dtf and/or murder, so we should probably bounce”

but eugene is like, “but i want some hot stephanie ass, and also some bullshit excuse about how mb commonewealth will save alexandria” which, they left before things went super downhill, right? idr. it was after hilltop fell, but they don’t know alexandria got fucked either, if i recall? w/e, not important

two seconds after he says this, they talk to some people who are like “we’ve been here for four months, or maybe it’s been nine, i don’t actually remember, i’ve stopped processing the passage of time,” and the wholesome foursome takes this as a bad sign, tho that’s just the life i’ve lived as a night worker during a pandemic, so i was like #mood

but then they watch some guy get dragged away screaming to get “reprocessed” and eugene is like “ok, nvm, let’s bounce”

(my theory on what “reprocessing” is, is that they’re stuck in a room and have to watch hours and hours of customer service training videos on vhs from the 90s)

i definitely got my jump cut scenes mixed up bc i think the negan accusing maggie of a murder plot thing happened in between this scene and then the next commonwealth scene, but w/e, i’ll just finish what happens in the commonwealth arch

the wholesome foursome are trying to hatch a plan to escape, except princess, my love, is distracted watching some stormtroopers flirt, and the other three are like “wtf, dude, how can you even tell any of them apart?” and princess then tells them every stormtroopers backstory bc she is brilliant and pays rly close attention to shit, and the other three are like, “this is useful information, thank you for being an insane person”

their plan involves yumiko and eugene dressing up as stormtroopers and leading princess and zeke out of the place, which works fine actually, except on their way out they come across the Depressing Wall of Probably Mostly Dead Missing Loved Ones

they’re about to leave, when princess is like, “wait, yumiko, you’re on here, that’s weird huh?”

sure enough, yumiko  is on the wall, with a note from ig her sister 

the scene ends with yumiko going, “guys...i can’t leave...i have tragic backstory to unveil”

tragic backstory to be continued ig

back in murder metro town, npc and some other npc have stolen all the supplies, there’s a train blocking the track, and a horde of walkers are coming towards them, so things are not going fantastic

they horde is too big to take down, so they start to climb on top of the train car to get away

but dog runs away!

and daryl, being every pet owner ever, is like “gotta go get my dog, guys, try not to get killed while i’m gone, c u soon!” and he ducks under the train and disappears

#priorities

the episode ends with maggie climbing up the train car but getting grabbed by a walker and dangling off the edge, and negan is there and they have a lion king moment where maggie is like, “scar! help me!” and negan is like “long live the king, bitch” and walks away into the shadows, leaving maggie to a potential death

which, while i know isn’t actually going to happen, would be a really fucking funny move on the writers’ part

like, “look, lauren’s back! and now she’s dead, bet you didn’t expect that!”

anyway

my assumption is negan will actually end up helping her up or something, continuing his ambiguous morality bullshit that actually isn’t ambiguous bc he BEAT GLENN TO DEATH WITH A FUCKING BAT WRAPPED IN BARBED WIRE IN FRONT OF HIS PREGNANT WIFE

the maggie/negan arch is kind of dumb, but whatevs, i’ll tolerate it, as long as my boy glenn gets justice in the end

anyway, cue credits!

final assessment: good episode. i’m much more interested in commonwealth than the reapers, tho i am hoping that daryl’s personality-less ex turns out to be a monster killing machine with no conscience, that’ll be fun. princess is a gift from god. hershel jr needs his own tv show. needs more carol (and caryl)

the end! going back into my walking dead free chamber! see you next episode!

-diz

[awigglycultist]

Tcb htgcc miracle/finale kickstarter livestream notes!

Gabe brought on his dog

Brian's pet is the Yeasty Boys bagle he was eating

B: "people have different theories on ya know eating different uhm-" J: "what do you mean? What kind of theories??" B: "just about eating on livestreams. You know like some people are for it or against it" J: "what's a theory about it?" L: "I say go for it!!" J: "yeah!" B: "it's- okay, great"

Lauren brought on Diane and Ashley Skidmore's dog Pickles

B: "so, big news y'all, uhm, we started writing the show! We started writing this show!"

A: "am I in it?" L: "no" B: "you're in it and you're gonna be singing!" J: "we made some cuts. We made some big cuts"

L: "I will say one of the benefits, maybe the only benefit of live with Joey *laughs* just kidding" J:??? A: "you live with Joey?"

The entire bit where they talk about different auditions they've been through omg. Like Gabe being told for a FedEx ad to film grabbing a package and putting it in his car and driving and delivering it wtf

Joey will sometimes have Lauren get up on a stepping stool so she can see what's its like to be tall djdbdhd

Brian once paid to get a premium seat on a plane and when he got on they were like "actually no we need this" and stuck him in the back in a middle seat?? He got refunded but WHAT

B: "should we just 20 mins in say why we're here?"

G: "my [tiktok] algorithm is stunts, dogs, D&d stuff and everyone in the world being like 'I'm bisexual!'" A: "maybe your tiktok is trying to tell you something"

*Joey and Lauren do a gingerbread house competition every day* A: "Has Joey ever won the gingerbread competition?" J: "no" C: "that's okay, one day Joe"

A: "is Michigan spefically maize yellow?" C: "maize and blue" A: "not gold?" J: "maize like corn" A: "yeah no I understand what maize is. But I've never hear anyone describe-" J: "no like corn Ashely, like a corn maize" A: "oh like oh! Like a corn maize when they grow the corn tall and they cut a path through it!?"

Yale's colors are white and Yale blue.

TCB has several spefic colors: Billy Black which is not quite a pure black and is named after a cat that belonged to their neighbors at their old place. Railroad Gray. Liam White which is an off white. And the tin can yellow is Piss In A Can

They might do a real toy drive!

They think that the reason Kickstarter took so long getting htgcc is bc of the toy drive and charity being mentioned which are things your not supposed to do kickstarters for

Gabe's never done a cast recording before

A: "what if we hit and we have to suddenly come up with another stretch goal" B: "we already know what it is, Corey's gonna dye his hair galaxy" C: "I don't what your talking- sorry I can't- are you muted Brian? I can't hear you"

They mentioned it early but I forget to say it: they hit 35k and 40k! So that means we get it a cast recording and solve it squad back in biz goes on youtube!

*talking about sisbib* A: "and there are a few mistakes!" B: "no" C: "no" J: "none"

Meg Lloyd aka @thirdchildart did the animatic for the opening and Nick Gage did the theme song!

God its so good

Everyone's just talking about their favs bits of the song and the animatic, as they should its great

They have a little trailer for sisbib!!

B: "we look like maniacs"

Joey has a bad back

Ah yes that scene for solve it squad returns, the new york run spefically, where Joey is holding one person on each of his arms and then juggles them, I remember

*Brian explaining how their gonna do the backer shoutouts this time* "Uh remember when Corey was the uh Butcherous Baker in the case of the uh gilded lily, I don't fucking know" A: "wow okay, shout out to shipwrecked!" G: "shout put to shipwrecked!" B: "headless coming soon!"

They showed what all the pins look like and they're so cute

C: "you'll be able to figure that all out later so... Add now think later" A: "money now thoughts.. Another time"

Omfg them trying to get it so everyone knows the ppl who backed and the order to go is an absolute mess

A: "you'll of course remember Tanya the wayward werewolf from the case of the weird podcast"

The way Lauren starts so dramatic "AND WHO COULD FORGET" djdkdbdk

They hit 45k! Which means the squad is gonna do a commentary on a holiday movie!

B: ".... What do you guys wanna do for the next half hour?"

For Back In Biz they came up with the ideas together, wrote one script together and then each of them wrote the other three on their own and then they cam back together to streamline them and revise/edit it

They were talking about how fun it'll be to be live in front of an audience again and Brian asked Ashley when the last she was live on stage was and then some asked "Gabe, when was the last time you did anything?" sjdjdjdjdjjdjd

Gabe has no career

Gabe's dad (Jason Alexander if you didn't know) is totally the one that gave all the money to the campaign

*They were having Gabe, Ashley and Lauren talk about like other projects they're doing and such and they made each of their screens bigger when they were talking* L: "... Why?" G: "get big!" B: "get big Lauren, tell us about that wall!" G: "Lauren get big!"

If Lauren had to describe her patreon in one word it'd be "santatic"

Diane hates Gabe's dancing

Everyone counting out of sync bdjdhd

I'm so hyped to be able to see the squad again and that tcb gets be in person again!!! Can't wait for the holidays to come around

[theirtheretheyre]

for the fanfic tropes:

Practice kissing

Mutual pining

Soulmates

:D (teddy-draws)

hi teddy!!!! :D

practice kissing: A! shits so fucking funny like damn are your really kissing your bro to make sure you can kiss your theoretical gf nicely or are you just making more and more flimsy excuses to make out with ur bro? bit sus

mutual pining: B! like. i love it but its so often slowburn and miscommunication which i have to be in the right mindset for yk? otherwise i just get mad and am like “you dumbasses need to TALK FOR REALSIES”

soulmates: A!!!! god tier shit!!! i took so long to answer this ask bc i got distracted thinking about iwaoi soulmates lmao. still thinking about them sjdjfjskfsjdkdj. i have a lot of thoughts abt iwaoi in general but specifically them as soulmates too

(send me fanfic tropes and i’ll rate them!!!) anyways my nose feels weird and im debating reading the galaxy is endless tonight i need to go ask the algorithm (aka a discord bot)

[allthingsmustfall]

Star Wars RDR2 AU

Listen to me. LISTEN. I don't even go here. But! But. Arthur Mor'gan, somewhat successful smuggler, just trying to get by, picking up a wanderer in a cantina to jump systems on the d/l, enter Jedi!Charles, who is quiet and kind and has a wry sense of humor and is deadly with a blade, operating in the outer rim, mostly on his own.

Hosea: assassin droid (H0-53A) that must've acquired parental algorithms at some point because he is CONSTANTLY trying to be Arthur's dad

John: A stowaway that Arthur picked up 10 years ago when he was a scrawny urchin from Correllia and rather than spacing him, reluctantly let him stay aboard. John now introduces himself as Arthur's first mate, which Arthur will LOUDLY state is bullshit

Javier: Zabrack freedom fighter, trying to liberate Dathomir, occasional one of Arthur's more reliable allies

Tilly: Charles' padawan! Bright, sharp, charming. (this is in a world before the empire bc the clones, man, I'm still heartbroken about the clones)

Sean and Karen: Bounty hunters that occasionally work with Arthur (for a steep cut) - maybe Nautolan and Twi'lek, respectively

Uncle: An elderly wookie that basically came with the ship, mostly grey, who Arthur keeps muttering about kicking off his ship, but he just never gets around to doing it

Micah: Kowakian monkey-lizard, not sentient, only on-screen appearance is getting eaten by Uncle in the opening act

Dutch: a fucking HUTT, of course