#but fr im good!! thanks for asking :)

[havanillas]

your mer au of these two random men ive never seen in my life before has captivated me. these little guys injected themselves into my brain and forced me to click the app store and download honkai star rail despite the various warnings ive received from multiple reliable sources.

WHAT HAVE I DONE

I'M SO SORRY

[extravagav]

Yk I never did truly recover from the sick fic chapter

[papple]

For @thelunarsystemwrites' superhero au!

guys do you think he plays splatoon

[tennessoui]

Hello! This might be positively deranged of me, but do you have director's commentary for this ficlet you posted nigh on two years ago (https://rb.gy/4epfmv)? I love it deeply.

I've been following you for a few years now, and I'm very impressed by how your writing has grown. I really love your stories/headcanons/aus. Thank you for everything you do!

(link to a prompt fill for "meeting at the ER") (gffa, vaderwan)

what an amazing memory omg i genuinely love this ficlet, even though it's a great example of how i enjoy taking a very simple prompt (meeting at the ER) and making it as complicated as possible (so obi-wan and vader are on opposite sides of the war and they get injured in the same battle and must recoup in the same med tent but obi-wan doesn't know who is on the other side of the curtain from him because vader's helmet is off so obi-wan hears the voice of a young man for the first time and he can't see him and vader slowly grows obsessed with obi-wan's kindness and obi-wan only figures out it's vader when dooku comes to break him out of the medical wing and vader kills the guy opposite them who told obi-wan to stop talking---)

i adore identity shenanigans in fics. i'm a simple bitch. look at my fics honestly, this shouldn't surprise anyone i have like. 2 fics where veils are used, 1 fic where time travel is used, 1 fic where obi-wan almost fucks an alternate dimension anakin without knowing it's anakin, 1 fic where anakin is deaged and put into obi-wan's care like. i love identity shenanigans SO MUCH it's so fun to write what would happen if pre-conceived notions about someone are forcibly abandoned and you're just faced with who they are as a human and who they could be to you and this ficlet encapsulates that perfectly

shamefully though this part:

“I hope you recover a day after I do, Anakin.” Anakin sounds caught off guard. “What? Why?” “If you are the first to leave, I think I should miss your company.”

is completely ripped off of that winnie the pooh quote about living to be 100 minus 1 day lol i think anakin would be such a winnie the pooh fan no matter how many years he's been vader.

anyway it's about the softness and the normalcy and the kindness obi-wan offers to him!!! when he thinks he's just a civilian who may have fought on the wrong side!! it's his capacity to sympathize and understand and how much vaderkin needs someone to sympathize and understand!!!! it's the power of making connection through small talk <3

there's no way this verse ends with anything other than obi-wan's kindness winning over vaderkin's most horrible actions and impulses and vader being dragged into the Light because he realizes he wants obi-wan's soft words. he wants obi-wan to ask him about his day. always.

(send me a "director's cut" ask!)

[triglycercule]

What do you think the types of drunk would the murder trio be? Im pretty sure ask dusttale already answered this question about dust but i have to ask the mtt expert

see now askdusttale DID answer the question. but they didn't ANSWER the question when asked what dust is like drunk. they just said that dust is the type to drink himself blackout drunk. so that mean i have total freedom on deciding what the mtt are like drunk hehehe (rubs hands together in a villanous way that you would imagine nightmare doing or something idk)

i already have an absolutely hilarious idea for horror and it might just because i'm on the guilt section of his character analysis but i could TOTALLY imagine him being an emotional drunk. like he CRIES. horror sans man known for being incredibly guarded and private with what he feels bawling his eye out. he gets mad he gets sad he does not get happy because horror doesn't have the right to be happy. he is too upset over the fact that he fucking DOOMED all of horrortale because of his selfishness and nothing can stop him from being incredibly vocal about that fact so much so that killer had to tape his mouth shut because he wouldn't stop crying so loud. and then he just silently cries until he passes out from exhaustion. the alcohol has an incredibly strong effect on him because i dont think he would drink regularly plus he definitely hasnt drinken anything in those 7 years of starvation. it hits like a fucking plane crashing into him. or like getting his eye taken out again. either one!

another funny idea i had for killer would be like the alcohol affecting him but he SWEARS that he's still sober. he is very confused when he starts stumbling because wtf he doesnt FEEL drunk??? why is he bumping into walls and tables HELP WHY DOES HE SOUND FUCKING STUPID???? the alcohol is definitely effecting him but he swears he swears he doesn't feel drunk. hes not drunk its just the damn body doing this stupid bullshit!!!! he's still very aware of what's going on and is basically the same as sober but just like. he's wiggly he's wobbly and oh shit he just fell head face first into a tv whoops. he'd also have a high tolerance because just because. he can drink without feeling like shit until he just blacks out mid conversation with someone because his body couldn't take the toll of all the beer or whatever. hilarious idea triglycercule thank you triglycercule i know

dust in the context that we already know that he drinks AND he can fight against the human while like partially drunk.... i feel it would be kinda like a giggly drunk situation. except dust doesn't laugh at anything that's funny he only laughs when someone gets hurt or something. SADISTIC giggly drunk. because i can already imagine a half drunk dust laughing his ass off after killing the human and its a beautiful sight to me.

anyways imagine how it goes when you pair this sadistic giggly drunk with another that wont stop going through the 5 stages of grief and another that keeps on fucking falling over for no reason in his eyes. dream blunt rotation but the blunt is a bottle of vodka. i can already imagine it in my head and its fucking HILARIOUS. horror going on about how he caused the deaths of others and manipulated and tricked papyrus while killer is just trying his best to keep his eyes open because for some reason they won't stop trying to close. he is surprisingly getting frustated. dust has long since lost his voice laughing at this and he's just silent wheezing at everything. also phantom papyrus is only making the laughter worse because he keeps on making rude comments towards horror and killer and only he can hear him and its guffaw inducing. mtt amazing friend group you dont get shit like this anywhere else

[turnipoddity]

I NOTICED YOU MADE A PLAYLIST GOR LAWRENCE AND ADAM , HERES SOME SUGGESTIONS FROM ME THST I PERSONALLY THINK ARE THEM CORE!!!

i don't smoke - mitski

knives out - radiohead

wet - dazey and the scouts

promises - nero

also here's the links to my character study playlists on spotify! (i'm very proud of them and want to share them with fellow sawtistics and saw fanatics)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/58fWDV5A5wYastsChwVkgu?si=LpaJSp-nSV6QcWqkoH3slw (adam)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/31q3dud8kLj8kmtZ35WRhh?si=iah9i7kcTHmQ62GLKugLSQ (lawrence)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4aAJUJhFZsSF6UXAH6sXcX?si=82FMz5GuSmSg6XOUdir7HA (amanda)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0EIewi2aTvQOnnZwMQepN6?si=UITRtuWqTgiadfgEw1OAqg (strahm)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0OiZT1Q22H37EvrG6i5rF3?si=NmaWRKSJQCuc0qKfwAP_Pg (hoffman)

THESE ARE ACTUALLY SUPER SUPER DOPE!!!!! AND SO IN CHARACTER!!!! YOUR BRAIN IS SO HUGE IM CRYING

[suntails]

the job market truly sucks right now. I'm gonna share my story without doxxing myself in hopes its helpful to you. I got my degree in film making about 20 years ago and have done a lot of free lance work since then, specifically producing reality tv shows so think jersey shore, tlc, etc.

However, as you know in any art/music/tv/creative industry, it's so hard to find consistent work/projects to make a living. When I wasn't finding consistent work, I applied to a state job in the Court system as a clerk and I did that for a number of years. Eventually, I got tired of my court job because it was getting mundane so I left and did reality tv full time. However, I stayed long enough at that court job to qualify for a pension and health insurance so If i wasnt finding work at least I know I have my benefits from my old job.

a few years ago, I left reality tv and went back to doing a state job, this time at CPS. i like CPS because I get to apply what I learned in the film industry at CPS too. with reality tv I interview the stars and with CPS im interviewing people to get information I need. Now, because I have already worked for the state for a certain # of years, i am now vested so my salary is higher then most people starting at CPS. I would still need to do a certain amount of years at CPS before I retire but it wont be the typical 20-25 yrs like most jobs. This would be because I'm already vested in the system here then I can retire.

My point is, apply to state jobs you think your degree is qualified for. You may end up doing something completely then what you went to school for but at least you will have security. and that to me at least is the most important thing a job can offer you.

ik my reply to this is really late but thank u so much anon, this is rly kind of u to go out of ur way to say and it means a lot. i couldn't have predicted my industry imploding but i'm definitely giving this a shot, and ik a few ppl that have gone this route and been much happier as a result, so here's to hoping that something goes thru and works out!!!

[edsbacktattoo]

"we know how many husbands Jackie has, but does she have any wives?" Leslie, without hesitation: "absolutely."

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

phone calls my detested

[localdorkincombatboots]

Opinion on Kankri (or Cronus)

Oof ill be honest it's been a while since a did a good examination of their canon characters

Let me preface this with the fact that each of them are supposed to be obviously recognizable as exaggerated stereotypes of different kinds of real people.

They're both problematic in their own ways, Kankri in his performative advocacy that only goes as far as correcting others and going on long rants about the implications of an issue and Cronus is his idolizing of the Greaser life and "nice guy" bs. But the thing is, they're literally eternally stuck as 19 year old ghosts, just arguing with their friends and alt versions of them and themselves. They don't grow or mature and they don't have any better perspectives to teach them better even if they were open to accepting that the way they act isn't okay. They each think the way they are is who they have to be in order to be an activist for Kankri or be cool for Cronus.

Are they great people trolls? No but again they're 19, dead, and stuck in a video game with an infinite number of other 19 year old versions of themselves and their friends.

But they do each play their own part in the story and when examining both the way that society was on Beforus and their narratives amongst their ancestors/dancestors they make sense.

For Kankri, Karkat, and Signless (who is literally Kankri but on Alternia), their major recurring thing is being treated differently by society because of their blood mutation. While Kankri doesn't have to fear being killed due to his blood color he does still face hella ableism because the society on Beforus believes lowbloods should be coddled due to their lack of power in comparison to highbloods. The trolls of the cancer sign always have to fight for themselves somehow as a reoccurring theme and Kankri's activism is his. Had he been able to continue growing and learning he could've become a better activist as he got older but because of the game he didn't and now spends eternity frozen as the same person.

For Cronus, Eridan, and Dualscar, their characters think of themselves as cool and better than others because of their status as violet bloods but in reality is regularly disregarded personally and not as worshipped as they think they should be. With the peaceful society of Beforus his "nice guy" bs was given more room to flourish bc he wasn't spending his time causing as much bloodshed and instead was focusing on how to make himself "cool" in a misguided attempt to get the attention he wants. Hussie himself has been quoted calling Cronus the worst character in homestuck and that's what he was created to be for the story. Had their session not started, could Conus have become a better troll some day? Maybe but we'll never know.

At the end of the day, they were both created to play a specific part and have a specific influence on the story.

Did I used to have fun back in high school shipping them? Yeah a bit but I grew out of that a long time ago. There's actually a Cronkri fic on AO3 that low-key still haunts me to this day. It can be a cute and fun ship if you wanna have fun with it. Are they good for each other? No but depiction does not equal glorification and it was through the exploration of characters like that going through some (tbh uncomfortable) stories that taught me some perspective on certain things and the only way to learn and grow as a person is to explore stuff like that. Plus it's okay to just have fun with silly bad characters I mean look at Vriska lmfao

Sorry that this turned into a whole thing but they're both characters that were intentionally written to be kinda shitty teenagers and too many ppl turn into real life Kankris trying to villify fictional characters.

[mariatesstruther]

candid photos of me reading the last chapter of @hypnotisedfireflies’s fortunate son

[suffarustuffaru]

Im not updated on rz, is otto doing some roswaal level of bullshittery?

HI ANON the answer is yes and no.

yes as in: otto himself parallels roswaal!!! they are both morally dubious. and good at manipulating situations. and also otto is a little. Possessive and A Bit Weird about his friends hah. to the point where ROSWAAL gets concerned. sorry otto youre one of the most pathetic men ive ever seen :<<<

no as in: otto is Not at roswaal levels of bullshittery because hes cringe fail and keeps being. Stopped. for some of it. :<< but hes still doing Bullshittery. absolutely. and ottos still like Above Average Intelligence even if hes not 100% on the same level as roswaal. and ottos good at um. Lying. and Manipulation. i'll give him that. and hes not someone to be messed with for sure.

and also i see people on rezero reddit sometimes get confused and attribute a little too much credit to his motivations being Pure Malice or people think otto is just Soft and Nice 24/7 and yeah. yeah these can be/are traits of his. but they are Both part of him okay you cant have one without the other :<<< hes like if you combined roswaal and subaru's character traits together!!!

anyway - my unhinged rant aside. if you would like a quick read + want to catch up but would like something shorter to read and youre still interested in Whatever The Hell is going on with otto i would like to recommend reading the side stories otto's bittersweet peddling trade log and the summary for the sequel to that (tsuchigumo / three idiots set out! earth spider episode). otto's trade log takes place before otto even meets subaru and tsuchigumo takes place post-arc 4 (so no spoilers for later arcs!!). these stories also help explain a Lot of ottos thought process and it adds more context to his later arc stuff!!

yeah so hope that explains things anon :O !!! without any more major spoilers lajdflsd. and also i dont know how caught up you are with rezero anon HAH so uhh sorry if you knew some of this already :o !!

[elegyofthemoon]

got my schedule!!!!!

IT IS INCOMPLETE !!!!!!!

[chicoryblue]

4 & 41! :D

4. an outsider to the community

Asal and her mercenary troupe!

Rather recent additions to the halls of the Sootsinger Citadel, Asal and her small group were hired (more or less) to help the first-born prince achieve his prophecy. She's doesn't really believe in destiny and thinks the prince is a pompous ass, but she can bite her tongue long enough for the gold to start weighing down her pouches.

41. how your clan was founded

Plenty of old scrolls and folk tales talked about the Caldera as being a trade hub and thoroughfare for any dragons traveling to and from Ashfall and the Shifting expanse. And yet, it was abandoned and almost forgotten at the top of its mountain, the great portcullis of the Citadel long rusted shut.

The foliage growing over the walls was lush, the waters of the many small waterfalls running along the path to the doors were alluringly clear, and the temptation to see what's behind - irresistible. A small group of dragons, the current regent Qawari among them, set out to explore and possibly revive the ancient hub to it's former glory.

Only Qawari and Azar, her consort, remain. Only they succeeded. The rest looked too deeply. There are reasons why the Caldera laid empty.

[taegularities]

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[pawbeanies]

hehe you caught me :3 id absolutely love to be made into a toy. my prince is so smart for not falling for that. mm what if i was made to be a bit embarrassed while you made me wait? sat still but commanded to hold my mouth open so you can put your fingers in it, talking advantage of the fact that I'm drooling so messily and making fun of me for it. not even allowed to suck your fingers, just holding my tongue out so you can play with it. maybe even teaching me a lesson by touching yourself and using my drool as a make-shift lube. im still a technical participant, but because I'm unable to actually do what i want, confined to my spot, im forced to be frustrated and denied, learning a valuable lesson on patience

- 🌹

guh. brain melting rose anon how do you do it... so talented at words what the heck... brain melting

i should apologize for being so mean but. but. oh. i wouldn't be able to not make you wait... cupping your cheeks and cooing about how lovely you are sitting all still and good for me while i shove my fingers in your mouth.?? praising you extra for being so well behaved and not biting too... of course i should scold you for making such a mess but i'm enjoying it too... holding your mouth open until drool drips down your chin... messy thing

ueue. putting on a show for you and making sure you get to watch every single second while sitting there all frustrated. making eye contact with you while working myself up and whining so sweetly because oh. if only you'd been good and behaved you could enjoy this too... but now you'll have to sit still there desperate and needy instead.. maybe if you were a good dog and begged and promised to be good i'd let you move? maybe. maybe. but you'd have to do a very good job to convince me