#confusion is not avoidable here

[moghedien]

I do want Faile to still not be the name she was born with and for her to have been going around testing out different names before settling on Faile (like you see with Perrin) so like she has like 8 different names in the two rivers depending on who she met when and everyone is just very confused about who people are talking about until they all get the Faile memo

[artarete]

lambert: some of that was pretty worrying actually narinder: i didn't say they were good reasons

[misersdream]

Slay the Prince - Happily Ever After

[royalarchivist]

Fit: They're very opinionated Eggs! You know? You love to see it.

Tallulah: its been three days of trauma in A row. I will end up with PTSD

Phil: [Laughs] Oh no, Tallulah...

Fit: Although I think for Eggs, PTSD stands for "Post-Traumatic Scrambled Disorder," so... 🤔

Phil: [Snorts]

Fit: I'm sorry, I'm sorry Phil, I'm so sorry. It was a bad joke.

Phil: Such a dad joke, jesus.

Fit: [Hits him] Ok, "Dadza"! Ok, "Dadza!" 🙄

Tallulah: youre so funny Tio fit

Phil: Look look– Tallulah thinks you're funny! [Laughs]

Fit: Ohh, gracias, te aprecio mucho mis huevito!

[chirpsythismorning]

I’m sorry but nothing will ever beat Finn’s drive playlist that he made during s3 filming, with songs like Me and Michael, The Basement, Gay Thoughts and No Woman lmaoooo

[blaithnne]

Do Doctor Who writers ever say anything else

[your-unfriendlyghost]

it feels so…… weird… seeing a cishet dude be so chill with queer themes lmao your soda-in-drag moment, the stevepop of it all, even guys with queers in their friend circles can’t bring themselves to partake sometimes lmao 😭 but it’s cool !! refreshing even sjksksndks this is a /pos statement I promise

Thanks lol! I think it’s cos I’m fairly secure. Sorta. (I’m still prone to compensating for things and being a stupid teen boy, but like, I’m aware of it, at least when I stop to think. Yk I’ll still join in on dick measuring contests, but deep down I’ll know it’s dumb and performative.)

I guess I feel a kinship to queerness. I go to art school where I’m sometimes the only guy in a class of girls, and I’ve been the token straight guy in every friend group I’ve been in since freshman year of high school. Beyond that, growing up I was frequently mistook for a girl- I had long-ish hair (post bowl-cut era 😭) and I’m part Asian, I was pretty androgynous lol. People irl have thought I’m gay, or a trans man on testosterone (I mean fine, I guess I am pretty short and hang with a lot of trans guys.) Hell, I did drag on a dare once, back when I was even more secure. (And I was hot asf in drag lemme tell ya. It felt lousy and it’s definitely not my thing, but man if I had a clone who was a girl-) All this to say, I say I’m straight, but honestly I don’t really know. I like girls a lot, but I have seen a buddy of mine in drag, and lemme tell ya I felt something but I’m not gonna examine that rn lol. Straight just feels comfortable, safe, and it’s good for interacting with folks who ain’t so progressive, so it’s what I’m sticking with…but I’ll admit there’s a gray area.

I relate a lot to the guys in the Outsiders, and irl I like to present myself as a tough, cool, Very Masculine guy. Hell, sometimes I play dumb about stuff because it’s “feminine” and a guy like me shouldn’t know about it. I act a lot like how I write Steve Randle, he’s my guy I like to project on lol. Honestly, I’ve got a fair amount of internalized toxic masculinity. But I think because I know how silly it all is deep down, I can interact with queer themes in art without feeling like I’m not “man enough”. Idk, I suppose it’s an outlet in some ways. Who knows maybe in 2027 I’ll come out as bi or something, but don’t wait up.

idk, I guess what I’m trying to say is that I like exploring queer themes, not because they’re queer necessarily, but because they’re human and I relate to them. And that’s hard not to partake in, y’know?

[starfleetshrimps]

I can understand not liking Kiraodo if you think Odo is aroace or something to that effect, and you resent the idea that he needs to be put in a romantic relationship to humanize him.

but if you say it came out of nowhere i truly cannot understand you he has been in love with her since day ONE it's been like a driving force for him. the whole time. he's in love with Kira. idk i just accept it as fact that he was in love with her for the whole show. if anything if came out of left field that he left at the end. like. whatever

Kiraodo forEVEEERRR i love them soooo much my little guys

[akaruiakiki]

[Doodle - TEBKTH + CoE]

[authoratmidnight]

The Autobots and the degree to which they realized there was something up with Smokescreen and Bumblebee (in my Smokescreen Prime AU) (i.e 'did they notice the Smokebee or not'):

Ratchet: absolutely figured something was up during the end events of Smoke and Fire (when they were sitting on the ridge). He absolutely noticed how Bumblebee was looking at Smokescreen and interacting with him and was like 'ah'.

The first time they came back to the base after making out (Ignition) he 100% knew. Nothing escapes him.

Arcee: absolutely picked up that Bumblebee was flirting with Smokescreen but since Smokescreen didn't seem to be reciprocating she just assumed it was one sided. Realized it was NOT one sided after Megatron's defeat (Dawn of a New Day) when the first thing Bee did with his new voice was to say 'I love you' to Smokescreen. *very* loudly. (and Smokescreen was not surprised)

Bulkhead: Saw some of Bumblebee's flirtations but wasn't sure if Bee was *actually* flirting or just being Bee and assumed he was reading to much into it. Didn't know anything was up till the celebration on Cybertron when Bee kissed Smokescreen in front of everyone.

Wheeljack: Not really in the base enough to notice, and even if he did that's not HIS business. 'Eh kids gonna be kids' Learned during the celebration and laughed about it cause of Ultra Magnus' reaction.

Ultra Magnus: Absolutely, completely did NOT realize. The most in the dark about all this. Partly due in part to spending so much time away from the base and Smokescreen early on, and partly cause he didn't even consider that Bumblebee would have the gall to pursue a Prime (someone way above his standing/rank) like that lol Did not even register as a possibility.

Almost blew a gasket when Bumblebee kissed Smokescreen in front of everyone (but then Smokescreen kissed him back so like. what's he gonna do? tell the new Prime no you can't be doing that??)

Bonus: The kids- they literally do not know about this at all. Any cybertronian flirting that happened in front of them would have gone right over their heads. (and they obviously weren't on Cybertron when it was officially made public lol)

If Optimus had been alive he for sure would have noticed the flirting haha

Also, Smokescreen literally did not realized he was being flirting with until Bee straight up said 'fuck it' and kissed him lol (he put the pieces together like 'you know. i might be a little stupid')

[sodaneko]

i need a name for a cat

[wickmitz]

what do you think mitzi’s type in men is?

hmm, this is a fun little ask! especially since her love interests, on a surface level, couldn’t be more different. we have :

zib : former long term boyfriend but not quite … they were very loose with labels, as we know from outside information and the way zib lives life in general. but despite this, whatever feelings fostered between them were intense ; enough so for him to stick around years later, resigned to a chained down lifestyle simply because he doesn’t want to leave mitzi. he’s very loyal in that sense! even if it’s not a conventional type of loyalty. we know that before bitterness seeped inbetween their bond that zib took good care of her, while also being a complete mess of a person ; someone perpetually scared whenever physical conflict is concerned and being a musically inclined man who very much treats himself as a free spirit, with a morbid philosophy and feel towards life. he’s got a major tortured artist aesthetic!! is a little gripped by melancholy and nostalgia … zib is a lot of things, and ambitious is surprisingly one of the many puzzle pieces that make up dorian zibowski.

atlas : ruthless gangster, has an eerie presence that frightens even the people closest to him. he is prone to a more quiet disposition ; never speaking and always a blot of unremarkable grey. but he is an opportunist! someone who can manage a business and take advantage of shortcuts and loopholes to become even more successful … basically he is wealthy and uses his assets well. but all of this is done with a manner of distance, leaving even those closest to him never having the full picture of who he was. it’s also worth noting that mitzi and him had eventual problems, which caused her to seperate. also perhaps has a heart of some kind, but whatever love he possesses is hidden under layers of blood and mystery.

wick : well-to-do bore, and i say this with all the love in the world for wick! but compared to previous paramours he’s rather clean and talkative … there is a constant earnestness to him that bleeds out, an honesty and a more conventional sort of kindness. he doesn’t hide behind smoke and mirrors and there’s never really a front he puts up around mitzi -- or his investors for that matter, hence why he’s treated as an ‘outsider’ so to speak. he is an alcoholic who loathes the details of his job but is more than passionate about the job itself and makes this everyone’s problem … he is a little helpless, in the sense he’d die without someone there to make sure he functions … and is, like zib, perpetually afraid of conflict. can be a little wishywashy and can come across as uncaring due to his cheeky tone … but he’s loyal and caring, with a hobby for the unusual ( bugs and rocks lol ) as well as being able to look past the gossip mill and see the actual mitzi may as he knows her, someone who’s going through a rough time and is either too kind or classy to be a brutal killer. he is hypocritical, a little snobby, and rather forward with mitzi too. kind of a flirt when he wants to be!

something that immediately stands out to me when looking at this lineup is that mitzi doesn’t enjoy a violent man. i don’t think she loathes someone who can so brutally or clinically remove others from this earth, but if she were to go for someone they’d usually be sweeter in a sense. it meshes well with her old personality and kinder heart, perhaps brings it out in her, and that sort of levity and breeziness is more enjoyable than, say, being fully aware of the dangers that lurk around every corner because the man you’re beside is prone to bringing it. she also enjoys more talkative types, someone who’s less quiet and demure and serious, and is keen on her men having a hobby they care deeply for ; some sort of long term goal to work towards doesn’t hurt either. and because of some scenes in the comic, i’m a firm believer that mitzi wants someone who can make her smile or laugh with ease, whether because they’re ridiculous by nature or genuinely funny! she has a sort of funny bone herself, enamored with gallow’s humor and darker jokes, so having someone who either a.) reacts hilariously in the face of her jokes or b.) who can return that energy with teasing or their own brand of silly is desirable. everyone could use a good laugh or two, a sense of joy injected into the bustling life they all live, and this all ties back to mitzi being more drawn towards the less stuffy types of men.

so atlas seems to be an outlier when it comes to her type in many ways, hence the later problems they apparently had in their relationship even if she did love him dearly. but, of course, atlas did have something very appealing to her that zib had failed to give, which she rather fondly recalls in the comic page vestige. whether zib likes acknowledging it or not, mitzi wasn’t as gungho about their normad life as he was … or, at the very least, when she lived another life besides that one, she realized she had a preference! and atlas gave her that path, that knowledge that she wanted something else, and seemingly for the very first time in her life … she felt like a proper lady, a feeling that clearly meant a lot to her. it wasn’t just the dresses or the wealth, it was the constant eye of atlas who could have any dame he wanted, but fancied her his wife regardless. it was having someone so respectable looking, dressed well and groomed well, being able to see her as something other than a sweating, exposed girl in a bawdy dress. atlas’s seemingly polite treatment towards mitzi was enough to garner her affections in spite of everything else, so i think she enjoys that now in others, ; folks who treat her as though she’s a woman in high society, men who don’t gawk at her or make lewd remarks immediately … she probably prefers the courting process now and the quaint dates ( that she doesn’t pay for, mind you ) that come along with it. she just -- likes mutual respect, i think. and who doesn’t? she’s been through a lot to get to where she is now, even if it’s a bad predicament, and she’d like for that to amount to something. some sort of acknowledgment, some kind of recognition.

however, it’s worth mentioning that her views on romance and all that it entails have been warped since the death of her husband. such a loss would change how anyone approaches their dating life, if they were to even have one afterwards … after all, mitzi’s whole problem is that she doesn’t want to move on from atlas and has thus completely romanticized him in her head, to the point that she earnestly believes she’ll be miserable forever without his presence. any problems she had with atlas have long since been erased by her tortured mind, leaving her with a profound misery she’s wallowing in. i think she believes herself as incapble of romantic or sexual inclinations nowdays, leading her to view the advances made towards wick as a necessary ‘evil’ for the sake of atlas may and little else -- when she genuinely does like sedgewick to a degree, and wouldn’t go on dates or kiss a man unless some part of her honestly wanted to do so. ( i also think she was attracted to wick somewhat even while married to atlas, but that’s besides the point ) so this is all a rather complicated affair! she is vulnerable and weak, is too aware of herself and the criminal underbelly squeezing in closer … add this on top of her still heavily grieving and having no one she feels she can talk to, you have someone who is rather changed. mitzi is so far removed from herself and who she truly is, or was, that there’s no doubt it’s affected her type ; now she’ll settle for anyone if they’ll just help her, and even then she’d be dispassionate if romantic entanglement of any kind was involved in that relationship. it’s not something she wants right now, and honestly, it all seems scary and daunting … besides atlas, zib was the only other man she’s ever loved enough to stay around for, so she’s never faced a loss like this before. has kept zib throughout all the turmoil and changes -- so this is, as far as we know, her first major loss where it concerns matters of the heart. it’s not shocking she’s so messed up after it, especially given how fresh it all still is. all of this rambling is to say that mitzi’s a little more stingy and cagey then she used to be about love or sex, and she has a lot of inner battles to face before she can fall for someone and be sure about it. needs to thaw, i think, and she would require patience and understanding from anyone who actually wanted to be with her. mitzi could move on with time ( i do not think she’s the type of widow who’d never date again! ) but it would take quite some time to do so. well, in a world where she’s allowed / is able to heal anyway!

while her type would probably remain the same, i could see her wanting a serious relationship more than she did prior to the death of her husband. has no energy for the loopholes, or the rationalizations, or the fickle nature that can grip someone’s heart. she has matured in a lot of ways since her band days and would take comfort in frivolous things like labels and promises of a future, together, as lovers. while what she had with zib was nice and is cherished alongside the freedom to do as she pleased while on the road with the band, i don’t think she misses it. having the stability and assurance of an actual relationship, with all the hardships that come with it, would be better suited for her. as long as she’s treated like an equal of course! i don’t think she’d be keen on her partner hiding anything from her, even if it’s meant to protect her, due to where that put mitzi when atlas was killed. she’d rather know and be disgusted, or worried, or scared than to not know about something at all until it’s too late … again. naturally patience and compassion would also be of importance, as would the usual things she loves like loyalty and a passion for something in life. and while never required, she’d be happy if the person possessed even a singular musical bone in their body! she still thinks artists, particularly musicans, are sexy after all … likes the angst and brooding that comes with it, the slight flare towards the dramatics … as long as they can handle mitzi in her pitiful entirety and do, to some degree, care deeply for her and will compromise … i think she could find some happiness wherever. bonus points if she can live comfortably for the rest of her days too, lord knows she’s tired of the constant battle of hucking and bargaining.

but yeah! mitzi’s love life is vast and complex and i definitely see her as someone who is more flexible in type than other people are. though there are similarities between her suitors if you really look! anyway, i hope i was able to briefly touch upon this subject because my shipping brain loved your question and kinda went into overdrive, alas. tldr ; her ideal type is wick sable. sorry. once wick learns an instrument the wedding is back on!! … i’m kidding lol. well, mostly <3

[shytulipghost]

More details about the world of the novel and Ms. Orange herself

In my recent writing post, a mutual of mine asked me questions about the novel's universe, so I'm sharing snippets of the conversation to expand more on the worldbuilding and the protagonist.

Question 1: "Would the novel's universe continue to exist without the writer influencing it?"

Chapter 20 explores more of this and other similar topics, so I will update this post with some translated extracts once they are ready (I'm currently translating some extracts of Chapters 2, 3 and 4 that I already shared on my writing blog).

Question 2: "Is Orange a character dealing with her desire to go back to nothing? Would that be one of the plot points to solve?"

Fun fact: originally, the ending was going to be Orange (and Marshmallow, but now her personal story is completely different) leaving everything behind and somehow escaping to the real world, but I decided against it because it would be like telling to people to escape reality and responsibilities by indulging in fiction, which would be a bad thing to promote. It was then when I decided to change the ending and had a better idea of what Orange's character arc would be.

In hindsight, thanks goodness I didn't go for the original ending or else it would have been too similar to the one in "Barbie" (jokes aside, the ending of that movie was wholesome and I liked that Barbie decides to give herself her creator's, essentially her mother's, surname when she goes to live in the real world. Unfortunately, the metaphorical mother-daughter relationship Orange and the author have is not that great, haha).

[purple--queen]

friendly reminder that if loki & thor going to meet in doomsday this is not our loki. our loki died in infinity war by the hands of thanos so he does not know about the emotional "the sun will shine on us again". This loki just knows that the last time he saw thor, thor put an muzzle on him to keep him quite. you're welcome :)

[primatechnosynthpop]

New kitties on the rock + some of their friends and enemies (mostly enemies)

[ID summarized from alt text: drawings of several New Kids on the Rock characters as cats, specifically as though they were in the Warriors series.]

[i3utterflyeffect]

from Alan's perspective, Cho and Dark finding him is probably the single scariest experience of his life, thinking he and SC are both about to get fucking murdered for Alan's own crimes. meanwhile Cho and Dark are having the single most confusing experience of their lives, because Alan is acting Completely Fuckin Bizarre, and also has a baby??? for some reason??? what the fuck??? and SC is just crying because theyre literally babey and theyre So So Stressed

YEAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! it's just extremely stressful for everyone involved and honestly Chosen probably is the one that has to take the initiative to step up and be like 'hey Alan, can you explain what the fuck is happening????' which is. Extremely confusing for Alan also because he was HORRIBLE to Chosen, why are THEY the one who isn't immediately trying to murder him????