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It pays not to be a gamer because any time someone complains about Arcane being attached to a video game and it means nothing to me. This is a show about cycles of violence and contains quantities of cool ladies and narrative symmetry that I could only dream. Look at it.
No one can make me learn anything. I could not be made to care about League of Legends before and I am thriving knowing even less about it now. I am eating story with both hands while ignorance cradles me in a gentle embrace.
#arcane#do not try to teach me things#love and light to all video game players but I am an animation enjoyer and book reader kind of nerd#we can coexist but I am eating story with both hands#why would I distract from eating story with both hands by being asked to do a task my fingys
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I love love love when trans women* give advice to trans men* about """manly""" things and when trans men* return that kindness with advice about """womanly""" things. I love the intracommunity commitment to supporting each other <<3
#trans#transgender#lgbt#lgbtq#ftm#mtf#nonbinary#obviously it's better when that advice and guidance is consentual#if you ever want to give that advice do be sure that that person is even seeking that out#i have made advice posts which i try to state as neutrally as possible to ensure that whomever wants the advice can read it#but by no means are those posts intended to force you to change or to do things outside of what you want y'know?#ANYWAY thank you to trans women for unironically teaching me how to shave when i didn't know how#(i read the book Nevada partway and that was how i started to learn how to shave my face)#(and i've gotten a decent-ish close shave though i do admit i'm not that good at it. i'm kinda lazy actually LOL)#chin stubble is genuinely one of the worst sensory things for me and i'm so grateful that i was taught by trans women about it :)!!!#genuinely me when other trans people: 🥰
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"—No but like, why?" "Because you have neuroses, Barnes."
#bucky barnes#alpine#marvel#my art#trying to find a way of drawing him that says “might kill you” and “will definitely start crying at some point.”#drawing stupidheroes is gonna teach me how to draw HAIR and to DO SHADING if it kills me (it will)#this is based more on the comics than the mcu but i like both & either way they're both based all on each other anymore#someone else teach me how to shade 'cause it ain't working. please it's the worst thing ever to have to do in art
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"Poor thing." (Matt Murdock x F!Reader, Fic) 🔥
So as promised, I'm taking part in the October Tuna-Tober prompt challenge! For Day One I had three prompts to choose from, and I wound up going for the kink prompt of somnophilia cause, well, I'd hinted at it in TRT as being something Matt liked, but never actually sat down and wrote anything out for it. You can see the rest of the prompts I've chosen here if you'd like to know what's coming this month from me, but for now, please enjoy Day One! This is not specifically written as any fem!Reader in particular, although any readers of TRT can choose to see this as TRT's reader!
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Ship: Matt Murdock x F!Reader
Chapter Summary:
You’d had a long week. He remembered you telling him that the night before. You wouldn’t mind if he woke you up—you never did—but odds were good you needed your rest far more than you needed him dragging you up out of the haze of sleep for a sloppy, indulgent midnight fuck. But then… he didn’t have to wake you up, did he?
Wordcount: 3.3k words
Warnings for this chapter, let's do this: consensual somnophilia (they talked about this being fine, don't worry), oral f-receiving, grinding, PiV sex, some dirty talk. 18 and up only please!
Oh and we're black suiting this cause fuck yeah.
Your arousal hit him the second he opened the rooftop door.
The scent of it stopped him dead in his tracks, threads of heat winding through him as he drew in a long, slow inhale, savoring it. Another inhale, and he let out a low rumble of pleasure, his mouth already watering, cock stirring.
Well, that was one way to be welcomed home.
Not that he was complaining. His night had gone well enough—the fights visceral and satisfying, with multiple people he’d ensured would make it home safely. But your skin against his, fucking his way lazily inside you while you moaned loudly into his ear, dragging your nails down his back, would only make a good night better. However, as he eagerly stepped through the door and closed it behind him, it quickly became clear that your body’s call to him wasn’t exactly intentional.
He directed his senses down the stairs and into the bedroom, hunting through sensory information, through the fire of the world until he found you in bed. You were laying on your side and tucked under the blankets, one of your arms thrown over his pillow to hold it up against your chest. And despite the tempting scent of you in the air, you weren’t moving. Not really, anyway. At most, every now and then your fingers would twitch or curl, your heartbeat uneven and a little restless.
Asleep.
You were dreaming, then.
Maybe even dreaming of him.
He slowly dragged his tongue over his lips, considering his options.
You’d had a long week. He remembered you telling him that the night before. You wouldn’t mind if he woke you up—you never did—but odds were good you needed your rest far more than you needed him dragging you up out of the haze of sleep for a sloppy, indulgent midnight fuck.
But then… he didn’t have to wake you up, did he?
Just like that, he settled on a course of action.
He crept silently down the stairs, stripping out of his gloves and black mask as he went, tossing them aside without care for where they fell. The bottom step was carefully avoided, thanks to its tendency to creak and alert you to his presence. He stopped only long enough to kneel and quietly unlace his boots, tugging them and his socks off so that he could slip barefoot into the bedroom, weaving through the shadows, navigating around any floorboards that might give him away. He did it all without a sound, his senses so focused now he could hear the faint whisper of the dust motes in the air stirred by his passage, hear the tiniest shift of your skin against the sheets as you breathed, hear the blood flowing hot beneath your skin where you’d grown flushed and aroused.
The scent of your arousal was even stronger here in the bedroom, more than enough to thicken the heat inside him, an instinctive little purr halted in his throat before it could stir the air with sound. His body knew just as well as he did what that scent meant, what always followed, and his nostrils flared as he got closer to you, taking in how your pheromones had mixed with his in bed. It stirred some possessive, lazy satisfaction in him to take in the way you’d curled up with his pillow, chasing his scent, and you were even wearing—
Oh.
You were wearing his shirt.
It was like you were begging for this, for him, for what he had planned.
He crept up onto the bed on his hands and knees, each shift of the mattress followed by a pause, a confirmation from your heartbeat and breathing that you were still asleep. He had to be careful if he didn’t want to wake you. It wasn’t that you’d be angry, of course—you’d both agreed that this sort of thing was alright, though he’d had a far easier time making use of that agreement than you had thanks to his senses. No, this was about ensuring you still had a chance to rest.
Though, if he were honest, the challenge of this was a thrill all its own. It was a delicate balancing act to give you the sensations you needed, allow himself access to your body, all without waking you. It was as if he were hunting you, gradually gaining ground from the shadows until at last he could take hold of his prize. Fortunately, this prize was one that would leave you both satisfied.
The moment he found himself over your hips, he shifted to catch the blankets and slowly, ever so slowly began to edge them down.
Gentle.
Inch by inch, he bared your body to the air. You didn’t so much as stir, well and truly asleep, and presumably still caught up in your dream. Even so, he held his breath, listening closely to the beating of your heart and your shallow breathing. But he’d been careful enough, and besides, you were used to him climbing into bed in the middle of the night, shifting the blankets around as he crawled under them to join you.
The scent of you that rose up as the blanket slid down was so much richer now that it wasn’t stifled and trapped by thick fabric. It made him shiver, his cock already so hard he could feel a damp spot growing on the silk of his boxers. He needed more of that scent, and to taste it, too, but the angle was all wrong with you on your side. So he gently traced one fingertip up the side of your thigh, applying the barest hint of pressure. You were normally fairly responsive to him even in sleep.
“Roll over for me, sweetheart,” he whispered, leaning down to brush his lips, light as a feather, against your hip. “You smell so good. I need a taste.”
He wasn’t sure if it was his touch or his voice that made it past whatever dream you were lost in, but either way, some part of you heard him. You breathed out a soft sigh, twitching a little until he helped you roll slowly onto your back beneath him. You made a soft sound that might have been his name, and he couldn’t resist letting out a reassuring little croon as he pressed your slack thighs outwards, gradually parting your legs. There wasn’t so much as a hint of resistance as your legs fell open, baring the wet heat of your pussy to him.
God, your scent.
He quickly backed up a few inches before dropping to his hands and his knees, lowering his head just over your hips to quietly inhale the scent of your cunt. The rich, musky tang of your arousal—all pheromones and slick warmth—left him half mad, his eyes rolling back. His hips instinctively snapped forward against nothing but air, his body curving as if he were already fucking his way into you.
It only got worse, got better when he let his head fall further, hungry for just a taste. He slipped his tongue out until he could use the tip for the barest little lick at the line of your slit where your arousal had gathered, your body twitching as he did. Even that small taste hit him like a drug, and he swallowed down a ragged moan, his chest hitching as he kept the sound from reaching the air. He’d told himself he’d just have a taste, just one, but one quickly became two became three, hungry, quickening laps at your slit until he finally whined softly in want and dropped the rest of his body down, burying his face desperately against your cunt.
Your hips twitched, rocking against him just slightly, and you let out the softest little whimper as he grunted and slurped quietly at your slit, wetness smearing across his chin and mouth. Only once he’d thoroughly tasted what you’d made for him did he slide up to your clit, tongue extended to lap at it with little kitten licks, ones designed to encourage your body to give him more of your slick wetness, your body jerking with every pass. He tried to remind himself to be gentle, to take things soft and slow so you didn’t wake, but that was so hard when you whimpered again, whimpered as he pursed his lips to suck lightly at your clit, drawing it into his mouth to work with his tongue. Your fingers curled and released against the sheets, and you tasted so good that he found himself fucking against the mattress, humping mindlessly at the folds in the blankets like an animal.
“M… Matt.”
His eyes fluttered lazily open, his gaze drifting up around the sensory shape of you. You were all flowing air currents and sounds and scents, twisting tongues of flame fed by the growing heat of both your bodies. Your heartbeat was still too slow to signal you’d woken up, but your breathing had picked up, your eyes fluttering more rapidly behind your eyelids.
If you hadn’t been dreaming of him before, you were now. And if you were still dreaming, he was safe.
He rumbled a low noise of satisfaction, using his fingers to part your folds before dipping down to your entrance. Once there, he began to lick firmly at you, pressing deeper and deeper until at last your body opened to him and he slipped inside. You let out a sleep little mewl, one of your legs shifting restlessly in your sleep, your head rolling on your pillow as he moaned quietly, curling his tongue inside you to drag against the silken heat of your clenching walls, his nose grinding gently against your clit.
Did you know, somewhere deep down, what he was doing? That he’d spread you open like this and worked his tongue inside you? Or did all your dream self know was that you suddenly felt so, so good?
The very idea that you might not know, that you’d left yourself so vulnerable to him, had him dangerously close to coming, his motions growing just a hint more frantic. Wetness smeared across his face as he kissed sloppily at your slit, kissed at it like he might your mouth, snaking his tongue out to slide inside you with every pass of his lips.
He listened carefully to the quickening pace of your heart, your breathing, taking in the faint sheen of sweat forming on your skin. Every time your heartrate rose too high, he’d slow just a little, or shift his mouth over to your folds or the inside of your thighs. It was there he left you a mark or two, sucking gently at thin, delicate skin. Even if he managed to do this without waking you, you’d know tomorrow what he’d done when you saw the little love bites and bruises between your thighs. The very idea made him purr warmly against you, and he quickly worked his hand down beneath himself until he could undo his pants, pushing the fabric down until he could pull his hard cock free. He took a moment to grind slowly, deliciously against the sheets, presing his mouth to the skin of your thigh to muffle his hitched moan. And that reminded him of what he’d planned on from the start, before he’d become distracted by the taste of you.
He was close, and he needed you. Fortunately, based on the way your body had begun to tighten in increasing waves, you were close, too.
He let his head roll to the side to rest against your thigh as he panted, still grinding himself against the sheets. “Do you want my cock, sweetheart?” he whispered, his lips curling up into a delicious little smirk when your body clenched at the sound of his voice. “I think you do. Even when you’re asleep, you need me inside you, don’t you?”
There was no verbal response, but the growing heat of your skin was enough for him. He rocked himself up as gently as he could, stopping just long enough to strip the rest of his clothes off before climbing slowly up your body. As he went, he caught the hem of your shirt, slowly dragging it up your body with him. He couldn’t take it off you—even he wouldn’t be able to mange something like that—but he had no desire to. The idea of fucking you while you were sleep, while you were wearing his shirt, was a fantasy he’d used more than once while taking himself in hand. He did, however, tug your shirt up just enough to bare your breasts to him.
Obscene, something inside him whispered in delight, a wave of throbbing heat flooding through him. Here you were asleep, shirt pushed up over your breasts, your naked cunt practically dripping onto the sheets. He balanced his weight on one arm as he hovered over you, indulging himself as he palmed gently at one of your breasts, dragging his thumb slowly against your nipple. That won him another soft moan in your sleep, your cunt clenching, body tightening around nothing. Your next moan was even louder when he dropped his head to drag his tongue hotly against your other nipple, drawing it into his mouth to catch it gently between his teeth, sucking lazily until you let out an even louder moan, one of your hands curling as if to claw at the sheets before relaxing. “Poor thing,” he crooned quietly, reluctantly leaving your breasts to climb the rest of the way up your body. “Listen to you, so needy.”
And it would only be right to help with that, wouldn’t it?
Once his hips were level with yours, he settled in, rocking and grinding his cock gently against your slit, slicking himself up with your warmth and the saliva he’d left behind. The sudden sensation of your burning heat against the underside of his cock made his mouth fall slack, and he started to pant at the little shocks of pleasure that washed over him every time he caught the head of his cock against your clit. You weren’t much better even asleep, whining as your hips jerked, eyes rolling frantically beneath your lids. It took everything in him to keep his motions gentle and slow, no matter how much his body demanded he grind and rut, fuck his way desperately inside you even if it woke you. No. No, not when he was so close, his cock now slick and ready for you. He let out a shaky breath, burying his face against your warm throat, huffing in the scent of you as he shifted the angle and began to slide inside you, centimeter by warm, delicious centimeter.
“Fuck,” he whispered shakily, one of his hands fisting desperately in the sheets beside your head. “Fuck, sweetheart. You feel so good.”
God, you were tight, so close to coming that you were already clenching tight around him. That tightness forced him to move gradually, his progress slowed to a sinfully dangerous crawl, one that allowed him to feel every last twitch and shift of your body around his cock. It seemed designed to make him lose his mind when he was already this worked up. In a blink, he’d caught the fabric of your shirt in his teeth, stifling his hoarse, shaky moan, your shallow, hitched breathing a tantalizing whisper of sensation in his ear. It felt like it took hours, ages before he’d finally hilted himself inside you, buried in your slick heat.
He forced himself to still there for a long moment, his chest heaving as he scanned over you with his senses again.
Stuttered breathing, each breath hiding a faint moan.
The fluttering clip of your heart, just slow enough to indicate you hadn’t woken.
Your fingers clenching and releasing, spread thighs shifting in minute, restless movements against the sheets.
It wouldn’t take much more for him to come, he knew that much—the taste of you still lingered on his tongue, filled his nose, and the drag of your skin against his with every breath only left him burning. But he wasn’t a selfish lover, even when you weren’t awake to beg and plead with him for release. No, he’d make sure you got what you needed, too: his sweetheart, so tender and soft and welcoming to the Devil even in sleep.
He slowly, gradually settled his weight onto one arm, sliding his free hand down between your bodies. Even that much shifting around had him swallowing down a groan, and he couldn’t resist grinding just a little inside you. It made you twitch and whimper, hushed and breathless in his ear as he pressed his cock against that spot inside you. Once he was sure that hadn’t been enough to wake you, he quickly dragged two fingers through your folds, raking gently to gather up your wetness before he brought them back up to your clit. The rhythm he started was slow and easy, a gentle grind and loop over your clit that matched the rolling waves of his hips as he began to gently fuck you, barely retreating at all before sliding smoothly back to fill you once more.
It took him no time at all to work your body up that final hill, your breathing growing shorter, your heart rate climbing as you began to tighten around him. It helped that he knew what you needed—each retreat was slow and gentle, and he never left you more than halfway before rolling lazily back forward, ensuring your warm cunt stayed achingly full as he brought you just up to the edge. This time it was your mouth that moved, not a word but a soft whisper of skin as you parted your lips, your head tipping back. And he knew that motion, even as slack and lazy as it was in your sleep.
He purred quietly at the unconscious request that he fill you there, too, lifting his head to seek out your mouth. One soft lick against your lips and you parted them for him on pure instinct, allowing him to slide his tongue filthily into your slack mouth, dragging his tongue against yours, granting you what you’d asked for. You let out a soft sigh, your throat working beneath him as you sucked at the taste of him, of yourself, of you both.
All it took from there was one more finger grinding against your clit, a gentle buck of his hips as he moaned into your mouth, and you crested, your body tightening and releasing around him in rippling waves. Your head rolled back in your sleep, a soft gasp shuddering up your throat as you twitched and shook, eyes rolling back beneath your lids. You let out what might have been a moan of his name, hot and sweet, a sound that seared its way across his mind like a brand. That was more than enough for him, and he let himself go. He groaned softly against your lips, snapping his hips gently against you as he spilled himself near-silently inside you, filling your cunt with a spreading heat that you wouldn’t notice until morning. He kissed you through it as gently as he could, rubbing lightly, quickly at your clit to drag your orgasm out along with his, pleasure rolling through him in gentle waves. Even once you both began to come down, he wasn’t quite done, rumbling a low, possessive growl as he ground himself inside you further, ensuring he’d coated every last inch of your warm cunt, his, you were his, even in sleep. He toyed with that overstimulation just long enough for his toes to curl, for his spent, softening cock to twitch inside you, spilling a few more drops, giving you everything he had as you drifted back down into a deep sleep.
Satisfied with what he’d given you.
He got one arm down and around your hip, gently, carefully rolling the both of you until you were both on your sides, his cock still buried deep inside you. He rumbled a low noise to reassure your sleeping mind, burying his nose in your hair as you sleepily curled into him, one arm draping itself over his waist.
“Love you,” he murmured. “My good girl.” “Mm.”
#tuna-tober 2024#matt murdock x reader#daredevil x reader#matt murdock x f!reader#daredevil x f!reader#daredevil#matt murdock#fic#fanfic#reader#f!reader#x reader#ns/fw#somno k!nk#consensual somno#dirty talk#oral f-receiving#smutty smut smut#trying to teach myself to A. write every day again and B. remind myself i can do shorter things sometimes too#which hey 3k is short for me so#tuna-tober prompt challenge#tunatober
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i need more episodes about adrien just trying new things and gradually figuring out what he wants to spend his time doing, what classes and hobbies he genuinely enjoys, and then eventually, what he'd like to pursue professionally. i never really thought about running before sublimation and while i still don't think that's actually his passion, i love that he connected the act of running to the freedom and joy he gets when he's being chat noir, running around paris saving people. one of my favorite things about adrien that a lot of people in fandom especially in fics miss is that just because he's decent or even great at several things doesn't mean he has a personal connection to that thing. in early ml he was acting in his friends' student films, playing sports to different results, fencing with his friends, participating in band, even modeling for fun. in climatiqueen, he discovered he was decent at drawing, a mess with labwork, quick with languages (no surprise there), and v new to baking—all things he could improve upon but nothing that made him feel passion. but he specified the reason he had fun trying those things wasn't the things themselves but because he was doing them with marinette, same as before when he took skills he was forced to acquire by his father and re-utilized them to hang out with his friends despite not feeling a personal connection to any of those hobbies or talents. i don't know if the show plans on him discovering this soon (they're sooooo young, i hate that he is even stressing about this just because his friends are not normal and because the french school system has most people declare their course of study in lycée) but i'm just excited to see him branch out and try new things and get the life experience he was denied when he was younger.
and running away from the agreste manor (where he was confined and forced to be a perfect mold) as his first step toward self discovery? brilliant imagery.
#adrien agreste#ml spoilers#ml s6 spoilers#miraculous#miraculous ladybug#i don't know exactly where they'll go from here but my guess is “running” isn't going to lead to adrien pursuing track & field seriously#but rather that the reason he went from realizing he LOVES being chat noir more than anything else to running is that sense of freedom and#adrenaline rush he gets in battle. (running is like the first thing he's doing solely because he likes the way he feels when he does it#so there's no way they'll make him do it competitively the way sublime does because that's the kind of thing his father did:#all his hobbies and skills had to serve a purpose and serve as an example of him being exceptional#i'm excited for him to just do things because he likes them and maybe eventually find something he wants to dedicate his life to from there#looking at the other things he enjoys (not the activities themselves but lending his talents to his friends so they can pursue their own#interests and dreams) and the general sense that part of what he's gotta love about being chat noir is being able to actually help people#that it makes him feel more fulfilled than merely being some kind of celebrity model or actor or musician#i feel like whatever his true passion is has to combine that rush of freedom with that act of service#i've actually never read a fic where his true calling is something like this over being a (depressed) celeb in a career he hates#(maybe the ones that have him pursue teaching rather than just science for research or knowledge's sake)#so i'm soooo curious about this even if it (realistically!) doesn't happen in this one season#mildly related but mentioned it offhand in another post but adrien taking ancient greek just for the hell of it makes me so happy#like that's my bby nerd trying all things even if none of his friends have any interest in those subjects ilhsm
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//minor blood, spoilers for all three games
short IEYTD animatic i made to the song My Favorite Part by PEABOD! took me like five days and i think it turned out pretty good :)
#i’m going to try to do Who Broke It next but. that might. take a while.#this was good practice tho!#making comics AND animatics… this fandom is teaching me all sorts of things#thank u ieytd fandom for being encouraging :D got plenty more in the works!#ieytd#i expect you to die#ieytd 2#ieytd 3#agent phoenix#reginald crane#the handler#dr prism#she’s there for like one frame#john juniper#as well#tempted to tag this as solaris since her camera is there… i shall refrain. this time#i drew all of the backgrounds from memory so if something looks horribly off pretend it was on purpose or smth#animatic#my art
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wait need to make this a separate dancest post altogether bc omgg @frieden-dnp your mind ohhhh my goddddd you're so right
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Vi is gifted kid burnout but in the english major way
#she’s the best characterization I’ve seen of gifted kid burnout outside of super-genius characters#like. as a burnt out gifted kid by legal designation. she is me#trying to succeed at everything because that’s what you’re told to do or what you think needs to be done to be worth anything to anyone#being rigid to change because it’s not being done right but at the same time accepting change so long as people stay with you#and also how that ties in with being an eldest sibling#because ik folks love the whole ‘gifted kid jinx’ thing (not me but ya’ll do you) but ya’ll—#YA’LL DO NOT UNDERSTAND MY NEED FOR BURNT OUT ACADEMIC VI—#because Vi never got the chance to be a kid and learn and grow and find what she actually enjoyed in the world outside of the last drop crew#but look at her. the way she speaks and the way she tried to teach powder the lessons she earned the hard way in the gentlest way possible#in the way she so desperately clings on to people and memories#my girl would be a WRITER#my girl would be writing poetry drunk in her shitty basement apartment after hooking up with a girl#my girl would be writing novellas in prison and getting her degree#because you know she sees the world like a romantic. her world is art and emotion and devotion. to her family. to anything she cares about#i need more literary! student vi. i need more academic vi. i need more grudging debate-team captain vi#i need vi getting her own place and having an extensive book collection that she develops because of the loneliness#Her gkb is going from a leader & soldier to someone who could be useful regardless to someone who is useless & being okay w/ it ->#to being needed again and not knowing how to handle it but knowing she refuses to fuck it up this time#GIVE ME VI W/ MY GIFTED KID ARCCCCCC#this probs makes no sense and is like 4 tangents but I’ll expand on it later ‘cause im tired#coherency is for losers and the well-rested#vi arcane#arcane#arcane season 2#arcane spoilers#arcane season two#vi
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i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you
#im reading that post that says artists are directors of audience reaction and not its dictator:#'you cannot guarantee that everyone viewing your work will react as you are trying t make them react. a good artist knows that this is what#allows work to breath. by definition you cannot have art where the viewer brings nothing to the table ... this is why you have to let go of#the urge to plainly state in text exactly how you think the work should be interpreted ... its better to be misinterpreted sometimes than#to talk down to your audience. you wont even gain any control that way; people will still develop their opinions no matter what you do#im thinking abt this again cuz i was thinking maybe the thing that lets adventure time work so well the way it does is cuz it doesnt#take itself too seriously that it gives the audience enough room to fuck with subtext and then fuck with them back yknow. i think it was#mentioned somewhere that they werent even planning to run with the postapocalyptic elements that are hinted in the show but changed their#mind after the one off with the frozen businessmen and dominoed into marcy and simons backstory. on the other side there are stories that#explain too much to let the story speak for itself and i think it ends up having to do more with the crew trying to lead ppl in a certain#direction than expand on what they have and i see a lot of this with miraculous. like when interviews and tweets are used as word of god in#arguments and it becomes a little stifling to play around with it knowing the creator can just interject. u can say its the crews effort to#engage with its audience but it feels more like micromanaging. and none of this is to say there ISNT room for stories that spell things out#theyre just suited for different things. if sesame street tried abstract approaches to themes and nuance itd be counterproductive#a lot of things fly over my head so i need help picking things apart to get it- but it doesnt have to be from the story itself. ive picked#picked up or built on my own interpretations listening to other ppl share their thoughts which creates conversation around the same thing#sometimes stories will spell things out for you without being so obvious abt it that it feels like its woven into the text. my fav example#for this might be ATLA using younger characters as its main cast but instead of feeling like its dumbed down for kids to understand why war#is bad its framed from a childs point of view so younger audiences can pick up on it by relating to the characters. maybe an 8 year old#wont get how geopolitics works but at least they get 'hey the world is a little more complicated than everyone vs. fire nation'. same for#steven universe bc its like theyre trying to describe and put feelings into words that kids might not have so they have smth to start with#especially with the metaphors around relationships bc even if it looks unfamiliar as a kid now maybe the hope is for it to be smth you can#look back to. thats why it feels like these shows grew up with me.. instead of saving difficult topics for 'when im ready for it'#as if its preparing me for high school it gave me smth to turn in my hands and revisit again and again as i grow. stories that never#treated u as dumb all along. just someone who could learn and come back to it as many times as u need to. i loved SU for the longest time#but i felt guilty for enjoying it hearing the way ppl bash it. bc i was a kid and thought other ppl understood it better than me and made#feel bad for leaning into the message of paying forward kindness and not questioning why steven didnt punish the diamonds or hold them#accountable. but im rewatching it now and going oh. i still love this show and what it was trying to teach me#yapping#diary
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Started watching 3BSkyen’s helluva reaction and while I don’t agree with certain things, he called the show sincere and self-indulgent and honestly.. that is accurate and also such a big reason to why I love it so much. (He also mentioned the thing about Marvel that I’ve mentioned before)
Honestly I can appreciate most things if you can just tell that the creator loves their product. You feel that with helluva. The creators are doing a show THEY want to do and are inviting you to witness it. It’s ultimately for them but it also resonates with people like them. I think that’s a big reason as to why I don’t mind the tonal whiplash or whatever else people like to point out makes the show lesser. Cus to me it’s just proof of them being able to do whatever they want. This show is free as fuck.. they are able to tell the story however they want to and I’m just enjoying the ride and seeing what they can come up with.
Like…I have been a movie fan for such a loong time. Especially animation. Me and my father share this hobby and we’ve both gotten very good at predicting what’ll happen just cus of pattern recognition. This makes helluva so exciting for me, cus they don’t have to follow the mold. They don’t have to use the same established tools as anyone else and therefor… I’ve never been fully sure about what they’re gonna do. Which is also why I’m perfectly fine with their use of clichés. Cus, ye sure they’re overused in general BUT they’re not usually used in this setting.
So I’m perfectly content with the classic romantic tropes and ”cringiness” because who wouldve put that in a gorey, sexually deviant show about demons in hell? Starring a gay couple too???
I don’t care what they could’ve done, I’m really only interested in what they will do. I want to know THEIR vision. I wanna know THEIR way of doing it. Nothing they’ve done has hindered me in following the story or getting to know the characters. I honestly feel like I know them really really well, so I’m really really good.
#helluva boss#stolitz#seriously i am a huge fan of creators who are selftaught#cus education usually teaches you tools and patterns that are universally used#and sometimes that can hinder creativity#there’s no wrong way to do art imo#there are just different ways#and im so invested in people who wants to try new things#brandon rogers is one of those people who i look up to for that reason#his humour doesnt always resonate with me#but by god that man just does whatever he wants and i admire that sooooo much#and i admire vivs whole journey too#cus goddamn isnt this every oc creators dream?#do be able to do something like this?#it’s so cool for her
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#i hate YouTube sometimes#likes it’s fine it’s fine whatever#but yesterday it was all comments of people who didnt care/know about the subculture questioning why this would be on their timeline#and today it’s a bunch of people kindly ‘educating’ me on the history of punk and goth.#like; ‘in the past you couldn’t just buy goth clothing you had to make it’ no shit Sherlock why do you think my whole channel is about diy#or ‘goth is about the music”’ yes idiot which is why I put an entire section explaining where to find affordable music#or people who seem to not watch the video and just reccomend things you already said#like ‘if you have a library check out maker spaces’ yes exactly which is why I dedicated a section of the video to talking about#library resources you can find and all the equipment you might be able to borrow#like it’s fine it’s fine I really shouldn’t get so annoyed I feel like I’m probably being a bitch right now.#but I think I just woke up grumpy#and whenever people try to ‘teach me about alt’ in my own YouTube comments in a very condescending way#or way that made it clear they didn’t watch the video#it’s just annoying#also feel free to ignore this I don’t need a reply or validation I just needed to vent#I get I’m being an asshole and the ‘#‘comments are good for the algorithm so it’s good why does it bother you’#I don’t know. it does. I’m sorry.#personal#rabbit rambles
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#if you don’t mind could you say a quick prayer that I can not make things worse with my seniors?#I do feel very much that the problem is me (hi! I’m the problem it’s me)#because they’re just suuuuuch a hard personality match for me as a group#but I can feel myself sort of closing off and not wanting to stay open and I can feel myself wanting to hate them#frankly#but that’s just because I’m imperfect and tired#I am forcing myself to go through the class and think about each kid#and actually there is only really one bad apple maybe two but really I think it’s one!#but it is casting a huge shadow#also I hate to say it but many are annoying#aosiieksisie they just are. but they’re not bad kids! and they want to have a good relationship with me and I need to let that happen#but yeah. I just want to shut myself off from them completely#but I am either not old enough to teach a class well and do that. I have not unlocked that power#there has to be a baseline of goodwill and camaraderie#or I will never be able to not have it and will always need it#but in either case. I need it here. and it’s hard#the worst part is that they ! make ! me ! shy !#freaking introverts are so annoying sometimes I swear#YOU DON’t HAVE A MONOPOLY ON DISCOMFORT IN SOCIAL SITUATIONS#and you CREATE it as well as suffer it !!!!!!!!!!!!#sorry. see what I mean? I am getting irrationally angry at them for being the way that they are#but it’s because *I* am suffering because of them#lol. except it isn’t lol I am serious#anyway just trying to get this out#thanks for listening#teaching tag
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Why does seeing bottom draco content feel so offensive?
Like I'm well aware that people can ship things differently and most of the time when I see something I don't agree with or don't like I just ignore and go about my day, but for Draco Malfoy I feel deeply offended, mostly on his part but partly on mine too because there are so few people who agree with me, but like, why does it offend me so much? I just feel like it's a big mischaracterization (which would be fine by itself even if it is, but it feels just so other worldly to me when it's with Draco and it's about whether he's submissive or not)... Idk maybe it's because he's been used and tossed around by dark forces almost all his life and I just want him to have more, if not all the control he can have, but even then, your role in the bed doesn't translate to how much control you have in your life, but it just feels so selfish of people to toss Harry with his "rough hands" (idk if he canonically has rough hands but I just hate the description, top Harry doesn't offend me as much, I can imagine him being dominant with women, but I still don't really like it especially if it's with Draco. The selfish part also applies to Harry but I know it's not the character's fault when fanfic writers write them in a way that doesn't appeal to me) on him and make him endure even more control over him and now even over his body (I haven't read the books yet, idk if he goes though physical trauma but if he does my opinion gets even stronger), and it all just feels... Evil... Idk why... And even if he likes it, that just doesn't feel right to me.
Bottom Draco Malfoy is not the Draco Malfoy from the story I love, at least to me... I'm not saying you should stop thinking and portraying him as one (even though I would love that), because I know how much something like this can matter to someone, again, it matters to me so much I'm writing this post. I'm just saying this so that if there's anyone else out there who feels similar or the same, please say something, I have no idea why it hurts me so much whenever I see or read about Draco getting railed but it does... I genuinely think we need a proper tag that we can signal things like this with so that the other one can be blocked, because people who think Harry is on top don't use "harry tops draco" like we use "draco tops harry" because they don't have to, that's the default mindset for some goddamn reason... Idk, I just wanted to say this because I keep blocking perfectly innocent people just because of this, even people whose arstyle I adore, but unfortunately what they draw just infuriates me and it's not their fault...
#drarry#I'm not using draco tops harry rn because I partially want people who ship harco to see this too idk why but this is just so important to me#and like maybe some people have draco tops harry blocked which I understand and don't blame them for it but I just want them to see this so#maybe we can come to terms and create new tags that indicate things like this because drarry and harco don't work anymore at least I think#but if you think you'll be willing to use them like that and can teach newcomers to do so then that would work as well#idk just thinking#i just feel kind of miserable because of this and I'm not trying to manipulate anybody with this just trying to get it off my chest#like I'm trying to get Harry off of Draco's chest haha no? well I mean I do want him there just differently#okay I'll shut up now
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if 9&10 were "dont wander off", and 11&12 were "the doctor lies", 13s rule #1 is "dont question me"
"have we not had a good time together" shes pointing yaz to the rule that yaz very well knows is there: we can travel if you dont ask me any difficult questions. yaz knows this is the rule - "because you ask too many questions", "this team structure isnt flat" - but she also was the one to invite the doctor into her home so im pretty sure she also knows shes not gonna kicked out that easily. she has some leeway. which she has been using between revolution and flux, which is why the doctor reminds her of the rules
i dont think she'd kick her out though. she wouldnt. i think it's just that the more you break the rule, the more unpleasant she becomes to be around, and eventually youre gonna walk out on your own. she doesnt want you to, she'd rather you stay and dont ask questions. but if youre gonna try to ask questions anyway, i think thats whats gonna happen
and yaz must think so too. because she does back off. because she doesnt want that to happen either. and it does anyway
#dont question me/dont challenge me. questions are the sore spot but the challenge is one she says explicitly once#because you see this in how she is with other people too. dont try her patience. dont act like shes smaller. dont challenge her or Die#based on the giggle - 'i thought i was clever' 'what do i say?! because im always sooo certain' - i dont think 14 is like this#also based on the expressions of affection#hes not that......reactive. to this. specific thing#so i wonder if it runs over to 15#he seems chill. i think? he seems fairly chill. but also i think we've so far only seen him mostly in control of things#faced with the maestro temporarily not entirely in control hes Notably Less Chill#but still bigger picture. hes mostly in control of things right now i think#or uhhhh based on how eager he seems to get out of the role of doctor#hmmmmm#13 didnt want it but like. was stuck with it i think#didnt want it but nobody else was gonna do it. thats why 12 regenerated#15 comes out 14 Literally Quitting#he doesnt want it and hes decided hes not stuck with it. maybe#none of this is true btw im just saying words recreationally#like those 13 moments are super cherrypicked and i havent rewatched in forever so#dont believe me gfkjghgjh#this is based more on how i write them than what ive seen basically#anyway in terms of 14/yaz i think it takes yaz a while to figure out how to deal with 14 Not being like this#bc she got soooo practiced at handling 13. most of which was abt like not tripping this rule too much#she'd keep it up with 14 and he'd just do stuff that like breaks the rule from his side and yaz wouldnt have any idea how to deal with it#he'd show her hes chilled out a bit. about this. over and over and it'd still take her moooooonthssssssss to start relaxing#just muscle memory at this point. doesnt help that shes also like this#i wonder if 14 - in a sort of compelte reversal - wants to be told what to do and how to do and#seeks out situations where someone else knows more than him so he can sit down and say 'teach me'#i think thats what he does. about all the human stuff. hes like teach me. all of it. show me how to do this
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ed teach // S2E4 fun and games
#ofmd#ed teach#blackbeard#ofmd s2#ofmd edit#hiiii this is my first gifset in like a year... i'm trying to get back into it lsdnfkj#i only really gif when im hyperfixated on something so i will be doing the next episode as well :)#i'm also trying to get used to the new quirks about giffing since ive been doing it for so long and some things have changed#blackbeard TO ME is so... gender i am very jealous#*mine
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yethlebek or widobrelyss or whatever we're calling it is so perfectly suited to a mad scientist au I'm upset it doesn't exist it's really not all that much of a stretch from canon and they have so many archetypes covered caleb was trying to fix his past and effectively undo death, essek was so obsessed with searching for knowledge he didnt care if he hurt people, yeza got in way over his head working on something he didnt understand and couldn't back out, and veth was both trying to fix her own body and makes/uses destructive chemicals in very unsafe ways (she gets 2 becauses she's special <3) it would be SO easy to reskin all that as mad scientist behaviour
#ik ik dont ask people to write fics you want write them yourself but this idea is one of the number one things motivating me to teach myself#to write but its going to be a loooong time bc 1. i dont have the time to start and i have a lot of other things im trying to learn#2. even when i do start writing im not starting with a convoluted au trying to explore 4 characters and all of their relationships god no#also even if/when i do make it i probably wont post it bc itll be amateur and ill want to improve so i can write a better version
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