#etc. etc. etc.

[kawaiichibiart]

I need more fics of Zuko working at a teashop with Iroh (be it Pao's (iirc) or the Jasmine Dragon) but he's just really fucking short. Because can you imagine, be it Jet, Katara, anyone who's met Zuko (either as Zuko or as Li) stumbles into the teashop, makes a scene and comes off as a bad guy because they bullied this little boy?

I think I've read just one fanfic where this was a thing and I need more people to adopt the idea.

I just think it'd be funny if Katara tried to do what Jet did (let's say this happened a few days prior to Azula capturing Ba Sing Se), left because she realized no one believed her, returned later with the rest of the Gaang, Sokka tried backing her claim, he ALSO gets reprimanded for making stuff up about a little boy, and meanwhile this is all happening Aang and Toph are having a delightful time with their new friend "Li." Should they do something? Maybe. Will they? Nah, anyways Li what tea would you recommend?

[dekarios]

god i am so jealous of people with energy

[onthegreatsea]

i so wish video game voice acting wasnt dominated by americans and specifically those same 5 americans who are in everything

[talesoflore]

Hozier really wrote Anything But for all the eldest daughters out there huh

[figurativepieceoftrash]

Yeah I also find it frustrating that so many bnha fics are so fluffy and ooc. Fwiw proximity is one of my favorite fics in any fandom because of how much of myself I see in it - I did not grow up disabled, but I sure am now, and it perfectly captures the stubborn denial and the sense of loss and the struggle to carve a place for yourself in a world that does not want you as you are. I’m usually too shy to comment, but reread it whenever I’m emotionally prepared to have my heart squeezed into a sad pretzel shape. Thank you for writing ❤️

AHHHH OMG going insane over this I wanna eat it and hug it and put it on the dashboard of my car and frame it over my bed 😭😭😭

I'm so glad proximity connected with you in the exact way I intended it to, it is very much about coping with sudden onset disability and hearing that someone correctly parsed that and identified with it is driving me up the wall I'M EATING GLASS JCCHJCVJJJV

Sorry if this response seems absolutely insane I'm just. Feral over people correctly interpreting my work 🥺

I can't promise I'm going to update it soon but this ask has inspired me to immediately start work on the next chapter I need you to know THANK YOU 💕

[lonewolflink]

Itzy begins their Born to Be era and I'm quaking

[not-poignant]

i was on my annual reread of the The Wind that Cuts the Night when i saw that you're writitng new sw fic on oh!my!god!!!!! i'm so obsessed with it!!!!! it's been on my mind nonstop for three days! I love how different it it from previous one, i'm in love with all of your characterisations of Alex!

I was curious, is there a chance of Haley giving Sebatian a shovel talk? As much as i would love for Alex to find his footing and stand up for himself, I also don't really see him as the one who would bring up how much Sebastian used to/still hurts him sometimes and Haley standing up for him is just a very satysfying thing to think of haha

Yes I'm writing a new Stardew Valley fic! It makes me so happy. :D

It's so awesome that you still read The Wind that Cuts the Night as well. I can't tell you how often I confuse titles between Wind and Stain, because they both have exactly the same amount of syllables, and a similar structure, so I'm cursed to always get them both confused.

As for Haley and Sebastian, it's possible she might, but if she ever does we won't get to see it, because this is an Alex POV story.

I also think Haley would be careful. She's very aware that Sebastian has been bullied by Alex (even though Sebastian has also been a bully), and she's also aware of how the town perceives her, though she gets frustrated with being stereotyped as kind of like... this pretty, bitchy girl. But she'd be aware of it, and she'd be aware of how Sebastian might view that as well.

I don't know if she'd give him a really intense shovel talk so much as just...talk to him. I think she's maturing pretty well, and shovel talks aren't an especially mature thing to do, because 'if you hurt him, I'll kill you' is an extremely immature way of simply saying 'I'm someone who genuinely cares for him, and I want to hold you to the same standard, and that means not hurting him intentionally in any way.'

So while I think it's nice to imagine someone being like 'if you hurt him, I'll kill you' (or some version of that), and defending Alex, I think Haley would be careful how she broached the conversation, and ultimately be pretty sensitive / aware and be able to read the room. She might simply point out that Sebastian can do damage easily, verbally, to people like Alex, and that he should stay aware of that.

[soulsillk]

It's actually because they're soulmates and lovers and they make passionate love every single day, so jot that down 😌

[robbyykeene]

Long rant about season 4, Johnny Lawrence, and the deterioration of the writing below so feel free to ignore this, but I just feel like I haven’t actually coherently expressed my main gripe with season 4 here.

In season 1 johnny is introduced and he’s racist, misogynistic, bullies kids based on their physical appearance, etc. etc. etc. And these are clearly his Bad Traits that are explicitly condemned by the narrative. When not portrayed as something that has explicit negative consequences (ie basically causing Hawk to go full incel), at the very least the story mocks and pokes fun at him for having such backwards ideals. And as the character grows through the story, so do his values. The show explicitly shows him moving past his racism in regards to Miguel, his sexism in regards to Aisha and then Tory. The story clearly articulates that these are all things Johnny learned from Kreese, and as he distances himself more from Kreese and his teachings, he learns and grows and leaves a lot of that ignorance behind.

And then season 4 comes along, and all of that just…goes away. And I don’t mean to say that Johnny necessarily regresses. But the way the narrative depicts him has completely changed. Johnny goes to Piper talking about how Karate can empower women, but it just turns into a joke about how he “learned feminism for this.” This is not meant to poke fun at Johnny, but to poke fun at feminism. The entire joke is as basic as “haha, of course Johnny’s not a feminist! Why would he be?” Later on, he makes a gendered statement to Sam and apologizes and corrects himself. But then the narrative literally undoes that by having Sam validate him! Tells him it’s fine, she understood what he meant and he didn’t need to change. Later this season we are even explicitly told that we should just accept Johnny as he is. Johnny’s ignorance has gone from being something explicitly condemned by the narrative to something they want us to love and accept him for.

And you know what? I don’t. Because Johnny Lawrence is not a real person. He’s a character in a story. I don’t have to accept the negative parts of him, because as an individual I don’t care about him at all. And that’s not to criticize him for being a flawed character, a flawed protagonist is fine—it’s great, actually! But when the show itself goes from criticizing those flaws to treating them as anything but, that’s where I take issue. Because I really don’t care about any of these characters as individuals. I care about the story that’s being told, a story I used to love about toxic masculinity and radicalization and cycles of abuse and how they all interplay with each other. A story that actually seemed like it was trying to say something important. But season 4 watered it all down so much to the point where I can’t even find a coherent central theme in the show anymore. At least not one the writers seem to have a solid stance on.

[kawaiichibiart]

Getting back into the BatFam side of Tumblr and getting specifically into "Dick Grayson was/is a menace and agent of chaos that people either knew or didn't" just reminded me of the Reverse!BatFam where all of Bruce's kid's ages are swapped.

So, depending on the author, either Terry or Damian is the oldest, Tim is the second oldest son, Jason is the second youngest and Dick is the baby. Sometimes Barbara is Dick's age, sometimes she's older (iirc). And when I say "Dick is the baby" I mean he's the baby, as in sometimes he's like, 4, or even just straight up a toddler. So, not just the youngest, actually a baby.

[faejilly]

10 faves from 10 fandoms

tagged by uh... tea? I think. dear lord, my brain. @teaandinanity I really do think *snerk*

I shall be attempting Not Boys because there was a "tell me your lady blorbos!" post wandering around but I couldn't figure out how to narrow it down to just a couple so HERE HAVE A BUNCH

no pressure tagging uh... @hanakogames @quilleth, @awaylaughing @twistedsinews @defira85 & anyone else who'd like

Molly Grue [The Last Unicorn]

Cordelia (Naismith) Vorkosigan [tho I am behind in the books]

Evy (Carnahan) O'Connell [The Mummy/Returns]

Grace le Domas [Ready Or Not]

Parker [Leverage]

Guinevere Pettigrew [Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day-movie]

Merrill [Dragon Age 2]

Lois Lane [If she's not in your Superman you're doing it wrong]

Amanda King [Scarecrow & Mrs King]

Murderbot [Not a Girl™️but I couldn't resist; The Murderbot Diaries]

[tezzbot]

Aurrgh that doubt in my artistic and creative ability is worming its way back into my head RRGHGHH

[rezcowgirl]

So I'm on the full dose of Wellbutrin now and I've been averaging about 2-5 hours of sleep a night. Very uncool.

La~di~da, psych meds

I've always had issues falling asleep. Even back in elementary school I was always, without exception, the last person asleep at our weekly sleepovers. I've stayed up all night and watched the sunrise waiting for my friends to wake up because I.cannot.sleep. I'd get up to go to the bathroom and deliberately be loud about it in the hopes someone would wake up and keep me company.

I spent a lot of my highschool life on literally (literally literally) zero hours of sleep. When I worked at the bookstore, I'd sometimes hallucinate because if I knew I had to be up at 6, I would not bother sleeping at all and by the time 6 or 9 rolled around I was fully out of my body. On the 9 hour flight to Japan, I did not sleep for a single second despite a generous Benadryl dose and being so, so desperately tired.

It sucks. But at least when the suffering was done, I would eventually sleep for at least 8 hours (and start all over again in a few days).

But Wellburtin is a whole different goddamned beast.

I've been banished to a different bed than Aries because historically, it takes me a few hours but I would eventually sleep. But now I toss and turn and grumble for hours and keep him up. And like, to be fair, if I'm NOT going to sleep why should I be there? I don't even try anymore. I melt into the couch and watch stupid Youtube videos. I refresh Tumblr and visit my 13000+ likes when the nightposting dries up. I start new books. I clean the kitchen. Aries has woken up to me using my Hello Kitty karaoke machine at 2am being like "Hey, so uh, can you try to stfu". It's bad. I will eventually go unconscious usually when the sun starts rising, and then have to go work.

But!!!!! What the actual fuck!? I am not napping. W H A T. I can't. I try, but I've spent the last two weeks awake all day, and for me, that hasn't happened in years.

This can't be normal.

I have a doc appointment on Wednesday and I think I'm going to finally accept the offer for trazodone lmao. I'll probably need another medication review, but I'll do whatever. Please. Just let me sleep more than 4 hours.

What have I done to the Sleep Gods to anger them so.

[itspileofgoodthings]

not to be dramatic but I really feel like I am experiencing (and have been experiencing for a while now) every possible downside to my personality and my strengths and I feel like this is happening in extremely rapid succession and in excruciating form.

[isfjmel-phleg]

Kon's solo comic has major problems in general, but for a taste of the stories with much less creepy predatory content, the issues by Barbara Kesel (#43, 44, 48, and 49, and as co-writer of Annual #2) are your best bet. These are the only issues by a female writer (a very rare thing in comics in that era), and it shows.

Kesel downplays Kon's flirting, does not depict any adult women making advances toward him, emphasizes female supporting characters (Roxy Leech is the protagonist of #49 and comes across as quite sympathetic), and doesn't treat them as just love interests. She can't do much about Tana and Roxy in their already-established roles but prefers to have them be allies rather than rivals. Her narratives seem more aware than other issues are of the problems inherent to Kon's situation. The exploitation and how it's hurting him are made evident. He even gets called out at one point for the tactlessness of reacting with amusement rather than outrage at a would-be villain disrespectfully appropriating the name/persona of a Hawaiian hero. Other writers would be more flippant about these things, but I get more of a sense that Kesel has given this thought.

Storylines include Kon's trying to get home before the truant officer can catch him but getting held up by a couple who stage danger to get photo ops with superheroes; a visit to a mysterious atoll inhabited by children and soldiers who never grow old and are cut from the real world (lots of deliberate Peter Pan references); Kon's opening up "Superboy: The Event" which turns out to be a reputation-destroying disaster set up by his manager and a corrupt studio for their own profit at his expense; and police cadet Roxy Leech doing detective work when Kon goes missing after learning the truth behind the event disaster.

The co-written Annual #2 has some weirdness (Tana's still around as a love interest) but features things like the first overt acknowledgement of Kon's regret at having no parents, the reveal of his human DNA donor's identity (pre-retcon, so Westfield, not Luthor), his interactions with Cadmus's first attempted Superman clone (Experiment 1, but Kon calls him "Bizarre-o"), a visit from Clark, and a first birthday party. Not perfect, but it's got some interesting character work.

Kesel's then-husband was Kon's co-creator and wrote most of the series, but I do wonder how it would have gone if she had been head writer instead. Perhaps not so questionable! And definitely with better-written female characters.

[glitzybunny]

The premise of an Evangellion Deltarune AU incredibly funny and amusing