#how do you tag these things

[grack-attack]

fallen for the art palette thingy :]

drops this and sprints off

[thirteenemeraldcats]

Summary:

“I’m just angry, Roy, and I don’t know how to make it stop.”

Jamie clearly needs an outlet. Needs to get out of his own head. But he can’t take Jamie to the community pitch where he grew up, can’t take Jamie on some spontaneous bike ride to find a fucking windmill. Jamie can’t fucking run.

“I think I have an idea.” He’s lying. He has no clue what to do.

Jamie ducks his head, scowls at the floor and tangles his hands together in one tight knot. His knuckles are still white.

“Fine.”

Jamie believes him anyway.

In which Jamie is hamstrung and frustrated and Roy puts himself on an emotional spit rotisserie then spins around a bunch.

AKA: ’yeah I fucked it, made it worse’: Roy edition.

[gameboy-berry]

With PPT2 14's release, here is an update to the prediction. Again, these aren't really rigid placements.

Explanations below:

-Given that Team H already has had enough time on their own, I feel the remaining 2 would be early to mid merge boots. Knight Helmet I can see being earlier by his status as a more comic relief character. Plus there seems to be something set up with Plasma Ball having to deal with losing CC and the Bracket's actions.

-Basketball in particular feels like the "bully sidekick who gets their ass kicked" archetype. Given the plan to usurp the Brackets, I can see Basketball's being out first as a step to losing some of that control.

-Cup's clumsy nature and air-headedness serves as both a detriment and benefit to challenges. Given his ties to key characters, I feel he would be a bit higher but not TOO high.

-Ukulele standing against Slipper is inevitable. I feel it would either end in Slipper getting eliminated, Ukulele getting eliminated or both. Either way a back-to-back wouldn't be a shocker. I'm REALLY REALLY hoping this won't last for ONLY 3 episodes. Like give us time to see Ukulele be more competitive but also slowly question if its really the right thing to do. You know?

-With TC and Bottle's Pact I feel we might get episodes exploring their similarities while also trying to defeat Chainsaw. Bottle I can see being at least mid or late by virtue of being a returnee and foil to Chainsaw.

-I have explained IN FULL DETAIL as to why I think Chainsaw and Treasure Chest are the most viable finalists. I can't find that post now but heres the gist of it: Both have fought desperately JUST to escape elimination. Both don't like losing, let alone losing control. Treasure Chest once dominated the game, but now with the merge his defected teammate Chainsaw has. Both are hated by the majority, only favored by few. Treasure Chest, a newbie, has tried so hard yet lost so much in those efforts... Yet Chainsaw with his knowledge as a returnee has only gained more and more. It would make sense for both of their character arcs to culminate in them facing each other once and for all. A rival finale would also compliment the rising tensions up to this point. A tense game, and a tense background force. (EDIT: I FINALLY FOUND THAT POST)

As for my Post-It Note one being right.... I felt that would wind up in a breaking point eventually given what Post-It has gone through. Not to mention the Brackets actively try to remove threats AND are good at doing so. Post-It Note's knowledge and experience from the previous games is an active threat. Post-It Note ALSO doesn't have many allies, let alone ones remaining. That combined with an otherwise offstandish attitude makes him a perfect target. And it did. I'll miss that little bastard.

EDIT: I thought about it more and realized for the above reasons that Plasma Ball is also very VERY susceptible to be the next H out. Team Bracket has been pushing on her nerves the past few episodes so I wouldn't be surprised if that ends up getting the best of her. That would imply KH would go farther than PB buuut.... Given PPT2's comedy aspect I wouldn't be too surprised... As awkward as that thought is.

[theoldbones]

Help me get my shit together!

(customary dont tag as d0nati0n or fundrai$er, dont get this nuked lol)

Hey yall, in case you thought I was exaggerating about having to make this here we fucking go :'). Ngl this feels really really weird but I'm having a Bad Time atm and would be really thankful for any help. I'm trying to get some assessments done but the NHS waiting list is literally 9 years long for the specific department I've been referred to. My only other option is going private, which sucks but I need this done ASAP :')

My goal is (read: has to be) £1800 -> for a cost breakdown check the read-more

EDIT: I've changed the goal to just £895 just to take things step by step

to help -> click here

Once I am stable on the medication, I will be able to continue forward with my usual GP and will no longer have to pay for medication.

My family has helped where they can but aren't able/willing to help with this (fuck me I guess :/) I'm currently in the process of finding a job which will help but in the meantime, if you're able to help a disabled, queer jew I would be beyond thankful. For those interested, or if you're curious as to why this is so expensive I've included a cost breakdown beyond the £895 in the read-more.

If it helps sweeten the pot and you're in the UK, send me proof of a dono of £5+ and I can make you a small cross-stitch hoop (about 3in diameter) with a design of your choice - I seem to specialise in Stardew Valley designs and will happily turn your pet into your farm assistant <3

If you don't want to donate through the link, you can tip the blog, or if you can't donate I would really appreciate boosting this so folks who can donate see it.

Breakdown:

Assessment - £895

Follow-ups x4* - £900

Estimated cost of meds - £50 per month (I can squeeze this into my current budget for spending)

* They request 3-4 follow-up appointments, one per month, to titrate meds appropriately, the cheapest option is £225 per appointment. I've set up for 4 here because A. knowing my luck it will be that and B. I would much rather be prepared for this than have to be on the hook for an unexpected £225.

Here is the link to the clinic's fee page for full transparancy.

Again, once I am stable on the medication, I will be able to continue forward with my usual GP and will no longer have to pay for medication.

[fizzy-sodapop]

i need to make an upturned oc sooo baddd arharhgrha

[nixon-stars]

Welcome to my introduction post!

My name's Nixon, (or Nix if you haven't got time) and I like to do art!

I'm a nonbinary minor, Indian-Australian and my main fandoms are mcyt ( the life series, hermitcraft, empires, you get the jist), My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy to name a few.

If you want to hear my deepest thoughts, the tag is #shut up nix . For art #art by nix and my little characters that won't leave my mind are #nixs lil guys .

Have fun on my blog!!!!

[snappy-snack-shack]

how different would your life be if you never watched It?

Gahh this movie…

The It fandom, at its peak, was honestly what got me through the hardest year of life. And despite becoming half the foundation of my charming personality today… I’m not sure what I would have done had it not been for the community I ended up falling into. Shit, who would I be without my mediocre fashion sense and unquenchable thirst for your mother? So the answer is- a lot. So so different…

[cxttlefishcxller]

WIP Wednesday? Friday? Ah whatever

I didn't see this until late, but I see @residentdormouse do stuff like this so often that I figure I might as well actually share some of my writing sometimes. Maybe. fjkdla;sfd (Also thanks for the tag, you're a beautifully terrible influence as always) Looks like the rules (as I understand them?) are to post a snip from whatever you're working on? I've got a bunch of projects sitting open, but I'll share something from the one that Mouse influenced me to open I was looking at and editing the most recently -- a Game of Thrones fic I'm tentatively calling "Fool's Gold" until I've got something more clever to refer to it as. XD

“I didn’t say it was a good idea. Only that it was our best bet. If anyone will refuse to breathe a word of this to my family, it’s a Stark.”  She takes a seat again, looking over the maps and sighing deeply. Already her stomach is churning--she doesn’t know how Tyrion can drink so much under this much stress. “...He’ll want Sansa. And they don’t know that we don’t have Arya.” “I can’t promise her.” Tyrion rubs at the bridge of his nose with a sigh, leaning back in his chair. “Cersei knows that she’s too good of a pawn to barter for anyone less than Jaime. And that’s if Father will let her make the trade without the other Stark girl in hand.” Another roadblock made of Lannister foolishness, Percy thinks, deciding to keep that particular opinion to herself. It seems like Tyrion had done enough to blame himself since this meeting, and she knows he will take that one to heart more than she means. He continues to speak, talking himself into and out of ideas as she leans over the papers, brushing a few aside to see a page of names and illustrated banners apart from the list he had pulled from the pile. She doesn’t recognize half of the sigils, but one stands out…a red lion on a silver field. “Another lion…” She mutters, pulling the parchment closer. “House Reyne…I know that name.”

I don't interact much on this blog, but I'll haul off and no-pressure tag @alabaster-the-crow and @jaiesondurantkross, if they wanna!

[gert-the-disaster]

does anyone understand my curse

[bixels]

Baffled.

[flurmitcraff]

Mumbo, desperate to feel normal for once, releases dirt on his fellow hermits and asks the community to rank their weirdness.

[inkskinned]

the thing about some men is that they want you to remember, at all times, that you are underneath them. that with one word or look or "joke", you will stay beneath them. that even "exceptions" to the rule are not true exceptions - the commonly cited statistic that one in eight men believe they could win against serena williams.

women's gymnastics is often not seen as real gymnastics. whatever the fuck non-euclidian horrors rhythmic gymnasts are capable of, it's often tamped down as being not a sport. some of the most dominant athletes in the world are women. nobody watches women's soccer. despite years of dancing and being built like a fucking brick, men always assume they're faster and stronger than i am. you wouldn't like what happens when they are incorrect. once while drunk at a guy's house i won a held-plank challenge by a solid minute. the party was over after that - he became exceedingly violent.

what i mean is that you can be perfect, and they still think you're ... lacking, somehow. i hope you understand i'm trying to express a neutral statement when i say: taylor swift was the possibly the most patriarchy-palatable, straight-down-the-line woman we could churn out. she is white, conventionally attractive, usually pretty mild in personality. say what you will about her (and you should, she's a billionaire, she can handle it), but a few things seem to be true about her: 1. she can write a damn catchy song, and 2. the eras tour truly was a massive commercial success and was also genuinely an impressive feat of human athleticism and performance.

i don't know if she deserves the title of "woman of the year," i'm not debating that in this post. what i am saying is that she was named Woman of The Year, and then an untalented man got onstage at the golden globes and made fun of her for attending her boyfriend's football games. what i am saying is that this woman altered local economies - and her dating life is still being made into a "harmless" punchline. the camera panned, greedy, over to her downing a full glass of champagne. congratulations taylor! you are woman of the year! but you are a woman. even her.

fuck, man. write better material.

a guy gets onstage at a college graduation and despite the fact like half the crowd is made up of women, he spends a significant proportion of it warning these people - who spent possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars on their education - that they were lied to. that the "real" meaning of femininity is motherhood. that they shouldn't rest on the laurels of that education-they-paid-for but instead throw it away to kneel at a man's heel. imagine that. sweating in your godawful polyester gown (that you also had to pay for!), fresh out of 4 years of pushing yourself ever-harder: and some guy you've never met - who knows nothing about you - he reminds you this "win" is a pyrrhic one at best. you really shouldn't consider yourself that extraordinary. you're still a woman, even after years of study.

god forbid you are not a pretty woman, but if you are pretty, you must be dumb. god forbid you are not ablebodied or white or cis or straight or good at swallowing. you must be beneath a man, or else they are not a man. the equation for masculinity seems to just be: that which is not a woman or womanly (god forbid). anything "feminine" is thereby anathema. to engage in "feminine" things such as therapy, getting a hug from a friend, or crying - it is giving up ones manhood. therefore women need to be put in their place to ensure that masculinity is protected.

this is something i have struggled to explain to terfs - they are not doing the work of feminism, but rather the patriarchy. by asserting that women and men must be (on some secret level) oppositional and in conflict, they also assume that being a woman is akin to being another species. but bigotry does not stem from observational truths or clarity - that is what makes it bigotry. there was nothing in my childhood that made me fundamentally different from my brother. we are treated differently nonetheless. to assert there is some biological drive that enforces my gender role is to assert that women have a gendered role. men do not see women as equal to them not because of biological reality - but instead because the core tenant of the patriarchy is that women aren't full, realized people.

we are told from a very young age to excuse misbehavior as a single man's choice - not all men. it is not all men, just that one guy. all women are gold-digging bitches who belong in the kitchen - but if a man is mean, bigoted, or violent to you, it's just that particular guy, and that means nothing about men-as-a-whole. it is only one guy who got mad when you gently rejected him. it is only one guy who warns her this trophy is heavy, are you sure you can hold it? it is only one guy who smashes her face into the cake. it is only one guy talking into a mic about hating our bodily autonomy.

i have just found that they often wait until the moment we actually seem to be upstaging them. you sit in a meeting where you're presenting your own findings and he says get me a coffee? or you run to the end of the marathon and are about to finish first and he pushes your kids out in front of you. you win the chess game and they make some comment akin to well, you're ugly away. we can be the billionaire and get the dream life and finally fucking do it and yet! still! they have this strange, visceral urge to say well actually, if you think you're so great -

it's not one just one guy. it's one in eight.

[mildmayfoxe]

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[bilaudad]

wing stuff!

experimenting with a more cartoon style, idk what i'm doing loll

tagging: @goodomensafterdark <3

[humbuns]

pieced together till they're no longer broken apart