#however you like

[aelijoh]

So I took part in SPOP Flex Secret Solstice event that @spopflex (Twitter) arranged!

And my piece is dedicated to @babelfishing!

I hope you like it! 🥰

[laski-and-sage]

TJ, sighing: I hate the 'there is only one bed in the room' thing in books...

Seras, nodding: Yes, I mean... Either YOU are going to sleep on the floor or I am. And if you get touchy I'll send you into the bathroom to sleep in the tub!

Alucard, looking at Anderson: One bed?

Anderson, shrugging: Meh, don't care as long as I can sleep.

[luckliyjustluc]

TW, 3rd LIFE SPOILERS, DEATH, SUICIDE.

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Bdubs was dead, his blood slowly mixing into the pond that they all were stood in. Grian stepped forward, sword swinging in venomous rage and anguish.

“Traitor! Traitor Scar!” Grian sneered as he kept blindly swinging at Scar, the taller of the two stepped back and smiled despite being nicked and sliced. Grian paused as realization poured over him like ice water.

They were the only ones left in the arena.

Grian’s grip on his sword losses and Scar kneeled before him, hand placed over his heart as he stared straight up at the Avian.

“Wait no-“

“For everything you did to keep me alive this long you may slay me and take the enchanter.” Scar urged, always smiling, always happy to give himself to other people.

It made Grian nauseous, the avian swooped down to Kneel in front of the other and grasped Scar’s shoulders. “No, I literally cant’t!” He gasped.

“I can’t! I can’t! I can’t!”

They weren’t soft touches and happy feelings anymore. Nor were they monopoly mountain. they were Grian and Scar, and Grian and Scar were rough, destructive forces that push and molded each other into shape and in the same breath break each other apart.

Scar pulled Grian to his feet, ignoring the constant chirps their communicators made as ghosts cheered for them to kill each other.

“Okay so what do you want to do? Do you want to fix our sand castle?” Scar joked and Grian rolled his eyes.

“We can just say we won together, right?”

They both chuckled at this, only one of them is leaving this arena alive. They knew that but if playing pretend is what it takes for both of them not to break from the heaviness of it all, then so be it.

—

As the communicators filled with the cheers of their deceased friends. Grian turn to face Scar, hands ready to end his partner’s life.

Scar knew he was not going to live past this moment. Not because he would loose, well it was partially that, but mainly because he couldn’t hurt Grian. Despite it all, he was still clutching onto the memories of their dusty sand home that Grian had adorned, of Pizza, of hot afternoons and freezing nights.

Of lavender and Poppies.

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Scar gave a bloodied grin as laugher left his lips and tears drowned his sorrow, he wasn’t fighting back, not fully anyway. Always punching to the side of Grian, particularly faking disorientation just so that he didn’t have to full on hurt the other. It didn’t take long before Scar felt his life drain from his body. And all it took was for one finally punch to the template for him to see red.

—

Grian held Scar’s lifeless body close. Guilt, regret, remorse, all of it ate at him. Grian stared down at Scar, tears dripping down his cheeks and swirling with Scar’s battered being.

Eventually the avian got up and walked toward the edge, taking one final look at ruined memories, this time it was Grian who smiled, “I’m sorry scar.” He whispered, hoping the other could hear him.

He didn’t fly like an avian should, instead he fell. In that last moment of consciousness he pulled one one thing to grasp into.

faded lavenders and decaying poppies.

Two promises were made that day. Scar vowed never to intentionally kill Grian and Grian vowed never to be partnered with Scar again.

Only one of those promises could be kept.

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GEEZ LEEZ IM DONE WOO

Okay so this was just me writing the final of 3rd life episode into corny angst LOL. If you enjoyed lemme know!

[wizard-laundry]

QUICK REMINDER

In the US: threatening government officials is a felony under federal law (the president in particular is protected under 18 U.S.C. § 871). Even memes.

be careful with your jokes if they spill over to active officials.

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[zkyeline]

a couple of eepies

[lastoneout]

People don't like to admit it bcs cringe or w/e but Homestuck really did revolutionize the webcomic as a storytelling medium and I am endlessly frustrated that before webcomic artists could really stretch our legs fucking webtoonz swooped in, set a new, more restrictive standard, and then monetized and monopolized the ever living fuck out of the concept of The Webcomic until it drove away anyone who couldn't be a professional quality manga artist for free, and now the only webcomics that actually feel like spiritual successors to Homestuck are so obscure they're basically cult classics that you have to beg people to read.

Like it's just so wild to be in high school and see Homestuck be like "we're using like fifteen different artistic mediums to tell this story bcs we can" and be really fucking inspired by that, only to grow up and see basically every webcomic ever have to conform to One Single Standard or fucking perish.

[gin-juice-tonic]

remembering one of the times i was getting evaluated by a therapist to determine if i was "really trans" or not or whatever and he was like "so if you transitioned to male, how would you dress differently?"

and i was like "i.. dont know. I wouldnt?"

and he looked at me blankly and wrote something down and said "really? you wouldnt wear anything more masculine?"

and i realized i'd given the wrong answer so I just said "I would... wear... suits?"

and he smiled and wrote something else down like "ah! yes"

[admiralexclipse]

[samkuchingdraws]

songs for nights like this.

i'll start.

[justl-12]

a pirate and a fish

This is in reference to when pearl was in the water and gem was on land, and the fact pearl wore a fish head most of the time.

[magnusbae]

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

[artsekey]

Thinking about the time I lost a game of Overwatch and I was so mad about it that I genuinely considered getting into shit with the other team in chat and then realized that it was a colossal waste of my living breathing Human Time and uninstalled Overwatch instead because it was only making me angry.

And then thought about the OTHER time when I was on TikTok and realized I was Not Enjoying Myself and was, in fact, seeing so many sad videos and fake influencer ads that I felt Truly Despondent and then just…Deleted it.

Imo I want my social media /general media experience to be a pleasant break from real world and I get to decide what I get to cull to make that a reality for myself. I highly reccomended it! Life has improved considerably!

[allo-frouto]

I try to imagine your voice too, and not only your voice...

My voice is nothing special really.

[jabesa0]

🤍🤍🤍🤍

[arunneronthird]

imagine being a gotham villain just living a peaceful life and suddenly here comes a vigilante with an actual gun