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[kennythetrampvamp]

Reblog for bigger sample size maybe? I really wanna know!

Watching tv, u grow up feeling like everybody starts dating in highschool at the latest and that that's what's supposed to happen, but it's really so different for everyone. I now know plenty of people in their 20s who have never dated anyone.

(Tbh I don't hang out with many people older than me so I haven't heard much from those demographics yet (I'm 22))

Also please tell me about your first date and/or first partner! If u want to :)

[sovonight]

why is so much of sewing just tracing and cutting and tracing again q_q i see why people get projectors and use adobe illustrator now

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

love the idea of transhet laios

[dylanconrique]

i wholeheartedly can't wait to hear what fatherly words of wisdom grey is going to bestow upon lucy whilst she's still spiraling from her sudden breakup with tim. he looks like he's genuinely concerned for her well being in that clip of them in the shop together, i hope that he clocks whatever it is the others aren't cause i can't stand how she's been walked all over on so far this season. 🥺💕

[shopcat]

i've decided if some sort of theoretical atla animated film about the earth avatar has to be set in the modern verse it should either be like INCREDIBLY different from ours to stop things from being ... bad. and that the spirit world influences have really ramped up so that it still feels like magical realism or w/e. but alternatively it would just be really good if it wasn't set in like the 2020s but very obviously the 70s-90s that would be awesome for me personally

[stonyponyofficial]

i love seeing how much paratext i can fit into the tags. read my footnotes boy

[wildflowercryptid]

a random thought that i've been pondering : do grimoire & sally keep any form of self defense on their person or are they just rawdogging these investigations with nothing to protect themselves with if worse comes to worst?

[lucalicatteart]

Poll adventure (paventure? lol) Day 3: read the small story tidbit below the poll for more details, OR just vote based on initial impression

(✦ see past poll results + further information HERE (link) ✦)

The winning option of yesterday's poll was that the adventurer should throw a coin into the mysterious well ….

"After nearly ten minutes rummaging through the disorganization at the bottom of his backpack, he finally approaches the well once again, meager coin pouch in hand. He meticulously balances a little golden coin on the tip of his thumb, positioning it just so for an elegant coin flip… With a flick of his hand, the coin wobbles off, anticlimactically dropping into the darkness.. He pouts, leaning in to listen for a plonk as the coin hits the water but… nothing…. silence.. A few minutes pass and he shrugs, moving to pick up his bag and just continue his journey elsewhere, when suddenly a faint noise echoes from the well.. an almost cartoonish plopping sound, like wet feet slapping against stone..? The pitter patter grows closer and closer…then stops abruptly. The adventurer cautiously slinks over to the well, only to find.. a creature of some sort, clinging to the walls, staring up at him blankly. - What should he do next?"

[lovingoverwatchguys]

Something I realized recently: You know how Baptiste was an teenage orphan without consistent access to food that was manipulated by Talon into joining them, managed to see that they had bad intentions, and he broke away from them?

That fact makes Reaper look so stupid, considering he was a former interrogator in his 50s that knew Talon was untrustworthy when he got manipulated, and seems to still not realize now that this isn't Overwatch's fault. The commander of a covert black ops group is more gullible than the desperate orphan that was manipulated for decades...now I'm wondering, was the real cause of the Venice Incident just "Reyes is really dumb"?

[asinglesock]

just realized my fatal flaw and the great struggle of possibly the rest of my life. while watching a cdrama.

[orchideae]

In today's episode of 'Sae, do you (...)': the topic of Ningguang and Yelan, and I thought that I should note my opinion more clearly outside of my rules as it's very important information for my portrayal: I do not ship Ningguang and Yelan romantically.

Honestly, while this is of course my own opinion, I don't find that there's anything to really substantiate a romantic interest between the two. For starters, I don't think that Ning, as interesting of a character as she is with a past that might just be similar in its 'rise' to Yelan's (we're left with very little information on the latter's childhood), ticks the right kind of boxes for her, though to be fair: not many do. Yelan craves a specific sort of thrill in her life, I mean she lives it at the roll of a dice because she is, on some level, bored, and craves the unexpected, the unusual, the 'surprise', and Ningguang's life nor personality seem to play into that. Beyond it, Yelan would need a kinship within this very specific 'loneliness' that I talk about too often and I think that Ning is not one who quite meshes into that in the right way.

Second, despite their long-standing history that even predates their mutual involvement with the Qixing, there seems to be a certain professional distance between the two that I'm quite fond of that is shown in brief event cutscenes, and also Yelan's vision story, that I find inherently intriguing. Perhaps this distance plays more into Yelan's character of not investing too heavily, or rather not too easily, into social dynamics than it does Ning's (I'm not one to weigh in on her character), but it seems evident to me that there's also that semblance of professionalism that creates a line that takes away the possibility of growing closer on an emotional level. And whether that's a mutual decision or not is not up to me to judge, but I think it's one that's made rather clearly from Yelan's side. On top of that, Yelan is Yelan and it's my personal belief that shipping her is rather difficult.

Now I'm also inherently of the opinion (unpopular, I know, I apologize) that dynamics aren't always more interesting when written in romantic settings, and I don't think it's a benefit for all of them to veer into a romantic nature. And in my opinion (and most importantly: in my depiction and understanding of Yelan's character), I think that having Ning and Yelan cross the line from professionalism into something inherently more rooted in romanticism, would be a detriment to their dynamic. Because honestly, I think the fact that Ningguang being one of two people (other being Uncle Tian) to know Yelan best, without ever crossing that line, is too good. I would simply, well, just prefer to keep that not only platonic, but professional, but of course not excluding it of Yelan's quips, and the occasional 'confidant' element.

/rambles in tags because I feel like I have more to say that I shouldn't flood the post with.

[snowyfrostshadows]

It's all fun and games until it isn't

[a-casual-dragonkin]

kinda feel in the mood to chatter a bit abt how i see the multiplayer side of Wizard101

because yeah, multiplayer is a kinda important side of the game itself, but seeing as everyone is going at their own pace with the same plot, there isn't a singular "savior/scion of the spiral" at any given time, but countless thousands. all on their own timelines. they're simply projecting on others' timelines to socialize or help others

they cannot influence each other's fates and carve their own story, (at least, not easily) but can still aid and assist those who might be having trouble progressing through their destined path. whether it's a single person doing everything by themself, a friend or two questing together, or an entire guild assisting each other with wizards both just beginning and maxed out, the story is all the same. the NPCs all say the same things. the story marches on like the number of people doesn't matter.

the player does not have the option to change anything, merely how long it takes to get to "the end", whatever "the end" might be.

[slonkel]

Every friday, the days I've been alive is an exact multiple of 7. This is only true of fridays, and on no other day will the days I've been alive be a multiple of 7.

[valiant-portabella-pirkko]

every now and then I just spontaneously remember that Arkk exists and that he was coded as a member of Scarlet's Army for reasons left entirely unexplained and I just go. huh.

[reginrokkr]

I just realized that I kept forgetting to talk about the canon divergence of my Dain concerning 「Bedtime story」 which... I wish it didn't come to this, as this would be genuinely the first canon divergence I'll write that is directly related to one of his quests. Nonetheless, it's something that must be done and so it'll be, as there are many things that don't make much sense to me no matter how hard I try to put aside my own bias and exhaust every possibility under the sun as to why things were done the way they were for no other reason than... apparent narrative convenience. So here we go:

α) One of the things that didn't make sense to me is having Dain be as highly perceptive and sentient as he is, feeling in every moment when a new memory is being implanted in his mind and even when the ley lines are being altered, only to be okay with the knowledge that he had given Aether the eye of the first field tiller. Why do I think so? Because Aether kept saying quest after quest that even if he doesn't understand Lumine's actions nor he subscribes to them, that he's still with her. After all, his journey began because he's searching for her, his only kin, and his journey continues to be because of that. In the same quest, Dain asks him if he believes that Lumine betrayed him and regardless of the answer he gave, Dain encouraged him to remain positive because their relationship isn't incorrigible nor beyond repair, unlike his own with his own brother.

It's because of this that I think that it makes zero sense that he'd be okay with the thought that he has given Aether the eye of the first field tiller because, following the previous line of logic, it'd be easy to think that in the scenario where he'd have to choose between Dain and Lumine, he would choose Lumine over him always. This in itself would be very dangerous in the face of wanting to stop the Abyss Order's plans.

β) Which leads to the second problem, and that is his "confrontation" against Lumine. So we know that Dain was at ease knowing that Aether has the eye of the first field tiller and that he sent him off just in time so that the two of them wouldn't meet. Once again, in the scenario that Aether stayed and things played out in reality the way Dain conceived it to be because of Caribert's actions, the odds that the eye would fall in Lumine's hands would be higher if Aether stayed than if he left.

Moving on to the next issue with this part, it's the fact that Lumine does tell Dain that he risked his own safety and that of the eye to ambush her. This here should've sufficed to him to realize that he never gave the eye to Aether (since he showed to be highly perceptive, analytical and sentient with less information in order to reach to very sound conclusions, it's difficult to think that he would continue to believe that Aether has the eye when Lumine is telling to his face otherwise), to defend himself against Lumine even if it's just to not let her have a way to the eye no matter if he didn't want to fight her. But instead... there was nothing of this and, once again, it makes zero sense.

So now that I addressed the two main points that for the life of me I can't agree with, the canon divergence of all of this is that: Dain becomes suspicious of the memory of himself giving the eye to Aether, specially after having a similar memory but with Caribert being the receiver instead. And for the love of Celestia, no matter how much he doesn't want to fight Lumine, he does defend himself and he succeeds in defending the eye, too. That being said, since I'm aware that him losing the eye and the Loom of Fate being completed is a pivotal point of the narrative to continue with the main story line, Dain will still lose the eye. Just... not like this. The reason will be kept obscured (if anything because I haven't come out with a good way for him to lose it save for the outline of it, but it doesn't matter too much as he'd probably feel ashamed enough to not talk about the topic, no matter how he comes to lose the eye), but his own brother will be related to this instead.