#if a post is making fun of voting

[edgebug]

hey. if you see a post that is in any way anti-voting. that person is not your friend

[melioristicbeast]

they're on a boat

wanted to capture the serenity of being out on the water on a warm afternoon

(they're listening to derek's playlist for once, rec under the cut)

[find this and my other sterek art on Redbubble!]

Had this on repeat while drawing it, thought the melancholic vibes fit ♥

[hauntoblogical]

I have seen three different "how much of this site is queer" polls this evening poking fun at staff's 1/4 assertion and not a single indication any of them understand statistics. One someone even replied "This might have some sampling bias" what do you mean might what do you mean SOME

[starflungwaddledee]

Hi there, Starstruck! I've heard you're a very very super normal totally average Waddle Dee.

You don't remember much of your life before arriving on Popstar, correct? And I think that's pretty alright- it seems like you've created a wonderful life for yourself! But if you had the choice to decide what sort of past you had, what sort of history do you think you'd choose?

we were all a little cringe in our younger years. ‼️ new mechanic: vote carefully! ‼️ starstruck wants to run!! you'll have to work together on one option if you want her to approach.

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[sleepyskydraws]

🌻 She was like a sunflower 🌻

[flwrkid14]

Tim and Duke: Finding Their Place

It’s hard to feel like you belong when you’re always waiting for someone to tell you that you don’t.

Duke Thomas had always been an outsider. Growing up in the streets, never quite fitting in anywhere, always waiting for the other shoe to drop, for someone to see him as a “replacement.” A filler for someone that wasn’t there anymore, or someone that was missing from the picture.

It wasn’t that the batfamily didn’t accept him—hell, they’d welcomed him with open arms. Dick and Barbara made him laugh, and even Damian, with his snarky attitude, had slowly started respecting him. But it still felt like there was something missing. Like he wasn’t really part of the family. Like he was just another vigilante working beside them, trying his best to live up to an impossible standard.

He didn’t know where to fit. Didn’t know if he could fit.

Tim Drake was the last person Duke expected to find himself bonding with.

Tim, the third Robin, the one who had earned the title by proving himself after a tragedy. Tim, who was always a little too serious, a little too reserved, a little too smart for his own good. But somehow, Duke found himself slipping into conversations with Tim, finding small moments of camaraderie between them. They didn’t talk much about their respective pasts—Tim’s was a messy minefield of trauma and loss, Duke’s was a life lived in survival mode, both of them figuring out how to be something more than what Gotham tried to make them.

One night, after a particularly long patrol, the two found themselves sitting in the batcave. Duke was lounging on the edge of a desk, his hoodie pulled tight over his head, the ever-present weight of exhaustion pulling at his shoulders. Tim, as usual, was hunched over a computer, eyes glued to a screen that made him look even younger than he was.

“So,” Duke said, breaking the silence. “Do you ever feel like… I dunno. Like you’re just here to fill in for someone else?”

Tim’s fingers stilled on the keyboard. He didn’t look up. “Yeah.”

Duke blinked. “What?”

Tim finally turned his gaze up from the screen, his eyes tired but sharp. There was something in his expression that caught Duke off guard. A knowing look. “I mean,” Tim continued, voice low, “I’ve spent most of my life being called ‘the replacement.’ It’s not easy, you know? No matter how much you try to prove yourself, it’s always there. The ghost of ‘who you’re supposed to be.’”

Duke’s stomach twisted at the words. “You feel like that too?”

Tim let out a dry chuckle. “Yeah. All the time. Even when I’m with the family. Even when I’m with you guys. There’s always that part of me that wonders if I’m really needed, or if I’m just… filling in a spot.”

There was a silence that hung between them, heavier than the usual quiet that enveloped the Batcave. It was raw. Honest. Two boys who had lived through too much, felt too many expectations, and had spent their lives trying to prove they were worthy of the lives they’d been thrust into.

Duke let out a breath. “That’s crazy, man. You’re Tim Drake. You’re not just some replacement.”

Tim didn’t smile, but there was a shift in his expression, a small, almost imperceptible shift that showed Duke he understood. He wasn’t looking for validation, not really. It was the kind of unspoken recognition that said, I see you, and you see me.

“You don’t feel it though, huh?” Duke asked, a little unsure. “Like you’re just… pretending to be part of this family? Like you’ll never really belong?”

Tim’s eyes softened, and for the first time that night, he looked at Duke—not as the new guy, not as the one still trying to prove himself—but as someone who got it. “Yeah. I feel that. All the time.”

Duke shifted in his seat, looking down at his hands. The weight of those words—Tim’s words—felt different when they came from someone who understood. Someone who knew exactly what it was like to feel like you were never quite enough.

That was the moment things changed. It wasn’t the kind of bonding moment that happened with grand gestures or speeches. It wasn’t about solving everything, or fixing the endless loop of self-doubt that both of them shared. It was just about knowing that they weren’t alone in their feelings. They both carried that weight, that fear of never truly fitting in, of always wondering if they were “the replacement” in a family that had already been through so much.

But for that moment, for just a little while, they didn’t have to explain themselves to anyone else. They didn’t need to pretend. They didn’t need to be anyone other than the two of them.

“You know,” Duke said quietly, breaking the silence again. “I’m glad you’re here.”

Tim gave him a look, a quiet acknowledgment, his eyes flicking back to the screen. “Yeah, i'm glad you're here too.”

They didn’t say much more after that, but it didn’t matter. In the quiet of the cave, with the weight of their shared thoughts hanging between them, Duke knew he wasn’t just another vigilante in Gotham. He was here, with Tim, with the family. And for the first time in a long time, he could almost believe it.

Maybe, just maybe, he could belong.

And Tim? Tim didn’t feel like a replacement anymore, either.

[foxeste]

The power of fluffy chefs shines within you!

[moonymauk]

hi @hotvintagepoll I've made a letterboxd list with all the actors from this tournament if anyone would like an easy enough way to see all the guys and the movies they've been in <3

[soup-mother]

don't wanna learn lancer? here's how to homebrew d&d 5e into being about social democrats in space voting really hard

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

like, ultimately, spn could never actually break the cycle of abuse and familial violence, bc to truly break the cycle would've required its writers to have the radical imaginary to look beyond the status quo. the show just reifies the idea of a paternal authority over the world. god dies but he has to be replaced you see, but it's okay, it's someone better now. family is hell but now family is also heaven.

[ghastlycrew]

Such a woman is the infected carrier of the past: before her the structure of our head and jaws ache—we feel that we could eat her, she who is eaten death returning.

Interview with the Vampire, "I want you more than anything in the world" and "Don't be afraid, just start the tape" / Nightwood, Djuna Barnes / "A Story beside(s) Itself: The Language of Loss in Djuna Barnes' Nghtwood, Victoria L. Smith

[akai-anna]

Round 7

Round: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8

[phantomsies]

literacy, empathy and nuance are dead fucking arts and there really is no coming back from it.

[akkivee]

CONGRATS TO BB FOR THEIR VICTORY WINNING THE STREAM ❤️❤️❤️

my brain is at it’s limit so i processed and retained very little of the movie lmao, but my general impressions/likes/whatnot:

GODDAMN EVERYONE LOOKED GOOD HOLY FCKING SHIT BRO

like there were several moments that made me shocked these were 3d models like they’re incredible 😭😭😭

i loved the op lmao like it was so fun seeing everyone walk around their cities godzilla style, seeing 360 3d interpretations of everyone’s base png and the individual looks they gave at the camera like ichiro flashing his fangs, hitoya smirking as he smooths down his hair, rei winking at the camera

LIKE THE WHOLE MOVIE HAS ALL THESE LITTLE TOUCHES ITS SO FANTASTIC THEY DEF KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING WHEN THEY MADE THIS MOVIE PURPOSEFULLY REPEAT WATCH CINEMA YOU NEED TO REWATCH IT MULTIPLE TIMES TO CATCH EVERYTHING

i need to save the kuukou meltdown for later bullet points lol but bat’s pre battle meeting was my favourite (says the bat fan lmao) like iirc that was kuukou summoning his team at dawn to mediate on their upcoming battle and to show what he did with their bat victory banner. kuukou the absolute madman hung that banner up on nagoya castle, the like actual jp cultural heritage marker and jyushi and hitoya were rightfully appalled LOL but the sun dawns at the reveal and kuukou sets forth with it HES SOOOOO—

also shout out to hifumi for like, murdering one of his fans out in the open in the middle of the street

i probably shouldn’t be since this is both a continuation but also an entry point for casuals/returnees, but i was a bit taken aback by hifumi needing his jacket to talk to girls still, and rosho having stage fright. but again, it’s a gateway movie lol!!!!

on that rosho note tho, sasara’s little tv show bit was so funny lmao, rei being the producer was frying me and rosho snapping out of his stage fright at rei’s reveal was so funny LOL

i already yelled myself raw about bbbat’s battle but they apparently weren’t done making me scream cry and throw up when kuukou was launched out of their entrance stage style and ichiro felt that impact from across the field and like. exposéd about their past that he still carries with him and kuukou doing the same on his end. but they’ve got their teams to fight with now!!!!!

i sure hated watching bat lose lol but it was nice seeing kuukou standing firm and telling jyushi and hitoya to stand with pride too 🥹🥹🥹 and his face when he decided to talk to ichiro before setting out god if i could get every sINGLE EXPRESSION KUUKOU MAKES IN THIS MOVIE TATTOOED ON MY FCKING BODY—

ichiro looking like a kicked puppy for beating kuukou!!!!! but kuukou smiling at him and telling him to not waver as he fist bumps his heart!!!!! soppy sappy lovey dovey fond ichiro gigging even tho that apparently hurt!!!!!

KUUKOU SERIOUSLY LOOKING AT ICHIRO AND TELLING HIM HES LEAVING IT TO ICHIRO!!!!! ICHIRO TELLING KUUKOU TO LEAVE IT TO HIM!!!!!

AND THEN KUUKOU SMIRKS AT HIM HIS LIPS SLIGHTLY PURSED LIKE THAT WAS A WHOLE ASS SMOULDER AT ICHIRO DEAR GOD THAT MAN WANTS HIS MAN

AND ICHIRO THUMPING HIS OWN HEART RIGHT WHERE KUUKOU HAD AS ICHIRO CARRIES THEIR SHARED WILL AND GO FORTH TO THEIR NEXT BATTLE

I LOVE THEM SO MUCH I LOVE THEM SO MUCH I LOVE THEM SO FCKING MUCH

i actually really liked the beat on out of harmony!!!! it was a little offbeat but it was simply that; an out of harmony beat lol!!!!! like it wasn’t doing too much and it felt like rap in that sense lol

and i loved the additional like symbolism behind making dhmtc’s speaker reveals mirrors of each other’s and yet their song is again, called out of harmony lol

samatoki’s vocals were really cool in this song lol

samatoki was also really cool when he lost lmao

i’ll never understand why juto takes off his glasses when he’s frustrated but it was fun to see that trait of his brought back lmao

i wish i could remember what their conversation was, but fr my heart kinda skipped a beat watching mtc console each other on the loss samatoki was really really cool when he lost LOL

posse seeing thru ramuda’s nerves and messy feelings about jakurai was sweet but props to gentaro reading him on that first glance bro, ramuda’s mask was firmly in place when he said he wasn’t nervous and i fully believed him 😭😭😭

and sensei not quite understanding his own feelings about ramuda until dohifu talked him thru it, he wants to be friends with ramuda again 🥺🥺🥺

sensei’s hair is really pretty in this movie btw lol

just getting that out there now bc like

JEEZUS THE RMJK IS THIS MOVIE IS CRAZY????? LITERAL ROLLING AROUND ON STAGE GET…… GET A ROOM????? IN FRONT OF MY METAPHORICAL SALAD?????? WONT YOU THINK OF THE CHILDREN I THINK YOU FORGOT TO ASK CONSENT FROM THE US THE THIRD WHEEL—

and maybe that scene kinda just like broke my brain bc i can’t remember what the song itself sounded like LOL

also the scene where jakurai and ramuda making up but not making up (ramuda: there’s no need for us to be friends bc we’re already friends right??? but actually >:PPP) started out so poorly lmao

jakurai: you have lost the battle

ramuda:………i mean duh we just had it????

but sensei calling ramuda ‘ramuda-kun’ 🥺🥺🥺

the full mvs were really cool!!!!!!!!! someone in kr is a die hard kendrick fan i will say that about bb’s three kings lmao

shomonrafuku is so fun i just wish i knew what folktale it’s riffing on 😭😭😭😭 and see i def need to watch that one again bc i swore at the beginning that mask had two green eyes behind it and not just rei’s heterochromia at the end 😭😭😭😭

i read a dojaku fic forever ago about jakurai accepting his fate and sinking into the depths and was pulled out by doppo. i was thinking about that fic watching bless u’s mv lol

the symbolism in that mv was going crazy like actually lmao

anyway good for the bros, rallying for both the panel and stream good show great movie let me talk to you about kuukou tho

HE WAS UNFATHOMABLY COOL AND GORGEOUS IN THIS MOVIE I COULDNT BELIEVE MY EYES LMAO

LIKE HIS STILLNESS DURING HIS MEDITATION SCENE THE SLIGHT GLOW TO HIS EYES THE WAY THE COOLS IN THAT SEEM MADE HIM GLOW I SWEAR IM NOT (TOO) DELUSIONAL LOL

THE WAY HIS EYE MAKEUP SWEEPS UP ONTO HIS UPPER EYELID WHEN HE CLOSES HIS EYES I LOVE HOW WIDE HIS MOUTH IS IM ACTUALLY NOT DONE CRYING OVER HIS EYES THEYRE SO EMOTIVE JUST LIKE IN THE MANGA

I ALWAYS THOUGHT OF KUUKOUS HAIR A BIT ON THE THINNER SUDE BUT ITS SO FULL AND FLUFFY AND BOUNCY

HIM HOPPING OVER NAGOYA CASTLE AND SLIDING UNDER WHAT I THINK WAS HORI BRIDGE

AND THE WAY HE STRUTS UP WITH HIS HANDS IN HIS SUKAJANS POCKETS

AND THE WAY HE SOMERSAULTED OUT OF THE LAUNCHPAD STAGE ENTRANCE HES THE SAUCIEST CHARACTER BRO HES SO COOLLLLLLLLLLLL

[lynzine]

If you are in the USA and able to vote, don’t forget to vote, please. (If you are else where and able to vote, also don’t forget to vote please I just don’t know when your elections are.)

Don’t forget, Team Avatar had to fight a war to make change in their world and voting is a way that we can help change ours!

[cuz-reasons]

Outsourcing motivation has worked and I will hit my personal goal of 100 works and 500k words published on ao3 by the end of april