#in relation to themselves

[the-everqueen]

very weird in any given setting to be known as "the gay one," because i'd really identify as queer but in non-queer spaces that mostly gets reduced to wlw, which in turn generates a whole host of assumptions around my (personal) preferences and politics and (un)desirability, which inevitably has overlaps with my ethnic identity, which may or may not go articulated, and all of these things snowball into "we're about to see if people are real cool about a lot of things real quick"

[shepscapades]

[dbhc flavored] Hermit A Day May ‘25, Day 25: Beefers!!

The left doodle technically takes place during the Empires Crossover, but it’s not happening in the crossover itself so I didn’t label it as such… oh xBcrafted s9 Freakout you will always be famous to me…

[teaboot]

Personal shit but the more I work in security related fields like bouncing and surveillance and childminding and sex ed, stuff like that, the more I find myself compulsively intervening with situations I encounter in my off time and I’m beginning to feel like being the hypervigilant and paranoid parentified eldest child prepped me for this life like one of those retired service dogs that just keeps doing service dog stuff

Like not to pathologize shit cause my therapist told me not to but I genuinely do wonder if I’d be capable of surviving like. A white collar desk job. Or if I’d just lose my mind without a group to watch

[emethethe]

Uzas, again.

[harbingersecho]

heartbreak

[kkbardd]

Reverse Nerd!AU in which Asuka is a fictional character and Rei is a diehard weeb who makes her their entire personality

[tridentkickflipper123]

this is what we are, and we will not be changed you can look for unseen order, you're gonna find that chaos reigns we will not be saved

[rustchild]

one of the wild things about people’s stubborn insistence on misunderstanding The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas is that the narrator anticipates an audience that won’t engage with the text, just in the opposite direction. Throughout the story are little asides asking what the reader is willing to believe in. Can you believe in a utopia? What if I told you this? What about this? Can you believe in the festivals? The towers by the sea? Can we believe that they have no king? Can we believe that they are joyful? Does your utopia have technology, luxury, sex, temples, drugs? The story is consulting you as it’s being told, framed as a dialogue. It literally asks you directly: do you only believe joy is possible with suffering? And, implicitly, why?

the question isn’t just “what would you personally do about the kid.” It isn’t just an intricate trolley problem. It’s an interrogation of the limits of imagination. How do we make suffering compulsory? Why? What futures (or pasts) are we capable of imagining? How do we rationalize suffering as necessary? And so on. In all of the conversations I’ve seen or had about this story, no one has mentioned the fact that it’s actively breaking the fourth wall. The narrator is building a world in front of your eyes and challenging you to participate. “I would free the kid” and then what? What does the Omelas you’ve constructed look like, and why? And what does that say about the worlds you’re building in real life?

[liam-summers]

3.10 | 6.22 ⤷ Bangel + Dying, being brought back to life because they have a calling, and being disillusioned because of it.

[yes-no-maybe-soo]

So if this isn't a dream or an AU it's pretty safe to assume that the LIs have been altered in some way. Something is clearly off, and not just with their actions but their appearance and manner (for example the dilated pupils, Sylus showing off his tongue I felt so uncomfortable during that part help this isn't you babe,). As spelled out by the dwindling sanity meter they've lost their marbles and the fucking plot, so to speak. And with this, they've also lost control and pose as real threats to MC.

So... can you imagine how devastated they'll be when they are snapped out of their insanity and are hit by the realization that they tried to do harm to their beloved? Their soulmate? The one person in the world that they treasure above all else? The same girl that they'd all burn the whole world down for if it meant her survival?

They've dedicated their lives to protecting her. They've used their own bodies to shield her from danger.

It'll be soul crushing to realize that this time they were the danger.

[findmeinthefallair]

Mindscape, based on this post I made weeks ago

The yellow light is Flapjack's life force 😭😭😭😭

[stonnedparrott]

I fear Nico di Angelo and Regulus Black are the same people

[fudgecake-charlie]

The fic is actually just another way for me to post about kill-a-time-traveller!papyrus but I get to make it cooler and better because i love him. im the owner of that theory now im too insane over it and nobody does it like i do /j Guards!! Paranoia and identity issues!!! ACTIVATE!!!!!!!

[dreamingalto]

Dan and Phil: *Going on one of the busiest legs of TIT after taking a well deserved holiday break with radio silence online*

Also Dan and Phil: Side quest time!

[wingedaches]

idk, i think there's something very sweet about how, despite shadowgast being canon for years now, despite both matt and liam saying shit like "don't take a blacklight to any room in their cottage," despite the open & near-desperate flirting and pining that we watched unfold over countless hours, fans still get so excited over essek knowing of bren, of essek asking after caleb (and the mighty nein) as seth, of essek speaking zemnian, of caleb & essek's casting being influenced by the others', by them calling each other their partner, etc.

[scruncheduppaper]

drew this bc because i hate sitting thru chapel