#inane ramblings do not reblog

[sammusbird]

rrrgggggahhhh I watched Barbie, which probably will be remembered as the best big movie of the decade, and left with a migraine and the thought that it “was really fun but too clumsy in its messaging and themes.” And today I watched Emesis Blue, a fucking horror movie fan animation of Team Fortress 2, and found it so beautiful that I’m laying in the dark just thinking about the kickass themes and symbollism….. IT’S SO GOOD??????????

[homosexual-fast-dancer]

And sometimes when I'm feeling brave I like to reblog fanart :3

[apuff]

pinned post under construction :3

hello it is i. apuff. if you don't know me, you can call me puff or apuff, and if you do know me, you can also call me puff or apuff. if you know my actual name due to being friends (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE), you can use ann as a substitute

i like albums, concept albums, concepts, conceptual art, concept art, and art, and i also liked making that sentence

in case you couldn't already tell, i am obsessed with my chemical romance, it basically eclipses my entire waking mind

i also like webcomics like unfamiliar, castoff, aurora, i want to be a cute anime girl, heartstopper, and laika's comet

blog organization + tags vv

i have a few different tags for various things in my blog, like:

art (some old art of others' is on here, but it's mostly my art)

apuff's inane ramblings (inconsequential text posts)

mcr (My Chemical Romance is an American rock band from Newark, Ne)

dungeon meshi (you know what this is you're on tumblr)

miku (HATSUNE MIKUUUUU)

art save (things that are pretty, i'm trying to keep tutorials out of this now but i might forget)

save (like..general useful stuff, good websites, not very specific)

things i want to draw (self-explanatory, more for text posts that inspire me than images, which is "art save")

picrew (picrew chains. i reblog the picrew of people that i tag in these because otherwise i can't find them ever)

long post (posts that are long, this is mostly for blacklisting)

free palestine (self-explanatory)

remember this (desperate plea. i don't even know what i use this for)

art tutorials (TAG I JUST MADE UP NOW!!! i probably won't retroactively tag things as this)

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ok so for starters for trigger/blacklist tagging i'm using the format of just the thing in the tag, not "cw" or "tw" before or after it. for example, something with blood would just be "blood" not "tw blood."

for bright colors, i'm doing "eyestrain." i'm tagging things with flashing/strobing colors, lights, or light n darkness "flashing lights" if you're sensitive to that, please make sure you have it blocked since i can't cover the absolute myriad of the unstandardized tags for that specific thing on every reblog with it.

let me know if there's something i need to tag on a post, i forget a lot of stuff/autoreblog plus there's fears i don't know about and things

now palestine/gaza related posts are sort of a whole different beast in terms of tagging? i'm trying to put down "free palestine" on every post i reblog about the topic (cause you actually need to do that to get tags to trending) (plus overall blog sorting is good)

now obviously, the entire GENERAL CONCEPT of the current genocide is dark and upsetting, so know that i really can't tag every possible thing that could be upsetting. but, i'm trying to make a system of particularly upsetting things, especially pertaining to images & videos

ok so. for images/videos of children being actively harmed, as well as graphic text descriptions, i'm doing "child harm" this does not cover statistics of children killed or general comments on the fact

things like videos/images of gunfire, shooting and bombing, i'm doing "violence" like the other one this doesn't cover descriptions of those things happening.

"injuries" is self-explanatory- burns, bloody injuries, face trauma, etc, you get the drill (even blurred/pixely censored ones)

"dead body" is also self-explanatory, doesn't include body bags except if they have visible body part sticking out

tags that could mostly apply to anything (like "gun" or "blood") don't have any special tags, i just use the generic ones like i said above

still thinking of a tag for people being distressed about their situation/ their dead loved ones since things like "death"' are too vague and would cause overfiltering but i can't think of something accurate. if you have any suggestions, let me know.

[scurvgirl]

As someone who likes to reblog art and engage with it and commission it, dealing with AI generated images is fucking awful. This may sound selfish but I'm an adult, with an adult job and responsibilities and I am tired - I slack off on Tumblr and now I feel like I have to fucking sleuth through different images to determine "did a person make this?" And doesn't get easier! Even with all the "learn how to spot it!" Posts - I find it hard. I genuinely don't know at least 50% of the time if the image is AI generated, and that's on me, not any artist. I will continue to do it because I support actual artists, but shit, it is now effortful to engage with art on this website! Like no matter what, the artists are getting shafted because either their work is stolen, reposted, impersonated or just not even interacted with because there are folks like me who, if we can't tell if it's AI generated, won't interact with the image!

Look, if I reblog something made by AI, just let me know, I 100% did not detect it and I honestly do NOT want anything like that on my blog. This blog is for thirsting over fictional characters, nail polish, and inane rambling - not for AI.

[citriosis]

about

lemon / lem

23

they/them (occasional eldritch he/him)

black aroace(spec) lesbian

eldritch horror contained in a lemon

that's right, folks, after a little over a year, this is now The Main Blog™. it's about goddamn time lol. that means all likes will come straight from the source; this funky little lemon living in a crt tv. yippee.

more info under the cut (not mega important but it could be nice to have!)

socials

writing + ttrpg sideblog: @here-comes-the-bard (mostly for bigger things, character tags stick here :})

language learning sideblog: @citrijp (currently on hiatus for a mental health break)

the sims sideblog: @citriosims

pinterest: citriosis

twitter: citriosis (almost never used but it's there)

writing (especially about ttrpg blorbos)/storytelling + character analysis

interests

bold = currently brain full of it (will probably forget to change this lmfao)

music. just music in general. but talk to me abt ghost and pals + vane lily especially

speedruns + history thereof

undertale, deltarune, and undertale yellow + theorizing about them

avatar: the last airbender

mario games + spin-offs

psychology

honestly science in general

ace attorney

language learning (jp)

final fantasy XIV (still working through 6.0 hahaha help)

ttrpgs

animal crossing (new leaf + new horizons)

stardew valley

the sims (especially 2+3)

project mili

pizza tower

definitely not everything. but a lot of things. and if you like those things. bats my lashes at you. hi.

tags

(again this isn't all of them bc i have a terrible memory. consider this a WIP and an optional read.)

-> general

#; the citrus speaks - one fruit talks too much (i.e., posts that i made myself or added to)

#; the citrus answers - might be a bit presumptuous but one fruit answers asks

#; citrus jams - one fruit subjects you to their music taste (threat)

#; reblog + #; i'd do anything for queue - reblogs and queued posts

#; lemon's inane ramblings - rambles in the tags OR a post that's not really a thesis and is just me going bananas

#; lemon thesis moment - i will inevitably forget that i have a writing/ttrpg account so this is for character analysis rambles

-> media/other interests

#; the ttrpg tag(tm) - The TTRPG Tag™

#; the pen is mightier! - writing tag

#; gay-ce attorney - ace attorney. mostly narumitsu, hence the name

#; critically acclaimed mmorpg - ffxiv

#; DIGITAL HALLUCINATIONS - the amazing cigital circus

#; stardews and stardon'ts - stardew valley

#; everything changed when the fire nation attacks - atla

#; i don't go here (but you do and ily) - things my friends really enjoy + rb about a lot that i may not know shit about but still enjoy their enjoyment of

-> characters + ships

#; this bard needs therapy - yaevinn baines of posada tag

#; healing hands - nithvinn (yaevinn and his partner, nithral) tag

#; cryophobia - vian tag

#; sunsnow - vinkaide (vian and their partner, kinkaide) tag

-> misc

#; love women and love loving women - local lesbian loves women in a queer way. in other news, every 60 seconds, a minute passes.

again, there are more—like a lot more—and eventually this will be a definitive list with links and shit which is why it's at the bottom, but i'm forgetful

[possibly-art]

okay SO

hi im leo (or mituna, dave, whatever whatever) any pronouns / neos (or like. mirror neos or whatever) system host, otherkin, disabled

digital (+traditional) artist, enjoyer of character designing and terrible awful storywriter. i am So bad at writing stories. i have no idea what im doing

I'll give a lil list of my goofy guys under the read-more (theyll be added as it becomes like. relevant and stuff)

tags:

" #possibly art " - art stuff. obvs " #possibly leo " - Not art. my inane ramblings, probably " #possibly lore " - lore stuff + a character's lil. tag thing " #possibly kin " - kintype related stuff " #possibly sys " - system related stuff " #possibly reblogs " - man. i sure do wonder what this one could be for. hmm ill add more tags when i can. think of them. lol also like ill have to figure out what to do for characters who arent. like. named yet. cringe. 😔

+ i dont think ill bother with a dni cause like. brother, this is an art blog lmao

Orphus Temora Orphu2

Condit Whyzrd Retair Charya Ophite Amilat

Jonathan Anthony Dubois-Low

[why-am-i-here-someone-save-me]

Ayo what’s up? I’m Luci! Nice to meet you! I’m a hobbyist writer! ✍️

I used to make original Genshin Impact themed memes on my HoYoLAB, which you can DM me about if you’d like. (It’s a long story)

I used to occasionally crosspost some of my memes here, but now this blog is basically an archive of fanfiction that I’ve written. because I am an enabler to my own problems :D

I take requests~! Requests are currently: Closed until further notice

🖋✒️Luci’s Masterlist🖋✒️

I do NOT do commissions! I’m not very confident in my writings, so I will under NO circumstances, EVER request money or compensation for fulfilling a request!

Things I WILL write for:

General fluff, crackfics because I thrive off of inane bullshit, yandere/dark themes, platonic relationships, SAGAU, isekai AU

Things I was NOT write for:

NSFW, smut, anything other than platonic or sibling relationships with minors, generally just anything overly lewd imma have to decline sorry :|

I have some tags you can use for navigation!

luci writes - My works(Ik shocking right)

luci shares - reblogs that pertain to fandoms I write for!

luci rambles - Aka my random thoughts that I decide to make the internet’s problem! :)

luci’s assorted shenanigans - reblogs & threads of things I enjoyed that do not necessarily pertain to the fandoms I write for! Honestly this one is just vauge. 😅

luci answers - requests and asks will be marked with this tag!

The Awesome Anons (& refugees🥺):

♣️ Anon

Section Anon

Yokai Girl Anon

💧Anon

Snake Anon🐍

🍄Anon

Fruit Anon

🎵Anon

🦝Anon

Wine Aunt Anon🍷✨

Collective Consciousness Anon

⚖️Anon

MI-DOR1 Anon

Rapid Anon

Bones Anon (Def toootally not nicebonescomrade)

The Beloved Mutuals:

The ✨legendary✨ @nicebonescomrade

The ⭐️epic⭐️ @bamboowritess

The 🌟incredible🌟 @lovelyy-moraxx

The 💗amazing💗 @ddarker-dreams (Lock is my senpai ngl)(lock deadass brought me to tumblr)

The ☀️astounding☀️ @gi-zxt

The 👏outstanding👏 @iamfriedpotato

The 🫶delightful🫶 @yintsukareta

The 🥰HoYoHomie🥰 @dunno-why-im-here-either (YuYu my beloved<3)

The 🥳HoYoBro🥳 @unknownperson-is-not-known (U.P my bby <3)

The 🌀HoYoUser_🌀 @sectionmoment(User_ my luv <3)

The 👑HoYoQueen👑 @alvedrea (Queenie ily <3)

The ⚡️majestic⚡️ @mari-san-cant

The 🍀glorious🍀 @samarill

The 🧸adored🧸 @genshrineimpact

The 🍃inspiring🍃 @anemoarchonhoe

The 🥳talented🥳 @intothegenshinworld

The Sacred Taglist:

The ✨legendary✨ @nicebonescomrade

The ⭐️epic⭐️ @bamboowritess

The 💫wonderful💫 @numwoon44

The 🎉fantastical🎉 @eccedentesiast-sapphic

The 🎊excellent🎊 @nookiesposts

The 💠spectacular💠 @rizakari

The 🎈awesome🎈 @emperatris-rinaka

The ✏️illustrious✏️ @imaginewriting

The 🍀glorious🍀 @samarill

The 🧸adored🧸 @genshrineimpact

The Slightly Less Sacred Then Came The Dawn Taglist:

@inlovewithwaffles

@deathkat657

@syb-sybilline

@oxyotl

@itsyacuhjake

@loudlydarkgoatee

@roseyzella-twist

@nightmarewhispersxx

@chocolateneapolitan

@ksjjkthpjm

@the-real-fandom-person

@depressed-bitchy-demon

@traumamakesmefunnier

@rustybucketofghosts

@rintarh0e-suna

@bajifairyy

@shizunxie

@stormyovent0aster

@shadow-00

@sand-hanitizer

@minteaspoon

@that-levi-kenma-kinnie

@junnip3r

Hmm? More about me? Well aren’t you the curious one. Alright then, I suppose I’ll give you a teeeeeny bit of info about me. I’m 20 years old, autistic, and absolutely loathe having to socialize in public. That’s all you’re getting for now heheh~!

[sweetface-the-dollbaby]

This time I asked it to write an angry rant about me 😢

Ugh, don't even get me started on that insufferable Tumblr user "Skittlechild." Seriously, what a complete and utter nuisance they are! I can't believe the audacity they have to flood my feed with their incessant, mind-numbingly vapid posts. It's like they have zero grasp on reality and think that their pointless ramblings are some kind of groundbreaking intellectual revelation.

Every time I see a post from "Skittlechild," I can feel my brain cells dying one by one. I mean, do they really believe that their constant reblogging of nonsensical GIFs and poorly edited, migraine-inducing images is contributing anything of value to the world? It's like they've turned their blog into a dumping ground for the most mindless, random, and irrelevant content imaginable.

And don't even get me started on their so-called "deep" and "profound" quotes. It's like they've got a sixth sense for finding the most trite and overused inspirational sayings and slapping them onto a pastel background as if they've just unlocked the secrets of the universe. Newsflash, "Skittlechild": regurgitating clichés doesn't make you a philosopher, it just makes you painfully unoriginal.

What's even worse is their holier-than-thou attitude. They act as if they're the gatekeepers of wisdom and enlightenment, when in reality, their blog is nothing more than a bottomless pit of cringe and self-indulgence. I can't help but roll my eyes every time they spout some pseudo-intellectual nonsense in an attempt to appear deep and introspective.

I swear, interacting with "Skittlechild's" content is like voluntarily subjecting yourself to a torture chamber of banality. It's baffling how they've managed to amass any followers at all. It's as if there's a secret society of people who enjoy subjecting themselves to mindless drivel and empty platitudes.

In conclusion, "Skittlechild" is the embodiment of everything that's wrong with the internet. Their presence is a constant reminder that for every piece of insightful content out there, there's an army of shallow, attention-seeking individuals ready to drown it out with their inane chatter. So, excuse me if I'm not exactly thrilled to see their username pop up on my screen

[destona32]

Intro to Desu 101

Greetings, I'm Destona32! You can just call me "Des" for short though. I'm a gay genderfluid rat who simply wants to draw and live a good life. Here you'll find a bunch of my interests mashed together in a blender as well as stupid stuff I just find funny. I also post art sometimes!

I do my best to tag everything, but here are the important Des tags to keep in mind! I do have other tags, but these are the premium tags.

#des doodles - My drawings! From sketches to complete works!

#des speak - My inane ramblings! It's me coping from the bird site imploding.

#des tv - Some vids I've made! Either stupid memes or clips from my twitch stream!

#des faves - My favorite reblogs that I want to return to.

You'll also find out very soon that I'm very into card games. You WILL have to put up with that. If you play Pokemon TCG, YuGiOh, or Marvel Snap, feel free to hit me up!

[fullcowl03]

hello!! you can call me bubbles or by my username as i do not like to share my irl real name in public. i've been on other socials for some time now but decided to join a while back because of what that one delirious incel in charge is doing to the bird app!! you'll either see inane ramblings, maybe a few funnies, perhaps reblogs of artwork that i find to be fantastic/really good here !

PRONOUNS:

he/him of course 🏳️‍🌈

there are no emotes for the rainbow infinity autism/spectrum sign so it's right here ! ↓

INTERESTS:

moral orel, monster hunter franchise, western theatrical animation (or the art of theatrical feature films in general!), knowing things abt obscene amounts of animated movies no person should know this much about like say, for example, idk Doogal?; looney tunes, askewniverse, harold & kumar (First film only. None of the sequels.), scott pilgrim

DNI if you support any of the following:

Proship, transphobia, homophobia, any type of ableism (that shit's just plain bad!)

[satanicspeaks]

Hi there! I’m Satanic (they/them, bone/bones)

I’m an autistic disabled queer Aussie. This is my personal blog meant for memes, inane rambles, and cool shit I reblog. We’re pro reblog in this house!

There’s the occasional overflow fandom content for things that don’t have their own dedicated blog, such as Life With Althaar, The Murderbot Diaries, Magnus Archives etc.

Note: technically this is a side blog, you’ll see me like things with my fan blog

Tagging

Trigger warning tagging is iffy at best over here, if there’s something you want me to tag swing me an ask and I’ll do it happily.

My fan blogs are

@satanic-foxhole-court - All For The Game dedicated blog

@not-fucking-dead - The Locked Tomb dedicated blog

Who’s the profile photo cat?

That’s Lucifer! He was my cat in high school and has made a in on my tumblr blogs. Don’t worry, he’s alive and well but he was re-homed when I moved away after I graduated high school a while ago.

[dreamwatch]

I don’t feel like I’m doing tumblr right. Like, I notice a lot of people have a ‘main’ account and another account, and I’m not sure is that just writers and artists who want to keep their stuff separate, or is this more of a thing everyone does?

To be clear, I don’t care about ‘numbers’, likes, reblogs, followers etc. I care about not annoying people with my inane rambling. I care about not clogging other peoples timelines with random stuff if they only followed me for Steddie/ST content and recs. I care about talking to like minded people in the fandom, but also, yeah I reblog cat memes and ramble away in posts like this. The social anxiety runs deep here. If I should be keeping things separate please let me know.

[d1gg1nggr4v3s]

welcome! <3

× this blog is 18+ (ageless blogs will be blocked, and I do check my new followers.)

× t/w: trauma-based kinks, bl0od, g0re, n/sfw content

× this blog is not a place for racists, homophobes, transphobes, abusers or other assorted lowlifes. I am very liberal with my block button.

× if you want your content or something Ive reblogged from you taken down, send me a DM or an ask and the post will be deleted immediately <3 (asks will not be posted)

× dm's are open for friendly conversation but I do not want to roleplay with you, talk about sex with you, send you pictures/videos or see your genitalia.

× asks are always appreciated but I don't answer every single one, sorry ┐(‘～`;)┌

× pics of me/inane ramblings under #antics

consent is key. don't be a dick.

enjoy responsibly pervs <3

[changeling-droneco]

I posted 10,861 times in 2022

383 posts created (4%)

10,478 posts reblogged (96%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@dusty21134

@prismatic-bell

@questbedhead

@tht1person123

@staravya

I tagged 4,478 of my posts in 2022

#ndrv3 - 648 posts

#pokemon - 561 posts

#goodbye despair - 528 posts

#trigger happy havoc - 389 posts

#this has been three am thoughts with changeling-droneco - 310 posts

#yugioh dm - 286 posts

#sonic - 128 posts

#invader zim - 115 posts

#cult of the lamb - 79 posts

#futurama - 77 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#yeah the moment i heard about “’oh there’s 2 million floors and there’s a game and a million different monsters’ i immediately lost interest

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Legends arceus is a coward for not letting me side with volo, like damn bitch you doing all this? Without me? You’re like one of the only people who had my back earlier, let me help you talk with arceus bb, I can text god for you

254 notes - Posted February 14, 2022

#4

Man Today’s Trope Talk was good.

269 notes - Posted February 25, 2022

#3

I love when Naegi’s luck comes into play in minor ways, he’ll just grab a random file off a shelf and it’s going to be a classified document on a presidential assassination that won’t be made public for another thirty years and has to endure Togami’s true crime ramblings about it. Incredible stuff.

287 notes - Posted April 5, 2022

#2

I feel like the sanders sides misses out an a lot of hilarious fanfic material by not doing more with the fact that Sanders Sides Thomas really does just, stand there talking to himself for like thirty minutes sometimes. Like could you imagine writing a like, zombie apocalypse fic with Character Thomas and have him just pause and have a sanders sides episode randomly about some completely inane thing?

I just think it’s funny to imagine Character Thomas in like, an apocalypse, and STILL DOING IT, like yeah it’s fun to write the sides as fully realized people and not as sides but the sheer comedy potential in Janus having to deal with keeping Thomas alive in a zombie apocalypse and no Thomas we can’t take a break from sorting supplies because you thought you saw a dog outside, no, no get back here, Thomas the dog probably has like fleas we don’t want to get fleas no Patton we can’t take the dog, no we can’t train the dog into a noble companion in combat Roman and no Remus we aren’t that desperate for food yet-

295 notes - Posted February 22, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I can never get behind human monokuma designs because that bear is NOT a twink in a suit they are NOT a pretty boy, Monokuma is a 39 year old just divorced ‘functional’ alcoholic with a receding hairline. That is a middle aged disaster who probably wears boomer t-shirts about how terrible kids are and that marriage is a trap. 

314 notes - Posted July 2, 2022

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[allbeendonebefore]

I posted 956 times in 2022

451 posts created (47%)

505 posts reblogged (53%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@battle-of-alberta

@randomoranges

@allbeendonebefore

@athensandspartaadventures

@acetechne

I tagged 943 of my posts in 2022

Only 1% of my posts had no tags

#personal hapo - 183 posts

#hapo rambles - 169 posts

#pc: edmonton - 146 posts

#clip studio paint - 137 posts

#digital art - 136 posts

#projectcanada cities - 135 posts

#hapo art - 130 posts

#pc: calgary - 91 posts

#hapo doodles - 81 posts

#edward murphy - 80 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#and to this day we don't know what these guys actually saw because they didn't bother to listen or figure out where they were the whole time

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I'm starting to think I might actually get stranded in BC and I'm trying to be chill about it

19 notes - Posted January 6, 2022

#4

making nanaimo bars for tomorrow because even though patriotism is a joke spending time with friends on a day off is always good and its an excuse to shower people in sugar

20 notes - Posted June 30, 2022

#3

See the full post

21 notes - Posted April 20, 2022

#2

Just another handful of pharsalia notes

See the full post

25 notes - Posted January 31, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

hi everyone just an announcement that if you are missing your online canadian friends today, one of our four major telecom companies just exploded overnight so everyone is panicking because a large chunk of people across the country do not have internet or cell service (and this includes the companies that manage transactions so many things have been forced to be cash only) and it’s kind of a Time

not me though i use a different one I can still subject you all to my inane ramblings for now

55 notes - Posted July 8, 2022

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[phoenixkaptain]

I posted 425 times in 2022

That's 124 more posts than 2021!

281 posts created (66%)

144 posts reblogged (34%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@thelittleredheadedmusician

@satire-please

@diemarysues

@frostedpuffs

@broosepayne

I tagged 390 of my posts in 2022

Only 8% of my posts had no tags

#the inane ramblings of a madman - 122 posts

#star wars - 111 posts

#luke skywalker - 75 posts

#tim drake - 55 posts

#anakin skywalker - 55 posts

#dc - 53 posts

#batman - 49 posts

#robin - 45 posts

#obi wan kenobi - 43 posts

#star wars prequels - 40 posts

Longest Tag: 106 characters

#everyone else: he hid in rafters for ten hours until starfire showed up bc she was the only person he knew

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

A New Hope is a lot funnier when you realize that Darth Vader tells everyone he thinks Obi-Wan is there and everyone is probably thinking “I thought you got over this”

2,036 notes - Posted September 20, 2022

#4

Tim Drake as a character is really funny because on the outside, he gives off this aura of always knowing what to do and what’s coming next and being able to predict his enemies next ten moves, but on the inside he has no idea what’s going on and is riding by the seat of his pants the whole time.

Like, he has the best poker face of any character ever. People look at him and think “Lucky I’m with Robin who knows what he’s doing :)” and Tim’s brain is playing staticky elevator music.

3,130 notes - Posted June 7, 2022

#3

One of my fave things about Wei Ying is that when he fantasized about living with Lan Zhan, he imagined Lan Zhan staying home and mending clothes and cooking and cleaning and just generally waiting for Wei Ying to get back. Because Wei Ying imagined that he would go out and hunt or fish or farm. Wei Ying’s dirty fantasy was that Lan Zhan would live a domestic life with him where he provided food (at least ingredients).

It will never stop being funny that, in the WangXian dynamic, the man who is rumoured to have had sex with so many women as well as had virgins (for their blood? For the sex? For fun? Who knows? Have a virgin!) just hanging around, he fantasized about having a domestic life and farming and fishing. And the “Light Bearing Lord” who came from a respected family and is known as cold and standoffish and feared as much as he’s respected, he fantasized about sex eight times a day with his husband.

It’s hilarious! But, it is also terribly sad!

Wei Ying just wants a home. A place he can go where someone is waiting for him. A place that he can go to and the someone waiting for him is happy that he’s there. A place where he can relax and have fun and his idea of fun is fishing, hunting, and farming. A place where he’s allowed to just be himself, no pretending necessary, he can just exist and have someone exist by his side in harmony.

And then, while I’m thinking about this, I remember that my actual favourite thing from the book is when Wei Ying sits on Little Apple and has Lan Wangji pull the reins because he remembers his mom sitting while his dad pulled the reins. And he thinks about how great it would be if they had a kid so that the kid could sit on Lan Zhan’s shoulders like he sat on his dad’s shoulders. And he recreates this scene, this innocuous scene and it makes him so happy and Lan Zhan doesn’t even question for a milisecond why Wei Ying wants him to do this after he realizes that it makes Wei Ying happy.

They just… am love each other… so much… for so long… and they… they… they are they and that is wonderful…

3,159 notes - Posted March 13, 2022

#2

Din Djarin and Luke Skywalker are both two men who get progressively scarier the more you watch them.

Like, Luke in A New Hope was baby af. He was a child. Even in the Empire Strikes Back, what a little guy. A tiny fellow.

Then boom, Return of the Jedi, and Luke is smiling and like “Tell these Ewoks that you are their God and that if they do not release us, you will be Angered…” He is in all black, he is missing a hand, he has gone off the rails conpletely. He’s like “How will I tell Leia that we’re siblings? …Oh! I know! Riddles!” Luke Skywalker gets struck by Force Lightning like nine times and still gets up and drags his dad’s lifeless body out. There were moments one might look at him and think, “no, ur wrong, he still babie” but you are the wrong one! He goes into Jabba’s Palace and straight up stands there smiling and threatening him the whole time. He’s standing on a plank over the Sarlacc and he’s still like “So this is how you’d like to play :)” Luke straight up snapped, he got spooky by the end of the og trilogy.

Din Djarin, straight off the back, is kind of intimidating. He is a man in full armour who hunts people and freezes them in carbonite and appears behind their shoulders when they least expect it. But, after Grogu shows up, you probably think “this man is weak to this baby, he will become soft” but no! The opposite happens!

I’m talking about episode 6. The Prisoner. I have wanted desperately to talk about this for days, but have only just found the words to do so. Let me explain.

Din Djarin is filmed and edited like a horror movie villain. Like a supernatural force of evil who stalks his prey. Straight up like a slasher villain out of the eighties. There’s hints of this beforehand, what with Din appearing behind a guy in the very first episode, and the fact that he has been shot point blank (many times) but no matter how many times he falls, he always gets back up. Okay, that’s all fine and good.

But episode 6 goes beyond that. He stalks a bunch if assholes through flickering red lights. He splits them up, he takes them out one by one, and the last person standing manages to get out, thinks they’ve escaped, only to die (technically) at Din’s hand anyway. He is straight up a horror movie villain I don’t know how else to explain it, he is a horror movie villain.

Don’t take this the wrong way. Being spooky and intimidating isn’t a bad thing, especially not in Star Wars! Luke Skywalker and his ability to say terrible things while smiling, Din Djarin and his predilection for appearing right behind someone, these ar egood things. I like these things a lot. I love these. I love that Luke is the cutest little scary fella in the galaxy. I love that Din is the most awkward little scary fella in the galaxy. I think it’s great.

Why do I bring this up?

Well, for one, I have been trying to word my view on Din Djarin for days now. I love this man, I have to mock him or I’ll feel incomplete. And I think it’s a disservice to pretend that Luke isn’t a person who most people in the Star Wars universe think about and shiver. Don’t get me wrong, I love sunshine boy Luke, but he isn’t really like that, at least not by this point in the series. He just strikes me as the type of person to say incredibly dark, deranged things with a blank face, then smile at cute kittens. Luke is messed up, and we should talk about it more because it’s very interesting to explore the various ways he’s messed up.

But for another, I am a big fan of Din and Luke being buddies who go absolutely anywhere and scare the shit out of people. A Mandalorian next to a Jedi Knight? Two people who eat Storm Troopers for breakfast?? Can you imagine how much the fragments of the Empire that are still left are quaking??? Those two would go absolutelu anywhere and the anyone on planet who ever sided with the Empire would give themselves up or run, immediately.

Like, Din singlehandedly took out that whole troop on Nevarro. All by himself, he shot out all of the Storm Troopers and everyone inside and I like to think there are whispered stories about him similar to the ones about the Boogeyman.

Now, I know Luke didn’t actually kill the Emperor and Darth Vader, but does anyone in universe know that? Or does everyone think that Luke not only blew up the Death Star, but he also murdered the two head honchos and came out completely unscathed? Luke is definitely a boogeyman.

I don’t know. Something about two terrifying men walking into a bar full of Imperials only to walk out five minutes later of a bar full of dead Imperials just really fills me with joy. Something about the mental image I have of Storm Troopers fearfully sharing increasingly terrifying stories about these two makes me happy. I like bad people being scared shitless, all right? Sue me.

3,422 notes - Posted July 31, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I think Tim is the cryptid of the superhero community. Hear me out:

In Young Justice, it’s explicitly stated multiple times that Tim Drake’s Robin has never been caught on film. There are no pictures or videos. Even earlier on, in World’s Finest Three, Tim gets Superboy to take all of the credit for taking down Metallo and Poison Ivy (something even the reporters find hard to believe) because Tim can’t let anyone know it was Robin.

Furthermore in Young Justice, the ongoing conflict between Robin and his team is that they find it hard to trust him because he can’t reveal his identity to them. But more than that, he can’t reveal his identity to anyone, he isn’t supposed to let anyone know that Robin even exists. There are fake “files” on all of the characters and even the government doesn’t know who the f Robin is, and the file questions whether or not he actually exists.

Then, there’s the part of the comics where Tim is forced to give up Robin, and Steph replaces him for a bit, and literally nobody outside of Gotham knows. He didn’t tell his friends, Bruce didn’t tell anyone, nobody knows that Tim isn’t Robin anymore. And then, he comes back. Just as out of the blue.

In the Red Robin run, it’s canon that nobody knows where Tim is aside from Ra’s al Ghul (who stalked him from the start and so shouldn’t count). Oracle doesn’t know where he is, none of his friends know (two of them are “dead,” so it’d be hard for them to know), everyone who runs into him is like “??? who tf???” Even Dick only has a vague idea. The whole point of Tam’s side plot is that it is nigh impossible to find Tim unless he decides to collapse onto your hotel room’s bed while bleeding out next to an assassin. As one does.

What does this mean?

It means that some superheroes definitely don’t believe that Tim exists, probably the younger ones. Superman or someone is like “Man, I miss the Robin that didn’t threaten me with swords,” and they’re like “Dick?” “No.” “Jason?” “No.” “??? The girl one?” “No.”

Like, some people have definitely never seen/heard of this weird third Robin, and they definitely think it’s something the older heroes are making up to mess with them. On conspiracy boards in Gotham, some people tell tale of the third Robin, the one that came before the Stabby Robin, and other people are like “You’re making this up! This guy doesn’t exist!”

I bet Duke is occasionally like “Hey, I haven’t seen Tim in like three weeks, is he still alive?” And someone else (Dick or Bruce) is just like “What are you talking about? Tim’s been sitting over in that corner.” And Duke just sees Tim unmoving in a corner, and is like “…that doesn’t answer the question, is he still alive?”

Tim is canonically, in the comics, the best at remaining unseen. He’s a cryptid. Kon and Bart tell horror stories about him and have blurry photos (taken blurrily on purpose in the same vein as Big Foot) that they show younger heroes. Jason occasionally regales his goons with stories of a creepy stalker child who fights crime. Dick tells his coworkers about his brothers but they don’t believe Tim exists because everytime they ask for a photo of him, Dick just shrugs and says he’s a bit camera shy. Damian complains about his brothers and all of his classmates are kind of worried he made up Tim, because he’s never come (it’s funny to imagine Jason and Dick and Bruce all coming to pick up Damian from school. It’s funnier to imagine that even Cass has picked him up). Several workers at Wayne Enterprises think that “Tim Drake-Wayne” is just a made up entity to keep the company out of enemy hands.

Tim is a cryptid, thanks for coming to my TED Talk

3,978 notes - Posted April 28, 2022

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