#its kinda baffling

[tgcg]

you've probs been told this alot but you're amazing at writing these characters!! theyre so accurate to how they actually are in homestuck its crazy did you find out andrew hussie's secret Are u andrew hussie irl?? also youre just like a super chill sweet dude you seem like the friend ever i hope you have a good day!! and i guess for a prompt could you perhaps draw out nepeta interacting with dave in some way? id like to see how you think they would!! you dont have to though

cant refuse that request... these two are a goldmine. thaks so much also that is insanely high praise i hope u realise... seriously thanks take care yourself

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Jellyfish Prince 💙

[secretmellowblog]

i just dont really understand why theyd target les mis? and like. its interrupting the work of actors and crew and house staff who dont have anything to do with fossil fuel corps. people who just paid to see the show who dont have anything to do with it.

i understand les mis is a show about rebellion and humanity but to me it doesnt make any sense.

( i say this as someone whos probably very unaware and very slow to realize the deeper meaning of things so i apologize if it comes off snobby i am just confused !! /genuine )

I'm very sorry if this comes off as rude but like.... "I don't understand why people would use Les Mis as the symbolic centerpiece of an act of protest/rebellion against the government" is just a very strange thing to say, and I'm genuinely not quite sure how to begin to respond XD. Like....it's literally Les Mis. It is Do You Hear the People Sing. The original novel was written to be a political rallying cry, it was written to bind together activists, and it has been used that way thousands of times since its publication in 1862. It's Les Mis, I don't know what else to tell you XD. Also I know this next comparison isn't perfect, but:

“I don’t understand why Les Amis interrupted Lamarque’s funeral.  Obviously I agree with Les Amis’s goals, but was this really the right way to protest? Obviously the government is doing something bad— but was this symbolic event really the right place to talk about it? Why even choose to interrupt this event, and the lives of the workers leading it and everyday people attending it? It wasn’t responsible for what was happening! 

Okay, yeah, I get the funeral is ‘symbolically significant.’  I get that Lamarque has become, in popular culture, a symbol of rebellion and resistance against a government’s unfair policies.  I get Lamarque’s funeral is a pretty big public event that has a lot of symbolic significance ties to ideas of rebellion against the state.

I get that Lamarque’s words are often seen as a rebellious call to action, so illegally interrupting his funeral could be a statement about resisting tyranny. It could be a call to action playing off the popularity and symbolic role that Lamarque has in the public consciousness.

 But at the same time— shouldn’t Les Amis have just gone to the palace and attacked the king directly? Why disrupt this symbolic event instead? They’re not really going after the people responsible! 

After all, there were so many people there who just wanted a normal day. They weren’t responsible for what the government was doing and had nothing to do with it.  They wanted to see the procession, to hear Lafayette’s speech and grieve a political figure they cared for. They wanted to hear people praise ‘resistance’ in the abstract, without actually doing it.

 Weren’t Les Amis disrupting that?  

Aren’t Les Amis bad activists? Isn’t disrupting people’s everyday lives for the sake of 'activism' always inherently a bad thing? I’m not against activism, but isn’t doing that kind of disruptive activism rude? Isn’t disrupting the lives of ordinary people just doing their jobs or going out for a special event evil— no matter why you’re doing it, or what your goals are, or whether the government actually is doing something vile that we should start to stage great events rallying against?

Even if this Lamarque's funeral has special significance because of its symbolic pop cultural ties to rebellion against tyranny—shouldn’t they have just avoided rudely interrupting some regular people’s everyday lives? 

Protests shouldn’t disrupt things. they should be big parades that don’t make anyone uncomfortable, don’t interrupt anything, and don’t disrupt any aspects of ‘normal people’s daily life.’ No one should ever target symbolic events— like a funeral for a political figure or a musical about revolution—  to make a political statement. Protests should be little quiet festivals that cause absolutely no interruption in everyday life so that we can all just safely ignore them, until the climate catastrophe they’re warning us about arrives.”  

[familysickness]

two people that would wear each other's skin if they could -> their ao3 tags: what if they were normal? what if they had no history together whatsoever? what if their negative traits were all either ignored or watered down?

the two most average ppl around -> their ao3 tags: what if they were step-siblings? anyone ever consider what would happen if they were step-parent and kid? what if they actually went through every horror imaginable?

[angellic-critique]

Hey, I want to ask something: why Is using a drag queen's persona to create a female character a bad thing?/genq

The implication of cissification/forced gender norms is what I take issue with.

You're okay anon. I am going to clarify that this is a queer person critiquing upon a poorly mishandled drag persona of an animated Italian mobster spider that is named after cocaine. I am aware of the extremities here but I cannot stress enough how harmful viv's surface level writing for only her character designs is genuinely harmful and hurtful to me, as a queer person.

I see the themes she attempted to write but having angel dust only centered purely around sex, sexual advantages from the porn industry [without substance[, the pimp abuse and nearly racist depictions of Italians [Gold tooth mobster who only likes guns, violence, sex, drugs, money, alcohol etc,]-

I could go on and on and on as to why Angel Dust despite seeming to come from some level of apathy to drag kings/queens is nothing but surface level tripe. I do not care if the show releases and all it is focused upon is Valentino's abuse and misdeeds towards angel, IS THERE ANYTHING TO THIS CHARACTER BESIDES BEING ABUSED.

there is a difference of wanting to design a drag persona and having the gender be ambiguous but it is an entirely different level of tripe bullshittery to have a character that is allegedly surrounded around drag performing and openly being himself, is supposedly forced under a guise of abuse to undergo the said drag performing...????

Having a AMAB crossdressing to be a drag persona but then take that empowerment away from him, as if he was never allowed to be feminine in the first place. Angel Dust screams tryhard sexy appeal. I do not understand his, alastor, or Stolas for that matters' 'sex' appeal if they are not written well nor with any care for that regard about the communities they are representing.

Viv just wants to write the themes of addiction, gay trauma and industry abuse? That's perfectly fine as long as there is nuance and reasoning and justification for those characters turning to those types of aliments for aid. What do I meaaan????

Alastor has no asexual/aromantic representation, if anything the fandom has proven that it is APHOBIC !!!

Stolas takes pills and it never going to be brought up until Octavia finds out and then SHE is casted to be the villain over calling out the fact that her dad is a POS that only cares about Blitzo! GENUINELY WHAT?

Blitz is an alcoholic stalker SEXUAL HARRASSER that has NO REPRECUSSIONS WHATSOVER FOR SAID DRINKING, IF ANYTHING THE SERIES PRAISES HIM TO BE ONE!!!!

Husk is also a surface level alcoholic that doesn't get called into question! I'm sorry I'm not talking about the main point you asked anon but genuinely please look at the larger scope over why viv just depicts abuse and substance use as 'haha comically funny' while attempting to 'humanize' her Demons. It seems that the show is just pro-abuse and of they genuinely actually have Valentino try to be threatening or a well written pimp ill laugh and delete my blogs honestly since I have no hope from script leaks revolving around him comparing guns to cocks. Viv really loves writing about industry abuse with no nuance here.

I did not bring up Molly whatsoever because unlike Viv I actually love the drag performer community and empowering culture they represent. It's the same reason I believe that Brandon Rodgers is anti-drag despite constantly crossdressing/displaying it within his videos. It's harmful because his drag didn't NEED to be a separate person angel dust should BE the DRAG PERFORMING NAME.

HELLUVA BOSS HAS PROVEN THAT ALL VIV CARES ABOUT IS EXCUSING AND MARKETTING ABUSERS RATHER THEN CALLING INTO QUESTION WHY ABUSE IS HAPPENING IN THE FIRST PLACE.

[lilydvoratrelundar]

I think Church on Ruby Road has finally firmly cemented my opinion that Murray Gold should not have come back.

[ahamkara-apologist]

fuckin wild to me to see people (aka straight gamerbros) complaining that saint/osiris was the most forced thing ever and yet turn right around and get all sad about crow/amanda not being a thing despite the fact that crow and amanda had just a normal friendship at best but osiris was out here literally trying to stop and break time to get saint back

[sqlmn]

by the power of modern day AU, I am delighted to announce that Fulj can have a girlfriend ! I haven't named her yet but have a few in mind so ... soon (TM). She is the one that she loved in canon before the whole memory wipe and as you can see, penchant for black, black hair, brown eyes, and prone to weird statements. Perfect balance to Deacon's weird questions.

HOWEVER ! I mentioned the problem of Deacon still having facial blindness to someone and how there is no glow from the deities for him to identify them. And her solution is the funniest thing ever so I have to do it. He identifies people by smell. So when he is in the same room as Ymber and Oh when they first cross paths, he doesn't really think about it. But later when he sees Ymber alone and gets the same kinda scent, same cologne or something, he knows that's not the taller guy therefore that's his scent ! Perfect!

So... unfortunately.... Deacon really can't beat the weirdness allegations in AUs...... he's stuck like that. Fulj has referred to him as a guard dog in canon and now he's a tracking dog. RIP to him.

(and because Deacon gets my facial blindness I am giving Fulj's girlfriend ANOTHER trait of mine I wouldn't wish on anyone because it's also really funny. She can't smell. She can taste ! She just can't smell. So she loves talking to Deacon because he explains smells as foods for her to get the vibe across. Which are REALLY weird conversations no one else wants to hear.)

[stoppingo1k]

uh oh, i'm falling into my trap of making designs i'm never intending to use and then getting too attached to them again

this version of P is considerably more suspicious and manipulative than the regular version of them. i imagine they'd be involved in some plotline consisting of them attempting to cover up the existence of the yeti for one reason or another. if they joined the epf in this universe they'd specialize in, as stated, cover-up's and misdirection to the public, AKA the gaslighter supreme.

Same text as the image for readability under cut:

P - Hypothetical CPI version - Shifty snowboarder who hangs around Mt. Blizzard. Will attempt to goad the player into playing more snowboarding. - You can ask them for snowboarding advice, but the advice is often useless, ridiculous, or totally unrelated to snowboarding. - Has gotten into trouble with JPG more times than anyone can count for generally being suspicious. The fact he can't prove they're doing anything wrong drives JPG insane.

"Aw, nice effort though, kid! How about another run? C'mon."

"You know 95% of snowboarders quit before they hit the jackpot…"

Turns out wearing full white isn't a good idea for a snowboarder so they're much more colorful this time around

[ichangenameseveryfiveseconds]

Sometimes I'm baffled at the sheer amount of information you do not know about me like I am a LURKER man y'all don't know anything abt me

Like

Did you know I binged the entire sun and moon show then liked it and just stayed there???

Did you know I liked qsmp???

Did you know I read fanfiction sometimes(guilty pleasure)(what is page 4 of frubbo fanfiction on ao3 ON ABOUT)??

Did you know I like mushroom oasis??

This one goes to @pallweople specifically: did you know I don't even know who the hurricane fam is while your while point is your in their walls?!?!

[b4kuch1n]

brain also insisted that was played by an employee. despite it being realistically impossible due to how the neck looks in the side shot

[ghost--bot]

what the...

[aspiringnexu]

I’ve seen the idea of an Elrond/Durin/Disa thruple being thrown around and I love it for several reasons. Mostly found family fluff reasons if I’m honest because unlike Legolas and Gimli, I feel no sexual tension. Only queer romantic/platonic. Durin and Disa are a married couple but they also have this elf who just kinda... hangs out. And Durin is ridiculously sappy with him and they kiss quite a lot and he likes hanging out with Disa and they like to sing together (his voice can’t help with the survey singing but it is lovely to listen to). And the other dwarves are baffled.

Are they just really good friends? Has there been a secret wedding no one has heard about? Is this just an Elf Thing? Elves aren’t normally so touchy feely, are they?

Mostly I love the idea because that gives probable cause for Elrond getting joint custody of the dwarrowlings.

Gil-Galad: Um. Elrond? Who are they?

Elrond, with two dwarrowlings pulling on both arms as they try to explore different parts of Lindon simultaneously: My kids.

Gil-Galad: ...Your what?

Elrond, being slowly dragged away as they figure out teamwork will get their elf dad to move faster: Ah, apologies for the slang.  They are mime hini.

[simptasia]

reminder that dominic monaghan is exceptionally nice smelling

[wildpeachfarm]

twitter is just reactionary and people who aren't talking to people irl and if they do they also /don't/ but it's a place where you don't think at all that's why everyone is braindead but yeah i have not seen anything on twt and not planning too

honestly we already know I agree with this sentiment, and I think I might flip my social media priorities to come over here more because this really showed me how much twitter was literally giving me trauma from these situations because people are so reactionary and extreme and doomy and its not healthy at all

[daz4i]

yknow i noticed the small steps method doesn't help me and only stresses me out more. and like i just get stuck on the first step anyway and never move on to the next one, i'll probably even go back to the start eventually really. i'm apparently an all or nothing guy i can't think of an action as multiple actions bc it stresses me out i just need to either do it or not. the problem is i usually end up not