#just matching up numbers

[luna-the-cretar]

So i am (very slowly) adding all the present fic amounts on each ship for the Loa spreadsheet. I haven’t added all of them yet (maybe a third?), and not nearly all of the ouaw ships yet, but from what I have presently;

#1: Gideon Coal & Gricko Grimgrin & Hootsie Grimgin & Kremy Lecroux & Morning Frost & Torbek & Twig (40 fics)

#2: Morning Frost/Torbek (27 fics—Woo!!!)

#3: Felix Ackerman & Toa Kamanui AND Gideon Coal & Gricko Grimgrin & Kremy Lecroux & Morning Frost & Torbek (23 fics)

#4: Barnabos the Dreadwake/Skrimm Stabbaskotch AND Gideon Coal & Torbek (20 fics)

#5: Gideon Coal/Torbek (19 fics)

Expect these numbers to change once I actually put in all the OUAW pairings, but presently, a bit of a spread between other campaigns. Interesting!

[bebrave-live]

[wilting-fl0wer]

The only correct form of caltam, as far as i am concerned

[dramatic-dolphin]

ways to approach choosing a name for your ocs in quenya and sindarin:

something beautiful and poignant (e.g. 'daughter of flowers')

something uncomfortably prescient and relevant to the character (e.g. 'fated')

literally just a physical description (e.g. 'red-haired')

the dumbest combination of words you can think of (e.g. 'hair-commander')

the most uninspired combination of words you can think of (e.g. 'elf-man')

the best part is that all of these methods are canon-compliant with tolkien's names. as evidenced by my examples.

[starflungwaddledee]

a thousand posts!! a lot of these are of course reblogs of other people's work as well, but it's still a very fun and exciting milestone to me!!

i didn't know how long i'd be in this community when i first joined because i'd never been in a fandom before and didn't really know what to expect! i kinda thought my content might flop entirely because it's so story oriented and i'm not good at Cool Dynamic Poster Art! but folks on kirblr interacted with my work so kindly and encouragingly that it was immediately such a pleasant place to be!

i've met some truly incredibly people here! generous and creative, thoughtful and talented.

the interest in original storytelling and starstruck in particular also blew me away, i'd heard fandom is generally not that interested in OCs but this one seems to really care about and support them! i'm touched folks have cared about mine!!

this a wonderful community and i'm grateful for the opportunity to be here!

[pocketgalaxies]

the fun thing about crippling imposter syndrome and ridiculously prolonged delayed gratification is that they do this cool combo move where they invent an especially ominous form of anxiety that is insidious and subliminal but reaches into me through to the tips of my fingers like an evil little poison impossible to ignore but also impossible to detect except in the way my jaw aches in the morning and the way i find myself unironically saying "this is the longest week ever" on a forking monday afternoon

[vaguely-concerned]

I feel that during the first coffee date walk through the market, rye has a fraction of a millisecond's kneejerk trauma freakout of '...wait. wait. am I really catching feelings for a rich boy again. with how that went down last time. am I truly that stupid' (once derogatorily referred to quite openly at a party as 'young master anaxas' pet mortalitasi' to which the young master anaxas only grinned and shrugged and STILL you don't break up with his smug controlling ass for good for six more months because you have a desperate bottomless yearning pit where your self respect should go, twice shy lol). and then he actually looks at lucanis standing next to him getting harding spearmint to help with bad dreams and generally being so quietly thoughtful and sweet through the prosaic yet necessary medium of grocery shopping it makes me feel a little unwell to truly contemplate. and rye is like '*the softest fondest eyes anyone has ever turned on anything* ...you know what. I suspect we don't have to worry about that repeating, I think we're probably safe. I am comfortable being this level of stupid. (slowly dawning marital intent even at this stage)'.

(part of the reason rye buys NONE of illario's bullshit at all right from the beginning is that he's basically vaccinated against this exact type of dude after that relationship lol. charming suave guy who in the beginning pays you a lot of lavish attention and takes pains to make you feel special every time you're in a room with him -- but shallowly and mostly, it slowly dawns on you, when there's something he wants from you (and he's often doing it at the expense of someone else, raising you up to put someone else down and you won't believe this... it can turn into a seesaw at a whim. yay). and beneath that there's just a seething pit of resentment and inferiority complexes and bitterness left to fester until he can make it everyone else's problem and that IS going to start to bubble up between the cracks with you too if you stick around for long enough. no thank you been there done that wasted my youth and potential on it and all I got was this lousy shiny set of new emotional intimacy issues haunting me for life! trust me illario I HAVE, as it were, chosen the wrong dellamorte before, which is exactly how I know I didn't this time. go get him lucanis I've got your coffee

hilarious mental image: rye and illario sitting quietly together while everyone else is busy milling about during a cursed dellamorte family dinner (the vibes are so bad. you know the vibes are bad. sitting as still as you can and hoping for calm skies is your best bet without lucanis or teia favourite child privileges to work with) and rye out of the blue gazing thoughtfully into nothing over the edge of his glass with half-lidded eyes to go 'you know. you remind me a lot of my ex. not in a good way' and illario with absolutely no shame and hilariously also something that's the closest he ever gets to real sympathy going 'yeah, I get that a lot'. best talk those two ever had, unironically. their bond leveled up to its final form that day. *soulsborne boss defeated text* MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING REACHED)

[mechazushi]

Kaiju Number 8 Incorrect Quotes <take11>

Mina: We need to talk about your maturity...

Kafka(standing on the office couch with Reno, Hoshina, Kikoru, Iharu, Aoi, Haruichi, Minase, and Hakua): Bold words for someone standing in lava!

[bmpmp3]

now im learning. phoneme editing for english is fun as FUCK in sv2

[satoblue]

the amount of lies ppl spread on my name is insaneee i wonder what’s next lowkey like damn i’m invested too i didn’t know i did that either

[gayofthefae]

Found a new, concise way of putting it that I'm gonna try and remember so I can reuse it:

To say, as a straight person, that a queer character's queerness is out of the blue or unrealistic is to claim that they understand the queer experience to be able to identify inaccurate representation of it.

To call a character's queerness out of the blue as a straight person is to claim full understanding of the queer experience.

[allamericanb-tch]

HELP ok do i text him or not

[phagodyke]

at its core dorohedoro is abt what if there was someone whose special interest was making gyoza and also someone else whose special interest was eating them. and they found each other in this crazy world to be besties <3

[captainjonnitkessler]

I was trying to figure out why I was feeling so off and generically sad all day today until I opened up Stardew Valley and realized I haven't seen the sun in three weeks and no green plants for longer than that. I HAVE to move somewhere sunnier I was simply not cut out to live in this much gloom

[dad-friend]

yall ever see a post correcting disinformation but the correction has a lot of red flags that suggest its also either mis- or dis- information? its like the "net zero information" thing but instead there is information, the information is just "theres a lot of unreliable sources on this entire topic"

[batsplat]

number of sunday race wins per title winner this century (wins/number of races)

2001: 11/16

2002: 11/16

2003: 9/16

2004: 9/16

2005: 11/17

2006: 2/17

2007: 10/18

2008: 9/18

2009: 6/17

2010: 9/18

2011: 10/17

2012: 6/18

2013: 6/18

2014: 13/18

2015: 7/18

2016: 5/18

2017: 6/18

2018: 9/18

2019: 12/19

2020: 1/14

2021: 5/18

2022: 7/20

2023: 7/20

current wins of title contenders this season (out of 9 races, another 10-11 to go): bagnaia - 6; martin - 2