#just pure pain for me

[visiosatanae]

Totally random, but my mom got my dad a Hot Ones hot sauce kit for Christmas and the family has gotten together today to do a testing and see how far we can make it through the gauntlet. I'm a huge wimp when it comes to spice so I was expecting to tap out after the first few.

I made it to the seventh out of ten.

I taste nothing but pain and it won't go away.

[nova-rpv]

"i have a sister now! thank you, granpa! we are going to do so much stuff together!"

(trans masc newborn shado btw. tag as ship and ill kill you)

[cinnamonest]

>getting very close to end of P5R

>Maruki goes around giving people their ideal reality

>Game makes it a point to emphasize that he revives dead people

>"huh I wonder why he granted everyone else's wishes but didn't give the mc one"

[inked-up-gentleman]

She has made me the monster I dreamed of

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

figuring out how to draw him. its surprisingly challenging!

[petrichormore]

I’m too lazy to analyze it someone do it for me but that part in the convo q!Bad had with q!Baghera where she says something like “The workers could have a family, they could be someone else’s egg” and q!Bad responds with “yeah I thought about it, that’s when I stopped uh…”

because that seems very important to me. it seems like a confirmation of the fact that q!Bad saw these workers as mindless drones and Walter Bob as an outlier, an mistake on the federation’s part. And then when Ron essentially confirmed that it wasn’t, that they all have feelings, he stopped.

Stopped what? Stopped seeing workers as nothing but extensions of the federation? Stopped psychologically torturing Ron? Stopped keeping him in a damp cage? Stopped resisting the urge to care?

Stopped what? No matter which option you pick, you learn that q!Bad thought about the workers in a certain light, learned information that potentially severely contradicted his belief, and then reflected and adjusted his own behavior accordingly. If the “that’s when I stopped…” was about to end in “torturing him” that feels like a huge… something… about q!Bad and his supposedly “unhinged” nature.

There are a couple natural conclusions to that sentence, almost all of them make q!Bad seem a lot more… something… than I’d originally given him credit for.

[torgawl]

this makes so much sense, i'm crying

there's also this similar theory which is based on phantom parade's scene and the number of characters the censored line has that reached the same conclusion. everything adds up :')

[rizaposting]

been thinking a lot about my royai kid ideas lately but i don't think a lot of people will like them because i don't name the kid after maes lol

[compacflt]

So one of the things that made me cry (and laugh) the most, when reading the whole series was in Debriefing when Ice has surgery and Mav kisses him on the forehead, then Ice types out “I am cured” with like no punctuation. (Because of course Ice is the punctuation man 99% of the time.)

One, Ice is actually so fucking funny with the “I am cured.” Like no one would believe how funny he actually is. (And I headcanon that Mav knows this, of course, but almost no one else believes him. Which drives him up the wall.) Two, that exchange was so simple but so loving??? Foaming at the mouth here. Especially after those crazy 30 years. So my question is, what are Ice and Mav’s kisses of choice? Forehead, cheek, regular ol’ lips, the world is their secretly sappy oyster.

I haven’t read that chapter of debriefing since fucking last October! Whoa! not sure how i feel about it .

regular ol’ on the lips :) it means something more than all the rest, it’s romantic in a way none of the others are (which is why it’s so dangerous)

okay yes re: ice being funny yes. wait wait wait let me find it in my doc hold on

here!

[jacketpotatoo]

Hey @thehomelybadger , thank you for breaking my heart

[metalandmagi]

I think the best thing about Heaven Official's Blessing is the absolute whiplash in tone it gives you. Volume 6 goes from the comedy gold of Xie Lian going, "Oh, Hua Cheng can always find me because of the red string tied around our fingers. No, not like the red string of fate or anything...totally different. What do you mean it's literally the same thing?" to being stabbed a hundred times and witnessing everyone he loves either kill themselves or leave him.

[mermaidsirennikita]

sometimes it drives me literally insane to see romance requests that are like

--I want a romance wherein it's basically the happy epilogue throughout the book

--I want a romance that has great communication and they never withhold anything from each other ever

--no "miscommunication trope"

The last thing is just a general gripe about how so many of the things people say are tropes are not tropes, and it's pedantic and snobby but like. Miscommunication is so broad. It's not a trope. People are miscommunicating. WHAT are they miscommunicating about? Is one of them keeping a secret identity from their partner? Because a secret identity romance iS a trope. Is one of them withholding their feelings out of fear of rejection?

Because people DO miscommunicate. Often writers do write it clumsily. If people miscommunicate for no reason, sure, whatever. But if they miscommunicate BECAUSE of a REASON--like, often it's not even miscommunication lol. It's the hero keeping his dire supernatural secret from his wife because she'll die if she finds out (honestly, valid to me, but whatever). It's the heroine finding it difficult to trust the hero with her heart because her dad left when she was young (maybe cliche in theory, but actually a very real thing that happens).

If all you want is plotless nothing wherein everyone is happy and nobody makes mistakes, I personally have a hard time thinking of it as a book, because there is no story. It's just vibes. And essentially EVERY time, people have to mess up and make mistakes in order for there to be a plot.

I just don't understand the point.

[bumblingbabooshka]

B'Elanna & Tuvok are unwittingly caught up in some kind of alien gameshow in which they are subjected to various challenges with potentially deadly punishments. This is treated as lighthearted fun for their captors as they're a species who can regenerate themselves and find their inability to do the same very novel and amusing. Tuvok continually volunteers himself instead of B'Elanna and attempts to shoulder the bulk of their team's responsibility which annoys B'Elanna because he's not trusting her and also their team is doing worse as a result as Tuvok is growing weaker the longer the games wear on. Eventually she snaps at him which leads to them having an actual conversation and they start using teamwork & cooperation to stay alive until Voyager can rescue them. The aliens are unphased by their escape, sending Voyager a threatening message that they'd be happy to have any one of their crewmembers on their show at any time. Patreon | Ko-fi

[doomedclockworkdotmp3]

ahaaa. redraw of this oldass drawing

[stuckinapril]

My ex best friend 'didnt want to get involved' when her girlfriend was bullying me and it took forever and some therapy but I realized it was because she didn't respect or care about me just like you said. If you aren't willing to stand up for someone you care about you don't really care all that much

i am so sorry anon :/ yeah i used to try to justify this mentality bc it would hurt much more to accept the painful reality that someone simply does not care. i’d just be like “well not everyone has a confrontational personality” “maybe they’re just innately more levelheaded than me” bc when i was younger i used to be so much more hotheaded. i def mellowed out the older i got, but confronting someone was never a big issue for me, so i’d always write it off as different dispositions / personality types. i’d literally gaslight myself into thinking i was in the wrong for taking an issue w this, especially due to the hyperindividualistic american culture i grew up in. it’s only in recent years that i realized this was just a symptom of not caring enough about a person to share in their burden. and that has caused me to reevaluate so many of my friendships

[glorious-destruction]

the worst trope in literature is when good people needlessly suffer