#just wanted to say this real quick

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

oh! while we're on the Appreciation Train and before i go to sleep! i would like to say that although i rarely respond to replies, i do see them! and i Do cherish them! thank you!

[turtleblogatlast]

I think a lot about Leo standing up for his brothers in the things that really matter to them.

Like- Leo is the one who immediately pushes Mikey and Donnie into finding Raph the second it’s clear that their oldest brother is missing because he knows Raph can’t handle being separated like that.

Leo is the one who stands up for Mikey when Mikey wants to go on a solo mission, actively vouching for him and being the one to convince Raph into letting Mikey go, because being independent and proving himself just as capable of standing on his own two feet as everyone else means so much to Mikey.

And Leo defends Donnie’s honor in particular when his brothers’ intelligence is insulted because Leo is well aware of how important Donnie’s smarts are to him - and how important having those smarts valued and acknowledged is as well.

All this goes right into just how well Leo knows his brothers. For as much as he’ll tease or fight with them, he knows them, and he loves them.

[tippenfunkaport]

That viral post that's going around about how people who write "book quality" mlm fic are too "normal" to publish and have real jobs so only "weird" people publish their "shitty" fanfic is so completely out of touch with reality and I am giving a massive side eye to everyone reblogging it.

Not only is it completely, easily verifiably untrue (you cannot enter any professional writing space without tripping over a dozen grizzled scifi writers who got their start by filing off the serial numbers and publishing their Star Trek fanfic even going back decades ago??? it's a whole thing?? plus how can you look at the mlm category on Amazon right now and say with a straight face that people aren't publishing shitty Spirk and Stucky fanfic??? Oh, honey...) it's also the perfect example of this kind of sneering elitism that true artists would never sully themselves by seeking profit, they do it only for the purity of the thing that always somehow leads back to, "no one should be paid to make art, actually."

The only reason you're seeing more published fanfic right now has nothing to do with the idealistic purity of your hypothetical government employee written smut of the past vs the debased scribbles of those awful straights of today and everything to do with the fact that a) self-publishing has created a voracious readership that wants a ton of content so it's become a viable, flexible income stream for many, especially disabled people b) anyone can publish now with self-publishing tools so there are less gatekeepers and c) lockdown got a lot of people into fandom and therefore writing who never tried it before.

And if you really think there's no "shitty" published mlm and no "book-quality" m/f writing out there that started as fanfic, then you are clearly not a reader so why are you even talking about this?

[x-gon-give-it]

Headcanon, theory, prediction, whatever you want to call it,

but I think the reason that the universe Miquel hijacked collapsed, and not Miles, despite them both being “anomalies” is because Miquel was trying to change someone else’s story, as opposed to Miles who inspires other people to change their own stories.

Like, Miquel tried to force himself into a universe that wasn’t his. He took the place of his counterpart and pretended to be him, he was playing a part that wasn’t meant for him, he was changing a story that wasn’t his. And the universe rejected that.

Whereas Miles inspires people to change their own stories. His universe didn’t collapse because that’s HIS universe. It’s HIS story to tell, and sure the plot changed along the way, but he’s still telling it.

The same with 42-Miles. His story was drastically changed because he wasn’t bitten by that spider, but his universe isn’t collapsing because he’s the one still telling the story. He’s still shaping his own future.

And like how Miles inspired Peter B to have Mayday at all. Without Miles, Peter wouldn’t have gone back to his and he wouldn’t have had Mayday. But his universe isn’t collapsing because that’s a decision PETER made. No one forced him to make up with MJ and have Mayday. But Miles gave him faith and inspired him to go back and give life another try. (Don’t even get me started how Peter would have literally DIED if not for Miles. He was going to stay in Miles dimension. He was fully ready to deteriorate. He literally would have died if not for Miles saying “NO BITCH YOU GOTTA GO HOME” much less inspiring him to have Mayday, I’m just saying I’m just saying.)

And the thing is I don’t think Miquel realizes that. He’s so caught up in his grief and anger that he’s completely consumed with following canon and my never disrupting ANYTHING. He doesn’t realize that that universe collapsed because he tried to change someone ELSES story. He tried to become someone else to live their story. He didn’t try to make his own and that’s not how it works.

Idk just thinking thots tonight, And ATSV is always at the top of my brain

[royalarchivist]

Fit: Is there anything you want to apologize for, Pac? Like, oh, I dunno... maybe trying to murder me? Pac: To be honest with you, Fit– Ok, to be honest with you: wasn't my fault, I tried like my best to protect you, I didn't even like hit you! And I told the guys to not kill you like, a dozen- a million times, and I stood by your body, I cried by your body, and I even made you a coffin. Wasn't me, Fit. I made a promise with you, and I kept that promise!

Yesterday's long-awaited Hideduo reconciliation.

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Pac: Hi!

Tubbo: Hi, Pac!

Fit: Oh, look who it is!

Pac: Hello, FitMC, hello Tubbo the player!

Tubbo: –apparently no one, cannot hear him.

Pac: Hi, guys. What's happening? Why– [leans into his mic] Why everyone is blue? Why everyone is Blue?

Fit: Is there anything you want to apologize for, Pac? Like, oh, I dunno... maybe trying to murder me?

Pac: [Makes strange noises into the mic] Wasn't me! Wasn't me– like, to be honest with you, Fit– [Laughs] Tubbo just left, leave us. Ok, to be honest with you: wasn't my fault, I tried like my best to protect you, I didn't even like hit you! And I told the guys to not kill you like, a dozen- a million times, and I stood by your body, I cried by your body, and I even made you a coffin. Wasn't me, Fit. I made a promise with you, and I kept that promise!

Fit: Ok, ok...

Pac: You can blame everything on Tubbo, he's the one to be blamed on. I'm sorry, Tubbo.

Tubbo: [Laughs] To be fair– nah, that's fair, I– we had to kill you. It was a hit. We had to kill you.

Fit: No, it's–

Pac: Wait, I can't hear Tubbo. Oh, he's muted.

Tubbo: You have me muted. I had you muted as well, it's all right. [Laughs] We had each other muted.

Pac: Hi king!

Tubbo: Hi, how are you, Pac? Morning crew! Morning crew!

Pac: Yeah, morning crew!

Tubbo: We're so back!

Pac: We are so back, yeah! But like– it wasn't me– [stammers] Why were you are on Blue team, Fit? What happened? [Gasps] What happened?

Tubbo: Oh, a lot has happened.

Fit: Oh, yeah, but it's– Pac. I accept your apology, for trying to murder me. I accept it, I accept it. I accept your–

Pac: I didn't try–

Tubbo: He literally didn't hit you once!

Fit: [Laughing]

Pac: I didn't– I stood by your body! Man, I cried on your body!

Fit: Is that true?

Pac: It was true. Yeah, I can send you some- some like, some video tapes–

Fit: No, I believe you, I believe you, I believe you.

Tubbo: [Incredulous] "I can send you video tapes." That's crazy.

Pac: Not that I– not that I– I didn't record your dead body! No, that was weird.

Fit: Oh, that– I– thank you, thank you.

Pac: Ok, I was losing it, sorry.

Tubbo: He was just saving it for later, when he wanted to feel sad again.

Pac: Yeah, you know– not saving– yeah, saving for later to show you that– [stumbles over his words] –you know? I stand by your side. Ok, ok, I'm sorry Fit.

Fit: No, no, I believe you, Pac. I believe you, I believe you.

Tubbo: And they were roommates!

Fit: Enough, Tubbo! Just– shut your fcking mouth, Tubbo! We're just having a conversation here. We're having a conversation here!

Tubbo: I literally– I literally didn't even say anything, I literally didn't even say anything. That is crazy that you think I said something just then.

[hamiltiddy]

let me just say. lmao

[designernishiki]

playing kiwami 1 and man. all jokes about majima everywhere aside, it means Something to me that after kiryu gets out of prison the first and only person to go out of his way to find and see kiryu after 10 years is majima despite the fact that being in the tojo clan and fraternizing with kazuma kiryu at that point is basically a sin worthy of god knows what punishment (and in broad daylight at that). and all just because, in his own weird way, he missed him a lot.

[httpiastri]

I’d buy you the things 😌 anywaaaays

Seee?? They were not ignoring each other 🫠🫠 just was in the heat of the moment and needed to let the adrenaline out before looking at each other lovingly again 🥺🥺🥺🥺

The champagne running down his face 🤤🤤🤤 let me lick it off you sir 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 (sadly I think we missed out opportunity and Lando did the job himself 🫣)

Together at the train station 🤤 surrounded by fans yet eying each other like no tomorrow 🥰🥰🥰 the judgemental look from both of them on the first LMAO

i mean… i would wear anything for oscar….. would rather have me wear the thongs than have to see him wear them 🫣

okay the thing is, the only thing i saw before turning off my tv was this:

and not this:

so uh safe to say, i was a lil scared :( but then again, i did hear lando talk about osc on the radio and so on, and i knew they would get over it quickly. like it wasn’t even a big deal, it all turned out well in the end and oscar got a podium so 🤭🤭🤭

but their freaking smiles… looking at each other like they’re the best thing ever 😭 cuties!! i love them being besties !!!!! and that podium video is going to stay with me forever. my heart exploded when i first saw it, the smiles and the way he folds over like he always does whenever lando does/says something mildly funny 😭 i can hear his giggles just looking at him!!!

the champagne pic… giving me a couple not so holy thoughts 😶 he’s just….. gaaaaaaah i crave him

and them at the train station 😭 i’m very confused about what’s going on but the way they’re looking at each other? even tho they’re stormed by ppl?? i love them so much

[runawaymun]

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[theshadowrealmitself]

Back to omegaverse heroes:

Scientific superheroes making fake scents to cloak themselves as having other secondary genders to make it more difficult to find their identities, but people end up smelling those scents on them when they’re civilians if they don’t wash it off properly and now everyone has the wrong idea of them dating their secret identity

Person with shapeshifting abilities includes changing up their secondary gender any way they want

Secondary genders not really making up teams (like there’s no “alphas automatically fight to be leaders” or “there has to be an omega to get everyone to calm down”), teams are actually influenced by how much you can stand each other’s scents

Secondary genders do kind of influence what kind of leader a person is, like omegas and betas as leaders are kinda better at mentally filing their team as “just a team,” but an alpha leader, if they’re not careful, can end up mentally thinking of their team as their pack which can lead to problems (god especially if someone turns out to be a traitorous supervillain)

[ghouljams]

oh that Anon who said you didn't write reader inserts, I will fight them for you, because your fics genuinely feel free form. Like I have read GN!readers where they use descriptions like petite and short even in m! Or Gn! Reader inserts. Especially when it comes to Soap. Like soap is 172 cm He is my height he ain't dwarfing me.

He might be able to trap me between those big strong meaty arms and making me stupid, but I don't have to tip toe to kiss the bastard. Yet every single reader insert fic I've read outside of a handful of really well written blogs has descriptions like "you stood on your tip toes to kiss him" or "he was easily twice your height" like bitch no. Like genuinely being technically a short man I can insert myself into the character of hush without thinking "damn the author has a very specific demographic and I ain't it."

Personally I prefer reader inserts that use nicknames because y/n, c/s, ECT. Just break the immersion of the story. Not to mention it helps create diversity in the reader characters which personally just makes it more interesting to read. Sorry I saw the anon and got frustrated. Your writing is fantastic. I hope you're doing well. There is definitely criticism to be had in a lot of reader insert fics, but coming up with minor background details and nicknames is just not it.

-Hot mess rambler Anon

Yes to everything you just said. I know I've had the height conversation a million times, I'm tall and petite reader inserts always take me out of the story. BUT ALSO I have read so many x reader fics where the reader is described as having long hair! Explicitly they talk about putting their hair up or wrapping it around their finger, couldn't be me I have very short hair! But no one goes after those authors for having character descriptions.

I try my hardest to write inclusively, I want people to be able to put themselves into the povs that I write. It's a learning experience, and sometimes I read old fic and think "wow I could have worded that differently to avoid the connotation that this reader has/is x". I'm by no means perfect in keeping my pov characters shapeless blobs, but I am trying.

It's exceptionally common in the COD fandom to give reader characters callsigns. It's common for characters to use nicknames/pet names in reader fics. And like you said it helps me to distinguish which au, and which pov character I/others are talking about.

I have said it before and I'll say it again, I'm open about what I write and I understand that it isn't for everyone. I'm an extensive tagger, and willing to tag things for people if asked. At the end of the day though, I'm writing for myself, and I'm not going to stop writing for myself the way that I enjoy writing when folks can easily block me or blacklist my tags if they don't like it.

[heeha-must-die]

oh to be a narratively doomed jo(h)n

[kalakilo]

me trying to come up with literally ANY type of explanation to the aous ending that wouldnt mean what it most obviously means because i am so devastated

[toytulini]

Okay i have yet to see a post about this that isnt filled with ppl being Annoying as Fuck on it, but,

theyve found wreckage of the submersible, it imploded (thank god, thats better than a drawn out suffocation over the course of several days, implosion means it was pretty much instantaneous) and the us navy have revealed they heard a weird sound on sunday from about where communication with the sub was lost, that was probably the sound of the implosion, [implied that they didnt say anything cos they didnt want to jump to conclusions without evidence of a wreckage, if there was a chance they were still alive.] no idea what the banging sounds were.

I do hope rescue efforts are extended to the migrants off the coast of greece, and am angry and horrified at their mistreatment, and that the media clearly cares less for their fates than that of the billionaires on the sub.

also, while i have you here,

The difference between a submersible and a submarine is not that one is safer. The titan was a submersible that was unsafe, but that is not because it was a submersible.

A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.

A submersible is a watercraft designed to operate underwater, usually supported by a nearby surface vessel, platform, shore team or sometimes a larger submarine.

submarines generally dont go as deep as our deepest submersibles, but some can be down there for months at a time bc it is like. a self sufficient Ship. not all submersibles can go crazy deep, but to my knowledge, the only crewed vessels that can go that deep, are submersibles. (Alvin, deepsea challenger, limiting factor, trieste, fendouzhe or "striver").

[mossflower]

how many breakdowns should you have about dropping out before you seriously consider dropping out. asking for a friend teehee

[whoregaylorenzo]

I get calling out weird and inappropriate fan behaviour, I get it but...it's not the whole community you know...I really get tired of Dan fans never being allowed to be upset, it's always 'lol ur delusional what's wrong with u he's a millionaire, this is the way of the sport, he's been there, etc etc' and so what? even if all of those are true (everyone has their opinion idc), why can I not be upset about my fav athlete not flourishing the way I want him to? this isn't even about him it's about me getting to be upset if I want to, don't invalidate my fan experience just bc you think you have it worse or whatever, that's not how it works and it's annoying and upsetting. if u don't care about him that's fine, don't tell me how to be a fan though, I don't tell u that ur feelings about your favs are stupid.