#kids are very perceptive

[carlyraejepsans]

saw your most recent post about really good fics that contain uncomfortable kinks and i immediately thought "ah, biscia must be reading the mpreg soriel fic" and almost left a reply talking about it but i stopped myself because i realized that would be an insane assumption to make. needless to say i felt so vindicated when i saw you link it in an earlier post.

like. HELLO?

HELLO???????

[talesfromthenorsesmouth]

There are, like... social media accents, right?

What I mean is, there's a particular sound that a tumblr post has, compared to a tweet, compared to a reddit post etc. etc. and people can pick up on it (you sound like you were popular on tumblr)

And there are words which develop in that specific account space, that may make it out of their original linguistic environment (I've seen blorbo used on twitter) but it's unusual (it doesn't look right when I see it there and it needs to go home)

Maybe it's more that each site has it's own dialect? I dunno.

This isn't going anywhere but it is interesting to chew on.

Or maybe it isn't. Putting it out to peer review

[twentytwentywhore]

Satoru Gojo does not want kids of his own.

However he definitely would pick up hot single mothers because the idea of being a step-dad does in fact appeal to whatever is going on with him.

[theminecraftbee]

I feel like Stress would be the only one taking proper care of the mini-hermits

"Oh, have you come to our tea party?" Stress says, delighted. She sits at a hastily-constructed birch wood table, with several other mini-hermits sitting with her. Concerningly, it is not all of her mini-hermits. It's only about ten of them. Jevin is not sure he wants to ask where the other eight are. Jevin is very sure he won't like the answer.

"Yeah, sure, tea party," Cleo says, carefully folding herself next to the table and taking a sip of the tea that that a very pleased-looking mini-Iskall has poured for her. She looks around. She stops. "Do, uh, most of your tea parties involve... are those player heads? ...do you have extra?"

"Oh, yes, most tea parties involve a little bit of murder. We're practicing poisons."

Oh, no. Now Jevin has to ask, if he wants to be responsible. "Is that where the others...?"

"Oh. Oh no, good heavens no!" Stress says, laughing. "We just tested them on adult-Iskall."

Jevin and Cleo stare at Stress for a moment. Slowly, Cleo puts down her cup of tea again.

"So I'm to presume this isn't almond tea?" she says weakly.

[starlooove]

That was positive but can we talk about how y’all already stereotype miles 42 as a thug or whatever despite not knowing shit about him and as a matter of fact the only thing we have seen is a concept of him delivering medicine to his struggling mother like

[dreamyzworldlove]

and let’s be real g1 is as silly and kid like

[imminent-danger-came]

I've seen some people say that MK being a Monkey King fanboy has been retconned/erased, do you agree? It's become a common criticism of S4 recently.

Well, MK is a Monkey King fanboy, he's just also been told the sanitized Tang/comic book versions of the stories his whole life. Case in point A Hero is Born:

Tang: "Oh MK, and you thought you knew all of the Monkey King's stories!" MK: "Oh but I do!" *proceeds to list things only from chapter one*

If MK knew the entirety of jttw, I doubt he would have put Wukong on the pedestal he did. He also would have known what the Samadhi Fire was, who Lady Bone Demon was, who Spider Queen was in 1x04, who Macaque was in 1x09...like Macaque says in 4x11, MK's knowledge of jttw is very selective. He hasn't read the book, but he has read other versions of it:

Really rather than a criticism of just s4, this should be a criticism of the show as a whole, but it's not something I agree with! MK may go "omg I know everything about Monkey King!", but he definitely doesn't. It also just wouldn't work from a story/writing perspective to have MK know everything about Wukong and jttw. Lmk is written to tell the same story to a new audience ("familiar tales, new adventures"), which means that MK has to learn information about jttw/Wukong's past with that audience.

[clambuoyance]

im afraid to post or talk about superboy on my main instagram bc a lot of irls and different comic ppl follow me and i also get people who know him from different adaptations so i’d rather just gatekeep him than have to explain that this is my interpretation of superboy based on these comics/adaptations vs this adaptation etc. and also im so cringe about him it’s embarrassing like i dont need the instagram audience to know all that about me

[sendmyresignation]

one of the things about where are your boys tonight i really appreciated and, to me, seemed like the most significant thrust of the book (but never garnered much attention, imo), was the focus on the business side of things and particularly the way the many bands never saw long term success or stability or the way a lot of very young people were taken advantage of even after making their labels and handlers metric butt-tones of money and this really culminated with the discussion about paramores record deal and the inherently coercive nature of making a 14 year old sign a record deal (not even really mentioning that record deal was 20 fucking years lmao) and yet i still see people argue she was an industry plant or whatever. sorry ig one of my fatal flaws is i give child stars the benefit of the doubt considering the fundamental exploitation necessary for that position to exist or whatever

[petrichor-moss-and-lightning]

watching this clip again and thinking about girlhood and reflection and time and gender roles. like, i see my 7-year old niece, and it's gut-wrenching to watch her be pushed into the same eldest-daughter patterns of performance and forced perfection that i was as a kid, knowing what waits for her and yet not being able to save her.

[hmsmilkbone]

honestly. I don't really have a lot of interest in jjk anymore, which is super frustrating as the story foundation is really interesting. I have my favorite characters, and I'm not really interested in reading beyond this point.

As a whole, I'm not a huge fan of dropping stories just because they don't go the way you want. In general I personally try not to do this, but stories where the author clearly hates the material or the audience so much they're willing to destroy the story to do so are not enjoyable. I really don't think gege even really likes writing jjk anymore.

There may be some change that I hear about months from now where something worked out one way or the other, but in general I feel like this story is not going to resolve in a way that feels like reading it was a worthwhile experience. And like, for good OR bad. Not every story has a happy ending, but this is really not particularly interesting and I don't feel the need to continue a story where the writer isn't even interested in what happens or how it advances anything outside of their personal pettiness. Feels very much like grr Martin. All the meaningless death and abuse without any real redeeming qualities.

I'm trying to remind myself that not every author wants to be a storyteller. Not every story is good. It's ok to read stories that aren't the best simply because you want to see where it goes, but gege isn't superior in some way, and i dont 'trust that he's cooking'. Even if the story turns around in an interesting or strategic way, I really am not particularly impressed. Ordinarily I would stay along for the ride, but I can't bring myself to care about something even the author doesn't care about. :/

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

I HAVE FINALLY FINISHED GRADING UNDERGRAD PAPERS THERE IS NO MOUNTAIN I CAN’T CLIMB AND NO ADVERSITY I CAN’T OVERCOME

[kuroshirosb]

The 49 days are dangerous, monsters will come get you. The darkness of every corner of the streets, will come take you away. So, bring me flowers everyday. Don’t forget to change the water, please. Go through the winding bumpy alley, come visit me everyday.

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[luckyfailure]

matilda and mob psycho 100 are the only works of art ever about gifted children. i'm not interested about the rest.

[77ngiez]

stalker sanya is canon btw bcs i said so