꒰ఎ ♡ ໒꒱˖࣪ ¡ You know one of the best ways to get tickled? Being trapped in a tickle hug. !
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I know I talk a lot about these, but in my opinion tickle hugs are so good and feel so nice. Imagine your ler hugging you from behind, their arms sloowly wrapping around you, their hands slowly reaching your tummy and resting there, they aren't tickling you yet but they can whisper teases right into your ear and there's no way out of there, there's no way out of the anticipation and teases.
Then, you can feel their fingers gently scratching and tracing your tummy, maybe even poking it and squeezing your sides, prodding at your hips or rubbing your ribs while whispering teases into your ear and nuzzling their face into your neck while asking what's wrong and why are you giggling so much...
You end up thrashing into them and they slowly help you sit on the floor reminding you how ticklish and cute you are while you blush and try to cover your face, so as a consecuence, they pin your arms above your head and what started as a cute hug, ends up on you being a gliggling and blushy mess.
WOW this has been ROUGH in the Life Events category of things, but. slowly crawling out of that. hopefully
this was the opening scene for a something I started writing after watching the Manben inverview with Nishi Keiko and thinking back to all the classic shoujo manga I stayed up reading back in the day, like damn that's so true Urasawa Naoki
it's partially a love letter to all the greats of the genre that I read, and also to the late night teleseryses that captivated me over the years lmao. it'd be nice to find the time to tackle it properly as a comic, but I'm having fun working on it recreationally :)
✨but since it's recreational, some character info✨
the first character seen is lawrence 'law' valenciano (late 30s), the one with the glasses is cris volante (mid-later 20s). law works at a karinderya, cris is an extremely broke university student.
I love how Trollhunters is such an outlier in its genre in the sense that from the very beginning, when establishing the status quo, the notion is set; you can't always win someone over, you have to finish the fight. It is very often kill or be killed, and you can't bank on being able to change that.
And of course in the beginning Jim is horrified, and staunchly refuses to even kill even the troll equivalent of a rodent, and he does manage to win people over by talking, multiple times. And he defies everyone's expectations with these new allies. His ability to do this is one of his strengths and it's incredibly impressive, but in the end he learns and relents to the fact that sometimes of only way you can stop someone is to meet violence with violence and by then he wants to.
It's not just about self defense or damage control anymore, Gunmar killed his friends, and caused those still living to suffer, and indirectly forced him to give up his humanity, his future, his chance of having any semblance of a peaceful life,
(In Jim's eyes anyway. But really, from the moment he picked up that amulet, he lost his chance at normalcy. He was doomed from the beginning. He was also 15.)
And he wants him fucking dead. I don't know, but that's just so unusual for the type of character that Jim is, but it's so very human to break under something so heavy (Young Atlas and all that, I suppose), and it's almost ironic for him because at that point – again, to him, at least – he is anything but human.
For a while now, I've wanted to create more spaces to talk about psych abolition + specifically talk with people to understand what sort of information and resources would be meaningful for them. The forum has been a lovely place, though I think a lot of us (including me) are very busy and not always able to check up on it. I have a bit of extra time this summer now that I'm not doing coursework, so I'd like to take that time to work on writing + talking about psychiatric abolition!
So, if you want to just chat about psych abilition/psychiatric survivorship, yell at me, or collaborate on works which convey these themes to a wider audience, please drop in! A reminder to anyone who wants to attend that under no circumstances may anyone contact the authorities as a result of anything spoken about during the Zoom. Free discussion of self-injury + suicidality + substance use are expected without fear of being "crisis" intervened upon. That being said, the goal of these chats is not necessarily to be a support group but more to talk about psychiatric abolition, build community, + increase knowledge.
I will be doing 3 weekday evening sessions + two midday Sunday sessions, hoping to accommodate people with different work schedules + different time zones. They will be via Zoom, with a passcode (I'm not super hip on how to prevent ppl from fucking up Zoom meetings so uhhh if you are + there's something about the structure of this post that is compromising, please let me know!)
Each link goes to the respective meeting- the password for each one is "frogs". Anyone is welcome, so long as they are able to honor the space as one where anything can be spoken about.
lmao the rival dynasts are fighting and they're fucking it up for everyone else at a record pace
this tweet made me laugh, and I frequently make political comparisons between these specific groups of people, so now it's finally a comic
regarding the OctavianOctaviaAntony Uniteam Alliance
Octavia Minor and the Transition from Republic to Empire, Katrina Moore
in the red panel, which is an obvious anachronistic soup of events happening all at once: we have on the left: messalla corvinus
Alternative Memoirs: Tales from the ‘Other Side’ of the Civil War, Kathryn Welch
and then octavia (in despair & weaponizing that sacrosanctity to turn rome against antony), some kids (the two closest to antony are the twins, but tbh you can just kind of. pick whoever from the soccer team of kids antony had)
octavian and antony's back and forth is referencing suetonius augustus 68 and 69 (specifically: Antony also writes to Augustus [...] "What has made such a change in you? Because I lie with the queen? She is my wife. Am I just beginning this, or was it nine years ago? What then of you — do you lie only with Drusilla? Good luck to you if when you read this letter you have not been with Tertulla or Terentilla or Rufilla or Salvia Titisenia, or all of them. Does it matter where or with whom you take your pleasure?") and also the whole. thing. about antony's will. that sure was something.
the herod comment from kleopatra is referencing all of this
Mark Antony: A Biography, Eleanor Huzar
AND FINALLY. the art in the inset panels are from The Roses of Heliogabalus, Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Oh hey!! I almost forgot to say thanks for over 100 followers! 💛💛
I appreciate it so much. 💛
My queue is very close to catching up, so my seemingly daily activity will probably slow down soon, but I'll still be making more art and continuing to post as I do so! Mostly X-men fan art, but I have a small little sketch project that I'm working on for many other fandoms that I am in, which I hope to share soon ehehe. 💛
Here are some wips (that may or may not get finished lol) for the sillies of it! :)) VVV
I’ll be honest i HATE the way the QSMP fanbase is treating Gegg and Tallulah.
Like Gegg literally just appears, bro hasn’t done a single thing and people start talking about how they want him to die 😭 ?? And Tallulah starts feeling insecure trough no fault of Gegg and the Gegg tag just EXPLODES with hate.
I’m a big petty baby and i don’t like seeing /neg in the tags bro.
It just kinda feels like tallulahs the golden child who can do no wrong and Geggs the scapegoat who’s blamed for everything, and i feel like people are already taking it too far
taking some screencaps for gifs and ep 1 luffy is SO funny bc you've got koby hiding under a table when the bar fight breaks out then there's luffy who's just giving zoro the most starry eyed awestruck looks during the whole thing. and afterwards while koby goes "can't stop thinking about that fight" bc he's having some deep existential crisis abt joining the marines and reconsidering his life choices luffy's like. yeah i can't stop thinking about that guy either he's amazing to which koby has to actually tell him that's not the point. crazy
the fact that me, as a fan of both lando and oscar without any bias (maybe a bit on lando but not that much), is going to witness both "oscar fans, lando antis" and "lando fans, oscar antis" posts all in my one dash 🥲🥲
also the fact that atp i couldn't even bother enough with this same situation on both lewis and george. now it happens on lando and oscar as well which got me like....