#laur rants

[builder051]

Just a pondering… Why were there zero trigger warnings for books we were assigned to read in middle school and high school?

I mean, now we have a way deeper understanding and respect for people’s dignity and mental health. I’m glad the population’s been woke. I don’t believe in censorship, but I do think a little preparation would be courteous?

It’s still happening, though. Seriously, 7th grade advanced English reading Romeo and Juliet? That’s a bunch of twelve-year-olds who may or may not have experienced sex ed. And their teachers (and Shakespeare) are telling them… your random crush is your soulmate, once know each other for like a week it’s ok to jump in bed together (hey, even with an age difference, it’s not illegal if Romeo’s under 18), then make a promise to run away together and/or a suicide pact. And, btw, somebody else gets stabbed to death for being your friend.

No wonder folks squabble and sleep around and ingest questionable substances and ruminate on death. They’re not societal failures. They’re kids who did their fucking homework.

[emotionalcadaver]

I just want to say, if someone blocks you and you make a new account to be able to sneakily still see their content/blog, you are FUCKING CREEPY.

I reserve the right, as the creator of my blog and fics, to restrict access to them for anyone, for any reason, at any time. Trampling over my boundaries and violating my withdrawing of consent for you to view my work, makes you an asshole. If someone doesn't want to interact with you so intensely that they're willing to block you, maybe take the fucking hint and leave them alone.

And fucking BRAGGING about it to other people is frankly just really goddamn stupid, since it almost inevitably will get back around to the person you're stalking. No to mention just makes you an even bigger asshole than you already are.

This behavior is literally against Tumblr's community guidelines, and if I catch you pulling this shit, I'm not just gonna be blocking you, but also reporting you for harassment.

[inklore]

from now on i’m only writing au’s. canon is not welcome here. never belonged. i don’t know her.

[stephen-bass]

If eox canon didn't mean every fancharacter had to die do you think tycho could get outta there loony tunes style or would he explode anyway

well ☝️🤓 im not sure the first statement is fully true BUT

I think no matter what he had to die. To me that's truly the only way to end off his story and themes etc.. he had to die because of the same reason every other worker at eox died thematically which is that unchecked capitalism is a messy and bloody business.

His general downfall caused by his bass obsession means by the point of the eox incident he was beyond saving in general, and as much as he would have loved to have died in some special and grandiose way for bass he just ended up dying with the rest of the vague mass of unknown and unnamed workers. I like him being ultimately nothing to bass, despite just how hard he tries.

Even if he lived he would have been a husk of a man when he learned bass was dead also. sooooo it was a mercy killing

but if youre asking if tycho COULDVE lived yeah i think if he was just standing 2 feet to the left when it happened he would have went "PHEWW WHATTA CLOSE ONE!!!!!!!!"

[mythandlaur]

Listen to me outside of a structured setting you do NOT actually have to consume media you actively hate you will NOT explode I promise it's FINE--

[bunnyai]

bunny are you okay?

i hope sora loses.

[sanchomps]

comm of halley and caduceus-3!

halley (left) belongs to @laur-rants and cadueceus-3 belongs to @medi-jay!

[niallhoranhasthat1thing]

I just finished watching All The Light We Cannot See and I need to rant cause I’m loosing my damn mind.

First off, they took the character names and minor plot points and created their own story with them so at that point just crest something else and if you cannot handle showing the nuance of Werner’s character then you are not the right person to adapt this.

This is going to be filled with spoilers so be warned now.

Werner is a German boy who lives in an orphanage with his younger sister and one day he stumbles upon a radio and falls in love with it. He fixes it and him and his sister Jutta start learning about science and what Germany is actually doing by listing to a French broadcast. Two boys in his orphanage join the Hitler youth and Werner scared for his and Juttas safety destroys the radio which leaves Jutta furious with him. But it’s already too late. His entire town knows how capable he is with a radio and the nazis come for him to put him in a school. Werner who is very much living in a fantasy world in his head believes he will go to this school and will learn and learn and learn and by the time his finishes the war will have been lost and he will never have to contribute to anything, he may even win a noble prize. Jutta still furious with him has this conversation with him

and that’s the last time she ever sees her brother. Werner leaves willingly and you as the reader understand why, you know that if he were to refuse but him and his sister would be killed. You understand it and you even justify it.

Once at the school he meets Frederick and you instantly don’t want to like any of those other boys because they’re not like Werner, he’s there without having a choice. But you learn that Frederick is there only because his father is a high ranked nazi and his mother is waiting for the Jew up above them to be taken away so they can get the top apartment and they made sure he got into the school despite not being able to pass the tests to get in. One night the boys at the school are sent outside in the cold winter to torture a prisoner with cold buckets of water. When it’s Werner’s turn, he does it despite not wanting to and you understand it. He doesn’t have a choice. He would be killed if he refused. Once it’s Fredericks turn he refuses to throw the water. He’s beat and beat and beat. Everyday he is beaten worse and worse until he gets brain damage. Frederick had a choice. He chose the possibility of dying over throwing away his morals. Werner didn’t do that. Because of that your views on Werner begin to change.

Werner ends up going into the field to find illegal radio broadcasts, and while he himself never kills anyone he is directly responsible for many deaths. He ends up being sent to Saint-Malo to find Marie-Laure and her uncle and tracks them down instantly and upon seeing her he decides he’s not going to turn them in. To speed this along Werner ends up saving her life during the siege and they spend a few hours together where in his head he creates this fantasy of them living happily ever after which is juxtaposed with Marie-Laure allowing this German boy to wear her uncles clothes but knowing damn well that he’s not going to be able to hide his German accent. They part ways with Marie-Laure not giving him a second thought because she only wants to go find her uncle. Werner ends up dying a few days later.

You then go over to Jutta who along with the other girls form the orphanage have been sent to Russia to help the war efforts and when Germany looses the Russians take it out on the German women. She learns of Werner’s death and it doesn’t phase her. You fast forward to the 70s and Jutta is a married math teacher with a son, who is so deeply embarrassed and ashamed of her brother. A German man shows up at her door once day with a bad of her brothers belongings and it takes her weeks to open it. Upon opening it she finds the very notebook she had sent Werner to remind him of who he was. She opens it and is reminded of her brother’s innocence and decides along with her son that she is going to go to France to find out what happened to Werner. Jutta eventually finds Marie-Laure and her first thought upon seeing her is that her brother hurt her. Through the conversation Jutta is finally able to mourn her brother and realizes that it’s a lot more than bad vs good. But Marie-Laure is still conflicted with her thoughts on the German boy who saved her life. He doesn’t fit on either sides of the war.

You then jump to 2014 where Marie-Laure finally comes to terms with her thoughts on Werner.

Jutta and Marie-Laure’s feelings on Werner are also the readers feelings on him. The show completely stripped those feelings away. Werner in the show is a perfect human being and everyone forgives him within minutes of meeting him. Marie-Laure even kisses him and then fears for his life and wants to sneak him out of the city and meet up later so that they can spend their lives together.

Werner is such a complex character who you are so desperately rooting for while also feeling completely torn on him. The show is not willing to crest that conversation and beats you over the head with how good of a person Werner is, they rip Juttas character apart in order to make Werner more likable.

I don’t understand how this was made the way it was, I’m honestly still in shock. I had to laugh multiple times through out watching. I knew this show was in trouble as soon as I seen it was only 4 episodes. I hope one day this book gets a second chance and is made by people who understand the material.

[erganyfoxart]

My attempt at desighning wolves in Dishonored universe. Their coat colors based on Daud and Corvo

Kind of inspired by @laur-rants and their Wolfssegner series on AO3

[emotionalcadaver]

I continue to be amazed at how I have literally indicated in every way I know how that Love Me Where I'm Most Ruined contains polyamory, and yet I STILL have people coming at me, getting mad at me over the story featuring polyamory.

[frosty-the-killer-doll]

okay if the post where i answered laur's jokey ask gets too many likes i will delete it. leave me alone i didn't even know olivia and taylor knew each other. who's joe. why did the ex swiftie that reblogged with a rant feel the need to suddenly assign all the shitty things taylor has appearantly done to a personality disorder at the last minute. who's jack

[fgfluidity]

one last gift

Summary: the da gave him his burning stomach, his broken neck- and something else

Pairings: dark/da if you like

Warnings: mentions of injuries

Word Count (Reading Time): 1001 words (4m10s)

here is my ko-fi

@opprose @statictay @volbeast @mirrorslament @laur-rants @momos-peaches @moriimae

It’s quiet.

That’s an oddity- enough to catch Dark’s attention. The manor is often a place of chaos and noise and movement- the nights it’s still and peaceful like this, he could count on one hand.

He could almost say he misses it.

Almost.

Pushing back from his desk- the filming permit applications won’t fill out themselves- he stands and stretches, wincing at the creak and crack of his bones, the burning in his stomach if he bends the wrong way.

They found a way to never let him forget his duplicity. Even if it wasn’t their intention.

Even if it wasn’t his intention.

He hadn’t known what that ritual would do. What that thing would do, once in control.

He wouldn’t have shut them away.

Dark grits his teeth, moving to the window. Some nice, calming scenery should soothe his pulsing head- provided that the chaos isn’t outside rather than inside.

His office window overlooks the front yard. It’s a rather sprawling estate, with a winding drive amid lush green lawn, bushes and flowers and trees tastefully planted along the edges of both the road and the manor walls, the large brick fence.

No chaos. Just a light breeze ruffling the shadowed foliage, everything bathed in silvery-blue light from the large moon overhead.

He’s been working too long. Left to his own devices and not a finger lifted in his aid- it’s like being mayor all over again. Not that he ever appreciated a lack of help.

He’s capable but he’s not tireless, not infallible. If this new gaggle he’s found himself de facto leader of had any sense of sympathy, of responsibility-

Wil is the one who wants these damnable things. Why doesn’t he take the initiative? Why doesn’t he put the work in?

If he wasn’t such a god damn fool-

Dark shuts his eyes tight, fingers clenching hard into fists. While the dark thing keeping him alive makes him... more prone to irritability, this is something else. This is rage, this is-

His teeth itch, his magic-run heart pounding in his ears. He can normally calm himself, take a breath and bring himself back to his shell, but-

Dark’s eyes snap open. The moon is bright, so bright. So full.

His arm- it burns, like-

In more of a rush than he’s been in since that fateful day, he discards his jacket, undoes his cuff to roll back his shirt sleeve.

This body was borrowed, and it sometimes glitches. Sometimes he sees their face instead of his, their hair, their skin, their stature.

They had a scar on their forearm. They always played it off, with a laugh or a joke, but never answering the mystery of the silvery lines marking their skin.

That very scar is on his skin, now, pulsing and itching and burning- white and very slightly glowing against his grayed forearm.

“What-“ He moves his hand, allowing his fingers to just brush the scar.

Then-

It’s hard to describe the feeling. It isn’t pain- he knows pain from his injuries- but it’s not pleasant, either. Everything pulling in on itself, wound so tight he can hardly stand, hardly move- and then exploding outward, every muscle and joint and bone straining.

Then it’s over. He’s standing in his office again.

Dark hates mirrors, after... but he scrambles for his computer, stumbling over himself as if his legs don’t work quite right, his fingers clumsy working on the keyboard and mouse.

He hates that he needs this damn thing.

That said, he manages to get his camera working, and he peers into the screen to see...

“Oh, they have to be fucking kidding me.”

--

The shadowy figure in the mirror continues laughing. And laughing.

He growls. Literally. “I’m glad you find this so funny.”

The DA beams at him, wiping tears from their eyes, chest heaving. I’m sorry, they say- think, really, considering it’s a psychic connection and not real sound. You’re just-

“I’m what?”

Fluffy. They grin, struggling against more laughter. You’re a cute wolf.

“Cute? Honestly,” he snorts. “I’m a massive wolf beast!”

It’s true- he had to stoop quite a bit to make it into the mirror room, and wedge himself through the doorframe. His newly-pointed ears don’t scrape the ceiling, but it’s a very near thing.

But he must admit, the physique is quite athletic and strong.

Perhaps a bit too strong- he’ll have to pay to replace a few doors. And a bit of flooring from his claws.

And get a cleaner for the amount of thick black fur he has, wreathing his neck in a sort of mane, flopping over his forehead and fluffing out his tail.

They raise their hands to demonstrate scrubbing through their hair. Fluffy! You look very soft. Do you think I could pet you?

He bares his teeth- fangs, huge, in a long muzzle. “Absolutely not.”

They roll their eyes. I would have let you pet me back then, once I told you.

He blinks at them, and they grow a little shy, looking away. Anyway, they continue, you’ll be okay. Just get naked before the full moon rises. And try not to get overstimulated, those senses are a bitch.

“I beg your pardon,” he says, bewildered. “Naked?”

They gesture to his body. When he looks down, amid the dark, thick fur and muscle, are shreds of his suit still clinging to him.

“That was expensive. You could have said something to me.”

Consider it revenge for taking my body. No instruction manual for you, my friend. Besides. They give him a look. You were rich in the twenties. With inflation, you have more than enough to buy another white suit. And shoes to go with it, this time.

Dark considers that. “There’s an idea. Any benefits? Any downsides?”

They just grin, fading into the darkness of the mirror and leaving him in silence once more.

He always thought their mischievous grin was a bit wolfish.

Suppose that answers that question.

[tenrouken]

Just a little teaser for Tumblr. Something @laur-rants and I have been working on and are trying to release soon. I've been slaving away on the backgrounds for this lol

[hlmoorewrites]

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[mcdenthusiest]

Ramble/rant time!

I don’t like how ppl say stuff like “ mcd aphmaus the worse garroth and Laurence did all this for her only for her to reject her what a bitch :/“ like DID YOU WATCH IT WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED???? Aphmau was DISTRESSED over having to chose one of them im a laurmau lover just like all of you but like in retrospect it may not have been a super healthy relationship. Like rewatching I GET what Jess was trying to do with Aaron, despite being horribly executed bc of Aaron’s role and how characters has to be essentially written ooc or written off completely to get there, *aaron I don’t know let her make a choice and was able to be there when laurence couldn’t bc of his own trauma and Shadow knight troubles.* And like,,, has aphmau not done alot for them too?? What about when aph learned who garroth truly was and still gave him her trust, doing anything and trying to find a way so that he doesnt have to leave PD? What about laurance? Every time she wanted she NEEDED a way to get to him in the nether, she didnt care he was a shadow knight she wanted him in her life and has been there for HIM emotionally MULTIPLE TIMES THROUHOUT THE BOTH SEASONS? Shes been there for both of the boys and cares so much for them, but SHES the bitch for not wanting to be with them romantically? What im trying to say is that it doesnt matter how much gar or laur did, they ARENT entitled to aphs romantic life, they NEVER were. Im with you that aarmau was very obviously pushed for in the dumbest and incoherent way possible, but ffs you can hate aarmau without being a little misogynistic!

That being said aarons role in the story was a weird one and i agree like you can TELL how badly aarmau was suddenly pushed for to where at times i felt like aaron was just taking someone elses place, what made him cool in the first place was how little we knew and how distanced he was from the group, to me he feels out of place in the main group. And im not saying new characters can join the main group (s2 Travis!), its just how their character was established and their roles and actions that define it. Aaron got his revenge on zane and was just chilling for the rest of s2, it would’ve been cool to see him settle in to PD but nooo guess who voices jaso-I mean aaron guys 🥺

(*HOWVER, j feel the calling and the way lau acted the last episodes of s2 were really trying to push a narrative of oh laurance bad laurmau bad this why aaron and aarmau good get out of the story laurance hes gonna go thru an emo phrase lol)

[my-forgotten-notepad]

List of Art End

Gwen Tennyson by ProvidenceHQ

Monster Princess Do-S by Cutesexyrobutts2

Katt by game-art

Samus Aran The Final Metroid by Laur-rants

Samus Aran, The Final Metroid by Zhjake

Samus, Elder Chozo armour suit by Truejekart

Hellboy, Lobo, Dracula and Alucard, Death Dealer and Tessai by Sanchzart