#like actually no i think it has a million good uses and its quite frankly a waste of programmer hours

[thekidsfromyestergay]

I love when you say anything negative about ai image generation and immediately some fully able bodied gpt dicksucker is posting a drowned screenshot of it like "well what if I was in an explosion and lost my arms and legs and my dying wish was to make a piece of art" ok man what if the world was made of pudding

[pedge-page]

I tend to stay quiet about these things because quite frankly I'd blow my lid off and melt the world around me with my fury but.

It amazes me that people can come on here and have the option to be kind to others and leave an incredibly positive impact on people they interact with, and feel good about themselves for it, but choose to be insufferable shitheads who want to bring everyone else down so they feel as miserable and angry too instead. This isn't math class. Two negatives do not equal positive.

For any newbies , we've lost some of the most talented and inspiring writers in this Fandom thanks to these trolls. The same trolls who have been here for less than 2 minutes are the ones who whine about why there isn't enough content coming out fast enough for their enjoyment.

When we say "18+ only" that also applies to people who use their adult brains. If you can't handle that a properly tagged fic that has explicit warnings about its content is stuff you won't like, the mature thing to do is just shut up and move on. When you start to become you own gestopo trying to police other people's FICTIONAL work that had nothing to do with you in the name of purity censorship rather than just moving on with your own life, you've lost all credibility of calling yourself an "adult". Idc how old you are. You're not ready for the internet. You're not ready to be reading fan FICTION. You're not ready to interact with other adults.

If you spent half as much energy doing this level of "activism" in the real world where REAL people are being hurt , you wouldn't have time to be responding to a million messages applauding or condemning you about your take on FICTIONAL. WRITING. You'd actually be doing something useful with your life. But alas, harassing writers is all you're good for.

You are not the hero you so desperately want to think you are.

And folks, if you're going "hey I'm not harassing anyone!" Ask yourself if you've left a racist, homophonic, transphobic, ableist, elitist, narcissistic anon in someone's box. If you meet one of those boxes, guess what! You're the problem !

The internet is going to be filed with things you don't like. It always has. It always will. But guess what? This is gonna be real shocker for some of you:

YOU ARE RESPONSBILE FOR THE CONTENT YOU CONSUME, ESPECIALLY AS AN ADULT.

YOU ARE RESPONSBILE FOR THE CONTENT YOU CONSUME, ESPECIALLY AS AN ADULT.

YOU ARE RESPONSBILE FOR THE CONTENT YOU CONSUME ESPECIALLY AS AN ADULT.

You picking and choosing what is and isn't ok IN FAN FICTION makes you look stupid. Like I can't tell you how fucking moronically hypocritical some of you are. It has to be a joke.

So if you aren't going to be the adult, and choose to go make a stupid ask to let someone know you don't like their thoughts, don't do it on anon. If you believe in yourself and aren't afraid of your morals, say it with your chest and your profile. Let us be the adults and block you so you don't have to see our content, and we don't have to deal with illiterate kids trying to interact with us anymore.

OR

YOU COULD TAKE OPTION #1 : YOUR VERY OWN LUXURIOUS "BE THE ADULT FIRST" PACKAGE! IT COMES WITH THE INCREDIBLE FEATURE OF "BLOCK THE CONTENT THAT GIVES YOU THE ICK WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING AT ALL"!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT !?!?!? ITS ALL YOURS all YOU have to do is click 2 buttons! It's sooooo much easier, pain free, and mental and emotionally freeing to just do that instead of typing out some horseshit post or ask and then dealing with everyone on your ass! The added bonus of nobody being on your ass! Did I mention the great feeling you have about not seeing that content anymore! AND as a special thank, we're offering "guilt free conscious" just especially for you! So you can go about your day not thinking about it anymore! No muss no fuss. It's easy!

[a-dumb-sarcastic-bisexual]

More headcanons of the Nimona trio being domestic dorks

Whenever the trio gets sick of each other they’ll ask the person in the trio they’re not pissed at to handle them

It always goes something like this “Ambrosius come get your kid they won’t leave me alone-“ “No Nemesis come get your husband he’s being a stick in the mud”

Or “Bal go get your son from prison he got arrested again” “Oh so he’s my son today?” “Yes when he’s stupid enough to get caught he’s your son” 

If you're wondering why Nimona doesn't just escape its cause they find it hilarious when Bal has to come to bail them out at random points in the day

There are also times when they’re proud or happy and they’ll say things like “I’m gonna go get my daughter ice cream” “Since when is she just your daughter?” “Since right now when she helped me fix my prosthetic” 

“Hey boss where’s my Nemesis I heard he got in a fight today” “I thought he was my Nemesis” “Not when he puts three guys in the hospital he’s not” 

Bal is one of those people who sees something and says “Why would I buy that when I can just make it” AND HE DOES

Nimona has a bad habit of fucking up speakers so Bal just set up a sound system throughout the house 

If the trio weren’t such antisocial losers with three friends combined their parties would be amazing

He made Ambrosius a skincare cabinet just so he could put actual medicine in the medicine cabinet 

When Nimona moved in he asked them what their ideal room would look like 

She gave him a rough draft and he did all of it

They spend a week tearing that room apart so they could soundproof it so she could rock out without disturbing the boys

She has sick ass LED lights and she’ll change the colors depending on her mood 

Ambrosius and Bal helped her paint the walls the most obnoxious shade of neon pink And then they didn’t complain when she spray painted over said walls 

It’s worth it to see her visibly relax when she enters her room

This man has gutted and put back together and rearranged their little house so many times it’s unrecognizable 

I also feel like everyone in the trio is a crafty bitch

They all have a million little hobbies that have produced even more trinkets that fill up their whole house 

Their house is this weird combination of comfy yet chaotic and it's a minimalists nightmare 

Cleaning is also a nightmare but they wouldn't change it for anything 

Back when they were in the institute Ambrosius was a terrible cook -♾️/10 his cooking would put people in the hospital 

After the knighting ceremony was the first time he was living by himself and didn’t have access to free food so he taught himself how to cook

Honestly most people would think he would give up

I mean there are only so many times you set water on fire before you throw in the towel

But he's a stubborn brat and cooking took his mind off of everything so he stuck with it

One day Bal came home to the smell of cooking and he assumed it was Nimona 

He swears to this day he had a heart attack when he saw Ambrosius in front of the stove and Nimona comfortably sitting at the dinner table not helping at all

He promptly dragged Nimona out of there like a bomb just went off and warned him not to touch Ambrosius’ food

He told Bal “The more you call it a biohazard the more I want to eat it” 

So Bal used him like a test dummy 

When Nimona finally did try it they turned to Bal and complained that he lied 

Bal thought he was being pranked until he was forced by Nimona to try the food 

And it was good 

More than good I was fucking amazing 

He asked Ambrosius quite frankly “Who are you and what have you done with my husband” 

Ambrosius just rolled his eyes and told him to eat the food

Bal never gave up on finding out how and slowly but surely he started asking like a normal person

And Ambrosius never answered like a normal person

His answers would range from “A chef never reveals his secrets” (“that’s a magician love” “just zip it and eat your food”) to “I’m never telling you so suffer and finish this meal I lovingly cooked” (“is it still considered love if you knew I was gonna suffer?” “Yes” “…. Makes sense”)

[watermelonsloth]

Hi.... If you don't mind me asking, can I ask, what are your top 10 (or top 7) favorite media (can be books/ manga/ anime/movies/tv series/games/etc) and your top 10 favorite characters from any media ? Why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this questions before......

Hello to you as well. I don’t mind people asking me questions and I haven’t answered this before. This is long so read more under the cut.

I prefer the number 7, so I’m gonna do my top 7 favorite pieces of media. Don’t let the numbers fool you, these are in no particular order. Also, be warned, I don’t know how much sense what I say will make to anyone who has watched/read these.

1 - Naruto/Shippuden (only those two and specifically the manga) - I have thought about, analyzed, and talked about this series too much to lie to you and say it isn’t one of my favorite series of all time. Even with all of its flaws, it holds a place near and dear to my heart. It has some of my favorite character work I’ve ever seen even with its imperfections, the first 27 volumes of Naruto are still some of my favorite written books/manga, Kakashi vs Obito is my favorite fight in any piece of media (quite frankly, the Naruto anime has ruined fights scenes for me), and this series is what inspired me to get into media analysis in the first place.

2 - Fullmetal Alchemist/Brotherhood - This is my legally obligated mentioning of Fullmetal Alchemist and the Brotherhood anime adaptation. Excellent character work (+actually good female characters), beautiful art, some of my favorite foreshadowing/slow burn ever, and commentary on the hubris of man and strength in collectivism while criticizing both the military and the institution of religion. Chef’s kiss! This is a great example of someone knowing what story they wanted to tell and fucking telling it. The biggest problem I have with the series is that every time I want to rewatch it, I feel the need to watch all of it at once and that’s just a lot of anime for me to devote my full attention to in one sitting.

3 - Madoka Magica (I can only vouch for PMMM, I haven't watched the other stuff) - Fun fact: this is the first piece of media to make me cry. Something about Sayaka’s story just… got to me. I really like this because it’s an example of a deconstruction done right. Of the few other deconstructions I’ve seen, they tend to be too shallow to even really feel like deconstructions or too dark. Madoka Magica hits that sweet spot of going to those deep and dark places while still maintaining a sense of hope.

4 - Across the Spiderverse - Since I’ve recently slipped into quite the superhero phase, all inclusions are superhero related moving forward. So I remember going into the theater to watch this completely blind. I had heard of Into the Spiderverse and had heard nothing but positive reviews, but I also wasn’t big into superheroes or Spider-Man so I never watched it for myself. I don’t think I made it through the first ten minutes of atsv before thinking “Goddamn it, now I have to watch the first movie.” Between the two, I had to pick atsv because, while I did like itsv, I had some problems with it. Namely, I thought that it underutilized a chunk of its cast (Spidernoir, Spiderham, Peni, and the villains felt wasted) and I thought they could’ve done more with the interdimensional travel idea. Atsv made these pretty much complete nonissues. The only character I felt like could’ve used a bit more attention was Spiderbyte, that was the only issue I had with it besides the movie ending before I was done watching it. Other than that, I don’t know what else I can say about this movie that hasn’t been said a million times before. The art is disgustingly, dream-crushingly good and if the writing doesn’t match that level of skill, it gets damn close.

5 - My Adventures With Superman - My Adventures With Superman has my favorite adaptation of Superman hands down. Yeah, I like my Clark Kent with a little more self-confidence, but for a Superman who’s just starting out and the story they wanted to tell, it works. As I’ve said before, I don’t care for him being used as a racial allegory but I do like them exploring his sense of identity. The series automatically gets points for two very underrated but important parts of writing: the main couple is actually one I can root for and it doesn’t waste the audience’s time. What I mean by not wasting the audience’s time is that they don’t draw out the Clark is Superman reveal or the will-they-won’t-they between Clark and Lois unnecessarily. It also has the first villains I genuinely want to strangle in a while (looking at you Amanda “The Audacity” Waller and Lex “Make Earth Great Again” Luthor). I can’t wait to see what they do with Superboy in season 3.

6 - The Batman (2022) - To continue the train of DC characters finally getting good adaptations: the Battinson movie. The set design, the cinematography, the action, the pacing of the mystery (it’s a long watch but it’s worth it), Alfred helping solve the mystery, Batman, Jim Gordon, the dynamic between Batman and Jim Gordon, Riddler, Catwoman actually mattering and having a good dynamic/romance with Batman, the balancing of multiple Gotham rogues, the humor that I didn’t expect it to have (especially from the Penguin). This Batman needs a Robin yesterday. This movie is probably my favorite movie on the list. I want to put emphasis on the set design/how Gotham looks. I recently started watch Gotham (the tv show) and I was so disappointed that Gotham didn’t look any different from a standard east coast city. But this Gotham looks like Gotham. This Gotham looks like a place you’d only live in if the rent was 25¢ a month or you couldn’t afford to move out. This Gotham looks like a city that would have some guy dressed as bat beating up criminals.

7 - Deadpool 3: Deadpool and Wolverine - I was weighing between including this or the live action One Piece and just decided to pick the one I had more to say about. This is the first movie to genuinely and consistently make me laugh in a while. The plot’s kind of meh; it’s a fun allegory for the Fox X-Men series but it wasn’t especially investing and the villains were entertaining but nothing to write home about. What truly makes this movie worth the watch is Deadpool, Wolverine, and their dynamic and development with one another. The development both of their characters got actually caught me off guard since, once again, this is a movie I went in mostly blind to. All I really knew about the Deadpool films were the humor and in my experience, comedies (especially dark comedies) tend to be afraid of getting too serious. But this movie actually balanced the comedy with the serious moments of development without either feeling too jarring or forced.

Talking about my favorite characters will be a lot quicker because I don’t actually have consistent favorite characters. My favorite characters change all the time because I have a love-hate relationship with many of my all time favorites and they shift depending on what I’ve been watching/reading/thinking about most recently. It doesn’t help that the qualifications for being on my list of favorites are: I’m not actively frustrated with their character writing and I find them entertaining.

If I had to say what my top 10, in no particular order, are right now, I’d list: Pein from Naruto, Sasori from Naruto, Joker from the animated Under the Red Hood movie, Kimihiro Watanuki from xxxHolic, Sam Wilson from The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, MaoMao from The Apothecary Diaries, Wade Wilson from the two Deadpool movies I’ve seen (the first and third), Robin from Teen Titans (the animated show), Katherine Howard from Six, and Hobie Brown from Across the Spiderverse.

[zombirps]

🔫/lh tell me abt ur ships pls

NO THIS IS GREAT I CAN ORGANIZE ALL MY SHIPS AND ALSO GET A PICKME UP CAUSE MY BRAIN IS SAD TODAY THANKS ANON

(Ill keep it to specifically just the established ships, if they're super loosey goosey in planning I'll save those for later heheh)

I'll organize them by mun since I actually don't have many with too many people, but I have a lot with a cluster of homies ehehehehhe

AVIS (mycrappyRPsideblog)

Haimon ♡ Cloten (Hunter's Trap)- Both of them are mentally ill, Haimon is a stalker with 2000x more emotional maturity than Cloten, who has emotionally dissociated from her emotions over the last 200 sweeps. He doesn't give up on her even though she pushes him away and I love them <3333

Edolli ♡ Ripley (Hard Knock Life)- Edolli is the abused heiress of a mafia group, cloned by her ancestor to avoid the death of her bloodline. Ripley is the leader of her ancestor's enemy group. Ripley saved her from the group and now they're trying to navigate a healthy relationship now that all secrets are out.

Phylda ♡ Bokura (Haunted Grounds)- Phylda and Bokura is my oldest ship! They were mates when they were much younger (10ish) then Bokura was taken and brainwashed, they're trying to figure out how to live together while overcoming 500+ sweeps of trauma. Im love them, they're the easiest ship because theres a lot of trust and love.

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Ven (nethertrolls)[NOTE: we kind of treat ship making like an olympic sport, so I'll only mention the main troll/fleshed out ships- ven and I have like, double digits at this point{I blame the bleach trolls}]

Hoclei ♡ Paeoni (Neighborhood Watch)- Paeoni is an overworked mistreated cop who can read minds- Hoclei is a goodhearted delinquent who struggles to say what she thinks, which usually causes trolls to be scared of her/hate her because she will sometimes be abrasive. Paeoni is the only one who hears her silly cute thoughts and its so fun.

Lixitu ♡ Fenris (Unnamed)- They're actually pretty fresh, Fenris is a vampire that tried eating Lixitu but ofc this weird ass bitch has 20 million contingency plans and had a 'break in case of vampire' blood bag collection so they're chill now. It's gonna be so cute tho,,,

Gneise ♡ Aeiris (Unnamed)- Gneise is a badass natural conservationist protecting her wrigglerhood planet from the climatization of the fleet (they're trying to 'fix' the planet- Gneise doesn't want it fixed, because it's a beautiful wonderland of a bunch of species that ONLY exist on this planet). Aeiris loves her because shes a badass, he's a cool chaos god that walks around pretending he's a cat. NGL Gneise loves him because he's a cat + a short cute dude- she ADORES short cute dudes. Especially if they can kick her ass.

Myroji ♡ Oreion (Unnamed) - Picket fence couple that was ripped away from each other 20+ sweeps ago when Oreion's ancestor paid pirates to kill her. She's now a feral vampire and he's become a information broker combing the planet to find her.

Honorable mentions to 20+ other unnamed ships (Godverse, BleachTrolls, Ven knows. We have an illness)

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Xonn (CybernatedBeholder)

Lixitu ♠ Brykna(Kiss and Tell) - Lixitu loves to go to bars and win all the trivia games, because she has photographic memory (and usually the bars will pay for the drinks and food and she's poor as shit). Bree started making the questions harder specifically to trip her up/mess with her, now they shit talk each other.

Cirela ♡ Zavlan(unnamed)

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Nort (norts-trolls)

Alcida ♡ Ceroga (Match My Freak) - YanderexYandere, they're a clusterfuck of shit quite frankly. She's been stalking them and murdering their mates, they've been using their natural toxin on her so she never leaves. Neither of them are good trolls and that's exactly where they wanna be.

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Malyk (GoldenGuillotines)

Guizan ♡ Vantai(Web of Lies) - Guizan is one of the top legislacerator, working directly under the legislacerator who is the empress' main guy, and their office is currently being investigated by Vantai's group who is checking out the illegal dealings coming out of the office. Secrets come out.

[thecorvidcurio-if]

Thoughts On Love

"What do you think love is?"

These are their answers before their routes are played. Their answers afterwards will be under the cut.

Vicente

"Love is providing for those you care about. It’s attending their needs and ensuring their safety and happiness. Love is putting those you care for before yourself."

Abby

"Love is uhhhh... I dunno! All I really have t’go on is what everyone else says, ‘n they all say different things! It's in songs ‘n stuff, uhhh— Oh! Right, it causes LOTS of drama, which is always fun! Not sure what the point of it is, though!"

Marina

"Someone can say they love you all day every day and it’d still be empty. Words are fuckin’ worthless. We are what we do, not what we say. If there's no love in the way someone acts then there's no love at all. Period."

Thea

"Ah, love… I do appreciate a good romance. In fiction, that is. In reality, it rather loses its lustre. Romance is alluring, and few can resist the... siren song, if you will. The problem arises when people confuse desire for love. You can't have love without desire, but you can most certainly have desire without love. Most of the time, people don't actually love their person of interest but just the idea of them. It’s harder to love a whole, flawed person. It’s one thing to love the way someone shines. It’s quite another to love the rest of them as well."

Kaida

"Love is non-existent. Any amount of… ‘care’ someone claims to feel for you only stems from whatever you provide for them. Once you are no longer useful or they’ve otherwise taken all you have to give… It’s frankly impressive how quickly ‘love’ gives way to the resentment of being saddled with someone who has become a useless and disposable thing. I have no interest in subjecting someone to that, and I have even less interest in being reduced to such a state again."

Shiloh

".......Mm. My….. understanding… is that love…… comes from the heart... I…. don't think my physical anatomy… has any organs….. including a heart muscle…… but I… haven't been able to check... I….. don't have a pulse…… so it stands to reason I don't…Mm. …I don’t have a heart. So….. it follows that love…… is beyond me…. Right?"

????

"Love is not something that one such as I am at liberty to consider for myself, but in a general sense, my view of it is complicated. Rarely do I see a happy ending. Not because they do not exist but, well… By the time I come around, ‘happily ever after’ has typically run its course. Even so, the pain I see is but a clear sign that love is something truly precious."

 Vicente

"Love is a house you’ve built with those you care for. It takes time and a team effort poured into a process that can be frustrating and exhausting. The quality of the result is decided by the materials used and the care taken in its construction. If you do it right, it can provide warmth and shelter even on the coldest night in the dead of winter, and there’s a comfort in knowing that those dearest to you are safe with you there."

Abby

"Love is when someone appreciates you for you, even when you're not— Even if you aren’t— Mmngh… I dunno. It’s— It’s being seen. Being really known by someone, ‘n they come closer instead of runnin’ away. ‘N you see them like they see you, even the not-fun bits, but even those bits are worth it 'cause it's them, y'know? They’re them, ‘n that's enough for you. You're enough for them, or— Or, at least, you’re not too much. They don’t, y’know— They don’t come at you with a list of all the ways you aren’t what they want you to be. They aren’t just— I dunno— Tolerating you, I guess.”

Marina

"Sometimes the people who're s'posed to love you suck absolute shit at it. So, you leave 'em behind, and you find people who put their money where their damn mouth is. People who actually give an actual, genuine fuck about your wellbeing and happiness. People who don’t have a million stupid, useless, infuriating conditions and expectations you need to meet for them to keep giving a fuck. People who don’t threaten to take their love away to keep you in line.”

Thea

"Attempting to describe what love is would be pointless. It isn’t something so easily put into words, which is perhaps why I have found it so elusive for so long. I can describe what it isn’t, though. It isn’t a role you play. It isn’t a costume you desperately try to fit into, carving away any parts of yourself that may be inconvenient. It isn't a transaction, and it isn't a competition. It isn’t something you should have to fight and beg for, and it isn’t something you can gain through expensive gifts and pretty lies. It isn’t something you can gain by twisting things to make yourself look good, because eventually things will untwist, and you’ll be seen for exactly what you are.”

Kaida

"I’m rarely ever wrong, and even more rarely ever happy to be wrong. In this, I’m… beyond pleased to be both. I… cannot say that most claims of love are honest and sincere. But... I can accept that sincere love exists, and when it does— ...I thought I understood, but I didn't, and I don't. Nothing is as I thought it was. Something I have been so sure of for thousands of years has been proven false and that's… That’s terrifying. I'm... okay with that, though. The terror of it all is far preferable to the loneliness of the alternative."

Shiloh

"Mmn. Love is…… scary…. It’s a feeling of…. flying and falling, at the same time… Everything is both hazy…. and unbearably vivid... Going too fast… while moving in slow motion…. Mm. It’s…. an ache… but it’s an ache to savour. It's… all too much… but never enough. Holding you together…. while tearing you apart….. And it's wonderful….. I’m still… fairly certain that I… don’t have an actual, physical heart, but… It sometimes… feels like I might…"

????

"I still do not know. Even having experienced it, I do not understand it. But I find that I do not want to, nor do I need to. I am simply glad to have it. That is all I need. All I ask. More than I ever thought I would receive. Just... just to have it. To be around it. That is all."

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Forever ago in the far off ancient time of 2017, one of the writers for Dragon Age made some tweets of the romance options he'd written responding to being asked about love. I really liked the idea so when I remembered it I thought it'd make a good warm-up, and once they were done I thought you all may enjoy them. So, here you go. I hope you all have a lovely day.

[gothprentiss]

i assume that there is no ocean's 9 being made but like-- they do owe it to women. like they do need to make a girl version that is stylish and fun in its own right and on its own terms. i'm kind of in this state of cynicism re: franchising rn where i feel that a franchise movie is sort of kneecapped from the outset, particularly now when it feels more notably obvious that franchise movies arise out of a sort of creative insecurity on the business end (i.e., less desire to take a multi-million dollar risk on a totally new idea the public has no tie to), but i am very happy to be proved wrong. for example by a woman heist movie that rules.

what sharper suggested to me is that a lot of movies coming out today have extreme compunction in a way which is frankly a bit insoluble with a con movie, which assumes your sympathies are at least a bit scummy-- this isn't a robin hood situation, just good old-fashioned defrauding; whereas sharper is happy to give us the spectacle of the con, but at the end of the day its sympathies lie with a wholly unspectacular con which presumably accords with our own morals. the movie engineers a 'good' rich kid for us to ultimately sympathize with; it seems to think its (morally) obvious about-face in the final act is both surprising and interesting, when it's really just reneging on its best moment (the oh my god is she conning him? moment you get to have in the first act before you are concretely aware of exactly how it works). but it's like, what's been going on has really been quite remarkably poor sleight of hand; rather than the dense web of distractions that a good whodunit can throw up, the movie just makes sebastian stan's character the main character. i find sebastian stan fairly offputting, probably as a relic of the deeply horny marvel stuff that kept putting him in front of my eyes, but he has a real greasy, almost nick cave style charisma in this. he pees in a decanter. anyone who pees in a decanter in a con movie should get to win the con movie. i do think it cheapens a good portion of this movie that it's not actually willing to commit to the infectiousness of a con movie; it's structured so that you never get caught up in the crime-- because the crime is occluded-- and ultimately presents you with a con which isn't really that interesting or infectious at all. moral justice never really is.

and like, you know, whatever. the existence of one of-the-moment bad movie doesn't mean that there can't be good movies made in precisely the same climate. but man i want something i don't think i'm going to get! and while i'm putting in other requests which will go unanswered could we pwease get some cool classic tailoring on all of the suits they put in this movie. just for me. just like some blazers which don't look like they're from a designer h&m collab. pweasy pwease

[locustheologicus]

What would St. Francis do? Support the Green New Deal

Today is the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi. On this day I want to reflect on an issue that I recently heard which I think requires further consideration. As the election looms I still hear people, not just politicians representing the Party of NO (aka. Republicans), but people in the street who mock the notion of the Green New Deal as some form of socialist/utopian agenda. I want to take this time to ask all people, naysayers and supporters alike, do you actually know what the Green New Deal is actually about. If not, I would like to offer this quick video reference and this NY Times article explaining the bill itself. As the article and video says about the Bill.

The Green New Deal calls on the federal government to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, create high-paying jobs, ensure that clean air, clean water and healthy food are basic human rights, and end all forms of oppression.

To achieve those goals, the plan calls for the launch of a “10-year mobilization” to reduce carbon emissions in the United States. It envisions sourcing 100 percent of the country’s electricity from renewable and zero-emissions power, digitizing the nation’s power grid, upgrading every building in the country to be more energy-efficient, and overhauling the nation’s transportation system by investing in electric vehicles and high-speed rail.

To address social justice, the resolution says it is the duty of the government to provide job training and new economic development, particularly to communities that currently rely on jobs in fossil fuel industries.

For transparency here is the Bill itself.

Quite honestly what is there not to love about this Bill? The expressed concern is that it opens the door to government interference and the cost will be astronomical. The first objection is one that we will always find with the current anti-federalist community who have a knee-jerking reaction to anything the government does. I would ask good people of conscience to dismiss this reactionary position as it has nothing to offer for the future of our great nation. The second objection is an unfounded expression of economic fear (an easy one that the right likes to promote) to keep us from supporting any progressive vision for the future of this nation. To this objection I offer the wisdom of the great New Deal President himself who said:

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.

There is no dollar signs right now. This too is an unfounded objection. What the Bill hopes to accomplish is to set a policy agenda so we can begin to act on this critical issue.

Brian Deese wrote a very thought provoking article in Foreign Affairs magazine on how the United States can look to its former progressive post-war agenda in promoting global leadership on this issue.

Although today’s challenges are undoubtedly different, the United States should draw lessons from that postwar period and launch a new Marshall Plan, this time for the global transition to clean energy. Just as the Marshall Plan assisted those countries most ravaged by World War II, the new Marshall Plan should aim to help countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change: the United States’ partners in the developing world. Developing countries and emerging markets will need access to cheap capital and technology to transition away from fossil fuels quickly enough to halt global warming.

Of course the naysayers will dismiss this as an unnecessary budget line item for the foreign community that we cannot afford. What people need to know is that the original Marshall Plan was a vital global economic policy that allowed for the growth of our American economy.  

The goal was to turn Europe into a “consumer of American goods” at a time when postwar U.S. GDP had fallen precipitously and exports were imperiled by a moribund European economy. The Marshall Plan would thus help American companies and save American jobs.

The article reminds us of the geo-political reality that impacts our local economy and suggests that a renewed global economic plan to address a new and perhaps greater challenge is essential to our current economic growth. At the very least this is something we need to consider. Deese suggests that one thing we need is a clear mandate.

To accomplish these aims, however, Washington needs a clear mandate, adequate resources, and flexible tools. And it will need to enact a strategy that does three things: finances foreign deployment of U.S. clean energy technology, secures more resilient supply chains, and creates a new, more balanced trade regime that encourages the development and implementation of clean energy technology.

For that very reason we need to start paying attention to what the Green New Deal actually is and recognize the essential economic and ecological value that it offers us as we struggle to address the global challenges we face. The first step is to recognize the global situation we are in to to have a vision for how we will respond to the challenge. This is all that the Green New Deal does.

On this, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, let us take the time to reflect on our commitment to the integrity of creation and be open to policy ideas like the Green New Deal.  

[deadcactuswalking]

On “Disappointed” by Electronic

I am far from an expert on self-improvement: I feel like no-one can be, and if they say they are, they’re probably not telling you the truth. There is no guide to it, really, and there are a million ways in which someone can “improve” upon themselves depending on who they are, what works for them, etc. The one thing that I find universal in my life and goals as a human being is that nothing is ever more than good enough. I’m constantly “whelmed”, and this is especially true in the recent months where even amidst important and oncoming drastic changes in my life, I find myself just kind of waiting for myself to be ready for that, instead of actually preparing myself. Basically, nothing hits quite the same, and for someone who never grants themselves lofty expectations - quite the opposite - I don’t even feel receptive of or engaged with things I enjoy doing - or have to do - anymore. Surely there’s a word for that.

I could love you, for sure - disassembled ramblings on “Disappointed” by Electronic

The waves of cascading synths that open “Disappointed” amidst Neil Tennant’s heavenly falsetto are really like the gates to a new world I’m not fully able to experience. In fact, I can’t experience it - it’s locked away from me on purpose behind that pumping dance beat, a beat that makes this song seem otherwise simple. It’s a love song about finally finding that special person who just mutually clicks. He’s not disappointed any more - that’s what makes the song so happy… right? Well, probably. Tennant hasn’t said much about the song in regards to what it “means” and frankly, I don’t think it’s that important anyway, because what I get from the song is something that really resonates to that weird state of flux I described at the start.

The fascinating new shining lights teased to us by the atmosphere of the track are wiped away in the cheesy piano line and beat the NME called “half-hearted disco miserablism” (in a review much more negative than this one). Each melodic idea we get from Bernard Summer and Johnny Marr, the duo who make up Electronic, ends up being a frictionless loop, even the rickety guitars and angelic keyboards. Nothing actually feels like anything, it’s a complete drift that mirrors the disillusion, disappointment and disenchantment Tennant professes no longer to feel in that massively infectious hook. The song ends up sounding like an ode to what it begs you to believe it’s not.

Yet despite that, there’s not a pessimistic bone in this song’s body, just a tone of breezed apathy, content with existing in a space that doesn’t really exist. Tennant’s assertions are prefaced with uncertainty - “At the back of my mind, I think I’m winning”, he drones in the first verse, with all of the verses sitting themselves in the present, whilst the chorus flips between the past and future. Time seems to stop itself in a loop for these loops, which means all this direct address is kind of static and speculatory. His yous start to sound a lot like Is.

When I say self-improvement, I don’t mean having a personal trainer or honing a skill - I’m talking about understanding your self better, feeling like you’re putting more value in what you’re doing. Yet this just sets you on route for disappointment - even in times of substantial change, you cannot “create” value, you trade it in. Nothing is immediate and Neil Tennant even seems surprised by how quickly he’s “improving”. Instead of being a love song, what I’ve always taken away from this song is a call to himself. He could love himself, he has to reassert as such, because otherwise he’ll just be trapped in the cycle of disappointment he refuses to believe he’s already in. He’s falling in love with his own ambition and desire to be “better”… which isn’t really being “better” at all, it’s clinging onto the very prospect of it. Since Summer and Marr drift us into aquatic wistfulness for the vast majority of its runtime, this cycle seems like it lasts forever, but it also allows for it to just be a cute love song if you want it to be.

I won’t get into the spiel about how valuable differing interpretations of art are, but it is special that such a song can resonate with me on a really specific level that it had absolutely no clear intention to, in fact the song’s stiff dance-pop groove and cliché synthscape are acting opposed to an alternate interpretation. It seems isolated within itself, but there is one point where the song breaks. We ride into a classic breakbeat backing a staccato piano melody, as Neil Tennant sings: “At the back of my head, I believe what you said”, but what “you” said is never revealed. An awkward pause ensues, almost in preparation for the song to burst, and a barely recognisable yelp from Tennant gets just about one word through: an echoed “dreaming”. The song practically continues as normal after, but with the bridge’s fantastical outburst, it’s hard to think of it as an honest-to-God love song any more, but rather a song that drills its own prophesy of self-love into an outfit set to reject it. From that moment, Tennant admits that internal struggle to believe in the dreams he’s set out for himself, and all that apathy and disappointment, each and every time in that final chorus, overwhelms me.

Despite its limitations, found in its stock production and its lyrical conceit, “Disappointed” ends up feeling euphoric: a dreamscape I can elope into for a brief respite amidst a bleakly underwhelming moment in my life. Self-improvement is a constant goal - Hell, a constant fear - and despite this song’s hyperfixation on Tennant’s feet stepping over some unspecified goal of feeling content, it allows you to steer your submarine far away from that looming human “need” to feel better about yourself. Plunge into bubbling dance-pop joy and escapism with the guy from the Pet Shop Boys for just four minutes, and you’ll be voided of the outside world for one twinkling moment. Or of course, play it on repeat, like I often do, and tell yourself you’re not disappointed at all.

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“Disappointed” is a single by English alternative dance duo Electronic featuring vocals from Neil Tennant. It was released in 1992 as a promotional soundtrack single from the Ralph Bakshi-directed film Cool World, and peaked at #6 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming their highest-charting hit. Despite brief reunions, the duo have not released new music together since 1999.

[practicingbushiho]

Actually, I love this post because I often think about the low hanging fruit that is blaming a lack of views and interaction on artists who draw R18 content-- let's debunk some myths about art careers online, shall we? Note that this is specifically about FREELANCING, not industry contract jobs.

So, it is clear that many SFW artists with no viewership are frustrated, and they feel bad that they can't/don't want to illustrate R18/furry content, and they want to believe that it's a problem they can blame on R18 artists because they were pedaled the idea that 'sex sells'. But its a yes, and

Because sex only sells if its corporate advertisement. Sex only sells if it's...well, sexless. Actual R18 artists and Sex Workers have to work painstakingly hard against algorithms AND the frankly grotesque judgment of their character by others, especially if they are artists that are queer, BIPOC, or explore non-conventional relationship models. Lord help them if they try to explore their trauma in any way with it either.

If you are an artist in general, the reason you don't get attention can vary pretty wildly. But it almost always one of these three things.

There are fucking millions of art pieces posted every day on the internet and it is quite literally impossible for the average person to remember or even genuinely LOOK at any of it, even the people who doom scroll all day

You are under the impression that your skill or effort entitles you to views or results-- it does not. If you are not making something that has an audience or demand, it will be much harder for you to tread water. You have to pivot to doing artwork and content that the average consumer would actually like to see if you want to see your work gain traction, become serialized-- which often means making artwork that you aren't always crazy about. That's why doing a career as an artist is STILL A JOB. Because no job is going to be doing shit you love all of the time, that is a lie. I love doing art more than anything; and for years I put up with drawing shit I didn't really care all that much about for sales. I don't take jobs I'm not crazy about anymore; but that also means I am WAY more broke than I could be. And finally...

You are doing pointless research into SEO or algorithms and try too hard to game the system, and then you get angry when you realize the system never actually worked for you-- just the corporations looking to get ad revenue off of your posts.

Listen. There is really only one thing you can control about any of this when you post your work online. And that is your feelings about it. Being an artist in general is very tumultuous existence, especially when it is your vocation, and it always has been-- most famous artists worked for decades before being noticed. Some of them DIED before they did.

You need to accept that most of us are NOT meant to be some sort of legend. Desire is not an occupation. Do not put your favorite artists on pedestals and falsely believe they only got there because they are good at what they do-- they also got incredibly lucky. And they KNOW it. I have heard a great many industry artists actually struggle with SURVIVORSHIP BIAS because they personally know practicing artists who they see as being more skilled than they are. But they didn't make it. For any number of reasons.

If doing art successfully as a financially stable or lucrative career is the only way you think you will be happy doing art... I would do some thinking on that if I were you.

If you can only stomach being an artist if your ideas are unique and interesting enough for people to invest in with no emotional connection from you, the artist, in that work? I would do some thinking on that too. Because nobody is going to brute force their way into being successful just because they have a good idea. Millions of us do.

And finally, if you are a sfw artist... stop blaming R18 artists when you don't get your desired interactions. We see you, and we're not faring any better than you are.

i think the meme that keeps getting posted in different forms abt how nsfw art gets more attention than sfw art might just be a lie.

[astaroth1357]

Brothers Accidentally Make the MC Cry

Hello, this is the obligatory italics blurb that I have to put under my titles or else things look weird and it bothers me. Don’t mind the blurb. The blurb is a friend. (Though I could start writing pieces of a little story up here just to see if anyone even reads them… Hm…. Ideas, ideas...)

Warning: Angsty

Lucifer 

If he were being honest, he’d say that a part of him had always feared this would happen...

Lucifer likes to tell himself that he’s invincible, but everyday stresses can get to him just like anybody else. And like other people, he may not always act his best when he’s dealing with a full plate…

The MC hadn’t meant to make his day harder when they told him that they accidentally broke a lamp. It was a genuine accident! But Lucifer was still dealing with the fallout from another one of Mammon’s failed schemes, Satan had cursed all of his ties again, and Beel had eaten every scrap of food in the House… for the second time that week...

In comparison to everything else, a broken lamp was quite minor, but for Lucifer it was just the last straw and, for just a moment, he lost control…

His palm slamming against his desk hard enough to snap its legs and send it crashing to the ground. He scarcely knew what kind of look he had on his face, but whatever it was, he had made his human jump back in shock...

Really, it was silly for them to assume that he had gotten that upset over a lamp, but he saw tears starting to gather in their eyes all the same as they stammered out a quiet apology… 

It felt like an ice spike to the heart. Damn his temper… He really ought to have been more careful with them after… well, everything he’d done before…

He was quick to go over to them, catching their face with his hand and giving them the most sincere apology he could muster while wiping away their tears… Overreactions aren’t becoming of him and he hated to cause them pain… 

He, of course, took care of the lamp himself as penance and on the surface that seemed to be it (but to anyone paying attention, he had softened up on the MC considerably for at least a week. They probably could have sworn in front of Diavolo and he’d let it slide, he felt that bad about it...)

“I’m sorry, MC, I shouldn't have reacted like that… You haven’t done anything wrong, I promise… Please, there’s no need to cry…”

Mammon

Oh? What's that? His heart is now in a million pieces now...? Well, that seems fair…

He and the MC were out on one of his gambling nights and he was actually on a killer winning streak for once! Jackpots around every corner, he was rolling in it!

The MC had tried to convince him to just throw in the towel early, take his winnings while he had them and bail, but he wasn’t hearing any of it.

In hindsight, their insistence must have really shown how much the MC cared about him and wanted him to keep his earnings... but in the heat of the moment all he saw was someone trying to spoil his one night of fun.

To be fair to Mammon, it’s rather rare for him to lose control of his anger like he did. But when they tried to pull him away from the roulette table, he genuinely snarled at them and told them to get lost...!

Fortunately, he regretted his actions immediately after he saw the hurt in their eyes…

If their goal had been to get him to step away from the table, they achieved it. But only because he got up to pull them into a hug while stammering out apologies… Watching them actually shed tears hurt worse than any rope Lucifer had ever tied around him...

He spent the rest of the night away from the casino and trying to cheer up his human like his life depended on it... Seeing them in pain just tore him up that much.

"Ah, come on MC… I'm sorry, honest…! Please don't look at me like that, I'll do whatever ya want okay...? Just no more cryin…"

Leviathan 

Now thinks he's the worst, literally the worst. Lower than lesser demon spit. Lower than Cerberus' shit. Lower than… well, you get the idea…

Levi can get very… intense when things involving his passions are brought up. This can be a fairly endearing quality… but it also means he gets disproportionately impassioned about seemingly minor things.

Levi ended up snapping at the MC when they let him over-sleep one day. This wasn’t unusual for them to do as Levi’s sleep schedule was notoriously shitty, but they shouldn't have done it that particular day…

An item he wanted on Akuzon was going to go live that morning and he had to be awake to participate in the bidding. He had mentioned it to the MC the day before, but he blew past it so quickly they didn’t actually remember…

He found out that he missed the bidding after he woke up and he was pissed. Genuinely enraged that they didn’t remember to wake him up to the point that he was shouting and baring his fangs! 

… Really it was not a good look and he should have known better.

The look of fear and the tears gathering in the MC’s eyes snapped him out of it like a hard slap to the face, and somehow, it stung even more than that would’ve... It wasn’t long before he was crying along with them, practically begging for forgiveness...

He made it up to them by having a private showing of their favorite movie using a projector in the Planetarium, cuddling with them under a blanket while still, occasionally, muttering apologies under his breath.

“M-MC…? MC don’t cry…!! Please don’t cry, I- I’m sorry!! I… MC… I’m so sorry…”

Satan

Like Lucifer, he always worried this would happen and he hated when it finally came to pass…

He’d spent all his life learning how to restrain his temper, but it’s not a perfect science. There are the occasional times where the heat of the moment gets the better of him and he does something he regrets…

The MC had walked in on him one morning while he was fuming about Beel leaving the fridge empty again. It hadn’t been the first time they’d seen him like this, but this time he was absolutely furious.

He had told Beel again and again and again to get his snacking under control or to, you know, get up early and get more food so the whole family wouldn’t spend the morning starving but noooo! Mr. I’m Hungry never thinks about anything but his own stomach and then leaves whoever’s on kitchen duty to pick up the slack like some dimwitted muscle-bound meathead and THEN-!!

When the MC tried to take his arm to calm him down, he jerked their hand away from him and roared right in their face. He may not be a lion, but the full sound of a pissed off demon could make humans have breakdowns all on its own…

Which was more or less what the MC began to do as he gripped their wrist, panicking while taking shallow, stuttered breaths…

Satan's anger left him swiftly and he let them go, only reaching out to touch them again when he tried to wipe the tears from their cheeks… He had to coo and beg for them to calm down, which was only so successful because he was fighting back tears himself… 

On a scale of 1-10 of the worse things his temper has ever done, he'd rank this a firm 200... He refused to touch them for about a week afterwards and it took a long time for him to trust himself again… He just didn't want to hurt them...

"MC?? MC…? M… Oh no… MC, I'm so sorry, I would never hurt you! I… I wouldn't dare… please believe me..."

Asmodeus 

Oh baby! Sweetheart! Love of his life!! No, please no… don't subject him to this…

MC and Asmo were out dancing and some witch came by to try and flatter him.

Now, Asmo is a flirt normally, but get a few drinks in him and well… Let's just say his love of attention overrides his better judgment far more often than it should and friends don't let friends go home with creepy witches.

When the MC told the witch to scram, Asmo was confused and, frankly, quite irritated. That lovely lady had been stroking his ego in all the right ways and his human just scared her off so rudely!

Under most situations, Asmo would have kept his cool better but the haze of Demonus made his tongue loose... which let the venom fly…

He couldn’t quite remember what he said. The words left his mouth so quickly that they slurred together on his clumsy tongue, but it must have been enough because the MC flinched away from him.

That hurt all on its own, but as he started to process the pain in their eyes… he had never sobered up so fast...

He had their cheeks cupped in his hands and were kissing away their tears within the instant. Though the loud music at the club should have drowned out his apologies, the MC could see it written all over his equally tearful face…

He pulled them into his arms and then out of the club shortly after, the fog of Demonus that plagued him just moments before had long left him and all he knew was that the MC needed to be brought home and cuddled… stat.

“M-MC…? I’m sorry was it something… did I…? I’m so sorry… Please don’t cry…!”

Beelzebub 

He really didn't mean to shout so loud… honest... 

Beel becomes a completely different person when he’s hungry. He’s not entirely to blame, as his hunger can get so intense, but he still can snap from time to time when he really doesn’t mean to…

It was right after one of his practices and Beel hadn’t gotten a chance to eat in a few hours by the time the MC came to grab him from RAD. That already had him in a bad mood, but practice hadn’t gone too well for him either… 

He honestly didn’t realize how sharply he snapped at the MC when they asked him how he was. The irritation and frustration of the day all hit him at once and he became much harsher towards them than he ever intended…

It must have been the shock of seeing ever-sweet Beel suddenly get so aggressive with them that startled them so. He saw a couple tears gathering in their eyes before they could hide them and his heart just sank…

The MC was picked up in a crushing bear hug before they even let out their first sniffle. Beel didn’t even have to say how sorry he was, they could feel it in every squeeze he gave them. All while he completely ignored the growling of his stomach...

Beel wouldn’t let them go until he was certain they’d forgiven him which, honestly, took a while. Mammon was the one to ask why he had carried them all the way back to the House like a baby but… well, he didn’t need to know, now did he?

“MC, I’m sorry… I shouldn’t have shouted… Are you alright...?”

Belphegor 

Stubborn boi is stubborn and trying really, really hard not to crack right now...

That's not going to last long.

Belphie can be a bit of a brat and since he's the baby of the family so he's used to getting his way. He and the MC don't argue a ton, but when they do, he always digs his heels in and refuses to budge an inch on anything.

So what started out as a simple disagreement on how often Belphie would flake out on his chores turned into a kick-the-door-down argument over how much his laziness left the MC to pick up the slack...

It ended as all their barn burning arguments do, with demon-form Belphie sitting cross-legged on his bed refusing to look at them and the MC angrily pacing about the room until he cools off…

And then he heard it.

First a sniffle… and then a hiccup. Another sniffle then muffled whine…

Oh no… not this… Why are they crying…? They don't normally cry…

To his credit (or perhaps discredit), he managed to hold out for about two minutes before he finally glanced back at them. Seeing the MC wiping their tears all alone on the floor crumbled his resolve real quick.

The MC found themselves enveloped by Belphie's arms before they even noticed he got up. Naturally, he was pouting and trying to make it seem like "not a big deal or anything" but they could tell by the nervous twitch of his tail that he was hurting too…

Needless to say. Belphie started remembering his chores a lot more after that.

"Humans are so fragile… I didn't mean to make you cry, you know? I'll get things done just… Don't cry… please…"

[cat3ch1sm]

Hello! If this tickles your fancy, was wondering if you had any headcannons or ideas about Mello and/or Matt regarding music.

Could be music tastes/genres, how often they listen, what platform, if they play an instrument/which one, how willing they are to listen to each others stuff/expand their taste, where they may listen the most, speakers or headphones, or how reader! might interact w/ them bc of it etc. And ZERO pressure 💜 feel free to ignore if its not something you'd be interested in. And this was just me spitballing ideas, pick one or more (or none) if you happen to find any inspiration from them!

Love your Death Note writings!!! 😊 Have a great day!

🌱| gonna b honest i don't know a thing about music 😭😭 i just listen to the same damn five songs every day and i know nothing about genre or anything. but ill try my best ig 😅😅

🌲| agh, sorry this took so long!! thanks for being so sweet, ily<33

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mello

· his playlist probably consists of like two songs. mf is just too stubborn to be open to other stuff

· he's the type that will find a great song from a particular artist and then proceed to never listen to that artist again bc he thinks their other songs won't be as good

· genre is all over the place. tbh mello has no knowledge of music genre, he'll have no clue what to say if you ask him what genre he's most into.

· mello listens to music all the time- it's the only thing that manages to pacify his turbulent emotions and bitter mindset. he enjoys feeling like someone else

· he always uses earplugs/wireless ear buds- headphones aren't subtle enough for him

· he doesn't dance to music like at all. he just won't, his ego is far too inflated, and dancing makes him feel silly anyway. although this for sure doesn't stop him from laughing at matt when he dances like an uncle at a wedding

· when mello listens to music, most of the time he's by himself or with matt. he'll never admit this even at gunpoint, but he really loves vibing to matt's own music when the two are speeding downtown on their motorcycles

· mello would actually really enjoy playing an instrument, it would be quite productive for him to just vent through music. but he can't seem to find the time, and frankly, he doesn't have the motivation

matt

· has like two thousand songs in his playlist

· "genre" is mostly hyperpop, glitchcore/weirdcore

· bothers mello all the time about putting more songs in his playlist

· he only dances bad in front of mello to give him second-hand embarrassment. he is actually a really good dancer and quite flexible, he can pull off all sorts of insane contortions while he dances

· he wears really "out there" looking headphones. he probably added tons of stickers and paint and wires on them to make them look super tricked-out

· matt loves to play the electronic keyboard and electric guitar! he's offered to teach mello about a million times, but mello is far too proud to accept help from matt

· also spends most of his music time with mello on motorcycles and almost crashes because he's too busy vibing. mello has to knock into the mf's motorcycle purposely just to get him to snap out of it

· when he has his headphones on he cannot hear anything else and mello finds it so annoying

· is always open to listen to mello's music taste and songs- although as stated earlier, it's not very diverse lmao

· has a thing for songs in reverse, especially songs like brooklyn blood pop, everything sounds cooler to him that way

· almost always has his headphones in, listening to music at full blast. like mf are ur ears ok

[nightswithkookmin]

Was so happy to see jimin yesterday him been so happy and bubbly.like I had missed my baby so much. hope he will be more active too. Now I don't know if am thinking too much but It seems like nowadays jimin is disconnected from the group and feels like he's not that attentive to JK like he always is. The sub unit photoshoots we got of them both were so cute they are the power duo no doubt, but noticed jm was not interacting or looking at jk as am used to seeing him doing,it feels odd and weird to me,because jk eyes were all on jm in those shots but jm was not even returning a glance,😭jk brought him close by placing his hand on jms shoulder(cute) but even JM smile seemed forced,that half smile is not his genuine smile at all and it feels odd to watch him behave like that around jk..Also in recent moments that we get to see jm,its vmin been all cute and clingy soulmates even on yesterday vlive which is cute..looks like Vmin are on their soulmate agenda again.and jm has transferred his affection to his soulmate.and completely ignoring jk.it hurts seeing jk staring at jm only for jm to not spare him a glance. I want to believe jm was going thru alot with the recent happenings regarding his invasion of privacy,but he shouldnt be pushing the only pason that loves and cares for him away,i know people handle stress differently too so am fine and i will wait for my bubbly,happy jm to return,I need my jikook babies back.

I wanna feel sad but then again it's Jimin yous talking about🤣

I wouldn't worry much bout him. A little quiet is actually good for him. He's awfully self aware lately and is mindful of what he says and do. He comes to work, kills it and runs back to shelter. Yes as mama told him. I don't think that's particularly a bad thing. Growth perhaps.

You know he asked V if his 40 million viewers were all army?? And in the coway ad he nudged Jk to get away from the cameras when they came prying. Kook was equally self conscious holding his hands.

I don't know who else they think is watching them but it's clear there is a gaze on them they aren't, he isn't particularly comfortable with. Jungkook has that nonchalant attitude going for him but Jimin can't seem to shake it off. I mean his laugh with Tae when he asked if all the people watching them were army was quite telling. Too bad, one word and I'd obliterate any unwanted gaze in our midst. No one will know who did it.

I don't think he has an avoidant personality all through. Quite the opposite. He reaches for people to soothe when he is distressed. Which can be a sign of codependency might i say. He'd call someone to talk or get drinks with. frankly I'd say confronting himself and his thoughts all alone scares him abit as he's mentioned before. He is not an introvert. He said he'd changed from being unable to be by himself to prefering to be alone these days but yet his test results still spells out extrovert.

Seems counterintuitive for him to push his intimate partner away in such a time he might need em the most. Doesn't sound like the Jimin who sat Kook down to tell him he was feeling hella lonely.

And we've heard BTS and Jimin himself talk about how Kook is the one who shuts everyone out in times they were going through it. He's an introvert.

Introverts like to be in our minds, do tons of introspection, and frankly prefer our own company than most most times especially when we have things on our mind.

As long as Jungkook don't look like he's allergic to the air that he breathes because of Jimin or that an elephant sat on his chest as Jimin frolicks around with his imaginary rivals I'm good🤧

And I don't know about Vmin...

They have their own dynamic and it is in no way shape or form comparable to or in competition with Jikook.

Unless they are in a toxic codependent relationship, having friends outside of eachother is pretty normal, ideal and recommended. Jimin cannot fulfill all of Jungkook's emotional needs and Jungkook cannot fulfill all of Jimin's emotional needs. If they did that would be very very toxic and unsustainable cos they each would be overwhelming the other and exhausting themselves out emotionally constantly.

In a healthy relationship both partners ought to create a safe environment for the partners to not only heal their traumas but confront them and address them in a wholesome manner by encouraging eachother to learn to form healthy attachments outside of eachother- to friends, family, hobbies etc as humans by our very nature are social beings.

If Vmin are bonding it's not unusual at all. If Taekook are bonding I'd raise my brow a little bit💀 but even that I'd still think it's healthy and ten outta ten would recommend.

i felt a bit uncomfortable myself watching their unit photoshoot but i think it's because they were being asked to Jikook on demand as if their relationship is a commodity and performance to sell and entertainment others. I hate fanservice. But don't stop hybe🤧🤧🤧

If you have to tell Jungkook to put his arms around Jimin or look into his eyes- uhmmm not to be that guy but i don't like that kind of fanservice. Take it away. Their organic candid interactions- sign me up anyday and drop the bill. I'll grab it and smack it.

If he wasn't looking at Kook like he uses to- during a photoshoot- it's probably because that wasn't in the concept brief for them to be looking at each other for that photoshoot💀💀💀

I'm sure if it was part of the concept he would have jumped into his arms even😊

My man whipped up his bandana like a 70s pimp like he wasn't playing he was serving looks, firm, intoxicating, classic hood style. Babe, what babe. Gay, what gay? Honey Jiminelly 50cent takes his job pretty seriously-

But I guess the director thought a little skinship was necessary in the end for a fun playful vibe. The others were given similar directions too.

Jimin works for a living and he is damn good at his Job and when he's all serious like that earning his coins we should cut him some slack. Not everything he does is about his relationship. The context matter.

sometimes he finna channel his inner zendaya and that's okay too.

Not all their interactions are organic. Id say this is one such inorganic fanservice moment. It doesn't mean much to me honestly whether he returns the gesture or not. What matters to me is they have great onscreen chemistry and still sold that power couple look. Jimin looked sleek and delicious i love his face bone structure and yelled daddy more times than i could count.

Still sticky and tingly whew

It's pride month yall. Leave the angst at hme

speak of pride, should I post an analysis on Ko-fi or here🤔

I have 800 plus blog posts on here so I'm trying to pace yall. I talk too much😓

GOLDY

[kylewalker-peters]

what's frustrating is we get managers who have won before. we're not pulling a chelsea and being shocked that we aren't winning trophies when we have a manager (potter) who never has. so it just makes US look shit rather than the manger. like idk how much this is the players just being shit or the manager being awful with this group in particular

the thing about us getting managers who've won before is that the ones we've gone after specifically have a philosophy and management style that doesn't fit the club's reality. this club has lost its way in terms of a clear philosophy or way of playing/recruiting BUT regardless of any of the theoretical "we want to be a club that does X" talk - this club realistically cannot and will never operate as a "win now" club under our current ownership. that's not even inherently a criticism of them, when done correctly and successfully that can be a fine club model - the issue of course is we are acting delusionally.

we're not a club that will spend half a billion in 2 transfer windows. We can afford to spend a lot more than we do but we do not have the funds to start throwing money around like that and quite frankly given our high profile flops year after year i can see us announcing the £150 million signing of alvaro morata if we did. but if you're not a club that will do that why are you bothering to bring managers in that demand that sort of backing? why are you hiring a manager you immediately don't completely see eye to eye with from day 1? what exactly is the plan here? what vision have we sold these managers on?

out of poch, jose, nuno (gone too soon fly high king), and conte the most shocked I've been at us not winning anything has been under poch. not the "serial winners". there was an idea, a project, a concept etc etc under poch with young players coming in and ACTUALLY BEING COACHED to be better and create a squad that all bought into what the manager was trying to do. the transfers themselves had the usual Tottenham hit or miss to them but you had a sense that every single person involved was moving towards the same thing.

us not winning under jose or conte is v embarrassing (even though i find us being the one blip in jose's resume so funny i cant begin to explain) but i don't think it's a sole reflection on us. it's never just one thing that goes off the rails. it's a combination of players and the manager and the ownership coming together to maximise their joint flop.

it's not all on jose/conte for us not winning things (player mentality and ability and the general squad are all absolutely massive factors) but those managers should have improved our performances. granted jose got us to a final he never got to manage so it's hard to fully judge his legacy in that way but he flopped in enough competitions and oversaw as much crap football as conte so if he'd been sacked at the end of the season no one would have cared too much which says everything.

since the end of poch's tenure we have been on a downward spike so bad it wouldn't even fit on a graph if i tried to show it visually. the fact none of those managers have improved our style of play or the player's mentality or managed to win anything with players that let's face it are shit but mostly bloody internationals for god's sake makes a lot of the "back the manager" rhetoric feel hollow and like a scapegoat which is insane because it is an actual problem. it means the manager absolutely 100% HAS to take a minimum of a third of the blame.

these players are playing like shit though. part of that will be on conte because of his tactics, his subs, the information that the players may or may not understand it's hard to tell from how they play and what seems to be an inability to actually improve players other than bentancur. i mean good god perisic is literally a conte type player who has played and done well under conte and he is a disaster out there - how are you failing to improve your own good player???

like yes romero and davies and dier (and perisc and royal) is not the defence from heaven but it should be conceding less. son, kane and kulu actually IS an attack from heaven and yet I'm not convinced they could tell me what a goal looks like let alone how to score in it. part of that's on conte and whatever he's doing with them. part of that will be on the players and this mentality block/ lack of effort/ no concentration/urgency they tend to display for no rhyme or reason. it's like the style of slow backwards passing lethargic wasteful play is ingrained in our DNA at this point because 4 managers haven't escaped it. and so at a certain point that's on the players.

[attractive-nuisance-esq]

Here’s the thing: After 15x18 - after Castiel’s confession - I will be devastatingly heartbroken with any ending less than a full, explicitly romantic relationship between him and Dean.

Let’s be clear: If they hadn’t had Cas confess, I wouldn’t be terrified about what they’re going to give to us on Thursday night. We’d all made our peace with Destiel never going canon. We never, ever in a million years expected to actually get it. All of us shippers were content to live with what we got on screen, determined to see it live on in our fanfiction, with faith in the fandom to tell the story of Dean and Castiel. We were fine. We were excited! The ending of any show is a momentous occasion, but the ending of this one? With this fandom family? After this long? No matter what happened, it was going to be something we’d cherish forever.

Instead, in the third-to-last episode of all time, Supernatural gave us a confession of love from one of its most beloved characters to the hero of the story. And we all lost our minds. Quite rightfully! We never, ever thought it would happen - no matter how much sub there has been in the text over the last 12 years. You know why? Because of Disney.

We’re used to the Disney version of LGBTQ representation. The kind where about a month before a movie comes out, we see a flurry of articles published about how there will be a “gay character” in it - somehow always for the first time. And the character is always gay; nobody cares enough to draw any distinctions within the community. All of human sexuality that isn’t purely straight is purely gay. *cue the eyerolls* And maybe the first time we got a little excited. (Probably not, but go with me here for a sec.) Maybe for Beauty and the Beast, we thought, “Oh, LeFou was kind of a fun character in the cartoon version. Maybe it’ll be cool to see him have a crush!” But always and inevitably, the “representation” is one of two equally hurtful things: 1) the character’s sexuality is bluntly on display, but it’s a source of ridicule for the person, and the audience is encouraged to laugh at it “with” the character (o hai, LeFou); or 2) the scene is less than two seconds long, or the character is unnamed, or the circumstances of the “representation” are such that they can easily be cut from the project for foreign audiences or swept under the rug in the minds of viewers who’d rather not admit that queer people exist (what up, Star Wars and Endgame?).

And that shit really fucking hurts. We’re told to shut up and be grateful, even enthusiastic that mainstream fiction media noticed we’re here at all. But we’re never main characters. Our stories are never told. This part of our identity is not only left unexplored; it is so exploited for woke points as to be made the single most defining thing about us. It’s offensive, over and over again, to have us included solely because of how we are different.

It fucking hurts.

Things are changing, slowly. We’re starting to get some deeper, three-dimensional representation in television and film. It’s not all starting out in 2005 on the same network that brought us 7th Heaven anymore. My niece is 14-years-old and out, and she will never remember a time when she had to scour the Internet to see queer versions of her favorite characters; she just has them. But all of us adults, well... chances are, our journeys have the potential to look a lot like Dean’s. We didn’t get to come out in high school. We didn’t let our younger selves think too hard about what we knew in our hearts would make us happy. It took us longer to arrive at a place of security and safety in order to be able to admit to ourselves and others who we are. Hell, the whole damn process of recognizing human sexuality is fluid might have taken us years!

Us queer adults - the ones who have been watching and loving Supernatural for longer than its younger audience - can now taste the possibility of seeing something that probably looks a lot like our very own romantic and personal experiences in Dean Winchester. We’ve been celebrating bi!Dean for years on our own, picking up the crumbs the writers give us and clutching them tightly, because what a gift it would be to see this good man, this hero as one of our own! And now... we’re so close to actually seeing it. On screen. For real and for sure.

These last two weeks have been incredibly difficult. We’re ecstatic! Wildly so! What other kind of reaction would we have to the writers allowing Castiel to admit these feelings we’ve all thought would only ever exist in our heads? But we are equally anxious, wary, and - quite frankly - battling hopelessness. Supernatural doesn’t have a great track record with these things. Everyone on Tumblr - even those that don’t watch this show - is well aware that this one is the master of queerbaiting. And then there’s Disney banging around in our skulls, a psychological trauma sounding again like an alarm. We’ve been burned so many times before, by other mainstream media and by Supernatural itself. It feels crazy to hope. I don’t know how many times I’ve watched the confession scene; I still can’t believe it’s real. A male-shaped main character said “I love you” to another male-shaped main character. It can’t be cut out and ignored, or brushed aside as platonic. It wasn’t a joke at the expense of queerness. It happened. It was big, and it was right there.

And now we are so, so close. Fuck.

That’s why if Supernatural doesn’t follow through and give us Dean and Cas unequivocally in love in the final 42 minutes of this beautiful, ridiculous, wonderful, preposterous, absolutely WILD show, it’ll just completely fucking break me. It will be the worst kind of tease, the deepest cut buried in the briniest salt. If they hadn’t given us Castiel’s confession, we’d have no expectations. But they did. And now, if they don’t deliver after all that’s been said and done...

...it will utterly shatter my fragile little bisexual heart into a million fucking pieces.

[boytouya]

𝙁𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚 / 𝙇𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙎𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜

warning: short mention of t-shots/needles, slight angst

words: 1.1k

request: “Hi Cloud! I hope you’re having a great day :) Could i request Dabi with a black, transman boyfriend who is attempting to subtly ask Dabi to marry him and Dabi catches the hints but just… doesn’t want to be the one proposed to first (if that makes any sense) so he keeps acting oblivious for like months and eventually reader has had enough and just pins him down, slides to his knees and is like, “Dabi, I’m gonna die if you don’t marry me” and Dabi’s just a blushing mess because… why is reader on the floor crying with desperation for him? He didn’t think people could want him, let alone so badly. -🌨”

a/n: this has been sitting in my inbox for so long but i finally got to it! i’m so sorry for the long wait. still experimenting with my writing style... so i’m sorry if it’s wonky. i don’t proofread or have anyone to beta read my fics, so some words may be out of place. i’m sorry!

Dabi never considered himself unlovable, he was just unsure whether he had the potential to be loved. To cherish another being, nurture their soul and protect them from the raw, frostbitten anger of the world till his every last breath; he wondered if he had the ability to do that. So he continuously plays dumb, pretends to never fully understand what you’re asking because, quite frankly, he’s afraid. He’s afraid his love for you will overflow. Afraid the flames separating your bond from the cruelty of the universe will set the bond itself aflame and burn it into ashes and stardust. Then all he’d have left are the pieces of you, the ashes he can’t seem to wash off his skin.

Yet he holds your hand anyway. Admiring the contrast in your skin, pressing his hand into yours for as long as he can-to get as much contact as he can- feeling your thumb run over his knuckles and the tips of your ring finger tracing along his jagged skin. You hold his hand like it’s nothing. You know he could burn you whenever he pleases, if ever. But here you are. The sweat on his palm feels like thick layers upon layers of gasoline. But here you are.

You ask him again and again, with so much subtly it’s almost painfully obvious. Like clockwork, his mouth already on autopilot, Dabi’s lips part and his voice (which suddenly sounds so foreign to his own ears) escapes before he can actually consider it. He’s afraid he’d accept a million times over if he gave himself time to think. Truly, he does love you. His love for you has his heart full until it pops. And you see it every day, you hear it everyday. It explodes in the middle of the night, when even the stars expose their vulnerability, when he holds onto you and expresses his gratitude through whispers, dreams, and sleepless nights.

And maybe he wants to be in control of the situation. He wants to hear you say yes, watch you nod with stars in your eyes when finally feel how the universe revolves around you. How the Sun makes it its mission to land on you. And it does it so beautifully, the way highlights your skin just right, and browns your skin further.

“Dabi,” You begin, slotting your right hand above your boyfriend's shoulder and the other on its opposite. He has nowhere else to look but at you. He leans his head back against the wall, staring through the curtains of loose strands of jet black hair. Straight into your eyes and naturally curled eyelashes, nowhere for the eye to travel besides the expanse of skin, hair, and full lips. Those of which he’d kissed a million times before, and if it weren't for the thigh you had slotted between his own, he’d lean in to kiss you. An exasperated sigh sounds from that very area, making the villain snap his gaze back upward. “I’m begging you. If you don’t marry me right now, I’ll die.”

There’s so much desperation laced in your voice, and although Dabi is doing his best to mask the trembling deep within his bone marrow with a sly grin and lidded eyes, he can’t help but flush over the small amount of healthy skin on his cheeks. Cherry red and pairing with his purple scars beautifully, blending up and outward into small freckles and silver staples. He’s always been so beautiful.

He whistles, relaxing his shoulders so they melt into the wall and his body slumps against the thigh keeping him upright. In all honesty he doesn't know how to respond, opting for the safest sound he can make. Of all people, you want to be with him? He was never anything special. There would always be someone better than him. But you didn’t want someone better, you wanted Dabi.

You wanted to place a ring on his finger, you wanted to wipe the windows of his soul clean and use nothing but your blood sweat and tears to do so. You wanted to love him until separated by death, but you knew, even after that, you’d still be smitten. You wanted his everything. His heart, which had never belonged to anyone else. His lips, which you’d kissed a thousand times. His eyes, the same ones you often found yourself lost in, and mind. You never understood what was going on in that head of his, but it didn’t matter. Even if he was spiraling out of control, he’d always find a way to come back around to you.

His heart pounds against his chest, as if the adrenaline coursing through his veins sent his heart plummeting from a dangerous height into a field of flowers. Flowers bloomed because of you, flowers you planted and loved until they grew strong and stable. Stable enough to keep his heart from breaking on impact. Okay, shit. He really, truly does love you. And clearly you feel the same way toward him. He wanted to wake up and see you by his side, with a sleepy grin and disheveled head covering halfway off your head. He wanted to burn down cities with your hand in his, light up the sky with blue flames that burned ten times brighter around you. Of course, it would be an unconventional marriage with unconventional people and even weirder traditions. But that’s exactly what he wants, he wants to be with you.

He wanted to be with you when you’re sitting hunched over on the toilet, a needle in your hand as he helps you take your first T-shot. He wanted to be with you when you had bad days. He wanted to be with you when you had good ones. He wants to help you wash your hair, he wants to spend hours staring at you while you go about your daily life. You were his boyfriend, the light of his life, the one person he saw himself devoted to. You, you, you….

“Alright, you win,” Dabi says finally, shimmying through the confines of your arms and pulling something out of his back pocket. His lips stay pursed up into it’s finally out and on display. A ring, definitely stolen, with a custom band and large diamonds around its perimeter. The band was clear, but the ashes molded into it looked almost like marble. His lips twist into a sly grin, the dimples of his cheeks deepening as he slowly shifts the ring between three fingers. It’s beautiful, definitely worth more than your yearly salary, and you can tell Dabi asked for it to be made especially for you before stealing it. “I’ll marry you. But only if you marry me first.”