#like nobody’s forcing you to read this :

[offkilterkeys]

The world isn’t ready for my alpha kid readings.

[ryssbelle]

Poppy for N2 au, it took me so long to make her design cuz I didn't really know what I wanted to do only because I feel like her design is pretty perfect.

But then I just thought about fun outfits to give her or outfits that I would find comfortable if I was wearing them and it all came together.

Poppy here is pretty much the same as here movie counterpart, as nothing really changes on her end of things other than having more insight on Branch through his brothers, and through Lief. Shes also a bit more understanding a bit earlier on because of it but it doesnt do much to change her own character arc I would say.

Bonus

Part of Poppys design was based off a design I had made for previous rulers of Troll Village/Tree

Namely Queen Protea who I designed as Poppys grandmother

Named after the Protea flower which part of her design is based off :D

In the context of this Au Protea was the one who conceptualized the tunnels while her son, King Peppy, was the one to follow through after her death

[astranauticus]

stultifera navis rerun AKA thinking about Iberia hours again because a lot of the Iberians have such fascinating relationships with the concept of home but specifically Thorns and Lumen are eating at my brain. like where do you call home when the place that is your home Just Fucking Hates You? Elysium's rewinding breeze specifically makes a point to hammers home how differently Iberia treats its Liberi and its Aegir

(which is especially interesting since this comes right after a conversation where Purestream commented on how despite Leizi being a high ranking government official, there are still some experiences that are universal for all Yanese people - because the experience of what Iberia itself is like isnt universal for all Iberians)

But all that being said, Thorns also straight up states that Aegir is not his home, and yeah, how could it be? How could a place you've never been to, never truly known, ever be your home? How could it ever feel like a home?

so where do you go when the place that you are from hates your people and the place your people are from is completely unfamiliar and alien to you? Thorns' answer at the end of the conversation with Aya is: my home is where i chose it to be. my home is where there are people I care about and people who care about me

in the complete opposite direction, Lumen's oprec asks: why do you still stay in a place that wants you gone? because the people of Gran Faro like Jordi well enough but when push comes to shove, they will want the only Aegir in town gone

and yet, when Rald the messenger offers him a chance to leave Jordi turns him down and when he's forced to escape Gran Faro after the people there literally try to send him to his death (or worse) at the hands of the Inquisitors he keeps trying to go back because like everyone in stultifera navis, Jordi is clinging to his own dreams of a golden age

but the shape of that dream is unique to every character and for Jordi, his dreams are deeply, inseparably bound to the Eye of Iberia, the legacy his parents left behind

and it's this dream of becoming someone great, of bringing about that golden age that his parents devoted their lives to help create that ties Jordi to this nothing town because despite everything, despite the mistrust of the townsfolk and the hostility of the Inquisition and the danger from the ocean, he simply cannot leave it behind

(or, because i personally dislike the official translation,)

"I just see this place as my home"

so yeah. not sure what overall point i was trying to make here i'm just. deeply in love with these stories about chosing what is and isn't your home, of saying you will not call a place your home because it has given you no reason to or saying you consider a place your home even though it has given you every reason not to. deeply unwell about them <3

[shkika]

The tragic part of moon I think is her incredible patience probably being something she learned by enduring the constant awfulness of the ancients, since she couldn't really speak out in any way, since she was in a completely imbalanced power dynamic with her creators.

Maybe that unwillingness or fear to retaliate or advocate for herself is what led to her not doing anything to stop pebbles until it was way too late even though some in game dialogue says she could have used admin privelage to stop him by force.

That makes her story even more heartbreaking...

Poor moonie, she deserved so much better from everyone. And the most kindness she was ever shown was from the little animals her creators made as tools and objects, I suppose there may be a kinship between them there.

I love moon so much. She deserves all the hugs.

I think her patience came in multiple ways!

If I had to ramble in detail on how I write Moon I'd be here typing all day..

Lttm has a lot of experience and has talked to many iterators, younger and older and has went through many generations in her colony.

But the way I see it is that Moon became a person who is just very.. mm tired I suppose. The unfairness and lack of regard for her feelings she received from the ancients was a constant she grew to passively hate, but accept. So she's patient with them yeah. Moon is patient and calm with anything that life throws her way, because she's had to deal with a lot. She's quick to accept defeat and see when something is unreachable. The opposite of Pebbles yet again, who tried everything to go against the very way he was built. He's willing to fight and take action much more than she does. Moonie ultimately, in her last moments with Spearmaster, accepts her demise. Nothing can be done and.. as scary as it is that's okay. She's happy others cared for her and still do.

I don't think she's afraid to stand up or herself! Moon isn't a pushover, at least to me! Nothing can ever be done about how ancients see her or her group so tolerating them is just.. easier! Otherwise she demands respect and to be heard and listened to on a basic level even from a slugcat and she thanks you greatly for it. Or else. You don't get anything out of her. Even in a vulnerable dying state she can put her foot down and refuse to speak to you.

The situation with Pebbles is different.

I don't think she was scared to talk to him. I think Moon wanted to trust that her brother wouldn't do something like this. Because she wasn't just his admin to take control of him whenever. She was his sister.

Unlike their parents he'd take her well-being into consideration, surely. He wouldn't risk her safety like they did.

But oh well.

It's how it is.

[leefl00f]

Ngl but…

I feel like Nori and Yeva would give each other the WWE experience

No bc hear me out- ⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆

They would “fight” over stupid stuff that Nori would bring up, like the smug worker she is

Nori’s the one to start it first

Nori would just tease Yeva abt a cute drone she’s been seeing lately (it’s Yuri)

Or just sneak attack Yeva when she least expects it

Whenever a worker sees or hears them play fighting, they think they’re actually trying to kill each other

(The only way another worker is able to see them play fight is when the sisters are outside and are in the air)

Yeva would definitely body slam Nori, no matter what the surface is (she knows that Nori would recover)

Despite Nori being the one starting the fight, Yeva wins the most. Yeva would either feel bad sometimes whenever she did win or she wasn't feeling it, so she would let Nori win.

But in the end, they both end up in a sleep pile

Okay that’s all for now bye!(´｡• ◡ •｡`) ♡

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[sibelin]

Tumblr is a very isolating experience for me since a few months. I know I shouldn't care, don't worry. I got the memo from anons that I am "miserable" and should "grow up". But the thing is that i am a very social person and I try to communicate (positively, mainly, but we all have our own life problems and i am living under capitalist rules so I can complain) only to realize that people will only stick with you for fandom stuff. The minute I stopped posting about Depeche Mode, half my mutuals stop interacting with me. And so on and so on with many bands. I don't expect great friendship but I just end up feeling like I am alone in front of a screen and idk, it's lame! I could technically just get out of here, I have a job, a life where I got out and see new things, people that visit me, a partner, a family, friends. BUT I end up stuck here when I go back to being lonely a few weeks every months. And that usually when I can't complain anywhere else about the things that suck in my life (hello my soul sucking job).

Anyway. Just something to explain why I keep saying I want to go away. I wish I could actually talk to people. Not for therapy or to vent, just to be friendly??

[jojo-schmo]

There is a faraway forgotten land in another dimension. In that land, there is an abandoned city. And in that city, there is a lone radio. When that radio is not playing the newest hit by superstar artist Neichel, it’s playing the tastiest, funkiest jams the people of that world had to offer.

(AKA the chaotic Spotify playlist with several of my favorite classic jams that I like to listen to when working on stuff like the Roleswap comic >:D)

[mysicklove]

I’m sorry but I’m not a woman’s so that’s mean I don’t want to read x female reader cuz I don’t have a pussy

incel anon this one wasnt funny :/ can u say something more misogynistic so i can laugh at you? litterally have one job 🙄🙄🙄

[homestuckconfession]

some of yall act like the slur replacement project is to make homestuck less problematic or some shit and like.... im not gonna deny if thats the intention or not but there still Should Be One That Exists. that just censors the slurs. are we forgetting that slurs are slurs and some people cant read them without having a full blown panic attack

.

[inhumanliquid]

Some of you act like someone's forcing you to be here. You say you hate the games and the fandom yet you don't fucking leave. To those people: are you okay, bestie?

[msfcatlover]

“Why aren’t you vetting every blog & YouTube you see? Why aren’t you checking the sources of everything? Why aren’t you—“

I have a limited amount of Time On This Earth, and (like most people) I choose not to spend it questioning the integrity of every human being who coincidentally happens to intersect with my life.

You spend every second of your life triple-checking if you’re allowed to chuckle at a joke? You read, in full, every source of every video essay you’ve ever clicked on? Are you vetting your sources? Your sources’ sources? Where do you find the time? The energy? Couldn’t be me, but good for you, I guess. You’re better than me. Congrats.

[defiledtomb]

how do you bribe your eldritch entity ???? mines been a silly little guy lately (gender neutral) (derogatory)

The Story gets whatever the Writers Heart desires else it starts chewing on wires again

[pridewhatpride]

Writing comments isn't easy, no, and it isn't owed either, true. But the people on this post seem to be Christ on the cross, like. Bestie, yeah, "I'm happy getting hits, kudos are already an extra", how little do you think you're worth? Not everyone is happy getting nothing at all out of giving to a fandom- and if the response is no comments at all, the author is gonna think nothing about what they've done is worth remembering or talking about.

Not everyone has to comment, no. And authors don't want to guilt trip people either. But some people write as a way to communicate, and if nobody responds at all, screaming into the void becomes a little tiring.

I'm an artist as well as a writer- if my art gets no comments and only likes, I'm generally okay with it. With writing it's different. With writing it's hating myself because what I've written is meaningless to everyone but me until 3 months later I talk to someone in the fandom and they say they really liked x fic.

And like. Great. That's nice. I'm really happy to hear that. I'm sorry for the months I spent crying over it tho lol. People will write 10k+ words and what they'll get is, at best, the meme where the guy gives a thumbs up and proceeds to ignore the person ejhegdhwhdh

Now, sorry for the incoherent ranting. I'm happy there are people who are satisfied with no comments! Some of us would like to know that even just one person had a single thought about what we spent days writing ^^'

Again, no need to comment on everything. And not everyone needs to always be commenting. But in the same way that comments aren't owed to authors, fanfic isn't owed to you. And it's easy to then complain that your favourite longfic was discontinued when it's too late and the author has already given up on trying to connect with people.

[arthur-r]

my partner broke up with me last night and the first thing my mom asked was if it’s because he wanted to be with a “boy boy”

[m00ngbin]

Uh warning this whole thing is me complaining about my bones and pain and stuff so if you're sick of hearing about that you should probably ignore this

Whatever's wrong with my knee spread to my hip so I think that maybe I WILL be needing a cane or something soon and it's not just a joke I was making cause I had to keep sitting down in random places

Joke might be the wrong word because it wasn't really a joke and it wasn't funny, I was just trying to be lighthearted and it didn't seem like it was really happening or that it was probable

[archiephd]

man i got into so many loser media this year..... proud of me