#so yknow (shrug emoji)

[roguestorm]

The Outliers: Jitter, Ransom, Deathdream, and Calico Uncanny X-Men (2024) #1-3

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

you are doing some cocomelon shit to me

[undercoverxs]

mik09to: YO this is so cool!? i love finding little nuanced tidbits like these that often get glazed over when translating, they really speak so much personality that can say the world about a character... thank you for sharing, i'd love to read more in the future! and if you have anything on mikoto especially... 👁 i am all ears.

(( they really do........... always happy to find more who appreciate these things >:33

I’ve been working through them more or less in order, and only just got to Mikoto, like. literally the other day. I’m very afraid to try making sense of these words tbh. But I can say that........ it’s... difficult??

okay listen so. “If I could laugh, if I could back, I’d play dead even though I’m alive, right?”   -- That’s.. it works, and it’s what the officials decided to use, so maybe I shouldn’t over-complicate it. But japanese tends not to use pronouns--  Most of the time, who the subject is is decided by context. But this is a song, and this is milgram song, and context is. hoo boy what is it actually.

the fact is, there’s no “I’ used here.

“if laugh. if return.” (I can’t pin if ‘return’ is in the sense of time or place or something else, either) “playing dead even though alive.”

I don’t know. But here’s what I’m thinking, very possibly over-complicated -- Every song so far (of the first season) has felt at least partially addressed to the victims, or referencing them in some way, or something-- but Mikoto’s at least seems to be entirely focused on himself. But, since this part in the video is the only time we see his victim at all, I’m just. curious? Exactly who is laughing? Go back to what, when, where? Playing dead, isn’t that something one does to avoid actually dying? Does the context suggest “I”, or “you”? Does it ever change? Who’s doing anything here?

What am I supposed to do with any of this?? no clue at all, enjoy

[welcometogrouchland]

🌟 luz and willow owlhouse for the song + character asks!!

(I've never made playlists for characters that aren't my ocs before but just know that I do have hypothetically drafts of ones for both Luz AND willow I love them so much 💕♥️)

Luz 💫🐍:

Magic by Pilot- stupidly self explanatory. I hope you all know that the first version of this song I ever heard was Selina Gomez's cover made for the Wizards of Waverly place movie...

Fine, Great by modern baseball- "I hate worrying about the future/when all I wanna do is worry about everyone but me". S3 Luz. I won't elaborate past this point (/j. I know this song ALSO describes a specific relationship in some parts but more importantly it describes a specific mindset that's applicable to Luz. Hell, these are all pretty explicit problems she has in episodes like hunting palismen, reaching out, thanks to them, etc)

New Soul by Yael Naim- this song gives me shrimp emotions that range from hope, to nostalgia, to sadness, to comfort, all of which associate itself with Luz in my head bc she too produces shrimp emotions in me. It's not necessarily a coming of age song but it FEELS like one, and that's enough for me

Willow 🌸🐝:

Invisible Girl! by Morgan Reese- a season 1 willow track! It's upbeat and funky despite the sad and relatable topic and that just screams willow to me lmao. Little miss "those are bones" "not if I don't look down!". But also specifically the superhero comparison is appropriate to me because Willow is actually super talented and capable she just doesn't see that yet.

Mona Lisa by mxmtoon- okay okay admittedly I got this one from an AMV. I'm not ashamed to admit that. But it is good and I'm correct for the association. It's about the confidence it's about stepping into the spotlight after staying out of it for so long!! It's about the CRESCENDO AT THE END!!!!

Sunflower by Michelle Leigh- makes me think of her and amity. Subsequently makes me sob. Self explanatory

There's so so many more I could add but I limited myself. This is me limiting myself

[ajdrawshq]

gonna be real here folks i think smth might really be up with me. in the physical sense this time . ouchie

[inviso-bill-strikes-again]

best thing about our specific Memory Issues is that mac can buy stuff while someone else is fronting and they won't remember it by the time it gets here so it's like a little surprise gift every time

[nonbinaryphantom]

rival dani would do numbers in roleswap alas she has no reason to exist in roleswap

[the-whispers-of-death]

thinking about mārītes girlfriend rn and how they would even like. happen.

imagining them starting off as just online friends who later realize "oh fuck. we're both in the uk!!!! we should meet up!!!" (much to the hesitance of sylvester) but maybe he ended up being like "fuck it youre 16. youre basically a grown up. go. call me if you need to get a ride back. and dont tell stone i dont need him freaking out, love you have fun" and thats that

imagining them first talking to each other at like maybe 13 or so, so theyve had a *while* to get to know each other. yknow. late night calls and messaging each other constantly

i wanna say that the GF is one of those classic nerdy types, because i love the trope thats nerd x jock (well mārītes not *really* a jock but she does do a lot of sports and loves being outside, while admittedly, not doing the best at school itself)

also until i think of a proper like. english-sounding name for her, she'll just have to stick with being "the girlfriend" because such is the oc creation process at times

i feel like they only actually started dating a few months after they met irl and were like "oh okay you didnt kill me in the 1st meeting. sick. anyways."

i imagine the GF, while being a nerd, if extremely extroverted as well, going hand in fucking hand w mārīte. loves attention and people and affection

oh. and i think shes human. for the most part.

slooowly forming an image of her in my mind and. its just one of those 2014 tumblr hipster outfits. like. side-braid, big round glasses, flannels and skinny ripped jeans. yeah. i feel like that channels whatever the fuck she might be

wait a fucking name just came to me. along with a full on dialogue line from her: "yeah, my names katie, but call me kat. yknow. like, meow :33" and then just a horrified realization that her gf is a cat hybrid, followed by confusing feelings about what just came out of her mouth and if that might offend mārīte (it didnt. shes on the fucking floor, wheezing at that because "what the FUCK do you mean by "yknow like MEOW"???"

anyways. Katie. yeah. last name? shrug emoji,,,

stumped now between making her parents either dead or super rich. hm.. decisions decisions... wait no i just made a decision: she should live in her late-parents home still (thats literally A Fucking Palace) under the care of one of the maids there, whos basically a surrogate mother

i think this derailed a little and is all over the place. but yknow i come up with these things as i type the ask so what else am i expecting lol

also dont tell stone one of his daughters is now dating a basically-millionaire 17 y/o who's parents disappeared under mysterious circumstances. yeah. i feel like hed just about die

~ rusty

It's okay because Stone's other daughter, Saira, posted a picture of herself kissing a mystery woman at a pride parade Stone had no idea she had even gone to and he's freaking out about that.

Mārīte and Saira are just out here making Stone worry.

[nerves-nebula]

Idk if it was recent but I was scrollin for tmnt 2012 mikey stuff and I saw an ask you answered about the 2012 abusive to mikey fics lol- Obv you dont have to answer but Id like to pit my two cents in- Which is like,,,Lowkey as long as its done well I dont think the “omg rise verse treats each other much better and adopt 2012 mikey fics” are that bad- Theres plenty and I mean PLENTY of like abusive splinter abusive 2012 bros fics out there and like its honestly a hit or a miss on all of them???

Like legit as its written well I dont think those fics are exactly much of a problem- Bc its just like “omg they help each other heal” kinda thing- I do personally prefer the fics where rise is like “erm yall are really fuckin rude to each other” “well yall are all emotionall constipated” and just help each other heal n shit lol

-2012 TMNT Enthusiast <3

idk shit about shit TO BE HONEST. I have NO horse in this race except for the nebulous horse-concept of "I like to read fics about abuse and i want the abuse to be realistic or well thought out in one form or another"

i never got around to watching all of 2012 and i probably never will cuz sometimes it makes me UNCOMFORTABLE but not like, in the fun way that i seek out. it makes me uncomfortable in the "oh the people writing this thought this was a funny joke but it mirrors my home life too much to be funny and now im uncomfortable cuz i'm painfully aware that there are ppl out there that think this is just like. comedy. and probably don't even care ppl like me exist." <- person who was lowkey bullied by its sibling

like there are things to appreciate in 2012 for sure and i even like it like 60% to 70% of the time but it's also kind of triggering sometimes and i cant really tell when it will be either one of those.

ok but thats just me talking about my feeligns- BACK TO THE SUBJECT AT HAND:

I honestly don't see a lot of value in reading fics that are like, a meta "here's what i think is wrong with this series" or bashing other versions of tmnt. i mean i understand why someone would write them but they don't hold a lot of value for me personally as a reader.

to this day my favorite A-Team Is Abusive fic is These Days, it's been abandoned i think, but reading it was soooo good for me. I remember the genuine anxiety i felt while donnie was setting up his plan to run away. the authors got other fics too and it makes me CRAVE some good dysfunctional family reconciliation.

also it's clear, or at least it appears so to me, that the author really cares about these characters and is kind of taking the whole "ok but what if its not slapstick and we take the physical violence stuff and belittling stuff seriously" route which is like. yeah i really like that actually.

plus the like, leo dealing with the pressure of leading his family and kinda failing is !!! idk. and i really liked raph there cuz he was like a jerk but also totally understandable to me yknow, if you've been doing something forever it might not occur to you that it's REALLY BAD hhfasujgksadmagg.

GOD IM JUST TALKING ABOUT MY FEELINGS AGAIN AAA

as for rise/2012 crossovers. uh. shrug emoji. idk shit about shit but the few ive tried to read weren't realllyyyy my kind of thing, cuz they mostly seem to be meta fics about the authors opinon on fandom stuff instead of like. anything else, hefff. so. eh.

[centi-pedve]

hullo ... we brushed over it yesterday but ... time for yo ocs' ass to get simped for. do you have anyonething interesting in stock for me to get obsessed over......?

also that being said i wondered if you had OCs out of the ioi universe so . yknow . you won't have to spoil your magnum opus for my cute simping eyes hehe

lol we dunno if we have anything you'd obsess over but we do have some non ioi ocs that we wish we could use for a thing but have been sitting on the back burner. yet we keep them cuz we love them

okok here's a few

Humi he's our lil silly guy :3 he's based on the humuhumunukunukuapua'a aka reef triggerfish (ONE OF OUR FAVORITE FISHIEEES THEY'RE SO SILLY LOOKING) cradles him in our arms.. we don't have anything to do with him which makes us cry a million tears because we would die for him. imagine him as this picture

also we have this guy

He's name.. Collin. He's a character near and dear to our heart cuz we designed him as a semi-persona when we were having weird identity issues... now he's just a character lawl. we actually have like a whole backstory for him but tbh we might change it. no he is not based on helltaker and has nothing to do with helltaker if anyone mentions helltaker we'll get you.

We've actually been considering using him lately for some art stuff cuz he's our boyyyy our number one non ioi boy

There's also this guy who we wanna use but. shrug emoji. his design is sick (we're allowed to say this because we didn't make it) but we've lost our grip. . . maybe someday bahah

sucks that we dont really have much energy for excess oc art so considering we have so many its really rare that a non-ioi character gets drawned. Collin was actually in one of the first posts we ever made on this account LOL but never again cuz he dieded

[kiwichaeng]

*jumps into your inbox* hey! i hope your week is going well. if it is, well, that’s great!! if not, i have a sneak peek of october part something that i hope brightens up your day:

“Hold on, wait,” Carlos murmurs outside. He tugs on TK’s hand, bringing them to a stop in the parking lot, just a few feet from his car. There’s a chill in the air, but it’s a mild night. “Dance with me?”

“We’ve been dancing all evening, baby.”

He shrugs and glances up to the sky. “Stars. Come on, babe, it’s tradition.”

i’m also gonna give you a progress update because, well, why not? i’m currently working on the end of january (i think i said before but i write in months, then split the months into chapters) and it’s already 39k lol. but every time i question my overwriting (which happens a lot in all fairness), i remind myself of your kind words about hs tarlos and i figure if no one else likes it, you (probably) will, so thank you for being so lovely and supportive.

i’m not going you spoil anything much, but i think december/january brings a new side to both tk and carlos we haven’t really explored before, so i’m super excited to be able to share that with you.

once again, thank you and apologies for the super long ask! <33

Looks around at the pile of books and pens... My week is certainly going. I just wish it'd go a little faster...you know that thing "this too shall pass"? I WOULD LIKE IT TO PASS A LITTLE QUICKER. Sigh...I have a lot coming up in the next couple months and I feel like I have no time at all :(. I feel guilty for checking my email these days 😭

Oh?? They've been dancing all evening???? THEY'VE BEEN DANCING ALL EVENING TOGETHER???????? I shall cry. THEY'RE HAPPY!!!! I'm gonna go rock back and forth in a corner and cry just 😭😭. They're everything to me and their happiness is so special. I sound a little crazy but emotions have been very high these past few days okay?? Stars...stars 🥺🥺. IT IS TRADITION YESS!! I'm so glad we're keeping this. Okay but I imagine them doing this all the time even after like years or smth. Just...dancing under the stars anytime they get the chance because it's their thing???? The love and intimacy of it all 😭😭

Your writing is honestly so impressive! Like that is so many words!!! The skill and dedication that requires!!!!!! You're seriously impressive. /gen. I'm gonna be really honest you could write a 100k fic of Tarlos as baby otters and I would eat it up. You could literally write anything and I will straight up inhale it. And THANK YOU for making such a wonderful universe to fall in love with! December/January is gonna be such an interesting time I'm the most excited for it tbh. It's gonna be their first winter together since...yknow and I just can't wait to see their growth and communication together. BEYOND EXCITED to see what you mean by that ahhhh!!!

Okay this is gonna be embarrassing but...I thought those giant things were emojis but they're STICKERS THAT MY PHONE SUGGESTS. Anyway have one that reminded me of hs tarlos because this feels like something TK would send Carlos and caption it "us" or smth

Edit: Just noticed smth and that is you don't have to apologise!! I love these asks ❤️

[payasita]

So you already explained why you aren’t writing HK stuff anymore but I’m curious: did you ever at some point think of bring Little Ghost into Will Terribly? If so, did you have any ideas how you would introduce/add them? What would their personality have been like?

oh hell yeah i can finally be honest about this i absolutely did not want to! no interest whatsoever. iirc i'd felt rather cheap about just bringing One vessel back and was daunted by the implications of how i would do that and why it would Just be ghost, i think i added in a bit where the king calls them back and had an outline about a bunch of little ones returning and dying either by misfortune or hornet doing her duties as a sentinel

but, like, the idea just wasnt fun

i am not exaggerating when i say like 3 out of 5 of messages or comments id get boiled down to "Where's ghost? are we gonna see ghost??? cant wait to see how you write ghost! :)"

and it just kinda... sped up the boredom. I didnt want to do it, but it was what people wanted to see! i don't begrudge anyone that at all, lemme be clear. people love little ghost. i love little ghost! and im definitely not gonna complain that people wanted to see me make more of a thing!

but, like, this also is a thing i was doing for fun and for free, and i didnt wanna keep doing it-- or worse, go in a specific direction-- just because i felt like i had to for other people. without the genuine love and motivation on my end, the quality would have suffered, and i was afraid i may have eventually grown to resent the project. i dont generally believe in making anything you dont want to make unless your livelihood somehow depends on it, yknow? people can tell when writing especially is ingenuine

so ye. shrug emoji

[vergilberg]

maybe its bc i have a very relaxed Shrugging Emoji attitude towards homestuck for the most part but when smth looks like a joke to me (“if u liked spider-verse, read homestuck” tiktok screenshot) and ppl start getting rlly crazy over it ….. :/

its not like someone is holding u at gunpoint to read it. and in all honesty you dont Have to read it, and YOU PROBABLY SHOULDNT! thats not even me gatekeeping, im just saying that theres a lot of stuff in there thats gross and weird (racist, ableist, etc) concepts, storybeats, or general Things, that you shouldnt expose urself to if you don’t want to.

and ofc ive seen ppl say “well why would fans of a very racially diverse movie want to read something with a history of being incredibly racist” and id personally say thats a valid argument, and that’s why i think that, yknow, you shouldnt read it. the shit andrew hussie put in homestuck is honestly not great. (that sounds like an understatement but i havent read it in forever, so specifics are very lost on me rn.) don’t read something if you think its going to disturb you or make you uncomfortable in a way that you can’t continue. prioritize your safety.

You Do Not Have To Read Homestuck

[havocmadden]

i love your ideas!!!! tbh i kept expecting cyd's parents to show up at some point during s2 lol i haven't seen the show in a while, so i don't remember a lot of specific things i would want to develop on, but i definitely think it would be very on brand for the writers to make daisy not getting married have consequences in the present. i'm also very against naldo and cyd together that relationship came so out of left field like ??? anyway are there any other shows that you liked that you wish had more seasons (or less? lol idk)? what are your all time favorite disney shows, other than bfw? - gcwca secret santa

OOOOH!

the owl house for SURE should've had more seasons. i will die mad about their shortened last season. we could've had so much more </3 i've also heard that i didn't do it got shafted but even tho it's been on my watch list for ages i haven't gotten around to it so i can neither confirm nor deny bc i am bad at watching tv

my fave disney channel shows aside from bfw are girl meets world (ik it is. the way it is. (the communism episode!) but i had a good time watching it even if i think i would enjoy it way less on a rewatch yknow?), backstage (ik it technically just aired on disney but i really liked it! i even started some fanfic back when i watched it), gravity falls, the owl house, and i've been really loving villains of valley view !! i also remember really liking wizards of waverly place as a kid but i haven't seen it since then. i def feel like i'm forgetting some shows but who knows [shrug emoji].

what are your favorite shows? 🤨

[dreamhot]

The thing I hate the most about the internet is people talking a totally valid argument and completely missing its point lmao like ai art? absolute trash, no creative value, steals artists work AND job and feels like an insult to the concept of art itself. But people having fun with a tiktok ai filter? Thats just silly fun, and people comparing guys pretending to be artists on a professional platform like artstation (for a example) with people having fun on tiktok is just ridiculous like if you wanna help artists pay attention to what they are saying instead of getting mad at any random ai related thing idk sorry for the rant tho LMAO its just that people not thinking critically when they wanna fight against something is so dumb 😬

i think the one thing we need to be mindful of when it comes to filter memes is that we may be feeding our faces (or art, for when people upload their own content to add effects etc) into the systems and we should maybe Not be providing them with our likenesses but . yknow. even then, it varies program to program as well. shrug emoji