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expressions-of-nature · 3 months
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Almaty, Kazakhstan by assemeill
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kedreeva · 10 days
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Bonus: Kiss
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oh ho-ooo he's trusting her to parasite pick! love's truest expression.
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ao3-shenanigans · 20 days
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I would like to remind everyone to not, in any way, ask your favorite authors to update or when they'll update.
I'll be the first to admit that I did ask those same questions when I first got into fanfiction (over on WattPad) and the deeper fandom space. Now that I'm actually posting my brain children for everyone to see, update inquiries are the comments I hate to see the most.
I'll also admit that I'm a bit selfish, too. I've encountered a few stories on Ao3 that turned off comments because people kept asking for/when updates were gonna be. I just want to tell the writer how in love I am with their story, but now I can't.
We post for fun. We post in our free time. If we can get a consistent schedule, fantastic. If not, don't ask questions. Shit happens. Life takes priority.
...I'll stop now.
(this was mostly to blow off steam, tbh)
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Often the pressure to keep preforming stops people from want to create at all, it’s not a lotta fun
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actressplayground3 · 5 days
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Gwyneth Paltrow (40) in Thanks For Sharing (2012)
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growmydarling · 1 year
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Just s little size comparison that seems really hot 🥵. Tried to make it as close to reality as possible.
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absurdly hot. fatterigrow has one of the most impressive documentations of their growth out there, i'm honored to be compared. you're only about 3 or 4 of me 😅
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tinyshinysylveon · 2 months
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I can't believe Lucifer appeared canonicaly just so they could make him have a divorce battle for Charlie twice
lmfao i didn't expect that dynamic between lucifer and alastor honestly, i love that they're basically singing like a custody battle of some sort for Charlie
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Wilmon made the top 100 ships on Tumblr in 2023!
https://www.tumblr.com/fandom/735515991901192192/ships-unexpected-connections-happen-in-two-places
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🎉🎉
Top 100 ships: Wilmon #64
Top 100 TV shows: Young Royals #31
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colliholly · 3 months
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Hey I just wanted to say I have your Edgar pin and I love him so much!! (He's my favorite out of all the pins I own, actually) I've had him for several months now and he's holding up very nicely. He is my beloved little boy
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Also happy new year!!! :D 🎉🎉 I hope you have a great one!
No way! I love your art, I'm honored my Edgar pin could be part of your pin collection. I know he's in good hands 💚
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k-wame · 2 months
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hiya, desperately trying to find a copy of the Femme (2021) short. can I ask where you found it to make your gifs?
You can find it HERE . MASSIVE thanks to @devocao for being a legend and supplying the link in the comments of my inbox. its so good. really enjoyed every minute.
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dostoyevsky-official · 3 months
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I Have Not Lingered in European Monasteries
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I have not lingered in European monasteries
and discovered among the tall grasses tombs of knights
who fell as beautifully as their ballads tell;
I have not parted the grasses
or purposefully left them thatched.
I have not released my mind to wander and wait
in those great distances
between the snowy mountains and the fishermen,
like a moon,
or a shell beneath the moving water.
I have not held my breath
so that I might hear the breathing of God,
or tamed my heartbeat with an exercise,
or starved for visions.
Although I have watched him often
I have not become the heron,
leaving my body on the shore,
and I have not become the luminous trout,
leaving my body in the air.
I have not worshipped wounds and relics,
or combs of iron,
or bodies wrapped and burnt in scrolls.
I have not been unhappy for ten thousand years.
During the day I laugh and during the night I sleep.
My favourite cooks prepare my meals,
my body cleans and repairs itself,
and all my work goes well.
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This poem reminds me of Bachkovo monastery, Bulgaria in the spring.
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ruegarding · 5 months
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Your post about Percy and Thalia's dynamic, specifically the "they're not their parents" part, reminded me of something I've noticed about this series, that being how Percy and his peers stand in contrast to the heroes of old. Mythological "heroes" are mostly defined by being badasses, claiming renown for achieving incredible feats. Modern heroism, by contrast, tends to be defined by embodying heroic virtues (courage, altruism, compassion, honesty, etc.). Your average Greek champion could be the biggest strongest dude on the block, but he could also be an asshole glory hound more concerned with claiming his prize than doing the right thing (along with more than a few thefts, murders and r*pes along the way). Yet he's still regarded as a hero because that's what ancient peoples valued. Percy, however, isn't like that, partially because he comes from the modern world. Percy is regarded as the greatest Greek hero of his generation, yet he flies in the face of the classic Greek hero. Percy's motives for his various quests are rooted in his desire to protect people, be it his loved ones who are being targeted or the people who will get caught in the crossfire for the villains. He doesn't want power or a throne, he doesn't crave glory, he doesn't want his name in history books. All he wants is to stop the bad guys so as to keep his family and friends safe. Contrary to Luke's bemoaning in repeating the past deeds of old heroes, Percy doesn't actually replicate the past beat for beat. He approaches these problems differently because he's a different person in a different time. He may not be as strong as Hercules or as skilled as Achilles, but you don't need that to be a hero these days. Percy's a hero not because he's the bigger badass, but because he's the better man.
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yes! i think it's a very interesting way to spin classic heroes with modern values. instead of wanting to be like them, percy learns from their mistakes and avoids their tragic endings. and he does this largely by not playing the role of hero, by yielding. he lets his mother save herself, he tells clarisse to take the fleece home alone, he listens to zoe, he holds the sky so artemis can fight, he gives luke the knife. percy doesn't need to be the guy who saves the day, he just needs the day to be saved because, like you said, he's the better man.
even thalia, who is arguably most like the classic greek champion (and shares some of her father's flaws), learns from their mistakes. thalia wants power, wants glory, but she's willing to turn down both in order to protect the people she loves. even if it takes her a minute to make that decision, she still refuses to jeopardize her loved ones in pursuit of her goals.
i think this is also why, ultimately, luke was wrong. although luke was partially motivated by an honorable goal, he was also blindsided by the glory he would get if he were the one to tear down olympus and bring about the new age. he was willing to do anything, hurt anyone, to achieve that goal, and the only thing that made him finally question himself was when he was going to be used as a stepping-stone for kronos.
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expressions-of-nature · 3 months
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Tennessee, 2019
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blindmagdalena · 6 months
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Ma’am I have come to tell that homelander stutters when he’s trying to talk to Ashley about blind spot. He hesitates when he says “for fucks sake” and it’s currently my new favorite thing 😭 I just had to share with someone because I think it’s so cute that is all
he DOES! I love the cadence of his speech. he stutters quite a lot actually, especially when he’s worked up. i’m sure it’s largely just a creative choice by Starr but it makes me think about baby/teen homelander having had a stutter that he had to shake before he was tv ready 😭
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ao3-shenanigans · 1 month
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uh small rant
usually when im not in a great mood and i need a pick-me-up id go through comments and bookmarks of my fics and go :] was feeling a little inconfident today and went through the usual when i encountered a bookmark that praised my fic but in the same breath also called it a headache to read because i typed it all in lowercase.. (i usually alternate according to my mood, normal capitalization or all lowercase). have always known some readers tend to gravitate away from lowercase fics and i'm usually fine but. uh. that made me sad
Aw I’m sorry that happened
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bottomjoonghyuk · 7 months
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This showed up on my dash today and immediately made me think of Bottom Yoo Joonghyuk and Top Kim Dokja Granted, it's not totally capturing the "KDJ can be the strong one" (cuz he's definitely worked several days in his life) and the (very important and I would love to see more of this) "YJH deserves to be taken care of/is loved" but like... the vibes are there, right?
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'fancylad boy-king type' Kim Dokja is literally a Demon King! Demon Kings are dominant and powerful, not a false sense of power only to make it hot when he bottoms (like what most JoongDok is like when Kim Dokja is legitimately powerful).
Yoo Joonghyuk definitely deserves to be taken care of and loved! Gonna write a post about how Yoo Joonghyuk should be appreciated more.
And I literally don't know, maybe it's the image, they can't see or it's hard to picture a muscular man at the bottom, and a slender man at the top (he's gonna enhance his body to save Yoo Joonghyuk though) but to be honest I look for personality and Yoo Joonghyuk's rough, gruff, cold personality makes him a very cute bottom. Cold but when he's bottom, he gets all hot and flustered, it's so cute. It's the moe gap. And Kim Dokja's sly messing with people personality makes him a hot top.
It is always this way, not only for Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk. For a bigger male and smaller male yaoi pairing (when seriously, Kim Dokja is almost freaking 180cm, just 4cm away, he isn't small, he isn't that smaller than Yoo Joonghyuk.) There are certain things people especially girls want to see in their favourite characters (I mean yaoi is originally made for women), from their own experience likely and there will be self-projecting (or just writing off own experiences?) to a point it's only human and it's for some reason easier to see the more slender man bottoming. Because it's that way in yaoi manga, and guys are stereotypically masculine too I guess.
But yaoi manga is fetishization of gay people and pairings, just for people to enjoy the sex scenes, and for female empowerment in Japan (I did a paper on that!), maybe a little cute romance, and it may not be the same for an actual male-male couple. But people have their kinks and from yaoi manga, most just automatically see the more masculine guy topping and the slender guy bottoming.
Also Kim Dokja is much more popular and loved than Yoo Joonghyuk as a character, most people prefer their favourite character bottoming. It's not even about his personality but people's preferences. There's also a kink of the intelligent one bottoming and being out of sorts, losing himself in pleasure too, which is what a lot of JoongDok end up with. I actually do understand that kink, I had it for Orihara Izaya from Durarara, but I made sure to keep him in character enough. (To the extent people said my writing was like the novel that Izaya acted like Izaya from the novel, and yeah generally people don't do that, I'm an analyst so it's different and I can analyze a writing style and write it but the point is to try. Anyway I've gotten the same feedback from Dokjoong fans too so I'm glad.) And even though Kim Dokja is an intelligent maybe vulnerable character, I just prefer him as Top, because he'd be a really unique top. (Which Top is self-deprecating yet desires? Only Kim Dokja.)
Kim Dokja being OOC in most JoongDok fics reminds me of Orihara Izaya being OOC in most Shizaya fics. Er so Izaya is just an intelligent character like Kim Dokja, he claims to love humans and people, girls like him a lot, he's kind of cool as the villain and mastermind but he's slender and girls love to make him cute. He was the most popular character of the anime. This guy was so popular even people who didn't watch the show knew him from cosplays and memes. And people would ask what anime is he from.
I'll be honest and say I shipped the more popular pairing Shizaya (Izaya the more slender one on the bottom) so I enjoyed those fics at first when I entered the fandom and just wanted more (which I think is how a lot of JoongDok shippers feel), but eventually I grew bored of them because it was always the same thing. Protective Shizuo and cute Izaya (no idea where his intelligence went), and I just wrote my own. I still shipped the more slender one on the bottom but my favourite was actually Shizuo not Izaya lol, but when Izaya was top he didn't treat Shizuo well, so I shipped Izaya the more slender one on the bottom. JoongDok really reminds me of Shizaya, which is actually a fairly popular pairing. People knew the pairing even if they didn't know the anime Durarara. Like how people thought Omniscient Reader was BL because of JoongDok. But for Izaya, he acted as a girl online in canon while for Yoo Joonghyuk and Kim Dokja, it's not Kim Dokja who was a girl, it was Yoo Joonghyuk who was a girl in canon. So why is Yoo Joonghyuk not bottom? ...Pretty confusing for me.
People asked me a lot about Izaya, a lot, to the extent that I had to create an FAQ on my tumblr blog for Izaya analyses. Even though my favourite was Shizuo and people knew that. People asked me on Shizuo too but there were less. I bet if I shipped JoongDok, and did analyses on Kim Dokja, and wrote JoongDok fics, I would get people asking about Kim Dokja, the point is, it's just the character really. It's just the character popularity that leads to content being created in the way they're seen as. When you have such a beloved character that people go back to the novel and try to analyze it or remember certain scenes or just want to see more of him, that character is bound to be bottom. Because bottoms are loved and Kim Dokja is loved. People want Kim Dokja to be loved. Especially with his huge sacrifice, and taking on everything alone. (But I will say Kim Dokja can still be loved as a Top.)
(And I have a standard of Yoo Joonghyuk being loved at least for my own work, he needs to be IC enough.)
Sorry, just reminiscing about shipping a popular pairing. But Dokjoong is worth it.
So I believe it has almost nothing to do with Kim Dokja's and Yoo Joonghyuk's characters at all but because Kim Dokja is a super popular and loved character. Is shorter, has a slender body type like in yaoi, etc.
And, from my experience shipping a similar pairing to JoongDok, Kim Dokja is way too smart. He's highly intelligent, and people have trouble writing his intelligence. Kim Dokja is a mastermind character, and how are you supposed to write a mastermind character accurately with his intelligence? Most people aren't masterminds, haha. Anyway, just saying since the same thing happened with Izaya, he was the mastermind villain, too intelligent, and people couldn't write him accurately (people even thanked me for analyzing him so they could understand him!), so they just made him cute and somewhat cool and too angsty which was OOC, and made his partner Shizuo a brute who was rough, lustful and glaring (reminds me of JoongDok Yoo Joonghyuk.) which Izaya would always give into (even though he taunted Shizuo in canon).
And I think people just want something simple. So a cliche simple dynamic such as cold, rough top and submissive sly bottom draws many people. People in fandoms generally don't look for complicated things, they just want something easy to love, and angst (no matter what fandom or character, angst is always very popular. Angst is a given.).
Lastly, Kim Dokja is a lonely character, repressing his feelings, like Izaya, and it makes people who love him want him to be bottom and loved even more.
Just speaking about my experience with a similar ship lol.
(By the way if anyone is interested, Durarara is an anime about a teenage boy moving to a new city, meeting his friend, and discovering its mysteries, secrets and urban legends and being involved with a huge gang called the Dollars. Izaya is the mastermind villain. He pulls the strings behind the scenes and is incredibly intelligent. It's a great anime with more than 1 season, I recommend it and the light novels.)
When, when you think about it, doesn't it make more sense for the loyal one to bottom since, well he's loyal and will give the one he serves anything he wants. (It'll be hot too)
i think I said a bit much but the person asked why so I thought of...Why.
Also like imagine Yoo Joonghyuk crying, maybe because he's tired or hurt at Kim Dokja's words, Kim Dokja would freak out and wonder what the hell he did wrong, and - and it would be character development and exploring Kim Dokja's self-deprecating character like 'I made Yoo Joonghyuk cry, I deserve to die' 'Why do I care so much?' like vulnerable Yoo Joonghyuk can really activate Kim Dokja's character, Kim Dokja exploring his character, exploring Kim Dokja's character!
You know, there are rare exceptions, I've spoken about this before but ChildeZhongli from Genshin Impact, Zhongli who was so loved even by 'dude bros' (would bang his female form, yes he had one) was unequivocally bottom in the ChildeZhongli relationship, but when I searched them this year, ZhongliChilde was suddenly more than ChildeZhongli in A03! Well..........I think it's because Childe got much more loved as a character, so people wanted to see him as bottom more, since he appears everywhere in Genshin. I'm hoping the same thing will happen with Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk, as the manga comes out, maybe people will love Yoo Joonghyuk more. I don't know how since people said the webtoon people don't like Yoo Joonghyuk, taking away his scenes but somehow...maybe. (Genshin fans are much more open-minded than other fans in general though..........they ship almost every pairing and whatever kink but.........somehow, perhaps.)
For me, it's DokJoong because it's Kim Dokja who loves Yoo Joonghyuk the most.
This totally suits Dokjoong, Thanks for sharing! If you wanna talk more about Dokjoong or rant about why feel free to message me privately.
Now this may encourage me to make a post on why I don't ship JoongDok...
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Dick 'I starved myself for two weeks because I didn't had time to eat' Grayson
Jason 'the last time I skipped a meal was because I was dead' Todd
They are happily married
Thus it becomes Jason’s personal duty and goal to feed Dick physically, emotionally and “romantically.” 🥹💕
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