#that blows on every level

[not-poignant]

hearing you do research into singaporean culture for m&m makes me so excited! i have heritage there and almost never see southeast asia represented in things i read/watch

Hi anon!

I've been to Singapore! It's a beautiful country, and one of the best places to celebrate Lunar New Year :D I don't know if I'll ever be able to travel like that again with Covid, but if I can, Singapore is actually really high on the list of places we have to get back to soon.

Perth, Western Australia is actually closer to Bali, Indonesia than it is to Sydney, Australia (and it's about the same distance to Singapore as it is to Sydney), and as a result, we actually have a huge proportion of SE Asian folk who live here, and a lot of SE cuisine and culture we can access that folks have brought over with them. So the foods that Kadek mentions in Falling Falling Stars are all foods I'm familiar with. Likewise, it's very common for many Perth folk to fly to Bali and nearby regions for holidays and work, because it's a closer flight than, well, other places in our own country. I have a friend who's working in Singapore right now, and I'm not sure if he's coming back! He loves it too much. (Though not the driving, so much dsalkjfsa).

Due to a combination of having some great friends who have SE Asian heritage and being able to share dinner with their families and hobbies and stay over as a kid etc, and just finding other places and foods interesting, and enjoying learning new things, it's been fun to include more of that in my writing in ways that are hopefully respectful. It also just feels natural in the sense that... for me, in my part of the world, we have more to do with say, Southeast Asia than we do many other cultures, and it's annoying that when people represent, god, 'eastern cultures' in fantasy, it's always like... idk, samey, if it's done by white authors. I'm hoping to avoid that, and not do it terribly. I'm definitely more focusing on Indonesia, and then aspects of Singapore as well, including how cosmopolitan and multicultural it is, while still having a strong sense of identity and place.

Fun fact, I share a timezone with Singapore, but I don't share a timezone with any other state in Australia.

Australia is big and weird.

[heraldofcrow]

*shoves all of my weird-ass, extremely-complicated, white-haired children with too much power into a tiny room*

ALL OF YOU WILL BE FRIENDS AND DO THERAPY TOGETHER NOW OR SO HELP ME GOD—

[ezraphobicsoup]

ok but music is actually the most beautiful thing in every way i’m gonna turn into the sun. music and people and the world and oouyggghhhh

[duahauuoplanh]

[bylertruther]

concept: mike hugging will like he did in season one with his head on will's chest + will's little rabbit heart running WILD, thumping so loudly and so madly that it makes mike lift his head like "woah, are you okay? 🥺" and will, blushed positively pink all over to the point where he might just break out into a sweat and die of mortification and simultaneous glee, just chokes out a very unconvincing "yeah, no, i'm—i'm okay. i'm okay, mike. :)" and mike doesn't reaaaaaally believe it but when he rests his head over will's heart again and will wraps an arm around his back, holding him close, he can't help but smile into the worn fabric of will's shirt and pray that the world allows them this one moment of peace for a little while longer

[the-daily-male]

Today's daily male is Yarny from Unravel!

[beesinspades]

I wish I could say i'm taking the rejection of my application to that zine well, but alas </3

[cainware]

Okay I might get devoured for this, but I'm gonna post it anyway, so please bare with me:

I feel like Bruce has this belief that Jason never understood why he can't kill right, but also I feel like Bruce also doesn't understand why Jason can. Like he looks at it as a moral failing in so many different iterations from writer to writer but like? Bruce, understanding is a two-way street.

Bruce thinks he'd never be able to come back from taking a life, but then you look down the line at Jason, and Jason can and does. He's not lesser because he kills when he thinks it's the right thing to do, he doesn't lose himself in the bloodbath like Bruce thinks he himself would. Jason doesn't go mad with power, he doesn't go around just murdering any random thug just because.

And I think that damages Bruce a little bit, because he doesn't want to admit that Jason's killing isn't as much of a moral failing as he thinks it should be. I think that Bruce, somewhere in his mind, wanted to believe that if he couldn't do it without losing himself, then nobody could. And I think he can't bring himself to admit to himself that in that regard, Jason has always had a better understanding of the world and his own person than Bruce ever will.

[andypantsx3]

momo yaoyorozu u are so special to me i think about u every day my angel princess

[astrababyy]

The humans in ACOTAR are literally just props. The story doesn’t actually care about them or what happens to them. The characters contradict themselves in the way they behave towards them. Hell, the author herself barely gives them a second thought.

During the endeavor to save the Mortal Realm through book 2-3, the Mortal Queens were consulted and their help was requested. The High Lords were consulted and their help was requested. But when it came to the actual helping part, I swear, the humans in the south of Prythian didn’t even know any of this was happening. While the Inner Circle plotted and planned out their fates like they’re pieces on a chess board, none of them even knew any of this was happening. That doesn’t seem a little screwed up to anybody?

[cherubytes]

im so good at videos game

[brood-mother]

if you’re ever worried about your fic not being good enough, i beg you to scroll through literally any ao3 tag and you will see  - and i mean this in the nicest way possible - that your work doesn’t have to be great or even by many accounts ‘good’ for people to enjoy it and engage with it in a meaningful way. the two cake effect is so so real. if you write it, people will read it. 

[zayphora]

i finished reading blame!. images and words and what they mean

[samuraisharkie]

If you’re putting off loud ass firework tonight in the suburbs around other houses, let it be known I hate you. nearly kills my dog every year.

[ratcandy]

(through grit teeth) ants are fascinating creatures. their abilities in coordination and cooperation in unmatched. have you seen those ants that make bridges out of themselves so their sisters can walk across them, carrying larvae and food to a new home? amazing. (clenching my fists, shaking violently) better yet did you know ants can count their steps? did you know some create their own fungus farms? (mouth dry. sweating. staring) did you know ants share 75% of their dna with their sisters but only 50% with their parents+offspring? that's due to this thing called haplodiploidy. so actually it's more favorable, fitness-wise, for ants to care for their own sisters than to have children of their own. isn't that awesome. (about to burst a blood vessel) ants are so cool and wondrous. i love ants so much. (staring dead into a mirror barely disguising my frustration and anguish)

[walkman-cat]

tell me about that funny dnd boy mr walkman - @pigeonwit

YAY !! thankyouthankyou pidge i love my silly dnd lad

Sān's a warlock (mechanically great old one) with the interdimensional, non-euclidean shop she grew up in. The shop has doors everywhere and it's inside is labyrinthine and perpetually shifting around and even though it's technically just a bunch of real strong spells it's also sentient (in a "the house is alive" kinda way). (Everyone says that it's a TARDIS and I haven't been able to live it down yet).

The shop also causes anyone who resides in it for a prolonged period of time to join it's hivemind (it's lonely), which Sān has been apart of since they've had a consciousness. He's not the best at telling apart his emotions and thoughts from the many other beings in his head (including an owlbear), but doesn't really mind being part of a collective.

Because of all this, he doesn't really understand the concept of privacy. He regularly asks the people he meets personal (and somewhat tactless) questions (one of the first things Sān did in the campaign was ask a random fisherman why his family left him), and every time he speaks to someone it's always in far too much detail and with too many personal aspects.

A couple sessions in, she caused her best friend William (a water genasi druid whose catchphrase is "hoorah! i'm an adventurer!!") to join the hivemind. It was mostly consensual and William doesn't mind or care so there have been no consequences of this so far (other than an exacerbation of each other's adhd and even more codependency between the two of them). Sān and William also have a pact to avenge each other's deaths (which might not be possible considering how we stick close to each other in battle and have had the same amount of hp until now). We made this pact so Sān can lie (because they couldn't for a while but they did have +7 on persuasion).

Oh! and the Weave's been compromised so the shop and hivemind might be compromised, and Sān is not ready to have a completely quiet mind (he's starting to question his ideas of personhood and it's a Time ).

Sān's childish and impulsive and once walked off in a huff in the middle of combat but he's also got a higher intelligence than charisma (which is silly because he's a warlock). He's searching for Uncle (his guardian), who left the shop and hasn't been seen or heard from since, and collecting trinkets and faces along the way.

Oh, yeah– Sān's one of the masks of a changeling called Xiǎoguǐ (it/they). Xiǎoguǐ created Sān as a persona to appear more human and personable and friendly, because even though it's very similar to Sān, it's a lot weirder– it has an unblinking stare and elongated limbs and doesn't smile very much and has the vibes of something that has bones in places where there should not be bones. None of the party knows about Xiǎoguǐ yet (half of them think Sān's a mindflayer in disguise), and i'm really excited for the fallout when it's revealed and also really excited to play as them wbwbw !

So yeah! that's my weird little guy wbwbw (as much as I remember at the moment)! It's real neat wbwbw