#the you in this text post refers to god

[chitinleg]

got him off-balance!

[demigods-posts]

that scene when percy douses ares with the tide gives me shivers because we hardly see percy use his powers. actually. we hardly see him embracing his godly side the majority of the show. and it really emphasizes how unfamiliar, scared, and overwhelmed he is by it all. because he's just a kid. but then we see ares get in the way of him reuniting with someone he loves. and we see what this boy is capable of.

[fishshit]

very quick victuuri skecthes made in my notes <3 (please check the tags for the explanation of the text)

[vellichorom]

if you didn’t like that last post HOLD ON, IT GETS WORSE

( ft @satisfiedskye‘s narrator, ollie! )

[rad-roche]

3D art software is something i theoretically have a lot of fun with and enjoy, i've fiddled around with it in the past

but the actual software part is what kills me. it's like my brain turns off. lumping fake clay wads on top of each other, i'm having fun. what the hell is a vertice. every tutorial out there that solves the problem i have doesn't use the same menus anymore because i'm on version 4.0.33.0.4 not 4.0.33.0.3. the guy just fixed it with a single button press but didn't remark on it and there's no indication of what he did onscreen. it's been seven hours. how do i close this window. that's it i'm going back to 2D. repeat indefinitely

[sidhewrites]

sometimes i scroll through tumblr with my glasses off and see pictures of kittens snuggled up next to each other so I have to sit there, manually focusing my eyes and spending multiple minutes making sure that I am not, in fact, looking at a two-headed cat

[floral-hex]

🎂🎂🎂

Happy birthday bestie🤪💖💛

OMG Snoopy! Thank you!

[cmdeguzzi]

Everyone is so into reincarnation/past life aus where they remember their own past lives and experiences together themselves but . But like ... What abt reincarnation/past life aus where everyone but them know what happened in their past life???

"you are literally the reason they even have a past life to begin with what do you MEAN you wish to give all you are to protecting and caring for them???"

"no like you two were inseparable you two fought wars by each other's sides and by god did you make sure each other made it out alive how can you hate them so much DON'T YOU REMEMBER ANYTHING"

"you're laughing. you've forgotten who your literal soulmate is and you're LAUGHING."

C'mon people we need more oblivious idiot-specific aus

[multi-lefaiye]

Me, naive: Maybe THIS time Eugene Lee Yang's coming out video won't make me start bawling

Me: [watches it]

Me: [immediately tears up and is crying by the end of it]

[thiefking]

i still really want to post the full volo execution on here because i think i did a REALLY good job writing it but the issue is.

there are two video components . i don't know if i can add two videos in one post... i don't think i can if i don't make it a youtube link and that would be... clunky

when i originally posted the execution i had a lot of precise control over the SPEED it was posted, it was over discord so i spaced out certain paragraphs and waited for the videos to be viewed by everyone (watched for chat reactions over certain lines that are only at the very end of each video) before i continued so as to prevent anyone from reading ahead and also to create the exact tense atmosphere i desired. now granted i did have people read it for me before and after it was time for the execution itself and the pacing seemed solid BUT i wanted to take it a step further and ENSURE it was all read exactly how i wanted it to be

the context. holy shit is there so much missing context. sure yeah i could just say "it's from a multiverse killing game rp, it's basically danganronpa in space and you can have volo from pokemon, billy joe cobra from dude that's my ghost, whirl from transformers, and shego from kim possible (all real examples. spamton was the first murderer btw.) all in the same room at once and no one bats an eye" but. i almost feel like that wouldn't cut it because you also need to know i only write my volo the way i think it would be FUN to write volo (rather than what i think is canon) and that's with his god complex turned up to 1 trillion, if you wanted to know anything from "why was there a steak keychain" to "why turtle" i'd need to explain the folklore/folktales i was referencing and built the entire execution's theme around, you'd need to see the murder + attempted murder that he was getting executed for to begin with, you'd need to know the attempted murder was fucking joshua from twewy, you'd need to know joshua from twewy is unity's best friend, you'd need to know volo is/was dating unity and they had a hateromance for almost the entire duration of the game thus far (started hateflirting on day 2, had a potent emotional moment day 20, became officially romantically involved i think literally the same day that we were allowed to start establishing romantic relationships with the characters on day 42, and they lasted all the way until day 311 when volo was executed), you'd need to fucking know who unity is to begin with and they are literally an oc, like do you see the problem here it won't hit as hard if you don't know the context. this also isn't even all of the context i need to give. my joshua has 6 wings. that's important to know if i were to include the body drop photo that shows off the result of volo's murder/arts and crafts project/torture session so you don't think he only had 2 and consequently wonder how volo could have chopped off 4 of them

[bitegore]

serious question for non-native english speakers who have any sort of religious beliefs (or people who have a language they speak for liturgical reasons and not in their day to day life, ie praying in arabic or hebrew)

when you say "god" in colloquial english, does it feel like you're saying a word that actually means your deity that you actually believe in or pray to in whatever degree?

personally: nope, unless i'm specifically trying to talk about mine, in which case I usually use the hebrew term i'm used to (hashem, translates to "the name") or "g-d" (written as such for religious purposes) but "god" as used in english to me is sort of just like "the christian god" and it's off to the side. de-religion'd and de-importance'd for me. hence the question, because it makes me curious

[byronicbi]

I love hate-watching YouTube vids from indie authors with titles like "the 10 WORST types of romances" because 9 out of 10 items on the list completely neglect the existence of romance in the horror genre and honestly that's just weak sauce.

[amymarchlavrence]

i really will never understand people who don’t *heavily* question what they read in religious texts because i’m on chapter four of genesis (thanks Serial Reader app) and already spent close to an hour googling questions where most of the links that come up are christian answer/analysis sites that literally say “Obviously, _____” and then something I don’t find obvious and is actually very debatable imo

[qaanngi]

That feeling when you spend hours and hours and hours working on something, conceptualizating an idea or turning over the symbolism and then someone goes "looks like [insert popular IP here]" 🫠

Sometimes the comparison can feel complimentary, but more often than not, they are not 🫠🫠

[madame-serpentine]

So inspired quite heavily by this stunning art and listening to too much crane wives, I wrote something very short kinda from Crowley's perspective.

---- ---- ----

I am not that person anymore. Please do not go searching for her.

She is within me, but she will never be me, wholly, again.

I don’t remember a lot of what happened to me back then. I wonder sometimes if it was all my fault, that they were reasonable, and I wasn’t. I have to take the pit in my heart as proof. I can’t recall the memory intentionally anymore - like looking where the furniture isn’t.

It all only becomes clear when it ended. When I fell out of that life and into this one. A dividing line.

I’ve found peace in who I am now, without her. It wasn’t an easy journey.

Please don’t go looking for my ghost. I am here. I am real. And I like who I’ve become, despite it all. I think you like who I am now, too.

[susiephone]

wtf is dracula daily?

i’ve seen a couple people ask this question on my posts about it, so i thought i’d go ahead and clear it up here!

ok so, the classic horror novel “dracula” is an epistolary novel - that means it’s told via letters, diary entries, ship logs, and news articles. (technically the term “epistolary novel” refers to works told solely through letters or emails, but many have expanded it to mean any work that is told via in-universe documents, hence why diaries and logs often get included as well. “frankenstein” is another classic example; the whole framing device is robert walton is recounting the story he heard from victor to his sister via letter. a modern example would be “several people are typing,” which is told via slack messages, or “the perks of being a wallflower,” which is told via letters from charlie to his anonymous pen pal, which is functionally more like you’re reading his diary.)

because of the nature of the narrative, we actually know the exact day nearly everything in dracula happens - the letters, news articles, diary entries, etc. are all dated.

“dracula daily” is a substack project where the novel is broken up into parts, with people who are subscribed to the project getting emails every day something in dracula happens - for example, the novel opens with jonathan harker’s journal entry on may 3, so on may 3, subscribers are emailed that entry. the action of dracula takes place from may 3 - november 6, plus an epilogue set some years later. the project started in 2021 (i think), but fucking BLEW UP in 2022, and they’re doing it again this year! lots of us are very excited - especially people like me who fell behind last time.

why not just read the book?

valid! due to some parts of dracula being told out of chronological order, dracula daily does reorder some things. for example, the first section of dracula is told entirely from jonathan harker’s pov, then the second section switches the pov to mina murray. their sections have some overlap in the timeline, so dracula daily jumps back and forth between their perspectives.

if you want to read the book as bram stoker intended, dracula daily may not be for you. but for a lot of people (myself included!), it breaks up a very long text into easily digestible chunks (....mostly. there is one entry that is 10k words), and the fact that it’s a big project means there are a lot of people reading along with you.

i think there’s also something valuable about experience the slow revelation of wtf is going on along with the characters. the book which you might otherwise get through in a few days is stretched out into months of suspense and agony as you wait for the other shoe to drop, and it’s great.

plus, the whiplash between “jonathan harker’s neverending horror” vs “lucy is basically on the bachelorette” that you get in dracula daily is very very funny.

how do i sign up?

right here! and if you sign up and fall behind in the emails, no worries - the dracula daily website posts past entries so you can catch up.

what if i prefer audiobooks?

have i got great news for you!

like i mentioned before, i couldn’t keep up with the emails last year. part of it is that it is much easier for me to focus on an audiobook or keep up with a podcast than it is for me to sit down and read, especially with longer entries.

this year, there is going to be a podcast titled “re: dracula” that was inspired by dracula daily. every episode will be a dracula daily entry, with a full voice cast! (seriously, if you listen to british podcasts, you will recognize some of these names. the magnus archives and wooden overcoats girlies are WINNING.) you can find that here.

there is also a podcast called “cryptic canticles” that has an already-completed audiodrama of dracula that i’m told is also extremely good, and was also broken up by date. you can find that here.

why do i keep hearing about paprika/the boyfriend squad/lizard fashion/cowboys?

you’ll see.

oh god am i gonna hear about this nerd shit for the rest of the year

yes. sorry.