#thought i'd share this out~!!

[galedekarios]

🌊🌟🐚

[poop-benedict]

CSM #123 SPOILERS

Credit to Reddit user sebajun10 who explained why Fujimoto gave the Falling devil those specific powers.

[spookberry]

"Will Junior sat on the floor next to me, even though it was dirtying his trousers. He sat, not quite touching my hand with his, the happy birthday pen set resting in his lap, still wrapped up in birthday paper."

[starflungwaddledee]

Bandee and Starstruck 🎀💖

starting off my february starstruck dee ship-a-ganza with the big one. they do seem like... the obvious answer, huh...?

they have far and away the most development together and the strongest personal relationship, both in what i've posted, and in her story overall! would kill or die for each other in a heartbeat. i would be absolutely lying if i said i'd never thought about it, but i'm not 100% convinced my thoughts lead me to romance specifically...

they're already pretty insane about each other! starstruck in particular is madly in love with bandee in every way it's possible to be. loves him the way he loves kirby, i think (pretty sure he does not know this. might be shocked to learn it.)

however she's daft as bricks, so he'd have to initiate, and i can't really imagine anything in their relationship would change.... so he'd have to mostly want The Title or the Performance one way or another, and i'm not super sure he would!

[57sfinest]

calling harry a “can opener” was SUCH a good play for so many reasons i think about it every day.

in the context of his work, it makes him a tool. as many people have pointed out, including martin luiga, part of the hdb tragedy is that he simply cannot leave the force, and his superiors know that and are using it to their advantage. no matter what happens, even if harry hated every nanosecond of every bit of the work and wanted to leave, he can’t and won’t leave. they can leverage anything they want against him and then reel him back in with a facade of kindness when they “allow” him to keep his job, as long as he does what they want him to. the 41st knows he has this inexplicable talent with people and they use him for it. he’s a cop: that talent can be used in so many awful ways, to push so many different agendas. and they won’t even be his own. a can opener has no particular desire to open a can, aside from maybe the satisfaction of fulfilling a purpose. a can opener has no agency, it’s just a tool for someone else to use to get what they want. and he’s learned to be okay with being used as long as it means he gets to stay. his complacency with this system makes him guilty even if he’s also being harmed by it.

but in the context of his personal life you kind of... flip it. the people around him are going to be opened up whether they want to be or not, and it’s terrible for his relationships. it’s shown that the questions, the prying- the can-opening- it’s become inextricable from who he is as a person. it’s like he doesn’t know how else to communicate, except it’s hardly communication when you’re just ripping people open. he’s invasive as all hell, although whether he means to be is debatable. he’s the kind of person that wants to take things apart to see what makes them tick. he dissects people, but really that’s too delicate of a word for what he does; if he doesn’t get what he wants right up front, he’ll abandon all subtlety and go for brute force. if he can’t get your screws loose he’ll just smash you on the ground and pick through your pieces until he’s satisfied, and if what he did to you isn’t fixable? oh well, there are other cans to open. 

and he’ll use it for personal gain: we already know he is (was?) manipulative. once he knows how you operate, he knows how to make you keep him. he can yell or he can cry; he can threaten you or he can threaten himself; he can be completely suffocating or he can withdraw completely; he can be an incorrigible liar or brutally honest; he can present himself as a threat or a joke or a talent. he’s a chimera- that’s why he’s got this inexplicable magnetism, even when people know they shouldn’t like or trust him. fidelity of character means nothing to him. he’ll be whatever he needs to be as long as it gets him what he wants. the can-opening is just his way in.

[havinganfois]

Imagine your f/o helping you through situations that would seem mundane to other people but severely stress you out. Like a song stuck loudly in your head, or an injured hangnail, or low vitamin levels, or lips so chapped it hurts. They are there for you, helping you, distracting you, caring for you. Giving you sympathy. Loving you.

[rax-writes]

I feel compelled to share my Cursed realization with the Holy Rolan Empire.

Oskar Fevras has Rolan's face, just pasty and blonde, so it took me until the tail end of my interaction with him in Act 3 to notice. 💀

[kodas]

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

the horrible thing about if ted lasso eventually comes back for a surprise fourth season is that i'm going to bounce right back to believing that tedbecca is the endgame plan despite the show creators literally saying multiple times that tedbecca was never the endgame plan 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭

[one-flower-one-sword]

well I know what you want from me you want someone to be your reflection, your bitter deception setting you free won't you come and dance in the dark with me? show me what you are, I am desperate to know nobody better than the perfect enemy and I know what you want from me you want the same as me my redemption, eternal ascension setting me free

for @bladesmercy's fic The Fear of Falling Stars

[ineffable-romantics]

If I had a nickel for every time Aziraphale's last words to Crowley's face right before Crowley thought he'd lost him forever were "I forgive you", I'd have two nickels.

(Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice)

[buglaur]

meet phil quigley

[beautiful-rebellious-sunflower]

welcome home

[seyvia]

Lola + Chloe Curious👽

[love-bokumono-fics]

It hasn't cropped up in the fandom yet, I don't think, but I saw a post about AI fics on my dash and figured it was a good a time as any to make this statement.

I am SEVERELY against AI generated fics I won't even grace them with the word 'writing' because it isn't writing. It's word vomit that happens to look semi legibile.

If I find an AI generated fic I will NOT be sharing it on this blog via submission recommendation or weekly Fresh Crops.

I make an effort to not willingly or knowingly share AI generated fic. If I ever have, it was a mistake.

This rule doesn't include the use of AI tools to help your writing process, for example proof-reading AI or prompt generators.

But if you use AI to generate any part of your actual story, it will be disqualified from recommendation on this blog. I will make a note of the author's name and I will not share their future work.

To put plainly: If you can't even be bothered to write it, why should anyone bother to read it. And why should I bother to share it?

And to be mean about it. If your excuse for using AI instead of actually writing a story is "but I'm a bad writer and AI is better than me." Shut up. Stop crying. And actually try for once. Write badly. Learn from failure. Get better with practice. Nobody's instantly good at anything they're new at. Get comfortable with being bad and learn how to get better. AI is only going to make you a worse writer.

[ghoul-in-the-shadows]