#thoughts please

[grand-line-shenanigans]

For those of us who cannot comprehend big numbers (me) I have done the math. FOUR FUCKING YEARS. SECUNIT WHAT THE FUCK.

[james-spooky]

helloooo people in my phone if i made a substack would you guys read a weekly fictional newsletter 🤔

[shizzlesisntevenaword]

Rereading TCP and what do you suppose Cardan meant when he said that? It’s just that he can’t lie so this confuses me. We know that Cardan is already attracted to Jude at this point, but also, also, loathes her. He also loathes Locke and yet tolerates him and knows he’s just playing with her. So… why does he think they’re perfect for each other? Is it… is it simply because he, at this point, just hated them both for “hurting” him and so he thinks they might as well hurt each other?

[cvnntagious]

saw a video that made me want to make a rapper!matt au and i’m kinda… like, should i frl pursue that? would y’all read it?

[ericaportfolio]

To those following me, I've been studying more of the works of John Bauer and noticed this character named Humpe. It's got to the point where I want to use inspiration from this character for a story idea I just had to write on the side while making my other stuff like Legendary Fugitives. Let's say the idea is way out there, but it might work perfectly as some young adult novel-like story I post on AO3. If anyone is interested and wants me to do so, feel free to comment with your thoughts.

[patroclus214]

Perhaps a hot take, but I hate the majority of queer TV and movies. Is it too much to ask for a gay show where we pretend that being gay is considered totally normal in our society, and they can be happy? Seeing rampant homophobia in TV shows frustrates me bc I know it exists. I go through it everyday. Don't get me wrong, I still think showing that can very important. But can I get a break from reality for a bit? Like give me a fanasty book where they just so happen to be gay. Give me a high school romance where everyone is chill and happy and gay together. I beg.

[renaultphile]

What a difference a letter makes

One of the great things about the re-read is going to be identifying all those differences between the 1953 and 1959 editions. Sometimes, it's large chunks, sometimes a sentence, or even just a word. But I didn't realise until now, it could be one letter.

Here is Ralph talking about Hazell in the 1953 edition:

"I told him that the next time he came up to me for a beating, that would be what he'd get. He could see I meant it. I was surprised when he turned up a couple of days later. I thought he was calling my bluff. Perhaps that's what he thought himself. I don't know. Anyway he'd left me no choice. I hate the whole business, I don't know when I've hated anything more, so I got down to it without wasting time."

In the 1959 edition, 'hate' becomes 'hated'. I read that as making a general statement of ambivalence about beating children into a specific reference to the Hazell 'business', removing with just one letter a whole fascinating hinterland of Ralph's psychological state.

Or maybe it was a typo.

[someoddnonbinary]

This is completely random and off topic and probably doesn’t fit for tumblr but…

Am i the only one who finds this liltay come back odd??? With the comments people are making you’d think shes a grown adult. She’s literally 16 and some of y’all are just outing yourselves a misogynistic pedos.

Also the people who are like “body goals” and that type of sentiment, stop. That is just as creepy. NO ONE should be commenting on this TEENS body I repeat TEEN. She is still technically in high school please its so fucking creepy. What the hell happened to being worried that this minor is/was on the internet??? What just because she got older means your allowed to forget abt it???? It automatically exempts you from questioning it??? No it shouldn’t. The internet is so fucking creepy.

I took away the other stuff i wrote bcs i honestly don’t yet know how i feel abt commenting or questioning her situation yet and so i wont. Still stands that some of y’all are fucking creepy.

[gongyussy]

good thing from jp twitter this week is queen of old man yaoi michiru sonoo discovering the term old man yaoi

update: somehow it got impossibly more wholesome

quick translation: おかえり: welcome home あ 終わった 終わった: ahhh, it's over! it's done! コーヒー? お茶?: coffee? tea? コ~ヒ~ ありがと: coffee, thank you~ ネクタイレア★★ ネクタイ取るレア★★★★: seeing him with a tie on, rarity level ★★, seeing him take a tie off, rarity level ★★★★ にあうな~: it suits him~

also please do follow: AraigumaSha: sensei's twitter account marureviere: maru, who does such valuable work highlighting bl manga for an international audience

[capric0rn]

[forthegothicheroine]

People talk about Elsa's "Let it Go" moment having killed the men of the Terror and the Erebus, but it goes farther than that. That same historically cold winter of 1846/1847 also caused so much snow that it led to an infamous American tragedy, as I learned when I read the nonfiction work The Indifferent Stars Above.

If Elsa killed the Terror and Erebus men, then she also doomed the Donner Party.

[chamerionwrites]

When will someone gently take all the internet food bloggers by the shoulders, look into their eyes, and explain that coconut milk is not a neutral-flavored dairy substitute

[iinkandiivy]

faux sympathy is actually evil.

you’re ruining me, i’m shaking, barely coherent, and you have the audacity to say “i know, baby, it’s a lot, huh?” all sweet and condescending like yeah??? obviously??? but are you stopping? no :( you just keep going, all soft and sweet, acting like you feel bad while actively making it worse. it’s sick and i need more of it immediately.

[moonlitmourningjournal]

[catssavril]

No glue, no borax. Just please