#toxic families babey!

[nerdie-faerie]

Finn Mikaelson is a substitute eldest daughter

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

I think there should be another widespread piece of media which romanticizes cannibalism but like. Working class cannibalism. You only see that kind of shit in horror movies

[barrenclan]

WOOO NEW ISSUE!! i began reading this earlier, but couldn’t finish due to me rereading what i had just read and focusing on the pictures!!! so yeah, finally finished it, and GRRR GOOD ISSUE

first off, throws thrasher in the cootstorm pit too, they can share. no transphobic kitties allowed (obviously not literally, but i love how like.. natural it is? it’s just cormorantpaw’s life and what he’s been raised to think). egrettail should deck him

also egrettail!!!!!! favorite kitty therapist!!!! i assume maybe asphodelpaw asked about her being aroace, maybe brought on after daffodil was like “oh!! ur just like me and asphodelpw!!!” to pinepaw, and that made her think “wait am i into men even?” but. yeah. she just wants to help and she’s such a sweetie

SEVEN. SILVERS. SHE’S MADE IT!!! SHE’S IN AN ISSUE FR!! ULTIMATE ALLY INVENTED HRT TO SUPPORT EGRETTAIL. THE MOST BASED CAT EVER. I LOVE HER SHE’S JUST A LITTLE KITTY. I HOPE SHE’S OKAY. IM GONNA SAY IT METHINKS EGRET, HUSH PUPPY, AND SEVEN SILVERS R FOUND FAMILY JUST A COUPLE OF CHOSEN SIBS. UNLESS THIS IS A NO. SORRY IM EXCITED ABOUT SEVEN SILVERS

shoutout to cormorantpaw for getting his 2nd issue. kinda a crime that i only bring him up now but its ok. i love the goofy early cartoons titlecard image with the literal lovebug and him just thinking it over before going “oh fk im bi” and i love how egrettail was like “it seems like it to me, but it’s up to u” bc she can’t really like. force him to think he has a crush, something about that was really gentle- back to cormorantpaw!!! now he’s a blushy mess and i love him for it. also WHAT DO U HAVE TO DO BOY. WHAT IS YOUR ANGST

yes i know daffodilpaw was hardly here but she still gets her own section bc that’s my favorite community hc collection. cormorantpaw doesn’t seem to want to be involved romantically with her, saying how she’s nice but also noting how she doesn’t tend to listen to him (which doesn’t make daffy a bad person!! just something they gotta communicate as buddies) but also mentioning how she puts her paw on his, and also in the sleeping shot cormorantpaw is staring past daffodilpaw, who sleeps next to him, and at pinepaw. i’m just. babey noooo. break out of ur toxic mindset its okkk. unless u actually do like cormorantpaw then i’m. sorry. how did i make the daffodilpaw section the longest oops

rate this issue 5 mysterious end birds out of 5!!! thank u for another great issue :3

So sorry not answering this ask for awhile! All that trouble with my account hit at a bad time. I'm glad you liked the issue, though. :)

Egrettail had the patience of a saint for not beating the absolute shit out of Thrasher when they were in Defiance, and I'm certain she gave him what for on more than one occasion after Hush Puppy died.

Yes, she and Asphodelpaw may have had a conversation about similar realizations she was going through just like Cormorantpaw, heheh. We'll get there someday.

I was so excited to finally include Seven Silvers in an issue!! When I first created her character I wasn't planning on it, but she's just too fun not to use. Hell, I'm allowed to invent magic cat hormone therapy if I want to, who's gonna stop me. Seven, Hush Puppy, and Egret are any manner of close friends you like, and found family/siblings are as good a way as any.

The POVs from other characters are not going to be very common, since Pinepaw is the protagonist in the end, but it's always nice to dip back into Cormorantpaw's thick little skull. I was pretty pleased with myself for thinking of the rubberhose style joke with "lovebug", honestly. Don't worry about his angst, I'm sure it's nothing.

Good catch on everything with Daffodilpaw in this issue! It's something I did intentionally include, and did want to draw a comparison between Corm describing her as not really listening to him with Pinepaw always listening to what he says (which as you said, doesn't mean Daff is a bad person, just that she's got her own things to work out).

[shirogane-oushirou]

still working through poke!renro 🤔 (this was supposed to be like 2 paragraphs of some Little Things i'd thought about but then i started rambling. again. ;;)

if i end up in galar, rather than having my accident with a nidorina, it might make more thematic sense to have my accident at giant's mirror in galar with a vileplume. spore based attack rather than toxic attack... since ren works with spores. yknow. and during overcast days, vileplume and sawk are both in that area. so my gengar, who isn't strong enough to help me, pleads to a nearby sawk to carry me to hammerlocke to be treated. and that sawk decided to stick around. yippee!!

so the timeline could be johto > take break for art in kalos > travel to galar to help family settle in at new place in wedgehurst > take train to wild area, maybe pop into motostoke before exploring the northern wild area > have accident > get rescued and taken to hammerlocke pokemon center for treatment > they can only do so much since it took a while to find a way to get there > forfeit my johto challenge when we realize my new disabilities make physically reaching and fighting the league next to impossible > have to learn to take it easy in a small out-of-the-way town with fresh air and great weather but not much to do

also i think ren and i would have an interesting time learning to not fear each others' pokemon skjnd. like if he has a gloom i'd have to learn to face my fears being around a spore-producing pkmn, creating a friendship that culminates in that "gloom emits a foul smell when it's around people it isn't comfortable around, but doesn't emit the smell when it feels safe" factoid playing out.

and he'd have to adjust to being around gengar bc he's a scaredy cat when it comes to ghosts, but once they realize they have common ground (being protective over me) they'd be bros kJNSKJDN.

really truly just want to make this an escapist thing where the biggest conflict is just... befriending each others' pokemon. maybe i could math out some timeline stuff and figure out if any world-ending events happen while we're building our friendship since, yknow, those happen all of the time kJSNDFKJN. but other than that, all vibes babey.

i do definitely still want to keep my disability ofc. other disabled ppl will have their own personal views on escapism, but FOR ME, pretending i'm not disabled make my brain go into unproductive, depressing, "what if i never got sick, what if i got to do xyz that i can't now" places -- and what poke!ro goes through kiiiinda reflects what happened to me if you squint really really hard kJNSDF.... honestly ALL of poke!ro's stuff hits close to home but with a fantastical, pokemon coat of paint over it lmao. ;;

[wrenhavenriver]

top 5 books for you too! also, top 5 video games and top 5 movies, if you would like :3c

heeell yeah! top 5 books:

Salvage The Bones by Jesmyn Ward - an incredibly lyrical and deeply sad story of a family in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. i read it for the first time at a very shitty time in my life and the sibling relationships especially punched me directly in the heart. a tough read on many fronts (definitely look up/mind the content warnings if you have any "hard no" topics in your books) but the power and beauty of jesmyn ward's writing is something else.

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - one of those rare high school assigned books that actually made an incredibly lasting impression. i'm glad 17-year-old me got all those reality checks about *checks notes* the horrors of war, the hollow uselessness of nationalism and being convinced to die for it, the absurdly circular reasoning that props up systems of power and the incompetence of the people at the top of them, the ability of bureaucracy to drive you to sheer sobbing madness, financial systems being wildly arbitrary at best and a fucking scam at worst, *takes breath*,

The Long Walk by Stephen King - look, I find most of Stephen King's work deeply annoying, but this one fucking hits. A Hunger Games-esque premise that's about self-destructive urges and toxic masculinity as much as it as about the actual, you know, ritualized dystopian death march. also the camaraderie that forms between these teenagers even in the most hideous of circumstances is so charming and funny and sweet. also also it's just, like, really gay (peter mcvries you mad bisexual disaster).

The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Sorry.

Anything by Octavia Butler really, but Dawn has a special place in my heart. The detail Butler put into all the different ways an alien species would be, well, alien to us--biological, linguistic, the makeup of family units, understandings of gender and sex, etc--and her description of humans as intelligent but highly hierarchical, and how these conflicting qualities could very well lead to our destruction...the hugely messy power dynamics not only between aliens and humans but among humans themselves...there's just so much to sink your teeth into, and it's only the first fucking book in the trilogy!

much more briefly because i'm giving myself eye strain, top 5 video games:

this is another one of those things that seems to shift every time i'm asked it but there are two (2) that will very likely never be budged from the list and those would be: have i mentioned this game called dishonored 2012 dev. arkane studios maybe one or eighteen hundred times over the last ten years; and bloodborne babey!!!

feeling like i need a zelda entry on here rn but i can't decide between majora's mask or twilight princess

fire emblem: awakening set me on the terrible path of anime chess obsession and i'm much less mad about it than i should be

also need a sengoku jidai media entry on here but i can't decide (x2) between sengoku basara or nioh which is hilarious because they are WILDLY different in tone. the duality of man

oh shit that's at least five? ask me again in a week and i'll have at least three different substitutions lmao

favorite movies:

the handmaiden. adapting fingersmith to 1930s korea is galaxy brain levels of genius and hideko and sook-hee are peak romance

saw pan's labyrinth for the first time at like. age 14? and it chemically altered my brain and introduced me to guillermo del toro's work and made me feel a lot of horrifying things. 10/10

need a ghibli entry on here but can't decide (x3) between princess mononoke and howl's moving castle, vote now on your phones

lord of the rings: the two towers. saw it six times in theaters when it originally came out and it's still my favorite of the series. can pretty much watch it by just closing my eyes at this point.

favorite disney/pixar is tangled. "i see the light" is also peak romance. wait what if hideko and sook-hee sang i see the light to each other

[firewoodwander]

001 for Coreel, and 002 for our boy Fi 🖤

:D

When I started shipping it if I did: 2022 babey. As soon as I got into Triple Zero really

My thoughts: fuck me up any day of the week. Toxic codependency, kind of teacher/student kind of just chill bros getting too far in over their heads kind of massive tension lots of pining, lots of daddy issues internalised homophobia internalised clonephobia internalised mandalorian predjudice (aka Kal and his bullshit) PLUS a whole bunch of kink

What makes me happy about them: they are so good together. Op power couple. They’re awful for each other. I never ever want them to break up. The sex is fire probably. I can not be fucking normal about them

What makes me sad about them: bro what doesn’t. I need another cider.

Things done in fanfic that annoys me: uwu Corr baby and not trained killer lethal bomb squaddie more than capable of looking out for himself, uwu Mereel is a smooth ladykiller and not a weird little freak with anxiety and daddy issues -> (to be fair I don’t think I’ve seen a lot of this. Y’all doing good)

Things I look for in fanfic: they are AWFUL for each other but they’re so deeply in love they’re gonna work it out. Also fuck Kal Skirata off the face of the galaxy

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: Corr -> Besany! Or Ordo, or Fi. Mereel -> Ordo, Fi, Jaing, Jaing & Kom’rk, Boss, Fox

My happily ever after for them: Mereel works on himself as a partner, Corr works through his trauma, they tell Kal to go fuck himself and live very happily like normal people somewhere on Mandalore and frequently visited by the rest of the family.

Who is the big spoon/little spoon: switch

What is their favorite non-sexual activity: smooth undercover ops. Or, domestically, cooking for each other (while the other tries to help)

[goldxnfemme]

I just don't see how that person can say something like yeah id fuck a femme but I wouldn't be with one and not see the problem with it. As if thats not the same toxic attitude majority of cishet men view women. It just bothers me so much that you would generalize and reduce part of your own community to just a sexual fantasy, in the same manner our oppressors do. Am not femme personally and yeah they aren't my preference either BUT I still love and admire and respect them. I don't conflate them with how they can satisfy me sexually. They're my friends, my family. Why would I do any less for them. Its just awful you hate to see it. Op is valid in their feelings I think but that gives them zero right to behave how they are currently. That's personal traumatic shit they need to work through, not put on to others, especially in a community setting like this.

All this to say my sympathies and ily and I lov femmes and I always will. Femmes have been so kind to me here and helped me feel ok w myself in more ways than one. I will always try to return the favor. (From a gnc bisexual mutual🤝 solidarity babey)

yeah I don't get how they don't see it either. Tbh it's just so frustrating. I'd give you a better answer but this day has been very draining and honestly just the way they talk proves that they don't need any help from us to see how wrong they are.

Butches have my heart always and forever, you're loved and seen and appreciated here and none of you have to want me, but respect is essential on both parts regardless of your romantic inclinations. And I'll call out harmful behaviour from butches and/or from femmes if I have to.

[mineonmain]

Have you seen the GMMTV 2023 trailers? Any you like? I am so ready for ‘only friends’

oh MAN have i see the trailers?? I've seen i'd like to say a good majority of them, although i don't actually know how many there are lmaoo. i've been doing nothing all day except spamming the discord with links and screaming about the upcoming shows. so let me just list out the trailers i've seen, and then i'll just say in a line or so what I think:

Midnight Museum - it's giving Night at the Museum meets Hotel del Luna, and that's all I have to say about it. Not my cup of tea, probably won't watch it, Gun stans go ham

Double Savage - YES. YES. YEEEEEEEEES. Besties Perth and Ohm are in a series together as brothers, and there's the age old conflict of family vs moral civic duty, heart vs mind, and I wouldn't trust anyone else to carry it out. Ohm and Perth are probably some of my favourite actors, and it's such an incredible way for them to flex their acting chops, also knowing they're friends and could trust each other when acting with one another. LETS GOOOOOOO

A Boss and A Babe (BL)- what is this title. What in the wattpad, Office AU, boss-and-secretary-but-Make-It-Gay headass is this. I'm not a ForceBook person anyways, so I will not be watching this cheese cringefest, as long as they're enjoying themselves. it's a no from me dawg

Enigma - this is for all the horror/psychological thriller girlies out there. I won't be watching this bc i'm not good with horror, but i'm excited to see Win in a role unlike any he's played before, full of enigmatic (hehe) charm.

Last Twilight (BL) - It's giving that Me Before You, Bucket List before going blind, fault in our stars energy, honestly I'm pretty ambivalent about it. JimmySea are cute together tho

Wednesday Club - messy messy messy. a group of friends who don't like each other and all full of *secrets* because it's cool to not be a nice person i guess. everyone needs therapy.

Dangerous Romance (BL) - gotta say i'm surprised by this, i have a love-hate relationship with this one. don't like that it's set in highschool, wasn't expecting perth to be in another BL, wasn't actually expecting it to be with chimon despite the rumors. however, Perth is so good at this, he and Chimon are such good friends, I might just give it a shot. As much as I love Perth, Chimon is shining in this one. Hard to go wrong with a classic enemies-to-lovers

Hidden Agenda (BL) - This feels so bloody basic and derivative. Dunk is playing a nerd (except he's hot), Joong is reprising his role from Star and Sky, it's giving reverse 2gether, Podd and Guy are There for some reason??? I really like Joong but give my man some better roles. I'll still watch it tho

The Jungle - GMMTV said 'Diversely Yours' and then gave us a multi-starrer of several toxic men being the actual worst, and a bunch of women looking at them going 'I could fix him', and then gmmtv said 'here you go here's your diversity and representation'. No comment

Cooking Crush (BL) - OffGun Chef + Doctor AU. I can't particularly see a plot here so far, and I feel like offgun's strength lies outside the romcom genre, but that's just me tee hee ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Probably good mindless entertainment for babiis

Beauty Newbie - Remake of My ID is Gangnam Beauty. I don't have anything to say about this

23.5 (GL) - FINALLY gmmtv's first proper GL, and it's with MilkLove (as they deserve!!!) it's giving that soft sapphic pining and love, full of euphemism and metaphor, and i can't wait to see how it turns out. if we can have main BL with a side GL, then we can have a main GL with a side BL, that's equal rights babey

Loneliness Society - Remake of While You Were Sleeping. Again, as with all remakes, I have nothing to say

Our Skyy 2 - PATPRAN!!! PHUTIAN!! ITS THE RETURN OF OUR KINGS!!! (i'm also excited at the implication of Never Let Me Go finally finishing filming soon so that it airs before this one, i've been waiting for it all year esp since it was apparently supposed to air this september) And finally...

Only Friends - The ultimate mess. I made a flow chart just to be able to try and sort out the mess of relationships just in the trailer, and all I can say is I know this show is going to be a wild freaking ride, from start to finish. Neo is the drama, KhaoFirst have the best chemistry in the cast, and this is going to bang. Period

TLDR I'm most excited for/most likely to watch Double Savage, Our Skyy 2, Dangerous Romance, Only Friends, 23.5, Hidden Agenda

(I know this long ass post isn't what you asked for, but it's what you're getting)

BONUS

Never Let Me Go (Finally airing in 2023 hopefully)

Moonlight Chicken (Finally airing soon, either end 2022 or early 2023)

The Interest (new movie with Bright and Yaya)

[lewis-winters]

tagged by @airsignss

Tea, coffee, or soda? water

Dogs or cats? my toxic trait is being a cat person who has a dog (who has the personality of a particularly skittish, sassy cat)

Can you play any instrument? oh god, no.

What’s your sun sign? taurus!

First song lyrics that pops into your head? I've been jamming to & Juliet bc Stark Sands, so the chorus of Larger than Life or Domino is on constant repeat 24/7

Do you have any tattoos? have 2! saving up for a big one going on either my side or my chest, next.

Favorite place you’ve travelled? nothing beats Palawan, Philippines babey. sure, I almost drowned, but I would do it again!

What’s the last movie you watched? Serving Up Richard bc I wanted to see Ross Mccall covered in blood

Do you have any hobbies? maladaptive day dreaming.

What languages do you speak? English and Tagalog. A little Bisaya, but not very well.

You can hang out with one fictional character for an hour, who do you choose? I just wanna be a little cartoon dog and hang out with Bluey's family for a bit.

Compliment yourself? I can make a really good ube-grilled cheese sandwich

tagging hi @hellofanidea

[melxncholymermxid]

Over Sharing O'Clock babey~

My mom is an alcoholic who just lost her car (over a month ago) and license. My sister took care of my brothers while she was in rehab. I moved out years ago.

My mom and sister fight like crazy, they always have. My mom neglected us our entire childhood, mentally and emotionally. Also physically in the sense of not taking us to the doctor regularly, even though we had insurance so it wasn't even a $ thing

My dad left when I was in HS, and my mom met this guy maybe a year or so later. He moved in way too quick. He never really talked to us. I found out after moving out and after they broke up that he was abusing her. That's when her drinking got worse.

My sister throws everything in my mom's face when they argue, which in some sense is fair. She's allowed to feel her emotions and say what she wants. But my mom can't focus on recovery when my sister throws her drinking and relationships in her face constantly.

However when we were younger my mom would call us every name in the book. So part of me feels bad when I ask my sister to cut it out. No one was telling Mom to talk to us nicely.

I don't know how to help both of them. I know it's not my job or responsibility to insert myself in this, but they both, mainly my mom but my sister has as well, tell me what's going on.

And through all this my brothers still have to also suffer and deal with the toxic energy at home.

My sister is jealous that my mom takes their health more seriously than she did ours, which is true. I don't know how to get my sister to not take it out on them, verbally, without already worsening how she talks about it with our mom.

I still struggle with the fact that the past is the past and there's no changing it, so I can't tell my sister that and expect her to just get it and change.

And I don't know how to convey to her that talking nicer and treating people better will also have her feeling better, because it sounds like I'm just trying to get her to shut up, which is not at all what I'm trying to do.

TLDR: I don't know how to help my family, and I have no right to really try because I moved out. They can hate me as much as they want and I just have to deal with it. That's probably why I overcompensate by trying to "fix" and "help" everyone.

If my sister never wants to talk to me ever again, that's her choice. I have to respect it whenever she decides to cut contact. I don't want to though.

[lousolversons]

Don’t tell mama. Sharp Objects (2018)

[grelleswife]

Poisoned Beauty: Musings on Flower Language in the 4th Kuroshitsuji Art Book

After seeing the cover art for the fourth Kuroshitsuji art book (and the card included as an extra with purchase from Animate), I started to wonder about the potential symbolic significance behind the flowers attached to O!Ciel’s hat (How on earth does babey boi wear that massive headpiece without falling over?! But I digress).

At first glance, the petal formation reminded me of the labernum tree. In flower language, the labernum is associated with pensive beauty or the state of being forsaken. Considering his emotional isolation, the tragic loss of his family, and the bleak fate which awaits him at the end of the contract—not to mention the fact that many of his allies have turned their backs on him in the wake of the twin reveal—the latter meaning aptly describes O!Ciel’s situation. And our boi’s expression in the artwork itself is thoughtful, albeit guarded: A wicked mind doubtlessly cooking up new schemes of villainy beneath that elegant veneer.

Moreover, every part of the tree contains an alkaloid known as cytisine, which is poisonous to humans, causing nausea, vomiting, and (in large enough quantities) drowsiness, headache, and confusion. At least one work of Victorian literature, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, uses laburnum’s toxicity as a metaphor for moral degeneracy. Lord Henry, who lures the innocent Dorian into a life of vice and hedonism, is associated with this plant as early as Chapter 1 (“Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum”), a nod to his poisonous influence on the protagonist’s life.

Once again, this easily relates to our smol murder nugget. Though presenting a golden facade to the world, O!Ciel’s soul has been corrupted (“poisoned,” if you will) by Sebastian’s demonic influence and his own dark choices, with harmful ramifications that extend beyond the earl himself to damage the lives of those around him. Note also in the illustrations above how the flowers seem to cascade down the right side of his face, where the eye bearing Sebastian’s contract seal is located, thus partially obscuring it from view. A hidden evil lurks behind their splendor.

There’s just one problem, however: I’m not entirely sure those flowers are from a laburnum tree. Perhaps my eyes deceive me, but the branching pattern of the decorations on O!Ciel’s hat might bear a closer resemblance to Koelreuteria paniculata, sometimes known as the golden rain tree.

Alas, I couldn’t find much on the potential symbolism linked to this tree, although one source claims that golden rain trees have traditionally been planted over the graves of scholars in Japan (obvious connection with mortality). Another Kuro-adjacent fact here is that its mature leaves can be made into a black dye…but if I attempt to reach any further, I’ll dislocate my shoulder, so I’d best stop there. 😅

If any folks with greater botanical expertise or a more thorough understanding of flower language have additional insights to share, I’d love to hear them!

[notstilinski]

Shit I Heard At College Starters!

Taken from things that I have heard around campus within the last semester. Some of these have already been edited. You can change them however you see fit!

“I know. I’ve seen the tweets.”

“I’m already a pain in the ass. I didn’t want to be a bigger pain in the ass.”

“I just saw the spinning wheels of an invisible entity.”

“This taffy don’t feel laughy.”

“R.L Stone is probably in purgatory, oh god!”

“I didn’t have any trauma, so I have to make my own.”

“I met a stripper, her name's Coco, we bonded.”

“The one thing that got me sober: Child death.”

“Can you bring a raccoon back? I want a pet.”

“If you see a guy who’s way too happy to be sober. Don’t worry, he’s definitely sober. He’s a good kid.”

“I’m here to wreck your home. Your kitchen? Gone. Family room? Gone.”

“See, I respect crazy but only if it’s done correctly.”

“Biologically? They’re twenty-five, but spiritually they are eight thousand.”

“Oh my god, I am a switch. You don’t have to keep bringing it up.”

“How fucking dare you imply it’s the gay one? I would never disrespect it with heteronormative sex.”

“Cover your ears. I don’t want you to hear the gay.”

“We don’t know that those slushies didn’t have vodka in it!”

“Maybe you should put on your toe-toe socks while you’re wearing your little fancy shoes.”

“ *random seal noises while clapping* “

“Oh, you’re really drawing. Okay, Papa Ross.”

“I got roasted last time, so I’m just listening to other people now.”

“Diagnosis me, Babey!”

“Can’t be anxious if you befriend everyone in the classroom.”

“She confessed her overwhelming love for me and then stabbed me with a violin bow. She stabbed me because I rejected her.”

“Have a good walk home! Hopefully, nobody follows you.”

“What makes me unique is that I crack my body every time that I move.”

“I evaluate your taste in music and then base your letter grade on it.”

“I’m sure it will be a good memory, but it’s still too fresh right now.”

“He’s smart but not, like, school smart.”

“We need to get you off the cocaine, mister. This is not good, these drugs, I tell ya.”

“I need to make sure to take a shit before classes.”

“Hi, king! Stay toxic!”

“Oh, these titties? Why yes they’re all-natural.”

“Is this reminiscent of the fact that you haven’t felt love in ten years?”

“I don’t need to eat water anyway.”

“I like how we’re just sitting here, calmly doing our homework while brutal murder plays on our television.”

“That can only exist on an album cover for Mumford and Sons and nothing else.”

“We did not have sex with (Name), this comes more from word of mouth.”

“He says it’s because I cripple my family.”

“Wholesome, but make it sexy.”

“He protecc, but he doesn’t attac. He has anxiety.”

“I don’t study dicks!”

“I got called an alcoholic baby.”

“The Lord giveth, and he gives us alcohol in celebration.”

“Just bash his head in, babe.”

“Homie, we’re all gay. Do you see all the flannels and cardigans?”

“It was hotter than a witch’s tit in there.”

“Mistake number one of true crime. Be a happy and normal family.”

“If you ever get down on yourself for not being accepted by anything, know that you’re accepted by this.”

“I’ll force you to socialize for seven hours with no breaks. You’d be dead on the spot.”

“I’m stressed, but we’re vibing, I guess.”

“Remember, if you don’t set up any goals, you can’t not reach them.”

“Naked and afraid in a Target bathroom.”

“I can’t believe you keep pulling your cock out while playing Clue.”

“Don’t you remember when you first came in and went, “you’re no longer gay?”

“You just need to give yourself the grace of being shitty.”

“Everyone’s sick right now, so they’re calling it the Frat Flu.”

“Because that’s what we want, our son staring at his mother’s titties.”

“A girl at work showed me a picture of her boyfriend and, without thinking, I went ‘aw! Charity work!”

“Don’t you start with me, Christian Samantha.”

“Pussygetter3000. My first Gmail account.”

“Everybody loves grandma.”

“Yeah, I was a terrible child.”

“Did you just say crying sesh?”

“How are we doing over here, guys? A little dead on the inside?”

“Virgin Mary, but make it STD.”

“The biggest fuck you — Our religious trauma inviting us to a chapel.”

“I once had a dream that I fucked my grandma.”

“If it’s not at least a little bit criminally illegal, we don’t want it.”

“Do you think that if I hugged my computer hard enough, it’ll transfer the information to it?”

“I wanna draw her like one of my French girls.”

“Grandpa died in me.”

“My brother is being shady. He’s being nice to me.”

“A stranger asked: Male or female? I said MF. Motherfucker.”

“I look eye so hard.”

“Not everyone has the same feeling in the butt.”

“I can’t have my happiness rely on anyone, much less a 21-year-old white man.”

“That seems awfully suspicious that a grown man is showing you his cockpit.”

“Sometimes… My mind is a prison.”

“This can also go the other way. I can also psychologically damage.”

“It’s just going to get harder. I don’t know why I’m assuming that this is the worst.”

“If you’re sad and you know it, clap your hands.” *clap, clap*

“Mother of Propaganda.”

“Goodnight. I hope you have night terrors.”

“I never met someone who could make a stomach ache a personality trait.”

“(Name) is my permanent bed buddy.”

“Straight out of Mr. Starbucks himself, she’ll drink his pee.”

“Bitch, it’s not a hoe phase. You’re just sad, and a slut.”

“Wow, I didn’t know Pixar did Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”

"I am not feared enough in my lifetime, so I shall be feared in my afterlife."

“Existence is pain.”

“They absolutely destroyed me. I am no longer in one piece down there.”

“You were also once a crying, screaming mucus.”

“Police? They’re here for you.”

“Wow, you’re just an evil slut.”

“POV: I’m breaking into your apartment.”

“Yeah. Eighteen minutes of unconsciousness.”

“I know. I’m not dead. Just on the inside.”

“Zero dollars is acceptable, but more than zero dollars is greatly appreciated.”

“He is, uh, an incest baby."

“I’m helping our child commit his first kill!”

“I like beating (Name).”

“I’m sorry. I’m still dying.”

“Hi. I’m Mommy, nice to meet you.”

“Huh. That’s interesting — That doesn’t look very wholesome.”

“Just because I’m dreary doesn’t mean the weather needs to be dreary.”

“He cries every night because he can’t be Mistletoe Daddy.”

“You’re gonna shoot him with a gun?!”

“She said that she would shoot him, put the gun in the hole and push it until it's in there.”

“Similar to Pitbull, “Already been there, done that.”

“No idea. Because I have no perception of time.”

“It’s fun to mess with (Name) because you mess with them, and they just sort of buffer.”

“You’re nerds (derogatory).”

“Once, we were playing Uno, and it was not looking good for him, so he goes, “This has to be a race thing.”

“No. I cannot be responsible for another living thing.”

“The Vietnam war could have been an email.”

“I like the idea of maybe falling to my death.”

“Is it when I sell my toe pics, and they don’t tax me?”

“A bridge. Throw yourself.”

“Grandmommy? Grandmommy.”

“If she doesn’t bust her hip during sex, she’s too young for me.”

“Didn’t get a birthday card in the mail this morning. I’m a little hurt. But it’s okay.”

“What do you think Mickey Mouse sounds like when he’s getting pegged?”

“I laughed so hard that I grew abs.”

“Another day, another painkiller.”

“I’m desensitized to people being mad at me, so I’m like fuck it!”

“I’m more than just… A nine-year-old's body.”

“Coochie out on a Tuesday afternoon.”

“I spill water, I spill alcoholic beverages, and I’m going to spill myself.”

“Hated a strong word. I highly dislike her person.”

“At least I’m better than Ted Bundy.”

“We will allow incest on this occasion.”

“It was extremely mildly uncomfortable.”

“You just want to get laid out by a female so bad.”

“I want to kick him into the sewer, starve him of water and watch him cripple away.”

“Someone asked if they were Christmas tears.”

“Okay. I’m just going to go drink water and pray for attention.”

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sugarcoated?? sugarcoated PLEASE??? already foaming at the mouth

aldkjfadlfja i hope it's not at the prospect that this is eddissy-adjacent bc, alas, this is an original!

it started off as, like, my covid comfort project back when lockdown actually meant something. we're about 45k into the finished project (estimated 80k at the finish).

heeeeeere is the ~gist:

romance // humor // dual pov // older man/younger woman // love at first sight // developing relationship // falling in love // slow burn // accidental sugar daddy // demisexuality // anxiety // family // drama // sexual content // femdom // gently dismantling toxic masculinity (always gotta do that, babey!!)

the ~synopsis:

When her parents split — predictably, finally, but with no regard for good timing, to say the least — twenty-two-year-old Etta MacPherson drops out of her art major to take care of her codependent mother. To help make ends meet, Etta takes a job at her hometown diner, where she finds some respite with her friends and a totally inconvenient crush on the local mechanic.

(Her fixation on his hands is, admittedly, almost immediately ridiculous.)

Jude St. Jacob knows approximately three things: how to run his family’s auto shop, how to do a pretty killer tattoo, and that the cute new waitress at the Over-Easy makes him think he actually knows nothing at all. Dating’s never been his thing. It’s been give-or-take ten years since he’s bothered, but he doesn’t need more than ten minutes with Etta to think maybe his love life’s worth another try.

(He just needs to figure out if she likes him, too, and what the hell that even means.)

and, a ~snippet, from etta/jude’s first meeting at the diner:

“He’s — he’s too —” She dances from foot to foot, like she could physically shake off this feeling. “I don’t know. I don’t know.”

“Really revved your engine, that it?”

Etta grimaces. “Eurgh, don’t say it like that, it’s stupid.”

“No, it’s not. Hi, he’s a mechanic.”

Oh, so it was a pun or something. “Consider this my two weeks’ notice.”

“You’re really into him, huh? Hm.” Raya looks out the order window. “I get it, like, for you, but also? I don’t see it.”

“You need a new prescription.”

“Shove it up your ass, he looks like a Muppet.”

“If a Muppet was also a super hot guy. Oh, no —” Etta takes another hit off her inhaler. Not gonna do her much good if she keeps it up, but the sense of abject horror that’s just doused her like a cold shower respectfully disagrees. “Does this make me a furry?”

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Rick and Morty for the Blorbo ask game!

(Fucked up my answer to yours at first sorry!)

(Haha dw about it!)

Blorbo (fave)- ohh definitely Morty bsjshsjsjs. I just. I love him- he is my baby, my boywife, my beloved. I also project onto him LMAO so there's that- (fr tho khkahdkbdjssj my rnm art is 90% morty and like- 10% rick, im sorry rick dbdbdb-)

Scrunkly (baby)- morty again toxic Morty. (Ok most of these are going to be morty- but come on! Rick and Morty and their alternate selves make up like 90% of the existing cast leave me alone ;-;) toxic morty is just a sad little babey but he's so cute and I just wanna hug him hnhngngng.

Scrimblo bimblo (underappreciated fave): Evil Rick! He gets totally overshadowed by evil morty and it's a shame because he's so attractive interesting!

Glip Shitto (obscure fave): Girl Morty! Not Morticia, but the pocket mortys Girl Morty! I like her a lot :D

(Oh! Also- idk how obscure this is but Squanchy! I fuckin love squanchy, he's the best, people don't talk about him enough).

Poor Little Meow Meow: Jerry akdhskhkdhsjdh. Listen, is he a pathetic manchild? Yes. He's also a poor little meow meow and I think he gets a lot of undeserved hate. The rest of the Smith family aren't exactly better sjdbsjdhjsm. And he can be sweet and endearing at times! ... sometimes-

Horse Plinko (torment time): c-137 Rick. LOOK i love him and all, but it's so fun and satisfying seeing him get his ass handed to him. Especially this latest season, I was like YES! BRING ON THE BEATINGS! HUMBLE HIS ASS! I just love watching this mean old man get his ass handed to him, it's great. (Again- i do love him, but also he deserves it sometimes so hsbdjdhsjsh).

Eeby deeby (you're getting sent to superhell): Mr Jellybean.

Cause seriously. Fuck that guy.

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If you were to sort the Infinity Train cast(s) into the Major Arcana a la the Persona games, which Arcana would you give everyone?

anon I had SOOOOO much fun thinking about this, thank you so much for sending me this. I sorted all the major characters, plus a few other entries, based on a mix of Arcana symbolism, Persona series character archetypes, and general vibes. I came up with answers I feel pretty good about for all but four of the Arcana. (Was really tempted to say Strength is every human character who doesn't board the train because they can handle their problems on their own lol.) This is going to be a long-winded post, so I thought I’d post just the list as an image (which hopefully won’t be too blurry!) rather than wrestle with Tumblr formatting trying to make a short list, and put a big text wall under the readmore talking more about my picks.

If this list does end up illegible, the same info is under the readmore as text! Plus some characters for Magician, Strength, Justice, and Death that I didn’t want to add to the “official” list because they’re more based on headcanon. (Although my reasoning for some of the “official” picks is pretty weak lol.)

One-One as 0. The Fool

Oh my gosh, what am I?

IT is great at fleshing out character backstories and families, so One-One at the beginning of S1 is one of the few characters who really feels like a blank slate. He's got a lot of his baggage back by the end of the season, and I think One and One-One are more similar than they seem at first glance, but S1 does seem to have been very formative for One-One and how he thinks about what he's supposed to be doing and how he relates to other people. So it does kind of feel like his fool's journey.

Alrick Timmens as I. The Magician

The magician begins the journey... by beefing it on a dirt bike, dying, and sending his wife flying off the deep end. Rip.

Alrick was an engineer like Amelia, so I could see him suiting some of the themes of the Magician, like conscious thought and manifesting ideas. His apparent playfulness and insecurity are similar to the Magician characters in Persona.

Kez as II. The High Priestess

“We can’t make this decision for you, Kez.” “You know what to do.”

I thought really hard about making Kez the Magician because just like every Magician since Persona 3, she's dumb, horny, and insecure dlkjasfdkl

(and also her showing up at the start of the story arc and being helpful but also super needy is very Magician)

But the idea of "intuition" really does suit Kez. Sometimes her intuition is as bad as her conscious reasoning, but I think that's a lot because she's so confused about what happened with Jeremy, and Morgan making Kez feel like she did a bad thing by helping him.

Tuba as III. The Empress

She made me feel like I was warm all the time.

Tuba's a mom. Sorry, this one's not that deep, haha.

Simon Laurent as IV. The Emperor

Highest number! I'm the leader now.

Simon has a lot of issues, but the one that felt the most prominent to me was his unhealthy relationship with power, authority, dominance, and rules. Another quote I considered using here was what he said in Grace's memory of meeting Amelia: "I never thought I'd get to see the Conductor with my own eyes. He's perfect! Everything finally makes sense again." In his emotional crisis, he thought everything could be fixed just by the existence of a huge, scary, powerful, male authority figure, even if they weren't doing anything helpful or informative.

Atticus as V. The Hierophant

I like to think that our stones are sturdy and handsome, like the Corgis that crafted them.

Atticus is a figure of traditional authority who deeply loves the history, society, and culture of his people. He often provides spiritual wisdom and encourages Tulip to get out of her own head and engage with the world around her. Also in Persona, Hiero is the Dad Arcana so it's very funny to me (a) to make the little dog be Hiero and (b) that the little dog really does have the strongest Wholesome Dad Energy of the whole cast.

Jesse Cosay as VI. The Lovers

Don't tell me what to do. I'm not going to be a part of anything like this, on or off the train.

This was my first and easiest pick lol, Jesse is sooooo Lovers. Like, the focus on choice and personal values and relationships? Yep, that's Jesse. It works on an "actual meaning of the Arcana" level and a "vibes with the Persona characters" level lol... popular, upbeat, and having such an identity crisis.

Lake as VII. The Chariot

I'm my own person, who is getting off this train!

I don't know if Chariot captures all the ways Lake grew over the course of S2, but I feel like they had the most externally focused conflict of all the IT characters, which suits Chariot. They've been fighting to stake out their personhood from start to finish, and they took action and used their willpower to achieve that goal. Also they have at least a little jock energy which is a prereq for Chariot tbh.

Frank as VIII. Strength

I dunno, I kinda imagine him as a simple man and easily underestimated, but with a lot of heart. The Cat may say they're keeping things casual but I don't think she'd take him with her on her private vacation unless he had some kind of inner toughness that would let him stand toe-to-toe with her.

Morgan as IX. The Hermit

I need to be alone right now. Kez... maybe... we can talk later.

I like that Morgan embodies toxic self-isolation and stonewalling and rejection, but that she seems to be moving towards the positive aspects of Hermit and taking some time to calm down and process and think. I like it when characters can embody the best and worst of their Arcana.

Tulip Olsen as X. The Wheel of Fortune

We have to adapt to the changes in our lives. It's the only way things can get better.

Tulip has a lot of themes and conflicts, but this one is a clear standout as the most important. I also like it for Tulip because, while she has to handle a lot of difficult and even traumatic situations, some of the change that challenges her isn't as unambiguously bad as e.g. the death of a loved one. It really is just change itself she's struggling with, and that's Fortune babey. Also, from the perspective of the train itself and lots of other characters, by reversing Amelia and One-One's positions again and changing how One-One administrates the train, Tulip is the one giving the wheel a spin. That's fun.

Lucy as XI. Justice

One of my friends once described the Justice characters in Persona as "the ones the player character is ultimately accountable towards", and I like to think of Lucy as kind of being that for Grace (...since Hazel has excused herself). Lucy is the Apex kid we see Grace interact with the most, the first Apex kid Grace admitted to herself that she had harmed (see Grace very briefly showing distress and then regret when Jesse points the harpoons at his face and she stops him), and the first person to confront Grace when she came home in The New Apex.

Min-Gi Park as XII. The Hanged Man

I don't know if we'll sell a single album, but we'll figure that out as we go.

Min-Gi sacrifices his "realistic", "sensible" goals for a more personally (spiritually, even?) enriching life that's beyond his control and outside of the expected norm. Like the Hanged Man, who dangles foolishly upside-down, but as a deliberate choice and in a state of serenity and enlightenment. I also think this arcana suits a reading of Min-Gi's character development as starting off going slower as a way to stall and live in denial, but then going slower with deliberation. Compare his arrogant insistence on refusing to act in The Astro Queue Car to his patience and care in The Castle Car and The Train to Nowhere.

Jeremy as XIII. Death

This isn't about the death of his family - I'm thinking of his reluctance to admit his number was going down. He cared about Morgan and Kez, and it's possible both that he may have really wanted to stay with them despite his exit and that that might even have been a healthy choice - they're real ass people with feelings and everything, not holodeck characters. But I also think Jeremy was using his life with them to avoid moving on out of that fog (because it was hard and it hurt and he didn't want to think about what that would mean for him and Morgan) and Morgan was enabling him.

Ryan Akagi as XIV. Temperance

Maybe the experience is the point. I wasn't just rushing you. I was rushing myself.

I think this one speaks for itself. Also, the other quote I considered putting here, from The Art Gallery Car: "You told me I can't appreciate the song without taking in the rest of the album. I need the whole package."

The Cat as XV. The Devil

I always do the right thing.

Honestly, this is one I really wasn't sure about. The Cat isn't a great pick for a lot of the meanings of Devil. She is definitely consumed by material comforts, and the short-term rewards of ignoring her issues at a long-term cost, though. This is more of a "vibes with Persona characters with this arcana" pick... Devil characters tend to start off being somewhat exploitative or even antagonistic towards the player character, and gradually showing a more conflicted and genuine side.

Amelia Hughes as XVI. The Tower

There's a hole in the universe where Alrick used to be.

Amelia's life is defined by catastrophe and upheaval - both those she's suffered and those she's inflicted on others.

Hazel as XVII. The Star

I'm going to keep loving you like you're still here.

When I think of "The Star" as a small but inextinguishable light in the darkness, Hazel seems like the obvious choice. Although we left her deeply wounded, I think she still has a flicker of her hope, faith, and purpose.

Grace Monroe as XVIII. The Moon

But it's unfair for me to tell you how to understand yourself. I mean, I don't even fully understand me.

Grace is probably the most complex and dynamic character on the show and hence one of the most difficult to place. I considered Empress, Strength, Devil, and Judgement for her... I think ultimately, lies and illusions are the most unifying theme of her character arc. Also, from a Persona angle, her pursuit of status out of a lack of true self-worth reminds me of Ai and Mishima.

Alan Dracula as XIX. The Sun

Brought together by the majesty of a superpowered deer!

I'm sorry dkjasfklads this is largely because I thought it was funny to have this completely inexpressive dead-eyed deer as Sun akfk but also... like... it kind of works okay!!! Think about the genuine joy and comfort and positivity he brings to Lake and Jesse (and me)!

The New Apex as XX. Judgement

"Then what are we gonna be?" "Guess we'll have to figure it out?"

This is kind of a Persona mythology gag again because of Judgement being a group social link near the end of the narratives of P3 and P4, when the protagonists have pierced through the lies and actually figured out who the villain of their game is and are ready to really start making progress.

0 as XI. The World

Ah, train does it again!

It's an ending and the completion of a journey, but also the beginning of a new one. And the world is literally what the passengers receive at the end of their train journey. Welcome home.