#which YES

[lich-slap]

You know what. I'll say it. Corey and Mariah duet when.

[pynkhues]

I feel like from browsing tags on tumblr and on AO3 that DM is more popular than Loustat, which I find super interesting. Personally I love both so I’m happy to get any content, but I was initially really surprised that was the case given the amount of content in canon is almost the exact inverse to fandom.

I wonder if this is because DM hasn’t happened yet so there’s more to speculate, on up to and including the dynamics at play. But I do ALSO wonder if it’s because it’s more acceptable to ship and you’re less likely to have gotten hate about DM compared to Loustat over the last two years. Which I find soooo funny because if that’s the case, when it actually happens I suspect people will be in for a rude awakening.

Anyway, just wondering if you’ve noticed this and had any thoughts? You’re very insightful about these things and I know have been in various fandoms before.

Ah, it's kinda funny you bring this up, because I was actually talking about something adjacent to this with @hypermania yesterday.

I think they're a fun ship with a fun dynamic generally, and I think you're right that a part of it comes from the fact that DM hasn't happened yet. I think that opens up the overall possibility of what their dynamic and relationship could be, especially given there's a wide window of time to play around in between the 70s and the modern era. I think their particular dynamic can at first glance look pretty trope-y too in a way that often appeals to fandoms (enemies to lovers! Mutual obsession! A hardened character who's actually a traumatised victim who just wants love and the snarky antagonist who'll love him - entire fandoms have been built on the back of that), and I think as a ship, people probably see them as having less baggage than Louis and Lestat, both in terms of actual canon elements (no dead child, no dv, no murder, etc.) and in terms of -- y'know. *gestures to the fandom*

I also think, at least in terms of fic, that people probably think Daniel and Armand are easier characters to write, which - - mm. I think Daniel definitely is easier to write than Louis and Lestat are, but I don't think Armand is at all. This is actually what me and Courtney were talking about yesterday - that there's a tendency to defang all these characters, but particularly Armand it seems? There's this sort of fanon version of him that's almost as popular as housewife Louis which is as this waifish little weirdo, when Armand's pretty specifically dangerous, especially in the show. He's a master manipulator and an apex predator, and while, of course, he's not just those things, it does seem to be a part of him that's softened when it comes to writing fic which has him falling pretty neatly into a character archetype that I think is just generally very popular in fandoms, even though it's not necessarily the way I'd personally interpret him.

I also - - mm. Trying to find a way to say this, haha. Sex work is a pretty popular trope in fanfic, and it has been in every fandom that I've been in. I think Armand having a canonical past in that is appealing to certain parts of fandom, for better and for worse, to say nothing of the canonical BDSM element of his character (which I think is less popular with Louis, because I think Louis as a dom didn't match with established post-s1 fanon between seasons, which is kind of interesting to me in particular given I think it makes a lot of sense).

So yeah, I think it's a mix of things, ranging from them just generally having an appealing dynamic and being open to possibility and having less (perceived, at least) baggage both in canon and fandom, and them also - particularly Armand - being shaped by fanon into versions that just generally seem to be popular across fandoms.

[a-vibing-potato]

My feelings for episode 97 are so conflicting, why is it so sad? Why is it so cute? Why does it have such gorgeous descriptions (please let me snatch for my own writing like I'm jealous over here)?

Like this was a rollercoaster: Nikignik mourning Marolmar and the Hallowoods and everything like usual, then IMMEDIATELY switch to everyone at the Scoutpost having a cute lil Halloween.

Which was absolutely adorable and I literally screamed when I realized Other/Also Riot changed her name to Clementine and started growing out her hair, I was hoping and waiting patiently for her to start becoming her own person and develop her own personality and I'm just so happy for her :D

But then also Riot and Olivier dressing as a knight and a princess and kissing the whole night? Yes please. Percy having his first 'official' Halloween? Yes please.

Danielle, THE ICON, dressing up as NIKIGNIK and scaring children (and amusing Nikignik in the process)? Literally the best thing that could have happened.

The Museum of Broken Promises RACING for the Scoutpost concerns me a little bit, the episode starting off with a version of the intro in the very first episode made me tear up a little but also scream along with it, and the episode ENDING with "Hello from the Hallowoods" rather than starting with it, absolutely love it but it absolutely killed me for some reason.

[riderheart]

i know i should be sleeping before my flight but i just scrolled past a random royal au and *grabby hands*

[takingontheworldtogether]

barbie sequel this, barbie sequel that... i am pitching an oppenheimer sequel called feynman and it's just about the random bullshit richard feynman was pulling at los alamos while oppenheimer was introspecting

[catgirltoofies]

i want bionics

[mellethernil]

do you think Aragorn freaked out the first time he killed someone? Like growing up w elves and they never dared bad history there and such

and being w the rangers ofc he was gonna be in situations where it was man vs man and to protect himself and others he had to

he’d put on a brave face after the rangers have to call out his name more than twice but he really has no clue how to process what he just did

overtime it gets easier but there’s still nights where he can’t close his eyes without picturing the light fade from someone else’s

[elijah-loyal]

getting my studying done by putting on a pair of glasses and roleplaying someone Smart™

[gay-trashcan-cat]

Hello! I've been following the whole shit anon fiasco for a while now and I'm really curious about the asks you dont want to show us? I would like to see it if its ok with you? This is all very hilarious btw

Buddy I would be more then glad to traumatize you! Only problem is I didn't save it to my inbox 🤡 I did consider but I didn't expect anyone to be following the chaos of Anonington, creature of chaos. Though I do remember that the first one had me like 🤯😳😨 to the point idk how to even describe it and the second one was about how annonington knows I'm a busy cat but that they were washing their hands and will paint my house! (You know with what if you know the spooky tactics of this beast)

[coffeebooh]

listen… yk i said i didn’t want to see drama between artemis and zee/m’gann but the idea that mary might tell a captured by apokolypse artemis the truth would be so… it would somehow be poetic idk

[socialpermadeath]

Started an espionage themed campaign last night and I was the only person who picked a military background for my character so we got into our first combat round and I was looking at the rest of the party like

Almost opted to knock out another PC to get him out of the fight because the guy he was playing was absolutely not fit to be in combat. If I were a special ops commando thrust into a high stress situation and there was a former senator next to me, I would simply get him out of combat by any means necessary.

[slav-every-day]

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

I'm as grateful for cellphones as the next person, but sometimes I think about how everyone having a phone on them at all times really did cause us to loose some things as a society. I mean - for example, kids these days will never experience their car breaking down and needing to find the nearest place with a phone they can use. They're never going to have the opportunity to tentatively approach a house only to discover that it's full of queer people having a party hosted by a transvestite to celebrate his creation of a sex homunculus, stay the night, and loose their virginity while unintentionally partaking in cannibalism. It's tragic, that kind of gay sexual awakening just doesn't happen these days because of cellphones.

[snakegirllovehandles]

Trans and neurodivergent, but the second part of the question is a little complicated. I would say, my body is a part of me, but I also recognize that it is mutable and a means to an end, a tool. Although not quite in the explicitly dissociated way that the OP appears to be talking about.

For me it is both. Sometimes my body is myself. Sometimes it is a means to my ends. Always I am shaping it with the things I put in it, and experiencing the pleasures and pains of the world through it. I think that to be trans you have to be able to understand your body as a tool, just a little bit, in order to be able to shape and change its makeup and its appearance to more closely match how you feel.

Wait do normal people really see their bodies as part of themselves and who they are and not just something they happen to inhabit and they make the best of it/just accept it/learn to live with it???

Apparently I can only add a poll by editing it in and not by reblogging but here:

[inkskinned]

because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.

you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.

you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.

don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.

if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.

you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:

how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!

aren't you happy yet?

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible