#which is totally understandable

[esprei]

normally i don’t share wips on here but i feel that since twitter gets to see, here should as well

[yourbuckies]

idk if i made up this fic but does anyone remember a stevebucky fic that was prewar, steve was really sick and sarah called a priest to give him last rites or smth just in case. bucky shows up and is portrayed a little dark and possessive, says smth like you're mine and you can't leave/death can't have you, and the intensity almost scares either the priest or sarah

but it's not a distressing affliction

[14dayswithyou]

your account was sent to the shadow realm twice now. unless there was another time i didn't know about.

✦゜ANSWERED: Bro Ren really has it out for me T_T First Twitter and now Tumblr...

Luckily I was given an explanation as to why I got locked out of twitter (Ren's character sheet got incorrectly flagged as "posting private information"), but I have no idea why I got shadowbanned on Tumblr fjafjafa

[itsbenedict]

finished pokemon violet today! will post more specific thoughts in my annual review roundup post (i guess it's an annual thing now), but:

somehow an actually good story with good writing, which to my recollection a mainline pokemon game has never once had???

professor turo what the FUCK

new mon are extremely fun, especially the cute one with a giant fuckoff 160-base-power hammer that Kills Everything

they really need to fuckin' condense the combat flow UX at some point- "ENEMY used Confuse Ray!" [animation of confuse ray] [animation of tweety birds] "YOU was confused!" [animation of tweety birds again] "YOU is confused!" [couple seconds of building tension] [animation of it hitting itself] "YOU hurt itself in its confusion!"... that should be like, two steps, over in like four or five seconds tops. we're not on the gameboy anymore, you have so many more feedback channels to keep the player informed of what's happening

larry's gonna be a tumblr sexyman calling it now

BOY oh boy is the camera a mess. pop-in is so bad that i've literally walked into pokemon in the overworld that were invisible because their textures hadn't loaded in at the time i collided with their hitbox, several times. if you battle anything at the water's edge your pokemon falls into the sub-ocean and somehow the battle continues to function just fine. the opponent just aims Down now

wow epic minecraft reference

hey why is there one (1) place in the whole game where there's double battles, and a pair of pokemon whose concept and unique abilities literally only work in double battles, and they only spawn at levels higher than the level cap of the gym where you can double battle. why do you hate double battles, gamefreak, they're the best kind of pokemon battle

arven did you literally call a taxi to pick you up from the Illegal Death Crater. what was that conversation like. how much did you have to tip that guy.

fuck are the environments ugly. anywhere that isn't a town is dirt textures with airbrushed-on green for grass, everything is blurry and polygonal, huge swathes of samey wilderness- between this and Legends Arceus it's super clear pokemon needs more time in the oven.

eri and her lieutenant girl are really fuckin gay huh

penny is really fuckin trans huh

the ambush/stealth mechanics are basically nonfunctional, in that they're realistic and pokemon who could realistically see you coming from a reasonable distance away using physical eyesight with peripheral vision do, and then don't turn around and ignore you at any point, so you're only getting surprise attacks if you're extremely lucky

getting around the world with miraidon actually feels really smooth and fun- if only the world like, contained anything worth exploring to find

the little photos with the pokedex entries are cute

Clive.

if it weren't for the many and varied symptoms of pokemon getting rushed out the door for the holidays every fucking year, this would probably take home the prize for my favorite mainline pokemon game so far. as is, eeeeenh. sorely needs polish, lot of wasted potential, many good ideas that could've been developed better

[misery-goddess-with-cake]

Yuu (with my very confusing personality): I want Cake ;-;

Sebek: You we're just complaining about being broke-

Yuu(with my very confusing personality): I WANT FUCKIN CAKE SHUT YOUR CROCODILE LOOKING ASS UP! *starts complaining a lot*

Kalim: I can give you cake.

Yuu(with my very confusing personality): Chocolate cake? *Almost looks kiddish*

Kalim: *laughs* Sure sure.

Yuu(with my very confusing personality): YAAAAAY!

Sebek: Bu-

Yuu(with my very confusing personality): DON'T TEST ME CROCODILE! THE ONLY REASON I HAVEN'T PLOTTED YOUR DEATH IS BECAUSE OF MY LOVE FOR KALIM!

(Tbh, I confuse myself with how I react. When I'm angry I'm HIGHLY angry. When I'm upset I'm HIGHLY UPSET)

THE DYNAMIC! KALIM YUU AND SEBEK ARE JUST-

rip sebek but Yuu needed cake and he was getting in the way with LoGiC 🙄 Yuu being such a simp for Kalim lmao

[meme-loving-stuck]

i know we all make/share posts about "tomorrow im gonna start healthy sleep habits and budgeting and eating healthy and- [doesn't do any of it]"

but i just wanna say, every task on that list? also comes with its OWN list of tasks. that's demanding a lot more executive function than it sounds like!

for example, just one thing on that list: eating healthy. well, what does that entail? you have to figure out:

your current dietary needs according to your lifestyle

what is "unhealthy" or what you'd like to change about your current diet (i know, diet language. yuck)

re-structuring your shopping list and whatever meal-prep you do to fit those changes

aaaand finally where to find those specific different foods, or substitutes for foods youre cutting out

actually going to the store and starting to buy those foods

.... dude, some days I don't even have the energy to go to the store! when i work 40 hrs a week, that's 5 days where I dont even have TIME to. And that's just ONE item on that list. so that one thing, with its own list of things— it would take me days, if not a whole week, to do it. just that ONE.

Don't beat yourself up for not doing it all at once

[wuntrum]

happy tdov!! since i'm visible today, i wanted to let you know that i have a new comic and stickers available to help me raise money to get top surgery this year :')

read the comic digitally here (for as low as $1)

get a physical copy, some stickers, or all the above here

[everfascinated]

Going through some of my music from ages ago like dang I have great taste, but also apparently my favorite house music isn’t on spotify :( Well, I guess that’s just another reason to get all my favs on a player again instead of streaming them

[sakuraluck]

when i said i wanted to understand whatever’s going on in ivan’s head, i didn’t mean like this 😭😭

[stbot]

Niamh Wilson as bitchy theater gay thespian Lydia ↳ Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies

[ricky-mortis]

A portrait of Sir John Herschel because I‘m normal about Pulp Musicals

[panevanbuckley]

don't get me wrong i love ao3 i would sacrific my soul for ao3 but sometimes i really wish it had that one feature from wattpad where you can comment on paragraphs rather than whole chapters y'know??

[lazycranberrydoodles]

COME ON GUYS DON'T LET DIANXIA DOWN

[charlietheepicwriter7]

"I'm telling you, she's the best bloody runes expert this side of the Mississippi," John Constantine told the other members of the Justice League as he raised his hand to knock on the old screen door. He hadn't expected his ex-wife to stay here, in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere, but Spittoon, Arkansas, was the hill-billy hole it was when he last left. "If anyone can decipher the ritual to summon the ghost king, it's her--"

The door disappeared before he could knock, and a shotgun was shoved in his face. John smiled the best he could. "Hey, sweetheart."

Alicia Walker glared back at him. "Constantine."

*******************************************

This is the "John Constantine used to be married to Danny Fenton's Aunt Alicia" AU. Some idea's I've had:

Maddie introduced them. Maddie had dragged Alicia into studying ghosts, but Alicia ended up fascinated by the occultism of ghosts, more metaphysical than scientific. Maddie, wanting to support the sister that was supporting her, found Constantine, introduced the two, and they got along enough to bang.

it was a shotgun wedding. Alicia got pregnant and damn if she was going to let her baby be born without a father, so John ends up marrying her. He doesn't really mind since Alicia's nice enough and the sex is good, but he isn't exactly an attentive husband.

The baby is actually twins! a boy and a girl.

The babies are born without complications, but the baby boy, the first born... goes missing.

In addition to selling his soul to multiple parties, John had also sold the soul of his first born... probably to multiple parties. And he'd forgotten all about it until Alicia calls him, sobbing, saying their son has gone missing.

Needless to say, once she knows, John is divorced within the week.

the newborn daughter is given to Maddie to take care of; Alicia can even look at her without remembering her dead son, she knows she wouldn't be able to take care of a baby the way it needs. she can barely take care of herself.

(Jazz finds out that her aunt is her biomom when Danny is born. She never hates her aunt for giving her up; in fact, it's Alicia's depression and grief that makes Jazz want to study psychology in the first place)

Alicia moves to Spittoon to isolate herself, but the close knit community won't let her self-destruct. They help her rebuild herself in the middle of nowhere and she discovers a love for farming rhubarb.

John only shows up once before for Alicia's help, but the town chases away that nasty ex-husband of hers before she sees him, with his yuppie-accent and dirty clothes. They don't want him around her.

Alicia grows content with her life. She keeps all her occult books locked in the attic, out of sight and out of mind, and while she might regret not having been able to raise her daughter, she loves her niece and nephew and spoils them when they come to visit.

All's right in the world.

Until one day, Jazz and Danny come to her door in the middle of the night, desperate and injured.

Not too long after that, her yuppie ex-husband come around, asking her to look over some nonsense summoning circle. What's Constantine trying to summon anyway, the demon of astrology!?

[riickgrimes]

[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.