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Re the AO3 comment rebooble, shouldn't have to leave this disclaimer but don't leave mean comments, especially when you clearly ignored the clear warnings and the tags.

Don't ruin someone's day just because you ruined yours by ignoring all the signs the content wasn't for you.

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YES, also one (1) new comment on a fic I haven't touched in literal years and possibly forgot I even wrote can legit spur me on to resurrect said fic and go absolutely feral adding multiple new chapters/spin offs cmon I know I'm not alone in this

AO3 Comments are SO SO SOOOOOOO important because you can only leave Kudos ONCE. You add to the hit count ONCE (every 24 hours).

So whenever someone updates their fic, the ONLY way an author knows who their regular readers are is if they comment on each chapter. And we WANT to know who's still reading.

Believe it or not, some of us think about the name that pops up constantly in the comments and go "omg I can't wait to see what they think of THIS SPECIFIC SCENE cuz I KNOW they'll say something about it!!!"

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[ don't tag as she/her ]

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I'm re-watching Misery which is one of my fave movies (so much so it's a comfort movie lol) and have I pitched my Rhack Misery au here where Jack is in an accident and Rhys is his absolutely unhinged "biggest fan" nursing him back to health 👀 Because it works so well and I wants it

[uglynicc]

"nobody trusts anybody now, and we're all very tired"

(no one asked for a Rhack au set in The Thing universe, except Past Me who started this back in 2019but didn't finish until today)

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Listen, I avoided this movie for AGES thinking it fit into the Bro Movie Torture P0rn™️ genre which really isn't my thing, but after going down a rabbit hole of video esays and analysis, I decided to watch it.

And I actually loved it. There is SO MUCH commentary about this movie but I enjoyed it enough to dive into my own analysis of it lol, even if it's one that's been done before.

The book does sound like it's a bit too gruesome for me (plus the author's comments about "women can't make movies" definitely rubs me the wrong way), but only going off the movie I am blown away how some toxic trolls out there entirely miss the point and unironically idolize Bateman.

Firstly, I interpreted this as a comedy, a real dark satirical one, and I laughed a LOT.

Second, I do think the murders are in his head. I know there's room for commentary about The Rich And Elite Being Able to Literally Get Away With Murder, but I'm fairly certain someone would, at the very least, complain about a naked man running through an apartment complex with a chainsaw after a screaming woman. All the little hints that a lot of events didn't happen also lead me to think this.

I think he's still a D Bag who abuses sex workers, but that the killing was either a fantasy to give himself a sense of power, control, and greater agency in his life, or that it is a product of untreated and worsening mental state.

Ignoring his potential neurodivergency/mental illness here purely for the fact I think it's a separate interpretation from the one I have, and focusing on the idea that he's getting lost in the dark fantasy world he's constructed, my greatest takeaway from the movie:

Bateman is a loser.

Yes, he's wealthy and attractive, but what does he actually have going for him, even in his shallow little group of elite toxic fuckwads?

For his inflated sense of importance, no one gets his name right or even remembers who he is most times. His fiance doesn't respect or even like him, and he doesn't like her either. He pays women to be part of fantasies where he is awe inspiring, a rich, muscular sex god, and even they are bored and unimpressed, they can't even act like he's worthy of their admiration. His male peers don't think he's anything great either, and how could they when they're constantly wrapped up in meaningless pissing contests. He's so insecure in his masculinity he is close to tears when someone mistakes him as being homosexual. He can't even buy his way into Dorsia, can't use his good looks or cash, the only things he has going for him, to get a dinner reservation at his White Whale restaurant.

He's failing to achieve anything even in his shallow little world, so his Wall Street job (with a business card no one thinks is particularly great), fancy apartment (which he grudgingly admits isn't even as nice or as expensive as his rival's) and chiseled good looks mean nothing. He craves status and recognition, which he fails to achieve.

And yeah, he's a misogynist, racist, classist, homophobic dishrag too, can't forget that.

He's the archetype of toxic, impotent-with-misplaced-rage, insecure yet inflated male ego we see everywhere. If people don't perceive what Bateman feels is his inherent "greatness" or "importance," he lashes out, through mistreatment of those more vulnerable, and/or through dark fantasies which give him that sense of greatness and importance.

It's almost too real, because there are so many real world examples of this kind of privileged dickwad (which makes it even more baffling when these same real world dickwads put Bateman on a weird pedestal thinking he's actually great), but I loved the way the movie examined it. I don't think it's celebrating Bateman or men like him at all, I felt more compelled to laugh at him as a figure of jest, a ridiculous caricature of entitlement and failure. Hell, even his "confession" falls flat, he can't even get that right.

Anyway, just my musings after my first viewing, 20 some years late to the party lol.

[uglynicc]

For the requests: kakayama?

When you just wanted to chill but your bf insists on quality time together reading his dirty books💕

(I love them but feel Kakashi would be such a chore to deal with sometimes lol)

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BUT lemme just say the book is actually so much better 🤌✨ I love both for different reasons, but damn Wendy is so much cooler in the book just sayin

Me, watching one of my comfort movies: We ARE going to have a real good time! ✨

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Me, watching one of my comfort movies: We ARE going to have a real good time! ✨

[uglynicc]

Can I ask what kind of tablet(?) you use? I mostly draw traditionally and am interested in digital art. Your art is really impressive <3

Hi anon! Aw thank you for the kind words! 🥹✨

I still do 99% of my sketches traditionally then just take a pic of the pencil sketch with my phone, then add layers to the phone pic for lines, colors, etc after uploading it to my tablet lol. I've never been good at digital sketching.

My tablet is just a boring ol' Samsung one, probably almost 10 years old now, nothing fancy or art-making-specific. I use a Bamboo brand stylus pen that has a replaceable mesh-covered drawing tip.

To complete my Basic Art Bitch™️ ensemble, I use the free version of Medibang.

(I will say if you want to use Procreate or other programs, I don't think they're Android compatible, so you'd maybe have to shell out for 🍎 products there...)

Hope this helps!

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Do you have a Twitter??

Nope 😅

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How I used to draw turians:

How I draw turians now:

Proof you really just gotta stay thirsty to draw what you love better 🕺💕

[uglynicc]

How I used to draw turians:

How I draw turians now:

Proof you really just gotta stay thirsty to draw what you love better 🕺💕

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Listen I took a deep dive into my purged acc and collected some of the Transformers doodles I did AGES ago and still like, as well as ones that went to weird places before I found my art style 👀

Still dunno where what little mech drawing abilities I had went

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Doodling this asshole again💕✨🔪