#Done By The Forces Of Nature

[bluejelly8]

Needless to say i am enjoying the ever loving FUCK out of The Fall of the House of Usher. I went from having a normal day to running around like a rabid dog and shaking my head as i tear apart my favorite chew toy

#the fall of the house of usher #the haunting of hill house #the haunting of bly manor #midnight mass #i am so abnormal about this mans work i needed to say it #no im not done #i just finished episode 5 and i am Reeling #gods the characters are all so good #god i love it when there is an unstoppable supernatural force of nature haunting the narrative

[withacapitalp]

Steddie idea where Dustin is pressing on Robin and Steve about dating again and Steve decides to just blurt out that he's gay but the kind of gay that likes both and that's why he and Robin can't date (Robin apparently just doesn't count as one of the both in his mind for some reason?) Dustin tries to get Steve to see that but he's also in the 'my brother came out to me I must be supportive' mindset, so he instantly decides to flip to Steve you should date Eddie!

#Someone has probably done this #but just #Dustin neverendingly trying to parent trap Steve and eddie #No one else sees it #ESPECIALLY NOT STEVE AND EDDIe #at first #but on one of their forced dates they start joking about how stupid it all is #and their friendship gets deeper #and they start smoking together on the top of the trailer at nights #and when they get together they adamantly decide Dustin can never know #So naturally he finds out two days later when he accidentally walks in on them making out #Will I write it? #Never #b ut someone needs to #bc I wanna read it #steve #eddie #steddie #steddie hcs

[frnkiebby]

i’m….huh okay~🎃

#‘mikey mikey look at my guitar’ #‘it’s better bc it has two extra strings’ #this little fucking tornado menace #i’m pretty sure mikey is just very done lmfao #i’ll bet mikey got lasik bc of all the close calls with frank and his glasses on stage #that’s my theory #bc poor mikey has had to evade a force of nature on stage for like close to 15 years jfc #mikey way #mikey fucking way #mikey way saturday #frnkiebby #frank iero #mcr #frnkiero #mcrmy #frnkie #mcr5 #my chemical romance #my chem #ilhsm

[soplapinga]

Okay okay I agree with everyone talking about the possibility of Pluto finally getting to go to France and meeting Duke in one of his shows, but I now raise you: What if they met BEFORE and Duke was actually the one to tell him about France and the lights and everything. What if Duke were the reason he wanted to go there in the first place. What then.

#imagine if Duke at some did a tour or something and stopped some time in London #and they met there for some random ass encounter #also Pluto seemed pretty much more kinda angry and jumpy bc of the whole living w his father thing obviously so they’d probably have+ #+the messiest first(s) encounters ever w yk Duke being naturally sassy n silly and Pluto in that fucking place just done w everything #bonus points if they at first kept bumping into each other comically coincidentally and they get practically destiny forced to get along #more bonus points if they end up meeting at night on some random ass rooftop and bc of this Duke starts calling him cat #aka the REAL origin of “mon minou” #imagine if Duke invited him to go there w him or something GOD the possibilities #I just kinda fucking created a whole fanfic here fuck don’t mind me I’m being delusional #almost everything in this is 99% impossible but I hate reality I don’t care #nevermore webtoon #duke nevermore #pluto nevermore #pluto x duke #pluke #cat in the hat #SOMEONE NAMED THE SHIP THAT AND I LOVE IT SOSOSO MUCH IM USING THAT FOREVER

[todayisafridaynight]

#rgg #ryu ga gotoku #yakuza series #ryu ga gotoku 7 #yakuza like a dragon #yakuza 7 #like a neko #masumi arakawa #ichiban kasuga #jo sawashiro #masato technically also here but. lol. he just a scribble #snap sketches #sorry everyone i literally rewrote the entirety of y7 in my brain to be warrior cats #and now i cant stop. mental illness real #i was just gonna do quick ara and ichis to warm up but then i couldnt stop #I FORCED myself to stop cause then i wouldve accidentally made a comic. with cats. kms !!!!!!!!! #anyway stop reading im gonna be a sicko #i just think the 'arakawa family' should be a group of rogue cats opposed to any proper clan cats #except yk. Clan Cats will go to them if they need a job done because theyre so Off The Radar #we're going to ignore ichi looking like brambleclaw like we just have to move on from that. his fur's naturally curly at least </3 #arakawa still legally has to get his hand/paw mutilated saving ichi. except its probably worse in this universe since It The Whole Paw #finger cutting isnt exactly a THING so he crushed it. whether it was by a car or rocks falling i havent decided yet #i just know Its Fucked Now. he can put it down for like A SECOND but he really can't do anything with it #it reminds me of my baby boy drew lol.. he broke his front legs before we adopted him #so now i just imagine arakawa has really good balance as a result #usually i make their cat breeds based off their hair length/style but arakawa legally had to be a maine coon to me #i always think of maine coons as being really elegant. plus that long fur makes me think of a big coat heuheu #Also Yeah x2 ichi still legally has to Almost die. and jo still has to drag him to Another rogue camp #i was gonna draw nanba cat too but.. i HAD to stop.. i cannot do this all day i have THINGS TO DO #i feel like instead of being a Particularly Large cat jo just has longer legs and a longer tail... lanky as hell still lol...

[iraprince]

Hiii, i love your stuff and kinda from a distance really look up at you for, in my perception, being able to express yourself without giving a fuck. Thats sick dude, Im so so afraid, of absolutely everything, its nice to think like i might grow into someone less apologetic of my existence. Nice to see people just being yknow

hey, thank you, this is really really nice. the secret that is probably not a secret is that i am also deeply afraid a lot of the time lmao -- but less than i used to be, and in ways that feel less stifling and self-suffocating, if that makes sense.

like, it used to be "i'm scared that if i express myself the way i want to, everyone will find me obnoxious, so let's just sand those edges down to be safe" -- now my fears are more like "now that i'm expressing myself in a way that feels natural and real, i'm afraid that it's all stupid/vapid/not worthwhile or meaningful" (<- specifically abt my art) or "i'm happy that i talk and act the way i want to now, but what if it makes me impossible to befriend," etc etc etc. which still feels bad and puts me in a funk a lot of the time but at least it's a fear that comes After/in reaction to doing stuff, rather than a fear that STOPS me from doing stuff, you know? like, it's evolved into a kind of fear that's less in my way.

anyway. i believe you'll experience something like this, because wanting to grow is the first step of growing. the fact that u hope or wish for something different means you're already on your way. to fewer fucks!! or at least distributing the fucks u give in a way that serves u better

#stuff like accepting that i'm reserved and i'm not very accessible via messages. #or that my online tone isn't very bubbly and it's weird and uncomfortable to force it. #i stop letting fears about that shape my behavior ('i'll look mean or snotty so let's force markers of Friendliness to avoid that!!') - #- and instead act the way i want to and then trade it in for new fears that come After the action. #also a good reminder to give urself is that if ur fear is abt how other ppl perceive u (as 90% of mine is personally) #u really... can't actually control that. and being very very anxious abt it all the time is usually ur brain throwing a tantrum abt not-- #--having that control. bc it is understandably very scary that u don't have that control #as much as it sucks + is terrifying the truth is the only thing u can do is ask urself 'am i behaving in a way that i'm proud of' #'am i behaving in a way that's in alignment w my values + what i think is important' #bc if the answer to that is yes and somebody hates u or is deeply offended by ur existence anyway. well. literally not ur problem #but obv being at peace w that is way way easier said than done + requires tons of practice and will take. probably. years. which is fine #i am stuck with myself. i can either contort myself forever trying to be someone everyone will like and find totally nonthreatening and- #inoffensive and in the process exhaust myself totally and never feel safe or natural myself. OR #i can say okay. so i am a kind of prickly guy with stern and drab speech patterns and close to no social energy. and i think i can still be #-sexy and fun this way. and it is up to other ppl to figure out if they can agree w me on that #ANYWAY enough rambling for now. just another one of those things i think abt a lot so i have a lot of ready-made sentences abt it in mind

[cosmobrain00]

will with guns but in a traumatic way

#last post tn does anyone get me or #me when I can exacerbate a characters deep rooted issue bc of various settings tht would put an even bigger stressor on it #gun empowerment? haha funny. take tht chop it up n put it in a blender #me when I force characters to go against their nature as a form of torture bc ik how painful it is to lose sight or urself #I wrote tht once.. looks off into the distance #okay sorry my b. im done #not putting this in any tag either bc im hoping only my beloved mutuals will see this n get wht im going for

[theactualsunshinechild]

Let yourself imagine established WrioChi having a winter walk and Childe starts a snowball fight. It gets heated and Wriothesley ends up getting full body tackled into the ice cold water, but, thanks to cryo vision user privilege, Childe is the only one who catches a cold from it all and has to be nursed back to health.

(Wriothesley has to threaten to hand him over to Sigewinne regularly because Childe keeps trying to give him his cold via kisses)

((Childe succeeds))

#he regrets it too because now he's stuck trying to nurse the least cooperative patient in the world #he and Sigewinne are tag teaming this man into recovery and it takes both of them pressuring him to get him to take a proper break #“you have a 40°C fever you need to REST.” #“what I NEED is to get this paperwork done so that rest is an option” #“Fine. I'm giving you 15 minutes. if you aren't done by then I'm dragging you out of this office by force.” #in the end Childe had to manhandle him into bed and coax meds down his throat with honeyed tea #Wriothesley is grumpy that it takes him a full week to recover from a cold that had Childe down for 2 days #genshin impact #wriothesley #childe #wriochi #wriothesley x childe #tartaglia #tarthesley #Wriothesley x Tartaglia #childe ajax tartaglia #Sigewinne #Sigewinne gives them both very long lectures about the contagious nature of the common cold #the look in her huge eyes says they're both on thin fucking ice and they better not do this shit again

[ruthflemwad]

i'm DYING! DEAD ON THE GROUND! DECEASED! (thinking about let it out again)

#THAT NUMBER. THAT GOD DAMN SONG I CANT #AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH #PAUL MATTHEWS YOU CRUEL FORCE OF NATURE LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO ME #hatchetfield #tgwdlm #starkid

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

defining will's love for hannibal as religion stands as an overpowering symbol of how will's emotions are powerful enough to mold a man into something akin to god, even with his flaws, even with his mortality, even with his own devotion to him that isn't some imprisonment or necessity or a show put up for valour or honour but formed of his own volition that itsn't driven by lust unlike so many other metaphors and so called "analogous" loves, is such strong visual and visceral representation of the human psyche omitting life outside of its own want and turning it into piety. in this essay i will...

#raj shitposting #religion is such a powerful metaphor for love that we won't ever be able to even comprehend how it fits in as a metaphor. #religion defines us. shapes our thought. makes us whole. tears us apart and builds a person based solely on itself. it give us our name. #it takes us away and gives us back as not who we are but as what we are meant to be. #it's a grotesquely selfish and imbalanced consummation between god and self. #and i say akin to god since god doesn't always give you what you ask of her. she gives you what she wants you to have. #hannibal literally survives on will's demands though. his meaning and his purpose is solely defined by will's wants. #will's selfishness- his sin is that powerful. it's like satan willing god into falling in love with him. slowly. excruciatingly. carnally. #and and and.. the way it's done through bedelia. a woman. and abigail. a child. is so so so effervescent and eloquent way to do it. #god and women being the driving forces of nature and both being a symbol of hearty manipulation and greed and power and glory. #and a child. the symbol of innocence and sincerity and purity and absence of complication. a symbol of complete and utterly pure love. #bedelia represents how hannibal chooses to express his emotions in order to woo will's monster and abigail represents what he truly feels. #just kills it. like bang on. smh iltsm #hannigram #hannibal

[belle-keys]

what are your thoughts on this take? at a first glance, this seems like a mostly american/chronically online view. if i deep it, it seems that younger people maybe think romantic relationships in media strip characters of their individuality and so they want less of it?

#i don't agree that romantic relationships make you less of an individual btw #i absolutely gravitate toward romance and sex in media #romance should be done well first and foremost and that's all that matters #and i don't think having romantic relationships is inherently 'forcing' anything either #it really just needs to be natural and make sense #which is what most writers suck at: the execution of romantic relationships #media #books #stranger things #fandom ships #fandom #ya books #ya fiction #the bear season 2 #books and literature #fandom discourse #romance #romantic relationships #gen z #gen z problems #gen z experience #anti shipping

[icewindandboringhorror]

Hrmm... Revising my game and I feel like there's still sooo much writing left to do, for something that probably won't even amount to much, so.. I do want to narrow my focus more (especially given my health problems seeming to get worse/less energy the past few years), but I'm not sure how would be best to...

I currently have 5 characters as the Main ones with full planned questlines and such, with each character having 6 quests you can do for them. But I haven't really started the writing for the 5th main character. So then I was thinking, if I were going to write 6 full quests worth of content anyway... is it better to allocate that time on just doing a Complete 6 Quests for ONE single character, OR would it be better to do something like.. choose THREE side characters and do 2 quests for each of them? So that people have a wider variety to interact with and sort of sample around (of course with the idea that, once the first version of the game is released, IF people actually care about it enough to make it worth the effort, I would then add additional content to complete those 3 characters stories as well)

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SO... If you were playing an interactive fiction sort of game centered around talking to & doing quests for a cast of characters (like there's no larger plot, more it's just about interacting with people, every character kind of has a self contained story, the focus is just learning about them and the world and exploring the area) --- Which would you rather have?

(and of course it would be stated up front which characters have only partial questlines, so people don't expect them to have full quests like the others and then get disappointed, or etc. etc.)

Basically, is it better to just focus in specifically on having one fully complete questline? Or for there to be a few stories that are not complete yet, but have more initial options available?

#I guess I just feel weird about investing too much into characters if possibly nobody will like them. so the idea of being able to sample #around a wider variety opens up the option of like 'hey even if neither of these 4 are your favorite - you have 3 other options soon too!' #or whatever. BUT I also am very anti-the trend of releasing half finished games or shit like that where people preorder and then #the game sucks on actual release and isn't fully playable or good until 5 updates later #HOWEVER.. those are giant companies with hundreds of employees and millions in funding. I feel like it's different for someone #if they're just like ''hey I am getting zero money for this and doing it entirely on my own in my free time and before I do like 50+ hours #of work on top of the 100+ hours of work that I already did - I would like maybe to at least see some proof #people are interested in this - so I'm releasing the game with like a small amount of the originally intended content removed #that I still have planned out and hope to add later and the game is still entirely done and completely functional #except for just a few quests I might add later.. sorry'' etc. etc. ??? like I think that's different. but maybe some people dont see #it that way and would still be like 'grrr.. how dare there be unfinished options..>:V" idk #And the nature of the quests is such that it's not weird to have it be partial like.. again.there's no major plot. it's not like the quests #are leading up to some dramatic thing and having them half done would make it feel like a cliffhanger. It's meant to be very casual just #chilling and doing little tasks and such. And last thing to clarify I guess - by 'side character' I don't mean taking some unimportant bac #ground character and forcing them to have quests. I mean like.. originally the game had 8 full characters and I thought that was #too much so I cut it down to 5. So I still had everything planned for all the side characters too. Id' just be like.. re-giving them #quests and focuses that were already planned from the beginning but that I got rid of.. former main characters banished to the side lol.. #ANYWAY... hrmm... hard to decide... It's just so niche I think. I feel more and more like I should just get it to a 'proof #of concept' state and get it out there to interest check rather than invest in it soooo much for nothing. Because I really do not have the #tastes other people do or interact with games or have interest in things in the same way. A lot of the stuff that I love (slow. character #focused things with basicaly no action or plot where its' just about getting to explore a world and learn about #people in a casual low stakes setting but ALSO not romance) I think people find very boring so... lol... #This year as I try to pick the project back up again after abandoning it for like 3 years I keep looking at stuff and going.. ough... #yeah... cut this maybe.. I should cut that too.. I should make them a side character.. remove this.. blah blah.. #Though I did ADD a journal and inventory system and other things that like People Expect Games To Have so.. maybe #that will count for something.. hey..you can collect items.. it's not just 'talking to elves for 600 hours simulator'.. are you #entertained yet? lol.... When I was making my other tiny game for that pet website and I gave it to the play testers and someone was like #''it should have achievements so I feel I'm working towards something concrete'' I was literally so blindsided like..??... people WANT that #in games..? is the goal not simply to wander aimlessly &fixate on world/character lore& make your own silly pointless personal goals? I did #do them though because it IS fun to make up little achievement names and such but.. i fear i am out of touch so bad lol..

[definitelynotnia]

normalise saying "I don't have enough information on this topic to have an opinion on it"

and then staying out of it completely rather than going along with wtv opinion u imprinted from three random posts/reels/tweets and having weird misinformed debates with full confidence

#like bro it's ok to not have an opinion on something if you don't know just say i don't know and move on #there's too many fucked up things going on in the world it's perfectly natural to not have proper information on a topic of debate #just remove yourself from said debate theres no needto go marching in with limited information and spreading even more misinformation #i see so many people around my age posting random political stuff be it religious or about lgbtq or women even and they haven't read #a single article about any of these topics ever #their only source is sketchy social media posts or “dark jokes” about a certain community making them think it's cool to shit on them #or random “sigma” edits of things and suddenly the most random stuff becomes everyone's favourite mainstream political affiliation #like have you read a single policy pertaining to this government or do you have a single reason for violently hating a certain community #i understand that some people are genuinely interested in these topics and that is absolutely wonderful it's great that young people have #opinions and commentary on world issues but only when this stems from an area of genuine interest and when at least some effort to be #factual is made not when it's only done because everyone else is doing it and they have some weird sort of fomo at work or they just think #it's funny or wtv without understanding the implications of their words and actions #no one is forcing you to involve yourself in every social issue but the moment you choose to make commentary on a social issue you must take #the responsibility of educating yourself as best you can before you open your mouth

[grinchwrapsupreme]

#this is the only plot i care about tbh #acgas 2020 #all creatures great and small #tristan farnon #siegfried farnon #i do hate how much they (the writers) force these conversations but this portion of it does feel natural #THIS is showing and not telling #idk #it would feel better to me if more of their arguments were dancing around the subject #instead of directly saying it #like they are here when siegfried doesn't say what he would have done differently with tristan #but we all obviously know #if they had built up to the argument in the S3 christmas special it would have hit better #not that it doesn't hit #just #it would have been a release of tension #a real good catharsis #instead of just one fight among many #as it is there's nothing that really sets it apart other than siegfried telling tristan that he loves him and would die for him #the rest of it just feels like old hat #but this moment (since i'm getting off track) is really good #part of why the rest doesn't ring true i think is because tristan is like 30 #like that shit should be properly internalized by now #'you like that kid better than me :(' shut up!! you should be getting pissy with him for unrelated reasons #and so repressed about it that you have no clue of the true cause! #until you reach this moment and it comes pouring out! #anyways i do have to go to work now #ignore literally everything i've said here

[wekillitwithfire]

truly something so empowering in just saying ‘fuck it we ball’. what a life changing mentality

#i’m a whole lot braver than i used to be #like of course the fear (anxiety) is still there but i’ve gotten a whole lot better at managing working through it #and often this is just brute-forcing my way through the anxiety. and that’s by saying fuck it we ball and just doing it scared #what’s gonna happen? i’m gonna embarrass myself? WHATEVER! i’ve embarrassed myself so many times in my life #it’s a regular part of my routine at this point. this is the nature of finding your place in this world. being clumsy and stupid. #this isn’t to say that anxiety doesn’t hold me back from things still. it definitely still absolutely does #i do some ridiculous shit because of anxiety #such as. oh shit i started walking the wrond direction. well i cant just turn around in the middle of the sidewalk ill look stupid. #i’ll just do a full loop around this building to turn myself around #fucking stupid. and very real thing that i have done. #i’m also weird about not knowing where i’m going inside a building. i get scared to walk around to look for a bathroom #ESPECIALLY in restaurants. i always ask where the restroom is before looking for it if i can’t see it from my seat #but then i realize im just walking and no one cares and im so brave

[myrmica]

my reading of lifesteal season 4 is so personal and involved at this point that even if i was going to post more character analysis i would not know where to start. it would require footnotes to documents that don't exist. listen to luddites and lambs by everything everything and you'll get half of it though

#m #lifesteal #there is just such a compelling and clear thematic line between like. okay #first you need to just accept for me the idea that zam as a character is defined by being trapped running both towards and away from #the same object (mapicc) #and then you have to take mapicc as interchangeable with pain in general but specifically an inescapable normalcy of pain #which is caught up in something zam wants and knows he wants which is the “pure/natural” idyllic version of lifesteal #where every fight is fair competition #and what mapicc has done to hurt him more than the actual stalking and murder and all of that is that mapicc refused to fight him on even #ground (by literally invading and destroying his home so that everything becomes battlefield) in a way that offends his most deeply #held values. AND THEN he reads vitalasy's use of the exploits as trying to take that same thing he fundamentally values about lifesteal #away and he gets incredibly angry with vitalasy for hurting the server itself (pvp becomes functionally obsolete for a while there) #so he plays out the eclipse betrayal framing it in his own mind as another situation where he is the victim and vitalasy is the #manipulator/aggressor and falls back into the kind of jumpy paranoid behavior we as the viewer haven't actually seen from him in a very #long time now (late into eclipse when mapicc isn't an active threat anymore he really does stop jumping at shadows the way he used to) #and seems comforted by the familiarity of it if anything. because what vitalasy was asking of him that made him panic and reject it so #badly was to create a new pattern and step out onto unknown ground but he can't do it #and he retreats back to what he knows. so vitalasy isn't WRONG to read what zam does as victimizing himself #and forcing vitalasy into a villain role that is literally what he is doing #but vitalasy on the other end still has his own entire set of things he is not dealing with #and so the relationship created by these two people is doomed by their inability to look themselves in the eye more than any of the actual #facts of the relationship itself #and the thing zam wants lifesteal to be is not and has never been real. the thing vitalasy wants lifesteal to be is also antithetical to #its nature they are both wrong #but zam is wrong in that he wants to return to an idealized imagined past that does not actually exist #(see also vague historical allusions in his castle and his name and him trying after vi's death to cast off violence completely and return #to the land somehow. and the association created incidentally between stone tools and rudimentary technology) #and vitalasy is wrong in that he's trying to create something entirely new that nobody but him actually wants via the exploit #(see the way that once the exploit is 'out of the box' it can't be put back in and the course of the season is set in motion and any attemp #s to fight it and change that course are futile as allegorical to sudden technological advancement being met with violent opposition)