#I am verbose

[sensoryseekinganakin]

🌸

🌸 - What’s your favorite AU?

Difficult question right off the bat! Though I haven't updated it in a while, my favorite AU that I've made might be Cry Little Sister, because I've gotten to make up so many details and create a story that covers such a large period of time. Other than that, the runner-ups are No One Asks Me for Dances, for getting to explore Qui-Gon's teenage years and the dynamic he as a character could have with Anakin, and my foodservice AU, because it's so fun to imagine the characters in the scenarios I'm in in real life. I have updates in the works for all three!

For AUs that aren't mine, because how could I resist shout outs... Heart of Gold (To have and to hold) series by @predator-padawan, for a similar role-reversal to Cry Little Sister, but with complete focus on Master Anakin and Padawan Obi-Wan. I love how smitten and insecure Obi-Wan is, and how Anakin swallows all of that up. Someone else's hands by @skarpi25 is also similar and delicious and a different way. The Fifty Shades series by @rexismycopilot is one I have brought up in a fic ask before, but I am continuously astounded by what a different (modern, real life, complex) world the characters are in and how different they are from what I normally see/write of them, so truly an AU. I think that's all, off the top of my head, if I'm trying to only rec fics that I love for the AU aspect of them and not just the content.

#ask game #I can never have just one answer to anything sorry #i am verbose #ask

[merrysithmas]

i am mentally and physically incapable of giving a short answer to smth

me: (sees a question in my ask box)

me: ah this is a good one ill give it a nice succinct paragraph that will concisely contain my thoughts while answering completely & to the best of my ability

me: (7 pages later) and furthermore if you think about it through the lens of....

#i am verbose #it is a condition 😔 #lol

[alpacacare-archive]

Not enough joy and light today. Time for silly dadster and papyrus 🙏

Bonus:

#gaster #papyrus #dadster #Undertale #wd gaster #shitpost #just for clarification #i am a 'papyrus loves puns' truther #but you've got to understand. there is nothing i love more than dads annoying their kids with unfunny jokes #also pap laughed 100% #and hated it so he blocked him in return #only to unblock him 3 minutes later after he called sans. crying. thinking he could never speak to papyrus again #gasters speech patterns (namely his tendency to pause after every few words his verbose-ness and #his overly polite grammar) really fit as texts from an old guy #more fual for elderly gaster propaganda

[bonefall]

Does leopard still have 3 lives in her final battle? Or was that changed?

Yep. I think she drowned her once, then Leopardstar lunges up refreshed, and she gets the upper paw on Mistyfoot with 2 lives to go.

(MAYBE tw gore, but I really did try to be tasteful about a head being smashed on a rock.)

On her back, splashing and thrashing furiously against Leopardstar's claws dunking her head under, Mistyfoot glimpses a wave breaking just over the tip of a stone-blue rock. Her only chance.

With a surge of power, her claws sink into her leader's golden shoulder and they tumble and roll to the right. Before the tyrant even realizes what's happening, she's yanked up, and then whipped backwards with a wet CRUNCH

And then again

And again

And again, until Mistyfoot can't even make out what's left of her leader anymore. All she can see is that it's a red, brown, and yellow blur, because her eyes burning with salty tears and her whole body is trembling.

She drops the corpse onto the stone and it slides into the water, lifelessly. After a moment it spasms aimlessly one last time, like an insect does after its head is bitten off, unlike the deliberate, agonized throes of Tigerstar suffering through his doomed lives. And then it's still.

There's only the tranquil sound of bubbling water, and Mistyfoot's frenzied panting. Her pounding heart makes it hard to hear either.

The blood is carried off by the shallow water in scarlet swirls, but the lake runs pale red as if it's washing it away. Some were aware of this prophecy, but Mistyfoot was not.

It isn't closure to her, or a fulfillment of divine decree. It's just blood that should be on her paws, slicked away by the complicit river. She wished it could feel like it's over, but she's smart enough to know the truth. Has been through enough terrible events like this to understand what comes next.

Her body will move foward. Her mind will need to consider her deputy. Her paw will come down on code-defying cats like Blackclaw and Greenflower. But her heart will stay here, next to the remains of Leopardstar, the same way another piece of it remains at Stonefur's side across space and time.

#Tw gore #Juuuust in case but I did try to stay tasteful #While also trying to write it as gut-wrenchingly violent as I imagine in my head #Because it's important that it haunts her #The kill wasn't pretty and clean. It was awful. She didn't want this. It wasn't heroic #'Why did you do this to me? Why did you make this so cruel?' #'Why was the last thing you ever did to me such a horrible command as a leader?' #'And why did I obey your orders until the bitter bitter end?' #'How could you turn my defiance into a new kind of cruel obediance? Did I not suffer ENOUGH for you?' #'And now there is no head to bury with your body. I am cursed with the last memory of your face. I alone will know how you looked at me' #'That the last expression on your face wasn't pain or confusion or realization.' #'It was all fury. For me.' #OF COURSE tho I will continue to make funny rock jokes until the day I die lmaoo #Duality of Bones #Hmm maybe when I get to this in BB!TNP I'll be quick and objective about it and save the Misty Emotions for like... #I miss how the field guides used to have stories told in 1st person. #It would be fun to have a BB!Mistystar Speaks #Because I do LOVE writing Misty's verbose and philosophical speeches. #As you can see from the tags lmao #BB!Mistystar #Better bones au

[fishing-lesbian-catgirl]

I have no idea what Arkknights is

And at this point im afraid to ask

Girls be called shit like Asbestos, Gravel, Mud and Debris

They eat rocks???

Gatorpeople???

Working in difficult terrain? I dunno

But i know the lesbians go crazy over it

I can clarify this (well, clarify again, I get this question occasionally).

Arknights people aren’t actually named asbestos, gravel, mudrock, cement, rockrock or any of that other stuff. Those are operator code names. A lot of the characters we don’t know their actual names, and since they go by their code names in the game anyway that’s just how people refer to them. All of them choose their code names (except arguably Pudding) so they frequently choose things significant or symbolic of who they are. Asbestos is a fireproof salamander who is a toxic jerk and has cancer so it was a very fitting name. Cement is a construction worker. Rockrock’s name is Rochelle Rockwell. There’s a lot of different reasons but ultimately those aren’t their actual names, but they are effectively their names.

They don’t actually eat rocks. As a gameplay mechanic, characters require resources in order to be promoted and become more powerful in game. However the resources they require for upgrades are kind of strange things like weird metals, cubes of rock, devices, a non alcoholic chemical that apparently gets you effectively drunk if you ingest it, and a bunch of other stuff. Tomimi, the alligator girl who is known for having an extremely fat tail despite her being a fairly short and small person, requires concentrated orirocks that require well over 100 orirock cubes to craft in order for her promotion. So I make dumb jokes that she was eating the cubes and that’s why her tail is fat

Gatorpeople? Yep! Almost all the characters in Arknights are like the type of catgirls that are human but have cat ears and a tail, but for a bunch of different types of animals. There are a few that are anthropomorphic animals and then there’s the people who are demons, vampires, elves (very rare. There’s only one), and characters based on mythical creatures like manticores, nues, all kinds of dragons, etc. there’s also some robots, not robot girls, just robots, they’re mostly rectangular and on wheels. And then there’s weird crossover characters like a stack of the cats from monster hunter, but those aren’t really canon anyway.

I don’t actually know what you’re specifically referencing by the difficult terrain thing but the world of Arknights is full of large scale catastrophes that require most cities to be on enormous moving platforms so they can avoid catastrophes. The world is also full of many hazards. I don’t know what else you might mean so I can’t help more with that

Yes the lesbians go crazy for it. ~80% of the characters are women who are often written to be competent and powerful and actually the focus of the stories. A lot of them are at implied ranging from slight hints to extremely blunt and obvious by their behavior to be lesbians. The story and setting are interesting, the characters have cool designs and interesting personalities and narratives, and a lot of them are gay women, and especially with the kenomimi-style animal girls, it’s not particularly surprising that other people like me get so obsessed with them.

Funnily enough, I think there’s still only 2 “canonical” lesbian operators if you take the extremely blunt stance of ignoring everything that doesn’t outright explicitly involve them professing their love or being in an explicit relationship with a woman. But you’d have to be intentionally obtuse to actually think those are the only ones given how a lot of the women act

#this was longer than I intended it to be #It is true to my core that for better or worse I am unnecessarily verbose #usually because I’m afraid people will misinterpret my meaning and usually in uncharitable ways if I don’t use the extra words to clarify #arknights

[ourfag]

i think part of the resistance i’ve seen in response to the view of ed as an abuse victim—not just the view of izzy as someone who abused ed, but of ed as someone who was abused by him, as opposed to interpretations that pursue an image of Nuance and Complexity (unnecessarily, because their dynamic has heaps of both, but there seems to be a popular impulse to conflate complexity with shared culpability) by characterizing their relationship as being toxic/unhealthy in equal reciprocity, or as “mutually abusive” (oxymoron)—i definitely see the influence of racism there, but i think the racism is also working to amplify an adjacent issue where we tend to receive very specific cultural messaging about What An Abuse Victim Looks Like, and ed is excluded from a lot of that criteria.

he’s outspoken. he’s boisterous. he’s Very Cool and he Wears Leather. he’s physically bigger and browner than the person mistreating him. he spends the first season with a big grey beard, he’s covered in tattoos, he projects the image of A Man’s Man, to say nothing of his being a man in the first place. we see him get aggressive and we see him get angry (and sometimes we even see both at the same time). we see moments where he’s surly, prickly, insensitive, arrogant. his survival techniques and trauma responses incur collateral damage to other people, and in the second season this extends into affecting people we actually sympathize with. he’s extremely private about expressing fear. without examination, his professional relationship to izzy seems to position him as the one with the power slanted in his favor.

most damningly, we see him react multiple times to izzy’s abuse with physical violence. this is behavior that gets referenced all the time in the construction of narratives condemning subjects of physical abuse, let alone emotional abuse. which is why writing that intends for its audience to interpret a character as being unambiguously A Victim Of Abuse will often, for simplicity’s sake, avoid showing the character regularly engaging in anything of the kind.

and again, all of these departures from the image of The Model Victim are compounded by his being a man of color.

without any of the shorthand designed to point a big flashing arrow at his mistreatment, all we have left to work with are the words and actions we see from ed and izzy onscreen. who instigates conflict, and how does the other respond? how are they able or allowed to respond? how do we see them speak about each other to outside parties? does one go out of their way to control or isolate the other? what consequences does either party stand to face in saying “no” to the other? in acting against the other’s wishes? in trying to leave the relationship? when either of them attempts these things, how do we see the other respond?

i realize and appreciate what people are driving at when they garnish their analysis with disclaimers that they’re not saying ed’s just a poor innocent abuse victim, they’re not saying he’s a perfect angel who’s never done anything wrong, and that’s true, but these are points already contained implicitly in statements like “this show’s protagonists act like human people” and “ed’s emotional struggles are portrayed in a realistic and believable way.” my assumption is that these disclaimers are anticipatory responses to worst-faith interpretations of any discussion that attributes any victim status to ed whatsoever, so i definitely sympathize with their inclusion, but a (very small) part of me still worries about them potentially reflecting or reinforcing a belief that there is any way for someone to behave towards their abuser that imparts a responsibility for them to make right whatever damage the abuser receives, or for that matter any degree of ambiguity over their status as an abuse victim in the first place.

part of what i find so gratifying about ed as a character is that i don’t feel like the show’s writing is pressuring me to consider that ambiguity at all. which was a really nice thing for me to discover!

and tbh—did using ed to deconstruct The Model Victim even factor into the writers’ agenda?? ive got no clue. im guessing no? ??maybe?? probably not?? but if you create a main character whose central premise is that he feels trapped in a performance of exaggerated masculinity that he’s desperate to escape, and then you set him up with a character premised on embodying a tangible obstacle against that escape, then i guess that’s the natural shape your story’s gonna be inclined to take

#man thats a lot of words when i couldve just said ‘im not an ed apologist bc he has nothing to apologize for’ and yalld get the message #had to get it off my chest though #abuse tw #sorry about the verbosity Im Aware. Its An Ongoing Issue #this is actually after i went through and edited to make it as concise as possible #the good news is ive finally managed to limit myself to a mere half dozen commas per sentence #the bad news is all these words are mush in my brain now and i can barely tell if theyre actually saying anything #are any of these paragraphs related to one another? i dont fuckin know #i do know i agreed with them when i wrote them though #am i procrastinating in the tags because im nervous about posting this? maybe. shut up #im gonna go do todays wordle

[mx-princey]

Game about a child exploring headspaces with some dark edgy humour vs Another game about a child exploring headspaces with some dark edgy humour

#I am bad woth words excuse me how verbose this is. anyway just realised these games are very conceptually similar #psychonauts #the binding of isaac #tboi

[minne-cerbinna]

I think quite often of the optional little dialogue tree that one can get about Yaevinn in TW2 with an imported save if one sides with Iorveth, and particularly of just how Iorveth describes Yaevinn

The dialogue prompt "I once knew another Scoia'tael - Yaevinn." will lead to the following exchange:

GERALT: I once met another Scoia'tael leader.

IORVETH: Yaevinn. I knew him. He had beautiful dreams and desperately wanted me to share them. Asked the same of you, I heard.

GERALT: You know a lot about me.

IORVETH: I try to know as much as I can - about everyone.

They'll elaborate a little further in this dialogue about how they both agree with Yaevinn's reasons and the fact that Yaevinn "saw combat and killing as poetry" which Iorveth deems unrealistic because "war is prose, with no place for beauty" (how poetic).

But the interesting part to me is the statement that Yaevinn had "beautiful dreams" and how he was this grand idealist, because this seems to be in contradiction with Yaevinn's characterisation. In his novel appearance, he argues against Toruviel's idealism as he proposes shooting the unarmed messenger. In TW1, Geralt refers to him in his journal as being "disillusioned", as well as being "a cynic and a pragmatist", neither of which seem to hold with Iorveth's account. While this can be credited to the fact that it's possible that Iorveth's past-tense statement of "I knew him" means that he hasn't seen Yaevinn in some time rather than, or at least in addition to, the implied death. He has perhaps not seen him since the Second Northern War, where they were both in the Vrihedd brigade, and Yaevinn could have grown more cynical since the Scoia'tael were betrayed by Dol Blathanna, his earliest characterisation is that of the novel canon, and he does not present a particular idealism that would reflect the notion that he is a dreamer.

It can be taken as a choice of characterisation, because for all that Yaevinn is disillusioned, he does have his hopes and desires for the future and his plans at Vizima, just as Iorveth has his hopes for Saskia and Vergen. He has these dreams, even if he tenders them close to his chest and puts the practical aspects first before he allows himself to have this hope. And I think that is a really interesting interpretation, to have this juxtaposition, that he can be both disillusioned and a dreamer, and that he chose a scant few, Iorveth, and then Geralt, to share in those precious dreams.

The notion of Yaevinn having these "beautiful dreams" is also very pertinent to his TW1 characterisation, I think, because there are optional dialogues in which Yaevinn tells the accounts of how he once lived among humans and believed in assimilation, that the humans would accept the elves if given enough time, only to be persecuted and harassed at length until he finally accepted that there was no place for him there, that there could be no assimilation, only annihilation. And even though he knows it is a hopeless fight, he still proceeds onward. He knows his people are dying, and he knows that if they do not act quickly, they will be well and truly doomed to extinction, but he is still trying to fight. That is, in and of itself, an expression of a dream for a better future, even if he thinks it hopeless, or, as Iorveth criticises, unrealistic.

Serious character analysis aside, I think that the absolute funniest interpretation of this dialogue is that it is not to be taken literally about Yaevinn's idealism or lack thereof, but rather as a euphemism -- taking "beautiful dreams" as a euphemism for queer romantic interest; hence "he had beautiful dreams and desperately wanted me to share them" is something like "he likes men and asked me to be his lover", "I hear he asked the same of you" thenceforth meaning something like "were you also his lover/do you also like men" (and the response "you know a lot about me" therefore indicating that he is correct in his judgement). There's like a whole rebellion going on but Iorveth is just checking out his options, y'know.

#rambles #the witcher #the witcher games #yaevinn #iorveth #geralt of rivia #funnily enough this is the real reason i made this blog #to post rambling long-form content #and give my poor long-suffering partner a break from listening to me #i love them to bits they deserve some respite #so now the whole of the internet gets the dubious honour of seeing this i guess #i am posting this instead of working on my latest drawing tbh #yaevinn my beloved #i have many thoughts about him #some of it is serious character analysis and whatnot #some of it is just silly #but he is on my mind very often #i like this style of verbose euphemisms #both the historical precedent and joking things like this #'he has beautiful dreams' could be right up there with 'he's friends with lambert'

[sporesgalaxy]

i consider it "being in a fandom" when i check the tag a lot and draw pictures and desperately shout my theories at random passersby, to the extent that I have a nonzero number of exchanges (i.e. responding to tags or asks or making art based on someone else's content) with complete strangers solely because of our mutual interest in the piece of media. I remember in days of yore when this would make me feel like a part of a cohesive community by default, but nowadays it feels more like I'm passing through a large crowd and occassionally I have the "same hat!" guy exchange with someone, which is still special and delightful but which I no longer assume to be a sign of kinship beyond liking the same hat store

#i am feeling verbose today god help me. #adddna

[ruegarding]

It's so nice seeing another pjo fan with similar opinions:) what are your thoughts on the whole seaweed brain compliment? kinda curious to see if others also hate it

mm, i don't really hate the nicknames, largely bc i don't think they're The Problem. what i have a problem w is rick forgetting that he's subverting a trope and then overusing the nicknames.

an important part of annabeth and percy's dynamic is that annabeth knows that percy's smart. she shows this with her actions (she values his opinion and follows where he leads—if she didn't think he was smart she wouldn't do this). which makes sense for annabeth's character, bc she rarely puts her feelings into words. that's more of percy's thing, he likes to be told things directly. would it help their relationship to actually have annabeth say that she thinks percy is smart to percy's face (bc every time she's said percy is smart, it's either to someone else or internal dialogue)? yes (especially bc in ttc percy specifies he "got used to" annabeth calling him seaweed brain, not that he liked it). but there's actually a lot of things they need to talk abt that they never will, but i digress.

anyway, the point is that when annabeth calls percy seaweed brain, she's being facetious instead of mean. however, this sort of thing stops working when rick treats percy being stupid as a punchline annabeth participates in. when this happens, seaweed brain loses any sort of charm, and, yeah, i do hate that. rick is no longer subverting a trope, it's now just become the dumb bf and smart gf trope, which i've expressed my disdain for many times, so i'm not gonna get into it. fandom tends to run w this interpretation, as well, which is why there's a lack of the nicknames on my blog. i was never obsessed w the nicknames to begin w so it's no effort to ignore them.

#this is probably a longer explanation than needed but i am nothing if not verbose #anyway hi! u post some bangers lol #rr crit #<- i am quickly filling this tag w all the asks i've been getting lol

[daddy-ul]

I had asked James to write a bit about what 72 Seasons meant to him. But even before we received that, Lars shared that James did say one thing he thought was particularly interesting, which was “prisoner of childhood.” So Lars was the guy who distilled a lot of what James had to say into a phrase that became extremely powerful for us creatively. It was a brilliant synthesis of all the ideas behind 72 Seasons in three words.

-David Turner about the concept art and design of 72 Seasons

#metallica #72 seasons #james hetfield #lars ulrich #so what! #david turner #(d)jinn all'opera #yeah yeah i got around reading it just now #AND I'M SHARING THIS #bc i am so damn predictable. hence the tag... #jh and lu #an xl kind of friendship #GET YOURSELF A FRIEND WHO LISTENS TO EVERY WORD YOU SAY AND GIVES IT BACK DISTILLED #and let me tell u. jhet is not very verbose so to summarise his concepts... not bad #also this was from an email between james and #dt but ofc Lars also read it? maybe he heard james talking abt? and then of course he hit the nail abt what was the essence for his friend #dont look at me. i am not normal abt this and yall know it well #jinn out #soph. if you see this..... THEM. RIGHT???? /THEM/

[dyemelikeasunset]

So did you two got married? If so congrats, if not congrats anyway your relationship gives me good vibes and joy

Not officially yet, we just decided that like... after 14 years together we were a little tired of calling each other girlfriends lol

((The answer gets a little angsty from here, so feel free to stop reading! I'd put it under a read more but mobile Tumblr is honestly absolute shit I'm bout to throw my phone lol))

EDIT: I"M ADDING THE READ MORE LMAO

We've denied ourselves a lot of official titles because we kept getting pulled apart by life and well, to a degree I'm still a little closeted bc of unaccepting family and Bee's side downplays our relationship a lot even if they accept and love me. We're always being treated less "official" even though everyone knows we'll be together forever so we wanted to start manifesting it. Even if we haven't gotten the paperwork done I've sincerely known she would be my forever girl about a year into the relationship so I decided not to wait on a shitty government to tell me it was true. So yes, we're married.

((And now THIS part of the answer gets spiritual and if that makes you uncomfortable please feel free to stop reading))

I'm Muslim and traditionally a lot of Muslims are more used to arranged-ish marriage and you basically have a bunch of talks with your marriage candidate and decide if they seem reasonable enough to commit to your whole life. A lot of non-Muslims find it inhumane or whatever, but sincerely for me, I understood after meeting Bee that yeah that's completely possible. I made that commitment to her a couple months getting to know her and I made that vow to my God and my religion a long, long time ago. I hope Allah accepted it, but I already made the decision that I would approach my relationship with her the way other straight Muslims do, and quietly dedicate to give the rest of my life to her. On my end and in my heart and soul, we've been married 13 years now

#long post / #text heavy / #i love this girl #ill add that fucking read more when im on the computer #why am i so damn verbose huh

[lotusbxtch]

hello y'all it is 3 AM

and after 3 hours of writing (lol), I have my first draft of my very first fanfic one-shot smut done. I edited as I went and did a little more editing afterwards, but I'll be having one or two people (i've already selected) beta-read before I publish it on here. thanks for all the interest!

.....also it's 2.16k words lmao i'm sorry byeeeeeee

Tagging: @for-a-longlongtime @nerdieforpedro @lu62 @purelyoscar @clemdango04 @survivingandenduring @reggiesfilthylittlesecret @beezusvreeland @alltheglitterandtheroar @campingwiththecharmings @qveerthe0ry @agentjackdaniels and anyone else who was interested!

#fair warning all my fics will probably be long #because I am very verbose #I was always told in school to be more concise #also I use the word fuck a lot-ish #I have a foul mouth #sorry not sorry #poe dameron #poe dameron x afab!reader #poe dameron x f!reader #poe dameron x reader #poe dameron smut #oscar isaac cinematic universe

[coughloop]

I need someone to write an essay about how jeff koons has done far more damage to the public perception of art than AI ever will

#i am simply not verbose enough but i may make a longer post later #also andy warhol could be to considered to blame as well

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

233. A New Leaf (1971)

#a new leaf #a new leaf (1971) #2023filmgifs #my gifs #oh my god i loved that #took me a little while to understand the pace #and the cinematography was awful and totally not worth #the sheer skill and brilliance of that script #it was positively Wildean #and everyone's performances were hilarious in their own specific ways #from the dialogue #so many exquisite one-liners #to the verbose speeches #to the physical comedy #to the satire of het marriage and gender roles #so freaking beautiful and brilliant #it was a goddamned delight #and the whole botanist and leaf and redemption theme #fucken glorious #i am so totally won over to the Elaine May cult #fuck yeah

[bookwyrminspiration]

very curious what are everyone else's words that you know how to spell correctly but also cannot for the life of you spell correctly. every time you use it you just know you're about to fuck it up in so many ways. mine are lose/loose, exercise, and rhythm

#shitpost #random #we're not going to talk about how badly I just spelled one of those words trying to include it in the post #listen. i KNOW how they're all spelled #i know english I'm rather good at it #but also for some reason I always mistakenly use the wrong lose or loose even though I know which is which! #and ough. exercise my nemesis #i fuck it up SO bad every time #autocorrect often doesn't know what I'm trying to say #and rhythm. you'd think it'd be simple but i can fit so many h's and y's in that bad boy where there's only supposed to be one of each #i am. in fact. a writer. quite a verbose one. i know words but these...these vex me