#I’m thinking about the alternatives

[29625]

The most frustrating part about writing a period-inspired songfic is that sometimes your favorite songs hadn't been released in the era you are writing in. Like, I'm writing this Slimav angst/smut set in 1993 listening to R.E.M.’s Imitation of Life…then realized the song was released in 2001 :(((( I’m like nooooooooo let me make Sli cry listening to this while being pounded by his short king. Let him cry over some stupid-ass cigarettes Goose used to smoke. Let them suffer with some good music in the background. LET THEM MOURN TO REM

#slimav #slider x maverick #top gun 1986 #ron slider kerner #top gun fanfiction #pete maverick mitchell #ao3 writer #Come on come on no one can see you cry #I’m so slow I’m so sorry for anyone who’s interested in my stories #just came back from the US suffering jet lag #I’m thinking about the alternatives #I love Disintegration and Wish by The Cure but neither of them match the vibes exactly #See this is why I’m so slow #New Order maybe? #Eh #Please drop some recs

[blue-mood-blue]

I have been thinking about the blackening (as one does)…

…and it’s so interesting to me, the penalty Shen Qingqiu is faced with should he not decide to yeet his disciple into hell.

Account termination. Instant death. Sent directly home to his already-long-dead body, and that’s it for the villain of the piece who outright refuses his villainy. The protagonist needs a blackening for the story to continue, and Shen Qingqiu is going to provide it or get written out of the narrative. Either way, Luo Binghe is going to lose him. Either way, this is a turning point.

I wouldn’t claim that this is the intent of the penalty, but it fascinates me that the System has, potentially, backed the plotline into a corner - because Binghe still stands to be blackened even if Shen Qingqiu took the other choice.

Think about what that would look like, to him. He’s at the Immortal Alliance Conference, and everything is going wrong. He’s been outed as a demon, and not just a demon - the top tier of demon, as bad as it gets from the perspective of a righteous cultivator. His beloved teacher, the person who has been kindest to him and opened his home and heart to him, is standing there with his sword in hand, deciding what he’s going to do about what must look, to him, like a horrific betrayal. Binghe is apologizing. Binghe is begging for his life.

Shen Qingqiu hears him. Maybe it shows on his face, or in his voice, that he already knew; maybe there’s no hint at all, but Shen Qingqiu is suddenly talking quickly with an abrupt sense of urgency that Luo Binghe is having a hard time keeping up with. Telling him he’ll be wonderful - telling him he’s the best. Telling him the world will be his, with emotions cracking through that aloof mask that Binghe has never seen on Shizun’s face before, and it’s terrifying for reasons that Binghe cannot identify.

(He will, later. When he has time to think, he’ll realize it sounded like a goodbye.)

And then Shen Qingqiu is bleeding. And then Shen Qingqiu is on the ground. And then Shen Qingqiu is dead. There’s no countdown for Binghe - there’s no System, there’s no warning, there’s no answers.

Luo Binghe is a heavenly demon in the middle of a conference sabotaged by demons. Luo Binghe is alone. His fellow competing disciples are scattered, some dead or injured. The Peak Lord of Qing Jing Peak, the second in command of Cang Qiong Mountain Sect, maybe the only person he loved and who loved him back, is dead at his feet. No one will believe him if he says it isn’t his fault.

(He can’t believe it isn’t his fault.)

What choice does he have but to run? The last heavenly demon the cultivation world went up against has been sealed under a mountain for years, and one of the people responsible for that is probably looking for Shen Qingqiu already. They’ll be looking for him, too. There isn’t anywhere to hide; there isn’t any time to mourn.

There isn’t even enough time to ask why. Why again.

There is no closure waiting for him, because there is nothing to explain what happened. It just is.

It would be a different kind of blackening, certainly - less intense, probably, less of a warping, desperate thing. But how many times can one person have all the love and safety in their world torn out from under them before it starts to show? Before they just don’t allow things like love and safety to touch them, because that’s the better option?

Interesting to consider that, simply by offering the choices it did, the System rigged the story to guarantee that Luo Binghe would end up in hell (deliberate or not).

Interesting to consider that, even if Shen Qingqiu made what might have seemed like a kinder choice, there was every chance it wouldn’t have been.

#scum villian self saving system #svsss #shen qingqiu #luo binghe #I have been thinking about Alternative Blackening Methods #(for reasons) #(don’t worry about it) #and while I don’t think it would be on the same level as the endless abyss #I think suddenly losing his Shizun would fuck Binghe up #especially like that with no explanation right in front of him?? #like #he is not gonna be okay #and then he’s stuck in a realm filled to the BRIM with cultivators after his blood #maybe it’s not THE blackening but it is A blackening #and it gives me feelings #because even if sqq was willing to make that sacrifice I’m not convinced that would have… helped Binghe #(also au where sqq somehow has the mushroom body ready to go before the conference) #(and Binghe unexpectedly encounters his Shizun in the wild) #(and they run away together in the most ill-conceived escape plan known to man)

[girlishguitarist]

I always feel so weird when I see companies making mega expensive “punk” and “goth” clothes. I used to know this other person who kept on wanting to get into the goth scene, and another one of my friends literally was so willing to help her and get her started out with like music recs and clothing tips and she’d constantly tell us. “Oh, but dressing goth isn’t accessible for me. I don’t have the money.”

Which y’know makes sense, not everybody has the money to drop on getting goth clothes. Especially when your priorities are literally keeping a roof over your head and paying bills. We’re all from working class families here. But then we just kind of realised she was referring to the shit you’d find on like… Killstar or Dollskill and everything made a lot more sense. It’s been making me think. Ever since alternative subcultures such as goth, such as punk, even grunge tbf have made their way into mainstream fashion trends on the internet it’s made people believe that the only way you’re able to get clothes to “dress the part” is to fork out shite tonnes of money to these ridiculously overpriced online clothing stores. (You don’t even have to dress goth for example to be goth because it’s a music based subculture but that’s a whole other thing.)

The way trends are today with this whole, “aesthetic” thing along with the consumerist HELL that is fast fashion sparks a wave people just buying swathes of overpriced clothing to hop onto a clothing trend that is actually ripped from a subculture they don’t really understand? Like part of the whole core of these subcultures is that we are anti-consumerist and anti-capitalist. You are a fucking joke.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking negatively about people who truly want to get into these subcultures. There is nothing wrong with that at all, of course there isn’t. I’m talking about people who will see a fashion trend and just hop onto it and really have no idea what they’re doing. (This is part of the reason why I believe it’s unlikely we’ll ever have a new subculture as big as previous ones ever again because of just how everything is a trend now.)

Fashion that has been born from these subcultures has always been DIY. Making your own battle jackets, thrifting pieces of clothing and tweaking them to be how you want. Like… I don’t know about you babes but I don’t think goths in the 80’s were getting their clothes from fucking Hot Topic.

The fact that companies are now and have been making ridiculously priced pieces of clothing to capitalise off of: 1.) People who want to hop on trends because they don’t want to make the clothes they just want the style now, and 2.) People who want to genuinely get into subcultures such as punk and goth but may be misguided as to where to get clothing just makes me so fucking mad because it makes getting into the fashion within these subcultures seem inaccessible and consumerist-ridden when they’re absolutely not meant to be.

#long post #word vomit honestly #anti consumerism #anti capitalist #goth #punk #alt subculture #alternative subcultures #goth fashion #punk fashion #i’m sorry if this makes no sense #I just think about it a lot #more than I should to be honest #music #fashion #anti consumption #alternative

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Critical thinking failure: did not consider all the options.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #season 1 #wei wuxian #it’s hilarious to me how fast wwx jumps to ‘omg was there something going on between lwj and mxy #and thats why he’s acting like this?’ #because *clearly there is no other alternate explainations! #wwx believe me; mxy was your kinnie all the way #but in the same way one adopts a fanon interpretation as an alter #LWJ would clock the discrepancies so fast you would need to get a neck brace. In the least sexy way #wwx really lucked out in getting the body of a guy everyone already thought was a bit odd #but had lwj *known* mxy? yeah the song wouldnt have even been needed #oh man…now I’m a bit sad thinking about lwj spending time with the wwx impersonators #just hoping to feel a little bit of familiarity…a little less lonely

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

DPxDC Prompt

Thinking back on it, Danny probably should have been more wary of being given the title ‘Ender Of Timelines’.

#dpxdc #dp x dc #danny phantom #dc x dp #dcxdp #I guess any crossover but it’s the one I was thinking of at the time #probably a summon fic? #they’re like Oh Fuck Who Have These Cultists Brought In?!?! #panic. mayhem. chaos. #meanwhile Danny is like. you put ONE alternate universe version of yourself into your own CLONE and SUDDENLY it’s a PROBLEM #he steadfast ignores the other times he fucked with time and then refucked with it to fix it #arguably it’s a title that should go to Dark Danny who I’m calling Dante because #chefs kiss ITS GREAT #maybe it applies to both so it’s like. a coin toss who shows up #Dante is like. ugh. community service says I CANT. let me give you the most bored speech on the planet about loving the earth and making… #the most of your timeline. #you know. up until he actually NEEDS to go light some fires. which he’s maybe a bit too quick to jump in on as soon as he can #meanwhile Danny is like. I can barely pass geometry and now I gotta help solve THIS problem TOO?! #they’re both good at it. just. different approaches #the timeline is capital f FUCKED if both show up tho #the mythos… you could have so much fun with it lol

[clown-eating-pig]

Have we yet discussed the possibility that the reason that Gerry’s hair color isn’t mentioned in tmagp is not because he has a good dye job now, nor because he does not have one at all, but because Happy Gerard Keay is actually just Bald As Hell?

#tmagp #the magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #gerard keay #gerry keay #I had an alternate theory in my drafts about Gerry’s hair #but come to think of it I think it would be much funnier if gerry just went super bald from living with gertrude #I also suppose he could be bald bc he underwent and survived cancer treatment #but that did not occur to me until literally just now #actually now I’m treating this as a legitimate theory #Happy!Gerard is bald bc he is alive #I’m so smart god bless

[nastyaphrodite]

I have never been able to shake off how the name Katniss was chosen from a hardy, tuberous plant whose botanical name is Sagittaria.

Sagittaria alluding to Sagittarius, known for being represented by the Archer. Bow and arrow.

Sagittarius is also sometimes alluded to Orion, the Hunter, famous for his friendship with Goddess Artemis.

Artemis, protector of young girls. Her favorite place to dwell in forests. Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt, who favored archery.

Suzanne Collins, the woman that you are, thank you.

#alternatively I think about how Artemis and Orion coded Katniss and Gale’s relationship is #am I the only one who thinks that about Katniss/Gale? #thg series #thg #thg katniss #katniss everdeen #the hunger games #artemis #I’m not the first one to draw this parallel and I read it on here years ago #the hunger games obsession has returned and I’m still amazed by the heavy symbolism throughout the series #Suzanne collins is a genius

[thatthirstyweirdo]

JULIE JOYFUL RWAAAAAA

Finally I drew Julie, my baby!! I enjoy her quite a lot and these are the outfits I think she’ll be performing in my au. I mentioned it before in a post that she’s in a band “Joyous!” with her siblings. Might as well say a bit about the lore, basically everyone from the “Welcome Home” cast left Home and ventured into the Real World. Kinda similar to how Barbie leaves her toy world in the movie. So yeah pretty much everyone started their own music career, but Eddie and Frank started a talk show together.

#I think I’m having an art block cause it’s weirdly hard to sit down and draw #Even tho I really wanna #The creative juices are not juicing enough #I’ll still try to doodle cause this au thing is on my mind a lot #ANYWAY I’m thinking about what music genres others would like #Like Julie and her siblings probably pop r&b soul maybe alternative as well #Sally is alt punk rock I thinkkkk #Although she wouldn’t stop at that I mean come on where’s the fun in sticking to one genre? #she would experiment definitely #Poppy is a jazz singer and a frequent guest at Eddie’s and Frank’s talk show #And Barnaby well I decided to stick to hip hop and rap #He would sing in jazz as well #Howdy is a…Dj #Idk why it makes me giggle #LIKE FOUR HANDS AND I AUTOMATICALLY THOUGHT DJ #It’s kinda funny #welcome home #welcome home au #julie joyful #julie welcome home #my art

[baconcolacan]

Them teehee 💚💜💙❤️

❤️💙: both have stolen each other's clothes at one point (mostly Tom).

💚❤️: freaked the fuck out when they had their first kiss in highschool.

💙💜: because of Matt being a vampire his body temperature is a little lower. He likes to cuddle Tom for both affection and warmth.

💚💜: didn't notice they were likely more than friends til Tom called them out about it (they were shocked too. Stupid/aff)

💙💚: Tom only sings around Edd, Edd finds his voice lovely.

❤️💜: used to tease Matt a lot as a kid, turns out he just had a huge crush on him and won't admit it till they were older.

THIS IS SO CUTE I LOVE THEM ALL HDKSKD ESP THE EDDMATT ONE!! Love me a dumbassxdumbass

Also the TomEdd one Im SO SOFT FOR THEM 😭🫵

#tomedd #tomtord #mattord #tordedd #mattom #eddmatt #I’m not tagging the alternates of the ships TOO MANY #just tagging the ones I like to use uwu #BUT FR THEYRE SO CUTE #ALL OF THEM ALL OF THEM!! #but the eddmatt one got me thinking so: #Sometimes I like to think Matt is defacto leader if Edd isnt around #so they share some household responsibilities together #I can imagine them both being tired after doing chores the whole day #and they just collapse on the couch together and subconsiously cuddle #they complain about inflation like a fuckass old married couple #I MEAN COME ONNN EDD ALWAYS SENDS MATT OFF TO SHOP EVEN IF HE GETS DISTRACTED #I’m sobbing #asks #yyunko

[ashes8338]

I know that not everybody has to like Starfield and I respect peoples opinions, but I like it and I want to see positive posts about it

I really don’t need need negativity right now, especially not towards things I like

#Starfield #ash speaks #I like the story I like the characters I like the gameplay #and I especially like the alternate universe thing it has I think that’s super neat #I know I can’t stop anybody from making posts that not what I’m saying #I just wish that the ocassional post I see about it wasn’t just shitting on it or back handed compliments

[transformers-bold-bright-brisk]

AHH JUST FUCK IT—ART/LORE-ISH DUMP!!

Literally my last three recently finished(enough) pieces of 2023

Just for a recap—aka officially telling y’all what’s been up with me—

You see, along side my RBA-esque storyline will be other separate stories that kind of take place at the same time. Sort of, maybe, has a Trollhunters kinda timeline, or something? Let me just break it down into the main drafting titles(pending) I decided to give each sideplot:

- Roll Call Rescue Recruits: Some young transforming individuals attend Rescue Bots Academy, stationed on Griffin Rock and get up to some waaakcy hijinks with their new classmates while training to become Rescue Bots.

- Radiance In Disguise: A spoiled brat has to live with a rustic antique collector and his son, ever since her mother was arrested, and now her mother’s old enemies would have to go through giant alien robots if they even want to lay a finger on her.

- Reach Out To Reassemble: There’s a new Delinquent Rehabilitation Program in succession, and now it’s up to two bots to coach two young Decepticon criminals out of their violent habits; or else it’s prison for them.

None of these are in particular order by the way.

At least I think they aren’t.

#OOF #I’ve been trying and failing to hold this stuff back in my big ol brain basket for a bit #I was like ‘I’ll wait until I’ve fully fleshed it out and bla bl blah’ #of course I naturally derailed and just said fuck it #here’s the basics of what I’ve been thinking about #also I’ve just completely given up on the war backstory cause I’m an indecisive little punk #that’s not true #I’ve just dumbed it down to — #THE WAR ENDED AFTER OPTIMUS AND MEGATRON DIED #and that’s about it #also yes I do have a certain appreciation for alliteration #sphny arts (𖦹w𖦹)•*°⊹ #sphny alternates universe (𖦹ㅁ𖦹)•*°⊹ #sphny speaks (𖦹<𖦹)•*°⊹ #tf fan continuity #transformers bold bright brisk #transformers #maccadam #maccadams

[communistkenobi]

I’m curious if other communists have like a religious relationship to their political beliefs for lack of a better word? That’s not a good word to use but I don’t know how else to describe it. I’m solidly atheist but all of the feelings and emotions religious people talk about, revelation and spiritual connection to community and so on are all things I experience pretty regularly and I interpret those feelings as fundamentally communist. the way I take in and absorb information in particular feels revelatory in a religious sense. I’m pretty sure this is fairly common with MLs but I’m curious about it in general

#disabling rbs because I don’t want this to leave my blog #I’m using religious in a deliberately loaded way because I lack the language for alternatives #I joke frequently with my friend that communism is the religion of science but like I do unironically believe that lol #also not claiming marxism is ‘just another religion’ I do not think that’s true or useful to think of it in those terms #but if you take political theology seriously the belief in a socialist state is like the modern version of a desire for religious authority #anyway sorry extremely complicated things that I’m not remotely expanding on enough #I’ve just been thinking about it a lot recently #it’s like a totalising force in my life and shapes the way I interpret and understand the world and my relationship to it #I remember reading marx for the first time and in a very real sense I ‘converted’ to being a communist #I need to read more Benjamin because he goes into like jewish mythology and stuff in his work #but like him talking about the divine violence of the state made it click for me and is partly responsible for me making this post

[turtleblogatlast]

My rambling is always cut off by the tag limits 😔

#you know what I’m saying it here since the tags cut me off #the pink brand shirt was cute actually #it was the sweatband that made it bad #and the tucking in of the shirt #if that wasn’t included it’s a cute look that I see people wear all the time plz I’m begging #Leo isn’t bad at this he just goes too far 😭 #and also #I love how Mikey actually has a similar eye for this as Donnie #their disguise hoodies are even identical #which makes sense as they are the more hands on artistic people in the fam just in different ways #alternatively Donnie GAVE Mikey the hoodie which is just as good if not better #but yeah as i was writing prev post I started thinking about the popular ideas of Leo’s style and such and was like man #people always go one or the other for him #plz he’s not a frat boy he really really isn’t 😭 #idk it just kinda bothers me when people wave away the fact that his face man status isn’t just pushed by himself but by others too? #*incoherent muttering* #I could write an essay on this but I feel like that would be too long winded even for me kdkdkd

[blackcatworshipcommittee]

Sirius: Healthy boundaries and vulnerability are like… my kinks.

James: Wow, so sweet and open, Padfoot.

Remus: You do realize those are just important things in a heathy relationship, right?

Sirius:…

Sirius: …and bondage.

James: Aaaaand he’s back.

#ask me stuff #about the author #harry potter #harry potter headcanon #magic #alternative music #rock music #sirius black #remus lupin #sirius and lupin #wolfstar #i’m a simp for wolfstar honestly #As a fellow Scorpio I can tell you this precisely how we think #of course he’s a Scorpio

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Anyone else have near-perfect executive function at work; but at home, have literally no energy or motivation to do anything except lie in a dark room, with something in or on your ears for several hours?

#It’s got to be the schedule keeping me on task at work #I love microdosing strict routines (not having an actual routine for the day; but having routines for small tasks #which piss me off if I can’t carry them out precisely the way I planned) #For instance: If I’m asked to paperclip a bunch of stuff together with multicolored paperclips of various sizes #I cannot just indiscriminately pick paperclips from the container because that is WRONG and ILLEGAL #The colors must fit the theme of the assignments; and the colors must alternate in a specific order #and the paperclips must all be the same size #If I’m asked to dump out and clean containers of writing utensils I am going to sort them by type and color #whether you like it or not #Black permanent markers have their own container in a different section from the blue permanent markers #Dry-erase markers are not to be mixed with permanent markers because they are easily confused and it is WRONG and ILLEGAL #Do not fuck with the system. It’s the only organizational skill I have and by fucking GOD I’m going to use it in EXCESS #I stuff and fill out envelopes the exact same way every time because if I do it any other way it is WRONG and ILLEGAL #The stamp always goes on last to minimize monetary waste if there is a mistake #Now you’d think my room is squeaky clean and organized because of how particular I am about these small tasks #Right? Right? #NO IT IS NOT. It looks like a bomb went off. Cleaning the room is a big task which cannot be accomplished within two hours #therefore I have discarded it as anything I need a routine for because it would take too long to come up with #and it is very hard for me to do things like that without instructions or a sense of consistency #So I simply don’t #“After five years the dust doesn’t get any worse” correct; but the mold certainly does #I am convinced half my problems with organization as a kid would have been solved if I just had a hamper #“We have a clothes chute; you don’t need a hamper” Maybe you don’t but I DO #I want one now; but I’m going to use it as incentive to get an apartment #because that’s another thing I need to smuggle and I have too much already

[sleepy-doobles]

I have reasoning for this I promise

#rain code #rain code spoilers #(?) just cause #makoto kagutsuchi #izuru kamukura #hear me out they didn’t need to make these two so heckin similar #we got the almost identical hair with makotos just being a bit shorter #we got the alternate version of the protagonist with a different name and essentially god powers #there are some dubious morals going on #and theyre mostly referred to is the fandoms as different people than the protagonist #plus theyre both the best even if only one of them got an actual boss fight #(this is in the tags cause i’m scared to type it out) #(and I needed to yell this into the void since it’s all im thinking about thank you) #danganronpa