#and literally any other verse

[oozedninjas]

nothing just 07 mikey bein a boob man lol

Dropping some facts, huh? 🔥

#it's the hour of truths #tmnt mikey #I also think he'd be into thighs and legssss #tmnt 2007 #and literally any other verse #tmnt bayverse #tmnt x reader #tmnt #tmnt 2k16 #tmnt smut #tmnt 2012

[doghart]

i’m catching up on tsv, i think something that eskew prod does extremely well is using horror absurdism to capture the absurd horror of capitalism. it’s clear in eskew too, but i think it’s especially fantastic in the silt verses. the casualness with which sacrifice is discussed. how red lobster has a god that has and continues to take human sacrifice, and so do cereal companies, cops, and the grueling start up that has a “fun room”. it captures EXTREMELY well how it feels to live under capitalism, that you’re constantly bombarded with horrible things, discussed cheerily in a nice tone. the way it’s simultaneously numbing, hysterical, and horrifying. i think i was especially fond of how in ep 39, protest against sacrifice was taken as radical, a propostorus, idealistic thing that’s just so SILLY it’s not even worth considering, something that feels very real to revolutionary organizing/protest irl. i also liked how despite the face, when everything gets down to it, when everything is about profit, all people come down to are bodies. all capitalism is a gaping maw, and it eats the poor and marginalized first, but doesn’t STOP eating just there. the very literalized version of this, where the profit wheel (and all that includes— war mongering, the prison industrial complex, wage labor, etc) is given a very real literal set of teeth, but the body count is the same. so the electric company has a god, and so it takes humans sacrifice. do real electric companies not have a very real human cost? overworked and underpaid labors looking to make rent, or well off comfortable employees no less likely to get the axe under profit margins, or the blood shed when colonizing in the first place, in clearing the space for the electric company to move in. is that not also a very real human sacrifice? the commercial aimed at elderly people talking about “back in my day, we would just talk about all this human sacrifice and find a compromise :)” is so bleakly hysterical, but is that not very accurate? that you can put a good face on it, but in the end what it comes down to is that you’re being sold the chance to be human fodder? that there is no glory or honor on a battlefield or in working yourself to death, just mud and shit and bodies to throw at problems. idk! i’m rambling but it’s a deeply engaging podcast.

#idk if any of this makes sense it’s just like. #all capitalism requires imperialism because constant growth is impossible to sustain and to pretend to sustain it you need to expand #and expansion and colonization necessitates war and war and imperialism and the capitalist system requires HUMANS as a resource #capitalism can’t survive without labor and that labor most heavily exploits marganalized people but also it exploits EVERYONE who isn’t #alreadt exploiting others #and so tsv literalizes the human resource that capitalism sustains itself on. it takes the cost we sacrifice day to day ALWAYS and turns it #into a big show gives it gratuetous fake blood and monster teeth and lots of screaming. and so you can listen to it and go ‘look how absurd #it is that they do human sacrifice at the construction company!’ but under capitalism this is EXACTLY the case except the fake blood is #real and there’s no monster teeth. it’s fucking fantastically done truely audio drama of all time #the silt verses #tsv

[milflaszlo]

(AKA the "Eurydice = Hades = Orpheus = Persephone" post. These four characters all simultaneously becoming one another and having already been one another in an endless cycle feels very fitting to me... it's a show about cycles -- in both the seasons and the song.) 📹: @medium-observation

#hadestown #hadestownedit #hadestown tour #theatreedit #musicaledit #smiling so hard looking at this cast together. they truly embodied THE SQUARE more than any other #mine #THESE CUT PERSEPHONE VERSES TOO LIKE WOAHH #her literally saying orpheus reminds her of herself. that they love the same way. #and then telling eurydice that love cannot be quenched. as though it's not the first time she's had to tell someone that #someone equally frightened of being in love and being alone. you all know who i mean by this.

[whaliiwatching]

those trinkets from his beau really stand out in his world

#spider man: across the spider verse #spider punk #spider noir #hobie brown #noirpunk #inspired by my friend who makes and gives away patches like free hugs #noir loves them. bit hard to explain to his completely monochrome universe though #i think punk is a derogatory term in the 1930s?? but it’s ok noir knows the truth #the splashes of color on this grayscale man with zero facial features.. priceless #his favorite other than the waistcoat pin is the rainbow #not because he understands literally any of the colors though

[theragamuffininitiative]

I support the nuanced and varied debates against ai art from now til kingdom come, but by far my favorite one to use is extremely basic and simple and I will always always refer back to it so here you go:

Art is the expression of the human experience and you can't generate that.

#ragamusings #anti ai #anti ai art #i am versed in the other arguments about the whole system being built on stolen data #so there literally is no ethical way to use it to begin with #and etc etc etc #but art by definition is the expression of the human experience #any whenever you let an algorithm predictive model computing something take over that process #it is no longer art #even if it is nice to behold it is not art

[rosalesbeausderholle]

At the end of the day, it just really sucks when you can't even enjoy a new release by your favorite artist because the greater internet has decided she's their acceptable outlet of misogyny and they have to comment or hate on her every move every single time.

#liveblogging my life #and for anyone saying oh it's only bc she's hyper famous and a billionaire now #it has literally always been like this #I've been here since 2009 and it has been like this every single time #like jesus i have to see people lose their mind over soulless factory ready kpop groups #or anything ariana grande puts out #(which btw is 1000% more soulless than anything I've heard) #or any other artist who's lyrics are just as 'cringe' as taylor (which is not a bad thing sometimes lyrics are fun! sometimes lyrics #are tongue in cheek! sometimes some of you are illiterate and don't get basic ass metaphors) #and that's all fine and good #and the respective fandom gets to enjoy the release #but when it's us we have to be exposed with barrage of hate after barrage of hate #sometimes over something so innocent as even announcing an album #like it's really a demonstration about how you can be the best and most successful person in the whole world at something #if you're a woman they'll still hate you #and then you guys find it cringe when she sings about that but isn't she right? #and then how dare we compare her to some of the old greatest of all time #as if they sometimes didn't have fun or cringey lyrics as well! but in this case those are two whole verses in a 31 yo album #but yeah stop and listen to what some of those oldies were singing about #not that they aren't great iconic songs is that the songwriting and bop status is very much comparable #taylor swift

[quarks-pussy]

Mirror Kira is something that can actually be so personal

#in a number of ways tbh like defo in a gay way and in terms of clone fucker rights and in terms of evil girlbossing etc etc but most of all #most of the mirror characters (to me) feel like au versions of the prime characters and obviously they ARE but they're still very much atta #attached to the prime characters y'know what i mean? like maybe not everyone but most mirror characters do feel like they basically are wha #the prime characters could've been if their lives had been different and like it's not completely out of the question for mirror kira but s #she still feels so... herself. like she's not defined by prime kira on any level. most mirror characters feel very defined by their prime c #counterparts and mirror kira... she's different. she is literally herself and no similarities will change that. she does not exist as an ex #extension of prime kira she is her own separate character. mirror kira could literally exist in the prime universe without even having to b #connected to prime kira by anything other than name and face. file off her serial numbers and you're golden & have a new and extremely comp #compelling villain. she is separate she's herself and nobody else. all the other mirror characters feel like twisted versions of the prime #characters who took a different path at some point. if there's any way to apply this to mirror kira that point would be her birth. like she #genuinely feels like they took a look at the circumstances on bajor in the mirror verse and thought about how a bajoran might grow up there #and THEN they made that bajoran kira. like i'm not saying she's nothing like prime kira but she just feels so much more developed tbh as if #they genuinely wrote out her whole life rather than just its present state y'know. it's great! i adore her #anyway #mirror kira nerys #mirrorverse #star trek deep space nine #ds9 #yes most of the meat of this post is in the tags lmao idek why #original posts fresh from quark's pussy

[gracebriarwoodwrites]

My voice is a goldfish grown up in a too-small bowl, plucked from the pond and moved behind glass walls. I was told my voice was too old and too low. I bound it up in a higher pitch until it wasn't worth comment and now it has settled too small. It's beautiful--still-- but not in its trembles of pitch or its consonants that blur or the Rs that still rumble with a lost potential roar. My voice is beautiful in its golden light.

#poem #poetry #spilled ink #spilled words #voice #i've honestly thought about doing some voice training to get back to my natural voice #this poem is one of those ones that's literal but ALSO metaphorical ooo #it gets close to my natural voice when i'm tired which is why i can't make long form videos and only film any tiktoks when i'm tired lol #i COULD make long form videos i'm just a coward and also don't have anything to say that other people aren't saying better #gotta stick to my true art form i've concluded #YEARS after buying a fucking expensive camera lol #yeah anyway growing up with my voice was rough #i got teased by kids and adults would describe my voice as sultry until they were like oh shit she's nine can't be saying sultry #it was a cool voice and i miss it lol #fun fact the poem changes with my voice #maybe i'll read it for y'all lol but the sounds in the first verse bring it closest to my natural voice the second and third bring it up #to the register i like least by virtue of the sounds #the fourth really showcases the weird range #and the last one just IS #now let's see if i ever get the courage to read it to you all lol #like my voice is okay but i have to hear myself talk all my day for my job and i've gotten really self conscious of how the register change #based on situation #changes #i shall stop rambling in the tags of my own poem #i do love what i did with sound here though it's been a hot minute since i wrote a poem and i'm proud of my craft

[itspileofgoodthings]

I JUST LISTENED TO HITS DIFFERENT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A WHILE—-

#speechless at her ability to take a feeling bottle it and recreate it in song/verse form #the tightness of the structure (and literally I don’t think there’s another songwriter in the world who has song architecture on lock #the way she does) #Somehow the perfect outlet for the explosion of emotion #like this is what the people don’t understand. Taylor Swift is the HEIGHT of craftsmanship and discipline #combined with the most uninhibited emotion #she’s the fusion point between structure so strict it’s almost cold and emotion so unbridled it’s almost embarrassing #but she holds both at the same time #it creates something that’s so hard to look away from #I sometimes think people only hear the one or the other #but it’s the meeting point that matters #Sorry but Taylor Alison Swift is a little more Johann Sebastian Bach than any of us realize #anyway. Like sometimes I fool even myself into thinking she’s normal #and then I wake up and remember she’s a genius #Anyway anyway I am sooooo scared of tortured poets department #because Taylor albums scare me before they come out #where is she going to drop kick me to next time #what preconceived ideas of her is she going to blast into pieces #like I just. She is astonishing. no other way around it #and it takes all my breath and energy away

[introspectivememories]

How do Bernard and Tim meet for the secret married fic? 

the answer is kinda boring but the same way they do in canon.

the shooting still happens and i'm still deciding on whether he falls into the cult. but in this verse, henry aquista lives albeit with an incredibly down-sized territory and he offers bear a place in the gang bc he wants to take care of someone darls loved and this is the only way he knows how. everything happens like canon and bear is still lost and adrift after the shooting and you know what the military does to children who are lost and adrift. bear joins the military a mere two weeks before tim texts him for the first time in 5 years.

i just couldn't come up with another meeting for them. like what else is there to say about them? we were friends and now we're not. we went through something traumatic and now we're not close anymore. i don't know you anymore. it feels like i loved you more than you loved me. i had all and then most of you, some and now none of you, oh take me back to the night we met.

thanks for the ask! <33333

#canon already has such a good storyline for them. i just tweaked the derails a bit #into the timber-verse one might even say #lord huron needs to get out of my head #that song is sooo incredibly post-shooting!bear-coded tho #introspective.txt #timbern #asks #HISTORY lore! bear is sooo isolated in the first few fics of this 'verse than in any other of my fics #HISTORY lore! yes bear is the leader of the aquista mob in this fic but he leaves all of that up to nikhil #sorry he literally just wants to find some purpose in life and running a mob is not it #HISTORY lore! he chooses to be a combat medic specifically bc of what happened to darls

[nebulastarss]

Actually fuck you all the characters are happy and healing now. Yeah there's nothing you can do about it.

#spiderverse #spiderman across the verse #spiderman nwh #spiderman no way home #danganronpa #fnaf #literally any other fandom you can think of... i just dont feel like adding a bunch #danganronpa v3 #gaming #movies #fandom

[britneyshakespeare]

don carlos by friedrich schiller is the most wild thing i've read all year and i'm only in act 2

#this is giving me flashbacks to when i read the winter's tale and i was literally slamming my fists and emphatically shaking the book #because i just could not believe the level of DRAMA i was reading (and the craft with which it was written) #i just closed act 2 scene 3 and im like GIRRRRLLLLL #princess of eboli im rooting for you #nobody tell me if something shitty happens w her im having a good time right now #tales from diana #up until act 2 scene 2 i was getting phaedra-meets-prince hal (of the henry iv plays) vibes #but then those next two scenes were CRAAAAZY #and i should mention phaedra by racine is one of my favorite plays #schiller also has a beautiful skill at language if the translations are doing him any justice #i dont know german so im not reading the originals naturally but just. the edition i have. the verse is so beautiful #i also read his mary stuart this year and it was also great but im losing my mind at don carlos #i was intimidated by this play too though bc it's nearly 200 pages in my copy of his works! which is a p big book #but OOOHHHHH my god #im just over 1/3rd through the play and i cant imagine how it gets any wilder #but wooooow. WOWWWW #schiller might be the first non-anglophone writer ive read who ive seen called 'the shakespeare of his culture' #and i actually felt that the comparison like. did justice. #the intensity ive felt reading these 2 schiller plays are very much how i feel reading the greatest shakespeare plays #not that the greatest/most acclaimed writers of other languages ive read arent AS GREAT as shakespeare #but like. molière i'll use as an example bc i love what i've read of him. #he's the most globally well-known french writer of verse plays but that doesn't make him like shakespeare. #he's very much in his own camp of artistic genius. his craft is also very different. the resulting products are super unique #from what is typical of a shakespeare play. #schiller's style AT LEAST FROM THE TWO PLAYS IVE READ very much have the same depth of character #complexity of plot #and grace of verse. #im obsessed! king!

[elliscousland]

thinking about how ellis is the most dangerous when the people he loves are in danger

#ooc. #tbd. #Kicks my feet #He's literally incompetent half the time int he beginning of any of his verses #But he's got That Dog In Him & it will fucking howl if the people he's managed to give a fuck about are in danger #Where he usually over thinks & that gets in the way of him making any effective decisions #When someone he gives a fuck Abt is in danger that's the only thing he sees #I made a post the other night Abt how ellis has a bit of Joel miller tlou in him & it shines here in this aspect #Edit: I also wanna clarify that for as much shit as I give Ellis Abt being stupid #He figured it out #It's hard and terrible and messy but he DOES step up it's just not easy for him #And when he steps up & becomes the person he wanted to be he no longer wants to be that person bcs that person doesn't feel like him #But that's a convo for another day

[fishermcn]

Knight-Captain Renauld was a veteran of the Shattering and one of the few Redmanes to have survived the Bloom of Aeonia, where Malenia the Severed unleashed the Scarlet Rot upon Starscourge Radahn and all the Caelid Wilds. In the days following the fallout it was his leadership that rallied the broken forces of Radahn's army, organizing the Redmanes and leading the first of many fiery purges as countless wriggling horrors began pulling themselves from the now befouled earth.

It wasn't until the lashing winds in the Bloom's wake no longer raged and the miasma of rot finally settled down to fester Caelid properly that a proper record could be taken of their losses... and of their enemies. When Renauld realized that only Radahn remained upon that accursed battlefield, his rage was immense, and upon his oath and that of a dozen other knights they launched a crusade to hunt down Malenia and finish what their now stricken and broken lord could not.

So it was that these knights thirteen scorched their crests in the manner that all other Redmanes would follow, and with their castle left in old Jerren's hands they hunted the wayward demigod. Across pillaged Limgrave and forsaken Liurnia they followed the wake of hated Finlay, loyal to the last, and through war-bitten Atlus Plateau did their march tread upon, and the horrors and terrors they confronted with bared steel and fiery resolve in the wake of the war to end all wars, who could say? For their tales have been lost to the waning of that most broken age, and of those vengeful thirteen only one of their number ever returned to blighted Caelid.

Rumors say that Renauld had dared to tread a measure in blasphemy itself, to scale those bitter peaks where the fire giants once echoed their own fiery fury across the mountaintops in Finlay's wake. Amongst the men-at-arms and knights is claimed that in those furious snowfields Renauld met his match, a duel at long last with Finlay staining the powdery white crimson with his blood and an eye taken for the cost of his oath unavenged... and some would whisper that he survived only from the intervention of a spirit, and the gracelessness in the eyes of the boy that returned home with him is proof of it.

In the days since his return, Renauld Whist has taken command of the remaining Redmane forces scattered across all of Caelid, and even now leads sorties against the corruption that has choked the heart of his homeland.

#v. graceless eyes beneath golden boughs condemn your birth / once curses rain from burning branches you’ll know your worth ( elden ring. ) #// yeah sam's dad is certainly a guy of all time #// dude who actually still has grace in his eyes #// LITERALLY the only verse where the old man's still alive and kicking; too powerful to be kept alive in any other setting i reckon rofl

[sakurarisen]

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So this one's gonna be kind of long, apologies ahead of time- XD

Despite her rough life, Sera has kind of always known there's more to her than even she can understand - And this is a feeling that only grows once she's finally able to settle down with Zack into a calmer, more peaceful life, and learns how to cope and face the things that've happened to her. The more she finds ways to cope and finally have the life she's craved and deserved, the more it feels like she's standing on a frozen lake; there's so much more under the surface, so much more to her, and yet she can't access any of it past the occasional tap on the ice and a temporary, slight bubbling up of the cold water underneath. So, so much more... Something, but she's never understood what, no matter how much she tries to find the answers to 'what makes Seraphina Fair tick?' - A question that comes up especially often in her FF7 canon, when she realizes the materia she picked up on her way to Gongaga is a summon materia for Shiva, eventually gaining the use of her aid and power, albeit at the cost of her own energy and needing serious bedrest after.

This question of what makes her 'tick' and what lies under that frozen over lake is now the same in every verse: Because Sera holds the power of one of many elemental phoenixes - In this case, the Snow Phoenix.

There's lore I wrote up a very, VERY long time ago (and need to rewrite and fine tune, now XD) for another OC of mine whose bloodline is descended from a phoenix - Essentially, the phoenix lived in in an era where gods walked the planet freely and many gained a following, with the phoenix especially enjoying a temple and a fair number of worshipers. But as humans do, war eventually broke out, and the phoenix himself was targeted for his feathers under the false claim they would give the power of rebirth and the inability to fall in battle, causing his temples to be overrun in the people's bid to get their hands on them.

The phoenix stood tall and protected his temple and the priests and priestesses within it, eventually taking human form to fight beside them, and at the end of the war, began a bloodline with his most trusted priestess that eventually, many hundreds, probably thousands of years later, to my other OC - Who, for multiple reasons, thought she was the last of the phoenixes despite being only a halfbreed.

Expanded lore I've been working on, however, adds more phoenixes; the original was a solely fire-based creature, while the others that existed among the world were of other elements - Ice, lighting, water... The original 'myth' had been passed down among the people of a pretty remote village, and the myth/legend had inevitably changed over time, like playing a game of telephone, until all mentions of other phoenixes and gods ceased to exist within it. Nobody knows there's others - But even so, Sera herself inherited the defensive, healing powers of the Snow Phoenix, while her older brother Thoma inherited some of the fire phoenix's power - Two phoenixes who were originally siblings, now echoed in Sera and her brother, linked closely together just the same as the originals.

However, despite Sera embodying the Snow Phoenix in just about every way - defensive and protective in nature, rose from her 'ashes' to keep moving forward (multiple times over her life, actually, this girl SHOULD have died several times over and managed to survive), an affinity for ice magic/abilities, ranged fighting, a healer, hiding in the form of a snow leopard/human/snow fox, etc., that's all for another post and not this one which is already longer than I intended it to be - she isn't strong enough to use it, at least not in full. The circumstances of her life/lives have made it so that while she HAS the power within her, she's too physically weak to access it, and using it in full would more than likely kill her - Though she can access incredibly tiny fractions of it when she desperately needs it, or with the aid of Zack and Thoma, her soulmate and the single blood relative/member of her birth family she has left she's super close to.

This lore also fits into just about everything I have running for her; reincarnation and rebirth is a thing across all my blogs (every verse and AU is another lifetime for the muse, with them all being connected in the end by being the same person reborn into a new life with the same soul, changed only by the timeframe and circumstances they're born into, otherwise the exact same person), and the snow phoenix follows her through all of them. In GI, it's an old power caught up in the rebirth cycle, in FF7 it was a familiar of Shiva she aided into gaining human form - Nothing like an ancient in any form, but a being connected to the goddess and the elements (who still needs materia even with her innate abilities), and so on.

This... This isn't implemented YET because I need to figure out how to rewrite the phoenix myth and organically insert it into Sera's stuff, but this is... This is just Sera. This is my girl, and it's taken me over a decade to FINALLY figure out this is what she's had lingering within her, even though I've known there's something there for a looooong time. I want to make SURE it makes sense and doesn't step on toes when I add it in, or buck anything in canon lores for any of the verses, and I really want it to work out - And since Sera is inherently fandomless/multifandom at her core, it should be easy enough to do that?

But also I've been rambling for FOREVER here so I'll cut this one here XD I'm just?? So excited to finally know what's going on with Sera in more detail, and I have SO MUCH MORE I'm working on on top of this! <3

#warofthebeasts #Out Of Poms [OOC] #Questioning A Flower [Asks] #Long Post #I was talking with Kasa about this yesterday - We were wondering why it is Thoma and Sera are SO close #Despite how they grew up? And how they seem to have an incredible understanding of each other that really goes far beyond anything other #than how ZACK understands her - And they literally share a soul as soulmates #I have SO MUCH LORE for this girl it's incredible and I love her so much #But I want to make sure her lore also fits in with what I have going for her before I add it in full #I'm not going to step on canon to make her 'special' - I REFUSE #So I wanted to be able to confidently say 'canon says this works' before I add it into any verses #But Sera as a fandomless/multifandom OC? THIS APPLIES NOW #May be time to bring back my fiery OC with this- #XD Sorry for the insanely long babble #I love talking about HCs and the like and I can go for FOREVER if I'm allowed #For all my muses XD

[halchron]

also speaking of adding muses back... would anyone like to write with my oc if i added him back

#only the real ones remember youta lol #he was fun fact a genshin oc but since I haven't played genshin in literally like 2 yrs idk any of the new genshin lore lol #so naturally I'd make verses for other fandoms and shit too since I don't follow many genshin rpers lol #but idk do ppl still like ocs like...? #eh fuck it I'll add him back as a request only muse fuck it #lmk what verses I should write him in ig idk #✧ ━ ooc.