#and went to a straight 100

[murdershaped]

orin using the tadpole to force minthara to take durge's place in their life im right

#OOC. #this isnt a ship post iF THAT WASNT CLEAR #they are so fucking lonely #and got rid of its sibling #and had no one to turn to #saw some of herself in minthara #saw someone who COULD understand maybe #and went to a straight 100 #scared tf out of minthara #but then it was like hahaaaaaaaaa i have this cool WORM GUYS #anyways. cries ab orin agAIN

[medusa1597]

my coworker said she wanted to go on break later than what was planned so i came up to her to say she could do so if she felt like it and she told me to mind my business ....... i can't get over it what the hell

#i wasn't being noisy it's literally my job to replace whoever's on break so i was being a pro #i think she misunderstood because what ...... i was so taken aback #to be fair i did walk up with kind of a goofy plotting face and straight asked her why she didn't want to go on break now #but i was joking like she really went from 0 to 100 so offended #shell shocked.....

[yellowocaballero]

Hi!

Was wondering about your take on soulmate au’s.

I mean I always thought of it as a short cut. I guess then there’s no reason for why the characters should be together besides the author wanted them to be.

But I’ve seen that aspect been played into. Like I guess if you want to throw to characters together and see how they interact it works.

I believe firmly that there's (almost.) no such thing as a bad trope, just bad execution. No matter my own distaste or disinterest in a trope, there are ways to write it in the spirit it was intended and to write it well. A lot of very popular romance aus aren't really to my taste, but I'm confident I could write a good example of a great deal of them. The only two AUs that I know I straight up know I will never be satisfying or interesting to me - the only two AUs that I cannot sincerely write and almost never enjoy - are hanahaki and soulmate AUs. And I have tried. Soulmate AUs vex me.

There's just no tension in them. There's nothing that the soulmate aspect adds. When writing, the most important thing for a character is their sense of agency and the choices they make - if a character isn't making any choices, then they aren't driving their own story, and it's a very uninteresting and tepid story. A romance is a series of choices to me. It's decisions made by a character that drive their narrative, decisions made from a lot of very complicated reasons and which are affected strongly by the plot and the setting, and falling in love is the journey towards choosing somebody. Soulmate AUs just strip that, and as a result they strip the entire falling in love narrative.

I've tried about five different times to write an honest, romantic soulmate au story, and I have pretty much failed. It doesn't work for me. There is nothing that soulmates add and it takes away a lot of the crucial elements of a relationship narrative that give it stakes and meaning. I understand why people enjoy the soulmates trope and why it's comforting to people - it's a concept of inherent belonging, that no matter who you are or what you've done there's somebody out there who is for you and who is meant to love you no matter what, that you aren't unlovable or doomed to be without love even if you have never been in a relationship - and normally understanding that is enough to write it well. But what makes soulmates comforting is what makes it a bad story. 'Happily ever after' is the end for a reason.

All that said, I don't hate all 'fated romances' or soulmate dynamics. BBC Merlin 2008 is my favorite romance soulmates story and its Merthur is one of The Gay Ships Of All Time. But I think that's because it's not romance soulmates, and because the story is very specifically fairy tale that does a lot of work with fate and destiny as something that you have to achieve and as powerful forces who you have to fight against. Also 'I Married The Male Lead's Dad', which made me cry like a baby.

#i have a THING about soulmate aus ok. #my asks #i am a guy who has said “yeah you can write some great ABO but good hanahaki is impossible” #and i was right. #of course I can think of stuff to do WITH soulmates or hanahaki but nothing that's honest #nothing that's just pure straight 100% romantic soulmate au #maybe one day. #RIP the jaisy soulmate au that went forever unwritten

[tartt9]

hello gay people in my laptop how are we all doing tonight

#idk if any of my followers are 100% straight and if you are don't tell me #i went to the lesbian bar tonight this is a gays only space go home #(this is a joke if you're straight you're welcome here) #i am just Not Entirely Sober

[mmmatchasims]

Cranberry: I'm sorry I fucked up your shot at Foxbury... I didn’t know your grades dropped.

Cherry: You didn't mess anything up. My GPA went from a 4.12 to a flat 4, but I'm sure my dad made it seem more like I dropped out of school entirely.

Cranberry: But your application-

Cherry: A deferral isn't the end of the world. It'll be fine, it just means I have to wait a little longer for my acceptance. I've worked too hard to end up getting rejected, I promise you. *sigh* I just need my parents to believe that.

#ts4 legacy #ts4 storytelling #ts4 #berry sweet sims #pastel rainbowcy #dream bpr #dream gen 3 #cherry valentine #cranberry harvest #for clarity a 4.0 is straight A's #cherry just did extra credit all the time and had more than 100% in one class #but got a low A on a test and went back down to 4.0 #all of this is just to show how intense and dramatic her parents are LOL

[psalmsofpsychosis]

so anyway Jeremiah Valeska was a normal bro who experienced normal emotions towards his dainty noHomie Bruce Wayne, and he expressed those very normal emotions in a very normal language

#like fucking hell babyboy you okay? #Selina had a solid jump to 65 degrees grief when Bruce left Gotham #but Jeremiah went straight to 100 to stops inbetween #and he was the only one who took one look at Batman 40 feet away and immediately knew. he was like ''you'' and he smiled #and dare i say even; he died in peace because it was Bruce who killed him #Gotham was insane for the wayleska plot #✨️romance in the fucked up toxic air✨️ #wayleska #gotham tv #gotham #Jeremiah valeska

[luvsavos]

i deserve financial compensation for the amount of fucking hoops i had to jump through to enable tipping on here

#mar.txt #this is /j obviously i'm just trying to be lighthearted to cope with the Anger ha ha ha :) #oh the urge to throw my phone as hard as possible into a hard surface. but i cannot. not Yet at least. but once i get a job and can get a #new one......... this one's getting destroyed through Brute Force :) #lets see how many times did i have to re-login and redo Everything because the verification thing wouldn't accept my id picture bc it was #'too blurry' so i had to take a picture with my phone camera but i had to clear app caches first because this phone is constantly at 99-100 #storage space. but Then because it fucking sucks ass and if i Breathe in the direction of another app whatever app i just tabbed off of #crashes and i have to reopen it. i had to log back in Again which meant waiting for the text message verification code Again (i live in the #middle of nowhere with a phone that Refuses to use the wifi for calls/texts and instead only uses the shitty cell service) #because Apparently tumblr users aren't allowed to stay logged in nor log in with a password. and Then i had to take a picture of the back #of my id too and i tried using my phone camera straight from the gallery option when i clicked upload. but because my phone sucks That also #crashed my browser and made me log back in. this isnt even counting btw how many times i TRIED to do it through tumblr but it kept stalling #and making me back all the way out log all the way back in and wait on it again for it to go further so i said fuck it and went to my #browser to do it. so i log back in and then i find out not only did attempting to take that picture crash my browser but it didnt even #actually TAKE the picture. so i have to click back over to my camera app Again and take the picture Again and log back in and wait the eons #it takes for things on this phone to load AGAIN. and then i Finally. FINALLY get it completed. #oh but did you think that was all? oh no i STILL had to log back in and load all the way back in Again through tumblr one final time to tel #the app i had done all that! and THEN i could turn tipping on. right? #no. i then had to close the app and reopen it again for it to Let me enable it. otherwise it just tried to take me back to stripe then #proceeded to give me an error message when i tried. great job tumblr #anyways that was infuriating #lmao i forgot to finish the original thought and check #anyways. around 7 or 8 times. that took almost a half hour of struggling i'm pretty sure. enraging☺

[theworstbastardhere]

I have drawn a picture and it is not great but it is much better than the last one I drew. I did that thing where I decide I'm done drawing forever and don't draw for a few years and then I want to draw things and I have to start over from the beginning. For reasons unknown even to me, I did all the shading and highlights on the color layer so some things got a little sloppy.

It's kind of funny because I don't give a shit about Takasugi but I would watch an entire trilogy about what Katsura went through to get to his movie state.

#gintama #katsura kotarou #be forever yorozuya #I mean it's 100% canon that he went crazy when Gintoki disappeared #so I really don't even need a ginzura agenda it's just straight facts #crap i draw

[kiestrokes]

Ykw. I needed Lucifer to read me for filth today. @minttangerines

#I went straight into a wheeze #Luce is 100% correct #the Lucifer to my lokie #avoidant attachment #this is actually kinda just my whole personality #like if I love something too much it’s going to get taken away #le sigh #writing #writing woes #writing update #the update no one asked for #actually that’s a lie I have ask about this exact fic Luce and I talking about #writers block #writeblr #writblr #writing things #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #ao3 writer

[toastsnaffler]

bruh this mammalian diving reflex shit actually works ??????? and no one told me before.

#my heart rate went from well over 100 straight down to 55 in a couple minutes what the fuck. #the number of panic attacks i couldve avoided if id found out abt this sooner #the human body is wild #well i guess im going back to bed. goodnight everyone <3 #.diaries #i feel like that one video of the baby seal that gets put in water for the first time ever

[visiosatanae]

Totally random, but my mom got my dad a Hot Ones hot sauce kit for Christmas and the family has gotten together today to do a testing and see how far we can make it through the gauntlet. I'm a huge wimp when it comes to spice so I was expecting to tap out after the first few.

I made it to the seventh out of ten.

I taste nothing but pain and it won't go away.

#personal ramblings #i'm proud of myself though! #but yeah the one called cosmic disco did me in #went from 0-100 real quick #just pure pain for me #like straight black pepper #i drank a glass of milk and had some yogurt #and it still burns

[definitelynotshouting]

Screaming, crying, dying inside, aaaaaaaaaa the Pearl and Grian convo was so BAD, HELPPPP

I mean, it was good in the sense that you wrote it masterfully, but IT'S A MESS omg

You're right, you did make it worse than Mumbo and Grian argument, dear heavens aboveeeee

I just wanna pick all of the characters in the fic by the scruff of their neck, like a bunch of kittens, and give 'em a lil shake. Just a lil. Hopefully enough to knock some sense into them, just enough to make them realise... I dunno, the value of trust and open communication? Mayhaps?

They all have so much emotional baggage, they end up (metaphorically) tripping over the suitcases on the floor, smh

~🌠

PS On a more personal note, congrats on getting your dream job!!! I hope you love it there ^.^

(Also, I too had a BNHA phase a few years back, so it amuses me greatly to know that you decided to get an editor job bcuz of being a beta-reader for a fic from that fandom lol/pos)

STAR ANON HELLO!!!! :D

Oh my gods yeah the Pearl+Grian convo is a wreck fr, they are both so fucked up and im really glad people found the dynamic and behavior i portrayed with them to be interesting and like, smth that hit really well. Truly, just writing that convo felt like continually getting hit in the face with a spiked baseball bat; i cant even begin to imagine what that was like as a reader 💀💀💀💀💀

Thank you so much for the congratulations!!! Waking up to that email was like the world's best glitter bomb to the face AKDNAKDJKSKS i was so excited and shocked. And YEAH absolutely buckwild that bnha got me into the editing profession. I never wouldve guessed that bnha fanfic would lead to an entire career for me 😂😂😂😂😂

#shouting speaks #asks #hunger au #compliments #FUCGKN. I PROOFED 4 BOOKS FOR THEM BEFORE THEY WENT ''HEY ACTUALLY--'' GIRL WHAT. WHAT. /POS #truly winning with this tho omg #esp as someone who. did not go to school for this??? actually i have never gone to college!!! i went straight into the workforce #i am 100% self taught with my editing SJDNSJS #txt

[amazinglyscarydonut]

I’m just thinking about how the McElroy brothers were absolutely worshipped on this website as cornerstones of internet culture, and then all of a sudden a few years ago everyone did that thing that they always do to random dudes they used to worship, and decided that they were the devil (for reasons I was never clear on), and then Sarah Z made this long-ass video called something like “The History of the Decline and Fall of the McElroy Fandom” like some huge Voltron-esque fandom dropoff had happened. But like nothing had actually occurred and everyone who had been listening to their podcast just kept listening to their podcast and they’re still very prevalent in meme culture. What the fuck was all that about

#I thiiiink people were saying that Travis had made some comment that was apparently cancel-worthy #but it must not have been that big of a deal because I never ever found out what it was. And I very much moved in those circles. #I was into TAZ and MBMBAM and Monster Factory and like five other things of theirs #Anyway if you went and listened to the first ≈100 eps of MBMBAM you could come up with 500 cancellable offenses I am sure of it #Also I do not like Sarah Z. Don’t know if my animosity came through #It always seems like she comes up with a thesis for her videos and then does her darndest to find whatever evidence fits that thesis. #Which is what we call in academic circles a ‘no-no’ #Also she did this video years ago about ‘Bad Faith Media Criticism’ where she extensively criticized someone else’s video about #Steven Universe but I had seen the video she was talking about Sarah straight up just lied about what was in that video. Multiple times. #In a video about bad faith criticism. I stopped watching her vids after that. #mbmbam

[time-is-restored]

also i feel like this image needed an update,

#ted lasso spoilers #this is literally just me being toxic but #actually can’t believe they were like ‘we care abt racism 😌 we care abt homophobia 😌 we care abt sexism 😌 we see #u and we care 😌’ -> ‘LMFAO PSYCH GET FUCKED’ #a 3/3 100% misfire rate. how can u even do that on accident #like you guys couldn’t even get ur fucking. straight white male characters to the finish line without fucking them up #who the fuck looked at the outline of this season and went ‘no i think we can make Even More pathetic + disingenuous overtures of giving #a shit. this will go well’ #sorry nate. sorry sam. sorry colin. sorry trent. #sorry keeley. and god. shandi im so fucking sorry :( #at least ur free now. at least ur all free. #ted lasso critical

[mxtxfanatic]

ZOMBIES???

#human reads mist #we went from comedy STRAIGHT to horror #0 to 100 real quick 😭

[plinkcat-gif]

YALL IM OUT OF IT

#BOTCHED A QUIZ. still got 100% but the way i went about it was NOT what i should’ve done ajskaksjdk #i jsut fucking forgot how to match letters to words. i guess #also just can’t think straight. i think cause i’m thinking too much ab allergies being a pain in my ass