#but now there’s a quarantine and all

[moonilit]

This is all about Jote now

#Ffxvi modern au #Got stuck trying to think what would Joshua be in a modern au #Historian? A teacher? Would he study law? Then figure it would be really funny if he is a writer and is with a pharmacist #Also with Tarja on quick dial #Not in my cannon! Jote going to have friends in this au and she is buddy with Tarja now #Joshua getting corona like more than once is canon and you know it #You know Clive was calling constantly and radiating nerves energy because of it all through quarantine #Dear Jill has to deal with it all #Clive having the biggest softest spot for Jote after meeting her the first time #Actually Joshua Jote mid and torgal could get Clive to do anything #She would be the type to over work herself and Prince Charming would have to step in #Jote #joshua rosfield #ffxvi #final fantasy xvi #clive rosfield #Tarja

[can-of-slorgs]

I'm personally blaming @starbiology and everyone who has reblogged or commented the other piece for this.

Bonus comic featuring my grundo:

#every minute i keep working on this i take psychological damage #neotag #neopets #vin memes #you'reall to blame for this monstruosity #i literally just searched “babygirl” pose and went “I... i can do that” #i didn't stop to think if i should though #Star i was gonna respond 2 the reblog with the first image only but decided it needed its own post for quarantining this... thing #again if youre seeing this with no context #you dont need context #i... i don't think there's any for that matter #just picture me writing all this tags while losing health in posion damage every turn #i am working on neo oc images i just need to render them but i.... i needed the world to see this before #my blog's already tainted anyway LMFAOO #yeah uh im dead in neo canon i drew this and inmediately got taken back by yours trully and never came back #also i'll try making a ref as well for my sona so i can draw them more im just really indecisive in what color to make him #split it is for now #i don't want to look at this anymore end me #i am making more drawings to kinda cover this thing from the light but at this point it just keeps reappearing like a mold #thats it im done see u all in kreludorian therapy #kreludorian health insurance in a farse

[essektheylyss]

I have seen the newest fhjy Aelwyn Abernant gifset multiple times in the last week and I had planned to watch it eventually but like...... is that really what's gonna get me into this series. Is that really what it takes. What the fuck level of targeted advertising is THIS.

#you come to me. two weeks before the 5 year anniversary of cr 2x57 in love and war. #and you tell me the elven eldest child with villain decay is now a CAT PERSON? #what the fuck am i supposed to do with this. #to be clear there are specific major plots that I'm interested in. this is not like. just for this reason. #i just haven't gotten around to it and i am feeling very called out for my tastes. #also don't fucking @ me about knowing the date of 57 offhand okay it's actually cuz of quarantine/2020 essek prompt week lmao #but fr as a person who's gonna have to sit my sister down and go 'it's really hurtful that you assume bad intentions of me all the time' #the abernant sisters are in fact like. ouch. #i didn't even mention cuz it feels too obvious but THEY'RE EVEN WIZARDS. good lord. attacked.

[hiveswap]

Truly fucked up how i cant play minecraft anymore. It just dissapeared once i turned 19. Turned invisible.

#cant get over this actually #i played it all winter break #before that for all of quarantine #and suddenly my mom walks in like. you cant do that actually. #what IS her problem #she's gonna start seeing 'improvements' in my personality now because i no longer use the laptop #'see how much nicer you are if you dont use the computer' no not at all #i dont think breeding villagers made me rude actually even if they are dumb as hell

[raycatz]

I'm supposed to be doing homework but also,

isn't it interesting that there's Jojo's LinkedUniverse and then also the LinkedUniverse fandom's LinkedUniverse? That LU became a conduit through which to examine and compare and contrast Zelda games with this cast of characters as a base? That was their original intention and the fans went "heck yeah!" and ran with it? The LinkedUniverse fandom's LinkedUniverse is a monster of the week story where everyone contributes, it has hundreds of authors and storytellers all working together and trading tales. It's a scenario in which Jojo's LinkedUniverse is both the source material and also just one instance in the larger weave. And the LinkedUniverse fandom's LinkedUniverse lore deviates from (and is much deeper than imo) that of the original comic mainly because of that 1 person building a thing vs hundreds of people building a thing. And isn't that so cool?

But then also with the decline of the fandom I dunno I feel like the LinkedUniverse fandom's LinkedUniverse has been dying. Updates would spawn a burst of creativity and multitudes of branching ideas and what-if scenarios explored through art and fic and discussion, building on it, adding it in to pre-existing stories. I feel that activity around updates has been ticking more towards exploring the comic within the context of the comic itself, and less within the fandom's takes on it (not taking that step forward of "yes, and," and "yes-anding" fanworks as well.) Or not updates in particular, but the state of the fandom is deviating from taking this base and running and sharing to something more controlled and wary? Isolated?

The LinkedUniverse fandom is a phenomenon to me. And it's not something I think should be replicated in regards to other LinkVerse comics but it's also something beautiful and creative? Like, Jojo to a certain extent has or had lost control of the fandom's versions of these characters. She made them and we respect her wishes for them but they no longer belong to her?

The LU fandom's LU is a collectively written LinkVerse and exploration of the loz games, using these characters and relationships as a base (which is why I think people mistag by accident so much.) Sure, you could use the characters directly from the games or make your own LinkVerse to explore the relationships between the loz games. However, within the context of the LU fandom, you get the advantage of the template already being there for the character's personalities, meeting, secrets, and an open ended goal, and these things are understood by a large number of invested people, leading to this huge collaborative project.

This is what's so special about the LinkedUniverse fandom to me. Watching this thing be built and getting to be a contributing piece of it. Maybe it shouldn't have happened. Like, if something like that were to happen to anything I've made I think that'd be really scary. But it's also something incredible?

It's why I have a hard time accepting it when people say they hate the LU fandom. How could you hate the creativity? The shared stories? What's been made? Isn't it incredible? It's another LinkVerse, in a way, one that belongs to many. I hate the instances where people have tried to police the way the characters are written, both within the fandom and towards Jojo's comic, and the issues in communication, and callout posts asjhfksdf Problems in reconciling the LU fandom's LU, Jojo's LU, other LinkVerses, and gen loz. But the phenomenon of the fandom itself, the shared collaborative LU fandom's LinkedUniverse? I think it's such a cool thing. I think it's such a cool way to explore and examine the loz games and craft stories with so many other people.

I really enjoy all the LinkVerses that are around now. I don't think the fandom for LU is something that can be replicated. (or should?) (it's both something odd and a loss of control for Jojo but also a conduit for an incredible amount of creativity and community.)

It's really interesting to me. It's really interesting to witness. Or to have witnessed?

#rays random ramblings #I can't stop thinking about the LU meta #and all the shit's that happened ashjfsdfsdkhgf #but also- wtf it was so cool though?! This thing is so cool #and also like how the pandemic and quarantine likely contributed to how big this thing got as well #I need more people to talk about this with ajgshfsdf but also no #I feel like I should mourn this thing??? that's still alive? or has changed to something less recognizable? #mm... all the shit's that happened makes me sad and also so angry asjhgfddsf terribly conflicted #this thing that brought me so much joy and sparked so much creativity having such a bad rep now or has changed #aa.. #but it's also brought me so much anxiety asjgfsdf #it's interesting I dunno #lu fandom

[calwasfound]

hypixel parkour housing is the 10th circle of hell

#cal doodles #these deserved to go on main tbh #i used to parkour for hours every day during quarantine #i could do ladder jumps with ease #and now i struggle to do a double neo #did all of these in 20 minutes. i do not want to study for my chem midterm

[lesbianpegbar]

i thought this was gonna be a kinda poorly written but fun gay romance. why did i just read a 200 page war epic about the inevitable and horrific downfall of a kingdom and a man who thought himself untouchable

#they were like hey theres a drought. theres a refugee crisis. theres a xenophobia crisis. hundreds of thousands are displaced #a father tried to find a doctor for his sick baby and got cut off the city wall he was trying to scale and crushed his baby on his back #and got his neck snapped and died. theres guerilla warfare. thousands died in battle. its now all out war #theres some peace now. nevermind a deadly plague broke out. the plague is a curse where the souls of the dead of the people you're killing #are invading the bodies of your citizens and completely taking over their skin in contorted tortured living faces. #you amputate a mans leg. theres an earthquake. everyone has grown to hate you. theres nothing you can do. #you are literally holding up your home and its history and if it crumbles its your fault. #the man whose leg you cut off screams at you and begs for his leg back. the sick escaped quarantine. theyre begging you to heal them all #everyone is sick or dead. the enemy just broke through the walls. the city is burning down. you broke your leg. you are immortal #anyway #i feel normal #tgcf #mine

[torchickentacos]

I feel like some more realistic positive affirmations would be "Actually, everyone doesn't hate you" and "The entirety of the walmart is not hyperfocused on your awkward encounter right now" and "You are not an evil capitalist for buying something for yourself" and "You can talk about your interests without apologizing for it, actually". Where's my aesthetic pinterest homescreens with those. Do I have to make them myself?

#ok to rb #half joking but my anxiety is not being NICE TO ME RIGHT NOW #so i am socially quarantining until my brain can behave! we don't do that bestie. pull it together #the weirdest therapy tip i've gotten that works for me is like #viewing my anxiety as a separate entity that i need to calm down sometimes #like shhhhh hey it is okay. we don't need to be doing all of that right now. shhhh

[thedreadvampy]

how I announce a positive COVID test to my household:

#red said #HEY FRIENDS BAD NEWS. it's a COVID!!!! #over the last 2 years the chat has been named #plague house #unplague house #replague house #un-replague house #re-replague house #un-re-replague house #and now this #that's Aimee's COVID then me and Sam then Aimee again now me again #we name it unplague celebratorily whenever we're done quarantining #this may seem like a lot of cases of COVID but in fairness #a) 3 of them occurred during the period where Aimee was working at the test centre. although i don't think that's what caused me and Sam's #cause my colleague in the borders went down the same time as me a few days after we met up down there #so i think we both got it at that cafe #and also b) 2 of them happened after people largely stopped testing regularly so all I'm saying is. #i don't think we've had it more than most but i do think between the 3 of us we've stayed pretty good at testing #and we keep track in the chat cause we quarantine separately and thus far have never dealt with a situation where all of us have COVID

[chloeseyeliner]

i may have a very complicated relationship with my mother, but the thing is, one part of it i would never change is the fact that she introduced me to some great (and often times not so great for my taste, but still fun and interesting) music.

most important of it all: this woman taught me how to scream queen from the top of my lungs.

i think this in particular says a lot.

like, i was a ten-year-old, just a year into learning english, and i already recognised the first note of i want to break free. i went camping every summer from when i was 12 to when i was 16, and i introduced the kids in the same dorm as me to the euphoria of clapping to the rythm of we will rock you. i danced in the darkness of my room to radio ga-ga during quarantine, because i was scared and confused and ate toast for dinner for two weeks straight since there was nothing else there. i hummed bohemian rhapsody while studying during what i then thought of as the most academically challenging year of my life to keep myself sane in front of calculus. i fell in love for the first time the same year, and i thought of her while listening to good old fashioned lover boy and you're my best friend, because i wasn't able to tell her, so i kept her close to me that way. i went to study in another, unknown city, to live on my own for the very first time, and, inter alia, i put on killer queen, innuendo and don't stop me now, and even i'm in love with my car, to feel like home, a place i never had, because...

i may have a very complicated relationship with my mother, but sometimes my heart thinks that the music we both love will bridge the gap between us. that queen will magically make her arms feel like home, and not somewhere hard and suffocating to be inside of.

#i don't even know #i just saw a few queen posts #(and also somewhat unrelated: thought of freddie changing his name and all that... yeah. ugh) #and just boom it came out of me #also i am aware these songs are some of the most popular #but i love them all #so much #so yeah #queen rocks #(pun unintended) #mother daughter relationships are so... confusing #but at least we still have queen #queen band #freddie mercury #brian may #john deacon #roger taylor #the irony of it all #now that i think about it #she doesn't know i am queer but she introduced me to the band whose main singer is a queer icon. #fun fact #(not so fun but oh well) #i had an assignment on aids at 11th grade #and i sneaked in freddie in the epilogue #and my teacher (who liked the assignment and gave me an a yay) was so moved she sent me 'love of my life' via email #because i 'needed to listen to it ASAP' and 'queen was her favourite back when she was younger' #(it was during quarantine) #personal rant

[bonebabbles]

Blah blah blah Thunder moons at Star Flower and she gives him a plant that looks like Blazing Star but turns out to be a mimic species. And he babbled out the One Eye Attack Plan to her. You know the betrayal is coming, it's not exactly hard to predict

She has had a grand total of like 3 scenes and in each one everyone was like, "Star Flower Sus" which Thunder ignores.

Anyway back to clear sky (derogatory)

pooor baaaaaaaby. his heart is aaaaching that the people he abused, humiliated, and lorded over tyrannically for months "can't be relied on." No reflecting on his behavior btw because the books are determined to say that he Just Made Some Honest Mistakes :(((

(ignore the fact that one eye conjured up a million instant minions that outnumbered SkyClan lol. the book sure does until it's convenient)

"Trying So Hard To Protect." I just... I can't believe that people read this arc and completely forget the previous 3 books, end up buying this brand new Clear Sky at face-value, and accept this as a "good redemption arc".

You could write one paragraph at the end of 6 books that describes a completely different plot than the one that was written and people would buy it, and praise it as The Best Arc Ever

But anyway, Clear Sky is not allowed to feel bad about the consequences of his actions for more than 2 minutes before everyone gathers together to Clap At Baby

Because GOD FORBID he be held accountable for his actions, or people feel fucking weird about the murderous dictator trying to win his army back, or anyone call him an oversensitive megalomaniac for letting in two violent rogues he was warned against after throwing a fit about "being told what to do"

But anyway he's a brand new character now, so he goes to stare at Jagged Peak's wife to "remind himself why he's doing this." As if that can cover up for the fact we've ALWAYS, SINCE SUN TRAIL, known that he is a character that thirsts for power and control over others and always would have had motive to get his authority back.

#Also he now cares about jag's sick wife when he was ready to throw a baby into a ditch earlier lol #the difference being that the woman benefits his brother as breeding stock but he doesn't give a shit about some stranger's child #Maybe I'm being mean but CAN you blame me?! Do you see what I'm dealing with?!? #How they just went Ohh Clear Sky :) when he was fully ready to evacuate all the healthy cats to a quarantine den and abandon the sick again #But nope now he cares because Jagged Peak --who has finally proved himself 'useful'-- likes this one #Wind Runner is so fucking right to not be here right now she is so so right #Fuck these people #dotc hate

[snoopyreadsliterature]

really disappointing.

#wilbur soot #i watched dsmp during quarantine and fell in love with l'manburg #since then i've moved on from mcyt but #those stories have definitely influenced my own writing #i listened to lovejoy and recommended it to friends #now ill never be able to look at what he has produced the same way. #ive removed lovejoy from all my playlists. #fuck you wilbur. #shelbysupportsquad #i wish shelby and everyone else harmed by him the best. #honestly finding out from tumblr a few hours ago hurt.

[cowsaresushi-coral]

Some TPoH WIPs.

Fun Fact: I’ve only drawn human RGB once before (if we’re not including the back of his head, then it’s twice). That first time was Sept 2020. I learned how to draw and paint human faces last year.

I think I got better.

#doodles #wips #tpoh #the property of hate #2022 #got a couple of ideas bouncing around that i want to draw #when or if i will get around to them is a mystery~ #insert mystery ghost #some pertain to recent pages and some are just for fun. i mean theyre all for fun but you get my gist #looking back at my tpoh kick of 2020. the art quality between then and the art i make now is kinda astounding #faster painter in 2020 and they're not bad drawings but i think the stuff now looks night and day. and it makes me go 'huh' #'how about that' #it's nice #if i get around to those newer tpoh ideas it'll be interesting to see what changed in 2 years. 2 years god damn #quarantine be wack

[iamheretodomythingrip]

Help why is everyone so bisexual in here 💀

#the school for good and evil #on the third book #god you really want me to feel how bi everyone is here #huh? #like #I dunno #first sophie embroiding malegatha as her prince #then the whole thing with Philip #now Agatha talking about how much she had loved sophie regardless of the gender #just come out already #I beg you #tedros and agatha really are all of those people who realised they were fruity during quarantine

[softquietsteadylove]

Thenamesh propsal AU

Thena needs her caffeine but in this house there is none. As a result she has terrible migraine!

"How is she?"

A loud groan sounded through the whole house in response. Gil winced as he walked in with a bag in hand.

He had completely forgotten that his mom didn't keep any caffeine or alcohol in the house. She wasn't one for it, Makkari simply didn't need any caffeine to be as brimming with energy as she was, and Sersi didn't drink unless it was socially. Kingo wasn't opposed to a coffee here or a beer there, but he considered visiting home like 'being on a cleanse', or whatever.

Thena needed caffeine.

She drank no less than four coffees a day in a regular work week. He was always telling her he was worried about her caffeine intake, but there was no arguing with the stubborn Goddess of War on that one.

It hadn't taken long for the lack of caffeine to cause an irreparable headache which shook her to her core.

Gil walked into the living room, where his very sweet family was being very useless at curing Thena's migraine. His friend - and fiance - was curled up in a ball on the couch, face pinched from the tension within her head. He whispered, "Thena?"

"Gil?" she whimpered back, not even moving at the sound of his voice.

Sersi handed him a cool cloth, freshly soaked and wrung dry, "none of the pain meds Mum has will help this. It's pure caffeine withdrawal."

"Did we try?" Gil couldn't help but ask, not that it didn't irk both his Doctor mother and his bio-chemist sister. He sighed, "sorry, just...I hate to see her like this."

Gil bypassed them, going right over to the ball of Thena and turning her over so he could put the cool cloth on her forehead. "Hey."

"Hey," she whispered back, just barely getting her eyes open to look at him. She looked even paler than normal. "You're back."

"I'm sorry," he whispered, lips pressed to her temple, unable to do much more for her. "I had to go out looking."

"It's okay," Thena turned over slightly with a smile, "Sersi and Makkari have taken wonderful care of me. And your poor mother is trying to find anything that will even simulate caffeine for me."

"Thena!"

"Quiet!" Gil glared towards the door to the living room, where Kingo was striding in without a care in the world. His arms tightened around her, "she's not feeling well, man!"

"Sorry, sorry," he chuckled much too light heartedly for Gil's taste. He swirled his hand in the air, "I made chai!"

Gil glared at his cousin--basically his brother. Chai was a strong enough blend of tea, and it probably would have just a enough caffeine to alleviate some of Thena's symptoms. "You had this the whole time and let her-?!"

"Come on, Gil," Kingo pouted at him, Thena still wrapped protectively in his thick arms. "I forgot I had it, okay? And anyway, I had the seed pods whole--I had to do actual work to make them ready for brewing."

Gil sighed a little more roughly, all but ignoring his loud cousin next to him, "whatever."

"I thought it might help," Kingo leaned blithely into Gil's personal space to get a peek at Thena. "I also suggested yoga to help clear her head, but all she wanted to do was lie around and wait for you."

Gil was already pulling Thena closer so he could carry her to the kitchen, "y'know, dude, I'd appreciate if you didn't do shirtless yoga with my fiance when I'm not around?"

"Who said it was shirtless?"

"I've never seen you do it with a shirt on," Gil shot back without hesitation. Kingo just snickered at his obvious annoyance (dick). Gil stood with Thena in his embrace, "I have something better."

"Something to put me out of my misery?"

"Something like that," he chuckled, kissing Thena's temple again just because he could. She was really funny, even if she didn't think so. "You know this is why I'm always on you about how much coffee you drink."

"Yes, yes," she managed to roll her eyes at him, although even doing that much seemed to reawaken her pain. She grimaced, "how long have you been waiting to bring that up?"

"Until I also had something to help."

"Gil, I--oh."

Ajak made room for them at the kitchen island so Gil could set Thena down in one of the plush bar seats.

"It's okay, mom, I found some," he sighed as he made sure Thena was settled. "Had to go all the way to that organic store where you fill up your own jars."

Damned retiree town and its hipster stores.

Thena forced her eyes open again, "what did you find?"

"Coffee."

Thena perked up like a dog offered a steak after being in the desert.

"I got the lightest roast they had," he held Thena's eyes, waving the jar of fresh grounds in his hand. She watched it, utterly entranced. "Just enough to keep the pain away, okay? This shit was still expensive, even as the cheapest stuff I could find."

Thena let out a faint laugh, in better spirits just at the promise of some relief. "Are you going to ween me off of it with this?"

Gil looked at her again as he set out the coffee grounds and french press he had to buy just to make coffee here. He could just tell her that he told her so and that this was probably for the best, to get her less dependant on caffeine to even function. But he sighed, "gently. I won't let you suffer if I can do anything to help."

Some colour returned to her cheeks, which was honestly more of a relief than anything.

"I'll make you just one cup to start, okay," he continued to speak softly, shaking out just enough grounds and then reaching for the kettle.

"Thank you, Gil."

He looked up, compelled by the gentle, almost musical tone in her voice. Some colour rose in his cheeks as well as he looked back down at his brewing, "anything."

"Hey."

Gil looked up once the grounds were starting to brew. Thena nodded him over to her, and he moved automatically, like a man possessed. Her knees made room for him and he had to stop himself from putting his hand on the other side of them reflexively.

Thena leaned forward, pressing a gentle kiss to the corner of his lips, just close enough to his cheek to be considered not actually 'kissing' him.

He blushed and his all his hair stood on end.

"You're a life saver," she said afterward, forcing a much lighter tone. She tucked some hair behind her ear and moved to watching the coffee brew. "Is it done yet?"

He had to laugh just a little. He gave above her knee - just at the hem of her skirt - a squeeze and moved away again, "will you just try having some patience?"

"You are not the one who has spent all morning with a jackhammer within your skull."

"If you took it even a little easy on the cold brew it probably wouldn't be so bad."

"I knew you were dying to tell me you told me so," Thena rolled her eyes.

Gil smiled; she didn't wince this time. He poured her cup, which really needed more time to brew than it had. Maybe he was just as impatient to cure her as she was. "Just put some shit in it to cover up the taste."

"Gladly," she sighed, although it was Gil who moved toward the fridge for said 'shit'.

They both completely forgot Ajak was still hovering at the edge of the kitchen.

#Thenamesh Proposal AU #let me tell you #I have experienced this #not with coffee but I used to drink green tea for literally any time I was thirsty #and the headache I got when it ran out during quarantine #I was utterly useless #and I just know that Thena is out here drinking nitro cold brew like it's water #she doesn't get jittery or anything #but she just needs a constant baseline of caffeine in her veins #Gil is very eager to ween her off of it #he'll make her just a small cup and put some non-dairy milk in it #maybe some honey or something for sweetner because Ajak is that mom with the all natural pantry #whatever it's just for her anyway #the kids all went out and found their own favourites to stock for their stay #Ajak returns to the living room #Sersi and Makkari ask how Thena is #Ajak and Kingo share a look and say that she's doing much better now