#did any of this make sense ?

[slutdge]

Listening to my favorite blues songs from the 1920's and 1930's makes me feel... strange in a way I can't really articulate well. The audio quality is awful by today's standards and these people are all long dead. How these songs would sound in person like the audio quality we have today, being performed by the people who wrote them, is lost to time forever. They'll never be heard the way they were meant to be heard ever again. Adjacent to that are musicians like Henry Sloan who tutored other legendary blues musicians like Charley Patton, there are many accounts of how innovative the music he made was and that he was a pioneer of delta blues music and how much people responded to his music, but he left no known recordings. Theres not even a known photograph of him. It makes me feel a weird brand of sadness.

#did any of this make sense #🎧

[villanelleskiss]

ellie “i’m just a girl”, who is immune to a fungus that mutilates you into a monster while seemingly growing an ecosystem of her own under her fingernails while going on a near suicide revenge mission with dina to single-handedly kill everyone who [redacted] your father who [redacted] everyone else’s father to not only find out your partner is pregnant and it’s not your child but your best friends who randomly shows up and you two proceed to massacre everyone while driving like a maniac through a desolated city and good thing you learned to swim bc boy, is this city filled with water that you trek through to find the person responsible for your fathers [redacted] but in blinded rage you [redacted] both of her friends who were shitty people to begin with and your clothes are constantly wet and you smell like a month old dead clicker as you travel through santa barbara but at least you only lost two fingers, williams

#did any of this make sense #the last of us #the last of us part 2 #the last of us hbo #tlou #tlou 2 #ellie williams #ellie tlou #joel tlou #dina tlou #ellie x dina #abby anderson #abby tlou

[hold-my-dr-pepper]

I have question.

Do you find the feeling of emptiness peaceful?

are. are you talking about literal emptiness, like "the peanut jar is empty," or like metaphorical emptiness, like being void of emotion. /genq

if it's literal, i hate it. maybe this comes from working in retail, but if there's an empty jar or shelf, i fill that fucker up asap. same if, like, my room is empty. must have stuff.

metaphorically, im not entirely sure. on one hand, sure it's peaceful because there's nothing else to disrupt that peace. you can just be. on the other hand, there's supposed to be emotions, even if it's neutral contentment. so feeling empty would be horrible because i know that there's supposed to be something there, but there's nothing there, and idk how to get something there

#did any of this make sense #logie's yapping #yell into the void. maybe it'll asnwer back

[imu-chan]

Thinking about how Fuyuhiko and Byakuya are kind of foils…..how both were raised in wealthy households by powerful fathers, and have some issues with arrogance/status, but the thing that differs is corruption. Byakuya’s Togami Corporation is probably used to keeping dealings on the down low, putting up a veneer of propriety. The Kuzuryu clan also deals in the shadow, but they’re obviously a Yakuza family.

From my understanding, the point of the yakuza being a group is that it’s a trusted network of people that have loyalty to each other. Everyone is expected to support the idea of the collective, the family, and everyone is paid in kind. In a business that’s reversed, you are expected to support the business, but with no guarantee of recompense.

While a crime syndicate sticks together no matter what, a business cuts its losses and does whatever it takes to survive. A syndicate circled the drain because it’s trying to hold onto everything, no matter if people want it or not. A business will suck you dry and has no such qualms about loyalty.

Fuyuhiko holds onto Peko, seeing her as a member of the family, while she cares for him but can’t be her own person because she’s programmed to support the family as a whole, not her own individual wants or interests. Even if she can’t be with Fuyuhiko, she can make sure he’s safe and that he’s near her.

Byakuya seeks others as means to an end. He scoffs at notions of friendship as childish, whereas in a yakuza family those are the most important thing. Byakuya doesn’t have a relationship with any of his siblings, save for Shinobu, and even that is a little unhealthy. When he asks Naegi to work for him, he says that it wouldn’t be a standard job, implying that he values Naegi’s abilities and the only way he can think to spend more time with this random person, this lottery-selected, baffling, ordinary person who has somehow intrigued him, it to try and fit him into what he knows—the system.

Fuyuhiko, after losing Peko in DR2 and suffering grievous bodily injuries, is forced to acknowledge people outside his circle, and becomes sincerely devoted to making things right with them, even going so far as to attempt another grievous injury to show his sincerity. I’d say he considers them part of his inner circle, and his arc is really powerful.

Byakuya’s development is much more subtle. While Fuyuhiko’ sis about trusting those that aren’t immediately in his circle, Byakuya’s is about not needing a circle to live. His corporation is gone, the whole world is gone, so he has to work with the people left — who aren’t really business-types. He goes to Towa City to save the beloved friends and family of his remaining and deceased classmates.

He might not know how to directly make people happy, so he might as well bring the people they love the most to do that for him. He’s figuring it out. Fuyuhiko is definitely the mom friend tho, he will make you LISTEN.

#danganronpa #so #haha #I went off #did any of this make sense #foils #togami byakuya #fuyuhiko kuzuryu

[districtunrest]

What do you think Peeta loved about Katniss in book one before they really knew each other?

her spirit.

Peeta said his feelings for Katniss began that day in music class, when she sang and the birds stopped to listen. but we should remember how eager she was to sing, which he recounted as well. her hand shot right up as soon as the teacher asked for a volunteer. she was eager and proud to sing, to share music she learned from her dad. it wasn't just her pretty voice or her plaid dress or her braids, but that spirit about her, even at that age, that got Peeta's attention.

I'm sure it's something he looked out for in the years after. thumbing her nose at the law to provide for her family, not to mention being proficient at it (he did notice she always shot small game through the eye - not only would it degrade the meat, but maybe that pride was at work, too...). loving her little sister fiercely, never saying a bad thing about her, not even privately to us as the readers. befriending the mayor's quiet daughter who was considered an outsider by their peers. conversely, not pretending to be someone she wasn't to have more friends. idk, just things Katniss didn't think twice about, but that Peeta could see her spirit shine through in all the same. he certainly saw it in full when she volunteered in place of Prim.

the rest is history - because it was during their time in the Games when he got to know her sense of humor and quirks and such. but I think it was her spirit that got his attention first, and held it for years(!).

and, you know, I'm sure he thought she was pretty and had a pretty voice. he has an eye for beauty, after all.

#hunger games #everlark #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #did any of this make sense #idk but i love them

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

#yeehaw #1k #5k #10k #posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours? #also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that! #unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference #edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense #also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags #1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now #he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic #2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign #like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock #3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing #it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is #extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once #it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life #i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about #Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect #if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it #aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

#every time someones like ''AI will replace u" im like. u will have to fucking KILL ME #there is no replacement here bc i am not filling a position. i am just writing #and the writing is what i need to be doing #writeblr #this probably doesn't make sense bc its sooo frustrating i rarely speak it the way i want to #edited for the typo wrote it and then was late to a meeting lol #i love u people who mention my typos genuinely bc i don't always catch them!!!! :) it is doing me a genuine favor!!! #my friend says i should tell you ''thank you beta editors'' but i don't know what that means #i made her promise it isn't a wolf fanfiction thing. so if it IS a wolf thing she is DEAD to me (just kidding i love her) #hey PS PS PS ??? if ur reading this thinking what it's saying is ''i am financially capable of losing this'' ur reading it wrong #i write for free. i always have. i have worked 5-7 jobs at once to make ends meet. #i did not grow up with access or money. i did not grow up with connections or like some kind of excuse #i grew up and worked my fucking ASS OFF. and i STILL!!! wrote!!! on the side!!! because i didn't know how not to!!! #i do not write for money!!!! i write because i fuckken NEED TO #i could be in the fucking desert i could be in the fuckken tundra i could be in total darkness #and i would still be writing pretentious angsty poetry about it #im not in any way saying it's a good thing. i'm not in any way implying that they're NOT tryna kill us #i'm saying. you could take away our jobs and we could go hungry and we could suffer #and from that suffering (if i know us) we'd still fuckin make art. #i would LOVE to be able to make money doing this! i never have been able to. but i don't NEED to. i will find a way to make my life work #even if it means being miserable #but i will not give up this thing. for the whole world.

[milo-is-rambling]

Made myself ramen noodles bc I’ve only had toast really since i got sick but I actually had standing energy today so I made a ramen noodle brick real quick and it’s raining and I’m watching all of the midnight gospel (like starting at first episode and curling into bed to watch the entire show) and I’m smoking a little bit bc my throat hurts but my body hurts more so I’m gonna smoke a little so my muscles will relax

#I feel like I kind of have no brain and I can’t tell if it’s bc I’m hungry or dehydrated or bc of the cold meds or bc of just being sick #like I know my brain doesn’t make since rn but like I can use my brain today instead of just sleeping so I think it’s a good thing #I feel more function-y today #I’m supposed to work tomorrow 4-8:30 I think I’ll be able to go to work bc I’d have to leave around this time tomorrow and I feel okay #enough rn that I think 24 hours from now I’ll be a lot better #I think we have eggs in the fridge maybe I’ll have eggs and toast tomorrow morning isnt that another sick food it’s like eggs and toast and #unseasoned chicken and soup #Gatorade and water water water #I’m just gonna keep trying to feel better and lay around doing nothing and hopefully ill be able to work tomorrow #but if I can’t that’s okay bc I have two days off in a row after tomorrows four hour shift so I’ll have more time to heal up if I don’t feel #good enough by tomorrow #did any of this make sense

[rhosgobelbun]

between me being a bitch/not being a bitch, being amused by everything/not being amused by anything is the right amount of sleep and right amount to eat and it's not even the recommended healthy amount either. I honestly haven't fucking figured it out.

Bc I could have a beautiful 9 hours of sleep, 3 healthy and tasty meals a day and feel like the way I feel when I've had 2 hours of sleep and 2 not so healthy but filling meal's a day. Like crap. Like shit. Like if someone says one wrong thing i might actually explode even though i really don't want to, but like i can't help it. No amount of breathing exercises help. I want to sleep so bad but no matter what I can't make myself. Even though I had 9 hours. Especially if I had 2.

But then I'll have 4 straight days of 4 or 14 hours of sleep, each with fluctuating meals, from 1 healthy meal and a couple of good snacks one day to 3 horribly unhealthy meals the other, the 3rd day hardly anything to eat but a can of greenbeans and a turkey mayo and cheese sandwich and the forth day 1 healthy meal and then a unhealthy meal and a nice snack in that row and I'll end up being able to laugh and smile and joke while not knowing if I actually feel really sick or if it's all in my head and if I should ignore it and feel thankful I'm at least not being a bitch.

🆘 this shit is so annoying i just want to be like. an octopus. really bad.

#did any of this make sense #shh briana

[thedreadvampy]

Losing my shit about this article in which a transphobic Tory was so busy panicking about existing in the vicinity of a Trans that she almost certainly misheard "jeans" as "penis" and decided that not only was this a problem with the other woman, but also that the world must be informed of this pressing danger.

"a trans woman! I had to stand directly behind her....I thought, 'this is going well', I'm handling The Situation fine'..."

translated: I saw a tall woman with broad shoulders. How would I get out of this alive? I thought. she has a PENIS. PENIS PENIS PENIS. through some force of PENIS I mean will I managed to PENIS behave normally towards her. My hands were PENIS PENIS PENIS shaking as I tried to dry them. summoning up all my PENIS courage I said 'dryer's crap innit'. she turned to me and said " yeah I'm just goiPENIS PENIS PENIS"

It's been a week and I'm still shaking. This proves trans women are the problem and I'm not weird. I'm fine. It's fine. If you think about it I'm the hero hePENIS!!!!!

very this

#red said #it's just. I'm obsessed. #everyone on Twitter is saying 'never happened' and i think they're wrong #this absolutely did happen and she's been obsessing over how vindicated it made her feel enough to WRITE AN ARTICLE ABOUT IT #because she MISHEARD SOMEONE IN A CASUAL CONVERSATION #i lay out my reasoning thusly: if you were INVENTING a scary trans woman in bathroom story out of nothing. why would it be this? #why would you go with 'we had a banal conversation until she said a sentence that makes no sense and that no human has ever uttered #but which does coincidentally sounds almost exactly like a mishearing of a very NORMAL thing to say in the circumstances #then she left and nothing else occurred' #if you were going to INVENT a story you would probably make it MAKE SENSE or SOUND THREATENING #i truly believe this is a very authentically told account of what she thinks happened #because who would. by means other than mishearing. think 'I'm going to wipe my hands on my penis' makes any sense at all. #a) 'I'm going to dry my hands on my genitals' says the presumably fully clothed woman #b) who then proceeds to leave without doing anything threatening #c) WHO SAYS PENIS THREATENINGLY? sorry it's writing out 'penis' repeatedly that made this jump out to me but like. who says that? #you might hear someone talk casually about their dick or cock but i stg it's only doctors and TERFs who casually use the word penis much #it's so. clinically descriptive. it's a weird use of language. but it IS. something you could plausibly mishear from 'pants' or 'trousers'

[monstermoviedean]

if you took a language class in school (any level, any language) did your instructor assign you a name from that language? like, when i took french in high school i was assigned a "french name" that i had to use in that class. did anyone else experience this?

#my french teacher was batshit insane so usually i'd chalk it up to that but all the other teachers did it too #that's really fucking weird right? #also for context. i do have a degree in teaching english to speakers of other languages like i do understand language learning theory #but i don't see any rationale for this that makes sense

[bacchuschucklefuck]

while teen while goblin while aroace while injured while doing your best

#fantasy high junior year #fhjy #riz gukgak #figueroth faeth #sklonda gukgak #dimension 20 #this. mmmmhhh this is so. I did Not know how to draw this really. #I am very normal about riz (<- lying) #it's a brennan-dm d20 campaign the bad guy is always capitalism (I am saying this with clenched teeth) #riz out of all of them being aroace fucks with me SO bad. bc its also established that elmsville specifically and probably the #majority of solace is not. made for goblins. and that becomes sklonda being worked to the bone and pok dying on the job #and riz spending all his time trying to keep his friends together. maybe to the point of it being injurous #like. do u get what I mean. its an economy of time it takes your time it eats up your time #not just the gukgaks but everyone you have to spend time to get to live and you don't have a lot of time left in a day #and you have to spend it carefully. you have to prioritize #you're somewhere without an established community and companionship is bought with your time spent working #this place doesn't take care of you. at the end of the day who do you have who'd prioritize you. do you understand me #the evolved aroace loathing where if your friends and family are granted more time nobody would have to choose. we live in a society #holds ur hand we live in a society. idk if Im making any sense #anyway . uhhh riz is my favourite that's my statement thank you for listening. au revoir

[scribbling-dragon]

missing ranchers forever and ever and ever (a redraw of THIS from a year ago)

[click for better quality! + closeups under the cut]

#i haaaate drawing shirts. i hate them i hate their stupid sleeves #and their stupid collars. it doesnt make sense and its stupid and difficult #its why i never give tango any. i cant do it more than once #anyway. RANCHERS! in honour of the wip currently sat at 10k that made me sad abt double life again (it's fluff. why am i sad) #juno.art #double life smp #dlsmp #jimmy solidarity #tango tek #tango tek fanart #jimmy solidarity fanart #double life fanart #life series #trafficblr #traffic series #solidaritygaming #solidarity gaming #tangotek #life series fanart #also yeah i kept tango's colours the same as his secret life ones. he just looks really nice with the pinks etc #(dedicating this to my mother too. who looked and went “aw what a lovely bf and gf” #and then stared at me awkwardly when i said neither of them were the gf. she did like the drawing tho

[balleater]

despite being more often than not a "rules as written" fan over "rule of cool", i really do love me a good "rules be damned, i'll give you this awesome moment" call. like matt giving fcg the otohan kill despite what her hp was at or brennan giving cerrit an extra mage slayer reaction attack at the end of calamity. honestly, if anything, i think the fact they mostly play by the book makes these moments even better because it really has that extra weight towards those decisions to put the rules aside.

#critical role #cr spoilers #i can't get over how crazy it was though. genuinely an incredible moment. #like tbh i was too entranced by the Incredible move sam made to cry or anything. i was so hype for how awesome it was. #it was perfect #but yeah usually whenever i see the dm advice of 'dont track a boss's hp just go off the Vibes' i get annoyed by it #but this was such an exception that i am SO glad that matt did it #im just fucking throwing words out there at rhis point i have no idea if any of my words make sense ever but #im trying to express how much i love this and its mostly just absolute nonsense

[vroom-vrooms]

Charles answering with “we have a good relationship” to a question about beating Max is like the direct opposite of Lewis answering with “I remember the first time i looked up the girls. When I met my girlfriend. I remember the first time having sex” to someone asking if he remembered meeting Nico

Lewis tries and fails to deflect in the most unconvincing way possible, Charles chooses to expose himself very clearly

Weird tactics but ok guys 🙄

#I can’t with f1 drivers they can’t hide their emotions #I don’t know if this post makes sense but in my head it does so there’s that #if anyone is wondering I DO NOT REMEMBER WHEN LEWIS SAID THIS BUT I KJOW HE DID DUDE I AM 90% SURE #any keeper of brocedes lore please enlighten me and remind me when this was #formula one #max verstappen #charles leclerc #f1 #lewis hamilton #formula 1 #Nico rosberg #brocedes #lestappen

[camila-morrones]

SYDNEY SWEENEY for Frankies Bikinis (March 2023)

#do these gifs give any viewer a sense of whiplash . Quite possibly yes and that is in fact including myself #but did i already spend the time making them ❤️ yes . frankies GIRL please release the normal video clips #sydney sweeney #sydneysweeneyedit #ssweeneyedit #euphoriacastedit #flawlessbeautyqueens #flawlesscelebs #thequeensofbeauty #breathtakingqueens #ladiesofcinema #userladiesblr #wonderfulwomendaily #femalegifsource #brunettessource #userstream #dailywomen #actresscentral #my gifs #mine