#do i still reblog my own memes? oh definitely.

[wasyago]

hi! this is the bunch-a-questions anon. this wont be an ask ask. thank you for answering! it really gives me so much insight about tools and processes, i really enjoy seeing/reading how different artists have different ways in approaching creation of art. it’s all so interesting to me

and oooh i know what you mean about looking at a lot of different artists! it’s inspiration!! i find those things to be amazing too, it’s so cool. it’s like “this spot is inspired by an artist” “this artist draws this like this, so i wanted to try” “i think the way an artist drew this was neat and i wanted to try an implement it” it reminds me of that one post how we, as people, are a mosiac of other people and i believe it to be the same for how artists are too with their art

i feel inspired by the way you draw….. everything!!! it gets me pumped to try and replicate the way you do some things. like the shapes you create, the colors you choose, the way your lineart seems to be so flowy, how dynamic everything feels and how different each drawing you create is from one another (i saw you reblog that meme of like “why shouldnt i draw characters from the waist up and that is SO me, but it’s shoulders up” because drawing full bodies makes mh drawings feel so stiff, i need to practice more!!), the poses of the characters. just.. every aspect of your art is so, so, so nice!!

the way you draw, in all your styles, it’s definitely one of the ones that is such a good scratch to my brain. it gets me all giddy and happy! i’m not sure if i’ll get into jwri, mostly because my attention span will not let me be able sit and focus on listening before i get distracted and miss context on parts, BUT i still go to your blog almost every day just so i can see your art, no matter what it is, no matter who the characters are because it’s always so so good and i love taking it in. (will eat your art if i could, i am so serious)

this was a long one but yeah! i just wanted to let you know how awesome i see your art is! and how i also think youre a cool person, you seem like such a good peep to hang out it! might be weird to say but if you were a blorbo, you would be one of the most blorbiest blorbos to blorbo ever

hope youre having a good day!!

OH THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THE KIND WORDS THIS IS SOOOOO

your explanation of taking inspiration from other artists was so poetic and beautiful! truly inspiring in itself

its okay if you can't get into jrwi, i get it! i didn't think i would get into it as well and after binging all the episodes i honestly forgot why i even started listening in the first place. remembered recently tho! it was because i was going a little crazy while making the picrew and needed some actual talking in the background instead of just music. so, if you ever decide to give it a try, or listen to something else equally as lengthy, try to busy your hands with something that doesn't require a lot of thinking! it helps me at least! worked both with jrwi and tma. it's like, doing something monotonous (knitting, sorting files, cleaning the house, etc) can be incredibly boring if i sit in silence and let my mind wonder. alternatively, listening to something long or watching a long movie can be incredibly boring as well because i struggle to pay attention to the same thing for two hours. but combining these is really good, because it keeps both my mind and hands busy, but not overwhelmingly so!

and ough ough ough thank you again for such heartwarming message! im so happy to hear that you feel inspired by my art, and i wish you good luck in your own art journey!!!!!!! remember to have fun and listen to yourself and do things that you find interesting and that you enjoy! don't force yourself to draw stuff you don't like! all art is personal and individual, so don't be afraid to make things "you"! you don't have to do clean line, you don't have to do lines at all, you don't have to do coloring or shading, if you don't like it! and if you do like it or are excited to try, you should go for it! don't be afraid to change and grow but don't force yourself into it!

also don't foget to stretch before drawing its very important!!!!!!!!!!!!

#yagotalk

[fightaers]

KNOWING YOUR PARTNER WELL CAN POTENTIALLY MAKE WRITING TOGETHER A LOT EASIER.

REPOST DO NOT REBLOG !!

NAME: bellaaaaaaaaaa. bella for short

PRONOUNS : she/her but they/them if ure unsure is also coolio

PREFERENCE OF COMMUNICATION : bad on all front, but discord slightly less so

NAME OF MUSE(s) : god, i have so many. feel free to browse <3

BEST EXPERIENCE : when i first entered the animanga rpc i had a really, really good time from the get-go ngl. for a while, right until my revival in 2024, i was sort of more into the 'western / live action' side of the rp media, and i kept remembering how much of a good time i had in the animanga rpc, which triggered my interest in returning.

my other best experience is basically when i learn from my dearest mutuals then how not to be afraid to project ur muses' voices into their narration, which allowed me to have incredible fun with exercising different mindset and speech patterns and/or different dialects since!

RP PET PEEVES / DEALBREAKERS : uhhh this is pretty specific to my experience and quite particular — thus i hope to elaborate it well — but i highly dislike when writing partners tried crafting our threads into only benefiting / leveraging their own muse(s) rather than it being a collaborative effort for both our muses' character development. this happened to me only ... twice so far ? so it's quite rare considering i've been writing for ten years, but i'm suuuuper sensitive about this.

so for example right, what usually happens is me and my writing partner would talk about our muses and we see common ground and where we could expand on a point of conflict. both our muses then benefit from this point of thread because the narrative we've written ought to challenge their perspective, and this can be driven with angst, drama, whatever genre this can be explored in etc.

now what i'm pointing out specifically is when the writing partner would only try to have their own muse's emotions and challenges on the forefront of the plot, with no consideration to mine, which i think defeated the purpose of roleplaying in entirety because roleplaying especially is supposed to be a collaborative effort for all writers involved. but no, it's their muse's pain that's significant. it's only their suffering that outweighed everyone else's, and my character typically is became an "affirmation" or a "booster" to their muses' experience.

i have a few turn-off's but this one is definitely one of the highest.

MUSE PREFERENCES: oh maaaan, i've written characters from sooo many ranges. typically it's whoever tickled my brain at the moment <333 but lately i do realise i'm often drawn to

(1) outwardly soft-looking people (2) have crazy dedication value; sometimes absurdly loyal to a cause / person (3) most of the time they're brown-haired and/or dark-haired (4) a lot of them give earthy and/or green vibe

and if it's the opposite, it's either someone struggling with their temper and/or have their viewpoint challenged or exploited. don't believe me, check out my western multi as well to see where i'm ticking the boxes. ( i'm on hiatus there but still. look at the muses. )

PLOTS OR MEMES : fuuuuuuck. i'm super bad with first-time plotting not gonna lieeeee. listen, my attention span's crap. my method is usually this: we plot minimally ( usually to establish the timeline and/or where our muses stand ) and then i prefer winging the first thread, usually to gauge the pace of the writing, ur muses' thoughts and/or reactions so mine could bounce off of yours, and then i'd rain in your IM / discord to yap my way into ur heart 🫶 i looove when my mutuals would yap at me right back. i love substances, and i love context. i love knowing what my partners want to achieve or what they're satisfied / dissatisfied with so we can work around that. so yes, thread > plot > memes.

LONG OR SHORT REPLIES : wish i'm a short-replier. born a long-replier. working on making my paragraphs more concise though. that's on my 2024 writing bingo for sure!

BEST TIME TO WRITE : when i want to 💀  and i have no idea when. usually when i'm rested enough so if i'm dead tired on friday, there's a chance i'll still be ghosting the dash on saturday. i try not to........ push myself so hard on my availability, which is why it's important i stress out how i am a low-activitiy blog, because i know that even if i push myself when i don't want to, it won't work. my brain would dead-ass refuse to cooperate.

ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSE(S) : i'm definitely flawed, which is something i like exploring with my muses, because i think i've tried so hard since i was 15 to be perfect. that isn't to say my characters and i share the same flaw, but unlike in real life, exploring my characters' area of weaknesses and how that can have its consequences is perhaps a catharsis for me since i could safely navigate it within a narrative i could ( somewhat ) control. it's freeing. writing has always been freeing in that sense.

tagged: @dynmghts and @ingen1um ( u sexy people muaah <3 ) tagging: @fighterbound , @bladedhunter , @kiigan , @senjufound and whoever that wants to it !!!!!

#my pet peeve are that specific and idk why #and thats just ONE #who hurt me #gen: dash games.

[fuckfuckgoback]

paracosm dashboard simulator

Inspired by @maddgical-boy :D

🌃 justice385627 Follow

Repeat offender caught west of main. Subject has short brown hair, brown eyes, and was known for pickpocketing. Confiscated goods are pending return.

🤺 bcbd-group Follow

caught west of main

thats our area you fucking leeches what the hell

🫐 orions-belt Follow

We actually ran into them in the mid city, and chased them all the way over. 😅

🌃 justice385627

And we wouldn't have had to if any of you could do your jobs.

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🕶️ monsterfucker378 Follow

something about that slime guy from last week... c'mon police just let me visit i could fix him

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🌃 justice385627 Follow

In reference to the reblog below this: Let him figure it out on his own.

🪨 scumoftheearth Follow

girl he's been posting pics of baggy Ts with khaki shorts please let me intervene

🌃 justice385627

K told me to reply "It's a canon event" and you know I'm not a girl?

#confusion aside it hurts me as well but he has to start somewhere

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🫐 orions-belt Follow

does anyone have any fashion advice

🫐 orions-belt

like, how it works?

🫐 orions-belt

where do people buy clothes...?

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powers-kill-deactivated20360709

This attack on our city cannot go ignored. The public should not fear humanoid monsters or people creating electricity to destroy and steal from our community stores. It is revolting.

Possessing powers at all makes these individuals inherently dangerous, but we should not ever see them used to their extreme like this. Action must be taken.

🕷️ gayspiderlover Follow

oh to be able to summon lightning and take down capitalism with my spidergirl girlfriend

powers-kill-deactivated20360709

These people are causing real chaos and destruction. You are sick for joking about this.

🕷️ gayspiderlover

😚🏳️‍🌈🕷️

mwah

#happy six year anniversary to this post #and the attack ig #i hope theyre still together

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"his pronouns are she/her!" - E probably

🌃 justice385627 Follow

What? I am well aware tack uses she/her pronouns.

🫐 orions-belt Follow

It's a joke, it's based off a different meme, I think they're just saying you'd say something like that.

🌃 justice385627

This site is a waste of time.

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been experimenting with making small bombs recently and i put one in my bag and almost brought it home on accident. if my little sister had found that....

john-deactivated20420312

what is it with these fake self proclaimed "vigilante crime fighters" nowadays trying to be so cool? we know you don't make bombs, quit stroking your ego

🥼 ethical-lesbian-crimes

hey.

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coquette-n-cute-deactivated20411230

if you have any of the slots on your ci ring set to anything fancy unfollow me immediately. its frankly quite rude to switch into that in front of your friends who can't afford something so expensive

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a ci ring is $6000??????

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LMAO imagine complaining about not affording a suit yet owning the rich person identity stealer 2000

#everyone here died 💀 #anyway its super easy to make knockoffs

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💕 fangirl-hours Follow

whoes that new guy with the blue hair? I think hes been running around with the team down by the bottom of the hills? vigilante fans help me out here!

🫐 orions-belt Follow

thats me actually! I am newer around here but I'm with E's group. my hair might stand out a little too much lol

💕 fangirl-hours

OMG. uh hiiiiiiiii. youre very cool I love when you do stuff with uhh gravity. wanna hang out sometime?

🫐 orions-belt

uh, E doesn't really want us meeting up with anyone outside the group in our secret identities. so probably not.

💕 fangirl-hours

oh well can we still dm?

💕 fangirl-hours

hello?

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🪨 scumoftheearth Follow

definitely left

💁‍♀️ gender-fucked-nbee

poll canceled everyone my partner is here 🥰

🌑 night-fight Follow

doesn't your blog say you're aroace?

🪨 scumoftheearth

yeah and it also says that im in a qpr with them so whats your fucking problem

#do people on this site not read?

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#gaming

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#unreality #dashboard simulator #kitkat posting #little guys (daydreams) #paracosm #immersive daydreaming #maladaptive daydreaming #paracosm dashboard simulator #madd paras #madd things #Daydreams - Gen 3 #this took so fucking long #a fun game for those in the notes. try to guess who is the main character

[mint-yooxgi]

You are welcome to publish this or not as you see fit but please understand my point is about detaching your criticism of my recommendation style which you are welcome to make from the list of authors. Their names do not deserve to be dragged around on a post where you are in a completely one-sided beef with me.

I removed the link to your masterlist because I no longer felt comfortable sending readers your way. While the quality of your stories has not changed, I take the whole presence of an author into consideration. You asked me to see you as a person not a product and this is me doing that. Reading over your asks about the "cringe anon" (even once corrected that it was not about me) still left me saddened to see you joining the askers in making fun of someone's assumed talents, spelling, and denigrating "hoes" when here we are reading stories celebrating people who sleep around. These are not attitudes I wish to expose my readers to in the service of sending them to a story they might like.

From the very beginning of my reaching out to you as a consideration once I was aware you would like to know you have been spoken of positively, you have been wrong about my motives every single time. I will not go into the multiple reasons why I actively choose not to ping writers because you have not seemed open to listening that there could be a reason for my decision equally grounded in being respectful to writers.

I really liked the stories of yours that I had read but will now never be returning to. You lost a reblogging fics with multiple paragraphs reader enthusiastic about your writing over the aggressive way you have spoken to and about me. Please know that despite this I still sincerely wish you well although I am no longer among your followers.

Elizabeth

I still feel like we're missing the point here. I asked for basic respect for all authors on that post regarding properly tagging us beside links showcasing our own writing. At this point, NONE of those authors have yet to be tagged, so I doubt they're being "dragged around" as you've so put it here. My bet is three quarters on the list don't even have a clue about what's going on, and I bet most of them would agree with me about appreciating a tag beside their hard work.

Taking the whole presence of the author is completely valid. I understand that. Like I said before, I asked to be seen as a person through a proper tag, and explained my reasonings why on your post. I'll reiterate them here. Oh wait, I explicitly stated being seen as a person vs. a product on this post: Why You Should Tag Authors in Your Fic Rec Posts. A general post, not aimed at you, but as a general callout to people who don't tag authors in their fic rec posts. I'm sorry you believed that was directed at you, but honestly, at this point... if the shoe fits, don't wear it.

Additionally, I never once thought, implied, or suggested you were being the 'cringe anon'. You were the first person to bring that up, to which I replied to immediately both to your original comment, and with a post. Here's a link to the post, where you can also find the original comments which I provided as screenshots.

I feel like it's also important to mention that this is my blog. If I get a rude anon telling me that my writing is "cringe" and then another anon following it up by calling ME a "dumbass hoe", I have every right to reply to it in a manner that I see fit. Whether it's by making a meme out of it, because honestly, it was utterly ridiculous, or by replying with something else, that's entirely up to me. You definitely don't have to agree with how I handle it, but you also have to recognize that if someone comes onto my blog and shits all over me, I'm not going to take that lightly. My friends won't, either. Whether you agree or not... okay, sure. Good to know you believe I should let people who send hate anons walk all over me and my writing without sticking up for myself.

Never once has a conversation been opened by either or us, and I do take accountability for myself for not reaching out, to discuss why you won't give the basic curtesy of tagging authors in your fic rec post. I just assumed it was such a basic thing, that I didn't think such an issue would arise from it. To me, it takes the same amount of time to add a comment tagging me to a post my own writing is linked on, as it does to actually tag me properly in said post. Then again, I actually think making a comment is more time consuming, especially when the post already exists and is already formatted.

I truly don't understand what's so difficult about adding an @ in front of an author's username. Yet, here we are. All this says to me is, "I don't want to tell writers I'm sharing their work, fuck letting them have this sort of feedback." It's even stranger when I know you had no issues previously reblogging my fics and adding beautiful paragraphs of feedback to them. I guess tagging on a fic rec post is too difficult. Oh, well.

Was I aggressive in my tone. Probably. I did my best not to be, and I do apologize if it came across that way. At the end of the day, I know I'm not the only author upset by this whole ordeal, and honestly, since it's turning into such a big deal to offer authors basic respect, you have my regards.

#ask

[anincompletelist]

Hi Sarah! 15, 17, 33, and 37 for the ask meme if you're feeling up to it. Hope you're doing well 💜

HI FRIEND! :D I am definitely feeling a little worn out but having fun answering some of these before bed :) I hope you've had a lovely day today!

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15: Do you write in the margins of your books? Dog-ear your pages? Read in the bath? Why or why not? Do you judge people who do these things? Can we still be friends?

oh absolutely. most of my reading is non-fiction psych books and/or poetry, so there are all sorts of feelings that must be written down expeditiously usually, and if I write in a notebook instead then the two get separated inevitably so I've found it much easier to write right there on the page. I love making a book my own and making it feel 'lived in'. looking back one day and being like hey! this made me feel things!! so much so that I had to write it down or highlight it or circle it or earmark the page to come back to again and again! I LOVE. (I do not, however, read in the bathtub because I have anxiety and am far too afraid I will drop it in the water on accident ksjhdk)

17: Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

as we all know, I have an unholy amount of wips in the docs currently but I feel like my 'main' wip is bridesmaids, which is concluding at the end of this month! it definitely has more lore than most of my other fics do thanks to a bunch of the characters being originals! when I outlined for this fic I had pages of background info for each of the characters and how it affects their behaviors and ties into the major plot points, but a lot of those details got cut as the fic crossed 100k and I didn't want to include a bunch of lore that wasn't directly relevant to our main characters/pairing. but the little found family in this fic is so special to me and if anyone's ever interested (or maybe if I do another fic set in this verse one day?) I'd love to delve into the original characters a bit more! they have tons of quirks and little details that are so much fun hehehehe

33: Do you practice any other art besides writing? Does that art ever tie into your writing, or is it entirely separate?

I will do literally anything creative even if I am not good at it ksjhkdh I love to create! I've tried a bit of everything here and there, but I regularly enjoy photography, painting, and occasionally drawing! if poetry counts, I have written poems for fics, both in posted works and some upcoming ones, but other than that I've yet to have any of these crossover!

37: If you were to be remembered only by the words you’ve put on the page, what would future historians think of you?

ooooh what a good question!

ideally, I think I'd like some of the main takeaways to be that I felt deeply, did not shy away from hard or emotionally nuanced topics but always managed to find a bright spot within them, that ultimately leaves people walking away from my work feeling seen, validated, and/or inspired.

realistically, they might stick me in a textbook under the category 'words that should have been said to a therapist that have instead been immortalized on ao3 [tags include: emotional hurt/comfort, shameless smut]' SKJDHSKJDHSJH we out here!

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[send me a weird question for writers or reblog to play along yourself!]

#about me #ask #wips

[tamaharu]

im still only like 42% thru orv (torturous) (the demon king selection just started if u were curious idk)

anyway but my secret is there were TWO reasons i wanted to read orv #1 i reblogged a lot of posts from you and tagged em as zero escape but you tagged em as orv. which basically guarantees orv is good

THE OTHER SECRETER REASON is cause i saw u had a tag for shipping 3 of the characters together and i was like ok dont mind if i do

anyway youre doing good work to remake/rehash memes to make sure they include all 3 and i kno i dont have most of the appropriate context at this point (mortifying ordeal of only being halfway thru media. excrutiating. death and dying) BUT ITS A SENTIMENT I TOO HAVE FELT. WITH OTHER MEDIA. SO I APPRECIATE IT.

so anyway in 10 years when i finally get all the way thru prepare to have your notifs wrekt i WILL be going thru ur tags

thank you for your time

ehehehe if my memory of the order is correct youre getting extremely close to an veeerrrry fun arc. so good luck for when you reach that :3

I WANT TO PLAY ZERO ESCAPE! I've heard very good things about it.. mostly from a lot of fellow orv fans! and i played some of aitsf (although i didnt get the chance to finish it) and enjoyed it, so im interested to see the predecessor to that. i just havent found the time/money to pirate/buy and play it but its definitely on my ever-expanding to do list..

and YES ahahaha! i knew having that tag would be of use (besides my own personal enjoyment)! the unfortunate part of the yhk trio is. oh its so good howls to the moon. but hsy is introduced comparatively late into the game and a lot of her Deal is only properly contextualized at the very end, so when a lot of the readers are webtoon-only/primarily or just going slowly when working through the novel, she can often get excluded sad face. it really doesnt help that shes A Girl and fighting for prestige against the blowjob brothers. but its okay. i know her heart. i know of the yaoi and yuri she engages in with those two. han sooyoung, fighting!

#its hard being a throuple shipper. its hard and nobody understands. #have fun in my tag when you finish! god knows i lost my mind after finishing #ask me no questions and ill tell you no lies

[starlightmeadowbloom]

I posted 3,791 times in 2022

That's 3,413 more posts than 2021!

206 posts created (5%)

3,585 posts reblogged (95%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@sweetoothgirl

@sunnysstuffs

@the-invisible-kaiju

@luonnonvalinnat

@tbgmoviecoverage

I tagged 3,665 of my posts in 2022

Only 3% of my posts had no tags

#not my art - 1,995 posts

#the bad guys - 1,209 posts

#dreamworks the bad guys - 1,140 posts

#dreamworks - 1,120 posts

#the bad guys dreamworks - 1,069 posts

#mr wolf - 953 posts

#mr snake - 554 posts

#sing movie - 516 posts

#sing 2 movie - 453 posts

#sing 2016 - 426 posts

Longest Tag: 100 characters

#and how behind puss there is a chaotic scene in pastels contrasting with the blues where the wolf is

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Chapter 10's Art By DisneyFriend

DisneyFriend said - The moment from chapter 10🦊💞🐺

You asked me once if I could draw a favorite moment from your story from one of the chapters and we can both agree this one is definitely one the best, if not the cutest moment ever. I might draw some probably later, but let's enjoy this one for now everyone🥰

😍🥰😍

Then I say - THIS IS SO AMAZING AND AWESOME!!!!!

I can't believe this is the best moment from Chapter 10 ever! I was all teared up because of it. I'm enjoying this with all of my heart, thank you so much for drawing this for me.

Please check out my story in Archive of Our Own as RainbowMoonstone21 and find The Bad Guys and the Black Diamond of the Legendary Wolf.

55 notes - Posted July 9, 2022

#4

Preview for the Bad Guys

Look what I've found this morning and my heart sank when I saw something so moved by Mr Wolf ^^

🐺💖

56 notes - Posted March 9, 2022

#3

A New Bad Guys Story

After watching the Bad Guys today in Liverpool, I suddenly had a new idea for the story...

Title: The Bad Guys 2: The Black Diamond of the Legendary Wolf

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Categories: F/M

Fandoms: The Bad Guys (2022)

Relationships: Mr Wolf/Diane Foxington, Mr Wolf & Mr Snake

Characters: Mr Wolf, Diane Foxington, Mr Snake, Mr Shark, Mr Piranha, Miss Tarantula (I may going to add more with oc)

Additional Tags: Adventure, action, crime, violence, magic, romance, friendship, family, nightmares, post-traumatic stress disorder – PTSD, drama, forgiveness, bravely/courage

Language: English

Summary: Three months after one year in prison, Mr Wolf and his friends are trying to be best behaviour for the citizen who are no longer afraid of them anymore while they couldn’t help but enjoy few adventures they adore. But then one night, Mr Wolf had a nightmare of his past that involved with a black wolf that caused him to seek answers. Together with Diane Foxington (known as the Crimson Paw), the gang must unravel the truth of Wolf’s past and why he had great connection of the black diamond that everyone thought it once had dark magic thousands years ago.

This is kinda inspired by Disney Turning Red and Who’s Afraid with the Big Bad Wolf in Raunzel’s Tangled Adventure. I don't know... But if everyone is interested in, please join the club and tell me what you think of it because I might need a helping hand.

Oh! And don't worry, I'm not leaving Sing fandom because I'm still working on chapter 19.

56 notes - Posted April 2, 2022

#2

Buster Moon: I've been looking out a window of my theater for years, dreaming about what I might feel like when those lights rise in the sky. What if it's not everything I dreamed it would be?

Jimmy Crystal: It will be?

Buster Moon: And if it is? What do I do then?

Jimmy Crystal: Well, that's a good part, I guess...You get to go find a new dream.

(Tangled meme for Crystal Moon)

@the-invisible-kaiju & @xxstar-bluesxx

86 notes - Posted January 13, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Good Tonight from the Bad Guys

Look what I've found ^^

Tonight, we will dance to the music of awesome!!!^^

91 notes - Posted March 18, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #the bad guys #dreamworks the bad guys #the bad guys dreamworks #dreamworks #sing movie #sing 2 movie #sing 2016 #sing 2021 #sing 2 #buster moon #jimmy crystal #Youtube

[pennywaltzy]

A glimpse between 2007 and now...

I'm going through my archived fic blog on Dreamwidth, just reblogging random fic/fun stuff, and I came across a meme I answered on Mar. 15th, 2007 at 02:17 PM. Let's see what has changed in 16 years... (old answers below the cut)

Keyboard or notebook? Laptop now! I entered the portable digital age a while ago, but I still type up most of my fic. Fun fact: when I worked at Legoland I used to write fic while I was working, and I'd write it on the pieces of cardboard that came in my boxes of photo frames. I had a whole stash of cardboard up at the Dragon ride.

Beta or no beta? No beta, unless it's a gift or for an exchange, and even then my actual beta is "post it to AO3, send the link to @strangelock221b and see what she thinks."

Plot? Plot for series and WIPs, one-shots get tiny bits of plot and PWPs have none at all.

Smushy or smutty? Both. Preferably in the same fic.

Summary? Since AO3 requires summaries, now I write them. It's really funny (not really) to find old fics to transfer over that don't have summaries. I need to come up with one 15 plus years later.

Funniest fic? Oh lord...probably "The Humorous Effects Of Sherlock And Truth Serums"

Most popular fic? The Art Of Love Is Largely The Art Of Persistence by hits on AO3 (20,768) and yet our roots remain as one for kudos (561) and bookmarks (94)

Most fun to write? Wow. There are just so so many. I can't choose just one.

Best and worst? The Art Of Love Is Largely The Art Of Persistence is definitely one of my personal best fics, and the worst? Still the Buffyverse PWPs I wrote.

Most underrated? A lot of the old CSIverse stuff I'm adding to my AO3 account these days. I did a good job on them, and aside from the CSI: NY fics I don't get a whole lot of love for them.

Strengths? Over the years, I've developed a keen talent for writing characters convincingly across a number of fandoms. I'm really proud when someone comments with "OMG I could see that happening on the show!" and other similar comments.

Weaknesses? Chronic fatigue has made it where I write in bursts every few weeks. Since I'm homeless at the time I wrote this (February 24th, 2023), though, I am on my laptop and in a library or Starbucks more often so I'm hoping I'll do more writing.

Dirty little secrets? I wrote non-con/dub-con, miscarriage, murder and implied suicide all in one fic. I orphaned it shortly after posting it to AO3. Every once in a while I check on it and people are still reading it. I'm...surprised, because it's a pitch black fic. But to each their own, I suppose.

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Keyboard or notebook? Keyboard, unless I'm away from the house and I get hit with an idea. I've been known to write on envelopes and paper towels in those instances.

Beta or no beta? No beta. I write far too much and I love seeing it go up ASAP because I'm impatient. On very few occasions will I use a beta.

Plot? For my series, there's kind of an overlying plot. For my WIPs, there's a definite plot. But for most of my fic that doesn't fall into one of those categories (which isn't much)? Plotless.

Smushy or smutty? Smushy. Sometimes branching out into foreplay but never outright smut these days; I stopped writing that years ago. Though somewhere in my archives is a post where almost all the conversation is about sex and smut, and that conversation led me to write "Claw Marks," one of my few hard-R CSIverse fics.

Summary? I only write summaries if it's required.

Funniest fic? I have no clue, honestly. I personally love "Is This Sexual Harassment?"

Most popular fic? "Not What You Expected," hands down. Though I keep getting begged to add more to my "Strange And Beautiful" series. Also, "Heroics On A Smaller Scale" is probably my most popular one-shot fic.

Most fun to write? Wow. Um…the round robin I'm writing with iluvroadrunner6 that's just our OCs. William gets to come out and play out there a lot more than he does in my other fics.

Best and worst? I have no clue about my best, but worse is definitely the Buffyverse PWPs I wrote.

Most underrated? I don't really know. I would say "Theraputic," which is a CSI: NY/L&O crossover WIP I started but haven't touched in a while due to a lukewarm response.

Strengths? I think my main strengths are plot, dialogue and the believability of my OCs. It's the last one that makes me especially proud…that and the fact that my two main OC pairings (Danny/Christina and Flack/Susan) are LJ interests. Linked LJ interests.

Weaknesses? I love the fluff. And apparently I write too much of it, or so someone told me in an anonymous meme one time. But I don't look at it as a complete weakness: when I'm really happy I write great angst, and when I'm not as happy I write fluff. It's more indicative of my mood than any real compulsion to write mostly fluff.

Dirty little secrets? I wrote pr0n. I hate the stuff I wrote, too. Wish I could delete it anywhere it's archived. And…sometimes I ship characters together not because I think they'd actually work but because they'd be pretty together (which I think is the entire reason I ship Flack/Peyton but I don't write it…yet).

[chocolatepot]

chocopot, first of all: i followed you on tumblr bc I found your Howl's Moving Castle fics so incredibly charming. <3 Thank you for writing those.

I've been in fandom long enough that I've seen major fan wanks come and go, enough that i've gone from "oh no, fan wank! can't we all just get along?" to "omg this has all happened before why can't you fools see" to just leaving to go outside and smoke a cigarette til it's over, a la that meme of ben affleck.

I enjoyed the OFMD show, of course. I found it so charming, and it was such a wish fulfillment for me personally to have the perfect delicious dynamics that fandom eats like a full course meal, with the additional surprise of the canon supporting those pairings. I also appreciated the canon approaching this with a light touch, enough to leave room for fandom and also eschewing the usual ham-handed After School Special style way queer rep often is.

(I am of course not dismissing those representation efforts in any way, but those storylines don't always have the forward momentum that leads to the creation of fanworks. Sometimes the non-canon character dynamics lead to MORE fanworks because of more ambiguity to play with, funny enough)

I've been living vicariously through ofmd fanwank from you (thanks for being out there in the field, haha). So much of the Discourse with a capital D just seems so wild to me. The best way I can think to describe it is, instead of the "YesAnd" of most fandoms that feed off each other's energy, it's instead more of a "NoBut."

I was wondering if you think there's something different about this particular flavor of wank and what factors you think contribute to it.

Thanks for reading my long ask, and all the best!

Thank you! I'm glad you liked them. I gave up on DoMAYstic after like a week but I think I wrote some cute fluff during that week.

I started writing a response to this ages ago, but I think I need to scrap it and start over because I was getting too into the weeds.

On one level, I don't find the fandom that wanky at all. The amount of fic, art, gifsets, and vids created for OFMD after just one season is incredible, and while it's slowed down since last summer, it's still pretty intense. I see loads and loads of "Yes And" posts like "imagine ed and stede going to bed on the revenge after they reunite. imagine stede wrapping ed in one of his nightshirts" on Tumblr, and people posting their fic updates and other people reblogging and liking them. There is also discussion of representation in the show and how it's interpreted in fandom, and sometimes the latter is more of a "No But," but it's all in earnest and I think it's productive even when I disagree with people and quietly scroll past.

Now, Twitter? Twitter is an entirely different beast. Twitter as a website is designed to stimulate wank, making people express stupidly brash opinions for attention and then making other people feel the need to amplify that or dunk on it. Every time I spend a day doing Twitter on my fannish account, it's so draining and makes me feel like there's no hope for the fandom because it does the same thing. From my perspective it looks like there's a lot of clout chasing, people becoming semi-BNFs and attacking each other and getting hoist by their own petard when their tactics get used against them.

It's a microcosm, though. Almost none of it seems to escape the group of OFMD fans on Twitter who seem to really care about the drama, so I just kind of ignore it, or enjoy hearing about it secondhand.

The fandom is mostly a "Yes And" place. Sometimes in a good way (feverishly making excellent content), sometimes in a bad way (passing around flawed fanon as Definitely True). The AO3 category is bursting with creativity, thousands of canon and setting AUs, fusions, new ways to have the reunion happen, takes on backstory, and more. There's an incredible amount of fanart that does the same things. The fact that the slash juggernaut is also the main canon ship seems to have produced a fandom with a high degree of unity. While there's lots of discourse over Izzy stans, judging by AO3 that's actually a pretty small faction of the fandom as a whole.

#ofmd #ofmd meta #ask

[unladielike]

KNOWING YOUR PARTNER WELL CAN POTENTIALLY MAKE WRITING TOGETHER A LOT EASIER. REPOST DO NOT REBLOG !!

NAME: livita (or livi for short)

PRONOUNS: she/her but i won’t be up in arms if you happen to accidentally misgender me. 

PREFERENCE OF COMMUNICATION: tumblr ims or discord but i may be slow to respond if the topic doesn’t revolve around my special interest or roleplay stuff

NAME OF MUSE(S): vivian, kensuke hibiki from the caligula effect whose blog you can find here, and a myriad of other obscure muses on my canon multimuse

RP EXPERIENCE / HOW LONG (MONTHS / YEARS?): OH GOD... i’ve honestly been rping for a long, long while, but tumblr wise, i think i’ve been at it for eight years now? so my first ever blog was made when i was 17 years old.

PLATFORMS YOU’VE USED: gaiaonline, quizilla, email, discord (but ended up discovering it isn’t for me), and tumblr

BEST EXPERIENCE: probably meeting/befriending @aaetherius​ tbh. honestly, i don’t ever regret writing with noise all those years ago, because they helped me gain more experience with novella-esque replies and inspired me to play around/experiment with language. ofc, i only ended up settling on a proper writing style after writing with several other partners over the years, but noise was prob the first one i had that made me develop a love for world building and lore oriented headcanons. ofc, i sadly cannot emulate their descriptive, thought-provoking writing, but i like to think my own writing managed to improve partially because of noise.

RP PET PEEVES / DEALBREAKERS: i seriously have a lot, that i could go all day, talking about them, but the biggest is prob a lack of communication and the ‘i  don’t owe my partners shit’ mentality that is practically rampant in the rpc. ofc, as some of you might know, i’m autistic, so if a partner suddenly ghosts me out of the blue or gives me the silent treatment, especially due to issues with me they never bother addressing, chances are high i would end up softblocking, because i was previously traumatized by someone who did the exact same thing. due to this, i really, really love if a partner tells me stuff and is actually honest with me. like, seriously, i can’t stress enough how much i appreciate someone going, ‘livi do you mind only sending in one ask from one muse at a time?’, instead of internalizing that shit until the bitter end, to the point where resentment builds. but yeah, i had someone claiming i had double standards when it comes to female muses, due to the fact i never once bothered reblogging a promo for their best friend’s female oc... and i’m just ‘first of all, you never asked me to reblog it, and second of all, you have another thing coming if you think i have the attention span to constantly lurk on the dash.’

FLUFF, ANGST OR SMUT: sweats... is it bad i can’t really settle on one? cause i think they’re all great. granted, i need to be in the right state of mind to write smut, but i still love it.

PLOTS OR MEMES: memes, hands down... i’m not against plotting though. i just may not be the best at it.

LONG OR SHORT REPLIES: both can be good, as sometimes, you might want a more chill rp experience or something shorter to respond to for a change of pace, but if i write three paragraphs, only to receive two sentences back, then that to me seems incredibly lazy. like, yes, i prefer quality over quantity, but there has to be actual effort put into your replies for me to wanna respond.

BEST TIME TO WRITE: basically when i have caffeine in my system, meaning usually after i had finished drinking my first coffee of the day.

ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSE(S): it depends on which muse you’re talking about, because i have more than a few, but considering vivian had first started off a self insert before later evolving to become her own person separate from me, i’d say we definitely have some stuff in common... like us both being autistic and sharing the same birthday. vivian, however, is more extroverted than me, less picky when it comes to food, and not afraid to speak her mind even if it means pissing someone off.

TAGGED BY: @immoralraigan ( thank you for tagging me, bandy! <3333 ) TAGGING: @eliteimperialism / @etoilexdechue / @sadamenai / @afacere​ / @enterthestratosphere​ / @shatterher / @banditborn​ / @hehosts / @dxfiedfxte / @s-talking and whoever else might be interested!

#⸾ ❖︎ ⸾ ( DASH GAMES ) ⤹ •• 𝕞𝕖𝕞𝕖𝕤. #⸾ ❖︎ ⸾ ( OUT OF ) ⤹ •• 𝕗𝕒𝕟𝕗𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟. #⸾ ❖︎ ⸾ ( QUEUED ) ⤹ •• 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕝𝕚𝕓𝕣𝕒𝕣𝕪. #[ SPEAKING OF KENSUKE... i should log back into his blog ] #[ as i haven't really been on him for a hot minute ] #[ and i miss him a lot ] #[ but i also remember not having a lot of drafts on him so i'm just like... 'do i try being more active on him again??' ] #[ 'or do i wait until more of my partners are active before jumping the gun?' ] #[ either way I ENDED UP RAMBLING A LOT HERE ] #[ and for that i apologize ] #[ i unfortunately just can't seem to ever shut up ]

[lem0nsheadz]

GET TO KNOW YOUR WRITING PARTNER   🤍  

knowing your writing partners can potentially make writing together a lot easier. repost, don’t reblog.

NAME: n PRONOUNS: she/they PREFERENCE OF COMMUNICATION: I use tumblr IM a lot, but for anything beyond basic plotting hit me up for my discord handle, I love to scream about our babies. EXPERIENCE/HOW LONG: 20 + at this point. started on a live site called The Place, then IMs, then a javascript based room where you had to write novel length replies in >1 hour, then forums, then tumblr + discord. it’s been a wild journey + I keep waiting for the next step. it’s gonna be vr chat I know it - you know it - we’re just lying to ourselves. BEST EXPERIENCE: I said this on a previous one, but it’s still my answer so consider this a repeat  --  just being surrounded by creative + passionate people. it’s so inspiring reading people’s threads, watching intercharacter relationships build.  I love getting to lurk in the little worlds each of you have created. otherwise just the sort of connections I’ve made over the years, my most long lasting friendships are from the rpc. RP PET PEEVES: the recent OC hate has me back on my 🗡️🗡️🗡️ with certain sections of the rpc, but beyond that face chasing still weirds me out. also people who expect me to list out everything about myself or they default me as white / abled / etc. stop that. some of us are just private people who don’t want to share that kind of info. MUSE PREFERENCES FOR ANGST / FLUFF / SMUT:  psychosis??? madness? horror?  I am an eldritch lover so any time I get to Make Shit Weird ™ I’m over the moon, but I think variety is the spice of life so I want a bit of everything PLOTS OR MEMES: I definitely love plots + making long reaching ideas for our characters, but with Lemon especially memes are just a blast. I don’t know what she’s going to do  --  you don’t  know what she’s going to do + we both get to be horrified by whatever she decides on together. LONG OR SHORT REPLIES: I am notorious for having verbositis  --   making even short replies spiral out of control at a moments notice. but Lemon is one of the few characters I have who can tone it down a little, keeping her at a 2-4 paragraph average which is a nice change compared to Luke who is just ... way too up in his own head. BEST TIME TO WRITE:  any time? I have a baffling sleep schedule so it’s more based on when I slept + how long I’ve been awake. my secret super power is only needing 4 hours of sleep so I end up with a lot of free time. ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSE: oh god no. not Lemon anyway. Lemon was birthed in my psych classes in college.  I do have a bit more in common with Luke @desanguined​ but even he is a bit alien. I don’t tend to write characters like me as I write to explore other mindsets, the more different from my own the better.

TAGGED BY:   @kindafked​ ( thanks beeb 🖤🖤🖤 )

TAGGING:   I’ve seen this around a lot, so if you haven’t done it yet I’m tagging you!

#🍋 ━━ POMELO. out of character. #🍋 ━━ POMELO. selfish. #🍋 ━━ POMELO. dash meme.

[awda]

About this blog 🖤

Mature blog, 16+ recommended (If you’re under 16, you can still view this blog, although I may repost things that isn’t in your age range)

Heyyyyyy <3

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Thanks for visiting my blog 😘

#awda old blog info

[theold-ultraviolence]

bestie, first of all: I wanted to apologize for how much time it has taken me to reply to my previous messages!

as I have an internship abroad in September I have been searching place to stay and if anything, this experience had reinforced my hatred for for landlords. still, I have finished the last of my courses and although I have two more exams and a project to finish fully my master's degree (+ my thesis, but we don't talk about it).

so stress has been all over the place, sadly.

and I am also sad to hear that you are also getting quite a busy week, but I hope that you'll still get a bit of relief and thank you for blessing us with that mutual masturbation fic, I read it yesterday and I stg I had to rip myself away from it to eat my dinner.

can't wait to spam my silly tags on it tonight when I reblog it!

also I wanted to share something, again, with you because I found this workout session to fob and potd and I did it saturday and it was super-funny (plus I really like the girl organizing and leading them, as she is very chill and low key funny) -> if you ever want to jam, jump and dance while working out I am leaving this here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kePPgzFiEk8

(now I need to know whether there's a workout to maneskin)

now onto me properly answering the previous messages: again congrats for succeeding in your Italian placement test, pls do continue to share your duolingo hotd-related adventures because so I can share the silly Italian memes I know (the best way to learn is certainly through memes).

and yeah, I do think that a proper working setup would be so much better and where I study I have the most basic chair, while at home I still get the one that turns around and with the wheelies (am I turning around and playing with it through important meetings? totally). still yeah, I think that at least till I live without sharing a room there isn't much that can be done. still, we saving the money for when we can just go and have a shopping spree in zara home (although my eyes is considering the thought of buying candles).

also maison du monde is very pretty, but sadly it ain't cheap and I think it's mostly popular in europe, but it's like zara home (the same level of bougie).

oh I haven't checked out yet the tutorials you suggested me because saturday I took advantage of my roommate not being there, to have a full on dance workout and was about to pass out by the end of it, but I'll definitely try them on pilates day!

also I am honestly so curious about the names of the s/o of aemond's and reader's children! I am always curious about names and I love them having secret meanings (like everybody is 'it ain't so deep' and I am like 'NO IT NEEDS TO BE DEEP'). still take your time and I am sure your choices will be amazing (as they always are)!

pls! aemond would be like 'how did I marie kondo myself into having a partner?' but that'd be downright cute and I feel like he is definitely bougie but also one of those people who only have... essentials, so you'd have a whole lot of space and he'd probably be willing to buy more if you need it.

also I saw your post about aemond saying that you think he is emotionally intelligent but can't express himself properly and I feel like that's very much him. I think that he is also emotionally intelligent like he can clearly understand whether somebody is upset with him or happy, but he struggles with the physical and practical side, alas he misses experience. it's my own personally silly headcanon that by not having a loving example around (as viserys and alicent are the furtherest from that and criston was celibate) he probably knows how you feel but can't express himself, indeed.

so, yeah, he is a bit awkward but he is trying his best!

ok... this was a lot and I am officially leaving you alone!

I hope you have a nice day and week!

-🌗

DON'T apologize at all, bestie!! believe me, I get you! Aaaah I know the process of going abroad is so stressful and difficult but you just know it's so worth it because of the chance of experiencing new things! I'm wishing you all the best of luck and that the process will be a little easier to deal with! And thank YOU for your good wishes as well! (and also for reading my silly little fic! I'm really glad you enjoyed it, I stg every time I post smut I'm like !!!!!!!!!! with anticipation, not knowing if it will be well received or not, but yeah your tags GIVE ME LIFE! they're always such a treat to read so thank you sooo so much!!)

AND OMG I LOVE THAT ROUTINE. I was gonna do it today but had to clean the apartment instead and ran out of time but I can't wait to do those workouts because they're soooo so perfect! gossssh if there was a Maneskin one I'd never put up an excuse to not workout ever lmao! either way, I already subscribed to that channel!

And for sure I'll keep sharing my italian journey with you! Actually I logged onto my first proper class today (they're self-directed and online so I can make progress whenever I can) and it was SO DIFFERENT than duolingo!! this was gonna be obvious, but man I can actually learn proper grammar now lol. I'm excited but definitely, a little bit intimidated now that I have all of these materials to read about grammar rules and vocabulary.

And omg I still haven't figured out the names aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. And I'm also still looking for faceclaims for Aeron's witchy wife and Elaena's sweatheart husband. And for Vaella's husband I'm still not sure if I actually want to make him a Stark (?) still haven't gotten that far but I'm very happy to know I can tell you all about it! As far as faceclaims, for Elaena's husband I'm leaning towards an actor called Cesar Domboy. And for the witchy wife, I'm thinking of May Calamawy from Moon Knight. Gonna put the rest of my reply under a 'readmore' to add the images and not make this super long:

so yeah I think they're them!!! but Idk about names yet lol!

ALSO DYING WITH THE how did I marie kondo myself into having a partner?' LMAO!!! and definitely about the 'essentials' thing. I doubt he'd be the kind of person to have this room filled with trinkets (I try very hard to have an aesthetically pleasing room with only the essentials but a girl gotta has her trinkets and her silly little posters, I'm sorry Aemond). But thinking about his space being super vacant at first and slowly getting more and more cozy, the more you integrate yourself in it, is suuuuch a soft thought.

And definitely!! I strongly believe that, because he's been on his own for so long, he knows his worth, he knows what he wants and is actually very confident in himself. After all the time he spends alone he's got to have the time to ponder about his needs and wants. But because he's alone and doesn't socialize or communicate often, that's where he fails. But it's not because he doesn't know how, he just comes out a little bit awkward. I think with a character like Aemond there's room to interpret that he's not emotionally mature but I'd say it's quite the contrary! It's precisely what you say! he struggles with the physical. But he's got everything theorized and analyzed prior. But baby boy is a hermit, so that's where he kinda misses some beats.

Thank you so much for your messages as always, my dear!! I hope you have a good start of the week, and best of luck with your studies and all the preparations for going abroad! x

#🌗

[bluewhale52]

Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree

Summary: You remind Namjoon not to leave any marks. But the gentle giant sometime just can’t help himself.

Pairing: Namjoon x Female OC

Rating: R, SFW (just suggestive language, nothing naughty/ explicit)

Genre: established relationship, non-idol!au, fluff

WC: 566

A/N: Day 4 of 12days BTS Project 🎄 Prompt: Don’t be so rough, there can’t be any marks!

You bite your lower lip. Your heart is pounding as your boyfriend gets to work. You love him, you really, really do. But sometimes this gentle giant doesn’t realise his own strength.

You wince. “Joon, baby, slow down.”

“Sorry babe,” he pants. “It’s just so… hard.”

“I know,” you reply soothingly. “Just take your time, okay? There’s no rush.”

He grunts.

You hold your breath as he starts again, and again, you wince when it gets too much for you.

“Joon, don’t be so rough, there can’t be any marks.”

Namjoon exhales sharply, and slows down his movements. “I know, I know,” he sounds frustrated, “I just… fuck, I can’t help it!”

“Do you need my help?”

He scoffs. “Babe, no offense, but I got this, okay? You just relax. Let daddy do this for you.”

You roll your eyes. He just has to say that, doesn’t he? Does he think going full on daddy mode would make you stay still while he takes charge? Well, it would, it definitely would at any other times, but this time, you are far too worried about the marks he is bound to leave behind.

“Baby,” you call for him again. He shoots you a look, warning you to not say anything more. So you bite your tongue and force yourself to let him finish what he has started.

You watch your boyfriend. The way his biceps flex, the way sweat breaks on his forehead, the way his breathing gets heavier and heavier. You know he is doing his best, but the poor man seems so lost and so helpless, you can’t possibly just do nothing. Your body aches to go into action.

And after another frustrated grunt from him, you decide enough is enough. He obviously can’t do this on his own.

“Namjoon, baby, let me help, okay?”

He hangs his head low between his shoulders. You reach out to caress his hair. “It’s okay, baby,” you console him, “this is obviously a two-person job.”

He moves aside, making space for you. You put your hand over his and take a deep breath before pushing.

With two pairs of hands, the heavy pine tree is finally no longer horizontal on the floor. Namjoon and you keep pushing it up, until it is almost standing in the corner of your living room.

“Why did we ever decide to get a real tree?” He mumbles.

“You’re the one who wanted it,” you remind him. “You were going on and on about having the smell of nature right in our home.”

He sighs. “All right baby, one more push then it should be upright. One, two, three!”

You ignore the prickly leaves poking into your skin, and instead, you focus on finally getting this damned tree up and please stay up for goodness sake. You push with all your might, however a loud scraping sound makes you stop.

“Oh for fuck’s sake!” You shriek, looking up at the ceiling. The top of the tree has chafed the plaster, flakes of it falling over you like dirty unwanted snow. You stare at the marks left behind by the tree, already calculating how much of the rental deposit you will definitely NOT be getting back at the end of your lease.

Namjoon sighs next to you, looking up at the damage. “Do you think this tree is too big for our apartment?”

Remember that meme - they had us in the first half, not gonna lie - yeah that’s what I was  trying to do here lol. Like this fic? Please reblog if you do! Published 15122021

#12DaysofBTS bccxfi #bts fanfiction #namjoon fluff #kim namjoon #namjoon x you #namjoon x reader

[alittlesimp]

jouno with an s/o who is the 'mom' of the hunting dogs

request: @super-mikisenapi-blog hello for requests can you do jouno, with a s/o who is bright person and is the mom of the hunting dogs please ? a/n: this was so cute!! i fucking love jouno, he’s such an interesting character (and kind of an asshole) i actually love all of the hunting dogs, their dynamics are *chef’s kiss* also i wanted to write more relationship stuff but i’d have to write like 20 more bullet points to add that so i'm probably gonna make a sequel when i’m done with my other requests hahaha warnings: swearing, one (1) mention of one night stands

· At first, he really didn’t like you

· He genuinely couldn’t stand being around you

· He kept saying it was because he hated how loud you were (even if you aren’t)

· But it was actually because he hated feeling flustered

· If anyone pointed this out, however, he would respond with a sarcastic remark

· And when he was on his own he just denied his feelings EVEN MORE

· You kept doing nice things for him and the others though, which made everything soooo complicated

· Every time you worried about him, tried to warn him about something or even just laughed he got more and more frustrated and he just couldn’t figure out why

· Until he snapped and actually said something really mean to you

· And everyone just. paused. and was like ‘hey dude, what the fuck’

· ‘You don’t say that to y/n’

· Which made him realize

· He had been kind of an asshole

· (You’ve done it! You made him self-aware <3)

· If you think he’ll now come to term with his feelings, oh boy, you’re wrong

· But at least he won’t be mean anymore and he will start being appreciative of the things you do

· He might say he’s just tolerating you, but he’s actually enjoying it

· The Moment™ he finally realizes is when he hears your heartbeat getting suspiciously faster every time he’s near, your hands getting sweaty etc etc

· Listen he’ll KNOW what this means but he’ll still want to get confirmation from the others LMAO

· He’ll casually mention it to one of the other Hunting Dogs who’ll choke on their water

· And then he’ll be like… wait… why do I Care? Oh.

· Realization #2!

· I think it’d take him a while to figure out what to do next

· Like Yeah he’s definitely had flings before but I don’t think he’s the kind of guy who just jumps into a relationship

· When he finally asks you out and y’all go on a date he’s gonna make sure he’s on his best fucking behavior

· Like super gentlemanly, buying you flowers, holding doors open and shit

· But like you Know him and it’s kinda scary to see him like this (but not that you’re complaining)

· He’d be surprisingly good at the boyfriend stuff

· The personification of the ‘asshole to the world, sweetheart to his girl’ meme I swear to God

· Everyone gets so confused when he gets sappy with you in public lolll

· He could be making you pancakes for breakfast and then 30 minutes later at work he’s complaining about Tecchou mixing mint ice cream and wasabi

· It’s part of his charm really

· But also you’re really curious about this food combo now (and also really worried about Tecchou's stomach)

please comment/reblog if you enjoyed! i’d love to hear what y'all think <3

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Re: the post you reblogged about Bush. I'm 21 and tbh feel like I can only vote for Bernie, can you explain if/why I shouldn't? Thanks and sorry if this is dumb or anything.

Oh boy. Okay, I’ll do my best here. Note that a) this will get long, and b) I’m old, Tired, and I‘m pretty sure my brain tried to kill me last night. Since by nature I am sure I will say something Controversial ™, if anyone reads this and feels a deep urge to inform me that I am Wrong, just… mark it down as me being Wrong and move on with your life. But also, really, you should read this and hopefully think about it. Because while I’m glad you asked this question, it feels like there’s a lot in your cohort who won’t, and that worries me. A lot.

First, not to sound utterly old-woman-in-a-rocking-chair ancient, people who came of age/are only old enough to have Obama be the first president that they really remember have no idea how good they had it. The world was falling the fuck apart in 2008 (not coincidentally, after 8 years of Bush). We came within a flicker of the permanent collapse of the global economy. The War on Terror was in full roar, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were at their height, we had Dick Cheney as the cartoon supervillain before we had any of Trump’s cohort, and this was before Chelsea Manning or Edward Snowden had exposed the extent of NSA/CIA intelligence-gathering/American excesses or there was any kind of public debate around the fact that we were all surveilled all the time. And the fact that a brown guy named Barack Hussein Obama was elected in this climate seems, and still seems tbh, kind of amazing. And Obama was certainly not a Perfect President ™. He had to scale back a lot of planned initiatives, he is notorious for expanding the drone strike/extrajudicial assassination program, he still subscribed to the overall principles of neoliberalism and American exceptionalism, etc etc. There is valid criticism to be made as to how the hopey-changey optimistic rhetoric stacked up against the hard realities of political office. And yet…. at this point, given what we’re seeing from the White House on a daily basis, the depth of the parallel universe/double standards is absurd.

Because here’s the thing. Obama, his entire family, and his entire administration had to be personally/ethically flawless the whole time (and they managed that – not one scandal or arrest in eight years, against the legions of Trumpistas now being convicted) because of the absolute frothing depths of Republican hatred, racial conspiracy theories, and obstruction against him. (Remember Merrick Garland and how Mitch McConnell got away with that, and now we have Gorsuch and Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court? Because I remember that). If Obama had pulled one-tenth of the shit, one-twentieth of the shit that the Trump administration does every day, he would be gone. It also meant that people who only remember Obama think he was typical for an American president, and he wasn’t. Since about… Jimmy Carter, and definitely since Ronald Reagan, the American people have gone for the Trump model a lot more than the Obama model. Whatever your opinion on his politics or character, Obama was a constitutional law professor, a community activist, a neighborhood organizer and brilliant Ivy League intellectual who used to randomly lie awake at night thinking about income inequality. Americans don’t value intellectualism in their politicians; they just don’t. They don’t like thinking that “the elites” are smarter than them. They like the folksy populist who seems fun to have a beer with, and Reagan/Bush Senior/Clinton/Bush Junior sold this persona as hard as they possibly could. As noted in said post, Bush Junior (or Shrub as the late, great Molly Ivins memorably dubbed him) was Trump Lite but from a long-established political family who could operate like an outwardly civilized human.

The point is: when you think Obama was relatively normal (which, again, he wasn’t, for any number of reasons) and not the outlier in a much larger pattern of catastrophic damage that has been accelerated since, again, the 1980s (oh Ronnie Raygun, how you lastingly fucked us!), you miss the overall context in which this, and which Trump, happened. Like most left-wingers, I don’t agree with Obama’s recent and baffling decision to insert himself into the 2020 race and warn the Democratic candidates against being too progressive or whatever he was on about. I think he was giving into the same fear that appears to be motivating the remaining chunk of Joe Biden’s support: that middle/working-class white America won’t go for anything too wild or that might sniff of Socialism, and that Uncle Joe, recalled fondly as said folksy populist and the internet’s favorite meme grandfather from his time as VP, could pick up the votes that went to Trump last time. And that by nature, no one else can.

The underlying belief is that these white voters just can’t support anything too “un-American,” and that by pushing too hard left, Democratic candidates risk handing Trump a second term. Again: I don’t agree and I think he was mistaken in saying it. But I also can’t say that Obama of all people doesn’t know exactly the strength of the political machine operating against the Democratic Party and the progressive agenda as a whole, because he ran headfirst into it for eight years. The fact that he managed to pass any of his legislative agenda, usually before the Tea Party became a thing in 2010, is because Democrats controlled the House and Senate for the first two years of his first term. He was not perfect, but it was clear that he really did care (just look up the pictures of him with kids). He installed smart, efficient, and scandal-free people to do jobs they were qualified for. He gave us Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor to join RBG on the Supreme Court. All of this seems… like a dream.

That said: here we are in a place where Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren are the front-runners for the Democratic nomination (and apparently Pete Buttigieg is getting some airplay as a dark horse candidate, which… whatever). The appeal of Biden is discussed above, and he sure as hell is not my favored candidate (frankly, I wish he’d just quit). But Sanders and Warren are 85% - 95% similar in their policy platforms. The fact that Michael “50 Billion Dollar Fortune” Bloomberg started rattling his chains about running for president is because either a Sanders or Warren presidency terrifies the outrageously exploitative billionaire capitalist oligarchy that runs this country and has been allowed to proceed essentially however the fuck they like since… you guessed it, the 1980s, the era of voodoo economics, deregulation, and the free market above all. Warren just happens to be ten years younger than Sanders and female, and Sanders’ age is not insignificant. He’s 80 years old and just had a heart attack, and there’s still a year to go to the election. It’s also more than a little eye-rolling to describe him as the only progressive candidate in the race, when he’s an old white man (however much we like and approve of his policy positions). And here’s the thing, which I think is a big part of the reason why this polarized ideological purity internet leftist culture mistrusts Warren:

She may have changed her mind on things in the past.

Scary, right? I sound like I’m being facetious, but I’m not. An argument I had to read with my own two eyes on this godforsaken hellsite was that since Warren became a Democrat around the time Clinton signed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, she sekritly hated gay people and might still be a corporate sellout, so on and etcetera. (And don’t even get me STARTED on the fact that DADT, coming a few years after the height of the AIDS crisis which was considered God’s Judgment of the Icky Gays, was the best Clinton could realistically hope to achieve, but this smacks of White Gay Syndrome anyway and that is a whole other kettle of fish.) Bernie has always demonstrably been a democratic socialist, and: good for him. I’m serious. But because there’s the chance that Warren might not have thought exactly as she does now at any point in her life, the hysterical and paranoid left-wing elements don’t trust that she might not still secretly do so. (Zomgz!) It’s the same element that’s feeding cancel culture and “wokeness.” Nobody can be allowed to have shifted or grown in their opinions or, like a functional, thoughtful, non-insane adult, changed their beliefs when presented with compelling evidence to the contrary. To the ideological hordes, any hint of uncertainty or past failure to completely toe the line is tantamount to heresy. Any evidence of any other belief except The Correct One means that this person is functionally as bad as Trump. And frankly, it’s only the Sanders supporters who, just as in 2016, are threatening to withhold their vote in the general election if their preferred candidate doesn’t win the primary, and indeed seem weirdly proud about it.

OK, boomer Bernie or Buster.

Here’s the thing, the thing, the thing: there is never going to be an American president free of the deeply toxic elements of American ideology. There just won’t be. This country has been built how it has for 250 years, and it’s not gonna change. You are never going to have, at least not in the current system, some dream candidate who gets up there and parrots the left-wing talking points and attacks American imperialism, exceptionalism, ravaging global capitalism, military and oil addiction, etc. They want to be elected as leader of a country that has deeply internalized and taken these things to heart for its entire existence, and most of them believe it to some degree themselves. So this groupthink white liberal mentality where the only acceptable candidate is this Perfect Non-Problematic robot who has only ever had one belief their entire lives and has never ever wavered in their devotion to doctrine has really gotten bad. The Democratic Party would be considered… maybe center/mild left in most other developed countries. It’s not even really left-wing by general standards, and Sanders and Warren are the only two candidates for the nomination who are even willing to go there and explicitly put out policy proposals that challenge the systematic structure of power, oppression, and exploitation of the late-stage capitalist 21st century. Warren has the billionaires fussed, and instead of backing down, she’s doubling down. That’s part of why they’re so scared of her. (And also misogyny, because the world is depressing like that.) She is going head-on after picking a fight with some of the worst people on the planet, who are actively killing the rest of us, and I don’t know about you, but I like that.

Of course: none of this will mean squat if she (or the eventual Democratic winner, who I will vote for regardless of who it is, but as you can probably tell, she’s my ride or die) don’t a) win the White House and then do as they promised on the campaign trail, and b) don’t have a Democratic House and Senate willing to have a backbone and pass the laws. Even Nancy Pelosi, much as she’s otherwise a badass, held off on opening a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump for months out of fear it would benefit him, until the Ukraine thing fell into everyone’s laps. The Democrats are really horrible at sticking together and voting the party line the way Republicans do consistently, because Democrats are big-tent people who like to think of themselves as accepting and tolerant of other views and unwilling to force their members’ hands. The Republicans have no such qualms (and indeed, judging by their enabling of Trump, have no qualms at all). 

The modern American Republican party has become a vehicle for no-holds-barred power for rich white men at the expense of absolutely everything and everyone else, and if your rationale is that you can’t vote for the person opposing Donald Goddamn Trump is that you’re just not vibing with them on the language of that one policy proposal… well, I’m glad that you, White Middle Class Liberal, feel relatively safe that the consequences of that decision won’t affect you personally. Even if we’re due to be out of the Paris Climate Accords one day after the 2020 election, and the issue of climate change now has the most visibility it’s ever had after years of big-business, Republican-led efforts to deny and discredit the science, hey, Secret Corporate Shill, am I right? Can’t trust ‘er. Let’s go have a craft beer.

As has been said before: vote as far left as you want in the primary. Vote your ideology, vote whatever candidate you want, because the only way to make actual, real-world change is to do that. The huge, embedded, all-consuming and horrible system in which we operate is not just going to suddenly be run by fairy dust and happy thoughts overnight. Select candidates that reflect your values exactly, be as picky and ideologically militant as you want. That’s the time to do that! Then when it comes to the general election:

America is a two-party system. It sucks, but that’s the case. Third-party votes, or refraining from voting because “it doesn’t matter” are functionally useless at best and actively harmful at worst.

Either the Democratic candidate or Donald Trump will win the 2020 election.

There is absolutely no length that the Republican/GOP machine, and its malevolent allies elsewhere, will not go to in order to secure a Trump victory. None.

Any talk whatsoever about “progressive values” or any kind of liberal activism, coupled with a course of action that increases the possibility of a Trump victory, is hypocritical at best and actively malicious at worst.

This is why I found the Democratic response to Obama’s “don’t go too wild” comments interesting. Bernie doubled down on the fact that his plans have widespread public support, and he’s right. (Frankly, the fact that Sanders and Warren are polling at the top, and the fact that they’re politicians and would not be crafting these campaign messages if they didn’t know that they were being positively received, says plenty on its own). Warren cleverly highlighted and praised Obama’s accomplishments in office (i.e. the Affordable Care Act) and didn’t say squat about whether she agreed or disagreed with him, then went right back to campaigning about why billionaires suck. And some guy named Julian Castro basically blew Obama off and claimed that “any Democrat” could beat Trump in 2020, just by nature of existing and being non-insane.

This is very dangerous! Do not be Julian Castro!

As I said in my tags on the Bush post: everyone assumed that sensible people would vote for Kerry in 2004. Guess what happened? Yeah, he got Swift Boated. The race between Obama and McCain in 2008, even after those said nightmare years of Bush, was very close until the global crash broke it open in Obama’s favor, and Sarah Palin was an actual disqualifier for a politician being brazenly incompetent and unprepared. (Then again, she was a woman from a remote backwater state, not a billionaire businessman.) In 2012, we thought Corporate MormonBot Mitt Fuggin’ Romney was somehow the worst and most dangerous candidate the Republicans could offer. In 2016, up until Election Day itself, everyone assumed that HRC was a badly flawed candidate but would win anyway. And… we saw how that worked out. Complacency is literally deadly.

I was born when Reagan was still president. I’m just old enough to remember the efforts to impeach Clinton over forcing an intern to give him a BJ in the Oval Office (This led by the same Republicans making Donald Trump into a darling of the evangelical Christian right wing.) I’m definitely old enough to remember 9/11 and how America lost its mind after that, and I remember the Bush years. And, obviously, the contrast with Obama, the swing back toward Trump, and everything that has happened since. We can’t afford to do this again. We’re hanging by a thread as it is, and not just America, but the entire planet.

So yes. By all means, vote for Sanders in the primary. Then when November 3, 2020 rolls around, if you care about literally any of this at all, hold your nose if necessary and vote straight-ticket Democrat, from the president, to the House and Senate, to the state and local offices. I cannot put it more strongly than that.

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