#explanations no one asked for

[casuallivi]

For my The Midnight Kiss readers,

I find myself unable to write a single line, or even polish what I have in my drafts. 🫤😞😓

Can y'all believe I was living my life... outside????? I know, I'm shocked too! Totally unexpected of my part, haven't even tried new books recently (except for that fourth wing thing, not for me).

In my original plans, I'd be posting the new TMK chapter on may 4th because I so wanted to do that Star Wars pun, but boy did I missed the timing... in all of the senses, really. You know what else sent me in a spiral? Seeing the lovely Stephanie promoting A Curse for True Love with all her heart and soul, as if she too enjoys the books she write, a shocker huh??! It made the whole acotar deal and Elain slender sadder for me. I'm just… 😐 you know?!

Love elriel to death, would return in a heartbeat for them, but I'm kind of sick of this. 🤷

#explanations no one asked for #or maybe you were wondering #who knows #could not even finish EM cause i was drowning in uni stuff #then i was free #but my heart was not in it #didn't felt like reading or catching up with stuff #didn't felt like writing either #anyways #I'll be back when I can write again #or read about it #whatever #cool new arts all over tho #i see that and i love that #that woman doesn't deserve this community

[anemonet]

reverse iterators au which decimated my brain for 2 hours, i, uh, im gonna go pass out

#rain world #five pebbles #lttm #hi ahem uh i got brain lazered with images so have these #i have an explanation so if anyone wants one just go ahead and ask #uuuuhhhh otherwise please appricate my confused atempts at background #!! #song of today is leave the engine room by everything everything!! #:D #my art #oh yeah im alive btw #reverse iterator au

[braisedhoney]

Gaster but he says “oya oya”. Trust me on this.

is this it. is this what you wanted from me.

#queueing this if i don’t post by january #anyway is this what you wanted anon. do you feel seen. was it worth it. #and i’m asking whyyyyy looooord (musical riff+sfx) #… is my exhaustion obvious or is this a shitpost. the answer is yes #i really don’t have an explanation for this #does gaster know this is an anime meme bc of alphys or is he totally in the dark #which one is funnier #utdr #utdr fanart #deltarune #deltarune fanart #wd gaster #gaster fanart #ney’s art #ney’s comics #tagging just for blog navigation but also burying tags below what will show up in searches so it doesn’t break containment #… can asks even show up in searches #i actually don’t know #but hey whatev #ney’s chatter (ask answers) #it’s rude to talk about someone who’s listening #shitpost

[locusfandomtime]

i hope you guys understand my vision

#not every hermit is on here. if they didn’t fit any of the six categories i didn’t want to force it #i guess other “genres” not included here would be: abba. childrens music (wheels on the bus etc). jazz. #locus fandom time #shitpost #hermitcraft #mcyt #hermitblr #xbcrafted #<- hes the only one im maintagging because im DESPERATE to know if the xb fans agree with me. you see where im coming from right? #“e girls are ruining my life” is That corpse song btw #if you want to hear my explanations on these. just ask. I have thought all of these through. #like some of them are just “the cc likes this music a lot” (xisuma wels doc) but most of them I have a lot of character thoughts on #hermitcraft memes

[where-is-tosh]

very normally thinking his good thoughts

#witch hat atelier #wha #qifrey #ok so i was asked why there are two floating eyes while qifrey lost only one #and you know what #i have no explanation #and ability to think #let's pretend that this is complex symbolism #i've made it just for composition purposes

[lichen-punk]

pants update O.o

#everyone reblog this one instead of the old one which doesnt have as much patches on itttt #pls feel free to ask for ids or explanations i made most of em and im happy to talk abt any of em #ok here comes all the relevant tags: #punk #folkpunk #folk punk #diy patches #diy punk #punk fashion #queercore #queer punx #anarchist art #queer anarchism #anarchoqueer #riot grrrl #bikini kill #wingnut dishwashers union #pat the bunny #iggy and the stooges #the stooges #amyl and the sniffers #g.l.o.s.s. #propagandhi #100 gecs #straightedge #sxe #minor threat #against me!

[weirdrtvscomments]

Can yall help me make a list of silly rtvs controversies. Exp: bbvrai backlash, mira doing whippits on stream, dog burying, ect...

Wow anon, you dont know how many times i thought about soing that myself. Wish you the best of luck!

Ones that i remember:

baaulp saying gringo

"it's ableist/gaslighting when wayne makes jokes that aren't true

one guy back in 2020 hlvrai fandom who got really pissed for wayne saying he hates markiplier

that one 10 year old kid who begged rtvs to add him on steam

"blue gnome is homophobic"

"wayne controls his friends/forces them on stream"

there is definitly a ton more, everyone is welcome to add theirs.

#hope you see this anon as it took me three days to get back to this one #DON'T SEND ME ASKS ABOUT EXPLANING THESE EVENTS!!!! ASK IN THE NOTES!!! #rtvs #hlvrai

[hollis-art]

spiderman data. or interweb? idk i haven't actually figured out his name yet

his design is based on a Velvet Spider! i know very little about them, but i thought it suited him from what i learned :)

#i have an explanation as to why and how data is spiderman but it is so long #so if you want to hear it #just ask :)) #the alien species is one i made up btw they're just there for vibes #spidersona #spidersona fanart #star trek fanart #data soong #star trek #tng #star trek data #tng fanart #spot the cat #art #fanart #spiderman #btw please do not put any spoilers for the new spiderman movie anywhere near this post since i haven't seen it yet #i mean idk why you would but i think its a good warning to have

[oblivionsdream]

so... so do we get to see the knight and jester kiss? pretty please? 🥺

So I did do this quick doodle at the end of my poll! I’m also working on a couple other things/have more planned and there may or may not be another kiss~

#I just have to find the time to finish them #time is my most needed resource #one of the things I’m working on might be an explanation for when the above kiss occurred #jester x knight #foolknight #thanks for the ask!

[sensitiveheartless]

...Somethin' please!

Hiya, thanks for the ask! :D This is the fic which I started writing a while back and then completely forgot about (the non-descriptive title I gave it did not help lol) — but basically it's a very silly college AU where Albatross comes up with a very stupid plan for Chuuya to get kissed for the first time at a dorm party. (Dazai has known Chuuya since they were both fifteen and is internally Seething over the entire situation)

Here's a rather long snippet to give the proper vibe:

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Chuuya sighed, and thumped his head back against the wall of the closet.

Worse than the indignity of it all was how boring it was. Time felt like it crawled by even slower when he couldn’t even check the time on his phone.

Like anyone was going to come in, anyway. What kind of weirdo would be desperate enough to kiss someone who was blindfolded? And to kiss Chuuya, no less. He wasn’t exactly known for his sunny disposition. They’d probably be too afraid of him kicking them.

Chuuya shifted restlessly. He could just leave, he knew. Ditch the entire party. It seemed pretty lame so far, and it wasn’t like Chuuya wanted to be kissed…

Much.

…Alright, maybe he was a little curious, just to see what all the fuss was about.

But only a little. It was just that he hadn't ever gotten a chance to fool around during his high school years, not with how quickly everything went to shit—and even after Adam found him and things began to look up, Chuuya had been far too busy trying to put his life back together to bother with dating.

Still, this seemed like a pretty stupid way to lose his first kiss. Why the hell had Albatross thought this was a good idea?

Ugh. Whatever. He would give it another couple of minutes, and then he’d leave. Yeah. No one was gonna come in, anyway.

Of course, at that exact moment, the closet door creaked open.

Chuuya stiffened, glowering even though the other person wouldn't be able to see it. Raucous sounds from the party outside filtered in with the mystery person, at least until the closet door latched shut once again with a gentle click.

…So there were people desperate and weird enough to do this?!

“Hey,” Chuuya said, just to break the silence. He could hear the other person breathing, hushed and a little fast. Were they nervous? “Come to take a shot at it? Honestly, I think this whole thing is stupid as hell, but I’m not gonna stop ya.”

The other person’s breathing did something funny, but they didn’t move. They had to be standing quite close to Chuuya, considering how small the closet was, but the two of them weren’t touching at all.

After a moment of expectant silence, Chuuya frowned. “Oi, are you really just gonna stand there?” he asked, blindly reaching forward. “Who are you, anyw—?”

Before he could get out the last word, Chuuya found himself pulled abruptly into the person’s arms. Contrary to his expectations, however, he was not kissed—instead, he was crushed against the other’s chest, his cheek squished against what he guessed to be their collar bone.

Chuuya blinked behind the darkness of his blindfold.

This person had snuck in here, just to…hug him?

If it could even be called a hug, because it certainly wasn’t like any embrace Chuuya had received before. Nothing like the brisk but warm hugs he got from Adam, or the awkward one-armed hugs from Shirase, or the enthusiastic bone-crushing squeezes from Albatross whenever his friend got overexcited.

If anything, this grip was possessive, and seemed almost desperate with the way the person’s fingers dug into the curve of Chuuya’s spine, keeping the two of them plastered together. They were quite a bit taller than Chuuya, and their embrace was so tight that he could barely keep his toes on the ground.

It was annoying, but also kind of…interesting.

Chuuya tried to focus on the feeling of the fabric pressed against his cheek. Knitted, slightly scratchy material—with cables? A wool sweater?

It was certainly warm. Chuuya felt like he was burning up.

…He had really never been held like this before. Like the other person couldn’t bear to let him go. For the life of him, Chuuya didn’t know what to make of it.

After a few stunned moments, Chuuya squirmed a little. The arms around him loosened at once, allowing him to move his own hands up between them and brace himself against the mystery person’s chest.

Chuuya raised his chin towards where the other person’s face must be, and cocked his head to the side challengingly. “What? Was this all you wanted?” he asked, tapping a finger against the person’s chest. “Maybe you misunderstood the game, hmm? I thought you were supposed to ki—”

#I have no explanation for this one — except that I sometimes have an intense urge to put Chuuya in silly romcom situations #a) because i think he'd be hilarious in them #and b) I think he should get to experience some goofy low stakes shenanigans on occasion — dude goes through a lot #also always love Dazai getting chances to be Weird About ChuuyaTM lol #Dazai is losing his mind in this one akasdjfkdsjf #senhart's writing #ask game #long post

[altschmerzes]

"what do you MEAN character x looked at character y like this and they're not In Love" [the image is literally the man's face mostly obscured by an oxygen mask and someone else's hand and his eyes are mostly closed as he is passing out from blood loss and he just... looks like a guy who is passing out from blood loss]

i complain about this sort of fandom behaviour a lot but this one is just. fucking spectacular. great job guys.

#this is so fucking funny #girl help is it True Romantic Love Forever No Heterosexual Explanation For This!!!!! when you [checks notes] #pass out from blood loss? #gav gab #this particular fandom is the one that has tested me the most in the last decade i swear #sorry to ****** shippers i am marooning you all on an island until you learn how to behave #and not be fucking terrible to other people and also like. amatonormative as hell en masse #*** fandom when people ask it to care about the casual arophobia and amatonormativity that runs rampant in it-

[dacquoisettes]

midas

#virche #shuuen no virche #virche evermore #otome #lucas proust #ceres #the artist explanation no one asked for but consider this the reply to the “forgive me” piece #midas bc of the idea of his gold touch which can be considered a double edge sword / gift or curse just like lucas' strength #when midas turns his daughter into gold vs. lucas bringing ruin to all those around him instead of protecting. yanno #the compositional similarities weren't intentional but i was just like lol let's just pretend its a part 2 actually #bourreau vs regular outfit as the foil between his salv/despair end cg #ceres no longer positioned above him and her golden light is fading... lol #my art

[elizabethrobertajones]

tbh I was wrong when I said that trans Estinien wouldn't have done anything different except she'd knock the stomach plate out of her dragoon armour once she realised what she wanted to present as.

Aymeric would woo the fuck out of her with full courtly hand kisses and calling her "my lady" and dancing in front of the fire etc and she would be helpless.

#ffxiv #estimeric #grumpy butch Estinien my beloved #I understand no one else has this headcanon because it just came to me in a dream with no explanation #and no one else is casually perceiving this off canon Estinien vibes #but I do think about her every few weeks and it makes me smile :P #I'll ask Feo Ul to drop by and update a few more people on this so you feel what I felt #then you'll get it

[shigaeru]

I miss you Shigz! I hope you're doing well and await your return:) your Shizaya content sparks so much joy (my lock screen has been your shizaya art for a few years now lol)

Hi!! I am doing well thank you!

I fell head over heels in love with my soon to be fiancé, and i got a young dog that's asking to be walked a lot, so i don't find much time and need to draw much nowadays!! My shizaya hyperfixation went dormant, as it usually does! But as hyperfixations do, it'll come back!!

Thank you for your nice message

#ask #i've been fixating on durarara since 2012; obsession come and go #one day you'll see more shizaya art pop out of nowhere without explanation and it'll mean my brain has turned on again

[chiropteracupola]

Hi I am Exceedingly Curious about leg theory but tumblrs search function is the only search bar that exclusively shows you things that AREN'T what you're looking for. May I have a link to an explanation of Leg Theory?

leg theory is the brainchild of the excellent and esteemed @catilinas and in short it is A Collection of Thoughts regarding Seafaring, Identity, Curses and Rituals, Sacrifice, and a Significant Leg Injury or Incident!

notable incidences of leg theory include: odysseus when scar on leg, john franklin's / thomas blanky's / ???'s legs in the terror, john silver's leg in treasure island & black sails, a good 45% of what's going on in moby dick, and that time my dad fell through a hatch on a sailboat and fractured his tibia in a way that was quite interesting for his character development.

other and perhaps more coherent explanations about leg theory can be found here, here, and here, and for Grasping At The Vibes of When It's Leg, I highly recommend perusing the 'leg theory' tags on either of the fine blogs I have linked!

#answers from the cupola #leg theory #I Highly Suspect this ask is pertaining to That One Hornblower Fic which is Me Trying To Apply Leg Theory Concepts to William Bush #because hornblower Has leg theory but it does not have Quite so much leg theory as some of these other things #but actually. if you start brainstorming and saying sentences hornblower can be really really leg theory if you Believe #hornblower/bush as the mind/flesh dichotomy and following through with that on the phrase 'weaknesses of the flesh' #if bush is the mortal man and hornblower is the detached mind then bush is vulnerable to physical injury in a way that hh is not #thus -> leg #hornblower removing the stitches from bush's leg wound -> grounding himself as the priest in this sacrifice #& in a way the instigator of the issue #And Also I am playing on that in the fic what with hornblower actually being the god of the sacrifice as well / the paragon of the navy #something something demeter and pelops. I Don't Know. #<- this got long and weird but it is a better explanation of leg theory that way I think. 🦵

[designernishiki]

it’s kinda funny to me how that dumb scene in kiwami 1 of majima getting shot and left for dead in the harbor was basically just added as a half-assed way to explain majima not being around for a bit of the plot, but they accidentally(?) just made it seem like start of a chain reaction where majima ended up feeling slighted and heartbroken after being abandoned like that and then lashed out about it via smashing a big truck into the building kiryu was in. and yeah that isn’t inherently a romantic thing as-is but then they go and add the part where majima grabs a hostess and performatively hits on her as in-kiryu’s-face as possible, she says she’s already in love with someone, and majima lets her go immediately, no questions asked, making a big fucking point of it just to say see THAT kiryu? I appreciate when people are HONEST about their FEELINGS. people who won’t just BACKSTAB someone who CARES about them to save themselves. is that so crazy kiryu?? huh??? anyway make it up to me get down here and fight me right fucking now

#I think on another level he was sorta saying like ‘hey kiryu. you’re making it extremely clear that you don’t trust me and my intentions #and I’ve been trying to show you- over and over again- that I’d do just about anything for you and your safety #but I can’t just let my mask fall off in front of everyone- I need to keep up the unpredictable morally grey wildcard act for both my sake #AND yours. because disguising my helping you as crazy random violent outbursts and weird stalker behavior #is the only way I CAN help you. do you think it would go over well with shimano or literally anyone else if I was outright helping you out #of the kindness of my heart and fondness for you? stop being so fucking dense and look past the crazy wacky nonsense for a second and #maybe you’ll realize that all I do at the end of the day- really- is help you and put my own life and reputation on the line for you. #I am an honest guy when it comes to my real values and when I told you I wouldn’t let anyone kill you unelss it was myself- I meant it. #I’ve taken a knife and a bullet for you now. can you REALLY not see through the act yet? am I REALLY that unpredictable when you think about #it?’ #that was a longer explanation than i intended but. it was difficult to put into words #I basically feel like it could be read as him implying kiryu shouldn’t backstab the people who put themselves on the line to help him #and/or pointing out that he’s never actually done kiryu dirty and has stuck to his word protecting him in the ways he can #trying to say yeah all this is a crazy act and all but when it comes down to it you Can trust me #it really makes sense when you think about it that he’d have to help kiryu/show affection towards kiryu in unpredictable convoluted ways #at that point in time because. I mean. there’s a reason he was the only person who showed up to welcome kiryu when he got out of prison #and that’s because A) he sticks to his word and his loyalty to people he cares about and B) no one else had the balls or the batshit insane #mask to wear to ward off anyone asking real questions like majima did. because ANYONE associating themselves with the supposed #patriarch-killer was a HUGE NO-NO at the time. someone important showing up for kiryu and welcoming him back outright could’ve caused #all-out warfare probably. except majima. because majima was dedicated and smart enough to use his widely-feared wildcard persona #(that everyone tended to view as incapable of having any Real agenda to worry about) to his And kiryu’s advantage #does that make sense??? I feel like it makes a lot of sense if you get it to click in your head #kazumaji #majima #kiryu #yakuza #kiwami 1 #yk1 #rambling