#find a better analogy!!!!

[skywitchmaja]

stop saying tom is princess di coded!!! he could NEVER have what she had: being nice.

#diana was remarkable bc she joined an elite/royal family and broke barriers by uhh actually being kind & friendly with people DESPITE #the royal family’s EXPRESS WISHES. TOM joined an elite/‘roy’al family and did every possible fucking thing to fit in/sink to their level #find a better analogy!!!! #tumblr user hellomydanishsweetheart once briefly known as roy-wambsgans (feat the marital hyphen) coming out as a tom hater #btw. if you even care #succession #tom wambsgans hate #do people use anti tags at all for succession? i feel like most of the fan content is booing & throwing tomatoes at like every character #oh i forgot i made that dumb pun by the time i finished typing these tags lol. throw tomatoes at me. shower me in roses. #whatever you feel is appropriate

[commsroom]

i love to think about the ways eiffel is willing/able to take up physical space for hera when she can’t. i think... with eiffel and hera and minkowski staying together post-canon, one thing that might start to really bother hera is that, like. she doesn’t have any stuff. she doesn’t even have herself to be there in the house, really, not physically. and unlike with the hephaestus, a house that is actually meant to be a home, a place that is designed for human life, is always full of reminders of the people who live there. so i want to think that she expresses this to eiffel and he starts picking up stuff he thinks she’ll like just to put it on the shelves and around the house, so it’s her house too. and she thinks it’s kind of silly at first because it’s not like she can really interact with most of it, but. then she sees all of her stuff mixed together with eiffel’s on the shelves and it’s like this constant reminder that she exists in the world, that she has an impact on it and a place in it. and that does make her feel a little better.

#wolf 359 #w359 #doug eiffel #hera wolf 359 #eiffera #when she finds some favorite albums he buys records #and she's like you know i can listen to this whenever i want to right you don't have to do that #but eiffel is an analog guy i think he's like. yeah well it sounds better on vinyl you'll see. er. hear. #and maybe she kinda agrees with him. a little bit #i think she'd like to have Stuff of her own even if she thinks the idea is a little silly at first #she likes used books specifically because she wants them to look worn and loved. it's not satisfying to have a brand new book #untouched on the shelf. #she likes sea shells and sand dollars and sea glass even though she knows it's just litter and various. maritime trinkets. #i want to say she likes kinda tacky painted statues you might find at a thrift shop because the idea is funny to me #like dragons and fairies and assorted mythical creatures #eiffel gets her flowers because well. no one's ever gotten her flowers before. #and okay. usual caveat that i'm not attaching all of my post-canon thoughts to this especially re: eiffel because that's for #a different type of post. #also yes minkowski would/could/should also get hera physical gifts. however #this is a post about eiffel and hera Having Their Stuff on a Shelf Together. okay? #... i promise i'm done talking about them. for now.

[prismit]

finally got the binding of isaac like a billion years late lmao

i wasn't really feeling it much at first, like it's fun but Very Confusing, and then i realized "ohh, this is a game where you may need to have 2000 wiki tabs open to really understand. like terraria. i get it now!" and NOW i'm getting into it properly lol

#ghost town... 2! #the binding of isaac #also shoutout to this guide app that lets you scan an item to find it and see what it does #WAY better than scrolling through 2 obscenely long wiki pages looking for “uhhh vague pale blob thing” #anyways this one definitely hasn't overtaken my whole brain like dead cells has but i'm having a good time! #also also i've learned through the analog stick drop that apparently i'm not much better at aiming in this type of game with a mouse lol #so maybe i should give gungeon another try. another roguelike i tried before i understood what a roguelike was #...and to circle back around to me comparing isaac to terraria: #kinda funny that terraria (pretty much the exact opposite of a roguelike) was in a way my introduction to really loving roguelikes #entirely because they announced the dead cells crossover and then i saw dead cells in the playstation plus thing #and went “oh hey i know that from the terraria update that's getting the silksong treatment right now. let me download that quick” #and it irreversibly changed my brain forever!!! (in a good way!!!)

[cryptvokeeper]

In my time honored tradition of “I like rise Leo but in a slightly to the left way of the general fanon interpretation” I propose: yes, Leo was being a bad leader and not communicating with his team during the movie because he didn’t want the responsibility of being leader HOWEVER he was not purposely self-sabotaging in an effort to get Raph to take leadership back. Instead, he was going solo and not working with anyone in order to avoid leadership altogether and not make calls and decisions that could potentially fail.

#Like the motivation (fearing responsibility) remains the same #and the results (basically the whole opening of the movie) are the same #But that in between part of the actual intent is *vital* and the purposeful self sabotage just angle never sat right with me #it’s another one of those things of “it’s probably what the writers intended but I like mine better” #Honestly my real fave is just exactly what the movie says which is “Leo’s a cocky bastard who thinks hes hot shit after beating shredder” #But no one ever just GOES with that so i gotta improvise #Shout out to A_llama_o on ao3 cuz the way they wrote leo in ONE (1) chapter single-handedly gave me this concept #like the idea of him going from “why won’t they trust me?!” To “oh no *they trust me*” #Nothing like a character getting what they wanted and finding its not all it’s cracked up to be #It also keeps leo away from the precarious fucking edge of fanon where he’s like the super sad boi who has major confidence issues #Again. The ghirdelli vs Hershey analogy #It’s about the VARIETY yknow #Rottmnt #‘Yknow I think my rise interest is dying down’ I say and then do this

[valeriianz]

Would love to hear more about Little Red AU or Vamp AU, if either of those is still un-asked

tbh, ive lost a lot of motivation for this AU after not one, but two fics being written based on Mess' art :') but, as @seiya-starsniper has encouraged me, unlike the fics out there currently, mine does not contain monster fucking (not sure how impactful this makes it lol but!) it also goes in a very different direction than what many people are expecting... its the only reason im still clinging to it. anyway, here's a small, very vague, and very unedited snippet of my Little Red AU:

There is a witch in the woods; the villagers know this and remain wary of her provocation. She is powerful but she is also a hermit– quiet and bloodless, when ignored. Many elders in the village have spun up stories, history between them and her. Though it seems all unfounded, Hob had never been anything but curious, growing up with these tales of offering sacrificial goats in place of the children they believed her to steal, before moving on to setting up traps on the edge of the woods where their small hamlet lay.

Hob had also heard stories, though not many, of how she’d been run out, that there may be more of her kind hiding in secret within the community. This too, Hob doesn’t allow to bother him. He is surrounded by superstition and pays no mind to any of it.

Which is all to say, he’s encountered the witch on several occasions. 

And whatever tales Hob had grown up hearing of her comes to a screeching halt the day he first met her.

#thanks tj :') #im also experimenting with fairytale language #its kind of cringe but it'll get better once i find a beta lol #dreamling #little red au #really not sure when i'll pick this back up #im aware of the whole 'two cakes' analogy #but the insecurity is strong lol ahhh

[arashi-no-saxlphone]

headphones completely dead and not charging lol I see we're gonna go ahead and let me know that today is not my day either

#sairambles #when it rains it pours I guess #whoever was responsible for the hard switch from analog audio jacks to Bluetooth exclusively #you better hope I never find you #I will without hesitation pound you into a puddle of red slush

[hexplaything]

happy two years to the worst decision i've made in my two decades alive and probably the worst decision i'll have made for the rest of it too

sorry for the big ass vent in the tags feel free to ignore it

#mourning who i was before two years ago. and all the things i lost throughout the relationship #the parts of me i lost and have had to find #the pieces im still trying to pick up #and the fact that i'm like a rabid dog when it comes to socializing #i hate that i have fond memories i cant stop thinking about #i hate myself for wishing i could go back to those good times because i know what else awaited me during those times and i was ultimately #miserable. and eating the scraps of her love she would give in between the emotional abuse #i just wish i could feel the good stuff again and i wish i believed it was even real #i've been thinking abt stuff more than usual and it sucks #i really just wish i never met her or dated her #like genuinely. not being loved at all is better than love that is tainted and hurtful #i hate it bc. i feel like a kid who had candy shoved in their face and then had it taken away from them #that's the same analogy i always go to. i always just feel like a kid being treated unfairly and i hate it #i wish i felt like an adult #i hate that sometimes i can only describe my feelings as akin to a child's feelings #i want to be an adult so bad i want to feel like an adult and have normal emotions

[vermillioncrown]

https://www.tiktok.com/@ceragibson/video/7213811648920964395

for the biomechanics!!(congrats on the defense)

so agree w the tiktok, i want to put it out there that most ppl writing about these huge schlongs have zero experience and have never forced the thought to its logical end

me and friend at the local sex shop for notes: where is it all going? are you using your eyes only?

(thank you 🙏)

#inquiry #Anonymous #biomechanics working group #one of my pet peeves is when (as a sex-neutral/repulsed ace person myself) other aces act like they are obviously better at writing sex #bc of being ace = decoupling the weird assumptions/conventions that allos have #which is fair bc some of the greatest and most interesting scenes i've read are from that approach! #but law of large numbers and i also see some of the... #1) blandest slot A tab B fare even when they're trying to be exciting (which is honestly so tragic) #2) some sort of interpersonal interaction that is beyond reasonable human convention. like i doubt this author holds real conversations-typ #3) outrageous ????? physically what the fuck is going on. are we kirby???? where does it all go?? #like you cannot better demonstrate that you are unwilling to dig deep and find an analogy that fits what you're trying to convey #or do a small thought exercise and walk things through #AGAIN the pet peeve only qualifies if: the author brags about it and falls on their face

[hua-fei-hua]

when i was a kid i really resented the fact that my mom kept forcing us to check out nonfiction books alongside our fantasy novels in order to "broaden our minds" and basically ensure we were learning Real Factsies(tm), but now that i'm older, if i don't go off and learn some Real Factsies(tm) every so often, then i'll end up finding my fictions dull and uninspired

#i guess i just also hated how kids' nonfiction tended to present itself. unless they were like those slim encyclopedias #with all the sleek pictures n glossy pages of diagrams n shit #bc i remember reading a nonfiction book abt seahorses for adults called 'poseidon's steed' in like fifth grade and loving it #adult nonfiction books (in my limited experience) tends to read more like storytelling except everything is real and has citations #also now that i'm an Adult(tm) with More Life Experience(tm)(tm) (this is a cue for my older mutuals to laugh at my precociousness or w/e) #i find it easier to connect to the text-- in this case a book abt a guy called paul otlet n his contributions to information science #which is a thing i am Very Much interested in bc the internet has spoiled me with its indexing and yet i love analog information #also it was right next to two volumes from the 60s detailing various historical book burnings #and indeed the intro talked abt how this man's life's work was handily destroyed by the nazis who thought he was cataloguing garbage #learning abt all the lil guys in the 20th century who fuckin loved organizing information n bitched abt there being information overload #they are So Real they would have looked at the modern internet n gone 'this is too much make wikipedia the main page' #花話 #anyway i doubt i'd have appreciated reading so much had i not read fiction so avidly growing up #and i rebuke the idea that the fantasy novels taught me nothing at all bc stories teach us abt being people #and demonstrate experience better than a more academic n factual analysis/write-up or w/e #yes i do love to learn abt philosophy in its like. rigorous academic state or form or w/e. #but that's diff from seeing it in practice in the real world or in people's stories n how it Affects Things

[wild-houseplant]

WIP... good lord it’s Wednesday

I don’t know how this happened. One minute I’m on Tumblr the next minute I’m posting punctually. Thank you for the tag @heniareth I have been looking for an excuse to post this snippet. Lemme tag you back, along with @rlainarin, @anna-the-great-and-terrible, and @icy-warden if I may, for I do crave your snippets (and Icy also because you were wondering what happened with Revka). Below features Rhodri making Zevran uneasy (quelle surprise) the morning after Broken Circle.

Rhodri wrung her hands. “I… wanted to check how you’re faring after yesterday.”

Zevran chuckled airily. “Ah, that was a memory, nothing more. And this time, a Grey Warden with the most marvellous set of eyes came to my rescue! It seems I have landed on my feet yet again.” He flicked his eyebrows once. “Let us hope my luck holds out, no?”

Rhodri stiffened. “You don’t think this is luck, surely.”

“Well, good luck, of course,” Zevran attempted, faltering a little when her staring wasn’t supplemented with any other response. “Excellent fortune? … Maximal serendipity?”

She raised an eyebrow at him. “My mother was kidnapped,” she said after a moment. “That was why she was missing.”

The abrupt change of topic made Zevran’s pre-prepared quip die in his throat. 

“She was taken during a morning walk in Kirkwall, I was told,” Rhodri continued, not missing a beat. “Her brother, my uncle Damion, had accrued enormous debts to shady characters and told no-one about it. They took my mother and not him because they know she married a rich Tevinter. My father paid the million-sov ransom, and then another half million when they demanded more. And when that wasn’t enough and they demanded more again, he realised he would have to take her back himself.

“He tracked her down to a small village on the Nevarran border. The cartel had emptied it and was using it as a hideout.” Rhodri’s upper lip bulged as her tongue passed over her teeth. “Would you like to hear what my father did when he found her?”

Zevran smiled thinly. “I imagine the kidnappers were struck off the Satinalia greeting card list, no?”

She gave a small, wry smile of her own, which quickly tightened into a frown. “For a start. By the end, all twenty-six of the kidnappers, thugs, what-have-you there, were turned into blood sacrifices to restore my mother’s health, and the settlement was razed to the ground.”

Rhodri lowered her head to eye-level with him, pinning him with a stare he couldn’t quite force himself to wish away. 

“I would do this much, and more, for you,” she said softly, fervently. “House Callistus fights for her people, Zev, there is no luck to it. You are one of us. Don’t cheapen my devotion to you by calling it luck.”

#Thank you for the tag and for spoiling me with your snippets <3 <3 <3 <3 #I am your loving nosy neighbour waiting patiently for snippets to drop off the eaves and into my ears #that was a terrible analogy but I do as I please #Presenting Rhodri ACTUALLY calling Zevran out on his smooth-it-over tendency. Just once. #as a treat #(not for Zevvo but life isn't skittles and beer) #(hell it isn't even peanuts and a glass of water sometimes) #Featuring... #Aurelio Callistus #and Revka Amell #Rhod finds out from Irving DIRECTLY after she frees him that Revka was found and alive and #well #Thanks to blood magic she's doing better at forty than she was at thirty #doctors hate her #Rhodri Amell #wip wednesday #Dragon Age: Origins #I don't think she means to be hard on him when he is trying to cope with everything #but the grief didn't set in on the day of. new day now and she just doesn't have the bandwidth to process his attempt at humour as such #Just hits a little raw patch and she needs to do the Blatant Honesty and idk. I think Zev needs that from time to time to just sit with it #exposure therapy we'll call it

[isabelguerra]

i really wish i had a better comparison for this stupid ass goddamn theory other than Spirits Are Horcruxes kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me

#i fucking HAAAAAATE that WOMAN #i can do this i am smart. i am capable. i am ambitious to the point of getting my ass handed to me. i can do this #i can find. a better analogy. i have better words. im not a girlboss im a cringewoman and i am better

[tripably]

writing a story is like playing labyrinth (the board game)

#things my husband's said that crack my mind wide open #also the game's name in finnish is muuttuva labyrintti as in a changing labyrinth #which is just a more accurate name for the concept of the game i think #and works even better in this analogy #and what an analogy it is #he's such a genious sometimes #god if i don't find sharp wit and the use of figurative language so extremely hot #too bad he's also feverish atm #i'd rather not jump is influenza ridden bones #oliver

[transzilla]

How To Suck Roid Clit and Tdick Like A 6Gal Bauer ShopVac

So I'm a trans man and I fucking love trans men and they love fucking me. I minored in t4t gay sex in college and giving head has always came very naturally to me as a specialty, administering orgasms has never been an issue but a lot of people have difficulty figuring tdick out after going on testosterone or figuring themselves out and don't know how to get dudes to pop off which is tragic to me. Plus we don't really have like... sex ed about how to do that so it's not like you can pick up a book. But that's what you have me for. If you suck at giving head I'm gonna teach you how to suck the rest of someone's life away.

So everyone is different, growth might look different on different people and sometimes you'll have somebody who has difficulty popping off just cause of weird nerve endings, obviously listen to what your partner tells you and what works for them because they're going to know better. I've been around with a lot of different men and this is just what's worked for me, if you try it and its TERRIBLE then don't think you're broken or whatever, our willies are just as diverse as we are :)

Generally though tdick kind of resembles a tiny penis especially when you've been on T for a long time. Personally I've been on T for five years and have a 2 inch monster and you can kind of see where the head would be vs the foreskin or whatever. Like my favorite analogy is that it looks like a .45 caliber bullet because that's what my dick looks like when I'm looking down, lol.

Like the cap on the bullet would be the "head" and the cartridge casing is the length of the thing. Like on a guy's dick idk if anybody is getting tdick circumcized so when he's soft the skin will come up and guard the head/clit part because it's sensitive, you're going to want to find the head and kind of gently push past the skin with your tongue or your finger. Like get it on the head because largely that's the most sensitive part of his dick. when it gets bigger it kind of gets less sensitive, and you can't just rub the whole thing like on a clit off testosterone, uniform pressure might not always work. So keep your finger on the pulse, lol.

The simplest motion tht you can do, like a good part to lick on is right where the head meets the rest of his dick. There's almost a seam, kind of like on that bullet. Just rub in little circles with your tongue. Start gentle, gauge his reaction, and then go a little harder or a little faster. Also stay in one place once you get into a groove, the more you rub on one spot the more sensitive and the better it will feel.

On the very APEX tip of his dick is where most of the nerves are bundled it's going to be the most sensitive, so if you want to make him jump or if he's not very sensitive rub there, lol.

Also, once you get that down, you can suck too! You want to make a seal with your lips around his dick, almost like you're pulling on a cigarette, or like you're sucking your lips on a peach to keep the juices from falling out. This intensifies it if his dick is not sensitive and keeps it in one place if he has a big dick.

If he likes penetration fingering him at the same time is not a bad idea either.

Also, mind the teeth, lol.

#ftm t4t #ftm nsft #forced masculinization #forcemasc

[iateabunchofsmartiesandnowimdumb]

maybe neil gaiman's just still in the brain but i've been thinking a lot about writing processes/disciplines/routines and i mean. yeah. sometimes writing is a lot of just sitting there doing nothing and thinking (which maybe isn't really doing nothing but can feel like a lot of nothing if a bunch of time goes by and not a lot of words end up on the page). but like. it's still work, it's still writing. it's like watching paint dry maybe. like sometimes it's really boring and almost feels fruitless but then eventually the paint's dry and it clicks that your wall's all nice and painted now. like just because watching the paint dry is boring doesn't mean the paint isn't doing its job or isn't beneficial. the only problem with this analogy is that painting a wall is crucial to having a painted wall but actually watching the paint dry maybe isn't whereas sometimes it really is crucial to spend an agonizing amount of time thinking about what you're writing (or going to write). however i'm not gonna claim to be a good writer so you can just go with my not so good analogy. i'm just a gal that does sometimes write stuff (read: i'm just a gal that has been sitting trying to write stuff tonight (read: at 3am) and has been mostly sitting and just thinking and is trying to justify that)

#it truly has felt like watching paint dry #but maybe tomorrow my wall will be a new color #or i'll wake up and think some more and find a better analogy #writing #writerblr #neil gaiman #screenwriting

[dystopiandramaqueen]

Nobody:

Me: guess it’s time to rewatch Murder house. That’s a perfect season of television. This is the best show of all time omg Violet and Tate and Jessica Lange yessssss

#violate #Violet and tate #ahs #murder house #she falls in love w a fucking GHOST #find me a better analogy for teenage angst #she is a ghost

[h0tmessexpresss]

Sitting here hoarding Din x Bo fanfics for ~later reading~ like they're toilet paper and it's 2020.

#theres probably a better analogy but my brain isnt finding it #tbf TP was a pretty hot commodity at one point