#i cant readmore because mobile

[soft-spooks]

babys first homicide <3

bonus:

#feelin Some Type Of Way tonight. wanted 2 drestroy things with my teeth #bite bite attack kill etc etc etc. #anyway. babygirl has had Enough and fucking snaps!!!! local slasher guy thinks its hot as fuck #mine #🔪 #this is uhhhh. canon timeline. some point. babys first kill . #is there anything more romantic than using ur bfs knife to kill ur abusers <3 the answer is no #*makes out with my hot demon bf over your corpse. cutely* #sorry. going thru it a little bit #played beat saber for like an hour and a half and my arms hurt so bad but thats BETTER than the alternative <3 #im like an understimulated border collie rn i need to tear things apart with my teeth. #side note i am really hoping the vonus image shows up rlly small because i cant put readmores on mobile rip #🐟 mac #🔪 canon

[yuusaris]

I honestly can't stand how writing chapters/stories feels almost like a secret. As if I can't give too much away or people won't read it, fuck that, I gave up on that, if I have things to say about my fic I say it. If I spend my whole time being excited about my writing but can't express it fully because I'm afraid to spoil people, then I lose something. The spoiler becomes a bomb. It becomes a deadline. A countdown to when everyone is finally gunna like my story. Gunna like me.

I can put it under readmores but otherwise it's just

... gaaaahh.

#my writing #me flavored soup #cannibalism #had to delete what i wrote because i cant do readmores on mobile

[lunarflare64]

How do you politely tell someone to PLEASE learn how to use a fucking readmore and stop making me scroll for five minutes just to get past their post in a fucking tag

#its just a fucking decent human thing to do its fucking bullshit #theres no excuse #cant even say shit about mobile because i know immediately that anyone who tried that excuse hasnt even bothered to google it #because guess what! thats how i learned how to do readmores on mobile! stop being lazy fucking cunts!

[mummer]

just saw asteroid city last night, pls explain the proposed significance of the kiss!!

answering this publicly hope thats ok! cant do a readmore im on mobile *****asteroid city spoilers below beware*****

i dont remember anyones names so this is gonna sound partly unhinged. okay so the edward norton playwright and jason schwartzman actor (not character, in the black and white parts) are lovers right. tbh i thought this was kind of a gag and forgot about it. but later we find out that the playwright died 6 months into the production. i didnt make the connection that THAT’s why the actor-jason has to suddenly leave the stage and freaks out backstage about how he’s not sure he’s Doing it right. hes not talking about acting!! because he himself is literally grieving his lover while he’s playing a character who’s grieving his wife written by his lover so obviously it’s too much!!! actor-jason is trying to find meaning in his death through his writing but there isnt any meaning in death [gerris drinkwater voice] which is what the play is trying to say anyway. he doesnt think he’s performing grief right even in his own life!!! (and tbh it’s the 50s so he wouldnt be able to perform grief publicly anyway!!!!) the play starts with a car accident… anyone would search for some hidden meaning there, some sign…. so when he talks to margot robbie outside it’s not really about finding the CHARACTER’s motivations it’s about the actor himself being able to process the playwright’s death! and adrien brody director was probably also dealing with that too (him and norton seemed to be good buddies) so the whole “sleeping backstage” thing gets a bit sadder maybe? maybe everyone else got this in the theatre and im just stupid lol but crazy making stuff to me!!! the whole story is about sublimated gay grief that cannot be expressed?!?!

the tweet that caught me onto this was here which posits that the playwright’s death was a suicide but i think that’s pretty stupid and unnecessary because the whole thing about the play asteroid city is that death is random and meaningless. im pretty sure that’s what the alien represents— a shocking and absurd event that isnt outright evil or menacing, not something anyone can predict or make sense of, it’s just a thing that happens to you out of nowhere, it doesnt mean anything. he’s a little black figure, he’s death! giving and taking! aagh

#you’re the wife who played my actor :( #posthumus #asteroid city #imagine youre in love with a playwright and he writes a play before he even meets you about how you cant get over his death which hasnt #happened yet. id go insane too #im going to see it again to see how this informs the whole thing because its driving me crazy #rewatching the performances knowing that they're performing people performing. augh. #remember when bryan cranston accidentally appears in frame. rending my garments #also ‘you cant wake up until you fall asleep’ confused me a bit but then i remembered that the margot robbie scene was supposed to be put o #as a dream sequence and it makes sense now. thanks #aliens are the new fairytale monster symbol of death. the ultimate Unknowable #EDIT okay i read the wikipedia summary got some facts wrong adrien brody is sleeping in the theatre during rehearsals so its not because of #the playwright’s death he’s just like that.

[answrs]

Readmores And You - A Really Great Tumblr Feature!

(this is technically directed at stuff I've seen in a specific tag because of the content of said tag makes it more likely to spoiler things, but it applies to anyone likely learning the ins and outs of a new site. speaking of which, hello! welcome to tumblr!) (this got. longer than anticipated. apologies, I get bogged down in trying to make things as clear as possible. ^^")

I've seen this a lot recently in the VC tags especially, where the post goes something to the effect of "tw bloody animal!" then like six periods and the images of whatever dead thing the post is about.

I recognize this is probably being carried over from some other website (...reddit probably? maybe insta?) but please. I appreciate y'all so much for trying to do what you're doing. but this method of hiding pictures isn't effective on tumblr, but there is an infinitely better option!

"but why? it works fine on other sites?" firstly, a few extra lines typically don't even take up enough space on mobile (let alone desktop) to hide your pics, so even at a glance anyone is likely still seeing at least the top half of whichever picture you posted before even noticing the trigger warning on top. second, because you have to scroll all the way past the images at the bottom of your post anyway to get to the next one on your dash/in the tag/etc. so if someone comes across your post and the trigger warning is applicable as something they want to avoid, unless they have access to a keyboard to use a keybind shortcut that ive been here 12 years and still cant remember, they can't see any other posts after it without either having to scroll through the pics or outright block you. which is... not the most ideal of options I would say.

"but what else am I supposed to do then!?" I hear you ask.

READMORES!

tumblr has a wonderful feature known as a "readmore" that's built into the site! it creates a break in your post, which hides any content - be it words, images, whatever - that you place underneath it, not showing it unless the person viewing it clicks on the words "keep reading" (formerly "read more" - hence the name :D).

Cool, how do I do that?

on mobile you can place one by tapping an empty line and clicking the grey squiggle icon from the selection that allow you to insert an image/vid/link

which will place a squiggly line into the post you're making:

(desktop uses the same icon, it's just in a more compact row of icons.)

you can drag it around after placing it too, just like photos. (note: mobile can get finicky with this and it's usually just easier to remove it -click the big red X- and add it in the new place you want it.)

EDIT: some of the versions of mobile editor are broken and don't show the icons. to add it in manually type ":readmore:" (with the colons, but not the quotation marks) on its own line. Thank you for the reminder, LovingTogetic!

this is also a nice way to keep your blog tidy and not swamped in long and/or spoilery posts (say if you're posting 5k word fics, or extensive meta, or gushing over the ending of the latest game or TV show most people probably haven't seen yet)! it's not required, obviously, but it's generally considered a common courtesy for others that will be seeing your post cross their dashboard.

finally, an example of the readmore in action:

(ta-da!)

have fun out there y'all, I hope this is helpful ^^

as an aside (I wasn't sure where to put this but under the break seemed appropriate), you may also see a lot of personal/vent posts be fully under readmores as well, even if the post is only a sentence or two long. this is mostly so followers don't necessarily see it unless they specifically click, but there's a more frustrating history to it becoming a thing: when a post is reblogged, any content above the break is permanently frozen as it existed at the time, but anything under it will reflect edits made to the post. while not common, a certain type of user sometimes browse the various "do not rb" tags and will purposefully reblog personal posts in order to upset and distress the users. putting those things under a readmore make it so even if that happens, the text can be deleted from all iterations of the post. recently the site rolled out an option to lock a post to reblogs, but you gotta mess with the settings and it's mostly a habit after a decade here dealing with the nonsense.

#tumblr guide #hope it's okay to tag i'll remove if asked but #vulture culture #how to #tumblr how to #readmores #tumblr how-to

[majorasnightmare]

i got 2 (two) likes from beloved mutuals so that counts as encouragement i think ANYWAYS

everyone loves elden ring waifus and besides ranni i think the biggest victim of waifuization is melina, which i mean makes its own kind of sense because shes your guiding maiden etc etc but where i draw the line is sexy fanart because genuinely, GENUINELY

i dont think melina knows what sex is

this got long so apologies for no readmore im on mobile

like she knows children are born. she knows children come from mothers, and that her own manner of existence (burned, bodyless) is unusual

but i also think that an int build tarnished could convince her of Stork Theory with a solid enough argument

like. lets be honest here. melina is WEIRD okay. shes weird and thats part of her charm. she speaks weirdly formally like all the time despite also clearly considering your tarnished a close friend, but that can be chalked up to how melina rly is one of those "married to their job" type people. like her offscreen arc is coming to terms with her own predetermined purpose and finding her own meaning in that (by recontextualizing it outside its intended purpose) but thats really like ALL she thinks about, is her job. she guides you, she provides you with wisdom thru the words of marika, and then she goes to the erdtree and to the giants forge! and anytime anything OUTSIDE that happens, she gets genuinely confused

when boc sits by the grace crying about his mom, melina literally pulls you aside and asks if thats normal. she couches nearly everything she talks about in Grandiose Metaphor INCLUDING aforementioned child talk! (her plea by the three fingers grace, and her talk about boc crying ala "is it normal for people born of a mother to be. Like That. tarnished?")

she isnt NORMAL shes some vessel of Divine Duty struggling with personhood and Ideological Opinions and the mundanities of life confuse the fuck out of her because shes so used to thinking about The Grand Design that she genuinely doesnt have any fuckin idea what "normalcy" is

in the cut content for the mimic tear questline, when you LITERALLY have a goo parasite living INSIDE YOUR BODY, melina responds to the foreign presence by ONCE AGAIN pulling you aside and asking you if thats NORMAL. "did you... want that, to happen???" she asks, as if people choose to host shapeshifting blasphemy oozes the same way i choose to be brand loyal to skullcandy headphones with built in mic. people crying because they miss their dead mom and ur sworn partner in crime rolling up with a blood parasite yoinked from a forsaken city register the same level of confusion from her.

stop posting sexy melina art, she isnt dtf she does NOT know HOW children happen, only that they DO (and its a good thing! people having families is good, probably, she thinks).

less horny melina, more melina being a fucking weirdo. melina doesnt pose in lingerie, she sits in ur apartment and rummages thru ur pantry before cautiously mixing four loko and vanilla extract into cup noodles and asking you to try it when you get home to carefully note the results and wax poetic about the ability to eat. if you run a faith build or just carry Flames Cleanse Me, theres a solid case of evidence that she might not realize Poison Kills People. she operates on spectrum extremes and not even in the normal range. melina sees you cut urself chopping onions and goes to cast a max power erdtree heal because your bleeding, but then when you say its fine assumes that blood just comes out of people sometimes and thinks you can tank a waterfowl dance without worry

further evidence: her only known source of companionship before meeting your tarnished is the fucking horse. she talked to the horse, regularly, and values the horses opinions on important moral dilemmas, and also refers to the horses opinion on deciding who to hitch her chain to on the matter of Deciding The Fate Of The World. like, same, but you cant make the argument that thats comprehensive socialization

#elden ring #elden ring melina #melina #posting this in the main tags to force people to look at it. #im right btw im not taking criticism on this you CAN convince melina babies are delivered via stork #it isnt any weirder than the turtle pope or radahns comically small horse #also. melina 🤝 radahn about deciding the entire course of ur life based on ur attachment to Horsie #dont leave her alone with ur blender melina is just gonna throw all the leftovers from ur fridge in there and make u drink it

[ghoulodont]

supplemental material for this ghoul lore exploratory fic. conceptual rendering above, more details below the readmore.

first of all i want to say that i am by no means a dental professional, but i do have exposure to a lot of tooth images and tooth anatomy terms at my job. so while i cant tolerate any logical implausibilities for any topic, im extra picky about teeth. here is my reasoning for all of my decisions:

i think its not possible for anyone with human teeth and fangs (ghoul, vampire, etc) to have them on the lower arch without a diastema to fit them in on the upper arch (like a dog). so all of my modifications are on the upper arch, and assume ghouls have a mostly human occlusion.

fangs on the upper arch are probably fine in a standard occlusion because upper teeth are outside of the lower teeth, so making them longer and/or pointier wont make them hit anything. the standard fang is of course the canine, but premolars are pretty similar, at least the buccal aspect, so i wanted to include them too. it seems dangerous to have sharp lingual cusps (way too close to the tongue) and they could interfere with the occlusion, so only the buccal cusps are longer and sharper.

i also think it seems dangerous to have any truly sharp teeth mesial of the canine, because, again, your tongue goes there. humans have very mobile tongues compared to anything else with sharp teeth so any fangs seem kind of dangerous regardless. anyway, i love the look of lateral incisor fangs, so i decided to add them but not make them inhumanly sharp.

and then all the other teeth are regular human teeth. i came up with all of this primarily based on what i think is plausible and not anything symbolic, but i really like the metaphor potential here. from mesial to distal, the teeth are: human, inhuman in appearance only, really inhuman, inhuman, and human. you could say something about how ghouls (at least mine) are human at first glance, have inhuman traits, but are like humans deep down... etc etc. more to explore.

and finally, do ghouls have wisdom teeth? i think mine do not.

#ghoul philosophy

[sunsrefuge]

SotO character thoughts !!

(hopefully doing this on mobile doesnt mess up the readmore, but there isn’t actual spoilers in here! just being safe 💕)

I’m spinning Liifa in the salad spinner !!! he’s definitely my main for SotO, ALTHOUGH.

He is absolutely, one hundred percent, using ten-year-old fuzzy memory to his advantage and impersonating the Commander. — Context is that Liifa & my Commander, Khozzak, used to be College roommates! :) Zojja knew them both at around the same time, and both of them helped during the Orr Campaign & with the Jungle. (Liifa in more vague terms, but staying out of the spotlight has always been his style.) After Maguuma & around ten years later, mixing the two up would be pretty easy!

Now, Liifa knows that he’s not the Commander. Zojja eventually remembers that he’s not the Commander. But NOW they’re in this charade TOGETHER and they’re trying to hold it together so so hard. They’re lying out of their asses and sweating bullets if anyone squints at Liifa too long. I just think it’s the funniest thing ever. They would be bickering so much whenever they’re left alone bwkxJSND

It won’t last super long though!! Eliana is on a warpath because her rat is MISSING and these people know why! :) She is waving her gun (and book of demons) around in Astral Ward camps as we speak! and she’s going to constantly correct people on “What do you mean the Commander is here?? No he isn’t. He started a bakery in Lion’s Arch with his spouse and son, and my rat is here, somewhere.”

you cant blame him tho, all of this is SO COOL and he is SO excited to be here !!! Liifa has absolutely been sticking his nose in everything he can and getting his grubby little claws on every scrap of knowledge that he possibly can. 💕

#no real spoilers tbh just me musing about what the fuck liifa’s gotten himself into #SotO #c:Liifa #c:Eliana of Dusk

[cosmosees]

Given that you beat Sonic Forces recently I’m wondering, what would you improve to make it a overall better game?

ohh this is something i actually have thoughts about. lemme do a readmore because youve caught me at a good time friend

ok so first of all the glaringly obvious thing is to nix classic sonic. i like classic! hes a cute little dude!! he did not add anything to the game. his levels were the ones i got stuck on the most often, and they didn't even really need to be there! he doesn't add anything to the story, and i feel like it wouldve made more sense to focus on modern sonic and the rookie.

and on that note....i feel like they shouldve gotten rid of the 2d stages/segments in general. they are nnnoott fun. throwing 2d platforming with a dark, hard to parse color palette in a way that punishes you for building momentum in a boost game was not a good choice. during the next to last avatar level i literally had to change my avatars colors just so i could see her because i kept running off cliffs. this gripe is situational to what color rookie you have but the fact that its a gripe at all is a problem!

i do like the wispons as a gameplay concept and several of them are fun to use, but i kind of wish some of them felt better to use- particularly lightning, which has accidentally thrown me off of platforms a few times. the whip thing is a cool idea but it jerks you around so violently and you basically come to a complete stop for a good few frames after using it, so if you didnt hit the enemy you wanted (which is. pretty easy!) youre vulnerable

the double boost segments are fun but i wish there was a way to disable the button mashing. ive had repetitive stress strain in both wrists for a long time and there were points where i would have to put the game down after doing one because my wrists hurt!! i cant imagine how hard those must be for people with hand mobility issues worse than mine.

and like...in terms of story. my biggest gripes are the fact that it takes itself too seriously, the lack of cohesion surrounding infinite and the ruby, and the lack of prominence of the rookie. the first and third one are pretty easy fixes but for the second one like.

one. just decide whether eggman made the ruby or not. its so easy.

two. episode shadow is something that is integral to infinites character but it is SO ooc for shadow. i think if it had to be kept, shadow should be replaced with another character. maybe omega! idk it sure wouldve made his random appearance at the end of the game feel more earned

anyway ive been a longtime forces fan and i really really love this game in THEORY, it has strong concepts going for it but the execution in nearly all of them is anywhere from lackluster to straight up bad. such is the life of a sonic fan i suppose

#cosmo.txt #to be honest my recent replay has been through a much more critical lense #both due to just getting older and how good frontiers was

[butchviking]

can i say something. smthn mentally ill :) thanks. i dont know how to do a readmore on mobile sry :3

i spend a lot of time going back and forth on chest dysphoria and what uhh. Options. i would like to take or not take abt that. and in the end i always decide well this is my body and it is what it is and mental illness is tough but it happens and i know how to deal w it and i will always have ups and downs but my body is my body and i shouldnt hurt it just for existing. weirdest thing abt it is i spend so much time hating it but it never says a bad word about me, it's not perfect but it's mine, etc. and then as SOON as i go to a concert its like. no literally my life would be so much easier and im so so tired i just dont want to wear bras i dont want to wear binders i want to move and breathe freely i don't want things to move i don't want to worry about whats exposed u cant wear smthn loose enough to not constrict at all while still keeping things in place which by definition requires constriction. i wanna just BE. nd sometimes i think i am just wasting years that i could b spending feeling. free. choosing to NOT do that because ???. because why? can't remember. but i d. i don. i ddont wanna kill time like it doesnt matter. do u understand. i dont wanna kill time like it doesnt matter!! waited long enough to be this way!!! [s]he cant change for love [s]he explains how long [s]hes waited for [s]he wanted more. or whatever. u know. ps im also scared/resentful of going the gender clinic again cause they were fucking evil to me last time and theyre kinda evil in general and ohhhh i dont want 2 be involved with u people i do NOT want 2 be associated with. anything. but by god. i want 2 feel free. whys everything so stupid and weird whys everything such a big deal. i love 2 b dramatic about shit that does not even matter to most ppl i love to have a 7-year crisis just for the hell of it <3 someone just fucking knock me out and give me surgery dont even bother waiting for me to give the ok just do it im tired im tired im tired i feel like im always fighting but i dont even know what im fighting or why. sorry <3 i have 2 get this shit out sometimes <3 there are poisons in my brain i think. and i would never punish anyone to live like this it is your choice alone i would never punish anyone to live like this it is your choice alone i would never punish anyone to live like this it is your choice alone. whatever. 🫠

#sorry i really would put this under a readmore this is a lot. this is too much. #but i dont have ppl irl to talk abt this with and if i dont let it out ill die. where my online dysphoric girlies at <3 #i tthink. i think i need to write a shitty little song. when i can finally get a FUCKING MOMENT alone 🫠

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

Dream I had last night that I need to put I to words somewhere please tell me if the readmore doesn't work bc I cant trust mobile

(Tw for. Idk blood?? Implied death??? It was a bad dream)

I dont remember all the details beforehand bit Alfie was there, I was talking to my mum. Charlie was there.

I think my mum tackled her or threw something at her? Idk but. I ran to check on her and. She fell on her glasses or something she had a shard stuck in her neck

Mum goes to call an ambulance and I'm there holding her and suddenly the wound starts bleeding a LOT. Too much. I'm holding my sister bleeding out and I scream at out mother to HELP bc she was a nurse but she didn't do anything.

Alfie woke me up then. They later said I was breathing really heavily and whining in my sleep which...that's how I explain it to them when I wake them up if I think they're having a ptsd episode. Fucking. That was with me all day. Even after I messaged Charlie to make sure she was safe I can still see it on my head herting there with something sticking out of her neck and blood flowing and I don't know what to do

Im free but she isn't. And I hate myself for not getting her safe first. I cant tell her. I don't want to tell Alfie and they didn't ask details ( I dont ask for theirs and they're way more regular than mine) I just needed to SAY it. Acknowledge that it happened but it wasn't real and she's alive and safe. Which. She is. She's at our grans. She isn't comfortable but she's safe.

We were fucking abused. We (I, at least) have fucking ptsd from our abuse. Mum can whine about the all she FUCKING wants abuse isn't just physical WE ARE FUCKED UP because of her and I'm so. Fu king angry.

[ophiocordyceps]

time for a bunch of screenshots of my ultrakill ramblings because i officially have big time brainrot. will put under a readmore so there isnt a million screenshots with their exact content pasted in just in your face

[text: hey girl i’m putting so much thought into robot circulatory systems you wouldn’t even be able to imagine (reacted to with broken heart emoji)

i stand by the idea that machines in ultrakill often have artificial hearts

refueling (except for v1) is basically the same as getting a blood transfusion

they’ve got special ports for doing it but their major 'veins' (tubes in roughly the same regions as the human veins most often used for IV lines, at least in the humanoid ones) are all made of a self sealing material in case they have to be punctured in an emergency

usually the dedicated port would be on the chest or occasionally the crook of the arm but as long as you can assume it's an analog to a vein its fine. 'arteries' are no-go zones however because they’re just as pressurized as an actual human artery and will pump out blood readily

they’re more durably built than the 'veins' in order to keep them intact but they cant seal back up if damaged badly enough. the veins only re-seal for small punctures like needle sticks anyways

the IV ports can function as their own infusion pumps as well in case rapid transfusion is necessary and external equipment isn’t available

v1 is extremely weird i don’t know how it works except that it's circulatory system is partially modeled after some kind of open system. like how invertebrate circulatory systems work. i have no fucking clue whats up with it but i’m thinking about it now

it’s not totally open though because that would mean there’s a LOT of free fluid just. in there

this motherfucker runs on osmosis

its probably more correct to say diffusion than osmosis but um fuck you

anyways as you can tell i’m (frothing at the mouth emoji) /end text]

[text: tangent time i think there’s probably several 'almost-v1's that were like prototypes that just. kinda didn’t work

v1 itself is a prototype but its the one that actually accomplished what it was designed to do

its predecessors may or may not even still be around

they could have been scrapped. who knows /end text]

[text: every day i am very normal and oh so regular about v2 being a peacekeeper btw. i think about this a normal amount and will continue to think about this a normal, average amount

^i may have completely made up this in my brain but i’m sticking with it

anyways i don’t know how i never found this (’this’ being the second V2 terminal entry, text pasted below) on the wiki i’m rotating it so fast:

“After its defeat and escape, V2 dove deeper into Hell, killing other machines for their blood to help its recovery with the intent of taking revenge on V1 and recovering its original arm.After finding a temporary replacement from one of its victims, V2 used parts from other machines to transform the new placeholder arm into a mobility tool that would allow it to catch up to V1's fast descent into the deeper layers.In order to prepare for their second and final encounter, it researched the combat data from their previous battle to copy strategies and techniques from the older and more experienced V1 to give itself an upper hand.However, despite all its preparation, V2 lost again, and unable to escape this time, was brought to a swift and decisive end by its predecessor.”

yeah i think i totally made up that detail but there’s something about a war machine who's intended purpose became so completely irrelevant that it is instead reworked to function in times of peace in whatever possible role would be available that's so .

as opposed to kill kill bite maim explode v1 /end text]

[text: v2 IS a war machine and totally capable of fulfilling that role whenever but since there was no need for war machines by the time it was prototyped it’s not bound by any singular hard-coded mission. it’s like when the military makes something it absolutely intends on using for killing and then it’s just. no longer necessary, like at all. never gets used as intended. maybe gets recycled for something else entirely but i don’t know if the military does that because i don’t care about the military. but you understand what i’m saying here

i have so many thoughts about. funny robot

put v2 back in there. please. girl please survive

hakita i love your product but i’m gonna have to go and ignore this one (followed up by a screenshot of part of the ultrakill wiki stating “Due to the constant rumors that V2 actually survived the second fight in [ 4-4: CLAIR DE SOLEIL ], Hakita (fortunately or unfortunately) confirmed that V2 is 100% Dead.”) /end text]

[text: so yeah thinking about it again v2 wasn’t built with the actual intent of it being a peacekeeper but it chose to be one and stuck with that for (indeterminate amount of time because the timeline of events in ultrakill is barely anything)

and then things got fucky. and it was kinda like well. shit. and started getting more aimless. and then v1 showed up and put sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much spite into it

go girl give us nothing (apathy and spitefulness)

watch how hard i can make shit up /end text]

anyways im 100% sure these arent proper image ids but hopefully they work well enough if the images cant be read for one reason or another. also the icon im using in the server i sent these in was drawn by @/antibio go look at their art it fucks

#ultrakill

[hopeheartfilia]

ahhh trying to analyse what i think about mo ran's little inner monologue about liking chu wanning and not shi mei and like

:readmore:

fundamentally i do thinks there is some truth to it, like putting someone on a pedestal as pure and good isnt really about being in love.. like its you not the state of u get to the nitty gritty, if u dont like their flaws specifically do you even like them or just the idea of this perfect kind eprson youve build in your mind that cannot be sullied

but also i feel like i disagree about the. sexual aspect of it? like just because youre not horny doesnt mean you dont have a crush? but also i tried to explain what it feels like to have a crush when not hornh and im having the issue of im demiromantic and ive had one crush in my whole ass life and it was in middle school, i simply do not know enough about romantic attraction to tell you. Like i can easily say that Mo Ran isnt experiencing just sexual attraction, even if he is ridiculously horny, but like

How to explain that while yes i dont 5hink you had a crush on shi mei that its not because you dont like shimei physically? you also dont seem to enjoy spending time with shimei that much and dont seem to have many meaningfull connections with him. also also you dont seem to want to be closer to shi mei you just want him to be safe and happy and stuff? It sounds a bit likea ! hes so nice to me, sort of squish. Like when someone does somethibg really nice for you and you decide that youve pack bonded and youre gonna be extra nice to them and youre gonna be the bestest of friends

but often they end up not even being your best friend. because your bestfriend is someone who you dont get tired if being around for days in end and who you can argue but then understand each other, not just someone whos nice to you. you know.

And like Mo Ran doesnt like Chu Wanning jsut because he does somethibg nice for him, he respects jim and has the eorlds most obvious crush BeforE that, thats just when he goes Shizun care for me too? owo and then Cherish the shizun protect the shizun, and i feel like the xie sini moment of Arent I human too? Dont I hurt too? Was more important? Like figuiring out hes been fundamentally misunderstanding Chu Wanning and then finding out for himself what the guy is really liek is what does it for him, because its the understanding, its about the knowing

You can like people without knowing them but you cant love them without knowing them and being willing to learn more

Anyway im going on a tangent and i still cant tell you what the difference in the whole lvoe thing eould be between learning to love chu wanning romantically and in general is outside of he thinks all of his sharpest edges are cute? they endear shizun to him, and thats all i have because i dont remember the like. questions of that What type of attraction are you feeling? quiz that helps me work it out.

yeah i have a bit more emotional intelligence then mo ran because i spend a looot of time thinking and self analysing but also its not by much. which is partly why i find his EM of -33 so relatable. mine is zero in this metaphor, which is better but still. like at least i can tell other peoples emotions apart with a suprsingly high degree of accuracy for someone who had managed to convince themselves they cant feel guilt and it was just anger obviously, not misplaced guilt nuh uh

ah i need to figuire out hoe to add a readmore in mobile for this rant

anyway mo ran yes correct conslusion that youre head over heels for chu wanning and not in love with shi mei, but no i dont think its just because you desire him carnally, you also desire him in every other way, ehich does not seem to apply to shi mei, but i dont think youre ready for that internal "im not even sure you consider shi mei as a human person with like agency and shit and nit a prop in your backstory" conversation. Which. I do see that shi mei isnt written that way which is just.. perfection, the complexity of secondary characters in danmei is unparalleled, love it when people that arent the main couple have personalities

#a shitpost can be blue #2ha #me #i read 2ha #mo ran #long post #i hope the read more works but i have my doubts #you just gonna have to scroll down #erha

[applesap-fics]

A moment between Mirabel and Oscar, with just a hint of bruno/oscar hidden away.

I wrote this bit to get an idea of Oscars character dynamic, and because I felt like writing Mirabel (who I think does sound a little bit younger than intended). He's based on Meg Parks concept art -- the big guy! I love him. In this verse, he has selective mutism and comes from outside the Encanto with his elderly mother. Its not a polished fic, but I liked it well enough, hehe.

(I hope this post isnt too long. I forgot you cant add readmores on mobile.) Hope you like!

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Oscar Perez was a big guy, quiet, more so than any other newcomer that had come through the crack in the mountain. Once he started helping around Casita, though, out of some sense of obligation, gratitude, or need to connect with anyone other than his elderly mother, the Madrigals got to know him much better, and it turned out he was a total sweetheart. 

He had helped Mirabel design and sew little costumes for the rats in Bruno's very ambitious new play -- the entirety of Hamlet complete with narration, costumes, and set design -- and he'd honest to god squealed when they observed the end result together. Before delving into yet another long afternoon of pricked fingertips as they tried to complete the collection of miniature clothing, they sat contented in Casita's lounge, waiting for Bruno.

"Why are you so quiet anyway?" Mirabel asked him. 

"I get nervous." 

"Oh, I get that." She kicked her skirt up as she swung her legs on the bench. "But you're talking to me. And Antonio likes talking to you and you say hello to Camilo." 

"Yeah. Because you are small and not very intimidating." 

"Says the big guy!" 

"Wasn't always so big..." he muttered. He cleared his throat. "Uhm, what I'm about to tell you isn't exactly secret, but it's not something I can go around and tell people. And it's, uhh. Embarrassing." 

"O-kay?" 

"You can tell your aunts and uncles about it. Probably makes it easier if I'm hanging around your mother's kitchen more often. Let's see if I can explain it.” He took a moment to gather his thoughts. “Children are very chaotic. You guys always do whatever you want. Easy life, especially the little ones. It doesn't matter much what I say because there's no impact on me. I'm the adult; it's a situation I control. But when I talk to people my age I can't expect anything. Or rather, I have to be prepared for anything. I want to talk, but I just freeze up."

"Ohh." Mirabel looked down at her skirt. 

"I’m a very different person at home. People always assume I'm simple. And I don't gesture much." He shrugged his big shoulders, quirked the corner of his mouth, and sighed. “It’s easier to let them think I’m hard and tough than try to stutter through a conversation.”

Mirabel thought about it.

"Antonio didn't use to talk much either. He talked to me, but even then he wouldn't reply half the time. It made tía Pepa so worried. But then he got his gift and now he cant stop talking! About his animals, at least." 

Oscar smiled. His mustache moved with it, and because it made him look kind of cute rather than stoic it made Mirabel smile too. She didn’t know why she told Oscar about Antonio. Their situations were a little different. And Antonio was 7, so it wasn't like Oscar could relate to a kid or deserved to be compared to one.

"Something in his mind that makes him feel safer with pets," Oscar remarked.

"I guess. Do you feel safer with younger people?"

"Oh, yes. You guys don’t do, uhh. You guys don’t do so much bad stuff." 

It took a split second as she processed what that could mean before her chest constricted. Oscar must have come from a very different life. Mirabel knew she was blissfully ignorant to the outside world, dark pasts glossed over in tense moments between her grandmother and her peers, with shifty eyes of her mamá and her siblings always striving to do better because of that past. Never the full picture, always the implication. How many years had those men with torches and knives continued destroying every family in their path?

Mirabel did not want to assume anything, but she thought she got what Oscar was angling at. 

"Sorry," he said, that dull mask slipping back in front of his face. "Shouldn't have phrased it like that. I mean that I have to work and get it done and make sure my mother has a nice place to live. Can’t mess that up with something bad I say." 

That kind of clicked for her and she was happy to let those darker thoughts fade. "Oh, tío Bruno is the same. He worries a lot too. Except he’ll just say whatever he wants anyway and goes knock knock knock." 

"He's a very good man, your uncle." Proud that he said that, Mirabel nodded. Oscar continued, "I think it's funny when he lets things slip out that he better not say. Makes him look brave." 

"Well," Mirabel angled her head, bemused, "he's kind of an idiot." 

Dolores popped up from behind the pillar. "Should I tell him you said that?"

"SANTA MARIA DE--" Jumping up, Mirabel let out a series of expletives. 

Her cousin gave her a sly smirk, then came up next to Oscar and spoke to him in a gentle voice, "Do you want me to tell people what you said to Mirabel?" 

Mirabel could see Oscar clench up, even though she thought Dolores wasn't that old. Oscar made a small fist, shaking it no. "Personal," he managed. 

Dolores nodded. "I could maybe spread around that you're very nice and hardworking and that you’re a friend of ours? I wouldn't want people to think I was slow just because I didn't speak."

Mirabel saw his mouth twitch and pinch, then he gave Dolores a thumbs up. "Thanks." 

Dolores smiled and went on her way. Mirabel watched her go as elegantly as ever. It made her a bit jealous of how gentle she had addressed Oscar’s situation, instinctively knowing how to help him.

"Wow, she got us good!" Mirabel laughed to cheer herself up. "Don't worry, she does this all the time. Just don't think about her when you're going to the bathroom and you'll be fine. Uhm, you okay?" 

Oscar had his eyes closed and was breathing heavily through his nose, fists tightened around the fabric of his slacks.

"Spooked me," he muttered after a moment. After he did some slow breaths, he added, "don't worry about me, peque. I just don't do well around spies." 

For a moment, Mirabel deliberated if she should make the joke she wanted to make. 

"If your past involves spies that would be kind of awesome, though." 

Please god laugh and don't let him have spy traumas.

He gave her a small smile, which didn’t quite reach his eyes. "Nah, nothing as cool as that."

#encanto #encanto oc #mirabel madrigal #encanto fanfics #encanto fanfic #if you see another character in oscar no you dont i keep my fandoms separate #Bruno/Oscar #bruno/omc #lpqnh

[tiredrobin]

nonsense directionless snippet abt an angel meeting a human for the first time. cant add a readmore om mobile, sorry lmao readmore exists now

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"I've never seen an angel like you before."

I shift an eye to glance over myself, made curious by the statement. I decide, after a discerning moment, that I look exactly like every angel I've ever seen. Given that I have only ever seen myself, this may mean very little.

"I've never seen you before," I respond. It's a bit of a test, at least as far as I can test when I have no basis of knowledge to work off of.

The human—for surely it must be human, as I can see the wavering thud of its blood and the electric pulse of its mindplace—changes. I take too long to discover that the change was only in movement. I peer deeper, peeling back layers, to watch the wet meat of its body stretch and bunch in a million minute ways.

"I haven't been here before," says the human.

It's right. I've been here longer than humans have existed. Or, I'm rather sure of that, though I hesitate to claim it a fact. "I'm learning a lot from this," I inform it, and watch the muscles and tissue that cover its two embedded eyes pulse with quick movement. "Why are you here?"

"I'm supposed to kill an angel," it says.

"What is an angel?"

It does not reply at first. Is it looking for an answer? No, no; through the layers, I can see echoes of something familiar. It's hesitating. "You are an angel," it says.

That's right. It had called me that just before, hadn't it? If I am an angel, the human is here to kill me. "What is kill?" I ask.

The hesitance is brief this time. "End you. Make you stop being you."

"Oh!" I say, surprised. I barely know what being me means, though. I have been here and have done little else but consume the passive trickle of knowledge that slips my way every so often. "Would it be fun?" I ask, because I know what fun is. I like to think I know what fun is. I probably have never had fun before.

"I don't think so," the human admits. "I haven't been killed before."

"Would you like to try it first?"

"No!"

I withdraw, startled by the intensity. The human pulls back too, though not quite as much as I had. Its life pulses faster. I sense an unfamiliar thing from it, a bit sharp, an odd tang. "Okay," I assuage. "Why?"

"I can't come back if I die," it says eventually, after its blood figures out how to move slower.

I assume I also will be unable to come back if I am killed. I consider this carefully and decide eventually that this does not matter much. While I am an angel, the human is not; and I like this human, and I figure it would be fine to not be. I've hardly "been" at all. "Well," I say, and draw closer in a slow way. "I will let you kill me. It might be fun."

"...Really?" asks the human. "I... it might not be fun. You might not like it."

"This is the first time I have ever liked anything," I inform it helpfully. "I like that I like you, and I don't particularly like whatever it was I had been doing before you arrived and turned me into an angel."

A long silence from the human.

"You can kill me," I try again, now hopeful. Even if it is not fun, it will be new. If I do not come back, I will not be around to feel one way or the other about it. "If I end, that seems fine. I think I only started once you came and taught me things. I think that if you don't kill me, you will have to leave. I can see your life going out of you so fast. Then I will be an angel and that," I pause to think, briefly, about being an angel without a human to talk to. It sounds awful. "That sounds awful," I finish.

"This is weird," the human says.

"What is weird?"

"Something outside of the norm."

"What is the norm?"

"Not this."

It's an unhelpful answer, but I am unbothered. "Are you going to kill me?" I ask.

The human has another quiet moment. It feels very much like an eternity to me, but I try not to be upset by that. Humans move different than me. "I don't know," it admits. "It feels wrong. You're like an infant."

"An infant?"

"A very new human."

I consider this. "No," I say. "I am an angel. I have been here for as long as a 'here' has existed. I did not myself exist, I think, until you arrived and made this place move and made me move. I am just an angel. I think you should kill me."

"Fuck," says the human. I wait. Eventually; "Okay." Another tiny eternity. "It might hurt."

"What is hurt?"

"A very bad feeling."

"It might be fun."

"It probably won't be. It isn't for me."

"You are a human," I remind it. "I am an angel. Maybe hurt is fun for me."

"...Right."

#robin writes #long post #kinda #short story

[monstertsunami]

BREAKS DOWN YOUR DOOR HELLO I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR ABOUT THE TAUR AU

why are they taurs!! what societal adaptations do they have!! why is no one suffering from severe back pain!! i would love to hear!!

HELLO I SHOULD BE SLEEPING BUT I FINALLY HAVR THE URGE TO ANSWER THIS SOOOOOU

THEYRE TAURS BC OF MAGIC!!! its a HUGE cop-out but i literally would have spent months thinking abt how taurs would have evolved, creature design, the species and sub-species, culture, etc instead of actually drawing stuff for it so.. we do what must be done yk.

i make up for it in building up how the culture adapted to all this shit but thats coming later- basically in the canon soul eater universe theres an actual witch coven which kind of regulates magic to an extent? and my wife was like: so what if before the witch coven was founded? so basically a rogue witch fucked up a REALLY powerful spell- what it was supposed to do idk yet- and managed to turn the entire world into taurs.

this is what helped fix the huge loophole that was bothering me w/ some taurs being species domesticated by humans bc i was SHITTING myself over the evolution. (fun fact: before this was a taur au, when it was just like 3 naga!crona doodles, i did worldbuild an entire specevo snakepeople universe on the spot for them)

the magics actually really cool because i took a lot of inspiration from all those posts abt it being a narrative force! idk a lot abt the soul eater magic system bc if it got explained it was in the manga which i didnt read lol so im making a lot of it up on the spot BUT: the way taurs FUNCTION 24/7 is entirely metaphysically based on what would be funniest/narratively significant/make a good character arc or SOME SHIT like that. would it be funny to give Crocodile Jim back pain on his way to work? L to jim if it is. (i have to force myself to stop pondering the woes of taur physicians every time bc that is Not Important for my autistic little au STOP THINKING ABOUT-)

this also answers the question of How Is The Species Decided. when the Taurificationing happened species was assigned based on pre existing traits in the human, personality etc, but from then on through birth its kind of decided by a ton of environmental factors (would it be funny if A parent and B parent produced a Z kid, would it make for a cool protag if an A kid was born into an entirely C family, the works) hybrids that dont already exist arent possible obv and a hybrid-species taur can be born to any species parent like everyone else

SOCIETY-WISE.. my au takes place a few centuries or so after the Great Taurification to give the society time to adjust. i have greatly considered seating and sleeping and cross species hygine products but im gonna talk abt this more in another post later bc it includes Art i think & also this is already long af and i cant add readmores on mobile

#i tried to add a lot of line breaks to make this Readable but um #idk how successful i was this is the ultimate example of #schizobabble #i have work in 7 hrs wahooo #taur au #i took a break from taur au for a bit but im drawing More now i have many many thoughts #all the fanart def got me back into it HAVE I MENTIONED HOW MUCH I LOVE EVERYONE WHO DRAWS FANART ITS ALL SO PRETTY?!? IM IN AWE?!?! #i have 2 mention it every time sorry #long post #boss makes a dollar i make a dime thats why i answer asks on company time