#i simply think

[valdomarx]

poster boy

roy kent/jamie tartt, for @welcomemysentence

“You weren’t kidding about the poster, huh?”

Roy glances up at the poster of himself on Jamie’s bedroom wall. It’s a decade old, the paper faded and creased around the edges, but it has clearly been looked after, the frayed parts carefully blu-tacked in place.

Jamie’s face oscillates between bashful and bravado, before settling on teasing. “Needed some motivation to get better than you, didn’t I, old man?”

Roy snorts. It’s a good photo, a well-caught moment of action as he winds back his right foot just before the ball arrives, his brow set in an expression of determined focus. With a pang of sentiment he remembers what it was like to feel that certain, about himself and his abilities. When there was nothing but him and the grass and the ball, and a sensation of absolute rightness.

“Yeah, right.” He sweeps away the nostalgia with a roll of his eyes. “I was the light of your young life, I can tell. I bet you showed that poster to everyone you knew. Bet you fucking jerked off looking at it."

He smirks with the tease, expecting a snappy comeback. But there's a beat where Jamie stumbles. It's so unlike his typical insouciance that it sticks out a mile, even when he recovers with a flippant, "Yeah, you wish."

Hang on a fucking second. 

"You fucking did!"

Two splotches of red burst across Jamie's cheeks. "Fuck off."

Unbidden, Roy pictures a teenage Jamie, face flushed, cock in his hand, gasping up at that damn poster. He shoves the image out of his mind as fast as humanly possible. 

"I always said you were a wanker, Tartt."

Jamie twists his lips like he's settling on a tactic: the safe play or the high risk, high reward outside chance. And fuck, since when has Roy been able to read him so well?

Jamie decides, narrowing his eyes in a way that suggests he’s committing to the play, for better or worse. "Had to take my thrills where I could get them as a kid." He tilts his chin up, pretending defiance. "And you were pretty fit back in the day."

Roy catches himself thinking that it's kind of sweet, the way Jamie squares up as he says that. God, Roy is so fucked. 

"And now?" It’s out of his mouth before he can think better of it, the ease of their banter lulling him into dangerous territory.

Jamie grins, wild and wicked, and it crinkles the corners of his eyes. “You’re not too bad.” He takes a step closer, and damn it, Roy isn’t going to stumble backwards. “For an old guy.” His eyes rake down and back up Roy’s body, and the back of Roy’s neck heats under the scrutiny.

Jamie tilts his head and says, rather too quietly to be joking, “I wouldn’t say no.”

There was a line, somewhere, that wasn't supposed to be crossed. But they breezed past that a while ago, and Roy finds himself unmoored. The past may have been a time of firm certainty, he realises, but the present is one of open possibility, and damn if that isn't an enticing concept.

He takes a step forward. Too close, way over the line, into the danger zone. He feels himself smile. "So how come you never asked?"

#ted lasso #roy kent x jamie tartt #roy x jamie #roy kent #jamie tartt #my writing #welcomemysentence #i siMplY thInK

[justablah56]

I think . personally . that grant was the one wearing a dress at him n marcos wedding . thank you .

#just blahs #i simply think #that they went to a dress shop for marco #and then marco convinced grant to try one on #just for fun of course and only if you want to #and then he does and marco is literally speechless and grant actually likes it a lot #and marco is sitting there like :0 damn maybe *you* should wear a dress #and then he did #anyways #thank you for coming to my ted talk #dndads #dndaddies #dungeons and daddies #grant wilson #grant li wilson #marco li wilson

[echosong971]

Alright listen-

I simply think the beauty of two Exos being in a relationship and both of them feeling these gaps in their human experiences when it comes to being physical with each other, due to them not having things like lips or squishy bits or sometimes not even having tongues.

And yet that shared pain/longing for more is what brings them closer because they just have that intrinsic understanding of each other

AND NOT ONLY THAT, but both of them coming together and finding ways to circumvent those gaps they have in their joint experience of the human condition and discovering how to be sensual and physical with each other in their own ways

And still being satisfied with each other because gosh even though we’re both robots made of metal, I’ve never felt more human than when I’m with you

#AND YES I’M TALKING ABOUT CAYDE AND ECHO WHEN AM I NOT #*VIBRATES AT A FREQUENCY STRONG ENOUGH TO SHATTER GLASS* #I SIMPLY THINK #EXOS… #BEING ROMANTIC #HHHHHHH #my heart is WEAK #and it’s just #the UNDERSTANDING #the EMPATHY #both of them being able to relate to eachother on such a deep level because a lot of the things they deal with are so specific to exos #and they’re just things you’d never really understand unless you were one #;—; #I have so many feelings #cayde 6 #echo 3 #hearts and spades #cayde x young wolf #cayde x the young wolf #cayde x oc #63 #destiny #destiny 2 #exo #destiny exo #exomind #destiny exomind #echosong971 #echo rambles #echo gushes about exos again

[origidick]

I love that Canon is that adam and Lilith broke up bc Adam refused to let her be in charge but everyone just agrees that Adam is into dommy mommy

#i simply think #hes down for lilith to be the dom #he is into it 100%

[neitherlightnordark]

i simply think that jevil should call susie, amongst other things, "red buster"

#I SIMPLY THINK #jevil & susie #personal

[undercoverxs]

oh no … oh , that’s not good .

( 'Don’t look away from your own actions by playing pretend...' that’s my line. Warden-san, it’s not just you; it’s all of you. You all said you wouldn’t forgive us. )

( Warden-san, you were the one who said “we. ”)

The water that runs over their hand is felt by ten fingers.

In soap, and water, and submerging as such... Two hands. One person.

One person. And yet, counting each finger... These slips of the tongue are getting more-

It's not... important. It's not what's important. What Amane was talking about, her doctrine... 'We', in the sense of pretending, or brainwashing.

('We', in the sense of pretending.. is that what I'm doing? No, it's a different situation. I say it because... because...)

-No, even so, she's always aware of herself, so the actions she took... In her case, it's that sort of situation, unlike Mikoto, who-

------ " . o//h. . ?no ---- 's -! n0t g.G.. . "

Who-!?

--

...

Such a simple mistake... as forgetting to turn off the water faucet; It was ' you ' who caught that.

It's shut off now, but the water had still spilled around their boots. 'Them', who's heart-rate became fast enough to clog their throat, and whose eyes, wide, stare at--

"... Ah..."

"You don't know about.. fixing drains... Do you?"

#asks #reversemi #|[. ic : ガード #((okay so I s #okay so I SIMPLY. #I SIMPLY THINK #dissociating and identity issues could be HIP AND COOL bonding point #potentially #maybe #hi

[alice-malice-wonderland]

game of thrones should have jesters. I wanna see jesters being killed bc they commented that the queen and her brother spend wayyyyy too much time together alone. and then they bring in another jester. and the pattern keeps going. it would be like interns in Welcome to Night Vale

#i put this is the midnight burger discord #game of thrones #i simply think #it would be fucking hilarious #i just started watching so shhhh

[meistoshim]

im a simple man. i listen to sea shanties, i think about pirate!verse.

#i simply think #mobile.

[captainjonnitkessler]

Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"

Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.

#thinking about the person i saw saying that if you're at a protest #and other protesters try to stop you from becoming violent you should just kill them bc 'peace police are still police' #even taken as hyperbole that's simply dumb as shit on every conceivable level #it's also pretty blatantly hypocritical coming from people who are usually self-avowed prison/death penalty abolitionists #like i'm sorry but you don't get to be a death penalty abolitionist and also call for the death of your political enemies online #this isn't a major issue or anything i'm just bored and annoyed

[lghtyear]

#mobile . #i simply think

[bereft-of-frogs]

There’s that post that’s like ‘everyone should get into a tiny niche fandom at least once’ fully agree, that was really fun -- but I would like to add that everyone should get into a fandom where their opinions run counter to major fanon because it really teaches you about sticking to your guns and trusting your interpretation of the text without having to rely on peer validation

because WHAT are people talking about sometimes

#aka: genuinely sometimes I think I live in a parallel universe and simply watched/read different things #full disclosure it does make you feel like a killjoy sometimes #because often times these fanons will be presented in a silly jokey manner #'oh so silly isn't this character so funny this is just my silly little headcanon' #and it's like yes yes lol lol but ok look me in the eyes and tell me you know that this is #at best only one interpretation of many and at worst simply not supported by the text at all #please tell me you know that #or in one specific example such a ubiquitous joke that is literally a significant theme of the work and i feel like SUCH a killjoy #being like 'ok yes very funny.....you know that was a major theme right?? tell me you know that'

[ash-and-starlight]

humble contribution

#basic: interpreting mizu’s gender based on what u think fits best #based wired inspired: interpreting mizu’s gender based on the ship so that it’s always a gay relationship #also whoever drew taigen’s nose Like That.. #i am forever thankful i need to kiss them with tongue #ode to taigen’s nose: page 1 of 204737835737493 #did i spend too long on this instead of just simply grabbing screenshots? look away #blue eye samurai #mizu #akemi #taigen #taigen’s top knot before it met its early end teach the angels how to sing baby 😔🙏 #ringo #my art #yuri is when there’s blood and themes yaoi is two blokes who do fuck all

[magnusbae]

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

#i said i wont ever rant about this bc it's unseemly but HONESTLY. #you simply cannot complain about not having enough of A or B or C and then never reblog / interact with the content you love. #If you LOVE something you cannot just leave a like and silently wait for more to happen #I know countless of content creators that simply stopped doing art/writing fic/making edits #You need to understand that fandom content is made FOR the fandom FOR the engagement FOR the entertainment and fun it makes. #If a content creator does not have fun IN the fandom-- why would they spend the scares free time they have on making this content? #And we're not talking about things that you don't like-- no one expects you to reblog things you don't like. #However I think it's safe to say that when a post has more than 5k it's not some random shitpost with no value. #tumblr issues #tumblr #content creators #buns.txt #something something please don't starve your local clowns

[coolerdracula]

saying “visual style" because, for example, if you would swap your current wardrobe for an identical, ethically made counterpart, there would be no visible change

#bearer of the curse #polls #I said a lot bc I don't wear a lot of what I enjoy due to sensory stuff and also like ... ethical considerations #btw I made this post bc I really don't like how some people think that people 'dress boring' simply bc theyre boring #like. fashion is not as accessible as it should be! to most people! #so i wanted to see how people felt #also fat people I love you I know a massive part of this inaccessibility is fatphobia in the fashion industry

[hhhhunty]

How funny that she never considered that.

#one piece #boa hancock #monkey d luffy #i really disagree with how oda writes her #i think she likes him in the way a little girl crushes on the first boy to ge nice to her #simply because she thinks that's how it must work #she did not have the time nor was she safe enough as a child to feel those things #this was the first ever man other than rayleigh to not view her as an object #so she thinks she *must* love him #these have been my long-winded hancock thoughts #thank you

[somewhereincairparavel]

To the people saying "Jason wouldn't have jumped into tartarus for Piper, like Percy did for Annabeth" as a way to demean him. Jason, plunged into the sky from the grand canyon to catch Piper in the first few pages of the lost hero without even knowing who she was, and without the knowledge that he could fly. so he basically jumped to his death attempting to catch her. In the first few pages of his journey, he didn't mind dying to save Piper, and ironically, that's also what he did in the last few pages of his journey. Y'all just be making the most out of pocket claims abt jason fr

#If you think you're complimenting Percy by saying “Jason wouldn't have done that” no you are not. I love Percy too but cmon now #You are simply deluding yourself by trying to antagonize Jason in your head because of pettiness #He is canonically a sweetheart through and through so go cry abt it with your made up fanon version of him #But don't you dare claim it as canon #Get over the fact that both Percy and jason are good people and loyal lovers #Stop comparing them for fucks sake it's not 2012 anymore #pjo #percy jackson #pjo fandom #pjo series #pjo hoo toa #pjo hoo #jason grace #annabeth chase #piper mclean #leo valdez #frank zhang #hazel levesque