#idk just timeline thoughts lmao

[vamprnce]

this was so self indulgent but I got hit hard w the insom Peter as a dad thoughts last night and had to doodle some stuff, mainly Pete just giving his baby her own web (silly string) shooters bc honestly he would lmao

#my art #peter parker #mayday parker #insomniac spider man #honestly tried my best at a 1048 mayday lol im torn on a look but atsv gave me inspo #also idk when this would be timeline wise so dont think that hard abt it 😭 #i was going so wild abt peter being a dad on twt sjdjfhdgd #but yeah he would build her own web shooters but he doesnt wanna give her actual webs yet so mayday is just annoying everyone w silly strin #the whole house is a mess its in everyones hair (peter has to clean it up bc its his responsibility and he gave it to her lmao) #okay bye thats all my dad peter thoughts (for now) #spiderman

[sarellathesphinx]

Both square enix and other players can take the idea that Cait has his own personality and sense of will separate from Reeve from my mummified hands

#like there’s just no fucking way this cat is controlled 24/7 by a man who is currently #working to restore multiple destroyed sectors in the city he’s the HEAD OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT FOR #he also speaks and acts separate from Reeve in dirge so like. #Cait’s a little guy. the overlap between him and Reeve is definitely real. but they’re like a living Venn diagram to me #especially in the original game some of the things he says just only make sense if he’s got his own personality and thoughts #and I do believe there’s room for that in the remake timeline too!!! #it’s like dumb how adamant I get about this i know #but to me it’s a diminishment of both characters if you go ‘Cait is reeve’s fake fursona and he’s doing a bit in his office constantly’ #text #idk!!!! #like I’m not saying Reeve doesn’t speak thru cait. I think he does often #but Cait’s got his own mind too!! #I have this like very elaborate idea of how it all works but when I try to write it. incomprehensible #someday I’ll phrase it right lmao #Cait sith #Reeve tuesti #tagging for my purposes and not #for the purpose of this showing up in the tag but if you read this far and wanna talk to me about them: go for it lol #sorry to my friends who have read my rants about this before lol #I just!!!! #sigh!

[deus-ex-mona]

i hope they fight (can’t read past this point)

#l e m m e i n n n n n n n n n n #never thought that i’d ever find something in common with mr face reveal but here we are (dude’s a retail pharmacy cashier. poor guy :() #i need to know if the pharmacy manages to survive the encounter #i hope he calls out her bs and enforces the ‘1 lxl gummy per person’ rule to extremes #this is unfair i can’t even skip ahead to the ch 3 previews bc this site doesn’t even have them yet auaaaaaaa #but hm. looking at this and the calendar… plus chizuutan’s planner from doutan kyohi… this encounter takes place on 1 august #july and august are the only 2 consecutive months of 31 days after all. sooooooooo #so ig it’d put the nonfan release somewhere in july… hmmmmmmmmmm #which would kinda make sense i think… in the nonfan novel hiyo’s contract was supposed to end in august… right? i can’t rem lol #hmmmmmmmmmmmm. but that’d only be the case if the chizuutan mvs complement the [redacted] anime/kawaikute gomen manga timelines… #i hope we get to see her pov of the hiyo makeover for the nagisa visit lmao #but then again. maybe lxl have had 2 separate gummy collabs and im just overthinking it. #idk why am i wasting my precious lunch break thinking about lxl and chizuutan anyway i’ve had enough of them ausuxyshxhshhshajsjshshs #chizuutan chizpost

[plumeriacosmos]

kinda wanna see a polin au based on korean romfan webtoons where the everything goes to shit, and penelope gets executed by the queen, she regresses through time (at her death) and goes through her life all over again, but she vowes to do things “correctly” this time (which is probably like try not to fall in love with colin and maybe pull away from the bridgertons in general)

what she doesnt know tho, is that colin also regressed through time. And he also wants to do things right with pen this time around.

tl:dr: penelope knows what will happen, colin knows the future, too. they have different goals. Pen tries to run from colin, colin will chase after her

#sunnie thoughts #polin #polin bridgerton #bridgerton #idk if im making any sense #i just want the vibe of a korean romance fantasy webtoon okay #like its not a revenge plot like the lady with the hourglass #Just some angsty #colin pursues pen #while pen tries to let him go #keyword tries lmao #also the point when they realize they came from the same timeline lol #pen would try to not be as close to the bridgertons tho #mostly like to spare herself the heartache and also she doesnt hurt them with whistledown #she probably has plans to like run away to wales or something #live a scandal free life or something #maybe become a farmer or baker

[bravevolunteer]

and when i npc / oc-ify jeremy fitzgerald what then huh

#OF COURSE i would still write w other people's but oooo i'm thinkin about it #ooooohhh im spinnin it around in my MIND #technically i oc-ify EVERYONE in my mind it's the curse of having timeline/long fic ideas #but i could officially do this . it's been in the plans for months actually LMAO #idk if it would go anywhere but my head and mentioned with some people but i just. Thoughts #/was that the bite of 87/ #⁂ ･ﾟ: i was looking for a job‚ and then i found a job‚ and heaven knows i’m miserable now ➛ ooc

[pavlovers]

actually nvm im not emo anymore 🤧

#will i ever be truly content with the ending ? no 💀 but ! everyone looks so cute nd im happy that my fav freaks are able to be silly :p #i have mixed feelings on chifuyu narrating this chapter tho lmao 😭😭 #i mean its great that he somehow remembers everything that michi went through nd their friendship wasnt lost #BUT I CANT GET OVER THAT LIKE. ONE TAKEHINA KISS PANEL AND ITS JUST HIS UGLY CRYING FACE AT THE BOTTOM 😭😭 #i kinda love that for him tho like shit make their day all about yourself king #i wouldn't have taken the whole takehina ending seriously either way #tokrev aint even about them at this point its about the collection of freaks takemichi collected along the way 😭 #what other thoughts can i put out there... #omg sanzu being an influencer is such a slay. i love how he looks exactly the same as he did in the bonten timeline #he just slays online now instead of yknow with a katana in real life ! #kazus adorable. izanas adorable #I LOVE THAT SOUTH IS JUST THERE. IDK HOW THEY MET IN THIS TIMELINE BUT FUCK IT YEAH HES INVITED WHY NOT #seeing timeskip mikey again just confirms my initial feelings towards manila mikey which is that he was ugly 😭 #IDK THE SHORT HAIR DOESNT SUIT HIM IMO 😭 I WAS HOPING THAT WAKUI WOULD GIVE HIM A NEW HAIRCUT THAT WE HAVENT SEEN BEFORE #its ok tho im happy that hes actually happy ! and that the future he wanted with emma and draken and their baby came true 🥲 #WAHH THAT TOO 😭 THE FACT THAT THEYRE MARRIED AND EMMA IS PREGNANT WITH THEIR FIRST CHILD LITERALLY SOBBING 😭 #its what theyve deserved this whole time !!!! #what wakui did to naoto was a crime tho 😭 why does he look like thatttt #bring back detective naoto 😭 current naoto looks more homeless than takemichi that doesnt sit right with me 😭 #im rocking with long hair hanma. shuji just some guy hanma 💀 #wakui making mikey looking at takemichi like that the opening panel like we know what they are 🙄 just had to remind us #thats all i think... its finally over 😭 i may have my grudges but i truly loved reading this weekly for over a year it was so much fun 💗

[tmos-time]

HELLO COOPER THE GREAT HOW ARE WE DOING THIS FINE SPOT ON THE TIMELINE

You wouldn't happen to have an hcs about Eridan or Sollux pertaining specifically to their relationships/relations with their dancestors would you?

oh well CLEARLY im doing just great!! (<- just woke up early from a weird stress dream about BMO and animal crossing? i think? LMAO)

oooh! admittedly i dont have much about sollux and mituna's dynamic that hasnt been explored before, they're just 'interact well enough together even if sollux has internalized ableism about mitunas situation at times' sort of shtick to me lol; 👏 eridan and cronus however!

as much as i dont typically enjoy cronus on the average day due to his canon smarmy nature, his fanon potential for that generic older brother dynamic with eridan is always pretty fun; they're scallywags, they're rascals, they hang out together to play cronus's greaser music and make a shitty cake or something while telling stupid jokes and comments; they bond about feeling othered if you let cronus have that jab at otherkin hussie threw in the comic as a genuine trait; eridan occasionally calls himself 'danny' when talking about himself because he appreciates the familial context cronus uses it; its surprisingly average considering the two sea shitheads involved LMAO

#tmos opens mail #satiricalstardust #i DO suppose theres also that one captor headcanon i have too?? #i think all three captors have wavy hair texture that goes away with use of psionics #mitunas hair is wavy from his acccident. blind sollux would probably start to get waves in his hair if you leave him be for too long #or perhaps just wash his hair and let it dry. probably would have the same effect lol #ah! and if you're looking at the eridan and cronus bit and going 😬 thinking about their ministrife interaction; I Choose To Ignore That #at most its like. fodder for eridan ocd headcanon. intrusive thoughts moment yahoo #not to say That Moment is a 'the intrusive thoughts won' bullshit thing. the dreambubbles are a fandom allagory its way more complex #something abt timelines splitting so far that you see yourself doing something youd never do and feeling sick and insecure idk #anyways thats a certified morning tags tangent LMAO

[captainshadowshifter]

I have realised I might have a slight obsession with killing all my characters wHY DO THEY ALL END UP DECEASED

#like. literally all of them. #this is au talk btw. #fr all of them either die in the main timeline or in alternate realities (lookin at u zeph in the void timeline) #that ones so sad btw. completely unintentional #idk why im thinking abt this just been having story thoughts but then. they reminded me of it lmao #also like. a WHOLE lot of villains in the au are actually doing the right thing just. not very well #*coughcvcoughcough*

[corpsoir]

im having so many oc thoughts rn i cant stop thinking about them honestly fuck the timeline where solvei dies thats just sad the ancient hook timeline is way funnier and gayer

#ok no i still do like the first timeline because idk. i find the whole dealing with grief and loss thing... healing??? #in a way??? #its tragic and doomed from the start and i like stories like that #im just kind of stuck in terms of developing the story further. skagen's life without solvei never gains colour again #its just him living but never truly Living you know. he just goes through life on auto pilot and i find it difficult developing that more #however the ancient hook au is so much more fun and alive and doesnt just make me sad thinking about it HSAJHFKA #so i will focus mostly on that #i will still call it the ancient hook au because its easier to keep the timelines or whatever separated #and ive already tagged posts about it with that so. easy access #whatever. im just having thoughts #AND im thinking about a design and power for lovarts stand but its hard. i made a silly sketch yesterday #of one of the ideas i have but i dont know if ill go with it or not #also i have ideas for kjell's stand and i realised i havent even drawn him yet lmao #i have some sketches i think but none of them feel Right #kjell is the villain btw hes the fisherman with the ancient hook blablabla #ancient hook au #corp.krax

[babygirlgiles]

📓

Omg thank you for the ask and the opportunity to rant about my all time favorite daydream fic!

I have been daydreaming about this one forever, it's gone through so many iterations and morphed so much since the first time the idea "omg but what if Willow and Tara had a gay little farm" popped into my head, but it still is The Gay Little Farm fic in my mind until I hopefully come up with a better title lol.

The Gay Little Farm is a gothic horror-y story set in a canon-divergent AU where Willow doesn't go back to Sunnydale after season 6. The fic itself is set several years down the line, after Sunnydale has been destroyed, when-- after spending some time learning more about herself through traveling, living with various covens, going to community college in San Francisco, and eventually getting a degree in computer science and working for a robotics lab-- Willow has recently bought a small farm in New England (I was missing Massachusetts when the idea was first conceived, don't judge lmao. Plus you can't really beat the ambient horror vibes of rural New England).

By the time the fic starts, Giles is the only one of the group that still talks to her. Buffy and Xander were pretty pissed about her decision to not come back, but Giles supported it ultimately because he felt all her emotions in Grave, so he understands the depths of her anguish and understands that she really doesn't know herself anymore, and supports her trying to figure out who she is on her own terms. (Also, he supports her because I asked the very essential question: "what if the btvs writers had decided to leverage how similar Willow's trajectory is to Giles's backstory even the teeniest tiniest bit?" lmao).

Throughout this time, they've emailed each other extensively, like nearly every day, but when Willow's emails start to become less and less frequent after buying the farm, Giles doesn't really think much of it; he knows she's busy trying to get everything set up to be an operational growing season, and that she doesn't have an internet connection at her new house yet so she has to go into town to email him.

It's explicable, so he doesn't worry about it until one day he gets several increasingly bizarre, almost unintelligible, concerning emails in very quick succession.

(lol I'm gonna put a read more because this got long lol. But if anyone else wants to send me one of these ask games : Put “📓” or some other version of a book emoji into my inbox and I’ll explain the plot of a fanfiction that I haven’t written but daydream about.)

She doesn't reply to any of his emails, doesn't answer the phone so he gets on the first flight across the Atlantic to go check on her (it's partly panic, but partly because he's not really pleased with where his life is at the moment anyway, but I won't get into that, this is already getting too long lol, just let it suffice to say he's glad for the excuse to just pack off to somewhere else suddenly). But when Giles gets there, Willow seems perfectly fine. She says she doesn't even have any clue what he's talking about when he tries to bring up the emails, and he figures she must just be embarrassed or something and not want to talk about it, so he drops it.

He decides to stay at the farm for a bit to keep an eye on her and make sure she's okay, but the longer he's there, the more and more weird things start happening. Even as he falls into the rhythms of life on her little farm and gets comfortable there, he can't shake the feeling that something is very wrong. He's having bizarre dreams that are becoming increasingly prophetic, even though there's absolutely no way he should be having prophetic dreams. He starts remembering things-- or at least they feel like memories, but they're certainly not things that ever happened to him. One night, he catches Willow in the middle of what looks like a blood magic ritual, but when he stops her, it's like she wakes up from sleepwalking and has absolutely no recollection of what happened. He's suspicious of Willow and what she might be doing, but also increasingly convinced the house is working some kind of dark magic on them both, so he sets out to research the place. But the nearby town clerk's office, the town's historical society, everywhere he can think to check has absolutely no record of this house existing.

Anyway, I won't spoil what is actually going on with the house because I am for real going to write this (I sort of started a while ago, but as I watched more of the show, my plot and ideas changed SO much). But really, at its core, everything that's going on with the house is about processing their grief, about building a life, about them repairing their relationships, and about the two of them having to come together to do all that by working together to figure out what's going on (although, Willow already suspects what's going on long before Giles even arrives, she just doesn't want to accept it...). The whole story is just like, what if Willow and Giles reconnected in adulthood and finally worked through some of their immense baggage about each other but also just their baggage in general? :) And also there was a farm. :)

#myfic #thank you so much for sending this i had so much fun answering!! love to share my stories about my little guys #once i finish the current big fic im working on #this is the next one i want to write so. keep an eye out. #literally i was actually so so close to entirely abandoning the idea about willow having a farm. #bc originally it was a willow and tara have a farm together and then giles comes to stay on the gay little farm with them :) #i literally probably thought of that watching s4 and then i remembered that tara was going to die and i was like :) idc :) farm :) #but I think the further i got the more like... idk it just didnt really feel genuine to the spirit of the farm and what i wanted to tell #for her to just be inexplicably alive? it just wasnt the story i wanted to tell #so then i was like okay :) Tara's spirit is on the farm :) and then Giles and Willow bring her back to life :) #and then I watched s6 and was like WOW. So apparently !! being resurrected !! fucking SUCKS!!!!!!! #and like. i couldn't do that to my girl I just COULDNT!! #and then i was thinking about it more the timeline made no sense it was like why is willow on this farm why is she on the farm alone #and by this point i had like. a considerable amount of Giles coming to visit her on the farm written lmao #but even tho i was like these are all good scenes and good writing like WHAT is the context WHAT is going on #and apparently backpacking is the best time to have fic ideas ever #bc i remember the exact moment where it came to me like a fucking epiphany just. oh. its canon divergent. its an s7 au. #i was out in the hammock watching the moon and scrambled back into the tent to get my notebook (almost woke my friend up in the process) #and was like frantically scribbling down how it all finally came together by moonlight in the hammock #so im glad i didn't abandon the idea and let it keep puttering around until the hammock worked its magic #I’ll also add. there’s an accompanying playlist. that I play while I daydream about it lmao.

[ace-malarky]

All Things End

It's been an age and a half since I shared any writing, so uh... have something a couple months old, ft. Briony and Tamar-whose-name-should-change

Same folks from the Ace of Witches stuff! About a year before that one! Referencing stuff in the time travel wip which I've maybe mentioned a couple of times, idk

Briony doesn't like seeing the end of things

~

 Tam’s not quiet, as she comes clunking up the stairs. I stay where I am by the open window and listen to her approach.

 It’s nice out. Should probably head outside. Who knows when we’ll see this much sun again.

 “Bree. My buddy. My pal. You know that I love you.” Tam pushes the door open and I see her sort of collapse through onto the boards from the corner of my eye.

 “I do,” I say, not turning to face her, beginning to smile.

 “Do you have to live in the attic? Really? Every time?” She’s not even out of breath.

 “I think I do. Part of the contract I signed.”

 “Gross.” She walks across to her seat, already set up to face where I perch on the windowsill. “Does that open fully?”

 “Not yet.” Her chair is about the only thing unpacked and ok to be used.

 I got distracted early on in the process.

 “So are you actually looking for help in unpacking, or was this a different cry for help?”

 “Thinking about Saturday.”

 “The person or the day?”

 I laugh. “Both? What do you make of the younger sibling angle?”

 “That it’s only just come up?” Tam shrugs and fetches one foot up on the ledge beside me. “We’ve never exactly asked before.”

 “Point.” I lean my head back against the wall. “I don’t know. I just… feel like it would’ve been the first thing, once the machine was up and running.”

 “To go looking for them?”

 I hum.

 “Maybe he needed to check everything was functional first.”

 “So we were guinea pigs.” I wrinkle my nose. “I think I like that even less.”

 Tam laughs.

 I return to looking out the window, shifting to draw one knee up to my chest.

 “What’s this really about, Bree?”

 “All things have an end,” I say softly.

 “Is that why you haven’t unpacked?” Tam reaches out her foot to tap against mine.

 “Maybe?” I shrug. “It just… all got a bit much.”

 “Are you looking for avoidance tactics or help unpacking?”

 I look at all the boxes around the room. “I should unpack. But…”

 “But it’s a nice day and we shouldn’t spend it inside. Come on.” Tam swings onto her feet and offers me a hand.

 “Where are we heading?” I take her hand and she pulls me to my feet.

 Tam shrugs. “We’ll just follow the sun, ok? No thinking about it.”

 “Or maybe the botanics?” I pull on a shirt over my crop top.

 “Or maybe the botanics,” Tam agrees. “Yeah.”

 “Let’s pretend we don’t live in the city for a bit.” I lead Tam from my room and down the three flights of stairs to the door.

 “One day we won’t. You know that, right?” Tam pulls the door shut behind us. “We’ll be able to leave all this.” She gestured at the roadworks and the cars and the people. “But in the meantime”– She squints, looking for the sun filled streets– “Let’s follow the sun.”

 I follow her easily, eyes half closed. The city is loud, but we take side streets until the noise all but dies. That, too, ends.

 Sometimes endings are good.

 I guess it just has to be on our terms.

#writing pieces #Briony Mckay #Tamar #Mist Worlds #idk I know it's short i'm just having the same thoughts #Briony is my current guinea pig for most things mundane and melancholic #this too will pass etc etc #in the mean time. Have these friends being pals #anyhow the time travel stuff. Saturday has that missing sibling and it's only just come up #and these two have been travelling with him for hmmmm a while by now I think #and Briony doesn't know what to think like they don't want to be left behind but they get it. #they sort of knew it was going to end eventually but they didn't conceptualise it quite that way #until Saturday got this hope and started disappearing on them #it's fine I think. I possibly need to check the timelines. #anyway I think I wrote this just before I switched libraries maybe #endings etc you know how it goes #they are on my mind again lmao

[meta-susie]

btw i have lots of fic ideas and headcanons if anyone wants to ask me abt them

#my post #metasusie #my problem is idk if I should just write them as standalone oneshots or cobble them together into a longer fic #but i don’t think I want to lock myself into a like ‘this is the only timeline for my interp of the ship’ kinda thing #cuz as it stands the few little fics I’ve written can be thought of as connected in one timeline but could also be separate #and if I start posting fics that contradict what I’ve already written it’s not a coherent universe anymore #idfk. i think I’m overthinking this lmao

[ourlordapollo]

Had a shower thought that I'm sure someone somewhere in the scope of the wide internet has touched on before, but tonight I'm thinking about Miles choosing the von Karmas

Maybe he's a child, recently orphaned, with no immediate family. Maybe he finds a way to reach out to the nearest familiar face. Someone close to the incident. Someone who was present that day. Someone who understands. Maybe he asks Manfred von Karma to adopt him.

Maybe he's a newly emancipated 16 year-old, desperate to escape a nowhere town with grandparents or cousins who don't really know what to make of him. Maybe he forges his own destiny. Maybe he writes an email in his clumsy high school German asking for an apprenticeship.

Neither of these is a hard headcanon for me, but I do think they're fun to consider

If any of this contradicts or is redundant with canon, no it doesn't and no it isn't

#manfred adopting him out of guilt is delicious but yk. bby miles asking doesnt necessarily contradict that #im a little drunk #i put like 0 thought into this psrt of canon before this moment im kinda curious what everyone's headcanond are about the timeline on #that adoption? #if manfred had to disappear for like 6 months or whatever to heal from his gunshot wound #do we think miles was a ward of the state or was he just kinda. extra-legally chilling in germant #germany #i havent watched much of the anime so idk of thats ever addressed #anyway. clearly ive got to get more mentally ill about the main trilogy lmao #delphi washington

[toastsnaffler]

I'm ~ 150 pages away from FINALLY finishing deaths end and honestly a little bit mad that the alien perspective doesn't come in until page 555.... it would've been SOOO easy to drop a couple short chapters like that in EVERY act of the book to ramp up suspense for the strike + also just bc it's so much fun!! but noooo cixin liu is allergic to tension and fun. and also to writing any kind of character building in general lmao

#this series has phenomenally strong worldbuilding like the conceptual stuff + environmental description is so brilliant #he clearly had such a vision for it and every stage in the timeline is so intricately thought out. which is whats kept me reading! #but its mouth numbingly dry + none of the characters feel like they have personalities I have no attachment to any of them whatsoever #i think im used to the writing style now so it doesnt feel like so much work. but whenever i stop to read smth else i feel like reading- #suddenly becomes so much more fluid and easy like my god is this dense and flavourless sometimes #by this point idk if it even is a translation issue i think the guy just writes like that #also to be honest i found dark forest pretty misogynistic + theres def still traces of that in deaths end too #i dont think its intentional or that hes aware he does it but the author definitely has smth to interrogate and unlearn there lmao #im glad u put women in ur book but they cant all be beautiful ethereal beings of grace with overwhelming maternal instincts #its funny bc hes genuinely so terrible at character writing that its difficult to tell whether the women in the relationships he writes- #are being objectified or if ALL the characters are cardboard cutouts and the women are only flimsier bc theyre not key characters #altho two of these books have had female protagonists so. #anyway i digress lol. im still getting smth out of them even for all the criticisms i have... will be glad to have finished them tho! #.diaries

[guideaus]

i watched In This Corner of the World, and it was good, but i did get confused in some parts

#personal #i dont really know why they had segments in the story making it seem like the last 10 mins or so didnt happen #most of them didnt matter but adding a character that related to suzu didnt work when these other scenes existed #they show a little girl just like harumi holding one arm of a unidentifiable woman that lost the other arm and dies #instead of 'wow a stranger finds someone in a similar situation' bc of the prev events i thought the last however long was another bait for #a fake timeline or whatever #and its supposed to be like suzu getting a replacement sister and opposite for the kid #when it was just like. the opposite situation for someone else #but then i saw that woman rotting there and i was like SUZU DIED!?!!? right up until the new child interacts w suzu #every time the parts in the story that felt confusing ended up not being true (to what it made u think) but that was really sudden 😭 #esp at the end. idk movies do that right? the 'it was all a dream' shit or whatever #what happened in the earthquake anime #did anyone else get confused in those moments or am i like stupid LMAO 😭??

[throwing-roses-into-the-abyss]

so today I found out that 1) emo style (for men) and tumblr girls fashion are in the FIT's online fashion timeline, and 2) they're very, very wrong about both of these styles.

for emo style, they wrote:

"On the other end of the spectrum, the indie rock look saw the rise of skinny jeans for men, band t-shirts with blazers, black fingernails, skinny ties, and side-swept bangs covering part of the face. This was initially inspired in the early part of the decade by bands such as The Strokes and The Libertines whose style was intertwined with fashion through Dior Homme designer Hedi Slimane (Gallagher). Slimane, inspired himself by indie music, favored slim-fit trousers with blazers, skinny ties, and bedraggled hair (Fig. 5). In the middle part of the decade, this also included Hussar jackets inspired by The Libertines and worn with jeans by both men and women in Britain especially (Fig. 6). By 2007, Slimane’s stylistic preferences were being adopted by high street stores such as Zara and H&M (Gallagher)."

Aside from them only writing about emo in the mens fashion section (which is also very confusing), this whole bit is baffling to me, because how do you not even mention emo essentially being a new version of punk (with more depression). How do you not even mention the biggest band names involved in the scene like My Chemical Romance, Paramore and Fall Out Boy. How do you not even mention it was about expressing how you felt different, like an outsider.

And then there's their bit about Tumblr girls:

Tumblr Girls, so named for the blogging site and who reached their peak in 2014, followed closely on the indie sleaze of the late 2000s. Their style incorporated elements of grunge like Dr Martens and dark colors, along with logo t-shirts (Fig. 7). Refinery29’s Maggie Zhou described their wardrobe:

“Skinny black jeans with knee rips, a pair of Doc Martens, faded band tees, fishnet stockings, chokers, and denim jackets could be found in her wardrobe rotation.”

As a sign of how quickly trends moved during the decade, while Tumblr Girls faded in the middle part of the decade, the e-girls of the late 2010s adopted elements of Tumblr Girl style, updating it with tennis skirts and striped shirts.

To me, Tumblr style at the time was a mixture of emo, hipster, and nerd (so, for example, having Doctor Who shirts with skinny black jeans and the glasses with big black rims like the hipsters).

In fairness, my main source for my thoughts on this can be summed up as "I WAS THERE", I have 0 actual sources backing this up beyond my memory, but still. I'm well aware that my own personal experience is not representative of the whole style, but these articles don't describe my experiences in emo style and on tumblr at the time at all.

#idk how to tag this lmao so I'm just gonna put more thoughts in here #anyway I was very confused by these two entries into the timeline anyway #because they barely even talk about *actual* everyday fashion people wore #like where's the trend for women to have 2 skinny-fit tops with a chunky necklace #and the long wavy princess-y hair becoming a trend #the biker jackets for women #also on a related note I can't wait for the next entry even though I know I have to wait like 8 more years for it #I just want to see how the last couple of years have influenced mainstream fashion #and I just really want to know where it's going next #like I'm seeing the old silhouette of tighter tops (with corsets!) and then flaring out around the hips like in victorian eras coming back #but this time done in jeans and big baggy trousers with really high waists #also anyway none of this is also taking into account how many people in emo scenes/on tumblr are queer and neurodivergent #and how queer fashion has been - once again - massively influencing mainstream fashion through shows like rupaul's drag race #also they never take into the account the wild difference between fashion in major cities and in smaller more rural areas #I mean I get that you can only scratch the surfaces in these kinds of articles #but argh #anyway #this has been my rant for today