#it seems like ages ago

[cuubism]

writing a silly little fic that's just

hob: death is fucking STUPID! we should all just live forever, i hate death! unrelatedly, it was fun hooking up, random woman i met in a bar

death: :)

#death/hob is my niche background fwb ship #the premise of this is death deserves to have more fun and hob seems like fun in bed. that's it #oh and there's fun themes with them too but i already wrote another fic about that ages ago

[pgranateseeds]

I know a lot of people want it, but I don't think we'll ever get a conversation between Sandra Lynn and any of the bad kids about what Bobby Dawn did to her.

A. It's just unnecessary. We already know the gist, we can already see the ramifications of that action, and a conversation would just be retreading already discovered ground

B. Sandra's relationship with Fig is nearly always in turmoil. Ever since seeing her offer a shoulder to Adaine when she drank heavily when it was her, Fig has been avoiding Sandra when she could. She said in the fight when Baxter arrived, "I'm not trying to see my mom right now," and they didn't talk At All when she took them to the temple ruins. If Sandra Lynn was going to talk to anyone about Bobby, it would be to Fig just bc of closeness, and that's just not happening, at least not for a while. Also i see people define Bobby's short and disastrous relationship with Sandra as sexual grooming, and i find it hard to believe that if she was groomed, she'd tell her daughter, especially not to then say "Fig You Were Groomed Too" or "Fig, Don't Trust Random Men." I think people put way too much emphasis on Fig's bits where she kissed adults in earlier seasons and said "would i know if i had sex? What if I've accidentally had sex?", like those were just jokes, the latter being a joke abt how Fig didnt understand what sex was as a 14 year old, and i don't believe it would be fun for the table if those jokes were treated with the solumn seriousness of fig then being a grooming victim. Also Fig already distrusts men, she was right about Porter and she was stalking Ruben and literally every man outside of her family that she's come in contact with, she's either bullied or investigated, she doesn't need to be told a tale about how men ain't shit

C. Bobby is just much less of an antagonistic player in this conflict than previously expected. Yeah he was involved with The Big Bad, but after the reveal, a majority of the focus shifted onto Porter, Jace, and the Rat Grinders. I don't see the next two episodes having a moment where they sit down and talk about Bobby in depth, beyond "he was/is an asshole"

#d20 fhjy #fantasy high spoilers #fantasy high junior year #sandra lynn faeth #bobby dawn #dimension 20 #fhjy #fig faeth #Twitter is...odd #bc a lot of people seem upset that a convo isn't gonna happen? #but put yourself in sandras shoes #your daughter years ago told you you were allowed to be your own person #but you know youve been fucking up #she reminds you too much of yourself and you can't take it when she comes to you with problems you also had at her age #she's avoiding you now #why would you say “hey daughter wanna hear about the time my hopes and dreams were crushed?” #“i know you already know but do you wanna go over the gory details now you have a face to the name?” #like #no #she wouldn't #maybe theyd exchange some words #but a full convo???

[sunshineandlyrics]

Louis, the expert on all things vintage, calling the Back To You CD from 2017 vintage.

AOTV Global Screening, LA, 13 May 2023 x

#to be fair it does seem like ages ago #BTY cd #vintage Louis #Louis Tomlinson #AOTV Global Screening #13 May 2023 #Louis memes #mine

[controversialhottakes]

Apparently these are unpopular opinions but I don't want Wilmon to be endgame and I don't want Wilhelm to abdicate. (I think the show might be heading down the Wilmon endgame + abdication route but I can't imagine them doing it in a way which would feel satisfying to me personally.)

All I could think about throughout the whole season was how unsuitable for each other these two are. They're so different, and I don't just mean their backgrounds, I mean every single thing about them. Their personalities (this one is huuuuge), their values, apparently even their interests since after 3 seasons I can't really name a single thing they both genuinely enjoy (maybe rowing? or was Simon there for a reason? can't remember), unless we count sex which... fair but a rather shaky framework if a long-term relationship is what you're after.

What do they even talk about? Other than Simon hating the system which Wilhelm is at the very centre of. Or the fact that they don't understand each other because Wilhelm is too privileged and Simon is too big a socialist. And while I hate the phrasing I do agree with the sentiment wholeheartedly because it's actually absolutely 100% true. What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is a conflict of interest. Plain and simple.

One thing that was very clear from the very beginning is that Simon doesn't understand what a relationship with a crown prince entails and that he's really not the kind of person who'd want or should be in such a relationship. He cares too much about other people's opinions, which isn't necessarily bad in and of itself, but people are going to have a lot of opinions if you're dating someone in the public eye, especially the future king, and they're going to be nasty af. Because they can. It's just the reality, nothing you can do about it.

I know a lot of people say that he didn't get media training and so on and so forth. And it is very true and valid. However, a lot of this boils down to his personality. You don't need media training to know that reading comments is a bad idea, let alone replying to them. To me, it's just common sense, and I know he's only 16, but even though it's been a while, I do still remember being 16 and my mindset (on this subject) has not changed since then. Especially if you know you're going to take it to heart, you shouldn't even be looking at the bs people post online.

Simon doesn't fit into Wilhelm's world not because he's poor. He doesn't fit into Wilhelm's world because his personality and values simply don't work in this context. How do you even begin to solve a problem like this? You just can't.

Simon has a very strong personality and even stronger beliefs. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it, it's admirable, but this creates so many problems that are virtually unsolvable. If you watch the series (not just the third season, it's been shown consistently), Simon needs Wilhelm to agree with him. And he wants Wilhelm to do it openly and preferably to feel about it as strongly as he does. Which simply isn't going to happen. In order for this to work, Simon would have to change his entire personality and that would be just awful.

Re: Wilhelm abdicating. You don't make a decision like that at the age of 17. Because this is literally life-changing and there's no going back. His brother just died. His mother is having a nervous breakdown. His father is absolutely helpless. You work through all of that first.

Correct me if I'm wrong but it's only been a couple of months since the accident. Oh and now Wilhelm finds out that his brother was human and not some perfect Disney prince. And he gets front row seats to his always-unnaturally-composed mother's descent into literal madness. Just imagine how terrifying it must feel. This boy is going through a lot, this is not the time to be making huge decisions.

I genuinely believe that Wilhelm would make a great king. Keep in mind that for 16 years, it never occured to him that he might have to do this. This was dropped on him like a bag of cement, together with the news that his older brother, whom he worshipped, was dead. All things considered, he's doing great. Come to think of it, Erik's death is the root of 99% of Wilhelm's current problems. Like he said, he never got to grieve and now on top of that he thinks that his brother was an arsehole and would have hated him for dating another boy. But I think Wilhelm finding out about what happened at the initiation is actually going to help him heal.

Wilhelm abidicating just feels too much like giving in, like he was running away from his problems which is a bit OOC. And it would feel like he was doing it for Simon which is such a bad idea on so many levels. I can't put into words how stupid it would be and, as impulsive as he can get at times, Wilhelm doesn't strike me as the kind of person to just completely fail to think of consequences of his actions when it comes to something this big. I can't for the life of me explain why, but he does come across as rather level-headed and sensible, specially for a 16/17-year-old going through what he's been going through. Certain... incidents... aside (the rifle... yeah, the hell were you thinking? you need to chill out and let it go). Season 2 was peak recklessness, he seems a bit more mellow and settled now. Although breaking up with Simon might turn out to be the final straw, yikes...

#young royals #young royals spoilers #young royals season 3 #wilmon #dont get me wrong wilhelm made some very questionable decisions #but i feel so fucking bad for him i cant even be angry about it #i dont get why people seem to hate him so much #like be real what did you expect him to do #try and convince me that you wouldnt have had a full blown nervous breakdown ages ago if you were in his place

[ace-s-fav-dp-posts]

If you're sick of the current popular trope/story prompt in the Phandom or DPxDC fandom you just need to ignore it

I feel like the fans in the Phandom and DPxDC minifandom that's popped up, who are really grossed/creeped out by the genre of fic popular right now.

Where the set up is some variation of Outsider POV and the plot is based around the assumption that Vlad SAed Danny in order to create Dan and Danielle, are people who haven't been around that long.

Especially when they try to whine about none of it being based in canon. And how they don't like the shipping of Vlad and Danny (even though the people who write these kinds of fics are very obviously not shipping Vlad and Danny in them).

Because the Phandom has historically gone through phases much more gruesome and horrifying than that.

Especially when in this current micro-genre, all of the SA and grooming and other kinds of abuse are implied only, and within the fics themselves the assumed abuse never actually happened. As the plot is based on over heard or misinterpreted fragments of information that doesn't give the POV character the full picture of the situation that's actually going on.

There's the infamous vivisection fics, in which the child main character is brutally cut open and tortured by his own parents in the name of their biased views of science. Who in canon, both happily accept him no matter what every time a reveal is happens and never so much as rejects Danny emotionally.

Then there's the variation on the traditional vivisection fic in which Danny isn't emotionally rejected and stripped of his humanity by his own parents. But instead captured and stripped of his human rights by the government, either by his parents unknowing actions which they stay oblivious to. Or in spite of his parent's acceptance of him, and with them helpless to rescue or protect him from the government's torturous "research".

There's the already existing variation of grooming and SA fics, where Vlad grooms and or assaults Danny. Which have been popping up for years now, but in which all of this type of horrible abuse actually happens in the story, instead of it being an Outside POV misunderstanding what's happen like the current micro genre of fic.

There's the fics where the Fentons have just been abusive or just negligent parents Danny and Jazz's entire lives. And them hurting Danny, emotionally or physically, intentionally or accidentally, is just an extension of their already unacceptable parenting habits.

There's the edritch/body horror genre of fics where becoming half-ghost (or sometimes something else) involves at the very least the partial loss of Danny (or Vlad)'s humanity.

Hell there's one fic that's stuck with me for ages, that I read years ago, back in my teens, written from the POV of a Maddie who murdered Danny to prevent him from becoming Dan. Which is stated in that fic to be inevitable.

It's also heavily implied that Maddie had incestuous feelings for Danny the entire fic. And that she also possibly raped him in the midst of her extremely violent* vivisection murder of him. But that if she didn't rape him, at the very least, ripping him open to see his insides while he was awake and struggling got her off anyways.

So yeah, I don't know what other explanation there is to all these people who seem confused and freaked out by the various fics popping up where there's assumed SA/grooming, but actually nothing outside of canon actually happened to Danny, and the whole thing is just a misunderstanding.

Other than them being extremely new to Danny Phantom fics in general and therefore unaware of just how dark (and potentially triggering) they can be.

When there's been fics for years about SA and grooming, some of which is explicit, some of which is all implied and talked around and just as gut wrenching, and some of which is actually painted in that cringe forbidden love sort of way, for more than a literal decade now.

If you don't like it, if it makes you uncomfortable, you're just going to have to ignore or block those people, like everyone else in the Phandom who feels the way you do has done for more than a decade now.

Don't make comments to those authors that you don't like that trope, or that it makes you uncomfortable, or anything similar. Just ignore them or block them if it really bothers you that much. Because if you don't like their stuff, then rather obviously you are not their intended audience, so you need to ignore their posts and fics and keep scrolling if you're not going to block them.

*Also yes I must state it was a violent vivisection murder. Because it is clearly stated in the fic, that Vlad finds Maddie sitting outside on the porch covered in Danny's blood and viscera, and that the room she killed him in is in a similar state.

I wanna say the fic got deleted during the old Fanfiction.net purge of more adult content, even though all of the sexual abuse/incest parts of the fic where all implied and not explicit, along with the violent vivisectoin murder taking place off screen.

Though I could be wrong, and it's still out there somewhere, and possibly not exactly as I remember it. I read it more than 5 years ago now, so there's almost certainly some memory drift by this point.

#danny phantom #feeling sick of seeing all these people complaining about the current popular trope in the phandom #this goes for all the various trending tropes that pop up by the way #not just the current dpxdc SA misunderstanding trope that's popular right now #I feel the same way about people who complained about the various de-aging adoption fics that were crazy popular a while ago too #and complained about Little Baby Man fics before that #phandom has trending tropes they all pass with time #if you don't like the trending trope then you just need to avoid it #or the whole phandom for a while if it really bothers you to the point of ruining your fandom experience #like they only tend to last a couple weeks to a couple months at most #I've seen some explode and then fade out within as little as like 3 days #I've seen fast fashion trends with more staying power than some of the tropes that seem to blow up in the Phandom

[katsurakotarou]

I've been rewatching Gintama with a bit more perspective, and something that is standing out to me in these early episodes is that Gintoki is really quite young. He matures throughout the series (impossible not to, after taking in two teens), but at this point in the series, he's really, really young. Like he says, there's a child in him. Someone small and fragile, and very alone. And although he plays it up as a joke, I think part of it is that he defaults to this sort of immaturity as a shield. After all he has gone through, this is his answer.

It's only after he meets Shinpachi that he starts to come out of that shell he created for himself and I'm having a lot of feelings about this. He's suffered so much.

#when I first started watching gintama ten or so years ago Gintoki seemed like such a loser #old and unemployed at his age #looking at things from a different lens as you age really changes your perspective on things #my heart aches #he is a very sad character underneath the gags #gintama #rewatch #gintoki

[priceofreedom]

every day i go to tw!tter and every day i see my gifs reposted <3

#at least this person didn't cut out my url lmaoooooooo #i have to thank these people for the bare minimum it seems #sighhhhhh #these people are lucky i actually enjoy making gifs cause i would have stopped ages ago thanks to them #i know it's not that deep but like... it *is* discouraging #worst thing is knowing they come to tumblr just for this. they look for gifs in order to repost them on twt #they won't even reblog your creations on their blogs they are just here to steal and get RTs and likes on that website #it's just surrealistic #and some at least have the 'decency' to leave your watermark intact #cause i've seen it MANY TIMES ppl straight up removing it #thinking we the gifmakers won't notice 😭 girl i would recognize my gifs ANYWHERE #and not just mine. every FF7 gifmaker's gifs in fact #you repost from any of us and i'll notice. hope this helps

[trivalentlinks]

Let F be a Floer homology theory. For the purposes of this talk, you can assume it's any Floer homology theory you like, and if you don't like any Floer homology theory, then pretend you do like one and assume it's that one

-- a conference speaker

#floer homology #math #maths #mathblr #you really should have at least one Floer homology theory you like!! #i have for a while wanted to do a longpost about floer homology #a very cool concept that shouldn't yield anything but miraculously does #and also about the guy who came up with it (andreas floer) #who was a very interesting guy #he died in 1991 at age 34 which is usually when an academic is only starting to build their influence #and thus didn't have any phd students #and most people in the math community don't seem to have known him personally #(his wikipedia page has a section of quotes about him but they're all about his math #which is pretty much universally agreed to be one of the most striking developments of modern mathematics) #but one time they did a memorial conference a couple years ago in his honour at (uc) berkeley #where they talked about the extremely fruitful field of research he pioneered #they put up posters around campus advertising the conference that happened to have a picture of him #and apparently a bunch of old guys showed up who knew nothing about math #it turned out they were his housemates in the gay commune he used to live in #who were going for a walk around campus and saw a poster with his photo and were like #'wait isn't that our buddy who died twenty-some years ago??' #apparently they knew nothing about math so it was totally incomprehensible to them but they attended the whole conference anyway

[claitea]

porygonhd by @startistdoodles, a few doodles complete with gen 5 styled sprites!

#pokemon #porygon #clai's art #maybe i went a lil overboard but i just Really liked this concept haha #i actually have always been a little annoyed the porygon line ended at z yknow? #like dont get me wrong i love the whole porygon line but it was cool how porygon seemed to develop along with the games #so while it makes sense to stop since its a full three-pokemon evo line. why stop at a Glitched version? #i was looking at the porygon lines' bulbapedia pages while drawing this out of curiosity #and porygon-z's smash bros trophies suggest a patch was on the way. but that never happened :( #also fun thing to note is that porygon seems to have been made purely to poke fun at people lmao #bulbapedia says people told satoshi tajiri it was too late to make a game boy game and he should make games with 3d polygonal graphics #so instead he made porygon. which is techincally polygons as they told him but still in sprite form lmaooo #but does that not make right now and even better time to make an actual split-evo for porygon2? #since pokemon switched to full 3d ages ago why not commemorate that with a fixed up final porygon evo? #anyway thats my porygon rant haha #porygonhd is Such a perfect concept i would do anything to have this in a real game #EDIT: //DANG// THE SECOND AFTER I POSTED THIS I READ THE ASK ABT HOW HD CANT OPEN ITS WINGS HAJGHVDHGD #ah well. its cute here isnt it

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

1x14 | 5x13

#how the turntables #seems like ages ago #1x14 #5x13 #im not crying you are #my heart #chenford #chenfordedit #tim x lucy #tim bradford #lucy chen #melissa o’neil #eric winter #gif #gifs #gifset #the rookie #therookieedit

[dotster001]

Me: *choosing Luke's route* Aw, the teddy bear will be a nice chill route to do before I jump into Gil or Silvio's.

Me from the halfway mark through the end of Luke's route:

#ikemen prince #luke randolph #omg though #it's soooooooo much #like it's def one of my fave routes #but omg #also i played Jin's route ages ago and was like meh we would probably just be friends #but after Luke's route? #lordy lordy i get it now #this route made hims seem way more loveable to me #ah man I'm almost done with this one but i can't get over how little i was expecting this route to be this dark

[relaxxattack]

it's kind of mind blowing to me that gay marriage was legalized only a year before trump was elected

#like those two events seem so far apart. it feels like weve been able to get married for ages and trump is recent history #but no. marriage has only been legal for us for like. 8 years #8 fucking years #there are people celebrating their 50th marriage anniversaries and gay people could only start getting married 8 years ago #its kind of fucked up #it feels like it should have been legal for much longer #and it feels like we as a generation just sort of forgot how much people had to fucking fight to even get married at all #its so bizzare

[fiendishartist2]

today i bring you random tma doodles. tomorrow? who knows.......

#just me and my shitty sketchbook against the world it seems #i cant draw on my mac bc it doesnt have pen pressure bc it was made in like 2001 :( #idk if ive told the story of my shitty mac on this blog but basically: #a few years ago my cousin was like dumpster diving?? or smth?? and she found this old 2001 ish mac #so she fixed it up for me and gave it to me for my birthday #its too old to work with my tablet fully so it doesnt support pen pressure and slowly over the years its been degrading more and morw #now google freaks out if i try to visit any page that isnt my email and i cant get any other search engine to work lol #it also starts chugging when i have too many pngs in my files and gets hot enough to burn when i make too many layers in firealpaca #oh also i cant get anything other than firealpaca to work on my mac #its like having an old horse that you still make work on the farm despite the fact that it faints from heat exaustion all the time- #-and sometimes doesnt wake up the first few times you call its name. but you dont want to put it down and it refuses to die of old age #my art #doodles #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jonmartin #melanie king #i love you melanie!!!!!!!!!!!! she own my heart!!!!!!!!! #georgie barker #do they have a ship name #basira hussain #not my best basira but its so small in my sketchbook lol

[johnbly]

can't stop thinking about how in dmc jack treated james like a dog (whistling when he wanted him to start digging for the chest, the deleted scenes with giving him the other shovel to carry + having him clean his boot) and james takes it first because of wanting to stay by elizabeth but then because he was waiting for his moment to take the letters of marque + either the compass or chest and get his life back

and of course he gets the letters and the heart and gives them to beckett --

only for beckett to treat him like a dog as well ("you summoned me," the sending off/shooing gesture on the dutchman when it was time to drop off the chest, "he'll obey it's what he does") but this time james has to take it because he sees no other path

#i noticed jack's whistle big time in the dmc rewatch last weekend and i was like #dang the james as a dog thing just writes itself huh #i am. daring to put this in the tags bc it seems like the fandom does that with meta and no one has been assassinated so #james norrington #potc #no but james' face at the end of the shovel handing deleted scene if looks could kill #then again if that were the case jack would have died ages ago #i have been thinking too much about the 'you summoned me' line as well #just. davenport's delivery + his face and the way they chose 'summoned' #not 'you sent for me' or 'you asked for me' no he was summoned

[patroclusdefencesquad]

u know...the more i think about it the more convinced i am that jaskier is going to have the messiest dirtiest gay sex on screen in season 3...no i'm kidding but seriously i am convinced they're gonna let him be fruity next season

#i mean there's that possible script that RI had ages ago #where's there's the king maybe flirting with him? #there was a lot of ifs and maybes but everyone seemed convinced it was jaskier #and then with blood origin it's like they're trying to ease us (ease the homophobes) into the idea of the bard fucking men (himself) #before he gets on his knees and sucks dick in s3 #see if i get bisexual bard AND lesbians next season... #i'm not saying it'll make up for whatever else is sure to disappoint me but it'll be gosh darn close #the witcher #jaskier

[thekintsugidyke]

watched a podcast with roberta today where she talks about her coming out process and the whole figuring out she was a lesbian and it was so intense. I kept thinking about how she’s mentioned that on aloto they all contributed to the creation and backstories of the characters, and kelly has also talked about all her suggestions and the 40 page doc for Jess and how some things are so similar to herself and so on.

So it got me thinking about Lupe’s backstory AGAIN. More specifically if Roberta also drew some connection to herself with the character. The religious latine background is there in full, and it must have been Something to play it. but there’s also the late-bloomeness of it that Roberta talks about in the podcast, how much she tried to overcompensate in some things even though she wasn’t fully conscious of “oh, I’m gay”. And I can see that with Lupe so much, in how she is clearly uncomfortable with the dresses and charm school and the whole femininity performance, while at the same time showing a kind of resignation towards it, like she’d done it before and had learned how to do it in an almost adequate way, a passable way.

Bottom line is I’m still so fucking hung up on Lupe’s baggage and how little we got to see of it while also having a lot of information thrown at us. And Roberta is so fucking elusive and private even in settings where she’s there to talk about those things.

#Anyway I have absolutely no ideia what this is supposed to be #it’s almost 4am #and I should’ve gone to bed ages ago #but the bit about her getting grey hairs right after sleeping with a girl for the first time #and then after getting the grey streak #and her mom going dead ass #“you have secrets now“ #bc LatAm am i right #and apparently you start getting grey hairs when you start keeping secrets #Roberta please TALK #like whatever it’s her life obviously #but she’s SO interesting and seems to have such interesting and intelligent views on things #but she always always talks about it in such little details #never expanding too much #I GET CURIOUS #for a gemini she’s really low key with the oversharing #lupe garcía #roberta colindrez #but where’s robertas’s doc about lupe’s backstory