#my birthday alert

[theninjamouse]

I'm back in the state my family lives for a bit and my brother had a seizure while I was driving him to his music class. Had to throw on my hazard lights and jump into the back because the seatbelt was choking him. I was already at a stop light thank goodness so people could just go around us. He's ok, it was a quick one so I'm just keeping an eye on him while he sleeps it off.

But I think I hurt my neck climbing through the car, or maybe when I whipped my head back at the start of it cause now I can't turn my head at all. I'm just lying on the floor trying not to move. Getting older stinks I tell ya what.

Anyway, we're still trying to raise money for his seizure alert dog so to all my new followers~

The amount raised already is the only reason we've been able to move forward the process at all. The dog is currently in training, and we should hopefully get her by the end of the year or early next year. This fundraiser now is to help ease the burden of the debt on my parents since they still have to make several more payments.

#my freaking neck #ugh and right before my birthday too #pwease it's my birthday help a mouse's brother out #seizure alert dog #fundraiser

[novuit]

Extremely late but I had to draw something for his birthday this year </3

#I imagined this happening to Arthur #it was funnier in my head tbh #hetalia #hws england #aph england #Drawing birthday art for England always brings me bad luck #this year was the emergency alert test and then getting horribly sick the very next day #the alert for me was a minute early i nearly shat my pants #my art

[stellabyystarlight]

happy azami day!! 💄🫶

#a3! #act addict actors #a3! game #a3! fanart #autumn troupe #akigumi #azami izumida #HAPPY BIRTHDAY AZAMI !!!! #another traditional a3 drawing hehe #azami is one of my favs i love him SO MUCH #I wasn't planning on making bday fanart but i had some free time and decided to take advantage of it hehe #ill post in around a week again 🫡 spoiler alert its gonna be azami again 😭 #cequi_art

[alastor-simp]

Status Update!

The Angel Dust Birthday Smut is in the making :) Hope you all are ready

#stay tuned #coming soon #new story coming soon #new story alert #story in progress #story in the works #angel dust #angel dust x reader #angel dust birthday x reader #angel dust hazbin hotel #hazbin angel dust #hazbin hotel #hazbinhotel #hazbin #happy hotel #x reader #status update #typing #original writing #my fellow readers #my readers #hazbin hotel x reader #smut story #smut readers #smutty fanfiction #fanfiction writer #new fanfic

[natureaker]

Thanks FEMA for the birthday wishes! Next time can the noise be a little less annoying? It went off while my grandma was at church and now the pastor thinks she's going to super hell.

#personal #it's my birthday #I'm 21 now #emergency alert system #FEMA

[disfordevineaux]

Brooo naurrr like I did not just add more paragraphs to a fic I posted in JANUARY of 2021. Because that would be super mega cringe on an ultimate level one can not comprehend. I can't keep getting away with this I'm gnawing at the bars of my poorly secured enclosure

#why write something new and fresh when i can use 16% of my brain power to update something thats already there and get the same serotonin #high way robbery #new fic alert oh sorry no its the same one from 3 years ago i keep adding too yet claim its completed #on my hands and knees #and he did it at my birthday dinner #chase devineaux #carmen sandiego #disfordevineaux #cs 2019 #carmen sandiego netflix #julia argent #carmen sandiego 2019

[jeepgurl71]

A few of my sexy man's birthday pictures to me @virtualnuthideout

#my sexy man #for the birthday girl #hot dad alert #hot as hell #hot nude

[drgnbnd]

x it's not enough that the Light destroyed us all

#marth fire emblem #roy fire emblem #world of light #ssb #roymarth #fe archanea #binding blade #fe6 #fleet #once again happy birthday to meee #SORRYYYY I KEEP DRAWING THE SAME FIC but at least its a different chapter #it looks like im just trying to promote my old fic but i genuinely want to do smth for each chapter #but i cannot prioritise. i have other things to illustrate too!!! #spoiler alert this is from ch8!!

[starbritez]

Hi guyyys!! I’m finally home from running around all day. I promise I’d do a little meet the artist/face reveal thingy for my birthday and here it is!! So here’s a little bit about me.. and my face ig ^^

(Alt outfit I drew for the sillies…cuz Halloween)

And here’s a little photodump of me from the last couple months!! Also cuz I don’t think I’ve ever posted my face here??? I should do that

#ermmm this flops….. #it’s my birthday 🌝 #art #meet the artist #more like #meet the fartist ha ha ha. ha. aha. #Ermm idk how to tag this #doodle #face reveal #sorta kinda I guess #birthday boy #gay person alert #I look kinda deranged but like that’s the vibe #my name is Andrew but. everyone calls me Andy so #digital art #doodle page

[tempest-teacups]

the house is white, and the lawn is dead

#ocs #the cold #hi. new freak alert i love this asshole #it was shiva [pmv]'s birthday today but i didnt have any good ideas for what to do about it. so this guy #posting about this fucking guy on my main i just love him. what if you lost your sense of self to your overwhelming sense of misery 💯💯💯 #i got this bg image from a resource carrd. tineye is telling me its from rabooots on tumblr i literally owe you my life

[mildmayfoxe]

hahaha hey you guys guess what. you'll never believe it. got the guy who's in charge of my fraud case on the phone and he was like "who'd you give one-time security codes to yesterday" and i was like "the guy who called me from the fraud department after they noticed a weird login in florida??" and he was like "that was the fuckin hacker. you got got. IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!" i handed my entire savings over to a fucking guy on the phone on a silver platter. like some kind of fuckin rube. bro

#IT IS OK THOUGH I HAVE BEEN SORTING IT OUT #account is LOCKED DOWN! card is DELETED! fraud paperwork has been FILED! i have requested a fraud alert AND credit freeze #from the NATIONAL CREDIT BUREAU! #a friend of mine is taking me to MAINE next saturday to go to the BANK! i sent an email to my landlord asking if i can pay rent by CHECK! #i went to my other bank and deposited my BONDS! so i have some MONEY! to pay RENT! #i also got a new debit card from them. and made sure i could use my old checks. #i also bought some STAMPS while i was out and a BIRTHDAY PRESENT for a FRIEND #now i am going to start switching over some auto deposits #so when i get my paycheck on tuesday i will actually get it. #i feel so STUPID but i think i have done all i can to fix this. i am feeling better about it #by next weekend i will have my money again. it's all fine #and hopefully next time i will not get got so easily. lol. #anyway dont get got by people pretending to be your bank i guess. i did think it was weird how many questions they asked but.. #they ALWAYS ask lots of questions at the bank!!!!! #i got a text message FROM the bank saying they would be calling me soon and then the next call was from the scammer #and then like a half hour later got one from the bank and was confused bc they'd just 'called me' #anyway. it'll be fine. scary for a while but at least i have things i can do to make it better. it's all good #genuinely feeling like i ought to take out like a thousand bucks cash and keep it in my desk to replace my bonds tho tbh hahah #just in case something like this happens again. you never know. what would i have done if i DIDNT have those yknow #ok thank u all for being along on this journey with me

[luxury-nightmare]

tumblr has babygirlified this man. They also turned him into a vampire

#across the spiderverse #miguel o'hara #spiderman 99 #Tbh we had our work cut out for us #Man’s is double cheeked up on a Thursday afternoon #Packing some serious birthday cake #“Spider people I’m trying to capture the anomaly but the clap of my asscheeks keeps alerting morales”

[dykehayleywilliams]

let your spotify predict your 2024! shuffle your on repeat playlist and the first twelve songs represent your 2024! thank you for the tag my dearest @userparamore 💕

january: home by now - muna february: helena - mcr march: football - another michael april: piece of me - britney spears may: vienna - billy joel june: i bet on losing dogs - mitski july: red wine supernova - chappell roan august: i don't like my mind - mitski september: kill her freak out - samia october: big wheel - samia november: higher lonesome - willi carlisle december: bridge over troubled water - simon & garfunkel

tagging if yall would like to share 💕 @futurelovur @julicnbaker @queenoftherodeoo @killherfreakout

#spoiler alert: it's not looking great! #i bet on losing dogs my birthday month.... yeah #manifesting something gay to happen to me in july though PLEASE

[compacflt]

I have an anecdote about when I worked for a company and a co-worker left to work in a different state on military aircraft. He had to get a TS clearance and because we had worked for several years together he asked if I would be okay with being interviewed for his clearance. I said sure and an interviewer w the gov, arranged to come to my place of work and conduct the interview there. I was asked questions about him like how well did I know him, and whatever answer I gave led to more specific questions like if I answered a question about knowing his wife, they would ask if I thought his marriage sounded secure etc.

This memory of that experience was on my mind while I read your story and I wondered who Iceman would choose for his TS clearance interviews (and who the gov would choose for him) and what would they say? I feel like their "secret" would be uncovered in even a low level clearance (years later I had to submit names for a low level Public Trust clearance for my job) It was so embarrassing because I did not have many friends I was comfortable submitting for that as I kept my work and home life very separate.

Anyway, that is my "cool story, bro"

Thank you for such a great and well researched story!

this is indeed a cool story bro and touches on what is literally my story’s fatal flaw, which is: Yeah, a shitload of people would’ve known about it. I am going to hijack your question to talk about that, so my apologies, though i will get around to your question by the end. This is gonna be a really long post. I have a lot to say and a lot of ground to cover.

So I wanna start out by talking about the structure of this story and its core conflict, because while I’d like to say this story is rooted in an accurate depiction of the US military, obviously that’s not true; it’s rooted in the dynamic of the story that i wanted to tell, which is the story of a guy coming to realize the truth behind a Big Lie—him passing as straight. And that’s a pretty universal story, but it’s made more specific by the fact that a) the guy canonically wants to be the best in an institution that enforces the Big Lie and b) the guy canonically is so successful because he follows the rules/orders of that institution. So, for character growth, to put it simply, the guy (Ice) has to come to the conclusion that the Big Lie is a lie by himself. He can’t be told/ordered that the Big Lie is a lie, otherwise he hasn’t grown out of “just following orders.” (I’ll get to the Big Lie in a second. I made charts and story structure graphs below.)

The only other story about a Big Lie I can think of off the top of my head right now is Passing (1929) by Nella Larsen, which is about a Black woman in Chicago trying to pass as both white and straight. It’s a great book and I’ll try not to spoil it, you should really read it for yourself, but the terminology I’m going to use in this post comes from an analysis of it, so just to bring you up to speed—Clare, the woman trying to pass as white, is recognized by a friend, another Black-but-passing woman, Irene, who is shocked that Clare has abandoned her heritage (the truth of her, that is) and married a hyper-racist white man who doesn’t even know that she’s Black. So the book sets up a dynamic of the Big Lie that I’ve outlined here (hopefully it makes sense):

I built on this dynamic for my fic. Ice is both a “dupe” and a “passing figure,” in that he believes the lie that he is straight and also passes for straight—but it’s also more complicated than that because he’s not actually straight (getting to that). Mav is an “in-group clairvoyant” and can recognize Ice as passing because he is also straight-passing. The Navy are a bunch of “dupes.” But…what is Slider, for instance, or your question’s hypothetical government official who, yes, will 100% find out because people always find out?

In comes my ginormous-and-overly-wordy WWGATTAI Plot and Character Dynamic Summary Graph. You don’t really have to read it all, the only important bits for this discussion are the leftmost column (“plot”) and the green quadrant (“out-group clairvoyants”).

To summarize—people who know the truth can’t actually act on it, because for Ice’s character growth to make sense, he has to come to the truth himself. This forecloses the possibility of any outwardly homophobic action (by which I mean someone like a govt official or one of my lame OCs actually challenging him on his illegal relationship) in the plot, because for 90% of the story Ice is so fragile that he would probably just cave immediately and double down on the internalized homophobia. So, for plot purposes, everyone—including Mav, as it happens—has to sort of tiptoe around Ice’s obvious not-straightness and give him an unreasonable amount of grace so he can figure it out for himself. 

And therein lies the fatal flaw of this story. It is, like, not conceptually viable. Of course people would find out, of course the government would interrogate him about it, of course he’d have to confront the truth much sooner than TWENTY-FIVE years after he first starts messing around with Mav.  Which literally breaks my heart because I didn’t realize it was a fundamentally busted story until long after I had finished writing the base plot & couldn’t fix the overarching problems 😭 The thing is, it had to be this way, because there is at least a thirty-year gap between TG86 and TGM22, and TGM is obviously the emotional climax of the series and my story had to match that. So—fanfic and its canon constraints, everyone. 

But also… I can explain away these logical inconsistencies with story structure & character dynamic graphs to make the story make sense, sure, but it doesn’t change the truth of the matter, which is that… I hadn’t ever really thought about things like security clearances, and therefore wrote around them because I didn’t even know to consider them. And I know there are a bunch of other details in this story that betray my immaturity (anytime I talk about alcohol, for instance—I still am not legal to drink in this stupid country & have only cheap bad experiences to draw on; THE HOUSE—if i could rewrite this story from the beginning they would not have bought a fucking house together, what was I thinking???) and the lack of thought about the real-life logistics and consequences of secrecy is one of them. 

And it’s exactly what I mean when I say “I look at this story and all I see are its flaws,” which is why I wanted to write this post & get it on record. I have just enough life experience to read my own writing and know that it’s fundamentally unconvincing, and not enough life experience to know how to fix it. :(

But, to answer your original question, you’ve got me brainstorming a scene where Ice is asking Slider to be his character witness & Slider’s like “Look bro do you want me to lie to the federal government under oath for you because I will” and Ice has to be like “Legally I cannot ask that of you but”

#in case you couldnt tell it really bothers me #idk what the age range of the ppl who read my fics is but i knoooow there are #some parts of this story where you read it and you go #yeah a little kid wrote that #if you asked me what a 401k is with a gun to my head i could not tell you #so the fact that people care about my opinions on these like really grown up adult problems is #literally like the highest compliment ever #but i feel bad that i don’t have the life experience to give a convincing answer & i apologize for that #ive grown up so much & so quickly working on this project both as a writer and as a person & so thankful for that #but it also means that i look back on even recent work & say WTF LITTLE KID ALERT #so #sorry i turned your question into a fiction lecture #but lol that’s like the one thing i actually AM a little bit qualified to talk about #and your question represents like the fundamental fatal flaw of the story i have spent literally 100s of hours on #so I wanted to talk about it #thank you for the ask <3333333 #my birthday is in a couple days so just thinking about getting older lol #edts notes #top gun #top gun maverick #icemav #tom iceman kazansky #asks #hope to one day put this energy into like a job or sumn

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

July Haul, or: Wow, I'm So Good At Acquiring Books In Moderation, Huh.

#spoiler alert: I Am Not #books #book haul #maybe cold turkey ban months are also no good for me lol because then i do shit like this literally the next two weeks #I HAVE A DEFENSE IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR IT: #black helicopters and tindalos are books 2 and 3 in a series i really liked book 1 of #silence and home are from my first visit to my local indie IRL (never mind how much i've bought from them online) #garden was a preorder from A Long Time Ago (i forgot about it) #wake up was because i had to buy a birthday present for someone and i figured i could get one (1) impulse purchase also #i did have a coupon for HOME and SILENCE #and black helicopters is actually used!!! so that was nice #cheaper lol #black helicopters #the tindalos asset #caitlin r kiernan #always coming home #ursula k. le guin #feed them silence #lee mandelo #and then i woke up #malcolm devlin #a half-built garden #ruthanna emrys

[cocotome]

Happy birthday to Ikemen Vampire's Shakespeare!

#nov 2023 #twitter #ikemen vampire #shakespeare #seiyuu #hirakawa daisuke #hirarin #my bae for life 😍😍 #bias alert #my fav dai-chan #how many of hirarins caharacters #have 11/11 as their birthday #so funny #also #a lot of his characters #have purple as their main color