#ok off the top of my head:

[lovely-v]

Fuck it, Green Day anti-America compilation

#veesaysthings #last one ok #and these are all just off the top of my head there’s definitely more #yes these are all different songs #Green Day

[garden-bug]

Is being critical of Sabine’s force sensitivity ‘gatekeeping’ the force or it is about how it undermines the established magic system and was not well written?

I’ll give you a clue it’s the second one.

#Ahsoka critical #saw a post about this and I absolutely value the sentiment that the force shouldn’t be ‘gatekept’ BUT #as a writer I cannot abide by the execution #the character arc was not set up or executed effectively #if it had been foreshadowed ok #if it had been better executed maybe #but ultimately the mandalorian identity is integral to her character and the change would take a lot of writing work #can be done but yeah it’s drastic #as Brandon Sanderson would say: #“a writers ability to solve problems by magic is directly proportional to how well the reader understands said magic” #quoted off the top of my head but yeah #taught my 8yr old sister this recently #she gets it #filoni why’s it so hard for u huh #Star Wars critical #pro jedi #bc I like these guys #ahsoka series #Star Wars #do I dare tag Star Wars? yes I do

[artisticdysfunction]

when will people realize. when will people fucking realize that there's more to fucking RAMCOA than the satanic panic bullshit.

cults count as RAMCOA.

trafficking humans of any kind is RAMCOA.

gangs and cartels can absolutely inflict RAMCOA.

there is so much more to RAMCOA then the youtube video essays about the satanic panic. RAMCOA is a spectrum of experiences. it's not some mythical shit you only see in gratuitous horror movies. it's real and it happens every fucking day.

#syscourse #ok to reblog #jaiden speaks #ramcoa #cult tw #trafficking tw #gangs tw #cartel tw #this is just what i know off the top of my head #but yeah. i absolutely hate it when people think ramcoa is just the satanic panic bullshit and nothing else. #and this isnt even mentioning the times where the US government commited this against their citizens #yeah.

[deathsweetblossoms]

Things I can’t stop thinking about, HOFAS edition:

Ithan and Perry. Hello, I am RIDE OR DIE for them.

Aidas in the scene when Bryce finally opens the rift and he’s standing there wearing stark black? MARRY ME.

Lidia nuzzling Ruhn in her deer form before running off and saying nothing

Similarly, Ruhn going INSANE after she takes off

Ace & Bran taking to Ruhn easily, and Ruhn making sure they had a room at his and Lidia’s apartment omfg

Tharion/Sathia/Colin??? Sarah. I’m not sure how you’ve made me want a Many Waters book just so I can see this play out, but I need it now.

Flynn & Sathia’s earth magic

(Why is Flynn single 😩)

Perry being an artist who has had to assimilate to a reality where she’s expected to be a warrior

Ruhn crying over hearing his friends voices after getting out of the dungeons

Pollux’s “heavy cock” 👀…

The amount of times Bryce & Hunt say ILY to each other

The princes of Hel in their monster forms. I need Prince of Hel monster romance and I need it now.

Connor.

Lehabah (the scene that actually broke me).

Jesiba’s last words to Bryce

Azriels wingspan … canonically taking up the entire width of the cave? Help. Me.

The princes of the pit trying to keep the black hole rift open before everyone else joins them to help.

Tears on Aidas’s face when everyone thinks Bryce is gone

Perry staying behind for Ithan EVERY SINGLE TIME. EVERY TIME.

Ithan liking her laugh? Being jealous of Flynn???!? OMG

#just … #these are just the things off the top of my head ok #there was so much more #she did SUCH AN AMAZING JOB with this book just omfg #hofas

[veryluckyclovers]

oh Im a daydream girl. I spend everyday w/ my head in the clouds. reality is my canvas for my imagination

#my art #art #traditional art #portrait #puppy #bunny #doodle #writing #I wrote this off the top my head I think it makes sense but if it doesn’t it’s ok

[dimensionzero]

more atsv things that haunt me: pav doesn't originally have a watch.

#see one thing that confused me was that gwen stole bens watch before she sent him home like she already had hobies why does she need another #well. turns out it was probably because several members of the spiderband dont have their own either #(off the top of my head --- noir and ham werent at HQ so they dont seem to have been part of the spiderman society #pav as seen above didnt have one despite being in the society and hobie took his off when he quit) #so gwen probably had to track down quite a few extras actually unless hobie had a backlog of counterfeit multiverse watches on his hands #across the spiderverse #across the spiderverse spoilers #pavitr prabhakar #ok but the REAL thing i was thinking about with this post is that pav doesnt seem to know about canon events either #and despite jessica implying they had a way to contact him he also does not come back to HQ with the rest of the kids after the Spot Debacl #he doesnt seem to be able to multiverse-travel at all until gwen recruits him into the spiderband #so the implication here is that miguel doesnt generally let people become full members of spider society with all the associated privileges #unless hes sure that they'll be vulnerable and/or traumatize enough to buy into the ideology. which is kind of fucked up!

[n64gamepak]

I made a post earlier about how I believe Luigi is autistic, and I want to elaborate on it a bit!

Please keep in mind, having these traits doesn't necessarily mean you have autism. Not only that, I'll be analyzing Luigi using my own personal symptoms and traits as an autistic adult. It's important to mention that autism is a spectrum, and how one autistic person may present could be vastly different to another autistic person.

I'll be focusing on Luigi's portrayal in the recent Super Mario Bro's Movie, since that is his most recent portrayal, along with some general personality traits commonly seen throughout the games

This may include spoilers. Read at your own risk.

In the Mario Bro’s plumbing commercial, Luigi seems physically awkward- Almost like he doesn’t know how to position his body, and comes off as physically awkward.

Luigi tends to lacks balance, as seen when he nearly slides off the van in their Plumbing commercial when leaning against it. Not only that, Luigi is commonly portrayed as clumsy. He trips over his feet, loses his balance, and just is overall not physically comfortable in his body. Autistic people sometimes are physically clumsy, and we tend to easily lose our balance, trip, and bump into things.

In the scene with Mario and Spike bickering, Luigi seems to not understand what is socially acceptable to say, or what might be deemed “embarrassing” to admit. He seems to lack social skills, and tends to let Mario do the socializing (or guide him through it)

Adding onto that, in the scene immediately after where They have their first customer- Luigi, again, says the supposedly wrong thing, and backtracks when Mario panics.

Overall when Luigi speaks, he tends to stammer and seem awkward and almost lacks confidence in his speaking skills. Some autistic people struggle with verbal communication, sometimes even going fully mute. Autistic people might also be prone to stuttering and fully restarting our sentences. Sometimes the words that leave our mouth don't match the words we want to say in our brain!

Luigi tends to do the classic “T-Rex” arm pose throughout the movie, usually defaulting to it.

From a general point of view, Luigi is often portrayed as very sensitive and overly empathetic, and some autistic people are very emotional and highly empathetic to the ones around them, even if they don’t physically show it.

There's probably so much more, and this is just from what I remember right off the top of my head from the movie.. I would love to do a bigger, more in depth analysis on Luigi and how he exhibits many autistic traits. I'd love to know if others would prefer a more indepth, deeper analysis of this too.

#super mario #super mario bros #super mario brothers #the super mario bros movie #mario movie #mugs rambles #luigi #autism #autistic luigi #i hold autistic luigi very close to me and these were all the traits right off the top of my head. theres probably alot i forgot to mention #ermmmm this might suck but its ok :3

[zeravmeta]

we give garp a lot of (rightly deserved) shit but unironically like 90% of the criticisms towards him i see not only ignore the wider worldbuilding context of one piece but also don't acknowledge how sengoku is like the worst friend ever

#like in the world of OP its fully acknowledged and present that most pirates are like Kidd (ie violent against normal citizens) #and Garp is stated to be one of the pillars preserving peace not unlike how Whitebeard also did #but even then theres like 4 moments in marineford off the top of my head where garp WAS gonna betray the Marines #and it was Sengoku holding him back snd trapping him each time #and even beyond all this one of the themes behind marineford is that they all chose their paths and have to live with the consequences #luffy and ace chose their paths knowing full well it would make garp their enemy and garp had his hands tied entirely at marineford #and even then garp let luffy pass him!! garp could have easily stopped luffy and didn't. like he did choose them in the end as well #anyways garp does absolutely deserve a sock in the jaw because he strikes me as someone who wanted to change the system from the inside #but he failed. and like for all that koby and smoker are 'good' marines theres also not nearly the same amount of criticism towards them for #yknow. working for the marines knowing full well theyre a horrible organization #in any case i want to punch garp and strangle sengoku. oh ace is too evil to leave alive but law is perfectly ok huh sengoku???? #one piece #zerav meta #garp

[shibaraki]

STATUS UPDATES: GOING INTO 2024

2023 has been rough for me in all manner of ways but I will say it has been very fruitful with regards to my writing. I managed surpass my goal of 100k words, reaching an unfathomable 150k at present, and I’ve even managed to hit a big milestone when it comes to my following! I’m extremely grateful to all my readers, both those that have stuck with me and those who are new, and I wish I had adequate words to really express that. but going into 2024 I will likely be writing less frequently than I did this year. this is due to my own health, and a multitude of other problems that I can no longer keep on the back burner.

plenty of you have seen mentions of hospital visits and procedures on my blog, and while I’m not very comfortable oversharing about medical stuff I do want to be transparent about the fact that I will be posting fics less because of it. I’ve been in and out of semi hiatus for the better part of 4 months but I was always awful at sticking to it. next year I want to actually give myself grace, and take care of my body.

please do not fear!!! this resolution actually aligns perfectly with my writing goals for 2024. I want to focus on lengthening my word counts. I’d love to post fewer fics, but to have said fics be 25 to 50k respectively, rather than to post a lot of 1 to 15k fics. mostly I want to work on my own impatience when it comes to writing, and berate myself less for what I think I should be doing writing-wise. I will still be around on here, and I always want to talk with you guys (and read whenever the mood strikes!!), the biggest difference is I’ll have longer projects, and you’ll have to wait for them (though if I’m honest I will likely still post a shorter fic here and there lol).

I appreciate the patience a lot of you have already shown me this year, what with my random breaks and gaps between posting. you have all been so so kind and generous with your praise and I wouldn’t be here, writing and sharing, without that support. I love you all and wish you well going into the new year!!!!!

edited: 18/12/23

#prev tags from original post -> #if you’ve sent me an ask I’m sorry I haven’t answered yet #I am very bad at taking breaks like idk how to chill so here’s hoping this helps LMAO #how many reminders can I fit in my tags #remember to drink water and take your medication and eat when you’re hungry #remember to open your curtains and let air into your space and go outside sometimes if u can #remember to take breaks from ur screen and roll your wrists! especially if you work at a desk #stop sucking in your stomach it’s bad for you and your stomach is hot anyway why lie #remember your friends love you and keep you around bc they love you and not bc of what you do for them #nobody is mad at you and I’m happy you’re here #ok that’s all the ones off the top of my head #I’m the creature on ur shoulder whispering all this to you

[robertfripp]

la grabación del álbum de nito mestre “20/10” de 1981

#there are a lot of people to tag. #pedro aznar #nito mestre #david lebón #charly garcía #ruben rada #alfredo toth #juan carlos fontana #ok that’s what i remember off the top of my head #frippost #serú girán #sui generis #rock nacional #rock argentino

[3rdmeasurement]

Heeeyyyy, I'm so so intrigued by your hockey posting. I'd love to know more about Fedorov, like what's the lore, what makes him special? Have a nice day/ night <333

good morning/afternoon/evening anon! since you asked so nicely i'll try my best but i do tend to forget everything i know when i have to actually explain it. there is a lot of lore tho so i'm not gonna go over all of it (mainly the bits that interest me the most + some other stuff). i guess what really makes him special (at least to me) is the fact that we don't get players like this anymore. and i'm not talking playing style here (the impact of euro hockey players of the 90s on the nhl today is still so obviously there). a lot of his early career was directly impacted by cold war politics, and since those circumstances haven't existed for a while now, we don't get this insane type of backstories and lore anymore. i should also make it clear that i'm a massive nerd who sat in classrooms for years learning abt soviet stuff which i think definitely has an impact on who My Guys are

seriously there is a lot under the cut so be warned because i did get carried away with myself A Lot (i literally wrote over 1k words on this. sorry in advance)

ok so. sergei started playing "pro" hockey in the soviet union in the mid 80s (i don't think this is the place to explain whether these players were pro or amateur so will leave it like that), first in minsk (only for a year) before being picked up by cska moscow- the central army team. these guys made up most of the national team, which can probably be explained by the fact that their head coach also coached the national team (god that's a bit of a mouthful, but incredibly relevant). he wasn't the only rookie on the team that season; another kid (i think they were both like 16 at the time ?) called alex mogilny had also just arrived in moscow. they would become good friends. sergei would play three seasons for cska before being called up for the national team- he was going to the 1989 world championship. alex would be there, too, having already played on the team before. naturally, the ussr won gold (as they did almost every year). but that doesn't mean everything was good with the players. not long too after the tournament, some of the older players would finally get permission to play in the nhl, but for the younger guys it was looking like they had no way of getting out any time soon. in the days between the end of the championship and the soviet team's flight home, mogilny apparently approached fedorov and asked him to go to america with him- sergei said no, worried about what would happen to his family. alex would go anyway, disappearing for a few days before popping up in buffalo ready to join the sabres. (this might seem irrelevant right now but it's actually really not- i'm getting there now)

that same summer, sergei would be drafted in the fourth round by detroit. this choice may or may not have been influenced by steve yzerman telling them sergei was better than him. after a bit of back and forth, they got him to defect after cska played a series of games in north america. it literally sounds like the type of shit they write in spy films it was fucking mental. this made him only the second soviet to defect in order to play in the nhl i'm pretty sure (defo the second in like 18 months- funnily enough it was his bestie who was the first one. what a coincidence), but they weren't the first two from the other side of the iron curtain to do that. might be wrong but i think that honour goes to the stastny brothers. anyway. when sergei got to detroit he wore 91 because he wanted to "be like stevie" or some insane shit like that. which i literally think about all the time. like seriously what was that about sergei.

okok can't not talk about the russian five so doing that now. since idk how much you know about hockey i'll do a better job on this bit. after sergei arrived in detroit, management must've figured they could get more russians. over the next couple of years they got vladimir konstantinov (who was drafted the same year as sergei) and slava kozlov to make the jump to the states. since i'm mainly talking about sergei i won't go into how they got those two but it's just as unbelievable as you'd expect. after the 1994-95 lockout, the wings traded for another russian- slava fetisov. if you ever want to learn about soviet hockey you'll hear a lot about this guy, and for good reason too. he won two olympic gold medals and seven world championships with the soviet union, and captained most of those teams. obviously adding a guy with that much experience winning was a smart choice imo, even if he hadn't won anything in the nhl yet. by now the wings had four russian players- why not add a fifth ? in 1994 the wings were embarrassed in the playoffs, losing to san jose. it just happened that sj happened to have two of the older soviets who had fought for the right to play in north america. one of them was igor larionov- probably the smartest guy to ever play hockey. it was his tactics (and refusal to change his style of play) that led to his team's success in the first round. and i guess detroit didn't ever want to deal with that again because they ended up trading for the guy in the first part of the 1995-96 season. the russian five first played together in calgary, where they played that style of soviet hockey that nhlers could never really wrap their heads around at the time. they walked all over the flames in their own building, and would continue to do the same to the rest of the league. the five would be a key part of the 1997 stanley cup-winning team, which was the first wings team to lift the cup in over forty years.

sergei stayed to win a few more cups, and then left the city. he signed w the ducks in anaheim, bleached his hair and moved out to california (i think we can all resonate with wanting to change our appearance and move thousands of miles away from where we've spent over a decade building out lives amiright). from what i can tell, this move was Not Liked by detroit's owners (honestly i can't see any other reason his number hasn't been retired there). he'd bounce around a couple more nhl teams before going back to russia to play on the same team as his brother, eventually retiring in 2012.

jumping to 2015, that year's hockey hall of fame inductees included sergei (and nick lidstrom, one of his detroit teammates and one of the best defencemen to every play the game). it was basically a 90s wings reunion. in sergei's induction speech, he did like everyone else and thanked a bunch of people who helped him out throughout his career. and, you know, it was all the expected stuff (hockey guys can be so predictable sometimes), but "to my captain, steve yzerman" still fucking gets me. it had been twelve years since he'd worn a wings jersey. my captain. i think you get my point but i'm gonna have to stop there because i can't carry on and be remotely normal about it.

oh and in 2021, after spending a few years bouncing around random jobs for the team, cska announced that fedorov would be taking over as head coach. he went back to the team where all this started. now i don't know how exactly he is with his team but i sure hope he learned enough from his days there as a player under tikhonov on exactly how not to treat your players. cska won back to back gagarin cups (the trophy awarded to the khl team who wins the playoffs) in sergei'd first two seasons behind the bench, and they're probably looking to make it a threepeat with the playoffs starting today (?)

#ok so i did start this last night but it got a bit messy because i was so tired so had to redo it this morning. sorry it took so long #but when i say there's so much lore. i mean there is So Much Lore #tl;dr to me what makes him Special is his early days in the soviet union/his defection and his role in the russian five (and by extension #the championship teams in detroit in the late 90s) #oh and @ my wings mutuals if i got anything wrong help me out i did this all off the top of my head and don't have the time to fact check #everything

[koravelliumavast]

when an album tells a story that weaves throughout the songs but the songs can also stand alone just as beautifully as they are together.

#ok so i actually only know of one album like this off the top of my head. #dear wormwood #the oh hellos #but STILL #whats the name for it. i know there is one. #music

[jesskasb]

faerghus four

#fe3h #fire emblem 3 houses #fire emblem three houses #faerghus four #goddd ill tag everybody and hope i get their names right off the top of my head #sylvain #sylvain jose gautier #dimitri #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #ingrid #ingrid brandl galatea #ok i had to look up that middle name sorry who names their kid brandl #felix #felix hugo fraldarius #sorry mutuals back on my bullshit #alexchanting

[dol--blathanna]

And then she used the bad outfits to wipe out half the universe

#ok i will try to stop being mean about TWN i swear #it's just that i can't get these godawful costumes out of my head #like ok i don't get book accuracy i don't get yennefer treated fairly i don't get a good edge of the world i don't even get good aguaras #can i AT LEAST get good costumes???? #then lucinda broke into my house spat in my face and said no #and i know i'm being mean but it just sucks that the direction of the costumes and the style of the designer is one that i ABSOLUTELY HATE #and to top it all off there's no real cohesion with the outfits and the world #or even the outfits and the characters themselves #lucinda's interpretations and justifications behind the costumes is just one that i don't particularly like #like if there was good reasoning behind them but they weren't executed well then i wouldn't be as disappointed #or if the reasoning was stupid but the costumes actually looked good (or good enough to not completely break my immersion) #that would be at least something #but I get NEITHER #also shout out to two outfits that didn't make the cut: #the stupid fucking bright purple cloak while yennefer is on the run (does not fit in with the practicality of the narrative or character) #and the leaf/constellation (?) dress in 203 that looks like it's five seconds away from slipping off and flashing us all #it's a nice dress in isolation but for me at least really doesn't work with what's happening in the scene narratively or for yen's characte #anti twn #twn critique #twn critical #twn negativity #anti witcher netflix

[soldier-poet-king]

'im doing so well! I'm never happy or motivated in January!'

I was soon to realize the folly of this hubris however....

#Was it mild mania?? who knows!!! #i cried at work this morning!!! #its ok I still am gonna be the buff gnc butch of my dreams #but like the shine of mania has worn off #and now im just kinda tired and my head hurts and my heart hurts and im weepy #i hate being weepy but i am fundamentally a weepy person #spotify. play mistki abbey on repeat. 🤡 #gonna workout and then embroider when i get home. and pretend i do not feel like a fake non person :)))) #u know its bad bc i am no longer hungry. i always stop feeling hungry when the mania fades #tmi ngl folks but i think i probablt have pmdd on top of all my other brain shit #bc its like my prozac just. stops working. i could just not be taking it for a few days every month #ONCE AGAIN. ANOTHER REASON I DONT NEED OR WANT THIS SHIT. FUCK THE GENDER OF IT FR #the duality of Fran

[cleromancy]

the most dadlike Bruce ever was to tim was when tim couldnt reach him & was desperately trying to bc he wanted him to come back & fix everything, and when the first thing bruce did when he got back was leave again

#🤷 #dc #not that these things were like. actually Bad bruce moments lmao tjey were fine.these were ok actually #but this is the only new earth time i can think of off the top of my head that tim had like #anything resembling dadlike expectations *of Bruce* for bruce to let him down with #and boy did buce EVER deliver 🦇