#ooc. / people are strange.

[nofacednerd]

the Lower Decks/SNW crossover really dared to ask the question of what would happen if Starfleet’s most autistic soldier got thrown right in the middle of his special interest

#star trek #star trek lower decks #star trek strange new worlds #Star Trek strange new worlds spoilers #bradward boimler #then they also threw starfleets most adhd soldier into the mix #'everyone talks so SLOW and QUIET its WEIRD' babes youre extremely neurodivergent #tbh i was NOT expecting this to mostly be a boimler episode I thought mariner was going to get the spotlight but yknow what good for him #it makes sense tho i think Boimler is a character that feels very much like a representation of fandom and like #him pointing out people being ooc and the POV shots just sort of confirmed it LMAO

[hodpod]

Meet Jovia!

Jovia is a fantasy faire enthusiast with a love of swordplay and duels. He's a gentle soul who will gladly pose for a picture.

Another fascination of his is heavy armor, which he dons as a costume for fun. He has a custom made set with his family crest embossed on it. Speaking of which, he's really quite proud of his heritage, having come from a distant country with a large agricultural scene. Now he lives in Tercula to admire the sea and engage in the faire scene!

#ooc #jovia #he's a recent addition! #would you guess he's based off of a dark souls character? #a friend and I like to do strange things with that game and it results in vibrant characters sometimes #also: he was born a unicorn! #most folks in Tercula have had themselves augmented with magic to be cool creatures and animal folk #but there are plenty of people just born that way after the magic came back in full swing #maybe i'll make a post on that #oh fun fact as well #Jovia is asexual and aromantic!

[feroluce]

Thinking tonight about Caelus, and the nature of his loss and his grief after the Everything that went down in Penacony during 2.0.

Because Acheron, Black Swan, and Misha kind of knew of Firefly, they at least met her, but they didn't like really know her, and Caelus never even got the chance to introduce her to the rest of the Astral Express Crew. The only person who would have talked to her much was Sparkle, who is. Probably not really someone Caelus is interested in grieving with skznmsks

Anyway, all this to say, I like thinking about how alone poor Caelus is in his grief, because he was the only one who knew Firefly. He's the only one really mourning her. There's no one to talk about her with. There's no stories to trade or memories to reminisce with anyone over. It's not as though he knew her for long, but still. No one else knew her at all.

And I love the thought of all of this coming bubbling up, hot and acidic and bitter, during a conversation with Sampo, who Caelus just so happens to run into in the Golden Hour. Poor Sampo is kinda blindsided, he knew shit was going down in Penacony, but yeesh. And he just. Isn't quite sure what to say about it all, because he's never really encountered this before. His feelings about the Masked Fools are...a mixed bag, but he's been a part of them for a very long time, and when you're with a close organization like that, it's hard to feel alone, in grief or otherwise.

So Sampo sits there on their little bench that the two of them have occupied, and he thinks of his old friend April, how she'd died in his arms cackling and spitting her own blood after a heist gone wrong, and how after he'd dragged himself back to the World's End Tavern they'd all held a Fool's Funeral- which is basically just a big party where everyone gets really really drunk and reminisces and toasts the dead and celebrates their life.

He still thinks about her a lot, and he remembers how the time he'd most keenly felt her absence was on Jarilo-VI, the one place where he couldn't talk about her because he couldn't say anything to give himself away as an alien. The Fools still tell stories about her every time he goes back to the Tavern. His first toast of the night is always in her name. Even now, all these years after she'd died, Sampo is still learning new things about her. He's never had to grieve her alone.

Caelus doesn't have any of that.

He might never have that. As they speak, Caelus has no proof that Firefly was even her real name, or if she dreamt with her true appearance. He might not ever find out who she even was.

And just imagining that kind of loneliness hollows out a strange little pit, right behind his sternum, deep between his ribs.

So Sampo claps Caelus' shoulder and offers him a deal. Come find him outside of the dream. He knows a guy who can get them a lot of beer for really cheap-

("Is that guy you and your five finger discounts?" "Whatever do you mean, dear friend, I don't even know the meaning of the phrase, hehee.")

-and they can hole up in a bar or a hotel room or something, and get completely shitcanned. Tell him all about Firefly, tell him everything, and he'll tell Caelus about April and everyone else he's ever lost. Sampo will carry Caelus' memories of Firefly with him, and at least this way, Caelus will be a little less alone in remembering her. And the next time they cross paths, Sampo will be the one to bring her up, and to tell her stories, and Caelus can get to be the one listening. He won't have to be the only person to talk about her anymore.

Caelus rolls his eyes when Sampo avoids another remark about sticky fingers, but...ok, yeah. That sounds good. Nice, even. Thank you. Caelus bumps his shoulder against Sampo's. Sampo bumps back.

(They find each other again the next day, and true to their word, get themselves completely and utterly shitcanned. Caelus talks more than Sampo has ever heard him; every minute detail, every word choice, Firefly's every odd little mannerism and habit. Because Caelus wants to make sure this will outlive him, that even if the Stellaron dwelling within him finally burns him to a crisp and he really does up and kick the bucket, or even, godforbid, if he forgets, he wants to make sure someone remembers her. She deserved that.)

((And it takes quite a while, after that. Caelus doesn't see Sampo again until after everything has settled down. On his last day in Penacony, he finds the guy slinking out of a seedy back alley and all but runs right into him. Sampo happily leads him to some dive bar in an even seedier back alley that Caelus has never even heard of, and Sampo raises his glass. "To Firefly! Who sounds like she probably would have hated me at first, but I would have liked to have met her anyway."

And Caelus stares at him, almost looking startled, long enough that Sampo worries that he's read him wrong and brought this up too soon. He's halfway into planning how to talk himself out of this situation when Caelus finally throws back his head back and laughs, tells him that yeah, Firefly would have politely called him out on every lie he told, and all their conversations would take twice as long with the way Sampo is so full of shit.

And he can see it, the same way he watches and sees through everyone, that Caelus' eyes have a tightness to them, his knuckles are nearly white around the handle of his mug. But he smiles. He hits his glass against Sampo's far too hard and throws it back and gets foam everywhere like he does every time they drink because the guy's about as elegant as a raging bull, but those things don't lessen the genuineness of his smile.

The grief is there, but so is the elation, and those emotions aren't a sliding scale between one or the other. It is all of both and both at once, and that's what contents Sampo enough to throw his own mug back when Caelus makes a toast of his own, "to April!!".))

#caelus #sampo koski #hsr caelus #hsr sampo #sampo & caelus #honkai star rail #hsr #my fics #me a few days ago: my favorite silly little guys uwu #me today: ANGST #honestly I feel like this isn't even a super strong angst though #it's more just. bittersweet? melancholic? something. #I JUST. REALLY LOVE STORIES ABOUT THE NATURE OF GRIEF #and 2.0 laid the groundwork for that beautifully woohoo #I just remembered this probably isn't common knowledge oops but April is the cute red haired girl in Funny Bone #her name was revealed by the creators on twitter. she's named April like April Fools! #anyway I ship it hardcore now thanks bucket boi & studio #but anyway yes I love and adore the loneliness of the trailblazer's loss and grief after 2.0 #because we know from Sunday that Firefly is “spiritually dead” but the trailblazer wouldn't have that knowledge #and they wouldn't know her identity or about any of her connections to other people #and I love that juxtaposed against Sampo and the possible strange nature of his own grief- #-given how the Masked Fools operate and how they see Elation in everything and everywhere #Sampo is no saint- like at all lol- but I do like him and Caelus getting along and being bros #and I don't think it would be terribly ooc for him to care about someone he sees as a genuine friend #he maybe rarely considers someone a genuine friend. but still dmxjjdjdk #listening to Sam's boss theme as I tag this... have been listening to it a lot ever since I finished 2.0 tbh #it's probably what inspired a lot of this haha #because it does sound strong and intimidating and imposing #but you can hear it #the heartbreak

[dollypopup]

colin should 'suffer' for penelope

aka: 5 short reasons why wanting colin to 'suffer' or 'grovel' or whatever other bullshit this fandom keeps pulling is stupid and makes no sense and should have been buried ages ago, how is this still a thing?

1: it sets a terrible and unhealthy dynamic between an endgame couple

especially considering Polin's motif is that of a mirror, if Colin is expected to grovel or suffer for Penelope's affection and forgiveness, it only stands to reason that Penelope then, too, would have to reciprocate. how Penelope treats Colin's ills is setting the precedent for how he's expected to handle her own against him, of which there are many. giving him the cold shoulder, holding what he said over his head and rubbing it in his face, potentially not even explaining why she's upset at him: these are not signs of a mature woman ready for a marriage to ANYONE

2: Colin's slights against Penelope are considerably less harmful than Penelope's against Colin's and it makes no narrative sense for her to be on her high horse about it

'he ruined her prospects' 'he talked about her behind her back' 'he laughed at her' (we don't even know if that one's true, frankly speaking)

but Penelope did the exact same to him and she did so first. Please remember that Penelope is the reason Colin and Marina broke up, and it was her express goal the entire time. Penelope humiliated Colin and Marina both by exposing them publicly (not to mention rubbed the salt into the wound for days afterward). Penelope didn't even think about Colin's feelings because she tried to confess her crush on him immediately after his engagement went poof. Penelope holding Colin accountable for what he said without herself recognizing the ways in which she's hurt him, too, makes her out to be a hella hypocrite

3: it's weirdly catholic on main?

love isn't about suffering points or penance or guilt and i'm tired of Christianity pervading every damn thing. sorry not sorry, some of us want an actually fulfilling love story

4: y'all are just mad Colin didn't love Penelope back from jump and it's a revenge fantasy

which, fine, that's what fanfic is for, but it's OOC, y'all are aware of that, right? because if he DID want her from the start, we all know that it wouldn't be Polin? why are you shipping a friends to lovers ship if you INSIST that the friends to lovers dynamic is less than? guess what? unreciprocated love is kind of part of the deal. you don't hold a grudge against your friend for not loving you back immediately. Colin shows he cares about Penelope in SO MANY WAYS that somehow are completely invalidated because it isn't meant to be romantic? imma say it: fuck you if you think that way. friendships are important and beautiful and deep and fulfilling with or without romance. Colin sticking his neck out for Penelope to help her family from Jack's scheme? an act of love. Colin sending Penelope letters after her father passed? act of love. Colin telling Penelope she's 'really very good' and holding her hand in appreciation of her coming to talk to him? act of love. if you think those acts of love mean nothing just because he isn't fucking her seven ways to sunday, maybe analyze your own viewpoint of relationships and ship Pen w/ some random stranger who makes heart eyes at her tits from jump

5: it makes Penelope an asshole to her own long term partner

dude, if a friend of mine insisted I crawl on hands and knees to determine whether they want me back in their lives, i don't want to be around that person? so many of these narratives make Penelope a straight up terrible person. if you want your partner to suffer? you probably don't actually like them very much, but Polin is narratively MEANT to be the couple that likes AND loves one another. be real, if your friend ghosted you for months, gave you the cold shoulder when you tried to talk again, treated you like shit (you can't argue that him 'suffering' isn't treating him like shit in some way shape or form) as you tried to apologize, and then you find out that she was the reason you and your ex broke up and she wrote straight up nasty things about your family for YEARS, you would want absolutely nothing to do with that friend. why should Colin be expected to be any different? do these two not deserve a lovely love story built on love and affection and trust and honesty? a healthy happy relationship in which they see one another and appreciate one another for all they are? no? so why do you ship them?

+1: it's oversaturated in this fandom

polin is a fantastic ship. how is THIS their main trope?

find a new fucking idea, PLEASE

#polin #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #dude i have so many more #it's OOC for both of them #it strips colin of his character (and let's be real this fandom has proven they don't give a shit about him anyway) #it continues to open the door for weird crack and sideships this fandom is strangely obsessed with #why is it weird that when i say i ship Polin i mean i ship POLIN #like. . .exclusively. as my otp. i don't give a SHIT about your dumb pen/oc or whatever bullshit crackship y'all pulled out your arses #it's BORING #there are at least five other people ahead of colin who should be apologizing for their actions to their love interest #like. . .you do realize one them literally almost married his wife's sister yes???? #what exactly does colin have to 'grovel' for? #'oh the groveling gentleman is a popular trope and colin and penelope are a good match for it' #when anthony is RIGHT THERE???? #on a meta level it's been noticed for ages that polin doesn't have any or very little love for Colin #there are other ships that step to BAT for their couples and we're here constantly shitting on half our OTP #you don't have to put down one half of your ship to make the other half desirable #they literally live a love story #OBVIOUSLY he's gonna make her feel desirable #without having to be treated poorly whilst doing so #could i just shut up about this dumb trope? maybe so #but i am first and foremost: a hater

[loetise]

allie's huge heart getting her into scary situations w/ scary people but also allie's huge heart getting her out/surviving scary situations w/ scary people my beloved

#she feels the urge to tell a strange that she loves them and be so earnest and genuine like some people feel the urge to breathe #𖥸 ₊ * “ ooc ” … just had a dream <3 i love psychology.

[es-quest]

What happened after you helped the rabbit that led the villagers to say you were chosen by God?

"Oh did you know what I heard?"

"Oh what did you hear?"

The crowd lowers their voices before shouting out.

"Oh, how horrible!"

"How terrible!" "How horrifying indeed!

They giggle amongst themselves.

#milgram #es quest #ask blog #amane momose #cw child abuse #ooc: ...was it just me who when they were a kid thought the way people spoke was strange?

[prnkill]

personal ramble under the cut

as im getting older, it becomes more apparent to me just how different i am from the majority of other people in the general public. and like im okay with that, i think i've come to terms with it and accepted it. but it really fucking sucks sometimes bc i feel such a disconnect with people in my day to day life. i have such a hard time telling if people like me or not, if im bothering people by talking, if i'm not "acting" normal enough. i feel like there's something i fundamentally don't understand about interacting with other people and it makes it sort of difficult to find connections. luckily i have found a group of a couple of close friends who accept me for whatever tf i am, but i wish it was easier for me to interact.

#❥ ❝ heart eyes mother fucker! / ooc. #it's nothing serious #just like. thoughts in my head. #anyway im sorry if im hard to talk to #or if i talk strangely ? #i just dont know how to talk to people

[add1ctedt0you]

Dude, reading the novel after watching the drama is like... wwx what happened to you :-/

#I was searching for few things not about him but ugh #mar!nonsense #Tbh this happens to me with fics too. That's why I've stop reading them lol. I strated liking him! a lot! but the nicer versione makes me #Like him less. like. People make wwx nicer and kind of ooc most of the time. Even though we are in his haed all the time #People seem to be writing cql!wwx even though the canon tagged is only mdzs and that's strange #this nicer versione makes me like him less in the novel. and I don't want it because I liked him before #I suppose that I am uncharitable uh

[knightfeared]

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#People are… so strange. #Nothing too negative jus— weird timing? #Someone poked me to plot then deactivated like right after #Then someone just now liked my pinned post then unfollowed and I’m jus #????? #alright shit #STRANGE IUNNO #FOR THE RECORD THOUGH #I am slow 💀💀💀💀 #Slow to reply to things slow to follow back slow to get around to much rn so I’m jus 🫠 mostly dash lurking and stashing things #Thank you guys for being patient with me cause I know it’s likely annoying with the fluctuating bs on my end activity wise #╰┈➤ ┊❛ out of medkits. / ooc. ❜┊ #IN THE BIN. 🗑️ TO BE DELETED.

[xbadnews-a]

ok. so, hear me out. imagine it's modern verse, okay? imagine your muse meets percy, hooks up with him, stays the night. imagine your muse tries to find the bathroom & instead finds a room in the back of his apartment with every inch of wall plastered in newspaper clippings about the briarwoods & their associates with chaotic colorful yarn connecting different things.

#ooc. #wishlist. #i just think it's funny #trying to decide if the d/ck is bomb enough to excuse the blatant insanity #i have just been itching to write abt this room i think though #because percy is so good at masking in modern verse until u ask him abt the briarwoods #like yeah he's always a bit Strange but like once you ask him abt that it's On #he's so desperate to be heard in modern verse #like he is in the early bits of his main verse too don't get me wrong #in main verse before vm people look at him like he's crazy when he tries talking abt what happened in whitestone #but in modern his survival literally hangs on the fact that he learned how not to talk abt it #he learned how to carry it around w him in silence letting it fester #bcs when he tries telling people ' yo necromancers killed my family ' they ask him if he took his medication today #( he didn't )

[skathmarked]

Gentle starter call as I try to get back into the swing of things? x

#ooc. / people are strange. #( i haven’t been here forever so exciting. 👀 ) #( i’ll get to the drafts too but it’ll take a while uwu🌸 ) #( please specify muse or a couple of them btw! )

[starryeyedconstellations]

What is kayson’s favorite dessert? And can my oc @darla-sweets-87 make it for him?

Awww! Hmmm Kyson's favorite dessert is gonna have to be plain old strawberry short cake! And of course, he'd be so happy!

#the moon sparkles in green eyes (kyson) #ooc #people are strange (the lost boys) #ask

[itspileofgoodthings]

Matthew MacFayden’s Darcy is a fascinating thing to unpack because I don’t believe it succeeds as a performance of Darcy or even as a performance in general (it kind of can't) but there are layers to it and it's not simple.

#the layers are: he’s a good actor. it’s a bad script. #okay simple enough but then it’s a bad script with several lines ripped directly FROM ONE OF THE GREATEST NOVELISTS OF ALL TIME #and so for a second he’s a good actor saying a great line and tbh it works in flashes #LOVE when he asks Caroline if he can defer her raptures til his next letter #Darcy dryness IN THE ROOM WITH US FOR A MOMENT #but then he’s also forced to stand up too quick and say ‘she’s upstairs’ in response to Lizzy asking about Jane #And it’s just. Giving Blurting? And I know he’s supposed to be flustered but it’s so not Darcy so it’s ooc and also jarring #and then there's his terrible haircut and the ill-fitting clothes and the strange blocking and direction #which add their own layers of bad #but then he ISN'T a bad actor and he's not not responding to Keira's beauty #there are moments where it's like.... yeah! that's a man who knows how to look at a woman! #he is not not connected to her. i know what people mean when they say they feel it #there's an energy! some glances! some warmth! #but then there's the thing where it's like. a) i don't think that he's the right choice for Darcy even in a better script #b) the script doesn't understand and has no interest in Darcy's true character and goes for the shy puppy/awkward/tumblr take on him #so both of those things are happening at once!!!!!!!! #and yeah it's just kind of so emblematic of the movie as a whole #not all the ingredients are bad but they are not well utilized at all #and also sometimes they are the wrong (good) ingredient #anyway do not mean to hurt any feelings or start any discourse i just am always trying to explain this to myself #and i don't think i've ever come so close tbh!!!!! #this was in my drafts from last night so i thought i would share it now #because I've always felt how much is wrong and how much is wrong as an Austen adaptation and yet there are glances #(that one gifset of them at Pemberley where they're talking about her playing and he's like 'no i said quite well') #(and she smiles and then he smiles and the light is golden and it's !!!!!) #but then there are moments that don't even work by that isolated measure!!!! #that just feel so weird and wrong!!!!! again. even by a sentimental measure #maybe even ESPECIALLY by a sentimental measure #so i'm always trying to unpack it more clearly (joe wright the clear villain being one takeaway) thank you for listening etc. more at 11. #2005 liveblog

[battle-subway-ghost]

// alright last post before I go to sleep (hopefully) but, ive been thinking about doing something special for the 100 follower milestone (which. Relatively close, it's fucking unreal to me how many of you like Paris enough to follow and interact??)

// I made a joke about it earlier, but I've been referencing a homestuck au involving Paris for a little bit now- would it be funny/desirable to do a hs!Paris takeover? if this did happen it'd probably come with drawings n all, kind of like a more traditional ask blog! (and also an excuse for me to practice the homestuck style)

// Ofc if you have any other suggestions lmk, I'm more than happy for any input or ideas!! :]

#ooc #// near 100 followers. Goddamn its strange to think about. that's a lot of people... too many to fit in my room for one #// Thank y'all so much because. aooguh omg??

[eorzeashan]

every so often I encounter a toxic player in ffxiv who doesn't know what they're talking about while being hypocritical and not dodging aoes. it's always those types

#ooc #really strange encounter. got all the comms for it though lmfao #they called *someone* a dumbass for not using LB which i assume was the tank #which?????????? doesnt help in pve #and if it was me i used the LB to kill the mobs #but anyways. i digress. ffxiv's community is.....far more questionable than you might think sometimes #but there's good people too!

[wornkindness]

oh are people upset about oc x canon shipping again?

#&. i just really like sharks okay : ooc #this is not the blog for you if that sorta thing upsets you #it is just 8 am and too early for this #i guess this is something that started in the bg3 fandom #which seems very strange considering the game mechanics but people will get mad over anything