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aleksanderscult · 5 months

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your ideal darklina casting?

Hehehe I was hoping for this kind of question 😈😏

So!

For the Darkling it's easy-peasy.

Matthew Bell 🫶

He is EXACTLY how I picture the Darkling when I'm reading the books or imagine the character in general. Like Aleksander himself popped out of the pages. Just magnifique 😍👌

This edit of him *screaming*:

Fun fact: He was also the original fancast before this Ben Barnes thing. Who by the way doesn't remind me of Book!Aleksander at all.

This edit and meme of Matthew summarizes my thoughts about him perfectly:

Now for Alina it's so hard 'cause I really don't know. I have tried to find a girl that encaptures the image that I've created for her in my head but I can't find it (a young girl, very thin with brown hair, looking frail but strong at the same time. Know what I mean?)

Some say that Adelaide Kane makes a good Alina

Maybe she would if she looked younger because Alina is supposed to be seventeen at the beginning of S&B. And we kinda need an actress that can pull of both a messy, tired look and a glamorous one. Adelaide has that AND Lily Collins. The latter is a good option too.

But! While I was scrolling at Pinterest one day I came across this edit and I was like "Woah! Alina. Is that you?"

She REALLY reminds me of her but I don't know what her name is 😭😭

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wayward-sherlock · 6 months

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how do you get motivation to write so often, like i see 4 different fics updated/created this month 😭

HOW 😰😰

hello anon! this is such a great question um.

I Don’t Know. honestly. a lot of times i just get a Vision and it’s not related to anything else i’m writing but my posting schedules (for ctm etc) keep me in check and force me to write at least something for those projects too. it really helps when i post ideas and people reblog them or scream about them with me so i know that if i do end up having time to write, they’ll be well received :) or when, on chapter fics, people subscribe (bc im weird and check) or comment, it really keeps me going.

also i just love writing !! i have so many stories to tell and i’m trying to get better at writing itself (i hope i’ve improved) so practice makes perfect!

#it gives me a reason to be alone in my room with music on too #which is very nice for me when i get overwhelmed #(which happens a lot)#thanks for this ask anon!#🫧🪴#asks #💌#wayli writes #anon !!

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sword-dad-fukuzawa · 8 months

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Do you ever think about how Vash & Knives dynamic differs between Trigun Maximum & Trigun Stampede? In TriMax Vash is the one who follows Knives through the desert for several decades, and that one chapter where he gets his arm cut off in the radiation town. He yells out to a Knives who is walking away “Stay with me!” Right before Vash shoots Knives. The GungHoGuns are more recent by like maybe ~20 years, and even with this being Knives pursing Vash. Vash has been pursing Knives a lot longer, and was always going to be tracking down his brother to get vengeance for Rem.

In TriStamp Vash is the one who runs. The one who is being pursued and is terrified of Knives.

Just such an interesting reversal of the dynamic between the brothers.

oh, god, anon. i think about it often. it drives me up the wall. the reversal of their predator/prey dynamic is what has me so conflicted about my general shipping dynamic preferences. who's chasing who? and why are they chasing, why are they running? it's so interesting how tristamp vash rejects his brother outright, takes the loneliness on the chin, but trimax vash's loneliness destroys him and defines him to the point where he's begging his brother to stay with him despite it all. like. that's unhinged. i love adaptational differences so fucking much.

but i also think they're thematically consistent, in a way? there is always that loneliness, always that fundamental rejection of each other, and always, always, that sense of responsibility. vash hunts knives down in every universe because knives is his brother, his burden. his to deal with and his to save or kill. i think a lot of his final battle with knives in trimax where he pauses mid-duel to the death to shoot out chronica's gun. not only is it a decisive choice to save his brother, to choose pacifism at the eleventh hour, butyou could also interpret it as vash crying, don't interfere. he's mine. with all the baggage that sort of declaration comes with.

but yeah, i love the reversals. it really hammers home how young vash is, how his conviction hasn't solidified yet, in tristamp.

#thanks for this ask anon!#trigun #trigun stampede #trigun maximum

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workingforitallthetime · 2 years

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Hi! Could you do an epilogue to forever too much to take?

I love a good happy ending and some honeymoon action or some good take that Pat brisson would be good for my little heart.

strangely, this is the first time i've ever written a long fic and not had a hangover where i cling to my happy little residency in the world of the fic and spend hours thinking epilogue thoughts. this story just feels complete to me as-is.

also, not to be a downer, but... most people don't end up marrying their college significant other, and that would be even more unlikely to happen when you are both moving to different cities (and one of you has a legendarily short attention span... frankly i just don't see ADHD brendan brisson being able to do long distance.)

HOWEVER, if we were all to suspend our disbelief and pursue a happily ever after, our story would pick up on the eve of the 2026-27 season. it's the last year of the three-year bridge deal matty signed after his ELC, and the question of whether seattle is going to be able to lock up their 1C for the long term is a frequent topic of media and fan discussion. when the off-season passes without any word on an extension, ron francis keeps getting asked about it, and all he’ll say is that the front office is in frequent communication with matty’s representation and he expects they’ll be able to come to an agreement.

brendan, meanwhile, is a serviceable bottom sixer on a series of one-year, two-way contracts in vegas. as noted, he has not been great at doing long distance, particularly in a city full of opportunities for hedonism, and perhaps some of the emotional turmoil has impacted his development as a player (particularly in an organization that is not great about treating their players as people first).

maybe they've broken up and gotten back together a couple of times, maybe they've seen other people, maybe somebody cheated once? but things have stabilized over the last couple of years, especially as they've been training together/living together in california in the summers.

on one of their last mornings in town, matty rolls over and drapes an arm across brendan. he presses his face into brendan’s neck. the thought of getting out of bed and returning their realtor’s phone call to hear about the security deposit and where to drop off the keys to their rented condo tomorrow is excruciating. “do you think,” he says, as brendan stirs, “there’s a way for us to do this all the time.”

brendan wraps his arms around matty, tighter than matty expected first thing in the morning. he’s quiet for a moment. “this is probably the year to figure that out, right?”

all summer long matty’s been putting off pat’s inquiries about negotiations, what he wants, when he wants to start discussions. he’s been telling pat he wanted to focus on training, on next season. he’s still got a year left, right? no hurry. it hadn’t occurred to him that it was all connected, or that brendan realized it was. that brendan was waiting on him. now that he knows, it’s easy. “i want to get married.”

brendan’s arms are still tight around him. “for real this time?”

matty doesn’t think too much about the first time they got married anymore. he really hasn’t since the big 12 championship, when brendan hauled him up the stairs at mariucci to the concourse where everyone’s families were waiting, and marched up to his parents with a death grip on matty’s hand. jordy’s eyebrows went up and brendan’s mom hugged matty extra hard and pat looked at him searchingly while he was shaking matty’s hand and then he started talking to them about their line's defense. matty got an arm around brendan and brendan held onto him like he was an anchor and matty kissed him quickly on his forehead and that’s when matty’s family walked up. it felt like his mom would know, somehow, but there wasn’t any reason to think that. his folks have been just as welcoming to brendan as they have to anybody else who’s ever made matty happy. as far as matty knows, pat kept the secret.

(their teammates have probably forgotten about it too. once there wasn’t any more marriage to joke about, brendan and matty were just another annoying couple. the seniors implemented an aggressive system of fines just for them. brendan and matty pretty much financed the end of season golf outing with their PDA.)

but now that matty remembers, it makes it more important to do it right this time. he scrambles out of bed, tugs brendan’s hand out from under the covers, and gets down on one knee. “will you marry me?”

brendan looks at him over the edge of the mattress, sleepy-eyed and sun-kissed and bare-chested, and smiles. “fuck yeah.”

they have dinner with brendan’s parents that night and tell them they’re engaged. brendan’s mom tears up and tells matty he’s already part of the family but welcome to the family anyway. pat says “i thought this might be coming,” and after the plates are cleared they stay at the table a long time and he outlines a detailed plan for negotiations and explains the tradeoffs and what they’d be giving up and the impact on their earning power if they want to leverage matty’s contract negotiations to get brendan signed by the same team.

“you really think you can make this happen?” matty asks.

pat rubs his hands over his face and sighs. “i think I can.”

it’s a stressful season, because matty has to take the position that he’s willing to leave seattle if they won’t sign brendan, and that tension inevitably bleeds into the dressing room. seattle’s reluctant to trade for brendan’s rights because a player with his profile was not part of their long-term plan, and vegas is driving a hard bargain because they know pat can make it happen. pat has to pull a lot of strings and call in a lot of favors, and because the POV is now five years older and considerably more mature this time the reader actually gets a sense of what a reach this is for pat and how working the system on behalf of his son is going to impact his professional credibility and how that weighs on him. (pat did exactly the same thing to keep brendan from getting traded to buffalo, but brendan didn’t notice or appreciate it at the time.)

[handwave-y contract stuff] everything works out! brendan and his horrible LA tiktok bros go surfing in tulum for his bachelor party and josh richards does a vlog about it. matty and all his masshole friends and ntdp boys go golfing in south carolina. everyone who’s invited posts the same three pics on their instagrams and they all get super weird in the comments.

they have a giant beach wedding in california (vows at sunset, barefoot, cuffed pants, expensive shirts halfway buttoned) with an absolutely stupid number of groomsmen. thom does not officiate but they ask him to give a toast. he asks if he can tell the whole story and they give him the go-ahead. so much time has passed. it’s funny now, right? especially since everything worked out in the end. and matty figures his mom probably can’t kill him at his own wedding.

thom lays it on thick, starting way back at the ntdp. (“this guy, he went to meet the great pat brisson, and the next morning all he could say to me was “do you know brendan? he seems pretty cool.”) and then thom basically makes himself the hero who saved matty from his longtime crush by orchestrating a wedding. matty covers his face and brendan slings an arm around the back of matty’s chiavari chair with a self-satisfied smile.

thom gets awwwws from the crowd at the stick tape rings, and kent approvingly punches owen in the arm at the head table. everybody laughs about thom and jacob trying to send brendan home from the christmas party with matty, only to realize in disgust that brendan came back to the bonfire a half hour later. pat’s clients at the tables around him roar and give him a hard time when thom talks about a CAA lawyer waking him up to sign a statement. the crowd groans about matty arriving shell-shocked from LA, and whoops its approval at thom and jacob kicking brendan out of the house.

pat listens with an expression that doesn’t betray anything. but at the end of the night, just before matty and brendan are about to slip away to their room, he pulls them aside. he’s sorry. he didn’t understand. if he’d known how they felt, he would have… well, he would have handled things differently, that’s all.

“s’okay,” brendan says, leaning into matty’s side, champagne-drunk and deliriously happy. he didn’t expect how good it would feel, how vindicating it would be for his dad to hear that matty wanted him first, wanted him for a long time before brendan caught up. they stumble off toward the elevator together, giddy and off-balance, matty’s lips pressed against brendan’s hair.

#thanks for this ask anon!#this was a fun exercise and i genuinely had not thought about any of this before

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cahootings · 6 months

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“their relationship is too deep to be sexual” what’s deeper than dick in hole. please tell me

#people missing context this was about the wwdits show runners pulling a 2012-era queerbait #and was a joke #also if you're going to send me an anon asking me why i hate ace people. miss me with your homophobia thanks

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therainbowwillow · 5 months

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hbomberguy’s latest video on plagiarism has made me completely rethink literature and writing. I have never once so much as considered intentionally plagiarizing anyone or anything, but I think there’s something more that has come out of this: the names of the people who created the works Somerton (and others) ripped off.

Plagiarism isn’t only bad because it is lazy and disrespectful, it’s bad because it buries the truth. If you can’t find a source, the conversation is over. Somerton’s sources are fairly easy to find by simply searching his plagiarized lines, but that isn’t true in most cases. Most of the time, the line from statement to source is a lot less clear.

Today, I was writing a report on English Ivy, which is an invasive species here in the US. I wanted to know when it was introduced and I at last found a source claiming it was introduced to the Americas “as early as 1727” on a .net website that seems quite reputable (it has multiple major universities credited in its home page), but there is no citation for where this date came from. I dug deeper and found a pamphlet created by a city government in Virginia that made the same claim, only to discover the first source linked in their bibliography. Another website (a botanical garden’s page) gave the same date with the same source hyperlinked. Of course, I have classes to attend and things to do and probably not enough time to follow the lines back to where this 1727 date came from, but if I had not just watched this video, I wouldn’t have given that date a second thought.

Of course, it doesn’t matter in the long run exactly what year hedera helix was introduced to the Americas, but it makes you wonder how many facts have been so vaguely attributed that it becomes completely impossible to figure out where they originated (and further, whether or not they’re true at all).

#hbomberguy #james somerton #plagarism #EDIT: it was introduced to *the americas* NOT the US in (probably) 1727 #THANK YOU anon ask person!!!#the US didn’t exist in 1727

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faffreux · 9 months

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it's weird to be attracted to an ugly frog like wtf is even your taste in men

i won't argue with you about whether or not fawful is ugly but it is weird yes, i agree

i have long accepted that i am weird

#i'm sorry i had to publish this one bc it's worded so funny #thanks for giving me another ask to add to my funny anon asks folder on my desktop #asks

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wispscribbles · 3 months

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I love your ghost design. I wanna squeeze him :⁠^⁠)

If no hug then why hug-shaped???

#thank youuuu! squeeze that mentally unstable adult man! he needs it!#ask #anon ask #ghostsoap #soapghost #my art #cod fanart #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #soap x ghost #doodle #fav hc about ghost is that he is so incredibly touch starved and everyone just assumes he hates touch #but Soap is so touchy he keeps forgetting not to hug and pat and lean on Ghost #and each time Ghost is like ‘what is happening to me?? why do I want to melt rn??? I think I’m in love???’#outwardly he is a stone wall as usual #until Soap actually remembers to give Ghost space bc he thinks that’s what he wants #and Ghost has to finally be the one to reach out and ask for touch #and Soap is the happiest camper #from then on they are stuck together with glue #this all has nothing to do with your ask I’m sorry #I’ve got ghoap on the brain I can’t help it #complete side note: I have many asks in my inbox and I’m so happy y’all write!! just pls bear with me bc I am very slow to respond

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achivement-unlocked · 3 months

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https://www.tumblr.com/achivement-unlocked/743086027324932096/kosa

Not the anon, but Kosa is a bill that's soon going to pass where minors on the internet get their parents to see what they search up and restrict things that are deemed "inappropriate." When in reality it prevents kids who are trying to learn about the lbgtq community and kids trying to identify abuse. The bill will change the internet forever and NOT in a good way.

Im pretty sure the anon is trying to ask you to spread awareness about this.

Some links to prevent this are:

https://www.badinternetbills.com/

https://www.stopkosa.com/

https://www.change.org/p/save-our-free-and-open-internet-stop-the-kids-online-safety-act

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/censorship-wont-make-kids-safe?nowrapper=true#:~:text=Privacy%2C%20free%20expression%2C%20and%20LGBTQ%2B,tell%20them%20to%20reject%20KOSA

Breaking the gimmick for this one, here’s some resources for yall <33

#thank you!!!#asks #anon #dev talk

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egophiliac · 3 months

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What do you like about the Diasomnia boys if I may ask?

I always love hearing about the different reasons people enjoy characters.

I mean, c'mon. he has split custody over Sebek okay

also, Lilia in particular has maybe the best timeskip character development of all time

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 chapter 4 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 chapter 4 spoilers #stage in playful land #i hope this is legible whoops #anon i am sorry but you made the fatal mistake of asking me to talk about diasomnia #insert 'i just think they're neat' jpg #i do like the other characters a lot but they are definitely my favorites #they just hit a lot of my favorite things in characters i guess!#yes even you sebek even though you keep shrieking NINGEN at me #(it's okay he gets Character Development™ later)#and their dynamic! it's great! these guys frikking love each other SO much and they WILL have terrible terrible angst about it #ohoho delicious #give me all your emotional hangups baybeeeee #also somewhere in there i went from 'i like them all equally (but lilia is the most fun to draw)'#to 'lilia is absolutely my favorite (and still the most fun to draw) (EVEN MORE fun now thank you swishy ponytail!)'#(it was probably when his candy coating got a little scratched and whoops all the tragedy fell out)#(where's that 'get loved loser' post because i need to staple it to lilia's forehead)#i am extremely bad at putting things into words so please don't ask me to explain it any further #just know that the diafam is everything to me and if we don't get more episode 7 soon i'm going to crumble into dust and blow away #we'll be getting the crowleytimes on monday and maybe there will be. idk. some foreshadowing or something in his groovy #probably not but LOOK i'm desperate

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saltmalkin · 1 year

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i liked your speed painting of your cat. very interesting style that came out of it. do you think you could try other drugs? i'd be interested to see how that affects how you paint your cat. i think a drunk painting could be funny :)

speed painting means i painted it fast not that I was high on meth oh my god

#drug cw #i love you anon thank you for making my night #ask

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hellsitegenetics · 3 months

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not a request, i just wanted to send some anon love. what a great and wholesome blog, thank you so much for creating this 🫶🏽 i hope you have a wonderful day and weekend

String identified: t a t, t at t a . at a gat a g, ta c catg t 🫶🏽 a a a a

Closest match: Impatiens glandulifera genome assembly, chromosome: 8 Common name: Himalayan balsam

#tumblr genetics #genetics #plants #flowers #himalayan balsam #asks #thank you anon :)

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ghouljams · 1 month

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One little white lie, one tiny fib. When the King asks why you're so eager to get back to your own kingdom you give him the usual, "My family, I'm just eager to see them again."

"Family," He rolls the word over in his mouth, like it has a foul taste, "Husband?" You nod, though you've never been married, it's easier being a married woman on the road. This also seems to displease him. "Children?" Your hesitance betrays you, and you attempt to cover it with another hasty nod. Though you can tell by Price's smile he doesn't believe it.

You don't worry about it, push the questions far from your mind in favor of your work. It's only when you're laid out in the King's bed, his fat cock bullying its way into your aching cunt, that you remember your little fib. Price smiles, his lips curling over his teeth as he chuckles out a strained breath. He drags his fingers around the base of his cock, while you adjust to the burning stretch the overwhelming feeling of being filled completely. He pulls his hand away only to drag it down your stomach, let you see the blood and slick where it stains your soft skin.

"Little liar," He chides, pulling out and pushing back into you with a heady groan, "but don't worry, we'll have you bred and wed soon enough."