#with a disclaimer that I'm just guessing

[fazcinatingblog]

Good night Tumblr xx

#Glenn Maxwell #don't tell maxi but during the sixers batting i was writing fics on my phone #i finally worked out how to end my latest shadowhunters fic!!!!!! #it's pretty lame #it's still plagiarising a new girl episode but i had to tweak the end obviously #be interesting to see how cassie Clare writes it #cos i reckon I'm right #with my family tree #I'll post the family tree i drew with the fic to AO3 #with a disclaimer that I'm just guessing

[egophiliac]

the new rider for ride kamens is agata, and he's based on hibiki, which, while makes sense 'cuz araki is based on momotaros and therefore oni, is kinda boring after the reveal of our lord and savior dan kuroto

don't be mean to Agata, he's the only reason the other two can survive with half a braincell between them :(

#art #ride kamens #disclaimer that this is all pre-canon so i have no idea if this will track at all once the game actually comes out #but i feel this in my bones #HIBIKI THOUGH! he looks great!!!! #hibiki was my guess for him! i'm so validated right now #between him and w my track record is now...two out of ten #...i'll take it! #man. i love justice ride a lot already but mad guys is swiftly capturing my heart #justice ride are all idiots in a certain way but mad guys are all idiots in a CERTAIN way #i can't explain it you just have to trust me on this

[coquelicoq]

i can't stress enough that outside of this one moment in rogue protocol when murderbot wants to kill a human for betraying its sort-of clients but settles for the next best thing of menacingly hovering a drone in her face for 26 seconds while she's frozen in place by her armor, for the rest of the first four books mb is really only using drones for security purposes and doesn't have the time or inclination to be performing close-range facial analysis:

in ASR it doesn't seem to be all that familiar with drones outside of maybe using them to set a perimeter. it exhibits several other uses of drones as events escalate, but they're all related to protecting itself and its humans and getting intel on EvilSurvey. at no point does it mention watching a human with a drone; it's all "using drones to draw fire" this and "sending drones flying off in the wrong direction as a diversion tactic" that. et cetera.

it has no access to drones whatsoever in AC from what i can tell.

in RP it uses Ship's drones to record conversations between wilken and gerth, but it's not a participant in those conversations and it doesn't even watch them in real time. it also forgoes getting a good look at their weapons via drone because it thinks they would notice. later it takes control of a station drone to watch (from afar) their first meeting with don abene & co., but miki notices the drone and almost catches mb because of it, which freaks it out. then it hacks the combatbots' drones, but other than the aforementioned 26-second intimidation of wilken, it's too busy doing actual security work to use them to look at people.

in ES it accesses drones many times, including to observe its humans, but it only seems to actually control a drone to look at something one time, and only in order to zoom in on a suit logo. so at no point could it conceivably be directing a drone to get up in somebody's face, since it's just piggybacking on drones as they go about their normal business.

it does use cameras to watch people in the first four books, but in a much less obvious way: either it's using fixed cameras that are built into habitats/hoppers/whatever, or it's accessing mobile cameras (suit cams, station drones) but not controlling where those cameras go or what they're pointing at.

it's interesting, because while drones can be startling or intrusive, on the flip side, cameras that don't move don't draw attention to themselves and thus may make it easier to forget you're being watched (plus you have no way of knowing if that particular camera is being monitored at that moment or if it's just recording for later analysis). so in a way, having a drone in your face actively signals to you that mb is paying attention to you. it's making mb's gaze visible in a way it might not otherwise be. this changes the dynamic from "passive surveillance for datamining and threat assessment purposes" to "person actively choosing to pay attention to you in real time". one of these is covert and the other isn't; one of these holds the possibility of interaction and exchange and the other doesn't. maybe it puts a drone in your face to show you it cares.

#theoretically. if it is in fact putting them in people's faces those times when it doesn't specify #rather than just sort of hovering them several feet away pointed somewhat subtly in the person's direction or whatever #also it probably is not putting a drone in tarik's face to show him it cares. but it *is* showing tarik it's paying attention #whether or not it's doing that consciously or on purpose in order to send that message #(it just wants to study tarik and that's how it can do that. especially in the restricted space of the shuttle) #but the point could hold for people other than tarik. and wilken lol #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #mb gaze #mb asr #mb ac #mb rp #mb es #mb sc #system collapse spoilers #system collapse #i guess?? by implication lol #my posts #f #disclaimer that i don't actually have a searchable version of these books so i'm relying on my notes and could be missing something #but i'm fairly confident about those bullet points

[hrokkall]

What if a coughing baby was also a hydrogen bomb

#Rain World #Rain World Downpour #Rain World Saint #Saint rw #downpour spoilers #<- I don't think so but just in case #Disclaimer haven't played their campaign etc etc. I don't even have downpour DLC. I'll probably get it at some point though #More importantly; thank you to my cat for posing for the lower left drawing. And by posing I mean she just stopped like that mid-lick #I'm sure she'd be thrilled to know I'm telling the internet about her being embarrassing. Not that she'd care (because she is a cat). #Hrokkall Art #I guess. This was just meant to be a style test because my coloring/shading style is Really inconsistent #This didn't fix it btw this was just to have fun with it

[tabbi-mysteries]

Episodes 1-900 of Mouri Ran's Wardrobe!

+Films 1-21 & OVAs 1-11 & Lupin TV Special & Magic Files & Lupin Movie & multiple TV Specials & Magic Kaito 1412 appearances

(Better quality images under the cut)

Next update is here! At 900 episodes into the series I have cataloged 860 outfits!

Let me know your favourites / least favourites in the tags / comments

#dcmk #detective conan #mouri ran #detco #case closed #usual disclaimer on colours/shoes etc if refs were difficult i have taken my best guess #also I believe I have fixed the numbers there were some errors before were I missed a count oops #new favs include 794 from the zombie case it's just so cute! #I also love 817 from film 21 the autumnal colours are sooo good and pretty rare for Ran #I don't think there are many outfits I dislike all that much from this section #there's a few plain ones but there's nothing wrong with that #it feels like I'm getting really close! next update will go to ep1000!

[ottosuwuen]

You know what's the funniest thing about arc 7-8 to me?

It's revealed that Vincent has never bedded a woman nor had children.

When the rumors of Vincent's illegitimate son spread, Chisha, Vincent's closest servant since their teenage years, who spent quite a lot of time with him, refuses to believe them, and acts defensive when Berstetz suggests that there may be things about Vincent that Chisha doesn't know. After all, Vincent always made sure to never even share a bedroom with a woman so that no one could create such rumors. There's no way Vincent could have had children without Chisha knowing.

Serena, who has unsuccessfully tried seducing Vincent before, explicitly mentions the possibility of his being gay to his face, even though she already knows the reason is something else. Vincent doesn't deny that (nor react to it in any way for that matter), by the way.

Only 3-4 chapters after that conversation with Serena happens, we're shown Chisha's backstory and motives. Surprise, what we thought was betrayal at first is actually part of a secret, elaborate plan to save Vincent from his prophesied death. They face each other "at a distance so close their eyelashes could touch" right before Chisha sacrifices himself while gazing one last time at his beloved liege with a "decadent smile" on his lips.

"Why?" Vincent asks the corpse more than once, well aware that it won't reply. This is Vincent, the man who'd rather keep his mouth shut if he has nothing useful to say. And what's more useless than directing a question to a corpse?

Later, Vincent, on the verge of a breakdown, asks Subaru, whom he suspects to be a Stargazer, why he let Chisha die instead of him. Vincent had accepted his death. But that's not what Chisha wanted. "He was angry that fate intended to kill you, and also angry at you for surrendering to fate." Now it's Vincent's turn to stand up to fate. That's what Chisha would've loved to see.

Then Tappei introduces an arranged marriage plot between Vincent and Medium (who, by the way, is already interested in another man) to pretend he didn't just write the gayest thing in Re:Zero.

#re:zero #vincent vollachia #vincent abellux #chisha gold #vinchisha #origpost #They make me feel normal #Obligatory disclaimer: no I'm not claiming this to be the author's intent factually #but it's so easy to read as gay that I can't help but wonder if he did intend to imply it even if as an 'up to interpretation' thing #Just to clarify: I've got nothing against Vincent/Medium but honestly I don't feel it #I guess it makes some sense narratively because it'd work in Flop's favor but it's just there

[pluralprompts]

Prompt #1,405

Write about a system turning their bed into a nest!

#plural system #pluralgang #plurality #pluralprompt #prompt blog #prompt #fluff #tags are only a suggestion #kin #alterhuman #< I think most should be able to guess but these tags are bc we and other s.ystems do this for alth or k.in reasons #you don't have to w.rite about that specifically I'm just adding a disclaimer so I don't get asks abt these tags

[swordsonnet]

sorry but saying that the accessibility needs of mentally disabled people are just preferences or about "comfort" is blatantly incorrect. if i can't enter a building because the bright lights and loud noises would send me into a meltdown, then i can't enter the building, and that's not less important than me not being able to enter a building because it's not wheelchair accessible. if you genuinely think that mentally disabled people aren't really struggling, and that it's okay to mock their very real concerns, then that just shows that you've been refusing to listen to their experiences. do better or shut the fuck up.

#yeah yeah i know i said i wouldn't post about this stupid fucking 'discourse' anymore #but i keep seeing takes that make my blood boil #physical and mental disabilities are two sides of the same coin! yes there are differences but also a lot of commonalities #but nooooo expecting people to have even an ounce of fucking compassion for those who dont share their exact lived experience #is too much to ask for i guess #i've said this many times before but gatekeeping and infighting will get us nowhere #throwing your fellow disabled people under the bus won't help you #i get people's anger - i have a lot of anger too as someone who is housebound with a physical disability #but other disabled people arent your enemy #and taking your anger out on them is just a dick move #especially if you do so using the same ableist 'its all in your head' rhetoric #that mentally disabled people have had to put up with since forever #disclaimer: obviously not all physically disabled people act like that. from what i can tell its just a small (but very vocal) minority #but it's pervasive enough to make me wary of online spaces for physical disabilities #which is kinda sad seeing as i have a physical disability myself and would love to connect with others #but i'm not super keen on being told that my autism (which has significantly impacted me my whole life) doesn't matter

[jessicas-pi]

it's actually, genuinely, honestly hilarious that in a fandom where popular ships include characters who are biologically related, characters with a 10+ year age gap who met when one was a teenager or even a child, and characters who have tried to kill each other, people hate on a friends-to-lovers ship with a <2 year age gap where the characters have a deep emotional bond and plenty of romantic subtext, because "they're siblings". my brother in the force they are literally not.

#i'm just saying. out of all the ships in the star war; sabine and ezra have one of the healthiest dynamics #right up there with kanera and bail and breha and obitine and maybe a few others. there are SO few 'problems' with it. #not that those 'problems' make a ship BAD when it's written well or in certain context. #just that out of all the ships to pick on; people choose THIS one????? #the one with character growth and found family and mutual respect?? #the one with self-sacrifice and decades-long loyalty and obitine parallels and a jetpack chase scene???? #what's there to hate??? #and i would add a disclaimer about how if you dont ship them its fine as long as you dont bully but honestly? #i am so so tired of having to qualify my statements. #this is about the targeted hate. this has always been about the targeted hate. #and i don't care if someone loathes something i love as long as they they keep that loathing out of my personal space. #this has been a tag rant. thank you for reading. #btw i'm not being sarcastic about it being hilarious. it genuinely cracks me up to see people get SO hateful over this #for a reason that does not exist #as opposed to several other ships which DO IN FACT HAVE THAT OBJECTION. #like. oh my gosh. are you even listening to yourselves. #if u wanna have the don't-ship-siblings fight then puhLEEZE bring it to someone who ships siblings. #jessica's controversial star wars opinions #sabezra #(don't worry that this post is a vent because i'm getting bullied or anything. im not visible enough for that i guess lol) #it was written in humor not in hurt :)

[isan0rt]

Good Lord. Okay. Listen. We all agree that pre-timeskip Houses Dedue is not doing so great in the mental health department. We all agree on that. My guy needs therapy about his survivor's guilt and his PTSD and we're all agreed his self deprecation is Intense but like.

Listen. You can't…address that without also acknowledging he's like that because people have been Fucking Racist To Him Constantly for the Last Four Years of his Goddamn Life. And not like, just ‘microaggressions at the workplace’ racist, though also that too. Like, ‘somebody might fucking murder him’ kind of racist. He's not just insecure or whatever. This man is trying not to get hate-crimed.

It's rational, actually, for Dedue to assume that Any Given Faerghan is gonna be racist to him, because before going to Garreg Mach every given Faerghan except Dimitri HAS BEEN super mega turbo racist to him everywhere he goddamn goes. There's no reason for him to believe his classmates are gonna be different. Like, he doesn't know Mercedes is from the Empire! He has no reason to believe Chivalrous Knight Fanboy Ashe doesn't hate Duscur and everyone from there for regicide. Annette is the only one with a pass and only because Dedue respected Gustave until he went out for cigarettes and never came back, abandoning not only Dimitri but also Dedue in the process. The safest thing is to assume people are gonna come at him hot and preemptively deescalate the situation.

Like, he suffers from the “you can get C and B supports after the time skip” weirdness for sure, but even in his C supports, even if you get them before the skip, he is fully willing to tell Felix where to stick his fucking grapes, and he's willing to tell Ingrid she can be as big of a bitch about it as she wants but he's still going to do his job on the battlefield even if that means keeping her alive. He's consistently assertive of his boundaries with Dimitri in all their supports, including when Dimitri wishes that he did not have a particular boundary (using Dimitri's name and calling each other friends, things it's actually physically not safe for pre timeskip Dedue to do).

Because he is confident Dimitri isn't gonna fucking lose his mind at Dedue about it. He's also confident Felix, Ingrid, and Sylvain won't do a hate crime at him if he's acting in capacity of Dimitri's Vassal because of their fundamental loyalty to Dimitri, so he can safely tell them to shove it also. He tells Gustave he's a disappointment to Gustave’s face in their support!! Dedue isn't just a shrinking violet or whatever, he's just judicious about what shit he's gonna start, and how likely it is that talking shit is gonna get him hit.

(Also, yes he's a quiet guy... But also he's interacting with all these people in his second language, which he has no formal training in and which he learned from Dimitri. He really has to think about what he's going to say before he says anything because there is very little margin for error for him to misspeak without consequences and he knows it.)

Honestly unpopular opinion because like while I'm under no illusions that they did clearly fake out killing him for reasons other than his personal growth, I actually think it was in Dedue's personal best interest that he spent the timeskip in Duscur. This man hates Faerghus, he says that to Dimitri in their supports, but he's been stuck with them and having to just put up with it because he had nowhere else to go (even aside from the fact that Dimitri is literally the only living person in the world who loves him and he's terrified of losing that).

He's very clearly much more self-actualized when he returns, and in a much more relaxed and self-assured emotional place after the timeskip. Probably because he wasn't the one and only Highly Visible Do A Racism Here target and instead was with his own community, where he could actually unpack all that shit safely. Dedue needed that time outside the Racist Aggression Bubble of Faerghus to deal with his survivor's guilt properly.

You really can't address Dedue's self-image issues without also digging into the way dealing with constant racism reinforces those issues. You super cannot. Race and racism and how he deals with it is critical to the character. Is it always handled gracefully by the narrative?? No, absolutely it's not, but it is in fact in the narrative and you HAVE to engage with it if you're going to engage with Why Dedue is Like That.

#Dedue Molinaro #fe3h #disclaimer that I'm a white lady and I'm not trying to get out of my lane here but like. #I keep seeing fic that wants to address Dedue becoming more self-actualized but which. Absolutely refuses to touch the topic of race #like. hey maybe his experience with race and racism is fundamental to Why he is the way he is #Dedue is complex it's not as simple as he just has poor self-esteem or whatever #also tbh one of those was just so tone-deaf like there was one line that was i guess supposed to be positive but i was like #good lord author you are this close to actively calling him a slur without any awareness of it at all #actually tbh the tone deafness seems to be a recurring problem in fic featuring Dedue let me not lie #anyway. #racism

[johnslittlespoon]

also my inbox is fr a warzone rn i'm SO behind on like ~50 asks </3 itching to get back, just been trying to focus on actual fic writing when i get in a rare productive swing instead of hrs of drabbling and brainrot lmfaooo but i'll clear up a whole evening eventually to sit down and go thru a ton of them!

#or maybe i'll secretly do that one evening and queue up a shit ton of drabble responses to go up every 30 min teehee #who knows it's always a guessing game w my focus levels #speaking of not to irl–post but i am 2 weeks into new adhd meds and feeling FRIED and it's affecting my writing productivity #so that's my disclaimer/excuse for my lack of posts tbh bc i feel like everything i am writing lately is so lackluster/uninspired #so i don't wanna put out half–assed drabbles when i have so many Thoughts and Feelings about each ask that i wanna put into proper words!! #i'm saving them for when little bursts of inspo break thru the new med brain fog u feel me #and aside from that. slowly slowly working my way thru the (now confirmed: chaptered yikes) dog coded fic <3 slowly but surely anyway ^-^ #point is: i am so eager to respond/brainrot to all the ideas in my inbox i don't want u askers to think i am overwhelmed or ignoring asks #just fighting thru tha brain fog such is life we move #johnslittlespoon yaps

[hajihiko]

listen idk how to tell you this, and please do not take the tone of this ask to be aggressive, but you have got to start questioning yourself a little more. why are all your least favorite characters the most visibly mentally ill? why are you comfortable saying a character will need several years of therapy before they are able to have friendships? i know youre going to reply to this saying like, oh, i hc other characters as mentally ill, or oh, i'm mentally ill myself - i can't possibly be ableist! and then all your followers will be like yeah ur fine we love you, but im begging you. its okay to dislike characters, but its such an obvious pattern that the ones who have visible, uncomfortable mental health problems that make them unpleasant are, mysteriously, the ones you have the least sympathy for. i do not care whether you consider yourself ableist, whether you headcanon more pleasant characters as mentally ill, whether youre mentally ill yourself - you are posting ableist things. someone doesnt need to be cured or fixed before they should be allowed to have meaningful relationships

Okay, I've read this message over a few times and have it under consideration (? I think that's the phrase).

I do think you got some information wrong, I could be mistaken but after looking through my own posts I think you might've misread something. What I *have* said (before I watched the OVA) is that I dont think Hajime and Nagito should specifically date *each other* until they get therapy / work through their problems (although I do think that, thematically, they make sense as eventual love interests). Again, hadn't watched the OVA, so I was basing it on their interactions in game only, the OVA sort of changes directions from how the game left off.

Never said anything about anyone not having meaningful relationships until they get therapy, and have actually said that a good social net (meaningful relationships, friendly or romantic) are integral to healing from traumatic events. Not saying I haven't given off a bad impression maybe or implied something, if so do tell me because it was probably not intentional and might've slipped by me, but I'm speaking from a factual search of my blog. Not something I have ever said, as far as I can see, and not something I believe anyhow.

I actually mention pretty frequently that I think Nagito (I assume this is mostly about him) is an interesting character that I like, but find complex. My least favourite characters are Hiyoko, Mahiru and Teru (sorry fans of those! I dont mean anything by it it's literally just the vibes) that's why I don't really draw them. The OVA endeared Nagito to me, which is why I've been drawing him on a friendship journey lately, so if you're assuming I don't like him that's more incorrect now than ever.

By all means if you wanna talk about this more openly in chat, I'm down (though my timezone tends to clash). I feel you've put some words in my mouth.

#I'm not saying I *havent* said something shitty somewhere but I searched my whole blog and I couldnt find typed examples of what you said #So if I did I'd need a directory for it. #Idk what else to say rly this is kind of vague and despite the disclaimer kind of aggressive #But I'm not dismissing it and am considering it. For what that's worth #I feel like considering just isnt the right word uh. Taking it seriously I guess? #Not an art #Readmore for clogging. Oh shoot should I tag this #Lmk if it needs a tag #Also this is personal grievance not a factual one so I'm not pissed about it but I DO need to express it: #Stop putting words in my mouth. 'I know what you're gonna say' you do not in fact know me that well ok

[fishedeyelenz]

Toronto in winter

#long time no self insert #or young billy for that matter #it is 30 the grease celsius where i am #and i have a stuffy nose #so i'm fantasizing about winter i guess #disclaimer i have never been in toronto and probs never will be #kinda simplified style to go easy on my sick self #i think we look cute even though we are just standing there #little creatures that's what we are #billy lenz #self insert #self ship #my art

[oflights]

23 and/or 25 for the writer asks pls my friend 🙏🤠

hi friend!! thank you!! 🤠

23. How do you choose where to end a chapter (if you have multi-chapter works)?

lol. vibes? no, i usually have a list of ~things that need to be accomplished in a chapter, and if i've hit all of those in a respectable word count i find a good way to wrap it up. since i've been writing as i post, this has become a more organic process and i've had to do a lot of arranging and figuring out where to leave things/what to save for another chapter (especially now as i near the end of writing).

25. Have you ever upset yourself with your own writing?

omg yes. all the time. Close Behind hurt my feelings so much!! and i agonized for poor harry in along each garden wall (and tbh in a lot of Star Splitter, too; one of my own most heartbreaking things is when a character is super happy about something and the writer/reader knows they're about to get crushed...just kills me).

my thing is like...if it's not hurting me, it's not going to pack an emotional punch for readers, right? so it's worth it! i have little interest in pure, conflict-free fluff all the time; i kind of need it to hurt to some extent or i'm not going to get invested.

basically, at all times:

ask me fic things!

#asks #oknowkiss #ask meme #fic asks #i guess i should disclaim that i'm always ready to get hurt /to an extent/ #in drarry fandom specifically there are some kinds of hurt i will just not engage with #i've never finished reading a ~fandom classic~ because it was too sad in a specific way i didn't want to deal with #and emily and lacye always give me shit for it but nope #i have my angst lane and i stick to it

[cabozers]

This one goes out to feeling queer enough

#my art #artists on tumblr #small artist #comic #gay art #queer art #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queer #gay #furry #kinda #fursona #vaguely #also quick disclaimer I'm not saying I'm an outcast for being a guy or anything I just used to struggle with knowing that was queer enough #cause I always used to think I had to fuck with my gender more to be queer #But I'm a pretty queer man and I like that and know that now regardless of if I go outside of many gender roles or nor #I do what I want and feel comfy with with myself and I guess it just so happens to be pretty societally normative guy stuff #coincidence I imagine. I see it as coincidence since it's so different for everybody #uh these guys have names too #first one is dog motif #second is thing #third is head-like-a-hole

[hungryslothwrites]

what is love! baby don't hurt me. don't hurt me. no more.

#sloth log #just aroace things #idk i've just been thinking about the concept of love. what does it mean. what do i want from it. or something. #i'm locked in my own head and i don't know what other people experience when they say they're in love. do i want to know? #do i love the people around me? or is it just that they make me happy and that's why i want them to be happy and safe? #is there a meaningful difference between the two? (do i really love my friends?) #words making things complicated again. i know what i want and what i feel but when i try to put it into words they feel flat. #like i need to add footnotes and disclaimers. maybe some examples and various cases and conditions. and even then i'll forget something. #and by the time i have some functional definition i've forgotten about the real people in my life. maybe that's part of it. #(yes i need to touch grass.) #alexander avila's video essay about autism and self-diagnoses had a cool segment about how we use labels to find support and community #i guess i'll do that then! #uh. hello! #aplatonic #hi guys i think i'm apl-spec! grayplatonic is what i'm thinkin' so far