I see your "Laios is trans" but that dude is THE most apathetically agender person on the planet. Laios does not have time for gender. Laios does not even HAVE a gender identity, he removed it to make room for more Monster Facts.

Something I need to get off my chest before Alecto comes out bc it's something that seemed clear to me reading the books, but I haven't seen many people say this:

I don't think John can currently resurrect people.

We don't know how exactly the resurrection happened, we don't know how he did it back then, I don't think it's something he can currently do. I don't know whether he needs a huge amount of suddenly unleashed thanergy, I don't know whether he needs to chomp down on a fresh planet soul, I don't know whether he needs Alecto to do it for or with him. I don't even know whether it's possible to resurrect house people (people adapted to live on thanergetic planets).

I just don't think he can do it right now, which is why he's avoiding it. Motherfucker would abuse that power if he had it. No talk about godly restraint or some shit like that is going to convince me that he wouldn't just resurrect half the cohort every second Tuesday to conquer planets more efficiently.

To me, John was always a con artist caught in his own con. He's jumping from lie to lie because he has to go deeper in instead of giving up. Of course, him not fully resurrecting Kiriona because it's easier to control her this way is a compelling and well fitting explanation, but until proven otherwise I will maintain that he simply can't do it.

“he would not fucking say that!” then put him in a situation that makes him say it, we wanna see him squirm

Kind of hilarious to me how poorly the title "Mob Psycho 100" localized to English-speaking areas. To someone whose first language is English, it scans as:

Mob (Yakuza, Mafia)

Psycho (violent person with "crazy" behaviors)

Thus: a particularly violent member of organized crime.

But in Japanese it scans as:

Mob (background characters in crowd scenes in manga or anime)

Psycho (short for psychic)

Thus: a psychic who looks/acts like someone you'd never pick out of a crowd scene in a comic.

i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

died and came back exactly the same but something was so so so wrong with me before and now I have an excuse to really lean into it

epic aro sculpture i did for class

the heart is made out of plastic bags wrapped with tape, so it's squishy ^_^ and the knife is qtips hot glued together. the knife is also removable!

More about the project:

Credit for the tik tok:

you've heard of love triangles now get ready for th

what the hell? women

the difference between light and misa is that light deserves to be manipulated psychologically tortured and eventually killed by his evil detective bf. misa deserves to hold her shinigami gf's gigantic skeletal hand and take her on dates every day for 200 years while they try to find out which kind of milkshake rem likes best

I am not a nie brothers scholar nor a jgy scholar so idk how to properly put these thoughts together, but I think it's unfair to act like nie huaisang would've tried to break up nieyao. what makes the tragedy and betrayal so delicious is that meng yao was his friend. in cql, he's visibly really worried about him and is pacing outside while nmj decides to kick him out. in the novels, jgy was constantly showering nhs with gifts tailored to his interests. nie huaisang liked him and trusted him, and that ultimately makes what happens later far more interesting than if he had hated him the whole time

I have a lot of feelings about the rise of he would not fucking say that attitudes in fandom spaces and the paralysing effect it can have on creators. As a writer i think it’s important to just write what feels true to you and not what you think others will “approve” of. Like even as a reader i have enjoyed a variety of different characterisations that all work because the writer makes them work for a particular story. And a fic that’s written out of character to some will be in character to others. Writing fic is not your job you’re not being paid it’s your hobby please. Make them as close to canon as possible. Make them completely different. Who cares! Have fun! Have so much fun! There is an audience for every kind of fic and every kind of character interpretation i promise

you know what i'm gonna get sappy for a second bear with me

there are a lot of posts and memes for writers about how hard writing is and how annoying it can be and how dispiriting it can feel when we don't make progress the way we'd like to. and those are true, and relatable, and funny! i've been there!

but maybe it doesn't get said enough in the other direction, so I'm gonna say it: I love writing. i love the process of putting phrases together and testing them for cadence and flow; i love knowing that there is a word for exactly the thing I want to convey, even if I just can't think of it right now, and going onto a thesaurus and being like there she is, that's the one!

but more than anything, I love the ritual of constantly asking myself "okay, and then what happens?" and feeling the same sense of delighted surprise every single time when somehow, a part of me I wasn't consciously aware of knows the answer. that experience, where my brain provides me solutions I didn't know it was working on, feels like a miracle every time. and getting into a productivity groove where I keep knowing the answers is one of the best feelings on the planet.

and sure, sometimes I don't know the answer, and it's hard and unsatisfying and see above about how easy it is to joke about how writing's the pits, but... that just makes it even more special when I'm firing on all cylinders, you know?

anyway, yeah. w r i t i n g.

I will open the fucking TikTok app just to watch this video multiple times

we still get immediately shoved out of our immersion in tv shows or films when The Girl find a dead body and immediately shrieks - we just don't find it realistic because we're pretty confident most people would gasp rather than shriek (i.e. sharp inhale rather than sharp exhale) and it also feels unnecessarily (and predictably) misogynistic too, as men encountering corpses almost never do the same on screen

also of course please do tell us if you've actually encountered a corpse unexpectedly, because tumblr is absolutely a place where some people have done this thing and we love a good anecdote

suddenly imagining "burst into song" as a potential response