6x14 | Twice As Far

This has driven me batshit insane. I haven't seen anything related to this, and thought I was prepared because of cyberpunk, but I was not. The will find my corpse crumpled on the floor- Death by dehydration due to excessive sobbing.

Happy New Year from my silly 1/2 hour rock!

Midnight has landed and it is 2023 where I am <3 Very very excited to tell you all: 1 - I love you. Thank you for brightening my life so much this year. Joining Tumblr and using it has been such a wild ride and y'all have made it fabulous <3 2 - Take care of yourselves, be safe!! DON'T Drink and Drive and don't go anywhere handy to someone who is!! There are safer ways home!

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3 - THESE have produced a wonderful gift for you all, and it is: 4 - Surprise bonus chapter updates for THE RESCUE and THE STRANDING! Your New Years gifts from moi <3 Please enjoy!!

The Stranding - Chapter 50 - Oh Captain, My Captain

The Rescue - Chapter 37 - Mind The Sails

I am very drunk, love you, kiss kiss smooch smooch BE SAFE and tell me all about your best and favourite parts of New Years even if you were just chilling at home in a bathrobe like me <3

HI! YOU! I LOVE YOU! YOU ARE PRECIOUS!!

IX!!!!! MY LOVE!!!! I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT YOU!!!!

Dude. I gotchu. Yeosang and beomgyu grew up in the same town/city, where life was good and they had well adjusted, non therapy-needing families. They went to the same schools and ran basically in the same crowd of nerds-just in different circles of friends. They never actually had classes together or interacted with each other either, but they both adopted a similar sense of civil responsibility and ambition to make an impact in their society. Time skip they are adults and they are just as passionate about their dreams, but they could not have ended up in more different places. Yeosang is a no nonsense detective who never has the patience for bureaucracy, but thinks red tape and stamped letters are a necessary evil. He is exploring a lead about some sort of accident at a company(workers comp suck so no one is happy). While he is there, he crosses paths with a certain person obviously not an employee despite his theatrics. This fool turns out to be Beomgyu who is actually a journalist trying to expose the corrupt CEO and managers for their illegal activities and coverups. While they technically are on the same side of the war, yeosang's straight-laced but clever ways of navigating the system immediately clash with the... well, more anarchist, or let's call it unsanctioned, ploys beomgyu's brain manifests into reality. I would die to see Beomgyu's out of pocketness translate into social justice warrior journalist who could not give a damn about the law. Cue lots of conflict, rivals testing each other, both trying to prove their way is better, and unintentional sabotage....all leading to them finally realizing they could actually work together somehow and beep boop they rent a Scooby-Doo van and drive around the country solving crime as a duo.

DBB ANON whew... 😶

DBB, YOU'RE A GODDAMNED GENIUS

I love this. It is PERFECT. You took the prompt and ran with it in the best possible way. YES they'd start off with such similar circumstances and backgrounds but taking separate paths brought them to such different realities. ENDING BACK UP TOGETHER ANYWAY, especially in the face of injustice? It's fate. Before they know it, they're in each other's faces, blinded by their small differences because they're both too dopey to immediately realize the weight of their similarities.

I LOVE IT, OP. YOU NAILED IT. I LOVE BEOMSANG.

Hi chaos!! How are you, are you doing okay?

i love. ash lynx

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

maya angelou saying the funniest thing anyone has ever said about editing, which i can never let myself forget EVER AGAIN [x]

EVERY SINGLE DAY there are MILLIONS of characters in their late 20s who get falsely accused of being father figures to teenagers when in reality the description of "weird older cousin" or "step-sibling that moved out before you were born" is 1000000x more apt

Listen man, you guys can't be like "you guys need to be normal about asexuality" and then turn around and get weirdly judgemental when you find out someone doesn't have sex by choice. Like that's weird that some of you do that.

My blog has become infested with angst goblins, and they must be fed with some hypothetical scenarios!🙏💚

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

Big fan of sun motifs in characters not necessarily being about positivity and happiness and how they're so " bright and warm" but instead being about fucking brutal they are.

Radiant. A FORCE of nature that will turn you to ash. That warmth that burns so hot it feels like ice. Piercing yellow and red and white. A character being a Sun because you cannot challenge a Sun without burning alive or taking everything down with them if victorious.

Loving reminder from your land history auntie:

North American golf courses have had 50-100 years of arsenic and mercury based fungicide and herbicides applied to their soils.

Do not eat anything that has been grown on a golf course or downstream from a golf course. I know it sounds cool and radical, but you are too valuable to poison yourself with heavy metals.

Protect each other, turn your local golf course into a pollinator garden, not a sex forest or community garden.

please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!

gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.

SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:

diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.

non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.

the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.

now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.

if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.

it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.

but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.