I'm curious on how things would go differently (au-ish?) on one of your mission verse fanfics where little mission tries to get a glimpse of megatron... like what would happen if mission did make too much noise and megatron notices him?? how would starscream have reacted considering he was about to retrieve a sneaking mission??

btw i love all your megastar fanfics- i keep re-reading them 💖

Answering this ask like 2 years late, whoops

Anyway, here's what would have happened as a bonus chapter for the fic in question 💕

Before/ after cleaning out the weeds by my tomatos...this task actually made me sad because I've been neglecting pruning the tomatos hardcore and they were growing well but growing amok :((( had to prune a bunch of lower branches that were already making fruit but were sooo heavy because I was sloppy about the pruning AND the staking. Some of them were so big they were breaking off the plant. Some of them were so big their stems were on the ground forming roots :( all and all a sad thing to have to cut off so many branches with fruit forming but it's probably for the best

sorry i havent been sending much ask games and stuff lately & not being as interactive

Love trinkets, scrying, reunions, and lightning in episode 81 of ill fame - read it here

(Sorry, it’s been a while posting these on here, but I’m gonna try and catch up now 🫠)

its like being kept alive by fear alone and im afraid im startjng to fear god i need to get away from people telling me lies and hurting me because i lkeel letting people do that and its like. whart the duck.......

like my sleep paralysis i had to go home early cause im so sick and tired and i could barely move and i couldnt act or pretend anymore so i went home and slept but i kept waking up while paralyzed and i felt like i was dying and it was so scary. like im scared to fall asleep and i put it off because i never know when its going to happen. my muscles are soar and i have a headache

I just wanted to let you know that I really love your art and I think you are very talented as well and I always look forward to your next piece they always leave me in awe but I hope you’re taking care of yourself too as well make sure not to push yourself too hard to rest when needed and stay hydrated and eat I hope you have a lovely day/night 💕

😭😭😭 thank you so much fam 💜💜💜💜 i really need this message lately ;-;

I wanna keep putting out good content for you all to enjoy but nowadays I don't have as much time to draw so I end up working late into the night to compensate and over the course of weeks that adds up and starts wrecking havoc--- sorry that's leached into my behavior here

Accidentally committed a clown massacre…

[ID: a seven-panel fanart comic showing El, the artist, playing the Witcher 3. In the first panel, El, a white woman with short brown hair, holds a Nintendo Switch in one hand while absentmindedly stirring a cup of tea with the other.

The next panels show what is happening in the game; two thugs wearing harlequin and mime costumes are refusing Geralt entry. One says ‘No entry for stinky Witcher boiz!’, while the other repeats ‘No entry!’. A decision screen is shown, with options for ‘Bribery’, Violence’, or ‘Peaceful Resolution’. A selection arrow points to ‘Peaceful Resolution’. Geralt holds up a letter, and the thugs happily agree to let him in.

The comic cuts back to El, who fumbles the Switch but manages to catch it in the crook of her arm. She checks the screen again with a comical expression of dismay. The final panel shows that there has been a sudden and extreme escalation of events in the game. Instead of a letter, Geralt holds up a hand to cast a gout of flame towards the thugs, who scream in terror. End ID]

As a reminder that good exists out there, a coworker recently confessed to me that he found out his child is questioning their identity (kid's gender redacted for this post). The kid is keeping it from him, so he can't say anything to them or show that he knows, but he's doing his best to get mentally prepared and educated so that he'll be ready whenever his kid does feel comfortable enough come to him.

For context, this guy is a big, bulky middle aged dude who loves sports and typical outdoor "manly" activities. As his coworker and friend, I know he's a kind and sweet teddy bear of a person, but his kid probably views him as a stern, authoritarian figure, the way most teenagers view their parents. His family lives in a conservative area, so I'm sure between that, their dad's looks and interests, and the fact that their dad is a Figure of Authority, the kid is worried that they won't be accepted.

But you know what? When he found out about his kid, the first thing he did was reach out to his closest queer friend and ask for resources for parents of questioning children. His biggest fears are that his kid will be bullied or discriminated against and won't feel comfortable enough to be themself. His second action was to find himself a mentor in another parent who went the same situation (kid coming out in a conservative town). The other person is preparing him for some of the struggles his kid may face and the fights he may need to take on as a parent to make sure his kid is safe and treated well.

Something I want to emphasize for people focused on language as the primary method of allyship is that when we spoke, he used some outdated terms and thoughts about gender and sexuality. That does not make him bad. These were the terms and thinking used about questioning teenagers when he was growing up and he never needed to learn more current ones. But now that he does have that need, he's throwing himself in head first because that's his kid and he's darn well going to make sure that his kid feels welcomed and has a safe place to be themselves even if they never come out to him.

crowley

rediscovering an old version of yourself which you had sort of hidden away/ignored for so long and realising actually you do have things in common which maybe you didn’t with the people you were in between

hypothesis: vampires are magically vulnerable to light originating from the sun

observation: moonlight has no effect on vampires, despite being a reflection of the sun

conclusion: this aversion is not a result of light or its origin, but some property of sunlight only present in direct contact

hypothesis: vampires are extremely sensitive to uv radiation

one important thing that Must be understood about interpersonal relationships is that you have to stop interacting with people who love you like they’re one slip-up away from leaving you. you have to trust that the ppl you love mean what they say. you have to believe that when they say “this hurt my feelings,” that they’re also saying, “can you please love me this other way next time?” and you have to wrap your head around the fact that even if you don’t understand Why someone loves you, you can accept that that they do. true, honest, & open love does not function like hp in a video game !!!!!!

Personally, it's always a bit wild to me to see commentators interact with the Hunger Games franchise as if Collins were writing science fiction stories instead of essays with faces. She's just not that interested in fleshing out side characters or digging into the details of the worldbuilding. These characters are concepts and symbols before they're people. There's an almost mathematical precision to who and what she explores and how deeply she does it. This is a step or two away from pure allegory. If she were writing a couple of centuries ago, she'd have named her characters things like Innocence and Anger and Watch-Carefully-Your-Soul-Lest-Ye-Be-Damned, but since she's writing for modern audiences, she has to settle for puns and allusions. If she has another essay to write, she'll assign some faces to it; she's not going to look into backstories or other eras just for the sake of storytelling, and it's not a failing as a writer that she doesn't.

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.

Master Leonardo has some tricks to show Casey for his first Christmas

FNAF Roxy and Vanny have some girl time,,