Started reading In Loco Parentis 2 days ago (needed to pace myself to study for an exam) and it is Hands Down the best creepypasta fic I've ever read. All the characters' abilities/stories are adapted in such a creative and refreshing way (looking especially hard at their Ben, all the pondwater/supernatural shit hyping up when strong emotions is So cool) and despite not having watched marble hornets yet, Tim and Brians characterizations are so interesting and compelling to read. Im only on chapter 6 currently but im So pumped to read the rest. In short thank you for introducing me to this masterpiece and also thank you for indirectly getting me back into creepypastas i haven't thought about my guys for like 2 years and im so glad theyre back in my head now :D

ITS SO. like god i wish i could instantly beam it into the mind of everyone who reads my creepypasta posts because it’s rewired my brain so much i fear a thorough reading of it is required to understand where i’m coming from. genuinely show much of what’s shown in it has turned into strict canon for me (ESPECIALLY ben like you mentioned because oh my god) everyone who is even slightly interested in creepypasta i cannot recommend in loco parentis enough when i say it rewires your brain chemistry i mean it. it is a masterpiece and i can only aspire to emulate like 1% of its beauty through my own posts. i have reread it no less than 4 different times since discovering it about a month ago

idk much about music theory but i feel like you could make an entire class on either that or composition just about Weird Al's Hardware Store

Actuslly I think everyone should read shitty YA it's a goldmine of unintentionally hilarious lines. This is peak literature

[Transcript: Wow, I love how cool I'm playing it. Love how I'm not being an obvious fucking fanboy for my ex-boyfriend. Hey, maybe I'll be the world's first person to enter into a parasocial relationship with someone I've literally had sex with. End transcript]

"A puncture wound. That's so.... emo." girl you have a fall out boy poster on your wall in 2009 who are you kidding

really truly think OFF's random encounter theme (pepper steak) is the best random encounter theme i've heard (and i've heard a lot of em)

Red's Favourite Women Of All Time: Angela Orosco

"Or maybe... You think you can save me? Will you love me? Take care of me? Heal all my pain? Hmph. That's what I thought."

Can i just say theres just something so genuinely beautiful and relatable about Will and the show helping Noah realize his sexual identity and coming to terms with being gay? Like as someone who essentially grew up alongside the show, i think its less the characters and more the effect they have on you that just makes them inherently relatable, you know? Like not all of us are up and coming journalists, single moms and police chiefs, best friends with our teachers, part of a dnd club, on the basketball team etc, and I highly doubt any of us are fighting off supernatural creatures controlled by a burned blond man (if you are call me up i want in), but there's almost like a companionship between the viewer and the show where the characters are so fleshed out and well-developed they feel like real people entirely separate from you, yet at the same time every single one of them has a mirror reflecting parts of yourself back onto you. I know personality-wise Will and I have absolutely nothing in common, we're nearly polar opposites, but theres a reason I cried so hard my eyes burned and my chest hurt during his monologue, because being in the closet to everyone you know and love is hard. For Mike, feeling unwanted and unimportant is something a lot of people can relate to, and its hard. Even for characters like Barb, Bob and Alexei, all supposedly secondary characters, theres still something that's fundamentally human about them, something that makes us develop such a strong attachment to their characters despite them only existing for a couple episodes. Like theres something about the show that makes people find themselves inside the screen, whether its something they knew or something they're discovering for the first time. And I think Shawn Levy put it best: "that may be one of the most beautiful outcome of 'Stranger Things' that I've ever heard"

listen i do well and truly love wesper but the thing about some of the rarepairs ive been fic'ing for lately is that i cannot overstate how much i adore the divinely unhinged dynamic of "all these dudes are genuinely obsessed with one another but also fucking hate each other, and at least one (1) murder happens within the polycule but im still going to write them all fucking & pretend it's fine"

[Image description: A digital drawing of Marty Rantzen from the film Slaughter High. He's wearing his Jester mask, which looks like its smiling wide. The piece cuts off around his shoulders, which means you can only just see his letterman jacket. It has the letter "D" stitched on the front. Blood drips down the side of his face where his acid burns would be underneath, and it pools under his chin. His hat, its hair and its tassels are all blowing to the side. The drawing has a neon green outline around it, and is mostly shaded with green, its other main colour being red. The background is blue-toned grey drawn in scratchily over green. Overall, the piece has a coarse texture, and thick lines.]

marty rantzen fucks

it’s been about 4 years and some change, so i feel i can confidently say that i will never, ever get over the ending of falsettos. to this day i cry at merely the thought of “what more can i say?”

over the garden wall is sooo fucking good, I know it's supposed to be for kids but . i have to watch it every single October lest my spirit become dampened and leaden with villainous specters and phantoms

got two days off work, which means i can now either watch good omens season 2 or the entire peanuts filmography from 1969 to 2015. tough choices

I ended up reading The Price of the Phoenix and while it didn't make me want to bleach my eyes like Killing Time, I still didn't like it as much as I hoped I would. Don't get me wrong, the homoeroticism was intriguing to me, but the actual writing and storyline itself left me with a headache. I think I get my hopes up with these books, given all of the possibilities that the written word has for Trek, and it inevitably sets me up for disappointment lol

across the spiderverse: movie of the year (but also what the fuck!!)

who here has read ducks by kate beaton. if you have read ducks you should come talk to me about ducks and if you have not read ducks you should read ducks

i genuinely love how atsv makes people want to draw and this is a pretty consistent sentiment ive seen. ive always been such a sap for the belief that "art inspires art"