im so fucking useless

me watching the sandman: wow so many queer characters! this is awesome!

me watching episode 6: aaaaaaaand i know what i’m shipping

one day i will write an essay about how people sleep on asmo—he deserves better!

love letter from lebanon

i've been searching for a reason to decry this landlocked mountainless place that has not seen the sea since the Cretaceous

I opened a door in El Dorado out back the oil museum looking for a gold that doesn't poison there was nothing but weathered buildings and wind in the trees a never-lived-in boom town as halcyon history

the Arkansas rushes past my feet down south in the places we took from the raccoon-eyed people and named after them as if that was suitable repayment this is not a place of honor no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here

i think walking through potato fields in the morning fog that this is a place of misunderstanding of misappropriating of mispronouncing and i feel justified in my targeted misanthropy but then i think it's not that simple it never is

i've found no golden cities my eyes were never masked i've harvested no crops i sit in a chapel marked by gods i don't believe in, and i am as far from the ocean that roars in my veins as it is possible to be

but the injustice did not start here or end nothing of the dishonor is unique to this place i am not better for being born of the sand and the sea i would not be worse if i'd been born of the prairie

i still haven't found a reason when the wind rides the prairie grasses the ocean finds me even here

Aggressive reminder that I am deeply in love with Sunny

munmun sakyo

I think about her sometimes. I spent so long being afraid.

If the world ends, do you think I could tell her?

If I know there will be no tomorrow, would I be able to tell the truth?

Because the truth is I want to find my home inside you.

The truth is I don't know if I can live without you, even if friendship is the only way you'll have me.

The fact of the matter is loving you scares me. I don't think it will ever stop scaring me. I don't know if I'm ready. Could anyone be ready for you, for this?

You are everything in all the ways that matter. If you'll be my god, I'll be your priest, your temple and alter, your offerings, your martyr. No being could call my worship sacrilege if they heard you speak your word to me. No one could burn me as a heretic if they saw the sun in your eyelashes, the freckles across your cheeks like stars across the sky. No one could shout "blasphemy!" if they saw the way you smiled at even the lowest ant.

You are holy like the flowers are sweet, like the earth is life. You are spring after the darkest winter. You are the dawn after the deepest night.

I love you.

Those words will never do you justice, but they are all I have.

I love you.

I don't think that is enough.

mod that gives wx-78 a stupid little tail

i love getting prev tagsed so much! like that shits an immediate serotonin boost

One of my favorite trope for Steddie is Steve hunting down Eddie when the kids join Hellfire and giving him a long list of dos and donts.

At first Eddie thinks he’s just being a prick, and worried he’s going to turn the nerds into freaks like him. Especially when he says not to mention drugs in front of Dustin.

But then he starts pulling out lists of monsters that can’t be in campaigns. And like what??? Why can’t he use demagorgons? They were gonna be in the next combat! He’s tempted to ignore the warnings, in fact he’s all set to, but something about Steve’s face when he was laying it all out haunts him. Something so deadly serious about it. So first he decides to test the waters to see if he’s full of shit.

When the session starts, he makes a throwaway comment, “you’re acting like there’s a mindflayer around the corner.”

All the kids freeze but Wheeler especially looks like he’s going to be sick. He even grabs at the bracelet around his wrist. The one he always said his best friend made him before he moved.

Eddie curses himself for even trying to test it out after that, and immediately bullshits the whole session so he can scrap any hint of demogorgans from the campaign.

After that session he drives straight to Harringtons house and demands they go over all the things he can’t include again, in detail, while he takes notes.

He doesn’t know what’s going on with these freshmen, but he knows trauma when he sees it and well he’d gotten attached to the gremlins.

When he leaves that night, he thinks Steve is looking at him with approval. Like he trusts him with their well-being now.

"go outside and touch grass" but about intimacy. go outside (to a lesbo club night). touch the skin of another dyke. you'll feel better

you know i think it would be absolutely hilarious if after some time Percy would get so fed up by Mr. D never calling him by his actual name so Percy would just decide to do the exact same thing to him and start calling him anything but Mr. D/Dionysus

like mr. D would be like "Hey Peter Johnson" and Percy would turn around and with a straight face be like " yes, Dave?" and everyone else is just watching horrified like wtf Percy? do you want to be turned into a cockroach????

or Percy would be talking with someone and be like " Derek told me-"

" who..?"

"you know our camp director? god of wine and all that?"

"......you mean mr. D./Dionysus "

"yeah Dylan...so anyways he told me-"

and then it would become this thing between Percy and Mr. D where they would always try to come up with the most stupid and outrageous wrong names to annoy each other as much as they possibly can

everyone is horrified at Percy and just waiting for Dionysus to smite him but Percy and Mr. D are secretely having a fucking blast

today I learned that Shane Wright is still playing hockey... although the firebirds are now down 3-2 in the series

shane will put them back on top

Sorry but Kabru is so fascinating to me as a character, in a pure mechanical sense, because of what Ryoko Kui does with him. Everything about him is a red herring. He's deliberately introduced as some kind of rival for Laios, a party leader who is hopeless against monsters but absolutely brilliant with people both in and out of combat, and who has good reason to oppose him.

By the end of chapter 31, you might even think Kabru's going to end up as some sort of anti-villain, an antagonist with the best of intentions who nevertheless tries to foil our hero's plans. He wants to defeat the Mad Mage himself, he suspects Laios of being too irresponsible to be trusted with control of the dungeon, and his crew even thinks that Laios's party stole from them (and they're kind of right!). All signs point towards an inevitable showdown.

And then ... none of that happens.

Confrontation over the stolen treasure? Kabru is literally too smart to fall for the classic miscommunication trope and correctly decides it's not worth making a big deal of.

Kabru's deadly PVP skills? Aside from trying to take down Falin, he never fights another human again.

Wanting to be the one who defeats the dungeon? Turns out he was only doing that because he didn't think any other adventurer would have people's best interests at heart, and he's more than willing to play a support role in the whole affair.

Thinking Laios is up to no good? He really did just want to get to know the guy more. He has his misgivings, but ultimately ends up trusting Laios with his life.

Is Kabru going to get some sort of comeuppance for hating monsters and not appreciating their ecosystem? Well no, he has good reasons for hating monsters. He ends up wanting to learn about them through Laios's eyes, but he's never forced into any "Wow, guess I was wrong about them!" revelation.

Hell, even his implied ladykiller ways, which might lead you to think he'll end up being the stock "chivalrous lech" type of character, don't really manifest. He has a lot of opportunities to act flirtatiously around women, but doesn't. He's just a guy whose natural charisma makes him into human catnip.

And that's all hysterical to me, to pull it off. It's a fascinating way to tell a story. To introduce a character explicitly as a rival, potentially even a villain, and instead make them a deuteragonist. It's like a magician making a coin disappear, then slowing down their trick to show you the misdirection. "Did you see what I did there?" they ask with a wink. "The coin was in my other hand the entire time."

Insane to me that certain comic book creators who shall not be named dismissed Jonathan Harker as a "milk sop" and a boring character. White-haired avenger with ambiguously vampiric superstrength Jonathan Harker. Most violent and unhinged member of the vampire hunters Jonathan Harker. Ran at Dracula with a kukri knife without skipping a beat and then tried to climb out of a window to pursue him Jonathan Harker. "Like a living flame" Jonathan Harker. Calls his bond with his wife "the holiest love" and determines that if she becomes a vampire, even if Dracula calls her to his side, "she shall not go into that dark night alone" Jonathan Harker. You know. That one.