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I know someone asked a while back for Swagdoons/scam duo fics, but I read all of those so, got anymore? (Please I crave Swagdoons content and I’m incapable of finding good fics on my own)
omg my fav thing ever.,...reccing fics.,...dw anon i got u! ^^
anyways same rules apply as last time: i'll provide a quick synopsis, any warning tags, and the relationship nature of the fic ^_^ if any of the fics arent your thing/the cws are too much, you're free to skip em! (also if ur a fic author please don't take any of this personally this is just personal preference <3)
anyways preamble over. swagdoons fic recs 2: electric boogalogo!
Falling doesn’t feel so bad when I know you’re falling this way too by Scared_Rodent
one of the older ones that i think slap <3 banshee!ash entering god!red's realm. absolutely love the desolate aesthetic paired with how. standoff-ish both of them are Despite having a clear place in their heart for the other. this is romantic, but there's no real flirting or kissing or anything, just complicated vibes <3
cws for: a personified version of death and discussions of death (there's no character death, though)
No one has to know by 13001
royalty au red and ash, with both of them being princes from different kingdoms with political tension going on right now. they flirt for a bit before confessing that they like each other, and that no one has to know about their relationship (ba dum tss). this fic is nice and short and is romantic with flirting and kissing scenes
cws for: mentions of political tensions and potentially going to war
bleeding out in your bathtub by Anonymous/np13
a marble hornets au with ash and red. no marble hornets knowledge is needed to read this, and it's mostly ash and red trying to survive in an apartment together <3 very much "awh shit this place is haunted and we only have each other to trust (but we're still assholes towards each other)" vibes. this fic can be read either platonically or romantically, with the whole "i can only trust you in this world" thing going on
cws for: absence seizures, getting stalked, and heavy sleep deprivation from paranoia
overdosed on sugar and holiday high by Anonymous
coffee shop au! ash is a cashier and red is a little shit of a customer and they have fun banter <3 it's a christmas fic too, so that's fun! even despite the insults and whatnot they care abt each other and its very sweet <3 this fic can be read either platonically or romantically, and there's no hardcore flirting or kissing
cws for: none that i can think of
if you were a waiting room i would never see the doctor (i would sit there with my first aid kit and bleed) by treacherouna
vague lifesteal au where ash gets jumped during battle, red finds him at ash's base, and helps to bandage ash up <3 v tender that's juxtaposed with them dancing around their feelings <3 this fic is romantic, although it doesn't go much beyond physical contact
cws for: injury/pain, bandaging wounds, and also ash is shirtless but it isn't sexual or anything so (plus its just for being able to bandage stuff easier)
hold me close (and hope that they dont see my face) by rayius
a genshin impact au! red is a lawyer and he and ash talk about legal trouble ash is in <3 0 genshin knowledge is needed and its fun banter! this fic is platonic
cws for: legal issues and mentions of witnessing a stabbing
efficiency! efficiency! the call of perfection by Anonymous
a fun ficlet of red and ash being hyper obsessed with their trash factory in seaclean <3 very them vibes with Capitalism Flavoring. this fic is platonic
cws for: overworking/obsession with progress
Pretty Things by ros_is_writing
a cute fluff fic of red trying on earings and hanging out with ash <3 this one is full of good vibes and v soft. this fic is romantic and includes kissing
cws for: none that i can think of
gather stones together by Felix_J
a soulmates au fic of ash and red. it has an unconventional soulmates dynamic and the Way their emotions are explored is soooo. i have so many brain worms abt this fic. man. this fic is romantic with kissing and lots of flirting
cws for: smoking/cigarettes and like 1 mention of sex
and now some fics that aren't swagdoons centric but that i think are nice anyways ^_^
after closing time by cherubium
a fun casino quartet (ash, branzy, clown and red) fic of them working at a casino w lots of fun banter! this fic can be read either platonically or romantically
cws for: alcohol/drinking
digital in reciprocation by Anonymous
ok i'm going to be real ash and red only interact for like 1 chapter but in the chapter they Do appear in, they have a fun rival thing going on ^_^ anyways this is is a highschool clownzy-centric fic where branzy gets blackmailed by clown for his revenge plot. this fic is romantic, but for clownzy and not swagdoons
cws for: someone setting themselves on fire, suicide, blackmail, cybercrime, and doxxing
also swagdoons week is happening right now! if you want content of them, i recommend checking out the ao3 collection and browsing for fics that catch ur interest! ^_^ happy reading and stay safe! :D (also here's the other fic rec list i made for them, enjoy!)
#mcyt#swagdoons#wogh.....thats a lot of fics#tw swearing#tw caps#media.warning.caps#media.warning.swearing#anyways ^_^ omg swagdoons#lsshipping#mcytshipping#<- not rlly but just in case#this one is formatted. a lot better#so yippee!!#anyways enjoy the list i loveee reccing fics if u ask me i shall give em ^_^#mailbox.core
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"Bring on The Dancing Horses"(x) - Echo and The Bunnymen × Ferrari Drivers
#yes this web weave was titled 'Bring on The Prancing Horses' in my docs....yes im proud of that....#long post whoop!!! pls scroll back thru and listen to the song while doing so if you wanna experience it better :)#this was originally supposed to be an edit but i have no patience for that and im very happy w this!!#i daydream to music a lot and when i first heard this song i could only think of ferrari seb then sebchal then ferrari drivers in general#but this hurt me a lot to make(for several reasons)#one: AAAAHHHH IT MAKES ME SADDDDDDD!! now im only gonna be able to think of the myth of ferrari when i listen to this song#it rly hurt to look up the pics for this bcs it still feels sore to me and it makes me so sad#but at least i didnt have to watch vids! id probably burst into tears#two: fighting for my life in google docs trying to format the text hahaha... i refuse to use photoshop#special thanks to cofi (@sweatyflytrap) for giving me the idea to put the TPs for the lies lyrics!#its both funny and unfortunate that domenicali was the TP for both felipe and fernando#it would be a bit better if there was a different tp for each but ah oh well#also hehe changed the lyric a tiny bit for the Kimi part. in the og lyrics its Jimmy not Kimi but yknow felt odd to leave it as it was so!#other than that i really really ardently feel that this song fits the cycle of ferrari drivers soooooo well#the 'bring on the new messiah' at the end of the song PLEASE IT FITS SO WELL! with how they drop their prev golden boy for whoevers next!#also omg the way seb's verse is 'you're breaking my brittle heart' rather than "im breaking your brittle heart' HURTS DOESNT IT??????#i didnt included the original opening/middle verse. i def could make it fit but it wasnt a good opening for this post specifically#'Jimmy Brown made of stone' = kimi again. 'Charlie clown no way home' = charles of course!#anyways this is my magnum opus...but nah i really like it! ill only ever make web weaves w random 80s music i think hahah#ferrari#scuderia ferrari#felipe massa#kimi raikkonen#fernando alonso#sebastian vettel#charles leclerc#f1#formula 1#we do a little bit of f1#normal posts that catie normally makes in a normal fashion
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"we have casino cups at home!"
casino cups at home:
#I don't hate it#but#I feel like a lott of shavs media videos are trying to do what casino cups did#the ask blog format#and the focus on the casino and the demons/hell has become a lot more common in cuphead fan projects#because of the success of casino cups#any cuphead video they do now seems uncannily similar#I like the artist though! shout out neonross#and the VAs aren't bad either#like nothing can replace Jeromy Taita (he did every character in the og dubs)#but still good! espec king dice's VA#shavs has 3 cuphead series all of them only have 2-3 episodes each#I feel like it would be better to focus on ONE series#sorry I have a lot of thoughts#this post was sitting in my drafts
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2024 reads / storygraph
The Liar’s Knot & Labyrinth’s Heart
books 2&3 in a fantasy trilogy set in a Venetian inspired city full of political intrigue
follows a young woman who conned her way into a noble family, a masked vigilante, and a crime boss, who eventually become allies while juggling multiple identities
and trying to save their people and city by joining a secret society to find origins of a corrupting curse, to eventually destroy the powerful magical objects at the heart of it
tarot magic & sigil/geometry magic, dreamworlds, sentient magical disguises
#the liar's knot#labyrinth's heart#rook and rose#aroaessidhe 2024 reads#the summaries at the start are helpful. bc I forgot what happened in book one lol#I enjoyed these better - I think listening to the audiobooks helped with that a lot. They’re quite long books!#the accents in the audiobooks also enhance it a lot#I def enjoyed the series overall & listening to a whole book in a day or 2 (rather than dragging out if i did text format) is better#the overall plot and magic stuff. im not gonna lie and say i understood it all LMAO but I thought it was pretty good & def some great char#don’t super care about romance. like I don’t dislike it - & much prefer the slow burn to instalove that's everywhere - but also eh whateve#also not to be like miraculous ladybug but high fantasy. but#yeah of course the aromantic crime boss w a telepathically linked spider hosting the ghost of a dead guy as his closest companion is my fav#yeah i cried. im tearing up thinking about it now. they’re so good#his little spider gloves for his spider feet?#there's a good amount of queer characters scattered around#(vargo's aromanticism is hinted a few times; and it's pretty clear imo if you're looking; but not explicit)#i see there’s tons of people shipping him/disappointed it wasn’t polyam...I wish it was clearer bc of that. but otherwise it was fine#like. solidly developed in depth character is just as/more important to me overall#but also why'd [redacted] have to leave....nooo :(#also spider on the cover!!! i only noticed that at the end of that book sjdghsf#queer books#aromantic books#bisexual books
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Was this written by future President of the United States Chester Arthur or Anne of Green Gables?
#history is awesome#presidential talk#most of the letter is on a similar level of unrestrained gushing#he was totally a sanguine#there are lots of fun letters which makes it very easy to keep reading#woodrow wilson's was more impressive than it might have been because it came right after the tafts#so i was just like 'thank goodness! someone who knows how to use punctuation!'#(but also it is a nice letter in its own right)#theodore roosevelt wins the prize so far for complete lack of punctuation#which does have the effect of making it seem very stream-of-consciousness which seems very right for him (esp at that age)#lucretia (soon-to-be) garfield's letter made me tear up though#i might need to make that its own post because wow the drama and the heartbreak (and the spine of steel that woman had)#i was unsure about this purchase but dang it might be the best book i've bought this year#extremely good formatting for one#lots of white space and nice clear font so it's incredibly easy to read#which is a very underrated aspect of books but maybe one of the most important things when it comes to the reading experience#i've started taking that into account when i select books and it's made my reading life so much better
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watching the most recent episode of neverafter and ylfa's scene is destroying me. the wolf showing up... like a monument, something so much older than anything alive... literally subheaded as the ending of the story. and yet it doesn't end... pages of pages of them standing there. days of a little girl waiting to be eaten by a monument of a wolf who does not get out of the bed. the violin shrieks. this story of ylfa went really, really wrong.
for DAYS they are stuck there and yet she has an inkling of what is meant to happen and so she stays. until she is shaking and crying with hunger and thirst and yet the wolf still sits there regarding her. something has gone terribly wrong. SOMETHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY WRONG.
the wolf... like a monument (i cannot get over that wording)... he waits with her. and he is patient. waiting for what? seeing if she will break out of the story? seeing what she will do? and finally he tells her to kill him. to release them both to save herself. "I'm just a little girl, and a nice one at that!" something will go is going has gone terribly wrong.
"this is not my place to even have any part in" she is never the one who lifts the axe, who does the act. she is always in the stomach. she is always little red riding hood. something happens to her and it has to happen to her because it has always happened to her. and the woodsman always comes to cut her out. to kill the big bad wolf.
and she waits and waits and waits. for the woodsman to come. she has nothing to be saved from because nothing has HAPPENED yet and still she waits for the woodsman to come. because she has no agency. because these events have always happened TO her. she waits until her personality is gone and she is just hunger. and that's when she picks up the axe.
#alex talks#this is kind of a summation of some tweets that i've added and cut words to here and there so bear with me it's just a lot of ideas#i do livetweets for episodes on twitter which u can't do here that well bc it's either reblog one post a bunch or make a bunch of posts w#one tag and i really like the twitter format better bc i have short thoughts in spurts#but TRULY i am insane do you get it do you get how insane i am#neverafter#dimension 20#ylfa snorgelsson
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if you guys liked my lincoln theme i did a similar thing for my march journal on my website if that seems interesting
#all my journal pages are different but i think that might be the only album themed one#might be …?#anywYs i dint rememehr what i wrote in there but i did edit the bg myself so yeas 🔥 i cant be held responsible if you read something incrim#it also looks a lot better on desktop because thats the intended format…#⛄️
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It always seems like such a good idea in the moment (Patreon)
The first four are in reference to a great idea I had of - since I’ve finished my lower-limit page number testing for making books; shorter fics take up less page space, and just increasing the font size isn’t as handsome! - simply making a mini book! All it would take would be to halve the pages again, right? Just cut them right down the middle! Easy peasy!
As I’m sure you can tell by the second, no. Not easy peasy. Difficult painful un-fun >:(
Obviously I still did it tho! What do you take me for, someone who could have the idea of an even tinier book and then not do something about it?? No
It’s also the only one so far to have a paper bookmark rather than a ribbon!
All told it’s a bit smaller than your average manga (I love the monochrome covers on these under their dust jackets haha <3) - you can see even with effectively doubling up the pages by halving their size, it was still very small-spined!
A quick shot while it was still being made hehe ♪ It’s Out! Paired here - and the earlier one, just without its dust jacket haha - with my Zarla SC2 collection (ft. Family, Negotiations are Going...Well, and With No Obligation) - I absolutely kicked myself after the fact for not including Out as the run-up to everything, I was really trying to make a full collection in probably-chronological order! Out would’ve been a perfect start! And it only would’ve taken like four pages!!
Ah well, it was still quite a learning experience - I probably wouldn’t make another standalone of under 4k-ish just for formatting reasons but I did get some good ideas of how to do so if I wanted to! Although, my next project is going to be even more of a formatting nightmare........I’ll get there when I get there! Lol
#Doodles#The impulsive thoughts are always the funnest! But then it's all a matter of actually putting them into reality...#Ahh well like I said under the cut it was a learning experience! And I really wanted a physical copy of Out haha ♪#I don't think I've ever mentioned it - not even in my pre-fic notes :0 - but Out was another one of my inspirations for Drinking Game#I mean - the drinking lol obviously but I hadn't considered what VUX drinking would be like before reading it :)#I wanted to pair it with both physical copies hehe ♫ I'm happy I attempted it! And I have a better foundation to build on in the future!#I ended up using the scrap leftover from making such a small cover as the bookmark haha - and I picked the covers so they'd almost-match :)#They go together! But not quite! Just enough!#The sting of creation has worn off - it's actually been a while since I've made a quick book! - so the itch is starting to come back haha#Well - almost lol - the formatting is still........but I do want to do it! Especially now that I've got a hand-in-hand hobby to go with it#All that later ♪ For now snakes!#And also spiders I am also the same when spiders#I've been escorting a lot of spiders outside lately and pretty much all of them fall under the moniker of ''darling'' to me lol#Still no luck on finding a jumping spider :( But I also haven't got an enclosure set up yet either#There's this one booth that always has such adorable and pretty jumping spider enclosures ahhh I might have to break and get one someday#Same place where I got to hold the snake in fact! :D She was a love <3 Beautiful full-grown female cornsnake if memory serves#She was rather wiggly - she was tired and fussy and didn't feel like being handled by a stranger but she was so polite about it#A real delight to handle <3 And I got to see her babies! So cute and tiny!#The rest is more SCII fic stuff haha ♪ Rereading the Pirate fic was a lot of fun :) Intentionally avoiding Vargas fic(s) does make me a bit#Well I really like Vargas still lol it is candy to my brain so any gesture even remotely in that direction is very exciting haha#I'm perfectly happy with the rest for now tho! I have plenty of things to read and make! >:3c#Heck there's still a SCII fic I haven't read yet that I want to!! I just have to get all my previous SCII thoughts out of my head first haha#I will tho >:3c Always always ♪♫#SCII
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how do you manage to keep track of, and detail so many cats? Including family trees, personality, relationships, etc. I have my own fanclans I'm trying to work on, but having 80 cats spread across 4 clans is hard to work with. Esp when that's just the living ones
Weapons-grade autistic swagger.
I just like battle cats, man
#I don't even share my fanclans tbh#Those ones I keep in spreadsheets#But here for the rewrite stuff I just remember posts I made to link others to stuff I already wrote#And most of it is actually just folded into my brain#It is why one of my biggest hurdles is straightup just writing stuff down#Blog format is SUPER helpful for this reason#I can just zip around to different topics when asked about whatever#If Tumblr's search function was better id be unstoppable#Mind full of cats go brrrrr#Don't get me started on my other favorite things btw#I dragged my entire friend group into carebears and we are ranking the bears by combat abilities#I really like it when there are large casts in media full of lots of little guys#And their various gimmicks#Fennelposting#Bone babble
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They’ve been like this for a while now. The Guardian gets hurt, Ghost scolds them, and they feel guilty for burdening him; for dragging him down with them, and being why he can never go home. They won’t listen when he says they’re his home.
bonk bonk bonk. this is my apology for taking so long on... literally everything else. The Cayde short is actually done now, but wasn't at the time of me finishing this one (which has been done for a few days, I'm just. too lazy lmao) so someone bully me into posting Cayde Hug please
Anyway here is a nice Young Wolf and Ghost short! angst with a side of some beloved bickering <3 they are so stubborn but they are soulmates (platonic), your honor.
[ao3 link]
The statues, twice their size, are caught in poses of combat-ready or investigative, some having tried to run farther down the hall. The blizzard swells and dies out farther down the corridor, leaving the blanket of wisp-soft Void swirling around their steps as mist continues bleeding through the cracks in what was once a battalion of Cabal.
Their arm sways at their side, cold blood squeezing out of shrapnel wounds down the side of their body, the other hand tightly gripping Howl. Ghost materializes to their left, but they stumble forward, stepping towards the frosted over parts of their helmet. There’s a shard of a frag launch splitting down through the eye of it; the orange glow dead.
They plant the tip of the sword on the ground to hold steady as they lower themself over their helmet, Ghost trilling worriedly behind them. The streams of blood begin to reheat, numbness leaving the limb in favor of a boiling pain, and they can feel the soothing chill of Ghost scanning their injuries.
Shakily setting Howl down beside them, they move to pick up the tattered helmet, to be met with an irritated strumming through the Bond. “Guardian, at least hold still long enough for me to heal that arm before you make the bleeding worse,” Ghost sighs out. The Guardian only grumbles, before holding the arm out for a proper scan.
The movement itself makes them tense, resisting the urge to screw their eyes shut against the pins and needles and the accidental twisting of metal scraps still in some wounds. They hiss at the cold air, partially regretting the choice of Void as they all but pour heat out through the shredded armor and skin.
They trace the broken edges of their helmet with their spare hand, rather than watch Ghost knit the skin back together. The feeling of the metal shards being pushed out from the inside as the torn muscle pulls back together makes them nauseous.
No matter how many times they’ve felt it, or woken up from a death to their insides still being patched together, or had to pull themself off of spikes for it to even happen—The nausea always comes back. The frustration of never getting used to something so common in their non-life always comes back.
“Guardian.” Their fingers are bleeding, cut on the broken metal. The edges of their vision swims in and out, and they're not sure if it’s blood loss or the hallucinations again. “Guardian? You’re doing it again.”
They blink, and lower the outstretched arm. The burning feels distant, and the skin is stiff with dried blood, but the wounds feel closed, and the repaired parts of their armor are thinner than the parts that hadn’t been damaged.
He sighs, more irritated—exhausted?—this time. “We’ll need to see Drifter again if we want to repair your armor properly. There’s only so much I can do.” It feels as if he’s scanning them, but the blue glow never comes. “Still with me?”
As a soothing pulse pushes through stiff barriers of Light, they feel some sense return to their body and their face soften. Turning their head away from Ghost, the Guardian gives a small nod. A part of them wants to cradle him; say they’re sorry for putting him through this. He should’ve had someone better.
They settle instead for a soft rippling in the Light; the feeling of tucking a sleeping other’s hair away. He knows what they mean.
Ghost shoves his shell into the side of their head, making them lose the thought and duck away. “We’re not doing this again, Guardian! If the Traveler itself gave me a chance to pick someone else, you know I’d refuse every time.” His voice softens as he speaks, and he must have seen the small wince that crosses their face.
“I mean it, Guardian,” he chimes, firm but soft. Wholly faithful. “When I told you, through Light or Dark, I meant it. Even if it’s just you and me against the world, I wouldn’t change a thing so long as I had you.”
They know Ghost means it; they’ve never doubted it—But that’s the problem. He deserves so much better than a monster for a partner. The crumbling, now barely recognizable statues of Stasis prove them, if not a monster, a force of chaos. Both unstoppable, and immovable. Even with the explosives and traps, there was never a chance.
The shared turmoil strains the Bond with impressions of spirals, and Ghost lowers himself to hover just over their shoulder as they hold their other hand up for him. “Monster or not—and I’m not saying you are, but you never believe me—” He rambles, “You’re still my partner. My Guardian.”
And he’s their Ghost. But it changes nothing. The blood is half dried, dripping sluggishly, as he closes the cuts in the pads of their fingers. They rub them together, the nerves still knitting together feeling like pins and needles.
Nudging him with their shoulder draws a huff out of Ghost. “Yes, I’m done. But this conversation isn’t over.”
It’s their turn to sulk—The conversation is never over. Who’s the monster, who’s to blame, who should suffer: Ghost’s answer is always the same—They scoop the parts of their helmet up, moving it to one arm, before sheathing Howl on their back.
They could clean it later. Ghost gives a puff of discontent.
As they stand, the sound of the last remnants of Stasis crackling out of existence drags their eyes up. The remaining wisps of Void smoke are quickly phasing out of the air, and they take a moment to watch the last evidence of their destruction crumble into nothing. Only the damage of weaponry to the building and their spilt blood remain.
“I’d say that’s progress, wouldn’t you?” Ghost murmurs, tone light, and they can’t help but give him a weird look. This quiet destruction– progress? They get a puff of indignity in exchange. “Well, I did get the data Drifter needed, so yes– But not what I’m talking about.”
The look he gives them is… cheeky. They don’t like it. “What I meant was…” There’s an audible smile creeping into his voice—victoriously smug—as he bumps their head. “Youuu didn’t fight me on healing this time.”
Scars. He’s smug about the scars.
They give a thin-lipped grimace at his priorities, and he just beams brighter. “It’s not much, but you don’t make personal progress very easy, Guardian.” They huff and turn away from him, walking down the hall to the back exit.
Ghost rests his shell in the junction of their hood as they pull it back up, both of them knowing the Guardian will walk slower so he won’t fall out.
“I’ll take any win I can get with you,” he chimes to himself, quiet.
#destiny 2#the forsaken exile#Howl is literally just The Young Wolf's Howl. just to be clear#also GOD they are so soft. Wolf pleeeease what do you MEAN ''the feeling of tucking a sleeping other's hair away''#no i dont care that im the one who wrote it. absolutely insane about how much they care about each other#(sorry if the format is a bit clunky. it looks a lot better in docs and ao3--)#also also obsessed with The Bond between Guardians and Ghosts. literally the only thing i remember in canon about it#is Ghost talking about how far their bond has progressed but that he still cant read their thoughts#i love canon dearly. but im too unwell about the potential of Wolf using him as a translator lmao#it has much comedy potential.#but i also like treating the bond kind of like... the way psions are described as communicating#obsessed with that one loretab where a psion tells Misraaks their ''name'' and its a bunch of feelings... ough#so. here's my elaboration on my beloved Light Bond. even though the last Ghost snippet talked about it#but thats the bond from *his* POV. this time its Wolf!! love Wolf sm#(<incapable of shutting up about either of them)
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teaching has just truly driven me away from tumblr discourse because I’m still talking to people who are wrong about literature and have bad takes but now there are valid and understandable reasons for that (adolescence) (new to life in general and having opinions at all)
#akksksjejeje this is so mean I mean the wider problem of tumblr discourse!!!!!!!!!!! not any individuals#well maybe some individuals whose blogs I have come across over the years#who are spewing heresy and nonsense#but anyway on a more serious note all patience for discourse and discussion is simply used up in my teaching#that’s where it all goes#I got nothing left!#I mean I have lots left for one on one discussions#but I just mean in terms of interacting with a group and all the work that comes with balancing the humors (lol)#of a group setting so that there can be the right amount of harmony and forward motion#that’s just used up in teaching#It’s the right context for it!#I should really just leave here. it would be better and fairer#but I still kind of need it as a dumping ground#(Anyway if you read my posts and reply to them and are kind I appreciate it so much <3 I do not mean to disparage you at all)#(I am just also trying to be honest about why the format and the space here is one I’ve grown beyond/can’t use in the same way I used to#and it’s something I still need to occasionally work out in a text post on tumblr I guess!#which is ironic#to say the least.
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I Wanna talk about Rose Lalonde
specifically a single panel of Rose Lalonde, See
Homestuck is notorious for its level of Abstraction. Stylistically and otherwise, which makes the characters easy to misinterpret, imo. an example of this being Rose.
At the peak of HS fandom the predominant concept of Rose is that she's a kind of like, goth, spooky, lesbian witch of some kind. and the majority of people just sorta rolled w/ it, since she seemed more (outwardly) mature than the other three kids (Dave is obviously trying too hard, John makes attempts to prove himself not ridiculous but fails every time, Jade is Jade.) And to an extent, i think Rose herself Wanted to be seen this way too, fully immersing herself in the fantasy of being a cool, badass, goth, lesbian witch.
But there's One panel that sticks in my head due to its convention breaking visuals, that pulls you out of any sort of illusion about Rose Lalonde, and it's This one:
She's just a kid. It's obvious when you see it here, but it's easy to forget she (and the majority of other HS characters) is just a kid at the end of the day. I love this panel because of how clearly childlike Rose's features are in it, reminding us that here (and in all other moments, even when she is being a Spooky Badass Goth Chick) Rose is still just a kid who ha a lot of growing to do.
#homestuck#i have a lot of thoughts on rose lalonde but this was the one in my head today#i can probably format a better analysis of her some other time sorry if this particular one sucks lmao
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terribly sorry for progressively getting more and more annoyed and tired with jn. this show kinda gets a lot more exhausting on a rewatch when you know its not going to get better
#i think what happened when it was airing was that like. it was the direct successor to sun and moon right?#and that was a show EVERYONE shat on when it got revealed. the setting the art change the shift to a goofier style etc etc#but then it aired and aside from some hiccups while adjusting the first few eps- sm turned out to be a joy of a show#not just for a casual watch- you can tune on most episodes without context and just have a pleasant time bc its a cozy show#but also if youre more into the battle scene bc this series kinda goes hard on them#and while the episodes had a goofier tone to them the episodes never felt like they were talking down to its audience#everyone brings up the deaths and how maturely they were handled but seriously- they didnt need to go that hard on the minior episode#and yet- it took fans a long time to really come around to it and stop giving it bad faith criticism#the most popular youtubers were finding every excuse to shit on it and mock the fans#so i think when jn was announced with another slight art shift and a different format- i think we all got a little defensive over it#like hey sm had hiccups too! jn just needs some time to grow into itself and find its footing#and we had no reason to think it wouldn’t. like there were some red flags like how mimey was handled and some clickbait episodes#but we got genuinely nice episodes back then too! the scorbunny eps were neat and ash and gohs intro eps are great#the pichu opening is REALLY strong and i thought it showed a ton of promise for the show#the leon and eternatus stuff was being set up#so i waited for jn to pick up and waved off a lot of criticism as bad faith bc hey. ppl were ruthless to sm and forgetting that we do have t#to work with the limit that its a childrens series. which is fine.#but well…… suddenly we’re in the final arc and its not better. its worse. holy shit did it get worse#episodes like the drizzile one were now the exception. not the rule.#most episodes that are pleasant on a first watch became an absolute slog on a rewatch#the ‘’fanservice’’ feels more like a marketing ploy than an attempt to respect the characters. the production value was a goddamn mess.#entire arcs went unresolved#so it gave me rose tinted glasses until it all fell apart at once for me at the end#but now i have the joyful experience of watching the whole thing through knowing damn good and well it gets worse. yay#echoed voice#jn lb
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not getting my hopes up but this might very well be the most compelling polyamory setup I've seen in a long while
#ramblings#the captain's library#against my better judgment I have picked up elemental masters again - it's steadfast time!#look. the format for this series Is quite usually 'our pov characters are hero and heroine and this Is a romance'#(in fact I have not yet read another one of the lot that Doesn't follow that format)#so when ms lackey hands me a novel with Three central pov characters what's a fellow to do but Interpret.#katie and jack are very clearly being set up for Something but I also firmly believe in lionel and jack already having something going on#for sheer ambient edwardian homoeroticism reasons... But Also I am a little little bit worried that this will not end well#for reasons of having already been on the series ao3 page I Know there isn't fic but I'm already preparing to grit my teeth and write some
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i have notbeen able to draw much recently but that website made me sit there for 10 hours straight doodling my heart out. changing mediums (even if it just means switching to another art program) really does reinvigorate creativity
#happy#sparkletwinkles#my depression has been SO BAD#but ive been meaning to find a program like that so stumbling across that one was perfect#i like drawing with no pen pressure and minimal layers#id do it in csp but it's too smooth#i like the lagginess of online art programs#the messier the format the more you have to actually try and i like that a lot#it makes me focus better
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Sincerely as a former user of both Excel and sheets, it is nuts how much easier libre office calc is. Not in the typical way that certain things are easier to access but moreso that the formulas and ways things are set up just work with my brain better. I never really had much need to learn formulas in Excel because there were so many and the layout felt over complicated, and don't even get me started on sheets. But with calc, there's a lot more freedom with the formulas and a lot of the skills you have from either of those other programs carries on here. Not a super big point or anything to this post, just simply very appreciative of what calc can do.
#twist rambles#like. obviously i use it a lot to format data. and i was looking into how i wanted to compare two lists bc i need to see the duplicate#issues between them. I don't want to do that manually lol. and there are so many tactics that just work out there.#like. I think in some ways u do have to fight w calc a little bit. i did a school project where we had to do a timeline and where excel has#that feature built in. calc does not. i had to spend an hour familiarizing myself with the formulas and digging on old forums and that is#simply more enjoyable to me bc i walked away with much more knowledge of the program than ok click 2 buttons. i work w spreadsheets often#enough that familiarizing myself w the formulas and different tools honestly is more helpful than it being one of the billion menu options#plus libre is free and has a ton of manuals online. which is great. and it runs better on any machine than office#^ was just thinking about all of this bc i like. didnt have the desire to learn with other sheet programs but i do here. its rewarding
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