sometimes it really does randomly hit me how much i care about these fictional little volleyboys and volleygirls like their success is a source of joy and i want the best for them

The indescribable tension between an overworked and underpaid smut writer, and his biggest fan hater.

(for @frummpets)

📚☀️After school

Leshy hates the lamb this, tsundere Narinder that , blah blah blah

WHAT ABOUT HEKET, HUH ??! WHAT ABOUT HEKET?!?!

If there were no girls like her in the world, there would be no poetry.

Willa Cather, My Antonia (1918)

messing with colors close up underneath

Holy shit you guys at some point we smashed our way past 20,000 frog lovers. Thank you all for following along!

"...You had to be able to show too much of yourself. You had to be just a little bit more honest than you were comfortable with. And if people judged you, if they felt they knew who you were, that was just something that you were going to have to live with. And what was strange is, once I started doing that, and I was expecting to be judged, or shunned, or people’s opinions or to have to deal with things, what I discovered was, actually, their opinions were, we really like this. We love this story. That’s a good story. It felt huge. It felt personal. And I realized that’s because I was being honest about me.“ —Neil Gaiman

Obligatory Becca's cleaning out her screenshot folder like a good bean screenie dump.. 📷

(redraw of last year's art!) happy new year 2024, everyone! hopefully things go well this year, too :]

I love you fucked up tv shows I love you gorey movies I love you traumatized characters who perpetuate the cyclical nature of abuse while still managing to remain sympathetic I love you intentionally morally ambiguous media that exists specifically to pose questions about psychology, ethics, and human nature I love you unflinching examinations of what it means to dance the line between acceptable and unacceptable behaviors I love you I love you I love you

i wanna know more about svsss menopause

They synced their periods together too well. Now they are synced through their perimenopause years.

i wanna post my skip to loafer art but i cant do it knowing ppl are gonna put it on tiktok and pinterest bc itd be like. bringing an invasive species ykwim

2009 Japanese Grand Prix - Sebastian Vettel

Thoughts on the Donquixote's crucifixion.

Since today is Good Friday I felt like sharing this piece of interpretation of Donquixote family's "crucifixion". Throughout the series and Doflamingo's life I think we can see some symbolism, paralelism, or just vague allusions and hints to his nature being similar to that of the Antichrist (opposite of Christ) or the idea of Doflamingo as Lucifer or a fallen angel (we see something akin to The Last Supper with his "family", including his own personal "Judas" sitting at his left; his ideology of being the rightful king to rule the world, yet not being willing to sacrifiece himself for anyone, but actually expecting everybody else to sacrifice themselves for him; his agent-of-chaos personality; the entire idea that he is almost a devine creature that fell from Heaven to Hell, stripped of his rightful power, status, and legitimate possition above humans, betrayed by his own family and blood; the nickname "Heavenly Demon", etc.). However, I believe the moment in his life he comes to incarnate all these topics comes just after his and his family's crucifixion, or just right after the very moment he lashes out against the rabbid mob awakening and loosing his haki. Just seconds before we have this image:

Here we have Homing, whom we know is a good man, in the middle, at the centre of the scene. Rocinante is to his right hand side, and Doflamingo is to his left. As you might know, Jesus Christ was crucified together with two more people, often refered to as the good thief (traditionally named Dimas/Dismas), and the bad thief (traditionally named Gestas). The good thief was crucified at the right hand side of Jesus, while the bad thief was cricified at his left. Maybe I am looking to much into it, and I'm pretty sure someone else must have already realised this, but I can't help to notice the paralelisms and similarities. In this scene, while all Homing is concerened with is the safety of his children and doesn't mind begging and humiliating himself to try to get the mob to free them, to the point he asks the enraged mob to forgive his children, for they were only little kids, Doflamingo's anger gets the best of him and he lashes out at the crowd, not asking nor begging them to put him down, but threatening to kill them all for their actions, all while blaming his father for all his surffering and his family tragic fate. No forgiveness, no acceptance, but defiance and a promise of vicious and bloody revenge for his father and the craze mob's wrong-doings. Homing was willing to take in all the hate, die for the sins his kind had committed over the centuries, if only to appease the mob and get them to spare his children. He was willing to die for them (and he eventually did, though not in the best way possible, tbh), he was a good person and this scene perfectly shows that, despite his naiveté and the tragic and dire consequences of his actions, he acted out of the goodness of his heart. Doflamingo would not even lower himself to the point of asking for mercy, not before humans he believed were below him. We all know how the story goes, how Doflamingo and Rocinante turned out to be complete different people, with the whole good vs evil motive they have going on. Again, I'm probably digging too much into it, but I just like the Rosi/Dismas, Doffy/Gestas and Homing/Christ paralelism. More so considering how Homing will eventually willingly die for his kids' future, which sounds kinda biblical given we are all God's sons and daughters, and he (Jesus, God's son, God himself) died for us (even if in Homing's case he did die for nothing, as Doffy will not be accepted back among his kind); and how, just after Homing's (Jesus) death, it will be Doffy who becomes, in a way, the symbol of the fallen angel, of the gone-wrong-Jesus, of the anti-Christ, almost Satan himself (ruling the underworld, as his father's heresy took the throne above away from him). He replaces his father as the semi-Biblical almost Christ-like figure, but in a reversed, twisted and sick way.

Crucifixion by Giovanni Donato

One of my favorite thing about Amanda and Chanse is how on the same wavelenght they are with gross jokes. He often has an out of pocket sexual thing to say and she never shuts it down, she jumps right in, continues and sometimes pushes it too far for him and he recoils lmao. For examples: the synced YAY! when Tommy said "it's cum" in the last eioyi, the weird hand humping in the staring stream or them wanting to fake kiss at the same time on todays stream. She's the ultimate ally.

OKAY, LISTEN. Excellent point about them being in the same wavelength for dirty bits and the "ultimate ally" bit made me laugh. They feed off each other for sure.

But I really feel like I need to say. We CANNOT understate how much Amanda loves to make dirty jokes. She can match/outpace Chanse's energy for sexual jokes because Amanda Loves Making Sexual/Flirty/Dirty Jokes. Unprompted. There are multiple times where she's made a masturbation joke with zero prompting. The blowjob bit on that Smosh mouth. Amanda's single word prompts in the staring stream like. Ma'am Please. TNTL bits go dirty so fast. She said "do you know where your clitoris is" to Angela in Trivial Pursuit and then followed it up with "you can help me find mine." Loves a good flirting bit with any and all of her castmates. I know we (I) (amangela fans) are Unwell about her tendency to go for a kiss with Angela for a bit but lbr she does that with. A LOT of people. Zero hesitation. Amanda Simply Loves Going For The Dirty Joke, which. Is both great and terrible for my health. (and great fodder for shippers. amanda please).

That said: YES. She and Chanse i think really have such good synergy with bits and always elevating when together. And unfortunately (for me) that goes double/triple with dirty jokes. alas.