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wayfaringellie · 4 months
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guy firmly protests against night city airspace powering down his mr. stud implant
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canesshuga · 2 years
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SONGS THAT CARRIED ME THROUGH 2021 (13/60)
Remi Wolf - Down The Line
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leonsliga · 1 year
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Jo, respectfully, what is this
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new favorite video, yes!!❤️🤍💙👑 #RWRB #RWRBMovie #RedWhiteAndRoyalBlue
thank you Aneesh!!
from: https://instagram.com/p/C1POyPot_ZC/
my RWRB instagram highlight here: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18198132073262637/
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THIS SONG IS SO FIRSTPRINCE!! thank you Nick & Taylor, i'm adding it to my RWRB playlist!!
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♥. and now some RWRB links here:
Matthew talking about Alex's bisexuality ahead of the movie:
Alex, our ACD, our bisexual king post:
our FIRSTPRINCE post/mostly beautiful pictures/:
FIRSTPRINCE EDITS(post with edits/links♥):
coming out-important post/A's speech(both movie+book versions):
RWRB DELETED SCENES post:
RWRB BLOOPERS/BTS post:
THAT SCENE-Alex and Prince Henry Flirt Over Text:
KARAOKE SCENE:
Them reading RWRB:
!! https://nicostiel.tumblr.com/post/725473496174575616/red-white-and-royal-blue-2023-text-posts
for more bonus content post, nick's other queer roles posts, more taylor etc visit my tumblr account and use the hashtags in the search!♥
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larsthefishoil · 4 months
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As I'm actively reflecting on the new hbomberguy video, but more specifically James Somerton, certain things are clicking into place with resounding clarity.
I've watched Somerton's videos for years. At first I thought he was kinda overly dramatic, and had outdated stances on how little lgbtq+ was seen in modern day. He always seemed to talk like we are still living in the danger of the 80s with staight/cis people's apathy and hatred. In truth the phobias have just shifted in how they present and things have genuinely improved in a sense.
But the thing that is actually getting to me rn is the misogyny thing. I think he actually injected really shitty thoughts into my brain that I absorbed like a fucking kitchen sponge. He's protectiveness over queer people but specifically gay men from "prevented white women" actually got to me. For over a year, I was walking around occasionally thinking about how "women are sneaking BL manga into their bedrooms and grotesquely drooling."- im not citing someone theres quoteation marks cause its a dumb thought. But i thought this because that's how bad Somerton made it seem.
But the thing that got me out of that head space was this video by talistheintrovert.
https://youtube.com/@talistheintrovert?si=vmpEa_TPP2UE9eQk - here's the link to her homepage on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/08pCrSBw5EY?si=bECaT_xC16IfN5TI - vid about Good Omens
https://youtu.be/zzSlRZhS_qY?si=unQzSbCQUaTqhSbv - Heartstopper vs. Only Friends
sorry for the ugly link I'm on mobile.
I forget their pronouns so I'm using they/them but I might be wrong. I watched a lot of their videos all at once, so a lot of their ideas interlinked between videos to connect points. But they frequently talked about how straight and queer people interact with queer media and the complexities that unfold. Their underlying message was always that an individual's sexuality doesn't matter when interacting with media when it comes to gatekeeping who gets to appreciate queer content. Still most people consuming are queer people, but straight cis people also benefit and that's okay, it's great even.
Talistheintrovert shooed away icky feelings of straight women fetishizing queer men, which was a fear I got from James Somerton!
Idk this is a long post, but hbomberguy's ending soliloquy about trying to find happiness kinda reminds me of the many countless queer YouTube channels- big and small. Most of us aren't clawing for the position of top dog and like Somerton and seem a lot happier dispit of everything going on nowadays.
Anyways, stay safe, be accepting, and cite your sources or else hbomberguy will have to crawl out of whatever hole he hides in for the better part of each year and make a five hour long video about you :/
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felassan · 5 months
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We're told that in the new Mass Effect teaser vid, we should look closely at it [source] as some things are not as they seem [source], they put some interesting details in there [source] for us to puzzle over, and what we see in it may be connected to the 'broken relay'-looking ship/object from last year's teaser [source].
The video was made in-engine [source]. In the video it notes "gameplay not final. Represents game in development".
On the figure's coat, one of the original design directions for it was that "cosplayers need to have a field day" [source]. (A copy of that new art piece will be available from the BioWare Gear Store tomorrow [source]).
The art director is the same one who designed the MET [source].
If the contents in the "insert code" links are not loading for you, you may need to wait for your cache to clear [source]. All three links have now had their teaser text and vid clips posted online anyways tho. :)
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princesspete · 4 months
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hiiii princess do you by any chance have any insight on how pete and patrick's writing process goes like? seeing all these comps just makes me go huh. did pete really just send patrick the link to his blogs or just copy-paste them and emailed? wrote them by hand? the idea of patrick in 2023 scrolling through a web archive link of pete's eightieth burner blog is killing me. i just realized the wording in this ask makes it sound like i'm asking as if you know them personally sorry... i guess i'm asking if they ever mentioned it before. or well if you got any theories. im sure if you have got a theory it can't be too far off the mark 🫶
oohh okay! so patrick states here that pete mostly writes in free form/stream of consciousness and it's not "in poem form. It's not like stanza, stanza stanza". patrick's also stated that it was really during the folie era that there started to become a divide of patrick stopping to retrofit melodies to pete's lyrics and pete stopping to push for melodies. i think that this implies two things: [1] patrick DID have a greater say in lyrics and [2] pete also had some influence regarding musical composition in the earlier albums as well — to what capacity, we probably won't know for sure, but folie seems to have been the turning point in regards to this.
in this interview from 2005, pete mentions he and patrick disagree on "every single thing" but that he has never had a "creative relationship" like the one that he has with patrick and patrick talks about how the two of them are perpetually focused on "opposite ideas" that someone mesh together really well. likewise from this other interview in 2005, pete talks how the two of them can tell each other when something sucks and patrick mentions how he can "look at the words and not use them" (and then joe telling them they should get married lmao) (also here's another clip from the same interview where they're discussing about sugar bc it's a cute moment lol).
(from the first source above unless stated otherwise) patrick has stated that the "center of the band" is pete's lyrics, however the joe has a greater part to play musically (andy seems content just to play). likewise in the zane lowe 2023 interview, pete and patrick both discuss joe's role in so much (for) stardust and patrick talks about how much of a distinct writer joe is and how he can pick out joe's work anywhere ("I know the way joe writes") and how they had to then figure out the way in which to configurate joe into what was formerly a pete-and-patrick-duo. likewise in this video, patrick discusses how pete and him wanted to "change the way they write records" and talks about how death valley's musical composition was created between patrick and joe. (iirc joe was the one who got fake out to all come together on stardust). there is also this one vid circa mania era where someone asks joe about the lyrics and he basically goes. um. im not in charge of that💌
edit: patrick has mentioned here in 2018 how if it's a "one person's idea" then they don't bother — patrick's idea must work with pete's and joe's and andy's in order for them to have an album.
despite all this — it all comes back down to pete's lyrics with patrick stating in various sources (first source and in zane lowe) that he truly hears rhythm in pete's work and "loves the sound of words". that being said, patrick talks about how pete will tell him that he wants something to sound like X or Y (there's another source about it in zane lowe where pete says that patrick's the only one who kind of gets what he means and is able to translate it). interestingly enough, pete talks a lot about the importance of a visual factor for him and that for albums he can't "start the process until there is at least the beginnings of the visual component" (first source) and stresses the importance of the color of songs (pete also talks here in the infamous pete and patrick play with puppy video how albums are a "color" to him — perhaps interesting to note, patrick has talked about how he has synesthesia before multiple times here and here).
pete has also mentioned recently how he makes people who are in the car with him (even his kids lol) write down snatches of words/phrases that come to mind lol.
there's also this one video circa abap era where pete says one important thing to have on hand is a notebook to scrawl down his thoughts and there are several pics of him pre h writing in a journal of some sort.
i think it is important to note that patrick has discussed how pete just gives the lyrics to him directly even back in an interview in 2005 — pete's blog posts are just that: posts. some poems pete mentions that they were written a month or even 6 months prior to him publishing it on his blogs but if you look at the timestamps for a lot of when he posts (very late at night), it is obvious that it is his place of unloading his thoughts more than anything else. i have no doubt that pete has maybe first uploaded a poem onto one of his blogs and then maybe taken it to patrick nor do i doubt that patrick has had access to his blogs in the first place nor do i doubt that it's possible that pete wrote something first and then decided to share it online at a later date. one thing to keep in mind is that pete has a tendency to upload poems on different blogs on different days such as the various alpha dog posts, to you (unfinished off the top of my head), and SO many more such as these two:
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tl;dr: patrick has direct access to pete's stuff although i don't doubt that some stuff CAME from his blogs directly. considering that patrick seems to have a truly, truly scary memory of not only pete's words (he talks in zane lowe 2023 iirc about how pete is bad at remembering his words but is VERY aware when a word is changed and mulls over it) and has like a 20+ year stash of them. i absolutely do not remember what interview this is from off the top of my head, but one of the two of them mentioned how pete would send patrick lyrics to sunshine riptide for YEARS before patrick actually used them in a song lol.
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matan4il · 1 year
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Hello!
I saw your post where you spoke about the 911's cast and writers being aware of Buddie, and the explicit support from some of the cast for Canon!Buddie.
I am quite new to the fandom and so I was wondering if there were any links you could source for this? I am genuinely curious :)
Funnily enough, I started 911 after loving LS, and saw a lot of buddie content on 911 blogs. I figured it was typical queerbaiting (tumblr 2012 era was ✨️ traumatising ✨️ and so resolved not to ship them.
But then I watched the show and yeah…there were definitely interesting choices made that make Buddie such an intricately beautiful ship. It's a slow burn to rival all slow burns :fire:
Needless to say, I'm now 100% on board!
Hi lovely Nonnie and welcome to the fandom! :D I hope you enjoy everything about it and I am so glad to hear you're on board! *hugs*
Okay, for links... TBH I mostly remember things as they happen, I'm less into saving links, but for you I made the effort, I traced my own steps (who knew I actually remembered where I yelled about certain things two and a half years ago? The power of Buddie), and found the source to the stuff I had in mind when I said Ryan, Oliver, JLH and Gavin have all shown support for Buddie. Her we go...
Let's start with Gavin! Obviously it was explained to him in age-appropriate terms, so take that into account, but still, look at how pure his response is (interview from Oct 2021):
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And then they went and they filmed the lasagna scene in 601. You can't tell me that doesn't mean anything!
Now Oliver and Ryan have both expressed support for Buddie more than once, for example you can find my post showing how they were the ones who named our ship! In terms of official interviews, they've mostly given answers that are noncommittal but supportive, stuff along the lines of making sure they don't raise fans' expectations (in case it doesn't happen), but also letting us know they do like the enthusiasm for Buddie, and would be cool if 911 went that way. So most are kind of... let's say diplomatic. I will, however, throw in this live that Ryan did where at first, he had a few answers of that vanilla sort (encouraging the shippers, not promising anything, leaving room for Buddie to happen, but also leaving room for fans who don't want Buddie, and sort off summarizing with, "We'll see what Tim writes"). But then he got a question about Abby and I don't think he could help it, the Buddie shipper just jumped out of him, which I love. I edited and uploaded it to YouTube for you, since stupid Tumblr only allows me to directly upload one vid a post here:
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Lastly, but maybe my personal fave, in May 2020, a gay fan of JLH uploaded to his personal IG account a video that he asked her to film with a message for his husband's bday. Here's the relevant part of the vid which I've edited and uploaded for you, where JLH is basically being all of us:
BTW, this is also a reply to the Nonnie who sent this ask:
I know about Ryan, Oliver and JLH but when did Gavin say anything about that?
I hope I managed to answer both of you! Have a great day, and as always, here's my ask tag.
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weaselbeaselpants · 3 months
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In light of iilluminaughtii's canceling,
I think the antiPeta and autism communities need themselves some better whistleblowers, or people who can summarize what's controversial and evil about these companies and why they shouldn't be trusted by those passionate about autism support and animal rights.
I especially don't trust Blair after learning she recently made a video called "vegans are killing the planet" or some shit like that.
Contrary to what some are going to think of me anyway, I am not antivegan. I know vegans who have been personally victimized by org like PeTA for not being vegan enough- and also it doesn't have to be a harmful thing if you know what you're doing and you're able to safely turn vegan if you want to. Vegans aren't the problem; people being bad faith actors about veganism is.
Disgustingly, I think I can guess exactly the kind of concerns Blair bring up in that vid: 1) soy and meat substitutes are environmentally taxing to grow and destructive, especially soy farms ,about as much as sometimes more than regular farming is destructive, and 2) synthetic wool is accelerating litter and microplastics.
I feel like, especially for vegans, these problems need to be known and dealt with before they get any worse-- but yeah I kinda DON'T trust that or really any PeTA counterfighting from a person who makes veganism itself out to be the problem. Bad sign. I don't know if he's pro-peta or even vegan but I hope Cid Dwyer steps up to the plate on this front. He's much better and more passionate about calling out bad animal care.
On a more personal level - we need a real video essayist to tackle autism speaks.
Blair's videos about Autism Speaks were what I linked my job specialists to in order to show them "no, it's not just me being untrustworthy that makes me hate that company. These people are hurting us, not helping us. Please don't support them"- and my specialists listened to that. Even if Blair's work is just regurgitating articles that state this better, it's one of those instances where people are never going to know the basics because they never are going to really look into it for themselves if they don't have someone else explain it to them.
Same thing goes with Salvation Army.
We need legitimate, well-sourced whistleblowers to help gear the winds of change. We don't need abusive grifters who are just content mills.
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okom · 2 years
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sorry i’m about to be so incredibly mean but it’s happens so often and irks me so much so i’m just gonna quickly say IF YOU REPOST CONTENT WITHOUT CREDITING THE SOURCE YOURE SO ANNOYING LIKE IT TAKES TWO SECONDS TO LINK THE SOURCE IT JUST MAKES IT SO OBVIOUS THAT YOURE SO HUNGRY TO BE THE FIRST ONE TO REPOST SO YOU CAN GET ALL THE NOTES THAT YOU CANT TAKE TWO SECONDS TO CREDIT OHHHHHH MY GOD YOURE SO DISRESPECTFUL (obvs livestream reposting is different i get not sourcing livestream content obvs) BUT IF YOU DONT KNOW THE SOURCE OF SOMEONES PICS OR VIDS YOU JUST FOUND ON TWITTER OR SOMETHING THEN DONT FUCKING REPOST IT! ITS THAT SIMPLE ITS THE BARE MINIMUM OHHHHHH MY GOD
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Jo’s down on their luck, again
I hate doing this, and yes, I know I’ve done it before. Similar circumstances, too. But I’m in a pinch and have to reach out for assistance.
So, a few days ago (at the start of my typical work week) my car’s starter motor gave out. Which is really inopportune, as I need my car for my delivery job that’s my primary source of income. Worse, the repair will cost 1400 CA$ all in, plus there was the $115 to tow it to the shop. Let’s not even get into the week’s worth of pay down the drain. I’d been saving money in hopes of finally buying a new computer so I can resume vidding (I have a new Catra vid I’ve been wanting to do for over a year, plus several MFS ones) and hopefully start freelance editing for money, and this wiped out that fund. I was recently granted the disability tax credit and got some back taxes from that, but even that won’t cover the cost. My fam are all strapped for cash at the moment and can’t help, and I’m trying to avoid dipping into the savings I have for when I inevitably have to leave my current affordable living situation in a very expensive market. I’ll survive if I don’t get help, but I’ll be facing a significant setback. I was really looking forward to expressing myself through visual arts again and maybe even starting to make actual money off of it.
Most of my recent work has been in the Motherland: Fort Salem fandom, which is mostly non-existent on Tumblr. So maybe I’m barking up the wrong tree here. Y’all might have thought I died or something, but I did not (despite some close calls). There’s still unfinished works and new ideas in my older fandoms that I hope to return to at some point, but I can’t guarantee anything, as my focus and energy levels are still affected by all the brain injuries (and that brain is ASD/ADHD to begin with). My health in general just isn’t great these days, and that takes a toll. So, I’m not in a place to be asking for help based on the promise of new content. But if you’ve enjoyed my work over the years (including metas and gifsets, along with the fics and vids) and found it enlightening or helpful, please consider throwing me a few bucks. Anything really does help at this point. If you have nothing to give (a total mood), please share this with friends and followers who may know me/my work.
If nothing else, thank you for taking the time to read this. I appreciate all the support (monetary and otherwise) I’ve gotten from my followers over the years, that people care about my content and find it worth engaging with. Even if I’ve been around less, I still think fondly of you all and the great conversations and friendships that began here. Feel free to reach out in DMs even if you can’t donate; I miss the people on this hellsite (affectionate).
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olderthannetfic · 2 years
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What is the overall opinion on art on ao3? I’m a fanartist and my only works on ao3 right now are from community events like big bangs and gift exchanges etc. I’ve debated posting my fanart there, but I wonder if people don’t really like seeing art on ao3. I know there’s a tag for it, but if every artist started posting their art, wouldn’t that get annoying for writers? Artists already have lots of ways to share our stuff, but ao3 seems like a writer’s domain.
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As someone who helped build OTW, I think a lot of us early people assumed AO3 would host art by now. (In fact, some artists feel pretty betrayed that that was put on the back burner.) We always intended it as an archive for more than just fic.
In practice, yes, many users are clueless and see it as only for fic and are annoyed by other works. They'll even say other things are against the rules.
They are wrong.
I post my vids there, and it's by far the best spot for them. They're in weird fandoms and sporadic. Youtube is fine for basic hosting (depending on song and footage), but it's not a good way to reach my audience. Randos who don't get it stumble on my stuff, and people who'd be into it never see it. AO3 gets me fewer hits but quality hits.
At some point, AO3 will add a media type field. It's long overdue. If you tag clearly with things like 'fan art', they should be able to recategorize past works correctly whenever this eventually happens.
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I think art on AO3 is great! I'd like to see more of it!
I think AO3 is highly appropriate for random art in small fandoms that nobody would notice on an algorithm-y site or a site that's geared towards monetizing art. Very old shit is also easier to find on AO3 because of its library-like metadata.
There are tons of places for art, but a lot of them ban certain content or have a lot of the commercial vibe. If you want an AO3 vibe but for art, that's harder to find.
My one big caveat about posting to AO3 is that if you're posting images, video, or sound, you should find several sources of hosting and embed them or link to them all. That way, if one goes down, the others might still be up. (No, I have not been good about this on all of my vid posts. I should go fix that.)
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solalunar-eclipse · 10 months
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Strings Neither Green Nor Red
Chapter title: Yellow Threads (Videon E. Addison)
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Rating: T
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Summary: As much as Spamton might try, he can't avoid his old friends/coworkers forever. And is staying away really doing any of them any favors? (Aka I really like reuniting Spamton with the Addisons who used to know him and jumped at the chance to do it here. Set post-Chapter 2.)
Spamton belongs to Toby Fox, all other characters belong to @brightgoat on Tumblr and Twitter. (Also, just so you all know, this fic is probably going to wind up being a bit lighter than the average piece of Brightgoat content, just due to my own writing style. Hopefully that's not too much of an issue!)
Also: TW for implied/referenced alcohol abuse/alcoholism in this chapter.
It was a dark day in Cyber City. The glowing screens and advertisements plastered across every building gleamed as the sole source of light for all the city’s inhabitants. If one of them were to look up, all they would see beyond the skyscrapers and between the green grid was a dark void stretching out into infinity.
Of course, it was always this dark in Cyber City, no matter what, but at the moment Video felt like it reflected their mood more than usual.
They blinked tiredly, struggling to focus their eyes on the clock by their cash register, which read six a.m.—the start of their shift. They’d had an early night (for once) yesterday, but somehow when they did sleep, it was always restless and uncomfortable, plagued with unsettling dreams that they could never quite remember. 
Video sighed, and summoned up just enough energy to plaster a huge grin on their face as the first of their customers came in for the day. Their numbers had been dwindling for a long time now, so they were actually rather grateful for the few that remained. Even that fact could only add some genuineness to their smile, though, as genuine happiness had eluded them for a long time now.
Vid moved through their morning on autopilot, throwing out all of the catchphrases and selling points that they’d long since memorized. Their job wasn’t even something they had to focus on anymore, so it didn’t qualify as a distraction (although they often wished it did). The customers’ faces were a blur—they’d stopped trying to memorize new names a while ago. They weren’t really able to these days, unfortunately.  
Once the clock hit twelve, it was technically time for him to close up shop for his lunch break, but he didn’t particularly care if he was working or not, honestly...at least not until the end of the day, when he could hopefully go to the nearest bar and drink his sorrows away.
He rubbed at his eyes as he stepped out into the street, trying to adjust to something that wasn’t the monotonous glare of the fluorescent lights in his store, before pinching the bridge of his nose tiredly. Once upon a time, he’d had access to constant, endless energy, but that wasn’t something he could rely on anymore. The person who’d been there to fuel it was gone now, and his sales (his entire life) hadn’t been the same since.
No, not “the person”. He had a name. Spamton. Video’s jaw tightened slightly—Pay’s constant emotional repression must’ve been getting to him more than he realized.
As Vid turned the sign in his store to the side marked “Closed”, a flicker of movement in the reflection on the glass door caught his eye. A tasque, perhaps, searching for food in the nearby alleyway?
He walked over to check (his easily distractible nature was one of the few traits of his that had remained over time), but saw…nothing. The yellow Addison shrugged and was just about to turn away when a sudden crinkle, followed by a loud slam, came from the dumpster in the alley.
“…hello?” he called warily.
The bin remained silent. Suddenly, though, a tasque did actually appear, padding over to the dumpster and beginning to paw at it and meow unhappily.
“Aw, is one of your friends stuck in there?” Video asked, his expression softening a little. The tasque looked very cute and sad, he had to admit.
As he walked over to the bin and placed a hand on the top, he heard some rustling from inside. “Alright then, let’s see what we’ve got in here.” he said, opening the lid to reveal…
…still nothing?
The tasque leapt into the dumpster and began to paw vigorously at the trash, making Video yelp and jump aside. He took a few more rapid steps back as the contents of the bin began to move without warning, but froze when he heard a voice complaining from inside. 
“STOP IT, YOU SILLY [[Feline]]!! CAN’T YOU [C] I’M TRYING TO [Undercover Agent]—?!?”
The person inside cut themselves off abruptly, but Video had already heard more than enough for him to know who was inside. He stumbled forwards until he hit the edge of the dumpster, clinging to it with both hands in a desperate bid to remain upright as his thoughts whirled with disbelief.
Sprawled amongst the trash, his black-dyed hair all a mess as a tasque licked vigorously at his face, was Spamton G. Spamton himself.
He looked genuinely stunned as he stared up at Video, clearly lacking all of his usual bravado. “UM…HI?”
“You’re alive.” Vid breathed, his mind returning to him in full force. “You’re alive, oh my god!” 
His mouth kicked into overdrive seconds later, finally remembering that he knew a decent amount of words as well as how to use them. “Holy—where have you been all this time?! Why didn’t you come back home, didn’t you know I thought you were dead? What happened to you?!?” he yelled, turning away to pace back and forth forcefully.
Spamton blinked. “WAIT. SINCE WHEN. DID YOU WANT. ME TO COME BACK?”
“What?” Video wheezed, halting his movement as Spam’s response registered. “Since when’d you think I didn’t?”
“THAT [[Late Night Special]] AT THE CYBER GRILL—?” The smaller Addison froze as his voice glitched, clapping a hand over his mouth. He moved farther back into the bin, eyes darting around for an escape route, but Vid wasn’t having any of that.
“Hey hey hey, first of all, calm down.” Video insisted, kneeling down in front of Spam. “I’m not gonna be stupid like Click and make fun of you, ‘kay? Second, no, I’m not mad. Man, I wasn’t even upset for more than, like, a day or two, and then I realized how stupid I was being and came to look for you…but you weren’t there.”
Spamton looked away. “WELL, YOU MADE IT [Clear As Day] TO ME THAT YOU WANTED ME [Out of Stock] IN YOUR LIVES.”
“I—” Vid began, his hands starting to shake. “Spam, I—I’m so sorry. I…….I don’t have any excuse for what I did. I could come up with a million, but I’d just be lying. I was a jealous jerk, and that’s the end of it. And you don’tever have to forgive me, or talk to me again, but—oh god, if I have to spend the rest of my life without you I don’t know what I’m gonna do.”
“HA! YEAH, [[Shore Vacations 20% Off]].” Spam scoffed. “PULL THE OTHER ONE.”
“N-no, seriously! I know I didn’t tell you this enough way back when, but my life is literally better when you’re around. Like, I thought I was just hyper all day, every day because that’s me! But…now, I can barely do my job, man. I spend my nights at the bar like a loser, just trying to not feel like actual garbage for maybe a couple hours…but all that does is make me sound like a jerk. Dammit. Because, like, the fact that I can run away from my problems is probably still better than what you’ve been through. God, I’m rambling, I didn’t mean to, I just, I’d do literally anything to be able to talk to you for real again. Anything. Whatever you want, I’m serious. I will literally pay you actual money, whatever it is you want. Please.” 
By the time they’d finished speaking, Vid could feel genuine tears welling up in their eyes. They’d cried plenty of nights when they were alone, but this was the first time it had happened in front of someone else.
Spamton just stared at him for a minute. With every second that ticked by, Vid felt more and more terrified…until finally, Spam spoke.
“YOU WANNA [Specil Purchase!] ME [[Government-Mandated Lunch Break]], THEN?”
“Are…you asking me to get lunch with you?” Vid asked, stunned.
“HEY, IF YOU’RE GONNA GIVE ME [[Wild Prizes]], I MIGHT AS [Well Visit] TAKE THEM!”
“I’m guessing this doesn’t mean we’re cool yet, though.” Vid said weakly.
Spamton hesitated. “NOT…YET. THAT WAS A PRETTY [A+] SPEECH THOUGH.”
“I meant it.” Video insisted.
“I NEVER SAID I DIDN’T [[Buy It Now!]].” Spam said, his face unreadable.
Vid stood up, their legs trembling. “Geez, I can barely walk. …uh, what do you want for lunch?”
“DOESN’T MATTER. I’M [Mail Order] THE MOST EXPENSIVE [[Item In Store]].” Spamton smirked.
“Fair…I’ll pick a medium decent place then.”
“NOT THE [[Bargain Bin]]?” Spam asked, curious.
“What, you seriously think I’m gonna stiff you? Now?” Vid was incredulous. “Did I not just say how much I want you to hang out with me again?”
“…HUH.” was Spamton’s only response.
True to his word, Spam did order the most expensive thing on the menu, and Vid shelled out the money for it without a single wince. This, more than any of the nervous conversation Video tried to make, seemed to help convince Spamton somewhat of their intentions.
After Vid had handed over their card, Spam started a conversation for the first time in the whole meal. “WHAT [[GPS Locator]] ARE YOU WORKING [@] TODAY?”
“Oh! Uh, just ad block/unblock. Basic stuff.” Vid said, clearly surprised.
“YOU GET ANY UN[[Block User]]S TODAY?” Spamton asked, smirking. It was a running source of irritation amongst all of the Addisons that hardly anyone came into their stores to get ads back. Having that happen was exceptionally rare and could make the user in question an instantly valued customer…so long as they didn’t reblock ads later.
“God, I wish. That’d be hilarious.” Vid smiled. “I think the latest person to get one was Cinnemon. I can’t even say I’m surprised, she’s really nice to her customers.”
“THAT’S THE ONE WHO LIKES [[Food Safety Rules]], RIGHT?”
“Yeah.” Video said, still half smiling. “I never told her why I was feeling so bad these past, like…years…but she gives me free cake sometimes, which is awesome.”
“SWEET, EVEN.” Spam said automatically, before seeming startled by his own joke.
Vid laughed. It was short, rusty—a little harsh, even. But still, it left them stunned. “Geez. I…I don’t think I’ve laughed in ages.”
“ARE YOU [srs]?” Spamton asked, sounding almost genuine. 
“Yeah, wow…can’t even remember the last time I smiled for real. Yikes.”
“HUH…YOU REALLY [1 Missed Call] ME THAT MUCH?”
“I did.” Vid said quietly, visibly shrinking back into their chair.
A heavy silence fell over the table.
“…YOU WANNA GET [Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!] DAY AFTER TOMORROW?”
“Really? Yes!!” Video cried, nearly jumping out of their seat. 
“DON’T GET TOO [Hype Train].” Spamton said flatly. “I’M STILL [[Cashing In]] ON THAT PROMISE OF YOURS.”
“Okay, okay. But still!” Vid exclaimed, jittering slightly. They were so excited at the promise of seeing Spam again, of smiling more, of, well…maybe, eventually, forgiveness.
Over the next few weeks, Video and Spamton met up occasionally for meals, slowly but surely rebuilding a fragile version of the bond they’d once had, despite Spam’s insistence otherwise. The former Addi had been starved for attention and care for far too long, and Vid was more than happy to provide.
As the visits continued on, Vid refused to disappoint, time after time, showing nothing but eagerness and compassion. Not long afterwards, Spam slowly stopped ordering only the most expensive food in favor of things he genuinely wanted.
One day, they’d had to have the difficult conversation about what had happened to each of them since they’d last been friends. It had been looming over several of their previous conversations, but Vid was eventually the one who brought it up first, forcing himself (and the other three Addis, despite the fact that they weren’t even there) to lay everything bare.
Shame had visibly weighed him down as he spoke, but he’d forced the words out regardless, insisting that Spam only deserved to know the truth if they were going to continue spending time together.
Some of it surprised Spamton, some of it didn’t, but in the end, he refused to stop spending time with the yellow Addi, leaving him elated. Meanwhile, he evaded telling Vid too much, giving him only a basic outline of what had happened—omitting Neo entirely, of course.
Video hadn’t been comfortable pushing the subject, something which Spam was grateful for. Still, despite the lack of information he’d provided, something about that had seemed to clear the air, allowing their later conversations to be lighter than before.
(Vid had also opted not to tell the other Addis about Spamton, both on his own and later at Spam’s request.)
One day, as a matter of fact, Video noticed that it was time for their lunch break to end…but for once, due to some weird scheduling, he didn’t actually have to go back to their job for the afternoon. “Hey, do you want to do literally anything else but work right now?”
“I DON’T HAVE [[A steady job]] ANYMORE, REMEMBER? YOU”RE [[The One And Only]] WHO EVEN HAS TO WORK.” Spamton said, smirking.
“Yeah, yeah, I know!” Video cried, throwing up his hands. “…wait, was that supposed to be funny or serious?”
“WHY CAN’T IT BE [[A Two For One Deal!]]?.” Spam asked. When this got him only awkward silence, he continued, “WELL, IF YOU DON’T NEED TO DO YOUR [Work Hours], HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT [[Hitting the town]]?”
“Oh my god, yes!” Video shouted, jumping to his feet. “Genius! I actually kind of had something I’ve been wanting to do for a while…”
…it was a miracle he didn’t get caught, honestly, despite the amount of time he spent watching the building beforehand to make sure he got his timing right. When Spamton had picked up on what the yellow Addi wanted to do, he’d even insisted on helping, much to Vid’s surprise. He hadn’t refused, though, delighted to do just about anything with Spam.
The danger in the situation was that pink Addisons were notoriously uptight, as well as famously strong…and Joyston was the strongest of them all. Video knew that running into him while pulling this off could potentially spell disaster and even death for both of them—but that was what made it fun.
After sneaking into his store and proceeding to swap every single pair of Dating Shoes for Divorce Shoes and vice versa, the two Addisons fled to the rooftop of the building across the street, shooting each other smirks the whole time.
“YOU’RE [[Legally Obligated]] TO TELL ME HOW HE REACTS TOMORROW, YOU KNOW!” Spam insisted, actually smiling for once. It had been fun for him to do something as frivolous as that again, truthfully.
Video grinned back. “Oh, man, absolutely.”
He looked out across the street and up towards the skyscrapers, enjoying the way the lights mixed together.
“HEY. YOU WANNA [Feast Your Eyes!] SOMETHING COOL?” Spamton asked suddenly.
“Uh—sure!” Vid said, eager to do just about anything Spam might suggest. 
Their old friend led him on a several-block walk without elaborating. At first, Video was too nervous to even ask what was going on, but after about three minutes, they mustered up the courage to speak.
“Are we there yet?” they asked, and then immediately regretted it.
It seemed to hit well with Spamton, though, because he let out a glitchy laugh. It surprised him almost as much as it did Vid—enough to make his stride stutter briefly.
Video smiled, relief sinking into them. Maybe…maybe they could repair things after all.
Spam led them up a fire escape, then across a few rooftops to yet another ladder. Once Vid had made it to the top, they looked around and saw…nothing but bland skyscrapers.
“Why are we here?” they asked, bewildered.
“DOWN THERE, [[Wise guy]].” Spam said flatly, but he was smiling.
Vid walked to the edge of the rooftop and looked over—
—and down into a shining column of multicolored, ever shifting light.
“Whoa…” they breathed, stunned.
“THOSE [Paid Advertisements] LOOK EVEN NICER UP [[In the stratosphere]], DON’T THEY?”
“Those are—wait, is that Central Plaza?!” Video gasped. “I��ve never seen it like this before!”
“SOMETIMES YOU JUST GOTTA [Eyeball] SOMETHING A DIFFERENT WAY, AND IT’LL LOOK [[better than ever!]]” Spam said, moving to sit at the edge of the roof.
“…is that supposed to be a metaphor for something?” Vid asked, smirking.
“[Yes, no, maybe so].” Spamton muttered. “I WANTED TO SAY…I”M [[Apologies for the poor service!]] ABOUT WHAT I SAID [Way Back When] TOO. I GOT M4D WAY TOO FAST>.”
“Spam…” Video murmured, rapidly losing the ability to speak.
“YEAH?”
“I’d trash my motorbike in a hot second if I could take back everything from that day. I promise. That’s how much I wanna fix this.” they said, looking him in the eyes (as well as they could with his glasses, anyway).
Spamton stared at him. “BUT YOU [[Cherish]] THAT BIKE.”
“Not as much as I care about you.” Vid insisted.
After a long, long pause, Spam hesitantly shifted closer to Video, before leaning his head on the yellow Addi’s arm. “That…means a lot.” he said softly, his voice not glitching for once.
“I’ll say it again if you want.” Vid said, putting an arm around Spam’s shoulders and pulling him closer.
“NAH…[[One Time Only!]] ALL I NEED.” he said, turning back to look out at the city lights with his friend once again.
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you can create, for example, a telegram account, give us a link and post your pussy there. They don't ban you for this. and I would really like to see
i send vids to a few yummy mutuals that i've moved from tumblr to texting. i will not be posting my pussy even indirectly on my blog. the likelihood that someone would just screen cap the video and take it is very high. everything that i do on here are things that i would legitimately tell anyone in my life about (and lots already know anyways) but posting my pussy is probably something i shouldn't do. i make free audio content which can on occasion take me hours to edit. if someone wants to see my pussy they can send me twenty dollars lmfao. i dont use venmo or cash app or whatever so just send payment to me on a messenger pigeon
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💕 self-love time! talk about which ones of YOUR creations (edits, artworks, fanfics) you like the most then send to other creators to do the same 💕
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Gasoline streaming on AO3 - with all the requisite content notes/tags. Gasoline - Halsey lyrics Complete vid archive on dreamwidth (with notes/lyrics/download links) @kuwdoravids | YouTube | AO3 Dreamwidth is most comprehensive vid list, followed by YouTube. Vid archive on AO3 and Tumblr are a WIP. I've been making fanvids for 15 years (over 200 vids, I think) and this Yennefer vid is in my top 5 favorite vids that I've made. The brainwave I had when I realized this song is about Yennefer...oh my god I felt this with my soul. With this song I was able to embrace the musicality of the instrumentals and combine the vibes with the themes of Yennefer's arc. The lyrics are perfect for her struggles. What I'm most proud of in this vid (other than everything) are the transitions and the internal movement. Every clip/transition works with every part of the song- lyrics, the subtle beats in the background. The flow of this vid looks and feels so natural but almost everything was done with purpose and intent. I've made a bunch of gifs to highlight 80% of the transitions so I can talk about the narrative symbolism or the visual motifs. I think the gifs lose something without the music but gifs are the medium here on tumblr, but feel free to stream the video above. Download link can be found on AO3.
Commentary length: ~1400 words The whole vid is framed to be an introspective Yen who is sitting on the beach, thinking through the events of her life, looking back at where she's been. Early on in the vid, I've framed that literally:
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0:29 - 0:31 (instrumental) Yen visiting Aretuza in late season 1, reflecting and thinking of her own past as well as speaking the current students who arrive at 0:32. It's going to be about what she had wished she had known when she was that age.
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0:41 - 0:46
Are you insane like me? Been in pain like me? Bought a hundred dollar bottle of champagne like me? Just to pour that motherfucker down the drain like me? Would you use your water bill to dry the stain like me?
Champagne being the metaphorical stand-in for power and/or time. She's wasting away in Aedirn's court, babysitting the queen and her infant, doing fuck all and feeling adrift and bitter. The whole 'water bill' and 'dry the stain' is also an additional metaphor for everything she's experienced in Aretuza. That exchange of power for her fellow adepts who got turned into the power source for the school. Another thing I want to note: the internal movement and body language. Yen reclines in her seat (moving left), annoyed and bored. Turns the hour glass counter clockwise (left). And she walks backwards (right to left) in the following clip. The flow of this sequence makes me so fucking happy. But what's also amazing about this whole sequence is that in almost every clip Yen's gaze is cast downward or is level. Anya is an amazing actress. I love the juxtaposition of Yen's bored/annoyed/condescending expressions and body language with student Yen. As a student, she's so meek and her expressions and emotional (as well as physical) poise is just so different in the scenes. I love playing with this different power dynamic here because of how she's reflecting on her past in the vid's narrative.
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1:05-1:12
And all the people say
I love the transition of Yen fading into the fire, and Tissaia appearing in the fire. (This kind of transition is called a cross dissolve). Fire's an important recurring visual because of her transformation and Sodden Hill, and Yen eventually unleashing all of her power. I'm all about the juxtapositions, parallels and painful emotional beats in my vids. This lyric is the prelude for the in-song quote of someone telling the person about the rules of the world. Yen's relationship with Tissaia is fascinating and complex and I have rewatched her scene with Tissaia in Rinde 10 million times now. I fucking love it, it's so painful. In season 1 of the show, there's such a disconnect between Yen and Tissaia and it was important for me to try and factor in Yen's bitterness and resentment at Tissaia as her teacher, and as the person who literally brought into this world.
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1:27 - 1:30
"You can't wake up, this is not a dream You're part of a machine, you are not a human being With your face all made up, living on a screen Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline" oh, oh-oh, oohh
The first chorus is showing Yen finally having adversity with the assassin coming after the queen and her child, set against Yen being a young student who hasn't come into her power yet. My favorite part of this chorus is the final line 'so you run on gasoline' because!! I literally got to show Yen using her power in a snowy winter setting!! And set it against Yen's fiery painful transformation! AND LOOK HOW THE SNOW SPRAYS AND CURVES AROUND YEN'S HEAD IN THE TRANSITION. This is why I make vids. This hits all of my creative buttons SO MUCH OKAY. And when combined with the music it is FLOWING and flowing and I feel like a goddess with my timeline and visuals and beats and positioning the lightning to flicker on the beats. Everything. I love it so much. I made this vid in 3 days, but I've been vidding for 15 years. So really this is just like culmination of all my experiments and trial and error of learning what looks and feels right in my ears, heart and brain. I was one with this vid in those 3 days.
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1:32 - 1:36
Oh, oh, oh, oh I think there's a flaw in my code
This is the sequence I probably spent the longest trying to visually line up. Visually it's playing with the Chaos the assassin's using to throw the weapon at the queen, and the uncontrolled lightening bolt that takes student Yen down. But on a deeper level it's playing upon Yen's emotional/physical/magical frustrations in the scenes. The lyrical associations I'm making here with 'flaw in my code' is vague. Probably too vague, but your associations can definitely vary! viewer interpretation and all! But it's primarily implied about a woman's power. And position in society. Focused on the fact that the Aedirnian King decided to get rid of his wife and daughter so he could get a son and heir instead. Women as disposable or to be used and pushed around. Like the way Tissaia's magical instruction with the lightening harms her students. Visual parallels go smooooothly, flow, and strike on beats!
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1:43 - 1:47
Well my heart is gold, and my hands are cold
More contrasts. The infant death and Yen's rebirth (but also her death of who she used to be before her transformation...) That scene on the beach with the child was a turning point for Yen, so it's fitting that it happens in almost the exact middle of the vid. Yen tried her best to safe the queen and her child, didn't work. 😭 and okay I love the lighting of Yen bathed in golden light. She has all this power...and for what? She couldn't even save the queen and her child. 😭 I just love this transition/fade so much here.
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1:50 - 1:53 / 1:56 - 1:59 (instrumental)
Symbolism!! Yen gets caught up in the djinn wish, so she's caught in Geralt's net. The fishing net is visually similar to the window design in the hallway that Geralt and Jaskier walk through. That window is also exactly centered over Yen in the middle of her orgy scene. And it also is visually similar to the design of her dress.
Flow, deliberate pacing. Visual symbolism and repeated motifs. I love making vids like this. This is my most favorite of my favorite moments in this vid.
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2:26 - 2:28
"You can't wake up, this is not a dream You're part of a machine, you are not a human being."
The first time these lyrics appeared, it was prefaced by Tissaia. This time it's Geralt. 100% deliberate to use a shot of the villain's military with Geralt to emphasize the villain angle. That antagonism Yen feels by being told what she can and cannot do. Also I just love swoopy Geralt's hair and the swoopy military flag, okay. But it's also just the encroaching Nilfgaard because it's all going to end in Sodden, so I am just dropping these clips in to set everything up as foreshadow. And with Yen--her body arched in her position of power as she tries to capture the djinn? She is power, she is a weapon. And she coincidentally held the shape of an arrow's fletching.
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2:37 - 2:43
With your face all made up, living on a screen Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline"
The climax of Yen learning about the djinn wish and unleashing EVERYTHING at Sodden. This is the other sequence that I spent the most time getting the timing right with the instrumentals beneath the lyrics, and making sure the overlays of each of the clips faded out in a way that made sense as they flowed into the next. I love, love love this sequence all the way through to 2:48. Yen learning about the wish, being bonded to Geralt. That lack of power and control with him, and the power and control she unleashes at Sodden....ahhhh.
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2:44 - 2:48
I think there's a flaw in my code
The 'flaw in my code' here is very much Yen's feelings about the djinn and her autonomy being affected again by something that she cannot control. The emotional fury. Her power at Sodden. It's so cathartic.
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2:52 - 2:54
These voices won't leave me alone.
Tissaia and Geralt have had such an impact on Yen. 😭 I just -- fucking lost my mind at how perfectly Geralt and Tissaia's expressions work together here. Because they both occur after Yen has completely let go. With Geralt it's emotionally severing herself from him. With Tissaia, it's finally showing her all of the Chaos that she's never really got to use before... and just fucking decimating Nilfgaard. ITS SO MUCH. Everything is so much. Their faces. I love their devastated faces. So much. I love Yen. I love this vid. I loved making this vid. I love vibing with music in such a way that I can create a flowing narrative full of pain and catharsis. I am so, so fucking proud of this vid and it is definitely one of my most favorite vids I've made. Thank you for reading/watching.
Gasoline streaming on AO3 - with all the requisite content notes/tags.
My complete vid archive on dreamwidth (with notes/lyrics/download links)
@kuwdoravids (archive is a work in progress)
YouTube (archive 95% of vids, some missing due to content/copyright)
AO3 (archive is a work in progress)
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