The way I completely lose all interest in Lawlight as a ship if Light isn't Kira. And frankly, I feel like L would agree with me on this one. I don't think he'd gaf abt Light in the slightest if Light wasn't Mr. Serial Killer.

Anyway while we're speculating about the end of atn here's a selection of some of tamsyn muir's other endings (spoilers for most of her short stories):

girl & her love interest elope to live under the sea as an eldritch power couple

woman's best friend agrees to move in with her which makes her magical house happy

ghoul and the creature in her dead girlfriend's body walk off into the sunset after destroying their enemies

princess kills a dragon and then she and her love interest go into business together as professional monsters

well one does end with the protag becoming a cannibal and staying with the guy who tricked her into it so you've got me there

monster women overrun a town

a ghost gets revenge

Quite a few of the endings strike an unsettling tone in which you're not quite sure what you got was a happy ending, but the protagonists did walk away better off than they started. That's similar to what I expect from the atn ending too

This is such a harmful sentiment to push considering that you don’t necessarily have to be “attractive,” (beauty is subjective, yada yada) in order for men to want to harm you in the slightest… like man, what…

Search results for Captain Laserhawk be like:

Pearlescentmoon, everyone

normal oak 🤯

At long last, my giant doll customization project is complete!

I have successfully transmuted three innocent Sylvanian Families figures into @kwillow and I’s evil animal nobility. Hyden (rabbit wizard) is mine, Theo (dapper rat) and Ambroys (foppish unicorn) are hers.

This was intended to be a one-off project, but making these is addictive. I may already be gathering supplies for the next batch of characters...

ok sorry the OTHER thing about lucienne is like. as previously stated she is dream's handpicked emissary from the waking world to the dreaming she's the diplomat in chief she's the translator she's the bridge. because the dreaming is, in a very real way, dream's own psyche, this is tantamount to giving lucienne a tremendous degree of access to his interiority and by transitive property also tantamount to entering into a deeply emotionally intimate relationship with her (unimportant for the purposes of this post whether that relationship is platonic or romantic).

now, in general, looking at the pattern of dream's close emotional relationships—dream doesn't share himself with people as a rule (beyond the access that all things that live have to the dreaming; but i'm talking about his self here, the one he doesn't like to acknowledge he even has), but when he does share with people, it's with people who have some shadow on the soul, so to speak. just looking at attested relationships in show canon, his deepest emotional connection seems to be with death, who embodies the duality of light and dark even better than he does himself. calliope is the muse of epic poetry—heroism and tragedy—and also bears the sort of divine pride that led her to cut dream off for hundreds or thousands of years when he wronged her. the less said about that other guy, the better, but he's no sunshine-rainbows-unicorns type—he's a soldier of fortune, a bandit and a killer, a man who profits from the sale of human life. even best bird matthew, in comix canon, had a sordid past that will maybe be partially retconned for the show but has still been gestured at.

dream likes the complicated ones. he's drawn to them. they speak to something in him that he won't acknowledge in himself (he has to be Whole, fully integrated, without reservation, because he is the king and he is the dreaming and if the dreaming ain't whole then the universe is in trouble—but he feels that ache nonetheless).

all that is to say: when people try to portray lucienne as dream's Designated Well-Adjusted Neurotypical Friend, i begin to harm and maim.

I think sometimes people HAVE to work with abusers because the industry is just so filled with them that you can't boycott them all or it's actually you who are being boycotted or jobless. But date? That too when she is already on this level. This was SOOOO avoidable and yet she willing chose him. Willing looked past all of his racism and what not and for what prize? Ratt Mealy?

yup, exactly

many up and coming female (and even some male) actors and artists find themselves with no other choice but to work with horrible men

recent examples i can think of is chloe bailey - a lot of people gave her so much shit for working with chris brown without thinking that she simply may not have had a say in who her record label wants her to collab with

as well as with the women who end up working with sam levinson, i doubt either sydney sweeney, alexa demie, barbie ferreira, hunter schafer or lily-rose depp enjoy having to be canvases that sam can paint his p*rn fantasies upon

but that being said taylor, the biggest pop star in the world, is definitely not being forced to do anything especially not date an absolute and utter shithead

this whole thing reeks of when taylor dated john mayer, a very obvious racist and misogynist but back then she was a child who just seemed to be so hopelessly infatuated with him who just couldn't see what was wrong with him

but now she's a grown thirty three year old woman and she's once again dating an obvious racist and misogynist only this time it's very obvious that she knows about the things he's done and she knows what her fans (and even just the general public) are saying about her - about them and she's just choosing to ignore it

and that isn't it, especially when she's choosing to stay quite about politics and social issues while working with people have done incredibly shitty things, traveling all around the world in her private jet whilst there's a climate crisis going on, and performing in states like florida and texas whose governments are doing everything in their power to the strip rights of women and the lgbt community

..

dungeons and dragons is so fun bc right now i’m in 2 campaigns and i play them back-to-back on fridays.

in the first campaign i play this mangy little level 5 goblin spores druid named pellet. she is silly and i love her to death. also she will bite your ankles and it will fucking Hurt. the entire party she’s a part of is very well balanced and- despite their sometimes clashing personalities- they’re very competent in combat which leads to thrilling high-stakes battles

in the second campaign i play a level 4 half-elf goolock named cal. we’re all playing villains in a cyberpunk and we work for a villain organization. cal is NOT built for this whole high-stakes job thing, nor is the rest of his team. this party consists of a bunch of glass cannons and one glass nuclear bomb (our wizard). today’s session was the first time cal has been in combat and not passed out or been downed- we did not finish this encounter, though, so there’s still time for him to get bodied

I am the only person on earth who is Normal about Taylor Swift.

Thinking about this one comic I found in 5th grade where Joker got hit by a love potion perfume that made all the ladies like INSANELY crazy over him like the whole plot was just him running away from literally every woman in gotham and-

literally if him running away from every woman simping over him and hiding with batman isn’t the most definitive proof of gay joker i dunno what is.

rereading one of the most popular nosleep stories is bringing to mind how so much of this shit is formulaic but not in the sense that they're predictable as they unfold, but because the men who write them write in a way that is not just self-indulgent but a distillation of the male mind under male dominance or the patriarchy wherever the hell you call it.

I used to read like hundreds of these for lack of anything better to do and quite a few of them are not disturbing the way that they should be but because of men's obsession with either making their sexual obsessions grotesque or their just complete lack of self-awareness, shame or cognizance of the meaning behind their thought patterns.

I really don't want to go on a tangent here even if I don't really care whether I do but to get to the point the story in particular is about a man whose dog wonders into some really elaborate underground prepper bunker at night and he chases it down. The Bunker was apparently commissioned and at least partly built by a patriarch for himself, his wife and several kids. so the standard pattern of dominant man and submissive woman was already there.

at the end of the story you are made aware of a recording of the patriarch, who for some reason was the last person to survive. everyone else had basically died and started to rot when the recordings were played. which was odd in itself as all the people had spent the same amount of time down there.

The climax basically involved the remains of this patriarch who managed to warn the narrator being forced to bow down before some kind of grotesque lovecraftian monstrosity that had entered the bunker somehow.

so the man who wrote this shit's greatest fear was being subordinated. like that was literally it. "there was no pride, joy, etc" for this very much conscious, animated corpse's... situation being described.

If that's not symbolism I do not know what is.

and other than the male appetite for extreme shit or what is very grotesque and disgusting, the fact that the story revolved around reanimated corpses being held ransom was not the worst thing here -- it was the fact that they were made to kneel before a thing that was emphasized, which speaks volumes.

The usual family venting

I’ve been like “I can’t abide by the zionist activism, or the continued Harry Potter fandom for that matter” for a while without having the guts (or opportunity) to just cut out my sister… it’s really funny that she might just do it for me because she’s mad at me for not taking time out of my schedule to take over a favour that she volunteered for

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