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september is coming up so here’s your yearly reminder to leave billie joe armstrong the fuck alone

A Fair Return

A comic I made for the ShortBox Patreon in 2020! So so proud of this one. You can see my other work HERE

Wish I had someone to talk about how when Chainsaw Man ends Denji defeats Makima by giving her the thing she always wants, not to be eaten by Chainsaw Man, not to destroy all bad things in the world, but to have an equal, because he chose not to be controlled or complacent, deciding that he was Chainsaw Man, embracing that role and what it means to him, clawing his way up to her level, outsmarting her, cracking through her contract, "becoming one" with her and finally becoming her equal, in a character transition that happens in the span of about twenty chapters but has been built up to for almost one hundred

Fuck Fujimoto is such a good writer.

So Hob is immortal because Death promised her little brother not to take him. But that doesn't explain why he doesn't age. In order for that to happen, not only Death would have to leave him alone but also Time.

Time, who happens to be Dream's and Death's father.

You know what that means?

Finding Dream a boyfriend is a family project.

Things That Never Happened in History Class

1.  Professor Gadling's History 101

"... and so you see, Nan Boleyn was no 'femme fatale' homewrecking the happy Tudor household and leading the 'good' King Henry astray..."

There were snickers in the room.

"... though it makes for some pretty good stories, aye?  Always love me a good bodice-ripper or that Jonathan Rhys-Meyers on the telly.  He's a dish, that one."  Professor Gadling leaned a bit forward, a naughty gleam in his eyes.  "Though, the real King Henry was a looker when he was younger.  Looked a bit like our Prince Harry, now that I think about it."  

More laughter.  Which was typical in Professor Gadling's classes.  Iggy Pop - really, that was his name and yes, his parents loved him dearly - said, "Like, the dude's got a way with bringing all that historical stuff to life.  Like he was totally there.  Totally awesome, dude."

Iggy also had some of the best grades in the class, California surfer animated Pixar turtle accent and all.  But the observation was accurate.  

And it was also one of the reasons why Professor Gadling's history classes were booked solid every semester.

2.  Nevermore

Sometimes, there was a raven on Professor Gadling's shoulder.  

The first time he appeared, he was perched all nice and comfy on the professor's shoulder, looking as calm as you please, fixing the class with his beady black clever eyes.  

The Professor sighed.  "No, he's not me familiar.  He's babysitting."

"You mean, YOU'RE babysitting him, right, Professor?"

The raven squawked in protest.  Professor Gadling rolled his eyes.  "He's the one doing the babysitting.  I try not to pick arguments with ravens, you see.  Terribly bad idea."

"Nevermore," said the raven clearly and drolly.  

The class eventually learned the raven's name was Matthew.

3.  There can be only one

There was a persistent rumor that someone once confronted Professor Gadling with an honest-to-God actual sword.  

It happened in that secluded alleyway created by the old library and the faculty building, or so the story went.  

The Professor, in atypical fashion, went, "Nope."

"There can be only one!" declared the sword-wielder, raising his weapon.

"Nope, I'm NOT that kind of immortal.  You don't get to take my head, there's not going to be any ruddy lightning quick-thing whatever it is you lot call it.  I'm not the droid you're looking for.  Go off with you."

Apparently, Matthew the Raven helped drive whoever it was away - aside from the fact that the Professor was actually pretty good in a fight.  

"Ugh, Pierson owes me THREE pints for this!"

4.    Shakespeare In Love

There was a rule that got passed down from class to class.  

For sheer unadulterated entertainment, get Professor Gadling to rant about William Shakespeare.  Oh, he wasn't one of those who posited that the Bard never wrote his plays.  Far from it.  

He just absolutely had Very Specific Opinions about the man.  And they were Loud, Pointed and absolutely Hilarious.  

This was also good for distracting the Professor long enough to get out of any last minute homework or suprise quizzes.  There was hell to pay during the next class, but it was well worth it.  

"You are too harsh on dear William, sir," said the snow-pale young man in black, with the messy, rumpled hair.  

The class wasn't sure how he suddenly appeared in their midst, although it felt like he'd always been there.  He looked perfectly grave, absolutely serious... except for the glint of mischief in his odd dark blue eyes.

The professor crossed his arms over his chest, looking sourly at him.  "He was a ruddy hack.  Got a bit lucky, I'd say."

The pale young man smiled faintly.  "He had a true gift that just needed a little bit of nudging."

A scoff.  "Sure.  Exchanged his soul for artistic immortality, Faustian bargains, deals with the Devil."

"No."  The smile was still there and it was mesmerizing to see, as if this wasn't a man given much to that expression.  "Just two plays, commissioned to order.  What need have I for men's souls?"

"Hmph."

"Jealousy does not become you, Hob Gadling."

"Oi!"

"Uh... Professor, should we leave you two alone now?  Like, this whole lover's quarrel UST thing you've got going is kinda cute, but we really don't wanna be around for the kiss-and-make-up part!"

Of course, it was Iggy Pop who just had to ruin what seemed to be the most interesting moment that had happened so far in Professor Gadling's history classes.  

Someone raised a hand.  "I don't mind being around for the kiss-and-make-up part!"

The class would later learn that the young man's name was apparently "Murphy."  

He was also Matthew's "boss."  

Any kissing and making up supposedly took place at that New Inn down the road, which also served, among other things, a delicious shepherd's pie.

- end -

NOTE: Yes, I did a Highlander reference. I couldn't resist.

seriously thinking about an au where padmé haunts vader. like literally, her ghost is tethered to him and she follows him around but he ignores her because he assumes she's just a manifestation of his guilt for believing that he killed her (she tries to tell him he didn't, he doesn't listen. to him she's not real and she's just telling him what he wants to hear, that it wasn't completely his fault).

padmé having to watch him torture his own daughter on the death star. and no matter how much she screams at him to stop her words don't even reach him because he's blocking her out entirely. because in his mind her ghost is nothing more than a hallucination.

(maybe even have shmi follow him too. but again, he only thinks he's imagining it because to this day he still feels guilty that he couldn't save her).

and after he kills obi-wan, maybe he appears too. so now vader has the ghost of his mother, his wife and his brother constantly following him around, he tunes out most of what they try and say to him, that is until he finds out about luke.......

bonus. BONUS. if luke and leia can see the ghosts. leia briefly seeing the faint outline of padmé's form before the droid injects her. luke seeing both obi-wan and padmé at vader's sides looking at him sorrowfully when he jumps in cloud city after the duel.

or at the start padmé could just outright tell him “you have twins” and the entire franchise after that is obi-wan's ghost sitting there, head in his hands while vader is STILL having a breakdown after the news.

imagine you're out for drinks with your mates spouting absolute bullshit about how you're gonna live forever and the palest rich boy you've ever seen comes up with a sick ass ruby around his neck and black robes and dramatic hair and is like oh you're going to live forever? in the most awkward tone imaginable and your mates are absolutely losing it but the kid isn't bad on the eyes and it's obviously the first time he's been outside of whatever castle he cracked out of so you tell them to shut up and play along and then bam it's been a hundred fucking years and you're still alive and this guy is back in the exact same fit and basically tells you you're immortal now purely to amuse him for one night in a century and you have to just roll with that for the next six hundred years because what else are you going to do

the feminine urge to mourn lost cultures and empires. for your heart to ache every time you remember how many languages no longer have speakers, how many ruins are abandoned, how many people lived happy lives before you. to feel melancholy and longing every time you study history - of this world or another, even fictional. to want to play a role in history, but in the same time fear dying, passing, being forgotten like those thousands before you.

To you, maybe Archive of Our Own is "just" a website.

But to others, it's more.

It's a community.

It's a place where writers can be free to write what they want, without having to worry about it being taken down.

It's a place where people can cope, and vent, and do what they need, because guess what, it's a good fucking coping mechanism.

What Tiffany G. is promoting goes against the OTW's existence.

AO3 was created to prevent the censorship.

And hell, maybe it's not all about the website.

Maybe we're just fucking tired of gay, trans, queer, disabled, etc. shit getting censored.

This is all bullshit.

So yes, Archive of Our Own might be a website, but that doesn't mean it's "just" a website. That doesn't mean that the problems going on don't matter. This is real, it matters, and it means something.

4 of my fav studio ghibli pixel art studies

Are You Getting Queerbaited Or Are You Being Misled By Your Internet Echo Chamber

oh my god these cats gay. good for them! good for them

ID under the cut!

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Guillaume Apollinaire, from Aubade (tr. by Donald Revell); Alcools: Poems, 1913

orchids. she likes orchids. and yeah, stick, it was worth it.

florence the machine / kate mcgahan / daredevil / anne sexton, "A Self Portrait in Letters" / richard siken / hélène cixous, from “Olivier De Serres- A Single Passion Two Witnesses

saw a boat today that looked so soft and so lonely, if I was stronger maybe I would write a poem about her

seriously I had some little TikTok teenybopper burst out laughing on my tour because I said that a historical figure was “most likely what we’d now call gay”

like

listen

you’re free to take a ouija board out to the cemetery and try to explain the dizzying array of current queer terms and get a solid answer as to how he identifies within that framework but 

until then, I’m going to continue NOT definitively assigning someone identity terms they didn’t self-identify with, and might not have even known, when I’m responsible for representing them faithfully and they’re not here to correct me. even more so when they’re part of my own community

I mean, you know, as long as that’s okay with you. Bestie.

It was terrifying and liberating all at once.

Neil Hilborn, “For Henry, Who Has Just Died”, The Future

the most insane double casting i’ve heard of is ophelia and horatio being played by the same actress. the implications of that drive me crazy

So you’ve definitely answered this before but do you have any codywan fic reccs? I tried to find the original ask but didn’t have any luck

i think i did too BUT i also cant find it lMAO i dont mind doing another, irregardless!! because fic writers ALWAYS deserve more love! this is no means comprehensive, but these are my go to feel goods

through the rain by katierosefun [1/1] - (a history of rain, first meetings, and cody and obi wan) this fic is so sweet and gentle, like a warm bath. its just so lovely and cody is such a precious man in this.

carbon cycle by caffine [9/9] - (p66: obi wan discovers gardening, and cody builds a rebellion) this might be my favorite post 66 AU- which is saying a lot because i live, eat, and sleep post 66 AUs. it takes time to flesh out who both men became after Order 66 and has a lot of fun with force logic, i just love it. also the authors in earth sciences so i feel a solidarity.

It’s Raining Dear by caffeine [1/1] - (modern domestic au) I READ THIS FIC LIKE THRICE WEEKLY. wonderful characterization of both our guys, and its so… it makes me yearn for a wife? cody is so perfectly fleshed out in this! also, not to be too personal but as someone who has gone through having a clost family member dealing with addiction, this fic actually handles it perfectly without being condescending, so thank you.

Classified by skycathcer [1/1] - (the boys discover cody keeps taking flirty calls in mando’a. unrelated, but obi wan’s on an undercover mission) im obsessed with the clones’ rapport in this, its such peak brother behavior. great one shot man makes me wanna keep living my life.

trouble with the curve by jimmytiberius [1/1] (modern: rex convinces cody to switch with him and obi wan tries to score [thats a baseball joke]) have i mentioned before how much i love baseball? has that come up before??? surely??? this fic is great, even if you dont like baseball- though if thats the case i will take your lunch money and shove you in a locker.

Make You Bed (Lie in It) by glimmerglanger [5/5] 🔒 - (cody starts sharing quarters with obi wan) this… this fucking fic man. It made me feel things when i was drunk and sober and thats saying a lot. i think i love the gradual progression of the relationship here and the way they communicate the most, its so well done. like just watch two people fall in love, come on you know you want to.

The Art of Happenstance by galateraGalvanized [1/1] - (cody and obi wan co parent a lightsaber) i mean… come on. There’s a parent trap reference in the TAGS of this fic, you think that wasn’t MADE for me??? this is such a joyful fic for me, like i just enjoy reading it whenever i need a little pick me up.

room for two by thedisasternerd [3/3] - (undercover on a mission, blinded with pining.) you all know that we couldnt get through a rebecca fic rec list without a fake/pretend relationship au. COME ON!!! THIS FIC! i think this might have been the first codywan fic i read??? theyre so good and dumb in this fic, perfection.

When William Shakespeare said, "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it," and, "These violent delights have violent ends and in their triump die, like fire and powder which, as they kiss, consume."

CAT by  By 九米 / Zhaobangni (1631123)

the thing is, somebody cares. i know your best friend seems really busy all the time and is shit at texting but she still loves you and she talks to you more than she talks to anyone else and you’re the only breath of calm she has on this planet. the boy in your science class loves seeing what music you’re listening to on your headphones - he has the same taste and wishes he had the nerve to ask you about it. your english teacher loves the insight you have on your papers. somebody cares. the person who lives down the street from you notices when you are sick because they don’t see you stomping your way to the schoolbus - it’s how they know it’s time to get their breakfast ready. somebody is looking for you at the party, even if they don’t know they’re really looking for you - but when you don’t show up, some part of them is disappointed. somebody is looking for you in the library, in the spot where you eat lunch, in front of that one step you always seem to trip on. i know your parents are a complicated mess and there’s drama between your friends and your love life is sort of shaped like a constant question and everybody seems all caught up in their own lives and their own happiness and nobody really notices: but somebody always does. every face in your dreams is someone you have met, and that means that you are in a million’s stranger’s heads. they see you when they go to bed. and somebody cares. somebody still thinks about you even though you were just a person with a nice outfit or good eyeliner or a great smile or because you were having one of those moments that are so charmingly human in nature or because they regret not asking if you needed help when you fell or because they wonder what you were thinking about or drawing or writing or just because you’re alive, and that makes you fascinating. somebody cares. when you were on break from work and saw a dog hanging his head out of the car and suddenly broke into a smile: there was a girl in the back of that car, and I was her, and I still think about you, and i hope you get more chances to smile like that. and there is you, sitting here reading this, and by some small extension, meeting me, and i am telling you, I care. somebody always does. i promise. i promise. you are loved.

I just finished reading Kings Rising - oh boy!! But I read it on my kindle and now on the internet I hear about a chapter 19.5. Are these the same as the short stories???

[LONG HIGH-PITCHED GASP OF REVERENCE]

NO! it is NOT the same as the short stories!!! The Infamous Chapter 19 And A Half was a bonus chapter at the end of the Prince’s Gambit paperback (there’s also one in the Captive Prince paperback called The Training of Erasmus, which is about – you guessed it – the training of Erasmus). it’s basically just an extra scene at the end of chapter 19, which doesn’t SOUND like much, BUT GO BACK AND CHECK WHAT CHAPTER CHAPTER 19 IS.

I originally read the first two books on my kindle so I didn’t have The Infamous Chapter 19 And A Half, either. blessedly, the glorious and ever enabling @camp-four happily took photographs of every individual page and text them all to me, in order. I still have them all in an album on my phone. sometimes I read it before I go to sleep in order to have sweet dreams and wake up refreshed and buoyed by the knowledge that true and good love is real and it’s out there. 

DON’T SAY I NEVER DO ANYTHING FOR YOU! 

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Hero Rats

marina tsvetaeva trans by ilya kaminsky

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

-Franz Kafka

the lover's choice: a confession

Scheherazade by Richard Siken / Spirited Away, Studio Ghibli / Is there still anything that love can do by RADWIMPS / Our Beloved Summer / Normal People, scripts / Weathering With You / Our Beloved Summer / Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary Of Anaïs Nin.

rin, nezha and kitay resemble the trifecta so much its scary, but i can't quite agree on their placements.

kitay is definitely the gatekeeper, the calm but impressive scholar with hidden talents, but rin and nezha both have the potential to be the warrior.

but since nezha is the charming and powerful one, he fits the vipress' role. rin is cruel, direct, and powerhungry like the warrior.

god i love these books.