DreamYolk

25. They/them. Rambler and Lover of Fics

[rederiswrites]

Saw this on FB and tried to find the original, which I haven't, but the point is so solid.

[adoralucifera]

Poor glimmer. Imagine being a bisexual disaster with your questionably platonic best friend, fighting injustice, when suddenly a blonde super soldier turned warrior goddess trips face-first into your life. She's somehow the most terrifyingly competent woman you've ever met, a clueless ditz, and an absolute softie. You are smitten, but she's also your friend and you look up to her and you're at war so mostly you're just excited to be doing your thing!!

Then you meet her ex. Ahem, ex best friend. Definitely.

And if Adora wasn't enough of a sapphic wet dream, here's the nightmare counterpart: the angriest, most vicious enemy you've faced and a smirking little shit who shows you up at almost every turn. You hate her. Right. Definitely. That's definitely anger you're feeling. And if you picture her in a sexy outfit every now and then, who does that really hurt? Surely you're not the only one who can't stop thinking about her being evil.

She crashes out, your mom gets stuck in an alternate dimension, you become queen, there's a bunch of normal drama and war drama and you nearly blow up the planet trying to beat her and you WIN but it doesn't feel satisfying because right at the end you see she's been broken and flailing from the start. You should have known, in hindsight, after what Adora was like. But it was easier not to think about it. You bond on an alien flagship and then she saves your life. You reconnect with your friends and go back for Catra. She's still Catra, but you know she can figure this out. And she does! There's a hiccup but she clearly loves Adora (and Adora saved her from death itself) and together their love saves the universe.

You're with Bow and Catra's with Adora and your dad is alive now? So that's amazing! But there's just. One small problem.

You live basically next door to the hottest lesbian couple...maybe of all time. They do not have a sense of propriety, (they grew up in BARRACKS after all) they are desperately in love, and they are NOT. QUIET.

So you get to die a little inside every day, because you KNOW Bow would be supportive and healthy about this because he's the most chill person you've ever known! The calming goat to your anxious horse.

And then one day Catra walks in on you naked and casually drops "nice ass, sparkles" like it's the most normal thing to say to a friend and now you have to teleport yourself into the kingdom of snows because if you don't dunk your head into a snow bank you are GOING to combust.

[quasi-normalcy]

[calellon]

i'll forever miss how the internet felt before you had to second-guess the authenticity of every single piece of media you came across. silly videos used to be just silly. fun was coincidental. wonder was just wonder. digital art had character and soul. AI has taken the taste out of everything and irreversibly poisoned the creative sphere and the people still pushing it forward are the doom of both joy and the quality of being.

[lawbutch]

I sat behind the same girl in class all year and I was painfully jealous of her beautiful curly hair and I assumed she had just figured out some hair routine I didn't know, or had more time in the mornings than me, or was somehow more disciplined or just lucky. And then my friend talked to her one day and found out she gets 500$ perms and highlights 3 times a year. The answer was literally just money. The same friend found out that most of our classmates who I thought were just naturally smarter than me went to private highschools that cost 25k a year.

This is all a metaphor to say that there will be times when you feel like other people understand something that you don't, or have some ability that you don't, or are better than you in some way because they've accomplished something you can't. And it's going to turn out that they're just rich and they spent thousands of dollars to make that happen. You are not bad, you are not broken, the system is just fucked.

[starlet-sky]

[closet-keys]

I think at bare minimum all medical professionals need to make sure they are treating patients with more kindness and respect than grifters. if you go to a doctor and they treat you like shit, humiliate you, and send you home without any information on your body or access to treatment, then health-grifters' offers will start to feel more tempting by simply giving the most basic performance of taking you seriously and caring about your well-being. grifters should be condemned for manipulating and exploiting sick people, and doctors also play a role in whether grifts thrive or are successfully identified and rejected. genuine baseline human respect, and beginning a relationship with a patient by earning (rather than demanding) trust, goes a long way.

[tam--lin]

(7/30/26) The Red Cross just declared the second US blood crisis in its history.

Summer sees both a drop off in donations and, at least for our trauma center, a spike in traumas. Trauma centers across the US are in danger of running out of blood for our trauma patients TODAY, which is very scary but, unlike much of the other scary national news coming across our screens these days, is something you can help fix immediately and directly.

We need ASAP donations of blood, for people to spread the word, and for manager types to help facilitate others' donations. All blood types are needed, but universal donor blood (type O) is especially dire.

[tam--lin]

Useful notes and reminders from the reblogs:

Many things that previously made people ineligible have been rolled back. If you previously thought you were ineligible, please consider checking current guidelines!

While O- is the most dire need as it can be safely given to anyone in an emergency, all types are needed! Our emergent release blood is being pulled for patients who have a high chance of death if they don't get blood within the hour. Once they're stabilized, they can have their type confirmed and get blood of a specific, matching type released to them so that O- can go to the patients who need it most.

Canada is also in a blood shortage, not just the US. Even if you're not in the USA or Canada, maybe check locally, especially if it's summer where you are.

[fandomlife-confessions]

[fashionmajor]

one thing i wanna say though is data centers being built in rural areas is environmental racism + classism so when i see ppl bitching about locals bitching about data centers im like oh it’s literally because it’s not your backyard being demolished and your air not being polluted and your waterways not being ran dry and your soundscapes not being raised to unhealthy decibels ….

[dremenec]

Edit: Finished version!

I'm truly so unwell about Rumi's yellow racing jacket, I love it so much

Like I cooked up this whole backstory to why it exists (coping) and designed matching jackets for the other girls (clearly not coping)

And now predictably it's spiralled out of control into a functionally ten-part polytrix collage... Which is fine, that's happens...but it's taking too long

So anyway here's some WIPs before I disappear back into the mines

Above: The album cover sketch was the first artwork I made for this series, other than thumbnails.

The colors are so much nicer here than in the final piece, because I was fighting contrast with the girls in the foreground.

Originally Zoey was going to wear her goggles, but it looked too goofy.

Above: Some of the sketches I was fairly confident weren't going to change a lot. In a rare turn of events, I actually prefer the final versions to the sketches (this never happens).

Above: The jacket design wip. I collated some ideas of what emblems i wanted to include, but the hardest part was working out the colors an patterns. it looks like there's a bear or mickey mouse on Zoey's arm - to this day I have no clue what i intended. It barely shows in the final piece, but it ended up as a seal (like, 'save the seals').

Above: Earliest attempt and a more shaped up sketch. I thought the initial draft was so, so funny, I'm not sure why. I'm surprised I ever ended up continuing and didn't just post that thinking it was a masterpiece.

Note the panel i decided to replace (#5) because I didn't like having a solo character take up an entire panel.

Above: I decided I wanted Zoey and Mira to kiss, so I contrived that they would pose in front of their own billboard.

Getting Mira and Zoey posed correctly ended up being a massive pain in the ass, but the gay carried me through

Above: Once I figured out the jackets and the idea for the album cover, I started thinking about a series showing behind the scenes of the filming for the music video.

The ones that didn't make the cut: Zoey waving a 'finish' flag; Someone sitting on a tyre; Mira spraying champagne in her girlfriend's faces

The translation shenanigans were a late addition (hence the scrap paper).

My one regret is not having Rumi playing a guitar solo on top of a moving bike like she's in mad max. I promise that's in the uncut music video though.

[dremenec]

'Ride With Me' (2024) was a hit single recorded and released for Huntr/x' world tour.

Its lyrics center on teamwork, helping each other reach new heights, and celebrating friendship.

A common misconception, this single was not in fact hastily conceived as an excuse for the author to design racing jackets to match Rumi's outfit in the movie.

Additional doodles that didn't make the cut

WIPs (added more content to previous post)

[radioactive-earthshine]

Not sure why it's a new trend among fic readers to assume if the fic has not been posted within the week it's inappropriate to comment on it, like the fic has to be hot out of the oven to give feedback for.

I got a comment on a fic that is less than a year old and it was mostly an apology for being a comment on an "old fic" and how late they were in commenting.

Just comment on the fic. Doesn't matter how old it is.

[mysteryteacup]

Fandom is not social media.

Fandom is not trends.

Fandom is a cross between a library and having a slumber party with your friends.

"Old" means nothing to fic.

[imvec]

✨

[ubercharge]

look. look at this beautiful sword meme. i’m going to cry

[literallybyronic]

@petermorwood

[petermorwood]

I saw and reblogged this one a while back, but it’s always worth repeating, and this time I’m adding a bit of background info comparing common fantasy sword features to the Real Thing (with pictures, of course.)

Leaf-bladed swords are a very popular fantasy style and were real, though unlike modern hand-and-a-half longsword versions, the real things were mostly if not always shortswords.

Here are Celtic bronze swords…

…Ancient Greek Xiphoi…

… and a Roman “Mainz-pattern” gladius…

Saw or downright jagged edges, either full-length or as small sections (often where they serve no discernible purpose) are a frequent part of fantasy blades, especially at the more, er, imaginatively unrestrained end of the market.

Real swords also had saw edges, such as these two 19th century shortswords, but not to make them cool or interesting. They’re weapons if necessary…

…but since they were carried by Pioneer Corps who needed them for cutting branches and other construction-type tasks, their principal use was as brush cutters and saws.

This dussack (cutlass) in the Wallace Collection is also a fighting weapon, like the one beside it…

…but may also have had the secondary function of being a saw.

A couple of internet captions say it’s for “cutting ropes” which makes sense - heavy ropes and hawsers on board a ship were so soaked with tar that they were often more like lengths of wood, and a Hollywood-style slice from the Hero’s rapier (!!) wouldn’t be anything like enough to sever them. However swords like this are extremely rare, which suggests they didn’t work as well as intended for any purpose.

I photographed these in Basel, Switzerland, about 20 years ago. Look at the one on the bottom (I prefer the basket-hilt schiavona in the middle).

A lot of “flamberge” (wavy-edge) swords actually started out with conventional blades which then had the edges ground to shape - the dussack, that Basel broadsword and this Zweihander were all made that way.

The giveaway is the centreline: if it’s straight, the entire blade probably started out straight.

Increased use of water power for bellows, hammers and of course grinders made shaping blades easier than when it had to be done by hand. This flamberge Zweihander, however, was forged that way.

Again, the clue is the centre-line.

Incidentally those Parierhaken (parrying hooks - a secondary crossguard) are among the only real-life examples of another common fantasy feature - hooks and spikes sticking out from the blade.

Here are some rapiers and a couple of daggers showing the same difference between forged to shape and ground to shape. The top and bottom rapiers in the first picture started as straights, and only the middle rapier came from the forge with a flamberge blade.

There’s no doubt about this one either.

The reason - though that was a part of it - wasn’t just to look cool and show off what the owner could afford (any and all extra or unusual work added to the price) but may actually have had a function: a parry would have been juddery and unsettling for someone not used to it, and any advantage is worth having.

However, like the saw-edged dussack, flamberge blades are unusual - which suggests the advantage wasn’t that much of an advantage after all.

Here’s a Circassian kindjal, forged wiggly…

…and an Italian parrying dagger forged straight then ground wiggly…

There were also parrying daggers with another fantasy-blade feature, deep notches and serrations which in fantasy versions often resemble fangs or thorns.

These more practical historical versions are usually called “sword-breakers” but I prefer “sword-catcher”, since a steel blade isn’t that easy to break. Taking the opponent’s blade out of play for just long enough to nail him works fine.

NB - the curvature on the top one in this next image is AFAIK because of the book-page it was copied from, not the blade itself.

The missing tooth on that second dagger, and the crack halfway down this next one’s blade, shows what happens when design features cause weak spots.

So there you go: a quick overview of fantasy sword features in real life.

Here’s a real-life weapon that looks like it belongs in a fantasy story or film - and this doesn’t even have an odd-shaped blade…

Just a very flexible one…

If you want more odd blades, Moghul India is a good place to start…

[ubercharge]

i could not ask for a better addition to my meme post than blade education thank you so much

[earhartsease]

love the idea of sawds (the spork of combat)

[bluelstar]

I FINISHED THIS STUPID FANART, I feel so relieved after finishing this piece now 3 MORE TO GO. This was supposed to be finished months ago but i don’t know what happened.

[tigerwolfdemon21]

Part 8 college au dimension hopping

Jinu:.Heeey Abs~

Abby: Nope.

Jinu: Oh come on it was a mistake

Abby: Dude, you cheated. S'not cool.

Zoey: JINU!!!

Jinu: Shit! Hide me- the hell!!

Abby: (holding Jinu by the back of his shirt preventing him from leaving) Nope. You don't get to run away from this.

Jinu: Abby !! Please!! She's gonna kill me!!

Abby: (snorts) You think I don't know that?

Zoey: Jinu! You arrogant piece of shit!

Jinu: Easy, easy Zo... It was a mistake.

Zoey: bullshit.

Abby: How the fuck do you jump on my dick by mistake?

Jinu: WHO'S SIDE ARE YOU ON?!

Abby: The correct side.

Zoey: Even the person you cheated on Rumi with is a better person than you.

Jinu: Harsh. (gets slapped across the face) Ow!

Zoey: You're lucky I stopped at a slap. Now. Call mom and tell her what you did or I will.

Jinu: (gulps) Can't you just hit me ag- Ow!! (gets slapped again)

Zoey: Make. The. Call.

Jinu: Fine.

-meanwhile-

Mimi: Heeeey Rumi-Rums, heard about the break up-

Rumi: That you caused.

Mimi: Hey I didn't cause it. He did by cheating on you. I just made him tell you by threatening to cut his nuts off.

Rumi: You threatened him!

Mimi: (scratches the inside of her ear) I'm sorry I must have something stuck up there because it sounds like you're mad at me? I saved you heartbreak. And now you can actually confront your feelings for Zoey and Mira.

Rumi: I'm not in love with them and even if I was they're dating! And they're even scared to tell me!

Mimi: Okay maybe they're scared cause they like you as well?

Rumi: Why would they want me if they have each other?! Look I don't know who or what you are but I want you gone.

Mimi: wait wait, look I know I came on strong but-

Rumi: GET. OUT.

Mimi: jeez. Fine. (teleports away)

-meanwhile-

Jinu: Yes. Yes. I know. Look I didn't think we were exlc- No I didn't clarify. Wait, wait. No. I'm sorry. Yes. Fine. Bye. (hangs up) Well thanks Zo. Now Eomma is cutting me off until I spend a year in therapy and now I have to get a job.

Zoey: Oh no. Poor baby. Cry me a fucking river. Besides you could always suck up to our grandparents since they actually like you.

Jinu: They like me, I don't like them. (he sighed) I- don't know what's wrong with me. I care about Rumi....I just had all these thoughts.

Zoey: (sighs bc she still loves her brother) what kind of thoughts?

Jinu: That I- that I'm lying to myself. That I'm disgusting because I'm attracted to men.

Zoey: Wait are you only attracted to men?

Jinu: I don't know. I thought I was attracted to Rumi but I also had feelings for Abby. I- fucked up. (buries his head in his hands) I hurt her.

Zoey: You know you can be attracted to more than one gender right?

Jinu:

Zoey:

Jinu: My father sent me to boarding schools and would kill me if he knew I had any romantic feelings for another man. You know that right?

Zoey: Sometimes I forget that he screwed Mom in the divorce. I'm mad at you for hurting Rumi. And I agree with Mom that you need therapy. But I still love you, big bro. Even if you're an idiot.

Jinu: Thanks. (he looks over at Abby) Sorry I lied. Can we still-

Abby: (held up his hand) Dude, you have like 8000 issues you need to work on before we do anything aside from being friends.

Jinu: (snorts) fair.

-meanwhile-

Celine: (putting away groceries)

Mimi: YOU!!

Celine: (nearly jumps three feet in the air) You??!!! How did you- When did you-

Mimi: Did you ever tell Rumi you're a hopeless lesbian or did you expect her to figure it out with vague context clues? Because you know she's too autistic for most context clues.

Celine: H-how did you know?!

Mimi: Because I have ADHD not autistic. (rolls her eyes) For fuck sake no wonder she's a mess if you didn't say anything.

Celine: Who's a mess? What is going on?!

Mimi: How are you this messy in this dimension?! You're not a pop star.

Celine: I'm a CFO for a record label-

Mimi: YOU'RE AN OVERPAID ACCOUNTANT?!

Celine: I'm the chief financial officer!

Mimi:Fine. You're an overpaid accountant with a nice office. Happy?

Celine: How did you get in my house?!

Mimi: Magic. Now take your useless lesbian ass into the living room and call your stupid bisexual daughter and tell her it's okay to like women.

Celine: what?

Mimi: DID I FUCKING STUTTER?!

Celine: (jumps) Nope. No.

Mimi: Good. (grabs a box of cookies from the grocery bags) I'm taking these. Bye. (teleports)

Celine: Did she- What just- (suddenly very concerned she's actually losing her mind)

-back at the hotel-

Jack: (eating a bag of chips they stole from Celine's) Soo how'd it go?

Mimi: (immediately flops on the bed next to him) I don't wanna talk about it. (looks around) Where's the other two?

Jack: (shrugs) Want some? (offers her the bag of chips)

Mimi: sure.