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27, He/Them, I Am Cursed2Lost on tiktok too (I'm sorry). I write poetry a lot like a happy fool.

[lostinflorentine]

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Surveillance Through The Stars:

And through the night

She thought she was alone

But the stars in the sky

Were watching her

And now:

They are watching you too

20/8/5/19/8 1/18/5 20/8/5 12/1/19/20 23/15/18/4/19 15/6 4/1/23/14

12/9/12/9/20/8 2/5/6/15/18/5 8/5/18 4/9/19/1/16/16/5/1/18/1/14/3/5 (138 Pages) Barnes&Noble Link (Physical Book) or Ko-Fi Shop Link (Ebook) or Etsy Link (Ebook)

Madness From My Bones: Dive into a collection of poems that push past the flesh, blood, and bones into the very marrow of existence. Some funny, some heartbreaking, and some simply impossible to decipher unless you've experienced the madness for yourself. (76 Pages) Etsy Link (Ebook) or Ko-Fi Shop Link (Ebook)

Is This The Future We Tried To Fight?: A series of poems that could be highlighting the struggle of good versus evil in a world of superpowers, but instead is about the loss of someone's future and the subsequent letting go needed to allow for another one. (45 Pages) Etsy Link (Ebook) or Ko-Fi Shop Link (Ebook) or Barnes and Noble Link (Physical Book)

[millenianthemums]

i LOOOVE drawing characters singing karaoke i LOVE IT. so have some more of it. they’re being festive for pride month.

i imagine Bill and Mabel both love to sing but are not great singers. Mabel genuinely thinks they’re both super talented, and Bill has a slightly more realistic view of Mabel’s singing skills but will kill anyone who even implies she’s less than perfect at it

[hotdrinks]

[ID: A three-panel comic strip of a TMA time travel AU.

Panel 1: Jon from season one - wearing glasses, dressed in business casual, jaw length hair, greying slightly at the temples- sits at his desk and looks up at Jon from season five. long greying hair, no glasses, wearing pajamas, including a slouchy, scratchy green cardigan, subconjunctival hemorrhaging in both eyes-. Future Jon has a hand on Past Jon's shoulder.

Future Jon: And so that's the moral of the story. If all you do is look at stuff, then you will become an eyeball."

Past Jon: Damn.

Panel 2: Both Jons have turned their heads to look straight on at the viewer.

Both Jons: What do you think about all of this, Martin?

Panel 3: Past Martin, wearing a button-up shirt and scratchy green cardigan, stares forward with a blank face, blushing intensely; his glasses are opaque. He has a speech bubble that says "Hm?" but behind him is a large thought bubble filled entirely with the following phrases:

Please kiss, please please please please, kiss each other in front of me, holy shit, PLEASE, where I can see it in front of meeee, kiss on the mouth, please kiss on the mouth, I hope they kiss.

End ID]

Time Travel Au

Eyeball quote

[enteleqia]

Magic horse (thanks to Dagnerd for translating)

I think celestabellebethabelle is good reading people.

[joliemye]

A mini comic set in the good ending.

For how much I think about them, I’ve realized that I don’t actually speak much on tumblr. The good ending is inspired/set in @/domesticatedford and @/alex-the-bordercollie ‘s AU where they get “saved” and Bill is killed.

⬇️ Explanation/analysis of this comic ⬇️

The kids and ML Ford live in their own apartment inside an alien compound. It was made to look like their home to offer some comfort/familiarity, but it’s not. (I could go on a whole tangent about that but it’s not the subject of this post.)

Penelope is a child who has been taught that violence is an acceptable answer to her emotions. She is prone to outbursts of anger and is extremely impulsive so it always comes out towards the people and things around her, even if she doesn’t mean it to happen.

Most of the time these people will be her siblings because despite everything Bill cares about Ford more than he does his children so she has been punished in the past for hurting her “Mother”. Bill doesn’t care much if she hits or bites her brother or sister to get what she wants and Ford can only do so much to mitigate her behavior.

Note: Bill is not physically abusive towards his family but he doesn’t shy away from showing his true self when they’re outside. He’s taught them that the life of others is meaningless and that they are just peasants beneath them. He’s killed people in front of her AND has made her kill people. In fact, Penelope and Page have probably seen more of his genocidal tendencies that Ford has.

In bills mind: His wifey is emotionally fragile and needs to be kept at home. His daughters? they’re just like him! Of course they would enjoy this. (they’re basically an extension of himself and not their own person, right?)

Back to the comic.

The fact that she’s wearing the dress I typically draw her in is a choice. She could have access to a whole new wardrobe if she wanted to, but instead, she clungs to the replica (as they weren’t allowed to bring anything from the fearamid) of a dress she doesn’t even particularly like. In fact— she hates dressing up! While Ford very quickly drops the feminine clothes Bill made him wear, though it feels strange to wear pants again after almost 17 years.

She could have used her telekinesis to flung the objects or Ford back, but blinded by her anger, she forgot.

I do want people to draw their own conclusions a little bit but her extreme reaction to a simple and gentle request is telling of her character.

Ford wants so badly to raise his children right, to undo the damage that Bill has done. But how can he when his efforts have been undermined by his husband for all the kids lives?

In the end, someone is still going to have to clean up the broken pieces on the floor.

[joliemye]

I still love you

A few hours after the incident…

Ford stood in the doorway of Penelope's room, his hand resting against the frame. The light from hallway illuminated his form in the dim light of the room. His daughter was hunched on the bed, under her violet princess curtains, her single arm wrapped around her knee.

"Are you still angry, or can I come in?" Talking pulled at the bandage on his cheek. At least he hadn't needed stiches, but it would still leave a scar.

Penelope averted her gaze. "hmm-hh"

Ford sighed. Slowly, he walked to the end of her bed. The mattress dipped beneath his weight. He put his hands on his knees and turned his head to look at her.

"You know that I love you, right?"

Penelope still wasn't looking at him. "Why?" she asked.

Ford was taken aback. "Well…" he started "Because you're my daughter."

"But what if I wasn't?"

"Pen—"

"You said you loved him too."

"Penelope, that's not the same thing at all." He stared at his lap, his nails pressing into his palms. He took a deep breath.

"Why?" She shifted, now sitting with her leg over the mattress like him.

"Because—" He lifted his hands, and then let them drop back on his tighs. He really didn't want to speak about this with her. "I did love him, Penelope. But I also didn't have a choice."

"Yeah, just like you have to love me." She finally glanced at him. "Or that would make you a bad mother."

Anger flared inside him, but he quickly pushed it back down. Instead, he just looked at her sadly. Always. She was always doing this.

"I already told you I don't like it when you call me that," he said calmly.

"Hmm" the same non-answer, again.

He sighed again. "Penelope, I love you. Not because I have to, but because I want to. Yes, because you're my daughter. But also because I know that somewhere inside there's a girl who is smart, creative, and doesn't actually want to hurt people."

"…But I do want to, sometimes." her voice was tight.

"Maybe. But you don't have to." Ford stared at her. At this small, angry, miserable child he had helped create. At the daughter who had scratched his face open and couldn't say she was sorry and meant it when she said she wanted to hurt people.

"I'm not going to say it's fine," he continued. "What you did—it wasn't fine. It hurt. And I was just trying to help you."

Penelope felt very small. She hated it. She wanted to rip the feeling from inside her chest.

"I KNOW! I—I WAS ANGRY AND YOU WERE THERE AND IT JUST HAPPENED!"

"Okay. Okay. I know."

Put out the fire before it spread.

She reminded him so much of her father.

Penelope's form was trembling. Her eye was wet, but she wasn't crying. She didn't cry. Not where anyone could see.

Ford waited. He'd learned to wait.

Because he refused to fear his own daughter.

"I wanna go home." She kicked her leg against the mattress. "Daddy's gonna come for us— he has to."

Ford didn't say anything.

"Right?"

He knew the answer. There was no doubt in his mind that Bill would tear apart entire universes apart just to find them. But reality was more complicated than that.

He couldn't tell her that they couldn't go home.

He felt the urge to apologize, like he was the one in the wrong, Like this was his fault.

Old habits.

He shifted closer, carefully watching her face for any sign she wanted him to stop. She didn't move away. He reached out and placed his hand on her back, a light, careful weight.

"Papa?"

"Yes?"

"I didn't want to hurt you. Not really."

This wasn't an apology, but he'd take it.

[softersynths]

DIASTEMA

[gracklesong]

Kinda surreal to see people explain WHY Tumblr is implementing age verification in the UK and Brazil just to see responders argue that it's still all Tumblr's fault for complying. They don't want to imagine that this is anything but a bad UI choice that can be turned around by yelling at social media employees. "What's the government got to do with fascism?", or something like that

[rosstmcd]

Tumblr putting in age verification in places where age verification is now legally required: not much they can do to avoid this. Like, Meta could probably fight it with some chance of success if they wanted to, but Tumblr doesn't have anything like the clout required.

Tumblr moderation aggressively and disproportionately flagging posts by or depicting trans people and people of color as "mature" no matter what the content is? Very much their fault and they should yelled at about it until they are finally browbeaten into fixing it, or the end of time, whichever comes first.

[baleful-meat-worm]

[1-marigold-1]

TADC ep 8 spoilers

Wyd when you kill your ai son on accident

[huffylemon]

[triviallytrue]

aren't gorillas gentle giants or something. i stay out of his way, he doesn't maul me, we have a nice time picking out clothes together in opposite sides of the mall

[friendshapedhole]

Male gorillas are super aggressive and territorial. Also they interpret nearly every human mannerism as a sign of aggression or a challenge. Smiling and eye contact are both things that zookeepers have to be taught to suppress when they’re in the vicinity of gorillas.

[triviallytrue]

Well unless the mall is his native territory I think I'm fine, I wasn't planning on smiling at him

[max1461]

This is all irrelevant because the obvious answer is five black mambas. I mean, that’s not actually very many snakes, and malls are fucking huge. And unlike a gorilla you can definitely outrun a snake if it does show up. Find an open space in the mall where you can see any snake coming and just hangout out there. Fucking easy.

[triviallytrue]

Misguided! I would much rather have a mallmate I can easily see and hear coming. I'm confident I can stay out of the gorilla's way, but if I step on a snake or one otherwise gets the jump on me, it's all over.

It's not just about the physical danger either, it's about my mental health. One gorilla, unless he's actively mad at me, I just keep a healthy distance between us and make sure I never get trapped. With the snakes, it requires a lot more constant vigilance

[ghostpalmtechnique]

They should substitute "chimpanzee" for "gorilla" in this hypothetical.

[triviallytrue]

if it was a chimp i'm taking the fucking snakes

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Black mambas have a reputation build on being very venomous and very fast. I'm not sure why you would think you could outrun one (or five) in an enclosed space like a mall.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

Malls usually have pretty slick floors, and escalators. I’d choose the gorilla simply because I think that would make an more interesting story (and a better-selling autobiography, I Survived the Mall Gorilla) but I think I’d stand a pretty good chance at avoiding the mamba. They’re fast and aggressive and will chase you but unless we started immediately beside each other I think my sneakers would have the terrain advantage over scutes.

[nightingalesoul]

this is too good to leave hidden in the replies

[bermuda-n-drangle]

fucking enamored with the implication that this gorilla is fully intelligent but is trying to manufacture plausible deniability like the movie barnyard

[corndog-patrol]

Welp now there’s two of them

[gh0stbeeee]

I feel we don't talk about this moment in "Mabel's Guide to Color" enough. This is the smile of a very intelligent 12 yo that probably knows exactly how powerful this beam of light is and that this is a very bad idea. This is the same 12 yo that thinks revenge feels awesome, and when he thought someone stole his spaghetti said "this is a dark day" very ominously. This is, once again, the same 12 yo that has dealt with Grunkle Stan's ribbing all summer.

Dipper knew exactly what he was doing here. Look at that grin. Notice he's the only one here, besides Mabel inside, that has sunglasses on.

Grunkle Stan was victimized. The real question is: what did he do to Dipper that made him resort to this. Maybe he found out Stan lied about his spaghetti.

[5tarfru1t]

the short kings and their buddy, Southern Slenderman

[witchinatower]

Lets gooooo neurodivergent Mabel angst! 🩷💜🩵💚💛🧡❤️

Also, I'm already SO CLOSE to 700 followers HOW ARE YOU GUYS THIS FAST?! Honestly, this makes me feel so special, thanks so much!!

[comically-blu]

never ever ford, still ley

based on personal headcanon and the many delightful ppl who added to it:)

https://www.tumblr.com/comically-blu/796341176816091136/ooooooohhhh-

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💬 0  🔁 40  ❤️ 242 · ooooooohhhh…. Found such good points in such a short time that I gotta shine light on! :D Very true! Cute but sad to t

[occudo]

Happy 10th anniversary to the Magnus Archive!

[casarole76]