Buttlandia

Mostly silly, sometimes nsfw

[raggadollie]

a selfish comparison

[intosnarkness]

Here’s the thing: authors know when they get a rec on an older story. There’s a telltale uptick of kudos (with a 10-15% comment rate if you’re lucky) in your digest email.

The thing is, there’s no way to know where these people are coming from. In the before, when fandom was more in the corners we all knew about, you could search LJ or a message board or whatever social bookmarking site we were using. You could join the community and participate.

You could get a little dopamine hit by seeing someone tell their friends why they loved your story.

Anymore, those recs are hidden in discords, or in tiktoks or instagram slideshows that you can’t search for. They’re inaccessible, not discoverable unless you’re already there. You may never know why 27 people left kudos on an old story of yours, what they liked and found in your writing. You just get the thumbs up and a kinda lonely feeling, cause these could be your people. You could like them, maybe. You could be friends.

But you’ll never find out why they stopped by, or what people are saying about you behind your back, and that’s sad.

So thank you to the people who still do public rec lists on this webbed site. You are my sunshine, and I’m appreciative of all of you.

[midnightcaptions]

sleeping in a pit will cure me

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guys i just realized he's wearing Drakgo colors. i'm sure this means nothing.

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still open to suggestion while i try to unbreak my brain

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What the fuck do u mean I'm in the middle of having fun drawing and I have to drop everything to go to the bank instead like some sort of adult

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I had to draw the Kim Possible Blaster Briefs™ suggestion for personal reasons

[sparkssummons01]

TADCxSoul Eater Scythe Meister Pomni and her weapon partner Jax

[ajihaew]

i've got a red room

[barkeroodle]

why did bubble do that

[midnightcaptions]

"jax is an asshole if he actually leaves centipedes for Ragatha" and "there is a nonzero chance i will put snakes and rats on my friend as she sleeps" coexist in my head and i'm not sure what this says about me

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still a tiny bit bummed Pomni never abstracted because I swear that's where it felt like the first several episodes were going until suddenly Plot Twist Jax Is Sad

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ok so i also am madly in love with Pomni and my brain festers over her too so excuse me while i barf up some thought process into the void

-Ep1, Ragatha claiming that the search for an exit will drive a person to abstract, despite evidently only witnessing one abstraction which wasn't even caused by that?? i think, i've only seen ep9 once and my brain short-circuited after the mom trigger lmao

-Ep2, Pomni's abstraction nightmare, circling back to everyone but Jax reaching for her despite little to no positive interaction with anyone else but Ragatha at that point, giving the vibe he was gonna be the outlier somehow in the end

-Ep3, Kinger saying the worst thing you can do is make a person feel unwanted and unloved, which is exactly what Jax very plainly did to her at the turning point later. also hey Kinger wtf did you do to your wife/what do you actually think of Jax hellooo

-Ep4, return to Gummigoo/existential crisis, Pomni contends with the problems of others while shelving her own.

-Ep5, Pomni starts actually hitting it off with someone, seemingly realizing there's someone just as lonely as her there if Jax is also favoring the company of NPC, but that's my take on it.

-Ep6, the whole fight and friendship rejection thing to make her feel like shit

-Ep7, derails a bit with Jax frying his eggy brain on acid, but Pomni returns to obsessing over an Exit

and then suddenly she was all hunky dory and fine and felt like everything veered off course to switch tracks when she gave up her entire shtick and gave me whiplash a lil bit ngl

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still a tiny bit bummed Pomni never abstracted because I swear that's where it felt like the first several episodes were going until suddenly Plot Twist Jax Is Sad

[tswirwwmim]

trade picture for @qotsaq with her doooomed seminary soulmaka!!!!i love them🤧🤧

[midnightcaptions]

anyone else a lil huffy the brain scanning device apparently was some VR headset and while i get it i feel like it should've looked more like an EEG thing

no one would've gone in there who would want to put that weird ass thing on

[memethebum]

Leaving this here for when the brain worms come for me again

[midnightcaptions]

put glow in the dark stars on my tablet for more incentive to not fucking sleep ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ