but always we were saved

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[pathos-logical]

Hi, everyone! My friend @orange-airplanes​ and I have both been working to make our blogs more accessible spaces for everyone, and together we have created a doc for meme image IDs! Image IDs are used to make posts accessible to a wide range of people, and we know how hard it can be to start writing your own. This doc is meant to let people copy and edit image IDs of generic memes to take out some of the stress and effort of transcribing images by hand. It is open to edit so people can add their own templates with IDs, and we’re happy to hear suggestions about possible improvements! The doc will also contain a list of additional resources on image IDs for further research.

Here’s the link! Happy transcribing!

[beneathsilverstars]

i’ve dying.. i’m withering away… the only thing that can save me is siffrin breaking up with isabeau

[beneathsilverstars]

siffrin gives dating a go and realizes it’s not for him. but they don’t want to break isa’s heart, but if they keep doing this when they don’t want to, that will hurt them both even more. so he’s really brave and has the talk with isa and they break up.

and isa is really glad that siffrin was honest with him, bc this is so much better than the alternative of siffrin pretending, but ough why do those have to be the options?? he’s glad to be friends with siffrin he’s glad they were honest but he can’t help but mourn the romantic future he imagined. he can’t help but blame himself for not being a good enough partner to be wanted as a partner. he can’t help but hope that maybe there’s a chance siffrin will change their mind again. he can’t help but blame himself for not getting over them instantly.

but isabeau IS still glad to be friends with siffrin and they’re so so glad to be platonic friends with him again too. it’ll be ok. sometimes things are hard, sometimes things hurt, but they love each other and they’re glad they have each other and the rest of their family. they will never stop trying to do right by each other and they will keep getting better at communicating and existing together. 💖🔥✨

[beneathsilverstars]

@candaru replied: Mirabelle who is secretly RELIEVED because she thought she'd be so so so good as a wingman and she was so happy her friends got together but then they were doing kissing and flirting and stuff in her presence and it icked her out so bad, and it was obvious so they stopped, but then she felt terrible about it. And now she doesn't have to worry about that anymore but she feels SO GUILTY about feeling so relieved, and she wants to ask Siffrin a million questions but it's a terrible time for it!!! And she's in her own personal hell about a romance she's not even a part of

mirabelle trying to be a supportive feelings buddy who gives good advice but something about the relationship feels so wrong to her and she can’t tell whether it’s just her or not.

when siffrin is uncomfortable with one thing, she wants to tell him to break up with isabeau over it. but she’s heard relationships are supposed to take work and compromise. so maybe it’s fine?

when siffrin offhandedly mentions that at least dating isabeau means he won’t leave them for someone else, she wants to cry that that’s a terrible reason to date someone. but maybe it’s normal, and she’s weird for thinking true friends shouldn’t leave each other either.

she knew that real relationships wouldn’t look like fluffy romance books and ofc healthy relationships wouldn’t look like the horror. but the fluffy ones don’t seem quite healthy to her either and dating itself is a horror to her too, so what’s actually bad? what’s actually good?? siffrin needs a second opinion so badly, some validation some advice a frame of reference, and mirabelle can’t do that. her own lack of interest in that stuff is hurting even her closest platonic relationships.

… but she cares about siffrin and isabeau so much. she doesn’t need to know exactly what a relationship should be to conclude that this one is causing siffrin more stress than joy, and that isabeau wouldn’t want that.

and maybe that’s normal, but… if it is, it shouldn’t be!! why should this be the norm if it just makes people worse off?? if it makes them feel obligated to compromise and stagnate in unhappiness. surely if relationships are any good at all, they’re supposed to be better than this.

so she determinedly advises siffrin to stop worrying about what relationships should be like, and just think about what this relationship currently is, and what he really wants.

and when siffrin and isabeau break up, mirabelle feels so guilty, for a bit. it’s her fault, like she was the jealous loveless villain who couldn’t stand to see the lead couple happy without her.

… and then siffrin, though sad and guilty, is also happier. and isabeau, though insecure and mournful, is less stressed. and the awkwardness fades into more ease than she’d seen between the two of them for months. and one day siffrin thanks her so earnestly. and mirabelle confesses her own guilty fears, and when siffrin reassures her that it’s ok if she doesn’t want to date anyone either, she wants to protest… but how can she, without it reflecting back onto them too?

maybe if it’s ok for him to be “alone”… maybe it’s ok for her, and maybe she doesn’t even have to try it to decide that. maybe they can all be alone together, siffrin and mirabelle and probably odile too and maybe even isabeau. maybe a relationship doesn’t have to be romantic to change you — of course it doesn’t.

mirabelle was right that it was okay for siffrin to break up with isabeau. so maybe siffrin is right that it’s ok for mirabelle to end her plans to change by romance and instead change into someone who confidently doesn’t.

[comradekatara]

there are only so many world leaders, right? and they’re all beholden to sokka in some major way…

the avatar: will be 35 years old and still have a pavlovian response to sokka saying “all right everyone, time for bed!” 

the firelord: so ride or die it’s honestly concerning

the earth king: owes to sokka his newfound knowledge of basic critical thinking skills

chief of the northern water tribe: his daughter seemed to think he was pretty dope before she turned into the moon

chief of the southern water tribe: thinks her brother is an idiot but has good ideas sometimes, and appreciates the fact that he doesn’t care whether or not he gets credit for them as long as they’re implemented 

not to mention that toph is basically a one-woman weapon of mass destruction who does not listen to anyone—with the crucial exception of one person—and guess who that is!

and he’s basically an honorary member of the white lotus???

basically what I’m saying is sokka secretly rules the world

[ruffboi-mags]

I think what you’re saying is that sokka secretly rules the world and has no fucking idea.

[comradekatara]

yep. sokka is legitimately way too humble to realize the immense power he wields. if anything, he considers himself a glorified accountant/secretary for his friends.

out of the people who do know, I would say it’s split into roughly three categories:

people who are duly aware of just how much influence sokka has in the decisions and advances made in postwar geopolitics: zuko, toph, iroh, suki, azula, ty lee, mai, piandao, arnook, pakku (but he hates it)

people who think sokka is their cool smart friend who helps them out when they cannot solve a certain problem: aang, kuei

people who think sokka just fucks around all day reading and tinkering with his little machines: katara, sokka

[atlaheritageposts]

atla heritage post

[3000s]

its just crazy how bad things can impact you

[3000s]

it shouldnt matter if bad things happened to me or not #tbh

[mikkeneko]

I've seen a few posts speculating on what might have happened in Shen Yuan had transmigrated into Mu Qingfang instead of Shen Qingqiu. Many fun ideas, but it got me thinking about how I would do this scenario.

The first thing that would happen would be that SY would declare that since MQF is not doomed by the plot/is only an NPC, he therefore doesn't have to make any changes and indeed shouldn't get involved with matters of import at all since he's only a minor background character. He can just kick back and relax in his new xianxia life, and get a front row seat to Luo Binghe's rise to power and conquest.

That would last approximately two days.

If we're still assuming that SY was a NEET or (even worse) a business major in his first life, then he would have no relevant medical expertise whatsoever. While I do think having a vague understanding of human anatomy and modern sanitary practices would help him, in the same way having a vague understanding of modern education helped him as SQQ, that is really not a substitute for the level of expertise Mu Qingfang is supposed to have. The first time he gets confronted with a severely wounded patient he doesn't know how to save, he goes into a panic and has to beg the System for a skill patch/easy mode/universal cheat elixir to pull them through.

After this, he starts to take his position as Medical Peak Lord more seriously and goes into a major skill grind/level up montage. He emerges from it with enough of an understanding of the applicable medical theory, plus whatever he knows from the modern world, plus what he remembers about flora and fauna and bullshit magical elixirs from the novel, plus his own problem solving skills, that he can at least get by as Mu Qingfang without putting patients in danger.

(Honestly he probably could stop there, but will he? No! Mu Qingfang is not just a decent doctor, he is the best doctor! Never mind that MQF was only brought up in the book in order to show himself useless against the power of Luo Binghe's miracle blood slash healing D. No, he absolutely must be The Best Doctor In The World or else he will not get a good grade in transmigrating, a thing both possible to achieve and normal to want.)

At any rate, SY eventually emerges from a study-fueled haze after a period of months or years to realize that Oh Shit, He's Invested Now. How is he supposed to live up to his self-assigned achievement not letting any of his patients die if Luo Binghe razes the mountain?! He's got to intervene now.

Fortunately, SY knows exactly what he needs to do. He's gotten to know Cang Qiong enough to know that it's pretty decent, actually, it's really not the corrupt institution that justified burning it down in the book, it's full of ordinary people just doing their best. There's really just one little tweak that needs to be made, one little alteration, one minor edit is all that stands in the way of Luo Binghe having a happy life and career as a Cang Qiong cultivator.

He just needs to kill Shen Qingqiu.

(cont...)

[mikkeneko]

Method is not going to be a problem. A doctor knows all about poisons, and Shen Qingqiu is already known for his frequent qi deviations; Mu Qingfang knows the exact ratio of ingredients he needs to drop Shen Qingqiu in his sleep an untraceable month or so from the time of application. It would look indistinguishable from the qi deviations he's already prone to, and Mu Qingfang would be in charge of the medical investigation afterwards anyway. Easy peasy.

No, the problem is going to be opportunity. Shen Qingqiu doesn't come to Qian Cao for medical treatment for his qi deviations. Shen Qingqiu doesn't come to Qian Cao for medical treatment for anything. He's a reclusive, antisocial jerk with paranoid tendencies which only coincidentally in this case happen to be warranted, but either way: Presents a problem for our newly determined Mu Qing-yuan.

So he starts on the campaign to win Shen Qingqiu's trust. Teach him to rely on others sometimes, to come to him when he needs help. Small things at first, with the intent of building up that trust over time. Peeling back the spiky carapace of the prickliest Peak Lord of their generation is tedious, often aggravating work, but Mu Qingyuan is patient and determined. He can make house calls, if Shen Qingqiu doesn't want to leave his Peak. He can mix medicines for headaches and nightmares and insomnia. He can talk for hours about this or that book that one of them borrowed from the other.

Slowly, bit by bit, he begins to form something approaching a friendship with Shen Qingqiu. All to plan.

The only problem is -- he begins to form something approaching a friendship with Shen Qingqiu.

And the more he gets to know the bastard, the more fond he's starting to become.

In a funny, exasperating, adopting-a-feral-tomcat sort of way, he's coming to like Shen Qingqiu.

Shit.

[mikkeneko]

In one of his patented "My body just moved to protect him on instinct, I had no idea that would happen, not a single thought in my head" moments, Mu Qingyuan gets a little too in the zone during a healing session and manages to completely cure Shen Qingqiu's qi instability. Well! Crap! This completely scotches his murder-SQQ-through-qi-deviation plan. Well, it wasn't a great plan anyway, everybody knows that if a highly ranked cultivation individual dies of a qi deviation the obvious suspect would be the man who was treating him for said qi deviation. Time to find a new approach.

At this point, a sensible person would abandon the murder-Shen-Qingqiu plan entirely. But reader, we are not talking about a sensible man.

Mu Qingyuan is still determined to kill Shen Qingqiu. He still thinks it's the best way to not only protect Luo Binghe from Shen Qingqiu, but to protect Shen Qingqiu (and Cang Qiong) from Luo Binghe. Shen Qingqiu's death is a hard-coded part of the narrative, after all! An inescapable part of the world! It's just that now he's determined to find a way to kill him before all the abuse and torture and tragedy stuff happens, and bring him back to life afterwards once the plot is safely past. Simple!

My outline gets fuzzy from here on out but I think it mostly consists of Mu Qingyuan going through a series of increasingly convoluted shen-anigans to try to get hold of the Glass Coffin of Stasis or the Ruby Apples of Mortal Seeming or the cursed five-pedal spinning wheel that puts whoever touches it into an enchanted sleep or whatever other Disney princess device Airplane shamelessly plagiarized into his narrative so that he could have another arc about a beautiful love interest trapped in a deathlike trance that Luo Bingge would have to go on a quest to save but didn't require him to come up with a new personality or background.

[mikkeneko]

#this is the correct amount of deranged commitment to the bit that sy requires - @waitineedaname

You understand my vision.

[pompombot]

And this tree is my grave

[nebulations]

[ID copied from alt: It's a drawing of a tree covered in leaves, with Loop also covered in leaves; Loop's right arm extends from the ground, and a little bit of the glow from their head can be seen through the leaves. The drawing overall is colored dark. End ID]

[muckingup]

yeah i support dad reigen

also on twitter

[nebulations]

[ID: Mob Psycho 100 fanart. Reigen leans back in his chair, looking at his flip phone, and says, “Teru, let me adopt you so I don’t have to pay you when you work here.” Teru replies, “My parents are alive, bitch.” End ID]

[scribefindegil]

Okay hang on: if you haven't watched Mob Psycho tell me what you think it's about it's for science

[scribefindegil]

Thanks for playing, everyone! Some extremely correct and powerful takes here! My favorites:

[nebulations]

[ID: A collection of text that reads:

Psychic kid gets adopted by con artist with real world skills. The real world skills and power of friendship end up saving the day from the psychic problems. There's a booger ghost for some reason? And exercise himbos are involved?

There are other children and Reigen continues to lie to them.

#I'm pretty sure a cool autistic main character can predict the future? #or maybe see ghosts? #and he works for a company which somehow profits from his future sight (I think they're lawyers or detectives or something) #Anyway his boss is supposedly a dilf and is #2 tumblr sexyman (I thought his name was reagan [spelled like the American president] for a little too long)

psychics evil vegetables and a booger tbh idk ive been wondering just that but i have t his weird "x men but its a fitness club and there's evil brocolli and a sentient booger" in my brain

kiddo with mind powers and his weird manager.

#autism boy (boy with the power of autism) and Grunkle Stan have wacky adventures #sometimes the boy hits 100% and #Stuff Happens

children fight a giant broccoli. but it's basically god?

There's an autistic kid with a bowl cut who experiences powerful psychic repercussions every time he has shrimp emotions. He's adopted by someone who's either a con artist or a lawyer. Brassicas are there also?

this one con man and his extremely autistic son also psychics I assume. End ID]

[joethesparkle]

Reigen genuinely had no idea

[nebulations]

[ID: A Mob Psycho 100 comic. Reigen, smiling happily with sparkles and light radiating from him, exclaims, "Look Mob!" He's holding out a stack of paper labeled "Adoption Papers." Mob looks at them with shiny eyes and says, "Shishou..."

Then he looks up with a flat expression and say, "I have parents." Reigen, now drawn in a simpler stye, sweats and says with a nervous grin, "what." The papers are now a single paper that says "Oops." End ID]

[nebulations]

@tomespathos99

[lucabyte]

i need everyone else to understand that every time ive seen @samhainian doodle siffrin they've had a little star shaped bald spot on the back of their head. its basically canon to me now

[bytedykes]

[ID: In Stars and Time comic. Loop notices a star-shaped bald spot on Siffrin's head as they pass by him. They look over their shoulder and think (What... Is that?) Frantically tapping Siffrin's shoulder, they ask: "Hey. Hey Stardust. Did we always have... That."

Guilelessly, Siffrin turns to speak to them, putting the bald spot back in our view. They ask, "Have what?? What are you talking about???" Loop cringes and clasps their hands while breaking the news: "The... The bald spot. Stardust."

Final panel is a front shot of Siffrin, face crumpled in distress as he says, "The What." They're labeled, "Approaching Thirty" and "Constantly Stressed." /end ID]

[loop-lover-central]

Sorry for the slight mold on batch 48

[nebulations]

[ID: In Stars and Time text post memes using art from the game.

Odile, sweating slightly: "in desperate need of... something... if you guys figure it out let me know"

Siffrin, smiling with nervous surprise: "what do you mean Just Standing There Ominously doesn't count as socializing"

Successive tweets. Siffrin says fearfully, "every single person in this aldi wants to kill me". Isa smirks contentedly, "girl i'm so boredddddddd let's grow into something better and stronger than our past selves". Loop smiles falsely, "does anyone else feel like there's 8-12 elephants in the room at any given time and they're all unaddressed". King says, "AITA for killing people for fun".

A comments section. Siffrin and Loop disdainfully say "That's poop from an ass" and "that looks like shit from a butt."

A Tumblr ask/answer. Chagrin, a childlike triplet Sadness, asks, "Hi I'm 1 years old and learning to read through your posts. Cigarette." Odile replies, "very good job using your words! will someone get this toddling bitch a smoke"

Isabeau looking determined and facing a nervous Mirabelle: "*puts my hand on your shoulder Don't worry, have your back. We're gonna turn this crisis into a crwaswas"

Bonnie sweating: *"slams fist on table* ow"

A text convo. Loop says, "Answer your phone" and Siffrin replies, "I don't have a phone," to which Loop, annoyed, says, "Really"

Isabeau holding Siffrin's hand: ""are they lovers?" worse. they were supposed to be and never got the chance to"

Mal du Pays getting close to the viewer with an unnerving face: "the terrifying beast of the darkness wants a kissy"

Odile: "My alone time is for everyone's safety"

Loop smiling falsely: "sorry for the nervous breakdown everyone im actuallt fine because have to be"

Isabeau smiling: "i like mine with a lil social anxiety, like hell yea babe let's leave."

Siffrin smirking mischievously: "scientists are experimenting on cross-breeding a crab and a cheetah things could go sideways real fast"

Loop looking upset: "just went to someone else's circus and my fucking monkeys were there"

Siffrin with their face entirely shaded: "when the persona you made eats you; when the performance youve been putting on eats you; when the name they gave you eats you; when the image people made of you eats you; when the role you were assigned eats you; when the you that other people see or even made for you or you made for them takes over the you that you know and eats you alive."

A Tumblr ask/answer. Odile asks, "thoughts?" and Isabeau grins, "No thanks, I'm trying to quit."

Odile: "my beautiful bestfriend called ibuprofen"

Loop looking upset: "people always talk about evil clones like oooh a dark mirror oohh what if you saw what a cruel person you were/ are capable of becoming. and well yes but what if you were the evil clone. what if you looked in the mirror and what you saw was so bright it blinded you. what if you had to know exactly how good you could have been." End ID]

[raviolireptile]

Thank you to @fancycake for their hilarious idea that I had to draw

[raviolireptile]

They made up :) also wanted to show the tags I put on the og post

[nebulations]

[ID: Project Hail Mary comics paired with posts/tags. Image one is a post by @/fancycake that says, "Rocky and Grace are yelling at each other. Rocky stops mid argument to demand that Grace put on his angry eyebrows. Grace immediately stomps to the whiteboard, stomps back over with the dry erase marker, draws angry eyebrows on the xenonite ball. the argument continues"

A comic of the scenario follows. Grace and Rocky are arguing angrily, and Grace says, "I think it's a completely valid use of resources! It would be stupid not to have s contingency!" Rocky: "We are going to Erid anyways! No need." Grace: "Well obviously! But if something were to happen--" Rocky: "If something happen, Rocky FIX. Do not need stupid unnecessary use of resources!" Grace: "You can't just pull 'Rocky fix' on everything! You're being irresponsible!" Rocky yells, "Ugh!!! Grace!!! Need eyebrows."

Grace huffs angrily and whirls around angrily to get an expo marker, stomping back and "hmph"ing before he draws on Rocky's xenonite ball. He asks, "Happy now?" Rocky now has the impression of having angry eyebrows, and he replies, "Obvious not. See Rocky eyebrows!Grace being stupid." Grace: "Haha. Very funny. Being rude sure isn't changing my mind about the beetle idea." Rocky: "Doesn't need to change your mind. Just need to not make. Grace can't engineer for (music notes)." Grace: "Language, Rocky! I can't even with you rn. You're being such a baby about this."

The second part of the post starts with tags that say, "#for context on the argument: #They are arguing over the idea of making a beetle to send to Erid in case something goes wrong on the trip there #grace wants to make one for contingency's sake #but rocky doesn't even want to consider the possibility that they might not make it to Erid #he feels like if he accepts something going wrong as a possibility than he will jinx the trip #or somehow manifest something bad happening #but he's nervous to admit such an illogical thought pattern to grace #cause he's supposed to be the most logical and rational member of the duo #so instead they argue about it #rocky will explain his feelings a few hours later and they will hug it out".

It's followed by art of Rocky's ball essentially being in Grace's lap. Rocky looks up at Grace and emits a speech bubble containing a heart and question mark, and Grace has a reassuring expression as he replies with another heart. End ID]

[lucabyte]

something about marine biology and benefits

bonus:

[nebulations]

[ID: An In Stars and Time comic featuring Loop and Siffrin. Loop says brightly, "Well in theory I should be able to hold a single note indefinitely, (-- Not that you're ever going to get me to blinding sing--) --Seeing as I don't need to breathe, so--" Siffrin scowls, "What do you mean you don't need to blinding breathe?"

Loop grins, I don't! I don't have any bodily functions, jackass!" and Siffrin replies angrily, "I have heard you-- I have literally heard you get out of breath!!" Loop raises an eyebrow. "Those are noises! I can make whatever noises I want!" Siffrin, accusatorily: "You breathe!" Loop, shrugging: "I have tested it, and I literally don't!!" Siffrin: "The fuck do you mean 'tested it'?"

Loop glares, "Oh, like you wouldn't also walk into the ocean in my position," and Siffrin asks, "To drown yourself or to look at the fishes?: Loop looks annoyed and says, "Obviously to drown myself," before throwing up their arms and shouting, "But also of course to look at the fishes!!"

Siffrin grins and says "We should--" and Loop intensely grabs them by the shoulders and yells, "We love fishes!" Siffrin, grinning: "We should tie you to an anchor and drop you-" Loop, yelling: "You should you literally should!!"

In the bonus, Siffrin stands at the shore of a dark lake from which a bright spot shines, showing Loop "has been visibly wandering around at the bottom of this lake for twenty minutes". Siffrin pouts and scowls, labeled "starting to get legitimately jealous." End ID]

[crimeboys]

the worst part of getting into new media is when youre at the stage where youre completely obsessed with it but you cant go through the tags or seek out anything about it bc youre not fuckiny done yet

[gogolizards]

dad stories vs uncle stories

[ID: Mob Psycho 100 fanart. First, Mob's dad is shown smiling and captioned with part of a tweet that reads: "Dad Stories: I was all set to go and play for UCLA before tweaked my damn knee. Boy, I could run. Tight spiral, and most important: good attitude, heh heh. Awful lucky though, that summer is when I met your mom." Next, Reigen is shown speaking self-importantly, captioned "Uncle Stories: I have seen every type of ghost there is." End ID]

[nebulations]

Kay do you have the magical (Mob voice) I have a dad, Reigen (leaves) comic. the rlly funny one where reigen tries to adopt mob but mobs like are u trynna get with MY DAD??

NOO omg I am so so sorry to say I couldn't find the comic!!! I do remember it and it so truly was magical, but I scoured my blog and couldn't dig it up 😭 If I ever reblogged it, it was before I was writing IDs, which makes it much harder... 💔💔 good luck finding it!!!!

[chippolyta]

Belarus is disappointed but not surprised.

[nebulations]

[ID: A Witch Hat Atelier comic, labeled as having manga spoilers up to chapter 89. Beldaruit watches over young Qifrey and Olruggio as they practice spells and says with a smile, "I'm so glad You boys found each other. Sometimes I wonder where Qifrey would be without you." The boys look up. Olruggio says "Dead" with a haunted expression, and Qifrey grins wryly as he agrees, "Dead." End ID]