rhythm on the in-between

this is a blog dedicated to my most random thoughts at night. it will mostly contain shitposting - any other posts will be made to my main blog, wired-writer.

[rhythm-on-the-in-between]

voltron did the lion swap to stop us from using color symbolism. fools. i overcome all hardship with the pen in my hand, this is nothing that will stop me in this lifetime.

[keithal]

julance! (1/31): black paladin lance

The Black Lion is trying to tell them something.

Shiro (the real Shiro, flesh and blood and bleeding eyes), puts his hand against Black’s maw. He closes his eyes, mouth twisting, then pulls his hand away as if burned.

“What is it, Shiro?” Allura asks, even though they all have a faint idea. It looms over them like a storm, shifts the air until it feels hot and crackling. No one wants to say it, not after everything.

Krolia watches all of this from the end of the opposite side of the hangar. The paladins exchange nervous glances. Most of them look to Lance, who already has his eyes on Keith. Keith doesn’t take his gaze off of Shiro. She can see the subtle signs of panic rising in him; his shoulders close in, as if he’s about to be sick.

“Something’s changed. I—” Shiro falters. He turns to them. “Black won’t talk to me.”

.

.

They try everything.

Shiro keeps his hand on Black, eyes closed, while the rest of the paladins shout out ideas for him to say. Pidge scans the Castle for even the tiniest hint of something that could be affecting Black, along with Allura and Coran. They even pressure Keith to give it a shot. He reluctantly gives in and puts his own hand to Black’s mouth.

Nothing changes.

Eventually, Black activates the particle barrier and locks all of them out, which answers the question of whether or not she’s malfunctioned. Krolia, at this point, has pushed off the wall and taken her spot to Keith’s left.

“There has to be an explanation,” Hunk says.

“There is,” says Shiro. He doesn’t bother to reach out again, merely stuffs his hands in his pockets. “I’m not the Black Paladin anymore.”

It hits them like a wave, hard and fast and overpowering. Shiro without the title of Black Paladin is a strange, impossible idea to them. It would be like being told a planet doesn’t spin.

Their eyes train to one spot in synchrony. Keith flushes.

“It’s not me,” he insists. It’s about the hundredth time he’s had to say it. “I already tried. I don’t feel anything.”

“This is ridiculous,” Lance says. “How can we not have a Black Paladin when we had two yesterday?”

“When we come up with something, we’ll let you know.”

“Lance is right,” says Allura. “We cannot go without a paladin for the Black Lion, especially now.”

“Exactly. Maybe this is just a huge misunderstanding,” Lance says, turning towards the particle barrier. He leans in. “Maybe all you had to do, this whole time, was knock.”

Lance raps his knuckles against it one, two, three times, in quick succession. He obviously hadn’t expected anything to happen, too busy trying to slow his thoughts down to consider that anything might.

Then the particle barrier lifts.

[rhythm-on-the-in-between]

hc that any lion will open up if you knock

[bassiter]

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Oh Ms Believer by Twenty One Pilots except you’re listening to it from your headphones while walking home through the snow at night. This “shortcut” through the woods was probably a bad idea now that you’re in it, but the song eases any real worries you might have.

requested by @raindownandestroyme

[rhythm-on-the-in-between]

best lines i’ve seen in fanfic part 1

[trashcapableofsentience]

i see that you're a person of gomens as well.

[rhythm-on-the-in-between]

absolutely

[bigbrokovu-deactivated20190612]

Don’t scroll past this.

Reblog to let your followers know that they should never start cutting.

I know this website makes it seem like that shit is normal but trust me, it’s not. And once you start, you’ll never really start and it will haunt you for life.

It never gets easier, it never stops hurting, it isn’t (and will never be) “cool” or “the only way out”

Please don’t start. If you already are cutting, tell sometime and get help, it’s not as scary as it seems and you will be better off by it.

If even one person reads this… Please. You matter.

Don’t start.

[size-thinn]

THEY NEVER GO AWAY. YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE THEM. Getting a job is 100% harder because my arms are scarred. Every time something goes wrong in my life I suddenly decide I need to cut and destroy my body further.

don’t fucking do it guys, please

[eatingdisorderssuck01]

Please guys! Self harm takes over and is so so hard to stop doing after you start.

[sad-girl-dying]

Please don’t ever do this if you want to vent I’m always available to talk please my darlings take care

[your-local-moron]

Please. Just please. It never leaves you. You can be clean for years and it will come back. Always. Even if you decide to bite or pinch your body, bite the inside of your cheek on purpose until it bleeds or punch yourself until bruises form; it’s still self harm. It is not only the cutting. I don’t cut myself anymore but all of those other things are still with me. And the cutting might come back. Because it never just lets you go.

[topazastral]

Please don’t do it guys.

[sunshineluve]

You are amazing and there are people that care about you please take care of yourself you deserve to feel like the queen/king/valiant ruler you are please don’t let your journey end before you get to the good part where you’re crowned.

[gnatsattack]

I know discourse is the word of choice in fandom nowadays but I kind of wish we would have stuck with “fandom wank” because it carries the implication that the anger involved culminated into effectively nothing and that the act was wholeheartedly masturbatory in nature rather than for any greater cause.

[berlynn-wohl]

I saw this post about an hour after I saw a post that said, essentially, “There should be a word for that thing where [exactly describes ‘squeeing’].”

I feel like the time has come to produce something like this:

[transformativeworks]

citrus 

[naknaknakadile]

@vergess

[vergess]

Squee: The noise you make when something is so good that all you can really do is squeak or squeal. A high pitched sound of delight, often accomanied by hugging yourself or others.

Squick: A fic/art/concept/topic that is repellent to you, so you reject association with it and instead retreat to your personal comfortable spaces- all the while remembering that someone else’s comfort is not your own.

YKINMKATO: Also called “kink tomato.” Abbreviation meaning “your kink is not my kink, and that’s okay.” Used to explain why you are rejecting art or fic brought to you by someone else. A solid mantra to recall instead of sending flames in people’s comments

Flames: The comment equivalent of anon hate.

AMV: “animated music video” or “anime music video.” Often, this is stylized to fit a specific fandom, such as a “PMV” (pony music video) in my little pony. May also be referred to as a lyricstuck.

Filk: Combination of the words “film” and “folk,” this is a music genre, to which “fan songs” and “fan parody covers” belong. If you don’t really understand what this means, take a quick listen to American Pie, then compare Weird Al Yankovic’s Saga Begins

BNF: Big name fan. You know that one person who is just so fuckign popular in your fandom? Their art is always on your dash, everyone knows their fics? Being spoken to directly by them is basically being noticed by everyone ever’s senpai? That’s what these people are called.

DL:DR; Not unliked the teal deer (tl;dr, or “too long, didn’t read”), DLDR means “don’t like? Don’t read!” It’s a reminder that you are under no obligation, ever, to expose yourself to uncomfortable (or, squicky), or potentially harmful (or, triggering), material. Not ever. If you don’t actively like something? It’s not worth your time. Skip it.

Gen: or “genfic” “genart” etc. Fan works which contain no or very little romantic content. Often these are styled after the canon material, and may be called “episodic” ro “slice of life” in addition. 

Lemon: Work containing strong pornographic elements

Lime, or Citrus: Work containing mild or implicit pornographic elements

Sockpuppeting: The surprisingly common scenario of someone making a bunch of fake accounts/sideblogs to send themselves reviews or hate, to try to increase views or drama surrounding a work. The accounts they make are called Sockpuppets. 

WAFF: Warm and fluffy feelings. A genre of fic that exists just to be therapeutically sweet. Nowadays, usually just called “fluffy.”

Schmoop: Take WAFF and somehow make it even more syrupy. You’ll know it when you see it.

Whump: Imagine if you will, a hurt-comfort fic. The comfort might be considered WAFF. The hurt? That’s the whump.

Wapanese: When white autors pepper their anime fanfic with random, tonally inappropriate japanese words. 

Anthropomorfic: Nowadays we just call these “humanstuck” or “humanized AU.”

Wank: Wildly disproportionate drama that crops up because someone wrote/drew/did something that someone else didn’t like. Seriously, I cannot begin to express the fiascos that have come about from all this. Just… Just go look at this.

 Plot bunny: Story ideas that you probably won’t ever actually deal with, but that multiply entirely out of control, creating huge worlds in your head that you’re probably not going to write. But hey! You might! And until then they make great sideblogs/askblogs/tumblr posts.

Casefic: Fanfics that try to create an episode-like feel for procedural and crime dramas, moster of the week shows, etc.

Jossed: When popular fan theories and fanon are addressed in the canon of a series, and whoops, turns out we were all very, very wrong.

Kripked: When popular fan theories and fanon are addressed in the canon of a show and, hot damn, we fucking called it.

Secret Masters: The people who run the websites/ communities/etc that we all do our fanning on. Less relevant now that we have things like tumblr, but when everyone had to run their own archival and social sites for each fandom, it was more important to pay our respects to the strange and powerful beings that brought us all together and gave us our fannish homes. Think the staff of AO3, for example.

Bashing: When a writer purposefully writes a specific character as a horrible, horrible person so that they can throw them out of the storyline, usually to allow their OTP to get together without trouble. Distinct from fridging in that it doesn’t require the character to die, but rather to be such a screaming harpy that they get rightfully removed from the main characters’ lives for being an abusive hell beast. Generally, a type of character hate. Be wary of people who bash women, queer people, and POC with consistency: they are not safe to be around.

[ryttu3k]

‘Squick’ also has an alternate horrible meaning for Harry Potter fans who were in fandom a while back. Dear god.

[callmearcturus]

Drabble: A fic that is EXACTLY 100 words. Often used as a creative exercise in telling a story in a very small constraint.

Ficlet: Fic that clocks in somewhere between 100 to 2.5K words.

Crossover: A piece of media in which two or more source materials are treated as the same universe. Characters from Fandom A can meet characters from Fandom B. (The Doctor Goes To Hogwarts And Meet Harry Potter!)

Fusion: A fusion takes the characters of one source material and *surplants* them into another universe entirely. Characters from Fandom A cannot meet characters from Fandom B. (Dave Strider is part of an Inception team!)

TPTB: The Powers That Be. Almost always redundantly referred to as “the TPTB.” A collective term for showrunners, actors, producers, writers, et al, anyone who is part of the team that creates the source material.

YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary. A shorthand way of saying “this is how I see it/have experienced it though I realize others might have a different perspective.”

Tinhatting: Often used in RPF fandoms, the situation where some fans are convinced two celebrities are in a relationship but its being kept a secret.

[randomslasher]

I’m…I’m home

[catchymemes]

Before they were famous

https://imgur.com/gallery/BkIoW0L

[rhythm-on-the-in-between]

[jonbutter]

Shrek 2 (2004) dir. Adam Duritz

[pureslime-deactivated20191020]

this is exactly what intrusive thoughts are like

[terrapincentury-deactivated2018]

this song sounds fucking awesome

[royoftheyear]

Comedian and vlogger Elijah Daniel became mayor of Hell, Michigan, proceeded to ban all heterosexuals, and then was impeached. This singlehandedly saved 2017

[chloe-cristata]

Mayor Of Hell, Inspired By Trump, Declares Heterosexuality Illegal

Elijah Daniel was impeached shortly after the anti-straight people decree.

AHAGSHKSGSKSLK THIS IS THE SINGLE BEST THING I HAVE EVER READ ABOUT?????????

[jaimebeazley-blog]

This is really funny oml

[discount-frank-iero-deactivated]

The thrilling conclusion

[thatoneguythatonetime]

So I thought this was old but it turns out Hell became Gay Hell yesterday, on the 17th of June 2019.

[sherlockeddetective-deactivated]

Molly: Let's interchange the initials of our first and last name!

Molly: Holly Mooper

Greg: Lreg Gestrade

Sherlock: Hherlock Solmes. What the-

John: Wohn Jatson

Mary: I hate this game.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req’d by @nonbinartist

today on cursed lyric mishearings….

[ckscorner]

[danejuanreturns]

i'm just a guy fieri looking for his girl fieri

[rhythm-on-the-in-between]

all i am

is a man

i want girl fieri

in my hands

i love to eat

but i stand

in weird ass shitposts

with my toes in the sand

[demigodgooglesearches]

what do you think of sharks? they're very smooth to the touch I've heard

oh yes sharks are very smooth I've touched one before

[rhythm-on-the-in-between]

actually they have teeth on their skin, so no, they are not smooth at all. they feel like sandpaper.

[demigodgooglesearches]

no they're smooth

[rhythm-on-the-in-between]

skin teeth would like to disagree with you very much

[demigodgooglesearches]

what do you think of sharks? they're very smooth to the touch I've heard

oh yes sharks are very smooth I've touched one before

[rhythm-on-the-in-between]

actually they have teeth on their skin, so no, they are not smooth at all. they feel like sandpaper.

[demigodgooglesearches]

no they're smooth

[rhythm-on-the-in-between]

skin teeth would like to disagree with you very much

[demigodgooglesearches]

what do you think of sharks? they're very smooth to the touch I've heard

oh yes sharks are very smooth I've touched one before

[rhythm-on-the-in-between]

actually they have teeth on their skin, so no, they are not smooth at all. they feel like sandpaper.

[rhythm-on-the-in-between]

do you ever feel like you missed a lot in someone else’s conversation

like today

running to choir

and i hear this one kid yelling

i’m a mistake! i know it!

...

in what context does this make sense other than me walking into a YA novel for five seconds

[unpretty]

ways i have tricked people into thinking i am competent:

bought a really nice looking fountain pen

that sounds like a joke but fountain pens are cheap as shit and when you use one people look at you like you’re a fucking wizard

this hero 901 cost me $3 on ebay and i don’t know why people assume that this is a pen for intelligent people but they do

it works better when i am using a nice notebook and not the avengers notebook that makes it look like the hulk is grabbing my sweet pen

i write in code which for some reason leads everyone to assume that i am some kind of da vinci motherfucker, instead of the reality, which is that i am writing about dicks and don’t want anyone to know

it looks like i am constantly taking notes on everything which is both intimidating and inaccurate, just the way i like it

i bought a usb clicker/laser pointer for $11 and now it seems like i’ve got this shit on lock, like i am so pro at giving presentations i even own accessories

holding a clicker makes you seem at least 10% more like you know what you’re talking about i’m pretty sure

i check the weekly freebies on creativemarket every monday so now i have a huge folder of pro-looking website themes and powerpoint templates and fill-in-the-blank resumes (also a lot of autumnal clipart and watercolor flowers and script fonts but that is less relevant)

i bought a ceramic coffee mug at world market years ago and it makes me look like a productive coffee-drinker because no one knows it’s full of hot cocoa

i don’t know why drinking coffee makes you look busy it just does even though i’m pretty sure it statistically reduces productivity

bonus: not only does no one know i’m just drinking Depression Chocolate but they think i am being Environmentally Conscious rather than Poor As Shit

extra bonus: i can take a sip whenever it looks like someone is going to ask a question and then they ask someone else

i almost never have to answer questions and i leave the room a lot because i have to pee constantly so double extra bonus

“That’s a very good question, and one that deserves an in-depth answer, so if you’d like to leave me your card I’d be happy to discuss it with you later one-on-one” aka “how DARE you suggest i waste everyone’s time answering this question right now” aka “lmfao i have no fucking clue what you just said please let me secretly google that okay”

bonus: now it seems like you are a sophisticated grownup who assumes everyone has A Card and if they have to settle for writing their email on a scrap of paper you can feel smug about it even though in your heart you know that you are no better

i’ve got anxiety and poor impulse control and anxiety about my poor impulse control so i generally say jack shit about shit and this constant silence is often misinterpreted as aloof observation

no one knows that my air of mystery is actually a bad case of the shy and i am too shy to correct them so it works out

when i’m on my laptop and i don’t want anyone to notice how much i’m dicking around i turn the brightness way down so they can’t snoop without being obvious

at least one window of notepad++ with some random html page or css stylesheet in it makes randos assume you are some kind of genius doing some genius shit, unless they are CS major randos, in which case i guess find an intimidating looking excel spreadsheet and hope for the best

[candiikismet]

Wow

[drharleyquinn-medicinewoman]

This is AMAZING thank you for your life tips and guidance, friend