#drowsilybearzerk

[two-bees-poetry]

hi there! i was wondering if i'd be allowed to use your "are you hungry? (medea, alone)" poem and subsequent black out poetry for kind of an art project? it's a personal project and not for commercial use or anything.

Totally! I'd love to see it whenever you're finished :)

[samsketchbook]

what will you do when flapchild dies, or when his parts stop working? will there be a funeral?

i will throw him into rush hour traffic as per his wishes

[xehanortsreport]

[halloween intesifies]

A spooky (?) witch Namine and her zombie boyfriend Repliku done for @drowsilybearzerk for @appleexchange! I was very much drawn to the monster boyfriend prompt haha. Hope you like it, and Happy Halloween!

[isolaradiale]

hi there! i'd like to reserve the second Dark Falz [Apprentice] from Phantasy Star Online 2, please. this is my main account!

Reserved for you!

– ⋆ canopus.

[deeum]

I'm SO glad yr getting into PSO2 omg

I LOVE IT I used to play on the JP servers back in the day, but stopped around Episode 4 dropping due to personal stuff. (plus I forgot my password, OPE) :

[souridealist]

i super duper loved your promare fics! that being said, i was only marginally interested in the untamed until you mentioned watching it, so now i'm super interested. what's your favorite aspect of the story?

oh man okay let me put the kettle on, this is a two mugs of tea kind of ask

first of all, thank you! I’m so glad you liked the promare fics (and I have two more long things for that fandom that will go up Eventually, so if you like longfic, there’s that). that movie unblocked something creatively that had been stuck for like a year and I’m very grateful to it

that said the untamed is fucking nothing like promare. I love them both but oh goddamn they do not belong in the “Because You Liked This” box for each other and it would be an act of criminal negligence not to say so. just. just be ready for that. 

so. what is my favorite aspect of The Untamed? well, in a way, the answer is the whole thing, because... there’s some big thematic stuff going on here and I’m into it.

It’s about learning to live with your mistakes. It’s about wei wuxian, who, with the best of intentions in the world, fucked up about as badly as it is possible for a person to do, and then, sixteen years later, came back to life and had to figure out how to live with the consequences after all. it’s about the people who spent those sixteen years with wei-wuxian-shaped aching empty gaps in their lives, and what they do when he comes back.

it’s about how sometimes there are no right answers, the best you can do is try to find the least-wrong one, and that means everyone’s going to have to learn to live with their ghosts.

it’s about love in all its forms, and the painful truth that love alone is not always enough, even when everyone involved really does love each other so much. But not in a way where it ever acts like love doesn’t matter? It’s about how love needs to be acted upon, and, more than that, in what way you act on it, and whether that saves you or destroys you.

it’s about how it’s a very, very bad idea to jump in front of swords for people who bleed when you’re cut, no matter how little you want to see them hurt.

it’s about family, and how badly your parents can fuck you up. How lastingly. How poisonous that legacy can be.

It’s about trying to do better by the next generation. It’s about trying to raise them and give them a world where they don’t fuck up quite as badly as you, where the consequences aren’t so brutal, where it’s a little bit easier for them to love. 

it’s about how kindness always counts for something. 

it is, in fact, about living with your ghosts. it’s about accepting that you did the best you could, and letting the regret go. about how maybe that’s the closest to ‘no regrets’ you can get. 

it’s about a lot of things.

when we watched the last episode, my wife and I just lay on each other and happy-cried until netflix started autoplaying trailers. 

(it also has. SO many warnings. death, violence, abusive families, offscreen sexual abuse (but never onscreen, so that’s nice) [EDIT: I lied, it’s onscreen once, it’s mostly people moving around behind translucent curtains but NOT ENTIRELY SO], more violence, more death, suicide, desecration of the dead, children in peril, children dying, torture, inventive violence, mind control, psychological manipulation, really majorly brutal on the abusive families, grief, a makeup department truly having way too much fun with the body horror at a couple of points...) 

[jinkisaragi]

I hope you know how blessed I feel when I see you running around block 1 :')

oh my, have i been found out 👀 someone on here recognizes me and my luther? 

i usually frequent block 69! but from now on you may usually find luther with matoi accompanying him. when she’s not asleep that is-

also you can find us doing luther EQ in the morning as well because we have very fucked up sleep schedules lmao

[tazmuir]

Is your book for sale? 👀

WHAT A GOOD QUESTION, SHAME I HAVE PREVIOUSLY FAILED TO ANSWER IT IN ANY CAPACITY

Here’s my book on Amazon. It arrives September the 10th, the same day as some sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale comes out by somebody called Margaret Atwood, so that’s fine

Get it on Kindle! Get it in hardback! Get it on audiobook, at some point! If you don’t like Amazon get it on Barnes & Noble! More links await ye on my Goodreads page! These guys thought of everything!