#on principle

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Look at him! He is romantic now

So glad they have a happy ending because otherwise I would have to riot

[valyrfia]

oscar confirmed for mclaren with a multi-year contract......free my boy

All the takes I've seen of this has either been dynamic-lovers going "YES LANDOSCAR!" (which, valid) or Oscar fans moaning about him being tied down to McLaren. HOWEVER, if I were Lando Norris and co. I'd be starting to get real worried around about now. After the management fiasco of last year, Mark Webber of multi21 would not have allowed a contract to pass under his eyes that could relegate Oscar to a second driver position in any way. Andrea Stella has said multiple times that Oscar is the future of McLaren....yeah Lando is in a lot more danger this year than people realise. Essentially he either wins the world championship, or McLaren speed up their vision of the "future".

[ae-neon]

maybe unpopular opinion ramble

on the 'clashing' that can and often does occur between sjm (and likely other's since the nachos keep selling) couples

coming at this from a standpoint of 1) not demanding moral perfection from the characters and 2) allowing things in the given context that absolutely would not fly irl

I don't count what happens between the characters before they begin their romantic or sexual arcs as part of their relationship

lemme explain

im reading through tog (yes still, it's for a friend) and one thing i mentioned to said friend was that of the three romantic interests so far (Dorian, Chaol and now Rowan) i disliked Rowan the least because he was the most character consistent

now look, obv in a competition for the healthiest relationship we'd eliminate Mr. Punched-Her-in-the-fucking-Face first

But Rowan is the only one who, so far, has been who sjm introduced him as.

One of my biggest issues with the others but Chaol especially was that the relationship required so much of Chaol to bend away from who he's supposed to be and only worked because we had at least a book to build up to that. But he's supposed to be the Captain of the Guard! The trial training and then the romance seemed to sap at the gravity of that, a lot

Rowan punching Celaena in the face wasn't done in his role as her future boyfriend. He (an angry, grief filled soldier) punched her (a stranger that Maeve intentionally withheld information on and who he viewed as a coward) because she flung a genocidal statement about his people at him. I won't go into future actions because I don't have the context yet (pray for me)

but this...understanding...I have doesnt apply to someone like Rhysand, for example, because 1) his actions don't really make sense for who he's supposed to be and 2) sjm has retroactively explained he always knew Feyre was his mate!!

Had she not, I could have viewed his actions utm - as dumb as they were - as solely part of his character, his grey morality, and outside of their romance, in the same way I do Tamlin bursting through Feyre's door: neutral within the context. But once Tamlin takes her, he knows he's supposed to court her to begin breaking the spell so everything from there onwards can be judged in the context of their romantic journey

(as a nessian despiser, okay, don't get it twisted, free my girl) I don't care that Cassian, when they first met, was riling Nesta up because of Nessian, I care because he has come, with his HLs, to ask for help that will likely save lives and him getting at Nesta instead of shutting his stupid mouth could jeopardize that

but as a character, I don't think Cassian is "wrong" for disliking Nesta. It's subjective and all he knows about her is what he's learnt from Feyre. He's allowed to think that she's cold snob

and sure, who tf is Cassian for judging a human woman for maybe being not the best older sibling based off one account when he has literally murdered bystanders, is definitely a little racist against Illyrians, presided over the army and held power for hundreds of years and done basically nothing to help other children, bastards and women

in fact, him being wrong and maybe learning more about Nesta and the situation, leading to reflection and change is the whole point of a dislike-to-like romance arc, right?

the problem is that sjm never does that. while simultaneously digging deeper and deeper into the dislike on both sides but only validating one. Cassian (in wings and embers) violates Nesta's space and triggers her memories of Tomas Mandray, in the aftermath of the war he fails to reign in his own emotions and actions to centre her ptsd and healing. SF IS SACRILIGEOUS AND I WILL NOT PARTAKE but i hear its just more shit.

it's everything after that makes him a stupid bastard deserving of death by (spins wheel) rat chewing through his abdomen

so, yea there's is obviously critical analysis to be made in regards to romantic health and dynamics including emotional and physical abuse

but just reading with my 'brain off' as the girlies say, I don't count what happens between the couples before any sexual or romantic tension as part of their romances

[do-you-ship-it-polls]

Do you ship it?

Monitoring Miku/Cinderella Miku (Vocaloid)

I ship it!

Neutral

I don't ship it

I don't know the characters

Voting ended onSep 28, 2025

continuing to subject all of you to song-specific vocaloid ships

Songs under the cut. Monitoring has some flashing lights & other visual effects.

[mcyt-confession-room]

It’s gotten to a point with fanfic reading that I’ll exclude the hermitcraft tag when reading life series fics and vise versa. No, your ranchers fic set in a mafia au should not be tagged with hermitcraft, I don’t care that Tango is a hermit, they’re both life series players first.

My main problem drives from people tagging it as a hermitcraft fic when they only focus on life series players. Unless it’s a mafia au that sets on a specific season of hermitcraft then sure tag it a a hermitcraft fic. But in the majority of cases, keep it to the life series.

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[alastors-totally-canon-deertail]

Incoming Vent Session:

I Caught myself rocketing down a very familiar negative spiral.

Since Hazbin came out I’ve been pretty meticulous about curating my online space and dodging the drama like an expert but then I unfortunately came across some negative content about Alastor and I went into spiral, interacting with more negative content about him for days and getting angrier and angrier.

And that anger morphed into worry about the upcoming season and what happens to him, how he’ll be handled and I just kept working myself up, more and more until I found myself no longer excited for the new seasons. In fact I started dreading them.

And that sucked because I was having so much fun in the fandom, interacting with content and enjoying the hype of waiting for the new season.

Call me overtly sensitive but as I’ve said, Alastor is a major comfort character for me. I’ve honestly never felt so strongly about a character and I’ve had TONS of comfort characters.

Thankfully, I noticed the spiral and am working to pull myself out.

Mostly because this has happened to me with other fandoms in the past.

So, I’ve been on a major blocking spree, and have gone bask to interacting with the kind of content that brought me joy.

It’s hard not to fixate on the negativity swirling like a cloud around the fandom, especially the deeper I get into it, but I ‘m not about to starting distancing myself from something I love because of it.

I’ve had to do it before and I refuse to do it anymore.

So I’m just gonna get back to my regularly scheduled Alastor stanning, and theory crafting, and go back to weaving on negativity like I’ve been doing.

[titleknown]

titleknown: Yes They're Trans, Yes They're Lesbians, Keep Scrolling

So, I have a Trans Day of Visibility post, just in the nick of time too! It's a thing I made ages ago and forgot to show, a couple of T-

So, I wanted to post these transbian creature designs I did in DAZ for Trans Day of Visibility, but sadly Tumblr wouldn't let me so I felt I may as well link to my Pillowfort post on them.

I blame M*tt. F*ck you M*tt and your c*nsorship, I h*pe y*u sh*t y*urself to d*th...