#whine time

[i-literally-cant-with-this]

All I want to do right now is curl up in Kafka's arms and cry as he kisses my head and tells me that my job WILL get easier. Because MY FUCKING GOD, DUDE. WHAT THE ACTUAL SHIT ASS DAMN HELL CRAP.

And I want him to go down in me for an hour and then fuck me until I'm not stressed anymore.

Lather, rinse, repeat minus the being stressed part.

[abuanita]

[boxoftheskyking]

It's very validating after years of "ugh why does this skin condition keep coming back, what am I doing wrong, how am I a filthy person no matter how clean I am" to have an NP be like "yeah I think it's this chronic condition, it's genetic or something, here's what you tell the dermatologist"

Like it's still gross and painful but at least it's not my fault!

[alternativewinxcontinuity]

Things I should have been doing for the past three months: Season three of Winx Alt Con

Things I have been doing over the last three months: Not that

Things I realised today:

Of the first 10,000+ words that make up the third season of Winx Alt Con (working title for AO3 when I get it up 'Fragment of Flame'), 9,000 words belong exclusively to week 21, the majority of which covers events from a less than 24 hour period. (in universe. four planets and four time zones, I make things easy on myself where I can but damn. week 22 starts of with things that 'technically this may have happened yesterday and thus last week but 9,000 words is already excessive for a tumblr post, and thank goodness I didn't write this out long hand and kept it to the stylised summary format'.)

So to make myself feel better: It's time for a whine!!

Season 7 did Brandon so dirty.

Specifically I would like to whine about that scene from 716 'Back to Paradise Bay.'

The episode starts off looking like your classic Beach Filler Episode, everyone's hanging out, having a good time, just relaxing like the fate of the Universe isn't once more in peril.

Meanwhile, Brandon has decided to take a walk in the jungle, just chillin', when suddenly he spots a small spread of really pretty flowers. Natural he's all 'I'mma pick some for my bae, because Stella loves pretty stuff, and she deserves nice things,' because Brandon is a good boyfriend.

Only, all of a sudden, an adorable deer appears and wrecks Brandon so hard. Seriously, the level of wrecked is just embarrassing.

But Brandon won't quit, he will get those flowers for Stella.

Which is where I went: what the fudge crackle and pop? (yeah, I swear weird) Hold the phone? Is Brandon Possessed?! What is HApPeNIng!?!?!

Because I just couldn't process the idea that Brandon, (genuinely/generally decent person, friend to both Fairy of (plant based) Nature and the Fairy of Animals, who was there for the season that was created because the folks in charge were inspired by an eco-disaster, and is not stupid) would ignore an animal doing its damnedest to stop him from picking some flowers with out so much as a 'why won't it let me past? Is it protecting the flowers? Or is it trying to protect me from the flowers?'

The fact that Brandon goes from 'this might be a nice thing to do for a person I love' to 'I will defeat this small animal' is bizarre, and goes against everything we know about him.

It was such a jarring shift of personality, that I couldn't believe he wasn't under the influence of something.

I get that it was relevant to the 'plot', but this was just so out of character for him, that it felt wrong in a way very few moments in the show actually do.

Because of the nature of the show, (a set demographic despite being a long running serial,) progress is often reset, and prior events are rarely mentioned (which is why season seven's flashbacks were so unusual, and why whenever Riven and Musa began growing as a couple they'd find themselves back at the start, and Riven could never really drop his asshole personality even though we all know he had the potential to take his head out of his arse,) because every season needs to be accessible to new comers, they need to feel like they can start at any season and not be missing out on huge chunks of lore or character arcs.

But this?! This felt like a completely different character, and not a member of team good guys either. This wasn't just awkward shoe-horning or mildly aggravating retconning or Diaspro's post season three flanderisation (or Stella's in recent seasons), this was a complete one-scene-only personality transplant, and I hated every frame of it.

There's no real break down of the scene here, I just wanted to mention how much this scene sucked. Seriously, the idea that these flowers maintained a magical balance of an island that until recently was cut off from magic is just...

and on a planet where people are known and have been shown to actively damage the environment?

On a list of one to ten of 'stupidest reasons to visit a place or do a thing' this one is looking at first-goshdarn-place.

Thank you for coming to my whining time.

[fizzmolliwater]

Me: *is angry because people have such good object show human designs while I’m super unhappy about more than half of mine and want to redesign them but also doesn’t want to rip off other people’s designs*

[kiara-shannon]

So I fell running almost 2 weeks ago and still am not able to run because I jacked up my knee ☹️ which more than likely means I can’t run my half marathon in 3 weeks or if I do, it’ll be obnoxiously slow and difficult and I’m just so bummed. I haven’t been injured in like a year and a half and it sucks a big fat one and I don’t know what to do.

[fizzmolliwater]

Thank you, yes, my comfort ship is deeeffffinitely problematic. Thank you so fucking much.

[fizzmolliwater]

“I mean, if it makes you feel better I—“ NO. It won’t make me feel better. It’ll make me feel worse because I’m empathetic.

“You shouldn’t be thinking about that—“ TOO BAD. I am. And there’s not much YOU can do about it.

“You’re so young to be tired—“ BITCH EVERYONE GETS TIRED. I’m tired of everything. Your bullshit, my bullshit, everyone’s bushit so don’t put fucking words in my mouth.