A Dark Planet, Lit By No Sun

[anemonemm]

PLEASE THIS WAS SO FUNNY

[kitkatpancakestack]

WE HAVE GOT TO START LOVING THE PROCESS MORE THAN THE PRODUCT AGAIN

[memewhore]

[fleetwood-mac-andcheese]

Historically, when performing long, repetitive tasks like churning butter or weaving cloth, people would sit together and tell stories. Folk stories, fairytales, and even stories about mysterious ape-like figures living in the forests. So, yes, pioneer women did listen to podcasts about bigfoot while churning butter

[queerstark]

Side Note To Fan Fic Authors

Here’s the thing.

I read a lot of scripts.  A lot.  From professionals to aspiring writers to complete newbies.  Features and pilots.  Specs and treatments.

And 8 times out of 10 the fan fic that I’ve read over the last, oh, 15 years is leagues better than this stuff.  It’s more inspired.  It’s more compelling.  It’s genre bending and creative and heartfelt.  It’s well-paced and intense and funny and sexy and meaningful.  It’s smart and thoughtful and good.  It’s novel-quality.  Better than, sometimes.

Rare is the script I don’t want to put down, but how often have we stayed up until 3am to get to the last chapter of a 100k fic? And it’s not even a fan fic author’s day job.  This is what they do on the side.  In their spare time.  For free.

So my point is, fan fic authors, you’re good.  You’re good writers and great storytellers.  I know it doesn’t always feel like it, especially if you’re one of the authors who’s not a BNF and doesn’t get the notes/hits that a few do.  And  because some people still view fic as “not real writing.” You guys know the shit that gets made into movies.  You’re better than that.  So be better than that.  If writing is what you think want to do, then just know you’re already doing it.   You’ve already started.

And you’re more talented than you might think.

[rikusonmylove]

#136 SxF Twiyor, Yurikuro.

Endo has been giving us so much Twiyor this past chapter that his short hiatus is well earned.

OK, we ALL knew that this was going to happen!

But to see Loid NEVER, EVER getting even mildly suspicious about it not working on her? Like, of course, nothing is wrong with his beautiful, super strong, sweet wife. It's Franky's device, the one that's not working.

Chloe got pretty much integrated into the Forger family now, even better than Yuri. I need her to meet Anya. And Anya to call her "Auntie" (please, Endo).

C'mon, they're a couple already!

I feel like a teenager in love every time I see the two of them getting all lovey-dovey. Even if they don't realize it yet.

I need this idiot to explain the little blush and the barely there spark. Are you in love, Twilight?

His feeling guilty whenever he tries something on Yor and it doesn't seems to be Twilight or Loid, he's a mysterious third person fighting the other two in this last panels.

aaaaand he's out.

see you at the hospital!

[cosmicdraghon]

[cantareincminor]

I like how Twilight's growth isn't linear. It feels painfully slow a lot of the time, but that's close to real life. It's so difficult for people to change, let alone a battle-hardened spy who has to remain hypervigilant or else face death by torture (while believing world peace will collapse).

All the way back in chapter 14, Twilight acted quite callously toward Yor by bugging her clothes and then cornering her as an SSS officer in disguise.

She took him completely off guard with her defensive reaction, willing to fight the SSS on Loid Forger's behalf.

This led Twilight to waver in his conviction and feel bad about what he did, as Franky observed:

More than 100 chapters later he realizes in a panic that his actions have come back to bite him. Yor might recognize Lieutenant Curtis and who knows what she might say in front of a house full of SSS agents, or what she might say to her brother or someone else in private later. Any doubt on her part could eventually lead to suspicions against Loid Forger.

So he doubles down on the "do whatever it takes" mindset. Doesn't matter if he has any affection for Yor at this point, he'll tranquilize her if it means escaping this nightmare he's created for himself. His brain is so overtaxed he can't think of any other escape plan.

And he actually goes through with it (though unexpectedly for him, Yor is immune).

Luckily for him, he's able to get out of the party with no one suspecting anything, and when he subconsciously recognizes he's safe, he almost collapses. Again leaning on Yor (literally) as someone he can let his guard down around.

Now we see the look of guilt once again. And not just guilt, but yearning (the sparkle) and the deep sense that he doesn't deserve Yor's help and care. If she knew how he'd mistreated her -- bugging her clothes, threatening her as an SSS agent, and injecting her with a tranquilizer -- surely she wouldn't look at him with such compassion. When he says "I'm sorry," he means it.

I wonder if just like in chapter 14, Twilight will have a conversation with Franky about what happened. It'll start off as a rant about how Franky's watch didn't work and he's cutting off his R&D funds, but when Franky makes him explain what exactly happened, maybe Franky will be like "Wait a minute, you used it on your wife? That's cold, man!"

"She's not my real wife, it's only for the--"

"Are you serious, that woman has done more for the mission than anyone other than Anya! And me, you better not forget--"

To which Twilight will probably snap back in anger because he doesn't know what to do with all his guilt. In order to cover for the shady things he previously did to Yor, he just did something even shadier, and he'll wonder if it'll just continue in this vicious cycle. It's worse now because he actually feels something deeper for her. He's simultaneously willing to stand in front of a loaded gun for her, and to knock her out cold in order to survive.

I really hope we see someone like Franky or even Handler or the old WISE agent call Twilight out in the middle of the turmoil he's going through. Don't just let this moment of character growth (or regression) slip by and go unspoken.

[discoursedrome]

The opposite of “the elephant in the room” is “the centipede in the room”: something that’s not actually an issue but everyone is freaking out about

[raccoonmilf]

Fun fact: due to the ongoing financial support from the people of tumblr, critically endangered pygmy raccoons being rehabbed in Cozumel are now able to get vaccines for deadly diseases like distemper and rabies before they are released.

[kabber]

[teaboot]

Can I be honest with yall I don't want to hear SHIT against cishets at pride this year

[teaboot]

"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade

[teaboot]

At this point if anyone is trying to exclude anyone benignly pro-queer from a pro-queer space I'm just going to assume you're a fed or something idk like something something destabilize the movement from within or whatever

[briefhottubcoffee]

MORE SPY x FAMILY MANGA SPOILERS!!

I don’t get the Loid hate lately. For always thinking about the mission and prioritizing the mission. Thus he’s a heartless jerk?

For starters, he’s fucking Twilight. He’s been this way for over 10 years and he’s been on his own for over 20. This way of thinking is drilled into his very being and it’s going to take a lot of re-wiring to undo the way his brain works.

We can’t forget, to Twilight, a threat to his mission is a threat to the whole world. Twilight compromised = war. An imperfect Twilight means the people he now cares about will be in danger.

And we’re not always in his head. We don’t know his thoughts when he’s alone, when he can’t sleep, where the threads of his thoughts go. But anyway, he doesn’t just think about the mission. That’s so clearly a red-herring imo.

But beyond that…

You guys, this is INSANE.

Yuri is right. His actions convey how he really feels, who/what he’s really thinking about, and who/what he’s actually prioritizing. His actions, his instincts, are not a lie. They CANNOT lie. It’s so obvious, even Yuri can see it. It’s so obvious, it’s painful. It’s so obvious, it’s making him physically ill.

And here he is, apparently questioning Yor again. But he’s not, he’s questioning himself. His actions, his feelings. He’s the one who is different. He’s the one who jeopardized the mission by stepping in front of Yor when someone pointed a gun at her. He was so panicked Yor was going to learn the truth, he fucking tranqed her at a pizza party surrounded by the SSS. His actions aren’t lining up with how he should be acting. And Yor is the cause. Not for who she is or what she’s done, but how she makes him feel and what she makes him do. She’s still throwing him off balance, thus threatening not only the mission, but every thing he once thought he knew about himself. How he thinks, what he does, and what his priorities are.

Anya has just as much of a wildcard personality as Yor does. But he never questions if Anya is helping or hurting the mission the way he does with Yor. Because it’s not just about Yor. It’s about him. It’s about what he feels for Yor. To him, his feelings for Anya are probably just as scary, but at least they’re understandable. Yor does stuff like this and it sends him reeling. And then he starts those ponderings about the mission again.

If he were “perfect”, the mission would actually be the only thing on his mind. He wouldn’t be doing stupid shit like risking his life for his wife or drugging her just to leave a party. But he isn’t “perfect,” he’s so far off the deep end at this point he looks like this right now.

[pipermintz-deactivated20260402]

I feel like if humans swallowed rocks like birds do to help grind up food we'd have so much fun with it.

Can just imagine all the girlies on tiktok going "I know this is a bit controversial but I honestly love using limestone as a gastrolith. Not only can you readily forage it but they are just so pretty when smoothed out after regurgitating them"

and then all the comments would be like " girl 😭 😭 calcite dissolves in stomach acid!! Just use quartz if you want a pretty gastrolith like 💀"

[eternalfarnham]

I like this site. Y’all just shotgunning counterfactual timelines

[depsidase]

[pirateprincessjess]

I was told that I’d get used to not having a headphone jack. I still want a fucking headphone jack. I hate that phones don’t have them. It’s stupid and awful and I hate it

[yumeka-sxf]

The Twiyor goodness continues 🥲

First thought that came into my head after finishing this chapter was that the latter part had some parallels to the end of the mole hunt arc; in both cases, Loid not only comes home exhausted from a mission, but his interactions with Yor - that is, him being forced to acknowledge his feelings about her, ends up pushing him to his limits.

In the mole hunt arc, he realizes that he refused to shoot Yuri because it would make Yor sad. While he doesn't explicitly say this, it's obvious that he considers his actions of not shooting Yuri when it was important for his mission, a weakness.

In this chapter, he realizes his confusion about how he truly feels about Yor. Again, he doesn't explicitly say it because, well, that's just how he is, but it's clear he's conflicted about her role in his mission, and ultimately, his own feelings.

Then of course, we have Yor telling Loid that she's happiest when she's able to help him. In the mole hunt arc, she expressed this by doing the chores and such the next day so he could rest, while in this chapter, she helped support him while they walked back home.

It's interesting how Loid seems a bit less open to acknowledging his feelings in this chapter than in the mole hunt arc. While in the latter, he at least admitted to himself that he has a weakness, but in this chapter, as soon as he starts debating about whether Yor is a help or a hindrance to his mission, he shifts the blame for everything onto himself, saying that he wasn't perfect enough, etc (exactly what Yor doesn't want him to be).

If we look back at everything that happened in this arc, namely, him putting himself in danger to protect Yor and also telling the SSS officer that he loves her (without any deception apparently), such uncomfortable feelings must have been a lot for his emotional constipation to deal with. So at this point, when he's on the verge of collapsing, it was easiest for him to default to everything going wrong because of his incompetence as a spy rather than to truly confront his feelings about Yor. But of course, that can of worms is fully open now, so I'm sure he'll have to reflect on it again one way or another...something for him to think about while in the hospital after this 😅

Speaking of which, we had two character deaths in this chapter. Tragic.

(Yuri lost his teeth again too, lol. He really should have a dentist look into that condition)

There were some good tidbits in the Japanese version of this chapter. Firstly was Chloe calling Yor "onee-san." While it's a term used for your older sister (Yuri calls Yor a more casual version, "nee-san") it can also be used to address a young woman, kind of like "miss." I'm glad that Chloe seems to like Yor after their first meeting!

The word that Yor uses when she tells Yuri she wants to "cuddle" with Loid is "icha icha," the same word that Anya always uses when the says "Papa and Mama are flirting" 😂 It means a variety of things in this context - "necking, flirting, cuddling, etc."

Yor dodging the darts without even having to think about it, she's just like 😑 And I knew it wouldn't feel like more than a mosquito bite to her!

I really thought Yuri was gonna get shot by Loid here. But in the end, it was Yor who took him down!

Speaking of Yuri, I like that he kept his development from the previous chapters and didn't revert back to hating Loid again.

I want to say that this is officially the end of the TV station/house party arc or whatever we want to call it, but I've been wrong about that for a few weeks, so who knows! I don't think we'll actually see Loid going to the hospital like Martha said, and him collapsing was just an unserious gag to end the arc with. But who knows? Maybe we'll get a short mission or something with Loid having another flashback in the hospital? Regardless, the next new chapter isn't until July 5th. Typically Endo doesn't take breaks between arcs unless something unexpected happens, so that makes it more likely we'll be starting a new arc next time.

Anyway, quite a lot happened in this arc that will affect the future of the series: Loid saying that he loves Yor (speaking the truth, if we're supposed to believe the SSS officer's assessment), Yor getting more comfortable being physically intimate with Loid, Yuri witnessing Loid's love for Yor firsthand, Chloe and other SSS people meeting Loid and Yor...it will certainly be interesting to see where all this goes!

[zinniasky]

The things you find in a coinstar

[cantareincminor]

Hidden MVP of the SSS party arc. Love her to bits. Everyone in Division 1 owes her a drink.