You Ever Get Into A Piece Of Media Then Find The Fandom And Just Stare In Horror?

i’m 100% not joking when i say that my gut reaction to this image is “this is a being of incredible power”. i know that totally sounds like a joke i would make but i’m legitimately scared and impressed by and in awe at this thing

This is a reminder for those who handmake Christmas presents that now is not too early to start. It may in fact be a good time to start if you have a lot to make/your craft takes a long time. You should maybe start it now, whether that's brainstorming or actually doing the crafts!

Character idea that I had at some point: A dance teacher who had to give up his own highly promising career as a performer after an injury, and now makes his living giving lessons to children. He comes off as stern, serious, and frighteningly strict, and even some of the parents have a hard time believing that the kids genuinely like him and enjoy the lessons. Which, to be fair, are frightening to watch with no context of what this is about.

The children go through their practices with downright eerie, automation-like, coordinated synchrony, with stern and focused looks on their faces, while the teacher circles them, observing and correcting, brandishing his cane like a weapon and every once in a while dramatically lamenting about how "you little vermin can't do anything right", and occasionally the music stops and the only sounds coming from the studio are of kids running and screaming while their teacher bellows about teaching them a lesson.

This, however, is all just method. He started the first lesson with the children by proposing a game: How about they play flea circus, where he is the cruel evil ringmaster and they are all his poor suffering little fleas. One of the girls starts crying, protesting that she doesn't want to be a flea. Well, how about mice? Mice are cute. The children accept these terms, and ever since they've spent dance lessons playing Evil Circus.

For reasons beyond adult comprehension, children of a certain age really love playing pretend in a setting where everything is Dark And Horrible And The Worst, and Evil Mouse Circus is exactly that. And whenever he picks up that the kids are starting to get too genuinely nervous or agitated, that's when he goes "that's it I'm going to beat all of you" which is their cue to take a break to run around screaming, while he chases them. He won't catch them and isn't even trying to, the kids just need to let the nervous energy out.

It looks horrible to an outside observer, but the kids are having an excellent time playing circus mice.

hello librarian! do you happen to know if you can use italics in AO3 summaries? because i can’t, for the life of me, figure out HOW

Oh sure thing friend! So it turns out there are two different ways to make your text italicized.

Rich Text

Create a new work.

In the body/fic text area, select “rich text”.

Highlight your text and click the I.

The second way...

HTML

Create a new work.

Scroll down to the body text and make sure HTML is selected.

Add <em> on either side of the text you want italicized.

Hope this mini tutorial helps you out!

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Tdlr because I can't be bothered to get into right now but in one piece la ace is already dead

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Daily Cephalopod #186

Who coined the term 'alpha male' (in the toxic masculinity sense) and were they aware of the omegaverse?

So I keep seeing things about dungeon meshi and whilst I know basically nothing about it (except food and lesbians and the short one's actually really tall for his species) I was wearing one of my dad's old shirts yesterday and. The cat should steal the dwarfs clothes.