#< just in case. barely mentioned

[fifteenloove]

omg you're soooo corny what does it even mean that tennis saved your life😭😭 must be a pretty sad one

I was a depressed teenager with suicidal thoughs and starting to play tennis (something that I liked to watch since I was a child) gave me a happy reason to wake up at morning and get out of my house. It gave me something to improve and helped me disconnect. Maybe it's corny, but it's the truth for me, I'm sorry that bothers you, anon

[leopardom]

are you new to the joker out fandom and wondering what's up with that group of slovenian men? have you been around for a long time already? either way, this one is for you all

before saying 'goodbye' to 2024 let's say 'welcome' to the joker out iceberg ✨

edit: a huge thank you to everyone who helped me with sending me facts and shoutout to @fifi-goes-to-hollywood for helping me sort out some of this mess 🫶

[galacticlamps]

ok I have A Lot of thoughts about the staircase confession (well really about Edwin's whole character arc, but all roads lead to rome) but for now I just wanna say that, yes, I was bracing myself for something to go terribly wrong when I first watched it, and yes, part of me was initially worried its placement might be an uncharacteristically foolish choice made in the name of Drama or Pacing or Making a Compelling Episode of Television but at the expense of narrative sense--

But I wanna say that having taken all that into account, and watched it play out, and sat with it - and honestly become rather transfixed by it - I really think it's a beautifully crafted moment and truly the only way that arc could've arrived at such a satisfying conclusion.

And if I had to pinpoint why I not only buy it but also have come to really treasure it, I'd have to put it down to the fact that it genuinely is a confession, and nothing else.

That moment is an announcement of what Edwin has come to understand about himself, but because it takes the form of a character admitting romantic feelings for such a close friend, I think it can be very easy, when writing that kind of thing, to imbue it with other elements like a plea or a request or even the start of a new relationship that, intentionally or not, would change the shape of the moment and can quickly overshadow what a huge deal the telling is all on its own. But that's not the case here. Since it is only a confession, unaccompanied by anything else, and since we see afterward how it was enough, evidently, to fix the strangeness that had grown between him & Charles, we're forced to understand that it was never Edwin's feelings that were actually making things difficult for him - it was not being able to tell Charles about them. 'Terrified' as he's been of this, Edwin learns that his feelings don't need to either disappear completely or be totally reciprocated in order for him to be able to return to the peace, stability, and security of the relationship with which he defines his existence - and the scale of that relief a) tells us a hell of a lot about Edwin as a character and b) totally justifies the way his declaration just bursts out of him at what would otherwise be such a poorly chosen moment, in my opinion.

Whether or not they are or ever could be reciprocated, Edwin's feelings are definitively proven not to be the problem here - only his potential choice to bottle it up - his repression - is. And where that repression had once been mainly involuntary, a product of what he'd been through, now that he's got this new awareness of himself, if he still fails to admit what he's found either to himself or to the one person he's so unambiguously close with, then that repression will be by his own choice and actions.

And he won't do that. Among other things, he's coming into this scene having just (unknowingly) absolved the soul of his own school bully and accidental killer by pointing out a fact that is every bit as central to his self-discovery as anything about his sexuality or his attraction to Charles is: the idea that "If you punish yourself, everywhere becomes Hell"

So narratively speaking, of course it makes sense that Edwin literally cannot get out of Hell until he stops punishing himself - and right now, the thing that's torturing him is something he has control over. It's not who he is or what he feels, but what he chooses to do with those feelings that's hurting him, and he's even already made the conscious choice to tell Charles about them, he was just interrupted. But now that they're back together and he's literally in the middle of an attempt to escape Hell, there is absolutely no way he can so much as stop for breath without telling Charles the truth. Even the stopping for breath is so loaded - because they're ghosts, they don't need to breathe, but also they're in Hell, so the one thing they can feel is pain, however nonsensical. And Edwin certainly is in pain. But whether he knows what he's about to do or not when he says he 'just needs a tick,' a breather is absolutely not what's gonna give him enough relief to keep climbing - it's fixing that other hurt, though, that will.

Like everything else in that scene, there's a lot of layers to him promising Charles "You don't have to feel the same way, I just needed you to know" - but I don't think that means it isn't also true on a surface level. It's the act of telling Charles that matters so much more than whatever follows it, and while that might have gone unnoticed if anything else major had happened in the same conversation, now we're forced to acknowledge its staggering and singular importance for what it is. The moment is well-earned and properly built up to, but until we see it happen in all its wonderful simplicity, and we see the aftermath (or lack thereof, even), we couldn't properly anticipate how much of a weight off Edwin's shoulders merely getting to share the truth with Charles was going to be, why he couldn't wait for a better, safer opportunity before giving in to that desire, or how badly he needed to say it and nothing else - and I really, really love the weight that act of just being honest, seen, and known is given in their story/relationship.

[galaxicnerd]

djdaily post :33

[lokijiro]

I don’t ship Mycroft and Anthea, but I like to think that he is fond of her, although he is not really conscious of it. He never intended to let her get close to him, but the affection just happened. If she were kidnapped, he’d be somewhat surprised to discover that his little brother is not his only pressure point.

But Sherlock would not be surprised. He has seen Mycroft and Anthea interacting many times, and he can see that his brother has warm feelings for her. (Besides, he knows full well that Mycroft is not so heartless - or at least, the post-fall Sherlock does.)

[rainyraisin]

I think Gerald Robotnik is the perfect example of how sympathetic doesn't mean forgivable and I havent seen a single person talk about it

[icewindandboringhorror]

Some (late) holiday photos of the boye~!

[likethexan]

Why is Demeter so absent during the Gigantomachy? we get a lot of goddesses defeating giants (Athena, Artemis, the Moirai, Hekate, Hera) but nothing on Demeter?

[lowkey-loki245]

I like how so many people making fake screenshots and fanart ended up predicting what would happen in Season 5 and now said people are loosing their shit.

[polux-aka-hyakunana]

The tragedy of having my hands full of work until at least next week and suddenly remembering how much I love and miss Lies of P while living my Geats fever because I need stalker!Riders injected on my veins to keep living

[laugtherhyena]

Ngl it's so funny to me when i see people wondering why on earth i ship those two so much like, oh buddy your guess is as good as mine

[raifuujin]

It's been more than 20 years and for some reason I feel that Gosho hasn't given Kaiao any development, how can more than 20 years pass and Aoko dynamics, relationship and feelings remain the same? At this point I feel like Gosho is just going to make them date because "they already liked each other" they remain in the same status quo

Hey, if we go by DC romance progress, they've been going too fast. We've already had suspicion of identity chapters, and that didn't happen until more than 400 chapters in DC. /j

Since heists have taken over any character development recently, I don't even know if Kaito and Aoko will even get any romantic progress. Maybe the actual identity confrontation will happen down the line, since that's thief drama, but atm, it really wouldn't surprise me if they only ask each other on a real date at the very end of the manga.

Like. I'm sure Gosho would love to make MK a love drama as well, but he writes MK so rarely, and usually as hype for something Kid related in other media. So the MK stories tend to be heavy on drama that can only take place at Kid heists. (To the point that the new chapters just. Use Kid as the plot device to show off a new character. Even Hakuba's never gotten so much 'look at this character being a detective' treatment in MK.)

-sighs- I just feel bad for MK as a series at this point. I like the characters, I like the general story idea, but. It's been going down a very steep hill with Gosho wanting things exciting, but not wanting any real progress in. Anything. But unlike old MK, the new stories aren't even nice standalone setpieces of story, they're... mundane. They could be high stakes, if you purely look at the scenarios on paper, but. We all know nothing's gonna happen to Kid. Nothing even happens to him when the actual bad guys show up, much less one-time antagonists.

We need actual character focus and development, not heist drama. Badly. Not even romance, though that'd be a nice change. Just any character expansion of our limited cast of characters. Gosho wants big, all the time, meaningless big stuff, when small would be so nice.

[britneyshakespeare]

can you imagine being a little twee simon and garfunkel fan in the late 60s and then buying your new vinyl at the record store and hearing mrs. robinson for the first time in your own home. i would’ve fallen over backwards

[barblaz-arts]

Barb! First of all I love your art. Immensely. Whenever I see there’s a new piece out it makes my day.

I read that anon requesting more teen wenclair art and … I just wanted to tell you something about it.

Even if you stop drawing Wednesday related art and start drawing about your new hyper fixation those art pieces will still bring me joy and make my day. I might never understand what loonaverse is but I don’t have to with the life that’s apparent in all your pieces. Wether they be comic panels or a single scene without dialogues, the careful choices you make for all your characters their appearances/postures/expression/chibi selves it makes me feel as if I know these people. You always succeed in instantly endearing me to each and every character you draw and all their different versions.

Looking forward to your next instalment. Have a good day every day!

Gosh, you're too kind. Thank you so much for sticking with me. Even tho this fandom is getting smaller due to the hiatus, I'm glad I could have fun with the people still here. You guys are lovely.

[habibisagi]

being a hater rq okay sorry BUT KJDFGHK

i'm ngl it lowkey icks me out when someone you aren't even mutuals with/ knows you and what you relatively are ok with talking about interacts with a relatively normal post you make that isn't initially meant to be dc like that and then add like CRAZY dc in the tags lmfao ESP ONE COMPLETELY OFF IN CHARACTERIZATION AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT YOU POSTED ABOUT. like how did you get there bro 😭 and it's like icky because it's not even the dynamic u meant. like i get you're excited and stuff to talk and project and i'm glad my post is fueling your brain juices or whatever, and it's not like i am yucking your yum or anything BUT when it's on MY post... and you make it INSANE when it was not... girl go make that a separate post 😭 i do not want that in my notifs KDSJFDFG

[turnedpalefromlackofsun]

Every time you block someone

Imagine you're in a quickdraw duel and you shot the person first.

You won. You didn't block them. You blocked them first. Common [yourname] W.

Block more people that are annoying.