#a curse of knowledge

[bluenoisen]

gwennyyyyy things are getting weeeeiiiirrrrdddd watch ooouuuuttt!!

[croaker-explained]

[hkthatgffan]

ALEX! YOU CAN'T JUST DROP MAJOR LOST GRAVITY FALLS MEDIA LORE ON ME LIKE THIS AND GET AWAY WITH IT?! 😭

Link to Alex's tweet...

He also asked fans to record their own version of the Stan lines here and also gave advice on how to do it, lmao

[aardvaark]

i think maggie would be the only person in the leverage universe who DOES notice the leverage team members occasionally becoming famous. like she’d tune into the world news and then have to call the team to check if sophie really died in a small european country during a turbulent election. "no but wasn’t my funeral so poignant? they put my face on the $20 note!" okay great glad to know you’re not dead. she watches a game of baseball on TV and just sighs deeply when the camera pans to eliot. next time she sees the team, she compliments his baseball skills. for some reason he mutters something about a sandwich while looking wistfully into the distance.

[disgracefulthings]

At Qian Cao Peak

Mu Qingfang: Shixiong has been stressed lately. What is weighing on your mind?

Shang Qinghua: I can't really say- wait! You're a doctor, that means you took the Hippocratic Oath! Which means that whatever I tell you, you can't repeat it to the other peak lords...

Mu Qingfang: What is-

Shang Qinghua, not listening: Well it all started in a previous life...

Later

Shang Qinghua: ...and now Cucumber-Bro and I need to make sure the world doesn't end. Wow, it feels nice to get that off my chest. Thank you for listening, Mu-shidi! I'll be back in a week for our next session

Mu Qingfang: ...

Yue Qingyuan, walking up to him: What's wrong, shidi? You look spooked

Mu Qingfang: I can't say. Apparently I took a hypocrite oath

Yue Qingyuan: ?

[canterbury-bell]

More fanart for @beanandberry's This Love Is Ours 💗💗💗

[howlhawk]

i like this mark grayson guy i sure hope nothing bad happens to him

[cat-cosplay]

I could have lived without the knowledge that there was a live action Wallace and Gromit short that is truly cursed.

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Thinking many thoughts about the fact that Ravi is a manifestation of bucks abandonment issues - in that he is essentially the ghost of Daniel - who always appears in the firehouse at moments when bucks abandonment issues are at their most pronounced.

Ravi first appears the episode after Buck finds out about Daniel in season 4 and has popped up at every critical point since - the sniper arc in 4 - at the moment when Buck is facing the possibility of losing Eddie.

He is there pretty much all the way through season 5 when Buck was facing Maddie being gone and then when Maddie returns, with Eddie leaving the 118 and breaking down.

In season 5 (defend in place) we also found out about him surviving childhood cancer and the parallels to Daniel become very obvious.

Then in season 6 he pops back up in the aftermath of bucks coma - when he’s wrestling with his own mortality and with the ghost of Daniel from his coma.

Then in season 7 he pops up during bucks bi arc - when buck is fearing Eddie’s abandonment (and his jealousy) because he’s hanging out with Tommy. Then he appears at the end of the season when Bobby is in hospital having had a heart attack. A representation of bucks fears around losing Bobby.

And now he’s turning up in season 8 when Eddie is going to be gone and buck is really having to face all of his abandonment issues - with Maddie being kidnapped, Eddie and Chris being gone and the end of his first queer relationship.

So Ravi seems to represent Bucks fears and issues rising to the surface - being consciously present and there for Buck to actually address. With Ravi disappearing again when Buck manages to rebury or repress them.

[uncontrol-freak]

how about some eldritch Outsider that you can't really look at (and whose real name isn't that much of a secret but you shouldn't say it)

[chocobje]

[For the Toodles AU]

Astro is till Sane? :o

That makes sense as to why he's not as screwed up as the other mains looks wise

Will he join the gang™️? /nf /genq

I think he'd be too afraid to

[devilshalfhour]

should've never taken a US Gov and Politics class cause now i'm watching Born Agin and i'm like "matthew stop asking your own witness leading questions you're gonna get in trouble" like just watch the show...

[mogwaei]

her favourite flavour is "cursed magical item of Mythical quality"

[occasionalsnippets]

Thinking about tbhx a little... I haven't caught up but the world compels me.

You know everything. This isn't necessarily a good thing.

You weren’t special. Maybe just a bit more observant than others. Just a little more nosy. Just someone who liked eavesdropping on others. Who remembered things better than others. It wasn't anything interesting.

But, you know, Trust is fickle.

Your friend talks about the latest news. You mention some articles of their favourite hero. Your friend forgets about their homework. You tutor them in a class you aren't even taking. Your friend panics about buying a gift. You tell them something you remember the other person mentioned liking a couple months ago.

And whenever your friend asks, “Why do you know that?”

You would answer, foolishly arrogant, “I know everything.”

It's not true but does that matter? If enough people believe it, it will become the truth whether you want it to or not.

Your friends go to you for advice. They give you their trust. Your reputation spreads. Your classmates approach you for help. Strangers on campus whisper and say, "If you want to know, try asking them."

Before long, you catch yourself thinking why do I know that? It's not something you've overheard. It's not something you've vaguely looked into. It's not something you should know. And yet you do.

They’re cheating on each other, the fight’s all scripted, he’s going to die, that guy had a bagel for breakfast, this entire world is-

You cut off those trains of thought before they can drive you insane.

Stories about you continue to spread. People talk about a stranger who can answer any question, who always knows the right things to say. Your Trust climbs. You don't want to be a hero so you aren't.

You still go to the same old job where you're simply a helpful coworker. You still take the same bus every morning. You're still you.

But, you know everything. And that isn't a good thing.

[rustic-tart]

Therapist: And what do you think is the driver of your anxiety?

Me: Visions of things that were, things that are, and some things that have not yet come to pass.

[crystallizsch]

okay so hi because of one of my psych classes, i’ve been thinking about how you only see a “mirrored” version of your appearance, and technically everyone else sees your “natural” look — which is a “flipped” version in your perspective but is your normal look according to everyone else

anyways all this to say i’m thinking about this is most likely how jamil sees himself in the mirror everyday:

and i’m dying thinking about it. it’s so OFF

also i think some of the most notable examples are the ENTIRE octavinelle trio 😭

awful. this. this is how they see themselves technically.

(also i think mostly other characters are pretty symmetrical / doesn’t have much change to them when flipped ;;;)