#and i'm now making it everyone's problem

[tide2k]

watched a vid abt secret of the mimic while drawing digital circus characters from memory

jax is v fun to draw

[eggdrawsthings]

Does it ever drive you crazy Just how fast the night changes?

[thetragicallynerdy]

POLL TIME

When eating a grilled cheese sandwich, do you dip it in ketchup? It's the norm where I live, but the besties are giving me raised eyebrow emoji faces about it

[5850154587]

head disciple shen yuan and his two little shidis who for some reason keep sneaking into the beast tamer peak ⛰️🐉

[asterdeer]

i know the original poem is over 100 years old and loreena mckennitt's rendition is nearly 30 but i don't think i'll ever get over "the highwayman", it gets better every time i listen to it. just the parallelism of the way he and she strain to reach for each other -- he for her hand, she for the trigger -- and the descriptions of their faces -- "his face burned like a brand" when she lets down her hair, "her face was like a light" when she hears him on the highway (and then, rule of three, "his face grew grey to hear" when he finds out that she's dead). it's unbeatable romance for me, this is my "the gift of the magi," this is my orpheus and eurydice

and the way both characters are framed...........it's named for him but she's the closest we get to a hero. we see and feel from her perspective, she's attacked and abused and she keeps her composure, she bloodies her hands to either free herself or free him, she wields the weapon, she is the one who gets a win over the redcoats. she's noble, she's strong, she's faithful, and, you know, she's in love with a highwayman. meanwhile, he does not keep his composure, he goes wild with grief and rage, his emotions overpower him -- and when he dies, it's not heroic, it's an anticlimax, it's undignified and abrupt and almost shameful. but they're both so HUMAN, it's not a lovely innocent woman wearing white waiting, faintingly, for him by the window, and he's not a strong brave hero who sweeps her away to safety. the romance is in the fact that they are not Romantic. the romance IS her bloody hands and her undone hair and his shriek of grief and his death like a dog in the highway. does any of this make sense, am i coming thru. orpheus and eurydice want what they have

[hey-im-zeesha]

Like Old Times

The longer I played, the stronger was the feeling that Jesse just got tired of everything. She seemed much happier when she didn't have this burden of being the Big Hero and the Protector of her city and was just "a strange girl with a pig". At least in my playthrough. The sheer amount of traumatic events throughout both seasons probably contributed to that.

For me, the ending where she stays in Beacontown is the best, even if it isn't as happy as the other one. First, I love bitter sweet endings. Second, the main idea of the season is how we should move forward and stop clinging onto the past. We let Petra go. We give her the opportunity to process her own feelings and attachments to the things she loves and used to. So we do with Jesse.

By staying in the city she did so much for, Jesse takes the responsibility at the cost of all the fun she used to have with her friends. It always felt like all she really wanted was to be recognised and have cool adventures, not all the complicated stuff that came with being the one who saved a lot of people multiple times. And now, with that being all she has, it would be natural to want to go back to how things used to be. When life was easier and she always had someone by her side, without the need to constantly choose between someone.

Honestly, I was never really fond of Reuben, but the idea of him being sort of the embodiment of how Jesse used to live before the whole Wither Storm thing made me like him more. Because the moment he dies, things get to the point of no return. So it literally will never be like good old times since the key part of it is no longer here.

Thank you for coming to my overanalysis session!

[wistfulwatcher]

a collection of ship tag scenes myka/h.g. | otp: you'd have shot me by now

[swhhdr-wthhr]

don’t you hate it when your brother brings the guy who tried to kill you a bunch of times to your party

original meme under cut

[flowersforthemachines]

|| Ghilasara Thorne ・Equipment details (inspiration)

[fexiled]

@stanuary Week Two: Wanted

experience in love preferred but will accept a young trainee!

[thetragicallynerdy]

i have too many followers, time to post a really great poll

you don't get an 'i want to see the results' button you have to COMMIT to see the answers

[patchwork-crow-writes]

Look guys

I know I've been obnoxious about Ralsei Deltarune in the past. I fully admit I've had the Ralsei Brainrot BAD. I knew it was terminal the moment I clapped eyes on him. He's my precious little creature, my blorbo bleebus, he helped me heal from my stupid trauma, gave me a space to make friends with so many amazing people, made me love writing again, did my taxes and ironed my dog. I owe a lot to this fuzzy little peach. And I appreciate it might seem a bit... much, sometimes.

But unfortunately

It's going to get even worse. I now have contracted ADVANCED RALSEI BRAINROT, and I'm never gonna shut up about him, ever. So uh. Deal.

Strap in folks. The Ralsei Appreciation Roller Coaster Ride never ends >:D

[hoesoflamentation]

the way he grabbed haruta's hair was hot but his stance on worker's rights is hotter <3 <3 <3

[dollypopup]

no, but why didn't we get Colin's letters??????

words truly cannot convey what a missed opportunity glossing over the letters was. why didn't we get a voice over of Colin reading them? or see what Penelope did with them? he sent all these letters and Penelope didn't reply. He was clearly feeling that! He was carrying that around with him. It's why he tried out a new facade in the first place! You know what would have been such a damn good scene that would do SO much with building the narrative of how much Pen loves him? And how much Polin is about being mirrors to each other?

having her read his letters on screen

Sure, build up to it. Can't happen at the start. Not when she's trying to find a husband or after Colin apologized to her. It's not about the immediate satisfaction. It's about showing how Penelope changes and matures and grows as a character that she CAN revisit them, about who Colin is and what he sends, how he sounds, the cadence of his voice when he writes to someone he cares about, discussing subjects he's passionate for. About their connection itself getting stronger or repairing after being frazzled by the LW reveal and the ghosting and the lies and and and

You can't tell me that after they're married, she's not reading his letters. You CANNOT TELL ME that she's laying in that big bed all alone, feeling such distance from him, not recognizing that she had put him in a similar position over the off season. He said and did something that hurt her heart and she froze him out from her affections. SHE said and did something that hurt HIS heart and now he froze her out in turn. When Colin reads HER letters to feel close to her, it's such a beautiful moment of the audience seeing how much he cherishes her.

why don't we get a similar scene with her? because chat, I won't lie, it rubs me the wrong way. It rubs me the wrong way, chat. That he sat down and had a whirlwind of a travel adventure for his final year studying on his grand tour and wrote and wrote and wrote and had NO IDEA why no one was replying and felt that profound loneliness so close to his skin but turned around and blamed himself and we know it because we have THIS fragment of his journal

which in part reads:

After my travels last year when I wrote so much and received very few replies. I am trying out a new personality. A new way of seeing the world and interacting with others. I want to be less needy, less insecure, while still maintaining the core of my vulnerability that makes me who I am.

and chat, I do not understand. I do not get it, chat. Penelope, who criticized him for being fake, who canonically has read parts of his journal, coming across THIS entry? It would break her heart into pieces.

AND I NEED TO SEE IT.

I NEED to see that she cherishes him the way he cherishes her. That she didn't just cast his letters out into the fire in her frustration with him. That she didn't throw him away, even when she was upset. Because he doesn't throw her away when he's upset! And you know what? Even if she did, for us to see her have some remorse for it! She was so hungry to read his journal, and then got letter after letter from him? Of COURSE she's reading those letters! That journal is an insight into his thought process with himself, but the letters are insight into his thought process with her.

And you know what? I want to see her write him letters constantly in the next season. Like a regency equivalent of love letters on post-it notes plastered all up in their house. I want him to wake up to another letter from her even when she slept right beside him that night but had to wake up early for whatever reason so, here, have this letter hand-crafted with her heart in the quill just because. Just because she loves him.

Colin is so good at apologies, namely because they always have actions that follow up to show he's understood what harm he caused and how he's committed to fixing it. And yes, Penelope apologized, but it didn't have much action behind it. I think Penelope NEEDS to understand that part of Colin's insecurities come from her. Her actions. Her lies. Come from that off season where she did not answer him and gave no reason why. Come from saying he loved her and not having her say it back. Colin builds his bridge about her being LW and gets over it largely on his lonesome. We stan an emotionally mature and available man!

But. . .Penelope doesn't have much hand in that. Even when she tells him she wrote about him because she wanted the Colin she knew back. That was a lie. But she can have that Colin back! THROUGH HIS LETTERS!!! Which we should see her read!!!

Anywho, I like to believe that Penelope felt some remorse for their distance and once she knows just how much her not replying hurt him, perhaps via journal entry, one way for her to heal over that harm is to write to him. Why wouldn't she write to him even when they live together? They spent months not doing so. Surely she misses it. And it would be cute. A love language on her part to show him how much she cares. I need Colin to discover that oh she kept them, all those letters he sent. She didn't answer, but I want him to know she read them. I want him to know she likes them. Colin does so much processing on his own, and that's important. But it's okay for her to go 'this thing I did hurt you, and this is how I'll fix it'.

Because look: we all know that an enormous part of Colin's insecurities are because he has been rejected. By his family, by his society, by the one person he believed would never forsake him. He understands why she did, but she still did, and it would do a lot for him to know she didn't just discard him, even if his self esteem isn't great and he'd blame himself alone for the breakdown in communication. And it would do a lot for him to get letters from her again.

Do you KNOW how much shorter their freeze out post-wedding would have been if when he went to get a blanket, he found Penelope reading his letters from the last season? That she kept them? That she keeps them close? Do you KNOW how much that pours into the intimacy between the two of them? Just imagine it

"What are you doing?" "I should think it to be obvious." "Why read them, now?" ". . .because I miss you."

Imagine the parallels. Imagine her delivering 'I miss you' the same way he delivered it. Imagine how conflicted that would make him, pleased and in love but aching and sad all at once. The angst. The romance. The romangst. Think about all we could have!!!

[moongothic]

Madoka is the promise you won't turn from a child, full of hopes and dreams and the wish to save the world, into a bitter adult who just wants to hurt others and ruin people's lives

Madoka promised to be there for you to remind you of the person you wanted to be and to stop you from becoming what you sought to destroy

Madoka made that promise and became the very embodiment of it

[lunewolf13]

On one random day, for literally no reasons besides Tim had explosions lying around, there was a condemned warehouse, and he was bored:

Tim: Everything is ready.

Dick:

Jason:

Dick, rightfully concerned and terrified when there's no elaboration: Tim, what exactly is ready?!?!

In the distance, there is a kaboom. A very, very loud kaboom.

Tim: That.

Tim smiles in what he thinks is reassuring: :)

Jason, staring at the direction of the explosion: Dickie, did you know our brother is...?

Dick: Yes. Yes I know.

Tim has the gall to be confused: I'm what?

Dick grabs him by the shoulders: Tim. Timmy. Timmy-Tam. I need you to know that I love you very, very much. And I need you to always remember that you're my favorite little brother. Who I love. Very, very much. Who you love very, very much.

Jason discreetly sends Dick a thumbs up before he bails and proceeds to brainstorm bribes to stay on Tim's good side.