#anyways. rambles aside. :3

[starmagnets]

whole bunch of doodles i did during a long-ish car ride to go to a thing.

[shima-draws]

Rewatching SAO season 1 and banging my head against the wall maybe it's just me maybe I'm the only person who prefers the later seasons over the first bc it's just so. All over the place. And I'm SORRY but I gotta say it the romance is Bad. And by Bad I mean Badly Written. Looking at it from an analysis viewpoint I honestly like the idea of Kirito and Asuna getting together bc they're just so desperate for some form of comfort in the fucked up world they're in. Maybe some part of it is from mutual attraction but it's mostly due to wanting some form of stability bc what else can they rely on? Literally Yui says she was banned from giving the players any sort of encouragement or, more importantly, therapy so it's no wonder so many of them are traumatized and cling to each other for support. There's definitely evidence of that with Kirito's PTSD (during s1 and even s2) but also the fact that like. He and Asuna didn't even get together until two weeks before SAO was cleared. TWO WEEKS. In that time they got married and adopted a kid. They're literally TEENAGERS. I can absolutely see their relationship forming from a "well we could die any day now so we might as well" standpoint. How much of their relationship was actually real and how much of it was just extreme codependency and longing for companionship as they tried to deal with the literal death game they're trapped in. It all felt so rushed--and honestly that's probably why Kawahara started writing SAO Progressive to give their relationship more time to grow and add more context on what happened during those two years. But I can definitely see a world in which they finally escape SAO and realize that yeah. We literally just got together bc we needed it in that moment, but now we're back in the real world and can reevaluate our relationship and realize that we're just not meant for each other and that's okay. What we had in SAO was really special but that's specifically bc of the circumstances. Now we can move on with our lives and find other people and form relationships NOT based around the context of a death game. I especially feel this in season 2 because both Kirito and Asuna have character arcs that really develop their characters and the other isn't even present!! They actually spend more time apart than together and sadly enough I love their characters way more bc of that 😔

MAYBE this is just me arguing bc I like Yujikiri a billion times more and think Eugeo's way better for Kirito romantically but I DIGRESS. That is not my POINT. LMAO

[saltpepperbeard]

so i was complaining talking to my dad about the suffering that is the renewal void, and he agreed that it would be a bit nonsensical for max to-

push physical merch on their site

create a bunch of custom icons for users on their site

put so much effort into marketing s2, to the point of putting spots on tv, hanging up gigantic billboards, and spreading teasers all across social media

-if they had no intention to see the show all the way through.

which was ✨validating✨ coming from an outside party, because it's something i've been thinking this whole time. now, granted, i don't trust streaming services, and stranger things have happened, buuuuut idk. it really seems like there's a part of them that realizes ofmd is a large, important property to them, but we shall seeeeeee,,,

[solariex]

yeahh uh who wants to know how my break from the red blog is ?? basically this

alsoo bonus because i thought it was funny LMAOO

(also also if both look like red avm its cause im a red fictive (but i also go by marz) who ironically runs the blog woww plural system stuff i bet i havent said that 50 times by nowwww—💥💥💥)

[slasherflicks999]

4am slasher doodle to recover from the fact i spent 2 days hand sewing a shirt that i don’t even like the fit of HELP

you can NOT tell but his necklace is made of teeth hehehe

whoever it was that reblogged the last drawing i did of him saying they thought he was cool and u dug through posts to find him……. you gave me a crazy case of the smiles lemme tell ya /vpos

oh how i would love to lore dump about him…. if he had any solid lore to dump about

[violetsareblue-selfships]

good morning!!! <333

[beastren]

I was told that you had some info/lore on Ser Beren in relation to the escort destination, but also the hot springs? Sorry if it's vague but I love Beren so any info/observations/theories on him is good info haha

YES okay, this is gonna be a bit long! To start off, I'm assuming you're familiar with this post by u/afro_eden, and some of their other recent posts, talking about the last emperor of Battahl and them doing inquiries into mysterious ore (potentially glimmercoal) that used to fuel ancient Battahli civilization ~2000 years ago. SO!!

Based on the journals of prisoner Bekresos, there are 2 things that'll factor into a revelation regarding Beren: 1- people attempted to spread the truth about the Lambent Flame not being quite what it had been presented as under emperor Faleri, likely even longer. And 2- that this happened at least 16+ years ago... It seems Faleri was likely corrupt in general, so that + any whispers of doubt towards the Lambent Flame, I can only imagine there'd be Battahli people who'd become a little disillusioned, potentially even choosing to leave for Vermund, hint hint.... Beren would've been around for Faleri's rule for sure....

NOW for the actual bits about Beren!! At the hot springs, he gave me some very interesting idle dialogue....

WOW!!!! I think he can say this during other points, I believe since then I've seen him say it when he returns to his childhood home, BUT!! I'd been pondering this dialogue April and what it could possibly mean, and seeing that reddit post made me have a huge aha moment!! Later the same day, I just happened to do his escort quest....

As mentioned in the reddit post, there are stone monuments denoting places Faleri had sent Bekresos and his team to excavate/research. What I feel they didn't mention, however, is that all of these monuments point directly to caves. Literally pointing, with the pickaxes depicted on them lol. Some are however, placed a little further down the road, as if to section it off and permit entry. (This one is the most obvious, pointing straight at Dimdark Cave, Enoa'Battahl Cavern is another one that has a monument slightly up the road from it.)

I always wondered why Beren requested to go to a cave.... It didn't make total sense to me. But lo and behold.... ONE OF THE MONUMENTS!! Just a little ways away, pointing up the path to Beren's destination! This lead me to the conclusion that a younger Beren must've heard the rumors and began to doubt his faith in the Lambent Flame, perhaps only subconsciously, thus his comment about not being quite sure about how his faith waned. As if the rumors just unsettled him over time? Maybe moving back to Battahl reignited his questioning and made him desire to seek out answers for himself, going straight to one of the dig sites.

I also wonder if him growing Moonglow has something at all to do with this.... It's a very mysterious thing in it's own right!! Maybe it has something to do with glimmercoal as a fertilizer (i have a pet theory that glimmercoal could BE parts of the moon), or maybe it's just a little easter egg that Beren's "in the know". But yes!! That's everything I think, and I hope this makes sense!!

[sanchoyo]

tomorrow is my birthdaaaaay

the thing I would like the most is if ppl would read my webcomic ! and maybe leave a nice comment while you're there 🤲

it is a tokyo mew mew spinoff- a nextgen to be exact- following Ichigo and Masaya's daughter who really really wants to be a Magical Girl, along with her team, a rogue alien named Persimmon who is..kind of bad at doing a lot of the alien stuff like flying and teleporting, and a robot named Aqua built by Shirogane who is strong but not very good with common sense or social stuff. the girls are up against the original alien species who are lead by Queen, the new ruler who covets Earth after their planet was invaded by space bugs. She is taking a year within the ship to decide how best to eliminate all humans- so they have only a year to stop her- and Mira's magical girl form is unstable due to her animal DNA not being a fit for her, barely being held together with mew aqua. So there's a sense of Time Running out.

It explores a lot of things the original didn't touch on as much as I would've liked, like mew aqua, more about chimera anima, and also has a theme of family (and found family, but also just weird family dynamics in general) and weird relationships between clumsy teenage girls trying to figure themselves out and confronting the future together. If I had to slot it into a genre it would be mahou shoujo, with elements of scifi/fantasy, adventure, and very mild mystery/horror! It has been in the works for 10+ years in my brain! something fun is seeing the improvement just between ch 1- and where we are now!

There's also a bunch of fun stuff on the site that I worked hard to add like a gallery, newsletter, about page with some Swag, etc...(there's a more concise plot summary on the about page, actually, lol)

I'm not sure how comprehensible it is if you haven't read/watched tmm...but I hope tmm fans can enjoy it! It's aimed at a small demographic within an already kinda small fandom, so literally every nice comment about it makes me sooo happy 🥺

It's been going a little over a year now and I update weekly (weekly updates are posted on @tokyomiracle and post art of it on my art blog under the tm2 tag @sanchoyoscribbles :))

read it here!

[tragicvampireromanceisland]

real happy for yall in your pilot fear era....im a lesbian so unfortunately i cannot participate the . Exact same way you guys are but i support you 👍🏾

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

I’m taking this off replies and to your inbox or whatever this is called (I’m old and not hip to the Tumblr lingo). I just wanted to say I’m so enjoying your X-Files reactions and thoughts! I just became a fan a couple of years ago. My parents didn’t let me watch it when it first aired, as they didn’t think it quite appropriate for a child the tender age of 9 years. What I enjoy most about your posts are that you’re spoiler free! I sometimes wish I had remained spoiler free upon my initial watch, but my anxiety prevents me from not knowing what’s going to happen next. I do think, had I not been spoiled, my reactions would have been very similar to yours. Especially since when I re-watch the episodes (and films) I still have those reactions even though I know what’s coming. Anyway, that’s all! I love your content!

aww, thank you so much for this sweet message! i really appreciate it <3 i am so glad to be getting to see something a lot of people have loved and held close for a while through brand-new eyes! i would also have been terrified as a child haha, i was thinking that very thought tonight as a scary devil appeared in 6x07!

i often wish i could rewatch my favorite movies for the very first time, which is where the whole idea of this blog came from. i have been lucky to remain mostly unspoiled! with the exception of that first morning where i looked the show up on wikipedia and learned a few major plot points, LMAO, but it was the absurdity of those plot points that made me tune in, so. i suppose all is well with the world.

(well, that first morning i looked some stuff up, AND i've seen a few posts tumblr recommended to me because they correctly deduced that i like the show, but incorrectly deduced where i am in the show. allow me to shake my fist and curse at the algorithm. but still! MOSTLY spoiler free! and luckily, the community has been INCREDIBLY kind- this has genuinely the most positive fan experience i have ever had by a long shot)

anyway, thank you so much for this kind message; it really means a lot! <3 sending lots of love!!

[stick-by-me]

Ah! It took me Far too long to realize there’s a Bunny in your pf pic heart?!!

Yeye!!! She's a very pretty sticker for sure <3

She's actually one of my favorite stickers ever, I got her from my mom's collection. I have a few stickers that must be from the same series - namely a unicorn, a duck, and a pig, off the top of my head - but I'm away from my collection rn (on vacation!) so I might have to send pictures of those later XD.

Fun fact, if you scroll through my "possible pfp" tag you'll see a few other bunny stickers I've considered switching her out for. I haven't, obviously, because frankly I'm very attached and I think she works very well as a pfp <3. I adore her. She's just so perfect.

[cuteniaarts]

@katkastrofa, circa 40-ish hours ago: Hey, what if our newest bunch of OCs adopted a baby from one of the other brothel girls who knew she couldn’t afford to raise one? That would make for some fun shenanigans :D

Me, with a notoriously non existent sleep schedule, instinct of self preservation or concern for my poor wrist: Alright, bet. Watch how fast I can make you fall in love with this hypothetical baby >:)

Daneli as a gentle and loving caretaker-turned-adoptive-mother is something that can be So Personal, actually, and originally I was going to leave it at this quick sketch, but then I got carried away thinking about what this child will grow up to be like raised by this little gang of misfits, so…

Here she is!! A little older and so, so beautiful, I need more of her in my life immediately, she’s way too precious

And, because I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t also add a sapphic element to this absolute cinnamon roll, a small crack ship that I’m only half serious about for when she’s a little older still:

All in all, we may be getting impossibly far from canon, but I for one already cannot get enough of sweet darling Kumisai <3

(I fully drew three pieces from scratch in 9 hours I cannot feel my brain or my hands anymore send help)

[kirnet]

I always wanna get a good grade in being a tattoo client. Which is normal and reasonable to achieve.

[yourlocalguardian]

What is a ren faire if not an excuse to dress as creaturely as possible <3

[somatosensors]

my hater moment about marvel designs is that female superheroes are overwhelmingly young. and also other things but thats a big one.

[violetsareblue-selfships]

good morning!!! <333