#can we guess what happened

[laurrelise]

if they were ken dolls i’d be smashing their faces against each other

in case you were wondering, yes they were getting yelled at by cuddy here

[egophiliac]

So.... what are your thoughts on Ace's UM, if you haven't been asked this already?

sneaky magic for the sneakiest boy

no but really, I think it fits him really well! I had thought his UM would probably involve something kinda sleight-of-handy or pickpockety! and I looooved that it made such a nice loop-around back to episode 1. ❤️ I was. kind of half-expecting him to just run out and punch Riddle in the nose again. but instead this time 'twas he who offed the queen's head! it was great! and he did it while stone-cold terrified out of his mind! because Ace is the only remotely normal or well-adjusted person at NRC and therefore the only one who is like "we're going to literally die, this is super effed up". but he did it anyway!!!! I AM SO PROUD

[vinelark]

looking at the cute kon art in this new story and ignoring everything about the plot ❤️

[helloanthy]

11.05.2025 🐍 today's anthy!

i drew this around lunar new year ... when i wasnt feeling quite well haha ... i think i stopped working on it because there was a lot of negative space where the ''2025'' is and still is to the right of it ,it looked really empty but didnt know what to do with it. i wish i could remember what brushes i used for texturing, maybe i couldv done that to the background to make it more interesting. but i found this again yesterday when i was organising my files and added the lettering (numericaling ?❔❔❔) and the snake eye drop. which i remember i kept trying to do over and over before i stopped working on it months sago but it just wouldnt turn out right. it came to me pretty easily before i fell asleep last night though. i guess it just needed some time

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Hi!! Your Cherik is so good and gorgeous 🤩🤩 If you don't mind wanna try to draw some Fall of X Cherik please?

thank you so much !!

i have a couple of ideas relating to the fall of x period specifically since theres. A Lot i wanna play with, so i hope this lil thing may be a satisfactory start :]]

and the obligatory bonus:

[inthehouseoffinwe]

Finarfin Fades.

No one expects it, no one’s faded in Valinor since Miriel. The War of Wrath is won and he comes back, waving off the courtiers, well wishers, and congratulators with his usual grace, and walks into the palace of Tirion. To rooms abandoned since their owners left so long ago. Winding deeper and deeper his feet take him to what was once Finwë’s favourite garden.

He’s so tired.

He’s fulfilled his promise to Fëanaro and Nolofinwë, to avenge them. To make the agony of their final moments - agony Finarfin felt, falling to the floor screaming as fire and darkness consumed his spirit - count for something. Now Morgoth is finally gone, but he’s not the only one.

His brothers, larger than life, larger than death, are gone. With them his sons. Niece. Nephews. Grandchildren. His daughter is never to return. He Saw little Nelyo’s death in his dreams and is sure hopes for the child’s own sake that Makalaurë will be close behind.

Little remains. Even less on these golden shores.

So Finarfin sits on a bench long overgrown with vines and weeds, and watches the sun filter through the thicket, wishing the ghosts he sees in his father’s garden would flesh out.

He sits. He waits.

And by the time anyone finds him, it’s too late.

…at least he’s smiling again.

[homielander]

i'm sorry but hotd positing that all women are innately cautious and peaceful and compassionate while men are rash warmongers is not a feminist win! i could see the value in everyone being hesitant to go to war at the onset of the story because it intensifies the tragedy of this house tearing itself apart, but at this stage, rhaenyra has as much reason for bloodlust (if not more) as the men on the show. it's pretty heavily implied that the shock of her usurpation killed her daughter, aemond killed lucerys, and one of aegon's kingsguard snuck into her quarters with the intent to assassinate her. most importantly, she has felt entitled to the throne since she was named heir as a child. she should be incensed! rhaenyra's inaction in the season 1 finale due to a sudden aversion to violence was already stretching believability -- this is the same woman who expressed nothing beyond mild shock at vaemond's beheading, who plotted with daemon to have an innocent man killed to facilitate laenor's escape while declaring that the realm should fear her. to have rhaenyra insist on peace at this point in the story, when war is already well underway, is incredibly irrational.

this problem is not limited to rhaenyra. alicent ordered larys to kill mysaria's network of spies and any suspected traitors in the red keep, presumably without any due process, and neither of these decisions was depicted with the gravity they deserved for a character who was once horrified by any bloodshed. meanwhile, aegon had a few extra ratcatchers executed, and not only was the direction sufficiently ominous, but we also got a lengthy monologue from otto about how it would spell his doom. it is probably pointless to bring up rhaenys because she is written less like a believable human being and more like a mouthpiece for the writers to assert whatever political opinion they believe is correct in a given episode -- but she did very much kill dozens if not hundreds of smallfolk last season. she did do that and very clearly did not care. why is she an advocate against war? for both alicent and rhaenys, there is a strange dissonance where their actions are at odds with their attitudes about opposing large-scale war for the good of the realm. i'm not saying this dissonance cannot exist, but it should at least be acknowledged.

helaena raising concerns about the losses suffered by the smallfolk might have worked in isolation, but for it to accompany everything above is exhausting. can none of these women be allowed to feel for themselves?

[kit-screams-into-the-future]

another post for @bttfjanaury! this one's @itsthemorph's mermarty au and very predictably i got carried away with it LMAO.

yap session and bonus stuff below the cut:

once again i came up with an entire backstory for this au, and if i were a fanfiction writer i would genuinely consider writing it since it's a lot less visually comedic than the weredoc au (and comedic in general, it's played a little straighter than "man turns into dog and is thoroughly inconvenienced by it") (unfortunate [in reference to visuals] bc i enjoy drawing mermarty a great deal more than weredoc GBJKGJ) bc i really like the premise but i'm pretty bad at fleshing out a narrative in enough detail to last the whole story so bullet points it is:

doc has decided to take a break from his time-travel-related research and go on vacation! the fresh coastal air might jostle a couple ideas into place, and while he is a nuclear physicist and not a marine biologist he wouldn't mind checking out some of the local aquatic life

and by local aquatic life he meant like normal fish and stuff. a nice mollusk or two even. so when he ends up fishing an entire boy out of the water instead he's understandably very shocked

before doc can move past the "where did he come from??" thought to register his more fish-like qualities, the boy makes a run (a swim?) for it. fortunately or unfortunately for doc, he ends up being able to register the fish-like qualities after all since he gets dragged into the water along with him. the moment doesn't last too long, though, and the fish-boy is gone as soon as doc realizes the guy has a fish tail instead of legs

doc gets back on the dock (haha), thinks about the whole ordeal for a bit, and decides that the best course of action is just to assume he hallucinated the whole thing in a fit of heatstroke or something like that. he's here to relax and get his thoughts in order so he can continue working on his time machine! there's no time to investigate fairy-tale creatures or whatever supposedly living off the coast of california!

it's not shown in the comic but i imagine doc has a little portable radio next to him as he was fishing, so some time passes before he catches a glimpse of something shining in the water underneath the dock

he looks through the cracks in the dock and lo and behold, it's the same boy from earlier! doc greets him, and the boy immediately disappears under the water. doc thinks he's scared him off until a few minutes later where he pokes his head out and says hi back

they get to chatting and doc learns a couple things:

1. his name is marty!

2. he was trying to get doc to realize that he forgot to put bait on his hook but got his hand caught on it, and was trying to get his hand unstuck from the hook without ripping it open before doc ever had the chance to see him, which he obviously failed at

3. both the being seen and ripping his hand open, because in his haste to get away after being seen by doc he ended up doing that anyways. so there's like a lot of blood coming out of his hand now? but like don't worry about it. it'll be fine. he thinks.

4. he really likes whatever it is that's playing on the radio

doc insists on patching up his hand and initially marty refuses but lets him do it eventually, and marty tells doc that for a land dweller he's actually surprisingly nice. doc says nah anyone would want to help out someone hurt, especially if they're the one's who caused it. and marty's kind of confused by that because his family's always warned him of how dangerous humans are, which he kind of never thought too hard about until now where his time off this particular coast has really proven them correct, because he's encountered a bunch of humans over the past couple weeks and they've all tried to kill him or catch him. doc's the only one who's actually bothered to say hi!

after learning that particular not-at-all-concerning tidbit, doc asks him to elaborate because there's a lot to unpack over there, but someone else walks onto the dock before marty can get a word in and he takes off

marty does not return, even once the other guy leaves, and when doc packs it up to return to the place he rented out for the vacation he overhears a conversation among a group of men about spotting something weird in the water earlier and that it kind of looked like a mermaid? and that if any of them manage to catch it they'll all be rich as thieves. and another guy in the convo goes no you're thinking of rich as kings, you're mixing it up with a different analogy. and the first guy goes no i'm not i said what i said

so now this vacation is doing anything but clearing doc's mind. he's really worried about that little fish guy

there's a couple more ideas i had but halfway through writing out this bullet list i've realized that if i were to actually write this as a fanfiction, i'd probably want to keep those a surprise. so what i just wrote out is kind of the equivalent of one chapter

edit after thinking about it a bit more: since most humans have been trying to kill him, marty really has no incentive to let a guy know that he's wasting his time fishing with a baitless hook. so a. he's still pretty optimistic that most humans aren't out to get him, even if his experience off this particular coast says otherwise, so he was trying to be nice anyway or b. (which i think is a lot funnier) he has started to pull on people's lines as a way to fuck with them. i think if i wrote this i'd change it to this one

i based mermarty off of a guppy fish! specifically this kind of guppy fish:

i was searching up kinds of fish and he just had the vibe of this thing. although now i think i should've made him a flying fish instead. for the pun

alternate ending to the mini comic:

the other one makes a little more sense since just approaching a guy whose species doesn't know about your existence unprompted is pretty stupid even for marty (and also i thought it was funny that the hook didn't have anything but doc ends up catching something anyways) but i still think this one's funny too

[egophiliac]

Silver is finally here...he just took the title for the most beautiful card in TWST's history...

me five years ago: wow I really hope we get to see dragon Malleus someday! that'll be so nice and wonderful. I bet he's a big silly! :)

twst: :)

GOD. it occurred to me literally three hours before the anniversary stream that they might've been saving the reveal for then to just explode us all at once. this timing was EXTREMELY deliberate. thank you Twst. I can't even focus on all the Blazing Jewel stuff because Silver wielding the physical manifestation of his Complicated Dad Issues is busy eating my entire brain. and -- oh what's that? he duos with Lilia? I'M RUINED THANK YOU ᕕ( ᐕ )ᕗ

this is your warning that I'm going to be the most annoying person on the planet come Monday morning, thank you everybody and goodniiiiiiight

[clumsypuppy]

you are umasou

[cementcornfield]

Top Joe'Marr moments of the offseason

in honor of the season officially starting with training camp tomorrow, here are some of my favorite joe'marr moments of this offseason 😌

10. ja'marr sees a bleach blonde guy in a leather jacket, giggles and says that it looks like joe, considers it important enough to include the dumb little moment in his vlog

9. "we've been together since we were kids" - joe on his media tour to get his guys signed. funnily enough he had to be way more insistent about tee, because with ja'marr it wasn't even a question that they'd be together forever. after all, they've been together since they were kids, and that's not changing if either of them have any say in it 🥲

8. “did he just call Joe sum fine shit?” a streamer asks ja'marr about NIL deals and how an ugly QB just got an absurd amount of money, asks ja'marr how much "joe's fine ass would have gotten?" and ja'marr is completely speechless lmao. but still rallies himself to say that joe would have gotten "the highest bid". which, you know, interesting.

7. ja'marr rolls a nine with his two custom-made diamond dice, immediately says "joe burrow". i mean self-explanatory really. goes along with the vlog mention earlier. that man is always on his mind (plus like. the fate of immediately rolling a nine!)

6. we finally got a pro bowl with both joe and ja'marr there! cute moment after cute moment of them playing together and sitting on the sideline yapping 🧡

5. joe and ja'marr going to nfl honors as each others' dates. (when we both know they had options in terms of like, women to bring lmao). seeing them sit right next to each other, the way that the camera panned to ja'marr during joe's speech (filling the wag role admirably!), how joe said ja'marr was one of the best PEOPLE and players he knew!

4. joe goes to ja'marr's first fashion show and they're very cute about it. the way this wasn't even one of joe's events and he was bone tired and exhausted from his press tour but he STILL went out and watched ja'marr's first runway walk and met up with him after (or before. we're not clear on the timeline) and he was SO invested in it.

3. all of the moments from Quarterback Season 2 but especially the brunch scene with the in-laws! one of the things i know we all were looking forward to most was a deeper look into their relationship, and while we didn't necessarily learn anything new, we got to see some very sweet moments on and off the field and got some great quotes from both of them (“i’ve never seen anybody like him when he gets the ball in his hands” "ja'marr's one of the best players of all time" "he believes in me" etc. etc.)

2. THEEEE practice hug of all time. literally i think we all went insane on this day and it was warranted!! we had NEVER seen them act like that. completely carefree PDA, joe grinning watching ja'marr all giddy doing the huddle chant, ja'marr completely lifting joe off his feet (god he's strong!) joe wrapping his hands around ja'marr's neck and just allowing it. not even just allowing it actually, CLEARLY enjoying it. and when ja'marr lets go, he wanders off barely aware of where he's going. (and THEN they both put the moment on their insta grid. that's love!)

number one has gotta be the post-signing hug. first of all. joe impatiently calling ja'marr before the ink even dries asking where he is. or how even before that, ja'marr told joe as soon as the deal was done while joe was at sam's bach party lmao. (i could have sworn i clipped him talking about this but i can't find it!) but yeah, the hug. every single angle of it. how happy/relieved/excited they clearly are. the way ja'marr holds out his pinky as if they're going to celebrate the same as always but joe ignores it and goes right in for the hug. the swaying, the faces in each others' necks, the way they look at each other after. how ja'marr says in the most tender tone "long way." how ja'marr looks at him as they leave. AUGH. and i really struggled deciding which hug to put at one and two because they're both AMAZING when these two so rarely hug each other! but i had to go with this one just because of all the significance behind it. they've been playing together for 7 years now, all of their careers professional and college! and now they'll be together for at least 5 more, over a decade of playing together! who gets that these days?? and they know how lucky they are and are so excited to keep going, you can see it in every bit of that in this moment!

[quirinah]

ummmmmmm guys this dungeons looking a little dark here..........................ummmm..... hello??? guys??

[mayapapaya33]

Is it mean of me that I'm kind of looking forward to the sheer disbelief, denial, anguish, and dawning horrified realization that is inevitably going to occur when newbies watch the animated Mighty Nein show and You Know Who dies for real instead of getting resurrected.

[infiniity-survivor-choco]

Hey so the more I research into NPD the more I feel genuinely disgusted by people demonizing the disorder.

As someone whose wrongly used the word narcissist as a bad word in the past, because I was petty. i read today that "people with NPD can't feel love." And that's fucking bullshit some of the people I talked to recently have NPD and love their precious people a lot more than many without.

[combustable-head]

S1E2 "Half Loop" | S2E1 "Hello, Ms Cobel"

[derangedchameleon]

I wonder what happened between Maritte and Silka after the gamemakers incident.. The fact that Maritte just killed that gamemaker without question? Making fun of Silka for chasing a dream of winning? Considering joining Maysilee and Haymitch?

I don‘t know this sort of talk and behaviour is very rebellious.

Before my reread I wondered if Silka might have actually killed Maritte for this behaviour, to prove to the capitol that she did not agree with her actions and she then cried under the tree from guilt.

But no. It was the squirrels. Silka had to watch Maritte die the same way Haymitch had to watch Ampert go. It was probably even worse for Silka. She was there for the start of it. And she‘d KNOW Maritte was targeted, the mutts ignoring Silka.

Maybe seeing that, she lost faith. Maybe, seeing that, her belief in the glory of the capitol was shaken. But she had to continue. If she didn‘t hunt Haymitch and Wellie like the good little career she was conditioned and bred to be… she could be next.

She finds their tree. But she doesn‘t try to find a way to force them out. She doesn‘t throw an axe at them. She just collapses. And cries.

And then Haymitch drops the chocolate. And she disappears in the morning. Was she considering not killing them? For just a moment? It could just be that she wanted to give them the chance to come down so she could kill them (like she ultimately did) but maybe… she needed a moment to clear her head, clear out the conflicting emotions. I think she was tired of the killing.

She finds her way back and Wellie lifts the darts and Silka‘s training kicks in.

Haymitch returns and shouts at her. And she is defensive about killing Wellie. „She was trying to kill me!“ The unspoken continuation here is „I wouldn‘t have done it if she hadn‘t threatened me.“

But Haymitch‘s eyes are filled with rage and horror, and she‘s holding the head of a helpless starving girl. So she reverts. To what she was trained for. What her mindset has been this entire time. It‘s easier. It‘s safer. It‘s familiar. She is going to win these games for the glory of the capitol. Like she always said she would.