#helpful staff

[roydick]

I love a well organized comic shop 💙 spent more than I should have but found quite a bit of stuff.

Donna!! ❤️❤️ (ignore the ugly redhead in the foreground, this ain't about him)

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

hey so i used to work at tumblr but now i work at garbage day. i just re-read the piece in garbage day about the slur song and i figured since i don't work at tumblr anymore nothing is stopping me from messaging you and saying that omg i absolutely love it and thought it was hilarious. i sent it to my team on slack and was like "y'all this is the song of the year" and all of us lost our minds. i also sent it to my "queers united" group chat the universal response was "this is an absolute banger" lol.

10/10 completely unmonitizable and unmarketable and your post about "tumblr staff finding out their site has crowdsourced a viral song only for it to be unusable in corporate marketing" made me, the lead of the marketing team at the time, laugh until i cried. spot on, literally was like "guys this is the biggest thing on tumblr right now, it's fucking amazing, and we cannot touch it with a 10-foot poll." absolutely incredible. stellar work.

aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!?!!!!!!?!!?!!?!!!!!!!!

[whimzycle]

Can't tell if I want this to be a soul eater or a noragami au

Either way, Weapon! Jack and Meister/God! Bunny, thoughts?

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Sun judges arts & crafts: kids vs adults

[majubengel]

Getting lost

[vodyaniks]

Sun with kids / Sun with adults

[allimili]

so how was pv's first time out in the real world also them out in the real world with s/o did smilk or pv wounder and get lost at some point or are they holding hands and dragging s/o to a place they saw interesting

PV def be interested at anything during his first time out in rl and can wonder around so you have to hold his hand at all times bcos he does gets lost ! I dont think shmilk gets lost easily bcos he just grabs you with him to where he wants to go...

[silliemopi]

MORE SOUL EATER AUU!! DJDSJ i love

[marzipanandminutiae]

booty shorts that say "many middle-class 18th and 19th century households in Europe and the North American colonies/US and Canada [depending on era] had servants who were more like helpers working alongside the family than People Who Did All the Work While their Employers Enjoyed Endless Leisure, and I don't know how to make the general public in 2025 get that through their heads" on the ass

(it's very small font)

[destinysbounty]

One thing that kinda chaps me about how the Ice Emperor is typically characterized by a lot of the fandom is that if you really pay attention to how he behaves in the Ice Chapter, he isn't the aggressive, confrontational villain he's often made out to be. In s11, most scenes we see of the Ice Emperor actually depict him as a very passive and sedate character, preferring to rest on his throne and contemplate rather than taking action. He never acts unless Vex implores him to do so, and even then he usually defaults to the less ruthless choice until Vex cajoles him into opting for something more brutal. The first time we see the IE defy Vex in any capacity is when he chooses to spare Lloyd rather than killing him instantly. Judging by Vex's surprise at this, and IE's unabashed trust in his advisor, I would hazard to guess this is the first time Zane has ever pushed back against one of Vex's suggestions.

This is not to say the Ice Emperor is without cruelty or brutality. He is still a very menacing presence in his own right, and he absolutely has gallons of blood on his hands. That cannot be understated. But on his own, without a wormtongue whispering in his ear, I personally think the Ice Emperor would have been...well, not necessarily a kind person, but significantly less ruthless. He's a passive and dare I say tired person who prefers to sit on his throne and wait for orders rather than taking any form of initiative on his own. He's barely even a leader or a tyrant in any true sense of the term, really -- he's just a glorified weapon Vex keeps stored on a shelf until he's needed.

This actually makes sense when you consider Zane's element. Ice is in its very nature a slow and sedate thing. Temperature is shaped by the speed and movement of particulates -- the faster molecules move, the hotter things are. Whereas when things get colder, molecules move much more slowly. (That's perhaps a bit of an oversimplification, but I'm not going to give a lecture on thermodynamics in a post about silly lego people). And the Ice Emperor...well, he's very much encased in ice. He has to physically pry himself off his throne, and the staff has long been frozen to his hand. The whole world is in a similar state as well. Entire swathes of the population have been cryogenically frozen, and the world is so cold that it's exceedingly difficult for fire to thrive. And many other fans have speculated that the reason Akita is able to look the same age despite decades passing is because Zane's corrupted ice has overwhelmed the land so profoundly that everyone is more or less frozen in time.

Ice is a slow, sedate, passive thing. It does not demand anything of you except that you cease movement. Likewise, the Ice Emperor in his truest state is a sedate, passive character, only stirred out of his meditations when Vex compels him into action.

True, he's often depicted as a generically ruthless tyrant in most iterations after s11, but those can usually be chalked up to Zane's unreliable self-perception. This is how Zane interprets his behavior as the Ice Emperor, rather than the actual reality of how he truly behaved. Zane resents that part of himself, and that resentment has warped his understanding of who the Ice Emperor truly was. Which in itself is rather tragic considering Zane's identity issues. That is to say, Zane is so terribly blinded by his trauma and self-loathing that not even he can see himself for who he truly is.

(Cough cough that one quote in Dragons Rising: "Zane had such impressive shoes to fill. No one could ever live up to him, perhaps not even Zane himself.")

Anyway, even if people disagree with this interpretation of the Ice Emperor's character, I personally find it much more compelling to view him not as a generic murderous tyrant...but as an old, tired machine who cannot conceive of his personhood outside of his own weaponization.

By extension, this actually makes Zane's post-s11 coping process a lot more complex as well. The popular narrative is that Zane needs to learn to accept that what happens wasn't his fault, that he had a whole chorus of extenuating circumstances working against him, and that it's actually quite impressive just how many things had to go wrong all at once for him to become evil. And that's fair, but I also think the truth of the matter is more complicated than that.

Zane knows, deep down, that the Ice Emperor's actions weren't his fault -- and that's exactly what terrifies him. Because if he accepts that he was little more than Vex's mindless weapon, then he has to admit that his greatest fear has come true. He spent decades as a mindless, soulless machine, only ever acting on the will of another person, all while being endlessly manipulated by a cursed artifact, rather than having any true agency of his own. When his friends tell him it wasn't his fault, it's not a comfort but rather a painful reminder of how long he spent as someone else's drone. When the people of the Never Realm forgive him and let him return home unobstructed, a part of Zane resents it because it means they, too, acknowledge his absence of free will.

In my eyes, Zane post-s11 is someone who feels that he needs to be blamed, needs to be hated and despised and shunned -- because if people hate him for what he did, then that means it really was his fault. And if it was his fault, then that means he didn't lose his free will after all. It means he didn't spend 50 years as someone else's empty plaything. It means he didn't spend more of his life as a mindless weapon than as a true person.

Yes, Zane needs to learn to stop blaming himself for the Ice Emperor's actions...but how can he let go of the blame when it's the only thing keeping him sane?

[conspicuous-clown-car]

AAAAUUUUUGHGHHHGHH assorted doodles after playing help wanted 2

god i love him even more now

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Mike vs Vanny on ordering pizzaplex food

[evilcokito]

SEND YOU STRAIGHT INTO THE SHADOW REALM!

Yami Malik, YAMI MALIK- WHY YAMI MALIK'S AURA SUITS HIM SO WELL-

[akelafang]

Modern au idea

Geralt's a bartender with a teeny tiny massive crush on the local musician Jaskier who plays at his bar every week. His favorite part of the night is when Jaskier comes up to the bar after his set and chats away to him, high off the adrenalin of performing. That is until one night when instead of his usually bubbly voice calling out before he's even seated, Jaskier sits nervously at the bar and orders an angel shot

[izzielizzie]

still not over the entire household deciding that larry was the only person who could wake bertha up to tell her about gladys this show is truly a comedy

[zampop2]

Seeing him being unhinged makes me happy