#many thoughts

[goldfishinaplasticbag]

thought about damian’s unique position as a son of the al ghuls and the bats for too long and got sad about it. also i miss my grandpa + listening to sad music on loop = i have to make this everyone’s problem.

chinese version below! thought i should start including two translations since i’m fluent in both and i might as well allow more people to enjoy the same art. i would also do a japanese version but i can’t be confident in that one at all HAHAHAHA

我知道我寫的字很醜、我太久沒手寫中文了。請您們原諒我⋯囧rz

[delicourse]

Snake Year

[riickgrimes]

I know who you are. You're Fire and Ice, right? Which one's which?

CHALLENGERS (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

[magnusedom]

9-1-1 | CONFESSIONS (8.06)

[fridayiminlovemp3]

this as an album outro 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[meg-noel-art]

Brainstorming the concept that around 17/18 yrs old, my Caitvi fankid, Cass, designs and creates a hextech powered invention as a submission to enroll at the Academy. But the device malfunctions and causes a bunch of damage. Cass II survives her family's patterned history with hextech devices but not unscathed

[almond-tofuuu]

Life with Zayne

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An aesthetic

this man has taken over my life someone pls help, he's all I think about-

[everwalldigan]

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if Jason had been successful in saving Sheila from the joker and still died as a result of it.

Would he have finally been recognised for the true reason of his death? Would he have been hailed as the tragic heroic martyr he was, the one whose death was 100% preventable had he had a stronger support system? Would he have had foundations to support young heroes built in his name instead of being a vague boogeyman cautionary tale that mentors bring up to warn their young heroes against disobedience and acting rashly? I don’t think anyone could even think of saying half of the horrible shit they’ve said about Jason’s death if they had the undeniable proof right in front of them that someone was saved from death as a direct result of his “reckless” actions.

How would his mother react to the son she never knew dying to save her? Loving her despite never really knowing her? Would she even be able to live with that guilt? Would she snap and kill the joker herself no matter the consequences? Would the hero community still be able to play into the victim blaming narrative for Jason’s death when they have the literal person he died saving, living among them?

And I wonder what that would change in the training of the robins after him. Would their training have more emphasis on community and support systems than more extensive training because it would be “the last Robin died because to save his mother and if he just had ONE person to answer when he reached out for help, he would still be alive” Instead of “the last Robin died because he wasn’t good enough”?

So much in the in universe rhetoric after Jason’s death would be completely changed if there was a direct witness immediately shutting down the “he was angry, arrogant and rash, bit off more than he can chew and went after the joker by himself and that’s what got him killed” shit they were pushing out to justify this completely preventable death of a child who just wanted to do what vowed to do when he took up the mantle. Save other people at the expense of his own safety.

[ex0rin]

MUMBO JUMBO in A MINECRAFT MOVIE (2025)

[sgtpeppers]

Paul and Linda McCartney in Amagansett, New York, August 1995 Photos by Allen Ginsberg

[sirgwaines]

I'm rereading the ACOTAR series and it's um interesting how many times Rhys and Feyre are doing something romantic and Cassian is There. either physically present or brought up in conversation (by Rhysand always) Cassian is some weird part in their relationship

He tells Feyre he fell in love with her because she reminded him of Cassian. When Rhys and Feyre get back from consummating the mating bond, they winnow back to camp right in front of Cassian. Rhysand is kissing Feyre goodbye before they go on a suicide mission into Hybern and he breaks the kiss and looks at Cassian.

Feyre's husband Rhys and Rhys' boyfriend Cassian <3

[libelitter]

I just died of blood loss 7 times

[galedekarios]

seeing a post that basically confirmed the obvious disparity in content made me think more about a scene i would have liked to see with gale and that i've been thinking about for a while now.

i always felt a bit sad that his condition is so often treated as a joke by the fandom and to a lesser extent by the game itself. i always thought that this is partially down to the fact that we don't truly get so see gale actively be in pain due to his condition, other than brief glimpses and hints:

we do hear the urgency in his voice when he explains when and why he needs an artefact and the relief in his voice when the protag chooses to help him.

we see it, too, when he is afflicted by the arcane hunger condition:

we get glimpses of it when he consumes an artefact:

he mentions it, too, in his dialogues, but it's very much downplayed by gale or phrased in such a way that is meant to overplay it with humour, or perhaps even to distance himself from it by using metaphors:

that is until we actually get to see it through his eyes, if only for the briefest of moments:

*Its teeth, its claws, it's unstoppable as it digs through and becomes part of you. And gods, it is ever-hungry...*

gale also has an idle animation where he--quite often--reaches up to touch the orb, perhaps because it flares with pain, like an old wound is wont to do:

(gif by @bladeofavernus)

from the last conversation we have with gale, and after catching all of these little moments of things he says or does with how the orb affects him, we learn that consuming the magic from artefacts no longer has any effect at all. the only solution that tara and he were able to find no longer works:

it would scare him and imbalance him, and it would finally destabilise the orb, make it more volatile.

but what happens in the game after that? the orb becoming volatile enough for the artefacts to no longer have an effect has no consequences at all: you are able to do the tiefling party, all quests in the underdark, the entirety of the grymforge, and, should you choose to do so, the entirety of the mountain pass and rosymorn monastery without an incident at all or any mention of the condition itself/any discomfort or fear it might cause.

there's no urgency here, no follow-up, to what the narrative set up... and then we meet deus ex elminster and the orb is stabilised, and the urgency that came before literally is handwaved out of existence.

what i would have liked instead to happen--or at least to bridge the gap between the artefacts no longer working and elminster stabilising it to be used on mystra's behalf--is the following:

i think it would have been nice to have a scene with gale where we do get to see--on a much smaller scale--him losing control over the orb, have the protag and the companions see what he is trying desperately to keep contained within himself, what gnaws at him, what continues to haunt him.

it could happen perhaps after a particular gruelling and intense fight--and there are enough of that in the underdark and at the mountain pass. it could have been a ! conversation, providing both friendship and romance content.

have the orb act up after expending so much energy to manipulate the weave to the fullest of his abilities, have gale manage to reign it in, but barely, show that it takes a lot of power and effort for him to do so.

that it hurts, with none of gale's metaphors to hide behind or jokes to play it off.

have the audience truly see the gravity of what he is going through.

[complementaryhalves]

was it necessary to sit like that i wonder.

[sidekickjoey]

Alright which one of yall is gonna Steddie-fy this shit

Chop chop

[jherbo10]

HANDS 😌

🎥:chargers