#or to put it another way...

[antigonewinchester]

Severance speculation / kinda analysis (abt a very common theory for the 2nd season). spoilers up to 2x02.

rewatching 2x01 and 2x02 I am very very convinced that "Helly" is actually Helena. people are saying its way too obvious of a twist and yes, it is, because the show is well-written and so this idea makes a ton of emotional and metaphorical sense.

it's not just that Lumon doesn't want Helly being rebellious & making trouble on the severed floor, I think it's perhaps even more about a punishment for Helena. she wasn't able to "control" her innie and so it's Helena who has to atone, to pay the price by not just vouching for Lumon on the outside but also working within the severed floor, aka "hell," itself.

I'm not super into the philosophical question of "who are you?" within the show, but I am fascinated with severing & Kier's whole weird thing as a metaphor for the emotional walls people build up within their minds & hearts. I wasn't quite sure what to make of Cobel but on rewatch she of course mirrors the severed workers. she lives 2 different names & personalities whether she's at Lumon or not, and she's incredibly emotionally volatile (going from loving Lumon to smashing up her shrine), unable to control her inner feelings--just as Mark S, Dylan G, Irv B, and Helly R represent, quite literally, the underlying desires, feelings & wants that their outsides selves have suppressed. while Kier & his philosophy is supposedly about Something Great, as we can see with Cobel, her following it shaped her into a splintered, unhappy person, and her obvious parallel is in Helena and Helly R. based on what we've seen of her father & Lumon, Helena grew up in a shitty abusive cult, which she hates but is unable to express those feelings... until she's severed and Helly R is immediatly angry at being controlled & abused.

so, if the show is heading towards re-integration for its characters, then Helena on the severed floor could be a first step for Helena and Helly coming together. she has to literally live the life of that angry, rebellious part of her, and I think (optimistically) that will change her, even if she doesn't want it to. much of the show is about how people are shaped by their environments, both in terms of literally where they are but also their memories, the people around them, all of it. my guess is that Helena is somehow going to help Mark, Dylan, and Irv later on in the season, possibly by switching back to being Helly, aka finally metaphorically acknowledging that part of her as real & human & wanting to see her friends again. [plus, it would also mean Helena symbolically "killing" herself in switching back to Helly as a first part of her rebirth thru re-integration.]

[rioblitzle]

working retail

[mil4nesa]

[nouverx]

Arcane season 2 ending made me too sad so yk what, everything is fine actually, Viktor is now a teacher at the Academy and he mentors young Zaunite students. That's how I choose to cope.

[otaku553]

Cooking up something reaaaalllyyy silly right now

Uhhhh cookie run kingdom tgcf au with pure vanilla as xie lian and shadow milk as jun wu. Do you see the vision

[cozylittleartblog]

i thought naming myself this would be really funny. and it Is. every time i get into a match i think about gabriel playing Miku Rhythm Game

[illustraice]

someone save alphonse elric and may chang from a very long suffering year

[fictionadventurer]

How did Treasure Planet manage to come up with the greatest aesthetic in all human history? Victorian elegance plus space-age flair, with just enough dirt and grime and wear and tear to make it feel real? A combination of traditional and computer animation that perfectly embodies the movie's blend of old and futuristic? How does it get any better than that?

[pru-dle]

An old wip I wanna finish soon :,))

[bixels]

Learning that fans hated Applejack and called her "boring" is crazyyy to me because I genuinely, unironically believe AJ's the most complex character in the main six.

Backstory-wise, she was born into a family of famers/blue collar workers who helped found the town she lives in. She grew up a habitual liar until she had the bad habit traumatized outta her. She lost both her parents and was orphaned at a young age, having to step up as her baby sister's mother figure. She's the only person in the main gang who's experienced this level of loss and grief (A Royal Problem reveals that AJ dreams about memories of being held by her parents as a baby). She moved to Manhattan to live with her wealthy family members, only to realize she'll never fit in or be accepted, even amongst her own family. The earlier seasons imply she and her family had money problems too (In The Ticket Master, AJ wants to go to the gala to earn money to buy new farm equipment and afford hip surgery for her grandma).

Personality-wise, she's a total people-pleaser/steamroller (with an occasional savior complex) who places her self worth on her independence and usefulness for other people, causing her to become a complete workaholic. In Applebuck Season, AJ stops taking care of herself because of her obsessive responsibilities for others and becomes completely dysfunctional. In Apple Family Reunion, AJ has a tearful breakdown because in she thinks she dishonored her family and tarnished her reputation as a potential leader –– an expectation and anxiety that's directly tied to her deceased parents, as shown in the episode's ending scene. In The Last Roundup, AJ abandons her family and friends out of shame because believes she failed them by not earning 1st place in a rodeo competition. She completely spirals emotionally when she isn't able to fulfill her duties toward others. Her need to be the best manifests in intense pride and competitiveness when others challenge her. And when her pride's broken, she cowers and physically hides herself.

Moreover, it's strongly implied that AJ has a deep-seated anger. The comics explore her ranting outbursts more. EQG also obviously has AJ yelling at and insulting Rarity in a jealous fit just to hurt her feelings (with a line that I could write a whole dissection on). And I'm certain I read in a post somewhere that in a Gameloft event, AJ's negative traits are listed as anger.

Subtextually, a lot of these flaws and anxieties can be (retroactively) linked to her parents' death, forcing her to grow up too quickly to become the adult/caregiver of the family (especially after her big brother becomes semiverbal). Notice how throughout the series, she's constantly acting as the "mom friend" of the group (despite everything, she manages to be the most emotionally mature of the bunch). Notice how AJ'll switch to a quieter, calmer tone when her friends are panicking and use soothing prompts and questions to talk them through their emotions/problems; something she'd definitely pick up while raising a child. Same with her stoicism and reluctance at crying or releasing emotions (something Pinkie explicitly points out). She also had a childhood relationship with Rara (which, if you were to give a queer reading, could easy be interpreted as her first 'aha' crush), who eventually left her life. (Interestingly enough, AJ also has an angry outburst with Rara for the same exact reasons as with EQG Rarity; jealous, upset that someone else is using and changing her). It's not hard to imagine an AJ with separation anxiety stemming from her mother and childhood friend/crush leaving. I'm also not above reading into AJ's relationship with her little sister (Y'all ever think about how AB never got to know her parents, even though she shares her father's colors and her mother's curly hair?).

AJ's stubbornness is a symptom of growing up too quickly as well. Who else to play with your baby sister when your brother goes nonverbal (not to discount Big Mac's role in raising AB)? Who else to wake up in the middle of the night to care for your crying baby sister when your grandma needs her rest? When you need to be 100% all the time for your family, you tend to become hard-stuck with a sense of moral superiority. You know what's best because you have to be your best because if you're aren't your best, then everything'll inevitably fall apart and it'll be your fault. And if you don't know what's best –– if you've been wrong the whole time –– that means you haven't been your best, which means you've failed the people who rely on you, which means you can't fulfill your role in the family/society, which makes you worthless . We've seen time and time again how this compulsive need to be right for the sake of others becomes self-destructive (Apple Family Reunion, Sound of Silence, all competitions against RD). We've seen in The Last Roundup how, when no longer at her best, AJ would rather remove herself from her community than confront them because she no longer feels of use to them.

But I guess it is kinda weird that AJ has "masculine" traits and isn't interested in men at all. It's totally justified that an aggressively straight, misogynistic male fandom would characterize her as a "boring background character." /s

At the time of writing this, it's 4:46AM.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Maybe we never had a chance.

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[apple-cores]

it happened again sorry

leftover acrylic paint, sharpie, and pen on long cut watercolor paper + digital pass so he isnt covered in blood. some kinda bookmark? also i should start letting u guys know if you want a print of this or anything in particular, id like to work with a relative to arrange it

pre digital pass/irl it was roughly this + single image

[turtleblogatlast]

One of my favorite headcanons is that Leo grew up watching telenovelas with Splinter.

It just works so well - his bits of Spanish that he spouts randomly, his showy way of apologizing, and, of course, his love for dramatic betrayals all point to this being a very real possibility.

Plus, it’s very cute to imagine a tiny Leo at his father’s side as they both gasp in shock when the show’s eighth plot twist in just as many episodes happens.

[meloartist]

"i simply do not see it. i am looking away"

[kingbeeleth]

hes so funny

[leafyeyes417]

So Danny had tried, he really had. He had moved to Gotham because he knew his parents wouldn’t look for him there. They had never found out he was Phantom but things had reached the point where both he and Jazz decided to go no contact.

But back to his problem. He had worked out with Frostbite that he actually only had one obsession, Space. He had been happy to know that, he had been getting tired of the constant struggle to keep both ghosts and humans safe while also dealing with ghost hunters.

So his move to Gotham was both to avoid his parents but also the reassurance that there were multiple heroes taking care of things. He had enjoyed the peace for the first three months but then he had started to get twitchy. He had tried getting some hobbies but by month six he knew he was out of options. He had especially clued in when he noticed a few classmates avoiding him thinking he was about to snap. Jazz had been resigned when he let her know the news.

So that’s why he was now sitting on a conspicuous roof, wearing a mask made in the Infinite Realms, waiting for a Bat or Bird to show up. He was coming out of retirement after all. Hopefully he would be able to work with the Bats instead of working around them. He really didn’t want to end up on the Rogue list.