#you get the gist tho

[cye-wiz]

audio is army dreamers by kate bush

[sommerregenjuniluft]

there’s a little something about reading james’ characterization in older fics from 2010-2018 before the whole james sunshine potter developed. i love how he’s more arrogant and a cool aloof asshole in those it can be really refreshing. (aside from the fact that in most of those he’s mildly homophobic fjksks)

[crossmyheartwonttellnoother]

hc that andrew laughs but only at neil's deranged jokes

[luwha]

"You're not like other girls" WRONG. I am like all other girls. You guys just don't know what girls are like.

[somepinkthing]

Shapeshifter nie huaisang AU:

His mother was qinhe nie's spymaster, hired specifically for her unique cultivation ability to change into various shapes. She was a wanderer prior to settling down with her lovers, an experience that allowed her to throughly observe many different animals up close. So while she could become an array of animals (though mostly smaller, quiet ones), nie huaisang seemed to only ever be able to do birds. Or rather, he only seemed interested in doing birds and all his parental figures passed before they could enforce upon him the importance of branching out. As a result of his single-mindedness and artistic eye however, he can basically do any bird he sets his eyes on and replicates it better than even his mother could. He's even started to be able to converse with a few of the species he favors.

It doesn't really amount to much more than a cool party trick... until the wens start to up the ante. At first, it's just a handy way to get away. It isn't until the attack on the unclean realms that nie huaisang first takes advantage of his skill in the form of a giant vulture snagging the side of wen zhuiliu's face during the fight. It almost gives nie mingjue a heart attack but luckily the wens don't seem to realize that it's huaisang. The nie's don't exactly go around broadcasting their cultivation styles after all.

They do burn down his aviary in retaliation though. Which is... extremely upsetting actually. His mother had built that for him.

Then the indoctrination period comes around. Nie huaisang suddenly finds himself in a unique position of being the only one who can escape rather easily. When he fake faints, he fully intends to do so. But. But...

Wei wuxian who checked on him, jiang cheng who came to yell at him about staying hydrated, jin zixuan who awkwardly peaked into the sickroom, lan wangji who was injured and grieving and sadder than huaisang ever remembers seeing him. Even if he could leave them behind, there was still the small retinue of nies that came with him. For the first time in his life, he feels the weight of responsibility that comes with being someone with the ability to actually do something—to gather information, to search for escape routes, to snag some medical supplies. In this situation, he can actually help.

It sucks.

He'll do it but he's gonna complain

[gingersn4pp]

I love your thin man comic. And it makes so much sense. That mono’s heroism and drive to save others would get amplified and twisted as the thin man.

YESS thank you so much!!! You could say it was twisted by the transmission much like six was, but in his own escapist fantasy of heroics and adoration...though admittedly I think time and loneliness and agony are more than enough to make a monster out of anyone, no otherworldly forces necessary. (Though it certainly does help~)

The Thin Man rly encapsulates a lot of my favorite character tropes, being twisted by what once could have been called love and care, losing yourself to an image, a personification of what you wish to be, desperately reaching for ...what is it? Control? Attention? Connection, beyond the parasocial?

Who knows. I just think he's neat

[joyliit]

Shadow Milk redesign :D

I like his normal outfit a lot but I think he would wear a much louder one if you know what I mean

[flow2024]

An early review I’m assuming has now been deleted since I can’t find it anywhere mentioned that there could’ve been a better use of Nile and Quynh, the spectre of the big bad immortal undermined the premise of the immortality itself and the main relationships of the first movie. Which doesn’t sound promising. But it also said there were some strong threads of connection so idk. Holding out hope whilst expecting the worst I guess?

i typed out most of this and then tumblr ate it so i'm typing it again and may skim over some stuff BUT: in essence: while i was watching tog earlier what jumped out to me was the fact that despite being a netflix action movie, with all that entails, and kind of generic in places (said with all the love in my heart) tog does have a very strong thematic undercurrent. both in the conclusion the film comes to, which is we're not meant to be alone, and in the way it treats killing with a certain weight that this kind of movie doesn't always do. immortality is an integral part but also not really, in that i think rucka at one point made a comment about it originally being kind of an experiment in being able to kill off characters in various looney toons ways and still have them survive but became a story more widely about life and death and the way death gives life meaning. etc etc. which is clear in the first film, i think, especially with andy's loss of immortality and nile having a bigger role. it definitely fumbles sometimes but overall it's strong and, fundamentally, it Has A Point.

tog 2, however. first off when it comes to nile and quynh: noriko's arc in the comics is difficult to apply to tog 2, namely because it is in active conflict with andy's rediscovery of her purpose which has already happened, and because quynh is too complicated of a character to tie up easily in 100 mins. she's not a villain you can drop 17 storeys and call it a day. her anger is fully understandable. akasha is an easy big bad to have because she will be disposable at the end of the day and therefore leave a neater conclusion. plus andy has already had her purpose arc so introducing akasha means introducing new information (it seems?) which will shift things and allow for the we help humans vs humans suck conflict. etc

i wouldn't be super surprised if they just didn't know what to do with nile. she's a foil to andy in the first movie and helps that arc by setting up a mentor + mentee, ex immortal + new immortal, old + young kind of thing but that arc again is over. so like. beyond her settling into immortality and becoming more integral to the group i don't know how much she's going to get to do, especially in competition with a lot more information and characters in 100 minutes. which sucks because I Want To See My Girl and i think elements of her plot line from force multiplied, i.e. the other side of depends on the century, learning that they have made bad choices and needing to reconcile that with herself could be interesting. i haven't seen any of the clips by the way and if that's where they seem to be going don't tell me i want to go in blind! but yeah. i hope she's there more but if not ill be very annoyed. the being half cropped out of the thumbnail ain't boding well

generally i fear tog 2 is going to suffer from a bad case of missing the point. its general plot seems to revolve around Immortality Information We Don't Know Yet, but again, the immortality isn't and has never been the point. it's a storytelling device. it's used to explore purpose, whether what we do matters, etc. it's Not The Point Of The Story. but from the trailer alone (which may well be misleading, they often are) i fear it's not going to have that same strength in its themes that made the first film stand out and instead become a generic superhero action thing. as a recorded skeptic. i'll be having fun regardless and my expectations are on the ground so if it is good i'll be pleasantly surprised but i also haven't actually processed that the movie is going to be real and on my screen so who knows maybe it'll be awesome. at the end of the day, it will feature The Character on my screen which is really all that matters

[qteachoice]

Caught

[skullfaggot]

and a happy tummy tuesday to all who celebrate

[dexaroth]

@crazysodomite i've made two prototypes of the layout you wanted, with a lot of comments inside the source html explaining the structure! i fear i might not have commented the stuff that i'm so familiar with that i forgot is not common knowledge, but feel free to ask me anyways :3

making this as a separate post so that i can attach these beauties i downloaded a while ago. the supreme visual guide B^)

[kirsctein]

hi! amazon is removing the option to download kindle book files on your device from Feb 26th onwards. some people (like me :)) are already unable to do so. you will only be able to transfer kindle books to your devices via wifi/data. please download the files on your computer if you can

go to your amazon account -> content & devices -> more actions -> download & transfer via USB

! you can still of course access the books you have bought (as long as amazon does not delete the book), but you will not be able to own the file outside the kindle ecosystem. please backup the files you own!

some sources: TheVerge, youtube 1, youtube 2, reddit

[the-kipsabian]

twitch dot tv slash thekipsabian

[m-siecle]

there might be an opportunity on the horizon for me to grow as a person, get a grip on my feelings and face what in all fairness should be, at most, a mildly awkward situation in a mature, healthy way... But to be super honest I kinda don't want to? I'm hoping I can avoid the whole thing so I can keep being petty and small-minded and I guess unattractively insecure about it

[minetteskvareninova]

I sincerely hope Overly Sarcastic Productions will someday do a video on Slavic mythology. Just so Red gains some sort of gratitude for our sources on Nordic and Celtic mythology.

[thatgirlwithasquid]

OH! I entirely forgot, but @sheena-is-a-punk-rocker I filmed Ghost struggling with carrying a walnut for u :)

there is a cut cause I stopped filming for a sec thinking he needed help and literally as i did that he managed it lol