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Mira and Zoey meeting Jinu’s tiger for the first time~ 🥰

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NEVER GIVE UP

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new beginnings

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I finished it.

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Am I the only person in the world who still HTML codes their AO3 fics manually? Like, I genuinely don't know how y'all make the rich text side work for you. Every time I try it, it fucks up my formatting. So I just...stopped trusting it. Also, coding my fics manually gives me a chance for one last sweep for editing, which is nice, since I don't often use betas.

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If you give this woman money, it will go to transphobic causes. If you give this woman a platform, she will use it to boost transphobic causes. This isn't a "well nobody's perfect" or "well x other creator also did something bad once" situation, this is an inordinate amount of influence for a creator to have, and supporting her by word or wallet actively hurts trans people.

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jesus, i have tried to explain the way this scene made me feel to multiple friends, and i have never been able to find the right words to adequately express it; OP just hit the nail on the head, every single piece of it

the reacher is maelle at her worst and also her strongest. she lets alicia's weakness, a fear of heights, control any enjoyment she could have with the wonder of the place. she brushes off the gift of wings--wings!--with a shrug. maelle never had any problem with heights before. she loved traveling across rooftops, loved being up in the hanging gardens with gustave, and even had no problem sitting on a cliff's edge with sciel, watching the night sky. but it's only after she remembers she is alicia does she let that fear override her, a fear she mentions so blithely as to take it as a fact that cannot be denied or changed. she laughs as nevrons kill each other, so disconnected from the consequences of these creatures fighting each other. maelle, the one from the start of the game, wouldn't find that funny. she might be surprised, but not amused. not entertained.

she is strong enough to separate herself from painted alicia, strong enough to know where they connect and can understand each other; strong enough to know that painted alicia deserves her chance to speak (figuratively), deserves a chance to decide what to do now that her painted family is all but gone. she remembers her life as alicia, uses that to empathize with painted alicia, and through that assumes (rightly) what her painted self wants more than anything. she is able to look at painted alicia and not be afraid. maelle is able to look at painted alicia and know that she deserves freedom, she deserves what to say and do about her life. especially since she let go (literally) of her dream (the letter verso gave back to her).

but maelle is cruel. she doesn't even considering giving verso a chance to say goodbye, doesn't even look at him as she puts painted alicia through the gommage. she looks at painted alicia fade with an expression that is almost terrifying in its ambiguity--is she disgusted? does she feel anything? is she proud of what she did? does she feel better? worse? does she feel triumphant, that yes, finally, the last hurdle of aline's painted family has been stricken from the canvas? that yes, finally, the other sister is gone, and now verso is hers? verso, who introduces the expedition to the area by saying "my sister is at the top." his sister. his family.

when verso grieves and tries to explain to maelle that his whole family is gone, maelle insists that he has her now and that's where she is perhaps at her worst, which is so heartbreaking. verso means his family, the painted family, the replicas of the living, breathing dessendres. they're all gone. the family he's known for his century in the canvas are gone. but maelle doesn't see that. she sees that she has family now, finally--but she doesn't want the family waiting for her outside the canvas. she doesn't want the living, breathing family. the freedom of being in the world again, of changing her life, of growing and healing. she rejects the wings made for her. she wants the painted brother. she wants the little doll she can cling to in a world where nothing and no one can take him away.

it makes me wonder how maelle would feel--maelle without alicia's memories. maelle, who only knew gustave and emma as family. what would maelle say about this? we can't know. we'll never know. that maelle is gone, completely. and that's its own kind of death.

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just focus on the tiger, focus on the chonky tiger I say 🥲

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Ohhh, bless the new Superman movie for giving me back the boy scout who believes in the innate goodness of humanity. Who thrives in the sunlight. Who thinks of himself as a servant to the world.

Bless it for giving us a smart and insightful and nuanced Lois Lane, who asks the difficult questions about power and privilege, even of those she loves. Perhaps especially of those she loves. The Lois who is a hero in her own right, on her own merits.

Bless it for Me Terrific, who was honestly terrific, and for Lex Luthor, who dripped his narcissism and rage with such convincing characterization.

Bless it for the small, charming moments from Perry, and Jimmy, and the Kents themselves, who actually seemed like Kansas farmers and not beautiful Hollywood actors wearing plaid.

Bless it... And I can believe I'm saying this... For Krypto. Who was actually value added to this delightful movie.

Superman was a delight. I have missed seeing Clark this way. Thank you cast, crew, writers, and all. I appreciate you.

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Just updated my Ao3 profile and realised it’s old enough to legally drive in the US. 😂

Got it in March 2010 and the user ID is four digits long.

Reblog with when you got your Ao3 account and how long your user ID is.

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They would have understood each other so well…….

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Shadow of my shadow Cling not to my grief I am long left behind now You are free I hold you in my arms And it's farther than you've ever been Little one

Take my offering My promise can never be undone

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"is it weird to miss someone you never met?"

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I'm not much of a food ordering person on a regular basis BUT this applies to being a regular anywhere. I was enough of a regular at my comic book shop back in new england that now, every year when I'm visiting home at Christmas and stop in, the owner gives me a discount on whatever I want to buy, and he always offers me one of his extra vendor badges to a con he travels to Pittsburgh for every summer. I also go hunting around used bookstores and used media shops pretty regularly, and a bunch of them know me now and always ask me if there's anything they should keep an eye out for me in case it comes in. It's a nice feeling of both connection and appreciation. BE A REGULAR! It's great!

i see posts here about how people are so mortified when they are acknowledged as being a regular customer somewhere that they never return. cowards. the employees at taco bell treat me like a celebrity. like royalty. i am their strange little pet customer who gets traded along as staff comes and goes. they know my car before i even speak in the drive-thru speaker. today i was 2 hours late and she ran over and squealed that she "thought i'd left them!" and that she "made my order with extra love!" and you what, she did

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What a movie!! 🤩 Had to draw my favorite characters!

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Clea Dessendre

Hello to the eldest daughter of all time.

This was supposed to be a Leyendecker coloring study but it turned to me making a new coloring style 😭

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