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Being one of the people who got to enjoy the Elrics, I thought I would share the pictures I made because if I didn't have them I sure would appreciate seeing others show them. So. Here are the pictures:

The ones below imply elricest, so, if that's not for you, please feel free to skip them, as you've been warned beforehead.

That's all! I hoep the pics will have brought someone some joy! Cheers!

Ohhh I'm going to buy these figures and make them kiss so much....

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Guess I'll never be free of this ship.

Now that I think of it, the very format of DA2 made it impossible for me to move on to anything else (at least in terms of video games).

Hawke's story took about 7 years.

They gave us a love story that was developing over the course of at least six years - not one or two which appears to be the norm for an adventure.

We saw Hawke and Fenris meet, slowly get closer, gradually develop deep trust and affection for each other, break up to figure themselves out, pine for each other, and finally get back together to the point where you know nothing will be able to keep them apart.

I just can't imagine anything that could ever beat that.

I am ruined forever.

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Dragon Age II loading screens.

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on running motifs & Lu Guang:

- Cheng Xiaoshi's always just a little faster, a little better, always a little out of reach. His fingers just can't touch him sometimes.

- Lu Guang's always caught in a mix of momentary awe and envy whenever Cheng Xiaoshi pulls off a brilliant plan on the spot that somehow works. (think Red Eyes, almost saving Emma, the Liu Siwen fight)

Falls in love just a little bit more with Cheng Xiaoshi each time he shows him something can change. Something's he's never been able to account for on his own, despite all the overthinking he does.

- Even at the boat scene - rewind or not, he knows he can't catch up to save Cheng Xiaoshi, he's probably failed at it himself. So he leaves him one last clean chance, a photo for him to do it himself.

- Their first meeting is Cheng Xiaoshi inviting him to play - holding his hand out. Join him, he asks. Run with me. Play this game with me, won't you? Lu Guang is hesitant to join (why is he on the court in the first place?), hesitant to even return Cheng Xiaoshi's friendliness although the game goes well.

- "Why so serious? It's just a game." - Is pre-CXS Lu Guang that aloof, or is that just rewind!Lu Guang speaking? Has he already ruined them by interfering at the very first time they meet?

Is he just protecting his own heart here, trying not to get too attached?

- Also consider the "I don't lose basketball games. Ever." CXS dunk scene + cut to Lu Guang remembering how they first met, then finally reminding him (and himself) that this isn't his life. But for that one moment he hears that, he's filled with hope again somehow - maybe somehow Cheng Xiaoshi could actually fix things? It's maybe why he gives in to let him "try" to save the mother - a small tiny burning hope in him that he wouldn't ever admit.

anyway, tldr: Lu Guang can never catch up with Cheng Xiaoshi, and he knows it from the very start. It's exactly what draws him to Cheng Xiaoshi over, and over, and over again ("What I see in him? He asked me to play") He answers honestly when Qiao Ling prods him again: "Maybe it's because he's naive". That light, that hope, that want to reach for something more - despite the way everything is. Maybe he can change things.

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Please, give us the so deserved sexy TaiBani kiss!

Well... it didn't turn out sexy - sadly 🗿 - but here you go! 💖 I couldn't decide which one's better so I'll upload 2 versions!

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the sillies

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thinking about how we talk a lot about the relationships of taibani since they do make a huge part of the shows and the shows does a great job of making every single character human. but taibani also does have a fun plot and worldbuilding. so why dont we talk about those (except for spoiler reasons?) i personally think it’s because taibani’s plot isn’t innovative per se - in many ways it even takes a lot of classic ideas - so we feel like there’s not that much to say about it. what taibani has instead is excellent story-telling. it tells a story that can be found elsewhere but in its own masterful way, with organic characters and lots and lots of its own style in the minute details, so it’s very difficult to talk about its plot without the accompanying experience of watching it.

and that’s why we fall back on the relationships when we gush i guess (which i dont mind. i love love love those organic characters and how they intertwine)

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jim is just too cute

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And how can the world want me to change ?

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Treasure Planet dump 💙 One of my faves!

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Ok I hate it but I promised you guys so there you have it

Silver's not dead btw I was trying to show that the memory of his teachings lead Jim to- nevermind you got it

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New pinned

My situation isn’t good enough for me to close commission, so here’s my current prices !  Please bear in mind that I have delays due to having an existing queue and chronic illness, but I’m always open to update you and I do my best to complete your commission within a reasonable time frame.

I am open to drawing many things, so don’t hesitate to ask if you’re unsure ! 

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Reblogs are welcome, and if you want to support me without taking a commission, I also have a ko-fi here !

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Aang's forgiveness @ Zuko always hits me so hard and I think it's because it's more than forgiveness. I think Aang truly understands where Zuko is coming from on an almost painful level.

I mean like, if someone told Aang there was a way he could go back home, that there was a way to bring back all the people he lost, how much would Aang be willing to do for that? How much of himself would he lose and sacrifice just for that chance?

Also, when Zuko comes to ask to join them the second time, he says "I've been through a lot in the past few years, and it's been hard. But I'm realizing that I had to go through all those things to learn the truth. I thought I had lost my honor, and that somehow my father could return it to me."

This sounds like the mash up of a few things Aang has said, from when he met baby Hope, "I've been going through a really hard time lately," (a hard time that has led to him doing things he regrets) and when he woke up after Ba Sing Se "I need to redeem myself. I need my honor back." (An idea that led to him making a bad decision) Aang knows that it has been the process of going through these struggles that have made him who he is.

And then to quote some tags from @theavatarandthefirelord from this post "#he's thinking about their relationship esp since their moments in The Storm/The Blue Spirit #also the way aang sees himself reflected in zuko as well #primarily with him burning katara but also moments like in The Desert #and losing control in the Avatar State"

Aang also relates to Zuko's anger issues. He intimately knows the mindset that leads someone to do bad things and, unlike the others (for example Katara) Aang also understand the guilt and regret that comes after it, the same guilt and regret Zuko shows in this scene.

Zuko doesn't just explain himself, he explains Aang as well.

I love the forgiveness trope that's so often featured in this ship, esp in fics, and part of why I love it is because it's not blind forgiveness, it's 'I've been there, and I could've gone down similar paths given different circumstances, to forgive you is to forgive myself'

And I just think that's so beautiful.

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I love fanfic authors. I read a fic once and the author said they had the friend who is a real nuclear physicist teach them all about this radioactive compound and how it reacts with different materials so that their fic could be accurate. It was smut.

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New #screwtio fic (screwllum x ratio ship)

Screwllum POV! 🦋

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« To mention the global loss of biodiversity, that is to say, the disappearance of life on our planet, as one of our problems, along with air pollution or ocean acidification, is absurd—like a doctor listing the death of his patient as one symptom among others.

The ecological catastrophe cannot be reduced to the climate crisis. We must think about the disappearance of life in a global way. About two-thirds of insects, wild mammals and trees disappeared in a few years, a few decades and a few millennia, respectively. This mass extinction is not mainly caused by rising temperatures, but by the devastation of natural habitats.

Suppose we managed to invent clean and unlimited energy. This technological feat would be feted by the vast majority of scientists, synonymous in their eyes with a drastic reduction in CO2 emissions. In my opinion, it would lead to an even worse disaster. I am deeply convinced that, given the current state of our appetites and values, this energy would be used to intensify our gigantic project of systemic destruction of planetary life. Isn't that what we've set out to do—replace forests with supermarket parking lots, turn the planet into a landfill? What if, to cap it all, energy was free?

[...C]limate change has emerged as our most important ecological battle [...] because it is one that can perpetuate the delusional idea that we are faced with an engineering problem, in need of technological solutions. At the heart of current political and economic thought lies the idea that an ideal world would be a world in which we could continue to live in the same way, with fewer negative externalities. This is insane on several levels. Firstly because it is impossible. We can't have infinite growth in a finite world. We won't. But also, and more importantly, it is not desirable. Even if it were sustainable, the reality we construct is hell. [...]

It is often said that our Western world is desacralised. In reality, our civilisation treats the technosphere with almost devout reverence. And that's worse. We perceive the totality of reality through the prism of a hegemonic science, convinced that it “says” the only truth.

The problem is that technology is based on a very strange principle, so deeply ingrained in us that it remains unexpressed: no brakes are acceptable, what can be done must be done. We don't even bother to seriously and collectively debate the advisability of such "advances". We are under a spell. And we are avoiding the essential question: is this world in the making, standardised and computed, overbuilt and predictable, stripped of stars and birds, desirable?

To confine science to the search for "solutions" so we can continue down the same path is to lack both imagination and ambition. Because the “problem” we face doesn't seem to me, at this point, to be understood. No hope is possible if we don't start by questioning our assumptions, our values, our appetites, our symbols... [...] Let's stop pretending that the numerous and diverse human societies that have populated this planet did not exist. Certainly, some of them have taken the wrong route. But ours is the first to forge ahead towards guaranteed failure. »

— Aurélien Barrau, particle physicist and philosopher, in an interview in Télérama about his book L'Hypothèse K