#<- SORRY I COULDNT THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE

[jakejeffreyperalta]

when the sunshine character is associated with the moon and the moon character is associated with the sun...

[longdaytogo]

draco as a parent

not that harry is the "fun parent" but I imagine he just lets his kids experience everything he would have wanted at that age without realizing it's not particularly safe or child friendly which is why draco sometimes has to play the overprotective parent role

[felsicveins]

Otto would die happy if put in a Bruce + Clay sandwich

Too bad, this little gay will continue living

[galacticlamps]

ok I have A Lot of thoughts about the staircase confession (well really about Edwin's whole character arc, but all roads lead to rome) but for now I just wanna say that, yes, I was bracing myself for something to go terribly wrong when I first watched it, and yes, part of me was initially worried its placement might be an uncharacteristically foolish choice made in the name of Drama or Pacing or Making a Compelling Episode of Television but at the expense of narrative sense--

But I wanna say that having taken all that into account, and watched it play out, and sat with it - and honestly become rather transfixed by it - I really think it's a beautifully crafted moment and truly the only way that arc could've arrived at such a satisfying conclusion.

And if I had to pinpoint why I not only buy it but also have come to really treasure it, I'd have to put it down to the fact that it genuinely is a confession, and nothing else.

That moment is an announcement of what Edwin has come to understand about himself, but because it takes the form of a character admitting romantic feelings for such a close friend, I think it can be very easy, when writing that kind of thing, to imbue it with other elements like a plea or a request or even the start of a new relationship that, intentionally or not, would change the shape of the moment and can quickly overshadow what a huge deal the telling is all on its own. But that's not the case here. Since it is only a confession, unaccompanied by anything else, and since we see afterward how it was enough, evidently, to fix the strangeness that had grown between him & Charles, we're forced to understand that it was never Edwin's feelings that were actually making things difficult for him - it was not being able to tell Charles about them. 'Terrified' as he's been of this, Edwin learns that his feelings don't need to either disappear completely or be totally reciprocated in order for him to be able to return to the peace, stability, and security of the relationship with which he defines his existence - and the scale of that relief a) tells us a hell of a lot about Edwin as a character and b) totally justifies the way his declaration just bursts out of him at what would otherwise be such a poorly chosen moment, in my opinion.

Whether or not they are or ever could be reciprocated, Edwin's feelings are definitively proven not to be the problem here - only his potential choice to bottle it up - his repression - is. And where that repression had once been mainly involuntary, a product of what he'd been through, now that he's got this new awareness of himself, if he still fails to admit what he's found either to himself or to the one person he's so unambiguously close with, then that repression will be by his own choice and actions.

And he won't do that. Among other things, he's coming into this scene having just (unknowingly) absolved the soul of his own school bully and accidental killer by pointing out a fact that is every bit as central to his self-discovery as anything about his sexuality or his attraction to Charles is: the idea that "If you punish yourself, everywhere becomes Hell"

So narratively speaking, of course it makes sense that Edwin literally cannot get out of Hell until he stops punishing himself - and right now, the thing that's torturing him is something he has control over. It's not who he is or what he feels, but what he chooses to do with those feelings that's hurting him, and he's even already made the conscious choice to tell Charles about them, he was just interrupted. But now that they're back together and he's literally in the middle of an attempt to escape Hell, there is absolutely no way he can so much as stop for breath without telling Charles the truth. Even the stopping for breath is so loaded - because they're ghosts, they don't need to breathe, but also they're in Hell, so the one thing they can feel is pain, however nonsensical. And Edwin certainly is in pain. But whether he knows what he's about to do or not when he says he 'just needs a tick,' a breather is absolutely not what's gonna give him enough relief to keep climbing - it's fixing that other hurt, though, that will.

Like everything else in that scene, there's a lot of layers to him promising Charles "You don't have to feel the same way, I just needed you to know" - but I don't think that means it isn't also true on a surface level. It's the act of telling Charles that matters so much more than whatever follows it, and while that might have gone unnoticed if anything else major had happened in the same conversation, now we're forced to acknowledge its staggering and singular importance for what it is. The moment is well-earned and properly built up to, but until we see it happen in all its wonderful simplicity, and we see the aftermath (or lack thereof, even), we couldn't properly anticipate how much of a weight off Edwin's shoulders merely getting to share the truth with Charles was going to be, why he couldn't wait for a better, safer opportunity before giving in to that desire, or how badly he needed to say it and nothing else - and I really, really love the weight that act of just being honest, seen, and known is given in their story/relationship.

[tomatoart]

one shot click click click reload reload reload

[meshimellow]

bunnies following the silver string of fate to heaven

[applejuiceyjuice-art]

(via @jadetuin)

[lokh]

please vote for ultimate malewife anji mito

also transparent just for fun purposes =3c feel free to use lmao

[horrorknife]

hey guys. what do you think about how the color red is used to signify control in 2001 a space odyssey. what do you think about hal, with his many control nerves spanning the entire ship, whose continued existence is perpetuated by a red light? what do you think about dave’s red spacesuit, reinforcing that he is the mission commander? what do you think about the palette inside hal’s control room bathing dave in red light, hal’s blood, as he is forced to lobotomize him in order to gain back control? to survive and to evolve?

[85-rend]

was trying to think of what animals my ocs would be and immediately it was agreed on that Zachary is a stoat I cant explain why but that is true

[clover-seedz]

wawa week day 2- official art!!

this is very goofy but i couldnt think of anything else i just love seri fishing memes

[trainingdummyrabbit]

☕️ Angela Lobotomy Corporation specifically

this post prettymuch

but hm hm hmmmm... lobcorp specifically... very difficult t come up with anything other than 'i love her i love her so much so so much i love her' because i do i do i do. but iguess if i were to elaborate..

she as a concept is so full of love, to me, but a very specific melancholy kind. theres so so much going on there and th Intricacies and the Situations but also i so badly just wanna give her hands a little squeeze and tell her i believe in her, yknow. playing thru lobcorp is a very particular brand of Difficult because every time she shows up whatever iwas thinking abt is Out The Window there she is there she is angelaaaa angela hi angela iloveyou!!!! every time she says literally anything i just have to. head in hands. auauauhghg

she feels like cold light through shutters, to me. a particular kind of calm stillness. th whir of an ac unit or maybe a ceiling fan. little bird. i literally cannot come up with anything other than I Would Literally Kill For Her. any time i try to come up w something it just circles back around. she means so much to me. i want to tuck her into my shirt pocket while i go out for errands. enrichment, or something.

tldr she can do whatever she wants forever i am correct and NOT taking arguments at this time. explodes u with my mind.

[marcsnuffy]

I don't think that differently about Kaiser now

[cozystars]

The one who carries the Mushroom Kingdom on her shoulders.

[mudshadow]

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[0809sysblings]

Grief.