#Alicia is god

[mugentakeda]

couldnt stop thinking about this idea i had of lu tens spirit being tethered to his medal that zuko gave iroh at his funeral so hes now cursed to have a front row seat to all their life-threatening shenanigans without actually being able to do anything about it so hes the most stressed guardian spirit of all time

[lloydfrontera]

i'm about to be a bitch about alloyd so like. skip ahead if you're not into that ig.

the thing thats grinds me the most about alloyd is that,, we've seen lloyd plan out living the rest of his life at someone's side. we've seen him actively wish to spend the rest of eternity with someone. we've seen him think what sounds suspiciously like marriage vows about someone.

i am not joking or exaggerating here are the quotes:

That’s why, you bastard. I’m going to take care of you until the very end. Once I, your wise and older friend, solve the restoration of destiny problem, you’re going to enjoy the rest of your life by my side in peace. [...] He smiled at Javier and thought to himself. You’re my only friend, Javier. I couldn’t have overcome all the obstacles in front of me without your help. So, my trustworthy and reliable comrade, stick with me until I become a lazy lord and you become my personal guard. I hope we will be able to grow old together… -ch 327

Lloyd felt reassured by Javier's presence as he gazed at him. He could not have gotten this far without the knight. Therefore, he did not want to lose Javier and hoped they would keep bickering with each other for eternity. -ch 361

He thought he'd always be with Javier for the rest of his life. Just like now, he thought they'd spend all their time together moving forward. And like they always did, they'd be by each other's side during hard times. Happy moments. Relaxed days. They'd share all these moments as they exchanged insults and corny jokes, growing old as a lazy lord of a fiefdom and his knight. Lloyd always thought so. The thought just came naturally, without much effort from him, much like breathing. Lloyd believed that Javier would always remain by his side as that was how it had been until now. -ch 222

and at no point in any of those occasions has he ever sounded remotely afraid, threatened or uncomfortable with the idea.

so how come he is all of that when it comes to the idea of marrying what is supposed to be his canon love interest? like???

This is bad. Really bad. Terrible feelings struck his gut. Lloyd's lifelong wish was to find a rather ordinary woman to fall in love with, before getting married and having kids with her to lead an unremarkable family life. This was the extent of the luxury he had always dreamed of, not the frantic romance with the mightiest queen in the entire continent. I can see and feel it. I can sense it. This isn't good. Lloyd could see himself in the queen's pockets, like a scaredy cat in the presence of a ferocious lioness. -ch 390

Lloyd became speechless, even though he desperately wanted to call it an absolute abuse of power, tyranny, and dictatorship. But I'm kind of excited and glad... except what kind of marriage proposal is this threatening...?! But Lloyd couldn't bring it out in words, as his queen had already taken him by his hand. It was rough, yet warm. He could feel every heartbeat that was clearly pounding faster than usual. Ugh. There goes my dream of ordinary living. Lloyd quickly wiped off the tear that was about to fall from his eyes at the thought of the frightening romance. -ch 393

does this sound like someone in love???? like?? genuinely?? is this really what the main character should feel about his love interest???

i'm not even saying that the way lloyd feels about javier is inherently romantic, him feeling perfectly comfortable and hopeful about spending the rest of their life together is perfectly explicable by their close friendship.

but why make your protagonist sound so terrified of the idea of marrying what is supposed to be the love of his life?? when you never did that when writing about his other close relationship??

it's just. it's frustrating. to me lmao

[waitwhathelp]

You love to see it

[buttercupbuck]

it’s like i can feel time moving

[image description: five gifs of evan buckley from various episodes of 9-1-1.

gif 1: from season 3 episode 16. at a bar, buck sits in a booth with his arms crossed on the table as he talks with red, who is offscreen. in response to buck’s question, “so no grandkids for you?” red responds, “you’d have to have kids. i always thought i’d...i’d get around to it, but it just never happened, you know?” buck watches red as he talks and rubs a hand down his own arm.

gif 2: from season 3 episode 16. buck and maddie (offscreen) sit at his dining table. maddie says, “evan, you are not red. his life is not your future.” buck shakes his head and makes a wry expression as he insists, “you don’t know that.”

gif 3: from season 3 episode 18. after abby leaves the site of the train derailment in an ambulance with her fiance, eddie (offscreen) asks buck, “you okay?” buck doesn’t answer and instead just asks, “what’s next?”

gif 4: from season 4 episode 6. in the apparatus bay of the fire station, eddie (offscreen) says, “you’re allowed to give yourself some time, you know. to process.” buck says, “i know. i’m just tired of looking behind me. i’m ready to start thinking about the future.”

gif 5: from season 4 episode 8. offscreen, taylor says, “you ever think maybe you just need to be patient, let the universe come to you?” buck doesn’t say anything, just makes a subtle face and takes a sip of his coffee.

/end ID]

[may8chan]

Armour of God - Jackie Chan & Eric Tsang 1986

[sonnykissed]

An Incomplete Guide to Wrestler-Musicians

(Vol. 1: Punk/Hardcore/Metal/Hard Rock etc.)

Andy 'the Butcher' Williams - Every Time I Die

Brody King - God’s Hate

Amy ‘Lita’ Dumas - the Luchagors

Frankie Kazarian - Gutter Candy

Chris Jericho - FOZZY

MCMG - the High Crusade

Jeff Hardy - PeroxWhy?gen

Alicia Taylor - Dohrn

Vol 2. Rappers and Vol 3. Country and Pop *COMING SOON*

[aliasknives]

(i am large, i contain multitudes.) walt whitman, song of myself

“wishbone” by richard siken // "in the twenty-fifth year of marriage, it goes on" by alicia striker // the witch, dir. robert eggers // dune: messiah by frank herbert (in "the monomyth as fractal pattern in frank herbert's dune novels") // "judith slaying holofernes" by artemisia gentileschi // "flowers of evil" by charles baudelaire // georges bataille // "churching" by kristin chang

[parvuls]

but here's the thing:

bob zimmermann probably gets into bed that night, and stares at the ceiling and listens to his wife tapping on her phone and then to her turning on her side and then to her breaths as they even out slowly, and thinks: I did not fuck up my son's life.

because for a long, long time he thought he had. and for a long, long time the inescapable truth was that he actually almost had. the therapist they saw together while jack was in rehab was very big on analyzing blame, so he's been told many times that he couldn't shoulder the full responsibility over something so complex, but it was a hard thing to believe in the years after the overdose. because the truth was, he pushed his son too hard, and then didn't watch closely enough to protect him from the fall, and that was all on him.

and even after jack was out of physical danger, bob still worried. because his son was quick to push people away and slow to trust. because his son went right back to hockey like there had never been any other option, despite all that it put him through. because his son still seemed to think hockey was all there was, that hockey was all he was, and a big part of that was bob's fault. for all of bob's four cups, somehow he never managed to tell jack that his greatest and proudest achievements were him, and alicia, and their family.

and when they skyped (when jack agreed to skype with them for more than a few minutes at a time, which was at first almost never, and then occasionally, and then, unexpectedly, a regular thing), alicia would ask about jack's friends, and if he's seeing anyone, and about the latest screw or safety dance or spring c (bob never got the hang of all those college events, truthfully, although it did sound just as fun - and less risky - than his twenties), and jack would sometimes mumble something, or talk briefly about his teammates, or let shitty barge in and take over without answering. but more often than not jack would just say that he's too busy with pre-season; that he's too busy with practice; that he's too busy with playoffs; that he's too busy preparing for the next season.

but then --

he's serious about this, alicia said at dinner, and bob rubs that tight spot in the center of his chest and breathes. because that phone call made bob realize he'd been worried about that. had been worried jack spent his whole life thinking his father wasn't sure of his abilities as a player, when bob had been certain of jack's success all along; it was everything else bob was unsure about.

bob zimmermann gets into bed that night, knowing that there's someone out there looking out for his kid. someone out there making sure he knows he has value outside of being a hockey player. someone out there making him laugh and holding him when he cries, someone who jack opened up to, got to know, fell in love with, someone jack is serious enough about to share with alicia and him, when jack has never been one for sharing. and even if it ends (although - jack is, after all, bob's kid, and if he's right about how jack looks at bittle, and how bittle looks at jack, then bob's pretty sure it's not anything to worry about), at least jack would go back into the world knowing it's something he can have.

at least jack knows he's allowed to be happy. that's all bob ever wanted for him.

[puppetmoth]

The pilot was SO GOOD it only makes me hungry for more boondocks content but I know I'll never get it so fml

[mugentakeda]

after my long post rambling about the possibilities of eldest sibling lu ten it was only natural that i doodle him. He shouldve been at the club

[lloydfrontera]

hold on. hold the fuck up.

is that. is that javier's handkerchief. is lloyd wearing javier's signature color and his handkerchief to his wedding. is that what is happening here.

[checkeredshorts]

God, I fucking hate the otome isekai subreddit. (I know, I know, I'm just asking for pain by looking at it in the first place.) Feeling sympathy for the villainess and seeing her as a flawed human being instead of an irredeemable monster is literally the entire reason the genre exists in the first place

I feel like shoving a copy of Bakarina in everyone's faces because clearly it's not sinking in. It is actually shocking how little sympathy people on this subreddit have for any female character who isn't the female protagonist. Webtoon/Tapas commenters are somehow even worse and fly into a rage the moment a new female character appears, especially if she dares to exist in the same panel as the male lead.

I know that a lot of new otome isekai stories are often guilty of this too by just making the original female protagonist into the irredeemable monster instead. A non-zero number of otome isekai stories are intent on making sure there's a female strawman for you to hate and it's just the worst. Still, this comment sucks and I hate it.

We need more Marias, Helenas, and Alicias. We need fewer Charlottes and Debonaires.

[softavasilva]

Alicia Vikander as Mira Harberg Irma Vep 1.04 | The Poisoner

[monards]

me too alicia. me too

[may8chan]

Armour of God - Jackie Chan & Eric Tsang 1986

[wexpyke]

no but what was that finale… i miss longer shows so much… give us 22 episodes per season again!!! give us more time for character growth and relationship development and bring back fun filler episodes!!!! because what was this finale 😭