#Charge and Chat

[the-forest-library]

kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it

[paperbackribs]

[wombywoo]

moody gaze compilation 👁️

[merakiui]

Mera, I just read your response to the 'rent Ruggie as your boyfriend' question, and I had an amusing idea. You are from another world and really have a low grasp on what money here is worth. You are going to pay him and shove a wad of bills into his hand and bashfully say, "Just make sure I get about this much in value out of this." Only, you've mixed up your thaumarks and madol and accidently paid him a great sum... like half the yearly budget Crowley gave you for Ramshackle. Ruggie looks at the cash in surprise. Well, you clearly want a full boyfriend experience out of this. He is a hyena of his word, so of course he has to give you what you are asking for...

Omg omg yes!!!!! He’ll pocket all of that money and put in work to give you the best experience worth all that cash. >:) at this point, almost anything’s on the table. You need him to be your stand-in to meet your “parents” (i.e. the NRC staff and faculty)? He’s dressing his best. You need a date to an event? He’s there and he’ll do anything you ask of him (handholding? Done. Cheek kisses? Done. Cute nicknames? Sure, he can stomach that).

Good morning/good night texts? He’s got that covered. He’s even gone as far as adding a little heart to your contact name in his phone so it’s fully immersive. <3 Ruggie realizes you probably wouldn’t even realize if he scammed you because you’ve yet to learn the rates and worth of the money in Twisted Wonderland, but somehow he just can’t bring himself to do that when he sees how giddy you get over these little things. ^^;;; he’s not “going soft”!!! He’s just………being a good (rental) boyfriend. Yeah. That’s all.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

wild things happening on my team tonight

[hplonesomeart]

Behold more Puzzle art has been created again at long last! He always out here chasing those twinkling stars like the crazed attention driven diva he be ✨ Should we be concerned…?

This was the initial sketch for it by the way. His eyebrows read more clearly here. The color scheme was largely in part inspired by a mixture of the Queerplatonic flag AND the album cover/art for The Circe Saga of EPIC the Musical lol. I’m not even a part of the fandom surrounding it but the animatics people have been cooking up for the songs are so damn cool. I keep going back to them again and again AUUUUGH love when people add their creative spins on the characters featured in those <3

But hey there’s some pinks in here so maybe it can be subconsciously correlated to Valentines too? I don’t know I just like the swirly pink & yellow + purple & white (Fluttershy x Rarity palate lookin combo). Funky vibrant colors tickle my brain :3

[scorpionoesit]

"Extra! Extra! Read all about it: Braided Realities is Getting an Update?! Not Clickbait?!?!!*!@#%*@#$%^&"

Just to show you guys how unhinged obsessed dedicated Ali~Beta is to Braided Realities, they locked me in a virtual room for three and a half hours while drawing (and vaguely explaining) this.

The unhinged part being that this entire thing is backstory referencing a Braided prequel fic that hasn't even been written yet, that is only relevant to the next two chapters because OF A SINGLE CONVERSATION!

Ali~Beta: "Technically it's, like three conversations—"

Scorpio: "...."

Ali~Beta & Scorpio: (* °ヮ°)  (눈_눈)

Anyways, enjoy deciphering/theorizing about this hot mess.

[motsimages]

As per Tumblr recommendation, I started Kevin can fuck himself yesterday. I see people comment on how the sitcom part makes it look the way people see an abuser and how the abuse can be disguised. People think he is just a funny guy and the abuse goes unnoticed. I personally see it otherwise, although it's similar.

People know he is an asshole. He spends a whole episode being mean to the new neighbours just because. He meets a dangerous guy at a bar, in public. He is an alcoholic who throws weird parties with lots of other people at home. Patty's boyfriend tells her twice in the 3 or 4 conversations we see that he is an idiot. People know, and people avoid him.

And his bubble know, but they justify it and excuse it. And that's the sitcom. The sitcom is the theater of excuses Allison has (and then other characters too) about his behaviour.

"Can you believe it? We were in our anniversary, such a fun party, we were both super drunk and I don't know how it ended, that I was face down on the floor and the table was broken! Anniversa-rager we call it lol"

"He is such a clumsy guy that just as I was leaving the house, you won't believe that I don't know how he managed to cover me in chilli sauce! What a silly goose!"

"He is so helpless without me, he couldn't find the printer and he called me all day because he needed me to explain to him how to work it. And he worries too! He called the cops because he didn't know where I was, maybe I forgot to tell him".

The conversations with her coworker about husbands help drive this point. That's what mariage is. You find ways to justify it and to avoid certain fights and that's it. We got lucky.

But he did all these things on purpose. And the unreliable narrator of the sitcom makes the joke of it and makes the audience consider that maybe it isn't *that bad*. Allison needs to believe that's what it is, so it is. It really isn't that bad, she thinks, he is just like that.

And we can actually see the worrying things and the threatening parts from minute one. It's only a joke because we have been trained to dismiss it. To justify it and to move on. He isn't doing any heavy lifting here.

In episode 1, just the fact that he ends up standing on the table (when she doesn't want him to even put glasses on without protection) says a lot. But then the table breaks and he fixes it poorly and visibly. It would be bad enough just like this, but I personally think there is more to it. It's just that Allison doesn't want to speak about it or look at it so it is just the table, but it's the switch that turns on for her, the last drop. But she did end face down on her living room, on top of the broken table. It's a very elegant narrative tool where we don't see, but if we wanted to see, it's there.

And the more she notices, the more off-putting the sitcom is. It's still played as a joke, with the laugh track, but she is more aware now, so we can notice too.

We start the series with her turning point, but if the series started a year before that, it would only be happening in her house, as it is her life, her only frame of reference, and it would only be a sitcom because isn't he such a clumsy but caring guy?

[archie-sunshine]

People who advertise bao buns but serve me the most dry, geemy steamed white bread dough: I’m coming to your house with a gun. Don’t piss me off. That is not a bao. You fucking liars.

[shaolin-spin-doctor]

oh by the way shoutout to the people responsible for Snow Blind for making old man Subscorp canon

[naofina]

Red Moon

[stressfulsloth]

I love lilienne Carter so much.... always thinking about her and the fishing village and how lonely she is even though she doesn't ever say it outright. But in that cinderblock house, out of the way of central martinaise, spending so much time either with her kids or alone on the boat out at sea. Alone in the middle of a group. Kind of starved for adult conversation; there's only so much you can say to a couple of little ones. She says to Harry at one point that she's surprised they're alone on their date- "It's mid-noon and the sun is out. I expected more drunks, or teenagers. Or drunk teenagers." She's fond of the moribund alcoholics- Rosemary gave her the fish hook earrings- and she seems to get on with Isobel too but despite that, parenting three "little monsters" alone must be exhausting no matter how much she loves them. How often is she just alone with the kids, prioritizing looking after them and bringing home food for them, over processing any grief she might have about her husband, over adult friendships. Shouldering the constant worry on her own. Alone amongst people who can't really understand her?

[a-flaming-idiot]

Chat Noir ordering in the Dupain-Cheng Bakery: "Could I get an apple FURitter? Your baking is just too PURfect to resist, mouse~" Multimouse, balancing the to-go-bag on her head: "For you, it's on the mouse."

[moony-buckets]

Lord help me-

while I love good celestial themed robot, I have an entire subcategory of characters I simp for and that is best buy.

why, you ask???

Send help.

[miraculousdeservesbetter2024]

Chloe is a child. She doesn’t get to make adult decisions, no matter how “spoiled rotten” you think she is.

But Andre IS an adult. He gets to make adult decisions.

And as an adult, you don’t let a child make them for you.