#I do not own any of these pictures

[takenbythestarcatchers]

Happy Wagner Wednesday 🤘🏻

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[tswwwit]

I feel like if Dipper were ever reincarnated as a demon, he wouldn't fit in super well with the others. Yes, he's been raised to vie for power and step on everyone in his way using whatever means is necessary - it's the same toxic bizz as when he was a human, appealing to gender norms. He's tougher, scarier, more powerful (than ordinary humans, that is), but when it comes to asserting control - being Evil - he doesn't have it in him. Given enough time, I think he'd grow pretty vocal about leaving living things alone. NOT torturing organisms for the hell of it, or stealing people's souls, or conquering planets. Sure, he's a demon. That's no excuse to be a MONSTER.

It's a VERY unpopular opinion amongst neighboring demons, and rumor spreads fast about the Goody Two-Shoed Activist imp raining on everyone's blood-splattered parade, so much so that it makes it to Bill, who's immediately intrigued. Call it intuition, but only one soul's capable of overriding goddamn demon nature for some preachy bullshit about "Doing Good." Lucky for him, demons occupy the same plane of existence, so all it really takes to verify the guy is a snap of his fingers, and POOF! He's floating right next to him. Sure enough, Dipper's fashioned himself a new and improved demonic form, and it is lovely!

No one likes Dipper's kumbaya "Can't We All Just Get Along" ideology, but Bill's almost instantly smitten with the guy, whoever he is, so he's gotta be at least somewhat powerful. Demons take notice when the all-powerful Bill Cipher starts lending his time (and magic?) to some low-leveler like Dipper. Is he being blackmailed? Are they working together? No. Not possible. Bill doesn't "work" with anyone, save for whatever human catches his eye every few decades. Doesn't look to be doing him any benefit, either. The opposite, even. Lending power to a saint like Dipper only makes it harder to cause chaos, after all. Why would he actively go against his OWN best interest to cater some imp's? It's almost like he's. He's.

A henchmen.

(Bill's also 30% more affectionate the first month they reunite, because he still can't believe that his adorable little human husband came back as the same SPECIES as him! He'd never complain over having a sweet human to squeeze, but one with teeth and claws and cute pointy ears doesn't hurt).

[arsenicflame]

stede is 'oh this place has something related to my interest i must go in immediately' autistic and izzy is 'if we deviate one inch from my plan for today i will murder someone' autistic

[can-of-slorgs]

I'm personally blaming @starbiology and everyone who has reblogged or commented the other piece for this.

Bonus comic featuring my grundo:

[perpetuallylocked]

- - - make me choose, nancy drew style - - -

- - - anonymous asked harper thornton or charlotte thornton? - - -

[iamumbra195]

Does Marianna have a job? If so what sort of job does she have? I don't know if she would work because she seems very easily triggered by the mention of her husband's death and her co-workers or supervisors would probably ask after her and her family and she obviously copes by repressing and denying the fact that Ethan was dead so that wouldn't go over very well. But that's dependent on when she began to deny that her husband was dead...

Do you think she wasn't going to work for so long that Taylor and Tyler started to go hungry (based on those panels in Chapter 48)? Do you think Tyler scrounged for food in the fridge and pantry for so long, naively hoping that one day his mom would wake up and be herself again? Do you think that one day Marianna woke up in the morning and got ready for work and Tyler could finally feel the weight lifting off his shoulder for a moment before his mom turned to him with the brightest smile she's had on her face since his dad got sick and asked if Ethan had gone to work before her and it all came crashing down? Do you think that he could only stare at her bright smile and the lively look in her eyes and swallow the guilt that suffocated him as he lied to her for the first of many times to come because he knew that it was the only way to survive and stay together as a family? Do you think he took care of all the household chores Ethan used to cover to keep up the ruse? Do you think he learned to cook just like his dad, even if he didn't really know how to use a knife or use the stove and sometimes burned or cut himself, lying to Marianna about where he got the injuries from?

How many times do you think he and Taylor lied to Marianna about Ethan's whereabouts, even as their guilt and grief grew heavier with every lie? But what else could they do? They were only kids and had no close family that was willing to support them. It was the only way that they could all stay together and protect one another.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

bard!riz is so important to me bc the kind of character he would be if the truth-fear balance tips all the way to fear esp. bc he takes so much pride in canon in the fact that his parents are brave badass people and he's following their footsteps. but also bc I have so much fun thinking abt bard!kipperlilly

[skitskatdacat63]

When I tagged that post about objectifying athletes by making them wear shorter shorts with "early 2000s renault", it was specifically because of these pictures

+ tennis because they belong here too

[commsroom]

i think one of the boldest and best moves wolf 359 makes in its character development is that, in terms of the major defining events that led him to where he is, eiffel doesn't have a tragic backstory so much as he is responsible for the tragic backstory of someone else.

(the archetype of the everyman protagonist who copes with past trauma via humor does in many ways describe eiffel, but like with every character in wolf, it's the complexity of their circumstances that make them feel like real people with believable inner worlds. they don't subvert the archetypes they represent, exactly; they're just people, complex and contradictory, who ultimately can't be constrained by the expectations or defined lines of the narratives imposed on them.)

eiffel believes this is an intrinsic part of who he is, that he was "just those mistakes"; he externalizes his desire for redemption and that manifests as lenience towards people who lack his fundamental desire for growth. and in failing to recognize his own ability for growth, he presents himself as a doomed character archetype more than a person; he sidelines himself as an observer within his own story. his guilt and self-hatred allow him to in some way abdicate responsibility, to see his failings as inevitable, and it's only accepting his own complexity and capacity to be more, the human quality he recognizes so fervently in others, that frees him from those self-imposed conceptions.

(once my friend kit said that eiffel “defines the tone and the moral compass of wolf 359 so strongly that if you put him into any other series he would turn it into wolf 359 too” and i think about that a lot.)

doug eiffel is wolf 359, in all it believes, and despite his perception of himself as the weakest link, he is so interwoven with both the crew of the hephaestus and the themes of the show that he is inseparable from either. he doesn't always embody the show's values or its morals - in fact, he frequently fails to live up to them as much as he'd like - but he is the one who advocates for them. "it's not just about surviving; it's about being able to live with ourselves after we get off this tin can."

it's a show about communication; he is an intermediary, a vessel for communication - sometimes literally, and he's also just a guy who is still trying to learn how to communicate better himself. what eiffel represents is a flawed, contradictory, unpredictable, irrepressible humanity, singular, and so desperately in need of connection. the show's love of humanity is truer for that. he has genuinely done wrong, in ways he may not ever be forgiven for. he has very real flaws, some of which persist through the entire show, even as he's consciously trying to do better. and he is very much human, and very much loved.

[aquanutart]

When she was a little Kiko, Lulu loved to put on ribbons and appear before the world to show her precious Slorg! Sadly her owner was such a recluse that nobody noticed much, and over the years she forgot performing for others...

Until recently she found all the ribbons she saved over the years and wanted to have fun again!

(She didn't know which ribbon to wear, so she is wearing them all!)

(Lulu won a trophy!!! She is absolutely delighted and is using it to store her ribbons!)

[fidgetspringer-art]

The Shimmer Shields - Uniform design

[asleepinawell]

me explaining the rpr rotation: so these are your single swishes and then here are the multi swish swishes and then you can gothify to get cool pink swishes and swish swishes and here's the button I never remember to hit between pulls

[evadingreallife]

I feel like i have the mob countdown going on in my brain and when it's filled i'll finally go read the dunmeshi manga.

[takenbythestarcatchers]

Ladies and Gentleman…

💕 H I M 💕

[darkfinch]

face blind quinn is so important to me.......eliot puts up his hair and quinn's like "okay that's a hitter and he's vaguely eliot-shaped but i don't know if he's eliot. what if he's a bad guy...shit. shit. oh wait nvm he moved and he walks like eliot, the eliot walk with the eliot shoulders, we're good <3" he can recognize eliot best mid-fight or through a scope :3

he always knows Where parker is but if there is a single other blonde woman in a five mile radius he's like. sweating. parker moves and talks like parker (also, wears black, is thief-shaped) but if shes doing her Normalcy Grift she is fucking imperceptible as a concept. who is she where is she. sneaky

nate is the annoying guy in the dumb hat doing Nate Things and talking the loudest in every room, very easy to spot and identify nates in the wild

hardison is friend-shaped and in the van, a prime hardison location. he is always typing on his phone and he wears very identifiable graphic tees, usually featuring media properties quinn's not familiar with, one time they go to a Nerd Store and quinn loses alec immediately, very distressing please come back

he cannot find ms devereaux at any point during any con and does not even try. always waits for her to talk to him first (she does this ''mister quinn" + fond elbow pat combo and this is his Sign that this shorter-haired german woman is, in fact, local shapeshifter sophie devereaux)

also: quinn spots a hitter in the crowd and tries to warn the team about him and he's like "he's the guy with the cop walk and the jangly keys" and everyone except for parker and eliot are like "but what does he LOOK like"