#Shifting Explorer

[trainerlynda]

//Closed rp with @resonatingradiance

Did she have time for this? No, not really, but he was getting frustrated and worried and annoyed at the accusations.

For some reason once she entered the universe, Espie popped out of his pokeball with a short yelp, landing on Lynda's shoulders and sending him crashing to the ground a lot faster then needed.

She tried to put him back in his ball, but all that did was bring Sparky out, then Charstar, then Riptor-

He decided at that point that it was pointless, just bringing Espie back out and onto her shoulders, quickly going to the Lake of Rage from the route below it.

... if Ethan had been paying attention to the sky, he would have seen an odd distortion before someone fell out of it- but that's only if he was looking up and out towards the lower route.

[nipuni]

"Midnight" is one of my favourite episodes!!

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on may 1st

[inkskinned]

before you know about women, you hear that you do not need to love the man, just that you need to love him through his manhood. which is to say you have seen the future painted in lamb's blood over your eyes - how your mother shoots you a look about your father's inability to cook right. how your aunt holds her wineglass and says i'm gonna kill em. men, right! how your best friend bickers with her boyfriend, how she says i can't help it. i come back to him.

you learn: men are gonna cheat. men aren't going to listen when you're talking, because you're nagging. men think emotions are stupid. they think your life is vapid and your hobbies are embarrassing. men will slam things, but that's because men are allowed to be angry. if you get loud, you're hysterical. if a man gets loud - well, men are animals, men are dogs, men can't control their hands or their eyes or their bodies. they're going to make a snide comment about you in the locker room, about your body, about how you're so fucking annoying. you're going to give him kids, and he will give you the money for the kids, and you're going to be running the house 24/7 - but he gets to relax after a long day, because his job is stressful. the man is on stage, and is a comedian, and says "women!"

and you are supposed to love that. you are supposed to love men through how horrible they are to you - because that's what women do. that's what good women do. wife material. your father even told you once - it'll make sense when you're older. it was like staring down a very lonely tunnel.

it feels like something's caught in your throat, but it's all you know, so. it's okay that you see sex as a necessary tool, a sort of okay-enough ritual to keep him happy, even though he doesn't seem to care about happiness as-applied-to you. it is relationship upkeep. it is kissing him and smiling even though he didn't brush his teeth. it is getting on your knees and looking up and holding back a sigh because he barely holds you as you panic through the night. it's not like the sex is bad and you do like feeling wanted. and besides! he's a man! like... they're another species. you'll never be able to actually communicate, right. he isn't listening.

you just don't get it. you don't feel that sense of i'm gonna climb him like a tree. mostly it just feels fucking exhausting. you play the part perfectly. you smile and nod and are "effortlessly" charming. and it's fine! it's alright! you even love him, if you're looking. you could have good life, and a good family, and perfectly happy.

in the late night you google: am i broken. you google i'm not attracted to my husband. you google i get turned on by books but not by him. you google how to get better in bed.

the first time he yells at you, it almost feels like blankness. like - of course this is happening. this is always how it was going to end up. men get angry, and they yell, and you sit there in silence.

you mention it to your friend - just the once - while you're drunk. she shrugs and says it's like that with me too, i just try to forget and move on. men are always gonna hear what they want to. pick your battles and say sorry even though he's in the wrong. you play solitaire online for a month. you go to your therapist appointment and preach about how you're both so in love.

after all, you have a future to want. nobody lied about it - how many instagram posts say marriage is hard. say real love takes work. say we fight like cats and dogs but the best part is that we always make up. how many of your friends say happy anniversary to the best and worst thing to ever happen to me. if you really loved him - loved yourself too - you'd accept that men are just different from you.

the first time she kisses you, it's on a dare at a party. something large and terrifying whips through your body. you wake up sweating from dreams where her mouth is encrusted with pearls and you pick them off one by one with your teeth. fuck. you sit at the computer and your almost-finished game of sim city. you think about your potential perfect life and your potential future family. you google am i gay quiz with your little hands shaking.

you delete each letter slowly. you don't need to love him. you just need to keep going.

[gaiaexploreslife]

[echoequinox]

Thinking again about the mirror.

I'm thinking again about how the Echo could never see it. In a million million billion lifetimes, he could never see the mirror. He would never understand what it was to reflect like that.

The Long Quiet. The Shifting Mound. The Echo saw them as pieces on a chess board. Pieces to move against one another, their dance locked in stalemate as they cut each other down again and again and again and again. He saw a bloody war between the forces of everlasting life and all consuming death.

He could never see the mirror.

They are the opposing forces of a chessboard, the two of them. But one cannot exist without the other. Life cannot exist without death, and it is their beautiful choreographed dance that gives them both meaning. A life without death is endlessly pointless, death without life is suffering with no value.

As she grows, so do You. With each new experience, with each new face she wears, with each new possibility, tributaries in a wide, vast, endless river, she grows. She learns. She lives. And so do You. That is the mirror. The mirror is that lives lived, lives died, are beautiful in their fleeting nature. The mirror is that the renewed cycle of life and death is GROWTH.

We cannot learn anything through stagnation. Should we live our lives in an endless rut, with no consequence or death, we are doomed to repeat ourselves for all eternity, living a predestined life with no purpose or meaning or end.

You are on a path in the woods.

[brenninthetaylorverse]

every. single. time.

[lesbiangracehanson]

another day, another j7 scene that makes me feel insane 

[blaiddraws]

a few weeks ago someone said something about ingo dying and coming back as a new kinda ghost pokemon, and then mentioned ghost/steel (as in trains) as one possibility and my mind latched onto the train part and Did Not Let Go

so!

new au i guess.

ingo somehow gets revived as a ghost train Pokemon. (divine intervention? autism swag? who knows) spends the next however long it is from the past haunting various railroads around the world (he's having The Time Of His. un-Life(??)) waiting for time to catch up to when he disappeared from his original time, until eventually a couple years after he originally disappeared, emmet starts hearing rumors of a strange new pokemon stalking the subway tunnels

bonus. way back when immediately after ingo. uh. kicked the bucket. he ended up hiding in wayward cave for a while for several reasons

melli ended up coming across him and befriended him. (he's much better with Pokemon than people. pokemon don't judge you, and all that)

then ingo figured out how to write

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

ON THE SUBJECT OF A MARCH 1ST UPDATE LIVESTREAM.

so due to newly-employed circumstances, i most likely won't be able to stream my exploration of the update until the Sunday after it drops - March 3rd, likely around 10 am pst.

im not gonna ask anyone to wait because that's unreasonable and absurd, However! I am curious:

[dizzyrobinsims]

Just watched Nimona

The fact this movie never got a theater release because of Blue Sky's closure and Disney deciding to nix it once acquired will forever break my heart holy shit.

Like up front it is BEAUTIFULLY animated, the writing is tight as hell, the story is genuinely moving and amazing. By that alone it deserved to be in theaters.

*deep breath*

But BOY HOWDY am I SALTY AS FUCK that a animated movie that is accessible to kids, especially queer kids, got knocked out of the process to reach theaters when

IT JUST CASUALLY HAS A INTERRACIAL GAY COUPLE WITH A (metaphorically) ADOPTED (literally) TRANS CHILD AS THE 3 MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE THE FUCKING HELL WE COULD'VE HAD ALL THIS PERFECTLY DONE QUEER MEDIA ON THE BIG SCREEN AS A COHERENT AMAZING STORY FUC-

[firelise]

Film & TV I Think About A Lot » I May Destroy You (2020) writer/dir. Michaela Coel

Your birth is my birth, your death is my death. This book is dedicated to Terry, my best friend.

[trainerlynda]

[Closed RP with @pokemonveterinarian]

It didn't take long at all for Lynda to get to the house, flying around to the back as to not be anywhere near Dread. She can already feel the harsh stabbing of panic and worry, mixed with anger and annoyance, she swallows down the feelings for the moment to try and focus better on the situation.

She gets into the house just as fast as she arrived, having a spare key for these sorts of situations.

Letting out her Gardevoir and shiny Audino, she quickly rushes into the room she feels the emotions strongest, and sends her pokemon to heal Saint.

She's panting a bit, she seems to have been running alot to get here.

"Alright... is anyone able to explain what happened in detail? Just in case I have to get into an argument with Dread...?" She looks angered by that idea, but there isn't much she can do about it.

[saint-nevermore]

im watching a playthrough of Dangan Ronpa (the third game) with my partner and i have thoughts. its definitely one of those things that were ruined by a fandom because they were too young for it. dont get me wrong, the characters are so out-there and unique they lend themselves to be perfect shipping war candidates, but there is seriously a wealth of artistic value to the games. watching through it ive been delighted with the artistic direction and sound design. the OST is dripping with personality and whimsy. its all around a fucking hoot to watch. its goofy and leans into the absurdity of it's setting without sacrificing sincere moments of the story. the murder mysteries are solid and engaging. Monokuma and his kubs are the stupidest motherfuckers ive ever seen and are hilarious whenever they show up. Ouma is there. ive had the most fun interpreting the ultimates as different flavours of neurodivergent and even if their role is short (i.e. theyre an early game victim/culprit) they have complexities. DR is genuinely cool as hell, if youve ever been interested in it i recommend tackling the playthroughs to enjoy the art of it - there really is nothing like it and i think we're all grown up enough to see the beauty in the absurd.

[littlebluejaydraws]

Been obsessed with this concept since seeing [this text post] by @themanwhowouldbefruit I do think this is OOC for Jack in this scenario, but i really wanted to a) give Uriel a hug and b) show Jack as being happy to see him because Cas had spoken affectionately about him so bending things a little to show that haha

ID: Image comprised of 3 digital sketches on a plain background. The sketches are of Uriel from Supernatural dressed in a cowboy outfit. One is a full body drawing, one shows his head and shoulders from behind while he looks over his left shoulder, and on shows him waist up being hugged by jack. This last drawing includes a series of speech bubbles showing the following conversation- J: "Uncle Uriel!" U: "..?" J: "Dad told me so much about you!" U: "... Your father?" J: "Castiel! He says you're his funniest brother!". The colours are in shades of blue and gold, with only basic shading and highlights. End ID.

[gaiaexploreslife]

[dykevanny]

had a really funny idea for an ask blog ft. Vanny and another plex employee oc,,