#and HE has entered the room

[krazieka2]

Vampire Mercedes lore doodles (and vampire Lorenz bullying)

[marc--chilton]

my fav way to interpret house is that he tries to be cool in an eccentric sort of way but if you peek inside his soul during any interaction with wilson it's just the loudest begging

[juniemunie]

So that montage where hiccup kept failing on making a stable fin but he kept going, slowly and surely improving on it right

Ever think about it in Toothless' perspective?

Some lil guy that used to be your enemy is now going out of his way to help you fly no matter what, using materials from the weapons they created, not giving up on you until you're able to fly properly, making adjustments, new ideas to the point of risking himself getting nearly caught by his own kin fraternizing with the enemy

"Everything I thought I knew about you... is wrong"

[mitskijamie]

Roy obviously knows that Jamie admires/respects/looks up to him but I like to think there's some part of him that wants Jamie to think he's like. Cool. On some level he's just a middle aged man who peaked in his 20s and craves validation from his cool gen Z coworker. I'm not like a regular coach I'm a Cool coach

[astarlightmonbebe]

it's easy to read the situation between li tongguang, ruyi, and yuanzhou as a love triangle on a superficial level, but looking even one step further, it's clear that there's no triangle about it. li tongguang is obsessed with ren xin; ning yuanzhou is devoted to ren ruyi. ltg's obsession is fervent and all consuming, but it's not devotion. like ruyi herself notes, his feelings to her are on the basis of her as a mother figure in his life, as a replacement for what he never received from his mother. is there an element of romantic/sexual love/desire to it? maybe. more likely he's deluded himself into thinking that, because the truth is, it's doubtful that ltg even understands what love is (platonic, filial, familial, romantic, all of the above, etc), because he has no basis for understanding. ruyi's teachings and actions towards him are the closest thing he has to hold up as an example. what he wants is ren xin, is a replica of the master he had. he doesn't want ruyi, because he doesn't actually care about ruyi. therefore, he doesn't care if she's sad, angry, mad; he just can't bear her 'abandoning' him. we saw this way back when she first meet and left him, both at thirteen and seventeen. although he distrusts her first, she saves his life and cares for him in the way no one else has, hence her first being raised on a platform in his mind. when she leaves for good, ending their master-disciple relationship/training, even though it's for official business and she's not abandoning him, in his mind that's exactly what it is. so now that she's in his life again, he won't let her leave again. he was powerless before, a child with no proper name, but now he's a recognized member of the imperial family, a man who can meet her as 'equals' (even when that's far from the truth). as a child, he could only cling to her legs and beg her, but now he has the power to keep her by his side. it's telling that when he finally gets confirmation of her identity, it's not ning yuanzhou he seeks to harm (even though he detests him and their relationship), but yang ying. yang ying is ruyi's new disciple, and as ltg doesn't know she's a woman, he only sees her as his direct replacement.

ning yuanzhou, on the other hand, is devoted to ruyi. he wants to build a new life and future with her, instead of slotting her into a spot in the life he already has. he's someone who accompanies her on walks and makes her midnight snacks, who holds her when she needs to be held and lets her go when she needs to do things on her own. when she speaks her mind, he listens, even when it makes him discontent/it's not what he wanted/wants to hear. he sees her unabashedly as his equal, and though he acknowledges her skills and abilities, or points out her naivety, he never does it to belittle her; to him, she is his peer, deserving of the highest honor and respect. he trusts her to have his back, and she has come to trust him to have her. he did what she might have thought no man would ever do: he proved himself reliable, so she came to rely on him. yuanzhou gives her freedom and autonomy as both ren ruyi and ren xin. of course they run into problems, but they both learn and grow from them, as individuals and as a couple. yuanzhou's belief in her is unwavering, but adaptable, whereas ltg's is unwavering, but frozen in time, disallowing for any new information to be presented. yuanzhou works with ruyi to accept the changes thrown her way; he seeks the core behind her actions in order to better understand her. li tongguang cannot accept the changes in ruyi's character, because they run contrary to the master he has on a pedestal in his mind.

what li tongguang wants is to return to the past, but yuanzhou offers ruyi the promise of a future, even one that might never come to fruition. there's no triangle about it.

[molagboop]

I sketched a thing while I was up at an unreasonable hour.

[trevorphilips]

[poorlittleyaoyao]

it's been a long few years for san-di, too

(novelverse counterpart to this)

[hauntedhotel]

So I know I literally just reblogged this post about Tim being a well-meaning but useless matchmaker in the archives but you don't understand, the concept has bewitched me body and soul.

I'm not gonna lie, this is definitely a scenario where you're gonna have to look canon in the eye and say "not today, demon" but imagine a season 3 au where Sasha never got taken by the Not!Thing and Jon either never suspected his colleagues of trying to kill him or if he did, he handled it a lot better and eventually actually apologised to Tim for the stalking, so there's a sort of friendlier vibe to the whole team than there is in canon.

So Martin starts acting all fluttery and flustered and Tim figures it's because there's a bunch of new people in the archives now and Martin likes one of them.

In reality, it's actually because Martin and Jon are going on their daily lunch dates and occasionally getting drinks after work and what was, at best, a cordial working relationship is becoming a friendship and Martin has a little glimmer of hope for the first time that Jon might feel the same way about him as he does about Jon.

Tim sees none of that, but he's determined to help Martin with whichever one of the new ladies on the team he likes, and sets up various ridiculous, contrived scenarios in which romance might happen with each of them. Sasha has the whole thing figured out from the beginning, but this is something for Tim to focus on that isn't the evil eldritch circus that killed his beloved brother, so she's willing to give him a certain amount of freedom to meddle.

So at first Tim is like, "okay so probably it's Melanie, right? They kind of bicker a bit but they both seem to have fun while they're doing it so maybe it's meant in a flirty way" but then Tim clocks Georgie and Melanie kissing on their way into the archive one morning and is like "ah...perhaps not".

So then he's like, "hmm, when I thought that Jon was hooking up with Basira, honestly Martin seemed kind of weirdly moody about the whole thing - maybe it's because he likes Basira?" but then his plan to lock them in document storage together until the tension boils over completely fails when between them all they do is actually manage to get it into some kind of order for the first time ever.

So then he's like, "well...honestly Martin seemed kind of petrified of Daisy when she first started here but some people are into that vibe! And she hasn't tried to stab Jon or threatened to frame anyone for murder in...Sasha, check the poster we made...right! Five days! So maybe it's Daisy!" and he orchestrates it so that Daisy and Martin have to go and do follow-up on the same statement and thinks it'll give them a chance to spend some quality time together, but then they get back from the job and Daisy has bloody hands and a satisfied expression and Martin looks traumatised and refuses to discuss it.

So Tim gets a bit desperate and he sits down at Sasha's desk and eventually says, "....maybe it's Elias?" and then Sasha just jumps up from her desk like, "for god's sake, before we all get fired just...look at this--"

And she opens the door to Jon's office to show Jon and Martin kissing against the filing cabinet and Tim's like, "ooooh...you know with hindsight actually it's pretty obvious."

[wasabikitcat]

I had this realization a few days ago when reviewing what we know about Gaster while theorizing about the mysterious Valentine from the newsletter and idk if other people have pointed this out yet, but I haven't seen anyone else talk about it:

I don't think Gaster's disappearance has anything to do with Core.

The Core is only mentioned in relation to Gaster once, in this dialogue from one of the Gaster followers:

This dialogue is why most theories and fanon built around the idea that Gaster fell into the Core, which for reasons unknown to us erased him from existence. But I'm now pretty convinced that this is a red herring, because it doesn't actually say Gaster fell into the Core. It says he made the Core, and that he fell into his creation.

It does not say that this creation is the Core.

The dialogue is written in a way that leads you to assume the creation he fell into was the Core, but that doesn't really make much sense considering the rest of the dialogue.

The dialogue says "they say he created the Core," which implies this is second hand knowledge, but then says with certainty "One day, he fell into his creation." Why do they know for sure he fell into "his creation," but only knows he created the core from what others say?

If you talk to the follower again, they say "Will Alphys end up the same way?" Why would Alphys also fall into the Core? As far as we know, Alphys doesn't maintain the Core; if I remember correctly, a few monsters at Mettaton's hotel are stated to work in the Core, so wouldn't this follower be more concerned that those monsters will end up like Gaster and not Alphys?

And another question that I think fanon has just ignored due to the assumption it was something we don't yet know about, but I am now wondering about: Why would falling into the Core erase Gaster from time? When traveling through Hotland and viewing the Core in the distance, Alphys says this:

And while this dialogue may at first seem indicative that the Core is more mysterious than a normal geothermal power generator (and it is in some ways), remember: Alphys didn't build the Core. Alphys doesn't understand how the Core works, not because it has some unnatural property that could erase people from space time, but because she didn't build it. Not only does this mean that the Core is likely just a power generator that utilizes the lava in Hotland to produce geothermal energy and convert it to electricity, it also means that Alphys doesn't work on the Core, because she doesn't know how it works. So why would the Gaster follower worry about Alphys ending up like Gaster if she doesn't have any involvement with the Core?

Additionally, that Gaster follower is the only one to mention the Core in relation to Gaster. In fact, one of the other followers says something that could be interpreted as actively contradicting his erasure being caused by the Core:

This follower says "his experiments went wrong," and doesn't mention the Core. Why would Gaster be experimenting with the Core? And if he was, we don't know anything about it.

But you know what experiments we do know Gaster was working on, because it's literally one of the only pieces of dialogue we have from him?

And do you know what other creation was presumably made by Gaster, as Alphys is unfamiliar with it's operation? That is also a creation that was actively being used in experiments, which Alphys is continuing to perform herself? Experiments that are directly involved with something we already know can alter time and space? A creation that is located in one of the most mysterious areas in the game with several oddities in it that are straight up never explained, multiple fourth wall breaking moments, and a couple explicit references to things we believe are associated with Gaster? A creation that suspiciously resembles in appearance the form of a character who canonically can alter time and space, not to mention resembling the thing that's literally called a GASTER BLASTER???

[ghost-bard]

watched the newest majo to yajuu episode, and honestly its been the best one since probably either the twin "witches" arc or since phanora and johan showed up, between angela (my beloved) showing up and this being one of my favorite parts of the manga. It's just a solid ep overall I think.

that being said, I do still have to say the manga clears the anime by a wide margin due to the anime's general issues (lackluster animation for the most part, along with a few subtle changes in translations and the difference between how I read scenes in the manga and how the ended up voiced) but despite that. It's just a good episode.

OH actually i do wanna talk about the angela scene tho. lord have mercy the angela and guideau scene honestly. id say for the most part. great. i hope more people start to understand guideau. and the fact that she's an unreliable narrator, but also WHY she's an unreliable narrator. Like angela fucked them up. In every way. But the audience sees time and time again that witches aren't inherently evil, re: helga, phanora, and the very next witch we meet which I won't say bc spoilers for anime only's. We don't even know why Angela did what she did, and there's a few theory's as to why, tho I'm not gonna get into them atm lmao

[himejoshiangels]

I do not think that duke and tim r on bestie level. SORRY!! I just do not see it. I have their interactions in my mind and it is mainly tim supplementing bonding time with buying shit duke offhandedly mentions being interested. They do bond eventually!!but their dynamic at first is like

tim learns abt duke living in the manor a good 5 months into him living there and is just, so awkward. its like, hello new person in my father's house who I have no idea how to interact with, and there's no way in hell duke is bridging that gap bcs he's still trying to put a gap between him and this new situation in his mind. Duke doesn't even consider this like, a long term thing yet bcs he's been put out of so many homes already so he's not too optimistic. he starts settling slowly but surely, the main ppl he's comfortable with being bruce and Damian but like picture it: Dukes finally gained the courage to wander the manor and its like 5am and he runs into tim(who he had no idea was in the manor at the time) and tim (who was just sleeping over for a couple nights for the first time in a while) runs into duke who he had been introduced to but had no idea how to interact with and tim in all his social ineptitude and exhaustion makes the whole thing just so so awkward

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Ngl Horrid Henry is becoming that show I honestly forget about but then seeing something on it online makes me remember its existence...and also in todays case, how much I hated his parents, cause oh my god, the clip I just saw...

[maxs-left-eye]

really love how the For All Mankind finale had Margo echo the words her Nazi mentor used to justify taking part in war crimes!

[daz4i]

called my cat to my room to come cuddle and i swear he rivaled quicksilver with how fast he ran there. baby

[jrueships]

Stef headbutting (bunting) Josh every five seconds and josh just letting him