#and adding like transitions

[hinamie]

I don't want to regret the way I lived

[vyrmu]

Anticipating some flavour of meltdown for Tuesday afternoon.

[pup-pee]

who else missed my sunblock noses?

[loving-jack-kelly]

jack race and crutchie have the kind of co-dependent friendship/brotherly relationship/love that only comes out of being each others' sole support systems during the worst times of their lives. they can read each others' minds. they know immediately when something is wrong. they will be so so mean to each other but the instant anybody else is mean to one of them all bets are off. they communicate in sentence fragments incomprehensible to anybody else. they each know and guard the others' secrets with the type of intensity usually only seen in secret societies. ride or die to the most literal degree possible.

[logansbluetie]

Another self-indulgent sparkly edit of Arkham riddler

[thecandlesticksfromlesmis]

truly the most egregious part of the 2012 Les Mis is that they changed Valjean’s line from

“It’s the story of those who always loved you, your mother gave her life for you then gave you to my keeping.”

to

“it’s the story, of one who turned from hating. The man who only learned to love when you were in his keeping.”

LIKE?????!! How dare they remove Valjean specifically mentioning Fantine’s sacrifice and putting that before he mentions his own part in the story?? How dare they make Valjean imply that it was only when Cosette came into his keeping that he stopped hating everything and learned to love WHEN THE FUCKING BISHOP IS THE REASON FOR THE GODDAMN SEASON????

Like OF COURSE Cosette softened Valjean, of course he became a better man when he became her father, of course their relationship is important.

But this story would not have happened without the love of the bishop and it was his love that rekindled the love that was dormant in Valjean’s heart. And it was Fantine that fanned that flame, then Cosette’s that kept it steady.

I just hate how flat it makes Valjean’s story seem. “It’s the story, of those who always loved you.” Is THE answer Cosette has been searching for her whole life. I wish they’d kept it in instead of feeling like the audience would only feel fulfilled by Valjean’s story if he only mentioned his direct relationship to Cosette.

Whatever idk. It’s a good Les Mis for a lot of reasons, but a bad one for a lot of reasons too 🥲

[plasmara]

First off your fics are amazing I love it I love them all. And second of all you mentioned Jay’s lightning in your most recent one and I can’t stop thinking about the one line where you talked about how it’s both blue and yellow now. And then I went into a whole deep dive about how it’s changed after he lost his memories and I was wondering if you have any more thoughts on it its so interesting to me

OKAY SO I ACTUALLY LOVE THIS ASK because I’ve been thinking about it forever but never had the energy to put it into words SO THANK U ANON!!!!! i think there's a lot of reasons for the change in colour and i’m sorry in advance coz this got long but i’m gonna use this ask to dump all the ideas and ops i have on this topic

OKAY. soooooo. So we know lightning is a dangerous element. it's alive and unpredictable and relatively unstable. unlike most other elements, like earth water etc etc, which can be shaped, held, and calmed, lightning demands surrender or dominance—there's no middle ground. its always moving it's always ON. and i think it took jay A LOT to get in under control. and that's where the blue comes in. we know what blue symbolises duh— control,, clarify, calmness in general (think the sky etc) and so when he's in full control, it's plain blue. Blue ALSO can symbolise loyalty which has always been a big part of jay,,, he's loyal to a fault to his family and his friends, and consistently chooses them over any greater good. so his element responded to that knowing and stability by staying steady, precise, and pure blue

and to get such an unpredictable element like lightning under control, it takes discipline and emotional stability and if there's one thing he's not right now it's stable lol. so his power is all over the place

YELLOW, on the other hand, is a color that wears two faces. yes, usually, it's the color of joy, brightness, and optimism. but there's a more volatile side to yellow that often gets overlooked. yellow is also a color of warning—think crosswalks, hazard signs, yellow traffic lights. it's not danger itself, but the presence of instability.

and So. so. the yellow that has infiltrated jay's familiar blue doesn't symbolise the first for yellow. it's loud, jagged, overexposed and urgent. And it's not here to light the way like the sun. it's here to warn

i think jay is so out of control and not at all in touch with his emotions that his element is actually trying to warn him. i think it's symbolising how much he's shifted and it's now a warning to himself (and others) of how unpredictable and chaotic his element is now

AND. AND AND AND. Yellow is THE most visible colour from a distance. that's why it's used for hazards and warnings. it's used for things that NEED to be seen. Jay wants needs to be seen. he's spent years in the administration all by himself and not being seen by ANYONE. he's been overlooked and ignored and he's been hiding his element at all costs. And now in particular he wants attention (esp after his humiliation at TOS) he wants people to KNOW him,, and not as jay necessarily but as someone powerful. which is why he chose to keep every part of his identity hidden (the mask, the hat, etc) EXCEPT his lightning. it's incorporated into his weapons. AND EVEN HIS VOICE. Which he does still disguise yes. but it's done so THROUGH his lightning (that's what I think anyway lol) . That's the only part he allows for people to see. and so it's the only part of him still yelling for people to see him

So yes it's a warning but it's also a cry for attention

Now. blue is stable and consistent and yellow is bright and overpowering and it's especially clear AFTER he joins ras and his gang compared to before when he accidentally sparked his lightning up and it was weak,,,

because the foundation behind learning to control his element isn't right (just like how arin learnt spinjiztu thru ras' teachings and now it has the shatterspin particles through it)

And we know that the way ras works in not through harmonising with the universe but with forcefully getting the universe to harmonise with u . and through anger and negative emotions in general. it's chaotic and Jay has no control over it and so his element shows that through colour

and maybe im crazy or reading into it or whatever but.

BUT. In the scene where he uses lightning for the first time in front of nya. the way he twists and turns as he generates,, it looks like it actually hurts him to use it. i think because of the methods he used to learn how to control his element (anger, violence, force) it's actually more painful to use. it’s showing him that his power comes at a cost when it’s learnt with the wrong motivation. he even stays hunched over for a few seconds right before he aims

AND IF U LOOK CAREFULLY (which I have because apparently I have nothing better to do) u can actually see his hand shaking right before he strikes

And yes this could be just from the pure fucking power of his element but if u take his body language into account I really do this it's just painful for him to use now

SO IN CONCLUSH i think the infiltration of yellow in jay's lightning is mainly a warning to jay himself that the foundation for controlling his lightning is wrong and the pain he feels when using it is a reflection of that too

[01-hourai]

• 1-2: consider these two ghost!clay au fanarts from me. design by @/skillfulsecretagent; february 24th 2025

• 3: as a claypollo fan, i felt obligated to redraw it; february 28th 2025

[existentialcrisis-9-5]

Adrien and Marinette in my redesign/rewrite. Not perfect ya know but I’m slowly getting better and I think I have a solid idea of what I want Adrien to look like

[robinfrinjs]

100 years of the 24H of Le Mans

[bmpmp3]

how it feels to update Synthesizer V Studio as a Standard voice user.

[midnightclover]

puts bocchi under ur pillow

What's that I see?

My, my. How did such a cute little thing get in here?

[fearandhatred]

could this be how every day begins?

first light by hozier + before the beginning

[sege-h]

I made my first ever AMV just now at 4 AM because I'm normal about these characters rn

The music is the Battle Tower metal cover by RichaadEB which you can find here

[ghosts-of-love]

i just saw the history boys play and oh my GOD I wish I could commit it all to memory, there were so many incredible parts of it. I can't believe it. I'm in awe!!!!!

[nelson-riddle-me-this]

Probs gonna make a 2024 Halloween playlist, but until then pls enjoy this playlist I put together for the pre-movie part of my 2022 Halloween party!