#and many others for that sake

[thelien-art]

Melkor writing his book in the fourth age Valinor; inspired by @foxindarkness fanfiction: "Build Up A New Us"

This started as a sketch last week when I was rereading it and then I just got gripped by it, then I added a background and I didn´t hate it, so I had to make Melkor himself more detailed and I liked it enough to want to show people, also everyone who hasn´t read it yet? What are you doing? Go check it out, it is my favorite fanfiction EVER!

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Sorry, but having Zuko actually fight back against Ozai during their Agni Kai is just wrong. He was a child, only 13 at the time, afraid to fight his own father and was mutilated as punishment, because Ozai saw Zuko's begging and unwillingness to fight as unforgiveable weakness.

The Angi Kai isn't meant to be a showcase of Zuko's fighting potential (that's what the Zhao fight is for), but to show the utter cruelty of Ozai.

[hinamie]

itakugi sillies fr the soul

[sneez]

pathologic but it's a lost 1920s german expressionist film [id under cut]

[id:

image 1: a digital drawing of a fake poster, using bright colours and rough, painterly brushstrokes. the title, 'pest' (german for 'plague'), is written at the top in spiky black text. in the foreground a man dressed as a tragedian is staring intently at the viewer, his hands raised and splayed as if in horror. in the background, the town is framed against a red sky, with the polyhedron in yellow behind.

images 2 and 3: fake casting sheets for the film, with the names of the actors and the characters they are playing above a black-and-white portrait photograph of them. all the text is in german. in english it reads: 'Pest', a film by Robert Wiene Alfred Abel as Victor Kain Ernst Busch as Grief Lil Dagover as Katerina Saburova Ernst Deutsch as the Bachelor Carl de Vogt as Vlad the Younger Marlene Dietrich as the Inquisitor Willy Fritsch as Mark Immortell Alexander Granach as Andrey and Peter Stamatin Bernhard Goetzke as General Block Dolly Haas as the Changeling Ludwig Hartau as the Haruspex Brigitte Helm as Anna Angel Brigitte Horney as Maria Kaina Emil Jannings as Big Vlad Gerda Maurus as Yulia Lyuricheva Lothar Menhert as Georgiy Kain Asta Nielsen as Lara Ravel Ossi Oswalda as Eva Yan Fritz Rasp as Stanislas Rubin Conrad Veidt as Alexander Saburov and Tragedian Paul Wegener as Oyun Gertrud Welcker as Aspity

image 4: four digital sketches of set designs for various locations. all are strongly influenced by expressionist imagery, using extreme angles, warped perspective, and dramatic shapes. they are labelled 'street 1' (a street lined with houses), 'street 2' (a square with a lamppost and a set of steps), 'polyhedron exterior' (the polyhedron walkway), and 'cathedral interior' (the dais at the far end of the cathedral).

image 5: four digital drawings in a black-and-white watercolour style, showing fake stills from the film. all are similarly distorted and lit by dramatic lighting. the first shows katerina's bedroom, with katerina standing in the centre of the floor. the second shows the interior of an infected house. the third shows daniil staring out of the frame in horror, one hand on his head and the other raised as if to ward something off. the fourth shows an intertitle with jagged white text reading 'the first day' against a dark background.

end id.]

[jeeaark]

final showdown pt2.

This was one of those battles where I survived it without a single reload. So. This entire scene? Accurate. Embarrassingly Accurate. (except the healy dealy. that's Greygold flair)

Wanted to get to the crown as fast as possible, but had to fly by Emps. Literally stopped next to bud to personally yell/reassure the fool I was gonna save their ass and then risked the opportunity attack.

(which. I forgot to bring my dex 18 gloves and discovered illithidism had shit dex, so....IS FINE. GG IS ALL FOR STARTING A NEW COLLECTION OF FRIENDSHIP SCARS)

BUT SQUID BUDDY MISSED. so. I like to think Enthralled Emps had put some effort into jumping through some rather large logic hoops to miss. Unlike Greygold who put JACK effort into dodging.

I originally intended to leave Emps completely alone, risk the attacks. But. Brain tentacle surprise happened. Right next to the squid. Emps rolled high in initiative.... But not as high as Lae'zel. Game-wise, ✨I panicked✨. Story-wise? I don't think this could have been any more in-character. Albeit, I found myself quadruple checking to make sure knockout mode was ABSOLUTELY on

[pseudophan]

i'm so extremely irrationally annoyed by people not knowing what various terms mean and using them incorrectly like i feel like that's such an asshole thing to care about but oh my god stop

[little-mouse-adventures]

@orangerosebush's post here, with my comment and @fowlblue's tags today got me thinking.

Artemis Senior has been teaching his son matters of business from a young age. Not only was Artemis, at 11 years old, discussing stocks with his father, but Fowl Senior had been imparting his wisdom onto his son for years by that point, discussing the ever-increasing value of gold with him before tucking him into bed. Even outside of pure monetary value, Sr. had tried to go legitimate with his business dealings, leading Artemis to have a few legal ventures of his own.

We also see very early on in the books that Artemis has been regularly using Butler as a resource for his plots: bouncing ideas off him was apparently a fairly common tactic when he was scheming.

Both Artemis Senior and Butler are interested in (or at least, not opposed to) educating Artemis on the ways of their lifestyle(s). It would be Artemis Senior who would have taught his son the value of banks and safety deposit boxes and hidden safes but it was Butler who was actively working with Artemis to rob those safety deposit boxes.

In the same vein of breaking-and-entering, TLC also gives us the fun little moment where Butler hands Artemis his own lockpicks, to get into the workings of the bomb.

With one line we learn that Artemis knows how to pick locks, but does not have his own set of lockpicks. Butler, on the other hand, has both the tools and knowledge how to use them. Partnered with a brief mention in TTP of some the specific trades of those previously employed by Artemis Senior (including such things as crime lords, insider traders, and cat burglars), we can extrapolate that Artemis Senior would generally hire someone to pick a lock for him, rather than do so himself.

It's pretty logical to conclude then that Artemis learned big-picture management from his father, and day-to-day skillsets from his bodyguard.

Essentially, Artemis Senior taught Artemis how to run a criminal empire. Butler taught Artemis how to be a criminal.

[themostsanebug]

STOP SCROLLING!!

HEY!! AS A TRANS, QUEER MINOR WHO HAS HAD A PANIC ATTACK OVER KOSA PREVIOUSLY, PLEASE BE SURE TO SIGN THIS PETITION AND DO ANYTHING ELSE TO PREVENT THIS BILL!! THE INTERNET IS BASICALLY MY HOME AND SAFE SPACE AND I WOULD PREFER IF IT STAYED THAT WAY.

[tapakah0]

[meowsticmarvels]

one of the most insane things about carlos is like. based on how you are introduced to him in ztd you think he's gonna be the most normal character in the game especially when teamed with AKANE and JUNPEI of all people. and he is the hero type main character archetype guy. but then you play suspicion where he literally kills himself with an axe because he's worried about being dangerous to others (? Is he okay actually. What the fuck). and then there's also get back/apocalypse where he waits 10 fucking months for akane and junpei to save them instead of stopping zero at all. What is wrong with him

[sketching-shark]

Dumbest pet peeve ever but every time I've seen someone describe jttw-canon Six Eared Macaque as a blank slate of a character I'm left like

because while it is very true that he only appears for two chapters and spends the majority of that time cosplaying as Sun Wukong, between his attempts to directly murder-replace the Monkey King and the actions he takes against the pilgrims and the Huaguoshan monkeys in the pursuit of said murder-replacement, you can at least assume some things. He beats Tang Sanzang into unconsciousness from rage but also to steal the essential items of the pilgrimage. He forces some of the Huaguoshan troop to take on the forms of the other pilgrims in an attempt to make them his lackeys on his own pilgrimage. He casually cannibalizes one of these monkeys after they're killed. He even proclaims that he's doing all of this so that all of the glory of completing the journey will be his alone. And he does this while wearing Sun Wukong's form. Like if that doesn't indicate a deliciously grotesque mix of extreme jealousy, ambition, entitlement, a willingness to violence, and an even stronger willingness to the annihilation of others and even the self in the pursuit of fame and glory I don't know what would.

[bietrofastimoff23]

«the child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.»

this pain and rage of Tai Lung on the second pic.

abandoned by his biological parents, Tai Lung definitely had his basic trust in the world violated. a world that rejected him before it even knew him. how could he see his self-worth when even his own blood, which should have loved him unconditionally, left him? from the very beginning, he was doomed to wander all his life in search of confirmation that he was really worth something, that he was important, that someone could love him and be proud of him.

and Shifu became the main object in the search for this. he became literally everything to Tai lung. his teacher, his master, his father. for his sake, Tai Lung devoted his entire childhood and youth to kung fu, shed sweat and blood, and broke bones. all this is for the sake of fulfilling a dream imposed on him. he was ready to make any sacrifice, just to hear the cherished words from the master, capable of dispelling deep fears. tai Lung didn't need the recognition of the world he was born into. he needed recognition of the world he had chosen for himself, and that world was Shifu. the only person he had ever trusted, loved and respected.

but history tends to repeat itself. and now the day that was supposed to dispel the last doubts, on the contrary, only confirmed them. the world rejects him again. coldly, silently. and everything inside Tai Lung turns over. the one who led him along this path, who was supposed to be a support in difficult times, leaves without deigning to look at him.

Tai Lung leaves the palace in confusion. there are constant questions in his head about why. why wasn't the scroll handed to him? why didn't Shifu stand up for him, why didn't he tell him anything? why is everyone acting like it's nothing when Tai Lung has been working hard for decades for this scroll.

and then confusion is replaced by resentment and anger.

and so Tai Lung bursts back into the palace, intent on getting the scroll at any cost. he is ready to resist the decision of the senior master, he is ready to hurt his master, because if they could not help him in the fight against inner demons, then the treasured scroll should definitely help. this time he fails to get to it, and therefore the determination and motivation remain with tai lung for many decades (and when he succeeds, he opens the scroll and comes face to face with himself. "i'm nothing." Ironically, the road he took to escape from his inner fears led him straight to them.).

and returning to the pics, I want to draw attention to the difference of views again. in fact, all of this could have been avoided. at least most of it. for this, Shifu only needed to say anything, but he did not do it. cause the only person he was disappointed in was himself and never Tai Lung. and he couldn't find any words to justify himself.

Tai Lung was ready to forgive the master who had misled him, but not his father, who had so easily abandoned him and had done nothing to prevent his downfall.

[elfdyke]

me and my 1 million lesbian friends who love female characters dearly and only ever talk about them

[rivalcobalt]

Woe, MS paint diagram of the retroactive Komaedification of N be upon ye

[bonebabbles]

I keep starting and abandoning posts that go into my drafts, as I try to stay tasteful about how fucking revolted this part makes me. Like, I'm legitimately unsure if the very relevant trauma I have is making me see things that aren't here

But first we see that Star Flower is trying to ingratiate herself to the group, just after she reappears from chapter 5. Chapter 5 is about how Clear Sky is still abusive towards his son, and she comes in after stroking his ego, stressing how alone she is, and appealing to how she'll be loyal unlike his child. (She glances over at Thunder, directly implying this.)

Now in Chapter 9, she's babysitting and trying to care for Milkweed's kits (in spite of discomfort from Milkweed), taking a wet sleeping space away from the others, and pulling more than her own weight "without complaint." Putting herself through harsh sitations to prove her worth.

All while trying to appear extra attractive to Thunder, and later Clear Sky. Basically every man in power who can "protect her"

Like, am I going fucking crazy? With how we later find out that Star Flower was "promised as a mate" to One Eye's subordinate Slash, is... is that hypersexualization? One of the extremely stigmatized symptoms of sexual abuse?

She goes to find Clear Sky alone to throw herself at his paws, and he's very quickly attracted to how she promises to perfectly obey him, have no needs of her own, and finally be the perfect servant that he desires

"I don't deserve your trust because I am dirt. I understand you because I also regret something. I'd die for you. I'll never betray you unlike those who have."

This isn't manipulation. She means this. The story is playing their romance sincerely. She's comparing "betraying" Thunder by telling her own father about an assassination ambush to Clear Sky's history of child abuse, physical assault, and murder

She believes she's on the same level as this; a monster who murdered a childhood friend in a fit of entitled rage. She was a victim of One Eye who really believes that the way her father used her means she "understands" this monster, deserves this treatment.

And Clear Sky LIKES that.

He likes that she will have COMPLETE FAITH in him. That she will follow him WITHOUT QUESTION. That she will OBEY his orders. That's fucking verbatim, that's THE TEXT!!!

WHILE HE'S STILL CRYING ABOUT "ive tried to atone every day" FOLLOWING THE LAST TWO BOOKS WHERE THE ONLY SHITTY THING HE DOESN'T DO IS MURDER INNOCENT WOMEN

Am I insane?? Am I wrong??? Am I missing something here???? Why the fuck is the fandom takeaway "haha sexy girl steals his dad." Did I read the same book

[venriliz]

why is the concept of showing empathy for drug/alcohol addicts so hard to understand for some ppl? v.v they suffer too sis, that problem has to come from somewhere and i bet most of them would rather not be addicted in the first place. some people don't know what nuance is i swear. am i crazy for having empathy with addicts??? i don't think so.