#and obviously this is an exaggeration

[always-a-joyful-note]

You know. Thinking about it, the best thing the anime did for Tsumugi was give her professional attire. Like the clothes she wears on the CGs we see her in are cute, but I really think she looks best in the formal business style

[chloesimaginationthings]

"They call it the MANGLE" - FNAF 2 phone guy

[1960z]

“how can william shatner be so anti spirk and then make this??” because he’s not. I’ve never seen any evidence of him hating spirk outside of comments from a twitter account that he does not run.

I know it’s easy, and fun even to assume he runs it because he’s that arrogant and grandiose irl and also what kind of person running someone else’s account acts like that but most tangible evidence points to him not running it. contrary to popular belief shatner is a spirk warrior

[mellosdrawings]

Do you think in the N2 Squad, Jamil will just randomly get a burst of confidence and flirt with Leona and Vil, just for them to turn it around on him and he then gets so flustered he enters Caterpillar Mode™️ (pulls his hood over his face) for a solid hour?

I kept this one in my asks for a long time coz, while I thought it was a good ask and wanted to draw something for it, I am also plagued with the terrible curse of being both aromantic and autistic and struggling a lot with the very concept of ~*flirting*~

So first, gonna thank @aria-faye and @the-fab-fox for their insights and having the patience to explain to me the big strokes of flirting.

And now, I'm gonna quote aria-faye word for word cause he explained Jamil's flirting perfectly well in my opinion :

"I feel like Jamil is just... bad at flirting. He can tease and joke and all that, but when he's doing it with the intention of flirtation, i feel like he stumbles. His version of intentional flirting would probably be just... being overly straightforward. Saying what he's thinking for once."

"I feel like Jamil isn't very charismatic when it comes to flirting, so he isn't saying it [compliments] in any sort of way. Just pointing out a fact, which, to him, is flirting. Because it's not something he'd normally say aloud."

"Here's the thing: I think if they played the flirting game, and if Jamil said something intentionally over-the-top, teasing flirtatious, they [Leona and Vil] would match his energy and do it right back. BUT Jamil would be equipped to volley that back over and over. It's not flirtation that gets him. There's an element of disingenuous in flirting. It's all exaggerated, a bit untrue. It's an act - a mutually agreed-upon act that everyone in the group enjoys, but an act nonetheless. And Jamil is EXCELLENT at acts. He's no blushing flower when it comes to flirting. He would take that stuff all the way to bed if that's where it led him. But compliments? He has no idea how to take compliments. He has such a low opinion of himself for so long that he never learned. Compliments are what make him blush. Not flirting."

"Like, Leona could be like 'Damn Baby, what does that tongue do?' And Jamil would immediately respond by purring 'Come here and find out.' But Leona being like 'You look beautiful today' would have Jamil like "Oh, um. *blushes, pulls hood over his head* Thanks, I guess.'"

"I think something else that would get him flustered is physical affection. Like he gets all hyped up to shakily hold their hands, and they immediately respond by kissing his cheeks and being sweet to him. That would make him blushy too."

"Flirting is basically just manipulation. Jamil knows how to do that. He's really good at that. It might surprise him at first, but if he's the one initiating, he wouldn't do it unless he knew exactly what he was doing. Flirting for real is kind of fake. A teasing dance you do to get to a more intimate set of behaviors. And Jamil is great at this kind of thing. There are a thousand ways to make him blushy if he's not initiating. But if he's initiating, that implies a level of confidence, so the options for making him blushy circles right back around to honesty."

"Leona and Vil flirt by antagonising each other, so it might take them a second to realize that whenever Jamil drops an Honesty Bomb on them like this and speaks plainly, he's flirting. But once they know, Jamil will never know peace again, because they turn it right back on him and compliment him honestly until he's curled up and hiding in his hood and begging them to stop."

(Yes we had a very long discussion about it x))

[theswedishpajas]

FINALLY breaking myself free from the chains that are rendered Fords… STANLEY, MY LOVE, I AM HERE TO AT LAST APPRECIATE YOUR FACE HOW IT DESERVES!!!!!

[wtf-edd]

is this a safe place to say i think tord was cooler before legacy

(just some general physical hcs this doesnt actually have much to do w pre/post legacy lol)

[fist-of-vengeance]

john locke is such an absolute nutjob and im obsessed with him. imagine having the world's most horrendous daddy issues and chosing to cope with this by forcibly adopting everyone you meet. even if they already have a father. john saw micheal's dysfunctional relationship with walt and went "okay, my son now." charlie's struggling with addiction? adoption time. oh claire's mad at him? i am her dad now and also im raising aaron. boone? my son. this random hitchhiker? my son. dude is collecting surrogate children like pokemon, and he's not even a good father figure. he frequently causes problems for the people in question. BUT BY GOD HE DOES NOT LET THAT STOP HIM

that cop eddie knew all he needed to do was get in john's car and trauma dump about his shitty father and john would immediately go "okay yeah you're my son now."

ben probably could've manipulated him twice as effectively if he used this strategy, but instead he was too busy projecting his own daddy issues by trying to make john kill his abusive dad like he did. meanwhile john is reliving the cycle getting conned by ben over and over again just like he trusted his father. they're competing in the daddy issues olympics and no one is winning

[calware]

the unending struggle of picking a good name to give to a character you see as transgender. like i don't think transmasc jane would keep the name jane but if you put in the time to think about the kind of name he would realistically choose you end up with something like dominic (i chose dominic at random it doesn't actually mean anything) and then once you start posting about "dominic" nobody knows who the hell you are talking about. and if you go with what everyone else seems to do and change 1 letter of the name you're basically just reinventing "vrisko." which is dumb.

[sunshine-zenith]

Oh so Jayce is bisexual bisexual, got it

[ventique18]

Three more years before Diasomnia manga thank you god bless I still won't have children then 🙏 Diasomnia anime season in 8 years will be when the babies start popping for most of the fans lmao

No but seriously Kalim looks so damn cute here and the art style really fits him well. So we're getting another artist for Scarabia? I wonder what kind of Yuu we're getting this time. 🙈

[brobotsbro]

god Optimus Prime in tfp could have been so delicious. The man was in an anarchist cult and got godlike power by ACCIDENT. just a regular guy. then got branded a TRAITOR by his anarchist friends and has to deal with being a leader in a WAR against HIS FORMER FRIENDS that ended up destroying the entire planet and later endangering another. My man has imposter syndrome AND guilt/resentment over being branded the decepticon traitor. I'm frothing, I'm teeming, so cool that none of this was explored in canon, they made my man into a cardboard cutout, cool cool cool

[pipza-kiko]

The cameraman and Max? Two men with exceptionally fine taste in men. The way Max looked at Charles—like he hung the moon, invented happiness, and might just be carrying his baby—was outrageous. This man has attachment issues and separation anxiety, and they’re clearly trauma-bonded. and the cameraman was right there with him, zooming in on every look, every reaction, every moment between them.

Max might as well have been screaming, 'That’s my person!' With the way he stared, the cameraman clearly agreed because Charles got more screen time than anyone else. Honestly, who can blame them? Charles has that effect—on Max and probably on everyone watching at home. Fine taste, indeed.

[punishedgwyndolin]

The only like particularly reactionary group of transfems ive ever really seen or encountered were almost all "femboys", who usually deny they have any commonality with trans women anyway. Other than that the most "right wing" transfem i've ever interacted with was basically a (in the american sense) socially liberal libertarian who pretended to be alt-right to get more money from men while doing sex work. Literally every other transfem I've interacted with has been no further right than milquetoast democrat. I guess maybe you could call anti-civ/posties reactionary, but as it manifests in trans women I'd argue its not really an especially right wing ideology, just a silly one. Where are people getting this idea of this wide spread phenomena of right wing trans women from?

the specter of the racist nazi channer transfem is just a focus-group’d, custom designed way to plug into social justice types transmisogynistic anxieties and connect with bias in community most effectively. it’s usually obvious you’re being insane if you call the trans women you don’t like degenerate shut in incels, so they just talk around it and use different words to construct the same transmisogynistic end point in your head. people on here are primed to think of trans women as universally white and see 4chan as the antichrist, so it’s minmaxing to scandalize and turn peoples brains off to get them to nod along with transmisogynistic othering, regardless of what any of the aforementioned trans women are actually doing or how many transmascs are allowed to do the same stuff without getting killed

[afflatuslux]

Speaking of Whit — I've recently had the opportunity to introduce someone to DRDT and its cast. In a completely unbiased manner, of course. That's a given.

[desire-mona]

huge fan of the fictionalised host-first-human-second hosts of dropout. imagine, if you would, they switch places with eachother..

host sam asking increasingly more intimate questions abt guests and having them do demonstrations wildly outside their wheelhouse. interviewees dont even know why theyre on set until sam reveals some deep dark secret that makes them a compelling talk show guest. host vic inviting 3 comedians on to listen to them report local news (not allowed to interrupt) and then vent about their estranged family they married into.

[bloomeng]

my object permanence with Bart is comical I don’t think about him much until he’s right in front of me and then he’s like my favorite guy ever

me reading yj: Bart is so cute in every panel!! He’s really stealing the show… he might be my fav character

me as soon as I put down the comic: Bart? The speedster? I think I might know that guy