#are we still tagging that?

[number-one-shadisper-shipper]

Okay so the Prime scene where Sonic got his friends back for a split-second was intense and heartbreaking

But is anyone going talk about the fact that it only happened when Nine put a shard in WRONG?

The temporary "fixing" of Ghost Hill didn't happen when he put any of the shards in correctly. He'd already put in the blue one before he even tried that one, and nothing happened.

And at the end, he has all but the Grim shard in place and it's still the same, even though logically it'd make more sense that it'd be at least partially fixed then.

So it was putting the shard in incorrectly that caused them to come back for a second.

I don't know what that means but it kinda concerns me 🥺

[terrible-miraculous-ladybug-aus]

AU where Adrien decides to honor his father's memory by taking up the libel lawsuit against you.

It never ends. Adrien, how could you?

[natjennie]

sorry i just rewatched the very end of the finale and "faithful friends who were dear to us shall be near to us once more. someday soon we all will be together, if the fate's allow" like....... imagine you're me and now start sobbing uncontrollably.

[apocketfullofhobbits]

Your tag about the anger you feel at some readers seeing Adam and Ronan as codependent struck me.

I think of both connected series as metaphors for growing up and reckoning with who you are and what you want— The Dreamer Trilogy carries this over but in a more adult context. It's why I can't get into the Murderous Men in Black aspects of the story because they feel disconnected from what the narrative is trying to say. (I freaking love Hennessey and the underground market though... On that, where is Henry's mother?)

Right, Adam and Ronan. Ronan is an intense and passionate 'all or nothing' person. His love is wild and honest, open and unending. Ronan is not an easy choice for Adam to make. Adam who has survived by being careful and calculating, whose love is deep but compartmentalised and set aside for choices that are practical steps towards an idealised (but superficial) vision of success.

My interpretation of Adam is that on some level he knows he makes false idols (goals that are ultimately unfulfilling in the long term) shaped by pride and survival.

By choosing Ronan Adam is choosing to prioritise love and friendship over pride and ambition. It is Adam choosing to remain present and known rather than remote and lonesome. It is Adam choosing his emotional wellbeing over dreams dreamt by a furious and poverty stricken abused teenager. Choosing Ronan is Adam choosing to be happy over and over. It is a difficult choice.

However, it is one Adam keeps making and that is not co-dependency. It is a decision many teens and 20-somethings make. It is being in love and choosing to remain in love because nothing can be gained by destroying it but unnecessary misery. It is seeing a future with and without and burning down the path that doesn't includes who you don't want to be without. It is Adam and Ronan exploring who they are and what they want and choosing to be happy together.

yes! i agree wholeheartedly with everything u said!

something that needs to be said firstly tho is that my annoyance with this whole thing  in no way proportional to the actual size of the problem, for all i know it was just that one post i briefly saw when i foolishly ventured into the tags even tho i knew i shouldn’t. (also don't get me wrong i have nothing against codependent relationships or/and characters in media, i enjoys messy relationships immensely. i am the sickos guy glued to their window!)  but the topic is nonetheless very thought provoking, so im sorry, but gonna take this opportunity to rumble for a bit!

what is interesting to me is that whether or not adam actually uses the word in his head, i think he is always hyper vigilant against falling into codependancy himself bc growing up he always had this horrible example of his parents staying in a very unhappy marriage for years and years. so much of adam's choices are dictated by wanting to be as different from his parents as he can, and this is one of those things. he is determined not to repeat their mistakes. what’s tricky is not to overcompensate. this is where adam’s struggle lies. there needs to be a balance. we saw how unbalanced he was in the beginning, but over the course of trc he learnt that it’s not actually that scary to rely on other people sometimes. the world is not gonna end if he let’s his friends help him. it’s okay to care and let people in. but that doesn’t mean he isn’t still pondering the exact balance of it all the time; hypervigilance is baked into him.

“My interpretation of Adam is that on some level he knows he makes false idols (goals that are ultimately unfulfilling in the long term) shaped by pride and survival.” - yes and i think when his doubts came closer to the surface, when he found himself playing with the idea that maybe he could give up on the ivy league and go to the college closer to ronan and be happier, his hypervigilance was like ‘wait a second! are we getting too comfortable? to spoiled with love? are we losing our edge? this a slippery slop to becoming just like mom. better nip it in the bud! we are breaking up with ronan!”. and even if back then he just wasn’t yet ready to let go of the painful ambitions that kept him alive for so long, at least in the light of day he was able to resist the irrational unfounded fears and the overwhelming urge to fall back into self-isolation (masked as independence) that plagued him in the dead of the night.

and then cdtw happened and everything went to shit and i loved it! i love characters making mistakes and relationships getting unbalanced, swinging to much to one side, to the other, and then finding balance. i like how very yin-yang ronan and adam. ronan is chaos, passion, anarchy, abundance of emotions, rampant adhd; adam is order, precision, logic, politeness, willpower. but they balance each other out! that's why they work! adam needs a bit of chaos. to let go of control once in a while. ronan needs a solid ground to come back to. and when they strayed from each other, adam wilted without inherently chaotic magical energy like a plant without water, he closed himself of from everyone by lying to everyone and himself, desperately holding on to the notion that magic has no place in his definition of success. that there is magic and there is 'the real world'. u can't have both, so u must sacrifice one or the other. and all that only made him miserable and made him risk his life by scrying alone, just to fucking feel something. ronan went so far into chaotic side with bryde and hennessy that he lost his footing in the world entirely. he lost any hope in a world where the mundane and magical, order and chaos, can ever co-exist. so one must be sacrificed for the other.

and then. these two assholes literally speed run months of individual and couple's therapy with magic, and found the innermost hurt that caused all this mess, which is 'i don't know who the fuck i am. i am so afraid there is not a place for me in this world. in your world. i am afraid to let go of what kept me safe. i don't know who i am without it. i don't want to be alone. i am afraid. i need u'.

bit mad at them for using cheat codes to come to the point of absolute true vulnerability with each other instead of going through mortifying ordeal of Actually Communicating, but oh well, whatcha gonna do.

“ I think of both connected series as metaphors for growing up and reckoning with who you are and what you want— The Dreamer Trilogy carries this over but in a more adult context. It's why I can't get into the Murderous Men in Black aspects of the story because they feel disconnected from what the narrative is trying to say”. - yes! i agree! moderators and visionaries as a concept are so clunky - first of all this kind of hard magic just doesn't work with maggie's tendency to be as vague and mysterious as possible. they stood out like a sore thumb, they cheapened the series for me, and ultimately they (and the pointless and racist af nathan plot line too!) could have been removed from the series entirely with zero harm. the night market und the whole underground magic world make much more juicy setting than underdeveloped off brand spy movie extras running around aimlessly. so yeah, i have many many things i didn’t like in tdt, but adam and ronan’s relationship development is not one of them! its abt the only thing that made complete sense to me, no notes. it was maggie at her best. wish the rest of the series was as good as that.

[theloyalpin]

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[bacchuschucklefuck]

couldnt draw my thang for mid-autumn so treated myself to a calne redesign instead

[mischievous-thunder]

Deadpool and Wolverine is a fanfic in the movie form that feels as much like a fever dream as a rom-com. The content creator only gave it an R rating as an umbrella term which includes all of the following ao3 tags:

Canon-Typical Violence, Blood and Gore, Canon Divergence, Multiverse, Meet Ugly, Enemies to Friends, Age Difference, Bickering, Undeniable Sexual Tension, Mutual Pining

Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Survivor Guilt

Pain Play, Car Sex, BDSM, Rough Sex, Size Kink, Porn with Feelings, Aggressive Sex, Orgasm Denial, Edging, Power Play, Cock Tease, No Refractory Period

Semi-Public Sex

Accidental Striptease

Friends to Lovers, Fluff and Cuddling, Domestic Banter, Falling in Love, Getting together, Idiots in Love, Old Married Couple in Spirit, Additional Tags to be Added...

[bixels]

Learning that fans hated Applejack and called her "boring" is crazyyy to me because I genuinely, unironically believe AJ's the most complex character in the main six.

Backstory-wise, she was born into a family of famers/blue collar workers who helped found the town she lives in. She grew up a habitual liar until she had the bad habit traumatized outta her. She lost both her parents and was orphaned at a young age, having to step up as her baby sister's mother figure. She's the only person in the main gang who's experienced this level of loss and grief (A Royal Problem reveals that AJ dreams about memories of being held by her parents as a baby). She moved to Manhattan to live with her wealthy family members, only to realize she'll never fit in or be accepted, even amongst her own family. The earlier seasons imply she and her family had money problems too (In The Ticket Master, AJ wants to go to the gala to earn money to buy new farm equipment and afford hip surgery for her grandma).

Personality-wise, she's a total people-pleaser/steamroller (with an occasional savior complex) who places her self worth on her independence and usefulness for other people, causing her to become a complete workaholic. In Applebuck Season, AJ stops taking care of herself because of her obsessive responsibilities for others and becomes completely dysfunctional. In Apple Family Reunion, AJ has a tearful breakdown because in she thinks she dishonored her family and tarnished her reputation as a potential leader –– an expectation and anxiety that's directly tied to her deceased parents, as shown in the episode's ending scene. In The Last Roundup, AJ abandons her family and friends out of shame because believes she failed them by not earning 1st place in a rodeo competition. She completely spirals emotionally when she isn't able to fulfill her duties toward others. Her need to be the best manifests in intense pride and competitiveness when others challenge her. And when her pride's broken, she cowers and physically hides herself.

Moreover, it's strongly implied that AJ has a deep-seated anger. The comics explore her ranting outbursts more. EQG also obviously has AJ yelling at and insulting Rarity in a jealous fit just to hurt her feelings (with a line that I could write a whole dissection on). And I'm certain I read in a post somewhere that in a Gameloft event, AJ's negative traits are listed as anger.

Subtextually, a lot of these flaws and anxieties can be (retroactively) linked to her parents' death, forcing her to grow up too quickly to become the adult/caregiver of the family (especially after her big brother becomes semiverbal). Notice how throughout the series, she's constantly acting as the "mom friend" of the group (despite everything, she manages to be the most emotionally mature of the bunch). Notice how AJ'll switch to a quieter, calmer tone when her friends are panicking and use soothing prompts and questions to talk them through their emotions/problems; something she'd definitely pick up while raising a child. Same with her stoicism and reluctance at crying or releasing emotions (something Pinkie explicitly points out). She also had a childhood relationship with Rara (which, if you were to give a queer reading, could easy be interpreted as her first 'aha' crush), who eventually left her life. (Interestingly enough, AJ also has an angry outburst with Rara for the same exact reasons as with EQG Rarity; jealous, upset that someone else is using and changing her). It's not hard to imagine an AJ with separation anxiety stemming from her mother and childhood friend/crush leaving. I'm also not above reading into AJ's relationship with her little sister (Y'all ever think about how AB never got to know her parents, even though she shares her father's colors and her mother's curly hair?).

AJ's stubbornness is a symptom of growing up too quickly as well. Who else to play with your baby sister when your brother goes nonverbal (not to discount Big Mac's role in raising AB)? Who else to wake up in the middle of the night to care for your crying baby sister when your grandma needs her rest? When you need to be 100% all the time for your family, you tend to become hard-stuck with a sense of moral superiority. You know what's best because you have to be your best because if you're aren't your best, then everything'll inevitably fall apart and it'll be your fault. And if you don't know what's best –– if you've been wrong the whole time –– that means you haven't been your best, which means you've failed the people who rely on you, which means you can't fulfill your role in the family/society, which makes you worthless . We've seen time and time again how this compulsive need to be right for the sake of others becomes self-destructive (Apple Family Reunion, Sound of Silence, all competitions against RD). We've seen in The Last Roundup how, when no longer at her best, AJ would rather remove herself from her community than confront them because she no longer feels of use to them.

But I guess it is kinda weird that AJ has "masculine" traits and isn't interested in men at all. It's totally justified that an aggressively straight, misogynistic male fandom would characterize her as a "boring background character." /s

At the time of writing this, it's 4:46AM.

[coddda]

I wish we could have met in some other way.

Lawlight Week Day 2: Soulmates

If you saw me repost and re-edit this several times uh No you didn't </3

Still frames/Individual gifs:

If you know what every frame is from you get a free cookie. by the way

[zkyeline]

Just wanna draw them all getting the Flapjack tattoos :’)

Edit: now with accompanying comic!

[aroaceleovaldez]

arguably this is the funniest part about Jason in The Burning Maze:

[aalghul]

once again thinking about jason as duke’s robin. he’s ~4 years younger than jason, and that puts him at 8-12 during Jason’s time as robin. that’s prime time to get attached to your local kid vigilante before your own life goes downhill.

and if we try to keep duke’s meeting with bruce in zero year + duke’s age (so he can remember the meeting and hold that conversation with bruce), he has to be around 8. if he starts following batman through the news at that time because of the mess that just happened, the robin he sees is probably jason. I’ve literally connected the dots

[ranilla-bean]

✨ The Mercy of Magpies 《喜鵲之恩》 ✨

3...2...1... takeoff! 🚀 @ash-and-starlight & @ranilla-bean here to launch our project for @zukkabigbang2024 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

Rating: M Fandom: Avatar the Last Airbender Pairing: Sokka/Zuko Chapters: 1/15 Beta: @faux-fires

Tags: Alternate Universe - Space, Space Opera, Depictions of Violence, Minor Character Death, Dilf Zukka, War, Han solarpunk, loosely inspired by Red Cliff (dir. John Woo), Decolonisation, Ghosts, the narrative is haunted, Getting Together, Slow Burn, eventual sexual content (i prommy), BBL Ozzy, thematically relevant magpies, interplanetary old man yaoi saves the galaxy

Summary:

In the XXXth span of the galactic war against the Phoenix King, the Avatar, Master of the Four Elements, summoned his trusted advisor to his side… Avatar Aang, prosecutor of the long war against the Fire Nation, tasks General Sokka with the recruitment of a secret friend hidden on his old home planet Emptiness II, razed a century ago. There, Sokka finds an impossible community, where peoples from all quadrants of the galaxy have taken root—headed by the Phoenix King’s own son Zuko. As he comes to trust them, Sokka becomes invested in the community. But war is barrelling towards them, and he must harness the spark between himself and Zuko to save Emptiness II… and the rest of the galaxy.

check out the rest of the chapter 1 art here!

[kaahmbem]

legend has it that the young witch circe and the once beautiful nymph scylla shared a complicated past...

[uncanny-tranny]

Amatonormativity has destroyed so many people's understanding and acceptance of themselves, and it's heartbreaking.

Yes, it is normal to be in your 20s, 30s, or older and not have lost your virginity, had a first kiss, or a partner. It is normal to say that you aren't ready for those things, too! It is normal if your life doesn't follow the "college graduate -> engagement -> buying a home -> 2.5 kids and a dog" trajectory that so many people have idealized.

So many people associate maturity with losing your virginity, or having a first kiss, or a serious relationship, and I think that's a dangerous association. Maturity isn't gained through those things, and you don't have to have those experiences to be considered "mature" or "grown." It is not a bad thing to go at your pace. Nobody else can live your life but you. If you end up having those experiences, that's great! But it should be done because you want to experience them, not because you feel "broken" and "immature" without them.

[hinamie]

thank u canon plant nerd megumi for my life

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