#but I have emotions

[celluloidbroomcloset]

Kept thinking about this post from @ourflagmeansgayrights.

Can we also note that, like the stabbing scene, “I’m your captain!” only works because Ed knows Stede is not going to use dominance to hurt him? Ed, who has grown up under bad, violent captains and authority figures, and who has been harmed, physically and psychologically, by men who enjoy causing pain, who got Stede to stab him just to be close to him, and remembers how concerned Stede was about him? And that the things that Stede tells him to do are “fix things” and “stop pissing people off,” because Stede is a good captain and a kind man who’s essentially trying to get his ship to run properly again and to help dissipate the toxicity?

I’d say it’s also very important that Stede doesn’t get that there’s a sexual undercurrent, because he’s literally never considered that his authority or power might have a sexual aspect for Ed. It’s not that he’s naive - it has not occurred to him to use authority or violence to gain power over Ed (or anyone).

I dunno, I have a lot of feelings about male characters who are kind and remain kind and are loved for their kindness, despite an entire world trying to make them cruel.

[riacte]

This is a cruel joke, Grian thinks as he squints at Scar’s backside. Scar’s completely oblivious even as Grian feels his pulse thrumming into tune with Scar’s. There’s an ache in him, itching and clawing at his heart, the tell-tale sign of a soulbond. It feels an extra limb, an odd jolt in his heart. Grian’s hungry. Scar’s hungry. Grian’s hurt. Scar’s hurt.

Grian knows. Scar doesn’t.

At first, Grian thinks it’s all a joke. But he watches Scar chase after allays and Jellie pandas and proudly proclaiming them as his soulmates and Grian’s heart sinks. Just a little bit.

Do you not care, Scar? Do you not care that we’re soulmates?

And Grian hates himself even more because it was him who weaved up this world. Him who designed this, crafted this from his visions, and the universe decides to give him and Scar another chance. Like the last two times wasn’t enough. The universe is nudging and pushing its creator into the same direction, time and time again— but for what? It all ends in tragedy anyway, rings of cacti and bloodied fists, so why bother? Why Scar, of all people, again?

So Grian sighs and picks up the dripstone. It’s his duty to look after Scar, it always has been. And Scar has to know. But Scar doesn’t care, doesn’t spare him a second glance, he cooes over his Jellies and then smiles at him, so oblivious yet so excited about his cats.

“Look directly at me,” Grian asks as he puts the dripstone on top of Scar. It falls down and hits Scar, and Grian winces at the sharp pain.

Scar doesn’t look at Grian. He’s gazing at his Jellies in adoration.

(They’re soulmates, and he doesn’t care, doesn’t care doesn’t care—)

“Scar!” Grian barks sharply, and he can’t even bring himself to be mad because that’s how Scar is. He’s falling into the same trap the universe set him up, he’s going to have to protect Scar again, and Scar’s disregarding himself as always, because that’s how they work, and—

Grian has one more dripstone. One final try.

“Ready? Look at me.”

And Scar’s green eyes meets Grian’s; curious, earnest, yet so oblivious.

“I’m looking!”

The dripstone falls. It lands.

Scar cries out.

Grian just sighs.

Matching blood splatters on their armour, a shared pain coursing through them. They’re mirrors of each other. Their eyes are locked. And Grian sees that Scar finally understands.

There’s a long pause.

“Oh,” Scar says softly. “Oh.”

(The universe murmurs to itself in glee, pleased that it’s done its job again.)

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

[wolfythewitch]

i have so much rage in me one day i think i will explode. i dont think i know how to forgive as much as i know how to forget

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

god i love my friends. shout out to people who love their friends. this is a post for friend lovers

[proxycrit]

I made another one. Sorry guys.

[aye-of-newt]

guillermo del toro’s pinocchio is a beautiful film but my god no one has adapted that story like neverafter. you can never look at it the same way again after listening to lou wilson, a black man, explaining that he chose to play as pinocchio because it’s a story about a little boy who isn’t allowed to make mistakes. that in pinocchio's story, he is fundamentally barred from childhood at once upon a time. he must earn something that everyone else is granted from birth. the other boys get to tell lies and play and get into trouble, but when pinocchio does the same thing there are grave and violent consequences. his pinocchio is trying to understand why the world is so unfair, why the rules are so different for him, why everyone else gets to be a real boy.

and I think about it every day.

[kimdokjas]

though the movie might be cancelled, yuri on ice will live forever in our hearts. thank you yoi fandom, it's been real ♡

[utilitycaster]

"why should I get invested in shows if they'll just get canceled" I was deeply invested in Heroes (2006) and it was not canceled, it just got really terrible. I also got really invested in the sandwich I had a few weeks ago despite it only lasting like 15 minutes. You must embrace the ephemeral. You must be willing to love things that may not love you back, that might betray you, or that may die an untimely death. As the great philosopher Mr. Mitchell Lee Hedberg said "I'm not gonna stop doing something because of what happens at the end."

[stuckinapril]

Honestly the cliche advice is true. If you fill your life w things you’re passionate about, if you challenge yourself every day, if you give your own opinion of yourself more weight than you do other people’s opinions of you, you will actually thrive. Like no one can tell u anything

[tahliavellan]

So I've been digging through various dialogue things, and I came upon a devnote that is so fucking funny to me.

The idea that during the first romance scene Astarion is trying to portray sexy and confident, but then in his mind he's like "Yesss I'm so good at this." is so infinitely funny to me lol. He's so silly.

[larissa-the-scribe]

guys I had this realization the other day that Redwall works really well for reading aloud, and kinda half-remembered something about the author reading to kids? So I looked it up to see if I had made a connection.

And it turns out, yes, actually, because he read aloud to kids at a school for the blind. But all the books they gave him to read were depressing. So he wrote Redwall, a story about heroism and courage and making it through struggles, and filled it with so many sensory, visual details so he could give them something better and I just-- that's so wholesome-- help

[ecoamerica]

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[raixkim]

A small compilation of Content creators' responses to Wilburs "apology"

In case anyone else needs to see how they don't support him.

edit: heres a minor update

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edit 3:

HERES A CLIP OF TUBBO TALKING ABOUT IT !

last edit: (i hope niki is okay<3)

[t4t-pathogen]

T4T love is holy whether its sexual or romantic or platonic or monogamous or polyamorous or gay or lesbian or straight or any combination of any of those things or even something more deeply personal and undefineable

[fellhellion]

mija

thank u @theoldkyokodied for this commission i love it so much <3

[lieu-rey]

first meeting