#cannot get over this theme

[lumons]

thinking about how all the heroes in thunderbolts are physical hand to hand combat fighters and how this is more than just their fighting styles/abilities/skills but also a greater very pointed metaphor for their unhealthy coping methods.

throughout the movie punching stuff doesn’t get them as far as they would all hope. they can’t easily escape the incinerator, they can’t easily climb the elevator, or fight together, but beyond that they are battling depression and negative thoughts by punching it all down as yelena puts it. and of course yelena also gives this piece of advice to bob, who has never really known how to deal with his own dark thoughts and, when presented with the chance, he starts punching the void. but especially then it becomes the most clear it has ever been — punching and shooting shit is not the way out. it’s what the void wants. it’s the repetition of this violent, self-destructive cycle. the void slowly starts to take him over that by the point yelena comes to pull him into a hug he’s only moments away from being entirely consumed by the darkness. and ultimately it isn’t the punching or physical combat that wins out. bob’s dragged away by a tight embrace that perhaps opens him and the others up to a new perspective or realization about what it takes to overcome their struggles.

[dykealloy]

small aside but y'know how luffy's stupidity is usually met with physical abuse of some kind? anyway. here's law's worst in response to luffy being manipulated by his arch nemesis

[vaguely-concerned]

just had the thought 'in the end the most important thing varric taught rook was how to make a home for, with, and in other people' and then I had to go lie down on the floor and clutch at my head in unceasing agony for a few hours, as you may well imagine. hawke and the kirkwall crew........ in the end you kind of saved the world a bit in the most characteristically indirect and chaotic of ways. not by anything in particular that you did or achieved or accomplished (lmao imagine!), but just by -- having existed, and by the love that was always there, despite it all, in all its imperfections, even when no one was saved by it in the end. you're not here right now and you're not quite haunting the narrative but I hear your voices bickering and arguing and laughing from the other room. (and so, I think, does varric. all the time.)

'did you think you mattered, hawke? did you think anything you ever did mattered?' yeah actually, varric says with da2 and keeps saying through the series. you were here. and I loved you. and as it turns out that mattered more than almost anything in the world, no matter how long it lasted or how fucked up it was at the time or what else happens, because varric manages to pass that feeling, that intangible... home, that echo of you all as you were together, that love, hopefully the best parts of it, on to someone else for them to bring with them on their journey, with their family. and maybe the world will be kinder this time. you never know. merrill's line of 'Everything affects everything. We were born, a bunch of things happened, and now we're in a mess with our friends.' varric's greatest fear of becoming his parents. even through the wreck and the ruin of the world, ghosts upon ghosts upon ghosts of love -- malcolm hawke, who we never even see, but his life touched hawke's and hawke's touched varric's and varric's touched rook's and rook is passing it on to the family they're creating. the unbroken legacy of love shines through in ways that are stronger and stranger than any magic. help

[icewindandboringhorror]

Little bright colored outfit with a fun vest ~

(shoes from ebay like 10 years ago. everything else is thrifted)

[excelsior9173]

i am not seeing enough of this photo going around and just want to bring it to the dash because it might be one of my most favourite photos ever :)

source

[bardan-jusik]

cannot get over lately the realization that while repcomm is widely criticized for being 'anti-jedi', it's WAY kinder and more understanding to all of its force-using characters and the jedi order as an organization than actual anti-jedi fans are

[qteachoice]

Molt

[clumsypuppy]

i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you

[beevosmeower]

Another Fish TF post

Tag for @doldulce who’s basically the co founder of Men Fear Me, I Am A Fish

The way TFs are in my head is like they all have a gimmick / theme. The divine TFs work under Comfort Vs Acceptance cause the Angel tf comforts you and can give a lot of PCs a purpose, versus the demon one where it helps you accept the town for what it is a LOT easier. I haven’t played the cat TF or seen much on it but I know the cow and wolf TFs both help you survive the environment that you get them in which is something that transfers over to the fish TF. You get an area that’s usually somewhat difficult for the PC to now be much easier despite the dangers that still lurk. If you have the wolf tf you still have to deal with Eden and boars n shit, but the wolves aren’t an issue anymore cause you get the ability to get rid of them as a threat. Same for the Fish TF, the ocean is far easier to get around and you get a lot of safe spaces, but now there’s other parts of the map that are more hostile and difficult for you. The bigger with the Fish TF is that animals like cats, wolves, or birds are all animals that care about their own quality of life. All of them have a pretty good level of sentience and intelligence that let their traits be transferred to humans and not cause huge issues. The same is NOT the case for fish. No matter what the Fish TFs secondary theme is body horror. Until the TF is even complete and about to finish, you’re basically still a human that’s being parasitized by fish. Fish will live on whether or not their quality of life is super good, they’re very very utilitarian animals. In short, the Fish TF is not only something you can’t change or mould to suit you as a person, it’s only priority is to keep you alive at any cost. Congrats, it’s tailored to you to keep you alive and at a good amount of function! Bad news, hope you didn’t wanna die anytime soon.

[time-is-restored]

MAFUYU'S WL2 CHAPTERS HAVE HARMED ME IRREPARABLY.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE KNOWS SHE'S IN A DREAM? WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE'S GOING OUT OF HER WAY TO FIND NIIGO? WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE PULLS IDENTICAL SAD SMILES AT SEEING ALL OF THEM INTERACTING WITH HER LIKE A STRANGER? CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME?

she was SURPRISED when her mother said they 'had a talk' about mafuyu not being a doctor. she doesn't remember that conversation. she didn't KNOW what their relationship was in this world until her mother explicitly told her.

she reached out to ena THROUGH airi (when she shouldn't have otherwise even KNOWN about her) so they could all practice drawing together. she let mizuki suggest clothes for her to wear (going on a whole expedition with her classmates just to engineer a chance to take them to her boutique) bc there's no other way for her to interact with her?????????????

she literally said that kanade's songs give """"everyone"""" a warm feeling when everyone else has referred to them just as being 'cheerful' and 'popular'. and then the way she pushed kanade to list all the things she wanted to do... insisted on doing all of them in what might literally have been experienced by them AS a montage... it's like she's trying to gift kanade experiences + memories that she otherwise wouldn't have? and it's such a clear parallel between all the expeditions/trips niigo take HER on in the prime timeline in the name of finding herself?

i was already betting everything on kaito being the vocaloid to sing to her but his use here is now like. infinitely crazier to me in the context of the actual story. the 'hold onto your true feelings' vocaloid sings to mafuyu to comfort her in a world where she doesn't have her friends. and then she acts on those feelings by bringing them as close together as she can? because? she loves? her friends?

[mo-ok]

little guy saga continues this time with the biggest little guys you've ever seen 🤖

[soullessjack]

this isnt rlly a serious post more so than a thought I need to verbalize but like. there’s an INSANE difference between the fandom being like “hey what if jack was actually his age and got to be a little normal” vs y’all treating a grown ass man like he has to cover his ears when someone swears or sleep with a nightlight on because he’s afraid of the dark, and throwing the P word around to anyone who thinks he’s attractive. one of these things is not like the other.

[dafpork]

having SUCH a connection to these characters is a real blessing and a curse because... WELL for a lot of reasons. i guess you could describe a lot of my "reactions" as synesthesiac--it's very helpful in scooping out the heart of these characters and Doing What I'm Doing because it's like, i know them i am them i feel them. i feel what they feel and think how they think and i feel the context of the moment. and that feeling and thinking is very strong, so strong that i get into these moods or moments where i'm like.. if i just sit here long enough maybe i can metastize something. sorry, i can't work on writing more of my actor au, i'm too busy refreshing this single part to the Bugs Bunny Show credits that, whenever i hear it, reminds me so much and is so representative of Porky to me that hearing it conveys so much of his life's story to me, and i need to concentrate and listen and embrace that so i can get deeper into that Porky mindset and use it as later fuel for drawing or writing. and then i'm gonna go on tumblr and complain about people not liking Dafpork enough and how it makes me want to rip my shirt off and claw my skin off because the love and passion i feel for them is so insurmountable that the idea of other people not feeling that to the same degree that i do, which is maybe a near impossible standard to reach, causes me genuine distress. instead of making more stuff to get the word out. yeah.

[luvsavos]

my sleep paralysis demon is real and it's called sahvyt

[exercise-of-trust]

every six to nine months i remember how check please handled the whole kent parson storyline and i get so mad i could spit

[52frogs]

Spider-Man (Raimi) | Mr. Brightside (The Killers)