#core vulnerabilities

[plasmara]

jay wanted to be soooooo intimidating this whole season.. the voice distorter thing, the wings, THE RED GOGGLES.. just the sheer fuckin’ violence he did everything with. LIKE LOOK AT HIM. this SHOULD be a scary man

and Yet. the second he’s back with the ninja

‘can’t you see i need help!!!!!!’

[signanothername]

Dream’s room within Nightmare’s castle

This comic takes place after Nightmare’s theoretical death that I discussed before >:)

A bit of context under readmore

[ch0c00n]

but it ain't called love without a little tragedy

[jamingbenn]

the thing that is really making me crash out about this video is how casually tanger says baby to geno. like hes said it a thousand times and will say it a thousand times more

source from pens fb and youtube!

[girlbloggerinterrupted222]

“what do you wanna be when you grow up??”

dead ❤️

[biblicalhorror]

Aroace Riz real but also Fabian is SO clearly in love with him and Riz has no idea

[dreamsofg0ld]

the great impersonator ⭐️ written by ashley, starring halsey

[sun-marie]

Lucanis watching the effect the Fade Prison had on Rook with tears in his eyes before kneeling down to their level to ground them in reality

🤝

Kaidan at a loss for words trying to comfort Shepard before saying "It's gonna be what it is" with the most sobering look of desperation

[snezus-christ-risen]

Natural performers — maybe not necessarily in a stage or screen sense, but those more unsavory individuals who can sell you a lie as effortlessly as they breathe, employing every expression, gesture, and turn of phrase down to the smallest detail to maintain their illusions — getting performance anxiety when it comes to sneezing in front of others. They’re so used to having complete control over how they present themselves, but with sneezing all that control goes out the window, bringing down with it all of those carefully constructed layers to expose the true vulnerability underneath.

[triangular-static]

do you ever think about how in the same book we learn about bill's very implied medical trauma and his relationship around being seen as insane. we also learn he's been forcibly put in a therapy dimension.

because i've been thinking about it so much

[thesituationship]

How's this for a pre-betrayal Billford headcanon:

Bill is really trying not to fuck ford. But ford's worship makes him feel soo special. Ford's constantly getting too close, being too kind, too curious. Bill finds this so hot that he regularly caves. And the post nut clarity is devastating for bill. He's worried he's getting attached. He's worried ford is making him vulnerable and that he'll compromise weirdmegaddon.

And so bill immediately erases it from ford's memory. My theory is they've fucked a tonne and ford has no recollection.

It's very funny if you believe fiddleford is also erasing ford's memory of his own sexual advances at the same time. I think ford can be just as kind but also boundary pushing with fidd as he is with bill. And the guilt of being unfaithful makes fiddleford regret everything. So it's all erased.

It's even funnier if ford's accidentally leading them on. Like I think ford clearly loves them both, but maybe he's ace, and doesn't really understand physical sexual attraction. And he can be pretty socially inept, so he doesn't see what he's doing as inappropriate or hot. Every time he realises 'oh shit they want me' his memory is wiped. And this happens over and over again

So yeah my headcanon is that ford is in a cringe-fail love triangle feelings confession time loop.

[cryptocism]

love that Thad interprets inertia to mean continuing at all costs and Three takes it to mean stagnancy, bc theyre both right!! objects in motion saty in motion objects at rest stay at rest just like newton said

exactly yeah! because i knew i wanted Thad to reclaim the name for himself (with the whole "it means what i say it means" mantra) it needed to mean more to him than just a representation of Thawne Legacy Kill The Allens etc.

a reoccurring thing in Frequency that i liked to lean into was this idea of Good Inertia and Bad Impulses (bc Bart and Thad as narrative foils continues to rotate in my brain forever). i think Bart's solo does a cool exploration of both good and bad impulses throughout the run, it's kind of the central conflict of the whole thing, but it's usually in regards to Bart either unwittingly getting himself into trouble or accidentally solving problems by just leaping into everything without thinking twice. but the concept of inertia is pretty exclusively portrayed as negative. which is fair, the phrase "coasting on inertia" is in the lexicon for a reason. but i think it deserved a fair shot - the concept of continuing in spite of everything can actually be a really good instinct when you're in a bad situation. keeping up that momentum, moving forward no matter what, there's definitely something inspirational there that appeals to me.

and an aspect of impulses that didnt get as much spotlight in Bart's solo was the kinds of impulses that recoil at the thought of unpleasantness. the impulse to hide from responsibility, the impulse to distract from pain, to avoid discomfort, etc. (big part of that is because in Bart's solo, most of the worst moments of his life hadn't happened to him yet) so i wanted to explore it a little in Frequency

anyway yeah, Bad Impulses and Good Inertia. which was kinda in conversation with Bart and Thad's dispositions, and how they run counter to typical hero/villain narratives. (Bart doesn't really get people, goes his own way, has pretty emotionally selfish and sometimes violent tendencies when he's pissed off. Thad's much more of a people person, lives for praise and pleasing others, seems to forget to do violence when he's supposed to i.e. that time he put Bart in VR jail even though Bart was completely incapacitated and by Thawne logic Thad should've just killed him. it just... doesn't occur to him as a thing he should do lmao)

[felsicveins]

Metal heart

[yourgirlinpieces]

*through gritted teeth*

all the love given is never lost

all the love given is never lost

all the love given is never lost

[commsroom]

thinking about my friend @whats-a-terrarium's post about eiffel wanting to go out on a star wars reference (i.e. that he was going to say "i love you" to hera, expecting her to complete the reference with "i know.") and i fully believe that's true. i don't think he would say it so directly unless it was as a reference. (and i do still believe the framing of the scene itself is a meta reference, knowing that the writers were big fans of the new doctor who and the way it evokes "if it's my last chance to say it, rose tyler, i-") but, that said, it also gives me an opportunity to talk about something i usually don't.

eiffel's sacrifice in the finale is selfish. it's his autonomy, and his choice, and hera respects that, but she's the one who has to pull the trigger and wipe his mind, and he knows this, knowing all of her personal baggage about identity and memory. to then, if you accept this, follow that up with a confession-that's-also-a-reference, expecting her to complete it in someone else's words, regardless of the sincerity... that's also selfish, and that's why it resonates as characterization. i believe it's true because of what that signifies.

this is one of the main reasons i've always felt eiffel has to get his memory back - because that's a set-up, not a resolution. he's not cured of being doug eiffel, of his desire to escape himself, of his impulse to self-destruct, of his need to filter the things he can't say through the familiarity of narrative. the point of giving eiffel his memory back, to me, is that he is always himself, that self-improvement is a constant project with no reset button. eiffel has always had a problem with selective memory, and with using it to evade difficult conversations and responsibilities.

people often point out that eiffel seems more soft-spoken after losing his memory, but everything else aside: he literally runs everything in his brain through the filter of pop culture. imagine suddenly not having access to your primary method of communication. the language is there, but the context is not. the circumstances surrounding eiffel's memory loss will weigh on hera, and i think - in an inverted sort of way to constructive criticism - part of working through that is in eiffel learning how to communicate without that emotional crutch. he can get it back once he's done.

[guppygiggles]

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