#exploding [positive]

[swords-and-chaos]

Shout out to all of y’all who are happily or unhappily single for this upcoming Valentine’s Day! Society is gonna try to tell you that it’s wrong, or something to be sad about, but this is your reminder that you don’t need another person to love you to be loved/worthy of love! Special shout out to all of you aro and/or ace spec folks! Just because you don’t/don’t want to have someone to spend the day with doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it! Chocolate is going to be cheap in the following days! Do something nice for yourself.

[cheerioskid]

fae jimmy!!!

[vortahoney]

I am fully prepared to excuse any and all actions taken by the ratgrinders because they are a group of teens whose worst traits are being preyed upon and who are treated as expendable puppets by a much older man. And also because this is all one guy sitting at a table making different voices at his friends so it’s not all THAT serious is it.

[ren-054]

Every day I’ll be so loudly aromantic, like I don’t even give a shit

I don’t see anyone in my circles who can do the job for me so I gotta do it, that’s the rule

ROMANCE LITERALLY DOESNT MATTER IF YOU DONT WANT IT TO BABEY!!! AND DONT LET ANYONE TRY TO TELL YOU OTHERWISE!! FUCK AMATONORMATIVITY AND FEEL WHATEVER YOU WANT TO FEEL FOREVER!! EVEN IF ITS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL, THATS YOUR BUSINESS AND NO ONE HAS THE AUTHORITY TO TELL YOU HOW TO EXPERIENCE THIS LIFE 💥💥💥💥

NOW GOOD NIGHT!!!

[ruporas]

wow?! amazing stunning inspired incredible especially the cigarette smoke panel

thank you so much !! i also liked working on that panel hehe i’m glad others liked it too :’)

[danwhobrowses]

For anyone else who is gonna struggle surviving the next 3 weeks with the angsty and tense situation of Callowmoore here's a few things from the last 2 episodes that I feel were underrated and will assist in trying to keep me sane/emotionally stable: - Matching messed up hands built for holding - Fearne nervously playing with her hair as she approaches Ashton - Ashton wanted Fearne to be either the last thing they saw if they died or the first thing they saw when they succeeded - Fearne's admittance corroborates Ashley's 4SD revelation that Fearne is in love with someone in the party but doesn't know how to process the emotions - Fearne wanted Ashton to be happy, while Ashton wanted to feel whole so they would be worthy of the Hells - Ashton twice tried to lead a search for Fearne, and instantly clocking onto Chetney saying he followed Fearne - Fearne making herself look as radiant as possible before giving Ashton the cold shoulder - Ashton only rose to Chetney's provocations until he said 'You hurt Fearne' Use how you will

[gnatryan]

[explodes]

more of the swap au : ) ✨

[salsflore]

things you should uhhhhh definitely 100% totally never ever ever think of :

your f/o cracking a tiny smile because of you, whether you notice it or not

holding your f/os face in your hands and maybe even ... squishing their cheeks ?!

your f/o suddenly getting embarrassed or bashful over your teasing or compliments

imagining how they felt like when they realized they liked you for the very first time

having them play with your hair, bonus points if you rest your head on their lap or heyy vice versa

watching them cutely interact with your beloved pets

fondly looking over at whatever gift youve given them (jewellry they’re currently wearing, photo of you, etc)

reading a love confession theyve written to you (maybe you found it lying around somewhere, maybe they gave it to you themself..)

having them gently wrap a scarf around your neck

being super comfy and cozy under a shared blanket!!

what it’d be like to be tenderly held by them like you’re the only thing that matters in this entire world

the encouragement, the compliments, the praise they’d give you

how they’d be like when they lightly scold you, reminding you to take care of yourself, to stay warm, be more careful..

the sound of your f/o’s joyful laughter, even better worse if it’s because you were the one that made them laugh

holding hands with them and swinging them back and forth .. ahem ahem

baking together with them, lazily lounging around on a couch, shopping at a mall, being out on a date ..

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[nullifier]

0_0 was real inspired by @0046incognito 's recent animation [if you haven't seen it yet you GOTTA check it] & decided "hey. you know it would be pretty funny to put rocais in this" so she's in it now #I LOVE ROBOTS !!!1 Tried emulating the style for the first one then went in with my more regular sorta linework on the destroyed image ?How does she work?:

"Radi" [I haven't come up with a better name rn] is a Nuclear Power Plant Submersible Technician, you know those pools they put the uranium in to boil water to create power? She lives in the nuclear reactor pool. She was entirely designed to never leave these pools and is perfectly designed for the environment: her hard plastic casing, while normally inert, when introduced to the boiling hot pools becomes more flexible, thus allowing her movement [plus the plastic over time absorbs the fuckin radiation or whatever and starts glowing epically]. Cause she's ALWAYS underwater she has no mouth, but has a Geiger counter on her chest that she can project her voice through if needed. She can't "hear" either, the only way management is able to relay instruction to her is use of special walkie-talkies Specifically for talking to Her and whoever else is also on the line. Totally water-cooled, no fans. She's charged using "rectenna" antenna technology [something something, turning radiation/heat/waves into DC power] Normally rectennas have very limited capabilities because it requires a ton of ambient energy to be able to draw from, but Exclusively for use in these pools she's able to draw enough energy to keep charge. This makes her both dependent on the pool for her cooling, and the radiation of the plant to keep charge [she can't leave!!! =D] > After the plant ceases operation, the pools become cold so she has to remove her plastic casing. She's running on fumes since the ambient radiation will eventually run out. I imagine she has some desperate attempt to flood the place and escape to anywhere to find SOME source of radiation, maybe the toxic waste containment... sketches as well =) 92 is the uranium number + her face is the radiation symbol

[spearxwind]

two things:

you deserve people who love you properly and unconditionally without you needing to bend over backwards to be someone else who you think might be better loved. You need to be comfortable with being yourself in order for people to see you and love you for that and it will be immensely worth it i promise

you deserve to take up the space you inhabit. youre living your life just like everyone else is, and you have every right to be as loud about it as you want. Get yourself treats, go outside, find little things to be joyous about

[greensaplinggrace]

Alina didn’t choose to have her powers taken from her and she didn’t intend for them to be lost. You can’t say Alina chose her ending when the ending was deliberately forced on her without her consent, and she is actively upset by this.

It has been said before and I will say it again:

Alina explicitly wants her power in the books. She has conflicting feelings on it, which is normal, but does on multiple occasions admit to herself as well as others that she likes the power, that she wants it, and that she does not wish to lose it.

This is not due to a lack of conceptualizing Alina liking her powers and Alina’s greed for power as separate things. This has nothing to do with Alina’s greed. Outside of Alina’s greed for power, she comes to love this part of herself she neglected all her life because she was raised by people who could not understand her and who taught her to be wary of her own people and culture, so much so that she subconsciously avoided dealing with who she actually was.

Equating Alina’s power with her greed is exactly what those oppressing grisha do in justification for their hate crimes. You are using the same logic as a cast of people set on genocide and oppression. Not to mention the direct connection between grisha being based on jewish persecution and how the thing that defines grisha is equated with greed, which is a highly common antisemitic depiction of jewish people.

Alina is the ethnic jew raised by goyim. She is the repressed queer child of homophobic parents. She is everybody who only got to realize and express themselves after finding and connecting with their community late in life.

A story about a persecuted minority hunted because of what makes them different ending with your main character, who is a part of that minority, losing that piece of themselves and being forced to assimilate, is incredibly problematic. And anybody who makes this criticism about “Alina choosing” forgets that Alina is a character who’s only choices are those made for her by the person who wrote her.

Another thing that people constantly misrepresent is that Alina is not happy to be stripped of her powers at the end, and explicitly expresses sadness, grief, rage, and anger about the loss of her powers. This is separate from her finding happiness despite her grief, but the grief never goes away. Which means that anybody saying she was happy to lose her powers or chose to do so is factually incorrect. Her agency is stripped from her in the end.

She doesn’t get to choose the peaceful life because the peaceful life is chosen for her. This is not a natural ending to a meaningful character arc of self realization. This is the regressive and brutal shafting of a character who’s arc was abused at every turn, and who’s actual development was walked backwards. Not because of her powers but because she is prevented from ever finding peace with her powers by the narrative.

She doesn’t have to fight a war ‘because of her powers’. She has to fight a war because her people are fucking oppressed. Laying the blame on what makes her different instead of the people who have singled her out because she is different indicates a severe lack of understanding in regards to racism, persecution, and oppression.

Her powers didn’t become so corrupt that they failed her in the end. She didn’t see the consequences and choose peace to avoid them because she wasn’t allowed to see anything at all. Her path was decided for her before she could even look down the other.

People focus on Alina and her powers because that is the story. It is a story about realizing something crucial about yourself that has been kept from you and repressed your whole life. It is an incredibly important story to tell. It is a coming of age story about self realization and self actualization and finding agency after a life where you realize you had none.

Blaming Alina being grisha for why she is stripped of her grishaness is fundamentally flawed argument. If the greed for power was what was supposed to be punished, then she would only have lost that which she sought in her greed. And if a balance needed to be reached, then there would be just as many sun summoners as shadow summoners in the world. Because she lost more than that and because of the discordance in thematic symbolism, the message becomes a punishment not for “greed” (which shouldn’t have even been the message in the first place for a plot and setting like this), but for something else. It becomes a punishment for her being grisha and coming to love and accept herself for it. It becomes a punishment of reveling in one’s difference. It becomes a statement about living outside of the boxes society tries to place people in. It becomes a message about oppression and assimilation on the side of oppression and assimilation.

The most important criticism about the ending will always be about the framing of Alina losing her powers. Alina choosing peace and love over power as a message would only have been able to work if Alina had been able to choose it. And to do so she would have had to choose it when she still had her powers. That is the only progression her developmental arc of “choosing peace and love” could have taken if it didn’t want to become regressive and strip her completely of her agency.

[godeatme]

Kinks r so funny bc when im ever embarrassed or humiliated outside in normal life it makes me want to like Explode, but if it's horny? Hell yeah hell YEAHHHHHHH

[roseofcards90]

One of my most favorite things about Milgram is how many comparisons and parallels you can find with all the prisoners, not just with their own pairings but even with two completely different people you’ll find some similarities between them, and I can’t even begin with how that is such good writing omg

[smooth-noob]

van helsing's memorandum had me on the edge of me seat, im going to throw up

[im-fucking-baalin]

GIRL this game has death itself as a Fucking Emo Catboy if i was lambert i would be doing backflips saying YIPPIE YIPPIE YIPPIE everytime i saw him

[a-list-of-moods]

I was going to say 'reminder that trans women are queens' but then I remembered that monarchy usually sucks so i tried to change it but then i realized that 'trans women are elected officials' doesn't make sense so post canceled sorry trans women i love you