#god he's so transparent

[thegetdownrebooter]

i actually feel so vindicated by tom admitting to being a gold digger because i've been saying that since day one!

[transparentcatpngs]

The first 7 hours of sleep made him so tired he needed another 8 hours of sleep

[easprouts]

Do you remember?

zoom in babies

[saevus-brutalis]

target neutralized.

do not pin, reupload, copy, use or claim as your own, thanks.

[pyre-sea]

"I hate this man" I say as I painstakingly sketch, line, and render his dumb, stupid arm and his bullshit little vest. Click for better quality I am literally begging you 🙏

[silkysousaphone]

Made these transparent gif stickers of my dear sweet Columbo for a collage I was working on (here), and figured I'd share them so others wont have to go through all the hassle I did lmao

I'm still very new to making transparent gifs from scratch so they're not perfect, and any advice of how I can improve is welcomed!

[starredfishing]

i will look for you as the sun rises higher

[homochampagne]

forever thinking about this

(sorry i don’t have the source, it’s been saved in my camera roll since 2017)

[kakusu-shipping]

"Do it scared" I say to myself for two hours straight while doing my first attempt at a purely Platonic moodboard

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

why didn't anyone tell me that Hannibal is a comedy

[volfoss]

it is beyond infuriating how anne rice seems to insist on marius being a positive force in anyone's life ever. like she can't fully commit to exploring the fact he groomed armand and has repeatedly taken away his consent for what marius thinks is best (take the end of TVA as an example) and just kind of flatly puts it in the narrative. there's not really much interest in how these horrific events make marius come across as the worst because EVERYONE loves him. for gods sake, lestat learns from armand exactly what marius did to him in TVL and then proceeds to go find marius and be super friendly to him in the same fucking book. even armand and pandora, two of the people who have MORE than enough right to hate him, do not. it doesnt feel like shes trying to explore the toxicity of the abusive dynamic he traps them in, it just is there. and like yeah ofc the toxic vampire romance series but i think that this should be handled with more care. and it is not ever really framed in a way that she is interested in exploring how marius should easily be one of the most horrific characters in this series because it kind of feels like sa/rape/grooming/other things of that sort are just put there to further plot and not to really get the respect that they deserve in a medium.

[waugh-bao]

The First Demo of “Thru and Thru” (Barbados, 1993, Voodoo Lounge Outtake)

[protect-namine]

I was thinking the other day that man, kokuto neji is such a character and I haven't liked a writer character like this since... shang qinghua?

which naturally led me to this thought: jj fic with svsss-style au where neji transmigrates/gets isekai'd into the world of havenna. as domina, of course.

it's extra fucked up imo because at least when sqh transmigrated in his book, he made up all of those characters and they mostly stayed in the realm of fantasy. like, sure, lbh was kinda based on himself in some ways and mbj was his ideal fantasy, but they still mostly stayed fictional, you know? sqq (sy) had to fix his plots because the characters sqh wrote strayed too far from their original plotlines

but theater makes a fictional world a bit too real and personal, especially when you use real people as inspirations for your writing. with neji, he'd be looking at rukiora and see three different people (mitsuki acting as rukiora; rukiora who was written based on a younger version of neji; rukiora who is her own person in this weirdly real world of havenna). neji would see fugio and to him that is both sou acting as fugio and the fugio who grew up with poison flowers. miguel is both fumi and the guy who ran away from his neshiromi fields. the only constant would probably be chicchi. she is too much like kisa in that... well. neji didn't really have a backstory for chicchi. chicchi is a blank canvas just like kisa is as an actor.

anyway. yeah, very sv-style character arc where neji, much like shen yuan in sv, is forced to humanize the villain. except this villain was his creation and is also tied to a bunch of personal issues for neji that he Doesn't Want To Think About and also he doesn't? really understand the character he wrote tbh?

isn't art supposed to process your emotions for you!! why must he process these himself!!

can you imagine neji, who always casts himself as a seer of some sort (fortune teller, ushinoko) or someone who generally has some control over his future or his "creation" (who is mary if not just another side of neji anyway; she's takihime redux, and takihime is also. neji). imagine this dude being transported inside the play he wrote but he doesn't understand it and he has no control over it and everyone's acting both in character and out of character. he both knows and doesn't know these people. they're fictional but also... real? does he treat them as real people? is domina real? he wanted his actors to imbue parts of themselves into his characters. are these people really just characters from a script? are they his quartz classmates? is he allowed to even hope that that's the case?

it's both THE improv exercise of his dreams and also. a nightmare

[softquietsteadylove]

Some awkward moments in 10 things au💕

"What is the delinquent doing here?"

"Isn't he Thena's situationship?"

"He's kinda cute, though."

Thena did her best to ignore her teammates. None of what they said was true. Well, it wasn't, but she looked over and Gilgamesh was indeed seating himself on the bleachers overlooking the soccer field. She blinked.

He waved.

Thena gripped her water bottle even tighter. What was he doing here?

"You should go talk to him."

Her teammates were far more social, all of them with multiple friend groups, different niches they could jump into and out of per the situation.

"No, you!"

"Ask him if he's going to the party tonight!"

Thena had no clue how there were so many parties in one school year. They were all in the same position: on the cusp of graduating, preparing to move on in life. Did they not have any schoolwork to do?

"He drives, right? Ask him for a ride!"

Thena dropped her water bottle into her bag on her way past the bench.

"Thena?"

"Hey Princess," he greeted her as if he had laid a trap simply by sitting there. He leaned back in his posture, resting his palm on the bench, "how's practice?"

"What are you doing here?" she stared down at him from the back of the seats in front of him. Most would be frozen solid from that look.

"Just thought I'd walk around a bit after school, y'know," he shrugged, seeming so casual about it.

"I thought we said we wouldn't do this," she growled at him, her ponytail swaying from the upward tilt of her head.

"Uh," Gilgamesh looked down at his hoodie, toying with the string of it, "you said."

"What?"

"Maybe you said we wouldn't do this kinda thing," he muttered through somewhat pursed lips, pouting and sulking in broad daylight.

Thena sighed, relaxing her - possibly overly - confrontational stance. She looked down at the cleats on her feet. "Are you really here just to watch?"

"Well," he shrugged, "uh, what are you doing after practice?"

"I see," she scoffed, but the look on Gil's face made her want to snatch the words back as soon as she said them. She looked away, guilt washing over her, maybe even shame. Gil wasn't like that, and she damn well he wasn't. "I...I didn't have anything planned."

"Oh," he looked up at her again. "Well, I heard there was this-"

"Party," she cut him off, and then felt unnerved by it, looking away again. "I heard."

"Well?"

Thena shifted on her feet.

"Look," Gil began, leaning forward with his elbows on his knees. "I know you don't wanna do the whole 'couple' thing."

And he did. He did, and he told her, and let it show in his actions. He did that at every opportunity, and she was the one constantly dodging and deflecting his desire to be more romantic.

"But we can, like, hangout," he finished rather lamely, "right?"

He was right. She was the one being childish, and for what? To avoid looking for too long at the man whose lips had been on hers? Whose tongue had been in her mouth...and other places.

She blushed.

Gil sighed, moving his feet to stand. "Okay, this was a mistake-"

Thena put her hand on his shoulder, preventing him from standing fully. She pushed with her fingertips to lower him back to the bench. "No."

"No?" he looked up at her, still poised to get up and leave but not pushing against her. "No, it's not a mistake? Or no, you're not going?"

Thena just barely glanced back at the team. They weren't even trying to seem like they weren't watching them with intrigue. She sighed, trying to ignore it. "It wasn't a mistake."

Gil relaxed his shoulder against her touch. He really was ridiculously well built for someone their age. She was well aware of what it felt like to dig her nails into those shoulders.

"I'll go," she murmured, feeling the warmth in her cheeks worsen, "if you do."

Now she really was being childish.

But Gilgamesh smiled up at her eagerly, "yeah, I was planning on going. Do you want a ride?"

She longed for her water bottle, just for something to occupy her idle hands. Her fingers flexed on her hips. "I'll probably drive Sersi, so... "

"Right," he nodded.

"I'll meet you there," she added, then seeing there was no need. She toyed with some hair that had slipped from her ponytail, "out front?"

"Okay sweetheart," he grinned, back to being his usual cocky self. He did stand now, leaning closer to her, "you got yourself a deal."

She pursed her lips, "it wasn't a business proposal."

He just chuckled, slipping his hands into the pockets of his hoodie again, "you leave the proposing to me, your ladyship."

She rolled her eyes.

"I'll wait for you, Thena," he promised, and it came out so heartfelt she really felt it. He leaned even closer, "for as long as it takes."

Thena leaned just her head back faintly. He wasn't going to kiss her, right?--here and now?!

"Just say the word," he chuckled, leaning even closer.

She didn't lean back. And then he leaned in and kissed her! The bastard really kissed her, in front of the whole team! And he was still a good kisser (fuck). And she kissed him back (just a little).

"Relax, they can't see from this angle, it just looks like I'm being a jerk," he leaned back to laugh more loudly.

Thena kept quiet, mostly unable to come up with a reply to that amidst her fluster.

"See you tonight, Princess," he gave her one last little wave before stepping back more visibly. He waved to the team, "keep it up, ladies!"

Thena huffed, trying to collect some breath before going back to the team. She watched Gilgamesh strolling slowly to the stairs, like he was god's gift to women. Specifically, her.

"All right girls, get back out there."

Thena jogged past the bench and back onto the field, falling back into the fold of her teammates.

"Ooh, Thena talked to her boyfriend!"

"He's not my boyfriend!" she snarled.

"Oh, so I can ask him out?"

Thena deliberately changed course, bumping shoulders on the way to her position front and center, "I didn't say that, either."

[batslime]

Dewpie

[bunny-banana]

not sure if this sounds crazy, but Ben Willbond is exactly the kind of guy the Captain would get an awfully embarrassing tv crush on