#honestly watched this so many times now

[merrylament]

"The Valley welcomes the King of the Pumpkin Patch, Jack Skellington, on December 5th!"

8 Seconds of pure serotonin. 🖤

[cometrose]

and haein just outright said i love you to hyunwoo god damn my soul cracked a bit

[im-bored-so-i-draw]

redrawing old design (again)

clear version under

[devilsskettle]

i feel like i’ve been WAITING for the other shoe to drop wrt people’s opinions about watcher for this very reason. not that i think the reaction is completely not understandable but the greater the parasocial relationship, the greater the fallout as soon as public opinion shifts. you don’t have a relationship with these people they’re just content creators, chill

[stuckinapril]

I love the research lab I’m in 🧪🧸

[shimmerluna]

why don't they just give this boy some media training

[jinx-you-owe-me]

PART 20

of the dfk 2023 audiobook translation

@cnka

Narrator (audiobook): Robert puts another piece of wood on the trunk and swings the axe.

Bökh: „And you never wanted to get in touch?"

The Nichtraucher picks up a piece of wood.

Silence.

Nichtraucher: „Why should I? We didn’t see each other for the past ten years either.“

He rips the piece of wood apart with his bare hands. While holding eye contact with Justus.

Silence.

Justus lowers his head.

Jo: „Uh.. weren’t you-" Martina, quietly: „Jo, leave it. Lets go.“

Martina, louder: „We need to go! We still have something to do.“

The kids leave. Jo and Martina are holding hands as they walk away.

Bökh: „Yeah… Thank you, kids.“

Jo, whispering as they walk away: "What was that just now?!"

Robert picks up the chopped wood and walks back to his wagon. Justus looks after him.

Narrator (audiobook): If the two friends will find back together? Matze isn’t so sure of that.

Matze, sarcastically: „Well, that was a great success!“ Jo: „Yeah, so much for friendship between Internals and Externs.“

Narrator (audiobook): At least Robert granted Herr Bökh access to his wagon. He looks around lost in thought more or less, while Robert washes the dishes.

Dishes clatter. There is silence otherwise.

Justus stares wistfully at Robert while he washes the dishes.

Justus takes his eyes off Robert and starts looking around while Robert continues to ignore him.

Bökh: „I thought you were living in London.“ Nichtraucher: (silence) Bökh: „It's nice here.“ Nichtraucher: (silence)

Justus starts walking around.

Bökh: „I told the kids about our friendship.“ Nichtraucher: „As a cautionary tale?“ Bökh: (chuckles/scoffs) „No. Of course not.“

Narrator (audiobook): Bökh spots the poster of „the Bandits“, the same one hanging in his apartment.

Bökh: „The 'Wild Dog' that we always played in is still there.“

Nichtraucher: (silence)

Bökh: „Should we meet there sometime? For a beer?“

Robert looks up.

He lets out a small huff, almost like an incredulous laugh or a scoff.

He dries his hands on a towel and folds it.

Nichtraucher: (silence) Nichtraucher: „I don’t know what we would have to say to each other.“

Bökh: „Hm. Well. A lot of time has passed.“

Narrator (audiobook): Robert sits down at the table and lights himself a cigarette.

Justus turns as well and starts looking around again.

Nichtraucher: „Why didn’t you come to Marie’s funeral back then?“

Nichtraucher: „You didn’t even get in touch.“

[„You didn't even get in touch“ -> parallels to „And you never wanted to get in touch?“]

Justus is silent. He starts fiddling with his jacket and pulls it off his shoulder. He lets out a deep, shaky sigh and is silent for another few moments.

Bökh: „…I don’t know, you met her and… and suddenly you were gone.“

[Parallels to „suddenly your closest loved ones are gone“]

Bökh: „As if everything -our friendship, the band- as if that had all just been a dream.“

Justus turns around and looks at Robert.

Bökh: „Wir zwei. Wir hatten doch Pläne.“

Bökh: „That really hurt me.“ Nichtraucher: „It hurt you.“

Silence. Just the music.

Bökh: „Yes. Very much back then.“

The Nichtraucher lets out a soft incredulous laugh again, almost like a scoff.

Nichtraucher: „I see.“

Long silence. Justus stares out the window. Finally, he turns and walks to the door.

Bökh: „You know where to find me.“

Justus leaves the wagon. Robert nods to himself silently.

Narrator (audiobook): And with these words, Herr Bökh leaves his friend’s train wagon. If the two will ever see each other again?

[caruliaa]

she miss on my hollo till i way .

[twpsyn-who]

Soulmates AU in which when your soulmate is in a situation that can result in their death you get to see through their eyes. Like, I don't know how to explain this- it kind of flashes between what you see and what your soulmate sees. You know those edits where there's a scene going on and there's another one faded in the background happening at the same time? Similar to that. The idea is that you get to see what your soulmate sees too, on top of what you're seeing.

Now, this AU but JeanMarco. With Marco asking the others where's Jean, just for him to start seeing a corpse right in front of his eyes not even a second after asking. Seeing through Jean's eyes as he's trying to get hold of that gear and stuff. And once Jean's safe, once it clicks that you know his best friend is his soulmate Marco can't wait for them to graduate so he can you know tell him that.

Then, you know. That happens. And Jean is so fucking confused because he keeps seeing Annie crying, looking down on him. Only when Annie starts getting off the gear, when his soulmate starts moving around trying to get away he starts panicking, starts moving around faster than before. And maybe he's too late. Or maybe he shows up in time and kills the titan. I don't know. That's not where I'm trying to get, but to the second option AKA Marco pulling an UNO reverse on Annie because he's a smart sneaky bastard like that and being like 'Hey you can't kill me, my soulmate will know it was you' which makes her stop trying to take off his gear. Reiner keeps telling her to do it, Bertholdt keeps yelling about that titan coming closer, but Annie... she has seen things, at some point. Flashes of moments that weren't hers, happening right in Trost- right in that moment. And she didn't give them too much thought until that moment, until it got confirmed that it has nothing to do with her titan powers.

'What do you mean by that?' she asks, because she needs to know more. Because she wants to know more. And Marco starts explaining how it works. Tells them that he has found his soulmate, that they will put all the blame on them for his death. Reiner doesn't believe him, keeps insisting that he's playing them around - he, and anyone born and raised on Marley, has never heard of something like that before, it doesn't exist - but Annie tells him to shut up and to let Marco go. Cue to the plot of any fic in which Marco doesn't straight up die after finding up their secret.

Anyway I don't know man, just,,, We need more soulmate aus for JeanMarco. That's an order.

[moocowofdoom]

Found out today that my GF of almost 2 years has NEVER seen TASM or TASM2, so she has now consented to being forced to watch them both this weekend 🤯

[leatherbookmark]

an interesting thing abt jgy antis is like. where is the source of their, shall we say, negative opinion of jgy? like, 1. jgy is a villain, he does horrible things with no remorse, he’s willing to do everything to achieve his selfish, egotistical goals. --> 2. the source of this claim: this, this and this scene. --> 3. alright, but to me -- says someone who’s not an anti -- this reads differently. that he did all those things, and did them on purpose and without remorse, is not that obvious to me. why do you think that? --> 4. well, obviously because he’s a villain and does horrible things with no remorse.

like... he’s evil because he does bad things, and he does bad things because he’s evil. i’m interested in how antis came by those opinions, but a, unfortunately i have them all blocked, and b, even if i or someone else made a poll, it wouldn’t be authentic because no sane anti is going to say “well, people hated him and wrote all those things about him on twt, so i started hating him as well”, or “i only care about wgxn, you could sell me anything about other characters if your arguments were convincing enough because i zoned out during the parts when wgxn weren’t on screen/pages of the book”. it’s all “written in the book/shown in the show” and “logical arguments you’d agree with if only you could read”.

[gas-stxtion]

//tales from the gas station really said "here's a character named sabine. she'll never physically appear in the story, but she will haunt every moment of it from the first word to the last, and you'll wonder how much of what jack says about her represents who she really was vs how much is him misremembering as his mind begins deteriorating. she'll never truly see the impact on the lives she touched and the tragedy of it all will never be resolved"

[lonely--seeker]

Saw op red film today and firstly, I enjoyed the movie, really did. Secondly tho, why do I feel there was so much, so much, potential lost?? Can I trust fanfiction will fix this?

[your-local-grinning-cat]

Speaking about movies, Che’nya, have you ever watched ‘Goosebumps’? Yknow, the Comedy horror movie based on the children’s book series? If you haven’t yet then I absolutely recommend it, it’s one of the best Halloween movies ever made

I have not seen it!

But then again, despite being a [REDACTED], I can be a surprisingly scaredy cat at times.

In other words… I am not purrticularly fond of horror movies. 🫣

[kamariya]

i want to read mdzs but i also dont want to read mdzs?

[lesbaurinkos]

Through all the noise we have somehow managed to find each other… the only two FFXIV phannies im aware of. If only there were more of us because really there’s so much to talk about

firstly can we talk about the fact that Dan went for a Canon Miqo Suncat Name, Tia and all, which is so on brand—meanwhile Phil with Miko Stryker over there because it sounds cool, you just KNOW Dan gave him shit about it lmao

the matching carbuncles… I wonder if they headcanoned Phil summoning them for them, since he played SMN

And I gotta mention the ceremony of bonding. You think they have rings? They’re so useful they gotta have the rings right? Even if not to be sappy… that teleport is so nice… no way those catboys aren’t married

MY BRETHRENNNN there needs to be more of us in this world bc there is TRULY SO MUCH TO THINK ABOUTTTT like honestly. after phil dropped miko's name and i went to look at him on the lodestone and then thought "oh i should try to find dan's wol too" my immediate thought was "dan probably gave his a canon suncat name honestly. i should start looking for tias" and to absolutely no surprise..... it's just so so so fitting that he'd do a canon-style name and phil would of COURSE go for MIKO STRIKER. as absolutely unsurprising as the fact that phil's ingame title is bug boy.... like of course it is. of COUURSE (the fact they both have gold saucer titles too like ok lads i see the priorities. chocobo racing and gambling, is it)

the matching carbuncles just cannot stop taking me out like my god i looked at their mounts wanting to see if they'd finished endwalker (they HAVENT- no argos- but they do have their edw artifact gear so they must have stopped right before ultima thule? LADS go play ultima thule and cry smh) but like oh u just KNOW phil named his smn carbuncles and carbuncle mount and everything. (and i did too because i started out as a smn. named my carby cherry tomato. phil just gets me. dan being a monk player is similarly unsurprising because it is such a confusing class of course he would choose to put himself through that. oh danny) (every monk player i know is both gay and left-handed? some kind of correlation... who knows)

AND OH GOD THE CEREMONY OF BONDING. this haunts me so bad bc we just dont know.......... they could have gay married those catboys and we just wouldnt know................ head in my hands. head in my haaands