#i can quit anytime

[secondhand-goose]

"My Type" this "Hear me out" that--

You know what I want? I want whatever's going on with those Romance Webtoon Royal Advisors.™

Dependable, responsible, and with a loyalty to the male lead so deep that it leaves you questioning their heterosexuality.

They are out here slaying with their unnatural hair colors absolutely carrying that kingdom on their back while their boss is in the other room almost touching hands with his wife.

[rememberdamage]

“It was at this point that I reached Episode 7, where Kirsten puts on a play of Lannigan's death. Aside from her casting choices placing the three of them squarely in the center of Station Eleven the graphic novel, the very idea of a play-within-a-play is a celebrated aspect of Hamlet. Hamlet puts on the play to try to get Claudius to confess by making him emotional over the pretend death of an actor. This clearly draws the connection between Kirsten and Hamlet.

One has to wonder, what would have happened if the Red Bandana hadn't walked in? Jeevan was unable to say goodbye to Frank when his character died. Did Kirsten devise this so that Jeevan would try harder to convince Frank to leave with them? This is fascinating to me primarily because of those parallels between Hamlet and Kirsten, but also because of what we can imagine of Hamlet and Tyler in their own stories. Hamlet becoming an actor himself seems like a love letter to the core concept of Station Eleven– art is life. So what if Hamlet had turned to the arts to cope with his father’s death instead of murderous scheming? And what if Tyler had?

If you think about it, Tyler’s elaborate reconstruction of Station Eleven to tell to the Undersea kids, and his constant lying about his identity, is a play in its own right. But who is he trying to make feel guilty? Tyler’s role as the Prophet may very well be his way of punishing himself for the pain he has caused others, ensnaring children purely because their worship of him reminds him how twisted he’s become. Simultaneously ruining his life while trying to ruin the lives of the people who raised him seems pretty on-brand for the prince of Denmark.

So, these characters show us two ways Hamlet’s involvement with the arts could have gone. Either it would have served as an extension of his life, allowing him to infuse art into his reality and use it to manipulate the feelings of others, or it would have been a gateway into his madness, showing him that he can conjure up more depravity through art than he ever could murder. But when you think about it, these two outcomes are interchangeable, depending on how much you trust the actor playing them out. Here’s another theme of Station Eleven: madness vs. genius. When Tyler plans to stab Clark during the play, is that really more crazy than Kirsten using a scene with Alex to try and stop her from leaving? Who is insane, and who is an artist?

Nestled comfortably in the middle of this paradox, we find Kirsten and Tyler, the twin Hamlets.”

From my analysis of Station Eleven as a Hamlet adaptation.

[bigolbard]

As of a few minutes ago, Baldur's Gate III has been out on Xbox for a week.

My save has 67.5 hours logged.

There are 168 hours in a week, and if we assume I slept for 8 hours a night (which I roughly did - probably more, actually), that leaves 112 waking hours.

I have spent more than half the time I've been awake for the past week playing this game.

I'm fine.

[perasperaadpasta]

Hello I'm not immune to psychological conditioning even though I'm aware of it and I'm a little addicted to playing the lottery

[heart-of-the-morningstar]

Don't look at my photo roll, please and thx :)

[kingslayerstew]

♡

[kindaaaverage]

[pocket-watcher]

I’ve found myself way more susceptible to spirals recently.

It’s not a problem or anything, just thought I’d announce it.

[fluffishere]

[noirandchocolate]

Sometimes I see hot takes in fandom tags that I’d really love to reblog with an impassioned rebuttal but then I realize it’s not worth it because it’s fandom and I wouldn’t want to genuinely upset whoever posted them, over fiction. (I would never make personal attacks but you never know what somebody’s going to take as a personal attack, you know?)

Sometimes I want to make my own post that contains what I want to say in rebuttal but framed as a new hot take, but then I realize it’d be obvious it’s a response anyway so again, I’d better not.

But ohhhhh sometimes. Sometimes I see the same bad take again and again and I just. Grit my teeth and continue to be so very good and not respond. While seething.

[starflungwaddledee]

it's awfully refreshing to see a rise in malevolent galas again, and i'm preeet-ty sure your popularity's playing into it. grrrrrrr yes! let that boy kill! let him scheme and conspire! let him wreak havoc like the true planet-destroying fiend he is!

waaahaaa i'm so delighted to hear it! i will be completely honest, i was extremely nervous to post that very first comic with him in (where he was undeniably malicious) because almost every other headcanon i'd seen of him at that point is that he is Just Misunderstood and Actually A Good Guy or, at the very least, perhaps currently acting out but still Redeemable With A Heart Of Gold

and those are amazing too! not a single piece of shade on those characterisations; they are genuinely cathartic tropes and i love to see them- for him or anyone else. but it made me quite scared to have to just be like... 'anyway he is extraordinarily and wilfully cruel in my headcanons and stories!!'

so it really means a lot to me that you enjoy this characterisation!! and that you think possibly it's having an impact on other folks' characterisations in a positive or refreshing way! that's such an honour! i was scared people would loathe my storytelling or characterisation of their favourite blorbo (i still fear it, ngl) or even think that i like... don't like him. but the thing is that i love him. i love him to bits and pieces and because of how much i love him i've done him the ultimate honour of assigning him Irredeemable All-powerful Villain and allowed him free reign to bite and kill

[satsuha]

u know im back on my bullshit

[whereismyhat5678]

I had a song stuck in my head this morning, and I thought of the Toppins

My thoughts went from the Toppins to Peppino, then Peppino with Gerome with the Toppins

My mind’s weird-

ANYWAYS- I drew all of them

And I did it with a cool color palette I found too! (I think it looks nice x])

And I did some more sketches:

Hehehe, the second one’s my favorite XD

[disdaidal]

I wanna thank my irl friends who follow me here and also my beloved mutuals as well as followers who still send me kind messages and try to interact with me and my stuff even if I'm bad at doing it myself.

Honestly, things haven't been that great with me lately, so... it means a lot to me. Honestly. <3

[ganonfan1995]

I hate living my stupid little consumerist life, and my stupid little hyperfixation on Nintendo's evil little products. Like they give me nothing, and I give them my entire paycheck because I love super mario jump and gay little blonde elf, and I know it's cringe and bad...yet here I am, a dumb serf, working day in and day out just to continue to consume their products that aren't always good.

Not to sound dramatic or anything, but yeah :/

[purplecatghostposts]

Doing a Wyll Origin Run and this dialogue in particular is so FUNNY to me. It’s a Human Dialogue Option but it happening between Gale and Wyll feels canon.

Gale trying to argue they should try to turn Raphael’s deal in their favor and playing the Human card, and Wyll, one of two embodiments in the party of why you shouldn’t trust devils, shutting him down immediately.

[Dialogue Written in case it’s hard to see + id reasons:

Wyll: I’ll remind you that when dealing with a devil, you always draw the short straw.

Gale: There’s no such thing as absolute certainty.

Gale: Let me play the devil’s advocate: the man is too eager. Do not dismiss his offer out of hand.

Gale: If there’s one such quality all the denizens in the Hells embody, it’s ambition. A quality they share with many humans, come to think of it…

Wyll: Speak for yourself, Gale.

Gale: Fine— but my reasoning is this.]