#i regret this quite a lot

[kanrix]

Looking back, actually embarrassing that I started posting about "HH"

[daily-odile]

Odile patting Molly Epithet Erased on the head, you know why

have two bc i care them

[clairedaring]

POOM PHURIPAN as JOE and UP POOMPAT as MING

MY STAND-IN (2024) dir. Pepzi Banchorn Vorasataree

[potionofinstantdamage]

i might be a little bit insane. i did this in 3 days. for some reason. season 9 needless dramatization of the ren doc rivalry arc that literally hasnt happened yet and might not at all. has me in a chokehold. someone put these furries in therapy (animatic)

[1driedpersimmon]

I started playing Limbus Company it’s very fun, gives me a headache

[averlym]

,,, sun-dappled sheets...

[llitchilitchi]

Litchi, what is the artwork you are most proudest of or which of your Aus is you fave 🎤

don't really have a favourite artwork (though I am kinda proud of the amout of comic work I did way back when) but favourite AU? definitely Monarchy Restoration. forever my favourite with the combination of renaissance fashion, fairytale-like aesthetics and the sheer fucked-up-ness of the c!DTeam's relationships

[emmodii-mode]

Just finished my first playthrough of BG3. Romanced Lae'zel, but ending up turning into an Illithid because the idea of making Orpheus or Karlach do it didn't sit well with me (or my character).

I told Lae'zel to leave with Orpheus in the end (I heard she wouldn't stay with a ghaik anyway, which she's valid for, but also, it doesn't feel right to ask her to stay when I know how much her people mean to her). And like-

Her face before she flies off---

She looks so heartbroken and sad.

[icharchivist]

also the justification of Tseng specifically taking Aerith away because he saw her being active in the Sector they were destroying makes sense. In the OG i was kinda under the impression he caught her on her way back home but it actually makes much more sense that, as the person who was supposed to watch over her, he has this moment of "... change of plans i still have this girl to stop from killing herself"

That said.

as i was looking at my screenshot and about to make a Seiyuu / lips comment, i'm freezing because THE DETAILS ON HIS FACE? the freshly shaved stubble? that's an insane level of detail hello???????,

[musical-chick-13]

Thoughts on toxic yuri?

One of my very favorite storytelling concepts, I love it when women make each other worse. <3

I do think it's important, for me anyway, to note the difference between a dynamic that's toxic in one direction versus something that is mutually toxic. The first one doesn't really interest me a whole lot, usually because it means one character suffers constantly without being allowed to do anything else--at the very least, it will come across as the more ""normal"" character not really being that into the relationship in question. I need BOTH parties to be unhinged.

The important thing for any fictional relationship (though we're specifying toxic yuri here, obviously) is that it's interesting. If there is no limit to what the women can do within a dynamic, then there are an infinite number of ways for that dynamic to go. And while you can learn a lot about a character through examining their values and positive qualities, you can learn just as much (if not more) by considering their flaws. And those flaws really come out in the case of toxic yuri; characters get to show the uglier parts of themselves in this context, which I am always a fan of. A fraught, complex relationship, when written well, can be a really great way to psychologically explore the characters: what inspires them to act this way? why do they think this behavior is acceptable? if they don't think it's acceptable, why do they keep doing it? what do they think about the concept of love as a whole? how far would they go for intimacy or to be understood? how do they view other people in general? and probably most importantly, what led to them developing the beliefs underlying their actions in the first place?

From a more "psychologically, why do people enjoy this" standpoint, mutual toxicity often goes hand in hand with extreme obsession, extreme jealousy, and a willingness to forgive a whole lot of horrible shit. Which, yeah, in real life you don't want to be in a relationship like that. But I think there's a lot of emotional resonance in exploring those feelings. The idea that someone will never leave you. That they think so intensely about you specifically that they'll break anything and anyone to stay with you. That even if you're the worst version of yourself, someone will still want you because that's still you. Someone knows exactly how to fuck you up because they genuinely understand you. Things in fiction that we would never want in real life can be incredibly interesting or even cathartic to witness from a distance. I think we all feel things that scare us sometimes (or even simply feel an innocuous emotion so intensely that it scares us), and looking at unpleasant feelings within fiction can help identify, parse out, process, and successfully cope with those feelings. And I think, at the end of it all, a lot of people want to matter to someone, in some way. It makes sense that some creators would take that concept-of meaning a great deal to another person, of affecting them deeply-to its absolute extreme through writing.

(And also, consider. That I am very gay. And that horrible women are very attractive.)

[aerplain]

officially jobless 💯

[akechi-stole-my-heart]

probably the least in character thing i've seen with akechi in a fic (which is saying a lot) was when in internal monologue he said "for being such a good liar i've never been very good at lying to myself" like my god do you even see this man? the levels of self delusion and self denial he's under? akechi is the king of lying to himself my guy

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

nate and trent during s3/post-canon has got to be like. a hilarious dynamic. not to mention nate returning to richmond and like. trent crimm is also here. they're like yeah he's our emotional support biographer now. yeah he's been around all season. we like him now. they make the world's most awkward eye contact before both immediately fleeing in opposite directions.

[dutybcrne]

From a very young age, Kaeya held such a fondness for handholding. Whether it was his father clinging tightly to him to make sure he didn’t get lost, Adelinde’s gentle, grounding hand closed over his to comfort him whenever his nerves got the better of him, Crepus’s rough-palmed, firm yet comforting grip as he brought him back home, or, as it was most often of all, Diluc’s warm, yet at times uncomfortably tight hold as he dragged him anywhere, everywhere, determined to always keep Kaeya close and eagerly show him all there was to see, Kaeya treasured the gesture greatly.

Of course, being as shy as he was, initiating it himself was always the harder part. So much so, he would tend to hold pinkies, rather than outright take a person’s hand in his own. Eventually, it would become his most common way to go about the gesture of affection.

[regret-breathing]

i am so scared :) and so tired :)) i just want to live and to be loved and to cry and write and yearn for fulfillment rather than simple subsistence.

[bonefall]

Honestly speaking, what was Storm there for aside from causing romantic drama between the brothers and giving birth to a main character then dying immediately after?

Also, what was the point of Gray Wing pining after Clear Sky’s first two mates? (Granted I don’t actually remember if he truly pined after Bright Stream or it was just that one lovely comment)

I remember decently enjoying DOTC my first read through, but honestly reading your analysis of it, it’s a bit of a mess. (Though I do remember even then being frustrated with Clear Sky lol)

The narrative function of Bright Stream and Storm is to cause pain in the two male main characters, Clear Sky and Gray Wing. The point of Gray Wing pining for these two mates is to cause more pain to him when they die, because the writers believe that it would matter less if they were simply his friends or in-laws.

I do subscribe heavily to the idea that a character is a writer's tools, and they exist for you to tell a story with them. You can tell a lot about the writer, as well, by examining the way they use their tools. The writers don't value women the same way they value men, and they don't value friendships or found family on the same level that they value romantic interests and blood family.

And so they fridge two female characters in one book, using them as devices to further the story of the male characters they do care about.

The other arcs have their issues as well, but it's flagrant with DotC, probably because the team constructed the entire thing out of whole cloth with only minor inspiration from material like the field guides. With a brand new story and no commitment to fan favorites from old arcs, their biases are on full display.

It's an obvious answer, but a disappointing one nonetheless.