#i was terrified of losing a friend

[chuthulhu-reads]

[ID: A panel from Dungeon Meshi. It shows the corpses of Senshi, Chilchuck, Izutsumi and Laois all propped up against fancy paintings sitting on the ground against the wall. Marcille is alive but has a reddened, tear-streaked face and a dead-eyed expression as she leans her head against Laios' shoulder, reached out a hand, and says, "Did you give even a moment's thought to how I'd feel surrounded by your corpses...?" End ID.]

God this panel took me right the fuck out. On the one hand, what else can they do? Marcille's the only member of the party skilled enough in magic to do resurrection spells. Laois straight up tells her he's giving her the neck armour because she's the healer, the one they can't afford to lose; she can rez the rest but if she dies, they're all doomed. And it's a uniquely cruel position for Marcille to be in because of her deep, aching fear of outliving everyone she loves, a fear that Laios has to be aware of on some level, even if he doesn't clearly remember the nightmare he rescued Marcille from... but even if he was fully aware of it, that doesn't change the fact that she's the only one of them who can rez. It's inescapable that she has to be in this position, just as, in the end, it's inescapable that she will outlive everyone in this panel even if they live to ripe old ages. Marcille being forced to microdose her inevitable looming grief is a great setup for her making the decision she does when they meet the Winged Lion--how can she go through this again, for real?

[respectthepetty]

Two of the Pit Babe writers are also writers for Dead Friend Forever, and they are to blame for me losing my mind two days in a row.

They really let us ghost shippers have a taste of what it feels like to win, and I am unwell about it.

This was a good weekend!

[legionofpotatoes]

me and the beanie are celebrating our 10 years together ♥️

[bunnihearted]

being too weird and unlikable and off putting and always being shunned and turned into an outcast everywhere i go and not having felt the connection and healing friendship has on you for so many years has really done a number on me

[dalashas]

I cannot fucking believe. I cant fuckign

I just finished listening and all I can say it Mr fucking Blobby? MR FUCKING BLOBBY IS IN THE MAGNUS UNIVERSE

MISTER BLOBBY! MISTER BLOBBY! IS A FUCKING HITMAN FOR THE OIAR

JONATHAN SIMS, MR BLOBBY??? YOU PUT MR BLOBBY IN THERE

MR BLOBBY

I literally made a joke in the notes of a @jonnywaistcoat post where he said oh yeah we based a monster on a childrens tv show host I said hahaha mr blobby ha ha ha wouldn't that be funny

I WAS RIGHT

I'm also fucked up now. I'm fucked up! I feel sorry for everyone who didn't have Mr Blobby in your cultural consciousness because as someone who has, Boy Howdy does this episode make you scream

[phoenixcatch7]

Remembering my first time playing oot as a kid and hearing about the heroes of legend, those who had used the master sword before. And because I wasn't part of the larger community, no internet etc, I didn't know I was supposed to think of the other zelda games.

My theory was that every zelda game took place simultaneously across an infinite sea of parallel worlds, and each link could reach out and witness the other adventures alongside their own. I thought of them as different facets of the same soul, which turned out to be true enough, I suppose XD.

But I also thought the master sword was too simple a name and design, too overarching to not, similarly, be a culmination of different aspects, referencing different swords from real world myth and legend.

I remember I believed past heroes referred to people like King Authur, like Odin, like Hercules and Theseus and Achillies, like legendary samurai and kings under hills and travelling swordsmen and ladies lost to time.

And now, this small child, this little backwater kid my age was going to take up that mantle, join the ranks of heroes unsung, perform great feats in forgotten temples and save the suffering kingdom, here and gone, to slip back to home and safety upon journey's end, the kid with a hero's story and a precious, gleeful secret. That was how a lot of stories go, when they're targeted at little kids. Save the fairy kingdom from the bad pixie and run back to your parents before they wonder too long where you've been.

The direction Nintendo ended up going with making a canon timeline and destroying the mystery of how it all began (tho SS is amazing) takes a lot of the fable, the secrecy, the hushed gleam in the eye of it. But I still love it. For older players, it's another turn of the cycle, the new and old mixing into something unrecognisable and yet so familiar.

For new players, for children, the creator truly captured that feeling of stepping into another world behind your own, shifting ivy aside with your dirt scuffed hand, the feeling of wonder welling up inside as you step into the sunbeams of a brand new horizon where everything they told you about magic is true. The feeling of becoming something greater than the sum of your parts, of hearing a thousand silent voices at your back, of meeting equal with the legend, of being good for the sake of it and being rewarded with making a thousand memories, a thousand experiences beyond your wildest dreams.

Of, at the end of it all, being rewarded with the privacy and peace you really wanted, not being forced to perform nice for rude adults and go on stage to accept your little trophies. Something to cradle in your heart and smile secretive smiles, to be true to yourself, to always have that little something extra, something adults will never notice but you know. You know, and you will never breathe a word of that beautiful, magical world, because it's just. For. You.

I suppose that's always why I've liked the epilogue of a zelda game, the Links all choosing to close the loop, to return the master sword and return to their peaceful lives. To fulfil your purpose. To become everything they said you'd be and more. To go home, and your enemies don't follow.

The adults doubt your magic, but you don't. Not anymore.

[johnslittlespoon]

when we all get drafted in wwIII

[z0mbies]

im so fucking brave.

[thedevilsfamiliar]

I think it says a lot that my first heartbreak had me gasping for air, had me screaming in my bed and begging, had me physically gripping myself because the pain hurt too much

And every heartbreak since has been… ok.

Truly the wlw experience

[star--anon]

Minho gets angry when he gets scared

Newt and Alby tried to ease him out of that for years, but living every waking moment in the Maze, that instinctual conversion from terror to fury kept him alive. Kept him moving.

In the Safe Haven, though. With no Grievers or closing Doors? Minho's biggest fear becomes Thomas.

...he could lose him so easily...

Thomas can't seem to convince him that he isn't in the Maze anymore.

[arolesbianism]

Time for more eternal gales isat au, this time featuring Sier as Isabeau, creating a sprite I can never use next to Aris’ because despite my best efforts it would make them look tall

[brown-little-robin]

my last week, a visual demonstration

[wormy-worm]

ok u know what maybe if the world isn't ready for sunrazer post that means that the world IS ready for Amoveous siblings post. This is Milo and Enho and theyre my DARLINGS and i love them SO MUCH. i have. SOOOOOOOO many thoughts abt them but after the previous post massacre i do not really feel like typing all of that xoxo love <3

[fluffydice]

I think it would take Aren a while to get over the dichotomy of Kusuo being almost indestructible and “but he’s so small compared to me what if I accidentally crush him :(????”

[isabelguerra]

I dont think ive ever talked about. Like. How cool I think zack is. Paranatural has been going on for over a decade, alwhile they’re doing other comic projects on the side, working on a visual novel(????), running a patreon, merch items, small illustrations, WHILE maintaining a (from an outside perspective) healthy and ACTIVE social life. That’s unbelievably impressive.

They still work on the project they started when they were 18. How many webcomics that started in 2010 and are still running can you name? Growing up and starting to work in the comics world- specifically, slowly being introduced to and learning how bleak the comics world can be- really exposed to me just how much this is just. A story they *want* to tell.

Art school and conventions surrounded me with amazingly creative people, but so many of them had been beaten down by nonexistent contemporary cartooning scenes, the mass-production of storytelling, hustle culture. I started hearing ‘oh, I have this project but it doesn’t get much attention so i stopped.’ ‘you’re publishing on webtoon? psh, good luck unless you’re lore olympus or mongie.’ ‘nobody likes this why am i even making it.’ etc etc.

Why do we make? Why are things worth hard work?

Zack smashed their wrist to pieces and was still determined to keep this comic alive. When the ~9-panel format wasn’t working, they fucking *restrategized* to make it work in their favor. Do I miss the comic as a comic? Yeah. I grew up with it. But I also grew up with it, and watching a master of their craft rework a project so they can keep telling it showed me the grit people can have when they’re stubborn and put their minds to it. It asked me: you want this? How bad.

Theres a lot to say about Satishi Kon and numerous others and working yourself to death, people taking advantage of that, destroying your body, thinking ‘do I want to do this project or do I want a healthy body in 30 years and a social life with people who love me’, so on. That deserve to be said and read. But isn’t this post.

It’s bewildering to me how Zack manages to just. Do BOTH. At the end of the day, they really just seem to like creating. And thats so cool. Thats so cool.

[littleredstory]

when Poppy gets towel-dried after a bath he looks like a dandelion-fluff beastie. Russel is usually the one that brushes him- if Pop wants the fluff to be tamed, of course, which he usually does. Russel is the Hair Guy- he really enjoys brushing Poppy's fur but he also is the one that does Stan's hair. Usually twists, but sometimes he switches it up. Russel isn't perfect but definitely passable enough for Stan to be happy and to save a bill having somebody else do it, plus Rus thinks it's relaxing and likes spending the time w his brother. He improves as time goes on.

Stan tells everybody that'll listen how innately talented his little brother is and how he can pick up any skill with ease. Russel is like the bowler hat guy from Meet the Robinsons, though, in that he THINKS everybody is tired of him and dislikes him but they're all like "hey Rus great to see you!" "Wow Russel you're incredible at art!" And he sulks like "they all hate me don't they.."