#i...i need to lie down

[anitoshka]

[ambrosiagourmet]

Every time I revisit chapter 86 and the events right after the group talks Marcille down, I'm always struck by this bit here:

In particular, how similar it is to this:

The Winged Lion ate the same desire in both of them, more or less (I'm sure there are some nuances in both flavor and intent, but they are clearly similar things here). The Lion basically used this technique to kill Thistle, and for Marcille it was... not insignificant, but something she and her friends overcame without even fully realizing it was an obstacle.

I feel like this is another small piece of the story that shows how important support and love are - in navigating mental illness, in dealing with abuse or addiction, or in working through any other similar struggle that can be read into the Lion and his eating of desires.

It almost feels like Marcille was able to borrow the desires of her friends. She loves them and she trusts them, so even when she didn't have a desire to free herself from the Lion, the care they had for her well being still mattered to her.

It's the same thing later, with her hair.

She isn't able to notice the way her messy hair is making things harder, let alone do anything about it. But when Chilchuck points it out and then braids it back for her...

It's better. She likes it, things are easier now. Even though it isn't a desire she can feel for herself, it's not something that doesn't effect her. And because her friends care - because they know her well enough to notice the difference - she is given the chance to have a preference and to ask for their help.

We can obviously see some parallel ideas here with Mithrun and Kabru as well, but I'd also like to point out that Thistle gets this grace, too. Thistle, who had no one to help him up once he lost his will to resist, or to encourage him to find new desires once the Lion ate them all.

Thistle says he doesn't need anything, anymore...

But he is given an apology anyways.

It is not a kindness he desires. It is not a kindness he is able to ask for.

But it is a kindness that helps. It is a kindness that matters.

[boatboysrowout]

WHY WOULD HE SAY THAT

[random-cockroach]

*slams the door open, walks in and stands in a clown suit* Bunch of doodles... mostly Rung... I mean... why not ahah

[plutonicbees]

"it's really me. is it really really really you?"

some yj19 konbart for @superfamilyweek day 2: across space or time/friends & teammates (kind of ended up fulfilling both??)

[buildoblivion]

i’m sorry boss I can’t come into work tomorrow they’ve identified the remains of a doomed polar explorer

[nerteragranadensis]

if you're not aware, internet archive has over 400 live recordings of The Mountain Goats in concert going back to like 2005. these are all free to listen to and download. I could probably spend the rest of my life just listening to The Mountain Goats live in concert. if it weren't for the horrors

[bunnygibson]

can we talk about the real star of the behind the scenes photos... the happy smiler

[mummifiedgoose]

Miscellaneous mission impossible incorrect quotes because I can't be allowed on pintrest without going crazy

+ bonus where ethan is the war criminal (kind of canon)

[susielesbianism]

Susie finally gaining everything she's ever needed and wanted -- friendship, love, acceptance, a world she can escape to -- only for it all to start slowly crumbling around her under the weight of the prophecy. And she is furiously desperate to keep it all alive.

Truly, one must imagine Susiephus happy

[fadesense]

snippet from @minrathian's delicious fic "the acceptance", which was in turn inspired by my comic "the offer"

[babacontainsmultitudes]

He's a used car salesman. He has a heart of gold. He can't parallel park. He has two gay witch italian dads. He chops the wood. He has a magical talking cat mom. He's an assassin. He isn't an assassin. He's actually the cat from earlier. He's trans (female cat to male human). He's been shot through the heart. He was in Dewar. He was not in the war. He was in Dewar. He's on his last of nine lives. He just had a marble shoved down his throat. He's even bisexual. I didn't say his name, but he popped into your head, didn't he?

[hwanswerland]

240204 : dance break

[theriverbeyond]

I don't even know if I can articulate any of my thoughts on this movie but I'm really struck by how it is so intentional and visceral and like: the suffocating horror of knowing you are living a lie, like you're dying, like you're dead, like you never existed at all, and how that can still feel *safer* than admitting -- even to yourself -- that you are trans. just beyond that terror is freedom but it is fucking terrifying.

"I know it's scary, that's part of it" anyway.

[rkiving]

Mike Faist as Art Donaldson

Challengers (2024)

[lydiacatfish]

I hope when Reghabi and Cobel finally meet on screen, it's so toxic and full of loathing that my TV literally melts. I want them to be the most bitterly divorced people in the entire Severance universe. I want Mark to perish purely from standing in the same room as them. So much vitriol (ha) that they can't even be in the same shot at the same time. They don't even have to duke it out, they just have to say each other's names hatefully. Give me this. Give this to me.