#if any of this makes sense. lol

[libras-interactives]

Hi question, if I already asked this you can ignore. what colours and themes do you think The Duchess would be in UTDM? Like how the Maison de La Lune has grey colours and is "Baroque country mansion and a Parisian opera house" like, and how Lackadaisy is described in the fic as so much gold

The de la Lune isn't grey? It's more gaudy, bright colors in contrast to the Duchess being stately and "elegant". I never had an exact color scheme for the Duchess - I know that's not exactly helpful ... but I always pictured it as a place you could mistake for an English gentleman's club, or a very fine restaurant. Almost too cold and exclusive, in contrast to the Lackadaisy having a rich warmth, and the de la Lune being bright and in-your-face with both its interior, women and music.

[noodles-and-tea]

Just some more thoughts on that jayvik dbh au

[crazyness-overpowers]

Haymitch's love for Katniss was quick, nearly automatic. A volunteer couldn't not be loved by the volunteered. And she was his best friend's child, for all that he had stopped having a best friend when the man laid on his chest to stop him from dying with his family because attachments would hurt him more than they would help him, so he had to. His heart had always been open to her. She just had to walk in.

But with Peeta? Peeta was a surprise. For a minute there, this merchant boy was just another casualty in his long list, was someone would soon join the legion of ghosts haunting his dreams and fended off by liquor. But then the glass got smacked out of his hand. Then he was kind. Then he had an aggressive and effective interview strategy. A flash of someone he had tried his damnedest to forget. And suddenly there was a place for Peeta not just in his mind but in his heart, as well.

Haymitch knew that he would have to be so so lucky and even then he'd only get one of them to survive. And he voice of Wyatt in the back of his head said it would be Katniss. But damn if he didn't adore both of them.

Damn if he wasn't very suddenly ready to add two more posters to his wall.

[bellesdiaries]

Love Between Fairy and Devil 苍兰诀 even more random text posts (part iii)

[kermdoeswriting]

Bruce Wayne died the very same night his parents were murdered brutally in front of him. In an alleyway near his favorite theater in Park Row.

Its a simple well known fact to those that are EXTREMELY closest to him.

The problem was that he just wasn't aware of how seriously true that fact was until a young ghostling approached him to talk about entering his "haunt" semi-permanently.

Both to attend university (Bruce DID have some concerns about this teenage ghost attending classes when he was dead but more so for the ghost themselves and not the students) and to talk about getting the Batman some help for his currently unstable "core".

Something that seemed to be making him run around more violently over the years compared to a regular ghosts core and was affecting his ghostling children the longer it continued like that.

Either way, Bruce was concerned that the ghost was just seeing things wrong and Danny seemed equally as concerned as to what could have POSSIBLY made his subjects core this broken inside and if it could even be fixed-

[teshiee]

i did not think this out much...at all, but drawing it was a lotta fun!

also i almost made lloyd veronica but i changed it to nya before i even started working on the. actual heather trio so yay!!

[whenthelightisrunninglow]

how's the other guy holding up

[stealerofthe2ndbraincell]

There's an aspect of Original!Elias Bouchard that makes me so sad to think about in a weird kind of "meta" way.

And that's the fact that he has to be labelled as the "OG" not as Elias.

Technically speaking Elias has been dead for years. It's Jonah that's taken over - literally having his eyes removed and replacing them with his own and living as him (he even seemingly keeps his "old fashioned haircut" on Elias' hair).

And yet we as the audience don't often call that form of Jonah "JONAH". Instead it's Elias, cause he's been Elias for 4 series at this point.

"Elias started the apocalypse", "Elias beat that old man to death with a metal pipe" when it was never really Elias in the first place.

He's been so robbed of his own identity that not even death can spare him; all of Jonah's actions in his body are recognised as him.

(Btw this isn't me saying you can't call Jonah!Elias straight up Elias, I do that regularly ofc. I'm just being emo rn lol)

[tubbytarchia]

a Gemtaur thing I didn't like from many months ago

[ink-the-artist]

i am not an animator but the few animations i have made it really does feel like magic when it comes together. i used to think the way disney (especially older disney) talked about their animation as magical that they were being cheesy and sentimental but after actually trying it myself i totally get it. seeing all the pictures you drew come to life at the end it feels like it has its own soul or something

[kureijei]

getting back into deltarune had me rewatching an undertale playthrough, and i finished this one of some ms paint drawings i was doing while watching :]

[paimt]

just realized i never posted this out loud

[noazhere]

Brothers bonding (They hate each other w their guts) (((nah, they dont)))

[accirax]

Come back for the first installment of Blind Date or Die tomorrow!💕

[ladykyriaa]

I think one thing I'm gonna say to the people who are, in a way conflicted and/or waiting to watch the series is that you're honestly gonna have to be okay with grey areas. That's literally it.

KnH isn't going to explicitly show nor tell you how good/bad things are. it's an incredibly realistic story set in ancient China tackling its many issues; starting from societal problems, political, norms, gender roles, and so on. What might be problematic now isn't necessarily something the characters are going to think about more than twice.

I think a slightly controversial example would have to be abt the pedo emperor. YES, an incredibly horrible person and deserves to die in the most painful way possible. But KnH also tackled the issue that he had been human, all too pathetic and pitiful to rightfully rule the empire-never had the spine to talk to proper women thus resulting in him only talking and being attracted to (gag) little girls. You're not gonna see the characters talk ill of him more than necessary, they know its fucked up and frankly weird, but there's nothing to be done but to live with the consequences of his actions.

(Why I set this as a grey example is because I've seen people expecting the pedo to be this horrid-abusive person-and he is of course- but they certainly weren't expecting him to be depicted so pitifully and hurt, like he himself was a literal child still in need of protecting.)

don't also expect the characters to do one good thing after another just because you expect them to. Under different situations, different feelings, different place, their choices vary from one another depending on what's necessary. Don't even expect their relationship to be one linear from start to finish, thinking you can guess which way its gonna go.

in fact this is what maomao says when Jinshi questions her explicitly about their relationship

and i just think this genuinely applies to the series as a whole. Natsu Hyuuga isn't going to outrightly spell it out for y'all what Maomao nor Jinshi feels for each other, what the empress dowager feels for the pedo, what Ah-duo feels for the emperor and vice versa. She expects people to understand and come to their own conclusion.

She pieces together puzzles and expects you to fit them together, if you somehow got a different result from the way she intended then, well, that's on you I guess.

don't expect a "yes" or "no" answer to whatever questions you're about to ask. There's always gonna be a "but" and "however" to it, I think. At least from my experience of reading the novel and questioning the choices they've made.

People in this fandom throw away the word SA so easily, TOO easily I'd say. from here on out you're gonna read a lot more "problematic" things that other characters have done that they think are more or less for the good-whether that be their own good or other characters' sake.

The anime honestly does paint the series in a lighthearted way, and compared to other series it's certainly not as "dark". However I do think the strength of this series lay in its realistic choices and stories, how the characters feel so utterly human, not just driven by plot.

[algrenion]

bro that's the same fuckin guy