#just so we´re clear

[amyriadfthings]

Yeah, so Mary Jayne looking like this

by the end of Varian´s speech definitely has nothing to do whatsoever with her understanding what confusion and pain he was talking about after walking in on him and Thomas earlier

and after this clarification early on, thank you Thomas

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Danse Macabre

[Commission]

[its-your-mind]

HEY. HEY.

HEY @re-dracula WHAT GAVE YOU THE RIGHT TO HAVE JONATHAN ACTUALLY READING THAT PASSAGE OUT LOUD BEHIND SEWARD DESCRIBING THE SCENE, HUH? WITH THE TEARS IN HIS VOICE AND THE PAUSING AND THE SHORT LITTLE INHALES AND THE VOICE CRACKS? WAS IT TRULY NECESSARY??? I WAS ALREADY CRYING. I DIDN'T NEED THIS TOO. WHAT THE FUCK.

[emblazons]

WARNING: FFVII spoilers + ship talk—scroll if you want to skip, because I am simply commentating my own gaming experience & not trying to start a war in the comments

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It’s the way I’m DESPERATELY trying to play FFVII with an openness to Cloud and Aerith because I know it means so much to so many people—and yet even when I go to YouTube and watch alt versions of mandatory scenes I cannot fathom how people are missing the subtext of “Aerith knows and acknowledges Tifa is so much more than Cloud’s friend even as she wants his attention because she doesn’t know if he’s really himself, has been extremely lonely since Zack left + knows somewhere she’s going to die for herself” ☠️

Like I am 3000% for FF ships that have a lot of groundwork but aren’t primary canon, because Square is notorious for building true chemistry between people who are not ever canonically romantic (hello Phoenixflare) but…it’s getting kind of absurd to see how many people are denying the subtext of Aerith as secondary to Tifa solely because they love their ship.

Perfect example: the scene where Aerith goes up on the Nebelheim water tower (a place wholly and entirely tied to Cloud and Tifa’s ongoing relatonship) and asks Cloud about his town…only for us to get this:

As someone who just consumes media generally…the whole subtext of the scene is clearly that Aerith trying to 1) pull Cloud’s actual memories up from the mind muck he’s going through (something she and Tifa both do repeatedly) and 2) remind Cloud of the side of him that inherently has always had a whole ass crush on his childhood best friend to help jog his memory.

Sure, it reads as a cute moment between them if you want that…but if you’re paying attention to the purpose of the scene itself and what’s being said (verbally and subtextually)…it’s astronomically clear this is a Cloud x Tifa recognition delivered to the audience through a Cloud/Aerith moment…and this happens repeatedly ☠️

And then…immediately after having her be upset that she doesn’t have someone the way Cloud has Tifa, and asking to be alone? I…I just. Like it’s so hard to be here in the middle of a war about “optional scenes” when shit that happens to everyone happens just like this 😭

[beesinspades]

happy pride month from vash the stampede!!!! 💜 seeing all the ace vash art makes me so happy I wanted to contribute!

[xoxo-ren-xoxo]

really weird thing ive noticed lately re: hermits getting critiqued for stuff theyve said or done is that as soon as someone holds a shit opinion (even if it's just them being stupid, or a centrist, or saying a bad word without knowing what it means, or whatever) people immediately seem to flock to the 'this guy should die' 'kys' 'why are we giving this person a platform' rhetoric and like. that's not how meaningful change is made?

like, yeah, if one of my beloved CCs posted a tweet or video tomorrow about how much they hate gay people, or believe in conservative ideals, or they just said a bunch of slurs or whatever (these are hyperbolic examples obviously) then yeah, fuck them, they should go rot. but like, having some dumb takes, or saying bad things in the past, doesn't = evil terrible person...

idk, i feel like we can critique content creators without getting so insane about it. like, shit, there are things some of my favourites do that i don't like, but theyre not even really worth bringing up tbh. unless its something actually important, i feel like it just creates more drama out of nothing and all these assholes come crawling out of the woodwork to tell everyone how much they hate that creator. or find their content boring anyway so clearly they have no real merit to anyone.

more of an explanation of what i mean in the tags but yeah.

[sollucets]

wrote a whole long post that didn't make sense because i'm a fic writer not a meta writer and the point comes down to this: sand and ray are both Such Bad Liars

they have honest faces. nobody, in-universe or in the audience, is ever really fooled when they pretend things are other than they are.

when sand is hurt you can tell, it's in every line of his body. ray is expressive and straightforward but hides his hurt a little better, not because he's better at lying but because the hurt hardly ever goes away.

ray can see sand freezing up and looking upset when he's called a friend or not prioritized, he can see the lie, but it doesn't matter compared to what sand's actually saying and what it'll mean if it's (not) true. he's gotten a lesson recently about pushing. and sand, i think, can see ray caring but he can't imagine it could be enough, that he could matter the most or be a priority. when ray calls sand a whore it's the only lie he told that night and sand knows it

when they hurt each other sand lies and pulls away and ray can tell, and similarly ray lies and pulls away and sand can tell, and theyre stuck in limbo because of it. awful. hate it. 10000 more just like it please

[unforth]

Actually, I really wish Tumblr as a whole was less comfortable using feminizing language for gay men, especially gay East Asian men.

[tyanis]

Re 6 developer: "Ok, Ada has a butterfly motif... how do I best incorporate that into the story? Hmmm..."

He looks out a window and sees a particularly stupid butterfly struggling to escape it's cocoon. His eyes linger on the cocoon, his face slowly lighting up. He snaps a picture of the cocoon just as the butterfly flops out, barely even catching the insect in frame. Excited, he runs to the others, sure that this is the cleverest thing in the world and will be universally loved by the fans.

[nicollekidman]

"you know my stance on the usefulness/health of taylor constantly going backwards and relitigating the emotional reality of her life in the past….." I must have missed some posts because everything you said kind of blew my mind 😭 have you posted about this before?

oh to be fair i almost never post about taylor anymore and it occurs to me that usually when i do post-re-record release people get so upset with me i just delete them all 😭😭😭 this really has nothing to do with taylor specifically i just am not a person who loves like. going over and over and over something that’s already happened and esp for taylor who is. shall we say perhaps a little stuck in amber by virtue of superstardom this whole thing is like. well one day i’d like you to let your past selves rest in peace and just look forward into the clear skies where you can build whatever you want. because writing prologues about hurts you felt when you were 24 so you can release music about when you were 24 is like. well i hope this is doing what you want it to do, i support whatever you need but i’m sitting here patiently waiting for adult in-her-thirties taylor to feel more comfortable with that fact and start making music for that crowd.

[crossbackpoke-check]

Hello, im wehaveagathering from my main blog, im kind of obsessed with your hockey poetry edits and I think your blog is great! I guess I kind of have a dumb question, where do you find the images you use for your edits? Did you say Getty in your tags?? I’ve gotten into making icons recently (and i have ideas for poetry edits hrrrghhh) but it’s hard to find high res images. Thanks for your time and I hope you have a nice day :)

first of all thank you so much 🥹 and second that’s absolutely not a dumb question!! i do pull a lot of images from getty and i’ll also download pictures from sports articles (i got a lot of the hugheses pictures from online access articles, for example), or sometimes from instagram/facebook/twitter if an account is public. freely admitting that i am not technologically advanced? inclined? in the slightest here, but the image editing software that you use and how you import/export photos with it makes a difference in the quality of them as well!

if you haven’t seen them yet, i would also recommend checking out @simmyfrobby @national-hockey-lesbian @hauntedppgpaints @tapedsleeves @starscelly and @captainbradmarchand’s blogs just off the top of my head!!! they might know more places to get high res images and also i love their work 💕🫶

[autoneurotic]

my family is cute and funny. my dad got my a quarter of Very Good Weed for my birthday <3

[fruitageoforanges]

not reblogging because i don’t want to drag one specific person, but re: my last post, no, the blacks don’t have the same conquerors parallels. more specifically, daemon isn’t a visenya.

now, don’t get me wrong, he has his own fucked-up psychosexual relationship with his brother (which i think is the most compelling part of him), but if anything he’s an anti-visenya. just because he wields dark sister and is a skilled warrior doesn’t mean he’s like her. visenya wasn’t a tantrum-thrower. visenya didn’t run away across the sea. i don’t think aegon i could’ve sent visenya away if he tried, and he never had cause to in the first place.

the difference between daemon and aemond is much more stark in my mind than a lot of people think, and it can be summed up by what alicent says to rhaenyra in ep 7: ‘where is duty? where is sacrifice?’. aemond is governed by duty and loyalty, daemon is governed by his own wants.

[nightmarecountry]

also very important to note. that in verses where my corinth2 overlaps with my dream2. they absolutely Do Not Talk About Anything, Ever. do they both have SO MUCH SHIT they'd like to or should talk about? yeah man of course, there's a lot to think about when you're both your predecessor and decidedly not your predecessor - 'dream' and 'the corinthian' are both roles, not names. and the corinthian has questions upon questions about everything: his predecessor, morpheus, the current dream and the mercy he's shown to some of his creations (like Ruin) but not to him. dream is older than this universe but still very young, and doubtless has questions of their own, too.

will either of them ever talk about any of that without being held at magical gunpoint first? not on your life, baby.

[thehandwixard]

shipping discourse between the sorikus and sokais again lord help me

[solreefs]

men will literally hire a black market hypnotist to help them relive their most traumatic memories instead of going to therapy