#just to be safe.

[otiksimr]

Unfamiliar Flesh

[dangerouscakes]

[nartml]

You know what actually grates on my nerves about Sam and Dean?

They almost never hug. It drives me up the fucking wall.

Every time my little brother and I so much as teeter on the edge of a fight I need to hug him.

Every time I see that lil guy wake up I need to hug him and kiss his cheek and forehead, before ensuring that he knows that he's the biggest pain in my ass.

So when I see Sam and Dean going through the shit they go through while almost never hugging despite giving each other daily heart attacks?? I feel ill.

In season 5 after all that internal conflict, and after that terrifying alternative future of what would happen if they did, in fact, stay away from each other, when Dean gave him the knife back and they still didn't hug I felt a PHYSICAL ACHE IN MY SOUL FOR THEM TO HUG.

And it's a general thing, when I read/watch a scene where characters that are dear to each other either go through some sort of near-death-i-almost-lost-you-and-my-mind experience or after they resolve a major internal conflict don't hug it out I feel so irrationally pissed off.

I personally could never.

[partiallypearl]

May I ask: how does Daniel’s explanation to Johnny as to why sam chose not to fight relate to your religious theory ( in s6 episode 13)

Side note: when sam told her dad she wasn’t going to fight I started BAWLING. And Daniel’s speech to Johnny? Continued to cry

WHEW. anon you have opened a can of worms oh my. i'll put it under the cut so it's not disruptive to anyone.

daniel saying that he entered the sekai taikai to share mr miyagi's teachings with the world.... and if i say he is mr miyagi's greatest disciple. which i mean is canon considering he is one of mr miyagi's students, alongside julie, jack and sam.

daniel is determined to keep the legacy of miyagi do (and mr miyagi by extension) in tact and with the respect and honour it deserves. he is often so caught up in doing things the miyagi do way, that he cannot see other options even when they are in front of him.

but ultimately, he recognizes that the true miyagi do is to show grace and power when it's truly needed, and that sometimes, that means to step aside. and that is why he says to johnny in s6ep13, "our responsibility is to take the good lessons that we're taught and pass those along. so the fact that Sam and Robby are okay not fighting means that Mr. Miyagi's legacy will live on, whether we win or lose."

daniel is able to recognize that sam competing not only would be a disgrace to herself and her own self worth and how she views herself, but also to everything that the miyagi do legacy is founded upon.

he recognizes that mr miyagi wouldn't want a fight like this - a fight where truthfully, no one wins, and it simply continues the cycle of pain and suffering and punishing innocent people.

daniel is able to see that he must pass along the lesson of knowing when to cede to sam and robby, and he does!

now this is not to say that johnny is wrong for miguel and tory's choice to fight. i don't think that. i think that miyagi do and cobra kai simply have different philosophies on what it means to fight and why one should make the choice to. after all, cobra kai's motto is, "Strike First, Strike Hard, No Mercy", whereas miyagi do's is, "When the fight comes to you, you have to be ready to fight back."

cobra kai's is built on the foundation of being the attacker while miyagi do's is built on being the defender. and that fundamentally is the role that daniel and johnny play in the series (along w miguel and robby but if i get into those two we'll be here forever.)

[threedotsfromstardom]

[thesean]

some more ninjago doodles

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

x. hiatus/break-up era boys 😒.

[atopvisenyashill]

what do you think of the possibility of a jon/arya/gendry triangle?

unless gendry is gonna have a thing for both arya and jon, i don't buy it.

i think when arya and gendry meet again, there will be some sort of romantic angle. i think it's very clear from our last glimpses at gendry that he really regrets separating from arya because he thinks he left her to be captured and married off to ramsay, and i think there's the added guilt there of him feeling like..."i should have just told her i loved her back." i know she doesn't quite say she loves him but i think that direction they gave maisie in the show, where when she says "i can be your family" "no you would be milady" that she should say it as if she's saying "i love you" is essentially the conversation arya and gendry are having in the book as well (just not so straightforward, because sometimes tv simply needs to spell it out in a way a book doesn't). arya is telling gendry, in a roundabout way that she likely doesn't even understand (i mean...she clearly doesn't understand, she's young enough to get she has like A Bond with gendry but not so old to imo realize that what she's feeling is a crush) that she loves him and she wants him to keep traveling with her because of that. and gendry is telling her, essentially, that love is not enough.

for gendry, i think there's a few things at play there - there's the class issue which is the biggest number one factor and it's something he can't ever get around, and gendry is older and not so sheltered and gets that even if arya has good intentions, like as not he's going to be making armor for her husband and not actually living with her the way she naively assumes they'll get to do until the end of time. but beyond that, i think gendry is very aware of arya's crush on him and isn't sure how to handle it. i think he recognizes the weird age gap but it's also like...it's close enough that they consider each other "peers" essentially. think of like a high school freshman and a seventh grader. they were peers in middle school, and now all of a sudden the high schooler is "inappropriate." how do you handle this as a child? do you even understand why this boundary exists? arya doesn't see it but gendry clearly does and i think that's another factor - he is interested but he feels it's taking advantage (because it is!) to encourage it. so his rejection of her, while not textually romantic, is still a romantic rejection and they both know it. but now he's heard she's been married to a man even older than he is, and this man is raping and abusing her constantly, and gendry is thinking "i should have just gotten over myself and went with her."

but if there's a love triangle (i think it's not likely because arya was meant to be much older than she is now, and that's one of the things george has since cut and is struggling with), it's not gonna be between arya, gendry, and her brother. i just don't see any evidence that either jon or arya feel romantic anything towards each other, nor do i see the point of this relationship specifically going romantic. you have the same issue with arya/gendry which is the age gap being deeply uncomfortable for one thing, and i don't think i could ever get over this specific one because jon and arya grew up together. they are best friends. it's much too jaehaerys and alysanne for me. "oh they think of each other all the time" yeah i also think about my cousin constantly that doesn't mean i want to fuck her! it just means we're very close!! do we think oberyn wanted to fuck elia?? do we think ned wanted to fuck lyanna??? no, i think it's much more likely it would be something between gendry, arya, and edric dayne. he's closer in age, he's involved in the riverlands plot that arya will be rejoining soon enough, both he and gendry are in the brotherhood, and there's a lot of anti parallels between the boys - being castle raised vs raised in flea bottom, being high born vs being base and low born, ned's very name being a potential clue to the lyanna mystery, gendry's entire existence being a clue to the twincest reveal, etc. do i think it's still likely to happen? no because george cannot slow his plot down to save his goddamn life and i do think the youngest starklings (rickon, arya, and bran) are the ones who are going to suffer the most there. i think it could have been real fun though, i'll miss the idea of arya being in a love triangle, i think she deserves some normal teenage drama after the shit she's been through. alas.

[disciple-of-frost]

I may have done a thing.

(Etsy Link)

[tulipsnflowers]

Spoilers for Long live the Queen(aka bad ending of TDAD) and (maybe) The Deathly Abyssal Decree, by @zscyber

Woo! I couldn't hold myself back. I added little stars because that's what I associate with the Netherworld

Also I AM working on something else for the whole series don't y'all worry

[arielbeaumont]

So you do call him father? Or does he make you call him something else? Master? Supreme Seeder?

"Father, yes, or 'sir' if you're groveling. It's less about paternal affection, and more about authority, you understand; to call him anything else is to be punished. I expect his current crop of youths is the same, though I should very much like to see his face if one of my brethren were to try out Supreme Seeder. Good way to lose your head, but it would certainly be entertaining."

[stromuprisahat]

Do you like the character of Nesta? From the Acotar saga? There is a lot of debate surrounding this character. A lot of Feyre fans there hate it. Personally, I like Nesta and she is my second favorite character after Rhysand. Besides, in general, what do you think of the Acotar saga in its characters and its universe?

No.

I've only started the fourth book and there's exactly zero reason for me to like her, but enough to dislike her. She's arrogant, lazy, unpleasant to anyone but Elain and the way she treated Feyre's inexcusable. Also taking credit for King of Hybern's death did not help me change my opinion.

The books aren't bad, but I don't like the world and I don't have a single favourite character to stay for. I do intend to come back to share my notes on previous books at some point, but it's not my priority.

[wishfulsketching]

Silco and his terror of a daughter

[cafeyote]

me and gang at the haunted house