#of the thing underneath it all

[itspileofgoodthings]

somehow I was miraculously unspoiled for the fact that Steve told Nancy she was the most important part of his dream and it killed me 😭😭😭

[sneez]

family portrait :D young sam and sybil are behaving themselves and vimes is throwing a hissy fit because they tried to make him wear the helmet

[id: a digital painting of three people sitting for a portrait in a domestic interior. young sam is standing with his hands behind his back and beaming proudly. vimes is standing behind him with his hand on his shoulder, wearing a shiny military uniform and a surly expression. sybil is sitting on the right with an arm around young sam, smiling at the viewer. a plumed helmet is sitting on a table on the left. end id.]

[muffinlance]

Do you get the impression the live action is treating us like utter morons?? Like I thought that making it aimed at an older audience would open the doors for more subtle story telling, but no, they're just using monologues to tell us eveything! Like in the second episode Katara's like 'oh his power isn't that he's the avatar, it's that he ~connects~ to people'. Girl we're not idiots we can see that!! And the first episode with Aang's goddawful 'I don't want this responsibility' monologue

THIS, YES. The word that keeps coming to mind is definitely "subtlety". The show for literal children? Had it. The remake for adults? Not so much.

[reineydraws]

so there's this post that talks about how people call jason's curved knife a kris but it's not a kris 'cuz why would he have a southeast asian knife? and op's tags say if you're gonna give him an 'exotic' weapon at least make him malay or something. a later reblog adds a filipino kris as an example, and then i was like, 'omg, jason in a barong tho.' SO i tried designing a bat-barong inspired by his hood logo, for a filipino jason haha. and now here we are! 😊✨️🇵🇭

[finchjpeg]

sorry to be moominposting but it's kind of funny how the fact that snufkin has to leave every year is made out to be the great tragedy of their existence when actually it's literally perfect that he has to leave in the same season moomin literally hibernates. bro even if he stays ur gonna be snoring

[passionartx]

Some fanart of @nixoon-again’s Tails design from one of their AU’s! 💛🫶✨

Losing my mind over this lil guy I love his design so, so much ahh! 🦋

[ @myymi’s bendy tails is next at somepoint! Got au tails’s on the brain 24/7!]

[lumism]

but the thing that's so great about will byers is that he is gentle and sensitive! he pointed a gun at a monster when he was twelve, but he also went "it's ok, i won't hurt you" after seeing a slug from the upside down. he's definitely underestimated and deserves more credit for managing to survive there all by himself, but that doesn't at all change the fact that he is also ultimately gentle in his every day life. it doesn't have to be "will isn't sensitive, look at these things he did"... he can be and is both capable and sensitive at once, and i think that's important to show and acknowledge!

[faeleven]

doctor who series 6 (2011) is just like [cringe joke] [beautiful music] [matt smith/alex kingston chemistry] [psychologically horrifying monster concept] [the doctor fakes his death] [amy gets horribly traumatized] [oops that didn’t age well] [born sexy yesterday trope that you enjoy with gritted teeth because neil gaiman wrote it too well] [creepy nursery rhyme] [more horrible trauma for amy] [holy shit this is dark for a supposed children’s program] [awful episode concept] [more matt smith/alex kingston chemistry] [cringe joke] [amy trauma again] [another creepy nursery rhyme] [plot explanation that makes your head hurt] [beautiful music] [touching family reunion] [still very dark]

[courtney-deserved-better]

telling myself i can't start another tdwt rewrite but dear god do i want to write one focusing on alejandro and courtney in this weird situationship thats a lot more nuanced than just alejandro manipulating courtney and her falling for it. like theyre best friends they dont trust each other theyre the same person they dont know anything about the other one theres a mutual attraction theyre pining for other people theyre codependent they dont care about each other theyre platonic soulmates like i just want to do a deep dive into how messy that relationship couldve been building off of their friendship that exists in my head except the line between romantic and platonic is so fucking blurred they have no idea what they are to the other person

[revivisection]

ok i heard you guys i'm giving him hugs now

[mako-neexu]

nemo being shown memories of guda's lostwill still make me insane. fujimaru ritsuka saying "i dont have nightmares when im with friends" :) vs. them not being able to sleep and we have multiple times and scenes already where we see them outright saying "cant sleep".. i dont think theyre lying but it is obvious enough the nightmares happens frequently but not always (SECOM team helps in that aspect i believe). i know for sure a decent enough servants might have caught glimpses of their memories. lost will memories were so vivid enough that the words still ring clear in guda's mind, though the images are hazy. the words. the words remain like scars. the wounds are still there. the wounds will remain.

oberon is seriously right. you're a peculiar one are you. your heart isnt going anywhere. your heart can no longer go back the way it was. your drive for survival as led you to places no one can accompany you. your drive for survival has led you to a life no ordinary human can bear. your drive for survival has ultimately shattered you again and again but at the end of it all, as long as you are conscious, as long as you are still able, as long as you still have a fighting chance, as long as people are still coutning on you, as long as you hold onto hope and your conviction, you will walk forward. you will walk forward.

[frostbite-the-bat]

society if literally 80% of rw fandom and especially rw analysis youtubers (who are great, EXCEPT) stopped calling gourmand heckin' chonker chubby diabetic ginormous whatever and paid more mind to their whole character and not just the fact that they're fat

[benetnvsch]

evil art style challenge hehe, first is how I normally would draw which is sketchier, softer shading but pointier shapes, sharp teeths, warm colors and then pretty much the opposite for the second one lol

[puppetmaster13u]

I wasn't going to do any designs for when the robins were older yet but I was sleep deprived and just started sketching, so have a Red Hood.

Au belongs to @phoenixcatch7 and you need to check them out <3

[freaky-flawless]

Something that's really irritating me about the Off-White doll is that when you look at the concept art, she has 0 monster features aside from her green skin. Her monster type was such an after thought, and that's why its so poorly reflected in her design. Like she's supposed to be a fish (I think) where are her scales? Where are her fins? For such an expensive doll, I expected more than just a reused face mold, and a very easily recognizable one at that.

Her concept art really looks like a pale Casta Fierce. And honestly, I would probably like her more if that was the direction they took. Instead of being completely new, lazily designed characters, they could have done something like "Casta Fierce modelling for Off-Fright" or something, and added a witchy twist to the actual Off-White look. I mean, it would still be grossly overpriced, but I guarantee she'd sell better, especially considering Casta only ever got one doll. And it would've been SO PERFECT for an October Friday the 13th release.

[raayllum]

one of my favourite aspect of foil dynamics is when you have a pair of (although not always) foils who switch narrative positions. for examples i’ll use frankenstein and the creature and burr and hamilton from hamiltion bc hamilton is good from a literary standpoint good god.

frankenstein starts off in creating/playing god in order to gain recognition and glory, but also as he increasingly isolates himself for his cause. the creature awakes in a world where he’s rejected by his creator & by all other humans and endures then painstaking isolation. after killing/threatening to kill some of frankenstein’s loved ones, the creature demands victor make him a wife - an eve to his adam - despite knowing it’d condemn her to a similarly lonely life, save one person, and frankenstein refuses. the two then become mutually hellbent on killing one another, even as they’re cognizant that whoever completes the murder will truly then be alone in the world and without purpose

for hamilton and burr this is even more clear. both orphans, though in increasingly different upbringings, and both ever cognizant of mortality and the notion of history. burr never takes a stand, hamilton arguably takes too many. but over the course of the play, burr becomes more like hamilton and hamilton becomes more like burr. this means that while they switch perspectives, they still fundamentally never understand each other, and it’s this misunderstanding that makes hamilton assume burr would never act like him and shoot him, and burr assume that hamilton would never act like him and throw away his shot, yet this is precisely what happens.

we even see this in star wars. luke chooses to save leia & han, just as anakin tries to protect padme and obi-wan. anakin cuts off luke’s hand, luke cuts off anakin’s hand. farmboys on tattooine, ace shot pilots, etc etc. and luke is nearly successfully turned to the dark side, yet reaffirms his father’s place by refusing to bend... in the last movie. that point couldn’t have come any earlier because 1) it’s the triumphant victory and 2) the narrative tension of the foil dynamic means it has to go on as long as possible.

arc 1 is kind of a perfect example, where viren starts out powerful and close to the king and magically strong, and ends the season falling to his death thanks to his elven guide, and callum starts out powerful and close to the new king and magically strong, and ends the season literally soaring to new heights thanks to his elven guide. but like - that’s arc 1. that’s the arc where the heroes win. of course it ends that way.

but now we’re in arc 2. 

we’re in the arc - s4 to s6 - where the heroes Lose. 

and we know that TDP is aware of these principles when it comes to callum and viren precisely because they are in many ways already in the process of being switched. in arc 1, callum is the one going through a season without magic and being pursued before a powerful creature can be reunited with its place in xadia’s hierarchy; in arc 2, that’s viren, even if he’s far more passive about it and callum is more active. they’re brother-mage-advisors to the king, placed in proximity to power but never allowed to fully wield it, they both chase magical agency in s2 beat for beat (2x04 -> 2x07 -> 2x09) only really diverging in the finale of the season. viren is now going to be having dark magic dreams while callum is presented with the coined elves viren imprisoned. 

like yes it’s true that they’re not the same person and won’t make all the same choices, but in a show that’s all about the younger generation struggling to not repeat the same choices as their predecessors, and still getting caught in the cycles of their own journeys... it’s like “i have always been ready to do anything to protect my family however dangerous however vile” and “i value those close to me more than anyone and anything” when callum means it even more than viren does (because viren is and has been willing to sacrifice his family - hi soren - pretty blatantly) is like... yeah they’ll Diverge. just not till s7 lmao