#personal tag if i dont wanna main tag....

[cathalbravecog]

veep dad comfort art

[shakingparadigm]

Once again just for fun!! just to see the consensus

[yorkiepooh]

I dunno how serious yall are being about "Ahhh labru is taking over farcille" cause farcille still has like, double the amount of labru fics and with the bath scene coming up??? Oh man, the farcille stocks are gonna go up, I feel like if there should be an attack on a ship thats "threatening" farcille, its marc//elle x lai/os. On the fanfic side, not to much, on the popularity side? Most of the farcille and labru stuff are Manga based and I think if you take an average anime watcher and show them only the anime, the most obvious ship right now is those two

The first pic beats any farcille art I've seen and the bottom is the higher end of what farcille art usually is, but it makes sense because of anime fans? I block lai//cille personally because I think Marcille is a huge lesbian, but it's alot more popular then I thought, I just wonder how big it's gonna be when the succubus gets animated

[randomminty]

who’s your favorite trainer from the games?

Wawawawwa i love all the protags dearly but also…. Not overly attached to any of them,, if i had to choose ive always liked rosa + the alola kids, theyre v silly to me

[pinkeoni]

What Exactly Do I Mean When I Say "Will is Jesus Christ?"

(or Why Will is the Chosen One)

Do I mean that Will is actually the second coming of Christ? Well, no, at least not in a literal sense. All I mean to say by this is that—

Will is the chosen one, and he is the hero of the story who is meant to save the world from the apocalypse.

Apocalypse imagery and references to Revelations is all over the place in season 4. The four victims representing the four horsemen of the apocalypse, Henry "One" effectively being a God-like figure, references to Revelations 1:8 regarding Henry, hell I'll go as far to say that Robin playing the trumpet at the beginning of the season is a nod to the sound of trumpets that is meant to signal the beginning of the apocalypse.

The important thing about Revelations being that at the end of the day, the second coming of Jesus Christ, the chosen one, saves the day.

This really robust old post that I made, which was also one of my first theory posts, goes into detail on how Will fits the criteria of a Christ-figure, or a figure in literature or media that is allegorical to Jesus Christ. Will's biggest piece of evidence being his full on burial and resurrection in the first season.

If I'm talking about Christ-figures in the show then I should probably talk about El, who admittedly has much more in your face Christ-coding than Will does. Walking on water, performance of miracles, the mother who got pregnant out of strange circumstances, along with her own resurrection and so-on.

So then, if El clearly has more Christ-coding than Will, why am I placing the title of Jesus onto Will? Is it just because I like him more than El? Is it because I see Will as a more important character than El?

Just as a general disclaimer, I will admit that I do have a major Will bias, anyone who follows me knows that. He's been my favorite character since I first watched the show. Although, my labeling of him as the chosen one has nothing to do a dislike of El or a belief that she is not an important character. I love El, and it's plain to everyone that watches the show how important she is. However, I just don't believe that the chosen one who saves the day is what her arc is building towards.

They've been building up El's chosen one status while also quietly breaking it down in the background, in the same way that they've quietly been leaving bread crumbs pointing toward Will's Christ status while also seemingly suggesting that he isn't that important of a character. Why have a character tell El that she's "the cure," then make a point that she loses against Henry at the end of the season? Why sideline Will for the past two seasons, but throw in lines of dialogue pointing toward his involvement with the Upside Down?

What I believe they are going for is a classic bait-and-switch to subvert expectations in the final season. Lead the audience to believe one thing, while still leaving clues to suggest the other so that when the twist is revealed it doesn't come out of nowhere.

So what is El's arc actually about? I won't deny El's role in the final battle of the show, it's not like she's going to be completely sidelined, but I don't think that her saving the world on her own while everyone else watches is what her arc is building towards. The real core of her arc is El discovering who she is as a girl, rather than becoming a superhero.

I actually made a post awhile ago talking about El’s monster/superhero dichotomy, and it’s actually incredibly important to my argument. The post itself is more in depth, but tl:dr: El believes that she can either be a superhero or a monster, and bases her worth on her ability to save the world and others, an unfair expectation to place onto one girl.

If at the end of the season, El single-handedly saves the entire world, wouldn’t it feel counterintuitive to her arc? She needs to learn that her self worth doesn’t rely on her ability to save the world, and if she ends the show this way, it wouldn’t create a solution for her cyclical train of thought.

Furthermore, wouldn’t this ending be a bit expected, and even boring? This is what El has been doing for the past four seasons of the show. Continuing that pattern would only feel anticlimactic. From a writer’s pov, if you wanted the ending of you show to be dynamic and interesting, you would want to do something new.

So why do I think that Will is the chosen one?

It’s not like I’m pulling the chosen-one-Jesus-Christ label out of my ass just because I like Will. I actually do have many reasons to believe this.

The first one is the confirmation that Will is going to be a big part and focus for next season. It’s been theorized that this means Will is going to become a villian, and while I do love a good Will villian AU, there are many reasons I could list off as to why he wouldn’t become a villian. Without going into it all right now, let’s just say that it would not only go against what Will stands for, but also what the show itself stands for.

Even in show, we have signs pointing toward Will’s chosen status. Let’s start with the fact that Will is the one who kicks the entire show off in the first place, when he is taken by who we later learn to be Henry. Now, this could have just been wrong-place-wrong-time kind of thing, but given how much has been revealed has actually been part of a larger plan constructed by Henry, I highly doubt that mere coincidence is the case.

Let’s look at some more evidence within the fourth season. Let’s talk about the fact that, despite not even being present in Hawkins and gone for much of the supernatural action, Will is still being brought up by name and even implicated in the strangeness of the Upside Down.

Do I think Will is gonna solo-kill Vecna in the climax of the show? Chosen one doesn’t mean only one. No, despite all my rambling about El not being the hero, I’m not gonna deny her importance to the supernatural plot. I think something else the show keeps building upon is the importance of support from friends and family— saving the world is likely gonna be a group effort. I do think, however, that Will possesses some kind of unique ability that is going to be crucial to winning.

What would being the hero mean for Will’s arc? Well, it would give him a sense of control that he hasn’t had before. Will has had a lot of agency and autonomy ripped from him in past seasons, and this would be his way of reclaiming that. It would be the perfect subversion of expectations as well. The character that everyone expects to be just the helpless victim, or hell even the villian, is the one who rises to become the hero who saves the day in his own way.

[xhanisai]

oh my god it just clocked in my head just now

another reason why I despise ML Salt and their stories is often they belittle Adrien for not being strong enough to get himself out of his own abusive circumstances

calling him shit like how he has no spine and all that

just shows how privilege the lot are with either not being in such a horrible situation like he is or being stronger than him to handle it

man you guys fucking suck lol

[orcelito]

ooooookay so i havent seen anyone on tumblr talk about this directly yet so i figured i'd make a post linking to ppl talking about it. im not personally involved, but since this is an artist i recognize & see around, i figure ppl have the right to know

so uh. long story short. @/valdrickvile on here is kinda uhhhhhh not someone you'd wanna interact with, maybe.

^ this thread goes into it

& in case anything happens to the tweets, here's the big document that goes into it. ive read thru a good amount of it and uh........... yeah.

im not sharing this as a call to harass the people involved (Please Dont) but just. people have a right to know. so pls just block and move on.

[thecoronationday]

sugary spire...?? more like girly spire!!

[dishsaop]

does anyone have recommendations for fictional media that has like. actual lesbians in it. not like supergirl Two White Skinny Girls, One Blonde and One Brunette Kiss media, or "its implied lesbianism!!!" but just regular fucking lesbians

[bloodlyst]

[grapecaseschoices]

/venting

[faerieorbitars]

Hi I noticed your post on having thoughts for a peter pan spooky type game and was curious if you still had any of your thoughts on it

i dooooo :) hi im glad you liked it . its been long enough now that who even cares about being secretive . as if i was going to make this an actual game. so ill put it under the cut. its just stream of consciousness stuff mostly so if it doesnt make sense erm sorry

the basic concept for the story is that you play as peter pan stuck in an orphanage on the mainland amongst cruel and apathetic adults and no way to get back to never never land, and trying to help the orphans around you while surviving a malicious evil entity that i haven’t fleshed out yet don’t worry about it. the fantasy world of never never land and your life as peter pan cuts through the story of peter banning at several points, with flying segments and pirates and mermaids and the like becoming representative of some of the grown ups you have to defeat 

the game opens with peter pan in never never land flying back to the hideout, coming back from an expedition trying to find the lost boys are missing even though they had been told to wait in the hideout for peter to return, and the first chapter of the game is peter finding each of the most boys hiding in various locations in the forest and bringing them back.

once they’re all collected he has them follow him to the highest peak on the island, where beyond it they find some kind of beautiful location like a meadow or some shit, a mirror ocean, idk man, and he sends them off to play beyond a prime and landmark i haven’t decided on yet (big tree?) though he doesn’t follow. slightly asks why and peter says he’s got something to take care of before he can join them so just have fun for a while and he’ll be back later, so slightly is like cool ok bye! and goes beyond the landmark . peter then leaves

it is then revealed that the lost boys were killed by the entity and that was peter leading their souls into heaven oops sorry! i’ll probably leave clues by where they’re found to indicate that they didn’t survive but anyways. peter then runs into hook and assumes that he killed them but hook says something ominous i haven’t decided on yet don’t worry about it, and things sort of ‘cut’ there into ‘reality’ and peter finds himself in like a london orphanage or wherever , implying that the never never land stuff was a fantasy he was having

anyways the game progresses like this cutting back into ‘fantasy’ segments for like symbolism and whatever else . there’s segments that reveal that the lost boys were actual boys that died in some way like neglect or something the evil adults did and peter tried to help them somehow (idk i’m picturing the idea that he broke into wherever the bodies were being held to try and give them death rites he made up to send them to heaven but he got caught and caused a hubbub that almost got the neglect revealed to the general public so he got punished. something to that effect)

but in the endgame there’s a Twist! turns out the never never land sections weren’t a fantasy peter was making up to cope with the horrible situation he’s in, the london sections were flashbacks to his life before he ran away and found never never land and decided to never grow up and become evil like the adults he’d been surrounded by before, memories that he repressed. the lost boys of never never land were just boys he’d picked up that reminded him of the orphanage boys that passed away, stuff like that

also twist reveal that hook was also someone from his past, but he was like. an educated man or some kind of officer or detective (or pirate still idk) tasked with finding the kid after he’d run away because of all the bad shit that happened to keep him from telling authorities, hook also forgot the past when he got to never never land and they started their rivalry but he remembered for some reason but like. he’s not gonna take peter back to london that sucks

also throwing around a concept for an entity behind all the boss fights and stuff , maybe something powered by evil that gets stronger through deeds of greed and whatall that’s been following peter around the whole game because of all his misfortune, that peter and hook have to defeat at the very end of the game

the very end is both peter and hook being like yeah, so let’s just stay here forever and keep the killing each other game going , or something. yaaay happyish ending :)

OH WAIT ACTUALLY i’ve got it. the game is framed as if the opening is just how peter conceptualizes and copes with the deaths of the real boys that the lost boys represent and the reason it switches back and forth is because retreating into a fantasy is how peter is able to accomplish all he needs to do or whatever. and then the reveal

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

The huntlow ship is blander than flour and has less chemistry than tap water from a white suburban neighborhood. But because it involves an angsty white boy, 70% of fans, who needed to have the words "representation" and "subtext" taken away until they knew how to use them properly, immediately started foaming at the mouth to beam their self insert into the brain of willow park to be hunters tradwife, neoliberal edition.

[nokmietarchive]

just went full ham and designed a villainsona for rottmnt wahaha

figured it would be fun to fill out a theme following four guardians. we got turtles, we got dragons... so my guys is based around the white tiger (백호)

the bit im committing to is he's just taking advantage of the fact that everyone in the universe has the cybersecurity of a wet paper bag. i mean LOOK at the passwords people are using! theyre basically begging to get their servers compromised!!!!!

[4b9]

I haven't touched genshin story since the end of sumeru but arlecchino is a he/him cis woman to me. "oh she just uses male titles" he uses male prns too. I know this bc it makes him hotter

[fearcicada]

I wish there were more tma agere fics that weren't just the archives polycule 😭 or even ones that just didn't include Martin in them PLEAAASEE