#rant in tags oops

[cozylittleartblog]

i thought naming myself this would be really funny. and it Is. every time i get into a match i think about gabriel playing Miku Rhythm Game

[lakesidepurple]

you can interpret bakudeku as platonic all you want thats your choice but you CANT make it not tragic as fuck that they both just wanted to be heroes together because they were besr friends and they can never ever have that in the way they wanted

[bicatman]

i hate the "jason likes dogs" thing so much. i hated it when it was a headcanon, and i hated it more when it became canon.

dog bites/attacks happen more often in low income communities. dogs are more likely to attack children rather than adults. dogs are often used as guards for property and to keep out thieves. police canine units (nuff said).

jason lived in crime alley, he was a child who was homeless and squatting in an empty apartment building, and he was also stealing to get by (and hated cops.) ...but no correlation?? jason loves dogs???? what???

[critterishere]

shout out to that au in my head where these two experience manmade horrors beyond their comprehension together 🗣

original image down here🏃

[crayoneater12]

i love my country

[dandelionjack]

the main mistake that people who dislike s8 and put it low in their series rankings make is the belief that, like any other series (apart from s9), it’s a collection of standalone stories tied together by some vague throughline i.e. missy’s ‘heaven’. “oh, this episode’s mid, that episode’s bad” meanwhile it’s not about individual episodes at all. i firmly believe that it should be viewed as a singular long serial.

so grateful that i was extremely late to the party and binged it all in a week instead of watching every episode as they were airing, because sometimes the plots barely matter at all. do you remember what the skovox blitzer actually looks like or what it wanted with coal hill in the first place? hardly. i had to google its name. but what you do remember from the caretaker is twelve acting like an antagonistic prick towards danny, and that’s what matters. almost every villainous entity is some kind of soldier, the contempt twelve shows to everybody but clara becomes the source of their toxicity… in the forest of the night is pretty obviously rubbish scifi, but it demonstrates danny’s fundamental incompatibility with clara, as well as the scene in which clara is ready to sacrifice herself and her students for the doctor’s sake, foreshadowing their reckless, almost suicidal codependency.

point is, but it really does work best as a tightly woven tapestry. sure, some episodes succeed individually, but most of the individual plots are mildly exciting only in a ‘this is fun to watch for kids’ way… UNLESS you approach them from the overarching perspective. i.e. mummy on the orient express has wonderful style, a thrilling mystery, creative concepts and interesting side characters, but its story appeal hinges on the twelveclara failed breakup. listen is frightening enough, but its entire story appeal hinges on just how much clara affects the doctor’s values past and present, and whether or not she has a future with danny (she doesn’t).

what i’m saying is, the narrative in s8 is a non-negotiable package deal. buy one, get them all. and it has no skips. i hate the idiotic pro-life message in kill the moon as much as the next sensible person, but what the episode does well is really hammer home how much of a sanctimonious asshole twelve initially is, which is crucial to his future character evolution.

tldr; the correct way to watch series 8 is all in one go. series 8 is great. more love for series 8

[evilkaeya]

domestic skk

[sleepanonymous]

I usually don't get into discourse or discussions of Sleep Token lore for Reasons™️but I would like to bring forth a proposition that Sleep Token's songs are not offerings about Sleep but offerings to Sleep.

[good-beans]

Coping with round 7 by picturing normal au Milgram characters as Alien Stage fans. Not all of them are super into it, but have heard about it from the ones that are big fans. It's very fun to picture scenes of them discussing and getting emotional about a youtube based gradual release music video story project, 10/10 would recommend

Haruka*: Big fan of Sua, even though she makes him so sad. He's obsessed with Sweet Dream, and listens to that and My Clematis all the time.

Yuno: A tie between Ivan and Luka as her favorite character. Probably the one to get the most into the worldbuilding, knowing the minor characters and aliens' names.

Fuuta**: Is genuinely a big Till fan, but pretends he's an even bigger Till fan out of fear people will discover his huge crush on Hyuna. He went crazy over both versions of All-In.

Muu*: Likes Luka but is too afraid to sound like a fan of the antagonist, so she mostly focuses on her love of Mizi. Both because of the characters and the song itself, she really enjoys Ruler of My Heart.

Shidou: A fan of Mizi for obvious reasons, but really enjoys the melancholy of Black Sorrow and Cure

Mahiru*: Mizi all the way. She's going through it in a series about doomed romance, but she still loves it. Enjoys Mizi x Till, Hyuna x Luka, and any rarepair that passes her by.

Kazui: Yeah... Ivan... I don't think he'd be huge into the series, but if he did get deeper, I think he'd be really intrigued by Luka. Likes Black Sorrow, wasn't as into Cure as he expected.

Amane**: Has mixed feelings about the religion/love thing going on, but really likes Mizi and her songs. Really enjoys the cover songs and hearing characters sing things differently.

Mikoto: Genuinely likes the cast evenly, but if he had to pick he'd pick Till because he really enjoys the faster songs like Unknown and Blink Gone.

Kotoko: Recognizes that she's a lot like Hyuna, but Till's wildness makes him her favorite. She saw Till's death coming so she's more thrilled with Blink Gone than upset with the story

Es: Really loves Hyuna. They love the familial story with her brother and also think she's a cool character. Ivan is a close second specifically because they love his voice.

*has gotten choked up/teared up at an mv release

**has gotten choked up/teared up at an mv release and viciously denies it

[ad-astra-per-studium]

Okay so this morning I finished DATV, and here are some of my thoughts! (My second time writing this because Tumblr didn't save my draft ToT)

Spoiler Free!!

For some background, I played as a cis female elf who is an Antivan Crow and a mage. I romanced Emmrich after hearing how absolutely lovely he is (I agree completely; I started replaying it already and I'm going to romance him again as a Mourn Watcher).

I really enjoyed the game! When I first came here to write this post I got pretty hard into what people were saying online and my thoughts on Bioware, but for the sake of my sanity, I will give a short summary.

I think the game delivered exactly what it needed to. It was fun, it was a good time. I was on the edge of my seat and I wanted to play more. The graphics are beautiful, the combat is challenging but not too challenging to where I was ever too frustrated to keep playing. I liked the characters, they were fun to talk to and I loved doing all of their quests.

I went online to see what other people were saying, and of course the game was getting a lot of hate. This wasn't surprising to me, but at first I was disheartened. But also, I had to realize that Inquisition and 2 both got a ton of hate after release. Now, those are beloved installments in the series! I think once the new release hate is over, the game will grow on people.

This doesn't mean I think it's enough to save Bioware from EA execution, I mean, I hope it is, but EA keeps mounting the pressure. Apparently, Veilguard has made only half of the sales EA projected. and expected. However, what I've seen everyone agree on, and what could be a potential saving grace, is that this is the most beautiful AAA game they've seen and played in years. And I completely agree. This game is stunning. I could just walk the streets and trails of these regions for hours and not get bored.

Anyway, to end the tangent, I thought the game was great! And I'm excited to replay it. Anddd I think, in time, more people will see it that way, too.

[sweetmariihs2]

I squeeze into a small hole

Through the eyes of needles

To stitch you up again

Even though I know so well I can't fix anything

[...]

And I need you

And I need you

To understand

To understand

Sometimes I see light

And I fear it's only fantasy

Oh, wouldn't it be tragic

If there is no light in me, not any magic?

And I need you

To forgive me

If you can

I know the best I can

Isn't always good enough

It hurts to know I hurt you

Like I know it hurts for you to know you've hurt me

And now my blood is yours

And life is slowly losing touch

How do we learn to tend to

These invisible wounds our homes gave us?

I can't heal you

And you can't heal me

Even if we wanted to

And how I wanted to.

And I need you

To stop needing me

Like I've needed you

We both need to

Tend to the invisible wounds...

[referencees]

Hey guys if you’re not tagging your stuff properly especially in fandom tags, people are gonna block you. Tags are the only way to filter content and when you don’t use them properly you mess up the filtration system on this site. The only other way to get your posts to go away is to block you.

I have blocked so many x reader fanfic authors because I just don’t want to see any x reader or character prompt stuff. But unfortunately a lot of these users are both young and new to tumblr and don’t seem to know (or maybe care) how this sites mechanics work. And they don’t tag any of their stuff properly so filters don’t work at all. So the only other way for me to get the spammy amount of x reader stuff out of fandom tags is to block every person that posts it. That’s literally the only other way.

If you don’t want to get blocked for really dumb reasons just tag your stuff correctly. Literally one x reader tag is all you need.

[azurityarts]

uhhh i don't really have a title for this lol

Just wanted to have another go at colouring and shading since I haven't done either in a while!

also while working on this I accidentally turned off the wrong layer and

ngl my guy don't look too bad

[finnbin]

Do you post on ao3?

What a rather ominous ask anon i can't believe you would ask such a thing. Me? Posting in fandom spaces? Noooo. No. No of course not. You've got the worng guy bucko! I actually hate fan content! Honest!! What even is ao3?? Like, that's not how you spell owl? Hoot hoot? Have I been talking too long? I've been talking too long? Nahh i don't believe it

[teh-nos]

i, too, miss when dr who was good it's just that i very much don't think that's any of bits rtd made.

[theokusgallery]

I wonder what's their relationship with their siblings. (referring to Nick and Sunny)

Also...Will there be Mari, Aubrey, Kel, and Hero?... I wonder if you're going to add them or not (hhshjsjs I'm getting a little bit *too* curious)

Interesting question ! I was literally continuing a WIP about Nick and Statice's (Nick's sister) realtionship as I saw this ask, lol. (No link with the picture above, I just drew that one for fun). I was also just talking about them extensively in Tosteur's server, sooooo...

Statice and Nick love each other very much. They grew up constantly around one another, and since their parents weren't always around, they always had to stick with each other and play with each other... They basically only had each other for most of their childhood. So they stick together.

Now, I can't remember if I've ever talked about it here, but Arsenic wasn't really liked by other people as a kid (and that hasn't really changed). He's weird, he's queer, he's mean (socially incompetent), etc etc. Statice, on the other hand, is a lot more normal than he is. They're identical twins, so they were in the same grade growing up, and when they made friends, it was usually together. But every friend they made always, consistently preferred Statice to Nick.

That's not to say Statice doesn't have her fair share of "weirdness", but when it came from her as opposed to Nick, kids around them didn't mind it as much. Like, sure, Nick was into boys, and that was weird and creepy and embarrassing to other kids, but... not only does Statice also like guys, she's trans. Weirdly enough, Nick was ostracised for being queer a lot more than Statice was.

Nick and Statice are very, very close. They spent 99% of their time together, growing up, shared a room, went to the same schools, in the same classes, they still go to the same university (though they don't study the same thing). They share a lot of things and know each other very well. But they have... unaddressed issues and built up resentment on Nick's part, and judgement on Statice's part. S o it's not exactly perfect.

I feel like it's important to note that Statice is the one and only person that Nick doesn't have an unhealthy power dynamic with. She's quite literally the only person that Nick is an okay guy around.

(She's also Sunny's best friend, so you can imagine how that goes when Sunny and Nick get together -- while Statice disapproves of it very much because she knows exactly how much of a creepy piece of shit Nick is :)...)

--Sunny and his sister Mari were also very close growing up. After growing up, though, they kind of drifted apart as Mari moved away for college and Sunny started seeing flaws in her that he... hadn't really wanted to see before, because he idealized her as a kid. They talk sometimes, and they still love each other, and they have an okay relationship, but they're not nearly as close as Nick and Statice are. Sunny kind of gets jealous of them for that sometimes.

I'm not actually sure if i want to add Kel or Hero or Aubrey to the story or not. There's a third friend in Sinny and Statice's friend group that's essential to the storyline, and I'm not opposed to making them Kel or Aubrey, but I haven't thought about them too much, so I don't know yet. Might make 'em an OC. I was hesitating on making Sunny's sibling an OC as well, but the characterization/role I was planning for them ended up being taken by Statice (who I actually care about and think about a lot), so I don't mind it being Mari. Hero is in the story by virtue of being Mari's boyfriend in every universe (/ref), but he has no role or purpose. Imagine he's standing in the background if you so wish