#the metaphors

[simplyjustagirlsblog]

[theandrosaur]

Discovered The Property of Hate by accident, went reading it for the cool tv dude, came out of there with heart issues

[psychidelias]

Noticing the brand the "Unspeakable One" was trying to brand Rimmer with in Terrorform is actually just a large H was something I didn't want to know.

[deluweil]

Talk about 1+1... 👀

[shouts-into-the-void]

I'm surprised that Japanese horror games don't garner larger fandoms. Spending your life caring for your sister as penance for abandoning her to the mercy of the bloodthirsty demonic entity that now shares and is slowly taking over her body, now despising the man you once abandoned her over despite having gotten what you wanted in the end, seems exactly like the kind of thing Tumblr would eat up but I've barely seen any content about Hollow Cocoon.

[pinzandneedlez]

This part in fallen angel is so important in retrospect.

SCULLY: I don't understand you Mulder. Why you're always defying protocol? Ignoring jurisdiction...

MULDER: Because I know what I saw Scully. There weren't train tracks anywhere near that site. So how could it have been a derailed container?

SCULLY: Because it wasn't. What you saw was not a toxic spill. But it wasn't a UFO either.

MULDER: OK. I'm all ears. What was it?

SCULLY: It was a downed Libyan jet with a nuclear warhead. (Mulder laughs) Over US air space... They'd been picking up low grade levels of radiation indicating that a plutonium casing may have cracked. So to avoid mass panic...

MULDER: You really believe that story..?

SCULLY: That story happens to be highly classified.

MULDER: A highly classified lie.

[penofwildfire]

It would be fantastic and inspired and incredibly sexy if Vex's animal form was supposed to be a falcon. No like hear me out.

[beautyisinkonpaper]

nimona revealing her shapwshifting to ballister in a CLOSET is so special to me

[soloorganaas]

not sirius talking angrily about how his best friend boyfriend can’t get a job because he’s been outed as a werewolf gay and umbridge thatcher has been pushing anti-werewolf gay legislation

not sirius talking about how remus rants to him about this at home

not this being the first thing that comes to sirius’s mind when harry brings umbridge up

not sirius sharing it without pity for remus or dehumanising him but with simply pure disgust at the bigotry of it all

[heliumcake]

el’s bracelet vs mike and will’s matching watches

[insanesonofabitch]

I feel like watching spn in 2022 and starting it at season 11 then going straight to spnblr right after finishing it receiving psychic damage after psychic damage about how much shit was and is going on about destiel has had irreparable permanent negative effects to my brain.

[owleyesisaslay]

An Anthem For The Fallen

Lifeless and empty,

They mold the path where others walk,

Alone, desperate to find fate.

They wander aimlessly,

Alone, in their little world.

Where can they find themselves?

Solemn and afraid,

They kiss their fallen comrade,

Goodnight, begging for kindness,

They are doused in pain,

Those sharp shocks that strike,

Daggers, through their decaying hearts.

Where can they find peace?

Cold and empty,

They are pressed fast into the cold ground,

Tethered to the dark.

They lay and gaze into the tired sky,

Wishing for the thousandth time,

They could fly.

[godsspecialprincess]

in the library at 4:30 am listening to the undertale soundtrack crying

[rubyjean-jacket-blog]

izzy hands is such a good depiction of how putting someone on a pedestal, especially at your own expense, only serves to hurt everyone involved. 

the pathway from admiration to worship to obsession is one i think we’ve all walked at some point. and when you’re walking it, it never crosses your mind that you’re destroying yourself and the very person you’re elevating, even when people in your life are screaming at you to just look at what you’re doing. to open your eyes and see how things are crumbling around you.

it’s so clear that izzy’s behaviour is toxic and unhealthy and needs to stop. it’s so clear to everyone... except izzy.

god. i just want to shake him.

[kayleen756894]

So glad for my double heavy edits of Stay cause I can’t believe I thought Chapter 4 was publishable before this lmao it’s so much better now. Hopefully posting it tomorrow! (And it’s the longest chapter so far)

[atissi]

i don't really like when people say dungeon meshi is accidentally good autistic representation, because while i understand not wanting to make conclusions without explicit confirmation from the author, there's always the weird assumption that non-western authors somehow don't know about things like neurodivergency/queerness/etc. (on top of the assumptions that east asian authors are somehow more naive or oblivious to "western" social issues).

given that dungeon meshi started being published in 2014, it's not really a "work belonging to its times"—it's as contemporary as any other media we discuss on this site, which means it should be fair to assume it engages with contemporary topics (and at the very least, you shouldn't say that the representation is accidental with so much confidence)

but anyways, the chapter "perfect communication" in ryoko kui's "terrarium in a drawer" is some of the most straightforward autistic representation I've seen, and from now on I'm going to assume that laios's character writing is absolutely intentional in that regard: