#this is their home 🥹

[midnight1nk]

y'know how I said I had some ideas for the Showgrounds to be more lively? Well, here you go:

HOW I WOULD DESIGN THE SHOWGROUNDS?

After all, the Showgrounds is for the Crew so I thought of things that they would've wanted/have the potential to be used for future arcs. (We already got 3's cafe and 4's Meme Factory, so we can already have them represent our meme guardians, just change a couple of things to make them relevant.)

"Based on the last part of IGBP?" oh yes, absolutely :)

Rides taken from Puzzle Park -> I mean, that should be obvious. Like 4, where did you put those rides anyway? Besides, 4's gotta have a teacup ride that he could use

Make the Ferris Wheel and Rollercoaster Functional -> PLEASE, that's all I ask for. If their lights just glow up, I'll take it!! I just wanna include them

Garden with some of the flowers from the usual Mario games -> I definitely want something to represent the Mario Bros. Obviously, Luigi, but also Mario for how much he cares about his friends, the gentle/tender side of him. Plus, I did say 4 would be a flower guy, so it would be nice for him. That and one other reason....

Performance stage -> just a stage that the Crew can use for whatever they want to do with it. Talent shows, karaoke nights, theatre. And possibly, music arc perhapssss 👀 *cough cough*

Obstacle course -> Definitely was inspired by Meggy and the "3 & 4 forced to hold hands" episode. Meggy has been searching for a coaching gig, and our meme guardian partners REALLY need to train their powers. So, why not have a place just for it? Other than that, the Crew could also use it for night laser tag (yeah, I remembered the short story I did of Tari vs. Marty haha)

Manga stand -> y'know, those typical city newsstands that sell newspapers and magazines, I thought it would be nice if we did one but with manga and anime products in general. Just like the anime room Boopkins wanted for the Castle. Plus, Melony could promote more of the One Piece series

And ig I'll stray away to put my personal hc:

A white lily field past the Showgrounds woods -> I did have this hc that 4 would stumble upon this field after having a bad nightmare, and goes there ever since to clear his head. if you read my concepts, then you already know :) "Beyond the woods, by the cliffside looking over the Mushroom Kingdom sea, he could breathe."

Anyway, add some more streamers and lanterns, here and there. Just have this as lively as it could be. Design-wise, I do want them to look nice but not fully finished, kinda mix-matched. And here's why:

I want all of it to be destroyed for Puzzlevision Plus :)

Time and time again, I said that everything's gonna come back full circle and one of them would be the Grounds itself. And having the Crew building more and more of the Showgrounds, it's an attempt to move on from IGBP and everything they faced. But we all know they haven't forgotten the trauma they went through, trying not to acknowledge it when it's absolutely affecting them. When it eventually falls apart, I want the Showgrounds to also be a visual representation of that too. Everything literally falls apart, broken down. Then, it gives the Crew more motivation to fight back, for their home. But when it's done and the fight's over, they could work together to rebuild it all again. The right way.

Just as 4 said in IGBP, "[They're gonna] make this right... And it may be different but so long as we're all together, I'm sure it's gonna be perfect!"

That's why, for the last addition to the Showgrounds, it would depend on how IGBP 2 would go but regardless:

A marble fountain (in the garden) -> I want this to be a sort-of memorial. Now, Peach isn't technically not dead, and not sure how I want her to be in IGBP 2. On one hand, I do want the SMGs to use their meme powers to turn her somewhat back to her normal self, with some monster elements. The other, she might be gone for good. Personally, I want the first option for reasons, that totally don't involve that door. Anyway, I do want 4 to build the fountain as an apology to Peach. He avoided many things related to IGBP, 4's stuck in the past while thinking he's moving on. But once every wall is broken down and he can finally heal, this would be a step in the right direction. Acknowledgement. Perhaps it won't make up for everything but it's the least 4 could think of to do

It's what I have for now, I'll probably add on to this post if I can think about anything else. (But y'know I had to add for plot and angst reasons, what can I say? /lh)

[sunsbleeding]

Strange and beautiful how one afternoon with friends equals the desire to live for a million brilliant years

[gojoest]

satoru’s and your little girl has a habit of sharing everything with her kindergarten teachers. completely unintentionally, of course. she’s always talking about the things her papa and mama do at home, without the slightest filter.

one day, during movie time, all the kids are quietly watching a sweet, innocent scene where one character kisses another on the cheek. but your daughter immediately speaks up, scandalized: “that’s not how a kiss is supposed to go!” she insists. ��it’s supposed to be on the lips — like mama and papa do!”

another time, on an ordinary monday morning, the teacher gathers all the kids to share what they did with their families over the weekend. when it is your daughter’s turn, she stands up proudly, all sweetness and sincerity, and says: “nothing much. on weekends mama and papa don’t get out of bed until really late because they’re always so tired from their ‘grown-up cuddles’” — she even adds little air quotes with her fingers, just like she’s seen satoru do when he’s teasing you…

needless to say, the teachers have learned to brace themselves whenever she starts a sentence with “mama and papa” ….

[vakenart]

Have some more Thorin!! Bonus! The last one is also from @domesticgoddesswriter fic Song of my Heart 😚 yknow from that chapter where for a brief moment he helped move some stuff around? Yeah…

(I have a lot of doodles of him😏)

And even more bonus!! Young Prince Thorin!

[viannasthings]

GUARANTEED WITH A DREAM 🙏

HE WILL COME HOME 🙏🙏

[hoovesandfloorpaws]

"That said, both Styles and his therapist have questioned why he cares quite so much about being likeable. This is one of the things he thought about a lot in his big pandemic reflection. In part, it's a choice, he explained. He recalled moving to London after The X Factor and hearing tales of petulant celebrities screaming because someone got their coffee order wrong and deciding to never be that guy, to never give someone a petty reason to bad-mouth him. But more recently he's come to worry that the drive for approval came from a more complex place, a place of caution, fear, control." "Styles said he often spent interviews terrified about saying the wrong thing until he stopped to question what abhorrent belief or bizarre opinion he was scared he'd accidentally reveal and realized he couldn't think of anything."

"And he thought about the cleanliness clauses in the contracts he used to sign, which would dictate that they would be null and void if he did anything supposedly unsavoury, and about how terrified that used to make him. And about when he signed his solo contract and learned that the ability to make music would not be affected by personal transgressions, he burst into tears, a reaction he still seemed shocked by, retelling it to me now, years later. "I felt free," he explained."

"When Styles began therapy about five years ago [so in 2017], he was reluctant initially, feeling it was a music industry cliché. "I thought it meant that you were broken," he said. "I wanted to be the one who could say I didn't need it." He returned to the home theme that has underpinned our conversation, explaining that therapy has allowed him to "open up rooms in himself" that he didn't know existed, allowed him to feel things more honestly, where before he had tended to"emotionally coast.""

"Recently Styles began to work through issues related to intimacy, dating, love. "For a long time, it felt like the only thing that was mine was my sex life. I felt so ashamed about it, ashamed at the idea of people even knowing that I was having sex, let alone who with," he said."

"You look back, especially now there's all the documentaries, like the Britney documentary, and you watch how people were abused in that way, by that system, especially women. You recall articles from not even five years ago, and you're like, I can't even believe that was written."

He has been thinking a lot recently about autonomy, ownership, privacy. About what he should be able to keep to himself, what he should be able to simply communicate through his music without follow-up questions or prying. Around the time of Fine Line, he faced scrutiny around his sexuality. People became incredulous that he wore dresses, waved Pride flags, and yet hadn't clarified with precision, publicly to a journalist or on social media, the specifics of who he'd slept with, how he defined. This expectation is, to him, bizarre, "outdated." "I've been really open with it with my friends, but that's my personal experience; it's mine," he said.

Despite the acceptance that some things could, should, have been different, he still feels lucky every day, he said, lucky to make music, lucky to do what he loves.

"You can't win music. It's not like Formula One," he said. "I was like, in my lifetime, there will be 10 more people who burst onto the scene in that way, and I'm only going to get further away from being the young thing. So, get comfortable with finding something else that makes you happy. I just found that so liberating."

"I just want to make stuff that is right, that is fun, in terms of the process, that I can be proud of for a long time, that my friends can be proud of, that my family can be proud of, that my kids will be proud of one day," he said.

-- original interview link, Better Homes And Gardens Magazine 26 April 2022 (remake of this post)

[captainsavre]

Maya and Carina || STATION 19 ↳ All kisses (Season 7)

[mountainshroom]

i tried designing a possibly older atreus (18yrs?) hair and outfit overall because i miss my boy already :(

[inkz123]

Drawing for @Invextious Thank you :]👍💕

[icangotwiceashigh]

Just over here thinking about how Jeremy and Andrew, two people that were constantly shown they weren’t anyones first choice, end up with Jean and Neil, two people that constantly had their right to choose taken away.

Jeremy and Andrew get to experience being chosen first over and over again and Jean and Neil get to choose them over and over again.

And then all four of them are probably so in disbelief at the privilege it is to be with the other.

And they get to choose each other every day for the rest of their lives.

I’m a wreck.

[drolta]

Richette + Richter’s fire

[renegadesstuff]

THIS IS REAL 😭😭❤️

[rocketbirdie]

color pallet challenge!

[chenfordsbee]

🎉 Celebrating the RWRB sequel announcement 🎉 (I will gladly take another slice 😏)

[captainsavre]

Marina - firsts and lasts from each season ↳ SCENE (3x05//3x16; 4x01//4x16; 5x01//5x18; 6x01//6x18; 7x01//7x10)

[timothyslucy]

HE'S SO DOWN BADFORD I CAN'T I REALLY CAN'T 😭🤧💗