#this shouldn't be a surprise

[yuseirra]

Looking down below The one I seek to find No matter where you might go Remember you'll be on my mind

I reached this part of the game earlier~

no but I can't unhear this anymore, doesn't color your night work best when you interpret it as the moon that's singing to the other party? some parts of the song really imply that, has that already been brought up? In that case, I guess I figured that out really late; the whole song, it makes perfect sense, the protag grinds out in order to meet ryoji again too. I read over the lyric and?? wow okay

[twistcmyk]

Im sorry, so you mean you have a bloody Elsa figure just hanging out on ur desk all the time?

it's not BLOODY there's blood INSIDE

but yes! i do!

[greenmeanqueen]

on the basis of three episodes I’d rather have Otto (has kept the realm running for years) and Alicent (lots of empathy, a natural politician) run the country over Rhaenyra (sympathetic to her situation but she’s more than a bit petulant and entitled) and Daemon (an actual sociopath who’d go on a suicide mission because he’s too proud to accept help). the show is definitely giving the Targs the hero edit despite that though. I’m very glad at least that they’ve swerved hard away from the evil stepmother trope of the books. Alicent would’ve been perfectly legally and politically justified to push Aegon as heir from day 1 but a 21st century audience needed it beat over the head that she’s good and kind so she’ll stand by Rhaenyra’s claim for now even if it doesn’t really make sense to say it’s her birthright when by thousands of years of Westeros precedent it definitely isn’t. And yet people STILL think she’s a scheming bitch. Media literacy is in the gutter.

thank you for your ask!!

for all my gripes with otto, there is a political acumen about him that viserys lacks with his people-pleaser tendencies; he understands the system, which is why he can manipulate it when he wants to. he has the extra experience with managing someone who is not very good at their job, which is objectively true of viserys. whenever there's a tough decision to be made, viserys swerves hard to avoid it. i love how HOTD has been really showing his darker side when being confronted with very reasonable duties of a ruler and lashing out, while also refusing to fully try and rectify the messes that he himself has made. he just keeps digging himself deeper and deeper in the hole, committed to "everything's gonna turn out fine because i say so". and otto kind of has to work around it, not just for his own desires, but also so the realm doesn't fall apart.

alicent is similar with her developing soft power, she can carefully choose her words and is starting to get results (which are actually quite benevolent at this point, trying to bring rhaenyra and viserys back together, and to help rhaenyra keep her position). i think episode three was excellent in portraying the growing fundamental conflict of soft power vs. hard power, the latter being what rhaenyra and daemon exemplified. R & D are fire and blood; angry, entitled, merciless, a bit reckless. and they get to walk around like badasses covered in blood while the hightowers are shoved aside, the "inferior" westerosi to the "superior" targs. maybe that was the point, because the hightowers will have their day (and i'm lowkey here for it???).

it's really unfortunate to watch alicent just not be able to win among the audience; she could literally sneeze and someone would cuss at her and/or criticize that anyone would want to say bless you. and you're so right, she has a legitimate leg to stand on in the succession which is why we have this whole conflict in the first place! in alicent's own words, "what mother wouldn't?" but she's not pursuing it because she has a heart, despite popular belief. she and otto may both exercise soft power, but she is NOT her father.

[druid-for-hire]

[images ID: three images of a comic titled "one must imagine sisyphus happy" by druid-for-hire. it is a visual narrative beginning with someone with wrist pain (depicted by bright orange nerves) working at a drafting table. the reader is shown the same wrist as the person uses it for many everyday tasks such as carrying a grocery basket, pushing elevator buttons, typing, and doing dishes, until the pain dissolves all the panels into chaos. the person then performs several physical therapy exercises until the pain subsides. they sit back down at a desk with their laptop, sigh, and begin typing. a small spark of pain reappears. end id]

a fun little piece i made during the semester and submitted into our school comic anthology! (which you can buy at the Static Fish table at MoCCAFest in NYC ;] ). it's about artists and injury

[grandwretch]

i so badly want one of those fic examinations of steve's relationship with joyce and hopper but solely through eddie's pov like hear me out

steve and eddie chat a lot in the upside down (and later in the hospital, when they learn hop is alive). steve has taken charge of filling eddie in on the rest of their of-age crew without the kids butting in. he never mentions his own parents, but he talks about the rest of the party's a lot, especially joyce and hopper. eddie knows what it's like to desperately want someone to be your parent and trying to hide it from his own childhood, when he would try to be cool about wayne dropping him off at his dad's house. steve obviously adores joyce and hopper, thinks the world of them and legitimately looks up to them.

eddie isn't sure what he expects from a cop who came back to life and the world's most determined housewife, but he's excited to meet them as someone steve loves.

cue eddie's horror when he realizes that neither of them really feel much for steve rather than annoyance and vague distrust. that joyce trusts will with eddie, an accused murderer, in a heartbeat and still hesitates to leave him with steve. that hopper brushes off every ounce of steve's hero worship and joy.

he tries to broach the topic with steve, gently, and is heartbroken when steve genuinely has no idea what he's talking about. and not because he's oblivious, but because steve thinks that's what he deserves. he thinks that's the parental love that someone who was an asshole in high school needs, because that's what would make him a good person. he needs people to call him out constantly, obviously, because why else would they keep doing it? why would nancy? at least they're here. at least they're not ignoring him. at least they're not forcing him into a box. they just want him to be better.

like, this is the man who thanked a girl for calling him bullshit and telling him she never loved him. he doesn't Know that's not how you're supposed to handle things. no one ever taught him that.

and now eddie's gotta figure out how he can teach steve how to be loved the right way without outing himself and his huge crush on his love-starved dork of a friend.

[i-will-say-what-i-believe]

Eddie suffered enough for 5 seasons🥺

NOW, its time for the tables to turn😁

And for karma to hit back😁

Eddie befriending people EASILY when he WANTS TO shouldn't come off as a surprise considering he:

1) Won over the entire 118 the moment he stepped into the firehouse 😏😎

2) Befriended Buck in a single day even when Buck was being territorial😏😎

3) Is well-known at the LAFD underground poker games😏😎

4) Befriended the entire 126😏😎

5) Made besties at the dispatch😏😎

6) Now, this😏😎

[jadelion]

It's honestly kinda impressive how exciting it is every time Siobhan/Adaine uses a portent roll, even though it's such a common thing.

[sagaduwyrm]

DCxDP Idea:

Danny is Constantine's son (Either the Fenton's had a threesome or there was a weird lab accident) and that gives him first dibs to the guy's soul. Maybe some old magic law about how if you sell your firstborn and that firstborn turns out to be, say, an Eldritch deity with dubious morality and teenage spitefulness, or similarly powerful being, that kid gets their parent's soul as recompense. Except a lot of other beings already had claim to Constantine's soul, and now they're sending Danny whiny letters about it. Danny's eighteenth birthday basically goes: hurray! Now have all this whiny paperwork from asshole demons.

[khaopybara]

Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice: A Guide with Sand Pt. 1

Leather Jacket: 4 Brown Jacket: 5 Black Jacket: 2

FIRST KANAPHAN as SAND ( ONLY FRIENDS EPS. 1-6 )

[lunarin64art]

That feeling when he can't stand to see you that way, no matter what you do, no matter what you say😩😭💔

[olympain]

The Gestapo, they are different than me. Me, I'm like you: A flyer, a man of honour.

[chwduplemon]

ONE PIECE LIVE-ACTION (2023–)

1.03 "Tell No Tales" // 1.04 "The Pirates Are Coming"

[redysetdare]

I'm tired of repulsed "positivity" posts always having "but romance negativity is bad" tacked on, as if t comes along with repulsion. Because Repulsion positivity needs a disclaimer because we are always seen as being negative. it's always "Sex and romance repulsion is valid AS LONG AS you're not Sex negative ^^" never just "Sex and romance repulsion is valid." end of sentence.

this ALWAYS happens on repulsed posts. We are always paired with sex negativity. And Im so sick and fucking tired of it. You never see this on sex and romance favorable posts. you never see people tack on how favorable people shouldn't push toxic sex positivity and shame people for not having sex.

I do not care if you think repulsed people are "prone to being sex negative" that thought process alone SHOWS that you don't understand us and don't fully support us. I hate you. I'm tired. It's obvious you see us as less willing of support all because you assume we are sex negative, a sentiment that gets tacked onto us for simply expressing our repulsion. I hate you. I'm tired.

I'm tired.

I'm tired.

[give-bucky-his-boyfriend-back]

Just woke up from my nap to find out that JKR is dragging the holocaust into this and what the actual fuck

[omaano]

I've learned how to do lineart, and the colour green no longer terrifies me so I'll only take another half a year to figure out how to shade this drawing for Mereel & Family Booksellers chapter 2 by @sidhebeingbrand and @toughbreaks :D

[nosnexus]

Defensive Flourish

I'm almost caught up! And this moment was stuck in my head after finishing the episode.