#uhm. love. or whatever

[suncaptor]

the thing about Cristina is she dreams of growing old with Meredith after screaming at Meredith to shut up about Derek because it will never work then begs Meredeth's therapist to make Derek better at being her boyfriend because Derek doesn't get Meredith like she does.

[umblrspectrum]

you'll never guess which movie i finally watched after 2 years of being lazy

[fivedayriot]

Silence you! Square triangle circle deep cut be upon ye!!!!

[rosicheeks]

Teacher’s pet 😌

[pinkavtomation]

I can still make this joke its not too late

I ABSOLUTELY DON'T REMEMBER IF ITS BEEN DONE BEFORE BTW if it is uhm. Whoops

[cherubytes]

one-sided v4v where the v2 fights are just a way to get attention but v1 doesn't care at all

[pangyham]

GAH LONG POST..

xingqiu and chongyun have insanely good potential for angst my god. xingqiu in particular is so fun to think about in the context of chongyun. what do YOU know about chivalry boy

thinking about how he and hu tao kinda operate on similar notions of justice and all that shmick except hu tao is more strictly averse to disrupting the Natural Order (incredibly vague and generalized concept rn sorry) whilst xingqiu sets his principles more arbitrarily. chongyun's presence somehow foils a lot of his notable character traits. gestures hands vaguely in the air but sth sth hu tao would not approve of xq's moral infractions

perhaps im just reading too deep into this but shrugs ill admit something's changed in Me the last 2 years and coming back to xq and cy has me like. scratches head now hold on im not entirely sure if i even like the way xq treats cy. its kinda one of the main points of their dynamic- the whole.. pranking this oblivious guy who i really adore etc. but its deeper implications leave me a little unsatisfied and a little troubled (?).. in the long run i personally dont really see anything substantially appealing about their (leaning towards romantic in this context) relationship other than like ?? the tropes that mhy imposed upon them. they were created as a compatible Duo ykwim. they reference each other a lot in their lore and even in-game but.. idk maybe i just view them separately instead of a joint unit that anaylzing them individually revealed a lot of crevices and cracks in their ship that's built upon their mainstream appeal

but anyway i've thought a lot about them as a duo and is it nuts to say i like them as a romantic ship but if they were unrequited. i can see them working out but it necessitates a complete subversion and reconstruction of xingqiu (chara development basically LOL) on my part that i would totally invest myself in but im not entirely sure how to execute it

i like xingqiu a LOT as a flawed character. i wouldnt go as far as to say hes toxic, just very conflicted and insecure. hes a fun character to think about. re: the hu tao bit i mentioned above, i think they would have a really fun, witty, and transformative friendship

but anyway. yes i like xq and i still like xy. theyre just a bit more complicated now aha. im still capable of enjoying fluffy ship dynamics but lately ive been in a Character Study Mood ... mmm.. ive yet to organize my chongming thoughts

[halfwaytherefore]

Omg they are such a happy family I sure hope nothing bad ever happens ever!!!

[deoidesign]

I love Time and Time Again!! It was genuinely interesting to see two characters talk things out. Of course they kept secrets, but they knew when to reveal them and that made me want to stick around and read it. Thankyou for making such a wonderful comic!!

Thank you so much!!!

This really means a lot to me <3

I think there's generally a tendency to believe that relationships can't be nice in a romance or the story will be boring.

I understand where this idea comes from, stories should have conflict! And, real world relationships have conflict, as well. They always will! It makes sense that most stories centered around relationships would, inevitably, at some point, have disagreements, fights, anger...

I get why others enjoy it, its messy it's fun it's drama! but for me personally it just stresses me out since I've done so much work to NOT be like that!

As a writer, when presented with two people who are reasonably at odds with eachother, where neither of them is in the wrong per se, but someone still ends up hurt... it's a fun challenge to write them working through it in a believable way. it's a fun challenge, too, to put them into situations that feel equal and human.

I just think it's a necessary thing for who I am as a person to write relationships the way I do, and so I'm just very very very glad that other people resonate with it as well!

It means a lot. Thank you.

[doodlboy]

Ppl get so pissed that botw and totk's music isn't "iconic" enough like the older games, but like

*grabbing you*

Look me dead in the eye and tell me you want to hear the exact same 1 to 3 minute loop of notes over and over and over for several hours while you're trying to do literally anything at all.

Like- completionists, you're going to all the shrines [120 in botw, 152 in totk], collecting all the korok seeds [900 in botw, 1000 in totk], doing side quests, finishing your hyrule compendium and so on. That takes a long ass time, do you really want to hear a song you might not even like for a minimum of 190 hours?

Botw and Totk are very audio focused games in terms of gameplay anyway. The devs put a lot of effort into the sound design of the game. How are you supposed to feel like you're sneaking through a dangerous area when you have a constant tune playing in your ears 24/7.

Besides, with how sparse the main overworld music is, it makes the parts of the game that have actual songs in it count so much more. Instead of having constant noise and 1 or 2 songs that stand out, now you have more impact because the music kicks in when its important for it to be there.

Ik people were probably gonna hate the botw/totk ost if it was like the older games anyway because of those points. So it's a double-edged sword, but the way the ost is now? It's supposed to be like that. It fits the format, the sound design, and the length of the game. Which was the point.

[murmurmurl]

talked to my awesome and incredible friend for longer than 5 seconds today (who I love very very much and who is actually perfect and who I'm very platonically in love with), life can't get any better than this tbh

[error-core-animations]

haha it's so awesome that Qi Xiaotian is like. canonically romance averse and implied to be nonpartnering. and everyone respects that. it's so awesome that nobody ignores that part of his character for a ship that kinda sucks. right.

[hershelwidget]

THE COMIC IS HERE!! I had to pair a bunch of them together so some of the art is a bit cropped :’)

I haven’t done a comic in a LONG TIME so this is Very Rusty :( Ah well! The concept of making these goobers Human is so silly to me

[chip-and-the-bastards]

ok this might be a crazy idea, but I really wanna try and make a jrwi riptide comic based on the Improbably Compatibility comic (this one, I'll also put this panels under a read more), but with as many riptide aus as i can fit in!

if i do this i'd more be organising/hosting it, so people can submit their aus and draw the art for it! if we stick to the comic exactly then we can fit 759 aus in there (though only 30ish are really visible), so it'll probably be smaller/i'll just fill in whatever spares with random stuff

anyway here's the comic

[thefunniestguy]

“You've been hoping to get something dramatic out of this storyline.”

DRAMATURGY FITS PANDORA HEARTS REALLY WELL IMO ??? sooo much about it ,,

[iloveyouitisruiningmylife]

and this

THIS ONE