#we'll see if they show in the tags lol

[umoras]

imodna in the new animated intro! 🖤💜

[overlymetaromantic]

I will admit, I am currently anime-only for Dungeon Meshi at the moment, but this is the broad impression of Kabru that I've gotten from the fandom so far, and I have to say, I am very much looking forward to this man's anguish and mental suffering ✨

[midnightectosnack]

Ecto-Implosion 2023

Happy to finally show my piece for the @ecto-implosion!

I was playing Hades a lot when I signed up which left me itching to read a crossover between these guys, and this was the result on my end ^.^

My partner for the event was @half-deadmagicperson and she did an amazing job crafting a story with these characters! The story is up on AO3 and you can read it here: How Danny Broke His Favorite Star Projector. It's an incredible feeling to read something inspired by your art, and more so in this case since Magic put everything I asked for and much more in it! 💚

I'm so happy to have decided to join in another DP event, a big shout-out to everyone who also participated and a huge thank you to the mods for hosting!

[bittwitchy]

Sebastian Stan and Shailene Woodley in Endings, Beginnings (2019)

[xannerz]

its always surreal to me to see people praise s2 of centaurworld. s2 was so spectacularly bombastic and aimless and it ended in this awkward forgettable fizzle.

i feel like a dick saying it b/c i really do love the show lmao. or, at least half of it lmao (/stares at tnwk). gf and i've been thinking about rewatching it just to write out our thoughts on why s2 was such a poor follow-up to s1 - from the tone to the setup to all the worldbuilding the narrative had to offer in between the (far more) memorable songs of s1. idk. it's sad because cw really had the bones of a cult classic, but idek if you can call it that.

ive seen a few posts commenting on its lack of popularity, and i feel like it certainly deserves more, b/c i do feel like it's a novel idea made w/ love, but the shift btwn s1 and s2 wasnt just in the plot. there was a full-on *fracture* in the quality and direction and i'm still scratching my head over it. more than i should be, probably. but, it's just a bummer.

[cyraes]

My beloved Maia. I blame Charlie Vickers and the hc going around that Halbrand could have retained some of Mairon's initial form when he worked in Aulë's forges so I had to draw this.

[coquelicoq]

that's when he knew...he fucked up

part ii of bridgerton characters as text posts

[Image description: 10 stills featuring the character Anthony Bridgerton from season 2 of the TV show “Bridgerton” with tumblr text posts edited in.

1: Anthony is kneeling down proposing to an offscreen Edwina with Kate in the background. He has a pained smile on his face. The text post by tumblr user hayleu reads "@ myself what the fuck are you doing"

2: Anthony is looking at his mother. He has his lips pulled in and the corners of his mouth turned down in a resigned expression. The text post by EarthDad reads "ah, just another day of disappointing my parents and no one making out with me"

3: After Edwina leaves him at the altar, Anthony is bending over with his head in his hands as his family fires questions at him in the background. The text post by electrificata reads "i am surrounded on all sides by people who say words to me and well ive had it"

4: Anthony has taken Kate's hand and is looking at the betrothal ring the jeweler just put on her finger. The text post by flip56000 reads "I think i am subconsciously trying to ruin my own life"

5: Anthony and Kate have crouched down to retrieve the bangle she dropped during Anthony's wedding to Edwina. Anthony is facing the camera and looking intensely at Kate. The text post by FruitSaladChewIts reads "well, well, well, if it isn't the feelings i've been trying to avoid"

6: Close-up of Anthony's distraught face as he has a panic attack after bringing an injured Kate to her family. The text post by ReallyReallyReallyTrying reads "one of the only downsides of actions is consequences. but it's a big downside."

7: Close-up of Anthony's face in profile after he's decided to propose to Edwina because Daphne has told him that he's in love with Kate. His eyes are closed and he looks like he could cry. The text post by keicalss reads "i'm literally so self aware of when i'm making bad decisions that you'd think it'd be enough to stop me but no, it's not."

8: Daphne is talking to Anthony before his wedding, trying to convince him to be honest with Edwina. An anonymous ask over Daphne says "how u doing". The answer by SonyPrayStation, over Anthony's shoulder, reads "im not thinking about it". Below that is a screenshot of a tag that says "how i'm doing is none of my business"

9: Anthony leans against his arm on a tree branch, recovering from having a panic attack and almost kissing Kate. He's staring into the distance with his eyebrows raised, looking like he's just come to a concerning realization. The text post by MethLabrador reads "* recognizes that im feeling geniuine [genuine] human emotion * ok, troubling"

10: In the church on his wedding day, Anthony watches Kate walk down the aisle as maid of honor, looking like he knows he's made a mistake. The text post by DearMyBlank reads "Dear past self, You fucking idiot."

/end ID]

[joyfuladorable]

nice, nice by temptationstairway

"Fuck! Just one goddamn day–"

"Mhm–"

"Can't even get a fucking bag of chips–"

Mikey lifts up a hand and grabs her leg to get her attention. "I think we need the first aid kit."

Casey looks down, blood running along her chin and onto her shirt. "What makes you say that?"

Messy 1AM sketch of my faves cuz I love them and also the fic is very cute and DAMN IT I wish we'd gotten more of their dynamic...

[princekirijo]

Sorry for the Elden Ring spam this game has just consumed my entire being

[hawkinslibrary]

someone on the hawkins av club subreddit seems to have found some audition tapes for the first shadow. auditions include ‘george’ and ‘betty’ (as mentioned in this collider article), as well as an audition for young hopper 

[correct-bangtannies]

I don't even like men and I'm somehow already a military wife, what goes on

PS. Don't open the tags unless you want a big ass wall of text of me rambling on your screen

[ichthyorelationships]

it’s okay to cry

[newtness532]

anyways, after sitting on my bookshelf for almost exactly 3 years i read all the light we cannot see.

[noco7]

For further proof of your Cody theory in his biography he says the reason he would partecipate in Total Drama Island is wanting to "swing with the cool kids" and like UGHHHHH he wants love he's desperate 💀 he's just like me fr

Thanks for the ask. And yeah, I have read his bio. He thinks he's cool/desperately wants to be cool. The bio is so mean-spirited lmao, they keep making fun of him.

Although I agree he wants love, I'm not sure if that's all he wants. I don't think Cody took pictures of Gwen sleeping in a bikini because he wanted love, after all.

And that's kinda why, despite loving Cody, I also kinda hate him. Not just for that one moment, though. He wants love, yes, but he also wants attention and status, and also power. And he's willing to do annoy people to death to get it. I don't think he knows he's annoying, or if he does, that he doesn't really care. The guy's a little entitled. And this is where I start bashing Cody, sorta.

TDI Cody is sort of a mess. He's attracted to Gwen from the first episode, which tbh is fine. The first thing he does is compliment her awkwardly, which is again. Fine. But he's also in the girl's side of the cabin. He's in her space without asking. And I'm not saying he was a danger, or even that I'm pro gender-separation in cabins. But he’s still in a place he shouldn’t be.

And this continues. She's writing in her diary, and he sits right next to her. He tries to read over his shoulder, she tells him to leave. He doesn't. He sniffs her hair.

Not only is he crossing boundaries, but he's refusing to respect him.

And he just does that a LOT. She's about to go hang out with Trent and he slings an arm around her shoulder and effectively prevents her. He tries to look through the door while she's changing. He asks her out and doesn't listen when she rejects him. And yeah in my other point I said this was a sign of perseverance, and even something sad. And that's true. But it's also a sign that he's sort of a man-child.

Like a kid begging his parents for the new PS4. They say no, but he just keeps asking and asking. Except it's not a PS4 he's asking for, but a girl. Can you see the problem?

He tells her that he's made a bet with Owen about her BRA. :(

But hey, you may be saying. He changed! He hooks Gwen up with Trent, just to make her happy! And he does, that VERY episode when he was asking her out, suddenly he changes his mind and gets her with Trent. And he doesn't bother her again! (until World Tour that is)

So surely, he's redeemed himself. Eh. I don't think so.

He gets Gwen with Trent because he realizes she likes someone else, right? He puts her feelings first. But why the fuck couldn't he have done that EARLIER? If it was really about her happiness, wouldn't he have backed away the first time? If it was about her happiness, wouldn't he have accepted her rejections?

And the answer is that has nothing to do with her. It has everything to do with Trent. He stepped away as soon as another man was involved. Ask yourself this... if Trent didn't exist in TDI, and Gwen didn't like ANY man. Then... would Cody ever stop?

No. (And he doesn’t stop when she likes Duncan, either. It has to be a guy he approves of.)

Also, something worth pointing out is that Cody already KNEW she liked someone else. He didn't know it was Trent until episode 8, but as early as episode 5, when Heather reads out Gwen's diary and exposes that she has a crush on "a guy who plays guitar." Cody's THERE in the audience. He even remarks 'I don't play guitar.' 

He knows it's not about him. And in the heterosexual monogamous world of TD, there's no way she also likes Cody. So Cody should have quit right then. But he doesn't. Because hey, just because a girl says she doesn't like you and that she likes someone else doesn't mean that she can't change her mind.

It's only when he realizes it's Trent, tall cool guy Trent, that he backs off. It's like it took an Alpha Male for Cody to realize he was a beta who had no chance. Lmao.

And that's shitty. I don't take Cody getting Gwen&Trent together as a sign of redemption. Because the problem was not that he was stopping the two. The problem was that he was an annoying guy who doesn't know how to act around pretty girls. At the end of TDI, there's no sense that Cody has *truly* changed imo. He doesn't apologize, he never reflects on him being an annoying person. He still has Gwen's bra.

And you may think I'm just one of those people who need the message spelled out for him.

But I'm right! Because in World Tour, now that Trent the one guy in his way is GONE, Cody wastes no time hitting on her. Because he never saw a problem with it.

A lot of people say Cody should have learned from Sierra. And I agree, it would have been a great moment. But he didn't. And I don't think that's bad either. Sometimes terrible situations make characters regress. And it makes sense, in a way. If he did something weird, he could think "well, Sierra's worse." And when Sierra took away his control, Cody could try to find agency in controlling someone else. It's like the cycle of abuse. Sometimes the abused person doesn't get better. They just normalize it or lash out in the exact same way the person who abused them did.

Which is why I find Cody so interesting. He's a bad person, he's a sad person, and he's also a good person.

I even like his story in TD, even though I just critiqued it. It feels like a psychological thriller. Cody, the loser who doesn’t want to be a loser, the guy without love or status or power creeps on a girl, hoping to ask her out enough times that finally she gives in. But she doesn't. She has a boyfriend, she has a friend, she has love, and status, and power. So she doesn't. She wins the whole damn competition.

A year later, Cody tries again. She’s lost her boyfriend, the competition’s barely started, and her friend’s on another team. But then he gets interrupted by a person worse than him. A girl with no love no status but all the power she needs. She doesn't ask him out, she declares that they're married. She doesn’t apologize and try again, she cries until he pays attention to her. She doesn’t make a bet on his undergarments, she just takes them. Every step of the way, she’s his dark reflection. And it works. Because Cody doesn't have anyone else. There’s no support system. And when he's in the desert when Alejandro and Heather are gone and Chris and Chef are in a helicopter and *gone*, and everyone is GONE and he's all alone, except for Her. That’s when he makes a deal. In the end, Cody is the one who gives in. It's kind of poetic. I don’t know if the TD writers intended to be seen like that, but they definitely got a kick out of the creep getting stuck with a worse creep. It’s like a scary bedtime story parents tell children to make them behave. And then in Pakhitew, they have Dave get the ultimate punishment for trying to get too close to a girl who doesn’t like him.

I just think that’s neat.

[dee-guin]

Hello and welcome to WIP hell!

Days 4, 5 and 6 of the Operation Blackout Art Challenge are in various stages of finished ! Day 7 I have ideas but no sketch yet. But for the moment I am going to just,,, leave them be until I’ve done the rest of the prompts :> 

[essenceofarda]

wish me luck and speedy recovery I'm about to watch rings of power