#what about it lolol

[spaceistheplaceart]

right next to me yet so far away

[starcurtain]

Even leaving aside the obvious ship bait here, this is one of the best examples of character comedy Hoyo has posted in a long time.

The fact that Jade sends Aventurine a bunch of rocks just knowing that his incredible luck will allow him to suss out, without even cutting the stones, exactly which ones are worth processing is funny as hell.

The fact that Aventurine is actually able to answer and picks out the rocks that contain high value jade without hesitation is absolutely hilarious.

Bro is out here using his blessing from a goddess to play blind-box prize games. This is like finding out X-Men's Professor X uses his telepathy to order pizza.

Do you think people ever call Aventurine like "Hey man, is my new relationship going to work out?"

And Aventurine's just over here as the divination champion of Pier Point going "Signs point to no, friend. The vibes are just rancid. Abandon ship ASAP."

And then he trips over his catcake and eats shit because he didn't see it coming.

[nobleriver]

TWD: The Ones Who Live - Finale Opening Scene + Blurred/Faraway

Requested by Anonymous

[happyheidi]

[stromblessed]

Mizu was wrong to let Akemi be taken because they both deserve better

First, a confession. When I saw this for the first time:

I was relieved. I knew that was what Mizu was going to say and I felt like it's what I would have said in that situation too.

When Akemi does this:

I cringed, because if we know anything about Mizu, it's that she (1) isn't quick to make friends (though to be fair, even though Akemi did try to kill Mizu, so did Taigen - multiple times! - and look how that turned out lol), and (2) doesn't take orders.

So when Akemi and Ringo and later Taigen get angry at Mizu, are they being unfair?

Sure, Mizu isn't obligated to treat Akemi - or Taigen or Ringo or anybody else - nicely, or to serve them, or to be honorable, or be a hero to them, or whatever. No human being is obligated to any other human being. We all have the choice to do whatever we want to anybody else. But the point of flawed characters in storytelling is the tension between those characters and their potential. Their growth into someone who can choose the higher, harder path, who chooses to be obligated to others, who chooses kindness and compassion.

Because Mizu's problem isn't revenge. Nobody is preaching at Mizu that revenge isn't the answer. Her circumstances do suck, her life has been incredibly unfair, she is marginalized, and as far as we and Mizu know for most of the season, she is a child born of violence and no one is saying that that violence doesn't deserve to be repaid in kind.

Mizu's problem is isolation. And the fact that she thinks she has no responsibility toward her fellow human beings, because her hatred of her own circumstances and her having no life outside of her quest devours everything else. This is a problem because it turns Mizu into the worst version of herself. A version that hurts the people who like Mizu, the people who care about her.

Practically, Mizu has just taken on an entire army almost by herself. She's hurt. She's exhausted. If she were to defend Akemi now, it'd be yet ANOTHER fight, this time against horsed and armored samurai.

But that's not the reason Mizu gives Ringo. Mizu's ability or willingness to fight isn't even on her mind. All she says is, "She's better off."

"She's better off" is Mizu deciding what's best for Akemi. Akemi's entire story is about her being a caged bird longing to fly free.

One after the other, every man and woman in Akemi's life makes her decisions for her. She has to grovel and smile prettily and lie through her teeth just for the chance to be heard. Mizu judges Akemi for being a rich princess who isn't being more grateful for what she has, all without understanding Akemi's situation, and without any curiosity for why Akemi feels the way she does. From Akemi's perspective, Mizu is just one more person (one more man!) in a long lineup who ignores Akemi's wishes and (casually!) makes a decision for her that impacts Akemi's life greatly.

In the end, even Seki concludes that Akemi should get to decide what's best for Akemi. What others think that Akemi SHOULD want does not matter compared to what Akemi wants for her own life. As Madame Kaji said - Madame Kaji, who despite calling out the weirdness of Akemi's situation as well as the childishness of her decision to run away - is the only person Akemi meets who doesn't try to make decisions for Akemi, but instead only challenges Akemi to work for and be worthy of what she wants - she needs to decide what she wants for her own fucking self, and then take it.

Mizu being born female does not make her automatically wiser for letting Akemi be taken, and it does not preclude her from having a hand in giving Akemi back to her jailers. A patriarchy that Mizu knows full well would stop Mizu from achieving her own goals if she didn't present as male.

Mizu is still understandable here. She just had to kill Kinuyo, a disabled girl sold by her father into prostitution, a girl in a situation so far beyond Akemi's worst imaginings that I can practically feel Mizu's world being rocked just by comparing them in her mind the way she most likely is. That still doesn't make it right for Mizu to let Akemi be carried off to be sold into marriage by her father against her wishes. Those "good options" Mizu thinks Akemi has don't exist, no more than they ever existed for Mizu. Akemi and Mizu both have to get creative, make the best of their circumstances, take dangerous risks, and break rules in order to have any control over their own lives.

Even on my first watch, when at first I thought that Mizu had made the right decision and that Akemi was being unreasonable, Akemi screaming Mizu's name while being dragged, LITERALLY DRAGGED, back to her father was haunting as hell.

Mizu had the power to help Akemi, and simply chose not to.

Mizu lets Akemi be taken, Akemi who has just begun to trust Mizu. Mizu calls Ringo weak and quickly - seemingly easily - turns her back on him. Mizu values her quest over Taigen's life, after Taigen has endured days of torture to protect her, and she not only risks his life in the process, but doesn't tell him that Akemi is engaged to someone else, or that she came looking for Taigen, or that she is in danger.

Mizu's sword breaks because it is too brittle. Too pure. Too singleminded. Mizu only melts down the meteorite metal when she mixes the metal with objects from parts of her life that have nothing to do with her quest. Objects from the people she cares about, and who care about her.

All I'm saying is - Mizu doesn't have to be a hero. But she is the better version of herself when she reaches out to help and connect with others. When she's just a decent, kinder human being. And I think that's what this story is telling us that we should want for Mizu.

[monkeybebop]

Different from my usual stuff, but I saw someone do this and thought I’d give in my two cents.

[julesnichols]

Tagged by @singinprincess thank you <33

post 5 songs you’re loving right now

attached to you by fletcher

pretending by fletcher

love is a... by pvris

dream girl evil by florence + the machine

old wounds by pvris

no pressure tags 🏷️: @onetrainscifi @drewsaturday @leftlanden @serpentstyles @mildly-okay @thistableforone @ruthiesrambles2 and anyone else who wants to do it!

[missriyochuchi]

Me irl: fuck the military, its imperialism, its sadomasochistic culture, its misogyny and homophobia and racism, and I know their recruiters often target low income folks with their propaganda and promises of education and travel, but fuck the bros who make their job their identity and use it as an excuse for their bad behavior in civilian life FUCK THOSE CAMO CLAD FUCKERS IN WALMART 😤

Me watching the clone troopers in Star Wars: MY BOYS MY BEAUTIFUL BABY BOYS WHO HAVE NEVER DONE ANYTHING WRONG IN THEIR LIVES EVER 😘

[snowangeldotmp3]

stranger things: the game

nancy and barb gameplay

(or, the one where i have too much fun yet again with this concept)

[a-not-so-sure-artist]

My interpretations of the main five node monsters featuring my ideas/process for each one!

I was trying to make Angler look as much like an actual angler fish but I for some reason couldn't no matter how hard I tried and ended up just drawing it exactly the same but with fog.

Very disappointing on my part, but I got the hang of it for Blitz and Pinkie! For Blitz, I really leaned into the aspect of him being a viperfish n' all, differentiating him from the rest with a longer and thinner torso. Pinkie's design I think I like the most; I drew her to resemble a wilting tulip or rose 'cause. Lady. Pink :]

Froger and Chainsmoker is where I truly focused on coloring and shading, hence why this drawing turned out to be my second favorite! I drew Froger with this very bumpy skin to make her seem very frog-like, and gave her frog webbed feet instead of fins in an attempt to make her seem like this literal frog-fish mutant.

Chainsmoker being a blobfish and all, I made it that his actual skin was more slimy-looking compared to the rest. I tried giving him this big and ugly angler light to fit in with the rest of the gang but it just looked so...off, so I left him lightless and I'm honestly so glad I did.

[yhwcomeback]

Hand slipped so hard that I drew the wrong blonde ninja with daddy issues

[arinmoss]

lil Gale doodle <3

[qpjianghu]

they are both looking respectfully 🤡 👀 🤡

[loganslowdown4]

Hey guess what year the very first Sleep short came out??

2018 babyyyyyyyyyy 😁😁😁😁😴

[genericpuff]

Intresting how its only trivializing and mocking green myths when non-greek white people do it, but not when non-greek poc do it. Its almost if you dont actually care

lmao bro what

i literally have zero clue what you're arguing here, "stop criticizing rachel for writing her greek myth retelling from a predominantly whitewashed westernized and christian-washed point view" ?? yeah okay lol

[differenteagletragedy]

So I don't buy for a second that Derek would have ever forgotten about the marriage pact, not even a little bit.

I think he absolutely remembered it and it was heavy on his mind at the beginning of his Step 4 -- not because he thought it could actually happen, but because he knew it couldn't, that it never would.

Like he's 13, he can't bring himself to tell you that he likes you or to try to ask you out, so he comes up with the idea for the marriage pact, right? And in his 13-year-old brain, that works. That's something to go on, something to get him towards the ultimate goal of marrying you and living happily ever after.

But then he gets older. Time goes by, and as he starts to understand more about adult relationships, he really begins to understand that that just isn't how it works at all.

And I think he'd be kind of embarrassed by it? Like ashamed of himself to think that his dumb little idea could ever lead to a happy ending with you. And that HURTS.

Basically this whole thing is just to say that I think he would really beat himself up HARD over the years about the marriage pact and about how foolish it was for him to hope that things could work out like that. Triple points if you go the route of shrugging off the pact when you talk to him about it on the balcony in Step 4 -- like it's him alone in his room with you so close but so, so far, and you laughing it off was just proof that he's always been an idiot, that he's never deserved you.