#which is fun love that idea btw

[true-bluesargent]

the thing is is that aspec people are always trying to tell you guys that romance isn't everything it isn't more important than friendship friendship can be and is so important. but what i have personally noticed is that the only time that allo people ever seem to give a fuck about the importance of platonic relationships and 'why can't two people just be friends?' is when the alternative is a queer relationship. which they do not like. you don't give a fuck about close same-sex friendships you are just homophobic!!!!!!

[ohitslen]

Average university experience

[verflares]

romance in the air ☁️💘 + some closeups under the cut!

[javierduffy]

silly drawover because i missed them :]

[raiiny-bay]

summer '93

[egophiliac]

Have you heard of the "Crowley is Malleus' dad" theory going around? Where Prince Levan (or whatever his name is) didn't actually die and just went out to get some milk and is now known as Dire Crowley, the silly man? The implications of that theory is absolutely hilarious when you think about it

hold on, we can figure this out, we just need LISTS

PROS THAT CROWLEY IS SECRETLY REVAAN/LEVAN/LAVERNE/WHATEVER:

unspecified fae of some kind, with similar coloring to Mal

the animal masks are apparently a Briar Valley thing

has some kind of big blackmailable secret that was alluded to in episode 4, and then as far as I know never brought up again

(unless this was just Azul bullshitting, which is extremely possible)

based on Diablo, which...maybe means something?

has canonically worn Dad Shorts

CONS:

(gestures to Crowley's entire personality)

NO LISTEN Revaan was the guy they sent off on diplomatic missions and to take care of delicate political situations, and...look, I love this dweeb, but would you trust Crowley to be in charge of negotiating your war treaties

despite my brain insisting on reading his name as "Raven", Revaan's title does imply that he was also a dragon (or super into longan berries, I'm not ruling that out)

currently unclear why Lilia "my closest friend Revaan...he is no longer with us...I used to make fun of him for being kind of a priss about eating jerky..." Vanrouge has somehow not noticed or said anything

Malleus' Aloof Anime ~Aristocrat~ vibe had to come from somewhere, and by all accounts it was NOT his mom's side of the family

???:

turns into a bird in the opening, I don't know if that means anything but it's kinda cool, I guess

all that aside, if Malleus and Yuu are any indication, then the Draconias have...questionable taste in their social choices. so anything is possible!

[thetarttfuldickhead]

Coach Beard has a secret Traitors Club. It consists of himself, Nate and Jamie, ie people who have (at least in the opinion of one Willis Beard) betrayed Ted Lasso – but who have also learned the error of their ways through the goodness of Ted’s gentle heart.

(Yes, yes, you might argue that Jamie’s insulting remarks about Ted in 1x10 is a reasonable reaction to what, from Jamie’s POV, looks like Ted unreasonably dumping him, but a, I’m not sure that Beard knows that, and b, I’m not sure that Beard cares about that. You might also argue that Nate and Jamie have both learned a lot of stuff from people other than Ted, but: see the a and b of the previous sentence. And anyway, this is Beard’s club and you don’t get a say in his absurd selection criteria.)

Beard doesn’t inform anyone of the club’s existence. That includes the other members, Nate and Jamie, who just suddenly finds themselves regularly invited out for drinks with the most mysterious man either of them have ever met.

There are a lot of weird but oddly good talks about feelings. There are silences neither Jamie nor Nate know what to do with. And then there’s the football strategy chatter, which unites them all in a wild and eager frenzy, and an unexpected but pleasant sense of shared understanding.

Nate think it’s nice that Beard wants to hang and he’s not one to look a gift horse in the mouth anyway, so he doesn’t question the set-up. Jamie generally assumes that given the choice anyone would always choose to hang with him always, so. He’ll indulge his coach. They have a shared love of trivia.

Eventually Beard learns of Rebecca’s early transgressions, and (secretely) inducts her into the secret club. Club meetings get a whole lot more interesting from there on out.

[shroommush]

So i drew some fanart of @pompadorbz sorry boys "still wakes the deep" au ! I had fun with the more action filled drawings, and definetly wanna do more >:P

While drawing, i got to brainstorming about what character roles the boys might take in the story. Like, charlies probably caz, and maybe phil is caz's friend whos a cook (i forgot his name) but then i thought about if characters like Rennick had a coresponding cc, and i immediately thought about schlatt. So, i have ideas about what expanding the au might look like, but this isnt MY au, so for now ill hold off on yapping my ideas and just share what ive drawn for now

But either way, i REALLY enjoy this au and love all the ansgt potential it has. Like i was thinking, who out of the boys would end up being the last one? (Aka, taking caz's place at the end of the story with the lighter) and thought that, out of the boys, it would just make the most sense to be tommy. And thats HORRIBLE, AUGH ITS SO SAD but i LOVE IT

Anyways, sorry for the rambling, i hope you guys enjoy the art :] i still have to draw that other scene with charlie on the elevator, tho, so i might come back with more later

[dragondawdles]

art about art about art

[sieglinde-freud]

let it be known that i love prince inigo with my whole soul. however sometimes it is SO much fun to think about owain and his two most loyal-est knights you ever seen: worst guy in the world #1 and worst guy in the world #2. i love retainer inigo and severa so much. retainers who bully you and make fun of you and trash on you but they’d leave behind everyone and everything they ever knew to follow you and protect you in a whole new universe. they love you so much that they’d swear allegiance to total strangers but that loyalty pales in comparison to what they’d do for you. and they were all lovers!!!!!!!

[beartitled]

Do the parents have their own henchmaniacs or did they decide they only needed themselves?

And what would happen if they found out what happened to canon bill, the pain, suffering, and his eventual demise?

In this AU they are on their own

Lovers agains the world type of scenario 🔺🤝🔼 💕

But if they did

The person from reblogs™️ had a perfect answer for this, couldn’t agree with them more ✨

I think they are delusional enough to just straight up ignore/don’t believe what would’ve happened with Bill if things stayed the same

The just love their littol baby that much

*litterally see their child destroying the worlds* “aww look at him go, they grow up so fast 🥹”

[rain-on-wax-feathers]

nonhuman burr, washington, and eliza!!!

[harbingersecho]

grif's surgery but just a little more... obvious?

I actually rly rly ADORE frankengrif but I don't have an in-show reason why he'd have extensive long-term allogeneic skingrafts on his face 😔

[abrahamvanhelsings]

for the ship asks: joplittle? i know i'm opening pandora's box with this

if someone already asked, then going for any other ned ship you might also like? choose freely my friend

AUGH my beloveds!! ill try not to make this a whole essay so ill point out a couple of things that i love about them at random

the way they interact with each other on screen has me obsessed. i wrote a post a bit ago about how we don't see them talk much together but they have a lot of potential anyway, and then @cinematicnomad made a great point about the fact that they DO interact but a lot it is nonverbal. honestly that opened my eyes to so much little things i hadn't noticed before. that they communicate through glances and gestures and that they understand each other, know each other well enough to have that kind of interaction... they may be background characters and we may not see the progression of their relationship much, but we can tell that it happens, and that they become close. you can tell that being in that precarious situation together, where crozier's alcoholism is affecting the entire expedition but it also has to be kept a secret, and they're the two people who know, and who are responsible for crozier/everything else, that really created a very tight bond between them.

speaking of tight friendships! we can tell that it happens bc edward, famously, is SO happy when jopson is made lieutenant. everyone at that table thinks it's deserved, and is happy for jopson, but edward is a beam of sunlight in that tent. genuinely can't stop smiling. it's so so lovely to me that he can't contain his own glee bc he's so glad and proud. get you a man who applauds your successes like edward little

there are so many ways their personalities fit together so well!! they're both extremely diligent in their duties, but it plays out differently in them both, and they both have different weaknesses. they're the type of people who are generally quiet and unobtrusive but steadfast and loyal, but where jopson tends to go sharp as a knife under pressure, edward always worries that he is doing the right thing (that's also bc for a large part of the expedition they have very different responsibilites and cares, but nevertheless). they're both guarded where it comes to showing their inner feelings, but it feels to me that jopson can provide a firmness, the assurance that edward needs to remain confident in who he is and what he does, whereas edward (once you've cracked him like an egg) has a warmth to him that can fold around jopson like a blanket, to let go of that tightly-controlled professionalism. each other's safety blankets, people who can mitigate the other's shortcomings, and provide space for their better qualities and their feelings to come to full bloom.

lower class/higher class dynamic is a weakness of mine. any fic that has thomas being a steward/valet to edward in any capacity with the victorian slow burn mutual pining/mutual 'he is to good for me' has me on my knees

[fourswords]

For informational purposes, can you explain all you know of LoZ 1 & AoL world building? If you want to, of course.

I don’t know much about those games, but I always found it interesting that Link in AoL seems to have went on the entire adventure to save one random girl—and when he has the entire Triforce, all he does with it is wake her up.

Like, what??? I guess I just don’t get his characterization, but I also don’t really know the lore, so maybe I’m missing something here (or maybe the cartoon was right, lol).

to actually understand it, i would recommend you read the manuals and their stories themselves (they're very short!). you can find scans of the first one here and the second one here. their stories are fairly simple, given that the games were released in the 80s, but i think that adds a lot of charm to it + it opens up avenues for imagination because it leaves juuuust enough vagueness that allows you to fill in the blanks in a fun way.

but! to tl;dr it all—ganon attacks hyrule one day and zelda makes the decision to shatter the triforce of wisdom herself in order to keep ganon from getting it. she then a) goes to hide the pieces of the triforce in the dungeons herself (which is like. an insane implication in the manual given that she's implied in the official art to be the same age as link. they're both TINY) and b) commands impa to go find a hero with enough courage to defeat ganon, before she is then captured by ganon and imprisoned within death mountain. impa finds herself cornered (she's an old lady in this incarnation) and then link, a little traveler of a kid, shows up and "skillfully" drives off ganon's monsters (HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A SWORD AT THIS POINT BTW. i'm convinced he was throwing rocks or some shit) and impa then tells link about what happened and link decides to help out, and goes through the dungeons rebuilding the triforce of wisdom until he eventually uses it + the silver arrows (because the silver arrows are the only weapon in the legend of zelda universe that can actually kill ganon, not just seal him away) to defeat ganon and save zelda, which makes him the only incarnation of link to have ever wielded the triforce of wisdom specifically (not just in conjunction with the other two triforce pieces). after that, he also takes the triforce of power from ganon's ashes and just. Fucks off. Like he literally just leaves hyrule with both triforce pieces:

"Link has destroyed Ganon, and has managed to rescue princess Zelda. Now that he's got ahold of the two Triforces, he once again goes off on his travels, making his way towards countries unknown … Who knows what the future holds for Link?"

but he is eventually shown to have returned at some point in the almost six years that have passed between the first and second game in order to help out with rebuilding, as per aol's manual (really love how it starts off by saying "Hyrule was on the road to ruin" like man those rebuilding efforts are NOT going well). close to his sixteenth birthday, the mark of the whole triforce appears on the back of his hand and he shows it to impa, who freaks out for a second before deciding to show link the sleeping princess, and she unlocks the door to the sleeping zelda by pressing link's triforce mark against it, which is an insane way to make a key to any door for the record. then she tells link the sleeping zelda's story (about her, her brother and the king of hyrule) and asks him to wake up the princess. so really, aol isn't about saving the kingdom or anything at all—it's literally just about impa asking link if he would recover the triforce of courage in order to wake up a princess who'd been asleep for centuries. and this makes sense, because link already killed ganon! the enemies come from ganon's monsters, who figured out that link's blood could be used to resurrect ganon, and that's where the danger lies. if not for them, the game honestly would've been pretty chill. just go to all the palaces, defeat the guardians, wake up the princess, and boom. done. and then link presumably somehow keeps all three triforce pieces after everything's said and done because they hadn't come up with the "triforce flies off after wish is granted" plot point yet.

it's funny to me because both quests link went on were at impa's behest. this random old lady he rescued in the woods asks him to save the kingdom? sure, yeah, why not, he's not doing anything else. he comes back to help rebuild and he gets a weird mark on his hand? well, impa seems smart, so he's going straight to her to see if she knows about it. impa asks him to wake up this cursed-to-sleep-forever princess by getting another triforce piece than the two he's carried around for literal years? sure chief you got it 🫡🫡🫡🫡 HAHA. but yeah, the reason all he does is wake her up is because it's literally what impa asks him to do! there's no real big bad guy to fight, only the constant paranoia that ganon will be resurrected if link's blood is spilled on his ashes. also, that infamous botw cliff scene? taken straight from the original legend of zelda's art. all the champions' abilities from botw? taken straight from link's own magical spells in the adventure of link, except aol's spells were all a hell of a lot more powerful (revali's gale = jump spell, urbosa's fury = thunder spell, daruk's protection = reflect spell/shield spell, etc.) and showcased the absolutely insane amount of raw magic the original link held in comparison to all the other links in the series. nobody was doing it quite like this kid. i love him and his two princesses.

[ahalliance]

qantoine’s coping mechanism to feeling left behind being both self-isolating and becoming possesive of those he cares for is so juicy as a concept . like yeah you go you funky creachure, manifest those complicated and sometimes contradictory emotions