#without losing it in the process

[isatohlee]

Sinking Friend

Sea Angel belongs to @breadnabreadd

Man O’ War Jellyfish from @lovemonstress

Seal based one from my lovely moot @jelliannn

The only human by me

[huggywuggysuppy]

Watched the HCs9 blood in the clock tower from Gem’s perspective and I think the hermits should find even more excuses to play social deduction games. Took notes on game 2

Gem and then Impulse are the first two ghosts. Pretty cute, since he made himself a target by nominating on her behalf. Soup group vouch is in every game <3

Hypno role reveals day 0 to Gem, confirming them both as innocents, and she uses that info as social credit to get several other people to trust her. Despite outing his business, she’s also able to convince him to go against Keralis, along with Joe and False. (And in fairness, Hypno knows she's innocent, so serving as her pawn only helps the winning side. Fun that he doesn't complain though)

Gem brings a “I don’t believe any of you” vibe to every conversation and she’s usually right

The three most vocal players, Ren Keralis and BDubs, all avoid Gem during the talking phase. This comes back to bite them, as she’s able to commune with the quiet good guys and decide votes before they even happen

^ Crazy sequence where Keralis and Ren try to execute BDubs, but are the only two to vote. Five minutes ago, Gem had spread her theory that those two were evil. Ren is then executed unanimously

Pearl gets Hotguy’d in the background, and then a few minutes later she gets revenge on Scar. This isn’t relevant I just like it

Gem uses her one single ghost vote early to kill Ren, who False vouched for as not the imp. I’m not entirely convinced it wasn’t just to silence Ren. Either way, Ren was an evil servant, so a win nontheless. Her passive perception is too high

Continuing their dynamic in every situation, Gem clocks False’s sus game immediately and doesn’t let her fade into the background. False of course is playing several layers of identities, but Gem forces her to unravel her conspiracy and reveal her true (innocent) role. Amazing

In contrast, Gem implicitly trusts Xisuma “because he’s just like that.” He was the Drunk, aka his role was fake, feeding him only incorrect info. Poor X

Honorable mention to BDubs playing his first match in session 2 and getting publicly targeted by the evil side

Joe, Gem, and False, are playing on an entirely separate level than everyone else, but with distinctly different tones. Joe understands group dynamics and swaying the group opinion, Gem is a single warlord directing everyone’s swords, and False is an enigma uncovering information while revealing none herself. They are terrifying and I need them to work together to save the world or something

The recent 3D Among Us was also fun <3 Gem "I like winning through my words, not murder" she's so cool.

[sassypantsjaxon]

We really should talk about how twice now Aizawa's only warning that everything was about to go to shit was that Mic was in immediate danger

[7-oh-ta1]

Ten years later I'm still grappling with that Leandra scene after her death that Varric quickly admits to his interrogator didn't really happen but he wrote into his book because he believed Hawke deserved that to be said to her in a very dark moment of her life, that he wanted to give her peace. The fact that, while touching to hear from Leandra, these were actually the words Varric wanted to tell her but was a hell of a better writer than comforting friend.

"[...] Taming the shadows with questionable wit. The best of him is still with you. The best of all of us. You will always have that. We will always be family. It'll be alright."

These are the words Varric wanted to tell Hawke. This is the conversation he wanted to have, despite admitting to Hawke when they spoke in person that he "was never really good at this kind of thing". He wanted to tell Hawke, "We will always be family".

He wanted to say, "It'll be alright".

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

I think in the concern of "every time you sin it becomes easier to repeat" I've forgotten 1) that even the Apostle Paul struggled against a "thorn in the flesh" and 2) God has grace for me

[pinkplasticfangs]

afaik theyre transferring ownership of forsaken so soon soul should no longer be the owner of forsaken. hope ur doing ok in these trying times

Thank you for caring about my wellbeing, I'm okay! At first I was really, really skeptical, but given the last fews days for things to span out, the new owners seem to care a lot, and have done a lot to distance themselves from Soul and apologize to the victims.

I'll stay cautiously optimistic, especially since the game got sold off to that strange third party?? I just hope the victims end up okay. They’re the ones that matter the most in all of this.

[genderful-ghoul]

I just want to make clear that the emotional and mental toll of what the bullies in this fandom are putting JT through is also hurting the rest of the band, and likely even more people behind the scenes.

I encourage anyone who spent energy bullying JT to instead use that energy to show up to the 50501 protests working to get the rapist in charge of the most powerful country out of power.

When you struggle with moral OCD and/or have lower emotional intelligence, you need to manage it by learning to place your energy in the right places. Interfering with allegations that haven’t even had the chance to go to court is not the right place.

[uraberika]

Someoka S1 vs. Someoka S3

[giddlygoat]

i’ve begun cooking for myself and it’s life changing honestly. i was craving this beef, pepper and onion stir fry for weeks so i just started making it. this is my second time making it and it’s SOOOO divine… literally 9/10 just needs some minor tweaks now. my beef loving soul is so happy and fed….

[inklore]

banners + the DNI MINORS

(I have a feeling you will do a beautiful aesthetic)

please like or reblog if you use them!

[jimmyandthegiraffes]

Where’s that post I made about Mike being the companion that broke under the horrors bc I’m still right. When I think abt the THINGS some companions have had to endure and have still seemingly been fine, and then I think of mike losing himself and his values to a festering psychological wound that left him open to radicalisation, it’s like he is the evidence that actually everything isn’t fine.

Which is why it’s so important that he should be next seen in meditation, in the seeking of peace, in quietness and healing because not only is he a character that needs it he’s also a character that knows he needs it and seeks it out for himself, because he doesn’t recognise who he is anymore and he wants, not to redeem himself in the eyes of others (he won’t even go near UNIT, not even when he needs their help, he goes through Sarah Jane instead!), but to become a better person, to stop being a threat, and to heal for his own soul’s sake.

And so he goes from someone who was willing to see the entirety of human history erased, to someone who will risk his life for one person and the fact that that ultimately saves his life always imo comes across as a bit easy if you watch planet of the spiders without this context in mind. But when you do think about where Mike has been, psychologically, from the green death through to planet of the spiders, it doesn’t seem easy at all but actually a significant if understated character moment.

[rapha-reads]

IWTV rewatch

(how to resume the second half of this episode: *Captain Holt's voice* paiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin)

Season 1 episode 5 [A Vile Hunger For Your Hammering Heart] - part 2/2

- The way Louis' face is still as a statue as Loustat make their plans. The way you can feel the resentment covering the entire house.

- Lestat immediately shutting down going to Paris.

- And now welcome to the portion I'd like to call "Claudia Suffered More Than [insert your favourite martyr figure here]". Oof, Bruce immediately gives off a bad vibe, more than that white student who is after all only reproducing classic patterns of racism and classism.

- [Louis] "As the depression set in on the nation, I barricaded myself within the dilapidating walls of 1132 Rue Royale, educating myself from Lestat's library, ignoring all other duties of the role Claudia once mocked me for - the unhappy housewife." - was the raccoon really necessary? It is a nice touch, I won't lie, but really hammering in the point: the depression Louis talks about isn't just the Great Depression, it's his own (I like hammering points too, sorry). But you know what, I WISH I could lock myself wherever my books are and just ignore the whole fucking world and everyone in it for 3 or 4 years.

- [Louis] "Flaubert's style is so dense." - L'éducation sentimentale is, I'll admit it, a horror to read (but less than Le Rouge et le Noir, Stendhal really gave it his whole to make that one unbearable). Madame Bovary on the other hand is a gem.

[Lestat] "Louis Armstrong is in town tonight, playing at the Pelican" - when a bookworm introvert dates a music addict extrovert - beware the conflicting schedules and discordant ambiances. (In which I am Louis and the perfect day is a quiet day with classic music playing lowly in the background and a pile of books)

[Lestat] "You sound like every pompous Sorbonne student I've ever eaten." - ... As a former Sorbonne student, I have absolutely nothing to say in my defence (I studied French and English literature and linguistics for a year with a minor in audio-visual media, fyi). I am sadly very self-aware of how pompous I sound whenever I start talking literature. Sorry not sorry. (would absolutely not protest if Lestat decides to give me a visit. Ahem. Who said that.)

- [Lestat] "'You draw me into your gloom.' [Louis] 'It's your fault she's gone. If you hadn't pushed her... ' [Lestat] 'Claudia.' [Louis] 'If you hadn't done your...' [Lestat] 'Claudia, Claudia. I cannot listen to this insanity about Claudia one more time, bordel de merde.'"

I know we justifiably talk about Armand's "Lestat, Lestat, Lestat" litany, but Lestat's "Claudia" is quite good too.

Also, can't quite decipher what Lestat says in French there. English accent too thick. I think it's "ils me chient dans la main [gibberish]" ("they" or maybe "he shits in my hand") but don't quote me on that.

- Bruce's been stalking Claudia for a while, huh. And interesting to note that it's partly Louis' fault, his repetitive calls to Claudia that attracted his attention.

- Louis's destroying that table. I'm going to focus on that instead of whatever happened to Claudia or what Louis's doing to Daniel, no thanks. Just like how Armand immediately calms Louis down, and gonna cheer for that slap, good one, Daniel, well deserved, about time.

- [Lestat] "It could be her, but I am the one who is currently standing in front of you, and unlike Claudia, I am a full-blooded adult... with all the right appendages. So if all my considerable considerables continue to be squandered..."

'Stat... Yeah, I have nothing to say.

- [Grace] "Whoever you are that took my Louis" - yeaaah, if one of my sibling would say that to me, I think I'd just crumble and shut down. But at the same time, kudos to Grace for having the strength to bury her brother while he's standing in front of her and keeping whatever secrets he's guarding.

- [Claudia] "I spent time following Louis and Lestat now that I am my own woman, with no obvious sense of why I follow them, other than meaning slowly disintegrates without them... my companions in immortality. But today at the cemetery, I finally understood something so obvious, which I pondered for a decade... why they made me. To be Louis' sister."

*silently sobbing* It's the way Louis knows that passage by heart, and the way Claudia's prose keeps on being heartbreaking.

It's how Louis curls around his pain, and how Claudia makes herself taller in the face of this pain. It's how they don't even need more than an embrace and a word to make it better. It's how siblings who have gone through the same shit know each other so intimately. It's how that's the moment Claudia goes from daughter to sister.

- [Lestat] "The vampires out there are vicious. Oh. But you knew that already. Who did you meet out there in the American hinterland?" - oh, you are being especially awful, Lestat. I love you but you are being unfair. Even if you fear loneliness and abandonment, even if you've just went through seven years of not getting a single kind word or affectionate gesture from Louis... Lashing out, refusing to tell Claudia the truth about European vampires, the cruelty, the violence... No, that's not a good reason for it. But then again you wouldn't be Lestat if you didn't lash out when terrified and angry.

- Ouch. Contrasting that fight seen through Claudia's perspective with the s2 scene seen through Louis and Lestat's... Shivering. This is baaaaad.

Oh, no, no, no, no, I don't wanna see that part. I don't want to have to think about it and analyse it.

Man, I had forgotten how much that episode fucking hurts.

No, but the way Louis won't even say "I don't love you" not just because he won't give Lestat that satisfaction, because he lives to be stubborn and contrary, but maybe also because after all, after everything, that would still be a lie, and Louis doesn't lie; he forgets, he obfuscates, he redirects, he refashions his memories, but he doesn't lie... Even when his own life depends on it.

Episode insider:

Rolin Jones saying for Claudia "why was I the thing to make up for your mistakes". Yeah.

"This is where we start building the Anne Rice universe. As Lestat rightfully warned her there are wolves around the corner."

"It's the kid that goes 'My parents weren't all that bad. I have gone out and seen life. It is not all easy and conquerable'. And she comes back with hat half in hand, but with a mission - to take the good vampire and continue on with her life, and that is at odds with the other vampire in the house."

"It is about the fight of Louis, the fight for Louis's soul. I mean, in the end, it's 'Everbody Loves Louis', isn't it?" - Louis is catnip for vampires. And honestly I can relate. Did I say lately he's my favourite too...

That shot of Lestat hovering in the air all dressed in black with his hair floating around him while Claudia covers Louis's broken body with hers... Enraged Angel. Oh, that's worthy of a full oil on canvas painting.

Alright. That was harsh. And we're so not done. We love angst and tragedy, yey! *sobbing*

episode 1 | episode 2 | episode 3 | episode 4 | part 1 | episode 6 | episode 7

[lunarharp]

"Found out" set in kind of a made-up chapter where the girls are in trouble, or something.

[dailykugisaki]

Day 247 | id in alt

Itadori always at the scene of Kugisaki's stupid tendencies. (Left to right)

[dark-elf-writes]

I know drunk Lex is a mess but sober Lex deserves the world and also kindness so please be gentle with them

[texasbama]

Okay but hear me out…