#wonderfully written

[meatmanleclown]

I'm crying over midnight burger yet again giving me devistatingly doomed romantic relationships

[ingydars]

from "Sculpture worth suffering for" written by Heather King about Andy Goldsworthy's Film "Leaning Into the Wind"

[the-lazyyy-artist]

Lol also just an addition: i think i got bamboozled when i thought Love In Paradise would be this summery vibe song ALONE. I didn't expect it to be a FLASHBACK song for Athena. Like, it's hurt disguised as a fun, bouncy song. I was so shocked at the beginning AND end of the song. The happy tune was sandwiched between hurtful moments ohmygod Jorge.

Also, sis, Calypso, you did NOT just say open arms to Ody. That's his TRIGGER WORD!!

[roguegrove]

what do you know, i CAN finish something. maybe. sorta. i mean i can honestly go back to it forever. but the idea is to get better at stopping before i get nitpicky.

i made this for my lovely friend ban (@brabblesblog) based on her fic(s) of her tav (also ban) and a different take on ascended astarion. not usually my thing, but i LOVE the way she writes and the way she uses canon's clues to tell her love story. ban is such a wonderful part of the bg3 community and is so supportive of artists and creators, i just wanted to give her a little something for how she and her story touched me. she's been such a good friend to me, especially during this weird period of my life, and i hope my little sketch gives her at least a smidge of the warm and fuzzies she's given me since meeting her <3

what's funny is that i have like 5 different versions of this couple. i started before i finished the story, and you can see as i tried each new sketch, i finally started to understand their dynamic.

anyway i hope you like!!

[all-i-do-is-live-in-daydreams]

LOOK AT THEM !! LOOK !! THEY ARE EVERYTHING TO ME !! ONLY 2 EPS ARE OUT BUT I ALREADY WANT 10 MORE SEASON IDC

clark and lois are so sweet already !! and look at their height difference 😭😭 idc height difference always gets me man I eat it up EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

[finisnihil]

I'm thinking about Sunday again and how we're shown that Robin is his weak spot over and over and really he probably wouldn't have slipped up if not for the people trying to exploit her death.

In 2.0 we see them hanging out together and the like but we don't see them interact much, Robin very obviously cares for Sunday but Sunday maintains a quiet atmosphere and professional facade and as such one could wonder how much he actually cares about her as his sister.

But then at the end of the quest we see the cracks start to show a bit. Sparkle pretends to be Robin and Sunday becomes enraged. Until then he's pretty subdued in his behavior in the aftermath, but the mockery of his sister's death is too great a slight and when Sparkle offers to pretend to be Robin so nobody gets suspicious, Sunday tells her to stuff it and go away which she does. It's a really telling scene that when Robin is involved his careful mask cracks down the middle and he begins to not think clearly or strategically because later in 2.1 it's noted he went back to accept the offer.

Aventurine notes that Robin's death is an entry point for the IPC to exploit but not for the overall Family, just for Sunday. Sunday is reeling to find control with the other heads pressuring him and the IPC closing in like a pack of hungry vultures. Sunday was always alone except for Robin and they're both pretty aware of the corruption as Sunday is desperately trying to root out the traitor while Robin left and is helping him research Death. Aventurine knows this and he knows Sunday is off balance and prone to overlooking things in his rage and grief that's potent in everything he does after 2.0's quest. Sunday went to Ratio for informatiom because he understands Aventurine's a threat needing to be taken seriously and he needs to handle him quickly and efficiently and that makes him sloppy enough to get duped by the Jade cornerstone.

When Welt and Acheron investigate his office they find all the letters and lists and investigations into the problem but they also find a beloved lightcone of a young Sunday watching his sister preform on a toy stage. Robin is noted as finding this preformance her favorite and most cherished one. Is Sunday clapping to applaud her or is he keeping time for her? Sunday keeps things running himself so she can free to persue her dreams. He does care about Robin, they really only have each other.

Finally... Gallagher. You really see the persona Sunday puts on finally shatter all at once. This is the man who murdered his sister and who's caused him so much trouble and stress. Nobody's around to fool, nobody's around to witness, and you finally see all his pent up rage and grief spill out. That's his mistake, he's so distracted letting out his bottled up feelings Gallagher's able to get him before he can even react.

Small side analysis, Robin's name and signature song come from the Emily Dickinson poem of the same name. She's an American Poet who mostly wrote works of Romanticism and Transcendentalism. We haven't see much of Robin but she seems to match Romantacism, a literary movement that focused on emotion and individualism with no regard for logic. Sunday seems to match Transcendentalism, a literary movement that focused on the relationship between humanity, the divine, and nature with little regard for science. The three aspects of Transcendentalism also match Xipe's motif of threes, like their three heads.

[swingingswordofdamocles]

Top 10 stories that should NOT have ended in polyamory:

1.

that is all :)

[iamumbra195]

You know for a long time I was trying to figure out why Bleach fanfics always make it seem like the souls in the soul society don't remember their human lives when we literally have evidence that they do (Yuichi the Parrot).

Apparently, this was actually pulled from the first bleach movie Memories of Nobody where Urahara tells Ichigo that it's exceedingly rare for a soul to remember its human life. The movie is non-canon though so, I'm not sure why ppl latched onto that fact.

It's honestly a pretty depressing idea, especially with how shitty life in Rukongai already is. It's not the same as being reincarnated, it's just being shoved into a terrible afterlife with no memory of how you even got there then you find out that you actually died and this is the afterlife but you don't even remember living your life at all. You don't remember the people you loved and cherished, you don't remember any dreams and aspirations you might have had. You're only a husk of what you might have been, living for however long you can until the people who were supposed to protect you end up slaughtering you like cattle for the sake of balance.

A necessary sacrifice was all you would end up being.

So yeah, souls having no memories of their human lives is a devastating idea and honestly, I could imagine it being a canon thing. I'm still loving the amnesia + time travel angst on Ao3 though, it's immaculate

[angstflavoured]

if i see one more bitch compare bill cipher to alastor the stupid fucking radio demon, its on sight.

[mavilez]

i'd appreciate it if people didn't deliberately tag my heartsong/kelbie fanart as drarry while fully aware it's not them. it is rude and misleading and disregards my original intent as the artist. kelly and robbie are characters who mean a great deal to me and my art is meant to celebrate that. i get that one has dark hair and glasses and the other is blonde but this just isn't it. please seek out actual drarry fanart elsewhere as i'm sure there is a lot out there, and stop purposefully mislabeling my work.

[commanderfreddy]

people are discoursing about the laios and shiro fight bc that was always going to happen but i do hope that wave crests quickly and we can all come to see it as what it is: literally one of the best written fights between two people who are both entirely justified in their actions and acting without any malice or cruelty of all time

[ohromeoraine]

I just need to rant here for a second because OH MY GOD-

Stars Align is so fucking incredible. By the end, tears were streaming down my face and i just screeched, “What the actual fuck?!” Because this anime sent me through the five stages of grief within the span of one season. These boys need new parents and hugs, and fucking everything. I would give them my soul, okay, that’s how much these boys need it.

The worst part is that no one and their fucking mother talks about this anime because the fandom is practically dead, but i want to rant to someone about this so badly. You have no idea the inner workings of my brain that go absolutely feral when someone even mutters, “stars align.”

YES. TELL ME ALL ABOUT WHAT YOU THOUGHT OF IT AND I WILL BREAK DOWN EVERY CHARACTER EVEN IF THEY ARE A PATHETIC EXCUSE OF A HUMAN BEING.

I will pull an Oliver Wood and try to drown myself in the shower if someone supports certain behaviors from the characters here.

ALSO, DID I MENTION THAT THERE IS A CANON NONBINARY CHARACTER?!

ACTUALLY FUCKING CANON. I’M NOT MESSING WITH YOU.

They are literally one of the sweetest fucking characters in stars align and i would hand them the goddamn universe if i could.

So, if you haven’t watched Stars Align(available on Hulu and Crunchyroll if we’re talking main streaming services) please invest your time to do so because you will not be disappointed.

There’s only one season because of budget issues(not enough streams was the problem I’m pretty sure), but holy fuck you will not be disappointed i swear.

[yetanotherexhaustedalchemist]

Random discussion on Rollo

the first part of this is a kind of analysis, then it kind of spirals into chaos.

I think Rollo's actions always felt worse to me (personally) for a few reasons. While it's never stated directly that being drained of magic would kill someone, it's still a strong enough possibility to concern me. Even if it didn't directly kill anyone, it would be like removing electricity from our world. People relying on modern medical equipment would be killed. People who needed the ability to use magic in their daily lives would suffer. Communication, transportation and such would be set back centuries. Not to mention the amount of aspirations, careers and livelihoods that would be destroyed. People would die, whether directly or indirectly.

I also always saw overblot as something akin to a magic-fueled psychotic break. Actions before overblotting people are absolutely responsible for, but during? Everyone who woke up from an overblot didn't remember what they did, and their actions were at least somewhat controlled by the phantoms. (I also feel like Vil was probably already dissociating after hearing RSA's practice performance, but that leans into hc territory.)

Riddle was a tyrant, but he never actually tried to harm anyone until he was in the process of overblotting. Leona, Azul and Jamil orchestrated their plans, but no one was supposed to actually die until they overblotted. Vil seemed to act without thinking and then was overcome by regret when he snapped out of it. Ortho was literally possessed by his own ghost and Idia wasn't doing great either. And Malleus put everyone to sleep, but that was specifically to protect them (even if that was a terrible method of doing so). The worst of the overblotter's actions were closer to mindless crimes in the moment, with most of them regretting what they did when they were back to being sane.

Meanwhile, Rollo had been planning this for years. That's years of time to reconsider the problems it would bring even non-mages, the lives the plan would ruin. He never overblotted. He was, comparatively, completely sane and aware the whole time. (If not attempted genocide, it was at least bio-warfare.) He also never regretted his plans and still intends to double down in the future.

But with all that said: Rollo is, ultimately, a traumatised teenager like the others. He should have known better, yes, but these are also fictional characters. The point isn't for them to be examples of peak morality. They're supposed to be entertaining and thought-provoking. They're meant to be love-to-hate and hate-to-love. (Hey, I've liked characters who have done worse things than he did.)

Also everyone in this game is morally questionable at best and that's some of the appeal. There's only so much point in debating who's worse and who's better.

I don't like Rollo, and that's because he's a well written character! His characterization and writing gets me riled up! It's also cool for him to be a blorbo or little meow meow! I have a bunch of respect for everyone who looked at him and said 'I can fix him'. (Well, someone's gotta and it's not going to be me.) You have my blessing. I will give you a thumbs up from across the room.

you don't have to agree with my interpretations of course, but please be polite if you want to discuss anything! At the end of the day these are fictional characters that we all interact with uniquely, and every interpretation is based in one's own expirences.

[starryluminary]

This is my poem called “Kiss”:

Kiss:

“It’s just a scene,” I said when I stepped onto the scene

Our roles are ready to play

Even though my director was kind of mean

I feel confident today.

As we begin the scene, both of our eyes meet each other

It was a kiss scene, wasn’t much of a bother

But when we slammed our lips together, our words collided

I wanted to do it again, it made me quite excited

Not because I was in love, that was not the case

But I felt safe with him

As he wrapped his arms around my waist

“It’s just a scene they say”

“It’s just a role”

Now when I go to kiss him for the scene replay

My mind loses control.

What’s wrong with you Noah?

Focus on your part

I should’ve ignored these feelings

I should’ve ignored them from the start.

It’s too late to go back though

I wonder how he feels

When we hug each other for the scene

We both know that it’s not real

.

.

But my feelings are real

I can’t deny

I love him, I love him!

If we part then I might die!

I wonder if he knows my true feelings

Or is just completely oblivious

I mean my feelings aren’t discrete

So it should be obvious

.

.

. 

.

As we walk on the red carpet

To watch our progress

He pulled me aside

And told me that his inquiry could not rest.

He asks me on a date

Of course, I approved

Then he kissed me again.

For real this time too.

THE BOLDED LINES ARE MY QUOTE~

[buttered-toast-and-sentiment]

if I had a nickel for every time Harriet Vane had to awkwardly comfort a heartbroken middle-aged woman who was sobbing on her shoulder over much younger man, while trying to soothingly fix said woman's makeup, while also trying to hide how Deeply Uncomfortable she (Harriet) is, I would have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

[atqh16]

The thing is it’s understandable for Jiang Cheng to be angry at Wei Ying for ‘choosing’ the Wens and the whole issue with the golden core. But what makes it infuriating is that he never tries to understand the situation from WY’s perspective. JC was practically catatonic after losing his core. They were in the middle of a war and the wens were more than eager to look for and kill him. WY did what he had to do to keep his brother alive and he absolutely does not deserve blame for it. If someone you loved was spiraling into a destructive disassociation it’s not wrong for you to intervene even if it’s against their wishes

And about the Wens, again his anger was understandable but morally? He was in the wrong. Extremely. He was being selfish to an almost inconceivable extent. JGY wasn’t incorrect when he said JC shared a responsibility in WY’s demise. In a way JC abandoned WY first. When he needed him most.

He participated in a FUCKING GENOCIDE. He knew and saw with his own eyes that the wen remnants were nothing more than the elderly, children and a few young people. Even if you want to argue that there’s an Infinitesimal chance that he didn’t he still did NOTHING to stop it. If he did then mxtx would have brought it up because that’s a pretty fucking important piece of info.

I absolutely do not understand how most readers can brush that part off and make him a woobie.