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RL things

#i love this fandom so much i wish it was bigger #rusty lake #frank vanderboom #albert vanderboom #jakob eilander #rusty lake: roots #rusty lake: paradise #rusty lake fanart

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#FUCKING HELL #jonathan sims #the magnus archives #tma #tma fanart #undertale

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I have a bunch of old silly sketches with Ethan...

Yes there were times when I had a phase 💀 never ever posted these anywhere, but now want to share them here. My fav is the 1st one, it reflects how it felt for me to play on a madhouse difficulty. Finishing Marguerite with a knife – based on a true story lmao! XD

#resident evil #ethan winters #rosemary winters #resident evil fanart

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wish they brought out better the parallels of the chameleon and po, both nerdy fans of kung fu and seemingly unlikely candidates on first glance to be fighters. except one gets turned away by masters and one literally becomes the dragon warrior. i think it's baffling that po never once even attempts to offer her the chance to train with him? like surely as a fellow nerd he understands her position better than anyone else - he literally went through the same doubt and rejection in the first movie. idk man.

#also have we considered that the kung fu world might be sexist #slash half j #ok but really though. #the “i was too small” argument falls apart when you remember mantis exists? #kung fu panda 4 #kfp 4 #kung fu panda 4 spoilers #po #the chameleon #dreamworks

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Something that’s been bothering me for a while is the way Cassandra Clare did a complete 180 on James as a character.

The James we were promised way back when the Midnight Heir and Nothing But Shadows came out is nothing like the James we see in the main series. And it makes me viscerally angry. James in the last hours is well…it pains me to say this because I do love him, but… until chot he’s not that interesting.

Most of his struggles that were set up in the short stories magically resolved themselves before the series began. He’s no longer insecure about how different he looks compared to other shadowhunters, suddenly he’s just as quick and witty as will and matthew are, and everyone loves him and wants to marry him! When the James we were promised was a social outcast, who was reminded everyday that not only is he not like his father, he is worse. 

James in the Midnight Heir is shown to be jealous of his parent’s perfect love. When he himself is suffering because he’s madly in love with Grace and she just broke things off with him. We also see this hint of resentment towards Will for being so “perfect”.

Which shows up again in Nothing But Shadows. James constantly compares himslef, and is being compared to Will. Will is so handsome, and James is so odd looking. Will is able to make everyone laugh and everyone likes him, James is awkward and often does not know how to express himself.

And we can see in the way James talks about this that he’s annoyed at his father for making him feel like he is inadequate. And then he gets to the academy and all the kids start to make fun of him for the way he looks. They keep telling him how odd he looks, that he looks like a goat. And then his powers manifest and once again he is reminded just how different he is from everyone else.

The Last Hours was originally pitched as a love triangle with a Herondale in the middle. So when i first found this out i thought this story was finally going to challenge the godawful “Herondales love but once” rule. And this would also fit into this idea that James is somehow “wrong”. He’s not extroverted and witty like his father. He has demon blood and demonic powers, which creates a wedge between him and other shadowhunters.

And on top of that, he loves two people! One of them being an amazing shadowhunter warrior from a respectable family with close connections to the Herondales (Cordelia). And the other not so proper, maybe kind of evil, weird daughter of a mad woman who hates the Herondales (Grace). So the story wouldn’t just be about James choosing between two women he loves, but also about him being torn between the expectations of his family and society, and his “dark side”. 

But then Cassie made the gracelet and erased all of James’s problems. And we ended up with yet another boring love triangle that no one asked for…

#nbs james i miss u 😭😭😭 #james herondale #the last hours #tlh #tlh textposts #nothing but shadows #the midnight heir

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one interesting thing I haven't seen people talk about is the way lucy gray baird's personality is very reminiscent of the manic pixie dream girl trope - and that's not to say that she's poorly written or one-dimensional in any way, but the dress, the spontaneous singing, all her "quirky" behaviours, the way she's seen through the eyes of a guy who's "stuck in a societal system" and sees her as this completely different, rebellious, being that "breaks him out" of the mold he's in - sound familiar? but this is a dystopian novel and not a romcom - her character was very specifically crafted this way because of the role she serves in the greater narrative in the end: a legend, a myth, a mystery - and that's why her mpdg-type personality works so perfectly. to snow and the reader, lucy gray is always going to have that air of intrigue around her, because she ultimately lives on in our memories not as a person, but as an idea and an icon.

#its almost 6am im just yapping i hope this makes sense #tbosas analysis #lucy gray baird #thg #the hunger games #coriolanus snow #manic pixie dream girl #mpdg #anyway another funny way of wording this is “snow thinks hes jgl in 500 days of summer”

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Good morning sluts time to sin

#moral orel #clay puppington #orel puppington #bloberta puppington #danielle stopframe #block posabule #moral orel fanart

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fucking love the relationship between laura and harvey. at first he's just introduced as her pet bird and you're like oh that's cute. then later on you find out actually the pet bird is some kind of immortal who's kind of her guardian angel. also he's committed multiple atrocities.

#the context that he protected her growing up makes the moment when laura stabs harvey in ce: seasons even more painful :(( #also now im thinking like if he regularly appeared in anthro form #why did she pack him in a box otw to the lake #he couldnt have ridden in the car or something? #harvey cube escape #harvey rusty lake #laura vanderboom #underground blossom #cube escape #cube escape: seasons

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“We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back to see how far they’ve come” 🌸

#rusty lake #laura vanderboom #rose vanderboom #underground blossom #rusty lake fanart

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After a mission...

... and that was Miles' bisexual awakening, i think.

#into the spiderverse #spiderverse #across the spiderverse #miles morales

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Ah yes here they are: Leonard Harley, Frank Strider and Rose Lalonde (wait-)

#someone classpect them NOW #rose gives blood vibes #frank is rage...? samuel breath??? #homestuck #rusty lake #rusty lake: roots #rose vanderboom #frank vanderboom #leonard vanderboom #frank is rage and leonard breath i think???

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actually my favourite piece of rusty lake fanart ever is what this chinese streamer drew while trying to explain the lore to chat

masterpiece

#rusty lake #cube escape #rose vanderboom #dale vandermeer #laura vanderboom #it's giving the conspiracy board meme #jakob eilander #mr owl #mr crow #samuel vanderboom #emma vanderboom #albert vanderboom #robert hill #aldous vanderboom #william vanderboom #frank vanderboom #rusty lake roots #rusty lake paradise #rusty lake hotel

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soldier: meredith, filippa, oliver

poet: alexander, wren

king: richard, james

#soldier poet king #if we were villains #iwwv #james farrow #meredith dardenne #filippa kosta #wren stirling #richard stirling #oliver marks #alexander vass #iwwv textposts

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i get that we're very invested in jamesoliver and all but i can't help but think of how meredith is going to feel when she comes back to an empty apartment and realises that oliver has, once again, left her for james.

#i just feel like theres no happy ending for everyone here #even if james is alive oliver is going to fucking ditch meredith again #which makes me kind of mad #shes spent too much time being a consolation prize to oliver #:(( #meredith dardenne #oliver marks #james farrow #if we were villains #iwwv #iwwv textposts

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Sad thought of the day: If James would have gone to prison he probably would have gotten away with a much lower prison sentence because he could have made a case for having acted in self-defense, whereas Oliver didn’t have that excuse and had to come up with a story about being jealous of Richard because of Meredith which painted him in a really bad light and alienated him from his family. James, on the other hand, could have told the poilce about how abusive and violent Richard was, and the rest of the group (probably even Meredith) would have supported him because 1) it’s true and 2) they all have Richard’s blood on their hands.  But with Oliver taking the fall, his punishment was significantly harder than James’ would have been, and James had to live with that guilt on top of everything else.

Imagine if Oliver just hadn’t done that. James would have been out of prison after maybe 5 years and they could have had a life together. The whole tragedy of the ending comes down to Oliver’s self-sacrifice and I HATE IT (affectionate)

#EXACTLYYYY #If we were villains #iwwv #iwwv textposts #james farrow #oliver marks #meredith dardenne #richard stirling

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as dale's birthday approaches i am BEGGING the rusty lake devs to release a pic of baby nine-year-old dale

#just so i can picture him clearly while hes being traumatised #dale vandermeer #rusty lake #cube escape #cube escape: birthday #rusty lake textposts

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shoutout to this guy on instagram who was ok with people being gay but not with people liking bakugou

#bakugou #bakugou katsuki #mha #bnha #actually hes right because bakugou gives me brain rot.