#< talking about both images

[heydragonfly]

alright i know lots of folks don’t love the chaos redesign and some folks are saying they look like meg which like i get, esp with the singular wing but to me? they look like Nyx. they look like they molded their new appearance in the image of their daughter, who they’ve recently reconnected with after aeons of separation. like they have not just emotionally become more the parent of Nyx, but physically mirrored this parenthood, this embodied connection, by choice

(this relationship which they’ve now lost, leaving them alone, again)

(until a certain princess of the dead arrives)

#hades 2 #hades early access #hades 2 spoilers #listennnnnn it’s about the STORYTELLING #like i do prefer the aesthetic of the first chaos design but #i think the second one has much more interesting visual storytelling #not just that they remind me of nyx more #but holding their dead former image that’s also growing (?) a fetus #literally holding both past and present in the palm of their hands #like this design really emphasizes that whole chronos may be the titan of time #godly domains aren’t necessarily singular #and chaos #is timeLESS #they are beyond the bounds of reality that chronos exists by #this is also super interesting to connect with melinoë #bc they’re some in game dialogue from hecate and even chronos himself #talk about melinoës ability to resist chrono’s time control #as likely a recessive gene sort of deal #and they don’t say it explicitly but like! chaos is the originator of all life! it could be from chaos!! #this doesn’t even get into chaos’s whole plot line with the fates but that’s kind of late game and also i haven’t finished it yet lol #(though I don’t think it’s a complete plot like yet idk) #ANYWAY #love this game love supergiant

[summerlimeismethebrony]

[Image Description: an 11-panel comic page on paper in which Laurice Deauxnim/Larry Butz and Maya Fey from Ace Attorney sit side-by-side. Laurice has tight posture and an uncomfortable look on his face, while Maya is looking around in an uninterested manner; a large textbox labeled "Waiting for Nick" points at the two of them. Laurice looks over at Maya with a sidelong glance, grimacing. Laurice turns away, asking: "...Do you hate me?" Maya bursts out: "WHAT? Why would I hate you?!" ["What" is in all caps to indicate volume.] Laurice flinches away from the outburst. Laurice begins to explain, saying: "Elise", but cutting himself off and shaking his head, starting again with a downcast expression: "Your mom was my mentor." ["Your mom" is underlined to indicate emphasis.] Maya leans forward on her hands and tilts her head in confusion. Laurice continues, waving his hand in the air: "Like, she taught me how to be a better person, to— to grow up, y'know?" Laurice looks back at Maya, his palm toward her, with tears in his eyes, and says: "But you... She was your mom, and you never got that." ["mom" is underlined to indicate emphasis.] Maya looks at Laurice with concern, as he says: "I wouldn't blame you, if you hated me." End Image Description]

I think they should be allowed a Real Conversation, actually

(And some close-ups, bc I forgot just how energy-intensive making a comic page is, and I ended up working really hard on this messy, self-indulgent little comic)

#let comedic characters talk about their trauma 2k24 👏 #as always please open the images to view the proper quality #my post #my comic #my art #my ace attorney art #ace attorney #larry butz #laurice deauxnim #maya fey #comic #aa3 #trials and tribulations #sketched inked and erased #may 5 2024 #colored #may 6 2024 #i really like this though i do have some notes for if i ever redo it (like say for a fic 👀) #id change the underlined 'your mom' to 'Misty'. both to make the self-correction more sensical and to heighten the impact of #'she was your mom and you never got that.' #if i were to specifically reDRAW this id make the first and last panels their own pages. give everything more room and tension #also id USE BIGGER PAPER so i dont draw right up to the edge and end up tearing part of it while i erase the sketch #anyway. #spoilers #ace attorney spoilers #trials and tribulations spoilers #trials & tribulations spoilers #aa3 spoilers #caps in tags #image described

[spark-circuit]

blorbo that haunts me every time i see this image /pos

(original meme image under cut!)

#limbus company #lcb heathcliff #limbus company heathcliff #projmoon #project moon #limbus heathcliff #heathcliff lcb #spark talks about nothing of relevance #now that's what i call shitposting #has anyone done this already? probably #heathcliff is my favourite i can't wait for canto 6 :) where he goes through The Horrors #don't ask me why both images are big i really don't know #spark's project moon adventures

[pianokantzart]

I’m like, 90% sure you talked about this before, but the pure VITRIOL in Mario’s face right before he punches bowser in the ending fight when they get the star is still something I can’t fully get over. Especially in how it almost becomes comical in comparison to Luigi’s more sternly determined expression. Like Mario wants this man turtle? DEAD.

Side note: I just gotta say, I have been LOVING ur “Luigi goes on his own adventure with his arch nemesis King Boo while Mario is kidnapped by said arch nemesis” so much! Seriously, it’s such a treat. The way you characterize everyone, the plot, and just the wonderful way you tie everything together!! Ahhh!!! It’s so good!

Thank you! I'm having a good time writing that AU, and what better way to pass the time until we get that Mario Movie sequel? But back to what you were saying... yes, I LOVE that look on Mario's face. It's personal for both of them, but for Mario it is super duper extra personal. Luigi's mostly just defending his sibling while getting a bit of payback, but Mario has seen firsthand all the damage Bowser does and everything/everyone he threatens. That, plus the fact that he held his brother captive for days and nearly killed him? Mario is ready to obliterate.

Another tiny detail: the difference in their facial expressions right after the punch

Luigi maintains a determined expression. Mario is grinning from ear to ear. It's pretty clear who's enjoying this beatdown more.

#Also! I have talked about this before but... #I love how different their approach to fighting is in just that first image alone #Luigi is holding out a defensive palm while Mario's hands are both balled into fists #sword and shield? sword and shield. #Mario Movie #Mario #Luigi #super mario bros #super mario brothers #askbox #anon

[mishy-mashy]

THE CONTRAST OF THE ONLY TIMES WE EVER SEE BRUCE SMILING????

#NO WAY I HIT THE TAG LIMIT IN THE POST BEFORE THIS I HAVE SO MUCH FEELINGS ABOUT THE BOTTOM PICTURE #imagine we get another chapter set in the future and students are looking at the past events we see now #where AFO was defeated finally #AND THE STUDENTS LEARNING AND TALKING ABOUT THE SUBJECT ARE THE VESTIGES REINCARNATED OR SOMETHING #vestige school life AU canon? ILL TAKE IT WITH BOTH HANDS AND MY HEAD BOWED THANK YOU #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #spoilers #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #bruce #ofa #one for all #its cropped but THE BOTTOM IMAGE IS THE ONLY IMAGE WE EVER SEE SHINOMORI SMILE? #I THINK BUT. YKNOW #THE ONLY TIME THEY SMILE AND ARENT STRESSED OR DYING OR FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES #IS IN A RECOLLECTION OF WHO THEY WERE #bruce has a funny lip its adorable #the scary tall bruce with sharp eyes is actually. just a guy like this. i love it #horikoshi...... is there a resistance side story in the works.. or a story set in a vestige past.. for research purposes...... #(i want more content of all the vestiges) #(but i heard the manga will end with no continuations so. fan content here i come)

[missjoolee]

just thinking about an au where Julie works for her Tia's housekeeping company. they have contracts with one of the prominent labels in LA

it's a summer job maybe?

but she's getting the hang of dusting, cleaning glass, collecting trash and recycling, restroom maintenance, breakroom scrubbing, the works

when one day, one of the higher ups at the company seeks out her Tia for an unorthodox tasking

They need someone to go to an apartment and clean it up ASAP

Tia selects Julie because she knows she can trust her to work unsupervised as well as she can get the T-E-A later after the workday is over.

Once inside, it's got the musty smell of a place that hasn't been entered in a while and there is a light layer of dust on everything, including a very nice sound system connected to a high-end combination cd/tape/turntable with impressive library of cds, records, and the occasional tapes

Deciding that she doesn't have to work in silence, and whoever lives here won't be back before she's gone. she picks out a record to jam out to while she cleans, then throws open the windows she can and gets to work. She washes the linens, dusts, scrubs the bathroom, dusts, wipes down the kitchen, dusts, and when she finishes with all of that she can vacuum!

As she dusts in the living room, there are guitars on the wall and she can't help but notice 2 are missing

when one record ends, she switches it to something new, excited by the selection whoever lives here has curated

it's honestly hard to pick what's next but then in the CDs, down in the S's, she notices a rare gem from the music world!

They have Sunset Curve's first ever EP

It's a no brainer, she puts the CD into the tray and hits play as she picks up the rag she was using to wipe out the refrigerator. The guitars sound out the beginning of Now or Never and she's leaning inside the fridge, the french doors splayed open as she sings along to the song when a loud THUD startles her out and THERE IS A MAN and she is YELLING, and then he is yelling

and that is how she met Luke Patterson of Sunset Curve, freshly returned from their european summer circuit, as she explains to Flynn later

Once they'd stopped yelling, she had apologized, rushed to turn the music off and explained that she was almost done and to "please, settle in and pretend i'm not here. I will be gone in 10 minutes"

and he had, looking dead on his feet, probably from the time change (also very stunned from hearing a wrecking ball of a voice singing his lyrics from inside his fridge, but she doesn't know that) and then she was gone.

time passes and she keeps working the normal duties from the contracts at the company, only once did she see Sunset Curve and she did an about face and took an alternate route to the task she was doing.

but then Toby gets tendonitis or something and now Tia needs someone to cover the part of the building that features all the studios for the different bands in LA that are signed to the label and it has to be someone trustworthy because they might see or hear music that CANNOT be leaked or the whole cleaning service loses the contract. So trustworthy niece gets picked

Given a schedule each week of what bands will be in and when (ish) she is able to clean unobtrusively for the most part

It's the end of the day and she just needs to gather trash from the rooms that were used that day when she gets a bit thrown off by the set up in SC's studio. Everything is pushed to the edges of the small room and a keyboard is set up front and center.

Looking for where they'd moved the trash can, her eyes keep flicking back to the keyboard and she can't help brushing her fingers over the keys gently before she leaves. Only for someone to be in the doorway, making her jump!

It's luke and he apologizes for startling her but she is in "oh crap oh crap don't bother the clients" mode and so she apologizes and skidaddles out of there

and then and then

Suddenly on the schedule of when bands will be in, there is a request for her to clean SC's room at a specific time during the lunch hour that day. and when she arrives, the rooms is well, not spotless, but cleaner than it should be and there is a note on the keyboard saying to have fun for an hour maybe

and it keeps happening?

julie starts taking luke up on the opportunity to play around on the piano

and then suddenly luke is there but like "don't mind me, keep doing your thing!" and she very much does her own thing but that is grilling him about what is happening annnnnnnnnnnnd

they get closer as time passes

and eventually it becomes helping luke with a song which then becomes working on a new song together

and then excited about the song, luke shares it with the guys and they begin workshopping their instruments into it and Julie happens to hear it happening and thinks that Luke just used her for the music and stole the song they'd been working on for his band

so she stops showing up during that hour, instead working in a room somewhere else where he can't find her

annd she avoids him in the hallways, always turning and going the opposite direction if she sees him or the band

and finally Toby's arm is doing better and can come back to work so she is quick to relent the studio section back to them

Tia notices she doesn't even hum while working anymore and then one day she is cleaning a conference room, and

The door opens behind her. Reggie and Alex walk in. She can't run out, so she just keeps wiping down the windows.

"Did Luke do something wrong?" It could be just his friends trying to help a guy out but there is steel in alex's voice that lets Julie know that they will 100% be on her side if she told them Luke did anything royally stupid and offensive.

"No."

"Oh...okay. Do you think you'd want to write with him again?" the question is unsure. like alex doesn't know if he should even ask it.

Now Julie is mad. "I'm not paid to write songs. I'm paid to clean. I don't have time for this."

"a shame. That was a killer song you two wrote" Reggie hesitantly says.

"yeah. I heard you guys playing it. Hope it does well on your next album" she fails to keep any of her anger out of her voice. and since she doesn't want to get fired for fighting the labels talent, she grabs her supplies and leaves out the secondary door.

and then the guys realize that Julie may have a misunderstanding about what's going on with the song she wrote with Luke

but before luke can fix it, SC has to travel again, this time to Australia and then Canada.

so it's at least 3 weeks before they are back in LA

I don't know how this ends. How does Luke make things right with Julie? Any ideas? Would love to see your thoughts.

#writing julie a song seems so cliche #but it's Luke we are talking about here #but he's a sad boy #lots of flannel appearances during those weeks #Oh no did i just have a image montage of Julie needing to help clean Luke's apartment again #but this time he's there and awake enough that he helps #and she's scrubbing the kitchen and he bounces around with a vacuum to the music both singing? #obviously after they make up #HAPPY JUKE JEUDI! #Joolee's crack-like thoughts #julie and the phantoms #jatp #jatp fanfic #kinda #julie x luke #jukebox #juke

[bizarrelovesquare]

Avatar: The Last Airbender

s3 ep 09, Nightmares and Daydreams

#avatar the last airbender #atlaedit #maiko #zuko #mai #gif #evie's gifs #this scene is one of my favorites ever actually! she's trying to cheer him up in her own mai way with her dry humor he knows so well #like 'yeah babe let's boss people around because we can <3' #but he's so caught up in worrying about what his abusive father thinks of him that he's not going to be able to get out of his thoughts rn #and then in the last image she realizes that. she's powerless in this situation and love & distraction aren't enough to automatically fix i #the situation is bigger than them and it's heartbreaking for both of them #(god how do people not enjoy this relationship?? i could talk about them all day but that's just me)

[not-so-mundane-after-all]

Little things about fathers and daughters that make me go feral: being in sync

#The way I'm rewatching every scene and picking them apart #finding the littlest things #and I am currently obsessing over this one here because #we talk a lot about Rachel dressing more like Mama Kory #but she's a blended image of them both and I can see it here clearly #dc titans #tv: titans #titans #titans season 4 spoilers #titans spoilers #titans season 4 #dick grayson #rachel roth #nightwing #raven #white raven

[quillkiller]

sorry to say but barty + the rosier twins are in love and i’ve thought about nothing else since yesterday

#barty growing up in a family where love and affection is only for show and for the public image #a quiet and strict home where love only comes if someone important is watching #and then barty stumbling into this other family dynamic with the rosier twins #where they love each other in every concievable way #a sibling dynamic that knows no boundaries when it comes to love and intimacy #but its all behind closed doors #rather than the pretend love and intimacy his father holds above barty for the public eye #instead it’s behind closed doors and no boundaries and theirs and real #barty being so possessive over them because they’re his <3 #no one is allowed to know them and see them like he gets to know and see them #they both end up dating barty and people talk and people think it’s weird #but they’ll never KNOW and that’s what important to them #people might talk but they’ll never actually know or understand the way they do #pan and ev don’t consider themselves dating or even in love #they already love each other because they’re twins. in every possible way #they’re already together too because they’re twins. calling it something so mundane as ’dating’ wouldn’t cover it #they’re just a unit and they love each other and want each other and barty love them and they love him <3 #the polar opposite of bartys family and stumbling into ev and pans family dynamic #makes me insane #makes me EMOTIONAL #and barty being so protective of it #protective over pan and ev but also protective over all three of them #that’s his family :’) and his loves :’) #i dont even think they tell reg what their relationship turns into #everyone knows barty is dating both of them #and everyone talks #but no one will ever know #reg eventually does think he knows #and has a ’none of my business’ attitude about it #bartyrosiers

[coquelicoq]

crashes ur board meeting n drags u out by the collar but its fine bc youre the one always saying shit like "im looking for people i can use" ok lol. get used idiot

#just tracing like. the sequence of events that had to take place in order for this to come to pass #1. natori and his shiki are skulking around homura stalking ban. possibly it's just his shiki and natori is elsewhere. #either way 2. natsume shows up and natori learns about it either bc he witnesses it or a shiki comes to tell him #3. natori gets in his little richard scarry apple car (this is my mental image for some reason) & fucking. BOOKS IT to the matoba compound #4. goes inside. presumably matoba lackeys try to stop him bc their boss is in an important meeting but somehow he gets past them #(possibilities here are v fun to think about. maybe natori does this all the time and they're used to it. maybe he's never done it before #but they're all on orders to let natori in if he ever shows up. maybe natori convinces them he's supposed to be IN the meeting #which is great because it sounds like some important clan thing so what is he in the clan now??) #5. interrupts matoba's meeting like 'i need you' and matoba's like 'bye everyone whatever this is is more important' #6. they get in natori's comical apple car (again the apple car is not canon don't worry about it) #& natori drives like a bat out of hell back to homura. (SOURCE: matoba is so scarred he refuses natori's offer for a ride later) #i wonder what they talk about on the way there? because they don't talk about why natori is stalking ban until much later #so they must be busy talking about something else. but what?? #that or they're both too distracted by all the near-death experiences from natori's crazed driving lol #natsume's book of friends #natsume yuujinchou #homura cats arc #horrible exorcists #my posts #sidenote i feel like that page at the end where both matoba and sensei refuse natori's offers of a ride is really funny because #sensei's reason is that it will take too long. but sensei did you know natori drives like a speed demon? think it thru... #also like. how long did it take him to decide to involve matoba? was that his backup plan all along? #also it's pretty lucky that he found matoba at all considering he could be anywhere...the matoba have like 15 houses... #he has matoba's schedule memorized lol #natori sparkling to the assorted clan members in the meeting: sorry ladies and gentlemen i just need to borrow this~ #*throws matoba over his shoulder and fireman-carries him to the parking lot*

[peachyhoneyadventures]

EDOLISSE AND VARRICK

These Hands, If Not Gods by Natalie Diaz | Still from When A Man Loves (1927) | Snippet from Richard Siken's "Crush" | Still from Lodger (???) | Poem from Margaret Atwood's "You are Happy"

#a lot of references to religion though that's probably mostly on Edolisse's part #I imagine Edolisse and Varrick's attraction to each other is a little superficial in the beginning #she's clearly a very pretty twenty something and Varrick doesn't want to hold her back #Rabbitt themselves said that Varrick is worried about getting involved with the LDB due to not wanting to burden them #On Edolisse's end she's only really hung up on her past relationships #Her late husband and the nature of his death is still a fresh wound that takes a long time to heal #So they really start to relate to each other when they talk about their pasts and their previous partners #Both their previous partners had been killed and they both sort of blame themselves for it #Though most of Edolisse's partners have died so she's terrified something will take Varrick away from her too #It takes awhile but she starts to see his strength #both physical and mental strength #she starts to get comfortable with the idea of being with him then falls hopelessly in love with him #While they don't have an extremely long life ahead of them (Varrick is an older man after all) Edolisse is determined to make it last #web weaving #The credits to the other quotes are in the images themselves and I am LAZY #WickVeil #Edolisse Wickham #Varrick Veil #tes v skyrim #tesblr #At this point I feel a little bad for clogging up the Varrick's tag with my bullshit :((( #I JUST THINK OF THEM A LOT OKAY?

[viasplat]

I finally figured out how to get into the Pentiment game files (after downloading five different extractor programmes lol) and decided to look through the glossary page marginalia that I ignored/missed on my first playthrough.

We all know our man Andreas is a cat fan, so it’s no surprise that there are quite a few drawn throughout the game. But there are also these two cats, which aren’t quite in keeping with the style of the others:

It’s a lovely piece of art, just like everything else in the game and now I can access the texture files I’m one step closer to making a sticker set for my laptop lol. But look at it for a bit longer and then tell me they don’t remind you of one of our fave Pentiment couples…

I think @mintymyths has mentioned before that some of the illustrated frogs share a likeness with Andreas — so I like to think that these animal cameos are a recurring artistic feature of his <3

#Just Master Artist Things™️ #pentiment #pentiment spoilers #of a sort #You cannot convince me that these aren’t cat versions of Wojslav and Matilda #And if you can convince me then I don’t wanna hear it bc this is the cutest thing #I will admit though that I didn’t look at the marginalia much at all during the game #so maybe everyone has already noticed this lol #((If anyone is looking at that picture and wondering wtf im talking about — #the ears of the grey cat are reminiscent of Matilda’s headdress - and they share the aquiline nose and sharp cheekbones #whilst the lighter cat is round like wojslav and has the same blond wavy hair #But most importantly they r both in love <3 🥺🥹)) #sister matilda #brother wojslav #ANYWAY guys it rly did take me so much time to work out how the game files worked lol so if anyone wants to know pls just ask #or happy to extract certain images / icons for people if they have any in mind

[rustcopper]

divorcw 😭

#paper puppets take 2 #ppt2 #paper puppets take two #journal ppt2 #treasure chest ppt2 #journalchest #i was thinking of the one with spraykit when making this but i couldnt find the image #this art is so bad please #journal divorcing treasure chest #i love journal ppt2 #lets play a game #when i talk about ppt2 you must guess if it stands for puyo puyo tetris 2 or paper puppets take two #im into both rn

[spacepunksupreme]

Alright here's my official James Bond ranking

shout out to @bubbliterally for suggesting the "would accidentally suck dick" label lmao

also versions that include the Funny Men™️ (Austin Powers and David Niven's Bond) under the cut

#I am formally apologizing to all Roger Moore stans at this time lol #hannah is talking #james bond #I put my name on these to keep people from arguing with me about placement this is MY ranking. Hannah's ranking only. #I do have blank psds for both charts and a little image bank of floating Bond heads if anyone contests my ranking enough that they want #to make their own versions though lol. feel free to hmu for those files. I’ll happily pass them along

[watchandyoullsee]

Ariel Takes the Wheel

Scene 1: Ariel "Just Forgot"

King Triton (1989): "I just don't know what we're going to do with you, young lady."

Ariel (1989): "Daddy, I'm sorry, I just forgot, I--"

King Triton (2023): "It's irresponsible. Your sisters are only here for one phase of the Coral Moon. Can you imagine any one of them missing the gathering?"

Ariel (2023): "No, you're right. I'm sorry." (Excuse the watermark; I don't know where else to find images.) Of course, Flounder comes to her defense in the LA just like the 1989 version, saying it wasn't her fault, but Ariel realizes her mistake and takes full responsibility.

Scene 2: Blaming Sebastian

Ariel never blames anyone but herself in the 2023 version. She knows it's wrong to make the deal with Ursula in both versions, but the Live Action Ariel does not do it just for herself, but for both worlds -- after all, humans and merpeople may be different, but that doesn't make them enemies. Shipwrecks are alarmingly frequent, taking the lives of humans and damaging the seafloor below. Were the relations between the two peoples mended, perhaps their respective worlds could mend as well.

Thus, the stakes are higher. Had Triton been willing to listen while she had her voice (and it is understandable why he wasn't), she would never have had to give it up to be heard. 2023 Ariel not only rebels against her father because he made her upset (and she's obsessed with a human prince), but because she is doing what she believes is right for herself and her people. Since she heard Eric express a similar desire to bridge the gap between their kingdoms and the rest of the world (a desire she has never heard expressed by anyone else), it is only natural that she forms an immediate attachment to him. His beautiful face is not a motivating factor, but a nice bonus, and proof that humans are not all monsters.

Scene 3: Ariel "Didn't Mean To"

Ariel (1989): "Daddy, I'm sorry, I-I didn't mean to! I didn't know!"

Ariel (2023): "I'm sorry, Father, this was all my fault."

The point of this comparison is to highlight how important it was that Ariel took the wheel of the ship at the end. These are two very different characters, and thus their character arcs are different. Ariel in 1989 was curious, naïve, stubborn, rebellious in the typical adolescent fashion, and innocent as an infant. Her arc wasn't the noblest for a princess, as notwithstanding her mistakes and lack of character growth, she managed to receive all that she desired in the end. She didn't need to kill Ursula because Eric was there to do it for her, just as Scuttle was there to stall the wedding and retrieve her voice, and Sebastian was there all the way along to get her closer to Eric. Animated Ariel did not take responsibility for her actions. How could she, when she didn't know any better? Every movement she made was in her own self-interest (though I think by the end she really did love Eric as a person and not just a pretty face). Still, we love her because she is the picture of wide-eyed, adventurous youth, and there is much room for her yet to grow up, even after she's married. Because of her carefree innocence, it's nigh impossible to hate her.

Live Action Ariel is also carefree to a point, but the weight of her title and responsibilities shines through in her character. She is ignorant about the Above World (by no means from lack of effort), but clearly educated as a princess should be regarding her own. She is less stubborn in her naivety and more secure in her sense of right and wrong. There is an important distinction to be made between knowing what is right and remaining steadfast in that knowledge, versus remaining immovable in one's obliviousness.

So why was it important that Ariel took the wheel in the climax? Because she had taken the wheel all along. Had she been trapped in a vortex like in the cartoon, a damsel in distress, it would have been a disservice to her particular character arc -- that of a girl who took responsibility for her actions at every turn. "Those sacrifices you made were a choice that you can't undo," she sings in 'For the First Time.' This thread of action->consequence->action would have been left dangling, unresolved if she had suddenly lost all power.

Does this in any way diminish Eric's character? Not at all. He was willing to sacrifice his life to be with Ariel through the storm. He did everything in his power to save her. He still threw the spear, which undoubtedly saved her life in that moment (and, might I say, was a display of incredible competence to have an aim underwater like that). In that way, he repays her in kind, after she'd rescued him from drowning.

As an aside, she mimics his exact movement when he had steered the ship earlier in the film. Had she not observed what he did in that storm, she might not have known what to do in the final battle.

Ariel still needed help -- she still needed the support and aid of her animal companions, Eric, the castle staff, and her father. BUT she also took plenty of action to satisfy her arc, avenged her father's death, and she gave credit where it was due:

Ariel (2023): "You gave your life for me."

King Triton (2023): "And you fought to get my life back."

Ariel (2023): "I didn't fight alone, Father. Eric was with me."

I hope this post makes it a little clearer why robbing Ariel of her ability to act in the climax of the film would have been a poor choice, specifically in the Live Action. And, by the way, you can still prefer one or the other, or neither. While I don't dislike the cartoon, I obviously prefer the more mature and responsible Ariel.

#the little mermaid 2023 #the little mermaid #ariel #prince eric #i am sorry for the watermarks #i don't know how to photoshop or anything #one day i will replace these images when we have access to better quality #also it might be worth mentioning that she saves flounder from the shark by pure ingenuity #after putting him in danger #which is another time she corrects a mistake so someone she loves doesn't suffer the consequences of her actions #i think she's a much better role model in the 2023 version ngl #i realize this post is going to offend some people but what Doesn't offend people these days? #please relax - we're talking about disney films here #i'm not forcing you to share my opinions #text #my thoughts #btw it's not important that eric “repays” ariel for saving his life #because she did so out of love #both parties in a truly loving relationship must be willing to give their All for the other #and they both gave 100% #in fact #eric's life was more at risk during the climax (after the spear-throwing) than ariel's was #she didn't risk her life for his until she grabbed ursula to redirect her fire at the eels #and ariel climbing aboard the ship and steering it was a risk to her life in favor of eric's as well #so i'd say you can call it Even despite the fact that romance is never 50/50

[haru-chi]

Why isn't Natori's cousin arc talked about much ?

It was such a masterpiece of a story. it was very powerful and tragic which just hurts so much and I'm not over it or I'll ever be, it also had so many things to talk about .. like a lot for example:

-the undying trust Natori had for Natsume that no words reached his heart like Natsume's words

-that deep sad desire inside his heart which later on got crushed in the ugliest of ways not once but twice

-the fact that the Natori clan might have some secret that led people fearing their return or hating them which might be what led someone to break the barriers that protect their house ?

-Natori hating himself more and more for being weak and having such simple desire (NOOOOO PLEASE T^T)

-Natori pushing himself through his trauma for Natsume's sake !!!

-Natori's family being as worse as Natsume's relatives! I SO HATE THEM AS MUCH AS NATSUME'S RELATIVES!! THOSE COWRDS!!

-some more exorcist lore! "I thought he would wear a hat" pleaaase that killed me I can't see him doing it xDDD

-Natori's complicated emotions about the Matoba ><

-"Mitsuru was never going to be the family I dreamed of. If she had been born, she wouldn't have been my ally but my enemy" >> this simply shattered my heart to pieces that I remember I took moments off the pages to recomposed myself .. too much I just can't okay T^T

-big BIG BIG respect for Natori's resolve and pride as an exorcist even if that actually hurts him or cast him in the dark since I thought he might actually regret being an exorcist sometimes but aaaaaaaaaaaa that resolve !!! I was happy yet sad and crying !!!

-"I'm glad you're the one who exorcised me Natori Shuuichi" >> nope I'm okay not breaking down in tears or anything at all T^T

-a bit on Natori and his shiki's relationship T^T

-Natsume's respect for Natori's choice at the end that he didn't interfere and hating himself for not being able to find a solution for both >&lt;

-WHAT WAS NATORI GONNA DO TO HIMSELF IF NATSUME DIDN'T APPEAR THIS IDIOT!!!!

I feel there's more things worth mentioning but those are what's on my mind right now, I so wanna expand on everything and talk much about them but can't with this very unstable health of mine for now T^T

must come back to it one day .. I must since this story is just another masterpiece from Midorikawa-sensei that need more people to talk about it .. no simple words can express what I feel about this arc ..

#natsume yuujinchou #natsuyuu #natori shuuichi #I think since this put such a heavy damage on Natori both physically and mentally #I won't blame him for not joining in the current arc no matter how much I wished he was #he need a rest #can you imaging how many heart attack he would've get if he joined in the current arc ? poor Natori #this story was too heavy that even I needed a rest after it >< #I so wish I can fully express everything -sigh- #it kinda of always break me down that I can't do what I want much cuz of this health of mine #but still the fact I manage to write here and there is still a big thing for me :) #plus this manga is like a ray of light in this darkness #they make me forget whatever pain I'm in #especially Seiji .. he's .. #or wait that's not the place to talk about this lol