#DESPITE THEIR COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP

[shepscapades]

Ranchers as Grant Wood’s American Gothic was supposed to be sillay and goofy but then I set the ranch on fire and one thing led to another and now it’s. sad DFBJDFGB I’m really happy with how this came out though, so!! Here’s my week 3 piece for the Hermitcraft Design Challenge thingie :]

#team rancher #tangotek #jimmy solidarity #solidarity gaming #SolidarityGaming #tango #double life smp #shepshermitdesign23 #art escapades #tried something different and tried to be really loose with my painting in this :] #regarding the original— #ppl apparently saw the painting as an out of touch rural painting in a modern world #whereas wood intended to paint it as a positive portrayal of ideal rural living #so. #at some point the ranchers became m-1 ranchers and then this piece became a complicated commentary - #about everyone else seeing the ranchers as out of touch / removed from reality and the real world since their relationship was confined to - #double life #meanwhile ranchers themselves are happy with each other and see their relationship (despite the context/ the games) as an ideal one #m-1 #anyway I’m fine thanks for asking #back to botwcast DGBJDFGB

[meagancandraw]

You ever think about how neither of them got to say goodbye?

#TSAMS #Sun and Moon Show #The Sun and Moon Show #TSAMS Lunar #SAMS Lunar #Sun #SAMS Sun #FNAF Sun #FNAF #Five Nights At Freddy's #MeaganCanDraw #I love New Moon a lot don't get me wrong but Old Moon's and Sun's relationship wasn't black and white (as much as NM wants to insist it was #YES Old Moon treated Sun horribly YES he wasn't the best person but #their relationship was also complicated and messy and they both genuinely loved each other despite everything #So much of what they did was for each other and that adds even more to the tragedy of their relationship and Moon's death #Sun and Old Moon's final conversation was them fighting #Moon's final in-person words to him were “I love you and I'm sorry” #to which Sun didn't say anything bc he was mad at him (which I don't blame him for given everything that happened in that episode) #Do you think Sun has realized this? How often does he go back to that moment #How often has he imagined himself saying or doing something different? Something that would've resulted in them leaving that bunker togethe #Meanwhile Lunar lost the person who gave him a new life and a family that actually cares about him #And he was in Moon's head for months and saw first hand how much his regrets and trauma affected him #Both of which would eventually destroy him due to the cycle of self-loathing he was trapped in #How much does HE think about that? #Anyway sorry for not posting for nearly (checks watch) two years?? #It'll likely happen again #1k

[samioli]

honestly. its very funny to me that finding out my father did a very bad thing like. 16 years after the fact made me grow to appreciate other takes on Manfred von Karma other than "he's an abusive monster"

me and franziska are shaking hands over here 🤝

#i just find it hilarious because i was one of those OH HES PROBABLY AN ABUSIVE MONSTER people #but now i realize not only is that take boring and bland #its also very unrealistic #as someone with an already complicated relationship with their father #and also finding out something that makes it even MORE complicated #like by 1000x #just listen to me when i say these things are insanely complex and not at all black and white #me 🤝franziska #'still having fond memories of our fathers despite knowing they did a terrible thing'

[charrfie]

What do you think of him

What is this dude's problem

#smiling friends #charlie smiling friends #charlie dompler #art #my art #very art driven lately so i feel like drawing stuff for a lot of the asks ive been getting #been looking for an excuse to draw charlie anyways sooo #despite my very...... complicated lets say.. relationship with this show the main four are infinitely dear to me #THIS PLUSHIE IS SO FUCKED BTW. SCARY #laika answers #edit. this was so saturated. tumblr has yet again killed my colors. im so sad

[aroanthy]

i love how fraught and complicated discourse around various utena characters ‘dying’ is when anthy is literally stabbed to death eternally by a million swords imbued with human hatred. and then utena gets stabbed to death by them also. like. ‘death’ is incredibly interesting in rgu because most of the time it’s this ambiguous figurative thing that has interesting implications re: ohtori as a closed-off world one can escape. we are all trapped in our coffins. mamiya is the only named character with a grave. nemuro memorial hall functions as one all the same. ruka is implied to have died in the hospital— was he dead all along? who was the boy we saw for these two episodes? is this dead boy the same boy, or is this just another coincidence from the shadow girls, cutting like a knife? it’s heavily implied that akio and anthy murder kanae by poisoning her, adding to the previous implication that they were poisoning mr ohtori too, but there are no perceptible consequences of this. kanae’s absence is not felt. she’s fed an apple slice. what happens to the bodies? we know what happened to the 100 boys, but what about everyone else? and so on and so forth. ‘death’ is a tricky thing in utena, i think it’s constantly functioning on figurative and literal levels in very different ways for very different purposes. dios died. dios was dying. dios didn’t die. he grew up. etc etc

#what am i trying to say here? #idk! think about all of the pieces you have #dying is complicated in ohtori in countless different ways #and i find it boring to see so much ‘this character is dead and that’s it’ stuff #when death is used farrrrrrr more figuratively than some ppl give credit for #and i think the movie too does wonderful things with death #and what ‘dying’ really means #being disbelieved. being forgotten. being rejected. haunting despite this #much more interesting to think about wrt commentary on abusive relationships than it is #to think about what?? oh me when my brother died but plot twist he’s alive and can walk on this road all cool. like????? #akio doesn’t have the power to make himself revenant #he THINKS he does and he absolutely has power when he’s alive and he imbues that power with such meaning that it does live on after him #but ANTHY. anthy is the one struggling with herself and her feelings and the impact of trauma and abuse (that power!!) in aou #he’s dead? he died? she brought him back through her memories? or she’s left him (metaphorical death) and he’s haunting her?? #all such interesting interpretations #i haven’t mentioned touga bc i don’t have the energy today. if dead and just illusion of others memories then why active. why awful #like in aou akio is only Obviously scummy when he’s alive. his illusory self is based upon anthy’s love for him #if anime!touga is nothing more than nanami/whoever’s memories of him before he died……. why does he actively choose to suck again and again #like nanami wouldn’t do that. unless it was meant to be a subconscious thing like ooo he’s dead all along but that’s not what her arc is #it’s not ‘he’s been dead all along’ literally or figuratively. it’s ‘he’s unsafe and i don’t want him’ #sigh. once again i am asking people to think about nanami and touga’s dynamic through touga’s eyes #it’s so interesting to me how people forget to consider his motivations or feelings on ANYTHING #like sure his motivations and feelings are scummy but they’re interesting!!!!! they intrigue me!!!! #compel me even #anyway ignore how i said i didn’t have the energy for this and then typed it all out anyway #dais.txt

[wrongfourtytwo]

Lines… lines hard

#fanart #digital sketch #digital art #overwatch fanart #overwatch ships #overwatch #zenyatta #ramattra #Zenmattra #ramyatta #omnic #homo omnic love type shit? #I don’t know where the fuck to start #complicated relationship between two people who both just kinda ignore their differences #despite it going against what they believe #wild stuff idk #I’m high

[deeplyridiculouslyinlove]

I just rewatched 02 x 07 for the first time since finishing all the books and I can't stop thinking about it. I feel like everyone is either on the side of (1) it was all a big ploy, or (2) that's it for Moiraine and Siuan they can never come back from this--but I really don't think either of those are true.

I think the most in character thing Moiraine could possibly do is forgive Siuan, for the following reasons:

Moiraine knows that she would do the exact same thing that Siuan did here--namely, sacrifice anything (even their relationship and their trust in one another)--for the sake of the world and their mission. And this shared goal, these compatible values, and this mutual understanding is literally what has kept them together despite 20 years of distance and secrecy from the world.

[MINOR BOOK SPOILERS] We see in one of the books that Moiraine believes she and Siuan have made their beds and will lie in them one day by becoming involved in the quest to find the Dragon -- I believe the way she phrases it is about payment coming due for all the rules they've broken and the secrecy etc. that they needed for their quest. If this is her attitude, she is not only willing to give up everything, but expects to give up everything. And she expects it of Siuan as well.

Siuan has already proven how much she would give up for their quest. She became Amyrlin despite, as we learn this same episode, how much she did not want to be trapped in the tower and could not see her future there. She gave up any semblance of a happy life (how she would picture it both with and without Moiraine!) for this quest.

In some ways, if Siuan had just let Moiraine take Rand through a waygate to Falme, it would have actually been a betrayal of their mission. Their mission wasn’t “get Rand to Falme.” It was “protect and train the dragon reborn.” Siuan feels the need to do that as acutely as Moiraine does--and critically, Moiraine knows this about Siuan.

This goes quadruple if Siuan actually did think Moiraine could be a dark friend. Siuan thinks Moiraine lied to her!! And Moiraine knows this too, since Siuan does at least have the chance to say "You lied to me!" Moiraine would understand that if there was any chance Moiraine had been turned or was compelled, Siuan had to try and stop her from taking Rand off to god knows where.

Literally just a few days earlier Moiraine had threatened to have Alanna take Lan’s bond by force if he stood in her way--aka, the way of her mission. At this very moment, Moiraine herself has spent days (weeks?) contemplating what it would mean to betray the autonomy and trust of those she loves most if it means saving the world. And she knows what side she's on.

When Moiraine says, “if you have ever loved me don’t do this” my heart shatters into a million pieces. But that line is not just ,“it will be a betrayal of our love and trust if you compel me." It is that, but it's also a call for Siuan to see Moiraine for MOIRAINE. She’s saying “you know me.” She’s trying to get her (Siuan) to see that what she (Moiraine) is doing is not about her shame and pride but about the mission. Because it is ALWAYS about the mission, Moiraine IS the mission, and Siuan loves her because of that, and Moiraine knows Siuan loves her because of that 

Moiraine clearly hesitates before going through the waygate. Her character isn't one to linger out of shock and betrayal. She lashes out and she puts up distance--we've seen this all season. Moiraine moves forward. So I read her looking at Siuan here as far more "I love you and I'm sorry [I can't help you? it's come to this? we can't reconcile?]" than "How could you?" or "You're a different person to me now." I’m not trying to minimize the violation Moiraine is also feeling in this moment, I just think that if the violation was her primary emotion she would likely behave differently. And if she can have this messy a set of emotions even in the heart of the moment, I have faith she can similarly hold multiple emotions later when reconciling.

The flashback scenes are so heartbreaking but they don’t have to mean that Moiraine and Siuan feel so betrayed and far from those versions of themselves that they will never be together again. Those flashbacks can also be saying “remember when we were those people?” Holding onto those versions of themselves is how they hold onto their love despite this scene.

Those flashbacks also remind us that their relationship in the show is like 50 years old. It is deep. People don't throw away 50 years of relationship without a conversation, even if there is a deep betrayal involved. And that's normal people--not even people who have given up absolutely everything for a cause that the relationship has now gotten wrapped up in. In the books, they are together for a few years and then seemingly go their separate ways when the Dragon is reborn. I don't think the show would have gone out of its way to deepen and lengthen this relationship just to end it so quickly and unceremoniously.

#anyway maybe I'm delusionsal #but it just seems absolutely impossible to me that they would spend that long building up their relationship to just be like okay poof bye #but I also think them working together and having this all be a big plot sort of cheapens the moment #plus that just isn't the type of show this is #and the episode titles have been more applicable to the following episode in season 2 for whatever reason #so daes damar can refer to the games everyone is playing in the finale #although I remain confused how siuan knew where to go and where the waygate is #ANYWAY I get why people are so distraught by what siuan does here but I just don't think moiraine will see it that way #moiraine is a morally complicated character despite being so sure of right and wrong and I just have to believe she sees that in Siuan too #wheel of time #moiraine damod #siuan sanche #siuan sanche waits for only one woman

[askblueandviolet]

I think Blue likes you. 👀

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#lego monkie kid #lego monkie kid fanart #monkie kid #monkie kid fanart #lmk #lmk fanart #lmk macaque #monkie kid macaque #blue and violet #honestly at this point the Mayor's feelings really can't be defined by words #its wayyyyy too complicated because it actually doesn't make any sense #like Macaque helped kill LBD so obviously the Mayor resents him for that- wants to KILL HIM for that #but at the same time Macaque still means a lot to them #just like how despite LBD basically killing Ling and ruining their past life Mayor still loves her- ITS SO COMPLICATED GUYS #but more toxic than anything else- this is a very unhealthy relationship #and Macaque also has mixed feelings too and is still victim because Mayor did play a part in what was basically his ensalvement to LBD #Mayor is convinced LBD is so great but Macaque was literally hurt by her and was tortured and stuff- and yet Macaque still tolerates them?? #anyways I love shadowpuppet guys #this relationship will work out eventually #anyways the blue text is a quote from Mayor in Colours #second to last chapter

[cyborgpulsebooks]

actually you know i bitch about shb!thancred a lot and how his whole arc in the expac (as well as in post-hw let’s be real) reduces minfilia to haunting the narrative and also he doesn’t always treat ryne great, BUT,

i would be lying if i didn’t say that his relationship with ryne makes me uh, fucking cry. the fact that his first instinct when he hears that she exists and that she is being locked away and abused by a theocratic dictatorship with the largest military in the world is to go free her as soon as possible no matter the cost makes me cry. the fact that even with all his butthurt and trauma and his flaws he has the presence of mind to eke out some semblance of family with her and urianger makes me cry. the fact that he teaches her how to defend herself first makes me cry. the fact that despite everything he fucking pulls his head out of his ass and learns to relate to her as a real father and child instead of a standin for someone he misses makes me cry. the fact that despite everything ryne keeps him in her life and in her heart makes me cry. thanks for coming to my ted talk

#cyborg rambles #it's just. #when stories about found family happen it's usually all perfect right away #like #you find your people and you find that they're going to keep you safe and make you feel loved and everything's better immediately #the ryne and thancred relationship is complicated in a lot of ways #and the fact that they are able to love each other so dearly and ultimately in a healthy way despite the flaws and fuckups at the outset #its just #yells #we stan a traumatized playboy who becomes a queer af dad

[fromtheseventhhell]

Sometimes I see people misinterpreting Arya's character and honestly, all it does is make me appreciate her that much more. George could've easily written her into as a basic archetype and instead, he gave us one of the most complex and well-developed characters in the series and I'm forever grateful for that 🫶🏾

#arya stark #asoiaf #grateful everyday that George didn't write Arya as a basic NLOG type and instead we got a fleshed out character #with a complicated relationship with her gender role and self-perception #we could've had her disdain other women and instead we have a character who insists on the importance of women in a misogynistic society #gets revenge for a victim of a gang rape + takes care of a small child in a war zone despite being a child herself and defends + admires #+ fosters positive relationships with women from all different walks of life because of how they treat her #she has non-conforming interests but that also blends well with other traditionally feminine qualities #she has a sword! but she primarily has to rely on her intelligence and other skills to help her survive #she's a social creature who fosters relationships everywhere but she has to deal with the crushing weight of isolation and loneliness #she has maturity and intelligence beyond her years but she also captures the helplessness and vulnerability of a child #she can handle being personally mistreated but gets extremely defensive when it's someone she cares about being hurt #she's just so...well-written and the way she was ruined in the show was such a waste of excellent source material #being 100% serious when I say she is one of the best-written characters in fiction and her story is severely underrated #if we don't ever get the ending that George intended for her it'll be a tragedy

[spectral-musette]

belatedly for the Satine week prompt “friendship” -

I choose to believe that Qui-Gon and Satine were really close.

#Satine Kryze #Qui Gon Jinn #Satine week #Star Wars art #my art #pencil sketches #Satine just lost her dad with whom she presumably had a complicated relationship #and Qui-Gon has very strong dad vibes #and I think Qui-Gon would be so charmed by how hard she tries to be gentle and peaceful #despite her temper #and general Mandoness

[theworldisabrokenbonebutitishome]

The wonderful Guardian Bingo Fest mods put 'lollipops' on my card and my brain went 'ah yes let's be as weird as possible about this'.

Bonus photo for anyone risking pressing on a read more on one of my posts. You're safe from me rambling for once.

Zhao Yunlan has company now! ☺️

#guardianbingofest #twabbbiih made a thing #guardian #shen wei #xiao wei #the fucking lollipop #is apparently a tag? #zhenhun #guardian cdrama #HI YES I'M BACK WITH MY UNHINGED EMBROIDERY FILLS! are you sick of them yet? tough #we're ignoring the hand ending abruptly okay? okay. also how terrible and inconsistent the hair is okay? plaits are evil #someone did one (1) embroidery project with hair and thought she was a genius despite the struggles so did another MORE COMPLICATED ONE #DISCLAIMER: Z1L is possessed with unnatural beauty and no my sewing will never do him justice #also his lip is supposed to look a bit squished cause it does in the screencap #i can keep listing imperfections but i am actually somewhat happy with this go figure #well. mostly happy 😂 #i have a love hate relationship with taking photos of embroidery. i love the embroidery hate trying to make it look as good in photo format #did i rush to take these photos first thing this morning before work instead of eating breakfast calmly and without needing to rush? maybe #i finish a thing and then need to yell about it sorry

[20001541]

I had a dream that AFO had an Other twin, I don't remember much other than the fact that he had the Mother's Quirk

man I wish afo was in my dreams, you think with how much he occupies my thoughts he would be in at least one but alas 😞

also this ask reminds me that I used to headcanon that afo and yoichi had an older sibling who was killed along with their parents during a riot that broke out. I mainly just wanted to imagine afo having familial relationships outside of yoichi, and liked playing with the idea of afo being the middle child and such. of course canon is turned out to be very different than I imagined it would be but I am fine with that! I use canon mom shigaraki now to play with when thinking about afo having familial relationships outside of yoichi, she fascinates me.

#main reason why I didn't want the abusive parents route as was a common backstory most a41 fic writers used back in the day #was bc I wanted something different as we already had several villains with abusive parents #and I wanted to play with the idea of a41 having a complicated relationship with a parent but he still has love for them #and I'm so so so glad it turned out a41 didn't kill his parents I always disliked the idea despite its popularity back in the day #thank you horikoshi 🙏

[theshadowrealmitself]

I feel like I’m a side character who comes into town, happens to look and act exactly like the MC except with a different agab, maybe I’m there to give another character a sexuality crisis, but despite everyone pointing out how exactly alike we are (tho me and the MC deny it), there’s one v clear difference, and that’s the fact that there’s only me, I don’t have my own town of friends like the MC does, and maybe nobody else notices, I look back at them surrounded by people and bitterly mutter “Us? The same? I wish.” before leaving town, my last appearance, not even a recurring side character

#despite what this sounds like this IS fully a gender thing #complicated relationship with gender at the moment #no fandom #genderfluid/gendercrisis musings

[anthromimicry]

OH, speaking of misao, while i'm still here... let me talk about how she was introduced to playing instruments + why she still does it often to this day. as you may know, misao's mother — kaiyah — did suffer from mental health issues, and in ancient japan... they were very behind in terms of providing the appropriate care to those who had mental health concerns. while doing research on it, i also discovered that it was also unfortunately HEAVILY stigmatized and thought of to be caused by spirits and/or brought about by spiritual means. and so kaiyah would often have to find ways to try to help herself cope with her symptoms; one of which turned out to be music. and misao remembers which instrument kaiyah used to play vividly because listening to her play music, as well as sing, was one of the ways that they'd bond despite them having a rather complicated relationship. kaiyah used to play the biwa, which is a plucked string instrument that sort of resembles a guitar and whenever she'd play, kaiyah would sit cross-legged. and this wasn't only because that was the traditional way to play the biwa, but so that misao could sit in her lap as she strummed the instrument. and misao also remembers kaiyah just looking at her with this look that was just made up of pure happiness during those moments. which, although they were very ephemeral, kind of helped her pull through her childhood because they gave her hope that maybe she could be like this all the time at first; and then upon discovering that although that might not be the most realistic thing to think... it helped her pull through because she would believed that she rather hold onto whatever scrap of happiness she could get, rather than try to forget these experiences with her mother, because of the fact that they hurt her so badly emotionally sometimes. and this was because she wanted to help kaiyah the same way that music seemed to — she just didn't know how. but as the years passed, misao came up with the idea that maybe learning to play it could be a method in which she could assist kaiyah with feeling more... at peace, i guess you could say, and so she did.

though misao only got to play the biwa for her mother a few times before ryu was born, and whenever that happened, everything changed. but of course... none of it was his fault. all those good feelings that misao had associated with the biwa now had a sort of bitter taste to them because of kaiyah's neglect towards ryu and once more, although this conflict was a lot more nuanced than it might've appeared because of her mother's illness, misao felt this strong urge to just completely smash her biwa into pieces because she felt so bad inside. though, honestly, misao is glad that she didn't today. because it honestly is one of the few things that she still has around that reminds her of kaiyah, and although she literally cannot play it because the last time she did, misao just sobbed all the way through it — she was able to pick up another instrument that vaguely reminded her of the biwa and allowed her to reconnect with that old part of herself: which would be the guitar. but it is a very private part of herself that she doesn't reveal to a lot of people. she'll really only play the guitar around people she really trusts, as whenever she's playing it, it's almost like she's playing to her mother again.

#SOMETIMES AGAINST ALL LOGIC WE HOPE: headcanons. #NO SLEEP OF THE INNOCENT. NOT FOR YOU: character study. #yeahhh i uh... i'm not gonna lie y'all. i might've cried during this one #it's just that the situation that misao was in as a child was very complicated and so she does realize that feeling animosity towards her- #mother probably isn't right because it wasn't her fault at all but all misao could think about was that- #she was suffering and it seemed like kaiyah didn’t care about that at all. though who's to say that she did or didn't? #like i mentioned before it is a VERY complicated situation but despite all of that misao still loves her mother. #she honestly loves kaiyah with all of her heart and wished that she could've saved her from getting killed. because in the back of her mind #she sort of blames herself for it as her powers had awakened around that point and so she could've protected kaiyah. #but misao wasn't there when she needed her. and so there is LOT of complex grief as well as guilt surrounding her death for misao- #because of that. #but yeahhh... i know this one was probably a bit emotional guys but i had to get it out. #because i feel as if i have a duty to portray all parts of misao and one of those is that she loves her mother ❤️ #tw: mental illness. #tw: complicated platonic relationships. #tw: mentions of child neglect.

[hi-i-just]

Zack is so fun as a character bc when it comes to his relationships, whether the nature is romantic or platonic it still works. The chemistry is so fire, the feelings of love and care are sincere. Zack loves the people in his life, the people loves him back. Whether they're similar to him in personality or complete opposites — it still hits off. Zack and Aerith? The OG, first love forreal. Zack and Cloud? The loyalty, the dedication. Zack and Cissnei? Genuine appreciation and trust. Zack and Sephiroth? Treated each other like actual people. Zack and Tseng? The extra mile, the exception. You genuinely can't lose when it comes to shipping with this guy

#Except for the fact that he's dead. And left the living ones with indescribable amount of guilt and mourning. #Anyways! #Zack Fair #Take a guess who has been diving deep into ship tags w Zack! That's right me!! #So fascinating that his relationship w Tseng is so complicated #Zack is one of the few real friends Tseng cares abt outside the turks #And Tseng simultaneously screwed him over and later on tried to unscrew that screw up #And tbh Zack is arguably the only one who treated Sephiroth like. A normal person 💀 #Genesis and Angeal did NOT treat Sephiroth that well even if they cared abt him (*doubting Genesis here*) #And like it's similar to Aerith too. Zack treats her as a person and reassures her it's okay to be weird or different #Zakkura doomed yaoi #And then Cissnei... Like she was pretty warm to him in their early interactions #But it actually took her quite some time to ACTUALLY actually trust him yanno? #And despite no longer having any sort of official obligation towards one another #Zack tries to avoid hurting Cissnei and Cissnei defies orders to help him #Zack's best skill isn't combat it's his ability to befriend others 😭 like if you've played the OG ff7 #You'd be boggled seeing CC 😭 lile bro wdym you're close friends with Sephiroth and Tseng?? Zack Fair the man you are