#HE HAD SO MUCH LEFT TO GO

[khruschevshoe]

There is something to be said for the automatic gut reaction I have every time I hear the four knocks in the End of Time that cannot be compared to. The way that my breath hitches immediately. The way that my eyes start to burn with tears and I dont stop crying until Matt Smith's face appears onscreen fifteen minutes later. The combination of foreshadowing and music cues and David Tennant's facial acting that burned itself into my brain when I first watched it at age 14 as the perfect, exquisite mix of writing, music, and filmic cues that I point to anytime anyone wants a fantastic example of emotional storytelling. The tragedy. The beauty of sacrificing himself for one man after his whole Time Lord Victorious arc. Saving his friends one last time. Hiding his face from Rose in those final seconds but still going to see her one last time. "You're gonna have a great year." Catch me crying into my pillow rn-

#doctor who #end of time #tenth doctor #tenrose #rose tyler #eleventh doctor #YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS EPISODE DID TO ME IN MIDDLE SCHOOL #THE DAMAGE THIS DID TO MY FORMATIVE MIND #TEN THOUGHT HE WAS SAFE #HE HAD SO MUCH LEFT TO GO #AND AFTER SPIRALLING FOR SO LONG AND BECOMING THE TIMELORD VICTORIOUS #HE SACRIFICES HIMSELF FOR ONE MAN

[brother-emperors]

TRY AGAIN LATER

it's like. well. its several things.

(Plutarch's Crassus, trans. Warner)

and also this

(ibid.)

that compliment sounds like an insult, baby.

anyway, there's a fun kind of eroticism in being given everything, in taking things that aren't yours without any real consequence, in climbing towards becoming a Roman Alexander, only for one man to deny you, over and over and over again, at every turn. Sulla tried, Crassus did it better. who would put a butcher in their place? who else knows you well enough to do it? who else can match you step for step like this? doesn't it feel like a kind of intimacy, a kind of—

it's also about the 'even sulla kissed my sword/so you want me on my knees too?' innuendo was too good to pass up. that was actually the first line I wrote, I figured out the rest of this to justify making a comic with it

and finally! the sword line is referencing/playing off of Lucan's Pharsalia a little bit because it fucks hard

(Lucan's Pharsalia, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce)

EDIT: oh, and that's a public domain anatomical illustration of a heart. you know how it is with love and hate.

#marcus licinius crassus #gnaeus pompeius magnus #tris homines #komiks tag #roman republic tag #drawing tag #its about how many ways i can create situations where i have crassus call pompey a brat #the subtext going on here is that pompey and sulla are in the middle of their political falling out #and pompey is like. okay motherfucker. and crassus is something that sulla had under his hand #but uhhhhhh. its not going that well for pompey. because sulla got there first #and left his mark #dont worry tho pompey you'll get him in the end. your descendants are going to marry each other #and name two of their sons directly after both of you!! fucking wild. LOVE it #can't get much closer than that! altho pompey did try something when he married publius crassus' widow #crassus himself however holds true to his statement of 'no one is ever going to touch me ever again.' #he's like. not alive right either so it'd be hard to pin him down anyway #too haunted. your ghosts your dead your ancestors have escaped your family house buddy

[catebeesart]

Hi !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm taking advantage of this to ask for Barcus Wroot !!!! my best boi whom i love very much.

Love your art btw, i was thinking of asking for those flash comm soon !!!!! have a good evening/night !

Barcus Wroot!!!! I'm so fond of this little guy!! Take him to therapy please!

#I was so heartbroken when I failed to save the prisoners at moonrise and he just left...... #so much so that eventually I had to go back from mid act 3 to early act 2 and redo everything #needless to say. Wulbren Bongle watch tf out #barcus wroot #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 requests #for clay-t #beesart

[transexualpirate]

i love the lesbian couple that lives near my parent's work. they are super nice and they live in a farm with nine dogs and over fifteen cats (not an exaggeration). im pretty sure one of them was in a cult when she was younger. they're both butch and one of them says she doesn't see gender for anyone ever, only presentation and pronouns. she still uses the word lesbian to herself because she thinks it sounds cool. all animals in their farm are rescues. they have more coconut trees that they can account for so everytime we visit they shove coconut at us and we leave with at least ten in our car because they literally don't know what to do with that much coconut. their existence fills me with hope

#this is true btw #they're friends of my mom and stepdad #because one of them is my mom's coworker's sister #and they sort of got super close #the coworker has kind of left the “group” recently #for multiple reasons including but not limited to: he excused fascism in front of us and we never let it go #i love them so much #they had a horse for a while #and a donkey #mine #not to be taken seriously #personal

[fictionadventurer]

What was the point of Scrooge's trip with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come? On a structural level, it makes sense--three is the fairy tale number, and you can't visit the past and present without also including the future--but on a character level, it doesn't quite seem necessary. Showing a man that he'll die alone, unloved, and unmourned seems like the strategy you take as the last-ditch effort to convince a guy that he needs to change his ways. But that situation doesn't apply to Scrooge. He started softening immediately after he first arrived in his past. By the time he finished with the Ghost of Christmas Present, he was fully onboard with the need to reform, so the Ghost's vision of his future seems like unnecessary cruelty. Why show him all this when he was already planning to change his ways?

A few things come to mind. One is that this vision of the future wouldn't have affected Scrooge unless he had already changed his ways. A cold, hard businessman could have seen his lonely death as just the way of the world, might have viewed the people who stole the clothes from his corpse as just people doing what's practical in this world. He needed to relearn the value of the intangibles--human connection, respect for others--to see the true horror of the lonely death and the vultures who defiled the dead man.

But why the horror? Can't he reform without being threatened with doom? It's possible--but it's also possible such a reform would be temporary. After all, Scrooge started as a friendly, loving young man, but retreated into himself and his business out of fear of poverty and fear of the way the world looks down upon poor people. Even if a reformed Scrooge started on a course of Christmas charity, there was always a chance that the enthusiasm would fade, and the worldly fears would start creeping back in. The only way to beat those fears is to give him something to fear that's even worse than poverty. He needs to see the horrible end that his selfish ways would lead to, so he won't be tempted to slide back into them.

There's also the fact that seeing his death makes him ecstatically happy to find that he's alive after the Ghost is gone. Had Scrooge been spared the vision of his future, he might have been happy to find himself on Christmas Day, but his joy would have been nowhere near the manic glee he experiences after coming back from the future. Now, he doesn't just get a new start--he gets a second chance. Coming back from his own grave makes him mindful of his death, but it also makes him hyperaware of the fact that he's still alive. He isn't in the ground yet. He still has time to do good and make connections with others so he doesn't die alone.

Seeing the past reminded him of the innocence he'd lost. Seeing the present reminded him of the people whose lives he was missing out on. Seeing the future reminded him that death is waiting, so it's important to live virtuously while we can. All three are important because all three brought him outside of himself and taught him to value the wider world, just in time to live through another Christmas Day.

#a christmas carol #charles dickens #once again i've ponderously worked my way to the explicitly stated moral of the story #but i had to work my way there because stave 4 left me unsettled #had i been scrooge that trip probably would have squashed any desire i had to reform #the ghost *doesn't say* whether or not the future can be changed #what if this is just proof he's doomed no matter what so why bother changing? #fortunately scrooge was much better than i was about logic #namely: no reason to show him this future if it *can't* be changed #the point of these ghosts is to save him from marley's fate #plus we did have the ghost of christmas present's implications that future shadows can be changed #it's kind of interesting when you step back from familiar stories that just go this way because it's how they're supposed to go #and really dig into 'wait a minute. why did it go like this?' #it usually winds up with me figuring out that the writer knew what they were doing #but it's also nice to see the scaffolding that got us to the story

[bicheetopuff]

Here’s an upsetting realization to leave you guys with before bed:

Katsuki was kidnapped by the league in July

Izuku left UA in April

It’s an insignificant detail but it was definitely intentional. Hori, you angsty bastard🥲

#bakudeku #midoriya izuku #bakugou katsuki #bkdk #bnha #i know we don’t know the exact days they left but I wouldn’t put it past hori to make it so that they both left on each others birthdays #also if you wanna get really technical #Izuku had ten months of training before the entrance exam in February #meaning that the sludge villain attack also happened in April #oh and Japan starts school in April meaning that DvK1 also happened in April #how much you wanna bet Katsuki HATES his birthday now?💀 #Izuku probably hates his too even though he’s only had one bad birthday that we know of #although I think it’s safe assume that the arc we’re in now takes place around June or July considering that he left UA in April #hori pls stop my heart can’t take it (read as: pls keep going I love the angst)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

shoutout to Frank, he's gonna fall for / has fallen for the most suspicious puppet in the neighborhood

#godspeed you funky homosexual your love interest is utterly fucked #and by proxy so are you! probably #frank: im in love with eddie! surely this wont affect me in any negative way! #meanwhile eddie is in the corner with a clock-themed leitmotif playing in the background #man im RABID im going RABID #i feel like the 'honey. youve got a big storm coming *snap*' meme #i mean its directed at Everyone but oh man oh man. franklydear is gonna be so much more insane than i suspected huh #like yeah obviously it was gonna go hard #but mmmmm man man man. eddie eddie eddie. its getting real and i suspect none of us will survive #no we will! we'll come out of it haunted and bloodsplattered and so so happy about it #good luck with your romance frank you're gonna need it #absolutely unprompted #welcome home #franklydear #i love how two days ago i was on the fence about eddie being That Sus #i mean obviously he had something going on #but now? choo choo the Something Extremely Fucked Is Going On With The Mailman train has left the station! #and is barreling towards a wall at mach 12 #if i were the main detective in a crime movie #id be restringing my entire corkboard and putting eddie and sally at the center. mainly eddie tbh #move over wally there's a new Something Is Seriously Wrong With You guy in town #rn by comparison wally is so so Unsuspicious #thumbs up and grinning! and shaking slightly in fear! #frank bby i wish you luck in these trying - hopefully very fruity - times

[just-a-queer-crow]

The 9-1-1 fandom is one of the most annoying fandoms ive been in can we STOP obsessing over Buddie PLEASE, like i get it i see it too, i sorta ship it, ive read a lot of fanfic, BUT theres also Henren, Bathena, MADNEY (biased on them)!!!

Also Buck and Eddie have relationships w/ the rest of the crew that r so important and so overlooked. Buck and Hen r literally siblings!! Eddie and Hen is so underexplored imo!!! Buck and Chim r also siblings!!! Bobby is literally Buck’s dad! Eddie and the dispatch team!!!! BUCK AND MADDIE‼️‼️‼️

The fandom is so focused on the one mlm ship thats not even canon and im just,,, im so over it. Esp w/ Buck being confirmed bi and everyone being like ‘why is everyone jumping ship Tommy’s only gonna be here for a little bit 😡😡😡’ like??? Theyre cute??? Its canon??? Ppl can multi-ship. Calm down‼️ Get over urself‼️‼️‼️

#im so over it #also the hatred for any of Buck and Eddie live interests is disgusting #do not understand it #Abby experienced a major trauma and while she didnt go abt it in the best way she had to do it #Ali realized she wasnt ready for everything that came with buck being a firefighter #and while i dont like that she left while he was hurt i understamd #Taylor fucked up but she also had a job #and her job came first to her #and her and buck just werent the right match for each other #that fandom makes me not ship buddie that much #like i see how gay that are and i get it but godddd #fandom gonna fandom ig #911 abc #911 show #911 fox #buck buckley #maddie buckley #madney #henren #bathena #buddie #tevan #evan buckley #bucktommy #henrietta wilson #karen wilson #howard han #chimney han #bobby nash #athena grant

[zelkams-art]

camera, cut!

#Nie Huaisang #The Untamed #Mo Dao Zu Shi #mdzs #artists on tumblr #my art #pov: you are jin guangyao and you are fucked #this idea was trapped in my head for so long so shoo you are free now #trying to find out how this outfit works was a pain though #because there are exactly 3 shots of it in the entire show and they're all super closeups so actually you don't see much #but I also managed to find a bts pic of Ji Li in it with the actors that played the juniors #though fun fact he literally wears one of the layers (with the sleeves) in the pre-timeskip already #AND YET it's so subtle that you don't remember abt it #also I had some thinking abt which expression to go for #because at first I made him smirking #but actually like... that's also the point that he was not triumphant when jgy died. he was just Very Tired. #like I wish I could explain properly what I think abt it but it was just... a bit bitter. like the justice is done #but so what. it will never bring his brother back. #BUT ANYWAY!! I wanted to post this before midnight and I have 5 min left so yeah anyway!! art!!

[rhymaes]

The Untamed, Eps. 19, 20 // Red, Chase Berggrun

#I spent SOOOO MUCH TIME ON THSIBBECAUSE LIKE. WHAT ELSE CAN A GHOST DO BUT HAUNT #he was dead the moment the core left his chest & yet. & yet. he came back. because his siblings needed him. because the war. his friends #and I’m loving them so much he gave it all up—including (in his mind) that love #like. fuck. you can’t move beyond the grave when you’re burying yourself with your other hand !!! #the untamed #mdzs #mdzs fanart #mxtx mdzs #wei ying #wei wuxian #lan zhan #lan wangji #hanguang jun #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #also I’ve had this book for three years I KNOW im behind but holy FUCK WVERYONE GO READ IT NOW #I love. queer people. I love Dracula. I love erasers #& bestie chase. get it.

[a-gay-little-cat]

"An excerpt from an interview with boxing legend Tiger"

I saw this post again and I just felt inspired to redraw it with Tiger so here we are :]

#cyberpunk 2077 #cp2077 #künstlerischer kuchen #my ocs #tiger #7ft killing machine btw but isnt he so cutes #fun lore fact!!! tiger very much was one of the animal's top boxers and he loves wrestling !!!! his agent had like. merch made of him #though once he left the animals the career kinda fizzled because he got more into merc work and offering his muscle elsewhere too #because besides boxing he does just enjoy violence and hey all those cybernetics arent cheap #but then it happened to be more and more merc work and less boxing until he eventually stopped entirely once his agent had a replacement #WHICH WAS FINE BY HIM he never cared for the fame of it #and im sure legends come and go very fast in night city

[aristotle0]

falling in the voltron / klance fandom hole was not in my 2024 bingo card

#voltron #vld #klance #vld klance #keith kogane #lance mcclain #not that I complain #I love these two people a little too much #middle school me had been telling me to watch voltron for so long I decided to give it a go #s8 left me without energy #how do I go back to how my life was now #maybe I shouldn't #anyways #langst #but like in a he deserves the world way #fic recs please???

[chayannesegg]

im so glad empanada, even after a tough day, got to have that talk and hug with richas and then bagi where em got some lovely advice about dealing with grief from richas & talked about what went wrong during the day

but i can't help but contrast this with sunny. sunny who empanada still hasn't seen. sunny whose been alone for days. sunny whose talked with almost no one. sunny who doesn't know bad is dead. sunny whose pretending tubbo isn't dead. sunny who got no goodbye. sunny who got no long talks about grief. sunny who got no explanations. sunny who no one visited today. sunny whose birthday is tomorrow. sunny who no one will wake up for first tomorrow

#qsmp #qsmp sunny #qsmp empanada #it's giving em and sunny being separated so long post em's first death #but also 50 times worse #they're sisters your honour they should be together #idk if sunny and leo will have talked off stream or not #but presumably she's done something with her mystery friend #we are for sure going to get angst from sunny tomorrow if only someone stays long enough to see it #also off topic but i think the em interaction with mike was fine #yes he clearly wasn't successful in cheering her up but she seemed to appreciate the attempt #even if it probably left her feeling a little like her feelings were her fault for not being able to cheer up #and he did apologize for barging into her room and left #i don't think he's in her bad books at all #she could definitely tell he cared and she was much more visibly frustrated with bagi #which they luckily had some resolution over #me once again writing one post in the text and another in the tags lmao

[fellhellion]

hi for the love of everything hello

#miguel o'hara #atsv #long post #<- probably going to be my most used tags of the year at this rate fkjsdjfk apologies kings #this post is laser aimed at Vin my beloved migutual (miguel mutual fjskd) because ive had so much brainrot over our chats #esp concerning miguel's misery submission to fate while not assigning cosmic meaning to the suffering canon perpetuates #THE FACT HES A LAPSED CATHOLIC IN THE COMICS TOO. CHRIST. #canon as the naturalistic force akin to a god itself that will smite you if you break it's rules <- to this man. OH BOY. fuckk.... #she came. she posted a huge miguel edit in the tags. she left jdskfjkds. genuinely IM SORRY if youre on mobile this is huge fjkdsh #tunes talks spiderverse #migedits

[moongothic]

So I'm confused about something. There was a cover story about Ms Goldenweek and other Baroque works agents breaking Crocodile out of prison but he just. Told them no? And stayed there with Mr 1 and Mr 2? I don't get why he wanted to go to Impel Down just to break out when he had the chance

I can't tell you 100% why Crocodile chose to stay in prison and go to Impel Down, but my best guess really is that he was just...

Taking the L with grace

More specifically. Crocodile had lost everything. I think deep inside he might've been literally too depressed to want to go free again.

Like he does literally say that. He gave up.

He had been building his reputation as "the Hero of Alabasta" for at least 10 years at this point. He had built not just a criminal organization that he had been running for four years, but also he had been running legal business stuff (like his casino) for probably longer than that. A decade's worth of work and effort to take over a country, and most importantly, get away with it. The reason he had orchestrated that whole rebellion was so that the rebels and the royal family could "take each other out", leaving the country wide open for a World Government Official such as himself to take up. The reason Baroque Works was doing this all in secret was so that the WG never found out, otherwise they wouldn't have let him have Alabasta.

But indeed, his plans were foiled by a kid in flipflops in less than 24 hours, just at the final moment before Crocodile would win. He lost everything. And the World Government found out about what he had been planning.

So even if he escaped from that prison with his former agents, what was he going to do?

He wouldn't be able to take over Alabasta anymore because he did not have manpower (as he had lost all his goons), and having lost his financial empire he wouldn't be able to build a new army any time soon. And even if he did, now that they knew what he had done the people of Alabasta would not accept him as their new king, even if he personally assasinated Cobra and the entire family. Not to mention, the WG finding out about his plans meant that they had every fucking reason to try and stop Crocodile if he did as much as set foot on that island again. By which I mean, they could launch a Buster Call on his ass. Send all the fucking Admirals after him. And so, even if Crocodile still believed Pluton was somewhere in Alabasta and that he just had to comb through the entire desert to find it... Between the Alabastan people and the WG in the way, finding Pluton would not be easy. Especially when Robin wouldn't even be there to just point him directly to it. It could take years, if not decades, while fighting off the WG by himself. And that's while assuming Pluton was somewhere in Alabasta. Like WE the readers now know Pluton is in Wano, but since Robin didn't tell him that. All Robin said was that the Poneglyph "didn't mention the weapon", and Cobra's reaction to the name merely proved the weapon's existence in Crocodile's mind. But surely, because Crocodile is a smart young man, he'd understand there was a risk that Pluton could exist, but just not be in Alabasta, right? Like that would be a possibility too, right?

I think this is why Crocodile has given up on Alabasta. He had one opportunity at seizing the country, and he failed. And without Robin, he could spend the rest of his life combing through a haystack for a needle when there's no needle, and he'd have no idea. I think is why he explicitly says in Impel Down he no longer has "interest in that country". He won't be able to pull off another stunt like this, ever.

And that leads us back to "why not escape earlier and avoid going to Impel Down to begin with". Thanks to his status as a Shichibukai, Crocodile hasn't been on the run from the WG for like two decades. And the past 10 or so years he has seemingly lived a life of luxury in his funny little casino. But now, having lost everything, he'd be back on the run. And because he's a world famous former "hero of the people", there would be nowhere he'd be able to go where people would not recognize him and send the marines after him. So he'd be on the run, for the rest of his life or until he'd get capture again. And mind you, the guy does not trust anyone, so he'd be on the run alone. Without any purpose or goal.

And you might be thinking, "Daz and the rest of BW was still there!", yeah, arguably true. But at this point Crocodile had no reason to trust any of them. Like personally, I think the reason Crocodile ended up taking a liking to Daz was BECAUSE he chose to follow him to Impel Down when he really did not have to. Like Daz showed an unusual level of loyalty to Crocodile, and I think Crocodile recognized that. That's why Daz is still with Croc, post-timeskip. But Miss Goldenweek and co? Crocodile had no reason to believe they wouldn't betray him if given a chance and a reason. And if the WG would come chasing his ass, they'd have plenty of reason to try and betray Croc (handing Crocodile over to spare their own lives). Not to mention, when they come release their former boss from jail, what did Miss Goldenweek say?

"Let's do Baroque Works again"

As I've already explained in detail, I think we might know why Crocodile wasn't interested in being Baroque Works' "boss" again.

So. Yeah. If in Crocodile's mind he'd be on the run from the Government for the first time in two decades all alone, in a situation where rebuilding what he had before would be bloody hard if not downright impossible, and he wouldn't be able to obtain what he had spent the last decade working for regardless...

Taking the L and just going to prison might've been the easier option

#Moon posting #Asks #OP Meta #Sir Crocodile #Long post #Mind you Crocodile only *left* jail because he saw AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY for petty revenge #Like had it not been for that war bringing Whitebeard out he probably would not have bothered to try and fight WB again #Otherwise he could've just escaped prison with Goldenweek and co and travelled to the New World to fight the old man right away #((Also theoretically Crocodile might've been slightly suicidal with the ''taking WB's head'' thing)) #Also worth noting that Crocodile choosing to stay in prison could've had two other purposes re:the former agents #It could've been a test of loyalty (to see if anyone would stay with him or would they all abandon him) #Which could be important to Mr Trust Issues (and to be fair he did find at least one loyal subordinate in Daz) #((Like if they had all told Croc they'd stay with him...... Who knows. Maybe he might've chosen to escape after all?)) #Other option: Crocodile escaping with them would mean the agents would be in much more danger than they'd be without him #Like the WG wouldn't send tons of marines after the individual agents if they all scattered to the winds #But if they all stuck together they'd become a bigger target. And even more so if Crocodile was there to lead them #And like. IDK if Crocodile was willing to leave out Goldenweek from the assassination order and spare her... Maybe this was the same #Maybe he wanted to spare Goldenweek (and the rest?) from being put into danger by going with them? #I dunno man this reptile has far too many layers to him I can't tell what's going on in his head

[shima-draws]

USOPP ABSOLUTELY POPPING TF OFF???? Hitting a target THAT far away with SUPREME precision AND unlocking Haki?? I’M SITTING HERE LIKE

#MY MANS!!!!!!!!!!! #Listen I was REALLY upset with him earlier in the arc when he was a PUSSY and ran away from Trebol #Like. He had a whole thing about how he’s changed and how he’s not that much of a coward anymore #AND THEN HE FUCKING LEFT THE TONTATTAS AND RAN WITH HIS TAIL BETWEEN HIS LEGS LIKE A LITTLE BITCH #I WAS SO. FUCKING MAD #They were getting their asses beat and crying his name and he was being the BIGGEST fucking pussy on the planet #GOD I wanted to throttle him #It’s okay tho this was his redemption moment. #SO PROUD OF YOU BABY #Love that his fear of losing Luffy overpowered any feelings of cowardice #Like. He was so worried he was going to forget Luffy. He DID ALL THAT FOR HIS CAPTAIN #ALSO WHEN HE SAID ‘The seas without you…I don’t ever want to see that!’ FUCKIGN. USOLU MOMENT. SOBBING #I swooned. I’ll be honest I swooned. His sniper skills kicked in and I was like OHHHHHHHH?!!!!! SIRRRR 👀👀👀😳 #Coughs anyway. #One Piece #Shima speaks #Usopp