#I actually love seals so much

[caelanglang]

Aster.

“I believe in you, but I’m worried.”

Trust. Loyalty. Communication.

They really went from “you’re gonna die soon… I hate your type.” (Kanda to Allen, Chapter 8) to “I don’t want such fragile people anywhere near me!” (Allen to Kanda, Chapter 227). The tables have turned…..

#hoshino wrote them with sooo much care I’m #Kanda going out of his way to tell Allen “I said that I would ‘help you’.” (Chapter 231) is the reason why I am insane. #They give me so much life. #the evolution #the DEVELOPMENT IS INSANE #LIKE #TWO OF THE MOST EMOTIONALLY CONSTIPATED AND TRAUMATIZED CHARACTERS IN THE SERIES ACTUALLY SITTING DOWN TO TALK ABT IT AFTER 200+ CHAPTERS #yullen is my therapy I love them #the cracks in kanda’s seal tho ToT #yullen #arekan #dgm #d. gray man #d gray man #allen walker #kanda yuu #Yullen Flower Fes #Yullen Flower Fes 2k23 #I hope I get to finish all my wips within the time frame hnnngg #my art #flower language #me citing my brainrot in mla style bc I am so tempted to write a formal essay abt this series #my og my core reason my villain origin story #LETS MANIFEST THEM COMING BACK FOR THIS MONTH’S UPDATE LEZGOOOO #I love them so much

[phantasyhalation]

What are your thoughts on Gundam Wing? (Do people like Gundam Wing outside of the "I'll kill you" scene? I genuinely do not know if Wing is loved or hated)

wing sucks ass. wing is peak fiction. wing is incoherent. wing speaks to us all. "i'll kill you" is absurd and stupid. "i'll kill you" is only the beginning of Wing Antics. the characters follow no meaningful internal logic. the characters are chuunibyou teenagers. it fumles all its emotional beats. all its emotional beats roll down the stairs and stick the landing. horrible pacing. horrible pacing.

only one thing is certain: it would be better if they broke out into song.

#people DO like wing yes. was the first gundam in the US so a lot of older people like it + it's been a consistent topic of discussion— #whenever i've been around the franchise. but do people think wing is *good*? not really no. that said it's chuuni as fuck and the aesthetic #rocks. extreme melodrama. terrible pacing. i mean seriously terrible there's so much vital information sealed off in sideworks too #ABSOLUTELY a fun ride though imo. it's been so long. i want to rewatch it. adore the music. adore relena (ambivalently). LOVE the mechs #that said if you're judging it against UC/WfM it's so tonally and thematically different (melodramatic; stupid) it might not be your ride #it doesn't actually know it is stupid. #i can't Generally recommend it for this reason. it's chuuni slop through and through. i love it. eternally divisive. never mediocre. #asks #latency.txt

[starswimmingart]

Hello! Sorry to be a bother but do you perchance do commissions or custom adopts? I was showing my friend your Sealdragon OC art and they absolutely fell in love and now they are interested in ordering art from you

AW hi there that's so incredibly kind! the long and short of it is yes, I do!! im actually a full time freelance artist and do commissions for a living! While i dont post any fnaf stuff over there, my main hub is on twitter. but here's my carrd that should point you to wherever you need to go! prices, ych, adopts, examples, and all that good stuff is the first link on my trello <3

#asks #my art #sdkjfns thank you!! really!!! #AND i want to mention that i can also work on a budget!! #if my prices are a little much or you'd like something a little abstract #I can work with whatever you give me! #i dont really ever talk about my main work over here so ik this is kinda outta left field kljdnsfs #i loveee what i do though and i friggen love seal dragons kjnfjksd so YES #i actually have a sealdragon base on my kofi as well as do custom designs for them!

[twilit-tragedy]

Atreus hands him to his father, asking for guidance. Kratos hands him to Freya, giving her the choice. Freya lets him go, realizing she doesn’t need to. Sindri strides in and unceremoniously offs the bastard.

#I love that #first of all because BONK #no actually first of all because kratos loops back to early game and handing it to freya Makes Sense #and then Sindri walk up and you remember ''oh wait there's someone who deserves it and needs it so much more'' #on the bastard: there was no possible redemption for him. he tried to manipulate freya to the very end. only his last words were honest. #no room for or desire to lie. he would never have stopped. and that seals atreus' choice #very good #laufey's marble remains empty :/

[helmarok]

genuinely so angry about this. you gave us a red-maned man with a big ol nose in the botw tapestry only for it to just have been another little white boy? no ganon? no hero ganon? like i was really hoping he'd have been the chosen hero but demise's curse and all of his previous reincarnation history has doomed him into being seen as evil by the kingdom he saved, and his portrayal as a villain in TOTK would have been his rage after what the people he loved did to him. that would have made a very good story about fate and the harm hatred can do but no that isn't what we're getting. did i expect nintendo to go the classic "ganon is evil!" route? yes. am i happy that they did after 30+ years of "ganon is evil!" formula? no of fucking course. i want more insight on him as a person and his culture. i want more lore on how he feels as a gerudo male and how he feels being born into a curse or being born as someone history has always scorned. but we'll never get it and that kills me

#ganon rambles #rant #totk #totk spoilers #im soooooo upset #i just. i love ganon so much and every game he's watered down to big bad evil man just to focus on hylian culture #and hylia and whatnot #i wanted this game to get into GANON'S side of the story #but keep link as the main focus to give the game some sense of misunderstanding on the player's part #as the player slowly unlocks the truth throughout gameplay #but based on the leaks? that's not what's gonna happen #i was just hoping the reason ganon as a demon has become so powerful #is because his heart was broken by the kingdom #and thats why he's stronger than ever #the fate he's tied to took him over using his broken heart #and he couldnt fight it and he was sealed #he's in regular clothes and jewelry! there is zero sign in his corpse that he was ACTUALLY TRYING to cause harm #in the moment he died! he is dressed as though he was welcome into the castle #not dressed for battle #i really love ganon and i see him as human too not just a demon with no motive but destruction #and yes ofc i love him for that. id be a fake ganon fan if i didnt think it was hot that he loved killing and violence #but while id love to keep my twisted and insane OOT and TP and WW ganons... #a good ganon that the game tells us about that gives us a view at his life and culture #that wouldve been so good #cuz all we get about this man is that hyrule treats his people like ass and he uses that as an excuse to kill civilians #i wanted to see how the kingdom treated the infamous male gerudo as a hero. i want to know WHY the gerudo grew pointed ears. #i want to know everything about him and his people but we never will because he's just the villain #and the gerudo are just a racist in game fanservice #ganondorf #totk neg

[sharkieboi]

forgot how good Happy Feet is in terms of animal behavior and anatomy like all the animals look and move in a way that’s actually accurate to those real life animals it’s so fucking good

#shhh sharkie #watching Happy Feet and watching how all the animals move #and like there’s obvious stylistic choices but like. all the animals actually look and love like the animals they are #when did we lose this in animation. #coming back to this later to say more specifically: THE FUCKING LEOPARD SEAL #‘I eat you with ketchup’ spicy lil Adelies penguins: ‘first you gotta CATCH UP’ #but the movement and the anatomy the fucking mouth and teeth on it!!!!!!!! #that’s an actual fucking leopard seal!!!!!!! #and the head and body movements of all the penguins across the different species too #we love an animated movie that does it’s fucking research #OH ALSO THE FEATHERS #that penguin coats look so different from other birds’ in terms of texture and color and structure #the light reflection and iridescence!!! i love it all so much

[oathofpromises]

Listen to that one guiding Light. Through the darkness, when you take flight. Remember me, just as I will never forget thee.

#— ❛❛ // G'RAHA TIA ¦ Your love will be the compass of my heart ・ 「 Diademreigned」 #— ❛❛ // STELLA CAELUM & G'RAHA TIA ¦DYNAMIC・ 「The vicious cycle was over The moment you smiled at me」 #— ❛❛ // REFLECTIONS IN THE CRYSTAL ¦ Stella Graphics・ #Just having feels about them today..wanted make gif set with how they were when they first met #The quote is actually part of a ballad that G'raha sang to her the night before he sealed the tower #I can't tell you how much it took put this whole gif set together..all day but they make me happy;;; #It was fun going back and rewatching these cutscenes in Stella AAR look both of them are just absolute babies #My eyes hurt from staring at my computer for too long so gonna take a break but will be back later work on threads and such

[designernishiki]

considering how many fatherless kids he’s become a father or uncle figure to, can you imagine just how many times kiryu has been asked to walk someone down the aisle at their wedding? and no doubt unless he was in hiding or something he’d absolutely feel honored and obligated and do it every time. and would be brought to tears every time just so proud and so happy for them…… ah……….

#crying in the club but in a good way :*) #kiryu #kazuma kiryu #yakuza #rgg #rambling #funny to think about this and then consider his own future wedding (to you know who) cause he SEEMS like the type to be totally fucking #clueless on what the hell to do at a wedding/to arrange a wedding #but if he’s been to like fifteen of them as an important role I mean. he’d actually kinda know what he’s doing probably. at least more than #someone who’s never had an important role at a wedding #funny to imagine majima being all over the place and a whole ass mess not knowing what the fuck he’s doing for once and kiryu being oddly #calm and competent for the most part. apart from some natural inevitable pre-wedding butterflies of course #majima: where the fuck am I supposed to find a priest to seal the deal or whatever I don’t know any priests do I look like I’d know any– #kiryu: we don’t need a priest. just someone who can officiate. I already called someone to do it. #majima: i love you so much

[raeygina-george]

One thing about me is that I love it when medias that have a princess who's locked up for years and years on end actually explore the miserable life she would have lived growing up alone and reading fairy tales that promised her a happy ending she never got

#raey spam #this is about tne song 'i know its today' from shrek the musical #like!!!! how she rips up all of her storybooks so that they're just happy endings in hopes that doing so will somehow #make her prince appear sooner #i think the main reason why i likw this so much is bc of how similar it is to growing up aroace #like everywhere you look there's love stories and everyone tells you there's no way to be happy without #a romantic partner #they all promise that one day you're going to find 'the one' but you never do #like. i love being aroace!! i do!! i know that not wanting a future like that is okay #but at the same time. i DO want a future like that. yk #when i first actually accepted that i was aromantic i wasn't happy bc i finally understood why romance was Like That for me #i was pissed. because same as everyone else i grew up surrounded by love songs and dating shows and id even had crushes as a child #i wasn't Supposed to be aro. i was supposed to grow up and live a happy life with someone else #i felt like accepting i was aro also meant accepting that i would never grow up to live a happy life #and i def dont feel like that anymore! but still. #anyways back to fiona: i also just really like it when deep down #characters know their fate is sealed. #they Know there's nothing they can so #but they convince themselves that there IS #my interpretation of fiona is that deep down she knows ripping the pages out of her stories isn't going to help #but hope and love prevail over everything right? #she has to believe that remaining hopeful and doing everything she can will reward her eventually #i hope this is coherent I can't really tell rn lol #other thinfs in the same vein i am fond of: #'when will my life begin' from tangled #'and many more' by quintessence #really any fic that expands on Alluka's childhood is very yummy to me #that's enough rambling for now

[salsflore]

goodnightt i keep seeing silly official art of honkai (3rd not sr) on my twt feed and its like AHHH... 1 day...

#elysia she is my favorite i love her so much. the honkai lore art everything it looks so beautiful but #i walk in there and immediately get stopped by this one thing : not liking the gameplay at ALL #fighting and the combos are cool but it gets really boring for me really quickly so i struggle to stick with it so i just have to learn #about it from a distance because for the life of me i cannot Actually Play it for more than like 2 days #but i will admit the numbers are lovely to look at #should pick up new games over my break i think. idk what games 2 play though!!! #rhythm games? not a huge fan anymore. vns? idk i never really tried so maybe! fps? i only really play apex #those casual simulation games etc are a no. i don't really know what i like but i know what i probably wouldn't/don't like i guess... #need cute anime girls in it or maybe cute seals or cute cats #💭

[arytha]

[ID: A sketch of my OC Era looking up at a divine statue of my OC Lorne. The statue is in a dark and dusty red alcove, the light diffusing through the small space coming from the sculpted fire in their hand. Lorne's divine idol is masculine, with curly unkempt hair curling down their shoulders and a simple wrap wrapped around their body. Fire is in one hand, a pair of bells hooked on a string hang from the other, and they look down at their worshippers with no details on their face. The sculptor did not give them one. Era looks up at the statue from the foreground, only the back of his head and the top of his dress visible. End ID]

The Forgotten Reunion

#mara's art #era #lorne #OCs #fuck fuck fuck i love this so much guys pls take a look #this is actually. a scene from the second chapter of my novel #eva!era doesnt remember lorne yet bc of a memory seal but accidentally runs into lorne's statue #and goes 'oh. i want to hide this statue away. i feel a possesive desire towards this god' #and then looks at himself like. wait wtf

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

Marc sobbing, "I was just a boy," and Steven telling him afterward, "You were just a child." Marc desperately trying to believe it wasn't his fault, silently asking, hidden behind his words, "Is she right?", pleading, "Someone please tell me it's not my fault," and Steven answering that and telling him, "Those horrible things she said to you--they're not true. It wasn't your fault."

Marc and Steven both grieving that Marc lost his childhood, too, swallowed up by hatred and abuse. The other unspoken question, "I was just a boy. How could you do this to me?"

#marvel #moon knight spoilers #moon knight #marc spector #steven grant #meta #my meta posts #quality meta seal of approval #not to hype my own post up i just put that on all meta posts so that i can find them #kay can i just catch my breath for a second #tw abuse mention #like marc is trying to assert that it couldn't have been his fault--he was so young--it couldn't have been-- #but his mother's words have hurt him so deeply that he can't actually verbalize that. he can't say 'i was just a boy. it's not my fault' #because deep down he doesn't fully believe that. he's heard he's to blame so many times that now it's just a desperate unspoken plea #and he needs someone else to tell him it's not his fault because it's all he's ever heard. he just needs someone to stand up for him #and the simultaneous meaning of it as a deep pain over being hurt so much so young #he was just a boy when the abuse began #but he'll never be able to fully heal from that. he's been changed and scarred too much #it's the pain of a child asking 'why don't you love me?' and the mourning of who he used to be #...so yeah when i say this episode devastated me...i meant it #there's so much meaning in just those five words. #kay has a party in the tags

[hraishin]

naruto had kushina to help him get the kyuubi's chakra but killer bee didn't have anyone but himself and his desire to be there for his brother

#like as much as bee was strong he was a child when he went through the process of getting the hachibi's power #and he was in a way alone since naruto had the advantage of having kushina's chakra sealed in him #he makes me so emotional i love bee so much actually #killer bee #naruto #syd rambles

[tomwambsmilk]

This might be my most Controversial post and if you're someone who's genuinely rooting for tom and greg to have their happily ever after in canon then you might not want to read past this point. Just to be perfectly clear I do love tomgreg in both their canon and fanon forms and absolutely no shade to the unironic requited tomgreg truthers, you're the backbone of this fandom and I love your work etc. But. I'm still skeptical of an actual romantic relationship going canon and even more cynical about it actually ending well so, uh. Dead Dove Do Not Eat and all that

I think that Tom being unable to make a really definitive bold choice is intimately related to why I think canonical tomgreg would end in acrimonious divorce (at least with how the characters are at the end of season 3… obviously character development is real and could hypothetically shift the equation). Tom is the literal human embodiment of that fable about the kid who reaches into the cookie jar and gets a huge handful of cookies but then his hand get stuck and he can’t pull it out and he starts crying until someone explains to him that if he lets go all but one he’ll be able to get it out. Except he’s never realized that last part and he’s so afraid of ending up with no cookies at all that he can’t let them go and instead crushes them into dust and tries to eat the crumbs and goes “this is what I wanted actually. This is fine. This is what normal well-adjusted people do and I am Happy.”

It’s deeply rooted in fear and that’s because Tom’s other fatal flaw is being a little bit of a coward. I say this with utmost affection but he’s always hedging his bets and trying to make the safest choice. This is not always a bad thing, but sometimes you do have to make the bold choice just to learn things about yourself. (Or simply because it's the Morally Right Thing To Do but uh. We don't need to get into that right now re: Tom). You have to make a choice and sacrifice something in the process and that’s how you learn what will make you happy and what won’t. Except Tom is so afraid of being unhappy and making the wrong choice that he can never let himself do that, and that’s why he doesn’t really know who he is and what he wants and instead lets himself be defined by societal images of wealth and privilege. He likes expensive things because that’s what he’s supposed to like. He wants to be CEO because that’s what he’s supposed to want. I think if he actually became CEO he would be miserable, in part because of what he’d need to sacrifice to get there but also because being CEO means being bold and taking risks and I think that’s actually his own personal version of hell.

That’s part of why I’m skeptical of tomgreg going canon because I think leaving Shiv for Greg would be an incredibly bold move and I don’t think Tom’s capable of that. Maybe if his marriage fell apart Tom would go for Greg, but then I think he’d very quickly find himself in a “grass is greener” situation. I don’t think he would really actively choose Greg, internally, so much as stumble into that relationship because Greg is there and Greg is the person he’s closest to, and eventually this would eat away at him. That’s NOT to say Tom wouldn’t have very genuine feelings for Greg, but I think stumbling right from his failed marriage into a relationship with Greg would set the whole thing up to crumble and collapse, especially once the weight of Tom’s emotional baggage sets in. There’s going to be a part of him asking himself “do I really love Greg or was he just convenient,” and rather than making the decision to really commit to Greg and see if the relationship can work he’ll start developing an emotional affair with someone else without even realizing what he's doing, because the problem with really making the decision to try and commit to Greg wholeheartedly is what if it ends up being Shiv all over again? What if he decides to be vulnerable with Greg and open up to him and give Greg his emotional fidelity and Greg ends up letting him down?

And because he's incapable of having an emotionally honest conversation he just starts tallying everything Greg does in some mental T-chart of "he loves me/he loves me not". Meanwhile, I do think Greg would be largely taken in, at least initially, by the idea that Tom threw everything away for him and when he realizes that Tom's marriage to Shiv was going to crumble into dust on its own merits anyway he's going to start feeling like a consolation prize and start pulling away and that's going to make the whole situation worse. When the relationship finally breaks down it will be acrimonious because both of them are going to feel upset and betrayed and misled. And that doesn't even begin to factor in Tom's uglier possessive and abusive tendencies and the pressure that remaining at Waystar would put on the relationship and whatever unresolved issues Greg still has around his gay homewrecking dad. Theoretically, they could go to therapy and start working through this shit and improve as people and make it work but tbh I think that they're far more likely to cannibalize each other first and not in a romantic way.

I would love to see it though. I really would. It would be an absolute nightmare but it would be amazing television and I would eat that shit up. Jesse Armstrong are you listening to me. Jesse Armstrong answer my calls

#I hope I don’t have to turn in my shipper credentials for this one #idk why but I’ve been a bit of a tom cynic lately. I do still love him though #also hopefully this goes without saying but absolutely no shade to the people who do think sweet requited tg is a real canon possibility #more power to you and follow your heart etc #what am I but a random person putting her half-formed opinions out on the internet #to be honest for me this comes back to the whole 'succession is narratively a tragedy'. they've all come too far for a truly happy ending #bittersweet maybe. but given that both tom and greg are knee deep in their corruption arcs i do think #that its unlikely theyll go start a vegan bed and breakfast in connecticut #best case scenario tom has a sudden moment of clarity and aborts before he permanently damages every remaining relationship in his life #(which at this point is just greg) #and actually I do think that's a possibility if the kinds of hard choices he has to make going forward are too much for him and he breaks #but even then I think that he's too far gone now to be really happy. we're past the tragic climax. I think he's ultimately sealed his fate #and as we move forward he's going to feel that fewer and fewer things are actually within his control #as he starts to really suffer the consequences of his actions in the first three seasons #so I think even if he gets out it's going to be too little too late #that's typically how narrative tragedies end. especially dostoevsky and shakespeare which I know are major influences for succession #and jesse armstrong has talked about how he doesnt believe people fundamentally change. its just that their circumstances change and so #their response to the circumstances change #I could be wrong though

[cobaltfluff]

ksjfjsks i was at a con today and heard someone VERY loudly partway through a rant about how some part of Shadowbringers jUST "ISN'T WHAT FINAL FANTASY FOURTEEN MEANS TO ME" and their friend was just "mmm ok but consider this"

lmaoooo i was like... things getting heated over here

#dust bunny #i for one very much love Shadowbringers #and it has become what ffxiv means to me #i would have liked to eavesdrop a bit longer #but i was tryna find my friends kdjfjks #i also saw a really neat warrior or light cosplay #i was like MR FINALFANTASY HIMSELF! #i think it was more OG warrior of light than elidibus #but man i only play 14 so idk the lore #except that it always makes me cry. so. #also my friends kept pointing out the graha merch to me #they were like omg your fav catboy who sacrifices himself and seals himself in the tower!! #and i was sweating like yes please dont notice his outfit change he is definitely still in the tower #(they're only up to HW) #how long until they get spoiled that he's actually BEST BOY

[laurelwinchester]

oh no it was actually pretty good lol

#listen i will defend this prequel until either it dies or i die #(because as a general life rule i find the wisest choice is to do the exact opposite of what the spn fandom is doing) #but i wasn't expecting the prequel to actually be this intriguing #but they did the bittersweetness #they know that every love story is a ghost story #it was clunky as 90% of pilots are and unfortunately it does have a certain amount of the cw cheese oozing from it #(although not nearly as much as the last five years of spn) #but the story has more potential than i thought it would and the actors are much better than the trailer led me to believe #and at its core it seemed to acknowledge the number one thing that it needed to acknowledge in order to hook people: #this show is a haunted house #fate has already been sealed #the train has already left the station #what's left is to fill in the blanks #and also dean was there and seeing him did indeed feel like going home #so looks like i'm here for the initial 13 at least #we'll see how it goes #i'm still hoping it gets darker though #and it needs more gore #spnwin #the winchesters