#I think he couldn't imagine one

[mayasaura]

I just want to talk about the nursery being painted and the purpose of the Tomb to be without a door. Anastasia had a family - and putting to the side the pact with Alecto there's some implicit symbolism to John asking for the workers of the Ninth to die constructing the Tomb with that image of new life. (Still can't articulate my disbelief that he went and didn't think that asking Anastasia of all people, The one who lost her cavalier to him, would have problems)

Yeah. Especially finding this out about the Ninth, where nurseries becoming tombs is a thing we're sensitive about.

On one level we've always known Anastasia had a family. Like, we know she's Harrow's direct ancestor. You can't be heir to the line of someone who never had children. But the nursery.... Yeah. It really hammers it in. Her friends painted a nursery mint green for her children.

And now it's a tomb.

#that's what the Anastasian is now after all #you're right there's really Something there #I've noticed something in John I think ties into this thematically that I really hope Kiriona is going to help us explore #John doesn't believe in a future #I said in my last Anastasia meta that Anastasia outsmarted John by making herself immortal in a way he couldn't understand #she left behind something she created to outlast her #John hasn't built anything to outlast himself and he doesn't think of the future at all #he mourns the past and fights like hell to live in an eternal present where nothing ever ends #you know #immortality #and a part of that—maybe most of that—is about despair #even way back before the world ended even before he had magic powers he didn't think of a future #I think he couldn't imagine one #and like. I get it dude #don't imagine the future and maybe it can't hurt you #how many people have you heard saying they don't want children because it seems cruel or irresponsible #they can't imagine forcing someone to live in the world they see coming #climate anxiety is fucking everywhere and for a lot of people in our generation—John's generation—it's coalesced into despair #but Anastasia did imagine a future #she had a family #and now John has a daughter but he still can't imagine a future for her #she's just as dead and eternal as the world he loved so deeply he killed it rather than watch it die #what did Gideon say when she saw the First? it had the look of a picked-over body but hot damn what a beautiful corpse #that's gonna be you baby girl #the final expression of the art of the nine houses #John gave up on hope ages ago #so it doesn't really surprise me at all that he still asked the builders to die in the tomb #the locked tomb #ntn spoilers #nona the ninth

[c-a-s-s-i-s]

In a world full of darkness and hopelessness you created something beautiful. People who can do that live forever.

#reita #the gazette #yeah i will never be over him #i was thinking what to put in the desc #like... i never knew hum personally but the fact he existed changed my life for the better in so many ways #and it is still so unreal to me that he is... gone. #i found so much solace in their music i know i kinda abandoned this blog but god knows my mp3 player is full of tG live rips #i've been rewatching their lives recently and looking forward to MASS. and then... this. i can't imagine how his family feels. and the band #idek anymore. may he rest in piece. i have no words. heaven couldn't wait with this one.

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance - The Grid

#kingdom hearts dream drop distance #khddd #the grid #scenery #my gif #the general aesthetic of this world makes most areas feel very samey #i was worried that i wouldn't be able to make this set look varied enough but i think it turned out alright #but i'm glad sora and riku were able to wear unique outfits in this world and that they brought back the lightcycle race #replaying this game made me realize that sora and quorra's friendship is pretty adorable haha #she took one look at that kid and was like our names rhyme we're best friends now let's team up and ditch the other characters #guess i'm a fan of sora befriending computer people because the whole thing with tron/rinzler is really interesting to me #imagine my surprise when i played this game for the first time and saw that sora got through to tron but couldn't save him #and that we don't return back to this world to resolve it #he reached for his hand...

[13eyond13]

underrated funny thing about lawlight is they never actually did get to confirm that 100% of the time they were basically thinking exactly what the other person thought they were thinking every single time

#im thinking about this because of the relationship i have with one of my bosses #like hes extremely hard to read and doesnt make small talk but hes also considerate in quiet ways #so im always like guessing what hes thinking and feeling and wondering if hes trying to do the same back #but then im like am i just projecting onto him completely? making this all up in my head #hes giving nothing and im imagining everything. and you really dont want to make assumptions because it would be awkward to be wrong #for example a few times now things that i wondered if he was doing to make my life easier were actually just things he was doing #because he was secretly preparing to close up shop #so i was glad i never voiced my appreciation for his thoughtfulness out loud to him when i found out the truth lol #ANYWAYS unlike in my situation #the entire time whenever one of those two thinks one thing the other one is like 'i bet he's thinking this' and we the readers #look between their thought bubbles and go 'pffft he sure is what are you gonna do now' #its probably a good thing they went to mu because the afterlife couldn't handle all the smug sex theyd be having on every available surface #24/7/365 #lawlight #p

[zishuge]

I'm supposed to be working but instead I'm thinking about Li Lianhua growing vegetables and how, once upon a time, he was so happy that he almost cried when he finally managed to grow some turnips.

Thinking about how he must've been at rock bottom then - sick, injured, heartbroken, having just lost in one fell swoop everyone and everything he's ever cared about. His shixiong, dead. He believes it's his fault. His shifu, dead. He believes it's his fault. His sect, in ruins. He believes it's his fault. His people no longer believe in him. A-Mian doesn't love him anymore. It's all his fault, it's all his fault.

He doesn't have Hulijing yet. He's alone. He's heartsick. He'll be dead in ten years, or much sooner than that if he can't find some food and shelter. His Sigu Sect leader token is only worth 50 taels of silver. It turns out everything he has built his life around is worth only 50 taels of silver. I can hear his self-deprecating laugh. How foolish he must've felt, having his life's ambition put so violently and abruptly into perspective.

Have you ever been so despondent that you cling desperately to just one thing, anything, that you can focus on in order to not think about everything else? So: turnips.

Tending, weeding, watering, counting, day by day by slowly passing day. The vegetables grow and he survives. And finally, one day, he discovers that against all odds, he has turnips. These hands which he believes have caused the destruction of all that he once held dear, somehow managed to nurture creation and support life. Everything and everyone is gone, but here in his hands is this one small glimmer of hope that perhaps he is not only capable of ruin. How happy he must've been. Was it the first time he felt joy since before the East Sea battle? How he must've wanted to tell someone, but there was no one there.

You know who he must've most wanted to tell? His shifu. His shifu, who once told him that he didn't care about Xiangyi becoming any great martial artist. Just eat well, drink well, and live well. Maybe kneeling there in the dirt, gently cradling his small misshapen turnips in his hands — maybe that's when Li Lianhua finally understands what Shifu meant.

#and so he promised himself he would do nothing but try to live by shifu's words for the rest of his life #of course that is until fang duobing crashed into it #mysterious lotus casebook #莲花楼 #word vomit #it's li lianhua feels hours #when i tell you that that one scene of him tending to his turnips #made me absolutely lose it #i had to pause because i was sobbing so hard i couldn't see the screen #i can't have been the only one #just imagining what he must've felt then #every time i think about it my heart aches #i'm sorry this is so long i just can't stop thinking about it and need to get it down #i have to go cuddle my dog now #my ramblings #text

[mel-loly]

“And I see forever in your eyes

I feel okay when I see you smile, smile~”

@alsomanple/@manpleblog

#I chose this song because the first time I heard it. I was already thinking about mike.. AND I was already dating ANA. #but I still thought about him- #and the funniest thing is that after a while. when he and I started dating. he made a playlist of songs that remind him of me.. #and this song was the first one on the list! #Idk how. but how happy I was to see that song in the first place and on the playlist that HE made... you certainly couldn't/can't imagine.. #so.. I have a very special affection for this song... and I couldn't help but draw them. as they are such special characters for us too! #that we can change their appearance so many times. but their love and the love that we have for them will always be the same :] #so... yeah. thanks mike! I'm happy to have you here.. and I'm happy to love you and you love me too...💖 #hey mike!!! #mike my beloved/p #my platonic silly #c!melple #c!manple #not my oc #my boyfriend oc #c!mel loly #my oc character #handsome couple/p #king duo #i'm mel and this is my blog✌️ #my art blog #art #my art #my art <3 #art mel #my art style #dandelions song #dandelions #valentine's week #?

[numbuh424]

people have pointed this out before but I love how the death note jdrama highlights how needlessly cruel L is capable of being..... calling Light (and the other Kira suspects) early in the investigation to falsely accuse him of being Kira just to see how he'd react, taunting Light relentlessly while he was imprisoned and interrogated, and of course the mock execution. all while knowing no one can really stop him. the jdrama really said "btw don't forget this guy's an ASSHOLE"

#light had to solo that mock execution in the drama too no misa no kira just a boy staring down the barrel of a gun held by his father #drama light isn't exactly a saint but he certainly isn't as adept at handling such brutal psychological warfare like animanga light was lol #L is an asshole and we love him for it but he's still an asshole #death note #death note jdrama #death note drama #death note tv drama #l lawliet #light yagami #there were the little funny taunts like him going to the misa concert and hiring lookalikes to swarm the place #so misa couldn't figure out which one he was and discover his name #or that time during the yotsuba infiltration where he tricks light into running full force into a closed door #but by god when you think about it for too long some of the earlier stuff is brutal for someone they only knew to be a suspect at that poin #there is an element of horror in imagining the level of power L actually holds as the world's greatest detective #even in the animanga it's like..... if this is the shit he gets away with when there are cops present...... #I know that the kira case was unprecedented and it forced him to do things he normally wouldn't do (like going out in public for example) #but surely this can't be the first time he's staged a mock execution right...

[willowser]

I wrote this on my blog but I was wondering how you feel about it, Bakugo and on only child. Do you think it would be intentional or due to circumstance how would he respond to others saying something about it, what kind of things does he do with his kid ect. I want to write more about this but never really see anyone else talking about it. 🥺

hello dear !! you know — i have never really...pictured him as having more than one actually !! that's not to say that i couldn't imagine him having a few little kiddos, but, typically, when i imagine dad bakugou in my head, it's just with one 😌 i don't really have a reason for it, i think, but if i had to guess why i usually go with that thought is because i do see him as being a little older by the time he's having a baby bean, and i do typically headcanon him as — struggling with being a father LOL so in my head, maybe i just see him as feeling like one is enough for him !

as far as him being asked about it, hmm 🤔 tbh, i — feel like a lot of his friends would be unsure if he's going to have kids at all, so if he were to have one, i can't imagine anyone really saying anything about it ?? anyone that is close to him at least; being asked about it in, like, the media or by the public or whatever, i don't think he'd even give them an answer LOL but if he was asked about it by someone — like maybe his mother, or something — i think his answer would be very: *shrug* "'s'wrong with what i got?" LOL i genuinely think he could be totally content with just one, so he sees no reason to alter that reality for himself because — he's happy !!

and with him having just one, i think he'd do everything with them ! put them in all the sports and encourage them to try all the things ! i don't think he's the kind to spoil his kid too much but — i think he also grew up fairly well off, so they're doted on in a way that he's taking them on trips for the summer and no expenses are really being spared for the things he thinks they need, because that's just what he's used to ! what his parents did for him !

that's his little pal 🥺 his bud 🥺 and i always think of bakugou as the kind of person that feels lucky to have whatever he has when it comes to romance and love and you and family and friends, that he wouldn't think to ask for more 🥺

#i hope this helped at all !!!! #but yeah this made me realize i've never imagined him with more than one lol #i think. it's emotionally enough for him LOL #as in — he doesnt know if he could handle more than that #not to say that he actually COULDN'T #like i'm sure if i thought about it then i could come up with a reason why i think he might want more than one #but i think he's nervous enough about fatherhood that that anxiety spikes at the thought of another round LOL #it's like. if he manages to do it right once he's not sure he'll get lucky enough to do it right a second time #if that makes any sense idk !!!!! #waaahh i love dad bakugou 🥺 #cw children #✿ ask willow #✿ thoughts: bakugou #✿ theme: dad bakugou

[rickybaby]

Nobody understands Daniel Ricciardo Like Red Bull do

#the way it took only one race for daniel to show he was never the problem at mclaren #nobody understands daniel like redbull do #its such a simple statement but soooo - #when you think about christian horner saying this is not the daniel we knew. the drives he had with us #like he couldnt understand who that Daniel was. couldn't understand how he could end up where he was with mclaren #i just cant imagine how draining those two years at mclaren was for him having to change the basic core of himself as a driver and #having to go against his won instincts and the first race back? AT giving him that trust and confidence in himself by listening to him #and for the people constantly saying why redbull is giving a second chance to a driver who's apparently finished - #he doesnt have to prove himself to them. they know what he can do. they know how to get that performance out of him #daniel ricciardo

[relmint]

zhuhou or jiankong food for the jttw requests please?

Oh mY GOD ANON ILYSM RN!!

My laptop died though and I couldn't find my charger so I had to draw them in trad 🤩 I might redraw some of these and make them better lawl 😭

Zhuhou doodles (the first one is like...very old lawl)

And jiankong <33

#one-sided jiankong is my shxt #zhuhou #jttw #Journey to the west #rel'sart #aka Erlang's unspoken admiration towards Wukong turning into a crush (help) #but Erlang is having none of that shxt #HE CAN'T FALL IN LOVE WITH A DAMNED YAOGUAI! ONE WHO REBELLED AGAINST HEAVEN NONETHELESS #BUT ANYWAYS PICTURING ERLANG REALIZING HIS CRUSH ON WUKONG AFTER THEY BATTLED LMAO #IT'S SO FUNNY LMAOO #CUS LIKE...I LIKE TO IMAGINE THAT ERLANG MET WUKONG AT FIRST WHEN HE WAS BAIMAWEN RIGHT. #and uh Erlang didn't really think much of Wukong. He thought Wukong was just some monkey #but then #Wukong proves him wrong when he wages war against Heaven and the monkey even gave Erlang Shen a hard time in battle #wukong was able to do what Erlang Shen couldn't #aka defy Heaven and to be proud about who he is #and that's where the admiration comes from 🙃 #Erlang might resent Wukong for making him feel this way #and Erlang would also be mad at himself #and when he burns Flower Fruit Mountain Erlang feels #relief #because he knew that Sun Wukong would not forgive him for CENTURIES to come #and he burnt down that possibility of him and Wukong ever becoming a thing #cus c'mon man #Erlang burnt Wukong's home #how else is Wukong gonna feel lmao #edit: I forgot that Erlang did defy heaven once. By freeing his mom from under a mountain. Still #he'd have that admiration to Wukong for not giving into Heaven's pressures

[20001541]

since there's still debate as to whether afo's official eye colour is white or red I just like to imagine his natural eye colour is white but he changes them to red sometimes because he thinks it makes him look more evil and cool

#sometimes he makes one eye red and one eye white for fun #but I also like the idea of them changing based off his mood because of a quirk he got #I've seen people also use blue green yellow and purple for his eyes so those could be the other colours they change to #I think this would be annoying for him tho if he's trying to mask his emotions and the eye colour gives away how he's truly feeling #but imagine if he couldn't figure out which quirk is causing that to happen so he's just stuck with it 💀 #prob a side effect of some telepathy quirk he got or something

[sysig]

Giving nicknames, testing boundaries (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #Max Vyer #Dexter Favin #How /did/ Max come to like him so much in just two years? I have my theories :3 #More Teen Max!! Nothing has changed I just continue to love him lol #Two years is a pretty quick turnaround for such a stubborn kid - though I guess for a child two years can be a long time haha #Went from just hating Dex's guts of trying to drive him away and make him quit and hating being kept on a short leash #Does make me wonder how much of him kissing him was an impulse - I mean obviously lol but how much was genuine attraction! #Certainly seemed like a lot :0 Even upon being rejected he couldn't give it up! Still took him another several years to act again tho haha #I mean - in the text lol who knows what they got up to in the time skips hehe ♪ #AnyWay lol - them getting used to each other of slowly working into tolerating each other #Max said something in one of his wake-ups that as I read it implied Dexter was something of a polyglot?? Which - love that ♪ #If not conversationally-fluent then at tourist-fluent y'know I think that's great <3 #Which got me thinking about other languages and insults and curses haha #I like the idea of Dex only really strong-arming Max about Actual deviant behaviour - something that puts himself or others at risk #Harmless little things like any teen would do - like name-calling! Haha - just get a kind of neutral ''Huh'' #As well as interest <3 Not an outright dismissal not a lecture but at least the appearance of investment! #Considering Max's home life I can't imagine he had all that many people genuinely (or fake) interested in his shenanigans #All about suppressing the symptoms more than rooting out the cause it's amazing what just showing a little interest can do #I also just think it's cute of Max getting away with something silly and harmless but totally biting and mean! <in his mind haha #Silly lad <3

[fragmentedblade]

Boothill's presentation being entirely on the twitter post makes me think he will be irrelevant in the story in the long(ish) run, and that the game itself won't dwell on him almost at all

#Kinda like Argenti but Argenti seemed to be part of a larger lore and worldbuilding #Boothill doesn't even give me that vibe #Cool design though. I do love revenge stories and western films so... #*sighs* I guess I may consider him if he's fun to play with and the story is interesting. I hope he takes Aventurine out of the grave #(Or do I? Emotionally I do. Rationally I think I may lean more towards 'keep Aventurine dead' tbh) #Imagine if his revenge is against the IPC in general and Aventurine in particular but when he gets there Aventurine is already dead #The enormous fail that would be hahaha #Automaton cowboy is such a good design though I would have liked it more had they taken the automaton way enhancing the clockwork thing #instead of the cyborg one with the futuristic air. What can I say I do love automatons and clockwork #and to me they're far superior aesthetically than cyborgs. Not into cyborgs and robots at all. Sorry Screwllum. Herta most beloved design #I wonder if his gameplay will revolve around some killing himself mechanic #I don't know what to say I do love those things gameplaywise. I love the risk they add and how they make one strategise a little more #Even beyond the story and the lore‚ Blade is still my fave character to use. So fun so flexible and ironically so reliable despite the risk #Abfksndk rambling #I am thinking of Aventurine and I'm thinking of Fu Xuan. I think I'll skip Robin unless they go dark-dark with her #but I'm still considering Sunday if they make him shady. I was looking forwards to Firefly but I've disliked her writing a lot #so for now she's a big skip. I wouldn't mind getting Topaz given I love the FUA mechanics and the SU #but I like other characters more and I don't like her design at all so I'll skip her too #Couldn't care less about IL (I have him in an alt account and I don't like him at all) so that's a big skip too #I like Screwllum but not enough for now. Hmmm I guess I could get one shielder since I do love them as characters #and then save until one character really convinces me. Boothill‚ Robin‚ Sunday hmmm I hope Sunday is shady and grey #I wonder if they'll bring Huaiyan. I would give a leg for Huaiyan. Yeah I've not moved on from the Xianzhou I love that place #and I adore Huaiyan and the Zhuming. I so hope we'll get to see that ship #I talk too much

[science-lings]

imagine being Misty Fey and leaving your daughters in the care of your asshole sister who frames one of them for murder and is literally just about to do it again, knowing that the asshole sister has a daughter who killed two (debatably three) people and nearly killed another. You keep track of one of your daughter's life enough to notice that that one kid that your niece tried to kill interned with your daughter and defended your other daughter for the first daughter's murder because they met at the crime scene and became instant buddies and the first time you meet your remaining child she doesn't recognize you. You will never be able to tell her who you are because you get murdered that night.

#i am always thinking about a bridge to the turnabout btw #you think she looked at phoenix interacting with Maya and was like 'welp I guess I have a son now' #lost one lawyer daughter and gained one lawyer son #her reputation had to have been crazy for her to disappear for so long like holy crap #i bet she was at Mia's funeral in a disguise #she's kind of fascinating actually i wonder how much she actually knew... #she may be a deadbeat but she's so interesting to think about #i like to think she tried to silently keep up with her kids but couldn't contact them #she definitely shouldve though #at least after morgan was jailed like... what are you waiting for? dl6 was solved! maya could channel greg again and ask why he lied! #theres literally no reason to just dip out forever anymore! #i hate her i want to study her I want her to haunt the narrative more #misty fey #ace attorney #i want misty to watch courtroom recordings because she's desperate to see her daughters #she gets to know phoenix as shes trying to keep up with Mia and Maya #middle child phoenix supremacy #imagine realizing that this random guy has done more to protect and save your daughter than you have by just being there for her

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

I love how loved megumi is in sea glass gardens, like the "i don't even know your last name but i just made your heart beat again and now i will die and kill for you" makes me melt. yuuta's love for megumi (SO NORMAL FEELINGS) is concerning but very heartwarming

There's just something so different with seeing a bunch of teenagers giving it all to save another teenager they met a few hours ago after seeing him bleed out in a car he totally stole, yknow? like u died on the table, now im going to ask my entire clan to see if they can find a cure, and i dont even know whats ur favorite color

i LOVE LOVE LOVE the concept of megumi being everyone's baby. he raises other people's grandma instincts and we love to see

thanks for this masterpiece !

I'm so glad you like it!

I think one of the most interesting parts of the dynamic with Megumi and the love others hold for him, particularly in this moment, is that Megumi is almost entirely unaware of it.

To be clear, he knows his sister loves him. Gojo, Nanami, Shoko--he knows, on an academic level, that they all love him. He doesn't know that Yuuta and the other first years have decided that he's Their Boy (But Mostly Yuuta's) and that if anything happened to him they would kill everyone in this room and then themselves. But he can plead being unconscious as a defense to ignorance for that one.

Megumi knows that people love him. But he does not feel very loved right now.

He's completely traumatized, even if he wouldn't admit it at gunpoint. I've spoken about this in other posts, but Megumi genuinely believes that what the Zenin just did to him was a murder attempt. He thinks that they hate him, and that Gojo saving him humiliated them, and that they've decided that if they couldn't have him, no one could. He just spent the last week under the impression--with considerable evidence to back it up--that an entire clan, his blood family, got together to murder him in the most brutal, painful, and humiliating way they could imagine up. He's angry and humiliated and more than a little afraid right now.

And he just doesn't feel very loved. It's hard to feel anything but bad after what they did to him.

Of course, while he sleeps, he has Gojo and Nanami and Shoko having left the world behind to focus on him to the exclusion of all else. Yuuta's--Yuuta's got some very normal feelings around him. He hasn't seen Maki in years, but she's there, and she's very protective of the little boy who she once played with. Inumaki and Panda both had the option to walk away, and yet here they are, doing whatever they can do to help. And Tsumiki hasn't even left his side since she got him back.

He's loved to the point of destruction by so many people right now, and he's just almost completely cut off from knowing that. But the love is there.

#Sea glass gardens #megumi really is the village baby #i think that it's honestly a mercy right now that he doesn't know the zenin are obsessed with him because it would fuck him up so bad #It's one thing to have people hurt you like that because they hate you #he understands hate #he feels it plenty #but if you turn around and tell him that it was all because they love him in a very twisted way? it would fuck him up #the zenin love megumi in the way a very spoiled child loves a doll #they'll destroy him over it #hate has its limits but love? love drove megumi to sacrifice himself for his sister #it drove tsumiki to refuse to ever let him go #love is the most twisted curse of all and the zenin's love for him is the worst curse imaginable #it's selfish and hungry and it has teeth. right now megumi just couldn't take learning how badly people want him to be eaten.

[martyrbat]

Bodies in Motion and at Rest – Thomas Lynch

[TEXT ID: It hurts so bad to think I cannot save him, protect him, keep him out of harm's way, shield him from pain. What good are fathers if not for these things? Why can't he be a boy again, safe from these perils and disasters? Lately I'm always on the brink of breaking.]

#SOB.... #when i read this at first i actually had to go stand outside for a moment and take a breath because oough.... #bruce & jason #cryptcites #how can he be expected to save a city and other men's sons when he couldn't even save his own? #but he has to try. he will always try. in jasons honour. in his memory. #thinking of that moment just after. no one to turn to to mourn with and grieve. the own guilt and your worst fear happening. your son dying #the what if's and million scenarios you imagine. what if you never adopted him? what if he never became robin? what if you told him you #loved him more? what if you didnt have that conversation with alfred that led to him running away? what if you tracked him down faster? #what if? how you could save him a million times but itll never be reality. then bruce carrying the photo of him to literally give #him a reason to keep going and a reminder of why he still has to save the others. just :((( #THAT ONE LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT PANEL #WHERE HE'S CRADLING JASONS CORPSE AND REMEMBERING HOW HAPPY HE WAS TO GET THE COSTUME #AND TELLING HIMSELF HE CANT ERASE THAT MEMORY HE CAN'T ERASE JASON'S LIFE AND HAPPINESS AND REPLACE IT WITH THE IMAGE OF HIM DEAD #I THINK IT WAS ISSUE 100? SECOND STORY. VERY :(((