#The Couple Across The Way

[bodyhate]

Up to this day, I had considered the accordion the least sexy instrument in the world

#fontaines dc #music #the couple across the way #accordion #Youtube

[grimroninreviews]

skinty fia by fontaines dc review:

1. in ár gcroíthe go deo (5/10)

2. big shot (9/10)

3. how cold love is (6/10)

4. jackie down the line (7/10)

5. bloomsday (10/10)

6. roman holiday (8/10)

7. the couple across the way (6/10)

8. skinty fia (8/10)

9. i love you (8/10)

10. nabokov (8/10)

ranking: B tier

a great album from fontaines

if you like: preoccupations, shame, sleaford mods, snapped ankles, viagra boys, the murder capital,

#fontaines #skinty fia #in ar gcroithe go deo #big shot #how cold love is #jackie down the line #bloomsday #roman holiday #the couple across the way #i love you #nabokov #preoccupations #shame #sleaford mods #snapped ankles #viagra boys #the murder capital

[rastronomicals]

8:18 AM EST January 18, 2024:

Fontaines D.C. - "The Couple Across The Way" From the album Skinty Fia (April 22, 2022)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Dublin City

#Fontaines D.C. #Skinty Fia #The Couple Across The Way

[art-from-within]

It just struck me that narrative wise, Morgott having a heavy tail and Mohg having large wings may not have been a completely random choice on the part of fromsoft....the omen twins were both shackled to the ground in the sewers, one of the two still heavily worships the guilty system none the less. Morgott clearly toiled to keep the crumbling status quo a float, draining him. The tail could represent that he is still shackled in spirit.(Look at his tail 😭)

But the other, Mohg, possesses so rebellious a spirit, his wings symbolizes a strong sense of independence and freedom. Man got out, and unlike his brother said fuck yall and flew away.

#Okay so maybe I am COMPLETELY overanalyzing their character analyzing but it still makes for interesting post so bare with me #morgott the omen king #mohg lord of blood #o luminary mohg! #should I go on abt how much morgott #the man with 'i could never live up to great dadfrey' complex #looks like him the most. even the hair #tho depression and his omen curse hasnt been kind to his hairline #elden ring #also mohg is also quite like father in his own way #he looks the most animalistic of the two #but coupled with his bloodlust he almost comes across as a caricature of Hoarah Loux #warrior #godfrey the first elden lord #hoarah loux

[whaliiwatching]

a rendezvous beyond

and a halfway closeup just bc im rlly happy with how the bg turned out lol

#spider man: across the spider verse #spider punk #spider noir #hobie brown #noirpunk #SPIDER LESBIANS!!!!!!!!!! #they are both trans by the way #rebluvio also draws lesbian noirpunk go check that out!!! #but ive been wanting to do my own fem designs for a while haha #then. finally. brown-spider gave me the perfect inspiration #FAT BUTCH TRANSFEM NOIR CANON (im lov her) #i wanted to keep hobie’s usual wicks but then she just looked like. regular hobie #she got her hair down for a date but yall better know its in a pineapple most of the time lol #i like the power move of not changing their names for genderswaps so they’re still hobie and peter #maybe short for something longer idk #anyway they are the wlw couple of all time #classy girls who kill fascists… like what more could you even want #theyre still also nerdy dorks tho its intrinsic to their characters #cw alcohol #i guess?? since theyre in a bar?? sure #spiderdykes

[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

so...sSo-..

T-tallll

#a couple of my FAVS #HE SOOOO LANKY #but in a comforting way #hobie brown #spiderpunk #spider punk #atsv #across the spiderverse #spiderman #spider man #across the spider verse #marvel

[travelling-hydaelyn]

Lahabrea possessed Thancred before this questline even started which means these are back to back Laha interactions. Here is how he greets the WoL in the Waking Sands immediately after his Disney villain introduction.

Meanwhile in Minfilia's solar:

presumably he took a brief break from running Alphinaud's errands to go dramatically laugh at the WoL

#enjoying all this with Pandaemonium context #there is a lot to unpack here #OK LETS GO PANEL 1 #based on the follow up he's really just testing out the person who killed ifrit - not too different from elidibus' test later. #he comes across as goofy but i gotta ask if he taunted panda critters the same way before experiments #moreever hydaelyn is busy going “Eeeeeevvvilllll!!!” in your ear while laha chatters #I assumed this was direct line to the WoL consciousness the first time #but based on 5.2 she might just be bullhorning to anyone with ancient powers which means lahabrea is listening to her shout “eeeevviilllll” #hilarious I hope that is what was happening #PANEL 2 #not shown is laha opening with “oh hi <player name>” #like he sounds more like panda laha here than almost anywhere else nearly #in which of these two panels is he acting more I ask??? #I'm thinking its an even split per emet-selchs reckoning of his lost personality #if he could hold out as long as he does hanging out there in the Waking Sands hall then #it becomes very easy to see emet-selch felt like he was getting enough sanity out of him at the time. hes surprisingly functional #in spite of that intro #PANEL 3 #we were SO ROBBED to miss alphinaud investigating ascians with lahabrea. so robbed #alphinaud is still unsocialized at this point so extra annoying to laha for sure #thinking about how lahabrea acted around themis in the far past fills in a few blanks. can draw a couple of parallels perhaps #rotating that thought #ffxiv #ffxiv spoilers #Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn #lahabrea #alphinaud #minfilia

[daylighteclipsed]

Sora’s stupid but well-meaning cartoon brothers/dads/uncles: don’t be sad :) always stay positive

Sora young and impressionable: I will never let you see me sad again or talk about it with you ever, heroes are always cheerful and you don’t wanna hang out with me if I’m not, my sadness is an inconvenience to everyone, got it, I am internalizing this forever

#i go from having no new drafts to like 14 in a day #kingdom hearts #sora #donald #goofy #as much as i do wanna smack the cartoon duck and dog for this i enjoy that they are flawed #they don’t mean for their words to come across this way #they don’t realize sora’s getting a different message than just ‘cheer up’ #they don’t mean any harm by it but i definitely believe they are a big reason why sora becomes a stepford smiler #why he’s unwilling to talk about his feelings especially with them #why he forces cheer and silliness #that kh2 potc scene is so… hurjthrhdhs like ohh my god. it could not be more obvious #and donald and goofy don’t press him about it when they Should #they drop it every time #or sometimes they just straight up don’t ask if sora’s okay #when he is obviously not #coupled with as the series progresses how everyone else also expects sora to always be cheery #you’ve got a real mess haha… it’s such a mess #it sure is interesting revisiting kh1 and seeing how different sora is

[arohuacheng]

what people don't get about hualian is that they're literally like. jock and alternative art student. xie lian lives like a frat boy (mattress on the floor and nothing else in his room, no standards for his own well-being, can't cook and ends up eating what could be classified as biohazards) and is really enthusiastic about fighting as a hobby. meanwhile hua cheng rocks up to the function in his cunty little outfits every day of the week, bells on his boots and the red eyeliner slayed, obviously has taste but is soooo in love with his boyfriend who only ever wears cargo shorts and the most fucked up questionable hoodies you've ever seen. hua cheng wants xie lian to have nice things but it's always like. "babe i promise it's no trouble can we please get you a bedframe??" nd xie lian is obviously so enamored with his cool alt boyfriend who wears skirts sometimes and never misses a beat on a bitchy comment that's just the way it is. basically if your hualian concept doesn't have hua cheng as the hot goth gf you just don't get it

#talking #tgcf #look i am so passionate about this. mxtx wants you to think they're big strong guy (hc) and damsel in distress (xl) but they're fr not #hualian is the couple you see at a fast food restaurant where a goth girl is sitting across from some random dude twirling her hair #going 'babe you're SO funny!' nd the guy is just talking really enthusiastically about the olympics segment he watched last night #but is obviously really happy to be telling her about it? and for her to be genuinely interested??? and they're obviously happy together? #my point. is that they're mismatched but NOT in the way that people tend to talk about them. #they're in love and they're best friends and hua cheng is putting their hands together going 'whoa your hands are SO big..." #you get what i mean. not enough focus on hua cheng as a campy gay person and xie lian as a guy who owns one outfit #they ARE overdressed gf and very normal bf. you know this in your heart. [ pointing a gun at you ] #hua cheng #xie lian #tian guan ci fu #mxtx

[smilesrobotlover]

Part 2 :0 ||part 3

Oh my gosh I am so impatient 😭 anyways another little traditional comic test using my copics and stuff. This is where the dads meet a certain musician. Can you guess which one?

It’s funny cuz I wanted to buy a spiral sketchbook for this type of stuff and I got two for $10, plus they were 40% off. And then I got new liners cuz mine were dying for $7 and THOSE were also 40%. I spent a total of $12 which is a HUGE deal. Unfortunately the quality isn’t as good with the sketchbooks 😅 as you can see, the copics reeeeally bled into the lineart so that is gonna be a challenge, but it’s not biggie! It’s not meant to look perfect anyway! Maybe I need a thicker line but for now I must suffer

Anyways the dads are so silly to me. I love them. Leon is kind of a pain to deal with here, but you’ll understand why soon enough. He has a reason he’s acting this way 🤌

#definitely a challenge but I’m trying to make the backgrounds detailed enough but also simple enough #if they’re too detailed the characters blend in #if they’re not detailed enough the characters stand out too much #I like the background #grayscale is so nice #idk I kinda like this traditional way of doing comics #the dads are getting easier and easier to draw #strangers across eras #sae Rusl #sae Leon #sae Linebeck #sae Ammon #sae talon #traditional crap #I messed up on the lighting a couple of times 😭😭

[laviejaguardia]

Thinking about kid Syd and kid Carmy spending an afternoon neither of them remember anymore playing under the tables of The Beef

#that instant connection kids can feel #carmy who was shy and had a hard time making friends #coming across this very sober girl who is with her sad dad #who lights up at the sight of the sandwich so he goes to tell her he also gets happy with the sandwiches #and then somehow they're playing restaurant (he's on the front and she's cooking) under the empty tables in the corner #and its forever but really just a couple hours #bc Syd's dad takes the opportunity to rest and matbe cry a little and he can tell the teenager at the till with the black hair is constantl #keeping an eye on the curly haired blue eyed white kid #Syd tells her all about her new friend on the way back glowing with the news #but the next day she's moved to a new thing and doesn't even ask after him next time they come into the beef #eventually Emmanuel forgets all about the quiet kid too #mmine #the bear #the bear fx #sydcarmy #sydney adamu #carmy berzatto #carmy x sydney

[charl3ss]

I think one of the problems with booktok (and there are many) isn’t that they’re reading YA books, it’s that they are 1) reading BAD YA books and 2) not reading anything else that challenges them. Because reading YA isn’t bad or doesn’t make you stupid. The problem is when you have grown adults who ONLY read books meant for teenagers and then go around proclaiming them literary masterpieces. I am a well-read young women who reads a wide variety of books, but you know what, I adore Six of Crows and The Hunger Games. I’d say that those are both genuinely well-written YA books with something to say, (especially THG) but even if they aren’t, that’s fine! Not everything has to make you contemplate life. But—and you can call me pretentious here if you want to—you should be at least occasionally reading things that make you think/match your level. Because no shit that people have bad reading comprehension skills and impose an absolute black and white morality on everything when they’re only reading Coleen Hoover or ACOTAR or whatever YA book is popular right now. And this isn’t to say that there aren’t good YA books, because there are. (SOC, The Hunger Games, and The Book Thief come to mind). The problem is just that those books are still for teenagers at the end of the day. You do need to challenge yourself just a little bit. Pick up Wuthering Heights or something. I don’t know! Maybe I’m just a pretentious bitch, but I’ve said my piece.

#I’ve been trying to find a way to say this for a couple days now #I’m still not entirely pleased with it but I think it gets my point across #betsey rambles #anti intellectualism

[quirinah]

i forgot to post this yesterday but I watched the movie and IMMEDIATELY dropped everything to open my tablet 

#quirinahdraws #doodle #digital #across the spiderverse #spiderverse #spidersona #bluh. #graphic design is my passion or something. #anyhow meet spinneret. hero with a capability for a lot of versatility but about 5% of used in practice #they have three web kinds (red blue and yellow) with starkly different properties and can mix them to create new kinds #so like thereotically you could mix just the right amounts to get a colored web specific to the situation #but spinneret just likes using the same couple of colors a lot and they’re the most used to those :”) #their suit changes colors with the webs by the way because of course it does #the markings on the face and the right limbs are dynamic btw 👍 #cool power aside I do not think I would be an excellent spiderman because I am terribly afraid of falls #but whaddya gonna do 😁

[glass-noodle]

#I’m assuming that the majority of you who follow me ship them so I was curious. hehe #hankcon #connor #hank #dbh #detroit become human #noodle poll #if you’re curious I’m team ‘fandom made me ship them’ :) #always loved them as a duo but the more art and fic I came across #the more they started growing on me as a couple #and now. well. #it was hard to find gen fic/art that delved deep into their weird codependent bond #without veering into father/son territory (which to clarify is fine but just not my cup of tea) #and the pipeline from that to romantic feelings felt very natural #and angsty…hoohoo #and also the things people have drawn and written of them? how well their relationship has been explored by fandom?? absolutely insane #there was no way I couldn’t ship them #anyway!! I’m rambling #Hank and Connor on the brain 24/7

[transboysokka]

shitposts but it’s just stuff my students said today:

“DID you guys KNOW there’s an entire SECOND Korea??? And they have ONE LEADER like CHINA????” <- I mean damn I’d be pretty shook too if I ever discovered an entire country hidden in plain sight

“The monkeys came back down the mountain to my other school and we all had to lock the doors and windows again.” <- As if this is a normal thing that happens everywhere?

“IT’S MY MOM’S BIRTHDAY!” <- but he says this every day???

“Sometimes I make my mom angry and she goes outside and takes a long walk.” <- love the confidence with which this was delivered, no notes

“What’s skibidi-do-dah?” <- oh no

#skibidi has made its way across the pacific in the last couple weeks too god save me #for context on the first one South Korea doesn’t have “south’’ in its Chinese name so I mean I guess I can picture the surprise #and the name for North Korea is totally different #teacherblogging

[storygremlin]

I have just discovered the offensive reality of straight people A/B/O through Bridgerton fanfics—truly a misogynistic patriarchal reinforcement of gender stereotypes that horrifies me to my soul.

Straight people should not have access to this trope, they have no concept of how to use it. Like, if you’re determined to do a “family legacy” thing for the Bridgertons, they’re all horny Omegas looking for love.

However, if we’re being more INTERESTING with it:

Simon/Daphne should be Beta/Omega, and you could use Simon being a Beta to play into his daddy issues.

Kate/Anthony is Alpha/Alpha, anyone who tries to make Kate an Omega is out of their fucking minds. Also, that is a woman who wants to fuck her husband, let’s be so for real.

Penelope/Colin would be the actual Alpha/Omega dynamic but Pen is obviously the Alpha. Colin wants to be good for her SO BAD. I don’t make the rules. (Except I DO and I’M RIGHT).

John/Francesca are a couple of autistic Betas who just want the crazy Alphas and Omegas to leave them out of their messy drama so they can be quiet nerds together.

As for Eloise and Benedict, there’s a few options.

Eloise as an Alpha or Omega can be used to explore how that effects her as a woman in 19th century regency who feels like she SHOULD be able to do the same things as her brothers but is restricted either bc she’s a girl (Alpha) or bc she’s an Omega, and how that’s affected by her internalized misogyny (against omega girls for example). Could also contribute to her and Pen’s friendship dynamics—if she’s an Alpha, as a bonding point for not quite fitting, but if she’s an Omega you can make it a like she thinks Pen being an Alpha is cool/is envious of her.

Benedict I feel like you could argue for any secondary gender and make it interesting, cause that’s the kind of character he is. But I think most interesting would be making him a Beta to really play into the way he’s trying to find his place without having a set role in his family.

Have I put way to much thought into this? No, I literally came up with this as soon as I thought about it, it’s so easy and way more interesting than “the boys are alphas and the girls are good little omegas bc i hate queer people and prefer to write boring uninteresting worlds and dynamics and fetishize terrible gender stereotypes”.

The only way ur allowed to use A/B/O for het couples is if ur messing with the secondary gender shit. Otherwise it just feels inherently misogynistic and homo-and-transphobic to me.

#I was surprised how instantly I hated it when I came across a couple and saw the character tags #like I’m sorry I’m what universe is ANY of these romances male alpha/fem omega #accept the premise of fucking with gender or don’t touch it at all #literally fucking with gender is THE ENTIRE POINT #anyway #can’t believe I’m posting this lmao #bridgerton #a/b/o #omegaverse #lol #polin #kanthony #saphne #no? #daphmon #really??? saphne is way better #johncesca #uhhhh #johnesca #stirlington #idk what their ship name but they’re adorable #John Francesca