#The Man With Two Pasts

[madlovenovelist]

#bookquotes

Aah! The appeal of the bad boy. Sometimes it gives ME the shivers… but most of the time I just want to put them over my knee and give them a spanking!

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[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I started reading Dungeon Meshi last week, became instantly charmed and captivated, and blitzed through the entire manga in 4 days (and changed my profile picture about it). With that in mind, I would just like to say...

I love your dungeon meshi art so so much

CHILCHUCK!!!!!!!!

Thank you kindly! I love Dungeon Meshi a lot, so I'm happy to see so many people get into it for the first time.

CHILCHUCK!!!

#ask #dungeon meshi #chilchuck tims #I feel like chilchuck was overlooked in the pre-anime fandom a lot (which sucked as an OG chilchuck fan). #So I am thrilled by how much love he has been getting. He is a great character and so much fun to draw. #Great comedic straight man while also having some really hard hitting emotional moments. #I think he needs a union mandated vacation after this dungeon expedition -and a drink with an umbrella in it. #Veering off topic for a moment: #I started drawing this at the same time as the Dragon comic (I had chilchuck brainrot) #and since then two of my dungeon meshi comics have hit over 10k notes. Which is bonkers! #A year ago I was getting hyped over a post reaching past 100 notes...I never thought I'd be here. Thank you for all the love and support. #I may have started as a MDZS blog but drawing for Dungeon Meshi has had a huge impact on me *and* my art. #This Chilled Chuck is thus a mini celebration for a incredible milestone B*) #I'll keep my weekly dungeon meshi posts going until the season ends so please keep looking forwards to it!

[thefrogdalorian]

I was watching Chapter 15: The Believer yesterday and something stood out to me that I guess I'd never really thought about before...

When the Juggernaut is getting attacked by the Pirates, we see several shots of Din struggling without his armour. It's a new way of fighting for him and he struggles to adapt at first.

He quickly rallies and skilfully fights them off, though. But more pirates soon appear and after fighting them off, Din is thrown backwards. He sees several pirates approaching.

Din lies down in defeat, powerless to fight them off without his armour or weapons. Knowing his death is likely imminent, without hope of survival.

Instead of giving up and accepting defeat, he does not allow himself to wallow in despair and mystery. After sighing deeply he steadies himself and gets right back up:

Facing down death as the pirates approach, he does not show weakness or fear.

He doesn't allow himself to be cowardly, or dwell on his likely impending doom and the fact he has failed in his quest to rescue the child he loves so much...

Instead, Din stands there with his fists up, outnumbered and without weapons, prepared to fight to the end even in the face of certain death...

Fortunately, of course, the TIE Fighters appear to save the day and Din succeeds in his quest to rescue Grogu and, well, you know the rest.

But I think this little moment in one of the best episodes is such a good insight into his character.

Standing up with his fists clenched like that, outnumbered and hopeless but refusing to accept defeat is perhaps one of the most Mandalorian things he's ever done. Yet only a few minutes later he removes his helmet and that act leaves him rendered an apostate in the eyes of his people. Told he is a Mandalorian no more, even.

It's kind of heartbreaking because he really did not deserve to be told that. Mandalorians are proud warriors, who never give up. Being a coward is the worst insult in Mando'a, their ancient language. Here, Din showed that he is nothing of the sort.

Din Djarin is as honourable a Mandalorian as they come.

#din djarin #the mandalorian #star wars #din thoughts #din djarin brainrot #my gifs #I JUST HAVE FEELINGS ABOUT HIM I LOVE HIM SO MUCH he deserves endless forehead kisses #imagine telling this man he is no longer a mandalorian #the armorer when i cATCH YOu #jk i like her i think shes amazing and i loved her arc in season 3 #but din is so incredible #he GETS what it means to be mandalorian even though he wasn't born one and i need to hUG HIM RN ITS SICK AND TWISTED #i also desperately need sleep bc ive been busy the past two days lol but i really needed to get these thoughts out #because i lovve HIMMMMMMMM

[arcadeplayer-nickonz]

i was listening to TV Girl and suddenly i was compelled to drew these bastards

they suit the post valentines mood

#rick and morty #rick and morty fanart #rick sanchez #prickcest #or at least implied? #rick prime #rick c137 #don't you just hate having a hologram of your nemesis haunt you? so does Rick but he hasn't managed to get rid of him #guess old man Rick is stuck with a reminder of his poor life choices #i don't exactly ship anything within the series but somehow my interest was very much peaked at the idea that these two had a fling in past #so these doodles are a result of that- #bottom sketches were just me messing around with brushes and drawing the younger duo #nickonzart

[jeeaark]

final showdown pt2.

This was one of those battles where I survived it without a single reload. So. This entire scene? Accurate. Embarrassingly Accurate. (except the healy dealy. that's Greygold flair)

Wanted to get to the crown as fast as possible, but had to fly by Emps. Literally stopped next to bud to personally yell/reassure the fool I was gonna save their ass and then risked the opportunity attack.

(which. I forgot to bring my dex 18 gloves and discovered illithidism had shit dex, so....IS FINE. GG IS ALL FOR STARTING A NEW COLLECTION OF FRIENDSHIP SCARS)

BUT SQUID BUDDY MISSED. so. I like to think Enthralled Emps had put some effort into jumping through some rather large logic hoops to miss. Unlike Greygold who put JACK effort into dodging.

I originally intended to leave Emps completely alone, risk the attacks. But. Brain tentacle surprise happened. Right next to the squid. Emps rolled high in initiative.... But not as high as Lae'zel. Game-wise, ✨I panicked✨. Story-wise? I don't think this could have been any more in-character. Albeit, I found myself quadruple checking to make sure knockout mode was ABSOLUTELY on

#bg3 spoilers #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #the emperor bg3 #lae'zel #illithid tav #greygold #squid greygold #Man there's so many past comic refs I don't feel like linking hope you all are keeping up hUAR #If GG had known emps would be there they would not have worn that guardian armor but they are too stubborn to admit they whoopsied #I don't remember jack in the other timeline final battle (sadly) but this fight? forever burned into my soul. good drama yo. #I will never get over how Greygold use to have the AC of an Ancient Red Dragon and now they're AC is Squid Chum SQUID CHUM #GREYGOLD'S AIM IS SQUID CHUM TOO AUGH #As much as I keep ragging on Emps I love Lae'zel to death as well. knocked that squid out in one go to protect her squid-Joy ehuehuehueh #I can only imagine that she never thought she'd have to resist killing not one but -two- mindflayers for the sake of love....Love you babe~ #CHARACTER GROWTH INDEED

[h0estar]

i'm actually going to cry.

maybe the reason Anya suddenly revealed her secret to Damian, of all people, is because she felt guilty about knowing his deep desire for familial love. he didn't mention it, but it was painfully obvious in the way he looked at her with this soft, sad smile:

anya is so strong. i would've cried and hugged him 😭

but lo and behold, anya wasn't so strong after all. after trying so hard to keep her ability a secret, she told damian anyway – and without hesitation too.

crying... this panel is everything to me

personally, what Anya did was equivalent to a hug. maybe she felt bad... maybe guilty... maybe she wanted him to feel less alone... maybe she pitied him... maybe she sympathized... or maybe she felt it was the right thing to do. but in her own way, she definitely did it to make him feel better and less alone :')

maybe i'm just yapping. but the two of them are so similar in so many ways. Damian despite being part of a real family longs for real connection. and Anya, despite loving her family so much, secretly wishes what they had was truly real – a family not held together by a mission or conveniences, but just that, a simple family. they both just want a home man

this chapter was perfect in so many ways. these kids make my heart hurt, and i'm so scared yet excited for what Endo has in store for the next arcs <3

#spy x family spoilers #i think it's incredibly sweet and adorable that it was damian who she told FIRST. i love that so much :')))) #can you tell this chapter has me on chokehold :D #i want them to become really good friends man #i love them so much. the've taken up like 80% of my brain for the past two weeks #damianya #damian desmond #any foreger #damian x anya #spy x family #spy x family 96 #i've been manifesting a heavy damianya moment by blasting can i have this dance every day for the past 2 weeks #also also also damian in anya's pov haha ah ah a shahaa dhskdj

[forcedhesitation]

astarion origin playthrough worth it just for all the extra moments where he does the "sad wet cat" face

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #thoughts about media #astarion #*kisses his forehead* my awful little bastard man... i love you and your big sad watery eyes. #IT'S SO FUCKING QUIET THOUGH IF YOU YOURSELF ARE PLAYING HIM GOOD LORD #I'M SO USE TO HIM COMPLAINING TO MY TAV!!!! #OR BANTERING WITH HIM OR KARLACH OR WYLL!!! #I MISS HIS THEATRICS!!!!!!! #not that it's ENTIRELY quiet. until i found karlach i was travelling with shadowheart lae'zel and gale. #and let me tell you. gale and lae'zel do NOT shut the fuck up if they are together. #they were literally having an entire tinder date while we were trecking through the woods to go get karlach. #i NEVER knew they talk so much because while i've travelled with them individually in past saves... #...i've NEVER had them in my party at the same time! #gale is actually pretty nice to lae'zel! he asks a lot of questions but doesn't condescend her as he does others sometimes. #that's probably because he's afraid of her though. I would be too were I nothing more than a wizard with 8 strength. #I do like how you can look at pretty much any two companions and get a well written and generally enjoyable dynamic! #It feels like they considered that a lot of people would want to maybe pair off the companions they didn't romance with each other! #and wanted it to be easy for really any pairing to work... if a person just paid attention to their shared interactions.

[livetogether--diealone]

youmademeallnervouswithyourfrickingblowerthenirealizedyouhaventgotaclueandthenitwas i calmed down

#me at 2 am repeating this phrase in a loop #I'VE BEEN IN THE TRENCHES MISSING THIS SILLY LITTLE MAN these past two months #ill i tell you i am ill #but it's also about charles completely giving up because he's up against the f1 encyclopedia and seb is just rapping wdc like they week day #and gets all flustered about it #AAAAAHHHHHH #charles leclerc #sebastian vettel #sebchal #f1 #jo.vid

[laney-rockin]

Spirk is so adorable until you realize that the time that Kirk and Spock spent together is so disproportional from each other.

And I did the math to show y'all:

Assuming the Memory Alpha Wiki is correct; James T. Kirk was born in 2233 [in March apparently!] and S'chn T'gai Spock was born 3 years before in 2230 [in January, which is kinda cool].

Still assuming all wiki data is correct than they first meet in 2259, when Kirk is 26 and Spock is 29. Let's assume they assumed a friendly association with each other until Kirk took control of the Enterprise in 2265.

That means [and assuming the pair remained together until Kirk's death] the two of them shared a total of 34 years together. Kirk died at the age of 60, Spock died at the age of 161.

BUT! What's important is also the percentage of their life that had the other in it.

For Kirk it would be [if everything is correct and hypothetically K/S did start forming a friendship/relationship in 2259] approx. 57% of his life. THAT'S OVER HALF. No wonder he was so sad when Spock had died. By that point in his life he'd lived half his life with the Vulcan.

Spock, by scary contrast, spent a whopping 21% of his life with Kirk. Now, using the average human lifespan [69 years for men] that roughly equates to knowing someone for 14 years.

So basically: Kirk spent half his life with his T'hy'la whilst Spock didn't even spend the human equivalent of a decade and a half with his T'hy'la.

THAT IS SHAKESPEARIAN LEVELS OF TRAGIC.

#star trek #jim kirk #spock #star trek tos #tos star trek #tos kirk #tos spirk #star trek the original series #space husbands #those two are so cute but so sad #no wonder spock looked at alternate kirk the way he did in the reboot movies #he probably was seeing the man he loved for the first time after so long and remembering so much about his kirk #and then being sad cause his kirk is dead and this one isn't and could never compare in a realistic way #i love thinking about these space gays #it's a lovely past-time

[ricky-mortis]

Sir John Herschel you will always be famous

#I love this man #and pulp musicals #haven’t been able to stop listening to it for the past two weeks #guys this hyperfixation is strong #the iron grip it has on my brain is not letting go anytime soon #it’s been a minute since I’ve posted art (literally only two weeks but that’s a while for me) #I swear I’m gonna post more soon #someone set the difficulty up while I wasn’t looking and I’m still getting my bearings #anyways expect more pulp stuff sometime soon #curt mega characters my beloved #also if you got this far in the tags- imma just say shout out to the Blinky’s Rewatch Party discord #literally the best people in the world #pulp musicals #sir john herschel #curt mega #the brick satellite #the great moon hoax #matt dahan

[stormcallart]

thought i was gonna be an astarion girlie all the way but then here comes this giant boulder of an elf with a heart of gold and arms like tree trunks.

#jk im an astarion girlie too #they're the two types i love #feral black cat with traumatic past #golden retriever man who can do no wrong who is also a bit traumatized but hides it #and you can have them BOTH #*blows a kiss to larian* #yes this is about baldurs gate #bg3 spoilers #halsin #astarion #bg3 #baldurs gate

[madlovenovelist]

#bookporn #coverlove

These have been sitting on my TBR shelf for way too long. The Timeloopers quartet. Dan Rix always manages to write quick easy reads with an interesting sci-fi premise. I’ve heard Dan Rix removed his titles because he was going to rebrand, and then release his books under a pseudonym, but I haven’t seen either happen yet. So I don’t know if you can still buy his books. Such a shame.

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[scribblemakes]

Isn't it so cool how Wyll Ravengard invented romance, thank you mr Ravengard

[ID: Two coloured sketches of Wyll Ravengard and a player character from Baldur's Gate 3. The player character is a taller, muscled, elf with green eye makeup and long dark hair. The first image shows them touching foreheads. The second shows them together in bed, the player character kissing Wyll's jaw, with an acorn to the side. They look happy in both images. /End ID]

#wyll ravengard #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #ocs #Rel'maen #For people who read tags: #I love this man a whole lot he's so everything to me #Got SERIOUS burn out and my whole life changed over the past few months and this game's rescuing my need to create #TWO OCs out of this game it's really beating my track record of making original characters #I have a tiefling wizard I love a whole lot too so maybe I'll show him off some time #Anyway I'm just going to post art when I want to now rather than stressing out about it and trying to schedule it #Thank you for reading these I hope you're having a lovely day

[cliaban-rilag]

can a wizard who fails every single athletics check and a paladin who fails every single intelligence check fall in love?

#man all i've been thinking about for the past month is pillars and these two losers in particular #these were supposed to be flat coloured but i was having too much fun shading the clothes #pillars of eternity #pillars of eternity deadfire #poe2 #poe watcher #aloth corfiser #myos art #oc: variel

[skitskatdacat63]

Cannot stop thinking about how Fernando was the first one to hug Seb after Monza 2008:

#two men who are not afraid to hug with both arms sjfklfl #but seriously fernando especially is always going full in on hugs(rather than the typical one handed) and i respect it #BUT GODDDDDD THAT HE WAS THE FIRST!!!!!! LITERALLY MURDERED ME #ive literally watched this race before and i didnt even notice #i think i wanted to see if there were pics of them from before 2009 and came across this and was so OH????? #fun fact if you look at my gallery from during the past gp + #its literally a mix of sad reaction pics and vettonso pics. what singapore does to a man. :') #but god i feel so abnormal about this hug. its just veru sweet to me okay!!! #vettonso is fun bcs theres not as much content so every little bit is very precious and important to me <3 #likeeeeee how close they hug each other and the way theyre still close when they pull back to look at each other!!! #i wonder what theyd be like if they hadnt been rivals. but tbh on the other hand their animosity is why I like them ! #but ofc very sweet to see them when the slate was blank bcs then im like hmmm how long until 'fuck you my boy' happens #well! you guys know theyre my brainrot nowadays :D #watching 2010 will be fun bcs its literally primetime for all my ships #f1 #formula 1 #sebastian vettel #fernando alonso #vettonso #we do a little bit of f1 #2008 italian gp

[wishmkr-j]

[Splatoon 3] THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTINGGGG

#My Art #Splatoon 3 #Deep Cut #Shiver #Frye #Big Man #Splatfest #Best Leader Splatfest #Splatoon Fanart #Digital Art #Artists On Tumblr #Splatoon #been working on this for the past two days non-stop T_T #I'm sure the joke has been done before / run to the ground at this point but whatever #also still feel like I can't get the look right for shiver and frye...... hope i did them justice orz