#about a past friendship

[laurier-rose]

How sad it is to know the feeling of being wronged by someone you loved then blamed for it all and left behind.

#reminiscing #about a past friendship

[wardingshout]

Zelda goes mushroom girl

#tloz #a link to the past #zelda #link #my art #I was happy with that first one but for some reason decided it still needed a companion piece so I spent way too long on that second one... #I don't think there was any time during the progress where I was happy with it but hfduhdfu at least I got to Attempt drawing moss hell yea #I also at some point sat in Pyu's art stream and said I enjoy drawing legs As I was being murdered by the infamously impossibe (imo) squat. #it's ok I had fun !! but I need to learn how to let doodles be doodles or I'll never finish stuff at this rate dfsuhfd #if everything in my tloz tag looks like it was drawn by different people uuuh 2023 was art crisis year ngl...... #I'm falling back into my old ways rn though #anyway I think about these two a lot I think they're both stone faced and awkward ppl in different ways but they try rly hard to be friends #like I like to think it starts out so incredibly awkward and a bit sad bc they keep stepping over each other's toes accidentally the harder #they try but idk they find comfy middle ground idk in my brain they have a very interesting friendship I wanna get around to drawing it #in a proper way that might make sense.... #if I don't write 200 tags I will die maybe it's bc I grew up on dA or smth #and yes I know how to find 1 (one) type of mushroom /I/ am not mushroom girl unfortunately smh

[momodr0id]

he has a pleasant energy

#sonic the hedgehog #mighty the armadillo #friendship ended with sonic now mighty is my comfort character #apologies to my friends that have had to listen to me yap about this character for the past 2 months

[onesidedradiostatic]

I can't work out if Alastor genuinely considered Vox a friend or thought of him more as like. A cute pet that dotes on its owner and does little tricks. And then he shows off his cute little pet to Rosie and Mimzy. I don't think he ever viewed Vox as a threat to him in any way, but it makes me wonder about Vox's whole smooth, smart, scary and competent side we initially see in episode 2. Was that something he picked up from Alastor, or was it something Vox already had that might have sparked Alastor's interest? Did he actually mentor Vox in any way or did he just think it was fun to watch him try to build a tiny version of Alastor's empire.

we don't have a whole lot to go off of right now, especially when it comes to alastor's side, but personally I find it more interesting if alastor did genuinely consider vox a friend. even if in his own alastor fashion, there were probably certain walls he never let down. I think it's interesting in that, we know alastor has more of a soft spot for women, so in this pre-husk era, vox could've easily been one of his first few male friends. which kinda makes it sadder it didn't work out. it's like it just proved to alastor "right this is why I don't trust men".

things we know rn are:

alastor calls vox "old pal" at the end of episode 2

alastor allowed vox to take a picture with him at some point

alastor, who is perfectly capable of killing overlords, has not killed vox

also seen this pointed out before, but in the initial commercial alastor filmed in episode 1, although shitty, he did do some actual editing

I wouldn't expect alastor to already have knowledge of how to do this beforehand on his own, question is: did he learn it himself? or did he learn it...

...from someone else in the past?

not to mention he seems to just instinctively already know how to set up shit for filming near the end of the episode. he must have gotten some experience from somewhere.

I think this post describes what they could've learnt from each other in the past best

I like to think alastor saw him as more than just some cute pet, at least back then. it adds more depth to their relationship. obviously there's stuff like the toxic homoerotic stalker-like obsession I feel is one-sided on vox's part (points to my url), but that doesn't mean I think alastor's side of their general relationship is completely non-existent. them having a genuine past friendship that affected both of them in different ways is what adds layers to their relationship I think. they were clearly both affected by their falling out in that they both developed irrational hatred of the other's medium as a result. and honestly? really need to see more of alastor's side of this, I think it'd be really interesting. even though, he hates vox now, and I don't believe he wants him back as a friend, is there any sort of sentiment left from their past friendship? is there a reason why he hasn't killed him? or was the time he almost beat vox an attempt at that? (though I like to believe it wasn't)

obviously, all we can do now is speculate based on the evidence we have in season 1, but for me personally, I like to think they were legitimately friends at some point.

#ask #osrs.txt #idk is this comprehensible #pathetic vox being down bad for alastor is fun to talk about #but their general past friendship is also so interesting to me #hazbin alastor #hazbin hotel alastor #alastor #hazbin vox #hazbin hotel vox #radiostatic #staticradio #technically not but I've tagged general talk of their relationship as that before so I can't stop now

[quakiebaka]

“I’d never abandon him when he needs me”- macaque/wukong to each other at some point probably

hello lmk fandom here’s my first genuine post on the show that’s had a grip on me for the past six months. and of course its shadowpeach. oh well! thank you monkie kid for getting me back into art! season 4 has broken me!!!

#lego monkie kid #lmk macaque #six eared macaque #lmk sun wukong #lmk monkey king #shadowpeach #i cannot tell you how much I enjoyed drawing these two #drew macaque first as a warm up and wukong just came along naturally #these two see their own past friendship so much in mk and mei you cant convince me otherwise #like what was this scene supposed to mean then??? they're thinkin about it #wukong has freckles because i like the idea that they're from the sun #he is sunkissed <3 #dont be surprised if my designs for them change im workin on it! #quakie's post #quakie art

[hephaestuscrew]

I have such emotional thoughts about Ep40 Limbo and Minkowski telling Eiffel "I'm sorry, okay? I didn't want it to matter. I was trying to make it not matter." It's such an insane thing to say about learning without any context or detail that your friend and crew member was convicted of kidnapping and child endangerment.

It's one thing to learn that someone did something awful and not to care because you don't care about them or their morals (the SI-5 approach). It's another thing to learn that someone did something awful and not to care because you can empathise with them and it's who they are now that matters (the Hera and Lovelace approach). And it's an entirely different thing to learn that someone did something awful and to want desperately not to care but to be unable to stop yourself from caring.

When there was no specificity to Eiffel's tragic backstory, Minkowski successfully made it not matter. Back in Ep15 What's Up Doc?, when Hilbert was hinting at Eiffel's secret that he wouldn't want Minkowski to know about, she trusted him with no "hesitance or doubt". In principle, on an abstract intellectual level, his past doesn't matter to her. But as soon as she has some of the specifics, her ability to trust him without question is shaken, because that trust isn't just about the abstract intellectual level. It's emotional too.

Eiffel really matters to Minkowski, so of course she doesn't want what she learned about his past to change that. But part of what matters to Minkowski about Eiffel is that she trusts him, that she believes that he does the morally right thing when it counts, and that he's the kind of person she thinks he is. The particular way in which he matters to her, when combined with her personality and her values, means that the bad things he's done in the past have to matter to her too. Because the way in which he matters to her is tied up in her sense of him as an ultimately moral person, the spokesperson of Team What's Wrong With Handcuffs.

In typical Minkowski fashion, she wants to make herself not care about it through sheer stubborn power of will. Maybe if she doesn't speak to him, she can pretend she doesn't know. Maybe if she pretends she doesn't know, she won't think about it. Maybe if she doesn't think about it, it won't matter to her. Maybe if it doesn't matter to her, then she can rebuild her idea of him as a good person on her own and she won't ever have to talk to him about it. But three months roll by, and it still matters to her. It still matters to her, and she still wants it not to.

#w359 #wolf 359 #doug eiffel #renee minkowski #renée minkowski #She was never going to be able to make it not matter without having a conversation with him about it #but it's not like things are immediately fixed after that conversation either #And in fact the resolution isn't really about making it not matter #It's about realising that her trust in Eiffel and the strength of their friendship matters more #I like that when they reconcile Eiffel says that those things from his past *are her business* #It's like an acknowledgement of their closeness #but perhaps an attempt to absolve Minkowski from the fact that she cared about knowing those things #I think I've kinda talked about some of this stuff before but not in relation to this specific line #And I might say more another time if I'm honest #w359 spoilers #wolf 359 spoilers #the empty man posteth #Eiffel & Minkowski

[letthestorieslive]

#allison argent #lydia martin #allydia #they are always there for each other and their friendship means so much to me #lydia powering on and ignoring everyone who's gawking at her thanks to allison saying ''maybe it's the five pound'' #which is a reminder of what lydia said five second ago as she tried to look past the crazy things that happened to her #and it's silly but so very effective #allison gets lydia out of her own head so quickly #and can we talk about lydia using her gigantic brain to help allison ? #lydia reading a lot about archery for allison will never get old #she can't use an arrow and a bow to save her life but she will known everything there is to know about archery #to keep up when allison talks about it #to help her #teen wolf #mine

[bonefall]

considering spiderleg is like *that* and squirelflight being diehard fire alone i cant imagine them being friends in BB like they were sort of in the canon books. were they or did it disolve after time passed and spiderleg got more into traditional/thistle law. also who were her other friends? i saw daisy was in another ask but who else (really eager to know who booed at mousefur and thronclaw lol)

So to begin with, Squirrelflight is in an odd place, generation-wise. She is born while Firestar is on his quest with Brokenstar, and grows up in a period of peace and prosperity.

Unfortunately she keeps failing her goddamn assessments

So while Leafstripe is a fully trained Cleric, Sorreltail recovered from being hit by a car and graduated, and Ashfur tried to hold out for her for a while before moving up, Squirrelpaw is here absolutely eating leaf litter with her wrecklessness

Goldenflower, her mentor, even tries to tell Firestar that she's not being vindictive, just in case he got the wrong idea. He assures her that, no. No he understands <:/

So Spider, Shrew, and Squirrel end up as apprentices together. There was a time where they were really close, getting in trouble in spite of their three strict mentors. Bad influence trio, all of them coming from respected parents and doing their best to embarass them.

That only started to change when Squirrelpaw went on the Great Journey, but then returned just in time to see Shrewpaw die. A lot of things were different, now. Squirrelpaw came back exalted for being on a holy quest. Spiderpaw had watched a lot of his clanmates die. She was spending more time with Brambleclaw; he had become very protective of his little brother, Birchkit.

They had both grown in a flash. Hard times will do that to you.

During the Great Journey, Spiderpaw was really close to the other Clan apprentices while Squirrelpaw hung out with the Sundrown Patrol. Spider looks back at this time in his life with a lurch in his stomach that he can't put into words.

He was there when Paw Soup was made. Talonclaw and Smokefall were friends of his even more than they were friends of little Birchkit. Spiderleg just left it behind when they got to the Lake, where his little brother never could. Clan loyalty, strength, honor... all that. He felt like he had to make a choice.

As a person, Spiderleg is torn in many directions by all of the things that happened to him. His head-of-construction father, his educator mother, his friend who won status by breaking the rules, three dead siblings before his warriorhood, the destruction of his ancestral home, the journey that challenged everything, his mentor Thornclaw, the backfired meeting, ardor for Daisy, crashing down with unwanted kits...

His consistent trait is that he's easily swept up in whatever fills him with the most passion, tossing himself into things until a bubbling sense of disgust makes him break it off. Regardless of if it was the good thing to do or not.

Religious euphoria and self-flagellation just seems to stabilize that impulse, for him.

The last time he was friends with Squilf was during their vigil upon reaching the Lake. They did it together, because they were both long overdue. He thought about Shrewpaw, and wondered if she did too.

But neither one of them broke the silence between them. They still haven't.

#better bones au #BB!TNP #BB!Squirrelflight #BB!Spiderleg #Ppl don't talk enough about that horrible feeling of being at the deathbed of a friendship #Knowing it's dying in front of you #But not knowing how to say goodbye to it. Or if you can stop it. #But the worst part is that even when it dies it hangs in the air #Is it secretly alive? Or is it just haunting you #There's a history between us. Is the look of recognition in your eyes like a shared glance at a grave? #Or is it a silent prayer that what we had can come back from the dead #But too much has changed. #If they hung out past that vigil it was always with that tension in the air. #Until Squilf broke it off with Ash and their friend groups irrevocably split #Though any chance of reconnecting was definitely torched by that Backfired Meeting

[beanghostprincess]

Sometimes I think that even if shanks was asked by buggy for help because of the cross guild he would probably do nothing that useful since mihawk is his other close bond and he wouldn’t want to go against him and I get for some reason kinda sad

Agree to disagree, anon, because this is saying that hypothetically Buggy would ask Shanks for help because of the Cross Guild. A thing that could never happen in a million years and Buggy would rather die than ask Shanks anything. But let's say that Buggy (reluctantly) asks Shanks for help.

There are a lot of outcomes here, tbh, since it's hard for me to picture this situation but-- If Buggy is seriously in a big problem with Cross Guild I think Shanks wouldn't hesitate to help him? He won't kill Mihawk, obviously, but I don't see why Shanks wouldn't fight him if talking doesn't work. They get along but they're still pirates and if Buggy is in actual deadly danger he's going to help him out. I love Shanks and Mihawk too but, like, story-wise and canonically Shanks' bond with Buggy is a lot more crucial and important (as I see it) and I don't see why his bond with Mihawk would affect his decision here, tbh.

It's either that or he sends Beck and goes "haha Buggy how could you say you're in danger??? I trust you can get out of this one alone 🙏🏻 And also I don't wanna go, so here's my first mate to keep an eye on you. Don't stab him, please". And Beck wants to die a little bit because why the hell does he have to do this-

But if Shanks knew Buggy was in real deadly danger, he would help. Also, the fact that Buggy is asking him for help is enough sign of something going extremely wrong, so-

#shanks is realistic and knows the pirate world and is aware that he might have to fight friends tbh #he won't seek fight with mihawk quite obviously but if it's needed he would #okay but seriously the point isn't 'would shanks fight mihawk'. it's 'would cross guild fight shanks' #i read a fic once about shanks going to save buggy bc he has a vivre card and it's literally burning bc buggy is dying in their hands #and shanks goes directly to help him and tbh i really liked it #he gives buggy space outside of their past relationship the way he wanted but he won't let buggy die #i mean-- he has a friendship with mihawk but we barely know anything about it so idk if what they have going on would be enough to stop him #maybe i am just in denial and i really like shanks caring for buggy #although i don't like buggy asking for help tbh #one piece #buggy the clown #red haired shanks #shuggy #cross guild #dracule mihawk

[agoldengalaxy]

still thinking abt that one post about how ian never really outwardly agreed with anthony’s comments about their deteriorated friendship in the i spent a day with ian hecox video and how it’s very plausible that ian always considered anthony his friend even if anthony didn’t and i think it’s worth it to note that (at least in 2018) ian had this picture up on display in his house, despite the fact that they probably hadn’t really talked in over a year

#smosh #ian hecox #anthony padilla #ianthony #☀️🔍 #oh ian :(((( #he deserves the world #do you think anthony ever watched any of these videos #im just so happy they’re friends again #knowing about the past few years now just makes me so sad #friendship always wins goddammit #my post

[joyflameball]

What in the goddamn did they put in Don't Starve to weave so much grief throughout it. I know I've posted about this before but I can't shut up about it. There's so much grief permeating so much of it, so many characters. Grief in the loss of a loved one. Grief in the loss of home. Grief in the loss of yourself. I'm gonna throw up

#cassie rambles #dst #don't starve #i'm serious when i say the grief is everywhere #you could run into it out of nowhere. but you'll run into it. it's unavoidable. #there's grief with charlie. in the loss of who she was #in how winona came to the constant to find a dead woman. one who's just a flicker of who she was. who can never become her past self again. #in how wx destroyed their past self lost their friendship with wagstaff and hated feeling about it so much they tried to destroy that too #and they couldn't. they clearly couldn't. #there's grief in wendy with how she lost her beloved sister and fell into horrifyingly and heartbreakingly deep depths of depression #grief with webber losing his family because he wanted their attention #grief with wigfrid losing herself because nobody wanted her until she was the valkyrie #grief in how warly just wanted his mother to remember him. and now he'll most likely never see her again. she won't even remember his name #grief in maxwell. in how he destroyed his past self because of his desire for power. in how that power started to destroy him too. #and in how that power imprisoned and tormented both him and his love. changing them both forever. #I'M GONNA EAT GLASS #THIS IS THE SAME GAME WHERE THE MAIN CHARACTER SAYS LINES LIKE ''LOOKS LIKE YOU'VE GONE FROM DAPPER TO SLAPPER'' WHY IS IT MAKING ME SO SAD

[mothmanwarble]

I still love that thing that the Mask of Power books did, in which they established Eon having some sort of telepathic link with his Skylanders. It’s really interesting, and I feel like it helps explain why/how Eon knows when to call the Skylanders back home if they’re tired or in trouble or something.

But also I imagine that it’d be very funny if this extended to Sensei Kaos and the other Skylanders, cuz let’s not forget: he’s still 100% a Portal Master. I love the idea of him creating his own mental links between him and other Skylanders just to be a nuisance. He keeps beaming thoughts directly into people’s heads and they hate it.

Aurora’s having fun though. She and Kaos keep using the brainlink to wordlessly quote YouTube Poops at each other. They deliberately get songs stuck in each other’s heads via telepathy.

#(this can be seen either within the context of the ‘sensei kaos = real kaos’ theory or just the ‘sensei kaos is a clone’ thing) #whissu rambles #skylanders #kaos skylanders #aurora skylanders #sensei kaos #brotp: kontrolled chaos #i don’t use their friendship tag enough aaAAA #i’ve already talked about the angst potential of the telepathic link in the past so for once let’s just think about the comedic potential #my faves can have fun. they can be silly. #aurora keeps brain blasting kaos with mambo no. 5 and he’s so sick of it

[laesas]

The hands holding yours are not clean either.

VegasPete + Hands || KinnPorsche (2022)

#Disclaimer: I have very complicated feelings about this show and this couple after everything that's happened over the past month #I actually started these in late december for a friends birthday but the colouring ended up so complicated I didnt get it done #and while I'm still untangling how I feel about the fandom and fan culture and the whole situation (tldr: bad sad parasocially betrayed lol #I was so proud of these for my 3rd ever gifset the absolutely insane amount of time I spent on the colouring and masking against shaky shot #like I genuinely had to keyframe adjust about 8 different overlapping layers frame-by-frame for at least 1 of these lol #and perhaps selfishly: I need to post bc I can't bring myself to work on new sets while this was staring back at me every time i opened PS #And I'm proud of it and it meant a lot and even though the shape of the fandom and friendships have changed its still worth something to me #anyway. enough rambling. on to the actual tags lol #VegasPete #kinnporche the series #vegas theerapanyakul #pete saengtham #asiandramasource #asianlgbtqdramas #lgbtedit #vegas kp #pete kp #idk idk idk I feel like this is my one last little love letter to these silly little characters that meant a lot to me #and to the friends that inspired it too #on a lighter note: the caption is an adapted taemin lyric and the colours were inspired by the criminal MV lmao #so like lol its not that deep :') #aaaand post. #bee.gif #kpts

[eleanor-gray]

Callisto referring to Gabrielle as “the friendship of your life” when talking to Xena is so funny to me. Did they switch it from “love” at the last minute? Was this sentence scientifically engineered to sound as gay as possible or did it just happen? Was this just a common phrase in the 90s?

#xena warrior princess #xena and gabrielle #I need to do my homework and stop thinking about them #Btw the full quote is “the friendship of your life is about to go up in flames” #Because Callisto was about to kill Gabrielle in the same way Callisto’s family was killed #She really is my favorite villain bc of the ethical questions she raises about Xena and how Xena can so clearly see how similar they are #‘If you do good you are good’ but also doing good means taking responsibility for everything you’ve done #So therefore Xena can never consider herself to be a good person because to do so means denying her past #Therefore making her eternally ‘bad’ in her own eyes #if this makes any sense to anyone

[onesidedradiostatic]

So we know that Alastor has built-in sound effects, or he just manifests them as he pleases. But the mental image of him in his studio manually swapping out a bunch of pre-recorded sound effect cassettes with perfect timing, or doing his own foley, is so endearingly silly.

Maybe in the past he and Vox shared a sound effect library. (V: what did you use to get that bone crunching sound? Pasta? A: bones! V: wow you’re that’s so cool)

The petty stage of their friendship breakdown… The prideful betrayal of “he recorded a new [specific sound effect] and isn’t using mine anymore” and even pettier: one KNOWING the other would notice the change, but knows that the other knows he’d notice, and it becomes like an entertainment media cold war

Even more petty: “that’s our old sound effect you’ve just pitched it UP, you can’t copyright that” / “I thought you would’ve made your own version by now,” / “he’s ripped off my news stinger!” / “HE poached my cigarette ad sponsor… well I’M going to steal his laundry detergent sponsor” etc etc. fight fight fight fight *eats popcorn*

Big insult stage:

Vox: we’re in Hell, FUCK the hays code!

Alastor: :O

HEEEELP LMAOOOO. okay see like I understand people who think the falling out only happened 7 years ago but at the same time like. I like the idea of them having been rivals for decades (which btw it's still insane every time I think about how these two were friends for AT LEAST 20ish years before falling out like. THAT'S A LONG TIME MAN. THESE TWO HAVE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR AAAAAGES) leaves room for the early days of their rivalry where it's DIRECTLY after their fallout and it's very petty

but like the idea of alastor disappearing right after the rejection? it's funny in the context of vox confessed and he aroace'd out for 7 years but LIKE does not leave room for them to have been rivals (which is WILD to me because then that implies they never actually got to be rivals because alastor would've disappeared for 7 years immediately after) but I don't think that's the case mostly because there was enough time after it for alastor to at least know that vox got pissy BECAUSE of that rejection. I do think the time alastor "almost beat" vox happened right before the 7 year absence though. but falling out in my head happened waaaaay decades ago.

#ask #osrs.txt #radiostatic #staticradio #this is more about their general past friendship/rivalry but there's a LIIITTLE bit of one-sided sprinkled in there #onewaybroadcast #hazbin vox #hazbin hotel vox #vox #hazbin alastor #hazbin hotel alastor #alastor

[sidesteppostinghours]

aro4aro chargestep be like: you are two people who were told how to do things right for as long as you remember, so when you meet and you two click you have to assume youre in love. and you dont want to lose them so you try to make it work. follow the rules. make things right. but then it all falls apart and youre sure you must have done something wrong, but then again– is that so bad? you dont think youll ever do things right, and you dont want to. youre so tired of being told what to do, and you think they are too. maybe you can do it wrong, and maybe you can relish in choosing to do it wrong. together. yk?

#does this make sense #idk im very tired its past my bed time #these bitches cannot deal with social convention bullshit seperating friendship and romance #theyre going to kiss their homes and theres nothing you can do about it #ortega #sidestep #chargestep #fhr #pulp speaks