#among other reasons???

[joy-crimes]

What characters do you look at in games, movies etc and be like "Oh shit, that's me fr :)"

We are literally one and the same.

#Claire Francois #she’s bisexual #and more or less a communist #among other reasons??? #bweh

[groenendaze]

these make me feel emotions i dont quite understand

#i uh. emailed a single breeder tonight #part of me feels like its too soon after pando but also there was a reason i got pando when i did #and that is because it is a good time in my life to have a puppy especially with my current dog's ages..... #nettle turns 6 this year #and waitlists are sometimes over 2 years long #i just. Eugh #both excited & nerve-racking #finch #ideally i am putting myself on a list and will not get a puppy until nettle is running full lanes in flyball #among other things #but those things are more personal goals and less Dog Goals

[fearandhatred]

the very first thing i did in 2024 was go insane aka i slept at 7am and among other things i drew these! they're unrefined and only two panels of a much larger thing i'm doing but since that'll not be done any time soon i thought i might as well post these first

panel 8 of panel 2

#fearandhatred #fearandart #me drawing the first panel: girl how do you draw hair. girl how do you draw wings. girl how do you draw the universe #some person out there might be able to guess what the larger thing is (it's based off something else) just based on the colours #also i haven't gotten around to finishing the panels that include having to draw their faces yet. for reasons #don't ever ask me how i draw aziraphale at this point i don't even use references for him just pure luck and a prayer #also “among other things” includes doing two more panels and writing 2k words of a fic and starting the perks of being a wallflower (book) #and also having breakfast #and then going to sleep and waking up at 4pm #good omens #good omens season 2 #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #crowley #aziraphale #good omens fanart #good omens art #art

[writeouswriter]

I love how ominous such basic names like "The Organization" or "The Institute" or "The Initiative" or "The Facility" or etc. are when placed in like a shady sci-fi context, like there's no reason for them to sound that suspicious, but without elaboration, it's like here is a place where they are doing things™ and I am like ooohh, because the blank state, the refusal to give you any more detail makes you think they're hiding something on purpose and leaves the darkest corner of the imagination left to fill in the rest.

#writing #writeblr #names #i want to give my shady research facilities in my stories actual names but some part of me is like #you'll never get the level of unease you get from just naming it the institute rather than the x institute or something #sci-fi #other genres i guess too but usually sci-fi #the barn in haven why is that the scariest sounding thing ever like? #you just know that thing ain't a barn #it is a barn physically outside but oh the creep factor that name gives i can't explain #the shop in firestarter? like f*ck it conjures up images of a workshop and saws building and tearing apart people for some reason #the initiative in buffy it's so nondescript and unassuming just like its soldiers living among the campus and the military power they hold #etc etc etc you know #mayhaps i am not creative enough to come up with better names also mayhaps

[plusultraetc]

"If you're going, I will too."

#listen. listen #bnha #aizawa shouta #yamada hizashi #erasermic #mha #bnha web weave #mha web weave #shouta aizawa #hizashi yamada #my hero academia #web weaving #parallels #my webweaving #long post #this is the direct result of me spending way too long reading manga spoilers #and being in agony #for that reason among others #where are they. where are they!!! #sources: #(1) walt whitman #(2) the phantom of the opera #(4) & (5) cold war kids #(7) bruce springsteen #(9) the song of achilles #(10) gang of youths

[itachanta]

Vash's face when he was reaching for the rope Meryl threw at him is hilarious.

Bonus:

#trigun #trigun stampede #vash the stampede #meryl stryfe #girl you throw lassos like a pro #where did you learn to do that #also #i love how that rope is used throughout the show #first meryl catches him #and even saves him with it #in this scene #and then is vash who saves her from knives #like a lifeline between the two #and the rope is also among vash's things in the cover of the vol.1 of the bluray #so i guess is an important parallel & detail? #we know orange doesn't do things without reason #they save each other in different ways #and that's what makes me feral about those two #vashmeryl #tristamp

[collectoroflovelythings]

Curious, I haven’t really seen any real trend among aspec people and the ship tropes they do like, however I think I kinda seen a trend in what they dislike. So in the tags tell me if you’re aspec (ace and/or aro) and if you dislike soulmates, and I mean the most straightforward romantic non subverted kind (but if there are versions you like feel free to elaborate)

#i lowkey hate them because in general I hate anything that removes characters agency among other reasons #ace #aro #tropes #tag games #des says things #you can still reblog if you’re not aspec

[s0ckh3adstudios]

What if..... Undertale Patience......

#had some design thoughts the other night and felt like spriting #haven't done spriting in awhile and it was fun to put these together! #i don't have a name fir this kid yet but they're very cute.. i love em #i don't know if this'll turn into anything #mostly because i don't know if i have the ability to make this into anything #or if anyone would be interested lol #but there's a lot of new fangames going around and for personal reasons among our crew Undertale Blue isn't going to be a game i think #not any time soon #maybe i'll think idk LOL #sock art #undertale #undertale patience #undertale six souls #undertale fallen humans

[takiki16]

Every time Jack Rackham, limpest wristed man in Nassau, suffers an incredibly funny Upset (TM) and cuts the heavy tone of the tragedy with some “I will be your daddy” shit, I understand EXACTLY why Vane kept him onboard.

#I MEAN THERES PLENTY OTHER REASONS FIRST AMONG THEM ANNE #BUT THE FUCKING NAVIGATOR JUST DIED AND I DEEPLY DEEDY NEEDED THAT MOMENT OF COMEDIC RELIED #black sails #my posts

[fromtheseventhhell]

One major factor missing from most debates on Arya and Lyanna's beauty is that they're being judged by their society's extremely patriarchal values. In both looks and personality, that context is essential to understanding how others perceive them. George explores the misogyny experienced by non-conforming women, especially with Arya, and it's interesting how he plays with that regarding their physical beauty.

Her mother used to say she could be pretty if she would just wash and brush her hair and take more care with her dress, the way her sister did. (The Blind Girl, ADWD) "You never knew Lyanna as I did, Robert," Ned told him. "You saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath. She would have told you that you have no business in the melee." (Eddard VII, AGOT)

These two quotes offer a nice summation of this idea. With Arya, her supposed lack of beauty is defined by her being a non-conforming wild child. Her hair is messy, her face is dirty, and she's often in "lower class" clothing while engaging in unladylike activities. None of this says anything about her physical beauty but it tells us everything about how she's perceived. Arya could be pretty...If she conforms to society's standards for a highborn Lady. With Lyanna, however, we get the opposite. Where Arya is judged based on her personality, Robert's romanticization of Lyanna is rooted solely in her looks. He doesn't know anything about the person she really was. There is an assumption that, because she looked a certain way, her personality must fit and Robert imagines her much softer and more passive than she actually was.

That Arya isn't pretty or Lyanna wasn't wild are two perceptions that George specifically pushes back against. This is where people miss the brilliance of them being linked as literary mirrors; it is largely about us learning more about Lyanna, but it touches on more than that. The significance of them being written as wild, willful, and with their own beauty is that George isn't writing his female characters around patriarchal expectations. When people debate their beauty, that's often the trapping they fall into. Beauty and non-conformity are treated as mutually exclusive factors when the story itself never makes that point; this is also the logic that leads people to the (incorrect) conclusion that Lyanna and Arya aren't meant to be similar. Arya's self-esteem issues around her looks and being a Lady make this a topic certain to be addressed in the future; George has made it a part of the story. The conclusion shouldn't be that "looks don't matter", but that looks aren't indicative of a character's value, personality, or morality.

#arya stark #lyanna stark #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #I know we're tired of this topic but I'm going to keep bringing it up until people base their analysis on what's actually in the books #it's not about needing/wanting Arya to be pretty it's about! the story being told #and it's just frustrating that this is such a highly debated topic that lacks all the nuance it's handled with in the source material #among a lot of other reasons people miss this point because they miss the way misogyny is handled in Arya's chapters #they think her being non-conforming mean she has some super special privilege that makes her exempt from it #Arya being pretty is a relatively small part her character but the message behind it contributes to a larger picture #and the biggest shame about this whole debate is that it misses genuinely brilliant writing #it's just absurd to be that /female character being non-conforming and pretty/ is beyond this fandom's comprehension skills #you guys really just want to force them into being flat no-nuance archetypes for easier consumption #Arya and Lyanna...I'm so sorry this fandom can't handle you because they hate women #mind you several people refer to Arya as pretty but apparently every single one of them is lying/unreliable because...reasons #this fandom truly has zero comprehension skills

[gloriousmonsters]

picturing Velvette huddled up on a Hell doorstep 2 hours after she arrived making a list of possible ways to get some power as quickly as possible on a bloodstained cellphone she took off a corpse and it's like

create startup, get aqui-hired

become first hellfluencer

sugar daddy?

startup + collab with a celebrity for more attention

celebrity boyfriend?

become already powerful couple's third, profit

actually find people to work with who respect and value my skills and me as a person <- this one is a joke

and then a year later she's in bed, awake after vox and val have nodded off for once, looking at mockups of the Vee tower design on her phone, and brings up the old list for just a minute to cross everything else out and write in 'all of the above???'

#YES IT'S BEING SAPPY ABOUT VELVETTE AND POLYVEES HOURS #in my headcanon she crashlanded in Hell juuuuust after the extermination happened and/or during the tail end of it #and it was both a curse and a blessing in clawing together her first tiny power base #because there's a lot up for grabs! but it's basically like being hired in retail during holiday season #but that's one of the reasons that usually hanging out during exterminations is one of her favorite activities #it's a potent reminder of how much power and safety she's gained #anyway i just love how Velvette is so 110% for her boys and their mutual brand the fact she has a #'<3' i.e 'V3' phone case kills me among other things #to me she seems like someone who dealt with being unappreciated her whole life so being part of this #powerful flashy exciting thing she shaped and getting attention not only online but from her clearly appreciative #*carmilla carmine voice* colleagues #hits her hard. ok i need to shut up and make velvette psychology/past headcanons a different post sometime #hazbin velvette #hazbin hotel velvette #poly vees #polyvees #polyamorvee #happy days in hell (hazbin tag)

[densitywell]

the assumption that Imogen (and previously Ashton) never recieved any assistance from the gods because they didn't pray "correctly" is interesting to me. is there some specific procedure for acceptable prayer in Exandria? if you don't do it right is it like texting the wrong number and the Gods just don't get the message? or are they just putting cries for help that don't follow their formatting and content guidelines at the bottom of the pile lmao

#bc if that's the case the desperate people who failed to meet those standards are not who i would blame in this situation #not even just bc of the power imbalance but also bc knowledge is classed and culture- and location-dependent among other things #even if ashton or imogen understood there was a 'correct' way to pray wld they have easy access to that knowledge? #esp for a topic this personal. if there are temples around would either feel safe or welcomed being there and asking abt it? #critical role #crposting #all of this hinging on 'assumption' bc we only know a small bit of imogen's history of prayer and even less of ashton's #and have recieved no indication on the actual reason why their prayers weren't answered

[potahun]

love how with many divorced ships we dont actually see the divorce so we have to imagine how badly it went to get how they arrived to where they are (or leave the details to the void for the fun of it) but with feihua we actually see the divorce on screen, it’s literally the FIRST thing we see on screen and it’s a MESS of a divorce and then we see their first interaction post-divorce 10 years after and it would make no sense for any sane person to go from this point A to that point B, but they do. they do and that’s why im insane about feihua

#among other reasons #feihua #di feisheng #li lianhua #lhl #there is a LOT TO BE INSANE ABOUT WITH THIS SHIP #mysterious lotus casebook

[liquidstar]

I'd also be remiss not to mention the ending tease for round 6!!! It's Ivan VS Till time

What's interesting is that Till is clearly staring at the Mizi VS Luka match, but the picture he punches is his own. Maybe he blames himself for not saving her, maybe he's angry at himself... Does he still want to win? Is he more determined than ever, or is he giving up? I need to know his mindset

And Ivan too, I mean, I'm sure he's all sorts of messed up about the fact that he's going to have to compete against the guy he's in love with... Again I wonder what his mindset is. Does he intend to lose anyway? Or maybe he's also plotting, given that one promo image of him Skeptically looking at Mizi's missing picture. Maybe he expects something to happen anyway, or maybe he's inspired to finally do something himself.

But the thing that made Ivan fall in love with Till was his rebelliousness, it reminded him of the freedom he saw in the falling stars, a light that broke through his hopelessness (his black sorrrowwww). If Till IS giving in to some sort of despair then would Ivan seek to reignite that flame at his own expense? Or if Till is fully determined, is Ivan happy to just watch that spark burn as he sings with him for the last time? Or maybe he doesn't intend to lose despite everything, but I can't see Ivan putting himself in front of Till at all... But I can see him finally being inspired to act on his own, for once, his own rebellion.

At the end of the day though I'm just talking about their mindsets going into it, thinking it'll be to the death. Because we know as the audience that Mizi and Hyuna are on their way to fuck shit up and hopefully free them (maybe the world that Ivan and Till saw on that one night under the meteors can finally open up to them, now that Mizi is out too)

And I also wonder if Mizi wanted to go specifically because those are her friends. The girl that she loved with all her heart, the one she called her universe and her God, is already dead. We saw her grief in MiziSua and we see her resolve now. Beyond getting any sort of revenge on Luka or Alien Stage itself, I think Mizi wants to keep the friends she has left alive.

#and they ARE friends and always have been! please see vivinos' posts on the community tab #they were sillies and they care each other #surprisingly little jealousy on Ivan's end too #Sua on the other hand often seems like she wants to dismember Till but she's just quirky lol #but yeah i dont see this as something where Hyuna forced Mizi to come along i think the choice was offered and Mizi took it #tho i also think the reason she was saved was also because Hyuna and co. saw the fire in her eyes when she beat the shit outta Luka #among other things. go Mizi go #alien stage

[erika-xero]

y'all just don't realise the power of being able to hide your likes. some of you never lived in a country where you can get jailed for leaving a like on a post and it shows ____ UPD: you now can also get jailed for an artwork randomly popping out on your dash

#bad jokes are my coping mechanism #the other one is my hyperfixation on dunmer men #i have got some terrible news for my russian mutuals #it got worse #every day i pray so that you never know how it feels #being able to hide your likes is among the reasons why I love tumblr so much #twitter is not a safe space for me #i am in misery

[viiinz]

autism be damned my boy can do calligraphy and knows a lot about capital punishment

#prince myshkin #lev nikolayevitch myshkin #the idiot #myshkin #no but i really think there are legitimate reasons to argue that myshkin could be seen as an autistic character #other than the fact that he literally checks of every criteria #there's also the fact that there is a frequent comorbidity of epilepsy and autism #which makes me think (tho i have not nearly done enough research on this to make any actual claims) #that there is a possibility that traits which we would today associate with autism could back in the day #before the term autism even existed #could be seen as something common among epicleptic people #and given that myshkin is already canonically neurodivergent and epileptic #it really isn't a stretch to say that if we were to apply modern day terminology on a 19th century character #he could be seen as an early example of an autistic character #which makes it very interesting to note how people in the book view and interact with him #(and even without the possible autism he's still a canon neurodivergent character cast as the protagonist in a 19th century book #which on its own is really interesting #especially considering the fact that dostoyevsky drew from experiences with his own epilepsy) #for example canon infantilization (which this post is definitely a joke on) the whole 'idiot' thing etc. #also the way he views himself! he has so much internalised ableism #i also think it's interesting that another character that exhibits a lot of autistic traits is kirillov #who's also canonically epileptic #my post #vince talks