#but anyway that's beside the point

[soulfireblue]

The most recent session of Secret Life is so fascinating to me, because there's so much emphasis on this idea of heroes and villains in a series that's so full of murder. Like, everyone's doing it! What makes one person a villain for doing it and another a hero? Is it the cycle of violence, that the person in the wrong is whoever committed the crime first? Is murder excused when it's done for the sake of a task? Or for the sake of an ally rather than for yourself?

Scar: "So I'm just the villain of the red lives, the people who can kill me, the people who I was trying to kiss up to with the creeper farm. This is... secret keepers, why do you have it out for me?"

Gem: "All right, wow! I thought I'd have a lot more enemies, but actually I seem to be a bit of a hero on the server! Everyone likes me! Everyone has good things to say!"

Bdubs: "Want me to kill Scar? Okay, great, wonderful, that's going to be my mission for today! I'm going to be the hero of the server today!"

Gem and Scar both had tasks that involved hurting others on the server. So what's the difference? Everyone excuses Gem because it was just her task, but Scar's villainy was a task too. Do the others know that? Do they care? If Bdubs killed Scar, the narrative goes that he would be the hero of the server defeating the great evil villain. Task successful, I suppose.

#secret life spoilers #secret life #secret life smp #goodtimeswithscar #geminitay #bdubs #bdoubleo100 #there was more i could have included from bdubs' conversation that was said about scar's villainy by etho and cleo as well #but i wanted to focus on the ways that people identified themselves within the narrative based on the ways that everyone else perceived the #it's just so interesting to me #it's a double standard but like not in a negative way. it's in a way that makes me want to shake them like a snowglobe #i love scar's life series characters so much #fun fact: one of my dnd characters was inspired by his last life character #and then i proceeded to be like “D:” when i had the same exact situation of people in the party not wanting to be friends with him jhjjgjhj #he's a tabaxi wizard and he does at least have a couple people on his side and i love them <3 #but anyway that's beside the point

[mobius-m-mobius]

Mobius + being the only one to notice

#mobius #loki #lokius #mcuedit #lokiedit #marveledit #loki spoilers #owen wilson #tom hiddleston #the INSTANT 'you okay?' from mobius when loki timeslipped back the very first time 😭😭 #he saw he noticed he asks he CARES #the only one who does #literally became his glorious purpose and now it's the only thing in this world he can't do oh i'm DISTRAUGHT #(and also working 'what the shit are you doing' into my life as an essential but that's beside the point) #anyway. back to giffing and crying lol #loki s2 spoilers #marvel #owenwilsonedit #dianagifs

[quantumshade]

can anyone explain to me at what point rose tyler was "unbelievably stupid". was it when she was inventing transdimensional travel

#what about her makes you think she's stupid. answer quickly #the whole POINT of the rtd companions - yes all of them - is that any ordinary person can shine when given the chance to #and when someone believes in them. #even besides that there is no point before during or after rose's time on the show when she is shown to be stupid. #she doesn't have like. the doctor's vast universal knowledge sure #but the point is that she's smarter than him in other ways! they balance each other out which is why they're such a good team #like the london eye scene in the very first episode for example. #that is aaaaall about how the doctor misses very simple things and needs someone with him who doesn't #all the best companions have a moment like this. thinking about when bill realizes the mother-son thing in knock knock #anyway. i'm ranting sorry. this post just really pissed me off #imagine missing the point so completely #and being so classist that you can't comprehend that dropping out of school is not a symbol of lack of intelligence #rose tyler #doctor who #delia.txt

[manjushagep]

"If we remove the juries this'll be a popularity contest with just the wackiest acts making it through and do you want that?" YES? In this economy? In this depressive state of the world? I wanna have one week when snorting glitter and putting cabbages on your arms would be encouraged, not ridiculed thank you very much

#eurovision #esc #eurovision song contest #esc 2023 #eurovision 2023 #besides do y'all really not trust the public vote? #at the very least make the percentages favour the public vote otherwise what's the point of asking us to vote anyways

[vellichorom]

@satisfiedskye reintroducing me to THE OG fuckable old man

#uwu art #Gravity Falls #Stanley Pines #Grunkle Stan #Stan Pines #don't you DARE touch this post if you ship / enjoy this man in incestual scenarios i will gut you #anyway. old man saturday #REALLY NASTY BECAUSE THAT'S HOW JUNE LIKE THEIR MEN <3 #& me too but that's besides the point #anyway flexing my ability to draw old men THIS EARLY IN THE MORNING yeas

[clownsuu]

Yknow- iv been asked a lot for a while if it’s possible to leave Wally’s mob family-

there’s only one way to truly leave smhh

cw death

✌️

#FINALLY IV BEEN WANTING TO SHOW THIS FOR A WHILE BUT ART BLOCK GA. H #Biggest issue I had was who to pick smhhhhhhh #But yeah anyway you die permanently when your taken eye is destroyed #The eye is a contract bound to Wally- as long as that eye is fine your body can be resurrected at any time #However once that contract is broken there is no point in your existence anymore smhh #Nobody will remember you- besides the ones who truly connected to ya #Then you will just be a figment of a dream to them #Welcome home #welcome home mob au #welcome home wally #Wally darling #Robbie robs #This made my left hand cramp up #But I’m right handed-???

[mochinon-yah]

This is so different from the art style I usually use, but I like it lol. Btw, don't mind the messy lines or whatever weirdness in the drawing cuz I literally drew this at midnight 😭😭

Anywayyyy this cutie pie right here is Seth, an OC who belongs to lovely @codemiracle <3

#reli-draws #fanart #dies irae #Seth #oh and the blood is only for decoration cuz why not mwehehehe #ANYWAY #the more i look at this drawing the more i feel like it doesn't look like Seth TT #WHY DOES HE (my drawing) LOOK SO INNOCENT?????? #SETH IS DEFINITELY NOT 💀💀💀 #“why is the blood only on his face?” #well ... in short he's hotter that way. #and also bcuz i can't draw blood on clothes but that's beside the point-

[perenians]

so the thing with gale is that he's a romantic, right? he believes in serendipity, that love is a beautiful thing grasped at just the right moment—something that one must choose to keep hold of. love is the bond between souls, a single-minded devotion, the joining of two into one.

and so it stands to reason that he knows that to love is to be vulnerable. two souls cannot meld, not truly, without being fully bared to each other—the good, the bad, the ugly. still he chooses to love. he lays himself out for his beloved and says, i am prepared to be devastated by you. i will choose you, even if it means damning the entire world. he is willing to be destroyed by love, consumed by it, swallowed whole.

"have you ever walked to the edge of a great precipice, and marveled at just how easy it would be to fall into the void?"

#i fall in love so easily plays softly beside this post btw #he traded one precipice for another #except your arms cushion his fall while mystra lets him plummet #there is no point to this post btw i am just. thinking about him today. #AAAA i just love love so much #and i just love romance #and i love loving #and i love gale #anyway. sorry. i'm having feelings #gale dekarios #gale things #per plays #bg3 #calm down per

[comradekatara]

okay be honest. if someone as hot as sokka (is constantly established to be by other characters within the text) said these exact words to you, you would also fall in love with them on the spot and/or be overwhelmed with uncontrollable horniness. yue is valid

#id in alt text #sokka #yue #sokkaxyue #i am once again thinking about Them #they are sooo cute its unreal #and i will not apologize for that!!!! #also yes. i know im gay but i have many straight friends okay #or well. i have one straight friend but she's REALLY straight she is the heterosexualest woman in the world #so i know how their minds work #and besides. man or woman there is nothing hotter than an attractive person who is also an awkward dorkass nerd #it's like catnip to us (girls who probably have something wrong with them but are really good at masking it) #frankly it's the kind of thing everyone i've ever dated or ever considered dating has said to me #yes i would like to do an activity with you!! at a place!!! for some time!!!!! #anyway. my point is #people clown on sokka for this (namely; katara) #but it would work on most if not all of you #i guarantee it

[canisalbus]

Different Italian anon, but the thing with Tuscan C is that it's pronounced like a very strong H sound, which is extra weird cuz the letter H makes no sound in Italian, normally. It sounds the way Spanish pronounce the J. We say it's "aspirato". So then people from there will say things like Hoha Hola (coca cola), and it's funny. It's also extremely contagious, I got family in Florence, you spend 3 days with them you start doing it too before you even realize.

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#that sounds really endearing actually #answered #anonymous #this is entirely beside the point but I still feel sort of bamboozled by languages that have silent letters #or when letters have multiple pronunciations that vary wildly from word to word #and when the sound and the letter don't seem to match like how J sounds very close to H in Spanish like you mentioned #I'm generalizing a little but none of these are really a thing in Finnish #in Finnish words are pretty much always pronounced the way they are written if that makes sense #I don't know the language terminology but I think phonetic spelling is what you call it #each letter represents a specific sound and you string those together #when you hear a word you can always tell how it's written and when you read a word you know how to pronounce it #even if you're encountering the word for the first time and have no idea what it means #it's comparatively direct and predictable there's practically no need for guessing or memorizing #also the stress is always on the first syllabe and it's so subtle it might as well not be there at all #which sometimes makes spoken Finnish and Finnish accent sound kind of monotonous there isn't a lot of intonation #I was extremely confused by the concept of spelling bees as a kid #anyway long tag ramble but this stuff is just interesting to me

[shaykai]

The Astarion bite scene is infinitely funnier if you’re an elf

Motherfucker chose the one person in the group who doesn’t actually sleep to try and bite and thought it would go well

#elves technically can sleep but shhh that’s besides the point #98% of them just trance #maybe he lucked out and just so happened to run into like the one elf in Faerun who actually sleeps #(and was still unlucky enough to have them wake up and catch him anyways) #Baldur’s gate 3 #Baldur’s gate 3 spoilers #Astarion

[rochenn]

I'm sure ppl on this site have written essays both in support of and in opposition to this take but Anakin and Vader simply aren't the same guy to me. It doesn't compute. Vader has the air and diction of an eternal 60yo who went to West Point and sometimes voices lukewarm regret about all the air strikes he called on civilian centers 20 years ago. How did he get there??

If Disney loves capitalizing on those actors so much why don't they call in Ian and Hayden for a little show/movie where Vader goes from barely-adult mess with questionable rhetorical skills to measured legend with a somehow flawless transatlantic accent? Hello?

#the only time anakin and vader actually overlapped in my head was the post-transformation scene in revenge of the sith #that worked!! #and ik vader and anakin show the same talents like piloting etc but that's beside the point here #anyway #this wouldn't even be fanservice nostalgiabait it would be an actual gap to fill in for once #star wars

[slavhew]

I wanna play OFF

#homestuck #hom3stuck #home2t4ck #dirk strider #admin draws #fanart #id also like to swing a bat at something but thats beside the point #yes i know he looks like bro here idgaffff i wanted to make him look like hes playing baseball but with his stupid katana #that being said feel free to tag as bro i really dont care jgjgdjgkgj im just not using his tags for this #anyways. im branching out into the other options in the tonal correction section. #i actually drew this and another thing b&w with the express purpose of testing out gradient mapping. i think it turned out well ! #i feel like it looks a lot more vibrant in the csp window for me but wahtever. i still have a lot to learn lol

[shepscapades]

I do have to ask. Was the docsuma ever planed or did they force themselves into exsistence. did you go into this expecting them to have so much homoerotic energy or did it just spawn b4 bc of how other people went insane over doc and Xisuma (separately)

it was 100% completely genuinely unplanned.

I went from a diehard rendoc shipper expecting them to be lowkey The Ship for dbhc doc (or not making doc a focus character at all, really), to thinking it would make a lot of sense/would be funny if Doc ended up being an android mechanic, to thinking it would be cool if Doc and X were close in this au because they both do android tech, to then being like... oh they can be research partners.... to then planning the [REDACTED] comic to then thinking... oh... what if they cared a lot about each other :(((( and the dynamic kinda stole my heart tbh

BUT IT WAS ALWAYS SUPPOSED TO BE LOWKEY bc i know docsuma is... Very Rarepair-y even though doc and xisuma have been good friends for aaaages hehe

THAT BEING SAID I DON'T PLAN ON SHOVING THIS SHIP IN ANYONES FACES LOL they ended up being kinda downbad for each other in a few of my unposted side-drawings but i don't want to make it a central thing unless people really wanna see it LKDFJGLKDJFG

#basically it started as a joke and then it very quickly stopped being a joke #but i dont wanna be obnoxious abt it bc quite frankly besides intense pining i don't think the characters would be obnoxious abt it either #dbhc ask #dbhc #dbhc doc #dbhc xisuma #dbhc docsuma #docsuma #ask #anon #in fact i wasn't really planning on making the docsuma thing confirmed or obvious for a while #but the GUY.EXE song thing started a rabbit hole i couldn't help but keep digging hahaha #its been fun to watch people put the pieces together =w= #but anyway!! i had wanted to say all of this at some point anyway so ty for the ask!! :>

[crow-with-a-pencil]

Hi @naffeclipse I'm very normal about your fic. Have some frantic midnight sketches as extra kudos along with some tag rambling :)

#my ârt #crush depth #crush depth spoilers #fnaf #tw blood #tw drowning #idk how many others apply #anyways this is midnight crow coming out of the shadow realm to scream at you #first of all a cs ramble is on the way I'm still recovering from that fic too #im biting you naff im biting you so dang hard #I don't even know much about iron lung besides watching a play through but damn do you make me want to know more #just. where do I even start. the atmosphere is established so well and even though there was such a small space to work with I FELT it #I felt the claustrophobia I felt the walls and the console and the single dim lightbulb as my only solace in this death trap #the THOUGHTS #poor yn had so much time to just get lost in their head and spiral pretty much constantly #the dread. the constant overhanging dread of knowing there's a 99% chance they're not getting out of there alive and at this point #they just want to accept it and let it end bc there's hardly anything to go back to if they live #naff. look at me. reading some parts made my chest actually tighten with dread. it was so well done. #this poor human just buried in existential horror and just wanting it to end in a slightly less painful way #and the unknowable beings trapped outside who absolutely REFUSE to let that happen #god those eldritch fish were trying their hardest but just couldn't get in #yn was trapped inside while they were trapped outside and I just #I am EXPLODING the more I think about it #thinking about when they thought they were drowning and tried to breathe again #wanting to die but still having that instinct to survive #asking to be ripped apart but still cherishing their last breath of air #I'm shaking you I'm shaking you I'm dying on the floor #ough. #I'll never mentally recover from this and I want you to know I genuinely get inspired by your writing #this has been midnight crow ramblings. I just hit the tag limit. have a lovely night.

[bruciemilf]

I wonder if Man Bat is Gotham's Mothman.

Bernard asks, after Tim reveals his identity, along with a super long monologue of 'I understand if you want to leave, I'd leave me too', if he's ever seen Man Bat on patrols.

" Man Bat? You mean uncle Kirk?"

"What."

Tim points at Bruce trying to wrestle a 6'6 creature of shadows, fur, and sharp fangs, for a bag of cheese. Naturally, Bernard passes out.

#I LOVE KIRK MAN #yes im a monster fucker but thats beside the point #bernard dowd #tim drake #bruce wayne #kirk longstorm #my hc is thomas was a mad scientist fucking around and thats how kirk came to be. ofc martha had to legally adopt him so the gov #wont fuck around. anyway #text #dcu #dc #dc comics #man bat