#but that's how i chose life

[lucabyte]

Not all who wander are lost. Some who wander, however, are extremely, extremely lost.

#note: this is a kitchen in a house of change. they are still on the road w the party #not to say i think that maybe chillin out in one location with some loved ones and planned visits from their friends would fix siffrin #but i am saying that they do seem to hoard random items at every given oppertunity. which is an interesting habit #isat #isat fanart #in stars and time #in stars and time fanart #isat spoilers #sifloop #isat siffrin #isat loop #sloops #lucabyteart #but yeah no i dont actually know that siffrin would wwwant to be . travelling literally forever. given the. well. um #that one QnA answer especially. the immediate deflective joking when asked how long they'd been a traveller. mm. #it's not like they chose this life is the thing. and we know they have a habit of forcing themselves to 'stick to the script' #i really do think they'd be better for some stability. its not like you cant have a house and also go on fun travel holidays also #(if you want my real opinion. why not just move to bambouche to help raise bonnie. but. that's fanfic territory at that point)

[furiosophie]

it's something sinister to love without regard for dear tomorrow

#modern warfare 3 spoilers #mwiii spoilers #soapghost #ghostsoap #ghoap #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #call of duty #mwiii #09 soapghost #listen i just think that while 22 ghost would be fuckin pissed that they're destined to die in every life #09 soap would find so much comfort in the fact that they got to find and love each other again in the next one #despite how it all ends #something something i will chose you every time #something something only two things will ever have me you and death #anyway #close behind and strawberry wine fucked me up good in the last couple of days #soph arts #id in alt text

[teddy-bear-d]

Gem and the Scotts, Scotts and the Gem

#geminitay #scott smajor #smajor1995 #impulsesv #gem and the scotts #secret life #this took longer than expected #but I’ve been having awful art block so that makes sense #I wanted to go for a baby metal type vibe #because they’re in a cherry blossom biome with their cute cottages #but also chose a very 80-90’s rock band name #also I hate impulses outfit #I tried to mix Lolita accessories and his already canon skin #it’s fine #I just don’t love how it turned out #also I thought Scott would definitely be the type to play a violin in a rock band

[autisticandroids]

FAMINE: That's one deep, dark nothing you've got there, Dean.

[youtube with closed captions]

dean and his father. dean and his family. dean and how bad it is.

(via @closetoyou1970)

#spn #vid #mind the warnings on this one for real #woe! fruit of my rewatch be upon ye. #pallas calls this my 'deangirl coming out vid' which honestly. true. but those who paid attention know i've always been a deangirl. #also. after this no more deanwinchester rilo kiley amvs I Pwomise #anyway. i'm not gonna give a full commentary here but a big reason why i chose this song is that the narrator #is essentially dismissing her own problems and instead watching the problems of someone else #and i kind of wanted to play with that theme. this is the parallels show so let's do some parallels. lots of things happen to characters #that are Like Dean somehow. either in personality or circumstance. that we know or can infer happen to him. but we don't see it bc it's #not sayable. not speakable. so like for an easy one. we see meg being tortured in caged heat. she also talks about apprenticing under #alastair just like dean. so i show her being tortured [in a way that is sexualized and demon-specific] and reacting how she does #because i invite the audience to imagine or interpret that this has also happened to dean at some point. we just don't see it #so there are many dean parallels in this video. some obvious. some subtle but textual. some products of my twisted mind. but that's the way #i am using them to make my argument. #oh also: dean voice sam's eyes going black is JUST like when he used to fight with dad and wouldn't listen to me when i told him not to. #i guess also the point is that because it's unsayable. dean can't say it. dean can't even acknowledge it. and so it bleeds through #into everything in his life #that's why it's important that the song narrator doesn't take her own problems seriously. dean doesn't either.

[fandom-trash-goblin]

IN DEFENSE OF ARIANNE MARTELL

My 1980s and Other Essays, Wayne Koestenbaum // Looking in the Mirror, George Tsui. // A Feast for Crows, Chapter 40, Princess In The Tower

for @alicentcole, my long lost twin

lyanna stark || elia martell || sansa stark || arya stark || alicent hightower || jaehaera targaryen || cersei lannister || myrcella baratheon || joanna lannister || aemma arryn || catelyn stark || sansa stark (2) || margaery tyrell || rhaena targaryen, daughter of aenys i || arianne martell || aerea targaryen || obara sand || nymeria sand

#arianne martell #house martell #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #web weave #webweaving #webweave #webweaves: asoiaf #game of thrones #got #i know i said targaryen girls were up next and i have the pictures ready! i do! but arianne martell man she caught me #and whispered in my ears house martell supremacy how could i deny her #@alicentcole i hope you like it! #listen. i know we love to talk about arianne and birthrights. but. way more talented people have done it before me. so #you get another flavour of arianne!! the way she doesn't see the betrayal coming! and how could she because she's always looking ahead! #(and how could she because she trusted them! she had them secured only to realise they were never hers!) #so the mirror potrait is delicious irony. she couldn't see the back in real life but she can in the mirror. #the past stares at her and never lets her forget!! #and i could have chose a better quote but again; mirror. also star in the qoute-> NYMERIA'S STAR! #that's it commentary end

[deadpoets]

How much of him is there in me?

#jessmarianoedit #gilmoregirlsedit #jess mariano #gilmore girls #ohwarnette #usersolis #usernivi #usermalcfoy #mialook #alielook #useraudrey2 #userroh #usermai #tuserdanni #*mine #*mygifs #i know the scene is actually the other way around but i felt like it made more sense this way #and i chose this scene bc like jimmy literally says he's a screw up + it's his genetic code #and jess is literally like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree #but also i do not think jess is a screw up like it's more of y'know his thought process i guess ? #there's just like a lot of similarities between jess and jimmy #and just like it's a lot to deal with y'know #like here's the guy you've never known who didn't seem to care to know you and he pops back in your life #and you're just faced with this mirror reflection of you and it must be unnerving #how can you be so similar to someone you don't even know

[keii]

JJK (Toji & Mahito) x I Saw the Devil (K-Movie) Crossover

#jujutsu kaisen #toji fushiguro #mahito #i randomly rewatched this movie a couple of days ago and i instantly just wanted to make a crossover w toji... can u see it... #i can see it.. #also chose mahito to be the main antagonist bc yea... #remember watching this movie the first time w sushi and oh my god.... it was good but omg so many uncomfortable scenes #so be warned if u decide to check this movie out as well #also wanted to practice more lighting and background stuff #even tho the bg was so hasty LOL thank god csp got a leaf brush #been talking w friends how gege should make a side story that's toji focused about his life before dying LOL please... #i would love to see his ass sleep around and be a deadbeat #just wanna know MORE but gege... hates us LOL #last time i did a crossover was my mystic messenger x train to busan... that was in 2017 and they look terrible LOL #art #jjk #jjk toji #fanart #artists on tumblr #killamonart #i saw the devil

[chappellrroan]

people who still hate Joe Alwyn need to get a life asap

#i said what i said #so many bad takes you guys are acting like he forcibly locked her up for two years when she chose it herself and she was happy with the #decision sure things ended and maybe it wasn't very best breakup or wtv but holy shit do you realise the speculations you make are so #fucking invasive the same thing you hate the other people doing to taylor's life and not to remind you that you have zero fucking clue of #what goes on behind the scenes you take these bits and pieces of crumb and exaggerate it to something so much worse #mind you this was the same man y'all worshipped before the breakup oh because he was the epitome of calm gentleman #and now i see a post with tags “go out fucking loser” like wow. just wow. #not to mention how his humanitarian act of signing ceasefire got turned around to thing about taylor like guys. guys. big news. but #advocating against genocide and accepting all the blacklash that comes with it isn't that simple maybe pic up that brain from football #ground and think again

[fagtainsparklez]

i need bbh to win and invite skeppy because by the way bad talks about him i’m sure every non-english cc thinks he’s the most charming charismatic sweet and loving guy on the planet bc bad is so head-over-heels in love with him only for skeppy to join like 2 hours late, accidentally kill an egg, spend the entire time complaining to bad about Every Small Event while making bad do everything for him and then fuck off into the woods never to be seen again. and they’ll all turn to bad and be like “i’m so sorry . . . the stress of the situation must’ve gotten to him . . . maybe we’ve been here for so long he’s no longer the person you used to know . . .” only for bad to turn to them with hearts in his eyes and go “what do you mean? that’s how skeppy always is O.o isn’t he perfect?”

#icarus speaks #that last part is said while dreamily sighing and looking at a picture of skeppy #i just want them to know how Bad his taste in men is. literally all the men in the world and you chose that one. really #worst part is that’ll have been the best day of his life too

[heybiji]

double life

#masks: a new generation #masks a new generation #ttrpg #pbta #superheroes #dad mode and this job is ruining my life mode #this hell i am in #me before: i don't really care about superheroes #me making my own superheroes: I SEE NOW #gm mode is just going ham on the npcs #masks: overlook city #masks: overlook #trying to explain he's a serious character in the same breath as describing how his life was ruined by a giant dinosaur balloon #TS in rare video footage shouting about how a balloon doesn't have a soul but he does!!! LOL #all my character must struggle to maintain their dignity it's my favorite thing #hard to root for him though he basically chose being a supe over being a good husband and father so... oop. #anyway #true strike #truestrike #antonio salvo #tony salvo #sorry masks tag for flooding you with npc stuff i'm the gm and i still need enrichment

[majestyjun]

never in the history of bf pics has he done such a thing this cruel

#I DONT EVEN HAVE WORDS TO HOW I FEEL RN #I AM NOT OKAY currently crying sobbing in the corner of my room #i woke up and he chose VIOLENCE WITH THESE #i am going to explode with how badly i want him ahahahah #i have never— #bye i am not okay #jisung is ruining my life now what to do

[evilkitten3]

one pet peeve of mine in founders-era fanfics is when madara's whole,,,, everything is solved by izuna just being there

like maybe this is just me, but i don't think izuna surviving or even coming around to the idea of a truce with the senju would've been enough to keep madara from the path he ended up on.

izuna wasn't the reason he left - he was definitely part of madara's issues, but he wasn't the why. even if izuna had stuck around, and even if that had been enough to keep the uchiha clan from losing their faith in madara, i think he would've still come to realize konoha wasn't what he'd hoped it would be.

best case scenario, i think izuna's survival might've caused madara to stick around a bit longer, but i don't think it would've lasted. honestly, even then, that might've just made the inevitable break-up between madara and hashirama even more agonizing (particularly for izuna)

it's a fun idea to play around with for sure, but frankly i don't think canon!madara could've ever been 'saved' from that path. certainly not if the hidden village system ended up getting set up in the same way.

#naruto #naruto shippuden #meta #uchiha madara #uchiha izuna #senju hashirama #from the moment madara was born into that world he was doomed to walk that path i think #most fics that have izuna live and madara still leave that i've seen keep izuna's death as the catalyst. but moved down a bit #which i understand #but imo it'd be more interesting to explore how izuna would feel about his brother's choice #bc as much as people like to view izuna as like a super big bro supporter. he really REALLY isn't #his loyalty is to the uchiha clan #we're explicitly shown that if forced to pick between the clan's interests and madara's dream izuna will pick the clan #both as a kid when he and tajima fought tobirama and butsuma #and as an adult when he used his last words (or the last words hashirama ever heard from him) to further that divide #the clan chose konoha over madara. and i think izuna - as against the idea as he was to begin with - would've also #not bc he doesn't love his brother. bc his loyalty is and always will be to the uchiha clan #hell madara was the same until he was physically forced to stop #first by hashirama trying to use his own life as a bid for peace between their families #and later by the uchiha clan's rejection of madara himself #madara is like. if the doomed hero trope was the antagonist #having said all of that zetsu was never going to let izuna live bc he needed madara to get the eternal mangekyou sharingan #and izuna was the only one of his siblings who lived long enough to see him get the regular sharingan. so it had to be him #but like i said even if that weren't the case it wouldn't have mattered #madara believed that the end - the world of dreams - would justify the means. if izuna hadn't given up his eyes freely... #well. it's not like people didn't end up thinking madara had taken them anyway #i don't think even naruto could've saved madara really #the only thing anyone could've saved him from was dying alone #which is what would've happened if everyone except him was in the infinite tsukuyomi when kaguya came back #and honestly even tho all three of his deaths had other people there (hashirama then obito then hashirama again)

[softpine]

i like how we all collectively agreed that covid does not exist in any of our sims stories

#i'm just thinking about the weirdness of media that came out from 2020 through like... 2022 #even in shows that didn't address covid you can just feel its presence and the show immediately feels dated #the lack of extras in the background... or all the extras are wearing masks but the main characters aren't... toilet paper jokes...... #anyway it made me realize none of us attempted it even if our timelines are true to life in every other way #to me it almost feels like it would be disrespectful to write about? but i don't know why because it's just an illness #i write about all kinds of illnesses and death #it just feels different for some reason #dude i just remembered frank gallagher on shameless died of covid........ #they made their main character die from a disease that didn't even exist on earth when the show began #is that wild to anyone else #idk i just find it so fascinating how all types of writers chose to handle covid in their work and that includes sim stories

[sunny12th]

dany was so broken in agot, physically and mentally. she was ready to kill herself to escape drogo. her childhood had been a long unfortunate series of running away from the alleged monsters that killed her family and left her exiled and desperately trying to appease her abusive brother/guardian.

but then, after she's resolved herself to suicide, she has a dream. and then, she starts to notice the beauty in the new world around her. how the dothraki grass sea swallowed her up, the new sights and sounds and smells all around. she found solace in the people, she ate with them, learned their language in a matter of months, enjoyed their food. felt freer in dothraki riding clothes than in the fine silks ilyrio had dressed her up in.

I'm still deeply touched everytime I read about dany giggling, joking around, moving forward, hugging her friends, leading, and fighting after enduring so much. it's not about her being right in everything she does or everything ending well for her. she went through hell, was already going through it before the series even started, and she kept going. she grows and fights and fucks and laughs and cries and rages. she falls and she gets right back up again.

dany is ready to end her own life. the next day, she notices how pretty the sky is. she learns a few more dothraki words everyday and starts to connect more with those around her. she tries some new foods and starts to feel more comfortable on her horse.

the dragon dream certainly did Something to dany - a scarlet and black dragon (drogon, balerion come again) baptizing her in flame. scouring her, tempering her, making her clean. after this, dany makes the quiet choice to live. there is no grand revelation, no "i want to live!" monologue. she simply starts to notice the beauty in the world she's traveling through, the loyalty and easy comradery in her companions, the tasty food and comfortable clothes. dothraki smells, horse smells. riding leather, painted vests, the gently singing bells braided through hair. dany chooses life everytime she giggles, everytime she tries a new food or convinces her friends to try one, everytime she stops to stare at a pretty sight.

she was ready to choose death and she chose life. when her entire world had narrowed to the scope of her pain, to the strength of her abusers, to the golden collar drogo had put around her neck - she still chose life. and just like that, her world expanded and she could see all that was worth living for.

#i dont see the fandom talk about this much. how dany was ready to kill herself and then chose life #in a story where choosing life - to live and fight is kinda the whole point #dany already did that! she already chose life #main character of all time. protag of all time #and then she just keeps choosing life. only this time it's not just for herself #her life is not just her own anymore. she chooses life for her people too #idk i just. love to see characters go thru absolute hell and then choose life anyways #mine #this is probably v badly written but i am exhausted and emotional #daenerys targaryen #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #suicide mention

[cistematicchaos]

Being crippled is so ridiculous sometimes like what do you mean I can't walk? That's literally what my legs are for. Are you telling me they just up and quit on me? For what? Better wages? In this economy? no not wages apparently they just don't like the fact my soul is inhabiting this body and until further notice lmao they're just gonna make sure I'm miserable. 👍 why, you may ask? Well, why not is the real question apparently

#Like #💀 bro how I'm supposed to help what body my soul chose #sorry if this makes no sense whatsoever #I have a migraine #and I'm high on both pain #and pain reliever that hasn't rea!my helped \o/ #cripple punk #cripple life #Disability #actually disabled #fibro #chronic pain #chronic illness #chaos is speaking

[hella1975]

the thing about trauma and i think the reason im always more compelled by characters who lash out as a result of it instead of being made stronger by it is that it’s pointless. none of that shit happened for a reason. there’s nothing you’re supposed to do now that it happened. i can’t stand narratives that romanticise trauma bc the reality of it is that you went through that for no reason and you have to just deal and keep going. there’s nothing beautiful or brave about it. no one is writing you for it to mean something. it’s just… there

#like even good victims of trauma who do respond well and bravely and become better for it - none of that happened BECAUSE of their trauma #it happened bc of how they chose to respond to it. it happened because of THEM #trauma is inherently a non-human thing it cannot have emotions like bravery it cannot be personified #it’s just an object you carry with you and some people bear it better than others #i think a lot of people bc of narratives we see in media find themselves irl looking for some Great Purpose behind their trauma #like it had a point all along and some greater being is writing it in a concise way that makes narrative sense #but this is real life and it was pointless and im sorry that it didn’t mean a fucking thing. now get up and keep going #sorry if this is super negative lmao 😭