#but wouldn’t this have been cool??

[bixiebeet]

New hobby just dropped: imagining the books that the Ghostbusters would write. Up first is Egon and mycology. Thanks @spengnitzed for the inspiration.

#ghostbusters #ghostbusters 1984 #egon spengler #harold ramis #mycology #fake books #fake book cover #but wouldn’t this have been cool??

[brackenfur]

u guys know me, i love writing warrior cats with a touch of horror :)

ivykit races up to her one morning out of breath, saying: “mommy, mommy, guess what?”

whitewing laughs at her daughters enthusiasm - dovekit is usually the more chattier of the two, and seeing ivykit so excited is a rare occurrence.

“what?” whitewing purrs, bending down to lick behind her daughters ears.

“i made a new friend!” ivykit chirps, ducking from her mothers grooming.

whitewing pauses for a moment, confused a little about her daughters statement - ivykit knows every cat thunderclan by now, as does her sister. after a moment, she guesses that this is probably just an imaginary friend; she never had one herself, but she remembers ferncloud telling her that spiderleg did when he was young. poor ivykit can be so quiet, a little lonesome - but she seems so happy right now that whitewing doesn’t want to burst her bubble.

instead, she purrs: “oh, really? a new friend?”

“mmhmm,” ivykit nods, looking out of the nursery’s entrance. “i told him i wanted to come and introduce you to him, but he was a little shy.”

whitewing chuckles - definitely an imaginary friend. ivykit is only four moons old, so she supposes she’s not too old to have an active imagination - and she seems so happy at the moment, too.

“well, that’s okay,” whitewing says, smiling at her daughter. “where did you meet him?”

“behind the apprentices den,” ivykit tells her, proudly. “i saw him hiding there and went over to ask who he was, but we started talking and he’s pretty funny.”

whitewing twitches her whisker. “well, that’s good. where are his mom and dad? did you ask him if he’s lost?” she asks, humoring ivykit.

ivykit shakes her head. “mama, he’s like, the same age as you! i don’t think he lives with his parents!”

whitewing feels a trickle of discomfort down her spine - she doesn’t know why that detail bothers her, but something about this….friend begins to unsettle her. maybe ivykit is a little too old for imaginary friends, or maybe it’s for a reason that whitewing can’t place yet.

“oh, well,” she starts, not wanting to discourage ivykit when she seems so excited. “an adult, huh? what did…well, what did he look like? what’s his name?”

ivykit frowns. “he didn’t say his name,” she mumbles. “but he talked a little funny. i think it’s because of the stick he had poking out of his throat.”

#shark noises #wc #wouldn’t that have been cool if the df cats posed themselves was imaginary friends to apprentices/kits #before they started training in the df?? hmm

[aroanthy]

i love how fraught and complicated discourse around various utena characters ‘dying’ is when anthy is literally stabbed to death eternally by a million swords imbued with human hatred. and then utena gets stabbed to death by them also. like. ‘death’ is incredibly interesting in rgu because most of the time it’s this ambiguous figurative thing that has interesting implications re: ohtori as a closed-off world one can escape. we are all trapped in our coffins. mamiya is the only named character with a grave. nemuro memorial hall functions as one all the same. ruka is implied to have died in the hospital— was he dead all along? who was the boy we saw for these two episodes? is this dead boy the same boy, or is this just another coincidence from the shadow girls, cutting like a knife? it’s heavily implied that akio and anthy murder kanae by poisoning her, adding to the previous implication that they were poisoning mr ohtori too, but there are no perceptible consequences of this. kanae’s absence is not felt. she’s fed an apple slice. what happens to the bodies? we know what happened to the 100 boys, but what about everyone else? and so on and so forth. ‘death’ is a tricky thing in utena, i think it’s constantly functioning on figurative and literal levels in very different ways for very different purposes. dios died. dios was dying. dios didn’t die. he grew up. etc etc

#what am i trying to say here? #idk! think about all of the pieces you have #dying is complicated in ohtori in countless different ways #and i find it boring to see so much ‘this character is dead and that’s it’ stuff #when death is used farrrrrrr more figuratively than some ppl give credit for #and i think the movie too does wonderful things with death #and what ‘dying’ really means #being disbelieved. being forgotten. being rejected. haunting despite this #much more interesting to think about wrt commentary on abusive relationships than it is #to think about what?? oh me when my brother died but plot twist he’s alive and can walk on this road all cool. like????? #akio doesn’t have the power to make himself revenant #he THINKS he does and he absolutely has power when he’s alive and he imbues that power with such meaning that it does live on after him #but ANTHY. anthy is the one struggling with herself and her feelings and the impact of trauma and abuse (that power!!) in aou #he’s dead? he died? she brought him back through her memories? or she’s left him (metaphorical death) and he’s haunting her?? #all such interesting interpretations #i haven’t mentioned touga bc i don’t have the energy today. if dead and just illusion of others memories then why active. why awful #like in aou akio is only Obviously scummy when he’s alive. his illusory self is based upon anthy’s love for him #if anime!touga is nothing more than nanami/whoever’s memories of him before he died……. why does he actively choose to suck again and again #like nanami wouldn’t do that. unless it was meant to be a subconscious thing like ooo he’s dead all along but that’s not what her arc is #it’s not ‘he’s been dead all along’ literally or figuratively. it’s ‘he’s unsafe and i don’t want him’ #sigh. once again i am asking people to think about nanami and touga’s dynamic through touga’s eyes #it’s so interesting to me how people forget to consider his motivations or feelings on ANYTHING #like sure his motivations and feelings are scummy but they’re interesting!!!!! they intrigue me!!!! #compel me even #anyway ignore how i said i didn’t have the energy for this and then typed it all out anyway #dais.txt

[worstloki]

My issue with Thor not ‘realizing’ why Loki was acting off in Avengers 1 isn’t that Thor didn’t recognise Loki was acting unlike himself—Thor did note that—or that Thor didn’t figure out what was wrong—he did try asking—it’s more along the lines of Thor giving up, and that he accepted Loki was bad now within two days while knowing something was off when Thor himself behaved just as bad for much longer before without any specific compromising event.

#Thor was happy go kill for so long and Loki waited for Thor to get better and then Thor KNOWS something is up #and he still accepts Loki is evil now and never questions or visits Loki in prison again #he moped around about it because of duty and depression but that he had such little faith in Loki #like either his little brother really did go mad out of jealousy and rage AND is permanently like that with no resolution between them #it’s ridiculous #I like the Thor in my head who never believed Loki had actually gone mad and went after the infinity stones bc he suspected #the one that would not only trust Loki to get them off Asgard in TDW but knew Loki had the throne after and let it be that way #bc he knows his brother and wouldn’t stop believing Loki can ‘get better’ even if he’d truly gone mad #like I get that Thor in Avengers 1 would have been conflicted and could’ve taken everything at face value #Loki was DEAD and now he’s not of course Thor isn’t going to be thinking straight #it’s easy to look at Loki and assume he spent a year plotting revenge after faking his death #but Thor had time after to cool down and only gave Loki a chance in TDW when there was no other option #like did he genuinely think Loki will try to kill him #is Thor scared of Loki now or what #Thor’s spending so much time thinking of what he’s lost that he develops depression but doesn’t ever voice or support the idea that maybe #Loki was forced to do the invasion #AFTER he asks ‘who controls the would-be king’ like come on Thor just ask a follow-up question #Thor autistic king distracted by ‘YOUR father’ discourse fr #T-T #I simply don’t think Thor would have given up on Loki even if Loki stabbed him sorry #it wouldn’t even be bc he’s naive it’d be because he knows and loves his brother #and he’d keep hoping for a change of heart #he wouldn’t ditch the issue unless it was to go under the radar and that’s never explicitly implied #unfortunately #:(

[flashhwing]

just because you dislike the direction a character’s development went in, doesn’t mean it was objectively bad

that being said. you absolutely have the right to complain about a characters direction that you didn’t like. what the hell is the point of consuming media if you don’t get to have opinions about it?

THAT BEING SAID. you also have the right to complain about people complaining about a characters direction that they didn’t like but you did. being a hater is one of life’s little gifts

the point is. fucking have opinions and talk about them! you stating your opinion online doesn’t affect creators in any way. someone else talking about their opinion doesn’t mean they’re trying to stop you from having yours

#I may have just had the dumbest discourse argument in my head #that amounted to ‘I don’t like this thing. i should be allowed to talk about how I don’t like this thing’ #‘but if I’m allowed to talk about not liking this thing it stands to reason that other people can talk about me talking about not liking - #-this thing. …… well yeah so what. let them. it would be pretty boring if everyone had the exact same opinion wouldn’t it.’ #anyway I really dislike the way Yasha developed through c2. both character wise and visually #and I’m allowed to think that. and it doesn’t mean that Ashley Johnson should’ve done anything different with her #and yasha fans are allowed to think I just don’t ~get~ her. even though I feel like I’m more correct about it #do you understand? do you get it??? #it’s not that deep. and also it’s kinda beautiful and really cool #this has been a post

[alaraxia]

mayhaps I deserve…..a Little Treat….

#the disco elysium brainrot persisteth #think my brain has just been permanently altered and I’m cool with that #wish work paid me more but at least I can expense some of my brainrot purchases #here’s to me hopefully catching the pants drop this week #the collectors edition is now sold out tho so I have to haggle on eBay #probably wouldn’t have spent my own money on either of these but if it’s work’s money hell yeah #digital art #work is stressful this week I deserve a Little Treat #mini me

[pearlsdiamondsandvodka]

i’ll miss mentopolis…i love the vibe, the concept, the set is so gorgeous and creative and the prefrontal pi:s are SO funny together. amazing chemistry

#first I was like ‘yeah seems cool’ #but shattered my expectations for sure! #everyone are having so fun and I love the throes and cliches #plus the deeper messages and all the talk about your brain and your thoughts and mental illnesses #just incredibly well made and I definitely wouldn’t have minded if this sidequest had been longer #d20 #dimension 20 #mentopolis

[angrylesbianstereotype]

Sandstorm I can’t give you an apprentice bc I need to give an apprentice to Darkstripe, a cat I don’t trust, to prove that I trust him. Sandstorm I can’t give you an apprentice bc I need to keep an eye on this very suspicious looking baby. Spottedle- Sandstorm, sorry- I can’t give you an apprentice bc it’s too hot outside today. Tigerstar! Shadowclan! Sandstorm I can’t give you an apprentice, I can’t possibly, because I forgot <3 Sandstorm I can’t give you an apprentice bc the entire point of your character is to be surface-level strong and cool to try and get ahead of legitimate allegations of sexism but also never, ever as strong or cool as me or in any position of power bc that would be emasculating, duh. Sandstorm you can’t be deputy, you haven’t had an apprentice!

#srry y’all but i legitimately hate firestar x sandstorm she was always an afterthought to him #her entire characterization is just Cool Girl bc she was just written as an extension of firestar #conflicted feelings bc so many of my favorite characters wouldn’t have been born w out this het ass ship #warrior cats #firestar #sandstorm #spottedleaf #tigerstar #bramblepaw #darkstripe #shadowclan

[bootyful-seventeen]

I am heavily contemplating on buying myself a dvd player soon and buying all the DVDs for a ton of movies and tv shows I grew up watching cuz I miss the magic of dvds

#hear me out on this one okay. but the Barbie movies were magic on dvd back in the day #and I do wanna see if stores are still selling the old strawberry shortcake dvds before I go online for those #I wanna snort that nostalgia so bad #and of course I’ll need to get the dcau on dvd #like all of it cuz I’m so bored with the dccu since we don’t get as much new stuff #it’s always Batman or superman and love them but I’m kinda bored from always seeing a new bman or sups movie #Wonder Woman I wouldn’t mind a new actor for her but I know she’s not gonna be a muscle mommy which I’ll be sad about #give me a Wonder Woman that is built like rhea ripely god damnit #the flash is eh cuz I found out this whole time I’ve been watching the Wally west flash #but yeah Wally is who I want and then there’s the green lantern like dude is so cool iams all we have is the 1 from 2011 I think #sure I could watch some of the tv series they have but I have too many shows on my watch list it’s overwhelming at times so I skip over lots #tho I will have to pray like crazy cuz some of the things I know I want are probably gonna be expensive as fuck even as second hand #saw a class of the titans season 1 dvd going for $81 cad 💀💀💀 #the world is not kind to those who don’t love the digital age #I prefers my dvds cuz I own it and no one can take it away from me unless they physically steal it #omg I’m turning into my grandma cuz she still had the vhs player with some tapes too #just wish she never donated the tapes for swan princess 1-3 and Anastasia and ferngully and basically all my faves that she owned #like Ngl a part of me wants to hit up value village just to see if maybe they’re still there or if I’ll find other copies of the same things #cuz a perk about cities with older people is that you get so much older tech and other items it’s insane

[r0semultiverse]

Is anyone gonna ship these 2 or do I gotta do it myself?

Looks like I gotta do it myself!

& this scene too

There's also Rao holding onto Thief off screen at least twice!

They literally held hands too!

Look, even the toys on Amazon have them together, like c'mon now!

#what is their ship name? it’s old man yaoi I thought y’all loved that! #wish they wouldn’t be making his skin lighter in the figurines & in the game #I’m only on episode 4 but hear me out on this; they should gay kiss! #akira toriyama thank you for this old man pairing that probably isn’t intentional #apparently volume 1 came out in 2000; these guys have apparently been around for a while #my partner & I are enjoying the anime so far & thief’s Santa outfit is cute #I just really like the dynamic between Shiva AKA Rao & Thief; they’re so cool! RaoTie ftw! #sandland #sand land #shiva x thief #shivief #rao x thief #raothief #raoief #Sand Land: The Series #Sand Land The Series #mlm #akira toriyama #mine #op

[k-i-ssmyash]

The new episode got a lot of unwarranted hate.

A lot of it came from Youtube analyst channels that make a profit on the episode they are dissing.

That ain’t cool yo

#ashtray art #fanart #digital art #helluva boss #moxxie #helluva boss moxxie #helluva boss blitzo #blitzø #helluva boss stolas #stolas goetia #striker #striker helluva boss #my honest review: #pacing was off #B plot could have been handled better but I wouldn’t take it out entirely #BUT #fight scenes were cool #sloth was great #the songs were amazing #M&M content for my soul #Moxxie was so cool #the ‘harder’ line actually sent me #stolas was cool calm and bad ass too #Ed did strikers voice justice #so like an easy 7/10

[valeovalairs]

your elena design is one of my all time fav designs of them

AAH THANK YOU

I love Elena so much they’re so fun to draw

#I draw them so much not only because they’re pretty cool and I love drawing them but most of my fics are angelstone/elena centered #And I plot by drawing it out #Akshkajakaj #Thank you again so much you have no idea how happy that makes me too know #jrwi apotheosis #jrwi elena #I’ve always been a little worried people wouldn’t like how I draw her compared to some other designs so hearing that is awesome

[designernishiki]

okay but. why does it seem like 24 year old majima’s ridden a horse before. why does he talk like he has Experience. what is this lost lore

#rambling #we just gonna gloss over this #to me ​this either implies he’s from either a REALLY country background Or on the other end of the spectrum (my personal belief) and he’s #from an upper middle class to well off background and has been to like horse camp or horseriding lessons or something in his childhood #oh man please i love the image of an 8-14 year old majima being made to do horseriding by his parents because hes this #lanky pale ass kid who needs to do SOME kind of sport or something #and boy would he Hate it #he’s bizarrely prodigious at a Lot of the (especially technique based) things he tries canonically so I imagine he wouldn’t actually be Bad #at it after some trial and error but. he’d still fucking hate it. and his cool persona in his head would be riding a motorcycle or something #instead cause that’s Way cooler to him #man I have so many thoughts about young majima I really gotta go into depth on it soon #oh yeah just a note: part of the reason I don’t think he’s from a country background is cause his Real Accent canonically is #a tokyo one which he’s still getting the hang of covering up with a kansai one when he’s 20. meaning there’s not a ton of time for him to #have adjusted into a Tokyo one or something prior if he hadn’t grown up there #so I’m pretty damn sure he’s from Tokyo #that + a number of other details that make him seem to me like he grew up with a more formal education #and ywah blah blah blah #majima #Yuki #sunshine siblings #y0

[sunnibits]

I wanna have fun with art again AAARRGHHH

#it feels like it’s been so long since I genuinely had fun with a piece #like I know it hasn’t been THAT long but. I fucking hate how I’ve been feeling lately and the art block is part of it #every time I try to draw something lately I just don’t like anything I make and everything feels boring #I have no inspiration bc I’m in a hyperfixation void #I just wanna feel like I’m capable of making cool things again #ugh #maybe if my doctor didn’t take me off my fucking meds I wouldn’t be so fucking depressed and tired

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Stuck In Her Head

short contemporary YA coming-of-age set in Hong Kong, following two teen girls who are friends

one is a musical prodigy but has lost her passion and wants to explore different possibilities for her future

the other is passionate about music but dealing with mental health & family issues

the latter develops a crush on the former, who is aroace, and they have to re-navigate their friendship, while working on a music/coding competition project together and dealing with their own issues

#aroaessidhe 2024 reads #stuck in her head #Hm this had a lot of aspects I found interesting but didn’t quite live up to what I wanted it to be #I definitely love reading YA set not in the west - this is set in Hong Kong - and I liked that a lot! #And of course we always need more YA about friendships rather than being romance focused (though this has an unrequited aspect of that) #This is written by 17yos which is cool! though it does show in the prose a bit. There’s a lot of ‘the girl’ ‘the teen’ instead of their nam #Or like informing the reader of info in slightly awkward ways - one visits the other’s house and says “is this the first time I’ve been to #- I feel like there are better ways to tell the reader this. Like that’s not something you wouldn’t be sure about right? #This made it feel like their friendship was quite tentative - school friends who’ve known each other for years but only really #started hanging out properly recently - but the text says they’ve been inseparable for years. #It definitely tackles a lot of things from burnout and perfectionism; losing passion for your talents; parents divorcing; depression #I just think some could have been handled with a bit more depth/nuance; with more space and introspection given to them #especially their main conflict about one having a crush on the aroace and then she pretends to reciprocate bc the other is suicidal and the #the other finds out and gets mad and it's......weirdly drawn out but also barely explored in depth also? idk #definitely anticipated it to be a bit like this because it's written by such young authors it's expected that they're still perfecting thei #I think teens who prefer shorter books & are looking for this sort of thing would still enjoy it for sure. I'll def look out for future boo #bisexual books #aroace books

[iwoulddieforienzo]

Something that makes reading TOA so devastating is how fucking much Apollo feels about Everything. There’s so MUCH. Like I don’t even know how to describe it to you if you haven’t read the books yourself. He has so many complicated thoughts and emotions about just about everything and he cares about everything so much and there is just SO MUCH going on in his head. And yet none of it ever reaches his mouth!!

He almost never says what he’s feeling. What little comes out of his mouth about his thoughts barely even scratches the surface of what he actually means. Like he’ll be having a long ass monologue about how incredible someone is, showing a deep understanding of them as a person and empathizing with them so hard you’d almost think it’s projection but it’s not he’s legitimately just mind melding with this random person he met like a week ago and he’s thinking the softest, kindest thoughts about them like he knows they’re fucking incredible - and what comes out of his mouth is just like, “you’re a wonderful friend :)” AND ITS LIKE. THERES SO MUCH MORE UNDER THE SURFACE. the sheer admiration and adoration he has for everyone around him……… UGHHH!!! But he never VOICES ANY OF IT!!!!!! He never tells anyone about what Zeus did to him……. He never tells anyone except the reader about his realization that Zeus is abusive…. He never even tells commodus about how much he adored him, not then and not now… he refuses to tell anyone when he’s in pain or tries to justify the things he does when he actually had Decent Reasons for why he did something… I’m. I’M. AUGH. AHHHHH

HE DOESN’T EVEN TELL US ALL OF HIS THOUGHTS IS THE THING. THERES EVEN MORE THAT HE IS NOT TELLING US!!!!! THE FUCKING OCEAN OF FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS HE HAS ABOUT EVERYTHING IS THE CLIFF NOTES VERSION. I AM IN DISTRESS.

And YET…. Even what slips out of his mouth is so fucking devastating it is SO devastating. He’s so fucking kind and gentle with Harley and Meg and and other younger Demis and his kids… he’ll act like an obstinate idiot and then turn around say something that drags the core of the person he’s talking to into the light like nail on the fucking HEAD like he reached into their soul and gave them the words to express something that they were struggling to say aloud or that they didn’t even realize about themself. Around the 2nd book he starts putting voice to some of his feelings and thoughts about others and even that tiny fucking sliver is overwhelming to the people he’s talking to bc he’s SO. AUGHHHH

#this is why ‘reading the TOA books’ fics fucking slap btw. because as embarrassing as his thoughts can be #so many of them are just incoherent screaming about how he loves everyone around him. devastating #like imagine helping out ur loser deadbeat dad who you don’t really know much about bc he’s flighty and hard to read #and finding out ‘wow he cares about us a lot more than I thought’ #bc he literally almost dies to save you/your siblings and keeps following you all around everywhere #but he’s still like. your weirdo absentee dad. u don’t know hardly anything new about him other than an apparent suicidal streak #and then u find out that the whole time he was whining about chicken nuggets or whatever he was internally sobbing abt how much he loves u #and every time u were nearby he was going ‘MY BEAUTIFUL PERFECT BABY… JUST AS INCREDIBLE AS THEIR MORTAL PARENT!!!! BEAUTIFUL LIKE THE SUN! #HOW DID I EVEN MAKE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL PERFECT BABY. UNREAL. THEY CANT BE MINE!? BUT THEY ARE!!! LOOK AT THEMMM!!?!!! IM SO PROUD…… #my beautiful perfect angels… all of their parents best traits and none of our worst…. I am Barely restraining myself from sobbing #i would give u the WORLD if my father wouldn’t kill me for it :(‘ #and it’s like. wow. okay dad. um. would have been nice to know that when we were all dying in The War #Please Hug Me Though. #imagine being a Random Ass Demigod who didn’t go on a big special quest or something like you are literally just Some Guy #and finding out that this weirdo loser god u gave a sandwhich to or something thinks you are so fucking cool #your own parent doesn’t know ur name but Apollo knows u on sight and read ur soul within the 2 seconds yall talked and he thinks you rock #how are you supposed to respond to that. #snack time #toa #longpost