#delve into the depths

[a-sky-of-diamonds]

king and queen of decked out etho and pearl fanart when?

#(i'm not talking shipping just queen pearl and champion etho) #(best at beating the 'mainstream' aspects of the game and best at delving into its depths) #decked out #decked out 2 #decked out spoilers

[eightdoctor]

it’s so funny reading through the edas where the 8th doctor is this endlessly complex and magical figure whose intentions you can never quite parse before going to one of the later big finish audio boxsets like stranded where they flattened his characterization like a bug

#same applies to early big finish like he was so good thereeee #you had audios like caerdroia delving into the depths of his psyche through silly hijinks #and then strandeds got what. the doctor going on a game show to win money because he’s too incompetent to get an actual job #or do anything else remotely helpful #it’s literally character assassination #dw being rebooted was the worst thing to ever happen to the eighth doctor i shan’t lie #like at this point he’s only being propped up by liv and helen #without them the character would topple like a house of cards #doctor who #eighth doctor #edas

[stealingyourbones]

Prompt idea: Danny and Dani are legally adopted by John Constantine. The problem? Danny is the unknown biological kid of other hero.

Constantine can be like the black sheep in hero community, nobody likes to work with him (Except the magic users of course) and hates his guts.

The biological parent hero is butthurt

Main issue is that Jon Constantine isn't that good of a parent. Sure, he's trying his best, but that genuinely isn't much. Still Danny just sticks with Jon no matter what.

Danny's parent just can't wrap their head around why Danny chose a really drunk uncle figure over them. At the end of the day it's because Danny has more of an emotional connection with Jon but his parent just doesn't understand.

#danny phantom #dpxdc #dp x dc #dc #dc comics #writing prompts #prompts #dp x dc prompt #john constantine #damn sorry it took me this long to respond #finally have the energy to delve into the depths of my inbox and slowly going through them all

[notllorstel]

how does bell feel about darius' mentor :0?

In present time, misses him more because the mentor meant a lot to Darius and also the one to give the palisman wood that Bell is carved from to Darius (doodles I had of the scene)

in this backstory idea, the former golden guard was assigned by Belos to mentor and convince Darius to join a coven (preventing of another powerful wild witch) which he succeeded but regretted instantly when learned Darius got the symbol (was loyal to belos but started questioning and turning against him) and especially when discovered Belos true plans.

Darius eventually forgives the mentor with him trying to make it up for it. Bell’s protective of Darius and saw how much the betrayal hurt him is a tougher nut to crack and became more Standish off with the mentor, but the mentor appreciated Bell’s resolve and how much they cared for Darius. Bell does feel sad after the mentor disappearance?death?tbd and wished had more time to maybe trust them again like before.

Also bonus Bell fresh from the oven

#the owl house #toh oc bell #toh #darius deamonne #toh darius #toh golden guard #asks #llorswip #rip words I’m writing while half asleep #got more in depth stuff for this idea but ain’t in the zone to delve more #golden guard tristan #Bell the palisman

[entirely-wrong]

I loved the worldbuilding and imagery of this fic (by hanap). Beautiful characterisation. It's a little old; I read this quite a while ago now but it's really lovely.

Found these images in a folder whilst reminiscing and realised I never posted them.

Please read this story if you love the Thelyss clan, excellent worldbuilding, the Kyrn dynasty, great long term character development, sibling dynamics, or if you miss Essek and campaign 2 :'(

#critical role fanart #mine #essek thelyss #verin thelyss #fic rec #campaign 2 #man it's missing essek hours. #hasn't been essek o'clock for ages and it's hit me again like a wall of force #ah... the wistfulness of delving the depths of laptop folders. it's a joy that can only happen once every few years else it loves its magic

[planet-gay-comic]

Exploring the Depths: Plummeting into the Ocean's Profound Mysteries, Delving into the Depths of Desire I created this artwork by using StableDiffusion 1.5 img2img to transform a 3D rendered picture of the G8M figure. I then applied postwork techniques, including inpainting with CS Paint and Automatic1111. I manually composed and corrected certain elements to enhance details. The result is a captivating fusion of 3D rendering and AI-assisted artistic adjustments

#Delving into the Depths of Desire #DeepDesires #ExploringPassion #PassionateQuest #MysticWaters #DesireUnveiled #gayart #merboy #gaycouple #boylovesboy #gaycomic #hotboy

[statementlou]

great news everyone it's time once again for.....

starting our new official format with one I think people might find tempting....

reply, reblog, tag, whatever you like just remember... wrong answers only to win* at What Are You Anon About!!! *winning= uhh getting to have fun together? there is no prize whatsoever

#I delved deep into the depths of my inbox for fodder #I saw Things!! I had to wade through some VERY BAD TAKES YALL #but WORTH IT in the name of #what are you anon about #the new dash game sweeping tumblr thanks to cam's brilliant naming skills and rayan's incredible gorgeous gif! #look for it on all your favorite blogs and get involved! #also we are all going to have to start sending lots of short form anons to keep each other busy lol #dash games

[cookinguptales]

While I do think Arthur's characterization (and the relationship in general) gets much more compelling as the series continues on, I do really like this aspect of their relationship even in s1.

(And, while I'm not about to talk about it now, I do also love how we see the beginnings of John's fascination with and respect for Arthur's detective work here.)

(more thoughts on forced proximity, the violation of being known without your consent, and the intimacy of giving that consent under a cut)

I think one of the really compelling parts of Malevolent and the relationships it's building is this concept of... being known, I guess, and the implicit horror (but potential comfort) in being unable to hide who you really are.

I think we all have our own issues when it comes to the mortifying ordeal of being known, etc. but we haven't found ourselves in a situation where we are almost physically incapable of remaining unknown by another person. Arthur (and his various hangers-on) has found himself in this unenviable position -- and worse, he has not even gotten to choose who gets to see him.

Both Arthur and John attempted to hide intrinsic parts of themselves from the other very early on, but realized eventually, with frustration and exhaustion and a small amount of comfort, that it was going to be impossible to hide from each other. John couldn't hide who he really was, a sliver of an eldritch being who delights in torture and madness. Arthur couldn't hide his past, either, not forever.

The two of them are almost forced to lay bare their most intimate and private memories, fears, and neuroses -- and to hope that the other won't use it against them.

(Newsflash: they both use it against each other.)

Even here, fairly early into the series, Arthur is coming to realize that John understands him. He may not like it (and John doesn't either), but there's a peculiar mixture of frustration and weary acceptance, maybe even a little bit of affection, in the way John talks about him here. And Arthur is forced to accept that John isn't wrong. He does watch Arthur, and Arthur is starting to feel unpleasantly seen.

The two of them will peel away each other's protective layers as the series progresses, and John will come to understand Arthur's guilt, self-loathing, and self-destructive tendencies. Arthur will come to understand John's guilt and confusion and desperate need to believe that even the most monstrous among us can be saved.

And then, y'know, right as we're starting to feel comfortable with the two of them, too, right as they've kind of ironed out this weird, codependent relationship between them, the two are separated. John is replaced with Yellow.

This is where things get kind of interesting, imo. Because John and Yellow are similar, but not entirely the same. There's a whole nature vs. nurture vs. purposeful minefield argument to be had here, but I'll talk about that some other time. The fact of the matter is that, by this point, Arthur had mostly pushed past the agony of being known because he had found a creature that knew him intimately -- and loved him nevertheless. Who accepted him.

Yellow came to know Arthur, too. Was given a confession that even John didn't know yet. And he didn't accept Arthur.

Arthur didn't accept him, either.

So you have both sides of it, really, and the intrinsic horror of being unable to hide from a roommate inside your own mind. Arthur and John hated being known, but came around to it in the end because they grew comfortable with even all the worst parts of each other. There was a sort of tentative acceptance there, and one that they both desperately needed. They have both consented to being known, for the most part, because they have consented to trust each other with that knowledge.

But what happens when they don't come around? When they don't accept you? When you have no ability to hide from a person who has nothing but contempt for you, and there will never be trust shared between you?

That gets toxic very quickly.

You come to realize how lucky the two of them were to find common ground eventually, even if it was largely bonding through shared trauma, and how easily things could have been much, much worse.

And then, y'know, we don't just have to compare John and Arthur's relationship with that of Arthur and Yellow. We can also compare it to all of the humans in Arthur's life, ones that John seems to be getting increasingly frustrated with.

Once Arthur goes to New York, you really see how much of his life has been dominated by his refusal to be known. He wouldn't open up to the mother of his child, to the child, to his father-in-law, not really. He sealed a part of himself away from them, and in refusing to be known, never really fully came to know them, either. He denied himself these relationships.

But Arthur is changing, isn't he, and it's probably partially due to him becoming more comfortable being known through his relationship with John. He's opening up to his FIL. He's opening up to Noel.

And then there's Oscar. In Oscar, we see something interesting, and something that John seems to find deeply threatening.

Oscar is sort of a mirror image of John in some ways, except the intimacy he offers Arthur isn't forced. He let Arthur in on purpose. He told him about his past on purpose. He genuinely likes Arthur, wants to know him, wants to be known by him, and wants to be with him. It's the first time since perhaps Parker that Arthur's been in a position to know and be known in a healthy manner.

It's one of the first times he's been in a position to choose to be known, and to some degree, he does let Oscar see him. He does it because he wants to, not because he has to. He sees Oscar as a friend and potential partner, not just one more uneasy, forced ally.

While I believe that John's insistence on leaving Oscar behind is largely connected to whatever the hell's going on with Kayne, I do think there's also a bitter jealousy in him that covers up quite a bit of insecurity. He knows that Arthur doesn't have a choice about being with him, and here he sees Arthur being presented with a choice -- and wanting to take that choice. He sees Arthur wanting to be known by a person, a human, a person who can give Arthur a lot of things John can't. Stability. A physical partner to touch and hold and aid him. Understanding. True comfort.

Humanity.

But most of all, John sees the allure of being in a relationship where Arthur can truly choose how much of himself to give. He sees that Arthur wants to give in a way that he didn't want to give himself to John, not initially, and that mostly happened because Oscar gave himself first. Which is a thing that John still can't do, not entirely. Arthur knows him more intimately than John has ever been known before, but... he's still hiding things, isn't he?

And, due to their forced proximity and shared affection, it's killing him.

So... in the end, I do think it's very interesting. The way that the monstrousness of John and Yellow and the KIY in general is the way that your mind is not safe from them. There is no place in you that is truly private or your own. And true intimacy can't come from privacy torn from you -- only of privacy freely given.

I think John's seeing the difference now, though Arthur might not have entirely figured out what he's feeling yet. John is realizing that though Arthur trusts him now, so many of their shared experiences were extremely nonconsensual. He'll never have quite what Arthur can have with a person like Oscar because Arthur can choose to be more or less honest with him, but he can't choose whether or not to give himself to John the way he can with another human like Oscar. He'll never have the intimacy of being... chosen, y'know?

And I know that in some ways Arthur has chosen John, and in some very aggressively overt ways. But John also knows that it wasn't always going to end that way. It certainly didn't with Yellow. And he suspects that if he and Arthur hadn't been forced together for so long, it probably would have ended up like Yellow.

That's gotta sting.

I think... Arthur knows that, too, really. It's part of what scares him about John losing parts of himself. He's so codependent with John by now, to the point where temporarily losing him was deeply traumatic for him. He was also confronted with the knowledge that if the two of them had had any choice in the matter, they probably wouldn't have eventually come to love each other the way they did.

Which means that... no, he really can't believe that some version of John will always come back to him. And if John loses his memories again, as he seems to be doing now, he may never get him back again. There will be no second chances, just other versions of the Yellow debacle.

idk man. It's just... forced proximity vs the intimacy of choice vs the love we have that truly is only based on the memories we've built with others. It's all a part of the mortifying (if not deeply traumatic) ordeal of being known, and it's one of the parts of the series that I find by far the most interesting.

#I guess I'll start doing more in-depth posts about this as I go #I do have a lot of thoughts about these characters #and a relisten is a good enough time as any to start delving into them #malevolent podcast

[pasta-pardner]

GRHAAAAHAHRHAHHAAAA!

+ bonus inktober WIP pic below the cut

#inktober #inktober 2022 #john marston #red dead redemption #undead nightmare #rdr:un #red dead #jawnbie tag #artner #here he is !!!! its my special boy !!!!!! my zombie boyfriend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i'm challenging myself to make as much jawnbie fan content as physically possible this month #i love john marston with all my heart and john is a fairly popular character in the rdr2 fandom #but i think its disappointing how little fan content there is for undead nightmare #(and for rdr1 in general tbh) #jawnbie in particular has sooooo much potential for cool fanon #bc the canon lore for jawnbie is both 1) compelling+ 2) not delved into in-depth #which is smth I will absolutely ramble about on a different post... but anyways! look at him!!!! #i've been doing portraits of him to get a feel for the face and gore structure and this one came out kinda like a yearbook photo ! #like awwww look at this handsome man! he got all dressed up to go have his picture taken!! what a cutie! #art #🤠 #pardner posts #howdy halloween

[fandommemequeen]

DIMENTIO SPM NARROWLY MISSED TUMBLR SEXYMAN STATUS BC SUPER PAPER MARIO WAS JUST THAT OBSCURE AND UNDERRATED. SEND TWEET.

#im right YALL KNOW IM RIGHT. #I DELVED INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE SPM FANDOM BACK IN 2020 BC I WAS CRAVING CONTENT AND MOST LIKELY UNKNOWINGLY HYPERFIXATING. #I HAVE WITNESSED THE HORRORS. I HAVE ENCOUNTERED THE JESTER SIMPS. #HE WOULD BE A TUMBLR SEXYMAN IF THE PAPER MARIO COMMUNITY CIRCA 07-08 WAS FERAL ENOUGH TO MAKE IT A REALITY. #ARGUE WITH THE MOTHERFRICKIN W A L L . #dimentio #super paper mario #spm

[pedanticat]

Okay, so at first I was a bit unsure of what Boscha's whole character arc was supposed to but this still from the credits definitely helps provide some extra context. Boscha would be trying to step up as a leader but would be unsure of herself. Both because of her own insecurities along with already losing so many people she cared about. The only person she could vent to was the disguised Kikimora who no doubt enabled Boscha of all her worse traits which probably just made things worse for her internally. GOD, I wish we could have gotten a full third season.

#pc thoughts #the owl house #TOH #TOH Boscha #kikimora #Boscha pleading to Amity #to be her friend again #is constantly playing in my head #an I wish that could have been #delved more in depth

[bitter-rabbitholes]

petty grievence, I wish people stopped portraying lizzy as a basic prep girl without ever engaging the complexities in how she present femininity. usually it's just "oh she's just default girl trait"

But we don't ever go into how lizzy herself doesn't believe she conforms to what she thinks is the ideal femininity, especially the strict margins of femininity in the victorian age or how that clashes with our concepts of femininity now.

she strives to become a perfect lady, modeled after her mother, a mature, well-mannered woman, but her wants and needs are always clashing. she doesn't wear high heel shoes for girls her age, envious of them, and instead wears flats to foil her fiancé's mature appearance. she used to consider herself flawed as a girl, for attending fencing lessons instead of dancing halls. she's terrified of appearing scary, like her mother, and disarms herself outwardly as possible.

and the facts are, lizzy's a natural hyper, bubbly girl (and girls being energetic is something to be punished) so even when she's trying to fufill the model of a lady, she's so enthusiastic that it often blows up in her face.

But yeah I guess she likes the color pink and bows... is that all worth investigating???

Like what is she into mainstream stuff? genuinely or does she just follow trends because she's afraid of standing out?

does she like extravagant lolita fashion, overdone with flowers and sparkles and bows? to find comfort in femininity when she has to sacrifice elsewhere? to hide her maturing body in childish accessories?

does she prefer to look like the older women in her life she's admired for so long instead of playing as a "girl" all the time? modest like her mother? mature like her aunt ann? perfect like rachel?

does she actually prefer to wear pants at times because she's gotten so used to it? is she more of a tomboy than what's she comfortable to admit? has lizzy ever presented as she likes?

#like lizzy not living up to a 'default girl' is exactly why she's in so much turmoil rn #writing this after witnessing hundreds of kuro aus and hcs #with so much details for all the characters and how they would act in say a modern au #and just shoving lizzy in as 'girl' likeee #I don't think she would wear miniskirts lol #and this is without going how femininity is assumed boring and lacking depth in fandom... #its so interesting delving into femininity and how it's structured just trust me guys #take my hand #a whole new world #kuro #elizabeth midford #b.txt

[variousqueerthings]

@autistic-puffin i feel like i have nothing more to say about go2, like I excised my thoughts in one go 😭 especially considering it feels like so much meta/art has already been posted

(EDIT: AND THEN I WROTE THOUGHTS)

my main thoughts are also maybe a teensy bit hot take, because I'd assumed it was going to be a bit like certain narratives that are quite popular on here, but don't really do it so such for me, because they don't ground their queerness in anything substantial or they try to, but aren't informed enough to do it well (I admire the attempt and I have nothing against these pieces, I just don't personally enjoy them) and so it's more about the shipping or the memeable moments and that's not really what I get into things for

and it being disingenuous to fold it under narratives that are willing and fun enough, but ultimately made by people who haven't done toooo much work around queer themes before and fall (in my opinion) a bit for the simple narratives of "everything ultimately has to have stakes that aren't too high and play nice and don't distress their audience too much lest fragile LGBT+ people can't handle it" <- sweet narratives, easy to follow, a tad too candyfloss and ungrounded for my taste, often unbalanced in its comedy-to-drama scales and undermining sincerity by solving things too quickly and/or with too little delving into what these things mean

neil gaiman and john finnemore have been writing queer characters and themes for some time, and david tennant/michael sheen have played queer characters before (and heck, david tennant has at least one queer kid), it's not so surprising that this narrative actually isn't as mass-appeal as was assumed it was going to be before coming out (heh, coming out)

and by mass-appeal I don't mean that it doesn't have mainstream attention, but that there's seemingly confusion about what it's doing, when if you're into stories about non-conformity vs oppression (in this case mainly through a queer lens) it's pretty obvious, and I'm assuming very rewarding on subsequent watches

it's not fluff -- fluff works better for me in fanfiction than in original works, it's not aimless -- either in direction or in theme, it's not mainstream queerness -- although nina and maggie kind of have that "LGBT-unburdened-by-reality" kind of thing that I often don't vibe with, they're a part of three narratives about connection that ultimately ground queer non-conformity in action and feeling as explicitly dangerous to oppressive systems (in this case systems grounded in Christianity, which works very well)

there's a confusion in some reviews I've seen in the mainstream about why it matters that we follow these characters through thousands of years (well, millions technically, but the main thrust happens in the thousands), and coming to the conclusion that it's just because everyone's having a bit of fun, and then they're totally blindsided by the final 15mins and unable to place it in what they've watched previously

but it makes perfect narrative sense and I can pinpoint after one watch clues and foreshadowing leading to those final minutes, and why it matters that we follow the characters the way that we do, and (while I won't go too much into this because I think I'm late to the party and plenty of others have already spoken about it) threads that have been laid out that will clearly be picked up on in s3

I quite enjoy that this is a narrative about queerness that isn't so palatable to reviewers, and isn't for that matter so palatable to viewers who are used to measuring successful queer narrative via easy-to-follow tropes, I think that's one suggestion that it's done its job right in how it was constructed

I want especially straight mainstream reviewers to have to do the translation and if they can't, then it's not for them. that's a rarity in queer narrative that's released with so much attention and that also feels like part of the magic trick of the season -- am reminded of when black sails season 2 "revealed" that flint was queer and that this was a narrative centred around queer rage as an insight into other forms of oppression (which some things were done better than others of course, but that was the purpose, and madi really is that voice at the end!)

and how some straight dudebro fans felt cheated, while many queer viewers went... well yeah, obviously flint was queer, they signposted it (here I also note that some queer viewers didn't see it until that moment because we're also used to being signposted at and then not having follow-through because queercoding language is so ubiquitous to tv and film writing nowadays that many straight people don't know what it is or that they're doing it, or they went "hey we might do something queer winkwink" and then called fans disgusting for reading characters as queer ✌)

and that feeling is somewhat similar here in a way. "we thought we were in this for a bit of silly fluff, what's all this about themes? it's confusing, we don't like it, we're going to flatten it rather than acknowledge what is actually happening in the narrative, and then we're going to interact with that flattened version that we've created instead and call it self-indulgent and harmlessly silly."

so my hot take is that... it's not silly. well it is silly and fun and even at times indulgent, but it's also quite good at being a story that is Queer in ethos, and I prefer stories to be queer in ethos and not just have some ostensibly queer characters around saying the right words without knowing why or where those words originate

it's better than it's being given credit for, in ways it's not being given credit for, because it's not made palatable for a mainstream straight crowd or softened for fear of upsetting anyone

#good omens #good omens 2 #go2 #good omens season 2 #i also hesitate to post because then s3 comes out and it's really not that deep 😂 #but s2 feels so deliberate -- but then you're used to seeing set-ups that don't pay off -- but then gaiman and finnemore are seasoned #so I think there's an instinct to keep something at arms length #or focus on the fluff and the shipping and not on the thematic depth #because what if actually all of that was done by accident and the writers/directors have no idea where to take it next #but this isn't aimless it's a set up to what comes next which has already been planned #and it plays really well with the first season which isn't quite as deep/could work as a fun standalone story #because it takes the deep questions of that season that weren't really delved into and takes the plunge #this is not to say i wouldnt critique things -- hell black sails is one of the best shows of all time and i have plenty to critique there #but i feel like the wrong things are being focused on

[nooradeservedbetter]

I’d completely missed the IDF fic and loadedgunn being Israeli and choosing to serve. I say “choosing to serve” because this all has made me think of the Israeli prison binder and how the fan who let us know that there was a binder of Larry fics circulating among prisoners in an Israeli prison was imprisoned for refusing to serve in the IDF. I wonder where they are now. They did something heroic, and I didn’t appreciate it at the time.

A TAYLOR SWIFT UPDATE ACCOUNT went to prison for refusing to serve lmao.

And there's many such cases! Including people who moved away and can't return to avoid prison.

I mean the society there is so militarised anyways, truly wondering who are the civilians yk. But anyways.

For some reason I thought that at least the part where loadedgunn was in the iof was common knowledge, but I've had to break the news to so many people who were there at the time that, uh. My memory is shit, and now I'm wondering how I learnt about it.

#1d #anon! #replies #btw--choosing not to delve into the depth of moving away and returning #and being critical of a govt without being critical of the existence of a settler colonial state

[tswwwit]

Have thought of writing angst billdip?

Angst alone isn't particularly my jam - but I know that there's a lot of demand out there for Dipper getting hurt and/or traumatized, with Bill having to deal with the aftermath! And hurt/comfort does appeal to me.

#It's on my list of 'things I'll get around to' #Just gotta come up with the right scenes/concept #Gotta make that mortal cry and Bill feel emotions he's not used to in the slightest #Gotta love putting an eternally knowledgeable demon completely out of his depth #Not before he wreaks absolute havoc on whoever did all of that to Dipper of course #He'd have a lot of rage to vent #answers #Not to mention Dipper's struggle with accepting being taken care of oh that is a delight #This boy has Issues™ that I would love to delve into more. Self-worth is only one of 'em #Which is one of the reasons the 'meet the parents' thing is also on that list of things to get around to

[cleromancy]

saw a post earlier that was like "i have a theory that fanfic is more literary analysis than creative writing" and i was like. i know exactly what you mean but thats not what im doing. love and light to you but i am doing a different thing than that

#analysis headcanonning and writing fanfic are all entirely different pastimes to me #this person: transformative work is really just about expanding and delving in to the text :) #me: maybe to You #ive just been thinking about this a lot lately like whats present in the text and how i play with whats present there when i step away with #it and start telling my own story #bc with very few exceptions what i like to make is big canon divergences or something centered on a background character and i explore+ #themes present in the OG in new context. but im not trying to write those themes the way theyd be written in the OG. #i think if u tried to tell me that any of my asoiaf fiction was actually analysis of themes *as #george* i would kill you with a rock #i like what George does with theme btw not actually criticizing him here. but thats not what im doing. im doing something else. #**edited to clarify re what i like to make. i meant those two examples just as examples not the totality #to generalize a bit? its stuff that would be out of place in the OG narrative #howevwr if you question my characterization choices be prepared for me to show up at your house with an itemized list of canon support and #in depth reasoning on where it came from and why i made that choice #and then be prepared to be killed with a rock also.