#go the roundabout way

[makkarisbelova]

EVERYBODY MOVED ON I, I STAYED THERE DUST COLLECTED ON MY PINNED-UP HAIR THEY EXPECTED ME TO FIND SOMEWHERE SOME PERSPECTIVE BUT I SAT AND STARED RIGHT WHERE YOU LEEEEEFT MEEEEE YOU LEFT ME NO, YOU LEFT ME NO, YOU LEFT ME NO CHOICE BUT TO STAY HERE FOREVER

#going to off myself at dawn who’s with me #can’t believe mobius wanted to just stand there and let time pass simply to feel himself in a timeline sitting in the palm of loki’s hand #goddamn if that isn’t the gayest most roundabout way to try and cure touch starvedness from your crush #marvel #mcu #loki #loki laufeyson #loki odinson #loki season 2 #loki spoilers #loki s2 #loki series #mobius #lokius #loki x mobius #mobius x loki

[literaphobe]

imagine marinette getting told by friends and family Hey Girl. we think you might have adhd. and they cite symptoms she shows but she accidentally connects them to stuff she started doing after she became ladybug and now shes like OH NO… if i deny this disorder they will suspect my identity… YEAH I TOTALLY HAVE ADHD YOU GUYS!!!! so she thinks she’s keeping it up for her superhero life and nods along to all the tips and tricks for adhd people her loved ones find on the internet. she flashes smiles as they hand her meds that could help and only pretends to take them because she’s Lying About It Right. but then one day at patrol chat noir tells her hey um recently a friend of mine was diagnosed with adhd. have you heard of it? because i think you might have it. and her eye twitches

#text #miraculous ladybug #marinette dupain cheng #ladynoir #IDK #mlbposting #he took one look at her strange lucky charms and bizarre complicated akuma plans and connected the dots to the symptom list he saw #‘weird roundabout way of thinking…. going from A to Z in a way only mostly she understands that i only get because of our special love bond’ #-> is also neurodivergent #six months later she asks him if he might be autistic #onekplus

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

There's a small moment in the Hunter x Hunter 2011 anime that I thought was pretty cute. It's close to the beginning, during the Hunter Exam, when they're looking for pigs in the forest. Gon slides down a hill, and Killua follows him, only for him to crash because Gon had stopped at the bottom of the hill. This scene!

It's one of those rare little bits added by an adaptation that really add to the characters - because yeah, this was not in the manga.

I find this anime is really good at adding little moments that either

are just cute or endearing

are fun extra interactions that show off the character dynamics more

actually highlight something about the characters in question

This one, I feel, does all three. First of all, I just love seeing Killua a bit more involved in their group before the eventual reveal of "he just wanted to be friends". It's really sweet.

But mostly, I think it's interesting that Killua assumed Gon was just messing around, when Gon was actually focusing his efforts on beating the challenge. Because, sure, Killua finds Gon somewhat intriguing, and he really wants to stick around him due to his desire for a friend - but Killua still sees himself as a class above pretty much everyone else there, and also as an assassin in a category so firmly removed from "regular kid".

So, Killua totally misreads Gon here. He assumes Gon is just doing a regular kid thing and attempts to mimic it so he can join in. It doesn't actually occur to him that Gon was tracking the pigs, or focusing on the task at hand.

It's a far cry from later on, where Killua and Gon are primarily a team effort - in sync, aware of the others' strengths, and taking each other quite seriously.

And part of it, of course, is that they just don't know each other very well at this point. But I think another thing is that Killua, during most of the Hunter Exam, is more invested in what Gon represents than who he is, necessarily.

His first friend represents rebellion against his family, childish enjoyment, and the desire for connection and understanding that he is not receiving. And even though, as time goes on, he grows more and more impressed with Gon, I really don't think it fully clicked that he wanted that friend he wished for to be specifically Gon until he was confronted by Illumi.

I also think Killua takes Gon a lot more seriously after the fight with Hanzo, and especially after Gon went all the way to the Zoldyck estate to save him. Before the Hanzo fight, Killua was outright irritated by Gon being ranked higher than him overall, and was even a little bitter at the beginning of the fight ("I could've dodged that easily" comes to mind).

By Heavens Arena, I feel they both have a much firmer grasp on, and appreciation for, who the other is as a person. Killua is more consciously aware of his investment in Gon as an individual rather than an abstract, and Gon is aware of Killua's crappy upbringing and is quick to be very supportive of him as he figures things out for himself.

During the Hunter Exam though, a lot of the interactions between them feel a lot like Killua is either mimicking or acting out "regular kid" behaviours, either because that's what he thinks Gon is already doing, or he wants to see if Gon will respond in kind.

Aaaaand... he does. :)

So, while they do not have what I feel is a true depth of bond here yet, the foundation is already being laid down for their powerful friendship - Gon and Killua both show an immediate willingness and enjoyment to go along with what the other wants to do and to try out what the other is good at, and they wind up having a whole lot of fun together right off the bat.

#obviously a lot a lot a lot i did not touch on #but this was already longer than i meant it to be lmao #just a few observations #actually i just want you to look at how cute these scenes are. that's actually the whole reason i wrote this #look!!! at him!!! oughhghgh he's so happy #storyrambles #call me ace detective the way i am ace. and also a detective #<-my beloved analysis tag it's been too long... #hxh #hxh meta #killua zoldyck #hope this actually makes sense... i have this irrational fear every time i go to write a meta for a fandom i've never written for before #that i'm going to be jumped in a dark alley by the fans because i totally read things wrong dhjgbnsof #hunter exam gon and killua is basically just killua roundabout asking if gon wants to play with him and if he will accept him #and gon responding with an enthusiastic yes

[wellfine]

I don't know. if you take requests. but the idea of trans zoro isn't leaving my head no matter what I do. please call an ambulance (and make something if you'd like . no pressure have a great day) just throwing it out there...

Man enough people are already out here drawing trans zoro like it's their job (which it should be) for you to not have to send people random requests for free art

#no hard feelings anon just letting you know it's gonna be seen as rude especially in this roundabout 'just an idea for you' way #I barely have the time to draw my OWN ideas! #also I feel like you already can't swing a cat in the zoro tag without hitting trans headcanon art (god bless our troops) #start with @sunclown here on tumblr and go from there

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 32

 News in both Gotham and out of Gotham have gotten it into their heads that the best way to get the new scoop is to chase after both heroes and villains for interviews and words. Normally this wouldn’t be too bad but there’s this one pair that is really not giving up and really getting on Jason’s nerves. 

 Eventually, fed up, exhausted, and just tired with them ruining his undercover operations, the Red Hood agrees to one question while up on the side of a building. 

 And look, if they had asked any other question at any other time he could have come up with a better bullshit answer, but he’s exhausted and just wants to take care of this injury on his arm and collapse onto his bed. 

 So his answer when they ask what his opinion on Batman is wasn’t exactly thought out, even if he’ll insist it was definitely on purpose later with his siblings. 

 “I hope Bruce gets me in the divorce.” 

#prompts #batman #bruce wayne #red hood #jason todd #Honestly the internet blows up from that one sentence lol #In world batman & bruce shippers are screaming and going rabid #People are now asking Bruce what his relations with Batman is #And he should be madder he really should #But Jason called him dad in a roundabout sort of way #And his secret identity is sort of being *Set* by this incident #Him? Batman? Oh no that's his ex and he's obviously taking all the kids in the divorce #The kids get in on it & are having fun in and out of costume

[jimmyspades]

#his happy handsome smile :) #james spader #alan shore #boston legal #* #going to bed early tonight bc this week is so busy love u <3 #i'm going to a concert and one of the band's songs is such an alan song to me. do you think they'll play the alan song for me... 👉👈 #do you think alan likes concerts. in that one ep he mentioned radiohead which was so crazy I can't believe he knows what music is #I think he sort of implied he'd BEEN to a radiohead show wtf... #so much of alan we don't get to see... like when he said he has season tickets to bruins games. wtf you love hockey? who are you #and james loves live music SO much I think alan would have to too. I just realized this scene he's watching a band play LMAO #for once my tags are relevant to the actual post... in a roundabout way... #anyway. i'd go to concerts with him i actually can't even imagine what he'd be like but the thought makes me wanna cry. allie bear #and hockey games. hold his hand when i'm cold sharing popcorn and soft pretzels. he probably has a jersey... he gets so into it silly guy

[bikkinibottom]

I know some of us were irritated at how drawn out the rivalry was between percy and annabeth since in the books it lasts like two pages and then they’re besties. but like once they aired their shit out in episode 3 immediately they’re willing to die for each other and sacrifice themselves like yeah this show GETS it

#again it’s the writers going in such an unnecessary roundabout way than the books but like they eventually hit all the points #does it still irk me that the sequences of events is all over the place? absolutely #but hey at least they’re (almost) nailing the percabeth dynamic #like I said their relationship will be the saving grace of the show #pjo tv show #pjo tv spoilers

[nessguts]

thought u guys might like to see this dumb lil animatic i made lmfao its pretty rough and i kinda gave up at the end but i worked on it for like 3 days so whatever xP

#also hamilton audio tw lmao #i couldnt rest until i finished this idk whats wrong with me #i hope i accurately portrayed their adoration for one another tho #i think shit like this happens all the time.. goku wakes up early and decides to just go train somewhere for a few days #and vegeta wakes up easily cuz hes a super light sleeper so he’s always like kakarot. where the hell r u going. come back to bed #yhis headcanon is smth near and dear to me and is heavily inspired by my favorite supobi piece so in a roundabout way this is a tribute — #— to that piece LMAO #anYWAY WHATEVER #kakavege #dbz

[oi0x0io]

Doodle.rand for today. My babies. My loves ♡

#Going through my RusAme phase all over again #spacedogs #adam raki #nigel charlie countryman #hannibal extended universe #so in a roundabout way it's #hannigram

[shimmershy]

You go through my "ask" tag and just find a bunch of posts with huuuge walls of text. Why do I do that. Is that really necessary.

#you see me in real life I don't say a word. #I go on the internet and am like 'time to tell the internet my whole life story and also type a bunch of other nonsense.' #i just have a really roundabout way of explaining things. I have to talk myself into things before I know where I'm going skdhfskd. #I am silly. #things I say

[squishosaur]

absolutely no context late night azujami

#i absolutely cannot be trusted to draw while tired i get possessed or something #twisted wonderland #twst fanart #comics #azujami #jamiazu #azul ashengrotto #jamil viper #my art :> #digital art #post production notes: do not feed your octopus a rock she will not eat it and also will be sad if she does #no alt text #becahse i am sleepy #i think i really just wanted to draw an octopus beak and i picked the most roundabout way to go about it #sorry they're freaks it's like. part of their character

[countess-of-edessa]

the world is so fucked up and i can't help but think the damage is irreparable when i see people talking about how unusual and prudish it is to wait six to ten dates before having sex with someone. ten dates??? roughly like twenty five hours of interaction????? ten old timer burgers and mango iced teas from chilis equals sex?????? the possibility of pregnancy, STDs, emotional devastation, lifelong consequences, not to mention just straight up the possibility of getting murdered, with a STRANGER you have hung out with for maybe like two months???? and that's a LONG TIME???? and if you feel weird about that and don't want to do that that makes you NOT HETEROSEXUAL????? THATS AN ORIENTATION???? BECAUSE ITS SO OUTSIDE OF THE NORM OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR ????? i hate all of you i hate you i hate you i hate you every day i hate and I hate and I hate you

#i genuinely genuinely don't understand how everybody who tries to date hasn't killed themselves yet #I'm not saying they should I'm just saying I don't get how they're able to continue on #i see women on social media talking about how they had to cry for a day because they slept with a man they'd been seeing for a while and #then he never called again #no joke not trying to be dramatic I would just kill myself??? i do not understand how people can keep going after something like that #i mean I would never be in that situation because everything about it is bad but like. still #I hate to kind of agree with the 'women over 25 are too bitter for love' twitter man even in a very roundabout way #but i think men AND women participating in modern dating culture have to in some way become so hardened and kill some part of themself #just to survive??? that sounds so melodramatic but like. I can't understand how else people could continue to function as human beings #when they interact with each other in the way modern dating culture dictates

[sysig]

Hey. Read Roundabout. Love Awesome. (Patreon)

#Doodles #Wander Over Yonder #Commander Peepers #Emperor Awesome #Lord Hater #As always check the tags first but hgggg Roundabout is so gooooood <3 <3 #Absolutely the fic that convinced me that Awesome was worth thinking about more than he initially appears lol #The™ fanon interpretation to me <3 #Like the Eyesome stuff obviously (also the thing that convinced me to try out Eyesome and ended up loving it :D) #But also the Death Glare stuff! It's terribly cute the way Peepers and Hater go bouncing off each other haha ♪ #Plus there's just a lot of fun phrasing like the one I put in the caption of Peepers curled up haha #Everyone's characterized so fun! #Plus there's just something very fun recalling my first reread lol - I don't actually remember my first reading experience #But I do remember getting fic-hungry for it later down the line at a local Mexican restaurant and reading it on their wifi lol #It's so fun to finally be at a point where I can confidently draw them and then to come back to the story and ahhh <3 <3 Very enjoyable #The first two aren't tied to anything specific other than the basic concept of those two drinking together lol #Same size glasses but very different alcohol-to-body-size proportions lol ♪ Buying drinks for Peepers saves hand over fist! #We all know he could put it away like no one's business so really it wouldn't matter in the end lol #It was so fun to doodle him curled up ahh <3 His silhouette <3 <3 Toss a blanket over him! #And the Drama! The deliciousness of Peepers keeping Secrets from his Lord Hater! Ah! #It feels so in-character of him to have alone time away from the ship that Hater doesn't even notice until he's been away awhile ♪♫ #They're both adults ♪ They have aspects of their lives that aren't Entirely intertwined ♫ Until they do hehehe #Love 'em ♥ #Hater was fun to draw there too lol slowly getting used to him! I like his PJs haha

[himbeaux-on-ice]

rosters come and go but 2015 Habs core feelings are forever I GUESS

#me: might as well look at some insta stories before I finally go to slee- OH FOR FUCKS SAKE PERNELL #he’s a menace to my emotional well-being. I love him #pk subban #lars eller #max pacioretty #and one of the mini-patches #carolina hurricanes #washington capitals #and yes in a roundabout way I must also tag #habs #god. I’m gonna go find a river and jump in #(yes I saw the clip of Max talking to Marty yes I was mildly inconsolable abt it it’s fine)

[deepestsharkshark]

The school of good and evil but make it sterek

#oh noooo #scott getting dropped off in the evil school because of his shallow ideas of good #this being a more nuanced examination of Scott’s morality than the actual show #stiles gets to be a Prince #poor guy would be so confused #holding a sword and accidentally stabbing the teacher probably #his arrow would fly true #ly to wherever it felt like going #he just hits his mark in a roundabout way #or he's too afraid to shoot #and Derek #Derek’s over there as what #tedros??? #omg #prince derek whose mother is basically werewolf king arthur #and whose sisters are also at the school harassing the hell out of him because Laura and Cora bring me joy #or not idk how serious i want this to get #oh no #true love's kiss is broship #sciles brotp #except scott in the school of evil #hmmmm #teen wolf #sterek

[teatitty]

In my mind, Oxenfurt Academy is run by an older elven woman that everyone simply calls "The Dean" and she is the closest thing Dandelion has ever had to a proper maternal figure. While she will never say so aloud, The Dean does retain quite an amount of fondness for him, despite - or perhaps because of - his penchant for mischief

#the witcher books #dandelion #oxenfurt academy #I have a whole design for her in my head we'll see if I ever write her in anything #if you ask dandy about her he'll jokingly refer to her as 'something of a vesemir' #which is a roundabout way of saying 'something of a mother but neither of us is going to say it'