#i had to fufill it

[wonderbolts-stan]

Meanwhile in the crystal empire....

#this is the stupidest thing ive ever drawn #its not even that good #but #i had a vision #i had to fufill it #pixels from caspar #mlp #sunburst mlp #stygian mlp

[franki-lew-yo]

An 'A-ha!' fandom moment, ft. The Owl House

These comments I screencapped from a user I watch elsewhere really hit like a brick in the face to me. I'm blotting out OP's name, mostly cuz this was just a shower thought they had rather than any meaningful open discussion with people, but it ended up making me realize something (also NO they're not some contrarian AntiSJW type or even hate TOH; they're a very gay+trans writer themselves. Sorry if youknowwhoyouare sees this and recognizes ur posts but you don't allow reblogs or comments and I wanted to present it on my own):

The Owl House was always hampered by being killed halfway through, writing wise and that will always be it's greatest 'sin'. However, OP's comment made me realize how much the show kind of tells you it's characters are flawed rather than actually give them arcs to suggest it, especially in season 1. When I say flawed I don't mean lacking quirks that are relatable but human: Eda is a recluse criminal; King thought he could kill people and acted like it; Luz is a genki girl; Amity starts off as a bully; Hunter...is unfortunately Hunter, ect. Those ARE flaws, character wise, but in the presence of the complete story (as complete as the show will ever be) they really aren't actually flawed, bad people in anyway.

Before I go further, two things: 1, IN ALL FAIRNESS, this is why myself and others particularly LOVE the characters and why TOH was a comfort show for me rather than a 'high-tension narrative'. The characters are a lot of what you want and hope to be like and I think that's really sweet and enjoyable, especially for horror and especially for kids.

2, NO! I DON'T think any particular bad faith cartoon reviewer opinions about coddling certain characters and punishing others IS WHAT DANA and co did at all here! Steven Universe and certain crap-reviewer's takes ON Steven Universe and how it's characters were flawed but overly forgiven by the fandom the show itself are NOT the b-all end-all of this discussion, nor are they the reason The Owl House is the way it is!

The context op was talking about was how in the upcoming hate crime The Last Airbender live-action show the showrunners are going to tone down Sokka's sexism because they think it's 'unlikable'. Even though, we all knew as children that this was an arc for him and it was WRONG, so axing it because we the audience lack nuance to recognize characters we love doing problamtic-sisms is BEYOND annoying.

Op's point is how The Owl House in particular doesn't actually expect much or want much out of it's characters. Or audience. For any infighting early on about how much Amity should 'die' because of reasons, that's really just fandom infighting when you get right down to it. There's nothing on par with the disagreement people have over, say, the Diamonds from Steven Universe and how Steven 'totally forgave them or 'should have murdered them in cold blood' about The Owl House. And like...from a fandom point of view that's good, but otherwise the show is pretty concrete the way you're supposed to see certain characters vs other shows which allow you to make up your own mind.

Avatar, Star vs the Forces of Evil (pre finale), Centaurworld and Amphibia all showcase your protagonists being genuinely, intensely flawed. Sure, maybe some neckbreather crap-pseudocritic complains that they 'made the unlikable' or whatever (i.e. me with Friendship is Magic) but overall the actual point is HOW the characters actually have grown and have ended up with the ending and morality they need. The villains, no not Zukos or 'redeemed' villains who joined the protagonist squad, VILLAIN-villains, will always be at least one serious step behind the protagonists and that's what give the protagonists the cautionary wherewithal to end them like they should and not 'be like them'. It's such a fufilling narrative, there's a reason people like it so much because it's really good when it's delivered well.

Removed from my fandom gaze; the Owl House feels like it's saying it has that ultimate messaging and character arc when it actually doesn't. Your protagonists have the endearing aspirational-part totally covered, but as far as the actual 'edge' and nuance? Well...

Eda is, at most, naughty. She really isn't any kind of morally sidetracked character. She's an outlaw because literally her society is awful to her and she's in the right to be against it. She's cursed but she's not addicted to her potions or hiding it or not really taking care of herself or her loved ones because of it. Her actual biggest flaw is that she's been 'running away' from problems rather than dealing with them, but I'd be lying if that wasn't suggested more than it's actually portrayed; or at least, dealt with fast enough in "Eda's Requiem". A bigger issue I see, even if it's what's also endearing about her, is that she REALLY isn't a flawed caregiver at all. It's portrayed as her most redeeming feature that she's otherwise a good mom and mentor, but Eda having virtually no problems in raising Luz and King just, again, makes her feel ONLY aspirational. All of the angst about 'failing' to parent and making up for it is moved all onto Camilla and sadly all of that angst for her is mostly within an already bloated episode. Eda, while an absolute mood, lacks any real kind of edge. Does she need it or not? I don't know. Discuss, kids.

Luz, like OP says, is treated like this high-energy super-optimist. She's like Star Butterfly in that her fangirlism and impulsivness are supposed to get her in trouble. But, she absolutely just isn't one when you break it down. Besides episode 2, Luz really is never that inconsiderate or lost in her fantasies ever again throughout the show. She never has anything like what Steven goes through where he hops into Larz' body and makes things worse for people by trying to fix things- which is not only good filler but it calls forward to the ultimate ending of Steven's arc for the series - Luz is just sort of adorable. Luz has blindsided by hype moments of weakness, like when she accidentally hurts Owlbert or messes with Amity's secret room, but still always level headed and down-to-earth. Her impulses are always kind of treated like...excusable? Because, again, they usually are. This is a large part about what makes her self-hatred at the end of the show about accidentally helping Belos' feel 'forced'. Even MOREso than what Hunter and Daddy Titan explain about Belos using her, we the audience never see Luz's choice to go back in time and try and get answers from Philip as being anything other than just, you know, logical. Because it is. The show acts like what Luz did was reckless and bad and that she was SOOO overtaken by her fangirlism about Philip and now just how much she has to live with the guilt and regret of helping being duped by him...it just doesn't come off that way at all. She was only so much excited about meeting him and her interest was getting home to her mother. In terms of comparing her to Philip, that's all fine and good, but again it's not 'flawed'. Not really, anyway.

Lilith absolutely has it the worst...but I kinda think people know that. She arguably does have the most morally-gray turning point in the show given what she did to her own sister. But neither the characters nor her nor the show really hold her accountable in any lasting way for cursing Eda. Lilith is the closest we get to that 'Diamond'-dilemma. She does 'make things right way too quickly and it's obvious to even her biggest fans that her character is really rushed in this area. They lampshade what Lilith did and that she was their villain in season 2 and 2B, but lampshading isn't the same thing as progress. As a result, as a Lilith fan you kind of never really forgive her for what she did. None of that's her fault, cause' you know...she doesn't exist, but it makes it frustrating that you the fan watching the show is doing the heavy-lifting in your mind in this area.What you come away from is this feeling of loving the characters for being able to work everything out. They're engaging and nuanced in theory, but you also feel robbed, w or w/o the Disney interference, of them being fully rounded or WHOLE. It kinda feels like 'and suddenly, he wasn't racist, anymore' all the time with every character ever with except Amity's mom, the Titan Trappers and Belos.

The reason everyone dunks on Star vs the Forces of Evil's finale, (besides being salty over ship wars and declaring THAT'S the reason for the drop in quality) is that 'Cleaved' could have not only worked but REALLY worked. It just needed to be better written and processed as an ending. Instead people reviled Star, the protagonist we're supposed to be rooting for, for what feels like impulsive apathy and cruelty towards everyone else by destroying magic, as opposed to it being an actually selfless sacrifice that makes her different than Toffee. Ultimatley, I do prefer The Owl House, unfinished as it is, to any of that. But yeah... I can now never unsee the characters as being what they are: fun but indulgent when they're supposedly complex. Indulgent is never bad u guys, but the problem is when you only have that to go on while insisting you have fully developed characters, there's a lot of the show telling you how to feel and how to come away from it rather than letting you, the audience, make of that yourself. As annoying as fan-wars can be over this stuff and when people are either WAAAY to forgiving of their villain blorbo or form hate-campaigns over Glub Shitto for ruining their life, it is ultimately a good thing that shows give you that chance to really see the characters that way at all.

The Owl House is, as OP calls it, "tumblr feels" not for being gay and magical and fun and wholesome and indulgent like that stuff is GREAT. It feels 'tumblr oriented' in that it all kind of feels too easy even when it's not for your protagonists. It's never actually "challenging". I guess, in as far as 'good' indulgence is concerned, it's as warm and fuzzy and a happy AU fanfic you found but not so much the Pacifist Ending of Undertale where you really do feel bad if you rectify the good ending in anyway. It's fun and it's comfort food, but not entirely lasting as you want it to be???

Amphibia, I think, was also way better than Owl House in this respect. It wasn't perfect cause nothing is but you really got a feeling for HOW flawed Marcy, Sasha, the townsfolk and even Hop Pop throughout their arcs-- which made it so SO rewarding to see them get their happy endings and come together to defeat the core and be the better people they needed to become.

The Owl House is my favorite where I think Amphibia is the better of the two.

#ramble #the owl house #toh critical #good lord did any of this make any sense Idk #franki's features #I guess technically King had the most fufilled arc #considering he thought he was a dictator-realized he wasn't-and then w he found out his true past was horrified by it but coped #discuss

[thrombosis]

I'VE LOST MY FEAR OF FALLING, I WILL BE WITH YOU ! I WILL BE WITH YOU !

#dgm #d gray man #kanda yuu #alma karma #yulma #aka the redraw of the three cheers for sweet revenge album cover. #growing up means ur able to fufill a dream u had since u were 12 #this was a fun little experiment. it was hard to get that marker look #i dont think i achieved it but i enjoyed myself #mcr #<--- for blacklist #draws

[laniemae]

Could John start hurting himself in trial 3?

TW FOR SELF HARM

So I’ve got a lot of theories for trial 3 and stuff but this is the one I want to talk about first since it was the one that stuck out to me most yet I haven’t seen people talking about the possibility

I actually wrote about this theory quite a while ago which I’ll just link to but I definitely do think it’s very likely but hasn’t been discussed much.

For a brief summary of the post I made it’s a theory on how John may have self harming desires but doesn’t physically hurt himself as he’s afraid of hurting Mikoto. Basically it’s how the reason why Mikoto’s clothes are so tattered is because John has been ripping them apart in another way to harm himself but not physically hurt Mikoto. Heck, there’s very clearly bite marks on the clothes so I highly doubt it was from the fight with Kotoko. And as well as just ripping his clothing it probably explained the breakdowns John is said to have at night especially in that one minigram where Es heard on it and there was a lot of crashing sounds and stuff breaking, even ripping sounds which definitely matches with what I was saying. So John does all of this in a method to self harm as a stress reliever but not physically harm Mikoto.

So here’s the trial 3 theory. As of recently Mikoto has stopped denying John’s existence as everything he’s seen in heard it’s just too much for him to deny anymore. And instead of that he’s began to hate John so much and blame him for every bad thing that’s happened, even going as far to blame him for what happened to Mahiru even though it was very clearly Kotoko’s fault. And with John, he loves Mikoto. Dedicates his entire existence to him and despite all the constant trauma and suffering he’s endured the only thing that keeps him going is the possibility that Mikoto will love him and praise him for saving him.

“Hey now, I saved you, right? So why in the hell are you crying?

Cling to me, hoist me up as your "savior", stand up and sing out your gratitude, that'd be good.”

Judging by these lyrics, it seems John is somewhat aware that Mikoto is denying his help but still wants to believe it. Even Neoplasm he says how Mikoto’s entrusting him with his heart, which can either be he doesn’t fully know about the hatred or is denying it. But what I’m really worried about is how much Mikoto loathes John in trial 3 and what he could do.

As I said earlier John dedicates his existence to Mikoto and I couldn’t explain how John may feel after he would realise his hatred for Mikoto  aside from his entire existence being denied. I already discussed this in another theory but for John to so deeply love Mikoto and dedicates everything to protecting him and only holding on with the possibility of approval and being told he did a good job, only to be met with unimaginable hatred from the person who he idealises as someone who could never hate anyone must be devastating on so many levels for John and… you can tell where I’m getting at here.

So what would happen next? Could perhaps John feel so betrayed by Mikoto that he could go to actually physically hurting himself out of conflicting feelings around Mikoto? Loving him like that but feeling so betrayed and hurt that he just tries not to care about Mikoto any more and harms himself out of both previously established coping mechanisms and spite?

It’s hard to tell here, as John is one of those characters who it’s very hard to predict what would happen next so who knows what he might do. I just believe this may be the most likely based off things that have been implied and established.

And just to address a potential elephant in the room is I highly doubt John would disappear in trial 3. That’s not how it works, and just because Mikoto may not be Guilty any more doesn’t mean he would be relieved from all stress so John definitely would still have his purpose. And I think it’s most likely why John claimed that he would disappear was that he believed Es hated him and wanted him gone, so he claimed that he would disappear if Mikoto were to be voted Innocent as a way to sway Es to that verdict. And there are lines such as “I’ll play dead even if I’m alive right?” And “can’t get rid of me now” that definitely imply that he will stay or perhaps pretend to go dormant which perhaps would be interesting as we’ve seen him masking as Mikoto in the minigrams before so it would be interesting if he does that in trial 3 perhaps. And side note even though this is kinda cheating theory wise but it would be stupid to remove John from the story like that so uhhh.

#milgram #mikoto kayano #John kayano #john milgram #tw sh #tw self destruction #I just wanna say I’m sorry for bringing up such a dark subject matter like this in a theory sense #It’s just when writing about the darker themes in milgram I always get scared I’ll offend someone by how I talk about it so sorry #But trial 3 is certainly gonna be crazy #This theory is one I’ve had for a while and thus easier to write but I’ve got a lot planned #Like it definitely seems like how in trial 2 kotoko was the main antagonist/one causing conflict and it definitely seems #That in trial 3 amane will fufill that role #Which I mean I am uhh really exited about that because Amane’s my favorite and I love character who fuck up everything #But from everything we’ve seen the whole thing with fuuta and Shidou she’s going to be the one starting the whole chain of events #And there’s definitely a lot of theories on people who could suffer or be injured because of everything #Definitely Haruka but that would be from himself #But from the amane thing potentially Shidou if she or fuuta attacks him #Maybe mahiru if Shidou can’t treat her if she’s injured which could be really bad I’m actually very worried for her #And fuuta if he goes too far deep into the ideology and actually takes off his eyepatch but that’s kinda hard to predict #And as I said it’s definitely likely that mikoto would be hurt but at the hands of “himself” rather #And with kotoko I have absolutely no clue how she would react to the guilty verdict but that unpredictably makes it more exiting #I’ll have to talk about kotoko and the others in a separate theory because it’s so complicated but aughahhan hiatus brain no #And kinda off topic with the mood that I’ve kinda set with this post #But looking and analysing the lyrics of meme and double for this post #I found it pretty funny how John is actually really affectionate when referring to mikoto #Like of course the “snuggle together and say good night” lyric which is funny because how that does not fit John normally but does make sen #And in double he uses words such as basically “welcoming home” mikoto and in those freeze frames whispers of good morning #Which one again is really funny as edgy boy misanthrope John has said almost uwu fanfiction stuff canonically #But it totally makes sense to his character which makes it all the more funnier but kinda fucked up as from what I’ve said in the post #Why am I talking about something funny like this? Maybe I’m just too worried about talking about dark subject matters I’m sorry

[neotaissong]

#free gaza #free palestine #praying for rafah #but nah lets talk about deadpool marvel and usher #i love movies i love music i love life but they are inventing new ways to kill the human spirit and playing in our faces about it #they are brandishing anyone who speaks out as anti-semetic whilst testing new weapons on civilians fufilling murder quotas compiled by AI #doing all this under the cover of the spectacle of mass entertainment national holidays and now the superbowl #i mean no disrespect to palestinians in posting the above photo of a body decimated and hanged i mean no disrespect to the victim #their family or friends but i had to show it i had to this is horror #the first thing that came to mind was lynched broken and burnt black bodies hanging from trees #and years of nfl kneeling by Kaepernick and the ways black media elites tried to hide him away after his calls for justice #the sun is shining here after how many weeks of weighty greyscale atmospheres and all i see is blood in between my breakfast #in between catching up with friends and fam in between scrolling music art and lifestyle i see blood blood blood blood blood blood blood #i feel guilt and shame and loss and grief and powerlessness and the sun is shining on my face and there's congo and sudan #and there is love and love and love and love and love seeping under the cracks of all this death hate conquest and loneliness #i have to believe it i have to believe in my belief i have to hold onto faith with blood on my hands for not doing enough pls forgive me #pls god forgive me god pls forgive me #pls god strengthen the resistance strenghten my capacity for love resistance rebellion and defiance in the face of their death & conquest

[termagax]

i hate to make the cr thing sound like a dumb ship war but they canonically had beauregard confess to being in love with her best friend, the party member she was objectively closest to and had the best chemistry with, to whom she was the turning point for her entire major character arc, and then immediately walked it back to pair them up with the characters they flirted with in episode 1 and had no chemistry with. and then spent the rest of the series making arguably lesbiphobic jokes about it.

#NO CHEMISTRY AND IN JESTERS CASE SHE HAS AN ENTIRE ARC ABOUT HOW SHE DIDNT ACTUALLY WANT TO BE WITH #THE GUY THEY PAIRED HER WITH. LIKE SHE HAD A WHOLE ARC LIKE WOW IM PROJECTING ONTO FJORD BECAUSE I WANT A STORYBOOK #ROMANCE BECAUSE ITS WHAT I BELIEVED I NEEDED TO BE A REAL ADULT WITH A FUFILLING LIFE NOT BECAUSE OF ANYTHING ABOUT HIM #AND WHEN HE RETURNED MY ADVANCES I WAS UNCOMFORTABLE BECAUSE I DONT ACTUALLY WANT TO BE IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM #I WONDER WHAT THIS COULD POSSIBLY INDICATE ABOUT MYSELF AND HOW I SEE RELATIONSHIPS. HOW DO I FIND WHAT I REALLY WANT. BEAU YOUR MUSCLES #LOOK REALLY GOOD TODAY. BEAU IM SORRY EVERYONE SAYS YOURE MEAN I DONT THINK YOURE MEAN. BEAU YOURE THE ONLY PERSON I FEEL LIKE IM ALLOWED #TO BE MYSELF AROUND BEAU YOU MAKE ME FEEL FREE TO EXPRESS MESSY EMOTIONS THAT SCARE ME BEAU LETS GET MATCHING TATTOOS #and then. wimp.womp shes back with fjord because for some reason weve decided beaujester isnt a viable endgame option :T

[justghostthings]

My partner 💞💞💞💞💞💞🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

#i feel so loved n understood and fufilled all the time #honeymoon phase >>>>>> #planning valentines stuff !!! im so excited #and ik theyre currently making me a bday gift :) #if u remember my old partner that was the reason i deleted my prev blog. he literally FORGOT my birthday #like. straight up by the time it was mid-afternoon i had to tell him so he could wish me a happy birthday #after i told him everyday for 2 weeks that my birthday was coming up #my self respect on the fucking floorrr but also what the fuck!!!! i didnt deserve that shit #anyway if u read all that sorry!! sorry sorry #i dont get to have therapy next week n i forgot to talk abt jt this week so #u get to hear instead #also my birthday is NOT today its later this month #rambles #not my most recent ex!!!! that i wld post abt on here before. theyre cool we just didnt work out

[mattibee]

honestly im still not wrong about terastalling being/causing a manifestation of dreams and desires but it sure is also timey wimey i guess

#coatlythoughts #didnt expect the seeing the dead at the crystal pool to come around in that way tbh #it is strange though.. why did terapagos do that.. #and it like. i think implies that you gave an alternate dimension arven his parent back? since they say theyll go home and read briars book #and you have the book arven has throughout the sv main story.. #but that also happened?? in our universe?? thats the hint for that cutscene?? #like you could say maybe prof had multiple copies but idk the scribbled name implies its The Copy from their childhood no? #tbh i dont really like it having actual spacetime powers so im going to pretend thats also a dream/desire #the player wishes for their friend arven to have had a better life somehow #and terapagos manifests a token that may or may not indicate that you influenced that in another timeline #just like the paradox pokemon are a token that may or may not indicate that the prof's 'paradise' is real #though i guess the scarlet/violet books being real throws a wrinkle into it since they also saw the paradox mons #BUT THAT WAS ALREADY A WRINKLE CAUSE PROF DIDNT SEE THEM UNTIL THEY MADE THE TIME MACHINE!!!! AUGH!!!!!!! #terapagos itself might also be a manifested token of briar's desires for heath to be right if we wanna keep spiralling about it #not only wanting terapagos to be real for vindication reasons but also her desires to control and understand terastalling further #what better way to fufill that than a pokemon you can catch that has. immense control of that energy #basically what im saying is its all a dream but like in a fucked up way thats also real #paradox mons is tulpas i think

[itsjusteds]

The basal ganglia of my brain has been completely absorbed by a revolutionary, contemporary musical called Spies are Forever. Because I dabble in the arts and have too much free time I've decided to draw all 55 characters each day until I've drawn them all.

Today's character is The Deadliest Man Alive >:] Day 6/55

#he is so much stronger than me #he had agent curt mega wimpering infront of him and he just continued his work #he could show me the horror of staying alive any day #drawing these characters is so fufilling #joe walker #tcb #tin can bros #tin can brothers #spies are forever #deadliest man alive #dma #hes secretly owen DUM DUM DUMMMMMM #plot twist of the century #hes so babygirl #i love british men

[skitskatdacat63]

Me rewatching True Detective, fully knowing of the fact that I'm incapable of being normal abt anything, and finding myself getting increasingly more insane about it as the days go on: ah look it's consequences of my actions

#this is why theres certain things i feel like i can never rewatch/reread again bcs they will take over my life #generation kill? i keep delayinf watching it even tho i rly want to bcs i know its just gonna take me over again #i didnt think id get obsessive abt true detective #bcs when i watched it the first time i noted that it had a fandom but didnt get into it at all #so im like yeah okay this is safe to rewatch! i like it a lot but its not gonna make insane #guys. i regret to inform you i feel insane. #lol also sry this whole break has been me rediscovering old fandom loves #so i keep having to be like 'WHY DID I GET BACK INTO THIS' #its just a stop gap i think tbh #BUT WHY DID I GET INTO THIS SO SOON BEFORE F1 COMES BACK UGGHHHHHH #also i think another factor is that have no one to talk abt vett/onso meta or AUs with #so my brain is just constantly searching for smth to latch onto #i keep getting sucked into old things and rediscovering my love #and its all very fufilling but ah man it makes me feel so insane ig #love bursting out of its seams and all that #haha just hoping tho main fandom will be a bit more active and communicative once it starts up again #stop my eyes from wandering anf all that #but anwyays yeah. i feel sooooooooo crazy abt TD #every time i watch another ep my brain is like 'man i wanna rewatch from the very start again' #im very loath to finsih things yknow? #theres a difference btwn completely starting smth over when you finish it #and savoring the world youre in before finishing it #yeah you can watch smth an endless amnt of times. but theres smth abt existing in that space btwn the start and the end #but aaaaghhh every aspect i just am so desperately into it #catie.rambling.txt

[boyjoan]

BAGELS !

#welcome to a lesser spotted and rare installment of #partridge family breakfast!! #today on the menu a lovely toasted bagel soft and Crisp #i grated cheese and then got to work on the filling #we had leftover sausage meat so i shaped it into like. a CD #it comes pre-seasoned and can be quite cheap so it's a great option if you have a local butcher!! #cooked that off in a pan and finished it in the oven to make sure it was cooked through #hot sauce. just a smattering #and boom. english muffin #i had an apple and a pear on the side just to get some of my 5 a day!! #thank you for visitinggg i hope you enjoyed your stay #i hope your most recent meal was fufilling. i love you i want us both to eat well!!

[guideaus]

i think a kind of sad thing concerning trigun is that the narrative never gets time to wrap up vash's character arc, so vash never really gets the point of forgiving himself, and i mean concerning any guilt of his in the series, with the fall, july, other similar events, wolfwood, legato/ the story just kind of skips to the end where he's inexplicably happy bc hes doing his peace sign on the cover despite everything that just happened. at most, the story has meryl come to vash who had fainted from the trauma of killing legato, but she just says they'll support him (but he's passed out, so he cant hear that or anything), and they kinda send him back out after he has a little nightmare/dream. his little in-limbo scene isnt really good enough to address his issues, in fact, it's not even about that, he's passed out, but hears Meryl say humans are holding him back, and he gets up, ready to fight for them again, completely skipping past anything that has to do with what just happened with legato.

#personal #wolfwood comes closer. he fufills it but he does die #in both versions he dies so maybe nightow REALLY wanted him dead for drama's sake #but i feel hes kind of essential to vash's happiness? not even in a shippy way but i feel in trigun theres a lot of examples of vash not #getting close to people bc they end up dead from being around him. and ww probably had gotten the closest but is still added to the pile #ik its kind of an annoying thing when fans read smth and want their dead fave to not be esp when it was for a reason #but i feel like wolfwood surviving wouldnt cheapen the story imo..? #he dies better in the manga (though its still a little goofy) but in the anime it felt dumb/bad #i was gonna say more abt ww lmao but i remembered i had a point. him/+livio/meryl/milly i feel are needed for vash #...then by extension vash's development would open the slightest opportunity for knives #also i forgot. i said i'd stop talking abt ww but in his death was accepting vash's ideals. after him rescuing vash him straying from his #previous 'well what can you do. thats life.' lying to himself attitude and full on putting effort was peak development for him #which leads to vash i think acknowledging too (not being alone/seeing he successfully influenced someone else/etc) #while ww dying i feel like adds to the 'ppl around me die' and his ideals being flawed thing. which would probably make him spiral more

[bellincurl]

it’s such a headcannoned idea but I love that other ppl picked up on it with Hollyleaf, that there were signs she was being let down or neglected, or trying TOO hard to be the ideal warrior the code asks for. Just that feeling of doing everything right and everything you can and realizing the people who care for you see something in you to be slightly wary of, something to ever so slightly tip toe around. Even if they say the kind things, and they hold you, you can’t help but feel that you aren’t as easy for them to love as your siblings. And that kind of internal confusion just builds and builds and eventually spills out with the catalyst of the fire scene. It’s not about the code but she will say it is because it’s the only consistency she has to cling to, that if she does right by it then she will be right as well. If she kills Ashfur then she won’t have to acknowledge the idea that she was always a failure in the eyes of the code & Starclan, but despite having the same birth, her siblings aren’t. They were chosen and she was doomed to be replaced by someone a bit softer, who eventually also got chewed up by this environment.

#SOMETHING SOMETHING MY PARENTS!!!!!!!!!1 #im thinking abt the way ambition is villanized in the clans the same way it is encouraged and idolized #thinking abt hollyleaf grieving the fact dovewing took her place and DIDN'T WANT IT #dovewing was isolated and had her childhood taken over something hollyleaf was fully willing to fufill herself #she just can't fathom why or what was wrong with her in starclan's eyes. if she wasn't bad then then she certainly #was now for killing a man and attempting to kill her mother too. for the gathering scene ect ect ect ect #bloody stickman image #i always pictured her killing ashfur as kind of that Cool girlboss moment but less bc she's like #a badass and more bc she is a trained warrior. the code tells you killing others will happen and she is fervent that this will #fix anything wrong that's happened here. #but it doesnt and it's why she changes her idea of right and decides that she needs to out the secret herself #ect #UGH. #she's so mentally ill and real to me #messy and inconsistent to YOU. i understand her though #imagining the shame too over how willing she was to jump to those extremes. it would be brutal but again it's #how the clans act ? but it's villainized in some and celebrated or normalized in others

[fuckedprophet]

. . . . 94!dallas in tags

#. ooc #so i mentioned it to my boo thing about this idea #that dallas was murdered by his father when he was like 7 #and because he has the ability to see in the inbetween (visions and future past present shit ) that #he woke up in the in between and was noticed by lucifer himself -- stay with me -- and lucifer sees dallas as a #my father didnt love me like he should either type kinship #so he's brought back with a tether to hell #which slowly evolves with him being granted the ability to morph into a were / hound creature #but his tether to lucifer is strong because he killed his father by his own hand -- he fufilled his portion of the contract #and now he's sort of this middle ground guy where if he's shot or stabbed he doesnt die #he's already died before so there is no killing him #and his cocky persona and arrogant teenage bullshit is just a mask #that hides the really calculated killer -- link beyond thats slowly kinda shifting into a talon of hell? #idk i just saw this and then thought of nick kinda bonding with dallas in a way and then he tries to kill him and it fails and its just #dont you get it -- fire cannot hurt fire type vibe #ion know but im vibing and thriving and i had to share

[dreamsurvivormultiplayer]

Hello I feel it's very important I say this for meme context reasons:

I was at the VidCon dsmp panel. The two who asked the TNT duo question were both cosplaying TNT duo. The Wilbur asking the question did this casual lean on their chair when they got the mic and you could instantly tell what this individual was going to ask. They had a duty to the memes. They both looked smug about their query knowing the chaos it would wreak. Those two were prepared. They knew what they had to do and I respect them so goddamn much for that.

Anyways enjoy that knowledge.

#dsmp #dream smp #mcyt #vidcon #tnt duo #i know it was breifly referenced the first person was in quackity cosplay #but they were in like the full blue tracksuit and beanie #and their Wilbur had the yellow sweater and trench coat #you saw them and just knew they were gonna be the ones to fufill the meme. taking fate into their own hands. #but for a second there were 2 other questions that felt like they might ask #which was: a Sally question. equally for memes. or to propose to one another (based more on them seeming nervous) #but yeah huge respect to those two. meme destiny acheived. proud of u. #this felt important to add since i dont think you could see the audience in the stream #also the crowd was so huge. there were several hundred people standing.

[cinematicbookworm]

Hmm it’s that time again when I’ve been somewhere for too long and when I go out on a drive to do errands I get the urge to just keep driving and not come back

#every couple years I just get the urge to uproot and leave and if it wasn’t for the fact that I have obligations to people and animals and #that I need money to live I would just drive off for a few days the urge is so strong it’s like an itch that won’t go away #it’s this roaming feeling that tells me I must move on somewhere else I wish I had money to fufill it #it’s like a rush the feeling when you just want to go fast forever and not think just go it’s like the feeling from those flying dreams #where the wind is beneath you and you can go on forever heart racing free #but then I have to pull myself back down to earth and say no you can’t do that you have things here you cannot just leave #this usually happens on days we’re it’s bright and clear out it makes me restless