#it’s probably refreshing for him

[petrichormore]

yknow a moment from today that I feel is really under appreciated and kinda highlights the difference between the people q!Bad trusts and the people he doesn’t?

(this is about the characters obviously. You cannot make me use q! on long analysis posts. None of you can make me.)

Aypierre was showing Bad the room he used to capture and question Fred, and built into the only entry into the main room was an inventory scanner.

An inventory scanner - the thing Bad was hesitant to use to save Forever because he was scared of the islanders knowing of its existence and turning it against him. He did it anyway obviously because he cares about Forever but it’s clear he knows this is the one thing that could remove all his carefully built up protections in an instant. And the only way into the room was through it.

So Bad stops, of course, and Aypierre (who already walked through it first) notices and goes “I’ll just give you your items back, come through”

And Bad says “Ehhhh no, I…”

And Aypierre reassures him “You can come through. Don’t worry, don’t worry, don’t worry.

And Bad repeats “Ehhhh no…” And then “Forgive my paranoia, can you disable it? Or make an opening for me?” He asks it very politely too, as if he believes it’s a hard ask (it’s not).

And Aypierre does. That’s why I think this moment is underrated. Bad asks for forgiveness for his paranoia - a paranoia that has been built up and rewarded and reinforced by his experiences on the island - and yet Aypierre doesn’t treat it like a burden. He doesn’t complain about it, he doesn’t tell Bad he’s overreacting, and he certainly doesn’t try to guilt-trip or otherwise insist Bad go through when he’s clearly uncomfortable. He just… makes another opening, and Bad walks through that, and the moment of hesitance, of distrust, is left behind. Not just left behind, but accepted. From Bad’s perspective, Aypierre has essentially communicated that “I can see you don’t trust me fully, and that’s okay, I understand why. It’s not a big deal, and I can move on.”

And I think that acceptance is why Aypierre has managed to gain an impressive amount of Bad’s trust so much faster than other islanders. I think that’s why when he told Bad he put cameras in his house, Bad didn’t get upset.

A lot of islanders, even islanders that are Bad’s friends, would not have reacted the way Aypierre did to Bad not wanting to step through the inventory scanner. And it does make a difference.

#and this isn’t even the first time q!Aypierre has been considerate of q!Bad’s paranoia instead of dismissive or disparaging #I’m reminded of the time q!Bad was hesitating on entering the art museum so q!Aypierre offered to walk ahead of him in case of traps #it’s just. interesting #q!Bad does not have many people who are so nonchalant about his extreme trust issues #it’s probably refreshing for him #qsmp #qsmp liveblog but late #qsmp aypierre #q!aypierre #qsmp badboyhalo #q!badboyhalo #q!bbh character analysis #bebou and the French stay winning

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

butterfly Howdy... he must be the prettiest girl at the party.... also so so tired

#i imagine that metamorphosis is Exhausting #turning to goop & then reforming takes a lot of work and energy yk #absolutely zero rest going on in there! #i can so vividly picture everyone gathering around his chrysalis waiting for him to emerge #ready to watch him to break free Beautiful and Refreshed #and then he just kinda. slides out and slaps against the ground. goopy. half dead. confused. crinkled #also much fluffier!!! #when he dries. before that he looks like someone drowned him #Having So Many Butterfly Howdy Thoughts #scribble salad #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #welcome home fanart #howdy pillar #yassified howdy <3 #i wanted his butterfly form to be like... longer??? more ~Elegant~ if that makes sense? #longer hair... longer fluff... longer antennae... claws bc why the fuck not. claws fuck severely. #eyelash thingies.... #hed probably end up cutting his hair short again but yk. wanna draw him with whatever the fuck that style is #is it a mullet? WHO KNOWS!

[sailing-through-hawkins]

sisyphean nightmare

✧ written for 'rest' ✧ word count: 387 ✧ rated: T ✧ cw: lowkey major character death(s) but it's temporary ✧ tags: time loop vibes, fantasy au ✧ @steddiemicrofic (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ:･ﾟ✧

Steve doesn't know how long he's been fighting.

Every time he makes it through to dawn, every time he loses one or two or half or all of them, every time he loses himself, he starts all over again.

The sun starts to set and he brandishes his mace, ready to fight the beasts off.

The sun starts to rise and he couldn't save Max -

The sun starts to rise and Dustin's ankle is mangled -

The sun starts to rise and Robin is crying over him as he breathes one last time -

It's the sunset again.

He brandishes his mace.

The beasts come running.

When was the last time he saw the sun, the real sun, Steve wonders as he slams his shield into a beast before it can pounce on Lucas. How long has he been under the stars, pulling Erica behind him as a winged beast swoops down, waiting for another to try the same? What is he even doing here, smashing his mace into a crawling beast when Dustin shouts, when he's never managed to keep them all safe?

Hang on, Steve!

The only relief he gets is when the beasts hiss at the coming dawn and slink away into the darkness and he can drop his weapons but even that is short-lived when all he can see is the body he couldn't save.

Max.

Robin.

Dustin.

Lucas.

Erica.

Eddie -

Come on, come on, I got you, just hang on -

Eddie?

Steve breathes in and blinks as the sun starts to set. The body is gone, behind him once more, another chance to get it right. He brandishes his mace -

"It's okay, Steve."

A hand, warm and soft, grasps his own and he gasps awake.

"Wha -" Steve coughs, shivering. It's bright, brighter than he's seen in ages. "What -"

"Shh," A voice above him hushes and he tries glancing up, finding Eddie's eyes, red, watery, alive, staring down at him. His arms are wrapped around Steve, holding them as he lies on the ground. "It's okay, Steve. You can rest now."

"I have to - save - I need -"

"Rest, love," Eddie murmurs, pressing his lips to Steve's forehead, making his eyes flutter shut. "I have you now."

"Safe?"

"Yes," Eddie chokes out, pressing Steve against his chest. It's warm. "Yes, we're all safe now, my knight."

#tada have steve being put through a trial where he has to repeat the same night over and over until he can keep everyone alive #except the game was rigged against him and eddie had to break him out #huh i don't usually give explanations to my microfics #it's refreshing i like it #should probably start putting these on ao3 now that there's so many but anyways #sailor✧writes #steddie #writing #microfic #steddiemicrofic #au content: fantasy

[ironunderstands]

Ok hear me the fuck out

Heizou X Childe

tell me that would not be fascinating

Childe is in inazuma during the 2.2 and “omg crazy crime happens 😨😨😨” and Childe becomes #1 suspect because he’s Childe. Heizou gets put on the case and Childe works alongside him to prove his innocence. Craziest enemies to lovers arc insues + abyss drama and both their parental trauma

like tell me this wouldn’t be fun

fuck it time to use the ao3 account I never thought I would

#shikanoin heizou #childe #i just have to learn heizous lore tho bc I would rather gouge my eyeballs out then mischaracterize him #Oh and refresh myself on inazuma lore (I’d probably write around it) #I think heizou is the same age as Childe bc of his job #his personality #his voice #his design and just the way the story frames him #if he’s somehow not im aging him up to Childe’s age anyways #Chizou #new ship just dropped

[chirpsythismorning]

Mike: *overhears Will talk about how he's in love with a boy that is oblivious*

Mike: Whoever this idiot is, he’s really missing out 🙄

#byler #byler fic #i haven’t stopped laughing for the last five minutes #this fic is from Nov last year #so you regulars have probably already read it #but i only just came across it! #the part where Mike is thinking about how charming Will looks rolling out of bed all while comparing himself to a tornado victim #i had to pause and cackle #also something else i really loved about this fic #was how they built it up in a satisfying way despite will sort of figuring out mike could return his feelings #like that's sort of hard to do when it comes to slow burn #for slow burn you really need that revelation moment for both of them simultaneously usually for it to work #but this was sort of refreshing #will sensing mike could indeed feel the same and flirting with him #top tier content

[breastmaster64]

catching up on slmccl's qsmp shit is so fun bc like. you can tell that he actually enjoys this server.

#stfulee.txt #slimecicle #probably not the best idea to talk in tags but #its v refreshing to see him actually enjoy being in a server even if he's still not the most active #afaik he's been in 5 servers and he's only been ACTIVE active in 2 of them #**6 servers i am dumb. anw. #< 2 being smpl and qsmp #d smp he rlly only came on to fuck around a couple times and then after that he only came on to do lore for q #epicsmp immediately died off bc (as fun as it was for a bit) it was obv just a ploy to try and capitalize off the minecraft hype of d smp #theres technically smp earth but tbh it occupies the same space in my brain that smpl does. #and osmp was already kinda inactive as is so like. didnt expect much from that. #maybe this is parasocial idk

[fish-with-more-eyes]

mr. refreshing (ft. tiny yaku)

#my og haikyuu!! crush #he has so many cute moments but i didn't wanna just draw him smiling 500x skdhfsd #i love characters that seem normal for a while and then turn out to be a little silly #there are a billion things i probably should've fixed but i'm lazy so we take the L and move on #hq brainrot doodles #haikyuu fanart #sugawara koushi #my art #yaku morisuke #even though he's just a chibi i'm sorry if you saw this because you wanted a proper drawing of him #i've already made these tags too long so i'll also go ahead and say THANK YOU FURUDATE FOR THE NICKNAME MR. REFRESHING #it's added ten years to my life #haikyuu

[coquelicoq]

Natsume: You didn't sleep a wink last night. Why not go and grab a few now? Natori [sparkling]: I'm just fine. It takes more than sleep deprivation to dull my dazzling self, so don't you worry your fussy little head. Natsume [concerned]: Nonsense like that is exactly what someone suffering from sleep deprivation would say! Sensei: Oh really? Has he been sleep-deprived every day of his life?

so i've been watching the natsume dub -

#sensei referring to matoba as the 'pirate-princess-tightrope-walker'????? PLSSSS #sensei to natsume about matoba: your wussy little punches won't do jack #also yes sensei he probably has been sleep-deprived every day of his life. this man is a dumpster fire #thanks to qserasera (thank you qserasera!!!) i've been revisiting the natori and matoba episodes #i had started a rewatch earlier this year but got sidetracked early in season 2 so i'm picking up from there #so to refresh my memory i read through the episode summaries i had written for season 1/early season 2 #and got SO EMOTIONAL??? just from reading the summaries? what the fuck??? #me earlier today: i can't reread le petit prince right now because my heart can't take it #also me: tra la la let's see what natsume is going to do to pulverize my soul into powder today #natsume's book of friends #natsume yuujinchou #natori shuuichi #my posts #anyway i probably would never have tried the dub except that someone put some clips of english dub matoba on here #and i was OBSESSED with the voice acting??? #i'm so glad i decided to try it because so many of the line readings are just delightful #natsume and sensei's bickering especially #i don't love madara's youkai voice. and i like the japanese voice playing touko a lot better than the english voice #but it's nice to be able to listen and like do the dishes at the same time! i love subs but you can't really multitask #i guess since this is the dub i should be calling him master not sensei but i'm too used to sensei #i must say though that i'm really enjoying natsume calling him 'master kitty cat' in full earnestness #i don't speak japanese so i wasn't getting the full effect from 'nyanko-sensei' #i get now why tanuma was so embarrassed

[brainworms-all-night-long]

Midnight thoughts crept up and I suffered while trying to draw Silver's weed bangs

#sonic prime #this was such a random brainworm that overtaken me #i still have no clue how shadows work #the idea was born becasue they both grew up in hell and probably drink liquid tires as a refreshment #silver the hedgehog #never drawing him again #fuk his quill pot head hair #nine the fox #miles nine prower #littol doodl #me does arts

[hollowflight-propaganda]

It's that time again where a random song makes me think of a wof character, this time it's Homesick by Noah Kahan with Flame

Do what you want with that information

#idk. just how the song is about hating where you're stuck but still feeling unable to leave no matter how much you hate that place #yeah I'm probably projecting but I feel that since he got so used living with the talons that he doesn't know what to do with himself now- #that he's not needed to act as backup anymore #that plus I feel the song's sad yet angry energy captures him well #wof #wings of fire #flame wof #phoenix rereads wof #might come back to this when I have a refresher on all the flame stuff but yeah. there you go #random song relation time

[lavenderjewels]

no genuinely i will fight to the death to defend yuuji being a good character and how interesting it is to see yuujis struggles of being used as a tool his entire life/viewing himself as a cog while bringing out his own strengths as someone who doesn’t have the raw power and talent as gojo, yuuta, or megumi.

With gojo’s reflection in his past arc of his own strength not being enough to save someone, they need to be someone prepared to be saved, I have a lot of confidence in what yuuji was training for and his set up to save megumi (going full circle with his grandpa’s last words or “curse”).

#jjk spoilers #itadori yuuji #jujutsu kaisen #yea yea yea it’s bc I saw tweets floating around hating him 🤕 #also no real thread here but I enjoy how yuuji and kenjaku might have similar powers now in body swapping #it’s a power that can be enhanced through the presence of other people rather than the sheer lone strength of gojo #no real thought there I just enjoy seeing any similarities with the itadori/kenjaku/death painting family #I’ve probably posted almost this exact same thing several times but i will continue to praise yuujis character I think it’s great 😤 #and despite everything he’s still so kind #which is very refreshing and human to see in jjk

[apocalyptic-dancehall]

hey!!! harkening back to this post, i drew it a while ago and forgot that i was done coloring. verrrry sketchy and messy and doodly

#- gijinkatrap #it's a concept tho. i'm not even sure if i'm satisfied with the colors #context in case you don't care about the og post: i had a spontaneous thoughtspark about genshinified blorbo. leading into this #+!!! HUGE credit to hal for refreshing me about visions and stuff #i don't think he'd have like. an ACTUAL vision or anything tho considering the nature of meks. just cos it looks neat. (cryo + pneuma) #i'm already probably gonna start wondering how i'm gonna do this with the regular ver. bc ofc i am #i am NOT putting these in the main tags like the animal crossing thing bc context and shit #and i know his other hand is missing it's bc it didn't fit in the glove. pretend it's the same as the one i DID draw #i don't think this'll be too serious or anything i mean. i plan on making him use a fucking umbrella to bludgeon enemies #if genshin had unique body types.. sigh. he'd be shorter than the med. male base + a bit wider. plus holey limbs #the only part of this concept that isn't clicking with me is his sleeves.. but i'll do better #and the armor.. mmm..... i'll tweak it a little #- velveteen pen-scribblings ]

[violetlunette]

I find it so funny that it’s canon that Present Mic does not like Bakagou.

(Poking the bear Mic, poking the bear.)

#lol #no I'm sure Mic's just teasing but still #Mic's the only one not tripping over his feet to praise Bakagou all the time #it's really refreshing #anti bakugou #anti bakugo katsuki #bakugou critical #not really but just in case #I also love that Mic adores Uraraka #but that's another post #bnha meta #mha #bnha #hizashi yamada #yamada hizashi #present mic #I'd like to say that he'd probably be the only to call him out #but that wouldn't be correct as Mic hates confrontation

[wereh0gz]

Begging for ppl to understand sonamy isn't canon

#ramblings #it's one sided!! it's always been one sided!! #the only place you could say it's canon is in boom but that's not the main continuity #i honestly don't care if you ship it but don't unironically say it's canon when it isn't #but it's never been anything but a one sided crush amy has on sonic in the main canon #like seriously she was never meant to be his love interest she was meant to be an admirer #sonic has never been interested in her romantic advances (or like. romance in general) #and that's ok! it honestly makes their dynamic more interesting imo #sonic who just wants to be friends and amy who now fully respects that but still has her unrequited crush and loves him more than anything #it's interesting! cool hero types usually get the girl by the end of their stories but sonic isn't about that #he's completely uninterested in that and it's actually kinda refreshing when media is still so heteronormative #once again we're talking abt game canon here not any other canon #but anyways sonic and amy aren't and probably won't ever be a thing. in fact sonic probably wouldn't get with anyone actually #there's no canon romance which is a good thing please keep it that way

[unproduciblesmackdown]

also was revisiting a little bmc bway interview ft. william last night & him saying his favorite part of the show was probably doing the agtikbi reprise scene on the couch at the party & mentioning the Nonverbal aspect of jeremy & christine's interacting / communicating there & a way of exploring/depicting Love & Affection in a way you don't always see everywhere and like aaaarghhhhh so true good lord that specific scene. and Again the bway obcr version Existing and being like that, it's just like. winded exhale yeah obsessed 5ever thank you all

#sooo true so true.... #bmc #love putting it right in like the eye of the storm #both of them basically just having had these breakups & with jeremy that means mitb scene And [all of that A Time he had prior] #also now reflecting on how you know obviously he was Not ready to hear it w/michael & ofc he was affected by what all Just happened #but it's also like probably the worst time to be very pushy even with the best intentions & thinking it's Urgent & right abt all that lmao #but jeremy's Just had like whoops autonomy revoked ten ways to sunday from two different squip figures like #even [being correct! having jeremy's wellbeing in mind!] behind trying to yank him into some outcome; he's gonna be like Not Again #& ofc the sunk cost re: his squip & he has not had time to catch his breath like literally; not in a place to Confront Shit #if even his missed bestie is; from his perspective here; not at all comforting & not giving him what he feels is a real option.... #& anyways ofc we can sympathize / understand them both b/c that's what the show is giving at all moments re all characters #all this to say like jeremy & christine like having such a time being very at sea very uncomfortable but then having This moment #and the refreshment & relief finally of having this successful genuine connection & relative security being with this person rn #love & affection for sure....just say what's on your mind....lord first of all that they improvise those Noises every night. i'm gonna cry #second of all imagining not knowing how that scene goes & the pause & jeremy like [augh] & then christine just Yes Anding. aaaugh #head in hands haven't even relistened for a moment despite all this reflection. the downtempo quiet reprise waaah #it's Pretty killer to sit & chat with you....it's pretty killer for me too....sooo true Not getting this everywhere always & Waaugh ;;m;; #and wasn't even thinking of it as a joke like [and talking about devote specific focus on the Nonverbal aspect of such a scene: im putting #my hands on the shoulders of that & keep drawing a deep breath to start talking abt it but instead going Whew & making Expressions] #i.e. the significance of my nonverbal response as per conveying emotions & thoughts lmao. and just....You Know

[julykings]

went swimming with my baby yesterday!

#i love him so much………….. I don’t think he loved it but he jumped in because I was in <3 #it was so refreshing……..!!!!!!!!! #it’s going to cool off this week so I probably won’t swim any more until #next Tuesday/Wednesday but I’m house sitting and there’s a nice court nearby so I can skate ! #ok LOVE U !!! HAVE A GREAT DAY !!!!! #this pic looks like I’m choking him i swear I was just very gently patting his neck #personal