#its...like a trap

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

Love a self-inflicted time loop. The main character isn’t trapped.  They can stop whenever they want.  But how can they when things aren’t perfect yet?  They can do better than this.  They need to try again.  They can get it right this time.  They just need to try again.  They can stop anytime they want.  Just one more time.  They can fix this. They just need to try again.  There are still things to fix.  They just need to try again.

#time travel #its about the tunnel vision #its about losing sight of what a win condition even looks like #its about writing off the entire timeline at the slightest inconvenience #its about increasing alienation #its about failing to notice that youre destroying yourself and in some cases making things worse #its about the atrophy of your own problem solving skills #its about treating your friends like unskippable cutscenes #its about gradually forgetting everything outside the loop #its about the fact that you arent even really trapped #its about making the same choice over and over again #its about falling hard into the sunk cost fallacy

[bishy437]

more of my moshang x inuyasha/isekai thing bc im still stupid as hell

#srsly what do i call this #mbj is so precious to me...he's my babygirl <3 #moshang #svsss #shang qinghua #mobei jun #shen yuan #scumbag self saving system #scum villian self saving system #scum villain #i also have a hc that mbj goes to sqh’s fast food arubaito and is horrified when he hears his voice thru the drive thru speaker— #like 「qinghua is trapped in this metal box by an evil curse 😠🤨」 #*proceeds to rip it from its foundations and carry it back to sqh’s apartment* #if i end up drawing more of this i’ll include it next time 🫡 #mine

[skeletoninthemelonland]

a glimpse of what their early dynamic looks like

#i'm posting these in this blog first because i think its very silly #i could talk about them if you want me to #*ignores if you want to hear me or not and simply starts talking* #I think at some point during development i stopped thinking about them as 'mrs. afton and mr. afton' #it's funny knowing they were never supposed to meet at all #Ballora belongs to sister location. which takes place some time around 1983 or 1985 (Behind The Codes has its own canon timeline) #Fazbear's Fright happens in 2023. which is 30-40 years apart #but then we have Ultimate Custom Night. Everyone is trapped together in the same location seemingly with no chances of escaping. #if you think about it. they're just a part of this huge scrupulous plan #no one is predestined to anything. it's certainly not different for Springtrap and Ballora. #they are just... there. like everyone else #they are all linked in some way. all the clues tie back to the Missing Children Incident. #but... you're probably right. maybe there's more to it #maybe there is A Link rather than a link. you know what I mean? #Episode 3 will explore this and much more #for now. have these two idiots trying to figure out how to get out of trouble #behind the codes #fnaf #fnaf behind the codes #five nights at freddy's #ballora #springtrap #fnaf btc #my art #starbstalks

[ryssbelle]

More of these guys

I initially made this just cuz I wanted to give Clay his own little cape cuz as the co leader of Hole n Fun I'd think he'd have one you know? And then it turned into lore doodles lmao

I imagined it took them a bit before they found the golf course so to help hide them from dangers they created another level of camouflage. (Which is actually seen in the movie where the putt putt trolls all have golf paraphernalia to use as camo, and they disguise themselves as golf balls)

Viva doesnt wear hers anymore and Clay only wears it when he needs to be super professional

Bonus

A wip I'll probably never finish but there was a scary screencap of Clay and I wanted to draw N2 Clay in the pose but I'm tired and my wrist hurts, I also wanna give him war paint but idk what to do yet, maybe something like brotherhood Clay's face paint.

Also wanted to give him something like a staff but didnt know what to give him cuz Viva has a golf tee, so I gave him a flag from the golf holes you know the thingies, he leads people with it and gets their attention by hitting it against the ground. I have a lot ideas about all this

#my art #trolls 3 #trolls au #trolls #dreamworks trolls #trolls clay #trolls viva #n2 au #not the only one au #i kind of also got the idea from the concept of clay being the one to command the putt putt trolls to trap them #and i was like what would that look like? #and now its on n2 clay #who will not be holding people hostage maybe #idk yet #but yeah these two are cute and always have each others back #clay made his and vivas cloaks #and then they worked together to make everyone elses #everyone gets to camouflage! #and now theyre all safe #for now

[zer0point5ive]

#literally exactly what happened. in this scene #username really brings it all together i think #something i feel like peter strahm would say to each of them respectively post trap adam lives apprentice au #chainshipping #💽 #wait i just got so sad about them again. ohh its a cruel world

[branzinos]

LISA ANN WALTER + ELAINE HENDRIX

📺 Ancestry.com unFamiliar (18 Sept 2023) (x)

#lisa.gif #branzino.gif #lisa ann walter #elaine hendrix #the parent trap #its the fact this is shot like a fucking romcom #m!lfsource

[favoure]

a lifetime of indentured servitude

used this frame from the mv of "femme fatale" by kedarui as ref for this piece ! just thought that it fit them perfectly orz

#clownzy #branzypierce #branzy #branzycraft #clownpierce #lifesteal #lifesteal smp #mcyt #favourarts #TARGET AUDIENCE ???? TARGET AUDIENCE HELLOOOOOO ?????? #i trapped him in the safest base vid changed my life #o7 doing my work in Continuing The Fandom as branzy said . np king #idk what possessed me to do a full fledge illust for this like #i usually dont have the patience to work on the same piece for days in a row #but for this one I Just Did . Huh .... #OKAY LIFE UPDATE college is crazy guys im like 2 weeks in and thank god we have a cat in our dorm i wouldve gone crazy by now if #it werent for the little fella #also its like almost 1am n i probably should sleep now ermmm LMAO #idk wat else 2 say my brain is not working rn it rlly is sleepy time #okay gn everyone i hope u enjoy the toxic yaois zzz

[katabay]

original thief series basso & garrett :)

ngl, it's about quality over quantity for me. an npc can have a total of three minutes of screen time, but if they have a cool name, they can live rent free in my head and I'll spend several hours trying to decipher drawable features from a blurry screenshot of pixels

there is a vague hint of a story here, and that's because every time I try to play thi4f, I get incredibly frustrated with how Not Fun the game play is. like, is the story good? well. but it has a PLAGUE. that should've given it instant 'I'll replay this once a year' status in my heart, but the game play sucks so bad that I've never finished it. I can't believe Not Fun gameplay beat out my obsession with narrative plagues.

anyway, the idea is basically if the original era had a game with a plague centric narrative and some other stuff I liked out of thi4f thrown into a narrative blender, with a heavy dash of horror thrown in because some parts of the thief games were scarier to me than entire dedicated horror genre games.

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app

#if i had a laptop and the skillset i would attempt a story mod because the thief modders who create whole mission stories #are GENIUS and also somewhat terrifying. love them! xoxox #anyway im actually kind of obsessed with parts of thi4f but its also like. not at that sweet spot of almost good enough to be fun #to talk about. which. for the record. has not stopped me from talking about it at length to people #the city itself actually fucking fascinates me. its almost alive and im SO mad that not a single part of that game is actually terrifying #it should be gnarlier and instead it feels a bit like it doesn't quite want to be trapped in the story it has to tell? #but between the level that has the bodies on the meathooks #and the scene with the bodies hanging from the rafters or whatever that was and garrett living in a clock tower #because the game is very much ALMOST about changing times and authoritarian violence and capitalism #(like. by virtue of how the story sort of spins out i think it misses it's mark on a lot of stuff here #in the sense that i dont feel like it actually wants to tell that story. it wants to. go in a different direction. or at least walk on top #of those themes instead of through it) #ANYWAY between all of those things. it does kind of live in my head rent free. they did create a compelling setting #SHAME THEY DIDNT WANT TO ACTUALLY EAT ANY OF IT #unrelated but i would've given thi4f a 10/10 if they kept garrett's fucking nail polish from the concept art. cowards. unforgivable #thief the dark project #i still have no idea how to tag the game series as a whole RIP #sorry for the dedicated dark project fans. if you know what the general series tag is. please let me know #garrett thief #basso thief

[uncharted-constellations]

Deranged about them❤️‍🔥

#spider-man #peter parker #mary jane watson #mj watson #petermj #art #my art #comic #comics #marvel #hes fallen for her devious trap of love #its the drama its the physicality #its the fact that theyve probably been kicked out of 50 restaurants for PDA #and not just for annoying that one recurring waiter #i think ive given myself a cavity just by drawing this #the longtimers know i dont draw ship art #and the reaallly long timers know its been like 7 years #and its always goddamn spiderman that menace

[suntails]

⚔️♣️

#4!!! trey is rambling about [redacted topic] (i cant stand talking abt it sry) and it reminds silver of mr zigvolt #its the passion for it its the normal guy-isms of trey clover and mr zigvolt. its so FUNNY its so goofy. if theres a briar valley event... #if theres a briar valley event i will genuinely be MAD if trey isnt there. they hint the similarities so fuckgn much its HILARIOUS cMON #silver im very sorry u are trapped in this conversation <3 <3 #twst #twisted wonderland #twst silver #silver vanrouge #trey clover #suntails #oh i also dunno if i specified anywhere since i started the series on twt? none of this series is rly intended to be Ships #like if someone wants to interpret em that way? all the power to u. this series exists to make sure i draw every goddamn char w silver #so ig rarepair shippers im unaware of will be feasting GHVBJFK i shake yalls hands in solidarity. im silvil ceo i understand lack of conten

[densewentz]

#Dream getting the shit continuously kicked out of him on all fronts after spending a century trapped in a snowglobe #dream of the endless #the sandman #im SURE this has been done already but rip its so funny #leave my nightmare alone hes being SHOCKINGLY compassionate all things considered #not like he has much of a choice in anything

[dysaniium]

Marcille in da froggy chair in her froggy suit

#marcille donato #my art #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #its like the shinji meme but with the frog chair and with the frog suit they were wearing do you get it #ive really had this idea trapped in my head for a while and its stupid but its out now #just gotta get the bad art out before the good stuff comes out u know

[oikyskau]

seeing kenji muto, the director of trigun stampede, reading an article about the portrayal of women in media made me want to take a little bit of a closer look at the women in trigun and as i was rambling about this earlier to my partner, they told me to write it down LMAO

as most of us know, in a lot of fiction, women are mostly characterised through common tropes, leading to a lack of complexity and a one-dimensional portrayal: as the doting wife, the femme fatale, the mistress, or the virgin. Their role only amounts to an Other, an extension of the male hero. they’re either the whore or the madonna.

for female characters in anime that usually means they’re either the sexy femme fatale, big badonkers and all to be gazed at, the mother, the helpless damsel in distress, or the child (yet, still sexualised despite the fact that it is a literal child); they’re portrayed through the way they are being perceived by men and mostly sexualised beyond belief. 

tristamp doesn’t do any of that.

in fact, the female characters in stampede achieve something that you don’t often see in anime: they are people. and stampede makes that clear in its very first episode by decidedly not going the route that you would usually take with the female characters they introduce:

of course, the biggest example here would be meryl, who i’d argue is the biggest driver of the plot, despite the fact that the plot of stampede is technically determined by vash - vash is an entirely passive character, he doesn’t make things happen, things happen to him and they mostly happen to him because of meryl. she’s the one who unties him, she drags them to the city, she makes them stay with him after ep3, she drives over wolfwood (rip my man), she stops for them to find rollo, she makes them follow the steamer.. you get it. she does all of this, despite being introduced as the newbie, the innocent person who would usually be the damsel in distress, who is helpless and shy and easily manipulated and who will probs be sexualised in her role as the “virgin” (sexually naive young girl who just doesn’t get all this adult sexuality yet hehe) 

but she’s not – she wears a non-sexualised outfit, she only gets called out for being a newbie, or for being small height-wise by wolfwood, but not for being a “girl”, she determines the action despite the fact that she does have a mentor figure and is therefore still in a position of a student – she still isnt an extension of roberto, vash, or anyone

in fact, the other characters – Rosa, Elendira, Luida, Rem – all take up roles that would in other media be portrayed in very specific ways: Rosa could just be a pregnant mother, who is also a divorcee, Elendira could be an innocent child beholden to her caretaker, Luida could be the loving motherlike figure and rem the Madonna figure, symbolising all the virtues a woman should aspire to have. – Rosa is a leader, her pregnancy is mentioned one single time and never made a bigger part of her character, Elendira is young but powerful, making choices by herself that are not inherently based on any kind of innocence, Luida doesn’t coddle Vash or prioritise him over her own work and mission (which also serves to inspire another woman, meryl!!), and rem is also just a non-perfect person, with secrets and questionable morality

none of these women are judged on the basis of their gender, none of them experience gender-based violence, none of them are made into a joke, none of them are sexualised (or desexualised – if you compare them to the male characters, who also do not ever make jokes about sexual promiscuity or similar stuff), they have different body types (rem has a very pronounced chest, and yet stampede doesn’t ever focus on it or give her cleavage) – note also that when presented with the perfect opportunity to call a female character a “bitch”, they chose to go with a “witch” instead, in both original japanese and english dub

their femininity is not used as a weapon against them, nor are stereotypical hypermasculine elements used to define characters’ positive traits (vash not being our traditionally hypermasculine hero for example) - the only time we see a semblance of gender-based violence is, you guessed it, at the very end, when knives forcefully takes control and bodily autonomy away from vash and inseminates the plants against their will (also interesting to note that knives, as the character that does exhibit that kind of violence, is the only character to be shown incredibly buff and all muscle) 

the women in tristamp are written for women, with the goal to be women that we can recognise, that represent the women that we are and know

anyways, i love all women in tristamp and have not once felt uncomfortable or said “oh look, a panty shot” and honestly i just find that pretty neat

#trigun stampede #trigun #meryl stryfe #rem saverem #trigun meta #ramblings #dont take this too seriously its just me being very nerdy for female characters LMAO #a lot of anime that i like fall into the trap of writing female characters for men and in relation to other male characters and i honestly #expect it at this point but PHEW was i going help WOMEN??? during tristamp #also do i need to add a citation bc im technically just citing my own thesis..... LMAOO

[kaitcake1289]

IMPLIED TVC SPOILERS !!

"[...] so she could stay in the same flat-chested, hairless-crotched 14-year-old baby doll body as her mind and spirit turn 19, 20, 25, 63, 358..."

#claudia oh claudia my mother daughter #kaitsart #i got the inspo for this randomly because i randomly remembered matryoshka dolls and how much i love them and i was like hey claudias kinda #like one of those lmao! #from what ive read they usually represent motherhood with the baby usually being the innermost piece but w her i wanted to make it the oppo #ite to show how shes just continuosly trapped by her youth or whateverrr #but maybe that was obvious lol #interview with the vampire #interview with the vampire 2022 #iwtv #interview with the vampire fanart #iwtv 2022 #claudia du pointe du lac #claudia iwtv #iwtv claudia #bailey bass #delainey hayles #iwtv fanart #i’m trying to be more creative with my art concepts #ms paint

[clareguilty]

Thinkin bout how every Eliot episode is him having the opportunity to do something other than be a weapon and a tool (for the army or some govt or Nate) and he always finds that he really likes it and is good at it, even to the point of ditching the job temporarily to have fun for himself. But ultimately at the end of the day he always goes back to the team and to being a weapon its just so spicy and tragic but at the same time it's because they're his family and his home

#he's a chef and a fashion consultant and a baseball player and a country singer #and he is good and successful at every one of these things #and if he was able to see himself as a man deserving of happiness he COULD be any of these things #but he's gotten himself trapped in his role and he wont give up on the team #UGH #the MMA episode is good too bc its something he likes but he only knows how to kill #leverage #clare screams #thinkin bout #eliot spencer

[the-scooby-gang]

Skeptic Velma who treats science like iron clad rules that can't be broken, is extremely close-minded and doesn't believe in the supernatural: boring, overused, nothing new, not funny at all, girl you know that is NOT how science works Believer Velma who gets SO HYPED about the ghost haunting this bank that she barges in with a home made ghostbusters ghost vacuum backpack, has a little recorder where she makes her observations about what kind of creature this is; Is it a poltergeist? Is it a haunted object left behind in one of the safes acting up?? Is it a secret murder??? She doesn't know but she will damn well find out!!! She has sample tubes where she puts all that glowing goo that is all over the floor and a EMF meter attached to her waistband. Then she is later super disappointed that it was actually the manager trying to scare people away so he could steal from the coffers: New, innovative, would watch a whole show where she is like this, a true scientist spirit

#scooby gang #scooby doo #velma dinkley #random musing #think ryan bergara belief mixed with shane madej “hey demons its me ya boy” courage #shaggy has a heart attack per day every time she does shit like that #shaggy glaring at a glowing well: the most obvious fay trap i have ever seen #velma a scientist: im gonna touch it #shaggy: NO VELMA YOU'RE GOING TO GET KIDNAPPED