#maybe we’re on to something

[fromxxthexxashes]

“Don’t get your hopes up. You’re just gonna be disappointed when it doesn’t happen 🙄”

Have you considered,

A.)Maybe it’s fun to theorize and be silly about our favorite show

B.) Maybe, just, maybe we might have reason to get our hopes up?

#yeah #maybe we’ll get our hearts crushed like we have before #but everything is a lot more fun when I’m theorizing and hoping #and not so much when I’m being super grumpy and pessimistic #also we may be delusional #but even a broken clock is right twice a day #maybe we’re on to something #maybe we’re not #either way I’m having a blast #Buddie #evan buckley #eddie diaz #911 #911 abc

[otaku553]

Thoughts on being aroace

#I like doing these little introspective thought comics they’re pretty fun #I didn’t get to include this in the comic but I do feel like loneliness is maybe not quite the right word #it’s not quite jealousy or envy either #more like #the sad knowledge that you are lower on someone else’s list of priorities than they are on your priorities #something like that I guess #if this seems like a sad comic don’t worry! I am ok :) I have my best friend and we’re both very clear on how much we care for each other #so I’m never really left needing or wanting more love or anything #love is so weirdly defined anyways

[olldolldraws]

Dynamy but make it about kiribaku bc i can

(also sorry i keep forgetting to post i will try to be better 😔)

Bonus:

#katsuki is the dad who’s like #fuck no #we’re not keeping it #cue him doing anything and everything for dynamy like two days later #and shouto up to his lovechild theories #as per usual #but maybe #just maybe #he’s on to something #also yes the smoothie thing is a ref to that icarly meme #bnha #dynamy #bakugou #bakugou katsuki #kirishima #kirishima eijirou #kiribaku #krbk #tododeku #todoroki #todoroki shouto #deku #izuku midoriya #my art #olldolldrawsart

[leenfiend]

I heard we had a birthday in the house!!!!!

#my blue bb boy #of course he’s a Leo i knew this already but #me calculating lance’s full birth chart #I bet he has a Pisces moon or something #oh actually jk maybe we’re twins with a libra moon #that would make so much sense for him. #anyway im exposing myself in these tags #lance McClain #vld #Voltron #my art #vld lance #julance

[bikananjarrus]

rriordan stop treating grover like the useless goofy sidekick who gets them into trouble all the time challenge 2k24

(from read riordan’s summary of the new book)

#like……. this is why nobody takes percy’s friendship with Grover seriously in the books bc richard is always fucking treating him like this #not saying Grover can’t mess up or make silly mistakes or be involved in the shenanigans #but Grover isn’t stupid! #maybe a little clumsy at times but there’s a difference between clumsy and stupid #and maybe he can’t resist bc Hecate has all sorts of enchantments on her house and it lures him in #but i just……. the stakes are so fucking low and stupid and we’re throwing Grover under the bus again by doing something like this #grover underwood #pjo #cotg #wrath of the triple goddess

[writingwife-83]

Wise words from a wise woman-

Just scratch the itch and write the scene

#ww83 writes #writing things #writing advice #fanfic writers #author #maybe we don’t always have the time to flesh something out too much #so who cares #just write what we’re seeing! #thanks Lexie 😉

[fagtainsparklez]

i want to become a popular streamer but not because i want to build a community or make a name for myself or even for attention. i want to become a popular streamer because i think it’d be fucking hilarious if i was just paid to lie to people. every subgoal unlocks a new piece of my personal history that is wildly inaccurate, impossible, or just straight-up contradictory to past reveals. i hold weekly qnas and absolutely everything out of my mouth is total bullshit. i refuse to ever break character. my streaming career ends with an hour-long reading of an “apology letter” that explains i was nothing but a harvard experiment and to forward any and all complaints towards HR

#icarus speaks #this is consequentially exactly why i should not be allowed to become a popular streamer #either that or my career ends with me doxxing myself #but the doxxed location is actually just a chuck e. cheese or something. maybe a hot topic if i’m feeling festive #this post is brought to you by my recent realization that i’ll very likely never see anyone in my classes again after this quarter #as these are not my major classss but my generals #so i can say Whatever The Fuck I Want and they will never know it’s not true #i don’t know these people. they’re strangers to me. we’re not friends #there is no harm in making them believe the most mundane lies ever

[yellowsubiesdance]

i think i’ve learned a lot when it comes to not applying my own values to the media i consume

for my script analysis class yesterday, we discussed two gentleman from verona, and nearly every classmate of mine was up in arms about how sexist the story is.

and i'm not saying it's not, or that it's not infuriating to read. but i'm also not putting my energy into getting upset about something written 500 or so years ago. and i'm not about to put my own beliefs onto these characters that are not me. i'm going to let their choices speak for themselves, and interpret it in the context of the story.

all that said, this now brings me to the point of alastor in episode 5, and how viscerally people are responding to it. those of you up in arms about the choices he’s making, and the violent threat he gave husk, you’re missing the entire point of his character, of this place they’re in, of the story being told. he’s an overlord, and he became an overlord by killing much bigger overlords and broadcasting their deaths over the radio.

HE IS NOT A GOOD PERSON.

if you started this show with the belief that every character working the hotel is a good person, you’re in the wrong place. watch the good place if you’re looking for a good wholesome story about getting dead sinners into heaven, because that’s not what this show is about.

you’re more than welcome to hate him after seeing the way he exerted power over a being whose soul he owns, but you’re doing the media you’re watching a disservice by writing it off so quickly. if you don’t like to be uncomfortable watching media, watch something else. this is an uncomfortable show, it handles uncomfortable topics, and it’s going to be an uncomfortable ride, and if you’re not up for something like that, then you should take a break from it and pick up something else. you don’t have to get online and defend your own ideals while you watch a show that goes against your ideals.

#hazbin hotel spoilers #that’s not even touching on the fact that husk was an overlord too #he also owned souls that he used as currency to supply his gambling addiction #he’s also not a good person!! #the majority of these characters are in hell for a reason: they’re not good people #i quite frankly love the way this show blurs the lines between good and evil #our heroes are sinners and overlords and demons. while the enemies are angels. but that doesn’t mean our heroes are good people. #you HAAAVE to come to terms with that!! you have to stop seeing the world in black and white or you’re not going to survive this world #if you’re upset because alastor was cruel to husk fine! be upset! but explore why you’re taking yourself out of that world. #in this world sinners own other people. there’s no ifs ands or buts #‘oh alastor is a poc why would he own people’ he was a serial killer when he was alive do you really think you can apply your values to that #(and this is me speaking as a poc. specifically a mixed race poc.) #i cannot speak to who vivzie is as a person. but i’m interested in the message she’s writing and thus far i’m finding it compelling #it’s a similar story as the good place but it’s going the distance to explore even worse people than those in the good place #i don’t think it’s responsible to write something off just because unsavory things happen in it. #and she’s giving us so many different types of representation that don’t involve race (although we’re also getting a lot of hispanic rep) #just like cool your jets and maybe process some of the anger you’re feeling. and maybe nothing will change. #but if you act. instead of react. if you understand why you’re feeling some type of way and then make a choice. #that’s so much stronger and more responsible than reacting and not thinking anything through #hazbin hotel #alastor #husk #hazbin alastor #hazbin husk #anyway let me get off my soapbox #long post

[chirpsythismorning]

bylers when over 350k people don’t have the exact same thoughts and opinions as them

#byler #stranger things #byler tumblr #i know some of us have been singled out or humiliated by others on here insisting we’re delusional for our theories #and so you compensate by doubling down and telling everyone else their theories are actually headcanons and yours aren’t #or maybe you are someone on the other end who is fed up with bylers reaching and are sick of group think having a place here #some advice: just let the show be whatever YOU want it to be #if you think everything you analyzed is right and everyone else is wrong #congrats #you are as pathetic as the rest of the fans who think the exact opposite and also think they're right and you're wrong #we are one of over 350k ppl with differing opinions and thoughts and experiences guiding us to coming to the conclusions we do #i don't mind ppl giving different perspectives to things even if it goes against my analysis (just don't be an asshole about it) #i have changed my mind about certain aspects of the show bc of this and i have changed other peoples' minds as well #without all of us being able to say what we think we would not have near the evidence we do now #but what comes with over 350k people in one space also comes with some semblance majority that feels a certain way about certain things #it's never going to be perfectly even across the board #what is believed and what is agreed upon will always be shifting as different people say their peace and as the show itself progresses #and hell even if you're the 3% that feels a certain way about something and think the other 97% are setting themselves up for disappointmen #bask in your perceived glory WHEN that time comes #but in the mean time... me personally? #i think it would be quite embarrassing if i devoted my time on here to telling everyone else their theories are wrong and mine are right #only to end up being the one that was wrong #let ppl set themselves up for disappointment #save the celebration for when you actually secure that win #for now #id rather be on here discussing my theories/reading others' theories that aren't rooted in tearing everyone else's down to feel superior #all of this is to say it is never worth making ppl feel like shit over a fucking tv show… I’ll never get that #and this is coming from someone who has no (current) plans to say i told you so (not even to that redditor that has a 2 year timer) #bc until s5 comes out... #crazy together

[calamitydaze]

tbh “people hear about legitimate dream fuckups and it colors their worldview to exaggerate and misconstrue harm in everything he does” is just the opposite side of the coin to “fans hear about dream being legitimately fucked over and treated badly and it raises their defenses to react to every perceived slight like a personal betrayal” literally nobody is capable of being normal about that man

#bella talks #while the former is worse on twitter i think the latter is worse here #because we’re so close knit and self contained so one person getting (maybe reasonably) upset about something #can spiral into the whole dash dooming #and i’m not saying it’s never warranted— while the q hate spiraled a little out of control i think it was mostly proportional #but then we also get things like karl dropping the panel #(in fairness from what *i* saw it wasn’t as bad as how i see people acting but maybe my dash is just well curated #and i have a higher tolerance for d.tblr shenanigans than most people i think) #like i really don’t mind if people get a little rowdy LMAO it doesn’t bother me but it does make the overall environment more toxic

[bestworstcase]

the more i think about it the more convinced i am that dust is a grimm thing

first: dust predates the moonfall.

in a setting where it’s been very firmly established that a) dust is a naturally-occurring magical crystal that grows on the surface in formations like this, and b) the present-day land of darkness is still very rich in dust, the most plausible explanation for what these luminous crystalline structures in dark’s domain are is dust. it’s identical to the stuff salem used to make monstra fly, too.

second: grimm can and DO use dust.

our most notable example here is the geist in V7, which is a) overtly shown to incorporate dust ore into its armor body, and b) not under salem’s control [ergo this is natural behavior]. and of course there’s monstra, which uses dust to fly—salem’s handiwork, yes, but it means that the magical properties of dust can be activated by grimm.

bearing that in mind, consider the ice-encrusted grimm of solitas. grimm aren’t cold-resistant by nature, but they’ve adapted to the harsh polar conditions… somehow. the mechanism of this adaptation is, in-universe, unknown; we can infer that it is probably not an evolutionary process because grimm do not breed. but: solitas is rich in dust, and—well

when hazel slams raw dust crystals into his body, it sort of—fuses with his flesh in some way; in particular note the pebbles sprouting around his right shoulder. so when the mysteriously cold-hardy grimm of solitas are encrusted with frost… you see what i’m getting at? i think their resistance to the cold derives from dust.

we have several examples of grimm (the feilong, the sphinx, the leviathan) breathing blasts of energy which happen to be identical to the energy blasts fired by cordovin’s mech’s dust canon. which might be a budget-conscious design choice, sure, but it’s also a similarity that can be explained quite simply by concluding that it looks the same because it is the same, that these grimm swallow dust and weaponize it just as people do.

third: you can’t walk ten steps in the land of darkness without hitting a massive formation of natural gravity dust. the lancers in V5 appear to be nesting around the huge gravity dust formations keeping those islands afloat over lake matsu (note the queen lancer seemingly in a dormant state before she’s woken up by the jostling). the mine in V7 is crawling with grimm who, like the queen lancer, appear to have been in a dormant state until they were roused by the geist scuffle.

so there is an apparent correlation between places where the grimm live—not hunting territories, but places where they just are—and the presence of enormous quantities of naturally-occurring dust. and we know, thanks to the lost fable, that dust grew around the pool of grimm in an era when humans did not need dust to perform magic. and of course, dark identifies magic as his gift to humanity.

(although i will point out that dust is described as an energy propellant and in modern practice people do magic with it by channeling aura through it; thus while ancient humans had innate magical ability, i don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility that they might also have used dust, not as a power source but as an amplifier. that ozma topped his staff with some sort of crystal and seems to have done all his magic through the staff in contrast to salem [<- presumably self-taught] slinging magic around with her hands is interesting.)

so…

if dust existed before the moonfall, the questions of where it came from, what it is, and how it came to be are moot; one of the brothers had to have created it and because it’s growing in dark’s domain we can be certain that it’s his thing, especially because he’s also the brother who gave ancient humans innate magic and dust is thus obviously in his wheelhouse.

but: why?

ancient humans didn’t need dust, because he gave them magic.

what happens to the grimm in a world where every single person has magical power akin to the maidens? they die. humans, not grimm, were the dominant form of life on the planet during this era, because humans had magic. “kings and their kingdoms were plentiful.” in a contest between a human with maiden-level magical power and an ordinary grimm, the grimm is going to lose. we’ve seen cinder blast through four layers of reinforced steel with a single fireball effortlessly! you can kill a grimm by hitting it really hard with a stick!!

the grimm were, at least according to myth, dark’s first creations and he cared for them. in ‘the two brothers’ his staunch refusal to eliminate the grimm is the central point of contention that brings him into conflict with his brother, and the history laid out in V9 supports that characterization; he refused to unmake the jabberwalker, too. it follows that dark would have wanted the grimm to have a fighting chance against ancient, magically-powerful humans.

hence, dust.

it wouldn’t give the grimm an overpowering advantage, but it would be enough to balance the scales… and of course any grimm who did survive long enough to grow to massive size, empowered by dust, would pose a serious threat to ancient humans, magic or no. it grows in grimm territory because it was meant for them, originally.

dust is a grimm thing that humans adopted.

#something about salem referring to dust as ''nature’s wrath'' #something about ''man born from dust'' #something about how humanity’s revival is narratively intertwined with salem’s transformation #''trust the way we’re made'' and it’s ruby whirled around by grimm hands. ''we’re the same you and me'' and it’s salem #silver eyes and death and the grimm and salem who can’t die #''maybe there’s something you’re not seeing'' #the grimm were abandoned too.

[sugarsnappeases]

thinking about sybill and how violating it must be to have a mind that - plagued as it is by visions of the future, other people’s futures, often people that she doesn’t even know and maybe never will know - can never truly belong to her. how violating it must be to have the very inner depths of her mind be filled with rivers of other people’s fates, the beginnings and the ends, endless tangling strings of people’s lives pressing through her mind, the constant lack of privacy, lack of self-definition in the very place which should really be the most private, the place where the self should be defined most clearly

also thinking about barty and the violation of the imperius curse. you guys get it. you see it. i don’t have to say it. you understand.

#we’re writing ghost fic tonight btw. that’s my precious baby…. sybill’s really going through it #sybill trelawney #barty crouch jr #whats my tag for them together?? #sybarty #bartybill #????? #have i ever even mentioned this before?? #i think about them a lot but maybe that’s all just been in my head so far #….. although i think i might’ve posted a snippet or something at some point #anyway. you guys get it.

[leomssis]

on the haunting of fc barcelona

#something something a legacy becoming a ghost #something something you’ll never get away from the sound of the (wo)man that loves you #the idea of messi haunting barcelona/laporta is utterly fascinating #they can’t ever escape him no matter how hard they try #we’re in a new era we’re a new team we’re not messi’s team anymore #and yet he is still there. maybe not physically #but spiritually #and he’ll remain there for as long as he lived #Interesting how the 3 that really have changed barca as an institution (pep messi johan) #have all been forced out #and yet they all remain there. just like ghosts. haunting them #wonder if that’s why barca is so self destructive as an institution #anyway this is insane people posting don’t mind me!!!! #leo #lionel messi #web weaving #lyrics #poetry #fc barcelona

[spiralwanderer]

I feel like they’d slay as a duo idk

[Arc 3] Roxanne Sunshard ft. @stormy-sierra ‘s OC Vigilance Drake

#Wizard101 #w101 #wiz101 #wizard101 fanart #wizard101 art #w101 art #w101 fanart #wizard101 fandom #wiz art #myart #Roxanne Sunshard #vigilance drake #yes I know vig’s outfit is from arc 2 and Roxanne is arc 3 but we’re gonna ignore that for now #I had this idea for forever since vigilance reveal I’ve been bouncing do to SOMETHING w them #mfw a traumatic thing happens to ur oc and they change their hair #also debated whether i should’ve posted Roxanne’s arc 3 look alone before this #as an update to my art style #but yknow maybe someday #omg also pretend Roxanne has some kinda sheath for her sword #I forgot to put it </3

[padawansuggest]

Like the whole 'living at home in your 20s means you don't gotta do anything' trend needs to die. Sometimes I go into dads room with the ENTIRE PURPOSE of asking dad if I can make him something for dinner lol. Some of you just have zero want to take care of family. Couldn't be me, im making him a grilled cheese just cause he asked if and said he doesn't feel well lol

#I’m not saying this as a child who thinks they HAVE to take care of fam #but man I love my dad yeah I’ll make him food for no reason other than move #than love wtf you on that you can’t help cool di #cook dinner #this ain’t even about not loving your fam #some of you just take advantage of them to an unhealthy degree and both sides make jokes over it #like maybe it’s just me and fam casue our love language is gifts and as #acts if service #but nothing makes me happier than to see his happy grin and just pleased love when I make him dinner just for him #we’re both picky eaters too #sometimes our safe foods don’t #match. but we’ll still try and make something appropriate for the other if not amazing

[cupiidzbow]

that one post asking what ring they would propose to you with….. i actually have a whole thing of how it would play out ( im normal )

#doodles #not putting this in my main art tag bc i was just scrawling down ideas I might make a whole thing tbh ….. #the whole thing i was thinking abt was like. we both know we’re far from ready to get married #but we know we want to be with eachother for the rest of our lives #he’s wanted to give something to show he was committed to me so he got a promise ring. not an engagement ring 😭 #but i think he’s proposing that we get married and that’s why i look a lil horrified . #he panics after seeing my reaction not realizing how it came off and promises that he wasn’t proposing #he just wanted to make it know that he wants a future together with me …. #idk I don’t know if I have the will power to make a comic …. maybe I’ll write a fic….. im insane rn sorry …. #banjo i love you #🐻🍯🪕