#or 'V-style' as I understand it

[ingravinoveritas]

NOT SOMEONE COMMENTING THIS ON GEORGIA'S POST, I'M--

#michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #georgia tennant #oh my goddddd #when i tell you that i screamed #what even is happening here #not saying i approve of posting this on Georgia's Insta but #this was posted five weeks ago and she could have deleted it by now #and yet #saying a lot by saying very little #i've definitely read a fic like that once #throuples are totally cool now #or 'V-style' as I understand it #truth disguised as a joke #ineffable lovers

[4chtungb4by]

Tomothy Selleck for my drawing classssss sketchbook woohoo

#my autism superpowers made this #I don't understand #but i kind of love how I make like. really good portraits maybe once every two years #Like Emma come on you are sleeping on your abilities here #unfortunately I have just enough adhd to hate doing the same thing for a milisecond too long #so my autism superpowers don’t get used v often #I do need to do more portraiture though like my own style always improves whenever I do #maybe one day ill do the 100 head challenge or smth #anyway im rambling hahahaha

[3cosmicfrogs]

i'm just having a silly goofy time smushing my barbies together in new and interesting ways.

#i dont need drugs i need to draw nmj with bingghe-style lucious locks and more facial hair #artfromthefrogs #your honour i dont think you understand. the tragic dysfunctional polycule doomed from the start is IN. MY. HEAD. #mdzs #mdzs fanart #jin guangyao #nie mingjue #lan xichen #3zun #nielan #nieyao #xiyao #venerated triad #da-ge's big naturals #(<- honorary fourth member of the sworn brotherhood btw. v important) #now that i have consumed every available piece of mdzs media i have to say: not enough facial hair all around. #the cql made a valiant effort with The Caterpillar but i need at least 200% more from everybody. #jgy my beloved little freak man. murderous little wet blanket. darling you are strange and unnerving. i have gained appreciation for you.

[avoteforme]

thinking about how smitten kitten phryne was at the end of 212 with davis even allowing her voice to slip back into phryne's native collingwood era accent when she sez 'the man who always does the right thing, the noble thing', and how blushy goofysmiles and almost-nonsensical jack was as well

#am v soft about Them right now #literally thinking about how this is truly how they would be when they are Intimate bc how lovely but also how mortifying #doing a full monty of their Deep Feelings for each other while also fucking? all signs point to it with cot's 'i just need your heart' #if it were me i'd run away screaming bc that is way too close for comfort #almost starting to understand the evasive style of their mating dance now [inserts jane goodall 'fascinating behaviour' meme] #jack x phryne

[zincbotted]

some people be saying the most batshit insane shit abt travis mcelroy

#dude. just saw 'it's so obvious the other 2 are annoyed and frustrated with him' #like. no? it's not? i dunno what kind of projecting you're doing but i can promise you that griffin and justin don't like #secretly hate their brother and are begging for release. #you can hate travis as much as you want (even though i disagree with that sentiment) i can understand being annoyed by his style or whatever #but i see it all the time of people saying that the other two should just do the show without him etc etc. and look. #maybe u haven't listened to so #the same episodes of mbmbam that i have. but i can hardly think of a single top moment that would be the same without all 3 #if u want to see smth with just the other two just watch monster factory. don't make reddit posts about how it's 'so obvious' that #these people you DON'T KNOW. hate their brother. because they don't. sorry #siblings annoy eachother all the time. it's not an irredeemable crime. just listen to something else. #dunno if this is an unpopular opinion or what but i was a mcelroy fan back when taz was releasing and i just caught up to v dracula recently #and trying to look up discussion on the new season led me to a horrible vitriolic cesspit mostly directed at travis. which #(a simple miscommunication btwn travis and griffin that is quickly resolved in-canon without argument) #people: wow can't believe Travis would try and RUIN the game like that griffin clearly wanted to disown him immediately #like #there has to be some misconstruing lense they gotta be looking through. anyway. wtf

[chonkymoth]

told my partner about how Buck from 911 is canonically bi now and despite having no interest in the show before now he's started it up

#he likes those sort of procedural-type dramas to begin w so honestly im surprised he didn't start it before now #i also. Don't Go Here #but having had my dash blasted for weeks about him + tommy i have tumblr-osmosis-style come to understand what's happening #the power of representation that's good and accurate #also v excited to see his reaction to it #being that he's also someone that didn't realize/come to terms with his bisexuality until he was 28 #anywho #evan buckley #p sure that's the one #911 #? #911 abc #whatever

[noahtally-famous]

not me popping back on here with a post after months of semi-inactivity (uni is being a bitch) just to reiterate how much i love writing the pahkitew island cast.

aside from sammy and amy (obviously), literally everyone else can be shipped with one another and it'd make sense to some degree, like it takes skill to create a group of people so inherently shippable (platonically and/or romantically) and ofc the writers didn't know it they just shoved a bunch of random ppl together and dusted their hands off on it but fr tho 😭

(yeah im planning out my leonave 'stranger things inspired' au, and the gears are turning, and i forgot just how much i love writing for this dumbass group)

(i swear im working on the next chapter of a guide to surviving the apocalypse too)

#no but i've way too many ideas lmaoo #i forgot ive a whole longass post in my drafts dedicated to ramblings abt this longfic and i came across it today ahaha #like amy leading a manhunt for leonard bc shes got everyone to think he killed her sister (who she didn't even like much smh) #and topher's one of the ppl involved and when shawn hears he's like “topher? yeah i can handle him dw” (possible tophawn minor pairing??) #and leonard's abt to get the equivalent of being burnt at the stake literally #when guess who shows up in a fucking mercedes of all cars #fucking dave #and he helps leonard escape narrowly by driving fast af and leonard's so confused bc like “i thought you'd be with those guys” #and get this: dave doesnt believe leonard killed sammy bc of his vehement belief that leonard doesn't know magic LMAOOO #and leonard doesnt know whether to be affronted or grudgingly thankful bc if it wasn't for dave's desire for everything to be normal #leonard would have been part of the witch trials 2.0 #and idk who's watched st but the plot is somewhat inspired by it #like shawn goes missing first and dave as his best friend is panicking abt it (in this one axel is shawns cousin???) #and then when they find him at last the weird deaths start leading to leonard finding sammy dead and this whole situation #and theres a whole different world underneath them and its up to leonard dave ella and sky to team up and prevent certain destruction #and theres slowburn leonave (with pining leonard and oblivious dave) #and leonard lives with his uncle whos understanding of his passions (unlike his dad who basically gave him away for the same reason) #and leonard's life is total opppsite from dave's #and they both know it #and omgggg this au has been a brainrot for so goddamn long #but idk why i just got a slew of ideas for it today #and like dave stays over at leonards at one point and leonard gives him his bed (like a gentleman) #and the next morning shawn barges in like “wheres my best friend” bc ever since he was taken he's been v paranoid abt losing the ppl he lov #and he hugs dave and daves like “how dirty are you rn” and shawns like “nothing yet i waited so that i can hug you when i see your dumb ass #and everyones like abt dave to leonard “idk if he's the right one for you” #but then later on dave saves his life by going a little bit unhinged classic dave-style #and ends up scaring a nurse and receptionist into retiring early #total drama #td leonard #td dave

[braintapes]

been playing a metric shitload of pokemon these past few weeks and its got me cooking in my mind. the kinds of battlers i think the hotel podcast characters would be:

First, overall, I think the Staff would all have weak teams at first in different ways, but then later on you battle them a second time (maybe after fighting the New Crew) and they've got beefed up 'Mons that you have to actually work to beat.

The Lobby Boy's first team is frail. I'm talking like, Wimpod, Magikarp, Slakoth, stuff like that. Litwick. First stage evos or Pokemon that kinda hinder themselves more than they're useful. Golett with Klutz or smth. The first battle's a cake walk. But these are Pokemon with pretty powerful evolved forms once you get there - Slaking, Gyarados, Golisopod...you get the idea. You fight him the second time and he hits you like a truck with highly powerful mons.

The Manager's team is designed around entry hazards. The Manager manages, she adapts. She knows she's going to take a hit, but she's going to make absolutely sure you get punished for landing it. Bulky, defensive mons that can take a beating long enough to set up spikes, stealth rocks, etc. Maybe also a Sharpedo for Rough Skin and to tie into her fish/ocean creature theming. Middle evos for the first battle maybe, full evos and more type coverage the second time? Also a focus on status setting, just to be extra painful while you slowly lose

The Owner's team has plenty of decently powerful Pokemon...but they are horribly set up. Bad abilities, poorly applied movesets, the works. Mons with Intimidation but which don't take advantage of it, ones that get Heavy Slam but aren't, uh, heavy enough to make good use of it. A team that would be kinda scary to go up against if he knew what he was doing. Which he does figure out by his second battle. Maybe he gets to use one of the cool gimmick features like Mega Evolution or Gigantamaxing or something. Idk about specific Pokemon, but I do know for sure he should have a Dusknoir. It's just right to me.

The New Crew, overall, take advantage of different battle formats. So while you don't rematch them, they come out of the box with strong teams focused on good synergy. If you could rematch them, they'd probably do some of the fun stuff the battle facilities in the games do, imposing restrictions and interesting limits.

The Bellhop and Concierge are fought as a unit in a double battle. The Concierge plays defensive and support, with bulky/hard-to-hit mons that set up screens, boost ally stats, and weaken enemy stats. He probably also enjoys taking advantage of things like confusion and infatuation/immobilization. I like the idea of him using normal types and 'regular' seeming Pokemon, perhaps.

The Bellhop has the strike team. She hits hard and fast with strong physical and special attackers. Favors moves that hit multiple times or have additional effects, although with all the stat boosts the Concierge is stacking her with it's really just overkill at this point. Pokemon with abilities that boost their stats maybe, or with abilities that nullify moves of certain types? Need to think on that more.

The Auditor's team is designed for support, but...a little too much. You fight her in a rotation battle, which (iirc) play like single battles but with some advantages. Still, I don't think she'd be a complete wash and she can keep her own Pokemon healed up throughout the fight and stall you out (again i dont remember rotation battles as much as double battles so i could be wrong on this. will have to research). Bug and ghost type user I imagine. I think she should get to have Aegislash, I know it's a sword and not a knife, but it's still a wicked blade. Also she gets a Banette bc I thought it'd be fitting for either her or the Manager.

Madam Hotel's first fight is a wash. Full of seemingly random and seemingly useless gimmick Pokemon. Chimecho absolutely has to be on her team because I need it to be on someone's team. Mimikyu, Eiscue, Zorua, a focus on disguises and damage absorption, but fairly easy to deal with once you've figured the gimmick out. Until you get to the very end of your team and thBLAM. BLACEPHALON BLAST!!!!!!!!!

The Hotel Herself does not fight fair. She rotates constantly between Ultra Beasts, Legends, Pokemon from the Staff and New Crew teams, thematically appropriate mons, she'll switch out a Pokemon from the box mid-battle because she can. She's gamebreaking and she knows it, and she's really just toying with you and having her own fun.

Her strategy is high risk, high reward. Fun, explosive plays in a literal sense - self-destructing moves, extremely powerful but low accuracy moves, anything relying on luck to hurt you. All of her team has accuracy and critical hit boosting items and she spams healing, revives, pp, constantly. It's an endurance game, like the most unbalanced and poorly designed of romhack battles cranked up to 100.

If you can outlast her somehow and win, she just kills you out of battle anyway

thank you for coming to my ted talk . smile :]

#SORRY FOR THIS WALL OF A POST i didnt mean it to get this long #ive just been thinking a lot. i now understand the idea of team comp/strategy as self expression. #and how that can apply to showing a characters personality #so im thinking less abt specific mons and more style. how would they approach a battle situation #disclaimer i still dont know anything about pokemons strategies or how all that works. still v new to me

[roseplendunce]

Throwing a soapy sponge at the god because he’s the smelliest of them all

". . ."

Reacting quickly, the pink-haired ‘saiyan’ whirled around and slashed at the aforementioned soapy object with a rudimentary, blade-like construct that had almost instinctively formed around one of his hands, releasing a decent amount of the soap and water contained within it and letting the now severed halves fall harmlessly to the ground. Said 'saiyan' continued to glower dourly at spherical, shades-wearing entity, his body remaining tensed, as if he were anticipating some other object or attack to be thrown at him.

It would seem that this anon was on (very) thin ice.

#Monochromatic Enigmas (Anonymous) #He is indeed smelly- :v #Local Kai does not understand mortal slang terms- More at 7 #This doesn't feel quite up to par with my usual style of writing but I guess it's decent enough

[ingravinoveritas]

Something I’ve noticed that interests me is how David & Georgia & Michael refer to Michael as “David’s other wife.” They use ‘partners’ occassionally, but most of the time it’s “other wife,” which reads as feminine and a possessive

Anna (is that her name? She’s so nonessential I forget) is never mentioned & it’s always in the context of a female David “owns,” yet secondary, underneath. It could be interpreted as something silly & innocent but I just think the positoning and delineation is very specific and interesting in the dominance + stability in whatever dynamic they have

Hi there! Oh, yes, this is something I have also noticed and talked about previously on my blog. I agree with you that the positioning/delineation is specific and done for a reason (calling Michael "other wife" instead of David's "husband," for instance).

What's really interesting to me, though, is how many times Michael has done it himself. The first instance was even before the whole "other wife" thing happened, which was on a breakfast show that he and David were interviewed on during the GO season 1 press tour. Georgia was pregnant with Birdie at the time, and the host mentioned that there was "another one on the way," to which Michael said this:

And while I mentioned in my timeline Georgia initially calling Michael David's "other wife" in 2021, what I didn't include was a screenshot of Michael's response, which is just as notable:

So for those who have not seen the movie, Love, Actually is a a very British romcom from 2003. Emma Thompson plays a character who is married to Alan Rickman's character, and he subsequently cheats on his wife with another woman, his secretary.

What makes Michael's tweet above so interesting, however, is that Michael chose to identify with the main spouse, rather than the side piece/mistress. The suggestion here is that Michael views his relationship with David as something deep and meaningful, rather than a cheap affair. He sees himself in a place of prominence in David's life, rather than relegated to the back burner (can we say "Nobody puts Michael in a corner?" I think we can...).

I think for some time now, Georgia has known and seen the place that Michael has in David's life, and setting up these boundaries/demarcations has likely been part of multiple conversations over the last few years (between her and David, and between David and Michael, though I am guessing Michael and Georgia haven't spoken directly very often). If Michael and David did start to become involved during the GO season 1 press tour (which is when Michael said that they got "very, very close"), it would make sense for things to be laid out then, before Georgia started slowly "testing the waters" on social media in 2020 and then more so later on in 2021.

Taking all of this together--"mother," "other wife"--I think there is a deliberateness to this because it reflects the emotional need that David fills in Michael. That is, it seems as if he doesn't feel like he "belongs" to someone, and for Michael, being taken care of is as important as him taking care of others. We've seen Michael be protective/possessive of David in the past, but letting himself be "owned" speaks to a level of vulnerability that he allows himself to have with David that he doesn't have with anyone else, and it shows exactly who Michael belongs to (and vice-versa).

So yes, those are my thoughts on the aforementioned dynamic between Michael, David, and Georgia, and all that it may imply. I do agree that it is very interesting, and it will remain interesting as we see all of this continue to play out...

#cloud-based-and-rainpilled #reply post #michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #also: 'nonessential' #this made me laugh damn it #where is the lie though #throuples are totally cool now #or 'V-style' as I understand it #there's teasing the fandom and then there's whatever these two are doing #truth disguised as a joke #ineffable lovers #discourse

[knackeredforever]

Metal gear solid peacewalker is awful because it’s an entire metal gear game split into 5 minute missions every time you complete one you them have to go through tons of menus just to get back to the game which means trying to beat the game takes an obnoxiously long time

#I’m only like a third through the game and it’s so fucking annoying #I’m literally only playing this game because you need to play it to understand the story of mgs V #I know it’s like this because it’s a portable game but their is better ways to do it #the cutscenes are cool tho I love the art style #mgs #mgspw #mgs peace walker

[bigbrainbiology]

Bao <3

#fanart #vtuber #bao the whale #baort #digital art #my art #trying out a new 'messy' style of colouring #I don't have the patience to watch vtuber streams and so only see them through clips or song vids #but wow I love Bao's new outfit ^v^ #Yes I understand whale tails don't Work like That #but I do what I want XD

[t-u-i-t-c]

having thoughts

#don't particularly like v**as but i enjoy the performance and styling #mainly watched it for k*m and v**as tbh and to understand what my mutuals are talking about #esp since i see gifs as reactions on here a lot #really like thriller/suspense/mystery/crime dramas and i wish we had gl in those genres #i would like to see two women falling in love while solving mysteries pls #would also like to see more dramas about people 30+ falling in love #generally would just like to see more variety within the romance genre #umbrella.thoughts #umbrella.posts #umbrella.other #misc lb #kp lb

[akkivee]

one of hifumi’s patrons was a fashion designer who asked him and the rest of mtr to model for her fashion show but in doppo and jakurai’s absence, wound up recruiting kuukou and saburo along the way but look what she made our boy wear lmao

#this is vee speaking #the arb chronicles #where’s that screenshot of those commenters roasting a vid alive like straight up ass bro 🔥🔥🔥 #lol i understand what she was going for and i too think kuukou looks great in tunic styles!!!! the middle eastern touch is also very nice!!! #it’s just……… it’s too much and not in a cute way LOL #let ME dress him up lol just switch some of these elements around #like you made kuukou show off his arms but then not put any accessories on them??? make the swirly pattern his bracelets #kuukou’s got a lot of piercings in his ears put some of those gems there #the sun centerpiece is GREAT but i think it should be higher up on the top and add a line of gems on the bottom of the shirt #and tbh i think a stole scarf would be good too to frame the sun centerpiece and maybe add some more sun gems on it #(a v neck tunic would be fantastic but i’m just that kuukou btch unfortunately lmao) #the necklaces………………… tbqh i love them for him but the swirly pattern really makes it cluttered lol #but since they’re his bracelets now i think they can work as long as they don’t block the sun gems!!!!! and maybe change the colours lol #it could have worked!!!!!!!! it could have!!!!!!!! she literally popped of on hifumi only lmao!!!!!! #i can do saburo too dammit!!!!! put some rizz on them sleeves ma’am!!!!!!!! #c: kuukou👑

[randomminty]

2022 art summary!!! Very boringly designed bc im Lazy lol (i did it based off when i made the art, so some of them dont match when i posted it um. Just ignore that)

And then just for fun, a lil comparison to the past 4 years

This year ive been feeling meh about my art and that im not improving as quickly as i want to, but seeing my art slowly changing over only 4 years is definitely helping with that! And apparently i drew a champion iris at least once evey year which is neat (rosa too but she got cropped out of 2021)

And also, heres 4 years worth of yellow bday art. i plan to keep this trend going until i forget

#The yellow art has a weird pattern of clean style ti sketchy to clean to sketchy #so inevitably 2023 one will be in a clean style i guess #art tag #Never posted the 2021 summary btw i kept that one to myself lol #Its 2023 in a hour where i am.... wow #I have 20 billion art goals for next year but mainly i want a way solider understanding of shapes and form n stuff #Most of my art looks wonky in places and its bc i refuse to learn how cubes work. When i first noticed it it became glaringly obvious #I wanna make art that looks at 3d w cool shapes and perspective and all that!!!! Aaaaa #Happy new year! I might post to twt then sleep. This year went so fast #Next year is my first year out of school so itll be v different but ill get through it #ALSO ALSO I KEEP SEEING FRIENDS IN MY TAGS I HAVENT TALKED TO IN YEARS..... TYSM FOR EVERYTHING #my experience online has been entirely fun and positive and its purely bc i was surrounded by the most wonderful people the whole time!! #ill never forget all the friends i made and fun i had ESPECIALLY during my ask blog days srsly #i hold that stuff so close to my heart and if anyone i interacted w even once online is reading this. hbhhuhbuubuhb. ty #im only writing all this bc im tired and excited so im gonna ACTUALLY sleep. hope 2023 is a good year for everyone !!!!!

[mourning-again-in-america]

crazy how much better t-shirts look when i hang them off the shoulder

#it's a fem-styled v-neck so mb this is how one is 'supposed' to wear it? #i would say i don't understand women's fashion but given that i thought polos were 'decently classy' up until a year or two ago i don't kno #if i could say i understood *men's* fashion either. #mb it's just a thing with the times #there *were* a lot of vineyard-vines-ass stereotypes i saw walking around duke wearing polos and salmon shorts #mb the culture just swung against them?