#praying these make sense this time

[sparebutton]

The Marvels spoilers without context

#I’m locked out of my Marvel twitter account so I’m bringing the Marvel posts to tumblr #praying these make sense this time #also hope I remember doctor who correctly I haven’t seen that episode in like 8 years at least #the marvels #marvel #the marvels spoilers #mcu #captain marvel #kamala khan #monica rambeau

[sctumsempra]

this is so incredibly self indulgent but. hear me out

#severus snape #snape #pro snape #snape fanart #procreate #sketch #barista!snape #my new obsession. it just makes so much sense #i don’t think he’d be a manager. my guy is over responsibility #would roll up to his fifth closing shift of the week and pray there was someone on register so he didn’t have to talk for a few hours #‘what do you recommend?’ bluescreens with the most customer service inappropriate look on his face #ignores the work group chat like the plague but if you text him he will cover your shift every time without fail #actually owns ten of the same black turtleneck and two pairs of black jeans and will not wear anything else #may or may not be based on real events

[kaysdenofchaos]

looking at my bs fic's chapter lengths and realizing i absolutely did not divide it right lmao

like raph + donnie's chapters? follows the movie, relatively short, 7 pages each.

leo's chapter? april's chapter? TWENTY PAGES. EACH.

im on mikeys chapter now! its passed 10 pages and im barely halfway through!! im suffering!!!

#/lh #this is my first time writing smth this damn long i am so bewildered #im still adding scenes too so that mikey's chap actually makes sense #bc oooo boy its a doozy #praying and hoping i get it done before 2024 #and maybe after ill finally GET THAT DTIYS DONEEEEE #khaotic

[akkivee]

base meme would have suited fine but i think this was a bit more accurate LOL

#this is vee speaking #POPULAR WITH MEN KUUKOU 🙌 #THE GIRLIES THINK HES A FUNKY LITTLE GUY (SAFE) 🙌 #that ask i got about what makes kuukou attractive in that universe was so interesting i’m so serious lol #like!!!!! based on what hypmic presents us i’d say the ones popular with women are the ones who get girls screaming their names like idols #like ramuda hifumi and jyushi!!!!! and samatoki and ichiro that one time in tdd iirc!!!!!! #tdd manga also had girls fawning over nmcd so there is that in the camp kuukou does have appeal to girls in that sense #but it’s funny to me in canon we’ve seen kuukou flocked by men old people and children LOL #that reminds me of this one comic i read where bat were out in the town but jyushi and hitoya wanted to stop somewhere else i think #so kuukou waited for them outside and as he waited he slipped into meditation reciting buddhist prayers #when jyushi and hitoya came back they found him still chanting still in that deep state of mind #but passerbys had given him offerings and an old lady was praying to KUUKOU offering her thanks LOL #c: kuukou👑

[wikitpowers]

okay so MY theory is: cassie is gonna reveal tlkof release date in this months newsletter like why else would she release the kit and ty art separately and then tease us about another newsletter coming and NOT include the date in it???

let me be delulu please

#but this is reasonable right???? #like it makes sense???? #i stand by this🫡 #ig time will tell if I was correct #praying tho🕯️ #the last king of faerie #the wicked powers #tlkof #twp #tsc

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

actually I think the thing about being a youth leader is that 25% of it is teaching about God, 25% is playing fun games, and more than that though 50% of it is making a safe space for kids to be. not to try and make them believe, not so they'll be open or anything. just. a 100% no stakes, safe place for them to just BE. whatever else comes after that. and I don't just mean physically safe, two-adults-in-the-room-at-all-times, et cetera. I mean emotionally safe. I mean not hitting them over the head with scripture, not trying to help them feel better or any particular way. just... a no-judgment, emotionally safe place to exist as kids.

#I'm convinced that my time on Tumblr helps me with this tbh. idk how to explain it but it does #I had one kid this weekend really overtired and stressed out just uncontrollably crying and like. the goal there #is not to make them feel better or stop crying. the goal is to be a safe person for them to feel those things with #does that make sense??? #another one doesn't believe in God at all but told me about some really heavy stuff and like. the goal isn't to start #talking their ear off about Jesus it's just to be a safe place for them to come to. this kid didn't want prayer during ministry time #but I did casually tell them at the end of our conversation that I would be praying for them anyway. you have to keep it chill #and not put pressure on them yknow??? they're kids #idk. #adventures in youth group #anyway pray for a few kids in particular I won't share any more detail than I did here but some stuff got shaken loose for sure #Lu rambles

[mcybree]

bad memory anon here, I just watched the clips and uhm, yeah I think you're right. Why didn't Jimmy just go inside the desert and explain to them that Scott was coming? Why didn't Scott let Jimmy stay around for his talk with Cleo

What the fuck was that about, what did I just watch

NO LITERALLYYYYYYY sorry 3l Jimmy is psychological horror to me. the gradual loss of autonomy goes fucking insane. If I had to guess: Because Scott disapproves of basically anything that Jimmy does on his own, I think Jimmy’s gotten more accustomed to following directions over time and sometimes* has an aversion to making his own choices. So Jimmy’s given two conflicting directions and goes: oh, okay, I guess I’ll just wait here, then.

*Scott doesn’t trust Jimmy with anything, so Jimmy picks up on this and then swings between trying to prove otherwise and not really trusting himself with anything, either. My personal theory is that whether he’s stuck in proving himself mode or runs to Scott to handle things for him is dependent on how Scott has been reacting to his choices, because while whether Scott decides to give a fuck that day isn’t random, it would appear random to Jimmy because their values and priorities don’t align at all. Basically: Scott sent Jimmy away with the threat of a crossbow just prior to Jimmy waiting outside the desert border, so it makes sense that he’d be extra cautious about potentially making the wrong move. (<- Putting the bad takes tag here for this one actually. Sorry guys I’m insane etc etc)

For why Scott doesn’t let Jimmy stay for his talk with Cleo: Scott doesn’t let Jimmy do anything. Not anything with real stakes, at least; this is a political negotiation. Scott wasn’t a fan of how Jimmy handled the Dogwarts negotiations, so I assume that’s why he’s so insistent that Jimmy leave here— he thinks there’s a risk of Jimmy ruining a potential alliance. It’s funny because you can tell how much Scott wants to hit Jimmy here, but he can’t because of where he’s at, so he goes for the subtle crossbow threat instead. And typically I’d put the disclaimer here that I don’t think Scott would have actually shot Jimmy, that it wasn’t any more than a threat, but unfortunately I had a sickening revelation about what right clicking in minecraft does.

So. There’s that.

#bad takes central #deranged.fh.posting #asks #are you guys rocking with the toxic fh truthing I feel like every post Im being more specific and testing where the last straws gonna be #anyways i have to eat dinner so I cant reread this one 50 more times before sending it off so im JUST GONNA HOPE AND PRAY IT MAKES SENSE

[cj-lyric-a-day]

See y'all tomorrow for the next song to start :}

#no poll for this one! #Had an idea for one & it just so happens that it perfectly lines up the date it needs to #it may not be whats heavily requested but its one that needs to be #that'll prolly make sense later but #next poll will be on March 2nd :} #if you know you know #praying CJ doesn't release anything new by the time this posts #chonny jash #chonnys charming chaos compendium

[sugarsnappeases]

i've been... engraving sybill into my brain today. if you even care

it’s the constant confusion, the flimsiness of the border between her reality and her visions, always struggling to differentiate between what’s real and what’s in her mind, and even then, within her mind there’s still the chaos of what’s impossible, some imagined horror, and what will happen in the future, the future where there’s a war and where imagined horrors can become reality.

it's a miserable place, endless waking nightmares as she tries to separate her physical reality from that which her mind conjures for her, reliving her past failures and seeing symbols that don’t make sense to her yet, flashes of images like lightning strikes and she can’t pick out the important ones, she can’t pick out the ones that she needs to understand, until after the fact, until people she knows are dead and she could’ve stopped it if she’d only figured out what the images meant.

she’s drowning in guilt, seeing ghosts everywhere, their hands always accusing her, clawing at her, because she as good as killed them - it’s the struggle of whether the future is determined or not, whether things happen just because she predicted them or because they were always going to, no matter what she did.

in her mind, with the ghosts and the horrors, she’s the one to blame, always; she’s to blame when she can’t figure out the meaning of the visions she sees in time to warn anyone of their future; she’s to blame when she thinks she understands something but can’t explain it well enough to make anyone believe her; she’s to blame when she can’t stop time from rolling onwards incessantly, when she can't thwart her own predictions somehow.

she’s trying every method of divination under the sun to try and find the answers, she’s drinking copious amounts of alcohol to try and open her inner eye further, hands shaking, desperately trying to decipher the mess in her mind before it’s too late, pushing herself to the edge and over it to make sure she doesn’t fail her next victims in the way she did all the others.

she’s isolating herself bc it’s worse when it’s people she knows, it’s worse when she can remember both what they look like when they smile and what they look like when they’re tortured to death. but that leaves her alone with all of these ghosts and a very tenuous grasp on reality that feels like it’s slipping through her fingers, impossible to grasp.

she’s spiralling and miserable and still trying so desperately to help, to find an answer, a way that she can assuage her guilt. she’s incredibly highly strung, she’s constantly on edge because if she lets herself relax for even one moment she’s scared she’ll lose track of who, where, when she is, she's scared her world might just collapse around her.

and on top of all that fuckery, there are all these expectations from her family, bc she’s inherited her great-grandmother’s famed inner eye, they expected her to be just as successful, just as renowned as the legendary cassandra trelawney and she doesn’t know how, doesn’t know how to make the visions work like they should.

and then there’s the ridicule from everyone else because no one believes her, she tries so hard to warn people about the things she thinks are coming, the things that she thinks she understands, and she’s met with laughter, laughter that rings in her ears until she hears about her predictions having come true, then all she hears are screams, screams and guilt because she didn’t do enough, she didn’t try hard enough to make them understand and now they’re all dead.

and the one time she is believed, the one time she’s taken seriously, her first official prophecy, and she thinks that maybe she’s starting to find herself, starting to live up to her great-grandmother’s legacy. in the end, all she manages to do is kill another two people she went to school with, all she manages to do is orphan a little boy and place him at the forefront of a new war that’s a thousand times bigger than him…

all that she has left at the end is a handful of Real prophecies that only serve to harm people, hundreds of deaths on her conscience, their ghosts screaming and scratching at her - your fault, your fault, they say in an undying chorus - and still there are visions that she doesn’t understand, still pushing and pulling her between fact and fiction, the hellscape that is her mind, her life. and still she’s trying to understand, trying to cling onto reality, trying to live up to her family name, trying so so hard to save someone, anyone, just once.

she’s a ship in a storm, knocked about on the waves like a ragdoll, and looking up at the stars for guidance, for a way to shore that they cannot provide for her, hidden by the thunderclouds.

#sybill trelawney #idk if these pictures really make sense... but i have a vision and this is as close as i can get to it #my poor tortured baby #she is just constantly going through it #AND in my sybillily fic i actually make things like five times worse for her so...... #such thrills for me really #also hoping and praying that this fits sude's vision too (ily please don't kill me <3) #also if you couldn't tell i'm Insane about her #kara’s moodboards #kara’s writing

[gentaroukisaragi]

Ultraman Blazar's Salutations From Episodes 1-5 (ft. Bazanga, Leviera, and a sleeping Dorgo)

Episode 1 as well as the rest of the series can be found on youtube for free with eng subtitles and an eng audio track if that interests you

[Video description: Ultraman Blazar, a colossal grey humanoid alien with red and blue markings on his body, and blue markings on his face, performs his signature salutation in several different places and times. This salutation consists of raising his arms up to the sky in a circular motion, and bringing his knee up before stepping into a lunge and scooping his arms down and upward.

From episode 1, in a city at night, the camera watches from below, as Blazar performs his salutation and his markings flash red and blue. The shot cuts to a wider one, showing off the buildings and Blazar's opponent, Bazanga, a prawn-like Kaiju. After his salute, Blazar moves his hands into a guarded, fighting stance.

From Episode 2: Blazar stands against the bright blue day sky in a small fishing village, with much shorter buildings. He faces the camera directly as he does his salutation, and the camera zooms in on him as he does it and his markings flash red and blue once more.

From Episode 3: Blazar is framed in a head and shoulder shot and smothered in smoke as his colour time, a big round spot on his chest that is normally blue, flashes red. Once more he faces the camera as he does his salutation, before flying off, kicking up dirt in his takeoff.

From episode 4: The camera pans over a cityscape, with a highway at the front of the scene. Once more it is night time and Blazar faces off against a monster among many many buildings. The monster is Leviera, a sea-angel themed kaiju whose face is open to reveal flashing yellow lights as Blazar does his salutation from the side. Leviera is aggressively ready to go.

From episode 5: Blazar stands behind the sleeping kaiju, Dorgo, who looks mostly like a hill of dirt in this shot. He performs his salutation, and immediately begins to push the sleeping Kaiju back to its proper resting place. The shot switches to one of Blazar from behind, as he continues to push Dorgo back into place, among the green hills and mountains of the Japanese countryside. With a thump, Dorgo returns to his resting spot, and Blazar turns to face the camera as he jumps up into the air to fly away.

End video description.]

#captain eyebrows #fuck it. into the tag #Ultraman Blazar #this is rough but im gonna try to make it better #i want to have the series' worth by the time its over #ep 3 is his first post fight salutation. the special if it has one doesnt count bc its a recap. ep 6 doesnt have one (presumably bc its #Earth Garon but i still feel cheated out of one) ep 7 doesnt have one which makes sense bc 2 parter but still. i want these. #ep 8 is where the next part will begin if i have one of these for the next section. i might just wait until the series ends #depends on how i feel/when i remember ya know #okay now its time to whine #Blazar! Do more salutations! #that one article i reblogged says this act might be in reference to praying to a higher power for a good hunt #but ive been comparing it mentally to like. bowing before a fight with an opponent you know. a sign of respect a sign of a fight. #hell the fact that i call it a salutation is because it reminds of the yoga move sun salutation which isnt a fighting thing but is a #salutation. and blazars thing is about communication/trying to communicate #ah well. as usual hope i get more info on blazar asap #i love him so much <3

[sluttytangerine]

tangerine is a stupid and silly guy who just happens to be attractive and he just doesn't know how to work with it. he's just trying so hard to be cool and suave but in reality he looks like a baby giraffe learning how to walk with its wobbly legs

#sometimes i try to form my thoughts into words and pray that it makes sense to others #did it work this time #thinking #tangerine #bullet train

[tothesolarium]

Two moods

1) queer queer queer

2) BIG METAL PROTECT TINY THING

#they over lap sometimes #sometimes the big metal destroy to protect #sometime it just vibing in the picture with implied violence #sometimes the metal covered queers who will be kissing #once the stabbing is out of their systems #when your so sleepy you can’t draw the ideas in your head so you make a sketch that you Pray makes sense to tomorrow me #anyway back to music while I get ready for sleep #guys I have the best baby sister #she wants to give me hugs so much #and asks where I am all the time #and thinks anyone with long wavy hair is me #I would kill for her #normally I don’t wanna hurt but if you hurt any of my siblings you’re fucking dead #a kid was mean to one of my sisters and I had to tame the beast that wanted to pick him up and throw him #like no she can handle this and be mature don’t be a freak who gets sent to jail #I also think the kid will grow up too but like #there’s moments of a beast

[theforgottendaydreamer]

I CAN'T FOCUS. I HAVE A PAPER DUE 10 PM AND- I CAN'T FOCUS AT ALL. PLEASE. WHY. IT'S IMPORTANT.

#it's 6 fyi #i can't fucking focus oh my god i wanna cry #i keep staring at the screen or losing myself stimming and humming #what the fuck aa #furthermore i have NOT done the reading and i don't have time to do it (it's like 200 pages) oh my god why #i swear to god i'd forgotten about this fucking thing #also if we have class with this prof on thursday why not extend the deadline to like tuesday at least? she hasn't even corrected the -> #-> previous assignment either! idk if what i did so far makes sense or not! idk shit! #like. i know the theme i must focus on. and it's only. like. one page i gotta write. but i swear. i'm struggling hard #i took vitamins + drank water + ate 3 walnuts. i pray my productivity kicks in asap.

[reefshark]

i think something a lot of people are already forgetting is that the doctor specifically told Kongo/Phos to burn the bridge once he crosses it, and are already getting antsy about what happened in chapter 98. To me this feels like him crossing the bridge? we still have, I believe, another volume or so At Least left to hnk and I think this next volume will be Phos’ process of ‘burning the bridge’. Like, we still don’t even know if Phos’ praying is bringing the result that is wanted, we just saw a giant explosion of sorts. That could lead to anything. 

#Houseki no Kuni #Land of The Lustrous #HNK Spoilers #like it COULD be that nothingness that was desired but ppl r ALSO forgetting achmea and kongo saying there was a way to help phos #and that topic wasnt further explained right #so we might see more on that whether it be flashbacks or what happens to phos after he prays #or again this could lead to the burning of the bridge #i dont think we're just gonna skip on to ohh happy and reincarnated #that just doesnt make sense for how ichikawa writes. #a lot of the things that people tend to hate in hnk is done so deliberately by ichikawa and i think with hnk wrapping up #hopefully! it'll all be addressed #including whats happening in chapter 98 #+ i feel like the parallels with welegato/achmea and antarc/kongo are going to be addressed??? i mean i hope they do #bc i...................................really fucking hate the fact welegato and antarc are seemingly besties LMFAO #god. well. time to wait another month to get any form of answer </3 #aechmea******

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

Nerdy Prudes Must Die should NOT be as good as it is.

#i heard a clip from the song nerdy prudes must die #and immediately needed to watch it #but i was like 'surely this magnificent haunting song isnt from a production called nerdy prudes must die' #but it was #'who will pray for me. when im gone. or until another richie comes along. IM NOT A LOSER' #that didnt make sense but im tired and sick so its fine #you know the part though #the fucking IM NOT A LOSER gives me chills every time #new dream roles unlocked: max jaegerman OR grace chastity

[raspberryjellybrains]

Something I find interesting as I delve deeper into different mediums of The Sandman is the way that Dream's appearance is used as a literary device. I don't remember whether I've discussed it here or not, but throughout the comics, his outfits serve as an indicator of his outward emotions and attitude while the style of the artist is often used to depict some aspect of his internal, unspoken emotional turmoil/peace. This carries over to the audiobook, though without the graphic aspect inherent to the original medium, it manifests in an interesting way through narration and further solidifies this interpretation of significance.

I had to start on Volume II for *cough* reasons, and the usage of detail is quite similar to other works by Gaiman, in that they are only included where it is important. He doesn't hit you over the head with scenery at every chance, it's carefully slotted into the scene at the points where it is most necessary and poignant, with the depth of these descriptions being directly tied to the importance that you, the listener, understand. We only hear that the random park is peaceful in the soundscaping because the park itself serves no purpose beyond that, but we get a couple paragraphs of description of Hell because it is vitally important we understand the scale and intensity of the horrors found there; setting is only acknowledged when it contributes to the narrative. This is echoed in The Sandman: Annotated, where we get some notes in the script regarding artistic choices—many of which are gestural, some of which are very detailed so that the artist may understand from this where their (and by extension the reader's) attentions must be drawn, which provides a sort of visual pacing.

To draw my point in a bit, Dream's castle follows this rule as an extension of his will and selfhood. It changes often to reflect what facet of himself he wants to convey outward most directly; appearing first as a rather low set, art nouveau affair with perhaps a silly bit of phallic imagery, then a gothic castle atop a mountain, most clearly establishing things when he puts it at the needlepoint top of a physically impossible peak covered in turrets and rooflines which jab into the air forbiddingly during Season of Mists as he contemplates the Key. When Dream is settled, the Dreaming is as well, when he is tumultuous, such follows. We don't get blow by blow descriptions, only when it is necessary.

Now that the visual language has been established and connected (insofar as I really can with the allotted mental energy for a tumblr post, however much of a passion project this may be, I am tired), it can be connected to Dream himself. His character design is very intentional, it reflects the post-punk, modernist take on its themes through his incredibly goth Look—he has the big, messy hair and impossibly white skin, dark clothes and dramatic fashion sensibilities—but beyond that, it reflects what feeling we are supposed to get from him. Morpheus' sense of self is ridiculously deeply tied to expectaction and perception of others, his entire personhood is based on what they expect. Despite this, to his infinite chagrin it seems, he has a personal identity sitting at his core that we see in his "natural" versus "put on" appearance (for lack of better terms): he's quiet and withdrawn but highly passionate and caring with all of the expected emotional regulation issues we would expect of someone with these temperaments they desperately repress; What he can control (clothes and hair) are utilized similarly to the castle, conveying his outward intention—think his driving outfit in Brief Lives versus his family dinner outfit in Season of Mists versus his final outfit in the Kindly Ones—where the things he cannot consciously seem to control are disguised by him, but utilized by art or narration to make a statement on his surroundings and feelings—think again of those outfits, of what his behavior means through that lens, what is conveyed through detail and silhouette.

What these more consistent physical attributes say is quite interesting, and quite revealing: Dream is not that scary. Sure his eyes will make you feel like you've stared down the cosmos and felt god touch your soul, but beyond that? Really? He's just a dude. A beautiful and strange one, but really nothing especially imposing. He's tall, but that effect is sort of diminished by his slight build. His face is angular and ethereal, but often careworn or haggard as well in a way I would compare to a very old and very poorly maintained stone statue. What this means to me is that Dream was never meant to be this frightening and imposing figure, that this was a choice made by the active individual we know exists because he is the one telling us about this all! A choice against his own nature that is concealed as often, swiftly, and mistakenly as his internal nature. This is, to conclude my point, supported by where these aspect of his appearance are given weight through art and narration. We only hear about his stature when he's sad or scared, only hear about his inhumanly pale skin when faced against the more beautiful aspects of personhood or mortality, only hear about his eyes when he uses them to scare or comfort.

These details of appearance are as woven into the narrative as any plot point, and used as any theme; which makes sense, he is the Prince of Stories afterall.

#as always i am crossing my fingers this makes sense #it is almost midnight right now and i have to be up at 6am tomorrow SO #this is all you guys get #for now... #i did this only because the ADHD forcibly grabbed my brain control panel and popped this sucker out in like an hour #i do not control the gremlin. i merely leash it and pray. #i have so many thoughts about this topic holy shit i love how details are used in gaiman's works i love the attention that qent into #everything in this series it is an Obsession Joy Land for people know too much about too much #so much effort and care went into this swries that it is genuinely mindblowing #so now i get to sit like a little gremlin and disect the art architecture setting fashion and mythology of this series so happy and long! #farewell besties #time for the organization tags #dream of the endless #the sandman #the sandman meta #spoilers for the sandman #minorly #raspberry tart