#shes the one shattering

[tai-janai]

<falling asleep>

<thinking about my fic (no narra or princess)>

<wondering if i should include the mirror>

<thinking....>

Is .. the mirror the shifting mound ..????

#if this makes no sense then blame my lack of sleep #but like THINK ABOUT IT !!! #first chap we dont see it because the princess cant be given to her #second chapter it is there but not immediately in the way #third chapter it is the only thing #you have to go through it #ie you have to send the princess to SM #in the stranger #shes the one shattering #we meet shifting mound after meeting the mirror #LQ minus SM equals the echo #thats why we see him reflected #IS THIS AN IDEA ???

[biruesque]

"I'm going to become a prince!"

#revolutionary girl utena #rgu #shoujo kakumei utena #sku #tenjou utena #utena tenjou #utena #ohtori akio #akio ohtori #akio #biruesque art #this is one of my fav moments from 38 idk it's so powerful #but yk the concept of “prince” in 38 and 39 is still vaguely up to interpretation i think #it could be the figure doomed to die from saving someone #like in juri's story #it could be an impossible and unattainable virtue #it could still be genuinely what utena wanted to be #and that she still believed in some version of it even if it was removed from akio and dios #eitehr way the way dios' grave just shatters #its so fucking good i oaaouaououghghg

[sparkleresthold]

Space pirate Elita 💫✨

#shattered glass #she commands a massive warship with an all-femme crew #maccadam #transformers g1 #elita one #my art #she also owes Optimus a trillion shannix in sparkling support/hj #she aint paying anything

[shorthaltsjester]

free my complex female character, she did the same thing as complex male characters but the fandom takes Any analysis of her actions/choices/motivations that doesn’t strip her of all of her agency in bad faith and claims that only misogynists would dare to critique the things that they’ve noticed in her character because she’s a woman, completely ignoring the over-presence of discourse about similarly traited male characters in their fandom.

#exhausted by people categorizing CRITIQUE. not even genuine hate just literally basic analysis of imogen’s character #as a) hate at all but b) misogynistic simply because… they assume the person like caleb and percy uncritically like #i love imogen and i love her because she’s riddled with complexity that gives reason for her to be unlikeable #the shit ashton says makes me want to tear out my hair and i could write analysis on why but they’re still one of my favourite characters #i enjoy caleb but watching him infuriated me because of his self interest which is a coherent trait of his but is a tiring one #similarly with percy of love his pretentious Smartest In The Room shit but sometimes it meant he treated others more poorly than necessary #but i’m not unpacking all of that just so i have some fandom mandated right to say that i think there’s an aspect of a female character #that is imperfect in the human sense #because like. i will continue to call imogen’s self interested until the world burns and the moon shatters. because she is. #the only reason her choice to do good is compelling at all is because the choice to do otherwise is so tangible #it isn’t a Mistake or Fault that she’s self interested. it’s by design #like. she reaches towards the storm in curiosity in her sleep. but then she fights back when she’s awake #that’s it #that’s the dynamic. that’s what’s compelling #but no ur right fandom. let’s instead all agree that imogen is actually just intrinsically good #and take away all agency and complexity and humanity from her #and instead slap a sticker of Morally Good and enjoy the caricature of her where she’s made to fit into the imagine of #the latest aesthetic ad for diarrhoea medication #imogen temult #critical role #inspired as always by dumbass twitter posts that i’m subjected to because of school n work #the worst part is i do like the laudna n imogen dynamic in the stagnancy where it is but so much of that fandom is so clear in their erosion #of both characters actuality to suit the picture of Ship Tropes #like fuckin. so much of imogen’s fanart in imodna making her fat which as a fat person great love to see it #not so much when it’s clearly to make her short n stout against laundas tall n lanky. #anyway

[zellk]

Forgot to share here.... old doodles of when I finally came around to finding a design I like for Qalaari's mom !!

#it's so fucking funny to me that i inadvertently gave her a variant of the “mom about to die” haircut because... well... #surprise... she did die when Qalaa was young (12) :'^) #Qalaa (now between 20 and 22) still hasn't gotten over it #her mom had really weak health and really shouldn't have had a child but she made her choice #it turned out to be not the best one for her health LMAO #who wouldve thunk #but hey she wanted it and i'm pretty sure she doesn't regret it #but well... Qalaa does feel like she was a participant in her mom's death #(the other participant being her biological father who ran away before she was born and shattered aamira's heart) #ANYWAYS #i love qalaa's messed up familly #it's like a regular messed up story where actually no one (and everyone) is to blame (except Qalaa lmao she asked for NOTHING) #Aaamira gave so so much love to her child ;;;;;; this built the unbreakable core of Qalaa's kindness #aamira #aamira croquelune #aamira molandine #croquelune #still thinking about making that potentiel small DnD 'lore addon' of Qalaa's village that you can take and plug in your very own campaign #as long as you have 'far from civilization' woods or mountains you can put them in there #a village that welcomes the 'monsters' and the cast out #(like aamira) #look at me rambling in the tags lmao i just love qalaari (& her background) so much #last thing tho : you have to understand that Aamira is small and very slight and Qalaari was a HUGE baby and is a really big girl overall

[lollytea]

Do I think Hunter and Willow were already talking about getting married and building a home together when they were still dumb teenagers and had been dating for less than a year? Yes, I think they were doing that.

Do I think that was a good idea? No, they probably should NOT have been doing that.

Did it work out somehow? Yes. Out of pure idiot luck, it did work out.

#ideally teenagers should not be getting carried away and having delusions of grandeur when it comes to their partner #especially when it is their first relationship and probably will not last #but after hunter died and got resurrected he went maniac mode #and started planning his future at an overwhelming pace #willow is usually way more cautious and has a more level head #hunter just makes her a little loopy so she slipped a bit and got carried away #but in a one in a million stroke of love they actually did work out #and didnt have their hearts shattered into a million pieces #SOMEHOW

[futurefemalepolitician]

if I think about kristen applebees too long I will start crying!

she is just a kid! and she has had the weight of the world on her shoulders so many times! but now? now she is no one’s first priority! what must it feel like to be surrounded by friends with parents willing to bleed and die for them when her own have never even tried to understand her. what must it be like to see her friends gain these extra loving adults? for gorgug to find his birth parents, for fig to get two dads, for fabian to have cathilda, for adaine to be adopted by jawbone and know that she is legally part of a family that loves her?

she breaks my heart bc ofc this kid doesn’t always make the smart choice. ofc she gets sidetracked and doesn’t know how to follow through. ofc she fucks up in the little moments. she has never had someone to model that behavior for her. she has never had an adult that has seen her at her worst and said yes I will still love you. this isn’t what we do but my love for you doesn’t break. it has always come w conditions.

the big moments she gets, she cures riz in the forest, she reaches out to cassandra with praise, she cares when the universe asks her to

and so she seeks out these massive moments and keeps getting beaten down bc no one has been there to show her how do to the day to day work of building anything

she is sixteen and living in a house full of parents none of whom are hers

#like she is no one’s first priority! #and doesn’t that just absolutely shatter your heart #there is no adult who’s just there for her #like goddam give that girl a hug from a parent #maybe I will write a fic about this one day but until then *gestures broadly* #fantasy high junior year #kristen applebees #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fhjy #d20 fhjy #d20

[bitchthefuck1]

Rewatching succession it really is wild to see Kendall and Shiv convince themselves over and over again that they can "fix ATN/Waystar from the inside" only to completely abandon their morals the minute it gives them a strategic advantage.

When they're on the outside it's an endless diatribe about how evil and rotten the company is to its core, but the second they get the slightest whiff of power they suddenly decide the problems are actually really manageable and that with the right leadership it could be a force for good, and like...the saddest part is that they genuinely seem to believe that.

#where's that crime and punishment quote about how the worst thing is that you've betrayed yourself for nothing... #and they really seem to think its true! they genuinely believe that they can turn it around and make it good! it's not an act! #kendall really thinks he's a feminist and 'one of the good ones' and shiv really does think she stands with/for women and liberal #ideals and the truth is that no matter how much they might care about those things they will always love power more and they #are infinitely more invested in the power structures that keep injustice alive than they are in actually trying to stop injustice #roman is the only one who's actually aware and honest about how fucked it all is but he thinks that means everything's bullshit and #therefore nothing matters. which can be just as dangerous as convincing yourself you're the good guy (see: america decides) #that's one of the things i like so much about the ending for shiv and kendall bc they're finally forced to confront the lies they've been #telling themselves. and like. maybe that'll go nowhere. maybe they won't change. but they might. and the only hope they have #of actually growing as people and maybe doing something good is if that illusion gets shattered #idk man i just have so many thoughts about succession #succession #shiv roy #kendall roy

[prolibytherium]

Dee & Mac's dynamic is still probably my favorite. I love how they straight up just dislike each other in a (relatively) uncomplicated way and have the weakest bond BY FAR and barely give a shit about each other, but still have this intense level of casual intimacy purely by virtue of decades stuck in the same group codependency pentagon. They're like in-laws.

#iasip #It's probably at least in part just because their actors are married irl and it leaks into the performance but I think it goes deeper #I need another episode with a Dee/Mac centric plot or I'm going to die so bad. 'Charlie and Dee Find Love' is one of my fave #episodes and I have been chasing that high ever since #Just that like 5 second scene where he asks her to crack open that crab leg for him and she shatters it effortlessly and it's all #very casual is so good. #Wheres that post that's like a 3 minute compilation of their interactions I need it for my viewing pleasures

[coolingrosa]

Shattered meets Salem! And even she can’t handle Salem’s cuteness!

#shattered dream #transfemshattereddream #transfemdreamsans #dream sans #Salem sans #salem darling <3 #error x nightmare #errormare #ship kids #undertale #underverse #undertale au #just an idea #shattered doesn’t exist in Salem’s multiverse but it’s a cute idea #auntie shattered #auntie Dream #she doesn’t believe Salem is actually Nightmare’s kid LMAO #Salem is too adorable to be Nightmares— no one can believe it #coolingrosa draws

[couchtaro]

Do you get together with your friends once a week to imagine best friends you made up holding and getting held in desperation and terror as one of them rapidly turns to stone, the other flooding her with his literal life force, which manifests as a visceral compulsion to survive, in the hopes that it will somehow help her resist, offering “the closest thing to a prayer he has” as he begs his warlock patron to do anything at all, telling said patron “you don’t know her, but she’s everything” and pleading for her to live while watching her literal actual light gradually extinguish as the petrification overtakes her, all the while she is using what little mobility she still has to hurl lasers at the monsters attacking their friends who are defending them so he can focus his energy on saving her. Or are you normal

@justabitscrewy used every single one of her turns in a session-long combat to hold Phaela and RP her guts out and like. My word. I have to lay down. Let them hug. They’re goin thru it

ID and slightly more context below the cut

Image 1: a roughly sketched digital drawing of two D&D characters. Izen, a drider, is shown in his form of dread, a defensive state designed to frighten off attackers. In this form his face is bare skull, with four pairs of hollow eye sockets and purple mandibles on either side of his jaw. Tears run down the stark bone of his face. He is wearing the bracers that Phaela decorated for him by wrapping them in ribbon. With both hands, he holds Phaela’s face. She is a tiefling woman who looks up at him with wide eyes. Izen’s prized possession, a talisman secured by a ring of straps, is wrapped around her shoulders. Her chin is tilted up as if the stone spreading up her body is a rising tide she is trying to stay afloat in. She is petrified up to her neck with only her head and extended left arm free. Both are suffused by a starry blue glow, which is no longer present in the dull stone overtaking her. She holds starlight in her free hand that she has been trying to defend them with. Her expression is a mixture of desperation, determination, fear, and guilt.

Images 2 and 3: a roughly sketched comic. 1) Izen faces us. Phaela wraps her arms around him with her back to us, her head pressed into his chest and shoulders hunched. His hands rest on her back. 2) Izen bends down to hug Phaela properly, wrapping his arms around her and resting his head on her shoulder. His pedipalps also wrap around her for extra huggage. 3) Izen straightens and lifts Phaela up off the ground, his pedipalps forming a sort of platform that she sits on. 4) Phaela curls into Izen like a child, tail hanging limply down. One of his hands securely circles her back, the other rests on the back of her neck. He rests his head on her shoulder and one of his spider legs comes forward to hold her as well. Maximizing points of contact here. 5) Phaela wildshapes into a cat just to get super extra held. She is nestled in his arms, tucked under his chin, being gently stroked. Her face is still not visible.

End image ID.

#planar Pringles #dnd sketch #dnd stories #Phaela #Izen #art: Phaela #my art #Phaela strats for showing love: be a little kitty. Phaela strats for receiving love: be a little kitty #she’s right #the way Izen talks about phaela is insane actually #she doesn’t even know. she doesn’t know the tragic friends dream sequence. but I do (haunted) #besties if you both have nightmares about how you’re afraid of the lengths one of you would go to to protect the other is that a sign of sm #*something #a sign that things are fine and chill #shout out to cloak of defense and aura of protection and 20 tons of psychic adrenaline for keeping my girl from petrifying and shattering #into a million pieces when the room got trebucheted into a cliff #and shout out to Red for being so effective at lighting snowmen on fire #bff

[harvestmoth]

yea, sorry. more rejuv

#the first like 5 were supposed to just be small coloring experiments that went got of hand and turned into melia #rest are just little scribbles im not finishing + one that is finished kind of #though one of them i did just to make sure i could still draw using my phone. screen shattered and i can barely see it. its fine though #anyways i hate melia rejuvenation. hope she dies #oh theres also one other thing i have but i dont wanna post it here until i fix it up and redo it #pokemon rejuvenation

[sparkleresthold]

Of course their mother and son bonding time includes showing up at the Decepticons base and wrecking their shit

#shattered glass #elita one #goldbug #maccadam #my art #Elita is actually Goldbug's sire #she likes the little bastard but when he starts acting too much like a son she starts to resent him #he thinks she's the coolest cybertronian ever and she's inclined to agree #anyway this was my attempt at a background #she and Op don't have a romantic relationship btw

[fluffypotatey]

you ever think about how MK never gets a chance to really define himself?

#had this thought while driving home #like he barely even gets any chance to place some identity other than monkie kid and delivery boy bc he always gets interrupted #every villain has their own preconceived notion on who and what he is #Demon Bull family saw him as a ‘little thief’ and ‘noodle boy’ #Spider Queen called him junior or something???? #Macky even told MK that he is nothing w/o the staff. He also projected a lot of his anger with swk to MK bc he saw a lot of similarities #LBD did one better and shattered his own self worth by feeding into his insecurities and trying to mold him into her pawn (champion? will w #ever know what she wanted and why she wanted Mac to capture mk and swk???? what was their role that she wanted them to play???) #Azure even tries to assert his own perceptions on MK in the special and oh boy how he snaps back (🥰 so satisfying) #‘Oh there’s nothing mindless about me…friend’ <- one of the rare times MK puts his foot down when other try to assume what he is #I betchu s5 will focus on MK grappling with his identity bc we laid some foundations he is ok with acknowledging it #But actually processing what this meant for him? I have a guess that he wants to avoid that #And the ironic part is that swk (if he knew which I think so) is now the one trying to get MK to communicate his thoughts and feelings #It’s swk who warned MK about the dangers of hiding or avoiding huge issues like having a giant & powerful monkey form #bc swk has spent like the past 3 seasons doing the opposite of what he’s preaching to MK at the special (this is why i love him he’s trying #lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk mk #lmk qi xiaotian #qi xiaotian

[makorragal-312]

Me: freaking out and on the verge of tears over Bi!Buck confirmation

My mom in the background: Oh, so they finally made them gay?

Me:

#911 #911 abc #911 on abc #911 season 7 #911 s7 #911 s7 spoilers #911 7x04 #evan buckley #eddie diaz #tommy kinard #911 buck #911 eddie #911 tommy #bi buck #buck is bisexual #bisexual #bi firefighter show #buddie #you know those times where you're having a moment of happiness #and then someone in the same room as you says something stupid and it shatters the moment #that was my mom when I was watching the scene #only instead of saying something stupid #it was something ignorant and lowkey biphobic #this is why I can't fully enjoy the show when she's in the room #oh to be a bisexual woman seeing your male counterpart be represented and not being able to bask in the glow of it because of your mother #and then we proceeded to have an argument over her statement and her old statements about buck and eddie being queer #I need to find some queer buddie mutuals or something #but anyway #this is just one step towards buddie #let's get it

[jennycalendar]

something about donna joining the doctor in making the impossible horrible choice is really fucking sending me???? like she's not deferring to him, she's not talking about him like he's some mythic figure, she's joining him where he is. rose and martha both saw him as a savior but she sees him as her weird loser alien friend and i just . i j u s t

#celia watches dw #man i really think donna is the love of ten's life. #like i know rose is so important to him but she's what he WANTS #donna is what he NEEDS. which is so different #he needs a friend!! he needs someone to care for but someone who is also capable of understanding and caring for him! #and that is why he goes nuts every time she says she's dumb #because she's not! she's the one weird little human who actually sees and understands him!!! #THEIR FIRST ADVENTURE he genocides a race in front of her and she sees that and goes ''dude. get some therapy'' #he can't shatter her image of him as a hero because he's never been her hero! #he's been the guy who changed the way she looks at the world #and that's really just. having and being a friend #and that's what he needs ......