#talk about mixed signals

[casasupernovas]

someone reminded me how the doctor was actually supposed to undress in that bedroom scene in 'the shakespeare code' and i highkey wish they kept it because then maybe people would have realised just how TAPPED he was acting around martha.

#talk about mixed signals #doctor who #martha jones #tenth doctor #10th doctor #tenmartha #guess we had to settle with that random glamour shot rusty put of david for absolutely no reason in his book #the shakespeare code

[nixthelapin]

Félix’s Parents

Colt Fathom: abuser who thinks his son is a monster (while watching him harmlessly play with a stuffed rabbit and toy train)

Amelie Graham de Vanily: Boy Mom(TM) who thinks her son can do no wrong (while watching him kill every person on the planet)

#yeesh #no wonder this kid is so messed up #the whiplash between living with these two alone would mess with my head #talk about mixed signals #miraculous ladybug #miraculous #mlb #Argos #Felix fathom #colt fathom #amelie graham de vanily #(not that this justifies anything he did of course) #and there’s something beautiful about Amelie being so strongly opposed to Colt calling him a monster #but girl #becoming a mass murderer kind of makes him a monster #Colt wasn’t right in calling him one #yet Felix went out of his way to become one #Sentimonster #sentimonster felix

[mommyzhilla]

Satang and Mark forgetting the camera is rolling and they are supposed to be hating each other..

#talk about mixed signals #my school president ep9 #my school president

[xiaoluclair]

if ferrari strategy spent as much time learning from its mistakes as netflix spends on max’s eyes, they would have won three championships in 2022 alone already

#seriously #this is actually #wild #STOP HATING ON HIM AND THEN SHOWING ME EXTREME EYELASH CLOSE UPS #TALK ABOUT MIXED SIGNALS #xiao: waffle #waffle: mv1 #max verstappen

[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

The fact Noritoshi's mom named him like this before he even became the heir does not make me want to know how she became a concubine and how Noritoshi was made

#its not like i thought she was happy with this life #but i dont think i want to know the details #i wonder if she was born in a jjshi family or if she was from a non-sorcerer one and then later had to learn #either way she really chose the worst man to name her child after #noritoshi probably doesnt take the fact his mother named him like that well #there you have a mother cursing her son who she loves #talk about mixed signals #no wonder nori really feel like she doesnt want him #jjk spoilers #noritoshi kamo #Noritoshi's mom. needs. a. name. #i need to be able to tag her #norimom #itll be that for now #kamo clan

[spicyet]

fem!Shuro from that one panel

#dungeon meshi #shuro #nakamoto toshiro #toshiro nakamoto #shuro dungeon meshi #laishuro #implied anyways #Sam’s doodles of the day #I like to think Fem!Shuro is talking to the other girls about how Laios keeps ‘complimenting’ her when she’s training or using her sword #Or she’s a bit upset because Laios said something close to ‘I need you!’ And while she’s fawning he adds ‘and so does the party!’ #Queue her heart shattering bc she didn’t wanna hear the last part #and is complaining to the other girls about how Laios is giving her mixed signals #or just plain and simple Laios compliments her to no end and she’s been waiting for those compliments to turn into a confession #(In my mind Shuro only has romance novels as dating reference lolololol) #Also thank u to my wife for helping with the kanji that makes for fem!shuro’s name #Kiyomine nakamoto #and rather than a mistake she thinks Laios calls her ‘Inne’ as a cute nickname like couples would do #anyways she’s hopelessly in love

[dark-elf-writes]

Imagining there’s a whole language for flame users based off of what colors they’re wearing particularly when it comes to skies. Like everyone tends to lean into wearing the color of their own flame. Occasionally you will see someone throw on a splash of orange if they are looking for a sky but for a sky? For a bonded sky? Wearing the color of one of their guardians is seen as giving them favor, of holding them above all others, of claiming them publicly even more than their bond has already claimed them.

All this to say Tsuna wears a red shirt and Hayato, the only one that understands the unspoken rules, runs face first into a wall

#the elf talks #reborn #katekyo hitman reborn #reborn could tell Tsuna about it #or he can watch the chaos unfold as Tsuna puts off the most mixed signals and drives everyone around him insane #found this in my drafts and am tossing it out into the world

[dykeseinfeld]

crack fic covering the entirety of holster and jack's brief situationship called "5 times holster almost outed jack and 1 time jack outed holster"

#not like maliciously holster just has zero cooth #trying to brag abt hooking up to rans who doesn't believe him bc no name and holster just barely holds himself back from telling him #getting weirdly jealous and drunk hearing about parse showing up to epikegster the previous year and almost tells someone but he passes out #complaining to shitty abt all the mixed signals bc he assumes shitty knows (shitty knows nothig and has no idea what is being talked about) #finally after they end it holster announces he hooked up w esther shapiro at team breakfast to make jack jealous #jack says in front of everyone 'huh. so you're bi.' and goes back to his cornflakes or w/e

[ow1et]

athene really does give off the energy that she doesn’t care about you at all, is using you for her own gain, or hates your guts … then turns around and throws herself between you and the big bad danger.

#work has been ROUGH this week #everyone has been calling out so i’ve been solo a lot #but i am always thinking about Her 😭 #she gives off the ultimate mixed signals i feel #talks shit to your face and pays your rent behind your back #she can actually be so soft when she wants to be….. #vulnerable attie is a delight even if she tends to ghost after pouring her heart out to you

[ectonurites]

SUPER DARK TIMES (2017) DIR. KEVIN PHILLIPS

#super dark times #zach taylor #allison bannister #sam edits #if you listen closely you can hear the sound of both mine and Allison's hearts breaking! <3 #ok but fr: i know this is gifs. so no sound. but the WAY he DELIVERS the 'you've got a bump on your head' line makes me NUTS #it's so soft. it's so fond. it's... it's a punch in the fucking gut. he likes her *so much* but he *can't let himself have this nice #thing with her* because he's *being eaten alive by guilt he can't accept & won't let himself be happy because of it* and SHE DOESN'T KNOW! #like the thing. the thing is. when you watch SDT you're along the ride with Zach and his POV of everything. despite the obvious paranoia #& guilt warping his perspective/influencing his behavior—we can see where that's all coming from. we understand the motivations #behind the actions he takes. but ALLISON? Allison has no fucking clue what's going on! from Allison's perspective... Zach is this guy she's #known for a while (like they make a point of *telling us* in one of the earliest scenes that Zach feels weird talking about her in the #detached way they may talk abt other people in their grade they barely know—because it's *different* since he and Josh *actually know her* #plus in the script [and it STILL COUNTS TO ME because she *starts* saying the line but just gets cut off by Dennis] Allison brings #up Zach & Josh having had a silly handshake since 7th grade ['oh god that used to make me pee!' <- girl why would u say that to him] #so it's like... these are kids who've known each other for years!) and he's got this obvious fucking crush on her (the hallway scene where #he is. blatantly staring and she catches him for a second) and the moment she decides to actually start pursuing him because SHE'S #got a crush on HIM too... he starts pulling away and acting erratic and sending her the most mixed signals in the fucking world. #and sheee THINKSSS ITS HERRR FAULT!!!!!!!! like. listen. this scene i giffed above? this is what she's fucking talking about later #when she jokes about not wanting to 'scare him off again'. like sure she says it like a joke but... uhm. i simply think there's #a certain amount of truth to it too—because he DID leave the party visibly freaked out! and i think it'd be perfectly believable for her #to think that it was at least partially HER pushing too hard that was causing him to withdraw/pull away from her. plus she blatantly says #she thinks she's the reason Josh & Zach are fighting. like. this poor girl is on the outskirts of a tragedy she'll probably NEVER know the #details of but she's seeing firsthand the impact it's having on Zach and... blaming herself... that's so fucking heartbreaking

[infizero]

im mostly joking when i say prime is queerbaiting with sonadow but also there was no reason for sonic to go "i heart you too shadow <3" and make a heart with his hands after being saved by shadow and carried over his shoulder. why did they make him do that

#its also really funny because prime is to my knowledge the only sonic media thats continously brought up the whole #''wow they look like they could be twin brothers!'' STOP THAT. one no they do not what are you talking about 💀 #and secondly why are you doing that and then also making them behave so gayly around each other. you are giving me mixed signals here prime #serena.txt

[renecdote]

"really? dating someone you rescued? you know that never ends well"

"this is different. anyway—"

no, no tell me how it's different buck. is it because it's not really about dating her at all? is it because she sees you, or because she doesn't see you? doesn't know you any deeper than you want her to? doesn't expect anything from you because she doesn't have a pre-lightning buck to compare it to? is it because she looks at you and you don't see your own fear reflected back at you the way it is with all the people who loved you and watched you die?

"the truth is, I still don't know how to act. I am different, but I feel like I have to try and be the same old buck, mostly for the sake of everyone else"

for everyone else, you say? everyone who is out here saying thing like:

"buck, you died"

"buck. you died"

"you died, buck"

"three minutes and seventeen seconds"

"whatever it is you're feeling, you don't have to hide it"

while you're over here saying:

"I feel fine"

"you have to stop trying to fix me, maddie"

"please don't ask me how I'm feeling"

"you can't cut me any slack"

idk buck maybe it's just me, but it seems like the only person who is putting pressure on you to be the same old buck is yourself. and maybe that is for the sake of everyone else, maybe you just don't want them to worry. or maybe you're the one who is scared, maybe you're the who doesn't know how to face it, how to process it, how heal and keep moving forward. how to grieve because maybe you aren't dead, but you died, and you're allowed to not be okay about that

"when I woke up in that hospital, I felt like I had gotten away with something"

maybe you don't want to face it and move on? maybe you don't think you're allowed to? maybe you did get away with something, maybe you've been getting away with it your whole life, except this time death had you. you died. all those times you've skated through a near death experience finally caught up to you, but somehow you got away with it this time too and you don't understand why

"my life could have ended, right then and then, but it didn't. that has to mean something"

"It means you're one lucky guy"

"yeah, well, I don't think I'm going to get that lucky again"

"maybe you don't have to"

you've spent your whole life looking for signs from the universe, looking for answers, looking for something to make it all make sense. you think natalia will have those answers, but you're so busy searching that you're not looking right in front of you. you're not listening.

you died, buck, you're gonna feel a lot of different ways about that, sometimes all at the same time. you don't have to be anything for anybody. you think you’re expendable but you’re wrong. I know you did. there’s no one in the world I trust with my son more than you.

you want it to mean something? you want the secret to happiness? you want someone to see you? to see more in you than you see in yourself? well maybe you should stop trying so hard to find it and realise you've already made it. you've already been chosen a hundred times over, now you just to wake up and see it

#Evan Buckley #Eddie Diaz #911 Fox #911 Spoilers #sorry if this makes no sense I just poured all my feelings into my keyboard idk #there's just something about buck's biggest obstacle to happiness being himself #his own fear and insecurities and constant searching for answers #but at the same time the way he always removes himself from the equation #it's like looking everywhere for your phone only to realise it was in your hand the whole time #also speaking of hands. both of them have their hands in their pockets this whole talk #they're standing right beside each other but they're not reaching out #they're so so close but they're not touching #every movement towards each other is a near miss #it's all mixed signals and near misses #talking to each other and around each other at the same time #and most of the time it's buck moving closer but never close enough #eddie is standing there - he's always been right there - but buck just isn't quite getting it

[shoechoe]

You know, I don't really like Abbacchio's backstory for a couple of reasons. It highlights a couple of inconsistencies with Vento Aureo's messaging and also doesn't make much sense as a motivation, I think.

In Giorno's backstory, we get an explicit message that the police fail to protect the weak or stop crimes in Italy. One of the reasons why crime is such a big issue is that the Italian state itself is corrupt and unhelpful- thus creating a justified sense of distrust between the citizens and the police.

But then, in Abbacchio's backstory, we're told that the citizens are actually "thankless" and "unappreciative" for disliking the police... even though we're told and shown that the police do nothing to help citizens or stop criminals?

Even Abbacchio's backstory itself works as an example for how bad the police are. In it, he accepts a bribe from a criminal instead of arresting him, and that leads to said criminal running free and going on to kill a civilian. Abbacchio, along with the police force as a whole, fail to stop crime. Why turn around and blame the citizens for being "thankless", then, if there's nothing for them to be thankful for?

Not to mention, if Abbacchio fell into a deep depression because he had such a strong sense of justice and then allowed an innocent to come to harm as well as causing the death of his partner, it seems illogical for him to then join a crime organization, of all things. I can't imagine how he'd be motivated to join Passione if he hated harming innocents that much. I guess it could work as a "character falls from grace and keeps digging deeper"-type backstory, but that's not really elaborated on well enough for me to say.

The anime adaptation makes this even worse by having a scene where Bruno personally invites Abbacchio to join the gang with the line "Don't die bound by your past." How is joining organized crime "freeing" Abbacchio of his past? Isn't that just him doubling down?

I could also say the same thing about Giorno's backstory. Apparently, what's responsible for "straightening out Giorno's heart" and giving him his "unwavering sense of justice and righteousness" is... idolizing a crime boss that murdered a young child's dad for selling drugs and eventually wanting to become a gangster himself. Something doesn't feel quite right about that to me.

Vento Aureo is very confused with its messaging in a lot of ways, and Abbacchio's backstory especially highlights this. I just don't see how the logic follows through or what it's trying to do.

#rambles #shoe talks a lot #shoe jojo criticism #this is mostly just Me Being Confused #sometimes i just straight up do not know what VA is trying to do with itself jskfljsdkfls #i really wanted to talk about this backstory with more depth because it especially sends very mixed signals to me

[rin-hanarin]

I like Gale Baldur's Gate 3 because he is associated with color purple, has a magic cat familiar and approves of my actions, talk about nonexistent standards 👍

#he also sends mixed signals and talks about his goddess ex more often than I'd prefer #but we don't talk about that #bg3 #gale of waterdeep #baldur's gale

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

Well damn, today did not go how I expected

#life of faye #woke up normal and actually started to get stuff done #then got distracted texting d #which turned into us having a long deep conversation about our whole situation #like probably more in depth than we've really discussed it since he left portland #or possibly ever #i definitely ended up confessing that I am kinda sorta in love with him and don't know how not to be #and that I feel like a bad friend for still wanting to fuck him but also that I feel like there's been some mixed signals in that regard #and he talked about how he's not comfortable pursuing a relationship with me or anyone else right now #and that he would be open to something fwb-related but he didn't think I would be interested/comfortable with that arrangement #especially considering my own confessed feelings and everything #but I told him I can work with that because at least I would have a chance to occasionally fuck someone I trust #and i already know he fucks like a champ #like fwb fuckfest every once in a while- even if it's only every year or two- is still preferable to ~1 shitty new stranger date per year #and maybe it's pathetic of me to stuff down my love to at least get sex #but fucking a friend that just doesn't love me back is still better than fucking a stranger to me #anyway we haven't really nailed down it all yet but the conversation has finally been started #also he asked for me to make a painting for his bday and it made me 🥹 #nobody has ever specifically asked me to paint them something before #my date with sweet d

[herinsectreflection]

Buffy you're implicitly asking Faith if she's horny is it any wonder she got the wrong idea.

#talking about weird mixed signals #faith hope and trick #liveblog