#this name means fair

[bottombaron]

I think we sometimes forget that Nandor was chosen by The Baron, one of the most ancient and powerful vampires, to lead an expedition with Nadja and Laszlo to conquor all of 'The New World' and subjugate its people roughly 200 years ago...

#wwdits #what we do in the shadows #nandor #nandor the relentless #i mean thats fair on us have you seen him?? #he tried to make friends with a bird that flew into his room two weeks ago #he named him 'mathew' #but also this is a Nadja is A Badass post too #because the Baron chose her as well (along with Laszlo) #like these three shits were THE SHIT once upon a time #ancient Undying Ones picked them and only them for his mission #i like the idea that they were some sort of badass strike team once upon a time and then like Colin Robinson happened lol

[malin-la]

You can pry this adhd x autism couple from my cold dead hands

#I mean this is specifically about #higugin #but to be fair it could be many others depending on your hcs #skk #sskk #montcott #to name a few #chaggie #you can ALSO pry them from my cold dead hands #itafushi #for sure #there are so many and I’m forgetting them all #oh god why did #Klance #come to mind #end me #anyways #malin rants #adhd #autism #neurodivergent #OH MY GOD #anhane #how could I forget about Anhane #and #akitoya #ruikasa #kanamafu #emunene #god it’s really all of them isnt it

[traaanskimkitsuragi]

inner circle

#dragon age #art #do NOT be mean abt the anatomy in these some of them are sooo jank i know haskhsjkas #(varric is standing on a stool. i didnt wanna just have the top of his forehead poking out as funny as that woudlve been) #dao #da2 #dai #zevran arainai #morrigan #leliana #velanna #anders #varric tethras #garrett hawke #<- technically not my hawkes name but i imagine its the most used tag so #carver hawke #josephine montilyet #dorian pavus #cole #cassandra pentaghast #also for the record these are not my faves necessarily they were just my charas besties #(although there is a fair bit of overlap)

[aaltilis]

Pierre: Cha, Esteban mentioned my name in the secret santa video. He thought I'm the one who knows him most.

Charles: He actually said Lance first.

Pierre: Yeah, and then me! Do you think it means something?

Charles: *sighs* You're his teammate.

Pierre: And? He never talk to me.

Charles: You know him before you even know me

Pierre: And? He barely mentioned my name.

Pierre: It has to mean something.

Charles: Just talk to him!

Pierre: NO!

#well pierre listens to charles when he rambling about max so it's only fair when he does the same #it has to mean something #pierresteban #pierresteban girlies are really the definition of the bar is set so low #they mentioned each other name and we all go crazy haha #pierre gasly #charles leclerc #piarles #esteban ocon #formula 1 #incorrect quotes #f1 incorrect quotes #incorrect f1 quotes

[moongothic]

You know I wasn't going to post about this, but the more I think about it the more it drives me up the walls

So when Luffy and co release Crocodile from jail, it's specifically under the threat that if Crocodile tries anything funny, well, Iva-chan has a trick up their sleeve to put Crocodile back in-line.

So what the fuck was that actually about? What is Crocodile's secret weakness? I'm specifically looking at the way this is phrased in the manga, because the anime's added dialogue kinda messes with what's implied here. But what Iva specifically says is that Ivankov in particular holds the key to one of Crocodile's weaknesses, but they'll stay quiet about it as long as Crocodile behaves himself ("Vataashi wa koitsu no yowami wo hitotsu nigitteru", a very clunky but literal translation could be "One of his weaknesses is within my grasp". The way Viz translated the line is a bit different so I'm not bothering with getting a cap of the panel, you wouldn't be able to tell how these lines were phrased in Japanese based on Viz's translations anyways) (The dialogue Toei added was Crocodile furiously shouting at Iva-chan, telling them to not say anything and Iva-chan reminding Croc to watch his tone or else they'll reveal Croc's past to everyone. A lot of people don't remember this was in-fact added by Toei, hence I wanted to clarify/remind what happened in this scene originally)

And now. Obviously. When Oda went out of his way to introduce a brand new character whose entire personality is being queer and their power is giving people magic HRT. And then like five chapters later re-introduces Crocodile. And tells us that these two have Secret Beef. And never proceeds to fucking tell us what the hell that was about. Yes, the natural conclusion one would come to would be that Crocodile is stealth trans. That is basic, good storytelling. You (re)introduce two characters, tell us they have beef, one has a very specific ability; you're supposed to connect these dots in your mind. So that now, if Oda revealed to us tomorrow that Crocodile was canonically trans, it would not surprise anyone because it's already been set-up in the story, by this very scene. It's a logical conclusion.

But. I'm becoming more and more convinced that Iva-chan's blackmail might actually not be about Crocodile being trans.

Like the general fandom assumption for the past 15 years has been that Crocodile's stealth trans, but we actually don't know he's stealth. He could be openly trans, and between that being a borderline requirement for Crocodad to be real (since he would've been a Shichibukai for years before Luffy was even born) and the possibility that his earring could specifically be a gay earring, like. Yeah. Crocodile could be openly trans. If Crocodile's perfectly happy to let the whole world know he's gay, then him being trans shouldn't have to be a secret either. We the readers could just be unaware of it because it wasn't relevant information to us, and his transition would be old ass news in-universe and not worth bringing up.

And thus, if Crocodile isn't stealth, then Iva-chan can't blackmail him by threatening to out him, becaus he can't be outted.

Now for a while I did considder that Iva-chan could've been actually threatening to detransition Crocodile if he tried anything funny. Surely he would hate that, so much so that he might not have wanted to even hear Ivankov suggest it. But thinking about it. Unless Iva-chan can use Armanent Haki or get Crocodile moisturized, they shouldn't be able to hit Crocodile actually. Like Croc's Logia makes him impossible to hit unless he specifically allowed himself to be touched. So even if Iva-chan tried to surprise attack Crocodile with Estrogen, Croc should just turn to sand automatically, the attack should not land.

Meaning Iva-chan shouldn't be able to detransition Crocodile against his will, at least not without Haki and we don't know if they can use it, so that can't be Crocodile's weakness either.

And so we have to ask the question. What the fuck is that weakness then that Ivankov mentioned?

All we really know is that Crocodile doesn't want this weakness to be brought up, it's a secret. And for all we know Iva-chan might be the only person in the world who knows about it.

And I just. Like.

There is one weakness, kind of a universal one that many people could have, one that has been brought up time-and-time again post-timeskip, one that has become more and more relevant in the story, especially now at the begining of the Final Saga.

A secret weakness.

If pregnancy is what cracked Crocodile's egg and he transitioned immidiately/soon after giving birth, then it's entirely plausible Iva-chan could know Crocodile had a secret child. And surely he'd want nothing more than for his child to be safe, not end up in trouble because of him. And Ivankov most certainly could put that child in danger, especially now that Crocodile was officially no longer on the World Government's side, there'd be no protection for the baby. All Ivankov had to do was leak the information out, that Sir Crocodile had a child, and anybody who had beef with him could get their revenge by attempting to find the child.

Like I'm just saying. This could line up nicely, actually

#Moon posting #OP Meta #Sir Crocodile #Crocodad #Keyword COULD #I know one might WANT to argue that surely Ivankov wouldn't put someone's child in danger #But Iva-chan can be mean or cruel if they feel like it. Remember they had no intention to help Luffy nor Bon-chan Luffy not begged.... #...for them to save Bon-chan while HE was on death's bed. And they did forcibly transition that prince (to be fair he did attack first etc) #Point is; If Crocodad Real then Iva-chan would know that Crocodile's Secret Child would be 17 by now #And even if they did leak the info about the child's existence as long as they don't know the child's name it might not do that much damage #Like it could send people on a wild goose chase to find the child but without any leads how could anybody find the kid #And again. The kid would be 17. Surely that's old enough for them to defend themselves if they did get discovered #And hey what's the alternative here. Ivankov outting a fellow queer. That's not exactly great either. #The blackmail's gonna be kinda fucked up regardless but also Crocodile did attempt to nuke 1 million people so who cares about his feelings

[kazumahashimoto]

you're colder than i remember

#that's right everybody xander's drawing zack angeal hug again #this time with lazard!!!!! #like man. Man. you've already been seeing your mentor's cold dead face on all these monsters and then his corpse starts walking around #talking about how he's been trying to find you and how he used to crave revenge but now he just wants to protect you #because literally to the core of who angeal is he loves zack. to the point that it bleeds into his clones. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!! #AND ZACK HAS TO WATCH EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM DIE. EVERY ANGEAL IS DESTINED TO ROT AT HIS FEET. #BECAUSE ANGEAL LOVES HIM. I FEEL SICK #did you let me die in your arms in the timeloop esque #GRRRAAAYUYUYHGHYUHHYYHH I HATE THEM!!!!!!!!! I CAN'T STAND THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they mean everything to me. #ff #ff7 #ffvii #zack fair #angeal hewley #zack #angeal #hh art #lazard deusericus #ALSO APPARENTLY LAZARD'S NAME MEANS GOD HELP HIM? DEAR CHRIST? HELLO?

[mariocki]

Lalla Ward makes a brief appearance as Lady Augusta, intended bride to an ill-fated aristocrat, in A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Ash Tree (BBC, 1975)

#fave spotting #lalla ward #doctor who #a ghost story for christmas #the ash tree #1975 #romana #romana ii #spoilers for the ash tree ig???? #i mean it's pretty obvious from the outset that Ed Petherbridge's aristo is not in for a good time #i mean he's a Jamesian protagonist for one thing.... #lalla had been acting since the beginning of the decade‚ with a fair number of one off appearances on tv and the odd film to her name #(most notably Hammer's Vampire Circus). she was still a few years off DW and genre immortality at this point #it isn't the most rewarding role; James (who i don't think many would argue that he wasn't a bit of a chauvinist) rarely featured #significant women characters in his work (a large number of them being academical in setting didn't help). actually the ash tree #is something of an outlier in that regard‚ as it does feature a significant female character in Mrs. Mothersole‚ but we can hardly consider #her a positive feminine presence... actually one of Lawrence Gordon Clark's regrets about this particular entry in the Ghost Story for #Christmas canon is the failure of him and writer David Rudkin to make a true villain of Mothersile; Clark felt that their shared sympathies #for the historical victims of witchhunting prevented them from capturing the 'evil' of the character (tho it's debatable how much James #himself intended her to be truly evil; this is just Clark's opinion after all‚ and fwiw i think Rudkin's greater complexity of the #character is more interesting‚ more believable and more appropriate) #i rambled. anyway yes‚ not a meaty role perhaps‚ but Lalla sinks her teeth in all the same and in just a few brief scenes successfully #creates a vivid and fully realised character‚ a charming and flirtatious fiancée with something of a rebellious streak #no ash tree post bc i made one the last time i watched it a couple of years ago

[surlifen]

new sona ref at long last! and I named him finally (sort of) (was stuck between two so I've uploaded different versions of the ref in different places LMAO)

just in time for artfight teehee

#character design #am i allowed to say i listen to mcr if its literally exclusively danger days #god tumblr when i tell you i struggled HARD with names. #i like finlo because it can be nicknamed fin‚ it's irish‚ and it means fair haired sun god #and im blond. and im suncoded. and im irish #but i also love salt because it's weird‚ i like the sound better‚ and it has more of a furry name vibe #obviously both have beachy vibes because “fin” and seasalt #so idk maybe finlo is his Real Name and fin and salt are nicknames i just worry i cant communicate that clearly lol #BUT ANYWAY. HES ME. i traced pics of myself as studies for this #its cool to have a sona w my actual body type that i really like! not that i have a particularly stigmatized body type not even close but #IDK. FURRIES ARE LIKE TWIGS USUALLY and i am STOUT #real bleedy ink pen

[saurons-pr-department]

Did an (extremely quick) google. Gondor was without a king for about 969 years. The last High King of Ireland's reign ended about 825 years ago (yes, we are ignoring the lot next door). Imagine if in another 144 years someone rocked up claiming to be the heir of Ruaidrí mac Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair or something and no one laughed them off the island.

#sorcha reads lotr #to be fair i had actually thought it was longer #don't know why but i had 2000 years in my head this whole time?? #for gondor i mean #also as a note: i went with the last properly recognised high king #there were two more after him but they never *really* got the position #which if i knew my history well enough i could probably use to drag the idea of aragorn reclaiming the kingship even more #alas i know nothing #can't believe our last high king was named rory o'conner #like that's literally just some guy

[mirroredmemoriez]

I don't ship Cecilia and Amanda myself, but my best contribution to the ship names has to be Slapshipping and Amandalia/Amandelia.

#slapshipping #cecilia put her whole BODY #INTO THAT SLAP #wish it was me on the other end to be fair #amandalia #just sounds fancy #cecilia would just want it to be bougie #dahlia plant exists #also looking at the name dalia apparently it means like gentle which #yeah... no this is toxic yuri #cecilia pederson #amanda young #saw franchise #saw movies #saw x #sawposting #amandelia

[falderaletcetera]

because I'm partway through a reread and queueing up a bunch of reblogs about it, and it seems only fair to recommend it first:

Jack Farris doesn’t want to save the world, just every person he knows, encounters, or hears of. It’s a bit of an issue. S. Grey doesn’t want to save anyone but himself. He wants to know everything and majoring in sagework at the Academy is the best way to do that. Laney Jones left her home to avoid the constraints there, only to find different barriers holding her back at the Academy. Eager to learn, to excel, to escape, she has far from given up. Rupert Willington Jons Hammerfeld the Seventh would just like everything to be orderly, thank you very much, but it seems the only way to make monsters and myths (and malicious but mundane men) stop rampaging through his world is to go out and do some hero-ing himself. They are put together as an unwilling study group, but they become something more.

this is Beanstalk. It's first in a trilogy, all self-published, all free on the author's website, and the series is one of my favourites. It has:

– found family, with platonic relationships front and centre

– an adventurer's academy with a complicated legacy, where "hero" means a coloured armband and a diploma

– worldbuilding (appreciative), featuring an interesting magic system and monsters of all kinds, many of them people

– a red-headed boy named Jack, seventh son of a seventh son, who left the forest and grew like a beanstalk. You may recognise parts of his story. You may recognise others down the line.

– there's a whole cast I don't want to spoil except to say I'm currently rereading the first book and really looking forward to reaching the rest.

– there's definitely casual queer rep though. what do you take me for.

– honestly the writer (hi @ink-splotch!) writes all these characters with a complexity and love that I really admire. Some of the chapters that affected me most aren't even about the main cast.

— you may know the writer from her fics, the interactive games Stay? and More a Haunting than a History, or the podcast Second Star to the Left which she co-created with Aysha Farah. I can highly recommend most of the above and will get around to MaHtaH eventually.

If anyone's interested, I'd advise you don't go looking for spoilers. There most definitely is angst, but less so in the first book - hit me up if you want content warnings!

#I'm also queueing up someone else's rec for this but I wanted to put the platonic relationships bit right at the top #for ''I'm aro and I'm feral about it'' reasons #beanstalk #leagues and legends #that second tag is the useful one but every now and then I forget the series name but still remember the first book so I try to use both #falderal speaks #when I say I admire inky's writing I mean i have done for years #it's probably influenced my writing style a fair bit and honestly I hope it has

[seriousbrat]

me inventing an entire magical drinking game as well as a whole language system and social structure for the goblins and then not really including them in my fic lol

#my google doc is very detailed rip #well i can use them in something else #i mean to be fair the drinking game is just a version of king's cup I didn't entirely invent it #but the goblin lore is very in depth #if anyone needs names for goblin characters let me know lol #esp female ones as we get no examples in canon sadly #at one point i had a bit of merpeople lore too and i scrapped it

[moodyvoid]

Twice: “You ever think about how we name our pets and they eventually learn their name, but we will never know what name they’ve given to us?”

Tomura: “Well, I didn’t, but now this is going to keep me up all night.”

#Tomura spiraling over what monchan called him #gets out an ouija board to talk to his dog #monchan definitely called tenko best friend #imagine your pet just names you Bob #I mean it’s only fair they get to choose a name for us as well #bnha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #mha #league of villains #twice #jin bubaigawara #Shigaraki #tomura shigaraki

[friendofcars]

sorry to all the essays and notes and everything (an apology to myself really) but im doing the td3 pov data now instead

#rchl #cdth starts off so narrator-ish though like i THINK the prologue isn't really anyone but if you had to pick someone #it would be declan and since the revelation of his middle name tadhg (means storyteller) i think it's fair to designate the prologue as his #pov #HOWEVER i have to actually closely read the chapter and see how the descriptions of the lynches jive w declan's perceptions #also ch 1 is probably getting attributed to carmen but it veers lock for like. a sentence. and seems to be making assumptions about carmen #rather than her telling the audience about herself BUT shes repressed as hell. so #hi did anyone read this. do you have opinions on this and are there enough ambiguous chapters to constitute a category of their own #also shout out to breck myrtle for getting a pov chapter. i sure did forget about him

[emma-is-swaggy-and-epic]

In chi's sweet home, it's established that chi got her name after hearing yohei telling his parents that he peed himself (or "chi'd" himself as he called it) and responding to it, thinking it was her name. No one acknowledges this fact afterwards so i just want to remind everyone

THIS FUCKING CAT IS CANONICALLY NAMED PISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#i mean....to be fair i've seen people give their cats weirder names but STILL #shitpost #shitposting #meme #jokes #funny #scheduled #chi's sweet home #chis sweet home #anime #manga #anime and manga #cats #kittens #weird facts #facts #anime facts #weird anime facts #fun facts #cursed #cursed shit

[chromochaotic]

Nona the Ninth spoilers!

It’s ungodly late/early but I don’t feel sleep coming on so I wanna ramble about griddlehark and one of my favorite ship tropes, that also involves Nona. Nothing super deep but it’s making my insomniac brain happy

So if you compare Nona and Harrow, they’re almost completely opposite—friendly, innocent, forgiving, trusting, vs. reclusive, jaded, vindictive, prideful. (Though it’s also interesting to think about the things they have in common, like a sense of loyalty and compassion and self-sacrifice but that’s not what this is about). pretty much, there’s one sunshine-y character that’s almost instantly liked by the people she meets and connects with others easily, vs Harrow 1000-Emotional-Walls Nonagesimus.

I’d gamble that if you put both of them at a party and asked all attendees who they preferred after five minutes, Nona would take the W.

But you know who immediately clashes with Nona, and would clearly prefer Harrow in all the ways I listed above—who in fact misses her so desperately that she’s described as “the saddest girl in the whole world”?

#griddlehark #tlt #tlt spoilers #Nona the ninth #Nona the ninth spoilers #hi my name is chromo #I mean to be fair #gideon meets nona at pretty much the lowest emotional point in her life-slash-death #just in an absolutely wretched state of mind by my interpretation #maybe if she met someone like Nona back in GtN #I mean they’d probably get on decently #but I feel like even then she would still so clearly love and adore Harrow’s Harrow-ness in comparison #I just… those times when you feel like a wretched little husk #compared to bubbly sunshine people #but then you find your people that would choose you anyway #hahahaha