#tragic kind of sad

[schnuffel-danny]

this is what Badger Cereal means to me btw

#danny phantom #danny phantom fanart #fav badger cereal genre of all time is when danny finds out about all the tragic shit in vlad's past #and is sad about it #but also he still kind of wants vlad to go to sleep and never wake up again #he feels bad about him but like in a 'someone needs to put this sick animal out of it's misery' way

[misted-buttercup-enjoyer]

In "Too Young" when Princess Bubblegum talked about how she "never get to act like a kid" and how she wishes she "could stay like this with you, but..." I started crying. This poor girl grew up in the harsh world of early Ooo, she spawned from a living wad of gum and built a house for her brother, she tried to have a family but they betrayed her and she internalized that as "ignorance is bliss." Because shes intelligent, and she's sure not happy, and they were intelligent, and they weren't happy either, atleast Neddy is happy when he's just sucking on those roots and blissfully unaware of his surrondings. Homegirl didn't have any childhood at all, even Marceline had a more carefree childhood when she was with Simon, and she grew up in the literal apocalypse with three parental abandonments. Simon kept her entertained and cared for her, but PB was protecting Neddy and scavenging for resources, on her own, just to stay alive, her entire childhood. God. People dont talk enough about how tragic her childhood was, I feel freaking awful.

#she just.......she never got to grow up properly #i hope she and marceline get a good 500 years to just be dumb teenagers together because they've both gone through way too much #funnily enough though i feel like the fandom places more emphasis on marceline's suffering probably because it's more relatable #which y'know makes sense I'm not gonna judge anyone for that I love Marceline and her childhood was tragic too. #I once saw someone say that PB living in the Candy Kingdom and Ice King living the Ice Kingdom is for them kind of like living #in their own heads. and. yeah that sums it up to a tea. everyone else go home they explained it perfectly. #poor kiddo #princess bubblegum #bonnibel bubblegum #pb adventure time #simon petrikov #marceline abadeer #adventure time #too young #lemongrab #they make me sad #cryyyyyy #candy kingdom #adventure time analysis #spontaneous analysis

[joseigamer]

Patalliro! is fascinating to me because of stuff like this. It's unapologetically gay - even within its anime which aired during primetime hours in 1982 - in a way that many later BL manga would never be, like the ones from the early 2000s which would never dare to call their characters actual homosexuals. Patalliro has actually aged quite well in this regard, there's something comforting about how campy it is.

#i still dont really understand how they got away with this kind of thing honestly #female VAs i get that - but first m/m kiss in an anime in episode THREE????? #theres also the maraich/thomas episode where they are *Both* voiced by women....advanced yuri #patalliro #i love how bancorans gender expression is pretty much explicitly to attract only bishounen #you blushed - so you must not be a girl #etc #i also love how joyful it all is #theres never anything sad or tragic about being gay - only that bancoran is forced to kill the bishounen spies/assassins/etc #when bancoran finds out that gay sex feels good after demian; in the manga he is elated. its basically a positive thing #he awakens to his true power...lol #also notable is that while bishounen youth is glorified maraich is still 18. #besides making the show more palatable; this means it portrays being gay as an adult as normal #according to the NYT japan's psychiatric body called homosexuality a mental illness until 1995 #im not going to say patalliro changed that or anything lmao but its just significant to me that banmara get to live their lives happily #especially contrasting that with kaze to ki no uta and other manga of the time (no shade intended) #yaoi #<- for tagging purposes #obviously it also got away with a lot by being a gag manga. but still!

[al3zthecat-blog]

Thinking about when talking about Shang Quinghua and the original Shang Quinghua I've usually seen that the original is portrayed as the evil twin or the dumber twin.

In the case of the second, I've read theories(?) I guess that say that Airplane was a better Peak Lord (in part because in his past life he had access to higher education) and a better spy because he had inside knowledge as the author.

This one I can get behind, Airplane having an advantage by knowing the plot would make him seem to be more capable to outsiders.

In the case of the first one I actually like to think that if they were twins Airplane would be the "evil one".

While I totally think that the reason Airplane is so comfortable doing all the shit he did is because he doesn't think of anyone (besides maybe MBJ and SY) as real people, from an outsider perspective it doesn't look like that. And while I know that the argument could be said that this would make the original SQH more devious/evil/whatever, as he would be operating with the belief that his world is real, I think that this depends on whatever original SQH was a good spy and how many and what type of atrocities he committed. Because we don't really know.

So, let's say that Airplane was a better servant/spy to MBJ in part because of his insider knowledge and past life. But that the other part is that he lacks the "morals" that would have held back the original because he doesn't see as anyone as real people.

Maybe the original had some morals. Maybe the reason MBJ fell in love with Airplane is that he was attracted not only to his loyalty but by how ruthless he is (something that for demons I bet would be attractive). From MBJ'S perspective, Airplane is, yes weak and cowardly, but also completely loyal and devoted to MBJ while at the same time kind of ruthless to anyone else.

In the case of the original SQH maybe he was not as willing to betray his sect. Like, maybe he was ambitious enough that he thought he could eventually make it so there was a treaty between CQM and the North and from his perspective he wasn't really betraying his sect. Getting rid of HHP was whatever since it was another sect and he could get behind that as long as CQM remained safe. Maybe he thought he and MBJ had an understanding of working together.

Except of course that they didn't and MBJ always planned on killing him.

Like, say MBJ knew about what was SQH'S ambitious and he was either thinking SQH would eventually betray him or that he didn't believe SQH would be capable of convincing his sect of an alliance and was just playing around while taking advantage of SQH. Either way a win for MBJ.

Then of course LBH happens and MBJ no longer has time for games, LBH wants CQM obliterated so CQM has to go and with it gone he no longer has reason to keep playing games with SQH so he kills him.

To make it more sad I like to imagine that original SQH was also fond of MBJ (maybe even in love with him) and that he did not see this happening at all.

#svsss #fic ideas #mobei jun #original shang quinghua #original mobei #airplane shooting towards the sky #we don't know that much of Original Shang Quinghua so I like to imagine something sad and tragic for him #I also read this oneshot (I think it was a OS) were SQH “betrays” MBJ but is thinking that technically MBJ betrayed him first by razing CQM #and that part of their deal was that CQM was safe from MBJ #I know that MBJ'S thing is that he is loyal #but in this case I imagine that he didn't see it as him betraying SQH because he was never loyal to him #that or he saw it as a kindness because he knew what LBH was capable of #either way I like to imagine that the original SQH genuinely cared about original MBJ and saw him as a friend #and he also thought that MBJ cared about him in his own way and saw him as a friend #meanwhile MBJ was just playing games with the human

[ailendolin]

"He waited and waited. But she never came."

I always thought this line was about Thomas's dying moments but what if there's more to it?

Thomas, very noticably, barely moves after he dies. He lifts his head to look at the others but that's pretty much it. His reaction, of course, could be the result of shock - the pain from his wound, the realisation that he's dead and ghosts are real and he's one of them, and the pain of Isabelle's absence are quite a lot to deal with, after all - but I wonder if perhaps Kitty's words imply that Thomas stayed under that tree even after he died. At that point he still believed Francis was going to fetch Isabelle so why wouldn't he continue to wait for her?

So imagine him sitting under that tree next to his body, gazing towards the house with hopeful eyes. Imagine the minutes ticking by, turning into an hour. Imagine the other ghosts urging him to come inside and when he doesn't, leaving him there. Imagine the flare of hope inside his chest when someone finally comes, and the disappointment when he realises that it's only the servants. Imagine him watching them carry his body away and hearing them call him a fool. Imagine him staying behind, still waiting, still hoping for Isabelle to come. Imagine the sun setting and night falling and it dawning on him that she won't. Imagine him getting to his feet after all these hours and finding his way to Robin's nook because he can't bear to go into the house and face Isabelle there. Imagine him curling up on the bench and waiting for the sun to rise. Imagine him returning to the tree the moment it does on the off chance that Isabelle might want to say goodbye to him after all.

Imagine him waiting and waiting.

#I think this would make an already tragic scene even more sad and heartbreaking #it would mean Thomas not only died alone and unloved but he spent the first few hours or perhaps even days of his afterlife that way too #ngl I kind of want to turn this idea into a fic #thomas thorne #isabelle higham #bbc ghosts #mp bbc ghosts #the thomas thorne affair

[occasionaltouhou]

YUKARI AGAIN NO PROBLEMS

happy anniversary!! four years ago, after posting a couple of doodles on twitter, i decided to make a blog to post them on, and through some fucking miracle, that first ever post got some really good attention. and now, here we are, four years later, and i can actually draw something akin to human anatomy. wow!

so like. it's kind of been a big year for me! i said i'd draw something every week and i pretty much pulled that off. experimented. learnt about some basic sai functions. got more confident in my art... something that i want to try to dig into more next year, even if i don't keep up the weekly pattern

as i write this (the day before it posts), i've reached 1000 followers for this silly little blog. which is nuts. the idea of that many people liking what i do is genuinely incredible. of course, in the grand scheme of things, maybe 1000 isn't that many? i need to start shooting for 10k, clearly. even so, whatever number i have is spectacular, and i'm incredibly grateful that any and all of you like my work so much, whether it be the art, writing, or Posting. here's to four years of a silly little sideblog for a series i got into on a whim back in november 2019, and hopefully to at least another four (provided the website lasts that long...)

#touhou #yukari yakumo #occasional art #occasional anniversary #the truly sad thing is that now that i'm good at art i kind of can't draw the lil shapeblobs i used to. tragic

[orangesrotting]

i think he knows or lavender haze? afterglow or the great war? midnight rain or champagne problems? red or daylight? end game or everything has changed? august or illicit affairs? cruel summer or new romantics? the way i loved you or haunted? mary’s song or ours? sad beautiful tragic or death by a thousand cuts? state of grace or holy ground? gorgeous or enchanted? invisible string or tis the damn season? all too well or tolerate it?

#this one's kind of long actually but personally: #i think he knows / afterglow / champagne problems / daylight / end game / august / new romantics / the way i loved you / #mary's song / sad beautiful tragic / holy ground / gorgeous / tis the damn season / tolerate it #if u see this this is an invitation to do this so <3 u will have my love #taylor swift #this or that #music #notes

[yinyuedijun]

I am the absolute biggest failure at writing blank readers like I am trying to make this alpha mc as bland as possible (and they kind of are objectively ldjslsajwkal) but they are still very distinct in an unrelatable way 😔

#i cannot relate to them because their vibe is turning out to be less cringefail than i intended #they kind of have the energy of quanxi but also the energy of a non-marastruck blade #rip mc you could be getting so much pussy if u werent whipped for this sad blonde man . tragic for them #alas i love my obsessive guard dog characters #yueshuo

[spitinsideme]

Any thoughts on the new trailer?

going to beso honest like righr now, lime COMELTY honest righr now, i actually do not care for tadc lime .. at all .. it is not a show id usually watch and when it does come out i will probably not watch ir unless im feing like watching ragapom moments i guess ? it juat isnr sowmthing i actually care aboit .. so sorry to you all i am actually not a tadc fan 💔 heartbreaking im sure, i juat am a daily distrubutor for ragapom art

ive heard about it rhoifh from posts ? the like princesss of sweets or soemthig, she seems pretty i guess ?? sowmrhing aboit pomni beong jelaous for ragatba and the sweets princess, old woman yuri idonrknkw my sources are from gay artists but looks good o guess 👍 im sure it will be fun !

#i dont even knlw WHY i drew ragapom art in the begining lik actuallu #i didnt even actualy ship them #i watched the tadc trailer because i was seeong the charagers from it everywhere #and i was like yeah alroghr ill give it a look #it wasnt my thing ! i wasnt Interested in it but thats just me i just am not an animatrd kins of dark show person #me personally i love happy feel good things or anythong that is gay and depressing #i think i started drawing ragapom because o saw a fanart foe ir maybe ? ans thoifht it was cutw and was like yeah sure ill add to that #it was in lke novemeber i had zero other things to do i may as well start a tumblr art accounr i guess ! #kind of funny to me how i thinm im like the artist who draws ragapon the most because i do it like daily #and yet i have zero interwat in the show #to be fair allthe fandom i am interwsted on have like so few people who care aboit ir #like for me to be in a fandom woth over 5 people ??? crazy ... #ragapom is cute thoufh ! i love okder women #soemtone tell me how it ends and if it ends happily i will watxh kr but if it ends sadly i will not #i will NEVER watxh a show with sk many epaopdes just flr there to be a sad ending #i will only watxh lesbian movies with tragic endings and NOTHING else #everyrhing else needs to be happy

[brainworms-all-night-long]

Nine and Sonic, as they stand currently, are as incompatible as the same poles of two different magnets. For them to align one of them would have to flip a complete 180 on their beliefs and personality and I don't think that's ever gonna happen.

This is a slightly different string of thought, but the way it all escalated because of pure blind assumptions. I even struggle to call it miscommunication because neither of them probably felt the need to communicate in the first place. This is literally just two strangers that met like two weeks ago assuming shit about the other and ignoring everything that dared to challenge those assumptions until it was already too late.

Sonic was overfamiliar with a kid that he broke into the house of and imposed the identity of his brother based on external appearance alone. And Nine was just so starstruck by someone treating him with the basic decency of a living being and a bit more that he failed to consider the possibility of the nice stranger he barely knows not wanting to spend the rest of his life in a repeating and seemingly endless plain of sand with only one other living person around (granted Nine could probably create anything he puts his mind to since there hasn't been given any clear limit to the prism's abilities but it just wouldn't Feel Right, no matter how many palm trees he could create)

Nine and Sonic man, crying over them

#sonic prime #NORMAL ABOUT THEM #the writers of thisnshow fr looked at the fandom wanting a tragic version of Tails and fucking rannnn with it #and delivered #everything about Nine is making me sad at the moment (the good kind of sad) #miles nine prower #nine the fox #sonic the hedgehog #prime sonic #sonic #silly brainworms

[pokimoko]

Listening to instrumentals from the silly doo-wee-ooo show is actually something that can be so painful.

#doctor who #doctor who music #murray gold #segun akinola #musings about music #this is specifically about 10's theme in vale decem. the long song in 11's regen piece. and clara's theme in face the raven / clara's diner #i get psychic damage everytime i simply hear the use of the motifs elsewhere because of the tragic associations those sadder renditions hav #obviously these songs aren't the only examples in doctor who but they are by far the most emotionally devastating ones for me personally #and obviously it isn't just leitmotifs either. basically hearing any piece that played during a sad scene gets to me. #how are you supposed to explain to your coworkers that you're tearing up because of instrumental sound association? #'yeah sorry these violins and humming sounds summoned vivid images of my favourite character dying/leaving and it made me sad' #love that composers can just straight up pavlov bell your emotions by getting you to associate a melody with a sad scene #an addition to this is doctor who instrumentals that make me nostalgic because I associate them with my own past #like 'this is gallifrey: our childhood. our home'. that song was one of my alarms for a good long while back when i was 15ish #so it kinda transports me back to that time in my life whenever i hear it. music really is its own little kind of time travel #i am very much looking forward to the continuing psychological damage murray gold will inflict upon me in the new season #and to have previously uplifting character leitmotifs used against me and forever be contaminated with sad feelings. love to see it #(also: not a instrumental but damn 'the stowaway' has no right being as good as it is. who knew a christmas sea shanty could sound so great #apologies for this probably niche-ish post (is it niche to know ost title's by heart? asking for friend). just feeling things about music

[distinguished-slacker]

I wish for an OnS antagonist that is an asshole full stop. No tragic backstory. No “I was also…” past. No “it’s for my loved one” goals. Just a big, arrogant asshole who does evil just because.

#This isn’t to hate on Shikama’s character #if all of this was because of a tragic backstory surrounding his son and people go for it #but it gets tiring when every OnS antagonist ruins other people’s lives #and then we get a flashback basically telling us they are also victims too #I know every character here is doing what is advantageous to them but all these parallels are becoming too repetitive #that it is becoming kind of hard to get a ‘unique’ character #basically #I don’t think there is anything wrong from a narrative standpoint to have an antagonist that has no sad story to back it up #by ‘back it up’ I mean ‘explain’ not ‘justify’ their actions #owari no seraph #seraph of the end

[starsnores]

Having thoughts.... About gamzee makara...

#he was just a baby once #making myself sad #such a tragic boy look whats become of my baby hes a killer #the killer clown schtick is fun in that slasher movie kind of way but im thinking about it too hard and hes so sad to me

[death-of-the-endless]

“...It’s like uh gender isn’t something you can pick and choose uh far as Gods are concernced.” “Well, that’s something the Gods can take and stuff up their sacred recta. I know what I am.”

Wanda Mann in The Sandman: A Game of You (1993)

#the sandman #wanda mann #dc #the sandman spoilers #dc comics #death of the endless #barbie (the sandman) #opened up tumblr and had the terry pratchett post on my dashboard #(you know the one) #and thought i should do something for one of my absolute favorite minor characters in the sandman #wanda mann has my whole heart #her death truly gives the whole story a sense of tragedy because she's just this brave person trying to do her best and help others #her family thinks she's some kind of demon spawn just because she's trans and she's still so fucking kind to the end #was thinking if i wanted this to be about her death but you know what #i actually love wanda's ending #yes it is tragic and sad af #but the closure of the funeral scene with Barbie and then Death somehow gets more every time #because Wanda looks happy #transgender #queer #mine #terfs do not fucking interact

[camgoloud]

you ever just. become overwhelmed by a sudden out-of-nowhere wave of tenderness and affection and longing for reconnection directed towards someone to whom you no longer speak for Very Good Reasons

#‘out of nowhere’ she says like she hasn’t been doing a lot of reading/thinking recently about various tragic messy breakups #and the later regrets of the parties involved #anyway. tell me not to text her #it’s been over two years since the last time we talked… absolutely no reason to break that streak now. lord give me strength #she was really fucking mean to me! like objectively intentionally unwarrantedly cruel! it ruined an entire year of my life #and fundamentally changed me as a person on a deep level! there’s a lot of things i used to like about myself that i don’t think i’m ever #going to get back #and yet every once in a while we have to do the whole ‘maybe i could make things right’ song and dance 😔 #the thing is most of the time i’m not even really angry with her anymore like enough time has passed since all the shit went down that #really i just sort of look at her behavior and feel sad. both because of the impact on me but also because of the ‘that’s really how you #felt you needed to act towards someone who cared about you? you couldn’t have just expressed your feelings in an honest and productive way #instead of just lashing out in the cruelest possible way and ruining the entire relationship beyond hope of repair?’ #and i feel bad and sorry that it went that way and honestly i kind of pity her and hope she’s gotten some of her shit worked out #so i’m not like. actively pissed off at her anymore. but also i can’t think about her without thinking about the worst year of my life so 🙃 #i don’t actually feel that trying to reopen that door would be very healthy for me at least #we did try a Reconciliation of sorts a couple of months after the initial falling-out and while it was kind of helpful for me in that she #like. apologized lmao. and affirmed that i wasn’t crazy and she did in fact On Purpose say the most hurtful things she possibly could have #said to me given the information she had at her disposal. and that i really had not done anything to her that could warrant that. etc. #it also left a sour enough taste in my mouth that i just don’t see a future where the two of us spending time together is enjoyable for me #and yet… the regret will always live inside me i think. maybe if i were a stronger person… #caseyposting

[the-acid-pear]

Went for a walk but instead of touching grass I started thinking of phones and man I'm so fucking Curious and Hyped to see the Roger route especially to see how different he is from his counterpart in DSaF.

After all, in that universe it really seems that the only thing that made Roger get his shit together after his wife left him and he dropped off med school and shit was fucking Dying and getting to now be Someone Else (see: Scott) but now everyone is already a phone so that possibility is off the table which makes me wonder, is this Roger just not miserable or is there a brand new thing that he found to get his life relatively together?

#luly talks #dialtown #dialtown roger #roger jones #GOD FUCK MAN I HOPE WE ALSO GET TO FINALLY SEE JAKE THEY'RE ROOMIES IT'D BE ONLY FAIR PLEEEEASE I WANNA SEE DA DILF OT2 #but yeah no I'm quite fond of this orange feller he's so sad #he does have kind of a similar thing to what he had before going on i jsut remembered how. god #the fuckign trampoline incident. wish peter would've finished that story w these things happen sometimes! 🤷 christ #but roger really is now just filling the shoes of someone else not bc he's capacitated to do so or not but by sheer fucking chance #i doubt he'll be as tragic as dsaf rogers tho bc . no one is as miserable as they were there thank god #that we are aware of ❓ #but still. yesterday seeing dog mention how long this route is already was like RAUGHHGGHRHGE rips my shirt off like a werewolf