#which is usually amazing

[cepheusgalaxy]

whumpees who use it/its but not in a dehumanization context :)

#idk its just that mostly its used as objetification in pet whump #which is usually amazing #top tier #but sometimes i miss the actual it/its whumpees #like just imagine: whumpee uses it/its to themselves and caretker's all like “oh yea might be the conditioning” and then later #they find out whumpee actually LIKES those pronouns #whump prompts #i just like it #love to all it/its ppl it/its nonppl it/its ocs and it/its whumpees #:)

[little-pup-pip]

25 Days of Agere Moodboards! Day 25: My regression aesthetic!!

#Wow it's the last day! #I've said this before but it seems like yesterday i hit 1000 followers #and now we're on the road to 2000 #which is beyond crazy #anyway #my regressing aesthetic is mostly just colorful #i like to color usually #sometimes I'll play animal crossing #if I'm too little to do other things I'll just cuddle a stuffie and be amazed that i have hands or something lol #and you can't forget bluey!! #sfw interaction only #moodboard #sfw agere #age regression #agere #sfw littlespace #agere moodboard #babyre #age dreaming #baby regression #25ageremoodboards #this was a fun little series!

[shadebloopnik]

There's just something about Floyd being unhinged in fics that just gets me.

Like yes he gets portrayed as a sweet frail uwu boi most of the time, which is also niceee and all, and would also suit his sensitive title. But then there are fics where Floyd is absolutely off the rails at times; where Floyd is nearing losing his voice being the loudest in a shouting match, where Floyd nearly bites someone's head off in anger, where Floyd tries to sneak out of his room multiple times even when his body still very much recovering from greeting his grandma, where Floyd wrestles with his brother on the floor because he's about to do impulsive sht for the people he cares about, fics where Floyd absolutely LOSES HIS SHIT

And the best part is that none of it is out of character for him at all. In fact, it'd cement his title as the sensitive one even more. Being sensitive isn't just about sad and mopey. Sometimes its about being nuts, and paranoid, and being impulsive when your loved ones are in danger and being so so angry that you'd yell and cry from the frustration. Not that he's always feral and wild- because he's def the one to mediate most of the time, but in situations where his loved ones are in danger, I just love when he's unapologetically emotional in every aspect about it, when he's sobbing and yelling without abandon.

There's something about Floyd in fics letting his emotions speak in such a powerful, feral way that gets me.

#Floyd losing his shit in fics just provides an unimaginable catharsis #And You'll Never Ever Wanna Let It Go by Salem_V #it has such an amazing scene of Floyd going apeshit and going nuts with worry i love it so much #boi was prepared to fist fight his way through his brothers and a horde of bergens #Gimme a Hand Would'ja? by tea0W0stache #has Floyd which is shown to be very caring and understanding of his brothers emotional needs. the usual Floyd stuff which makes us love him #but it also has scenes of him being so weak that he has to be dragged to bed #but still needs Bruce to keep an eye on him bc mans will crawl his way out the bunker to escape and do shit- #floyd #floyd trolls #trolls floyd #trolls #trolls dreamworks #trolls band together #brozone #ao3 #fanfics #fics #fanfiction #archive of our own #love this feral emotional emo #floyd appreciation #bloopnik rambles

[enden-k]

aventurines best team comp having ratio in it makes me feel so many things

#hthm and kvh not working super well together in a team so we got ratio and aven who u should not separate <3 #and who work amazing in a team RAAHH #topaz is also included which is super cute i love it (topaz-less tho bc i lost the 50/50 on her banner as usual from me) #im alr looking bc i wanna use the triple reward thingy for aven or better drops for my other chars and saw that and im #*clutches chest* #babbles #tbd #hsr tag

[yellowocaballero]

So fucking glad to see someone talk about SSS Class revival hunter 😭 I lived it so much and I feel like no one ever mentions it against more popular titles like ORV or even The Lout of the counts family, so I'm so glad to come here and see your amazing takes :>

Thank you for the ask which lets me talk about SSSCRH (the version I read was titled 'Suicide Hunter', which tbh I like more - no beating around the bush).

It's hard to draw an accurate comparison since I'm going off just the webtoon for SSSCRH, while I'm going off both the webtoon and the webnovel for ORV. And I love ORV, ORV is my media blorbo right now, it hydraulic presses my brain, I am writing ORV fanfic - it's, like, funner to enjoy. But SSSRH is just better. In the vast majority of ways it is is better. It's better than the holy trinity by a wide margin. TW talk of suicide obviously.

I can't believe I'm saying this but you need a basic understanding of Buddhism in order to understand SSSCRH. It's not about Gongja's suicides - he doesn't suicide from depression or lack of self-esteem. SSSCRH is about suffering in the Buddhist sense - dukkha. I don't want to make this an essay, so I might reblog this with more information, but extremely shortly:

The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism is the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering. You've heard that Buddhists say 'life is suffering'. To put it one way that doesn't require defining a lot of words: the cause of suffering is experiencing the world as we percieve it instead of how it truly is. Suffering isn't just being miserable and in pain, and life isn't suffering because life sucks and global warming exists and people voted for Trump. Life is suffering because we can experience beautiful and joyful moments in this world, but we do not exist in the moment of that happiness or place our ego/'self' between us and that happiness. Living in that moment, accepting the moment as it is unconditionally, is freedom from suffering. The Buddha tries to free people from suffering through teaching Buddhism.

"What does this have to do with the webnovel and manwha about a guy murdering himself thousands of times" it has everything to do with it. Because SSSCRH is about suffering, and it is about using suffering as a tool in order to experience a world unfiltered by ego and break down the artificial boundaries between human beings. Suffering in SSSCRH is not a bad thing. Gongja has the unique capability to (reincarnate.) experience a person's suffering in unity with them, which dissolves the delusion of separation between people and puts us in touch with the reality of oneness.

The Murim arc was fucking insane because Gongja pulls a Big Bodhisattva Move and walks through the suffering of the world in order to achieve full understanding of the human experience. He takes all of the suffering of the world into himself and is liberated. You can tell it's Buddhist because death was not presented as a bad thing - death was an aspect of a happy ending for the Heavenly Demon lady, because she was finishing her life according to her own joy, and because her teachings were passed on she did not truly die.

But the purpose of embracing suffering is to discover the ability to fully embrace life, and that's where Heavenly Demon's teachings were incomplete - as the ghost dude said, Gongja hasn't even experienced his own full life and the infinite capability for his own happiness. You can only feel the depths of sadness when you've felt the depths of happiness. Sadness deserves its place in the world and it can strengthen you, but so does happiness.

Gongja is attention-seeking, envious, and unbelievably petty. When he drills down into his own desires and why he wants the things he wants, you see that he has a very strong sense of justice and right and wrong - he realizes he doesn't want to be famous, he wants to be acknowledged, but on an even deeper level he is desperate for love and to be loved. Everything he does is to experience love, and as such he learns to love others. His love for the Flamey Asshole was purely parasocial and ego-filled, with no concern for who he was as a human. Throughout the manwha, he grows to care for people as they truly are and pierce through any delusions or misleading outward appearances. He has released all attachment to life and death, and as such does not fear death, and as such has taken a step on the road towards becoming a Boddhisatva who frees others from the cycle of samsara, and as a result has learned sick sword techniques and is sooo good at beating people up.

I think the only other thing I want to mention here because otherwise this is an essay: in almost every time loop/regression story, only the final regression matters. In stories with dungeon monsters and NPCs, only the humans matter. The regressor exists in a space where there are no consequences for their actions, so they act terribly and do whatever because none of it matters. In Groundhog Day Bill Murray acts like an asshole because he can. That's not the case here. Everything Gongja does matters. The NPCs are fake, but Gongja never treats them as anything less than real people who deserve life. Once he understands a person's life he never treats them as unimportant. No loop is thrown away and no person or life is disregarded. His choices matter, the way he treats others matters, and Gongja never treats anybody as if they don't matter except for himself.

That was not short. There is a lot more. The female characters are so good and so rich. From a craft perspective it is excellently paced and has a wonderful sense of set-up/payoff and balances tone and maintains a lot of momentum, which is really hard in a time loop story. You have to do a few very specific things to write OP characters well and SSSCRH does it very well. There's more to say from a craft perspective and it's hard to judge accurately from a webtoon but it's good. I was so strangely struck the entire time about how sincere and genuine it was, how it said what it said with no trace of irony of confusion, and I think that's what stuck with me the most.

TL;DR: SSS Class Revival Hunter is good for a lot of very normal reasons, such as excellent pacing and set-up/pay off and characters, but it's also so sincerely and genuinely Buddhist that it blew my tits clean off.

#sss class revival hunter #kim gongja #ssscrh #I s2g I rewrite these like three times to be as short as possible #I just knew I had to define some terms because if I say 'it's about suffering' and leave it at that #people aren't going to fully get it #its not intuitive from a western perspective #It's really hard to get the full meaning of SSSCRH if you have no familiarity with Buddhism #bc suffering (and delusion and nothingness and oneness) mean diff things in buddhism than in english #theres other buddhist stuff like responsibility to the whole and the community but this was long enough already #the few ppl talking about it have good takes but I think ppl miss how #kgj isnt depressed and he doesnt kill himself from self-sacrifice #he's not kdj or cale #he only truly commits suicide (throws his life away) once which was from part percieved worthlessness of his own life #and big part EXTREME FUCKING PETTINESS NEXT LVL PETTINESS INSANE PETTINESS #every other time he kills himself is from his EXTREME goal oriented behavior #as usual there seems to be a dialogue with the rest of its genre #specifically the extreme egocentrism and selfishness of its genre and other OP protags #(which cale has a hilarious relationship w/) #(ur doing amazing honey i know this upsets you) #my asks #and theres also a conversation with buddhism itself anyway #i love orv but this is so much better on so many levels and its being slept on smh #nobody is going to read this its way too long but you know. its not ABOUT you.

[spooky-activity]

I swear it’s not on purpose. They’ve all got excellent gameplay.

+ closeups of the sapphics in question

#my art #acheron #mitsuru kirijo #beidou #honkai star rail #hsr #genshin impact #persona 3 reload #p3r #and mitsuru wasn’t even voiced by allegra in the original! #tara platt did amazing #allegra did her such justice #dorothea fire emblem could be here too but #i usually make her gremory so it didn’t feel right #also thrice rhymes with twice and i couldn’t think of a number to indicate four which rhymed #and the rhyme is much much funnier #also them hiding their left eye #what’s up with that #anyways

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

ok so we're all in agreement that the way the show is handling trixie and matthew's storyline is complete shite right?

#call the midwife #call the midwife series 13 #don't usually like putting negativity in tags but.... i am seriously so frustrated by this lol #not only does it just... not make sense with EITHER characters #it also just feels like a totally lazy way to add drama... #like there's totally a way they could have added a money-issues storyline that could have been really interesting! #but pointless miscommunication? matthew being a chauvinistic dickhead? trixie have barely any of her own agency??? nah nah #fuck that lol #also looks like they're going to make her return to alcoholism in the finale which is completely annoying #like there were whole SERIES dedicated to her getting help with it!! #and it was amazing! it was one of the few times i've seen alcoholism depicted with such care on screen PARTICULARLY w/ a female character #uguhughuu idk #i'm just ranting here soz lol #and like ctm has made some very strange choices in terms of characters and plotlines in the past #but this one really feels like it's taking the piss imo lol...

[sweetest-honeybee]

Some people do kinda suck but I find a lot of joy in giving people really specifics compliments at my job and it makes their whole day sometimes c: 💛

#I had a very enthusiastic conversation about a lady’s hair and the way it was cut #she cut it herself! #I often like to tell some women that their purse is very nice and they’re usually very proud of their purses I’ve found #I will tell some people sometimes that the color of their shirt is so fitting for their skin tone and was a great choice that day #I expressed once to a customer that I loved the prints of his shirts and he came by one day in this one particular shirt #hoping I’d be there apparently because he wanted me to see the shirt because I love his style! #it’s so nice #I had a lady blushing once from head to toe because I said she looks like the perfect example of a woman #that face every artist draws for that reference #she was so beautiful #haha I like compliments on men’s facial hair too! #they’re proud of their facial hair a lot of the time #even soemthing as simple as they look amazing for their age which I’ve said many many times #like I said some people suck and I have yet to truly meet the bad eggs but man I just really like seeing them light up #when you compliment the littlest things they put hardly any effort into and think maybe nobody will even notice #I like pointing out those things

[gentlebeard]

i miss my blorbos and i miss my friends :((

#if life could just give me one fucking moment to breathe that would be great #instead i have to deal with a shit load of exhausting personal matters and annoying relatives and now a nasty eye infection on top of that #so my energy for tumblr and editing is sadly incredibly low (which is a fucking crime because my list of edit ideas is sooo long) #i usually rely on ofmd and all of you amazing people to make me feel better if shit hits the fan #but i can barely see out of my left eye (maybe i should get an eye patch. do you think this will bring me closer to the gay pirates absjsb) #and i'm just so tired #okay whatever rant over #delete later

[blujayonthewing]

if a human asks a gnome when gnomes reach adulthood, they'll probably pin it somewhere between 20 and 40, depending on how they're interpreting the question; if an elf asks, they'll say "oh, we don't"

#speaking of 'getting mad because people don't meaningfully engage with fantasy lifespans' #EVERYONE overlooks the cultural nuance in dnd that elves are /physically/ mature not much later than humans #but are not considered an adult until some self-declared point of maturity usually around the age of 100 #that is. DIFFERENT. than 'a 50 year old elf is basically a literal child' no it ISN'T! it's a CULTURAL RECOGNITION #elves don't think it's possible for humans to mature into a really meaningful adulthood because they literally don't live long enough #'poor things have to settle down and work and marry and have children and die before they can even figure themselves out :/' #gnomes don't subscribe to this because of course they don't it's a cultural viewpoint but also they largely think it's stupid #oh yeah? you're all done growing up after 100 years? nothing left to learn about yourself as a person? #you Become An Adult when you're Wise And Mature which is a single static thing that happens in the first 1/6th of your life? #wow amazing it must be cool to be so enlightened 🙄 #... I need a general worldbuilding musing tag agsjkfdhsj #I guess for now #gnome thoughts #it's almost entirely elf thoughts but that's my only relevant established tag :'D #gnome stuff

[coconut530]

WE’LL GET YOU OUT OF THERE FRENCHIE

This ep reminds me of this vine:

#Nevermore #Nevermore Webtoon #Webtoon #Just as a whole the ep was great — but those chains were amazing and really gave the ep a constricting feel which is cool #I like the panel where Monty’s cross is front and center; builds up to the final lines between them #It’s very strange to see Duke and Monty alone; usually he lets Lenore handle him and we don’t get to see how Duke deals with him #NO MONTY THAT’S A TERRIBLE IDEA TO LEAVE HIM THERE #Ohhhhhh and when he tugged the chains around his neck WHY YOU GOTTA BE SO RUUUUDDDEEE #LOVE LOVE LOVE the Cask of Amontillado callbacks my god they’re so on the nose and I love it “What a laugh…!” #Well Monty the horse kick doesn’t explain the tooth but it DOES explain why you’re dumb #Also saying that in the southern accent and stuff reminded me of Shane’s backstory from Shiloh (🐴) #Sucker punch from WHOOOO Monty?? Also how much do you remember we’ve only got one flashback from you #OF COURSE HE WAS AWAKE AND HEARD THAT well dude it’s TRUE #His black eyes scare me #STOP PUSHING HIM AND IMPRISONING HIM #OH GOD THEY’RE ALL IN ON IT #ADA’S NAILS ARE DIRTY FROM THE PLASTER #Gosh if Ada’s southern I swear she’s been saying a lot of southern slang lately #CALLED HIM A BASTARD YESSSSS #ADA THIS IS LIKE TWO HOURS AFTER HE TOLD YOU TO BARK LIKE A DOG WHY ARE YOU DOING HIS BIDDING AND PLASTERING DUKE IN #YOU’RE BETTER THAN THIS GIRL HOW MANY TIMES DO I NEED TO TELL YOU #WHY YOU KICK HER YOU IDIOT #AND AUGHHHH HOW HE PLEADS WITH WILL AND ADA WHILE MONTY MANIACALLY LAUGHS IT OFF #LIKE IN 50 WHEN HE LAUGHED AT LENORE’S SITUATION #BUT JEEZ THE WAY HE GRADUALLY LAUGHS HARDER AND HARDER IS DONE VERY WELL #AND LIKE #ANNABEL I TRUSTED YOU WHY DID YOU OFFER UP DUKE OF ALL PEOPLE WHY DID YOU COME UP WITH THIS PLAN IN THE FIRST PLACE IT IS #NOT GOOD AND YOU KNOW LENORE WILL DEFINITELY NOT LIKE YOU OR TRUST YOU AFTER THIS THIS IS WORKING AGAINST YOUR PLAN #YOU WANT SO BADLY TO GO RIGHT YOU AND LENORE NEED TO GET ON THE SAME PAGE BECAUSE YOU’RE SABATOGING YOURSELF #AND NOW WE ENTER THE DIVORCE ARC

[mobius-m-mobius]

I finally actually watched that Loki s1 bts clip where Owen quotes the first line of Two Gentlemen of Verona and. WHAT DO YOU MEAN he doesn't have any particular connection the play he 'just' took a Shakespeare class in college. He's so clearly trying to laugh it off like it's not very impressive but that's sure not working on me Owen, I can barely remember which classes I took let alone verbatim quotes from plays I'm not even that into WHAT

Everything about this ask, yes!!! 💕

Thank you anon because that's something I've been going on about for years ever since the s1 Assembled ep dropped lol, the fact that Tom just casually mentions Owen knows most of Hamlet BY HEART is wild but of course he shrugs it off as usual insisting it isn't true before dropping that line from Two Gentlemen of Verona verbatim?? Like okay tell me more about what you don't know then 😳

He has very possibly the most literary mind I've ever experienced and it actually drives me a little crazy that somehow isn't a more well known or acknowledged fact about him. After the first season of Loki ended I thought I'd just be going through his many films I hadn't gotten a chance to watch yet but instead got just as captivated with interviews where he was detailing his home libraries, referencing lines from even the most obscure novels or scenes at the drop of a hat and falling even more in love with how that's clearly shaped his sense of humor and delivery.

It's also why I wish he didn't laugh off the idea that he himself could've played Hamlet, which he likely did since as we've noticed he's quick to downplay his skills and talent, but also because that's how most of the general public would react if the same question was presented?? And he isn't especially comfortable on live stages so theater probably isn't a medium he's considered in any serious fashion but for me at least it's far more fascinating to see the take an actor more well known for comedy would give a dramatic role of any kind and I don't doubt he'd be incredible at any he set his mind to 🥰

#reminds me of this time he was called overseas to pick up extra scenes in the middle of a profile #and two weeks later started talking to the interviewer at the EXACT point of reference they left off at as if no time passed at all #his mind is huge and it's the hottest thing ever tbh #apologies as usual this reply was longer than expected but your ask is seriously something that's always on my mind bc he's SO IMPRESSIVE #and passionate!!! #just in every possible way which blows my mind every single day like there's always something to be surprised by with him? #it's just the most amazing thing ever so tysm for a wonderful ask and i hope your upcoming week is an amazing one #sending lots of love your way 💖💖 #ask

[rotisseries]

#THEY'RE ANNOYINGGGG AND ALSO ALWAYS MAKING CONTRADICTORY POSTS #IT'S “I LOVE STEVE'S BITCHY ERA” AND THEN IT'S “STEVE WAS NEVER AN ASSHOLE” #IT'S “STEVE HAS SUCH AN AMAZING CHARACTER ARC" (PART OF WHICH WAS A REDEMPTION!!) #AND THEN IT'S “STEVE NEVER DID A THING WRONG” (WHAT GOT REDEEMED THEN??) #UGHHHH. YOU DON'T LIKE HIM YOU JUST LIKE JOE KEERY #one singular steve stan is valid and it's my beloved mutual theo #that stupid ass poll. that stupid ass fucking poll. anyway as I said on my tags on that poll #jonathan gatekept‚ girlbossed‚ and most importantly he gaslit!!! he LIEDDDD to nancy about being asked to take her home!! #which means steve left his gf drunk!!! #THE POLL DOESN'T EVEN MENTION STEVE. BTW. IT CARRIES NO IMPLICIT JUDGMENT ON STEVE #YOU'RE JUST MAKING EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM AGAIN. AS USUAL #stranger things

[moefongo]

I feel like the Sandrock fandom is entirely lacking some good Justice headcanons, especially relationship ones. Could you grace us with some? :)

Of course I can! You can also request as many Justice headcanons as you want!

Married life with Justice

The day of the wedding, Justice couldn't hold back the tears. He couldn't beleive that this was happening to and honestly feels like the luckiest man in all of the Free Cities.

Once settled in, Justice got the habit of bringing supplies the builder might need, for example course leather or maybe some rocks that Unsuur suggested.

His cooking is okay, however desserts and baking is where Justice truly shines, though this is a secret only the builder knows. Whenever they both have some time off, Justice and the builder bake together and it usually ends up in both of them covered up in flour. But Justice doesn't care at all since what he loves the most is seeing them smile and be happy.

Now that they're married, he can conveniently join them whenever they go exploring the ruins or traveling to the Eufaula, since he has to make sure they're safe (he still can't forgive himself for the cliff incident).

Along the notes of joining them, he'll also bring food and snacks for them to rest and have a date.

When it comes to dating, outside of him tagging along, sometimes its them staying at home and getting much needed rest, so they spend a good amount of time napping together on the couch, though it has happened on more than one occasion that they both sleep the entire day away.

#my time at sandrock #mtas justice #idk i feel like that would be his biggest secret and would go above and beyond so no one other than the builder knows #imagine a whole ass conspiracy theory that sweeps sandrock which all of them try to figure out what Justice is hiding and who is the one #whos leaving those amazing brownies in the blue moon #ofc Owen finds out its him so he's the second one to know and just plays along since they mystery is drumming up more business as usual #than*

[juneviews]

not aj & jj getting speaking roles in the same show for once, only for aj’s character to die in his brother’s arms five minutes later :’)))

#axelle rants #midnight museum #midnight museum the series #aj chayapol #jj chayakorn #also ploy & foei???? why are they so cute lmao #ploy is already my fave character I love herrrr #also not the bonethird tol reunion with mike attacking gun lmaooooo slay #also I 10000% ship tor & gun together which is very unexpected for me bc I usually only ship gun with off lmao but they're amazing #but idk why I deffo feel like they're gonna make them brothers or something lol #bc 1) idk why tor would do bl tbh & 2) that would be a bit unfair to off tbh #also tor said 'p' when he was dying so he's deffo his brother

[franeridan]

ace's death might be the biggest thing fans regularly retcon in op fanworks and that's probably because ace is one of the most loved characters in the whole series but i was thinking that a huge part of why people can't just accept that it was a necessary evil and move on is that ace died without ever knowing sabo was alive and sabo got his memories back only after it was too late to do anything about them re: ace. by people I mean me. I find that unacceptable.

#i get why it was needed for luffy's growth and I understand that it was a good ending for ace #it completed his arc and gave him everything he ever wanted and let him die without regrets #and I'd be fine with that if that was the absolute truth!! #but are you telling me his relationship with sabo didn't need closure?? #had he known his brother was still alive wouldn't not meeting him before dying have been a regret for him??? #and how is it fair to sabo! that he gets to live with regrets he'll never be able to do anything about!!! #oda is a fan of the idea that bad things happen and we need to learn to live with them #which is an amazing message to send and i love him for it #but the beauty of stories is that you get to make the bad things as fair as you wish isn't it !!!! #....... i just finished rereading the asl backstory I'm having troubles dealing #as usual #i think there's beauty in ace and sabo's tragedy from a storytelling pov #but I'm a baby and i like fair endings and this will forever be just too sad for me to accept #amen