#yeah I wasn’t kidding about that

[theshadowrealmitself]

I like to think that Vulcans who come to understand that Humans just can’t try to process emotions the same way as them, it’s just healthiest to let it out in harmless ways, decide that venting and stuff should be taken just as seriously as Vulcan’s meditation time, and will encourage the Humans around them to complain about what’s upsetting them

People who are used to aloof Vulcans who avoid Humans at all cost running into one comforting a Human

“-and then they said my cheesecake was subpar, and they didn’t even bring a dish!!!”

“The purpose of this event was that every participant brings a food item of sorts, correct?”

“Yeah!!”

“And they did not follow this rule while insulting dishes that were brought?”

“Mostly just my dish but yeah >:(“

“How illogical”

“That’s what I’m saying!!!”

#star trek #Vulcans #Humans #not based on a specific thing #but I used to know this annoying couple that were ‘family friends’ #who would show up to potluck dinners and the like and would either bring nothing or bring something really just. out of left field? #like a bag of frozen chicken to a bbq #and then proceed to make sure they are first even if it was stated to let kids go first #would take HUGE amounts before anyone else got a chance to get a plate #and then make off with the leftovers again even if they were already claimed for #and it wasn’t a food insecurity thing trust me I would never speak bad about a person getting food if that was even a remote chance #the adults who raised us knew them really well and we’d been to their house a ton of times #they were just dicks #and yeah. they’d occasionally insult the food. while eating the MAJORITY of it. #it was so weird at their home they would go out of their way to get the healthiest options possible #you know the really bland tasteless expensive stuff that apparently was healthier #but then if they were visiting our house they would. eat all our unhealthy snacks. #that always pissed me off so much as a kid because we actually had a food insecurity thing going on #and also a variety of other reasons that are a bit too depressing to bring up on this post #but anyways we’d hardly ever get to have nice snacks #and this couple would just take them all??? even after we’d tell them repeatedly that it was ours and those snacks weren’t gonna be #replaced #hated that couple #if you’re wondering why they were ‘family friends’ it’s because the couple who raised us #(it feels weird to type it out like that but apparently legal guardians doesn’t fit since they never finished petitioning 💀) #liked having them around because it made them look like ‘such great Christian’s’ being nice to the people #that no one else wanted to be friends with #I always thought that was a really weird and fucked up reason to be friends with someone #this got long sorry 😭

[nazumichi]

friendchip means everything. to me 🫶

#raii draw a lot #id in alt #gays I’m new if it wasn’t clear. like maybe a month new to here but I’ve been obsessing sooo much so. there we go #lmk #lego monkie kid #mk #mei #still working out how I want to go about drawing them all but yeah no you can have my mk aroace trutherism right out the door #monkie kid #wringing my hands I don’t knowwww #q #oh yeah don’t tag as ship btw

[ifbrd]

Weird Gravity Falls question:

As fans, we’re all aware that Filbrick sucked as a dad.

But do Stan and Ford understand that?

It seems obvious to us outside viewers, but I don’t exactly recall any comments by either senior Pines twin that would suggest they have connected those dots. I believe it’s fairly normal for children of abusive, neglectful or just simply bad parents to think their parent’s behavior was normal or that they deserved it or whatever, and in addiction to not being able to remember a moment where they admit their dad sucked, they certainly have both internalized his words.

Ford continued to pursue his education and was obsessed with academic excellence, as that seemed to be the one and only thing that made his father show him any kind of appreciation.

Stan continued to obsess over money, as his dad told him that was the only way he was allowed to return home. And let’s not forget his comment in the finale “dad was right, I am a screw up”

But again, and please please correct me if I’m wrong, I can’t think of anything either of them has said that criticizes their father’s actions. There’s the comment that he “wasn’t easily impressed” which I think more than anything, serves more as an excuse for his actions. Heck, in the flashback of Stan taking boxing lessons, I felt that whole scene was framed as Filbrick being a good dad, personally, I thought he was a good dad up until A Tale of Two Stans.

Idk I guess I just always assumed that after several decades they started to understand that Filbrick wasn’t a great dad, but it’s perfectly realistic for neither of them to have come to that conclusion, and frankly, the tiny bits of evidence from the show support this being the case.

I rambled a bit here, but what do you all think? Did I forget a moment that proves they do see their dad wasn’t a good dad? Do you think they have processed that part of their childhoods?

#gravity falls #tw: abuse #tw: neglect #stan pines #ford pines #stanford pines #stanley pines #filbrick pines #at this point I’m just imagining them thinking very neutrally about their dad #more like ‘yeah this wasn’t his finest moment but he was okay!’ #and then one day dipper and Mabel make some comment about how Filbrick sucked #and at first the Stans are like ‘excuse me that’s your great grandfather don’t talk about him like that’ #and then the kids just start listing all the terrible things Filbrick did #and it slowly starts dawning on Stan and ford #they start thinking ‘I would kill anyone who did any of that to dipper and Mabel why was it okay for dad to do that to us?’

[ickypuppi3]

there really is something so interesting about billy never actually landing a punch during the fight at the byers until he’s cornered

#billy hargrove #steve harrington #and it’s not even a punch #it’s the plate #that parallel haunts my dreams #but it’s like yeah sure he swung at steve #but he also missed #and then just didn’t fight back at all #like steve was really going for it #and billy was laughing #idk #it just doesn’t come across like he was ever trying to fight back that hard #until he had no choice #and i refuse to believe he’s just that shit at fighting #there’s no way #he was fighting as a kid #he took steve down when he started actually fighting back #so why WASN’T he #if he’s this big scary angry guy who hates everyone around him and doesn’t care about anything except being violent #then why not punch steve immediately #why not punch steve when they were outside #you know what i mean? #because he’s not someone who thrives off of violence #he literally isn’t #sure he’s a bitch #sure he’s an asshole #but he’s not neil #he’s not who the duffers keep saying he is #anyway !! #character analysis

[greenvillainredemption]

One thing I love about mutant mayhem is that Leo has a crush on an April who’s not conventionally attractive. It almost feels like, because of the turtles’ isolated upbringing* he hasn’t been influenced by the popular western beauty ideals and just thinks this ordinary human is beautiful! And I think that’s really cool! Because she is!

*though they’ve clearly been exposed to celebrities and other pop culture so ?? idk lol

#tmnt #mutant mayhem #I’m usually a very ‘I’m ugly and that’s okay’ type of person #but that’s really only about the definition of ugly that = not fitting into the popular western beauty ideals #but everyone has something about them that’s beautiful to someone yknow #idk I don’t want to be out here calling this April ugly because I don’t think she is #but I know a lot of male fans of older turtles have been saying she’s ugly #and yeah it’s very cool that this teenage boy character has a crush on an ‘ugly’ girl #and I know I have no stake in straight representation lol but it’s just good to see the girl crush have unconventional features #though I will say personally I don’t want them to be together just because any turtle x human relationship gives me the ick which is fully #just a me thing I think like I don’t think it’s morally reprehensible to ship any turtle with an april or karai (03 leo and karai had me #shipping them as a kid before I even knew what shipping was lol) #my words #ALSO whoever voiced dr stockman sounded SO similar to the 03 him. I was cryin #i feel like this movie wasn’t the best I mean I heavily enjoyed it but I hope it builds up to more. the mid credits scene had me screaming #so here’s hoping we get sequels aaaaa #give me karai or give me death #SMOOTH LIKE BUTTER LIKE A CRIMINAL UNDERCOVER

[apollokids]

Thoughts about tsats, trauma, and the cocoa puffs

Nico’s personality in tsats feels most reminiscent of what he was like in The Titans Curse which (imo) is a sign that he is slowly healing and living with his trauma.

The Sun and the Star emphasizes that trauma and PTSD can make it feel like one’s past life events happened to a completely different person, and it mentions that Nico relates to this feeling. This distancing of oneself from past memories, experiences, and personality can result in feeling disconnected for a while, taking on new personality traits, feeling like a chameleon mimicking others, or just feeling empty.

For some people (maybe, depending on when trauma occurs), healing can be about reconnecting with our childhood selves. Depending on what someone was like before trauma, like maybe Nico for example, that can mean becoming more emotional, being more playful, indulging in your childhood interests (eg. mythomagic cards). And Nico’s progression practically mirrored mine exactly through the years, and the ways I changed in ED treatment.

It's hard to let go of a disorder when in some cases it feels like the only thing that’s stayed stable in our lives. Suffering is touted as the pinnacle of art-- we see its romanticization everywhere. It sounds weird to say that I miss being sick, or I miss my suffering, when I'm actively trying to make my life better, but those thoughts do come up. And when it comes to characters I project that misery on to? Well, if I’m suffering, then they have to suffer with me! (After all, they’re just characters, it’s not that deep, right?) Except I found that the more I made my characters suffer, and focused on the ‘beauty’ of suffering, the harder it was for me to heal from my own. Whenever my health was in decline, I characterized my favorite characters the same way. It was just as hard to allow those characters to heal as it was to allow myself to heal. (Other people might not feel the same, though.)

I think Nico choosing to accept the physical manifestations of his demons (while also setting them free, and allowing them to exist as they please) mirrors the suggestion I was given in treatment when I struggled with the idea of ‘giving up’ my eating disorder– because to me, it was always either defeat the disorder or be consumed by it, and defeating it sounded like killing a part of me or erasing a part of my past or my home. Approaching treatment from the standpoint of killing my eating disorder scared me too much. I knew my disorder had caused problems for me, but many of the habits and behaviors I’d developed had served as my coping mechanism and they helped me survive. 

So, my therapist told me: “You don’t have to shun your disorder, kill it, or say goodbye. Instead, you can acknowledge that it served a purpose during a point in your life in which you used it to survive, but you no longer need to hold on to it and that’s okay — you’re setting it free. Maybe even instead of saying goodbye, you can say ‘thank you, I’m alright now.’”

And that’s pretty much… exactly what Nico did with the demons. Bob, too, acknowledged that he was a titan, and that was part of his past, and that’s okay — but he’s allowed to change. And Nico is too.

I just found that really really wonderful because I related to it so heavily. He didn’t want to conquer his trauma in battle. He wanted it to just… be acknowledged, and set free. And it followed him, but he can have a better relationship with his past now. He’s not consumed by it. It’s just there, it’s a part of him, and he can continue to live his life. And I think reading this book (while trying to maintain and navigate post-treatment life) was exactly what I needed to remind myself why I’m doing this.

#sentences bolded purely because it helps my eyes follow things better hope it helps others + is not obnoxious i dont usually make posts #tsats #tsats spoilers #the sun and the star #solangelo #nico di angelo #pjo #ed recovery #and yeah. with the writing at times i was like ahhh im too in-college for this book arent i #but at the same time it made me remember what it felt like to read these books when i was a kid #and im reading about this character ive loved since i was in 2nd or 3rd grade and it feels like ive grown up with him #and it feels like we went through our trauma together. i read house of hades the year my dad died. and now its like we're getting through it #idkgkdhjhf #that being said: i kind of wish the cocoa puffs came about in a different way!! #it kind of felt like SA and that wasn’t addressed

[movedtodykedvonte]

I hope The Spot gets to die as a himself like pre-powers. It’s likely he’s gonna destroy himself trying to destroy Spider-man (I think he’s gonna for the mythos of the hero not just Miles, if the flash forward is any prediction) cause he’s either not gonna be able to handle the full effects of his abilities it and needs to be saved but it’s too late for him or does some not fully redeeming sacrifice as he realizes he didn’t have to resort to villainy and doesn’t want to go out with people fearing him rather than respecting.

It’d make the point that anyone can be Spider-man under the mask string as it’d point out that depending on circumstances anyone could become anything. In this case none of them would know The Spot personally or even in passing as Johnathan Ohnn, so seeing a complete stranger, someone who could of been anyone, defeated at the end of the battle would invoke a lot with the random chance and fate that comes along with being Spider-man if not just going through life rather than the adherence to canon events that is trying to be pushed on characters.

I feel like giving the Spot his face back would just make the climax feel more complete, an odd commentary on being true to oneself even if it is past your time.

#cause like every other Spidey villain spiderman usually knew or came to know as Peter #Norman and the goblin harry and the hobgoblin #Felicia and black cat etc #Johnathan wants to be spider mans personal enemy but knows nothing about him if it was for his abilities #like he probably just thinks he is scared of the police captain dying cause he failed to save people or that he’s fond of law enforcement #cause I am certain if he knew Miles was spiderman The Spot would call him that #to fuck with him by knowing his identity #but i digress I think it would show that it really wasn’t personal #cause the spot hated what he became and lost and placed the blame on someone close to the incident but ultimately had nothing to do with it #yeah he blew it up but who was just fucming around with dark matter like wtf John #it’d be rad to have Johnanthan like see Miles face for the first time and be like ur just a kid wat did I almost due gaining some of the #humanity be lost back only to not being able to rectify it cause honestly I’d be horrified if I found out my enemy couldn’t even drive yet #LEGALLY #johnathan ohnn #the spot #miles morales #atsv #itsv #spiderverse #across the spiderverse #into the spiderverse #atsv spoilers

[un-pearable]

Jay AND sonic. Blue guys w/ electricity motifs..

You’re losin’ speed! You’re losin’ your flow! —But inside me is a power you’ll never know Then let it out; it’s inside you! —Better all stand back, ’cause I’m coming through! Endless Possibility, Sonic Unleashed

BLUE GUYS WITH ELECTRICITY MOTIFS....

+ a few more assorted versions bc why not :]

#jay walker #jay ninjago #ninjago #sonic the hedgehog #sonic #art✨ #1) thank you so so so much for the prompt 2) i made this infinitely more intense than it needed to be but im so happy with it so :> #3) oooooooh I can have so much crossover brainrot. tysm. i will be thinking about this for a month. the other prompt is in a similar vein #and i am so ready #(is not ready) #also hell yeah got to use my lists for the ninjago x sonic songs post >:] #first time drawing lightning!!! it took FOREVER but i’m really happy. #jay’s design is just the outfit i remembered most from watching as a kid and the newer design i haven’t finished yet #the arm is. supposed to be chainmail bc mr chrome over here is physically impossible and i wasn’t drawing any more armor plates #also idk or c if he’s supposed to have the nunchucks i wanted to draw em :> #suspend your disbelief if you will. i had so much fun with this

[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

Personally, as an autistic person, I love people being flabbergasted about pronouns. Oh wah wah wah you’re having issues with how to refer to people?? Baybe I’ve been struggling not to refer to myself in the second person since 1997, don’t @ me until it takes you 20 years to remember which way is right and which way is left without making an L with your fingers

#i’m kidding btw pronoun discourse is exhausting #and dated!! haven’t we figured this out already? i’ve been here since 2010 i thought Discourse was Over ™️ #referring to myself in the second person? oh yeah baby #misgendering cis ppl b/c all language sounds like simlish? hell yeah brother #actually autistic #autism #<- i wish these had the rainbow tags too lol #lgbtqia #lgbt #gay #lesbian #trans #queer #bisexual #i just like the colors tbh #homosexuality #<- iirc this one doesn’t get the colors which wow hahaha how… typical #nonbinary #didn’t realize i’ve been using they/them my entire life talking about ppl i wasn’t specifying because it felt right? #wasn’t even tryna be woke pronouns are just hard mang

[sarumint]

(read from left to right just like in usual comic format!)

a scene from chap. 72 in book 4 where xie lian declares the “I do not worship gods, I AM god” quote that I personally love so much

#I just love when xie lian snaps it just makes me feral #slay what u wanna slay xie lian #tgcf comic #heaven official's blessing #tian guan ci fu #fanart #oh yeah the little hua cheng snickering in there wasn’t actually a scene from the book I just decided to put it there #I just wanted to add him in there being all proud #and to laugh at the daoists being shook #I was also supposed to draw himself caught kneeling and wide-eyed at the astonishment of xie lian’s declaration #but I thought about it and went with the silly snickers #if you’ve forgotten he was actually in lang ying’s body here that’s why he’s in a kid form

[moonflowercare]

ooc: hey guys, so I haven’t decided to abandon this account yet but I’ve also just be very unmotivated for several reasons. Mainly that the interaction for this whole blog has be not the best. My brother’s mainly been putting in asks and barely anyone else interacts with it other than likes. I feel like it might be better for me to remake this ask series into a comic. I might focus on my oc x canon kids more but I’m not really sure yet. So yeah, until me and my bro can script out this comic, it’s gonna be on a hiatus, and I’m sorry if that does disappoint anyone following the blog for asks and stuff. You can still ask questions about our characters and art of the ocs, but I will no longer be taking any asks for the arcs.

Once we get the comic set up for volume 1, we’ll finally make an introduction post (and properly get this show on the road). Thank you to everyone who’s been following this blog so far, see you on the flipside :)

#ooc #asteroidcare #important info and stuff #Not gonna post this in the main tags because I don’t wanna clutter it up #Also kind out of context bit but #Person I follow following this blog jumpscare lmao #I wasn’t ready for that (affectionate) #So uh yeah comic remake time lol #None of these characters are going anywhere because I love them dearly #Also thinking about renaming this blog to Moonflowercare #mainly cuz of my ocs and my brother’s oc’s family is called the Moonflower family #Also I gotta make their kids #Because I forgor #I got a lot of work to do while we set up the comic lol

[smilesrobotlover]

Do y’all think about how Four’s dad in the manga thought his son was dead and do you think about how Four thought he killed his father when they had to fight do you think about that or are you emotionally stable

#smiles rambles #I’m thinking about them #and it’s too sad for me bruh #i like the Japanese version of their fight with Dad more cuz #they thought he was an illusion #which is why they attacked him so #however he wasn’t an illusion and they thought that they just murdered their own father #it makes more sense character wise to me anyhow #Blue isn’t heartless but I don’t think he’d ever willingly kill his father #even if he didn’t want him to be used like that #I just like the illusion bit better #anyways #yeah Dad thought his son was dead #makes me depresso #even tho the manga didn’t show him depressed lol #i wish there were more moments between him and his kids #guess I gotta do that myself 🙄

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

Hey guys what if I told you I completely retconned the lab au prologue.

W. Would you be mad at me-

#ramblings :) #tmc Labrats au #okay so brainrot took over so here’s what I got #instead of breaking into the facility (which was a DUMB decision) mark. simply looked around Cesar’s house post disappearance #and went back home. but not unnoticed #MBT kept watch of him for around a week before they kidnapped him from his own home so we wouldn’t talk about Cesar to the public #didn’t kill or kidnap the other heathcliff family members cause one: they didn’t know about Cesar yet #and two: if they were that would’ve been TWO families missing within a couple weeks #which is enough to raise suspicion #so they ONLY took mark. he wasn’t a super popular kid at his school anyway #sorry the Labrats prologue has ALWAYS been kinda meh to me #and I feel like this option is more realistic to mark’s character #than him. BREAKING INTO A GOVERNMENT FACILITY. #okay yeah that’s it just. letting you guys know that the prologue is now completely irrelevant 👍 /LH

[umbrellascribbles]

i was violently and insanely obsessed with spongebob and spandy as a kid. read spongebob comics 30, 63 and 64, spongebob's survival guide, spongebobs secret valentine, flowers for sandy(short) ermm i feel like i have more.. this was liek my first ship as a kid it will always be real in my heart😭

AWW YEAH I love getting messages and comments like this, it seems like for a lot of people this is a super nostalgic ship!! :,3 glad to know I wasn’t the only deranged child :b I remember as a reeeeal little kid being obsessed with the fact that they “got married” (as a gag in truth or square lmao) like that episode meant a lot to me and I would be like. Shy about rewatching it LMAOOOO but srsly they were always my ideal romance and I never questioned it as a kid like. I don’t even think I “shipped” them I just knew in my kid heart they were in love (DUH!) and that made being in love seem cool. They’re besties & they build each other up!

#then in that in-between-tween-phase where I wasn’t frothing at the mouth about sbsp (hard to believe there was such a time) #I was also just like oh yeah that’s a given weren’t they dating. anyway #spandy #NOOOO I JUST RMEMEMBERED I was one of the shithead kids who would be like UM. TECHNICALLY THEY WERE MARRIED 🤓☝️☝️ #THATS WHY I LOVED THAT EPISODE. MY AUTISTIC ASS LOVES PROOF

[vvrgo]

Everyone shut up shut up shut up about Ivan and Kirin and talk to me about Bo. This poor fuckin kid who’s been hurt so badly and screwed over from day one keeps his heart, his kindness and his gentleness. Quiet but loud enough to curb other peoples’ worse impulses.

#fuck Gretchen and her ‘bad male behaviour’ bullshit #I think a large chunk of people are believing that’s what the boys story was about #but it wasn’t #it was about these kids who have been fucked up by life just the same as the girls #and I see people rooting for the boys to keep fucking up #but all I want to see is people reaching out to one another #sure I still want interpersonal drama #but yeah i wanna see these kids still show love in spite of life and all it’s shittiness #the wilds #and by ‘life and all it’s shittiness’ I mean Gretchen #fuckin horrendous human being

[planet4546b]

they’re doing some cocomelon shit to me

#pers #not kidding i think this is psychological warfare . can i please kill my boss with a brick #‘but benji wasn’t your last post about you having a nice morning?’ YEAH. IY WAS . ITS DIRE