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[sillypinkboy]

@ems-chaos-corner YAY

Okay okay so I am insanely in love with this woman. She is so amazing and I will kill for her.

Because she has always been raised to be a queen, she seems really full of herself. She knows what she wants and will get it type of girly!! Everyone seems to see her as either a) awesome, cool ghoul b) scary or c) a BITCH. But there's always this respect for her. You are around her and can Tell she's royalty. Holds it open for all to see, knows she's supposed to rule one day

BUT you look at the bts of her life. She's not in a great situation. She has an elder sister named Nefera and they both live with their dad. Nefera isn't a great big sister, she servers as an antagonist to Cleo. Cleo is, unfortunately, stuck in her sister's shadow and trying so hard to shine bright enough to not be there anymore. It doesn't help though that she has all the pressure - mostly from her dad - to be a Proper Ruler. To keep things traditional. To be the prefect princess.

Dad doesn't like Cleo being friends with none royals, but allows it. He hates her dating Outside royalty though. And I find it interesting. Cleo wants to impress him so much. She wants to be perfect for him so much. But there's something about knowing she can't. It doesn't help that Nefera isn't supportive either. She has ruined everything she can for her sister (got Deuce to break up w/ her being one of them. Those two are so hard to separate- but different post). So this ghoul is practically in a shitty situation with no support from family.

BUT SHE HAS HER GHOULS. Ride or die for these ladies. She is their queen bee and knows it. Fights strike hardest between them. Cleo, though, craves attention a lot. She needs it to be herself is how it can feel at times.

She'll do whatever to get the topic back on her. That fear of not being seen runs so deep through her and you see how it affects all of her actions. She is a queen and what is a queen if she has no followers, you know?

That fear gets her in trouble some times. But she always trys to put her friends (and schoolmates) needs above her own. She is a great queen if you ask me. She'll take care of herself ofc but she takes care of her empire first. But, she is a teen. She's trying her best but she is still learning– and I love that so much. It's nice seeing a leader character learn beside you.

Top 5 ghouls to ever exist

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Knowledge Revenge.

[baba-fett]

for me internet friendships are “we don’t talk all the time but I see you’re online and it makes me happy” and I really hope it’s like that for everyone

[canisalbus]

✦ Fashionably late ✦

[chalkrub]

autumnal chill....featuring the girl

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[spaceistheplaceart]

more ford and mabel bonding because i said so :)

bonus ford under the cut:

[jesncin]

A comic about Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and typos.

[rabbiteclair]

i have a brain problem that prevents me from understanding people who need so much specifically newly-released TV shows that they're upset by the prospect of going a few months without new ones being produced

like they could stop making video games and books today and I wouldn't notice until sometime in 2026. honestly if they'd stop making new video games for a while that'd be kinda convenient. everyone take a break and let me catch up. I still haven't even played Persona 5.

[thesinglesock]

in a modern AU Link would be Zelda's only friend with a driver's license and their chat history would look like this

[pangur-and-grim]

I took Grim in to for a solensia shot, because she’s been a bit of a slug this year…….and it had zero effect! so good news, she doesn’t have arthritis. bad news, she is just a slug.

[theofficialuriel]

HE NEVER TOOK HIS EYES OFF JAYCE IM SICK IM ILL I AM PLAGUED

[warningsine]

like deadbeat dad, like son

[franeridart]

more dragon