#<- just in case anyone has that blacklisted

[geneticdriftwood]

fuck, man. just read nightwing vol. 2 #93 and it really is exactly as horrible as everyone says.

and it's released the same month as outsiders 2003 #12, where helena leaves the team, with these parting words to roy:

(outsiders 2003 #12)

like yeah no shit helena!!! blockbuster has been running around bludhaven killing people dick cares about specifically to torture him! telling him that he'll never stop, that by ever allowing himself any human connection he'll be condemning that person to die!

(nightwing vol. 2 #93)

even before this he was blaming himself for donna's death and trying to self isolate. and roy has spent the last three months off the team to recover from getting shot in the chest a bunch, so he hasn't been around to clock just how bad dick's mental health has gotten and try to pull him out of it. of course he isn't letting himself get close to anyone.

[cuoredimuschio]

if there's one good thing to come out of all this watcher drama, it's the reassuring knowledge that actually quite a few people also think that ghost files isn't nearly as entertaining as bfu

[lietpolski]

i love the use of human names in hetalia, because they can have such different meanings for different nations!! for younger nations like alfred, it's easy. it's a sign of closeness or endearment. he's always been "alfred f jones" the way he's always been "america", after all. but what about the older nations? denmark and norway smirking at each other over public meetings, calling each other their silly human names they have to use now to "blend in" with the humans. england learning to switch to arthur and finding that he weirdly likes it, likes the pressure it takes off his shoulders. him and france using each other's names like dennor do, at first, teasingly, like "ooh look at us pretending to be mortal little humans who haven't been fighting each other for centuries", but then it grows fonder, softer, less about the joke of "francis" and "arthur" and more about real intimacy. nations who use their names as a symbol of resistance and national pride, liet's happiness at being tolys, distinctly lithuanian, distinctly him after centuries of his language being demeaned, and then decades of it being prohibited in russia's household. nations using human names to mock and hurt each other after a betrayal, a nod to the intimacy they used to share. human names!!

[eliasdrid]

quick Himeno Ran outfit sketch + color variations

[ask-meowscarada]

Happy Halloween, adventurers!

(( I forgot tumblr makes wide images crunchy so please click to view the art in full!

Halloween is really just my excuse to make my characters cosplay as whatever my current interest is ))

[planetary]

[eternitas]

[Choose any character you want!] ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼ "Do you want to make a contract with me to become a magical girl? I can grant you any wish your heart desires!"

@einsatzzz (in case your notifications aren't triggered- happens to me sometimes)

EIN WHAT HAVE U DONE TO ME THIS ANSWER HAS CONSUMED SO MANY DAYS OF MY LIFE

But it also gave me am lot of ways to improve on my art and learn to work with digital art so thank you for sending this in! I actually treated this as a life advice question for squad 4 because it was the funniest in my head! Hope you like the answer!

Trigger warning for blood, guns and creepy imagery

Referenced and partially traced with the help of @kyuji

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Today too Squad 4 continues to pursue their goals through their own strength. (And Today too, Sergey is very protective of his best friend.)

[ssecond-hand-faith]

This thing was freaking me out and the dog kept trying to eat it so I trapped it under a glass

[ach-sss-no]

It is no longer the Christmas season so I am posting something that is not festive

For @badthingshappenbingo:

Title: Death's Head Prompt: grief/mourning Fandom: LOTR (weird au) Fic is here

[powderflower]

got distracted and made sebastian a bear again.

[beskad]

I am happy to enjoy the visuals of Mando s3, some of the moments, LIZZO AND JACK BLACK MY BELOVED, but all in all, this season is really just a strange AU in my mind.

I'm not mad about Din not being Mand'alor. I'm frustrated that something that was set up to be a Problem was completely forgotten about and then so easily fixed. I'm frustrated that he appeared to be going through some contemplation on what the Creed means to him, just to have it all ignored and Speedrun to a bath in the mines.

I love Katee Sackhoff and she's doing a fantastic job. I'm frustrated by how the scripts are ignoring the fact that she was part of a literal terrorist group who got her sister murdered and her planet obliterated at least twice, and the show is ignoring that fact. She's had opportunities to talk about it, other characters have had opportunities to bring it up, and favloni seems to just be ignoring/reconning it. Why make all these references to a messy part of TCW/Rebels if you're not going to actually address the whole topic?

I am fine with the show being about more than just Din, or transitioning away from him as Pedro becomes increasingly busy with other projects. What I'm not fine with is the bait and switch, and telling us MID SEASON that "oh it's not about Din anymore" without a satisfactory conclusion to his arc.

This show worked because it was about Din who was just Some Guy who got attached to this kid who he was supposed to turn in for money, and how that relationship changes him. Abandoning that is a huge mistake and I think we are all learning that the hard way.

[dyouknowwhatimean-archive]

honestly I’d just like to hear any of your thoughts on euphoria because everyone I hear that talks about euphoria kind of sucks and doesn’t discuss it in an interesting way

okay so what interests me the most about euphoria is obviously nate, jules and cal's storyline. nate and cal's relationship is possibly the most interesting and layered exploration of an unconsumated incestuous relationship i've ever seen on tv in my life. nate is clearly very traumatized by having seen his dad's porno tapes and often puts himself in the place of his victims, both the extents he takes his body to, and his taste in women are very influenced by all of this plus the idea of masculinity his dad enforces while also nate tries not to be like his dad (gay).

i also don't wanna get too much into it but nate's relationship with his mom is very interesting to me too. when cal leaves the house in s2 there's this scene in which nate's mom starts calling nate "the man of the house" and starts sort of flirting with him, i can't remember if she's drunk.

on the other hand nate is of course an abuser and a rapist himself, his relationship with cassie might be more interesting to me in that sense than his relationship with jules or with maddy if only because of how much the audience completely turned to hating cassie and refused to see her as the victim there. but his relationship with jules is of course abusive too, and again very tied to cal himself. it's different tho cause most of it happens online (i can't remember if they use grindr the entire time? but it's gotta be either that or instagram or texting or something) and then a lot of it only in jules' mind. still there's examples of lovebombing and manipulation, and of course he physically threatens her when they finally meet in person.

this is like, my favorite part of the show, then again it's still buried under one thousand million layers of sam levinson transphobia and misogyny. jules' character suffered a lot of whatever the opposite of character development is in s2 too. in the special episode she accepts herself and comes out as a lesbian, just to hook up with a guy who felt like a "how to be a chaser 101 manual for dummies" in s2. and, in a show where they're all teenagers allowed to make mistakes, the audience somehow decided that she was an irredeemable monster for cheating on rue, which. whatever. who knows if rue and her ever even defined the relationship. but that's not the point.

i also really like the way euphoria handles drug addiction, for all the shit it gets about how it's "unrealistic" i personally think it's very genuine there (it's based on levinson's personal experiences, at the end of the day) and i think it's really well done, i never understood that specific criticism

[capricioussuns]

Head in hands clancy really is pulling me back into another twenty one pilots era

[interruptingkau]

B

[thaliagrayce]

i've been talking abt my voltron playlists and @iveofficiallygonemad asked to hear them and i want to share with anybody who wants!! i know they're not perfect, i'm working on them & trying to make them better. if you have any recommendations for any of them, let me know!! there's like A Lot and i want to give a lil explanation for most of them, so i'm putting them under the cut ^-^

SO first i have my favorite one <3 it's just. all of them. it's the whole team. it's a mess and it's a bunch of different genres because it's them fighting over the aux cord on a road trip. it's them trying to make each other laugh or annoy each other or play something catchy enough it will infect everyone in the vicinity with brain worms.

Hunk: i'm pretty happy with my Hunk playlist! chill vibes. he strikes me as the kind of guy who listens to calm music to try to find his own calm, and that's what i got here :)

Pidge: this is messier and less cohesive than my usual playlist because frankly i think pidge would have a shit taste in music. all over the board. this is a mix of meme songs and 8-bit covers and vocaloid and stuff that i think pidge would genuinely connect with, and i think pidge listens to all their music on shuffle without any regards for genre or mood because they're a gremlin. nobody gives pidge sole control of the aux.

Coran hears 80's music for the first time and loses his mind. He thinks ABBA is humanity's single greatest achievement.

Lance: i have ideas about where I'm going with this but haven't really settled yet. Lance seems like the kind of boy that loves to dance (is that canon? i forgot) so most of these are Bops That Make You Move in some way or another. he likes to present an upbeat face to the world, so there's no angsting in this playlist! we are clinging to the things that make us happy with both hands until our knuckles turn white!

Keith: i'm gonna be honest. i made him a playlist but i honestly don't think he cares about music very much. it's very important to some people! he's just not one of them! i haven't cracked this playlist open in a while but i'm pretty sure it's full of songs that i think he would conceivably train/work out to.

Shiro: this playlist involves the dumbest headcanon i have for shiro that has just not left me alone since i first thought of it. most of the playlist reflects the fact that he had an emo phase in middle school (that one isn't a headcanon, you just have to look at him to know) but BUT there are a few songs on here that are on here because. little known fact. he also went through a Twilight phase that he told nobody about. (keith knows. keith was there.) he has the entire twilight soundtrack memorized. he moved past the story but the music stays forever. he used to daydream about slow dancing to Flightless Bird, American Mouth. the first time Coran mentions that they have to avoid a place because there's a supermassive black hole there, he has to bite his tongue in order to keep a straight face. do NOT ask me why i believe this so wholeheartedly.

Allura's playlist sucks right now. I think it's because in my heart of hearts i know that, were she on earth today, she would go fucking nuts for taylor swift. i have ambivalent feelings for taylor swift. i cannot do allura justice like this. if you see my vision and have recs as to what might actually fit her, PLEASE.

Klance: i haven't done it yet but i'm gonna go through this and sort it to be a sort of progression of their relationship, starting with the more combative Rivalry songs, then slipping into "oh shit oh shit" songs, then maybe ending on the more lighthearted purely romantic songs <3

(i have two songs in a shallura playlist which does not at all encapsulate how much i'm obsessed with them. the tiny cop inside my head is just constantly screaming at me that i'm going to get yelled at for liking shallura. i am going to kill the cop inside my head.)

[porunareff]

Oh man, I really hope the new Jojo is a set of siblings. Up to this point, we’ve had ‘only-child’ Joestars. Even if the main Jojo had a sibling (Jonathan, Johnny, Josuke8), the focus was on the main Jojo.

I think it would be quite interesting to see more than one Jojo in the spotlight where one isn’t secondary to the other. Also, I hope there is at least one girl in that set.

Lastly, I think it would fit quite well with the overarching theme of family that part 7 and 8 kind of established. Part 7 focuses on fatherhood, and while I haven’t completed part 8, I heard it focuses on motherhood.

Anyways, thank you so much for listening :D

No problem at all, I appreciate the thoughtfulness of your takes and I find the idea of two protagonists intriguing! Gappy's journey is arguably not over yet so I wouldn't mind if Part 9 continues to follow him in a sort of background subplot.

There are so many exciting possibilties that I could rant about for hours but let's see what happens!