#(if anyone wants a refresher)

[punk-lucifer]

something im really appreciating, watching the olympics, is that while all the athletes are demigods that are absolutely at their physical peaks for each sport NONE OF THEM have instagram face. despite the homogenous nature of social media that’s been creeping into all media since the late 2000s all the athletes look so different. noses! jawlines! lips! eyes! everyone i see on tv looks like a real person and i am LOVING IT

[perksofbeingpoet]

"learning your lesson?" charlie's mouth hitches into his typical half-smirk; just one corner raised, a challenge: get my whole face to smile, why don't you? he's close, too close- close enough to radiate an intoxicating warmth, close enough to let the glint in his eyes flicker into a spark. close enough to start a fire. fingertips ghost over hip bones. his hands are cold and leave a trail of goosebumps, but he'll make up for it. "sounds boring, don't you think?"

[lunarharp]

more phoenix wright situations

[leahthedreamer]

As your local anime watcher I am inclined to inform the fs community that a new skating anime has started airing.

Unlike YOI with all the Grand Prix antics and homoerotism, Medalist is about a young 11 year old skater trying to make her mark after starting late with her coach, a former flop ice dancer.

[fallstaticexit]

Some friendships are endless. Even though Mel and Nina have been busy in Del Sol Valley the past 3 years working on a new project, a horror TV series, their bond remained strong as ever with their best friends.

Bonus:

Prev / Next / Extras

Mel: “Hey, what are you up to?”

Loren: Feeding these damn chickens Maeve bought..

Mel: What in the midlife crisis...chickens??

Loren: At first it was just the two but they keep having babies. I named the rooster and hen after your parents.

Mel: Oh, ha ha.

Mel: So, remember how I said we wouldn’t be back in Sulani until after we’re done filming this season?

Loren: Yeeeaahh..?

Loren: [exhales] I missed your gorgeous face, Nina! These 3 years have been way too long.

Mel: Uhh...you miss anyone else or just my wife?

Nina: Baby, don’t be jealous.

Maeve: Holy fucking shit. The Briars are back!

Mel: I knew you’d be happy to see me, Maeve. Bring it in-

Mel: Alright, what am I, old news?

Maeve: We love you Mel! But Nina’s our babygirl.

Loren: Besides, we all know once you know who gets here, we’ll barely see you.

Mel: That’s not true. We all hang out.

Loren: It’s been like that since we were like 11, Starboy. It’s ok, you two are soulmates. In fact, I’m sure Aiden’s already tracking the microchip in your ass as we speak-

Aiden: MEEEELLLLLLLLLLL!

Mel: AIDEEENNN!!

Loren: OWW?!!

Aiden: MEEEELLLLLLLLLLL!

Mel: AIDEEENNN!!

Nina: They’re so cute.

Loren: I think he broke my nose?

Maeve: Ay, bendito!

bonus -

Lyric via txt: “Omfg... if mom calls and ask that you come to some dinner for Mateo, SAY NO PLEASE. I can only deal with her once a year and it’s not Harvestfest yet...”

Mel via txt: “You haven’t talked to mom yet....”

Lyric via txt: “Don’t judge me. Ya mama is infuriating..”

[incorrect-slaytheprincess]

being in the slay the princess fandom has taught me why people feel the need to gatekeep pieces of media previously considered to be "niche." not that it's good, but i understand now. i can handle people mischaracterizing all these other characters but if anyone out here did so to any of the slay the princess characters, i might just have to pace around my room and scream for a solid hour or two.

[simlit]

Chosen of the Sun | | forest // eighty-two

| @rollingsim

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Three days earlier… KYRIE: I can’t promise you much time, so please, do be quick. SARAYN: It is understood. I imagine this puts you in quite the predicament. KYRIE: A promise is a promise. SARAYN: And earnest you are. I hardly thought you would honor the agreement, considering the way things went at the temple. But your charity isn’t unwelcome. KYRIE: I pray I do not come to regret it. SARAYN: Oh? Do you distrust me, Your Grace? I expect you must think I might misuse the knowledge your Spire offers. KYRIE: We both know I have every reason to distrust you. Though, my judgement is skewed. I can’t ignore the things you’ve done to Eve or Eira. And I’ve no intention of forgiving you for them. That being said, if it wasn’t for my sight, I wouldn’t be privy to such vivid retellings. SARAYN: So, you separate yourself from your friends. How nearly objective of you. KYRIE: I also can’t forget that you once saved my life. And now, have honored my wishes. Whatever your reasons might be. If nothing else, it has, again, earned you the benefit of my doubt. SARAYN: I can respect your fair and honest nature. Even if it is… foolish. KYRIE: laughs It’s good to be a fool now and again. Though, we open ourselves to great punishment. I would rather be receptive to all sorts of feelings— the good, and the bad— than to shut myself off from any and all potential affection. KYRIE: There was a time when I desired greatly to get to know you. To catch some glimpse into a world so different than my own. SARAYN: Get to know me? KYRIE: Does it sound strange to you? That anyone might take interest? SARAYN: It does. KYRIE: Well, it furthers my point, doesn’t it? SARAYN: Why should someone like you wish to know anything at all about me? KYRIE: Why do you care about this Spire? Why do you care what you might find in those books? SARAYN: It interests me. History, what knowledge you might glean from it, new, strange theories, long-forgotten ideas. It’s fascinating. KYRIE: Curious. What you find in books, I find in people. In my humble opinion, they’re far more fascinating.

[takeariskao3]

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[villafordefeatedvillains]

Absolutely ADORE all of Pastra's plush designs so far and I'm HIGHLY considering actually taking a commission to get the Lankmann plush because like. I missed out on the Clyde ones (which are TOP FUCKING TIER) but. Look at him. Absolute IDIOT with NO THOUGHTS /vpos.

[kitttymine]

I miiiiissss the booooooooppssss

[yeehawbvby]

Quick reminder to those of you who donated to my ko-fi in the past few days!!

If you gave more than $10USD and want a drawing or a fic, DM me so we can discuss :3 I’d be more than happy to make y’all some stuff

(Also in case anyone wants to donate, whether in exchange for a commission or not, here’s my ko-fi!!

If you happened to miss my posts explaining why I need donations, here’s a shortened version:

Our home is infested with toxic mold, and my partner and I need well over $10,000USD to gut where necessary/purchase heavier duty air purifiers/etc, which we currently can’t afford to do bc his job is part-time only, and I’m unemployed and unable to work)

[lilacerull0]

i feel like reading/watching mbf immediately means knowing who i am as a person and... i cannot allow this

[velvetvexations]

I’m gonna be completely honest at some point in a discussion criticizing someone for not using every exact word and phrasing you (general) think they should’ve, especially if you yourself think/know you’ve understood what they actually meant, is not useful or helpful to a discussion

It’s crippling to genuine discussion to expect people to be able to go over every possible bad faith interpretation of their words pre-emptively so they can phrase it exactly perfectly right accounting for every single experience and interpretation, and ask that they continually defend and re-explain the same things until the words are Right when inevitably that’s not possible, instead of engaging with the actual idea

I suppose there's a need to establish what the line is between like, what is the Idea, precisely, vs. what's just phrasing, but also like, if particular phrasing is harmful or not is also a good conversation to have on it's own separate from the Idea anyway...

Truly it makes me happy to help make these conversations happen but like with the non-binary/genderqueer thing I'm sitting here like, oh boy, I hope I don't say anything wrong!

[butwhatifidothis]

Ultimately, I think one of the worst things Hopes does wrt its writing of Claude is take out all of the complexities and contradictions that had made him so interesting to begin with.

OG Claude lies and manipulates people and closes himself off while still searching for the truth and wanting people to come together and be open with each other, because of how his traumas meld together with his dreams. He says that he'll do whatever it takes to get what he wants and shows off opportunistic tendencies and then buckles at the first sight of innocents getting hurt, because no matter how much he wants what he wants he still prioritizes the lives of the people around him over anything else. He knows of people's capacity to hurt others for petty or illogical reasons - was raised with that knowledge beating its existence into him - and yet still dreams of a world where people of different lands and cultures can still be friends, because that is how tightly he holds onto his dreams. He's a kind person with the capacity for being a dick, and his contradictions add on so much to his character; they in large part are his character.

Hopes Claude? He lies and manipulates people and closes himself off... and that's it. He says he'll do whatever it takes to get what he wants... and he does. He knows of people's capacity to hurt others for petty or illogical reasons... and has no real dreams of stopping it (or dreams of anything in the future really, by his own admission) and he indulges in that very behavior himself, seemingly without any awareness. He is untrustworthy, and manipulative, and opportunist... and that's it. What you see is what you get. And if this were a character unto themselves, if we're kind and we ignore all of the other issues with Hopes!Claude's writing, that would be a fun enough villain to follow around.

But it's not; this is supposed to be Claude. This is a character who has so much of his foundations be built on the idea that what he presents on the surface isn't all that he seems. That he's more than a character who is just "tee hee I'm only pretending to be nice but I'm actually eeeeevil evil evil evil evil evil evil," but someone who both uses kindness as a means to an end and embodies it genuinely. Warm yet calculated, a good man with real flaws - THAT is who Claude is. Hopes Claude is who Claude is if you strip him of any complexity - He Is Only Pretending To Be Good, But Actually He Is Bad.

He's just... easier to swallow, in a sense. Claude is a good person who is willing and able to do bad things, but only up to a very specific, very clear point, all for a good dream he's held onto for years and plans extensively to make a reality in the future; Clyde is a shit person who's willing to do everything short of bombing specifically whatever land he himself is ruling, all for what essentially amounts to no concrete purpose. There's no need to think about Clyde as hard, since he just does what he does because he's doing it and that's enough.

It's why I'm glad I am Dev-Approved to just fuckin' ignore Hopes entirely as a horrific fever dream, because Hopes does not understand what made Claude so lovable at all

[unholycourier]

this is what happens when one sibling disappears to maryland and the other gets abducted by aliens

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

me: hermes is a painfully accurate example of how some ways of defending yourself against certain kinds of insidious emotional abuse, gaslighting, ableism, and therapy speak can warp you into a person whose learned helplessness and lack of perspective can result in doing really shitty things, and who passes that abuse along in different forms (hi meteion) + lashes out in disproportionate ways + can be deeply hypocritical.

me: as a disabled person in a society where our systemic mass murder via pressure into government-sanctioned suicide is on the rise, the ancients' society is beyond fucking upsetting to me. i have zero sympathy for anything to do with them pre-apocalypse except for the effects of living in that system.

me: that said, they are a good opportunity to remind oneself that there are children in that burning building; that a society being fucked does not mean they deserve to be wiped out; and that that does not mitigate the harm they do, nor mean that its victims are not allowed to be angry or resist it, including the victims inside it.

me, booboo the fool: oh, this youtube essay about hermes looks interesting--