#*11 months later*......

[evanzbuck]

RAFAEL SILVA appreciation series: ↳ working out pt. 2 (for @nelsonnicholas @pragmatic-optimist @sunshinestrand)

[aquanutart]

THEY'RE BACK!!!! my childhood manga!!!

[zu-is-here]

The unknown magician ★ Underfell birthday!

Ink by comyet

and his mew mew Fell by underfell

[demonslayedher]

Wind down doodle

[lemonarts]

i drew an thing, it's based on this guy of @littleguymart i made it a lil extra fancy.

watercolour + ink on paper

[llondonfog]

Sooooo, for the Six Sentence Story, im thinking of a de-aged Silver. The only people who look familiar to Silver are Malleus and Lilia. Maybe he recognizes Sebek. I love that Silver refers to Lilia as toto and that no one, outside of the diasomnia gang, knows what that means or do they? Either way, I can just imagine lilia being the best papa, Malleus being indulgent, and Sebek being Sebek, but protective. I've been held hostage by these thoughts, but definitely do whatever you want with this. Anything you write is a godsend.

"Again, Toto! Again!"

As if this simple routine hadn't been repeated for the better part of half an hour, the old fae obliges with an indulgent twirl of his fingers, a sudden breeze whisking merrily to his command to toss and tumble the laughing, wide-eyed boy into the air, spin him like a flailing top, and gently deposit him on the bat-patterned bedspread.

"Lilia." A hand rests itself upon his shoulder, confident and regal, and Malleus peers down at him with a flicker of concern in the depths of his emerald gaze that had been watching the delighted child with no small trace of fondness. "Do you wish for me to take over? You have been entertaining him for quite some time, are you not strained?"

"It's hardly any true drain of magic," Lilia murmurs as he reclines in the chair by his desk, a helpless smile strung upon his lips with all the warmth of candlelight as he watches the small figure bounce on the bed and shriek happily at Sebek's bossy attempts to corral him into a pair of dragon themed pajamas (kindly magicked by Malleus to accommodate Silver's now much smaller size, of course).

"After all, the cost is well worth the reward, don't you think?"

[hellofeanor]

RINGS OF POWER WEEK 2023 Day Five: Favourite Costume

The last whose realm was fair and free Between the Mountains and the Sea

Photos by @teadrunktailor, costume and edits by me

[janeway-lover]

gang I thought it was supposed to get easier

[icarianlibrary]

Sometimes all it takes is perspective.

Me rn: "I dunno, I don't think we're improving"

Me 1 year ago: "We drew that...? WE drew that??"

Was looking back on old art, came across my old PJO fanart, and some other characters I drew

[thomstrainers]

actually crashing out, vent in tags

[youmakethelight]

Okay, but I'm casting my mind back to try to imagine how I would have felt about tboc daryl before season 10 got me so stupid about this show, when I used to be a casual viewer. And I still think I'd have just thought daryl lost his mind tbh.

This is just me going off on tangents about the show now, don't mind me.

He felt a bit off in season 1, I can't lie. The costume change would have thrown me even if I wasn't as attached, because I'm probs just the type of neurodivergent that struggles with too much change at once, and him being away from TF, in Europe, and looking so different, then calling Laurent useless, then the ways he looked at Isabelle at the end of 1x06 - that was all just too different to the Daryl I knew idk. But I stuck with it.

But having his first on-screen kiss be so entirely unpredictable for what I thought I knew of his character felt gratuitous*. And then it's like suddenly I'm being railroaded into following him on this rolleroaster that I don't understand. One minute he's longing for home, the next he's playing baseball and "just having fun". Then home has found him, but now he's invested in this kid I still haven't learnt to feel invested in yet. And he's never even talking about anything to do with home anymore, even after Carol is there? It's suddenly all just about Laurent, and part of the problem for me is there wasn't enough balance to convince me of the story.

And I think this was most of my difficulty with enjoying TOWL, too. (Don't come for me please for talking about my personal experience of watching TOWL.) I watched TOWL first out of all the spinoffs, and I remember this one part where I think Michonne and Rick were in a kitchen or something and Rick felt so different to me and it made me sad, and then she called it out. And he said something like that it's been so long, he's lost who he used to be or something like that. I can't remember exactly, but it made me sad. And I think, for me, I didn't get enough glimpses of the Rick I recognised within the short 6 episodes that I never felt satisfied or happy with it. And maybe I needed more TF references or something??? I didn't even feel enough concern for Judith or RJ from him - maybe I'm misremembering, but I think your memory of the feeling something gave you is important. I get that the leadership want these spinoffs to be accessible to people who didn't watch the flagship show, but I think that's a big part of where it's losing the magic for me.

The thing that was better for me about DD season 1 is that it was all about getting home, and his determination felt relentless throughout the first 5 and a half episodes before it suddenly got weird with Isabelle acting like they've been a family for 19 years. Like, before that, I felt connected to his mission.** But then in season 2, it's almost completely gone, and Carol feels like the only part I can still connect with. Like, I know Rick didn't mention Daryl either I think, but I wish both of them had talked about each other. Idk, it just would have felt more like it's giving me something I can connect with? Rather than just throwing the characters into entirely new situations and also deliberately making them feel a bit out of character?

That whole part in TOWL where Michonne feels surprised to find Rick a bit changed is so similar to what they seemed to want to do with Daryl and Carol, and I don't really get why they did it to either of them. It's more believable with Rick than Daryl bc 1. He isn't Daryl and definitely adapts more to new environments, and 2. It had been many, many, many years, not like a month. But idk, I still wasn't keen, but at least they gave it a redemption arc or whatever you'd call it. With daryl it's still just like - ???? And for what reason??? I don't know. I just don't find it compelling idk idk idk.

*Even in season 9, when we met Connie, I felt a bit like 'oh are they gonna force a ship here bc they have them spending time together 🤨 (rather than just letting connie want to help for her own character reasons rather than making it about daryl and shipping), but if it's gonna be someone who isn't carol, I think I'm okay with connie', like bc we actually had reasons to like her and there was chemistry with Daryl. So why neither Connie nor Carol, but Isabelle? The show just never got me invested in darabelle in any way.

I already liked connie before they had her going on missions with daryl, so I actually cared about her a lot. I loved seeing her on those missions bc I was excited for her to have more screen time and I found her character empowering. So, I didn't want to see her reduced to just being Daryl's love interest, and tbh, I don't think they handled it well, bc they still reduced her to being Daryl's accessory, rather than giving her her own character depth. But I *still* would have been more on board with pairing up Daryl with Connie than Isabelle. Tbh, by the time that Carol was broken up with zeke, and they had the conversation about running away together, I didn't think of Daryl and Connie as making sense to pair anymore... But I also didn't see much point in the Leah romance either, so whatever, I guess this show just has a pattern of pairing up Daryl with random women he doesn't have chemistry with, instead of the ones he does?

**I always remember that Zabel pitched the idea for the show as "what if, in trying to get home, you find something else?", and the thing is, in order to get me to be convinced that Daryl "found something else", I'd have needed A LOT stronger of a pull for the French story. There was nothing there that hooked me to becoming convinced of Daryl finding something while trying to get home. Just having him voice the words "I found something", having Laurent the prophet say "you miss her too, I can tell", putting his crossbow next to Isabelle's hospital bed, and having him look at her for an extended time after she recovers, doesn't suddenly convince me of that idea. Idk. I'm not in the TV industry, so I don't know how that magic gets done - like when season 10 slowly turned Lydia into one of my favourite characters after she was introduced as an antagonist. But I have enough brain cells to see (from the moment they nonsensically forced them to share a bed??) that they were trying to convince us Daryl found "something" in France, and tbh, if I can see the strain in their efforts to make it happen, it's probably not working. And even NR couldn't answer why Isabelle when asked at NYCC. He was literally like, "idk they have similar pasts?? Idk???". Like, girl, if you don't know, why should your audience?

[doulayogimama]

I finally completed my Doula and LC course and submitted my application to graduate!

I will be an internationally Licensed Lactation Consultant and Doula!!!!

[blakbonnet]

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[bellcza]

Today is like a movie

I’m not even joking when I’m saying I’m crying. I can’t, my dear, I can’t 😭

our boy is back!!! ❤️‍🩹

[kazinsblog]

Makoto Month

Day 11: Song Lyric

When I first heard this song it really gave me Makoyuma vibes!! It’s from Toilet bound Hanako kun! It’s a Eng dub from Amalee and Natewantstobattle! Listen to it here :3

I plan to make an MV for this song with Makoto and Yuma. Hopefully it goes well :3

[m3rcuryxd2763]

So awhile ago, I asked my dad if he could get me the Stone plushie for my birthday. He said yes as long as I always fix my hair! (It's always crazy.) Just one month and 11 days left...If he doesn't get me it, I will go apeshit.