#AN EASY DECISION PROBABLY!

[namelessprince]

when jay used the compass, it pointed northeast from desire island, and southeast from joaldo. whoever killed her sister is in the eastern sea. betting my life it was faye ferin who gave the command or plotted this whole thing out

[demaparbat-hp]

In your Spitfire AU, since Zuko is looking after Lu Ten II, what happened to Ursa?

Zuko is slightly older in the Spitfire AU. He was banished at fifteen, his head a little clearer and denial a little weaker than in canon. After his first look through the Air Temples, Zuko decides that if he can't find a myth, he might as well search for the next best thing.

Finding Ursa isn't easy, but in time he makes it to a secluded house in a near-forgotten part of the world. His mom is there, older and stronger and alive.

But she isn't alone.

And Zuko, as it turns out, didn't keep the best company during his search.

When Ursa is discovered and her secrets are laid bare for assassins (for Ozai) to find, she begs Zuko to take his little brother and run. She'll do anything it takes to protect her children, even if that means leaving them behind to keep a target off their back. Ursa diverts attention from them and allows Lu Ten's ancestry to be kept a secret. She orders Zuko not to follow her again, and disappears.

Zuko is left with a little three-year-old brother to raise and a mother he cannot hold onto.

[gracegrove]

The cruel irony of Billy unconsciously wearing a tank top under his shirt on the night he goes to meet Mrs. Wheeler.

Covering up more than he typically ever does. Wearing a thick leather jacket on a muggy summer night.

The first time you see him nervous.

He doesn't look like he's excitedly driving to a hookup but rather someone trying to psych themselves up to go through with something they dread.

[mumblesplash]

the hotguy comics contributor sona inserts still kill me because almost all of them are like ‘we added the team's writer as background extra #482’ and then i’m out here ‘hello kaze my beloved page illustrator slash era cover artist you are now my oc you have a criminal record and a head injury and you’re lowkey kind of an asshole but you come around at the start of act 3 in a heartwarming moment that hints at the slowly rekindling trust between our heroes and the city they’ve sworn to protect’

[queernobi]

I'm actually gonna feel totally fine about not voting for Kamala Harris, actually

[gravesung-moving]

>makes a big blog decision >satisfied a few days later: >thinks about making anothe—

[rosicheeks]

Anyone have any easy (cheap) dinners when you feel like shit and don’t want to do anything?

[elvenbeard]

Road Trip 1/4 🏙️

Kerry: "Fuck, couldn't even tell ya when the last time was I went on a road trip." V: "Never been on one at all." Kerry: "... you kiddin'?" V: "Well, I guess you could count that half year I worked as a roadie. But that was more work than fun." Kerry: "If you're travelling with a band and don't've stories of wild escapades to tell on day two you're doing somethin' wrong." V: "That so?" Kerry: "Okay... lemme tell ya a story..."

I recently talked about how I love imagining Kerry and Vince on a long-ish road trip together, telling stories, absentmindedly holding hands, just enjoying the scenery and getting away from NC for a little while. And starting arguments with random radio DJs about old songs xD I bet Kerry has many stories to tell not only about his Samurai times but also his own tours and the shenanigans he went up to. Even Vince has a handful of travel stories to share, although he's not nearly as far-travelled as Kerry.

Where are they headed here? Not as important as they way to get there...

[daughterofluthien]

- Jake / #11 The Forgotten

I love it when characters lie :)

Also this certainly will not inform anything about how he sees Tom in the future (as already dead, as the brother he lost), or how he interacts with the concept of acceptable losses

[mokeonn]

So I heard that Tumblr is slowly being abandoned (they seem to be laying off a majority of their staff and keeping a skeleton crew) and we might be nearing the end of this webbed site. I don't think it's currently worth panicking over, but I'm definitely going to start making that neocities website.

I'll make a post soon about other places where you can find me. Unfortunately, I've spent quite some time these last couple years getting rid of a majority of my social media because most platforms were bad for my mental health. I do not plan on going back to these platforms, so if tumblr goes down, I'm going to be only on non social media.

Maybe if one of the new social medias being created, actually take off (like bluesky or pillowfort or whatever else these days) I might join, but if not I might be entirely on personal websites, patreon (I will start posting regularly like a blog and make more free posts), some old websites I deleted but not because I hated them (such as ko-fi, which I deleted due to inactivity) and possibly furaffinity. I'm still on the fence about furaffinity. I might also finally start using my toyhouse but that is an oc sharing website and not much of an art sharing website.

I really do hope Tumblr doesn't go down, this is my one social media and if it does go down I am going to lose nearly all of my audience. I can make do by creating a personal blog and using whatever I have left in terms of "can post my art there and people can find me", and it won't discourage me from making my personal projects. I can make do, and I will make do, but I don't really want to make do.

Anyways, that's all I have to say right now, I'll make a post later once I set up some alternative sites to find me at, but for now I want to give the heads up that if I'm gone, you're not gonna find me on twitter, Instagram, or whatever third option there is. I'm likely going to just make do, be offline more, and likely just become active on the discord servers I'm on.

[romance-rambles]

MC has clearly never had to defend her honor as EVERYONE around her ruthlessly kills off her pawns(?), just because they can, and it shows. cael and mc's mom, you both robbed this poor girl of a core memory.

[mbat]

every day i wonder what happened during the design process of equestria girls for them to all come out the way they did. i can see where the skirts thing came from cause they wanted them to be undeniably girly i guess or whatever but. every other weird decision is just confusing

like fluttershys whole outfit, the shortish skirt but especially the tank top. maybe its meant to indicate that shes outdoors a lot with animals, but it completely betrays her shyness and tendency to try and hide herself

they kinda messed up big mac and shining armor? mostly shining armor. his jaw could slice metal. why he look like that

also i only realized while looking at the characters that. okay i was just going to say 'lol cheerilees hair is stupid its like 1 foot taller than her head, why didnt they just give her normal bangs wtf' and i still mean that but then i realized... they swapped her mane and fur colors for her human counterpart ??? so now her usually darker coat and light hair became dark hair and light skin ??

which leads me to the point about the skin colors being weird. like. i dont like how they lightened them up, i dont like how aj and big mac have human skin colors (i have to assume maybe they thought for them that the colors looked bad, or possibly even close to caricature territory, especially with big mac), and the way they outright lightened up the colors of at least 2 normally darker ponies? like i said, cheerilee, but also

luna. even back when i first saw the movie and adored it, i DID NOT like the princesses designs. how did they fuck up some of the best characters in the show, especially the ones that are the prettiest (imo).

i would say that of the 3, cadence is the most okay design (i know we dont see her in the first movie just roll with me here). its clearly her, she looks like her and has her vibe (visually), all around not bad. not necessarily my favorite, theres still something slightly off? but it doesnt rub me the wrong way

celestia... i dont like her vibe. who is she. shes light pink and she has hair spikeys that are meant to look like a crown but just made it look like she didnt brush her hair properly. she has celestias hair but her face does not read like celestia to me. she looks like an imposter. where is my mother

and finally. the pinnacle of the issues with the designs. luna.

WHO IS SHE. THAT OUTFIT? NOT LUNA. THAT HAIR? YOU WOULDVE BEEN BETTER OFF JUST DOING A GRADIENT. OR PUTTING IN LITTLE STAR HAIR CLIPS. THAT FACE? THATS SOMEONES WINE MOM WHO SINGS EXTRA LOUD AT CHURCH. same critique about the hair spikeys as before. AND THE SKIN??? HELLO??? THE PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT GOT TURNED INTO PRINCESS OF MIDDAY. WHY.

the design of the show vs the movies is, i guess now literally, night and day. pony luna is so inspired and pretty and meant to invoke such regality, its very clear what her theme is, and she very much sticks out amongst the others, both in shape and details!

but the human version feels generic, she could easily be a background character (and she basically was), she feels unfinished, the colors on their own arent the worst but moreso feel insulting when compared to the original (i like the addition of pink/pinkish purple to the palette, but not so much to luna as a character. it just isnt her imo), she doesnt even look like an authority figure aside from obviously looking older than the other characters, let alone being someone meant to be somewhat equivalent to royalty. also again she was a minor character here but its like... her pony version has such a stone strong personality, both when shes freshly back from the moon and later on when shes more grounded and princess-like. human luna is just... generic teacher person. did human luna even ever experience significant isolation and feeling completely unseen by everyone she cared about? doubt it.

and yeah, they significantly lightened her skin ?? why ?? theres literally no reason to do that? she wouldnt look like a caricature unless you somehow chose the wrong colors (how possibly would you), and its not exactly impossible to draw characters with darker skin, again her pony form literally has a dark coat !! but also plenty of people have redesigned her human form to have the right skin color and they look great!! and in general obviously theres plenty of characters with dark skin, like... what was the reason they did that. it just feels gross.

dont cross me when it comes to luna dude i love her so much

anyway yeah its been over 10 years since EG first aired and i loved it back then and i still love it but i think a lot more about character designs now. mlp g4 is known for having these really pleasant and well put together designs with lovely colors (for the most part), its so weird how that gets easily messed up, like in g5, but also still in g4 itself(in the spinoffs and the main show lol)? wish i had the motivation to redesign them all lol, i probably will someday. please go look at redesigns theyre very lovely

[chiropteracupola]

typical habits of the common or garden emmothy include weeping, overthinking, despairing, posting, and staring into space with a melancholy aspect.

[chillinglikeashilling]

Doing a rewatch with a friend and I wanted to compile a list of the ways in which Annabeth uses her smarts in the first 4 episodes since I was watching them all at once, and it was a little easier to keep track than when I was watching week to week.

In the first 4 episodes Annabeth:

Figures out Percy is Poisedon's kid and gets evidence while using him as a decoy for Capture the Flag (love a multitasker!)

Clocked they were being tailed by the Furies and used the bus bathroom to help mask Percy's scent

Used the breaking of the back window to slow Alecto down

Clocked Auntie Em's whole deal immediately and came up with the hat idea on the fly

Correctly identified the guard on the train was not a monster threat

Analyzed the chimera's hunting behavior and pointed their group towards what should have been a safe haven.

Geeked out about the St. Louis Arch and its architectural/mathematical impressiveness

Realized that Percy needed naturally running water to heal him after the fountain attempt failed.

Combat wise Annabeth is also doing pretty good:

Took out a Fury with her dagger

Set Percy up to behead Medusa

Scored an early hit on the Chimera after it injured Percy

Wise Girl indeed!

[larkiethings]

saw the wicked movie and let me just say. I’m a certified hater. Les mis movie broke me and shattered my expectations for any musical adaptations ever. I was angry at the cast and ready to pretend like this never happened.

and you know what? the movie was good. there were some minor issues but overall it was making me emotional, the performances were great, and I really liked it. I was prepared to eat my hater words and live in a beautiful world where things can be good sometimes. And then they FUCKED UP the MOST IMPORTANT SONG of the WHOLE FUCKING MUSICAL. Absolutely made sure that all the momentum and power behind that song got undercut and dropped and just totally ruined. And to do this at the VERY END OF THE MOVIE where you get utterly let down and then roll credits…literally the worst timing

like if it had just been bad I would have said it’s bad and moved on with my life. But because the rest of the movie was so good, I’m so fucking angry

[thelocalmuffin]

Hello everyone, there's a very good chance that more charities will be backing out of helping Palestine. Anera has backed out. They made this statement today.

Also, please reblog to spread the word. Z!onists will be blocked.

I will keep an eye out for organizations that are still in Palestine, but Care for Gaza seems to be one of the few. Though it's discouraging to see organizations bowing out to help be mad at Israel for killing those who want to help.