#AND calculating AND manipulative

[collegeboysam]

Fake Armand enjoyers trying to excuse what he did when real gremlin Armand lovers know one of the best parts about Armand is that he's a fucked up scheming devil beneath his "woe is me" doe eyes, who enjoys fine art in all forms as much as he finds deep delight in stalking someone nearly to madess while threatening to murder them if they bore him, falling in love in the midst of psychological torture once he discovers the most fascinating side of his prey, a nuclear warhead who has always wanted to be loved with his more dark and ugly sides included and not only for his beautiful Botticelli's angel exterior. The real Armand is finally coming out after decades of hiding behind the mask he thought he had to construct around himself.

[jadecantcreate]

ouaw meme adjacent doodles part ivelostcounttheyhavetakenovermylifefreeme

edit: this is mostly just about them in general guys, they all care so much (too much, even)

[drenched-in-sunlight]

saying this as respectfully as possible but. Do not put fandom content creators on a pedestal. We are also just fans contributing to a community just as you are. We have boundary on our own work and that’s it. What I say is not and should not be considered sth the whole fandom should listen to. I’m just a normal ass person ranting about things on my blog. If it does not have a fandom tag for others to engage in, do not make it out to be me trying to start fights or addressing the whole community. Because it’s not.

I’ve said it before and I will say it again, my art, my lore talk, is biased. I’ve never tried to hide that I view Marika a certain way and will always develop my theory following that base assumption.

Aside from translation stuffs and pointing out in-game items, everything else I say you can look at it, agree or disagree, and move on to form your own opinions. Just because I draw stuffs doesn’t mean you get to saddle me with responsibilities about managing fandom expectations. What the hell? I’m a fan artist, I’m the last person who you should look at for “leaderism” (?) WHAT?

I can and will be a hater in my own space, like I know sometimes other artists will just post their stuffs and not engage too heavily with fandom, and for a while I did try to do that here (because I’m already a dramatic ass on twitter), that’s just not me though.

You will get art and you will get my opinions as well.

[lecfosa]

i think a lot of the people wondering why armand would let louis die, or why Didn't he let louis die in the vault if that was his intention in the first place, are greatly underestimating how calculating and intelligent armand really is. first and foremost; he absolutely knew lestat loved louis too much to let him die, and it was a risk he was willing to take. claudia dies, lestat saves louis, armand swoops in to save louis from the vault and conveniently gets to take credit for lestat's part of it as well. and the next critical point: doesn't louis killing the coven vaguely ring a bell? wasn't there someone else (lestat) armand led to his first parisian coven / children of darkness so he could destroy it without armand getting himself involved? and both times he used the people lestat/louis cared about most to achieve it (nicki/claudia). it's nearly an exact parallel. and for all his talking about how he trusted the coven more than louis, if armand really cared more about the coven than he did louis, he literally could've told them about the warning louis had given him beforehand. but he didn't, because louis' revenge played into his hand - he managed to, again, get someone to do his bidding for him without ever getting his hands dirty.

[mintaikk]

"Too bad about the outcome though, right ex- champion?" DRAYTON, WHAT THE FUCK????

[saltygilmores]

@frazzledsoul shared an absolutely baffling take that she spotted on Instagram . Someone claimed "People are so distracted by Jess' looks that they overlook the fact he is a calculator (calculated?) person only at the age of 16 it's alarming and SICK that Jess knew how to manipulate Dean and Rory's relationship to make them feel uncomfortable with each other! Jess did this to make Dean feel insecure and paranoid so Rory got progressively more distant and Jess can take Rory away from him!" Dean wasn't insecure and paranoid until Jess showed up? I smell a trash take! Lessgo! I notice Dean's supporters who blame Jess for being a big ol Ruiner seem to gloss over Dean's jealousy over TRISTAN (who was nothing more than a bully and a harrasser that Rory wasn't dating or even interested in). If everything was so dang hunky dory for Dean and Rory (Lol, that rhymed) before Jess shows up, what is Dean's excuse for being insecure, paranoid, and making Rory uncomfortable for the entire first season of the show, another 5 episodes of season 2 until Jess shows up, then another some odd epsiodes into season 2 until Dean and Jess even just meet each other or are simply aware of each other's existence? The first time we truly see the rivalry between Dean and Jess start brewing on screen isn't until Bracebridge Dinner (2x10), and then it heats up for realsies in A Tisket a Tasket (2x13). So before 2x,10, who was using their psychic abilities on Dean to "make him" treat Rory like crap for 30 some odd episodes? He treated Tristan with the same jealous contempt as he did Jess, and I would argue it was even worse. in fact in Love, Daisies, and Troubadors, Tristan grabs Rory's books without her consent while Dean is in the Chilton parking lot. All he has to do is see Tristan with Rory's books (that she didn't want him to take and was trying to get back from him) and he doesn't ask Rory any questions. His temper is instantly set off and he becomes scarily jealous in the school parking lot and starts raising his voice at Rory in front of hundreds of other students.

Not to excuse Tristan for being a bully. Poor Rory is exhausted and she should probably just give up on boys, run away and join a nunnery. But we're talking about Dean The Butt Forrester here. Just seeing another boy carrying Rory's books was enough to set him off.

Just a very select few examples of Dean being insecure, paranoid jealous, and just a garden variety asshole, and Rory's "comfort" with him, long before Liz stuck Jess on that bus to hell:

See, he's more than capable of being a butt clown all on his own! Sorry Dean Lovers, ya'll get five seasons worth of your lover boy and we only get 1 and a half of Jess. You can't use Jess as a "get out of jail free card" for every shitty thing Dean does.

[dailyserirei]

Ooh what if Serirei just talking with their past selves, it could be chaotic with past Reigen being extremely energetic, but just imagine kid Seri too being so anxious and his future self helping him out. Now past Seri has a friend weee

OUGH!!!!! ageswap au is great actually that i went a little too far made a comic something like this

Serizawa to his 14 years old self (quite long):

Reigen to his 14 years old self:

[pomribs]

if you dont like abigail hobbs i fr dont trust u.. like take 2 steps back bud

[macabregoria]

looking at the ib tags and coming away with the thought that wow some people really need to (re)play this game and take time to actually understand what’s happening in it

[anneapocalypse]

On the one hand it's definitely a bummer to think of all the decisions we won't get to see little follow-ups on in Veilguard; on the other hand if they never tell me the consequences of Briala and Celene's reconciliation then my interpretation cannot be wrong. 😎

[daemon-is-perfectly-unhinged]

Rhaegar: What's going on with you?

Cole: I have this weird self-esteem issue where I hate myself but still think I'm better than everyone else.

[xylophone888]

an eternal classic

[t8oo]

there is some symbolism iv never considered in that one episod of pt5 where zenigata rescues fujiko before she kills lupin

[peridyke]

actually fujimoto has apparently cited flcl as a major influence which makes sense because power and makima kinda feel like if you split haruko into two different characters. slash pos btw

[ezralva]

Hiromi never had a proper martial arts training all his life. He grew up spending time on books, watching crime movies, volunteering at local shelters, and tutoring his kouhais for extra allowance during school and uni days.

Every battle he faced during Culling Game, he did it by instinct and trained by himself. So when he finally got proper lessons from Kusakabe during their time preparing for Shinjuku battle, at first he thought this sensei, his trainer, being so handsy and physical with him was a given, a normal occurence according to the moves he was teaching.

Completely clueless that the other man was flirting with him until Kusakabe came clean with him...

[rosemary-is-in-pesterquest]

The possibility of Meat Rose being turned into a shitty twist villain is so jarring, it's like if homestuck decided that Rose was the big bad evil 13 year old of the comic and Doc Scratch was made out to be more sympathetic to leverage this.