#And both smiling

[completeoveranalysis]

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I am fascinated by the choice to split that top panel in two. How Fai, Kurogane, and Mokona are all presented to us as whole, but Lava Lamp is cut down the middle. We don’t see his face. There is a void right down his centre. 

It’s visually just two panels, but they’re aligned like they could have been one panel all the way across, with no breaks - but it tells us so much more about Lava Lamp that this is how we see him. That he’s in the shadow. That he’s standing apart. That he is not whole and hasn’t been since he was a child. 

Meanwhile we get a few flashes of his other memories of growing up in Clow and the bonds he made with the royal family along the way. We have what looks like magic time with Nadeshiko, sword practice with Touya, Eating Food with Yukito (I’m screaming, Of course Yukito’s hobby is eating food), and reading books with Fujitaka! He has a shared interest with each of them, but amazing that the bond with Fujitaka really reflects how much of a scholarly connection his clone will have with Fujitaka when raised by him. 

Oh, and we have hands! Lava Lamp holding hands with Sakura as the most central motif of his time with her - or specifically, the moment BEFORE their hands touch, as that’s the point that’s most painful, the biggest echo of his biggest trauma, the moment that hangs over him every minute of his life. 

Aw and he brings it back around! His positive experiences and happy memories fortify him against the weight of it all and feed back into his determination to save her all over again.

Which is great! But I hope Lava Lamp knows he can just HAVE negative feelings on their own without them feeding back into a determined outlook every single time. Which like, isn't the point because this isn't therapy, this is a manga narrative, but still!

Also he IS a Syaoran so maybe he can't control that part of him.

[petricorah]

why wear a huge ass overcoat when you can just hold your crush's hand? [ids in alt]

kinda wanna make the last panel a standee lol

[hasnomoxxie]

IM SORRY IVE BEEN BUSY MAKING THIS LEVITY RISES INTRO ANIMATIC

song by @maddiesmiles I love her she's so cool

Swaps to note from this:

Bill Cypher // Smile dip Puppies

Read about them here

The altered intro end was moreso to reference the animatics unused one!

Darlene // Paul Bunyan

(Yeah this does mean mason fails to flirt with him Paul, half because he knows he's a cryptid ithink. Paul probably turns into a blue minotaur maybe. As for Darlene, she's probably just a super frequent ad mascot)

Waddles // The axolotl

(the axolotl is called wades! Bc of this change, at the end of the summer Mason doesn't get his memories back immediately- it takes a few months)

Zombies // Gnomes

(I thought flipping the premise of the first episode would be fun, plus, tiny sentient zombies and tall garden gnome like cryptids that kinda stand there sound COOL)

I've been seeing the messages in the inbox, I'll get to answering them soon 😭😭😭

[mischievous-thunder]

Poor little emotionally stubborn feral old kitty :"3

[gieoki]

sadie hawkman’s dance when?!

[toodrunktofindaurl]

"Death's child"

twitter | bluesky | insta | 🔞 patre*n

[pucksandpower]

The post-Formula 1 glow up really needs to be talked about more because Logan Sargeant and Daniel Ricciardo have literally been glowing ever since they left the grid.

[frownyalfred]

Bruce “I subtly push away and manipulate everyone I desire romantically until they lash out and turn on me because I deserve it” Wayne and Clark “I see your manipulation and raise you…these impenetrable puppy dog eyes” Kent make up the perfect relationship dynamic, send tweet

[plaguedpriest]

Body and Bride

(veil-less ver. under the cut)

[hinamie]

brighter days ahead

[mikakuna]

jason as a child looking to bruce with so much love and trust is extremely important to me

[proxycrit]

(I point. Gently, in the voice of somebody who’s mind touched by the outer gods, i whisper truth in your ears:

Your honor the horses are now lesbians

(Anyways here’s the designs)

[kimtaegis]

Destination: your heart Estimated Time of Arrival: whenever you need him ➤ for @jung-koook ♡

[brainrotcharacters]

I love it when he smiles 🥰

[j1gsawz]

considering the order of the hypnosis endings… this was the last new scene in the whole show. the last new thing we saw. and the writers knew that. in this universe and every universe, guillermo de la cruz and nandor the relentless love each other and that’s canon.

[captain-flint]

Tommy 'smooth af' Kinard