#And you know what else is massive ...

[hebidem]

massive forsaken dump

[zuppizup]

I always find it strange when people lament that Rayla and Callum don't have much in common (implying they're a bad ship) when, to me, they're one of the most realistic portrayal of friends and lovers I've seen across various genres.

They very clearly enjoy each other's company. They have a similar quirky style of gallows humour. They like teasing each other, and they bounce ideas off each other. They fiercely love and care for their friends and family.

I mean, Callum just randomly starts spouting poetry at her, and does Rayla make fun of him or make him feel weird or self-conscious? Nope. She not only knows what he's talking about, she engages with it.

I suppose on the surface they don't have much in common. Callum loves his books and research, and Rayla’s more action orientated, but once you dig deeper, the foundation of their relationship is built on mutual admiration and respect.

And that is what's important. That's what long-lasting relationships are built on.

Your partner may not have the same taste in books or activities as you, but do they still engage with you about your interests? Do they support you indulging in them or spending time doing them? Do they respect you and your differences?

That love and support is what stands the test of time.

[nexussamurai]

WOE, BLITZWING BE UPON YE!

[voidedtea]

[ID in alt]

my pieces for @strawberrij's thespius fashion zine!! quite the endeavour and adventure that turned out pretty neat i think :]

special thanks go to @ratchetclankarecute for posing/cloth references + the bulk of the image descriptions! that first image would Not have happened without them <3

[johnnyshrine]

★ 123 // “Take the next best step and pray.”

[itzphynix]

Yeah, so while I was on my "I'm going to read into Vanny/Vanessa as much as possible" journey, I noticed an odd quirk in her animations in how she moves. At first, I thought it reminded me of a ballerina, 'cause she's kinda tip-toeing, & she has this way of keeping her head & chest in one place as she moves, but I looked again & realized --

That's not ballet! She's doing a tight-rope act. Like, look at this one:

This is like standing up on the wooden boards before you do the actual tight-rope walking, & the ring leader is hyping you up as you do some fun movement for the crowds. &, then, these:

These are all instances where she walks with one foot directly in front of the other. In that third, she's doing the "woaaah" wiggly-ass balance movements & everything, as if she's swaying up at the top of the tent, even though she's down on solid ground.

Idk, I feel like the way her feet are placed isn't accurate (pretty sure they should be pointed left & right, not both forwards...) doesn't make this 100% correct, but I like it. It also connects back with her first SB teaser, wherein she's up in the rafters.

[your-unfriendlyghost]

ik y’all are here for Outsiders but Jesus Christ- in case ya haven’t noticed, I rewatched Risky Business recently and it has wrecked me

like i watched it a while ago and thought it was weird but funny and a little uncomfortable. But now holy shit. I’ve put like actual thought into it. I get it now. I could write an essay about it. I swear I could.

Something about the combination of weird offbeat comedy, the tragedy of Lana’s story that only is fully acknowledged in the director’s cut, Joel’s obvious inexperience and teenage-ness that shines through in everything he does without coming off as stupid or overly naive…the way Lana’s just a kid too but is forced to grow up so so fast…

the Reagan-era politics that I’m not educated enough to analyze properly…

“Looks like University of Illinois!”

…The fact that Joel ends up successful while Lana doesn’t even though she did the majority of the work because he has privileges she can’t even dream of…and the way that kinda reflects reality with how Risky Business made Tom Cruise a movie star while Rebecca De Mornay (and the director too) faded to relative obscurity…

And fuckin Curtis Armstrong’s character (he’s always amazing in everything ever I think)

Just. My thoughts ain’t the most coherent rn- But holy shit this movie man. Like everyone knows the dancing ‘round in briefs scene -and I mean, fair enough it is classic, I’ll admit- but lord there’s so much more to it and it’s a shame that all I ever hear folks talk about is that. Like I ain’t even touched on the soundtrack yet or the vague surrealist feel or how relatable and human Joel Goodson is- augh

[stardestroyer81]

Seeing as I drew Anton fairly recently, I felt that it was only appropriate to also draw his cranked-out coworker Dynamite Annie, and it looks as though she has something very important to say... 💚🏳️‍⚧️✨

[bright-hope-spot-19]

All right, so there's a little something I wanted to rant about. I like Sasuke a lot, too, but there's one small thing his fans seem to mostly agree on that I just can't. It's in regards to the Kage meeting arc when Sasuke showed up, and he had a little confrontation vs. The sand sibs. As we know, Gaara tried to convince him not to turn to the darkness, even shedding a few tears, while Kank and Tem gave arguments as to why, in their opinions, Sasuke was a lost cause.

Sasuke stans proceed to respond to that scene by pointing out the hypocrisy of the sand sibs accusing Sasuke of being a hopeless criminal cause they're also criminals! They attacked Konoha, played active roles in an invasion, and killed people too! It just makes me wanna pull my hair out cause, no? Did they even pay attention to the chunin exams arc, or are they just making sheez up?

First things first, the sand sibs were all kids in that arc. They thought they were following their dad's orders, not even knowing their dad had been killed and they were being manipulated by Orochimaru. So, making them responsible for the attack is a bit bonkers? The elder was Temari, and she was just 15. She even has a canon scene in the manga questioning the validity of their attack on Konoha cause she genuinely didn't want to do it. It was Baki their sensei in charge who gave them a whole spiel about the need for that attack, revealing the dire situation in Suna. Second, it's also funny how Sasuke's trauma is a valid excuse for him lashing out against everyone (I'm not holding it out against him or hating him for it. I also believe Sasuke was justified). But his stans will also turn around and consider the sand sibs' trauma as an invalid excuse for their behavior and the way they acted. Gaara literally had a bloodthirsty demon in his head whispering bloody hell to him 24/7, and Kankuro and Temari were put in charge of watching over a brother who constantly threatened to kill them. In addition to the canon fact, Suna is also stated to be way harsher than the Leaf, especially in their training. No wonder the sibs were such cruel bastards then! It's almost like they also had to grow up in an extremely merciless and unforgiving environment where their lives were at stake almost the entire time!

The sibs also don't kill anyone in that arc? I mean, Gaara certainly did, but not the other two? I mean, they tried, but none of their victims really died. As we all know, Tenten, Shikamaru, and Shino are all still alive. I guess there's Tsurugi, the guy who faced Kank in the pre-lims, but should he really count as a victim? We're never told he died, and he's just an irrelevant background character created to fill up Kabuto's team. He's literally never seen or brought up again after the pre-lims phase. The last detail worth mentioning here: Kankuro and Temari actually indirectly saved the Leaf from further destruction. It sounds crazy but makes sense when seen in retrospect. Once Gaara started losing control of Shukaku in the finals cause Sasuke was kicking his ass and was even the 1st person to make him bleed and the invasion was launched? Kankuro and Temari proceeded to go down to their unstable brother, picked him up, and ran towards the woods and AWAY FROM THE VILLAGE. When Gaara finally transformed into Shukaku and had his fight with Naruto, it was in the woods far away from civilization. If Tem and Kank hadn't done that, he would've transformed in the middle of the stadium, killing thousands in the process. People don't seem to realize if it weren't for Tem and Kank carrying Gaara to the woods and away from the village, then the series would've ended right there.

Do you know why they did that? Because they already had past experiences with Shukaku, Gaara had already gone full beast mode on Suna once, after Yashamaru's failed murder attempt. So, Kank and Tem already knew what it was like and intentionally carried him as far away as possible while he was unconscious, so he wouldn't do the same to Konoha. Because they were never on board with the invasion to begin with. So, it never quite made sense to me when Sasuke stans accused them of being criminals. I mean, yeah, they're shinobi. I'm pretty dang certain the sand sibs are amongst the teams with the highest body counts in the series. But making them fully responsible for the Konoha invasion when it's obvious it was all staged by Orochimaru is a bit much, in my opinion. That wasn't their fault, and I won't trust anyone who holds that against them.

The last point here is that the sand sibs should also not be made responsible for not feeling sympathy for Sasuke. They're from different nations and know very little bout him. We're not even told if these 3 know anything bout the Uchiha massacre. From what I remember, the only things Gaara and Co. know bout him are what they saw in the chunin exams, where Gaara has a canon scene stalking Sasuke's Chidori training with Kakashi and telling him he also has a darkness inside him. In addition to the Sasuke rescue arc. That's the sum of everything they know about Sask, so we can't blame them for not viewing him with the kindest eyes. After all, I really doubt Konoha would let the details of the massacre get out to other villages. And while yeah, that means the most they know bout his family situation is that they're all dead, that also won't mean much to them when half the children in this show are also orphans. So, blaming them cause they considered him a criminal, also doesn't make sense.

It's like, for a comparison, someone called you a hypocrite cause you won't sympathize with a friend of one of your acquaintances whom you're not friends with personally and you know near nothing bout this person, and what little you've seen of this person are negative things putting them in a negative light from your pov. So, when that friend does some bigger bad things, even if they're justified in any way, and you judge the friend for it, your acquaintance who is actually friends with the person will call you a hypocrite cause they actually had their reasons, even if you know nothing bout them.

Again, I'm not a Sasuke hater. I really like his actions, and I'm constantly defending him. I just can't side with half of his fandom hating on the sand sibs for stuff that was way out of their control and that they shouldn't be blamed for, lol.

[lerios]

accidentally thought about narvin too much and cried so hard i had to take a nap about it

[sloasis]

Can we talk about how if the theory that Oh Il Nam ( the old man , player 001 ) is In Ho's father , making him Jun Ho's father as well since they don't have the same mother ( Jun Ho's mother calls herself In Ho's stepmother meaning they're related by the paternal side ) This makes Jun Ho literally the HEIR to the Squid games 😭 . His father made / hosted the Squid games for a long time , [ not sure if he created them but he was most definitely in charge for it all for a while ] AND his brother became the game master / frontman who over sees the games and makes sure everything is in working order ... This reveal will be so damn interesting to see , like will Jun Ho still go through with finding and destroying the games or will he hesitate since it was his literal family who created it in the first place ? Or even Take Over ... 🤔

[1singulargrape]

I'm going to start tweaking if I don't get this out of me

[mossterunderthebed]

Jujutsu Kaisen Observations #- i lost count im sorry but this is ep. 24

okay two things:

One: I really love that Gege put in a system that made it so that there was a reason for people to stand around gabbing at each other and explaining their powers and having actual conversations in the middle of their beef, because it is just. such an annoyance for a lot of people, i think, (and a pet peeve of mine personally) and that's such a fascinating and neat way to actually incorporate it into a story, and make it not a weakness, but actually a strength for the characters, as well as the plot and story itself.

and Two: Kugisaki Nobara is a fucking badass.

[unopenablebox]

ugh this is so pathetic and embarrassing but. it might be helpful to me if people would tag horror movie content with 'horror' or 'horror movie' or 'horror film' or something. because unfortunately seeing a still image of a horror movie monster or body horror scene, or a gif of the guy from saw swinging a bloody hand down to implicitly cut off his offscreen leg or whatever even though onscreen he's just swinging his arm, or even just an overly zippy horror movie poster or overly descriptive sentence about the content of a horror movie, does in fact often cause me to get so stressed out and compulsively miserable that i cry

[ETA: sufficiently non-explicit/non-tone-preserving joke content, like the Thursday the 12th meme that has a picture of jason in the store, is fine. my line is weird and hard to articulate but "does this preserve the tone of the horror movie or is it ridiculous/an obvious joke" is a reasonable way to delineate things i might benefit from tagging vs things that won't bother me.

also like. i made it sound very bad but it's not actually such a huge deal for things that aren't "this is literally a gif of a horror movie" so if you would like to make the question you ask yourself "is this literally a gif of a horror movie" you will already be solving most of my problems]

[appleiiforever]

Love how tiny the Macintosh looks next to Steve’s massive tits

[mmelolabelle]

“They’ve ruined Aemond! He would never do–“

Please I beg, just let this man be evil. Allow someone in this show to straight-up commit to disgusting all-out villainy. PLEASE. I can’t take any more back and forth. I can’t handle any more poorly executed “theY’RE morally gREY ACTUALLY” character arcs for Targaryens in which none of the writers involved can agree on what morally grey actually means.

That one-eyed, misogynistic, entitled, kinslaying mass-murderer with a superiority complex is my safe space. Aemond is terrible and unlike everyone else can be relied upon to show up when he’s supposed to and do terrible things to anyone unfortunate enough to share the screen with him. Let him get on with it for the love of god.