#BRAVADO.

[palarii]

For me, Tony Collette has the same energy as the mouse from Sing 🚙

[stuckinapril]

It’s crazy how powerful understated confidence is tbh like I have never looked at someone who was very cool & sure in their choices & truly judged them for it. I’m no saint & I have been skeptical ab things before, but the minute someone’s like “yeah but it’s the right choice for me” “it’s what I think is best for me specifically” “I truly believe in this decision” all my misgivings melt away bc truly nothing can stand in the face of silent, assured confidence. And obviously convincing others to see your pov isn’t the point, but I’ve always found I’m far more impacted by that than I am by anyone who feels the need to justify their choices or seek constant validation from people who don’t understand their specific circumstances. I am obsessed w understated confidence

[smovs]

sketches & screenshot studies for my Barret gold saucer date rewrite

[noirve]

god, armand as a character is giving me serious brainrot. he's such a control freak because he desperately needs to derive meaning from something—anything. whether it's god, rituals, or coven life, he needs to give a purpose to his existence. this is why he upholds these stringent laws and regulations in both of his covens, which are ultimately destroyed by someone he loves who stands outside it all. and he kind of just allows that destruction, despite all of his power, because he is also... bored? it's like he's on autopilot, going through life in this meticulously constructed routine until he meets lestat and later louis, who both refuse to adhere to his carefully crafted structures and disrupt the status quo. this is attractive to armand because deep down, underneath his all masked emotions, he is very lonely and desperate for connection! which is just awfully human for such an ancient powerful being

imagine being this old and alone, how do you endure? armand tries to find value in these rigid structures because otherwise, his life feels empty. "he needs rules to give him purpose" but in the end, this doesn't fulfill him completely because, despite his feigned confidence and stoicism, he is insecure, needy, and traumatized. this is why he seeks out chaos despite having spent all this time trying to control everything and everyone around him. he lets it happen—for love, but also, i think, because unconsciously he desires that total loss of control, which allows him to actually feel something real. every few decades, he almost intentionally lets his entire world, the world he worked so hard to manipulate into his will, be ruined. yet, when he tells daniel he "let it happen," he is lying, too (at least about lestat) because he presents himself as more passive, composed, and reasonable than he really was when his way of life was threatened. he just tells himself that he wanted it that way all along so he remains the one in control. i need to see him crack

[marsabillions]

evan rosier who struggles to feel like he has any exceptional talent or intellect and whose closest relationships are eccentric ravenclaws pandora and barty crouch jr

[theflytrap]

@ Wespeso

[brokenxmachine]

All my life i've been fighting a war...

LORDE performing "Bravado" live on KCRW’s basement studios, US (2013)

[holeymolars]

from What I Could Never Confess Without Some Bravado by Emily Palermo

[I CLAWED MY WAY OUT OF THE WOMB

LIKE A MONSTER

I WANTED TO BE LOVED SO DESPERATELY

THAT MY FINGERS SHOOK WITH IT

I AM NOT BEAUTIFUL

BUT I COULD BE

I AM VOLATILE

VIOLATED

MY BODY WAS NOT

ALWAYS MY OWN

I ONLY LOOK INTO THE MIRROR

TO SEE THE WHITES OF MY EYES]

[raphaerolo]

Art Wip Game

@artisticallyill you asked about the Battle Cody & Obi so here it is

This one is definitely a bad name. While technically accurate, it's not the defining thing about this. Battle Cody & Obi is the name of my drawing that is my Codywan FMAB AU. Truly the title says nothing, and idk what i was thinking when i named the drawing but it's my fmab au

Here's it is so far:

In this au, the jedi are the state alchemists, Obi-Wan is a general and a state alchemist and a highly revered one but I don't know what his alchemy specialization is yet. Cody is his right hand who watches his back and has several big guns and people are scared of him.

I imagine this drawing to be them fighting Maul, who would absolutely just set a bunch of things on fire, not even with alchemy but with straight up matches cuz he's petty like that and Cody and Obi-Wan are trapped by the fire and waiting to see where he strikes next.

When I was ideating this, I realized that their dynamic is already pretty similar to Mustang and Hawkeye, especially with the "we can't date cuz you're my superior officer/subordinate" and the "i will flirt with others as a tactical move but it's fake and the real adoration only comes out with you"

Find wip game post here

[ironinkpen]

anata wa hitori ja nai

once again i am getting emotional about Leo carrying on Karai’s legacy of hope and self-sacrifice and drawing strength from family

[loving-jack-kelly]

ideal javid dynamic is davey constantly quaking with barely constrained rage and jack quietly egging him on to see him let loose

[officialspec]

Whos Vriska < being genuine

character from homestuck that is maybe one of the most polarizing characters Of All Time in terms of like. people either die on the hill of loving her or actively wish torturous death upon her and her apologists. she was so controversial in her heyday there was a dedicated word for discussing her various Crimes (vriscourse) and multiple forum threads that were locked down after escalating to threats of violence. she was even gay

[daiziesssart]

maybe it’s bc it’s 4am and the sleep deprivation is melting my brain but i can’t stop thinking about the scene in OotP where harry uses the pensieve and sees james doodling lily’s initials on his exam papers.

i also love the quick detail that he hastily scribbled over it at the end of class, like he hadn’t even completely realized that he drew it in the moment. it’s just so endearing to imagine with what we know about james- that when lily was around, he was known to peacock and show off to try and impress her, but when presumably no one else is watching, he‘s really just a smitten 15 year old who is completely infatuated with his crush. like he’s literally just kicking his feet and giggling over her, he’s such a loser lmao

[humming-fly]

don’t wanna get too into it bc… nsfw but how does asexual greed work when he literally says that he wants sex and women? is he just not attracted to them in that way or–

well in terms of nitty-gritty homunculi biology they are quite literally an asexual species, like father reproduces via budding lol. And then given his physical embodiment of lust herself seemingly has no sex drive and is instead Way more interested in killing it's a pretty easy conclusion that as a species they just have no sexual interests because why would they (pretty sure father as the dwarf in the flask had some comments about finding human pairings distasteful, and given all his kids are just offshoots of his personality i can't see that shifting much haha (also more shitposty take but there's the much funnier observation that all of the homunculi come with their funny little onsies literally built-in to their regenerative code so there is an incredibly real chance they're all just ken dolls down there anyways))

as for why greed himself says stuff like wanting women and sex etc., i mean he also says he wants money and power and the finer things in life and then spends his time happily hanging out in a dingy dive bar with no real long-term goals besides 'hang out with my friends and investigate immortality which is definitely for me and not for anyone else that i'd be sad to see die no siree don't ask me why i'm doing this if i'm already virtually immortal'

so yeah it's a fun aspect of his character that greed says he tells the truth but he will also just sort of...lie about his own drives to himself and others all the time lol - i'd almost chalk it up to his love of performance but there's def also some intentional personal misdirection going on, which was very obvious as greedling when ling (correctly) calls him out on acting like all he wants is power when really the only thing he wants is to have friends

basically he says he wants money and power and women and sex because that's what common human desires are but then he makes absolutely 0 effort to follow through on any of those claims because deep down that isn't actually anything he's interested in

[pineappleliar]

How horrifying it is to realize that your love of someone is the only thing keeping them human, and that if you waver in that love even a little bit they will slowly and grotesquely turn back into a frog. And the futility of trying to keep loving them if only to keep someone from such a terrible fate, but the very attempts to force such a love weaken any bonds that once existed (not to mention he’s not helping things by putting all of the executive work of both the relationship and RUNNING A COUNTRY on your shoulders).

So perhaps, you decide, it’s better to leave and fall out of love entirely, and end their slow, torturous transformation, only to realize that that is also not a fate so freely given either. If you could just not love him, then some other girl, one with less weight on her shoulders, could fall for him instead. In all likelihood he’d be happier with someone less burdened by more ‘serious matters’ as you are. But that doesn’t work either, because you remember that part of him that made you fall in love in the first place, and so the trap is set. Not loved enough to remain human, not hated enough to restart the cycle. Just, half-formed, grotesque, not quite a husband not quite a frog. Fuck me.

[emmcfrxst]

john marston the type of man to shove his fingers down your throat to make you gag when you’re sucking on them and the entire time he has the biggest shit eating grin on his face, nevermind that he’s painfully hard, twitching and leaking all over his pants