#Both narratively AND visually

[completeoveranalysis]

[4]

HOW LONG HAVE THEY BEEN IN THAT JAM JAR

Does it run by Dream World rules and so time feels different in there?

Or have they genuinely been in there like 14+ years?

We just don’t know!

Either way waiting is one HELL of a price, and we've already seen Lava Lamp pay a similar one for all the time he spent in his Evil Wolverine Prison. How sad that became a shared family experience. His parents spent an untold number of years in a glass object to pay a price, and then he did the same exact thing for seven years as well. 

But on the flip side I suppose that unites them? As a family of people willing to wait years and years at a time to save the ones they love? 

Does that count as an upside?

Either way I absolutely love that they’re re-using the same exact art panels from Chapter 1 here. It’s a very nice touch!

Or at least...

Wait no I'm squinting very hard between this and the same panels from Chapter 1. These are redraws! The ruffles in Sakura's dress and the placement of her beads are ever so slightly different. And yet apart from that it looks almost EXACTLY the same.

They really went next level with this.

[bumblingbabooshka]

Harry Kim saying Naomi is lucky to be born on Voyager and that he would have given "anything" to have her life when he was a kid...

[000marie198]

The trailer of The Glassworker is here!

This is the frst ever Pakistani hand-drawn anime movie. And it looks so good! Very excited to watch it :D

Since it's a local movie, I can't wait for this to be the first thing I watch on the big screen!

[wreckedhoney]

a while ago on the discord i brought up the "which desk at the station is forrest's desk" question when the answer should probably have been obvious. he's been at the job for approx. one week, so it's the desk with all the unpacked boxes. it just didnt occur to me because thats Frankly A Lot Of Boxes and my first thought was this is where all the storage and junk are piled on, but no. it's all stuff forrest brought (/hc). he's a heavy packer. he spite packed all the stuff he didn't want his old job to keep even if he doesnt need or even like them all that much but now that he's blacklisted then no one in the entirety of chicago can have them

[zellkabellk]

I finally beat Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss.... it was hard but going slowly day by day helped learn most of the patterns (and survive the ones I still didn't get completely) ;;;;;;;; TIS DONE

[jack-o-phantom]

I love your mer!Eclipse, and its exciting to hear you were thinking of putting them in a story! I haven't heard of a lighthouse keeper y/n before, nor as a part of a group exploring for shipwreck finds or for a location where there could be treasure the Atlantis movie-style. Keeping a secret from others about having run into Sun or Moon could build up to a breaking point with the other crew- of whatever number that is.

Whether you wanted to have y/n venture into the depths or the mers pushing their boundaries to try and connect more to the surface world (of both!) can help point towards jobs that would best fit. One I for sure haven't seen is a y/n who makes sand sculptures on the beach regularly discovering new, rough sandcastles placed next to theirs that would crumble overnight, and trying to figure out who's doing it because there's always a signature addition- a molted lobster shell, coral, a row of shark teeth around the base like a metal as heck fence, etc

OHH those are amazing ideas! I think a lighthouse keeper is a good one paired along with a sailor, there are a lot of resources in that job.

With the sand sculpture one?? I can see the reader putting a message in a bottle within one of the washed away sand pieces, and come find it filled with small trinkets the next day.

I can add on with the folklore that can tie in with dense a fog surrounding the area, it's the sea after all!

The Atlantis one is cool as well! Loved the movie in it's theme of the colossal machines, would probably fit an Eclipse

[falllpoutboy]

The Queen in the North and the Queen in Chains

[iiryebreadii]

thinking about the light dragon again. ough. going a little insane over her actually.

thinking about how she's just a pretty dragon when you look at her from far away. thinking about how when I first got close enough to see her clearly and eventually land on her back and walk to her head, I was so,,,,, disturbed?? disturbed. by her appearance. the way the eyes bulge out so significantly. the way the pupils are so contracted, the way they're set like a prey animal's eyes, the sort of sickly purple-green combo they've got going on. the too-long face, like one of those over-bred show dogs. like everything about her was a little off. but at the same time, I thought the light dragon was really, really pretty!! she's got those iridescent antlers and golden mane, and that soft glowing energy of the master sword surrounding her.

but then. when you get the master sword and see that cutscene, if you didn't already know beforehand, you almost certainly know now that the light dragon is zelda. and suddenly that distant, beautifully glowing dragon is gone. it's lost some of its beauty because now you know. you've gotten close enough to see the details. those other, more disturbing features of her face are even easier to see now, without the obscuring presence of the master sword's glow.

her design is reflective of her role and experiences in the story. the light dragon's very existence is beautifully disturbing.

she's born from the ultimate sacrifice of a woman wanting to protect those she loves; zelda gives up more than her life (I mean, there's at least an afterlife in the zelda universe as we've seen from the ghosts), she gives up her sentience. and isn't that just intrinsically terrifying?? at least if she had died, she could still be herself as a ghost. but, from what she knows when making her decision, becoming the light dragon practically erases her. of course the light dragon is so unsettling. but she's beautiful too because she only exists because of Zelda's complete and utter faith and love for her knight and the people in her kingdom!!

but man. that final memory. I think it really captures the light dragon's essence. The music, the imagery, everything in that final dragon's tear is just. so beautiful and SO unsettling. if you listen closely to the roar the light dragon makes as she flies upward, you can hear what sounds like a human scream mixed in. which is just. im not ok. i cant even pretend to be normal about that after hearing it. (If you want to try hearing it for yourself and tell me if I'm crazy for hearing it or not, listen here from around 3:17-3:22, headphones would probably help)

ANYWAY. tldr; thinking about how the light dragon's design reflects what you know about her in the story. if you don't know the story yet (haven't found/seen the tears), it's like what you see when you look at her from far away: pretty new dragon with cool blue-yellow aura. but the more you learn (the closer you look) the more unsettling it gets. and then when you get the master sword (symbolically learning the truth of who the light dragon is) then you can suddenly see everything that's so disturbing about her design now that it's no longer obscured (by the aura in the visual sense and by the player's lack of knowledge in the meta sense). am i making any sense here or am i thinking about this too hard

[lighthouselesbian]

rewatching the first episode of steven universe, man this show was actually so excellent. edgelord tumblr gave steven universe fans so much shit and granted, some of them were annoying, but if you just forget all that stupid internet shit then wow

[soleadita]

mm. no coherent thoughts, really, i just can't stop thinking about bobby and his kids. may asking athena how bobby's doing, and then showing up at the hospital with a sandwich. bobby stepping away from one of his kids to be consoled by another. the role reversal there, from bobby showing love by cooking for his family to may showing her love for bobby by bringing him food. (there's something so tender about providing a meal for your parents after they've done so for you for so long.)

bobby basically living in the chair in buck's hospital room. buck leaving a dream world where his biological parents were everything he thought he'd wanted, but bobby had relapsed and died. (and like...not just died, but suffered alone and without support. like. fuck.) the untouched chess game in the dream loft vs buck and bobby playing an intent game of cards together at buck's hospital bedside (somewhere the buckley parents have pretty much never been through the years, by the way).

and thinking about all of this in context of season 1 bobby and season 1 buck especially is blowing my fucking mind. (and maybe even 6x01? where buck was like, "why didn't bobby choose me as interim captain? bobby? bobby, what did i do wrong?" that he now gets to have this...peace? that he's enough as he is, that bobby loves and cares for him so deeply?) the character development!! the storylines!! the detail and care with which all of this is handled!!

just. what an episode. WHAT AN EPISODE.

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

I owe the short one gaming channel so much bc without them I wouldn't enjoy danganronpa as much as I do, wouldn't have gotten as into zero escape, wouldn't have given games like Teenage Exocolonist a second glance, and I am currently falling head over heels in love with In Stars And Time when I probably wouldn't have even heard of it without them-

[melto]

thinking about double (not the rider the show were alata gosei played gay in this toxic homoerotic codependent relationship between actors that was so fucking awesome)……

[whomst-the-hell]

how to train your dragon is a ghibli film btw

[upsidedowngrass]

wheres liam gets home fic . wheres liam recovery .. please

[rosyfingereddawnn]

i need wings desperately !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[reasonsforhope]

By the way, you can improve your executive function. You can literally build it like a muscle.

Yes, even if you're neurodivergent. I don't have ADHD, but it is allegedly a thing with ADHD as well. And I am autistic, and after a bunch of nerve damage (severe enough that I was basically housebound for 6 months), I had to completely rebuild my ability to get my brain to Do Things from what felt like nearly scratch.

This is specifically from ADDitude magazine, so written specifically for ADHD (and while focused in large part on kids, also definitely includes adults and adult activities):

Here's a link on this for autism (though as an editor wow did that title need an editor lol):

Resources on this aren't great because they're mainly aimed at neurotypical therapists or parents of neurdivergent children. There's worksheets you can do that help a lot too or thought work you can do to sort of build the neuro-infrastructure for tasks.

But a lot of the stuff is just like. fun. Pulling from both the first article and my own experience:

Play games or video games where you have to make a lot of decisions. Literally go make a ton of picrews or do online dress-up dolls if you like. It helped me.

Art, especially forms of art that require patience, planning ahead, or in contrast improvisation

Listening to longform storytelling without visuals, e.g. just listening regularly to audiobooks or narrative podcasts, etc.

Meditation

Martial arts

Sports in general

Board games like chess or Catan (I actually found a big list of what board games are good for building what executive functioning skills here)

Woodworking

Cooking

If you're bad at time management play games or video games with a bunch of timers

Things can be easier. You might always have a disability around this (I certainly always will), but it can be easier. You do not have to be this stuck forever.