#But the last one was terrible LOL

[operativecantkillme]

You can go awhile without thinking about a ship but once you see one little gifset you end up going absolutely FERAL

[overtake]

Max and Daniel wrestling on the ice lives in my brain rent-free btw

Bonus:

[welcometogrouchland]

(ID in alt) I literally said I was gonna post this month's ago and then never had the wherewithal to describe it and so I didn't Lmao (said with pain). But since I'm thinking of opening my commissions I figured I should remind ppl that I. Yknow. Can draw.

Lots of Steph here (I had major art block making all of these and my brain worms for her kept me going) + some sprinkles of stephcass for Cass nation to enjoy!

[robo-dino-puppies]

✨Muriel✨

on geese:

on being a Human Police Officer:

on tea:

on humans in love:

on books:

[wonder-worker]

Thinking about Elizabeth Woodville as a gothic heroine is making me go insane. She entered the story by overturning existing social structures, provoking both ire and fascination. She married into a dynasty doomed to eat itself alive. She was repeatedly associated with the supernatural, both in terms of love and death. Her life was shaped entirely by uncanny repetitions - two marriages, two widowhoods, two depositions, two flights to sanctuary, two ultimate reclamations, all paralleling and ricocheting off each other. Her plight after 1483 exposed the true rot at the heart of the monarchy - the trappings of royalty pulled away to reveal nothing, a never-ending cycle of betrayal and war, the price of power being the (literal) blood of children. She lived past the end of her family name, she lived past the end of her myth. She ended her life in a deeply anomalous position, half-in and half-out of royal society. She was both a haunting tragedy and the ultimate survivor who was finally free.

[lucreziaces]

i think something just fell into place in my brain but idk how to make it make sense to anyone else, but i’m gonna try??

basically cesare spends two seasons trying his damn hardest to protect lucrezia’s innocence. first in s1 by trying to convince his father she's too young for marriage and then, by putting her to bed on her wedding night and telling giovanni sforza she’s young and it’s been a long day or whatever. and then, in s2, when she tells him she would happily kill tonight he reminds her that her killing juan would deeply upset their father and he then takes the task upon himself instead. then s3 comes along and she is (on more than one occasion) visibly upset by how things are going with alfonso, they’re not going as she hoped, he’s not a man she could fall in love with, he’s not a man that will ever cherish her and offer his life and soul to protect her/her honor/the things that matter most to her, etc.. and so, she turns to cesare, ready to give into what’s been brewing between them for YEARS. meanwhile cesare himself spends pretty much all of "siblings" struggling not to give into it because of the thought he’d be corrupting her soul. but despite his hesitation, he slips up and allows them to give into their feelings, crossing a line he feels never should've been crossed. then, he spends the rest of the season feeling ashamed because he believes he's damned her and so he tries his best to avoid giving into her again. anyway, i believe between this, having killed his own brother for power (and for lucrezia—both on her behalf and to protect her innocence, but mostly, let's be real, for power), and gaining his father’s trust is why he begins to shift into the monster that he’s come to be known as. it’s like these three things combined make something in his brain snap, turning him colder, and in turn making him more calculating and power hungry until he's the one forcing lucrezia to aid him in killing her own husband, therefore, committing the final act of corruption of her soul, bringing her down with him. twisted, dark, and complicated. my roman empire indeed.

[rebouks]

Behold! Robin's masterpieces..

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Link to The Terror, which u should watch (x)

[joodeegemstone]

Sokka: *kisses Zuko on the cheek*

Zuko: What, are you gay?

Sokka: Five times more gay than you think. Four more to go, peaches.

[hearts4pearlescentmoon]

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Inspired by @/static-scribblez and their recent Valentine’s Day cards :D

[smilesrobotlover]

Aight I’m gonna rant about the ending of totk… again. I deleted the first post cuz honestly my opinion has changed on it and I just wanna say some things cuz a lot of people left some awesome inputs.

Now I wanna say this first, I have nothing against happy endings. I love happy endings. Zelda games all have happy endings. But they’re also very bittersweet and some of them just outright devastating. This game def has a happy ending, but it’s underwhelming to me. What I want out of totk is CONSEQUENCE. You’re telling me that Link lost his arm and Zelda turned into a dragon and then in the end everything is back to normal and things are fine and dandy? Like it’s not a terrible thing, but it feels like everything you went through was kind of pointless cuz the characters don’t seem to have been affected by it. I would’ve been less upset if Zelda at least kept her memories as a dragon, or had some dragon features or something. The light dragon was easily the best part of the game and it ended in such an unsatisfying way. YOU don’t have to agree with that statement, but it was unsatisfying to me. I didn’t like how Rauru and Sonia’s bs magic just turned her back. I can understand Rauru’s arm being there since Link was there and Sonia’s time power turning her back to her original form, but how is she just there? It’s not a TERRIBLE solution but it’s not good to me personally.

A lot of people commented on the original post that there should’ve been a quest for Link to find a way to bring Zelda back, and I found that far more intriguing than leaving her as a dragon. This game is full of fetch quests but this type of quest I would’ve loved, besides, Impa WAS going to look for a way to bring Zelda back, it’s not like it would’ve come out of nowhere. I’m sure doing this would ruin the flow of the ending, but let’s think about AOC. Terrako dies. He stays dead at the ending. But after you finish the game, you can start rebuilding him, and there’s a second ending where Terrako is back with a cute second staff credit. Totk already has some AOC influence with the character bios and stuff, so I feel like it would’ve been fine if they had done this honestly. And it would’ve been more satisfying that the player WORKED towards Zelda returning back to normal. You can have the dive that parallels the beginning and all that stuff, it’s fine. I just feel like this would’ve been a better ending to the game.

But again, I want consequence. I want Zelda to either be haunted or amazed at seeing history before her very eyes as a dragon, I want Link’s arm to not magically regenerate, I want there to be something different with the characters. Cuz to me, it felt like the characters came out the same way they went in.

Now just to clarify, this would’ve fixed the ending for ME. If you’re content with the ending I do not care. Good for you. I’m so glad you’re happy. But this overhyped game wasn’t good for me and I have so many issues with it so I just wished that Nintendo did something better with the ending. Something more bittersweet or hopeful towards a future cuz there’s none of that (I guess Mineru dies but she was already dead and only Zelda cared about that so I really didn’t care that she officially died. And it’s not like she was an interesting character to begin with).

Tldr; I wish there were more consequence to the game and I wish the light dragon had a more satisfying ending

[blusical]

like, i know i complain about hockey fans being picky about wanting "personality" in the NHL, but also if the national fucking anthem is the only good music performance over the *actual* band/artist performances... then yeah you might have a problem when it comes to appealing with audiences.

[camellcat]

spike would be such a girldad. like HELLO? have we even been WATCHING the same show? occasionally I'll click on a kidfic cause idk sometimes I can't help myself and I've noticed over half the time for some reason the kid is a boy.... why y'all gettin funny with me

[camels-pen]

you ever think about post-wano sanji blaming everything on his mutation?

It starts out small, of course. A day when nothing seems to go right and he feels little else other than rage. He considers that the mutation stuck around, that it was amplifying his anger somehow. He considers it, but ultimately let's the thought drift away as nonsense.

Then he considers it again when they have a calm day out at sea. He doesn't feel the need to put on flairs for the girls when he serves their snacks, and he doesn't feel the need to kick the three idiots when they come to the kitchen whining for their own snacks. Sanji serves them with a flourish and not a single complaint.

A third time. He drags his feet the whole day, feeling like a pile of cement bricks. He can't muster any feelings at all, just goes through the motions of the day. He can't even really remember it. This time scares him the most.

And just. On and on like that. And his suspicions grow more every day. He finds an excuse for it in everything.

Banged his finger and only cussed a little? Mutation.

Accidentally kicked Luffy overboard? Mutation.

Can't bring himself to insult Mosshead one day? Absolutely mutation.

It's a never ending spiral of existential fear.

He didn't want to lose his emotions. He didn't want to be like those Germa bastards.

He didn't want to hurt his friends.

(I wonder what lengths he would go to ensure that.)

[sportsthoughts]

also today marks two months since the pittsburgh penguins last played a game of hockey. how are we holding up friends

[tj-crochets]

So one of my family members recently-ish got a new mattress, and had the old one still available (with the thought to make it a guest bed eventually) and offered to let me try it, and y'all I think I have solved at least half the mystery of how I kept injuring myself in my sleep My old mattress was so bad lol