#DISCLAIMER: THIS IS ALL GUESSING

[badlydrawnbeastcookies]

What are your souljams made out of? Like I know the “purified” ones are called stuff like grapejam but what are yours called? If you know I will know what they taste like

- feral anon

"Mine is blue raspberry jam!"

"Which isn't even real! It's just regular raspberries. Anyway mine's cranberry jam."

"Mine is apricot jam."

"Mine is rose apple jam, and Silent Salt Cookie's is Blackberry Jam!"

[persephonaae]

TERFs die mad: you just reblogged a nasty transgender person with pronouns and all who did this historical look to explore their cultural history as well as express their own nonbinary identity in a way that resonates with them. An edit I wish I didn’t have to make on this post

I’ll try to post the actual pictures I took soon, but I was bored today and wanted to shirk some other responsibilities, so I decided to do some general vague Minoan or Mycenaean look since it’s been on the mind and also my hair was looking really good today and I wanted to take advantage of that haha

[sleepsucks]

[egophiliac]

the new rider for ride kamens is agata, and he's based on hibiki, which, while makes sense 'cuz araki is based on momotaros and therefore oni, is kinda boring after the reveal of our lord and savior dan kuroto

don't be mean to Agata, he's the only reason the other two can survive with half a braincell between them :(

[azurityarts]

oh god why are there 2000 of you now

Sorry for the lack of posts recently; life's been really busy and hectic and classes starting back up have not made that easier ><

To all the new folks who've found this blog, welcome! I do the art thing sometimes - I should probably be making this formal and proper but it's past midnight and I just can't rn lol

but uh. tradition is tradition (except I can't be bothered to make a proper description or ruleset) - throw your pmd ocs at me or something and might maybe possibly draw them if I have time LOL

[interstellarsystem]

Little differences in habit between system members are interesting. First Red goes to put milk before cereal without thinking, and now I've learned that no one else in here turns the water cold right before getting out of a shower. I'm cofronting with some guys who were absolutely shocked when I turned the hot water down. Like how do you get out of a shower and feel awake at all if you don't turn it cold? I'd go right to sleep.

It's just little insignificant things like those that really help battle the imposter syndrome back. We are real, and none of these little things would shock us if we weren't.

[crispyjenkins]

ive been really lucky NOT getting many comments demanding updates or stuff like "oh the author is gone forever" but have gotten multiple on my maze runner fic in the last month and just got another on my naruto one and like. i feel fucking awful. like ive started being filled with dread when i get email notifs for comments now, and i hate it because i can’t do anything about it. like there are always going to be people that leave comments like this, no matter what i say or do and like i don’t?? want to block them?? but maybe i should? i don’t know.

the entitlement and rudeness is getting to me. im tired, y’all.

[tabbi-mysteries]

Episodes 1 - 10001 of Mouri Ran's Wardrobe!

+Films 1-23 & OVAs 1-11 & Lupin Specials & Magic Files & TV specials & Magic Kaito 1412

(Better quality images under the cut)

Episode 1000 reached! So close to complete the next set will go right through to the current episodes! I'm hoping to have that done by the end of the month! I'm also seriously hoping to organise a zine to properly celebrate Ran's various outfits in a prettier format than my sketches lol, I'll likely try to organise an interest check for that soon but do let me know if you're interested!

And as always pls let me know your favourite/least favourites in the tags/comments!

As always if you want to see a specific image in better quality shoot me a message. Imma recompile it all when I complete the project in a way that will hopefully make things clearer but this is the best I can do for now

[m1ckeyb3rry]

in some sense i do feel bad for kaiser’s mother actually and a solid portion of the takes i see about her make me feel vaguely uncomfortable

[nenoname]

stan and his beef with literal children

[aphel1on]

not sure how to phrase this but something i have been ruminating on recently is that xue yang is strangely fragile. obviously he is also incredibly resilient. he survived, and continues to survive, impossible things. he has a million barriers between himself and the world, but none of this actually matters when it comes to what he feels. everything is personal to him. everything pierces straight through all that armor and goes right to his battered heart, the heart that no one else believes he has. that even he is not fully cognizant of. the world strikes and strikes and strikes and so he strikes and strikes and strikes back, even (especially) when the wound is something other people would not think worthy of retribution.

xue yang would never realize this- would be outraged at the concept of it- but the way everything, everything is something to rally a defense against is in itself a form of fragility. he does not know how to let go of things, or let them pass him by. passivity is death. so he is ruthlessly cruel and violent. he projects himself as a lunatic untouchable by anything you might possibly do to him, and on some level he even believes this. but in actuality he is one raw emotional wound. he never learned to separate himself from his emotions, much less process them. the volatility is not so much insanity as it is the constant lashing out of an animal in a trap, and the trap is the world, and the trap is himself, and he is never going to get out. and like so much else, this pain is just part of the background radiation of his life. it hardly registers. to be able to register the hurt, you would have to be able to register a time in which you were not hurt.

i feel like it is a fragility that could blossom into such tenderness, given exactly the right set of circumstances. how at the very first touch of softness in his life he fell into a domesticity from which he never recovered. how much was there, still, to be salvaged from the cruelty. on some level i am always thinking about the little apple bunnies. about the meal for daozhang and the straw in a-qing's bed.

it was too little, too late. it shattered like glass when the world intruded back in. but the tenderness was there. no one, least of all xue yang, knows what might have happened had it been unearthed in him any sooner.

[yeah-w-r-i-t-e]

Okay so I was thinking about the stark difference between the first three Mission: Impossible films, and while this is obviously due to the fact that they were directed by three completely different people, I think there could also be a good in-universe explanation as well.

This'll be a pretty long analysis post so more under the cut:))

In M:I1, Ethan is more contemplative, more prone to talking instead of fighting, etc. There are stunts like the train scene and the one where he steals the NOC list, but they aren't up to the scale of the stunts in later films (and the NOC list theft is extremely quiet and drawn out, relying on suspense rather than action).

But in M:I2, Ethan is reckless and flashy. He's in his famous bad boy era. Our first shot of him is him rock climbing with no safety gear whatsoever. He keeps himself up with just his thighs at one point and it's fucking insane. And don't get me started on this shot of him riding a motorcycle in possibly the worst way ever, which has not left my mind since I saw it the first time:

Also he seduces a woman by almost pushing her off a cliff with his car?? Listen we all know M:I2 was ridiculous so I don't need to explain that to you. What I think is interesting is the implications for Ethan's mental state.

In M:I1, Ethan's entire team dies. These people who he trusted, who he loved, all died. Two of them betrayed him and then died. We see a little bit of the effect of this M:I1, but Ethan is still essentially in shock throughout the whole movie. We don't see what inevitably happens afterwards: the breakdowns, the therapy (or, more likely, the avoidance of therapy), the first missions he takes without his team.

What we do see is Ethan, several years later, displaying previously unseen feats of recklessness. I think it's incredibly likely that Ethan, in the aftermath of the most important people in his life dying as well as multiple betrayals, became a little unconcerned for his own life. Up until Ghost Protocol, the only person we see Ethan really close with (other than Julia, who he can't be truthful with) is Luther. So Ethan hasn't healed from the loss of his team and found new friends; he just has Luther, who seems to be off on vacation half the time? The point is: he doesn't have much of a support system, he can't really trust the IMF considering how it keeps suspecting him of treason, and he has become a daredevil of sorts.

I know what you're thinking. How does this then connect to M:I3? (Okay, maybe you weren't thinking that. But you are now.)

In MI:3, Ethan is in his family man era. He's trying to be a normal guy and has to come to terms with the fact that...he can't. There's always going to be a new world-threatening event for him to rush off to prevent, and even when there isn't, there will always be someone ready to take away his world—the people he loves. We all know that, but how did Ethan get to this point? And what happened to Nyah?

They never tell us what happened to Nyah. At the end of M:I2, she and Ethan meet up in the park to have a cute little date. At the beginning of M:I3, Ethan is engaged to another woman. Nyah is never mentioned again, not even to say that she is dead.

Obviously, there are multiple things that could have happened. Nyah could be dead, killed by someone looking to hurt Ethan. Or maybe she died in a regular car crash. It's completely possible that the relationship just didn't work out, and they broke off. Maybe Nyah is travelling the world, living her best life. We all have our theories. The truth is that it doesn't really matter what happened to her; what matters is that she's gone.

I personally don't think Ethan has much experience with relationships. He's a skilled honeypot and knows how to manipulate people's attraction to achieve a mission, as shown in Ghost Protocol when he gets that one rich guy jealous over Jane. But we've only seen him have three canon "relationships" so far (and even that is stretching it).

In M:I1, he kisses Claire. This isn't a relationship, but it's apparent that Claire and Jim used Ethan's attraction to Claire to manipulate him. This is sure to have fucked him up.

In M:I2, he falls in love with Nyah pretty much instantly. He's guilty over the fact that he has to basically pimp Nyah out to her evil ex-boyfriend, and she almost dies because he involved her in this whole mess.

In M:I3, he's with Julia, a regular civilian woman who knows nothing about the IMF. This could just be due to a lack of interest in anybody he knows from work. But it could also be because of Nyah.

Nyah knew about the IMF. She knew about Ethan. She saw firsthand the danger that came with his job. And she wasn't exactly a "normal" civilian from the beginning; she was a master thief. She was about as embroiled in Ethan's life as a lover could be without being part of the IMF herself.

But...that didn't work out, for whatever reason. Whether she was murdered or she left Ethan, their relationship didn't last. So maybe in Ethan's mind, he can't have a relationship with someone who is so involved in his life.

That brings us to M:I3, where Ethan is with a normal civilian Julia. He doesn't like keeping secrets from her, of course, but it's better than the alternative—her knowing all of him, and the relationship ending.

Of course, this happens anyway, but that's not the point of this.

The point is that while the first three Mission: Impossible movies are disjointed and completely unconnected, so much so that they could be set in completely different franchises if not for the fact that the main guy is named Ethan Hunt—there are links if you try hard enough to make it make sense! Which is something I enjoy doing. Ethan doesn't really become a solid character until Ghost Protocol, but if you think about where Ethan is at mentally in between each of the first three movies...you can see why he turned out the way he did by the end.

[fiapple]

i'm getting towards the end of the skypeia arc, & i'd like to say just how much i adore the way the female strawhats have been treated.

just... every aspect of how the way their characters have been previously contextualized influences the story-line is treated with a masterful amount of consideration. we're given so many layers to both of them that enrich not only their characters specifically, but the arc, and the one piece world as a whole. without nami & robin having their specific skills, and their specific values, without those being built upon, the story would have come to a halt.

you could not have skypeia without nami & robin being who they are as individuals. not just because they never would've gotten there without nami, but also because the way these women think is itself foundational to the machinations of the arc as a whole.

to be totally upfront, if you think any other strawhats were more central to the skypeia arc than nami & robin were you are full-on fucking lying to yourself.

[cowchickenbeefpork]

you know even though it’s important to acknowledge how sexist/homophobic the writing was for Isabella and how shes definitely not good for edward(her actions in the dress up scene can easily be interpreted as rape since Edward is consistently mentally ill in this show and literally went to Arkham for it) but to paint her as someone intentionally malicious is very ????? Strange to me.

it paints her as someone calculating, someone who know what they’re doing is wrong but does it anyways which isn’t like how we see her act in the show at all. We see her risk her life for a man who she’s only dated (AND KNOWN!!!!) in the SPAN OF A WEEK!!! A WEEK PEOPLE!!! The first time she risked her life was when she found out he used to be in Arkham and killed his previous girlfriend and stayed with him nonetheless and the second was when she risked being strangled to death while she was dressed up as Kristen to prove he wouldn’t hurt her. Both of these events happened within the same week. If you were planning to intentionally abuse someone in order to make yourself feel more in control and powerful, why would you pick a man who went into Arkham for killing his previous partner LET ALONE DRESS UP AS HER TO PROVE YOUR LOVE TO HIM???? Someone doing this intentionally would at least wait and pace these events around in order to ensure their safety, not do that all at once. Isabella does them all at once.

even with the clone theory attached to her it still just. Doesn’t really paint her as someone who is mature enough to know what her actions are doing. The clones are at most around a year old, and I don’t think you ever get a good grasp of morals in the span of only a year alive even if you were born as an adult. Even if you head-canon her behavior to be motivated by the court of the owls as a intentional act to separate Ed and Oswald, the blame still wouldn’t fully be on her because of the fact she is a clone whose barely lived a life. This would be her just following orders, not fully understanding the morals of it because this is all she’s ever known!

I know it’s because she doesn’t have a lot of content so she’s more flexible as a character which makes you be able to make her whatever you want her to be but it’s like !!!! We like the same show right??? Why aren’t you not utilizing the little bits of characterization we do get of her in canon for your version of her? What’s the point of writing for such an underdeveloped character if you only keep around one to two traits in the end?

it just feels like wasted potential. With a character like her you can explore how sometimes not all abusers know what they’re doing. You can explore how sometimes abusers are hurting their own well being with their abuse. You can explore how sometimes abusers are also victims. You can explore abusers who aren’t the most standard basic idea of abuse with someone like her and yet it’s the route not taken!!!!

[crownrots]

🍇 PRINCESS RAENESSA TARGARYEN (75 AC - 133 AC) (template by @kanos)

↳ Raenessa Targaryen was born in 75 AC to Prince Aemon Targaryen and his wife, Jocelyn Baratheon. She is the older twin sister of Princess Rhaela Targaryen, and younger sibling to Princess Rhaenys Targaryen.

Meek and emotional, she was oft called The Weeping Dragon behind her back. Ever compared to her two sisters, she lingered in their shadow for most of her life, trailing behind them and cleaning up their messes or sifting though the scraps they left behind.

Her cradle egg, as green as Wildfire, hatched shortly after her birth and finally in 91 AC at the age of sixteen, the timid Targaryen finally took the beast to mount. The Green Jewel of Dragonstone, Vysera, as she named her, seemed to be just as timid as her rider, but was fiercely protective of the young woman. While barely ridden due to Raenessa's distrustful nature, the dragon and rider shared a bond that was as close and unique as any other.

In 94 AC, at the age of nineteen, she wed Donnal Redwyne. The two struggled for years to have a viable pregnancy, and after many failed attempts, their prayers were finally answered when she gave birth to a girl in 113 AC, whom they named Daenys.

Unfortunately, their new found bliss was cut short as a fever took Donnal Redwyne's life mere weeks after Raenessa had given birth. The now widowed mother was never quite the same after that and as years passed she rarely let her daughter out of her sight. Months following the tragic loss, Queen Alicent extended an invitation towards her and the still young child, offering them a residence in the capitol should they want it. Raenessa graciously accepted and the mother and child lived in relative happiness and great comfort for many years.

When the Targaryen civil war commenced in 132 AC, Raenessa declared her support for King Aegon II Targaryen and The Greens, though, suffers a great loss at many turns.

In the days following the slaying of her older sister and her dragon at the Battle of Rooks Rest, Raenessa used the exodus of small folk from King’s Landing to flee the capitol. Amid orders from the Prince Regent, Aemond Targaryen, to seal the city, she managed to slip through undetected. Still reeling in shock and grief, she declared for her cousin, Rhaenyra Targaryen, but subsequently found herself locked in the cells beneath Dragonstone for a time, her untimely and sudden arrival sending ripples of confusion though the Queen’s small council.

Back in King’s Landing, Raenessa was branded a traitor and in retaliation Criston Cole suggests her dragon, Vysera, be slain and her remains fed to King Aegon's mount, Sunfyre, for her treachery.

In 133 AC, after failing to be reunited with her daughter, Daenys, until Queen Rhaenyra takes King's Landing, she suffers another great loss; one that will prove her last. During the riots lead by The Shepherd, Daenys would retreat to the Dragonpit to ensure the safety of her own dragon, Duskwing. Her demise was said to be particularly gruesome, the young woman and her unborn child crushed underfoot by her frightened dragon in its panic as the mob descended upon the chained beasts.

Overcome with grief, Raenessa Targaryen ended her own life just days later, through means of poison, succumbing to the deadly concoction nestled among her daughter's belongings.

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[waterme-stories]

Valentine Vuong is a transfemme they/them enby, I am not accepting criticism at this time 😇