#GO WINDMILL

[vaguely-concerned]

seeing people claim that lucanis is 'bad representation' is hilarious to me because in so many ways he's really the closest anything has ever gotten to capturing my own personal experience. sorry for being bad real life queer and mental health/neurodiversity representation folks 😔 I'll take time to reflect and do some work on myself and try to do better in the future

[gifs-of-puppets]

The Muppet Show (1976-1981)

[redwitchrune]

something about comfort, blue and orange, and new perspectives

[transimailisa]

If one day, I could no longer be here with you, will you feel lonely ?

[tezzbot]

Some quick Sonic doodles weooooo one of the guys of all time

[starlingpaw]

throws more squid art at you

listen to this,,!!!!!

[bestworstcase]

@cryptidblues tumblr Ate this ask for some reason so copying text from the email notif

See I’ve always thought that the mechanism through which cinder stole the maiden powers (bug) from Amber made her a Grimm hybrid. And THATS why Ruby’s silver eyes worked on her at the top of beacon tower; regardless of the presence of the wvyern. Because underneath her skin she was Grimm (and still fully human). “Your newfound strength brings with it a crippling weakness”/“You said the light only reacts to Grimm but…it reacted to Cinder”/“perhaps there was something that you just weren’t seeing?” Leading from that the implicit threat of “Oz can’t defeat [Salem]”/“but maybe someone else can?” to Salem is not that Salem could be eradicated by silver eyes (go poof like other Grimm) but rather be put back in The Tower by silver eyes. By being turned to stone. Still immortal but frozen. Trapped. Her Freedom completely sundered. “You thought there was no greater punishment we could bestow upon you?”/“Your light comes from his brother”/“The god of light…his eyes”. There’s an assumption that Salem is invulnerable, no personal skin in the game, “she’ll come back”, nothing effects her, nothing sticks; but her running this risk of being petrified by silver eyes gives depth and high stakes to any interaction she has with Ruby face to face (and her possible complex relationship to a hypothetical favorite silver eyed lieutenant). ᓚᘏᗢ

the reason i Don’t believe the grimm beetle made cinder vulnerable to the glare atop beacon tower is that ruby hits her with a second full-blown glare in atlas towards the end of v7 and—even though cinder by that point has a whole grimm arm—cinder flies away from that one unscathed. either:

a) the implication salem makes in v5 that cinder can learn to resist the glare is true,

b) there is an additional, unknown but more important factor besides “grimm” involved here, or

c) both.

i think the answer is probably both, although more b than a. (maria sees the flash coming from the god of light’s eyes and concludes this power came from him; but she couldn’t see that ruby’s eyes were silver until she saw their light go off, and she missed those two silver-eyed children of ozma’s. “maybe there’s something you’re not seeing” is true of her, too)

(the silver light evokes the pure white of the void between realms, where the dead travel from life to death and the souls of the living and the dead can meet in between. ozma passes through this liminal space every time he dies and reincarnates, and his children with a mortal woman have silver eyes. after ruby witnesses pyrrha’s death and her light erupts, the hand cinder used to kill pyrrha is destroyed and ruby spends months hearing echoes of pyrrha’s final words—which she wasn’t there to see—haunting her dreams. there are butterflies, classic symbols of reincarnation and in certain cultures historically identified as psychopomps, all over the scene where maria discusses her theory. maria is also philosophically wrong in her conception of creation/life as “enemies” of destruction; destruction feedslife and exists in balance with creation, and the glare itself is definitionally destructive. silver eyes have something to do with death.)

the kids at least, per nora and “maybe someone else can [destroy salem]?” do seem to be thinking in terms of ruby’s eyes being the silver bullet that can stop salem if not destroy her outright, and ruby has the wyvern example to look to to be thinking about trapping salem in stone forever. but then the leviathan is there to raise the possibility that petrification is not necessarily forever, and salem herself seems unconcerned when ruby’s eyes start to flash in ironwood’s office. plus again the implication salem makes that the glare can be resisted: if that is something she taught cinder to do, it’s something salem must be able to do too.

i do think the glare is probably capable of hurting her somehow—i have my own specific headcanons as to how for Fic Purposes but in terms of textual speculation, what happens if you take a grimm woman who can’t die and blast her with the grimm-killing light from the threshold between life and death? it sounds painful, if nothing else.

but if the leviathan could break free after being petrified, and salem is both immortal and human and thus able to, like cinder in v7, resist the glare in some way, i think being turned to stone or encased in stone is not likely to slow her down for very long. although i can’t imagine she would enjoy the experience.

the other factor to consider is that—well, quite a lot of the fandom assumes the point of silver eyes is to “purify” the grimm out of people, for example saving cinder from her grimm arm, and on the basis of maria’s theory that is an easy extrapolation to make; which is to say, after the experience in the ever after, i wouldn’t be surprised if the idea of “purge the grimm out of salem to make her herself again?” was broached on the heroes side. the reality though is that being grimm is not what’s wrong with salem and becoming grimm is something she chose, or at least accepted as a possible consequence of what she attempted to do when she jumped into the pool of grimm, and using silver eyes to try to Force Her to go backwards is probably not a good idea and not something that will work. she is change incarnate—that’s what destruction means.

so there is a thematic challenge here that might be explored; seen through the lens of maria’s theory, silver eyes are anti-change (preservation) and therefore anti-theme (destruction is part of life, not the enemy of life) so her theory is incomplete and the most obvious way to fill in the gaps and arrive at the whole truth is to test the glare against salem herself, because she is change. 

and because rwby is so thematically driven i’d anticipate this happening concurrently with salem turning in a new direction, which intersects in very interesting ways with what is being set up vis-a-vis needing cinder to open the vaults vs wanting cinder to be alive, safe, and free. (i think the momentum there is toward salem being forced to choose between getting the crown and protecting cinder, and she’ll sacrifice the crown for cinder’s sake; the… possibility of silver eyes being involved in that scenario is obvious.)

[not-terezi-pyrope]

Being an adult is constantly realizing more and more every year the extent to which the way people treated you as a child fueled the neuroses that still make up a good 50% of your core personality.

For me, I think I'm still compensating for the negative self-image I internalized from being treated as a social outcast and the butt of jokes when I was like. Ten years old.

[kacievvbbbb]

I hate Hozier because he can never just sing the song how it was released. No, every new live rendition has to be some new inflection, some new key or pacing or instrumentation and NOW I have to go hunt them all down like Pokemon.

But he is moving too fast! I cannot in fact catch them all 😔

[astyrra]

ive been building a floating island zoo in creative to put in my survival world

mods: abyssal decor, alex's caves, architect's palette, create, farmer's delight, quark, supplementaries

[bootlegdvdmenu]

why is building kerfur omega a sisyphean task.

[quibbs126]

Gonna be honest, I think this is my best creation of an area in this game

I’m just not good at kingdom designing if I’m being honest

[justjenah]

Just in case anyone needs more evidence to convince them of my Latvia Mike theory, remember in episode 51 of WOE.BEGONE when Latvia Mike and Michael have this exchange about a very injured Mikey?

Michael: So uh, I assume your instructions didn’t say to kill him or to let him die? Mike: No, but I can’t imagine that it matters too much. I don’t think he’s connected to us. Did yours?

And then in episode 158 Mikey and Stinky are literally shot to death and we see Latvia Mike continue to exist without issue. At no point in that episode does Latvia Mike express any concern for his own continued existence due to connectivity.

This is made all the more interesting when we compared to the fact that Latvia Mike WAS impacted by the H timeline in which Mike Walters was killed on his first day at OVER. Which means Latvia Mike's connectivity diverges sometime after he arrives at OVER.

Just another tally mark for "Latvia Mike is disconnected from Mikey because he's some sort of OverMike".

[phynixdotcom]

Idk why the fucken... Divide between "it was alternate universes" & "Paul is just trans" ideas for Petscop has to be torn into a cavern. Paul being trans DOES make sense, but requires you to ignore huge details that immediately make it not work. The alternate universes DO kind of make sense, but require you to extrapolate out a lot of info purposefully left unshown.

It's hard to describe what i want to say, here -- i do think Paul being trans makes sense, 'splains why he & Care "look eeriely similar," you could argue he's just thoroughly blocked out that part of his life enough to have forgotten Care entirely, etc. I like it, & i keep it as i also say "Yeah, it's that & the universes theory." It's not two switches that demand you can only flip on one of them -- you can have both. You can have neither. Do whatever

[srnileforme]

sailom ✗ physical intimacy

physical intimacy and affection is something that sailom has lacked for so long. it's just been sailom and his brother ever since his parents passed away and after that it became something so unfamiliar.

kang, on the other hand, is so affectionate with his grandma, he's always hugging her and sniff kissing her cheek whenever he has a chance. when kang cares about someone and loves someone, that's his way of showing it.

for sailom, it's something so new. receiving kang's affection in the form of sniff kisses and pecks all over his cheeks and neck is something sailom isn't used to at all.

sailom had to grow up fast to help his brother make ends meet and he had to be strong, but it's in his most vulnerable moments that we see how much he seeks and craves comfort in physical intimacy.

when sailom is in kang's house in bangkok, their reality is different. it's sailom doing his job - it's tutoring, it's school, it's exams, it's helping kang plan his schedule around football, it's helping kang get into a public university, and it's the constant reminder of his debts.

sailom knows his debts are his problem to unlock, but the key is still in kang's hand for now.

the trip to korat is going to be an escape from that reality.

this is sailom letting go of the wall he unknowingly built up around himself. 'screw the job, screw the debts, i only care about you right now. let's go.'

they're going to go on this trip and be reckless together. they're going to use up all the money kang has until kang's dad freezes his card and then they're going to have to work together to earn some more to continue this escape.

kang tends to feel like his money plays a big part in why sailom likes him and what keeps him around, but sailom will spell it out for him every time.

they're going to be on the same level - the power between them will be balanced. it's not spoiled rich kid and smart poor boy or tutor and student right now, it's just kanghan and sailom.

so, when they're focusing only on each other as just kanghan and sailom in that hotel room, fully aware of the depth of each other's feelings and everything else forgotten for a moment, sailom isn't going to shy away from the unfamiliar anymore.

he's going to show kang just how much he likes him.

[jaclynhyde]

trying to get the emperor a brain to eat is an exercise in futility

astarion: how about that one? it just died

emperor: no.

astarion: okay. okay, what if i stun this intellect devourer for you? will you be a big squid and eat it?

emperor: ...fine. [floats up and tentacle whips it to death]

astarion: come on. it's practically still alive!

emperor: i'm not hungry.