#HAS MY WISH COME TRUE ??

[mythicalcoolkid]

You don't wish your disability was worse or more visible, you wish your disability was taken seriously. Please stop confusing the two, I guarantee you would not get the support you need JUST by being more severe or more visible. Please listen to visibly disabled people when we tell you it isn't better on our side

[reminiscentrainclouds]

Ohh Shin Tsukimi, we're really in it now (the holiday spirit)

[airenyah]

you're telling me?? i'm FINALLY. gonna get a reversed back hug?? dunk hugging joong?? not joong hugging dunk?? like 100% of all times in every single series so far?? a dunkjoong backhug????

this truly is the best time line 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[1863-project]

Spin The Eel

[fairyofshampgyu]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT THE ALBUM RPEVIENHOFLY FUCK OMG OMG OMG 😭😭😭😭😭😭 HOLY FUCK 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[fujunfuren]

The sea of suffering has no end indeed 😭

What do you mean while he was cooping himself to suppress the malicious energy and his alter ego telling him to succumb to it but he looks at the far distance, imagining a simple, peaceful life with wenxiao.

And his vision looking back at him, smiling, giving him a slither of hope that maybe this pain and endurance will be all worth it in the end.

Crying/sobbing/vomitting

[deoidesign]

I'm caught now, what's the comic about? I'm guessing demons from your tags but I want to know more (without spoiling anything)

I'm so glad you asked.

I wanna say so much but I don't want to spoil anything... I'll do my best.

It's about demons, yes... But also mermaids, curses, murder, and love... The sweetest mermaid in the world gets magically stuck with an asshole demon warlord.

Thrust into a world of crime, murder, lies, and secrets, Luciel is completely out of their depth... And cursed to live in the ocean for the rest of his life, Zagan is a fish out of water.

Zagan is trying to solve the mystery of his own murder, while also navigating trying to cure his new curse AND gathering souls so he doesn't get sent back to hell. While Luciel is happy to tag along, Zagan is new to cooperation and is forced to adapt... And Luciel soon discovers there might have been a BIT more danger than they signed up for.

It follows the two of them as they solve a mystery, uncover new secrets, and navigate the dangers of the world while also discovering its many wonders!

And also maybe falling in love...

This is sort of the vibe... I haven't finished any episodes yet. These aren't canon scenes. I keep drawing just a couple panels or small strips of scenes that MIGHT happen cause I'm so excited it's not even funny I want to make it so bad

I can't stop drawing them it's a problem. I have work I have to do...

[redthemarten]

Happy Holidays~ whether you celebrate or not, I hope you have a wonderful time!!

[ducksinspaceadventure]

Unpopular opinion, but I kind of prefer Huey, Dewey and Louie from the DuckTales reboot when they become teenagers and then adults to all wear pants. I'm just embarrassed to see that no one is wearing or that one is wearing and the others are not. It makes me cringe. Sorry.

[dailypokemoncrochet]

There should be little rewards for when I do certain milestones of this project. Like after I finish this next one it'll be just 365 left (one year worth of days) so I'm going to get me a cake!

[stardustdiiving]

How evil is arlecchino and what is she cooking

As of 4.2, I’m really curious what they’re planning with Arlecchino as a character, especially as a villain/antagonist/morally dubious character, and how far/which direction they may go with that

Intuitively my impression is we’ll see her do something way more “villainous” than she presents herself as being for majority of Fontaine’s AQ in front of us right—(which isn’t a surprise given that, you know, Arlecchino nor the House of Hearth have never been presented as 110% ethical LOL) but I find myself not being in complete agreement with most analysis or speculation threads I see about Arlecchino’s morality and the like, level of sinister people seem to ascribe to her.

Idk how to put it, especially in regards to her children I do agree they are not a wholesome found family, that Arlecchino is not above pulling strings or using them for her own ulterior motives, but I kind of hesitate on the idea she only cares about the Hearth children as a means to the end/things she can control and there’s nothing else going on with her characterization wise there. I’m not saying that impression seems remotely unreasonable or unfounded, but just that it feels there’s something intentionally missing in how we are supposed to conceptualize her as a person

My main reasoning for this hunch is the fact they have not elaborated on Arlecchino and the previous Knave—who Arlecchino is stated to have taken over the position from by force. The extra tidbits I think about are that 1) Arlecchino was previously an orphan in the Hearth 2) the previous Knave is described as way, way crueler to the children of than Heart than Arlecchino was from when she took control of the House

Often, people’s major indicators that the House of the Hearth is kind of super fucked up are the NPCs we meet in world quests who are part of it and clearly suffering. But one thing I haven’t ever seen people mention w this that i think is a very interesting detail is, in The Very Special Fortune Slip Inazuma worldquest, where we stop this House of Hearth guy (Efim Snezhevich) from manufacturing tension between Watasumi/the Shogunate to restart the war with his other Hearth subordinates, at the end of the quest we get this dialogue that reveals he had been acting under the previous Knave’s directives:

It’s also mentioned he’s employing this plan in an attempt to “rebuild the prestige of the Knave” following Signora’s death, iirc? Now, see, the dialogue itself says that this is “assuming our captive is telling the truth” so who knows what’s really going on, but I find this a really odd/interesting thing to highlight. I’m a bit fuzzy on other world quests with Hearth members, and am not saying none of them were acting and subsequently being treated poorly by our Arlecchino, but like, this gives me a lot of questions especially when paired with implications this previous Knave seemed to be way worse

Like, what drove Arlecchino to take over? How unexpected and controversial was this within the House? Assuming the above information is all true it definitely says something this guy went rogue and acted on what the previous Knave would want and didn’t think our Arlecchino would greenlight it, which does feel consistent with the previous Knave being described as basically worse & crueler than our Arlecchino. It also makes me question how much house of hearth things we’ve seen outside the main story are the work of our Arlecchino or if there’s a bigger divide of loyalty. Heck, I could be wrong but it doesn’t even seem like we know if the previous Knave is dead or not

This isn’t me saying Arlecchino couldn’t possibly be treating hearth children worse than she wants us to know, especially ones who aren’t her “favorites” the way the fontaine trio seem to be, but I really don’t feel sure about making a solid conclusion of her exact level of malice the way ppl r generally understanding it rn when it feels there’s going to be more about her. Just the idea of she, as a Hearth child, clashed with the previous leader who was known for being cruel, overtook their position and took on less harsh methods of leading that made at least some members with more power/possible closer proximity to the previous Knave go rogue and try to commit atrocities in the previous Knave’s name…I feel this leaves a lot of room to suggest there’s more going on with how Arlecchino is as a person

I don’t mind if she’s just very evil and deceptive bc if she totally had me fall for thinking she was less evil than she actually was that’s fun tbh. But I feel people suggest that’s all her character could be with no degree of like, “sympatheticness” or deep grey morality and that if her character did go there it would be automatically poor writing and genshin walking back on making a truly evil woman when IDK. I feel you can claim at this point they have left it open ended and it’s never been completely confirmed she’s pure evil. Also sometimes I just get a hunch and feel cautiously confident in Genshin executing certain characters well. Not all characters, just certain ones. Especially given Fontaine’s character writing being very good and a character like Lyney feeling very solid to me when any development with Arlecchino would likely involve him and his siblings as well, I honestly feel open to the idea of Arlecchino being satisfyingly written to be both villainous/morally dubious but “sympathetic/likable as a person” in ways outside of just her ruthlessness if that makes sense

If I’m wrong/they drop the ball with it more than I anticipate I’ll eat my hat but I am pretty excited about her character and which way they decide to go with it. I will say the only potential impression I have of where they’ll go with her has been wondering if it will go in a “cycles of abuse” direction—I’d be surprised if they ever elaborated on Arlecchino’s character especially in how she feels about things and her also growing up as an exploited child of the hearth wasn’t relevant

[novelconcepts]

Okay, but “I have no purpose” “your purpose is loving me” is at once so beautiful, so romantic, so soul-shatteringly lovely to hear—and so terrible. So heavy a burden. So unforgettably damning. “I’m your purpose. Anything that ever happens to me now weighs double. Anything that ever spins out of your control can crush you beneath the weight. I’m your purpose, and you are mine, and we are doomed to fail one another again, again, again. I love you. I need you. I’ve cursed you.”

[skunkes]

if life is categorized by Before Loss and After Loss then I exist in the before but with a countdown to the after. and the countdown is always always present and debilitating. the loss will be debilitating too but i cant help myself. i will always suffer twice.

[shewhoeatssand]

they are similar

[jotadoul]

found your folken posting and went "oh thank GOD someone who's as fucking insane about escaflowne as me" thank you so much for putting all that into words. I LOVE your analysis of escaflowne. I started watching escaflowne because my friend was liveblogging watching it and I saw screenshot of folken and went "I NEED to see this sad gay clown." after that the autism latched onto dilandau HARD but i still lay awake at night thinking about The Themes of folken's robot arm and writing fix it fics in my head. "a swaggy martyr" you're SO fucking right. I see a character with fallen angel imagery and i lose my mind

oh my word, i hope you don't mind me responding publicly? this is so unexpected and so nice to hear, thank you! i'm really actually relieved my stream of consciousness ranting and raving is hitting because it's hard to see outside of my own ass after letting escaflowne marinate in me for. Oh, God. 20 years?i'm gojna throw up. But my partner has only just now seen it and instantly embarked on some persuasive essays so... There Will Be Posts

lmaooo ok i do love dilandau and folken's big time 15-and-40yo coworker energy. their Boys Night Ins where folken watches dilandau stick a fork into an electrical outlet. he's a damn freak, i completely understand how he commands autistic captivation.

if you don't mind, PLEASE... DO tell me about your robot arm themes and theories! beyond the theme of characters being... forced away from/denying their base selves, the way i've thought about it is like, left a piece of himself in fanelia, is a— hm, ok, this sounds ableist and possibly is, but i wondered if it was a visual representation of him being emotionally spiritually less whole w/o van 🥺 MOREOVER ... AND PUN GENUINELY UNINTENTIONAL BECAUSE I MEAN IT EMPHATICALLY: DISARMAMENT! SWORDS TO PLOUGHSHARES! a strategist, nonviolent... passive, even, perhaps. alright. now you tell me what's up please and thank you

(oh i'm also thinking about nuadha... which in turn reminded me that fanelia was developed with a ""celtic"" influence in the film. sick sick sick)

[akkivee]

🙂↕️🙂↕️okay okay okay so so far within the og divisions we have:

❤️: they strive for a world where words solve conflict. they pointedly did not use mics to express this. at the end of the track, they’re dynamic as brothers has shifted to a more equal dynamic, where ichiro doesn’t feel so compelled to raise them

💙: they strive for a world without violence and used their mics to resolve the conflict. at the end of the track, they reject their status quo and aim to find a new one to change the world without the use of violence

💛: wanted to be real with each other and used their mics to get that across. at the end of the track tho, they say that truth doesn’t really matter anyway and stay true to the selves they formed their bond with

🩶: a battle of wills using the mics. jakurai’s love for yotsutsuji manifested in the form of sacrificing himself and dohifu trying to stop him using their love for their bond as mtr. at the end of the track it’s that love that’s saved jakurai, healed hifumi and elevated doppo’s status at work

and things have changed for all they’ve stayed the same so i’m genuinely curious where nagosaka fits in this lol