#I might keep some of the posts tho

[shortcakelils]

Honestly I kinda wanna restart the ask lily and cup blog bc I don't think I'm doing cupheads character nearly enough justice as it deserves but I wanted to get ur guys' opinion on it

[delicourse]

Rosette🏵️

[dxxtruction]

Louis' "You're boring!" Could mean so many things, but I think what's most apparent about that line is that Armand takes no initiative just for himself. He's not really anybody, because he never goes out and finds himself or gets attached to anyone but Louis. Without Louis as his guide he's literally just sitting on a couch picking lint! That's the thing.

He orbits constantly around what would make Louis happy, and never really fully going what would make me happy? Ultimately that drive to please Louis is what drives him to torturing Daniel, not so much that he'd care to just do it. Ultimately, not giving proper care to Louis is just a way to make sure Louis knows he has to orbit around him as well, with shoving Lestat onto him just that other nail on the coffin. So, even if he fails to figure out how to make Louis happy with him, he still knows what Armand is good for, and better than.

That dependency is what drives Armand's abuse. It really just comes down to that. Armand doesn't even realize how suffocated he is by his own dependency. This is just how life is to him. (It shouldn't be lost either that dependency is a theme considering this episode also deals with addiction).

Daniel's fascinating because he's just so driven to be somebody. He's largely independent, he seeks things because he wants them. It's his drug to poke and prod at all the things that he shouldn't. Daniel's exciting because he lets Louis in to something different, lets him in to all this potential in another person that he can also do the same with for himself. It's a real connection. A two way street. It's easy to tell how Armand can be smothering then because he's never introducing him to anything really new, and most the ways both of them connect are all painful and traumatic. It's never just fun because there's always that layer of that pain. Fun died with Claudia.

50 years on they've gotten to a lot better place, both of them, but it's still that same shit. No seriously, "How is this any different from last time, Louis?"

Well... Because Armand's going to be, at the very least, making one [1] decision only for himself - and that's to hold power over Daniel's life. Fucking sick foreshadowing.

They aren't driving each other to the brink anymore but "The vampire is bored" STILL. Maybe it's even worse, despite being in better places, because Louis' sort of just been defeated by it. (I mean, can he even really leave this either?). He's accepting the dependancy cause he kind of has to. He'd literally ended up letting all the enjoyment be up where he can't reach [The book shelves]. Armand so desperately wants Louis happiness but what really ends up happening is that Louis ends up having to give Armand all his own. He's got no one or anything else to get it from. But like an iPad and an over the top eating ritual. Two extremes of what's just more lint picking.

This whole relationship is one I find just tragic inside and out. You have to just pity it, really. There's ways in which you can find yourself feeling bad for both of them. But you can only really be mad at Armand for any of it. Armand, who isn't even 'free' in any sense, having so little concept of his own independence, but is at the same time so controlling over other's. It's a tragic cycle. It's an infuriating one.

Louis at least has the mind to know when enough is enough. If just needing that extra push to get there. Armand's too scared of it being over to even try.

[hayaku14]

gymnast kaito x sharpshooter shinichi meet-cute in the olympics au

[fexarii]

Practicing faces for the millionth time cuz it's my favorite thing to draw but I'm never quite content with it (unlike with bodies)

(The new Tumblr algorithm hates me)

[synthshenanigans]

JASH STICKER COLLECTION GAINS ANOTHER

Also they do adopt certificates for the lil guys u get which is p cool however rlly funny & rlly weird since its just his name

Heres where i got em!!! theres tons of diff stickers & stuff u should check out :D

also got crocheted pan flowers!! :D

[lokiinmediasideblog]

Can I be controversial and say that I'm tired of shippers (esp. Sylkis and Lokiuses) giving Disney too much credit for the sake of their ships?

With Lokiuses I will be seeing too much credit because Loki and Mobius are standing close together or hugging or something. And them acting like it's the epitome of queer rep. It's not even queerbaiting... they're just next to each other.... I also don't get what is so special about this ship that it has to be cannon, and why some of you treat it like the only queer ship that matters for LGBTQIA+ rep. Y'all don't even get the personalities right in fanfic and turn it into Ineffable Husbands 2.0. I'd argue Lokius has a darker dynamic than that and is far from equivalent to Ineffable Husbands. The characters just kinda look like each other but have very different dynamics.

With Sylkis I've recently been seeing (esp. on TWT but I just saw a post in the Loki tag here on Tumblr) this erasure of Disney's homophobic history with "See they have NO problem with MLM and queer people. Let's forget they used Loki's genderfluidity was used to market the series and nothing was done with it."

Also, the examples provided to prove that "Disney has no trouble with the gays" are: 1. from a movie that Marvel likes to pretend doesn't exist because they only care about money and not rep (and yes it was a very important step. I'm not denying that), and 2. A very recent example of a show that just came out in this very year and last month *ba-dum-tss.* Why the fuck should I congratulate Disney for increasing LGBTQIA+ representation at a GLACIAL pace? Other companies have done better! Istg if you defend them I'll roll my eyes...

Do I have to go over with you guys about the how long it took for Valkyrie's bisexuality to be confirmed within the MCU and not just in interviews? There was so much hype about her being the first confirmed bisexual in the Thor movies. Tessa Thompson FOUGHT to have a scene confirming that Valkyrie liked women in TR that was CUT OFF from the final product.

The closest thing to rep that TR was allowed to have fell more under queer-coding towards the GM and Loki. Loki "cozied up" with the evil Grandmaster to avoid fighting in the gladiatorial arena in some scenes while framing Loki as spineless, treacherous, and needing "correction" from the hero that didn't shy away from fighting in the arena. And the next bit of rep we got from there was fucking gay Russo. Y'all have TERRIBLE memories.

An example of this Marvel defense bullshit to show I am not making this shit up:

Stop giving the fucking mouse credit and money. Y'all don't even like what happened in the series and are also 100% unsatisfied with how it ended.

[mossyflowers]

"Hand in hand, they tango straight to hell"

[n0vatsu]

started school a few days ago.. accidentally got gl2 uninstalled… we in trouble

[astrxealis]

if i do "?" in text i'm genuinely tilting my head like a dog if i do "!!" my eyes are sparkling and i am figuratively wagging my tail if i am IN ALL CAPS i'm screaming from the top of a mountain with all the power i can with love and the strength of RAGHHH within me

[glittergoats]

Part 2 of my AINI doodles since starting the game!

[kismetmoon]

a dump of some of my older stuff. i can’t remember who this was supposed to be. i think it may have been Nora from Flat Dreams or it was just very early Elizabeth / Elizabeth’s mother concepts. either way, i love victorian blouses so i had to give a little line one.

[ID: five monochrome traditional drawings of an original, stylised Flatland character.

She has a thin, humanoid body with pitch black skin, an eye for a head with long eyelashes and (depending on the photo) she has either a blunt, sharp or no point on top, arms but no legs - her legs have been replaced by a single point. She is wearing a victorian-styled blouse and a long black or grey skirt.

In the first photo, she is standing with her arms by her side and staring directly at the viewer with a wide-eyed expression.

In the second photo, she is sitting down with her hands held together on her lap. She is looking to the bottom left with a gentle expression.

In the third photo, she is standing with her body curving over to the right and holding a lantern in her left hand. Her right hand is in front of her skirt and she is looking to the left with a neutral expression.

In the fourth photo, she is standing upright with her arms lowered and her hands joined in front of her skirt. Her head is slightly tilted to the right and she has a tired expression. She is looking to the bottom right.

In the fifth photo, she is faced sidewards and looking towards the right with a wide-eyed expression. Her hands are lowered in front of her skirt and she positioned as if wind is strongly blowing on her and pushing her to the right of the screen. Her clothes are flowing in the direction of the wind.

End ID.]

[szkicel]

now that artfight is over i can update my toyhouse bc my preparations for AF kinda made it the site with more accurate character info and references, when toyhouse was supposed to be that jhbdjhbd

[dizzybizz]

concept for a tbna oc??

[waywardsalt]

probably going to rework my human bellum design again

[bereft-of-frogs]

it is kind of funny writing commentary in fics about the differences between Cal and Cere's fighting styles when Cal's fighting style is....technically dependent on how good of a gamer you are and I am a Bad gamer XD 'Cal over-relies on a few key practiced moves, while Cere is more fluid, natural' yeah because there was actual fight choreography involved in Cere's fight in Fallen Order, and not just me button-mashing and doing the same thing over and over in the hopes it actually works this time XD

like I think it works thematically and idk this paragraph might end up getting cut, but it is just kind of funny to be like, trying to reflect on canon and how to describe it and then having to be like 'well…that might be on me...'