#I'm enjoying this show so much

[souphamsters]

I've been hopelessly fixated on drawing one (1) sweetheart butchfemme couple ... they're all I think abt ... HELP !!!

(silly lesbian ocs that I love , chae🍓and lucky🍋!!!)

[space-bowl]

Ep 7 Aftermath (given the planet didn't explode yet)

Part 2

[smile-files]

even if we each are nothing, i can still feel your hand holding mine... and isn't that worth everything?

[beif0ngs]

THEY’RE BACK FOR ONE LAST RIDE

[echofades]

I left because all I wanted was to be with you & I had no idea what to do about it. SHIRA & HANNAH | HARLAN COBEN'S SHELTER

[zombie-bait]

Full Moon

Ok so I don’t normally post about Helluva Boss but the newest episode touched on an interesting concept I haven’t necessarily seen represented in media. Back when I was on Twitter (derogatory) a few years ago there was this now deleted viral thread where someone discussed how their struggles with mental health affected their relationship with their partner and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. 

This is such a good, short example of how anxiety and depression can play tricks on you. It becomes so easy to envision yourself as a nuisance, a constant burden to those closest to you because they cannot possibly genuinely enjoy your company, right? But in doing so you create this arbitrarily cruel version of the people you love, people who would otherwise never behave like this outside of your own mind.

It's mean. Because your mind wants to be mean to you under these circumstances. It wants to put everyone else's emotions and desires above yours, both in worthiness and validity. And that starts bleeding into your understanding of other people, especially those you care about.

Now. Helluva Boss.

"Can I get a fucking MINUTE to think after everything you put me through you pompous rich ASSHOLE? Treat me like one of your little butler imps, you can’t just dismiss me like that! I mean, you royal fucks think you can do this every time, like you can just play with our feelings because we’re smaller and not as important. Well I’m not letting you, BITCH! Let’s go!" - Blitz

I find it really interesting how Helluva Boss decided to approach this conflict between Stolas and Blitz. Obviously, the difference in power matters. It's the underlying tension of their entire relationship and their lives. Stolas is burdened by the mountain of expectations thrust upon him from a very young age while Blitz is constantly reminded that he can NEVER be part of that world, that he is "smaller and not as important" not just in Hell's hierarchy but in his own life and family. Stolas very literally has power over Blitz (through the grimoire, the arrangement, his position in society) and Blitz uses their relationship as an excuse to reverse those roles. But that power dynamic, in one form or another, never truly goes away. And for Blitz, it's a lot easier to paint Stolas as this manipulative symbol of power and himself as nothing more than Stolas' plaything. It's easier to be angry than to be vulnerable and accept that someone might care about him.

"Dismiss" is the keyword in that quote. All that Blitz has been able to process is that Stolas has decided to end the relationship that they have. He feels ls like a choice has been taken away from him so he lashes out because he's not ready to emotionally tackle what the rest of Stolas' offer might entail. If Stolas hates him, just wants to play with him, then he is justified in his anger, his self-destruction, his isolation. If the world is mean, you're "allowed" to be mean back.

But

In that moment he forgets that Stolas is someone he actually cares about. Someone he's known for way too long and clearly wants to keep in his life, no matter how reluctant he can be to admit it. Someone who is not innately cruel or manipulative but sad and desperate for connections in a lot of the same ways that Blitz is. And Blitz immediately sees that he's miscalculated something.

Somewhere along the way the fictional version of Stolas that he's allowed himself to be mad at and the real one that he's not ready to admit he cares about have merged into something real that he has actual power over. Stolas can get hurt and Blitz can be the one who does it. He has once again allowed his greatest fears (which Stolas so frequently symbolizes) to co-opt his loved ones, to give him an "out" even though he didn't actually want one in the first place.

I'm definitely not the first person to say this but I think this is an example of the miscommunication trope done right. Their individual struggles are what cause them to be unable to connect during this conversation or to even have a proper conversation in the first place. There is no convenient misunderstanding or third party fabricating this rift. Both of them have preconceived ideas of what the other one is thinking but those ideas are flawed and rooted in self-hatred. They also both shutdown in their unique ways when the conversation starts heading in the direction they'd feared it would.

Blitz and Stolas work because they're both fucked up in similar ways, because they want similar things. That's the same reason why they're uniquely designed to hurt one another. A fear of rejection and a yearning for happiness. To borrow a quote that has been used by literally everyone from Spiderman to Evangelical preachers, "hurt people hurt people."

anyway, I really liked this episode.

(twitter thread screenshots sourced from this reddit post)

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - Le Grand Bristot

[copia]

THIRTY-ONE DAYS OF GHOST ⛧ DAY ONE

first song you heard — Mary On A Cross

September 1969; Papa Nihil and the beginning of the Ghost Project take to the stage at the Whiskey a Go Go club in Los Angeles, under the watchful eye of Sister Imperator. Fifty-three years later, in Tampa, Florida, Papa Emeritus the Fourth performs Mary On A Cross, unaware that he is singing the story of his parents—and that of himself.

[reineydraws]

i have this fic series i'm still working on where mihawk sort of becomes rayleigh's kid and spends ages 11-17ish on the oro jackson.

shanks and buggy imprint on him (bugs considers him a sort of older brother figure/sparring inspiration and shanks has a crush that eventually turns into full-blown love) and this is how i imagine they're like on the day mihawk sets off on his own haha.

[nanihirunkits]

Q, you have been in several relationships before, right? When you date someone, you show affection, don’t you?

WE ARE | EP6

[shuploc]

i'm gonna be so real the only thing i'm more excited about than arcane season two is seeing your art of arcane season two. you are incredible. thank you so so so much.

HUH?

I don't even know what to say, that's so-... crazy? I literally don't understand lmao, as someone who's been on the verge of crying tears of joy just thinking about season 2 dropping for the past like 3 years, I can't imagine someone being more excited about my stuff than the actual show, I almost refuse to believe it 😭

But thank you so much for the kind words, you have no idea how that means to me, I really really hope I haven't disappointed you so far! ❤️

[neunhofferart]

I didn't notice it until someone pointed it out, but Darius isn't wearing his Dino tooth necklace in Chaos Theory.

Is that an aesthetic decision, or is there an in-lore reason for that?

I think this design choice was on purpose.

So... in a scrapped version of the original script.... there was this big reveal after he calmed the Pachyrhino down that he no longer liked dinosaurs the same way at ALL. It was actually the first thing I drew on the show:

But he had some crazy line like 'We both know you'd kill me in a heartbeat' or something and it was so over the top it always made everyone laugh (which wasn't the intention). It was decided this version was too melodramatic/the energy was wrong, so they redid how he was written/his acting in the first episode a few times until they found a sweet spot.

It was never meant to be explained why his necklace was missing, just implied.

[respectthepetty]

The seventh episode of Perfect 10 Liners made me realize that every Green Guy will wear the green -river- shirt in a Director New series, so I can recognize they are a Green Guy.

Or at the very least, Director New will use the backpacks to guide me to their color.

But, luckily, in Perfect 10 Liners, he has offered me shirts to reinforce the colors, so I instantly know that Yotha is a Black Brooder who is always two seconds away from fighting his own brother in front of the entire school and God.

His brother is a light Blue Boy who Wine can't tell when he is flirting or just being his usual self, and Arm is a Yellow Yal.

His boyfriend is a Red Rascal.

And it's clear that Arm loves Arc even if he hasn't said it because Arm wears Arc's color, which could be because he is wearing Arc's clothing since he didn't have his own when spending the night.

But they have been wearing each other's colors!

So to have a mysterious Black Brooder come along to shake Arc's confidence was a great way to get them moving along to solidify their feelings.

And I know Tongfah is a Black Brooder because the backpack told me so. (Sidenote: A Yellow Yal and a Black Brooder are my OTP. I want this so badly that it's making me sick even thinking of the potential of this pair)

The backpacks always tell me colors.

So Arc tries to change his color and be someone he isn't because he thinks that's what Arm wants.

But not just anyone can be a Black Brooder. It takes a specific guy.

Ask Yotha.

And Arc is no Black Brooder. He is a Red Rascal all the way.

And he is in love with this beautiful but cautious idiot.

So he has to lean into his redness and be assertive. He has to spell it out for Arm that he wants to be more than just a mentor.

And whoever decided to put that highlighter on Book's face deserves a raise because when Arm finally decided to go for it, that kiss was visually pleasing from all angles.

Someone give me Force and Book in A Midsummer Night's Dream IMMEDIATELY!

*sign of the cross* Amen

And for my final sidenote, as Arm and Arc's portion wraps up, I don't need confirmation that Warm and Cop are a couple.

They are canon to me!

While Arc was having an entire crisis, these two were showering together and sharing soap, so I don't need the story to confirm what I know is true in my heart.

Because unlike Arm, I can read colors, and I know that they signal the love is real, so the simple fact is that Cop is a Purple Person.

Who just happens to be wearing a shirt that goes from blue to purple next week.

And since Warm is the Blue Boy whose phone case goes from blue to purple to pink, my heart already knows they are in love.

But it'd be super nice if the show decided to let them kiss a little. *sign of the cross* Amen

[pinkd3mon]

Gardening pals

[sincerely-sofie]

Thinking about @gehtsis’s children and how terrifying it would be to get their team assigned to help you escape from a mystery dungeon.

If these are what my heroes look like I'm 99% certain I'd be screaming and running the other way. Menacing cryptid-looking grim reaper and cursed psychic clay doll. I love them.

[saradiation]

Gary and Marshall Lee! 💖🖤