#IDK MAN YOU EVER THINK ABOUT HOW

[crows-bite]

Been thinking so much about Marigold specifically in the ORP universe so I’m obligated to come make a whole post to explain some of my thoughts.

I don’t knowwww I just think a lot about how Maverick was. Very clearly loved by this woman. Like they still carry that love with them in little ways, they’ve been marked by it forever you know? Like she was not their mother, and their relationship was very non conventional but she was like. As Good As a mother to them. I think she saw herself like a mother even if Mav never saw her that way. It kills me because their relationship in ORP is honestly much less complicated and a lot better than it is in canon. Marigold is like… well tbh I can’t get into it because spoilers but she is very morally questionable and kinda fucked up but like her care for Mav is still very much there.

I wouldn’t be able to say for sure but I honestly don’t think it’s out of the question that in ORP she died getting in the way of The Dread and trying to give Mav the best chance possible at running. But like MAV DOESN’T KNOW THAT and it’s fucked them up so badly. Because they never looked back, man. They just ran immediately and even if it’s what she would’ve wanted them to do they just fully believe they left her for dead.

Like. Ok. Atp Mav is just of the mindset of like. That loss hurt so badly because what do you do when you’ve got nobody else and the one person in the world that loves you like family dies and you think it’s your fault, you know? But they’ve just got this anger about the whole situation. Angry at themself but also angry at her because if she hadn’t died they’d still have somebody. It’s just really soured their whole perception of her isn’t that nuts. As if she did it on purpose. (THE THING IS SHE KINDA DID OUT OF LOVE AND THEY DON’T KNOWWWW THEY DON’T EVEN KNOWWW) and now all of those feelings have just been reinforced x100 being with the Brooks family because they don’t have that. And maybe they would if Marigold were still alive.

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still obsessing over 7-12

[ajastu]

[Rook voice] maybe if you had some friends you'd calm down 🙄

[starryaike]

Bye-bye to the colors that won't come again

[tubbytarchia]

Missed drawing these two too

Bonuses

[rapidhighway]

people feel the need to mention aro and ace people before valentines day like it's a day of mourning for us or something or like you think we're gonna be sad and angry and jealous of everyone because we're secretly sad or something when personally I never even think about vaneltines until someone mentions to be how I'M going to be spending it as an aroace

[mamawasatesttube]

there is some kind of heartbreaking parallel to be drawn between clark after his first appearance as superman realizing what was happening with everyone clamoring for his attention:

"They all want a piece of me, Pa. And I - I don't know how to deal with it." (Superman: The Man Of Steel #21)

and the way ma and pa's guidance is what gets him through that, whereas with kon, we know:

"I guess that's just it, Martha... You didn't raise this boy!" (Adventures of Superman #501)

kon never got that kind of support or guidance. he didn't know any better about all the attention he was getting. clark saw the mob descend upon him and said, "Everybody had something they wanted me to do, to say, to sell..." because he had 20+ years of life experience and parents who raised him to be kind, but aware.

kon, meanwhile, within his first few weeks of being alive, had:

"...saw the Superman fly by an' wanted to meet him, so we just kinda thought we'd drive off the bridge, y'know?"

"The boy is my target?" "Hello? Yeah, it's done. Just remember - the kid's all mine!"

"Nothing happens that Lex doesn't know about almost instantly! Think how that could help you! Plus, we could work together every day! Wouldn't that be fun?"

"Before you get... too well acquainted, I'll need your John Hancock, son."

"You're using him, Vinnie!" "Simply following your lead, my dear. Or can he only be twisted around your finger to further your career?"

(all caps from Adventures of Superman #502)

just like with clark, everyone is clamoring to use kon for their own ends (aos 502 is a little hard to read because of it, honestly - tana, vinnie edge, rex (using roxy too), and mae and lex, one after another). except that kon never had parents to teach him what to look out for. kon is two weeks old and everyone wants a piece of him, and he doesn't even realize it.

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

about to make a nonsense post. feel free to ignore this. thinkin about all the boys dialects today.

dallas' who has a strange garbled mix of southern n new York slang. whose sentences are some slidin broken melody dependin on with accent is stronger at the moment. who sounds more southern when he's tired. more city when he's pissed. whose turns of phase are often two different sayin's from opposite sides of the country squished together.

pony whose purely southern except for the odd word stolen from Dallas. whose vocabulary is a strange mix of big ass words he's only seen in books n pure hood slang. whose sentences often trip over each other. wordy n whiny.

darry whose dialect is littered with sayin's he learned from his parents. who is a strange mix of adult n child. 'fix your face' from their mom. 'goddamn' cause hes still just 20 n just someone's older brother. Who opens half his sentences with Glory n ends them with Jesus Christ. (Glory what am I gonna do with you. N get your muddy shoes off my table jesus christ)

johnny whose accent is all southern but speaks in a weird lilted turn. 'man' stolen from Dallas n 'glory' stolen from Darry. even his dialect is a hodge podge. words taken here n there. who cusses sharp n bitin in that quiet voice. who sounds like the wind n gives you all the wrong impressions he'll blow over like it.

steve n soda who speak the same language. bubblin n trippin over each other like a creek. sentences half finished. they speak their own dialouge of inside jokes n hood slang they always know first.

two whose phrases are just as likely to be pure bull straight from the crock as they are real. who makes up his own jokes. who uses words wrong n whose sentences always creep up n dissolve into laughter at the ends.

[nachosforfree]

David goes to hell (canon!)

[faunandfloraas]

Clicking on any video with lee know in it and seeing 400 million "Wow his visual is no joke. He is most visual member. Do you guys even know he is conventionally attractive? Because he is visually conventional attractive. It's time for his kdrama. He is kdrama visual. He should be acting in kdrama bc he is conventionally attractive." Girl be quiet

[fungus-no69]

DOL: The Visual Novel

aka. I Need to Nuke This Town!

Including many pcs from the pcverse!! (that i didn't draw.) Here you can interact with, potentially fight and get insane mental damage from desperate orphans in your area!

Coming out never

Inspired by this post!!!

Ummmm pcs included

Cain and Will: me

Yunie: @wreckowafer

Angel: @ladyofalabyrinth

Nico: @psychophanticpervert

[joshnekuu]

Sonknux thoughts

So like. Sonic is aro, to me. Potentially incredibly greyaro, and has just like, never met That Person that clicks into the romance zone for him.

Meanwhile Knuckles is like. Hi I’ll die before I admit to myself, let alone Sonic, that I have feelings for him.

So this isn’t exactly a relationship that just happens. There needs to be something that pushes the truth out of knux for Sonic to ever realize that Knuckles has fallen for him, and when it finally does, I don’t think Sonic would like… know what to do with this information.

He’s kind of touched. Like… Knuckles is his best friend next to Tails, even if they fight a lot. And while he’s known that Knuckles cares about him more than he likes to admit, there’s something… relieving? About knowing that Knuckles really cares about him that much, to the point that he’s in love with him.

But at the same time there’s this sort of… awkward guilt, of not knowing how to respond. It’s not like he doesn’t like Knuckles. He’s just… never thought of him that way. Never thought of ANYONE that way, but it doesn’t help that it never even crossed his mind Knuckles might have feelings for him.

He doesn’t want to reject Knuckles outright, but he doesn’t exactly feel like he can just say ‘yeah let’s date’, because he’s not sure he can really do that honestly. It’s a weird feeling. It’s different than Amy’s infatuation with him when they were younger, where he didn’t want anything to do with it. Sure, he never wanted to hurt Amy by turning her down, but it felt easier to run away from that. To avoid dealing with it.

But it’s still different. With Amy, he’s always known he just didn’t feel that way about her. She’s one of his best friends and he loves her dearly, just… not like that. He’s had time to consider it, to think about it, and the answer always remained the same- he just didn’t see her like that. He’s never thought that way about Knuckles either, but more so in the vein of, like… it never crossed his mind as a possibility. Why would Knuckles ever feel that way about him, when he’s always caused problems for him, when they’ve always butted heads, when they’ve always been so… opposite?

It’s a weird feeling. He doesn’t know that he feels the same way about Knuckles that Knuckles feels about him, but he knows that it doesn’t… feel Bad, knowing that Knuckles feels this way about him. It’s reassuring, relieving, comforting, to know that Knuckles loves him. And it feels nice, knowing that Knuckles isn’t expecting him to reciprocate, that Knuckles isn’t asking anything of him- he didn’t even want to tell him these feelings, it just kind of came out, there was never any belief that Sonic would respond in kind and they’d start dating.

… but at the same time that does stir up this ache in Sonic, a sadness. Because Knuckles genuinely doesn’t believe Sonic could feel the same about him. And it’s less because of who Sonic is as a person, and more about how Knuckles perceives himself. It’s not that Knuckles just doesn’t think Sonic could ever be with ANYONE, it’s that he can’t conceive of Sonic ever wanting to be with him. And Sonic can’t help but feel upset about that.

And it makes him realize that maybe he would. If things were different. If he didn’t struggle to stay in one place so much, if Knuckles weren’t so tethered to one spot. As much as Knuckles has always longed for freedom, Sonic has wanted that for him too. And Knuckles being honest about his feelings, confessing something like this, he admires that. He doesn’t want to just say no. He doesn’t want to just turn Knuckles down.

And maybe it’s not the same sort of love that Knuckles feels. But Sonic does love Knuckles, Knuckles is one of the certainties in his life that he’s come to rely on, someone he wants to see succeed and thrive and be happy. If that’s not love, what is?

And maybe that’s enough. Maybe their love doesn’t have to be exactly the same, for it to be there, for it to be enough. Maybe just wanting to be able to reciprocate can be enough for now.

[pigswithwings]

web weave of the ocean?

Ships and the Sea

Sources: Original Poetry 🌊 Illustration for "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", Gustave Doré 🌊 "Storm on the Azov Sea", Ivan Aivazovsky 🌊 Original Poetry 🌊 @/maybe-itsforthebest 🌊 "Point Bonita Lighthouse", Frederick Ferdinand Schafer 🌊 Eragon (Inheritance #1), Christopher Paolini 🌊 Original Poetry 🌊 Illustration for "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", Gustave Doré 🌊 Original Poetry

[sunnykeysmash]

Man of words

[karofsky]

I think the thing that grinds my gears about the Queerbait™️ discussion of Nandermo outside of every other point I've already beaten to death is that people keep acting like having Nandermo leave off without Explicit Physical and Verbal On Screen Confirmation They're Fucking (never mind the lore implications as to why they never did that are also canon, that's a whole other post) is answering "they won't" to a Will They Won't They situation.

Like... they didn't. They're still a Will They Won't They. That's the point. That's the joy in leaving the show open ended with the message of "our lives all go on after this and you don't get to see it". It's fun. Imagining what happens with them is fun.

And like, Paul Simms said for years that not only does he not write (as the showrunner!! btw!!) Nandermo to be what people typically see as Romantic while still emphasizing that YES they are in love, yes they are partners, yes they are fucked up and codependent, but that also he loved their dynamic so much that he never wanted to ruin it one way or another. Like, their fucked up little codependency IS the point, that's why they're so unique and charming, and he didn't have to (canonically!!) write in that the two of them had feelings for each other, but he did, because he knew That's What It Is. Because they're a dumb little queer and unconventional love story.

[skunkes]

i loooove when ocs unrealized development makes them feel like real people like no i dont know whether talon is genuinely attracted to women after years of both clinging to them for safety and years of putting them onto that untouchable idealized Perfect Protector Pedestal that must remain untainted by any bad experiences, so he doesn't even try to Be With any. He doesn't know either