#If anyone needs an explanation

[mintandcreme]

These are GFriend songs that give me the same vibes as Twinkling Watermelon Characters/Ships (by the way, GFriend is my favorite group 😭)

Twinkling Watermelon as a whole: The Beginning of Love, Emotional Days, Labyrinth, Crossroads, My Buddy, From Me, Eye of the Storm, Three of Cups, Night Drive, A Starry Sky, Here We Are Ha Yichan: Life is a Party, Stairs in the North

Yoon Cheongah: Glassbead, Crush

Cheongchan: You are my Star, Dreamcatcher, Neverland, White, Mermaid, Sweety, Love oh Love, Sunshine

Ha Eungyeol: Gone With the Wind, Memoria

On Eunyoo: Room of Mirrors, Contrail Euneun: You Are Not Alone, Someday, Fall in Love, Rain in the Springtime, Summer Rain, Falling Asleep Again, Beautiful, Tarot Cards

[bishicat]

I think he actually really wanted to go :(

[gobbogoo]

Who Is Scout's Ma?

She's a character we know extremely little about, however when you stop to consider the IMPLICATIONS of what little we DO know, things start to get interesting:

1. She lives in the roughest part of Boston ("if you were from where I was from, you'd be dead") but dresses quite elegantly.

2. She had 8 boys, all of whom she raised BY HERSELF, and yet somehow she finds the time to maintain this impeccable appearance.

3. Scout clearly loves and admires her to a point where it's one of the few things he'll drop his "tough guy" act for, and dialogue in the comics like "Ma's gonna kill me if she finds out" implies he also still fears her disapproval, despite being a fully autonomous adult.

4. Spy, despite what he likes to pretend, is clearly head-over-heels for her. He even had her likeness engraved on his fanciest gun! (Note the distinct hairband & hoop earrings) For a man who avoids attachment to the point where he never lets anyone see his face, that's an unusual degree of infatuation.

5. None of Scout's brothers left Boston while he was growing up, despite a few of them presumably being adults by then. Not only this, they were still all getting into fights together, implying they were both continuing to live with or near their mother and brothers, AND had reasons to brawl with others beyond just some adolescent street scuffle.

My Theory:

Scout's Ma is the matriarch of a Boston-based crime family.

It explains her elegant appearance, how she and Spy were able to meet, why their bond clearly goes beyond a one-off fling, why she was able to be in Scout's life so much despite the financial burdens of being a single mother of 8, and why all of said 8 were continuing to get into fights with other locals. They weren't just some street gang, they were enforcers. It also explains why/how Scout got into mercenary work, his many mafia-themed weapons, and why he continues to fear her ire even as an adult.

Plus, take a look at this unused angle of the last photo from Meet The Spy:

You'd THINK a single mother from the rough side of Boston wouldn't appear so in-her-element on a fancy date with The Spy, and yet her appearance and demeanour here just SCREAM "confident and in control."

Scout's Ma is Boston's Godmother, and I desperately wish to see someone draw her as such.

[valictini]

Drew these in a fugue state. Started out with “ahah Clefable and Gengar have this theory going on about how Gengar might be some twisted/dead version of Clefable? So Siffrin and Loop.” Made some funny duo drawings, their shenanigans as they travel together. Then I drew them as their Pokémon. That was supposed to be it.

And then Mirabelle as Eevee hit me like a truck and suddenly every party members had to become a pokemon and then I was like “aw man now that I think about it, I never draw them as humans let me draw them as humans” and then boom. All this.

Haven’t felt this passionate about the Pokémon universe in a while but drawing all these made me so happy <3 Big throw back to when I watched the series growing up and imagined myself in it <3

[occudo]

Dungeon Meshi- ah- dungeon meshi?

saw @crit20lesbian 's post about Dungeon meshi jmart and the idea stuck with me

Martin- Tall-men Jon- Half-foot Sasha - Elf Tim -Dwarf

[bakudekublogblog]

kacchan is standing before him, openly weeping, childishly professing he wanted a forever with him and Izuku is like ?? kacchan haha do you have brain damage ?? horikoshi when I fucking catch you

[ingravinoveritas]

Michael straight up writing erotic gay fan fiction about Lucian and Aro in a 2012 interview and I am losing my mind...

[jesteringbug]

this was funnier in my head tbh

[roots-symphony]

Unpopular opinion maybe, but I don’t really buy into the whole fuckboy agatha/turbo virgin Rio narrative. Like it’s fun to play around with, but I don’t think it’s as canon as some I’ve seen some ppl say. I think it’s just one of like many possible interpretations of what their dynamic could have been, and tbh I think we’re all sleeping on the funniest one. Let me explain:

Agatha fucks now, that’s super obvious but there’s also been like how many centuries between now and when she was younger/met Rio? Agatha grew up during a very puritanical time, in an isolated coven, with an abusive mother, could she have been sneaking and getting action/figuring herself out on the side? Definitely. But I feel like she would’ve been more focused on trying to sneak around and learn magic and (depending on just /how/ isolated the coven was, which the ones we saw her and Nicky go through ranged from super small family to a small-medium community) might have not been either a lot of options and/or the options there were would have been like difficult to do anything about. We don’t know when she meets Rio, but presumably not /too/ long after her attempted execution just based on when Nicky was born, so she definitely in this time could have come to an understanding of herself and her body, especially in regards to how she could use her ~feminine wiles~ to get by with her entire support system gone. But I feel like another way to look at it, is that while she may not have been able to experiment as a teenager, she definitely could have run into some inappropriate books while reading the magic books she also wasn’t allowed to read. That plus just probably the whole way sex and everything was viewed during that time, I feel like she could easily come up with some weird ideas about what sex even is.

And Rio has been around for like ever. Do you know how many humans probably died doing weird sex things?? Rio knows what sex is, but her view of it is probably super skewed. (Also, we don’t see Rio from a point before Agatha which is unfortunate because all her focus after agatha is like… /on/ agatha so we have no way of knowing if she had any curiosity regarding humanity or any of the things she saw. She definitely could have experimented in her long existence, we just don’t know. Which doesn’t really matter to this, I just want to point out that even that is up to interpretation and is based in canon literally just as much as virgin Rio [which is to say not at all])

Anyway I think we’re all missing the funniest way to read this, which is /both/ Agatha and Rio having wildly different and also just wrong ideas about what sex is/how it works, and just trying to figure it out together like the blind leading the blind with all their directions based around colors. Bonus in that Rio could probably say some buckwild shit and Agatha ‘fake it till you make it’ Harkness would probably be like ‘well yes, obviously that’s how you do it’

[dead-chela]

Been rewatching young justice (again) and I think we as a people do not talk enough about whatever the FUCK Bart and Jaime got going on in season 2 and that is just criminal to me

[brotherlouis]

guys, it's been years,,, I think I've finally gotten the courage to ask... what the fuck even is the plot of the Vampire Chronicles?

[the-lord-of-the-things]

"Why would you want to help them- after everything they did? After they lied to me!?"

[strangegutz]

Something I just want to throw out there: it takes me DAYS of work to show you one art doll. It takes me HOURS of work to show you one illustration. I often don't do anything but these two things all day. After 6-10 hours at my desk, I sit and draw for a few hours for the rest of the night. This is why I end up posting more illustrations than art dolls. I even work on drawings between cure times or while cooking my meals.

[traumasurvivors]

It seems convenient that you’re suddenly autistic when you need it to back up a point

I’m not “suddenly” autistic. I’ve been diagnosed for years. And while I don’t talk about it a lot, I have mentioned it in the past on my BPD blog if you really need receipts that I didn’t just starting saying it to make a point.

I run a stim toy business and have for over two years and part of what we tell people about our business is that we are run by autistics and I’ve definitely shared that on my business blog multiple times.

[numberonetacostan]

Taco would sit by Mepad's body until it was moved away. At first, she'd find it and stay there still, in shock. And then she'd cry for a while. And by a while, I mean hours. This isn't a friend she's lost because she hurt them, this is a friend who is dead, for good. I don't think she could bring herself to leave him after that. He stayed with her, out in the woods, because she still needed his help. She still needs him. She can't just leave him lying out in a field. She has to keep bugs from crawling on his screen. Surely, that must be uncomfortable for him.

She'd only move once Test Tube is ready to try and repair him. Even then, she checks in as often as she can. She can't give up on him after all he did for her.

[ponyboyssophie]

I've been wondering what was up with the dog statue in the crypt since I first played this game, and it turns out there's like actually a unmistakable reason he's in this place that I completely missed the first time lol.

This might've been obvious to other people but I'm just gonna put everything here so it doesn't keep knocking around my brain.

At the start of the rabbit hole I noticed this artifact looked identical to the model for the dog statue - I ended up dismissing it because didn't see any further connection until I noticed T.A.D had this to say about it:

Let's pull back a little. What we know about the dog statue is that he is trying to find his way to his former master.

This wasn't new information to me, but it did remind me to think about the relationship between dog-master, master-subordinate etc. Seeking a companion out in the afterlife.

Anyways who put this unassuming corpse with a very distinct model that is unlike any other corpse in the game here.

Laying this stuff out makes me laugh that I missed it. While playing it through, I interracted with the corpse, thinking I could loot him, and then when you don't get anything from him at all it felt very out of place.

This isn't an enemy model, obviously. In fact, it matches a certain subordinate we saw at the start of the crypt.

The male bodyguard has an identical voice to the dog statue, which wasn't an immediate tell to me because sometimes voice notes are reused in this game (even gabriella uses robyns pained voice at one point) but the female bodyguard does has the same voice note but tuned differently - the voices are definitely meant to be personal and identifiable to the characters.

The time when we see the dead body also matches up with the time that the male bodyguard is no longer in gabriella's flashbacks, and the female bodyguard is the only one left.

In the final section, we see the dog statue as nothing more than a regular dog statue - he has nothing more to say.

He's found his place by a coffin.

I would wager that this was meant to be the final resting place of Gabriella before she broke into the crypt to make her own tomb that suited her much more extravagant tastes.

Gabriella's entire motivation is to feel like she's worth more than her parents by belittling and discarding what they had. Her obsession with having the perfect pedestal to spend her everlasting life was that she wanted to feel more powerful, more beautiful, and more perfect than them. To show them, in her life aswell as her death, that she has surpassed them.

This coffin, in a small, dinky corner shoved off to the side like an afterthought, much less private than her parents' coffins, is probably another reflection of how little they truly valued her as a daughter. She doesn't get a room she gets an alcove, so gabriella gives herself an entire two-story basement instead.

My guy Nameless Male Bodyguard really did find his old masters final resting place in his afterlife. And he chose to rest next to her old one, rather than gabriella's post-duchess power fantasy coffin.