#Sorry about that! 😄

[elitadream]

I think a gift that Luigi would give Mario for his birthday would be a wood carving kit like one of the professional ones with all the fancy tools for carving, sanding and sculpting, along with a few blocks of wood. He saved up all his money specifically for that and nothing else. And Mario can’t constrain his overwhelming joy over receiving such a thoughtful gift.

He cherishes it, truly, handles it with care and love just as he does Luigi.

AHH I love this idea so much!! 😍🛠✨️

I can especially see this ocurring as a flashback from when they were both still on Earth. Luigi buying this for Mario despite how rough times were back then, because he knows the hobby brings him a lot of joy. 🥺

"Fratellino...! You shouldn't have," Mario would gasp as he would unwrap his present, gazing down at the beautiful kit with a mix of wonder and dismay.

"Oh, hush!" Luigi would dimiss affectionately, patting the box and inviting Mario to open it. "We both know you've wanted one for ages. When was the last time you've treated yourself? You never indulge in any personal expenses!"

"Because I can't afford it," Mario would murmur with a furtive glance to their dingy appartment, giving Luigi a pointed look when the lightbulb above them would suddenly start to flicker.

Undeterred, Luigi would merely shrug and sit beside him, his eyes soft and compassionate.

"Please, take it," he would insist, with a knowing smile. "Please. I know how hard you try. I see it everyday. Saying that you deserve it would be an understatement. It was the least I could do."

Mario would grimace slightly at his brother's words, feeling a simultaneous pang of guilt and love in his chest.

"Thank you," he would finally say in quiet surrender, turning to give Luigi a fierce hug.

Much later, when they would both celebrate their first anniversary in the Mushroom Kingdom, Luigi would be elated to learn that the princess has given Mario full reign of the north wing's workshop, essentially letting him have it all to himself. While on his way to greet him there, he would huff with a lopsided grin upon thinking of how vast of an improvement this is over the meagre selection of tools he had offered him back then, but to his surprise, he would find Mario working at the nearest desk... with his kit laid out beside him. He would remember that this was one of the few objects that Mario had been very adamant about retrieving from Earth before the portal vanished, but he had believed it to be merely as a souvenir and would be confused as to why Mario would even bother still using it now.

"Seriously?" He would quip bemusedly as he would enter the room, causing Mario to break from his current train of thought with a start. "I can't believe you sometimes."

"What?" Mario would retort, a helpless smile tugging at his lips.

"Mario, half of these are worn down to a nub, and the other half is completely obsolete. Why keep a rusty old bike when you can have a Ferrari, eh?"

Luigi would nudge him with a smirk, pleased with his own comparison, but Mario wouldn't seem to find much humor in it. Instead, he would stare at the blueprint lying on the desk's surface and would shake his head slowly, his expression one of deep nostalgia and gratitude.

"The old bike has infinitely more value to me than any Ferrari, Lamborghini or Maserati ever could have," he would answer simply, his tone filled with warmth and appreciativeness.

Luigi would sigh dramatically at that, however beaming at the compliment.

"Okay, okay, I get it," he would concede with a playful roll of his eyes. "Just- promise me to use these shiny new toys every once in a while, alright? It's not everyday one of your craziest dreams come true! Might as well make the most of it."

He would ruffle Mario's hair and give him a wink before leaving him to his project, but would secretly feel very touched and a little emotional that Mario views his gift with such importance. ☺️💞

[anhonest-puck]

frankie and joey from the basement yard podcast remind me of charlie and neil

[ivormybelovedau]

Who needs a hug the most out of everyone

-🌺🌲

[mute-call]

it’s not even a joke anymore. g.genuine hc that steve learned about trans rights from the freddys characters

[the-doggy-diaries]

sooo annoying that one of my friends is like "and when mitski said 'mom wld u wash my back this once...' i felt that" when they get monthly automatic deposits into their bank account .... washing your back is all she does girl cmon 😭

[mymelodyisme]

3, 7 and 14 for the asks!! 😍

😭 I should have asked you more myself!! But I saw handwriting and went “I MUST have her write some of her FIC-“

3. 3 films you could watch for the rest of your life and not get bored of?

So 🤔 this is kinda tricky cause we hardly rewatch films in my house cause 🙄 my mom and dad only like watching things once usually. But but but I DO share in common with my mom that I love rewatching:

Encanto

Tangled

Turning Red

I’ve certainly annoying my sisters recently with Turning Red 🤣 it’s really good background noise and fu bro watch. Encanto cause it’s good!!! But also I’m latina and also feel not special like Mirabel 😭 my sister first time we watched the movie said Luisa reminded her of me tho thanks for clocking the older sister energy I guess. And tangled because Rapunzel my favorite Disney princess ever 🥺

7. what scares you the most and why?

Oof here’s where we get ✨depressing✨

First do we mean spine tingling or deep rooted fear that stabs at your heart till it aches and pours out? Cause I could easily say something concrete like cockroaches (they make me cry and shake so quick) but if we’re talking in ouchie heart ache type of scares it’s becoming unwanted and an inconvenience 😭 I’ve felt like that a few times in my life and heck I’ve been feeling it especially hard lately. Just gotta take a deep sigh and keep going cause I’m gonna like me enough to want me to stay! Ya know! Also I’m scared of being in absolute darkness and I’m scared to be out at night :)

14. what’s something you’ve always wanted to do but maybe been to scared to do?

😭 kinda related back to the other question Owie, this one seems kind of ridiculous but it’s the simplest and most heart breaking for me. All of my wants have this same thing in common but this one is the most recent so ridiculous or not here you are.

Going for a walk.

I’m, frankly, scared of the unwanted attention that comes with being a fat person in public 😭 I mean realistically I know no one’s actually looking at me but I can’t help but feel they are. In PE I was always last to finish and the kids who were done early would cheer me on and they meant well but it always made me cry. For a bit I got a little braver about walking on the treadmill at the university but I’m out now and we don’t have one at home. I’ve been wanting to go walking to better myself because 🥺 I could be better but I’m really scared of going to the park. It’s on the other side of town, it’s bigger with more shade, but it’s next to our high school and there’s a bunch of houses and there’s no good time for me to talk out of my day to do this and I’d go for a walk but we don’t have sidewalks where I live and I don’t want to walk in the road and block someone from their driveway. It’s all excuses I guess but all in all I’m afraid of existing in other people’s spaces.

But but to end on something positive!!! 🤔 um I’m really proud of the way I’ve conquered my fear of driving. I’m still afraid of that and going long distances to places I don’t know but now I feel that I just gotta go it and I’ll get used to it. It helps that my car is cute and I have stuffed animals 😄 I actually don’t hate driving as much anymore I like going around town with the windows down letting the air mess up my hair.

♥️Questions♥️ (yall should go ask Libby too 🩷)

[shinceltyblewup]

There's a lot I don't like about the JJK dub but the way Kaiji Tang says SATORU GOJO😄 is really really good. God he's so funny I can't stand him(Gojo)(I do not know his va nor do I have any opinions on him as a person)

[skysglcw]

Picture it, the night after Dorothy’s departure. Blanche dreams of Dorothy comforting her after a nightmare but wakes up only to find out that it was just a dream, and Dorothy really was gone.

[httpiastri]

winter wonderland for that christmas oscar story you're writing? 🥰

oooo i didnt know what part to tease bcs i didnt want to spoil too much shdkdhf but here we goooo....

but as oscar walks back to the kitchen, he sees something hanging in the door frame to the kitchen. he stops in his tracks. "no way..." festive cookies isn't the only thing lando got when he went to the local supermarket. he also bought the ultimate tool for securing his master plan – a mistletoe. he doesn't know how, but he's planning to make sure you and oscar meet underneath it at least once before the holidays are over. there's no way you'll both be able to avoid it all week.

[gorillaxyz]

she and i are the two nixon gals btw

[verytendou]

Coming around on rpf bc my friend asked our friend group “if your life was a tv show what would your top ships be” and that honestly had to be one of the best conversations ive had in a while

[someofitwastrue]

my bf saw an ad of rob & ryan while we were watching hockey & screamed no SO loud i almost shit myself

[starlooove]

Parents when you stop caring what people think of you after they tell u ur whole life that it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks 😨😨😨😨😨

[enbysiriusblack]

so far in the devil wears an angel's face, we have had remus pov, we have had james pov, we have had dorcas pov... guess who's time it is now???? marlene mckinnon.

lil extract from the next chapter:

Why would Sirius befriend two human vampire hunters? Because they’re an idiot, Marlene decided. Sirius Back was the stupidest, suicidal, reckless, dumbass that did not think about their best friend’s feelings and uncontrollable bloodlust. 

They turned her. They were responsible for the fact Marlene wanted to, no needed to, bite into the humans' necks. It was utterly irrelevant that she had asked them to turn her, because they could have refused and she wouldn’t now be sitting here, using every last shred of her self restraint to stop from lunging at Sirius’ new boyfriend. They should be thanking her really. And yet, instead, Sirius was unreasonably glaring at her. Glaring at her! They shouldn’t be glaring at her! And the fact they think a simple glare from the unscariest vampire ever would refrain her. The only reason she isn’t trying to bite them has nothing to do with Sirius’ 'oh so terrifying' glare, and everything to do with the fact that their hunter boyfriend is packed full of weapons ready to kill her and he’s wearing a jacket that she can’t get her teeth through. 

She had to admit he’s smart. Much smarter than James; not a weapon on him and his entire collarbone is on display. As if he wants her to bite him. But she won’t. Lily and Regulus would probably kill her... and they’re a lot scarier than Sirius. 

The prick.

[mondscheinprinzessin]

"#why would they photoshop it like two bears will soon be ravishing the two twinks in front of them😭"

WHY WOULD YOU MAKE ME READ THIS ajsdkfljslkfj 😭

I MEAN-

It just lacks the "The two bears of the north taking the younglings" as a title across on it. And look, it's live even!

[apencilandpen]

I, for one, have been trying to wrap my head around the importance of the paintings shown throughout Goncharov. I'll have to dust off my Baroque art history notes for specifics, but I'm almost 100% certain that most of them are Caravaggios. Caravaggio ALSO spent time in Naples in the end of his life and more importantly, he was in Naples because he'd been RUN OUT OF ROME. No, he wasn't trying to gain a foothold in Cold War era Italy, but he was trying to start a new life - or at least salvage the old one - with shadows, real and metaphysical, right behind him.

Talking generally, the use of Caravaggio in a mafia film makes sense. Tenebrism lends itself perfectly to the genre. You throw characters and scenes into intense light and shadow, and the tension practically builds itself. There are so many moments where the lighting choices are full of the warm light sources ao often seen in Caravaggio works, light that was very often indicative of God. But there are a few works that stand out.

When we first meet Goncharov, you know, the scene in the study where he introduces himself, in the back is this painting:

That's Cardsharps from 1594. It's an early Caravaggio of two men scamming a rich youth. It's a piece of set dressing that shows us at a glance what Goncharov is: a crook, a villain, someone not to be trusted. But upon further analysis, questions are raised. Is Goncharov the youth or the young crook? Is the older figure his father or himself later in life looking back on what he could've done differently? If Goncharov is one character, which one is Andrey? Who is being taken in, and who is doing the taking? And we, the audience, can see what the crooks are doing as we can see the machinations of the film as it will progress. But we can do nothing to help the youth, just as we are powerless to stop the steady march towards the final act.

Later, we see this Medusa associated with Sofia:

Sofia, who was never protected and now must protect herself. Sofia, who was saved and cursed over and over by the men around her. Sofia, who perhaps mightve found love, or at least a sisterhood, with Katya. But this image is of Caravaggios own face as the head of Medusa, a move that supposedly makes him immune to her gaze. Is this a moment of empowerment for Sofia? Or is this another example of men taking something from her? Knowing what we do about the fate of her relationship with Katya, is this superimposition of Caravaggio's face a stand in for Goncharov's place in their relationship? Is Medusa truly Sofia, or is Medusa Goncharov, or someone else entirely? Does is minimize Sofia's character to even ask if Medusa could be anyone else?

But the one that REALLY gets me, is from Goncharov's lone church scene.

This is The Seven Works of Mercy in Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples. It can be seen as Goncharov and Andrey walk through the church, barely speaking. What makes this work important is a) the fact that Caravaggio painted it in 1607 while he was on the run from basically a mob out for his head and b) the subject matter. The seven mercies are: bury the dead, visit the imprisoned, feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, clothe the naked, visit the sick, and refresh the thirsty. Let's take them in smaller chunks.

Refresh the thirsty: could this be a comment on the alcoholism present in the film, both with regar to Goncharov's past and his current present?

Visit the sick/visit the imprisoned: who in this film isn't sick of something? Who doesn't have some spiritual ailment that they are trying to heal with the presence of the other? Who isn't imprisoned in some way? Katya and Goncharov in their marriage, Goncharov and Andrey in their history and feelings, Katya and Sofia in their male dominated world, all of the in the tragedy of the narrative.

Feed the hungry: all of this was brought about by a hunger for power, for expansion, for victory. But at what cost? Whose hunger wins out, and at the expense of which of the other characters?

Shelter the homeless/clothe the naked: perhaps a comment of Katya's desire to raise Sofia from her circumstances, perhaps a comment on how all of the characters are adrift beyond their homeland searching for something they can never have.

Bury the dead: the fact that this painting is shown so close to the end of the film is no accident. We as the audience know what is in the works, we know that this can only end one way. Even some of the characters know it. But later, when Goncharov is dying, does he think of this painting? Does he wonder if he deserves mercy? Does he wonder who will bury him? His body will probably be thrown in the sea and forgotten about; those left will forget him. But we won't. The audience won't. We are the ones who will grant him this last mercy. We will bury our dead. We will bury him.