#THANK YOU FOR ASKING ME THIS

[occasionallynotwatchingroger]

You can only preserve one of these three eps. Which do you pick? "For the world is hollow..." or "Gem" or "The Man Trap"

I COMPLETELY MISSED THIS ASK

I’m sorry, this is a delightful question

“Gem” being The Empath?

Ok we can throw The Man Trap out straight away, he’s not nearly pathetic enough in it.

For the World is Hollow [etc.] is a damn good episode in its own right (putting aside the delightful patheticness of Bones) but it loses points for the terminal illness that lasts a couple of days*. But what it has! This girl sees Bones looking a bit woozy and falls in love. I get it. Spock finds out he’s (temporarily) dying and grabs onto his arm as if he can hold him the right side of death. Kirk watches with a little smile like, my boys. They abandon him to his inevitable death. He has a pain generating machine inserted into his body. Willingly. For the promise of a warm body to snuggle up to whilst he dies. But then he changes his mind and goes back to (not) die with his pals.

The Empath… is not the best episode of TOS. But it has such patheticness. SUCH patheticness. The moment Bones says “I think we should call her Gem” and he sounds drunk. And spends the rest of the episode very nearly calling his new pet Jim. He knocks out Jim and whilst Spock’s congratulating him he stabs him with the hypospray too. He goes bravely to his death. He tells Spock he has a good bedside manner. He tells Spock he has a good bedside manner. He tells Spock he has a good bedside manner. That’s a declaration of love. Spock holds him. Spock doesn’t say it’s ok, I always knew it was your way of showing affection, and I always took it personally.

And Jim and Spock are together, as they’re always together, as they belong, watching over him. Moving together… this episode is about love

[gravedigg]

"oh god i need it / i was wrong again / take me to the river / and make me clean again" crazy lyrics that make me DIZZY. is it cool to ask how they relate to angel?

Oh yeah absolutely!

The River by Manchester Orchestra is the second song in the war segment of Angel’s playlist, and it really symbolizes a big turning point in Angels perspective, from the military ideal he had in his head to the unpleasant truth of being stationed in a volatile desert, protecting oil investments for millionaires tucked safely in their mansions thousands of miles away.

When he joined the army he was just a kid in high school and he was fed this romanticized version of what the military stood for by the people around him, especially the army recruiters and jrotc instructors at his school.

And he was excited to be deployed, really felt like he was doing something good and important. But after a few weeks of scorching heat in the deserts, of watching the slow-building tension between the coalition and Iraq’s forces, he came to realize the reality of his situation, that he wasn’t really there to protect people, he was a pawn placed to protect certain peoples investments.

But his growing distaste for his role in this conflict was in a sort of dissonance with the relationships and brotherhood he was building with the men in his squad. They bitched and moaned about the heat and the food and having to hoof it through the sand, but they were still sold into the illusion of honor and duty that the army provides.

Angel felt, in a way, that he was betraying them by doubting all of it. But despite that, I think he found himself fantasizing about ways to get himself sent home, even though it was a cowards move. I think he knew in his heart that the army wasn’t right for him and that he would get out as soon as he could.

“Cheat, wanted a way out, crack my rib, wait to die”

“Me and my brothers, we have tongues sharp as knives. I found a way out, make a noise, close your eyes.”

“I'm gonna leave you the first chance I get”

And then, as the conflict progressed into 1991 and Angel started to see the devastation of the scud missile attacks and increasing assaults, as he saw the casualties of both troops and civilians, the cold horror of war really settled on him, and he found himself seeking absolution from a God that, as he would find, had no interest in answering his prayers.

“Oh God I need it / I was wrong again / Take me to the river / And make me clean again”

[thenyoumightaswellwrestleangels]

Hello hello <3

I need your expertise!! I’m thinking about writing for dc characters, especially titans, but I’m not a dc specialist, my knowledge is very little :(

Should I try or wait to be more educated, and what are your tips on writing dc characters ??

Lots of love ;)

hi hi !!

honestly this is such an exciting ask to get, I'm honoured that you thought of coming to me for advice <3

I would say go for it !! I think a huge part of writing is learning as you go and developing skills / knowledge as you practice. I'm not a dc expert either !! there are a lot of times when I pause my writing to open one of my comics to fact-check or to text a friend who I think knows - honestly, my biggest piece of writing advice (and life advice let's be real lmao) is to never stop yourself from doing something because you don't feel like you're good enough / smart enough / whatever <3

oh oh and tips !! hmmm let's see

for me, personally, I'm much more character driven than plot driven, which I'm sure you can see in my fics ahaha so I always make sure I have a firm image of the character's personality, the reader's personality, and their relationship. most of my planning goes into that dynamic and making sure that I'm pairing the character with a reader who makes sense for them and can give them a compelling story specifically, I always want a reader who will challenge them in some way - i.e. Timmy's reader being, in ways, smarter than him and tripping him up bc of that, Jason's reader having that devotion that he doesn't think he deserves and challenging his lack of self-worth, etc. - I hope you get what I mean !!

to circle back to not being a dc expert, it's still ok !! if you aren't sure about certain aspects of a character's personality, genuinely I always think it's ok to just,,, fill in the gaps by yourself, ya know ? I'm a firm believer that it's fanon, not canon, and if people don't like your characterization / don't like you diverging from canon, then you're writing probably just isn't for them ! and they should read canon content lmao. you're the writer !! you're allowed to take some creative liberties and bend the characters a lil bit to fit your ideas <3

ok ok I know that was a lot !! but I hope it helped a lil <33 and I am always always around if you wanna swing by and ask for input / second opinions / talk abt ideas / whatever !

[mochiwrites]

which dynamic do you think scarian is in the Fairy tale vers? me personally? im thinkin a bit like jerza but also not? mmmaybe gajevy (its impossible to pin their dynamic into any ship obvi but this is just a lil fun thing lol)

OHMYGOD YOU’VE JUST BECOME THE BEST PERSON EVER TO ME

ohmygod okay okay okay. I’m apologizing SO hard in advance for how nerdy I’m about to get.

jerza and gajevy are 100% valid answers!!! I can see scarian’s dynamic in both those pairs and I 🥺

if we take scarian at their CORE dynamic, ignoring the angst (we’ll get to that >:3) and with the two of them at their rawest form as characters, my answer is nalu.

and no it’s not just because they’re my favorite fairy tail ship I promise — well, maybe it does play a small part :3

let’s look at natsu and lucy first here, and then apply scarian.

SO. natsu and lucy. very much the dynamic of “a follows b around and tries to stop b from doing something Stupid” but there’s more! natsu and lucy hold a lot of respect for one another, as well as trust. there’s this bond between them that goes a lot farther than any kind of label. it’s the way they know one another like the back of their hand, and their communication doesn’t even need to be verbal for the other to pick up on the message.

natsu can read lucy like an open book. lucy can Mostly read natsu like an open book.

lucy is the One person who can pull natsu back before he goes too far. and natsu encourages lucy when she’s close to giving up.

and their banter???? the way lucy tries to keep natsu from doing something dumb but somehow gets roped into whatever he’s going to do anyways?

lucy is very much natsu’s home, as evident by the number of times he’s snuck into her apartment. and lucy is Not quiet about her complaints about natsu. but at the end of the day, they have each other’s backs and I’m going to stop before I go Any Further or else I’m going to derail this ENTIRE thing.

ahem. right. so. Scarian.

already you kinda start to see the similarities between the two pairs, yeah? grian tries to stop scar from doing stupid thing, somehow gets roped into it anyways. and he very much complains the entire time, even as he helps.

scarian trust each other a lot. and you can see that in third life and double life. I know people seem to get on scarian about their “lack of communication” but in actuality their communication in double life was just fine. they’ve done this rodeo before. they know how to trust and communicate with one another without needing to do it verbally.

they know how to trust each other.

they hold each other as equals, they joke and banter and grian knows how to read scar very well. scar can… sort of read grian? but grian is a very complex character to begin with.

also scar just…. fits as natsu so well? dorky, lovable himbo who likes to burn things. also early ft!natsu with his chest out. gestures to scitties. enough said

and grian Mostly fits in that role as lucy. he’s the one pulling scar back (or at least trying to), complaining whenever scar tries to do something dumb but still helping him anyways.

scar and grian have a mutual trust and respect for one another, much like natsu and lucy do.

and I mean. C’mon. grian killing scar in third life? natsu seeing future lucy die? OR OR OR natsu and happy disappearing for like a year without telling lucy in person because he wanted to become stronger? grian pushing scar away after third life without telling him why because he didn’t want to hurt scar again?

also !!!!! grian and scar are ALWAYS attached at the hip, much like natsu and lucy.

I think out of all the fairy tail ships, scarian most closely fits nalu, nerd rant over LMAO

god one of these days I’m going to write such a self indulgent hermitcraft fairy tail au

[ceyrann]

Uh, hello! I'm here to ask somewhat of a personal astro question. My favorite thing to study is the Moon, so I was wondering. How is your experience with your Moon sign?

Reply this of you want, have a nice day. ILY 🤎

I'm a Gemini moon and somehow somewhat, I'm really cool with Geminis! May it be Moon or Sun or Rising! A few of my close friends are Gemini moons and I find our conversations really interesting and I love the way how our thoughts jump around like it's not a problem. It's like... We can have different conversations in different apps and yet still don't lose track of it.

I honestly feel that Gemini moons have the most flexible mindset (besides Sagis) and we do try to see things from a lot of point of views, without losing touch of what we believe in, of course. I don't know if I'm making sense rn but yeah I love us Gemini moons

@nikolaiiy @bichou-angel i can't think of who else here are Gemini moons but I love y'all

[i23kazu]

how i feel when someone reblogs my stuff with a really really nice tag

[junglejim4322]

do you think a 5'4 and 6'2 height difference is predatory?

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[superpyodan]

Why is Simon Spier from love Simon the only cis man who writes fanfic? I want to see your vision

I am going to assume you haven't read the book / the sequel, so apologies if you have & this comes across as... mansplain-y? idk😭

it's canonical that Simon used to read and write fanfiction!!!

In Simon vs The Homosapiens Agenda (the book of Love, Simon), Simon talks a couple of times about how Leah introduced him to Drarry fanfiction when they were younger (this has been swapped out in recent pressings though i'm pretty sure! to something star wars related I believe) 😭And then, In the sequel to Simon vs. The Homosapien's Agenda, Leah and Bram manage to find Simon's old fanfiction.net account, on which Simon has a gay Love Actually fanfiction uploaded!!! It's a ridiculous little detail but it's a super cute lil interaction between Bram & Leah :')

Other than that though, I seriously have never met a cis man who has read/written fanfiction, which is why I asked in the first place LOOOL but. Yes. Simon canonically used to read and write fanfiction. I love him.

[batbabydamian]

Obsessed with little Lima Bean Baby Dami. I feel like Bruce would pass out from cuteness if he witnessed his child looking like that.

Talia should send Damian's baby pics to Bruce lol

[noodles-and-tea]

Your phineas & ferb + gravity falls art brings back so many nice memories from my childhood, thank you so much for sharing <33

“You listen to Icelandic pop sensation BABBA? I… I love BABBA…”

[me-beef]

@strangeravatar made a great point

i was gonna focus on the spike-hotboxing-celestia aspect but i got distracted somewhere along the way and i think i forgot what joke i was trying to make

but dont you think its interesting how many guards of the exact same color/body type she's managed to accrue?? i do

ooohh you want to go look at our stickers so bad

[chloesimaginationthings]

Vanny finally meets FNAF tape girl in person...

[hellsitegenetics]

When I followed you earlier today and then realized this blog wasn't even two days old it made me feel like I invested in a startup.

Do you think if you did the lyrics for Fireflies by Owl City, your database would give us fireflies? (Will also accept owls. And there's a line about sheep too).

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[datcravat]

Ace Attorney Investigations Collection X Among Us Collaboration promotional artwork by Datcravat (me haha)

[lesbianwyllravengard]

so I’ve seen ur adalice propaganda and I’ve heard vague mentions of alice, so what makes her the perfect girlfriend for ada? :)

WAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *explodes*

This is not going to make much sense and I'm going to be all over the place and I apologise I am just very mentally ill over Alice (and ada x alice)

SO. Alice Abernathy is the main protagonist from the live action Resident Evil film series directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, starring Milla Jovovich as Alice. Alice started out as a highly trained operative working for Umbrella - she could kick some serious ass, and her job title was head of security so she'd basically act as a bodyguard or field agent depending on what Umbrella needed from her. However, once she found out the truth of what Umbrella was creating, all the genetic viruses and bioweapons, and how they planned to do terrible things with them, she worked with another Umbrella employee with the intention of spilling Umbrella's secrets before they released the virus, and then getting Umbrella shut down. Alice failed, because she was incapacitated by Umbrella's own security measures when another Umbrella agent (a bad guy) unleashed the T-virus on the entire Hive (Umbrella's underground facility where they actually worked on the T-virus, and everyone who worked here knew what they were doing). But point is she tried.

Alice is cunning, perceptive, kind-hearted, and strong-willed. She is also very stubborn, and believes she can accomplish anything just because she's not going to stop until it's done or she dies. She's very very dedicated and heroic. She refuses to shoot a single team member even after they've been obviously infected because there's the slightest chance they could find the cure in time, before she remembers there even is a cure. She thinks she can save them all through sheer will. She cares about anyone and is willing to set aside differences to help people. She knows her strengths and she's not afraid to face dangerous situations, even offering to go alone when she can because she doesn't want anyone else to get hurt. And the funny thing is, rather than introducing Alice to the games, Capcom has instead given many of her best traits and attributes to Leon: her heroism, her compassion, her eagerness to help, and her perseverance. (Leon was technically a character before Alice, but if you see the movies versus the RE games that came after, you'll get what I mean, it's very obvious they took lots of inspiration from Alice's character). They also literally ripped off the scene where Leon drives a motorcycle into the Arias monster in RE Vendetta from Alice doing the exact same thing in the second Resident Evil film, years before him. But later on, the movies started giving Alice aspects of Leon's character, because he only shows up in one movie. And when Ada is finally introduced to the films, they gave her and Alice the exact same knife fight as Leon and Ada had in the original RE4. Like, down to the flip thing Ada does to catch her gun. The same scene. That was where the Adalice thoughts first started for me, because h u h??? Giving your main protagonist the same scene with Ada that Ada also has with her love interest in the games???? hm,,,, (also worth mentioning - Milla Jovovich as Alice cannot be in the same shot as another woman without acting like she's in love with them. Like so many Alice ships exist with other women - Jill, Claire, Rain - because Alice naturally creates so much tension with the other female characters and cannot look at another women without heart eyes. It's so great.)

Now the FUN part is, Alice already knows who Ada is and what she does when they meet. She is fully aware that Ada indirectly worked for Umbrella, and was Wesker's top agent. And Ada's story is different than her journey in RE2 when she and Leon met - development wise, Ada's is about where she'd be after re4r. So while these factors are different, and Ada in this film is trying to move away from her past work, she still has Umbrella and Wesker tying her down. Alice knows all of this. And once Ada explains the situation, Alice trusts her. They help each other in this film, because they both have the common goal of taking down umbrella. Now some context, the films are MUCH more dystopian/apocalyptic, as Anderson decided to take the route of a global infection rather than only keeping the t-virus in raccoon city, and outbreaks select parts of the world like the games do. So at this point in the films, Umbrella has taken over the entire world, and Alice is still fighting tooth and nail to bring them down. Ada joins her, they help each other, but they also have mutual respect for each other. And even better, Alice doesn't expect more from Ada than Ada verbally offers to give. Alice is more than willing to complete tasks on her own, but Ada still helps her - even when Alice decides to adopt a little girl on the way who mistook Alice for her mother. (You can tell Ada doesn't really care for kids and it's funny, but she still helps Alice protect the girl). Ada gets to shine as her own character, and while she's definitely not given the same space and consideration that she gets in the RE4 Remake, she definitely gets more than most of the games combined. Ada being allowed to maintain her character and identity without having to sacrifice anything or give more than she's willing to just to appease Alice is one of the BIGGEST ways Adalice differs from Aeon, despite Alice and Leon being similar. (Ada has a type lmao)

Also, side note, here is the only "romantic" scene Ada and Leon share (and notice also how Ada looks at/reacts to Alice instead)

I want Leon dead I want to kill him so bad he sucks extra bad in this film

Anyways I guess what I'm trying to say here is, Ada and Alice have all the good attributes that Ada and Leon have, but without the one-sided obsession and secrets. (And Alice is like if Leon actually respected Ada as a person rather than an object of his desire he views through a warped lens LMAO.) And so there's the intrigue of Alice and Ada's dynamic where they are "on opposite sides", but they work together towards a common goal, respect each other, look out for each other, and care for each other, and it's mutual. And they get the enemies to lovers speedrun edition where they're only enemies for like 2 minutes.

Idk, I don't wanna be like "just watch the movie" but also,,, Resident Evil: Retribution is SUCH a good movie and I think everyone should watch it. It's my favourite live action RE film, and Ada and Alice's relationship just shines in it.

[technically-human]

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