#THEY'RE JUST. THEY'RE SO. ARGH!!

[feroluce]

I know we mostly only get little hints of them throughout, but I really loved this interaction between these two? Like. I already talked about it from Dan Heng's side over here. But! I'm dying over this part about Boothill, and just how much he trusts and feels he can rely on Dan Heng!!

"Note," he says, about his casual identity theft fjkdlsajlk

Because when we first arrive on Penacony, March 7th and the Trailblazer are confused about the check in details. But Dan Heng caught on immediately.

It's stated multiple times in multiple ways: Galaxy Rangers generally work alone. Boothill is helping out Rappa because he owes her a favor, and shortly afterwards, he returns to his own Hunt. He coordinates with Robin and March 7th because he comes across them by happenstance. Dan Heng is the only person that Boothill purposely reaches out to, and he does it in a way that only Dan Heng would figure out.

And it works! Even though they aren't able to actually contact each other, Boothill's secret note left for Dan Heng is the first sign to him that something is amiss in Penacony, and to stay on guard. And it's only when Rappa says she's with Boothill that Dan Heng decides to truly trust her and lend her a hand.

The "sweet and melodious words" part is killing me fjkdlsjakfdja

Without the Nameless' aid, the Galaxy Rangers probably wouldn't have gotten nearly as far as they did. It was a group project. It took the combined effort of a lot of people. But it started here with these two! And even without being able to see or speak to each other, Boothill and Dan Heng somehow still manage to work together and make all of this happen! Off nothing but their belief in each other alone!!

When something big is going down, there is no one Boothill wants on his side more than Dan Heng, and that's just so!! SO!!! OUGH

[damian-lil-babybat]

'Dead Poets Society' gang

Headcanon that these four drop poetry and literature quotes on their conversations unprompted.

Jason 'English-major-I-only-visit-the-manor-for-the-library' Todd-Wayne

Damian 'I-master-liberal-arts-unlike-you-plebs-PHD-holder' al Ghul-Wayne

Cassandra 'I-learn-English-thru-Shakespeare-as-god-intended' Cain-Wayne

Duke 'only-title-holder-of-vigilante-poet-and-will-cuss-you-just-as-poetically' Thomas-(future) Wayne

[levi-lev]

hi again

[leapyearkisses]

Livestreams....

Currently obsessed with K//pop streams where the band members are all dolled up as usual but one of them is clearly sick.

First couple of sneezes, no one says anything. After the next one, the guy standing next to him rubs his back or shoulder. Other members start to ask if he's okay. The sneezes keep getting louder and he keeps sniffling. At first he was trying to duck out of camera view, but then he's too tired to care about it. Someone tries to make a joke for the fans to pass it off as allergies or just random, but by the end of the hour he's just clearly miserable.

I mean, just the horrible progression over the hour of a cold being suffered by a beautiful man who is utterly trapped by the entertainment industry's batshit insane expectations...... and the sad, earnest, loving camaraderie from his band mates who probably all knew this would be hell on him before they started.

[wildflowerteas]

the red camellia is undeniably soukoku's flower to me. they bloom in the cold, through snow and winter chill. they're at their most beautiful in the harshest conditions when everything else is dormant or dead. they're a symbol of perseverance and strength and passion. but at the end of the line, they 'behead' themselves when they die, refusing to drop petal by petal, choosing to go when they're still beautiful, refusing to compromise the rest of the tree by rotting on the branch.

[one-sexy-fucking-toucan]

I was thinking about it today and there is enough similarity between The King and Siffrin for something. I don't know what but there is something.

[thefantasticfoxolotl]

RoR doodles

[theelmoarchive]

Can we get more Tim? I’m obsessed with how you draw him, he’s so cute! (In an innocent way)

You can indeed have some more Tim!!! In fact, I was planning on giving a sneak peak for my animatic im working on, which is very Tim centric so here you go!

Song in the animatic is "Squeeze" by The Hoosiers, so that's where the lyrics are from :)

These are from some of my favorite frames so far, although I'll be posting more of my favorites before I actually post the animatic, just cause It'll probably be a little while :)))

[telesodalite]

With Krok now on my mind, it's reminded me of like, the whole deal of him coping with the loss of his squad by believing they'd just become separated? Because that bit is such a fascinating aspect of his character to me.

It's vague in a way that doesn't totally confirm whether he truly 100% deluded himself, or if he just kept telling himself that to try and distract from the truth and memories he didn't want to face.

(Which, for some reason this pisses Misfire off? Which implies something really interesting there about Misfire and his own coping mechanisms and issues that we don't get much of a peer into unfortunately.)

Anyway, I spent way too long thinking about it when I was reading through the comics. And it's like, did studying battles and strategy play a part in this delusion/lie?

Like, you're a being that lives for millions of years, in the middle of a war spanning those millions of years. So, at some point, surely those battles are going to start to blur together. So you've got that, and then you go and face a frankly horrifically traumatic fight that quite literally rips the people you cared about most, and felt responsible for, apart.

Presumably, Decepticons aren't the greatest at handling shell shock and other such side effects of war. So they just take this freshly traumatized mess of a dude, take him off the front lines and plant him on a warworld to aid the fight from a more comfortable distance.

With all this, the mind is bound to be fickle when faced with such sudden loss and change. But Krok obviously did his job there, or at least he was very knowledgeable on history and tactics beforehand.

Either way, he studied battle after battle, went through records of fight after fight, planned for what's next and reconsidered what had already happened. Hundreds of wins and losses.

So did it get jumbled there? In having a head full of battles, did some of them blur and mix with the one that took everything away from him? In trying to solve the failures of past battles, did he try and find where a victory could've been had against the wreckers that day? Did he find a solution that would've had his squad still whole and alive?

From there, did it slip into delusion, or a desperate lie to keep himself going?

I feel like his "mental health matters" moment was an interesting insight into it and possibly the average soldier's rough outlook on trauma. But it was still very surface level I think, but I guess going too deep into the why's and how's wouldn't have been important until maybe the Scavenger centric comics that uh, never happened :/

[b-blushes]

also i am going to the dr tomorrow so please can you send some spare good vibes my way if you have them thank you

[feroluce]

SCREAMING CRYING SOBBING COUGHING UP BLOOD-

NO ONE GETS BOOTHILL LIKE DAN HENG GETS BOOTHILL

I was so horribly, deeply enamored by this line-

Fun extra bonus:

because not only does it bring up once again that Dan Heng is uniquely capable of seeing Boothill past all his posturing and showboating, that he can peer straight down into Boothill's core and so easily decipher who he is and what he stands for and read the methods behind his madness where so few others seem able to, but it also means that reticent, no-small-talk Dan Heng talks about Boothill to other people-

that I switched my game to the original Chinese text to see what would translate through. And.

[dandyshucks]

blinks tiredly. i decide "hm maybe i should try to expand my circle and step outside of it a little, lets go look at the main community tags" and im just greeted with a bunch of edgelords who think saying "fiction doesn't affect reality, don't like don't read" is peak activism and "fighting censorship". head in my hands. this is partially why i do not ever go into the community tags, my nervous system cannot handle blocking fifty weirdos every single day just so i can have a normal experience in the community tags hfdsjkl

[coi-arts]

hii, I fully agree with the "everyone should stop saying bloberta forced clay into drinking and blaming her for everything he does" and I already have my own thoughts on this but I need to hear someone else's opinion- would you say that the part where clay is on the floor and bloberta is holding him and starts going on about how she 'helps' counts as manipulation? Needed to ask someone who wasn't blinded by their glorification of clay lol

for me, the first time i watched it i thought she did, and was kinda mad at her lol. but when i thought about it, they kinda both manipulated each other at that moment? i thought clay married her out of pity, but i think it was more than that. clay did agree to marry her, even after she was about to leave him there. Both were adults, both were kinda sort of manipulated and got manipulated, and both were really desperate at that moment. because instead of having, and trying to get genuine companionships and stable relationships, they just kinda got what was infront of them and settled. They were that lonely and broken.

At the wedding, they probably realized it was going to be a train wreck, but they didn't stop it or anything. cause both were too selfish to care enough to stop. clay needed someone to take care of him, while bloberta needed someone to keep her, and thats exactly what they saw in each other. as for clays drinking thats all on him now, bloberta was part of it, but is not responsible for all of it.

in other words, they both orchestrated their miserable life together lol

[shirogane-oushirou]

i think this is my first pic of them together??????? somehow?????? god. anyway. gay furry cuddles babey.

[irritablepoe]

*talking about my friendships of almost 17 years* see they actually hate me and I'm not part of their life at all and they never think about me in the first place and when the time comes to meet up I'm just a nice accessory that doesn't bother them too much

[moinsbienquekaworu]

I'm sorry I'm going to be insane for a second, avert your eyes