#WHEN HE STEPPED FORWARD

[chio-chan2artbox]

Step Forward - Part 3 They are going on a date!!! Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 Check out my tags for fun facts XD

Kofi

[sequentialprophet]

I know everything was happening so much, but we all saw this, right?

[miredball]

okay like it was cute and all but s3 I need carmen to step up and actually keep the promise he made about being there for sydney. like I need her to be mad at him. to feel some type of way about his ditching her. then I need to see him try. like desperately try to make it up to her. carmy needs to be that guy doing too much. she wants a star? ok he’s gonna die on that line if he has to. AND, and this is important, she’s gonna go on a date. with who the fuck knows. because she’s beautiful and desirable and not just like, his. and she’ll confide in him about feeling nervous and she’ll try to talk herself out of it but carmy. carmy will have to be a good friend this time. carmy will encourage her to go. he will tell her he’ll cover for her during service and to have fun because she deserves to have a life outside the kitchen. then we get a scene where syd leaves out the back with her stuff and carmy just stares at the door after her.

[professorjirt]

listen it’s none of my business but when you say “Bilbo would have been better for taking the Ring” and then state “Frodo’s character was mishandled” I think maybe you like the Lord of the Rings inside your head more than the one actually written 💀 as if it wasn’t stated multiple times both in the text and by Tolkien himself why Frodo was the Ringbearer. Pleeeeeaaaase PLEEEEAAASE stop giving me gray hairs and take an interest in the text you read and it’s deeper meanings beyond power scaling characters, favoritism and finding the “most efficient way to take the ring to Mordor”. The debates about who should have taken the Ring are the exact same as “they should have flown the eagles to Mordor” except it’s spoken by people who genuinely are avid fans of the books and movies.

[1-800-roflmao]

Just hit me that Mic styled his hair swooping forward as a teen, then swooped back in his twenties to early thirties, and now in the leaks, late thirties, he has it styled going directly up, barely any swoop.

So... in a way, it was a logical next step xD

[swan2swan]

Keep your eyes on the road at all times.

[astralhope]

While I was rewatching the first Zexal episodes, I noticed something interesting: aside from stuttering his name the first time they met, Yuma never referred to Astral by his name until episode 6. He only referred to Astral as “ghost”, “spirit”, or “this guy”, or simply “you” when talking directly to him. At the beginning of episode 5 Yuma is saying to Kotori and Testuo that Astral had repeatedly told him the day before to call him Astral. Furthermore, since Kotori and Tetsuo didn't have any idea that Astral had a name, shows that Yuma had never said his name while they were around.

I don't think that being called like that was a bother to Astral initially, (he wasn't even sure that Astral was his name when he crashed on Earth), but, probably, after knowing the name of the place he was from (and that he had a mission to fulfill), he started to have a more strong sense of himself and wanted Yuma (who was the only person who could see him) to call him by his name (and also wanting Yuma's friends to use his name and not calling him “ghost”).

In this scene, Yuma says Astral's name, but he is just repeating what Astral had said to him.

The first time Yuma calls Astral by name properly and directly to him is during episode 6, after Tokunosuke took control of Leviathan Dragon and Astral's condition worsened. And after that, he calls Astral's name two more times, trying to get him to answer.

Astral, instead, tries to use Yuma's name from the start... with poor results.

But in the next episode, when talking to himself, he refers to Yuma with his correct name (while Yuma calls Astral a ghost or similar even when he was talking to himself).

Astral calls Yuma with his correct name for the first time during episode 3, when he tells Yuma to duel against Mr. Ukyo because he has a Number.

It's kind of ironic that it took more than one episode to make Yuma and Astral say the other's name, seeing how the more the show progresses, the more these two end up screaming each other's name.

[frogaroundandfindout]

“I’ve seen you with Robin—you like Robin.

“You got a problem with Robin?”

“No! I like Robin too. He’s an exceptional young man. I just mean…this obvious when you like someone, and equally obvious that you don’t like me.”

Gotham Knights #14

[xofemeraldstars]

CHIM 👏👏

[clownprince]

alright i was already intrigued by the premise of knight terrors: the joker but i'm SO fucking hyped now you're telling me rosenberg is elaborating on the divorce arc??? also dark workplace comedy is exactly where i hoped they'd go with this

[lexalovesbooks]

When you’re fighting demons and the demons are bisexuality but also literal demons and also the all-consuming void that used to be your soul

[raayllum]

Every step forward is a choice.

[the-ebonarm]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[road-untraveled]

We are birds of a feather, you and I

And yet, my feet will not unfurl from the wire when the time comes to fly

The unknown, the uncertainty, it terrifies me

I put on a mask of bravery because it's all I've ever known to do, but when the challenge calls and everyone else falls in line

I falter and take a step behind

Patience is a virtue but it is not one often given freely and I have spent much of my life under conditional contracts

To be loved freely and unconditionally is an unknown, distant dream

And yet, here you are. Hermes Κρατυς, how brightly you gleam

You take my hand in yours and for the first time in this life, I understand a love of sincerity

You guide me through the unknown, squeezing my hand tight when the urge to pull away flares and shakes through me violently

The unconditional patience scares me, I hold my breath and wonder when it will all fall apart. When will you see me for who I am and all my faults?

Broken, lost, and terrified of what waits for me in this life

You shake your head and laugh, whispering to me that you are a shepherd and one, that always tends to his flock

My trust and faith in you embolden each passing day. Despite the looming darkness, I look to your light. I find the comfort and safety I have always longed for and know you would not lead me astray

I adore you, my bright and feathered, messenger. Your kindness knows no bounds and as the binds that hold me tightly are cut through like ribbons by your sword

I understand what it's like to be loved unconditionally and without fear. Finally, I unfurl my feet and leap- joining you in the sky.

[genshin-projection]

wow wow wow ok ok ok ok

so im partway through the wardance event in HSR 2.5 and my mind is SPINNING

in particular finishing the most recent main quest with the Borisin, then hearing about Igor Haft of Belobog...

it's FASCINATING to me how the civilizations in HSR seem to not only follow a path that they value, but a path that they need and end up getting very little help from

belobog following the preservation because their small, impoverished planet is constantly under threat of death and destruction... such that very little is actually "preserved" with any success

the xianzhou alliance following the hunt to root out and eliminate their enemies without mercy... only for those same enemies to stir up trouble from within their own ranks, with the xianzhou luofu in particular failing to realize until two major disasters had already been set in motion. and even before then, considering everything implied with dan feng, i doubt this is the first time they've faced internal conflict like this

penacony following the harmony to ensure the happiness and unity of their people, only for what little harmony actually exists to simply cover up the turbulence and suffering belying every luxury... such that the order arose in the first place to deal with what the harmony couldn't, a thick undercurrent of inequality and divisiveness that plagued every worker, every poor soul that saw penacony as their safe haven, their last hope

that those desperate for preservation would come out with so little, with so many wounds. that those desperate to hunt down threats would be perpetually plagued by internal betrayals and setups. that those desperate for harmony, peace, and unity would allow its weak to suffer until the only option left is not prosperity but silence and preconceived "happiness"....

it's just fascinating to me how those following a path actually have the least of it. it's fascinating how the pathstriders of the preservation are on the brink of demise, the pathstriders of the hunt are under threat of ambush, the pathstriders of the harmony struggle to remain united and fair to their people.

[harmonytheme]

When do you think Dillon and Lucas would have gotten together if Carter hadn’t gotten involved?

Hmmmm it's tough to know, really. Lucas was already repressed before Carter got involved but he was starting to soften in February when Ella died. Lucas had pretty much admitted to his feelings at that point, so all it would have taken imo was another little push, for Lucas to properly be ready, and for Dillon to have ended things with Freya (since he only really slept with her to distract himself from being upset about Lucas, lbr). So like, mid-late February, maybe?