#When the penny drops

[paradoxsun]

Gentle Reminder that women go through a secondary puberty in their 20s

You get acne you thought you left behind in your teens, your hips may get Wider or your chest bigger. Your features settle. It can be surprising. My entire structure changed in under two months. Suddenly, the face I thought of as myself in my head wasn't what reflected in the mirror. But the new woman who greeted me in the mirror was still lovely, and I look forward to the adventure that awaits us.

[sorkos]

I love it when in the middle of a D&D session you hear something important that sounds like it might go somewhere and >THIS DUDE< has been writing down notes and can flip back several pages and go "I knew my notes would come in handy! Sorkos has additional information on this!" :D

[rottengurlz]

she’s like if the virgin mary smoked a pack of pall malls every day 🚬

[fruitageoforanges]

elia martell character of all time because she was playing the game of thrones AND WINNING — survived aerys, set up an alternate court on dragonstone, universally beloved even by most of robert’s anti-targ regime, was probably at least angling to get rid of aerys — but the literal song of ice and fire was being written around her and well. you can’t outrun your inevitable doom.

like. that’s elia’s tragedy, and what makes me so insane about her. she was in the wrong story. she was playing the game of court politics but ended up yoked to 300 years of targaryen collapse and dynastic rot instead. there’s nothing i love more than characters doing their best with the pieces they can see on the board, while the fact slowly dawns on them that the board is in the process of being swallowed by an eldritch monster.

[laurapetrie]

She has too much poetry in her.

Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)

[cassafrassie]

- Mabel, did you know that Pacifica likes me?

- Uh, yeah?

- I didn’t!

- What? You two've been dating for months. 

- I didn’t know we were dating!

- Wow. For someone so smart you really gotta work on your observational skills, bro-bro. 

[ir0n-moon]

When Toki was caught hanging out with Rockzo late at night it's pretty obviously implied that Charles was woken up and called into the room to help handle it

But later in the same episode the guys are hanging out in the hot tub (or playing videogames in Toki's case) while Charles is literally just standing there 🧍‍♂️

The guys are chatting about freeballing and generally pretty relaxed before Rockzo comes barging in. But Charles is just there

I know that the logical reason for this is that the scene needed him to be there in order to interact with Rockzo but I like to imagine that this was one of the first, if not the first time, that the guys invited him to "pal around" with them. They asked him to be there. "Well, what exactly do you want me to, uh, do here?". "Nothin', just come hang out with us". They probably suggested he get in the tub with them but he's obviously much too professional for that so he just remained outside... watching

And the thing is the guys are too stupid to even attempt to make him feel included in their conversation and Charles is both too disinterested and too awkward to try and push it. They cannot even fathom that he might feel left out (he doesn't, but it's still impolite of them). They probably assume he's having as much fun as they are... or straight up forgot that he was even there in the first place 😭

Either that or he's practicing observation like a Montessori teacher. Whichever i find funnier at the moment

[vinelark]

bart thinks kon is maybe stupid for not realizing tim is robin, but kon just respects robin so much that subconsciously he can't allow himself to make that connection until robin tells him himself

yeah! also kon initially met tim (as a civilian) in a situation that made him perceive tim through a certain lens—tim was one of a few rich kids kidnapped for ransom, and at that point, if asked, kon probably wouldn’t be able to imagine robin getting successfully kidnapped by a non-supervillain. like he knows robin is human/not a meta (and understands what this means for robin specifically more and more as time goes on) but the bats still have this carefully cultivated vibe/reputation that masks their vulnerabilities. so when kon interacts with tim after that initial kidnapping, he’s already framed tim as someone normal/vulnerable in a way that he doesn’t see robin. also, he’s extrapolated his idea of tim as a rich kid who does rich kid things with his time (yacht parties, hiring whole actors, living in a penthouse, getting fostered by a gazillionaire) and not vigilante things with his time. like he thinks tim is weird and funny and intriguing and surprisingly kind but he also imagines tim hanging out in expensive boarding school libraries and fancy galas and stuff. and while he’s vein_guy_meme.jpg trying to respect robin’s privacy, when he does idly imagine robin as a civilian he still pictures rob on, like, a roof or in a cave or napping on top of the tower fridge or something. so it’s not like he’s Seeing It and then rationalizing his way out of realizing, but rather that he’s pre-rationalized both tim and robin in a way that already separates them in his mind.

tl;dr kon's a smart guy and could totally put it together with the right prompting, so the watsonian reason he hasn't is all of the above; the doylist reason is because i as the author am having fun and also want the reveal to drop at a certain moment.

meanwhile bart met tim without any of those preconceived notions, and caught on as soon as tim said names (robin's shorthand for "no names in the field") because bart was like, huh, that's a very robin thing to say, and also this guy is having a weird reaction to fear gas so now i'm thinking about gotham, and also we're on a roof, and also his hair looks kinda windblown and spiky, all of which reminds me of ohhhhh shit omg okay that's why robin wasn't answering his messages got it

[nonbinary-morro]

a slight Penny redesign because while I like her vol 8 look the early volumes Penny will always have a special place in my heart.

((no reposts please but reblogs are greatly appreciated :DD ))

I added the two tones in her dress and the wide sleeves from her v8 look but mainly keep everything the same since there is little need to fix perfection XP. Though I did lean a bit into a more vocaloid-ish look with the circles and green stripes, I also added her v8 robot legs since I personally prefer robot characters that visually look robotic, or at least off/inhuman.

I also got rid of the ahoge since I just couldn't make it work after I added the big Roxy Lalonde swirl in her hair since there would be too much going on :((.

She kinda reminds me utatane piko. Thb

vaguely,,, a little bit,,, 👌

[chaos-has-theories]

The thing about "two sides of the same coin" is - you can only ever see one side.

Look: the coin is in the air. Flip, flip, flip. One face, then the other. One side up, twinkling in the light; one side down, obscured in shadow.

But at least the coin is still spinning.

At least they're still both there, almost meeting, two parts of a whole - flip, flip, flip.

But the coin was always going to land eventually.

[mylordshesacactus]

Cannot recommend highly enough the experience of, in the middle of a fae campaign

describing a sense of creeping dread--a combination of the way the ocean recedes before a tsunami, the world pulling back in order to kick you harder in the teeth, and.....eerie silence. the same lizard-brain survival instinct that kicks in when you're walking in the woods when there's a cougar in the area and suddenly the hair on the back of your neck stands up and you just.......you don't know what's wrong, or where the threat is, but something is out there and you know because the world is wrong. 

and that freaks your players out so badly they immediately find a hidden gully and get the fuck off the road and hide themselves completely waiting for it to pass

and then you describe a very, very faint, hoarse, sharp sound--a long way away, barely audible, off in the distance. haor. haor haor. haor. and then you get:

“Jo, you’re making me terrified with just that noise.” “....How many of your characters have ever heard foxhounds?”

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

When you have to take off your socks to change into clean socks and your bare feet touch the floor for exactly fifteen seconds and the dry, smooth sensation makes you want to chop your toes off

[sidetongue]

ignore the drool

[llitchilitchi]

seeing asexual characters being depicted as either entirely emotionless or so thoroughly repulsed by the mere mentions of the existence of sex and them flinching and crying about it so everyone has to walk on eggshells when it comes to that topic is genuinely so exhausting because asexuality is not really That and depicting them as prudes that could never even consider is damaging to people on the spectrum who are actually neutral or don't mind talking about it or are fully open to the idea of intercourse but the moment people acknowledge That aspect the characters are lewded to hell and back to the point they read as allo and just

[robotpussy]

this white woman is threatening to call the police on me after she fucking sprayed bathroom cleaner in my fucking face and lashed out and told her to fuck off

[the-physicality]

i do think, aside from mercury bias, if bg had been in all season she would have been all wnba, first or at least second. i think people undervalue her because of the rebounding but she is 1000% the worst officiated player in the league, on both sides of the court. so the fact that she's been able to have the performance that she had is incredible, and that she didn't get the acknowledgment really just underscores how much people take what she does for granted.