#a full circle moment for sure

[withclawandvine]

thinking about how dandelions are the first flowers kids bring their mothers. how they’re just a weed, but in such a small fist, presented with such a proud grin, they become a bouquet. it’s a sweet, thoughtful thing to any mother. 

but imagine it for katniss. who has always connected the flower to life and hope. imagine katniss receiving a handful of dandelions from her child for the first time. 

[alphaketoglutaricacid]

when toshiro got on laios ass for being inconsiderate and never thinking about how his actions affect others like he was mean abt it but hes not wrong. Thats a pretty major character flaw and a pattern of behavior for laios — w not choosing jobs that made money for namari who is in a pretty dire financial situation where she cant even get off the island and has to go adventuring in the dungeon to get out of debt, who even explicitly brought this up, eating marcilles familiar immediately even tho she was attached to it, kidnapping shuro into his party and putting him in life threatening situations without like really checking he wanted to be there…?, wanting to see if izutsumi has more than one set of nipples when dehumanization is a HUGE huge issue for her the list goes on and on and on. Like when a friend does this to you its just kinda annoying but when ur the leader u really should be checking if everyones needs r met without them telling u. Like the autism plays a factor for sure, his cultural upbringing plays a factor for sure, but as ppl regardless I think u gotta step up to meet the needs of ppl in the moment or realize u shouldnt be calling the shots. just bc its influenced by factors out of ur control does not make it not a serious character flaw. And its written as such in the story.

[chirpsythismorning]

Some of the evidence supporting Mike not being in love with El is brutal. No, but seriously.

In s3, when El's leg is injured, instead of Mike putting his arm around her waist, allowing him to take some of the weight off her injured leg, he puts his arm around her shoulder, basically having the exact opposite affect of taking the weight off of her, instead just adding more weight for her to have to carry.

Now, I’m not coming at Mike here, I’m actually coming at the writers, because this choice here has everything to do with them using this gesture to signal Mike’s lack of feelings for El, even at the expense of realism.

I say this bc any person with common sense, including Finn and everyone around him and Millie filming these shots, would've known it looked unnatural for Mike to be adding more weight onto El as opposed to taking some off of her.

This means that what Mike did here, Finn was directed to do, and therefore it was for a specific reason.

And we know they could have easily made the opposite choice, because they show us Max AND Lucas doing it.

See how putting an arm around El's waist looks so much more natural? Because homegirl is injured and clearly needs help taking weight off her leg to qualm some of the pain she's experiencing there, which is why Max and Lucas are shown here doing it the correct way.

And so, why can't Mike do the same? Why are the writers making a point to show Mike being incapable of simply taking some weight off of El, instead doing the exact opposite?

I don't think it's as deep as Mike not being able to do something intimate, and that's bc, again we see Max and Lucas doing it.

I honestly think what they're trying to convey with this choice here, is that Mike thinks he's helping El, when he is in fact doing the opposite despite his best efforts. The implications of that and how that sort of aligns with their romantic relationship and what it leads to at the end of s3, going into s4, is pretty spot on.

I do think Mike thinks he's doing the right thing by being with El instead of voicing any doubts at the end of s3, because he is under the assumption that she is in love with him. I do think he believes he is indebted to her and that this is the least he can do after everything they've been through together, which has mostly been riddled with romantic pressures and so continuing that instead of disputing it seems like the only option anyways. Not to mention, he does care for her deeply, so it's not hard to imagine that he's a teenage boy confusing deep care for love (he literally tells us this is his problem when he can only say care and not love to El's face... but that's a whole other conversation).

Still, when it's all said and done, Mike's not actually doing El any favors by being with her romantically, if that is not what he truly wants.

Because that's the sad truth about all of this, which is that you would never want someone to be with you just because you want them. If you knew that they truly couldn't have those feelings for you, you'd want to know, right? You don't deserve someone just because you have deep feelings for them. And I think there's so many layers to this idea, bc many people are capable of not giving Byler a chance bc they truly believe Mike could never return Will's feelings. Will also feels this way atp, so though it hurts, he rips the band aid off, because he would never want Mike to be with him just out of pity or something. No one would want that. And so it all really comes down to who Mike truly loves romantically and wants to be with. And the right thing to do, even if it hurts someone, is to be honest, because being with them just bc you think that will make them happy is never going to be enough if you aren't truly feeling it, or worse, feel it for someone else.

We see how Mike's inability to be honest with El at the end of s3, leads to a season of Mike feeling deeply insecure and undeserving of the love El has to offer him, and even though he does try, he always comes up short. Despite Mike putting up this front that they are the perfect couple, the details are telling us something is off. And it gives him away.

Another example that I think is very similar to this loaded gesture from Mike to El in s3, is the scene in s4 when they hug in the airport.

Common sense ppl, picture this: You're reuniting with your long distance girlfriend. Then suddenly, she runs up to you, with her arms wide open, and instead of opening your arms wide to embrace her properly, you take the bouquet of flowers you brought her as a gift, and shove them against your chest just as she approaches to hug you, effectively squishing the present you got for her (a pretty delicate present at that) for no reason other than to... what exactly?

Like?? El isn't even squishing the present Mike, she's trying to hug you, dude! Your gf is trying to hug you properly and you threw the gift you got for her in between you so you could throw in a careful! x3??

Again, this has less to do with Mike's thoughts and reasoning behind this gesture in a literal sense, and more to do with the simple fact that this is a narrative choice! Mike is not a real person! There are real people sitting down and writing this and actors are having to do multiple takes to act it out. What feels natural for a situation is going to be what is often chosen 9 times out of 10, because of realism and wanting the audience to see stuff happening that is believable. That 1 time though, when it's not being done the way it would usually be, is usually because there's a specific reason for it.!

So the question really is, not why is Mike doing this, but why are the writers having Mike do this, and what message are they trying to convey about Mike's feelings based on his behavior, in these moments where he's just not capable of committing to El genuinely, one way or another?

[bryverros]

regaining honor and eating momo… ah,,, season 1.

[anti-fairy-world]

You know, while we don't think Stuck In My Head/Mind The Gap were bad episodes or anything, we kinda wish they'd been cut in favor of making that time the part one to The Battle of Big Wand, with the actually episode being part two. Make it a whole big forty to forty-five special instead of trying to fit it with a twenty-two to twenty-three minute run time

We actually like everything they were trying to do with the special, but we just wish they had more time to flesh things out and play around with the jokes between the plot moments. The writers probably didn't really have much of a choice with the time they were given to work with and had to prioritize where screen time was used, and honestly they did what they could, but sometimes it felt like 'and now this is happening so we can get moving with the plot'

[daisies-on-a-cup]

thinking a lot this morning about how in their final becomings, will was hooked in the mouth like a fish and hannibal was shot like a stag...

[acourtofquestions]

TOWER OF DAWN SPOILER ALERT

OH MY WORD

ITS LYSANDRAS FATHER isn’t it

Update:

OH MY WORD IT IS

Updated Update: OH MY WORD I HAD IT WRONG HES HER… UNCLE??

But still…

Wait… Does that mean her father’s alive??

I can’t keep track of the updates but I’m pretty sure Nesryn just put the pieces together and almost said it

Mostly just my mind is blown twice in less than 2 chapters… I have no coherency… just… wow

[meursaulty]

i think wizards of the spiritual schools would be particularly sensitive to a dying world, especially one that they briefly revisit later on (empyrea prequest).

upon returning, a necromancer might recognize the sheer abundance of spirits surrounding them: always out just out of sight but present without a doubt, stirring around the ruins of markets and plazas like they did in life. if the necromancer had more time to reconnect with the spirits, they may have been able to get closure, or perhaps forgiveness. but since they in a rush to get to empyrea, all they see is a faint, shimmering outline of a familiar headdress over pork's shoulder before stepping back through the world door to turn their back on the world for the final time

a theurgist might notice just how quiet everything is. No birdsong, no aztecosaurs, not even a breeze to rustle the leaves overhead. absent is the low thrumming of life magic they can sense in all other worlds. the zocalo, once the hub of their adventures and base to their many, many advisors, is still and silent. only the stone structures, with their painstakingly carved embellishments now crumbling, reveal that anyone lived in this world at all, like heart rot in a tree. they are traces of artists and architects long gone. it amounts to a dreadful and total absence of life that the theurgist can't stop thinking about, no matter how hard they try

a conjurer would arrive in azteca and immediately feel the grief of an entire culture's last moments. an immeasurable number stories, recipes, songs were lost forever when xibalba came burning through the sky. as a conjurer, they knew better than anyone else that knowledge of the past is imperative to controlling the future. they also know that azteca's fate was sealed the moment they stepped onto xibalba all that time ago. tragedy is ever present in mythology, and they can't let their sorrow keep them from saving the entire spiral. and still, as they leave for the arcanum with their new allies in tow, a small part of them hopes for a miraculous discovery, a single , surviving aztecosaur to prove that nothing is ever truly gone

and perhaps it's not important what natural attunement the wizard might have to ruined azteca. pacal, zaylin, tezcat, and countless others are only dust now, indistinguishable from the dust that blankets the wizard's old textbooks in their dorm, or cast in a window's sparkling beam. azteca is gone, and the wizard lives another day

[nasa-parker]

made bracelets for my luke show :3

[riickgrimes]

carl being the one to remind rick of the man he used to be and bring him back from the brink

[elasgottoomuchfreetime]

Scrolling on Pinterest reading screenshots of tumblr posts instead of scrolling on tumblr because.

[pisshandkerchief]

so. how about that new fall out boy album huh.

[ajdrawshq]

SO. NOVEMBER 19TH/20TH HUH.

[fadeintolight]

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[wlwaerith-moved]

me when i first started playing ffxiv: i want to unlock astrologian asap because it’s such a pretty job & it looks like a fun challenge :)

me now: hehe sage go brrr

[ellasent]

Doing a full page of smaller drawings is just so dang satisfying since you have smaller stuff to focus on, and when you're done on that that's both a full thing on its own and part of a bigger thing at the same time. I just love the experience of it all with the thing I'm working on right now.