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I’m the last person to share an egg sandwich with a lady bishop in the spirit of ecumenism... If you know what that means.
#itv lewis#inspector lewis#lewis itv#wild justice#james hathaway#robbie lewis#laurence fox#kevin whately#the pride and awe and smugness (and man love) on james' face#and the way robbie gives him credit....i sob#and especially because religion has always been#a point of contention between them#but god robbie is so proud of james too#and appreciative of all the things he learned from james#they make each other better#and you know. thruout this show they keep telling each other that#often in all these small and subtle ways
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Hurray for more pre-war shenanigans 🥳
Feels kinda anti-climatic now considering how long I wrestled with this one but oh well! Who has time to learn how animate things anyways? 😆 Now would this have worked better time-wise if LH were talking to Magath and Pieck? Yes, but it’s hard to pass up the opportunity to call Yelena a bitch :)
#levihan#hange zoe#levi ackerman#attack on titan#hanji zoe#shingeki no kyojin#how i met your mother#himym#incorrect quotes#snk#snk fanart#levi x hange#artists on tumblr#side note but ive always loved how even though hange didnt agree with or know the reasoning behind levis decision#it was never shown to be a point of contention between the two; she still accepted it and carried on like a good soldier should#honestly one of my fave moments with them#i maed dis
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Izzy Hands: The Moon.
Re-imagined from the traditional Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, this version of the Moon shows Izzy taking the shape of a lone Lover, longing for what he cannot reach.
Longer exploration of the card's symbolism under the cut.
Symbolism of the card
I initially meant this card to be specifically Izzy's, but he is once again unseparable from Ed. Though the moon itself is depicted as Ed, it is through Izzy that I interpret the journey of the card. Feel free to invent your own interpretation as well!
In the original version of the Moon we see a dog, a wolf, and a crayfish. Izzy takes the place of the wolf, marking him as wild and untameable. He is accompanied by a dog, symbolizing his loyalty. The crayfish has retreated, and we can see a monster lurking in the depths of the water, reminding us of the beasts that lie within.
Rachel Pollack (2011) writes: "The Moon signifies the dangerous time between the end of one world structure and the beginning of another. On the emotional level it can indicate the strange state when something powerful has ended and you find yourself thrown back on your instincts."
In the card Izzy already has his wooden leg. He his stepping into his role as the Unicorn, marking a shift in his loyalty and his place in the world. His reign as Blackbeard's first mate is ending, and a whole new world order is being imagined.
Ed is also seen in a new light. With his short beard, he is at the end of his captaincy, possibly even at the end of his piracy. He as the Moon is illuminated by the light of the Sun, personified by Stede in another card, The Sun.
Izzy bears witness to their combined light, unreachable to him on the ground. He teeters at the edge of the water illuminated by that very light, and is faced with a choice. Will he turn, follow the path and try to reach the unreachable? Or will he explore the unknown waters in front of him?
In tarot, water symbolizes emotions, intuition and subconscious. Pollack writes: "Here in the unknown territory our animal selves take over. We cannot suppress the wild emotions but only travel through them." The message of the Moon beckons Izzy to step into the water and face his emotions.
However, there are also dangers in the murky waters of the subconscious. Pollack continues: "The Moon card calls forth powerful dreams, visions, and the power of the feminine." In tarot water is a feminine element. Izzy, a beacon of masculinity, has in the past confused the feminine with the monstrous. He is now dared to invite the feminine within him to the surface. His posture already mirrors that of the feminine lover from the Lovers-card. It also calls back to the Fool, to someone at the beginning of their self-discovery.
Tl;dr: Izzy, the Fool and the Lover, is on a journey from one world to another. Will he follow the path and try to reach the unreachable, or will he find the courage to plunge into unknown waters?
A comparison between the original Rider-Waite-Smith card from 1909 and the re-imagined version
Izzy's pose mirrors the feminine Lover
Sources
Image source: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, republished as Tarot of A. E. Waite, 2016, AGM-Urania, Germany
Text source: Rachel Pollack, A Journey of 78 Steps, 2011, as cited in the booklet for instruction and guidance of Tarot of A. E. Waite, 2016, AGM-Urania, Germany
#there is even more symbolism in the lighthouses that are topped with the domes from the Tower but it's so much already#it's about the journey between life and death#ofmd#our flag means death#izzy hands#edizzy#steddyhands#blackhands#i'm tagging this as ships cause i ship them all and i made this with shipperly intentions#even if it's not like explicitly shipping content#ed teach#edward teach#blackbeard#gosh i went to some deep waters with this myself#i mean there is so much to interpret here#is izzy shooting for the moon with ed? has he lifted ed high on the pedestal himself?#what does it mean that the water is lit by moonlight?#to me this is the point in fics where izzy does not yet know how he would fit in the steddyhands triangle and doesn't see it possible#and maybe it won't be unless he accepts some things and allows himself to feel#but it can also be read that he needs to let ed go#in either case water is discovery and acceptance#i am planning to make ed the star and stede the sun as well!#my fanart
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so when will we talk about how robin literally takes kevin's place
#my posts#my aftg posts#aftg#robin cross#kevin day#tfc#aftg extra content#andrew takes her under his wing#she sits between andrew and neil on the couch#andrew and neil continue the night practices after kevin graduates#and she joins them at some point#she and neil do everything together in neil's last year#idk abt you but i am obsessed with her#(in fact i've been trying to cook up a kevin/robin fic 👀)
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i love jayvik and caitvi because of their conflicts. And because they still love each other despite their major differences. I love them because they all still have walls and wounds, and yet, are the hammer and bandage for each other. Obviously, because they still have major conflict and are doomed by the plot, they don’t have a happy ending. That is my hot take, that the ship should include the angst, emphasize it, even. End in the inevitable breakup because they will never not clash. It makes it all the more real and emotional that despite it all they still desperately, selfishly want each other in their life. To fill that cavity with something familiar.
#saying this while blood comes out of my mouth because i know none of them will have the happy ending they deserve BECAUSE that’s who they R#it’s not jayvik if they didn’t end their own dreams#it’s not jayvik if Jayce wasn’t selfish and Viktor wasn’t lonely#it’s not jayvik if Jayce didn’t understand Viktor when he still had the chance#it’s not jayvik if they had enough time#its not caitvi if cait isn’t fundamentally still a topsider#it not caitvi if vi wasn’t hurt by every enforcer#it’s not caitvi if they aren’t oil and water#they are so doomed and they tried SO hard. SO hard to hold onto each other#their dynamics are just so suagggagg i love them so much#i just need fan content that consist of peaceful domestic moments that happened in between plot points#i need character studies with heavier romantic tones that emphasize their#emotional distress#arcane viktor#arcane#arcane season 2#caitlyn kiramman#jayvik#caitvi
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It's really frustrating being trans sometimes with cis loved ones because other cis people will go, "oh but it's such a huge adjustment for them! They're grieving for your pre-transition self/they aren't used to the change yet/it's hard on them!"
It's just so frustrating that people forget that trans people's feelings on this matter, too. Cis people aren't the only ones who have adjustments to make. Frankly, as much as I sympathize with cis people in this position, I can't help but be really jaded about it because so often, cis people jump to the defense of other cis people and they will seemingly forget to or refuse to give the same grace to trans people.
#trans#transgender#lgbt#lgbtq#ftm#mtf#nonbinary#like at what point is it 'they aren't used to it yet!' and it morphs into 'that person is actively refusing to acknowledge you'#i'm at a point now where i have been out as trans for half my life. at what point is this willfully refusing to see *me*#it's just amazing that it doesn't matter what the trans person could do because it's their fault for bringing 'burden' onto cis people#i UNDERSTAND that it can be hard for family for instance to flip a switch with their trans loved one...#...but i can't help but notice that so often it's because they *refuse to try*#why is it that cis people can do almost anything to trans people but trans people must be perfectly understanding and perfectly...#...content with whatever cis people in our lives have to say about how hard it is on THEM...#...like that's insulting to me. imagine being so willfully incompassionate...#...i'm worried about if i'm safe in my own workplace or in my gym or in a medical setting...#...i feel like we need a sense of scale about who is most affected by transness in this scenario...#...because i would RATHER be grieving over somebody's transness than worrying if i'll be hatecrimed...#...there's a difference in the experience between a trans person and the cis people in that trans person's life learning to adjust to...#...that person's transness. which is why i don't think it's comparable to say that cis people have it just as hard in this case#transphobia#transphobia tw
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"Child soldiers are bad" this "batdad supremacy" that
I wanna talk about how the Robins are expected to be responsible for Bruce's emotions
"Batman needs a robin" no Bruce Wayne needs to stop making his inability to cope with the life he chooses to live his kids problem and stop taking it out on gotham when they aren't there to regulate his emotions
Thank you for coming to my Tedtalk
#i love bruce and batfam content as much as the next guy#but really dude??#say it with me now#children👏are👏not👏responsible👏 for👏adult👏emotions👏👏#i could write an essay on how bruce parented each of the boys differently and how it fucked each of them up#still love him tho<3#batdad supremacy#also for the record#i need yall to understand i love him and his kids sm#and he loves his kids sm#but you can love and care and be sweet to someone and still fuck them up in the long run#i headcanon that this is the biggest point of tension between bruce and dick#Anyway#thank you for coming to my ted talk#i just think they're neat#i go abababababa#batfam#batman
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Man, it's so disheartening to keep seeing the twins from whatever media you enjoy be shipped. Especially being a twin myself, it's just so discouraging and makes me feel uncomfortable sharing anything related to me and my twin
It just got me sitting like
#i feel betrayed EVERY SINGLE TIME#like i think i find some neet art between the characters#and boom ship#this happened too many times its just not fair#and it doesn’t help that the characters end up not being that popular to begin with#so you scrap for content and you have to suck it in and pretend that you didn't see the same artist do your favourite drawing of them#also do ship art with them#and i know some moots will look at this and take a good guess as to which twins I'm currently referring to#but it aint just them#this happened too many times already#these are just my breaking point bc i actually got unnaturally attached to them#i hate vauge posting but idk if i wanna get into detail about this#i just wanna yell into the void bc it's been eating me up#cake talks#vent
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babies!
i hope none of you thought i *wouldnt* be making centaur delores. As usual, her level of realness is ambiguous but it's a silly au so the answer can be "very" if that's what floats your boat. Also, note that she's taller than five is. that's what we in the business call "foreshadowing"
[ID: Two drawings of baby apocalypse five and real person! delores as centaurs. In the first, they are both standing looking at each other. Five is looking skeptical; almost, for example, as if he ran into another person in an empty wasteland where he was expecting everyone to be dead. Delores is smiling mischievously, because she knows she's about to make a friend. In the second image, Delores is rolling around on the ground with her horse legs going everywhere. Since her horse half is a foal, this is a lot of legs to be going everywhere. Five has his hands on his hips as he looks down at her. In both, Five is wearing an apocalypse survival outfit, while Delores is wearing a cute top. End ID.]
#tua#the umbrella academy#five hargreeves#delores tua#dolores tua#centaur#centaur au#we are getting into the niche section of the drawings ive done already#not that centaur au isnt already niche but u know. niche content on top of niche au#this is the basic bitch section of the niche part#also u can see the time difference between the first and second image bc in between drawing them#i reached a point where id drawn so many horses that i got sick of my beloved 6b pencil brush and started using something different#a technique note: i usually dont bother to try and shade in a painting-y way mostly i just cel shade#but damn if even lazy painting doesnt make the animal shapes look so so good#almost forgot to tag#my art#i ALWAYS almost forget to tag my art lmao
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Idk if this is a hot take but why is it always “Kai slaved away and worked his ass off to raise his sister” and never the other way round or them working hard together?
Like, I know he’s older but in the show, does he really… act older? Like if you think about Kai and Nya’s dynamic yknow? Because from my understanding:
When Kai and Nya are introduced we see Kai fail at making a sword and Nya being the one to chide him for it. Kai makes an overconfident statement about wanting to be a better blacksmith than his father. This suggests that one, Kai is rather rash as well as inexperienced (something that lines up with the rest of his character arc in the pots and also generally), with Nya being the more mature figure in contrast
Also just a note but in the shorts: “I can handle it!” “No you can’t, stupid”
Kai frequently being very good at neglecting people or things: leaving Lloyd at an arcade whilst being focused on finding samurai x, not even knowing samurai x was Nya or that she only did it because she felt left out by him, completely abandoning both Nya and Lloyd in s3 (and Ik he was going through it at the time, but in line with the fandom’s characterisation of him)
Kai in season 5: “After I lost my dad, I lost my way. But I was lucky to have my sister watch over me”
Generally, their dynamic isn’t one where Kai really provides for Nya at all. In fact, judging by the fact that Nya can make entire mechs and Kai struggled to make a sword, Nya was probably busting her ass to provide for Kai. And judging by the s5 quote, that’s probably true. I’m not saying Nya raised Kai, it just rubs me the wrong way when she’s treated like a decorative flourish to a narrative that paints Kai as a burnt out child who was forced to grow up too soon especially since that is such a mischaracterisation of him in the first place.
#all I’m saying is that it’s weird we undersell all of the sister’s capabilities just so we can present the brother as tormented and burdened#ignoring the fact that he spent all his days in the gap between the pilots and s1 playing video games#like I’m sorry kai is a pathetic baby girl in the show and I LOVE HIM THE WAY HE IS#okay yeah I snapped a little#I’m just tired of everyone mischaracterising him yknow#like I’m sorry bestie he’s not that capable he’s a loser man and I am ready to love loser men#i just think that it’s an incredibly stereotypical dynamic to have one male character who everyone completely#over exaggerates their struggles to the point of making it seem that everyone else in the story either doesn’t suffer or is an asshole for#not noticing the suffering of this one hot guy#this happens in many fandoms and I think this is what’s happening here#hhhhh#I’m sorry if Kai is ur favourite and this opinion upsets you I don’t mean to be bitch#I’m just really not into this interpretation of him#again this isn’t a dog at his character I just thing people don’t get him a lot of the time#and you know what Nya is also super undersold as a character#like where’s the fucking Nya Lloyd sibling content?#she mentored Lloyd too? she taught him how to ride dragons she stayed with him on the bounty she and Lloyd only had eachother in s9#what about them??#Kai gets too woobified and Nya doesn’t get woobified enough that’s my opinion#alright I’m done sorry#Ninjago#rant#ig this is a#ninjago analysis#i won’t tag characters cuz I don’t want to make anyone upset#and again I’m sorry if I do
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Bad news: I don't think I'm going to be able to write for ever day of TD horror week as I'd originally imagined.
Good news: The days I am going to be part of will be Cooking. I shan't spoil too much about it but one day already has 2.5K words and is only like a fourth of the way done.
#I will admit I'm not getting to that word count on my own#I have a little help ;)#It's equal and hard work to make the teenagers endure the horrors but someone's gotta do it#No elaborating for spoilers but I'm really excited about it#some of the days might end up just being exposition dumps as it was for Alenoah week#It's just what I've got the energy but for right now#But the ideas! They're happening!#I know I've been a lot less active in comparison to earlier this year with posting original fan content#Navigating between interacting a la Discord and still doing writing is hard#The ADHD prefers the quicker dopamine release that shorter conversations allow for#Plus RPing#RPing has also taken hold of me once more#And for those I am RPing with I love you dearly <3 /p#But I promise even with writing coming out a lot slower I'm giving it up never#The AUs demand completion and will get them one day#Oops this turned into quite a lengthy ramble in the tags#Point is I hope you're all as excited for horror week as I am#What I post will surprise you and me both#And also can't wait to see everyone else's submissions!#The Horrors. They shall overtake us all.#perp rambles#i am my own hype woman#i shall not apologize for this#We should all be our own hype people
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HUFWULF acoustic (kind of lmao) via Ai FM
#this channel will never not be a rollercoaster lmaooo omg#5sos#5 seconds of summer#ashton#ashton irwin#ai fm#superbloom#Instagram#video#kh4f post#like first of all i will never not be panicked at the 'Ashton Irwin sent a video/voice message/photo' notif. like that's AWFUL#secondly#these note changes and riff choices are 🤤🫠😭🤸🏻♀️👰🏻♀️#my new forwarding address is that breath he takes between the verse and chorus thanks 💌#also as soon as the song started i literally thought 'so he has no idea there's a minute limit' lmaoooo#a point of contention i have had for years#Kara and Lauren know my struggle - and similar rants lmao - well#not that I'm sending them acoustic performances of my original music like i just talk a lot and then get cut off 🤣#anyways this was a lot i have feelings and i love him ok byeeeee 🚀🌞
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pov you’ve just reread the yi city arc… except that clearly wasn’t ENOUGH because of course your analysis brain had to take over and search for parallels, so you have to go and reread and save the most depressing WWX scenes right after…
i’m fine :))
#catalyst was “at that momrnt wwx saw himself in xxc”#brain: but was there a specific moment on wwx’s end too (or was it more general)? which instant?#(the description made it seem more like a specific moment but it doesn’t ABSOLUTELY rule out the other option)#my money’s on nightless city just post jyl death but it’s not 1:1#of course seeing as it’s describing a feeling. it does NOT have to be 1:1#but you have the parallels between xxc finding out he killed the person he was closest to (sl)#and then wwx seeing i’d say the person he was closest to (jyl) die for his sake#while accusations from others are being thrown#and they’re currently not denying#i was wondering if it could be referring to some time during the siege as well but i’m not sure wwx would be-#unable to “do anything except silently acknowledge the critiques and accusations” then? since he does have sth he’s fighting for there#unlike nightless city#(though that specific wording is partly why i doubted nightless city as well…? since it doesn’t seem like he’s silently acknowledging them)#(instead “he could no longer hear any of them”)#not sure that’s a big enough point of contention though bc context around NC definitely fits the best#of course it could be right afterwards (when he came back to proper consciousness anyway) too and it’s thinking ABT the accusations???#but idk#i do think referring to that moment is most likely#…anyway pictured above is the brain that MADE ME REREAD NIGHTLESS CITY (and “what am i supposed to do now” + wn wq giving themselves in as-#(-other points of comparison)#so thank you very much for that brain….#i’ll probably write sth short about it when my thoughts are less scrambled#or i may keep it to chapter by chapter analysis when i do that#but right now it’s too late#skye rereads mdzs
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Picture a sculptor.
He sculpts an animal... and it was meant to be an elephant for a kids zoo, but because of the limits of his tools at the time, he stopped at the skeleton only.
And it's a great fucking skeleton! It's got that old feel to it, like a Rodin sculpture, but with a modern vibe.
The skeleton even has fans and stuff, and the fans go "we love this badass mammoth skeleton you sculpted!"
And this sort of bothers the sculptor. Because he was going for an elephant, not a mammoth, right?
So when he finally has the right tools, he completes the sculpture, so the next generation of fans can enjoy the elephant...
... and the previous generation of fans, who grew up reading and dreaming about a mammoth for 30 years, they go "wtf". They hate it.
Now, the sculptor takes on an apprentice, who is also a fan.
The apprentice learns the technique, learns how to look at the clay, how to get the right texture... and is able to do all this without going "wtf" because he looks at this elephant sculpture through an anti-establishment lens.
"Yes, it has shorter tusks and almost no hair, but the purpose of the sculpture is to say that it should be hairier, taller and with longer tusks. The whole point is that this elephant is failing to be the mammoth it's meant to be!"
And y'know, it's art! If that’s what this elephant means to him, great.
But once the tools are passed down to him, the apprentice (along with other sculptors) takes some clay and makes the tusks longer, adds some fur, shortens the ears, etc.
Overtime, he makes it a mammoth again.
Of course, most fans are happy again, including many who were introduced to the elephant as kids, because the transition was a slow one, done carefully.
And, hey, it's a nice mammoth!
My only issue is that I grew up loving the elephant, just as it was. I think the elephant was friggin’ great.
But nowadays, whenever the elephant is brought up, it's always through the lens of "it's failing to be a mammoth" rather than what the sculptor said it's supposed to be: just an elephant.
#George Lucas#Dave Filoni#this is probably a stupid metaphor but it's what I came up with#I'm not saying Filoni's content is “bad” I just think it's a pity we aren't seeing the original narrative intent much nowadays#And to be clear#Filoni was NOT the ONLY one reframing the elephant as a mammoth#it's a whole bunch of authors who worked on SW post-Prequels#From EU writers to current canon writers#I'm not pointing the finger and saying “FILONI IS THE ISSUE”#On the contrary if you look at his early TCW stuff you see his portrayal of the Jedi is much more charitable than say Karen Traviss'#It's a whole generation of fans who wanted to still like Luke and Star Wars DESPITE the Prequels#and concluded the only way this was possible was to see them as a commentary on the Jedi's failure#When the fact is: y'all just didn't think the Prequel Jedi were likeably-written... you were hoping for more Luke Skywalker#instead you got a bunch of ambassadors mediating between corporations and politicians#And GL was adamant the Prequels were about Anakin and the Republic and how Sidious helped them both corrupt themselves
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Why light a hearth when you could just sleep on the walking fireplace?
I know I see a lot of headcanons that the pearl clan values their space and I agree! However I like to think they don’t just value the distance between them but also sharing space. Touch like this is something greatly valued by them.
#pokemon#submas#ingo#warden gaeric#warden calaba#warden lian#warden palina#lady sneasler#I like to think that the diamond clan thinks that the pearl clan is cold and distant to one another#because they don't see them just hanging off one another like they do#just another point of contention between the clans#but the pearl clan mostly keep the majority of touching to within their kotan and homes#not because they think it's inappropriate but because they value it so much so prolonged contact like this cuddle pile is the norm
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Cyli: This assignment has to be done in two days and I'm losing my mind over it.
Pac: Don't be silly, you'll do great!!
Cyli: What do you mean don't be silly, that's literally my name T^T
#pmatga incorrect quotes#pmatga#pacman and the ghostly adventures#pacster#cylindria#just some good ol' banter between frienfs :-)#I like to think it's a touchy matter for Cyli whenever people intentionally call her 'silly' in a mocking way#but she's chill about when it comes to her friends#because she knows they'll never overstep or mean it in a hurtful way#in fact its often a point of fun between them#all bets are off and they'll tease and banter away to their hearts content#Why does your name sound so silly Cyli?#Why are you named after your hair Spiral?#And why are YOU named after literally everything Pac?”
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