#a sucker for tragedy

[jadequarze]

Cant help but imagine, just imagine (sorry im being a tragedy lover here) that VM lost both of the twins. Vax only having one night and who knows, the matron might extend the same thing to Vex too, of having one night to live. You get me

That will destroy both keyleth and percy me think. Keyleth moreso with the guilt and the love she has for them

[I'm happy that Vex is alive]

[24hrsoda]

while i know ghostbat will never truly be canon because DC will never admit to bruce being queer, i would actually enjoy (and maybe even prefer) a one-sided relationship between them to be explored or discussed, from minhkhoa’s perspective.

one where Minhkhoa keeps coming around because he loves bruce. he has some feelings he’s refused to acknowledge for the last 15+ years, but he can still work with them in the form of being there for/with bruce.

he also understands well and fully that bruce loves him, but not in the same way, and that they can’t be together. and that’s fine. he still loves bruce, and he won’t say so out loud, but he’ll be there for bruce out of love. he’ll do ridiculous things like lead bruce’s international team of batmen, or buy the house next door to bruce, or train that stupid kid that he think deserves to be jailed, or help bruce save the people of gotham. because he loves him. even if that love never amounts to anything deeper. even if bruce loves him too, but never in the same way.

[otiksimr]

LOVE IT WHEN WOF HYBRIDS HAVE PHYSICAL ISSUES-

LOVE IT WHEN WOF HYBRIDS HAVE PHYSICAL ISSUES BECAUSE YOU'RE MIXING TRIBES HAVE DIFFERENT PHSYICAL TRAITS WHICH COULD CAUSE ABNORMALITIES IN THE CHILD AND OVERALL GIVE THEM A WORSE LIFE EXPERIENCE.

[shyvioletlife]

It doesn't matter how much time passes, I am always in awe over the way that drosselmeyer is written in princess tutu. He is omnipresent from the word go, his meddling eyes watching the show with us and giggling about this wonderful tragedy that is set to unfold. Every time his eyes appear on the screen it feels not just like a god staring down the characters and making them dance to his whim, but like he is looking you, the viewer, dead in the eye and taunting you. A playwright who wants nothing but beautiful terrible tragedy for all involved inviting you to attend his latest theatrical debut.

I feel to the core of my being every time the characters lament their lot in life, doomed by the narrative, because that fate is not something ordained by uncaring gods. Drosselmeyer wants to see his characters grasp at any chance of hope or happiness only so he can watch the look on their faces as it slips from their hands and out of reach. He cares very deeply about their strife because he has hand crafted it just for them. As every episode passes I feel the desperation of the characters as if it is my own

The thought of undermining Drosselmeyer becomes insurmountably daunting, too, the longer the story goes on. The closer his work is to completion the more power he seems to hold, and the knot tightens its grip around every character in the story to a painful degree by the end. To become such an overwhelming threat as the final villain of the story is truly a work of art, and by the end of my watchthroughs I am always booing and yelling at the guy every time he comes on screen. Even though I know how the story goes I am wracked with the desire for Drosselmeyer to get his comeuppance and the cast of princess tutu to wrench their fates out of his grasp, and the catharsis of the end is as true and harrowing as any tragedy that man could hope to write.

[vizziefizzie]

I just want them to be happy dammit

[sauronism]

i love when the ship is basically just two people who started off as companions, but got separated due to external forces. "can't be together cus both of us are standing on two different lines. you got your world, i got mine."

[blujello]

All that shitting on ships aside i fuckn love Lynxfall it's genuinely a great ship

Snowfall CRYING at the prospect of Lynx going on some mission to another continent bc she's so afraid Lynx'll maybe die is so heartwarming to see specifically from her bc of her usual cold attitude

It's such a great way to show that Snowfall does truly treasure Lynx's companionship (platonic or romantic either work i just happen to love them as a couple)

I also absolutely love that Lynx blocks Tundra while Snowfall breaks the name wall idk why i just really like that scene

[sysig]

Time Loops are they/them culture (Patreon)

Bonus of my little guy in ISaT style:

[rawr-mortgage]

Quotes that remind me of The Alice Gang

1. Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, Anne Carson / 2. Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett / 3. Orestes by Euripides, trans. E.P. Coleridge / 4. H of H Playbook, Anne Carson / 5. Electra, Sophocles / 6. Antigone, Jean Anouilh 7. Orestes by Euripides, trans. Phillip Vellacot / 8. Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl / 9. unknown / 10-11-17. Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami / 12. The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis / 13. For Good, Wicked the Musical (2003) / 14. Hannibal Screenplay Season 3 Ep. 3 “Secondo”, Bryan Fuller / 15. @esakao on tumblr / 16. Mark of Athena, Rick Riordan

[anjasitdown]

I have so many Thoughts I wanna say before I move on from the Public Safety Arc. There'll be manga spoilers by the way.

To be honest, I put off watching Chainsaw Man when I heard the protagonist's sole aim in life is to... touch boobs. I thought Denji was just like any other shonen MCs with perverted tendencies. I tried watching because it was animated by Mappa, but I stayed because of Aki, Denji, and Power (and Meowy). But as I reached the ending of Public Safety Arc, I realized Denji's more complex than that.

All his life Denji was deprived of basic needs; he couldn't even afford the bare minimum. He didn't get to experience love from a parent or admiration from his peers. Denji craved so much for love and affection, but the only way he knew how to get that was through sexual intimacy with a woman. Receiving affection from friends is completely foreign to him. That's why when he and Power did that in the bathroom, Denji's like, "Wait a minute... that's it?" Deep down Denji knew there's more to love than that—there's more to affection than just touching breasts. The moment he started to realize that, Makima just had to twist his mind and turn him back to his sexual urges (screw u for that makima btw).

Throughout the whole arc, Denji continued to believe in his idea that love is just about touch and sex. He ran after women after women who fulfilled that but left him feeling hollowed because, well, they tried to kill him afterwards. It's actually entertaining to watch Denji finally gets his first kiss only to get barfed on the mouth and his second got his tongue cut off. And Makima, the woman he truly loved, not only used him but also discarded him when she got what she wanted. Most of those women don't see Denji as more than a dog. Denji is just some dumb boy who doesn't deserve the normal life he's having.

But Denji really is just some boy. But he's Aki and Power's boy. There's nothing special about him. Aki and Power know that because they looked beyond the Chainsaw—they saw Denji as he is, and accepted him. People treated Denji like a dog and no one saw his worth as a person. But not Aki and Power. Aki gave him a house, taught him and Power manners, cooked for them, and taught him how to cook. Aki treated Denji and Power as his own. And Power, as unhinged and selfish as she is (affectionate), relied so much on Denji. I think that trust taught him to be a better person. To have someone rely on you can make you feel loved and respected. That's why helping Power overcome the fear of the Darkness Devil felt so natural to him. Sleeping with her on the same bed, taking a bath together, and Power walking in on him while he's on the toilet didn't feel naughty (as Denji said). The love Denji's searching for everywhere has always been in front of him: Aki and Power.

Makima can tell Denji she fabricated everything for all I care, saying everything has been a lie and that she set it all up to destroy Denji's mind and heart. But what Aki and Power felt toward Denji was real because they were the only ones who truly loved Denji without asking for anything in return. They saw him as he is, and loved him.

My precious children 🥺🥺🥺 I'm going to miss them

[lazy-toad]

I think a lot about w.bg and time travel introduced as a way to save people. Mike puts himself through the woe.begone challenges because it could save Matt. The compound is developing time travel for use in medicine. Characters are regularly quite brutally killed only to be brought back later in one piece.

From a glance death does not seem to matter much thanks to time travel technology. And yet. Hunter's mom is brought back still sick and Michael tried for an entire year to save Edgar only for it to be entirely unsuccessful.

You can stop someone from getting into a car that's going to crash later that day but you can't travel back in time to ask someone's body very nicely to not suddenly, inexplicably give up on them. You have the potential to save yourself and your loved ones from death and yet you can never truly escape it no matter how many loopholes you find to put it off.

[maybankiara]

anyway so i saw this gifset by @opponentsheir and it was like somebody shot a fic straight into my brain so here's an excerpt of what i really shouldn't be working on but i can't help the fact that i'm addicted to tragedy

For the longest time, Kiara couldn’t sleep.  They’d returned from Morocco, Groff was gone, and there was nothing to do. Life resumed. Life continued.  Just without JJ.  Kiara knew he was loud, his presence was something you couldn’t miss, but she didn’t realise just how loud it was until it was gone. Now, she stood in their room, listening to the absence – to the emptiness.  The bed was as strange without him. There was too much space, she wrapped herself in covers without lover’s heat to warm her, and nobody breathed next to her. Nobody moved. It was still—it was quiet—and it was a curse.  Night turned into day, and Kiara hadn’t slept.  She moved around like a ghost, despite her friends’ efforts to cheer her up. It was ridiculous – they held themselves marginally better than she did. There was Sarah, who everybody doted on, and Kiara tried occupying her mind with the bundle of joy that was on schedule to arrive, yet it was hard to picture any joy without him.  The second night came and went. Kiara dozed off, a handful of times, only to jot awake whenever sleep would take her.  It was his face in her arms that she saw in the darkness, and her heart would clutch again and again.

somebody please tell me to stop because i'm about to dedicate the next however long it takes to this and will probably break my heart again and again with each sentence aND I HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN PART TWO!!!!!!!

[aroacenezhaanddainsleif]

sigh. i want people to discuss silly little khaenri'ah life hcs with me. yeah the tragedy of the nation but like. what if tailors and servants and midsummer festivals and samhain. what if scottish/irish/norse folk songs and jigs. what if jousts and tourneys and making dumb poses in front of field tillers. what if they were human

[spaghettiandart]

mtf locker room sketch

[snarkspawn]

Ok, So I adore your KenBig art even though I have absolutely zero idea of what the fandom is about haha, would love to hear more about them because I can tell you're so passionate.

Thank you so much! 

I am !! Very Passionate about them yes adhjfkshjks let me try to break them down for you without making it a 3 hour TED talk lmao (no promises)

So they're two minor side characters from the Thai bl series KinnPorsche, also known as The Gay Mafia Show. At the beginning of the series Big is the head bodyguard for Kinn, who he is secretly (and quite hopelessly) in love with and who is the heir to the family's mafia empire. He is Loyal with a capital L, fiercely protective of Kinn, a little (a lot) pathetic in his devotion and quite frankly a bit of a dick. Ken is just Ken his best friend, also a bodyguard for the Main Family and also a bit of a dick. He's from Australia originally and brings us delightful iconic phrases like "nice one, loser" and "are you fucking dumb, bro". Also, pineapple boxer briefs. You mostly see the two of them together and when they show up it's usually to be a bitch and/or to bully Porsche, who is the other main character and love interest for Kinn (hence the name of the show).

They're terrible people is what I'm saying. But then again so is almost everyone else on the show lmao it's the mafia ok!!

It's never explicitly stated in the show but we see other bodyguards room together (namely Porsche and Pete) so the widely accepted headcanon is that Ken and Big are roommates (oh my god they were roommates etc etc) and just because I live for this kind of thing I have convinced myself (and others, apparently! through the power of art) that while Big is hopelessly in love with Kinn (canon), Ken is hopelessly in love with Big (canon in my heart). It's about the pining and the tragedy and a secret third thing (jealousy) for me

Well. I don't want to spoil too much in case you're ever planning on watching it but it's kind of important for them, so ... towards the end of the show Big ends up sacrificing himself for Porsche (or rather, for Kinn's happiness) and dies not knowing that Ken is the mole they've been searching for and is actually working for the Minor Family (so, for Kinn's cousin and uncle who are the main villains in the series). But Ken is killed as well, at roughly the same time just at a different place and at the hand of his actual employer Gun, so they both end up dead.

Which, you know, I personally think is unacceptable because I love them and don't want it to end there, so most (but not all) of my art is set in an AU that I brainstormed with my partner @pharawee in which they both survive and then have to deal with the consequences of their actions (which is absolutely delicious to me because man!! You have Big who is so desperately loyal but has been kind of struggling to find his place now that Porsche is there, and Ken who betrayed everything Big held dear but !! Is also his best friend!!! But is he really? Has he ever really been his friend at all?? And if Ken is a traitor what does that make him who has been sharing everything with him?? Bonus points since Ken is in love with him and never wanted to betray Big personally. So much potential for angst I am telling you, it's a feast), and then eventually they find comfort in each other and carve out their own path. If you're interested you can read the beginning on ao3.

In other headcanons there's been a Thing going on between them all along and sometimes they still die. Or they don't but everything is still fucked up. Either way it's all good and I'm here for all of it hehe

So this is shaping up to turn into that 3 hour TED talk after all which is why I'll stop here, but if you have literally any other questions or are interested in hearing more I would be prepared to go on for hours lmao sorry (but not really).

[kingpains]

dr1 designs pt. 1