#am not changing it though

[eepwtf]

(Spoilers for arcane s2 if anyone else is reading)

Different anon from before but Now that we're talking about arcane, how did we feel about s2 compared to season one? Still very beautiful of course, arcane is pure art but I was sort of disappointed with a few things 😭 like how they didn't flesh out vis character so much and how Cait was like kinda wicked for a second and forgot about it all. I feel like it needed to be longer, even just three more episodes would have done it some good. And gosh the ending. When I watched it the first time I didn't really cry I think, I was pretty content but thinking about it I'm so devastated about jinx and vi. Like they're finally a family again and them boom! That happens, like jesus christ man. I yelled at vi to jump like a million times like bro JUMPPPPP OVER. Obviously she was traumatized and in the moment but God I just miss those two so much, it was always them ☹️ did you like the ending? Jayce was my favorite part of the entire season honestly, I'm so glad everyone switched up because as the #1 jayce fan I was fighting for my life when season 1 came out

(It's so funny that I'm upset about jinx dying actually though because before s2 I wanted that mf gone. I was literally telling my friends that I hope she dies. I don't even remember why I didn't like her??? Guess you could say i.. heh...☝🏾 jinxed it)

oh anon, your whole message has me cackling. (now that i’m typing it out cackling is such a funny word, makes me feel like a witch like wth is wrong with you, get out) moving on… from my existential dread the “jinxed it” line? i see what you did there.

but seriously, i feel you on season 2. the art? still stunning, like watching a masterpiece in motion. but yeah, the pacing could have been better. vi and caitlyn’s arcs felt rushed, and don’t even get me started on how they just glossed over cait’s momentary erm…(bad choices) like it didn’t happen. its like they tried to cram too much into too little time. three more episodes would’ve been a game-changer for fleshing out characters like viktor, who really deserved more focus.

the ending, though… oh my god, the ending. i thought i was okay when it first hit, but the more i dwelled on it, the more it crushed me. vi and jinx’s dynamic has always been the heart of the show for me, and just when you think they might finally be okay… BAM. i was practically screaming at the screen with you, like, “VI, JUMP!!” but the trauma? yeah, it tracks. still hurts like hell, though.

and jayce getting his redemption arc this season? oh.. well we love to see it. i hope you feel vindicated now, #1 jayce fan, because the slander he got in season 1 was wild.

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

when I look at western media depictions of Chinese things I always look for gay lions

so lion statues have a male and female lion pair, male lions have a ball to play with and lionesses have a little baby to take care of (lion patriarchy)

Lot of westerners don't know this so they accidentally draw Gay Lions

look at them. love wins

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[doomedclockworkdotmp3]

his therapist woulda had a field day at their next appointment

[umblrspectrum]

so like is it specifically planets the solver craves or can it get by with just eating dirt off the ground

[curioscurio]

I'm rewatching Steven Universe and I will never forgive Fandom for what it did to her

[tubbytarchia]

I told you I never stop thinking about merpearl

[hollis-art]

women !!

[biblically-accurate-dca]

i just wanted to post something before the year ended

[mostlyfate]

MAYBE I’D LET YOU CHASE ME AROUND FOR A FEW MORE CENTURIES. THAT WAS ALWAYS THE FUN PART, ANYWAY.

KLAUS MIKAELSON & CAROLINE FORBES THE VAMPIRE DIARIES (2009 - 2017)

[idolomantises]

i mentioned Sera needing an outfit update but man, Powers needs one too. Her old armor was designed back when i hadn't solidified a design for the Powers angels yet (She's a false archangel that rose up the ranks, as a reminder) and now she sticks out a bit much with her old armor next to updated designs.

[muirmarie]

jim being canonically the shortest one of the triumvirate is genuinely so important to me lmao, like yesssssss, let that beefy babe be shorter than both his boyfriends!!!!

[hazelnootnut]

Act 3 (But why did they look so...?)

We finally got to the comic that actually made me think about this AU in the first place. After I was mulling around the idea of Loop looking like Siffrin the whole time, I realised that the conversation of "who or what do you think I am?" doesn't apply anymore. But you know what would?

The question of why Loop is even here in the first place. Because while it's nice to have another you around to help you out of the loops, isn't it weird that they're even here? Who sent them?

... and what was with their response?

[secriden]

Just going to cry again (see: my previous post about the parallels between the storage room scene and the abandoned factory scene) about parallels and juxtapositions in the store room scene vs the one in Styles bedroom:

Both these scenes have such a tone of desperation and are characterised by an overflowing of emotions, but in drastically opposite directions.

(Note, some of what I say in this post directly relates to concepts and themes I talked about here, so it may not wholly make sense without that context.)

The scene in the storeroom is filled with frustrated desire. Fadel kisses Style because he wants Style's body and also wants to take his frustrations at Style out on his body. He doesn't need to look Style in the eye (and in fact very intentionally only does so only in small snatches) because this isn't about a connection as much as it is about a release. Fadel's kisses come fast, hard, and are intended to bruise more than to adore.

But episode 5's scene is filled with much more quiet and tender sort of desire. Style is kissing Fadel so much more slowly and purposefully. He keeps looking back at Fadel, checking in to see how he feels and whether Fadel is enjoying it. Everything Style wanted in Episode 3, he now gives to Fadel here, pours the secrets of his knowing and choosing Fadel anyway into the way he presses his lips onto Fadel's skin. His kisses linger, they carry a weight but are somehow infinitely gentle still; Style's kisses contain a purpose that Fadel's kisses couldn't in Episode 3 because in all honesty they were relative strangers back then.

There's also the way there's such a ferocity and carelessness in the way Fadel starts the encounter in episode 3 that is juxtaposed beautifully by the slow, tender, almost hesitant way Style slides his lips onto Fadel's. Both of them are in such different headspaces, between these episodes and its especially evident in the way they care so much more about the other person's comfort and how intentionally they showed that to the audience.

There's hunger present in both scenes but what this hunger is focused on is so drastically different. In the storeroom, they're both mainly focused on a physical release; its primal and visceral but lacked emotional resonance. Fadel gives Style what he knows Style wants (that hint of danger, with the hand on his neck), but its not because he really cares about what Style wants on anything more than a physical level. In Style's bedroom, however, Fadel is drunk (intentionally and by his own design) and desperate to open himself up to Style on an emotional level. Meanwhile, Style wants that desperately too, but knows that Fadel shouldn't because of his own terrible secret. So this kiss is what they both will allow themselves - an honesty and a hunger for this deeper connection they can only share in act but not in words.

In the storeroom, Style wants Fadel to want more than his body but knows (or thinks) he can't push for it yet, so he remains passive, lets Fadel do whatever he wants, lets him turn and shove and place Style how he wants because at this point, this is all Fadel will give him. Here, Style is passive in spite of what he wants. But in the bedroom, Fadel is passive because it's what he wants; he wants to let Style do whatever he desires to and with Fadel's body. He wants to lay himself as bare as he possibly can, which is only physical, and so he does.

And because the encounter in Episode 3 lacked that emotional connection, the focus is merely their respective releases. There's a sense of two people trying to find pleasure and 'finish' while remaining emotionally disconnected despite actively having sex with each other. Because in some ways, they didn't really need each other in that moment to get there (there's actually a lot of truth in what Fadel says about it being easier to just jerk off alone). In sharp contrast, the scene in Episode 5 isn't focused on the destination but on the journey. Style is taking his time and Fadel is letting him - Style is choosing to worship Fadel's body, with his fingers, with his lips, to respond to his vulnerability with gentleness and tenderness and adoration. The goal has stopped being about finding a release, it's about allowing both these men to revel in the giving and receiving of pleasure.

The point of these scenes is to show to us the ways in which Fadel and Style have grown to care for and, dare I say it, love each other in ways that are so purposefully portrayed by showing the nature of their physical connection. Because the ways in which these scenes are the same and yet so wholly different showcases how their touches are now no longer merely tied to their senses any longer, but also to their hearts as well.

[iamhereinthebg]

I can now die in peace

[queen-lucy-the-valiant]

"Edmund, I've got a bad feeling" is such a funny line if you take it in context with the "the last time I didn't believe Lucy, I ended up looking pretty stupid" line from PC. Because Caspian and co are probably like... yeah bad feeling, it's Eustace, what good feelings could you have? but then Edmund's probably thinking something like... dear god, please don't let this be as dramatic as the last few times, we don't have enough men to fight another war rn.