#and it made her realize her mistakes

[the-darkestminds]

I wish soooo badly that Nesta had said something like “taking a page out of Tamlin’s book?” to Feyre when they told her she’d be locked in the house of wind. Feyre prob would’ve cried and Rhys prob would’ve killed Nesta for making Feyre cry but the satisfaction for me in that moment would’ve been 🤌

[batsyheere]

The dynamics between Dan, Danny and Ellie are so funny to consider. Danny is far too used to handling Sam and Tucker at their worst and now he has an additional gremlin duo who picked up whatever madness was in Vlad's system when he decided cloning was a great idea. (Danny is highly aware that it is not a good thing to have more him in the world and has resolved to better avoid clone plots). Meanwhile Dan and Ellie will fight over the most random, inane things, but the minute it's about family they band together into a proper terror and the only beings able to stop them are Jazz in her disappointment if the situation calls for it, and sleep deprived Danny who does not realize his exhausted presence is like a terrifying parental figure catching their kid doing something stupid.

It gets even funnier when Jazz finally breaks out of the mindset that she needs to be in charge and instead enjoys herself, and so the only leash for the three most feral Fentons (honorary and named) is a perpetually tired teen/young adult.

Now drop that in Gotham.

[daeyumi]

Rebuilding 🔧⚙️🥚

[2022]

[monteruu]

posting this way after everyone else but it was fun to do :)

[image id: mini digital illustrations of various characters from homestuck in a grid format with 9 squares.

square 1: closeup of john egbert and jade harley both smiling. jade is excitedly hugging john and squishing the sides of their faces together. text above them saying "fav betas!!!".

square 2: roxy lalonde smiling widely while posing with one hand tucked under her face and her other arm raised high like she's waving. her pink scarf is trailing behind her. text next to her says "fav alpha" with a winking emoticon.

square 3: kanaya maryam holding the matriorb with both of her hands off to the side and she has a nonplussed expression. text next to her says "Favorite Beta Troll".

square 4: close up of terezi pyrope smiling deviously and messy hair that covers parts of her face. text beside her says "don't really look like her but i vibe with her hardcore lol".

square 5: portrait of artist drawn in the hero mode style. they have long curly hair held back by a green bandana with matching green glasses. his shirt has a green apple. text next to them says "das me" with an arrow pointing towards them.

square 6: john egbert is floating in his god tier outfit as his hood flows around him. he has a small smile and his hands interlocked over his chest in a relaxed pose. text underneath him says "love this one a whole lot <3".

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square 8: kanaya maryam and jade harley next to each other with jade leaning one arm onto kanaya's shoulder and both of them smiling at each other. kanaya is wearing her green dress outfit with a gray turtleneck underneath and a pink waist sash. jade is wearing her winter outfit with a red puffy jacket and electric blue dress and black leggings. she is wearing her lunchbox headphones as well. text above them says "fav outfits" with a smiling emoticon.

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(original layout under the cut)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

me Omw to annoy you about more Francesca content 😼😼

you and my entire inbox my friend strap in everyone this is gonna be The Francesca Mega Collection. part one The Bed Collection ft You HAVE To Click/Tap To Read Anything ESPECIALLY The Asks

thank you for joining me for the Francesca Bed Collection im going to pass out

[stromblessed]

Mizu was wrong to let Akemi be taken because they both deserve better

First, a confession. When I saw this for the first time:

I was relieved. I knew that was what Mizu was going to say and I felt like it's what I would have said in that situation too.

When Akemi does this:

I cringed, because if we know anything about Mizu, it's that she (1) isn't quick to make friends (though to be fair, even though Akemi did try to kill Mizu, so did Taigen - multiple times! - and look how that turned out lol), and (2) doesn't take orders.

So when Akemi and Ringo and later Taigen get angry at Mizu, are they being unfair?

Sure, Mizu isn't obligated to treat Akemi - or Taigen or Ringo or anybody else - nicely, or to serve them, or to be honorable, or be a hero to them, or whatever. No human being is obligated to any other human being. We all have the choice to do whatever we want to anybody else. But the point of flawed characters in storytelling is the tension between those characters and their potential. Their growth into someone who can choose the higher, harder path, who chooses to be obligated to others, who chooses kindness and compassion.

Because Mizu's problem isn't revenge. Nobody is preaching at Mizu that revenge isn't the answer. Her circumstances do suck, her life has been incredibly unfair, she is marginalized, and as far as we and Mizu know for most of the season, she is a child born of violence and no one is saying that that violence doesn't deserve to be repaid in kind.

Mizu's problem is isolation. And the fact that she thinks she has no responsibility toward her fellow human beings, because her hatred of her own circumstances and her having no life outside of her quest devours everything else. This is a problem because it turns Mizu into the worst version of herself. A version that hurts the people who like Mizu, the people who care about her.

Practically, Mizu has just taken on an entire army almost by herself. She's hurt. She's exhausted. If she were to defend Akemi now, it'd be yet ANOTHER fight, this time against horsed and armored samurai.

But that's not the reason Mizu gives Ringo. Mizu's ability or willingness to fight isn't even on her mind. All she says is, "She's better off."

"She's better off" is Mizu deciding what's best for Akemi. Akemi's entire story is about her being a caged bird longing to fly free.

One after the other, every man and woman in Akemi's life makes her decisions for her. She has to grovel and smile prettily and lie through her teeth just for the chance to be heard. Mizu judges Akemi for being a rich princess who isn't being more grateful for what she has, all without understanding Akemi's situation, and without any curiosity for why Akemi feels the way she does. From Akemi's perspective, Mizu is just one more person (one more man!) in a long lineup who ignores Akemi's wishes and (casually!) makes a decision for her that impacts Akemi's life greatly.

In the end, even Seki concludes that Akemi should get to decide what's best for Akemi. What others think that Akemi SHOULD want does not matter compared to what Akemi wants for her own life. As Madame Kaji said - Madame Kaji, who despite calling out the weirdness of Akemi's situation as well as the childishness of her decision to run away - is the only person Akemi meets who doesn't try to make decisions for Akemi, but instead only challenges Akemi to work for and be worthy of what she wants - she needs to decide what she wants for her own fucking self, and then take it.

Mizu being born female does not make her automatically wiser for letting Akemi be taken, and it does not preclude her from having a hand in giving Akemi back to her jailers. A patriarchy that Mizu knows full well would stop Mizu from achieving her own goals if she didn't present as male.

Mizu is still understandable here. She just had to kill Kinuyo, a disabled girl sold by her father into prostitution, a girl in a situation so far beyond Akemi's worst imaginings that I can practically feel Mizu's world being rocked just by comparing them in her mind the way she most likely is. That still doesn't make it right for Mizu to let Akemi be carried off to be sold into marriage by her father against her wishes. Those "good options" Mizu thinks Akemi has don't exist, no more than they ever existed for Mizu. Akemi and Mizu both have to get creative, make the best of their circumstances, take dangerous risks, and break rules in order to have any control over their own lives.

Even on my first watch, when at first I thought that Mizu had made the right decision and that Akemi was being unreasonable, Akemi screaming Mizu's name while being dragged, LITERALLY DRAGGED, back to her father was haunting as hell.

Mizu had the power to help Akemi, and simply chose not to.

Mizu lets Akemi be taken, Akemi who has just begun to trust Mizu. Mizu calls Ringo weak and quickly - seemingly easily - turns her back on him. Mizu values her quest over Taigen's life, after Taigen has endured days of torture to protect her, and she not only risks his life in the process, but doesn't tell him that Akemi is engaged to someone else, or that she came looking for Taigen, or that she is in danger.

Mizu's sword breaks because it is too brittle. Too pure. Too singleminded. Mizu only melts down the meteorite metal when she mixes the metal with objects from parts of her life that have nothing to do with her quest. Objects from the people she cares about, and who care about her.

All I'm saying is - Mizu doesn't have to be a hero. But she is the better version of herself when she reaches out to help and connect with others. When she's just a decent, kinder human being. And I think that's what this story is telling us that we should want for Mizu.

[medi-bee]

isat pokemon au, my liege?

my rambling in tags

[eveledoze]

NEW MD PROMOTIONAL VIDEO JUST DROPPED AND THERE'S J im so glad to see and hear her

wtf they worship Uzi stand and at the same time say they don’t know what it is

SHE'S SO DUMB /pos her voice is music to the ears jeez

[maflufla]

I just finished rereading LN 3 of the apothecary diaries and I need to ramble for a bit

One of the things that is clear and emphasized a lot in the these initial volumes is how much maomao is scared of accidentally committing an infraction unknowingly and been punished (killed) because of this. That is her reasoning behind wanting clear limits and direct orders, as in her narration she mentions multiple times that that makes her life easier.

Even in situations where the people in higher station are clearly showing signs of affection towards her (I'm thinking about when the emperor pats her head in the labyrinth-shrine), she has her guard up and is still very aware of the image she presents as to not "accidentally offend a noble and get killed".

And then we get at the end of volume 3, where the hunting trip offers more proof than ever that Jinshi is much more important and high up in the chain than she had previously thought, and that the whole situation is VERY messy. And she is obviously resentful and stressed for being dragged into this, because the undeniable truth is that she is the one that stands to lose the most. But still, when Jinshi offers her the ox bezoar she then SHUTS THE DOOR IN HIS FACE and it's such a funny and very maomao way of showing that she is a little bit closer to him and can let her guard down enough to let her excitement for pharmaceutical ingredients consume her necessity to maintain propriety (lest she gets beheaded for being accidentally rude as she always thinks????).

She knows that her own feelings about people are not something she is very in tune with (she knows how she feels about her dad and maybe her sistersand thats about how much she recognizes), so we the readers are not going to get a direct declaration from maomao about how she feels about jinshi. I like then that we get progressive and subtle glimpses of how she starts to let her guard down and feel more at ease in jinshis presence, that she becomes a little bit more rude, outspoken, direct with her observations and conclusions in her investigations. We get to see her talk more and narrate less, and I find it such clever and subtle way to show that she is warming up to him.

[booplesnotts-art]

any you vibe with! thank you for feeding this fandom so generously 🙏

How about two Hecates?

(Plus a bonus softbroom🖤)

Currently working on a little Hecate doodle page so I’m sure there’s bound to be more

[murmurmurl]

Helianthus♡Light! redesigned !!!!!

individual refs + school uniforms + hands under the cut

I spent. Way too long on these. Everyone stayed almost the same, except for Fumi, I changed her outfit the most + switched Seina's and Toshiro's heights.... also added their hands because I realized I usually don't give much detail to them, even though I actually have. A Lot of thoughts about my ocs' hands. Going to attempt to draw all of their unit outfits together next. Probably. I'm insane about my pjsk ocs again, I think I'm being sucked back into the hyperfixation hole, what do I do..... ok running away before I look at this for too long and start hating it

[dykedvonte]

wanted to say I appreciate your nuanced takes on MW and especially Curly. i don't get the claim that the fandom is full of Curly apologists when majority (esp yt and tiktok) say he's worse than Jimmy. Yes there's commentary about bro culture defending people, he def messed up in trying to placate Jimmy (tbh "we'll fix this" sounded more like trying to keep someone prone to outbursts like Jim calm and not hurt Anya/himself) but I don't think he did nothing to help Anya, since she continued to confide in him and he had less than a week to resolve it before the crash (I also don't get everyone saying he knew for ages when it seems like Anya told him that same week). I get Jimmy's a pos but saying stuff like Curly should've known he'd crash the ship or that Jim had a criminal record he ignored, reducing them to obviously horrible villain and willfully ignorant sidekick feels like a disservice to the game. If your best friend turned out to be horrible, what would you do in a confined space in the span of a few days to respond? I'd say some of the horror comes from trying to do good but ultimately failing, Curly's state after the crash is meant to be tragic horror not revenge/punishment

Thank you and this is what I want to get across.

A lot of information we have to supplement when it comes to how long things have been happening on this current ship. I think people try to add on to the horror and negligence by making things more obvious so it can feel like it was easier to avoid when, true to life, its not. Jimmy clearly didn't deserve or appreciate what Curly did for him in getting him the job, but do you think if Jimmy was that big of a menace on Earth he would've given him a position where he could have that level of power over people's lives? There's something in the fact he specifically chose to pick a position so close to himself where he could watch Jimmy.

I hate the bro code argument because that is a whole can of worms people really don't get. That sort of mentality is born from the general respect and preference of male matter over female ones. Curly is clearly not that guy, he is absent minded about the issue and inadvertently dismissive but he clearly believes Anya, he just can't understand what she's going through. It's an onslaught of information that no one really reacts right to. Additonally, the entire discussion of her assualt plays to heavy into the idea that there is fault outside of the perpertratior when it comes to SA. It's too close if she only did this or if Curly had protected her better but the fact of the matter is Jimmy did what he did. He did it before any of the conversations with Anya about it and it's why her behavior seemed to change so drastically in those last two days.

He has other conflicting thought and while his role as a Captain should've taken over, people act like it's not a very human thing to have such a toxic presence cloud your judgement. It is never easy to separate friend from coworker once that connection is formed, you want to help them, especially if they were friend first and for a long while like in this case. It's not right, but people act like it would be easy when the game clearly points out that no choice is easy to make, especially when you have to make it for more than one person. You have the weigh the consequences, look at all the options and make a plan. People can headcanon and decide how long things where happening, but if we look at what we were presented through the characters eyes, the only person given time to do that was Jimmy.

He waited two months after the crash to appoint himself Captain. Every time a problem was brought up he immediately took action and refused to sit on it and find a better solution. I think it's important to look at the warped way Jimmy takes initiative where Curly didn't as it works as a good contrast of why you don't just run in to "fix" things. The quickest and easiest option may not be the safest or most beneficial. I think some thoughts on the game suffer from the black and white thinking the game doesn't operate on along with us being voyeurs. We see what exactly led to what but the characters don't. They don't have the hindsight and foresight we do and even ours is scrambled by the non-linear story telling.

Like it's hard to talk abuou those grey zones without sounding like an apologist because you're explaining why taking responsibility isn't easy. It's not and it's weird to act like it would be in a scenerio that led up to the events of the game knowing what we know. We see all these characters in such isolated moments with various things before, in between, after and even during we aren't privy too. The idea that Jimmy is worse than Curly heavily banks on the words Jimmy was saying to Jimmy before he crashed the ship. That whatever happened on the ship was his responsibility to bare, which is true due to his position. But, are they not still not responsible for taking the actions Curly then must bare?

Like i feel like people think that these are situation that become easier with age or when you are in a postion of authority and they aren't. You don't lose your biases or gain some sudden knowledge that makes it easier. It just becomes more tiring as you keep dealing with it. I would be first in line to say Curly fucked up and should've done more but the idea he knew how bad it could get or he really saw the worst in the people around him and ignored it pretty much ignores a huge aspect of his character and the game.

[gotticalavera]

Aang: Katar, I feel... hot

Aang: I think I'm-...

Sometime in the KatAang, Aang got sick and Katar/a misunderstood his/her words, but realized due to her/his partner's symptoms.

Continuing with the series of drawings I have of Fem!Aang x All, today it was a GB!KatAang.

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[random-chaos-and-stuff]

Fourth actually drawn Wings of Fire OC here guys! This is Hemlock, a Leafwing/Icewing hybrid!

She’s a bit more simplistic than some of the others, but I like how her face turned out.

Just like always, backstory and lore, abilities, the no background and the outline, and the generation method I used for her under the cut!

Hemlock is a hybrid, her mother being a Leafwing and her father an Icewing. She is often seen as cold or rude, but in all reality that is just how she was raised, and towards those that gain her trust she is very supportive and loving. She grew up in the poison jungle for the most part, with occasional trips to the icy outskirts of the ice kingdom. Her mother was a poisonwing Leafwing, and very protective over her only dragonet as a result of the harsh environment of the jungle, training her how to hunt and be self sufficient from a young age. She is also rather adventurous, loving to explore new places, often coming home with stories and trinkets to share with other dragons. 

She has a reputation for being dangerous and powerful, one that is well deserved, with her Icewing sharp claws and unusually sharp for a Leafwing spines, and the spikes on her tail. She can withstand fridged temperatures, though not as well as her father, and is an excellent climber. She got most of her build from her Leafwing mother, but alongside the traits mentioned above her Icewing side shines through in the indented webbing on her wings and the end of her tail, her pale coloration, and her grey-blue eyes.

She is also, surprisingly enough, an animus. It is believed that her father carried the long dormant gene, passing it down to his daughter, where it for some reason became active. She often uses this ability to help herself and her community, with a special love for one young hybrid, Cactus, who has eagerly deemed Hemlock her best friend, despite Hemlock being a grown adult. Hemlock also used her magic to give herself an ability. She had hatched without leafspeak, or any real abilities other than her magic, and often longed to have something like it. So, she gave herself a new ability, similar to leafspeak, allowing her to grow plants wherever she pleased, including the fridged arctic where they should have frozen solid and died, as well as manipulating the ice to grow like plants with leafspeak. She also once used her magic to imbed into her face, three on each side under her eyes. The rubies had been a gift from her father, a higher ranking Icewing in the ice kingdom, as a symbol of status.

Yeesh, that was a long one, but at least it’s properly spaced now to an extent. I named her for her colors, and the fact that Hemlock can grow in cold temperatures, and is a poisonous plant. I had trouble with the name for a while, until I basically rubber ducked at @spookys1fan for a name, and some research on cold growing poisonous plants, thank you for tolerating my yapping messages!

She is a good example of why I like drawing hybrids, because I can play with the features more, and pick and choose how I want different features from each dragon to interact.

Here is the no background version and the outline, as promised!

Tumblr fried the quality on these, so click for better quality and all of that. I went at this with a basic idea for her colors, but it took me a bit to get them just right and make them interact well.

And finally, as promised, the generation method I used! I used a generator sheet made by HoneyBeest, which is really fun, and really helps when I get art block and want to make a new OC.

Reblogs are appreciated, but please don’t repost on other websites without credit! Also, feel free to use her/draw her if you like her design. Writing, drawing, ect. as long as you give me credit as her original creator.

[juneblooom]

but daddy i love him is so stancy coded i might lose my mind

[stainedglassthreads]

I just. Love how delighted Toriel is that Kris has a friend, and doesn't really care who said friend is. In Chapter 1, the second Kris says that they're hanging out with a friend, Toriel's tune changes immediately and she says Kris can continue hanging out with said friend as long as they please. In Chapter 2, when she meets Susie, she doesn't get judgmental in any way, and all their interactions are just really cute. Baking together, punning together, letting her stay over...

Like, with how Toriel is characterized in Deltarune compared to Undertale, I feel like a lot of people make her...meaner, I guess. They take how she acts around Asgore, and use that to inform how she'd act in other situations. But she doesn't think Susie is a bad influence on Kris at all, she's really happy to welcome Susie into the house and meet her! It's adorable! So I don't think she's quite as strict and judgmental as some assume, or if she is, her desire for Kris to be happy overrides her 'knows what's best for you' tendencies. She's clearly not fully aware of Kris' situation, but is aware enough to be concerned, and to let some things (like waking them up, letting them wander Hometown after school, or devouring an entire pie) slide if it means they're safe and happy.

...On the flip side. It's also kinda sad. Kris isn't really hated by anyone in Hometown, but between being the only human, the situation their parents are in, Asriel(who they're closest with) moving away, the emptiness of their room and how they sometimes lock themself in the bathroom for lengths of time, the way Berdly, MK, and Snowdrake talk about them at various points...it's not so hard to understand why Toriel's so happy and relieved that there's someone outside herself and Asriel Kris has a positive relationship with. They used to be friends with Noelle, and they seem on pretty good terms with Catti, but I don't think they're quite friends right now. So it's also somewhat sad. Susie is probably Kris' first friend in a very long time. But maybe Noelle and Berdly can also become genuine friends, too.