#and I'm allowed favorites

[im-tempted]

CHURCH BELLS RINGING, MUTED SINGING

I will drag quackitys past relationships into a conversation about TNT duo

CARRIES OUR EXUBERENCE AWAY

They're just older than they ever thought they'd be and tired leave them alone

OUR FRIENDS HAVE ALL BUT LEFT US/THEY DEPARTED MANY YEARS AGO/And They Won't COME BACK/THEY WON'T COME BACK NO MORE

This ties into the whole fact they believe everyone will leave them because EVERYONE HAS LEFT THEM it's not a fear of they're right

WE'RE HUNGOVER IN THE CITY OF DUST

Remember how las navades isn't a real desert it's in a snow biome the whole city is literally built on fake foundations the whole base of his country is a farce dust→sand

LET OUR HEARTS RUN 'ROUND IN CIRCLES/WHILE WE FALL APART

Them having their separate breakdowns during this whole arc but coping with that by falling into the cyclical nature of their relationship

WE'RE HUNGOVER IN THE CITY OF DUST

Just see above for this line it's the same every time

LET OUR MINDS RUN 'ROUND IN CIRCLES/WHILE WE FIGURE IT ALL OUT

See above

INSOLENT AND OUT OF CHARACTER

They've become more jaded a twisted version of the people they used to be more full of life able to actually love before but they're both broken in a way now that they can kind of still work if they squint

WE'VE CHANGED SO MUCH/I BARELY RECOGNISE OUR FORMATIVE LIVES

Like the line above started they're both no longer the people they used to be after all the death (they're own or others) and betrayal and all the other shit they're no longer the people they started the relationship as and that's its own brand of frightening

HIDDEN DEEP, DEEP, DEEP UNDERGROUND

Pogtopia we don't need to talk about this you get it

AND THEY WON'T COME BACK/THEY WON'T COME BACK NO MORE

This is both about how the people who have left them won't come back BUT ALSO they won't come back they'll never again be the people they where when they first entered the smp and that's ok but it also means their relationship will shift for better or worse

WE'RE HUNGOVER IN THE CITY OF DUST

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LET OUR HEARTS RUN 'ROUND IN CIRCLES/WHILE WE FALL APART/WE'RE HUNGOVER IN THE CITY OF DUST/LET OUR MINDS RUN 'ROUND IN CIRCLES/WHILE WE FIGURE IT ALL OUT

This is gonna repeat forever you get it moving on they're obsessed and need each other to get up in the morning

FEELING MOODY, DARK AND HEAVY

They're so sad

THERE'S NO FEELING IN MY LEFT ARM

Insert picture of Wilburs skin

RESONANCE IS FAR AWAY

They don't match perfectly but they try *sons*

TRY TO COMPLICATE MY THINKING

Wilbur has an issue of hiding his feelings behind speeches and overcomplicating his speech and he's super overthinking his relationship with quackity

AM I FALLING, AM I SINKING?

Oooooo mans spent 13 years without a body what's going on (also has no idea where his relationship with quackity is let alone where it's going)

POWDER IN MY FINGERNAILS

"I've forgotten everything I know about TNT" ← I say like a liar

AND THE BELT WRAPPED AROUND/MY SHRINKING WAIST IS HAVING TOUBLE/TRYIN' TO KEEP THE DAMN THINGS UP

He just came back from the dead give him a break he feels out of place in his body he didn't have one for over a decade

WANT TO WRITE A SINGLE LETTER/MAYBE THEN I'LL FEEL MUCH BETTER

Remember his apology arc? THAT

UNTIL THEN WE'LL FLOAT/WE'RE HUNGOVER, OH YEAH WE ARE/WE'RE HUNGOVER IN THE CITY OF DUST/WE'RE HUNGOVER IN THE CITY OF DUST/SO LET OUR MINDS RUN 'ROUND IN CIRCLES/WHILE WE FIGURE IT ALL OUT/ALL OUT, MHMM

We've talked about this

[starcurtain]

I think one of the funniest things about the Sabzeruz event is that the devs choose to go with Candace, Traveler, and Paimon having a whole "Ooh, two mysterious men are going into an alley to have a 'private' conversation; they must be bad guys!" only to then go "Oh just kidding, it was only Alhaitham and Kaveh doing typical Alhaitham and Kaveh things."

Except the "Alhaitham and Kaveh" thing in question this time was talking about Mehrak, a sentient robot that Kaveh built using absolutely forbidden technology, and which he then whole-heartedly willed would develop a consciousness of its own, violating one of the central taboos of his nation's governing agency, committing what amounts to an inherent and extreme felony punishable by law.

Alhaitham and Kaveh: Listen, we're not bad guys discussing illegal activity here. We're just two men having a private, personal conversation. Happens all the time.

Paimon, Candace, and Traveler: Oh cool, they're not doing a crime; they're just gay.

But they were, in fact, doing a crime.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[myimaginationplain]

I've come to the conclusion that being assigned the fandom-mandated "sunshine character" is the worst possible fate a character could face

[silverwhittlingknife]

The Bats Are Fighting (Distaff Edition)

some conflicts I enjoy:

Babs is pretty hostile/judgy toward Helena at first & is bitterly upset and hurt when Helena starts wearing a Bat costume - apparently a Batgirl costume - without asking her. Later on, Bruce chases Helena out of the costume, and Babs gives Cass the Batgirl costume with her explicit blessing. Helena and Cass never have a rivalry over this exactly, but I don't think they ever really get along, either

Babs and Helena eventually make up when Babs lets Helena join the Birds of Prey but it's rocky in the beginning - Babs dislikes Helena's methods and doesn't entirely trust her; Helena resents being kept on the outside

Steph is super-impressed by Cass and tries to get her to like her and they eventually get close, but Cass has a pretty low opinion of Steph-as-a-vigilante and doesn't hesitate to boss her around or knock her out, and she's super-hurt by Steph lying to her about what's going on during War Games (probably not unrelated: Cass is the only Bat to blame Steph instead of Bruce after Steph dies)

Babs and Cass get very close but also have tensions because Babs wants Cass to have the 'normal' life that Babs thinks she should've tried harder to have when she was younger, and Cass isn't entirely comfortable with this pressure, plus - this one I think is a bit more well-known - Babs spends a lot of time tutoring Cass and looking after her (awww), BUT ALSO in a tense moment she gets really nasty and harsh about Cass's reluctance to learn to read and calls her "stupid"

Dinah finds Steph REALLY annoying and wants her to stop tagging around after her... until she finds out about Steph's miserable home life, and then she appears like an avenging angel and kicks Steph's dad and his cronies out of the house

Babs decides to work with a guy who tortured Dinah because she thinks he's capable of redemption and Dinah is NOT HAPPY about it

Just generally, Steph and Helena are very much outsiders who don't get brought into the "core" Batfam and who aren't trusted with info like Bruce's secret identity. By contrast, Babs is an insider almost from Day 1 - she may have conflicts with Bruce, but she's also got his absolute trust - and Dinah is as insider as it gets, with a mom who was also Black Canary and a stint on the JLA

other general characterization notes that cause Conflict (TM):

Babs is pretty much a classic Bat - she's got a ton of control issues and she's an instinctively secretive workaholic

Helena is an adult who will kill people if she damn well feels it's necessary and she doesn't appreciate being lectured about it

Steph is a defensive teenage outsider with a bucketload of family problems - deadbeat evil dad! addict mom! - and when she's upset she's got a reckless self-destructive streak

Cass is very much like Bruce in that 1) she is wildly super mega good at fighting, 2) she's an instinctive loner who's comically bad at people AND YET she can nevertheless effortlessly manage to head off to a foreign country for a weekend and have a passionately-felt mutual love affair with some random criminal or something, and then that person dies & she goes home like nothing happened, 3) she cares about other people but completely sucks at communication & when in doubt will just go silent & take off or refuse to have conversations, 4) because she hates talking sometimes she'll just knock you out or hit you so that she won't have to do it, 5) she will spend an entire year planning to have a fight to the death with someone for Reasons and tell no one about it because why would she tell someone

anyway they're all terrible <3

[dootznbootz]

*sighs* I miss Penelope. I want Penelope :(

[dangans-ur-ronpas]

aoi and sakura!!! houghgsgh

i wasn't planning on giving them similar sailor-style uniforms but actually i like it now that i look at it. polar opposite girlfriends

aoi is the ultimate sukeban (female gangster). she started up to defend her younger brother from some bullies and ended up leading multiple gangs through sheer charisma

she prefers intimidation over violence, hence the kendo sword that she never got proper training on how to use (she mostly carries it around for dramatic effect)

is a little devious. will not hesitate to frame, injure, or throw someone under a bus if she thinks they've wronged her or someone she cares about

sakura is the ultimate moral compass, in this au her longtime friend kenshiro entrusted her with 'strongest human alive' but also with a message to uphold peace with that strength

she maintains a calm demeanor to seem more approachable to people. as a result, a lot of people trust her

is very careful of how she uses her strength. avoids fights whenever possible

[rynli]

me: I should write the one-shot that lives in my head about Harry applying for a job

brain: you will write a whole casefic about Harry realizing being a cop already killed him once, acab applies even to Kim, and he needs to quit if he wants to get better

[genericpuff]

vent post

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

You're allowed to call it "grief."

If I can get personal on y'all for a second... A therapist once told me that you're allowed to grieve for a place. (We moved a lot when I was a kid. It wasn't great.)

Tumblr is a place, and place is important. It's friends. It's shelter. It's comfort and routine, continuity between who you were and will be. And to leave a place is to suffer a loss, not like losing a person but still painful. Not the end of the world, but the end of a world that helped shape who you are.

You'll make new friends. Your new room will be better. That can be true, while not changing that you will lose touch with many of the people you love right now, you will lose the shelter you spent so long crafting.

Tumblr's terminal diagnosis has been a long time coming. And I give it solidly 50-50 odds on still being around a year from now. The Five Stages model may not replicate, but here's something that does: anticipatory grief. The grief of knowing that a loss is coming, a sad and strange gift that gives you time to get things in order and say all that you want to say with your goodbye.

So: thank you, everyone, for the last decade of silliness and righteousness, wisdom and stupidity. I'm hoping for another 10 years on this hellsite, but I'm also letting myself grieve.

[dayoldbaguette]

okay, one last thing about arcane s2 is how little consequence Vi's pitfighting era ends up having. it really feels like in that act 1 to act 2 time-skip, she's just put in a depression fridge, waiting for someone to snap her out of it, functionally resetting her character arc back to 'my family and/or Cait (depending on the state of her family) is my only motivation'. We never get a satisfying answer to the question of who Vi is without the people she wants to protect, because the writers aren't interested. What answer we're given appears to be 'well, without people to protect she's an aimless alcoholic, so she better not be deprived of those connections or she's got no motives'. So outside of this montage, in season 2 Vi is more or less never on screen without Cait or Jinx. That in turn is what makes her eventual getting back together with Caitlyn seem so bittersweet and feel a little like co-dependency on Vi's part. One is a fully-realized character outside the relationship, the other is a depressing montage that doesn't further the plot in any way (hindering other people's plans is still furthering the plot, I'm not saying her hopelessness has to end in world peace, that would be ridiculous).

Not saying feeling like she's lost all her reasons to keep living has to end well for everyone else, in fact if anything I feel it might've been interesting if her pitfighting era transitioned into a full-on Vi vigilante plot line, where instead of helping the brewing rebellion she tries to hinder it, essentially becoming even more the Vander to Jinx's Silco, except the "Vander" isn't doing it because they don't want the deaths of the people they're fighting for but just out of a misguided attempt to protect the memory of their family further fuelled by spite (I don't see Vi being cool with Sevika, who betrayed their dad, running the rebellion) and the "Silco" instead of being consumed by his greed and spite, instead doesn't really want all the shit that comes with power anyway and is just thrust into being a symbol of liberation due to their selfishness occasionally benefiting Zaun's cause.

Idk, I'm not a writer, I'm just trying to reconcile my love for the first season with my disappointment/grief for the second. If you have any ideas for how Vi's plotline should've gone to give her more agency, feel free to let me know lol. maybe someday I will write a fix-it fic

[meyerlansky]

first time you watch the terror: who are all these sad white men in the exact same clothes with the exact same hats

fifth time you watch the terror, pointing at a three-pixel smudge on the edge of a wide shot: aw hey it's pilks! love that kid

[manderleyfire]

�� What's keeping us apart ain't even real, your daddy, his religion, it's got nothing to do with us. – It's not just his, it's mine too. I've got the same spirit in me, why don't you see that?

Alice Englert and Walton Goggins in Them That Follow (2019), dir. Dan Madison Savage & Brittany Poulton

[rosieaurora]

i luv u fish man

[nexischillin]

"Oh, if you joined when chromakopia came out, you're a fake fan." No, they're new fans. Don't get me wrong, fake fans exist, but not everyone who hasn't been there since the beginning is fake. They're people finding Tyler, the creator for the first time and arguably at the peak of his career. Chromakopia is a good album, so let people enjoy it.

-Someone who's been here since 2017's flower boy

[psymachine]

Your art is sooo good. 😵‍💫

To be contrarian, TOP fat Mac, maybe feeding Dennis and massaging him?

sorry to make this a little bit dumb but it was too good

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