#and how interesting the characters are

[lilac-gold]

hey so you know how captain spaceboy's name (obviously) has 'captain' in front of it? and how space ex-boyfriend doesn't? that's because he neglected and effectively abandoned his title of the captain whilst dating sweetheart and when refusing to leave his bed after their breakup. he still values the connection to sweetheart more than he does to his crew; he isn't the captain when he's ex-boyfriend, because he doesn't care about leading the crew. the only thing on his mind is sweetheart. like how when he becomes space (ex)husband, that too replaces the 'captain' and 'boy' parts. he's not a boy with sweetheart, he's a man; a suitor. and he's not a captain. he refuses to be, because he has to put her first, even when they've left each other. stranded on a mountain and slowly freezing to death, spaceboy doesn't care about the pirates, or his father, or his own identity. he cares about sweetheart separating from him again, and the heartache he felt as a result.

sweetheart's impact on him in canon is so huge but i don't think we as a fandom tend to truly understand that. he changes his name for her, has multiple identity crises, would've been ready to die if it hadn't been for omori & co's intervention. spaceboy had his faults just as sweetheart did, but he also had it rough with her. sweetheart expects a partner to give up everything for her and yet is unwilling to sacrifice the same. just look at "sweetheart is for sharing" and rococo's entire thing! she's not something 'girlfriend', something 'wife'. she's always duchess sweetheart. sweetheart is able to prioritise herself to the point where it becomes a problem. she doesn't care about spaceboy because she deserves the best, and she doesn't believe that's him. spaceboy sacrifices it all, and they always end up falling out. and he always ends up more depressed each time.

'captain' is more than just a position. it's spaceboy when he's secure and confident in himself. it's spaceboy when he has friends. it's spaceboy when he isn't destroying himself with a toxic relationship that's only going to hurt him.

his father, captain pinkbeard, knows that, and wants to keep things that way. i'm so glad spaceboy has a (somewhat) secure support structure, because boy does he need one.

[tariah23]

White people are miserable, racist losers period. They’ve even been getting mad at Japanese people for correcting them about Yasuke as well.

[platoapproved]

What was that you said about memory? "A monster," was it?

[thebigcomed0wn]

im so serious if you cant imagine a single female character u like or you coincidentally only care about men or imagine that women are a different species of human that are impossible to draw or write about or relate to, You are the problem. its not because you’re gay it’s because you do not like women

[tazmiilly]

[danlous]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1.01 | 1.07 | 2.05

[k1d1c4rus]

thinking about how armand was turned bc he was dying from being stabbed by a scorned grown man who was in love with him. he nearly died from rejecting unwanted advances. its such a key explicit detail of his origin that teaches him yet again that what he wants is utterly unimportant and even deadly in the face of survival. everything about his character is informed by the fact that he adapts entirely to the situation he is forced into because that's the only way he can survive. he adopts the satanic doctrine for 200 years not because he believes in it but because he knows that is the only way he'll survive and as soon as lestat arrives he knows he can abandon it. for half a millenium he believes he can't get what he wants and also survive, he has to choose one or the other. God.

[posalis]

"You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself." Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

[paradox-n-bedrock]

me in big fandoms: oh cool, it's so active and there's so many people to vibe with, this is amaz-

*finds my niche angle that appeals to approximately six people*

me: okay, folks, it's you and me now

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The girls are back (from the grave)

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[catihere]

Considering his upbringing as a Greek demigod with a relatively present godly parent and an apparently open-minded mortal mother, with only a brief part of his childhood spent in fascist Italy, Nico is not very likely to have what we call “religious trauma” or “catholic guilt”.

Will, born and raised in the south of the USA in the early 2000s, on the other hand…

[juniemunie]

[Abandoned by the Lightners, his heart became cracked with hatred.]

Hitting a lil' too close to home?

[thefloatingstone]

Appleseed PDA montage to save you from reading endless pages of unimportant politics that don't amount to anything

also because I have nothing better to do, I'm bored, I'm moody, my gaming laptop is still broken so no BG3, and it's too late at night to start drawing after doing animation clean-up all day.

[venomoustia]

One thing I’m curious to see established in NSBU is whether or not the movie characters see themselves or not when talking from the reflections.

Did Vic Ethanol see himself or did he see a scrawny, scared Wendell who had no idea what to do? Did G13 see Usha, who had well established herself as not tech savvy at that point, and still encourage her when she went beyond?

Did Jack Manhattan make out with himself or not?

[tofixtheshadows]

So I've been thinking lately about how Mithrun is Kabru's dark mirror (more on that another time- it needs its own post), and I thought it interesting that one of their parallels is that they were both cared for by Milsiril, but in opposite directions. She took Kabru in as her foster after he was orphaned and tried to convince him not to become an adventurer. On the flip side, she helped rehabilitate Mithrun specifically so that he could rejoin the Canaries.

And I kept wondering: why?

For Kabru, obviously she loves him a whole lot- despite any other shortcomings in their relationship, I do believe that.

So I get why she tries to convince him not to go dungeoning, and, failing that, at least prepares him as thoroughly as she can.

But why help Mithrun? She used to hate Mithrun, but after realizing what a secretly twisted person he was, she actually thought of him more positively (oh, Milsiril). So it wasn't as if she held the kind of grudge that might motivate her to make his already-depleted life even more miserable by sending him back to the dungeons. And it wasn't that she felt bad for him either, since she didn't visit Mithrun for the first ~20 years of his recovery.

The Adventurer's Bible says that Utaya was the impetus for Mithrun returning to the Canaries, but Milsiril is the one who made the trip to see him and tell him about it.

Why would Milsiril work so hard to get her old coworker back into fighting fit? Why encourage him to return to such a dangerous lifestyle, when she was the one who chose not to mercy-kill him?

That last panel is such a crazy thing to hint at and then never elaborate on. Without it we could have just thought that Milsiril wanted the Canaries' work to continue without her, even if it seemed out of character. I think some people even assume she's just a natural caretaker as a foster mom and handwave it to include nursing Mithrun too. What could Milsiril's suspicious motives be? What does she gain from Mithrun joining the Canaries that isn't an altruistic desire to see dungeons safely sealed? Feeling a sense of responsibility for the work she left behind isn't an ulterior motive.

My theory is: Milsiril, knowing that Mithrun was empty save for the burning desire to face the demon again, wound him up like a clockwork doll and pointed him back at the dungeons.

Hoping that he'd eliminate the biggest threat to Kabru's life, before it was too late for him.

Milsiril the puppetmaster.