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Please elaborate on your twst Pokémon headcannons I’m very interested
I had planned on drawing everyone for this (I made a LIST!) but it. hasn't been going well. 💀 soooo here's what I have so far!
Riddle - Roserade (I was going with 'no legendaries', otherwise I would've given him a Shaymin) (and I don't think Togedemaru is actually a hedgehog or I would've given him one of those too) (...they kind of do fit though. hmm.)
Trey - Alcremie (clover/mint cream + strawberry/ruby cream)
Cater - DITTO SQUAD! DITTO SQUAD! DITTO SQUAD!
Ace - Impidimp (I feel like there's probably a better one for him, but I can't think of it)
Deuce - Scraggy (meanwhile I KNOW deep in my heart that this is true)
Leona - Pyroar (but like. a nasty Pyroar. just a grizzly old Pyroar with the shittiest attitude imaginable. they pretend to hate each other but secretly they are a bonded pair, do not separate)
#art#twisted wonderland#pokemon#poketwst#i'm trying not to pressure myself too much art-wise right now#but i would like to do more of the characters!#(especially considering this started with my insistence that malleus would have a dragapult)#gotta draw something i don't immediately hate first ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ#ANYWAY enough art angst!#i'm not aiming for full teams or delving too deep into lore or anything#just one or two per character that i think fit!#i was pretty torn on leona for a while because pyroar is at once the obvious choice but also. not really?#(i did consider luxray and ultimately decided it doesn't really fit either)#but i kind of love Nasty Lionboy's Nasty Pyroar#i think there's probably some. like. ~royal tradition~ that they all bond with this one specific breeding line or whatever#and leona deliberately chose just the absolute worst one#took one look at this shitty rude pokemon and immediately went 'that one'#falena was like 'are...are you SURE' and leona cops an attitude like 'i'm choosing my OWN pokemon you're not my DAD'#as pyroar is actively attempting to eat him#actually it probably tried to eat kifaji first and that's when leona decided he liked it#me: this is just for funsies i'm not doing lore (writes a whole fanfic in the tags)
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love. – (Velcinta + Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena)
134 days until andor s2
#andoredit#starwarsedit#swedit#andor#velcinta#vel sartha#cinta kaz#*mine#161as2#i'm all about happy and gentle love ok#but i also like this quote for them#because their relationship is difficult/stings due to circumstance#and they choose each other regardless#aka the knife twist#thanks for coming to my ted talk#ALSO#if you're team 'cinta loves vel less' pls dni!#look at how she's not even flinching when she looks at vel#i bet vel felt invisible when growing up#her queer identity hidden away#and now there's cinta looking directly unflinchingly at her#okay i'm spiraling now
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DATV explaining the 'Regret Prison'
A REGRET PRISON IS STUPID AND I'M TIRED OF PRETENDING THAT ITS NOT
TL;DR: a prison can serve as a metaphor but it shouldn't be entirely comprised of a metaphor.
From what I understood from what the game gave us: Solas has made a new prison to move the God's too - since bringing down the veil would free them from the Black City. This new prison is separate(?) from the fade or so far removed/contained that bringing down the veil would not compromise it...apparently. We interrupt his ritual, Solas gets sucked into the new prison he made, and the elven gods are free.
When Rook gets kicked into the fade they're physically there - which means it's a physical place in the fade, like how it was a mixture of physical/thought when we entered it in DAI. Which makes sense - the gods are real and living beings, they need to be in a place, there must be some aspect of physicality to it.
Alright, cool, it's a Black City 2.0 - I assume it's better defended to prevent people breaking in/out again?
NOPE.
We get there and it's a 'regret prison'?? It's tied to the regrets of those within it? Composed of regrets??? Solas had to wait for the right moment for Rook to be sufficiently 'full of regret' that they could switch places?
So is the prison tied to Solas's regrets? If so, how can Rook escape? The prison seems to work around the idea that it relies on the regrets of the person it's holding to work - which is how/why Rook was able to be trapped and later free themselves (along with whatever remains of the team apparently being able to do something on their end, not that we hear about it).
WHICH IS STUPID!
Are you telling me the prison intended to hold to megalomaniac elven gods was going to imprison them based on their own regrets? Is Solas assuming that Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain are as self-pitying as he is? They'd break out quicker than Rook did! He made a time out corner for the elven gods to sit in and gave them an out if they reflected on their emotions/regrets or decided that they don't regret what they did. Elgar'nan, a spirit of tyranny, is not going to 'regret' his actions - he is going to justify them by telling himself and others that he knows what's best.
We can come across some of Solas's regrets in the prison if you run around a bit and explore:
Remnant of Failure - talking about the orb from Inquisition.
Remnant of Parting - talking about Mythal
Remnant of Reflection - more vague, talking about the Titans I believe.
So maybe he altered it - maybe he intended the prison to be 'locked' with his own regrets because after a millennia of having a pity party he still can't bring himself to self-reflect and look to the future. But what if Solas died? Or if his guilt lessened - would it diminish the strength of the regret prison?
We already have pre-established lore (though DATV has shown they don't really give a crap tbh) that once the being that has claimed/altered an area of the fade is slain, it's influence diminishes both in and outside of the fade. So if the prison was tied to his regrets then it would require Solas to basically live forever to keep it stable - especially if he brought down the veil and removed the one barrier that kept the world and the fade apart.
Rook and Solas needed some assistance to exit - but it doesn't seem like it was much! Solas used his dagger and Rook just...got out through a fade tear? This is Solas's 'more secure' second prison? It has a worse track record than the Black City! If Rook - who is not an elven god - managed to escape the regret prison what is to stop anyone else from breaking in and out of the prison?
And what did Solas intend to do with the blight - the bulk of which is apparently in the black city?? If bringing down the Veil would free the gods in the black city doesn't that mean that the blight would also be released?! Did he have a plan? Why does he go fully ahead with bringing down the veil at the end if the black city is still there and filled with blight?!
I get it: the 'regret prison' is a metaphor for how Solas holds onto the past and how Rook can move past their regrets and grow. He's trapped by the past - it's a prison. Cool. But this prison is supposed to by a physical place to contain the gods - not just to solely contain Solas. The mission is literally called 'A Cage for Gods'.
The Black City is an actual place that's so far out of reach of anywhere else in the fade that no mage can ever reach it while in dreams - let alone physically, which was only done once and took tremendous effort/blood sacrifices. It made sense - it was cool to see floating in the sky in DAO!
Though it's not said specifically, it's strongly implied that Arlathan is the Black City. You can see in the concept art that floating elven city is exactly the same as the black city in DAO! It's this foreboding thing just lurking in the sky - a constant reminder of the sin that led to the horrors of the blights and darkspawn. A real place with lore and history that also serves as a metaphor for the hubris and destruction of those who call themselves gods and act as tyrants -> for both the evanuris and the magisters.
I WANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS BIOWARE!
WHAT IS THIS KINGDOM HEARTS NONSENSE???!!
#we'll need Mickey and Donald to break us out of this one#this screams 'this sounds so cool lets put it in' and not 'how can we do something cool that works with the world we've established'#“it's metaphorical-” it can be metaphorical and make sense!!!#trying to invoke 'emotion' with that black and white tone and only succeeded in getting me to feel pure confusion and rage#THE FADE IS GREEN TINTED - THE LAST GAME WAS LITERALLY COLOUR THEMED AFTER IT#i'm passionate about the fade being green the same way i'm passionate about Aurora's dress being blue and Cinderella's being silver#solas's more secure second prison literally has a worse track record than the black city - why is he so dumb???#I regretted no choices in datv besides the decision to actually play this game lmao#if the game actually acknowledged that Rook's actions led to thousands of people dying maybe I'd feel something in the regret prison#no mention of treviso/ minrathous/ or southern thedas??#the team all knew the risks of what they were doing! they volunteered/made their own choices - ME2 did this so much better#played as an elf so I didn't even feel bad when Harding died because of the weird elf specific dialogue she had#I'm not sorry for the titans/what Solas did - I wasn't even there! Doesn't justify the shit that happened to the elves after either!#this game made me apathetic to LACE HARDING and i loved her in Inquisition#i'm sorry but I had more regret for choosing to speak mean to Merrill once than anything I did in this game#currently writing about the magisters sidereal in my lore post and I needed to blurt this out because its so stupid#typed out the word 'regret' so much is has no meaning in my head anymore lmao#datv critical#datv spoilers#bioware critical#dragon age the veilguard#veilguard critical
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Small but significant character moments that I actually really adore are from both the times we see the boys as tots. There is a reoccurrence that happens in both of them that I find so incredibly interesting.
For the turtle tot short, Splinter leaves the boys with weapons. In the short, Raph is the one who suggests they do “what Lou Jitsu would do” and Leo is the one who takes point when Splinter comes back to reprimand them. Leo, in taking point, is the one to defend them and get Splinter off their tails.
And then, in the flashback regarding the Kuroi Yōroi helmet, Raph is the one who grabs and throws “Skully” as a way to replace their missing ball which breaks it into pieces, but Leo is the one who speaks for the group and rushes into action to fix the teapot.
I love this for multiple reasons, but the biggest are how it shows that Raph has always been inclined toward the bold and fun and making the plans to include his brothers in what he loves and believes they’d love, whereas Leo has always been inclined to be the “Face” of the group and shoulder the attention even if it’s potentially negative all while coming up with on the spot attempts to fix the situation.
#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt raph#rottmnt leo#rise Raph#rise leo#I really do love this bit of character writing a ton#again it’s so small but like this is consistent!#little Raph just wanted to have fun with his bros 😭#Leo immediately coming in with the save both times (and more - remember Bug Busters?)#I really love too how none of them pointed fingers like#it was Understood that Leo would speak for them#listen there’s a reason Leo is the Face Man and it’s NOT just because he’s got a pretty face#he can talk both himself and his fam out of situations and I wish we saw it even more because it’s amazing to witness#circling back to Raph his bold nature is something I ADORE about him but I don’t see it brought up a lot which makes me so sad#like this boy is a RAPHAEL he is bold!!#and it’s cute too how the other bros immediately go along with it too#imo the Raph in these tot flashback is the same Raph that glues them all together as a bonding exercise#side note but damn…Leo saves them from punishment in the tot short and immediately gets jumped 😔#but yeah man I think a Lot about the little dynamics between the bros and how those dynamics could have first came into being#Leo being the face of the team and having been it since childhood-#-makes all the moments of immediately choosing to sacrifice himself when HE royally messes up all the more notable#if it’s one bro or the whole group individually he’s more chill about it but often still lets himself be the talker to get them out of it#he will do his damndest to get his brothers and himself out of trouble but once they’re in it he’s in the front with a smile#his own safety be damned#Raph is actually the same in that respect - he’ll jump into danger fists first but all bets are off when a brother is in danger#and like how Leo’s been the face - as the eldest Raph has been the de facto leader of sorts#he’s the one who is shown to make up their games! and I think that’s very cute#anyway their clashing in the movie is so interesting for a lot of reasons but one of them is that it shows how-#-even a longstanding dynamic like Raph and Leo’s that’s WORKED for so long is still susceptible to flaws…and to time
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Slaps my lavellan this bad boy can fit so many abandonment issues
edit: uploaded the right picture lol
#dragon age#solas#lavellan#dragon age inquisition#oc: avelea#solavellan#dai#my art#I could not bear to cover up solas’ neck and shoulders#I don’t know how the inquisitor got back to the team#but my hc is that they ended up finding her and helped her back to the palace for treatment#imagine the love of your life broke up with you#promised you answers and then disappeared without a trace#could be dead or alive#you’d feel insane! you’d go crazy#2 years pass and you start to feel normal again#BOOM HE’S BACK#also he still loves you#you changed him#made him hate himself more#and he still won’t choose you#kisses you one last time#implies you’ll never meet again#disappears again#personally I’d explode#but Lea definitely disassociated until the gang showed up
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"You went against your word and defied our contract! In doing so, you brought the chaos of your world into mine! I will not abide it!" - Raphael (Baldur's Gate, 2023)
#raphael#baldur's gate 3#bg3#raphael bg3#raphael baldur's gate 3#games#bg3gifs#okay one of the things i love is how if you do the team raphael route and sign the contract and choose to break it#all of this sounds SO much more personal#like kudos to Andrew Wincott... Raphael just sounds so angry and dissapointed#like he's not being smug or smarmy for the most part#which is pretty damn rare already#when he pops in and says “You?!” it's with such utter disbelief#like he genuinely didn't think you'd ever even consider doing such a thing when he has been actualy pretty truthful#he just operates LIKE THAT because as Korilla mentions “he's the devil! It's his nature!”#i LOVE that#like that third line? when he says “littlle mouse” it just sounds SO dissapointed#i just love how layered and they wrote the characters#anyway don't worry booboo i'll do a save file where tav doesn't break your black heart
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everyone saying alicent is a bad mother and focusing on the moment she left rather than the moments (plural!!) that she stayed. the maesters tell her they’re getting to the hard part and instead of leaving the room she just steps back because she cannot leave her son alone in his state. she tries to become queen regent so that she can act for him rather than provide aemond the opportunity to do more harm. and then, despite her own sick history, she returns to the same bed where she cared for a dying viserys and sits with her son. we don’t know how long she sat there before she left. it could have been hours. can we not give her the benefit of the doubt unlike the men on the council who stripped her of any and all authority despite her proving herself time and time again!?!?
(this is the same woman who Did Not Hesitate to step in front of a dragon to protect her son even though it has been established from ep 1 that she does not like dragons!!!)
I’m not saying she’s perfect - she’s flawed like Literally Every Other Character in the show - but she does love her children and only wants the best for them.
#the reasons the antis point out are so ironic#the show is Literally calling out the disrespect and lack of authority women have for no good reason#and then the toxic team blacks come and do the same thing to alicent#like are you not understanding any of the subtext or messaging!?!??#ahhhh#I have many opinions#and I think alicent is such a complex character why is she being reduced to a stereotype of a ‘bad mother’#when she Clearly loves her children and would do anything for them#I could go on about her dynamics with Helaena as well but I choose peace rn#alicent hightower#hotd#house of the dragon
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carlos to redbull.... carlos to mercedes.. carlos to audi...carlos to williams. how about carlos to a team where they appreciate his efforts, don't call his wins gifted, somewhere he feels respected and cherished both by fans and the team? somewhere he has some sort of say in his decisions? where he can be happy and thrive at his own pace even if the car isn't necessarily the best?
#yes I'd love to see carlos fight for the championship than for points...#but i need him in a team who's ready to see him as a person and a driver.. individually and the combination of both his identities...#of course he's a grown man capable of making his own decisions#just hoping he'd choose a place where he can feel love and respect amidst all this chaos.#so for real where he goes i go....#carlos sainz jr#formula 1#stella's textposts
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Chase suffers in love but the other Norms still let him come to their little photoshoot
#shepherds of haven#lavinet naveen#shery acquell#trouble alder#riel syndran#chase trinaeste#LOL so I sketched Chase ages ago bc I have beef with him and he is the main man of some of my closest friends#and I just was like what if I drew all the other norms wrapped in blankets#it became everyone in jackets while Chase suffered but I think that’s funnier#it’s norm team building!!!!#originally trouble’s jacket was a denim bomber bc basically I just want him to wear a rugby uniform or anything worn by members of a-ha#but he looks rly nice in brown so#FIRST TIME DRAWING RIEL AHHHH my actual love#Halle would be crazy for riel as her small vicious pointy boyfriend but alas#but she can shape shift riel !!! pls!!!!!!!!#she is flattered he saw her as a dragon she felt rly seen in that moment lol but also just generally enjoys his company#I drew shery first but after I drew trouble she looked really washed out#It was driving me nuts and I couldn’t stand it - I had to go back in and saturate tf out of her layers and it looked better#lavinet got the same treatment actually#I really like lavinet and in my head she’s THICC with a wasp waist like just OOZES femininity#her and shery are accidentally looking at each other while riel is trying to stare through trouble’s soul#DONT FEEL BAD FOR CHASE ANYONE it’s SELF INFLICTED#the infamous trinaeste torpedo#love is hard chase !!!! it sucks !!!!!!!!#if I reframe Chase as being reluctant to fall in love bc he becomes a complete simp with lowkey yan behaviours I can rly get behind it#chase and Halle wouldn’t last long enough to sleep together unless she loses all confidence in herself as a woman bc wow her true love is#CLEARLY NOT INTERESTED OMG#she would hear him choose to f chase in fmk and would be like what do you have that I don’t#wouldn’t even hear the marry bit#anyway this was fun and actually came about bc I was drawing rly extra outfits for the mages and got tired aka couldn’t figure out what
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Video clips: Liam at Cardiff, Lock the Box, Oasis at iTunes, Liam at Rockfield
#half the world away#diamond in the dark#while obviously i don't pretend to know with certainty whom noel's speaking to in HTWA#i have a hard time believing liam would choose a noel-sung song and repeatedly dedicate it to noel in the days before their reunion#unless liam believed and maybe with good reason that HTWA#is about the two of them or could be MADE to be about the two of them with enough effort on liam's part#also that itunes camera team deserves an award 'cause cutting over to the back of liam's head as noel sings about warning signs? brutal#this guy's in love with you#things#2024#2009#noel interview#lyric analysis#others on nl#liam on noel#1994#2022#noel on liam#liam interview#both interview#lock the box#comin' on strong#2006#2017#itunes 09#i don't know what anyone else would even make of this#i'm vacillating between being fine with it and being embarrassed at how it spiraled from my original plan#which was just to compare the young/old lyrics to the liam interview from the face#then suddenly i'm fucking giffing diamond in the dark and looking up a bacharach bio on some sketch website
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Hardison shows love by giving people space. Parker shows love by taking space up.
#leverage#parker#eliot spencer#leverage parker#alec hardison#yes this is specifically about how they show love to eliot#but to the whole team too#just#hardison always offering to listen#asking but never demanding#just letting people know he's there for them if/when they choose to reach out#telling parker the pretzels are there whenever she wants them#asking eliot about his dad and waiting in silence for him to answer or not#and parker. always standing inside eliot's space#shoulder to shoulder in a wide open room#sitting on the arm of his chair#poking his bruises#showing him she's not afraid#draping herself over hardison while he's trying to do a briefing#look i prefer platonic ot3#but i watch any scene with any of them in it and i Get It
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Brat and it’s the same but team green is there so it’s not
#song choices and lyrics for the characters based mostly on vibes but somewhat based on lyrics#love that weve just collectively agreed that apple is aegons song#btw alicent is never working it out on the remix i fear 😔#i had a really hard time choosing cristons song it was between B2b and everything is romantic#same for aemond he was either going to be i might say somwthing stupid or so i#everyone else tho? i knew#i always knew#team green#alicent hightower#aemond targaryen#aegon II targaryen#helaena targaryen#criston cole#otto hightower#hotd#house of the dragon
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RUTHRUTHRUTHRUTHRUTHRUTHRUTHRUTHRUTHRUTHRUTHRUTHRUTHRUTHRUTH
#if anyone sees whats wrong with the picture you get a prize of your choosing /hj#my art#npmd#nerdy prudes must die#nerdy prudes fanart#npmd fanart#ruth fleming#npmd ruth#starkid#team starkid#i love her#she deserves the world tbh
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TOM GLYNN-CARNEY as young Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus in DOMINA
#tom glynn carney#gaius octavius#aegon ii targaryen#domina (2021)#give me one chance#pick me choose me love me#please give me a chance#please please please#i love this man sm#team green
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Rewatching aos s5 and s6 and it's so funny that regardless of whether the writers intended it or not, the way Daisy communicates with fellow agents she leads makes is clear that she would in fact, be a great director. She's compassionate and practical and confident and not a single agent we see outside of fs family and yoyo have issues with her. Her fatal flaw is that she's too attached to her old friends who she loves and trusts despite them both having gone a little evil and ruthlessly immoral due to the past season's trauma. Like literally if fitzsimmons respected her as much as they respect each other and as much as Daisy respects them, s5 and s6 would be drastically more positive for the whole team.
#aos#aos rambles#daisy johnson#rewatching 6x01 and the way she talks with piper and davis#right before simmons risks all of their lives for her own selfish desperation to find fitz#makes it so clear what the actual problem with daisy's leadership is#and it's literally just that she still has faith in jemma to be a good person when fitz is involved#which I understand because you don't want to lose your family but the jemma daisy loved couldn't survive fitz's actions in 5x14#she had to choose her morals or her husband and she chose and it was tragic to see#but daisy's still like no it's fine we can all still be a team!#which I understand why she wants that to be true but also piper and davis deserved to throw eggs at simmons for this
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Something so so so special about the trope of a group of characters that are a Team. Even when every character has a distinct personality, they still can't be separated from the idea of their Team, and no matter who the most popular is, each member of the Team has a fan following, and everyone who enjoys that media can list their favorite member of the Team. I love it so much I love Teams of characters
#ok lemme think of as many media with teams as i can...#mlp fim#tmnt#power rangers#the bad batch#keroro gunso#uhhh i know there's more. fuckinnnn#voltron#impractical jokers#IDFK MAN I JUST LOVE TEAMS!!!#choosing ur favorite is always so fun!! and very telling :3c#fandom#ok to rb#scooby doo#mystery skulls animated#the penguins of madagascar
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