#and it makes it way less confusing

[creaturefeaster]

From the new foxglove animatic

Idk if this has any significance to cq but this looked interesting to me 👀

New unrevealed character maybe?

(⬆️submitted by kylesplayhouse ⬆️)

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Unrevealed, maybe by name, but I've shared art of it before. You've seen it. It's even, technically, earlier in that animation if you pay close enough attention. But here are a couple of other pieces eluding to it.

(Rede spray painting it)

(Atrox witnessing it)

[skull-turtle]

for the LAST TIME, what does "having a crush" even mean

[tears-of-xion]

Jagged Stone's reaction to his kids finding out about him will always be funny to me.

He really just goes 'Aw, you caught me! :( Oh, well, guess I better be a Dad now! :D' and it's just...so funny.

[relicsongmel]

Something I've always found fascinating about Raymond Shields is that despite seemingly having altruistic reasons for being a defense attorney, his reasons for trying to convince Miles to be one are anything but.

It seems understandable enough on the surface. After Ray comes around and agrees to work with Miles in The Imprisoned Turnabout, he sees remnants of Gregory shining through him despite von Karma's influence. Whether or not he recognizes that Miles' decision to become a prosecutor wasn't just born from that alone—that it was in tandem with wanting to distance himself from anything that reminded him of his father to alleviate the burden on his heart—is up for debate, but regardless: he acknowledges Miles as Gregory's son through and through and wants to capitalize on his dedication for pursuing justice in a way that he knows would make his father proud. He wants to let Miles in on the life he was robbed of at 9 years old—the life he once dreamed of living, where he follows in the footsteps of his father by giving everything he has to save people, by fighting like hell for the vulnerable and the condemned.

That said, as much as Ray dresses up his proposition by making it out to be as if he's looking out for Miles' best interests (and the best interests of society, even)...his motives for trying to get Miles to switch sides are almost entirely selfish. Ray's efforts (and most of his actions in general, really) are ultimately a product of his desperate attempt to cling on to anything related to Gregory out of an inability to move on from his death. Wearing his hat and coat, leaving the name of his office unchanged...and now, requesting that his son literally change jobs just because he can't bear the weight of his own loneliness anymore. Because he can't bear to think that the damage done by DL-6 is irreversible and Miles has moved on while he has stagnated for the past 17 years. Because he has an idealized vision of what he thinks Gregory would want and fails to realize that his son's occupation wouldn't matter to him as long as it brings him happiness and fulfillment. In his mind, letting Miles go means accepting the circumstances that brought him where he is and allowing both of them to move on. And that terrifies him.

It's even more deceitful when you realize that Ray's pitch comes at a very opportune time for Miles given his circumstances at that point: that is, he's under threat of investigation for prosecutorial misconduct and at risk of being stripped of his badge. Ray might fake incompetence, but he's not stupid—and he takes full advantage of Justine's warnings to try to sway Miles when he's in a more vulnerable position in terms of his job. Which is...pretty fucked up, to put it lightly. Despite having a better idea of where he came from compared to most people, through this Ray shows a lack of understanding of who Miles truly is and a lack of respect for what he's come to value, even if his path toward obtaining those values had some bumps along the road. But he's so blinded by his grief that he doesn't even stop to consider how much he's really asking of him, or what Miles is really searching for.

Ray was moved by Gregory. He values saving people. Defending the weak is an undeniably noble endeavor. But to ask that of someone else without consideration for their best interests is decidedly less so.

For all his occupation requires a certain selflessness, Raymond Shields is far more selfish than he lets on. And I for one find that contradiction fascinating to unpack.

[alwaysbethewest]

I'm gonna say something that 90% of you will hate but it's what's on my heart—now that we've seen Pedro and Vanessa speak in every interview about how this couple is so passionately in love and dedicated to each other and have been married for decades—I wish we could let this be the ONE Pedro character whose fanfic isn't completely overwhelmed by x reader fic instead of even consiiiidering respecting and exploring his canon relationship 😔

[scintillatingshortgirl19]

i am begging one single person in this entire show to consider, for perhaps one single second, THE POSSIBILITY THAT THERE IS A REASON HOUSE HATES HIS DAD THIS MUCH

[shalom-iamcominghome]

People findinging out that antisemitism does, in fact, victimize people

[vaguely-concerned]

varric and rook feels again. immeasurable suffering. sure, I'll be your checkmate of hope at the end of the world, the triumph of the noblest lie, that one that keeps us going: maybe it'll all turn out all right, this time. maybe we'll figure out that happy ending thing yet. but it feels like all I got to keep of you for myself are ghosts and so many stories I'll never know the endings or beginnings to now, stories I'll have to figure out how to tell on my own or else let go of. am I allowed to still miss you as much as I do.

(so. love as usual then. love as a haunting, love as ghosts that cannot quite keep us company but how could we ever bear to leave them behind completely. orpheus walking backwards out of hell the whole way to watch what he left behind. on a clear day you can see all the way back to kirkwall from here. the da2 themes continue to rule supreme varric just brings them along into the narrative with him)

[thedrotter]

average minecraft gameplay of elementary school kids (+the og doodle of it I did like. months ago)

[wickedsnack-art]

JANUARY COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN

Slots:

Tarot: 1 Art Nouveau: 3

Commissions will close for the month January 6 and reopen February 1. Any forms received between those dates will be added to the waitlist. Patreon supporters get first dibs.

All commissioners will be contacted January 7 at the latest.

I've also changed how I do my simpler character portrait commissions, and those will not close! They'll be open on a rolling basis with 5 slots, meaning when I finish one, another slot will open, but I'll never be working on more than 5 at a time. Follow my Ko-Fi for more information on those!

[velvetjune]

it’s not the most popular game out there or anything, but it’s a relief alan wake and other remedy games have fans because if i had to stew in my own thoughts over these games, my brain would explode from the pressure from keeping it all in

[happy-emmdings]

some captain swan honeymoon concepts…

1) wearing cute outfits

2) smooth sailing 💕

3) checking on Storybrooke on facetime a.k.a. what it looks like when Emma is handling the phone versus when Killian tries

4) being cute and romantic

BONUS: doing each other’s make up for an evening out✨ 

They got there🥺

[mlchaelwheeler]

anyways. i truly believe that any "fan" of stranger things who hates mike wheeler does not understand the whole point of the show. like. make it make sense

[averlym]

" just...come here. just sit here with me" (...that one scene from princess momonoke, click for better resolution)

[mortellanarts]

No one here follows me for writing but I would like to inform the chapter 2 of this is only 3/5 done and already double the word count of chapter 1 which means 24k so far lmao they were not kidding that post-ztd aftermath do have many characters to account for in conversation

[c6jpg]

i should have paid more attention to the first part of the little saurian world quest bc i am now fully invested