#and she's a damn mess

[melmedardasworld]

Ya'll Mel is all alone now.

Like the way Black Rose killed Elora.

She has no one. And she sure as hell can't go to her mother with all of this.... someone needs to be there FOR Mel this, time and comfort and protect her. Cause she's been doing all that for/to others, and I need it to be reciprocated. At this point, I don't care who it is. I KNOW she's strong, but it's also alright if she isn't and can just be vulnerable.

[cometblaster2070]

hordak is such a ridiculous man because my brother really came out here with the COOLEST fucking entrance and he was genuinely being set up as such a scary and threatening villain

like look at this he actually looks so fucking cool when we first see him. i honestly thought he was going to be our main villain for the entirety of the series.

but then we see him interact with entrapta and then the realization suddenly hits that not only is he the most awkward person ever he's also just turned into like WifeGuy™ the second entrapta talks to him.

absolute fucking loser i'm just obsessed with how hard he tries to just act like a normal villain; like he has the scary armor, the dimly lit lair and throne, even his voice sounds scary like.

he even has his own weird little minion and whatever the fuck shadow weaver is. generally, his whole scary vibe and plans for world domination set him up as a proper villain, but then he meets entrapta and all of that just CRUMBLES and is tossed out the window.

10/10 i'm a fan of the progression.

[spectra-bear]

verity is a stupid angsty vagrant undeserving of being surrounded by cute robots IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME.

BOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

did i scared you

[yuwuta]

fwb with katsuki feels like an snl skit like you’ve got to be joking with him if you propose that after you two have fucked. hooking up with the boy you’ve known since you were five and then asking to keep it casual between you two is insane. he could bite you, he could threaten to tell shoto (who would pinch you), he could lace your hands together and threaten to drag you both out into heavy traffic if you don’t go out with him, he could just say “get real?” and then proceed to take a nap on top of you for the next four hours, he could flick you on the forehead, he might even cry, he could threaten to tell izuku (who would kick him), he could squish your cheeks between his palms and tell you to stop spewing nonsense, he could threaten to tell his mom (who would pinch the both of you by your ears), he could scream, he probably will bite actually. it doesn’t matter it all ends in him “talking some sense into ya since i clearly fucked your brains out” while he makes you dinner and you agree to go out on a real date tomorrow

[musubiki]

.🖤🔄🤍.

[ghostatrandom]

Honestly? Emma's most interesing parental bond for me is not with Looker, but Xerosic and all the complicated emotions that come with.

Surprinsingly they don't end up in bad terms in XY. It's actually kinda strangely sweet the way they still care about eachother. Emma knows Xerosic is not a kind man, yet he's kind to her and supports her in her detective career.

I think he's still in jail and Emma visits every so often to bring him food and asks about common criminal activity. Ooooor he works for Emma at the new Looker bureau as a way of community service and to make up for the past.

[temporary-tats]

Drew a little comic today!

Viz, let Blake be a little shit to Raven in v10 and my life is yours.

Per usual, do not reupload without credit/permission. Thanks folks!

(My ko-fi, should you wish!)

[fusionsprunt]

Non-canon instance where Beatrix accidentally falls into another dimension in which Holloway's Comet didn't make it to planet Zona.

[otome-dissection]

Idk man I just think that mizu/ena5 and its progression was really beautiful actually. I just think that the release of the ena5 song was also really beautiful and kind of the nail in the coffin for me and I haven't been able to get the event(s) out of my head all week and that I kind of want to talk about it, actually.

It's about being hurt so deeply and continuously that any kindness that could be offered to you manages to feel like a sin, that it makes you crumble and shatter but for all the wrong reasons, not because of the newfound safety, not out of relief, but something worse and more deeply ingrained in you than kindness ever was. It's about carefully measuring the distance at which you keep others away from yourself, to ensure that it never happens again ("To save yourself the trouble", if that makes it easier).

It's about realizing that the people you've been spending all this time with are drifting closer, that they just might bump up against the unsightly parts of yourself that you've tried to keep locked away, it's about turning around and sprinting at full speed and slamming the door shut and holding onto the handle behind you to stop it from turning, because you're as frightened of the possibility of another wound being inflicted on you as you are of the possibility that kinder, gentler hands will reach out and smooth over the exposed scar. It's about hating eyes that judge and silently condemn you as much as you hate eyes that simply see you and take all of you in without scrutiny, because no matter what they're looking and they're looking at you and they know that your hand's on that door handle and they know that you're hiding something because, as much as you try to keep it shut, they've seen through the crack that you foolishly left open.

(The prominence of eyes in Bake no Hana, specifically eyes looking and searching, and finally landing on you, the viewer, Mizuki, is so fucking. Visceral in my opinion. Every character in the MV stares at the viewer in a deadpan, almost judging way. Even though Mizuki knows deep down that niigo won't really hate them, won't judge them, she just can't stand their kindness either; any gaze directed at her is a loss, another prick in their skin. It screams "don't look at me" while making sure that you know, with horrific certainty, that they're looking for you, that you're being watched. You can't go outside, can't leave your room, because they're searching for you, and while that should be reassuring, to you it's anything but).

It's about not wanting to be dissected, whether it's with hands that want to pull your organs apart or stitch them back together because no matter what they're there, and they're getting frighteningly close to your heart. It's about blinding yourself and covering your eyes to it all because seeing means exposure and exposure means they're taking something from you and you can't do anything about it, much less take it all back, much less have a say in the matter. Everyone's just taking and taking and taking and you wish you could just be alone. You wish everyone would just disappear and you could live in a world all to yourself, for only yourself (but is that really what you want?).

It's about the way that, near the beginning of the Yoka ni Mitoreta MV, Mizuki and her loneliness is represented as a dark, splotchy stain in the shadows. No colors, no patterns, no way to clean it or wash it all away, just raw ugliness marring a blank canvas. It's about the way that Ena reaches out to it anyway, the way she startles when the glass shatters just when she finally starts reaching forward, the way that the rest of the MV/song represents her searching for and reaching only further out to Mizuki, even if the broken shards of glass will only cut her fingers, potentially leaving scars.

It's about how, in every way, subtly, directly, consciously, and subconsciously, Ena shows that she fucking cares.

It's about the way that Ena lets Mizuki have autonomy, despite the situation being so horribly out of their control. And it's such a delicate thing: If she really wants to, Mizuki can take the opportunity to just run away, keep running forever, repeat the cycle over and over, and maybe she'll just destroy herself with it again, but it can't be denied that it's something important to them, something she can't quite live without just yet, their means of survival. Mizuki's autonomy is their identity, it's her tailoring her own clothes and choosing her own ribbons and styling her own hair the way she does. Ena letting them have that is as much about trust as it is about understanding that Mizuki of all people should have this right, when control was something stripped from her throughout so much of her life. She couldn't control how she was born, how people look at her or why, can't control what they think of her; lacking control has only left Mizuki vulnerable to the cruelties of others, has only caused them to suffer, which is why it's so important that it's given to them now.

She had the control to make the choice to see niigo's welcoming love and run away instead of staying, and she has the control to make the choice now whether she wants to keep things the way they are or take a step forward to be at their side again. She has every right to have it, and I think the fact that Ena realizes and respects that, even if it's subconsciously, is really beautiful (there is an entire fucking Verse about this in the new song and just. God Look at this. It's so caring, unconditional, and for fucking What. I think there is something to be said about how much Ena is willing to put aside for Mizuki, and maybe deep down it isn't healthy, but for now I'm just kind of in awe)

It's about how insanely patient Ena has been this whole time. Mizuki says that she basically lied to Ena's face about telling her their secret, even after Ena said with such conviction that she would wait for Mizuki as long as it takes, and Ena is just kept waiting and waiting and worrying like this seemingly indefinitely. It's about how Mizuki danced around it, avoided it, kept the distance, straight up ran when she was finally pushed, but Ena still chased anyway when she saw that she couldn't wait anymore, kept chasing just enough to intervene and get a straight answer out of Mizuki when she really needed to, but still leaving her enough space to leave if that was truly what she wanted. It's about how relieved Ena is the moment that Mizuki finally says outright how much they want to be with her and niigo, how much she wants to try, how much more light Ena's voice sounds when she grabs her hand, relieved, the way that the relief she feels can be felt through the music, throughout the entirety of Yoka ni Mitoreta, the way that warm colors always follow her when she chases after Mizuki, just to hold onto her and stop her from running away completely.

It's about how that careful combination of Ena's directness, Ena's persistence, Ena's warmth, her patience, her bluntness about her feelings, the way she chases and holds on but not too tight and her regard for how unsafe and exposed Mizuki feels actually works and breaks it all down. It's about how she really did reach through to Mizuki, despite the thorns and broken glass shards and nearly-unfulfilled promises, the way that Mizuki did finally let her turn the door handle and step through to see what she'd been hiding all this time, the way that Mizuki's hand, limp, when Ena first grabs onto it, shifts to hold hers back as they cry in the face of Ena's gentleness.

Despite how harsh Mizu/Ena5, and even Ena herself as a character can be (or at least was in the very beginning of pjsk), everything is somehow gentle and warm in the end, blindingly so. And you know what, I think that's beautiful. And what's even more beautiful than that is how Mizuki allows themself to crumble and shatter under that kindness, that warm light, but this time, finally, out of relief.

On a final note, I just want to say that I also appreciate how all that didn't have to solve everything. The scars haven't disappeared, haven't gone away, and Mizuki knows that their desire to run hasn't gone away forever, and maybe it never truly will. But for now they've calmed it, at least a little. She's learning to allow herself to be seen, learning that when someone's fingertips brush over their scars the way Ena's did that it's only out of care, and that maybe taking in that care and allowing herself to feel kindness and safety is okay. They're safe, for now, somehow. They're learning. They're trying. And I think that's cool :)

[cabbagestrand]

oh, to be taken care of

[sky-kiss]

A Mother's Love

Watch me cope hard. Spoilers for the end of Clair Obscur so like. Click away if you haven't finished. I'll put it under a cut, but it's images from the final fight looking at the framing of a certain character's intervention.

All screenshots taken from this video as I haven't made it back in my NG+ save yet. All the credit to the video creator.

First off, you can absolutely say/believe that Aline only intervenes because Renoir is distracted and she sees it as her best opportunity to push him out of the Canvas.

However, I'd posit that Aline knows she can't hold the Canvas in her current state. She's an experienced Painter, she knows the physical cost, and she's on death's door. And Aline doesn't enter the fight immediately. She waits. Not until Renoir is at his weakest, when she could potentially oust him, but for when it's clear that Renoir/the Axons are too powerful, and Alicia won't be able to overcome him.

Aline airdrops in and then very deliberately pauses to look at Alicia.

Alicia's expression is shocked at first, then hopeful. Her mother sees her and intervenes on her behalf.

If Aline was only interested in taking the Canvas back for herself, she would have no reason to do any of this. She could have pulled her Attack on Titan shenanigans right out of the gate. The scene is also framed to position her between Alicia and Renoir, to put Alicia behind her in a protected position.

And after Aline does transform and goes to nuke Sirène with extreme prejudice, this is Alicia's reaction.

She smiles. Maman finally showed up for her.

Compare this to Verso's obvious horror.

Finally, the lyrics in Une vie à peindre. At this point, they've shifted. Aline/Alice (Renoir/Victor after, then both together) is now singing:

Reaching out my hand and begging you

Come back

Renoir's time in the Canvas is also over.

After the fight is finished, when Renoir and Alicia are both at their weakest, when it would be the opportune moment to make a last-ditch effort to reclaim the Canvas, Aline doesn't. She just reaches out to her husband and then fades. It's a moment of understanding between them. And Alicia has the Canvas.

In summary, coping hard, after all the terrible things she put Alicia through, I fully believe that Aline decided to step up and finally do something for her daughter.

Now, it's ultimately probably a bad thing that she did this—if Aline can catch some stray L's, she gonna do it—but from Alicia's PoV it's loving.

[starbiology]

my fav with every power imaginable whos defeated instantly every time

[humblefryingpan]

Uty au where Clover doesn't die and Martlet actually gets to adopt them

(Clover yaps at her the entire way back to snowdin, she's too exited to pay attention, they both get lost multiple times)

[witcheshollow]

I love that we have all collectively decided that Jeremys French tutor is going to be suspicious. We literally know nothing abt this person, but bc theyre Not Jean teaching Jeremy French they earned immediate suspicion

[soothedcerberus]

Do you do all of your work and comics traditionally or do you just do the sketch and then colors n' such are digital?

Almost everything is traditional! I scan my art and then digitally edit/clean it up it a bit :] Thank u for asking!

[webshood]

Imagine how awkward it must've been for Death of the Endless to get Jason's soul back from heaven, just to put it back on a body six feet under, still inside of a casket