#and this isnt even scratching the surface

[lollittlespooder]

I'm having a brainrot over Jarlaxle’s sexuality (and personality as a whole)

Like, I usually dont like “player/fuckboy” characters, but Jarlaxle does it so well. I think it’s his drow upbringing. Being raised in a matriarchal and heavily religious society where male wants and sexuality isnt taken seriously and breaking free from that he is finally allowed to explore that on his own terms.

But he is still in his beginning phase of that. Even if he is free of Menzoberanzan, he still carries that trauma. What he tries to get out of sex isnt liberation, it’s validation, and boy is he thirsty for validation. He collects friends like a dragon collects treasures. Everyone has to like him or he goes insane (if he likes them back is completely irrelevant).

Most drow men wants validation from women, its a status symbol, and (in some small way) protection in an otherwise ruthless existence. But Jarlaxle also got abandonment issues with the whole “my mom tried to kill me, a lot”, so it just amplifies it even more.

Jarlaxles whole personality just hits different because it makes sense. On a quick glance he is just a playboy that dresses like a clown and has to be the center of attention, but scratch the surface and he is so much more than that. And it is slowly driving me insane how tragic his story actually is.

I need to read more about him 🤯

[emilinqa]

star trek tos is deeply entrenched in its identity as a 60s tv show for better or for worse (both) but i think retroactively the city on the edge of forever ends up showcasing this more now since its set in a time we can now as 21st century viewers connect with being closer to the time it was produced, rather than the nebulous 23rd. it's interesting because for me i think the single episode informs the way i connect an imagined future to the actual real 1960s the show was written in, particularly in the language and the way relationships between characters are depicted in the way they speak to one another. in that single episode it suddenly feels that the coded language everyone uses, the subtext, the hints and euphemisms is a necessity of the world rather than a feature of the show. and suddenly (for me, at least) that totally shapes the rest of the way i view the rest of the original series. though the way they speak to one another doesn't really tangibly change all that much, when they're placed in the setting of the 1930s the way that kirk and spock speak to each other and about one another entirely shifts.

edith asks kirk in regards to his relationship with spock "I still have a few questions I'd like to ask about you two. Oh, and don't give me that 'questions about little old us' look, you know as well as I do how out of place you two look here." which. well. hello. and later when she asks "Why does Spock call you captain? Were you in the war together?" and kirk says "we... served together" its like yes the obfuscation of their identities and who they are to one another is a necessity of the plot and time travel reasons but i also can't pretend that particular response doesn't color kirks line 2 episodes later in amok time "you've been called the best first officer in the fleet, that's an... enormous asset to me" in a different light. the necessity of secrets and closed doors and frantically having to conceal themselves and their tiny little apartment with a pair of twin beds and ediths "you, by his side as if you've always been there and always will" and "'Captain'? See, even when he doesn't say it, he does" well i can't act like it doesn't change the way i see their enforced professional distance in other episodes, even when they're back safe in their own century. its why The conversation cut from the original harlon ellison script hits seriously i think. it's like a deeply personal confession of desire for a life that could never be: "On my world the nights are very long. The sound of the silver bird against the sky is very sweet. My people know there is always time enough for everything. You would be comfortable there" and a wistful acceptance ("All the time in the world...") in another time in another life in another place it could be but just not this one. spock's endless resignation. well it just changes everything for me. star trek is about the 1960s!!!!!!

[kaeyachi]

The fact that Clothar has repeatedly mentioned how taboo it is that he had an illegitimate child with a non-Khaenri'ahn.

How his family had plans for him that misaligned with how he wanted to live his life with the one he truly loved.

In addition, he is still clearly and vehemently against the archons and worshipping them.

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And then we remember Kaeya.

Kaeya, who has implied that he is not a full-blooded Khaenri'ahn.

Kaeya, who may possibly be a child the main Alberich line would have hated or ostracized had the cataclysm not have happened.

Kaeya who is now dubbed by their father as their "Last Hope".

Kaeya, who was left in the city of freedom. The same man who frequently drinks with the very archon his countrymen would have wanted to see dead.

Do you see how it seems like the tables have turned? How the world turned upside-down with just 1 cataclysmic event?

Kaeya is always contradictory to the common definition of the words he is described as on the surface. He is a cryo user who loves the summer season. He is a knight who schemes and plots in the dark. He is a Khaenri'ahn who wants the freedom of Mondstadt.

[puppyeared]

Do you think you’ll ever do art commissions?

^^

im not really sure. art commissions would let me work at my own pace and make money on the side, but im worried of things thatll get in the way

firstly im more used to drawing for myself. ive drawn other ppls characters and fanart, but those are on my own whims and pace and i dont have to negotiate things with anyone. drawing for someone else can be helpful since i work best with instructions, but im not very keen on doing things im not interested in and i might be hard to work with

i also avoid using online payments when i can, so im apprehensive around making online transactions. etransfer policies arent very kind to artists and theres also the risk of disclosing my personal information

given the industry im going into, im aware that im gonna have to figure out how to tackle these sooner or later, and maybe then ill be confident enough to manage commissions. but right now its fuzzy

[wuntrum]

any instagram artist recommendations? 🧐

SOOO many omg...forgetting a ton but heres a few off the top of my head: sweatermuppets3.0, cursedluver, quasimaddi, woodrow_white, _heretic_ceramics, ingrownmayo, icuffmyjeans, inciardi, sketches.of.shay, tired.virgo.art, bananabirch, nicolasuribeb, raijin.999, wiltart, ciraleth, sophiemcpike, lewisrossignol, leticiaplate, leofox__, mourningdoves, mooooonbug (mightve forgotten an o), flesh.png, magsmunroe, jamiegreenillustration, spacecrumble, bdotpng, salman.toor, ellysmallwood, _morgansuter, ezrazone, riseandwander, adonyne, tacodemuerte, jordanenthusiast, spooksier, rememburgerme, diortheartist, craig.gleason, cranitys, laurarbenson, susan.nethercote... and i could keep going, but i'm gonna stop there for now LDSKJF

[suntails]

Hiya!

I saw your SilRuggie post and I feel you on the "Silver and his many boyfriends" part.

Idk what it is about Silver but he's so... Shippable?

Like I ship SilVil, KalimSil and JadeSil which are kinda popular. But it's also stuff like RidSil and LeoSil (oh so much brainrot currently about LeoSil,) Which aren't as popular.

He's probably my most shipped character like... EVER.

(I may have gotten some ship names wrong)

IT’S THE CHEMISTRY IT’S THE WAY HE HAS CHEMISTRY WITH SO SOSOSO MUCH OF THE CAST!!! he’s so deeply just…good, and he cares so earnestly, and he has examples of interactions with almost fuckgng everyone at this point. like i can understand why someone would ship just abt any silver ship, i GET it, bc theres so much potential. i think i have like��3? that im neutral on? maybe?

also hearing u associate silvil with the kinda popular ones, im fuckign weak at the knees. that is incorrect but im pretending ur right bc it makes me oh so happy

[vaperarmand]

->

[the-skooma-den]

Corinne has fun

[slaygentford]

me when I need lestat image

[penpinetree]

Stars of the city ramble posting: Davey Works

woe, ramble upon you

Davey Works is a workshop office made by Davey that specializes in modular steam powered equipment that work off of "charges" their weapons generate steam in a mysterious manner that Davey doesnt disclose that is stored in up to 4 chambers, steam is spent though a trigger mechanism to enhance that weapon's capabilities, the wielder of the weapon can choose however much of the steam to release for exponential reward.

The Davey Works workshop office consists of Davey (He/him), Eli(she/they), Samuel(she/her), Beatrix(she/her) and Bird(they/them), they're a incredibly tight nit office and consider each other to be family.

The office was established during the events of lobotomy corporation, the story takes place during library of ruina (urban legend - star of the city) and resides in district district 22 where theres currently a power struggle between the thumb and a rising syndicate(s)

[feralghxuls]

@sinewtwine

WELL. since you asked so nicely.

(and ofc i gotta tag my co-conspirator @citruspuppy bc without them these vicious little freaks wouldnt exist as they are uwu)

long story short, maybe alpha needed some behavioral correction, and maybe swiss was looking for a brat project, and maybe alpha likes it a little too much how swiss breaks him down to his very essence and then has the nerve to make him talk about his ~feelings~ afterwards. and maybe swiss ends up falling in love with the little freak. and maybe alpha realizes that somehow swiss is the only one who knows him at all beyond surface level and maybe he hates that enough to lash out at swiss, only for swiss to take control of the situation like he always does and put alpha right on his ass (and really thats what he was looking for after all, he just still doesnt know how to ask for what he wants)

and yeah maybe they both know who's gonna end up on top but they fight it out anyway, cause sometimes alpha is just too wound up and swiss cant turn down a good fight, esp when he knows how brutal it'll be if alpha tackled him in the middle of the hallway and went right for the throat for it. and it kind of really pisses alpha off how swiss lets him get away with that and makes it look like alpha wins that fight until theyre alone later, because how dare swiss know alpha and his life well enough to know that how much shit he'd cause if he disciplined him in front of his pack, waiting instead until no one else is watching to unleash the fury that alpha pulled that shit. and it really pisses alpha off (read: he loves it so much it rolls back around into anger bc he doesnt know what else to do with an emotion so strong) how he knows that the more vicious and nasty swiss is with him, the sweeter he'll be in the aftercare and the tighter he'll hold alpha while he purrs all over him and drags his most deeply buried feelings up out into the open, makes them both look at it raw and bleeding in front of them

and i mean, come on. absolutely no one (read: rain, because he's the only one swiss told) believed swiss when he swore up and down he wasnt gonna fall for alpha, he was just a project, he hasnt had much opportunity since dew has shaped up so well but the first time he had alpha bleeding and ragged before him and he saw the pleading in his eyes, he knew he had something so very precious wrapped up in explosive spikes and he'd dug his way right to the middle of it, had his thumb on the trigger and he'd never press it. he'd come close, sure, he'd taunt alpha and wave it around in front of him, but he'd never really do it. but man...something about the impossible level of trust alpha places in his hands, and how he sees that he truly does want to be better, he just has no idea where to start, has never had any kind of guidance to untangle the everything thats gone wrong his whole life, how alpha had started out seeking destruction but had never bothered to think about the rebuilding...yeah. it gets to swiss. right in the soft spots of his heart

and maybe this is going somewhere. probably not, though. probably if no one intervenes they'll destroy each other. but maybe not, maybe this has a happy ending somewhere down the line

[moonpaw]

the final island is called Laugh Tale, so many characters have unique laughs, Nami laughed freely for the first time in years in the company of others after faking it for so long, Genzo wore a pinwheel on his head because it was the only way baby Nami would laugh around him, Usopp saw a girl falling into depression after losing her parents and devoted a year to making up stories just to get her to laugh, Chopper and Robin were both finally given positive attention by someone and copied their laughs for a short while (Chopper's case an adoptive father, Robin's case her first friend outside of archeologists) Robin lost everything when her home burned down and she tried to desperately laugh the pain away but with the same laugh as Saul before he was frozen alive, Luffy kicks Crocodile's ass but not before demanding him to give Vivi back the country because if it was truly her country she would be laughing a lot more, there's a major war going on and everyone around luffy couldn't help but laugh and rally behind him just because he was being himself despite the environment, there was someone called Joyboy 800 years ago and he brought laughter where he went, the main character is so goofy and silly and laughter that even when he's trying to fight seriously he ends up doing goofy shit that makes you or the people around him burst into laughter, one of his main powerups later on derives on how much he laughs and you can't help but laugh at the silliness of it all

it's a comedy, but it has it's dark and serious and heavy moments but every time it reminds you to laugh and be free!! laughter is so important! a tale of laughs!

it's such an important and major theme through the series but it can be missed so easily, it's in your face but it's not

how many people luffy and the straw hats have saved by bringing their smiles back to their faces, to let them laugh to their hearts content

do you see, do you see

sometimes i remember that one piece's main theme is laughter and i kinda choke up about it

[mourning-star-daily-comet]

you true crime types are soooo annoying. you never let go of ANYTHING. Alex was right about you xoxo 💋💅🤭

im going to shoot you point blank in the back of the head execution style

[haunted-xander]

:3c

[lycocarpum]

Phrases I've said in the past 24 hours:

"I havent been this overwhelmed since I got trapped in the Denver airport"

"I want to induce a heart attack"

(loudest and worst voice crack on planet earth that I cannot recover from mid-presentation)

"hey you want a rose??? My stalker left a bunch in the lobby downstairs"

"I don't really care (about the stalker) bc I just need to get this code running before Monday or I'm killing myself"

(while eating a cupcake) "if you're willing to let an undergrad help I'm more than willing to assist with identifying any human remains!! :D"

[ef-1]

im sorry 10 minutes in, I actually can't. I dropped Flavio in this and realised we're not even 30% done

if we weren't looking camp thinly veiled misogyny in the eye, this whole Susie Wolff / conflict of interest fiasco would actually be hysterical given how deeply incestuous and nepotistic f1 is, its basically a hallowed tradition, this is f1 honouring it's DNA