#authentic power

[kellymagovern]

[greatest-on-delivery]

My sword is sharpened as it cuts through the flesh and bones of my inner demons...

[thepeacefulgarden]

[gophergal]

TFC VN Style? Sure

[stardvstbby]

i love how Adora’s second She-Ra headpiece mirrors Catra’s silhouette and that her hair retains the style she wears as Adora. it’s like now that she’s relying on her own strength to become She-Ra, her appearance reflects her authenticity and what she’s fighting for (her loved ones)

[explodingstarlight]

spent a month mashing two of my long term hyperfixations together into an AU, bone apple teeth

I wouldn't consider this a crossover as much as an inspired AU because autism brain drew parallels between the two narratives and I think it would be fun to explore the earlier years of the apocalypse, before the world is absolutely decimated (alongside many of the resources), before the fam loses Donnie and Raph, et cetera. I have Plans™

Paying homage to this iconic panel from The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem:

Still finalizing each of the bro's code names, but here are the initial drafts and close-ups of their designs:

Riff-Raph

Donamite

Antimatter Master-Plan

Magic Mic

[fluffydice]

Guy with Generalized Anxiety Disorder be like

[5thsideblog]

if the creators wanted us to think mike and el were this beautiful power couple that will stand the test of time and have their big cheesy fairytale ending why not schedule finn and millie to have a q&a together…. Instead of finn and noah…. why are they grouping finn and noah/mike and will together SO much this season. Like i know we haven’t officially entered promotion yet and won’t for a long time but even all the leaks ive seen photo wise ive seen more for will and mike than mike and el. it’s crazy 😭😭 like the more i think about it none of the crazy theories or overanalysis is what makes me think byler will happen, it’s simply the way the creators choose to group them together all the time. When one of the guys is literally in a canonical relationship with the main girl.

[shannonsketches]

[mymidwestheart]

[aldoodles]

Teenage me used to write exclusively in my email (unhinged behavior tbh) because it had a good search system and also because I was sending my writing to friends.

Anyways, I’ve been trying to archive these hundreds of emails into a Scrivener file because I don’t trust my email at all. It’s been slow going because I keep getting distracted by reading them. And rereading these has been a TRIP.

Please have these doodles of how I imagined my two main ocs in the year 2014 (they had a lot of iterations between 2009 and 2017).

[jarofalicesgrunge]

Alice in Chains

[drdemonprince]

Is it bad if I don't come out because the secrecy of being closeted turns me on?

people who dont come out because being closeted is hot 🤝people who aren't poly because it turns them on to cheat

[rings-of-power-realm]

Literally crying (the good kind) after watching that trailer for like the fifth time today and I'm just so overwhelmed because this show Middle Earth and everyone in it is so important to me and these trailers have been so epic and beautiful full of emotion and light and dark and everything I love from Tolkien and LOTR films (since the trilogy was how I first got into Middle Earth) and I never thought I'd see something that would compare to LOTR Trilogy but The Rings of Power truly does. I care so much about these characters just like I do Frodo and Sam and Aragorn and Eowyn etc.

And it also makes me emotional hearing Bears beautiful rousing score once again he is gonna knock it out of the park. Im crying at Celebrimbor at Elronds desperate fight to save the world and people he loves at Galadriel and the huge weight she carries. I am so invested in them all.

It looks phenomenal from the music and costumes to the dialogue and set pieces this world is real they have made magic and it deserves so much appreciation so much love because I can see that it is made with heart and soul and is a story for all time, one that I am so grateful to hold so close.

[sugaryewscythe]

i am so fucking strong and powerful to have endured what i've gone through and still emerge vibrant, untouchable, and gorgeously authentic. like holy shit i am a fucking god.

[heliomanteia]

I also think that inherent extra weight that Nico narratively carries (being deus ex machina) makes it hard to define him because it’s not very clear where something that defines him as a character (personality) ends and where something that defines him as a function (narrative) starts.

Someone could argue a character is defined by both and in a way it’s true but it I like digging past narrative means and into the pure unaltered characterization.

And I think that the thing that defines Nico is authenticity. He’s a perpetual other. Otherness defines him as a sole consistent thing on every layer of his character. I’d argue that most of the time it’s imposed on him by his surroundings and other people, but at some later points it’s also slightly self imposed. I think stripping Nico’s otherness away is rolling back a giant part of his personality so I don’t vibe with that “no one actually ever feared/hated him” useless canon reset. No, he was there. And he was forced to overcome it.

And as an opposition of otherness comes authenticity. Nico doesn’t bend into the needs and wants of others, he doesn’t do anything he doesn’t want to do. The only times he’s forced into acting against his nature are the times when his agency is taken away (e.g. getting groomed by the ghost of Minos). And the fact that you literally can’t sway Nico until he wants something is why the choices he does make matter so much. He owns being the other.

Nico di Angelo isn’t a wet pathetic cat, he’s very cool, as a character. He’s his own authentic self even if it causes rift between himself and others. He heard a “you’re not like us” and, ultimately, went, “and?”