#base instincts

[oh-dear-so-queer]

In the Christian circles we frequented, the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is regarded as a shameful endorsement of sinful debauchery – a 'giving in', to use the biblical language, to use the base instincts of our fallen human nature. Having had so little to do with gay and lesbian people, I confess I was apprehensive about what sort of folks we might meet, but as we ambled through Hyde Park, passers-by, spectacles of colour and jubilation, embraced us and included us in their merry-making.

"In/Out: A Scandalous Story of Falling Into Love and Out of the Church" - Steph Lentz

[ofswordsandpens]

thinking about how the (greek) big three swore to never sire any more demigod children because those children are just too powerful (dangerous) and also thinking about how the characters that, arguably, seem to have the greatest proclivity for cruelty in the name of justice or vengeance are also the (greek) big three children... there's something there, a connection to be made I'm sure of it

[lara-cairncross]

@sha-biest ur model/bodyguard au is perfect bc it gives me an excuse to make Mikey into my personal dress-up doll

[originalartblog]

pamper tiny chuuya tooo pleaseeeee (also can i see tiny verlaine and rimbaud) 🙏

I tinified them :)

[starry-bi-sky]

yall ever think Shen Yuan went through like, internet withdrawal after being transmigrated into Shen Qingqiu? Like, he's canonically a NEET shut-in who did nothing but spend his time online, you can't tell me that for the first week or first few weeks of being SQQ he wasn't twitchy.

Like, reaching instinctively to his pockets for a phone that wasn't there, having an obsessive itch in the back of his mind that he should check and see if X or Y novel or webcomic has updated -- only to realize he can't anymore and being irritated by it. Wanting to go and see if there's new posts about this or that, but again realizing that he can't.

When he's bored or uncomfortable or just feels like wanting to escape he tries to go for his phone to distract himself, but oops! Not there anymore, and now he has to find a new and different way to distract himself from his feelings. And going through system notifications, quests, etc only does so much.

And there's that Tetris Effect too. SQQ makes a mistake while writing and instinctively goes to backspace on it except hey-ho that's not a keyboard and now he just dipped his pinkie into a bottle of ink or on a still-drying letter.

With him scrambling to fix his reputation and learn how to be a peak lord, I think his abrupt cold-turkey from all things internet would just be another straw on the camel's back that he promptly Ignores until it goes away on its own after he acclimates to his new surroundings.

[avelera]

Jayce’s existence in Arcane really explores the horror of what it would be like to be a completely dweeby nerd with the face and figure of a football player

[marclef]

Peppino still has nightmares about that fateful fight... they're never pretty.

[luc3ks]

it's pink time, with miss cinnamon now as a puppy dawg werehog

and a repost of the sonic and tails that go with her, the art and designs are outdated by two yrs sorry but I don't feel like redrawing them rn (and they are both vampires) (they're in the 80s if you couldn't tell)

[maddragonfruit]

Rewatching Accepting anxiety part two and Logan buddy, you literally yelled out "E=MC SCARED!" While you were being overloaded with anxiety. Your base instinct when panicking was to make a pun. You aren't fooling anyone.

[starrysharks]

10 months after gym + mewing ‼️‼️💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[royaltea000]

I don’t think your rizz is working my man :/

[gotyouanyway]

a time lord is an animal

[chronalshifts]

thinking about jayce arcane and the way he manages to make completely fucked up decisions through nothing more than base instincts. like. he doesn’t want to lose funding for hextech so he leans into the council. he feels powerless and wants to defend his city so he winds up accidentally killing a kid. he doesn’t want to lose viktor so he turns him into a void aberration without a second thought. do you hear me. is this thing on

[strangerwheelerthings]

Nancy is fascinating to me because here's this teenage girl who's very much a teenage girl. She's not even old enough to drive in season one, and she worried about boys. But then, whenever people are in danger, it's as if a switch is flipped. A very different switch to when she alone is in danger, mind you.

When there's someone else to worry about, she starts operating in a Fight mindset that's different from anyone else. She's impulsive to an extreme. She loses all sense of self-preservation. Any sense of hesitation and trauma just gets completely repressed till the dangers over.

Just, I don't know how to express how Insane I am over her and the fact that her desire to protect was so strong that she Immediately pointed a gun at the person she was trying to protect; at 15. She lost any care for how this might look or anything else because her mind had become too deadset on getting Steve as far away from the danger as soon as humanly possible. It was impulsive and dumb... and an incredibly genius move that could have worked really well, except she forgot to factor in the way other people freeze in the face of danger.

That's just not even an option in her mind. She sees an unknown glowy portal while trying to save her best friend? She dives in. A little boy is possessed and hurting the people he loves most? She stabs him with a hot fire poker. She sees a car charging her brother and friends down? She stands in between them and shoots. A friend gets pulled underwater? She jumps in right after. Max and her family are being threatened? She decides to Murder a monster as fast as possible with her on the very front line.

It doesn't always work. She's a teenage girl; she's not exactly a tactical warfare expert. Yet, this apparent fearlessness is noticed by everyone around her and they all follow her lead and turn to her for direction.

Meanwhile, she knows that she tends to act like that when she's drowning the most.

Then, when the danger is over, she cries and she shuts down and she remembers she's just a little girl again and she doesn't know how to be that anymore. She's stuck in a fight and protect and just survive mode that she has no idea how to escape.

[steelthroat]

Ooooh we have the results so I'm taking from both polls the 2 winners:

Last vote

Let it be known I have a favorite... so I sure hope you choose the prettiest mech. Pretty. You know. My favorite pretty guy

:3

[carlyraejepsans]

my god the papyrus introvert/extrovert analysis was so pussy popping for me. can I ask how you analyze characters because at this point you have to leave some prowess for the rest of us. love your stuff.

rule number one never state anything as fact unless you can back it up with minimum one direct reference to canon, preferably more. Unfortunately you just have to be really autistic for this step (tip: the undertale dialogue dump and the UT text project are your best friends)

rule number two, be your own most insidious critic. look over what you put together and think "if i were a contrarian little shit who wanted to disagree with everything i said, what would be my arguments, what sources would i cite, what ground would i stand on" and either pick their thesis to shreds, or alter your original take accordingly if you do notice a gap in your logic.

rule number three, always, always ask yourself "why would toby have made this decision". characters and stories don't appear out of the ether, they are information offered to you by the author with (sometimes very clear, sometimes not so much) intent behind it. if the text presents you with something, ask yourself: should i take this at face value? is this an objective representation of reality within the work? is this tainted by one of the characters' personal views? are they right? are they wrong? are they lying? are they misinformed? repeat the first two thesis/antithesis/synthesis steps for this stuff as well and you'll slowly build up your analysis muscles