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[weatherbane]

area Durge willing to experience potentially unrequited love as long as they get to try brand new things such as TouchTM

[jinstronaut]

yoongi in green 💚💚💚 for @cordiallyfuturedwight (cr. namuspromised, dwellingsouls)

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[astralzeraphias]

“he was mentally ill. this monster was a- was a sick fantasy. a product of his dementia.”

“…i saw it too. does that make me disturbed? demented? does… that make me sick too?”

[a2zillustration]

I carried this thing for MONTHS with the EXPRESS PURPOSE of putting Raphael in it (knowing full well Larian wouldn't let me do that, mechanically) and I had one major miscalculation.

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[beatcroc]

something about perspective, representation, or finding beauty in imperfection, i don't know. i mostly just wanted to say that fake pep looks like shitty ice cream.

[cursedpossums]

I'm studying to become a wildlife rehabber, and I'm currently hyperfocused on opossums. I've been obsessed with them. I shit you not I opened my front door to go get soda and almost stepped on him

He's very spicy which is good!! Our wildlife center opens in four hours so we'll be taking him there as soon as they open!

(dw he's in a crate with a heated rice sock and a towel to snuggle in, with room to move away from the heat if he needs to)

major contender for world's most handsome little man?!?!

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

you can really give this girl just the worst time ever in this game huh

[bowsbar]

pillowbook thoughts because ive been thinking about them all day!

[mispatchedgreens]

only one (1) of them is aware that they're in a relationship, three guesses who, and it's not ouyang.

some more kitchen extended universe stuff for the soul. happy holidays

[dddrunkderella]

kinktober day 7: monsterfucking, more like monsterCUCKING- [gets hit with thunderbolts]

full view on poipiku!!

(extra rambles under the cut)

so in the process of drawing this i ended up getting really into the idea that clive's idea of recreation during his time with the Bastards is to 'fraternize' with the sanbrequois dragon population

so in this he's essentially hooking up with an old acquaintence LMAO

sorry cid this clive sometimes gets hungry for a different dick (and having more than one...)

[savcir-faire]

chihayafuru panels that made me cry - ch 153

i love this little moment because hyoro says "you only bother looking at those who are stronger than you" as a dig, out of pain, out of the loneliness wrought by taichi's absence, without the solidarity of having a rival who also struggled to reach the top tier, who also felt like his own efforts would never be enough.

and chihaya is affected by these words. she hates it about herself. she knows she can be singleminded ("selfish" in her own words) and her pursuit of strength blinds her to the needs and wants and feelings of the people around her. she believes it's why she lost her best friend. chihaya feels taichi's absence and echoes the things he did (reminding them to breathe, tapping them on the shoulder) to keep the team together, but ultimately hyoro's words confirm the narrative that she tells herself about why taichi left the club, left her, and because she believes it she acts with the understanding he will never return.

in the microcosm of this match, chihaya leans into the story hyoro tells her about herself because she believes it, too. and in giving into that narrative, she distances herself from her team.

in the mechanics of the match, she wins by such a large margin her words of support echo hollowly to her teammates who are still in their matches, losing. more interestingly, though, as her teammates lose their matches, they're also winning in the fight against the stories about themselves they've internalized over the months and years leading up to the qualifier. chihaya, on the other hand, has lost the fight against the story she tells about herself.

succumbing to that self-loathing story creates a rift mechanically and narratively between her--their captain--and her team. and when the team ultimately loses, it confirms the worst parts of her narrative and she's devastated, because she's telling herself she has to get to that place of unparalleled strength no matter what. she's telling herself that despite efforts to overcome her selfish disregard by acting like taichi, there's something inherent to her that is her team's undoing, she's alone, she's alone, she's alone.

and that's why i love this moment between hyoro and chihaya. because hyoro, who epitomizes the fight against his own self-loathing narrative, extends the grace of that power to chihaya, even though he didn't have to. he could have used the victory in the qualifier to gloat, to close the egoic wound of always being forgotten, dismissed, second best to the mizusawa a-team.

instead, the loneliness in him recognizes the loneliness in her and he recognizes in chihaya's selfish drive to reach the top a selfless drive for connection and helps her realize that in herself as well. because let's be so real, chihaya does not want to be strong just for strength's sake, chihaya plays karuta because she saw in arata and shinobu people who grew up feeling isolated and apart and utterly without a sense of self--like she did--except for karuta. chihaya seeks to be next to them, to connect, to let them know they're not alone, to prove to herself she's not alone either.

and when she stops telling herself that she's cold, she's dismissive, she's alone, when hyoro reminds her of her instinctual ability to care for others, her ability to draw people together, she remembers hyoro's presence in her karuta journey. realizes she's not forgotten him. realizes that they're struggling with the same loneliness. and regains her spirit while also fully acknowledging him as a rival in the sport that connects them.

uuguuhhhhgh im clawing at the walls of my enclosure suetsugu sensei why would you do this! how do you understand the things that need to be understood! how are you so perfectly attuned to love!!!!

[zannolin]

father christmas' gifts to peter being described as being "just the right size for peter to use" when peter is young and presumably still too small to handle a full-sized sword and shield makes me wonder if he stopped using them when he got older, or if they were enchanted like susan's and lucy's gifts and always stayed just right for him. there's a kind of grief in the first one, but also the second feels more consistent with the gifts as father christmas was bestowing them ykwim

[jinstronaut]

plaidkook, for @jiniekook happy birthday, san! ♡♡♡ (cr. dwellingsouls)

[casasupernovas]

thinky thoughts on the rtd era:

when nine regenerated into ten, it was like he regenerated using rose as an imprint but he only got a rough imprint of humanity, the image of it - youthful, enthuastic. but it's just a facade because underneath is the cold, aloof, dark, mysterious alien - still. the image doesn't convince rose at first but through a act of heroism and bravery, ends up being so convincing rose doesn't see a problem with it...until she forgets that despite the youthful nature of the face, they are much, much older and thus have had a long life outside of her, before her and will after her. until the parts of her that are supposed to stand out like compassion and kindess blur in with the alien and instead turn into insensitivity, detatchment and inconsideration.

and rose now wants something that isn't real. the doctor isn't going to settle down with her. he never does. she would never say it but it's what she wanted. when she says the doctor isn't going to slow down so neither will she there is something so desperately sad in the statement. but either way after rose's departure, ten is the equivalent of the chick leaving the nest for the first time. or more like a chick who was pushed out of the nest.

enter donna and martha. and regarding the racnoss, it's like donna encountered the child in the middle of a huge meltdown. his safety blanket is gone. he needs to learn and grow. so enter martha.

like a long-suffering carer who gets little thanks she helps to scrub off the rough edges, teach him things, take care of him, protect him from danger, goes above and beyond. but as all care givers who are taken for granted or give care to someone who doesn't really want it despite knowing they need it, they are taken for granted. and they have to start looking after themselves because it's draining them.

then enter donna, who reaps the benefits of the advice she gave him. though i doubt when she said he needed to find someone to stop him, she meant to find a companion and use them like a stress ball, to put it nicely. he's not perfect but no one is, but this time, it's his turn to help grow someone into their best self. but donna's story is slightly different.

donna gets into a lot of situations with the doctor that are, well, terrifying for her. she does good in pompeii, because she does help save people. but when she sees the ood she's devastated and when it's revealed they were slowly poisoning someone to turn them into one of them donna doesn't know who's in the right anymore. with the sontarans, she's scared out of her mind and with jenny she is the one teaching the doctor to be more open minded ...but by the time the daleks move earth, donna is the only one out of her depth and plaintively terrified.

but then the solution is clear. to survive this she needs to be more doctor like...literally.

all of 10's companions are all doctor-fied to varying degrees. rose's doctorfication makes her cold and unsympathetic, and jackie comments she's starting to be less like herself and more like the doctor. rose thinks this is great. jackie is clearly doesn't. martha jones' doctorfication is major both metaphorially and literally, with her being a medical student and taking the reigns for most of their travels. donna noble is the companion who gets the doctorfication to the highest degree. she literally becomes him and it kills her.

but im racking my noodle as to what the takeaway is. because it appears that donna's self plus the doctor is exactly what they needed to sort the situation...but it's like an almost monstrous/frankenstein take on the balance between what the doctor needs in a companion and why the companion needs the doctor. it's not lost on me that the doctor and donna become hybrids in the episodes where they confront biologically engineered mutants revived from the literal chest cavity of their deranged creator.

so. what gives? and the moment, i don't really have an answer. it's all a bit bleak.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Oh my adhd having students, I mean this in the most "I'm trying to help u pass this class" way possible: what the fuck am I supposed to do with you? And I mean that as an earnest question. If u have advice pls let me know.

[hitachiincest]

why is it that when 2 normal charas so much as Smile to each other or have a touching scene the entire fanbase is like OMG SHIP SHIP THEYRE SO IN LOVE, RIGHT? LOOK @ THEM KYAA

but a problematic pair (be they the obvious twincest bait or 2 charas w an age gap or complicated circumstances or are siblings/sibcon bait etc) will have a scene where they're nearly abt 0.2 secs from making out &/or are speaking/showing their love for one another to a point that's far beyond platonic in nature (maybe even featuring fanservice), are so very clearly openly Flirting with each other/have blatant romantic or sexual tension, &/or are framed in a romantic/sexual light in general etc etc & everyones like no omg they're just normal siblings/family or teacher-student/parent[coded]-child or whatever etc :// u guys r freaks WHAT how r they shippy in any way :// how tf r u shipping them wha huh.

like why is it that when the ship is problematic, people are like