#but I'm getting ahead of myself...

[dribs-and-drabbles]

Pran 🤝🏽 Episode 4

A master of manipulation.

An episode that began with showing how Pran (and Pat to some extent) is a master manipulator, is itself an example of manipulation at its finest. And it's us the audience that is being manipulated. The irony being that whilst Pran expertly manipulates his and Pat's friends into working on the bus stop, the show manipulates us into feeling the depths of Pran's heartache. Yes, we can place some blame on Pat's actions (as oblivious as they may be) but it's also how the production design framed a lot of things.

First we're being shown that Pat is in love with Pran: Pat holding Pran's waist in the stairwell; the flirting disguised as insults at the bus stop; the "I thought you said you liked someone in architecture" from Korn that never got explained; Pat and Pran wearing almost matching colours when looking for the headphone - blue, white, and cream (with Pat the only one with black...but Pran's looking for his black headphone...plus black is opposite of white and these two are nothing if not classic opposites...). All this, and Pat's clear desire to be around Pran as much as possible in ep 3, clearly indicates Pat must love Pran...

But sike! not really because here's Ink, a love interest for Pat. He used to like her and might still like her now: Pat and Ink are in matching colours (Pat's Salome t-shirt and Ink's mustard yellow vest); romantic music is playing when Ink is fixing Pat's hair; Pat starts wearing the bracelet Ink gave him in high school; Pa leaves Pat and Ink alone because she's "clearing the way" for him; the flashbacks to show how close they were in high school; Pran feels the need to ask Ink if she likes Pat... All this going to show that Pat definitely likes Ink...

But wait! We then get thrown back to Pran with the "If I have these dimples will I be as cute as you?"; Pat asking to stay the night; Pat in that shirt; the "Are you afraid people would think I'm flirting with you?"; Pat being annoyed when Ink disturbs them on the bleachers; Pat's "If you hug me this tight, you might as well take me as your boyfriend"; and Korn's "what's gotten into you Pat?" as Pat gravitates to Pran after his injury. Yes, what has gotten into you Pat?

So of course we're left wondering who Pat really likes and whether even he knows it or is just oblivious to his feelings (some of us were even convinced that Pat liked Pran and was aware of it - I remember the divide of opinion and discourse about this back then). And all this manipulation culminates in the show having not only Pran but all of us on absolute tenterhooks after that little question at the end - "do you like Ink?". The countdown to the most anticipated moment of the year series...and then our collective disbelief and heartbreak when the answers came: "no" | "yes".

What do you mean, Pat?! You're quite clearly in love with Pran!

[xyl4-4444]

Dumping these doodles bcus Twilight Forest is STILL a GOATED Minecraft mod

[veinsfullofstars]

"Still trying to intimidate me? Cute."

(ID: Kirby series fanart of Meta Knight and Galacta Knight based off of a couple dynamics template by @/ReddsMess on Twitter. Original template and source below the cut, as well as a HAL language variant. Top-left panel - high-angle shot of MK lit from above, standing firm and glaring up through his mask, his wings curled out and breaching the panel in places, subtitled "Well well..." Top-right panel - low-angle shot of GK lit from below, looming in the air and leering down through his mask, his wings curled out and his hands spread wide in challenge, both of which breach the panel in places, subtitled "Look who came to see me..." Bottom panel - MK & GK stand next to each other, the latter leaning towards the former and gently caressing the side of his mask with the back of one hand, grinning smugly and wrapping a wing around the knight, subtitled "My Knightmare." MK stands stiffly with his fists clenched at his sides, blushing vividly and glaring away from the warrior. A little flurry of white hearts emanate from GK, while one small one hovers above MK. END ID.)

Started 03/30/24, finished 04/02/24.

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HAL language variant:

Original by ReddsMess (template link) NOTE: The artist has marked 16-18+ in their bio, so browse at your own risk!

[welcometogrouchland]

(ID in alt) I literally said I was gonna post this month's ago and then never had the wherewithal to describe it and so I didn't Lmao (said with pain). But since I'm thinking of opening my commissions I figured I should remind ppl that I. Yknow. Can draw.

Lots of Steph here (I had major art block making all of these and my brain worms for her kept me going) + some sprinkles of stephcass for Cass nation to enjoy!

[iizuumi]

Enough general kn8 art, time to make everyone look at my weird little ship hello

[scoobydoodean]

The thing is that when Cas first laid a hand on Dean in hell he was lost, and not actually because "For the first time, I feel". Cas had felt before he knew Dean. We know this because we know Cas had rebelled before. Naomi tells us Cas never did as he was told—that Cas had a "Crack in the chassis straight off the line" (something Chuck later echoes in a rage).

Cas's rebellion is far older than Dean and that rebellion is a function of what he feels. Cas just doesn't get to remember feeling. Each time he does, he's stripped of the memory of it... but subconsciously he starts to understand it as something he must keep secret.

Can I tell you something if you promise not to tell another soul?

Cas is in love with humanity, and we conflate this with Dean because Dean is the narrative heart, and the subject of Cas's greatest love, and because the concept of humanity and Dean are so deeply linked they're almost one in the same. We are not at all wrong to conflate the two, but make no mistake—Cas is in love humanity.

You misunderstand me, Dean, I’m not like you think. I was praying that you would choose to save the town.

Cas calls humanity a work of art, and the camera pans to Dean sitting on the bench beside him. Dean represents humanity. Not just as precious works of art, but also because humans get to feel. Humans don't get lobotomized for feeling. Dean encourages Cas to feel. He encourages Cas to feel by asking him to—begging him to, and by feeling for others, and by existing and deserving to be loved himself.

Dean echoes free will to Cas like a call from the wild. He's the beauty of humanity. He's the liberation and beautiful terror of choice. The reason "You always have a choice" and "There is a right and there is a wrong here, and you know it" works is because Cas already feels, already hopes, already loves.

You were gonna help me once, weren't you? You were gonna warn me about all this, before they dragged you back to Bible camp. Help me -- now. Please.

The function by which Dean gets through to Cas is through Cas's own feelings and convictions. He gets through because Cas is "not a hammer, as you say". Cas has questions. Cas has doubts.

Cas is in love with humanity, and every time he remembers it, he gets packed off to Bible Camp and he forgets. But he can remember again. What it takes is a push. What it takes is a hand reached out in the darkness. The day Cas rescued Dean from hell, two people were saved. A hand clawed out toward Cas too, breaking through his own torturous prison and offering him escape. For the first time in a long time, he felt.

Dean's importance is that he touches Cas. He makes Cas remember. And he keeps making Cas remember. Through touch, through words, through the expression of his own affection for Cas and for others. Because Dean cares, Cas cares.

[andy-clutterbuck]

1x04 - What We | The Ones Who Live

[illir]

some holmes bros arts that i've done until now bc they're so funny together (also canon never shows us how they looked like when they were younger i had to be delusional and do it myself) (ft. sherliam)

(i drew these three above last year before they revealed mycroft's hair is actually curlier than sherlock's, so.)

bonus: modern au

bonus: sherliam

(i drew this in 2021 way before we even knew sherlock disliked getting compared to mycroft, that scene makes me so happy he got so offended LMFAO 😭)

(i drew this after william and mycroft won the 2022 valentine's day voting!! (it's not voting))

[eriexplosion]

WHAT is this about Jennifer

[respectthepetty]

This is too much blue for a lying scheming man

But I guess it reached its targeted audience

I don't know what to do with this.

[pinkeoni]

So in the same season we get this:

We also get a shot of Suzie very not-subtly holding up the book A Wizard of Earthsea towards the camera, which happens to be a copy with a purple cover

Perhaps this is meant to be a further hint and foreshadowing at Will's potential powers? And if so, could Will's story be similar at all to that of the protagonist of Earthsea— Ged?

[deeism]

ok no honestly i'm thinking about it i am so pumped not even just for sunny 17 itself (i mean obviously) but more so for the experience it's going to be for sunnyblr to get together and watch it and talk together and reconvene after every episode and share our thoughts and stuff. seriously highlight of my summer last year was doing that. we are going to get so so weird about it. there will be such pointless and unsettling discourse. and ultimately it will bring us closer. and it will be a great time

[chocokano]

it is officially the one year anniversary of hz episode 16, aka THE spinel pokemon episode, therefore!

a redraw of my very first (08/01/23) digital drawing of spinel (*'▽'*)

plus cool overlay hehe

i can't believe it's been a whole year since he got his big episode ∑(ﾟДﾟ) i don't think i'll ever be as excited for any episode as i was for 16

here's to another year of this freak !! maybe he'll actually show up soon outside of a 5 second appearance that sets up him being suspicious just for it to be forgotten for months

og under cut! (old art alert)

[teaandsmut]

I'm wearing this to a wedding in the summer and had this thought while I was trying it on the other day.

[mintjeru]

sunlight on water

open for better quality | no reposts

[rad-roche]

thank you for the very sweet comments on my first stab at comic making. now the world is my oyster. who knows what sorts of pictures i can make, and then put in an order to imply time passing. maybe there will be something cool, like a gun, or a breast, in it