#but he’s still relatively similar

[pastelliek]

After nearly 2 YEARS now, here is Aaron’s possibly official design

[autumnwhistles]

(note: this is purely from a character perspective, not a comment on CCs.)

grian and scar have now both been in opposite positions to the original 'cactus ring', and it's so interesting to compare their attitudes to sacrifice on both ends. whether or not scar threw the fight in the cactus ring, he did offer for grian to kill him before it began. grian declined this, but was clearly fighting with the intention to win during the fight itself – he's giving scar a chance, but not sacrificing.

in secret life, scar's on the other end of things. he's fighting another winner – who herself has been sacrificed for previously – and, like grian, is going into what he assumes to be a fair fight... but which is in his favour due to the others' willingness to sacrifice themselves for him. this is a common pattern for winners: in whichever order, they take the win once, and are once willing to sacrifice themselves to let another take it.

cut to wild life.

this time, it's grian in the final two once more, yet again against an – albeit more distant – ally. he's got a win under his belt already, so you might expect him to do what pearl did, what scott did, right? sacrifice their chance at glory to let another taste it for the first time.

and yet:

"I'm going to have to kill Joel"

"Can I win this? I worked so hard on this series, I'd love to win it!"

because here's an important thing about life series!grian: though he's willing to even the playing field, he's not willing to sacrifice – not when it matters. pledge your loyalty to right a wrong, yes; give lives to gain allies hours, yes; refuse others' sacrifices to fight on fair terms, yes. but in the end, no matter how much he wants to stick with friends, no matter how bad he feels about it, no matter how may "i'm so sorry"s he gives – he will put his own life first, in the end.

there's a reason he's the reason for so many of his allies' deaths, after all. and in its contrast, the wild life finale showcases this beautifully.

(and for the record, i don't see anything wrong with this from an out-of-univere perspective – it's been 5 seasons and 3.5 years since Grian's last win, and even if it hadn't been, it's the CCs place to judge fairness, not ours.)

[shinmiyovvi]

Here are my TNMN babis :3

Alt. version under the cut and Delora's other outfit

Alt version with Delora's doorman outfit

[cosmicheartz]

Can’t let the hoes know I kinda fuck with foxlamb

[charliespringverse]

... it's just hit me that lister describes the bathroom kiss as assault and even when jimmy reassures him that he doesn't see it that way and doesn't have a problem with it, lister refuses to accept that it was anything other than objectively assault

while two days earlier jimmy insisted that a 32-yr-old having sex with lister at age 16 was wrong, despite lister not seeing it that way and not having a problem with it

does that mean that lister took that conversation on board but only as far as "the person on the receiving end of an advance can't accurately assess whether or not it was wrong" and is now equating himself to the woman that took advantage of him . because i will weep

[triviareads]

today's HR take I'm choosing to be scandalized over is the idea that Lisa Kleypas did Westcliff dirty.

[navree]

to be clear, i'm not angry about pretty boy slade wilson at all, if clark is just starting out then bruce has probably only been at it for a couple years himself, and dick is definitely still flipping about at haly's with his totally alive not ever gonna die parents and a good few years from slade deciding that his archnemesis needs to be a teenager from the most insane family in all of north america, it makes sense that slade so far is a young man still fulfilling mercenary contracts and other things like that and still in the relative flush of youth

also again, the way they drew him was hot, if this is how slade's anime twink phase goes i'm not mad about it

[silvershayde]

Why did tfp do starscream like that? ill always wonder

[oh-great-authoress]

In regards to F1, I think I finally understand why I have latched onto Max Verstappen.

It’s because he slightly looks like and reminds me of my brother*.

[formulatrash]

Andrea Stella literally said they're going to use Lando to train Oscar

hell yea sibling that's how F1 teams work!

[mbat]

of all things in my au im putting mrs gleeful in a prominent role? so thats how my life is going

[quillheel]

ring ring ring ring banana phone~! // @inverteds

[ txt -> ... x. ] hi. not spam, don't worry. it's the curse swallower, geto. technically a fellow instructor. [ txt -> ... x. ] satoru gave me your contact. i had some questions about your situation. from the sound of it, it isn't an average curriculum you're teaching, is it ? [ txt -> ... x. ] though, i don't think there'd be anything that could bait you into being a teacher if there wasn't some arm twisted behind your back.

[lucifer-kane]

I will also say about Christopher/Helimire-verse characters in aus is that. I have so many aus with that crew/Christopher specifically. Self indulgently I put Christopher into a Saw au type deal. He's soooooo so fucked up in that <3

[themyscirah]

Started a post comparing the Messner-Loebs Flash and WW runs and their successes and failures (imo) in portraying certain themes and their similarities to each other but it started getting long and im a very slow tumblr post writer so that's a meta for another day. I do have what I think are well formed opinions on this and I'm fresh off of reading both runs so you guys are not allowed to let me forget abt writing this all up okay. Okay.

[thirdeyeblue]

(Your tags deserved to live on!)

it's insane to me that people can't get past the nuances of rose and mickey's relationship and how they're both good people who don't do right by each other. like this is a show where the main character (allegedly) kills his entire species and you can't get past why two people who started dating in their teens might fuck each other up a bit

[irregularbillcipher]

you go too deep in the kryptos tag and you start digging up the true fandom artifact, arnold kryptos, tad strange’s even less canon cousin