#but i'll tag it anyway

[mizgnomer]

Fourteenth Doctor promo photo from the upcoming Wild Blue Yonder episode

...for Tennant Tuesday (or whatever day this post finds you)

Special thanks to [ The Black Archive ]

[milkywayes]

Thinking about Garrus again and how much I appreciate his character, his development, his search for perspective and how it shapes his relationship with Shepard.

He always wants to do the Right Thing, as in Achieve X Positive End Goal, but the way there is so murky to him. So tough to navigate, to visualize. He likes when it's clear and when it's simple, but it simply never fucking is, so he has to Think It Through. And he simply cannot trust anyone else to do the thinking for him. He can't trust them to value the Right Thing as much as he does. He can't trust them to want it as badly.

and then, ENTER SHEPARD STAGE LEFT, and finally he finds someone that he can trust. With all of it. He can Tell she wants it just as badly, but the difference is, she seems to also have an idea of how to get there.

I've seen people complain that he has no backbone and just agrees with whatever Shepard says, and it's like… they don't get it. He needs someone in his life who he can trust to think things through with him, to meet him where he's at and to engage in good faith. She is the Only person he would ever cede to, the only authority he'll accept, because she has proven herself to care just as much as he cares.

(As a side note, that's also how I view his infamous elevator talks. He's not approaching these conversations closed-mindedly even if his word choice is often lacking or people take offense to his straight-forwardness. As I said, the path is murky for him. He's asking because he genuinely wants to know. He's practically desperate for another point of view. He wants to understand.)

He's the only character who constantly asks Shepard for her opinion on things, on morality issues and approaches and how she'd navigate all the little pitfalls that line the road to Justice. And over the games he recognizes that even this lofty end goal is anything but simple, and it's shaped by how they get there. He doesn't talk these things through with her just to follow her direction like a soldier following orders. Him accepting her response, no matter what it is, is him respecting her so much and believing so much in her true desire for achieving Justice - it's not blanket agreeing with her.

This happens so often in ME3: he'll ask, and she'll respond, and he will accept her answer without judgement, but you never hear him say "you're so right, o my moral compass". He's just mapping the path that's ahead, and he takes her opinion as much into account as his own, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't have his own or that it always aligns with hers. He wants the full picture, and at that point, he is humble enough to know that his opinion is subjective, so he needs more points of view and more intel, and there is none that he values more than Shepard's.

But it's not all for himself. They're both stuck in the same, horrible situation. He's asking her, and in turn she has to think about it and really consider all the pitfalls he's already identified but isn't sure how to approach. He's a safe sounding board for her. They think it through together, her as this unstoppable force towards the Right Thing, him as the one in the sniper's perch who sights the path ahead and calls out to her when there's a wall before she can run head-first into it. In the end, they're two people united in their striving for the same thing, two halves of a well-oiled machine. No Shepard without Vakarian.

[rwbyrg]

So, we can all agree that when Oscar eventually gets his semblance, it's going to have something to do with Ruby, right? And I'm not even saying this from a shippy lens. Kid has an immortal wizard move into his brain at 14 that he can't kick out, immediately becomes a child soldier, lives through a train crash, countless grimm fights, crash lands a plane, gets shot in the chest, falls for - quite possibly - a few kilometres after blowing up a hole in the bottom of a military compound, gets beaten up and abducted by a goopy grimm super monster, magic blasted by his headmate's ex-wife, tortured and beaten up by a man six times his size, fights off Salem again to save his friends, and not ONE of those instances has been stressful enough to awaken it.

But both times he's talked about his semblance manifesting, it's been with Ruby. The first is in v5 after they spar and Ruby cheers him (and Jaune) on about getting there one day, while Ren makes a comment saying:

"One common philosophy is that a warrior's semblance is a part of who they are".

The second time is in v7 when Ruby does something new with her own semblance and Oscar asks if she's always been able to do that. Eventually leading to him lamenting again about how he's not unlocked his yet while everyone else's are evolving. And it's Ruby that responds with:

"Well, I'm sure we'll all be jealous when you do (figure it out)".

And then, from both Ruby and Oscar's perspectives, we are shown their attachment to each other. Ruby throughout V9 with Neo's illusions, and Oscar with - many instances - but especially in the recently released epilogue where he speaks at her grave. And in this speech we're reminded of that attachment as well as his struggles with identity. Specifically how those two things are intrinsically linked together:

"You always believed in the best. Saw people for who they really were. Some of us... don't know anymore. "

Oscar can't grasp his own personal super power that's "a part of himself" when he doesn't know who he is. He's losing himself to the merge, the boundaries of where he ends and Oz begins are blurring by the day, and he's only 15 and still growing into the person he could become. And the one person that was always certain of who he was, always made him feel like he was his own person... isn't around anymore. So he feels even more detached from his identity and the parts that comprise it than ever before.

But she returns in Vacuo before their final fight, and his semblance has been teased too many times to never appear. So my current guesses are either:

he's going to unlock it under stress to save Ruby from certain danger, because he "lost her once and won't risk it a second time"; or

he's going to unlock it in a different, maybe even quieter moment, where - once again, thanks to Ruby's certainty - he starts feeling like himself again.

Only one way to find out.

[mewovivi]

This looked funny in my head now it doesn't

Anyway

Merry Christmas

[cheerioskid]

WAAGHH SWAMPROT :( swamprot:( you do not know do you (< you dont) ((im just really dramatic and they are tragic. Like my own deserrt duo. They mean a lot to me))

Can you draw them please /vnfnfnfnfnfnfnfnfn^_^

ask and ye shall receive

[iexpectmetodie]

Inspired by I Expect You To Die, my personal design of Agent Phoenix based off of me!

[wanderingmind867]

I get why Apollo and his sister don't get along. It's because Artemis is a horrible sister, like Bianca is a horrible sister to Nico! Those two both deserve better! Those two have in more in common then they probably realize. Also, Apollo is just a fun character. His poetry isn't great (according to the huntresses), but I don't even know how to write haikus (I never have), so Apollo does pretty good with it to me.

[friendlyfangs]

Kofi sketch!

[03josten]

[c0sm1cxzst4rz]

EYESTRAIN WARNING

Just an flipaclip doodle practice with the new brushes (I took the color palette inspiration from emesis blue)

[angelhummel]

cinematic parallels

[chill-vibes-but-rainbow-panic]

He has pulled this trick like three times now...

[fortjester]

just did the math, and including wip's, I've written nearly 250k words already this year. and yet somehow, i still have imposter syndrome. anxiety/autism/adhd brain just built different ig

[geezmarty]

(bellara/taash) nerd/jocks lovers rise up

[wanderingmind867]

Calvin Rankin loses his powers in X-Men #29 (I believe), then he seems to die in an issue of the Incredible Hulk. And then we don't see him again till the 90s, I think. And I hate that! Calvin Rankin deserved better! He was hot-headed and a bit arrogant, but he wasn't a monster. And his death was needless. If I had any writing talent, I'd fix this by creating a new comic set back in the 70s to fix this problem. But since I can't write it, here's my pitch for the story:

Calvin Rankin was lost fighting the Hulk in Canada, I believe (i think it was a crossover with the beast's weird horror comic at the time). So there's only one way to fix this: having Calvin Rankin wake up a few years later (like, 1975) in Canada. And then have some character also head up to Canada to find him. Maybe the Hulk would run into him again, or maybe the werewolf by night or something? Idk. What I do know is: he should have been brought back. He was a good character who didn't deserve to be killed off for years!

[iztea]

awkward helicopter ride back home