#but it was real where it counted

[grayintogreen]

The thing that’s important about Sawyer and Juliet is that they are very much people who did not want to be the people they are. They reached a point where their only hope for survival in a bad situation was to emulate the best liars they knew who also happen to be the men who ruined their lives. They learned how to be alone despite longing for personal connection because they will always get left behind.

Two people defined by being liars, one who chooses to wallow in the endless cycle of misery it perpetuates and one who uses it against the person who taught it to her as a newfound weapon she’s never had before. Two people constantly chosen last by the world united by one fundamental truth that hits them both where they most needed it: no matter what, you still got my back.

NO ONE ON THE SHOW WAS DOING IT LIKE THEM.

[hinamie]

alongside someone like you

[buttercupshands]

can you even call it a warm up if I'm going to bed without drawing anything big

and a sketch I made while sitting in the park today

[an-adhd-infested-nerd]

Me when a game lets you explore the ocean, find fish, help people and there are also horrors.

[marypsue]

Man, it's cool and all if you see a metaphor for marginalisation in the monstrous, and if you want the power fantasy of 'what if you could just eat anybody who threatened you/pissed you off'. Me too.

However, as soon as you start saying 'no, these monsters are a 1:1 on Specific Marginalised Group, and you have to treat them in the fiction like they are directly representative of real human members of the marginalised group', BUT you also, in the fiction, make them hurt/kill/eat humans? And then try to shame me, your audience, for noticing or engaging with the bit where they kill people, because you made them directly representative of a real-world marginalised group? You have lost me, and also, I think, the plot.

[the-bat-bros]

Bruce wdym you don’t want your girlfriend bonding with your kids how else is she supposed to integrate into the family?

From the latest update of Wayne Family Adventures on Webtoons

[thecraftyninjacat]

to juxtapose ruby's idolisation of qrow and their wholesome uncle-niece relationship, i'd like to propose penny fucking hating clover's guts

[sainz100]

2024 Abu Dhabi GP

[anonymouscheeses]

They are everything to me.

[dailypokemoncrochet]

I realized another specific thing I don't like about people asking me for patterns: the idea that there is One Specific Way to crochet something.

This is part of a broader issue I have about the distinction between crafts and arts that I think about a lot, but in this particular context, I don't like the idea of people restricting themselves and refraining from experimenting with crochet because they think there is a Right way or only One way to make something. What pattern? Just look at the thing I made (which by the way, in asking immediately for the pattern you're kind of devaluing this art piece I've made as some kind of trinket you should also possess, but that's a slightly different issue) and make your own thing like it. Even if you followed my notes exactly, you wouldn't have the same exact result as mine unless you had my exact tension, yarn, and physical quirks of crocheting. I don't even have the same result following my own notes in subsequent crochets because it's all slightly different each time. You would have something that looks similar to mine but is your own, and that's something you could achieve just by trying to make your own thing from the get go. Doesn't require a pattern.

Use your eyes, work stitch by stitch and row by row. If it's as you think and there is only one correct way to do it, then you can try and figure it out. Doesn't require a pattern. If it's not as you thought and there are actually multiple ways to do it, then you'll find a way as you try. Didn't require a pattern. Either way, pattern not actually needed.

[ganondoodle]

link gets his arm "irreversibly" damaged

"omg!! does he get a cool prosthetic?? like the weird tentacle like morphing arm in the botw concepts?? shiekah tech arm????? that would be so awesom-"

its just. arm but grey. occasionally green. some jewelry.

"well, does he at least lose it or have some scarring at some point or at the end-"

deus ex machina. arm normal again.

>:C

[the-irreverend]

How I felt after watching Nosferatu 2024:

[anoant-haikyuu-dump]

First time drawing them vs recent time

[mallgothed]

watching house md and got to the part where cameron starts hooking up with chase because she thinks that, out of all her coworkers, he’s the one she’s least likely to fall in love with. can we unpack that for a minute. didn’t foreman stab her with his own infected blood sample like 1 season ago

[tenderpreyy]

​I’m thinking again about Astarions sexuality and how I've seen some people (to be fair, just a few) talk about it. Mainly, people pointing out his flamboyant behavior, and that us as players are learning more about his past male lovers than female ones and basically all these things for some people pointing to him being gay or at least not interested in women in the same way he is in men. And him only being a romance option regardless of gender, because, well, all companions are and he is therefore just "playersexual", only showing interest in female player characters because he has to, because of the game mechanics.

I think what really rubs me the wrong way about this topic is that it echoes the kind of things bi/pan people (speaking as a bisexual woman myself) find themselves dealing with irl. Whether through some form of internalized biphobia or from the outside through other people's comments. Of course this is about a fictional character so it’s not like he has any feelings that could be hurt. But when i see people tallying up how often he mentions men vs. how often he mentions women it really reminds me of a way of thinking I sometimes fall into in regards to my own sexuality. This is definitely just an internalized response and not something I actually believe when I truly think about it for a second, but I know these patterns of thought very well. Of observing my own behavior. How often do I find which gender attractive? Am I attracted "enough" to women? Do I talk about men's attractiveness too often? Is it the other way around? Am I only saying this woman is attractive to prove something to myself? I literally have a girlfriend and my attitude towards mine or other's sexual orientation is generally a huge big "whatever, I don't care". And I still have a passing thought like that from time to time.

So seeing people talk about a fictional character in this way really sends home how many people (whether consciously or unconsciously) see attraction as some sort of equation, you can solve, where in the end you get a result of either gay or straight.