#but that's just me being insane really

[addictivewhispering]

IRLvFRA thoughts/ramblings

i posted some preliminary thoughts on twt but i'm back now so i can finally write up a longer post. so here's my thoughts on attending the match that no one asked for 🤗

i was sitting in a random section on the home side surrounded by irish fans so that impacted my experience a lot. the first thing i noticed. mbappe was getting IMMENSELY booed by the crowd. from when his name was announced in the starting lineup to pretty much every single time he touched the ball. literally boos as far as the ear could hear. it actually quite shocked me bc i've never attended a match in person before, i knew fans could get passionate but not to this level??!!?! anyway i felt really bad for him ngl mfbckdhskdh, griezmann was getting some boos too but it was nowhere near as vocal anyway thats why i dont blame mbappe for ghosting like half the game

i did have a decent seat but it was still pretty hard to see all the players esp on the far half so i didn't get an amazing view of pavard's goal or the celebration ☹️ but aaa looking at the closeup pictures and them all being happy makes me happy... that i was there in some form....

i straight up thought giroud was gonna die like 3 times during the match i was so scared for him omfg. he went down once quite early i think if i remember correctly? or he got stepped on or something or maybe both happened i dont even know bro. but when he went down and didnt immediately get back up I WAS LIKE ...... GIRL I CANT SEE (i think he was the far end of the pitch) IS HE OKAY OR WHAT. and then i saw him holding his knee on the big screen and i was like fuck shit fuck. but he got up so it was ok. but he was kinda limping for a while so it wasn't really ok. AND THEN LATER the second half probably when the ball was stopped for a second he like stood there and rested his hands on his knees (idk how to describe this position but hopefully you know what i mean) and gestured to the referee not to continue play AND I WAS LIKE ???????? IS HE FUCKING DYING cuz it looked like his legs might have been cramping or something idk he wasn't moving very well i was so scared he was gonna have to get subbed off early 😭 and by early i mean earlier than usual but he still ended up being able to play 60 minutes even if i felt like he was struggling towards the end so i guess it's ok... maybe maybe not........

and yes the attacking issues were just as frustrating in person. there were so many times i just shook my head and sighed because the players up there weren't connecting well enough... giroud was barely being serviced for most of it bc people weren't crossing inwards... literally felt like i was watching milan play 💀 but whatever we won so it doesnt matter(?)

towards the end tho the irish fans somehow managed to get Even Louder after a series of ref decisions (or non-decisions) and the close attempts at goal at the end omfg..... it was very electrifying all in all. i do kinda wish i could've sat in the section dedicated for french fans so i maybe could have actually cheered and stuff (was kinda scared i'd get like hatecrimed or something if i vocally rooted for france right in the middle of all the irish HAHAHA) but it is what it is :>

[sofiaruelle]

❄️☃️The SDV Girlies in their winter garb!☃️❄️

One side how i interpreted their lil avatars and then the other side is just me playing dress up lmao.

“Bois when?” Dunno. 🤷🏽‍♀️ I will if anyone donates screenshots.

[pa-pa-plasma]

love fics where Danny ends up in the DC universe & every alarm goes off at once & the magic users are like "yeah that's the most powerful being in the universe & also possibly super evil we are FUCKED fucked" & the Justice League is freaking tf out trying to find this thing that casually tore a hole in reality & it just cuts to Danny (Fenton) standing in the background blissfully unaware & like "man my life sucks but at least i have this candy bar—" *drops it in a puddle*

[bunnieswithknives]

Thanks.

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[tofixtheshadows]

So I've been thinking lately about how Mithrun is Kabru's dark mirror (more on that another time- it needs its own post), and I thought it interesting that one of their parallels is that they were both cared for by Milsiril, but in opposite directions. She took Kabru in as her foster after he was orphaned and tried to convince him not to become an adventurer. On the flip side, she helped rehabilitate Mithrun specifically so that he could rejoin the Canaries.

And I kept wondering: why?

For Kabru, obviously she loves him a whole lot- despite any other shortcomings in their relationship, I do believe that.

So I get why she tries to convince him not to go dungeoning, and, failing that, at least prepares him as thoroughly as she can.

But why help Mithrun? She used to hate Mithrun, but after realizing what a secretly twisted person he was, she actually thought of him more positively (oh, Milsiril). So it wasn't as if she held the kind of grudge that might motivate her to make his already-depleted life even more miserable by sending him back to the dungeons. And it wasn't that she felt bad for him either, since she didn't visit Mithrun for the first ~20 years of his recovery.

The Adventurer's Bible says that Utaya was the impetus for Mithrun returning to the Canaries, but Milsiril is the one who made the trip to see him and tell him about it.

Why would Milsiril work so hard to get her old coworker back into fighting fit? Why encourage him to return to such a dangerous lifestyle, when she was the one who chose not to mercy-kill him?

That last panel is such a crazy thing to hint at and then never elaborate on. Without it we could have just thought that Milsiril wanted the Canaries' work to continue without her, even if it seemed out of character. I think some people even assume she's just a natural caretaker as a foster mom and handwave it to include nursing Mithrun too. What could Milsiril's suspicious motives be? What does she gain from Mithrun joining the Canaries that isn't an altruistic desire to see dungeons safely sealed? Feeling a sense of responsibility for the work she left behind isn't an ulterior motive.

My theory is: Milsiril, knowing that Mithrun was empty save for the burning desire to face the demon again, wound him up like a clockwork doll and pointed him back at the dungeons.

Hoping that he'd eliminate the biggest threat to Kabru's life, before it was too late for him.

Milsiril the puppetmaster.

[vaguely-concerned]

the fact that irving canonically survives through the end of asunder to be at wynne's funeral is so fucking funny to me. nothing but love and respect for MY unstoppable cockroach morally grey machiavellian mage dad!!! he's survived in his position through multiple attempted rites of annulment and blood mage plots popping up left right and center around him. the chantry keeps trying to stamp him out but his dodge game is simply out of this world, divine. civil wars, political machinations and minefields, chantry atrocities, this wily old motherfucker is dodging and weaving his way through it all, not-quite-no-hits-taken-running-it-but-honestly-close-enough-under-the-circumstances style. if solas does succeed in tearing down the veil I would fully believe that one of the like three people still alive at the end of it all would be a very weary 90 year old first enchanter irving going 'oh this shit again huh'. the maker has cursed him for his hubris and his paperwork is never finished (affectionate, it's fine he canonically loves paperwork)

[commander-spaceboy]

Lusopp my beloved!!

Smthn smthn falling in love with your best friend can do wonders for you

[yyoati-cas]

Guys I am going crazy a bit after the arcane act 3, but like I feel like it’s pretty heavily implied that Jayce and Viktor was something something… I know they’ve paralleled Mel and Viktor a lot before but they did it again in episode 7, VERY CLEARLY IN JAYCES MIND MIGHT I ADD. And the whole ending scene of Viktor and Jayce bro.

I feel like Jayce is very heavily implied to have feelings for Viktor and Mel that are very alike and I really don’t feel like I am reaching with that at all

[pearlbubbles]

Okay I have a lot of thoughts about this season, and maybe bc I never played lol that this season felt like a mess to me but I think a lot of it was due to poor writing choices,

Jayce calling Mel out for “manipulating” is insane to me. When he doesn’t hold the same sentiment for Cassandra or Victor (who was the one to allegedly give him that stone in the first place?). He acts like he had no control of his actions and I guess it’s easier for him to pin the blame on someone else than admit his faults.

Mel is a politician, he knew that when he met her. She did not make it a secret that she was basically sponsoring his research. But at the same time, she was one of the few people who advised him against making hextech weapons specifically, and went out of the way to make sure that that technology did not fall into the hands of bad actors.

however, it was Jayce and his poor decisions that kept making hextech weapons even though it went agonist his ethos, he even made weapons for Caitlyn’s special strike team, something Mel did not tell him to do lol,

like this entire time Jayce was able to use Mel’s statues and influence to get what he wants (social capital etc)

and when they get together romantically, Mel only treats him as an equal, supports his ideas (which basically let’s him do what he wants on the council bc of her influence), and is a source of emotional comfort.

so it’s really strange that he starts to view her as someone who used him, we never really see Mel confiding in Jayce besides that one time which served as a way to give the audience insight to her backstory. She’s always the comforting him, the one providing for him etc, she even serves as a buffer for Jayce against the manipulation from others, so to have him pin all the blame on her is so deranged to me lol

I also fill like the narrative of the story does nothing to counter his claims, they don’t address the other actors in the corruption of hextech for warfare (*cough cough* Caitlyn lol)

there were interesting places they could take this, there were interesting ways to explore this dynamic, but instead it got boiled down to Jayce pinning the blame on someone else because he refuses to live with the consequences of his own creations

[trauma-bot]

sin eater

[meltylandartchive]

im really normal about this blonde guy i promise

[redvelvetbunny]

hihi

what do you reckon Louis’ hair looked like when he was around clems age in s1?

here’s the little man, louis! (…and his friends. ^_^)

[victarin]

i fucking love people here you guys see this dinnerplate-faced daycare animatronic and go "what if they were detectives" and you make all this amazing astounding art and writing and concepts and designs like yeah . sure . im going to be normal abt this and im not going to think about the incredible levels of creativity involved im not gointg to think about how much i love seeing beginner artists using the dca as a way to learn new skills in art and character design Im not going to think about how much joy is in all those AUs and how much artists and writers put aspects of whatever they enjoy in those stupid ass clowns to make these incredible inspired stories and artworks absolutely Brimming with love for what they created &how much i love seeing people in the community huddling around those AUs and hyping them up and making More Art from those yeah im normal. whatever

[mellohiizz]

hiii how are we feeling about the recent wemmbu uu episode?? because im losing my mind im definitely not normal about it

[hesbianyaoi]

atsushi essentially being a vessel for a god (given byakko's entire ordeal with being a celestial being in mythology) is sooo fucking funny and real. thank you for my life asagiri, this is all i need

(also have never seen fyodor emote like that before. no words to describe this chapter besides Peak Cinema)

[mattodore]

birthday boy 🎂