#c'mon yall

[pointyfruit]

I love them. I want to put them in various situations.

[kanchelsis]

not to rag on anyone but this book description is so painfully generic it almost reads as parody

[starrclown]

Fun idea for a Helluva Boss Au:

Blitzø, Stolas, and Stella but their Reba, Brock, and Barbra Jean from Reba.

Think how silly that would be! Incase you don't know, Reba is a show about Reba, (the actor is named Reba too.) Who got cheated on by Brock, her husband. Barbra Jean is the affair partner that's pregnant. Because Barbra Jean is pregnant Brock and her get married. Hijinks and shenanigans insue yada yada. The part that I would think be fun is Reba and Barbra Jean's relationship.

Obviously at first Reba hates Barbra Jean and wants her to go away. Barbra Jean LOVES Reba. She always wants to be around her, wants to hug her, makes multiple jokes about marrying Reba instead. The thing about their relationship is later Reba actually genuinely likes being around Barbra Jean.

Can you imagine how cool that would be! Blitzø loves hanging around Stella, Stella hates Blitzø at first, but soon Stella begins to care for Blitzø and even loves him more than her ex husband.

I just think that would be such a cool au and I honestly wanna draw art of it.

- ⭐️StarClown⭐️

[panda-of-the-trash]

why is everyone calling me out on that particular thing

[lovelettersfromkiki]

quick question for y'all, since i'm almost 30 and that makes me a dinosaur i guess-- what's the best website to use for uploading fanfiction? context being, some darker, bloodier, and borderline graphic fanfiction. where would i want that to go?

[galaghiel]

another one banished to wip hell

[bookshelfdreams]

Very true, Niko! And you would know all about that, wouldn't you.

Niko's wardrobe (just like her entire character) is very - strange. Usually, you want your characters to be recognizable, especially early in a story. Characters will have their colour palettes and silhouettes, their statement pieces, their individual style that fist their role in the narrative and who they are as a person. For the most part, the costume design in dbd adheres to this standard; almost every character has a very cohesive wardrobe.

Except for Niko. There's nothing that unifies her costumes, that allows us to get a sense of her style. Even her hair is constantly changing, despite the hair&make-up department clearly struggling to do anything with that horrible wig.

The most recognizable thing about Niko is her monochromatic outfits, but even those are so inconsistent, the colours vary so widely, that they don't tell us anything about her as a person - but they do reflect the stories she finds herself in and that unfold around her.

So let's look at the associations of the colours, because I don't actually know anything about fashion, but I do love colour theory.

03

Green is for emotional stability, thinks Niko, but that's not quite true. Green is more commonly associated with growth, life, new beginnings, rebirth, hope.

This episode, Niko comes out of her shell for the first time. She makes friends. She leaves her room to go on an adventure, even though she gets scared by her own courage, at first, and retreats (she will not make that mistake again).

A home is not always a safe space, is it? Sometimes it is a trap that you're caught in. Niko leaves hers at the end, running out into the streets to save her friends: growth. New beginnings. And her friends, meanwhile, freed those poor Devlin girls and their mother from their horrible prison. An end, but also, rebirth in death: they finally get to move on to the next step, leave the stasis they have been for almost three decades. And the older girl's name is Hope, which is probably a coincidence, but nonetheless extremely satisfying to my conspiracy-prone brain.

04

Red. Courage, as she herself says: Niko is quite literally leaving her comfort zone, going on her first case, and needs all the courage she can get. It is a bold, decisive colour, fearless, strong. The colour of firefighters and ambulances, a colour that tells you you're about to be rescued, and she does save Crystal's life in this one.

But, of course, that easily tips over. Red is a colour of aggression, of anger and pain and violence. We have the Night Nurse, who goes around dredging up trauma, making people relive their worst moments. We have our monster of the week, we have raw meat and blood to bait it. We have, of course, the washer woman. And we have an outbreak of violence at the end.

(And also, red light is the most affected by absorbance. It is hardly visible underwater and disappears completely after about 10m. Maybe that is why Niko wasn't affected at all by Angie; maybe she just couldn't see her.)

05

What does the pink mean then? Romance, of course, the central theme of this episode, but her outfit is uncharacteristically mismatched, even for her, and so are the romances in this episode. Nothing works out as it's supposed to, does it? Maxine and Jenny, the jocks and their girlfriends, even Edwin and Monty: everything shoved haphazardly together, held together by force of will alone, no harmony at all.

Well. It's not Niko's fault nothing works out in the end. But man, she really did need to take off the rose-tinted glasses (metaphorically, not literally. The literal glasses are great.)

06

Oh, feeling blue, are we? A colour of melancholy and regrets. Niko is trying so hard to leave behind the whimsy, to be mature and disillusioned, but even at her lowest, this bright, powdery shade doesn't really bring the mood down. Niko is too much herself to give up on the things she loves that easily.

Blue is also the colour of dreams. Hidden things, the subconscious. And this is what this episode is all about, not for Niko, but for Crystal. She unlocks that which sleeps within her. And it is Niko (unwillingly, through her own special kind of luck) who hands her the key.

07

Bright orange! That is an - unusual colour choice for symbolism. Orange has few strong associations. Most often, I think, orange is a signal. Not quite a warning, but close - watch out, it says, pay attention. And Niko does, and saves the day.

(And what else does orange remind you of? A highly visible sign, something that shows you the right way? The warm glow of a flame, contained in a lantern or spreading uncontrollably in an explosion? Yes, this is an orange episode.)

08

White.

Death.

Obviously. White is the colour of the dead and dying: bones, and bloodless skin, and flowers on a grave. Of course Niko would know to dress in a shroud for her last day on earth. You cannot wear an all-white outfit and expect it to not be bloodstained at the end of the day, and Niko knows it's scary and the odds are bad and we might die horrifically.

But she has found bravery, and will not run away, will face the danger head on. Dressed like an offering, pure and untouched, off to sacrifice herself she goes.

It's not the end though. Death is not the end, not in this story, and white is the colour of purity, of a blank slate, of transformation. Death is only here to guide you on your way forward. Niko's story does not end here. It is her kindness and pure heart that saves her; and although she dies, she is not gone. She changes.

Into what remains to be seen.

[milkflavouredpoptart]

SO I began re-reading Deltora Quest but to my sister, so I have someone to share all this with and I'm realising a), how good these books are again and b), how stupid i was as a kid???

In the first book (!!SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T READ IT!!) it says that Jasmine dropped down as lightly as a butterfly, and my brain took that as she was literally a butterfly? so for the entirety of the first series I envisioned her as a human-sized butterfly, and it wasn't until my sister said she thought Barda was an old man that I realised.

Can you imagine a human-sized butterfly just kicking ass?

In my Kid Brain it made sense, cause that's how she could talk to animals and trees, but it makes every other book so much funnier.

Just thought I'd share tee hee

[manmilkers]

What if I told you there's no cannon evidence for evil!giorno and you guys just don't have the ability to view anything involving criminality w/ nuance

[kolak-magiia]

"Ye know, this whole healin' business isn't horrible, but sometimes I feel like I'm not always appreciated for it..."

He's just grumpy because he's not getting commendations.

[snekdood]

funniest leftists to me are the ones who convince themselves caring about the env at all is eco fascism somehow

[radioactivedishsoap]

Why's everyone pretending to care about Iraq now that Iran is threatening the area with drones as if Turkey hasn't been sending drones whenever Ardoghan feels like it for years while simultaneously threatening to go to war. I don't ever see anyone talk about the deaths that happen in the Turkey/kurdistan border either...

[meatriarchived]

Danny things:

"Dannys 21" - hes shy of 23 actually, hes older than everyone.

"His name is Danny Gaines" - .....no, its Danilo Alejo-Osorio actually.

"Hes a gemini :)" - no the fuck he isnt, our Dan the Man, our Danathan, our Danjamin, is an aries/taurus/capricorn combo. Boy is stubborn as all fuckin shit.

"Danny & Maria are a Thing" - cute but also consider: Dannys devotion to her being OUT OF HIS FRIENDSHIP WITH HER AND NOT JUST ROMANTIC cause god forbid a guy cant be devoted to his girl best friend without there being romantic undertones right gun-

OH ALSO:

"Danny is 6'1 :)" - ..............no hes 6'5 actually man is tall enough to take on thomas/bubba because i said so :)))

[charkyzombicorn]

THIS

*m/f ships in shonen anime/Manga with both characters still the character, interact as the characters do and respect eachother as equals*

We Love this, we want this, we Need this

*m/f ships in shonen anime/Manga where the man is suddenly a possessive stupid lech and the woman is a frail teary-eyed blushing virgin*

We don't need this.

[hechiima]

might be an unpopular opinion but im not actually wild about dgs erasing irene adler and just making her sholmes? like it's better than a lot of interpretations that make irene a sexy love interest who is beaten/rescued by holmes but also i feel irene's story is really important in holmes' own character development. i don't get why so many adaptations insist on changing it so much tbh (i mean it's the sexism obviously but. ugh.)

we don't know much about sholmes pre-dgs but my HC is that he might've been more cocky/arrogant when Mikotoba met him? this makes sense to me b/c he's so young at this point - he's just coming into his own and he knows he's brilliant. it would be easy for him to assume that he's always the smartest one in the room. but that's why irene would be so important for sholmes' development? in a scandal holmes is in the wrong and he loses to someone he looks down on; from this he gains insight (stop being so misogynistic) and respect for irene (which i think is great! he's not bitter! he realizes he's been beaten and respects her!) its a fantastic and important character beat and i hate to see that taken away. plus it's a good reminder that at the end of the day, sholmes is still human and can be beaten.

idk irene still exists in the dgs universe to me. shes out there happily married to her man and living her best life while the british legal system is going up in flames.

Edit: also I think it's fun if sholmes takes cross dressing tips from her and incorporates her style into his own. I just think that's cute.

[thesilverlady]

Ryan said that the young dragonrider don't have the strongest bond with their dragons. So prepare yourselves to watch all of the young generation lose control of their dragons not just Aemond and Aegon😂😂😂

he did? nooo 😭 The anti targs had a FEAST with the whole spin he put Viserys through, making him a mouthpiece how "the idea targaryens control their dragons is an illusion" and how it's a "power men shouldn't have tried". No kidding, I was suffering trying to find some nice content to support and all those quotes popping up because people think it's sooo deep and of course it adds to the long time fandom argument dragons = nukes.

Imagine how tired I am.