#call me gerald

[itsdefinitely]

I consume your art on the daily as a way to make my great lord of despair happy. May I see Gerald Munroe in your style? I need to add him to my palette. 🎨

give him his cinnabon

[sonknuxadow]

it just hit me that the movie is coming out next month imgonna throw upppppppp

[marzely]

I could not stop thinking about Solie with her parents ever since I started my replay of @shepherds-of-haven alpha demo. Solie is someone who honors her parents, through anyway possible her bow and arrow, her morality, and her happiness. When Halek tells Solie that he considers her family a First Family she can’t help but get a bit misty eyed (scaring Halek in the process) knowing how much that would have meant to them coming from the Sol.

[bugwolfsstuff]

Im currently running around City of tears in Hollow Knight trying to figure out what to do and ive been seeing some spoilers on youtube and shit

And...

The fuck kind of trauma has Ghost (ive stopped calling them Gerald) been through cus from the minor spoilers ive seen im getting scared for them

Look at those adorable empty eyes! There better not be trauma behind them!

[thetardisisnotourdivision]

I am unreasonably upset about the fact that I've been forced to accept that Gabriel was a Gerald.

For context, in An Inspector Calls, Gerald Croft is engaged to Sheila Birling when he meets a homeless, struggling Eva Smith in a bar, and essentially in return for a home and money he shows her affection (ahem), then gets rid of her once he no longer has a use for her. Now, obviously this isn't a direct translation, but the essentials are - a Gerald is a character who uses another character, in return for something they need, usually masking the fact that they're using them with affection and love.

And against my will I've had to accept that this is exactly what Gabriel does to Nathalie.

Did I want to think he had potential to be better? Did I think he genuinely cared for Nathalie?? Hell, did I just really really want somebody to care about Nathalie???

Probably all of the above but the point is: he's Gerald. And I cannot - I literally can't unsee it now. Their whole dynamic in S3 is like “oh boohoo I'm sorry I wish you didn't have to use the peacock Miraculous and kill yourself over it but uh I need to use your powers” “yeah no that's fine I'm all good”. Which, given the "Gerald" theorem, I'm assuming leads to the fact that what Nathalie needed, above all, was someone to care about her - and Gabriel came along, as Sheila Birling puts it, "like a fairytale prince", and was so caring and gentle and... Yeah. She fell for him. And. Yeah he genuinely did seem to care like twice. But so did Gerald. Gerald actually admits that he did care for Eva, just not the way that she cared for him, and, uh, not enough to not just dispose of her. So he discards her anyway when she stops being useful.

Leading me neatly to my point.

He starts using the peacock Miraculous the second it's fixed, the slimy bastard, HOWEVER. It runs way deeper than that. Assuming I'm right (which I almost DEFINITELY am), then Gabriel only needed Nathalie while she was useful. She didn't stop being useful in season three - she's still scheming for him, helping him with plan after plan. It's only partway through season 5 that she officially servers ties with him, and starts to actively hinder him.

Nathalie stops being useful when she fails as Safari. And I reckon that's when Gabriel and Tomoe decided she had to go.

(It's painfully, I-was-ugly-crying-over-it obvious in Conformation that Gabriel is fully prepared to let Nathalie die - in the original storyboard, her alliance was encouraging her to sleep, and he's very obviously prepared for this moment - I've made a separate post about it that I'll link if I can find it. However, onto the next bit)

With all of this, there's one thing that sticks out to me - Nathalie didn't see any of it until it was already too late. There could be many reasons for this. But you know who would have seen through it? Whose parents were all loving and perfect until she married the wrong man? Emilie. Emilie, who left behind those videos, which on the surface look innocent, but when you look deeper look like a (love confession???????) AHEM a warning. I reckon Emilie noticed what was going on and realised that Nathalie wouldn't see through Gabriel, so she left those videos addressed to Nathalie (not Gabriel, which surely they should have been - they were about him, after all - unless they were there...) as a warning. I don't think the videos were supposed to be about helping Gabriel, I think Emilie was warning Nathalie to get the fuck out of that house, and to take Adrien with her. Because Emilie knew it'd end like this.

Yes I'm still mad ok give me a break.

[spacer4t]

BUT IT DOESNTT MAKEE SENSEEEEEE

Lol, we've got gay nerdy powerful American, Girlypop Edwardian Croft, then there's Mr. Mf depressing and angst cereal fangirl, Mr. Emotional Rollercoaster gay

[hegodamask]

An Inspector Calls (2015)

[demegod-dess]

The way the new Sonic x Shadow Generations trailer had me literally shaking I'm so. I'm just. I'm. I.

[boxwinebaddie]

i'm halfway through this ask meme abt ravenstan staying at the broflovski house for the great hate south park embark and i cannot tell you how much it thrills me that rm!sheila went from hating ravenstan's guts and being like "you are the reason my family is in ruin; you destroyed our lives" to being like *pinches stan's cheek preciously* “this is orev :) and he's my lil matok sheli superstar <3" ft. stan beaming and her constantly mom-whacking jerseykyle with the kochlefl and reprimanding him for 'letting her son in law get away' like not even Raven Of Crimson Dawn but her Literal SON IN LAW.

anyways...branch in my EYE.

[long-suffering-little-spoon]

Instead of acting out Romeo and Juliet, my English class is just listening to an audio drama and I do not get to fulfill my lifelong dream of playing Mercutio it's so sick and twisted.

[sage-nebula]

Summary: Once upon a time, a selfish hedgehog prince is cursed to take the form of a hulking beast after refusing to share his ice cream with a powerful nature spirit. Years later, a young human girl offers to take her grandfather's place in the prince's dungeon after her grandfather is caught stealing a rose from the garden [@sonicplatonicfairytales Day 2: Beauty and the Beast]

Once upon a time, there was a prince who lived in solitude. He was a hedgehog with quills as dark as night, and eyes the color of freshly spilled blood. He employed no servants, and paid no heed to the people in his kingdom. And those in his kingdom likewise paid no heed to him.

But one fateful summer day, that changed. The prince sat on a bench in his garden under the radiant sun, enjoying a chocolate chip ice cream sundae. That day was the height of summer; heat shimmered in the air, causing all who felt it to duck for shade or another form of relief. One such denizen who sought relief was a small canine-esque creature with dark red fur, a fluffy white tail, and large golden eyes. The creature hopped over the wall separating the prince’s garden from the rest of the kingdom, and scampered over to where the prince sat, a hungry smile on its snout.

“Oh gee, that looks delicious!” said the creature. “And it’s just what I need on a hot day like today! Can I have some?”

“No,” said the prince, and he closed his eyes so he would no longer have to look at the creature.

“What? Why not?” asked the creature as it moved closer. “You have so much ice cream, and it’s so hot out here! Please share?”

“No,” the prince repeated, and he turned his body on the bench so he was no longer facing the creature at all. “Go away.”

The creature scowled. “You’re selfish, you know that?”

The prince shrugged. “You’re annoying, you know that?”

“Annoying?! Oh, that does it!” The creature suddenly glowed with a brilliant light. “I’ll have you know I’m a powerful spirit! And I hate stingy jerks like you! From now on, you’re cursed! Cursed! Cursed until you do one truly selfless act for someone else!”

The prince did not feel the little creature’s ranting deserved a response. Instead, he calmly finished his ice cream as the little creature scolded him, not hearing half the words that were said to him. When his treat was gone, he rose from the bench and turned to head back inside.

“Get out of my garden,” he said, before he shut his palace door in the little creature’s face.

But while the prince brushed off the creature’s presence, the curse was not so easily ignored. That night, when the moon reached its zenith, the prince was struck with terrible pain. He screamed as his bones cracked and his skeleton reformed into a giant, hulking shape. He cried out as thick canine fur rippled across his body, and enormous fangs grew in his mouth. His shoes burst apart as his paws grew to three time their previous size, and the expensive golden bracelets he had always worn shattered under the strain of his growth. In a matter of minutes, the hedgehog prince was no more; in his place was a massive beast heaving guttural breaths, trapped in a prison of his own making.

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[skyfcx]

     "Sorry, I've been sorta tunnel-visioning on my work. What day is it today? I heard a lot of commotion and—"

     ...Stares out at the sea of. boops. Please excuse him, he worked through Halloween last year and has some catching up to do.

[sonknuxadow]

sometimes i think about how there has to be other members of the robotnik family out there that we dont see on screen because they arent really anybody special or important. somewhere out there theres some guy who has to live with the knowledge that dr eggman and shadow the hedgehog are his cousins

[xwhitenoise]

is anyone else haunted by the thought that shadow is technically eggman's uncle

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Random funny thing to me is when people insist that two characters are basically siblings to each other and it's so weird to ship them (because they're connected in some way through a member of their family)

And the truth is that yes they can technically be considered family (in the nuclear family way) if you want them to be, but not because they're siblings. You actually have at least a miniscule argument here and yet you've lost arguing that they're basically siblings😂

[clovariia]

"the rules of being a big brother"

🖍️ kyle broflovski & ike broflovski 🖍️ 4.5k words 🖍️ being an older sibling is hard. being the adopted younger sibling is even harder.

🔗 https://archiveofourown.org/works/48034159