#cant believe im this invested

[ethantheannus]

im watching minecraft parkour civilisation and i feel like such an ipad kid. why am i fully invested. why is this so well executed. why am i so entertained. what the fuck is this witchcraft

[nebulasteps]

Its balloon clues

[xxplastic-cubexx]

sequel to this ramble cause the way james talks bout the reduced cherik scenes throughout the xmen films in this video is making me want to kill people. 'we'll always have paris darling' what if we all blew up.

[lun6laveria]

me and who (steals joke from scrawny)

[loumandivorce]

because we're the same | prodigal son. 1.11

[neoluca]

Listening to: Fast Times at Barrington High - The Academy Is...

[plsleafmelon]

oh that art man and his secretary are gay huh.

[10-dutchies-12-bicycles]

me skimming the first chapter of some kinda bdsm slowburn: i dont care abt this pairing i just want to read the sex scenes where are they

me 2 days and 20+ chapters later: I FUCKING KNEW THIS FUCKER WAS IN CAHOOTS WITH THE BAD GUYS!!!!!! I KNEW IT!!!!!!!!

[lavenderrlilac]

[hyp3rfixation-h3ll]

giving in to the demons (getting electric blue hair extensions so i look more like sonic the hedgehog)

[inkdemonapologist]

I cant believe your 'dad shut up about joey drew' meme is literally wilson's canon motivation

LMAO I ABSOLUTELY CAN

Also I think my theory about Wilson being aged by the Ink Realm ended up pretty adjacent to canon/word of god? (Their reasoning was that the trips back and forth took a toll on him, which is also fun). SO THATS NEAT. I joined this fandom so late that getting actual canon confirmations of things now is quite stressful LMAO.

Anyway at this point my most strongly held unprovable headcanon about BatDR lore might be that Nathan was cheating on his wife with Joey, and Wilson knew, but Tessa never did. It lets Wilson be a little older (as old as 53 vs max of 46) if Nathan had a child prior to reuniting with Joey in the Sparkle Unicorn Speakeasy That’s Probably Definitely A Little Bit Gay, and it fits with Wilson’s frustration seeming so petty and blatantly incorrect, if there’s an additional insult in his father’s admiration of Joey that Wilson can’t say without outing his father.

We poke a lot of fun at Wilson (a wholesome activity that’s fun for the whole family) but like… [glances at Sammy Lawrence… glances at TLO…] it just makes a lot of sense that his weird, nonsensical obsession with taking over the Ink Realm might have come from interacting with the machine and the ink. He says the Machine speaks to him, and it just sounds like Wilson got Sammy’d by the Ink too, he just assumed it was the Machine speaking to him instead of the Demon (and if the Sammy in the cycle is the same guy, which the archive implies, then we have potential evidence in BatDR that Sammy’s also wrong; the Demon has a voice, and Sammy doesn��t seem to hear it). And then he gets fixated on taking over the Ink Realm, something that, really doesn’t seem to, fufill any reasonable goal? How… will this win his father’s attention or admiration exactly? He comes up with a bunch of conflicting reasons why this is a good idea, but none of them make much sense, and each trip back to the place he now calls “home” wrecks his human body more and more, and it just seems like MAYBE he’s being influenced to do something that is not in his best interests.

Maybe Wilson was very different before the Machine.

Anyway, the Archive stuff about Wilson is super interesting. He’s always struck me as a character who seemed like he'd had his role altered at the last minute, AND NOW ITS CONFIRMED: HE DID!! And honestly this has made me feel somewhat calmer about him as a character, lmao. Like, all the places I can point out that seem like super weird choices aren't really choices at all; they're backups. He doesn't fit because he was designed as part of an entirely different puzzle. I'm super curious what the more complicated story with two villains could've looked like, and maybe it would've ended up with characters that made more sense, but honestly, focusing on what they could feasibly finish and polish seems like a really wise choice for something that is a game first, story second, and now that all the baffling choices surrounding Wilson make sense on a meta-level, I feel like the part of my brain going WHY THIS IS SO DUMB can finally rest lmao.

[electricpurrs]

okay, another campaign another poll

[baby-xemnas]

i don't have art to show today but ive been retelling my bestie where law and bepo are in the current manga and how it ended up like this and now im all sad and worried again

but again so happy they are together...thank you oda at least for that, idk how youll go abt their future (and i won't lie that i trust you) im so glad they have each other and law wont have to go insane being on his own again, and bepo wont have to go through trauma for failing to protect his most important person in the whole world...

its good for the crew too when they get a chance to regroup they would know that captain is safe with bepo and bepo is safe with the captain....they are so loved and admired they can feel reassured, knowing how strong their captain and his first mate are when they are together

[orcelito]

Just finished rereading ITNL chapter 2 again

Yknow, it's long felt like a weaker chapter to me, especially compared to chapter 1. It's a Necessary chapter, but it's basically an entire chapter of introspection. Add in the fact that I wrote it in a single day and was half falling asleep by the end of editing it, but pressing onwards anyways bc I wanted So Badly to get it out that night...

The Legato part was the weakest for that. I remember staring at it and breaking my brain just trying to make it sound better before just giving up and posting. But when I worked on my full-fic re-edits about.. a year ago now? A year and a bit. I think it was October ish of 2023. But I focused on that part again, trying to get it up to my standards to be satisfied with it.

Coming back to it after some number of months, my brain relatively fresh, I think I actually did a pretty decent job. Despite being an introspective chapter, it really drives home how Wrecked vash is about it all. I like to say that chapter 1 is like a thesis to the fic, where you get vash's goals laid out pretty clearly (him picturing the things he wants to fix + him picturing his dream of having all the people he loves around a table with him, including Knives. It serves as motivation for him jumping back in time in the first place and it remains his driving force throughout the fic). In contrast, chapter 2 is... almost a secondary thesis. We see his doubt, his fears, his panic. We see the things that he's going to be struggling with throughout the whole fic. His wish to handle it all on his own, as well as how overwhelming it all is to him. Chapter 2 is the necessary second side to chapter 1's thesis, showing the weakness in his own strength and drive.

The cracks in his own unstoppable force.

Idk it's just interesting to me. Having been away from it long enough, I think I really do appreciate chapter 2 after all.

[dayurno]

who are your favorite mdzs characters??

(falling over myself panting and screaming) JIN LING ITS JIN LING JIN LING IS MY FAVORITE i will say i havent watched cql so i don't know anything about him in that but i love jin ling in the books and i loved that he was angry and that he was scared and that he was confused and i loved how hard it was for him to accept affection from wwx when he knew it was wwx, i love that he's the world's saddest and loneliest little boy, i love that his life is shaped by so much grief and trauma and that the adults around him have failed him constantly ever since the day he was born. and my only beef i'll ever have with wangji is that he has beef with jin ling. he's not a monster he's a 16 year old who misses his parents. so there!

other than that i'm easy and simple obviously i love wwx and lwj..... i'm a ride or die for xichen as well i think first of all there is something so kevin day about xichen in the sense that they're both positioned at the crux of so many issues and entirely unaware of it. the way jin guangyao and nie mingjue were passing xichen back and forth and xichen had no idea of the game they were playing because he wasn't invited into it at all. ugh! i love the jades of lan really, i think their relationship as brothers is so interesting and i think about their mother all the time. madam lan :(!

this is surprising even to me because on my first read through i didnt care if jiang cheng lived or died but now i actually think about him a lot. usually i don't enjoy jealousy plots but i think jiang cheng is so interesting and detailed and flawed and human..... he gets misunderstood a lot in my opinion so he's my friend now too. i know he'll never be happy but that's ok. he has jin ling and that will be enough. and also i love wen ning but i cant think too much about him or i start to get ill and sick. but i hope wen ning jiang cheng and jin ling can go out for dinner one day

[leon-on-the-froggy-chair]

WHY AM I FIGHTING A DINOSAUR