#cherrys rambles

[flying-fangirls]

Malevolent is a love story, but it's not a romance.

It's a story about loving your friends openly and passionately, because you have seen each other at your best and your worst, and you got through it all together, hand in hand. It's about loving your family, and deciding who is a part of your family and who isn't, who you will place as your foundation in life and who you will be the foundation for. It's about loving strangers, seeing the ugly mess known as humanity and cherishing its imperfect beauty, learning to appreciate all its complexity and confusion. It's about loving yourself, finding strength from whatever source you can and using it to fight your own hate and despair, not necessarily removing it entirely, but overshadowing it with hope for yourself.

It's about loving when it's hard, loving people who don't deserve it, loving things that don't love you back, loving when you're scared, loving when it hurts, loving as a defense, loving as a weapon, loving as a survival tactic. It's about loving despite everything that lurks in the dark and the pain and the terror, because without love, we have nothing. It's a love story.

[cacaocheri]

this happens to me at least three times on a daily basis

[a-little-ray-of-fantasy]

THE WAY PENTIOUS LOOKS AT CHERRI RIGHT BEFORE KISSING HER! HE'S BLUSHING AND SAD AND COMPLETELY CAPTIVATED BY HER BEAUTY AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!! 😭😭😭😭

[hypocriticaltypwriter]

Love how tumblr has collectively just accepted this new feature to bring us all together like yes person I've never even met on the face of this website leave me 99+ notifs I've been booped

[applestruda]

Did some fanart of the dance scene in @cherrifire desert duo anamatic

[pawzofchaos]

I feel so sick to my stomach this scene has me in such a chokehold /posssss

THE WAY VAGGIE AND CHARLIE ARE LIKE- HIS WINGWOMEN?? AND SO WAS ANGEL A LITTL BIT AFTER THEY ALL WERE ENCOURAGING THEIR FELLOW NOODLE MAN TO CONFESS TO HIS CRUSH I CANT 😭😭

Him taking off his hat before talking to her as a sign of respect, and then chickening out of telling her his feelings really hits harder when you see him ACTUALLY confess that he loves her later on during the battle right before sacrificing himself because he gained so much confidence since then.

this crush is DEFINITELY not a new thing either- he complimented her bombs and explosives bc he admired them for such a long while since they became rivals and I could definitely see him thinking over and over about how incredible the bombs she made were and how incredible SHE is bc he's a nerdy dork like that <3

HIS LITTLE BLUSHES R SO CUTE TOO and Cherri definitely was feeling SMTH- her seeming a little nervous and awkward as he compliments her and the way she leaned in right before he hurriedly slithered away and the way she looked kind of upset when he just ran away UGHH💖💖

Them becoming friendly and getting along before the battle was already enough to keep me going BUT TGE CONFESSION AND THE KISS IS MAKING ME??!!????! IM NOT OKAYYHN IM DHJKDKAHHAHHENENHANJFURHNANHWHWHHB$heh))$

[cherrirui-official]

"You know... You didn't have to take that with you."

"But I promised him I'd take him out to see the ocean one day."

[constarlations]

Pokémon Timeskip Series: Champion Dawn 🌸❄️

Known as Sinnoh’s Ice Queen, Dawn is best known for her intimidating yet caring nature. She’s fierce and calculating, never leaving any room for error especially when it comes to battling. On her off days you can find her in the contest hall, a hobby she picked up from her mother, or in the Battle Frontier/Pokémon Lab to catch up with her best friends. It is said she was recently engaged to a certain johto boy (Ethan. It’s Ethan.) however they will not publicly revealed their plans for the wedding as of yet

Made a timeskip adult champion Dawn design a while back! It’s still my favorite of my timeskip series hehehe I hope you enjoy!

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[flying-fangirls]

Not to be an English major, but my genuine favorite part of Malevolent is how it handles its themes. Overall Malevolent tackles such profound and interesting ideas to chew on, but it's specifically the approach it takes to those ideas that really gets me going.

For example, one of the major themes across several seasons and characters is identity. The podcast asks pretty standard questions like "How do you define yourself?" and "How do others define you?" But it doesn't choose to stop there! It constantly expands on that idea, and it also asks things like "Which of those definitions is the 'real' you?" and "Are any of them right, are any of them wrong?" and "Is there even a singular definitive version of you?"

Malevolent works out from one idea and poses all these rich lines of discussion and questioning, and then just. Doesn't provide an answer! Or, at least, not a single, one-size-fits-all answer. Instead, it gives us multiple possibilities:

John's arc tells us that your identity is what you make— what you say, what you decide— and no one else's definition of you matters. Arthur's arc tells us that you can get stuck in a rigid, self-deprecating personal identity, so you need others' perspectives to help you see and love the real "you." Larson's story tells us that you do not have the right to selectively accept/deny parts of your identity and actions, and that others can see the whole of "you" whether or not you take accountability for it. Noel's story tells us that you can choose what parts of your past define you, and that leaving behind all the other versions of yourself can be beautiful and empowering. Kayne's story tells us that leaving behind other versions of yourself is akin to murder, killing off the pieces that you don't like and pretending like you've evolved past your own self. Yellow's arc tells us that your identity is fluid and can easily be influenced or manipulated by what others tell you, and by that point you've changed your own self-definition to something entirely new that can be just as true or untrue as the old you.

With all of these characters and with every other character throughout the show, we get a unique answer to the question "What is identity?" And if you look further at all the characters, you can break down their different arcs over the seasons and find even more answers just within that one character's development and story. And some of the answers we get correspond, and some of them contradict, and none of them are the right answer, and all of them are the right answer.

Malevolent takes one idea, and then it crafts an incredibly nuanced and humanistic exploration of said idea that adapts with respect to whatever situation or character it is applied to. And it uses this approach with all of its themes: identity, morality, guilt, grief, love, hope, etc.

Malevolent knows that life is messy, that people are complicated and contradictory and diverse and ever-changing, that no part of the universe or humanity can ever be explained or defined in a simple manner. Malevolent knows all that, and it wants to help us understand that too.

Malevolent shows us that nothing can ever be easily understood or answered, and it shows us that that fact is beautiful.

[fluffydancer618]

One thing I keep thinking about watching RT's minecraft letsplay is how the mines yearn for him, as much as he yearn for them. A tacit dialogue is happening between these two without him even realizing it.

He is the ruler of that world, but the depths are the one who makes the rules.

The only cherry grove biome he found so far is on a big hollow mountain. Like a cheese in the mousetrap, it awaits for a clueless traveler to lure. He, however, dives head first in the depths of the mountain, conquers it and builds his house on top of it. The bait turns into reward, the predator and prey becomes neighbors.

You can't take a single step in that world without falling into a random ravine or a sinkhole. If you're not careful enough, the last thing you'll see is all-consuming darkness. The earth is parted and, as if mirroring that behavior, he parts the ocean. Now you caught its attention.

The connection had been established. Not a humane one, though, but rather the one an animal might have with its favorite toy. It's playing with him: pretends to help to navigate through its deepest and darkest parts for hours and hours just to watch how his sanity is slowly slipping away. Getting the depths' curiosity could be hard, but what about getting its respect?

He leaves. He doesn't want to, but he has to.

It let him go. It doesn't have to, but it wants to.

He builds a tall monument up to the sky just to tease it. It sprinkles some dead-ends mineshafts under tall terracotta pillars just to tease him.

He is the ruler of that world, who doesn't mind playing by depths' rules.

[cacaocheri]

this is how I feel whenever I'm in the notes screaming and crying about how badly sun fnaf wants me

[a-little-ray-of-fantasy]

*a distant future after their kiss and their reunion*

Sir Pentious, to the other angels: Thisss is my arch nemesissss, Cherri Bomb.

Cherri Bomb, gently jabbing his arm: Your girlfriend, you dork.

Sir Pentious: My girlfriend! Even better... 🥹

[aman1taverna]

poor baby 😢 I wonder what the paraphilias in question are-

oh.

is the "queer" community ever going to acknowledge how defending bdsm and kink culture leads to protecting predators or do we have to pretend these are normal things to say. @gendiebrainrotreceipts

[hypocriticaltypwriter]

Brooke explaining Paul if anyone was curious... 👀

[mintaikk]

Hazbin Hotel episode where Charlie finds out that Angel Dust and Husk like each other and she does a lot of shenanigans to get them together but they all backfire and then Angel Dust and her argue bcuz Angel doesn't like his personal life being invaded and then it ends with them having a conversation like, "I appreciate your help Charlie, but- I don't want rush things. I mean- this is the first time I felt hope that something could happen for... a while. I just don't want to mess it up," and Charlie backs off and lets Angel and Husk get together at their own pace

[claritys-silly-things]

Something something Sunday, something something headcanon post

- Ponyboy loves mint chocolate chip ice cream, but dally hates it. He claims it tastes like toothpaste and every time he says this, the group has to hold pony back from attacking the guy (fair)

- (modern) Someone show the curtis brothers Steven universe sobs

- The curtis brothers have dimples and smile lines and other facial things. like Darry has crows feet and pony has worry lines on his forehead because I think it’s cool and I have those even though I am like. Young.

- What if Dallas had an older brother or someone that’s like how he is to Johnny but to Dallas and that person died and then his mom died and he hated his dad and had no reason to stay in New York so he left

- I just painted my nails with random ass old nail polish I found and every nail is a different color and I think that’s something cherry would do

- Pony, soda, and twobit are all double jointed in different areas of their body and they’ll just do shit to creep the rest of the guys out, especially dally and darry

- Dally is fine with gore n shit irl but cant handle weird body contorsions

- Johnny will randomly say the most horrifying things like “doesn’t everyone wish they could go to sleep and not wake up” and it just traumatizes ponyboy. Twobit is also like this but a bit more goofy. Pony ends up doing the same thing post-book but says it to sound like it’s a joke like two bit and when people tell him to stop he’s like “it’s true tho🧍🏽‍♂️”

- Since dally is so pale, he gets “red” so goddamn easily but he looks more pink. Every time he feels too much of any emotion, he’s pink. If it’s too hot he’s pink. Two bit makes fun of him for this and has been punched in the face at least twice for it. Pony is the same but that mf turns like BRIGHT red

- One sided dalbit bc Dallas is fucking aromantic but it’s funny for giggles and shits cuz twobitch just keeps embarrassing himself trying to flirt (vox and alastor core) (someone make a fic about this cries sobs)

- (Modern perchance) Pony is in like advanced classes n shit but fucking hates it. He’s still good at it and will cry if he gets a bad grade, but he doesn’t like it

- (Modern) Pony fucking hates Miguel O’Hara and is absolutely positively disgusted bc like half his friends simp so hard over that man (may or may not be based on me) (it is)

- two bit unironically believes so many conspiracy theories and spreads it to pony and Johnny

- I randomly made mozzarella sticks rn on a whim and soda would 100% impulse make food all the time and just figure out the recipe himself. It’s usually decent.

- Pony loves back to school season but hates actually going back. Like he likes the idea of going back to school and getting new school supplies, but within like, two days, he hates all his classes besides English

- Soda will burst out singing out a lot no matter where he is. Even at night. You can’t stop him (me)

- Rip sodapop you would’ve LOVED musical theater sobs