#connecting past and present

[demaparbat-hp]

Zuko's eyes watered against his will when the ghost of a woman he did not know smiled at him like he was her child.

Zuko decided right there and then that maybe, just maybe, this too was something he came to find.

Ghost-Mother takes a look into Zuko's soul in For the Spirits Chapter IX: A Rider Alone.

More than a stranded soul, Kya holds all the love of the Old Tribe and the means to calm a coming tempest. Zuko won't ever forget her.

(He won't be allowed to.)

[abyssal-ilk]

thinking so so hard about vivienne's defensive reactions to dorian and cassandra trying (and failing) to comfort her over bastien's passing. chewing on it. thinking about her inability to talk about bastien, even to an inquisitor when the player tries to talk to her about him.

and then her banter with blackwall, who is one of the companions she has a mostly negative dynamic with, yet it is him and not dorian or cassandra that she responds kindly to.

blackwall doesn't dance around it or try to lessen the blow of bringing it up like dorian and cassandra do, and i think she appreciates that directness. she still doesn't open herself up to him, though. she is so,,, agh

[demigods-posts]

one interesting aspect of percy and rachel's relationship that isn't often highlighted is how empathetic percy must have been toward rachel about seeing through the mist as a small child. because percy was the kid who saw a man with one eye stalking him at the local playground. the kid who saw a horse with wings resting atop the roof of a nearby building. the kid who was nearly killed by a fury disguised as his algebra teacher. and the kid who understood what if felt like to distrust the world around him, to be reprimanded for falling victim to the fear that accompanied it. if it was anything that percy offered rachel. it was the grace of understanding a uniquely mortal experience.

[revvethasmythh]

in regards to orym only admitting how badly he's struggling to dorian/always reaching for the sending stone instead of his current party members, I suspect it's because dorian's not with the team right now, and therefore he's not someone orym feels he needs to be strong for. orym has been told he's the moral center of his party numerous times (ashton has even admitted to him that this isn't fair! but it's still how he's perceived) in addition to being a keep-a-stiff-upper-lip-and-support-your-friends kind of guy. if he cracks, he's got to be afraid that's going to have a ripple effect on the stability of the group. so of course he's going to reach out to the one party member he doesn't feel he has to support, where it won't effect the larger dynamics of the group, who also happens to be someone who is removed from/untouched by the kind of trauma and heartbreak the party has been dealing with and feels more connected to a past that was kinder. dorian is the ideal candidate for orym to open up to emotionally, well beyond any shipping lenses

[sincerely-sofie]

Tipsy Twig has struck once more.

[cosmiicchaoss]

a piece for my art history class [tags for info]

[crustyfloor]

It's interesting just how telling the characters' moods are just by looking at their eyes alone

Sua is passive, and distant, seemingly in a daydream. Ivan is stoic but resolved, Till has an angry sort of look, and Mizi looks determined

But something that I find even more interesting, Is that Sua, Ivan and Till are all their past selves. The people they were minutes before their respective rounds. but Mizi is the only one in her present form. is this because she was the first to make it out of Alien stage? or is this because she will be the only one to make it out of Alien stage at the end of it all? Just a thought.

[transingthoseformers]

So, wait, mnemosurgery addiction is an addiction to performing mnemosurgery? I've heard of it before but i always assumed bots got addicted to receiving it

I have absolutely never considered that omg

Yeah!! Typically in canon, a mnemosurgery addiction is the mnemosurgeon's addiction to performing it, to the point it kills many (this was a big part of Chromedome's character and one of the things we knew early with him) because there's a bit of inherent risk with mnemosurgery (something about the process of linking minds together like that). The Fatal Injection is talked about a decent bit, and we very nearly see this happen to Chromedome when he's doing it with Dominus / The Pet in the end of MTMTE (this big whole thing)

But the idea of a character being addicted to receiving mnemosurgery??? Fascinating. Fascinating fascinating dynamics and scenes there. Especially considering mnemosurgery's history in idwg1, and it's connection with the autobots. Giving me ideas.

[paddockclub]

holy shit. landoscar is so woosan coded. listen.

wooyoung and lando are both typically the more outgoing ones, the one's that are more comfortable using their charm in front of a crowd to draw people in. they are enthusiastic performers.

on the other hand, we have san and oscar. while they are used to the crowd now as it's a big part of their jobs and what not, they are very particular on what they do and don't say in front of crowds. they are strategic performers.

then, put them together and what do we have? a more comfortable atmosphere. sometimes wooyoung and lando take charge, but other times, san and oscar take charge because they understand when the other needs the time and space.

and the physical aspect of landoscar is so woosan coded, too. like, san and oscar both started out way less muscular than how they are in the present day. now? both san and oscar are bulking up and becoming broader by the day and wooyoung and lando are not complaining. (re: lando asking if oscar got taller and wooyoung constantly being up in san's business)

on the topic of the physical aspect, both wooyoung and lando are more tactile i would say than compared to san and oscar. well, with woosan, they're definitely both very tactile with each other now, but in the beginning, i usually noticed that it was wooyoung initiating contact more with san than vice versa. now while lando and oscar are not to the stage that woosan are (and probably never will be let's be real, no one can do woosan physical intimacy like woosan) oscar is definitely more comfortable with initiating contact with lando now that they're more familiar with each other.

[sketching-shark]

All right! Youtuber Knightly put up a clip of the juke joint dance scene (aka the best moment in film 2025) from Sinners!

[chirpsythismorning]

S5 opener REAL

[zakiyah]

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[nenoname]

Seeing that criticism directed on NMM:

Tbh an idea at the back of my mind to rework that Mabel subplot is... Actually substitute it by readapting the Wendy+Stan B-plot, by having them break into the NW Manor. Then perhaps the plot would be the girls trying to cover up for Wendy and Stan and not be tossed out or accused for inviting them in. And it could also tie in neatly between Wendy and her ancestor

On the other hand tho, NMM is already very tight with a very big revelation of the Northwest crimes and other crazy things going on. So I guess thats why the writers went with a rather basic B plot for the girls.

unfortunately i think the writers were set on having this be the last regular ep before nwhs, with an excuse to have the kids out of the house and for stan not to have a subplot... until mcgucket shows up at the last minute and it drops that "oh. this is actually the first time stan hasn't shown up at all. it's all happening next episode."

but yeah honestly that idea would've been soooo sweet cos wendy also missing that tie to her ancestor really does bug me! can't believe she had to be excluded from the ep for encouraging more violence kahsdkjhsak

i wouldn't mind a lighter b plot but the fact that they had to resort to the girls bickering over some guy (especially when they know we're tired as hell of mabel's crush of the week plots!!!!!)..... and sure it's like "yay grenda gets to be the focus and have a 'win'" but urgh does it really have to be at this cost......

(people also pointing out that it's a bummer that mabel isn't part of the last regular ep's main plot and we only get the stanchurian candidate to have the mystery twins properly working together in a non-apocalyptic situation after this and that's them just mind-controlling stan all ep 😭)

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[alterrune]

OH MY GOD. I JUST REALIZED WHY THE NAME "THREE WISHES" SOUNDED SO FAMILAR TO ME.

YEAH. THAT.

So, back when I was a little kid, I watched the Treehouse TV channel RELIGIOUSLY. And one of the shows they showed there was Hi-5.

And this song...my god, this song. The chorus has been stuck in my head for a long time. It's just so freakin' catchy!

I thought I'd locked it away, but when Splatoon 3 announced that the Now or Never Seven's song for Grand Festival was called "Three Wishes", I immediately thought, "That name sounds oddly familar..."

And JUST NOW, my mind suddenly sang something that made me connect all the dots.

"You get three wishes/What will they be?/Three wishes/One, two, three!"

HI-5. OF ALL PLACES. IT WAS HI-5 THAT I HAD HEARD THAT SONG NAME FROM.

This is...INSANE. To think that Splatoon would actually remind me of something from my own goddamn past JUST BY THE SONG TITLE ALONE...I wish I was joking. I'm at loss here.

Now I really wanna see someone make the Now or Never Seven sing Hi-5's Three Wishes, or artwork of them in Hi-5's outfits. God, that would be a trip.

If you ask me, though...

...the Now or Never Seven song is better.

[jimplekins]

ragghh misc stuff (also stuff i've been doing at my college)