#depending on how i feel that day lol

[hecatesbroom]

as a generally curious person, the one question that's always burning at the back of my mind is: how do my mutuals look?? so because tumblr is the Great Anonymous Basement of the internet and we're obviously not posting selfies, I'm asking you all (very very nicely) to reblog this and tell me what you look like in the tags!!

[autisticandroids]

CASTIEL: Stop. What's the point if you don't mean it? You fear me - not love, not respect, just fear.

[youtube with closed captions]

a godstiel pity party. i'd like to thank an anon i got way back in february of 2021.

[al-luviec]

something simple to try to get out of art block (it didn't work)

[arklayraven]

Ren: I could buy you a expensive ring, you know? To prove my undying endless love for you. It can have a diamond! The prettiest one in the world! With our birth stones too! We could get matching rings in fact! I'll have the stones custom cut to be shaped into hearts an--

Me: No need for diamonds. Just want a cheap colorful cool rock.

Ren: But...I--

Me: Also shiny, but nothing flashy.

Ren: ...

Me: Maybe tasty too...

Ren: ...

Me: ...

Ren: *buys two ring pops, one for himself and one for me*

[skunkes]

the thing abt the surgery is that yes I do get litle moments of being ecstatic it finally happened but also I just feel Normal now. like my base state for all my life up until last week was worry, horror, and panic when i'd occasionally remember the very unwanted thing my body was capable of, spiraling into what ifs on potential conflicts in my life and future... and now i just feel Not Stressed Out All the Time. Normal.

[attemptedartist]

fiddauthor angst,,,,,, if u will,,,, or maybe portal ford angst,,,,,,, thank you :3

I FEEL SO BAD IM SO LATE ON ALL MY ASKS DJDHFITNOTBT

anyway here have ford right after he got blasted into the portal trying to hide from bills demon minions :)

(pleeeease click to see it property tumblr messes the quality up)

[mxttellion]

DAY 2 + 3 : Past reflections, regretful present, uncertain future

[icewindandboringhorror]

Just curious what the average level of personal investment in these sorts of things is. Like, how much do people usually get into silly stuff like this their friends ask of them? etc. etc. Which I know, only surveying a small sample on a very specific website means I'm not getting an exact average idea lol, but.. curious nonetheless .. Maybe reblog for bigger sample size but also this is not very serious at all/not worth a call to action gbhjbhjb

[taegularities]

🤍🫂🌹

[dlartistanon]

I wanted to ask because I find you have really good takes on arknights ships most of the time so I’m genuinely curious what the deal with PlatiNearl is. I don’t remember them interacting much in the Kazimierz events and I assume the ship is popular because they were some of the only kazimierz operators from when Arknights started. You don’t have answer if you don’t want to of course, but I want to know what it is about the ship that you like if you wouldn’t mind explaining

Huh. I don't believe I've talked about ships that much, but I was originally baited by the Near Light 3D PV. They played up a sort of rivalry or climactic showdown between Ideal Knight and Knight-Assassin... only for them to never exchange a single word in any event. Needless to say, I was disappointed. Though it wouldn't be the first time. Also NLPT isn't really popular at all, at least in EN.

Regardless, it did get me thinking about the potential. Even if they don't say anything to each other directly, Platinum does have a voice line about Nearl, and her operator record has Nearl show up in her dream. Also Plat's whole deal is that she's assigned by the Armorless Union to keep an eye on Nearl.

On the surface it's knight and knight-killer, positions that are fundamentally opposed and can never truly meet on the horizon as the KGCC has a hold on both. One is stuck in darkness, the other in light. Nearl (at first) wears mostly black, Platinum is all white. Nearl is pretty old-fashioned, Plat is a bit of a fashionable girl. Nearl is serious and disciplined, Plat is casual and wants to coast by on life. Nearl has a hidden dorky side to her personality while Plat, despite her lackadaisical nature, enjoys simple frivolous pleasures. They're pretty clear opposites.

It's no secret that Platinum hates knights. According to her, they’re either muscle-headed jocks or self-obsessed assholes (and she knows what she’s talking about; she was one of them) What pisses Plat off the most about Nearl is that Nearl is neither. Nearl is what a knight SHOULD be and Platinum is just astounded that after all these years, after all this time, she’s acting like being a knight actually means something. It pisses her off so much because why? To run the risk of being left behind by stubbornly clinging to what some might call outdated ideals... deep down, I think she can’t help but admire Nearl too. There's something admirable about believing in the romanticism of true knights in a world so determined to quash you under its boots. For all she knows, the world has moved on from knights, but Nearl disagrees. There's value in keeping the ideal alive in a world that seemingly dismissed it but is also in desparate need of it. Nearl is not the artificial lights of Kazimierz that Plat is used to, but actual light.

I also want to say that Plat resents Nearl because Nearl had the chance to escape Kazimierz, but came back instead. Plat wants nothing more than to be free from her current life. So to see Nearl willingly return to the place that made her life hell? It’s infuriating. How can she think this rotten country can be fixed, when Platinum herself can't see any light at the end of the tunnel? They're both victims, but how is it that their outlooks are so different?

Pictured: Juxtaposing the symbolism of Nearl standing alone but bathed in light, who's still adored by many, while Platinum stands in shadow, surrounded by others but in reality she has no one and has to fend for herself in a cutthroat organization she hates. Their respective loneliness and isolation...

The events reveal that Platinum is quite compassionate. She didn't become an assassin to kill people; rather, she was coerced into it by someone taking advantage of her emotions. Yes, her job is to monitor Nearl, but she doesn't want to hurt her. She sees that Nearl has been away from her family and just wants her to be with them, likely projecting her own feelings of being estranged from her own parents.

This is more going into extrapolation of their characters and circumstances, but yes, Platinum kidnapped and threatened Maria to use as leverage but I have to wonder if Nearl would actually hold that against her should she learn about Plat having been manipulated into a job she desperately wants to leave. Also I think just based on Nearl’s voice lines about not pursuing enemies and giving them another chance to change their life trajectory, she’d feel sympathetic for Plat’s situation if she ever learned that she was tricked into it and couldn’t easily leave.

I just really like the idea of a slow-burn where Nearl herself is actually against Plat at first because of said kidnapping but eventually learns about her situation and how Plat is trapped and miserable. Her distrust and wariness turns to pity and then gradually concern. Nearl’s strong desire to help people compels her to try and find a way if she can help the girl she has mixed feelings about. In Plat's op rec, Nearl's appearance implies that both of them can never truly escape the shadow of the KGCC. If they come calling, Plat will eventually have to answer. Nearl still has to watch her words and actions now that she's back in Kazimierz, otherwise her friends get targeted.

Compare and contrast Nearl the ideal knight who stuck by her morals versus Platinum who just did what she was told under threat of retribution and how they both ended up getting screwed over by the system anyway, the unwinnable Kazimierz competition scene. Alternately, an assassin falling for their mark? That's the stuff of novels. Something that actually happened to Platinum's predecessor, and for her to follow in his footsteps?

NLPT slow-burn because both of them aren’t sure how to feel about the other. Plat avoiding her, it’d be so easy to blame all her problems on Nearl; if she didn’t exist, she wouldn’t be in this predicament. and Nearl always second-guessing Plat’s intentions... I have a scene in my head that’s basically like: too much of their dynamic is rooted in the place that changed their lives for the worse. But at Rhodes Island, they are not assassin nor knight, but comrades. And as her comrade, Nearl will die for Platinum, if need be. She was willing to die for Firewatch too, despite Firewatch also claiming to despise knights.

[dutybcrne]

Thinking abt Kae’s Fatui verse,,,,

[fluffle-writes]

I HC that fem Leona would wear her hair short to mirror how lionesses don't have manes - it's a common trend amongst lion beastfolk (particularly those in more traditional families) that girls would have short hair and boys would grow their hair long

[willowser]

we've seen rei and natu and fuyumi in 'pleased to meet you', but what is dabi's relationship like with enji and shouto?

you know, enji is one thing in ptmy that i'm undecided on. one one hand, i almost don't even want to touch that, bc it's sooooo much—and i'm also still not sure where they'll be at the end of the canon story, not that that has to translate into ptmy—and also bc, i go back and forth with wondering what i want for their relationship ?? so tbh that's probably also contributing to the mud puddle i feel stuck in right now re: ptmy. but on the other hand, i feel like there is no way for me to not talk about them, you know ? where touya and enji are at as he recovers like. i can't not talk about it. idk idk ! i'm stuck !

as far as shouto, i think, as he's healing, it would make sense to me that he goes back and forth with how he feels about shouto. shouto will always be there for whenever touya feels like reaching out, and he'll always be just out of view in case he needs anything at all, and at times, touya could be convinced to nurture some kind of relationship with him, but i think he gets in a bad mood and then changes his mind LOL like, it's that simple. he's just that much of a brat LOL

i definitely have more planned for touya and shouto's relationship, but i'm still deciding endeavor....i'm hoping my feelings will become a little more study once the manga finishes and i have some kind of direction to follow LOL but tysm for asking ! and for your patience !

[spextkrr]

https://www.tumblr.com/faulkner-gordon/766372402703810560/this-is-lawrence-and-alison-to-me substanceshipping . (spink is cis in my mind so boypussy is gavin about david)

you're so right actually

[arolesbianism]

Take some Fydd's I just realized I never posted

[theoldsecretkeeper]

just so ya know im doing trick or treat here! Just swnd "Trick or treat" and marg will give a gift or a trick depending on what shes feeling.