#don't stare.

[hinamie]

morning glory

[bloodyarn]

anon sent

꒰ So I kind of really like someone but we only just met: I’m worried that all of my years spent as a practical shut-in are messing with my emotions and I don’t want to ruin a good friendship. Do you have any advice?  ꒱

  𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝗿𝘀𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝗿𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝘆𝐨𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝘄𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝐨 𝐠𝐢𝘃𝐞 𝘆𝐨𝘂 𝐚𝐝𝘃𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝗿𝐚𝐜𝘁𝐞𝗿.

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      𝐋𝐨𝘃𝐞 𝐚𝘁 𝐟𝐢𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝐢𝐠𝐡𝘁, 𝐦𝐚𝘆𝐡𝐚𝐩𝘀   !      How cute   !   A troubled soul, not certain of their feelings, confused by their own heavy heart. Ugh, if she was a good bard, the hexblood would write stories about this.

      ❝ Okay, first advice: You should make sure the tingle in your guts doesn't come from an empty stomach. You should eat something, look at them, maybe not at the same time, that is weird. But if the awkward feeling persists, you guys should go on a picknick   !   You could also combine the eating  &  testing if things really feel that honest to you. But don't forget the no-staring-part. Very creepy. Maybe try talking to them. If they are a good friend, the worst they can say they are not interested. Friendship will endure difficult propositions like these. ❞

Maybe she should eat something herself. All that talk about food fogs up her mind . . .

[lotus-pear]

he's so crazy we can't take him anywhere 😭🤣

[iamanartichoke]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

[herd-reject-arts]

So I'm leaving work and something darts in front of me, maybe 10ft away, too fast for me to see what it is. Peek around the tree blocking my path and I see this

Just like... a whole ass hawk. Dude's gotta be about 1.5ft tall. Massive fucking bird. And it's just staring me straight in my soul like this, even as I try to move ahead. It didn't budge. And there's only this path back to my car unless I want to walk on a busy highway. So I have the option of Death By Raptor or Death By Truck.

So I walk in the poison ivy filled patch off the sidewalk. Guy still isn't moving. Still staring me directly in the eyes. And I do this thing when animals are behaving strangely where I'll talk to them, so I'm just like, "Hey, man. I don't know you. You don't know me. This feels really threatening. I'm just trying to get to my car, dude. Can I get some space please? You're a big fucking bird. I see those claws. You could kill me right now, but I'd appreciate if you didn't, ok?"

It didn't move until I was about 2ft away. Again: I'm as far from it as I can be without walking into the street. It clearly wasn't going to budge. I walk past, thing flies up (silent, btw. Scary) and lands on a brick wall a little further ahead

Anyway. Weird guy. Nearly shit my pants when I noticed a bird big enough to carry off a fully grown cat was just... there, staring me in the face, unwilling to move away from me, a human, something it should see as a threat. I watched behind me the whole rest of the way to my car, just in case this bird decided to help me shed this mortal coil. 10/10 experience. Super cool guy.

[privodoro]

no anatomy just vibes welcome back king

[tofixtheshadows]

Sorry but Kabru is so fascinating to me as a character, in a pure mechanical sense, because of what Ryoko Kui does with him. Everything about him is a red herring. He's deliberately introduced as some kind of rival for Laios, a party leader who is hopeless against monsters but absolutely brilliant with people both in and out of combat, and who has good reason to oppose him.

By the end of chapter 31, you might even think Kabru's going to end up as some sort of anti-villain, an antagonist with the best of intentions who nevertheless tries to foil our hero's plans. He wants to defeat the Mad Mage himself, he suspects Laios of being too irresponsible to be trusted with control of the dungeon, and his crew even thinks that Laios's party stole from them (and they're kind of right!). All signs point towards an inevitable showdown.

And then ... none of that happens.

Confrontation over the stolen treasure? Kabru is literally too smart to fall for the classic miscommunication trope and correctly decides it's not worth making a big deal of.

Kabru's deadly PVP skills? Aside from trying to take down Falin, he never fights another human again.

Wanting to be the one who defeats the dungeon? Turns out he was only doing that because he didn't think any other adventurer would have people's best interests at heart, and he's more than willing to play a support role in the whole affair.

Thinking Laios is up to no good? He really did just want to get to know the guy more. He has his misgivings, but ultimately ends up trusting Laios with his life.

Is Kabru going to get some sort of comeuppance for hating monsters and not appreciating their ecosystem? Well no, he has good reasons for hating monsters. He ends up wanting to learn about them through Laios's eyes, but he's never forced into any "Wow, guess I was wrong about them!" revelation.

Hell, even his implied ladykiller ways, which might lead you to think he'll end up being the stock "chivalrous lech" type of character, don't really manifest. He has a lot of opportunities to act flirtatiously around women, but doesn't. He's just a guy whose natural charisma makes him into human catnip.

And that's all hysterical to me, to pull it off. It's a fascinating way to tell a story. To introduce a character explicitly as a rival, potentially even a villain, and instead make them a deuteragonist. It's like a magician making a coin disappear, then slowing down their trick to show you the misdirection. "Did you see what I did there?" they ask with a wink. "The coin was in my other hand the entire time."

[artkaninchenbau]

People keep on asking for more Baby Robin and Papadile so here is more Baby Robin and Papadile. Now never ask anything from me ever again

[littlelightfish]

Manga-Anime comparison:

BOMBASTIC SIDEYE

He's my package give it back

We added eyes and a Mickbell so he won't eat your soul!

This... I hold this close to my heart <3

[somewhereincairparavel]

"jason is a knockoff watered down percy" NO hear me out, jason actually parallels annabeth immensely, sharing SO many similarities with her personality, not percy, in this essay I will-

edit: my full analysis is out now! here

[podcastwizard]

couple people coming over in three hours so the only logical course of action is to sit here and think about that and do nothing else

[madbalalaika]

[eightyonefour]

[egophiliac]

I have SO many thoughts about everything and they are in no kind of order yet, so here's just some quick little bits in the meantime!

I am not normal about any of these characters!

[kensatou]

you think YOU had a bad day at work?

bonus: sid shrieking "no!!!! NO!!!!!" loud enough to be heard in the stands and on camera

[candlebel]

Spinel walk. xD