#everywhere else tbh

[yoshiyakiryu-archive]

phone bgs for @rapturousrabbits made from the process of editing this

[bigskydreaming]

Imagine looking at a character whose entire premise is that in every stage of his life, he's made every version of himself into someone that inspires people to such a degree that EVERY SINGLE VERSION OF HIM has people wanting to literally follow in his footsteps in some way or another.....

And coming to the conclusion that like.....the most important things about him are the sum of all his trappings. His entirely homemade developed from scratch could not exist if not for what he already was and brought with him BEFORE crafting this newest version of himself trappings, with his greatest trait throughout all of it being his adaptability; his ability and willingness to roll with the punches and not try to simply weather any opposition or changes to his life but instead reshape himself as needed to better fit INTO whatever new shape his life and the world around him takes. All while managing to carry the most innate, fundamental and necessary aspects of himself from one version to the next. Thus every single version of himself is different but simultaneously every single version of himself is also undeniably the same person.

The strength of this character, to me, will always be that he can be so many versions of himself, he can become so many things, all without ever actually losing or discarding any of the aspects of himself he considers most essential, the things he's not willing to lose or give up just to keep going. Finding that road not taken by most, usually because most never even think to look for it as an option. But one that he's always able to find because the one trick he's mastered in his tumultuous life is threading that needle of not just digging in his heels in an unproductive way but rather being selective about when and where he makes a stand and decides "this is not a thing I'm willing to compromise about" but here are places and ways I can and will change and evolve and adapt in order to make it possible for me to hold onto these parts and keep them as they are.

And that's why its always so mind-boggling to me that so many writers can't seem to think of anything else to do with Dick Grayson other than invent some new reason for him to just....not be that person, or to like just take the character whose most basic fundamental trait he's NOT about to compromise on is willingly giving up his spot in the driver's seat of his own life.....and make him just a passenger in his own life and stories.

Dick Grayson at age nine....at age nineteen...at age twenty nine....the one core thread running through all versions of him is the only way he's standing back and letting you call the shots for him or putting him on the sidelines in some way is over his dead body.

HOW he goes about that, what that looks like, who he becomes and what aspects of himself he plays up at some times and what traits he lets fall by the wayside at other times when they offer less in service to his primary goal here....that changes constantly. He changes constantly.

But those changes are almost always (or at least they used to be/should be IN MY OPINION) made with the intention of keeping certain things about him or his life as consistent as possible.

That's the duality of Dick Grayson that I'm here for. The inherent contradiction of him that COULD allow for endless conflict and breaking new narrative ground in all sorts of ways if mined properly:

His eternal willingness to compromise....but only ever in pursuit of doubling down on the ways he's not willing to compromise.

Forever walking that tightrope in ways that only a kid born and raised in a circus could ever hope to.

[cobra-creampuff]

the fact that they made it illegal to make ads louder than programs on tv in 2010 but haven't updated it to apply the same regulation to streaming. who do i have to call.

[gingermintpepper]

I do, in fact, enjoy drawing different variations of this moment. Mostly I just wanted to doodle some wrathful Apollo (and practice doodling more of Hyacinth's curls since I usually dodge colouring them LOL) Bonus doodle under the cut <3

:D

[hplonesomeart]

He found out he’s not the highest rated anymore….isn’t taking it too well <<

[a-lonely-dunedain]

I've always speculated that Tadan actually really likes carrot cake but he just tells you he doesn't care for it so that you would have extra.

Maybe he noticed how unwell the PC seems (giving no thought to himself, in an arguably worse state, of course), and wanted to help in some small way. Maybe he noticed the pc hasn't been eating much as Mordrombor's influence is making them unwell. Maybe Tadan himself has lost his apatite but won't say as much because he doesn't want to worry you, so he simply gives you his food and plays it off like he's just picky

am I reading too far into this? yes. does it still seem totally in-line for a Ranger to act like this? also yes. and I love reading into Rangers too much, it makes me sad <3

[icharchivist]

sometimes i forget people didn't read the books and don't know Illario was extremely dumbed down in Veilguard, and i see takes and i have a double take like "well no that's not true he's not l--" and then i remember that i have a total different understanding of Illario than someone who only played the game because I consider Book!Illario better and have a very complicated headcanons to try to connect Book!Illario and Game!Illario together but if i had a choice i'd disregard Game!Illario in a fucking heardbeat

and then i see takes based solly on his Game characterization and i get scandalized for a second before the grief of "right the Game made 0 effort with this character" really hits me and i feel sad again

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Oh you should ABSOLUTELY watch Shame when you don't have something else to focus on lmao. I just watched it the other day and it's good!! More emotional than I was expecting and warning it does have some suicide stuff, but overall very good and you see his whole naked body just so fast. They wanted you to know what you were getting into immediately lmao

IVE BEEN WANTING TO WATCH IT FOR A WHILE SOOO BAD im just terribly easily susceptible to distractions 🙃..... good to know the movie starts strong tho get that right out the way 😩

[kirkwallguy]

Watching origins and bg3 videos i realize how much opitons there are to choose from, even in the most random ones, or those the player can miss or might want to skip. Honestly it kind of made me think how not having a voice actor to pay to vocalize every single line (in a right way based on context and emotions) would be so open space for a writer! So vast. I really like having voice for the MC/protag but LISTS of options in a RPG is so tempting to me wjehkwhsjsgs I'm fine with post-origins dialogue/voiced path too so not very picky here nor criticising. Just made a point based on what I've seen

yeah honestly i think the less detail there is in other aspects of the game (voice lines / graphics) the more resources can be spent on impactful choices and writing, which is a shame because it's at odds with what aaa games tend to focus on. bg3 is a MASSIVE feat for being as reactive as it is while having full cutscenes but honestly i'm just as happy with the way owlcat crpgs or even pillars of eternity handle it. i don't really expect dragon age to go back to origins' voiceless protag because they'd probably be ripped to shreds for it but im glad not everyone has moved on from them

[texasbama]

[pseudophan]

(why do people keep talking abt tumblr shutting down i feel like i missed something)

they're moving most of the tumblr staff over on other projects because tumblr just isn't going to be profitable ever and they're cutting their losses. it'll still be up though like tumblr isn't shutting down NOW or anything, but y'know...

[padfootastic]

I feel like Hedwig and Sirius would be BFFs

wouldn’t it be the best!!!!’ there’s already many who theorise sirius was like. an animal whisperer. wouldn’t take much to get the lil snowy over on his side.

i like to think—in the beginning, hedwig would only squint at him suspiciously, unsure of this strange smelly man near her boy. but it’s when she realises how devoted s is to harry that she softens. the first time she lets sirius pet her feather w/o nipping at him was properly celebrated. (remus watched on enviously bc hedwig literally always, without fail, divebombs him when he’s near)

[lexalovesbooks]

This is gonna sound so mean and bad but like… it kind of sucks looking through pages of disability book recs and 95 percent of them are all mental disabilities with maybe one physical disability and most of the time the one physical disability book is either like, six of crows or nimona

[autisticlee]

that autistic feeling when social rules changed so suddenly and randomly and you don't understand why and everyone refuses to offer an explanation becuase everyone ~should just know why~, but you're the only person that didn't get the update.

do you ever see people do something a lot and assume it's fine and normal and acceptable and harmless, then suddenly out of nowhere when you (or even someone else) do it, it's now suddenly "bad/offensive/weird/creepy/a red flag/unacceptable" and you just get so confused and dont understand why it suddenly changed.....

[citnamora]

If there is going to be a third series I think it would be really funny if Branch and Poppy were back to being only best friends. Just to continue the trend

[thesecondface]

Islands of Abandonment - Cal Flyn

Recently read this book on the near miraculous proliferation of life and biodiversity in post-human landscapes, and what a fantastic book it was. This was very much in the vein of Macfarlane's Underland (both being prone to wax poetic on unconventional landscapes) but more, somehow. I'm not sure I can articulate it well – perhaps it was the choice in the unconventional landscape which predisposes the reader to its inherited stakes, or lack thereof; or perhaps it was the direct, clear cut message this book had, that Underland maybe lacked in – but this felt infinitely more personal. I enjoyed Underland; I enjoyed Macfarlane's writing and his infectious awe with the landscapes around him – I thought he painted a beautiful, unsettling picture of the underworld, but it was his awe at the end of the day and not my own. Flyn, however, tells you exactly what she argues for in her book, and I'll be damned if I wasn't sold right there and then:

The idea that 'knowledge deepens with appreciation' and that aestheticism can be taught is so extremely crucial. You have to fall in love with your environment to understand it. You have to understand it in order to save it (if, indeed, it needs saving of the human kind). And this gold mine of a book takes these forgotten, unpleasant landscapes and makes you love them – practicing precisely what it preaches.

(Perhaps this struck so deeply because I was so sheltered a city kid who then went on to geologise, and went on to find out just how much you can learn from simple observation and the scientific process. How little I knew before, how little I still know – how little everyone else knows, and how difficult a task it is to invoke any response besides the unabiding blankness that is the death-knell to all educators – to apply the term liberally. It's something that I quite desperately want to cultivate, this awareness of the environment around me; I want to train myself to love the things that previously held neither appeal nor interest to me, because not so long ago I was that blank and disconnected. It's why iNaturalist was such a revelation to me. This book was another, I think).