#external layers ………

[justafriendofxanders]

the thing that gets me about nate ford is that even when he's a criminal mastermind, there's still that kid inside him who went to seminary to be a priest and wanted to help people, but also when he was a kid in seminary there was definitely a freaky part of him that fantasized about being god's sword on earth or whatever. he cares so much! he wouldn't be doing *gestures vaguely* all this if he didn't. he just can't always see past his own desire for (self-)punishment and the idea that there's moral virtue in suffering. he's a control freak who needs god to give him permission to do anything, but also it's okay if he does it and feels really bad about it. yes he's a criminal and he hates criminals and also himself and yes he thinks he's better than everyone else. no i would not want to be his friend. yes i could watch him wear a stupid hat and be weird and manipulate/uplift/drain/support/love in his own way the rest of the team on my tv forever.

[gojoest]

another part that stuck with me from this chapter is megumi’s “i’ll try to live for someone else, one more time”

which just shows once again how vastly he cares about those around him. he’s the softest and most devoted soul i can’t with him :,)

[lucabyte]

@samhainian and I were talking about how cute of an idea it is to do Treehouse-of-horror-style little AUs for OCs but then we just got really hung up on that one from season 6 where nothing supernatural happens at all it's literally just cannibalism. What was up with that. Anyway.

Bonus:

[alistair-blackwood]

kabru's relationship with his eyes makes for suuuuuch a fantastic trans allegory (an aspect of your body alienating you from your community, being compelled to understand the perspective of someone who also has a complicated relationship with their body in the hopes that you'll better understand your own, people straight up misunderstanding biology) it makes me kind of insane because now I feel like I can't dig into any complicated feelings he might have about his body in relation to his gender without feeling like im just ... double dipping?? like fifjpejgh ryoko kui straight up already told that story in a way that exquisitely fucks??

[astracora]

I know my heart is still enamoured with Sylus because objectively speaking Zayne's lunar new year outfit is best aesthetically... but

Truly everything he does makes him so perfect he looks so good 😭

Also I love that Caleb's is the ONLY one that lays black over red...

This man really wants to convey he's not a good dude huh. Shady lil shit.

Something something: wearing black on the new year means to invite misfortune or death... something something.

[attex]

fuckign love drawing him doing this (smoke machine)

[nugatorysheep]

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This damn comic is fucking A N C I E N T but as far as like, the content of it- not necessarily the art because I always hate my older art, but the presentation, what is objectively here- still feels right to me, so I'm sharing it. again

[alexjcrowley]

The Hobbit or Bilbo Baggins's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, Not At All Fun Steppe Vacation

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

i know i say this almost everytime but this might be my hottest geto yet …………………..

[fleouriarts]

feeling bad about my art lately. will probably not post for a while. but i wanted to at least dump some stuff here before i retreat into my hidey hole

[jaskefer]

Obsessed with the idea of Extraordinary Things being a back and forth between Jaskier and Radovid, with Jaskier trying to draw him out in the first verse, and Radovid finally answering him in the second.

Cause like, with Radovid, Jaskier meets someone who he can't fully read properly. He knows there's something under the front of a drunken, bumbling prince, but he doesn't know him well enough yet to be certain as to what.

So, he tests the waters a bit. throws out a line to see if Radovid will take it—and he does. A little bit. But it's so interesting to me, because it doesn't just feel like Jaskier is trying to nail down Radovid's truth in this verse; it feels like he's injecting elements of his own mask into it, as well.

"Keep your words on ice, your gaze lights the fire. They say 'keep on playing nice,' but I have no desire. Why waste our words when lips were made for extraordinary things? It's not a want, it's a need, it is paying no heed to what others say to sing."

This is Jaskier's read of Radovid as he knows him so far: a man hiding more complex wants beneath the veneer of a drunken party boy. But it's also Jaskier admitting that he knows this about Radovid because he wears the exact same mask himself.

Much like how Jaskier and Ciri speak through Geralt and Yennefer in order to process their own feelings about them later in the season, Jaskier sings through himself in order to comprehend who Radovid is. Jaskier is using the performative persona he's crafted for himself in an attempt to coax Radovid out of his.

All of it leads into the main intention of this song: "The greatest songs are made up of unspoken words of love. Of them, I've had enough. with you, I am enough." I am tired of having to put up a front. I want to be understood. I think you understand me. Prove me right.

And Radovid sees what Jaskier is doing. He comments on Jaskier's ability to see people for who they are and not who they pretend to be. But there's still more he wants to understand. This still feels like a game, in a way.

It's only after Radovid sees the brutality of Dijkstra and Philippa up close, watches them orchestrate the assassination of the queen and threaten to incriminate him if he doesn't fall in line, that he then grasps the vulnerability in Jaskier's lyrics. Jaskier is also caught between multiple conflicting desires, that of his loyalty to Geralt/Yen/Ciri, and that of his work as the Sandpiper & how said work is backed by his continued commitment to Redanian Intelligence. That internal conflict and the desire to escape it is also highlighted in the song's first verse ("they say keep on playing nice, but i have no desire"). Only after all of this, when true fear begins to take over and the game stops being fun, does Radovid truly begin to truly understand Jaskier.

And so, he seeks him out. And he responds.

“Drop the sweet disguise, your heart’s beating too loud. The fairytales and little lies can’t drown out all the sound.” You were right. I do understand you. I know what you really want, because we're the same. You can’t hide it behind a façade of a song and a story and a persona.

“Take this heart and break this heart for extraordinary things.” I don't know what will become of this, or us. I still don't fully know if we can trust each other. But no one has ever seen me in the way that you have.

It's not a want, it's a need. With you, I am enough.

[greenapplebling]

Oh boy I can see this opinion getting blasted but I'm sharing anyway...

It's ironic how Betty was so ready to sacrifice herself to stay with Simon or to keep him sane and safe

Yet she couldn't stay with him nor care or love him when he needed her the most while he was going/was crazy

[unproduciblesmackdown]

"winston quant billions: like anyone else, an entire universe" or "the good news is it's just that everyone's been terrible to you, the bad news is it's just that everyone's been terrible to you"

[winepresswrath]

hm i think what i want is darla/drusilla/spike set after angelus leaves them again when she's still sort of bouncing between them and the master and spike and darla are like we're creatures of the night we don't have feelings least of all about each other and drusilla is like "i miss daddy. i'm sad when grandmother goes away." and spike and darla accidentally make eyecontact about it.

[lemonbubble]

cannot believe the solution to "my clothes aren't warm enough" is just "put more and warmer clothes on top"??? and this has been the answer for... ever??

can't we do something about this??? there has to be a better way

[binders-and-beanies]

Also not to already start bitching abt temperature at the beginning of october but it genuinely sux having a disability that flares up more w cold than w heat bc. The only way for me to be even like baseline comfortable is for everyone else to be like medically suffering bc they’re so hot. So I just like don’t get to collectively experience the outdoors as a joyful thing w other people bc either way someone has to suffer and wanna go inside. And of course I don’t want other ppl to be uncomfortable but warmth is such a rare relief for me and I feel mean for being grateful that my body gets a moment to recover before I’m mf cold again. Seasons n temperature r such strange things to beef over imo but its just a lil :/ how when I’m in pain everyone is like thank god and when I’m comfortable everyone is like you’re bad and wrong for that