#finally making textposts again

[carrythatwayt]

The couple that breaks cowboy curses together, stays together.

[xanderscollection]

[morningstarrituals]

I am starting to hate the fandom term "ship" again

[bitethedevil]

My NSFW Raphael headcanon that is gnawing at my brain

(Don’t get me wrong, I love all the kinkier versions of Raphael in fics. However, there’s this headcanon I have stuck in my mind and it makes so much sense to me. I’ve talked about in another textpost of mine that Raphael usually doesn’t reveal his true nature and intentions before his clients are either so far in that there is no turning back or that he has already gotten what he wanted from them. Up until then he seems like the perfect gentleman. It is all honeyed words and seduction until he finally has you in his grasp.)

Just imagine a Raphael that courts you with those same honeyed words and sweet poems. He makes you feel special, wanted and like you are the most beautiful person in the world.

When he finally gets you into bed, he doesn’t rush anything. It doesn’t just feel like sex, it feels like lovemaking. Slow and intimate because he is nothing if not patient. He’s a gentleman with you. He takes his time, whispering sweet nothings in your ear. Lavishes you with kisses, compliments and sweet words, always pulling your attention back on him and urging you to keep eye-contact. It feels like love because you want to believe it is and he knows exactly which buttons to push to make you melt.

Whenever you return his affections with a kiss or a touch, he praises you so sweetly. He coaxes you into giving in to the illusion that he knows you so desperately wants to believe in: that you really are the most special thing he has ever laid eyes upon. That he might be just as in love with you as you are with him.

When you finally do give in to the illusion, despite your better judgement, he asks you that cruel question that he always does: “Do you love me, little mouse?”. You know that there is only one correct (and honest) answer to that. You once dared to ask him if he loved you back? He simply smiled and kissed you. A kiss so passionate that you’d almost be tempted to believe that it was a “yes”.

The moment you’ve both finished, you lift your head from the pillow to kiss him again, as you had done just before. He pulls his head back with a cruel smile. You do it again, and he grips your chin and pushes you back into the bed. “Sleep well.” That’s all he says, still with that sadistic smile on his lips as he leaves the bed. The grand performance is over, and he played his part perfectly as always. He is as always feasting on your devastated mood that follows. You know that he will go back to treat you as if you are nothing to him as he always does…until the next time he feels like playing with you. It was all a lie. It always was. The worst thing was that he knew that no matter how much it hurt you each time, your foolish little heart would continue to long for that sweet lie, in the naïve hope that it would one day be the truth. Hope…such a tease.

(Idk man. It just makes SENSE to me, okay? He performs and he plays games with people, it’s what he does. I remember reading that some devils can have a selfish desire for being loved and it just checks out. Purely lust isn’t enough for him, he wants to own your heart and mind too, just because he can. He wants to build you up just to laugh at you as he tears it all down again.)

[peachdeluxe]

This was going to be formatted as art, but I just have a lot to say. Please forgive a long vent-y (but positive!) textpost instead! a little update on me and my work vvv

It's probably evident if you've followed me a while, but I've had a really really bad past two years. Things are finally starting to look up again.

Stress from my home life & financial issues and grief caused a very difficult onset and worsening of psychotic depression, and I reached my breaking point recently. I made the decision to give myself and more hands-on treatment one more try, and for the first time in my life I feel like something is working. I am getting better! It's only been a short time but I really feel like I've finally been given my life back.

All of this to say: first of all, thank you to anyone who has helped me raise funds to keep myself afloat financially, or sent me a kind message, or shared my work. Aside from just having a heads up where clients can see it in case I've missed messaging anyone with updates, I am posting something very personal here because the kindness of my followers here in particular has very tangibly saved my life.

Second, getting better means I can, I hope, get back to doing art full-time again. I realized I've felt a massive disconnect with what I draw for a very long time because of how bad things have been going. I feel real clarity now about what I want to make, and I don't think I've been secure and well enough to listen to that feeling before. Maybe my art won't actually look different in any way externally after saying all of this! I still like to draw fun and bright cartoons, and I don't see that changing. I just feel capable of and feel a desire to make different, more 'me' artwork. I hope it's okay I'll be drawing different stuff going forward, a lot more original work than fanart. thank you very much for reading

[lesbianoms]

It’s late. You’re on Tumblr, scrolling, when you suddenly stumble across a post from me. Only the closer you read the more you realize… this one is different… a textpost that says something to the effect of:

@lesbianoms was delicious <3. Is delicious? It’s hard to tell, really… there’s so much going on in there, so many loud noises… I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s passed out now from all the heat. I’m not even sure if she’s still solid~

I’ve actually been scrolling through her blog while I wait. It’s so cute how she talks about all this prey stuff, but she’s kind of foolish for it too. I mean, did she really think she could get away with posting all this stuff WITHOUT meeting the very end she fantasizes so much about?

Only, you all should know that she wasn’t as willing as a lot of her posts make her out to be. Of course, she was THRILLED to be stripped naked, but the minute she saw what was coming she started getting emotional and whimpering like a lost puppy.

“But isn’t this what you wanted, darling?” I asked her as I held her so close and licked away her salty tears. God, she was a cutie <3

She was begging me the entire way down. Before I swallowed her, I held her against my hungry empty stomach and described all the wonderful sensations that were waiting for her in there… if she could just give herself up to me and relinquish control…

She looked reluctant and afraid but even as I opened up my maw to invite her inside, I saw a twinge of desire in those little doe eyes… and in the end, she just couldn’t say no <3

She certainly was a feisty treat, squirming so much. It made it all the more satisfying when she was fully sucked down my throat and into my belly… her “new home”, as I’m sure she’d be scandalized to hear. Hm. I’m not actually sure if she CAN hear me anymore.

Oh well. She’s struggling again <3 more frantically this time. I don’t think that it hurts in there but I do think she’s finally realizing how much independence she’s going to give up by becoming a part of me. It looks like this is the final post, followers. She probably doesn’t want to admit it, but I heard her moaning earlier… felt her rubbing her naked body up against my pink, wet walls as they hugged her close… yeah, she likes it in there ❤️

Before I go I think that she does have one last thing she wants to say to all of you. She wanted me to type it out here…

OOOOUUURRRRPPP~

Oh sorry, that was just me <3

[turtlecleric]

(re: the tags of your rb of that "sitting here. unkissed." textpost) can you tell us how you think they would react to you saying that? :3

Lucky you nonnie, I couldn't sleep and was able to work on this while I waited for my alarm to go off

For full context:

Dearest @yorshie tackled this with the Bayverse boys. Highly recommend reading that. I'll take a swing at the Rise boys, though I do think their reactions would heavily depend on their mood at the time, what the two of you are doing, whether other people are around, etc. I'm imagining you on the couch in the lair, with your boy sitting nearby. Also. Don't expect much, I got about 5 hours of sleep lol

Leo

As soon as you say it he's whipping his head in your direction. A little surprised, a little excited, and a lot soft - because sometimes he feels like he's too much. Sometimes he gets that little voice in the back of his head saying that you're going to get tired of him, that you'll start to find him annoying, that he's too much, too much, always too much. But here you are. Asking him - in your silly dramatic way that he loves - for his attention. So he moves to kiss you, smiling the entire time, heart so full it feels like it might burst, and when he pulls back and you smile back at him, that voice in his head is a little quieter. (It feels inevitable to me that he eventually ends up on top of you, kissing you stupid, hands eagerly roaming all over. When he smells your arousal, he's quick to suggest that you move this into his bedroom.)

Raph

I like to imagine that Raph is a little shy in front of other people. If his brothers are in the room, I could see him blushing furiously and giving you a quick peck (if anyone says anything to tease him, he'd get really defensive and it would be ADORABLE). If Splinter is around he'd give you a look of alarm - babe PLEASE my dad is RIGHT THERE. But if you're alone... he'd smile and scoop you into his arms (picking you up like it's nothing) and kiss you sweetly. If things start to get heated, he'll stop. If you whine about it, he'll timidly suggest going to his room. (And once you're truly in private he'll let himself get lost in the feeling of your lips on his. Letting you decide the pace, letting you lead, but enthusiastically giving you whatever you want.)

Donnie

"Mm. A tragedy, really. You have my pity."

When you whine his name he finally looks at you and smirks. Reaches for you and pulls you into his lap, studies your expression closely. Holds your chin and leans in to kiss you slowly, deeply. When he pulls back, seeing you flushed and a little dazed, his smirk widens.

"Better?"

You nod, and he hums. The smirk falls as he stares at your lips, and you can't help but squeak when suddenly he's carrying you to the lab. When he sits you on a table and tells Shelldon not to let anyone in, your heart does something funny in your chest. He's standing between your legs, staring, staring, staring while the lab goes into lockdown.

"Donnie, I-"

That's all you can say before he dives back in. Kissing you like he's starving for it as his hands grip your waist, your thighs. You're already wet when he pulls your pants and underwear off and kneels between your legs. When he slips his tongue inside of you and you whimper, you swear you can feel him smirking again.

Mikey

He gasps dramatically, absolutely BEAMING, and jumps on you. Presses his forehead against yours, and says, "I can fix that." Kisses you once, twice, three times on the lips. Then moves to your neck, making you giggle as he presses more quick kisses to your skin and nuzzles into you. Depending on how you react, he might just pull you into his lap to snuggle, randomly kissing the top of your head or your nose and making you giggle. Or. He might get a mischievous grin and ask if there's anything else you'd like him to fix.

[nyaagolor]

I originally was going to make this a comic, but then realized I don't have the skill, time, nor motivation to execute it so it's a textpost now. Anyway.

I was thinking about Dual Destinies (again) and about what would happen if Clay were the defendant rather than the victim-- but the more I started playing around with this tweak the more things got out of hand and now I'm effectively looking at a rewrite

The first change is in the setting: Aura / Simon / Metis / Athena / Clay were all working / living at a rehabilitation center connected to the prison system. Thematically I prefer it to the space theme, it puts a lot more ambiguity on the situation with Metis and Athena (since raising ur child in a correctional facility is. Questionable.), and imo psychologists make more sense working at a prison than like. Nasa.

Clay isn't an astronaut in this AU, but instead some kind of guard / bailiff. This gives us a chance to interact with him in the game itself (he's the one bringing witnesses from the courthouse and he's at the detention center) so we get to actually see him and care about him a little bit more. I'm imagining he gets the job as the guard in the corner of the room in the detention center and if you "examine" that spot as Apollo you'll get some flavor text about him waving to you or smth. Either way, the last case starts with Clay getting a promotion and being responsible for some of their more dangerous / high profile criminals

He calls Apollo shortly after in a complete panic, saying he's been accused of murdering his charge and that he's so so so sorry because he knows how personal this is, but he needs Apollo's help. Apollo immediately agrees to defend him, trying to get him to calm down and just explain. Clay finally admits that the reason he was so nervous about calling Apollo specifically is because the victim of this case is Kristoph Gavin

Apollo decides to set off on his own immediately, because while he does trust Phoenix way more now, the subject of Kristoph is a really sore point for him and he doesn't want Phoenix involved. Klavier, who was banned from prosecuting the case for Conflict of Interest reasons, joins him because he is also extremely invested in this case For Reasons and he has trust issues about it For Reasons. They end up getting Clay declared innocent and in the process of investigating find the lighter, which basically shatters Apollo's already fragile trust in Phoenix because What Do You MEAN the random girl you mysteriously hired is related to the Kristoph case What Are You Hiding Now. The hostage situation with Aura happens in the same way, but this time Klavier forces his way onto the prosecution with Apollo as his co-counsel because the two of them are PISSED

The idea is for Athena to be her own defense, but she's so emotionally rattled that she needs a co-counsel. To Aura's shock and horror, Simon says he'll do it. When she says he's a prosecutor and he can't, he counters that this is a fake trial anyway so the rules don't really apply. The trial is extremely emotionally driven because it's super personal for everyone involved and is just an absolute goddamn disaster. I haven't figured out anything with the phantom yet or how all this ties together, but that's a problem for later

[4th-make-quail]

Heyy

So I guess your blog is one of the blogs I can come to for this.

I loooove your rpfs that you post with Eric and Assad, but theres a part of me that feels kinda.... guilty? For reading rpf in the first place? And the cast is wonderful i just worry about what their reactions would be if they knew lol.

Idk. Maybe its just me!

🤷‍♀️

oh sure, you can always come to me for this tbh!!

so it's definitely not just you, this has been an rpf debate as old as time!! the way you gotta think of it is like... for the most part, we're seeing a public persona from the people involved. they present themselves a certain way on screen or in articles, interviews etc. and we as members of the public have no way of knowing what they're actually like in their home lives etc.

ofc there are people who do tinhatting to the extreme (think for example the spn rpfers who really were absolutely convinced that Jared and Jensen were together and there was a whole media coverup about it with their wives as beards and so on), but for the most part what we're engaging with is those specific public personas, you know? we're sort of spinning a "what if" story, and many people into rpf may prefer not to include the person's rl family, partners, friends because that tips it over that line in the sand, if that makes sense?

obviously that line is different for everyone, and that's up to you to decide where your comfort level starts and ends. like, we're all engaging in the shared fiction that the actors are gay or bi and seeing each other - some people take that a little further into personal traits or neurodiversity headcanons, which is where my own personal rpf line is crossed (like 'headcanoning' that the person is autistic or has adhd) and i don't engage with that sort of work.

but as for your final question about what they would think if they saw it, well, we just soldier on under the desperate hope that they will not see it!! this includes different methods for different people: some people archive lock their fic, some people don't tag with actor names on socmed, some don't even talk about the ship on socmed at all or prefer to be on anon when posting fic or online. again, that's up to your own personal comfort levels - for me, i'm not really bothered or expecting that the actors will see my work or my tumblr, ao3 etc. i mostly don't post them on twitter and if i did, i definitely would not use the hashtags or actor names because those can come up in searches very easily! (ofc my twitter dn atm is literally "hot girl old man rpf summer" but you know 😂)

i personally take comfort in the fact that Assad is fairly offline on socmed, and Eric seems to only post on insta! my only request would be that people don't share or mention my work on insta at all, or anyone else's tbh! that way lies panic and terror (believe me, i've had some scares in britcom rpf way back in 2010!! but Charlie Brooker was always a LOT more online savvy than either Eric or Assad, so)

so all that to say, don't feel guilty about it, anon! you're not physically reaching through the screen and forcing them to kiss, nor are you sending them people's fic or edits or deranged textposts. they'll never know!! and if they do, well we just lock our fics down, move to a discord server or something, or talk in dms only.

[iaus]

okay. i figured it out. putting this under a read more because i'm absolutely fucking bonkers and this went deeper than i expected to.

wall of text under the read more eheheh.

let's start out with jace (my beloved) who made making a character sheet so easy by being an obviously straight up sorcerer. i'm making the assumption that all teachers at aguefort somehow got to level 20. and here is what i came up with using standard array, no rolls:

strength: 10 (+0) dexterity: 14 (+2) constitution: 17 (+3) intelligence: 8 (-1), it is a 5 in my heart but i'm not messing with numbers for standard array purposes. wisdom: 12 (+1), which i think is in line with canon because i feel like i remember him having to make a WIS save and bleem said he only had a +1 charisma: 20 (+5), i think an argument could be made for his CHA to be higher but i don't... remember him doing any damage spells or having to make and CHA saves so. again, for standard array purposes i'm leaving it. he's at least 22 CHA in my heart.

but so with all the numbers out of the way... that leaves figuring out spell splots/subclass. because of fanfic (do i need to namedrop? we know what fic) i went with divine sorcerer.

gave him heightened, subtle, quickened, and careful metamagics but could be convinced of others.

for feats i lined him up with:

fey touched: misty step without giving up a learned spell slot as well as a +1 to CHA bringing it to 18 actor: +1 charisma to bring CHA to 19 as well as advantage on deception and performance checks when trying to pass yourself off as a different person. prodigy: expertise to deception as well as proficiency with a language and tool kit didn't think about language or tool proficiency... but i am strangely fond of jace having proficiency with a forgery kit. skill expert feat for another +1 to round him out to CHA 20 (as well as expertise in persuasion).

now i also figured that even if he isn't an adventurer, he might have some gear so gear wise i gave him a ring of protection, bloodwell vial +3 (brings his spell save to a whopping 22), and a barrier tattoo (rare) which sets him at a comfortable 18 AC and takes up 3 attunement slots. (i know he did not have 18 AC but i love him more than bleem)

now. spells.

taking into consideration that jace has canonically used or implied to use: enlarge/reduce, misty step, counterspell, bigby's hand, and flesh to stone (which... i hadn't realized was a sorcerer spell), and detect magic. that leaves SOME wiggle room with the rest of his spells.

this is the spell list i generated thinking about my own characterization of him and considering that i think he might've been more used for control magics and they probably would have used oisin for more offensive stuff since... wizard.

and as i was typing this i realized that jace and oisin did use some sort detect thoughts or something.... though. it could have also been a dominate spell? anyway.........

cantrips to level 2

3 to 5

and finally 6 to 9.

so OF COURSE this is gonna be so different to what bleem used because he probably used an npc stat block and just added very minimal flavor to it. but this is what i've come up with.

now. porter is a lot more straightforward literally between my textpost about his multiclass split to now i finished his sheet.

once again i used standard array. and made him an 18 barbarian path of the zealot, and 2 level paladin. he does not get an oath with only 2 paladin levels which i think works for his narrative.

strength: 20 (+5), however i do want it noted that porter HAS to have a 27 to strength to get his +8 and his +14 to strength saves and athletics checks. dexterity: 14 (+2) constitution: 17 (+3). considering that bleem said porter was health over AC, this means he has to have something artificially inflating his CON or just basic hit points. because a barb/pal multiclass with average dice is only 190 HP which for a bbeg is laughable. (again, i know that bleem did not use actual character sheets but, pre-final fight bear with me) intelligence: 8 (-1), his INT is also a 5 in my heart but not messing with standard array. wisdom: 12 (+1) charisma: 13 (+1), i do think that porter has more charisma than this. he is genuinely a creepy guy, but i think he's at least a +2 maybe even a +3. but i digress. i used standard array.

now for feats. i selected these with the thought in mind that porter's (pre-final fight) weapon is a vicious maul (extra +2d6 on crits) and i'm ASSUMING he's just going for straight damage which is scary.

Great Weapon Master Crusher (+1 to STR) which basically gives him the ability to once per turn push a creature away from him if he hits it with bludgeoning damage. it ALSO gives him advantage on a creature he scores a crit that does bludgeoning on until the start of his next turn.... scary opportunity attacks Athlete (+1 to STR) and makes it so it only takes 5 feet of your movement to stand when knocked prone, climbing doesn't take extra movement, and you can make a running jump with only 5 feet of movement vs 10 ability score increase (+1 STR, +1 CON) brings STR to 20 and CON up to 16 for a +3

now with the paladin multiclass, porter does not get access to the barb capstone and instead gets access to 2 paladin spells and smites. however, with this multiclass he can only smite twice.......... like bro....... LOL

his extra stuff is funny because he only has 10 lay on hands charges so he can technically get rid of disease/poison but only twice per long rest LOL. 2 divine sense which eh. and then 6 rage charges which isn't bad. but. i digress.

anyway. this was more of a huge thought exercise in order to justify what i'm doing in my fic. and also to think through if i really do want to multiclass my own barb.

funnily enough...... realized path of zealot gives me some wiggle room with stuff.... ehehehe.

[sunnydaleherald]

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[boysbeloving]

Happy 1st Anniversary of KinnPorsche the Series!! 🎉 🎊 🥳 🥂

allow me to be emotional a bit (i say this as if i'm not emotional over the series and the actors every other day lol)

kinn and porsche are SO precious to me...as individuals and as a couple...i relate to kinn a lot: his struggles with a parent, his crushing sense of duty, trying to fit into the world he's forced to be a part of, him not always knowing how to communicate feelings...i had talked about it a bit here about how soft he is despite everything around him and ya...kinn is extremely close to my heart because of these things...i see myself in him (barring the killings and sadly barring the butt sex too)

porsche is just....SO MUCH lol!!!! if i spend time with him i would need 3 to 5 business days to get my energy levels back! but i understand his love for his brother and relate to how he's fiercely protective of him (i'm the same with my sister...but she's older than me)

and ofc mile and apo

man i related a little too much with apo's early life struggles lol...him being told to always 'correct' himself, him feeling disconnected with who he is made to be, being subjected to casual homophobia at workplace (he talked about these things in the On That Day interview and that press con that had happened with the entire cast)...the fact that he felt so unhappy coming back home from the US...it broke my heart and it hit a little too close actually...i had talked about this a bit here (i feel apo is queer coded) coz it reminded me of things that had happened in my life quite recently at that time and the fact that both apo and i were still going strong gave me a sense of kinship with him (hahha 'kinn'ship haahhhaha)...i ofc don't have a mile who has been a positive and happy addition to apo's life since he came back but i am making efforts to have those positive and happy additions in my life

and one of these positive and happy additions happens to be the kpts fandom....y'all....it is SO AMAZING TO BE PART OF THE FANDOM.....y'all are SO TALENTED! the art, the gifs, the meta, the fics, the vids, the polls, the thoughts on the characters, the crackposts, the textposts, the fandom archivers! i'm so thankful to all of you...each and every single one of you

and lbr we've had our fair share of trials and tribulations but because i'm only on tumblr and not on any other social media sites, it has been generally a brilliant experience...i have made such great friends, have talked to a bunch of you, received amazing mile thirst traps in my inbox, have been entirely inappropriate in writing my shameless tags in posts, have openly admitted to my armpit and armpit hair fetish (i made armpit appreciation gifsets ffs), have again very openly talked about my other kinks as well (i think y'all know 🙈) (the armpit fetish admission has led to a beautiful friendship that i cherish <3 and my thirsty tags have led me to meet my feral twin <3)

personally as well i felt like investing myself more into the fandom and the series and the characters and the actors....it made me do things that i had not done before! i talked to fellow fans actively, i made gifs (low quality and using free software lol but i'm actually happy with them), i wrote stuff, like i legit made an ao3 and wrote some stuff lol! i have not done that before and again it is primarily for me and i'm proud of myself for doing these things y'know

last but not the least, kinnporsche the series gave me my thai husband: mile phakphum romsaithong .... and for this alone, it is the best thing out there in the world 🙈🤣

the anniversary of my foray into the series will be next month (it was mile's asscrack that convinced me to finally watch the series that kept trending on tumblr from time to time) but let me be emotional today too

thanks y'all and happy 1st anniversary!

[majosullivan]

The Nevermore textposts. I'm finally done

I laughed, I cried, I squeeled, I gasped. I went through every emotion thrice and then became numb to them, before doing it all again

This was over a feature length film worth of pure amazingness. I genuinly had to take a break an hour in. And it was oh so so very worth it. There's not a single one of those posts I don't absolutely love

I have to extend my most genuine thanks and appreciation. And I perhaps also just give you my soul and firstborn while I'm at it. This was an experience, and I loved every minute of it

Thank you so so much! I’m so glad you enjoyed all my Nevermore textposts, it always makes me so happy to see that I was able to make someone laugh with my posts. It was really fun to wake up and be greeted with your series of asks. I only wish I could have been up to answer them sooner hahaha

[wjbs-aus]

Tumblr "for you" page bingo or checklist I guess?

Post about a fandom you're not in, but you reblogged a post that was tangentially related and/or tagged with it.

Post from a fandom you're not in, which you have never interacted with and most likely haven't heard of.

Introduction post from a blog you don't care about.

Poll from an artblog asking who to draw, where literally one of the options is related to a fandom you're in.

Fetish stuff that you're not into.

A blog posting stolen trans porn.

A blog posting stolen cis porn.

Posts glamourising self-harm in a way that makes you feel horrible for the rest of the day.

TERF shit that's being recommended to you for some reason (this is thankfully rare).

A post that someone you're following posted but you didn't reblog because you weren't interested.

A post that someone you're following posted, and you *did* reblog it, but didn't press the like button because the post's subject matter would have made that seem tasteless.

A post that is tagged with something you have blacklisted (again, this is rare, but it still happens occasionally).

Poorly-tagged fanart for a fandom you're not in, but which is technically a subcommunity of one you're in. Looking at you, MCYT fanartists who don't use the MCYT tag.

Sans Undertale AU stuff based on AUs that you thought would have lost relevance 7 years ago.

Someone you follow reblogging a post that you posted on one of your sideblogs I actually love when this happens :D

Posts about disorders you don't have and that are specifically intended for people who do.

Cool bug pictures!

Really cool artwork that is actually fanart for a thing you don't care about.

A really cool piece of fanart for a thing you like but you accidentally refresh the page and it's gone (this happened to me with a piece of really cool Cruelty Squad fanart)

A post from 8 months ago that was only relevant 8 months ago and 8 months later isn't relevant anymore.

Posts from a recent Tumblr holiday that you somehow missed.

A post that should be tagged with a thing you have blacklisted but isn't for some reason.

Random photos of a celebrity you've barely heard of.

Screenshots and/or gifs of a film or TV show you haven't watched.

Textposts written in a language you can't read.

A post you liked and reblogged, but this time it's a version without the addition the version you reblogged had.

And finally, a post about a fandom you are currently in.

Edit: OH ALSO random unattributed quote that just comes off as kinda pretentious.

[killjoygem]

Gonna look through the first ten of my reccomended posts and see if any of them actually interest me. For science.

1. Not really. It was doctor who but not something I'm super interested in

2. Another Doctor who post, sort of interesting but sort of also make me feel bitter, bc it was theorising about something that I know would've been written off as a plothole in the previous era. Can't decide whether I wanted to see this or not

3. Also doctor who but also doesn't interest me

4. Same again

5. And again.

6. Post about boycotting Starbucks. Relevant.

7. Back to doctor who posts that don't interest me

8. Finally some doctor who stuff I liked enough to reblog

9. Funny textpost. I reblogged it.

10. Kissinger death post. I dont really know who he is but i know this is just generally popular right now?

So it seems tumblr has figured out I like doctor who but not really figured out what parts I like and so just shows me whatevers most popular

[stxend]

saw someone say that the green jacket s3 costume was their least favorite of the series but i cannot express just How Much i love that costume….the symbolism of it!!!!

The uses of red and green in Matt’s costuming during season 3 are so wildly important— matt wore red previously when he was finally ready to embrace who he really was (albeit he over exerted it, but this is a textpost im writing on my phone at 2am. Semantics aren’t important), and the moment he’s conscious enough to wear more than bandages he’s not dressed in it again.

When he finally starts doing DD work he wears green (the foiling color), and seems so unlike himself because of his depression and the remnants of the mindset Stick drove in him at such an impressionable age. The costume is reminiscent of Stick’s because of the trauma that it represents, and how Matt is acting out because of it. Such an important part of season three is the fear trauma instills on a person and the behaviors they’ll show because of it! These fears are used against the characters, ultimately making the entire season’s plot.

Matt ultimately sheds the green for his work-suit, which is notable because he’s going somewhere to (albeit fail due to manipulation) protect what he has left of his friends— he unintentionally sheds the mindset that Stick has left him with in his death, and is then baptized in shades of red again, both in lighting and in the stains on his skin and clothes. His own blood is where we see him in the color that truly represents what he is: violent and angry, but ultimately kind, caring, and quintessentially good.

We see him, again, try to evade these emotions while he dresses in a green hoodie. When he’s dressed as Daredevil he continues to only wear black and white, but as Matthew Murdock (whenever he’s conscious enough to choose his own clothes) he dresses in green. At this point, he only reverts back to his own philosophy when he’s weak and beaten enough to not think twice.

Finally we have Matt wear red (his glasses) in episode 6, when he’s willing to turn himself in for the sake of his friends. He realizes that there’s more important things than his own self-isolation, and makes an attempt at turning tides. Of course, this turns into the Bulletin attack, and he goes back to only wearing black and white.

The moment where we finally see Matt fully, actually dressed in red (besides the points where he’s bloody and tired, but I already explained my interpretation of that) is between episodes 10 and 11. The flood lighting present after Father Lantom’s murder bathes a beaten Matt fully in red, and then once the coast is clear and he and Karen and Maggie are in the basement we see my favorite part:

Maggie giving Matt the red shirt.

One thing I forgot to mention is that Matt reverted back to the green jacket/hat after he found out that Maggie was his mom— this hurt him, of course he’d relapse into a toxic mindset. The people closest to him in his life lied to him and he was scared and mad.

But Maggie always cared for him, and knew who he was deep down. Mad, sure, but inherently good and not willing to give up. The gloves she gave him to box in episode one had hints of red on the label; the neti pot she gifted him to clear his sinuses was the first real instance where he was covered in his own blood. She wanted her son to understand what she saw, even if one of her main flaws as a person is the difficulty she has communicating.

Because of all of this, the strength of the scene where she hands him a red shirt is incredible. It’s outright the first time he wears an entirely and intentionally red garment since Midland Circle. Karen has to nudge him into accepting it because of his apprehension, but he wears it anyway. He works with his friends again. He forgives. He’s violent, but kind. He’s working toward becoming himself and working through his depression again, and the symbolism of one shirt is genuinely one of my favorite parts of the entire show.