#flashback episodes

[demonlordcosnime]

lets play disgaea 4 flashback episodes

[redstonedust]

character concept: guy who is cursed to be immortal but, like, in the same way the cast of the simpsons are. you are 30 years old. you were born 30 years ago. you have always been born 30 years ago. as time marches forwards your memories shift to match the generation you are now part of. you used to be old enough to remember world war ii but now you are not. you may have had friends in the 80s but now you dont. does this make sense.

[egophiliac]

queen of diamonds, upright + reversed 💎

I've redone this like eighty times, I have to just be done with it now and stop staring at all my mistakes oh no 🫠

[accioepiphany]

The bear trying to gaslight me into believing Claire and Carmy’s relationship was all sunshine by putting some never seen before flashbacks where he is suddenly smiling all the time… when the only thing we see season 2 is him miserable and worried and bathed in blue light everytime he is with or thinks about Claire, to the point he even had a panic attack about it????

[cyrano2021dirjoewright]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Heartbreaking Goodbye.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[ardentpoop]

he said "can't argue with that one"

[hayden-christensen]

OBI-WAN KENOBI: PART V (2022) dir. Deborah Chow

@pscentral event 29: warm & cool [in/sp]

[shinelikethunder]

You asked me to teach you chess, and I've done that. It's a useful mental exercise. Through the years, many thinkers have been fascinated by it. But I don't enjoy playing. Do you know why not?

Because it was a game that was born during a brutal age when life counted for little and everyone believed that some people were worth more than others. Kings and pawns.

I don't think that anyone is worth more than anyone else. I don't envy you the decisions you're going to have to make. And one day I'll be gone, and you'll have no one to talk to. But if you remember nothing else, please remember this:

Chess is just a game. Real people aren't pieces. You can't assign more value to some of them than to others. Not to me. Not to anyone. People are not a thing that you can sacrifice.

The lesson is: Anyone who looks on the world as if it were a game of chess deserves to lose.

— Harold Finch, not knowing how to explain to his AI offspring that it should care about people (but doing his best), Person of Interest 4x11 “If-Then-Else”

[bisclavret]

which could mean nothing

[fumifooms]

I don’t like minimizing the importance and gravity of Laios and Toshiro’s fight into just being a childish squabble, even if to a degree it is framed that way, because to both of them it has a lot of personal significance and emotional weight and runs very deep to their characters… The fight isn’t nothing it’s a LOT, they made up but it’s not something easy to express and to get over for either of them which makes it all the more meaningful! I’m on both sides but there very much are sides, there’s no "they’re both having a ball, Toshiro and Laios hand in hand yay" side to the fight, that comes after

The fight with Toshiro WAS very scary to Laios, almost existentially so, but it’s moreso the "I thought I’d made a friend!!" bit and my god. My god actually

Like it’s not "just" about oh his friend liking him less than he thought, THAT IS SO MUCH. It’s a bond he thought he had being a lie it’s all the time and moments spent together either being a lie from his perspective or marred now looking back. It’s not only being upset at Toshiro for lying but upset at himself that he’s so easy to fool, it’s being upset that there’s something so wrong with you that you can’t even tell if your "close buddy" even actually likes you or not, it’s like. Holding my head. He can’t trust his own vision of events that happened do you see. There’s always this film of distrust that it could be a lie that should be there when he interacts with people there’s always this sense of cloak and dagger to expect backstabs out of nowhere because you CAN’T see it coming you CAN’T you CAN’T there’s something about you which makes it impossible so you CAN’T-

He’s so scared of not being able to read people. He knows it’s a weak spot he has, he’s always known. All of these bits are centered around social expectations and betrayals, the assumption that he doesn’t belong either in society or with other humans.

And Laios’ level of awareness is actually sort of complex to analyze, but it’s there, there’s how out of him and Falin he was the one sensitive to the ~aura of hatred~ he felt from the townspeople, there’s of course his nightmares whispering to him about the mocking looks, and how yeah actually he realizes that his gold stripper coworker was taking advantage of him. There’s of course the Winged Lion speech about his trauma and how he fundamentally mistrusts/dislikes humans to some deep seated degree, this distrust that he still keeps under control always. There’s how pre-canon he often wanted to suggest eating monsters but never worked up the courage to bring it up with the others. There’s how he gets across as stoic when he isn’t being enthusiastic…… We don’t know how aware and wary he is exactly in the moment but we do know he has some anxiety around social stuff, and looking back he does notice and aughh augh, the sense you have to hide yourself to not get hurt and be on your guard and shit and.

When you don’t know what to look out for and when to look out for it, the general ‘common sense’ of not always trusting people or noticing when someone’s messing with you becomes hypervigilance in social settings

"Man they really know what you hate huh". Being socially unaware literally plagues him, he knows, he knows it so well.

It’s so quick that it’s almost hard to digest how literal and blatant Laios summoning his monster to crush all the people who’ve hurt him is. His literal go-to coping mechanism for comfort in his literal monster-induced emotionally intense nightmares, saving him by taking away the upsetting element (the humans)

"Monsters are his coping fantasy, where they can whisk him away from humanity, all the hurt it’s caused him and its arbitrary rules" with the subtlety of a brick. Monsters are his comfort safe zone "because they kill humans" yes but no it’s because he pits them as the guardians against humans who to him are in the role of the agressors. To him they represent freedom from the shackles of what it means to be part of humanity, a fundamentally social species

[floweryred]

Joel is on the server. He is slaying. He seems so excited but he’s got such a weird way of showing it. Instead of saying that he’s excited he’s just rambling endlessly and bragging a little more than usual. He also keeps saying “Hermitcraft” more than is natural. I love him.

[biscuit-boy-n]

Murder bot N returns in episode 7 we are so back

[egophiliac]

innocently logging in to look at the Twst schedule for May like

[aflawedfashion]

Sasappis | Ghosts 3x02

[brittlefcrged]

Reese struggled to maintain a semblance of a steady pattern of breath; in-two-three, out-two-three -- to show fear, was to entice -- the fastest way to bring the hunting, predatory instincts of the creature wearing Angel's face that was so decidedly invading her personal space. The attempts did little to nothing to steady, or slow, the rapid, pitter patter race of her heartbeat that she knew, oh so well, that he could hear.

False bravado was just as likely as fear to incur Angelus' ire. Not that there was any safe way through these shark infested waters. "I saw a number of possibilities, actually." Most of them had ended badly. "I was rather vocal in my opinions against this ... particular plan, actually. I've seen this show before, and I ... " Her body stiffens, tensing, as he tugs at her curl, her jaw tensing.

"Didn't much like it the first time." A hand raises, tightening against the strand of hair above his touch and pulling, a likely futile and somewhat childish attempt to yank herself free from him, but the insinuations in his tone alone was enough to make her skin shiver, and crawl. She didn't have any desire to risk skin to skin contact to see what this mockery of Angel had in store.

@brittlefcrged

Deft fingers ran through curly blonde locks, a mimicry of many familiar tender moments the two had shared back when he was still trapped with a soul. “Did you foresee this happening? When your little ragtag team of heroes thought it’d be a good idea to pop my soul out for a quick little chat, didn’t you see this coming? I mean, that’s your job, right? To see things? That’s the only reason to keep you around.” He spoke casually, idly wrapping a strand of her hair around his finger, as if his words weren’t purposeful barbs meant to cut into insecurities he knew were there. He paused, a salacious smirk spreading across his lips as he gave a little tug to her hair. “Well, not the only reason.”