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It's a special day.
Of course Peter remembers.
Because it wasn't just any arrest.
Who would've guessed where they'd end up?
#Peter Burke#Neal Caffrey#friends against all odds#odd couple bffs#Peter only *thought* he was closing the book on the Caffrey chapter of his life#and who knows *what* Neal thought#also- we still maintain no one is dressed for a NY winter#this show did so many things right#timeline continuity wasn't one of them#but we love them anyway#white collar tv show
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Same, same.
White collar really boosts my mood for a plethora of reasons, but one of the biggest is that despite a lot of obstacles and so many differences, Peter and Neal still care for and respect each other so much.
I mean, they fight, they sneak around each other, they have a bit of toxic trust issues, but against all those odds, they love each other.
And that just gives me a lot of hope 🥹
#Neal Caffrey#Peter Burke#friends against all odds#odd couple bffs#chosen family#white collar tv show
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Shirtless Disaster Pt. 1
So. pretty sure the emperor cusses. just. never had the reason to say out loud. or has a filter on when they talk. Until Greygold happened. You ever try and look with the emperor's perspective when Tav makes decisions and go, 'H-how are you not ceaselessly cussing like a sailor at Tav?'
ANYWAY- HERE'S THE THING. TRULY. Always had my squinty-eyed caution on Emps. Trying to ascertain if they were for real with their words/actions/intentions or not. but. Squid buddy sharing their feelings of caring was the uh snowball that started this avalanche. Can't fake feelings huah, GREYGOLD FINALLY FOUND THOSE MUSHY BITS HUAH.
I ain't gonna let y'all wonder what Greygold's answer was, so uh. Bonus!
#bg3#bg3 spoilers#baldur's gate 3#the emperor bg3#greygold#bg3 fanart#bg3 comic#-snorts up delusional cocaine- okay so HERE'S HOW WE CAN STILL MAKE PINA COLADA FRIENDSHIP WORK#We turn it into a pina colada -more-than-friends-ship \ o /#WAS I AWARE THAT ALL ODDS WERE STACKED AGAINST GREYGOLD? YOU BETCHA#BUT I PUT TOO MUCH EMOTIONAL INVESTMENT IN THIS SQUID YOU THINK I WAS GONNA SAY NO????? ///HA///#You think I didn't think I couldn't make the impossible happen?????????????#the ending to this game was either gonna be -really- fucking good or really really REALLLY FUCKING //TRAGIC//#and I was all here for it#WHO NEEDS TO PLAY AS DURGE TO SUFFER WHEN YOU CAN JUST MAKE REALLY RISKY LOVE LIFE CHOICES WHILE HAVING THE HUBRIS OF THE GODS THEMSELVES
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I don’t think ppl give enough credit to rui for his dedication to fucking with people (outside of tsukasa of course) like. Knowing & acknowledging that nene wants nothing to do with him and Tsukasa on her first day of second year and deliberately following tsukasa to loudly ask if she’s getting along with people (just to be a jackass)? Implying his gift to akito will explode even though it won’t bc he wants to bug akito? Like I think rui at his core is full of love and a desire to make ppl smile but I also think he’s 200% committed to the bit first and foremost. If something will be funny he’s going to do it regardless of the consequences. Guy filled with zero social anxiety & a never ending desire to embarrass his friends.
#‘he’s insecure’ is very fanon. like I think he has hang ups over that obviously as one does when one is excluded from their peers for being#odd. but he’s never had that issue w the general public. w friends? a little. but he’s kinda moved past that#gestures towards the Halloween wxs story and (heavy sigh) rmd.#project sekai#in general I will die on the hill of rui and Tsukasa having so much more self assurance and confidence than ppl give them credit for#if u want a fail girl nene is right there. open ur eyes.#consequences of ppl only viewing him thru a shipping lense…#*nene* is socially anxious#rui canonically trespassed on ppls property to put on solo shows for several years.#i could go on a rant abt tsukasa & the portrayal of him w social anxiety despite the ample evidence against it but I don’t feel like doing#it in the tags bc it is entirely unrelated. rui and Tsukasa (handshake emoji) horrifically misrepresented by fanon.#2 end on a more positive note: everyone think abt the comic where rui is perfectly capable of understanding emu#and he has the ‘all perfect’ text after comprehending her fascinating vocabulary. beautiful. perfect wxs relationship moment.#read curtain call again. & the other rui focuses. main story in general. etc.
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sos month day 16: like fire / like water wanted to redraw something from 2015 and remembered how badly i wanted to replay the game this is based on. tldr battle ninja island everyone is alive and cant die for some reason. platonic extremely jaded old man sewercidal sasori x zero nerve no respect for male authority figures teenage brat sakura is too good to pass up. dial that shit up to 200%. basically the worst month ever for the both of them
#my art#sos month#sasosaku month#sakura haruno#sasori#akasuna no sasori#this is my fav canon dynamic#it is criminally underrated#put canon sasori in a room with actual children that he cant kill and he has the worst day of his life#even if he believes he can shape them#wish we would see more of it outside of against all odds by koobabear <3#they are a good team AGAINST ALL ODDS#i had smth different lined up but then changed my mind hence this being last minute#are they friends we dont know#are they even getting along. we dont know#also yes my canon sasori version looks like that. im looking at him like who is this </3#sakura hoping to meet chiyo on this island so bad. t7 abandoned her on day 1 </3 tsunade and shizune too busy running the tournament#'where is deidara' he is free. he is having a good time
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from here
#this is so fucking important to me#im... so happy about how the manga tackled THIS scene#kingdom hearts#this part of kh3 always felt odd to me tbh#it felt like the writers wanted to do something and just. didnt go all the way#there were ideas and they just didnt fully write them down and put the same amount of effort into them as they did in other places#THIS feels so fucking... emotional. and for what reason?#it's just. sora cares about roxas.#it's just true. he cares about roxas and feels bad about the situation that him and roxas both were put in.#he never found it fair that he got to exist while roxas was told to unalive.#and while the sora writing in khDDD and kh3 definitely told us that#definitely told us that sora DOES NOT like this situation and he would be willing to do anything to bring roxas back#it wasn't this.#this feels like a friend you barely got to know. realising that you had it so rough.#and desperately trying to break down any barriers between you two and grab your wrist#to hold onto you tight and refuse to give up on searching for you and trying to help you out of your darkest places.#sora is so fucking insistent on proving that roxas is not just his nobody.#roxas is roxas.#donald being sorta confused makes complete sense#because he didnt see how roxas fought with every fibre of his being against sora to just try and beat him and prove his right to live#he didnt see sora bearing the weight of roxas' life and feel the betrayals and lies and deception that he barely understood as it was.#to anyone else. roxas probably is just sora's nobody.#sora may very well be the one person who knows that isn't true.
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Existing in more than one fandom space is like having more than one group of friends but both of them being so wildly different that any overlap at all would be like getting shot in the head
#like there are things that I would consider writing for House MD or Saw but not for Lord of the Rings you know#Same goes for reading#it's like how you have two personalities for your friend groups#and you make a joke that would absolutely score in friend group A#but friend group B just stares at you weird#like in LOTR or The Hobbit fandom I am so used to gentleness and care all around#Characters that love each other against the odds#but with House it's like#yeah these two men hate each other with everything they're worth#yeah they're so codependent that they would literally die for each other#yeah they have freaknasty sex on the regular#yeah i would talk for hours about their omegaverse dynamic#then saw is kind of similar to House in a few ways but fundamentally different because the love there is borne from such tragedy#or in AUs it's love at first sight#and you have these two men who are so so so different#and want desperately to take care of each other#THOSE DYNAMICS DON'T WORK FOR HOUSE OR FOR THE HOBBIT#I would never write House and Wilson lovey-dovey and caring just like I would never write Thorin and Bilbo engaging in pet-play#Anyway. anyway.#hilson#house md#thilbo#the hobbit#Saw#sawposting#chainshipping#fandom
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they were like sisters to meee
#neopets#neoart#my art#the darkest faerie#jerdana#its really odd to me that jerdana is so often characterized in fan work to have always not fully trusted tdf and warned the others#but in canon she was also tdfs friend and was very very sad when she turned against them bcz she also didnt expect it#i dont mind at all bcz its fanwork so its just for fun but i am surprised that its been that in almost anything ive seen of her
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I can be soooo normal about barely concealed suicides. When you make a decision knowing it will lead to your death, but to anyone else it might look like a mistake. When you throw yourself into dangerous situations and don't care if you come out the other side. Maybe you want to die but not enough to take your own life. Maybe you're not brave enough, or too ashamed. Idk whatever the reason I eat that shit UP
#thinking about estraven :(#tbh genly being the only person alive who knew estraven well enough in his final moments to understand that it was a suicide.. ough#what a terrible burden to bear#but also thinking about that weird pattern in especially older literature where women commit suicide but men go to battle knowing theyll di#like tjats suicide. my friend you just committed suicide#but its interesting how both are expressions of total hopelessness even while one /suggests/ hopefulness#fighting against all odds? isnt that the definition of hope? not if you dont really believe it.#not if you tell the audience that youre going to die before you do so#and in having male characters kill themselves through battle it becomes an act of heroism rather than defeat#the left hand of darkness
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So this:
Leads to this:
Which leads to this:
Which allows vecna to do this:
Right? Right………. So then this:
Leads to this:
Which leads to:
???????????????? 👀👀👀👀👀
Will has had powers.
#will has powers#no - he had powers. he probably displayed them when he got taken in to the upside down. and vecna wanted those powers. so he took them.#this also opens up to the possibility he could get them back somehow. with el it was through memories of her mom when she was born. love.#when she relived her younger self opening the gate for the first time through the power of love#so Will could get his back through strong feelings of love. just saying.#stranger things predictions#stranger things theories#byler#byler tumblr#so the cool kids can find this 😌#I HAVE ANOTHER THING TO SAY!!! Els powers are strong from negative emotions - hatred. anger. vengeance.#but they’re even more powerful from feelings of love - familial and platonic love (mama. hopper. max. etc)#so if Will did show his powers to vecna (accidentally) when he got taken then those would have been from his most common negative emotion#fear#El is anger. hatred. will is fear. anxiety.#so will will get his powers to their fullest strength only with Love. romantic love. feeling wanted. useful.#familial/friend love was something El needed in her life and she against all odds managed to find it#she got the love she desperately needed and deserved (not romantic like the Melvin’s seem to think)#will has all that in buckets. he has friends who love him. the best mom and brother anyone could wish for. but he feels unworthy of love.#feels like all the bad things that happened to him were deserved. so him receiving and accepting what he desperately needs and deserves#will fully unlock his powers - if he has them.#thank you for coming to my Ted talk
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hrrr I Saw the TV Glow is still rolling around in the back of my mind. it's hitting me somewhat belatedly that what seemingly starts as mainly an identity story turns out - toward the final act - to also be a love story. two queer kids finding each other (again). the bond they forge (have always had). the feelings that start to grow (were always there) despite the lie they're living. one trying to save the other, and failing. the frail hope at the end that maybe what they had mattered after all, even if they never see each other again. maybe because they knew each other, someday things will be better.
idk. so much of the story feels so lonely. they're awkward with each other at first and they don't really "get" each other and they're absent from each other's lives for long periods and they don't have anyone else. but it's all a lie - they were best friends, they knew each other better than anyone, they are who they are because they knew each other, they were not alone. no matter how bleak the setting is, this fake world can't obscure the truth. they'll never forget each other. it will always have happened, it will always have mattered.
it's so hard to put into words but Owen/Isabel and Maddy/Tara make me so crazy, the way everything in the world works to drive them apart and yet not even losing their memories can destroy the connection between them. and it's not enough to prevent the world from tearing them apart but maybe it's enough to save their lives
queer love portrayed not as supernaturally resilient or invincible (god knows it isn't), but as a precious fragile thing that can and will grow back over and over in some form no matter what ...
#deerchatter#i saw the tv glow#i saw the tv glow spoilers#to be 100% clear i definitely believe they were specifically IN love on top of also being best friends. and the distinction is important#owen growing feelings for maddy is implicitly tied to her beginning to find herself as a trans lesbian#maddy growing feelings for owen is implicitly tied to her remembering their true lives as isabel and tara#it's so subtle because there's no space for that love in the midnight realm. and yet it grows back against all odds#there's very interesting potential for an isttg/rgu contrast-comparison analysis right down to the coffin/grave symbolism#the main duo's love being suppressed by a reality that can't bear it or contain it. the way it resurrects as self-love/renewed determinatio#if we're getting really crazy there are also parallels between maddy coming back for owen and certain interpretations of AoU#but while utena and anthy are implied to find each other in every incarnation owen and maddy's fate is a lot more open-ended#owen says she never saw maddy again but the truthfulness of the narrated parts of the story are highly questionable so ???#augh. so many thoughts.#sorry if some of this seems completely off i only watched it once late at night. gonna rewatch in the upcoming days
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sorry can’t hang out tonight i have to let it linger
#isn’t it funny that loki is way better written/arranged than anything mcu has put out in years#iw was the last time i felt something for marvel. then loki reignited my feelings against all odds#the comparison in emotive framing / color grading alone in these shots#not to mention character driven vs plot driven.#the loyal love loki has for mobius n his friends vs steve losing all connective characterization in the next film#when u let ur characters actually care about stuff >#lokius#stevebucky#mcu#marvel#mobius#loki#loki series#avengers infinity war#infinity war#steve rogers#bucky barnes#op
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whys it always gotta be him
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#HI. against all odds i have posted it.#this was a colour study but also me being insane about this line. i am soooooooo so proud of this#just because i FINISHED IT.#ALSO new art tag ->#sonic artventure#my friend came up wiht it and it rocks.#sonic prime spoilers#sonic prime#sth
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Marbles ........................................... marbles was indeed lost to time ...........................................................................................................
also this too.... they're too silly ... no mouth to drink ......... :(
#rw#rain world#iterator#rain world oc#iterator oc#rw oc#theyre so cringefail i love them#little guy gets a new cloak too#and makes friends with scavengers#against all odds they are alive and as well as a wounded shivering little guy could be
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2024 reads / storygraph
The Loudest Silence
YA contemporary
a newly Deaf-Hard of hearing girl moves across the country and starts a new school, struggling with navigating her disability and love for singing and lost friendships - determined to not make any new friends for the year she’s in Florida
and a boy struggling with family expectations and anxiety, after being made the fútbal captain even though he secretly ways to be on broadway, who quickly befriends her
bi & aroace-coded MCs
#The Loudest Silence#aroaessidhe 2024 reads#hm this was okay! it’s a sweet and light YA contemporary focusing on friendship and disability.#It’s a little cheesy; and I liked the immediate easy friendship (well; after a few false starts) and how welcoming Hayden's#friend group/family were. I like how they all jumped to learning/practicing ASL.#I liked how Casey was dealing with her newfound Deafness with a lot of positivity - the main frustrations being how other people treat her#but there’s also the underlying isolation and grief. At the same time it didn't go as deep as it could have with that?#The friendship is central to the story - but honestly I feel like Casey and Hayden’s relationship doesn’t develop past ‘they’re friends now#[continues other subplots] - it ends up being a bit telling not showing their friendship. And then she gets a love interest.#I feel like if you’re centering your book on being a platonic love story - rare in YA! - giving one a love interest kinda goes against#what’s supposed to be unique about it? Like it wasn’t overwhelming and I thought it was sweet actually; I just didn’t come here for that.#I always find it a little odd when YA contemporary books don’t explicitly name their aroace characters as aroace -#obviously I prefer an exploration of experiences to just using the word and nothing else; but in this genre; why not both?#considering various other identity labels are used and discussed there were various points where it felt like it was walking circles#around where it would be obvious to say “no I’m aroace” lmao?#And there’s a point where Casey mentions seeing an ace sticker on his guitar - the only reason it wasn’t an aroace sticker is bc#that would have ruined the minor subplot of her assuming he’s gay/dating his other friend. It felt like a slightly odd way to mention it?#but also I guess I appreciate it being evident throughout but also being a non-issue plot wise - while there’s a couple of moments#of people making romantic assumptions about them;for the most part it’s just treated normally for a boy & girl to be friends (as it should!#It does get points for mentioning people watching by conan grey LMAO (not that it really explores him feeling that way specifically;#but I mean same lol)#Overall plot-wise - there were kind of a lot of things going on and it petered out a bit? I wanted some more depth in some areas.#Also I feel like some of the references seemed out of date for current teens haha.#i do love the love for unusual pets (hairless cat and iguana)#aroace books#bisexual books
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V: Don't do anything stupid until I get back.
Uzi: How can I? You're taking all the stupid with you.
#incorrect murder drones quotes#uzi doorman#serial designation v#source: captain america the first avenger#in my mind#against all odds#uzi and v have survived and become friends#the kind of friends that sort of lovingly insult each other
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