#goddamn I love him

[mcmuppet]

oh. OH.

[makoredeyes]

Dave Attenborough voice: “and here we see a young Warlock attempting to woo a potential mate. He’d best be careful though. This one’s a loner, and will be quite tough to impress…”

Or; The universal experience of keeping up with Arc Users (TM)

*been a bit so mentioning again Timur’s handsome mug borrowed with explicit permission from the character design created by the incredible @/Sylenth-l here on tumblr and Twitter

[dark-night-hero]

Now that I'm bored and rereading return of the mad demon. I have come into realisation that this guy was the start of my lunatic type.

Also reminds me so much of wanting to write a full fanfic for him.

I think I haven't read it for a year now so Imma go back and simp for him while imagine some ff material for this successful lunatic.

[ⓒdark-night-hero] 2024 rants and recommendations°

[calbeloved]

i LOVE how cellbit is always so unhinged when he's acting as the monsters it's so funny to watch

[embretheworld]

Aphex Logan

[after-witch]

suddenly just can’t stop thinking about Derek from The Price of Flesh

I have awful taste but--

[lungthief]

listen. i know it's not 2014 anymore and i know it's just a throwaway line and that the russo brothers didnt intend for marvel action blockbuster captain america the winter soldier to become the tragic gay love story that never was but man. having steve say "it's kind of hard to find someone with shared life experience" in a conversation about romantic relationships right before the bucky reveal is so cruel. it's not just about steve and bucky obviously having the shared experience of being "out of time," it's the fact that they've both been stripped of their humanity in opposite directions. steve is a legend, he is an american hero and a national icon before he is a human being the same way that bucky is a weapon and a killing machine before he is a human being. steve knows that anyone who falls in love with him in the 21st century fell in love with captain america first, and that's just not him. but then the one person who knew him first and knew him best and loved him (not captain america, that little guy from brooklyn) so much he died for it is alive, impossibly. and it's a miracle because he's back and it's horrific because he's back under the worst possible circumstances. but to steve, the winter soldier is worth tearing the world apart for because he's always been bucky first. they find each other and suddenly they're human again. and maybe, despite it all, being "out of time" becomes a blessing, because in this century they'd finally be allowed to love each other the way they've always wanted to. like real people do.

like. no. the captain america trilogy isn't about two queer men traumatized and alienated by war and modern life rediscovering and reclaiming their humanity through their love for each other. but. i mean. it couldve been

[baekchocochip]

230610 백현 // credits: @CosmicPillar on twitter

[renaissanceousia]

"your family is a mess. they don't support you because they love you, they obey because they're afraid. ares, your son, he turned on you the moment someone stronger showed up. do you really think he'll be the last? how afraid of you do you really think they'll be when your dad shows up looking to put you back in your place??"

[flannelepicurean]

See, this is something I love about Gambit that I think doesn't get discussed enough. "King of Thieves!!!" and yet gets caught constantly. CONSTANTLY.

Absolute KING of, "Well, see... Wha' ha' happen was..." Go off, king. Slay. You're doing amazing, sweetie.

Because the next thing that happens is SHENANIGANS. CHICANERY. ABSOLUTE NONSENSE. Smooth talking his way out. Slick talking a deal. Making a "friendly wager." A convenient diversion. Colossus crashing through the wall. One of his many flying colleagues taking to the air with the ANGRIEST expression and ol' Remy Etienne LeBeau doing his patented Crawdad Skedaddle, attached to their person, with a shit-eating grin billboarded across his face because he's Done It Again!

Absolute 💯🏆 King Shit behavior, 100% of the time. Peak, "Well, at leas' I got away wit' it...😉" and Rogue (or literally anyone else) being like, "...No you didn't!" and his corny ass being like, "Didn' I, tho, chere? Didn' I? 😏🌹😏😏😏" And getting a hot earful of, "...NO YOU DIDN'T!!!" and, "Well, l'aissez le bon temps rouler!" -ing his way out the nearest window.

BECAUSE OF COURSE HE DOES.

Goddamn, I love that corny-ass fucking clown shoe of a mutant.

hes an influencer

[chann3l-chas3r]

Shrimpo has exactly one brain cell and it is constantly slamming against the inside of his skull like a fly at a window.

[gherkinlizard]

oh how indeed ezra... how indeed

[local-hellhound-steals-spaghetti]

Watching Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron again as an adult is so great because not only do you appreciate the nostalgia and joy of it, the stunning 2D animation mixed with early 3D techonology and well written tight story with a main character that never speaks.

But also you appreciate that the plot relies on horses, despite not being typical talking horses in cartoons, being extremely intelligent to the point that they are aware of their captivity and exploitation. And it involves a hyper intelligent horse dismantling (or, at the very least significantly delaying) American colonialism's expansion into the west.

This horse also very likely killed many colonialists when they were either launched at high speeds from his back, kicked in the head or blown up in a train explosion.

Good for him.

[ihearthes]

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[suokumi]

some things were meant to stay dead

This man is full of trauma and we love to see that

Soleil from GiTM by @venomous-qwille

[cultofcipher]

Bill Cipher thoughts (BoB Spoilers Ahead)

I'm really sitting on how Bill's displayed so much of himself indirectly in the BoB. How during the Love section he denies having exes, marking them out. How said exes show up SEVERAL times scratched out or are regarded with this bitterness of someone who did NOT do the breaking up part. Bill got dumped. Every time. And is desperately trying to bury his feelings.

And that's something I think the Book of Bill really highlights in a way. The fact that Bill has feelings. That deep down he's a broken triangle. It's all over the book's writing. Him pointing out how to use denial and rationalization and other bad coping mechanisms to basically ignore and lie to himself (and show us how to do it) and basically convince himself that he is as heartless as he tries to be. Him avoiding his exes. The tone he uses and the avoidance really giving the "I don't handle breakups well and I'm still petty about it". Him constantly telling himself that he's fine. He's not fine. Him crying over Ford leaving and getting wasted. Him being bitter about the henchmaniacs not calling. His regret over what happened to his world. His loneliness. GOD his loneliness. His self-hatred. His scathing remark about definitely NOT having some tragic backstory that humanizes him and how he's not an "I can fix him case". Calling himself a monster. His longing for home. The "Last one breathing". The "I tried to change the past". The "my hands shaking, as I realized I could never undo the". The "until there was no one left but me, covered in blood, alone in the universe". The goddamn "I don't want to die alone" Valentine's card. The last few pages. Just, the last few pages. That isolation, his pained "I'M FINE". The almost sad plea for someone to let him out.

Bill cares. He's fucked up, unstable, violent. But he does care about people he gets along with and he feels understand him. For every "I'm just playing the bit" and using people with nice gestures, I think a fraction of that is somewhat genuine. And he hates it. He hates his own vulnerability. He hates his lack of apathy. He's denying himself his own emotions constantly under so many layers of distractions, eldritch horrors, and repression. He can't think about home, about failure, about how every relationship he's ever had, platonically or otherwise, ended. And it wasn't on his terms.

Him talking about/to his mom when he's drunk. How his mom called him Billy as a kid. How his home life sounded simple. How Bill as an individual is anything BUT simple. And how his drunken state holds such fondness for that simplicity, yet it was suffocating. How he would've broken free eventually, inevitably, because he knew that's who he was. It's his nature. He was destined for more.

How it cost him everything.

How he's constantly chasing insanity like it's a drug. Like he needs the power trip to stay high. To not think too hard. To drown out his emotions and his self-reflections and everything he hates about himself.

How in Gravity Falls he still tried to get Ford to side with him after everything, cause that was his vulnerability showing, for the slightest glimpse of a moment. Cause he doesn't want to do it alone. Him reaching out to the reader in his book, because he doesn't want to do it alone. Can't do it alone. Even when he eventually betrays that person, I think him offering Ford that cushy spot alongside his henchmaniacs makes me think that yeah, Bill actually would've upheld his end of the deal.

He thinks he wants multiversal domination. He thinks Weirdmageddon is his Magnum Oppus. His purpose. But he's so lost. If he ever does get what he wants, he won't know what to do with himself. He'll be faced with the "Now what?". He'll hit the end of the road and realize how unsatisfying it is. How this isn't what he wanted.

How lonely it is to be God.

I think the Axolotl sees that in Bill. It's why he doesn't try to destroy him or attack him or anything. He sees that inner self of Bill. Sees him for what he really is. Someone who needs a LOT of therapy, a true, honest to goodness friend or partner in his life, and maybe a more sustainable life purpose or hobby. He has so much potential and in a way his pursuit of power, rather than being an actualization of his abilities, is a waste of them, because it gets him nowhere.

And he needs help, even if he doesn't think he does. He's a depressed alcoholic frat boy trying to drown his misery in a way that hurts and kills worlds. He's a girlfailure, a bisexual/pansexual disaster (he's at LEAST canonically bisexual or at MOST canonically pan cause this guy has dated both ways).

Bill's book is so incredibly amazing for what it is. All the lies, all the unrealiable narrator parts of Bill's facades and flaws and him being himself and all of his genuine thoughts and feelings bleeding through the lines and showing themselves but only in a way that you can really understand if you understand him and can tell when he's lying and when he's not. To see the real parts of him, and everything else. This book was perfect, and it was perfectly imperfectly him. This truly is Bill's book. It's so him in such a raw and genuine yet dishonest way. I'm gonna cherish this damn book forever.