#ground ya know?

[stuck-in-jelly]

Cant stop thinking about how apparently Season 7 is going to be Ezran’s season and the slow and steady build up to a breaking point for him.

Ezran is in a weird delicate balance, walking across the tightrope of being a child and being a king. We see both sides equally, we see Ezran’s barely clinging childlike mannerisms and we also see him command and lead both with love and with force.

And he is equally regarded in this manner by the people around him, some addressing him more as a child then king and others more king then child.

“Who is this child?” “Such childish dreams.” “You deserve time to do kid things” “the whining child king.” vs “He is a King!” “Because you know-you’re the King.” “That is what King Ezran decided.” “I serve the true King.”

That is already a lot to try and balance, his wants versus his duty as a king but now that balance is being tested.

The weight of everything is starting to crash down. His stressful rule as a king in a time of insurrection and war, his own people pushing back against his ideals and attempts at progress, his citizens and home decimated by a dragon, his father’s murderer being freed by his own brother, and now the releasing of an ancient evil.

No one told him his father was dead, too worried to tell a child horrible news, and no one had told him the plan to bring Runaan back, hardly giving him a second thought.

The more I think about it the more my brain drifts to this section from the season 2 novelization:

“No. No, no no!!” Ezran shouted. He didn’t care if he sounded like a two-year old.

“Ezran. It’s going to be okay,” Rayla started to say.

That was about the dumbest thing anyone could possibly say, Ezran thought. Nothing was ever going to be okay again.

Just the moment Ezran fully reverts to being a small kid again, when he stops caring that he is acting like a child because he is a child because he is mad because its all hitting him at once and it isn’t fair.

I want to see how he takes it all

[silentsockfeet]

the fact that the vi vs jinx fight was foretold from the beginning. the fact that the opening credits ends with their fight immortalized in stone, so that every episode you watch is a reminder of the immutable truth of it. the fact that every moment is building to this, that the show will culminate in this. this was always going to happen, they told us this from the beginning, and nothing anyone could do will ever change that.

[geezmarty]

old married men at the family function

[cynical-demon]

One night Damien wakes to find the lunar bois missing. They hadn’t mentioned going out for anything so it’s a little odd. And then he hears a loud bang outside, like something really heavy landed on the ground

@rainbowsidesofacat

[strangegutz]

I'll be honest I've been so massively burnt out. I feel like all of my recent sculptures have sucked and I havent had any drive to sculpt. Making anything is a struggle. I feel a horrible guilt about it, every moment i don't spend making something to sell is a waste of money.

getting myself to focus on a drawing is also a struggle, and even when I am drawing I feel guilty that I'm not using that time making something i can sell. Not to mention the growing dread that Heartbreak Gulch will probably never become "a thing"

People tell me to take time off but I already have taken too much time off, drawing feels like a waste, and no other hobbies are bringing me any joy. Not to mention just garden variety dread, regret, and dysphoria creeping up my spine daily

tldr I'll Be Honest Kitten, Daddy Is Feeling Not So Good and thank you for being patient with me and also liking my OCs because they bring me joy.

[lenaellsi]

baby pictures

[altocat]

Old Man Seph au. Sephiroth outliving all his tormentors and still being stuck with Shinra. I don't know how I feel about that.

Sephiroth still physically gorgeous, still physically formidable in battle. But too old and mentally exhausted to adapt to a changing world. He'll be a hundred next week, stuck in the same set of circumstances that birthed him, forbidden from retiring since he's still capable of fighting. His friends are gone. His life has stretched out far beyond its limit thanks to the Jenova cells and he still has eternity waiting for him.

President Shinra is dead. But more importantly HOJO is dead. And while Sephiroth is glad for that, he's also completely directionless now. Hojo was the only person he ever truly wanted to kill.

And Hojo was the only thing he had.

He fights. He's worshipped by the public. He goes through the motions for another fifty or sixty years, fully aware that something about himself was NEVER normal just as much as it was never allowed to be free. Just as he was never allowed to be a child. And he never will be one ever again--he'll just continue. Endure. Stretch himself even longer, fill the wasted years with the unhappy bitterness of his continued existence.

He's tired.

He wants his mother.

He wants to go home.

But this IS home. The only one he's ever known.

And there's no escape. This is forever.

He's tired.

He's tired.

[basil-the-bulbasaur]

Team rancher concept: they would not be comfortable sleeping together in one bed on the first night of dl. Not because 'oooo crush but he mustn't know' sort of thing. No. Tango it's because tango has trust issues. Tango isn't going to sleep defenseless with another person! What if he's betrayed again?

So they sleep separate. One of them on the floor with the blanket and one on the bed.

Eventually one of them--I'm going to say jimmy--gets cold enough it causes them both problems and they decide to share the bed to conserve body heat.

It is not cute and fluffy. Tango is so stressed and tense it's like sleeping next to a board. He hardly gets any sleep.

The next night he simply doesn't come to bed. Stays up mining all night despite Jimmy's complaints. Fun fact about sleeplessness: it does not improve paranoia.

When Jimmy finally manages to get the man to go to sleep Tango's dead on his feet. It is a little bit cute this time. Tango is sleeping like a rock. Jimmy is only restless because he's worried tango will wake up in the middle of the night and get himself hurt

The real pay off is when--after sleeping for a looong time--tango wakes up and has not been betrayed, and the following night, when he willingly climbs into bed and they fall asleep together.

[lazybakerart]

Very Important Moments Part 3 in The Righteous Gemstones, I Will Take You By The Hand And Keep You

[schemelin]

yeah i greatly enjoy working on versions of Springtrap where he is Not A Bad Guy but uhm. yeah the canon one. the canon one still makes me go CRAZY. ya heard CRAZY. LIKE YEAH I HATE HIM so much. BUT HEY. HEY ARE YOU LISTENING. H

[vetteldixon]

personally one of my highlights of 2024

[bean-face]

i hate when advanced technology looks streamlined

sorry you're telling me you have all these beautiful pieces, wiring, motors, lights, cameras, wheels, axels, gears, circuit boards, resistors, servos, potentiometers, speakers, buzzers, all this cool-ass fucking shit, working in tandem together, and you wanna hide her inside an edgeless white cube?

do you not understand the poetic power that comes with seeing so many different parts all working together towards a common goal, every single piece of her being spirring to life, each job so simple yet so important to enabling her to speak the words "i love you"???

and you want to hide all that away, as if the sterile cube can love by nature? NO! it's what's inside her that lets her love you idiot!

SHOW IT! let her nature be bared to everyone. show to her that this is a place of joy and acceptance where her insides are free to be outside and nothing is hidden.

[royaltea000]

burnt out sorry - do ya wanna see my ocs (not giving you a choice)

Old designs -w-

[naffeclipse]

Spinning Spiderwebs (Double Toil and Trouble)

Familiar!Moon x Witch!Y/N (SFW)

After an anxious awakening, you are eased back to sleep by Moon.

Word Count: 2,500~ Warnings: Slightly suggestive and heavy kissing.

A/N: More self-indulgence that is absolutely catered to my specific cravings, but you are more than welcome to enjoy some mischievous/soft Moon as well. Again, be warned that this does contain spoilers for Double Toil and Trouble. And ah, would you look at that, this has officially turned into a drabble/ficlet collection for my Witch/Familiar AU!

[passionmaterial]

I wonder if Peri's Hair feels like clouds and Irep's feels like rocks or something

[martynsimp69]

HEY! as the second round of the mcytblr sexyman bracket settles in i wanted to take the time to thank everyone that turned out for #saintsweep in the first round. genuinely don’t know how any of this happened, but i was rly touched by the outpouring of support and positivity and enthusiasm from everyone who was willing to commit to the bit. (33%!!! 33!!!! A WHOLE THIRD!!!! 2206 PEOPLE!!!) 

i wanna thank specifically zloy and the bracket team for being good sports about the whole thing -- the nomination started as a joke, but it was from a place of genuine excitement and goodwill, and i’m glad we all got to have fun with it. sorry for not actually fitting the “yt” part of the mcyt sexyman tournament LOL. 

but, speaking of. i’d joked about making a minecraft video if i won when i first saw the nominations, but after everything that happened here in round one i’m probably gonna do it even tho i lost. i feel like i owe it to everyone who turned out and got really invested and also really confused about who this gay little tv was and why they couldn’t find him anywhere (SORRY ABOUT THAT). 

SO!!! one of the things i wanted to do with the potential video was possibly a bit of a q&a; about me/saint, darkwoods smp, the bracket, lore, builds, whatever, idk!! but i figured, y’know, if anyone has questions they wanna ask feel free to send em my way, either in replies to this post or just straight in my askbox, anon or otherwise. 

anyways!! thank you all again for everything -- i appreciate being allowed to take this whole thing and run with it as much as i have. it was surreal and hilarious and overwhelming and i am going to be riding the high for weeks. the bragging rights i got from this are insane. im putting official mcytblr sexyman nominee on my resume. godbless. 

here is a little saint i doodled at work today while i watched the percentages on the poll tick up. love u guys forever 📺