#guess it wasn’t meant to be

[wickjump]

falls to the floor and saves myself from the awkwardness of losing followers for having opinions they did not like (which is valid of them btw curate ur own online experience) by blocking everyone in a ten mile radius and by everyone i mean two people to spare myself

[sketchesofthespontaneous]

Damn I got full on rejected 😂

Oh Goro, why couldn’t you have a secret romance path. You were so pretty.

Run away with me and we can own a pet cat together

[maybeicanbesaved]

stopped at wendy’s to finally try the peppermint frosty/peppermint coldbrew and they already don’t have them anymore 😔😭<////3

[goldensunset]

when people refer to canon story-relevant kingdom hearts games as ‘spinoffs’ it makes me sad not only for the obvious reasons i always say but also bc like man i WISH this series had spinoffs. imagine what they could do if they had permission from nomura to truly go off the rails and ignore the greater canon for a second and just do some fun whimsical plotless thing in an alternate universe. imagine a fishing/boating game on destiny islands. kh fighting game. it is an injustice that we have been deprived of kingdom karts. can anyone hear me

[shower-phantom-ideas]

Danny is just a kid ya know? Like he is just a little guy. A baby really. 14? Tiny child! Look at him, he needs to be protected. Someone has to help this poor little dude. I mean he forgets to use his own powers to avoid attacks all the time.

Anyway cut to Batfam not knowing all of Dannys power set cause the lil dingus keeps forgetting he can do that stuff in the heat of battle.

Danny uses his invisibility all the time… to avoid being followed. But in a fight? Oopsies hes too busy thinking of funny one liners to realise he could do that.

Intangibility? Give the guy a break. I mean who calls themselves condiment king. Even he was stunned.

He so rarely actually uses his biggest advantage powers that the League doubt he actually has them. He, like any naive child, trusts them and reported fully on his power set. Instead of just asking him to demonstrate his powers they instead start watching him and try to find evidence of his powers.

At least they know duplication was true since they watched him make a copy of himself to go to the bathroom and not miss any of his fav tv show.

[mxtxfanatic]

I would also like the mdzs fandom to stop inventing turmoil between Jiang Fengmian and Jiang Yanli just because Jiang Fengmian had a strained relationship with Jiang Cheng. There’s nothing to say that the father-daughter duo had issues, that Jiang Fengmian was neglectful (to either of them, tbh), or that he was indifferent to his daughter's presence. You feeling like Jiang Yanli is disappeared into the background of her family life because she, like her father, doesn't have a lot of scenes is not supported by the canon. While we don’t get a lot of interactions between them (because there is literally no plot or conflict to highlight), what we do get is Jiang Fengmian sticking up for his daughter and terminating a marriage contract that his abusive wife set up, something even Jin Guangshan was afraid to do:

[Jiang Fengmian] told Jin Guangshan, “The engagement was originally made at the insistence of Ah-Li’s mother. I never agreed with it. Given what happened today, it seems both sides aren’t very fond of each other, so it’s best not to force the issue.” Startled, Jin Guangshan hesitated a bit. Regardless of the situation, ending an engagement with a member of another Great Clan was never a good thing. “What do children understand? Let them fight. Fengmian-xiong, we need not take notice.” “Jin-xiong, though we can help them arrange a marriage, we can’t live the marriage for them. In the end, they are the ones who will spend their lives together.” This marriage business wasn’t Jin Guangshan’s idea in the first place either. From the perspective of consolidating power through a marriage alliance, the Yunmeng Jiang Clan would not be his first choice, nor was it the best choice. The engagement had happened only because he was perpetually afraid of opposing his wife. But in any case, since the Jiang Clan had brought it up of their own accord, and Jin Clan was on the male side of the arrangement and thus had fewer things to be concerned about, it was not necessary to remain entangled. Besides, he knew Jin Zixuan wasn’t happy with having Jiang Yanli as his fiancée. After giving it serious consideration, Jin Guangshan found his backbone and he agreed.

—Chapt. 18: Elegance VIII, fanyiyi

We get him hand-making kites with her to decorate for Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng, and the rest of the disciples to play with:

Back when Wei Wuxian lived at Lotus Pier, he had played the kite shooting game with the disciples of the Jiang Clan and had placed first many times. ... Jiang Fengmian had constructed the frame himself and Jiang Yanli had drawn the design. Thus, whenever Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng had taken their kites out to compete, they had felt a kind of pride.

—Chapt. 32: Morning Dew V, fanyiyi

We get them having family dinners often enough that Wei Wuxian seems worried that he would miss one right before the Wen show up to Lotus Pier:

Wei WuXian asked, “Uncle Jiang went out so early in the morning —why hasn’t he come back yet? Would he make it in time for dinner?”

—Chapt. 57: Poisons, exr

We get him having no qualms with Jiang Yanli's hobbies such as cooking, even seems eager to partake in her creations—if we assume he hasn't before:

With a smile, Jiang YanLi wiped Wei WuXian’s mouth and chin, and walked happily out with the bowl in her hands. Jiang FengMian sat down where she had been sitting. Glancing at the porcelain jar, he seemed as if he wanted to taste it as well, but the bowl had already been taken away by Jiang YanLi.

—Chapt. 56: Poisons, exr

The reason why Jiang Cheng thinks his father hates him is because he takes any whiff of disapproval from his father to mean hatred, a trait he picked up from and that is nourished by his mother's own insistence that Jiang Fengmian "must" hate her son for being like her:

The founder of the YunmengJiang Sect, Jiang Chi, was born a rogue cultivator. The ways of the sect were honest and unrestrained. Madam Yu’s manners were the exact opposite. And, both Jiang Cheng’s looks and personality took after his mother. He hadn’t ever been to Jiang FengMian’s liking. Since birth, he taught him in many ways, yet he still couldn’t change, which was why Jiang FengMian had always seemed as though he didn’t favor him too much.

—Chapt. 56: Poisons, exr

The founding father of the Jiang Clan of Yunmeng, Jiang Chi, came from a knight-errant background. The family was exuberant, honest, magnanimous, and carefree in its ways —all of which were in complete opposition to Madam Yu’s spirit. Jiang Cheng took after his mother in looks and personality, which had never been to Jiang Fengmian’s liking. He had tried to educate Jiang Cheng in a myriad of ways, but it had all been for naught. This was why it always appeared as though he didn’t favor his son.

—Volume 3, Chapt. 12: Sandu: The Three Poisons, 7seas

Notice how it doesn't say that Jiang Cheng, himself, was never to Jiang Fengmian's liking, but that Madam Yu and her personality type that Jiang Cheng inherited was never to his liking, and it only "seemed/appeared" that Jiang Fengmian did not favor his son because he spent a lot of time trying to correct Jiang Cheng's bad habits, something Jiang Cheng resented. Notice how it also does not say that Jiang Fengmian avoided or ignored his son. In fact, we are told that he tried different ways to teach Jiang Cheng, a futile action we see him still committed to even up to the fall of Lotus Pier. Jiang Fengmian never gave up on his son. Jiang Cheng gave up on himself as Jiang Fengmian's son. None of that has to do with how the Jiang Fengmian and Jiang Yanli interacted in life nor how Jiang Yanli felt about her parents in death, still visiting their tablets regularly to clean and talk to them:

Jiang YanLi was kneeling in the ancestral hall. She cleaned her parents’ memorial tablets as she whispered. Wei WuXian poked his head inside, “Shijie? Talking to Uncle Jiang and Madam Yu again?”

—Chapt. 71: Departure, exr

To say that Jiang Fengmian is a terrible father simply because Jiang Cheng is more comfortable believing his mother’s lies than understanding that unconditional love does not mean unconditional tolerance for poor behavior does Jiang Fengmian’s character a disservice. To say that Jiang Fengmian is a terrible father to Jiang Yanli based on Madam Yu and Jiang Cheng’s own fantasies of victimhood is just an extra unnecessary lie to give credence to an idea that the story proves untrue. At worst, Jiang Fengmian was a man reserved in physical displays of affection that could have stood to hug his son more if that was what Jiang Cheng truly wanted. But if we are being truthful, Jiang Fengmian's just a regular fucking guy juggling raising kids and leading a clan with deterring his abusive wife from turning his home into a battlefield any time she deigns to show her face. Whatever issue you think Jiang Yanli and Jiang Cheng should have with their upbringing, the locus of the problem is named Yu Ziyuan, not Jiang Fengmian.

[sofieflee]

Since I drew Yuma being affectionate with Fubuki and Desuhiko, it’s only fair the rest of the NDA gets something similar. It’s a reference to this post btw.

[hkhyuk]

i’ve just been thinking about how a lot of people say that the robin mantle is a curse but.

but robin wasn’t a curse, not to dick, not really. to dick, robin was good. robin was everything. it was what his mom called him, it was light, it was hope. it was never a curse to him. robin was never meant to be a curse.

robin was never mean to be a legacy either, which is why when bruce took it away from dick, it became the way it did. i can’t imagine how much it would hurt dick to watch children die again and again and again in his family’s colours, when the colours were meant to be the embodiment of hope. bruce took the name robin away, and being robin changed. the mantle wasn’t kind to it’s wearer anymore. it wasn’t bruce’s to take and give away.

which is why, i think, that the reason the mantle is sort of, ‘kinder’ to damian, is because bruce wasn’t the one that gave it to him. it was dick.

[canonically47]

i hate when pride month hits and the slogan “love is love” is everywhere referring to the love between gay people being the same as between straight people. and that slogan is supposed to represent the entire community. like okay cool but what about the trans people and the arospecs & acespecs???

[annamationsart]

fiiiiiine i GUESS you can have tim and sasha art as a little treat. and why they ourple

[bardace]

doodles of the ghost trick drawtectives au I’m making with the wonderful @parsleysaauce . This is my seventh attempt at posting this the evokers really hate this shit I guess.

I have a lot more ideas for this au that I didn’t want to draw, like Pigeon Man Terry and Chicken Waitress Harper and Car Crash Detective Sam. Please ask me questions about this au, and check out Parsley because zir art is super cool!!!!

GHOST TRICK AND DRAWTECTIVES SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT DONT LOOK

In this au Eugene is being blackmailed into the manipulator business by Leland, who’s threatening him with the destruction of Gareville.

[mollysunder]

@JumaraloHexCore on Twitter posted the full poster Arcane used for the 2024 Annecy Festival.

It's good to see Jayce was in there all along, lol.

[aliciarose-art]

Drawing my OCs Valentino and Emilio in some of my favourite irl outfits at the moment 🔥

[thunderstomm]

Imagine and Invent !

[myarmsaretoolong]

I WILL ASK YOU ABOUT EUROVISION SONGS!!

(i’m still salty baby lasagna came second last year)

look away for a moment,, i can't lie i so wasn't into eurovision last year even with the doccy who double premier leading into it........ i went up some doggers hill to go see the northern lights instead... okay okay you can come back now i prommy

im still salty about tattoo beating cha cha cha the year before that! i had a eurovision party and everything and it ended in pure disaster. so thats clearly rec number one but im pretty sure everyone on tumblr already knows it cos. yeah how can you not? side note! the only good thing about tattoo is gallifrey cabarets cover of it where, instead "youre stuck on me like a tattoo-who-oo" it like "like doctor who-oo-oo" which i think is a huge improvement. (i went looking for the video of it and got mightly distracted snooping on the doccy premier tonight whoops)

sooo some of my favourite eurovision songs! gunna split them into categories i think starting with:

songs that people know

waterloo - abba (yes its a eurovision song. the amount of friends ive had to explain this too??? honey they won in BRIGHTON its the biggest thing thats happened in that city why don't you know this?? i thought you were allies :/)

fairytale - alexander rybak

arcade - duncan lawrence

snap - rosa linn (all three of those were eurovision songs first KNOW YOUR ROOTS (im actually so chill about things i just like being dramatic don't hate me))

zitti e buoni - måneskin (the GENDER?? me please)

give that wolf a banana - subwoolfer. unironically.

realising as i go that my perception of popular songs is so skewed so sorry if im way off base

songs thats eurovision people know

hey mamma - sunstroke project (anyone who doesn't know this one watch this video and report back with how many seconds in you realised what meme it spawned) (don't look at the title) (cos yes thats eurovision too)

hard rock hallelujuah - lordi (FINLAND MY EUROVISION BELOVED eurovision at its finest right here) (also recommend watching the video for this one. its very important actually)

soldi - mahmood (clap clap)

satellite - lena (just a classic innit. can't go wrong)

10 years & think about things - Daði Freyr (the jumpers are enough to get me hooked, the song are icing on the cake)

hold me closer - cornelia jakobs (if a breakup songs gets me, an aroace, screaming it and crying then you've done well)

(everyone brace im about to be loudly british on main) SPACE MAN - SAM RYDER (URGH THIS SONG HAS ME IN SUCH A CHOKEHOLD I LIVED A LIFE WHERE WE DON'T COME BOTTOM THREE AND GOD WAS IT EVERYTHING IVE EVER WANTED)

more niche songs (or maybe not, like i said ive got no fucking clue really)

Voilà - barbara pravi (entrancing song. not my usual eurovision type but i couldn't look away)

discoteque - the roop (this is what they should play in the club <- someone whos never stepped foot in a club)

mata hari - efendi

dark side - blind channel (another finnish should-have-one in a long list. speaking of which...)

jezebel - the razmus (holds balloon ominiously in your direction)

brividi - mahmood & blanco (just really nice)

river - ochman (the chorus...)

llámame - andrei ursu

nobody but you - caesar sampson (i hate the song that won over him... tragic...)

lie to me - mikolas (i really can't defend this one but bop-whop-a-lu-bop on his wood bamboo has been in my head longer than it has any right to be... bow ties are cool?)

miss you - Jérémie Makiese (its a bond song to me)

lock me in - circus mircus (DESERVED TO QUALIFY AT LEAST)

tell me more - turalturanx (same)

like an animal - piqued jacks (LOVE) (also gray its such a doc/jack/rose song)

stripper - achille lauro (watch the video...)

there’s my list of favourite songs! i could go on but half my keyboard keys have stopped working and it’s getting on my nerves XD please let me know yours too!

[neonbodyache]

actually fuckedup so bad today i cant believe it