#he deserved that punch and more

[pickletrip]

The Eighth Sense

Episode 7: Picking up the broken pieces

Jae Won has retreated into his shell, refusing to let anything in and Tae Hyung's remark threw him out of control because how could someone say something so crude, especially when they were at the point of death. Alone and defeated, Jae Won feels like he is back where he started, the source of all problems.

Joon Pyo and Ae Ri are such great friends to have, unlike the haters from the surf club. Yoon Won is the best though.

Title card credit @blmpff

[drenched-in-sunlight]

thinking about how the Guidance of Grace in Land of Shadow never points us to where Messmer is (the one at Divine Beast arena points towards the sealed gate aka a dead end). It’s Leda and Dane’s notes that tell us to head East and target him.

Guidance only picks up again after Messmer is defeated 🥲

If you think about it, he never commented on how we were following guidance of the Erdtree like Leda did, he started the fight simply because he wouldn’t accept us as Marika’s Lord. Which means he knows we are not there on his Mother’s guidance (& it’s true, we aren’t)

And it reminds me of his final dialogue again. Since he’s destroyed her blessing, he could only now be a curse. And so he bound himself to her once more with his last breath.

I feel like that’s how Marika knows - a whole world away in her own prison of punishment and crucifixion - and she accepts his curse. In a way, they are reunited once more.

So guidance of grace picks up again, her son’s sacrifice would not be in vain. It would not be for nothing. Miquella’s misguided path to Godhood would be stopped.

It’s not that Leda failed to see who was guiding us at first, it’s simply that the Erdtree never guides us until AFTER Messmer boss fight.

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

EPIC fans: what else was Odysseus supposed to do?! Scylla was the only way home!!

Me, an intellectual: there WAS a way for Odysseus and crew to get past Scylla without one crew member dying. They previously had a bunch of Sirens at their mercy, so if they so wished, they could have used six sirens to satisfy Scylla’s price.

After all…ruthlessness (to others) is mercy upon ourselves

[foundfamily-connoisseur]

can you just.. draw kaiser with a little kiss mark on his cheek, he deserves it ♡♡♡ (IF YOU WANT TOOOO!!)(Kiss is DEFINITELY from me)

HERE YOU GO POOKIEEEE

He's a flustered awwwwww...grown ass man

[turtleblogatlast]

Shockingly underrated thing about Leo is that he’s legitimately charming when he wants to be?

He’s the Faceman! He’s persuasive! That’s not just some random title he gave himself with no backing to it. People will listen to him. Even if they think he’s being annoying or if they’re upset at him, people listen to him anyway! There’s a reason his bros push him out front to talk to people, and when this happens, that talking nearly always works.

Moreover, Leo knows people. He looks at them and takes into account how they act and what they’re like as he makes his way through the conversations. It’s easy to forget this aspect of Leo’s character because he only brings it out when he really needs (read: wants) to, but it really is a notable part of him that always love to see.

And I say charm in particular because he has a knack for not only getting people to pay attention, but for getting people to stay and listen to what he has to say.

[just-null]

Fr bro I love your energy! Noritoshi is so pretty and so criminally underrated. Keep up the good work in making more of us lusting publicly for him. You've done amazing job! That boy well-deserved it :)

tysm!! I try to open the eyes of the public to his qualities. join my cult yall, Noritoshi is so good listen to me.

but on the topic of energy, whether you're high or low energy, Noritoshi loves it. the only difference is how he reacts to it.

Let's say you're low energy or prefer subtlety in your affection..

Noritoshi will initiate first! ..after a while... in his own way.... He needs to gather enough courage and collect his thoughts properly, then hes good to go! He prefers more subtle displays of affection too, but if needed he'll be blunt about it. He'll learn to adapt to slightly teasing remarks, going as far as to banter and tease back, moreover he's just very loving. So loving it can be embarrassing from time to time because of how intense the atmosphere can get.. the best way he can be described here is princely.

A small smile forms on Noritoshi's lips when he feels you're around. He turns to you, already memorizing each and every quirk you have so that he doesn't waste any time setting his sights on you again. His hands reach out to tug on your sleeve as he looks at you with a gaze so needy you can practically tell what he's about to ask. "May i hold your hand?" His voice comes so smooth that if you didn't know him, you would've missed the twinge of desperation it carried. You couldn't help yourself, you shook your head, a mischievous grin slowly creeping onto your lips at the sight of Noritoshi's pouted lip. Of course he'd do as you say even if it was clearly unfair, but not without some complaints. He clicks his tongue, a quiet mutter of "cheeky.." escapes under his breath. He knows you do this on purpose to mess with him, he was tempted to beg a little, but decided against it. it was an embarrassing thought to begin with. Seriously, how mean can someone be to make a guy think like this? ..Extremely, if the guy's pouting is cute enough! Noritoshi lifts his hand to his chin, thinking of the many ways he can try to get around this obstacle you cruelly placed in front of him. He leans in close, hovering next to you as he usually does when he thinks. He faces you as who knows what goes on in his head, his closed eyes not even giving you a hint as to what he could be thinking. "Ah, pardon me, I got lost in thought. I suppose i can keep my distance, so long as you keep looking at me with that charming gaze of yours." Ah, so he was just winding up for a pick up line. How lame, but.. get used to it. He's going to shadow behind you the entire day with more one liners like that unless you shut him up yourself. Wait.. was that his plan? The faint sly smirk tugging on the corner of Noritoshi's lips and the warm hue on the apple his of cheeks are all you need to figure out the rest.

If you're high energy or prefer more blunt methods of affection..

Noritoshi gets overwhelmed and flustered from such raw approaches from you that he comes off as a bit rude. It's only because you make his heart so full that he needs to shut you down or else he'll do something embarrassing!! He wants to impress you, of course he enjoys your advances very much, but it's not very slightly to see someone like him act like a crushing school girl!! or so he thinks.

Noritoshi yelps in surprise as you snake your hands around his waist from behind. He doesn't push you away or even move for that matter, he's frozen stiff. Is he still alive? Like any good lover would, you benevolently press your ear against his back to listen for a heart beat. ..You didn't hear anything until the sound of Noritoshi sharp inhale came through. That was unexpected, but it works. He squirmed a little, seemingly trying to shrug you off but quickly giving up, accepting the fact that you've got him trapped. "You imbecile, e-enough of this!" he scolded, though he made no actual effort to stop you. Noritoshi remains stiff for the most part, but looking at the back of his increasingly flushing neck reassures you that he is, indeed, alive. He's just being stubborn! Not turning or even a greeting, just rude name calling again! You raise one hand and place it over his heart to hold him tighter in your embrace. As expected, its practically pounding against his chest. He swats your hand away and finally turns back to you with those cute furrowed brows and rosy cheeks. "You're such a bully, you know that?" he huffs out, any semblance of sternness failing to take effect as his jutted bottom lip quivers. Mercifully, you finally let go and spare him by not pointing out the quiet whine he let out. He stumbles forward and turns around to face you fully, trying to keep an eye out for any more of your stunts while he catches his breath. He felt so dizzy from being in your arms, if he were held for a moment longer, he surely would've melted right then and there. Noritoshi's hands trembled as he smoothed out his clothes, his mouth opening and closing as any and all words died in his throat. He wanted to yell at you for being so forward, for giving him no chance to prepare, for letting go of him, for a lot of things..! Yet he just pouted as he tried to calm the flush on his face. His hands instantly whipped up in front of him when he noticed you took a step towards him. He can't handle another display of affection right now, he'll go weak at the knees! But how can you hold back when he's just so damn cute?

The most likely outcome is a mixture of both with a heavy leaning towards one. Either way, you're very right!! He's extremely pretty.

[the-dormant-ocean]

Sam is a way better person than me. If I were him and went through half of the things he did it would have been a bloodbath. Every character from Supernatural is so lucky that Sam is so forgiving and gentle. If he weren't, the show would have been down to so many characters, considering how badly some treated Sam. They should be grateful that Sam never turned evil because it would have been a massacre. What Sam calls his life, I would call my villain origin story.

[dangans-ur-ronpas]

the trio redesigns or something idk

[hypertechnica]

number one obscure ds9 character: PEL!!!!!! AGGHHH 2x07 rules of acquisition my beloved

imagine. you fall in love with your business partner but you’re secretly a woman (your entire society is insanely horrendously sexist) and when you are forcibly outed to him, you think that maybe he might understand, that he'd be different, that you could run off somewhere where people wouldn’t care if you didnt fulfill oppressive gender roles, and he replies that he would care.

i would have done something drastic

she should’ve appeared again just to deck quark in the fucking face

[luvevee]

Getting into Mouthwashing is awesome until you wanna autistic babble to others about it only to realize most of the convos discussing the game are 95% about Jimmy and nobody else, please I want variety

[kjones-fandom]

I do think that Neil and Aaron would eventually get along but imagine if maybe a decade or so after the king's men Neil and Aaron get into a fight. It doesn’t matter what about but Neil runs his mouth and Aaron decks him. It doesn’t hurt that much and he doesn’t actually want to hurt Neil he was just so angry. I think Andrew wouldn’t react that much in the moment. He would assess the damage and Neil’s fine but Aaron’s busted his knuckles. So he wraps Aaron’s hand for him and doesn’t say anything for the longest time. No one knows what he’s thinking but the rest of the foxes are there (think like a reunion) and everyone kind of moves on.

Later that night while Aaron is icing his hand Andrew enters the room. Neil and Aaron already would have made up by this point. They aren’t necessarily friends but they don’t dislike each other anymore. Andrew would be silent as he had been earlier and would stare at Aaron’s hand. Aaron opens his mouth to say something- maybe to apologize or maybe to defend himself. But Andrew gets there first, he doesn’t raise his voice or become violent. Instead, he makes eye contact with Aaron and says “ This isn’t college anymore. If you ever lay a hand on my husband again I will kill you.” His voice isn’t apathetic but it isn’t very emotional.

He doesn’t break eye contact and his voice is steady and Aaron knows he’s telling the truth. Aaron doesn’t look away even after hearing the threat. He just nods his head “ I know”. And he does know because the twins are not the same men they were in college. Andrew doesn’t threaten Katelyn or speak badly about her. The twins do grow up and I think Andrew would respect and even consider Katelyn his sister-in-law first and his brother's wife second. No, this isn’t Andrew and Aaron losing their relationship or having a falling out. They’ve grown and matured and Aaron would be more pissed if Andrew stayed silent the whole time. Because he knows he would have done the same if Andrew had laid a hand on Katelyn.

TLDR: Andrew and Aaron grow after college. They respect each other's partners. Hell, they even like the other significant other. Because Andrew and Aaron love each other and after years of therapy and peace they come to terms with the fact that Katelyn and Neil are both there to stay.

Edit: Also, I am not calling Neil weak or saying he needs protection. He can absolutely defend himself but he shouldn’t have to with family. I love Aaron and Neil’s friendship and the fight doesn’t affect their relationship.

[lilianade-comics]

I was gonna do a Meet the Artist to kick off 2023, but I realized this says infinitely more about me than any cutesy doodle + likes/dislikes list ever could

[fosermi]

Out of context gem twins lore!! :D

OK I'm not cruel enough to leave you guys hanging without the context for this!! Basically, the idea came to me because me and @mismageus have been bouncing ideas back and forth for days now about a dark timeline. It all started out with the gem twins meeting their Auncle Solar the Darkling (really cool character BTW please go check them out) that eventually devolved into "how can we make this worse" via the introduction of the dark timeline.

TLDR of this dark timeline; Arrow became black doom's new host for a bit there and some drastic measures were taken to get Arrow back (aka Shadow using his chaos spear) and is now in a coma.

Now, because I'm a sap for angst, me and Fig made it so that Shadow had been the closer parent to Arrow who hates what he's done to his own child but does not regret doing it and will do it again if he has to. But oh boy that wasn't enough for me or Fig, we made it worse. Seeing Arrow hospitalised like this is giving Shadow flashbacks to the days he couldn't do anything to save Maria. All he can do is watch and wait and hope for the best. That plus secret garden is a really good song and was perfect for a scene of where Shadow heard Maria sing on the ARK, which he then sang to Arrow as a baby, and now to Arrow again in an attempt to reassure himself that it's all going to be alright.

Here's the sketches of this piece!! Took me a while.

Because I needed something wholesome have this!! Arrow is definitely a dada's boy,,,

[awriternamedart]

oh my god im actually going to explode - GEPARDS EMBARRESSED IDLE ANIMATION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM BEING EASILY FLUSTERED .

ITS LITERALLY ABOUT HIS LOVE FOR HIS SISTERS.

everything else we know about him points to him being inCREDIBLY difficult to fluster . That idle animation is about him attempting to support his sisters because it is THEIR SONG hes humming and feeling like he MESSED UP and hes getting EMBARRESSED because ITS LITERALLY HIS SISTERS SONG.

THINK ABOUT IT FOR TWO SECONDS.

Gepard has literally been stated in game to take AGES to respond. Serval says so herself that he can go radio silent on her for MONTHS at a time. And Lynx acts somewhat curt with him , clearly admiring her older sister more and being on more rocky terms with Gepard because of his protective nature . To Gepard it likely feels that supporting Mechanical Fever on field is one of the ONLY WAYS he feels like he can properly support both of his sisters. To mess that up and be unable to get that right is going to both embarress and dishearten him. You can see this in the animation where he clearly cringes before he sighs and shakes it off. While the siblings are close there are still some gaps - where interests and circumstances divide them . Gepards physical unavaliablity has likely left him a little disconnected from his sisters - like how Serval's bottling emotions habit and Lynx's aloofness when dealing with people has likely the same result. All he wants is to support his sisters , and he feels like he messed up in the one way he easily could.

And not to mention if Gepard was easy to fluster or unsettle or get annoyed he would NOT be alive . Not in a brutal war that has laid devestation to your home for longer then youve been alive. Not against unthinking monsters, creatures that only seek rabid destruction. He would have died early on, one of the thousands claimed by the endless winter.

Please - when it comes to understanding characters, idle animations are windows, not gateways. They are often performative , meant to show personality or common habit , not as a personality trait . Read , study , pay attention to dialog and voice direction , to other characters talking about them . That is where you get concrete personality. That is where the truth lies.

[teddybeartoji]

ok ok ok no bc i’m convinced sukuna COULD be a softie if he met the right person ((you))……he just needs to be HELD!!!!! and CHERISHED!!!!!! he needs soft fingers and warm dough and light touches and hands that don’t curl into fists on instinct and and and!!!!!!! i see the vision mickey I SEE IT

QUINNNNN!!!!!!! YOU GET MEEEE!!!!!!!! i think he can be a big big softie actually... i think when he finds the person he really likes he kind of turns into like a kitten in a way lmao like he just wants your attention and he wants to impress you and tbh i don't think he'd be afraid to say so either. he'll just come and lay himself on top of you without a word and you're like ???????? and he just huffs at you and while that doesn't sound too nice you can literally feel him smiling against your neck????????? idk he gets weird when he's in love and i mean that in the best possible way<33333

he doesn't really understand that he likes you at first btw. or that he has a crush on you. there this innate need to Do Things so you'd look at him lmao and if anyone points it out he's just goes Pfft I Don't Know What You're Talking abt😒😒😒 i genuinely think he doesn't know what having a crush on sb means it's kind of new to him it rarely happens okay just give him some time...

ANDDD so if i'm talking abt mikuna... he is just like that right buuut i think he does like to get into bar fights😭😭😭 he's not necessarily angry or anything he just gets very excited lmao i think he does get off on pissing off some bigots in a club somewhere on a saturday night this is like actual entertainment for him and ykw..... i am here to cheer him on i can't even lie ok he's fighting for a good cause😭😭😭😭😭 aand then i get to kiss his bruised knuckles and he gets to tease me abt being so into it💀💀

[anachronistic-falsehood]

i am STILL thinking about greyscale. i love that vyncent didn't use his sword like at all in belltech. i actually love that he was just headbutting people and kicking them and punching people's lights out. like the situation was so fucked and as much as he says he turned and ran and distanced himself, he didn't distance himself. he was SO involved. he didn't even use his sword!!! he got his hands dirty!!!! he fought with his fucking bare hands!!!!! he fought those guard tooth and nail for those samples. he walked right into belltech with william after everything and grabbed a guard by the shirt and headbutted them and watched them crumple like paper. he punched david bell unconscious. he never uses just his hands to fight but he did it HERE and that drives me fucking nuts. he was just as much a part of this as william!!! there is blood on his hands too!!!! agh!!!