#held deeply

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

*glancing back at my childhood in the rearview mirror* and what the FUCK was up with my mom always signing me up for Activities

[loumandism]

armand is not categorically unlovable and the point of his story isn’t that he’s never experienced love from lestat or louis, the POINT is that he’s so deeply scarred by what love meant in the early stages of his life that he does not believe in love as a mechanism for healing and he lashes out because he doesn’t want to betray himself by getting his hopes up. ARMAND thinks he’s unlovable so he punishes anyone that loves him. and it’s honestly very fundamental to his story that this is not true, that he has a lot of positive traits that someone could yearn for in a companionship, but he just undercuts that so significantly and intentionally. it was most likely marius that instilled within him that no one else could love him, at least not in a gentle way, because something is broken in him. so what character or thematic analysis does it benefit when people relentlessly try to prove that louis and lestat never loved him, when that is textually not the case? when crew members from rolin jones to cast members like jacob anderson and assad zaman describe louis as having love for armand? when lestat is canonically obsessed with armand in the books? what purpose would it serve beyond cruelty to cut lestat’s requited feelings for him from the canon? why are people so insistent on that happening and armand being inherently undesirable and his meaningfulness to the loumandstat dynamic (the core trio of the series from the time of the books) being nothing but an unwanted, accidental stain?? there is so much intentionality and care with how he’s included in the story (not necessarily reflected by the marketing lol) and it’s disappointing to see people disregarding that so eagerly.

[helimir]

This sequence of episodes (Vergesson heist and its aftermath) are also a testament to the sheer determination of the mighty nein, both in the narrative and on a meta level.

When Trent shows up in Vergesson, Matt makes it clear that Ikithon wants to talk. He makes no actual attack on the PCs, and Matt openly expresses surprise when Caleb starts immediately casting offensive spells. They very easily could have been caught there, they only make it out because of Caleb’s nat 20 counterspell.

Then again in Nicodranas, Trent just wants to talk! He’s just curious! And he backs them into a corner that there really should be no way out of… but then they come up with a way. A crazy genius way that Matt could not have predicted.

In a situation where it would have been so easy to let the DM’s expectations combined with the mechanics of the situation guide them into a particular course of action… the mighty nein said ‘fuck that, it’s bad, we’re running’.

Ikithon’s manipulation and Matt’s signaling that a conversation is a viable story path is no match for Caleb’s abject fear and the Mighty Nein’s ride or die attitude. Caleb really said ‘this is the scariest man in the world and I’ll burn down anything including myself before I let him touch your families’ and the Mighty Nein said ‘we’re with you.’ This is the same party that walked across the continent to save part of their family, and it shows.

[frownyalfred]

Batman: I don’t kill. It’s wrong.

Batman three minutes later putting on spiked brass knuckles: anyway did I ever tell you about how Superman is a much better person than me?

[inudrawfrsha]

sleepy brother cuddles !!

[owlmylove]

sunshine gives you wrinkles and laughter leaves lines and late nights will stamp bruises beneath your eyes. life will always leave its mark on you. live it anyway!!!

[ewwww-what]

It’s a metaphor, Hold on.

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[nuttyinternetsheep]

The day has come! The triangle is getting held as it was foretold by @candycatfalls

[jupiterdolll]

people who stopped liking naruto (the character and show both) due to naruto's focus on sasuke just make me laugh. they think that this somehow diminishes naruto's character, since his dream of becoming hokage is no longer priority.

you can't view naruto as this unchanging entity. yes he's the main character and yes it was ingrained into our brains in the first chapters and arcs that he wants to become hokage. that was his way of saying he wants to be acknowledged and respected. as a child, he seen that the hokage received these things, so naturally that's what set the example. "hokage" was the title of what he desired. but most of all... unbeknownst to him, being understood and loved was his real desire. the actual genuine kind.

the opening arc that sets the tone for the entire story is the land of waves. we immediately get the parallel between haku/zabuza and naruto/sasuke. haku made naruto think more deeply, telling him that beyond acknowledgement and respect there is something so much more valuable. to be understood, loved, and cared for. and within that same arc that is what sasuke shows and gives to naruto. sasuke himself seemingly unaware of his own feelings, his body 'just moved on it's own'.. his instinct made him protect what was precious to him. dreams, future, none of that matters, it dissipates entirely from your mind when you are trying to protect and save what is most precious to you. and for sasuke, that most precious person is naruto.

upon reading/watching this for the first time, the narrative does not let you understand why sasuke came to love naruto this much until later down the line of the story. but right off the bat, kishimoto immediately makes you know that there is something there he feels for naruto so strongly, to the point that it would make a character like sasuke (very goal focused, revenge based, nonchalant about mostly everything else) give up his life for him, disregarding what he shows in the majority of the plot to be his biggest dream: killing itachi.

as the story goes on, again and again naruto witnesses sasuke having these deep emotions for him, for his comrades. love and protection. he learns more about love because of sasuke.. he learns more about his own emotions through sasuke.

sasuke tells naruto that he doesn't understand what losing or having family ties feels like, as naruto never had a family. this is why naruto's desire to be acknowledged and respected at the beginning was more shallow than he had realized. yes, hokage would give you those things, but genuine understanding and love only comes from real connection.

so naruto slowly starts to realize that what actually fulfills him is not becoming hokage, but sasuke. his dream becomes sasuke. sasuke is who understands him, sasuke is who acknowledges him as a person, acknowledges his efforts and courage amongst how lonely he knows naruto feels. naruto now knows that the love and acknowledgment he would get from becoming hokage does not compare to the specific, intimate, personal bond he has with sasuke. he knows that nothing and nobody else can make him feel how sasuke does.

this realization impacts naruto so greatly that he spends the rest of the time chasing sasuke. because sasuke is the first one to open his heart, the first to make him feel comfort upon just being himself. why wouldn't sasuke become his dream? it was destined from the beginning.

[that-satireguy]

Me, with my >500 followers, being purposefully vague about my current situation, and how the majority of the abuse I've suffered in the past 4 years (since escaping the cult) has come from trans women, because I know transmisogynists will try and use it against my sisters, completely avoiding talking about a big part of my life, and only complaining in dms with trusted people who i know wont use it as an excuse to be transmisogynistic.

A surprisingly large amount of people:

'Transmascs are the biggest rapists in the world'

[canipleasegetthenumber15]

No context, just Donnie internally melting at how tiny Raph's hand is <3 XD Something about self-proclaimed "bad boy" Donnie getting cuteness overload and going Protective Mode over a mini Raph who needs the affection...

[summercosmos]

some rejuv doodle requests ++++ art trades

[mixanji]

need some sof sweet viclu to get me out of a slump

[mgu-h]

lando nostalgia 35/? • abu dhabi gp 2019 • end of season photos

[gloriousmonsters]

velvette and valentino absolutely both have their own money, in excess, but will ask vox to buy them things partly because they like being spoiled and partly because they know vox is (secretly, he thinks) delighted by playing the exasperated guy who can be cajoled into buying you something just this once, but you'd better not try the puppy eyes and kisses again next time, it won't work! (it continues to work, always.) it makes him feel very masculine

[hunxi-after-hours]

天黑人容易犯错 / It's easy to make mistakes in the dark 屋顶会着火 / The roof will catch on fire

披荆斩棘的哥哥 CALL ME BY FIRE S4 | 三公 THIRD STAGE

《屋顶着火》 When the Roof Catches Fire

bonus: mvp fu-ge