#hmmmm.

[columboscreens]

[zketylers]

"Is that what you used on them?" "Just to calm them."

TRAP (2024)

[linda-likes-to-draw]

“Still a mere thrall.”

This was supposed to be a Halloween drawing, but unfortunately I was not able to finish it in time and then life got busier x.x

Finally got around it though! I like how Chry came out. The Mora eyes... eeeeeeh not really, but I wanted to get this out of my system. So there you have it! Hope you like it!

GOL HAH DOV belongs to @99corentine

[bojangos]

hmmmmm still thinking about mandalore the ultimate bringing his people to the brink of extinction but also changing their people in such a way he gives them the means to survive their near-death. hm.

[bl0rbohandbag]

so, there is a pattern of overblot victims having to defeat or overcome their own overblot forms in their dreams and conquer them. are we going to get overblot students VS overblot malleus somehow?

[ruidrones]

THIS IS THE STORY OF A CHILDISH WAR!

BOOM shuffle unit jumpscare LOL. These guys with childish war was such a fun idea so yk i had to jump on it

(also pls rb ty!!! and click 4 better quality :3)

[animentality]

come over and I will purr for you

uh oh.

I started something I should not have.

[transgnckon]

The thought of taking the little Kon i have to the Laufey concept just hit me

[imminent-danger-came]

YOU TELLING ME

THIS IS THE INTERNATIONAL RELEASE POSTER???

MILES MORALES AS SUN WUKONG. THE MONKEY KING.

[are-we-really-doing-this]

I shan’t make any speculations, but some acoustic Bizkit Ballads coming up on a new project would be sweeeet. Maybe some country?

[tyrannuspitch]

okay. mycroft thoughts.

(disclaimer: i'm only drawing from the first six episodes here.)

the most interesting thing about mycroft to me is how he makes sherlock more interesting through contrast and context. sherlock could easily have been him, but he really, really isn't, and you might not realise how strong and deliberate the relevant traits are until you see him next to mycroft.

i think sherlock and mycroft start off with the same basic problem: they are not like other people, and they can't connect to others in the ways they're expected to.

half of how they deal with this is the same: they tell themselves that their low empathy is objectively superior and correct, that everyone else is an idiot, and that they should be repressing all their emotions and dealing with everything in purely "rational" ways. i don't think mycroft imposes this on sherlock - i think this is a defensive reaction to external pressures, and they each would have ended up here regardless - but they definitely encourage it in each other, competing and criticising and snapping at any exposed vulnerabilities they can find.

but in the other half, they choose opposite paths: mycroft applies his intelligence to working out how to blend in and make society work for him, while sherlock rejects the idea that he should have to change himself at all, and thus rejects belonging in society at all.

mycroft's attitude is one of self-satisfied superiority. he's willing to play neurotypical social games because he's confident he can win them. he thinks his intelligence makes him superior in every way, and can fully compensate for any disadvantage he might have started with. but sherlock, while also defensively superior, is angry. why should he change himself to seem like everyone else, the same people who hate him, the very people mycroft agrees are beneath them? he often acts hostile and even less conventional than his baseline in deliberate defiance of expectations.

but also, beneath that... i think sherlock has correctly identified something vital: mycroft can blend in well enough to be accepted, but not to be liked. not to truly belong. by choosing both restrictive convention and emotional repression, mycroft makes himself even more isolated than sherlock. (think of how often we see him in huge empty rooms!) why would sherlock compromise his sense of self and dignity if he isn't even going to get to belong in exchange?

mycroft has invested a huge amount in convention and is at very least a small-c conservative, and as such i think he genuinely thinks it's "right", somehow, to be conventional. that people have a real obligation to at least appear "normal", and sherlock is being childish and unreasonable by defying it.

he's assimilated so well that he's come to represent convention itself to sherlock, even though he's the only person in sherlock's life who's Different in the same way sherlock is. which is ironic, but also, i think, makes it worse. because mycroft, the one person who should understand sherlock's feelings about not belonging, is still completely unwilling to make concessions for his differences. "if i can act normal, why can't you? how hard can it be?"

and the thing is, i do believe mycroft's behaviour comes from genuine concern. he's just unwilling to express it in any way that doesn't feel like a power play. and on top of that, he doesn't really understand why sherlock is unhappy, or how he makes it worse. he thinks sherlock being stubbornly sherlock is the entirety of the problem. he can't see that sherlock is acting in response to genuine injustices in an ableist society.

this dynamic has definitely been influenced (for the worse) by sherlock's history of addiction. it's the classic conundrum where an addict uses substances as an escape, and the world around them gets more and more prison-like in response... whether they involve literal substances or not, sherlock's coping mechanisms are dangerous and often illegal, and so of course mycroft worries for his physical safety. but the more meddling and judgement sherlock comes up against, the harder he'll insist on his chosen lifestyle.

but they do, of course, retain some common ground. embracing low empathy is the one way in which mycroft is willing to be unconventional - probably because he can justify it as "rational" and "useful". i think both mycroft and sherlock are ultimately looking for a "higher purpose" to justify their neurodivergence to themselves. but the purposes they land on are very different, because they're such different people in every other way. mycroft is entirely serving The Establishment, while sherlock, as a private detective who works with the police, isn't exactly against it, but is certainly very much outside it and frequently comes into friction with it.

[sunday-arch]

making iselda a haikyuu verse fr actually……

[y-rhywbeth2]

Funerary and grave customs in the Realms involve decorating tombs and graves and the like with potion-based paint (usually painted symbols, iirc, I'll check again later) and certain materials that have - or are believed to have - undeath-supressing effects (I think tigers eye is one of them). It's hoped that such protections will keep departed loved ones from being spiritually defiled and enslaved by evil mages and undead horrors.

Between that and the fact that Baldur's Gate has no cemetaries - all dead either being cremated or shipped to gravesites outside the city, with the only exceptions being patriars with their private family estates containing family tombs and ancient forgotten burial sites beneath the city - according to lore the local vampires should clearly have private cemetaries where they can control the process for spawning purposes.

Does anybody who knew Cazador's spawn even know they're dead? Or did they just go missing one evening? For that matter, if they have family/friends/aquaintences/etc in the city do they see each other wandering around? I know Velioth forbid contact. Does Cazador keep them locked up until everyone who knew them is gone? Just order them to stay away (it's a big city)... Or does your daughter/husband/friend/whatever suddenly become really distant and you never realise what's happened and happening to them?

[evilkaeya]

should I pick the male mc or female mc in wuwa

[sometimesraven]

hmm.

hmmm.

[corallapis]

the whole thrust of quences's relationship with the doctor being that he wants him to be the first of the family to be a cardinal unfortunately makes him hard to reconcile w ulysses.