#how did I not notice it earlier?

[just-two-blokes]

Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets is a cinematic masterpiece and criminally underrated.

That‘s it.

That‘s the post.

[choccy-milky]

herbology class 🌹🌿 (from chap 2 of my fic!)

[skrunksthatwunk]

no fucking way these two brought matching outfits to the dark tourny

[noonbeam-stims]

multiverses by nuclear bubble wrap stimboard with glowing orange and black space stims requested by ME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RAAHHHH

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[fareehaandspaniards]

I want to put all the guys here in good resolution and also resave them hehe

[theyautjaarchivist]

Oh my god, I just realized my sapphic Yautja is a milf. I accidentally made her a milf.

....I don't know what to do with this information.

[muninnhuginn]

Thinking about "your weakness is how you always want to be the hero" and how the series returns to this at the end

Li Lianhua hated how he acted as Li Xiangyi and spent years trying to distance himself from it, but ultimately he still fell back into the similar patterns, for all his added experience

His main priority was always to "do the right thing" regardless of how that would impact on those around him. And it *did* impact those around him. From Qiao Wanmian and Shan Gudao as Li Xiangyi to Fang Duobing and Di Feisheng as Li Lianhua

Giving the Styx flower to the emperor so he could use it as leverage to guarantee Fang Duobing and his family's safety. Using the last of his power to save Yun Biqiu. Constantly putting others above himself whilst actively refusing to recognise that his self-sacrificial nature would hurt those he cared about most

And sure, he thinks he's going to die anyway. They're going to be hurt regardless and he can't do anything about that. His odds are low of the Styx flower even working. But ultimately, he refuses to even consider trying. Li Xiangyi has been dead a long time and Li Lianhua is just there to tide things over. What value is the life of a ghost

To the end, he lives and dies a hero. To the end, he refuses to live for himself.

[skunkes]

antidepressants have saved my life but in the way that my dad was put on them earlier this year before i was and he's an entirely different person neow. several years of it being a coin toss as to whether the house was going to have a sinister energy on any given day, undone in a few weeks and once again resembling the person i was most attached to as a child

[yugiohmangaoutofcontext]

OKAY YEAH NOW THEY NOTICE BAKURA IS MISSING. IT'S ONLY BEEN LIKE OVER 20 FUCKING CHAPTERS GOOD JOB YOU GUYS YOU'RE THE BEST FRIENDS A GUY COULD HAVE!!!

[cacowhistle]

thinking about the fionna and cake finale and. i've been seeing people upset or annoyed that betty & simon's story focused on how simon had to learn to recognize that what they had was unbalanced and not necessarily fair, because they wanted betty to also realize that she placed too much of her self worth in simon, and they wanted her to learn to live for herself.

i think these people forgot about the episode in adventure time that does this. mainly because, at the end of the episode, it seems like she didn't learn anything at all.

In s10e11, "Temple of Mars," Finn, Jermaine, and Betty have to go through a mind maze to find Jake--and many parts of the maze are relevant to Betty's obsession with Simon/Ice King.

The second room of the "maze" has a chalkboard with a long and complicated equation on it. Betty tries to solve it, thinking it will help, while an Ice Thing messes up the equation as she tries to solve it, preventing her from doing so. It's meant to represent how trying to "solve" the crown's curse is leading nowhere, and that Betty is trying for a hopeless cause.

The last room is the most important to Betty's story, though--it's a window into her past, where she realizes that she needed to take more time for herself. She needed to focus on her, instead of dropping everything for Simon. She makes this realization and changes things for the hypothetical, maze room version of Betty--but naturally, this can't change the past. She's made her choices, and she has to live with that.

I think at the end of the episode, when she takes the "wrong" message away from all of this--she dedicates herself to trying even harder to "fix" Simon--it's mostly because she's scared to accept that she... not wasted, but lost so much of her life because she was so focused on what Simon wanted, or what she thought that Simon needed. She's also still under the effect of the Magic Man hat, so she's still affected by the sadness/madness of that, which likely twisted her view of the situation as well.

But then in the AT finale, she makes her choice to leave Simon. She does it through wishing for his safety, sure, but she still makes the choice to leave him. And in Fionna and Cake, what we see of her--or what's left of her, because we don't know how she's changed, really--is something bigger than what she was before. GOLBetty seems to have realized her own part in the unbalancing of the relationship between them. But that's not what Fionna and Cake is about--it's about Simon, and how he has to move on. Betty has already moved on by the time we see her again. She's showing Simon that, and she's showing him that he has to move on, too. But it's her choice. She could have stayed with him, but...

She takes the bus to the airport. And she takes it without him.

[winterwhore]

what the fuck. was he fighting in that shit

[ywpd-translations]

Ride 732: Buddies X 4!!

Pag 1

1: Eight people's gaze, they all have their eyes fixed on the Inter High!!

Pag 2

1: Pfui

2: Oii, Miki!

4: What are you looking aaat.... Mikiii

Wa-!

5: Kya- Aya-chan, you- you scared me!

Ohhhm you're hiding it!? What were you looking at while sighing....? Maybe a message from someone...?

Pag 3

1: It's everyone's number of laps in the training camp....

2: This year my brother is sending me the electric scoreboard data, so I can see them live. Now they've started the afternoon practice of the second day

Woah, it's true, there's so many numbers. But in that case don't hide and don't sigh

3: The subject and your reaction don't match, Miki

You're really a bicycle otaku, girl!!

4: Ah right, they're all at the training camp now

Yeah, in Shizuoka

5: No wonder I though that that lively red-head isn't here

7: The bike club isn't here

Pag 4

1: The corridors feel kinda lonely somehow

4: … yeah

5: But right now, they're running desperately

7: They're conscious of the remaining time

8: of this overwhelming journey

Their last...

Pag 5

1: The third years are looking towards their last Inter High

Pag 8

2: It's curious

3: We ran so many laps and the course is 5km long, and yet these eight people unexpectedly happen to be here at the same time

4: We're still in the middle of the second day, so we don't know what's going to happen, but... if we only talk about the number of laps

5: Then right now there are eight people in the lead!!

6: Or maybe

10: It's not really unexpected?

Pag 9

1: It's not!!

At least for us!!

3: Kaburagi and Danchiku jumped ahead!!

4: Kaburagi!!

5: Uh.... I heard about it but, consciuosly looking closely at it again.... re-really

Pag 10

1: Danchiku really has become huge!!

3: I got this bike that's the perfect size for me from Touji-san

5: What's... this... Danchiku's pressure....

6: It's so much higher than before!!

Pag 11

1: Right now you felt like “Danchiku's pressure has gotten stronger”, right? Sugimoto-san

3: It did get stronger

Honestly

4: Until now we've run more than 400km and his strength has certainly grown...

And it's conveyed 100% with that bike!! He's sure and confident!!

Do you know what that means, Sugimoto-san!?

5: The two of us simply chased Imaizumi-san and the others and ran so to not open the distance again

So, honestly, it was unexpected

Teh!!

6: Kaburagi-san and the others purpousely matched tehir paces with them!?

Pag 12

1: Kaburagi, Danchiku....!! As expected your target is...!!

2: 400km is a big enough distance that we could make up a special move!!

4: Go!! This is... Danchiku Special Move!!

Pag 13

1: Bamboo Hop Shot!!

Pag 14

1: He covered so much distance in an instant!!

2: That huge frame

4: He's accelerating by bending like a bamboo!!

7: That's right, this is the special technique that we made up during this training camp!!

Bamboo is flexible and elastic, and also....

Pag 15

1: Strong!!

2: Kuaaaaa

Pag 16

2: Sugimoto reacted alone to Danchiku's acceleration and caught up to them!!

4: As expected, that saves us time, Sugimoto-san

Yeah... the two of us have to go to the Inter High

5: Moreover, we can't play an active part if we don't get stronger in this training camp, and in order for him to fully recover from his slump and go to the Inter High

Pag 17

1: He has to defeat a human pillar like you, Sugimoto-san!!

3: Their target is Sugimoto!!

4: Huh, Sugimoto-kun!?

Sugimoto!!

5: Huh!?

Uh....

6: I want Danchiku to race you and gain back his confidence, and recover completely!!

Pag 18

1: You're speaking as if you're assuming I'll lose

2: Assuming? Well-

3: You're being too rude, Issa

Am I? But results are everything in this world

4: Sugimoto-san and...

Danchiku-san....

5: I mean, the fact that you've caught up now means you're “accepting”

6: Just a little more

Until the complete recovery!!

7: Aren't you cute?

Pag 19

1: My kouhai are recklessly in high spirit and want to practice with a more experienced senpai!!

Alright then!!

I'll let you

2: Come at me, second year Danchiku Ryuhou!!

Wa!! Thanks

Sugimoto-san!!

Pag 20

2: He accepted it and ran ahead!!

3: Sugimoto is leading!!

4: He's assertive!!

As expected!!

5: It's gonna be challenging, Danchiku!!

6: Ahh, one thing I forgot to say, is that Danchiku's special technique we came up with during this training camp... there's one more thing to it

Pag 21

1: It's called Bamboo Shout!!

2: I think you'll get to look closely at it later

4: By the way, Sugimoto-san

What about your special technique?

5: Ah...!! My self-awareness isn't that low that I didn't prepare for it!!

[ectonurites]

SUPER DARK TIMES (2017) DIR. KEVIN PHILLIPS

also, honorable mention to the original script for this scene:

[mars-ipan]

just had to set boundaries with my dad i ammmm. so stressed

[fluffs-n-stuffs]

More Pokémon Horizons Episode 25 spoilers under the cut!

As much as I laughed from how this played out like an unintentionally comedic moment---can I mention how much this actually does to separate Amethio from the rest of the Explorers; how he's actually honorable and respects Friede as a rival of sorts?

The rest of the Explorers tend to use underhanded tricks to get what they want (Spinel brainwashing Liko and attempting to wipe her memory, Onyx and Sango trying to overwhelm the others against direct orders whilst causing the destruction of everything else around them), but Amethio has been unique in how he's regarded as 'by the books' (by Friede) and constantly tries to be on equal footing with his opponent- even if it means putting himself at the disadvantage when he has more resources to utilize.

He could've very easily overwhelmed Friede by having both of his mons attack at once (given how Captain Pikachu hadn't arrived yet)---and yet he- doesn't. Which is just so interesting to me as he's meant to have a similar goal as the rest of the Explorers (which is to retrieve the pendant/Terapagos by any means necessary).

So in this case, was it really a matter of defeating Friede so that he could easily confront Liko afterwards,,, or,,,,, was he trying to prove himself somehow? 👀✨✨✨

[baeshijima]

honestly the new hsr event is so satisfying purely for the big numbers go brr

looking at this screenshot i also just realised i used a trial aventurine and topaz instead of my own ones :D