#i am in paradise

[cartoonsforlife]

Isn't he fucking handsome, your honor?

[merrycrespo]

no but waterloo sunset's fine, it really is

[hinamie]

post-graduation trip airport looks

[mafuyuakgae]

even if I came to love humanity in the end, there’s no proof I was ever here, right?

[kinnbig]

Jeff Satur | The Paradise of Thorns (วิมานหนาม)

[katabay]

WOW this has been ROUGH in the Life Events category of things, but. slowly crawling out of that. hopefully

this was the opening scene for a something I started writing after watching the Manben inverview with Nishi Keiko and thinking back to all the classic shoujo manga I stayed up reading back in the day, like damn that's so true Urasawa Naoki

it's partially a love letter to all the greats of the genre that I read, and also to the late night teleseryses that captivated me over the years lmao. it'd be nice to find the time to tackle it properly as a comic, but I'm having fun working on it recreationally :)

✨but since it's recreational, some character info✨

the first character seen is lawrence 'law' valenciano (late 30s), the one with the glasses is cris volante (mid-later 20s). law works at a karinderya, cris is an extremely broke university student.

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / insta / tip jar!

[hells-sock]

Love in paradise has to be one of the most gut wrenching songs i've ever heard in my life, because jesus christ man you can feel every single emotion going through Odysseus mind just by listening to the motifs overlap by the end of the song. the remorse, the regret, the GRIEF!

And to think i used to believe nothing could top anticlea's verse in the underworld saga

[allthenicknamesweretaken]

IT IS DONE

Fanart of Chapter 25 of The Neon Void by @sugarpasteltmnt

Fanart done to the lyrics of The Other Side Of Paradise

THIS TOOK SO LONG OH MY GOD

I first got the idea for this some time after chapter 25 but then I got burned out and then I got distracted by artfight and then I got distracted by an AU I’m making BUT NOW IT’S DONE

YIPPEE

[syl16]

I like how orange his outfit is

[oplishin]

seth's smile as he looks up at rock and the crowd chants for cody is very very good

[vildo]

Remember the look Kirk gave Spock when he found out about Leila?

and how he stared her down LIKE THIS afterwards

Since they didn’t specify why Kirk was the only one immune to spores, I’m gonna take it so far as to say it had no effect on him because he was so mad at Spock about this

[ao3-anonymous]

Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (12/24/2024)

Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms.  Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.

Overall:

Over 1,000 Fics:

Over 5,000 Fics:

Over 10,000 Fics:

Source: AO3 Fandom Dashboard

[ghostvibesonly]

wait odysseus is suicidal wait he was really gonna end his life the way he ended the infant’s wait the only people who’ve called him ody are those who hurt him badly/betrayed him wait “let me close my eyes” parallels penelope and telemachus begging him to “keep your eyes open” wait wait calypso was trying to talk him down and “stay in my open arms” unintentionally triggered the memories/hauntings of polites, eurylochus, his mom, etc wait wait athena held baby telemachus wait wait athena is dead?? wait wait wait

[hoshizoralone]

loneshop is back open in full capacity!! wahoo!!

direct links to the new stuff:

cortana sticker sheet | cortana charms | best friends 4ever sticker

check out the whole shop here !!

[duckydemons]

i love Paradise Lost so much, but tell me how the actual FUCK am I supposed to take the transition from the end of Thursday to the start of Friday seriously..

why does he fall like that…

[madbard]

I expected Polites in the Underworld Saga. I was bracing myself. But then he showed up in ‘Love In Paradise’ and I took so much psychic damage…

What I thought was so fascinating and beautiful about this scene though - Odysseus is not just hearing Polites. While ‘Open Arms’ is a hopeful melody and is perhaps the most obvious song to encourage someone to keep living, it’s not the only voice in his head. He hears Eurylochus and his men - the people he loved at one point. The people he killed in order to survive and make it back home. He hears Penelope, still in love with him, still waiting. He hears the pain in her voice, the pain she will feel if he never makes it home.

The harmonies here, the voices that urge him to keep living, are not just joyful or kind. They are desperate. They are angry with him. They are heartbroken. They fill him with hope, guilt, and longing all at once. Together, they tell him that if he keeps on living, life will not be easy. He’ll do things he regrets. He will always hear those screams. And the world will be beautiful, despite it all.

He cries out, almost as if to drown those voices, but they persist. They surround him, embrace him. And in that moment he summons all the willpower he has left. He calls out for help.

And someone hears his call.