#i blame my cold

[whyoneartheven]

yknow the fact that my tiny doodle of edward elric got so many notes is actually pretty great because it turns out he is very fun to draw

[l-tora-l-archived]

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[suntails]

the weight of family and the pull of gravity

[psymachine]

hear me out: you, me, dennis, and god all know he looks good in lingerie, but maybe he's a little bit unsure what mac "the problem is you're into all that early 80s glam rock femme shit; definitely had masc4masc in his grindr profile" mcdonald will think of it

[neodiekido]

god wait kaito saying that maki isn't a cold blooded killer after her talent got exposed wasn't even like him wanting to see the best in everyone.

the first motive was literally carte blanche to kill someone with no repercussions. maki easily could've found someone alone or hell could've just killed someone right at the strategy meeting in chapter 1 and left if she wanted to. but even with a lack of repercussions and the possibility of returning to the orphanage she still didn't want to kill anyone

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

Why do you think the tides have slightly turned from "Elia deserves better than Rhaegar" to shipping her and Rhaegar together? Like what is the psychology behind these people because I've seen some of them like/reblog anti Rhaegar posts while also shipping Rhaegar x Elia at the same time.

hey anon! my thoughts are a bit messy, but i’ve done my best to explain them coherently :)

so, rhaegar was the best man anyone could have when elia was alive, and most people want the best for their favs. he was considered the most handsome, didn’t have a bad personality, and he was crown prince—meaning elia was almost queen, which is often seen as the greatest role a woman can have. the narrative also treats rhaegar as a beautiful, tragic, haunting figure, and elia actually had this very aesthetically pleasing man all to herself at one point! she was married to him, had children with him, and her life was so close to perfect! but rhaegar just had to go and ruin it. 😠

for many elia stans, if rhaegar hadn’t fallen in love with another woman (they want him to have been a completely different character), then everything would’ve been perfect, and elia would’ve had the best, most desirable life. however, that’s not what happened—elia met a very tragic end, and as a result, these stans feel double the bitterness. because of this bitterness, they blame rhaegar for everything (even though it’s not logical to do so), but he’s just too ‘perfect’ to let go of. so, for years these stans have made rhaegar revolve around elia, filling his tag with posts about her out of bitterness. so, i do believe that this obsession with rhaegar x elia has always been there, but i think it’s become a more favorable stance on the elia stan side of the fandom because of a mix of reasons.

plus, rhaegar is one of the few canon relationships we know elia had, since she’s not much of a character. because of this, and the fact that most people don’t like to stray too far from canon, most elia stans are forced to focus on rhaegar, which has created an echo chamber. basically, if a sentiment about elia and rhaegar’s relationship becomes popular, then the whole elia stan side of the fandom will likely regurgitate the sentiment. (also, this desire to stick close to canon is likely why the elia x arthur ship was so popular. while it’s a total crack ship, it had good aesthetics, and since elia and arthur at least knew each other, it allowed the stans to create their perfect fanfiction whilst sticking it to rhaegar. but remember, elia was actually married to rhaegar and had children with him, so while arthur is cool, rhaegar was always ‘top dog,’ meaning arthur would never be able to match up to rhaegar to most elia stans. also, the arthur x elia crack ship is likely her second most popular ship, which just shows how little elia stans have to work with, so they’re always forced to eventually return back to rhaegar for a lot of things.)

however, even if the elia x rhaegar ship gains more popularity, these stans will never stop hating rhaegar because he wasn’t ‘perfect’—and he wasn’t perfect because he didn’t love elia. plus, rhaegar loving another woman and supposedly kidnapping her is what began the war that led to elia’s tragic death. that’s bitterness times 1000. and while i don’t actually blame rhaegar for the war, i do think that this is how an elia stan sees it. i also don’t view rhaegar’s complex relationship with elia as a bad thing—it’s actually a very realistic take on an arranged marriage between two decent people. but most elia stans will never be able to get over the fact that they almost had everything, which is why many have it out for lyanna, as they consider her a thief who ruined their ‘perfection.’

tbh, that might be why so many elia stans are so obsessed with the idea that rhaegar only got with lyanna because of the prophecy—they don’t want to believe that rhaegar actually loved a different woman and not their perfect self insert elia. that’s a bit mean of me… but i don’t know what else one would call the ‘elia’ elia stans have created.

now that i’ve laid all those thoughts out, i’ll try to explain why the tides seem to be turning… i think it may have something to do with the ‘targaryens are all evil and bad’ sentiment losing popularity. i think this shift has occurred due to a mix of factors, such as years of fandom fights and fandom cycles leading to the targs being more liked now than before. it helps that canon doesn’t actually condemn the targs/favors them quite a bit, and the influx of new targ fans from HOTD has also contributed. this combination of reasons seems to have shifted the way the mainstream fandom discusses all the targaryen characters, including rhaegar. so, with this shift, it’s only natural that some elia stans/elia x rhaegar shippers—who’ve always been there—are using this opportunity to push their agenda. while these stans still hate rhaegar and see him as the bad guy, they just can’t let go of him. and as the mainstream fandom moves away from the anti targaryen sentiment, these smaller corners of the fandom, which tend to be echo chambers, are also affected, which has therefore led to a rise in rhaegar x elia shippers and the ‘shifting tide’ that you’ve also noticed.

[alsantsblog]

not people on that godforsaken ex-bird app having a mass hysteria over the existence of rpf fics... god is this how ancient civilizations felt before dying out?

[themintman]

reminding myself that Nurm is actually just a cluster of cubes and not this silly goober I imagined 😖😖

[niyxxe]

it's really a little devastating to me. like i thought about it earlier, and it's so devastating that when the demons, all of these demons, die - nothing is left of them. they disappear. entirely. to become stars, rain and snow. there's nothing to bury. their loved one has nothing to hold as they pass, only an armful of faint memory of the feel.

zhuyan, ying lei, lilun, qing geng, fei... all of them.

at the same time, what broke my heart the most about bai jiu's death was that his body remained. the fact that we were seeing the little kid's dead, motionless body. the fact that there was a body to carry, to bury. and because of, bai jiu's death was the most terrible one for me, i could barely handle it. it was just . .. heartbreaking.

it's just.

thoughts.

so many thoughts.

[lavaflowe]

S3 WIP I finally finished THANK GOD- ‼️anyway let Wukong and MK hug with both arms‼️

[andrew-rannells-mustache]

Too tired to write a deep analysis post rn but do you think there’s some significance in EC carving EC on his sea chest (maybe/possibly at the beginning of the voyage) -> “Hickey” carving Hickey and CH on the Hickey knife (maybe/possibly sometime in mutiny camp/after the walkout)?? Like he carves his old name/initials on stuff when he’s becoming someone new or starting a new chapter. Carves EC into his sea chest as they set off -> casts off EC’s identity to become Cornelius Hickey. Carves Hickey onto his knife once he’s in mutiny camp -> casts off any name/identity to (attempt and obviously fail to) become Tuunbaq’s shaman. Reconfigure reinvent rearrange etc etc. Does this make any sense or is this just a bunch of words thrown together

[screechingfromthevoid]

The cape wrapping was too much for me I have to leave

[weezeranitsweezy]

guess who's spending christmas w us this yr

[moonlit-dreamers]

idk man

somethin somethin cannibalism being used as a metaphor for love somethin somethin

solar loving sun so much and so intensely that he couldnt stop himself from tearing sun apart and eating him. hes so hungry and he hates himself so much but sun is just so pretty covered in his own oil and his wires ripped apart. solar needs to devour sun whole and leave nothing left but a trail of black oil. he wants to show sun how much he loves him by ripping him apart. he cant stop his own hunger and he wishes he could stop but once he started he just couldnt resist. a hateful mix of telling sun that itll be okay, to just hold on a bit longer and let him eat a bit more, and wanting to rip suns battery out so his pain goes away faster. at the very end he just curls up inside suns empty frame, hugging himself and wanting to rip out his own wires for wut horrible things hes just done. just all he hopes is that someone puts him out of his misery bc he knows hes already done the worst he couldve done

[rileys-battlecats]

was trying to figure out why I feel so Wrong rn and I think it's because I didn't follow my usual daily routine like At All and now my brain is freaking out. woke up at a vastly different time, had entirely different tasks throughout the day, took a nap at a weird time (to make up for the fact I had about 3 hours of sleep last night), zero human contact for the past 15 hours, and ate different food from usual (various leftovers from social events/thanksgiving, instead of cooking for myself like normal). and before I really realized that these were all things that were Bad For My Brain I was just wandering around my house like "why do I feel like garbage?? I've literally been outside so much today my brain should be happy"

ANYWAY here's to me not remembering I have issues with unstructured living because my days have been so similar for the past 4ish years that I straight up Forgot that things being too different too fast makes me crazy ✌️

[dhylync]

It's 2am and I have a thought.

What if Tommy "my attention?" Kinard, knew that he wasn't Bucks one and only because he knows who Buck was truly jealous with back in Buck, Bothered and Bewildered?

What if he knows that once Buck figures it out, he won't be able to compete against Eddie "I put you in my will" Diaz.

WHAT IF he really was protecting his heart because he knows that Bucks already belongs to someone else!!??

(I might be delulu but who isn't on this god forsaken app)