#i did not love 'the gray man'

[heywriters]

5. If a character never knew their biological parents and sets out to find their father, they should also look for their mother.

6. If the father has died or dies soon after being found, the character should not give up searching for their mother.

7. If they have inherited traits from their father, they should also have inherited traits from their mother; beyond just "you have her eyes."

8. If they were raised by their mother for a significant part of their life, they should still recall her and her teachings.

9. If the mother was of high social standing, had a significant impact on society, was a well-known and well-liked person, she merits more than a passing reference if the father is the focal point of the story.

10. If both parents are killed and a child orphaned, especially a male child, the mother deserves to be grieved over as well as the father.

11. Many of these rules apply to sisters and daughters of male characters as well. They are not murder fodder. They are not footnotes. They are not less important than brothers/sons. They are not forgettable. They are not hindrances. They are not liabilities. They are not statues on pedestals.

12. Prostitutes/mistresses/etc are not the only women who have personalities and will listen to the male character's problems. He just refuses to recognize the inherent value of women who won't have sex with him whenever he wants it.

I've devised a short list of rules that will greatly improve every piece of existing literature on the planet.

If a male character has a child, you need to either clarify that they're adopted or mention their mother.

If a character's father has a name, you have to give their mother one.

If the father appears on screen but the mother doesn't, you must clarify whether she is absent, missing, or dead, and mention her at least twice.

If we have a flashback to the father's past or otherwise receive backstory information, you also need to include the mother's backstory.

[ibrithir-was-here]

Sooo I wrote a…weird little thing, a certain comic by @mayhemchicken-artblog got my creative juices percolating and under the press of staying up far too late for several days this came to fruition, enjoy!

The Eye of the Beholder

Link to the Comic

[ballpitwitch]

Keanu Reeves The House of Suntory presents The Nature and Spirit of Japan

[thehumantrap]

Ryan Gosling Characters Spotify

I had the idea to make some playlists for some of Ryans characters - feel free to save them and follow if you like ❤️

Holland March

Ken

Colt Seavers

Ryan Characters generally

Sierra Six / Court Gentry

Driver

Henry Letham

Jacob Palmer

Luke Glanton

Officer K

Sebastian Wilder

[l-just-want-to-see]

no let’s talk about cScott’s strategy in the life series being the social game. Let’s talk about how he’ll just kinda play nice with everyone and get to very high placements as a result. Do you wonder if his past allies feel used by him? If they feel like they’re just part of the strategy of his own game? Did you realize how rarely Scott has recurring alliances? Do you think they wonder about if they were just someone Scott could get to a higher result to feel good about? Or someone that could get him the win? Or are you normal

all I’m saying is usually we go on lengthy talks about Scott being nice and sweet and wholesome but this guy (character) is good at the murder game! Really worryingly good! Let’s delve into that some more!

[hi-cassiel]

So glad I don’t have a therapist because having to explain to a therapist why I’m devastated that my best friend got a boyfriend would probably send me into therapy

[undercoverangell]

rough mockup of general designs and colors for the sillies

[topperscumslut]

“MY five hargreeves would NEVER” mine would hope this helps :)

[jaxonkreide]

doodles i did the other day uvu

the lavi piece is lowkey a redraw of smth I drew like 6 years ago, proud of that improvement!

my friend @starsofmirkwood is at fault for catboy tyki;; they don't know d gray man and said his eyes looked somehow non human and I went "yeah, cat."

[candy-crackpot]

One of my favourite things about how Hoshino writes Allen is the ways different characters will admit to, admire or in the Earl's case be unsettled by his strenght.

Allen doesn't have as much destructive force as Cross, Sokalo or Klaud but everyone acknoledges his crackhead determination and resolution, but the characters are so dead certain in him as if he was an unstoppable force of nature.

From the time the Earl and Allen meet on screen for the first time

How Kanda is stunned by his Anti-Akuma weapon's evolution

How Bookman trusts that Allen is still alive even as they got some very vague information on Allen's condition

Komui doesn't even try talking Allen out of boarding the Ark because of course Allen would and Komui knows there's no stopping Allen once he decided to do something

How the Earl pursued eliminating Lenalee even with Cross and Tiedoll lurking nearby, but Allen shows up and he grabs his kids in a blink of an eye and disappears as if the IRS was after him

When fighting Jasdevi Lavi turns to Allen to discuss the plan, as if he was the leader of the group

Lenalee outright calls his willpower superhuman and how Krory backhand deems him strong enough to carry while Krory back him up

How Tyki and Lenalee are shocked by him fixing his weapon on his own

Or be very unsettled when Allen surpasses the Critical Point

How both Komui and Reever almost instantly figure it out that Allen was the one who broke the Critical Point

Road guessing that she probably couldn't kill Allen with direct physical attacks

How Cross knows and trusts Allen's spirit and abilities

How Kanda likewise covertly acknowledges Allen to be strong by demanding he pays attention so together they can destroy the Level 4

Apocryphos commends his fighting spirit, that Allen could withstand what Crows and even Kanda got folded by, on three tries, AND retained his memories

Kanda once again trusts Allen to deal with the fusion Akuma going after him.

Everyone who even remotely knows Allen consider him a force to be reckoned with and I really enjoy how it's shown within the story.

[fandom-roulette-wheel]

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

I can’t get over how every single silent brother had to comfort jem about will and tessa all that time.

[tricksterlatte]

There's something absolutely ironic and even compelling to me about the domino effect regarding Akechi and Sae's interactions. Akechi had to deceive everyone, including his coworkers. Sae in particular was closely tied to the investigations of the crimes he was committing, so of course appearing as non-threatening or even annoying as possible to her was in his best interests.

However, his petty but arguably feeble masquerade is what led to his cognitive self in Sae's brain presumably being easy for the Phantom Thieves to tie up? He was too good at deception and it led to Sae's perception of him being sopping wet cat, which was easy for the Thieves to subdue, so the threatening, real Akechi wouldn't stumble upon Sae's cognition of him as he went to murder Joker.

I know people usually discuss Shido's cognitive Akechi and the implications regarding Akechi's presentation of himself and his layers of deception, but Sae's is the direct contrast to Shido's, and it's very interesting to look at how being a petty little asshole to your stressed out hot lady coworker about her skincare routine can also contribute to her thinking of you a a nuisance at best (until it was almost too late for everyone involved, but hey, it worked out for the best? I think).

I love the layers of Akechi's deception because he was cunning to a fault. Sometimes I wish we could have seen how the Thieves interacted with Sae's cognition of him, because both Sae and Shido had a very biased perception of him, and it makes me wonder who really knew Akechi at all. I'm rambling here, but it's been on my mind for ages. I would love to see if her cognitive Akechi changed after 11/20, considering he went from annoying junior detective to a dangerous murderer in just one day for her, and she doesn't remember any of third semester or even 12/24 when he was there.

[inky-toons]

The comically sappy urge to randomly reach out to him and ask to fall asleep on call again cos even tho that stuff scares me it's soothing when it's with him

Idk I used to have a very specific way of seeing things until he pranced along omfg..HE MADE ME LIKE CHRISTMAS he already knows I kinda like Christmas but I liked it even more after last Christmas. I was making a gingerbread house and he INSISTED on seeing it but I wanted it to be just right and at that time I wos with my mum and she bought SOME SHITTY BRAND AND IT ALL FELL APART SO I THREW IT OUT AND HE STILL WONT LET IT GO?? He also used to make daily hot chocolates and he'd show me like. That's now a holiday I look forward to. Wtf. It's also foreign for me to like certain things about myself but he makes me genuinely like myself and love myself onfg. I sent him a picture of the day I got my bass and I was holding it AND ACCORDING TO HIM HE FOUND IT CUTE HOW I "Stood there like I wasn't trying to look proud but I definetly was" HOW DO YOU TELL THAT FROM A PICTURE I NEED HIM DEAD. I was proud though that bass is my life

Idk we've had our ups and downs and I can tell it's all true love cos we always come back with a strong I love you.

Shakes my head..only thing is im not actually dating him, not rn anyway cos my mental health is wavered with where I'm living so now I have to wait for college and really jump in and woo him. I'm gonna adjust to college, figure out some life stuff then try and ask him out TWHEHEH 😝‼️ He'll say yes cos we're both in love so I'm just...heh...that good..

[sleepless-in-starbucks]

MODERN DAY DORIAN GRAY RETELLING WHERE DORIAN AND BASIL ARE BROTHERS???? NETFLIX WHAT THE FUCK

[allthethoughtsandstuff]

ahdbshsjjs not the music from the og trilogy playing right as lucy gray says katniss i’m screaming