#i did this instead of my homework

[milkcartondoodle]

Wip !?

There's more dialogue before this chunk that I want to add stuff to, but idk when I'll get to that

The audio is from the Bluecoats 2023 show Riffs and Revelations

Fav frames, I think I did really well on their sad sad wet cat faces

[fmluder24]

I am on my first rewatch of MASH and wanted to do a write-up about my favorite episode. I am a basic bitch, and for me, the best episode of MASH is “Dreams.” I might go so far as to say that it is the best twenty-minute episode of television that I have ever seen, and one of the best episodes of television of anything of any length or genre. It is a great character study and a beautiful look at how these characters are trying to survive their hellish circumstances. This is an analysis of each dream and what it says about the characters’ journeys. There are spoilers for the entire show ahead. And this gets long (4,398 words).

Margaret’s Dream: Performative Romantic Success as a Woman

Margaret falls asleep in her tent and wakes up in a wedding dress, leaving her tent to join a man who we have never seen before or since on a hill. It is evident from his clothing that it is their wedding day. They join each other on a bed, but to me these few moments of intimacy don’t feel sexualized or voyeuristic in a way they might have in the hands of another show. Instead, we are lost in the fantasy of Margaret having a happy, successful relationship with a man.

It is telling to me that the fantasy isn’t of some home life with a man, particularly with children. There is the common misconception that all female characters should want children or would have their arcs served by a detour into motherhood. We don’t see a desire to become a mother from Margaret. She makes the occasional comment about future children, but it is typically a matter of how she would want her future children to be viewed in terms of prestige. Really, her relationships with men are, in my opinion, a matter of craving social acceptance as a woman. That’s why I head-canon her as a closeted lesbian, or arguably a bisexual with some pretty severe compulsive heterosexuality going on, who has some off screen relationships with the other women in the camp.

But, I don’t think you need to think of Margaret as a lesbian to see how her romantic relationships with men tend to be sort of “acted out” in front of an audience in her head. With Donald, she is focused on bragging to everyone instantly of the man she has bagged, a successful one, who serves as a proxy for the professional success she learns to eventually allow herself to want. With Scully, she is initially interested in his rank as a soldier. Most of her one of relationships with men tend to revolve around what their rank in the army is, which I interpret to be her wanting to show off a man she has managed to achieve a relationship with, and a proxy for her own professional desires. Even her fling with Hawkeye quickly becomes a matter of her trying to figure out how to tell other people, and a matter of her remaking Hawkeye into her image of a more eligible, conventionally successful, man.

But what about Frank, you ask? Oh, Ferret Face. At first glance, it would seem that a secret affair she had with a colleague of the same rank would fly in the face of my read of her relationships with men as performative. I don’t think so. I think there is an element of loving the risqué side of a secret relationship going on. It’s something out of a cheap romance novel, and it is a script she is consistently trying to hammer Frank into complying with, despite the fact that he is obviously no Casanova. Furthermore, there is a reoccurring stressor in their relationship, that of Frank’s wife, who is clear evidence that Margaret and Frank’s relationship has no social validity. Margaret is constantly stressed out about being the runner-up, the other woman, the side chick, because that goes against Margaret’s desire to have these relationships and types of professional success that align with the kind of woman she is trying to tell herself she is. It is the professional success that she is trying to balance with her personal life that serves as the other reason she and Frank keep their little fling to themselves. She would not want her reputation in camp tarnished by being seen as fooling around like all the other people in the camp are doing, despite the fact that everyone sees through the pretense. The minute she finds an eligible match that she can brag about to other people in the form of Donald Penobscot, she drops Frank like he is nothing because there is little in the way of genuine affection in their relationship.

That is why Margaret’s fantasy is not of a family or even the domesticity of a marriage; it is off a wedding, of a grand ceremony where she can show off the ultimate symbol of her success. This fantasy is cut short when the nameless, generic man staring in it is pulled away into the war. She then immediately finds her marital bed full of groaning, dying, bloody men. The specter of constant suffering and death is invading even her escapist fantasy. Men, who she should at this point be pursuing as symbols of success and the ability to achieve the “right kinds” of intimacy with others, are replaced by men qua suffering victims who she is responsible for helping to care for. In the final shot of her dream, Margaret stands astonished and alone, her beautiful wedding gown stained permanently with blood. She is stripped of any relationships to other people, any fantasy of a successful romantic relationship with a man, left with the constant reminder of the violence and death that surrounds her in her real life.

B.J.’s Dream: Young Love Cut Short

B.J. is the next person we see dream, bowing out of the O.R. when his hands start to cramp, leaving Hawkeye to finish the surgery. We will come back to Hawkeye filling in for everyone later, when we get to his dream. It is now B.J.’s turn. He falls asleep on a gurney next to a wounded soldier and “wakes up” in a tuxedo, the hallway filled with dancing couples. The double doors open, and who should enter but Peg. The two dance their way into the operating room, where Potter interrupts them and summons B.J. back to his post. He reluctantly turns from Peg, takes up the scalpel, and begins to work still in his tuxedo. Peg exits.

I know a lot of fans get annoyed at the constant “family man with no family in sight” schtick that B.J. does in practically every episode. I don’t mind it. It feels real and like the real plight of the youngest of the surgeons, only 28 when he joins, a man pulled from a young family practically straight out of his medical training. He is not as young as some of the enlisted men like Radar, and is probably close in age to Klinger. He is still finding himself in a lot of ways, and is taken from a life he loves into something hellish. His obsession can feel a little “one-note” at times, but to me it is very real.

In his dream, he is taken from this rosy and romantic experience with Peg when they wander mindlessly into O.R. and Potter hands him a scalpel. Against his will, his dream life with Peg is cut short and he returns to the monotony of healing the violence that surrounds him.

Potter’s Dream: Feeling at Home in the War

Potter’s dream is the dream I have the least to say about, because it is the dream of the most well-adjusted character, and the most positive dream. Potter dreams he is riding a horse, playing polo with grenades thrown by enemy soldiers. Rather than being conventional bombs, the grenades explode into fireworks, these colorful and whimsical celebrations of military capacity. After this, he watches himself riding a horse as a boy, being called in by his mother for supper. He then is awoken by Klinger.

Potter’s dream is unique in that it is the only dream that has no component of angst or violence enter the fantasy. Even the grenades aren’t really grenades; they are easily solved with the swing of a polo mallet. His dream is whimsical and childlike throughout. This fits well with Potter’s character, as it is his third war. Whereas the other characters are frequently suffering due to their experiences in Korea, Potter is full of anecdotes that amount to him saying “this is nothing. Back in my day...” In a crowd of 20- and 30-somethings, he is the grumpy, yet sturdy, avuncular figure who they can all rely on. He is able to compartmentalize the horrors of the war, such that when he sleeps, it is only the childlike wonder of yesteryear which comes to him.

Charles’s Dream: The Impotence of Talent

The next character whose dream we see is Charles. He lies down among the wounded, just as B.J. did before him. As soon as his head hits the pillow, the walls of the swamp fall to show the O.R. and the blanket is pulled away to reveal a magician’s costume. Charles performs a variety of tricks for an adoring audience of nurses and orderlies, chief among them Mulcahy and Klinger. Klinger passes around a top hat. They oooh and aaah and clap.

We see throughout the show different motivations for the doctors. Trapper and Hunnicut read to me as characters who grew up as bright low to middle class young men who wanted a meaningful career and professional advancement. Potter was likely in a similar spot. I think that tracks with the information we have about both characters and their interactions with patients throughout the show. Frank is pretty obviously a subpar medical professional out for money. We will return to Hawkeye later.

Charles— Charles gets something out of the technical prowess he has a surgeon. I don’t think he is a cruel or a cold person, but medicine doesn’t seem to be about other people for him. It’s about doing one thing very, very well, one after the next. His dream involves him doing just that— one trick after another, done very well.

Like most of the dreams we see in the episode, the bubble is broken when the violence of the real world starts to seep in. Potter draws back a curtain and a gurney wheels itself in, bearing a young man with a belly wound. Charles makes no move to help the young man, continuing his tricks more and more urgently. At one point, he even pulls a string of flags out of his ear, flags which can do absolutely nothing for the dying man. The crowd’s faces fall as they all start clearly wondering why Charles is not doing anything to help the man. We cut to Klinger’s accusing stare multiple times. I think it is interesting that Klinger figures so largely in Charles’s dream. I know they are a popular ship. I personally do not ship them, but I do think they have an interesting relationship wherein they, despite their clear differences in background and personality, seem to want approval or camaraderie from the other. In any case, the desperation of the scene continues. The crowd goes more and more disappointed and the man gets worse and worse until he dies. Charles eventually begins a tap dance, staring dead eyed into the camera and waving sparklers around. All of his skill is doing absolutely nothing to save the man in front of him.

Charles is an excellent surgeon from everything we’ve heard. He’s lived a blessed life, full of every comfort imaginable. But in this dream he is learning the two rules of war that Henry Blake told Hawkeye way back in Season 1—

“Look, all I know is what they taught me at command school. There are certain rules about a war. And rule number one is young men die. And rule number two is, doctors can’t change rule number one.”

Charles is very talented, but in the hell he is trapped in at the MASH 4077, that talent can only get him so far. He is stuck in an impossible situation, routinely asked to do the impossible. He feels the crushing weight of his impotence in this dream.

Mulcahy’s Dream: Ambition Sidelined

Mulcahy falls asleep listening to the confession of a young man, and the way we first transition into the dream is to hear the scrambled syllables of the boy confessing. He is trying to hold on to consciousness and listen, but soon the camera pans up to the bright light coming in through the window. I love the way that the show establishes that Mulcahy is falling asleep, as such a human and universal moment of confusion we’ve certainly all experienced.

The bright light coming through the window fades until we see Mulcahy, who has become the Pope, born on a palanquin into the mess tent. He stands in front of a cross, with a table and an open Bible in front of him. We see the feet of Jesus on the cross behind his head and to the left. The mess tent is packed, full of attentive and passionate attendees.

Up to this point, we see Mulcahy’s wishes and ambitions laid bare. Ambition is the great paradox of Mulcahy. He is a priest who has taken a vow of poverty and has committed himself to a humble life of serving others. He also deeply desires a promotion to Captain and an audience for his masses. He comments from time to time that his work is not treated as being as important as the work of the doctors, and he seems to envy the prestige and attention others in the camp get. In this dream, we not only see that he finally has the adoring attention and respect from the others in the camp that he has always wanted, but he has achieved the greatest promotion a priest could hope for. He is Pope!

The bliss of ambition and accolades is short lived. Blood drips from mess tent ceiling, staining the open Bible. We cut back to see that the feet of Jesus on the cross are no longer the feet of the statue, but rather those of a wounded soldier. Blood continues to drip. In the final shot of the dream, Mulcahy looks up to see that the mess tent is now an operating room, and the surgeons are back to their work of rectifying the damage of violence. Mulcahy is relegated back to the sidelines as the chaos surrounds him. As much as he craves the spotlight despite his priesthood, he is just another cog in a much larger war machine. The metaphorical suffering of the figure of Jesus Christ is translated into the very real suffering of very real wounded men.

Klinger’s Dream: Vulnerable and Far From Home

The next dream we see is Klinger’s, which is very brief. He falls asleep in the supply room, cradling bottles of blood to warm them to body temperature for patients. It’s such a small moment, but so indicative of the way Klinger is perpetually giving of himself for other people. The supply room becomes a train car, which transports him to Toledo.

Toledo figures large in the imagination of a show that never sees it. More than just where Klinger is from, it is a symbol of middle America, of all that the characters have left behind when they are drafted to fight in Korea. And we see Klinger has finally arrived at home. The fantasy is shorter lived than most. We instantly see that something is wrong— it’s the middle of the day and the streets are completely empty, covered in litter.

He is walking through the empty streets of Toledo when he stops at the fogged up window of a shop. He wipes at the window so he can see inside, where he sees Potter. Potter beckons him. He looks downward to see himself on an operating table. He looks back at himself in fear and despair.

Klinger’s dream is unique in that it is not about caring for the wounded. It’s not about being torn away from the life you want to care for other people, and either succeeding or failing as the case may be. His nightmare is about being one of the wounded. This is because Klinger, by dint of background, sees himself much more in the other enlisted men who did not have the good luck to be stationed at a hospital. It is a very real possibility that he may become so injured as to need medical care from the surgeons he works with, as happened with Radar a few seasons prior. He is one wrong step in a minefield or one sniper’s bullet away from death. Klinger does not have the same type of responsibility to the wounded that the doctors and nurses (and even to some extent Mulcahy) have. He carries litters, runs errands, gives blood and warms it up. We see the depth of his fear and vulnerability in this dream. That he might become one of the wounded himself, and might be completely powerless to help himself.

Hawkeye’s Dream: The Horrors of War Turned Inwards

Hawkeye’s dream starts up when he lays his head down in the mess tent, in front of the rest of the main cast after 33 straight hours of surgery. Up until this point, he has been covering for every one when they go to take a nap, putting off his own rest. He sits back up to find himself sitting with just Charles and a mysterious instructor figure that we have never seen before. The instructor demands that he reattach the limb of a soldier. Hawkeye pleads with the instructor, says that he doesn’t know how and that he was sleeping. The man demands that Hawkeye twist off his own arm. When Hawkeye still cannot reattach the boy’s limb, the man demands that Hawkeye twist off his remaining arm. Hawkeye cannot do this, so Charles reaches over and, without malice, twists off Hawkeye’s other arm.

So far in the dream we are seeing a few things that break up the pattern of how the dreams are going. First of all, this is the first dream that does not start off as a happy fantasy. It is an inversion of Potter’s dream. Potter’s dream is pure fantasy; Hawkeye’s dream is just a straight-up nightmare with no moment of escapism like what the other characters get. This shows just how mentally unwell Hawkeye is. He has nothing positive to try to escape into, foreshadowing his desperation to disassociate during the events that lead up to the finale. Secondly, aside from Potter’s mother calling him in to dinner, this is the first dream with dialogue. It makes the dream feel much more grounded in reality despite the unreality of the mannequin limbs.

Hawkeye, like Charles, is grappling with the impossibility of what he is being asked to do at the 4077. He is begging to not be put on the spot like this, almost pleading when he explains that he was sleeping. Hawkeye doesn’t seem to be after money like Frank, nor does he seem to enjoy his own technical prowess for its own sake. He is a warmer person than Charles, but at least in the context of MASH, seems to be keeping himself at an arms length from his patients. What does Hawkeye get out of being a surgeon? I think he likes being a hero, and more than that likes playing God. Hence episodes like “Preventative Medicine,” where he flexes his surgical skills to try to fix the world as he would like it to be fixed. This nightmare demonstrates his limitations as a person.

Why is Charles here and not someone else? Why is Charles the one that rips off his only remaining arm? Charles is Hawkeye’s rival in terms of surgical skill. If anyone could reattach a limb, or if anyone has a leg to stand on in terms of condemning Hawkeye’s lacking skills, it’s Charles. We don’t get Hawkeye ever saying anything about Potter’s surgical skills, but he outright tells B.J. in the finale that he looks down on him professionally speaking. That is why Charles, as Hawkeye’s surgical rival, is the one complicit in the condemnation of Hawkeye. However, Charles doesn’t say anything at all in the dream. He doesn’t even seem to gloat. He just mournfully removes Hawkeye’s arm. So despite their somewhat negative relationship, Hawkeye is not imputing to Charles any maliciousness in the dream.

After both of Hawkeye’s arms have been removed, we cut to him on a small, oarless row boat, floating through a lake that is full of mannequin limbs. The boat approaches the bank, where we see a very small Korean girl clutching her bloody stomach. Hawkeye hangs his head and looks away. Then we see him walking, armless, towards the little girl who is now lying on an operating table. A nurse hands him a scalpel, which he cannot take. This is Charles’s impotence under the conditions of the 4077 on steroids. He is literally powerless to operate on this small child. The helplessness is magnified when he hears incoming choppers and screams. The choppers are all too real and wake him from his sleep.

This is the only dream where the wounded includes a Korean. Furthermore, this is an innocent bystander, a small child. All other dreams about the wounded are about American soldiers ( or potentially some of the international allies, although they all appear to be white from what we can see on screen). There is a lot of room for very, very valid criticism of this show in terms of how little they did to portray Korea in a dignified and accurate manner. I cannot reliably differentiate Asian languages on the spot, but I’ve even heard they even had scenes where the extras are speaking Japanese and other Asian languages rather than Korean. What gave MASH its staying power for American audiences is that it, at bottom, is not about Korea. What condemns MASH as a relic of its time, and draws its most well-deserved criticism, is that it’s not about Korea!

All that being said, MASH is the most consistently anti-war piece of mainstream American media that I have ever seen by far. Certainly the most anti-war mainstream creation that isn’t a SFF work. The finale is still the most watched non-Superbowl broadcast in U.S. history. For this show to be airing during a very unpopular war, and for it to take moments to note the depth of suffering of innocent bystanders, means something. American culture is based on demonizing and dehumanizing people from other parts of the world, especially people in the Global South. The precious moments in MASH where we see the suffering of non-combatants are tiny glimpses of a world where Americans are made aware of the depth of suffering the American empire has caused worldwide.

I have grown up as an American in a post-9/11 world, and I think the instinct to criticize the American empire and the constant wars that prop it up was radically damaged by 9/11 and the uncritical patriotism it reinforced in the American consciousness. To watch something so committed to a condemnation of war, where war is worse than hell because there are no innocent bystanders in hell, is like watching something out of a parallel universe. The need to dehumanize the Other, especially the Other from the Global South, has really been on full display post- October 7th. The constant dismissal of the suffering of children and innocents in Israel, the West Bank, and particularly in Gaza is very difficult to watch.

Of course, there is room for criticism even in this moment in MASH. Why not show this moment with an injured adult or even an enemy combatant? MASH is capable of showing humanity to those groups as well, but perhaps it goes down easier to show a truly innocent young child. This is a heartbreaking foreshadowing of the events of the finale, where Hawkeye is ultimately complicit in the death of a baby. The narrative there does not exonerate Hawkeye, offering him only some slight expiation when he needs to operate to save another young child. I don’t know if these moments are enough to save the show from its critics. I don’t think they are. But they are refreshing moments of empathy in an otherwise jingoistic pop cultural landscape.

Conclusion

In the final scene, the characters stand to go off to bed, but Winchester mutters to himself “to sleep... perchance to dream,” and they all reach for more coffee to drown away the drowsiness. Perhaps the pain of dreams, the teasing glimpse of their deepest wishes, is more painful than even reality. These dreams are a reminder that, as Hawkeye says at the start of the episode, “they’ve tattooed our brains with this ugliness.”

Each dream during the episode gives us a wonderfully rich character analysis. We see what each character most desires and craves, only to see those desires corrupted and polluted by the circumstances the characters are trapped in. Some characters are doing better under the stressors than others. Potter’s dream is full of whimsy, while Hawkeye’s offers him no relief from what he is going through in Korea. Some dreams are full of the anxiety induced by trying to care for other people (Charles, Hawkeye), others are full of sorrow for the life that they are being drawn away from (Margaret, B.J.), and still others reflect a fear of the senseless violence of war (Klinger). Most prioritize the suffering of American soldiers, but Hawkeye’s gives the audience a needed moment of empathy for a Korean bystander. Each vision the characters have of themselves is broken open, until the characters fall apart under the stress of what they are going through. The wonderful character study, done down to each frame, makes this an exceptional piece of television that I could come back to time and time again to find new insights.

Thank you for reading. Reply/reblog with your favorite dream. :)

[callmesel]

I literally just coloured a messy sketch and called it a day but oh well

Here is it (kind of) finished.

Still think that something is off but can’t say what exactly

I want to think that it’s when he got trapped in that pyramid when they went to Egypt but idk

Take it like whatever you like

[littlekandiclown]

My thoughts on what flowers symbolize in Nevermore

(There might be some grammar and spelling mistakes because i have dyslexia so i'm sorry in advance)

So I think that flowers represent the growth and loss of relationships as well as the hope that Lenore feels for the future within that relationship.

I’m going to start with how flowers show up in the flashbacks first, then how they show up at the academy and end with how they specifically connect to Annabel because that makes the most sense to me. I hope you enjoy this.

Flowers in the Flashbacks

When Lenore talks to her past self in the memory of Theo's funeral they are talking about a flower that fell off its stem. This flower represents Lenore losing her relationship with Theo, and the isolation that this loss will to bring into her life.

Then when Lenore takes off all of the floral wallpaper from her room in the attic this is showing Lenore at the most lonely. At this time she has basically no relships with anyone and believes that this is how her life is going to be forever. So she chooses to cut herself off more by accepting her fate in a way and has lost all of her hope.

When Annabel comes into Lenore’s life not only are there flowers in the house but she is literally wearing flowers on her hat. This is symbolizing the growth or bloom of a new relship for Lenore and the reintroduction of hope into Lenore’s life. She now sees a future where she is no longer alone.

This connection between flowers and Lenore’s relships is further seen in how she destroys the vase of flowers after Annabel levels her. I see a similarity in this action and her ripping off the wallpaper earlier because they are both showing Lenore’s complete despair and isolation.

I also think that how Lenore describes the flowers further fits into the symbolism of them and Lenore‘s relationships. All of these words you could also see in how Lenore thinks of her relationship with Annabel and as a hole at this moment.

Ok this one might be a stretch but, you can see remnants of the wallpaper Lenore took down remaining on the wall in her memory before she burns down the house. I think this is showing the small amount of hope that her plan to come back as Leo and propose to Annabel has given her. It’s only scraps of hope like the scraps of wallpaper left on the walls but that hope and that relship will grow like flowers do.

This symbol is seen again with Annabel wearing a dress full of flowers when she meets Leo (Lenore) for the first time again. The flowers still only take up a piece of the dress though because there is still uncertainty within the relationship. But there are more flowers than the scraps of them before showing Lenore’s growing hope.

I also think that the engagement ring looks like a flower showing more of this symbol coming up. A bit of theorizing here but when Annabel accepts Lenore‘s proposal this will bring even more certainty to their relationship shown by the ring just being a flower.

Flowers while they are at Nevermore

The first time flowers appear at Nevermore is when they make the promise to protect each other they are surrounded by flowers, roses specifically. This represents the new and old growth of their relationship in my opinion. These flowers are hole there are no petals on the ground or in the air showing how certain Lenore is in this relationship at the moment.

Next before the start of the entrance exam they are in this courtyard area full of roses again but this time the air is full of the petals of the flowers unlike earlier. This is impotent because flowers lose petals when they dying. In this scene Annabel tells Lenor that they aren’t actually friends and that she doesn’t care for her. Lenore’s perceived loss of this relship is shown by the roses from earlier losing their petals like her loss of hope.

flowers are seen agen with Annabel’s specter when they are planning to meet up after the exam finishes. In this sense there are both whole flowers and petals. I think this is showing the distance that is still present between them but that they have a relship which is growing.

Interestingly in the arboretum when they actually meet after the exam you can’t see any acshawal flowers or petals. I think this is because Lenor at this moment still feels unsteady in their relationship at the same level she did earlier.

When Annabel and Lenor are in the arboretum agen discussing their relship you can clearly see flowers. Especially At this moment where Lenore is reassuring Annabel you can clearly see flowers framing that moment showing the growth in their relship and the certainty that exists within it still.

Annabel Lee and Roses

So I think that flowers in general represent all of Lenore's relships but roses specifically only represent her and Annabel. In a lot of the examples I listed that involved Annabel the flowers present where roses.

Annabel’s specter design is full of flowers, I interpreted these to be roses as well. I think the petals specifically could be relating to the loneliness of her specter and how distant her and Lenore still are.

This further connection between roses and Annabel is seen in this panel, where there are roses in the background. Interestingly the thorns seem to be emphasized more than the flowers themselves, I think this is because this scene shows more of the dangerous side of Annabel instead of the beautiful one. I think the thorns are emphasized to show the dangers that Lenora is starting to realize in her relationship with, this could also be maybe a new sense of uncertainty within their relationship.

Conclusion

I think that flowers represent lenors feelings on her relships with others. I hope you enjoyed reading this. It's my first time doing anything like this outside of school so it’s probably not the best, hopefully it was understandable at least. Let me know your thoughts, or if you have a different take than me. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

[unhingedoceanenthusiast]

My contribution to the propaganda @mcytransswag

[bobateaboo]

Mermay day 8; Jellyfish

[cryokxsss]

My muse....(A fictional loser teenage girl that i have drawn seriously like twice)

[stormflyblue]

headcanon/theory that the four winds have the elements that causes the swirl reactions

hear me out. HEAR ME OUT ON THIS. (or don't, i don't really care-)

we all know that gamewise, swirl is caused by four elements. cryo, hydro, electro, and pyro, and anemo is the catalyst that causes that reaction.

what if, hear me out, the four winds of mondstat those elements? the four winds were entrusted to keep mondstat safe before baratos disappeared. we already know that andrius has cryo, what if dvalin had hydro? and the falcon of the west has pyro?

yes, dvalin only used anemo in his boss fight, but what if he had hydro before? he has command over the sky and wind, so why not minor command over weather? hydro is water after all, and rain is water that falls from the sky.

the falcon of the west is vennessa, after she assended to celestia and came back as a falcon that watches over mondstat. she was a muratan with fiery red hair. who is/was murata? the pyro archon !!! who else has flaming red hair and a pryo vision that is a mondstater? diluc.

the only odd one out is lion of the south, which is title that humans pass down through generations. acting grand master jean currently has this title, but it is more know as "dandelion knight" or "lionfang knight."

my take on this is the fact that jean is friends with lisa (electro vision holder. the lionfang knights coincidentally are either a) an electro vision holder or b) are close to an electro vision holder (think family or friends). OR it isn't a coincidence, and that it's FATE for the dandelion knights to be in close relation with an electro vision holder.

why do i think this?

well, barbatos is the anemo archon, so wouldn't it make sense for the winds under his "rule" (i don't know how to call it if he doesn't want to rule mondstat) to be the elements that make him stronger? after all, there have been many battles and events for freedom, so even if he didn't like fighting it would still be inevitable.

the three winds that we have encountered have had anemo too. (dvalin's wind orbs, andrius' second phase, jean's vision) so they would make battles "easier" with the elemental reactions!

so:

barbatos - god of mondstat: anemo

andrius - wolf of the north: cryo + anemo

dvalin - dragon of the east - hydro? + anemo

vennessa - falcon of the west - pyro? + anemo

jean - lion of the south - anemo + electro (lisa)

this was made right after i read a fanfic. please excuse the poor grammar and little evidence. i was very excited. please also don't slap me back onto the ground and say this isn't true i am very fragile (3/4's joke.) i don't know if this is a headcanon or a theory but i'm leaning more towards headcanon.

thank you for hearing me out.

[wildhorseeater]

[soupydoupy]

Made a basic character sheet of my oc but I'm scared to colour it in case it gets ruined. There's mostly basic info on it but if anyone has any questions feel free to ask!

Also the flags are pansexual and transgender!

[phoenixknight777]

The Addict

The Addict wanders fields of thought

Ever looking for a score

Always hungry, never happy.

Only the next hit matters more.

The Addict finds what it could be.

Fine and beautiful, yet a bore.

Who needs skills or fulfillment?

Only the next hit matters more.

At lost last, the Addict finds his hit.

A blob of dope, just sitting on the floor.

Finally finally at long last

Only the next hit matters more.

In seconds the Addict has consumed it all

But already another measure it cries for.

How can it be satisfied?

Only the next hit matters more.

No matter how much I feed my brain,

How I beg, plead, and implore

The Addict won’t stop

Only the next hit matters more.

[casavanse]

Guys I found the thing

(The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, chapter 17)

I just accidentally made un-tea?????

I made green tea, but I forgot there was an old bag of chai in the kettle, so I mixed chai water with decaf green tea, then I mixed in like a half table spoon or something of that honey from the dollar store that they aren't legally allowed to call honey because there's too much corn syrup in it and some almond milk and a single drop of coffee creamer because we ran out and???? It tastes like??? Nothing????

It has LESS flavor than my tap water! HOW do you EVEN-

I think I made a flavor that's only perceptible to shrimp, that's the only explanation

[risquemargay]

behold! the man

this is leonard, my roommate's cat, he really likes feet

[rainiskyz]

I made my graphing calculator gay

It was disappointing and didn't have purple in the options

[jazzically]

[1:09 AM]

Peter L.: Anyone up?

Peter L.: No?

Peter L.: Thank god

callumbrooding: i am

Peter L.: W.t.f. do you ever sleep

callumbrooding: sleep is for weak old people

Fairestofchilds: It’s easy for YOU to stay up! You’re a child

Fairestofchilds: Aren’t you nocturnal or something like that

Peter L.: Wait why are *you* up

Peter L.: Simon??

Peter L.: Jonah why is he up???

JimmyMagma: Peter, I am trying to sleep.

callumbrooding: just turn on dnd

JimmyMagma: I burned my phone years ago. The group chat resides in my goddamn brain.

JimmyMagma: Which BTW does not have a Do Not Disturb option.

callumbrooding: sounds like a you problem :/

Peter L.: What on earth are you doing though simon

Fairestofchilds: Being awesome!

JimmyMagma: He's stalking partygoers so he can kidnap them and throw them off Mt. Helen.

Hezekiah Wakely: How original.

JimmyMagma: I know.

Mikechtenberg: He stole that idea from me

Hezekiah Wakely: I was talking about the repetition. Mr Fairchild, do you never tire of pushing things off of high ledges and making them fall?

Peter L.: Of course he doesn’t he's practically a fucking cat it's so irritating

Hezekiah Wakely: All I am saying is that perhaps a little variety would widen his view a bit… How does entrapment sound?

Fairestofchilds: Not today thank you

TMA au where everything is the same except all the avatars have a whatsapp group chat where they all talk shit, constantly.

Whenever you give yourself up to a fear you get added to it automatically- if you don’t have a phone, you get a phone- it’s like a little gift baggie

Jon is the only one who’s never in the GC (or whoever the Archivist is at the current time)

Because its funnier that way.

[nonbinary-arsonists]

So. if viktor could see people's memories by touching them. and he realized he was wrong when he saw jayce's memories of the corrupted world. then...