#i pine for it daily

[traxus-iv]

[starcurtain]

Teyvat's "Most Down Bad" Award Goes to Alhaitham for a Second Year Running

Seeing everyone making fun of Alhaitham for his "stalkerish" tendencies in this event is funny, because I feel like a lot of people missed that "Be literally everywhere Kaveh is" has been Alhaitham's MO from the day Kaveh appeared in the game.

From only grabbing his house keys after Kaveh returned from the desert (he couldn't have had both sets of keys at the end of the Archon Quest unless he went home and got Kaveh's copy) to ditching conversations to get back to his house only after Kaveh came home, to showing up without any warning or explanation in Kaveh's hangout with some ridiculous excuse about hearing his voice through noise-cancelling headphones... Refusing to offer any help in the Temple of Silence story quest other than staying in the library with Kaveh...

Since when does Alhaitham willingly cover anyone else's duties?

But this trend of "Be everywhere Kaveh is" didn't start when they were adults. It was already in place when they were still Akademiya students--and it's a trend that didn't end even when they had their fight.

Even when they weren't speaking, Alhaitham dogged Kaveh's every step through published responses to Kaveh's research articles in academic journals. He insisted on keeping a line of communication between himself and Kaveh open, even if the only way to do that was through very public ideological clashes. Pulling Kaveh's pigtails to get his attention lolol. It's implied that, for at least the few years between their fight and Kaveh moving in, this was the only communication between them--Alhaitham's refusal to allow their connection to entirely fade away. (And the fact that this is revealed in Kaveh's character stories--through his precious journal that records the moments of his life that had the most impact on him--shows just how deeply he values the fact that Alhaitham didn't give up.)

Another relevant side note: Alhaitham never asked Kaveh to give up his half of their house. Knowing half of it belonged to Kaveh, knowing that Kaveh may one day want to reclaim his part of it, knowing that it was listed as theirs, Alhaitham moved into the house and made zero effort to change its ownership. He was completely fine with living in "his and Kaveh's house." The stories suggest it was only months later (or even longer) that Kaveh even noticed he had the house, and he transferred away ownership of his portion without Alhaitham ever asking him (or even seemingly wanting him) to do so.

Please, let that sink in. Alhaitham actively left his grandmother's (presumably comfortable) house to move into "his and Kaveh's house," with no apparent explanation for why, and after doing so, he made no attempt to change that "his and Kaveh's" label. He moved into the house with no promise that Kaveh wouldn't show up on the doorstep the very next day and move in too. It almost feels like another deliberate provocation--I've moved into our house, are you going to come stop me? LBR, if Alhaitham had had his way, Kaveh would have been living there with him from Day 1...

There's also the fact that Kaveh literally can't write on a single message board anywhere in the entire nation of Sumeru without Alhaitham hunting his messages down and responding to them (which absolutely no one else does, by the way).

"NUH-UH!" "UH-HUH." "NUH-UH!"

Alhaitham's own character stories tell us explicitly that one of Alhaitham's defining character traits is "He is never where you need him to be," yet somehow...

Shot, and chaser:

Any time Kaveh is in the slightest bit of need or danger or just wants Alhaitham near, Alhaitham is "coincidentally" exactly where Kaveh needs him to be, whenever Kaveh needs him to be there.

Alhaitham didn't just "happen" to run into Kaveh in Port Ormos, an entirely different city from where he was supposed to be working. He didn't just "happen" to read the same terrible book as Kaveh when we know he otherwise would not waste a moment of his time on poorly-written literature...

He didn't just "happen" to appear when Kaveh was upset and needed a distraction in the House of Daena during Kaveh's hangout. He didn't just "happen" to be sitting around waiting when Kaveh needed answers after the Archon Quest. He didn't just "happen" to find Kaveh's academic publications and every single message board posting and respond to them at length and in public.

The only person for whom Alhaitham just "happens" to be available is Kaveh, over and over and over again--because he is very deliberately making himself a constant presence in Kaveh's life.

Which is exactly what Kaveh's mother told Kaveh he needed.

(Like, out of all things, I think people really underestimate the devs deliberately paralleling the romantic relationship between Kaveh's mother and father with Kaveh and Alhaitham's relationship. If you want to point to one thing that says "These two characters are intentionally queer-coded," it doesn't get any more obvious than this.)

Alhaitham, are you not embarrassed to be this transparent??? 🫣

[graceoartyo]

S1E3: Headhunters!!

Trying to catch up with @gravity-falls-daily

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

LUO BINGHE CASUAL SENSHI COSPLAYER

OH, ABSOLUTELY.

(context)

[knockknockwhosthereartistism]

This thing but it’s a Billford child

[my-precious-little-worm]

I WAS GONNA WAIT TO POST THIS ON MY DAILY KIM PAGE WHEN I MAKE IT BUT IT WAS TOO SILLY FOR ME TO NOT POST AHDKDHSKDHDKDJ

[see-arcane]

@re-dracula immense shout out to the sound design here because, per usual, you guys know how to steer a soundscape so that it feels like the capping of one arc and the descent into another

The closing music has the tone of 'Wow, that stuff with Lucy was pretty harrowing, huh? What comes next is worse.' In my mind I could picture the camera pulling out of the asylum and over a night sky-view of Carfax Abbey, the moon looking abruptly like an undead eye peering through the clouds... Excellent stuff

Petition to have the Re: Dracula cast and crew be behind an Actually Good Dracula animated series someday, please please please

[astralphobia]

hey do you ever think about the fact that before weirdmageddon started, dipper and Mabel’s last conversation was an argument, and despite that, dipper still looked for her.

Do you ever think he might have still been hurt from that conversation, yet he kept going because he felt like he did something wrong by her and wanted to fix things

do you ever consider that he could have been angry too, but pushed it down because she was missing and he was her brother so he was obligated to find her because he loved her and they’re siblings and they’d do anything for each other

Just

just saying

Edit: @gravity-falls-daily this one!!

[tazmiilly]

yeah okay whatever

[scott-pilgrim-daily]

don't forget your daily clicks

day 69

[tekitothemagpie]

Gyatt....

Inspired by this post of @vivamight ! It was absolutely hilarious, I had to draw it :>

And an additional scene from the comments! (thanks to @bread-is-my-life for reminding me about this post, I had fun drawing this)

[pinespining]

Oh, Stan.

[lady-dulcinea]

Jessica De Gouw as Mina Murray from the 2013 NBC series Dracula

[90s-twink]

may 16 should be an international holiday given that its the most important day of the year for jonathan/dracula shippers. up until today the signs have been subtle but may 16 is just hit after hit

first we have the evil women suggesting count dracula doesnt know what love is, and dracula looking "attentively" at jonathan as while insisting that he does

then we have the whole rescue from the ladies, dracula CARRYING jonathan back to his room, and even dressing him in his pajamas all while jonathan has swooned into unconsciousness?

jonathan may not have been awake for it but we all know dracula is a tenders and thoughtful lover and on this day of all days you can't possibly expect someone to work with this on the mind

[midzilla]

its Mabel!

[daily-nordegrim]

Daily Nordegrim Day 9

Oh look it’s my favourite Bowie album! The Rise and Fall of Cheater Vegan Man and The Two Very Large Holes on the Moon

Off topic but: Nooooo they’re far away from each other!!!!

Tiny Status Check: very tiny and tiny respectively