#i’m so scared to post this LMAO

[reliquiaria]

𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇, 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐃:

darkness falls on the scene as the curtain closes. don’t worry, we’ll be back for the next act!

[manonsghosts]

Arcane theory

(potential spoilers if not caught up)

I might be reading way too much into it but here is why i think Caitlyn will lose an eye

ever since i noticed the shot below i haven’t been able to stop thinking about it

i thought at first that it was her shooting with her left eye - which would be odd considering that she’s always been aiming with her right one

until @flyingfanatic pointed out to me that, as a sharpshooter caitlyn could not be shooting from the shoulder on the different side than her dominant eye - they both need to be aligned

but then, choosing to frame the above scene from that angle is odd, considering it can be misleading - something i find hard to believe from a team that spends a week working on just a few seconds.

and then i realized: what if that shot isn’t meant to emphasize the eye she’s aiming with? what if it’s just meant to draw our attention to it?

the scope of a gun is, quite literally, a magnifying glass - we as viewers will naturally focus on what’s pictured inside as it’ll be represented bigger than the rest

so i went back and realized it’s not the first time there’s been emphasis on her left eye

indeed they did the same thing earlier in episode 4 of season 2 with the above shot - her left eye (mirrored by the glass) is represented all wrong, as if something had happened to it. while we can rightfully interpret it as a way to show her corruption (like silco and his scar, jinx and the broken mirror in season 1), it can also be done as foreshadowing: something will happen to that eye

once again in the trailer for act 3, her left eye is put in the foreground, with ambessa having her blade just inches away from it, and Caitlyn is clearly being overpowered at this specific moment

all in all, i think it wouldn’t be too bold to assume that Caitlyn will end the war alive, but having lost an eye - especially when you keep in mind that one of her early designs for the warriors animatic featured her wearing an eyepatch (despite it being on her right eye)

[kg-clark-inthedark]

Another short fan comic I made for @uncontrol-freak’s dh fic, Abyssal. This one’s for chapter 16! I was given a few chapters to choose from when I said I wanted to draw more for the fic, and I couldn’t pass up a dramatic Void scene :)

If you like corvosider, dark themes, and fics with regular updates that keep you on your toes, then I highly recommend checking this story out (and leaving nice comments while you’re at it)

[harryzroze]

i think he gets it, wade

[twoa-plus]

this is not a polished essay it is a giant yap session u have been warned

gotta be at least in the top 3 posts most likely to get me blown up by a missile but why is every depiction of bill & ford’s relationship either “hehe cute/sexy romance >:3c” or platonic psychological horror. why can’t we have both (not the cute/sexy thing, just the romance) like. u guys are aware that Really Really Horrible non-platonic relationships are a thing right. like u guys do know that right

idk i don’t really have words to express this eloquently but this fandom’s fixation on the idea of Romance = Good feels really weird to me. i really really love exploring complicated fucked up characters & their dynamics with each other and it’s just exhausting to not be able to do that without 14 pages of clarification. i know every fandom is like this to some extent i wasn’t born yesterday but it seems ESPECIALLY bad here. and yes imo it IS important to differentiate between a platonic & romantic relationship in this context bc that DOES make the way it reads a little different and that can be an interesting thing to discuss

also while i’m yapping abt things that would get me beat over the head with a shovel, y’all gotta learn that different interpretations doesn’t mean bad interpretations. like using bill & ford as an example:

“this is a good healthy relationship” bad interpretation. do you know how to read

“this is a really fucked up abusive platonic relationship” valid interpretation

“this is a really fucked up abusive romantic relationship” also a valid interpretation

(^does not apply to aus just the Actual Canon Written Text, aus are obv a case-by-case thing)

someone having the second interpretation does not make them homophobic i cannot believe i have to say this. someone having the third interpretation does not mean they support abuse (i actually can believe that i have to say that one at this point)

personally i actually don’t really care either way between the second and third i just wish we as a collective could have one (1) interesting and nuanced conversation about their dynamic & what led to it & all that stuff without spending 75% of the time just clarifying the opinion of “abuse is bad” it is so fucking tiring

anyways. fiddauthor truthers rise let’s all beat bill cipher to death with hammers

[anthemsofsuccess]

had an idea for a jfk fic where wife! reader is fed up with him being distant from her constantly so she surprises him by singing ‘happy birthday mr president’ for his bday instead of marilyn… i’m giggling like a maniac at the mere thought

[aemondsbabe]

new aegond smut for sure for sure FOR SURE coming by this friday!!!!

THIS IS NOT A DRILL PEOPLE!!!

update: it’s up! click to read :)

[joshuaalbert]

kai winn’s relationship to religion really is just so interesting to me in a way I come back to sometimes like. she’s the leader of a faith and her gods will not speak to her. they will speak to other people in front of her and they will make a human from a society that did not interfere with her planet’s suffering their emissary but they will not speak to her. and I’m sure she can do a lot to justify it in her mind because she would have to be able to in order to keep any faith, and she has to keep her faith because she says herself that’s all she had in the camps, but that’s still a terrible thing to experience. and I’m sure a lot of people would argue that it’s not real faith, it’s ambition, but I think it’s some of both, and most importantly I think on the most immediate levels she believes it’s faith.

and like I think she and a lot of other bajorans have a reason to have a really complicated relationship with the prophets because the more demonstrably real and powerful they are, the more they’re willing to interfere in things like the dominion war, the harder it would be for a lot of people to justify to themselves why the prophets didn’t do anything to stop the genocide of their chosen people. I think the pah wraiths plotline ultimately fell kind of flat when it kind of boiled down to “dukat’s weird cult” and it was also a victim of the season’s pacing issues, but it has some interesting implications regarding this divide in the bajoran people, particularly when their religious leader’s faith is being so seriously called into question.

[tetzoro]

good morning friendz + happy friday from me and the kitties ! they wanted me to tell you they’re very proud of you for making it through another week! i hope that today treats you kindly, remember to stay hydrated + unclench your jaws ! (๑´>᎑<)~* ෆ

[blossoms-phan]

guys can someone reassure me that you want to read phan smut

[sunnibits]

“izzy is the abuser in edizzy” “no ed is the abuser” SHUT UP!!!!! each morning they spin a wheel and throw a dart at a board to decide who’s gonna be the abuser for the day. and this is also the same method they use to decide who’s gonna top because they’re both pillow princesses. and then they make out with tongue. you don’t get it.

[merlucide]

diary!

a few years ago at school we had spirit week and one of the days was pink day, which was for breast cancer awareness day

anywho I dressed head to toe in all shades of pink + hot pink eyelids, I looked real cute and felt excited!!

though that was short lived when I got to school and saw nobody else was wearing pink. Everyone stared at me and some kids laughed behind my back.

I felt so embarrassed, so hot and sweaty, I felt like a freak show. Nobody wore pink, expect pink painted dots on their faces, like cheerleader makeup.

I already felt insecure about not looking my age, I felt like all the girls in my classes were so mature looking and judged me. They knew how to do makeup and did full face with those big lashes. To me they were already women

Classes ended and I went to lunch, which the table I sat at was full of girls who I had nothing in common with. I only sat there because my best friend did, and I had do where else to go.

They were mean, rude and judgmental. I felt like an odd one out at that table, those girls always had their nails done and bedazzled Jean jackets. I also felt awkward because I was the only white girl at the table, and some of those girls made a rumor that I called one of my black friends the N-word (which I didn’t)

I sat down at the table and they all just stopped and looked at me, then like awkwardly continued their conversation. I texted my mom asking her to come pick me up. She said she’d be there in ten, which I just had to wait till this end of lunch then she would be here.

I got up and walked over to the trash and made eye contact with my crush. That was what killed me. I felt so so dumb after that, thinking all kinds of things.

My mom came and I don’t really rember the car ride home, but I think I cried. It was only about 12pm or so when I got picked up.

That day sucked, it it has haunted me for like forever. The only good thing about that day was that I was late to class since I arrived late, and the hallways where all empty so I was like speeding through lol. I walk past this teacher, who is decked out in pink, pink tutu, pink head accessories, pink shirt etc. She walks past me and then turns back and is all excited at my outfit. She loved it so much she gave me a sheet of our schools ‘currency’ (like tickets that you can buy stuff with). I was proud and happy, then I went to class and that’s when I hated my outfit.

Anywho, this year I decided it’s time to redeem that day. I put so much pink on, just like I did last time. On pink day the think I was embarrassed the most about was my eyeshadow, I felt over the top and dumb. So I wore it this year.

This year pink day didn’t suck :)

[violentdelightshavevioletends]

Welp… I’m bawling like a baby… just read Chapter 36 of Fourth Wing… and I am not okay.

[this-user-is-always-bored]

how do you guys think jade and june would change classpect-wise in kidswap. considering that this adds another 3 years to their non-SBURB life, i got to consider how the different circumstances and extra time would come to change their personalities (and along with that, their classes).

not to go into detail with the strilondes here because this is a harleybert-focused post, but to sum it up i made rose a rogue of light to reflect how she tried to imitate roxy in mom lalonde’s absence, while also displaying her own feelings of inadequacy when it comes to what she’s naturally proficient at, knowledge (light), due to err, apocalyptic circumstances. dave would be a page of time, to demonstrate how without bro, he wouldn’t have absorbed the kind of self sacrificial ruthlessness that a prince of heart would have, instead gaining more self loathing from the fact that dirk is a knight, and try as he might, dave feels as if he could never live up to what he thinks he should want to be. okay recap done with back to the prospits

i think another 3 years of isolation would have legitimately driven jade fucking crazy. we can see from the epilogues and hsbc how being essentially quarantined from the rest of humanity pregame, and then losing the first source of consistent social interaction she has for another 3 years during the retcon ship trip has made her incredibly desperate for any scrap of affection and/or human interaction that she thinks she can’t ever lose. even pregame we see that jade’s only been comforting herself to avoid her loneliness through the skaian prophecies of being able to meet her friends. that’s all she has. adding the fact that bec now can’t really stay with her 24/7 and another 3 years on to that pile and you can see how quickly it fucks over her mental health to the point where i’m pretty sure my kidswap jade is more close to hsbc jade than she is to og jade. funnily enough though i don’t think i’d change her from witch of space to anything. jade’s class being the witch is tied to her complete lack of autonomy in regards to something ruled over by her aspect (which is something she shares with her fellow witches, feferi and damara!), while also referring to how in a trade off for immense power (with witches being consistently in positions of power, either in class or raw potency of ability) she loses any agency she may have gained previously, and is pulled along by the strings of the narrative until it’s done with. (again, another thing she shares with feferi and damara). this isn’t to say the robbing of jade’s autonomy and agency in the narrative in exchange for power and/or the ability to create life is solely from the narrative implications of her classpect alone, but it does play a big part.

with june it’s quite similar, since even at the very first section of act 1 we see how hollow her ‘normal suburban life’ is, despite its normalcy. i think something to note is june’s melancholy about how empty everything seems to be despite things being like they should be is something that remains (despite being repressed and then touched upon and then repressed even harder this time) through hs, culminating in her depressive spiral in the epilogues— these seeds of dissatisfaction and restlessness appear in her since the very beginning, and i feel like they would eventually result in her being depressed nonetheless, with the game or not. another 3 years of mundane, supposedly acceptable suburban life would probably drive her to the same brink as original jade, just maybe the brink could be less tall. like, 50% less. or 30%, depends on how you interpret her depressive spirals in the epilogues. again, the thing is, i can’t really find it in myself to change her class either. this seems very fitting for an heir of breath, and i don’t think the extra years would cause anything to change for her class-wise; she’d probably hold on to that sense of detachment and apathy to not lose her mind at how hollow everything around her is.

and isn’t that harrowing? three whole years of extra time, a whole different set of circumstances and yet neither of them change very much fundamentally. sure, they may be a hell of a lot more desperate and introspective (questionable. is facing the endless hole of loneliness/emptiness within the world around you and yourself introspection?) now, but as who they truly are deep inside, nothing has truly shifted. the world changed, the people around them changed, and yet they still stay the same.

[ilikethe-internet]

@911actionforgaza prompt !! Buck and Tommy’s first time together nsfw for darling thatsaplottwist on twitter

Nsfw post below ;D

[milimeters-morales]

beginning of my spider-man horde :] this is all still so unreal to me