#i'm just emo guys

[keepfight1n]

no one asked for a rant about joel but

so i'm thriving seeing other people react to joel's choice at the end of tlou... seriously, it's giving me life. the moral debates? exquisite.

i love joel. obviously. more than i should. that bitch smuggled my heart ok. and because i love him, i get to talk shit about him.

lying to ellie was not easy for him, but it takes him a long time to regret it. if anything, he regrets that his choice hurt her, but not the choice he made. even when he tells tommy, all he says is 'i saved her'. he believes that. he also knows that ellie doesn't fully buy into his lie. he knows that things aren't right. but she 'hasn't said otherwise', so he wills himself to keep it up for as long as he can.

they didn't give her a choice, and he hides behind that as if he's given that back to her. in his mind, he has. she has the choice to grow up, make friends, live a 'normal' life, be something. he praises her every chance he gets to try and convince her that nothing would be the same (or as wonderful) without her. he knows that she's hurting, but he just vows to be whatever it is she needs to realize that this life he can give her is better than whatever could have happened in that hospital.

when that stops working (as if it ever really did), the guilt sets in. he overcompensates. he meddles in her independence, he pushes himself into the things she's developed outside of him. he tries to protect her the way that he used to.

then she figures out the truth, and he's fucked. he has to fess up. but he would rather ellie hate him than not have her at all.

louder for the people in the back.... sHE IS WORTH MORE TO HIM ALIVE AND LOATHING THAN A CURE WOULD EVER BE!

i'm not a joel apologist.... except when i'm writing and joel himself is a joel apologist..... but i fuckin get it, babes. which is why the discourse around all of this is so addicting! i could talk about it all day. someone pass me a mic and give me air time on tedtalk

[skipblebee]

Bingqiu they could never ever make me hate you

[chiricat]

ryomina demons are winning

[ckneal]

I can’t stop thinking about how EmoAdrien’s efforts to befriend Nino in his world must have gone.

Because the Marinette from his world was bewildered at the thought of him recognizing her civilian identity when she detransformed in front of him, implying that they do not know each other from school in their world, and that this version of Adrien is probably still getting home schooled around his modeling career. He has probably not received the already miniscule amount of socialization that our main universe Adrien received, and while he knows who Nino is, he only knows him as his masked persona. Not as a civilian.

There are only so many options open to him! He could start showing up in places he knows Nino frequents in a similar fashion to how Chat Noir tends to just show up at Marinette’s house, hoping that whatever good word Betterfly put in for him is enough to keep Nino from running away on sight. Or, alternatively, EmoAdrien is going to have to just cruise around Paris in the backseat of his limo until he happens to spot Nino on the street somewhere. At which point, the most awkward conversation is bound to happen, because again, this Adrien has no friends! He’s just a wanna-be-edgy supermodel who only talks to people when they’re going about their paid jobs that just so happen to put them in his vicinity. His great opener to the conversation after jumping out of his limo and running up to Nino is probably going to be “HI! Uh. . .how are you?”

While Nino is just gawkily looking between Adrien and a ten foot version of Adrien’s face pictured next to a bottle of perfume on some nearby billboard.

Then, with a dozen different alarm bells in his head letting him know that he is getting more cringe by the second, this poor little guy is going to panic and say something about how they should see a movie some time, hastily looking around for a piece of paper that isn’t there, before scrawling his number on Nino’s arm and shouting “Call me!”

And as Adrien’s limo drives off, Alya, who we know is still dating Nino in this universe, is going to walk out of a nearby shop and ask Nino why he looks so startled.

And Nino’s going to say, “Babe. . .I think Adrien Agreste just asked me out.”

[what-have-i-unleashed]

murder time trio but they're the emo one, the scene one, and the goth one.

[oneluckydragon]

"What do you remember of being human, Echo?" The question is out of the blue and unexpected. But Sora offers a patient smile and tilts her head in curiosity, just enough that one of her ears flops over. It's endearing, if anything.

But Echo wishes she hadn't asked.

"Not much. Distinct memories are cloudy." A tired tone says softly, a pained recollection in her eyes and an acrid haze in her soul that endures, endures, and endures, "But I remember the discomfort more than anything. My body always did feel wrong back then. Misshapen. Condensed. Like it was too small for everything buried underneath, and that ache went so deeply some days that it would make my skin crawl. I hated that part the most."

At that, Sora's expression falls. She looks inexplicably sad, as if she'd hoped for a different response, a gentler one despite knowing the harsh truth about the dark future and the struggles Echo must have suffered. "But you had Grovyle, right? I'm sure he took care of you."

"He did, Sora, of course he did." A sigh, a flick of an ear and claws clenched tightly into the churned earth pressed under her paws. "I doubt I deserved his attention, though. I was too busy being angry at the world to give any care back."

In my lore, Echo does not look fully human during their time in the dark future. Since they were Darkrai before becoming human, and as a result of Palkia's reckless shattering of the Dimensional Portal which distorted both time and space, Echo's transformation was broken and accidental. They ended up looking pretty messed up and definitely (not) human. A lot of their characteristics as Darkrai carried over but rather morphed into something else.

And Grovyle, growing up in a world where humans have been extinct for longer than any living pokémon has been alive, has no concept of what a "true" human looks like. The only thing he knows is descriptions of humans from glyphs and texts in old ruins. Thus, he mistakes Echo for an actual human. And Echo, not knowing what a human looks like themselves due to amnesia, accepts this identification with nothing better to use.

[insomnya777]

now that we don't talk by taylor swift is so jimmy to tango during the hermitpires crossover

[papayafiles]

i'll believe in you, still your number 1 fan x

(lando norris - the last one by maisie peters)

[lemonisntreal]

I spent like 3 hours just drawing these guys and nothing else while I watched Trollhunters the other day. My computer's being stupid again so digital art's on hold but you know what I still have my fucking hands you can't stop me

And Dictatious

[dinglefu]

MORE BALD MEN ANGST!!!!!

Even though 096 has more to himself than how 106 perceives him, it's hard to actually express all of the pain and suffering he went through; he thought that he deserved to be a monster because he was killing people for practically "no reason."

However, he eventually realizes the pain he went through was but the product of his overwhelming fear: the fear that his recognition would cost him his life.

And despite desperately trying not to die, he couldn't find a way they could kill him; It became so prevailing that he couldn't shake the anger and horror of being seen.

It became his calling card against his will. It brought the threat to him. It brought his misfortune and rage on a rusted platter and force fed it to him.

Now he just wants to finally escape and find his home in the mountains where nobody would find him ever again.

It was unfair for a monster like 106 to perceive him as a monster too, as he believes he had a plausible reason and 106 didn't.

He decides to call the old man out for the bullshit, knowing that this close stranger had offered nothing but torture and pain, and never a single tear for the innocent who suffered.

That couldn't stop the attachment formed from this interaction, as not only was 096 emotionaly raw and vulnerable, seething with anger and grief of all of those who mistreated him, reaching to prove 106 wrong; but 106 learned not to bring something so burdening and claim that they both wanted to handle it.

Lessons were learned during that unfaithful breach.

(Oh and also the attachment would probably distress 096 even more because even though he doesn't have the innate murderous response to 106, he associated eye contact with something horrible happening a long time ago.)

[mewpirate]

What is one controversial opinion that will get you jumped , whether it be a certain wiki character , the wiki itself , (maybe the Heykids wiki too itself if you wanna count that in ) , or just anything about the fandom that you wish to see improvement on 🤔🧐

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

s2 episode 4 thoughts

i thought this episode sounded interesting! the plot was kinda: wasn't it fucked up when the vietnam war happened? and i was sitting here like, yeah, quite famously it was pretty fucked up. still, an interesting exploration into trauma and the american role of imperialism

the first thing i wrote was "a lot of people in this show fall asleep watching the tv but personally i have never done that". am i immune to the Curse or something?

so this guy who is a sleep doctor sees a fire and he calls the fire department right away, and everyone is evacuating, and we see a dude in the hallway with a suspicious smile and an even more suspicious scar across his neck. i am used to the episode structure by now, so i knew this was our mystery man of the week.

but the firemen get to the burning fellow's house and there is no fire! despite it looking so real to him that he actually burned to death... it's not there! well huh! must be our mystery man can psychically project fire

cutscene to mulder's place and it again looks like an entirely new set for his apartment. again, i ask, i'm not crazy, right?? can someone else confirm that this is an entirely different space than what we saw before?

(i hope we don't see scully in a new space as well- i thought her apartment was so cute in s1)

he gets a newspaper and a tape of the call dropped off at his door so he runs to skinner and begs with his big sad wet eyes to please let him take the case. and skinner is like maybe. but go transcribe a bunch of wiretaps first. so THAT is why he's always listening to weird stuff!

BUT WAIT! who enters our fair scene...? but a NEW CHARACTER? he is a guy who looks like he crawled out of a frat house where he majored in lacrosse and business... he introduces himself as alex and says that this is HIS case... mulder is PISSED he's all "i work alone >:(" but he can't shake the dude off... hmm.

(i recall seeing a post about people slash shipping mulder with a character in s2- i saw this post way before i started watching the show, so i only noted it in my passing interest of fandom history- and i'm wondering if this is the fellow they were referring to. in the same post i saw mulder in a speedo which i guess we'll get to in time)

scully's back at the academy!!! teaching another autopsy class! boy they must have a steady stream of bodies coming in for this. but an urgent call is coming from a "george hale" and she leaves class to go answer...

and it's mulder!!!!! he has a code name!!! he asks her to fly up to new york and do an autopsy and she's like "i'm in class til 4:30" and he's like "that's fine, we'll wrap it up for you and you can come up at 5!" and she sighs and. agrees.

now. again. this was shocking to me. mulder cannot have anyone else draw his blood or do an autopsy it HAS to be his friend scully. and she WILL get on a flight and do it. this is SICK and TWISTED how she will do anything for him.

mulder was being a real jerk to alex and alex said "i don't appreciate being ditched like a bad date" and to my shock and dismay i found myself agreeing with this new character... mulder WAS being unreasonable... i mean we knew he's been moody lately but this was downright hostile

(mulder walks in while scully puts an organ into a scale) "spleen or pancreas?" "stomach" <- LMAO his ass did NOT pass anatomy!

and they're all so smiley and happy to see each other when. scully sees this man behind him. and her smile fades SO fast.

(he tries to shake her hand but given that her hands are covered in stomach she wisely brushes him by. it may have seemed like a diss but i assume he doesn't want gore on his hands)

alex is GAGGING over the body (me too) so mulder gets realllllll close to scully to block out his amateur hour buffoonery...

(y'all need to not be that close and looking at each other in such a manner in front of a dead guy... or do it more for my sake)

she's whispering that it seems his body believed he burned to death despite there being no burns on him!

we see another guy with a same scar on his neck as the first!!! he knows the first guy and it seems initially that their reunion is wholesome... until preacher (scar man one) admits to killing the sleep doctor... and then things get... wild

"holy fuck", i mumbled to myself while also writing down the same phrase in my notes, as a blood soaked family appeared in the room, shooting the character we just met for his crimes. that escalated with an extreme quickness. it was clear that whatever traumas he had inflicted upon others in vietnam were being returned in equal measure via the psychic force of this preacher character

then we go back to mulder and alex, who i thought was handling mulder's hater energy quite well, all things considered. but little did i know what was to come...

so sleep doctor, the guy who just died, and preacher all knew each other... interesting... they were stationed at basic training together...

we get a visual on mulder's new source after deep throat's passing! he says he has no desire to be there, and that their mutual friend deep throat died for what he believed in, which he does not want to do. which is of course totally fair. at the end of the day the FBI is just a paycheck for some of these folks.

the sleep doctor was revealed to be doing experiments to make super advanced soldiers who don't need sleep so maybe that gives you the power to kill people magically. we can't really rule it out.

preacher then makes two cops kill EACH OTHER with his sorcery

back to scully cam <3 she's got her glasses on at the computer <3 she's got little yellow earrings in that look like flowers <3 and she thinks its so cool that they cut part of this guy's brain out and now he hasn't slept in 24 years... nerd

they're on the phone with each other and it is SO SAD because why. why can't they just be together! it's not fair. she says it sounds like his new partner is working out and he's like yeah he's okay...

"must be nice to not have someone poking holes in all your theories" "yeah, no idea how i put up with you for so long" and they're smiling into the phone while saying this

now, i won't lie. this scene, of all the scenes, was the first to bring tears to my eyes in the course of my streaming this show. because now we have seen what they'll do for each other and they're TAUNTING me by dangling it in front of my face. and i cannot stand it. i feel sick at the thought.

anyway back to mulder and his new partner. who i feel is too good to be true because he's willing to believe spooky mulder's theories. but they found another guy who also had the sleep surgery and he tells them that they went on a rampage committing atrocities in vietnam which was. very heavy for the alien show. but it is something that americans often pretend just didn't happen so i thought it was interesting that the idea of accountability was being explored in fiction.

so there's one more guy involved with the sleep surgery, and he's coming into town, so alex and mulder have to sprint down to the station and try and find him. they're really giving it a sprint, too. mulder is a track star. don't think i've forgotten

and mulder does see the guy they're looking for but preacher is behind him and shoots mulder! he falls to the ground! no, i yelled to my screen! not another bullet in mulder!

... but he gets up. the whole thing was a trick of preacher! it never actually happened!

alex is like dude wtf. and this is where he says "i want to believe" and this where i made the very astute note "i don't trust this guy, sorry"

so finally they find preacher still alive, and mulder tells alex to help out his victim, while mulder runs off to find him. mulder sees how much pain he is in, and tells him that maybe his pain can lessen if he testifies about what was done to him, and it seems they've come to an understanding...

until alex enters, pulls his gun up, so preacher also pulls his gun up, and alex and shoots him! preacher is dead

mulder looks deeply upset by this. he tells alex that he did the right thing, but you can tell he doesn't believe it in the slightest. i would venture to guess that this is when all the trust he had begun to place in alex vanishes. he seems entirely deflated at the unnecessary loss of life.

he goes back to the car and notices someone stole the secret files that his informant gave him, and he punches the car. this is simply too many L's for one day, and i sympathize.

but scully's freaking out too, because her office was broken into and all her stuff looked through! so what in the name of hell is going on here?!?!? ah, i realize, it is this alex fool... "i know ur related somehow" i wrote ominously in my quotes

and boy, i was right! the narrative the writers were going for was not lost on me! because remember skinner's old sidekick the cigarette guy? and how they had a sort of breakup moment? well, alex is reporting to him, and they have the file he stole from mulder!!!!!

alex says that scully is a "big problem" to which i say: keep talking like that, you overgrown varsity jock, and you're gonna have a big problem with my fucking hands catching your throat

anyway, interesting episode. i didn't want to like alex and then i did because i felt bad for him for being subjected to mulder's attitude and then i hated his guts by the end and reluctantly admitted to myself that mulder's crankiness was justified. i hope he won't stick around for long but i have a feeling he will.

also, they need to stop taunting me by dangling a real mulder and scully reunion in front of my head and then ripping it away. i had TEARS! in my eyeballs! i was sighing wistfully! it was sick!!!!!! this is my free time i'm spending here pining after these fools! it's me, the fan, asking for fan service!!!

[chains4w-gutzfuckk]

sculpting bc I cant be railed out of my mind

[reggies-eyeliner]

hihi this is so super random but in case someone needs to hear it today: you are NOT INCAPABLE of being loved. you are not an exception to the rule that everyone is deserving of love. you are not a monster. you are not a bad person, and no, you are also not an exception to the idea that "bad people don't worry if they're bad people." you are not 4D level evil bad. as long as you're trying, that is so so much more than enough. you are not wretched or in need of fixing or in need of going-back-in-time-ing to undo that Thing that happened to you that's made you believe that you aren't capable of being loved because you need to accept that Now is all that we get and you are already loved now RAHHHH anyways y'all clean ur rooms shower do something nice with your hair give yourself a hug take a walk look at the clouds have some garlic bread have a blueberry latte tell yourself that you're enough bc you're loved you're loved you're loved

[palettehao]

Mike wearing fishnets

Mike wearing fishnets under ripped jeans

Mike wearing fishnets and a skirt

[graveyarrdshift]

Wow, I think I just had a revelation..

I've always been very skeptical about my life, my future and everything else, but I wasn't sure why until now. Apparently, because both of my parents neglected me since I can remember, I had no one who believed in me and my abilities, which has made my adulthood to be full of doubts and uncertainty. I tried to dispel this fact by telling myself that maybe they weren't so bad and no family is ever perfect, right? I tried to live a lie and reject the truth for too long. But I'm perfectly sure of one thing: I refuse to give up and turn into a person I am not and will never become.