#i'm not satisfied but. would i ever be

[journey-to-the-attic]

for the anon and @aomiaocao who requested it, and anyone else who might want them - transparent gifs of the gang rolling!

procreate's done something weird with some of the dust clouds but idk how to fix it so... hopefully it's not too much of an issue ^^;

original animation here

[itsmeimcathy]

I FINISHED THE LEGEND OF SHEN LI 😭😭😭😭 Petition to make every cdrama from now on have an extra episode after all the Angst™ where our leads just enjoy Full Marital Bliss because ep39 HEALED MY SOUL godbless

[beastsovrevelation]

Lady Crowley, inspired by Aphrodite of Knidos.

She might as well have been the one who posed for Praxiteles.

[agirlinthegalaxy]

It's been rolling around in my brain the last few days for some reason, but I still hate the family backstory reveals for Sophie and Eliot. I've seen some of the meta for it, but quite frankly, it still makes no sense. If it had been something actually thought of and intentional in the original, I think it could have been so fascinating. I mean, Sophie's willing abandonment of Astrid to contrast with Nate's loss of Sam or Eliot's adoption in contrast with Hardison's and Parker's? Could have been excellent! But they came out of nowhere in Redemption and don't work with these characters.

Sophie was still actively using the fucking alias that she met Astrid under! She met with someone from her past on the show! Like. Quite frankly, that one is unequivocally bullshit that they made up and threw in and pretended could fit with the established canon. (And I'm sorry, but the idea of Sophie abandoning Astrid and never telling Nate about her just... So much of Nate's trauma was rooted in the loss of Sam, and I think that introducing this element after he's gone and unable to respond to it taints Sophie and Nate's relationship in a way bc I'm not exactly sure how Nate would've responded to learning about this but I think that it's something he'd have needed to know. I don't know how to fully express my thoughts on that but yeah.)

As for Eliot, I don't like the adoption aspect literally at all. The way that he would interact with his family and the memory of his family would be different, and I think that it's flat out ridiculous to think that he'd have never mentioned it to the team in the original show, especially when dealing with the kid cases. (I also dislike the biracial adoption as its own element because if Eliot was actually raised by Black parents in the... idk what 80s/90s? That just. doesn't feel congruent with how they write Eliot interacting with PoC, not necessarily in a bad way, but babe, he's written like a white southern man raised in a specific kind of culture that does not jell with that. It also makes Eliot look... really bad that he was apparently raised with the knowledge of how fucked up the military was and his parents' history and made the choices that he did.) Like the show may not have explicitly stated it but the implication of that relationship was vastly fucking different throughout the original show.

Just. These were not backstories that were congruent with their depiction and characters in the original show, and they're also just moves that I don't particularly like or find interesting directions for those characters. There's also something to be said about how it was apparently unacceptable for a woman to not have kids or someone not reconciling with their biological family when that was something that the original show handled a lot better. Out of all the directions to take Sophie and Eliot's stories, that's just not really one that I think was a good idea.

[cerise-on-top]

Sorry if anything sounds weird, English isn't my first language. But could you write a Farah x reader that gets flustered quickly?

Also, mentioned that you had a moth demon OC in the tags of one of your posts, she sounds cool! Could you show her? If you can't no worries ����

Hey! Don't worry about your English, it's fine ^^ And yeah, I do have a moth demon OC! Her name is Arya and I love her dearly! The one above is a picture of her in her human form drawn by Castawolf on Etsy and the picture below is one I drew when I was 17 or so! I never said I was an artist, I can't draw at all, so that was the best I could do back then! She'd be beige and a lot more fluffy, though :3 She was kind of inspired the the Radiant from Hollow Knight! Useless trivia, I know, but I just get so excited whenever I get to talk about her!!

Farah with a Reader who gets Flustered Easily

Farah would have a field day with you from time to time. While she won’t go out of her way to fluster you each time, she sometimes will do so. It’s just too cute, the way you go quiet, stumble over your words or fumble around a bit. Yes, she knows that she has to maintain the trust between the two of you, and thus she shouldn’t be playing around with you too much, but come on! It’s so much fun! Sometimes she just has to tease you about it as well and watch you get defensive over your behaviors. It’s all just too endearing to her. Sometimes Farah will stand closer to you than necessary, touch you a bit more than needed, like holding your face in her hands when you won’t stop looking away from her, or just straight up compliments whatever it is you’re doing. If you’re especially close, then she might just give you a kiss to your cheek to watch you hide behind your burger, for example. While she may not be the most cuddle-seeking person out there, she’ll offer you more hugs than usual, if just to watch you freeze up and go speechless. However, only she is allowed to fluster you like that, anyone else needs to grow up and leave you alone. Anyone else could be malevolent and tease you the wrong way. No, she can’t have that. If you’re flustered because of someone else, then Farah won’t take too kindly to it. You’re hers to fluster and no one else. This may or may not be because of the crush she has on you, but she would never admit to such a thing. As far as you’re both concerned she just likes to tease you. But never too harshly, she doesn’t want to see you cry either. Will tone it down a bit if it’s obvious you’ve become uncomfortable and apologize, but it will happen again, I can assure you of that.

[phierie]

only ghosts left

[tigergendermoved2tigergender]

Remembering the toxic hellscape that was 2015-2019ish SU fandom and just how much hate the show got is really insane when you rewatch the show after it's been a while. Like the show is good what the hell were any of these people talking about

[talkorsomething]

I have Got to get more transgender

[h0estar]

finished the new archon quest

[sisterdivinium]

Sometimes I wonder whether the cancellation wasn't positive in its own way.

We went out on a high, so there were chances that whatever came next might not match those expectations; we were left with quite a few unanswered questions, which can be inspiring both for those of us who write fic as well as those who try to read more deeply into the show; there are blanks that facilitate a fic writer's making use of them which might have been filled in less satisfying ways should canon have failed to live up to what we each wanted of it...

But I suppose it's easier to look at it like this from the point of view of someone who is invested in creating her own little versions and what-ifs concerning her favourite characters in the show. For someone who is just a reader or who just appreciates all the ways in which fan creativity manifests itself without much taking part in it, I guess there's a bit more dependence on canon.

[hailsatanacab]

new chap new chap new chap 👻🎉

[nichiperi]

Ya know, I've been seeing a lot of stuff for the hc of Zim and Dib as found family lately, and something about it was actually bugging me a bit. Like, I really like zade, zadf, and zadr, and I just couldn't understand why I couldn't really get behind zads.

And then I realized it's ENTIRELY because of Professor Membrane.

I do not like the idea of Zim being absorbed into the Membrane family dynamic, because in the show (the IZ source I'm most familiar with) Professor Membrane is a really shitty parent, and there is nothing satisfying to me about Zim just hanging out at that house with Dib and Gaz, adding another sibling to an already fairly miserable household situation. Sure, they can support each other. But what is the point of keeping them stifled in that environment if Membrane is not present and being a parent?

BUT, consider the alternative: Dib and Gaz saying 'fuck this shit I'm out', and spending more time with Zim at his base. Eventually they just go off on space adventures or something because why not? Found family in space! No shitty dad! Maybe if you reeeeally want a parental figure, you could throw in a dash of the dad-nar hc in there for some extra spice. And THEN you could have Zim deal with his feelings about HIS 'parental' figures. If Lard Nar starts being a real dad to this group of ragamuffins, how does that reframe the way Zim feels about the Tallest? How does Dib feel about the fact that an alien could (most likely) be a better dad than his own father? How do the two of them react to getting positive attention they've never received from a parental figure before?

And when I started thinking of it that way, I saw the potential. I still don't think it's my favorite. I think I definitely enjoy more room for flexibility and ambiguity with Zim and Dib, and making them view each other as siblings almost boxes them into that role a bit. But I can see the potential for a really interesting story there!

Provided Membrane is out of the picture.

[sysig]

Beautiful gilded cage for a beautiful gilded bird (Patreon)

[ex0rin]

Hi, hello, small dick negan is canon to the comics? Just for strictly scientific purposes, where—uh where could someone find this information?

Hello! For strictly scientific purposes: The Walking Dead Issue #140

+bonus:

[levitanias]

thinking about frankenstein's monster again, not anything in particular just kinda brain rotating him like he's the well liked side character of a bad shonen anime

[nanpierce]

Okay SO Logan’s comment about not being able to take his shirt off in front of his “wife, ex wife, whatever the fuck she is” says a lot about his intimacy issues, regardless of which wife he’s talking about, and I also think it’s a reference to his relationship with his body in reference to his scars. He doesn’t want to show anyone the physical remnants of his abuse, because to do so means to recognize that piece of the past as real and go against one of the tenets upon which he bases his worldview. Logan doesn’t have the emotional wherewithal nor vocabulary to speak about, or perhaps even process, his abuse. To be intimate enough with another person that he shows them is him asking them to recognize this part of him - the part that never moved past being a child who lost his mother, who killed (as far as he’s concerned) his sister, and who was a victim of his uncle.

The fact that he says this in Nobody is Ever Missing recontextualizes Return in an interesting way. Previously, as far as we could extrapolate, the main factors in him propositioning Rhea were likely a.) him being a horndog and b.) testing her to see if she would sleep with him for the job, or if she would prize CEO over their personal relationship. However, revisiting this scene after his conversation with Kendall on the yacht invites us to see a secret third way as well: as an offer of legitimate intimacy, in the way and to the degree that he is able to engage in it. No matter how many evenings they spent together, or how much he wanted to woo her, he wouldn’t likely have an another way to convey that to her when considering the lengths he goes to in order to avoid addressing the realities of his past.

I think this (in addition to the other elements of that conversation; nothing in this show is ever just one thing) makes sense, given the trepidatious way he looks at her before asking her to stay over, and in that one of the through lines of their relationship is that they failed to see one another for what they really were, both due to their respective manic pixie dream partner delusions, and the way they present themselves to fit that image the other has. Additionally, Marcia had been growing increasingly disappointed in him even before Rhea entered their lives - while he may not have been deliberately compensating for that, a part of him recognized that he was losing one of the very few people who knew and accepted him on that level.

That brings us to revisiting the aftermath of his proposition. She turned down the offer to carry on an affair/try to fuck him for the job, and along with it what he considered his show of vulnerability. Though she did have some sort of genuine feelings for him, she surely did not view what he was doing as vulnerability without the context of those things that Logan never speaks of. From her perspective, he wasn’t even putting that intention on the table, even in this misguided way. Of course he was embarrassed on the level of the girl he likes not wanting him sexually, but from this view of his motivation, he was also embarrassed at the rejection of his offer to know him in a way he doesn’t like for others to know him, hence his extremely defensive reactions whenever Kendall and Roman so much as mentioned her.

Or, you know, maybe he was just stupid and horny (and truly, who among us can say we would be any better when confronted with Holly Hunter in that perfectly fitted suit?)